Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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Huge UFO spotted near International Space Station
Huge UFO spotted near International Space Station
Location:ISS Date:Feb 17, 2016 Submitted by Bob
Witness report: This happened during a live stream of the ISS. It was on camera for over 45 minutes before the live stream was cut off. There is a pattern with the lights blinking on the craft. Why is this not viral yet? Look at the link that I am providing from youtube. Also, the object comes closer to the ISS over time. If the link does not work, then type into youtube: “live streaming from iss”, it should be the first video that comes up.
Location:Charters Towers, Queensland, Australia Date:28/2/2016 Submitted by Vanessa
Witness report: A triangular shaped object with on base it had 4 large diamond shaped dull lights on either side came over the top of our house about 100 mtrs up. No noise and an orb shaped object bright as can be shot out from the right hand side of it in an up warn motion at an amazing rate of speed. About 15 mins later another orb or maybe the same one came in from the left hand side into the area of where the bigger craft would have been but was out of sight at this time. The feeling of seeing made all my hair stand up and gave me goose bumps all over.
Location:St Kilda Beach, looking towards Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia Date:29th Feb 2016 @ 8:22pm Submitted by Brett
Witness report: Saw a reflective light in the sky, was able to see this with the naked eye, after taking a number of photos the object looked like a set of wings
The object also did not move, was visible for about 5 mins and then disappeared
Stealth Fighter - Hitler's Secret Weapons Recreated | Greatest Mysteries of World War II | 720p
Stealth Fighter - Hitler's Secret Weapons Recreated | Greatest Mysteries of World War II | 720p
Published on Jun 13, 2013
The Horten H.IX, RLM designation Ho 229 (often called Gotha Go 229 due to the identity of the chosen manufacturer of the aircraft) was a German prototype fighter/bomber designed by Reimar and Walter Horten and built by Gothaer Waggonfabrik late in World War II. It was the first pure flying wing powered by jet engines.[1]
It was given the personal approval of German Luftwaffen Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, and was the only aircraft to come close to meeting his "3×1000" performance requirements, namely to carry 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb) of bombs a distance of 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) with a speed of 1,000 kilometres per hour (620 mph). Its ceiling was 15,000 metres (49,000 ft).[2]
Since the appearance of the B-2 Spirit flying wing stealth bomber in the 1990s, its similarities in role and shape to the Ho 229 has led many to retrospectively describe the Ho 229 as "the first stealth bomber".[3] A static reproduction of the only surviving Ho 229 prototype, the Ho 229 V3, in American hands since the end of World War II was later tested by the US military who found the basic shape and paint composition of the mock copy would provide for 20% reduction in detection range against the Chain Home radar of the 1940s, but no significant stealth benefit against most other contemporary radar systems.[3]
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Filer's Files - UFOs Above Top Secret and Classified - Excellent
Filer's Files - UFOs Above Top Secret and Classified - Excellent
Published on Feb 20, 2016
Extremely Good Presentation- Agree with all his suppositions or not, George is a honest man with a verifiable background. Whether his assumptions are correct is the question. An educated guess based on all data definitely intimates that he is being entirely honest about all these matters from his standpoint. Doesn't mean what he was told was true - be I believe he is recounting everything as he remembers.
George A Filer was an Air Force Intelligence Officer who not only had an extraordinary encounter with a massive UFO on radar over the United Kingdom but later, in the 1970s while he was at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, but also found out that an extraterrestrial biological entity had been shot at Fort Dix.
The Extraterrestrial purportedly fled to the adjacent McGuire Air Force Base, where it died on the tarmac. He testifies that this life form was then picked up and taken to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Afterwards, many of the key personnel on the base who had a connection with this event, were quickly transferred.
Major Filer also points out that the ridicule factor has been very effective at silencing people who have seen ETs or UFOs, and has helped to maintain secrecy.
Also, occasionally, he used to do briefings on the UFO sightings that had occurred around the world, to the generals. One that sticks out in my mind is 1976 — there was a famous encounter near Tehran. He thinks these are something alien: it is a non-human [craft] that has a different form of propulsion and is coming here and doing reconnaissance...
Boston Dynamics has showcased its evolving robot family in a new video of the Atlas humanoid robot. At 5.75-ft (175-cm) tall, the latest Atlas is a head shorter than its elder sibling, but it has some new tricks up its sleeve. Not only can the tetherless robot operate under internal power, but it can work indoors and out and boasts greatly improved balance.
According to Boston Dynamics, the new Atlas is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. Though shorter than the old Atlas, it has new sensors in its body and legs to help it balance, as well as LIDAR and stereo sensors to help it to avoid obstacles. The company isn't saying much more, but the video does give clues to a number of other improvements, such as a lower center of gravity and a leg architecture similar in function to that of the mountain goat-like Spot robot.
But one might ask what was wrong with the old Atlas? It was already the main robot used by competitors in last year's DARPA Robotics Challenge and wasn't doing too bad – it was cleaning its room and everything.
The answer is in the video below, which shows the new Atlas walking about indoors and out in rough, snowy country. It may have looked like it had one too many in places, but was able to catch its footing impressively after a stumble. It also demonstrated the ability to stack shelves while twisting its body in a remarkably lifelike manner, as well as the capacity to get around using digital labels as navigation markers.
The most dramatic sequences in the video show a human using a hockey stick to knock a box out of the robot's hands, then pushing the box away so the robot has to chase after it. Another shows someone pushing the robot hard in the back, so it falls down. This demonstrates three things: the ability of the robot to adapt to a changing situation, its advanced ability to regain its feet after falling down, and the Boston Dynamics team needs to seriously rethink robot-management relations.
The video below shows the new Atlas strutting its stuff.
A Year in Space: 7 Mission Milestones for NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly
A Year in Space: 7 Mission Milestones for NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Scott Kelly, shown here in the cupola of the International Space Station, is about to complete his yearlong mission in space.
Credit: NASA
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is scheduled to return to Earth tomorrow (March 1) after spending 340 days aboard the International Space Station. He is the first American to live in space for such a long period of time.
The Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft launched on March 27, 2015, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, carrying Scott Kelly, Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka.
Credit: NASA TV
When Scott Kelly lifted off aboard a Russian Soyuz space capsule on March 27, 2015, bound for the International Space Station, he began a journey to do something that no American had done before: spend nearly a year in orbit.
Along with Russian crewmate Mikhail "Misha" Kornienko, who also stayed on board for just shy of a year, Kelly's role is to teach doctors back on Earth how the human body changes over long periods spent in weightlessness. Most data on the effects of spaceflight on humans come from six-month missions; one-year missions have not taken place in space since cosmonauts lived on the Mir space station in the 1990s.
"Misha and I are only one data point in this goal to have people live and work in space for longer periods, with the hopes of someday going perhaps to Mars," Kelly said during a preflight news conference in Russia. "But you've got to start somewhere, and I think this is a great start. And I'm proud to be a part of it."
Veggies in space
NASA astronauts Scott Kelly (right) and Kjell Lindgren (center) with Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui snack on freshly harvested, space-grown red romaine lettuce as part of the Veggie experiment on the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA TV via collectSPACE.com
As the character Mark Watney showed in the movie "The Martian"last year, astronauts will need to grow their own food to stay in space for long periods of time. Shipping supplies to other planets is just too expensive, and fraught with possible problems. Astronauts literally got a taste of growing food in space, thanks to the Veggie experiment on ISS.
In August 2015, Kelly was on hand when, for the first time, astronauts actually ate a vegetable — lettuce — grown in space. Kelly, NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui were shown on video munching the "Outredgeous" red romaine lettuce. "Tastes good," Kelly remarked.
The next iteration of Veggie, using zinnias, became threatened by moldclose to the Christmas holidays. Kelly agreed to take over management of the experiment and ended up saving most of the plants, allowing flowers to bloom by January. "Yes, there are other life forms in space!" Kelly tweeted Jan. 16.
Spacewalks
The ISS is currently undergoing renovations to prepare the station to receive commercial spacecraft designed to carry humans. The renovations include changing the docking ports to accommodate SpaceX's Dragon and Boeing's CST-100. Kelly's role in spacewalking, however, was to make sure the station is in tip-top shape.
Kelly tackled three spacewalks, which occurred in October, November and December. The first spacewalk (with Kjell Lindgren) focused on long-term maintenance of the station, while the second saw Kelly and Lindgren fixing up the station's plumbing. In December, Kelly and NASA astronaut Tim Kopra manually freed the Mobile Transporter — a railcar that moves the station's robotic arm — after a stuck brake handle stopped the transporter from moving.
Kelly appeared relaxed and occasionally joked during the procedures. "Somebody did a really good job on this wire tie here — like for all eternity," he quipped during his November spacewalkwhile struggling to undo a wire tire.
Progress 59 re-supply failure
The Progress 59 freighter burned up in Earth's atmosphere on May 7, 2015, nine days after suffering a serious malfunction shortly after launch.
Credit: NASA
To stay provisioned in space, the ISS needs regular re-supplies from cargo spacecraft. Occasional failures do happen, however, such as what occurred with the Progress 59 craft that lifted off on April 28, 2015.
Russian controllers were unable to gain control of the craft, which was spinning far out of reach of its destination. It fell back to Earth in May, 2015, due to a failure in the third stage of its rocket.
Controllers were somewhat unsure of where it would land, but the incident was taken as a lesson learned. Future spacecraft may be equipped with retro-reflectors to make it easier to track them and predict where they will re-enter the atmosphere, according to officials from the European Space Agency.
SpaceX rocket explosion
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo spacecraft exploded shortly after liftoff on June 28, 2015. The Dragon craft was carrying supplies to the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA
On June 28, 2015, a SpaceX rocket carrying supplies to the International Space Station exploded only a couple of minutes after launch. The 4,000 lbs. (1,814 kilograms) of lost cargo included food, supplies and science experiments for the station, such as a high-resolution camera for meteor observations. The cause of the explosion was later traced to a faulty strut.
The failure came after a catastrophic explosion of an Orbital Antares rocket in October 2014 (with the Cygnus cargo craft on top) and the Progress failure of April. NASA, however, said the station had enough slack in its supplies to stay provisioned for a while.
"We're good to the October time frame if no other vehicles show up," NASA ISS program manager Mike Suffredini said during a pre-launch press conference on June 26, 2015. Luckily for the astronauts, cargo flights made it successfully to the station before then, and no other failures have occurred since that time.
A birthday in orbit
Kelly celebrated an extra-special birthday in space on Feb. 21. The milestone is notable not only because he was in space at the time, but also because he shares the birthday with his twin brother, Mark.
Mark and Scott have both been in space before, and NASA saw a unique opportunity to see how the genes of a person change after extended stays in space. For the so-called "Twins Study," while Scott is performing experiments on himself up above, Mark remains on the ground doing identical procedures.
"Happy birthday to Scott Kelly, who is working 250 [miles/402 kilometers] above Earth, and Mark Kelly, who is helping with the Twins Study from our home planet," NASA wrote on Tumblr on the twins' birthday.
Back on Earth
After 340 days in space, the most time spent in orbit by an American, Scott Kelly is scheduled to return to Earth on March 1, 2016.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
After a year doing science and spacewalks — as well as tending flowers and admiring the view — Kelly will arrive back on Earth on March 1. The extreme amount of time he spent in isolation had some people wondering if he would mind being there for so long, but Kelly emphasized repeatedly that it was a matter of focusing on one day at a time.
"On a six-month flight, your mindset is you're going to go up there, and you're going to be up there for a period of time, and you're going to come home," Kelly said in January 2015.
"When it's a whole year, I don't have that same perspective. It's almost like I feel like I'm just moving there and I'm not coming back. Or it's going to be so long that when I come back, it's almost like I never lived here maybe."
A jet passenger spotted cylinder-shaped UFO at an altitude below the jet’s 37,000 feet while flying between Florida and Puerto Rico, according to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) Case 56602.
The strange event happened at 11:15 a.m. on March 12, 2014, and it was reported to MUFON on May 25, 2014. Ohio MUFON State Director Thomas Wertman investigated the case and closed it as unknown.
According to the report, the witness was in a passenger jet flying to Puerto Rico on Jet Blue Flight #1938. The plane departed at 10:15 a.m. in Orlando, FL, and was expected to arrive at 12:59 p.m. The UFO was spotted in the north of Mona Passage, approximately 45 minutes before landing.
The unnamed witness and his daughters noticed and observed the mysterious flying object. He revealed that other people in the jet also observed the anomaly as others even commenting about it. They saw the object hovered, which was very strange.
After their arrival, the reporting witness checked online to know if there were reports about visible stars or satellite at the same time of their UFO sighting. However, his research revealed nothing. The video shows round top and bottom of the object. It’s difficult to tell the size of the subject matter since there’s no solid background object to compare. The silver or metallic UFO seems to expand and contract.
MUFON Ohio Director Wertman said that the reporting witness used a Kodak C813 digital camera. It was taken on March 22, 2014, at 11:22 a.m. based on the camera’s date and time. The flight details were taken from the Flightaware website.
On Wertman’s investigation, the arrival of the aircraft wasn’t at 12.59 p.m., but at 12:37 p.m. The passenger plane would have been off the Turks Islands if the approximate time of the witness was correct. Wertman said that the estimate of 45 minutes by the witness appeared not right. The camera’s time of 11:22 p.m. put the jet near San Salvador, explained Wertman.
The witness can be seen in the video pointing at the object. Wertman stated that the object didn’t appear to be a reflection of the window. The UFO doesn’t move consistently with the camera movements. The witness also seems to point down at the object.
Based on the flight path, the aircraft was traveling at 37,000 feet, according to Wertman. Based on the video and report, the object appeared below the jet’s altitude. The UFO seems to be stationary and highly reflective.
The investigator said that the combination of the data from Flightaware and the video was inconclusive on identifying the unusual object.
Leaked footage' of mythical 'Black Knight' UFO hounding ISS emerges
Leaked footage' of mythical 'Black Knight' UFO hounding ISS emerges
AN ALLEGED leaked video of the so-called 'Black Knight UFO' tailing the International Space Station (ISS) has emerged online despite the existence of the mythical 'alien satellite' being successfully debunked just months ago.
The myth of an ancient alien satellite orbiting Earth had been developing for many years, but it took off in 1998 after NASA released images of a thermal blanket being dropped by astronauts working on a space shuttle.
The images were later hijacked by hoaxers who claimed they showed a mysterious alien satellite and the story snowballed.
Last summer Express.co.uk revealed how an amateur sleuth had debunked the myth and proved the 'satellite' was a blanket during an 11-minute long YouTube novice video.
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The alleged UFO (ringed) with it close up (inset left) and the famous NASA image (inset right)
NASA
The 1998 release by NASA of the dropped thermal blanket images caused a legend to spiral
But in the new video released by YouTube channel Section 51 2.0, the object which looks like a shrunken version of one of the most famous NASA thermal blanket images, is filmed from various angles following the ISS.
The clip is entitled 'ISS films the Black Knight Satellite UFO very close to Soyuz spacecraft - January 2016.'
YouTube channel Section 51 2.0 releases several alleged UFO videos of such good quality that it is repeatedly accused of broadcasting hoaxes which have been digitally-created.
It claims the new footage was leaked out of Russia after being filmed in January by the ISS's own cameras very close to the Russian Souyez spacecraft which was delivering supplies.
Debris from the ISS will have roughly the same speed. It is a thermal insulation board, most likely.
Video viewer Kirill Polishchuk
Astronauts can be heard in the video talking mainly in Russian, so it is not clear if they comment on the alleged object tailing them, although one woman does appear to gasp.
The video has made it onto several UFO and conspiracy websites, where it has been hotly debated, with many pointing out it is likely to be a fake.
But just as many others thought it might be real.
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Another grab from the video showing the alleged Black Knight looking like a sea horse
Posting under the name MainForcePatrolKZ, one said: "If this object was potentially a piece of ancient or alien technology, then why haven't NASA tried getting a closer look at it?"
But Kirill Polishchuk recognised it as a thermal blanket.
He said: "Debris from the ISS will have roughly the same speed. It is a thermal insulation board, most likely."
Section 51 has previously denied promoting hoaxes.
Express.co.uk has contacted Section 51 to ask it to respond to the latest allegations.
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DNA Results For The Nephilim Skulls In Peru Are In And The Results Are Absolutely Shocking
DNA Results For The Nephilim Skulls In Peru Are In And The Results Are Absolutely Shocking
How can we explain elongated skulls that are thousands of years old that contain genetic material “unknown in any human, primate or animal known so far”? For months, many of us have been eagerly awaiting the results of the first DNA tests to ever be performed on the famous Paracas skulls. The results for one of the skulls are now in, and the scientist that did the testing is declaring that this skull represents a “new human-like creature” unlike anything that has ever been discovered before. So are these actually Nephilim skulls? Do they come from a time when the world more closely resembled “the Lord of the Rings” than most people living today would ever dare to imagine? There are those who believe that extremely bizarre hybrid races once roamed the planet. With each passing year, the scientific evidence continues to pile up on the side of those that are convinced that the Nephilim actually lived among us. As the knowledge of this evidence becomes more widespread, what is that going to do to the commonly accepted version of history that all of us have been taught?
If you are not familiar with the Paracas skulls, the following is a pretty good summary from a recent article by April Holloway…
Paracas is a desert peninsula located within the Pisco Province in the Inca Region, on the south coast of Peru. It is here were Peruvian archaeologist, Julio Tello, made an amazing discovery in 1928 – a massive and elaborate graveyard containing tombs filled with the remains of individuals with the largest elongated skulls found anywhere in the world. These have come to be known as the ‘Paracas skulls’. In total, Tello found more than 300 of these elongated skulls, which are believed to date back around 3,000 years. A DNA analysis has now been conducted on one of the skulls and expert Brien Foerster has released preliminary information regarding these enigmatic skulls.
As Holloway noted, it is researcher Brien Foerster that has been leading the charge in reviving interest in these elongated skulls. Now that the DNA results are in, interest in these skulls is almost certainly going to skyrocket. The following quote from the geneticist that conducted the DNA analysis comes from Brien Foerster’s Facebook page. Please keep in mind that this geneticist was not told the history of these skulls in advance. So he was able to examine them without any preconceived notions. What he found was absolutely shocking…
Whatever the sample labeled 3A has came from – it had mtDNA with mutations unknown in any human, primate or animal known so far. The data is very sketchy though and a LOT of sequencing still needs to be done to recover the complete mtDNA sequence. But a few fragments I was able to sequence from this sample 3A indicate that if these mutations will hold we are dealing with a new human-like creature, very distant from Homo sapiens, Neanderthals and Denisovans.
As I have written about previously, forensic analysis of these skulls show that they were not deformed by “cradle-boarding”. There are many examples of skulls that have been “cradle-boarded” down in South America, but the skulls that Foerster has been investigating are much different from those skulls. The following is more from April Holloway about these skulls…
The cranial volume is up to 25 percent larger and 60 percent heavierthan conventional human skulls, meaning they could not have been intentionally deformed through head binding/flattening. They also contain only one parietal plate, rather than two. The fact that the skulls’ features are not the result of cranial deformation means that the cause of the elongation is a mystery, and has been for decades.
In fact, in a previous article I discussed how a sample of red hair from one of these skulls was sent to a lab to be analyzed. The tests on that sample of hair also showed that these skulls are not human.
Or at least they are not fully human.
So can we conclusively say that these are Nephilim skulls?
Of course many researchers are extremely excited about these findings, but they are warning everyone to stay cautious. For example, consider what L.A. Marzulli is saying about these skulls…
Our Geneticist has had his mind blown as the email indicates, but we must be cautious with our conclusions until all the evidence can be examined.
With that in mind, take a good look at the two skulls in the picture above. I took this photo when I returned to the Chongos Necropolis a few weeks ago. The skull on the left shows only one parietal plate and a complete absence of a parietal suture. Is this a genetic trait that is only found in the Paracas skulls? If so, what does it signify?
Chongos is one of the most enigmatic places I have ever found myself in. On this visit to the area we were accompanied by the mayor and an armed escort! Chongos is where the sample for the DNA testing and the subsequent results I posted above, has come from.
Are these really Nephilim skulls? In my opinion, the evidence is beginning to stack up in that direction, but we must be cautious and patient for all the evidence to come in.
You can find the photo that he was talking about right here.
X-Files revealed: CIA releases top-secret UFO reports online
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has decided to release hundreds of X-files-like UFO documents on their website, a moment that UFO fans all over the world have been waiting for since the first sightings were noted. The CIA has declassified hundreds of documents detailing the agency’s investigations into UFOs in a move to make sure that things are easier for Mulder and Scully.
According to the agency’s website, it has released documents primarily from the late 1940s and 50s, which it holds in its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) UFO collection.
The images are among the clearest ever taken of supposed UFOs
“We’ve decided to highlight a few documents both sceptics and believers will find interesting,” the agency states.
The CIA used Twitter to encourage the UFO enthusiasts to “take a peek” at the declassified documents
In the past, the agency has often been panned by UFO conspiracy theorists for allegedly trying to cover up evidence of alien life from the general public. The agency for some reason has decided to upload never-before-seen photos and documents in PDF formats.
This picture taken above Minneapolis has never been explained
Among the CIA’s UFO X-Files is the sighting documented by New Jersey resident George Stock. On July 29, 1952 at about 4:30 p.m., Stock and his friend John H. Riley spotted a bizarre aircraft in Passaic approaching from the sky.
The story goes that Mr Stock ran inside to grab his camera before taking five photos of the UFO. He claimed it was sailing at about 200ft before flying off at high speed. The disc was described as solid and metallic with a transparent, domed top. It was reported to be a blue to grey colour, about ten metres wide and made no noise.
According to theparanormalguide.com, which catalogues former UFO sightings, the shots received little attention at that time.
The blog said: “Considering these images of what may have been a UFO were so clear, they received very little attention, and for a good reason – the various agencies in control asked media outlets and the police to stop taking on reports and reporting UFO events, as they were coming in too fast to handle – news of UFOs were literally clogging up channels as 1952 saw a massive wave of sightings.”
The documents reveal that the CIA was not only interested in UFO sightings in the U.S. but also in England, Spain, North Africa and Germany. Another example is a mysterious photo taken above Sheffield in March 1962 showing what is said to be a fleet of dark-looking flying saucers. However, the grainy black and white photo has since been exposed as a hoax.
In spite of the authenticity of the uploaded CIA documents, the agency kept referring to Agents Mulder and Scully of the famous drama series The X-Files.
“Below you will find five documents we think X-Files character Agent Fox Mulder would love to use to try and persuade others of the existence of extraterrestrial activity,” wrote CIA in the blog where some of the documents were listed.
The files disclosed by CIA didn’t give any strong inference about the existence of UFOs and extraterrestrial life. When it comes to UFO conspiracies, the CIA is not the only federal agency under attack. Many UFO/alien conspiracy theories are popping up and NASA has been accused of back-to-back extraterrestrial evidence cover-ups related to its Mars missions as well.
In one of the photos taken by NASA’s space rovers on Mars in October 2015, UFO spotter and YouTube user, Paranormal Crucible, found what looked like the remains of a Buddha statue.
In November 2015, Paranormal Crucible also found a “drone-like” structure on Mars using one of the photos uploaded by NASA. This time, the drone-like conspiracy theory corresponded to the global premiere of the Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.
If you are a UFO enthusiast, take a look at all the files here.
Hirbat Midras, in Adullam Grove Nature Reserve in Israel, part of what geologist Dr. Alexander Koltypin hypothesizes to be a massive complex of prehistoric underground structures stretching across the Mediterranean. (Courtesy of Alexander Koltypin)
In Beyond Science, Epoch Times explores research and accounts related to phenomena and theories that challenge our current knowledge. We delve into ideas that stimulate the imagination and open up new possibilities. Share your thoughts with us on these sometimes controversial topics in the comments section below.
Most archaeologists and historians agree that human civilization only emerged some 10,000 to 12,000 years ago. Yet many researchers have drawn attention to artifacts and various other evidence of advanced civilizations long before this, even millions of years earlier.
Among them is Dr. Alexander Koltypin, a geologist and director of the Natural Science Research Center at Moscow’s International Independent University of Ecology and Politology.
Koltypin has analyzed ancient underground structures across the Mediterranean and identified similarities that lead him to believe the sites were once connected. Furthermore, the weathering of the structures, their material composition, and the geological features and historic changes in the region, lead him to believe they were built by an advanced civilization hundreds of thousands or millions of years ago.
Archaeologists working in the region usually date the sites by looking at the settlements located on them or nearby. But these settlements were simply built upon existing prehistoric structures, Koltypin said.
“When we examined the constructions … none of us never for a moment had a doubt that they are much older than the ruins of the Canaanite, Philistine, Hebraic, Roman, Byzantine, and other cities and settlements that are placed on it and around,” he wrote on his website.
He climbed a hill about 1,300 feet high near the Hurvat Burgin ruins in Adullam Grove Nature Reserve, central Israel. As he looked over the site, he recalled a similar feeling from when he had climbed to the top of the rock city Cavusin in Turkey.
“I was personally convinced once again … that all these rectangular indentations, man-made underground structures, and scattered debris of megaliths were one underground-terrestrial megalithic complex which was opened by erosion to a depth of several hundred meters.”
Erosion and Mountain-Formation
Not all parts of the purported complex are still underground. Some have come far above ground with geological shifts throughout history—the ancient rocky towns of Cappadocia in Turkey, for example, which Koltypin includes in the complex.
Some parts may also be found under the Mediterranean Sea, as is indicated by structures along the coast.
Cavusin village in the Cappadocia region of Turkey. (Courtesy of Alexander Koltypin)
In central and northern Israel and central Turkey, Koltypin estimates the sites were exposed after an erosive cut into the Earth of several hundred meters (more than 1,000 feet).
“According to my estimates, such depth of erosion … hardly could be formed in less time than 500,000 to 1 million years,” he wrote.
He hypothesizes that part of the complex was brought to the surface as a result of alpine orogeny (mountain-formation).
The composition of building materials at a site in Antalya, Turkey, which Koltypin calls the “Jernokleev site,” are also some 500,000 to 1 million years old by his estimate.
Archaeologists usually date the man-made structures at Jernokleev to the Middle Ages. But, Koltypin says the materials indicate a much older age.
An ancient stone structure in Antalya, Turkey. (Courtesy of Alexander Koltypin)
Such depth of erosion … hardly could be formed in less time than 500,000 to 1 million years.
— Dr. Alexander Koltypin, International Independent University of Ecology and Politology
What he identifies as a pink “cement” includes in it man-made ceramic fragments and basalts of volcanic origin among other materials. The last time an active volcano would have been present in the region to provide the basalts would have been some 500,000 to 1 million years ago.
Underwater
As a result of the Earth’s crust moving over distant ages, parts of the underground complex have been plunged under sea level, Koltypin said.
The floor of Derinkuyu, an underground city in Turkey. (Courtesy of Alexander Koltypin)
“Practically in all the studied underground constructions of Israel and in the majority of underground constructions of Turkey, sediments of lithified (hard) and calcareous clay deposits are widely developed on their floor,” he wrote. The nature of the deposits suggest the complex was underwater for a long time.
Similar Megaliths and Underground Entrances
The similar megalithic ruins at the various sites are part of what led Koltypin to surmise a connection between the sites, united in a giant prehistoric complex.
Megalithic blocks weighing tens of tons seem to have at some point likely been attached directly to the underground constructions, he said. “This circumstance gave me a reason to call the underground structures and geographically related ruins of cyclopean walls and buildings as a single underground-terrestrial megalithic complex.”
An entrance to the underground at Hurvat Burgin in Adullam Grove Nature Reserve in Israel. (Courtesy of Alexander Koltypin)
An entrance to the underground at Hurvat Burgin in Adullam Grove Nature Reserve in Israel. (Courtesy of Alexander Koltypin)
The megalithic constructions seem to surpass the technological capabilities of the civilizations conventionally thought to have built them, Koltypin said. For example, it remains a mystery how the 800-ton megaliths in Baalbek, Lebanon, were transported from a quarry to their present location.
The stones fit together perfectly in some parts without cement, and the ceilings, columns, arches, gates, and other elements seem beyond the work of men with chisels, Koltypin said. The chisel marks usually said to show they were built in more recent times occur only in some parts of the structures and seem to have been etched there long after the original structures were built, he said.
He noted that structures built on or near the sites by the Romans or other civilizations are comparatively primitive.
It is within a context of other findings suggesting advanced prehistoric civilizations that Koltypin puts forth his hypothesis.
Mysterious ancient tracks dissect the landscape in the Phrygian Valley of Turkey. What is the truth about who made these tracks, and how? (Courtesy of Alexander Koltypin)
For example, he has studied ancient ruts that crisscross the Phrygian Valley of Turkey and inferred that they are tracks of “unknown antediluvian all-terrain vehicles” petrified in the stone from millions of years ago.
Traditional legends often dismissed as myth also tell of prehistoric civilizations in the region.
Is dit door mensen gemaakte ondergrondse complex een miljoen jaar oud?
Is dit door mensen gemaakte ondergrondse complex een miljoen jaar oud?
De meeste archeologen en historici zijn het erover eens dat de menselijke beschaving zo’n 10.000 tot 12.000 jaar geleden is ontstaan. Toch zijn er ook veel onderzoekers die bewijs menen te hebben gevonden van hoogontwikkelde beschavingen die mogelijk miljoenen jaren oud zijn.
Eén van hen is dr. Alexander Koltypin, een geoloog van de Internationale Onafhankelijke Ecologisch-Politicologische Universiteit in Moskou. Hij heeft ondergrondse structuren in het Middellandse Zeegebied bestudeerd en is tot de conclusie gekomen dat de vindplaatsen ooit met elkaar verbonden waren en een reusachtig megalithisch complex vormden.
Hij is van mening dat de bouwwerken honderdduizenden of zelfs miljoenen jaren geleden zijn gemaakt door een hoogontwikkelde beschaving. Koltypin legt uit dat de nederzettingen die hij heeft bestudeerd gebouwd zijn op bestaande prehistorische structuren.
Vulkaan
Het ondergrondse complex bestaat volgens hem onder meer uit de nederzettingen rond Cappadocië in Turkije, terwijl andere delen in de Middellandse Zee verborgen liggen. In Israël zijn een aantal van de vindplaatsen blootgelegd als gevolg van erosie, aldus Koltypin.
Hij heeft bouwmaterialen die in Israël en het Turkse Antalya zijn gevonden gedateerd op 500.000 tot één miljoen jaar oud. Hij trof onder meer roze ‘cement’ aan, dat keramiek en basalt, een vulkanisch stollingsgesteente, bevat. De laatste keer dat een vulkaan actief was in het gebied, was tussen de 500.000 en één miljoen jaar geleden.
Legendes
Het is volgens Koltypin vrijwel onmogelijk dat de megalithische bouwwerken zijn gebouwd door de beschavingen die in de middeleeuwen leefden. Het is bijvoorbeeld onduidelijk hoe de 800 ton zware megalieten in het Libanese Baalbek van de steengroeve naar hun huidige locatie zijn getransporteerd.
De reusachtige stenen passen perfect in elkaar en lijken niet te zijn neergezet door mannen met beitels, aldus Koltypin. Legendes die vaak worden afgedaan als mythes, spreken ook van prehistorische hoogontwikkelde beschavingen in het gebied.
A few nights ago I was interviewed on Richard Hoagland’s radio show and we spent a lot of time discussing one of my recent articles here at Mysterious Universe. It was the one on UFO Disclosure, the complete and utter naivety of those who support it, and my “seen it all before” comments. It was this article that led us into another, somewhat related, topic. Namely, how come the media – given its attention to breaking and/or understanding Watergate, Iran-Contra, the WMD situation, and the Edward Snowden affair – has never been able to blow the lid off the UFO secrecy and secure the disclosure so many seek and hope for?
The skeptics and debunkers would say – and they have said – that this glaring issue of the world’s leading journalists not having cracked something like Roswell, is because nothing of an extraordinary nature occurred back in the summer of 1947. That’s not true. And the outrageous thing is that those same skeptics and debunkers know exactlywhy the mainstream, influential press has not solved Roswell. They prefer, however, to spin and weave as they see fit.
The answer as to why the media hasn’t resolved something like Roswell is extremely simple and has nothing to do with a lack of potential data to be found. To put it bluntly, the media has never solved Roswell because it has never gone after Roswell (or any other major case of a UFO nature) in the same way, and on the same scale, that it has with the “Big Four” above: Snowden, Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Yes, there’s no doubt that the media – of numerous nations – has extensively covered the UFO controversy, and has done so since 1947. The number of articles written by the press, since the 1940s, must surely be well into the thousands. Maybe tens of thousands. But, the typical type of UFO story that the media generally provides its readers/viewers with is not on a par with what one would expect to see on the four above. Some might say the subject is not worthy of such similar coverage. I would suggest otherwise.
President Richard M. Nixon
There may be those reading this article who take the view that when it comes to UFOs, “the government is silencing the journalists.” Really? Well, “the government” didn’t stop the press from breaking one of the biggest stories of the 20th century: the Watergate affair, which led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon. Nor was the press stopped from revealing the fact that there is a massive NSA-controlled data-collection program focused on the online activity and phone calls of US citizens. The persistence of the press meant that the facts came out – even if there were those who wished it didn’t.
The very same might happen for Roswell – in theory. An aggressive, lengthy, and wide-reaching study of Roswell by one of the world’s leading news outlets could well do for Ufology what it did for the “Big Four.” That’s to say, extract the genie from the bottle. And regardless of whether the genie wants out or not. But the media hasn’t done that with UFOs and Roswell. And it won’t. Here’s why.
As I pointed out on the Hoagland show, being able to show people you are the person who broke something like the Watergate story, or the Snowden case (etc., etc.) is something that many journalists would give their right arm to achieve. Developing a reputation for being the journalist who chases after little green men has far less appeal for those who want to climb the journalistic ladder. But, if they would only develop a pair of balls, care less about reputations, and actually spend major time (and I do meanmajor time) on Roswell, they might just find – to their amazement – that there really is something there.
The S-4.
As another example: Bob Lazar. When, in the late 1980s, Lazar came forward with his claim to have briefly worked at a Nevada-based facility called S-4 (at which, he also claimed, recovered alien spacecraft were stored), it made many heads turn within Ufology. It also made George Knapp’s head turn. Knapp, to his lasting credit, and as a respected journalist, dug deeply into the Lazar controversy. But he was one of barely a handful.
If Lazar’s story is nothing but a hoax, then it’s of no consequence and we should move on. And, yes, some have done that. On the other hand, if the story is true, then Lazar is a whistle-blower on the scale of Edward Snowden. Maybe even a bigger scale. Can you imagine what the outcome might have been had the world’s media gone after Lazar in the late-1980s in the fashion they did with Snowden? Okay, maybe Lazar’s claims would have been shown to have no merit. On the other hand, it could have resulted in the startling revelation that Uncle Sam has a fine collection of shiny UFOs and a motley collection of dead, pickled aliens. No surprises: it didn’t happen.
Certainly, the media commented on Lazar’s claims on more than a few occasions. But, a new Woodward and Bernstein, with major media backing and funding, to pursue the Lazar story as far as it could conceivably go, and for months or even years? Nope, no such new team was anywhere in sight. It still isn’t. But it is/was when it comes to the likes of Watergate, Snowden and so on.
On the matter of UFOs, the mainstream media is very good about entertaining us, vaguely intriguing us, making slightly fun-poking comments about Ufology (granted, some of which are deserved; even I have to admit that much), and preparing a couple of columns of text to be placed at the foot of page five. On the other hand, however, that same media is downright hopeless, impotent, and lacking in vision when it comes to getting behind the UFO subject and to a degree that history just might be made in the process.
Long before Afghanistan became associated with the “War on Terror,” strange and mysterious things were going on in the skies of the country. And, to the extent that the U.S. Department of State got interested in the matter. We’re talking about UFOs. We’re also talking about files on the matter which have been declassified under Freedom of Information legislation. On February 4, 1981, a Mr. Archard – reporting to the American Embassy in Aslamabad, Pakistan – prepared a document titled “Close Encounters in Afghanistan.” It’s a document that has a distinct UFO theme to it, but which also addresses the matter of the “UFOs” being secret devices/technologies of the former Soviet Union. Whatever the truth, it all began in 1980 and continued to concern U.S. authorities into 1981.
Archard wrote: “I am convinced that there is substance in the many travelers’ reports from Afghanistan that the Red Army is using a type of very powerful, high intensity light there. The light may be used in connection with perimeter defense and/or road security. We have heard and reported accounts of this phenomenon since September, primarily from journalists and adventurers. These have described strange lights illuminating large portions – typically as much as or more than one quarter – of the Afghan sky. The locations of the sightings reported to us have been Ghazni (August 1980), Nuristan (Sept. 1980) and Khost (Jan., 1981).”
The Department of State documentation continues with the following: “Accounts have in common the brightness of the lights, the distances from which they are discernible, and the size of the areas they appear to illuminate (more – perhaps much more – than 5 miles in diameter). Accounts differ in that some speak of narrow beams which are compared with laser or search lights, as a part of the phenomenon. Most, though, speak of more diffused illumination. Accounts differ as to whether lights slowly wax and wane, or reach maximum intensity and turn off instantly.”
Archard took keen notice of this strange state of affairs: “I had been skeptical about the stories, which have a UFO cast, until NBC producer Joe DeCola returned from Paktia last month. I have gotten to know DeCola well and consider him an accurate, careful observer. While he was passing near Khost (Matun) about Jan. 1, DeCola and his crew ‘saw the light.’ At the time, they were about 12 miles south of the Khost Garrison. When they became aware of it, the light seemed to be at full intensity.”
Archard added that the first impression of both DeCola and his team was that “…it was borne by a helicopter which was searching for them. It did not move, however, nor was any aircraft (or other) motor noise discernible. They left the area as quickly as possible but were sure that the light remained visible and stationary for at least 20 minutes. DeCola’s impression was that the light was generated from an airborne source at an altitude of some hundreds of feet. Because it did not move, and there was no motor noise, he thinks it may have been suspended from a balloon. Like other witnesses, he reports being unnerved by the intensity and magnitude of the lights and wonders if it is intended primarily to frighten potential attackers.”
Archard asked DeCola if he – DeCola – thought it possible that the light could have come from “…something like the hand-held magnesium flares such as are used by the U.S. Army. He was quite sure not, as there was no movement and the duration was much too long. As for mortar-launched flares, there was no explosion and again no drift.”
Moving on from the sighting of Joe DeCola, Archard had the following to say from early February 1981: “Another more specific story came Feb. 3 from Frenchman Dominique Vargas based on a sighting near Asadabad, Kunar, in September. Vargas, a professional photographer who seems to have some science as well as military background, claims the light he saw was ‘colder and whiter’ than that from a tungsten source ‘which would burn at 3,500 degrees Kelvin.’ At first sighting, the light illuminated a minimum diameter of 5 to 10 kilometers, in what he described as a perfect and clearly outlined hemispherical shape. The period of illumination was about 15 minutes, with the period of greatest intensity beginning instantly and lasting for two or three minutes. Subsequently, the size of the illuminated hemisphere expanded dramatically, while the intensity of the light within it diminished gradually to nothing. Vargas thought the light source was not airborne, as this would have produced a more than hemispherical shape. As with DeCola, Vargas heard no noises associated with the light.”
Archard signed off with the following: “Interestingly, a night light phenomenon overIslamabad’s Margala Hills was seen by diplomats and others a few months ago and reported in the press. We think this was probably of the moving light, classic UFO school, and not related to the Afghan sightings.”
Genuine UFOs? Some kind of secret weapon or device of the Soviets? Whatever the answer, it’s not to be found in the files of the Department of State. The entire matter remained unexplained.
As most of us know by now, the CIA has indeed kept tabs on the UFO problem in the past, particularly during the 1950s and 60s. This is common knowledge for most these days, particularly thanks to the PR staff at the CIA, and what might be viewed as a “cooperative promotional effort” on their part in advance of the recent X-Files reboot. Namely, the CIA featured a number of their previously declassified UFO files on a page at their website, leading many media outlets to proclaim that the the CIA had “just released its UFO files.”
Not so fast. The files in question had actually been released back in 1978, as their website states. “The CIA declassified hundreds of documents in 1978 detailing the Agency’s investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs),” the statement reads. “The documents date primarily from the late 1940s and 1950s.” That, of course, didn’t keep the press from jumping and running with a host of cheerfully misleading headlines about the sudden release of the CIA’s “real X-Files”.
Many historians would actually assert that the closest thing to “real” X-Files would actually have been the US Air Force’s Project Blue Book, which oversaw the official collection of UFO reports by government until 1968. Despite being a “legitimate” government UFO study, Blue Book left a lot to be desired, resulting in dissatisfaction from many involved, including the project’s former science advisor, J. Allen Hynek. In fact, Hynek’s dissatisfaction with Blue Book’s handling of UFO reports led him to believe that some other organization may have been receiving and studying a number of UFO reports, altogether bypassing the Air Force and its operations. “There were many times during my twenty years as a scientific consultant to Blue Book,” Hynek wrote in 1977, “that I also wondered whether the very best reports were being kept from Blue Book.”
In likelihood, there were a number of different agencies that were keeping tabs on the UFO subject, and as we have already established, the CIA had indeed been one. More specifically, the CIA’s Office of Scientific Intelligence (OSI) and its Office of Current Intelligence (OCI) became the departments that oversaw the CIA’s secret UFO inquiry. At the urging of Weapons and Equipment Division head Edward Tauss, the CIA’s UFO study group was advised to keep its interest in UFOs under wraps, “in view of [the public’s] probable alarmist tendencies.” In other words, it was believed that the CIA’s role in UFO research, if made public, might result in legitimization of the phenomenon, and thus actually encourage belief in it.
Former CIA Chief Historian Gerald K. Haines covered this period in his essay, “CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90: A Die-Hard Issue” (the article can be read at the CIA’s website). Haines noted that the CIA’s initial report on UFOs prompted Robert Amory, Jr, then Deputy Director for Intelligence, to appoint further UFO studies to the OSI’s Physics and Electronics Division, with A. Ray Gordon in charge during this period. Among the aims and objectives of the CIA’s UFO studies during this time, it was hoped that the relevant OSI divisions could, “coordinate the intelligence effort required to solve the problem.” Haines further notes that, “[Walter B.] Smith also wanted to know what use could be made of the UFO phenomenon in connection with US psychological warfare efforts.”
This is a particularly interesting statement. Rather than suggesting an indirect relationship between world affairs and UFO sightings, employing wording along the lines of “what role the UFO phenomenon may have played in connection with US psychological warfare efforts” (or something to that effect), Haines’ historical overview of the CIA’s internal UFO studies suggests it might have hoped to exploit UFOs. One might consider that a funny thing for an agency to want to do, amidst taking such great care not to appear to be too interested in the subject in question!
Haines goes on to summarize the cooperative effort between the CIA and the USAF, and how the CIA’s concealment of their operations would later help fuel accusations of a coverup:
[T]he CIA Study Group met with Air Force officials at Wright-Patterson and reviewed their data and findings. The Air Force claimed that 90 percent of the reported sightings were easily accounted for. The other 10 percent were characterized as “a number of incredible reports from credible observers.” The Air Force rejected the theories that the sightings involved US or Soviet secret weapons development or that they involved “men from Mars”; there was no evidence to support these concepts. The Air Force briefers sought to explain these UFO reports as the misinterpretation of known objects or little understood natural phenomena. Air Force and CIA officials agreed that outside knowledge of Agency interest in UFOs would make the problem more serious. This concealment of CIA interest contributed greatly to later charges of a CIA conspiracy and coverup.
Returning to J. Allen Hynek, the former Blue Book advisor had written about his suspicions of involvement by parties outside the USAF in 1977 — one year prior to the first batch of UFO files being released by the CIA. While they may not have been theonly other group involved (Stanton Friedman has, for instance, frequently referred to the UFO files kept by the NSA), it is clear that the CIA very well may have been behind some of these operations, of which Hynek had maintained such suspicions.
Hynek wasn’t alone, however. Jim and Coral Lorenzen, founders of the Wisconsin-based Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO), had long suspected control from a party outside the Air Force, and had even gone so far as to specify their feeling that this agency was the CIA. In their book UFOs Over the Americas, the Lorenzens devoted an entire chapter to possible CIA involvement in UFO studies, in which they wrote the following:
In Flying Saucer Occupants we presented the dual hypothesis the CIA is conducting an undercover intelligence gathering program relating to UFO phenomenon, and that, for intelligent reasons, it has been for sixteen-odd years the architect of Project Blue Book (the Air Force investigation project on UFOs) and the general Air Force public information policy–the latter being a “cover” program designed to hide the fact that the former exists.
The Lorenzens offered nine points, as featured in their aforementioned previous publication Flying Saucer Occupants, which gave their rational for why the CIA had likely been involved in UFO research at that time (something that, to reiterate, wouldn’t become public knowledge for a number of years). Later in the chapter, they also share a rather telling story about how one of the early members of their fledgling organization had seemingly been spying on them, possibly in conjunction with the kind of CIA surveillance they had suspected.
This individual, a man who had purportedly worked hard to steer the Lorenzens toward metaphysical interpretations of the UFO phenomenon early on, had sent a letter to them dated February 22, 1953, which Coral read, and “flipped it into a file basket on her desk.” Doing so allowed the light to hit the paper in just such a way that faint depressions from the typing of an earlier document (which had been typed on a separate sheet of paper, using this one as a platen) were revealed; in particular, Coral had seen her own name illuminated on the document! Rubbing lightly over the impressions with a soft lead pencil revealed the beginning of “an abbreviated intelligence report”, and after confronting this individual about the apparent memo he had written about Coral, he claimed it was merely something he did “to formalize his feelings about people he met and to define his impressions and that it was strictly a report for his own files.”
Needless to say, this wouldn’t be the best of ways to gain the confidence of others, whether then, or now. The Lorenzens went on to note the possible (or likely?) connection this man had to the CIA, further noting how the CIA-sponsored Robertson Panel later in 1953 would go on to name the APRO specifically among organizations that should be watched “because of their potentially great influence on mass thinking if widespread sightings should occur.”
As we have examined throughout this article, the CIA’s past involvement with UFO research is well established by now. UFO researchers like J. Allen Hynek suspected the involvement of parties outside the USAF early on, and the Lorenzens and APRO managed to take their assessments so far as to specifically name the CIA amidst their similar suspicions. Whether or not they had been the “architects” behind the USAF’s Project Blue Book, we certainly know that the CIA’s study group was meeting with Air Force officials at Wright Patterson AFB, hence proving that the two groups were in communication on the subject of UFOs.
“Certainly APRO has been watched,” the Lorenzens would conclude. “And, probably, other UFO groups as well.” The words of Joseph Heller come to mind here, where he famously quipped, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.” A true statement indeed, and the APRO affair is no doubt only one of many instances where the CIA — and probably other groups as well — have kept tabs on civilian UFO groups for various reasons.
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VIDEO: Drone filmt ‘buitenaardse opslag’ Area 51
VIDEO: Drone filmt ‘buitenaardse opslag’ Area 51
Han Faulkner wilde graag weten welke geheimen er verborgen liggen in Area 51 en besloot met een drone over de geheimzinnige vliegbasis in Nevada te vliegen die al lange tijd wordt geassocieerd met geruchten over buitenaardse activiteit.
Het is ook de plek waar het Amerikaanse leger stealthtechnologieën en het spionagevliegtuig U2 ontwikkelde. Het bestaan van de basis werd in 2013 officieel erkend door de CIA.
‘Hangar met buitenaardse ruimteschepen’
Vanaf het moment dat natuurkundige Bob Knapp in de jaren tachtig claimde dat in een hangar van Area 51 buitenaardse ruimteschepen worden bewaard, wordt de basis in verband gebracht met buitenaardse activiteit.
UFO-enthousiastelingen van over de hele wereld reizen af naar het gebied, hoewel het voor het publiek niet mogelijk is om in de buurt van de basis te komen.
Speciale eenheid
Faulkner maakte de dronebeelden vanaf Tikaboo Peak. Hij beweerde te zijn gevolgd door ‘witte voertuigen’, wat koren op de molen is van samenzweringstheoretici.
Afgelopen december beloofde presidentskandidaat Hillary Clinton een speciale eenheid naar Area 51 te sturen om te achterhalen of er UFO’s worden bewaard, als ze wordt gekozen tot de nieuwe president van Amerika.
Niet alleen mensen horen de vreemde geluiden in de lucht, maar ook de dieren.
Wanneer zij, voordat wij iets ervaren, onrustig worden of angstig dan is de klok erop gelijk te zetten dat er iets aan de hand is.
Waar voor ons eigenlijk wel vaststaat is dat al de vreemde geluiden die overal in de lucht worden gehoord verband houden met de nadering van het mini-zonnestelsel Nibiru en het overgrote deel van de mensheid nog steeds in verwarring is.
Iedere dag opnieuw en werkelijk in alle delen van de wereld worden de vreemde geluiden gehoord en helemaal niemand die er écht een verklaring voor heeft.
Een interessante manier om naar dingen te kijken, is om te zien hoe dieren reageren op bepaalde gebeurtenissen. Doen zij of er niets aan de hand is dan kun je het meestal wel naast je neerleggen als iets dat niet zo belangrijk is, maar wanneer zij wel reageren dan weet je dat er echt iets speelt.
De afgelopen weken zijn er veel van de bizarre geluiden gehoord in Canada en iemand in Vancouver heeft op video vastgelegd hoe vogels reageren op het vreemde geluid in de lucht.
Ze worden heel onrustig, alsof er ergens iets in hun genen zit wat hen vertelt dat dit eerder is gebeurd en dat het toen geen goed nieuws was.
Iets dat ook opvalt, is dat er steeds meer mainstream berichtgeving is over vreemde dingen in ons zonnestelsel en ook zaken zoals UFO’s en buitenaards leven komen aan bod.
Neem een mainstream blad zoals de Engelse Sun. Jarenlang zette dit medium alles alles wat met UFO’s en/of buitenaardse zaken te maken had in een soort lacherige context. Iets dat de meeste mainstream publicaties deden.
Nu opeens komen ze met een bloedserieus verhaal over twee Londense politieagenten die ’s morgens vroeg onafhankelijk van elkaar een onbekend object boven de stad waarnemen.
Hetzelfde geldt een beetje voor de Engelse Express. Ook daar nu een bloedserieus verhaal over een klokkenluider van de Amerikaanse marine die bevestigt dat zowel UFO’s als buitenaards leven bestaan.
De 49-jarige die als marineman duizenden officiële documenten onder ogen heeft gehad, bevestigd in een exclusief interview met de Express dat er in die documenten foto’s voorkomen niet alleen van UFO’s maar ook van de buitenaardse inzittenden.
Dan NASA die enkele dagen achter elkaar “vergeet” dat de camera’s op het ISS ruimtestation zodanig staan opgesteld dat het mini-zonnestelsel Nibiru heel duidelijk zichtbaar is.
Kortom, het lijkt er nu toch echt op dat het publiek wordt voorbereid op de dingen die gaan komen.
Dat zal ook wel moeten want in dit tempo zal het niet al te lang duren voordat al die planeten, steeds frequenter, ook met het blote oog zichtbaar zijn.
UFO Near Trees In Romania On Google Earth, HD, Feb 29, 2016, UFO Sighting Daily News.
UFO Near Trees In Romania On Google Earth, HD, Feb 29, 2016, UFO Sighting Daily News
Date of discovery: unknown Location of discovery: Romania Google coordinates: 45°42'12.11"N 21°18'8.88"E This UFO has been seen many times over the years, but no one has made a video with the views over it from 2003 to 2016, including a 3D view of it which is proof its not a water tower, it is sitting flat on the ground. There are no doorways and there are no roads or paved walkways. It is hiding under the trees, with a line of trees blocking it from all sides. This looks very suspicious to me. Even though the house and are looks old and desolate, the buildings near the UFO were not even there in 2003, but look old, probably made to look old on purpose to keep people away. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
I was reading in bed and I had just finished so I turned the light out. I had been in the dark for no more than a minute when I saw a green light illuminating my room and the room outside my door. I sat up and looked out the window and witnessed a green orb decending from above the housd to the second floor window adjacent to me. I could hear what sounded like large gears rotating even though the window and wall. The orb then entered through the window affecting nothing physically. The sound of rotating gears was quite loud at this point and I had been watching it move from behind what served as a temporary door.
The orb moved half way into the room before I got up to approach it and had been no more than 10 feet from where I was standing. I slowly and quietly began to approach the door because I had wanted to see it up close and personal, touch it if possible. Yet when I got to the door and tried to go out the orb moved at incredible speed back through the window as if it were not even there and accended rapidly into the sky and out of sight. This event was not ball lightning yet I do not particularly expect anyone to believe me. This orb however expressed awareness and inteligence and when it knew I had been aware of it. It flew away. This is not my first experience and I am sure it will not be my last.
NOTE: The above image is CGI.
This MUFON case is under investigation by State Director Ken Pfeifer of MUFON Vermont.
The Pacific Daily News archives holds several articles about unidentified flying objects – and some identified flying objects – reportedly seen in Guam's skies. PDN files
On New Year’s Day, 1957, a white light appeared from the west and flew beneath 1st Lt. Ted Brunson’s aircraft while he was flying over open ocean near Guam.
Brunson, a member of the 41st Fighter-Inteceptor Squadron at Andersen Air Force Base, gave chase.
“He pursued the light; he went after it,” said Ty Brunson, the pilot’s son, in a recent interview.
During the pursuit, Ty Brunson said, his father inverted the aircraft to ensure the light was real and not just a reflection off the plane’s canopy.
“That was a negative; it was definitely an object out there,” said the younger Brunson.
Despite his efforts, Ted Brunson couldn’t catch the mysterious object. He put his plane, an F-86D Sabre, into afterburner, giving the plane some extra thrust. Even then, it wasn’t enough.
“As he thought he was closing in on it, he said the light began to run circles around him,” Ty Brunson said.
Ted Brunson continued to maneuver his plane in an effort to catch the mystery craft, to no avail.
That was surprising, his son said, given that the F-86D Sabre “was about the fastest thing in the sky that the Air Force or anybody had at the time.”
“So whatever this was, he said, was extremely fast. Way beyond our technology,” said his son.
Ty Brunson said his father told him there weren’t any other aircraft that he knew of in the sky at the time, certainly not anything that could perform with the speed and agility of the light.
“He said it would do circles around him and then go over and above and below and circle him the opposite way, just kind of toying with him,” said Ty Brunson.
Eventually, the pilot started running low on fuel and a call made to base for backup was denied. Ted Brunson broke off and returned to the base.
There’s little reason to doubt the pilot made up the story. The Air Force called Ted Brunson “very reliable” in a report submitted to Project Blue Book, which collected 12,618 reports of UFO sightings from 1947 to 1969.
For each sighting, the Air Force created a file and each file ended with a specific conclusion about what the witness likely saw, be it a meteor, aircraft or, in some cases, birds.
Only 701 cases — just over 5 percent — were classified as “unidentified,” according to a report by the Air Force Times.
Ted Brunson’s was one of them.
“I think it was pretty cool,” said Ty Brunson. “My father was an extremely honest person. I mean very, very, very honest.”
Not unheard of
Though strange, reports of UFO sightings in Guam aren’t entirely unheard of.
At The Black Vault website, UFO enthusiast John Greenewald has posted a treasure trove of files related to unidentified flying object reports, collected through decades of Freedom of Information Act requests filed with federal authorities, the Air Force Times reported.
Among the site’s 1,600 pages received from the FBI are two pages referring to a 1947 sighting in Guam.
The report, “Reports of flying discs” was sent to the FBI director from the special agent in charge at the agency’s office in San Francisco.
“Enclosed for your information are copies of two letters from Lt. Col. (redacted) … with attachments reporting the sighting of ‘flying discs’ on Guam,” the report said.
The attachment reports “unidentified flying objects,” seen by three enlisted men of the 147th Airways and Air Communications Service Squadron at Harmon Field.
“The men report that at (10:40 a.m.) on Aug. 14, 1947, the two objects, which they describe as small, crescent shaped and traveling at a speed twice that of a fighter plane, passed over them on a zig-zag course in a westerly direction and approximate altitude of 1,200 feet,” the report states.
The report went on to state that the objects disappeared into some clouds and, a few seconds later, re-emerged before proceeding west.
Making headlines
Reports of UFO sightings aren’t limited to cryptic government documents either. From at least 1979 to 1990, sightings made newspaper headlines in Guam.
“Police hunt UFO,” read one Pacific Daily News headline from 1980.
In that case, the newspaper reported officers being assigned to observe a UFO seen over Mt. Santa Rosa in Yigo for several days. Two days later, the end of the quest for answers was reported with what some might consider a less-than-satisfactory headline: “UFO a star.”
Ten years later, a “mysterious blue light” was “reported by dozens,” another article stated.
Two days later, an Air Force spokesman said the light was a missile from California. The next day, though, a second spokesman from the same base said such a missile would only appear as a “tiny speck,” not a streak across the sky.
One year after that, in 1991, a “sky light” appeared above the eastern horizon one night before it “just, like, blew up,” according to one witness.
A NASA official in Hawaii theorized the light was a large meteor breaking up as it entered the atmosphere.
Cigar-shaped light
Finally, there was the case of Sgt. Andrew Anderson, a police officer on patrol in Dededo on Feb 15, 1988.
While driving alone near the War Dog Cemetery entrance on Route 1, something caught his eye in the distance, hovering over the vicinity of the Guam International Airport. It was a light, bluish-white in color, roughly five to six miles away and about 500 feet in the air.
“And I saw that light,” he said in a recent interview. “A cigar-shaped, blue light.”
Anderson said he was used to seeing planes taking off and landing, but this was different. This light, he said, simply hovered there, stationary. It was strange enough for Anderson to call the radio dispatcher and ask whether any “unusual activity” had been reported above the airport.
The airport, he said, told him there was nothing according to their radar.
Meanwhile, the light was drifting side to side.
“It sort of moved a little left, a little right. And that already goes against the natural course of an airplane,” Anderson said. “It just hovered. And I don’t know what it was, I can’t say what it was.”
Anderson kept his eyes on the light as it continued hovering for 20 to 30 seconds.
“And then just ‘poof!’” he said. “Did I just see that that thing just take off?”
“It just went out,” he added, his hand darting upward, “shot up.”
Career at risk
When Anderson returned to the precinct, the duty lieutenant had heard about the sighting and asked the sergeant if what he reported was true.
“I said ‘Of course!’” Anderson said. “I’m not gonna make things up. We report exactly what we see and we don’t lie about anything.”
Making up a police report, he said, would mean termination and possible prosecution.
“It’s not a joke,” he said.
That’s similar to how Ted Brunson felt, according to his son, who said even mentioning UFOs can put a pilot’s career at risk.
“In a sense, you were kind of risking your career making mention of something like that,” he said.
Anderson added that he was wide awake at the time he had his encounter.
“In fact, it made me even wider awake,” he said, laughing. “And I wish somebody was with me. They would’ve seen the same thing and they would’ve reported the same thing.”
As to why he made a police report out of it, Anderson said it was his job.
“It was something that was very unusual,” he said. “It would be just like unusual if a store was closed and you see a light pass through the window. You don’t ignore it. That’s what I do as an investigator. You document things you see and note it.”
No speculation
For that same reason, he said, he didn’t speculate or make any opinions about what the light might have been.
“That’s not what I do,” he said. “I leave it up to the professionals to do their investigation. I can’t speculate on what it was.”
That’s a trait he shares with Ted Brunson, who, his son said, took a very matter-of-fact approach to recounting his experience.
“I would ask him all the time, just kinda jokingly ‘Was it a flying saucer? Were there like Martians in it or something like that?’ Just kinda teasing around with him about it and he would get pretty serious,” Ty Brunson said.
“When I asked him what it was he would just say ‘It was a UFO. It was a UFO,’ that’s all he would say. He never said that it was a flying saucer or that there was any kind of life-form on the inside,” Ty Brunson said. “He just stated that it seemed to be intelligent and it was a UFO.”
Ty Brunson also said he doesn’t speculate about what the light was.
“As far as I know, it was just a flashing light,” he said. “I believe it was what he said it was: a flashing light.”
Lingering mysteries
The strange lights reported in Guam over the years might forever remain a mystery.
Andersen Air Force Base, when contacted, said they “don’t have a subject matter expert” about UFOs in Guam. They did, however, provide an extract from the 3d (CQ not 3rd) Air Division History — 36th Wing Archives.
The excerpt refers to a notice received in Nov. 18, 1959, of an unidentified flying object sighted by “numerous personnel at Andersen Air Force Base, and other sections of Guam,” according to the report.
It came from the northwest traveling southeast about 35,000 feet in the air before disappearing from view. Witnesses described the object as “circular or spherical and tapered off at the trailing edge.”
It made no sound, but appeared blue-green in color, changing to orange-yellow. The report ends the same as many others seem to end.
“The true nature of the object was not determined.”
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3 Lessons 'The Epic of Gilgamesh' Can Teach Us About Life
3 Lessons 'The Epic of Gilgamesh' Can Teach Us About Life
According to Wikipedia, the Epic of Gilgamesh is described as:
The Epic of Gilgamesh, an epic poem from Mesopotamia, is considered the world’s first truly great work of literature. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about ‘Bilgamesh’ (Sumerian for ‘Gilgamesh’), king of Uruk. These independent stories were used as source material for a combined epic. The first surviving version of this combined epic, known as the “Old Babylonian” version, dates to the 18th century BC and is titled after its incipit, Shūtur eli sharrī (“Surpassing All Other Kings”). Only a few tablets of it have survived. The later “Standard” version dates from the 13th to the 10th centuries BC and bears the incipitSha naqba īmuru (“He who Saw the Deep”, in modern terms: “He who Sees the Unknown”). Approximately two thirds of this longer, twelve-tablet version have been recovered. Some of the best copies were discovered in the library ruins of the 7th-century BC Assyrian king Ashurbanipal.
The first half of the story discusses Gilgamesh, king of Uruk, and Enkidu, a wild man created by the gods to stop him oppressing the people of Uruk. After an initial fight, Gilgamesh and Enkidu become close friends. Together, they journey to the Cedar Mountain and defeat Humbaba, its monstrous guardian. Later they kill the Bull of Heaven, which the goddess Ishtar sends to punish Gilgamesh for spurning her advances. As a punishment for these actions, the gods sentence Enkidu to death.
In the second half of the epic, Gilgamesh’s distress at Enkidu’s death causes him to undertake a long and perilous journey to discover the secret of eternal life. He eventually learns that “Life, which you look for, you will never find. For when the gods created man, they let death be his share, and life withheld in their own hands”.[1][2] However, because of his great building projects, his account of Siduri‘s advice, and what the immortal man Utnapishtim told him about the Great Flood, Gilgamesh’s fame survived his death. His story has been translated into many languages, and in recent years has featured in works of popular fiction.
Some of you may be familiar with the text because it was required reading in high school (and certain colleges), and while at the time of study it may have had a different significance, if approached with an alchemical understanding, we can learn a lot about life, death, reincarnation and the destiny of man’s evolution. The three specific passages below, in particular, are worth revisiting with a new understanding.
1. “Oh, father Utnapishtim, you who have entered the assembly of the gods, I wish to question you concerning the living and the dead, how shall I find the life for which I am searching?” Utnapishtim said, “there is no permanence. Do we build a house to stand forever, do we seal a contract to hold for all time? Do brothers divide an inheritance to keep forever, does the flood-time of rivers endure? It is only the nymph of the dragon-fly who sheds her larva and sees the sun in his glory. From the days of old there is no permanence. The sleeping and the dead, how alike they are, they are like a painted death. What is there between the master and the servant when both have fulfilled their doom? When the Annunaki, the judges, come together, and Mammetun, the mother of destinies, together they decree the fates of men. Life and death they allot but the day of death they do not disclose.”
2. Facing the reality of his own death, he begins a desperate search for immortality. He travels to the end of the Earth, where he encounters Siduri, a female tavern keeper, who advises him: “Gilgamesh, where are you hurrying to? You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh, fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace; for this too is the lot of man.”
3. “Utnapishtim, son of Ubartutu, abandon your house, abandon what you possess. Abandon your house and build a boat instead. Seek life instead of riches, save yourself. Take with you, on the boat you build, an instance of each thing living so that they may be safe from obliteration in the flood. Perform the construction of the boat with care. Let the length of the boat and the width of the boat be equal. Roof over the boat as the abyss is roofed.”
The past shaped our present, but also shapes our future. Grasping the knowledge of the ancients is key in our guided ascension.
To learn even more, look to the work of Joseph Campbell to unlock an even higher level of gnosis.
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab have developed software that uses variations in Wi-Fi signals to recognize human silhouettes through walls. The researchers built a device, called RF-Capture, that transmits wireless signals and then analyzes the reflections of those signals to piece together a human form, according to a study published this morning.
IT CAN DETERMINE BREATHING PATTERNS AND HEART RATE
The technology is an extension of something the MIT team has been working on for a few years. In 2013, they used similar radio frequency technology to detect motion on the other side of a wall or obstruction, Gizmodo reports. Now, the RF-Capture is sophisticated enough to determine subtle differences in body shapes, and, with 90 percent accuracy, distinguish between 15 different people through a wall. It can even determine a person's breathing patterns and heart rate.
Here's how it works: The RF-Capture is placed in a room, and a person walks in a neighboring room on the other side of the wall. The device emits wireless signals, which travel through the wall, and reflect off different parts of the human body as it moves. As various part of the body are reflected in the wireless signal, the RF-Capture takes snapshots. Then, using an algorithm to identify body parts, it stitches the images together to create a silhouette of the moving figure. In some experiments, when the researchers focused the device on specific movement patterns they were able to trace a person's handwriting as he wrote in the air, Gizmodo reports.
While there's no real-world application for the RF-Capture yet, the MIT researchers say there are many possibilities. According to Gizmodo, the RF-Capture could be used to track the movements of an elderly person living alone, and be able to determine if they had fallen down. The technology could also potentially be used in smart homes, if certain gestures detected by the device were used to control appliances. The researchers expect the technology to get more accurate over time.
If this seems like an excellent way to spy on someone, you're not wrong. But the researchers told Gizmodo that in addition to necessary regulation that would need to be implemented, they're currently designing blockers that would only allow a person to be tracked by her own device.
from Mike Martin, Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs:
WASHINGTON (AFNS) — Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James revealed the first rendering of the Long Range Strike Bomber, designated the B-21, at the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium Feb. 26 in Orlando, Fla., and announced the Air Force will be taking suggestions from Airmen to help decide the name of the bomber.
“This aircraft represents the future for our Airmen, and (their) voice is important to this process,” James said. “The Airman who submits the selected name will help me announce it at the (Air Force Association) conference this fall.”
While there are no existing prototypes of the aircraft, the artist rendering is based on the initial design concept. The designation B-21 recognizes the LRS-B as the first bomber of the 21st century.
The reveal comes just weeks after both James and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III delivered the fiscal year 2017 posture statement before the Senate Appropriations Committee, making it clear modernization is a top priority for the Air Force.
“The platforms and systems that made us great over the last 50 years will not make us great over the next 50,” Welsh said during his testimony on Capitol Hill Feb. 10. “There are many other systems we need to either upgrade or recapitalize to ensure viability against current and emerging threats… the only way to do that is to divest old capability to build the new.”
James said the B-21 will allow the Air Force to operate in tomorrow’s high end threat environment, and give the Air Force the flexibility and the capability to launch from the continental United States and deliver airstrikes on any location in the world.
James also explained why the B-21 shares some resemblance to the B-2.
“The B-21 has been designed from the beginning based on a set of requirements that allows the use of existing and mature technology,” James said.
The program recently entered into the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase and the Air Force plans to field the initial capability of the aircraft in mid-2020s.
Airmen — Active, Guard, Reserve and civilian — should stay tuned to AF.mil and Air Force social media accounts for more information on how to submit their ideas.
Update: B-21 (Northrop Grumman) literally a “B-3:
The following is from Jamie Hunter “America’s New Bomber” – – Combat Aircraft Monthly – – January 2016:
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In recent months, photos of something in the air over Texas and Kansas have been put forward, giving every appearance of depicting heretofore unknown unconventional aircraft, perhaps two distinct types, flying in broad daylight. Said aircraft appear to be of flying wing configuration, but possibly not B-2s, the only other large flying wing known to be in existence. The Kansas aircraft in particular appears to resemble somewhat the long-cancelled A-12 Avenger II, with a straight trailing edge. While the photos could be of B-2s at such an angle that their distinctive batwing silhouette is distorted (indeed, that is apparently now the official USAF explanation) the sightings come at a time when many believe the US has at least one or more large secret aircraft either close to flying, or already under test.
A quick sketch showing a strictly hypothetical configuration for an possible “black” aircraft seen recently
So, What are the Candidates?
RQ-180: as yet unacknowledged by officialdom, yet widely believed to exist, the RQ-180 is the designation thought to be associated with a large, low-observable UAV, probably built by Northrop Grumman. The logic behind such a program seems straightforward – the RQ-4 Global Hawk has provided high altitude surveillance capability since the start of the century, but as planning shifts away from fighting counter-insurgency wars such as Iraq and Afghanistan, the Global Hawk has begun to look unsurvivable when faced with first-world air defense threats. The USAF has tried over recent years to get out of the RQ-4 business, which might indicate that a more capable system is nearing readiness. The Lockheed Martin RQ-170 was probably a stopgap measure, built in limited numbers to penetrate the airspace of countries such as Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea, where advanced but perhaps not state of the art high altitude air defenses could be expected.
If its does exist, the RQ-180 may be optionally manned in some variants, and will probably have the capability to conduct offensive electronic warfare missions, as well as a “hard kill” ability using precision ordnance.
If the RQ-180 is a Northrop Grumman product, it stands to reason that the company would have used its experience with the X-47 series, and thus, such a vehicle might have a similar “Cranked Kite” planform, something that the Kansas aircraft did notappear to have. But again, clearer photos are needed.
LRS-B/B-3: For around a decade now, the USAF has had a seemingly on-again/off-again preliminary effort to develop a new penetrating bomber, variously known as the Next Generation Bomber, “The 2018 Bomber”, “B-3”, “2038 Bomber”, and currently, “Long Range Strike-B”. Such a capability is forecast to be needed by the 2020s-2030s, when the limited number of B-2s while be nearing their 40th birthdays and possibly becoming vulnerable to Chinese defenses; by that time the B-52H and B-1B fleets will be even older and more vulnerable.
If a LRS-B demonstrator aircraft or prototype would exist [note: it has been stated that in fact no LRS-B demonstrators were built. Take that for what it’s worth], it would probably resemble at least conceptually a B-2 follow-on – a stealthy flying wing, using existing engines and systems to cut down on development costs – another B-2 program where the resulting aircraft were too expensive for anything but a token force would definitely be out.
