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UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie!
Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek!
België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek
In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch.
Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie
Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen!
Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit
Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie.
Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie
Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen.
Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen
Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek!
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28-02-2015
UFO mania: The Great Smithsonian Cover-Up: 18 Giant Skeletons Discovered in Wisconsin
UFO mania: The Great Smithsonian Cover-Up: 18 Giant Skeletons Discovered in Wisconsin
Scientists are remaining stubbornly silent about a lost race of giants found in burial mounds near Lake Delavan, Wisconsin, in May 1912. The dig site at Lake Delavan was overseen by Beloit College and it included more than 200 effigy mounds that proved to be classic examples of 8th century Woodland Culture. But the enormous size of the skeletons and elongated skulls found in May 1912 did not fit very neatly into anyone’s concept of a textbook standard. They were enormous. These were not average human beings. Strange Skulls
First reported in the 4 May 1912 issue of the New York Times the 18 skeletons found by the Peterson brothers on Lake Lawn Farm in southwest Wisconsin exhibited several strange and freakish features.
Their heights ranged between 7.6ft and 10 feet and their skulls...
“presumably those of men, are much larger than the heads of any race which inhabit America to-day.”
They tend to have a double row of teeth, 6 fingers, 6 toes and like humans came in differant races. The teeth in the front of the jaw are regular molars. Heads usually found are elongated believed due to longer than normal life span.
One must wonder how much can they lift if twice the size of a average human today? Are these the Giants the Bible & many other civilizations have in their history and painted on their walls?
The Bible in Genisis 6:4
"There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown."
Now this is faulty logic to any scientist out there because I am using religous/cultural history to fill a hole in science.
Over 200 Giant digs have been found in recent years. Giant skeleton finds have not made the local/national news since the 1950’s for the most part. It seems in most peoples opinion do to the fear that people would question evolution . If anything a de-evolution.
In 2002, National Geographic reported a dozen Cyclops skeletons found in Greece that stood 12-15 1/2 Ft tall. That is 3 humans tall. One eye socket. Giants in history are typically cannibalistic in nature.
The reason why I am bringing up giants will all tie into politics, and word happenings. Look at a basketball hoop and add 5 feet. That tall. Greek Mythology talks about war with cyclops learning they had to bring down by taking out their legs rendering them slow and helpless.
American Giants (Red Hair Giants) where found with egyptian writing on their tombs have been found in multiple locations.
Mystery of The Wisconsin Giants
Was this some sort of prank, a hoax played by local farm boys or a demented taxidermist for fun and the attention of the press? The answer is no.
The Lake Delavan find of May 1912 was only one of dozens and dozens of similar finds that were reported in local newspapers from 1851 forward to the present day. It was not even the first set of giant skeletons found in Wisconsin.
On 10 August 1891, the New York Times reported that scientists from the Smithsonian Institution had discovered several large “pyramidal monuments” on Lake Mills, near Madison, Wisconsin.
“Madison was in ancient days the centre of a teeming population numbering not less than 200,000,” the Times said.
The excavators found an elaborate system of defensive works which they named Fort Aztalan.
“The celebrated mounds of Ohio and Indiana can bear no comparison, either in size, design or the skill displayed in their construction with these gigantic and mysterious monuments of earth — erected we know not by whom, and for what purpose we can only conjecture,” said the Times.
On 20 December 1897, the Times followed up with a report on three large burial mounds that had been discovered in Maple Creek, Wisconsin. One had recently been opened.
“In it was found the skeleton of a man of gigantic size. The bones measured from head to foot over nine feet and were in a fair state of preservation. The skull was as large as a half bushel measure. Some finely tempered rods of copper and other relics were lying near the bones.”
Giant skulls and skeletons of a race of “Goliaths” have been found on a very regular basis throughout the Midwestern states for more than 100 years. Giants have been found in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and New York, and their burial sites are similar to the well-known mounds of the Mound Builder people.
The spectrum of Mound builder history spans a period of more than 5,000 years (from 3400 BCE to the 16th CE), a period greater than the history of Ancient Egypt and all of its dynasties.
There is a “prevailing scholarly consensus” that we have an adequate historical understanding of the peoples who lived in North America during this period. However, the long record of anomalous finds like those at Lake Delavan suggests otherwise.
The Great Smithsonian Cover-Up
Has there been a giant cover-up? Why aren’t there public displays of gigantic Native American skeletons at natural history museums?
The skeletons of some Mound Builders are certainly on display. There is a wonderful exhibit, for example, at the Aztalan State Park where one may see the skeleton of a “Princess of Aztalan” in the museum.
But the skeletons placed on display are normal-sized, and according to some sources, the skeletons of giants have been covered up.
Specifically, the Smithsonian Institution has been accused of making a deliberate effort to hide the “telling of the bones” and to keep the giant skeletons locked away.
In the words of Vine Deloria, a Native American author and professor of law:
“Modern day archaeology and anthropology have nearly sealed the door on our imaginations, broadly interpreting the North American past as devoid of anything unusual in the way of great cultures characterized by a people of unusual demeanor. “The great interloper of ancient burial grounds, the nineteenth century Smithsonian Institution, created a one-way portal, through which uncounted bones have been spirited. “This door and the contents of its vault are virtually sealed off to anyone, but government officials. Among these bones may lay answers not even sought by these officials concerning the deep past.”
Two Giant Skeletons Near Potosi, WI
The January 13th, 1870 edition of the Wisconsin Decatur Republican reported that two giant, well-preserved skeletons of an unknown race were discovered near Potosi, WI by workers digging the foundation of a saw mill near the bank of the Mississippi river.
One skeleton measured seven-and-a-half feet, the other eight feet. The skulls of each had prominent cheek bones and double rows of teeth. A large collection of arrowheads and “strange toys” were found buried with the remains.
Giant Skeleton Discovered in Maple Creek, WI
On December 20th, 1897 the New York Times reported that three large burial mounds had been discovered near Maple Creek, WI. Upon excavation, a skeleton measuring over nine feet from head to toe was discovered with finely tempered copper rods and other relics.
Giant Skeleton in West Bend, WI
A giant skeleton was unearthed outside of West Bend near Lizard Mound County Park and assembled by local farmers to a height of eight feet. More about this can be found in Washington County Paranormal: A Wisconsin Legend Trip by local author and investigator J. Nathan Couch.
While a normal-sized skeleton of a supposed mound builder (the “Princess of Aztalan”) is on display at the site of several large pyramidal monuments near Madison called Aztalan State Park, the goliath remains of Wisconsin’s giants have vanished along with the hundreds of others discovered throughout the midwest.
Many have accused the Smithsonian Institution of covering up these discoveries, locking the giant skeletons away and depriving the public of their findings.
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BREAKING: Fireballs in Kerala a Meteor Shower? [PHOTOS]
BREAKING: Fireballs in Kerala a Meteor Shower? [PHOTOS]
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Kerala CM Oommen Chandy's office has said that these fireballs might be meteor shower, according to ReporterLive.
The fireball appeared with a noise in many parts of Kerala, including Ernakulam, Thrissur, Palakkad, Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam, Kozhikode, Malappuram and Kannur.
Some even reported that people felt minor earthquake in many parts of Ernakulam, including Fort Kochi, Vypin, Willington Island and Kolenchery.
Cabinet Minister Adoor Prakash has ordered an investigation on the matter and requested the residents not to panic.
Latest reports suggest that the suspected object might have fallen somewhere in central Kerala.
No casualties have been reported as of now.
Meanwhile, on Saturday morning, an impact crater has been spotted at Karimalloor village in Ernakulam district, which is believed to be caused by the fireball on Friday night.
"We have located a suspected impact crater at Karimalloor village in Ernakulam district and our team is rushing to the spot," State Disaster Management Authority's scientist Sekhar Kuriakose said, according to Business Standard.
Recently, similar incidents were reported in the US, Russia and various parts of Europe. NASA had explained that these could be the debris of the disintegrated Chinese rocket that was carrying the Yaogan Weixing-26 satellite.
"Few days ago fireball was seen across sky above Western US, which according to NASA was Chinese rocket debris," scientist Rajagopal Kammath said, according to Manorama Online.
When a massive and mysterious hole was discovered in Siberia last July (see pictures), social media users pointed to everything from a meteorite to a stray missile to aliens to the Bermuda Triangle as possible causes. But the most plausible explanation seemed to be the explosive release of melting methane hydrate—an ice-like material frozen in the Arctic ground—thanks to global warming
Now, scientists are arguing that the methane theory is unlikely, based on new satellite surveys released by Russian researchers that found dozens of new craters in Siberia.
"The jury is still out" on the cause of Siberia's craters, says Carolyn Ruppel, chief of the U.S. Geological Survey's Gas Hydrates Project. But she and other scientists say the new satellite mapping suggests another explanation that has to do with the rapid melting of ice cores called pingos.
A pingo is a plug of ice that forms near the surface over time and has a small mound or hill on top.
When an ice plug melts rapidly—as many have been, thanks to unseasonably warm temperatures in Siberia over the past year—it can cause part of the ground to collapse, forming a crater. But that process alone isn't enough to explain the ejected rocks that have been found around the rim of the craters, which suggest some sort of explosion.
Instead, Ruppel theorizes that the craters were formed by a sudden release of natural gas that had been stored in the permafrost but was kept under pressure by the weight of the pingo.
This theory is bolstered by the Russian satellite data, which show pingos—they appear as small mounds—in the exact positions where the craters later formed.
There are many more pingos across Siberia, as well as on Alaska's North Slope, so there's substantial risk of additional craters opening up as the planet continues to warm, Ruppel says.
"Urgent Investigation"
Until this week, scientists had known about only three of the craters. In November, scientists from the Russian Centre of Arctic Exploration donned climbing gear and explored one of them, which was 54 feet (16.5 meters) deep.
But in response to the discovery of more holes, Moscow-based scientist Vasily Bogoyavlensky has called for an "urgent investigation" of the holes amid safety fears, since oil and gas operations are not far from the craters on Russia's remote Yamal Peninsula, in northern Siberia.
Bogoyavlensky, who is deputy director of Russia's Oil and Gas Research Institute, told Russian media this week that at least seven craters have now been detected by satellites, including one large hole that is surrounded by as many as 20 smaller craters. Two of the previously discovered craters have developed into lakes.
But Ruppel says methane hydrates are found only in permafrost on land at about 740 feet (225 meters) or deeper, which is much deeper than any of the observed craters (which are around 50 feet, or 15 meters, deep).
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Israeli Forces Include Alien Invasion In Their Training Exercise
Israeli Forces Include Alien Invasion In Their Training Exercise
Is alien invasion in the mind of Israel Defense Forces (IDF)? Jerusalem Post recently reported that this is precisely what they have been preparing.
Extraterrestrial life and alien invasion ideas have been here on Earth for many decades. In fact, they have been the subjects of many science fiction books, novels, and movies for decades. The War of the Worlds novel by H.G. Well left many people believed that a Martian invasion was about to happen.
While Martian invasion is no longer the center when it comes to alien invasion idea, many still believe that extraterrestrial invasion will occur in the near future, and the alien race may not be necessarily coming from Mars.
But the concept appears not only embraced by science fiction writers and UFO believers because it is now being used in government and military procedures. The Israel Defense Forces included the concept in their recent training exercise that appeared to center the idea of the spacecraft of alien beings invading planet Earth.
The training exercise is designed for programming unit of Israeli Air Force. However, the commander of the operation said that the alien invasion part of the training was just a framing story. The goal is to make the participants understand the importance of creating cyber defense. According to the commander, they were adapting the Generation Y, which enjoys challenges, in their training. For this reason, according to the commander, they prepared the framing story of an extraterrestrial invasion.
A system was developed for the participating soldiers to hack. The instruction was to find out all information about the fake alien spacecraft in order to develop a robust cyber defense system.
The Israel Defense Forces might be merely using an alien invasion story for a serious training exercise, but not all peopletake the idea lightly. In Hawaii, a UFO landing pad was developed to promote peaceful relations with space aliens.
The best UFOs cught on tape in China. In this video, there are series of clips were put together by Nick Thomas. These sightings were between 2010-2013 in China.
New UFO sighting has allegedly been seen over a volcano in Japan, adding to the mounting UFO sightings associated with volcanos around the world.
Recently, a video appeared online showing a potential UFO sighting hovering over the Sakurajima volcano in Japan.
“This round glowing UFO was caught on live cam recording the Sakurajima volcano in Japan. This glowing orb is massive in scale and may be heading to a secret entrance around the mouth of the volcano,” theorizes Scott Waring on UFO Sightings Daily.
There are many wild theories as to why UFO sightings seem to increase around volcanoes.
“It’s a well-known fact that UFOs frequently are seen coming and going from volcanos, but 90% the sightings happen around active volcanos. The smoke, gasses and activity is used to discourage humans from coming too close.”
And true to form, there are many volcanos around the world that attract UFO sighting reports, particularly Popocatepetl in Mexico.
A recent UFO sightings video was captured on December 15 over the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico. In the video, you can allegedly make out two “orbs” floating around the volcano.
The fact that a strange ‘clicking’ radio transmission seems to be coming from inside the comet – sounding eerily like a Predator’s jaws opening and closing – has just stoked the fires of conspiracy theorists, just as the Rosetta craft’s Philae Lander touches down.
Explore the internet too long, and you’ll be firmly convinced Ming the Merciless and Darth Vader are enjoying a final Martini inside before obliterating our planet, and using us all as sex-slaves in the brothel-pits of Proxima Centauri.
Nigel Watson, author of the Haynes UFO Investigations Manual says there are five main ‘theories’ as to what the rock might REALLY be.
To any UFO enthusiast, the idea that it might just be a lump of ice is preposterous, an obvious cover-up and frankly boring. Here’s what they REALLY believe…
It’s a UFO Armada, advancing on Earth
An artist’s impression shows the Rosetta orbiter deploying the Philae lander to comet 67P
(Picture: Reuters)
UFO Sightings Daily excitedly proclaimed that it was a UFO armada, largely on the evidence of a small piece of rubbish down one side, and a beacon-ish thing (a rock) showing that there were UFOs parked inside ready for some annoying space probe to goad them into fury.
No one has seen any UFOs – but if there are aliens lurking within, they may well be habitual litterbugs.
There is some form of mothership in there!
Philae could have company on the surface (Picture: Rex)
A picture of a disc-shaped UFO swooping past the comet in September led the more certifiable members of the UFO community to conclude that there was some sort of parking bay for saucers inside the flying rock 300 million miles from Earth. There is however, no diesel or unleaded pumps, mor a Wild Bean Cafe or KFC.
NASA is secretly leading us to an alien base
NASA has detected a radio signal from inside this rock for 20 years (Picture Rex)
‘One blogger suggested that the whole reason for this multi-million pound project is to search for alien life or even contact it, as it did not make sense to spend so much on just visiting a lifeless ‘rock,’ Watson says.
Why an alien tourist might have chosen to spend four billion years sitting inside a featureless lump of ice is another question…
Are those radio transmissions warnings saying, ‘Hands off?’
Strange crackling sounds have come from inside the comet (Picture: ESA)
Watson says, ‘Lots of UFO bloggers point out that NASA has received radio transmissions from the comet for 20 years, and that instead of being a comet it is in actual fact an ancient spaceship.’ Imagine the sort of mood Darth’ll be in if you wake him up before he gets his beauty sleep…’
Mexico, there have been sightings of unusual objects flying into and around an active volcano named Popocatépetl, which is the Aztec word for “Smoking Mountain”. There were numerous explosions that produced ash clouds on Oct. 25, the same day of the UFO event, reports Open Minds TV. Among the sightings, there is one that captured popular attention. A brightly illuminated, cigar-shaped object was filmed by the Mexican media company Televisa.
According to International Business Times, Televisa caught the alleged UFO image on a fixed camera that is used to monitor the volcano’s daily activity, located about 40 miles south of Mexico City.
Popocatepetl volcano area is known for UFO sightings and this video of a clear, cylindrical and elongated UFO comes right on the heels of a very similar Kentucky UFO sighting. There is, however, some questioning surrounding the authenticity of this particular Popocatepetl footage and I feel we are responsible for doing our due diligence in ruling out all possible forgeries.
“There’s a tendency to quickly sign off on the video’s legitimacy. The problem is that, at this moment, we don’t have an exact pedigree detailing the video’s original source and the hands through which it has passed,” said former FBI Special Agent Ben Hansen.
“It seems fairly obvious that the audio of the rumbling volcano accompanying the news story was dubbed in,” Hansen, the lead investigator of the Syfy Channel’s “Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files” series, told The Huffington Post in an email.
But despite the suspicion raised regarding the cylindrical UFO footage, Popocatepetl has quite a history of strange activity, another UFO was captured by a news camera early Thursday, November 8th By the mere definition of the term UFO, we can indeed conclude these are unidentified flying objects. But this begs an even grander question, what makes Popocatepetl volcano a hotspot for this activity? There is a staggering amount of evidence and eye witness accounts telling us that our skies are populated with strange activity that defies conventional understanding and if these sightings are authentic, why this volcano? Below are some postulations I have gathered that I feel deserve our attention. You will also find a list of sources I referencedso you can further your own investigation and reach your own conclusions.
Newly discovered Mayan artifact and image of our Sun showing a similar triangular sunspot
Sun Gods, Sun Spots and the Great Singularity
Many ancient traditions talk about the sun as being the doorway to the higher realm where the sun gods came from. They talk about the black hole in the center of our galaxy as the hub, the central sun from which you can access all of the stars in the galaxy.
The Sun Gods must have been “Sun Gods” for a reason. They were called “Sun Gods” in all ancient civilisations: Egyptian, Mayan, Chinese, and so on. The reason that they were called “Sun Gods” was that they used stars as gateways to go from one side of the galaxy to the other. That is why, for instance, the ancient traditions in most of these countries talk about the sun as the “doorway” to the higher places where The Sun Gods come from. So you would enter the sun and then, through to the galactic center, out one of the arms of the galaxy, out one of the sun in another arm of the galaxy
Sunspots appear where the sun becomes very active, usually at the 19.47 degree latitude. Nassim Harameindiscovered, contrary to prior opinion, that sun spots reflect fire being sucked into a collapsing black hole while emitting steam (H2O). Nassim also noted that multiple sun spots always occur in opposite polarity. When you have a vortex going one way in the Coriolis Effect you have another going on at another point on the opposite side. They generate a link at the middle and that link is the singularity. Sun spots are huge vortices going toward singularity at the center of the black hole. That’s why you see fire being sucked in. What’s being shot out? Water (steam)!
Popocatepetl volcano is approximately located at 19.47 degrees latitude
“Sun spots” of the Earth
If you were a society that had ships at the size of the earth, you would not be able to go into a small black hole like the earth. Your ship would be too big for that planet. So you go for the next fractal level of black holes. You would go for the sun. But if you were using a smaller ship and you want to go through the black hole of the earth, then you would find that black hole by going through the “sun spots” of the earth. These “sun spots” would be the volcanoes that you find on earth. The volcanoes might not be what we think they are. The most active volcanoes on earth are at 19.47 latitude. Most volcanoes have a large amount of UFO activity. The volcanoes at 19.47 latitude in Mexico have so much UFO activity, that the Mexican government has started to train pilots so that they know where the UFO activity is and be able to avoid them when they are approaching Mexico City for landing. Also Mexicans tipically sit on their porch at night and look at the UFO’s coming in and out of the volcanoes.
“Today the main headlines of local newspapers Milenio and Extramex present a photograph of an unknown luminous flying object over the erupting volcano Popocatepetl located near from Mexico City and Puebla. The spectacular photograph taken by reporter Alfonso Reyes last tuesday 19 at 6:10 AM while making a report of the gigant violent awakening present a bright luminous object that contrast with the black clouds of smoke emanated from the volcano crater. The photo was taken in a 20 seconds exposure time and a 24 mm angular lens according to Mr. Reyes testimony.”
“Dozens of witnesses have recorded sightings on video and photographs of UFOs going in and out of – or circling Mt. Popocatepetl often before an eruption. Mexico takes us to myths about 2012 - as an end time date and the return of Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent God. One legend has it that he lives beneath the volcano in a subterranean city. Another says that he flew off in a spaceship saying he will return one day. That goes with the ‘returning god hypothesis’, at the end of time.”
The Planetary Merkaba and Hyperdimensional Physics
Why is the storm known as the Great Red Spot on Jupiter appearing at 19.5 degrees and never goes away? Why is the largest volcano on Mars, Olympus Mons, at 19.5 degrees latitude? Could it be the same reason Hawaii is also at 19.5 degrees latitude on Earth? Why does Jupiter emit more energy than it receives from the Sun? All these events may be explained by Richard Hoagland’s theory of Hyperdimensional Physics (HD).(8) The effects of Hyperdimensional Physics become prevalent when a body is a state of rotation. Let me emphasize: rotation, rotation, rotation. According to the hyperdimensional model, as a sphere rotates the hyperdimensional properties can be seen as a tetrahedron, the simplest 3D shape, circumscribed within the sphere. If the point of one tetrahedron is at the pole of the sphere the other points would intersect at approx. 19.47 or 19.5 degrees latitude. After Hoagland had done extensive analysis of the Cydonia region of Mars where the infamous “face” was discovered, he found that 19.5 had been memorialized everywhere or like in the novel Contact, a message may have been given to us, in the form of mathematical equations.(8) The area we shall be focusing upon is between 19-20° North and 98-100° West. Within it we find Tenochtitlan which once existed exactly on the 19.5° latitude, and nearby it are Teotihuacan as well as the Popocatepetl and Iztacihuatl volcano's. It is the exact placement of their Pyramid centers nearby to these volcano's that is worth our attention.(9)
Tetrahedron
This geometrical shape is made up of 2 interlocking Tetrahedrons
A Tetrahedron is 1 of 5 perfect solids (the platonic solids). When a Star Tetrahedron is placed inside the Earth and 2 of its points aligned to the N. and S. poles, the remaining 6 (3 North and 3 South) points touch the surface of the Earth at 19.5° North and South of the Equator.(9)
When 1 of the 19.5° N. points of the Star Tetrahedron is aligned to Tenochtitlan, the remaining 5 points all pin point strong volcanic activity, either as Volcano Islands, a Desert Volcano, or an Underwater Volcano.(9)
Could 1947 Just Have Happened Again? Reports Just Tonight! Original Correspondence As Follows Submitted To Thirdphaseofmoon! Quote Mark “Apparently a disc shaped craft was seen crashing through the ice on the lake, at least one person got photographic evidence but has since been detained by the Canadian military. UFO crash in rural Manitoba Canada: A UFO crash landed into a frozen lake within the last 24 hours on a Indian reservation in rural Manitoba.