Update: B-21
The LRS-B program, following a 2014 RFP, was awarded to the team led by Northrop Grumman in the fall of 2015. From the artist’s depiction released in February 2016, the aircraft strongly resembles the B-2, as predicted. The B-21 is from the start intended to be a more “networked” aircraft, able to interface more seamlessly with other platforms. Dimensions, although unreleased, are likely to be smaller than those of the Spirit, but even an aircraft with half the B-2’s payload would be a formidable strike asset.
Provisional overhead drawing of the winning Northrop Grumman LRS-B contender, confirmed by the USAF to be designated as the B-21.
Whatever the mystery aircraft were, assuming they were not mis-identified B-2s, it can be asked: “Why now? Why fly such secret aircraft in unsecured airspace, where anyone with a reasonably good camera might be able to get a good look at them?”
Well, “black” aircraft do tend to go off-range at a certain point in their development, even before they’re disclosed. Base commanders back in the U-2 days were briefed about what to do if a “Dragon Lady” with trouble showed up unexpectedly, and F-117pilots reportedly carried letters from the TAC commander to facilitate hiding their “Black Jets” if they had to land somewhere else than TTR or Groom Lake. Whatever’s flying around out west, it may be far enough along that it has to “go on the road”. And it may well be politically advantageous to disclose such an aircraft’s existence, or at least hint at it.
But basically all we know right now is that there might well be something out there. There’s a big new hangar at Groom Lake that was built for something. So keep looking up!
'Last Man on the Moon' Documentary Brings Space Exploration Home
'Last Man on the Moon' Documentary Brings Space Exploration Home
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
Astronaut Gene Cernan, Apollo 17 commander, salutes the deployed United States flag on the lunar surface. Cernan is the subject of the documentary, "Last Man on the Moon."
Credit: NASA
On Dec. 14, 1972, Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan became the last person (to date) to set foot on the lunar surface. The story of Cernan's NASA career, and the way it has shaped the rest of his life, is the subject of "Last Man on the Moon," a documentary directed by Mark Craig that opens in select theatres today (Feb. 26).
The story of NASA's Apollo program has been told many, many times in various movies and an almost uncountable number of books. The focus of these narratives tends to fall somewhere between delivering historic information about the program, and attempting to emotionally connect an audience to the people involved.
"Last Man on the Moon" steps away from that typical binary, and instead focuses on bringing the story of the Apollo program into the present day. For many people not old enough to personally remember Apollo and the moon landings, the events that transpired therein, however inspiring, are so distant that they often feel like fiction. It can be difficult to forge an emotional connection to the people who appear in the grainy NASA footage shot in the 1960s and 70s. "Last Man on the Moon" uses Cernan, now in his 80s, as a conduit between then and now. It focuses as much on his late-life reflections as it does on the events themselves. And by digging deep into this man's personal experiences and motivations, it succeeds at telling a very universal — and more importantly, very modern — story.
Eugene Cernan, the last Apollo astronaut to walk on the moon, is the focus of the documentary "Last Man on the Moon."
Credit: NASA
The opening scenes of "Last Man on the Moon" feature shots of Cernan, in the present day, wandering around a crowded rodeo in Texas, perusing cattle and watching the bull riders hang on for dear life. This is interspersed with historical footage of the Apollo 17 lunar module, in which Cernan was a passenger, touching down on the completely bare lunar surface. Thanks to some cinematic music and suspenseful pacing, the scene is exhilarating. This sequence emphasizes the wonder of the moon landing by reminding the audience that there were real people in that lander — including a man who now walks around on Earth, just like the rest of us.
There are many other sequences in the film that play out in this same fashion. We see Cernan vsit the neighborhood subdivision where he and his wife lived, along with most of the other Apollo astronauts and their families. We see him visit the graves of his friends who died in the Apollo 1 fire (the interview with Martha Horn Chaffee, whose husband Roger died in that fire, is absolutely gut wrenching). Sometimes other people see us better than we see ourselves, and some of the deepest insights in the movie come from Cernan's ex-wife, who at one point says, "If you think it's hard going to the moon, try staying behind." At a Q&A following a screening of the film in New York, Cernan said that until a few years ago, he hadn't comprehended how deeply his spaceflights affected her.
Another example of this type of then-and-now storytelling comes later in the film, following footage of multiple Apollo launches, including scenes from mission control at Johnson Space Center in Houston, and the launch facilities at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The audience once again sees Cernan in the present day, walking around the pad where the Apollo capsules were launched into space aboard Saturn V rockets. The facilities have been unused for years. The equipment is covered with rust, the ground is overrun by weeds, and Cernan's disappointment is deep. He says he wishes he hadn't come, that he doesn't want to remember it like this.
The story of Cernan's astronaut career would provide a perfectly interesting narrative by itself, one full of triumphs and tragedies. But the film doesn't lose its momentum once it passes through that time in Cernan's life (once again making a departure from many documentaries of this kind). The filmmakers place equal emphasis placed on what Cernan chose to do after that spaceflight heyday — how he came back to Earth. He makes late-life reflections about being a poor father and husband during his astronaut career (a sentiment echoed by some of the other former astronauts interviewed for the film). But the viewers also get to see how he tries to atone for those choices and be a better family man, while still leading a life that is intimately tied to his career as an astronaut.
The film is based on Cernan's book of the same name, and during the Q&A in New York, Cernan said he initially turned down the filmmakers' request to turn the story into a movie. He was persuaded when it became clear that the film was meant to tell the larger story of the Apollo program, particularly to young people who may not be familiar with it. For decades now, Cernan has worked as a public figure and advocate for space science and human space exploration. The film ends with him delivering an endorsement of NASA's Orion and SLS programs, and the agency's plan for a human mission to Mars.
Even if Cernan didn't want a movie made "about him," he is the reason this particular space documentary works so well. "Last Man on the Moon" works hard to link the young, fearless U.S. Air Force pilot who walked on the moon, to the old man who raises cattle in Texas; in doing so, it links the accomplishments and motivations of the Apollo program with current and future human spaceflight goals. The personal becomes universal, and one man's journey to the moon can be connected to the much larger story of humanity's desire to explore the cosmos.
Ayant eu à rédiger la synthèse de l’ouvrage Ovnis et conscience en décembre 2014, je me suis demandé récemment si, avec le recul, j’aurais aujourd’hui rédigé le même texte final. La réponse est oui. Avec ce recul, je me rends compte combien la contribution de Jean-Jacques Jaillat était essentielle. Son texte est court mais dense et il met très vite le doigt sur ce qui dans la problématique OVNI doit susciter le soupçon, à savoir son extrême proximité avec les arcanes de notre propre psyché :
« Non, le phénomène me paraît beaucoup plus proche de nous, humain, très humain… Mais devrais-je dire plutôt : trop humain ? Trop humain… pour être honnête… Trop humain pour l’être entièrement. Dirions-nous : participant à l’humain ? « Ils » nous connaissent trop bien pour nous être banalement extérieurs ».
Très vite, Jean-Jacques Jaillat fit le lien avec ce que nous connaissons du fonctionnement de l’inconscient, et par « fonctionnement » il faut d’abord entendre son mode d’expression spécifique : « Le phénomène ne manque pas non plus d’humour et de malice, comme, étrangement ( ?), notre inconscient, qu’il soit observé par Freud ou par Jung. Tout observateur attentionné du psychisme (y compris onirique) en est assuré. Jung ne nommait-il pas l’inconscient : « le filou »… ! »
L’inconscient, pour les psychanalystes, c’est effectivement « le filou », « le trompeur », le « sphinx aux énigmes », dirait Aimé Michel. Mais loin de se laisser emporter par un psycho-réductionnisme intenable, c’est avec une audace incroyable (qui avait suscité en moi admiration et enthousiasme), que Jean-Jacques avait opté pour l’idée d’un univers psychique symbiotiquement lié au nôtre, un monde conscientiel jumeau du nôtre et communiquant avec le monde humain par le canal de la conscience. Pour moi, aujourd’hui, cette vision des choses est juste à ceci près que cet univers-jumeau, ce « symbiote » est constitué par la partie non incarnée et transcendante de nous-mêmes. Cette solution avait été préparée par la contribution de Daniel Robin qui avait bien pris soin de distinguer les deux axes de la problématique : a) l’axe horizontal de notre monde conscientiel : notre univers phénoménal, son mécanisme apparent, ses lois, ses contraintes matérielles b) l’axe vertical des niveaux de conscience qui met en évidence le fait que l’axe horizontal (notre univers matériel) n’est qu’un certain plan de réalité défini par sa densité d’information, mais qu’il existe d’autres niveaux conscientiels.
C’est la contribution de Philippe Guillemant qui est alors décisive car elle nous décrit les étages du Réel dans une page qui restera pour moi la plus importante de toute l’histoire de l’ufologie, celle où partant de l’anima, il distingue le moi conscient puis le Soi supérieur, le tout chapeauté par l’Esprit. La contribution de Romuald Leterrier, en évoquant les expériences de transes chamaniques, nous a montré, quant à lui, que ces étages ne sont pas étanches et que les états modifiés de conscience permettent d’y accéder. Si l’on ajoute la contribution remarquable d’Eric Zurcher, qui pointe du doigt les problèmes épistémologiques posés par toute cette problématique, on comprendra maintenant avec le recul combien presque miraculeusement chaque contribution s’articule parfaitement aux autres. Avec ce recul, précisément, je dirais que seule manquait une contribution faisant le lien entre les visons rapportées par les experiencers de NDE et la phénoménologie OVNI, texte qu’un Jocelin Morrison aurait pu brillamment rédiger. Sans connaître la plupart d’entre nous, Fabrice Bonvin, qui est à l’origine du projet, avait donc constitué (à mon sens) un panel très équilibré et très complémentaire de chercheurs.
J’étais loin, au moment de rédiger la synthèse finale, d’avoir fait le lien entre le phénomène OVNI et notre propre transcendance, et pourtant je ne changerais pas un mot aujourd’hui à la conclusion de tout l’ouvrage :
« J’aurais mille fois préféré, en tant qu’amoureux sincère du travail de la science, que les OVNIS soient des vaisseaux interplanétaires provenant d’autres systèmes stellaires ou d’autres galaxies, que nos moyens de détections matériels aient pu finir par déceler et identifier. Mais ce n’est pas vers cette solution que nous pousse l’investigation portant sur ce phénomène. Sa nature est plus complexe et nous conduit à déduire l’existence d’une « noosphère » ou d’une Conscience globale aux multiples densités, connectée avec nous, dont nous ne représentons qu’un certain étage ».
Science and Philosophy in Ufology: Micah Hanks, UFO MODPOD, and Why the Hell is This Getting All Cerebral?
Science and Philosophy in Ufology: Micah Hanks, UFO MODPOD, and Why the Hell is This Getting All Cerebral?
In the latest episode of Rogueplanet's "UFO MODPOD" podcast, Micah Hanks was interviewed by hosts Jason McClellan, Maureen Elsberry and Ryan Sprague. As usual, it was a terrific and entertaining episode, and Hanks raised a few interesting questions regarding science and philosophy. Citing a quote that claims the "death of philosophy" made by the famous scientist, Stephen Hawking, Hanks ponders whether science can progress without philosophy.
While Hanks raised a few interesting questions, one question came to my mind the next day that was touched on but never truly addressed in the episode.
Which discipline benefits the study of UFOs more; science or philosophy?
It's an interesting question when we really examine the reality of studying the UFO phenomenon.
We begin and end where Ufology lives; with the investigation of a sighting or close encounter. Is there really anything more? We can argue over hypothetical flying saucer engines, alien biology and trans-dimensional travel all we want- science and philosophy, like any other academic discipline here, is impotent. These concepts, ideas and mechanics are all speculation better left to authors of science fiction than to the scientists and philosophers of today. What do we truly KNOW in regards to the study of UFOs? People see strange things in the sky that they cannot explain in a given moment; in other words, the investigation sightings and close encounters.
In a previous post, I claimed that photographic and/or video evidence is generally (and the stress here is on "generally" as exceptions may exist, see the post) moot in dealing with UFO sightings/close encounters. The reasoning for this claim is that since any photo or video can be reproduced, they can be debunked as being "man-made." Evidence for UFO sightings and/or close encounters must now dwell in other realms that are unable to be reproduced by debunkers. Since, let's be honest, trace evidence or other types of physical evidence remain scarce and are only present in a very few cases, the vast majority of sightings (probably 99%) come down to witness testimony. From a scientific perspective, witness testimony is not exactly objective. While credibility of a witness can be extremely high, scientific method requires more than "someone's word."
The "truth" of witness testimony really exists in two places. First, it exists in the mind of the witness. They claim they saw something, whether they believe it or not, what they saw lives within their own consciousness. Secondly, it exists within the mind of the person receiving the testimony. In the case of Ufology, it is typically an investigator "hearing the story". The investigator must then make a decision, to believe the witness or not. Science is useless here.
Can philosophy help? Yes, and no. Philosophy is able to provide a better understanding of the cultural, linguistic and sociological world our witness exists in. In other words, philosophy may be better able to establish the social biases and cultural zeitgeist the witness dwells in based upon the cultural reality they were born into and live. Will this establish "Truth?" That depends on who you ask.
Ask a scientist, they'd say "No." According to science, "truth" is not relative to a given time or place. "Truth" is true beyond cultural constructs, zeitgeist or other relativistic ideologies. Ask a philosopher, and you'll get two answers. One philosopher might agree with the scientist that "truth" extends beyond culture and society- that "truth" is true in "all possible worlds", that is, it is universal. Ask another philosopher and they'd say to the scientist and the previous philosopher, "prove it." How can one prove that "truth" is true outside of cultural or social context since every single thinking being exists within culture and society? How can we argue for an objective reality when all our realities are governed by our current relativistic zeitgeist? Can we escape the cultural consciousness we've existed in for our entire lives? How can one establish "universal truth" when our thoughts, identities and minds exist within a subjective reality (language being one, for example)?
Science, while lovely, is useless in establishing the validity of UFO sightings and close encounters as the vast majority rest upon the testimony of a witness. Philosophy, while able to potentially understand where "the witness is coming from," is also unable to "prove" that a witness's testimony is true.
What is the future of Ufology? I have no idea. What I do know, however, is that a degree in Chemistry, Physics, or Engineering is no more useful than a degree in Philosophy, Critical Theory or Cultural Studies when it comes to the study of UFOs.
Hanks and the UFO MODPOD team really opened a can of worms here. The real question doesn't balance upon whether science and philosophy can coexist; the actual question is whether Ufology can exist within the balance? If science and philosophy are useless in the current study of UFOs, then what the hell are we doing? Shit.
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Aliens Aren’t Coming! They Are Among Us And Most Of Them Are Either Dentists Or Lawyers…
Aliens Aren’t Coming! They Are Among Us And Most Of Them Are Either Dentists Or Lawyers…
The video shows that the Alens aren’t coming, they are already hear. They are among us and most of them are dentist, lawyer or other jobs.
There are some one hundred sixty (160) or more known types of Aliens visiting our world (Earth) at the present time, these are the most commonly seen types: Greys, type one – The Rigelians from the Rigel Star system and are approximately four feet tall, with a large head containing large slanted eyes, who worship technology and DON’T CARE ABOUT US. The type popularized in the “Communion” book by Strieber. They need vital secretions for their survival, which they are getting from us (earthlings).
Greys, type two – Come from the Zeta Reticulae 1 & 2 solar systems. Same general appearance as a type one, although they have a different finger arrangement and a slightly different face. These Greys are more sophisticated then the type ones. They possess a degree of common sense and are somewhat passive. They don’t require the secretions that the type ones due.
Greys, type three – Simple cloning form of types one and two above. Their lips are thinner (or no lips). They are subservient to the type one and two Greys above.
This clip posted on YouTube and was viewed more than 132.000 times. One user said: “I can tell u aliens arent still traveling to earth there already here.”
Other added: “Millions of people say they saw something, They can’t all be lying, its statistically impossible. Something is going on.”
But others don’t believe that. One user wrote: “I don’t believe in this but I’m sure we’re not alone”. And other added: “they are not here and they are not coming anytime soon….get over it.”
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Energy Orb Caught On Security Cam In Colorado, Feb 26, 2016, UFO Sightings Daily.
Energy Orb Caught On Security Cam In Colorado, Feb 26, 2016, UFO Sightings Daily
Date of sighting: February 26, 2016 Location of sighting: Longmont, Colorado, USA News source: MUFON #74805 This energy orb was caught on a infrared cam. Infrared catches spectrums of light that the human eye cannot see. Its often used by paranormal ghost hunters. This object isn't really long, but is just moving so fast that it appears stretched out. Its probably orb or oval shaped. Colorado is famous for its white glowing UFOs, some as big as a 727, and the eyewitnesses of these orbs number in the thousands just in the first 2 months of 2016. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Found this on one on my surveillance camera. I have no idea... winter, no birds, insects or bats. My house faces north and south... field behind me. The light went from west to east.
UFO In Daytime Over San Antonio, Texas On Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO In Daytime Over San Antonio, Texas On Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 2016 Location of sighting: San Antonio, Texas, USA Here is an interesting catch by SAUFOTX of Youtube. It does look like its moving and its a different color than the clouds around it. Another fake cloud hologram surrounding a UFO. Nice catch by Texas UFO researchers. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: U.F.O Saucer Craft was captured Camouflage its self using the clouds as cover over San Antonio,Texas... On this particular day a heavy storm had passed over head..I was observing the clouds when i notice a strange looking cloud like a fuzzy distortion around that area....I decided to take a photo of it using an LG cellphone...That's when i notice it appear to be a Saucer Shape U.F.O and was moving..So i began to record the sighting..When zooming in a glow and a shadow could be seen underneath it.I was able to capture it as was moving erratic.(used the top of the buildings as reference points).After some time it began to fade away and was gone...I was not sure what i had witness that morning..It was until later after analyzing video i realized...It was a Huge U.F.O using Camouflage Technology..In my opinion it is no Cloud/Aircraft/Drone/Weather Balloon..
CIA Files Reveal Hidden UFO Sightings That Could Be Bigger Than Roswell
CIA Files Reveal Hidden UFO Sightings That Could Be Bigger Than Roswell
CIA files, which appear to be a top secret from the 1950s, reportedly expose an explosive truth about alien UFOs visiting Earth.
The documents have details of encounters with flying saucers and aliens. Stunned witnesses describe unusual craft moving fast through the skies. Others mention meetings with shadowy figures or noises in space.
If proven true, the accounts are as incredible as, or even more amazing than the alleged alien crash at Roswell.
The 1952 file includes Oskar Linke’s sworn testimony. Linke was the mayor of Gleimershausen in Germany. He claimed to have spotted two entities in shiny metallic clothing, and one of the two had a glowing lamp on his body.
Next to the two was a massive object that resembled a huge frying pan, which the two climbed when Oskar’s daughter called out to him.
He said the object ascended in a horizontal position, turned toward a neighbouring town, and then vanished above the heights and forests.
He went to the place where the object had been when he saw it. He was surprised to discover a circular opening in the ground that seemed to be freshly dug.
The file indicates that many other residents in the same area later claimed they saw a comet-like object at the time.
Another file from the same year depicts two fiery disks lurking above a uranium mine, which was then the Belgian Congo.
The two mysterious things glided in elegant curves, the witness described. It then made a stop in mid-air and took off in a zig-zag manner.
Commander Pierre flew after the disks from an airfield in Elisabethville, now known as Lubumbashi. Pierre, who was known to be a dependable airman, estimated their speed to be around 900mph. He also provided a sketch of the two UFOs.
One more report from that year is from May, which involved a bizarre object that emitted flashes of light over Barcelona. Valentin Garcia, the journalist witness, said his office was flooded with many phone calls from people who claimed to see the same object.
Several different witnesses reported similar sightings above Casblanca in Morocco, Algiers in Tunisia, Meknes, and Taorirt.
To See Deep into Space, Start Deep Underground (Op-Ed)
To See Deep into Space, Start Deep Underground (Op-Ed)
By Constance Walter, Sanford Underground Research Facility
The Davis Cavern on the 4850 Level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility was once home to Ray Davis's Nobel Prize-winning solar neutrino experiment. The cavern has been enlarged, the walls coated in a spray-on concrete (shotcrete) and outfitted for the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment.
Constance Walter is the communications director for the Sanford Underground Research Facility. She explores the stars vicariously through the physics experiments running nearly a mile underground in the former Homestake Gold Mine. She contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
In 1969, Neil Armstrong fired my imagination when he took "a giant leap" onto the moon. I was 11 years old as I watched him take that first step, and like millions around the world, I was riveted to the screen. Today I wonder how I would have reacted if the news anchor had simply described this incredible moment. Would I have been so excited? So inspired? So eager to learn more? I don't think so. It was seeing the story unfold that made it magical, that pulled me into the story.
How we see the world impacts how we view it: That first glimpse of outer space sparked an interest in science. And although I didn't become a scientist, I found a career in science, working with researchers at Sanford Underground Research Facility in Lead, South Dakota, explaining the abstract and highly complex physics experiments in ways the rest of us can appreciate. It isn't always easy. Ever heard of neutrinoless double-beta decay? Probably not. If I told you this rare form of nuclear decay could go a long way in helping us understand some of the mysteries of the universe, would you get the picture? Maybe. The words are important, but an illustration or animation might give you a better idea.
Kathryn Jepsen, editor-in-chief of the physics magazine Symmetry, captured this need for the visual in this way: In trying to create images for her readers, she is never sure if her intent is what readers "see" in their mind's eye — so she works with illustrators, videographers and photographers to create the images she wants them to see. "Videos and animations show them exactly what we want to get across," Jepsen said.
And such visualizations can be profound. Take a look at this operatic animation from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Created using simulations run on the supercomputers at the National Center of Computational Sciences, it shows the expected operation of the ITER fusion reactor. The video clearly outlines the objectives of the experiment, but the animation allows greater understanding as to how the fusion reactor could be used to create energy.
Digging deep into science bedrock
The Sanford Lab has many stories to tell: complex research experiments, a Nobel Prize, and a 126-year history as a mine, to name a few. We write stories for a newsletter called Deep Thoughts, the Sanford Lab website and other publications. But we don't rely solely on words. Photographs and video play a big role in how we present the lab to the world.
Researchers at Sanford Lab go deep underground to try to answer some of the most challenging physics questions about the universe. What is the origin of matter? What is dark matter and how do we know it exists? What are the properties of neutrinos? Going deep underground may help them answer these fundamental questions about the universe. [Where Is All the Dark Energy and Dark Matter?]
Here's how: Hold out your hand. On the Earth's surface, thousands of cosmic rays pass through it every day. But nearly a mile underground, where these big physics experiments operate, it's more than a million times quieter. The rock acts as a natural shield, blocking most of the radiation that can interfere with sensitive physics experiments. It turns out Sanford Lab is particularly suited to large physics experiments for another reason — the hard rock of the former Homestake Gold Mine is perfect for excavating the large caverns needed for big experiments.
The Davis Cavern on the 4850 Level of the Sanford Underground Research Facility was once home to Ray Davis's Nobel Prize-winning solar neutrino experiment. The cavern has been enlarged, the walls coated in a spray-on concrete (shotcrete) and outfitted for the Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment.
From 1876 to 2001, miners pulled more than 40 million ounces of gold and 9 million ounces of silver from the mine. In the beginning they mined with pickaxes, hammers and shovels — often in the dark with only candles for light. As they dug deeper, they brought wagons and mules underground to haul ore. Some animals were born, raised and died without ever seeing the sunshine. By the early 1900s, Homestake was using locomotives, drills and lights. By the early 1980s, the mine reached 8,000 feet, becoming the deepest gold mine in North America, with tunnels and drifts pocketing 370 miles of underground. At its heyday, Homestake employed nearly 2,000 people, but as gold prices plummeted and operation costs soared, the company began decreasing operations and reducing staff.
Finally, in 2001, the Barrick Gold Corp., which owned the mine, closed the facility. Five years later, the company donated the property to South Dakota for use as an underground laboratory. That same year, philanthropist T. Denny Sanford donated $70 million to the project. Since then, the state has committed more than $45 million in funds to the project. Early on, South Dakota received a $10 million Community Development Block Grant to help rehabilitate the aging facility.
Part of the glamor of using Homestake to build a deep underground science laboratory was its history as a physics landmark. Starting in the mid-1960s, nuclear chemist Ray Davis operated his solar neutrino experiment 4,850 feet underground (designated the 4850 Level) of Homestake mine. Using a 100,000-gallon tank full of perchloroethylene (fluid used in dry cleaning), Davis looked for interactions between neutrinos and the chlorine atoms, believing they would change into argon atoms.
Far from the mining activity, Davis worked for nearly three decades to prove the theory developed with his collaborator John Bahcall, professor of astrophysics in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. The two proposed that the mysteries of the sun could be examined by measuring the number of neutrinos arriving on Earth from the sun. By the 1970s, Davis proved the theory worked; however, there was a slight problem: Davis found only one-third of the neutrinos predicted based on the standard solar and particle physics model. This led to the solar neutrino problem.
"The solar neutrino problem caused great consternation among physicists and astrophysicists," Davis said years later. "My opinion in the early years was that something was wrong with the standard solar model; many physicists thought there was something wrong with my experiment."
Scientists at underground laboratories around the world wanted an answer to this riddle. Eventually, the mystery was solved by researchers in two separate experiments: one at SNOLab in Canada, the other at the Super-Kamiokande Collaboration in. As it turns out, neutrinos are pretty tricky characters, changing "flavors" as they travel through space, oscillating between electron, muon and tau neutrinos. Davis's detector was only able to see the electron neutrino.
In 2002, Davis's groundbreaking research earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics — energizing physicists to lobby for a laboratory on the hallowed ground at the abandoned Homestake Mine. (This year, Takaaki Kajita of Super-Kamiokande and Arthur McDonald of SNOLab shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries of neutrino oscillation.)
A one-of-a-kind (incredibly deep) hole
Because of the site's rich physics history and unique structure, South Dakota and many scientists lobbied to have a billion-dollar deep underground laboratory at the mine, as deep as 7,400 feet — and in 2007 the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) selected it as the preferred site for a proposed Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL).
But in 2010, the National Science Board decided not to fund further design of DUSEL. Physicists, citizens and politicians immediately began seeking other funding sources, and in 2011, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), through the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, agreed to support ongoing science operations at Sanford Lab, while investigating how to use the underground research facility for other longer-term experiments.
Today, Sanford Lab hosts three large physics experiments nearly a mile underground on the 4850 Level.
The Large Underground Xenon (LUX) experiment, is looking for dark matter, which makes up most of the matter in the universe, but has yet to be detected. We can't see or touch dark matter, but we know it exists because of its gravitational effects on galaxies and clusters of galaxies. Scientists with LUX use a vessel filled with one-third of a ton of liquid xenon, hoping that when a weekly interacting massive particle, or WIMP, strikes a xenon atom, detectors will recognize the signature. In October 2013, after an initial run of 80 days, LUX was named the most sensitive dark-matter detector in the world. [Dark Matter, Dark Energy, Mystery Explained: A Reader's Guide (Infographic)]
LUX watertank just before it was filled with 70,000 gallons of deionized water.
The Majorana experimentbrings us back to that obscure-sounding neutrinoless double-beta decay. Neutrinos, among the most abundant particles in the universe, are often called "ghost" particles because they pass through matter like it isn't there. Scientists with the Majorana experiment hope to spot the rare neutrinoless double-beta decay phenomenon, which could reveal if neutrinos are their own antiparticles.
The inner copper shielding for the Majorana Demonstrator experiment is actually made of two layers of copper. The outermost layer is the purest copper that can be purchased commercially. The inner layer of copper is the purest in the world. It was "grown" by electroforming in a lab underground at Sanford Lab.
The answer to this question could help us understand why humans — and, indeed, the universe — exist. Majorana needs an environment so clean it was built almost entirely out of copper, electroformed deep underground, and it uses dozens of detectors made of enriched germanium crystals (76Ge) in its quest. The detectors are built in an ultraclean "glove box," which is purged periodically with nitrogen gas, to ensure not even a single speck of dust will touch the highly sensitive detectors. When completed, the strings of detectors are placed inside a copper vessel that goes into a layered shield for extra protection against the environment.
CASPAR (Compact Accelerator System for Performing Astrophysical Research) researchers are studying the nuclear processes in stars. Essentially, the goal is to create the same reactions that happen in stars a bit "older" than our sun. If researchers can do that, it could help complete the picture of how the elements in our universe are built. The experiment is undergoing calibration tests and will go online in early 2016.
But can you see the science?
Do you have a picture in your mind of each of these experiments? Is it the right picture? It's not easy. Writers want the public to clearly understand why the science is important. And so we look for images that will complement our stories.
Delicate work assembling the Majorana cryostat is done inside a glovebox. The cryostat contains strings of hockey puck shaped germainium detectors.
Matt Kapust is the creative services developer at Sanford Lab (the two of us make up the entire communications team). Since 2009, Kapust has been documenting the conversion of the mine into a world-leading research laboratory, using photography and video to record each stage of construction and outfitting.
"Video is one of the most important tools we have in our tool belt," Kapust said. "As content developers, we need to find creative ways to explain esoteric science concepts to mainstream audiences in ways that get them excited about science."
Film is important for other reasons, as well. "Massive science projects like the ones we have at Sanford Lab are not privately funded, they are not corporate run," Kapust said. "They are funded by the public and need public support. Film's mass appeal allows us to tell the stories in new ways and generate that widespread support."
Sanford Lab receives $15 million year for operations each year from the DOE. In addition to the $40 million given to support the lab in 2007, South Dakota recently gave the lab nearly $4 million for upgrades to one of the shafts. The individual experiments receive millions of dollars in funding from NSF and DOE, and a proposed future experiment, the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility and associated Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (LBNF/DUNE) is expected to cost $1 billion. All of this comes from taxpayers. And they want to know where their money is going — and why.
Our stories, if we do them right, create excitement and spur the public's collective imagination — I mean, we're talking about possibly discovering the origins of the universe! When you think about it in those terms, a picture — or video — could be worth a million words, or a billion dollars.
Nailing down neutrinos
Kapust points to that billion-dollar experiment as an example. LBNF/DUNE, currently in the planning stages, will be an internationally designed, coordinated and funded collaboration that will attempt to unlock the mysteries of the neutrino.
Billions of neutrinos pass through our bodies every second. Billions. They are formed in nuclear reactors, the sun (a huge nuclear reactor) and other stars, supernovae and cosmic rays as they strike the Earth's atmosphere.
In particular, researchers with LBNF/DUNE want to more fully understand neutrino oscillations, determine the mass of these ghostly particles, and solve the mystery of the matter/antimatter imbalance in the universe. To do this, they will follow the world's highest-intensity neutrino beam as it travels 800 miles through the Earth, from Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois, to four massive detectors on the 4850 Level of Sanford Lab. And should a star go supernova while the experiment is running, the researchers could learn a lot more.
Depiction of the Long Baseline Neutrino Facility/Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.
Credit: Fermilab
LBNF/DUNE will be one of the largest international megascience experiments to ever occur on U.S. soil. The sheer scale of the experiment is mind-boggling.
For example, the detectors are filled with 13 million gallons of liquid argon, an element used in the SNOLab experiment that discovered neutrino oscillation. And more than 800,000 tons of rock will be excavated to create three caverns — two for the detectors and one for utilities. Each cavern will be nearly the length of two football fields.
That will require a lot of blasting, and engineers at Sanford Lab want to document the test blasts for a couple of reasons: They want a graphic representation of what the blast will look like and they hope to catch any visual appearance of dust going down the drift. The huge experiment is being built near existing experiments and dust could have a negative impact. Capturing the event on video could help them determine better ways to blast the rock to route the dust away from other sensitive physics experiments. As the experiment moves forward, our team will document each stage. We can't bring visitors underground, but we can show them our progress.
Katie Yurkewicz, head of communications at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), said, "If words are our only tools, it can be extremely difficult (if not impossible) to get people to that 'Aha!' moment of understanding. Video and animations are invaluable in communicating those complex construction and physics topics."
In our field, it's important to seek the expertise and interest of other communicators and the media. "We often rely on documentary filmmakers, news organizations and public broadcasting to help us tell our stories," Kapust said, citing RAW Science, the BBC and South Dakota Public Broadcasting among those entities. "It's important for us to be able to work with these groups because we have limited resources. We need the assistance and networking opportunities they offer."
In May 2015, a team from PRI's Science Friday arrived at Sanford Lab to do a story about LUX and the search for dark matter. The team spent three days filming underground and on the surface. They interviewed scientists, students and administrators. The story was told on radio, of course, but the program also included a 17-minute video on Science Friday's website. The radio program used sound, tone and words to great effect. But the video takes viewers onto the cage and down the shaft, into a modern, well-lit laboratory, and on a locomotive ride through the dark caverns of the underground. (Science Friday submitted the video for competition in the RAW Science Film Festival, which takes place Dec. 4-5 in Los Angeles.)
Setting the scenes
Producing film at Sanford Lab isn't easy. Trips underground require careful planning, and even a trip action plan, part of a log that keeps track of everyone working underground. Should an emergency arise, the underground will be evacuated; the log ensures everyone gets to the surface safely. Because we are required to spend a lot of time underground, we undergo regular safety training that adds up to several hours a year.
For every trip, we don restrictive clothing — hardhats as a safety measure and coveralls to keep dust from our clothing — then take an 11-minute ride in a dark cage, or elevator, to laboratories nearly a mile down. We lug our heavy lighting, sound and camera equipment with us, and shoot video in tight spaces. If we forget something, we can't turn around and go back — the cage only runs at certain times of the day. Bringing our lunch is a definite must. Once underground, we enter the cart wash area, where we remove our coveralls, don clean hardhats, and clean all of the equipment with alcohol wipes — we don't want to bring any dirt into the lab. Finally, we put booties over our shoes, then enter the laboratory area. One big perk? There's an espresso machine and a panini press.
Recently, we did a story about the innermost portion of the six-layered shield around the Majorana Demonstrator project. The shield gives the experiment extra protection from the radiation that permeates through the surrounding rock, especially radon, which can create noise in the experiment. The inner shield is special — it was made with ultrapure electroformed copper grown on the 4850 Level of Sanford Lab. We interviewed physicist Vincent Guiseppe, the mastermind behind the shield, inside the deeply buried class-100 clean room where all the work is done. Despite our precautions, we couldn't go into the clean room without putting on a "bunny suit": Tyvek clothing that includes a hood, booties, two pairs of gloves and a face mask, and we had to maneuver carefully as the research continued around us. It was a challenge, but it was worth it to get the story and a stunning image of the shield.
Randy Hughes works in a cleanroom machine shop nearly one mile underground. He machines all the copper parts for the Majorana Demonstrator experiment.
While the lunar landing inspired my generation to look to the cosmos — and inspired me to want to fly to distant planets, see the Milky Way from a distant galaxy, and learn the secrets of the universe — none of us expected to be looking up from nearly a mile underground. But with the right mix of sights and stories, science is inspiring a new generation, while searching for answers to universal questions using tools that are only now reaching for the stars.
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Pluto's Mysterious 4 Mile Wide Circle Inside Of Crater
Pluto's Mysterious 4 Mile Wide Circle Inside Of Crater
Published on Feb 27, 2016
This one has fascinated me since I first saw Keith Laney's version of it on his website http://www.thehiddenmission.com during Richard C. Hoagland's radio show I was a guest member of the imaging panel on. Since then I have came across it again and wanted to share it with you all and get your take on it. We joked about it looking like a huge radio telescope similar to the new one being finished in China called the FAST telescope. I make these videos for you all and would LOVE to hear what you think this is? I tried to keep it short and sweet. The full NASA image has a lot of anomalies in it and if you let your eyes adjust to this whole image it will blow your mind. The focus is on the circular area inside the crater. What about you? What do you think it looks like or could be? WUITS Article w/ Enhanced Images: http://whatsupinthesky.com/index.php/...
Astrophotographer Giuseppe Petricca took this image about two minutes prior to the start of the full totality phase of the Supermoon total lunar eclipse on Sept. 27, 2015.
A turquoise light tints the blood moon in this stunning skywatcher shot from Pisa, Italy.
Astrophotographer Giuseppe Petricca took this image about two minutes prior to the start of the full totality phase of the supermoon total lunar eclipse on Sept. 27, 2015.
The total lunar eclipse of Sept. 27, 2015 occurred when the moon was at perigee (the point in its orbit when it is closest to the Earth), better known as a "supermoon." For Petricca, the event was one of striking colors. [See more amazing total lunar eclipse photos by skywatchers]
"There are obviously the reddish and brownish tones of colors, but near the lower border we can clearly see a bluish/turquoise tone," Petricca told Space.com in an email.
Normally, during an eclipse, sunlight that manages to reach the surface of the moon is scattered as it passes through Earth's atmosphere, resulting in the reddish colors seen on the lunar surface. The bluish tone comes from sunlight passing through the Earth's ozone layer.
The image is an integration of 100 (on 200) shots with my Reflex Camera Canon 700D combined with a Samyang Catadrioptic 500mm f/6.3 Lens.
To see more amazing night sky photos submitted by Space.com readers, visit our astrophotography archive.
Editor's note: If you have an amazing skywatching photo you'd like to share with us and our news partners for a possible story or image gallery, send images and comments in to managing editor Tariq Malik at spacephotos@space.com.
Hillary Clinton with Laurance Rockefeller at the JY Ranch, Jackson Hole, Wyo., August 21, 1995. Clinton is carrying the book Are We Alone: Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life by Paul Davies.
(Photo: National Archives)
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton recently made unusual comments regarding the existence of extraterrestrials during an editorial board meeting with New Hampshire’s Conway Daily Sun. “Yes, I’m going to get to the bottom of it,” said Ms. Clinton when questioned on the subject by reporter Daymond Steer. “I think we may have been visited already. We don’t know for sure.”
Ms. Clinton also indicated that her campaign chairman John Podesta had great interest in the UFO phenomenon. “He has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out,” said Mr. Clinton. “One way or another. Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51.”
Mr. Podesta, who served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and advisor to President Barack Obama, has a spoken publicly about the issue in the past. “It’s time to open the books on questions that have remained in the dark, on the question of government investigations of UFOs. It’s time to find out what the truth really is that’s out there,” said Mr. Podesta during a news conference at the National Press Club in 2002. “We ought to do it, really, because it’s right, because the American people, quite frankly, can handle the truth, and we ought to do it because it’s the law.”
To get a sense of the history behind Ms. Clinton’s statements, the Observer spoke to D.C.-based extraterrestrial lobbyist and head of the Paradigm Research Group (PRG), Stephen Bassett, who we interviewed last September and who was recently profiled in The Washington Post.
What was your initial reaction to Hillary Clinton’s remarks to the Conway Daily Sun?
Throughout 2007, PRG worked to bring the Rockefeller Initiative and the extraterrestrial presence issue into the presidential campaign. This effort failed to draw out Senator Clinton, but may have helped to generate questions asked at the October 30 Democratic primary debate in Philadelphia of Congressman Kucinich, Senator Obama and Governor Richardson.
Eight years later, Secretary Clinton’s remarks in New Hampshire represent a breakthrough moment in American political history. Twenty-three years after her husband’s administration was engaged by Laurance Rockefeller to release all UFO documents in government files and grant amnesty to government witnesses, Secretary Clinton has finally spoken to the extraterrestrial presence issue.
Daymond Steer’s questions marked an important milestone, but it is only the beginning of the questions that need to be asked and will be asked of Secretary Clinton and all the presidential candidates.
Is there a chance these comments were meant as a joke?
The nature of the now-institutionalized truth embargo on the extraterrestrial presence issue is such, that however serious you might be, you must smile when you speak to the subject.
Anyone with an ounce of political sense would understand that no chairman of the leading candidate (John Podesta) and no former president and spouse of that candidate (President Clinton), during a campaign that will ultimately spend as much as $2 billion dollars of donated money, is going to publicly speak to the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomena issue—that is, unless they have to. If they smile and dance a bit in the process, that is to be expected.
Were you pleased with how the media picked up the story?
The media response to the Daily Sun story has been extensive. A review of various Google search listings indicates coverage by as many as 250 foreign language venues, 200 local U.S. radio/television stations and over 100 English language venues. It is notable, however, TheNew York Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times didn’t cover this story and the Drudge Report did not link to it. PRG found this to be both remarkable and disappointing.
What is your ideal scenario for the media’s approach to the truth embargo and disclosure?
Simple. More reporters, including some from top tier political media, ask Secretary Clinton direct questions about the Rockefeller Initiative and her involvement therein. She provides serious answers, hopefully without smile or smirk. This triggers more questions to President Clinton, John Podesta, Governor Bill Richardson, Secretary Leon Panetta, Mack McLarty and Webster Hubbell. These gentlemen give truthful and serious responses. This triggers another round of questions directed to the Pentagon, CIA and the U.S. Air Force, along with questions to the private principals of the Rockefeller Initiative.
What about responses from other presidential candidates?
There has been no response, which raises a most interesting question. Since 1993, the Republican Party and many conservative media venues have been well aware of the Clinton team’s connection to the UFO/ET issue. Despite intense partisan hatred for the Clintons, the Republican candidates and conservative media have never used that connection to gain political advantage.
If the extraterrestrial presence issue was completely without merit, it is inconceivable this would be the case. This would lead one to conclude the very truth of the matter prevents such partisan attacks.
Do you think Hillary Clinton’s history regarding the Rockefeller Initiative factored into her statement?
Of course it did. It is the primary reason she is commenting at all. The same goes for John Podesta and [former] President Clinton.
How does Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta tie into all this?
It is PRG’s view, John Podesta is the central figure in the unfolding events leading to a Disclosure event under a Democratic president. He is the only Rockefeller Initiative principal who has served President Clinton (advisor, chief of staff), President Obama (transition chairman, advisor) and Secretary Clinton (advisor, campaign chairman).
In 2002 and 2003 Mr. Podesta called for the release of UFO documents in government files. In 2010, he reiterated this theme in a foreword to the book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record by Leslie Kean. He was featured in the 2011 documentary Secret Access: UFOs on the Record. In 2015, Mr. Podesta also issued provocative Twitter messages well covered by national and international media.
Are there any other figures from the Clinton administration or Hillary Clinton’s campaign that were involved with the Rockefeller Initiative?
PRG possesses documents confirming President Clinton, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Webster Hubbell, the late Dr. John Gibbons and the late Congressman Steven Schiff were directly involved. PRG is also quite certain Chiefs of Staff Leon Panetta and Mack McLarty, Secretary Bill Richardson and Vice President Al Gore were aware of the Rockefeller Initiative. In addition, there were 16 private citizens involved, 12 of which are still living.
Why has it taken so long for this issue to be brought into an election?
The government-imposed truth embargo conceived between 1947 and 1953 that remains in effect to this day, although much weakened, has been very successful. The only president to have brought the issue up during his campaign was Jimmy Carter in 1976. I was the first balloted congressional candidate to speak to the issue in 2002. Dr. Joseph Buchman was the second balloted congressional candidate to do so in 2008.
There is good analogy for this. For 51 years, the U.S. government imposed an embargo on the nation of Cuba. Most Americans knew there was an island south of the Florida keys called Cuba; they just couldn’t go there. Now they can. All of which is to say President Obama has one more embargo to end before he leaves office.
Would you say Hillary Clinton is the best candidate to ensure the full disclosure of extraterrestrial activity on Earth?
Yes, due to the historical connection to the issue.
In a previous interview with the Observer, you said “Barack Obama will be the disclosure president.” Do you still believe that?
Yes. The American people should not have to wait one more day for the truth embargo to end. No one knows who will be the next president or what they will do when they enter the White House. Therefore, PRG seeks the embargoes end now, meaning Barack Obama will be the disclosure president.
What are you and your organization doing now to continue this fight for disclosure?
Not a fight—an advocacy process. One should not pick fights with nuclear powers. PRG will continue to inform the political media and the U.S Congress regarding the Rockefeller Initiative, the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure and the need for new, comprehensive congressional hearings. PRG will put particular emphasis on Secretary Clinton and the other presidential candidates. PRG is also seeking opportunities to address the subject on any and all network and cable news talk shows.
Robin Seemangal focuses on NASA and advocacy for space exploration. He was born and raised in Brooklyn, where he currently resides. Find him on Instagram for more space-related content: @not_gatsby
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Controversial 5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map Of Ancient Nineveh Reveals Observation Of Köfels’ Impact Event
Controversial 5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map Of Ancient Nineveh Reveals Observation Of Köfels’ Impact Event
MessageToEagle.com – Did ancient Sumerians observe and record the impact of the Aten asteroid over 5,000 years ago?
For over 150 years scientists have tried to solve the mystery of a controversial cuneiform clay tablet that indicates the so-called Köfel’s impact event was observed in ancient times.
The circular stone-cast tablet was recovered from the 650 BC underground library of King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, Iraq in the late 19th century.
Long thought to be an Assyrian tablet, computer analysis has matched it with the sky above Mesopotamia in 3300 BC and proves it to be of much more ancient Sumerian origin.
The tablet is an “Astrolabe,” the earliest known astronomical instrument. It consists of a segmented, disk-shaped star chart with marked units of angle measure inscribed upon the rim.
The Ashurbanipal library was the first of its kind in history. The king collected as many clay tablets, containing various sources of knowledge, in this library. It had thousands upon thousands of pieces, a lot of which are housed at the London and various other museums around the world.
Unfortunately considerable parts of the planisphere on this tablet are missing (approximately 40%), damage which dates to the sacking of Nineveh. The reverse of the tablet is not inscribed.
Still under study by modern scholars, the cuneiform tablet in the British Museum collection No K8538 (known as “the Planisphere”) provides extraordinary proof for the existence of sophisticated Sumerian astronomy.
The controversial cuneiform clay tablet has been translated for the first time.
Raising a storm in archaeological circles, they re-translated the cuneiform text and assert the tablet records an ancient asteroid strike, the Köfels’ Impact, which struck Austria sometime around 3100 BC.
The giant landslide centred at Köfels in Austria is 500m thick and five kilometres in diameter and has long been a mystery since geologists first looked at it in the 19th century.
The conclusion drawn by research in the middle 20th century was that it must be due to a very large meteor impact because of the evidence of crushing pressures and explosions.
But this view lost favor as a much better understanding of impact sites developed in the late 20th century.
In the case of Köfels there is no crater, so to modern eyes it does not look as an impact site should look. However, the evidence that puzzled the earlier researchers remains unexplained by the view that it is just another landslide.
So what is the connection between the sophisticated Sumerian star chart discovered in the underground library in Nineveh and mysterious impact that took place in Austria?
The Sumerian star map shows people observed and recorded Köfels’ impact more than 5,500 years ago.
Examination of the clay tablet reveals that it is an astronomical work as it has drawings of constellations on it and the text has known constellation names. It has attracted a lot of attention but in over a hundred years nobody has come up with a convincing explanation as to what it is.
With modern computer programs that can simulate trajectories and reconstruct the night sky thousands of years ago the researchers have established what the Planisphere tablet refers to. It is a copy of the night notebook of a Sumerian astronomer as he records the events in the sky before dawn on the 29 June 3123 BC (Julian calendar).
Half the tablet records planet positions and cloud cover, the same as any other night, but the other half of the tablet records an object large enough for its shape to be noted even though it is still in space.
The astronomers made an accurate note of its trajectory relative to the stars, which to an error better than one degree is consistent with an impact at Köfels.
The observation suggests the asteroid is over a kilometer in diameter and the original orbit about the Sun was an Aten type, a class of asteroid that orbit close to the earth, that is resonant with the Earth’s orbit.
This trajectory explains why there is no crater at Köfels. The in coming angle was very low (six degrees) and means the asteroid clipped a mountain called Gamskogel above the town of Längenfeld, 11 kilometers from Köfels, and this caused the asteroid to explode before it reached its final impact point. As it traveled down the valley it became a fireball, around five kilometers in diameter (the size of the landslide).
Around 700 BC an Assyrian scribe in the Royal Place at Nineveh made a copy of one of the most important documents in the royal collection.
Two and a half thousand years later it was found by Henry Layard in the remains of the palace library. It ended up in the British Museum’s cuneiform clay tablet collection as catalogue No. K8538 (also called “the Planisphere”), where it has puzzled scholars for over a hundred and fifty years. In this monograph Bond and Hempsell provide the first comprehensive translation of the tablet, showing it to be a contemporary Sumerian observation of an Aten asteroid over a kilometre in diameter that impacted Köfels in Austria in the early morning of 29th June 3123 BC. Read more
When it hit Köfels it created enormous pressures that pulverized the rock and caused the landslide but because it was no longer a solid object it did not create a classic impact crater.
Mark Hempsell, discussing the Köfels event, said: “Another conclusion can be made from the trajectory. The back plume from the explosion (the mushroom cloud) would be bent over the Mediterranean Sea re-entering the atmosphere over the Levant, Sinai, and Northern Egypt.
“The ground heating though very short would be enough to ignite any flammable material – including human hair and clothes. It is probable more people died under the plume than in the Alps due to the impact blast.”
In other words, the remarkable ancient star map shows that the Sumerians made an observation of an Aten asteroid over a kilometer in diameter that impacted Köfels in Austria in the early morning of 29th June 3123 BC.
Of all the fringe interest groups orbiting the landscape of American politics, there are perhaps none quite as maligned as those committed to uncovering the truth about extraterrestrial life. In recent elections, these UFO advocates have mostly laid low, ignored—if not openly mocked—by politicians seeking higher office. But as the 2016 race gets officially underway, alien hunters are starting to wonder if this election might be different.
The group got some high-profile encouragement last month from none other than Hillary Clinton. In an interview with a small New Hampshire newspaper, the Democratic presidential candidate promised that, if elected, she would share whatever information exists about the government's contact with extraterrestrials.
"I'm going to get to the bottom of it," Clinton told the Conway Daily Sun. "I think we may have been [visited already]. We don't know for sure."
The comment may have been tongue-in-cheek, but it was enough to excite the diehard skeptics who have been fighting, unsuccessfully for more than half a century, to get the government to disclose what it knows about aliens. For this group, the remark seemed to confirm long-held suspicions that Clinton is sympathetic to its cause—suspicions rooted in her 90s-era ties to UFO activists like Laurence Rockefeller, and in her relationship to campaign chairman John Podesta, a noted skeptic who has called for greater government transparency around the alien question, and whose influence Clinton cited in her interview.
"He has made me personally pledge we are going to get the information out one way or another," Clinton told the newspaper. "Maybe we could have, like, a task force to go to Area 51."
Regardless of whether Clinton meant for any of this to be taken seriously, the interviewsignaled to alien hunters that the 2016 presidential election could be a significant one for their movement—marking the first time since the other Clinton was in office that the topic of extraterrestrial contact might be broached by politicians on the national level.
A 1995 photo of then-First Lady Hillary Clinton embracing billionaire philanthropist Laurence Rockefeller, a well-known UFO activist. Photo via the William J. Clinton Presidential Library
Beyond the UFO skepticism and government conspiracy theories, the election is also being watched by another group of alien hunters—namely scientists involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, a global research field dedicated to scanning the cosmos for signs of alien life.
Since its inception, the scientific search for extraterrestrial intelligence has been plagued by politics. NASA's own SETI program, developed in the mid-1970s, was a frequent target of politicians who saw its mission—"to bag little green fellows," as one senator put it—as a joke and a waste of taxpayer dollars. It was permanently defunded in 1993. While NASA continues to fund research into the search for extraterrestrial life, the money now mainly goes to the field of astrobiology, with research focused on looking for microbes and other unintelligent life forms. Officially at least, the government is no longer interested in the search for thinking beings like us.
"SETI is very political, or has been in the past," said Seth Shostak, senior astronomer and director of the SETI Institute, a California-based nonprofit that conducts research on the "origin and nature of life in the universe." "Politics was extremely important when I joined the SETI Institute—it killed the NASA efforts."
Inthe absence of government funding, SETI research in the US has relied on private donations, which tend to be sporadic. While a $100 million infusion from Russian billionaire Yuri Milner last year has given the field a measure of legitimacy, and assured future research, the lack of federal recognition means that SETI continues to exist outside of mainstream scientific circles.
"When somebody is studying something that doesn't have any obvious practical implications, [Congress] tends to think it is a waste of money," Shostak told me. "That's exactly wrong. Basic research is the kind that pays off in the long term—far more than the applied research."
There is little indication that will change under the next president. Most of the leading 2016 presidential candidates from both parties have voiced general support for NASA, and they have called for directing more federal resources to space exploration (the notable exception is Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, who has voted in the past toslash NASA's budget). But Shostak is skeptical that any of this would translate into support for a revamped SETI program at the space agency.
"It isn't a matter of 'let's vote for this person because they're interested in SETI,'" he said. "You're not going to find anybody like that."
In the absence of direct support for SETI research, SETI researchers say they are looking for candidates who show broad knowledge and support of scientific endeavors. "Anyone you elect to high office should have some knowledge of science," Shostak said. "So many of [the 2016 candidates] don't seem to have much knowledge of science, and that's distressing because of much greater considerations than SETI."
Shostak and his colleagues have also noted that making contact with intelligent alien life will have immense political repercussions here on Earth. Given that many SETI proponents believe this is likely to happen in our lifetime, they are looking at the 2016 presidential contenders for indications of how they might handle a post-contact world.
"One would expect individual SETI proponents to be generally supportive of those parties and candidates who have voiced strong support for a solid science agenda," said Paul Shuch, executive director of the SETI League, a grassroots group that promotes private SETI research and education.
"Since SETI is a multinational cooperative endeavor," Shuch continued, "we—as individuals—would tend to oppose those factions and candidates in all countries who would be likely to exhibit nationalistic tendencies to restrict the free flow of information."
Paradigm Research's Hillary Clinton ET flag. Photo courtesy of Stephen Bassett
Of course, UFO activists who believe aliens have already made contact have more pressing concerns—namely, getting the government to end what disclosure advocate Stephen Bassett, Washington's only registered UFO lobbyist, calls the "truth embargo" on information about extraterrestrials.
"The extraterrestrial issue is perfectly analogous to the Cuban embargo," said Bassett, who works on behalf of the disclosure advocacy group Paradigm Research. "People knew there was an island down there, they knew there was a Cuba—they just couldn't go there. It's very much what happened with the extraterrestrial issue. Every year more and more people know that this phenomenon is not human, it's extraterrestrial, but they can't go there."
Like the Cuba embargo, Bassett said, the government's insistence on withholding information about extraterrestrial contact from the public seems increasingly anachronistic, and no longer justifiable as a national security concern. The issue, he explained, is trying to convince politicians that the problem even exists in the first place.
"This extraterrestrial advocacy movement has a problem that no other advocacy movement in history has had," Bassett said. "This movement is about something the government has claimed doesn't exist at all."
Bassett may have found an ally in Podesta. A consummate Washington insider who served as chief of staff to President Bill Clinton and as a special counselor to President Barack Obama, Podesta is a well-known X-Files fanatic who has publicly defended the public's right to know "what the truth is that's really out there," as he put it in a forward to the 2010 book UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record. Last year, as he was leaving the Obama administration, Podesta ignited the UFO blogosphere by tweeting that his "biggest failure in 2014" was "once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files."
Stephen Bassett, Washington's only registered UFO lobbyist. Photo courtesy of Bassett
Podesta hasn't shied away from this position in his new role heading Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. "Notwithstanding the fact that serious scientists, military leaders, business people, and average citizens are interested in the subject of intelligent life in the universe, political leaders tend to worry about whether they will be lampooned if they broach the subject," he told me in an email. "I, on the other hand, am interested in just making the universe great again."
While Bassett seems to have gotten behind Podesta—and by extension, Hillary— not all disclosure activists agree that Clinton would be an ally in the Oval Office, with some citing her less than stellar record on government transparency as a possible red flag. But Podesta seems confident that, on this issue at least, his candidate will follow through on revealing government secrets. "She promised me she would!" he wrote in his email.
"Look, I believe that the government, in the name of transparency and openness should declassify and release information in regards to unidentified aerial phenomena," Podesta continued. "Obviously, there have been decades of speculation about what, if anything, is contained in these files. I'm confident that the American people can handle the truth."
“They’re here, aren’t they?” said Fox Mulder, to his secret informant, known only to viewers as Deep Throat.
“Mr. Mulder,” began the old man, in a reprimanding tone, “They have been here for a long, long time.”
As many of you know, the X-Files revival starts soon (the new six episode mini-season, which begins on January 24, picks up, appropriately, 13 years after the X-Files went off the air).
For those of you who don’t know, the X-Files was one of the most popular US TV series in the 1990s, at its height averaging 20 million viewers per episode.
The main protagonist Fox Mulder, is an FBI agent whose sister was taken from their room when he was a kid, in what Mulder believed was an alien abduction. This fueled his lifelong obsession with the paranormal and uncovering the truth about UFOs, Extraterrestrials, and a global conspiracy.
I watched the show religiously with friends, staying in on Friday nights when it first came on, before it got really popular and moved to Sunday nights. Years later, when I became an executive producer on the documentary Thrive: What On Earth Will It Take, made by Foster Gamble and Kimberly Carter Gamble (which involved UFOs), I started to do a little research on this subject on my own.
So, just in time for the X-Files revival, here are 5 things you may not know about the UFO phenomenon that inspired the X-Files:
1. The X-Files wasn’t purely science fiction, according to Chris Carter.
Like many others fans, I took the X-Files to be “simply” an original work of science fiction from the show’s creator, Chris Carter. While the series is fiction, Carter himself will tell you that that many of the elements are based on real-life accounts.
When I started to investigate on my own, I started to meet people in the UFO community and started asking questions. The stories I heard sounded a lot like what I had seen in the X-files: bright unexplainable lights, triangular craft, missing time, even implants.
In fact, I was told by a mutual friend that Chris Carter discouraged his actors from attending science fiction conventions because the X-Files wasn’t purely science fiction. This is particularly true of the early episodes that involve UFO sightings: If you re-watch the very first X-files episode, Pilot, you’ll see that it says, “The following story is inspired by actual documentedaccounts” at the beginning of the episode.
I actually met Chris Carter last year, before they started filming the new season, at a UFO-related conference, and it was clear that he was continuing to research what people had to say on this subject — and it seems that some of the newer conspiracy theories will play a big role in the X-Files revival.
2.Myth: Only people who wear tinfoil hats and tabloid reporters take UFOs seriously.
One of the persistent myths about UFOs is that people who believe in them are a “fringe” group who “live off the grid” and wear “tinfoil hats”. After having been to a dozen UFO events and meeting hundreds of UFO witnesses, I haven’t seen a single tinfoil hat (OK I saw one but that was for the benefit of reporters who wanted to take a photo of “weird UFO people”).
In fact, I have met intelligent people from all walks of life — scientists, engineers, people who worked for NASA, to independently wealthy businessmen and women. The only commonality I could find was confidence in what they’ve seen and experienced, and a strong belief that the “truth is out there” and that it should be investigated more seriously.
There are many well-known people who have had UFO sightings, and many who support finding out the truth. In Los Angeles, Dan Akroyd is a well known proponent of UFO research. (See Dan Akroyd Unplugged on UFOs).
John Podesta, who served as an advisor to President Obama and Chief of Staff to Bill Clinton, has been very vocal about his interest in the subject and his desire to get the truth out, a process known to UFO enthusiasts as “Disclosure”. John Podesta tweeted in 2014 that his biggest regret in working for the Obama White House was that he was unable to secure disclosure of top secret UFO files.
Hillary Clinton, was recently asked about UFOs by a reporter in Conway, New Hampshire while campaigning there. Mrs. Clinton said she believed we might have been visited by aliens in the past, and that if elected president, she would get to the bottom of it.
And UFOs are not just for tabloids. Leslie Kean, a serious investigative reporter, received a copy of a report from retired French generals that said that they believed the UFO phenomena was real and should be investigated seriously (called the “COMETA” report). Kean’s book, UFOs: General, Pilots ,and Government Officials Go On the Record, is a great book for those who know nothing about the phenomenon or are inclined to dismiss it out of hand. There have been many pilots, many members of the military, and many other government officials who have been willing to speak on and off the record and Ms Kean does a great job of presenting about this phenomenon. It’s a shame that this myth is so prevalent that many “serious” scientists and engineers won’t even take the time to read books like Ms Kean’s.
3.Myth: There is no evidence of UFOs.
Many skeptics say there is no evidence that UFOs exist. They’re not quite right.
First of all, let’s start with the tons of photographic evidence — photos of odd “unidentified” objects flying over both rural and urban landscapes. The next argument skeptics make is that these pictures are all photoshopped — a charge that doesn’t hold up when the photos are from the 60’s and 70’s — I’ve seen some of these older photos, some taken by the members of the military, and they are very convincing. Moreover, when there are multiple witnesses that corroborate the photographic evidence (like in the Phoenix lights incident — more on this one below), the skeptic’s view that they must all be doctored doesn’t really hold-up.
And then there are literally thousands of eyewitness reports –ranging from places like O’Hare airport to Rendlesham Forest in the UK (in a famous military sighting).
If that isn’t enough evidence for you, Emeritus Professor of applied physics at Stanford, Peter Sturrock has studied reports and asserts there is “physical evidence”: “radar”, Professor Sturrock tell us, counts as physical evidence of UFOs.
One such well-known incident over Alaska in 1986, where a Japan Air Lines pilot, Kenju Terauchi, was flying near Mt. McKinley when he reported seeing a UFO that was “dazzlingly bright, which stopped in mid air, followed them, and otherwise shot around them …”. Terauchi said there was no way an airplane could have done that.
John Callahan, the FAA Division Chief of the Accidents and Investigations branch, had the data from this incident, which covered more than a half hour. Callahan has testified many times about what he saw, “As far as I’m concerned, I saw a UFO chase a Japanese 747 across the sky for over half an hour on radar.”
If that’s still not enough to convince you that there is “some” evidence, in the abduction area, there have been physical objects (known as “implants”) that have been pulled out of abductees bodies. X-rays also count as physical evidence too. In some cases where doctors surgically extracted the implants, the metallic objects somehow evaporated; in other cases they were able to preserve them and found that they have unique “anomalous” structure, some were meant to be housed inside the human div and were only stable when implanted!
Whether you believe in aliens or not, these implants had to have been placed there by someone. The question is who? It’s unlikely abductees would have the surgical skill to put them there themselves — so who put them into their bodies? This question remains unanswered. In the original X-files, implants were a not insubstantial part of the story. Whenever the government got ahold of one, as at the end of the first episode of the X-Files, in a scene reminiscent of Raiders of the Lost Ark (or Warehouse 13 for younger syfy fans), they put it away in the midst of a giant government warehouse, to be lost forever in bureaucracy.
4.Myth: Sightings only happen in the countryside, only in the US, and only since we started flying airplanes.
Again, these are myths. There have been anomalous objects reported in the sky well before the modern era of airplanes, going back to the 1500s and beyond. In their wonderful book, “Wonders in the Sky”, Jacque Vallee ad Chris Aubeck have catalogued these sightings. Jacquee Vallee, a long time French UFO researcher, was in part the inspiration for the French scientist in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, made by another UFO believer, Stephen Spielberg. In one of the most famous pre-airplane incidents, in 1561 a number of spheres and disks, which were red, blue, and back, were seen to come out of two vertical cylinders over Nuremberg, Germany. The residents of the town reported that these objects seemed to be fighting each other — there’s even a well-known drawing of this image.
In recent times, one of the most famous mass sightings was the Phoenix Lights. In 1997, an estimated more than 10,000 people saw a set of triangularly arranged lights not just hovering but moving over the Phoenix metro area from North to South. There were numerous photographs of the incident, and a great book (along with a documentary) by Lynne Kitei, M.D., called called The Phoenix Lights.
At first, Arizona Governor Fife Symington III made fun of the sighting and the military tried to dismiss the lights as “military flares”. But this theory didn’t hold water — the lights stayed equidistance apart, as if they were part of a single, large craft. Later, the Governor admitted that he was lying, and that he too had seen some kind of large anomalous craft in the sky that night. You don’t have to take my word for it — you can go interview people who were living in Phoenix in 1997. One witness told me she looked up, and the stars dimmed and then weren’t visible — it was definitely some type of large craft and not individual flares.
There have been other mass sightings, in Mexico City, in Russia, in South America, and elsewhere. UFO sightings are not a modern phenomenon, they are not a US-only phenomenon. UFOs are a global phenomenon, and as his secret informant told Agent Mulder at the end of the second episode of the X-Files, “They have been here … for a long long time.”
5. Are UFOs top secret military craft that defy gravity?
In the second episode of the X-Files, Deep Throat, and in many episodes later in the series, witnesses at the edge of military bases see UFOs at night performing maneuvers that seem to defy the laws of inertia and gravity.
These scenes are actually based on many eyewitness reports of objects and lights that hold stationary in the sky, have no apparent sound, then “jump” horizontally or vertically to a new position in the blink of an eye. The fact that these sightings have occurred often near military bases has led many, particularly in the skeptic and scientific community, to assert that UFOs are really top secret military craft that the public does not know about.
This of course, begs the question, do we have top secret military craft that can defy the known laws of physics and gravity? If so, why doesn’t the so called “scientific community” know about the science between how these craft work, why are they being hidden, and why aren’t they more curious about them?
A respected NASA scientist, Paul Hill, decided to collect reports from eyewitnesses during his 25 years working for the space agency. He wrote a book (which he wasn’t allow to publish while working for NASA), called “Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis” that was later published by his daughter, in which he categorized these maneuvers (“sudden reversal of direction”, “acute angle turn”, etc.)
If these are top secret military vehicles, where did they get the basic design and aeronautic principles from? This “top secret” military craft has been reported to be disc-shaped, and can seemingly defy both inertia and gravity. This has led the UFO community to say these top-secret craft have “anti-gravity” technology. Where did it come from?
Mark McCandlish, an accomplished aerospace illustrator, was baffled when a friend in the military told McCandlish that he’d stumbled into a hanger that had a round, bell shaped craft that was hovering over the ground. It sounds like a scene out of Independence Day, not just the X-Files. McCandlish, who has illustrated top secret military aircraft based on descriptions for the covers of magazines like Popular Science, drew the components of the ARV, or Alien Reproduction Vehicle, as it’s been called, and his drawings are readily available on-line. It resembles many reports of UFOs, including rumors of the Nazi Bell — new type of bell-shaped flying craft that the Nazis were supposedly working on at the end of World War II.
Is The Truth Out There?
As in the X-Files series, many of these facts are unknown to the general public, or they are ridiculed by so-called “experts”. In fact, the entire premise of the TV series was that a scientist, a medical doctor, Dana Scully, was brought in to de-bunk Mulder’s “unscientific” theories. As she became more involved in the investigations, she came upon more and more items that could only be classified as “unexplained” and was forced to question her own views about science and the universe.
Professor Sturrock of Stanford, who did research on the attitudes of astronomers and members of the American Institute of Aeronautic and Astronautics (AIAA) found that the more time people spent reading this subject, the more they would come to the conclusion that there needs to be more serious scientific study of UFOs. Even many members of the AIAA had seen anomalous “unidentified flying objects” but would only admit this if they were kept anonymous. Why? Because it’s not a “fashionable” area for university research to get funding, and simply telling what you saw truthfully is not acceptable in most academic and scientific circles these days.
Similarly, too many of my friends in the scientific and engineering circles, tend to dismiss UFO lore and stories as simple “crazy stories by crazy people” without having done any research of their own. The less research they’ve done, the more likely they are to dismiss UFOs out of hand. It’s very easy to ridicule or demean a group of people on the internet — but if you take the time to get to know the people that are making these claims, like Dana Scully in the X-Files, you might just find that The Truth is Out There!
While we wait for the new episodes of the X-Files revival on January 24th, I’ll leave you with another great quote from the second episode of the X-Files:
“Mr. Mulder, why are those like yourself, who believe in the existence of extraterrestrial life on this earth, not dissuaded by all the evidence to the contrary?” asked the secret informant.
“Because,” began Fox Mulder, pausing for a second, “ … all the evidence to the contrary … is not entirely dissuasive.”
The old man nodded to Mulder in acknowledgement, and walked away quietly.
U.K. Airspace - Still Open to Unidentified Attack?
By Pat Regan
(Copyright 2016, Pat Rega - All Rights Resrved)
<Edited by Robert D. Morningstar>
MoD: in 2009 they closed their defensive UFO hotline, meaning lots of potential threats to our airspace failed to ever be properly analysed and recorded.
Nick Pope stated at that time:
“From the Fifties to the present day, MoD received around 12,000 UFO reports. While most were misidentifications of ordinary objects and phenomena, around 5% remained unexplained.”
The following ‘North West UFO Research’ (a UFO monitoring focal pointy that I previously set up) data will explain that situation, for anyone who missed story in 2009.
This is how it went…Shock in the UFO community as the MoD’s UFO investigation service shuts down. North West UFO Research (NWUR) update
Reports filtered into the press on December 4th 2009
Information concerning how to report a UFO sighting to the MoD has recently been compromised with the shutdown of the MoD UFO facility.
This move is the result of an internal re-organisation within the Ministry of Defence and there will be no alteration to existing MoD policy relating to UFOs explaining that the Ministry of Defence has stopped investigating reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the UK. A telephone number and email address which allowed the public to report sightings for examination was closed on 1st December after the MoD decided the service was an "inappropriate use of defence resources."
The closure of this facility was revealed in a Freedom of Information request released via the MoD website. The report explained that the MoD had dealt with more than 12,000 reports since it launched the reporting service in 1950; including 135 last year. The service had cost approximately £50,000 a year to operate and was based at RAF Command in High Wycombe.
In an announcement, the MoD stated:
"The MoD has no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extra-terrestrial life."
"However, in over fifty years, no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom."
"The MoD has no specific capability for identifying the nature of such sightings. "
"There is no defence benefit in such investigation and it would be an inappropriate use of defence resources. Furthermore, responding to reported UFO sightings diverts MoD resources from tasks that are relevant to defence. "
"Accordingly, and in order to make best use of defence resources, we have decided that from the 1 December 2009 the dedicated UFO hotline answer-phone service and e-mail address will be withdrawn. MoD will no longer respond to reported UFO sightings or investigate them.”
They however added that the ongoing programme to release departmental files on UFO matters to the National Archive will carry on.
Of course that will also eventually dry up because the MoD are not we presume logging any more data of this issue.
Pat Regan of NWUR addresses the issue below:
I was not very surprised when I heard this astonishing news as my own experience with the MoD has been one of them showing indifference. They were quite content to largely ignore my requests to investigate UFOs pictured flying close to RAF warplanes, consequently what more can I say? This agency is in existence to protect our sovereign air space and this latest revelation appears to leave the back door wide open for any form of unknown attack on the UK. The MoD’s position therefore seems to be that if an object is unidentified then they are not really interested. The MoD says: "There is no defence benefit in such investigation and it would be an inappropriate use of defence resources.” This is absolute nonsense! Can anyone believe such authoritarian apathy is these times of terrorist incursion?