“I have contact with a former resident of the reservation and their family still lives on the reservation and informed them about the situation this evening.
I have also been informed that nobody is allowed to leave or enter the reservation at this time and that the military has been going door to door talking with residents. They are telling the residents that they are conducting emergency training exercises, but there has been an extreme cold front in Manitoba over the last 2 days and it is extremely dangerous to spend time outdoors for any period.
The military has moved in all their equipment effectively blocking any view of what may have crashed into the water or what they are doing there, but I’m sure they are recovering the evidence.
I will get back in touch with in a few hours, I was told the name of the reservation but it was very long and hard to pronounce, I will get the exact spelling of the reservation in a few hours when I meet with my contact and I will forward any new information over.”
When you get up above the earth, you look down and begin to see shapes. Many are made naturally and others are ancient sites, usually circular. The ones in South Africa (below) were dated around 300,000 years!
South Africa
Pisco Valley, Peru
Circlestone, Superstition Mountains, AZ
Stonehenge, UK
Jordan
Wales
Suffolk, UK
Denmark
Utah
Russia
France
Scotland
Ohio
Ireland
India
New Mexico
What did this shape mean to the ancients? It is repeated in clusters like grapes, with a lines bisecting it, in consecutive circle within circle and spiral forms.
COSTA MESA CALIFORNIAI would carpool with my husband each workday for college. He would work in his office and I would grab a bit of sleep as it was still very early and before my classes started. It was 4 AM when I was putting down my seat as usual to take my nap.
It was dark in the parking lot, I put my blanket over myself and closed my eyes and felt a presence. I can’t say if I heard anything but I just felt something there perhaps the figures cast a slight shadow. I turned onto my back to look out the window and suddenly I could not move or scream. I saw 2 figures that appeared like the grays I have heard of.
They were a little taller than the car. They had a light gray and smooth flesh appearance. I could not move my head so I could not look at their bodies much but to see their heads. I was caught by their eyes. Very dark and deep looking and had the almond shape.
The shape of their heads was elongated and larger than their bodies. An metal cold cylindrical instrument with a needle on the end of it, was coming through the window at me and it started entering my head. The area at the instrument at the window seemed almost like melted glass if I could find words for it. I wanted to move away from it but couldn’t move at all.
It hurt like a searing, burning intense pain. I was thinking my thoughts to them, “stop, go away, don’t” but they didn’t communicate with me in any way that I remember. I was terrified! I just wanted them to stop what they were doing. It felt as if that tool that had a needle with a long handle had gone into my sinuses above my right ear.
I couldn’t believe it seemed as though it was going through the metal and the glass of the car and into my head! How? I could not move at all but for my eyes and that seemed to be a bit limited? The tool retracted instantly and they were gone as quickly as they appeared.
I could move again. I was out of that car so fast and into my husbands office so fast! I was now hysterically telling him what just happened and he thought that I had just had a nightmare but it was very real. I had not had time to go to sleep.
I have had sinus issues and have since gone out on permanent disability. I had a sinus surgery and they told me that they found rat cells? I asked how that could be? The doctor changed the subject and never did answer me.
I feel that it had to have come from that time in the parking lot. I have had pain in that same area of my head off and on since that attack. I get a searing pain that I can’t really even think when it happens. I call them attacks.
I don’t know what they did but I don’t like them at all! They have caused me a lot of continued pain. For me the object was the tool they sent into my head as I did not see any craft.
Slideshow: a collection of photographs that show an unnatural orange light moving across the Saugatuck Reservoir in Nov., 2013. Each picture is an eight-second exposure, taken one-after-another, meaning each photograph shows the distance traveled by the light in eight seconds. (Note: an earlier version of this story incorrectly stated the time-lapse pictures were taken in October.)
In the fall of 1966, a dentist driving down Route 53 through Redding and Weston noticed something unexplainable hovering over the Saugatuck Reservoir.
The dentist, Dr. Harry Neilsen of Darien, later described what he saw as “a large, triangular glow bearing red and white lights” just above the horizon near the large reservoir, a news wire service reported in December of that year.
This event would prove to be the first of many published reports of strange, often red-orange lights in the skies above both Redding and Weston. The reports, found in old newspaper articles and on UFO reporting sites, have been compiled and today, almost 50 years since the first report, Hersam Acorn Newspapers has what may be the first photographic evidence of the phenomenon.
Taken in November and December of 2013, the digital photographs by Wilton Bulletin reporter Christopher Burns show an unnatural orange light moving horizontally and slowly just above the tree-line on the southeast side of the Saugatuck Reservoir, near the Easton/Weston town line.
The light is so bright in the photographs that a clear reflection of it can be seen in the water of the reservoir.
Andrew Flynn, a Reddingite who was with Mr. Burns while he took the pictures, said the light was bright and immediately unfamiliar.
“Living just outside of New York City, planes and helicopters are seen quite often. When I first saw this light I was with a group of people and it was immediately identified as something out of the ordinary,” Mr. Flynn said.
And it didn’t happen just once, Mr. Flynn said. During the winter of 2013, he “continued to see it time and time again.”
The Saugatuck Reservoir was constructed in the late 1930s on the site of a hamlet known as Valley Forge. In the 1700s, Valley Forge was made up of farms and swampland. In the 19th Century, the village was a vital industrial center, boasting iron and steel mills and factories along the Saugatuck River.
But in the early part of the 20th Century, Bridgeport Hydraulic Company bought up most of the land, dammed the Saugatuck River and flooded the valley to create the reservoir to serve the city of Bridgeport to the south.
The majority of the reservoir is located in Weston, where 75% of the town’s land is protected from development in perpetuity. In fact, the entire eastern shore of the reservoir borders Centennial State Forrest, where no development has been allowed.
A map shows the point on the reservoir where the photos were taken, and the estimated location of the lights. (Click the maps to enlarge)
Historical sitings
In addition to the 1966 lights siting, a string of Redding Pilot articles from the mid-1970s report a very similar phenomenon.
“Moving in a straight path across the sky was a large yellow globe, the brightest thing in the clear evening. It moved from west to east above the tree line at a fairly good speed and then disappeared over the horizon,” one Pilot editorial from 1976 reads. “[The woman] explained how the bright sky-thing had kept pace with her car as it moved north into Redding; then it suddenly changed direction and headed east.”
In the editorial account, the light would later return to the home of the woman, where she and her husband saw it hovering again.
Another story in The Pilot, “Encounters Too Close for Comfort” from 1978, goes into even greater detail.
Leon Adams reported seeing a strange light as he drove to work the midnight to 8 a.m. shift in the boiler room at the Gilbert and Bennett Wire Mill in Georgetown.
The article reads, “At first the light was stationary and looked as if it hung directly over the factory, Mr. Adams said, but as he approached it, he realized the UFO was more distant. He estimated its location as above the Saugatuck Reservoir because the brightness lit up the trees … He tried to think of likely explanations for the object, but the light had been too bright, particularly when it began to spin and show colors, to have been a helicopter, a plane, or a search light.”
The first page of a proofread draft of an article titled “Encounters Too Close for Comfort” which appeared in a 1978 copy of The Redding Pilot newspaper. To see copies of all news articles related to the lights, click here.
More recent reports
At least two more Redding Pilot articles from the 1970s discuss strange lights in the skies above Redding, Weston, and even Easton. Such grouped sitings might have beeen written off as the work of a prankster had the orange lights not continued to be reported from that time up until today.
Four reports of lights in the sky were published by the National UFO Reporting Center in the early 2000s. One, from February 2011, discusses a light above Devil’s Den, a nature preserve near the Weston/Redding border.
“Last night at 8 p.m. I looked out [of] my living room window and noticed a flashing bright red light low on the horizon a mile or so away over the Devil’s Den area on the Weston/Redding border. It was low in the sky and unusually bright, much brighter than any airplane lights, flashing and drifting very slowly.”
Weston’s Animal Control Officer Mark Harper grew up on the reservoir and often works in the area, but told Hersam Acorn last year that he has never heard of the orange lights.
Weston Police Chief John Troxell, who has been with the Weston Police Department for 34 years, said he can’t recall any reports regarding lights over the reservoir.
On the other hand, a former Redding Pilot reporter told the newspaper that even 40 years after he saw the lights on BlChampignons snijdenack Rock Turnpike, he still remembers them. The Weston Forum has decided to keep his report anonymous at this time.
“In my mind, definitely UFO(s),” he wrote in an email Feb. 16 of this year. “Years later, someone suggested the possibility they were helicopters from Sikorsky. But they changed direction too quickly and moved way too fast. Never seen anything like it before or since.”
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------eston Forum Reporter Patty Gay contributed to this story.
Anyone with their own story about the Redding/Weston lights is encouraged to send a brief note about the experience to CBurns@WiltonBulletin.com.
To see all of the newspaper articles associated with the lights, click this link.
For a timeline of all 11 published reports of the lights, click this link.
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UFO-MANIA : "Now here's a Real Ufo"
UFO-MANIA : "Now here's a Real Ufo"
"This is a video I saved from YouTube back in May, 2012. The video was uploaded with the same title, without quotes. I was not able to find the original upload. *I have no further information regarding the origin of this video.* - - - Personally, I've never been able to settle on whether these are even "flying objects," or an unusual but interesting atmospheric effect being created by someone/something. If you look closely, there do seem to be vague silhouettes of what might be buildings "above" the mountain range. Or maybe they're other mountain tops? At 0:51, one of the objects exhibits an interesting blinking effect. I don't believe it's CGI, but I'm no expert on that. I've sure as hell never seen anything like it, even online. I'm all ears for explanations, but I'll admit that I tend to lean more toward it being an atmospheric phenomenon. What do you think?"
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Des drones ont survolé Paris deux nuits consécutives, planant au-dessus de zones sensibles ou touristiques dont la Tour Eiffel, les Invalides et l'ambassade américaine. Le 20 janvier dernier, un autre engin avait été aperçu au dessus de l'Elysée. Cette mini vague de drones sur la capitale survient après celle plus inquiétante de survols du parc nucléaire français par des appareils non identifiés. Alors qu'aucun responsable de ces intrusions n'a été interpellé, certains témoignages concernant le survol des centrales nucléaires de ces derniers mois laissent entrevoir une toute autre histoire : et si ces drones avaient une origine beaucoup plus énigmatique ?
En quatre mois, les deux tiers des 19 centrales nucléaires françaises ont été survolés à une ou à plusieurs reprises. Et les centrales ne sont pas les seules visées par ces inquiétantes tournées d'inspection aériennes: dans la nuit du 26 et 27 janvier, le site militaire de l'île Longue, dans la rade de Brest, où sont abrités les quatre sous-marins nucléaires lanceurs d'engins français a aussi été visité. Dans la seule soirée du 31 octobre 2014, pas moins de six sites ont été visités entre 18 heures et 22 heures : les centrales de Saint-Laurent-des-Eaux (Loir-et-Cher), Dampierre en Burly (Loiret), Belleville-sur-Loire (Cher), Fessenheim (Haut-Rhin), Flamanville (Manche) et Penly (Seine-Maritime).
Une telle simultanéité sur une vaste étendue de territoire suppose une organisation et une logistique sans faille, guère à la portée d'une bande de plaisantins équipée de drones vendus dans le commerce.
«Le survol des centrales nucléaires est interdit dans un périmètre de cinq kilomètres et de 1.000 mètres d'altitude autour des sites. L'espace aérien au-dessus des centrales nucléaires est surveillé par l'armée de l'air, dans le cadre d'un protocole avec EDF», rappelle l'AFP.
Pourtant, après trois mois de survols qui remettent en cause la sécurité du parc nucléaire français, aucune arrestation n'a été effectuée, aucun drone n'a été abattu et aucune piste sérieuse n'est envisagée, du moins publiquement. On ignore même quels types d'appareils sont utilisés : «Les témoignages de gendarmes recueillis sur le site de Crès-Malville parlent de survols dans des conditions météo de vents de 70 km/h et avec de la pluie. On a des hélicoptères à Golfech qui suivent pendant 9 km ces drones. On a un drone qui circule entre Flamanville et la Hague sur 18 km. La thèse des petits drones que l’on pilote le nez sur la clôture ne tient pas» résume pour Science et Avenir Yannick Rousselet, en charge de la campagne sur le nucléaire chez Greenpeace.
"L’armée se trouve confrontée à une stratégie soutenue par une technologie 'exogène'"
Pour l'instant, les drones qui survolent les centrales françaises sont donc au sens le plus littéral du terme des OVNIS, des Objets Volants Non Identifiés. De fait, la communauté française des spécialistes des OVNIS n'a pas tardé à s'emparer du sujet : l'ufologue Claude Levat a écrit le 6 décembre une «lettre ouverte au ministre de la Défense Jean-Yves Le Drian» qu'il interpelle en ces termes :
«L’armée se trouve confrontée à une stratégie soutenue par une technologie "exogène". La même méthodologie peut nous faire craindre une poursuite aggravée de ces manifestations avec démonstrations ostensibles vis à vis d’un public non "préparé". En conséquence en tant que citoyens concernés par la défense du territoire, nous avons l’honneur de vous demander votre opinion concernant cette question.»
Une technologie «exogène», autrement dit non terrestre sous-entend Claude Lavat...
Le Geipan (groupe d'études et d'informations sur les phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés), l'organisme officiel dépendant du CNES en charge de l'étude des PANS (Phénomènes Aérospatiaux Non identifiés, la terminologie scientifique désormais en vigueur pour désigner les OVNIs) a aussi été saisi par l'ufologue Jacky Kozan, de l'association «l'Académie d'ufologie» : «Vous avez certainement pris connaissance par les média nationaux et étrangers du fait que nos installations nucléaires civiles et militaires sont depuis plusieurs semaines survolées par des “engins non identifiés”. Ces nouvelles ont été confirmées fin octobre 2014 par un directeur national d’EDF s’exprimant sur les chaînes de télévision, en utilisant l’expression “engins volants non identifiés”. En conséquence et sans information provenant du GEIPAN, nous vous demandons de nous faire connaître les résultats d’une enquête qui a certainement été diligentée par le GEIPAN.»
Contrairement au ministère de la Défense, Xavier Passot, responsable du GEIPAN nommé en 2011 n'a pas tardé à répondre : «Pour votre information, le GEIPAN n’a pas été sollicité sur cette affaire récente de survol de centrales nucléaires. (…) Le GEIPAN, qui n’a été sollicité ni par EDF, ni par la gendarmerie, ni par aucun témoin sur cette affaire, n’a aucune activité sur ce sujet, si ce n’est la veille sur les informations de la presse. Et vous savez que nous n’avons pas mission d’aller chercher des observations inexpliquées. Nous sommes bien sûr très curieux de l’origine précise de ces engins volants, mais étant donné le lourd dispositif déjà déployé par la gendarmerie sur le sujet, l’apport du GEIPAN sur cette affaire serait bien maigre.»
Interrogé sur France Culture à propos de ces survols, Xavier Passot confirme mais laisse transparaître quelques doutes sur la version officielle : «Je n'ai pas reçu personnellement de témoignages. Tous les témoins de ces survols sont des employés des centrales nucléaires. Mais je sais qu'une personne a vu quelque chose près de Golfech et a contacté les gendarmes. L'observation a été classée drone (…) Je ne sais même pas sur quels critères tous ces objets ont été identifiés comme des drones. J'espère que c'est sur de bons critères mais je n'en suis pas absolument certain.»
"Nous savons qu’un témoin a déposé à la gendarmerie un témoignage d’observation à Sistel"
Xavier Passot évoque aussi dans sa réponse à Jacky Kozan cette observation d'un PAN près de la centrale de Golfech, le jour d'un survol de drone, le 30 novembre 2014 : «Nous savons toutefois par les forums qu’un témoin a déposé à la gendarmerie un témoignage d’observation à Sistel. Comme d’autres témoins ont observé un drone survolant la centrale de Golfech ce jour-là, ce témoignage a rejoint le dossier de l’enquête judiciaire en cours sur le survol des centrales nucléaires par des drones.»
Ce témoignage, publié sur le forum Mystères des Ovnis est le seul à notre connaissance dans lequel un témoin extérieur à EDF corrobore le survol d'une centrale nucléaire et fournit une description précise de l'objet impliqué, à supposer qu'il s'agit du même objet que celui signalé par la direction de la centrale. Or, le récit du témoin, Marc T., ajoute encore au trouble concernant la nature exacte de cet engin volant:
«Observation du 30 Octobre 2014, entre 20h50 et 21h00. La maison où je me trouvais se situe en hauteur, sur l'un des coteaux de la commune... Avec une vue dégagée sur la Centrale de Golfech. (…) On ne voyait qu'un gros point lumineux de couleur blanche (sans couleur) à l'horizon direction Nord Est vers Donzac (au dessus de Donzac pour être plus précis). A environs 4 à 5 kilomètres de nous et à une altitude de 200 m environ (pas beaucoup plus haut que les tours de la centrale elle-même). (…) Puis il a commencé à bouger lentement à très faible vitesse. Tout en pivotant sur lui-même comme pour amorcer un virage. A ce moment là, j'ai pu voir aux jumelles (et mon ami à l’œil nu) une seconde lumière de type flash. Comme un stroboscope. (...) Puis, il a commencé à se déplacer de plus en plus vite, à la vitesse d'un petit avion de type Cessna. Il se dirige maintenant plus vers St Loup, pour ensuite effectuer un virage assez serré se dirigeant alors dans notre direction. A mesure qu'il s'est rapproché de nous, j'ai pu voir aux jumelles un point rouge assez distinctement, assez brillant lui aussi. (…)
A environ 300 m de nous, de face, toujours avec son gros spot blanc, il reste presque immobile environ 15 à 20 secondes. J'ai alors eu le temps, mon ami aussi, de voir sa forme de face. C'est à ce moment là qu'il est le plus prêt de nous. Il a alors une forme "d'avion". Il ne faisait aucun bruit... rien du tout. On pouvait entendre la moissonneuse-batteuse sur le coteau d'à côté (à notre droite) mais rien pour cet objet. J'ai donc pu voir deux ailes. Son envergure faisait bien 6 à 7 m.
"J'ai observé un ovni triangulaire, noir mat avec trois lumières clignotante"
(…) Toujours aux jumelles, maintenant à 500 m de moi, mais cette fois de profil, j'ai été très surpris car j'avais beau le suivre (il n'avançait pas très vite) je n'arrivais pas à lui donner une forme précise. J'avais bien vu ces ailes juste avant, mais cette fois pratiquement de profil, je ne voyais pas bien les contours de l'objet. Ça faisait un peu l'effet d'un mirage dans le dessert.»
Résumons : un gros objet de six à sept mètres d'envergure, des lumières clignotantes, une forme floue «comme un mirage», une vitesse variable allant du sur-place à celle d'un avion de tourisme, aucun bruit, des «flashs stroboscopiques» que le témoin a interprété comme les flashs d'un appareil photographique... Il est clair que ce type de «drone» ne se trouve pas au supermarché du coin. Ci-dessous, une reconstitution de l'objet vu par les témoins :
Mais il y a plus étonnant encore. Le témoin a rapporté son observation aux gendarmes qui lui auraient confié avoir eux aussi vu quelque chose : «En discutant avec les gendarmes qui ont été très à l'écoute, ils m’ont dit avoir vu plus tard dans la soirée vers 21h50, près de l'un des ponts de la Garonne (…), quelque chose d’encore plus gros, bien plus imposant, presque comme un avion de ligne mais de forme carrée...»
Ce n’est pas la première fois que la centrale de Golfech est survolée par un engin mystérieux. En 2010, deux employés de la centrale ont observé et filmé un objet pour le moins insolite si l’on en croit cette description qui figure dans une enquête réalisée par l’ufologue Christophe Albiero: «Cela s'est déroulé le 6 octobre 2010 entre 20h15 et 20h17 à la centrale nucléaire de Golfech, à quelques mètres du bâtiment de sécurité du site. Il faisait très beau, le ciel est très clair, pas de vent, pas de nuages, visibilité parfaite, pas d'arbres vue complètement dégagée. J'ai observé un ovni triangulaire, noir mat avec trois lumières clignotantes blanches à chaque extrémité, et une rouge clignotante au centre. L'objet volait à basse altitude, j'ai pu le voir de très près. Il était assez grand et se déplaçait très lentement. J'ai pu le suivre a pied en marchant parallèlement à sa trajectoire. A un moment donné je me suis retrouvé pratiquement sous l'objet.