Today, we are hearing of more unexplained sighting of mystery objects in our skies than ever before yet the MoD are washing their hands of the issue. This action, or perhaps I should say “none –action,” is simply too bizarre for words! I asked Nick Pope what he thought about the closure, he stated: “Having worked on the UFO project from 1991 to 1994 I am sorry to see MoD disengage in this way. I believe that where evidence suggests that UK airspace has been penetrated by an unidentified object, this must automatically be of defence interest and should be investigated properly. Indeed, I am sure that sightings from pilots and uncorrelated targets tracked on radar will continue to be looked at, albeit outside of a formally constituted UFO project.”
Nick continued:
“From the Fifties to the present day, MoD received around 12,000 UFO reports. While most were misidentifications of ordinary objects and phenomena, around 5% remained unexplained.
Pat Regan added:
"Apparently the MoD’s UFO facility is being axed ”to save money. This is absurd as the staff members who have worked herein will most likely just be reassigned to other duties within the department. This closure therefore is false economy, a subterfuge to conceal authoritarian lethargy toward a vital issue and it will possibly be only a question of time until mounting public pressure demands that the MoD reopen this unique facility. We need to know what is flying though our skies – not ignoring the question."
"We shall remain vigilant and keep watching the skies. I also continue to urge the media to report the many public UFO sightings that come in. Now that the MoD has 'dropped the ball' we have to rely on the press to find out what is flying through our skies. Moreover, in these times of serious terrorist inroads this is not a joking matter. "
Today, we are presumably left with the same situation. Potential threats to our airspace go unrecorded and it is up to the media and the public themselves to shout out if and when they spot anything strange in our skies. This seems a very odd way to run any proper defensive system!
GLOWING ALIEN CRAFT IN THE SKIES OVER NEWARK AND BROOKLYN
MARCH 2011 ……. NEWARK AIRPORT NEW JERSEY
In the last week of March 2011, I was relaxing at home smoking a cig after a small meal when I notice a bright object in the sky over Newark airport NJ. At first I studied the object and observe closely because of its brightness. I was expecting a plane. What I saw was a large orb in a circular shape and extremely bright acting in a bobbing motion and what it seem to do was move in a very short distance fast. I thought It was a plane at first but it’s speed and movements planes can not do. It was to big and to bright. It then moved a short distance further north and closer to Manhattan in the sky of 14th street and the Hudson river.
Its movements were unlike any plane I see fly at night. Bobbing at times and at times staying completely still. No sound what so ever. I was a little excited but focused enough to realize this is something I have never experienced before. I live in a 24 story building with an open view of lower Manhattan east to west skyline. My windows face approx 270 degrees south west. I can view the open skies over Newark airport N J and lower Manhattans Hudson River. 14th street east to west view. I asked my friend who was standing behind me to view this light and its large bright circular orb shape. It seem like it was completely still. No sooner then I asked him what can it be it moved straight up counter clockwise and stopped at ten o’clock. It moved in a large space of the sky in a moment.
To describe this in seconds is to much time. That’s right, It made a large question mark in reverse in the sky of NJ. What seem like just over the sky of 14th street Hudson river. I was jumping in my apartment realizing I had no recording device. It was parked at 10 o’clock bobbing slightly. It then moved from 10 o’clock to 5 o’clock releasing a ashy light before stopping. This ashy light glowed and slowly faded into the clear no cloud sky.
At this point it started to move like a stone skipping on water moving very fast going east toward long Island. It came over west 14th street toward east 14th street’ over the east river toward Brooklyn and all the way out toward Long Island. I lost sight of this UFO as it passed directly over my window. I GOT A EXCELLENT CLOSE UP VIEW AS IT PASSED MY WINDOW GOING EAST. My windows face West only. The duration of this experience lasted about 3 to 5 minutes wide awake with company.
The CIA has released thousands of declassified documents on flying saucers, aliens and other unexplained phenomena.
'We've decided to highlight a few documents both skeptics and believers will find interesting,' the agency said on its website.
The post continued: 'Below you will find five documents we think X-Files character Agent Fox Mulder would love to use to try and persuade others of the existence of extraterrestrial activity.'
All of the documents are dated from the late 1940s to the 1960s, but were top-secret until now.
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Unexplained happenings: The CIA recently released files from its archives investigating reports of alien and UFO sightings. The organization said the declassified documents will interest both believers and skeptics
Investigations: Some of the documents do not find an explanation for the reported UFO sightings, but also do not have evidence they happened in the first place
One of the files attached to the post is a document from East Germany in 1952, where agents were called to investigate what witnesses described as a 'huge flying pan'.
The object was said to have a diameter of about 15 meters, according to the document.
Similar flying saucers were also spotted in North Africa and Spain, the report said.
'The picture [of the object] shows a diagonal stripe of diminishing width and lighter in shade than the sky over the dark bulk of a building cornice,' it was noted.
Included with some of the documents were three pictures of the alleged extraterrestrials.
One of the photos - taken by British student Alex Birch in 1962 - claimed to show a group of flying saucers flying over the city of Sheffield in the UK.
Flying saucer: This picture of an unexplained flying object was taken over Passoria, New Jersey in July 1952
A police officer stands near to his patrol car outside the town of Socorro, New Mexico where a flying saucer was spotted in 1964
Some of the pictures taken at the scene of the incident, for which no explanation has been offered
However the photo was proven to be a hoax.
The files also detail a case of flying saucers that were spotted over what was formerly Belgian Congo.
The document reveals that two 'fiery discs' were seen over a uranium mine, and that the discs had 'glided curves and changed position many times'.
It then adds: 'Suddenly, both discs hovered in one spot and then took off in a unique zigzag flight to the north east.
'A penetrating hissing and buzzing sound was audible to onlooker below. The whole performance lasted 10 to 12 minutes.'
Subject - Flying Saucers: This is one of the documents released by the organization investing sightings, dated October 5, 1952
The CIA has released thousand of top secret UFO files from its archives. One of the documents is seen here, showing a sketch of a 'flying saucer'
An aircraft was then set to investigate the object, and got with meters of the saucer and according to the pilot, the inner core of it remained totally still while the a knob opening could be seen from the outside.
The pilot then gave up his pursuit when the 'disc' appeared to disappear.
Also contained in the files is the case in Socorro, New Mexico in 1964, when police officer Lonnie Zamoraspotted a large flame rise from the ground and pierce the sky above a remote patch of desert.
He went to investigate and found a shiny object the size of a sedan perched on the hilltop, which was oval in shape and aluminium in color.
The object then began to rise into the air and then sped away from him over the mountains and disappeared.
One of the files attached to the post is a document from East Germany in 1952 (pictured in part), where agents were called to investigate what witnesses described as a 'huge flying pan'
One of CIA documents even gave a 10-point list on what to do if someone were to spot a purported UFO, which was posted to Twitter.
'Take several pictures of the object; as many as you can. If you can, include some ground in the picture of the UFO,' the agency advised.
However the CIA seemed to side more with Agent Dana Scully, the character played by Gillian Anderson, who for the entire succession of the cult Sci Fi series denounced her belief in the supernatural.
In releasing the documents, the CIA said they were proving that 'there is a scientific explanation for UFO sightings'.
The CIA even tweeted a list of what to do in the event of sighting a possible UFO. It tagged The X-Files, Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny in the post
The CIA has always denied having any proper intelligence about aliens.
But it has often organized scientific panels to discuss the nature of these allegedly alien objects.
The scientists typically concluded that 'the subject UFO is not of direct intelligence interest', the website RT reported.
The release of the documents coincide with the long-awaited return of The X-Files on Sunday.
The beloved show was rebooted by the Fox Network after 10 years, with its two original stars reprising their roles.
Stephen Bassett, executive director of the Paradigm Research Group, who is campaigning for the US government to admit aliens are visiting Earth, told The Mirror that the CIA appears to have used the return of The X-Files to their benefit.
'It appears the CIA used the revival of the X-Files franchise as a convenient time to remind the public the agency has, in fact, engaged the extraterrestrial presence issue in the past,' Bassett told the newspaper.
'Post-disclosure the CIA will have substantial public relations issues as it has played a significant role in maintaining the truth embargo over six decades.
'These recent postings could have an inoculative effect in service to the agency's future PR strategy.'
They're back: Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) are drawn back into the world of the X-Files in this still from the new season of the show
Agents Scully and Mulder are seen here in a still from season seven of The X-Files, which aired in May 2000
The X-Files releases the first minute of the new season
First French UFO files, then the British UFO files, the FBI Vault and recently the Kennedy disclosure. And now files from the prominent security agency rediscovered (never been reported in main stream media), the NSA, saying they have received alien messages, could the enlightenment period that the Mayans said would happen in 2012 actual be the revelation that we have visitors.
NSA had released to the public domain formerly classified UFO X-files HERE, but which had never got media attention.
This one small step, yet ‘Giant Leap For Mankind’, is best described as a ‘treasure trove’.Of the documents we have assessed so far, we are particularly interested in NSA Technical Journal Vol XIV No 1 with FOIA Case number 41472 which has been titled ‘Key To The Extraterrestrial Messages’.The document authored by a Dr. Campaigne, presented a series of 29 messages received from outer space in “Extraterrestrial Intelligence”.
The article is described as developing a key to understand these alien messages.
If the penny hasn’t dropped yet, This now unclassified document not only confirms the presence of extraterrestrials, but that the US Government has received deep space transmissions from a civilization outside our own solar system !
The following is transcribed from Page 21, Appendix:
Recently a series of radio messages was heard coming from outer space. The transmission was not continuous, but cut by pauses into pieces which could be taken as units, for they were repeated over and over again. The pauses show here as punctuation. The various combination have been represented by letters of the alphabet, so that the messages can be written down. Each message except the first is given here only once. The serial number of the messages has been supplied for each reference.
The following is a copy of the original document as found on the National Security Agency website. You can view the original document at the following location:
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UFO Hunters ‘Discover’ Crashed Alien UFO Drone In NASA Mars Rover Photo
Enhanced Image Of Alleged Crashed UFO Drone On Mars (Image via Paranormal Crucible/YouTube)
UFO Hunters ‘Discover’ Crashed Alien UFO Drone In NASA Mars Rover Photo
Online alien and UFO hunters claim they have sighted a UFO drone in a photo of the Gale Crater region of Mars captured by a NASA Mars rover. According to the YouTube UFO hunter Paranormal Crucible, a photo of the Martian terrain snapped by a Mars rover — presumably Curiosity — on Sol 64 shows an object that looks like a metallic chunk of machinery dumped on the Martian surface. Paranormal Crucible notes that the discovery was first made a few years back. But in a new set of photos uploaded to YouTube on November 1, 2015, the UFO hunter revisits the remarkable discovery that set the entire online UFO community buzzing with excitement when it was first discovered. This time around, Paranormal Crucible attempts to “clean up the photo” by enhancing features of the alleged metallic object that could help UFO researchers gain fresh insights and “shed new light” into its nature and construction. UFO Sightings Daily editor Scott Waring points out that the “cleaned up photo” gives a “new perspective” by enhancing features that give clues about what the object looked like when it was made, and what it was probably used for.
“I really like his cleaned up photo of the object and his new perspective. It gives us a chance to look at it as it was when it was made, and how it might have been used.”
Scott Waring agrees with Paranormal Crucible that the photographic evidence suggests an object of “intelligent design,” photographed presumably by Curiosity rover, in the Gale Crater region.
According to Paranormal Crucible, “In my opinion this object is an extraterrestrial drone possibly built by the indigenous Martian populace or perhaps it was deployed by an off world alien species who were exploring the Martian surface.”
However, other UFO enthusiasts who have studied the image claim that the object could be part of a bigger spacecraft, such as a component of a spacecraft’s engine or propulsion system.
Is This A UFO Drone Crashed On Mars? (Image via NASA)
Regardless, UFO and Mars anomaly hunters are unanimous that millions of years ago, Mars was home to indigenous alien races with advanced culture and civilization. While some Mars anomaly hunters believe that the ancient civilizations reached sufficient levels of scientific and technological development to build flying machines and possibly space ships, others insist that ancient Mars civilizations attained only modest standards of scientific and technological development.
UFO Bloggers: Alien UFO Drone Found Crashed On Mars (Image via Scott Waring/UFO Sightings Daily)
But all anomaly hunters agree that ancient Martians created a young bustling civilization that generated sufficient “noise” to attract the attention of hostile aliens possessing advanced nuclear technological culture. The hostile aliens wiped out the bustling Mars civilizations by detonating a series of powerful thermonuclear devices.
Enhanced Image Of Alleged Crashed UFO Drone On Mars (Image via Paranormal Crucible/YouTube)
These startling claims about Mars civilization were first made by a U.S. physicist, Dr. John Brandenburg, who obtained his Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis.
In a paper, titled “Evidence of Massive Thermonuclear Explosions in Mars Past, The Cydonian Hypothesis and Fermi’s Paradox,” presented at the 2014 Annual Fall meeting of the American Physical Society Prairie Section in Monmouth, Illinois, Brandenburg argued that data from gamma ray spectrometry conducted by NASA orbiters show evidence of radiation fallout consistent with two massive nuclear explosions on Mars. The explosions occurred on two sites on Mars where two civilizations — the Cydonian and Utopian — flourished millions of years ago, according to Brandenburg.
“Taken together, the data requires that the hypothesis of Mars as the site of an ancient planetary nuclear massacre must now be considered. Fermi’s Paradox, the unexpected silence of the stars, may be solved at Mars. Providentially, we are forewarned of this possible aspect of the cosmos.”
Mars anomaly hunters claim that evidence of eroded archaeological remains on Mars — including technological artifacts — support Brandenburg’s claim that Mars was the site of bustling ancient civilizations and culture.
UFO hunters have reported discovering remains of crashed UFOs on different sites on Mars.
In March, Mars anomaly hunters Mars Moon Space Photo Zoom Club (MMSPZC) reported sighting a flying saucer UFO abandoned on rugged Martian terrain in the Aram Chaos region of the planet.
In August, 2015, Waring reported that he sighted in a photo of the Martian terrain, snapped by NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, a black object that looked like a space shuttle.
Some UFO enthusiasts compared the alleged spacecraft to a Star Destroyer from the Star Wars movie franchise.
ENVIRONMENTAL SPACE SCIENCES was a book taught at the Air Force Academy and written by Professor and Colonel who was the Commander of the SPACETRACK Radar Site at Shemya, Alaska. He was the originator of the Space Science Course at the USAF Academy. Col. Carpenter was kind enough to send Eastern MUFON the book he edited and wrote with six other officers. Most of the book pertains to science of space, the sun, planets, plasmas, magnetic fields, radiation, meteors, planets, space dust, Cosmo chemistry, the planets and moons. George Filer copied this chapter manually for you the reader, because I felt it was of importance, so I hope you enjoy it. All the chapters are of interest to the Ufologist, such as the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, but most important is:
CHAPTER XXXIII
THE UFO MYSTERY
Credible observers reporting incredible objects,”
said USAF General J. A. Samford in the year 1952… and his comment is still true today. Honest and intelligent people are still reporting strange objects that are difficult, and sometimes impossible, to relate to known physical phenomena. Enough attention has been brought to this serious problem that the US Government officially took action on two separate occasions. The first time was when it was thought that UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) might possibly be evidence of the technological capability of a foreign, but Earth based, power, In reaction to that possibility, the US Air Force Foreign Technology Division located at Wright Patterson Air Force Base) was given the tough job of determining whether or not the mysterious UFOs were a threat to the security of the United States. Unfortunately, many people thought that the job was to determine exactly what the UFOs were. In the years which have followed, the Air Force has been unjustly maligned for supposedly “covering up” the “real truth” about UFOs. In actuality, the Air Force did precisely the job to which it was assigned. . . it determined the extent to which the UFOs threatened national security. The extent was found to be zero! However, the public was so unhappy with the lack of any real conclusions as to the nature of the UFOs, that the Government took further actions to resolve the issue. The extent was found to be zero! However, the public was so unhappy with the lack of any real conclusions as to the nature of UFOs, that the Government took further actions to resolve the issue. As one of those actions, in 1966 it contracted for an independent scientific study to determine the real nature of UFOs. This chapter does not restrict itself to only that study but instead covers the UFO problem from a broader view.
33-1 ACQUISITION OF VALID DATA
Unidentified Flying Objects
Part of the broader view is to recognize that, in any scientific endeavor, the first step is to acquire data. The second step is to categorize the data (to portray it in systematic fashion) so that any existent relationships revealed, and the third step is to form the hypothesis. The hypothesis so formed are then tested by using them to develop and carry out experiments that yield more data. The new data are then used as a new starting point for the entire process, and the process is repeated over and over until (hopefully) adequate understanding is achieved. The UFO phenomenon frustrates this approach because the data taken so far exhibits both excessive variety and vagueness. The vagueness is caused in part by two things: (1) lack of preparation by the observer and (2) lack of timeliness by the investigator. The observer leaves his home, in only rare cases anticipating an encounter with a UFO. Photographs are overexposed or underexposed, and rarely in color. And very few people carry around a radiation counter or a magnetometer. On the other hand, the investigator may have all these tools and more with him but he arrives after the phenomena have vanished. In addition to the foregoing problems, there is a very high level of “noise” in the data. The noise consists of mistaken reports of known natural phenomena, hoaxes, reports by unstable individuals and mistaken removal of data regarding possible unnatural or unknown natural phenomena (by overzealous individuals who are trying to eliminate all data due to known natural phenomena).
An example of this type of elimination is revealed on page 141 of the ‘Bantam edition of the Condon Report (the report on the Government financed scientific study referred to earlier and headed by Dr Edward U. Condon). In one paragraph a sighting is describes as follows: Observers in the CAA (now FAA) control tower saw an unidentified dark object with a white light underneath, about the ‘shape of an automobile on end.’ That crossed the field at about 1500 feet and circles as if to come in for a landing on the E-W runway. This unidentified object appeared to reverse direction at low altitude, while out of sight of the observers behind some buildings, and climbed to about 200-3000 feet, heading away from the field on a 120-degree course. Then it went into a steep climb and disappeared into the overcast.” The Condon Report agreed with the Air Force view that this was a case of a small, powerful private plane, which almost landed at the wrong airport.
However, Dr James E. McDonald of the University of Arizona became curious about the explanation. He contacted the observers personally and found that the foregoing report was in error. The UFO did not go out of sight behind any buildings. Instead, it stopped and hovered in the air for 20 seconds or more, during which time the two observers took a good look at it with a pair of 7x binoculars. At that time the UFO was over a landmark, approximately 3,000 feet east northeast of the tower. It in no way resembled an aircraft. Both of the observers were surprised to learn that there was a Condon Project . . . no one from the Project had contacted them to verify the Air Force file data on this case. Thus, a Report, which comments strongly against many other people for not adequately investigating UFO reports before repeating them, is itself open to criticism for exactly the same thing. Such unfortunate actions raise questions as to the validity of the Report’s conclusions.
As has been just shown so dramatically, it requires considerable care to recognize and acquire valid data. In addition, those data, which do appear to be valid, exhibit an excessive amount of variety relative to the statistical samples, which are available. This has led to very clumsy classification systems, which in turn provide quite infertile ground for formulation of hypothesis.
33-2 CLASSIFICATION CATEGORIES
The very first problem you encounter, when attempting categorize data, is deciding which data pertains to the matter of interest. After all, you don’t wish to include mistaken information, which pertains to a different phenomenon. Such an action could block any chance at understanding. Therefore, you must remove all non-relevant information from your database. After that has been done to the best of your ability, you must then select a system for categorizing the remaining data. Unfortunately, no effective system has yet been devised for UFOs, although a number of such systems have been proposed. The net result is that almost all UFO data are either treated in the form of individual cases, or in the forms of inadequate classification systems. However, these systems do tend to have some common factors, and a collection of these factors follows:
Physical Characteristics
Size; shape (disc, square, ellipsoid, football, etc.) Color or colors, luminosity.
Behavior:
Number of UFOs, formation of UFOs, location (altitude, direction, etc.) patterns of paths ( climbing, zig-zagging, etc.), flight characteristics (wobbling, fluttering, etc.) time duration, periodicity of sightings, avoidance, hostility, curiosity or inquisitiveness, touch ground.
Associated Effects:
Ground disturbance (standing peaks on surface of water, dust stirred up, leaves moved, etc.). re-action to acceleration, (cars shoved backwards, etc.)
Radiation (burns, induced radioactivity etc.) Electromagnetism (compass, radio, ignition systems, etc.) . Sound (none, hissing, humming, roaring, thunderclaps, etc.) Vibration (weak, strong, slow, fast) Smell (ozone or other odor) Flame (how much, where, when, color) Smoke or cloud (amount, color, persistence) debris (type, amount, color, persistence) Inhibition of voluntary movement by observers, . Sighting of “creatures” or “beings”
After Effects:
Depressed or flattened areas, Burned areas or animals, Dead or “missing animals”. Mentally disturbed people, Missing items.
33.3 TYPES OF THEORIES
There are very few cohesive theories as to the nature of UFO’s. Those theories that are advanced do not always take into account the evidence that UFO’s are a global phenomenon, which may have persisted for many thousands of years. Such persistence is well reported, and will be commented upon shortly. Of course, the more ancient the reports the less sophisticated the observer. Not only were the ancient observers lacking the terminology necessary to describe complex devices (such as lasers or helicopters) but they were also lacking the concepts necessary to understand the true nature of such things as television, spaceships, rockets, nuclear weapons and radiation effects.
To some, the most advanced technological concept was a war chariot with knife blades attached to the wheels. By the same token, the very lack of accurate terminology and descriptions leaves the more ancient reports open to considerable misinterpretation and much more may be unintentionally read into such reports than is actually there. Therefore, if a theory does not account for the existence of UFOs over a long period of time, that does not mean that the theory is automatically wrong. On the other had, a UFO theory which does not account for the worldwide sighting of UFOs is almost certain to be in error.
As examples of some ancient and world wide evidence of UFOs, we might start with the discovery made by Tschi Pen Lao of the University of Peking. He discovered astonishing carvings in granite on a mountain in Hunan Province and on an island in Lake Tungting. These carvings have been evaluated as 47,000 years old, and they show people with large trunks. Some consider those trunks to be evidence of beings wearing breathing apparatus; however, do not forget that humans often in the past , have represented their gods as animal heads on human bodies.
Only 8,000 years ago, rocks were sculpted in the Tassili plateau of Sahara, depicting what appeared to be human beings but with strange round heads (helmets? or “sun” heads on human bodies?) And even more recently, in the Bible, Genesis (6:4) tells of angels from the sky mating with women of Earth, who bore them children. Genesis 19:3 tells of Lot meeting two angels in desert and his later feeding them at his house. The Bible also tells a rather unusual story of Ezekiel who witnessed what has been interpreted by some to have been a spacecraft or aircraft landing near the Chebar River in Chaldea (593 B.C.).
Even the Irish have recorded strange visitations. In the Speculum Regali in Konungs Skuggsa (and other accounts of the era about 956 A.D.) are numerous stories of “demonships” in the skies. In one case a rope from one such ship became entangled with part of a church. A man from the ship climbed down the rope to free it, but was seized by the townspeople. The Bishop made the people release the man, who climbed back to the ship, where the crew cut the rope and the ship rose and sailed out of sight. In all of his actions, the climbing man appeared as if he were swimming in water. Stories such as this makes one wonder if the legends of the “little people” of Ireland were based upon imagination alone.
About the same time, in Lyons (France) three men and a women supposedly descended from an airship or spaceship and were captured by a mob. These foreigners admitted to being wizards, and were killed. (No mention is made of the methods employed to extract the admissions.) Many documented UFO sightings occurred throughout the Middle Ages, including an especially startling one of a UFO over London on 16 December 1742. However, we do not have room to include any more of the Middle Ages sightings. Instead, two “more-recent” sightings are contained in this section to bring us up to modern times.
In a sworn statement dated 21 April 1897, a prosperous and prominent farmer named Alexander Hamilton (Le Roy, Kansas, U.S.A.) told of an attack upon his cattle at about 10:30 PM the previous Monday. He, his son, and his tenant grabbed axes and ran some 700 feet from the house to the cow lot where a great cigar-shaped ship about 300 feet long floated some 30 feet above his cattle. It had a carriage underneath which was brightly lighted within (dirigible and gondola?) and which had numerous windows. Inside were six strange looking beings jabbering in a foreign language. These beings suddenly became aware of Hamilton and the others. They immediately turned a searchlight on the farmer, and also turned on some power which sped up a turbine wheel (about 30 ft diameter) located under the craft. The ship rose, taking with it a two-year old heifer which was roped about the neck by a cable of one-half inch thick, red material. The next day a neighbor, Link Thomas, found the animal’s hide, legs and head in his field. He was mystified at how the remains got to where they were because of the lack of tracks in the soft soil. Alexander Hamilton’s sworn statement was accompanied by an affidavit as to his veracity. The affidavit was signed by ten of the local leading citizens.
Thus, UFO sightings not only appear to extend back to 47,000 years through time but also are global in nature. And despite the occasional hoaxes , there does exist a large body of information that appears to be valid. However, it is very difficult to advance a theory that is well supported by the erratic, and often apparently unrelated, data.
In any event, the theories that have been advanced can be collected into five groups. These are:
a. Mysticism b. Psychological Phenomena c. Advanced Technologies d. Natural Phenomena e. Aliens
Mysticism
It is believed by some cults that the mission of UFO’s and their crews is a spiritual one, and that all materialistic efforts to determine the UFO’s nature are doomed to failure.
Psychological Phenomena
Some have suggested that all UFO reports were the results of pranks and hoaxes, or were made by people with unstable personalities. This attitude was particularly prevalent during the time period when the Air Force investigation was being operated under the code name of Project Grudge.
A few airlines even went as far as to ground every pilot who reported seeing a “flying saucer.” The only way for the pilot to regain flight status was to undergo a psychiatric examination. There was a noticeable decline in pilot reports during this time interval, and a few interpreted this decline to prove that UFO’s were either hoaxes or the result of unstable personalities. It is of interest that NICAP (The National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena) even today still receives reports from commercial pilots who neglect to notify either the Air Force or their own airline.
Hoaxes have been perpetrated on numerous occasions but we will not discuss any of them in this subsection. All of us are aware that this undesirable situation exists. What we may not be aware of is that some cases are difficult to ascribe as being in either the mistaken hoax categories.
There are a number of cases which we could use to illustrate that point. One such case is the Socorro, New Mexico sighting made by police Sergeant Lonnie Zamora.
Sergeant Zamora was patrolling the streets of Socorro on 24 April 1964 when he saw a shiny object drift down into an area of gullies on the edge of town. He also heard a loud roaring noise which sounded as if an old dynamite shed located out that way had exploded. He immediately radioed police headquarters, and drove out toward the shed. Zamora was forced to stop about 150 yards away from a deep gully in which there appeared to be an overturned car He radioed that he was investigating a possible wreck, and then worked his car up onto the mesa and over toward the edge of the gully. He parked short, and when he walked the final few feet to the edge, he was amazed to see that it was not a car but instead was a weird egg shaped object about fifteen feet long, white in color and resting on short, metal legs. Beside it, unaware of his presence were two humanoids dressed in silvery coveralls. They seemed to be working on a portion of the underside of the object. Zamora was still standing there, surprised, when they suddenly noticed him and dove out of sight around the object. Zamora also headed the other way, back toward his car. He glanced back at the object just as a bright blue flame shot down from the underside. Within seconds the eggshaped thing rose out of the gully with “an earsplitting roar.” The object was out of sight over the nearby mountains almost immediately, and Sergeant Zamora was moving the opposite direction almost as fast when he met Sergeant Sam Chavez who was responding to Zamora’s earlier radio calls. Together they investigated the gully and found the bushes charred and still smoking where the blue flame had jetted down on them. About the charred area were four deep marks where the metal legs had been. Each mark was three and one half inches deep, and was circular in shape. The sand in the gully was very hard packed so no sign of the humanoids’ footprints could be found. An official investigation was launched that same day, and all data obtained supported the stories of Zamora and Chavez. It is rather difficult to label this episode a hoax, and it is also doubtful that both Zamora and Chavez shared portions of the same hallucination.
Advanced Technologies
A few individuals have proposed that UFO’s are actually advanced weapon systems, and that their natures must not be revealed. Very few people accept this as a credible suggestion.
Natural Phenomena
It has also been suggested that at least some, and possibly all of the UFO cases were just mis-interpreted manifestations of natural phenomena. Undoubtedly this suggestion has some merit. People have reported, as UFO’s, objects which were conclusively proven to be balloons (weather and skyhook), the planet Venus, man-made artificial satellites, normal aircraft, unusual cloud formations, and lights from ceilometers (equipment projecting light beams on cloud bases to determine the height of the aircraft visual ceiling). It is also suspected that people have reported mirages, optical illusions, swamp gas and ball lightning (a poorly-understood discharge of electrical energy in a spheroidal or ellipsoidal shape…some charges have lasted for up to fifteen minutes but the ball is usually no bigger than a large orange.) But it is difficult to tell a swamp dweller that the strange, fast-moving light he saw in the sky was swamp gas; and it is just as difficult to tell a farmer that a bright UFO in the sky is the same ball lightning that he has seen rolling along his fence wires in dry weather. Thus accidental mis-identification of what might well be natural phenomena breeds mistrust and disbelief; it leads to the hasty conclusion that the truth is deliberately not being told.
One last suggestion of interest has been made, that the UFO’s were plasmoids from space…concentrated blobs of solar wind that succeeded in reaching the surface of the Earth. Somehow this last suggestion does not seem to be very plausible; perhaps because it ignores such things as penetration of Earth’s magnetic field.
Aliens
The most stimulating theory for us is that the UFO’s are material objects which are either “Manned” or remote-controlled by beings who are alien to this planet. There is some evidence supporting this viewpoint. In addition to police Sergeant Lonnie Zamora’s experience, let us consider the case of Barney and Betty Hill. On a trip through New England they lost two hours on the night of 19 September 1961 without even realizing it. However, after that night both Barney and Betty began developing psychological problems which eventually grew sufficiently severe that they submitted themselves to psychiatric examination and treatment.
During the course of treatment hypnotherapy was used, and it yielded remarkably detailed and similar stories from both Barney and Betty. Essentially they had been hypnotically kidnapped, taken aboard a UFO, submitted to two-hour physicals, and released with posthypnotic suggestions to forget the entire incident. The evidence is rather strong that this is what the Hills, even in their subconscious, believe happened to them. And it is of particular importance that after the “posthypnotic block” was removed, both of the Hills ceased having their psychological problems.
The Hill’s description of the aliens was similar to descriptions provided in other cases, but this particular type of alien appears to be in the minority. The most commonly described alien is about three and one half feet tall, has a round head (helmet?), arms reaching to or below his knees, and is wearing a silvery space suit or coveralls. Other aliens appear to be essentially the same as Earthmen, while still others have particularly wide (wrap around) eyes and mouths with very thin lips. And there is a rare group reported as about four feet tall, weight of around 35 pounds, and covered with thick hair or fur (clothing?). Members of this last group are described as being extremely strong.
If such beings are visiting Earth, two questions arise: 1) why haven’t they attempted to contact us officially? The answer to the first question may exist partially in Sergeant Lonnie Zamora’s experience, and may exist partially in the Tunguska meteor discussed in Chapter XXIX. In that chapter it was suggested that the Tunguska meteor was actually a comet which exploded in the atmosphere, the ices melted and the dust spread out. Hence, no debris. However, it has also been suggested that the Tunguska meteor was actually an alien spacecraft that entered the atmosphere too rapidly, suffered mechanical failure, and lost its power supply and/or weapons in a nuclear explosion. While that hypothesis may seem far fetched, sample of tree rings from around the world reveal that, immediately after the Tunguska meteor explosion, the level of radioactivity in the world rose sharply for a short period of time. It is difficult to find a natural explanation for that increase in radioactivity, although the suggestion has been advanced that enough of the meteor’s great Kinetic energy was converted into heat (by atmospheric friction) that a fusion reaction occurred.
This still leaves us with no answer to the second question: why no contact? That question is very easy to answer in several ways: 1) we may be the objects of intensive sociological and psychological study. In such studies you usually avoid disturbing the test subjects’ environment; 2) you do not “contact” a colony of ants, and humans may seem that way to any aliens (variation: a zoo is fun to visit, but you don’t “contact” the lizards); 3) such contact may have already taken place secretly; and 4) such contact may have already taken place on a different plane of awareness and we are not yet sensitive to communications on such a plane. These are just a few of the reasons. You may add to the list, as desired.
Perhaps this is a good time to discuss another case, which also deals with aliens, although this time the case has to do with the ancient past. Let us discuss and intriguing story in one of the oldest chronicles of India . . .. the Book of Dzyan.
The book is a group of “story-teller” legends which were finally gathered in manuscript form when man learned to write. One of the stories is of a small group of beings who supposedly came to Earth many thousands of years ago in a metal craft which orbited the Earth several times before landing. As told in the Book “These beings lived to themselves and were revered by the humans among whom they had settled. But eventually differences arose among them and they divided their numbers, several of the men and women and some children settled in another city, where they were promptly installed as rulers by the awe-stricken populace.
“Separation did not bring peace to these people and finally their anger reached a point where the ruler of the original city took with him a small number of his warriors and they rose into the air in a huge shining metal vessel. While they were many leagues from the city of their enemies, they launched a great shining lance that rode on a beam of light. It burst apart in the city of their enemies with a great ball of flame that shot up to the heavens, almost to the stars. All those who were in the city were horribly burned and even those who were not in the city – but nearby – were burned also. Those who looked upon the lance and the ball of fire were blinded forever afterward. Those who entered the city on foot became ill and died. Even the dust of the city was poisoned, as were the rivers that flowed through it. Men dared not go near it, and it gradually crumbled into dust and was forgotten by men.”
“When the leader saw what he had done to his own people he retired to his palace and refused to see anyone. Then he gathered about him those warriors who remained, and their wives and children, and they entered their vessels and rose one by one into the sky and sailed away. Nor did they return.”
Could this foregoing legend really be an account of an extraterrestrial colonization, complete with guided missile, nuclear warhead and radiation effects? It is difficult to assess the validity of that explanation…just as it is difficult to explain why Greek, Roman and Nordic Mythology all discuss wars and contacts among their “Gods.” The immediate thought is that each group recorded their parochial view of what was actually a global conflict among alien colonists or visitors? That concept is chilling. . .but it (the Book of Dyzan) is not true! The entire foregoing legend is a modern day hoax that was concocted in 1965 –1966. It did not appear in the Book of Dyzan as claimed. But even if it had , that would not change things, for the Book of Dyzan is itself thought to be a hoax. The book was apparently first written in 1886 by an occultist. The reason for including this hoax at this point in this chapter is show you, in a way that you will remember, that just because someone tells you that something is true does not make it really true. You must be skeptical of all information presented both by UFO buffs and UFO detractors. As of right now there is no conclusive evidence for either side.
33.4 HUMAN REACTIONS
We have already considered some of the reasons aliens might not be too eager to contact us humans but there is another reason that ought to be brought out also. The reason is that contacting humans is downright dangerous. Think about that for a moment! On the microscopic level our bodies reject and fight (through production antibodies) any alien material; this process helps us fight off disease but it also sometimes results in allergic reactions to innocuous materials. On the macroscopic level (psychological and sociological) we are antagonistic to beings that are “different”. For proof of that, just watch how an odd child is treated by other children, or how a minority group is socially deprived, or how the Arabs feel about the Israelis (Chinese vs Japanese, Irish Catholic vs Irish Protestants.) In applying this concept to the treatment of aliens let me point out that in very ancient times, possible extraterrestrials may have been treated as Gods but in the last two thousand years, the evidence is that any possible aliens have been ripped apart by mobs, shot and shot at, physically assaulted, (in South America there is a well documented case)and in general treated with fear and aggression.
In Ireland about 1,000 AD, supposed airships were treated as “demonships.” In Lyons, France, “admitted” space travelers were killed.
More recently, on 24 July 1957 Russian anti-aircraft batteries on the Kouril Islands opened fire on UFO’s. Although all Soviet anti-aircraft batteries on the Islands were in action, no hits were made. The UFO’s were luminous and moved very fast.
We too have fired on UFO’s. About ten o’clock one morning, a radar site near a fighter base picked up a UFO doing 700 mph. The UFO then slowed to 100 mph, and two F-86’s were scrambled to intercept.
Eventually one F-86 closed on the UFO at about 3,000 feet altitude. The UFO began to accelerate away but the pilot still managed to get within 500 yards of the target for a short period of time. It was definitely saucer shaped. As the pilot pushed the F-86 at top speed, the UFO began to pull away. When the range reached 1,000 yards, the pilot armed his guns and fired in an attempt to down the saucer. He failed, and the UFO pulled away rapidly, vanishing in the distance.
This same basic situation may have happened on a more personal level. On Sunday evening 21 August 1955, eight adults and three children were on the Sutton Farm (one-half mile from Kelly, Kentucky) when, according to them, one of the children saw a brightly glowing UFO settle behind the barn, out of sight from where he stood. Other witnesses on nearby farms also saw the object. However, the Suttons dismissed it as a “shooting star”, and did not investigate. Approximately thirty minutes later (at 8:00 PM), the family dogs began barking so two of the men went to the back door and looked out. Approximately 50 feet away and coming toward them was a creature wearing a glowing silvery suit. It was about three and one-half feet tall with a large round head and very long arms. It had large webbed hands, which were equipped with claws. The two Suttons grabbed a twelve-gauge shotgun and a .22 caliber pistol, and fired at close range. They could hear the pellets and bullet ricochet as if off of metal. The creature was knocked down, but jumped up and scrambled away. The Suttons retreated into the house, turned off all inside lights, and turned on the porch light. At that moment, one of the women who was peeking out of the dining room window discovered that a creature with some sort of helmet and wide slit eyes was peeking back at her. She screamed, the men rushed in and started shooting. The creature was knocked backwards but again scrambled away without apparent harm. More shooting occurred (a total of about 50 rounds) over the next 20 minutes and the creatures finally left (perhaps feeling unwelcome?) After about a two hour wait (for safety), the Suttons left too.
By the time the police got there, the aliens were gone but the Suttons would not move back to the farm. They sold it and departed. This reported incident does bear out the contention though that humans are dangerous. At no time in the story did the supposed aliens shoot back, although one is left with the impression that the described creatures were having fun scaring humans.
33.5 SMALL SCALE SCIENTIFIC EFFORTS
Almost all-scientific efforts to date have been small scale; that is, one or two people would work on an idea, usually without either adequate time or resources. Such efforts are commendable, but rarely very successful. The nature of the problem is that adequate data can only be obtained by a large-scale effort by many investigators, and, with adequate data, real progress is almost impossible to make. We will discuss three small-scale efforts here. They are 1. ORTHOTENY (i.e., UFO sightings fall on “great circle” routes). 2. The Moon ILLUSION, and 3. The frequency plot.
Orthoteny looked promising for a time. At first, plots of sighting seemed to verify the concept but recent use of computers has suggested that even random numbers yield “great circle” plots as neatly as do UFO sightings.
On the other hand, the “moon illusion” appears to be a solid advance in knowledge. Jacques and Janine Vallee have taken a particular type of UFO — namely those that are lower than treetop level when sighted — and plotted the UFO’s estimated diameter versus the estimated distance from the observer. The result yields an average diameter of 5 meters with a very characteristic drop for short viewing distances. This behavior at the extremes of the curve is well known to astronomers and psychologists as the “moon illusion.” The illusion only occurs when the object being viewed is a real, physical object. Because this implies that the observers have viewed a real object, it permits us to accept also their statement that these particular UFO’s had a rotational axis of symmetry. Please not though that a real, physical object does not have to be an artificial phenomenon… instead it can be natural phenomenon.
Another, less solid, advance made by the Vallee’s was their plotting of the total number of sightings per week versus the date. They did this for the time span from 1947 to 1962, and then attempted to match the peaks of the curve (every 2 years 2 months) to the
times of Earth-Mars conjunction (every 2 years 1.4 months). The match was very good between 1950 and 1956 but was poor outside those limits. Also, the peaks were not only at the times of Earth-Mars conjunction but also roughly at the first harmonic (very loosely, every 13 months). This raises the question why should UFO’s only visit Earth when Mars is in conjunction and when it is on the opposite side of the sun. Obviously, the conjunction periodicity of Mars is not the final answer. As it happens, there is an interesting possibility to consider. Suppose Jupiter’s conjunctions were used; they are every 13.1 months. That would satisfy the observed periods nicely, except for every even data peak being of different magnitude from every odd data peak. Perhaps a combination of Martian, Jovian, and Saturnian (and even other planetary) conjunctions will be necessary to match the frequency plot…if it can be matched.
A more practical possibility was raised by Lt. Col. Raymond Kelley (USAF, Ret). He pointed out that any civilization of aliens was more likely to be controlled by budgetary constraints than by physical location of the area of interest. He suggested that Economists might be able to tell a great amount about the possible aliens’ financial structure by examining the fluctuations in sightings. To that suggestion we should also add the possibility of religious constraints upon business and travel. Further data correlation is quite difficult.
There are a large number of different saucer shapes but this may mean little. For example, look at the number of different types of aircraft which are in use in the U. S. Air Force alone.
It is obvious that intensive scientific study is needed in this area; no such study has yet been undertaken at the necessary levels of intensity needed. Something that must be guarded against in any such study is the trap of implicitly assuming that our knowledge of Physics (or any other branch of science) is complete. An example of one such trap is selecting a group of physical laws, which we now accept as valid, and assume that they will never be superseded. Five such laws might be:
1. Every action must have an opposite and equal reaction.
2. Every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of the masses and inversely as the square of the distance.
3. Energy, mass and momentum are conserved.
4. No material body can have a speed as great as c, the speed of light in free space.
5. The maximum energy, E, which can be obtained from a body at rest is E=mc2, where m is the rest mass of the body.
Laws numbered 1 and 3 seem fairly safe, but let us hesitate and take another look. Actually, law number 3 is only valid (now) from a relativistic viewpoint; and for that matter so are laws 4 and 5. But relativity completely revised these physical concepts after 1915, before then Newtonian mechanics were supreme. We should also note that general relativity has not yet been verified. Thus we have the peculiar situation of five laws which appear to deny the possibility of intelligent alien control of UFO’s, yet three of the laws are recent in concept and may not even be valid. Also, law number 2 has not yet been tested under conditions of large relative speeds or accelerations. We should not deny the possibility of alien control of UFO’s on the basis of preconceived notions not established as related or relevant to the UFO’s.
33.6 MEDIUM SCALE SCIENTIFIC EFFORTS
Only two medium scale scientific efforts have been carried out. The first effort was a 2 year long study
carried out by scientists and engineers of Battelle Memorial Institute in statistical analysis of 2,199 UFO reports. The second effort was the previously mentioned, Government-financed study headed by
Dr. Edward U. Condon at the University of Colorado. Condon’s group concentrated on an intensive case by case analysis of a relatively small number of UFO reports (about 90).
Unfortunately, credence in that effort’s scientific detachment was damaged by Condon’s ill-advised statement (made when the project was just starting); “It is my inclination right now to recommend that the government get out of the business. My attitude right now is that there’s nothing to it.” Condon did not change his mind during the project . . . and he has been the subject of criticism for apparently not taking part in any field efforts.
Another point, which weakens the credence placed in that effort, in that effort is that the final report on the project went to great length to chastise others foe not researching the cases adequately, yet the Report show that Condon’s group was guilty of that also (as discussed earlier in this chapter). Furthermore the Report was written in such a fashion so as to make the final statistics difficult to obtain. That might have been accidental but it looks strange when very positive conclusions are claimed on the basis of a two-thirds sample.
Most people may not realize it but out of about 90 cases, at least 31 (and possibly 34) were left in the unknown category. Such an action is peculiar for the same branch of science that identified the positron on the basis of very few samples compared to the electron samples available. Please do not misunderstand what I am saying. The Condon Reports conclusions may well be correct . . . but they may also be quite wrong. The evidence does not seem to warrant the formation of firm conclusions at this time.
Perhaps the last thing to weaken credence in the Report was Condon’s statement (within the Report) that “Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto are so far from the sun that they are too cold for life to exist there.” Any good astronomer can tell you that Condon’s statement is only true for Pluto. There is one good thing that the project did accomplish though. It performed the first cut at sifting the data so that valid data would be available for correlation studies. However, not enough total data has yet been sifted to permit reliable research on correlation (such as the “moon illusion” work, or the study to be discussed next).
Despite the lack of large amounts of thoroughly sifted data, scientists and engineers at Battelle Memorial Institute (not using the Condon Report’s data) have conducted a detailed statistical analysis. That statistical analysis produced extremely interesting results; it was based on 2,1999 UFO reports, each of which was individually and carefully evaluated (but not investigated) and categorized. The distribution of UFO sighting reports among the selected categories was as shown below in Table 33-1
Table 33-1 UFO REPORT CATEGORIZATION
Category Number Percent
Unknown 434 19,7 Insufficient Information 240 10.9 Astronomical 479 21.8 Aircraft 474 21.6 Balloon 339 15.4 Other 233 10.6 TOTAL 2,199 100.0%
The first two categories contain those sightings whose causes could not be identified. (It is more than curious that the percentage of the first two categories adds up to 30.6% . . .essentially the same as remained unidentified in the Condon Report.) The first category of the two—the UNKNOWN category—consists of sightings where the description of the object and its maneuvers could not be fitted to the patterns of any known phenomenon. Almost 20% of the reports fell in the UNKNOWN category!
The second category consists of sightings, which did not have adequate information to disallow identification as a common object or known natural phenomenon. The next three categories (astronomical, aircraft, balloon) are self-explanatory. The last category consists of birds, hoaxes, searchlights on clouds, etc. It should be emphasized again that the UNKNOWNS were not categorized that way because of insufficient information. The 2,1999 UFO sightings reports were also grouped as to the quality of the sightings, as shown in Table 33-2. Below.
QUALITY DISTRIBUTION OF REPORTS
Quality Group ALL UNKOWNS INSUFF. INFO No. % of TOTAL No. % of GROUP No. % of GROUP
An exciting discovery revealed in Table 33-2 is that, the better the quality of the report, the greater the probability that the report will be classified as UNKNOWN. That finding is totally contradictory to the often-stated authoritarian position that adequate information would enable every report to be explained as an Earth-generated phenomenon. Further statistical analysis of the characteristics of the UNKNOWN versus the KNOWNS yielded another exciting result. The result was that there was a less than 1% probability of the UNKNOWN and KNOWN observations being of the same types of things.
However, it must be re-emphasized the study did not have the benefit of data sifted on a case by case basis. Therefore, the results should not be relied upon too heavily. Furthermore, even if the results are completely valid, other explanations are possible without invoking sentient aliens. But . . . the results are still quite provocative.
33.7 A POSSIBLE LARGE SCALE SCIENTIFIC EFFORT
As pointed out earlier, the case by case approach of Condon is an excellent way to sift data so that valid data can be made available for further work. This approach could be uses as the first phase of a massive effort identify perhaps 2000 cases for further work. Then, correlation studies could be performed on that remaining data, as was done at Battelle. It is possible that such studies might reveal more information about the UFOs . . . it is also possible that they might not. After all, there might not be anything to learn. However, because of the “Condon Report’s poorly-supported conclusions, it is doubtful that any such effort will be made in the near future.
33.8 THE PROPULSION PROBLEM
One of the strongest arguments against the UFOs being spacecraft is that no known propulsions system can operate the way the UFOs are supposed to. However, remember that mankind has a lot to learn, and that there may well be many propulsive systems possible of which we know nothing as yet. For example, there is a force, which to the best of my knowledge has not yet been named. It is produced by a high frequency, high voltage electric field (with a strong gradient) when it interacts with a charge particle or plasma. Also to the best of my knowledge, this force has not been investigated by any large organization. Yet, it would seem that something like that force would be required to propel any possible alien spacecraft, which exhibits the UFO characteristics.
33.9 CONCLUSION
From available information, the UFO phenomenon appears to have been global in nature for almost 50,000 years. The majority of known witnesses have been reliable people who have seen easily explained natural phenomena, and there appears to be no overall positive correlation with population density. The entire phenomenon could be psychological in nature but that is quite doubtful. However, psychological factors probably do enter the data picture as “noise.” The phenomenon could also be entirely due to known and unknown phenomena (with some psychological “noise” added in) but that too is questionable in view of some of the available data.
This leaves us with the unpleasant possibility of alien visitors to our planet, or at least of alien controlled UFO’s. However, the data are not well correlated, and what questionable data there are suggest the existence of at least three and maybe four different groups of aliens (possibly at different states of development). This too is difficult to accept. It implies the existence of intelligent life on a majority of the planets in our solar system, or a surprisingly strong interest in Earth by members of other solar systems.
A solution to the UFO problem may be obtained by the long and diligent effort of a large group of well financed and competent scientists, unfortunately there is no evidence suggesting that such an effort is going to be made. However, even if such an effort were made, there is no guarantee of success because of the isolated and sporadic nature of the sightings. Also, there may be nothing to find, and that would mean a long search with no profit at the end. The best thing to do is to keep an open and skeptical mind, and not to take extreme positions on any side of the question.
The images were not in the textbook and are placed to help the reader understand the information.
Filer’s Files #9 2016 We’ve Lost Many Men and Planes to UFOs - PART I
Strange craft filmed on February 10, 2016 over Felixstowe, England
Filer’s Files #9 2016 We’ve Lost Many Men and Planes to UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: General Chidlaw,We Have Lost Many Men Trying To Intercept UFOs, Quietly Star Wars is being Built, Peru – Crashed UFO, Chosen: Chronicles of an Alien Abductee.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Brazil, Canada, Cuba, India, Ireland, Mexico, Turkey, and England, and North Wales in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation. The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force and Prince Phillip told me of his personal interest in UFOs. The US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
We Have Lost Many Men Trying to Intercept UFOs
General Benjamin Chidlaw told investigators, `We have stacks of reports about flying saucers. We take them seriously when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.” Commander Air Defense Command 1951 to 1955.
Timothy Good writes, “The destruction or disappearance of military aircraft during interceptions of UFOs continued apace.” As General Benjamin Chidlaw, former commanding general of Air (later Aerospace) Defense Command told Robert C. Gardener (ex USAF) in 1953: “We have stack of reports of flying saucers. We take them seriously, when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.”
Leonard Stringfield, the former Air Force intelligence officer was told by a reliable source in the 1950s that the “Air Force was losing about a plane a day to the UFOs.” Stringfield was reliably informed. According to US Defense Department figures, from 1952 until the end of October 1956, there were 18,662 major accidents of military aircraft, broken down as follows:
Year -Air Force – Navy Losses
1952 2,274 2,086
1953 2,075 2,325
1954 1,873 1,911
1955 1,664 1,566
1956 1,530 1,358
Of this astonishing accident total, most involved fast new jets (such as those scrambled in UFO interceptions), of which 56.2 per cent were found to be caused by pilot error; 8.1 per cent by ground-crew or other personnel failure; 23.4 per cent by failure of parts and equipment in the aircraft; 2.8 per cent by various ‘unsafe conditions’, and –9.5 per cent (1,773) were due to ‘unknown factors’. Thanks to Timothy Good’ book, “Need to Know” P.172
Quietly Star Wars is being Built
The largest and most expensive weapons program in the US defense budget costing 8.5 Billion dollars plus are the National Missile Defense (NMD) program. It is designed to develop and deploy an operationally effective weapons system to protect the United States against limited ballistic missile threats, including accidental or launches from rogue nations like North Korea or Iran. We can speculate the NMD program may also be designed to be used against UFOs?
The above photograph was shown with various NMD photographs and the cruiser USS Lake Erie that detected, tracked, and destroyed a mock two-stage ballistic missile within two minutes of the ballistic missile launch. Shown above I speculate is part of the system intercepting objects in space. Part of this NMD system is the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, that includes US Naval space and ground forces that include other countries such as Turkey, Romania, Poland and Japan.
In September, the Obama administration confirmed that Romania would host the first deployment of Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) land-based interceptors and that Poland would host the next site in 2018. Turkey and Bulgaria may play a role as well, according to administration officials, who are seeking to soothe Russian concerns by inviting Moscow to join U.S.-NATO missile defense plans… Turkey has agreed to have a radar site.
Russian officials fear the system could be used to intercept Russian long-range missiles aimed at the United States or even used to launch nuclear warheads at Russia.The Pentagon has acquired the use of seven military bases in Bulgaria and Romania, immediately after both countries were formally inducted into NATO. Washington has also transformed Georgia on the eastern shore of the Black Sea into a military outpost on Russia’s southern border and has similar designs on Ukraine.
Whether on land or at sea, the SM-3 continues to excel in testing. In 2014, the SM-3 Block IB was successfully launched for the first time from an Aegis Ashore testing site in Hawaii. The program has more than 25 successful space intercepts, and more than 240 interceptors have been delivered to U.S. and Japanese navies. Current plans call for buying a total of 52 Block IBs per year for the next several years. In September 2015, it was reported that the Department of Defense’s planned to buy a total of 396 Block IBs.
SM-3 Block IB The SM-3 Block IB has an enhanced two-color infrared seeker and upgraded steering and propulsion capability that uses short bursts of precision propulsion to direct the missile toward incoming targets. It became operational in 2014, deploying for the first time on U.S. Navy ships worldwide.
Aegis Missile Defense Destroyer
SM-3 Block IIA The next-generation SM-3 Block IIA is being developed in cooperation with Japan and will be deployable on land as well as at sea. It has two distinct new features: larger rocket motors that will allow it to defend broader areas from ballistic missile threats and a larger kinetic warhead. North Korea’s and China’s development of a long-range intercontinental missiles threatens both Japan and the US.
SM-3 Block IIA is the centerpiece of the European missile defense system, and Raytheon Company began flight testing in 2015 to keep the program on track for 2018 deployment at sea and on land in Poland. Theoretically, SM-3 could also be used against UFOs although some have electromagnetic protection.
The United States plans to buy 182 Block IIA interceptors solely for the European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA).[8] These missiles, to be deployed at the Polish and Romanian Aegis Ashore sites (up to 24 each) and on the four U.S. Navy destroyers now based in Spain, would support the EPAA though 2040. With a Block IIA lifetime of twelve years, not all of these would be deployed simultaneously, with the total deployed at any one time likely between 96 and 144.
Currently eleven U.S. Aegis Ships are forward deployed at Yokosuka, Japan, seven of which are BMD capable. In addition, it can be expected that Japan, which is co-producing the Block IIA, will deploy a substantial number of them on its eight planned Aegis BMD capable ships, although I do not include these in my count here.
Peru – Crashed UFO Was Hit by Something
Marine Corps Lance Corporal John Weygandt, who was part of the Disclosure Project, was sent to Peru in March 1997, to provide perimeter security for a radar installation that he was told tracked drug traffic aircraft in Peru and Bolivia. He states, “About midnight, while I was on guard duty, Sergeant Allen and Sergeant Atkinson told me, an aircraft crashed and they need us to go and secure the crash site.” Early that morning we drove six Hummers close to the crash site just when it started to get light. Well, we found the area real easy because there was a huge gash in the land where something had crashed. Everything was burned and it was as if something had almost cut warm butter with a knife. It was like something on fire or had some kind of energy like a laser had cut it. It was really strange. I was in the front with Sergeant Allen and Sergeant Atkinson and we were ten or twenty meters ahead of everyone else. We were the first ones to see this thing. It had gone up the hill and then off in the side of the ravine and ridge. This was a 200-foot ridge, of solid rock. A huge craft was buried at a 45-degree angle in the side of the cliff there at the ridge. It was straight up and down. ‘
The craft was dripping a greenish-purple syrup-like liquid. The liquid was everywhere and fluctuated like it was alive and changing to a different shade of greenish purple. The craft was humming like a bass guitar and had a slowly turning light. Most of the craft seemed buried into the cliff but vents, like a fish gill were on the back.
The liquid got on my clothes and ate holes in them and burned off some the hair on my arms. There were three holes in the ship that may have been hatches that were not flush with the main body of the craft. There was another hatch the same width and diameter of the top hatch and it was kind of crooked to the side and it was half-open. I didn’t see any lights or anything coming out of it but I felt this… presence. It is real strange. I think the creatures calmed me. It was weird and I think they were trying to communicate with me, like, I guess, telepathically. The Corporal estimated the craft was ten meters in width and about 20 meters in length and shaped like something between an egg and a teardrop. The skin of the craft had bumps and notches and appendages on it. It was really organic and almost like art. It looked like something that could be made in a shop. It looked like it could have been handmade but out of what materials I do not know. It was definitely nothing like titanium. It looked like metal but there was no reflection. The sun was shining on it and I could see the different shades of the craft and it didn’t reflect anything. Suddenly the Sergeants were yelling at me to get the hell out of there.
After we climbed back up, the Department of Energy people were there. They knew about it so I don’t know why we went there still to this day. But anyway, I was arrested and cuffed, both hands down. I had all my gear taken from me by men in black cammies who threatened me, subdued me, and put me on a cot. They had no nametags. At the crash site there were about thirty of these guys wearing hazard suits.
I had been told aircraft were flying in and out of the atmosphere at mach ten plus. When you have objects that reenter the atmosphere, then stop on a dime, then turn around, and go exactly the opposite direction – that is somewhat strange. Meteors don’t do that. The craft was not from Earth. I knew that when I looked at it. I wondered if those facilities were built for the intent to track UFO’s and their cover was to track drug aircraft. They had laser range finders and all kinds of high tech stuff that I have never seen before. They [the laser range finders] looked like big telescopes and some sort of Command Center manned by a multi –national force. So these craft were tracked from this particular radar and were logged. I’m confident that when I saw the aircraft, it had been hit by something. Something had taken it out.
Editor’s Note: Corporal Weygandt described a craft damaged by enemy action, either ours or an opposing alien force. His testimony on Page 274 of “Disclosure: Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets” by Steven Greer M.D. is excellent and indicates lethal deadly force was being used against alien intruders during the Clinton Administration. We can assume this war continues.
Chosen: Chronicles of an Alien Abductee
Byron W. Lacy has written an excellent book that should be read by everyone, because you may also be an abductee. He personally denied he was an abductee for fifty years despite many unexplained miracles and strange phenomena in his life. Do you have the feeling something is not right, this book will help solve your concerns.
He remembers the helplessness and fear that a five-year-old would feel when he is first visited by extraterrestrials? How about the look on his parents’ faces when he confesses his alien encounter? This is Byron W. Lacy’s firsthand account of what modern science insists is only folklore. He feels he was sent here on a mission and writes on Page 38:
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Filer’s Files #9 2016 We’ve Lost Many Men and Planes to UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #9 2016 We’ve Lost Many Men and Planes to UFOs - PART II
Sightings in the United States
Arizona Alien Encounter
Phoenix — Lon Strickler report, “I received an inquiry on Wednesday from an elderly woman in the Phoenix suburb of Surprise; She witnessed two humanoid beings standing outside her bedroom window on December 21, a few days before Christmas 2015. I called and talked to the witness Thursday night in an attempt to gather more details. I am presenting this case to the readers and other investigators as a means of gathering additional data and knowledge about these beings. The witness was extremely alarmed by the incident and she is desperately seeking answers. She woke up about 1:30 am. I glanced out my bedroom window, and this is what I saw: Two gray short people like figures with cone heads. The tallest stood four feet tall, and the smallest one about three feet stood directly in front of the taller one. They just stood motionless. I looked, and then looked again, as I have never seen anything like this EVER! I set on the edge of my bed and I just kept looking at them. They didn’t move. Neither one of them had facial features at all. It appeared to me they had something over their heads to hide their appearance. I didn’t let my dog out, as I didn’t know what could happen. I laid back down in bed, I went to sleep! I didn’t awake until the next morning 8:30 am. 7 HOURS? I called the police a week or so later. They just told me to go to the ER or to call the Crisis Center. About a week later I went to my church, the priest didn’t believe me, or didn’t want to discuss, this alien encounter! I have done a lot of research online, and these Greys, with cone heads have been seen before, and are described as I have described them. I have never believed in UFO’s or Paranormal sightings, or have I ever viewed any web site on my computer until after I encountered these two Grey little people looking in to my bedroom window.
This was not a dream! I was completely awake! No medicine I take has any side effects, that would cause me to hallucinate! I am a senior citizen, I am living alone. This has scared me. They have not come back! I worry that they might come back. I have so many questions. I also called CH 113 EWTN TV. The person I talked to at EWTN didn’t believe me and did not want to discuss the matter. Please e-mail me. I have not told my friends or family. Please help me with answers I have. I pray daily that I never see them again! I called the witnessed and received more specific details…though most of it was personal. She did state that these beings wore full-length cloaks that were the same color (grayish-brown) of the cone-like covering over the head and face. The cone was more like a helmet. She also stated that she never sleeps more than 3 hours without waking…but she slept for an uninterrupted 7 hours, which she states she has never done before or since.
There was a NUFORC reported UFO sighting over Surprise, AZ the same night of the encounter: In some respects, these beings remind me of the descriptions for the ‘Teros’ species…a supposed Earth underground dwelling race of humanoids with cone-shaped heads. They do have human-like facial features, so this may have been a face covering of some type. They are also referred to as ‘Sunaynans’…’The Yearly Ones,’ an ancient race that parallels Arizona legends. Thanks to Lon Strickler NOTE: The above image is the witness rendering. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
California Lights
Los Angeles — Jump to the end of this video and you will see that this person caught an alien drone that decided to check out this balloon on February 14, 2016. Alien orbs are AI drones that record everything that passes their area. This one slowed down enough to get a fantastic capture of it.
It’s actually not round, but tear drop shaped with edges and a monumental catch by UFO researcher Maria Argote. Thanks to Scott C. Waring Website
Colorado Disc
Rocky Ford— We observed red and white lights in a row appearing to be part of a craft on February 16, 2016. It hovered at a distance changing position but staying at the same altitude. It would come in with one to two bright white lights, which appeared to be part of a reflective surface. Six or more red lights would be added in a straight row. They would fade out then reappear at different positions. The lights were near the radio tower. A tree in the foreground was between me and the tower bracketing the lights. We watched the sighting for 35 minutes. The white lights were bright and the brightest lights in the sky. My feeling are that we saw a large hovering object a distance away emitting bright lights that showed a reflective surface with more lights appearing that were red. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Orb
Cape Coral— Bright light like orbs were seen in the west on February 11, 2016. First, there were two and one disappeared.
The second traveled north very slow then turned west and in a flash was gone. I could see it speed off in flight path.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Hawaii Power Loss
Koneohe Bay — My daughter looked up and observed a huge ball of light in the night sky on February 19, 2016over the Hawaii Marine Base where she lives with her husband whom is in the military police. She watched for a bit, as it was so much bigger and brighter than everything else was in the sky. That is when it started pulsing and moving around. It would get dim, then extremely bright repeatedly as it maneuvered around. She realized it was a mile away in the sky. She then became amazed so she called a neighbor and the cell phones went to static. When her friend walked over, she also saw the object as well. After 15 minutes, it flew off and immediately the entire island lost ALL power.
Then they witnessed aircraft circling the areas. She is a bit un-nerved but excited. She also saw a similar UFO three months ago. This was NOT an aircraft she is familiar with seeing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maine Orb
Durham — I had gotten up at midnight, and as always, before returning to bed, I looked up at the clear night sky on February 22, 2016. The object was immediately noticeable as it was very bright and much larger than surrounding stars.
Unmagnified, it looked like a white orb. I got my cell phone, set it to telephoto, and snapped a couple of shots. The shape was orb like, with a sort of notch out of it. The object got smaller and farther away as I watched and gave up and went to bed. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Orb
Boston— I was taking some pictures of a beautiful sunset near Constitution Beach in East Boston on February 20, 2016 at 5:10 PM. When I got back home, I showed the pictures to my wife and we noticed a little object on one picture. We said, “That looks like a Flying Saucer.” So, we saw the next picture and that object was right there again in a different place. The object is on the first four pictures out of 14.
The object is moving from the center of the photo it’s on top of the sun also you can observe a halo on it. In the second, the object is on the right hand side of the picture and the next two photos the object is on the left hand side of the photos in a lapse of time of two seconds. So checking the info on the photos all four were taken at 5:10 PM, within a minute. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Disc
Gerald — I was driving home from work heading down Highway 50 towards Gerald Union on February 17, 2016.
I saw a translucent glowing disc zip across the road and disappear in the tree line.
Then, I noticed a glowing light on the road in front of me. I slowed down and took this picture as it was descending. I actually got close to the light physically. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Humanoid
Manchester — I was in bed resting, and frequently awaken between the hours of two to four am. I was lying on my back when I noticed to my left the White Light Being. He looked humanoid but tall and thin. With no sound the being reached into my left chest area; I did not feel any pain, pressure or discomfort. That lasted about five minutes. The being removed its hand from my left chest and stood there for two minutes and then vanished. I only saw a solo being and no craft. I felt fine the next few months, however; a strong intuitive urge kept hounding me to get to the cardiologist. Again, I had no chest pains or anything.
I to got an EKG and they ordered a stress test, then read the test and they informed me of my dyer health condition. So, I was rushed into the hospital to prep me for a triple bypass and a replacement Aorta valve. I was born Bicuspid instead of Tricuspid. It was a triple bypass and an Aorta valve replacement; they joked and said a two for one operation deal since they sawed my chest opened.
My take and feelings on this incident was the White Light Being made temporary repairs for me to not have a heart attack or stroke ahead of time. The doctors were saying you are so lucky because the bicuspid one valve was completely clogged and your heart valves for the bypasses were clogged in bad shape that I got into the hospital at the right time. It was a miracle. All the while, the White Light Being made adjustments to give me the time and the strong intuition to get into the hospital to save my life. I have the closest image of the White Light Being I could find anywhere and a photo of a man sleeping like I would have that night. PS I do not dream of being in my bedroom. When I dream I dream of going vast distances, seeing other things, never did I have a dream of myself in my bed. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Lights
Akron— I was going to the restroom and this light caught my eye out the window towards the south on February 12, 2016. I looked out and noticed it was not moving and the lights were pulsing. I texted my brother who came over and he also saw the object. To the southwest, a long and V shaped object appeared with white lights.
There was a blue/green light on the bottom center. It moved upwards, then descended and disappeared. I took a picture and my phone flashed, as it moved closer to my house and scared the heck out of me. My brother also took a picture. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oklahoma Disc
Tahlequah — I was headed home with my husband and decided to take a picture of some clouds on December 9, 2016.
I was driving down Indian Road when I snapped the two photos.
I did not see anything before or after but there was an unknown object only in the second photo that had to be moving fast.
I am starting to think that I am crazy. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Cylinder
Kecksburg–On February 16, 2016, I took several pictures in the same area of the sky. I do not recall having seen anything in the sky. I am unsure if there was any known aircraft traveling through the area at that time. The object seen in the picture is white with a grey cloud/mist surrounding it. It has a rectangle/cigar shape. I cannot tell of its motions or actions since it appeared only in the picture. Upon seeing it in the picture, I wondered if there were any airplanes at the time the picture was taken, but I have no recollection of having seen anything in the sky. I have the original picture as well as two in which I zoomed in on the object and saved as a screenshot, all three of which I am sending with the report. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tennessee Orb
Sevierville— We were on a weekend trip and these pictures were taken one immediately after the other from the back deck of a mountain top cabin while taking pictures of the sunbeam on February 19, 2016
There was no sound and the object wasn’t noticed until we reviewed the pictures.
We blew them up and couldn’t believe or explain what we were seeing. It was quite creepy.
Thanks to MUFON CMS Note: Object left of the sun may be a lens flare.
Washington Orbs
Seattle — At 4:30AM, I went outside to smoke a cigarette in our back parking lot on February 23, 2016. I was observing the stars and looked directly overhead to see a bright as the moon delta shaped object at about 45+ thousand feet. It flew north to south over the roof of my apartment. It was huge about the 1/5 the size of the moon or looked to be. It then faded to black as blackness moved over it until it disappeared and could not be seen against the blackness off the sky.
I was in shock, I just saw delta shaped object with the darkness covering it up from the back to the front even though it was going forward.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Convincing Triangle UFO
Stanhope Gardens — Early evening sitting on my patio at 18:40 PM, on December 16, 2013 I noticed a small black object hovering in the sky to the north. At first, I thought it may be a kite but it just hung there. I grabbed my iPhone and took three photos at different magnifications.
I watched the object for a while and then went back inside. Next time I came out it was gone. “The Phoenix Incident” had a triangular craft being pursued by an F-15 and it reminded me of my photo. I really do not know what it was but it was weird to just be hovering in the sky. Photos are untouched and taken with an iPhone 5. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
Jervis Bay— On Tuesday February 9, at around 2:40 PM, and getting washing when I saw something to the southeast, which caused me to do a double take. I saw a slate grey elliptical aircraft emerge from fog and disappeared back into it. There are no zeppelins or blimps active in this region of Australia and there was no fog on Tuesday afternoon. The sighting lasted no more than twenty seconds. I also felt a sense of unease, and foreboding, which lingered for much of Tuesday afternoon. Earlier in the day, I had passed Jervis Bay and saw the Navy was conducting maneuvers. I glimpsed a small aircraft of some kind, and was prepared to dismiss the incident as a trick of the eyes. Friday night, I took a look at MUFON to see tributes to Edgar Mitchell and read news of a UFO incident in America similar to mine. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brazil Lights
Santa Catarina – A bright formation of lights changed formation and shape.
Discovered in photos taken on February , 2016 on the grounds of Cachoeira Seca in Camburiú in Santa Catarina Brazil. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Orbs
Toronto— At sunrise on 11th & 12th of October 2015, a radiating “object” in the shape of a large diamond appeared. The color as witnessed was in an old tone.
Photographic evidence and close-ups are attached in this report that shows different rotating-changing shapes in all kinds of hues. It changed from white to pink to green to near metallic to blue and so forth. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Toronto — At about 7:10 PM on February 17, 2016 in my apartment faced towards the north side, right in front of Taylor Creek Ravine. My mom witnessed what seemed to be an extremely bright helicopter. It looked very much like a white star, but was far away, and at a high altitude. It looked like it changed directions descending toward my building. I ran to the bedroom and was mesmerized by what appeared to be a glowing triangle with three distinct flashing lights of blue, red, and white. I saw it up close, maybe within 400-500 feet asking myself; is this real? My mother was right beside me, to confirm that my eyes were not playing tricks on me. It looked 30 feet on each side moving extremely fast. I can say for sure that it was NOT an airplane, or helicopter. I saw it perfectly that it was a defined triangle with lights. I lost sight of this object when it moved south and up. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Cuba Many Documented Alien Craft Sightings
On March 16, 1950, Captain Miguel Murciano of the Compañía de Aviación Cubana reported having timed the progress of an unknown object over Antilla Airport on the island’s eastern edge. The strange object, he said,” was traveling at extraordinary speeds at five thousand feet “covering eight degrees in sixteen minutes” – Captain Murciano the object at 10:15 AM, during a flight from Santiago de Cuba to Antilla. All crewmembers and passengers saw the object agreeing it was not an airplane. Dr. Sergio Cervera of the Comisión Investigadora de Fenómenos Aéreos (CIFA) compiled a list of significant UFO-related cases in Cuba going as far back as the 1930s. Dr. Cervera’s notes for the year 1952 include a sighting by fifty witnesses in the village of Candonga when, a very bright light began zigzagging, and engaged in a cosmic ballet for an hour.
In 1953, Lt. Waldo Martinez, in the Cuban army, was driving a jeep toward the city of Trinidad when his vehicle’s engine shut down. It was then he noticed a powerful green light flying past his jeep, landing some 200 meters away. The object’s lights dimmed as the jeep regained its power and Mr. Martinez and his passengers resumed their journey. This CE-2 included the discovery of a burned circle on the ground, measuring some sixty feet across.
Researcher Orestes Girbau mentions an unusual event that took place on July 5, 1959 in the Bay of Matanzas when 30 Boy Scouts and their leaders had gone out on a hike at 9:30 AM. The entire troop ran toward the beach watching an object, which emerged from the sea and was only a few meters over the surface. The object was oval-shaped glowing disk or top that leveled off and rose straight up at an astonishing rate of speed, vanishing into the blue in less than 15 seconds.”
Once settled down, the witnesses agreed that the object was metallic in appearance and silver in color. Two anglers who watched report was wingless and between 20 and 26 feet in diameter and noiseless
Bangalore — I have received your emails for five years and have been interested in UFOs for 30 years. Sunset photography is my hobby and I often travel from Bangalore to Mysore for duty. Every evening I took thousands of photos and the best ones are published in my facebook page. Facebook
This photo was taken on February 3, 2016 at 5.53 pm, in a moving train as is usual every day. This object is far or distant I cannot analyze. Please examine this and give a review. If it is far away, it is definitely a UFO, if it is only 15 feet away it is a falling tree leave. Thanks to MUFON CMS VijaMK
India’s River Low Water Reveals Amazing Sight
The recently reduced river in Karnataka has been showing strange rock formations that have been leading many people to go to its edges and stare in wonder. Part of the reason is the fact that these have historical meaning to the Hindu population. Commonly known as Shiva Ling, the symbols and rock formations that are becoming noticeable are said to be hints that long ago aliens walked amongst us. There are plenty of conspiracies over the symbols and what their “true” meaning is. In modern culture, they are meant as strength and power, but many believe that it could be a sign that aliens have come long ago, and these are signs that they are going to return. Whatever you believe, they’re a sight to see. SEE THE VIDEO HERE >>Website
Ireland Orb
It was sunny day; we wanted to take a selfie. Then we saw a bright object in the photo that at first we thought was the light of the sun.
I immediately took another photo on February 19, 2016.
After one minute, the orb changed again and we took another photo, Because of the sun, we couldn’t see it.in third photo.
It was changed again but it had something like wings. They were red.in fourth picture it disappeared
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico Lights
Puerto Vallarta — My wife, my two children and I sat at a table on the second floor of La Posta Restaurant looking at the sunset on February 13, 2016. We had clear view of the ocean when an orange glow appeared on the horizon after the sun set. At first, we thought it was an airplane but it hovered, and then shot up over a mile in two seconds. It came back down at the same speed to stop and hover on the horizon again. It then flew southwest, stopped, followed a similar path in the opposite direction heading northwest then came back in the same location where it hovered again before shooting upward and disappeared. I was convinced this was a UFO based on its behavior. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Philippines Disc
Calapan City — My girlfriend took the kids to the beach about on January15, 2016, in middle of the day as she usually does, noticed an object, and took a video. She brought the cam recorder because she has spotted the object around the same area roughly once a month. She also stated that when it appears it is always in front of the sun. I was not present but watching the video, it seems to change shape or reflect and/absorb light. I also noticed what I think looks like a thin red line maybe a light across the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Turkey Light
Tekirda— When I was at home, my mother said she saw a light in sky from our window. I took the orange-yellow light’s picture.
It waited in sky for 2-3 minutes. Then it moved into space…
My English is not good, but I can tell in Turkish to the MUFON National Director of Turkey…
Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Cylinder
Felixstowe– The object was seen for about 5 minutes, it was very light color on February 10, 2016. There is a plane leaving a contrail flying under it suggesting it is flying at a very altitude and is huge. Thanks to MUFON CMS
United Kingdom North Wales
Llandudno— Robert and Susie Hale are asking if aliens are making visits to the Llandudno area? They have seen UFOs several times in the last year. Their first experience was when they saw and unusual Easter egg-shaped object in the sky above their home in March. It seemed to glide before making sudden jumping maneuvers, changed shape into a sphere, and sped away.
Three weeks later, the couple was walking on a footpath on the slopes of the Orme, when they spotted a vivid ball of light hovering above the cliffs. Robert said, “Previously we had been skeptical about UFOs but these sightings made us think perhaps they do exist, so we started to keep a look out for anything else unusual.” In July, above Cwm Mountain, they saw a charcoal-colored triangular shaped craft without markings made a low-pitched humming noise as it sped off. On August 25, also above Cwm Mountain, they again saw an Easter egg-shaped object, this time with what seemed to be a spherical object suspended beneath it.
“It came right overhead, making a very low humming noise and then flew off,” said Robert. “It’s very strange.” said Robert. “We don’t know where to go for the answers.” Moreover, Susie said, “We never used to believe in these things but we are seeing them so often that we’ve changed our minds.”NOTE: The above image is CGI. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
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27-02-2016
THE ANCIENT GIANTS WHO RULED THE EARTH
THE ANCIENT GIANTS WHO RULED THE EARTH
Giant skeletons of an unidentified human race have been excavated around the world, lending credence to the strange stories of Nephilim in ancient texts.
According to the book of Genesis, Nephilim were beings present on the earth during the time when the “sons of God” mingled with the “daughters of men.” It says they were “the heroes of old, men of renown.”
In May of 1912, an archeological dig overseen by Beloit College, uncovered more than two hundred burial mounds near Lake Delavan, eighteen bizarre skeletal remains were found, of what appeared to be a lost race of giants.
As originally reported in the May 4th,1912 edition of the New York Times, the skulls of these seven to nine-foot skeletons were elongated, with protruding nasal bones and long, pointed jaw bones.
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, 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.
Are these the Giants the Bible & many other civilizations have in their history and painted on their walls?
Many have accused the Smithsonian Institution of covering up these discoveries, locking the giant skeletons away, and depriving the public of their findings.
Richard J. Dewhurst reveals in the radio interview below, that North America was once ruled by an advanced race of giants, but also, that the Smithsonian Institution has been actively suppressing the physical evidence for nearly 150 years.
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Orb-UFO Recorded While Doing the Most Unexplained Thing
Orb-UFO Recorded While Doing the Most Unexplained Thing
The UFO phenomenon is real and it doesn’t necessarily involve alien crafts. From what we’ve seen so far from different recordings of these mysterious objects, they take different shapes and sizes and some of them even appear to be of organic nature. Today I’ll highlight an interesting example of what we call an ‘orb-UFO’.
Surprised over Spokane Valley, Washington, the glowing orb hovered over the city and performed some sort of bizarre ritual. It kept pulsating until a smaller orb emerged out of it and after that it turned off its lights and vanished into the night. What you are about to see is a clear example of ‘orb-UFO,’ a sighting that has become really common these days. This small buggers are very agile and can perform maneuvers that defy our laws of physics.
They are usually seen in a pair of two, but singular appearances were also reported. Common traits of these orbs are the dip in brightness they perform, as well as the formidable movement speed at which they can travel. Another particularity, as you will see in the video below, is the orb’s ability to multiply. Whatever this thing is doing remains unexplained, but it’s sure to put the most intriguing aerial spectacle.
The man who recorded this offered his testimony in Case 53762 of MUFON. He claims that soon after he stepped outside onto the back porch at about 7 PM, he noticed a strange object in the sky that appeared to change its color from yellow to red, and then orange.
I traveled towards our house northbound, stopped, and changed direction to the east,” the witness said. The object stopped, flashed very brightly several times and then discarded something. There was glowing discharge from the bottom of the object. Object lost brightness intensity and then slowly went away.
According to the witness, this was not the first time when the mysterious orb had made its presence noticed.
This was the second time I have seen the same object do the exact same thing in nearly the same place. The first sighting was slightly farther southeast and farther away. This time it was closer.
MUFON Washington State Director James E. Clarkson who investigated the case, offered some additional useful information in his report:
There is no known natural phenomenon that would produce what is visible. Further, there were radar anomalies present in the area that may correspond to what was taken on the video recording. The argument can be made for an unknown type of aerial military craft, but the weather and location do not seem appropriate for a military exercise.
According to our analysis, these peculiar orbs could be organic beings coming from within the Earth, but we do not exclude the possibility of an artificially-intelligent drone piloted by its own will. I know it might sound a little bit out of this world, but these appearances are something real and many people across the world have seen and even recorded them. Although certain anomalies were shown by ground radars, they remain literally untouchable because of the advanced technological means they possess.
Their purpose is also unknown, but considering that no harm has been done to people so far, it’s likely that they come in peace. The orb UFOs are usually drawn by large crouds, so there is evidence suggesting they might have some kind of interest in humans. Can we relate them to the increasing number of abductins worldwide, or are they rather the scouting devices of a far more advanced species of ET or intraterrestrials? Until more evidence surfaces, the above mentioned remains only a theory, but there is a light at the end of the tunnel, and I’m extremely curious to see where it leads to.
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WHAT HAVE APOLLO ASTRONAUTS BEEN HIDING FOR DECADES?
WHAT HAVE APOLLO ASTRONAUTS BEEN HIDING FOR DECADES?
Three astronauts who served on the Apollo 10 mission dating back to 1969 — before Apollo 11's first manned moon landing — were terrified to hear radio transmissions similar to music during the radio-free mission while traversing the far side of the moon.
They were cut off from the Earth for about 60 minutes but still could hear radio sounds through their headsets after they entered lunar orbit. Astronauts were puzzled whether to report about the incident to NASA.
The released transcripts contained "strange, otherworldly music coming through the Apollo module's radio," the Science Channel series "NASA's Unexplained Files" found out.
AN APOLLO MISSION SECRETLY HIDDEN IN A CLASSIFIED TAPE FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS HAS BEEN FINALLY REVEALED, ACCORDING TO NASA RECENT REPORT.
The astronauts on board Apollo 10 can be heard talking about the "whistling sound
"You hear that? That whistling sound? Whooooooooo!" one of them says. Another astronaut said: "It sounds like, you know, outer space-type music."
"Well, that sure is weird music," one astronaut says. "Boy it got quiet, didn't it?" one can be heard.
Apollo astronauts debated the necessity to tell Mission Control about the strange music minutes before they regained radio contact with Earth.
"It's unbelievable", "Shall we tell them about it?", "I don't know. We ought to think about it," they questioned.
"The Apollo 10 crew was very used to the kind of noise that they should be hearing. Logic tells me that if there was something recorded on there, then there was something there," Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden says on the Science Channel program. "NASA would withhold information from the public if they thought it was in the public's best interest."
The recordings remained classified in NASA's archives until 2008, prompting an ongoing discussion regarding the nature and origin of the "outer space-type music."
"If you're behind the moon and hear some weird noise on your radio, and you know you're blocked from the Earth, then what could you possibly think?" The Huffington Post quoted Worden as saying ( via sputniknews.com ).
Some astronauts assume the music could belong to aliens. "These noises some of them are really weird, they even sound un sub conditional like strange alien speech."
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Bigger than Roswell: Top Secret CIA docs unearth hidden UFO encounters
Bigger than Roswell: Top Secret CIA docs unearth hidden UFO encounters
Real life X-Files from the 1950’s describe a number of strange encounters with otherworldly beings and mysterious flying craft
Highly classified documents regarding UFOs and Alien life have emerged from the 1050’s exposing shocking truth about alien UFO’s visiting our planet.
The shocking truth about alien life and alien spacecraft are detailed in a catalogue of ‘unexpected’ highly classified documents from the CIA, detailing encounters with flying saucers and Aliens.
The reports, which go back decades, describe witnesses who were left stunned by the complexity and capabilities of fast-moving spacecraft through the skies. Among the details of alien spacecraft are descriptions of enigmatic encounters with beings not from Earth, and mysterious noises which have been recorded from space.
The mysterious accounts are considered as unprecedented by many and are considered to be far more important than what occurred in Roswell.
A declassified file from 1952 provides the sworn testimony of former mayor of Gleimershausen in Germany, Oskar Linke who describes how he spotted two beings in metallic clothing standing next to a huge spaceship.
“The object rose to a horizontal position,” he said, “turned toward a neighboring town, and then disappeared from the heights and forests.”
He added: “I would have thought that both my daughter and I were dreaming if it were not for the following element involved.
“When the object had disappeared, I went to the place where it had been.
“I found a circular opening in the ground and it was quite evident that it was freshly dug, it was exactly the same shape as the conical tower,” testified Linke.
The declassified documents note that many other people from the area reported and sam the same comet-like object in the sky.
Another file which has been made available to the public describes yet another incredible UFO encounter that took place over a uranium mine in what was then, the Belgian Congo. The two fiery disks glided in what is described as ‘elegant curves’, before abruptly stopping in mid-air, and taking off in a zig-zag fashion.
Former Commander Pierre, the pilot who flew after the two ‘alien’ objects from an airfield located near Elisabethville, modern-day Lubumbashi even sketched the objects trying to depict what he witnessed.
According to Commander Pierre – who is described as being a “dependable officer” – both objects moved an incredible speed of around 900mph.
However, the reports are numerous. Another interesting account took place in Barcelona when a strange object soaring over Spain was seen while emitting mysterious flashes of light. According to Valentin Garcia, a journalist who witnessed the mysterious encounter: “The newspaper office was soon flooded with telephone calls from people who had seen the object.”
In following weeks, more sightings of a similar object were seen over Algeria and Tunisia and Meknes, Taourirt and Casablanca in Morocco.
However, not only has the CIA admitted recording UFO sightings and unexplained phenomena that could not have been caused by any known force on planet Earth. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has also admitted we have been ‘visited’ in the distant past.
According to a document made available from the FBI archives found here, we have been visited by beings from ‘other’ dimensions. According to reports and “Declassified” documents, we have been visited by numbs extraterrestrial species, some of these, are not only from other planets but from other dimensions. Some of these beings originate from an ethereal plane coexistent with our physical universe. These “entities”, that could “materialize” on our planet appeared as giant translucent figures.
“The bodies of the visitors, and the craft, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter…” (source)
You can access the declassified CIA documents by clicking here.
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Based On A String of Mysterious Sightings, Researchers Believe a Major Alien Invasion is Happening Right Now Covertly
Based On A String of Mysterious Sightings, Researchers Believe a Major Alien Invasion is Happening Right Now Covertly
Researchers within the UFO community are sounding the alarm about what they believe is a subtle covert alien invasion taking place on our planet right now. Reports suggest they might be onto something.
Recently the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which is the world’s oldest and largest UFO investigative organization has received a number of disturbing reports from across the United States in which numerous witnesses have sighted and filmed giant orbs hovering over the sky and seemingly releasing smaller orbs that then fall to the ground.
This has led some researchers to believe that a covert alien invasion is currently underway and, much like the war methodology of earthly conflicts, are busy infiltrating their targeted “enemy” to make their conquest easier.
Three cases reported and documented by MUFON, Case numbers 52942, 52934 and 52930 demonstrate this potential invasion through a sighting in which a stealth orb UFO was observed dropping a “landing pod” pod over Boise, Idaho which you can see in the video below;
Although the video itself is not incontrovertible evidence at all, this sighting was reported by all three of the unrelated witnesses.
In the first of the three independent reports, Case number 52934, a witness was driving home with his wife when he looked up and saw a mysterious glowing red UFO in the sky;
“It caught my eye because I am always looking up for strange lights… I asked my wife what she thought and she recommended that we pull over – so I did.”
After observing the strange craft, for several minutes the witnesses decided to rush home and fetch their video camera. They then began filming in time to capture the glowing orb drop an orb to the Earth’s surface;
“Got home, ran inside, grabbed my camera and got it into view just in time to see it drop another orb, but this one was flashing.”
A second witness,Case number 52930 reported the exact same incident;
“This really freaked me out… I watch the sky all of the time and have never seen anything like this before.”
A third witness. Case number 52942 made a similar report;
“We told some family members and my brother in law saw it on his way home after it was split in two… This left us with a very odd feeling as it was so unusual and hoping we get an answer.”
This, however, is not an isolated incident.
The Inquisitr reported last week that a witness saw an almost identical incident, filed as Case number 53762, where he witnessed an UFO with a bright orange-red glow dropping another orb that landed on our planet;
“The object stopped, flashed very brightly several times and then discarded something. There was glowing discharge from the bottom of the object. The object lost brightness intensity and then slowly went away.”
You can view this sighting in the video below;
Another sighting, also reported by the Inquisitr, was once again almost identical. So what is going on here? Is there a planned methodical invasion taking place? Or are they already here as many of the ancients believed and simply moving forward with a full on take over? Or is this all just paranoia and fantasy? Please comment below to share your thoughts.
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (left) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko (right) are set to land back on Earth after nearly a year in space, returning together with cosmonaut Sergey Volkov on March 1, 2016.
Credit: NASA
Scott Kelly isn't bringing home a souvenir of his year in space.
The NASA astronaut, who has been living and working on the International Space Station since March 2015, is set to return home to Earth on Tuesday (March 1) after 340 days circling the planet. Kelly is the first American to embark on such a long mission and, together with Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko is the first to stay for nearly a year at the orbiting outpost.
"I don't look at souvenirs that have been flown in space the same [way] that other people do, only because I've been in space so many times," Kelly explained Thursday (Feb. 25) in a press conference from the space station. "I absolutely understand why other people do and I respect that, but the fact that I've been here four times and well over 500 days, it doesn't have the same meaning to me." [Ape Escape in Space! Watch Astronaut Scott Kelly's Hilarious Video Hijinks]
"So, I really do not have anything personal for myself that I have flown. I have stuff other people have given me and I look forward to returning those items when I get back," he said, replying to a question from collectSPACE.
His choice to forgo his own memento aside, Kelly is busy packing for his return home. Together with Kornienko and Sergey Volkov (who has been in space since September), Kelly will depart the station and land on the snow-covered steppe of Kazakhstan on board Russia's Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft.
The descent capsule only has enough room for the three crew members and a limited amount of their cargo.
"There is not a lot of volume in the Soyuz, but we do have a lot of small items that we return," Kelly said in an earlier media interview this week. "Generally, we can bring about a kilogram and a half [3.3 pounds] of stuff on the Soyuz that are personal items and in some cases are things that people have given us."
"For me, most of the stuff I will bring on the Soyuz home is the stuff that flew up with me on the Soyuz," he said.
Although the space station has a much larger volume than Kelly's ride home — NASA likens it to a conventional six-bedroom house — the astronaut's personal quarters were just as small in comparison, a point Kelly said may need to be rethought before sending crews out on longer missions.
NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is photographed inside his crew quarters, where he has spent almost half of his yearlong stay on the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA
"Even though our crew quarters and our privacy is pretty good, I think it is going to have be a lot better," said Kelly. "Probably almost half of the time I've been here, between sleeping and working on the computer, I've spent basically in a box the size of a phone booth. So making that private area as perfect as is possible, I think, will go a long way towards reducing fatigue, reducing stress and helping for a successful mission."
Even in the constrained space of his crew quarters, Kelly has amassed more than he can bring home on the Soyuz alone, as supply ships have brought family care packages and logistical items, such as the clothing he has worn.
"I have been up here for a really long time and sometimes, when I think about it, I feel like I have lived my whole life up here," Kelly said.
For the items too large or in excess of what his spacecraft can carry, there is the SpaceX Dragon capsule, which has the capability to return from the space station to an ocean splashdown for recovery.
"We get to bring some items back on SpaceX," Kelly said. "We actually return garbage on the SpaceX [Dragon], too. We have to get rid of the stuff on the station somehow, so we do have a pretty significant capability to bring back stuff that you might not imagine."
Humanoid Robot: Technological Advance or Harbinger of Robot Takeover?
Humanoid Robot: Technological Advance or Harbinger of Robot Takeover?
AI takeover refers to a hypothetical scenario in which artificial intelligence (AI) becomes the dominant form of intelligence on Earth, with computers or robots effectively taking control of the planet away from the human race.
The development of full Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to make lives easier by understanding human desires or driving people's cars, but if it were uncontrolled, the technology could pose a serious threat to society even it could spell the end of the human race according to British physicist Stephen Hawking.
Shane Legg is co-founder of DeepMind Technologies, an AI startup that was bought for Google in 2014 states: "AI is now where the internet was in 1988. Demand for machine learning skills is quite strong in specialist applications (search companies like Google, hedge funds and bio-informatics) and is growing every year."
"I expect this to become noticeable in the mainstream around the middle of the next decade. I expect a boom in AI around 2020 followed by a decade of rapid progress, possibly after a market correction."
"Human level AI will be passed in the mid 2020’s, though many people won’t accept that this has happened. After this point the risks associated with advanced AI will start to become practically important…I don’t know about a “singularity”, but I do expect things to get really crazy at some point after human level AGI has been created. That is, some time from 2025 to 2040."
Google-owned Boston Dynamics released a video of its humanoid robot Atlas, a tough-as-nails robot who can resist a human's attempt to trip and knock packages from its hands.
And what if you couldn't tell the difference between man and machine?
Since probably many people looking in from the outside might not realize that artificial intelligence will one day outsmart humans, and there is no guarantee that it will be benevolent.
Even there is the possibility that the Internet will become self-aware.
Most people agree the internet is not consciously alive. Currently, the internet accepts inputs and is pretty good at producing outputs, depending on browser, apps, hardware, search engines, coding factors, and, of course, the people using it.
The scary fact, though, is that on a long enough timeline, the many billions of operations on the internet every second will no longer just be following pre-described patterns, but will begin to evolve on their own.
According to MotherboardVice, the question of whether the internet will become self-aware is not if it will happen, but when.
More likely, the internet will become alive because of aliens.
Extraterrestrial intelligence's are likely interested in the internet on Earth, probably because it’s an easy way to monitor and even mass control human beings.
So there’s plausible reason for advanced extraterrestrial intelligence to beam some advanced programming code or virus from a far-off system that would reprogram our internet to do its bidding—one that is super-intelligent, could closely watch us, and could shut us down before we do anything stupid.
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UFOs Cover-Up 2015: Most SHOCKING ExtraTerrestrial Documentary - New BBC Alien Sightings HD
UFOs Cover-Up 2015: Most SHOCKING ExtraTerrestrial Documentary - New BBC Alien Sightings HD
Published on Jul 8, 2015
UFOs Cover-Up 2015: Most SHOCKING ExtraTerrestrial Documentary - New BBC Alien Sightings HD
A cover-up is an attempt, whether successful or not, to conceal evidence of wrongdoing, error, incompetence or other embarrassing information. In a passive cover-up, information is simply not provided; in an active cover-up, deception is used. The expression is usually applied to people in positions of authority who abuse their power to avoid or silence criticism or to deflect guilt of wrongdoing. Those who initiate a cover-up (or their allies) may be responsible for a misdeed, a breach of trust or duty or a crime. While the terms are often used interchangeably, cover-up involves withholding incriminatory evidence, while whitewash involves releasing misleading evidence.
When a scandal breaks, the discovery of an attempt to cover up is often regarded as even more reprehensible than the original deeds. The mildest case, not quite a cover-up, is simply to release news which could be embarrassing but is not important enough to guarantee attention at a time when other news is dominating the headlines, or immediately before a holiday or weekend. Initially a cover-up may require little effort; it will be carried out by those closely involved with the misdeed. Once some hint of the hidden matter starts to become known, the cover-up gradually draws all the top leadership, at least, of an organization into complicity in covering up a misdeed or even crime that may have originally been committed by a few of its members acting independently. This may be regarded as tacit approval of that behaviour.[citation needed] It is likely that some cover-ups are successful although by definition this cannot be confirmed. Many fail, however, as more and more people are drawn in and the possibility of exposure makes potential accomplices fearful of supporting the cover-up and as loose ends that may never normally have been noticed start to stand out. As it spreads, the cover-up itself creates yet more suspicious circumstances. The original misdeed being covered may be relatively minor, such as the 'third-rate burglary' which started the Watergate scandal, but the cover-up adds so many additional crimes (obstruction of justice, perjury, payoffs and bribes, in some cases suspicious suicides or outright murder) that the cover-up becomes much more serious than the original crime. Cover-ups do not necessarily require the active manipulation of facts or circumstances. Arguably the most common form of cover-up is one of non-action. It is the conscious failure to release incriminating information by a third party. This "passive cover-up" is often justified by the motive of not wanting to embarrass the culprit or expose them to criminal prosecution or even the belief that the cover-up is justified by protecting the greater community from scandal. Yet, because of the passive cover-up, the misdeed often goes undiscovered and results in harm to others ensuing from its failure to be discovered. (In Catholic Moral Theology this would be considered the Sin of omission and a Mortal sin),[citation needed] Real cover-ups are common enough, but any event which is not completely clear is likely to give rise to a thicket of conspiracy theories alleging covering up of sometimes the most weird and unlikely conspiracies. "Snowjob" is an American and Canadian colloquialism for a deception or a cover-up; for example, Helen Gahagan Douglas described the Nixon Administration as "the greatest snow job in history."
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National Geographic Documentary 2016 Alien in space Mysteries UFO Documentary 2015
National Geographic Documentary 2016 Alien in space Mysteries UFO Documentary 2015
Published on Dec 15, 2015
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Palm-Size Satellites Could Hunt for New Alien Worlds
Palm-Size Satellites Could Hunt for New Alien Worlds
by Nola Taylor Redd
When Gemini Planet Imager captured this picture of Beta Pictoris b, it had to block the starlight to keep it from interfering with light from the planet. A new project suggests using tiny satellites to hunt for other worlds closer to the star that can't be spotted with direct imaging. Credit: Processing by Christian Marois, NRC Canada.
Tiny satellites could hitch a ride into orbit and spot alien worlds from afar, new research suggests.
NASA's 2,230 pound (1,052 kilogram) Kepler Space Telescope has discovered thousands of potential planets around other stars. Now, some scientists want to go smaller: They propose searching for new worlds using miniaturized satellites that can fit in the palm of your hand.
"We want to be cheaper than sending up a huge satellite, to be able to collect more data in less time for less money," Ameer Blake, an undergraduate student at Howard University in Washington, D.C., toldSpace.com. Blake and his adviser, Aki Roberge, a research astrophysicist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, studied the possibility of using a smaller instrument known as a cubesat to search for a new planet around the star Beta Pictoris, already known to host at least one world, Beta Pictoris b. He presented the results in January at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Kissimmee, Florida. [CubeSats: Tiny, Versatile Spacecraft Explained (Infographic)]
"We wanted to know, are there any other planets other than Beta Pictoris b, and if so, where are they?" Blake said.
In 2008, scientists used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to reveal a giant planet more than 1.5 times the radius of Jupiter orbiting Beta Pictoris. Circling only nine times the Earth-sun distance from its star, just inside what would be the orbit of Saturn in the solar system, Beta Pictoris b is the closest orbiting exoplanet captured by direct imaging, the technique that essentiallyphotographs other worlds. The method is most sensitive to giant planets several times the mass of Jupiter, and faces challenges when it comes to spotting smaller worlds or worlds close to their star.
Hubble Space Telescope images of the edge-on disk of dust and gas that surrounds the star Beta Pictoris. The disk stretches more than 1,400 times the Earth-sun distance in each direction. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Apai and G. Schneider (University of Arizona)
Blake and Roberge are interested in launching a cubesat into space to search for a new world around the star. The evidence suggests the star's system sits nearly edge-on as seen from Earth — that is, oriented so we're looking at the edge of the system rather than from above or below. Researchers have seen a debris disk that stretches to over 1,400 times the Earth-sun distance on both sides of the star, and the known planet's orbit also agrees with that orientation. This should allow a cubesat to search for other planets using a process called the transit method, which should be able to see worlds inside the orbit of Beta Pictoris b.
Unlike direct imaging, which relies on capturing the light reflected from a planet, the transit method, which is also used by the Kepler telescope, searches for dips in the brightness of the star as a planet moves between it and Earth. Instruments can only detect the transiting planets' presence if they pass between the star and Earth, so the system must lie within a few degrees of being edge-on to Earth.
Based on their preliminary study, Blake said that a cubesat should be able to spot the most massive gas giants on a short orbit.
"We would definitely be able to see hot Jupiters," he said, referring to the worlds several times the mass of the solar system's largest planet in orbits closer than Mercury's.
"We would like to get as small as maybe Neptune-size planets, but things get more complicated when you get to smaller sizes."
Stare & collect
Several years ago, planet hunter Sara Seager, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, proposed using a fleet of cubesats to survey part of the sky in search of worlds beyond the solar system. Blake said the idea inspired him and his adviser to consider a single instrument targeting only one star. This avoids concerns about focusing or redirecting a suite of satellites.
"This is just, stare at one thing and collect as much information as possible," Blake said.
Blake said that sending up a single satellite would make a good first step toward an entire fleet. Once the method is proven to work, other satellites could be launched to either discover new worlds or confirm preliminary observations, such as those made by Kepler.
When it comes to discovery, however, the search would need to be limited to stars which already demonstrate that their systems are edge-on to Earth. Researchers can identify such stars by observing massive debris disks around them or targeting stars with directly imaged worlds whose orbits are edge-on.
Cubesats were first introduced in 1999 as compact satellites that university students could construct to perform experiments and test new technologies. They take the standardized shape of a 4 x 4 x 4-inch (10 x 10 x 10 centimeters) cube, which allows them to hitch a ride into space with other, larger launches. Two will be launched in March 2016 to cover the entry, descent, and landing of NASA's upcoming Mars InSight lander, while other scientists have discussed dropping them off at destinations such as Europa and Enceladus. [CubeSats Are Bound For The Planets (Video)]
Satellite Quiz: How Well Do You Know What's Orbitin...
The space age dawned with the launch of Sputnik 1, Earth's first artificial satellite, in 1957. Thousands of additional spacecraft have followed in Sputnik's footsteps, serving humanity in a variety of ways. How well do you know Earth's satellites?
The biggest challenge for a cubesat mission to hunt for worlds around a specific target has to do with time. The scientific community requires at least three transits — three times an object must pass between its sun and the Earth — to confirm its status as a planet. Blake's study suggests a maximum of a year and a half for a cubesat orbit, though it may last for only half a year. To confirm a planet would require finding those which circle their stars every two to six months.
Blake and Roberge have performed the background study that shows using a cubesat to search for worlds around Beta Pictoris is a viable plan. Their next step is to speak to engineers and instrumentalists to determine what parts would be necessary to construct such a satellite. From there, they can make estimates on what building it might cost — though it should come in far less than Kepler's $550 million price tag.
"I think it would be great to be able to find exoplanets with less material and preferably in quicker time," Blake said.
Ring-shaped, five-dimensional black holes could break Einstein's theory of general relativity, new research suggests.
There's a catch, of course. These 5D "black rings" don't exist, as far as anyone can tell. Instead, the new theoretical model may point out one reason why we live in a four-dimensional universe: Any other option could be a hot mess.
"Here we may have a first glimpse that four space-time dimensions is a very, very good choice, because otherwise, something pretty bad happens in the universe," said Ulrich Sperhake, a theoretical physicist at the University of Cambridge in England. [8 Ways You Can See Einstein's Theory of Relativity in Real Life]
Doomed from the start
From the beginning, Einstein's theory of general relativity, which describes how matter warps space-time, predicted its own demise. That demise came in the form of singularities, or infinitely curved portions of space-time in which the laws of physics break down, said study co-author Markus Kunesch, an applied mathematics and theoretical physics doctoral candidate at the University of Cambridge.
But in a kind of lucky save, Einstein's theory predicts these singularities exist only behind the event horizons of black holes, from which no matter can escape.
"Even though you have a singularity, it's pretty nicely contained in a high-security lunatic asylum, and it cannot affect anything on the outside," Sperhake, who was not involved in the current study, told Live Science. "This means that general relativity is still perfectly able to explain the entire evolution of the entire universe outside this tiny singularity."
The notion of safely contained singularities, dubbed the cosmic censorship theorem, has held up everywhere in the universe where people have looked.
Naked black holes
But Kunesch and fellow University of Cambridge researchers Pau Figueras and Saran Tunyasuvunakool wanted to probe the limits of the cosmic censorship theorem. They took a look at bizarre proposed black holes that researchers had dreamed up about 15 years ago.
In the past, researchers had proposed a mathematical description of these black rings. However, no one had been able to simulate how they would behave under general relativity. It turned out that, in five dimensions, "naked singularities" would be sitting outside black holes, the team reported in a study published Feb. 18 in the journal Physical Review Letters. That, in turn, would imply that Einstein's theory of relativity would completely break down throughout the universe, not just in black holes.
That doesn't mean Einstein's theory is wrong. Relativity has passed every single test it's faced.
"It is an incredibly amazing theory. It has predicted a lot of new things," Kunesch told Live Science. (Physicists recently discovered one of the last remaining predictions of relativity when they detected gravitational waves formed from the smashup of two black holes 1.3 billion years ago.)
For one, it's extremely unlikely that these relativity-breaking black holes exist. For that to be true, there would have to be extra dimensions. While some theories, such as string theory, do predict the existence of 11 or even 27 extra dimensions, these higher dimensions would be teensy, rolled-up specks — far different from the vanilla, ordinary-size dimensions that we live in, and that black rings were conceived in, Sperhake said. [5 Reasons We May Live in a Multiverse]
The Goldilocks of universes
The findings add to the notion that the universe occupies a sweet spot in terms of its physical properties, Sperhake said. If the gravity had been stronger, our universe would have collapsed soon after the Big Bang. If the gravity had been weaker, no stars could have formed. If the electromagnetism had been slightly different, the chemistry would have gone wonky, Sperhake said. Now, it seems as if the number of dimensions of space-time should be added to the list: If there were any more, the future behavior of the universe couldn't be predicted, at least not by Einstein's theory, he said.
The new results also shine a light in some of the dark, unexplored nooks and crannies of Einstein's groundbreaking theory, Kunesch said.
"It's quite remarkable that, more than 100 years after Einstein's theory was written down, we still don't fully understand what solutions to Einstein's equations look like," Kunesch said. "We still need to establish whether it is completely consistent theoretically. There are still lots of open questions, both on the theoretical level but also on the more experimental level."
Reusable Military Spaceplane Tops DARPA's Budget Request, Again
Reusable Military Spaceplane Tops DARPA's Budget Request, Again
By Mike Gruss, Space News
Boeing is one of three teams designing a new spaceplane for DARPA's Experimental Spaceplane-1 program, known as XS-1. The program leads DARPA's space-related budget requests for fiscal year 2017.
Credit: Boeing
WASHINGTON — For the second consecutive year, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's top-funded space program is an experimental spaceplane intended to make frequent trips to orbit.
DARPA asked for $50 million in the Pentagon's 2017 budget request for its Experimental Spaceplane 1, or XS-1 program. That's up from a $30 million the agency asked for during the fiscal year 2016 budget cycle.
XS-1 aims to develop a reusable first stage that could carry an expendable upper stage capable of placing payloads weighing up to 1,800 kilograms into orbit. DARPA said the vehicle could ultimately fly 10 times in 10 days and boost payloads into low Earth orbit for less than $5 million per launch. [DARPA's XS-1 Military Space Plane Concept in Pictures]
Three industry teams are working on the program: Boeing and Blue Origin; Masten Space Systems and XCOR Aerospace; and Northrop Grumman and Virgin Galactic.
In July, all three teams received funding to continue design work and risk reduction activities in preparation for a production contract.
DARPA said in 2014 it intended to pick one team in 2015 to work toward demonstration flight in 2018, but now it is unclear when such a downselect will occur.
DARPA said in budget documents that it plans to complete system and subsystem designs later this year, as well as coordinate with the Federal Aviation Administration for preliminary flight test planning.
A critical design review is planned for fiscal year 2017, the documents said.
In October, the Government Accountability Office said none of several Defense Department efforts to field quick-reaction launch vehicles, including XS-1, have advanced past the development stage.
In its 2017 budget request DARPA asked for $175 million for its space programs and technology office, significantly higher than the $127 million budget for 2016.
In addition to $50 million for XS-1, next year's budget would also include:
$45 million for the RadarNet program. an effort to design a deployable lightweight, low-power and wideband-capable communications antenna for cubesats.
$33 million for Robotic Servicing of Geostationary Satellites, which would establish a robotics operation in geosynchronous orbit to perform servicing tasks.
This story was provided by SpaceNews, dedicated to covering all aspects of the space industry.
Reptilian Aliens in Africa. African Shaman Shares Hidden History…
Reptilian Aliens in Africa. African Shaman Shares Hidden History…
Credo Mutwa shares an incredible (and fairly convincing) story from his ancestors about an “alien” invasion that destroyed humanity; and is the reason for the pain and suffering we see in the world today
Reptilian Aliens in Africa. African Shaman Shares Hidden History… Credo Mutwa is a famous African Zulu sangoma (traditional healer) from South Africa, who has had ancient esoteric knowledge from his ancestors and predecessors passed down to him that helps to illuminate ancient history. More interesting than this though, is the Zulu elder has had personal experience that corroborates this knowledge he was told; and that knowledge includes what we popularly refer to today as reptilians (and he calls Chitauli) ruling over Earth.
In fact, much of David Icke’s central thesis is derived from Mutwa’s knowledge. In an interview with Rick Martin Mutwa explained that “the Zulus claim that many, many thousands of years ago there arrived, out of the skies, a race of people who were like lizards, people who could change shape at will. And people who married their daughters to a walking extraterrestrial, and produced a power race of Kings and tribal Chiefs, there are hundreds of fairy-tales, sir, in which a lizard female assumes the identity of a human princess and poses as her, and gets married to a Zulu Prince.”
In his old age (now 94 years old) he has become increasingly vocal about this knowledge and personal experience. Unlike most people though, the Zulu shaman claims these “aliens” are not really conventional aliens at all. He believes they are not from a far away planet, but they are actually from Earth or at somewhere near by;
“These so-called aliens don’t come from far away at all. I believe that they are here with us, and I believe that they need substances from us, just as some of us human beings use certain things from wild animals, such as monkey glands, for certain selfish purposes of our own… Far too many people fall into the temptation of looking upon these ‘aliens’ as supernatural creatures. They are just solid creatures, sir.”
He also believes that they have sinister intent and before they arrived human beings lived as one;
“…the Chitauli came to Earth, they arrived in terrible vessels which flew through the air, vessels which were shaped like great bowls and which made a terrible noise and a terrible fire in the sky. And the Chitauli told human beings, whom they gathered together by force with whips of lightning, that they were great gods from the sky and that from now on they would receive a number of great gifts from the god. These so-called gods, who were like human beings, but very tall, with a long tail, and with terrible burning eyes, some of them had two eyes-yellow, bright eyes-some had three eyes, the red, round eye being in the center of their forehead. These creatures then took away the great powers that human beings had: the power of speaking through the mind only, the power of moving objects with their mind only, the power of seeing into the future and into their past, and the power to travel, spiritually, to different worlds.
All of these great powers the Chitauli took away from human beings and they gave human beings a new power, now, the power of speech. But, human beings found, to their horror, that the power of speech divided human beings, instead of uniting them, because the Chitauli cunningly created different languages, and they caused a great quarrel between people. Also, the Chitauli did something which has never been done before: they gave human beings people to rule over them, and they said, “These are your kings, these are your chiefs. They have our blood in them. They are our children, and you must listen to these people because they will speak on our behalf. If you don’t, we are going punish you very terribly.”
Before the coming of the Chitauli, before the coming of the Imbulu creatures, human beings were spiritually one. But when the Chitauli came, human beings became divided, both spiritually as well as by language.
And then, human beings were given strange new feelings by the Chitauli. Human beings started to feel unsafe, and so they started making villages with very strong fences of wood around them. Human beings started becoming country makers. In other words, they started creating tribes and tribe lands, which had borders, which they defended against any possible enemy. Human beings became ambitious and greedy and they wanted to acquire wealth in the form of cattle, and sea shells.”
Whether what the shaman says is real or not, is obviously debatable. But it does seem to hold within it a resonance that sounds more tangible than the creationist or big bang/evolution explanations we have been given. The Zulu shaman claims what makes him a true believer in these ancient tales is he was personally abducted while in the mountains. You can read more about this, and the interview in its entirety HERE.
If you are interested in learning more about this incredible story, check out David Icke’s interview with the African shaman below;
The Moon used to rotate at a faster rate in the distant past, and for some reason, its rotation slowed down and became tidally locked with Earth. There are traces of titanium, uranium 236, mica, and neptunium 237 on the moon… these elements have not been found to occur naturally… What is going on?
Mankind has always been fascinated by Earths loyal satellite, the moon. Believed to have been ‘formed’ around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth’s moon is one of the largest ‘natural’ and most mysterious satellites in the solar system. Many details about the moon have led numerous researchers and scientists to question its real purpose. Why is the moon in synchronous rotation with Earth, always showing us the same face? And why is it so important for life on Earth?
In the 21st century, there are many UFOlogists around the world who speculate that the moon is actually a giant base where extraterrestrials survey mankind’s progress. While this theory might sound absurd to many readers, there are quite a few details about the Moon which are simply put, inexplicable.
Robin Brett, a scientist from NASA stated, “It seems easier to explain the non-existence of the Moon than its existence.”
Set in place 4.53 billion years ago?
According to studies, if our moon did not exist, life on Earth would have probably had a hard time surviving. For example, its gravitational influence produces ocean tides and body tides on Earth. Mysteriously, The Moon’s current orbital distance is about thirty times the diameter of Earth and is exceptionally large relative to Earth: a quarter its diameter and 1/81 its mass. Even more interesting is the fact that the Moon used to rotate at a faster rate, but early in its history, its rotation slowed and became tidally locked.
But if the moon was ‘engineered’ as some suggest and is, in fact, an artificial ‘structure’ wouldn’t there be something on the moon that could uncover its mystery? Well, if we look closer, there are a couple of very interesting things. According to studies, the moon has a solid shell of around 20 miles made of highly resistant materials such as titanium, uranium 236, mica, neptunium 237. Definitely, elements that you would not expect to find “inside” the moon.
In the 1970’s Mikhail Vasin and Alexander Shcerbakov from the Soviet Academy of science wrote an article called: “Is the Moon the creation of Alien Intelligence?
How is it possible that the surface of the moon is so hard and why does it contain minerals like Titanium?
Mysteriously, there are some lunar rocks that have been found to contain PROCESSED METALS, such as Brass, Mica and the elements of Uranium 236 and Neptunium 237 that have NEVER been found to occur naturally. So how did they get there?
Uranium 236 is a radioactive nuclear waste which is found in spent nuclear and reprocessed Uranium. More interestingly, Neptunium 237 is a radioactive metallic element and a by-product of nuclear reactors and the production of Plutonium.
There are some lunar rocks that have been found to contain ten times more titanium than “titanium rich” rocks on planet Earth. Here on Earth, we use Titanium in supersonic jets, deep diving submarines and spacecraft. It’s unexplainable. Dr Harold Urey, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry said he was “terribly puzzled by the rocks astronauts found on the moon and their Titanium content. The samples were unimaginable and mind-blowing since researchers could not account for the presence of Titanium.
Even more fascinating is the incredible orbit of the moon. It is the only known moon in the solar system that has a stationary, nearly “perfect” circular orbit. It’s a fact that the Moon does not spin like a natural celestial body. In other words, our Moon does not share any characteristics with other moons found in our Solar System. If it wasn’t strange enough, from any point on the surface of our planet, only one side of the Moon is visible.
What is the moon hiding… and why have we stopped going to the moon?
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UFO VERLAAT VULKAAN IN COSTA RICA
UFO VERLAAT VULKAAN IN COSTA RICA
Er is druk buitenaards verkeer van allerlei verschillende ruimtevoertuigen en de wereld lijkt het niet te (willen) zien.
Druk verkeer van een UFO die een vulkaan in Costa Rica lijkt te verlaten tot een vermomd ruimteschip van de Tall White Aliens in de Amerikaanse staat New Mexico.
Keer op keer komen er verhalen en beelden tevoorschijn over vreemde UFO-activiteit in de buurt van vulkanen.
Het is welhaast zeker dat er zich diep in de kraters van deze vulkanen buitenaardse basis bevinden en de wereld legt het bewijsmateriaal volkomen naast zich neer.
Vorige week opnieuw een grote cilindervormige UFO die een Mexicaanse vulkaan in dook en nu een interessant berichtuit het naburige Costa Rica.
Hier volgt het verhaal van een getuige die zich vlakbij de Irazu vulkaan bevond in dat land.
Ik was met mijn vriendin naar het nationale park in Cartago om een bezoek te brengen aan de Irazu vulkaan.
Het weer was prachtig, veel zonlicht en weinig bewolking. Deze vulkaan bevindt zich op een hoogte van 3.400 meter boven zeeniveau, waardoor je je als het ware boven de wolken bevindt.
Je krijgt dan een beetje het gevoel alsof je in een vliegtuig zit. We waren daar rond elf uur in de morgen en namen foto’s van de vulkaan en het landschap.
De wolken zagen eruit als een witte zee, maar vlakbij één van de bergen zag ik wat wolken die een vreemde vorm hadden. Dus, begon ik daar foto’s van te nemen.
Toen we zo ongeveer uitgekeken waren, besloten we om naar huis terug te keren. Toen ik de gemaakte foto’s bekeek zag een donkere cirkel die ik niet eerder had gezien boven de bergen.
Het zag eruit als een ronde schotel met een paar antennes bovenop en ook één achterop. Op het moment dat ik de foto’s nam, heb ik het niet gezien.
Ik nam de foto’s in een serie snel achter elkaar. Op de ene foto zie je het object volkomen duidelijk en op de volgende is het verdwenen. Er zitten maar enkele seconden tussen beide foto’s.
Het lijkt duidelijk dat we hier te maken hebben met een klassieke retro UFO die vertrekt vanaf zijn buitenaardse basis onder de vulkaan.
Opvallend is ook hier het verhaal van de getuige over vreemd uitziende wolken.
De volgende foto’s zijn genomen in de Amerikaanse staat New Mexico en laten volgens ufoloog Scott Waring een vermomd buitenaards schip zien van het ras dat bekendstaat als Tall White Aliens.
Volgens hem is het absoluut geen lenswolk zoals meteorologen ons willen doen geloven, maar hebben we hier een typisch voorbeeld van hoe de Tall White Aliens hun ruimtechip cloaken.
Hij zegt verder dat dit buitenaardse ras regelmatig in een stad zoals Las Vegas wordt gesignaleerd waarbij ze dan ook een gokje wagen. Het schijnt ook een volk te zijn dat graag een beetje speelt met de mensheid door hun ruimteschepen pal onder onze neus te vertonen in de vorm van een wolk.
Jarenlang schrijven wij al over het verschijnsel van de vreemde en vaak oranjekleurige bollen in de lucht.
Iets waar nog helemaal niemand ooit een verklaring voor heeft kunnen vinden, maar een verschijnsel dat ondertussen door zoveel verschillende mensen is waargenomen dat het als een vaststaand feit kan worden beschouwd dat ze echt zijn.
Naast de oranje kleur worden ook heel vaak witte bollen waargenomen. Bollen die niet echt lijken op wat men retro UFO’s noemt (platte schijven met een koepel), maar die toch wel degelijk onder intelligente besturing staan.
Een theorie voor die vreemde ronde bollen is dat het een soort verkenningsdrones zijn, al dan niet toebehorend aan een buitenaardse beschaving. Theoretisch zouden ze menselijk kunnen zijn, maar dan was er normaal gesproken al lang iets ergens over uitgelekt en aangezien er niet iets dergelijks is gebeurd, heeft het meer iets van buitenaardse verkenningsobjecten.
Zeker ook omdat al diverse keren is geconstateerd dat dit soort vreemde bollen ook wel eens heel dichtbij de grond komen en duidelijk nieuwsgierige trekjes vertonen.
Een voorbeeld hiervan kunnen we zien in onderstaande video die gelekte beelden bevat van een beveiligingscamera op een militaire basis ergens in Rusland.
Die avond rond half tien zat een militair die verantwoordelijk was voor de beveiliging van de basis achter de camera en zag opeens een vreemde lichtbol. Een bol die langzaam neerdaalde vanuit de lucht en zich vervolgens verplaatste over het wateroppervlak van de Moskwa rivier.
Dat de waarneming echt is, bewijst ook de reflectie van de lichtbol in het water.
Vaak zijn de vreemde bollen met het blote oog waar te nemen, maar in dit geval niet. Dit keer wordt het waargenomen door een infraroodcamera, wat betekent dat er waarschijnlijk nog veel meer van dit soort bollen om ons heen zweven zonder dat wij ze zien.
Niet dat het mysterie van de vreemde bollen in de lucht nu is opgelost, maar in ieder geval een aantal daarvan fungeert als een soort verkenners als we kijken naar de volgende beelden.
UFO Exits Volcano In Costa Rica On Feb 2016, Photo, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Exits Volcano In Costa Rica On Feb 2016, Photo, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 2016 Location of sighting: Irazu Volcano, Costa Rica Source: MUFON #74756 This UFO was seen over a Irazu Volcano in Costa Rica this week. It was probably exiting an underground base that is 4-5 km below the volcano. Aliens often chose high peaks and volcanos to make a base below, because of their secludedness and difficulty for humans to explore. Thus, the risk of them being seen is low. This ship has a lot of similarities to the Friendship case craft in Rocca Pia, Italy. You can see a glass dome over its top.
Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Eyewitness states: I was with my girlfriend visiting Irazu Volcano national park in Cartago Costa Rica. The weather was really nice. Very good sun light not cloudy. This Volcano is 3400 mts of altitude above sea level close to the biosphere. So we were above the clouds. Like when you fly on airplane. The sky was really clear so at 11:00 am on that altitude part of the sky was light black.We were taking pictures of the volcano and the landscape. The clouds looked like a white sea but I noticed close to one of the mountains some clouds with different forms. So I started to take pictures there. Once we finish the tour we headed back home. While I was checking the pictures I noticed one black circle above the mountains I noticed before. It looked like a circular sauce with 2 little antenas one on the top of it and like one on it's tail. On the moment while taking the pictures I did not see it. I took the pictures in a burst. on one pic you can see the object completely clear on the next one vanished. almost in seconds. All the pictures have less than one minute difference. I will attach the pictures guys. Thanks for your time. Greetings from Costa Rica.
Sounds have been heard from the middle of the pacific ocean since 1991 and have been heard off and on ever since. The military had never heard anything like it and scientist came up with the great idea that its fish farting. What were those scientist thinking? Clearly the military has found an underwater base far below the depths in this are marked on the map below. Only electronic equipment could make such sounds. Its a signal for exiting and entering alien craft to better find their way. Like wifi assisting our phones to connect to the internet. It helps comfort the aliens entering the area, to know they are in a safe zone among friends. I made video last year about an underwater base I found to give you an idea of what I'm saying. If found it on Google Earth map, and it space hundreds of miles. Listen to video below to hear the alien signal coming from the base. Its very similar in rhythm and frequency to the sound coming from comet 67P. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: In Beyond Science, Epoch Times explores research and accounts related to phenomena and theories that challenge our current knowledge. We delve into ideas that stimulate the imagination and open up new possibilities. Share your thoughts with us on these sometimes controversial topics in the comments section below. An unexplained sound has permeated the water from one end of the Pacific to the other since 1991. What could it be? It isn’t whales or ship vibrations or any of the other usual suspects making this noise in the ocean. In 1991, scientists first detected what has become known as the Upsweep. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) describes Upsweep: “It consists of a long train of narrow-band upsweeping sounds of several seconds duration each.” It’s been detected from one end of the Pacific to the other, a huge range.
The US Navy had never seen this signal before in its decades of listening under the waves, according to a 2002 New Scientist article. Upsweep was heard straight across the Pacific, ruling out certain localized or small-scale sources. The sound persisted, with a peak in strength in 1994. Since then, it has been subsiding, though it remains audible, reports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It seems to peak in the spring and fall. This could be related to the source of the sound, or it may simply be that the sound travels better in the aquatic environment at these times for whatever reason, says NOAA. The sound is uniform overall, unlike the varied sounds of most volcanic activity and unlike the varied intonations of whale communications. But Emile Okal of Northwestern University in Chicago and Jacques Talandier, formerly with the French Atomic Energy Agency, suggested a particular type of volcanic activity that may be the cause. In 1996, they hypothesized that it may be the sound of seawater coming into contact with a large pool of lava, explained New Scientist. They used seismometers to trace where the sound may be coming from, concluding that it may originate in the remote southern Pacific. NOAA states that the source may be in this region, at the location of inferred volcanic seismicity. “But,” notes NOAA, “the origin of the sound is unresolved.”
Multiple UFOs Over Las Vegas Catches Residents Attention, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Multiple UFOs Over Las Vegas Catches Residents Attention, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 25, 2016 Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Steven Barone, a UFO researcher in Las Vegas caught this amazing video, near Nellis and Area 51 AFB this week. Notice each UFO has a wingman with him. Flying in pairs makes it safer for them if military jets want to play their games of cat and mouse. Steven has an awesome night vision camera that shows fantastic detail. Tools of the trade, that even a cloaked UFO cannot hide from. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com EyewitnessSteven Baronestates: This video was captured in Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of February 25, 2016. It was a great night for the night vision camera. I began filming a light to the south before it was fully dark. Initially, I wasn't sure what it was but know to film just in case. It turned out to be an interesting capture because it ended up being a minimum of four lights which ultimately disappeared below a nearby rooftop. The second set of lights were to the north and I knew immediately that they were special and began filming them because I have filmed similar lights many times before in the same location. What's so interesting about them is the formations they were flying in and how slowly they were moving. The most interesting thing of all is that this time I know their destination because the camera followed them to Nellis Air Force Base. They also flew to a very strange area I have filmed on many occasions. It is a location where hundreds of lights seemingly appear out of thin air. I could visually see the lights to the south but the lights to the north did not reveal themselves visually. Finally, in both the north and south videos you will also see airplanes flying through the scene. The aircraft that were flying in the video from the north are very likely military because they appeared to be flying in restricted airspace. You can tell when you are looking at an airplane because the flashing beacon is much stronger and more pronounced.
Location:Devon, UK Date:24th February 2016 Submitted by John
Witness report: I was sky watching when I spotted an unusual object in the sky. The object was moving at quit a speed across the sky and was making a rocking motion. The object was flying in and out of clouds and darting around the sky in unconventional manner. I look through my binoculars and could clearly see that this object was no known aircraft. I could also see that it was not a mechanical nuts and bolts object. Instead the object appeared to be some kind of organic mass that was self aware and was flying freely in the sky. As the object got closer I put down my binoculars and picked up my Sony HX300 Camera. I looked through the camera’s viewfinder and managed to keep up with the object as it increases it’s speed. I had my Sony Camera set to burst mode and managed to take ten photographs before the object changed it’s trajectory and started moving in my direction. The object shot right past me and over a nearby house and out of sight. I am really perplexed as to what this organic object could be. It’s very strange how this object is air born and has no visible sign of wings or any visible means of propulsion. The UFOs I normally see and photograph are mechanic in nature. I have seen and photographed a very similar object that I spotted last year. This similar object was morphing into many different shapes as it moved across the sky. This object was also organic in nature. The mind boggling as to what these organic objects could be?. These objects appear to defy the fundamentals of physics and any kind of logic. The photographs were taken on the 24th February 2016, 4:21 PM GMT at Newton Abbot Devon UK.
Location:1/2–3/4 way between Melbourne to Brisbane Date:25-2-2016 Submitted by Garth
Witness report: While traveling between Melbourne to Brisbane, took this photo of cloud formation trying out new phone. Did not have my glasses on so didnt notice anything out of the ordinary untill the next day looking at the pictures noticed this strange image oval in shape and dark in the middle. It is definitely outside of the plane and will leave it for the experts to ponder over.
Location:Alaska, United States Date:2014, July 27 at 1220 am Submitted by Julian
Witness report: Hello I have not made this public except to a handful of people , ten if that . Summer of 2014 I along with about 14 other people watched an ( unidentifiable flying object) I am a Cdl driver and hold a Uscg 100 ton captains license. I saw in the night sky what appeared to be a laser or a blurred light like taillights on a car on a hot asphalt road. The object was viewed by us for about ten minutes . I had just recently got my iPhone 5 at the time and nervously tried to work the camera settings and also put it to video mode. Many of the salmon workers probably would not pass a drug test due to THC in their blood. I Had weeks earlier seen a ufo drawn on his calendar from 2013, I asked him what it meant and he had told me they had seen a UFO over the water and cook inlet . I took what he said with a grain of salt maybe a pound of salt and just thought of it as a bunch of stoners . All I can say is that when I saw what I saw I am for ever changed , I believe it is some sort of unmaned drone or some sort of and I know I will catch hell for this , as you know Alaska is Farley unpopulated but were there are people every one knows everyone’s business . This is taken on Coho loop road , at that time of year at that Lat. we get about 4 hours of darkness .I’ll send a few pics , the only video I texted to a fisherman who had seen the same thing but from the water . I drove east about a mile and could see it outline with the sun in the north west / yes alaska . It looked like a flat arrow head bullet dull black , I have seen a picture of the unmanned drone that landed on an American aircraft carrier but this hovered / Floated if you want to call it that ,I didn’t turn off my diesel truck as many of my close friends have asked me ,to see if it made a noise , ,,, you don’t kill a Diesel engine in alaska , it’s a good way to get stuck in middle of know we’re with no power . The back seemed to have a whole at the back that emitted emitted a blurred light only once but not captured on video was a glowing discharge that looked much like a tracer round shoot out . I know this sounds like it should have been the news of the day in the Kenai penn. but I wanted to finish salmon season and make all the money I could and not loose my job or cause a stink , this is the longest text I think I’ve ever done I drove east as it went south the other guys couldn’t see it even though it had only turned 90 deg east to a heading of south .almost same place in the air . Up above a natural gas pumping station and then headed south over Cook inlet there are no street lamps and one man is known to land his two seater plane on the road as he lives on coho loop road . I was the strangest thing I’ve seen in my life . I hope it’s some sort of military drone , I hope but the light was blurrier like some one pointing a laser on a windshield but it was my bear eyes .
An Argentinian UFO agency is one of several pet projects of the country’s former President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner that was shut down during the administration of President Mauricio Macri.
The Commission for the Study of Aerospace Phenomena (CEFAE) was formed in May 2011. The agency, composed of civilian and military experts, had goals to get more details of several UFO sightings in the country.
The agency, however, only came up with one report and ten investigated UFO sightings for almost five years in existence. The only study consisted of 12 pages about the ten sightings with a conclusion that all nine of them involved objects that are commonly known to Earth, including a star, the moon, Jupiter, airplane, helicopter, red lights of an antenna, bird, and soccer ball. One case wasn’t resolved because of the lack of photo or video from the reporting witness. However, the study speculated that it may be a red laser on a wall.
The single report came out after Kirchner left the office in December 2015. It says that the cases all involve known origin that can be used as a proof that majority of people mistake known objects with extraordinary ones.
The document did not come out without controversies. It allegedly had no signatures, and the agency failed to reveal its operational expenses. The CEFAE allegedly had linked to the San Martin National University (UNSM), which public officials reportedly used for personal gain. According to several reports, the school came up with a degree in aerospace engineering during Kirchner’s time, but the $15 million in funding the division was used to pay party cronies and activists.
With Kirchner’s administration shrouded with corruption allegations, Macri is now taking down various projects started by its predecessor.
Great footage of USAF fighter jet engaging UFO. UFO Sightings ”When I first posted this video of the Air Force engaging a UFO, I felt convinced that this was real UFO footage, and many who have witnessed this UFO Video are convinced we are being visited by beings not of this world – extraterrestrials. Though many who see the video are not convinced it is not an edited together hoax. And the reality is that a significant number of reported UFO Sightings, and certainly of reports filed with MUFON are fabrications or just jokes to the people who fill out the online form to Report a UFO Sighting. “
Marine Corps Lance Corporal John Weygandt, who was part of the Disclosure Project, was sent to Peru in March 1997, to provide perimeter security for a radar installation that he was told tracked drug traffic aircraft in Peru and Bolivia. He states, “About midnight, while I was on guard duty, Sergeant Allen and Sergeant Atkinson told me, an aircraft crashed and they need us to go and secure the crash site.” Early that morning we drove six Hummers close to the crash site just when it started to get light. Well, we found the area real easy because there was a huge gash in the land where something had crashed. Everything was burned and it was as if something had almost cut warm butter with a knife. It was like something on fire or had some kind of energy like a laser had cut it. It was really strange. I was in the front with Sergeant Allen and Sergeant Atkinson and we were ten or twenty meters ahead of everyone else. We were the first ones to see this thing. It had gone up the hill and then off in the side of the ravine and ridge. This was a 200-foot ridge, of solid rock. A huge craft was buried at a 45-degree angle in the side of the cliff there at the ridge. It was straight up and down. ‘
The craft was dripping a greenish-purple syrup-like liquid. The liquid was everywhere and fluctuated like it was alive and changing to a different shade of greenish purple. The craft was humming like a bass guitar and had a slowly turning light. Most of the craft seemed buried into the cliff but vents, like a fish gill were on the back. The liquid got on my clothes and ate holes in them and burned off some the hair on my arms. There were three holes in the ship that may have been hatches that were not flush with the main body of the craft. There was another hatch the same width and diameter of the top hatch and it was kind of crooked to the side and it was half-open. I didn’t see any lights or anything coming out of it but I felt this… presence. It is real strange. I think the creatures calmed me. It was weird and I think they were trying to communicate with me, like, I guess, telepathically. The Corporal estimated the craft was ten meters in width and about 20 meters in length and shaped like something between an egg and a teardrop. The skin of the craft had bumps and notches and appendages on it. It was really organic and almost like art. It looked like something that could be made in a shop. It looked like it could have been handmade but out of what materials I do not know. It was definitely nothing like titanium. It looked like metal but there was no reflection. The sun was shining on it and I could see the different shades of the craft and it didn’t reflect anything. Suddenly the Sergeants were yelling at me to get the hell out of there.
After we climbed back up, the Department of Energy people were there. They knew about it so I don’t know why we went there still to this day. But anyway, I was arrested and cuffed, both hands down. I had all my gear taken from me by men in black cammies who threatened me, subdued me, and put me on a cot. They had no nametags. At the crash site there were about thirty of these guys wearing hazard suits. I had been told aircraft were flying in and out of the atmosphere at mach ten plus. When you have objects that reenter the atmosphere, then stop on a dime, then turn around, and go exactly the opposite direction – that is somewhat strange. Meteors don’t do that. The craft was not from Earth. I knew that when I looked at it. I wondered if those facilities were built for the intent to track UFO’s and their cover was to track drug aircraft. They had laser range finders and all kinds of high tech stuff that I have never seen before. They [the laser range finders] looked like big telescopes and some sort of Command Center manned by a multi –national force. So these craft were tracked from this particular radar and were logged. I’m confident that when I saw the aircraft, it had been hit by something. Something had taken it out. Editor’s Note: Corporal Weygandt described a craft damaged by enemy action, either ours or an opposing alien force. His testimony on Page 274 of “Disclosure: Witnesses Reveal the Greatest Secrets” by Steven Greer M.D. is excellent and indicates lethal deadly force was being used against alien intruders during the Clinton Administration. We can assume this war continues.
What magical powers lay hidden inside the crystal skulls? Who made these enigmatic objects? When were they created and what were these mysterious items used for?
Many questions hover risen about the many crystal skulls which have appeared at different times in the past couple of centuries, and to answer the questions about these enigmatic objects, a series of myths, legends, hypotheses, and theories have been proposed by different researchers as answers. The truth behind them, however, remains far more mysterious than what we are willing to accept.
Perhaps the most famous crystal skull was discovered in 1924 by Anna Mitchell-Hedges Le Guillen, during an expedition to the Mayan ruins of Lubaantun, located in modern-day Belize, while they were searching for the lost city of Atlantis. Anna Mitchell-Hedges has attested that she, her father, and the others on the expedition at the “lost” city of Lubaantun, “were digging in the temple, moving a heavy wall which had fallen on the altar…. I came upon the skull buried beneath the altar, but it was some three months later before the jaw was found which was about 25 feet away.”
Made of pure quartz crystal, both the mandible and the skull were created from the same rock. Except minor anomalies, the skull is anatomically perfect, possibly representing a female skull due to its smaller size of 12.7 cm in height while its weight is around 5 kg. The prisms located at the base as the hand-polished lenses of the eyes are a combination that produces an incredible shine. The skull, which is perfectly carved out of rock crystal, has a high degree of hardness which, according to scientists, is a seven out of ten on the Mohs scale.
In the early 1970s, his mysterious object was studied by an independent restorer by the name of Frank Dorland, who estimated it would have been chiseled in basic form, using diamonds, and then polished to perfection. According to Dorland, the mysterious crystal skulls it at least 12,000 years old.
Years later, the skull was examined in the laboratories of Hewlett-Packard after which Mayan expert and archaeologist Norman Hammond studied it, and warned that the holes showed signs of having been made with metal tools.
F.A. Mitchell-Hedges mentioned the crystal skull in the first edition of his autobiography, „Danger My Ally”, describing it as the “Skull of Doom” as “dating back at least 3,600 years, and taking about 150 years to rub down with sand”; the rock crystal, he exaggerated, was “nearly as hard as diamond.”
“It is stated in legend that it was used by a high priest of the Maya to concentrate on and will death. It is said to be the embodiment of all evil; several people who have cynically laughed at it have died, others have been stricken and become seriously ill.”
Experts from the British Museum were among the several experts who analyzed the skull, dating it to the Aztec civilization around 130 to 1400 AD, but according to the natives who traveled with Mitchell-Hedges to Lubaantum reassure that the “skull of destiny” was at least 4000 years old.
There are other crystal skulls that are displayed at the Museum of Mankind in England and at the Trocadero Museum in Paris, France. Those crystal skulls were discovered by members of the Mexican army in the 1890’s, also carved out of pure quartz crystal, although not as elaborate as the one discovered by Mitchell-Hedges.
The skulls located at the Museum of mankind is considered a “twin” of the skull discovered by Mitchell-Hedges since they are almost identical except for one detail. The Mitchell-Hedges skull, has a hinged jaw, as in a real skull; while the one displayed in England, has a fixed jaw.
Many authors have many theories. There are some who link the mysterious crystal skulls with traditions and myths from Native Americans while others have linked it to Plato’s mythical Atlantis. None of the theories are scientifically supported but continue to attract thousands of people around the world, demonstrating that, whether or not pre-Columbian, and whether or not fitted with magical powers, the enigmatic skulls have an undeniable magnetism that has attracted the curiosity of explorers and researchers alike.
Snowden Reveals Documents: 'More Intelligent Homo Sapiens Exist Underground'
Snowden Reveals Documents: 'More Intelligent Homo Sapiens Exist Underground'
Edward Snowden, the leaker of NSA surveillance documents, was granted asylum in Venezuela on Friday. With safe harbors in sight, Snowden was willing to share shocking and world-shattering exclusive secret government documents with The Internet Chronicle.
Snowden’s testimony was as follows:
“The highest levels of government don’t know what to do about UFOs, and the official story that they are all merely weather balloons or natural phenomena has been clearly dismissed. If anything, these documents speak about UFOs as if they are surely guided by an intelligence beyond our own. As it turns out, the most credible and inexplicable sightings are of vehicles that have been spotted leaving the sea floor at hydrothermal vents and directly entering solar orbit.
“Because ballistic missile tracking systems and deep-sea sonar are kept as state secrets, scientists don’t have access to data about these objects. However, most of the contractors at DARPA are sure that there is a species more intelligent than homo sapiens living in the mantle of the Earth. It makes sense, if you think about it, because that is the only place where conditions have been more or less stable for billions of years. Extremophiles may live at different temperatures than us, but they have been able to thrive and develop intelligence at a seemingly accelerated rate. That’s not true, because they’ve simply evolved at the same rate, but without many of the vicissitudes which set back surface life . . .
“The president receives daily briefings about their activities. Analysts believe their technology to be so far advanced that we stand little chance of survival in any potential war. The general sentiment is that we are but ants from their perspective, so there is little chance they would empathize or attempt to communicate with us, and the current contingency plan is to detonate nuclear weapons in deep caverns to ‘sting’ the foe we have no hope of destroying in hopes it would discourage further attacks.”
Critics may allege that what the 30-year-old former NSA and CIA contractor can state with authority about our ultraterrestrial neighbors is already well-known. But the Ground-Penetrating Radar, or GPR, scans, which The Internet Chronicle has shared and confirmed with sources within intelligence community, will only serve to underscore popular bitterness over strategically timed earthquakes and tsunamis.
Just as PRISM shined a new light on goings-on in NSA’s ECHELON computer systems, revealed in the 1990s, the vast complexes of underground cities – laser-etched from pure diamond – apparent in the GPR scans will transform public debate about the balance between liberty and security. - Chronicle
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New Horizons fotografeert de bevroren valleien van Pluto
New Horizons fotografeert de bevroren valleien van Pluto
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Op de foto zien we weer een heel andere kant van de dwergplaneet: de met valleien bezaaide noordpool.
Het poolgebied dat je hier ziet, wordt informeel Lowell Regio genoemd. Het gebied bezit enorme valleien. Het breedste exemplaar (op de afbeelding hieronder in geel aangegeven) is maar liefst 75 kilometer breed! De ‘groene’ valleien op de afbeelding hieronder lopen vrijwel parallel aan deze enorme vallei en zijn ongeveer 10 kilometer breed.
Oud Ook op andere plekken op Pluto zijn valleien te vinden. Maar de valleien op de noordpool van de dwergplaneet onderscheiden zich daar duidelijk van. Hun wanden zijn vervallen en daardoor lijken de valleien veel ouder. Mogelijk zijn ze ook veel ouder en gemaakt van zwakker materiaal.
De noordpool van Pluto. New Horizons maakte de foto toen deze ongeveer 33.900 kilometer van Pluto verwijderd was.