"L’objet est donc passé très près des deux réacteurs nucléaire"
Celui-ci ne faisait aucun bruit (moteur, sifflement etc), il n'y avait pas de souffle, pas d’odeur. L'objet a continué sa route en silence puis à environ trente mètres de moi sur ma gauche, il a pivoté sur sa droite puis est parti toujours lentement en prenant de l'altitude se dirigeant vers une colline. (…)
Je travaille à la centrale nucléaire de Golfech. L’objet était si bas que pour nous il n'était pas au dessus de la centrale mais bien à l'intérieur aussi haut que les cheminées de la centrale d’environ 150/200 m. L’objet est donc passé très près des deux réacteurs nucléaire. Il a survolé l'allée centrale, le bâtiment sécurité du site sans déclencher d'alarme à notre grand étonnement.»
Les deux témoins, Pascal et Sofiane, âgés de 44 et 20 ans à l’époque, ont contacté le GEIPAN mais ils sont en désaccord complet avec la conclusion assez lapidaire du rapport de l’organisme public: «Observation probable d’un avion».
Les OVNIS et les centrales nucléaires semblent entretenir un rapport complexe depuis des décennies en France et dans le monde. Au point d’inquiéter les autorités responsables ?
Peut-être, du moins si l’on en croit cet article du Canard Enchaîné consacré à une affaire de piratage informatique mené à l’encontre d’un militant de Greenpeace paru le 8 avril 2009.
L’hebdomadaire révèle que des enquêteurs du groupe Geos, chargés d’un audit de la sécurité de la tour EDF de La Défense «ont mis la main sur un rapport confidentiel de 260 pages consacré aux… extraterrestres.»
Que penser enfin de cette confidence de Pascal Pezzani, directeur de la centrale nucléaire du Blayais, elle aussi survolée le 13 octobre dernier ?
Lors de la «présentation des résultats 2014 et des perspectives de la centrale nucléaire» Pascal Pezzani, rapporte «Sud-Ouest» a «minimisé» les problèmes de sécurité: «Ici, on n'a pas vu de drone. On a vu un ovni et il n'y a eu aucun impact sur la sûreté de nos sites.»
Hawaï veut établir des relations diplomatiques avec les extraterrestres
Hawaï veut établir des relations diplomatiques avec les extraterrestres
Hawaï a installé un "sanctuaire pour les visiteurs de l'espace" ainsi qu'une aire d'atterrissage pour leurs ovnis. Objectif avoué : établir "des relations diplomatiques" avec les extraterrestres.
Établir des relations diplomatiques avec les extraterrestres : tel est l'objectif quelque peu atypique poursuivi par le Gouvernement légal d'Hawaï à travers son "sanctuaire pour les visiteurs de l'espace", vaste champ de lave situé à l'est de l'île et rendu "attirant" par les nombreux objets futuristes qui y trônent désormais. "Cet endroit peut même faire office de piste d'atterrissage", assure l'un des membres de l'organisme indépendantiste, Garry Hoffeld, au Wall Street Journal."Ce projet est toutefois purement symbolique", justifie-t-il. "Nous n'espérons pas vraiment voir un OVNI se poser sur l'île dès demain, mais nous voulons malgré tout faire de cet endroit un lieu d'accès facile aux populations étrangères dans le but d'avoir une vraie connexion intelligente avec les extraterrestres."
Par cette initiative, le Gouvernement légal d'Hawaï, qui se réclame légitime depuis sa création, en 1999, espère en fait populariser ses revendications souverainistes. "On veut annoncer au monde et à l'univers qu'Hawaï est là, qu'Hawaï est de retour, qu'Hawaï est un pays neutre", ambitionne Garry Hoffeld. La création de l'aire d'atterrissage extraterrestre permettrait donc avant tout de donner une utilité internationale à l'archipel. Une première étape avant d'y voir se développer des ambassades internationales et des consulats, selon Hoffeld. Quoi qu'il en soit, le ministre de la Justice du Royaume d'Hawaï, une autre organisation indépendantiste, étudie d'ores et déjà la manière dont les lois sur la citoyenneté et l'immigration pourraient s'appliquer aux aliens. (A.V.)
Waar komt heldere roze wolk boven Tucson vandaan? - HLN.be
Waar komt heldere roze wolk boven Tucson vandaan? - HLN.be
Bron: Buzzfeed, ABC News
RuimtevaartVroege vogels in Tucson (Arizona) waren gisterochtend getuige van een felle roze wolk boven de stad. Die verscheen aan de vroege ochtendhemel na de lancering van een NASA-onderzoeksraket.
Het tuig werd om 05.26 uur gelanceerd vanop een legerbasis in White Sands, in de naburige staat New Mexico. Een heldere roze wolk sierde daarna gedurende twintig minuten de vroege ochtendhemel.
Het kijkspel was het gevolg van zonlicht dat scheen op de dampen die bij het afschieten van de raket waren vrijgekomen, bevestigen functionarissen van de militaire basis.
Talloze ochtendmensen in Arizona spotten de roze verschijning en deelden foto's via sociale media.
De lancering van de raket was eerst voorzien voor maandag, maar werd uitgesteld omwille van slechte weersomstandigheden.
A woman recorded video of a UFO over Lewisburg, Mississippi in the early morning hours of Thursday, February 26.
The witness, Angela Ashton, says she was in bed when she saw a “bright blinding light” through her large bedroom window just after midnight. She raced outside with her camera to record the unusual aerial object.
(Credit: Angela Ashton/WMC)
She describes the UFO as triangle-shaped and extremely large. She thinks the object was “at least the size of a football field.”
The object was completely silent as it hovered for approximately twenty minutes over a nearby field. According to the witness, the UFO then shot straight up into the sky and disappeared. Unfortunately, the disappearance wasn’t captured on video. Ashton says she only managed to capture a few seconds of video because it was cold outside.
Local NBC affiliate WMC-TV contacted purported drone expert Robert Estes for his opinion. After watching Ashton’s video, Estes doesn’t believe the object in the video is a drone because most drones “don’t have lights like you see in the video.”
(Credit: Angela Ashton/WMC)
Estes also opined that the UFO could simply be a plane.
But Ashton, who is a “certified Paranormal Investigator” with Cryptic Shadows Paranormal Research, and claims to have researched UFOs for more than fifteen years, is convinced that what she observed was extraterrestrial.
UFO Buzzes Nuclear Plant In Mexico, Latest Of Many UFOs Seen Hovering At Nuke Facilities
A UFO filmed hovering over nuclear power plant in Veracruz, Mexico, and posted to YouTube November 7 is just the latest in a long series of UFO sightings over and near nuclear facilities — as history of ominous sightings that stretches back six decades, to the earliest days of nuclear energy production.
The UFO video from Laguna Verde Nuclear Power Plant, a 24-year-old nuke owned and operated by the Mexican government, was purportedly shot with a cell phone camera on November 5 by an engineer at the power plant. The 91-second-long video, viewable above, definitely shows something hovering over the nuclear reactors. But what?
While technically a UFO because the object is “unidentified” and flying, speculation among commenters on the video’s YouTube page, which as received more than 40,000 views so far, ranges from “toy,” to “party balloon,” to the more sinister “Russian spy thing.” By “thing,” the commenters mean a drone, that is, an unmanned aircraft of some kind. But a drone could be anything from a harmless toy to a military surveillance or attack aircraft.
Or is the video simply a hoax? So far, no experts have examined the Mexican UFO video closely enough to weigh in. Of course, some viewers of the video see it as an authentic recording of an alien spacecraft. Scott Waring, of the popular UFO Sighting Daily blog, speculates that “aliens are interested in our technological advances and how we make energy, while impacting the Earth with pollution.”
Another possibility, Waring believes, is that he video shows a damaged alien spacecraft “harvesting” energy from the Laguna Verde nuke to “get home.” While Waring’s speculation will likely be taken with a grain of nuclear powered salt by most observers, the fact remains that nuclear power plants have been unusually common sites for UFO sightings.
The phenomenon dates back to 1950, when a number of scientists working on a then-secret nuclear energy project at Los Alamos spotted a disc-shaped UFO zig-zagging across the sky at an altitude of about 2,000 feet. Two years later, similar UFO sightings were reported UFOs hovering over newly-built nuclear plants in Washington and South Carolina.
More recently, a 2012 UFO video from Mexico was also captured at a nuclear power plant. And in April of this year, a series of UFO sightings were reported at McGuire Nuclear Station in North Carolina.
The Salem Nucelar Power Plant in New Jersey has also been the site of numerous UFO sightings, which like all UFO incidents, may have an innocent explanation, but one has not yet been forthcoming.
UFO Sightings Military Airforce Transport Flanked By Flying Saucer? What Is It? 2013
UFO Sightings Military Airforce Transport Flanked By Flying Saucer? What Is It? 2013Footage just into Thirdphaseofmoon of what looks to be a Flying Saucer Escorting or Flanking a Military Airforce Transport !
AMAZING PHOTO OF A TRIANGLE CRAFT OVER VALLEY FORGE PENNSYLVANIA JANUARY 7, 2015
VALLEY FORGE PENNSYLVANIA On this particular evening I was driving home from work.
Because of where I live, I always take Gulph Rd through Valley Forge Park to and from work. I was driving NW on Gulph Rd towards Phoenixville away from King of Prussia, when I noticed three very bright lights just over the tree line in the distance (I think I noticed them just about the time I passed the Washington Memorial Chapel).
The lights were side by side. At first glance it looked to be an airplane of some sort. But as I drove closer I realized whatever it was, was too bright and too low to be a plane.
I actually started to think that maybe they had built a tower in the park with lights at the top of it, but I knew that wasn’t logical because I would have seen this tower/monument by now. I also started to realize that whatever it was, wasn’t stationary.
It was moving, but slowly. When I was finally back on a straight part of the road, I had decided that this was just too weird and started snapping pictures. As I got closer it was more apparent to me that this wasn’t a plane or a helicopter.
I considered pulling over, but had someone behind me. It was also very dark and 17 degrees outside. But after my car had finally passed the lights (I couldn’t describe anything beyond that because of how bright the three lights were) I decided to look back at it out my driver side window.
This is when I realized that it was literally just above the tree line and shaped like a Triangle. Once I was past the lights I could distinguish the shape vividly.
After my experience I was a little shaken up. I called my mom, who thought I was just pulling her leg. But after I sent her the pictures, she was convinced. She even went as far as to research sightings in Valley Forge. She came up with two interesting stories.
One, was of George Washington, who had reported witnessing a UFO in the now park. And a few years ago someone else had reported a very similar story to mine, which made me feel less crazy. I have been living in the area for almost 5 years now, and I visit the park often.
I know this park in and out. I know what the planes flying overhead look like. And I’ve seen my fair share of helicopters and drones. This to me was just so weird and unexplainable.
It took me almost a week to even send in my story.
I’m open-minded about unexplainable events, but I personally do not come to conclusions without thinking about it first.
Even if this was totally explainable, it was still weird and definitely a story worth sharing.
This case is under investigation by MUFON Pennsylvania investigators.
Wetenschap Het was een populaire theorie maar onderzoek met het hoofdzakelijk Belgische Rosina-instrument op de Europese komeetsonde Rosetta toonde aan dat het niet (exclusief) kometen zijn die water naar onze planeet hebben gebracht. Dat zei Johan De Keyser van het Belgisch Instituut voor Ruimte-Aëronomie (BIRA) vandaag in het Planetarium van Brussel bij de voorstelling van de eerste missieresultaten.
De Rosetta is op 2 maart 2004 met een Ariane-5 draagraket gelanceerd en bereikte de komeet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in augustus vorig jaar. Later kon de meegevoerde lander Philae bij wijze van wereldprimeur landen op het hemellichaam dat net als andere kometen geacht wordt meer te leren over het ontstaan van ons zonnestelsel.
Eén van de instrumenten op Rosetta is de Rosina-massaspectrometer die hoofdzakelijk van Belgische makelij is en die voor de studie van de atmosfeer van de komeet dient. Het BIRA in Ukkel werkte daarvoor samen met de bedrijven IMEC (Leuven) en OIP (Oudenaarde).
Rosina leerde dat de hoeveelheid gas, die (aan 500 meter per seconde) ontsnapt uit de nucleus van de "staartster", varieert in de tijd, met name naargelang de rotatie (in 12,5 uur) van het hemellichaam rondom zijn eigen as, met een temperatuur van min 170 bij nacht en min 100 graden per dag. Ook de locatie op de komeet speelt een rol in die variatie.
Uit de eerste resultaten blijkt dat de komeetkern maar een losse samenhang van materiaal is, met een dichtheid van 1/2 gram per kubieke centimeter
Maar ook de verhouding van de uitgestoten relatieve hoeveelheden H2O (water), koolstof (CO) en koolstofdioxide (CO2) als belangrijkste bestanddelen van de atmosfeer varieert, wat - ook dankzij metingen van het MIRO-instrument - terug te voeren is naar de samenstelling van het komeetoppervlak.
Inzake de bestanddelen van de atmosfeer stelde Rosina een massabereik van 18,98 tot 19,05 ame vast, met dus een gemiddelde van zowat 19. Dit is onder andere terug te voeren tot HDO (deuterium), een zwaardere vorm van water. Maar gezien het H2O van onze oceanen dominant aanwezig is bij een massa van 18 ame kan het dus niet dat (alleen maar) kometen water naar de Aarde hebben gebracht, zo luidt een uiterst belangrijke conclusie van het onderzoek van 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Voorts is voor het eerst de acceleratie van het ïoniseren (elektrisch geladen maken) van de neutrale gassen gemeten.
De uitgestoten stofdeeltjes zijn blijkbaar maar een losse aggregatie. Overigens is ook de komeetkern maar een losse samenhang van materiaal, met een dichtheid van 1/2 gram per kubieke centimeter. Maar verbazend genoeg lijkt er ook stof in de buurt te blijven en lijkt het zelfs rond de nucleus te draaien.
Sommige wetenschappers zitten dankzij Rosetta met de handen in het haar, want er blijkt een breuk of barst tussen de twee delen te zijn. Wat dit is en of dit nog evolueert, is niet geweten.
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UFO neergestort in Canada? ( update+ video )
UFO neergestort in Canada? ( update+ video )
De internationale UFO gemeenschap is in rep en roer vanwege een mogelijk neergestorte UFO in een bevroren meer in Canada.
Het leger zou zijn uitgerukt, toegangswegen afgesloten en diverse getuigen melden dat ze een schijfvormig object hebben gezien.
Update: 27 februari 2015
We zijn nu enkele dagen verder na de vermeende crash van een UFO in het Canadese Lake Winnipeg.
We ontvingen een aantal reacties, waarvan de volgende heel interessant is omdat er op meerdere plaatsen diezelfde avond vreemde lichten zijn waargenomen.
Met enige verbazing de zogenaamde verklaringen gelezen van het Amerikaanse leger over de ufo.
Het word nog interessanter: in 10 staten, van Arizona tot Alberta word dezelfde nacht ook een vreemd licht gezien. Ook met foto's erbij.
De verklaring was: een ruimtesonde van China teruggekomen en uiteengevallen, EN een neergestorte meteoriet.. Vijf foto's, waarvan op de laatste inderdaad een meteoriet (groen) te zien is.
Maar hoe geloofwaardig is het dat in EEN nacht
1-een meteoriet neerstort 2- een ruimtesonde neerstort 3-het leger oefende met een vliegtuig op een plek waar later 'iets' is neergestort??
Allemaal komen ze uit om en nabij dezelfde richting! Lijkt er meer op dat gezien de enorme aantallen mensen die iets zagen ze niet de waarheid willen vertellen.
Na wat navraag te hebben gedaan stond de ISS Live Stream ook op blauw scherm toen. Geen idee waar die op dat moment vloog, maar dat lijkt bijna niet meer toeval te noemen allemaal.. Ook vreemd is dat er bijna niks over vermeld word op andere sites/kranten/tv's.. Wat denken jullie??
Navolgend een voorbeeld van wat sommige mensen in de lucht zagen.
Volgens een andere lezer zou de foto die hierna volgt de bewuste opname zijn die men uit alle macht probeert te onderdrukken:
Dan is er nog de volgende video waarvan iemand zegt dat de neerstortende UFO is gefilmd door een getuige. Dit is te zien op ongeveer een minuut in de video.
We zijn uiteindelijk nog niet veel wijzer geworden, behalve dat de lichten op meerdere plaatsen zijn waargenomen.
Het probleem blijft dat het aangeboden materiaal niet op echtheid kan worden geverifiëerd.
We blijven optimistisch en hopen dat er alsnog een aantal getuigen die na te trekken zijn naar voren komen.
Origineel artikel: 24 februari 2015
Vorige week woensdagavond circuleerden er allerlei berichten op de sociale media dat er vreemde lichten (UFO) waren waargenomen boven Lake Winnipeg in Canada.
Even later veranderden die berichten in dat er een schijfvormige UFO was neergestort in het bevroren meer en dat het leger ter plaatste was om de bergingsoperatie uit te voeren.
Vervolgens zijn er dan allerlei verwarrende berichten van getuigen die dingen zouden hebben gezien.
Hier komt direct het probleem om de hoek kijken. Onmiddellijk duiken namelijk de firma’s die veel geld verdienen met het maken van nepvideo’s zoals de beruchte Blake Cousins van Third Phase of the Moon op dit verhaal en komen met allerlei verhalen en getuigenverklaringen.
Onderstaande is ook weer zo’n foto gemaakt door “een getuige”, maar er bestaat geen enkele zekerheid over de echtheid ervan.
Maargoed, als we dat soort dingen terzijde schuiven dan blijft er nog steeds een interessant verhaal over.
Het Canadese leger komt met een vage verklaring dat ze daar net “toevallig” aan het oefenen waren. Dit is het meest gebruikte excuus van overheden en defensie wanneer er sprake is van UFO-activiteit.
Ook een wel heel merkwaardige verklaring van Luitenant-Colonel Paul Davies, leider van het team van het Canadese leger dat eveneens “toevallig” oefende op het hulp bieden nadat een vliegtuig was neergestort.
Davies vertelde dat het vreemde licht dat mensen hadden gezien afkomstig was van een vliegtuig dat meedeed aan de oefening en dat in staat is om bijna verticaal op te stijgen.
“Daarom lijkt het alsof het licht recht de lucht ingaat, maar dat is niet zo”. Het vreemde is dat geen van de mensen die de lichten meldden iets gezegd hebben over dat ze recht de lucht in gingen. Men had het over een licht dat zichtbaar was en vervolgens leek neer te storten.
Kortom, het lijkt erop dat er inderdaad iets merkwaardigs is gebeurd in Canada.
Echter, met al die nepbedrijven die bewust kletsverhalen rondstrooien, wordt het er niet gemakkelijker op om de waarheid boven tafel te krijgen.
Waarschijnlijk is even rustig afwachten de beste strategie en dan hopen dat er echte, betrouwbare getuigen naarvoren komen die kunnen worden geïdentificeerd.
The reporting witness was 9 years old at the time she saw a black, vertical, rectangle hovering above, just south of where she and her cousin stood. Pictured: Markham, Ontario, Canada. (Credit: Google)
A Canadian witness at Markham, Ontario, recalled a daylight sighting from the spring of 1987 where an object described as a “black door” hovered in the sky, according to testimony in Case 63531 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The reporting witness was a 9-year-old in 1987 playing with her cousin in a field behind her home during daylight hours with a clear sky.
“I looked up at the sky and saw a black, vertical, rectangle hovering above, just south of where we stood,” the witness stated. “I remember looking over at my cousin who was also staring at it and asked her if she saw it too. She said yes.”
The witness described the object.
“We both thought it looked like a black door or doorway. We stared at it for several minutes waiting to see what would happen. It barely moved, although it did appear to be shaking or vibrating slightly.”
The witness said the object barely moved, although it did appear to be shaking or vibrating slightly. Pictured: Markham, Ontario, Canada. (Credit: Google)
The witnesses’ mother called from their backyard asking the kids to come inside for dinner.
“We left the field and the ‘black door’ and went back to my house. We never discussed it with my parents and I’ve never seen anything like it since.”
The witness is hoping someone has a similar incident to share.
“The reason why I decided to share my story is because I want to know if anyone else has a similar story to mine or can shed some light on what we saw. Recently I asked my cousin if she remembered what we saw in the field behind my house when we were kids. She responded immediately saying, ‘Do you mean the door in the sky? I’ll never forget it!’”
The witness said the black rectangle was hovering between 75-100 yards above the ground.
The object was shaped like a door and hovered between 75 and 100 yards above the ground. Pictured: Markham, Ontario, Canada. (Credit: Google)
Markham is a city in the Regional Municipality of York, lies within the Greater Toronto Area of Southern Ontario, Canada, population 301,709.
Please remember that most UFO sighting can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
UFO Sightings and Videos: Are They Fake or Genuine?
UFO Sightings and Videos: Are They Fake or Genuine?
Extraterrestrials have been identified through strange shadows in the sky, flying saucers, or even unusual marks left on fields. Countless of UFO sightings have been reported by different individuals around the world over the years. Unidentified flying objects or UFOs have been involved in many conspiracies and controversies. Nobody can actually prove how true they are since nearly all traces disappear throughout the course of history. While many would find UFO and alien stories true, many others are still in doubt. So, how will you know if you see something extraordinary? Here are some incidences that will serve as your reference.
McMinnville UFO (Oregon)
A UFO appeared on the lens of the camera from an Oregon farmer couple in May 1950. According to wife Evelyn Trent, she first saw the object before it sped off out of their view. Evelyn described the object as a silvery, metallic disk.
Most UFO sightings happened near US Air Force bases, so it has been many times mentioned in UFO sighting reports. Perhaps, the most popular until today is still the Edward’s Air Force Base Sighting. An astronaut, at the same time a test pilot, filmed a classic saucer. The UFO was a silver and a smooth saucer that was approximately 30 feet in diameter. It had 3 legs that believed to be a landing gear. However, as the witness was about to submit the photo, it apparently disappeared.