Afbeelding: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI.
Bedekt Iets ten oosten van de grote valleien die we hierboven al even noemden, bevindt zich nog een vallei (met roze aangegeven). Het nabij deze vallei gelegen gebied (rechtsonder) is vrij glad. Het lijkt erop dat dit gebied bedekt is met bepaald materiaal dat kleine topografische kenmerken aan het zicht onttrekt.
Putten Wat verder opvalt op deze foto van New Horizons zijn grote ‘putten’ op de afbeelding met rood aangeduid. Ze zijn tot wel 70 kilometer breed en 4 kilometer diep. Deze putten zijn mogelijk ontstaan doordat ijs onder het oppervlak gesmolten of gesublimeerd (verdampt) is, waardoor de grond erboven naar beneden is gestort.
Ook opvallend is de kleur (NASA heeft de kleuren op de foto wel iets nadrukkelijker gemaakt) en samenstelling van het gebied. De hoger gelegen plaatsen zijn geel gekleurd, iets wat je verder nergens op Pluto ziet. Dat geel loopt – naarmate de hoogte van een gebied afneemt – over in een soort blauwgrijs. Onduidelijk is nog hoe de kleuren precies ontstaan zijn. Metingen van New Horizons wijzen uit dat er in dit deel van Pluto veel methaanijs, maar heel weinig stikstofijs te vinden is. “Eén mogelijkheid is dat het gele terrein overeenkomt met oudere methaanafzettingen die sterker door zonnestraling zijn aangetast dan het blauwere terrein,” aldus onderzoeker Will Grundy.
"Botsende zwarte gaten die zwaartekrachtsgolven onthulden, waren een 'tweeling'"
"Botsende zwarte gaten die zwaartekrachtsgolven onthulden, waren een 'tweeling'"
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De twee fuserende zwarte gaten die het bestaan van zwaartekrachtsgolven verraadden, zijn mogelijk binnen één ster geboren.
Op 14 september 2015 botsten twee zwarte gaten op elkaar. Bij de fusie kwamen zwaartekrachtsgolven vrij die vervolgens door het Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) werden gedetecteerd. Een primeur: hoewel Einstein het bestaan van deze golven al voorspelde, waren ze nog nooit overtuigend waargenomen. Tot september 2015 dus.
Gammastraling Een nieuw onderzoek gaat nu wat dieper in op de twee zwarte gaten aan wie we deze ontdekking te danken hebben. Het onderzoek suggereert dat de twee zwarte gaten voortkomen uit één enkele ster. De onderzoekers trekken die conclusie op basis van gegevens van ruimtetelescoop Fermi. Een fractie van een seconde nadat LIGO de zwaartekrachtsgolven detecteerde, nam deze ruimtetelescoop een uitbarsting van gammastraling waar. En dat is opvallend; bij de fusie van twee zwarte gaten hoort geen gammastraling vrij te komen.
Eén stervende ster Er moet dan ook meer aan de hand zijn geweest dan een ‘simpele’ fusie van twee zwarte gaten, zo stellen de onderzoekers. Ze vermoeden dat de twee zwarte gaten kort voor hun fusie uit één stervende ster zijn voortgekomen.
“DE NATUUR KAN ONS ALTIJD VERRASSEN”
Tweeling Normaalgesproken is het zo dat wanneer een zware ster het einde van zijn leven nadert, de kern van de ster ineenstort en één zwart gat vormt. Maar als de ster heel snel draait – bijvoorbeeld doordat deze het resultaat is van de fusie van twee sterren – kan de kern worden uitgerekt en in twee ‘brokken’ uiteenvallen en elke ‘brok’ wordt vervolgens een zwart gat. “Het is de kosmische equivalent van een zwangere vrouw die een tweeling in haar buik draagt,” stelt onderzoeker Avi Loeb. Om zowel zwaartekrachtsgolven als een uitbarsting van gammastraling te kunnen produceren, moeten de zwarte gaten heel dicht bij elkaar geboren zijn en binnen enkele minuten met elkaar zijn gefuseerd. Het enkele zwarte gat dat na de fusie ontstond heeft stermaterie verorberd en daarbij kwam de door Fermi waargenomen gammastraling vrij, zo denken de onderzoekers.
Het is een fraaie theorie. Of deze ook klopt, blijft nog even onduidelijk. De uitbarsting die Fermi waarnam, werd namelijk niet gezien door de Europese INTEGRAL gammastraling-satelliet en is dus nog niet bevestigd. “Zelfs als het signaal van Fermi vals alarm is, zouden we tijdens toekomstige LIGO-gebeurtenissen altijd moeten kijken of er lichtsignalen mee gemoeid zijn, ongeacht of het nu gaat om de fusie van zwarte gaten,” vindt Loeb. “De natuur kan ons altijd verrassen.”
De Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment-telescoop (APEX) onthult op een spectaculaire nieuwe foto de ijzigste delen van ons sterrenstelsel.
De foto is het slotakkoord van de APEX Large Area Survey of the Galaxy (ATLASGAL) waar de APEX-telescoop de afgelopen tijd voor is ingezet. Tijdens dit onderzoek bracht de telescoop het deel van het Melkwegvlak dat vanaf het zuidelijk halfrond waarneembaar is op submillimeter-golflengten – straling die tussen infrarood licht en radiogolven in zit – volledig in kaart. Het resultaat is een panorama dat veel gedetailleerder is dan beelden uit eerdere onderzoeken.
Koud De APEX-telescoop is zeer geschikt om het koude heelal te onderzoeken. Je moet dan denken aan gas en stof met temperaturen die slechts enkele tienden van een graad boven het absolute nulpunt liggen. Tijdens het Large Area Survey of the Galaxy heeft de APEX-telescoop de verdeling van koud, dicht gas in kaart gebracht. In deze koude en zware gaswolken worden nieuwe generaties sterren geboren. “ATLASGAL verschaft boeiende inzichten over waar de volgende generatie van zware sterren en sterrenhopen ontstaan,” vertelt onderzoeker Timea Csengeri.
Het ‘slotakkoord’ van ATLASGAL. Afbeelding: ESO / APEX / ATLASGAL consortium / NASA / GLIMPSE consortium / ESA / Planck.
Planck De data die nu door de APEX-telescoop is verzameld, wordt gebruikt om gegevens die de Planck-satelliet eerder van de volledige hemel verzamelde, aan te vullen. De gegevens van Planck zijn namelijk niet zo gedetailleerd als die van APEX.
Tijdens ATLASGAL stond dus de zuidelijke hemel centraal. Eerder werd het noordelijk deel van de Melkweg al in kaart gebracht met de James Clerk Maxwell-telescoop. Het zuidelijke deel zou je echter interessanter kunnen noemen, omdat daar het galactisch centrum te vinden is.
The Orion spacecraft is the successor to the now-retired Space Shuttle. NASA is planning to send astronauts on a first crewed flight aboard Orion in 2021. NASA’s Orion Spacecraft is destined to fly at the top of the Space Launch System (SLS).
The Space Launch System will push Orion out of Earth’s orbit to reach the moon during its first test flight in 2018. The test flight is meant to check the spacecraft’s ability to accomplish future deep space missions.
The SLS will be the largest, most powerful rocket in the world and NASA believes that it will eventually make a journey to Mars within reach in the 2030s.
Image courtesy http://www.boeing.com/
Image courtesy http://www.boeing.com/
Recently, the pressure vessel or primary structure of the Orion space crew module made it to Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida after leaving New Orleans…marking a step closer to the journey to the Red Planet.
NASA used the massive Super Guppy aircraft to transport the Orion capsule. The Super Guppy aircraft has a wingspan of 156 feet, The cargo compartment of the jumbo plane is 48 feet tall and 143 feet long. It can carry more than 26 tons.
The aircraft’s hinged nose can open more than 200 degrees which allows the large spacecraft components to be loaded and unloaded from the front of the plane.
On February 26, 2016, the United States Air Force announced the “next generation” bomber, the B-21. Although not much is known, they did issue a press release:
Air Force reveals B-21 Long Range Strike Bomber
WASHINGTON (AFNS) — Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James revealed the first rendering of the Long Range Strike Bomber, designated the B-21, at the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium Feb. 26 in Orlando, Fla., and announced the Air Force will be taking suggestions from Airmen to help decide the name of the bomber.
“This aircraft represents the future for our Airmen, and (their) voice is important to this process,” James said. “The Airman who submits the selected name will help me announce it at the (Air Force Association) conference this fall.”
While there are no existing prototypes of the aircraft, the artist rendering is based on the initial design concept. The designation B-21 recognizes the LRS-B as the first bomber of the 21st century.
The reveal comes just weeks after both James and Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III delivered the fiscal year 2017 posture statement before the Senate Appropriations Committee, making it clear modernization is a top priority for the Air Force.
“The platforms and systems that made us great over the last 50 years will not make us great over the next 50,” Welsh said during his testimony on Capitol Hill Feb. 10. “There are many other systems we need to either upgrade or recapitalize to ensure viability against current and emerging threats… the only way to do that is to divest old capability to build the new.”
James said the B-21 will allow the Air Force to operate in tomorrow’s high end threat environment, and give the Air Force the flexibility and the capability to launch from the continental United States and deliver airstrikes on any location in the world.
James also explained why the B-21 shares some resemblance to the B-2.
“The B-21 has been designed from the beginning based on a set of requirements that allows the use of existing and mature technology,” James said.
The program recently entered into the Engineering and Manufacturing Development phase and the Air Force plans to field the initial capability of the aircraft in mid-2020s.
As we're told, it's very unlikely that anyone saw it though it was likely picked up by military sensors across the world.
NASA and other space experts were, once again, blindsided by it ... or this is never happened.
The story goes as follows:
NASA reports huge explosion of seven meter space rock over the Atlantic.
A huge fireball crashed into the Atlantic earlier this month - and went almost unseen.
The event took place on February 6 at 14 00 UTC when a meteor exploded in the air 620 miles (1,000km) off the coast of Brazil.
According to NASA's Near-Earth Object Fireball page, this fireball was the biggest to impact the planet since the Chelyabinsk fireball that had 500,000 tons of TNT energy a few years ago.
In only days, one asteroid will do an Earth-flyby on March 8th. We're told 2013 TX68 poses no threat to the planet but could still get very close to Earth according to NASA. The 150 foot wide asteroid will fly to the Earth possibly as close as 11,000 miles (17,000km).
While a NASA spokesperson tell us: There is no existing evidence that an asteroid or any other celestial object is on a trajectory that will impact Earth and in fact, not a single one of the known objects has any credible chance of hitting our planet over the next century.
We'll mention he forgot to add this disclaimer: At least not one that we are aware of and can clearly see coming at this time.
How many more are they missing?
NASA is currently tracking 1,600+ 'potentially hazardous asteroids' and it has only been 'blind luck' that has so far saved humanity from serious impact. Former astronaut Ed Lu has described the situation that our planet in now facing as "cosmic roulette" - how long before humanity's luck runs out?
The latest fireball report comes from Spain.
The meteor recording stations that the University of Huelva operates at the astronomical observatories located at La Hita (Toledo), Sevilla and Huelva recorded a fireball observed over the South of Spain and Portugal on February 21, 2016 and a second fireball which was brighter than the full Moon and exhibited several explosions over Spain on February 23, 2016.
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CURIOSITY ROVER STUMBLES UPON A LEVITATING SPHERE, EVERYONE IS BAFFLED
CURIOSITY ROVER STUMBLES UPON A LEVITATING SPHERE, EVERYONE IS BAFFLED
Many bizarre things are found on the surface of Mars, most of them resembling Earthly structures or even living beings, and while NASA could offer simple explanation for most of these artifacts, there are some discoveries that beat even their imagination. Such is the case of this levitating object spotted by Curiosity rover.
A spectacular apparition, as some UFO enthusiasts would call it, this mystery-sphere is certain to puzzle lots of folks, amateurs and scientists alike. It has a circular design and above all, it appears to be hovering over the rocky terrain. The faint shadow raises all doubts that this could be just another anomaly caused by the lens or who knows what else. It appears as if someone who is ahead of us has already developed the gravitational waves concept and is now using it to send messages throughout the universe.
You’ve heard it well. According to the majority of analysts investigating the bizarre levitating artifact, this can only be an alien probe that has been launched throughout the universe in the hopes of finding another advanced species such as them, a project similar to what we’re doing nowadays except that they have access to better technology. So instead of peeking out into the universe or sending radio waves in space, it’s likely that another intergalactic species is sending samples with encoded messages, similar to how humans send (or used to send) a message in a bottle across the river current, seas or oceans.
If this proves to be authentic, then NASA might have just found the Lucky 7, the Holy Grail of UFOlogy that could propel our young species into the next level of understanding. But why is it that they won’t make this public? Why is there no global havoc already? It’s strange, right? But if we look at the bigger picture, an ‘alien message in a bottle’ would mean the end of all religions, people will question everything that they were served as reality so far, this would be the next step on the evolutionary scale, going from 0 to 1 in a matter of days (and that’s quite a huge leap to take).
The mystery object has a minimalist design, it is but a circular material object on the surface of Mars, but above all, it’s hovering right above the ground. There is no possible way to describe this object as being something else, so if an evolved alien species sent it as an intergalactic probe, they sure did an amazing job because they considered the simplest thing – a round, levitating sphere – that cannot be misinterpreted as something different than what it is.
This could be proof enough that intelligent life resides elsewhere in the universe, and their advanced capabilities somehow predicted that the species receiving their message will definitely doubt its origins, thus transmitting it in a circular device, a simple shape that cannot occur as a result of a natural phenomenon, but only through an artificial manufacturing process.
If this is indeed authentic, it would explain the ongoing rush to send people to Mars. An extraterrestrial message is just sitting out there waiting to be interfered with. Now, is it possible that Curiosity rover cannot properly inspect the device, and a manned mission to the Red Planet would be required in order to elucidate the mystery of the levitating artifact? According to some researchers, this could be exactly the case, and although a black-budget mission to Mars might already be underway, the space agency might be waiting for the opportune moment to disclose all their finds. It appears that the world is not yet ready for total disclosure, but we put our trust in NASA that they’ll reveal the truth, although they’ll do it gradually ( via ufoholic.com ).
Whatever the case, there is plenty of room for speculation here, and at the same time there are clear features which diminish most of the doubts referring to the levitating object as pareidolia. We’d like to hear you opinions on this. [Official NASA link]
Apollo astronaut Gene Cernan, with the Saturn V rocket at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, looks back in the new documentary "The Last Man on the Moon,” opening on Feb. 26, 2016.
Credit: Mark Craig/Last Man on the Moon
As the new documentary "The Last Man on the Moon" opens, the camera pans across a crowd at a rodeo until it finds an older gentleman taking his seat.
The man, clad in a cowboy hat, padded vest and dark blue jeans with a large-buckle belt, doesn't stand out from those around him. Nothing about his appearance suggests he is a member of one of the most exclusive fraternities in all of human history.
In fact, as that scene was shot, only one person, out of the thousands surrounding him, recognized Gene Cernan.
"Just one — the man sitting next to him," said Mark Craig, director of "The Last Man on the Moon," which is openingin select U.S. theaters on Friday (Feb. 26).
Craig's film seeks to address that.
"It is basically the epic tale of one man's part in mankind's greatest adventure with quite a few laughs and tears along the way," Craig told collectSPACE.com. "We don't just dwell on the past, but see plenty of Cernan's life today, and what he shares with us on a personal level is more than any other moonwalker has ever done previously." [Watch the Trailer for "The Last Man on the Moon"]
Cernan, suffice to say, isn't just another face at the rodeo. Though he aspired to and now owns a Texas ranch, a fact that the film not just points out but features, Cernan is one of just 24 men to have flown to the moon, one of just three to have done it twice, and the last out of only 12 astronauts to leave his bootprint on its surface.
A naval aviator, Cernan was chosen as a NASA astronaut in 1963. He flew three times to space as a member of the Gemini 9A and Apollo 10 crews and commander of Apollo 17, the latter the final manned mission to land on the moon in December 1972.
"The Last Man on the Moon" recounts that history, as other documentaries have, but in doing so injects Cernan's own unique perspective on his journey.
"It wasn't just his story, but the way he told it that made a real impact," commented Craig, referencing Cernan's 1998 autobiography, which shares the same title and served as the initial inspiration for the film.
Five years in the making, "Last Man on the Moon" uses on-site shoots to bring Cernan back to the time and places where he made history. He visits the dormant launch pad where he left Earth for the moon, the museums where his spacecraft are on public display, and the Arlington National Cemetery, where some of his fellow astronauts were laid to rest.
"Every one of the film's locations had special significance for both Gene and for us on the small film crew, but in very different ways," Craig recalled. "The derelict launch pad at the Cape certainly stirred some strong feelings for Gene, and that in turn affected us on the crew. And how could a visit to Arlington [cemetery] not leave a powerful and vivid impression?"
The one location the filmmakers could not take Cernan – back to space ("We would love to have taken him back to the Taurus-Littrow valleyon the moon," Craig remarked) – is represented by archival NASA footage, where available, and Hollywood-style recreations, where not.
Movie poster for the new documentary "The Last Man on the Moon,” opening Feb. 26, 2016.
Credit: Mark Stewart Productions
"Very little footage of Gene's Gemini spacewalk exists. As it was such a defining and dramatic moment in his story, we needed to bring it alive for the audience so that they could see and understand his tremendous difficulties," said Craig of the re-staged EVA. "As for Apollo 10, it was the first time Gene left the planet Earth and headed way out someplace where that few had ever been before. There is some great on board archive footage, but very little of that conveys the vastness and majestic spectacle of space."
"I was partly inspired by Stanley Kubrick's '2001: A Space Odyssey,' and wanted to intercut the real footage with the visual effects to keep it feeling big, real and emotional," he described.
Other voices add to that emotion. In addition to Cernan's own recollections, the movie features new interviews with Apollo astronauts Alan Bean, Charlie Duke, Dick Gordon and Jim Lovell, as well as flight directors Gene Kranz and Chris Kraft. Cernan's first wife, Barbara, and current wife, Jan appear, as do his children and grandchildren including his daughter Tracy whose initials he left on the moon.
Although only implied on screen, the film's title, "The Last Man on the Moon," is something Cernan struggles with to this day. While Neil Armstrong will always be the first man, Cernan doesn't relish having carried the title of "last" for so long. It is that message, among others, that Cernan – and Craig – hope the public takes away from the documentary.
"Gene delivers a number of powerful messages in the film. I would rather audiences see and hear these in the context of his story than reveal them here," Craig said. "But I think if you were old enough to remember the age of Apollo you will have some surprisingly strong emotions stirred up. And if you were born after or are too young to remember, then I believe that a major chapter in history will be brought alive by a remarkable individual who was there in the thick of it all."
"We are lucky that he has the courage, wit and honesty to share it with us in such a human way."
"The Last Man on the Moon," produced by Mark Stewart Productions, opens in select U.S. theaters and is available concurrently on video-on-demand services including Apple iTunes, on Friday (Feb. 26). It will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on April 26. For more information, see thelastmanonthemoon.com.
Top secret UFO documents 'prove Britain's biggest alien sighting was real' claims US naval officer
Top secret UFO documents 'prove Britain's biggest alien sighting was real' claims US naval officer
The Suffolk Rendlesham story is one of the country's most famous mass sightings of aliens or supernatural craft
Revelation: The naval officer says he has seen proof aliens exist
A former US naval officer has lifted the lid on supposedly top secret documents which he claims proves Britain's biggest UFO sighting was real.
In December 1980, the skies above Suffolk were ablaze with strange lights in the biggest UFO sighting in the UK as dozens of witnesses allegedly saw an alien aircraft land.
Now, more than 35 years later, a former US naval officer has joined other military personnel in claiming he has seen top secret documents which prove the extraordinary sightings at RendleshamForest were geniune.
The 49-year-old, who prefers to remain anonymous, claims to have valuable new evidence about the Rendlesham UK UFO mass sightings, in Suffolk in 1980.
The married man, now living in Ohio, said he was based at NAS Moffett Field, in California, and he was there from February 1986 to October 1989, while also working with contacts in Silicone Valley.
He told the Express: "I have never seen a UFO or ET or alien, however I have seen literally tens of thousand of documents confirming they are real and have visited Earth."
Confirmation: He says he knows Rendlesham actually happened
The veteran reportedly said he was now able to speak because his confidentiality agreement with the US authorities expired in 2014.
Asked why he had not removed some of the pictures or other evidence, he said: "Legally, you are not authorised to walk off with classified information. That is treason and treason is a felony.
"I do not possess anything other than my testimony and documents that authorise that I legitimately had the individual top-secret security clearances."
He said a man in his 60s with higher security clearance had told him in detail about the mysterious Rendlesham Forest case and how aliens were definitely involved.
The Rendlesham legend has been dubbed Britain's Roswell after the mystery UFO crash said to have happened outside the town in New Mexico, USA, in July 1947.
Three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters claimed a "triangular shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26 1980.
Danger: He was speaking because some of his friends had been killed by aliens
He is the second US military officer to come forward in recent months, after Colonel Charles Halt, who was deputy colonel at the Bentwaters airbase on the two nights spoke in Jully.
He also said he had been told by two radar operators that an unknown object was tracked at the time.
He added he had seen a mysterious object with a red light that kept on bobbing up and down in a field and claimed sparks came off it and it exploded.
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ALIEN HYBRID - STARCHILD DISCOVERED IN CHINA
ALIEN HYBRID - STARCHILD DISCOVERED IN CHINA
A boy has stunned medics with his ability to see in pitch black with eyes that glow in the dark. Doctors have studied Nong Youhui's amazing eyesight since his dad took him to hospital in Dahua, southern China, concerned over his bright blue eyes.
Dad Ling said: "They told me he would grow out of it and that his eyes would stop glowing and turn black like most Chinese people but they never did."
Medical tests conducted in complete darkness show Youhui can read perfectly without any light and sees as clearly as most people do during the day.
Could Nong Youhui be a Hybrid or Starchild? A new and growing generation of extraordinary and gifted children are springing up across our planet, is the human species evolving, or possibly our Extraterrestrial visitors tinkering with our DNA? As always you decide.
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Pleiadians And The Reptilians Agenda
Pleiadians And The Reptilians Agenda
This video talks about the global agenda set for humanity by the people behind the scene. This shows you how two alien races Pleiadians and Reptillians are involved on this agenda. Many aspects of this conspiracy theory is covered in this video.
It seems Pleidians and Reptoids are experts of deception. Here is the truth Nasa and the Governments is keeping from us…
One of the most advanced ET races monitoring Earth are Egyptian/African type in appearance, the hieroglyphics you see on the pyramids shows it. Also Mars is full of Egyptian type artifacts and to some extent pyramid like structures.
Evidently the Tall Whites and white conehead extraterrestrials deal with the Reptillian races and they go about their endeavors conquering and taking anything of value. The reptillians are regarded as being very intelligent and very aggressive in character, the Tall Whites or the pale skinned blue eyed Nordics are also very intelligent, however they seem to be very negative and show an attitude of being superior in character and their way of doing things is to always serve them selfs.
Earth was very peaceful until they arrived in our solar system and war arrived with it. The african type race had to defend themselves, but these ET’s had atomic weapon technology, so obviously the inhabitants of Earth had to surrender. It’s very similar to when the pilgrims conquered and destroyed the Native American Indian population and culture, but on a much bigger scale. Since then there has been an open and hidden foothold on the dark skinned race (African/Egyption) and they are simply made to look like a backwards grass eating race, but in the bigger picture it’s the exact opposite.
However it’s not about race. In fact the very first Kings and Queens of Earth were people of color and the Tall whites and reptoids planned to have the planet to themselves. In my opinion the race issue is merely another hostile weapon put to use for supremacy and separation.
The intelligent reptoids realized they could use the caucasoid race as host, since their bodies are simpler to invade mainly because there was not much melanin, which is certainly abundant in skin of color. This explains just why caucasians are abducted more than any other race on the planet, yet they are the minority, Adolf Hitler was a prime example of a host. Even Though the road looks rough, the day of peace and kindness for everyone seems very close.
Some people seem to believe there are many species of white/pale skinned ET’s who are fighting against the evil Reptillian and the Tall White. It doesn’t matter if you want to believe this or not, makes little difference now.
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Amerikaanse oud-officier: “UFO’s en aliens hebben de aarde bezocht”
Amerikaanse oud-officier: “UFO’s en aliens hebben de aarde bezocht”
UFO’s en aliens hebben de aarde bezocht. Dat zegt een Amerikaanse oud-marineofficier in een exclusief interview met de Britse Daily Express.
“Ik heb nooit een UFO of alien gezien, maar wel tienduizenden documenten die bevestigen dat ze echt zijn en de aarde hebben bezocht,” zegt hij. De man, die anoniem wil blijven, zou hooggeplaatste posities binnen het Amerikaanse leger en de Navy SEALs hebben bekleed.
De man uit Ohio moest een geheimhoudingsovereenkomst ondertekenen die geldig was tot 2014. Hij heeft nu besloten zich uit te spreken over de ‘topgeheime stukken’ die hij onder ogen heeft gekregen in de periode dat hij voor de Amerikaanse marine werkte.
Heel diep
“Het enige waar ik over beschik zijn mijn getuigenis en de documenten die aantonen dat ik een veiligheidsmachtiging had voor toegang tot topgeheime informatie,” zegt hij. “Dit konijnenhol gaat heel diep.”
“Ik heb geen ‘smoking gun’ of kopieën,” voegt hij toe. “Ik werkte op de afdeling communicatie van de Amerikaanse marine en had daar toegang tot topgeheime stukken.”
Intelligentie
Hij benoemde ook het incident in Rendlesham Forest en legde uit dat een hooggeplaatste officier met een ‘hogere veiligheidsmachtiging’ de waarnemingen aan hem heeft beschreven.
In juli 2015 vertelde kolonel Charles Halt aan de BBC dat hij samen met een aantal andere militairen UFO’s had gezien op de legerbasis bij Rendlesham Forest. Op 26 december 1980 werden daar ‘vreemde lichten’ gezien, waarna men op zoek ging naar de UFO’s.
“Ze pikten een ‘bogey’ op zoals dat heet, die bij Rendlesham Forest verdween,” zei hij. “Wat daar is gezien, werd duidelijk bestuurd door een bepaalde intelligentie.”
UFO Over New Jersey Excites Belleville On Feb 20, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over New Jersey Excites Belleville On Feb 20, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 20, 2016 Location of sighting: Belleville, New Jersey, USA News source:
http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2016/02/watch_is_that_a_ufo_flying_over_jersey.html A UFO researcher in New Jersey caught a UFO hovering over his neighborhood, which made local news. The UFOs color resembles that of a common trend around the world from the outback of Melbourne to the Great Lakes of Michigan. These glowing move silently and across the sky, but glowing powerfully as if they want to be seen. Excellent recording. I have witnessed only one glowing red ball in my life, 10 years back as it flew from nowhere over the ocean heading over me inland at midnight in Kenting, Taiwan. Had no camera at the time, but the memory of it being 75 meters above me was...burned into my memory. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: BELLEVILLE — Add Belleville – an Essex County suburb of about 35,000 people known as the birthplace of the Four Seasons and a popular filming location for 'The Sopranos' – to the list of New Jersey towns that might just get invaded by aliens. Rich T., who lives in the township with his wife and kids, says he's not a person who is normally on the hunt for unidentified flying objects. "I'm not the kind of guy who sits on my front lawn with binoculars," he said. But on Saturday night, when he and his wife were putting their daughter into her car seat, they saw a light that "looked like an orb or something" flying overhead. The light, Rich said, silently flew in from Bloomfield, continued in a Northeast direction, was briefly joined by a second light, and then vanished. The light did not resemble a plane, helicopter, blimp, or anything Rich has seen before, he said. He even did some research about drones, sky lanterns, and other flying technologies, but could not find one that matched the orb, which he said was flying against the wind. Rich joins a long line of New Jersey sky watchers who think they may have spotted a UFO above New Jersey. Last year, a controversial sighting was made in Willingboro. North Bergen has a long history with alleged UFO sightings. The National UFO Reporting Center cites hundreds of sightings throughout the Garden State. So, is there extra-terrestrial activity over Belleville? Check out the video above to judge for yourself. Though Rich said he's not sure what it is, the sight "left us a little uneasy."
This UFO is hovering near the mountain of Patagonia, and I have a feeling that its a scientific data collecting craft. The kind that either takes the animal away with it, or it dissects the creature there on the ground with laser sharp tools. The fact that its over cattle proves that it finds the animals interesting. The shape of this Argentina UFO matches the shape of the UFO seen back in 1999 at Mount St Helens volcano, WA. There a team of 14 forestry service workers saw an elk lifted up and taken away by this shape of craft. Below is a art rendering of what they saw. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: Commotion was caused by a UFO in the mountains of Patagonia. The sighting happened between San Martin de los Andes and Villa Meliquina. The discovery was made when a family returned from vacation and carefully viewed the photos on a big screen. They noticed a foreign object in the air. Thus they came to have these shocking images, which would document the presence of a UFO on Patagonian soil. It is clear that then, this flying saucer, and when analyzed the photo with equipment that allows give breadth and improve resolution to the decision, but nevertheless it calls attention the place from where it was observed by the camera of this family, without people closer, and the height of the object in flight. According to experts, an RC drone could not be handled at a great distance, which increases further the belief that what was portrayed as part of their memories for summer holidays, was a UFO.
UFO Exits Volcano In Costa Rica On Feb 2016, Photo, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Exits Volcano In Costa Rica On Feb 2016, Photo, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: February 2016 Location of sighting: Irazu Volcano, Costa Rica Source: MUFON #74756 This UFO was seen over a Irazu Volcano in Costa Rica this week. It was probably exiting an underground base that is 4-5 km below the volcano. Aliens often chose high peaks and volcanos to make a base below, because of their secludedness and difficulty for humans to explore. Thus, the risk of them being seen is low. This ship has a lot of similarities to the Friendship case craft in Rocca Pia, Italy. You can see a glass dome over its top.
Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Eyewitness states: I was with my girlfriend visiting Irazu Volcano national park in Cartago Costa Rica. The weather was really nice. Very good sun light not cloudy. This Volcano is 3400 mts of altitude above sea level close to the biosphere. So we were above the clouds. Like when you fly on airplane. The sky was really clear so at 11:00 am on that altitude part of the sky was light black.We were taking pictures of the volcano and the landscape. The clouds looked like a white sea but I noticed close to one of the mountains some clouds with different forms. So I started to take pictures there. Once we finish the tour we headed back home. While I was checking the pictures I noticed one black circle above the mountains I noticed before. It looked like a circular sauce with 2 little antenas one on the top of it and like one on it's tail. On the moment while taking the pictures I did not see it. I took the pictures in a burst. on one pic you can see the object completely clear on the next one vanished. almost in seconds. All the pictures have less than one minute difference. I will attach the pictures guys. Thanks for your time. Greetings from Costa Rica.
Pilot Hans Faulkner claims to have flown a drone over the top secret airbase where alien craft reportedly stored. Faulkner claimed to have recorded on video some areas of the restricted airspace from his remote-controlled device. Also known as Dreamland and Groom Lake, The U.S. Air Force base is located approximately 83 miles north of Las Vegas in the distant Nevada desert.
The secret facility is the place where the stealth technology of the U.S. has been developed. Some of the best U.S. planes, such as the U2 spy plane, the F117 Stealth Fighter, and the Blackbird SR71 were secretly developed at this military base.
The U.S. government had denied the existence of the base until 2013 when the CIA documents confirmed otherwise.
In the late 1980s, the base started to become synonymous with UFOs as physicist Bob Lazarclaimed to have involvement with reverse engineered alien craft in a mountain-side hangar.
Since then, curious people and alien enthusiasts from different parts of the world have flocked to the military base in hopes to catch a glimpse of advanced craft flight test. However, people are only allowed to get as close as 26 miles away on a mountain range named as Tikaboo Peak, the same place where Hans Faulkner stayed to film the base.
According to Faulkner, it is tough to move around the site, and white trucks follow them but hide when someone recorded them. The trucks are allegedly from the base security, known as Cammo dudes, who are authorised to use maximum force against anyone caught trespassing.
Warning signs are installed at the perimeter of the base that also has motion sensors and infra-red cameras.
In December 2015, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told Conway Daily Sun journalist Daymond Steer that if she wins as president, she will send a task force to Area 51 to get the bottom of UFOs.
France Police Dispatches Patrols and A Chopper After Receiving UFO Crash Reports
France Police Dispatches Patrols and A Chopper After Receiving UFO Crash Reports
Terrified people reported to police about a UFO that allegedly crashed in southern France. However, officers in Sainte-Croix-du-Mont, a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine near Bordeaux, posted on social media saying that they had failed to find a downed object or craft.
Local news website reported that Operations Centre and Intelligence of Gendarmerie of the Gironde got an unusual call. A Sainte-Croix-du-Mont resident told the police that he noticed an aircraft in his area travelling at low altitude, which then vanished into thick smoke.
According to the local report, the police took the call seriously with patrols and chopper being dispatched. However, despite the effort, no trace of any craft was found.
The gendarmerie posted to its Facebook account informing the public that they only found a burning plot of vines in the area, which may explain the fumes that the witness had reported.
Some local speculated that the fireball was a meteor that burnt up in the atmosphere. The speculation was raised after a meteor shower took place at the same time in the south-east area of France.
Was this sighting merely a meteor that exploded in the atmosphere because the officers did not find anything? Or a flying saucer and the authorities removed it quickly from the crash site?
Location:Tlacolula, Oaxaca, Mexico Date:summer 2015 Submitted by Antonio
Witness report: This happened last year in the summer time ..tlacolula oaxaca mexico ..my friend s son had to take a pic of birds or eagle ..for school..and noticed the ufo months later
This day in UFO history: The 1942 Battle Against UFO in LA
This day in UFO history: The 1942 Battle Against UFO in LA
Sirens made a loud noise in Southern California on February 24, 1942, just months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Becoming a usual happening, people went to the streets to know what was going on and to confirm if it wasn’t another false alarm. Nobody could ever imagine what they would about to witness by then.
The U.S. Navy and the coast guard had gotten all their arsenals set for a possible attack on California’s sunny shores after they received a report about a single or multiple aircraft heading for the coast. When the object became closer and visible, it was confirmed to be not a commercial or private aircraft – something they had not seen before.
The unidentified flying object was massive. It hovered silently and moved at will. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox issued a go ahead assault to the Navy and Coast Guard. They started firing at the UFO in the sky around 3 in the morning of February 25.
The military fired more than 1400 rounds of 12.8-pound anti-aircraft artillery at the mysterious aerial thing from the start of the attack until 4:15 am. However, the object kept on moving from Santa Monica to Long Beach and seemed to have no damage at all from the barrage of shells from the military.
Among thousands of witnesses were very credible reporters from local newspapers in the area. They saw the bizarre event up close and personal. Strangely, the U.S. military announced later that it could be just a weather balloon. The witnesses did not believe it as they thought it was being maneuvered in ways that no balloon or even known aircraft could do that time.
If the military were telling the truth, the U.S. would not have won any particular war because they could not give any damage to just a weather balloon after firing 1400 rounds of shells. According to conspiracy theorists, the Battle of LA is the first mass UFO sighting ever recorded in the U.S.
UFO Encounters in Wales and Manchester: Truth or Myth
UFO Encounters in Wales and Manchester: Truth or Myth
What do you imagine when you hear the word extraterrestrial or UFO? Do you visualize a science fiction novel or an image of bizarre bluish lights illuminating down the road? Have you thought about going home late at night, and you witnessed a flashing light, wondering what it was, only to realize that what you saw was not an alien or extraterrestrial object, but just the lights of a plane. Do you think of little green men, movies, cartoons, or you have just started shaking your head? Despite the arguments regarding UFO’s existence, there are still multiple recorded sightings in the UK. Yes, these sightings are reported by credible witnesses.
According to MUFON, 23 spotted objects were encountered since January 2015 in Manchester, and 25 sightings in Wales. Witnesses described the object as a large craft with a white dot traveling. Throughout the UK, 476 sightings were reported between January 2015 to the middle of February 2016. The objects range from triangular-shaped metallic objects to a red-green ball hovering at greater speed. After M.E.N had published the footage, which shows a strange craft flying, the figures were revealed. Though discussions of these sightings continue, and there has been photo documentation, it is still difficult to know whether or not the unidentified flying objects were indeed from space because such photos are not enough to separate fact from fiction. Extraterrestrial objects have been recorded in America. In fact, 1,177 sightings were reported on the ABC news.
Both the believers and the skeptics obtain evidence to support their claims. Those who believe in UFOs and alien visitations give facts that cannot otherwise be explained. Those who are skeptical offer their explanations and supporting evidence. Which side is right? For now, that is up to you to decide. Sometimes, it is a matter of belief.
3 witnesses abducted onto saucer shaped craft with rainbow lights. Three teenage witnesses were playing basketball from 6 to 9 AM Saturday morning. Weather was clear and sunny and they were across the street from a fire station in Fairview, NJ. While walking back to his friends home noticed that the area was empty of cars and people when normally there would be “50 to 100 people in the park.”
Noticed rainbow colors out of the corner of his right eye rainbow colors. When he looked he saw a shining silver metallic saucer with round tinted windows. He alerted his two friends who also saw the craft. He heard and felt whirring/roaring and his shirt was flapping as if in “a 50 mile an hour wind” but there was no wind. They were paralyzed and could not run. They arrived back at his friend’s home with no memory of walking there. Witness discussed the incident with two friends (both now deceased) and they had no memory of being on the ship as he did. He recalls seeing them on “operating tables” but he was standing approximately 30 feet away. Ship appeared larger inside than outside, possibly 400 feet across. About 25 creatures, approximately 4 feet tall were present with about 10 to 15 around him and the rest around his friends. The creatures were gray in color with large round heads and large black eyes. The creatures were touching him all over. They were speaking telepathically and were surprised when they realized that he could hear them. His mother had told him that there was psychic ability in their family but he had never really believed it. He asked why they were there.
His impression was that they were friendly and curious and meant no harm. He believed that they were trying to help his two friends who both had heart problems and he believes that their lives may have been extended by the aid rendered on the craft. He remembers looking out the window and down onto the basketball court where they had been playing. He could see other beings moving about in long corridors. He remembers seeing the craft ascend after they had been returned. It moved up and to the right, then left, then up and away leaving a rainbow colored trail behind. When he returned to his home his mother said he seemed changed and he replied “it’s no big deal mom.”
Before this report he had only confided this story to his two daughters because he did no believe that anyone would believe him.
NOTE: The above image is CGI.
This case is under investigation by State Section Director Bob Spearing of MUFON N.J.
A former US Navy whistleblower has vowed to reveal evidence for aliens
The 49-year-old man's startling revelations in an exclusive interview with Express.co.uk also include claims other whistleblowers have been killed after trying to lift the lid on extraterrestrial activity.
The man, who says he was a third-class petty officer at a US Naval telecommunications centre during the 1980s, before more senior posts in the US Army and Navy Seals, claims to have valuable new evidence about the Bizarre Rendlesham UK UFO mass sightings, in Suffolk in 1980.
The married man, now living in Ohio, said he was based at NAS Moffett Field, in California, and he was there from February 1986 to October 1989, while also working with contacts in Silicone Valley.
He said: "I have never seen a UFO or ET or alien, however I have seen literally tens of thousand of documents confirming they are real and have visited Earth."
Asked if the files had included photographs of genuine alien crafts and beings, he said: "Yes, absolutely."
The veteran said he was now able to speak because his confidentiality agreement with the US authorities expired in 2014.
Asked why he had not removed some of the pictures or other evidence, he said: "Legally, you are not authorised to walk off with classified information. That is treason and treason is a felony.
"I do not possess anything other than my testimony and documents that authorise that I legitimately had the individual top-secret security clearances.
"But this is a rabbit hole that goes very deep.
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The man says he saw thousands of classified documents about aliens and UFOs
"I have no smoking gun evidence and no copies of anything I viewed, but my job was working as US Navy radio man in communications and the job had top-secret clearance to handle this stuff."
The whistleblower, who has asked to remain anonymous, said his first dealing with UFOs came from a more senior colleague.
He described a man in his 60s with higher security clearance telling him about the mysterious Rendlesham Forest case.
The Rendlesham legend has been dubbed Britain's Roswell the famous ‘UFO crash’ outside the town in New Mexico, USA, in July 1947.
The UK alien sighting happened when three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters claimed a "triangular shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26, 1980.
It has led to several reported sightings on the night by the public and several books and conspiracies.
Our source said of his superiour: “He was the one who initially told me about Rendlesham Forest.
"He came to our air station in 1987.
"He had been at a communications station north of
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The source is convinced he saw pictures of genuine alien beings
I have never seen a UFO or ET or alien, however I have seen literally tens of thousand of documents confirming they are real and have visited Earth.
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"It was a joint US/UK station and he was there when Rendlesham happened.
"This guy was essentially there with me for three years and really gave me an education.”
The source said he had no contact with his former colleague since they parted, so did not know if the man, who would now be in his 90s, was still alive.
But, the source said he has given a four-hour statement to US-based UFO investigation organisation, the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), about what he saw, including what light he can shed on Rendlesham.
He is also working with Nick Pope, a former UK MoD UFO investigator, and plans to release this statement at a later stage.
Turning the strange subject more sinister, he said he had chosen to come forward because he could "shed light on things that might give some people closure."
He said there were colleagues he knew of whose deaths had been connected to aliens or whistle blowing about them and the truth behind how they died had been covered up.
He said: "I held a serious position in the US military, and, if I can shed light on any aspect of any situations to help those individuals for closure, I feel a moral duty to.
"I was under a 25-year obligation not talk about what I saw, read, witnessed, or overheard.
"Now I am at the stage where I can talk freely about certain things.
"The Government wants there to be enough water under the bridge before someone speaks, with incidents like Rendlesham Forest people are emotionally charged.
"They don't want someone to stir up the pot, and I would never compromise national security or servicemens' lives, but people deserve to have answers.”
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Identity concealed: The source says he will be releasing a statement
The whistleblower said no one had died during the Rendlesham incident, but added: "In other cases people have paid the ultimate price and their families have not been told the truth."
He cited one example of an alleged alien whistleblower who was found dead in 1996, with the verdict given as suicide.
But the man claimed this individual had warned friends and family his life was in danger, and if he was found dead it would mean he had been murdered.
Details of this case are widely available online, so the example does nothing to confirm his claims as genuine.
However, Mr Pope, who was charged by the MoD with investigating baffling UK UFO cases, including the Rendlesham incident, said: "I've actually had some personal communication with this individual, and have no doubts about his background.
"It's clear from the language he uses and the information he has that he's a genuine insider.”
There is no way of currently confirming his account, but MUFON is investigating.
The report he filed to MUFON, saying he wants to help reach "disclosure".
The disclosure movement among the UFO fraternity is calling for all world governments to make public all of their top secret files on UFO visitations.
In the report he said: "I personally handled, viewed and delivered thousands of documents involving UFO/ET Projects.
"I would like to share my knowledge in hopes that someone will be able to use it effectively towards disclosure."
Research shows that at the time in question, Moffett Field was a naval air base, but is now a MFA as a restricted federal airfield, run by NASA.
Roger Marsh, MUFON spokesman, said: "This historical case has been assigned to a field investigator within the Californian MUFON group."
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See 10 Mysterious ‘UFO Sighting’ Photos From History
See 10 Mysterious ‘UFO Sighting’ Photos From History
These images from the 1950s and 1960s captured the public imagination
The Mar. 25, 1950, issue of Dublin's TeenAge Times claimed that these mysterious objects were flying saucers.
A picture of a flying saucer photographed by farmer Paul Trent, over his farm in Minnville, Ore., on May 11, 1950.
Guy B. Marquand, Jr., who made this picture on Nov. 23, 951, in Riverside, Calif., said the object above the skyline was a "flying saucer." Marquand claimed that he and two friends saw the object fly past at a very high rate of speed, and when it came back, he had his camera ready to
This picture, taken through the window of a laboratory by a 21-year-old U.S. coastguard, shows four unidentified flying objects as bright lights in the sky on Aug. 3, 1952, in Salem, Mass.
This light was photographed on Oct. 16, 1957, when it hovered for 15 minutes near Holloman Air Development Center in New Mexico.
This March 1966 photo was released on May 16 of that year by William Van Horn, the civil defense director of Hillsdale County, Mich., as part of a 24-page report challenging an Air Force conclusion that "swamp gas" caused supposed UFO sightings in the area. Van Horn said conditions at the time were too windy for swamp gas to form.
A New Mexico State University student took this photo of what he said was a UFO, while photographing land formations for a geology class on Mar. 12, 1967.
This is one of three photos of a supposed UFO taken by Rex Heflin, on Aug. 3, 1965, near Santa Ana, Calif.
Robert Rinker, a field technician at the mountain laboratory weather station on Chalk Mountain in Colorado, discovered this unidentified object on a March 22, 1966, negative after he processed it. "I haven't said it's a flying saucer yet," Rinker said when he released the image.
The Amalgamated Flying Saucer Club of America, which headquarters in Los Angeles, released this photo taken by a member reportedly showing a flying saucer on June 16, 1963.
After confusion swept Los Angeles early on Feb. 25, 1942, the report from Western Defense Command was vague: “Unidentified aircraft were reported in the Los Angeles area.”
What was experienced on the ground on that day 74 years ago, however, was very specific. As TIME reported the following week, “LosAngelescitizens crawled out of beds and goggled at the moon. The city had been blacked out. Suddenly, from dozens of Army anti-aircraft posts, searchlights lanced the dark. Orange bursts blossomed in the sky. The city shook with the concussion of ack-ack guns. For almost two hours, except for one 15-minute interval of scary silence, batteries coughed steadily, spewed 1,430 rounds of ammunition into the night.”
For residents for whom the memory of Pearl Harbor was fresh, the possibility of an attack—later dubbed the “Battle of Los Angeles”—seemed very real. But the shot-down plane that the L.A. Times reported on was never found, and the Secretary of the Navy announced that the whole thing had been a false alarm, though Army officials maintained that enemy planes had in fact been sighted in the area.
In fact, it wasn’t until years later, in 1947, that the common flying saucer image of a UFO would begin to sweep through American popular culture. But, in the years that followed, the reports poured in. Here are a few of the early images that captured the imaginations of those who wished—or feared—to discover that we Earthlings might not be alone.
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Find Planet Nine! NASA's Saturn Probe Helps with the Hunt
Find Planet Nine! NASA's Saturn Probe Helps with the Hunt
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
An artist's illustration of the Cassini spacecraft flying by Saturn's moon Enceladus. Data from Cassini has contributed to a new study that may narrow down the location of a ninth planet beyond Neptune.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The search for a possible ninth planet, far beyond the orbit of Pluto, is being assisted by NASA's Cassini probe, which has been exploring the Saturn system for more than a decade.
The news that a possible ninth planet with a mass 10 times that of Earth could be orbiting in the dark region beyond Neptune lit up the public's imagination in January. The prediction is still just that — a hypothesis, based on modeling, not observation. But the scientists behind the idea say telescope searches of the solar system could confirm (or deny) the prediction within five years.
Now, another group of scientists is showing how the existence of such a planet would affect the motions of the other eight planets. The work relies heavily on measurements taken by the Cassini probe, and aims to narrow down the hunting zone where scientists should point their telescopes as they search for this hidden monster. [The Evidence for 'Planet Nine' in Our Solar System (Gallery)]
The Cassini probe is a space-based workhorse. It captures breathtaking images of Saturn, makes death-defying dives toward its moons and measures the precise location of Saturn at various times during its orbits around the sun. This latter information is plugged into a model of the solar system that tracks the movement of its largest bodies.
Since the early 1800s, astronomers have tried to use the positions and motions of the known planets to infer the existence of invisible planets, according to a blog post by Mike Brown, a professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech, and one of the scientists who recently predicted the existence of Planet Nine.
In some cases, the influence of one massive body on other massive bodies is obvious: that if the sun were invisible, the orbit of the planets around it would be a dead giveaway that something truly massive was living at the center of the solar system. This technique helped scientists discover Neptune in 1846, and Pluto in 1930.
Brown and his colleague Konstantin Batygin, a professor of planetary science at Caltech, predicted the existence of Planet Nine by observing the peculiar orbits of six relatively large bodies in what's known as the Kuiper Belt, a loop of icy, rocky bodies that includes Pluto.
Other scientists have proposed that the peculiar orbits of these Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) could be explained another way: Perhaps there are significantly more small rocky objects orbiting the sun beyond Pluto than scientists currently estimate. In the grand scientific fashion, this trading of alternative possibilities continues. Ultimately, observational evidence should settle the debate, and Brown said that if Planet Nine is out there, scientists could reasonably detect it within five years.
The new research could potentially expedite that search by pointing out regions where Planet Nine could not be orbiting and regions where it could.
Planet X May Be Real - Evidence Mounting For 9th Planet | Video
Agnes Fienga, an astronomer at the Côte d'Azur Observatory and a lead researcher on the new work, along with her colleagues, decided to look not only at how Planet Nine might affect bodies in its immediate area, but how it might influence the motions of the other eight planets. They used a computer model of the solar system called the INPOP planetary ephemerides model, which pulls together more than 150,000 individual measurements of solar system bodies, including more than 200 measurements taken by Cassini over about 10 years, Fienga said. That long-term observation of Saturn's motion is very important in increasing the precision of the model and its ability to pick up on the subtle effect of a possible ninth planet, she said.
Brown and Batygin did not propose a specific path that Planet Nine would take through space but rather a possible range in which it could exist, about 20 times farther from the sun than Neptune is. The path of a planet around the sun includes how far it is from the sun, how oblong its orbit is (instead of a perfect circle) and how tilted its orbit is compared to the plane of the solar system.
Fienga and her colleagues selected an orbit for Planet Nine out of the range suggested by Brown and Batygin, and added it to the INPOP model of the solar system. From there, they determined that the planet could not be in certain regions, because it would have caused perturbations in the motions of the other planets that should have been detectable by observations, like those made by Cassini.
Fienga said she and her colleagues are working to perform the same analysis on more possible orbits of Planet Nine, to further narrow down regions where it could or could not be hiding.
The effect of Planet Nine on the inner planets will be subtle, which is why Fienga and her colleagues could draw conclusions about only roughly half of the planet's orbit — the portion where it would be closest to the sun and, hence, the other planets. If Planet Nine were currently somewhere on the far side of its orbit around the sun, its effect would be too small for the measurements used in the INPOP model to predict.
In the paper, the authors said their work disproves the conclusion of another paper using a similar approach, which suggests that Planet Nine could not lie within 1,000 AU of the sun. (1 AU, or astronomical unit, is the distance from the Earth to the sun, about 93 million miles or 150 million kilometers. Neptune is, on average, about 30 AU from the sun.)
"It's a state-of-the-art calculation and a very clever idea," Batygin told Space.com via email. "It is wonderful to see that members of the community are presenting their own proposals on how to best optimize the observational search for Planet Nine. This is exactly what Mike [Brown] and I hoped for."
Starting this year, the Cassini probe will begin a total of 22 dives through Saturn's ring system, ending with the probe intentionally plummeting into the gas giant's atmosphere in September 2017. Meanwhile, the Juno probe will arrive at Jupiter on July 4, 2016. Measurements by Juno will continue to improve the precision of the INPOP model. Fienga said she and her colleagues "expect to increase the size of the forbidden area thanks to Juno."
Nog meer ‘krankzinnige uitspraken’ van Einstein die wél klopten
Nog meer ‘krankzinnige uitspraken’ van Einstein die wél klopten
Zijn vreemde voorspellingen over hoe materie, ruimte en tijd zich gedragen, blijken steeds weer te kloppen – en dat al een eeuw lang.
Albert Einstein
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Michael Greshko
Wetenschappers hebben eindelijk het verschijnsel gemeten waarnaar ze al zo lang op zoek waren: zwaartekrachtsgolven, oftewel schokgolven die rimpels veroorzaken in het weefsel van ruimte en tijd. Het was Albert Einstein die deze golven honderd jaar geleden voorspelde, en de meting betekent de definitieve bevestiging van zijn meesterwerk, de algemene relativiteitstheorie.
Einstein werd niet altijd gezien als een groot genie. Toen hij zijn buitenissige theorieën over relativiteit voorstelde, reageerden sommige wetenschappers afwijzend. Anderen vielen hem openlijk aan op zijn ‘gevaarlijke’ ideeën en zijn joodse afkomst.
Einsteins baanbrekende studies deden de natuurkunde op haar grondvesten schudden. In zijn universum lijkt Einstein te jongleren met eenheden als positie en snelheid – maar niet met het licht, dat met de onverstoorbare snelheid van bijna 1,08 miljard kilometer per uur door de ruimte zoeft, althans in een vacuüm. Einstein zag ruimte en tijd als één dikke stroop die hij de ‘ruimtetijd’ noemde en die door massa kon worden uitgerekt en vervormd. En massa bewoog zich altijd langs de kromming van de ruimtetijd, in een verborgen structuur die wij als zwaartekracht ervaren. Het klonk destijds krankzinnig.
Maar in de afgelopen eeuw hebben experimenten telkens weer bewezen dat Einstein gelijk had. Het aantal keren dat zijn theorie is bevestigd, is te groot om op te sommen, maar de hoogtepunten zijn indrukwekkend genoeg.
Licht is een golf – én een deeltje
Einstein werd vooral beroemd vanwege de relativiteitstheorie, maar zijn (enige) Nobelprijs ontving hij voor baanbrekend werk op het gebied van het licht. In de klassieke natuurkunde werd licht als een golf beschouwd, maar die theorie kon niet verklaren hoe en waarom metalen licht uitzenden als ze aan straling (bijvoorbeeld licht) worden blootgesteld – een fenomeen dat het foto-elektrisch effect wordt genoemd.
Einstein verklaarde dit merkwaardige effect door te stellen dat licht in feite bestaat uit afzonderlijke golfpakketjes of fotonen, elk met een energie die berust op de frequentie van het licht. De ontdekking leidde tot het ontstaan van de moderne kwantummechanica, waaruit ook volgde dat alledaagse atomen zich heel vreemd en ‘golfachtig’ kunnen gedragen, een ontdekking waaraan Einstein eveneens een bijdrage leverde.
Ruimtetijd wordt vervormd
De eerste grote bevestiging van Einsteins relativiteitstheorie kwam toen hij een verklaring wist te geven voor een geheimzinnige wiebeling in de baan van de planeet Mercurius. Al in 1859 had de briljante Franse astronoom Urbain Le Verrier dat fenomeen toegeschreven aan de aantrekkingskracht die een nog onontdekte planeet – voorlopig Vulcanus genoemd – op Mercurius zou uitoefenen. Maar ondanks jarenlange pogingen werd er geen enkel geloofwaardig bewijs voor het bestaan van ‘Vulcanus’ gevonden.
Tot grote opwinding van Einstein zelf bleek dat zijn algemene relativiteitstheorie het idee van Vulcanus naar de schroothoop verwees. Zijn theorie toonde aan dat de grote massa van de zon de ruimtetijd kromt, zoals een bowlingbal het strak gespannen vel van een trampoline vervormt. En omdat Mercurius zo dicht bij de zon staat, neemt de planeet de kortste weg door die door de zon vervormde ruimtetijd. Geen verborgen planeet dus, wél een kosmische structuur die Newton zich niet had voorgesteld.
Experts van Caltech en MIT kondigden onlangs aan dat ze voor het eerst zwaartekrachtsgolven hadden gemeten, rimpels in het weefsel van ruimte en tijd die ontstaan door de beweging van enorme massa’s in de kosmos – in dit geval twee zwarte gaten die om elkaar heen draaien, zoals uitgebeeld in deze illustratie van supercomputer ‘Columbia’ in het Ames Research Center van de NASA. Illustratie: NASA
Ruimtetijd kan als lens fungeren
Tijdens een zonsverduistering in mei 1919 werd Einstein opnieuw in het gelijk gesteld. Volgens zijn relativiteitstheorie moest de kromming van de ruimtetijd als gevolg van de massa van de zon betekenen dat het op aarde waargenomen licht wordt afbogen, zoals door een lens.
De Britse astronoom Arthur Eddington nam grote foto’s van de zonsverduistering en ontdekte dat de zon inderdaad het licht van de sterren in de Hyaden-sterrenhoop uitsmeerde, met circa twee duizendste van een booggraad – in lijn met de voorspelling van Einstein, die had beweerd dat de buiging tweemaal zo groot zou zijn als werd voorspeld op basis van de wetten van Newton.
Zelfs Einstein had niet voorzien hoe bruikbaar dit fenomeen voor astronomen zou blijken te zijn: door hele sterrenstelsels als gigantische lenzen te gebruiken, kunnen ze nu verder terugkijken in de tijd, naar de vroegste periode van het universum. En wanneer astronomen dit lenseffect zónder zichtbare massa waarnemen, dan kunnen ze aan de hand van de vervorming van het licht enorme structuren van donkere materie in kaart brengen.
Roterende massa’s maken draaikolken in de ruimtetijd
Materie vervormt de ruimtetijd niet alleen als een bowlingbal op een trampoline. Ook een roterend hemellichaam (bijvoorbeeld de aarde) trekt de ruimtetijd een beetje met zich mee, als een rondgaande spaan in een vat met siroop. Hierdoor worden de ruimtecoördinaten en daarmee ook de banen van naburige satellieten vervormd, in een bizar effect dat frame dragging wordt genoemd.
Het effect werd in 1918 op basis van de relativiteitstheorie voorspeld maar pas in 2004 bevestigd toen onderzoekers ontdekten dat de banen van twee satellieten lichtjes waren verschoven door de rotatie van de aarde. In 2011 werd het fenomeen nauwkeuriger gemeten met behulp van de NASA-satelliet Gravity Probe B.
Zwaartekracht vertraagt de tijd
In Einsteins formules kan materie de tijd ook versnellen of vertragen – en de kleur van het licht veranderen.
We weten nu dat deze spookachtige voorspellingen juist waren, omdat het licht van een ster die zich ver van ons vandaan bevindt, een hogere frequentie heeft (en dus blauwer lijkt) dan wanneer we dezelfde ster van dichterbij zouden bekijken. Hoe verder een waarnemer zich van de ‘gravitatieput’ van de aarde verwijdert, des te lager is de frequentie van het licht dat van de aarde uitgaat, een verschijnsel dat ‘gravitationele roodverschuiving’ wordt genoemd.
Het gaat om extreem kleine invloeden, maar wie ze negeert, zal in de problemen komen met z’n mobieltje: zonder correcties op basis van de relativiteitstheorie zouden de klokken in onze gps-satellieten elke dag 38 microseconden voor lopen op de klokken hier op aarde. Daarmee zou het wereldwijde navigatiesysteem al na twee minuten in de war worden geschopt en zou er elke dag een afwijking van tien kilometer bijkomen.
UFO Compilation/Documentary. Includes many sightings not frequently seen. Spinning Vertical Cylinders, a UFO like no other, that seems to look like a building, 90 degree angles and all.
Many of the videos are analyzed by multiple professionals, including Bruce Maccabee, who was at the time a Optical Physicist working for the OSI (Office of Special Investigation) branch of the United States Navy. His analysis is excellent, and points out the videos that are questionable.
This event occurred to me at least twelve years ago, and I still don’t know what happened.
Driving home from a Friday night shift at the newspaper, my car’s cruise control set on 55 mph, I drove by a road sign I’ve driven by hundreds of times. It reads, “Orrick: 5 Miles.” Just as I went by, the Rolling Stones “Gimme Shelter” came on the radio.
Perfect. I lived in Orrick, Missouri, at the time, and “Gimme Shelter” was not only my favorite Rolling Stones tune, it was also four minutes, thirty-seven seconds long, which would last me all the way home.
Then my drive fell out of reality.
A pull on the car engine snapped me out of the road hypnosis that had overtaken me. It took me a few seconds to realize that pull was the cruise control trying to keep the speed steady up a hill. The trouble was there were no hills between that road sign and my turnoff. Looking out the window didn’t help; a thick fog had enveloped the car and I could barely see the dotted line on the road. I slowed the car and drove up two more hills before I saw a light piercing through the fog.
Turning onto a gravel road toward the light, I found myself in the parking lot of a Jehovah’s Witness church and knew where I was – five miles on the other side of my turnoff. As I sat in the parking lot, my car in park, trying to figure out how I missed the exit, I heard something I couldn’t believe. “Gimme Shelter” still played on the radio. It continued to play for another minute and a half.
After I calmed a bit, I put the car in gear, pulled back onto the highway and went home. The fog quickly dissipated. I’d driven ten miles in three minutes at 55 mph. That wasn’t possible. What happened to me?
Cases of missing time and distance are as common as they are confusing. The Internet is littered with tales of travelers entering a fog only to discover they’re suddenly 300 miles away from home, or they’ve gone nowhere, but it’s inexplicably hours later. Explanations range from time slips, to dimensional slips, to alien abduction. Whatever the case, Brandon White of Maryville, Missouri, has experienced missing time and distance; more than once. “The first time I was about ten and I was walking out in the front yard,” White said. It was just after lunch.
As White went toward a thick ring of pine trees that surrounded his family’s farmhouse, he saw something floating on the other side of the tree line. “It was pale, sort of translucent,” he said. “It was passing between our house and the neighbor’s house. I thought it was a blimp.”
His afternoon suddenly disappeared. “The next thing I remember was coming in for dinner; 5 or 5:30,” he said. “I didn’t think about it at the time. As a kid, time was nothing.”
But five hours of his life were just gone.
In his teens, his life got stranger. “At 13 or 14 I stopped sleeping. I was deathly afraid of sleep,” he said. “I would fall to sleep, get into an REM sleep, and start screaming. I would wake up in strange places. In the yard, on the porch, upside down hanging from my bunk bed.” White said he doesn’t remember when he’s been able to catch more than four hours of sleep a night. “I had very vivid nightmares,” he said. Those nightmares often included a bird. “A big black crow. It would flap over my face, trying to take my breath.”
Later in his teens when White worked at Long John Silver’s in a town 38 miles away, he experienced more missing time. “I was riding my motorcycle. I remember that night very specifically. I worked a double shift,” he said. “Before I left town, I filled up my (gas) tank.” As he pulled onto a gravel road toward his parent’s house, he saw an orange ball hanging low in the sky. “I stopped and thought, ‘the moon’s a weird color,’” he said. “Then I saw it was not the moon. The moon doesn’t block the landscape.” As he got closer, he saw this orange ball was thirty to forty feet in diameter, and hovered five or six feet off the ground.
He got off the motorcycle three hours simply disappeared. “It’s the last thing I remember,” he said. “It was 7:35 p.m. At 10:30 p.m. I pulled into Dad’s driveway and something zoomed over me and disappeared into a valley.”
He stopped the bike and got off, leaving it running as he dashed to a fence to look for the light. It had gone. When he returned to his motorcycle, it started to sputter and the engine died. It was out of gasoline. “I filled it up, drove 38 miles, and it died,” White said.
White lost three hours of time and a tank of gasoline in what should have been a 40-minute motorcycle ride. Was the light responsible?
Years later, when White worked in nearby St. Joseph, Missouri, he stopped at a gas station around 1 a.m. to buy coffee and a candy bar to help keep him awake for the 45-minute drive home. He didn’t know something strange awaited him. “I got on the highway, next thing I knew there was a thick fog,” he said. “I didn’t know where I was. I was on this nameless dirt road.” And he was moving fast.
The narrow road, sloped on each side and covered by a canopy of trees, seemed like a tunnel. He slowed and tried to figure out where he was. “I found a field where I could turn around,” White said. “The fog was so thick I had to open my door to see the side of the road. I had no idea where I was. I was really, really fuzzy and disorientated. I know I was upset about something, but I don’t know why.”
Lights eventually bit through the fog and White pulled into the parking lot of a convenience store near the highway, but things were less than convenient. The store sat at the end of an exit that consisted of two difficult turns. White said he shouldn’t have made those turns. “I would have had to, at 70 mph, gone through those 90-degree turns while I was unconscious,” he said.
When he woke, “I was pretty fuzzy headed. It was like I’d been drugged.”
Although White concedes for the skeptic it’s within the realm of possibility he could have fallen asleep at the wheel and gotten lost in the fogbank, he was miles from where he should have been, and would have had to be amazingly lucky. “I don’t know how I could have made those turns,” he said. “I lost distance and time. I don’t have the foggiest idea how I got there.”
During a budget meeting in Japan’s parliament, Defense Minister Gen Nakatani was asked a question about aliens invading his country and gave this answer:
When the Air Self Defense Force detects indications of an unidentified flying object that could violate our country’s airspace, it scrambles fighter jets if necessary and makes visual observation. They sometimes find birds or flying objects other than aircraft but I don’t know of a case of finding an unidentified flying object believed to have come over from anywhere other than Earth.
Really? Perhaps some of the people of Japan who have been seeing and recording UFOs over the past few years need to give Defense Minister Nakatani a call.
On January 23, 2014, a fleet of UFOs shaped like glowing orbs was observed over Naha, a city on the island of Okinawa. Numerous reports were made by eyewitnesses who said the maneuvers by the group of UFOs lasted for 15 minutes before they flew off.
Japan has many active volcanoes which attract UFOs and, sure enough, two UFOs were spotted two days after the deadly eruption of Mt. Ontake on September 27, 2014. They reportedly came out of the volcano and disappeared into the clouds.
UFOs over Mt. Ontake
Japan has a number of nuclear power plants which are also known to be visited by UFOs. So it’s no surprise that UFOs have been seen numerous times over the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant after the meltdown in 2011. This one was observed in April 2011.
UFO over Fukushima nuclear plant after meltdown
Going back a few years, there’s the famous incident involving a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 cargo plane traveling from Paris to Tokyo on November 17, 1986, with a load of Beaujolais wine. While flying over Alaska, the crew witnessed two UFOs whose thrusters lit up the cabin and whose heat was felt by the captain. They left quickly but a third, larger UFO showed up and the crew requested to change course, which it did. No explanation was ever given but the crew stuck by their story.
Where was the Air Self Defense Force on these occasions? Haven’t they heard the comments about UFOs from President Obama and John Podesta? Defense Minister Nakatani needs to stop denying and answer a few more questions.
“Every picture tells a story”, as the old saying goes (and yes, as Rod Stewart sang in 1971). This is especially the case when it comes to alleged photographs of unidentified flying objects, where more often than not, the pictures leave much to be desired.
However, in some cases, despite a lack of clear details of the purported craft in question, visual elements in some UFO photos still may help researchers by providing clues about the behavior of the objects they claim to document. Such was the case with a particularly unusual photo shared with me recently, taken on September 23, 1967, which appeared in one of the classic Aerial Phenomena Research Organization (APRO) Bulletin, provided to members of the group for a number of years by the husband-wife team of Jim and Coral Lorenzen.
The photograph came to my attention under rather unusual circumstances. I had been reviewing a number of the old APRO Bulletins, which have been made available online by the folks at OpenMinds here, having been obtained with the private collection of UFO researcher Lt. Colonel (USAF Ret.) Wendelle C. Stevens. Having shared them with a colleague, he recalled having seen “one image in a bulletin that I always thought the neatest and most thought provoking UFO picture I had ever seen (and still do).” Upon receiving the OpenMinds link to the old Bulletins, my friend had recalled the photo from a number of years back, but was unable to recall the date of the Bulletin in which it appeared.
“So, I just randomly hit on one bulletin from the list at Openminds,” he wrote to me quickly afterward in an email. “Guess what? The one I selected and opened in PDF looked familiar. Damn if it wasn’t the EXACT bulletin!!!”
Quite a synchronicity, indeed. I was thrilled that my own honest dispatch of a quick link via email helped my friend recover a long-lost UFO photo of certain interest, but became even more fascinated at the prospect of being able to see if for myself. Scrolling through the short few pages of the newsletter, which dated from March/April 1973, I was able to locate the image quickly, which depicted the alleged “liftoff” of an object at high-speed, as it shot into the skies above Sedona, Arizona, in September 1967.
As mentioned previously of even the “best” UFO photos to have appeared over the years, this one certainly leaves quite a bit to the imagination. However, the analysis of the photograph, described in detail within the APRO Bulletin’s accompanying article, is what makes it interesting.
First, a bit of background. Mr. C. Dwight Ghormley, a retired schoolteacher from Texas, had been visiting his sister in Flagstaff, Arizona, and decided to drive down to Sedona. Just a mile outside Sedona, Ghormley observed a large, silvery object which he had believed was a commercial carrier tank, a little less than a mile from the road. The location of the object seemed inaccessible, and Ghormley, having his Kodak Holiday camera handy, decided to stop and photograph the “tank”. Just as the shutter snapped, he looked back to see that the object was gone, and only a cloud of smoke or dust remained where it had been.
Ghormley nearly forgot the entire incident, having thought he may have been “seeing things”, and thought little of the strange object until some time later, when he had the film developed. The photograph he took seemingly captured the object as it took off into the sky, leaving a long “track” indicating its directional path.
The APRO had certainly been impressed with Mr. Ghormley, whose story indicated he had maintained no interest in the subject of UFOs prior to the experience. However, the photo itself had been heralded by the Lorenzens at the time as “one of the big breakthroughs in UFO research.”
An analysis of the photo was carried out by Dr. James A. Harder, an expert in photography and APRO’s consultant in Civil Engineering at the time (Harder would also go on to become involved in APRO’s investigations of the 1973 Pascagoula abduction incident, involving coworkers Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker, as well as the 1975 Travis Walton abduction case). Of the “Sedona UFO Track” photo, Harder noted that, “From the standpoint of ‘proving’ the existence of UFOs [the photo] might be considered a flop, insofar as no details are seen — there is only what appears to be a sequence of spots. But from the standpoint of understanding more about UFOs it may be one of the most valuable photographs ever taken. For from it, and the data provided by the camera it was taken with, we can infer speeds, accelerations, and find even greater puzzles than we dreamed of a few short years ago.”
Without getting too heavily into the minutiae of Harder’s analysis here (more of whichcan be read in the bulletin), careful calculations based on the shutter speed and focal length of the Kodak camera Mr. Ghormley had used to capture the image led Harder to the following determinations: “At a distance of 4,000 feet from the camera, this represents a transverse distance of 700 feet traversed in approximately 29 ms. The calculated speed is thus on the order of 24,000 feet per second, or 16,000 miles per hour.”
Harder further noted that the estimated speeds of the object, while fast indeed, were nonetheless within the range of speeds which radar systems can detect, referring in his notes to the 1956 Lakenheath, England radar visual UFO case, collected by Project Blue Book. However, one curious feature about the photograph involved the multiple distinct impressions of the object in its direction of motion, rather than a simple line or “smear”. This, according to Harding’s preliminary examination, suggested one of two possibilities: that the craft in the photo had been producing a blinking or flashing illumination as it moved, or that the object was rapidly accelerating and stopping intermittently to complete its course of travel. “This is fast enough,” Harding surmised, “together with the inferred stop-and-go-character of the motion, to raise very basic questions about the mode of propulsion of these UFOs.”