A group of friends claimed they saw glowing, diamond shaped object that was about the size of a water tower blocking their way. Known as the Piney Woods Sighting, it brought emotional, mental and physical trauma to the group due to chemical poisoning in the area. They claimed to have seen helicopters escorting the UFO away from them.
Some have attributed these incidences to government conspiracy, but nobody knows what these occurrences tell, and one can only guess.
An unknown radio signal, which may have come from a black hole, colliding neutron stars (or – for those who ‘believe’ – alien life), has been picked up by astronomers live for the first time ever. Its origins remain mysterious.
The fast radio bursts are quick, bright flashes of radio waves that last only milliseconds, but still emit as much energy as the sun in an entire day.
This is the first time that these radio waves have been spotted live. The first burst was picked up in 2007 by sifting through old data at the Parkes Radio Telescope in Eastern Australia. Only seven others have been seen since then.
This time, the mysterious waves were picked with the use of 12 telescopes in Australia, Chile, Germany, Hawaii, India, California and the Canary Islands.
Because they observed the radio waves in real time, they were also able to try and find other wavelengths, like x-rays or infrared to find out their source…but remained unable to find anything.
“The fact that we did not see light in other wavelengths eliminates a number of astronomical phenomena that are associated with violent events such as gamma-ray bursts from exploding stars and supernovae, which were otherwise candidates for the burst,” Daniele Malesani, of the University of Copenhagen, told Astronomy Magazine.
The radio waves were polarized, which suggests that they were near an object with a large magnetic field.
“The theories are now that the radio wave burst might be linked to a very compact type of object – such as neutron stars or black holes – and the bursts could be connected to collisions or ‘star quakes,’ he added.
The radio signals originated up to 5.5 billion light-years away, from outside our Milky Way Galaxy and that they were caught by astronomers possibly up to a decade after they happened.
The catch took place in May 2014, but the results of the study got published this week in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
No one knows where exactly such waves come from, or what causes them. Astronomers have postulated that the mysterious signals might be emitted by exploding stars or supernovas; a collision of binary neutron stars or binary white dwarf star could also be a source.
One more possible reason could be a blitzar – a supermassive neutron star that should have become a black hole, but is spinning so fast that it is temporarily prevented from collapsing.
“We found out what it wasn’t. The burst could have hurled out as much energy in a few milliseconds as the Sun does in an entire day. But the fact that we did not see light in other wavelengths eliminates a number of astronomical phenomena that are associated with violent events such as gamma-ray bursts from exploding stars and supernovae, which were otherwise candidates for the burst,” Malesani said.
Having set “the trap,” the team is now waiting to catch another burst and maybe get some answers to the mystery.
There are a number of things that come to mind when I posted this article. Could these radio waves be coming from an intelligent life form? Is it possible that they’re being emitted from Saturn (aka Satan in astrotheology)? Do they have anything to do with the collapse of the matrix? Are they possibly distress signals from the ongoing Orion Wars, signifying an end to universal tyranny?
One thing we can be sure of is that science çand the mainstream media will write this off as “nothing to see here”.
Humans should start sending messages to planets in habitable zones in the hope that alien life-forms might hear us, scientists have said.
Space experts at the Search for Extra Terrestrial Life (SETI) project said the time has come to stop passively listening for signs of intelligence in other worlds and actively start seeking contact.
Kepler Space Telescope captured tens of thousands of stars in the constellation of Cygnus and Lyra
SETI was founded 20 years ago to monitor the cosmos for signals of alien life and involves astrophysicists from institutions like Harvard University and the University of California. However as early 1960 scientists were scanning space for clues to other civilizations.
Douglas Vakoch, the Director of Interstellar Message Composition at the SETI Institute, said we should now start devising a message to send to planets which have recently been discovered in the "goldilocks zone" – areas of space where it is neither too hot nor too cold for life to exist.
Kepler-186f, the first validated Earth-size planet to orbit a distant star in the habitable zone
"For over a half century, scientists engaged in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence have sought evidence of the existence of other civilizations by searching for intentional radio signals," he said
"As we move into the next half century we should expand our strategies, so we are not only passively listening, but also transmitting intentional, information-rich signals.
"With recent detections of Earth-like planets in the habitable zones of other stars, we have natural targets for such transmission projects.
"We should repeatedly target a set of nearby stars over the course of several months or years.”
The Kepler Telescope
NASA’s Kepler Telescope has so far found more than 3,800 planets in habitable zones which could hold liquid water, and life. Experts say targeting them with a signal is the best hope of making contact with new worlds.
However the content of a message has been hotly debated. To find out what humans would like to say to aliens, SETI founded a site called Earth Speaks and asked people to devise an interstellar message.
The smallest-ever planet outside our solar system has been spotted by NASA's Kepler space telescope - a rocky planet similar in size to the Earth
While women tended to offer friendship, and even coffee and biscuits in their missives, men were more likely to talk about science and inquire about their civilisation. Overall the main theme was asking for help from aliens rather than seeking to impart the wisdom of Earth.
Mr Vakoch said humans have a "cosmic inferiority complex" and automatically assume that extra-terrestrials will be more technologically advanced than us and so have nothing to learn.
But he added: "Humankind has a range of experiences and insights that cannot be imagined by any other civilization.
"Though extraterrestrials may be more technologically advanced we are, they will never be more human. It’s the breadth of our human experience that we should be conveying in our interstellar messages."
The experts at SETI say that governments must start working together to devise the message. The equipment to send basic messages already exists and scientists say that reluctance ‘more political than technical.’
Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer and Director, Center for SETI research, said some people resisted the approach, fearing it could alert our presence to dangerous extra-terrestrial races.
"It’s very controversial,” he said, “There are some people who think this might be dangerous.
"The idea that you are somehow endangering Earth I don’t think holds any water because we have been broadcasting into space willy nilly since the Second World War – televisions, FM radio and radar.
"These signals have been going into space for 70-somethng years so they are quite far out and any society that could come to Earth and incinerate Belgium, if they think they deserve it, is fully capable of picking up these broadcasts.”
But he admits that it is a gamble whether visiting aliens will come in peace.
“Nobody knows if they are friendly or not,” he added.
“You could be optimistic and think they are all friendly or figure they are like ones in the movies and hellbent on destruction. I suspect there is a whole range.
“Earth has been sitting around for 4 billion years with life on it and nobody’s thought to destroy it.
“It may be they want to proseltyse. The other thing is that they are just interested in the culture – that’s what’s special about us. Maybe they are interested in rock ‘n’ roll. Maybe they want Cliff Richard.”
However American scientist and futurist David Brin believes it is a mistake to try and contact alien worlds.
"We are the youngest of all technological races in the cosmos, like an orphan child who suddenly finds herself wandering a strange jungle that’s quiet, too quiet,” he said.
"Perhaps you have the kind of personality that says: "What the heck! I might as well shout and see what happens!"
"That’s all very well if the only one you are putting at risk is yourself. But when that risk is also imposed upon our children -- all of humanity and our planet – is it too much to ask that we discuss it first?"
The scientists were speaking at the annual Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS annual conference in San Jose.
Well...here we go again. Another round of pleas that our government disclose what they know about UFOs and extraterrestrial life. The political parties have started the process of whittling down their nominees for president...thus, the question of disclosure becomes a part of the rhetoric.
But, of course, some of us realize that it will never happen. Better stated, a true disclosure will never be offered to the public...unless it become so obvious that there really are non-terrestrial beings and advanced interstellar craft. Then an announcement of some kind may be forthcoming.
I found the following article this morning:
Push is on for 'comprehensive' extraterrestrial hearings on Capitol Hill
We’ve recently seen a drone crash a congressional hearing on drones, but what would happen if there was a hearing on extraterrestrial life?
Stephen Bassett, executive director of Paradigm Research Group and founder of the Extraterrestrial Phenomena Political Action Committee would like to find out.
While he’s pushed for congressional hearings on the topic in the past, Bassett is launching a new effort to overcome the “truth embargo” about the government’s involvement with alien life forms.
It comes in the form of “The Congressional Hearings Initiative.”
“Once this evidence is properly looked at, the way it should be, any reasonable person will come to the same conclusion,” Bassett told Roll Call.
Bassett is flooding approximately 180 members of Congress with meeting requests.
And if Basset gets his way, he doesn’t just want some skimpy meeting done for show.
“The goal is to get one of the committees to commit for comprehensive hearings,” Basset said. “Not three witnesses, come up [to] the Hill for half a day and give ’em a spiel. I’m talking about 25, 30, 35 witnesses, at least, testifying over a week, two weeks if possible. The reason is we’ve got those witnesses and the issue is not an issue that you can dispense with something trivial.”
Two people Bassett should get in his corner: John Podesta, President Barack Obama’s counselor, and former President Bill Clinton.
Considering Podesta’s comments that his “biggest failure” was not securing the disclosure of UFO files, it’s a natural fit.
And as far as Clinton, he did once tell Jimmy Kimmel that maybe the only way to united the world would be with an alien invasion.
So really, a congressional hearing on extraterrestrial life could also double as a world peace hearing.- Sun Times
So now we should have a former U.S. President and former White House insider 'helping' to find the truth. Mmm...are we to believe that President Clinton never reviewed any information pertaining to UFOs and alien beings while he was in office? The same question goes to John Podesta. Why didn't they make the effort to disclose the information at that time? Yeah, that's right...they wouldn't have dared chance it. I'm sorry that I seem cynical...but this shell-game, in my mind, is absurd.
During the 36th annual Kennedy Center Honors in 2013, President Barack Obama joked that he was making history for going where no president had gone before.
While honoring Oscar-winning actress Shirley MacLaine, who claims she has seen UFOs before, including "a mothership", Obama mentioned Area 51, a secret military installation north of Las Vegas that many in ufology believe is home to crashed flying saucers and alien bodies.
"Now, when you first become President, one of the questions that people ask you is, 'what's really going on in Area 51?'" Obama said. "When I wanted to know, I'd call Shirley MacLaine."
"I think I just became the first President to ever publicly mention Area 51," Obama added. "How's that, Shirley?"
I want to state that I truly believe that it is rational to assume that non-terrestrial beings exist and that these beings, in some capacity, may currently inhabit this planet. I have interviewed many experiencers and have seen some incredible evidence as an investigator. I'm totally convinced that humanity is being observed and manipulated by these highly advanced species...a process that has continued for millennia. There has been speculation that our species is a hybrid of human and alien DNA. This may very well be true but it has yet to be to be confirmed scientifically. Then again, our DNA strain may be so ancient that distinct human and alien genes may be impossible to isolate. Nevertheless, this is not what I want to write about at this time.
Since the 1950’s, Hollywood has been producing movies that deal with UFOs and alien beings. Most of the early films were full of hokey costumed creatures, tinfoil covered spacecraft and ridiculous story lines. On the other hand, we were given the impression that these aliens were either malevolent or were here to make sure the human species did not destroy itself.
Eventually, these B-movies science fiction thrillers evolved into high priced, computer enhanced mega productions that garnered millions of fans (ex. ‘Star Wars', ‘Close Encounters of the Third Kind”, etc.). Technology provided instant gratification with the ability for anyone to pop in a tape, then later a DVD, into the player at their convenience. We just sit back, relax and watch in high definition (and sometimes in 3D) wondrous interstellar craft and amazing alien beings interact with our species, either in the present time or long into the future. The plots and stories are a multiplicity of good vs. evil...and everything in between.
Yes...I fell into the same trap. My interest in the UFO and extraterrestrial phenomenon was exacerbated by Hollywood’s magic and the ability to make me wonder if what they portrayed may actually be close to the truth. Whether we are just being entertained or witnessing a primer for what we can expect is the real question. In other words, are we being conditioned...programmed, brainwashed or however you want to phrase it. Are we being made ready for the inevitable?
In the summer of 1996, Twentieth Century Fox released the film Independence Day It projected the tale of an alien mothership with a mass one-fourth of that of the Moon, that entered Earth’s orbit and deployed several dozen saucer-shaped destroyer spacecraft. Each of these craft are 15 miles in width and positioned over some of Earth's major cities. These destroyer craft coordinate and eventually deploy a WMD capable of leveling large cities, as well as dispatching the inhabitants. The U.S. President and most of his Cabinet reach safety at Area 51 where they discover that the aliens had visited Earth previously. Three dead aliens, as well as a complete attack craft, had been recovered and were stored underground. At the end of the day, which happened to be July 4th, the humans figure out how to destroy the aliens worldwide and ultimately become independent again.
‘Independence Day’ was written/directed by Ronald Emmerich and written/produced Don Devlin, the same pair who had previously created the film Stargate Not only did ‘Independence Day’ rejuvenate the science fiction genre in films but visually introduced us to alien forces plotting a strategic and tangible invasion against earth.
In today’s ufology, it’s my opinion that a majority of witness comments and theories, certainly the most well-known accounts, are usually based on film narratives produced in the 90’s and beyond. There are popular notions that predate this period, namely famous UFO crashes and retrievals. But after some analysis it seems the bulk of the modern UFO lore can be traced to the last two decades, as well as to a handful of individuals.
I’m not implying that the UFO and extraterrestrial phenomenon is somehow a myth. As I stated earlier, I believe there are beings of equal or higher intelligence that not only travel to this planet or dimension, but may also inhabit it as well. On the other hand, these beings and their appearance, mannerisms and mode of transportation are most likely not the same as our popular culture describes them. I’ll admit that I am as guilty as others in using some of these popular descriptions when I post on my blog, though I try to avoid it as much as possible.
We can debate the arguments for disclosure and if the world is ready for that reality, but at the end of the day, those arguments are still based on assumptions that still lack credible evidence. Even if there was some evidence that supported the theories that the government had intimate knowledge of alien beings, disclosing the existence or visitation to our planet of non-human entities would certainly qualify as a ‘world after’ event (ex. ‘world after 9/11’). I think the government knows more about UFOs and alien beings than it publicly acknowledges, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are covering up secret agreements, underground bases, genetic hybridization or any knowledge of where extraterrestrials come from.
Those people who are interested and involved in the study of UFOs and extraterrestrials need to look at the logical evidence that is provided and not compare it to the computer generated flash and stories used for entertainment. As well, an absolute need for disclosure serves only as security for our conscience. Real disclosure will not be on human terms. Disclosure will be on their terms, the non-terrestrials, whether we can accept that or not...Lon
For all UFO enthusiast and UFOologists alike, today is the 73rd anniversary of the Battle Of Los Angeles otherwise known as The Great LA Air raid, which has gone down history as the most mysterious events of World War II.
Back in 1942 on this very day, Los Angeles was panic stricken by an invasion of what was believed to be a Japanese aircraft hovering over the city. The US army reacted by firing 1400 shells into the skies but to no avail, no aircraft was ever recovered.
Nobody really knew what they had just seen, there was no evidence of downed craft, there where some explanations that centred around weather balloons, but that would have been feasible if there had been material of that kind recovered.
The other explanation was that it could well have been ships of extraterrestrial origin. In the original Times photograph, the picture show glowing round spheres hovering int he night sky, the incident ignited the Americas first ever UFO sighting by mass public eyes, and this was even before the 1947 Roswell crash.
Nick Pope, Ex employee British Government's Ministry of Defence told Neon Nettle: "Believers think this was nothing short of an alien invasion, while skeptics say it was a combination of mass hysteria and war nerves, with people shooting at balloons. Whatever the truth, it shows that people can and do see and film UFOs not just in remote areas, but over major cities".
Amazingly, since the sighting all those years back, there is still no rational explanation. To mark the anniversary, the UFO world have been treated to a trailer for the UFO Diary today. The Full version of UFO Diary is set to be released soon and will feature special effects from Antony Vannapho (The Twilight Saga), Kiel Figgins (Avengers: Age of Ultron) Sean Dollins (Prometheus), Rini Sugianto (The Hunger Games), Delano Athias (Polis), Bren Wilson (Paradise Lost) and many others.
The question still remains, however, did a UFO(s) really hover above Los Angeles all those years ago? Its is something to think about.
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The 1947 Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting
The 1947 Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting
Date: June 24, 1947 Location: Near Mt. Rainier, Washington, United States
The modern phenomena of UFOs and “flying saucers” began in Washington state on June 24, 1947, when Kenneth Arnold spotted nine mysterious, high-speed objects “flying like a saucer would” along the crest of the Cascade Range near Mount Rainier. His report made international headlines and triggered hundreds of similar accounts of “flying saucers” locally and across the nation.
Kenneth Arnold showing an illustration of one of the nine objects he saw.
Kenneth Arnold in front of his CallAir plane.
Kenneth Arnold's drawing to Army Air Force (AAF) intelligence, July 12, 1947.
Classification & Features
Type of Case/Report: MajorCase Hynek Classification: DD Special Features/Characteristics: Pilot/Aircrew, Witness Sketch, Witness Photo, Multiple UFOs
Edward Ruppelt, The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects
Although a formal project for UFO investigation wasn't set up until September 1947, the Air Force had been vitally interested in UFO reports ever since June 24, 1947, the day Kenneth Arnold made the original UFO report.
You will not find any conventional history book that even so much as mentions that on this date the human race first became aware of a phenomenon that could well be the most important discovery of the last century, or even in the history of mankind: the presence of "Other Intelligences" (Non-Human Intelligence). This document, the "ultimate Arnold" history and analysis, is an edited and updated version of my presentation at the 1997 MUFON Symposium.
The following story of what I observed over the Cascade mountains, as impossible as it may seem, is positively true. I never asked nor wanted any notoriety for just accidentally being in the right spot at the right time to observe what I did. R
In the Skeptics UFO Newsletter (SKUFON), #46 of July 1997 Philip Klass has proposed, in conjunction with Keay Davidson, a new explanation for the flying saucer sighting by Kenneth Arnold. One wonders why it took 50 years for this explanation to be proposed. R
The June 24, 1947 sighting by private pilot Kenneth Arnold was not really the first recorded UFO sighting. However, it was the first sighting to be publicly reported and it attracted worldwide interest. It also attracted many more than its share of explanations.
Almost three years after the famous June 24, 1947 sighting in the Cascades of the state of Washington, Edward R. Murrow engaged the pilot/witness Kenneth Arnold in a conversation about his historic experience. Portions of that conversation are reproduced here in an exact transcript of the broadcast as it was heard nationwide on the evening of April 7, 1950.
The 50th anniversary of the flying saucer phenomenon is upon us, and thoughts time-warp back to the case that started it all, Kenneth Arnold's sighting of nine objects speeding by Mount Rainier on a sunny June afternoon. R
Funny how your life can get turned upside down just because you see something. Kenneth Arnold's story is the story of a pretty straight guy. He was an Eagle Scout when he was a teen-ager. He worked for the Red Cross. He was an All-State football player in high school, with hopes of being a college star until a knee injury cut his football career short.
After college, Arnold became a salesman and learned to fly, combining the two by flying from small town to small town selling fire control equipment, eventually owning the Great Western Fire Control Supply Company. He was a member of the Sheriff's "aerial posse"of Ada County, Idaho, he was a relief U.S. Marshall, and he sometimes flew prisoners to the Federal Penitentiary. Flying his light plane, a Callair, was the basis of his livelihood.
In other words, he was the perfect UFO witness: a solid citizen, honest and trustworthy, married, with two daughters.
On June 24, 1947, he was returning home from a business trip when he made a detour into the Yakima, Washington area to help in an aerial search for a missing C-46 marine transport plane that was believed to have gone down in the area.
At around 3:00 in the afternoon, he was flying at about 9,000 feet, near Mount Rainier, when a flash of light caught his eye. He turned and saw a procession of nine very strange objects flying from north to south in front of his plane. They were flat and rather heel-shaped, very shiny, and they moved erratically, like a "saucer would if you skipped it across water." You can see Arnold's drawing of what he saw here. Arnold estimated their size at about two-thirds that of a DC-4, and he calculated their speed at over 1500 mph by timing their travel between two mountain peaks of known distance.
When he arrived at Yakima, Washington, Arnold told several other pilots about his sighting. The consensus among them was that it was some type of military "secret weapon". However, Arnold would later find that the U.S. military was as mystified by the objects as he himself was.
In Pendleton, Oregon, Arnold went to make a report to the FBI, but the local office was closed, so he talked to the editor of the East Oregonian newspaper instead and it was the editor who put the story on the newswires. Because of Arnold's background and reliability as a witness, the story got wide circulation. Here's Arnold's report in his own words.
What did Arnold see? Skeptics said everything from clouds to blowing snow on the mountain, to droplets of water on his airplane window. Here Martin Kottmeter shoots down some of the early theories of what Arnold saw. More recent explanations include Phil Klass' meteorite fragments and James Easton's white pelicans.
The June sighting and the resulting hoopla were not the end of Arnold's association with UFOs. On July 5th, 1947, Arnold was introduced to Captain E. J. Smith, who, along with his co-pilot and a stewardess, had seen a formation of UFOs over Emmett, Idaho. They hit it off well and became good friends.
In the middle of July, Arnold received a letter from Raymond Palmer, editor of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories. Arnold didn't know who Palmer was, since he didn't read the pulps. Palmer wanted Arnold to write down his experiences for publication in the magazine and he offered to pay. Arnold didn't particularly care about the money and sent Palmer a copy of what he had already told the newspapers and the Army Air Corps.
Later in July, a couple of Army Air Force intelligence officers named Lt. Frank M. Brown and Capt. William Davidson had a friendly meeting with Arnold. He gave them an account of his sighting and they asked him to report any further incidents to them. Lt. Brown filed a report giving his impression of Arnold's story. Arnold, Smith, Brown, Davidson, and Palmer were later to become involved in the Maury Island hoax.
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The Hudson Valley Boomerang Sightings
The Hudson Valley Boomerang Sightings
Date: , 1981 Location: Hudson Valley, New York, United States
Between 1982 and 1995, more than seven thousand cases were investigated and documented by a team of investigators led by Philip J. Imbrogno, a high school science teacher and astronomer in Greenwich, Connecticut. The heaviest period was between the end of 1982 and 1986, when more than five thousand people reported seeing the object.
Illustration of the Hudson Valley boomerang.
Classification & Features
Type of Case/Report: MajorCase Hynek Classification: CE1 # of Witnesses: Multiple Special Features/Characteristics: Mass Sighting
A good, brief overview of the Hudson Valley UFO sightings. "In a place you would hardly expect, just one hour north of New York City, lies the site of one of the most widely observed and yet most unexplainable set of UFO sightings ever seen. R
In the Hudson Valley area alone, there has been more than 7,000 reports of UFOs over the past seven years. To my surprise many people in the area felt that they had contact with a non-human intelligence from another world. R
The Hudson River valley of New York state was the site of one of the most widely witnessed and extended episodes of UFO activity ever.
Print / Other References
J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno, Bob Pratt, Night Siege: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings
Full Report / Article
Source: Bob Pratt
Summary: An overview of the Hudson Valley sightings by Bob Pratt, co-author of Night Siege (with J. Allen Hynek and Philip Imbrogno), one of the primary books on these sightings.
Huge triangular or V-shaped UFOs have been reported countless times throughout the world over the past thirty to forty years, with one of the most active areas being the Hudson River Valley just north of New York City.
Between 1982 and 1995, more than seven thousand cases were investigated and documented by a team of investigators led by Philip J. Imbrogno, a high school science teacher and astronomer in Greenwich, Connecticut.
The heaviest period was between the end of 1982 and 1986, when more than five thousand people reported seeing the object.
Sometimes called the “Westchester Boomerang” because some of the earliest reports came from Westchester County in New York State, it was huge and often flew close to the ground, so low that gray superstructure could be seen linking numerous multi-colored lights.
Numerous sightings were also reported in neighboring New York counties as well as in nearby Connecticut.
One awed witness, an IBM program manager, said: “If there is such a thing as a flying city, this was a flying city… It was huge.”
It was enormous, awesome and spectacular. It moved slowly and silently and was easily as big as a football field; some witnesses said as big as three football fields. That would make it anywhere from three hundred to nine hundred feet long, far larger than any aircraft manufactured in the world.
Thousands of people, many of them highly educated professionals, went on record as saying that the Boomerang was undeniably very real to them. The great majority of people interviewed had no previous interest in UFOs. They were taken completely by surprise.
FAA DENIED ANYTHING HAPPENED
Many witnesses were separated geographically and were unknown to each other at the time of the sightings. Police records show that countless residents phoned their local police stations in concern, and police officers themselves witnessed this strange spectacle.
From the nation's scientists, to whom these events should have been of breathtaking concern, nothing was heard.
Hundreds of people living in the affluent suburbs within commuting distance of one of the world's largest and most cosmopolitan cities were astonished, awestruck, and frightened by what they could only regard as a very bizarre event. But the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which monitors the air lanes through which the boomerang-shaped object flew repeatedly, persisted in denying its existence.
There may have been more than one object because several times sighting reports came in about the same time from towns some distance apart.
Witnesses came from all walks of life, including housewives, office workers, aircraft designers, truck drivers, construction workers, nurses, doctors, pilots, engineers, bookkeepers, technicians and scientists. Many skeptical police officers changed their minds when they saw the Boomerang themselves.
Many times it hovered or moved ever so slowly. Once, a man was able to jog underneath and keep up with it. At times it hovered or drifted very slowly over major expressways, causing traffic to come to a confused halt.
At other times it moved with incredible speed. One husband and wife said it was six stories tall and that it shot off to the far horizon and immediately came back to the same spot in barely a second.
One night, a policewoman sitting in her cruiser watching for speeders was astonished to see a string of white lights in a half-circle hover over her vehicle for twenty seconds. She was so surprised that she never thought to aim her radar gun at it.
UFO FLASHES LIGHT AT CROWD
In another town on another night, a policeman responding to a phone call found ten people standing watching a circle of flashing red, blue and green lights hovering about five hundred feet overhead. The object appeared to be three hundred feet wide.
The officer turned his spotlight on it – and the object immediately projected a brilliant flash of white light down on him and the spectators. Seconds later it shot off out of sight.
On the night of July 24, 1984, twelve security guards watched as a boomerang-shaped object hovered for more than ten minutes directly above one of the reactors of the Indian Point nuclear power plant. This is located on the Hudson River at Buchanan, twenty miles north of Manhattan.
It was so large that one officer had to pan a security camera on the plant’s roof 180 degrees to take in the whole object. Inside the security console, the computer that controlled all the security and communication systems shut down.
The incident was so shocking that the commander contacted a nearby National Guard unit and asked that a helicopter be sent to shoot the object down. Before the action could be carried out, the UFO moved away. Later, authorities denied anything happened.
During the unusually long period of sightings and encounters, numerous witnesses reported having had contact with some kind of extraterrestrial intelligence. More than sixty people said they had had been abducted, with women between the ages of twenty five and thirty representing the largest number of cases.
Philip Imbrogno reported that among witnesses who said they’d had multiple contacts, a very high percentage had B-negative type blood, although what the significance of that is has not yet be determined.
MEDIA REMAINS LARGELY SILENT
Initially, it was thought the Boomerang was seen primarily in the half dozen counties of New York and Connecticut immediately north of New York City. But later it was learned that the object had visited a much larger area to the west, north and east.
Sightings tapered off after the heavy 1982-1986 period but have never stopped. They have continued sporadically ever since.
The United States has perhaps the most extensive, sophisticated and freest mass communications system in the world. Trivial events are often flashed everywhere. Yet, news of this astounding happening was carried on only one network.
The American media has remained largely silent about this spectacular phenomenon, either from ignorance or, more likely, on purpose. Area newspapers, radio and television stations did carry stories, but there was little in the way of national coverage.
The authorities, for the most part, were no help. Some police departments were sympathetic to witnesses and investigators and some weren’t. A few were outright antagonistic.
The FAA denied anything unusual was happening in the skies over the Hudson Valley, even though some air traffic controllers privately acknowledged tracking unknown objects on radar.
Some authorities tried to explain the sightings as simply small planes flying in formation – even at times when strong winds were blowing – and even ultra lights, which rarely fly at night because it is too dangerous and are almost impossible to fly in formation.
Many people believed the Boomerang was a spaceship from another world. Wedo not know. We can only speculate.
It definitely was not a secret weapon, nor a hologram, nor a formation of planes, helicopters or blimps, nor, we believe, anything else man-made. There is no conventional explanation for the Hudson Valley UFO.
These investigations are described in two books, NIGHT SIEGE: The Hudson Valley UFO Sightings (Ballantine, 1987) by Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Philip J. Imbrogno and Bob Pratt, NIGHT SIEGE Second Edition (Llewellyn, 1998), and CONTACT OF THE FIFTH KIND, by Philip J. Imbrogno and Marianne Horrigan (Llewellyn, 1997).
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E.T. Encounters of the Human Kind with Richard Dolan
E.T. Encounters of the Human Kind with Richard Dolan
We’ve heard it many times – truth is stranger than fiction. But when trying to keep some semblance of normalcy and sanity in a world that continues to show us its more mysterious side, it might do us well to consider that truth includes a broad spectrum of experience, including possible interactions with human looking extraterrestrials.
Preeminent UFO researcher and historian Richard Dolan who’s painstaking research has culminated into several books, including UFOs and the National Security State, volumes 1 and 2 and A.D. – After Disclosure, took the time to depart from his “usual fare” and discuss some of the more perplexing and bizarre aspects to the UFO story. Except none of these incidents involve UFO’s per se, but rather E.T. encounters of the human kind.
During our “out of this world” conversation we discuss:
The bizarre nature of human looking E.T. encounters and the consistencies that exist throughout.
The telepathic link between these beings and those witnesses who can “hear” their thoughts.
The conspicuous though secretive nature of these beings.
Richard Dolan is one of the world’s leading researchers and writers on the subject of UFOs, and believes that they constitute the greatest mystery of our time.
He is the author of two volumes of history, UFOs and the National Security State, both ground-breaking works which together provide the most factually complete and accessible narrative of the UFO subject available anywhere. He also co-authored a speculative book about the future, A.D. After Disclosure, the first-ever analysis not only of how UFO secrecy might end, but of the all-important question: what happens next?
Richard’s latest work, UFOs for the 21st Century Mind, provides a fresh treatment of the entire subject. In it, he discusses the important sightings, the encounters, the politics, the cover-up, ancient aliens, the bizarre science, disclosure, and offers advice on being both critical and open-minded in today’s world. Like his previous three books, it asks fresh questions and offers new insights to further our understanding of the UFO mystery.
Richard hosts a weekly radio show, The Richard Dolan Show, on KGRA radio, is a frequent guest on Coast-to-Coast AM. He is currently featured on several television series and documentaries, including Ancient Aliens, Hangar One: The UFO Files and Close Encounters. For a longer list of his television appearances, see below.
Prior to his interest in UFOs, Richard completed his graduate work at the University of Rochester, where he studied U.S. Cold War strategy, European history, and international diplomacy. Before that, he had studied at Alfred University and Oxford University, and had been a finalist for a Rhodes scholarship.
But for the past two decades, Richard has been a dedicated student of all things related to UFOs, steadily expanding his interests within that topic from his initial focus on government documents and the cover-up. Now his interests include it all, from the deepest aspects of the coverup, to contact and abduction, the science behind the phenomenon, how the phenomenon has affected world culture, his theory of a breakaway civilization, the possible relationship of artificial intelligence and biotechnology to the UFO phenomenon, and the implications of the end of secrecy, that is, the world After Disclosure.
Today, there is no aspect of the phenomenon Richard won’t study. He continues to look forward to exploring this topic in all its depth, a topic he believes opens our doors of perception, challenging us to see the world differently and more clearly.
In addition to his research, Richard’s company, Richard Dolan Press, actively publishes innovative books by authors from around the world.
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'Onmogelijk groot' zwart gat ontdekt - De Standaard.be
'Onmogelijk groot' zwart gat ontdekt - De Standaard.be
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Foto: nd
Astronomen hebben in de ruimte een ‘onmogelijk groot zwart gat’ ontdekt. Het is het grootste zwarte gat dat ooit in ons heelal werd aangetroffen.
Het zwarte gat is zo groot, dat de massa ervan even groot is als die van twaalf miljard zonnen samen. Ter vergelijking: onze eigen Melkweg heeft een zwart gat met een massa van ‘slechts’ vier miljoen zonmassa’s.
Zo’n groot zwart gat relatief kort na de oerknal kan volgens de theorieën die nu heersen over het ontstaan van het universum, niet verklaard worden. ‘Hoe kan zo’n massief zwart gat zich zo vroeg in de geschiedenis van het universum gevormd hebben, in ons piepjong heelal?’, vragen de onderzoekers zich af. Een internationaal onderzoeksteam, onder leiding van de Universiteit van Peking en de Universiteit van Arizona, probeert nu meer te weten te komen over het grote zwarte gat.
Evenveel licht als 420 biljoen zonnen
Het zwarte gat bevindt zich in het centrum van een quasar, een extreem heldere wolk materiaal die in een zwart gat aan het verdwijnen is. Door de warmte die vrijkomt van het materiaal dat zich naar het zwarte gaat beweegt, komt er een enorme hoeveelheid licht vrij. Met optische telescopen lijkt zo’n quasar op een ster, maar het bevindt zich eigenlijk op nog een veel grotere afstand van miljarden lichtjaren. Door die grote afstand en de eindige snelheid van het licht, zien wij zo’n quasars zoals ze er miljarden jaren geleden, toen het heelal nog jonger was, uitzagen.
‘Deze quasar is uniek’, zegt Xiaohui Fan van het onderzoeksteam. ‘Je kan het beschouwen als de helderste vuurtoren in het verre heelal. Het licht dat de quasar geeft, zal ons meer leren over het vroegere universum.’ De quasar geeft evenveel licht als 420 biljoen zonnen samen.
UFO mania: Does The US Government Have Fleets Of UFOs? - The Solar Warden Project
UFO mania: Does The US Government Have Fleets Of UFOs? - The Solar Warden Project
There are, and have been for some time, claims by UFO disclosure supporters that there is in existence a fleet or fleets of human spaceships charged with monitoring alien traffic throughout our solar system and even defending our solar system in the event of an extraterrestrial attack.
Perhaps this is science fiction or the result of an overactive imagination. But some have said they’ve seen evidence of this alleged project, commonly called “Solar Warden.”
If Solar Warden is indeed real, it would require advanced technology several generations ahead of what our military currently uses on the battlefield. Some speculate that backwards engineered alien technology is responsible for the rapid development of these types of systems.
Astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the moon, is probably one of the most high-profile persons to have come forward regarding the existence of alien beings visiting Earth. He has addressed the topic in several interviews, saying there are indeed extraterrestrial civilizations beyond our solar system, they have indeed visited Earth, and the United States government may have collected and backwards engineered alien technology.
“I suspect that in the last 60 years or so, that there has been some back-engineering and the creation of this type of equipment, that is not nearly as sophisticated yet as what the apparent visitors have,” stated Dr. Mitchel during a Kerrang Radio interview on July 23, 2008.
In 2001, a hacker named Gary McKinnon used a series of clever techniques to hack several government computers, including and probably not limited to NASA and U.S. Navy computers. His original purpose for hacking U.S. computers was to seek out hidden data regarding the existence of free energy, or “zero-point” devices, he told Wired in a 2006 interview.
In his digital travels he allegedly uncovered an excel spreadsheet with a list of names and a heading of “non-terrestrial officers,” he told Wired.
Another document was listed as “fleet-to-fleet” transfers, according to a 2006 Project Camelot interview.
McKinnon was unable to cross reference the names with any U.S. Navy ships and believed these were off-world or “Space Marine,” type officers.
“If you look at DARPA [Defence Advanced Research and Projects Agency] literature at the moment and in the last few years it’s all about ‘space dominance,’ that is the final frontier,” McKinnon told Project Camelot. “So, I think it’s natural for them to want to control space and be developing a space-going force in secret, but I think most likely using technology reverse-engineered from E.T. [extraterrestrials].”
McKinnon told Wired he was in the process of viewing a UFO image on a NASA computer in Building 8 of the Johnson Space Center remotely when he was discovered. Some months later (in March 2002), authorities showed up on his doorstep in the U.K. Severe hacking charges were brought against him and he was facing about 70 years in prison and $2 million in fines.
But in the years following his discovery, the U.S. government extradition request stayed in limbo until it was eventually dropped. Project Camelot speculated that McKinnon was holding “ace-in-the-hole” information he gathered during his hacking journey that he may have held as leverage against his extradition. McKinnon wouldn’t comment on whether he had such information.
The name “Solar Warden” is a term that generically refers to the ultra-secret space fleet. It’s presently unclear where exactly the name originated. If the program does exist, it would require a tremendous amount of capital to construct its fleets.
Last year, the United States’ black budget for secret programs spanning dozens of agencies was $52.6 billion, according to the Washington Post. In 2011, the U.S. government spent approximately $718 billion more on national defense and international security. Of course, much of that went to fighting the war against terrorism.
However, if the government did decide to build a space fleet of exotic technology and design, the money could be utilized, especially if more than one nation is involved and funneling money into this program as postulated by some disclosure advocates.
Currently, the U.S. government’s various military branches all have their own space commands, such as the Air Force Space Command and the Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare System’s Command (SPAWAR). These departments have public websites and they help coordinate the military forces on the ground, in the air, and at sea. It is unclear if these departments may be linked with the so-called Solar Warden project, or if this alleged project would be separated into its own covert and isolated department.
They type of UFOs are seen little bit frequently over Earth. This particular shape has been recorded by astronauts. It looks like this as it enters the Earths atmosphere and then is will shoot out a probe from the front and sometimes many probes. They will sparkle like disco, three UFOs, balls ant then the giant trail we see will disappear until only the front of the glowing ship is there and it will disappear in the distance. Video UFOs here:
The discovery of a mysterious bright spot on Ceres has given rise to lots of speculation. And now we’ve learned something new: it has a friend. The second spot is not quite as bright, but still weirdly reflective compared to the rest of the dwarf planet. And one scientist has a possible explanation for both of these bright spots.
The bright spots are here revealed as two distinct features inside the crater. (Image enlarged and sepia colored)
From photographs taken on February 19, 2015 at 46,000 kilometers away (29,000 miles), Dawn can finally see that the mysterious bright spot on Ceres is in a basin, and has a smaller, dimmer companion. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
The latest round of photographs was taken by Dawn on February 19, 2015 when the spacecraft was still 46,000 kilometers away (29,000 miles) from the dwarf planet. It reveals not just the bright spot that has been provoking speculation for years, but now the imaging resolution is getting good enough to spot a second smaller and dimmer bright spot apparently in the same basin as the main attraction.
Could the lights be patches of ice, welling up from the interior of the biggest asteroid or there are other forces at work inside the crater?
Even as we discover more about Ceres, some mysteries only deepen.
Er kwamen al heel wat vreemde opnames voorbij, maar de volgende die enkele dagen geleden werden gemaakt in het Russische Vladivostok, zijn wel heel bijzonder.
Het begint met een nieuwsbericht in de Russische media waarin wordt gemeld dat er druk wordt gesproken op de sociale netwerken over wel zeer vreemde wolkenformaties.
Uiteraard gaan de berichten op die sociale media vergezeld van de nodige foto’s, zoals de volgende:
De vreemde patronen in de lucht verschenen rond lunchtijd en veel mensen liepen naar buiten en probeerden de bizarre patronen in de lucht vast te leggen op video of foto. De algemene tendens is natuurlijk dat men een vliegtuig verantwoordelijk acht voor de formatie van dergelijke wolken/chemtrails.
Wanneer je echter de volgende video bekijkt dan zoek je het antwoord niet in vliegtuigen, maar eerder in UFO’s. Na ongeveer 40 seconden zie je als het ware een hele ketting ongedefiniëerde objecten één voor één zichtbaar worden.
UFO mania: NASA Secrets Revealed - Alien Ruins on the Moon
UFO mania: NASA Secrets Revealed - Alien Ruins on the Moon
The former manager of the Data and Photo Control Department at NASA’s Lunar Receiving Laboratory during the manned Apollo Lunar Program, Ken Johnston, has released quite a number of sensational statements recently in the USA.
The specialist said that U.S. astronauts found ancient ruins of artificial origin and a previously unknown technology to control gravitation when then landed on the Moon. Astronauts took pictures of the objects that they found, but NASAordered Johnston to destroy the images.
Johnston did not follow the order.
He said that the U.S. government had been keeping this information a secret for 40 years.
Johnston's startling Apollo allegations have recently appeared in a new book, "Dark Mission - the Secret History of NASA," co-authored by former NASA consultant and CBS Science Advisor, Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara, an aerospace engineering consultant.
According to Kay Ferrari, JPL Director of the SSA Program (in a phone call to Johnston last week), it was Johnston "being quoted [as] criticizing NASA in Hoagland's new book, 'Dark Mission,'" that prompted her to ask for Johnston's resignation from the SSA Program.
When Johnston refused, citing First Amendment protections of free speech afforded all NASA employees, even those at JPL, Ferrari apparently decided to remove him arbitrarily from the SSA Program this week without cause.
The low quality pictures included in the book depict ruins of buildings, huge dome-like objects made of glass, stone towers and castled hanging in the air.
“I have nothing to lose. I have quarreled with NASA and I got fired,” Ken Johnston said.
Indeed, NASA believes that allegations of the ancient civilization found on the Moon are not serious. The authors of the controversial book also say that President John F. Kennedy, who launched the lunar race with the Soviet Union, actually intended to share extraterrestrial technologies with Moscow. Making a speech at the United Nations Organizations in September of 1963, Kennedy supposedly offered the USSR to organize a joint mission to the Moon.
Richard Hoagland believes that Washington’s interest in the Moon exploration that suddenly appeared after 30 years of silence is based on the lunar findings that the U.S. government has been keeping a secret for 40 years. Russia, China, Japan and even India have publicly announced their plans to work on the exploration of the Moon. The USA, Hoagland said, wants to be the first at this point.
In December NASA announced plans to build an international base on one of the poles of the Moon. The base is to be finished by 2024. Russia’s booster rocket maker, Energia, has a more ambitious program: to build a permanent manned base on the Moon by 2015.
Russia says the base will be built to develop the industrial production of helium-3. U.S. specialists prefer not to say anything specific on the matter. To crown it all, China launched its first satellite to the Moon on October 24.
China also intends to launch a lunar base and an unmanned space probe to the Moon by 2010.
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‘Onmogelijk groot’ zwart gat ontdekt in ons piepjong heelal - Nieuwsblad.be
‘Onmogelijk groot’ zwart gat ontdekt in ons piepjong heelal - Nieuwsblad.be
archiefbeeld zwart gat
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Astronomen hebben in de ruimte een ‘onmogelijk groot zwart gat’ ontdekt. Het is het grootste zwarte gat dat ooit in ons heelal werd aangetroffen.
Het zwarte gat is zo groot, dat de massa ervan even groot is als die van twaalf miljard zonnen samen. Ter vergelijking: onze eigen Melkweg heeft een zwart gat met een massa van ‘slechts’ vier miljoen zonmassa’s.