(Note: I would submit that a third potential exists, pertaining to the object’s movement indicated on film: might the effect of the “blinking” have resulted from a spinning object, which, as it rotated gyroscopically, reflected — rather than emitting – light off of a highly reflective surface at various intervals as it moved?)
The questions regarding the object’s locomotion raised numerous unique questions about the mode of operation that some UFOs may utilize. Thus, the unusual, distorted appearance of the object’s flight path in the photo further lent itself, in Harder’s mind, to the photo’s (and Mr. Ghormley’s) credibility.
As a concluding observation, Harder would develop a number of different theories about the underlying mechanisms of UFO craft, based on their behavior indicated in such studies. In 1968, Harder gave a Congressional testimony on the subject, in which he speculated that magnesium, purified of any innate crystalline defects, would be an ideal metal for the construction of a craft similar to those cited in flying saucer reports (he based this on his study of samples of magnesium recovered in Brazil in 1957, purportedly discharged from a UFO that exploded in midair). Harder also studied the UFO observation of chemist Wells A. Webb, who described observing a UFO through polaroid glasses which revealed three dark circular formations that appeared in concentric fashion around the object. Harder guessed that the concentric “rings” Webb observed were evidence of the Faraday effect, which is demonstrated in the video below:
Harder guessed that these elements were evidence of a strong magnetic field produced by the object, which further suggested a gravito-magnetic effect underlying the craft’s mode of propulsion. This notion is similar, in certain regards, to an aircraft envisioned by Nikola Tesla, which he mentioned at various times throughout his life. Whether Tesla’s visions of such an aircraft were ever formalized remains unclear; at the time of Tesla’s death, assistant director of the FBI’s New York office, P. E. Foxworth, was dispatched to his room at the New Yorker Hotel to examine possessions and documents believed to be of vital importance to the U.S. military. It was, after all, 1943, and the Allies were in the heat of conflict against the Axis powers; within two days of Tesla’s passing, representatives of the Office of Alien Property went to his room, where all of his possessions were seized.
The notion that Tesla’s ideas could be somehow related to the UFO mystery has been brought up often over the years, although this concept — and its possible implications — are outside the scope of the present discussion. The question should be offered here, however, as to whether study of the UFO phenomenon, and specific instances of UFO observation such as the “Sedona Track” photo, may yield data about the operation of UFO craft that is paralleled in other literature, or evidential of characteristics that can be confirmed in the various branches of science. If so, the nature and possible mechanism of some alleged “UFOs” may indeed eventually become attainable, rather than simply remaining “mysterious” fodder for the inquisitive among us.
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Stargazer Sees Milky Way and 5 Planets Dance in the Night Sky (Photo)
Stargazer Sees Milky Way and 5 Planets Dance in the Night Sky (Photo)
By Nina Sen, Space.com Contributor
The Milky Way and five planets in one stunning image took some patience, but paid off handsomely for skywatcher Matt Smith. The image was taken from Carthage, Texas on February 10, 2016.
Credit: Matt Smith
The Milky Way and five planets in one stunning image took some patience, but paid off handsomely for skywatcher Matt Smith.
"I knew that I wanted to get the planetary alignment and try to get the Milky Way as well. I finally had my opportunity and found a location with a great view of the Southeast," Smith wrote in an email to Space.com. He took the amazing image from Carthage, Texas on Feb. 10.
On the far right in the trees you can see the bright dot of Jupiter. Further left you can make out rust colored Mars and above the core of the Milky Way you can see Saturn.
Below the core, Venus shines bright, with Mercury near the first rays of sunrise.
Milky Way Quiz: Test Your Galaxy Smarts
Dust off your spiral arms and fatten up your bulge — it's time to tap into your inner galaxy to test your smarts about the Milky Way. Our home in space is a strange and wondrous place that scientists are still trying to figure out. See what you know!
The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy , meaning multiple "arms" sprout from a central region and then swirl around it, like streams of water spiraling down a drain. It stretches between 100, 000 and 120,000 light-years in diameter. It is estimated that the galaxy has approximately 400 billion stars.
To see more amazing night sky photos submitted by Space.com readers, visit our astrophotography archive.
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Un flash d’ondes radio venu d’une galaxie lointaine capté en Australie
Un flash d’ondes radio venu d’une galaxie lointaine capté en Australie
Des télescopes illustration
Un télescope australien situé à Parkes a réussi à capter un signal très rare venu d’une galaxie lointaine. L’origine de ces ondes spatiales, qui dégagent beaucoup d’énergie, reste encore inexpliquée.
Pour la première fois, des astronomes sont parvenus à identifier la provenance d’un « sursaut radio rapide », un phénomène cosmique très mystérieux. Ce flash très bref d’ondes radio a été repéré par un télescope. Il vient d’une galaxie située à six milliards d’années-lumière de la Terre, révèle une étude publiée ce mercredi. C’est un radiotélescope de Parkes qui a capté ce nouveau FRB (Fast Radio Burst) en avril dernier. Le signal capté en Australie est le 17ème recensé depuis la découverte du phénomène.
We've traced a mysterious fast radio burst to its home galaxy for the first time http://ow.ly/YIaVl
Des signaux extraterrestres ?
Si l’information excite autant la communauté scientifique, c’est parce que ces signaux sont très rares et très mystérieux, laissant place à de nombreuses hypothèses. Certains astronomes pensent que les FRB naissent de la fusion des étoiles à Neutron dont les ondes se propageraient dans l’espace. C’est à l’heure actuelle l’hypothèse la plus crédible et la plus privilégiée par les spécialistes. Si les FRB sont observés de près par les spécialistes de l’espace, c’est également à cause de la quantité d’énergie qu’ils émettent.
En 2007, Duncan Lorimer et ses équipes ont calculé qu’un FRB émet en une milliseconde la même quantité d’énergie que l’astre solaire en 10 000 ans.
Indian police examine the wreckage of the UFO (inset)
The balloon-like white object was intercepted by an Su-30 MKI fighter jet after it triggered a radar alert flying over Barmer, Rajistan, near the border with Pakistan, on Tuesday, as reported by Express.co.uk.
Now, officials are convinced it came across the border from Pakistan, and was not an extraterrestrial UFO as some alien investigators had suspected.
Government sources have told Indian media it was suspected it may contain a bomb, but no such device was found in the debris.
One theory is it was "a possible move by the neighbour to test India’s response" to an unexpected aircraft.
It has emerged the three-metre wide balloon appeared between 10.30am and 11am as the 67th annual Republic Day parade was happening in New Delhi.
Rounds fired at the balloon were said to be from the fighter’s 30mm GSh-301 auto cannon.
According to a Government source, the balloon had "Happy Birthday" printed on it - in an apparent reference to the anniversary.
Defence minister Manohar Parrikar said: "Our radars picked up a shiny flying object entering Indian airspace.
"A fighter jet was quickly scrambled which intercepted it and shot it down.”
ABP
Stills from Indian TV news clips showing the actual object
An IAF spokesperson said on Wednesday: “Due to heightened security alert, the balloon was shot down as it could have been carrying unknown payload.
"However, on the analysis of the debris it was established there was no dangerous payload.”
Rajasthan police said residents of Gugdi village, about 20km from Balotra town near Kishor Singh Ki Dhani area, had first reported hearing an “explosion”, followed by similar reports from Panawada village in Baitu area.
Police were sent to both areas.
Five solid metal triangles recover among the wreckage have added to the mystery.
Local speculators suggest it could have been just a meteorological weather balloon from India or Pakistan.
ABP
News channels also mocked up an image of the suspected balloon
Several books have been written about the incident.
Scott C waring, editor of UFO Sightings Daily, remains in the "it was an alien craft camp".
He blogged: "Its not everyday a UFO gets shot down.
This one is thought to be a balloon with a bomb tied to it.
"It looks like a giant cloud orb to me.
"Sometimes if they are struck by lightning, they can malfunction and fall to the Earth.
"It was enough of a threat that they called out fighter jets to shoot it down.
"It took 97 shots and no harmful payload was found. Why would they care about a balloon? "If balloons were a threat, Los Angeles would have a squadron of fighters jets at war in the sky over Disneyland."
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Whistleblower about to 'lift lid on 1000s of UFO files' is GENUINE, says ex-MoD man
Whistleblower about to 'lift lid on 1000s of UFO files' is GENUINE, says ex-MoD man
A FORMER US Naval officer who claims his secrecy agreement with the American Government has expired is vowing to lift the lid on thousands of top-secret UFO files he claims to have seen.
Retired Colonel Charles Halt, the most senior former US servicemen to go public about UFOs and Rendlesham
The man, who says he was a third-class petty officer at the Naval Telecommunications Center within NAS Moffett Field from February 1986 to October 1989, also claims he can shed light on the mysterious mass-UFO sighting involving military personal in 1980.
He has yet to be named, but a former British MoD UFO investigator confirmed to Express.co.uk the man is a genuine source, creatinga flurry of excitement within the UFO disclosure community.
Nick Pope, who was charged by the MoD with investigating baffling UK UFO cases, including the Rendlesham incident, said: "I've actually had some personal communication with this individual, and have no doubts about his background.
"It's clear from the language he uses and the information he has that he's a genuine insider."
But Mr Pope stopped short of encouraging the whistleblower to come outinto the open.
He added: "While my own secrecy oath means I can't encourage anyone to divulge classified information without proper authority, I'm obviously very interested in his story.
"As I conducted the MoD's cold case review of the Rendlesham Forest incident I'm particularly keen to hear about anything that would shed new light on this case."
NEWSINTERNATIONAL
News of the World reports of Rendlesham at the time
The UK alien sighting happened when three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters claimed a "triangular shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26 1980.
It has led to several reported sightings on the night by the public and several books and conspiracies.
The man, who has not been publicly named, is claiming the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK Government had a going project looking at UFO sightings, including Rendlesham in the 1980s.
He has filed a report to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) - the world's biggest official alien investigation organisation based in the US, saying he wants to help reach "disclosure".
The disclosure movement among the UFO fraternity, is calling for all world Governments to make public all their top secret files on UFO and flying saucer visitations.
In the report filed on Saturday he said: "I'm not reporting a UFO sighting rather a UFO related experience.
"I have copies of my security clearances.
"I personally handled, viewed and delivered thousands of documents involving UFO/ET Projects.
"My secrecy agreement with the US Government expired in October 2014.
I have copies of my security clearances. I personally handled, viewed and delivered thousands of documents involving UFO/ET Projects.
US Navy alleged whistleblower
"At this point in my life I would like to share my knowledge in hopes that someone will be able to use it effectively towards disclosure."
He said he was given TS SBI/ESI NATO/SIOP Compartmental Security Clearance, which is Top Secret clearance for working in Special Background Investigation, Single Integrated Operation Plan, Exceptionally Sensitive Information and with NATO.
He added: "In addition we had a GS11 employee who was transferred from a Joint US/UK communication station north of London after working at that site for a dozen years.
"He said it was an National Security Agency (NSA)/UK facility tasked with tracking UFO including Rendalsham Forest Incident.
"He said that UFO/ET were real and that hopefully disclosure would happen in my lifetime since he was in his early 60s at the time."
In the report he said: "I was required to deliver TS Code word designation COSMIC to SRI, ESL/SYLVANIA, LOCKHEED SKUNKWORKS, TRW, RATHEON, BERKELEY LABS, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LABS, and other think tanks throughout Silicon valley."
JONAUSTIN
Military fencing around the former RAF Bentwaters base still said to be a UFO hotspot
"Dit is géén science fiction", zegt Philip Lubin, kosmoloog aan de University of California. De wetenschapper meent een manier gevonden te hebben die ons toelaat om in amper 30 minuten naar Mars te reizen. Dankzij lasertechnologie zouden we ook ruimtevaartuigen naar nog verder afgelegen gebieden kunnen sturen. De reistijd naar bijvoorbeeld Alpha Centauri, het dichtstbijzijnde zonnestelsel, bedraagt met Lubins theorie 'slechts' 15 jaar. En in tegenstelling tot andere ambitieuze theorieën, is de technologie hiervoor nu al beschikbaar.
Philip Lubin, die ook werkt voor het 'Innovative Advanced Concepts'-programma (IAC) van de NASA, dokterde een briljante manier uit om razendsnel door de ruimte te reizen. Dankzij 'gerichte energievoortdrijving' ligt Mars, in theorie, op slechts een halfuurtje van de aarde. Door een laser af te vuren op een klein ruimtetuig zou het met een fractie van de lichtsnelheid kunnen reizen.
"We zouden een 100 kilogram zwaar ruimtetuig naar Mars kunnen sturen. Binnen 25 lichtjaren van de aarde kunnen we ook enkele exoplaneten en mogelijke bewoonbare gebieden bezoeken. We weten uiteraard niet of ze bewoonbaar zijn, maar er zijn veel doelwitten om uit te kiezen", aldus Lubin. Het dichtste en interessantste doelwit lijkt Alpha Centauri, het dichtstbijzijnde zonnestelsel, vier lichtjaren van hier.
In een document getiteld 'A Roadmap to Interstellar Flight' legt Lubin uit hoe we met een flinterdun ruimtetuig tot 26 procent van de lichtsnelheid zouden kunnen bereiken binnen ongeveer 10 minuten. Op die manier zouden we Mars in theorie al na 3 dagen of zelfs 30 minuten kunnen bereiken, ruimtesonde Voyager 1 (in 1977 gelanceerd) al na drie dagen voorbijsteken en aankomen in het Alpha Centauri-stelsel binnen 15 jaar. Die vliegtijden waren tot nu compleet ondenkbaar.
Er zijn voorlopig geen projecten gepland om dit plan in de praktijk te brengen en het lijkt ook niet realistisch dat dat in de nabije toekomst gebeurt, laat staan een bemande vlucht. Maar het doet wetenschappers over de hele wereld wel dromen.
Dit filmpje legt Philip Lubin uit hoe we in theorie waanzinnige snelheden kunnen bereiken.
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VIDEO: Mysterieuze UFO gespot bij Jupitermaan Europa
VIDEO: Mysterieuze UFO gespot bij Jupitermaan Europa
Op internet is een video verschenen waarin volgens sommigen een ‘interstellair moederschip’ is te zien bij Jupitermaan Europa. Dat melden verschillende media.
Een Britse UFO-enthousiasteling heeft vanuit zijn achtertuin foto’s gemaakt van iets wat lijkt op een ‘structuur’ naast Europa. De persoon in kwestie heeft de beelden opgestuurd naar de mensen van SecureTeam, die ze weer op YouTube hebben gezet.
De voice-over zegt in het filmpje, dat inmiddels al meer dan een kwart miljoen keer is bekeken: “Er is hier duidelijk een glimmende UFO op camera vastgelegd. Dit is een indrukwekkende vondst omdat we hier te maken hebben met iets wat op een structuur lijkt.”
Mysterie
“Dit is zeker niet één van de manen van Jupiter,” klinkt het verder. “Het is iets wat geen onderdeel uitmaakt van het manensysteem van Jupiter. Het zouden meerdere structuren kunnen zijn, die dicht bij elkaar staan.”
Volgens de groep tonen de beelden een enorme buitenaardse structuur die in de richting van Jupiter beweegt. “Het hoort daar zeker niet te zijn en het zou me niet verbazen als het een soort buitenaards schip is,” aldus de voice-over. “Jupiter wordt al geruime tijd door mysterie omgeven, net als zijn manen, met name Europa.”
Juno
De foto’s zijn verleden week gemaakt met een Canon 650D. Rechts van Jupiter is een vreemd glimmend object te zien. Volgens de voice-over is er in ons zonnestelsel nog nooit zoiets gevonden.
Niet iedereen is ervan overtuigd dat de beelden een ruimteschip laten zien. Sommigen menen dat het gereflecteerde licht afkomstig is van de planeet Saturnus of een aantal Jupitermanen. Anderen zeggen dat de ‘UFO’ mogelijk Juno is, een ruimtesonde van NASA die in augustus 2011 is gelanceerd en onderweg is naar Jupiter.
METEOOR TER GROOTTE VRACHTWAGEN KOMT OP AARDE TERECHT ( VIDEO )
METEOOR TER GROOTTE VRACHTWAGEN KOMT OP AARDE TERECHT ( VIDEO )
Op 6 februari 2016 kwam een meteoor ter grootte van een fikse vrachtwagen de atmosfeer van de aarde binnen.
Deze kwam met een snelheid van ruim 65.000 kilometer binnen en explodeerde met een kracht gelijk aan 13.000 ton TNT.
De kracht waarmee deze meteoor ontplofte was bijna net zoveel als de Little Boy atoombom op Hiroshima in 1945 die met een kracht van 15.000 ton TNT explodeerde.
Gelukkig voor ons aardlingen kwam dit object binnen boven de oceaan, zo’n 1.000 kilometer uit de kust van Rio de Janeiro en de resulterende klap in het water was te klein om een tsunami te kunnen veroorzaken.
Niemand raakte gewond en er waren geen getuigen. Zorgwekkend is dat helemaal niemand deze meteoor zag aan komen.
Net zoals dit gebeurde in februari 2013 toen een meteoor ontplofte boven de Russische stad Chelyabinsk. Deze was nog vele malen groter dan die van enkele dagen geleden en had een kracht van ongeveer 500.000 ton TNT. De Chelyabinsk meteoor was ongeveer 40 keer krachtiger en had een doorsnede van ongeveer 19 meter. Ook deze meteoor werd door niemand opgemerkt.
Het grote probleem met meteoren rond de 10 tot 15 meter is dat ze in principe te klein zijn om te worden opgemerkt in de uitgestrekte ruimte, maar wel de mogelijkheid bezitten om een stad compleet van de kaart te vegen wanneer ze die zouden raken.
Iedere dag opnieuw wordt de aarde gebombardeerd met minimaal 100 ton ruimtepuin. Meestal zijn dit kleine stukjes rots en zand die opbranden wanneer ze de atmosfeer binnenkomen, maar er zijn uiteraard ook grotere.
De inslag van 6 februari komt ook voor op de lijst van het Near Earth Object Program van NASA. Je vindt daar de asteroïden die de aarde hebben geraakt, maar ook degene die onze planeet net hebben gemist.
Zo krijgen we begin maart 2016 een stuk rots van 30 meter dat naar verwachting net langs de aarde zal schieten.
Natuurlijk blijven we geruststellende geluiden krijgen over hoe je in de meeste gevallen dit soort meteoren pas enkele uren voor de inslag kunt waarnemen, maar dat de kans heel erg klein is dat er daadwerkelijk iets wordt geraakt.
De man in India die onlangs werd getroffen door een meteoor en stierf, zou daar ongetwijfeld anders over hebben gedacht als hij nu nog had geleefd.
Feit is, of we het nu leuk vinden of niet, dat door de nadering van de planeet Nibiru en haar metgezellen steeds meer asteroïden onze kant worden opgestuurd.
Zoals te zien op de volgende kaart van de American Meteor Society van 5 februari 2016 heeft er een enorme toename plaatsgevonden in waarnemingen van meteoren en vuurbollen in de lucht.
Op de datum van deze statistiek waren we ruim een maand in het nieuwe jaar en zien we dat het aantal waarnemingen van meteoren al ongeveer gelijkstaat aan het totaal van het hele jaar 2006. Als de huidige trend zich voortzet dan zullen we ook in dit jaar weer een hoger aantal hebben dan het jaar ervoor.
De bovenstaande statistiek toont dat het vrij rustig en stabiel blijft tot aan het einde van 2009. Daarna dat het aantal waarnemingen ieder jaar met sprongen omhoog gaat.
Eerder deze maand schreven we over hoe NASA in alle haast een nieuwe afdeling in het leven heeft geroepen.
Alhoewel NASA beweert dat we de eerste honderden jaren niets te vrezen hebben van objecten uit de ruimte bewijzen hun acties precies het tegenovergestelde.
Ze hebben een nieuwe afdeling opgericht genaamd de Planetary Defense Coordination Office dat samen met FEMA op van alles voorbereid moet zijn.
Bovengenoemd programma is niet goedkoop, wat betekent dat men zich bij NASA ernstig zorgen maakt over inkomende asteroïden op een ramkoers met de aarde.
De asteroïde die op 5 maart aanstaande rakelings langs de aarde zal scheren, zal dit doen op een afstand van minder dan 20.000 kilometer. Dit is dichtbij, heel dichtbij en zelfs dichterbij de aarde dan de omloopbaan van sommige satellieten.
Het schijnt dat we ons over deze asteroïde geen zorgen hoeven maken, maar hoeveel zijn er nog die ook niet door NASA zijn gezien. En als ze het wel gezien hadden en er zou er één op een ramkoers met de aarde liggen, zouden ze het ons dan wel vertellen?
Drone Over Area 51 Catches Great Rare View, Feb 2016, 3 Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Drone Over Area 51 Catches Great Rare View, Feb 2016, 3 Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of footage: February 22, 2016 Location of footage: Area 51, Nevada This amazing footage was recorded using an RC drone with a HD camera on it. Hans Faulknerof Youtube wanted to learn more about the top secret USAFB, so he took a short flight over the edges of the base. Its very brave of him to share this footage on line since it does break a few laws and endanger his security. I imagine it wont be long before the public gets robotic drones that will pass over the base and return hours later with great footage. The military will have a hard time finding these tiny drones since the newest and smallest one I saw was an inch and a half in diameter with a live cam on it. Sadly todays batteries are the last of the ancient tech to be upgraded. Imagine what a drone with a telescope lens would see. Hats off to Hans Faulkner for beautiful and rare view of Area 51. Please stop at his video and give him a thumbs up for support. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Glowing UFO Investigates Balloon As Sky Watcher Records it, Feb 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Investigates Balloon As Sky Watcher Records it, Feb 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: February 14, 2016 Location of sighting: Los Angeles, California, USA Jump to the end of this video and you will see that this person caught an alien drone that decided to check out this balloon. Alien orbs are AI drones that record everything that passes their area. This one slowed down enough to get a fantastic capture of it. Its actually not round, but tear drop shaped with edges. A monumental catch by UFO researcher Maria Argote. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: This is my luck. This perfectly round orb came around 3 times. The final time, I decided to shut things down and an small orb came into the picture. Here is the breakdown. Amazing capture at an amazing event. This is one of several crazy things that showed up.
Orb Entity Caught On Security Cam At Russian Military Base, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Orb Entity Caught On Security Cam At Russian Military Base, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: July 23, 2019
Location of sighting: Military base Davamti, Russia Tercer Milenio TV has recently aired a new show showing a series of films that have documented movement of balls of light around the world. One of the most interesting of these recordings took place on July 23, 2009 by an infrared camera that was placed outside a Russian secret military base. That evening at 9:39 pm a military operator safety officer was monitoring the video surveillance cameras when he noticed the presence of a bright ball of light that slowly descended from the sky. It moved over the surface of the water of the dl Moskva River, which is right at the base davamti. The camera follows the bright orb as it moves downward and then follows it as it continues moving. The glowing object seems to be searching for something at the waters surface. You can even see the orbs reflection in the water below it. The reflection is 100% proof that it is close and over the water, and not far away. Infrared cameras can see a light spectrum that is invisible to the human eye. Thats why so many sky watchers are trying to get their hands of an IR camera.
Name to be with held by request, (Mrs. G, age 44) is from Redcliffe just north of Brisbane she lives with her 2 young children a boy 3 girl 9. UFOICQ was called on the Hot Line, by Mrs. G has she was little distressed by an event that took place Wednesday 10th at her home she, asked if we could come and talk to her. Mrs. G went to bed. She said it was around 10.15pm. “I was just about to nod off when I thought I could hear the TV going.” She said, “I turned it off! I’m sure I did. I got out of bed and went to investigate. I Could see some kind of flashing light but it was a soft light and it was shining down the corridor but I thought is it the TV. As I got to the end of the corridor I turned to look right where my kitchen door was and to my surprise I saw a “very tall” man.
He was standing in the doorway and was dressed in some kind of long jacket. The colour was Tan (peanut paste colour), that kind of tan. He had long arms but I couldn’t see his face because the light was coming from behind him I wasn’t scared but I still. I wonted to scream funny ha! But the sound wouldn’t come out, Mrs. G said, I thought there was something standing beside me, but I couldn’t move to see it. Then zip, I was standing in a different position with my back to the front door. I thought there was something beside me. May be it was the dog! Then a voice said “come on, time to go to bed now.”
Then I new it wasn’t the dog. Dogs don’t talk, do they? Then I became fully awake, sitting on the side of the bed. I don’t remember getting from the lounge room to the bedroom, but I do know that I was scared to death. I heard the TV again and then it turned itself off. That was it for me. I jumped under the covers and that’s where I stayed till the sun came up. I remember looking at the clock and it was just after 2.45pm, so where was I for 3 hours. NOTE: The above image is CGI.
Turn down Skywalker Way, then make a left on Warp Drive. A hangarlike facility is there, huge, as a hangar should be. Inside, a tall mustachioed gentleman in a baggy gray pinstriped suit stands idly. He owns the facility and everything around it. He also owns the Budget Suites of America a few miles away, down near the Las Vegas Strip. That’s just part of his empire, that budget hotel, along with a whole chain of others scattered across the Southwest.
But we’re not here to talk budget hotels. We’re here to talk about the future, and a different kind of accommodations entirely: one that can be folded up, bundled onto a rocket, shot into space, expanded, and lived in. We’re here because Robert Bigelow—low-key billionaire, space entrepreneur, avowed believer in extraterrestrials—has invited us into this warehouse to show off his blow-up space home. There are doughnuts and coffee. Soon, lunch will be served. But right now Bigelow is ambling up to a podium, where he begins to scold us.
“You laughed at me,” he says to the crowd in his North Las Vegas headquarters. “When we said we would build an expandable system and place it on the International Space Station in two and a half years, you laughed,” he says. “It’s been two years and a quarter.” He pauses, letting it sink in—that he’s ahead of schedule—then lets loose a smile, wide as the West. “And here we are.”
Here we are: NASA officials, JAXA officials (that’s Japan’s space agency), media, and Bigelow Aerospace employees. Before Bigelow began his speech, I’d spoken with several of those workers. Dressed in thin white jumpsuits, they stood inside a roped-off area surrounding a pedestal, on top of which sat a refrigerator-size object, swaddled in a gray Kevlar-like material and shaped like an upside-down mixing bowl. This was the BEAM—the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module—the future of space habitats.
According to the jumpsuited workers, none of whom spoke louder than a reverent whisper, the BEAM would soon travel to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where eventually—within months or perhaps a year—it would find a berth on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket bound for the International Space Station. At the ISS, a robotic arm would reach into the arriving SpaceX Dragon capsule, grab the BEAM, and attach it to the station’s Tranquility node. Astronauts would then send a command releasing compressed air into the BEAM. As the BEAM becomes pressurized, it expands until the module grows to 10.5 feet wide and 565 feet cubed. Not large but not small either. Imagine an eight-person tent or a studio apartment in Manhattan. All told, the expansion will take four and a half minutes. Then, the real work begins.
For two years, the astronauts aboard the ISS will try to determine if the BEAM, or some larger version of it, could be habitable over the long term. They will determine leak rate, measure radiation, and examine the thermal control inside the empty module. They’ll see how the module’s soft walls stand up to the bumps and bruises in space. And they’ll do their best to figure out just what an expandable structure orbiting Earth at about 5 miles per second feels like— an impossible thing to know until it is up there.
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Billionaire Robert Bigelow unveils his expandable modules.
Intuitively, expandables make sense. They pack down, weigh less, and in just about every way mitigate the very high costs associated with breaking free of gravity. The BEAM cost just $25 million to develop (in part through a $17.8 million NASA contract) and could cost about $150 million to launch. Compare that with the (admittedly much more complex) ISS, which cost an estimated $100 billion, and was assembled over the course of a decade and a few dozen launches. But until the results of this test run come in, no one can say for sure if crewed expandables are indeed as good in practice as they seem to be on paper.
For argument’s sake, say the BEAM works. Say everything checks out just as Bigelow thinks it will. What then? He will possibly send a few more pods up to expand the ISS; he’s already working on a stand-alone craft. But he also has a more ambitious plan.
Once Bigelow has finished scolding the crowd and detailing the BEAM’s upcoming mission, he opens the floor to questions. Someone up front asks how Bigelow Aerospace might fit into a manned Mars mission. He’s not sure, he says. Then adds, cryptically, “We are more focused on the moon.” There is no follow-up. He just lets it lie. And so does everyone else—again dismissing what seems too fantastic to be real, though there are no chuckles this time.
As the crowd disperses, I sidle up to Bigelow. Despite the suit, he has the faintly rugged look of an old cowboy. He’s sitting slumped in a small plastic folding chair on the small stage, surrounded by a few handlers, and looking worn out. He offers his hand indifferently, but when I ask about his moon plans, he straightens in his chair and leans forward. He drops his low voice even lower, as if letting me in on a secret. The BEAM, he says, is much more than a simple proof of concept. “It’s a first step…toward a permanent settlement on the lunar surface.” He sees many similarities between the ISS test run and an eventual lunar mission. “Both would do something unique, in a unique place that has international interests, and would require a lot of partners—governmental and nongovernmental.” The BEAM launch, he says, “is not just a stunt—and neither are our moon plans.”
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Back in the mid-1980s, Bigelow noticed a change happening in the desert Southwest. The area, deemed scarcely habitable, was growing quickly. Businesses were sprouting up, and visitors needed easy, affordable places to stay. To build his empire, Bigelow bought land cheap so he could pass along any savings to customers. He also made his hotels as convenient as possible—set right off the highway. He held onto nearly everything he bought, then sold a bunch of property when everyone else was buying like crazy, just before the market imploded in 2008. His fortune, already vast, grew vaster: His real estate investments alone are estimated at about $700 million today.
Bigelow now sees a similar change happening in another scarcely inhabited and inhospitable place: space. For a decade private business has been taking over access to low-Earth orbit (LEO), shuttling cargo and soon astronauts. See SpaceX and Orbital ATK as exhibits one and two. As those launches become more frequent—and as the ISS continues to rent out berths to space travelers and bench time to private businesses for zero-gravity experiments—the competition for floor space will only increase. Eventually businesses will set up their own labs and stations, and government-backed space agencies will push beyond LEO into cislunar space, the region between Earth and the moon. The next logical stop is the moon, then perhaps Mars. And then who knows? All Bigelow can be certain of is that such development requires people, and people need places to stay.
That’s where his expandables come in. NASA had pursued a similar idea in the 1990s in a program called TransHab, for Transit Habitat. The idea was to build an inflatable craft, cheaper than the ISS, to be used en route to Mars. NASA even designed one, complete with a multilayer shell of insulation and meteoroid-debris protection, but Congress cut funding in 2000, so the program was scrapped. Developing a new space station while still running and building the current one didn’t sit well, politically. Bigelow thought he saw something they didn’t, so he bought the rights to the TransHab technology for dimes on the dollar—the craft’s design, the patents for the layered inflatable walls, everything. He then set out creating what he calls “a turnkey solution to space habitation.” Cheap and convenient, same as ever.
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Billionaire Robert Bigelow
For a hotel tycoon, new real estate often yields new opportunities. Low-Earth orbit, and all the private space habitats it could someday support, appears promising, at least in the midterm. Even so, there is no piece of real estate more compelling to Bigelow than the moon. Unlike space, the moon has resources. There are deposits of helium-3 for nuclear fusion, which the Chinese are already reportedly planning to mine. There is water in the form of ice, which can be melted and purified for drinking or broken down into hydrogen fuel. The moon is also located outside of Earth’s gravity well. For space agencies looking to make runs to Mars or elsewhere, it is an ideal departure and refueling point.
Perhaps most compelling is that Bigelow doesn’t see any real competition in building a moon base. NASA isn’t all that interested in a permanent moon colony, and it has little in the way of future moon exploration plans. Jason Crusan, who leads NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems Division (basically a venture-capital fund for space-focused businesses, including Bigelow Aerospace) says he can imagine a future where flights travel between Earth and the moon on a regular basis. But rather than NASA taking the lead, he expects others to. “We want to get to Mars,” he says. The moon is just a means to an end.
For Bigelow, the challenges of building a functioning base on the moon, while massive, appear far from insurmountable. A recent study, partly commissioned by NASA (put out on the 46th anniversary of the first moon landing), found that the costs associated with returning humans to the moon could be much cheaper than previously imagined—90 percent cheaper, in fact, or closer to $10 billion versus the previous estimate of about $100 billion. And setting up a moon base might run about $40 billion. Much of the savings comes from using the moon’s resources in situ. “You take what the moon gives you, and move away from things that have to be brought up from Earth: water, fuel, protection from radiation,” says George Zamka, a former astronaut and current director at Bigelow Aerospace.
A moon colony is a far cry from the BEAM. But the success of BEAM is critical if a colony is to happen. And that’s why Bigelow invited a bunch of NASA officials to his warehouse. He would need NASA’s permission if he ever planned to send further expandables to the ISS and to access its astronauts. NASA, meanwhile, needs proof that expandables are viable habitats, and that Bigelow is the guy to make them.
This is all part of the process, as Bigelow sees it. He’s smart enough to know that space habitats need to move slowly for everyone to accept them. But he doesn’t have to sit on his hands for two years to learn of BEAM’s results. Far from it.
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As Bigelow talks, I stare at the massive structure hanging beyond the stage. The prototype space station, Olympus—formerly called the BA2100—is 41 feet wide and about 60 feet long. It nearly fills a wing of the hangar: three stories, a dozen rooms, with docking bays on each end, to string multiple crafts together. On its own, the Olympus offers more than two times the interior space of the ISS, about 2,250 cubic meters when expanded.
Were it already in space, the Olympus could be docked with a propulsion unit, providing a crewed station in LEO, in lunar orbit, or a point in between. It could also provide a habitat for a trip to Mars. All of which are part of its ultimate purpose. For now, that purpose will remain unfulfilled. It is so massive that, even deflated, no rocket exists that could haul such a large payload into orbit. Bigelow keeps the Olympus front and center for inspiration, a symbol of all that’s left to be done.
What’s not on display today is Bigelow’s follow-up to BEAM, the B330, a fully livable habitat that is well underway. According to Zamka, the craft is designed to fit a crew of six comfortably, has walls about 18 inches thick, layers of insulation, and protection from micrometeorites. It boasts solar and thermal radiator arrays, semiprivate berths, a zero-G toilet, four windows, two sets of control thrusters, and will be able to link up with other spacecraft for docking, towing, or tugging. Bigelow engineers are working on avionics systems for orbit, docking, maneuvering, and boosting beyond LEO into cislunar space. This past May, the company announced it was looking to fill upwards of 100 new positions to build those systems out for a (very optimistic) launch date in 2018.
B330 is much more complex than BEAM. It’s not a demonstration pod but a full-fledged expandable spacecraft, capable of sustaining human life on its own. Many of its life-support and comfort systems will be forerunners for a lunar base.
Zamka told me many of B330’s most daunting problems have been solved, not solely by Bigelow but with help from NASA. What might still hold up the launch, he said, would be finding a crew, and a rocket capable of carrying it. At about 43,000 pounds, B330 weighs roughly twice what the Russians or SpaceX can lift. That problem might be temporary, though. Two heavy-lift rockets are coming online shortly: SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy, due to launch later this year, and NASA’s SLS (for Space Launch System), which will debut within the decade.
That’s not to say those rockets ensure B330’s success, or even its liftoff. As with all things in space, nothing is certain. And there is plenty of dissent. Bigelow’s critics say he’s putting the cart (the craft) before the horse (the rockets), that he’s overstepping with his lunar property plans, and that he’s letting his belief in the future and value of the moon base get the better of him.
But Bigelow, more than practically anyone, is remarkably comfortable forging ahead in the face of disbelief. He’s seen the impossible happen more than once, after all. As a boy he heard an atomic bomb rumble across the desert beyond Las Vegas. He saw the flash of light. As a man, he built his long-stay empire out on the same barren desert, deemed nearly worthless at the time.
Perhaps because of that, because he’s confirmed that the world is surprising and sometimes not what it seems, he’s willing to chase ideas that no one else does. In the 1990s, he started the National Institute of Discovery Science for investigations into the paranormal. He bought a ranch in Utah known for UFO sightings and “skinwalkers”—werewolflike creatures that were said to have attacked cattle. The ranch house featured a hallway with a closet that locked from inside. His beliefs can seem silly. But explaining them he is frank and open, as if he’s too wise and successful to feel embarrassed about much of anything anymore.
At the end of our conversation, Bigelow’s handlers close in, telling him he has more hands to shake. As he steps from the stage, a man in a tie-dye T-shirt and flip-flops, holding a video camera, corners him. “So you believe in aliens,” the man says, then launches into a monologue about the mysticism of the desert and extraterrestrial visitations. Bigelow patiently waits him out. “You simply can’t know unless you’re out there,” Bigelow says, then he tells a story he’s repeated many times. His grandparents were driving through a desert north of Las Vegas when they saw something otherworldly: a glowing ball of fire in the sky, hurtling toward them, its light taking up their whole windshield.
They told their grandson this story, and ever since he’s believed. Intelligent life is out there, he says. He is certain of it. Sure, believing in aliens feeds the doubters, leads to more criticism, makes him the butt of jokes. But Bigelow doesn’t worry about that. For him, belief in the impossible—whether aliens or hotels in space—is part of life out here in the desert, or one day out there, on the lunar surface. It always has been. To succeed, you have to prove everyone wrong. You have to get there first.
This article was originally published in the March/April 2016 issue of Popular Science, under the title “The Baron Of Low-Earth Orbit.”
The (Blow-Up) Road To A Moon Base
Sometime within the next year or so, an expandable pod built by Bigelow Aerospace will travel to the International Space Station--one small step toward the company's goal of building a base on the moon. Here's how it aims to to get there:
Moon Base
Once expandables like Olympus can regularly reach the moon's orbit, the problems remaining have largely been solved. In renderings for a moon base, the structure looks like several B330s joined together. NASA had envisioned its own space habitat in the 1990s and early 2000s. Bigelow bought the rights and developed the technology.
Bigelow Aerospace
BEAM (Bigelow Expandable Activity Module)
The first step is to prove an expandable pod makes sense in space, that it works better than typical, rigid space habitats. BEAM is a 13-foot-long test pod that SpaceX will haul to the ISS. Once there, it will expand and remain attached to the ISS for two years as crews test it.
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B330
The next step is an expandable, full-scale habitat. The six-person, 31-foot-long B330 (it has 330 cubic meters of internal volume) is a bigger, better BEAM. But this one features thrusters, to maneuver in orbit, and stand-alone life support systems.
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Olympus
A colossal craft, the Olympus prototype offers 2,250 cubic meters of volume when pressurized, making it twice as roomy as the ISS. In renderings, it often holds lunar landers--to ferry crew to and from the moon. The problem: No rocket yet exists to carry Olympus into space.
Physicist Brian Greene: Making sense of string theory
Physicist Brian Greene: Making sense of string theory
Brian Greene is possibly the best-known supporter of superstring theory. Physicist Brian Greene describes superstring theory, the notion that tiny components of energy vibrating in 11 dimensions generate every particle and force in the cosmos.
Do civilizations of advanced human beings exist scattered in the Galaxy?
by John Stokes
Artistic representation from Eyewitness testimony of Asket, the extraterrestrial human woman, reference: www.gaiaguys.net
A group of researchers working at the Human Genome Project indicate that they made an astonishing scientific discovery: They believe so-called 97% non-coding sequences in human DNA is no less than genetic code of extraterrestrial life forms.
The non-coding sequences are common to all living organisms on Earth, from moulds to fish to humans. In human DNA, they constitute larger part of the total genome, says Prof. Sam Chang, the group leader. Non-coding sequences, originally known as “junk DNA”, were discovered years ago, and their function remained a mystery. The overwhelming majority of Human DNA is “Off-world” in origin. The apparent “extraterrestrial junk genes” merely “enjoy the ride” with hard working active genes, passed from generation to generation.
After comprehensive analysis with the assistance of other scientists, computer programmers, mathematicians, and other learned scholars, Professor Chang had wondered if the apparently “junk Human DNA” was created by some kind of “extraterrestrial programmer”. The alien chunks within Human DNA, Professor Chang further observes, “have its own veins, arteries, and its own immune system that vigorously resists all our anti-cancer drugs.”
Professor Chang further stipulates that “Our hypothesis is that a higher extraterrestrial life form was engaged in creating new life and planting it on various planets. Earth is just one of them. Perhaps, after programming, our creators grow us the same way we grow bacteria in Petri dishes. We can’t know their motives – whether it was a scientific experiment, or a way of preparing new planets for colonization, or is it long time ongoing business of seedling life in the universe.”
Professor Chang further indicates that “If we think about it in our human terms, the apparent “extraterrestrial programmers” were most probably working on “one big code” consisting of several projects, and the projects should have produced various life forms for various planets. They have been also trying various solutions. They wrote “the big code”, executed it, did not like some function, changed them or added new one, executed again, made more improvements, tried again and again.”
Professor Chang’s team of researchers furthermore concludes that, “The apparent “extraterrestrial programmers” may have been ordered to cut all their idealistic plans for the future when they concentrated on the “Earth project” to meet the pressing deadline. Very likely in an apparent rush, the “extraterrestrial programmers” may have cut down drastically on big code and delivered basic program intended for Earth.”
Professor Chang is only one of many scientists and other researchers who have discovered extraterrestrial origins to Humanity.
Human Genome Project Coordinators find absolute proof of Extraterrestrial contact with ‘Earth humans’ via DNA evidence.
Professor Chang and his research colleagues show that apparent “extraterrestrial programming” gaps in DNA sequencing precipitated by a hypothesized rush to create human life on Earth presented humankind with illogical growth of mass of cells we know as cancer.”
Professor Chang further indicates that “What we see in our DNA is a program consisting of two versions, a big code and basic code.” Mr. Chang then affirms that the “First fact is, the complete ‘program’ was positively not written on Earth; that is now a verified fact. The second fact is, that genes by themselves are not enough to explain evolution; there must be something more in ‘the game’.”
“Soon or later”, Professor Chang says “we have to come to grips with the unbelievable notion that every life on Earth carries genetic code for his extraterrestrial cousin and that evolution is not what we think it is.”
Human Genome Project Discovery Implications associated with “Human-looking Extraterrestrials”
The implications of these scientific finds would reinforce claims by other scientists and observers of having contact with ‘off-world’ human looking extraterrestrials.
The ‘off-world’ human looking extraterrestrial have been claimed to have provided some of the genetic material for human evolution, and that many of these extraterrestrials have allowed some of their personnel to incarnate as ‘starseeds’ on Earth in human families. These “star seeds”, “star children” or “star people” are described by Brad and Francie Steiger as individuals whose ‘souls’ were formerly incarnated on the worlds of other star systems and then traveled to Earth and decided to incarnate here in order to “boost” the spiritual evolutionary development of humanity. Most of humanity would consider this group of extraterrestrials to be ‘benevolent’ as described by ‘contactees’ such as George Adamski, Orfeo Angelucci, George Van Tassell, Howard Menger, Paul Villa, Billy Meier and Alex Collier who each explain the nature of their voluntary interactions with these human looking extraterrestrials. These “contactees” often provide physical evidence in the form of photographs, film and/or witnesses of their contacts with extraterrestrial races. The most extensively documented and researched contactee is Eduard ‘Billy’ Meier who provided much physical evidence for investigators.
Representations concerning ‘Ancient astronauts’
Indeed, ‘ancient astronaut’ writers believe that a race of intelligent extraterrestrial beings visited and/or colonised Earth in the remote past, whereupon they upgraded the primitive hominid Homo erectus by means of genetic engineering to create the human race as we know it: Homo sapiens.
Evidence for this idea is found (a) in the improbability of Homo sapiens emerging so suddenly, according to the principles of orthodox Darwinism; and (b) in the myths of ancient civilisations which describe human-like gods coming down from the heavens and creating mankind ‘in their own image’.Homo sapiens is thus regarded as a hybrid being, incorporating a mix of terrestrial genes from Homo erectus and extraterrestrial genes from an ascribed “race of the gods”.
Prior to the modern age of space travel and genetics, this theory for the origins of humankind could not have been conceived. And even now, in the 21st century, there are many people who would regard it as science fiction. However, in the light of the problems with the orthodox theory of human evolution, the idea of a genetic intervention by an intelligent human-like species (who themselves evolved on another planet over a more credible time frame) does require to be taken seriously as a potential solution to the mystery.
The most famous exponents of the ancient astronaut intervention are the Swiss writer Erich von Daniken and the American writer Zecharia Sitchin. The latter, in particular, has argued the case in great detail.
Representation by academics from “Exopolitics” groups
Dr. Micheal E. Salla is one of the founders of an Exopolitics movement which seeks an open and informed dialogue on, and with, Extraterrestrials, toward the affirmation of “global democracy” and the quality-of-living of humankind as socially responsible beings in the Universe. Dr. Salla indicates that “There are an extensive number of extraterrestrial races known [by various research institutions and agencies] to be currently interacting with Earth and the human population.
Dr. Salla, is also the author of Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence (Dandelion Books, 2004). He has held full time academic appointments at the Australian National University, and American University, Washington DC. He has a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Queensland, Australia. During his professional academic career, he was best known for organizing a series of citizen diplomacy initiatives for the East Timor conflict funded by U.S. Institute of Peace and the Ford Foundation. He is also the Founder of the Exopolitics Institute ; and Chief Editor of the ‘Exopolitics Journal’ and Convener of the “Extraterrestrial Civilizations and World Peace Conference.”
In a 1998 interview, Clifford Stone, a retired U.S. army Sergeant who served in the U.S. Army for 22 years and allegedly participated in operations to retrieve crashed extraterrestrial ships and extraterrestrial biological entities (EBE’s), revealed there were a variety of extraterrestrial races known [by various institutions and agencies]”. Dr. Salla further elaborates that “The most compelling testimonies on the different extraterrestrial races comes from ‘whistleblowers’ such as Sergeant Stone; and also ‘contactees’ who have had direct physical contact with extraterrestrials and communicated with them.”
Dr. Salla further notes that Master Sergeant Bob Dean had a twenty seven year distinguished career in very senior areas of the military indicates that among the know extraterrestrials one group “looked so much like us they could sit next to you on a plane or in a restaurant and you’d never know the difference.”
Apparently “Human extraterrestrial races can easily integrate with human society in the manner described by Dean and others where they can be indistinguishable from the rest of humanity.” Dr. Salla corroborates.
According to Alex Collier who claims to be a “contactee”, “a variety of extraterrestrial races have provided genetic material for the ‘human experiment’. ” Alex Collier indicates that “Earth humans” are “a product of extraterrestrial genetic manipulation, and are possessors of a vast gene pool consisting of many different racial memory banks, also consisting of at least 22 different races.”
Alleged Human ET efforts to promote the unity of humanity through religious spirituality
Alex Collier further claims that constituents of “Human ETs” seek to “ensure that global humanity evolves in a responsible way without endangering both itself and the greater galactic community of which it is part. ” Exopolitics groups and independent contactees also indicate that constituents of “Human ETs” seek to “uplift human consciousness and to promote the unity of religion.”
Alex Colliers alleged contact with ETs suggest that fundamentalist messages in from Christianity to Judaism to Islam, and other institutionalized religions, as well as outright apparent ‘cult’ groups, have been specifically placed by “hostile elements” to manipulate and control humankind.
Jesus, who many groups allege was a “Human ET” sought to inspire the social consciousness of humankind toward unity, and not to create a “Christian religion”, with its sexually repressive as well as homophobic undertones, which also have been used for the execution of racism, and to legitimate atrocities like the ‘slave trade’.
ETs who allegedly contacted Alex Collier, also further allegedly stipulate that Jesus did in fact live; and lived out the rest of his life in Massada; and that Jesus was only crucified through the religious doctrine, and myth-making associated with ‘the palms’.
As far as the “saviour scenario” is concerned, for example, Alex Collier was allegedly told by ETs that it has been put into our belief systems to “disempower us.” The saviour scenario within the dogma of institutionalized religions legitimate the creation of an elite-driven oppressive power structure who appoint themselves as “judgers of morality”. These religious elites have historically used their self-appointed roles to execute a comprehensive system of social controls that complement their joint pursuit of greed-oriented self-aggrandizement with other elites from government to business enterprises.
The alleged efforts of socially progressive Human ETs to inspire the affirmation of the quality-of-living of ‘Earth Humans’ through spiritual and other “emissaries”, have been undermined by the efforts of “capitalists” to exploit such alleged initiatives in the pursuit of an oppressive agenda of greed and fascistic power.
Constituents of Human ETs allegedly seek to “help humanity find freedom from oppressive structures through education and consciousness raising.”
Allegations of “Human ET” encounters on Earth
In Dr. Salla’s article “Extraterrestrials Among Us” published in October 2006, he alleges that, “There is startling evidence from a number of independent sources that ‘human looking’ extraterrestrial visitors have integrated with and lived in major population centres up until recently, and this is known by a select number of institutions.
Aside from whistleblower testimonies, like Sergeant Major Robert Dean, a number of private individuals claim to have encountered extraterrestrials posing as ordinary citizens in major cities around the planet.
George Adamski was the first to write about extraterrestrials secretly living among the human population. In his second non-fiction book describing his extraterrestrial contact experiences, “Inside the Flying Saucers”, Adamski discussed how human looking extraterrestrials had established a presence among the human population. “They apparently looked so much like us”, Dr. Salla notes “that they could get jobs, lived in neighbourhoods, drove cars, and could blend in easily with the human population.”
Dr. Salla further notes that “Adamski wrote about how they contacted him to set up meetings that led to his famous flights aboard extraterrestrial vehicles.” But as Dr. Salla explains “While controversy over Adamski’s contact experiences and his credibility continues, Adamski’s UFO sightings and contacts with extraterrestrials were supported by an impressive collection of witnesses, photographs and films that a number of independent investigators concluded were not hoaxes.”
Dr. Salla additionally stipulates that “Adamski’s testimony offers important insights into how extraterrestrials may be living incognito among the human population. After discussing the Adamski case and the strongest evidence supporting it, Dr. Salla in that article further discusses other contactees similarly claiming to have encountered extraterrestrials acting like ordinary citizens. Finally, Dr. Salla in “Extraterrestrials Among Us” examines the official testimony of a number of whistleblowers concerning knowledge that extraterrestrials live among ordinary Earth-bound individuals.
Contact Testimonies of ‘Extraterrestrials Among Us’
Adamski’s famous “Desert Center” meeting with an extraterrestrial emerging from a ‘scout ship’ on November 20, 1952 was apparently seen by six witnesses who signed affidavits confirming Adamski’s version of events in his subsequent book, The Flying Saucers have Landed (1953). In fact, four of the witnesses immediately reported what had happened to a nearby newspaper, the Phoenix Gazette,that published a story on November 24 featuring photos and sketches. The Desert Center encounter was among those of Adamski’s claims regarding extraterrestrial contact that, according to UFO researcher Timothy Good, were “accurately reported,” and “sensible and verifiable”, as footnotes by Dr. Salla. Given the clear supporting evidence supporting Adamski’s first meeting with an extraterrestrial traveling in a scout craft, it is worth examining closely his alleged subsequent meetings with extraterrestrials living on Earth.
In the first chapter of Inside the Flying Saucers, Dr. Salla re-visits Adamski’s testimony of his meeting with two extraterrestrials while he was sitting in the lobby of a Los Angeles Hotel on February 18, 1953.
“I looked at my wrist watch and saw that it said ten-thirty. The lateness of the hour, with still nothing of extraordinary significance having taken place, sent a wave of disappointment through me. And just at this moment of depression, two men approached, one of whom addressed me by name. Both were complete strangers, but there was no hesitancy in their manner as they came forward, and nothing in their appearance to indicate that they were other than average young businessmen. I noted that both men were well proportioned. One was slightly over six feet and looked to be in his early thirties. His complexion was ruddy, his eyes dark brown, with the kind of sparkle that suggests great enjoyment of life. His gaze was extraordinarily penetrating. His black hair waved and was cut according to our style. He wore a dark brown business suit but no hat. The shorter man looked younger and I judged his height to be about five feet, nine inches. He had a round boyish face, a fair complexion and eyes of grayish blue. His hair, also wavy and worn in our style, was sandy in color. He was dressed in a gray suit and was also hatless. He smiled as he addressed me by name. As I acknowledged the greeting, the speaker extended his hand and when it touched mine a great joy filled me. The signal was the same as had been given by the man I had met on the desert on that memorable November 20, 1952. (Described in the bookFlying Saucers Have Landed).”
Significant in Adamski’s description is how the two extraterrestrials could pass off as businessmen. Aside from a penetrating stare, nothing struck him as unusual in their appearance. Adamski goes on to explain how he went with them in their car to travel to a remote desert location:
“Together we left the lobby, I walking between them. About a block north of the hotel, they turned into a parking lot where they had a car waiting. They had not spoken during this short time, yet inwardly I knew that these men were true friends. I felt no urge to ask where they proposed to take me, nor did it seem odd that they had volunteered no information. An attendant brought the car around, and the younger man slid into the driver’s seat, motioning me to get in beside him. Our other companion also sat with us on the front seat. The car was a four-door black Pontiac sedan. The man who had taken the wheel seemed to know exactly where he was going and drove skillfully. I am not familiar with all the new highways leading out of Los Angeles, so I had no idea in which direction we were headed. We rode in silence and I remained entirely content to wait for my companions to identify themselves and explain the reason for our meeting.”
“What’s significant here is that the two extraterrestrials possessed a car and knew how to navigate on the newly completed Los Angeles highway system. This is no mean feat and suggests that the extraterrestrials had taken the time to learn the road traffic rules and how to navigate through Los Angeles.”
Dr. Salla indicates in “Extraterrestrials Among Us”, that Adamski further reveals:
“Lights and dwellings thinned as we left the outskirts of the city. The taller man spoke for the first time. His voice was soft and pleasant and his English perfect. I had noticed that the younger man also spoke softly, although his voice was pitched higher. I found myself wondering how and where they had learned to speak our language so well.”
“.We are what you on Earth might call ‘Contact men.’ We live and work here, because, as you know, it is necessary on Earth to earn money with which to buy clothing, food, and the many things that people must have. We have lived on your planet now for several years. At first we did have a slight accent. But that has been overcome and, as you can see, we are unrecognized as other than Earth men. “At our work and in our leisure time we mingle with people here on Earth, never betraying the secret that we are inhabitants of other worlds. That would be dangerous, as you well know. We understand you people better than most of you know yourselves and can plainly see the reasons for many of the unhappy conditions that surround you.”
Dr. Salla indicates also that, “This passage [previous] is significant since it describes how the extraterrestrials have spent years living on Earth, learning the language, getting jobs and mixing with the human population. Furthermore, it appears as though extraterrestrials living among the human population may work in pairs, a kind of buddy system that would make sense in terms of ensuring safety and communications with the home world if an emergency ever occurred. If Adamski is accurate in his recollections and the extraterrestrials are telling the truth, then it would appear that there could be a significant number of extraterrestrials who are living incognito among the normal population in many if not most major cities on the planet. Upon examining other contactee cases and the testimonies of whistleblowers, it does appear as though this is indeed the case.”
Exopolitics groups furthermore provide additional representation that Adamski was not the only one of the contactees making representation that extraterrestrials were blending in with the human population. Howard Menger, for example. also claimed to have been contacted by extraterrestrials posing as ordinary human citizens. In one case, the extraterrestrial was posing as a real estate salesperson and asked Menger to accompany him in one of the extraterrestrial vehicle.
In addition to seeking to learn about human values and civilization, it appears that “Human ET” visitors were conducting a low key education effort to promote awareness of their presence to a limited number of individual ‘contactees’.
These “Human extraterrestrial visitors” have been represented has often having as very attractive physical characteristics, with “Human extraterrestrial females” being described as among the most beautiful women that male observers have witnessed.
The “Human extraterrestrials visitors” furthermore have been represented as going to great trouble in learning the indigenous language of the culture they are immersed in, learning how to drive and navigate on highways systems, and taking innocuous jobs over several years.
Extraterrestrials living among us appear to be operating in a manner similar to a “celestial peace corps” where they try to blend in. They presumably wish to learn about Earth culture and behaviour; and to, perhaps, assist in passing on information to selected individuals.
Representation on Earth Humans relative to “non-Earthbound” humans:
Advanced Human ETs as viewing Earth Humans as barbarians and savages which are a threat to themselves
Alex Collier alleges that ET’s revealed to his that there are over 135 other billion human beings in the 8 galaxies closest to ours.
Alex Collier alleges that “The first time I walked on to one of their ships [Human ETs] , a bunch of their children started to run away from me. They knew that I was from Earth.”
“We have a very bad reputation,” Alex Collier indicates, “because we are the only human race in the galaxy that kills itself, that turns on itself. We are the only race [human] that allows itself to live in poverty. We are the only ones who allow members of our race to starve. We are the only ones that allow members of the race to be homeless. We are the only race that would sell itself into slavery. I don’t like the reflection they give me of us. It’s not that they are judging. They just don’t understand why we do it. If anyone’s got an answer for it, I’m open. Yes, we’ve been manipulated by belief systems, but why do we believe these belief systems?”
According to testimony by Alex Collier in associated with alleged ET contacts, Earth Humans “are the only race of human beings which oppresses and kills itself.”
If Human ETs do exist, as scholarly and other representation suggests, the saving of Humanity from its current apparent course of self-destruction, including on-going catastrophic Global Warming, may very well vitally rely on human governance systems placing its greed-driven bigotries aside, toward a constructive dialogue.
It may shock you to learn that the origin of robotics is far older and more storied than movies and science fiction novels have prepared you for. Surprised as you might be to find that Will Smith’s robot archenemies actually owe their existence to 4000 year old Babylonians, the story of developing robotic technology is quite interesting.
Of course, the precursors in 2000 BCE weren’t called robots; that term didn’t come about until 1923. Before that, most examples of complex machinery were called automata, or automatons. Though, that word is a little misleading. Yes, most examples of early robots – like Leonardo da Vinci’s magnificent mechanical lion, and Muslim engineer al-Jazari’s automatic hand washing machines – were called automata, but the word had other uses.
Technically, the word automata – which is derived from the Greek automatos, meaning self-acting – refers to anything that operates, acts, thinks, or moves on its own. This is why it applies to early robotic mechanisms. It can be applied to other entities though, as long as they are autonomous. (See what I did there?)
A recreation of the Golem of Prague
OK, enough shenanigans. Automata come in many forms, and one of those forms is the golem. No, not Gollum. As precious as he is, he’s not what I’m talking about. A golem is an artificial man, according to ancient Kabbalistic teachings. But it’s more than that. It’s the earliest known reference to an android, though, certainly not an android like Star Trek’s Lieutenant-Commander Data. Actually, it’s kind of complicated.
The first ever golem was Adam. Yes, that Adam. You’ll recall from your bible studies that Adam was created out of dust by the Almighty. This is, in fact, the most basic and early definition of the word; to be “kneaded into a shapeless husk”. The Talmud says, in Tractate Sanhedrin 38b, that only God has the power to create life, and all golems were created by God. Thus, humans are technically golem, however, there’s a caveat. It also says that a holy man who is devout and whom strives to emulate God would also have the ability, but the life he creates would be but a shadow of that created by God. So where Adam became human, golem created by men are not (all of the golems referred to below are of the second, lesser form).
Here’s where things get interesting.
Golems were, or would have been slaves to their creators, though they were also potentially hostile if given the chance. Large creatures made of stone, powerful, untiring, and more or less obedient; the one sort of defining feature of a golem is the inability to speak (which is why the word evolved into the modern Yiddish goylem,meaning dimwitted or slow). You can perhaps see why one would wish to create such a monstrous thing. And given that the power to create one was thought to be holy, some of the golem characters in history and literature are…well they’re odd.
According to Hebrew teachings, a holy man can create an automaton out of clay. That is, a fully-animate, real, and somewhat spooky golem. The resulting creature – a sandman, if you will – would be, by definition, a lower form of life; incomplete or uncultivated.
To make a golem was deceptively simple. Some of the stories about their creation are, shall we say, difficult to believe (as though this whole endeavour weren’t something out of a fairy tale). It’s said that specific Hebrew incantations were used, literally, to animate the creature. Something known as an ecstatic experience would be induced using shems (one of the names of God), by applying different Hebrew letters to the clay form. This was done either by writing some variation of the shem on a piece of paper (or parchment) and inserting it into the golem’s chest or mouth, or by inscribing the letters onto the surface of the form, often on the forehead.
Some telling’s claim that the Hebrew word emet was used (אמת), meaning “truth”, and that simply removing the א would change the meaning of emet from “truth” to “death”, thereby deactivating the golem. Though, the most famous stories about the creation of a golem differ somewhat.
There are a few relatively famous examples of golems, or more accurately, famous stories of their supposed creation and use. The truth of their existence is doubted, but not by all.
The Golem of Chelm, which was supposedly created by the 16th century Rabbi Ellyahu of Chelm (a city in eastern Poland), came to life either by the hanging of a pendant bearing the word emet around its neck, or with the inscription of the same on its forehead. It’s said that Ellyahu created the monster to aid him in heavy work, but (and this depends on the account) the golem began to grow with the passage of time. As it got bigger, he feared it would become so large that it might threaten to destroy the universe. So the rabbi removed the shem, causing the great creature to collapse into dust, but in so doing suffered terrible injury himself during the struggle.
Perhaps the most famous golem story is that of the Golem of Prague. Also in the 16thcentury, Rabbi Maharal of Prague created his in a desperate effort to protect the Jews of his city from persecution and death at the hands of the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolf II. Maharal created the creature on the banks of the river Vltava, molding it in the clay of the riverbed. He and his son-in-law performed a ritual, involving the recitation of several Kabbalistic verses while circling the inanimate golem in alternating directions, followed by the inscription of a shem on its forehead.
The great creature awoke and performed its function dutifully, but in keeping with the teachings of the Talmud, Maharal was required to deactivate it every Friday evening, so that it would be inoperable on the Sabbath. For whatever reason, he was unable or simply forgot to do this one Friday eve and, again depending on the account, the creature wreaked havoc across Prague. Maharal brought down his golem in front of the synagogue after a long battle by removing the shem, thereby causing the monster to crumble to pieces.
The remains of the golem were said to have been stored in the attic of the synagogue, now known as the Old New Synagogue in Prague, so that Maharal could reanimate it if ever it was again needed. Many people believe that this story is based in fact, and that the golem’s corpse, if you will, was kept in the attic until recent years. Unfortunately, at least for anyone hoping it was, no evidence has ever been found to indicate this was the case.
The wonderful Boris Karloff as the classic 1930s film version of Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’s Monster’, with an assist from makeup artist Jack Pierce
You might say that these stories are nothing more than fantasy, legend, religious folklore, and you’d probably be right. Let’s face it, it’s a fantastical thing, and golems have appeared in literature ever since. One of the Brothers Grimm tales involves a golem, and there are many books, plays, and stories that include them by name. Some, however, you might not immediately recognise as golem. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is a golem tale, though adapted to an age of science and electricity. The Gingerbread Man fairy tale is also a variation on the theme, derived from the Yiddish and Slavic folktales of The Clay Boy. Some even believe that Czech playwright, Karel Čapek, who wrote Rossum’s Universal Robots – which is given as the origin of the word robot – actually based his famous play on golem lore (though he denied it).
Modern culture has been influenced by the golem more than most might think. From cartoons and movies explicitly about them, to variations of them appearing in comic books, video games (Minecraft, Assassin’s Creed, and even World of Warcraft), and virtually any form of entertainment media since the dawn of their inception. You may know these monsters by many different names, but in reality they are the golem, and depending on your faith in Judaism…perhaps they are even us.
Mystery invaders conquered Europe at the end of last ice age
Mystery invaders conquered Europe at the end of last ice age
DNA was taken from ancient human bones, like this skull, from the Dolni Vestonice burial site in the Czech Republic
L. Lang
Europe went through a major population upheaval about 14,500 years ago, at the end of the last ice age, according to DNA from the bones of hunter-gatherers.
Ancient DNA studiespublished in the last five years have transformed what we know about the early peopling of Europe. The picture they paint is one in which successive waves of immigration wash over the continent, bringing in new people, new genes and new technologies.
These studies helped confirm that Europe’s early hunter-gatherers – who arrived about 40,000 years ago – were largely replaced by farmers arriving from the Middle East about 8000 years ago. These farmers then saw an influx of pastoralists from the Eurasian steppe about 4500 years ago, meaning modern Europe was shaped by three major population turnover events.
Waves of immigration
The latest study suggests things were even more complicated. About 14,500 years ago, when Europe was emerging from the last ice age, the hunter-gatherers who had endured the chilly conditions were largely replaced by a different population of hunter-gatherers.
Exactly where this new population came from is still unclear, but it seems likely that they came from warmer areas further south. “The main hypothesis would be glacial refugia in south-eastern Europe,” says Johannes Krauseat the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany, who led the analysis.
As conditions improved, it was these southern hunter-gatherers who took advantage and migrated into central and northern Europe, he says – meaning there was a genetic discontinuity with the hunter-gatherer populations that had lived there earlier.
Martin Frouz
His team analysed mitochondrial DNA extracted from 55 ancient Europeans, the oldest of whom lived 35,000 years ago – during the Pleistocene – and the youngest just 7000 years ago, during the Holocene. Previous studies focused largely on the Holocene, looking at human remains from the last 10,000 years.
“This is the first glimpse at Pleistocene population dynamics in Europe,” says Krause. “Little has been done on this older material, mostly due to lower abundance of material and lesser preservation due to age.”
“The population turnover after 14,500 years ago was completely unexpected,” says Iosif Lazaridisat the Harvard Medical School in Boston. “It seems that the hunter-gatherers of Europe braved the worst of the ice age during the last glacial maximum but were then replaced when the ice age had begun to subside.”
Europe’s unusual history
The picture is not yet clear, however, as the study only looked at mitochondrial DNA sequences, rather than the longer nuclear DNA of other studies. “Mitochondrial DNA tells only part of the story of a population,” says Lazaridis. It is important to try to extract nuclear sequences from the Pleistocene-aged skeletons to find out more about this earlier population turnover, he says.
The work also may solve a long-standing mystery of why a certain genetic signature is missing in people of European ancestry. All people today are members of one of a relatively small number of distinct groups based on their mitochondrial DNA, which is passed down the maternal line. The distribution of people in each group gives us a sense of how humans spread across the world in prehistory.
It always seemed that Europe had a very unusual history of colonisation because one major haplogroup – the M clade – is almost entirely missing, despite being very common across Asia and even found in Native Americans. Instead, another major haplogroup – the N clade – is most common.
“Some authors had argued that the M and N haplogroups represented two different dispersal events from Africa,” says Toomas Kivisild at the University of Cambridge.
But Krause and his colleagues found that the M clade might actually have been common in Europe before the population turnover 14,500 years ago: three of the 18 most ancient humans they studied belonged to the M clade.
This suggests that the initial colonisation of Europe and Asia may have involved the same ancient population – and that the M group was actually lost in Europe much later, perhaps connected in some way to the mystery upheavals 14,500 years ago.
Niagara Falls| Divers fromthe U.S coast guard took partthis morning, ina delicatewreckrecoveryoperation tobring to the surfacea Nazisubmarinediscoveredtwo weeks ago at the bottomof LakeOntario.
The U-boat was spotted for the first time by amateur scuba divers in late January and they had contacted the authorities. Archaeologists associated with Niagara University of and master divers from the U.S Coast Guard were mobilized on site to determine what it was, and they soon realized that they were dealing with a German submarine that sank during World War II.
A wreck recovery vessel of the Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society was mandated to refloat the ship and bring it back to Niagara Falls, where it must be restored before becoming a museum ship. The delicate recovery operation took nearly 30 hours to complete, but the submarine was finally brought down on the bank with relative ease.
The divers of the U.S. Coast guard braved the frigid water temperature to go attach cables to the wreck for the recovery operation.
The submarine was identified as the UX-791, a unique experimental German submarine, based on the U-1200 model, and known to have participated in the “Battle of the St. Lawrence”. It was reported missing in 1943 and was believed to have been sunk near the Canadian coast.
Professor Mark Carpenter, who leads the team of archaeologists, believes that the U-boat could have traveled up the St-Lawrence River, all the way to the Great Lakes, where it intended to disturb the American economy.
A report from the dated from February 1943 suggests, that the ship could have attacked and destroyed three cargo ships and two fishing vessels, even damaging the USS Sable (IX-81), an aircraft carrier of the U.S. navy that was used for training in the Great Lakes, before finally being sunk by anti-sub grenades launched by a Canadian frigate.
“We have known for a long time that the Nazis had sent some of their U-boats in the St-Lawrence River, but this is the first proof that they actually reached the Great Lakes,” Professor Carpenter told reporters. “This could explain the mysterious ship disappearances that took place in the region in 1943, and the reported “Battle of Niagara Falls” which had always been dismissed as a collective hallucination caused by fear.”
The restorationof the submarinecould takemore than two years, but oncecompleted, the museum ship is expected to become one of the major touristattractions of the region.
Coventry's UFO sightings: Glowing rockets, circular objects and bright lights all spotted last year
Coventry's UFO sightings: Glowing rockets, circular objects and bright lights all spotted last year
BYDAVID OTTEWELL
According to the Mutual UFO Network, 15 incidents have been logged in Coventry and West Midlands since January last year
Two bright lights seen in skies
Analysis of encounters logged with the Mutual UFO Network (Mufon) - described as ‘the world’s oldest and largest UFO phenomenon investigative body’ - show 15 incidents logged in Coventry and the West Midlands since January last year.
They range from a sighting of a massive tin-can shaped object with gold round the middle, to a glowing rocket steering upwards into the sky.
Many of the sightings come with video and pictures taken at the time.
And while they may not provide CONCLUSIVE proof of extraterrestrial intelligence targeting, the descriptions are certainly intriguing.
The witness said: “I went for a short walk around 8.15pm behind my accommodation, i.e. Heronbank West, Heronbank, University of Warwick.
“While coming back, I happened to look at this glowing (because of the flame) cylindrical type object in the sky, steering upwards in a somewhat fast motion.
“I was able to take a picture of it. But when I started taking a video, my phones battery died. My first reaction to that was ‘clearly it’s not a shooting star’.
“It could be a rocket launch though. After gazing at it for about a minute, I walked inside my accommodation building.”
On May 13, another spotter saw seven circular objects above the city through binoculars - they then drew them out for Mufon.
Another sighting - again in Coventry - on March 15 involved ‘two bright lights which were ellipses initially but became circles’.
The witness reported: “I was standing outside work having just finished a shift. A storm had just passed over and a beautiful rainbow was showing. I was taking photos of the rainbow and didn’t actually notice the lights in the frame.
“I took a series of photos to catch as much of the rainbow as I could but after transferring to a memory chip I put them away and forgot about them. I was sorting through old memory chips a few days ago when I found these photos.
“The first one showed a couple of ellipses with what appeared to be a solid centre. This was at 15.24 GMT. The next photo showed two large balls of light low to the ground and apparently in front of the lamp post.
“The time of the photo was also 15.24 so the lights had moved very quickly.”
Across the UK, there were 476 sightings listed on mufon.com between January 1, 2015, and the middle of February this year.
We came across this article today and thought that it would be a great read for our viewers. It’s awesome information showing the true nature of our reality and how science is changing everyday, opening up to the possibilities of this reality.
“Scientist Prove DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words and Frequencies
By Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf
THE HUMAN DNA IS A BIOLOGICAL INTERNET and superior in many aspects to the artificial one. Russian scientific research directly or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual light/auras around people (namely spiritual masters), mind’s influence on weather patterns and much more. In addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies WITHOUT cutting out and replacing single genes.
Only 10% of our DNA is being used for building proteins. It is this subset of DNA that is of interest to western researchers and is being examined and categorized. The other 90% are considered “junk DNA.” The Russian researchers, however, convinced that nature was not dumb, joined linguists and geneticists in a venture to explore those 90% of “junk DNA.” Their results, findings and conclusions are simply revolutionary! According to them, our DNA is not only responsible for the construction of our body but also serves as data storage and in communication. The Russian linguists found that the genetic code, especially in the apparently useless 90%, follows the same rules as all our human languages. To this end they compared the rules of syntax (the way in which words are put together to form phrases and sentences), semantics (the study of meaning in language forms) and the basic rules of grammar. They found that the alkalines of our DNA follow a regular grammar and do have set rules just like our languages. So human languages did not appear coincidentally but are a reflection of our inherent DNA.
The Russian biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev and his colleagues also explored the vibrational behavior of the DNA. [For the sake of brevity I will give only a summary here. For further exploration please refer to the appendix at the end of this article.] The bottom line was: “Living chromosomes function just like solitonic/holographic computers using the endogenous DNA laser radiation.” This means that they managed for example to modulate certain frequency patterns onto a laser ray and with it influenced the DNA frequency and thus the genetic information itself. Since the basic structure of DNA-alkaline pairs and of language (as explained earlier) are of the same structure, no DNA decoding is necessary.
One can simply use words and sentences of the human language! This, too, was experimentally proven! Living DNA substance (in living tissue, not in vitro) will always react to language-modulated laser rays and even to radio waves, if the proper frequencies are being used.
This finally and scientifically explains why affirmations, autogenous training, hypnosis and the like can have such strong effects on humans and their bodies. It is entirely normal and natural for our DNA to react to language. While western researchers cut single genes from the DNA strands and insert them elsewhere, the Russians enthusiastically worked on devices that can influence the cellular metabolism through suitable modulated radio and light frequencies and thus repair genetic defects.
Garjajev’s research group succeeded in proving that with this method chromosomes damaged by x-rays for example can be repaired. They even captured information patterns of a particular DNA and transmitted it onto another, thus reprogramming cells to another genome. ?So they successfully transformed, for example, frog embryos to salamander embryos simply by transmitting the DNA information patterns! This way the entire information was transmitted without any of the side effects or disharmonies encountered when cutting out and re-introducing single genes from the DNA. This represents an unbelievable, world-transforming revolution and sensation! All this by simply applying vibration and language instead of the archaic cutting-out procedure! This experiment points to the immense power of wave genetics, which obviously has a greater influence on the formation of organisms than the biochemical processes of alkaline sequences.
Esoteric and spiritual teachers have known for ages that our body is programmable by language, words and thought. This has now been scientifically proven and explained. Of course the frequency has to be correct. And this is why not everybody is equally successful or can do it with always the same strength. The individual person must work on the inner processes and maturity in order to establish a conscious communication with the DNA. The Russian researchers work on a method that is not dependent on these factors but will ALWAYS work, provided one uses the correct frequency.
But the higher developed an individual’s consciousness is, the less need is there for any type of device! One can achieve these results by oneself, and science will finally stop to laugh at such ideas and will confirm and explain the results. And it doesn’t end there.?The Russian scientists also found out that our DNA can cause disturbing patterns in the vacuum, thus producing magnetized wormholes! Wormholes are the microscopic equivalents of the so-called Einstein-Rosen bridges in the vicinity of black holes (left by burned-out stars).? These are tunnel connections between entirely different areas in the universe through which information can be transmitted outside of space and time. The DNA attracts these bits of information and passes them on to our consciousness. This process of hyper communication is most effective in a state of relaxation. Stress, worries or a hyperactive intellect prevent successful hyper communication or the information will be totally distorted and useless.
In nature, hyper communication has been successfully applied for millions of years. The organized flow of life in insect states proves this dramatically. Modern man knows it only on a much more subtle level as “intuition.” But we, too, can regain full use of it. An example from Nature: When a queen ant is spatially separated from her colony, building still continues fervently and according to plan. If the queen is killed, however, all work in the colony stops. No ant knows what to do. Apparently the queen sends the “building plans” also from far away via the group consciousness of her subjects. She can be as far away as she wants, as long as she is alive. In man hyper communication is most often encountered when one suddenly gains access to information that is outside one’s knowledge base. Such hyper communication is then experienced as inspiration or intuition. The Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini for instance dreamt one night that a devil sat at his bedside playing the violin. The next morning Tartini was able to note down the piece exactly from memory, he called it the Devil’s Trill Sonata.
For years, a 42-year old male nurse dreamt of a situation in which he was hooked up to a kind of knowledge CD-ROM. Verifiable knowledge from all imaginable fields was then transmitted to him that he was able to recall in the morning. There was such a flood of information that it seemed a whole encyclopedia was transmitted at night. The majority of facts were outside his personal knowledge base and reached technical details about which he knew absolutely nothing.
When hyper communication occurs, one can observe in the DNA as well as in the human being special phenomena. The Russian scientists irradiated DNA samples with laser light. On screen a typical wave pattern was formed. When they removed the DNA sample, the wave pattern did not disappear, it remained. Many control experiments showed that the pattern still came from the removed sample, whose energy field apparently remained by itself. This effect is now called phantom DNA effect. It is surmised that energy from outside of space and time still flows through the activated wormholes after the DNA was removed. The side effect encountered most often in hyper communication also in human beings are inexplicable electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of the persons concerned. Electronic devices like CD players and the like can be irritated and cease to function for hours. When the electromagnetic field slowly dissipates, the devices function normally again. Many healers and psychics know this effect from their work. The better the atmosphere and the energy, the more frustrating it is that the recording device stops functioning and recording exactly at that moment. And repeated switching on and off after the session does not restore function yet, but next morning all is back to normal. Perhaps this is reassuring to read for many, as it has nothing to do with them being technically inept, it means they are good at hyper communication.
In their book “Vernetzte Intelligenz” (Networked Intelligence), Grazyna Gosar and Franz Bludorf explain these connections precisely and clearly. The authors also quote sources presuming that in earlier times humanity had been, just like the animals, very strongly connected to the group consciousness and acted as a group. To develop and experience individuality we humans however had to forget hyper communication almost completely. Now that we are fairly stable in our individual consciousness, we can create a new form of group consciousness, namely one, in which we attain access to all information via our DNA without being forced or remotely controlled about what to do with that information. We now know that just as on the internet our DNA can feed its proper data into the network, can call up data from the network and can establish contact with other participants in the network. Remote healing, telepathy or “remote sensing” about the state of relatives etc.. can thus be explained. Some animals know also from afar when their owners plan to return home. That can be freshly interpreted and explained via the concepts of group consciousness and hyper communication. Any collective consciousness cannot be sensibly used over any period of time without a distinctive individuality. Otherwise we would revert to a primitive herd instinct that is easily manipulated.
Hyper communication in the new millennium means something quite different: Researchers think that if humans with full individuality would regain group consciousness, they would have a god-like power to create, alter and shape things on Earth! AND humanity is collectively moving toward such a group consciousness of the new kind. Fifty percent of today’s children will be problem children as soon as the go to school. The system lumps everyone together and demands adjustment. But the individuality of today’s children is so strong that that they refuse this adjustment and giving up their idiosyncrasies in the most diverse ways.
At the same time more and more clairvoyant children are born [see the book “China’s Indigo Children”by Paul Dong or the chapter about Indigos in my book “Nutze die taeglichen Wunder”(Make Use of the Daily Wonders)]. Something in those children is striving more and more towards the group consciousness of the new kind, and it will no longer be suppressed. As a rule, weather for example is rather difficult to influence by a single individual. But it may be influenced by a group consciousness (nothing new to some tribes doing it in their rain dances). Weather is strongly influenced by Earth resonance frequencies, the so-called Schumann frequencies. But those same frequencies are also produced in our brains, and when many people synchronize their thinking or individuals (spiritual masters, for instance) focus their thoughts in a laser-like fashion, then it is scientifically speaking not at all surprising if they can thus influence weather.
Researchers in group consciousness have formulated the theory of Type I civilizations. A humanity that developed a group consciousness of the new kind would have neither environmental problems nor scarcity of energy. For if it were to use its mental power as a unified civilization, it would have control of the energies of its home planet as a natural consequence. And that includes all natural catastrophes!!! A theoretical Type II civilization would even be able to control all energies of their home galaxy. In my book “Nutze die taeglichen Wunder,” I have described an example of this: Whenever a great many people focus their attention or consciousness on something similar like Christmas time, football world championship or the funeral of Lady Diana in England then certain random number generators in computers start to deliver ordered numbers instead of the random ones. An ordered group consciousness creates order in its whole surroundings!
When a great number of people get together very closely, potentials of violence also dissolve. It looks as if here, too, a kind of humanitarian consciousness of all humanity is created.(The Global Consciousness Project)
To come back to the DNA: It apparently is also an organic superconductor that can work at normal body temperature. Artificial superconductors require extremely low temperatures of between 200 and 140°C to function. As one recently learned, all superconductors are able to store light and thus information. This is a further explanation of how the DNA can store information. There is another phenomenon linked to DNA and wormholes. Normally, these supersmall wormholes are highly unstable and are maintained only for the tiniest fractions of a second. Under certain conditions stable wormholes can organize themselves which then form distinctive vacuum domains in which for example gravity can transform into electricity.
Vacuum domains are self-radiant balls of ionized gas that contain considerable amounts of energy. There are regions in Russia where such radiant balls appear very often. Following the ensuing confusion the Russians started massive research programs leading finally to some of the discoveries mentions above. Many people know vacuum domains as shiny balls in the sky. The attentive look at them in wonder and ask themselves, what they could be. I thought once: “Hello up there. If you happen to be a UFO, fly in a triangle.” And suddenly, the light balls moved in a triangle. Or they shot across the sky like ice hockey pucks. They accelerated from zero to crazy speeds while sliding gently across the sky. One is left gawking and I have, as many others, too, thought them to be UFOs. Friendly ones, apparently, as they flew in triangles just to please me. Now the Russians found in the regions, where vacuum domains appear often that sometimes fly as balls of light from the ground upwards into the sky, that these balls can be guided by thought. One has found out since that vacuum domains emit waves of low frequency as they are also produced in our brains.
And because of this similarity of waves they are able to react to our thoughts. To run excitedly into one that is on ground level might not be such a great idea, because those balls of light can contain immense energies and are able to mutate our genes. They can, they don’t necessarily have to, one has to say. For many spiritual teachers also produce such visible balls or columns of light in deep meditation or during energy work which trigger decidedly pleasant feelings and do not cause any harm. Apparently this is also dependent on some inner order and on the quality and provenance of the vacuum domain. There are some spiritual teachers (the young Englishman Ananda, for example) with whom nothing is seen at first, but when one tries to take a photograph while they sit and speak or meditate in hyper communication, one gets only a picture of a white cloud on a chair. In some Earth healing projects such light effects also appear on photographs. Simply put, these phenomena have to do with gravity and anti-gravity forces that are also exactly described in the book and with ever more stable wormholes and hyper communication and thus with energies from outside our time and space structure.
Earlier generations that got in contact with such hyper communication experiences and visible vacuum domains were convinced that an angel had appeared before them. And we cannot be too sure to what forms of consciousness we can get access when using hyper communication. Not having scientific proof for their actual existence (people having had such experiences do NOT all suffer from hallucinations) does not mean that there is no metaphysical background to it. We have simply made another giant step towards understanding our reality.
Official science also knows of gravity anomalies on Earth (that contribute to the formation of vacuum domains), but only of ones of below one percent. But recently gravity anomalies have been found of between three and four percent. One of these places is Rocca di Papa, south of Rome (exact location in the book “Vernetzte Intelligenz” plus several others). Round objects of all kinds, from balls to full buses, roll uphill. But the stretch in Rocca di Papa is rather short, and defying logic sceptics still flee to the theory of optical illusion (which it cannot be due to several features of the location).
All information is taken from the book “Vernetzte Intelligenz” von Grazyna Fosar und Franz Bludorf, ISBN 3930243237, summarized and commented by Baerbel. The book is unfortunately only available in German so far. You can reach the authors here: www.fosar-bludorf.com
MOSI scientist publishes theory debunking famed ‘extraterrestrial’ signal
MOSI scientist publishes theory debunking famed ‘extraterrestrial’ signal
Antonio Paris, a scientist at the Museum of Science & Industry in Tampa, may have found what caused the famous "Wow! Signal" that has captivated astronomers for decades and is seen by some as the strongest clue ever that alien life exists. Provided by MOSI
TAMPA— An astronomer listening to the void of space nearly four decades ago, hoping to hear a sequence of blips, or beeps, or squelches that rose above the random chaotic noises of the cosmos, heard something one night that electrified the scientific community and the world.
On Aug. 15, 1977, Jerry R. Ehman, an astronomy professor at Ohio State University, was part of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project at the Big Ear radio telescope at a university observatory in Delaware, Ohio, when a blast of radio waves snapped him to attention.
The signal which appeared to have come from a region of space near the Sagittarius constellation, prompted Ehman to scribble “Wow” in red ink next to a couple of circled numbers on a print-out of what he heard. The radio signal lasted 72 seconds. The “Wow Signal,” as it has become known, was never heard again and scientists have ruled out anything from Earth or man made as the source of the signal.
From there, the mantra of “We are not alone,” took hold. Hollywood grabbed the kernel of truth and ran with it in the movie, “Contact,” in which aliens use radio waves to make acquaintances with Jodie Foster.
Now, a scientist with the Museum of Science & Industry (MOSI) in Tampa believes he has found the source of that noise and it may put to rest the theories involving extraterrestrials, be they cute and friendly like E.T., or malevolent and conquering like the Borg.
As people were looking to the skies, Antonio Paris was studying NASA databases that track the paths of comets discovered since 1977. In that snowstorm of numbers is the likely source of the “Wow Signal,” Paris said, and it has more to do with chunks of rock and ice screeching through the nothingness of space, than aliens trying to reach out to humankind.
Paris said that in August 1977, no known comets were in the area between Earth and the region where the astronomers believed signals came from. But by studying the paths of recently discovered comets, Paris learned that two — 266P/Christensen and P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs) — passed through that part of space at that time, on that date 39 years ago. And, Paris said, they may very well have caused the sound that Ehman heard.
“As comets come closer to the sun, the heat melts them and they send out giant clouds of icy water,” said Paris, director of space programs at MOSI and astronomy professor at St. Petersburg College. “It creates a halo of hydrogen around the comet. In just the right situation, there’s a chance that halo of hydrogen could have given off the ‘Wow Signal.’ ”
He said he started “brainstorming” about the scientific mystery in July.
“I like to use the term ‘revisiting the crime scene,’ the astronomy crime scene,” he said,
One day while driving in his car and thinking about the “Wow Signal” he had a revelation.
“Out of the blue, I was looking at a truck passing on a bridge overhead as I drove under it. It occurred to me it could have been an object that went over us, just like the truck; a truck we will never see again. It could have been a comet or asteroid that came over us so many years ago.”
His research delved into NASA databases, using sophisticated software that tracks paths of comets unseen and undiscovered nearly four decades ago.
“We found two culprits which went all the way back to the original source of the signal,” he said. “They were there on the same exact date, time, and in the neighborhood from where the signal was detected.
“We wanted the answer to this and this might be it.”
Paris published his findings in a recent article written with colleague Evan Davies in the journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.
“Most in the astronomical community like the paper,” he said. “Everybody is excited, excited to wait for 2017 and 2018 to come around.” That’s when the comets will return to the scene of the crime, though not together.
He said 266P/Christensen will come in January 2017 and P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs) will swing by about a year later.
“That’s the only problem,” he said. “In 1977, they were together.”
The next time those two comets will pass together though that sector of space will be 600 years, he said.
Though astronomers in their lifetimes won’t be able to re-create the exact situation from 1977, they can monitor the comets as they pass one at a time to see if the “Wow Signal” may have come from them.
If not, the origin of the radio pulses heard by Ehman an hour before midnight on Aug. 15, 1977 will remain a mystery.
“I have a gut feeling,” Paris said, “that this was a natural phenomenon.”
He said his paper already is getting “push back,” not from scientists and astronomers, “but from conspiracy theorists.
“There have been only one or two who have gently sent me information and wished me luck,” he said. “I tell them to show me their research.”
Paul Shuch, executive director emeritus of the SETI League, a grass-roots group that promotes private SETI research and education, is pushing back. He said he is looking forward to the testing of the theory when the comets return next year and the year after.
“This is first I’ve head of it,” he said of Paris’ paper. “It’s all speculation right now.”
Shuch, reached Tuesday afternoon at his home in Pennsylvania, earned a Ph.D. in engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and now is known online as Dr. SETI, a scientist dedicated to searching for life in the cosmos.
“Even with the presence of comets,” said Shuch, “I can see no logical way that, of itself, explains that phenomenon.
“We know that known natural phenomena always emit broad-band signals,” he said. “The ‘Wow Signal’ was decidedly a narrow-band. Therefore there is no known astrophysical phenomenon of a natural origin that could have caused this.
“After multiple re-analyses of data, many hypotheses were ruled out,” Shuch said. “There are only two likely ones left.
“Either it was an inadvertently intercepted extraterrestrial communication or a previously unknown natural astrophysical phenomenon.
“Either possibility is worthy of a Nobel Prize, if we only knew which,” he said. “The problem is we don’t.”
“If comets are capable of this, that would be an exciting discovery,” he said. “If it’s a natural phenomenon, that would be brand new.”
This is the trail of Chelyabinsk asteroid which exploded about 14 miles above ground with a force nearly 30 times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb in 2013.
Credit: Neuromainker via YouTube/Screenshot by Irene Klotz for Discovery News
If a space rock hits the atmosphere, and no one is around to hear it, does the tabloid press still report it as an Earth-shattering event? Of course!
Dozens of videos of the Russian meteor were uploaded to Youtube soon after impact on the morning of Feb. 15, 2013, many of which originated from vehicle dashboard cameras (or "dash cams"). During the morning commute many drivers saw the bright orb grow and explode in the atmosphere. The resulting shock wave caused windows to blow out over a huge area injuring over 1,000 people -- mainly cuts and minor concussions.
The event itself is notable because it is the largest atmospheric impact recorded since the famous Chelyabinsk bolide that exploded over Russia in 2013, causing widespread structural damage and injuries to the city with a population of 1 million.
This recent Feb. 6 event unleashed an energy equivalent of 13,000 tons of TNT exploding instantaneously (a.k.a. a "13 kiloton" explosion); the Chelyabinsk impact ripped through the Ural Mountain skies with a whopping energy of 440 kilotons.
The Feb. 6 meteor most likely burned up the majority of its mass during atmospheric entry, any pieces falling as small meteorites safely into the ocean.
This didn't happen over a populated region and, as far as I can tell, there have been no eyewitness reports from mariners or pilots who happened to be in the area at the time. Though this is certainly an important and scientifically interesting event, the impact on the lifeforms of Earth (barring a few unlucky fish 600 miles off the coast of Brazil) was minimal. But the fact that NASA "failed" to tell the world about the impact has gotten some news outlets excited.
"Space agency fails to warn the world about massive blast, even though it's the largest atmospheric explosion since the Chelyabinsk meteor," writes Mirror.co.uk.
But possibly the best headline comes from another UK news outlet, The Express: "FRONT-room-sized meteor came out of nowhere and exploded with force of Hiroshima bomb." Because your front room (British to US translation: living room) is now a universal standard of meteoroid measurement. Noted.
The Mirror also wandered down the conspiracy path, questioning how NASA even recorded the Feb. 6 impact, highlighting Plait's analysis that the atmospheric impact was likely detected by classified military technology.
Normally, atmospheric explosions are recorded by seismic monitors, microphones and/or satellite observations. As Plait pointed out, as the impact was in open ocean, it's not likely that seismic monitors would have been used to record the impact energy. As the military has pretty obvious reasons for monitoring atmospheric explosions, it seems likely the data came from a classified source, probably satellites.
Though an interesting energetic event, Feb. 6 isn't the only time the Earth has been hit by space rocks since Chelyabinsk. Every single day Earth is peppered with around 100 tons of space debris. The vast majority of this mass is no bigger than a grain of sand, and on a clear night you might be lucky to see these tiny specks burn up in the high atmosphere as meteors.
As they slam into the upper atmosphere, these tiny pieces of space rock create a shock wave which, through rapid heating of atmospheric gases, incinerates the debris, erupting in a fast blaze of light. These are called meteors (or "shooting stars"). Larger (and rarer) pieces of space rock will hit the atmosphere as a meteor and may explode as a bolide (as the Chelyabinsk event dramatically showcased), some pieces hitting the ground as meteorites.
Monitoring the regularity of these larger impacts is key for scientists to better understand our Earth's interplanetary environment and although the Feb. 6 event is now grabbing the headlines, remember that most large impacts will happen over water (as the Earth is 70 percent ocean) and impacts of space rocks of around Chelyabinsk meteoroid dimensions are (statistically-speaking) a once in a century thing. Oh, and as for NASA not reporting a bolide impact that no one saw, well, it looks like the tabloid press has that covered.
Lenticular cloud or even a shelf cloud. Amazing shot from viewers in Las Vegas, NM. #nmwx#clouds
Residents of Las Vegas, New Mexico, might have wondered last evening if something had escaped from Roswell. Looming over the horizon was a cloud with the spitting image of a classic UFO, so massively structured it looked like it could atomize the building-blasting motherships of Independence Day.
The above photos were sent by viewers to Jorge Torres, chief meteorologist at KOB-TV, who identified the thing as a ”[l]enticular cloud or even a shelf cloud.” The latter are intimidating, horizon-eating rollers often attached to thunderstorms—and indeed, the region is under a winter-storm warning for a snowy front with possible whiteout conditions. The former clouds typically materialize above mountains or other land masses that draw wind upward, though on rare occasions they’ve developed in flat places like Texas.
The UFO cloud wasn’t the only weird thing to drop out of New Mexico’s storm-roiled skies. Torres also shared these shots of a lumpy funnel extending from a cloud in Roswell:
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TALL WHITE ALIENS HOVER IN ‘CLOAKED’ FLYING SAUCER UFO OVER LAS VEGAS, NEW MEXICO, SAYS UFO HUNTERS — IT’S A LENTICULAR CLOUD, SAYS METEOROLOGIST [PHOTOS]
TALL WHITE ALIENS HOVER IN ‘CLOAKED’ FLYING SAUCER UFO OVER LAS VEGAS, NEW MEXICO, SAYS UFO HUNTERS — IT’S A LENTICULAR CLOUD, SAYS METEOROLOGIST [PHOTOS]
The appearance of a flying saucer UFO-shaped cloud formation over Las Vegas in New Mexico on Monday sparked a brief, but snarky, exchange between UFO researchers and a local meteorologist who insisted it was only a lenticular cloud. But some UFO hunters argued that the cloud was actually an alien UFO manned by Tall White aliens linked to the U.S. military. Others argued it was a Project SERPO alien spaceship that missed the way to the city of Roswell.
Um, it's obviously a spaceship from Roswell! @JorgeTWeather
Some residents of Las Vegas in New Mexico were thrown into panic on Monday after spotting a flying saucer-shaped cloud formation hanging low over the city. The appearance of the “flying saucer UFO” was so reminiscent of scenes from the 1996 Independence Day movie that rumors spread that a flying saucer mothership UFO was hovering over the city.
But Jorge Torres, chief meteorologist at KOB-TV, who obtained photos of the “UFO” and uploaded them to Twitter, tried to calm fears about an Independence Day-style alien invasion, saying that the formation was only a lenticular cloud and not a flying saucer.
“Lenticular cloud or even a shelf cloud. Amazing shot from viewers in Las Vegas,” he tweed airily.
But UFO researchers pushed back, arguing that the massive cloud-like formation was evidently a “cloaked” flying saucer UFO. They argued that the “cloaking” was so poorly executed that any experienced UFO hunter would see through the disguise immediately.
According to UFO hunters, aliens often disguise their UFOs as clouds because they know that it fools naïve meteorologists like Torres. UFO researchers explained that with regard to the practice of “cloud cloaking,” there are two types of UFOs: the first hide in thick cloud formations while the second generate their own clouds.
“Despite Mr. Torrres’ explanation, there is strong evidence that UFOs do cloak themselves with clouds which they apparently generate,” UFO Sightings Hotspotlectured.
UFO hunters also noted that the appearance of a massive “cloaked” flying saucer UFO over Las Vegas was not surprising with the city of Roswell nearby.
“Um, it’s obviously a spaceship from Roswell!”
Some UFO hunters linked the “flying saucer” to the legendary Project SERPO, an alleged top-secret alien exchange program between the U.S. government and aliens called Ebens from the planet SERPO in the zeta reticuli star system.
But Scott Waring, a well-known UFO blogger, claimed that the UFO belonged to Tall Whites, another alleged extraterrestrial race believed to have worked with the U.S. military since the 1950s.
Alien conspiracy theorists believe that Tall Whites control the U.S. government, and that Obama is a Tall White in disguise. Other conspiracy theorists have linked the Tall Whites with the Israeli military and, oddly, the Nazis.
According to UFO researchers, after the Tall Whites began working with the U.S. government in the 1950s, they developed an addiction to gambling, and since then, they have regularly visited Las Vegas (Nevada) casinos disguised as humans. Maybe this time, a group of Tall White visitors on their way to Las Vegas, Nevada, missed the way and ended up in Las Vegas, New Mexico.
And when later in the day Torres uploaded to Twitter images showing unusual atmospheric phenomenon over Roswell, some UFO researchers declared the strange clouds proof that aliens were prowling over New Mexico in “cloaked” UFOs, and that they were likely on a mission linked to the 1947 Roswell crash.
When Torres argued that the strange Roswell clouds were not alien clouds but likely “cold air funnel clouds,” a UFO enthusiast responded sarcastically, “Roswell? Cold air funnel clouds? Sure…”
The sarcastic tweet prompted a response from Torres, “Aliens paid me to say that, Lily.”
UFO blogger Scott Waring joined the debate on the side of UFO enthusiasts, who claimed that the “flying saucer UFO” was manned by the Tall Whites.
“There is only one species I heard of that acts this cocky, and that’s the Tall Whites. They look just like us when they are children, but will grow taller after 400 years.”
“Only their eyes, skin color and walk give them away,” he continued. “They are known to enter Vegas, Nevada to have some fun. They also like to play mind games with humans to show their superiority. It boosts their ego and trust me… let them win.”
But some UFO hunters insisted that the “UFO” was not a Tall White alien spaceship by a Project SERPO spaceship.
Alien and UFO hunters who promote the Project SERPO conspiracy theory claim that a 3,000 page top-secret document dating back to the 1970s leaked in 2005 by anonymous whistleblowers from the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) reveals that the Roswell UFO originated from planet SERPO in the zeta reticuli system, populated by a people called the Ebens.
According to conspiracy theorists, the U.S. government has been involved since the mid-1960s in a top-secret alien exchange project with the Ebens from the planet SERPO. The U.S. government sent 10 male and two female astronauts to planet SERPO in 1965.
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BBC News Catches Multiple UFO’s Live During ISS Soyuz Russian expedition
BBC News Catches Multiple UFO’s Live During ISS Soyuz Russian expedition
There was much hype about this recent space launch to the ISS from Kazakhstan, what with it being the first time a British Astronaut (Major Tim Peake) and then the drama that unfolded when the automated systems onboard failed close before the planned docking on December 15, 2015. Soyuz commander Yuri Malenchenko took manual control of the Soyuz before resuming for another attempt at docking which was successful at 12.33 p.m. EST.
Luckily thanks to Yuri all of the Astronauts arrived safely on-board the international space station, but it was only until live news footage of the dramatic docking process (which was recorded by NASA’s very own HD cameras) appears to show NUMEROUS UFO’s in the form of Orbs and a Doughnut shaped LARGE brightly lit object moves by the cameras! Please check out the video (which was viewed live on all of the major news channels) below of this incredible piece of footage which people around the world witnessed LIVE:
U.I.P SUMMARY – Like us guys at U.I.P keep saying on here, perhaps the ET’s are INTENTIONALLY making their presence known in order to help create their very own form of disclosure (please click HERE for more on this). What is incredible about this footage is the fact that you can clearly see that these objects are moving in a somewhat ‘controlled’ type of manner – The doughnut looking UFO looks incredible and almost seems to be ‘bubble like’ in appearance!
Perhaps the ET’s where watching the mission unfold at the space station with the Russian rocket!? It’s important to remember that this very odd other-worldly looking Doughnut UFO has been witness on camera before – please see above.
No matter what NASA say it is clear that this is NOT ice particles ‘floating’ by – Floating Ice is definitely becoming the new ‘weather balloon’
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10 Reasons Why Humans May Not Have Come From Earth
10 Reasons Why Humans May Not Have Come From Earth
You know the phrase: Men are from Mars, women are from Venus … but what if we’re all from Alpha Centauri?
An American ecologist by the name of Dr Ellis Silver thinks that he might have spotted a few telltale signs that humans did not originate from Earth, and that we’re actually beings from another world.
There is a pretty well-accepted theory out there that organic matter may have been delivered to planet Earth by meteors, perhaps as single-celled organisms or just as the building blocks of life such as amino acids.
But Dr. Silver goes one step further: That we arrived as fully formed, complex organisms, between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago. Perhaps we interbred with Neanderthals, perhaps we’re just straight up aliens, all Silver knows is that there are some things about our physiology that just doesn’t add up.
Citing everything from sunburn to childbirth in his book Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence, Dr. Ellis Silver points out all of the things that seem to contradict the idea that we evolved over millions of years in our earthly environment. Who knows, perhaps Earth is even some kind of prison colony, and we’ve been sent to this little galactic backwater to learn our lesson whilst the rest of the universe zooms about in lightships?
Granted, these theories should probably be taken with a healthy pinch of salt, but what does the venerable Dr. Silver have to say about the possibility that we’re all just spacemen?
11. Bad Backs
If we evolved on this planet, why does just standing up on it hurt us?
Silver argues that the gravity on our home planet must’ve been stronger, and so we’re progressively growing taller and taller with each generation, causing us to have bad backs.
It is thought, in the wider scientific community, that on planets with stronger gravity, human-like life forms would evolve to be much shorter and stockier to deal with the extra gravity bringing them down.
When that gravity isn’t there, we apparently start to grow like forced rhubarb, ending up so tall and willowy that our own skeletons can’t support us very well.
There could also be a counter argument that the gravitational pull on our home planet is, in fact, weaker, and the fact that our bodies will slowly bow to the pressure of Earth’s gravity over our lifetimes is proof that we evolved to deal with weaker gravity.
As we grow older, we hunch over and even shrink, gravity slowly wears us down, starting with a crick in the neck and ending with a hunchback.
Silver also wonders about the possibility that the food on this planet is more nutritious than on our home planet, causing a growth spurt.
If we spent all our time back home chewing on tough, woody vegetation (yum), then were sudden plunged into a world of strawberries and fillet steak, it’s possible that all of those abundant nutrients made us shoot up like a 14-year-old boy who lives on McDonalds and Red Bull.
10. Childbirth
In further expanding his argument, Silver points to the excessive nutrition on earth and a possible cause for the difficulties of human childbirth.
The fact that humans have to spend hours screaming in pain to bring new life into the world, whereas the rest of the animal kingdom can drop a sprog in their sleep, has long puzzled anthropologists. Why is it such an ordeal for us to have kiddies when it’s literally our only biological purpose?
Silver thinks that the high levels of nutrition that we get could cause our babies to grow far bigger in utero than our bodies are designed to cope with.
Indeed, it is a well-known phenomenon that people with diabetes have much larger than average babies due to the high sugar levels in their blood – this demonstrates that there is, in fact, a clear link between high nutrition and baby size.
Whether or not that means that diabetics are even more alien-y aliens than us regular aliens, Dr. Silver doesn’t specify.
Perhaps this is also a result of our newer, willowy frames (thanks to the lack of gravity, remember?). Perhaps, back on our own planet, there are a load of stocky, troll-like beings happily squeezing babies out of their wide, childbearing hips left, right and centre.
9. The Sun
Ahh, it’s that classic summer scene. The moment there’s a little bit of sun, every spare bit of grass, beach or garden is littered with people turning gradually pinker.
But why is that? Why does our own sun do us so much harm?
This is one of Ellis Silver’s arguments for our alien origins. Humans will easily burn through sun exposure, whereas many creatures won’t.
Humans, in contrast with other species, cannot sunbathe for more than short periods at a time without getting sunburned. This indicates that the human body is not effectively adapted to constant exposure to our sun, which is a funny thing for a species that have no protective layer of fur.
Our own sun, from which all life on Earth draws its energy in one way or another, will literally give us cancer if we stay out in it too long, other creatures have evolved so that this doesn’t happen. A lizard, for example, can sit out all day and not get so much as a tan line and some corals even produce their own SPF to protect themselves.
Silver thinks that this is because we evolved with a much weaker sun, or perhaps we originated on a planet with lots of cloud cover.
Another thing that he highlights as odd is the fact that humans seem to suffer from seasonal mental disorders such as Seasonal Affective Disorder. Other animals migrate, hibernate or just tough it out when it comes to surviving an Earth winter, but humans just can’t seem to hack it.
We can’t cope with a lot of sun, we can’t cope with a lack of sun – why are we so ill-suited to the comings and goings of the seasons if we’ve spent millions of years evolving on this planet?
8. We Look So Different
Right, so what’s the deal with this bipedal thing? How come everything else on the planet has remained perfectly happy with a low centre of gravity and sturdy base, whereas we wobble around on two legs?
Perhaps it’s just because we’re looking at it from the inside, but you have to admit that we tend to stick out a bit. Two legs, extremely fine coat, hair growing out of odd places, opposable thumbs, huge heads, big, flat feet – we look much more like aliens than natives.
Silver points to our lack pf body hair as a particularly odd feature of humans. It is necessary for humans to wrap themselves in the furs of other animals, just to stop ourselves freezing to death, even on the hot African plains where we are supposed to have evolved.
The theory is that perhaps on our home planet, the temperature didn’t fluctuate so much between night and day and at different latitudes. Possible reasons for this could be a thicker cloud layer that insulates the planet (a bit like on Venus), a binary star system (so that the sun effectively never sets), or even that the crust of the planet is much thinner, allowing the heat from the molten core to come up through the ground.
As a weird side note: Our relatively high levels of subcutaneous fat and almost total hairlessness, as well as our bipedalism, would actually make us excellent swimmers. Maybe we were some kind of race of semi-aquatic dolphin people on our home planet.
7. We’re Too Advanced
The most conspicuously different feature of the human race, is just how much more advanced we are when compared to the rest of life on Earth.
Why are we so far ahead of every other animal? It sounds like classic human arrogance, but for all our talk about how intelligent dolphins are because they can recognise themselves in a mirror – they didn’t invent the bloody mirror, did they?
Okay, how about if we argue that inventing things like wheels and mirrors and social media executives isn’t necessarily an indicator of intelligence? It’s still drastically different to what everything else on the planet is doing.
Why are we such outcasts from the natural world? It could be because it’s not our natural world.
If we arrived on a primitive Earth with a head start, it could explain why we appear to be leaps and bounds ahead of every other species. Dr. Silvers also cites that fact that the “missing link” that would connect us with our common ape ancestors is still, er, missing (it’s not, but never mind).
We could have come from a planet where a number of species were similarly advanced – perhaps that’s even the reason we left, to go and rule elsewhere.
It all seemed to happen at once too. Evolutionarily speaking it took us fricking ages to get the hang of sharpened rocks, then, all of a sudden, we invented agriculture, writing, language, art, electricity, machinery, chemistry, quantum physics and pretty much everything else around us today. What the hell happened?
6. We Can’t Sleep
One of Silver’s arguments is that the human circadian rhythm is out of whack with the actual day-night cycle on Earth.
The circadian rhythm is the thing that regulates your sleeping and eating patterns. It means that you’re tired at night and awake in the morning and is the reason why you feel jet-lagged after a long haul flight. As the Earth’s day and night cycle lasts for around 24 hours (not including leap seconds because come on), it would make sense for our circadian rhythm to also be on a 24 hour cycle, but it’s not.
Dr. Silver uses the argument that the human circadian rhythm is on a 25-hour cycle, meaning that it makes more sense that we should have evolved on a planet with 25 hour days. Unfortunately, Silver is wrong with the 25-hour figure, but not about the fact that it doesn’t match up.
It used to be thought that our circadian rhythm was a whole hour off, turns out it’s actually anything from a quarter to half an hour off. This doesn’t seem like much until you realise that (providing you stuck to your natural circadian rhythm) it would only take you a month to potentially be 7 hours out of whack. That’s a whole night’s sleep for most people.
This means that our home planet could have been slightly bigger than Earth, in order to have longer days (although, again, it’s not quite that simple), and so this also feeds into Silver’s theory that our home planet had slightly higher gravity.
5. We Don’t Like It Here
Evolution generally means that a species adapts to its environment, but we don’t seem to want to play that game.
A big part of the theory comes down to the fact that we have altered the planet to fit us, rather than the other way around; we just can’t seem to bear living in the natural world. The fact that we have altered our environment so drastically makes it seem as though we’re just not suited to living in earth’s natural habitat.
In fact, what we’re doing appears not to be evolving, so much as terraforming.
Another of Silver’s arguments is that we’re seemingly terrible at reading our own planet. Many animals have built-in sensors for natural phenomena such as earthquakes, tsunamis and even just the ability to predict the weather, whereas we have had to intervene with our technology in order to keep up with them.
It could be that we came from a planet that is not so geologically active, meaning that there would be no benefit for us to be able to predict earthquakes.
Then, we have the fact that we can’t eat most of the food on this planet without altering it in some way. Whether it’s by cooking it, or through selective breeding, most of the food that we eat is not as nature intended it.
We’re not saying that our home planet had hamburger trees and rivers of lemonade (if it does then book us a one-way ticket to Alpha Centauri), but that fact that most animals, apart from us, are perfectly fine eating grass and raw zebra is a bit weird.
4. Rapid Overpopulation
Humans are spreading, and they’re spreading fast.
As of 2015, there are over seven billion of us crammed onto this tiny little planet and the number is always going up. Not exactly a balanced eco-system.
It’s almost as though we’re an invasive species.
What happens when you introduce a new species into an environment that they did not evolve in? A lot of the time, they take over.
This is due to the fact that they do not have any natural predators and the local fauna are not equipped to defend themselves against them. This means that the non-native species has free reign to hunt, eat and breed, with the potential to decimate the local environment.
This does sound an awful lot like how we interact with the natural world. We’re so far up the food chain, that we don’t even feature as the apex predator in it, we actually exist outside of earth’s eco-system. It does seem to scream foreign species.
Even with other invasive species, the ecosystem will ofetn find a way to restore istelf back to normality. With “normal” imbalances in nature, that balance can be quickly restored as the food runs out, and the invading species will quickly begin to reduce in number again. This doesn’t appear to have happened to humans so far.
Perhaps, when the resources finally do run out, we’ll go the way of many other species and simply become one rogue algea bloom in the long natural history of the planet.
3. A Prison Planet?
One of Dr. Silver’s slightly more esoteric theories is that the Earth may actually be a prison colony for a society of galactic beings.
It is apparently our naturally violent, vengeful, lustful, criminal natures that makes him think this. The fact that you don’t often observe this kind of behaviour in the animal kingdom makes Silver think that it could well be because these are traits that come from a completely different race of people.
The theory is that we could have had our memories wiped and been dumped in a primitive backwater by a civilisation of space-faring beings as a sort of “cooling off” period, presumably after becoming too much of a menace to intergalactic society.
Perhaps they hoped that we would integrate with the natural world on a young planet and become a peaceful race of hunter-gatherers, or something.
But actually what happened is that we almost immediately wiped out the Neanderthals and set about transforming the Earth to suit our anti-social ways, so they left us here.
To be fair, given our earthbound history of shipping criminals off to somewhere out of sight and out of mind, this does sound like exactly the sort of thing we’d do if we ever became a planet-hopping race of pan-galactic beings. The question is, has it already happened?
2. So Where Did We Come From?
In order to figure out our origins, Dr. Ellis Silvers then takes us through the practicalities of colonising another planet, and he’s certainly given it a lot of thought.
So, if we presume that this ancient race of humanoids has developed the technology to travel at near light speed, they would need to originate from somewhere that can be travelled to within a human lifetime. Say, 30-ish light years away.
Silver reckons that these early settlers could well have brought frozen embryos with them to kickstart the whole breeding process, as they would have been elderly by the time they arrived (although this does sort of ruin the whole “Earth is a space prison” thing).
Dr. Silver then goes on to list his top picks for our potential homeworld, including Alpha Centauri A and B (1 lightyear), Epsilon Eridani (10.5), 61 Cygni A and B (17), Epsilon Indi (20) and Tau Ceti (22). Do let us know if one of those names stirs something primordial in you, it could be the proof we need.
The Alpha Centauri binary system eventually claims the top spot due to its proximity and the fact that it’s a binary system (remember our earlier discussion about the sun that never sets?). It would mean that, at even a fraction of the speed of light, it would still be reachable within one lifetime.
Although, fair-minded as always, Dr. Silvers also allows for the idea that a race of galactic beings could well have harnessed the use of hyperspace and wormholes in order to reach our humble little Earth from pretty much anywhere in the universe.
So that doesn’t really narrow it down.
1. An Editor’s Note
Okay, it should be said at this point that Dr. Silver’s theories should be taken with a healthy pinch of salty skepticism.
The idea of planet seeding is one that is gaining lots of interest in the scientific community and many have expressed interest in investigating Silver’s thoughts more thoroughly. Of course, there have also been those who have said that “it is possible to drive a coach and horses through several of his arguments.”
Which is also a fair point.
Silver often mistakes cause for effect and relies too heavily on the assumption that evolution is a perfect process. The idea that every mutation has to “make sense” completely is false, and the idea that evolution does not compromise is wrong. If the benefits of a particular mutation outweigh the cost, then it’s likely to stick around, warts and all.
For example, this accounts for the idea that childbirth is very difficult. In fact, it is because we essentially walk on our hind legs that our pelvises have changed shape. Luckily, the benefits of walking on two legs, thereby freeing up your hands for things like tool-making, outweigh the drawbacks of difficult and painful births (we can even use our hands to help each other give birth). This is known as the Obstetric Dilemma.
Whilst this doesn’t Silver’s theory, it does slightly weaken the “Childbirth, what’s that all about, eh? Eh?!” angle. Something that Dr Sliver relies on quite a bit.
There are quite a few holes like this in Dr. Silver’s theory. But, then again, Silver himself has said that his arguments are designed to spark open debate, and are by no means conclusive proof that we’re all aliens.
So, with that in mind, let us know what you think in the comments. Are we a bunch of hyper-evolved aliens, trapped on this godforsaken rock, or are we just a bunch of apes in shoes after all?
The blob felt “very soft,” divers said, and appeared “gelatinous.” From afar, the mass looked almost invisible, but up close, the group spotted countless little dots floating in the 13-foot sphere.
As Tanriover’s mesmerizing video went viral earlier this month, the Internet leapt at the chance to solve the mystery.
Christopher Mah of The Echinoblog ended up being the first to the plate. Mah said in a tweet that Dr. Michael Vecchione, a squid expert and scientist at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, had come up with a possible answer.
The scientist speculated that a squid called Ommastrephes bartramii (also known as the red flying squid or the neon flying squid) could be responsible for the mass. Red flying squid are a “common species” that can grow to around 5 feet in length,Smithonian.com says.
RED FLYING SQUID (BRITISH MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY/WIKI COMMONS)
As Deep Sea News notes, only one other squid egg mass of such enormity has ever been documented.
In 2008, a 10- to 13-foot egg mass, laid by the large Humboldt squid (which, like the red flying squid, is in the Ommastrephidae family), was found in the Gulf of California. That mass contained between 600,000 and 2 million eggs. At the time, scientists said it was “far larger than the egg masses of any squid species previously reported.”
As for why such squid egg masses are so rarely spotted, Deep Sea News says it might be because of the depth that they’re usually found, and the short duration of time that it takes for the squid babies to hatch.
“These egg masses are likely found much deeper in the ocean and only occasionally drift to shallow water,” the blog notes. “Another factor is time… [In the case of the 2008 mass] the developing squid.. took just three days to hatch. That’s a pretty small window to find such a well-hidden target.”
VIDEOAanschouw de nieuwste creatie van Boston Dynamics, een bedrijf dat een lange geschiedenis heeft met het bouwen van ultra-geavanceerde, haast beangstigende robots. Dit exemplaar zou de mensheid wel eens irrelevant kunnen maken. Dat schrijft techwebsite The Verge.
De robot - het nieuwste exemplaar in de Atlas-reeks van het bedrijf - lijkt zo weggelopen uit een of andere akelige sciencefictionfilm, die zich duizend jaar verder in de toekomst afspeelt.
In een video, vrijgegeven door Boston Dynamics, zie je hoe een robot de deur opent en naar buiten loopt. Vervolgens wandelt hij door een bos, over een ongelijke ondergrond.
Verder zie je hem ook dozen oprapen en in rekken plaatsen. Wanneer een doos uit de handen van de robot wordt geslaan, kan de robot hem zelf opnieuw zoeken en oprapen. Duwt iemand de robot om, dan weet die zelf weer recht te staan.
Een glimp van de toekomst? Wellicht. En het bedrijf, dat eigendom is van Google, zal het hier waarschijnlijk niet bij laten. Benieuwd wat de volgende robot allemaal zal kunnen.
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In Zeeland worden al wekenlang mysterieuze geluiden gehoord
In Zeeland worden al wekenlang mysterieuze geluiden gehoord
Inwoners van Oost-Souburg in de gemeente Vlissingen horen al wekenlang mysterieuze geluiden. Niemand weet wat de geluiden zijn of waar ze precies vandaan komen.
Een verslaggever van Omroep Zeeland was in Oost-Souburg en hoorde de vreemde tonen meerdere keren. Buurtbewoners liggen er af en toe wakker van ’s nachts, omdat het dan extra goed te horen is. “We hebben geen flauw idee wat het kan zijn, maar mijn man en ik hebben er wakker van gelegen,” vertelt Marjoleijn.
Veel speculatie
Het opsporen van de bron van het geluid blijkt een lastige opgave. Het geluid lijkt telkens ergens anders vandaan te komen. Ook zijn er momenten waarop het geluid helemaal niet te horen is. De gemeente Vlissingen heeft ook geen idee waar het geluid vandaan komt.
De mysterieuze geluiden zorgen voor veel speculatie over de oorzaak. Op Facebook denken mensen dat een cv-ketel de boosdoener is. Eén iemand denkt dat het geluid afkomstig is van scheepswerf De Schelde in Vlissingen.
Onduidelijk
Sommigen verwijzen naar het windorgel dat aan het einde van de Nolledijk in Vlissingen staat. De geluiden zouden daarnaast afkomstig kunnen zijn van een graafmachine. Een andere mogelijkheid is het geluid van de wind dat door buizen leidt.
Op de sociale media komen nog veel meer suggesties voorbij, van een kapotte afzuigkap op een industrieterrein tot een vis die opvallend lage brommende tonen produceert. Tot op heden is het nog steeds onduidelijk wat het geluid produceert en waar het precies vandaan komt.
Meldingen worden serieus genomen en de gemeente houdt de vinger aan de pols.
Franse wetenschappers zijn Planeet Negen op het spoor
Franse wetenschappers zijn Planeet Negen op het spoor
Amerikaanse astronomen kondigden afgelopen maand aan dat ze een negende planeet achter Neptunus hebben ontdekt. Ze gaven aan dat de planeet er tussen de 10.000 en 20.000 jaar over zou doen om rond de zon te draaien.
Dinsdag lieten vier Franse wetenschappers weten dat ze het zoekgebied hebben verkleind. Door gegevens van ruimtesonde Cassini van de NASA te analyseren, konden ze twee grote zones uitsluiten, zo schrijft het team in het tijdschrift Astronomy and Astrophysics.
“Hun werk bevestigt dat er mogelijk een negende planeet bestaat aan de rand van ons zonnestelsel,” zei coauteur Jacques Laskar van het Observatorium van Parijs. Aan de hand van modellen berekenden de Franse wetenschappers welke invloed een negende planeet tijdens een passage zou hebben op de baan van andere planeten.
Helft
Gedacht wordt dat de planeet in een hellende, langgerekte baan om de zon draait. Vanwege de grote afstand zou de planeet te ver weg staan om invloed uit te kunnen oefenen op andere planeten.
Laskar en zijn team hebben het zoekgebied met de helft verkleind door twee zones uit te sluiten waarin de modellen niet overeenkomen met de realiteit.
Afgelopen maand kondigden astronomen Konstantin Batygin en Mike Brown het bestaan aan van een nog onbekende planeet die ze Planeet Negen hebben gedoopt. De planeet is volgens het tweetal 10 keer zo zwaar als de aarde.
Nog verder
Laskar en zijn collega’s zeggen dat het zoekgebied nog verder kan worden verkleind als de Cassini-missie, die in mei 2017 afloopt, tot 2020 wordt verlengd.
Astronomen verwachten dat het jaren zal duren om Planeet Negen te vinden. Er is een zeer grote telescoop nodig om de planeet te kunnen spotten. Daarnaast is het niet duidelijk op welk punt in zijn baan de planeet zich op dit moment bevindt.
Glowing UFO Over Korea Shows Common Trend Worldwide, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Over Korea Shows Common Trend Worldwide, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 15, 2016 17:17 pm Location of sighting: Gyeonggi Province, Korea This UFO was reported this week from Korea and like most, its a glowing white ball. These Foo Fighters are common around the world and can move at incredible speed. The occupants of these craft are more daring than others, because they come closer to the public and in some instances, over thousands without caring about how it effects the humans that watch this event. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states (roughly translated): I tracked the UFO in Korea, one of the people that captured this UFO was mystery writer "UFO Hunters Huh," who attempted an intentional UFO atmospheric shot in Gyeonggi Province Uijeongbu nokyangdong Nogyang Station square on 15 February, night time, 2016 in the middle of the night, at northwest of the province Yangzhou City Area Chamber. The UFO was seen flying and glowing like a blue rugby ball to the naked eye. I tried to release this video as soon as I could from my camcorder to the public networks. This glowing object was seen for about one minute and flying very low altitude and soon disappeared into the northeast direction. The first visual observations were that it looked a little like a blue rugby and has the speed of an aircraft or helicopter.
A UFO was reported crashing to earth and the French Govt sent a helicopter to go investigate. The helicopter reported that only burt ground was seen. If this was a meteorite, then this should be investigated to find it for the local museum, but perhaps they are lying. They may have found more than they reported and may retrieve the craft at another time. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: A reported UFO in the sky Holy Cross The vineyards, one resident thought he saw on Wednesday afternoon, an unidentified flying object. The French Govt went on to note The Operations Centre and intelligence of the gendarmerie of the Gironde received a call to say that yesterday in late Wednesday afternoon a UFO was recorded. Thus, a resident of Sainte-Croix-du-Mont area claimed the police had seen on his commune, what he thought was an aircraft positioned at low altitude, which then disappeared through thick smoke. The authorities have taken very seriously the call to the point of having sent patrols on site with a helicopter. But no trace of plane was found nor were reported. The mystery remains. The gendarmerie has posted information on its Facebook page. Only plausible evidence to date, a burn-beating of a plot of vines was spotted by the helicopter, which may explain the fumes reported by the witness ... In any case, the French military asked: perhaps is it a meteor that had fallen, in the southeast of France? But the police also know how to use humor: would it not be a preview of the X-Files series returns to our screens on February 25 after 14 years of absence?
This baby is heading our way in just a few days. NASA says it will come about 14,000 miles from Earth. Now something that needs to be said is back in 2013 a meteor that was 20 square meters exploded over Chelyabinks, Russia. It...was 18 miles above the city, yet luckily it explode before it hit the city. Its explosion had the power of 25-30 atomic bombs and injured over 1,500 and damaged tens of thousands of buildings. Its total weight was more that the Eiffel tower. Now, NASA tells us that Asteroid 2016 TX68 will pass within 14 miles? Are you freaking kidding me? At about 50 meters across this could destroy a dozen cities if it hits the ground. But if it explodes over the city, thousands of people could get hurt. Also, every asteroid has smaller parts that tag along with it. Did NASA take this into account? No! What happens if this asteroid breaks up and does a shotgun effect on a country somewhere? We really needs more info on this one, but NASA...wont reveal much more. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: Scientists have unveiled that an asteroid known as 2016 TX68, larger than an 18-wheel tractor trailer truck moving at more than 34,000 mph, will make a close pass by earth in two weeks. The asteroid, around 100 feet long, has no chance of hitting earth. Scientists said that the asteroid may help raise attention towards tracking the thousands of asteroids passing around space that could severely impact, if ever they hit our planet. The asteroid in question is expected to fly as close as 19,245 miles to Earth at 4:06 pm Pacific time on Monday, March 7. Astronomer Gerald McKeegan at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland said that he knows the pass by would be quite close, but there is no risk of any collision and henceforth, no need to worry. It has also been unveiled that the asteroid pass-by would end as far as 10.7 million miles away because researchers have not been able to identify its precise orbit. The asteroid pass by would not be visible to naked eye. Even if it would then it will be the first time that an asteroid of such a size has come close to earth in three years. The asteroid was discovered three years back and has been traveling as far out as an area between Mars and Jupiter every 780 days. (more at source).
UFO Cloaked In Cloud Moves Low Over News Mexico On Feb 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Cloaked In Cloud Moves Low Over News Mexico On Feb 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 2016 Location of sighting: Las Vegas, New Mexico, USA Source:
https://twitter.com/JorgeTWeather/status/701921350110175232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw This is not Las Vegas, Nevada. Its actually the same name city, but in New Mexico. A weather reporter on Twitter shared some photos of a UFO cloaked in a cloud over New Mexico yesterday. There is only one species I heard of that acts this cocky, and thats the Tall Whites. They look just like us when they are children, but will grow taller after 400 years. Only their eyes, skin color and walk gives them away. They are known to enter Vegas, Nevada...a different city that his one above, to have some fun. They also like to play mind games with humans to show their superiority. It boosts their ego and trust me...let them win. I believe this UFO is run by the Tall Whites, because few alien species have the audacity to fly so low over the ground and with such a poor cloud cloak over their ship. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
It could be a scene from Orson Welles’ The War of the Worlds.
Residents of Las Vegas, Mexico fled their homes to catch a glimpse of a weird massive structured UFO looming over the horizon.
Since Las Vegas is not too far away from Roswell, some people suggested the aliens must have escaped from Roswell.
Though, Jorge Torres, chief meteorologist at KOB-TV, who received photos from the UFO and posted it on hisTwitter account, identified the flying saucer as a typically lenticular cloud which normally materializes above mountains but sometimes a lenticular cloud appears in flat open places like Las Vegas.
Despite Mr. Torrres’ explanation, there is strong evidence that UFOs do cloak themselves with clouds which they apparently generate.
Some time ago, I did an article in UFO Digest on my son Justin’s discovery of how one can view unidentified flying objects practically at will by pointing a camera skyward, while eclipsing the sun behind something, usually a roof. The technique is known as , ‘Solar Obliteration Technique.’
This essentially means using a camera technique that is basically eclipsing the sun with an object such as a roof and the camera being able to focus on objects/entities that cannot be seen with the human eye, while using the suns external rays to emit them. This usually works best during winter’s morning hours before the sun’s rays are too concentrated.
Justin has also confirmed that this works the same with the moon and calls that ‘Lunar Obliteration’, but it doesn’t allow objects to be seen in the entire sky like solar obliteration. However, it allows the camera focus on objects that are closely relative to the moon such as a large objects that may be orbiting the moon.
Using a Sony hx200v camera, my son captured an amazing video of a rod and a UFO in the sky over where we live in New Braunfels, Texas, on November 4, 2012.
Every time this technique is used, one is almost guaranteed to spot something out of the ordinary. Rods, UFOs, and various plasma orbs are revealed that normally will not be seen.
What solar obliteration technique tells us is that we are surrounded by what we consider strange phenomena all the time but, just cannot see it under normal conditions.
The sheer magnitude of objects that come and go 24/7 that we are not aware of is astounding. Human civilization goes on with daily life while the world of the unknown flourishes alongside it, remaining just far enough out of the sphere of sight to go unnoticed.
We are constantly monitored by UFOs and entities from other dimensions that go about their business in our plane of existence.
There are some 28,537 commercial flights daily in the United States and on average, most of us see only a few passing planes per day. Using SOT one could view hundreds of UFOs and strange sights if they kept at it all day. Thus, the number of strange phenomena flying around in the sky is much greater than what we have in the sky at any given time.
Not only are we not alone but we must ask the question, are we really in control?
Sightings Recorded in Wales And Manchester; Aliens Hovering Over the UK. Though the existence of UFOs remain contested, it has been reported that multiple sightings have been recorded in the United Kingdom since last year, some of which may have been caught on video. Mutual UFO Network or Mufon, which prides itself in being “the world’s oldest and largest UFO phenomenon investigative body,” reported that 25 UFO sightings have been recorded in Wales while 23 incidents have been reported in Manchester since January 2015. “According the the people who say they have spotted the UFOs, the sighting range from a craft as wide as a street, to a white dot travelling three times faster than a jet,” South Wales Evening Post wrote in a news article. “
There was a total of 476 sightings logged with Mufon in the UK between January 1, 2015, and the middle of February this year.” Aside from Wales, various UFO sighting videos were also purportedly recorded in Manchester. “They range from a sighting of five metallic objects flying in triangle formation, to a ‘red-green ball flying diagonally at great speed’ – and a large square object which flew over the witness’ roof,” Manchester Evening News wrote in a news report. “The figures were revealed after the M.E.N. published footage of a mysterious UFO spotted ‘hovering’ in the skies above Tameside,” the news article continued. “Footage shows an unusual flying craft streaming through the air above Ashton-under-Lyne.Another video showed another mysterious object spotted above Manchester Airport, with unusual white lines streaming through the air.”
With multiple sightings recorded over the past year, does it mean that UFOs are hovering over UK? Aside from the argument that the reports could never be verified especially due to lack of video or photos, it could also be noted that the UFO sightings have not only been recorded in the UK, but also in other parts of the world, including America. In fact, ABC Newspreviously reported that 1,177 UFO sightings were reported to the National UFO Reporting Center or NUFORC from January to April 2015. Despite numerous reports, many UFO hunters choose to discredit sightings that have are not backed up by videos or photos.
Parallel Universes and the Altered Timelines within the Mandela Effect
Parallels – A sci-fi adventure, Parallels follows the lives of estranged brother and sister, Ronan and Beatrix, who are reunited when their father mysteriously disappears. Their neurotic neighbor Harold tags along on their search for their missing father, which leads them to a building that they accidentally discover is a portal to parallel Earths. On their travels, they are joined by Polly, a seasoned traveler, who teaches them the ins and outs of jumping from one Earth to another. Ronan and Beatrix ultimately reconnect as they uncover the dark truths behind their family’s broken history.
These themes and narratives of parallel universes and concepts such as the Mandela Effect are being heavily pushed on the population and we can only surmise that as an agenda these are next on the list of things to come. Prepare.
To Make a Moon Village, Think Beyond Science and Engineering (Op-Ed)
To Make a Moon Village, Think Beyond Science and Engineering (Op-Ed)
By Tomoya Mori, Brown University
The European Space Agency has been looking at what it takes to construct a moon outpost.
Credit: ESA/ Foster + Partners
Tomoya Mori is a senior at Brown University pursuing interdisciplinary studies in space exploration, multimedia and education. He is a co-founder at Metaplaneta, a creative think tank that investigates a multidisciplinary approach to space. He contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
"Been there, done that." President Barack Obama famously used that line to help shift the world's attention from the moon to Mars as a space destination in recent years, though the debate on where to go next continues. But whether humanity wants to colonize the moon or terraform Mars, establishing a settlement on other celestial bodies is a challenge of immense scale.
So a more important question to ask is this: What does it take to establish a permanent human presence outside of Earth?
Beyond the usual suspects
This question presents a great diversity of challenges that transcend disciplines. It goes beyond the realm of science and engineering, the two fields often considered the core of space exploration, and include politics, law, architecture, business and design. Extending a human presence beyond the planet will depend on diversifying the space community to include broader interests and perspectives.
Already, a number of institutions collectively foster a multidisciplinary environment within the space industry. The Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) in the University of Houston offers the world's only master of science program in space architecture. Other institutions educate students about space law and policy, including the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, D.C., and Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston.
These unique programs equip their students with specialized knowledge and skills for the field of space travel. The real value, however, is in bringing new perspectives to the ever-growing space industry. [Moon Base Visions: How to Build a Lunar Colony (Photos )]
Currently, most of those disciplines are functionally independent. Rarely do politicians talk about the architecture of space vehicles, or scientists talk about the potential of space business. But in reality, those fields are so intertwined that interdisciplinary fusion can be a real game-changer.
The space industry should focus not merely on diversification, but also on the process by which diverse disciplines interact. It is time to take a more transparent, integrative and interdisciplinary approach to space exploration.
One method for integrating disciplines, called the integrated design approach (IDA), has proven effective in sustainable design and could provide the same benefits for space.
Lessons from an HVAC
Traditionally, designers have used a linear process to construct sustainable buildings. Architects make sketches and pass them on to the engineers, who evaluate the designs and then assign subcontractors, and so on. However, with that approach, time and money are already running out by the time conflicts and problems arise.
IDA is successful because it involves all project members from the beginning, allowing them to identify and resolve potential conflicts earlier in the process. And the multidisciplinary environment forces project members to think outside their immediate areas of expertise, inspiring innovative solutions to problems and generally producing more energy-efficient and cost-effective results.
For example, in the book "Integrative Design Guide to Green Building" (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2009), the authors present real-life situations in which IDA led to a surprisingly efficient outcome. The book was written by 7group, a multidisciplinary team dedicated to sustainability and regeneration, and Bill Reed, a proponent and practitioner of sustainability and regeneration.
In the example, a team of architects, landscape designers and engineers was determining the placement of an HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) system in an office building, and the architect asked the mechanical engineer to provide an answer. The engineer was stunned, at first. Even though he had more than 20 years of experience designing HVAC systems, never in his life had anyone asked him where to locate one. After a few minutes, he provided a solution that turned out to be extremely efficient and cost-effective. Instead of placing the necessary mechanical room on the roof, which the architects had done in the last project, the engineer proposed placing heat-pump units on the ground floor of the building. Not only did this solution reduce the piping work and save $40,000 in construction costs, it also led to simplified maintenance and significant operational savings.
From that experience, the team realized the importance of questioning assumptions. All components of a building are interdependent, and therefore everyone's input should be respected — not only individuals within one's own area of expertise, but also everyone else in a team.
Innovative solutions or strategies often come from unexpected sources, and in this example, the multidisciplinary environment was critical to promoting openness and stimulating everyone's creativity.
In this artist's rendering, a 3D printing robot pours layer after layer of hardened lunar dirt and dust onto an inflatable dome shell, 3D printing a lunar base.
Credit: ESA/Foster + Partners
Finding transparency (literally)
The work of Danish architects in the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) provides another illustration. In 2009, the Urban Planning Department of Tallinn, Estonia, and the Union of Estonian Architects held an international competition for a new town hall in in Tallinn. Throughout the design process, the BIG architects received input from the jury about the citizens’ needs and take into account of the city’s governance system. The design had to be flexible and accommodate unexpected demands.
The BIG group's solution was simple yet quite novel; it was to increase the transparency between the citizens and politicians, to improve governance and the town's participatory democracy.
The BIG town hall design has myriad glass windows and an open structure, offering the politicians daylight and a view of the city marketplace, and offering the town's citizens a chance to see their elected officials at work.
Although the mayor of Tallinn had expressed his hope to build a new city hall, the proposal still remains a mere design, albeit one that shows the effectiveness of integrated design. Here, the architects not only provided a great working space for politicians, but also unified the city as a whole.
Space habitation is not just space travel
Space infrastructures are, in essence, organic systems. They need to be more self-sustaining than any regenerative and sustainable green buildings on Earth. And because of the constrained living conditions they present, such buildings must include input from the astronauts and travelers who might use them, and the input from a range of designers, engineers and others.
For example, the habitation modules of the International Space Station must address energy and thermal balance, waste management, mechanical structure, and architecture, in addition to comfort and privacy, among other factors.
The Habitation Design Center in NASA's Johnson Space Center often invites astronauts as consultants to improve module designs and make them more human-centered. It may seem obvious, but it is crucial that space vehicles be designed with feedback from astronauts, instead of becoming function-based machines like fighter planes. Rarely does one see inhabitants involved in the design process of an Earth-bound structure.
For missions, like space colonization, of a larger scale, the IDA approach is even more necessary. Settling on a celestial body is far different from simply going there. To establish a sustainable living space in such a hostile environment, one needs to not only think about science and engineering, but also consider psychological, architectural, societal, political and economic aspects.
Moon Master: An Easy Quiz for Lunatics
For most of human history, the moon was largely a mystery. It spawned awe and fear and to this day is the source of myth and legend. But today we know a lot about our favorite natural satellite. Do you?
Targeting the moon
Today, many of the world's space agencies have expressed interest in sending humans to the moon. Johann-Dietrich Woerner, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), has been pushing his vision to establish a moon village. Although the agency has yet to officially approve that plan, his message has gone global.
Despite the hint of novelty it carries, the concept of lunar colonization existed long before the Apollo era. Numerous books and papers have presented promising plans for a lunar colony, but none have been realized, or even attempted. One of the fundamental obstacles is financial. Even if the moon village concept succeeded, most taxpayers would not understand why it was worth the cost.
And yet, the moon has the potential to help humanity grow as a species. A lunar colony could be a model for a sustainable ecosystem, a testing ground to strengthen international collaboration, a giant laboratory for cutting-edge scientific experiments and technological innovation, a platform for new businesses, a stepping-stone for further exploration of the solar system, and a mental exercise for challenging norms.
But if humanity is to establish a lunar colony, the world must employ IDA, involving all key players at the start.
Space horizons 2016: international city on the moon
Over the weekend of Feb. 19 to 21, Brown University in Rhode Island will host Space Horizons 2016, a student-focused, three-day integrative workshop that brings students and professionals from all disciplines to conceptualize an international lunar city.
The event will consist of four workshops — Politics, Infrastructure, Science, and Business & Technology — that will ask several questions: What would politically motivate participating countries? What is the economic value of a lunar city, and what commercial opportunities can sustain the lunar economy? What new experiments would emerge on a lunar base, and how would they help humanity live on the moon and beyond? What infrastructure is required to sustain a lunar ecosystem?
Through the integrated-design approach, participants will be encouraged to think beyond their immediate expertise, and to recognize the connections between their skills and the space industry, making space more tangible to everybody. Each workshop will have experienced mentors and professionals, including representatives from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Lunar and Planetary Institute, PoliSpace, Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture, Masten Space Systems, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, Yale University in New Jersey, the University of Central Florida and the Rhode Island School of Design. Ultimately, the findings may lead to a joint project or publication.
But Space Horizons 2016 is not the first to take on the moon village concept. At the end of last year, ESA European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) hosted "The Moon Village Workshop", which took place in conjunction with International Symposium on Moon 2020-2030. The workshop invited professionals and students from all over the world to discuss and propose ideas to consolidate visions for the moon village concept. The participants were split into three groups: Moon Habitat Design, Science and Technology Potential in the Moon Village, and Engaging Stakeholders.
The three working groups came up with several recommended actions to be taken by the director general of ESA, including the design and operations of a moon-base simulation at the European Astronaut Centre and the engagement of the most direct stakeholders, such as media, national governments and citizens, at the next ESA Ministerial Council Meeting.
It takes time for educational strategies to prove their effectiveness. And as long as the moon village concept remains a vision, it will be challenging to involve people from nonspace industries, especially in an era in which the space industry is generally considered exclusive to rocket scientists.
However, the future of space exploration is in widening the community. Most innovative ideas are the products of interdisciplinary fusions. Just as much as technological advancements will accelerate space exploration, broader interests and perspectives will also catalyze the process of establishing space colonies. The integrated-design approach has the potential to not only open up new perspectives, but also offer a younger generation an opportunity to design the future of space exploration and radically change humanity's perception of space. It is those people who will advance society into the universe.
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Catching a flight to Mars won't be possible for most of us until human trips to the Red Planet become affordable, routine and heck, even possible. NASA is currently hoping to send astronauts to Mars in the 2030s, although some experts recently warned Congress that the agency's budget may not be able to support that goal.
In any case, NASA is sticking to the 2030s timeline for now, and one way it is promoting it is by letting you stroll on the Red Planet in virtual reality. Through a partnership with VR developer Fusion (whose parent companies are Disney-ABC and Univision) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), a new game called "Mars 2030" will premiere at South By Southwest in March and be available to the public later this year.
"NASA has provided us information to achieve the highest level of regard for scientific accuracy through direct contact with various teams working on the many facets of such a complex mission," said Julian Reyes, Fusion virtual reality producer and designer, in an e-mail to Discovery News.
"We've visited JSC (Johnson Space Center) and Langley Research Center on multiple occasions and had several interviews with scientists dedicated to studying the planet. Our goal is to stay within the bounds of scientific accuracy while still driven by a compelling story that engages the players."