Zo’n groot zwart gat relatief kort na de oerknal kan volgens de theorieën die nu heersen over het ontstaan van het universum, niet verklaard worden. ‘Hoe kan zo’n massief zwart gat zich zo vroeg in de geschiedenis van het universum gevormd hebben, in ons piepjong heelal?’, vragen de onderzoekers zich af. Een internationaal onderzoeksteam, onder leiding van de Universiteit van Peking en de Universiteit van Arizona, probeert nu meer te weten te komen over het grote zwarte gat.
Evenveel licht als 420 biljoen zonnen
Het zwarte gat bevindt zich in het centrum van een quasar, een extreem heldere wolk materiaal die in een zwart gat aan het verdwijnen is. Door de warmte die vrijkomt van het materiaal dat zich naar het zwarte gaat beweegt, komt er een enorme hoeveelheid licht vrij. Met optische telescopen lijkt zo’n quasar op een ster, maar het bevindt zich eigenlijk op nog een veel grotere afstand van miljarden lichtjaren. Door die grote afstand en de eindige snelheid van het licht, zien wij zo’n quasars zoals ze er miljarden jaren geleden, toen het heelal nog jonger was, uitzagen.
‘Deze quasar is uniek’, zegt Xiaohui Fan van het onderzoeksteam. ‘Je kan het beschouwen als de helderste vuurtoren in het verre heelal. Het licht dat de quasar geeft, zal ons meer leren over het vroegere universum.’ De quasar geeft evenveel licht als 420 biljoen zonnen samen.
From an interview with Jacques Vallee by Jerome Clark (FATE magazine, 1978):
Vallee: I think that's exactly what we have to do with UFOs. We have to do something that will cause them to react. And I don't mean building landing strips in the desert and waiting out there to welcome the space brothers. Clark: But what do you mean? Vallee: I hesitate to be too specific. I'm speaking, as I'm sure you understand, of the attempted manipulation of UFO manifestations.
I know a little something about that subject. And I'm about to go out on a very long, creaky limb by telling this little story. In the past decade or so, the bizarre nexus of UFOs and the paranorma has emerged from the dustbin of Ufology, thanks to pioneers like Vallee, John Keel, and a rapidly growing group of researchers (see references at the end of this article). In some ways, the UFO/Occult nexus has become a cottage industry, and has occasionally broken through into the mainstream. But when my particular incident occurred, Ufology was primarily entrenched in the "nuts-and-bolts spaceships" extraterrestrial hypothesis (ETH) camp. But on with my particular piece of this puzzle.
In early September of 1990, I spend a few days at Ocean City, Maryland, a resort town on the Atlantic. I went to the beach with a few friends, and we passed the time making sand sculptures. Since I was reading a lot about UFOs at the time (it was the 90s, after all), I sculpted the head of a prototypical "gray" alien in the sand, with his arm raised above his head as if waving hello.
A couple of weeks later, I returned to Ocean City for the weekend. One evening, I had a very vivid dream about a television panel discussing UFOs. One expert was a Phil Klass styled skeptic/debunker, another was a Jacques Vallee-type, the third was a Stanton Friedman nuts-and-bolts ETH proponent, and the final panel member was a raving paranoid "the lizards in their underground bases are eating our children!" conspiratologist. The panelists bantered back and forth until the paranoid guy started ranting: "They're cooperating with the government! They're stealing our children and the government knows it! The Men in Black are demons!" The other panelists chuckled and rolled their eyes.
I awoke from the dream, disturbed. I seldom had dreams related to UFOs, and this one was particularly realistic. I found that my thoughts kept returning to the dream throughout the day. That evening, at approximately 7:30pm, I decided to take a walk on the beach with my girlfriend. It was a very clear, starry night, and we were the only two on the beach. My girlfriend walked along the surf, while I lingered away from the water. I looked down in the sand and saw what looked like a humanoid face sculpted in the sand, though part of it had been obliterated by footprints.
I remembered the alien head I had sculputed in the sand weeks before, miles from the spot on which I was standing. Just another synchronicity, I thought to myself.
I looked up into the starry night, thinking about my dream and the face in the sand. I said, mentally, If you're out there, now is the perfect time to show yourself. I guess part of me secretly wished something would appear, but I certainly did not expect anything to happen. I walked closer to the water and joined my girlfriend. A few minutes later, she pointed to the sky. "What are those?" she asked.
Two orange-red blobs of light were bobbing up and down next to each other far above us. When I looked at them, they shot off across the sky (over the ocean), flying erratically -- almost playfully, changing direction frequently. At one point, they merged, flying as one unit, then split apart again. We watched them, stunned, until they vanished on the horizon amidst the light pollution from Ocean City's boardwalk.
"Oh, my God," I said, over and over, as we followed them. I couldn't say anything else but "Oh, my God." I was simultaneously awed and frightened. When the lights disappeared, we both returned to the car and drove home, elated but also unnerved by what we had seen. I can only think of a couple of theories to explain what happened.
One is that I was part of a lucky train of coincidences, a chain of synchronicity -- sculpting a face of an alien in the sand, dreaming about the UFO panel, stumbling upon a similar face in the sand weeks later, asking for an appearance, and getting much more than I could have imagined.
The other possibility is much more intriguing, but raises all sorts of troubling questions. It suggests that UFOs are a multidimensional phenomena (bending time and space), that they interact with human consciousness on an intimate level, and that they can potentially be summoned. Far more frightening is the possibility that whatever it is, it observed, drew upon, or manipulated my consciousness, my dreams, and my perceptions leading up to the sighting.
If it wasn't for my girlfriend sighting the objects first, I would concede the possibility that it was a hallucination. She knew nothing of my silent request to show me something, and pointed out the objects before I saw them.
One of the foremost researchers into the fringes of Ufology is my friend who goes by the name of Blue Resonant Human, or Brother Blue. Although he dropped out of sight in the late 90s, his prodigious postings to USENET made him a Net celebrity, and his unconventional (and funny) writings made him the object of scorn of hardnosed skeptic and harebrained new ager alike. One of his missives is archived here. I will pull out some pertinent bits, but I strongly recommend reading the entire article.
Here he quotes Jacques Vallee:
There are certainly occult groups that claim they can invoke or evoke beings that do some of the things that UFO entities do. I've looked. I've contacted a number of those groups...
Robert Anton Wilson describes meeting Vallee in his excellent Cosmic Trigger:
"Where do you think they come from?" I asked.
Doctor Vallee gave the Gallic form of the classic scientific Not-Speculating-Beyond-The-Data head-shake. "I can theorize, and theorize, endlessly," he said, "but is it not better to just study the data more deeply and look for clues?"
"You must have some personal hunch," I insisted.
He gave in gracefully. "They relate to space-time in ways for which we have, at present, no concepts," he said. "They cannot explain to us because we are not ready to understand."
I asked Grady McMurty if Aleister Crowley had ever said anything to him implying the extraterrestrial theory which Kenneth Grant, Outer Head of another Ordo Templi Orientis, implies in his accounts of Crowley's contacts with Higher Intelligences.
"Some of the things Aleister said to me," Grady replied carefully, "could be interpreted as hints pointing that way." He went on to quote Crowley's aphorisms about various of the standard entities contacted by Magick. The Abramelin spirits, for instance, need to be watched carefully. "They bite," Aleister explained in his best deadpan am-I-kidding-or-not? style. The Enochian "angels," on the other hand, don't always have to be summoned. "When you're ready, they come for you," Aleister said flatly.
Crowley and LAM
Crowley also figures in one of the seminal (ahem) incidents in this murky, bizarre field. The most discussed episode is Crowley's alleged contact with an entity known as LAM (illustration above) as part of his "Amalantrah Working" -- an occult process designed to facilitate "the establishment of contact with non-human intelligences."
Instead of rehashing this story here, I will point the reader to this article. Googling Crowely and LAM will yield many variations of what is essentially the same account.
The concept of UFOs as egregores is also worthy of exploration. The following defintion is excerpted from Gaetan Delaforgem's article in Gnosis:
An egregore is a kind of group mind which is created when people consciously come together for a common purpose. Whenever people gather together to do something and egregore is formed, but unless an attempt is made to maintain it deliberately it will dissipate rather quickly. However if the people wish to maintain it and know the techniques of how to do so, the egregore will continue to grow in strength and can last for centuries.
An egregore has the characteristic of having an effectiveness greater than the mere sum of its individual members. It continuously interacts with its members, influencing them and being influenced by them. The interaction works positively by stimulating and assisting its members but only as long as they behave and act in line with its original aim. It will stimulate both individually and collectively all those faculties in the group which will permit the realization of the objectives of its original program. If this process is continued a long time the egregore will take on a kind of life of its own, and can become so strong that even if all its members should die, it would continue to exist on the inner dimensions and can be contacted even centuries later by a group of people prepared to live the lives of the original founders, particularly if they are willing to provide the initial input of energy to get it going again.
I offer this information as food for thought, not because I can assert that it is truth, or even partially true. But I cannot deny my own experience, which has convinced me that, at least in part, the UFO phenomenon interacts with humans on a psychic (i.e. non-physical) level -- the level of dreams, synchronicity, and consciousness.
Some references for those interested in pursuing this line of thought are listed below. Caveat emptor.
Marsjeep Curiosity heeft nieuwe boringen uitgevoerd op de rode planeet. Rood, zo heet Mars inderdaad te zijn. Maar wat blijkt? Dat onder die rode stoflaag de rotsachtige bodem eerder de grijze kleur heeft. Dat ontging uiteraard ook Chris Hadfield niet, de voormalige bevelhebber van het Internationaal Ruimtestation ISS.
Het gat dat we zien in bovenstaande foto is in wekelijkheid niet groter dan een muntstuk. Curiosity drilde het gisteren in de rotsformatie 'Telegraph Peak', de basislaag van Mount Sharp op Mars. Nieuwe driltechnieken van de Marsjeep zorgen ervoor dat de rots niet meer in stukken breekt.
Het beeld van NASA is eigenlijk samengesteld uit verscheidene foto's die vanuit verschillende gezichtshoeken werden genomen. NASA gaat het poederstaal uit de rots nu verder analyseren.
De Canadese ruimte-entertainer op rust, Chris Hadfield, verwoordde zijn zicht op het gat zo op Twitter: "Mars heeft grijze wortels onder zijn rosse kop".
SterrenkundeTwee mysterieuze lichtjes, of lichtgevende vlekken, op de dwergplaneet Ceres zijn bron van enige opwinding bij wetenschappers van de NASA. Nu de ruimtesonde Dawn stilaan Ceres nadert, krijgen wetenschappers beelden doorgestuurd waarvoor ze nog geen eenduidige verklaring hebben.
Plots bleek het te gaan over twee lichtjes: "Dit is echt onverwacht en nog altijd een mysterie voor ons"
Een dwergplaneet die eerst één grote lichtvlek, als een grote spot die de ruimte in schijnt, lijkt te hebben. Fascinerend toch? Nog spannender wordt het als die planeet vervolgens nog een tweede, iets zwakker lichtje herbergt, in de buurt van de grotere lichtvlek. Dat is vandaag de situatie met Ceres, een dwergplaneet die op gemiddeld zo'n 428 miljoen kilometer van de aarde rond de zon draait.
Nu de NASA-ruimtesonde Dawn Ceres langzaam maar zeker begint te naderen - op 6 maart moet de sonde eindelijk vlakbij zijn - krijgen de wetenschappers van het Amerikaanse ruimteagentschap die opmerkelijke beelden doorgestuurd. En een verklaring hebben ze er nog altijd niet voor.
Het eerste mysterieuze lichtje werd al eerder opgemerkt. Maar vorige week nam Dawn een nieuwe foto van dezelfde zijde van Ceres, van op een afstand van ongeveer 46.000 kilometer. Plots bleek het te gaan over twee lichtjes. "Dit is echt onverwacht en nog altijd een mysterie voor ons", vertelt Andreas Nathues van het Max Planck-instituut in het Duitse Göttingen, die zich over de camera van Dawn ontfermt. "De felste vlek van beide blijkt te klein om haar met de camera te verklaren. Maar ondanks haar omvang is ze feller dan eender wat op Ceres."
Hoe verleidelijk het beeld van groene mannetjes met zaklampen ook is, wetenschappers denken eerder in de richting van bepaalde geologische structuren. Mogelijk gaat het om ijs. Niet zo ondenkbeeldig, aangezien wetenschappers al eerder waterdamp opmerkten in de buurt van het oppervlak van Ceres en ze ervan uitgaan dat het oppervlak van Ceres uit een mengsel van ijs en gesteente bestaat. Ook een grote zoutvlakte, die licht weerkaatst, is een optie. Chris Russell, hoofdonderzoeker van de Dawn-missie suggereert echter een "vulkanische oorsprong", aangezien de twee vlekken in hetzelfde dal liggen. Toch zou lava een pak meer licht moeten geven, dus wordt gedacht in de richting van ijsvulkanen.
Om het eensluidend antwoord te krijgen, zit er niks anders op dan geduld te oefenen. Volgende week belandt Dawn in de ideale positie om de komende 16 maanden gedetailleerde beelden van Ceres door te sturen. De ruimtesonde is intussen al een kleine 8 acht jaar onderweg. In 2011 en 2012 bezocht de sonde al de planetoïde Vesta. Het eigenlijke doel van het bezoek aan beide protoplaneten is om meer te weten te komen over het ontstaan van het zonnestelsel.
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Strange lights on dwarf planet Ceres have scientists perplexed
Strange lights on dwarf planet Ceres have scientists perplexed
by Chris Taylor
Two strange reflective patches spotted on Ceres.
A dwarf planet is shining two bright lights at a NASA spacecraft right now, and our smartest scientists are unsure what they are.
As bizarre as that sentence sounds, that's the situation with Ceres — the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, officially designated as a dwarf planet (the same category as Pluto).
NASA's Dawn spacecraft is approaching Ceres ahead of a March 6 rendezvous. The picture above was taken February 19, from a distance of just under 29,000 miles, and shows two very shiny areas on the same basin on Ceres' surface.
Previous Dawn images from further away showed a single light on Ceres, which was just as mysterious. Then, to the amazement of every astronomy geek, the one light turned out to be two — reflecting roughly 40% of the light hitting them.
The lights on Ceres in earlier photos from the Dawn spacecraft.
Image: NASA/Associated Press
"This is truly unexpected and still a mystery to us," said Andreas Nathues, lead investigator for the framing camera team at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Gottingen, Germany, in a NASA statement. "The brightest spot [of the two] continues to be too small to resolve with our camera, but despite its size it is brighter than anything else on Ceres."
So what could the bright spots be, other than alien castaways signaling at us with flashlights?
The most obvious contender is ice, although ice would reflect more than 40% of all light hitting it. The difference may be accounted for by the resolution limit of Dawn's camera at this distance. Scientists have previously detected water vapor coming from the surface of the dwarf planet, making ice — a more likely option.
Scientists have also suggested the bright areas could be patches of salt. On the other hand, the location of the two bright spots so close together may be an indication that they have a geologic origin, such as some sort of volcanic process, possibly even ice volcanoes.
According to Chris Russell, principal investigator for the Dawn mission, the positioning of the bright spots within the same area may indicate "a volcano-like origin of the spots," but scientists will have to wait for higher resolution images before making such interpretations. Scientists don't think the spots comprise lava similar to that seen on Earth, since that would shine more brightly.
We'll find out more as Dawn approaches Ceres next week and more imagery comes in during the next 16 months, according to NASA. In the meantime, here's more on Dawn and its eight-year mission:
Astronomers find massive BLACK HOLE the size of 12 billion suns that CONTRADICTS SCIENCE
Astronomers find massive BLACK HOLE the size of 12 billion suns that CONTRADICTS SCIENCE
February 25, 2015 - Some 12.8 billion light years away, astronomers have spotted an object of almost impossible brightness — the most luminous object ever seen in such ancient space. It's from just 900 million years after the big bang, and the old quasar — a shining object produced by a massive black hole — is 420 trillion times more luminous than our sun.
That brightness and size is surprising in a black hole from so close to the dawn of time. In a new study published Wednesday in Nature, researchers describe a cosmic light that defies convention. It was even detectable with a relatively small telescope, though researchers in China did have to ask for help from astronomers in Chile and the United States to get a higher-resolution look. "How could we have this massive black hole when the universe was so young? We don't currently have a satisfactory theory to explain it," said lead author Xue-Bing Wu of Peking University and the Kavli Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics.
For the black hole to grow to such a staggering size in less than a billion years, the astronomers posit, it must have been pulling in interstellar mass from its surroundings at the maximum rate the whole time. Even so, the radiation of the quasar formed by the black hole should have started to limit that mass accumulation before such a size was reached.
So there are puzzles left to be solved. But for now, Wu said, his team is using the brilliant quasar as a beacon to find other space objects.
Just like a lighthouse sitting in a dark, distant universe," he said, "it gives us a chance to see things in between our own planet and the black hole by illuminating them. It provides a unique chance to understand things between the distant galaxy and ours."
Wu and his team have many follow-up observations planned for the coming year, including projects using space telescopes like the Hubble to get an even better look at things in and near this impressive quasar's galaxy.
News lines and websites lite up as an unidentified flying objects was seen in the skies of Utah, Montana, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, California and Canada on February 24 2015.
Patrick Wiggins, NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador to Utah, said that the object was a rocket body used in the launch of Yaogan Weixing-26, a Chinese satellite, which was launched in December 2014,
It’s hard to believe the strange anomaly is the rocket body or a part of it. If you compare the Chinese rocket body entering the atmosphere with this anomaly we see two completely different objects in the sky.
See HERE the videos of the rocket body entering the atmosphere.
Could this be extraterrestrial in nature or possibly a dimensional anomaly such as a wormhole? Or is there a logical explanation? One thing is for sure, it’s not a meteor..
KSL-TV photographer Mark Wetzel captured amazing footage of the anomaly as it passed over northern Utah.
Leidt zonsverduistering op 20 maart tot massale black-out?
Leidt zonsverduistering op 20 maart tot massale black-out
Op vrijdag 20 maart vindt in het noordwesten van Europa een gedeeltelijke zonsverduistering plaats. Aangezien we in Europa steeds meer zonne-energie gebruiken, kan een zonsverduistering een groot effect hebben op de elektriciteitsvoorziening.
Het bijzondere aan de eclips is dat elektriciteit die wordt opgewekt door de zon in heel Noordwest-Europa in snel tempo niet meer beschikbaar is. Op een zonnige dag betekent dit dat er in Europa 34.000 megawatt minder zonne-energie kan worden geproduceerd. In Nederland wordt rekening gehouden met een tekort van 500 megawatt, wat ongeveer gelijk is aan de capaciteit van een flinke elektriciteitscentrale.
Extra noodvermogen
Zal de zonsverduistering volgende maand leiden tot een massale black-out? Elektriciteitsbedrijven kijken met angst en beven naar 20 maart, schrijft de Telegraaf. Omdat het dan donker wordt, zal de vraag naar elektriciteit toenemen. En dat terwijl tegelijkertijd het aanbod van zonne-energie juist drastisch omlaag gaat. Men vreest problemen of uitval door tekorten.
Een steeds groter deel van de Europese energievoorziening wordt geleverd door zonnepanelen. De overvloed aan panelen en windmolens in Duitsland betekent dat het land een grote exporteur van elektriciteit is. Zo groot, dat in Nederland talloze gas- en kolencentrales permanent staan uitgeschakeld.
In Europees verband wordt er al maanden gekeken welke maatregelen moeten worden genomen om de zonsverduistering het hoofd te bieden. Zo wordt er onder meer extra noodvermogen ingekocht.
Transavia
De eclips is tussen 09.29 en 11.48 uur in Nederland te zien. Tijdens het maximum om 10.37 uur zal 81 procent van het zonneoppervlak niet meer te zien zijn. De zonsverduistering is in Nederland niet totaal, totaliteit is alleen te zien in een strook die onder Groenland begint en doorloopt naar het noorden.
Transavia vliegt op 20 maart in de richting van de Faeröer Eilanden om de zonsverduistering op die dag vanuit een Boeing 737 waar te nemen. De laatste gehele zonsverduistering in Nederland was in 1715.
Skyline cam catches UFO over Donetsk, Ukraine 24-Feb-2015
Skyline cam catches UFO over Donetsk, Ukraine 24-Feb-2015
An unidentified light hovered over Donetsk’s skyline on Tuesday evening. Earlier in the day, anti-Kiev forces withdrew heavy artillery 50 kilometres (31 miles) away from the line of engagement in the Donetsk region, line with the latest Minsk peace agreement.
The witness first saw the UFO as he was driving near the post office along Jefferson Street, Olympia, WA, about 11 a.m. on February 23, 2015. (Credit: Google)
A Washington witness at Olympia reported watching a white, hovering, cigar-shaped craft that made sharp turns and fired bright light flashes beginning about 11 a.m. on February 23, 2015, according to testimony in Case 63541 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness spotted the hovering object with no wings, tail or rotors that made no sound and had no condensation trail behind it.
“The movement of the cigar-shaped, white object was so slow that it appeared to be simply floating along at perhaps about 30-40 mph,” the witness stated. “There’s a possibility it may have been a drone – I’ve not seen all the types of drones the military has these days, and there is a base nearby, so who knows? It could have been ours, but maybe it wasn’t.”
The witness had just pulled out of a post office parking lot on Jefferson Street and turned right heading north.
As the object moved away, it appeared to release bright flashes of light. Pictured: Olympia, WA, as seen from the International Space Station. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
“After one block Jefferson Street makes a curve to the northwest and as I was looking ahead during the curve – first gorgeous blue sky day we’ve had in a while – a white cylindrical shape in the distant sky caught my attention.”
The witness aid the object did not “look like a normal airplane.”
“It was long, cylindrical, no wings, tail or rotors, no windows as far as I could tell. It was hard to tell how far away it was – I would guess perhaps anywhere from 1.5 to 2 miles away. Elevation (guessing again) may have been ono-half to one mile high. It’s really hard to tell as there was nothing to triangulate it with.”
The witness is a pilot, but has not flown in years. He pulled over to the side of the road for a better look. The witness was able to see the object for about three to five minutes.
“From my viewpoint it was to my west-northwest, and was headed south, maybe a tweak to the southwest, moving very slowly, silently, for about one minute of my watch time, when suddenly it veered sharply to its right – due west – so now all I could see was the dot of its circumference.”
The witness then noticed flashes of light coming from the object.
“The whiteness of the object was getting dimmer as it moved further west, and suddenly I noticed a bright pomegranate-colored flash below it to the south, and then another less brilliant flash a little further away, and then a third even dimmer and further still away. They were like light flashes, nothing exploding, not flares, and were all in a single southern and lower trajectory from the craft.”
The witness continued to watch the object as he drove along Washington Street where it makes a loop in a northwest direction. (Credit: Google)
Then the craft moved again.
“A few seconds later the craft made an abrupt turn and was longwise to my view again, pointing south. It seemed to just hover there for maybe 10 seconds, and did not proceed further south. Then it abruptly turned west again and within a few seconds there was another brilliant flash off the side of the craft – a brilliant whitish-green, electric colored flash – white on the far side, greener closer to the craft. That flash was fan-shaped, different that the burst of round light previously seen. The fanned-out part of the white-green flash was away from the craft, while the narrow part of the fan-shape was right near the craft.”
The longer the witness watched at this point, the object moved further away until it was out of sight.
Olympia is the capital of the State of Washington and the county seat of Thurston County, population 46,478.
Washington is currently a UFO Alert Level 5 – with 0.87 sightings per million population based on MUFON January 2015 statistics. Washington received a total of six UFO reports in January. The UFO Alert Rating System is based on five levels – 1 through 5 – where states with 4.01 or higher reports per million residents are rated an Alert 1; 3.01 – 4.0 reports are an Alert 2; 2.51 – 3.0 are an Alert 3; 2.01 – 2.5 are an Alert 4; and those states with 2.0 or lower are rated an Alert 5.
Please remember that most UFO sighting can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
FAMILY ALIEN ABDUCTION IN MASSACHUSETTS 1966 ……. SHEFFIELD MASSACHUSETTS
It’s 1966, and 6-year-old Thomas Reed is in his bedroom on his family’s horse farm in the Berkshires when the encounters begin. Strange lights. Strange figures in the hallway. Suddenly, he’s in the woods near his home looking at a UFO. Then he and his younger brother, Matthew, are inside the craft. He’s shown a projection of a willow tree. The following year, there is another incident at their home on Boardman Street in Sheffield. More strange lights. The sound of doors slamming. Then the boys are back inside the vessel. The next thing Thomas knows, he’s in his driveway being scooped up by his mother, who has been searching frantically for the boys on horseback. Two years later, the family is driving on Route 7 when they see strange lights in the sky. Their car stalls, and then Thomas and his brother and mother and grandmother find themselves in a giant room. He is brought to meet two strange, ant-like figures, then placed in some sort of cage. Next thing, he’s back near the car. Reed has told these stories many times, and it has not always gone well. But recently, his tale had found recognition in an unlikely place. The Great Barrington Historical Society & Museum has formally inducted the UFO story.
What does that mean? “It means that we believe it is true,” said Debbie Oppermann, the director of the society. “I know we’re going to get a lot of backlash. We’re going to get hammered,” she said. “But we have given it an awful lot of thought, and, based on the evidence we’ve been given, we believe this is a significant and true event.” The historical society believes it is the first time a “mainstream” historical society or museum in the United States has declared a UFO encounter to be historical fact. But the decision was far from unanimous; of the nine members of the historical society’s board, three were “strongly opposed” to the decision, Oppermann said, but “it passed with consensus.” The Reed case already has its own display in the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, N.M.; now, it’s about to get one in Great Barrington, about 2 miles from where the alleged encounters took place. That most interests the historical society is the 1969 encounter, because dozens of people in the area reported seeing an unidentified flying object around that time, typically described as a disk-shaped craft performing acrobatic maneuvers in the sky. Many of those eyewitnesses called the local radio station, WSBS, which covered the sightings. (The radio station has provided documentation to the historical society, which interviewed one of those eyewitnesses. They have also examined a polygraph test taken by Thomas Reed.) Director Debbie Oppermann says the Great Barrington Historical Society believes the Reed family story of having been abducted by aliens in 1969 is true, in part because dozens of people reported seeing a UFO at that time.
Whitby Councillor Reveals An Alien Race Influences President Putin’s Decisions In The Ukraine Conflict
Whitby Councillor Reveals An Alien Race Influences President Putin’s Decisions In The Ukraine Conflict
Alien race known as Nordics influences Putin, according to Councillor Simon Parkes during his talk in Wallsend.
Labour councillor Simon Parkes told a group of around 30 people in Wallsend, North Tyneside that there’s extraterrestrial intervention in Eastern Europe’s recent hostilities.
Coun Parkes, who previously made headlines after claiming that he had hundreds of alien encounters in his life, blamed a race of aliens he called the Nordics for Russia’s aggression in the Ukraine.
The North Yorkshire councillor said that Putin has gotten support from Nordics against perceived U.S. influences in the area.
He revealed that Putin had been one of those people advised by reptiles, but Nordics made a counter offer to the Russian president.
Parkes further claimed that Nordics’ technology is equal with the U.S. The Nordics, according to Parkes, told Putin that he doesn’t need to grant anymore what the Americans requested him to do.
The Whitby councillor also made another shocking claim to the audience at The Vault when he said that his legal father (in the eyes of the universal law) is a reptile.
Ahead of the session, Coun Parkes, who represents Stakesby, had made a comment about the video reportedly taken on Tyneside. It apparently shows a UFO hovering above the North Sea.
Parkes said that the video appears very genuine and the UFO looks like a diamond-shape alien craft to him.
Referring to the video, he said that it’s weird the aircraft remained there for so long. For him, the craft wanted to be seen. Looking at the video, Parkes believes it depicts alien life.
Coun Parkes also actuated controversy in 2013 when he claimed that he lost his virginity to an extraterrestrial at the age of five. But Parkes further claimed that this was not the first time he experienced alien life. The councillor said that when he was in his mother’s womb, he first experienced extraterrestrial life, and he has sexual dealings with an alien group at a maximum of four times a year.
Navy Veteran Observes Large Cigar-Shaped UFO in Exeter, NH
Navy Veteran Observes Large Cigar-Shaped UFO in Exeter, NH
Date: July 20, 2005
Location: Exeter, New Hampshire, United States
There was something odd in the sky last week, something that caused a Navy veteran with 10,000 hours of flight experience to have his own close encounter. While preparing to mow his lawn, "David" saw a large cigar-shaped object hovering in the sky. He said it was about the size of two USS Nimitz aircraft carriers.
An artist's rendering of the reported UFO sighting in Exeter. Image courtesy of Angela Gram (printed in Exeter News-Letter)
An artist's rendering depicts what "David" saw in the sky on Wednesday, July 20, from his Exeter home. The picture shows a large object shaped like a "silver cigar," as David says it appeared just before the object vanished - twice the size at which he first viewed it, with flames billowing underneath. Image courtesy of Angela Gram (printed in Exeter News-Letter)
Classification & Features
Type of Case/Report: PressReport Hynek Classification: DD Shape of Object(s): Cigar Special Features/Characteristics: Portholes/Windows
Exeter News-Letter (Exeter, New Hampshire), July 29, 2005
There has been a considerable response to Tuesday’s article in the News-Letter about a recent UFO sighting. Interested local residents and skeptics joined UFO enthusiasts commenting from throughout the nation. R
An Instructor Flight Engineer on the P3 Orion and EP-3 Reconnaissance aircraft with 10,000 hours of flight time called Peter Davenport to report, "An enormous silver cigar shaped object in the sky at about a 40 degree angle above the horizon about 3:15 PM, on July 20, 2005." R
Adam Dolge, Exeter News-Letter (Exeter, New Hampshire, USA), August 2, 2005
It’s happened again. An East Kingston resident said she saw a "silver-cigar" shaped object in a daytime sky last week. This report comes about a week after a 48-year-old Navy veteran claimed to have seen a similar object. R
Artist Angela Gram met with the man who said that he saw the object on a recent afternoon. Gram created a rendering of the object based on the man's description. She said that his story was believable. R
EXETER - There was something odd in the sky last week, something that caused a Navy veteran with 10,000 hours of flight experience to have his own close encounter.
The former flight engineer, who wished to be identified only as "David," said of the experience, "this was like nothing I’ve ever seen before."
What the retired Navy chief petty officer said he saw last Wednesday could only be classified as a UFO, an unidentified flying object.
It was a bright and sunny afternoon, about 3:15 p.m., and David was outside preparing his lawnmower. He had filled the mower with gas, checked the oil, and took a sip from a glass of water he had poured. When he tilted his head back to get the final sip, through the bottom of the glass he saw a large cigar-shaped object hovering in the sky.
David said windows were equally spaced around the object, however he didn’t see anyone or anything inside. The size of the object was enormous. By comparison, he said, consider what an ultralight plane would look like next to a Boeing 747. He said it was about the size of two USS Nimitz aircraft carriers.
At first glance, through his empty glass of water he thought it could have been the Hood blimp. "But, the instant I put my glass down, I said, ‘that’s not a blimp.’"
The object moved from west to east, very slowly for something that size, he said. His initial instinct was that the object was moving at about 100 knots, but something that big shouldn’t be able to stay in the air if it’s going that slow, he said.
The object began changing colors from a bright silver to an orange-ish red. A strange cloud of red and orange flames began surrounding the object, and before he knew it the object stretched out like a rubber band. It grew to about twice its original size, and then it was gone.
The entire incident lasted about 10 minutes, he recalled Monday morning, but he is unaware of the specific time because, "it felt like time stopped."
He went into his house and first thought to call the police. He decided not to because he didn’t think they’d take him seriously. So he went on the Internet and searched for "report UFO," and found the Web site for the Seattle-based National UFO Reporting Center.
Peter Davenport, director of the UFO reporting center, said David’s report was astonishing because of his history with flight. "I have no question on his reliability."
He said he gets several accounts each year, but this one stood out. The report was well written and scientific, Davenport said.
"In my view, that’s one of the cardinal rules of an account," he said.
The center was founded in 1974 by UFO investigator Robert Gribble. The center’s Web site, www.nuforc.org, has a large list of UFO sightings. According to the site, the center’s primary function is to receive, record, and to the greatest degree possible, corroborate and document reports from individuals who have witnessed possible UFOs. David’s report, which will soon be on the Web site, will be among dozens of documented sightings to be formally reported to the center.
Not the first time
The Exeter area is no stranger to UFO sightings. In 1965, two Exeter police officers and hitchhiker Norman Muscarello, who was with them, gained national attention after seeing a UFO hovering over Route 101 in Kensington. The sighting was documented in a book called "The Incident at Exeter."
And then there was the incident involving Barney and Betty Hill, a husband and wife from Portsmouth who claimed to have been abducted by aliens. The couple was driving from a vacation in Canada in 1961 when they saw a UFO.
The object moved directly over their car, and before they knew it they grew drowsy. They later claimed to have been abducted by aliens and gave identical accounts while they were hypnotized.
But for this recent sighting, David said he believes that there is life beyond Earth. He said the galaxy is so enormous, it’s hard to believe humans are the only intelligent life.
"To the point of not being obnoxious, it’d be egocentric to think there is no other life out there."
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Fort Dix / McGuire AFB Case
Fort Dix / McGuire AFB Case
Date: January 18, 1978 Location: Fort Dix/McGuire AFB, New Jersey, United States
The primary eyewitness in the case, Jeffrey Morse, alleged (i) that he had been working as a security policeman at McGuire AFB when he was notified about UFO activity over Fort Dix army base. (ii) Morse alleged that he heard that a non-human entity had been shot and he later saw the dead body of the entity lying on the ground on a disused runway at McGuire AFB.
Reconstruction of the Fort Dix incident. (credit: Michael Hesemann)
Eyewitness sketch of the dead extraterrestrial. (credit: Hesemann)
Eyewitness sketch of the base. (credit: Hesemann)
Classification & Features
Type of Case/Report: MajorCase Hynek Classification: CE3 Special Features/Characteristics: Military, Humanoid/Occupant, Witness Sketch
NIDS, National Institute for Discovery Science (Roger Pinson & Eric Davis)
NIDS conducted a preliminary investigation into the alleged January 18, 1978 fatal shooting of a non-human (?alien?) entity at Fort Dix/McGuire AFB in New Jersey.
The source, a sergeant in the Air Force Security Police at McGuire AFB, adds substantive information relative to the reported fatal encounter on January 18, 1978, between an alleged alien entity and a Ft. Dix MP and relates his firsthand observation, while on duty, when the slain entity was found on an abandoned runway at McGuire AFB.
Here is the story of the incident that literally changed the life of a conscientious young air policeman who was carrying on a family tradition of police service.
Source: NIDS, National Institute for Discovery Science
The primary eyewitness in the case, Jeffrey Morse, alleged (i) that he had been working as a security policeman at McGuire AFB at 03.00 on January 18, 1978 when he was notified about UFO activity over Fort Dix army base that adjoined McGuire AFB. (ii) Morse alleged that he heard that a non-human entity had been shot and he later saw the dead body of the entity lying on the ground on a disused runway at McGuire AFB. (iii) The scene was rapidly cordoned off and the body was crated and flown to Wright-Patterson AFB (WPAFB) for examination. (iv)Morse himself, two days after the shooting incident, was allegedly summoned to WPAFB and interrogated about the event. He was warned to keep quiet and shortly thereafter was transferred to Okinawa, Japan.
(NIDS - National Institute for Discovery Science)
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Letter from sergeant Morse summarizing his experience and the incident:
In January of 1978, I was stationed at McGuire AFB, NJ. One evening, during the time frame of 0300hrs and 0500hrs., there were a number of UFO sightings in the area over the air field and Ft. Dix Army camp. I am a security policeman and was on routine patrol at the time. N.J. State Police, and Ft. Dix MPs were running code in the direction of Brownsville, NJ. A state trooper then entered gate #5 at the rear of the base requesting assistance and permission to enter. I was dispatched and the trooper wanted access to the runway area which led to the very back of the air field and connected with a heavily wooded area which is part of the Dix training area. He informed me that a Ft. Dix MP was pursueing (sic) a low flying object which then hovered over his car. He described it as oval shaped, with no details, and glowing with a blueish (sic) green color. His radio transmission was cut off. At that time in front of his police car, appeared a thing, about 4ft tall, grayish (sic), brown, fat head, long arms, and slender body. The MP panicked and fired five rounds from his .45 Cal into the thing, and one round into the object above. The object then fled straight up and joined with eleven others high in the sky. This we all saw but didn?t know the details at the time. Anyway, the thing ran into the woods towards our fenceline and they wanted to look for it. By this time several patrols were involved.
We found the body of the thing near the runway. It had apparently climbed the fence and died while running. It was all of a sudden hush-hush and no one was allowed near the area. We roped off the area and AF OSI came out and took over. That was the last I saw of it. There was a bad stench coming from it too. Like ammonia smelling but it wasn?t constent (sic) in the air. That day, a team from Wright-Patterson AFB came in a C141 and went to the area. They crated it in a wooden box, sprayed something over it, and then put it into a bigger metal container. They loaded it in the plane and took off. That was it, nothing more was said, no report made and we were all told not to have anything to say about it or we would be court martialed.
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Morse, in subsequent conversations, revealed that two days after the incident he and others on duty at the scene were summoned to Wright Patterson AFB for interrogation, and each was transferred promptly to a separate base overseas.
The Fort Dix/McGuire case was also of interest because a prominent UFO investigator, George Filer, claimed to have been present at McGuire AFB on the morning of January 18, 1978. Mr. Filer told NIDS that he witnessed a commotion with red lights on one of the disused runways at McGuire when he arrived on the base at 4:00 AM. He further claimed that he heard from a Senior Master Sergeant at McGuire command post on the same morning that (i) UFO activity had been sighted by the control tower and on radar at neighboring Fort Dix and (ii) an alien had been shot that morning and that it had been found dead on the runway at McGuire.
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25-02-2015
Top 10 Ancient Gadgets! # 6 you probably already recognize
Top 10 Ancient Gadgets! # 6 you probably already recognize
February 25, 2015 - Nowadays, we are extremely proud of the existent technology and we have come to rely on it for various things. But what was it like hundreds of years ago? What was technology for the cultures existent back then? Well, as history and archeological findings have shown us, they did have technology and, of course, ancient gadgets. Let’s check out the top 10 gadgets of the ancient world.
#1 Antikythera Mechanism
Made almost 2000 years ago, the Antikythera Mechanism is believed to be one of the oldest computers in the world. Found in the ruins of a ship, it was considered for a long time to be clock but recent discoveries have demonstrated it could do so much more. Originating from Greece, this ancient gadget had the ability to predict when a solar eclipse would happen and even could organize the calendar in cycles of four years.
#2 The Coso Artifact
The fact that you would find a spark plug is nothing special. But what happens when that spark plug is actually embedded in hard rock, one that dates from as long as 500.000 years ago? The Coso Artifact has disappeared and it is not to be studied using modern technology. There are three suppositions however when it comes to its origins: one, that it was made by an extremely intelligent ancient civilization such as Atlantis; two, that it came from the future and three, that it is of alien origin.
#3 Baigong Pipes
Located on top of Mountain Baigong, the Baigong pipes lead directly into a pyramid. The interesting thing about these rusty pipes is that no signs of civilizations in the area has ever been unearthed there. This means that the reason for which these have been made is still unknown. However, they are of an uniform size and they do have a special pattern, a salt lake being situated in their close vicinity.
#4 Ancient Sandstone Xylophone
The link between humans and music is older than any of us can imagine. In the early 20th century, scientists have discovered these ancient sandstones and they believed them to have been used for grinding grains. It took a lot of time and a fortunate accident before their real purpose was discovered; it seems that this ancient gadget is actually a musical instrument, this being discovered by accident by an archaeologist.
#5 Roman Dodecahedra
While there are many fascinating Roman artifacts that can easily pose as ancient gadgets, this is by far one of the best. Amazingly enough, it was found in several countries, including Germany, France and Switzerland. Even though many archaeologists have tried to study it, no clear purpose was identified. They were able to identify certain symbols on it there are related to the Zodiac but they are not certain whether it was used for surveying or it just had a decorative purpose.
#6 Mystery airplanes
Discovered in Columbia, these figurines are believed to have been made by a tribe named Quimbaya, somewhere around 1000 CE. The resemblance to an airplane is uncanny, as they have tails, landing gears and wings just like any modern day plane. Scientists have rebuilt models after them only to prove that they worked. There are some scientists who say that these are only stylized fish or insects.
#7 The Phaistos Disc
This ancient gadget is made from clay and it is believed to date back to the second millennium. Just like other ancient gadgets, its origin is unknown and so is the meaning or the intent purpose. The disc has been unearthed in Crete and it has a wide array of symbols imprinted on it, some of which have been identified as people, animals, tools or plants.
#8 Byzantine Tablet
While we rely on modern tablets for a lot of things, so did the people from Byzantine culture rely on their ancient gadgets. This tablet is comprised of five panels that are stacked together and each of them has a frame and a wax coating. It is believed that they were used for making note on inventories or appraisals.
#9 Baghdad Battery
Perhaps this is one of the strangest ancient gadgets to have ever been discovered. While it is clearly a battery, it does not explain why would people who lived in the ancient world need it. It was found in Iraq in 1936 and ever since then scientists have constructed replicas in order to prove that it actually works.
#10 Dropa Stones
These stones are unique ancient gadgets and many people have said they belong to an ancient or alien culture. They were discovered on a burial site in the Himalayan mountains and each of these stones is actually a one-foot wide disc, with a simple hole in the center. The interesting thing about these is that they are extremely old; scientists have placed them to have existed as far as 12.000 years ago.
Modern day gadgets are extremely useful for us. And maybe it was just like that for ancient cultures, relying on the gadgets presented above for every day living.
Poltergeist phenomena was soon concurrent with a close overhead sighting of a flotilla of alien craft.
Nightmares and vivid dreams involving 3-D scenario 'exams' ensued including recalling eyeball to eyeball encounters with entities who were white like a refrigerator, tall, flat like a gumby cartoon character and who spoke mind to mind.
When I began to write about and focus on these experiences by doing broadcasts things got much worse.
Electrical irregularities, knocks and ticks on furniture, fixtures, appliances, the walls preceded nightmares and abduction recall; floorboards creaked with the specific weight of unseen intelligence's cloaked lightweight chitin frames who were sinister, intrusive, telepathic, abducting and controlling.
Nightmares abounded and 'bad luck' incidents increased.
Vivid unpleasant dreams prevailed; imposed nightmares, given in clear retribution, were not only screen memories to muddle the memory of an abduction, but also strong telepathic attacks by a discorporate energy with intelligence, an alien entity in-dwelling or attached.
One is horrified.
Therein is the true invasion; only God knows how long this has been going on with people, on Earth.
It is surely demonic in nature. The motives and tactics of these beings are predatory, sinister and self-justifying, the three criteria of pure evil.
I have researched the literature available and have come up with quotes that corroborate my beliefs and inclinations about these highly technological beings who I have seen eyeball to eyeball, who are the pilots of UFOs which violate our airspace and its citizens, nightly:
"Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role in a bizarre game of deception."
- Brad Steiger, [cited in] Blue Book Files Released inCanadian UFO Report, Vol. 4, No. 4, 1977, p. 20 "We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us."
-Terrence McKenna [from a lecture] "One theory which can no longer be taken very seriously is that UFOs are interstellar spaceships."
- Arthur C. Clarke, New York Times Book Review, 07/27/75 "There seems to be no evidence yet that any of these craft or beings originate from outer space."
-Gordon Creighton, Official 1992 Flying Saucer Review Policy Statement "A large part of the available UFO literature is closely linked with mysticism and the metaphysical. It deals with subjects like mental telepathy, automatic writing and invisible entities as well as phenomena like poltergeist [ghost] manifestation and 'possession.' Many of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to demonic possession and psychic phenomena."
- Lynn E. Catoe, UFOs and Related Subjects: USGPO, 1969; prepared under AFOSR Project Order 67-0002 and 68-0003 "UFO behaviour is more akin to magic than to physics as we know it... the modern UFOnauts and the demons of past days are probably identical."
-Dr. Pierre Guerin, FSR Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 13-14 "The UFO manifestations seem to be, by and large, merely minor variations of the age-old demonological phenomenon..."
-Trevor James, FSR Vol. 8, No. 1, p.10 "Studies of flying saucer cults repeatedly show that they are part of a larger occult social world."
-Stupple & McNeece, 1979 MUFON UFO Symposium Proceedings, p. 49 "The 'medical examination' to which abductees are said to be subjected, often accompanied by sadistic sexual manipulation, is reminiscent of the medieval tales of encounters with demons. It makes no sense in a sophisticated or technical framework: any intelligent being equipped with the scientific marvels that UFOs possess would be in a position to achieve any of these alleged scientific objectives in a shorter time and with fewer risks."
Director of CIA, Admiral R.H. Hillenkoetter: "It is time for the truth to be brought out in open Congressional hearings. Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense. To hide the facts, the Air Force has silenced its personnel." p. 58, quoted from New York Times, February 28, 1960, p. L30
- Dr. Jacques Vallee, Confrontations, p. 13 "The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is embedded in the [occult] traditions of every culture...the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals...the UFO beings of today belong to the same class of manifestation as the [occult] entities that were described in centuries past."
-Dr. Jacques Vallee citing the extensive research of Bertrand Meheust [ Science-Fiction et Soucoupes Volantes (Paris, 1978); Soucoupes Volantes et Folklore (Paris, 1985)], inConfrontations, p. 146, 159-161 "[The occultist] is brought into intelligent communication with the spirits of the air, and can receive any knowledge which they possess, or any false impression they choose to impart...the demons seem permitted to do various wonders at their request."
"I became entirely given over to extreme dread. The fear was so powerful that it seemed to make my personality completely evaporate... 'Whitley' ceased to exist. What was left was a body and a state of raw fear so great that it swept about me like a thick, suffocating curtain, turning paralysis into a condition that seemed close to death...I died and a wild animal appeared in my place."
- Whitley Streiber, Communion, p. 25-26 "Increasingly I felt as if I were entering a struggle that might even be more than life and death. It might be a struggle for my soul, my essence, or whatever part of me might have reference to the eternal. There are worse things than death, I suspected... so far the word demon had never been spoken among the scientists and doctors who were working with me...Alone at night I worried about the legendary cunning of demons ...At the very least I was going stark, raving mad."
- Whitley Streiber, Transformation, p. 44-45 "I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment."
- Whitley Streiber, Transformation, p. 172 "I felt an absolutely indescribable sense of menace. It was hell on earth to be there [in the presence of the entities], and yet I couldn't move, couldn't cry out, couldn't get away. I'd lay as still as death, suffering inner agonies. Whatever was there seemed so monstrously ugly, so filthy and dark and sinister. Of course they were demons. They had to be. And they were here and I couldn't get away."
- Whitley Streiber, Transformation, p. 181 "Why were my visitors so secretive, hiding themselves behind my consciousness. I could only conclude that they were using me and did not want me to know why...What if they were dangerous? Then I was terribly dangerous because I was playing a role in acclimatizing people to them."
Like insect praying mantids and their higher alien archetype who cannot understand higher, elevated ideals like compassion, forgiveness, love and mercy, intrusive dark intentions to disrupt and control and possess come from both aliens who abduct as well as from demons and both move against us without conscience.
(from unknown Internet source ):"A factor that God wants us to realize more completely and fully is that we are not alone in this ocean of air. Even as vicious sharks and barracuda prowl the water, their demonic counterparts, foul and unclean spiritual raptors and carrion-eaters, demonic alien entities who attack people, by abducting and then possessing them, inhabit the ocean of air right along with us."
I shall close this article with a private communication from Whitley Streiber:
"My mission, even when I was not sure that my own close encounter experiences were physical, or even negative, was to find ways of empowering myself and others in the face of this unknown.
When I was having and seeing good experiences, I wanted to facilitate contact. Now that contact has changed, I have changed. I want to find ways of effectively protecting us.
I view the spreaders of disempowering messages to be de facto under the control of the visitors, whether they are operating from some concealed agenda, under some sort of mind control, or simply from their own fear. If you preach fear without empowerment, as far as I am concerned, you're working for them. The same is true if you preach the bald faced lie that they are in some way loving toward us and that our fear is our fault. This is pure fantasy, and also does their work for them, in that it keeps us passive toward what is happening to us.
So, what is to be done?
Unfortunately, ordinary means do not offer us any help. The government is obviously unable even to warn people of the dangers involved. Otherwise, it would have publicized the murders I have referred to and openly studied things like implants and the physical effects of abduction which, though little researched and poorly understood, appear to be many.
The amount of physical evidence is so extensive that research would be quite easy. The truth is that the skeptics' lie that there is no physical evidence of abduction is just that: a complete falsehood. There is, in fact, an abundance of physical evidence readily available to science.
I think that protection will come from two things: mutual support and knowledge. I don't think that abductee groups are the answer, though. I tried such groups early on and they were a disaster. People with religious and `space brothers' agendas rushed to them. Mentally ill and otherwise disturbed people who want to ascribe their personal problems to the stress of contact appeared, bringing their baggage with them. Even the groups that came together well were, ultimately, unproductive. What can we really do in these groups? In the end, they became repetitive and did not offer what we need. Counselling and post-abduction support is important, of course. But what we need is a means of controlling our exposure to close encounters in the first place.
Ten years ago, I was saying that what we needed was a means of perfecting communication and learning how to live in the context of encounter. Of course I was. Except for my initial experience, I'd had a wonderful time. And I still can't fault it. The visitors took me beyond the edge of known reality, and I saw spread before me hidden glories.
However, I am also a down-to-earth realist, and I am not seeing any of that sort of thing anymore. We need to learn how to anticipate contact and how to avoid it. If there are still visitors out there who have something good to bring us, they'll find their own way, I feel sure. But right now what we've got to deal with is awful, and the key to doing this is avoidance.
If we were not able to avoid them, they wouldn't need to sneak up on us as they do. So knowledge matters. Social agreement matters. But our best tools, the government with all its various resources and the scientific community with its ability to explore and gather information, have been denied to us by a process of clever social control, or possibly for good reason, as discussed above, by the government itself.
Most abduction researchers offer no help, or `help' that's actually worse than nothing. Being told that it's horrible and there's nothing to be done except wait for `disclosure' that will never come doesn't help. It freezes us and tells us we are impotent until and if our captured or neutered government acts. Being told idiotic things like we made an "agreement" of some sort with the visitors "on the soul level" to go through this is shameful and childish rubbish.
On a frank, physical level, the only things that I know help are two:
1. Stay in heavily populated areas, especially at night.
2. Move every few years. In recent years, Anne and I have moved seven times,
and we are typical of witnesses. However, running is ultimately not an answer.
Being informed helps. Knowing the signs of possible visitor involvement in a given area helps.
What are these signs? Listen to the interview with Kenny Young. All the signs are present in this case. The first is the presence of UFOs in the area. The visitors often, but not always, make their presence known in this way, perhaps because they cannot conceal the craft, or do not care to.
They know that the media won't provide useful information about their presence. Another way to find out is to visit the National UFO Reporting Center often. This isn't a perfect system, but its the best we have.
The second sign is if you should notice any manifestations around you. If you actually see a UFO, for example. Or if your area suddenly becomes extremely quiet. Birds and animals stop, insects stop. An eerie silence falls. If this is followed by an eruption of animal sounds-dogs howling and barking, cats pacing, wildlife squalling, it means that the visitors are on the ground.
Personally, I would stay awake and together in a lighted room. Don't venture out. Don't express any interest in them. And if there is the least sign of their presence near you- knocking on walls, sudden shadows flashing about in the house, your pets becoming agitated-do not go to sleep no matter how sleepy you get. Fight it. Turn on music, the TV, make phone calls. And don't go to sleep in the predawn. The hours from three until sunrise are favorite contact times. Stay awake until well after dawn, when the world is active again.
Ultimately, as a species, we have no escape from this. Even if the government were to announce that the visitors were entirely real, and publish all it knows about them, and do everything it possibly could now or in any conceivable future to free us from them, we would not succeed in escaping them. In fact, no amount of struggle is going to dislodge them.
Maybe not from the world, anyway. But from your life-yes. You can help yourself. It is not only about avoiding encounter, it is about coping on a personal as well as a social level.
As to the question, `why have the visitors changed,' maybe they haven't. Look at what's happened from another perspective. What if astronauts from earth discovered another world. Perhaps, for a time, strict rules of contact that respected the native population would be observed. Maybe, though, in time, those rules would be relaxed, especially as travel to the new world became easier and cheaper.
Exploitative people would arrive, people carrying their religious and ideological agendas. These would be lesser people than the noble astronauts-believers and fanatics intent on imposing their fantasies on the helpless aliens. Then there would be those seeking resources of some kind, who wanted results and didn't care how they got them. And there would be the evil, the sadists, the scum.
For whatever reason, I think we have been left to the exploiters and the scum. Who knows? Maybe the good guys gave up or lost a war. Maybe those of us who got good treatment were simply being deceived.
The point is, we must always approach this from a practical standpoint, and at the present time, contact is awful and dangerous. If the visitors want it to be different, then they need to find a way to change it. For our part, we must seek to find the good in our own souls, and let the dark presence that slips along the paths of the night know that we know it is there, and we will do everything we can to avoid it."
My journal entries get a lot of comment, and for that I am so grateful to you. Some of it is quite, quite wise, and I thought that this, from a knowledgeable abductee, is particularly valuable. Take it to heart.
I drink a LOT of water before sleep so as to awaken during sleep to urinate often just as a method of tearing myself away from the vivid constructs of imposed "dreams" as I find it virtually impossible to go "lucid' despite years of self programming.
I might have supposed that our own military is involved up to their necks with Dracos and other reptoid-greys to use people for their own nefarious purposes but I thought that one must be highly psychic or otherwise gifted in OBE's or astral travel to be so used..
I am only rarely episodically highly psychic.
I am able to focus anger against them but I awaken each morning drained from ethereal "milking", feeling the "burn" of attachments, like unseen arms hugging me and I suffer from horrid nightmare scenarios, like attacks by large crab-like cockroaches, alien- demonic bullcrap.
I have seen juvenile reptilians materialize briefly when I try astrally to sweep their burning connection touches from my body ; they are five foot tall half man half monitor lizard entities with a birdlike intelligence and curiosity in their eyes.
I have presumed that almost all the vivid "dreams" imposed upon me are screen memories as I am aboard craft.
I DO have the odd ability to remain lucid during some parts of abductions and have been a 'management' problem for their efforts as I can resist in small ways and do recall enough to write down and post it everywhere on the web.
Shortly after an experience where I awakened, in bed, surrounded by small entities who were operating a small whirring drill into my lower neck, I had to have emergency surgery, for real, because three neck discs completely compressed my spinal cord close to my brain, to cause pain one could never imagine and it threatened to totally paralyze me.
All discs from c-3 to c-7 were replaced with titanium and marrow grafts using cadaver sterilized bone material.The pain has been unimaginable and sleep almost impossible; I cannot submit my head to a pillow.
Since that life threatening experience, years later two discs just below the hardware in my neck herniated and sleep is replete with pain shooting down both arms.
The jaw pain and headaches are my constant companions; it is all that I can do to sleep a few hours as I cannot recline.
I have been diagnosed with degenerative spinal disease and many discs also herniate in my thorax and lumbar that make sitting or walking an experience in pain down both legs.
I am convinced that all this has been retribution for writing about them though I have been severely warned by them NOT to continue to publicize truths about aliens.
There are still many who cannot accept aliens and UFOs.
They're not a singularity of cynicism; there are many others.To quote one abductee:
"A leap in consciousness will require a dissolution and restructuring of your beliefs about the nature of reality"
To live unburdened by an insatiable curiosity to comprehend the mysteries of the universe is quite an amazing thing, in itself.
"The history of mankind has been punctuated by personalities who refused to be bound by the grand illusion of space and time, seekers who penetrated the limitations of space and form.'
Knowing the aliens reside in a different reality explains why this whole UFO phenomenon is so slippery; we exist within a matrix of other realities all merging in one spot: the mind."
Aliens and their craft exist.
My expanded consciousness and mental abilities are the outcome of my contacts with them.
'Their world coexists with our own intimately intertwined and separated by the thinnest veil- our arrogant assumption that we are the sole proprietors of the only reality.'
Paul Schroeder
BIO:
Abductions and their remnant elusive memories have opened all this for Paul, a confirmed atheist, UNTIL Paul saw aliens float him out of his body, in his bed, at night.
Then, he knew that they were interested in an essence that he never suspected that he had, a nonphysical soul.
Our spiritual powers that interest and addict interdimensionals are the very powers that can be used to thwart further attacks.
They infect auras with attachments to themselves and ride the reincarnation roller coaster with human beings, as a sanctuary, to avoid the death that they fear and to steal the spiritual recycling that we have.
Souls are garnered, detoured from our natural spiritual evolution in Heaven.
These joyriding grays can besinister, discorporate alien souls, stuck to our energies, who bring a new meaning to the concept of a silent invasion.
Should Humanity Try to Contact Alien Civilizations?
Should Humanity Try to Contact Alien Civilizations?
Some researchers want to use big radio dishes like the 305-meter Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to announce our presence to intelligent aliens.
credit: Arecibo Observatory/NSF
Is it time to take the search for intelligent aliens to the next level?
For more than half a century, scientists have been scanning the heavens for signals generated by intelligent alien life. They haven't found anything conclusive yet, so some researchers are advocating adding an element called "active SETI" (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) — not just listening, but also beaming out transmissions of our own designed to catch aliens' eyes.
Active SETI "may just be the approach that lets us make contact with life beyond Earth," Douglas Vakoch, director of interstellar message composition at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, said earlier this month during a panel discussion at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Jose. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Alien Life]
Vakoch envisions using big radio dishes such as the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico to blast powerful, information-laden transmissions at nearby stars, in a series of relatively cheap, small-scale projects.
"Whenever any of the planetary radar folks are doing their asteroid studies, and they have an extra half an hour before or after, there's always a target star readily available that they can shift to without a lot of extra slough time," he said.
The content of any potential active SETI message is a subject of considerable debate. If it were up to astronomer Seth Shostak, Vakoch's SETI Institute colleague, we'd beam the entire Internet out into space.
"It's like sending a lot of hieroglyphics to the 19th century — they [aliens] can figure it out based on the redundancy," Shostak said during the AAAS discussion. "So, I think in terms of messages, we should send everything."
While active SETI could help make humanity's presence known to extrasolar civilizations, the strategy could also aid the more traditional "passive" search for alien intelligence, Shostak added.
"If you're going to run SETI experiments, where you're trying to listen for a putative alien broadcast, it may be very instructive to have to construct a transmitting project," he said. "Because now, you walk a mile in the Klingons' shoes, assuming they have them."
Cause for concern?
But active SETI is a controversial topic. Humanity has been a truly technological civilization for only a few generations; we're less than 60 years removed from launching our first satellite to Earth orbit, for example. So the chances are that any extraterrestrials who pick up our signals would be far more advanced than we are. [The Search for Intelligent Life: 4 Key Questions (Video)]
This likelihood makes some researchers nervous, including famed theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.
"Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they could reach," Hawking said in 2010 on an episode of "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking," a TV show that aired on the Discovery Channel. "If so, it makes sense for them to exploit each new planet for material to build more spaceships so they could move on. Who knows what the limits would be?"
Astrophysicist and science fiction author David Brin voiced similar concerns during the AAAS event, saying there's no reason to assume that intelligent aliens would be altruistic.
"This is an area in which discussion is called for," Brin said. "What are the motivations of species that they might carry with them into their advanced forms, that might color their cultures?"
Brin stressed that active SETI shouldn't be done in a piecemeal, ad hoc fashion by small groups of astronomers.
"This is something that should be discussed worldwide, and it should involve our peers in many other specialties, such as history," he said. "The historians would tell us, 'Well, gee, we have some examples of first-contact scenarios between advanced technological civilizations and not-so-advanced technological civilizations.' Gee, how did all of those turn out? Even when they were handled with goodwill, there was still pain."
Out there already
Vakoch and Shostak agreed that international discussion and cooperation are desirable. But Shostak said that achieving any kind of consensus on the topic of active SETI may be difficult. For example, what if polling reveals that 60 percent of people on Earth are in favor of the strategy, while 40 percent are opposed?
"Do we then have license to go ahead and transmit?" Shostak said. "That's the problem, I think, with this whole 'let's have some international discussion' [idea], because I don't know what the decision metric is."
Vakoch and Shostak also said that active SETI isn't as big a leap as it may seem at first glance: Our civilization has been beaming signals out into the universe unintentionally for a century, since the radio was invented.
"The reality is that any civilization that has the ability to travel between the stars can already pick up our accidental radio and TV leakage," Vakoch said. "A civilization just 200 to 300 years more advanced than we are could pick up our leakage radiation at a distance of several hundred light-years. So there are no increased dangers of an alien invasion through active SETI."
But Brin disputed this assertion, saying the so-called "barn door excuse" is a myth.
"It is very difficult for advanced civilizations to have picked us up at our noisiest in the 1980s, when we had all these military radars and these big television antennas," he said.
Shostak countered that a fear of alien invasion, if taken too far, could hamper humanity's expansion throughout the solar system, an effort that will probably require the use of high-powered transmissions between farflung outposts.
"Do you want to hamstring all that activity — not for the weekend, not just shut down the radars next week, or active SETI this year, but shut down humanity forever?" Shostak said. "That's a price I'm not willing to pay."
So the discussion and debate continues — and may continue for quite some time.
"This is the only really important scientific field without any subject matter," Brin said. "It's an area in which opinion rules, and everybody has a very fierce opinion."
What Do Gene Sequencing, Radio Astronomy And Particle Physics Have In Common?
What Do Gene Sequencing, Radio Astronomy And Particle Physics Have In Common?
Modern scientific discovery is driven by one thing, without which breakthroughs like gene sequencing, the search for the Higgs boson and dark matter and huge telescope arrays wouldn’t be possible – High Performance Computing (HPC).
With the computational might to blitz through millions of bytes of data, calculations and statistical possibilities, scientists were able to posit the existence of particles like the Higgs boson and campaign for expensive projects like the Large Hadron Collider – because they could show what they were looking for.
The same kind of processing power is what’s allowing the UK’s version of the Genome Project, attempting to sequence whole genomes rather than just excerpts known as exons, to go ahead.
Cambridge University has had HPC in one form or another for 18 years, from the old 80s supercomputer sitting in the middle of a room, to its modern new server facility, which is based on a large DellDell server cluster made up of 9.600 cores and four petabytes of storage running on a Hadoop platform and is currently getting its finishing touches after a £20m investment.
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Cambridge University’s new HPC system, used for particle physics, radio astronomy, gene sequencing and other big data, big science projects. (Credit: Cambridge University)
The university has one of the largest research and development budgets in the UK education sector, devoting 40 per cent of its £1438m annual revenue to funding advances in the fields of astronomy, genomics, medicine, physics and many more.
But its HPC time is also hired out to businesses in the nearby science and technology park, helping the university to pay for top IT support, while providing a valuable niche service to firms
Just a few years ago, that kind of commoditisation of HPC wouldn’t have been possible, Dr Paul Calleja, director of HPC Service at Cambridge, told visitors in a talk attended by Forbes.
“It used to be that a small number of users were eating up all the HPC power,” he said. “But now we have a long tail in HPC usage – modest amounts of HPC are now useful to many more people.”
That change is down to how much more computational power is available, but despite the value of Moore’s Law in increasing processor power, the growth in data volumes far outstrips it. Massive global science projects like CERN’s particle physics experiments and the Genome Project are creating a demand revolution that’s going to drive ever-increasing HPC, Dr Calleja reckons.
“I believe that the change now will be more fundamental than the change in the late 90s that ushered in the commoditisation of HPC,” he said.
Cambridge’s new data centre has 96 cabinets that can take a 1000kW to 2000kW IT load, but the university sees it as sufficient just for a two to five year growth plan. It’s going to have to be fast enough and powerful enough to process data from what is currently the world’s most ambitious IT project – the Square Kilometre Array.
This is the next generation radio telescope project to be built in Australia and South Africa, which will be 50 to 100 times more sensitive than any other radio instrument and require long-haul network links with a capacity greater than the current global Internet traffic as well as very high powered computing.
At the same time, Cambridge’s HPC Service will be catering to projects like the Bridge Genome Project, an attempt to study the gene sequencing of 10,000 people with rare genetic diseases.