Fusion first got interested in Mars 2030 after reading about a now-famous "Mars One" 2014 feasibility study written by MIT students. Mars One is a privately funded initiative to send humans on a one-way trip to the Red Planet, and is now selecting astronauts for preliminary training while simultaneously trying to raise funds for the journey. While Mars One says the hardware will be capable of keeping humans alive indefinitely, the study cited limitations with their version such as needing frequent resupplies, which will only grow as a colony naturally expands in size.
Fusion contacted lead author Sydney Do (a Ph.D. student at MIT) after the study was publicized. To do the study, Do explained to Discovery News in an e-mail, the students created a simulation of a Mars outpost based on statements and claims by Mars One. Following the activities of four people on Mars, the students then created the systems needed for consumables (gases and water) to keep the crew alive, and the spare parts needed to support these systems. This information then gave them information on what a surface habitat system would need.
"The Mars 2030 experience essentially incorporates insights like these into a more realistic visual environment," said Do, who describes himself as an occasional gamer. "You could say that our research does the back-end work — it determines how much of what resource or technology is needed based on a crew activity profile designed to meet some mission objective, while the Mars 2030 experience visualizes this information and builds a story around it using the state of the art in game development."
Do acted as a technical advisor for Fusion, providing information on aspects of Mars such as surface habitats, life support, food, crew activities in the habitat and outside, maintenance and in-situ resource utilization. He even took into account planetary protection protocols to, for example, suggest sterilized robots explore an area before a human went there and threatened any possible microbes.
The result, Reyes, said, is an "open-world" environment where players can complete missions to explore Mars — making sure the missions address goals of NASA. The game still feels like a game, but Fusion is "staying true to the science of the experience and elaborating on it whenever possible (without making things boring)," he said.
Reyes said the game should be available for late summer if all goes well, first focusing on desktop systems before being expanded to consoles and mobile. "There are several moving parts that we still need to nail down for that to solidify," he added. According to MIT, platforms that will be included eventually include Oculus Rift, Google Cardboard, Samsung VR Gear, iPhone, Android and Twitch.
'Star Trek' Quadcopter Will Let You Fly the USS Enterprise
'Star Trek' Quadcopter Will Let You Fly the USS Enterprise
By Kasandra Brabaw, Space.com Contributor
Spin Master's "Star Trek" Enterprise drone will be out July 1, just in time for the TV show's 50th anniversary.
Credit: Tariq Malik/Space.com
NEW YORK— "Just wait until you see the Enterprise." Those were the words we heard walking through Spin Master's booth at Toy Fair 2016. (When you tell people you work for a website called Space.com, they assume you and your co-workers are all a bunch of Trekkies — and they're right.) Seconds after hearing this, we turned the corner and came face to face with the toy we'd been seeking for two days: a Starship Enterprise drone.
It was, surprisingly, the only "Star Trek" drone we came across at Toy Fair this year, but it fulfilled every fantasy we had for the toy. The drone is modeled after starship Enterprise NCC-1701A, the second ship in the series to bear the name Enterprise. Called Enterprise-A for short, it replaced the original ship in 2286 after the first Enterprise was destroyed when Kirk flew to the Genesis Planet to rescue Spock.
The Air Hogs USS Enterprise NCC-1701A quadcopter drone can be seen in action in this still from a Spin Master video.
Credit: Tariq Malik/Space.com
Spin Master's Air Hogs model replicates Enterprise perfectly, complete with blue lights and 10 authentic sound effects. The four rotors that lift and steer the drone are even hidden inside the ship's saucer, so they don't detract from the overall realistic look. Other than the see-through saucer, it's an almost exact replica of Kirk's ship.
So set phasers to fly: The Enterprise drone is expected to hit store shelves July 1, just in time for "Star Trek's" 50th anniversary and should retail for $129.99.
Filer's Files - UFOs Above Top Secret and Classified - Excellent
Filer's Files - UFOs Above Top Secret and Classified - Excellent
Gepubliceerd op 20 feb. 2016
Extremely Good Presentation - Agree with all his suppositions or not, George is a honest man with a verifiable background. Whether his assumptions are correct is the question. An educated guess based on all data definitely intimates that he is being entirely honest about all these matters from his standpoint. Doesn't mean what he was told was true - be I believe he is recounting everything as he remembers.
George A Filer was an Air Force Intelligence Officer who not only had an extraordinary encounter with a massive UFO on radar over the United Kingdom but later, in the 1970s while he was at McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, but also found out that an extraterrestrial biological entity had been shot at Fort Dix.
The Extraterrestrial purportedly fled to the adjacent McGuire Air Force Base, where it died on the tarmac. He testifies that this life form was then picked up and taken to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Afterwards, many of the key personnel on the base who had a connection with this event, were quickly transferred.
Major Filer also points out that the ridicule factor has been very effective at silencing people who have seen ETs or UFOs, and has helped to maintain secrecy.
Also, occasionally, he used to do briefings on the UFO sightings that had occurred around the world, to the generals. One that sticks out in my mind is 1976 — there was a famous encounter near Tehran. He thinks these are something alien: it is a non-human [craft] that has a different form of propulsion and is coming here and doing reconnaissance...
THIS LASER PROPULSION SYSTEM COULD GET US TO MARS IN JUST 3 DAYS
THIS LASER PROPULSION SYSTEM COULD GET US TO MARS IN JUST 3 DAYS
Despite how far we've come in space exploration, one thing still holding us back from interstellar travel is our slow spacecraft. While we're able to propel particles to close to the speed of light in the lab, we're struggling to even accelerate spacecraft to beyond 3 percent of that. With our current technology, it's estimated it'll take humans around five months to reach Mars.
But NASA scientist Philip Lubin is working on a system where lasers propel spacecraft with giant sails to the Red Planet in as little as three days. Much like Bill Nye's much-hyped solar sail, this 'photonic propulsion' system relies on the momentum of photons - particles of light - to move forward. But instead of photons from the Sun's rays, Lubin's design would be given a push by giant Earth-based lasers.
It sounds pretty far-fetched, but in a video for NASA 360, Lubin explains that the technology is very much readily available, and that the system could easily be scaled up.
"There are recent advances that take this from science fiction to science reality," Lubin explains. "There is no known reason why we can not do this."
But let's step back for a second and investigate how the system works. Right now, when we launch spacecraft, the thrust comes from burning a chemical, such as rocket fuel. Not only does this fuel source weigh down spacecraft, it's also an incredibly inefficient system when compared to electromagnetic acceleration, which is the use of light or other electromagnetic radiation to accelerate objects.
"Electromagnetic acceleration is only limited by the speed of light while chemical systems are limited to the energy of chemical processes," writes Lubin in a paper on the technology.
But while electromagnetic acceleration in the lab is relatively straightforward, it requires a lot of complicated and expensive equipment - such as the ring of superconducting magnets that make up the Large Hadron Collider - and hasn't been easy to scale up to the size required for space travel.
One candidate propulsion system, known as the 'impossible' EM Drive, has received a whole lot of attention for allegedly achieving electromagnetic acceleration, but NASA scientists still haven't been able to figure out how it works, or prove that it wasn't an experimental anomaly.
Photonic propulsion, on the other hand, works in theory, regardless of the scale, making it a more viable candidate.
So how do photons work to propel something as big as a spacecraft? Despite not having any mass, particles of light have both energy and momentum, and when they reflect off an object, that momentum is transferred into a little push. With a large, reflective sail, it's possible to generate enough momentum to gradually accelerate a spacecraft.
While Lubin and his team haven't yet tried out their system, their calculations show that photonic propulsion could get a 100-kg robotic craft to Mars in just three days.
A larger craft, like the kind humans might travel in, would take around a month to get there - one-fifth of the time it would take the Space Launch System (SLS), the world's most powerful rocket currently being developed to take us to Mars.
Lubin also explains that in the 10 minutes it will take to get the SLS into orbit, photonic propulsion could propel a spacecraft to an unheard-of 30 percent the speed of light - and it would also use a similar amount of chemical energy (50 to 100 gigawatts) to do so.
But the real benefit of photonic propulsion comes over longer distances, where the spacecraft has more time to speed up, and could eventually take us outside our Solar System and to neighbouring stars.
To be clear, the system isn't designed to send humans across interstellar distances - first of all, robots are far better equipped for that mission, and secondly, we'd be far too heavy. Instead, Lubin proposes wafer-thin spacecraft that can get close to the speed of light.
But sending our own artificial intelligence to these distant solar systems - especially ones that potentially harbour habitable planets - would still be huge.
"The human factor of exploring the nearest stars and exoplanets would be a profound voyage for humanity, one whose non-scientific implications would be enormous," writes Lubin. "It is time to begin this inevitable journey beyond our home."
Lubin and his team last year received a proof-of-concept grant from NASA to show that photonic propulsion could be used for space travel, so we should start seeing some real-life results soon. Let's hope that the reality lives up to the hype, because we're pretty excited ( via sciencealert.com ).
Extra-terrestrial Life – What The ELITE Don’t Want You To Know!
Extra-terrestrial Life – What The ELITE Don’t Want You To Know!
It is now clear for many of us around the world that we are NOT alone and being visited by sophisticated Beings not of this world. From the findings that are being announced by leading scientists to admittance off people in the know from a position of authority that Aliens exists (Former Astronauts, Ex Politicians and even Obama!).
But the very unfortunate thing is that the Elite like hiding the truth in plain sight, which is a favourite tactic of the theirs against us all. I suppose the biggest factor working in the elites favour is massive and widespread public incredulity at their schemes, because let’s be honest with ourselves people, the scale of all this is simply unimaginable for the average Joe Bloggs to comprehend, and THIS is what those supposedly in control use to their advantage!
Its time for change against those few that control us!?
To be fair it is very hard to accept that a tiny little group of people, disconnected from all levels or care or compassion, empathy and the rest of humanity, would actively promote war, encourage depopulation and the destruction of our home Planet Earth, but the evidence proves it to the case: from Kissinger’s 1974 Memorandum 200 (depopulation) to the spraying of our skies with toxic metals (geo-engineering).
But please do not worry people, because as bad as this all is, it still has not gone so deep into the rabbit hole as of yet. The Elite keep getting over cocky and smart and If you really want an extreme version of hiding truth in plain sight of us all, then check out the short clip below of President Barack Obama glibly coats the truth of alien intervention with a layer of extremely calculated sarcasm…..but sometimes a persons eyes tells a thousand words Mr Obama!
“The Aliens Exercise Strict Control Over Us”
It is clear for the majority of people around the world watching this clip would have watched this and not given it a second thought and then walked just thinking that the whole thing was a joke. But people this response is EXACTLY the kind of pre-calculated response those supposedly in control want to encourage around the whole ‘Alien’ topic! They do this by hiding truth in plain view of us all by making it all into one big massive joke, or perhaps even turn it into science fiction perhaps some kind of movie which either mocks Aliens or makes them out to be the bad guys! This is all a far more effective strategy at shielding the true reality from a rather sceptical public than mere obfuscation or just a point blank denial. But the Elite need to remember one thing, the people of this world are wakening and people like us who know that we are being lied to, are helping to wake the world!
The people of this world are slowly but surely waking!
This particular theme of hiding truth in plain view of the world’s population can be found everywhere especially in the entertainment industries – kids cartoons, music videos, movies and comedy shows! – and one area which is usually highly used is science fiction. Age old Movies and TV series such as Star Trek and V are a particular way that the elite can release a little pressure but without having to engage in FULL open disclosure. And on the flip side of this It’s also a very cunning way that they can claim some plausible deniability, by explaining away all the evidence and shunning it all as “science fiction”….But indeed what we are being presented with is actually Science FACT!
When looking at movies and hiding hidden ‘truths’ look at even more recent films such as Jupiter Ascending, which has Reptilians in it, Alien Greys in it, Government cover-ups, Galactic rulers etc etc the list goes on….
The ‘Reptilian’ guest appearance in the film Jupiter Ascending.
And whilst the Elite believe that such comical rhetoric can keep the masses of this world in disbelief and ridicule, peoples’ minds may remain closed on a short term basis, but now thanks to technology people can see the truth, ‘Google’ the truth from the palm of their hand without of visiting a library. But think of the amount of UFO sightings around the world which are being captured daily on peoples HD cameras (everybody has a smartphone now)…..the world is slowly but surely going through an ‘Awakening’ process and people like us at U.I.P and yourselves are helping to speed up this process – the Waking of the Masses!
The truth is in the skies above us!
It is clear, and like most leading politicians, Barrack Obama is an extremely good actor! Just look at his delivery as he says these words below;
“The Aliens won’t let it happen.”
“They [Aliens] exercise strict control over us.”
“I can’t reveal anything.”
“That’s what we’re instructed to say.”
No matter how very hard Obama may try to hide the truth, he can’t hide the truth by acting skills. far too many of us in our millions, perhaps even BILLIONS already KNOW the truth about the Alien Beings presence here on Planet Earth, and guess what Obama and co, that number is only going to increase daily and there is NOTHING you can do to stop this!
Overwhelming Evidence Aliens Do Actually Exist
It’s important that if you actually take the time to properly study eyewitness testimonies, and also listen to visitation/abduction accounts and read the vast amount of declassified military documents on this topic, you will most definitely discover a HUGE amount of evidence which not only confirms the existence of ETs, but also that they have been here for a very long time and have already interacted with humanity – some of these Alien Beings have actually entered into set arrangements with our Governments, but sadly NOT in the best interest of humanity…..purely for greed and ‘control’ of the Elite!
Here is a sample of the thousands of credible sources, many of which come from hardened rational military men, who confirm that aliens do exist among us:
Former Command Sergeant Bob Dean who worked at SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Power Europe), the centre of NATO, who personally had many experiences of interacting with Nordic ETs. He reveals that the Shadow Government is deeply involved with ETs in underground facilities (e.g. with the jumproom connecting S4 [Area 51] in Nevada with Pine Gap in Australia) and how there is a big battle between the NWO factions that favour disclosure and the ones that vehemently oppose it.
Veteran Clifford Stone, who had a personal relationship with a green ET called Korona and has numerous alien tales. Some of these many involved his time in Vietnam where he went on UFO crash recovery missions. He even helped an alien escape from military custody! Stone has publicly stated many times there are 57 alien species already interacting with humanity in some way or another.
ET Contactee Alex Collier, who has had a long ongoing relationship with evolved beings from the Andromedan Galaxy. Throughout his many video interviews he discusses, in astonishing detail, the ET presence on Earth, the Reptilian control of our government and institutions, the truth about our Moon, bases on Mars, human treaties signed with evil alien races, the Government selling us out for greed and technology and many other topics.
Former US military man Phil Schneider, a brave whistleblower who not only encountered alien beings underground, but also got into a gun fight with them – killing one and wounding another. He was a geologist, structural engineer and underground tunneling expert who participated in the construction of many deep underground cities and bases in North America. In his many video presentations he describes in detail these cities, tunnels and bases, the Government’s secret deal with hostile ETs and advanced alien technology being used by secret US agencies.
ET Contactee Billy Meier, who was one of the first prolific contact stories. Meier was reportedly contacted by an extraterrestrial named Semjase who claimed to be from the Pleiades. She allowed him to take over 1000 clear daytime pictures of her craft and others like it as well as live video – in the 1970s before computers and Photoshop were widespread, so fakery would have been difficult or impossible.
Former US Air Force officer Charles Hall who became familiar with Areas 53 and 54 (called “Dreamland”) and the Dogbone Lake field where the ETs landed their craft. He actually lived with a certain species, which he describes as tall, thin, with large eyes and transparent hair, and with the ability to dress and look like humans, and to grow again once they get old.
Former US Air Force officer Bill Holden who had many UFO and ET experiences, including several encounters with alien beings and UFO craft demonstrations. He witnessed 2 Greys in jumpsuits, and a flying double-saucer UFO emerge from water without a splash. He reveals how relations between aliens and the US government are both on-going and extensive.
Former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer, A former defence minister has accused world leaders of concealing the presence of aliens. Paul Hellyer, who was a Canadian minister from 1963 to 1967, is now urging world powers to release what he believes to be hidden data on UFOs. ‘Much of the media won’t touch [the documents]’, he said during a keynote speech at the Disclosure Canada Tour at the University of Calgary.
There are MANY cases of other ET contacts which include;
Simon Parkes, Arizona Wilder, Whitley Strieber, Mark Richards, Maurizio Cavallo, Ernie Sears, Bonnie Meyer, Alec Newald, Jonathan Reed, James Casbolt, Kim Carlsberg, Douglas Taylor, Travis Walton and Stan Romanek are also worth investigating, not to mention those who are believed to have seen or worked on UFOs, such as Bob Lazar and U.S. Airforce Captain Robert Salas etc etc etc (probably missing a fair few!).
Researchers Bringing The Truth About ET Reality
There are now numerous credible researchers around the world who have spent their lives studying the ET phenomenon. Take for example Roger Leir, an expert on alien implants; Ann Eller, who worked with the father of UFO and Alien research, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, and who served as Hynek’s personal secretary; and Professor David Jacobs who has fascinating evidence of a disturbing ET agenda of building a hybrid human-alien race. Or, listen to Barbara Lamb, Stan Friedman, Bill Cooper, Mary Rodwell, Timothy Good, Steven Bassett, Steven Greer, Linda Moulton Howe or Philip Corso.
Another person of particular interest is the late Dr. Karla Turner, who investigated the ET abduction phenomenon for decades and collected massive testimonial evidence of the existence of grey and reptilian ETs. Many people have said that she was murdered because of the truth she told and the knowledge she knew! These are all brave people risking their life for the TRUTH!
We Have Been Helped
Here is a quote from Dr. Herman Oberth, a NASA Space Scientist, who said this in 1972. Not much more needs saying after this:
“Today, we cannot produce machines that fly the same as UFOs do. They are flying by means of artificial fields of Gravity. This would explain the sudden changes of directions. This hypothesis would also explain the piling-up of these discs into a Cylindrical or cigar shaped “Mothership” upon leaving the Earth. Because it is in this fashion, that only one field of gravity be required for all the flying saucers. We cannot take credit for our record advancement in certain scientific fields alone. We have been HELPED. And we have been helped by the people of other WORLDS.” Not all ETs are “bad”. Not all are “good”. There are countless species, and motivations within those species, for us to make many generalizations. There is a whole universe of hominoid beings out there waiting for us to end the planetary secrecy and take our place in the galactic community. However, it’s not going to happen until a critical mass can discern the truth, hiding in plain sight.”
U.I.P SUMMARY
One thing is for sure, not all ET Beings are bad and not all are good!(a bit like Human Beings!) It is clear that there are countless, possibly endless amount of species out there in the Infinite Universe, and I guess the different species have their very own motivations for us to make many generalizations.
Out there, in the vastness of ‘unknown’ there is an entire universe of hominoid beings waiting for us to end the planetary secrecy and take our place within the galactic community. But, and it is a big BUT, this is NOT going to happen until a significant mass of this planets population can decipher the truth, which hiding in plain view from us all.
One other thing, it is becoming clear by the sheer amount of UFO sightings being seen around the world (of course some will be hoaxes) that some of the ET’s are potentially trying to force their very own disclosure….Together as one we can force our own Disclosure!
I salute all of the brave Truth seekers out there and the people in the know who have helped to push for the Truth.
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Extremely Hot and Incredibly Close: How Hot Jupiters Defy Theory
Extremely Hot and Incredibly Close: How Hot Jupiters Defy Theory
By Paul Sutter, Astrophysicist
An artist's impression showing a close-up of the extrasolar planet XO-1b passing in front of a Sun-like star 600 light-years from Earth. The Jupiter-sized planet is in a tight four-day orbit around the star.
Credit: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)
Paul Sutteris a visiting scholar at The Ohio State University's Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics (CCAPP). Sutter is also host of the podcasts "Ask a Spaceman"and "RealSpace," and the YouTube series "Space in Your Face."
As usual, we thought we had it all figured out. See that gas giant over there in the outer solar system? It was born there. It will spend its whole life there, and it will die there. Sure it might wiggle around a bit every few hundred million years — who doesn't? — but, by and large, planets don't move.
Surprise: Planets move. And not just a little. They move a lot. All over the place. In fact, in the early days of a solar system's formation, planets are a little rambunctious: squirrely little toddlers jostling about underfoot. But it wasn't until we started observing planets in other solar systems ("extrasolar planets" or "exoplanets" for the astronomer on the move) that we really noticed this fact.
Hot Jupiters whipping around
And it wasn't just any type of exoplanet that kicked off this re-think; it was the hot Jupiters. Imagine: a planet more massive than the largest one in our solar system and 10 times warmer, a monstrous beast of hydrogen and other elements, complete with swirling bands of gas and a rich, dynamic atmosphere, orbiting closer its star than Mercury orbits the sun. In some solar systems, such a planet orbits so quickly that its year is shorter than the Earth's day. That means these worlds can whip around their parent stars in hours. The physics involved can reduce the most hardened scientist to tears.
When astronomers spotted the first hot Jupiter (51 Pegasi b, the first exoplanet to be found around a sunlike star, no less), the reaction was mostly, "Ha ha, mother nature, that's cute. You got us this time, but no more funny business, OK?"
But then another hot Jupiter was found. And another. Then half a dozen more. They went from goofy oddballs to … normalcy. For a while, it started to look like our own solar system was the weird one. Maybe they should just be called "regular Jupiters," and ours re-named a "cold Jupiter?"
In retrospect, it's not surprising that astronomers spotted these massive planets living so close to their parent stars. After all, our detection methods are most sensitive to exactly these scenarios.
One method is based on the motion of the parent star itself. Have you ever taunted a dog on a leash, running back and forth? The dog, frantically trying to chase you, runs until the leash stops it. You go the opposite direction, and so does the dog, until "thunk!" and the leash again reaches its limit.
In this really bad analogy, each planet is taunting its parent sun through gravity. During one part of the planet's year, the world sits at a certain position in the system. Gently, week by week, the planet tries to pull the star over to it, because that's how gravity works. But some time later, the planet finds itself on the opposite side of the system. "No, star, I meant come over here, not over there!"
Back and forth the star goes, sloshing around — just a tiny bit — it is huge compared to its planets, after all. But with precise-enough measurements, we can detect that wobble by a telltale red- and blue-shifting of the star's emitted light. [Direct Imaging: The Next Big Step in the Hunt for Exoplanets ]
A second powerful method — and nowadays, the method most commonly used to find new planets — is to simply look for distant eclipses. If we get the alignment just right, and stare at enough stars, every once in a while, a planet will cross the face of its parent, ever so slightly dimming the star. Bingo: a transit detection!
Both of those methods will more easily find a planet if it is big, producing a stronger pull from wiggling or a more significant dip in the brightness.
So these methods will first pick out the massive, close planets, because those will make the strongest, clearest, least-ambiguous signals. And with planets that have fast orbital speeds, you can get more signal bang for your observational buck.
That led to the initial worry: For a while, it seemed like every exoplanet was a hot Jupiter. Fortunately, as our detection methods improved and we could spot smaller exoplanets, we've learned the galaxy is a mellower place. There are plenty of hot Jupiters, but also plenty of regular Jupiters, and every other kind of planet you can imagine .
40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found
40,000-year-old bracelet made by extinct human species found
In what is quite an amazing discovery, scientists have confirmed that a bracelet found in Siberia is 40,000 years old. This makes it the oldest piece of jewelry ever discovered, and archeologists have been taken aback by the level of its sophistication.
The bracelet was discovered in a site called the Denisova Cave in Siberia, close to Russia’s border with China and Mongolia. It was found next to the bones of extinct animals, such as the wooly mammoth, and other artifacts dating back 125,000 years.
The cave is named after the Denisovan people — a mysterious species of hominins from the Homo genus, who are genetically different from both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
The Denisovan cave in Siberia Anatoly Derevyanko and Mikhail Shunkov, Vera Salnitskaya
We know that the Denisovans migrated out of Africa sometime after the first wave of Homo erectus, and well before us, Homo sapiens.
The Denisovans were unique in many ways, having branched away from other humanoid ancestors some 1 million years ago. Indeed, the recent discovery of a female Denisovan finger bone and various teeth shows that they had no morphological similarities to either Neanderthals or modern humans.
However, tens of thousands of years later, and prior to becoming extinct, they did coexist with us and the Neanderthals for a period, and skeletal remains of hybrids, and genetic studies confirm that they also mated with our forebears and the Neanderthals.
Strangely, however, DNA evidence also suggests that, at some point, the Denisovans must have interbred with an as yet unknown and undiscovered species of humans beings.
Skeletal remains show that the Denisovans were probably far more robust and powerful than modern humans, and were, until now, assumed to be a more primitive, archaic type of humans than us.
But, the discovery of the bracelet suggests this was far from true. Amazingly, the skill involved in making this adornment shows a level of technique at least 30,000 years ahead of its time.
Until now, scientists had believed that such skills had only evolved among humans in the Neolithic period, which began at about 10,000 BC. Indeed, originally, they believed that the bracelet had somehow become mixed up with materials dating from a later period.
However, experiments have now definitely ruled that out, and they confirm that it could not have been made by homo sapiens or Neanderthals. After 7 years of analysis, the scientists are confident that the piece was made 30,000 years before the beginning of the Stone Age.
General reconstruction of the view of the bracelet and compraison with the moders bracelet
Anatoly Derevyanko and Mikhail Shunkov, Anastasia Abdulmanova Located next to the Anuy River, about
The Daily Mail quotes the head of the Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples’ of Siberia and the Far East in the city of Novosibirsk, Dr Anatoly Derevyanko, who said:
“The skills of its creator were perfect. Initially we thought that it was made by Neanderthals or modern humans, but it turned out that the master was Denisovan.”
Mikhail Shunkov, deputy director of the the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Novosibirsk, part of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, suggested that the find indicates that the Denisovans were more advanced than Homo sapiens and Neanderthals.
What is incredible is that the craftsman who made the adornment, seems to have used something similar to a modern drill.
The Siberian Times quotes Dr Derevyanko, who wrote in the Russian magazine, Science First Hand, that when they studied the diameters of the bracelet, they found that the rotational speed of the drill must have been quite high, and with minimal fluctuations.
“The ancient master” he said, “was skilled in techniques previously considered not characteristic for the Palaeolithic era, such as easel speed drilling, boring tool type rasp, grinding and polishing with a leather and skins of varying degrees of tanning.”
Drilling marks on Denisovan bracelet
Anatoly Derevyanko and Mikhail Shunkov, Vera Salnitskaya
Held in place by what they believe was a leather strap, the bracelet itself was made from a type of stone called chlorite, which could only have been imported from some 200km (125 miles) away.
The bracelet was very delicate and was probably worn at special occasions by some important person, such as a Denisovan princess.
Shunk explains;
“All jewellery had a magical meaning for ancient people. Bracelets and neck adornments were to protect people from evil spirits, for instance.”
“But this item, given the complicated technology and “imported” material, obviously belonged to some high ranking person of that society.”
Commenting on its beauty, Anatoly Derevyanko added;
“The bracelet is stunning. In bright sunlight it reflects the sun rays, at night by the fire it casts a deep shade of green.”
The archeologists are reported to have also found a ring made of marble, but they have not yet disclosed any findings about it.
OVNIs : ODH Docs Saison 2 - 2014-2015-2016 - MAJ Ep.
OVNIs : ODH Docs Saison 2 - 2014-2015-2016 - MAJ Ep.
ODH Docs Saison 2 - 2014-2015-2016 vous est présentée et est réalisée par Gilles Thomas.
Il s'agit de reportages courts permettant de revenir sur les observations historiques d'OVNIs dans les régions visitées, avec quelques reconstitutions graphiques et de visiter. en même temps, beaucoup de lieux d'observations et d'admirer souvent le beau paysage français au passage. Beaucoup de cas peu connus du public néophyte actuel bien sûr puisqu'on remonte jusqu'aux années 50 pour certaines observations. Les quelques cas de Rencontres Rapprochées de différents types sont mentionnés. Très bien réalisé et intéressant.
Tour de France des Ovni 2014 :
#01. Ovnis dans les Hautes-Pyrénées avec la participation de Jacques Mirtain, ufologue depuis 50 ans qui nous parle de quelques cas locaux très intéressants.
#02. Ovnis dans les Hautes-Pyrénées - suite
#03. Ovnis dans les Landes
#04. OVNIs en Gironde
#05. Ovnis en Charente-maritime
#06. Ovnis en Charente
#07.Ovnis en Vendée - Tour de France des OVNI 2015
#08. Ovnis dans les Deux-Sèvres avec la participation de Joël Mesnard.
#09. Ovnis dans le Morbihan avec la participation de Joël Mesnard.
VIDEOHoewel de zon niet altijd zichtbaar is, schijnt ze toch iedere dag. De NASA-ruimtesonde Solar Dynamics Observatory werpt sinds 2010 non-stop haar licht op de ster. De visuele bevindingen van vorig jaar goot de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie in een video.
Het resultaat is een schitterende timelapse van minder dan zeven minuten van één jaar zon. Het filmpje werd eerder deze maand door de NASA op YouTube geplaatst. De beelden tonen het bolvormige hemellichaam in extreem ultraviolet licht, een golflengte die het menselijk oog normaal niet kan zien. Het biedt aardbewoners de kans om onder meer gaswolken, explosies van gemagnetiseerd plasma en zonnevlammen van dichtbij te bewonderen.
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NASA werkt aan nieuw aandrijfsysteem dat ons in 3 dagen naar Mars kan brengen
NASA werkt aan nieuw aandrijfsysteem dat ons in 3 dagen naar Mars kan brengen
Met de huidige aandrijfsystemen zou het zo’n zes maanden duren om de planeet Mars te bereiken. De NASA werkt nu aan een nieuwe technologie die ruimteschepen in staat stelt om de rode planeet in minder dan 72 uur te bereiken.
De technologie staat bekend als fotonische voortstuwing, oftewel voortstuwing door middel van lichtstralen. Het systeem bestaat uit lasers die een reusachtig zeil voortstuwen. In plaats van fotonen van de zon worden lasers op aarde gebruikt, meldt ScienceAlert.
Dromen
“Er is geen reden te bedenken waarom we dit niet zouden kunnen doen,” zei Philip Lubin van de Universiteit van Californië in Santa Barbara in een video over het aandrijfsysteem.
“We moeten onze strategie radicaal veranderen, of onze droom de sterren te bereiken opgeven, of wachten op technologie die niet bestaat,” schrijft hij in een paper over de technologie. “Hoewel we allemaal dromen van ruimtevluchten naar de sterren, zijn we daar nog niet toe in staat en is het ook onduidelijk welk pad we moeten kiezen.”
Lubin en zijn collega’s hebben van de NASA een subsidie gekregen om aan te tonen dat het systeem werkt. Hij droomt er al van om ruimtesondes op een dag naar de rand van ons zonnestelsel te sturen.
Bewoonbare exoplaneten
“We kunnen een ruimtetuig van 100 kilo in slechts een paar dagen naar Mars sturen,” zei hij. “Een spaceshuttle zou er ongeveer een maand over doen.”
“Binnen een afstand van 25 lichtjaar van de aarde staan aardig wat bewoonbare exoplaneten,” besloot hij. “Er zijn veel bestemmingen waar we uit kunnen kiezen. De dichtstbijzijnde is Alpha Centauri, die op zo’n vier lichtjaar staat.”
Bekijk ook onderstaande video over de nieuwe technologie:
Het is enige tijd stil geweest voor wat betreft de vreemde en onverklaarbare geluiden boven Nederland, maar nu is het terug.
Afgelopen weekend was het raak boven Amsterdam en mensen vragen zich vertwijfeld af wat voor geluid dit kan zijn.
Via een lezer (dank!) kregen wij onderstaand videobestand opgestuurd, met daarop een wel heel vreemd geluid.
Hij schrijft onder ander het volgende:
Het is in Amsterdam Noord gebeurd, vlak bij het vernieuwde winkelcentrum Waterlandplein.
Zaterdag rond 10:00 uur gebeurde het toen had ik nog niks gefilmd.
Een uurtje later begon het weer.
Misschien is er een verklaring voor het geluid op de video en mocht iemand het weten dan vernemen we het graag.
Is er geen verklaring voor te vinden dan kan het onderdeel vormen van de vele vreemde geluiden die wereldwijd worden waargenomen en die volgens ons te maken hebben met de nadering van het mini zonnestelsel Nibiru, waarover we eerder schreven.
Misschien is er nog een andere aanwijzing.
Want wij ontvingen nog een email van iemand (dank!) die op dezelfde plek, alleen een dag later op zondagmorgen, ook een ervaring had:
Ik hoorde om 10:00 keiharde geluiden in de lucht. Ik kwam laat thuis en had weinig geslapen dus ik ging met moeite kijken wat dat geluid was.
Het leek het uit de lucht te komen.
Ik ging weer naar bed ondanks dat geluid bleef. Gedurende 10 minuten bleef het een hoge toon houden alsof er een trein in de lucht reed.
Uur later kwam het weer terug en toen was ik al een beetje wakker en pakte ik me telefoon en liep ik naar de galerij en begon te filmen.
Voordat ik me telefoon had gepakt zag ik een zilveren vierkant met zwarte puntjes op het object, Het was ongeveer 100 bij 100 meter en was na een paar seconden weer weg.
Het was zondag om 10:00 uur en om 11:00 uur bij Waterlandplein omgeving. Ik heb veel mensen gesproken die het ook hebben gehoord die het ook niet konden plaatsen.
Kortom, voorlopig lijkt er sprake van mysterieuze gebeurtenissen in Amsterdam Noord.
Many people think that to see is to believe, and they find it hard to believe in something that they have never seen before. Millions of people have reported UFO sightings for decades now. Despite the numerous sightings, the phenomenon is still unexamined. What’s more, the media have held the claimers to ridicule. Reports go back as early as 1878, and their number increased, as a growing evidence of the existence of extra-terrestrial life. An image took by a space watcher shows a structured spacecraft in Europe, which is believed to be the 6th largest moon. Space watchers thought that the object was an indication of the existence of alien in the other planet.
The captured photo posted by Secure Team reveals the images on a camera embedded in a 7D-300mm telescopic lens on a tripod. The video shows an image by British man Louis Read sent to the UFO watchers. Louis Read was so amazed at his findings that he sent it to request for a second opinion. According to the film, the extraterrestrial vessel comes close to Jupiter’s moon Europa, but has never been seen until today. People increased the exposure after seeing the unique site. They believed that such object could be a giant alien or just a fleet of strange objects. The mere fact that Jupiter is considered to be made up of gas and ice, Secure Team is very much convinced that extraterrestrial beings exist on Jupiter. What’s more is the ‘under water’ term that plays as a host of the different life forms.
NASA is planning to send a probe out there by traveling as far as Jupiter in their quest for information about the happenings in the Solar System. Currently, they are conducting a series of experiments on Mars.
Watch Mysterious Space Object Seen Hovering Above Earth
Watch Mysterious Space Object Seen Hovering Above Earth
An object seems to trail the International Space Station in a video that emerges from Russia. The baffling footage appears to show a piece of debris or spacecraft following the station last month as it orbited the Earth. It was allegedly shot on the ISS cameras while the satellite waited for a supply delivery.
Many have thought the object was a UFO, but others stay skeptical about the video’s authenticity, and the explanation that was given for it.
Some suggested that the short video didn’t have the same quality of the footage from the cameras on the ISS.
Furthermore, the object’s rotation and motion don’t look like an object in orbit. Because of this observation, some suggest the object in the clip is a Russian Soyuz spacecraft, used to transport cosmonauts into space.
Meanwhile, the video quickly went viral, and viewers hotly debated it online. Some think it is a companion ship.
One viewer commented that the debris from the ISS roughly gets the same speed as the object in the video. Most likely, a thermal insulation board, according to the viewer.
Just a few days back, the Cygnus cargo vessel was launched back into space filled with garbage it accumulated during its time with the space station. Once it reached a safe distance from the ISS, its engines were programmed to fire twice, sending it into Earth’s atmosphere. During re-entry, it will burn up in the atmosphere.
When we normally see a Stacy Brown Jr. video, he’s dressed all in camo and out in the swamps, criticizing how other bigfoot researchers do nothing. Now he’s changed the name of his channel to Paranormal Weekly, has traded in his camo for a dress shirt and tie, and is narrating a tale about a UFO abduction case. Has the one time winner of Bigfoot Bounty hung it all up for his own X-Files themed youtube show?
MoD UFO FAILURE LEAVES AIRSPACE OPENU.K. Airspace - Still Open to Unidentified Attack?
By Pat Regan
(Copyright 2016, Pat Rega – All Rights Resrved)
MoD: in 2009 they closed their defensive UFO hotline, meaning lots of potential threats to our airspace failed to ever be properly analysed and recorded.
Nick Pope stated at that time:
“From the Fifties to the present day, MoD received around 12,000 UFO reports. While most were misidentifications of ordinary objects and phenomena, around 5% remained unexplained.”
The following ‘North West UFO Research’ (a UFO monitoring focal pointy that I previously set up) data will explain that situation, for anyone who missed story in 2009.
This is how it went…Shock in the UFO community as the MoD’s UFO investigation service shuts down. North West UFO Research (NWUR) update
Reports filtered into the press on December 4th 2009
Information concerning how to report a UFO sighting to the MoD has recently been compromised with the shutdown of the MoD UFO facility.
This move is the result of an internal re-organisation within the Ministry of Defence and there will be no alteration to existing MoD policy relating to UFOs explaining that the Ministry of Defence has stopped investigating reported sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) in the UK. A telephone number and email address which allowed the public to report sightings for examination was closed on 1st December after the MoD decided the service was an “inappropriate use of defence resources.”
The closure of this facility was revealed in a Freedom of Information request released via the MoD website. The report explained that the MoD had dealt with more than 12,000 reports since it launched the reporting service in 1950; including 135 last year. The service had cost approximately £50,000 a year to operate and was based at RAF Command in High Wycombe.
In an announcement, the MoD stated:
”The MoD has no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extra-terrestrial life.”
“However, in over fifty years, no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom.”
”The MoD has no specific capability for identifying the nature of such sightings. “
“There is no defence benefit in such investigation and it would be an inappropriate use of defence resources. Furthermore, responding to reported UFO sightings diverts MoD resources from tasks that are relevant to defence. “
“Accordingly, and in order to make best use of defence resources, we have decided that from the 1 December 2009 the dedicated UFO hotline answer-phone service and e-mail address will be withdrawn. MoD will no longer respond to reported UFO sightings or investigate them.”
They however added that the ongoing programme to release departmental files on UFO matters to the National Archive will carry on.
Of course that will also eventually dry up because the MoD are not we presume logging any more data of this issue.
Pat Regan of NWUR addresses the issue below:
I was not very surprised when I heard this astonishing news as my own experience with the MoD has been one of them showing indifference. They were quite content to largely ignore my requests to investigate UFOs pictured flying close to RAF warplanes, consequently what more can I say? This agency is in existence to protect our sovereign air space and this latest revelation appears to leave the back door wide open for any form of unknown attack on the UK. The MoD’s position therefore seems to be that if an object is unidentified then they are not really interested. The MoD says: “There is no defence benefit in such investigation and it would be an inappropriate use of defence resources.” This is absolute nonsense! Can anyone believe such authoritarian apathy is these times of terrorist incursion?
Today, we are hearing of more unexplained sighting of mystery objects in our skies than ever before yet the MoD are washing their hands of the issue. This action, or perhaps I should say “none –action,” is simply too bizarre for words! I asked Nick Pope what he thought about the closure, he stated: “Having worked on the UFO project from 1991 to 1994 I am sorry to see MoD disengage in this way. I believe that where evidence suggests that UK airspace has been penetrated by an unidentified object, this must automatically be of defence interest and should be investigated properly. Indeed, I am sure that sightings from pilots and uncorrelated targets tracked on radar will continue to be looked at, albeit outside of a formally constituted UFO project.”
Nick continued:
“From the Fifties to the present day, MoD received around 12,000 UFO reports. While most were misidentifications of ordinary objects and phenomena, around 5% remained unexplained.
Pat Regan added:
“Apparently the MoD’s UFO facility is being axed ”to save money. This is absurd as the staff members who have worked herein will most likely just be reassigned to other duties within the department. This closure therefore is false economy, a subterfuge to conceal authoritarian lethargy toward a vital issue and it will possibly be only a question of time until mounting public pressure demands that the MoD reopen this unique facility. We need to know what is flying though our skies – not ignoring the question.”
KEEP your eyes on the skies over South Devon – a UFO has been spotted. The unidentified flying saucer shape was spotted over Newton Abbot in January, and has been described as moving through the skies before vanishing from view. National newspapers reported that John, from Devon, took thesephotographs of the the shape which had a domed top hovering in the sky.
John has shared his pictureonline, and described his close encounter with the craft to the Daily Star. He told them: “I had an incredible sighting on the 19th of January 2016 of a flying saucer. I got a very good look at this alien craft and all I can say is WOW! “I was sky-watching when I noticed a black object far off in the distance in the direction I was looking.
“The flying saucer turned back in the direction from where it had come from and then disappeared off into the distance and out of sight. “The black object got bigger as it got closer. I could clearly see that the object was in fact a flying saucer and I could see a dome on the top of the saucer.” John spotted the UFO on January 19 at 1.10pm, and says he is certain the shape was an alien craft.
"Portals appear in many books, movies and video games. Some of them connect distant places, others travel back or forward in time, and the most powerful ones bridge into different dimensions. Most people suppose these gateways exist only in the realm of mysticism or science fiction, but there are some who strongly believe that portals have been opened up in ancient times and, quite possibly, even in the present day.
According to two National Security US Informants, the Department of Defense developed time travel technology over 40 years ago. As early as 1967, the US government was using a fully operational time travel facility built on Tesla-based quantum access. This technology has been used to keep the construction of military installations secret, as well as provide political and economic advantages by way of knowing what the future holds. Some say the CIA confiscated Tesla’s papers on teleportation shortly after his death.
One of these two National Informants, Michael Relfe, is a former member of the US armed forces who claimed he was a member of a top-secret US operation. He was recruited in 1976 and spent the next 20 years helping maintain and expand one of the two or more US colonies on Mars. Those bases served as strategic research points and defense objectives, and in order to preserve their secrecy, they were built in the future.
Relfe said that after serving 20 years on the Mars colony as part of their permanent team, he was age-reversed and sent back in time. He claimed that this was the usual procedure and that staff members would have certain memories blocked or erased before being discharged.
Dr. Andrew D. Basiago was a participant in DARPA’s Project Pegasus (1968-1972) that focused on time travel in the time-space hologram. He claimed that the CIA was actively training groups of gifted American schoolchildren to become the first generation of time-explorers."
"Children were better suited for this mission for several disturbing reasons. First of all, they were considered ideal candidates due to their clear minds and lack of impressions or experience. The US government was interested in the effects of time travel over young bodies and minds. The adult volunteers usually became insane after several journeys. Fortunately, naive children had little former experience and beliefs that could drive them mad.
Another use for quantum technology was found in political control. According to Dr. Basiago, future persons of interest would be notified early about the roles they were to play in the future. He said that in the early 1970’s in Albuquerque, New Mexico he was present at a lunch at which George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush were informed of their future presidencies.
Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were also paid visits and in 1982, President Obama was rumored to be approached while still a student at UCLA. To further this claim, there are many first witness accounts from people who attended college with Obama that can attest that he would often get drunk at parties and then claim that he would be the future President of The United States. Was this certainty not based on predisposed knowledge?
Basiago claims that in 1971 he viewed images from the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. They had been obtained from the future and brought back for analysis. This implies that the US government knew about 9/11 three decades in advance.
According to the informants and those who support them, this technology is held secret despite being funded by the public. It is also not the first time these missions have been kept declassified because of their immense potential. They say that the people deserve to know what is really going on, the truth about space exploration and the presence of humans on other planets. Teleportation could solve transportation problems worldwide by moving people and goods instantly. It would also immediately help to destroy the current tyrannical power pyramid that is in place.
If they’re right, we’re missing out on some revolutionary insight. To what extent can the Government manipulate our past, present and future lives? "
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Les astronautes d'Apollo 10 ont entendu une musique étrange derrière la lune
Les astronautes d'Apollo 10 ont entendu une musique étrange derrière la lune
L'équipage d'Apollo 10 le 3 avril 1969 au Centre spatial Kennedy: de gauche à droite Eugene Cernan, pilote du module lunaire, le commandant Thomas Stafford, et John Young, pilote du module de commande (AFP/)
La Nasa a rendu public l'enregistrement d'"une musique bizarre" entendue par l'équipage d'Apollo 10 en mai 1969 lors de leur survol de la face cachée de la Lune sans aucun contact radio avec la Terre. Les trois astronautes, Thomas Stafford, le commandant, John Young, pilote du module de commande et Eugene Cernan, pilote du module lunaire, effectuaient le vol de répétition générale avant le premier alunissage le 21 juillet 1969 lors de la mission Apollo 11, qui fit de Neil Armstrong le premier homme à poser le pied sur le sol lunaire. Le cas de ces sifflements a été présenté dimanche soir sur la chaîne câblée Discovery dans le cadre de sa série intitulée "Les dossiers inexpliqués de la Nasa". Ces sons ont duré quasiment une heure. Ils ont été enregistrés et transmis au centre de contrôle à Houston (Texas, sud des Etats-Unis) où ils ont été transcrits et archivés. La bande sonore a refait surface en 2008 et pu être entendue par le public seulement maintenant. "Vous entendez ça? ce sifflement...", dit Eugen Cernan sur l'enregistrement. "C'est vraiment une musique bizarre", poursuit-il alors que leur vaisseau survole la face cachée de la Lune à 1.500 mètres d'altitude, coupé de tout contact radio avec la Terre. Les trois astronautes ont jugé le phénomène tellement étrange qu'ils ont débattu du fait de savoir s'ils devaient ou pas le signaler au centre de contrôle à leur supérieurs, de crainte de ne pas être pris au sérieux et de compromettre leurs chances d'effectuer de futurs vols, selon l'émission de Discovery. Aussi bizarres que puissent avoir été ces sons, ils n'ont pas une origine extra-terrestre, insiste la Nasa. Un ingénieur de l'agence spatiale interviewé dans le cadre de cette émission a expliqué que "les radios dans les deux vaisseaux, le module lunaire et le module de commandement, (qui étaient alors attachés, Ndlr) créaient des interférences entre elles". Cette explication est mise en doute par l'astronaute Al Worden, commandant du module de commande de la mission Apollo 15. Intervenant dans cette même émission, il déclare que la "logique me dit que si quelque chose a été enregistré là bas, il devait y avoir quelque chose". John Young a effectué un autre vol vers la Lune dont il a pu fouler le sol en tant que commandant de la mission Apollo 16. Eugene Cernan, commandant d'Apollo 17, la dernière mission lunaire, a éte le dernier homme à marcher sur la lune. Douze personnes au total ont marché sur la lune.
Russia’s Ballistic Missiles Versus Asteroid Apophis
Russia’s Ballistic Missiles Versus Asteroid Apophis
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IN BRIEF
Russian scientists are preparing Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles against asteroid Apophis, which is expected to come close to Earth in the coming decades.
In what sounds like an elevator pitch for an Armageddon sequel, Russian scientists announced that they’ve developed intercontinental ballistic missiles that aim to destroy asteroid Apophis, which is going to swing by Earth in 2036.
MEET APOPHIS
Also referred to as 99942 Apophis,it measures 210-330 meters (690-1080 feet) in diameter.According to a Slate article by astronomer Phil Plait an encounter with Earth would mean not so fun times for our planet; “it would release the energy equivalent to more than 1 billion tons of TNT exploding, at least 20 times more than the largest nuke ever detonated!”
However, fortunately, it is going to travel on by without impact.
NASA has predicted two instances of the asteroid approaching the Earth – first in April 13, 2029 (Friday the 13th!…if you are the superstitious type) and another in 2036.
The 2029 approach calculates Apophis to have a 2.7% chance of impacting Earth and is estimated to come no closer 29,470 km (18,300 miles). In fact, to anyone looking up at the sky that night, the asteroid will appear as “a moderately bright point of light moving rapidly across the sky.”
The 2036 approach however, is what’s got doomsayers into overdrive, and all because the paper initially stated that “a small estimated chance of impact (less than 1 in 45,000 using standard dynamical models) remained for April 13, 2036.”
“With the new data provided by the Magdalena Ridge [New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology] and the Pan-STARRS [Univ. of Hawaii] optical observatories, along with very recent data provided by the Goldstone Solar System Radar, we have effectively ruled out the possibility of an Earth impact by Apophis in 2036,” said Don Yeomans, manager of NASA’s Near-Earth Object Program Office at JPL. “The impact odds as they stand now are less than one in a million, which makes us comfortable saying we can effectively rule out an Earth impact in 2036. Our interest in asteroid Apophis will essentially be for its scientific interest for the foreseeable future.”
Credit: Getty Images / HLN/Sonia Kose
SO, WHY DOES RUSSIA WANT TO BLOW IT UP?
According to lead researcher, Sabit Saitgarayev of the Makeyev Rocket Design Bureau, the upgraded intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) are aimed stopping asteroids 20-50 meters in size. Which is similar to the one that exploded in the skies of Chelyabinsk in 2013 and injured more than 1,000 people.
Saitgarayev emphasized the speed at which the upgraded intercontinental ballistic missiles can be used as compared to most rockets. He says that because most rockets take about 10 days to fuel, it’s ineffective against asteroids that are detected several hours before coming close to the Earth.
Because of Russia’s in-your-face-nuke-em-asteroids approach, not everybody is thrilled with this announcement. Astrophysics professor Henry Melosh of Purdue University, who worked on NASA’s Deep Impact mission, warned that the project is “misguided and potentially dangerous.”
While others are saying that if approved, Russia would be in violation of the Outer Space Treaty of 1967, which explicitly forbids “placing nuclear weapons or any other weapons of mass destruction in orbit of Earth, installing them on the Moon or any other celestial body, or to otherwise station them in outer space.”
Russia both signed and ratified this treaty along with 104 other parties around the world including China, North Korea, and the United States.
Alex Kipman just showed off Microsoft's augmented reality tech at the TED 2016, and it's pretty spectacular.
With Microsoft HoloLens creator Alex Kipman’s recent TED talk in Vancouver, Coachella’s famous Tupac hologram now has some serious competition.
By using the headset’s spatial mapping technology, Kipman showed the HoloLens’ “mixed reality” capabilities in real-time. In his demo, he was able to interact with and modify the holograms overlaid on the TED stage, including a trip to the Moon, a magical virtual forest (complete with fairies and elves), and a quick jaunt to Mars (based on actual Curiosity rover data).
The highlight of Kipman’s presentation was when he made NASA’s Jeff Norris “teleport”onto the TED stage, calling it the first real-life holographic teleportation. “I’m actually in three places. I’m standing in a room across the street while I’m standing on the stage with your while I’m standing on mars a hundred million miles away,” says Norris.
Credit: TED Vancouver 2016
HOLOLENS IN SPACE
This is not the HoloLens’ first foray into space, as it’s also working with NASA in its Sidekick Project.
The project currently has two modes, Remote Expert Mode and Procedure Mode. The first allows a ground operator to see what a crew member sees and draw annotations in the environment to coach them through a task, while the latter augments standalone procedures with animated holographic illustrations.
HoloLens’ technology has the potential to be an invaluable and necessary resource for space organizations, especially for deep space missions where communication delays complicate difficult operations.
“HoloLens and other virtual and mixed reality devices are cutting edge technologies that could help drive future exploration and provide new capabilities to the men and women conducting critical science on the International Space Station,” said Sam Scimemi, director of the ISS program at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “This new technology could also empower future explorers requiring greater autonomy on the journey to Mars.”
Although developer kits are now available at $3,000 a pop, it looks like it would still take a while before the HoloLens is made available to consumers. As Kipman says in an interview with Re/Code, “If a consumer bought it today, they would have 12 things to do with it,” Kipman said. “And they would say ‘Cool, I bought a $3,000 product that I can do 12 things with and now it is collecting dust.’”
First Analysis of a Super-Earth’s Atmosphere Reveals Scorching Wasteland
First Analysis of a Super-Earth’s Atmosphere Reveals Scorching Wasteland
This artist’s concept shows the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in orbit around the Earth.
(credit: ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser))
IN BRIEF
Astronomers have detected an atmosphere of a “super-Earth” and analyzed it for the first time. They found that it’s mostly hydrogen and helium, and rather inhospitable.
DETECTING AN ATMOSPHERE
Astronomers have detected and analyzed the atmosphere of a “super-Earth” exoplanet for the first time. And as it turns out, this “super-Earth” isn’t so super when it comes to being habitable.
Using data gathered by the Hubble Space Telescope and new analysis techniques, the scientists found that exoplanet 55 Cancri e has a dry atmosphere without any indications of the presence of water vapor. Indeed, they found that it’s mostly hydrogen and helium in composition.
But that’s not all that makes it hostile to life as we know it. 55 Cancri e also has a mass of eight Earths.
The results of their study will be published in the Astrophysical Journal and is also present in an open-source format on arXiv.
A NOTABLE STEP IN ASTRONOMY
“This is a very exciting result because it’s the first time that we have been able to find the spectral fingerprints that show the gases present in the atmosphere of a super-Earth,”explains Angelos Tsiaras, a PhD student who developed the analysis technique along with his colleagues Ingo Waldmann and Marco Rocchetto. “The observations of 55 Cancri e’s atmosphere suggest that the planet has managed to cling on to a significant amount of hydrogen and helium from the nebula from which it originally formed.”
As an aside, super-Earths like 55 Cancri e are believed to be the most common type of planet in our galaxy. They are named ‘super-Earth’ because they have a mass far greater than that of the Earth but are still much smaller than the gas giants in the Solar System.
FIGURING OUT THE DETAILS OF A SUPER-EARTH
55 Cancri e is unusual in the fact that it orbits very close to its parent star. A year on the exoplanet lasts for only 18 hours and temperatures on the surface are estimated to reach around 2000 degrees Celsius (3632ºF). Due to the exoplanet orbiting its bright parent star at such a small distance, the team was able to use new analysis techniques to extract information about the planet during its transits in front of the host star.
“This result gives a first insight into the atmosphere of a super-Earth. We now have clues as to what the planet is currently like and how it might have formed and evolved, and this has important implications for 55 Cancri e and other super-Earths,” said Giovanna Tinetti who is also part of the team.
Interestingly, the data also seems to indicate the presence of hydrogen cyanide, an indicator for carbon-rich atmospheres. “Such an amount of hydrogen cyanide would indicate an atmosphere with a very high ratio of carbon to oxygen,” notes Olivia Venot who developed an atmospheric chemical model of 55 Cancri e.
When Rainer "Rai" Weiss and colleagues first proposed an audacious experiment to detect ripples in space-time, called gravitational waves, in the late 1970s, they knew the whole endeavor was a long shot. The waves the researchers sought would pull and stretch their detector by mere billionths of a billionth of a meter — a scarcely believable signal to try to extract from nature.
Now, four decades later, millions of people worldwide have read about the historic detection of gravitational waves as the result of Weiss and his fellow scientists' efforts: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). The revolutionary gravitational wave findings have thrown open the door to a whole new way of studying the universe's most extreme events and its most massive objects.
At the U.S. National Science Foundation's LIGO announcement in Washington, D.C. last week, Weiss called it "a miracle" that the equations first predicting gravitational waves — which Albert Einstein wrote a century ago — work so well in describing the black hole system LIGO found. "It is just amazing," he said, adding that he'd "love to be able to see Einstein's face right now" when the physicist's name came up in a recent Kavli Foundation roundtable.
Below is a complete transcript of that roundtable, with Weiss joined by two other LIGO researchers, all members of MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. Nergis Mavalvala has focused on developing LIGO's precision instruments (and has become a celebrity scientist in her birthplace of Pakistan since the discovery was announced). Matthew Evans has worked on the modeling and control of large interferometers including LIGO.
Below, read their far-ranging conversation about the ramifications of LIGO's discovery and what more is in store in the dawning era of gravitational wave astronomy. The following is an edited transcript of the roundtable discussion. The participants have been provided the opportunity to amend or edit their remarks.
The Kavli Foundation:What does it feel like to have made this discovery? Rai, because you're one of LIGO's creators and someone who has pondered how to detect theses waves since the 1970s, let's start with you.
Rai Weiss: You're not going to like my answer — I feel like a monkey just jumped off my back! But the monkey's not gone yet, he's still walking along here on the sidewalk. We've got more to do. At least some of the guilty feelings that might have come from having dragged all these people along for decades hunting gravitational waves and maybe ruined their careers isn't happening. So I am very pleased.
Matthew Evans: If Rai had dragged us all toward our doom, it certainly would have been his fault. [Laughter] I hope he recognizes that he didn't.
Nergis Mavalvala: It's been a real joyride for decades and this is the pinnacle. It's been amazing to be involved in the science and technology of this effort regardless, and this discovery just makes it all really worthwhile. I don't think any of us ever feared we were being dragged to our doom. [Laughter] We were just on this great joyride where we didn't know where we might end up.
From left to right, Rainer Weiss, Matthew Evans and Nergis Mavalvala
TKF: This discovery of gravitational waves has been a long time in the making and required a lot of patience. Were you all actually surprised, then, at how quickly the detection was made after Advanced LIGO began operating back in September?
Mavalvala: Yes.
Evans: Very pleasantly surprised.
Weiss: It's amazing. The signal is bigger than we ever imagined it would be.
Mavalvala: We had thought the first signal would be some little small thing poking up out of the noise and we'd have to work really hard to understand what it was. But in fact, the signal we got is a very clean and beautiful event. It tells us that the binary black holes were located about 1.5 billion light years away. They whirled around each other at nearly the speed of light before a collision that was so powerful, it converted approximately three times the mass of the Sun into gravitational wave energy — in just a few tenths of a second!
TKF: Two years ago, the BICEP2 Antarctic telescope project announced evidence for the signature of gravitational waves in light from 380,000 years after the Big Bang. But that major result came into question in early 2015 when other data suggested cosmic dust is a likelier source of the signature. Do you have any concerns about these LIGO findings?
Evans: I don't have any concerns about that. I've gone through the instruments from one end to the other and I couldn't find anything that might have gone wrong. But the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which is the umbrella organization for all the international institutions and scientists involved in this, is very well aware of the history. So the collaboration as a whole has been extremely careful to make sure this discovery is solid.
Weiss: The signal is so pretty, many of us worried at the time that it was something done maliciously. Matt and others crucially established that the signal is unlikely to have been generated by a hacker and much more likely by nature.
Mavalvala: The other possibility was that the instruments were misbehaving, but we've gone through a very, very detailed study and eliminated that as a possibility.
Weiss: There's one other piece of evidence — LIGO has detected more than one of these gravitational wave signals. That to me is a very important piece of the whole thing. Nature seems to behave as we would have expected, which is that it has produced not only a very powerful gravitational wave source like what we have detected and are talking about now, but also a not-so-powerful one of the same kind.
Evans: Another thing really important to say in contrast to previously declared discoveries of gravitational waves is that we have multiple detectors running simultaneously which detected the same signal. At each site, we have literally thousands of auxiliary channels and sensors looking for any sort of external disturbance and everything checks out.
TKF: What do you think are the biggest ramifications of this discovery?
Weiss: For many of us, this is the signal that we wanted to see from the beginning of this whole quest. We wanted to see gravitation à la Einstein and his theory of general relativity and which cannot be explained by any Newtonian mechanisms. The history of general relativity as a science is actually rather dismal. It was mostly theoretical work for many, many years. Then there was a renaissance in the 1960s when people began to realize that maybe the technology had changed enough that you could start doing experiments to test Einstein's theories. But then physicists ran into this really horrible problem that all the things that they could test were these infinitesimal effects. The bending of light, for example, is a pipsqueak effect. Or the slowing down of clocks in the gravitational field.
Now all of sudden with LIGO, we're dealing with a regime where Einstein's equations had never been applied before. With these colliding black holes , general relativity gives you the right answer, which is miraculous. That is the reason why this is such a big deal. Einstein never expected this kind of test of his theories to happen this way because the effects we're looking for are so vanishingly small. I keep telling people I'd love to be able to see Einstein's face right now!
Mavalvala: Another thing that's really remarkable is our ability to observe a binary black hole system with LIGO that we could not have observed with light. We could point the best telescopes, sensitive to more or less any electromagnetic wavelength of light, at this system and probably see nothing. We cannot observe this system with any of the other fundamental forces of nature. It has to be gravity.
If the signal LIGO had detected had been, say, neutron stars colliding and not black holes, we would have had no complaints, but there's probably a very good chance you could see neutron star mergers with other, conventional observational tools relying on light. In fact, we believe that certain classes of gamma ray bursts are just that. So what we have here in the findings we're announcing today is very important, in my opinion, because it's a completely dark-to-light system.
Evans: To me, this detection means that the stars are no longer silent. The frequencies of gravitational waves that LIGO is designed to detect are actually in the human audible range. So when we're working on LIGO, we often take its output and put it on a speaker and just listen to it. For this binary black hole system, it made a distinctive, rising "whoooop!" sound. It's not that we just look up and see anymore, like we always have — we actually can listen to the universe now. It's a whole new sense, and humanity did not have this sense until LIGO was built.
Weiss: We often whistled to demonstrate what we thought these smashing black holes might sound like, and it turns out if you play the piano or a keyboard, you can also make a similar sound. Do you know what a glissando is? It's when you run your fingers very quickly across the keys. If you started at the bottom of a keyboard and went all the way to the middle C and then hold that note for a little bit — that's what this black hole signal happened to be.
TKF: It's remarkable that the pattern or "sound" of gravitational waves detected by LIGO can reveal intricate details about the waves' sources. For instance, LIGO's data indicate that each black hole in this collapsing binary system had a mass of about 30 Suns. Until now, we've only known about much smaller black holes or supermassive black holes with masses of millions or billions of Suns. How will LIGO help us understand the origin of these never-before-seen, mid-size black holes?
Evans: Presumably, the existence of these 30 solar-mass black holes — and now after their collision, a nearly 60-solar mass black hole — will tell us something about what we call Population III stars. These are the earliest stars in the universe and are made almost entirely out of hydrogen. They are very massive and one of the plausible sources we've suspected for collapsing into these kinds of black holes.
Weiss: Another idea is that these black holes are made in places where there is a high density of many millions of stars, for example in globular clusters. You can maybe get stars to stick together there and collect and ultimately make a big black hole. There were papers even before our discovery that were beginning to hint that this is the more likely way to get these objects. Now that our findings are out, you watch — in the next year or two, there are going to be probably hundreds of papers about the origin of the black holes we're talking about. It's going to be the wave of the future.
Evans: The amazing thing at LIGO is that gravitational waves carry a tremendous amount of information about their source. As we get more and more of these detections, we'll even be able to tell how fast the black holes in these binary systems are spinning and if they are spinning in a way that's aligned. That data will let us decide whether these black holes came from a globular cluster or as a result of primeval Population III stars.
An artist's conception of two black holes merging, much like the one that produced the first detected gravitational waves.
Credit: P. Marenfeld/NOAO/AURA/NSF)
TKF: Turning our conversation to the LIGO observatories themselves — what technological advances did the black hole binary system discovery hinge on? Nergis, you were very involved in this aspect of the work, so please explain.
Mavalvala: To build one of these gravitational wave detectors — these laser interferometers — you really only need two ingredients. One, you need mirrors that are very, very still. Then two, you need a way of measuring any very small motions. So the name of the game is having ways to shield mirrors from external, non-gravitational wave forces and having laser lights precise enough that you can probe the tiny motions that are induced by gravitational waves. Once you have those two things, you have yourself a detector.
The changes that granted us more sensitivity during Advanced LIGO were vibration isolation systems that were better than in the previous generation. In a slightly jargon-y way, we don't use just passive isolation; we're also using active vibration isolation. The other thing we had to do was reduce the vibrations of the mirrors due to thermally driven fluctuations. Then finally, we put in a more powerful laser so that our signal-to-noise ratio improved. The list of technologies involved in these improvement is very long, but those are the broad-brush strokes.
TKF: Matt, part of your work involves figuring out the fundamental limits for LIGO and for future gravitational wave detectors. How much more sensitivity to gravitational waves can we achieve and why do we want to?
Evans: Putting first things first, we haven't really gotten the Advanced LIGO detectors working as well as they can be. We will in some time. We think we can get a factor of three times as much sensitivity as we have currently, which could bring ten times as many gravitational wave-producing events into LIGO's range. So we can expect a lot just from the Advanced LIGO detectors as we improve their function.
The next step we're looking at is actually something that Nergis has pioneered, and that's to use quantum optics in our detectors to reduce the quantum noise of the lights. Nergis talked about having lasers that were very precise and high-powered. But you can actually import techniques from a research field called quantum optics to try to reduce some of the randomness that's inherent to light. Then, we're looking farther into the future as to whether or not we can build detectors that are still another ten times more sensitive. That will probably involve a new facility and longer interferometers.
If you ask why we would want to do that, I think that we've just started this business. It looks like we have a lot of great physics and astrophysics we can do with these detectors. If we can make something ten times more sensitive, we'll be able to detect gravitational wave sources from anywhere in the universe.
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TKF: With an even more advanced LIGO, as well as future gravitational-wave observatories, what other phenomena in the universe will we get to understand in new ways?
Weiss: There is a whole spectrum of gravitational waves. With LIGO, we're looking for high-frequency waves. As to how high we can go, again, the piano analogy is a wonderful one. Because what we're looking for are sources that go from the bottom of the piano to the top of the piano. They don't stop at middle C, which is currently our detection limit with LIGO. They go higher.
Beyond that, a lot of people are working in other frequencies and other wavelengths where there are phenomena which LIGO will not see. For example, we talked earlier about the BICEP project, which is looking for signatures of gravitational waves affecting the relic radiation from the Big Bang, called the cosmic microwave background. Well, that's going to work someday, or it may be that a satellite has to do that observation. If there are gravitational waves from the first epochs of the universe, they're going to have periods, or cycles, that are stretched to on the order of the age of the universe itself, almost 14 billion years. So that's the lower limit to the spectrum.
For another example, there's a project that's been going on almost as long as LIGO called the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Project, or LISA. It involves lasers beamed between spacecraft with baselines that are up to five million kilometers, not four kilometers, like LIGO's detection arms now, or even 40 kilometers like what Matt and Nergis want to do someday. LIGO can't touch LISA's detection spectrum, covering much longer wavelengths. With LISA, there's this wide open window with spectacular stuff in it, like binary white dwarf stars going around each other. Another is black holes with tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of the mass of the Sun, either colliding or having objects bend their orbit around them. You could do very, very careful tests of general relativity with that. I hope these other areas get dragged along by our discovery.
TKF: Do you think there are any astrophysical objects in our galactic neighborhood that could unleash sizeable gravitational waves detectable by LIGO, or are all the major sources going to be far away?
Evans: I suggest that we hope that there's nothing close by. [Laughter] The binary black hole system we detected was 1.5 billion light years distant. That's very, very far away, and in terms of how much energy was released so quickly, it was the most powerful explosion ever observed. So I think you wouldn't want that in your neighborhood.
Mavalvala: But maybe not too close, just within our galaxy…
Evans: Well, a Milky Way event would probably saturate our detectors, but it's not like it could hurt us or anything.
Weiss: Well, I hope you're right about that! [Laughter] If we ever happen to be around when a supernova goes off, that would be as spectacular as what we have discovered now because we will see everything that is going on deep inside the supernova. Gravitational waves come right out. Nothing scatters these waves, which is the opposite of light that never gets out of the core of the explosion to tell us anything.
Evans: I hate to get peoples' hopes up for a supernova because they are so rare, but Rai is absolutely right. If we detect one in our galaxy, it would be a wonderful piece of physics.
Mavalvala: I'll add that I hate to get peoples' hopes up for things we don't even know how to articulate yet. We don't fully know what's out there with this new way of looking at the universe in gravitational waves. So it's possible that there will be things maybe in our own galactic neighborhood, maybe far away, or maybe both that are just things we have not thought about yet.
Evans: That's very true. We've heard the loudest possible thing you could imagine go off and we got it, but hey, we're just getting started.
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WHAT HAVE APOLLO ASTRONAUTS BEEN HIDING FOR DECADES?
WHAT HAVE APOLLO ASTRONAUTS BEEN HIDING FOR DECADES?
Three astronauts who served on the Apollo 10 mission dating back to 1969 — before Apollo 11's first manned moon landing — were terrified to hear radio transmissions similar to music during the radio-free mission while traversing the far side of the moon.
They were cut off from the Earth for about 60 minutes but still could hear radio sounds through their headsets after they entered lunar orbit. Astronauts were puzzled whether to report about the incident to NASA.
The released transcripts contained "strange, otherworldly music coming through the Apollo module's radio," the Science Channel series "NASA's Unexplained Files" found out.
AN APOLLO MISSION SECRETLY HIDDEN IN A CLASSIFIED TAPE FOR ALMOST 40 YEARS HAS BEEN FINALLY REVEALED, ACCORDING TO NASA RECENT REPORT.
The astronauts on board Apollo 10 can be heard talking about the "whistling sound
"You hear that? That whistling sound? Whooooooooo!" one of them says. Another astronaut said: "It sounds like, you know, outer space-type music."
"Well, that sure is weird music," one astronaut says. "Boy it got quiet, didn't it?" one can be heard.
Apollo astronauts debated the necessity to tell Mission Control about the strange music minutes before they regained radio contact with Earth.
"It's unbelievable", "Shall we tell them about it?", "I don't know. We ought to think about it," they questioned.
"The Apollo 10 crew was very used to the kind of noise that they should be hearing. Logic tells me that if there was something recorded on there, then there was something there," Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden says on the Science Channel program. "NASA would withhold information from the public if they thought it was in the public's best interest."
The recordings remained classified in NASA's archives until 2008, prompting an ongoing discussion regarding the nature and origin of the "outer space-type music."
"If you're behind the moon and hear some weird noise on your radio, and you know you're blocked from the Earth, then what could you possibly think?" The Huffington Post quoted Worden as saying ( via sputniknews.com ).
Some astronauts assume the music could belong to aliens. "These noises some of them are really weird, they even sound un sub conditional like strange alien speech."
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THE RUSSIAN ARMY TRANSPORTS THE MYSTERIOUS OBJECT ' ARK OF GABRIEL ' TO ANTARCTICA
THE RUSSIAN ARMY TRANSPORTS THE MYSTERIOUS OBJECT ' ARK OF GABRIEL ' TO ANTARCTICA
Russian army is given a special task of protecting the religious object “Ark of Gabriel” while it is being transported to Antarctica.
The “Ark of Gabriel” is said to have such “military-religious” importance, that President Putin ordered a large number of naval warships to guide its journey from Saudi Arabia to Antartica.
To what spurred this astonishing mission, this report explains, was the contacting on 25 September of His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow by representatives of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, regarding a mysterious ancient “device/weapon” discovered under the Masjid al-Haram Mosque (Grand Mosque) during what has turned into a very controversial construction project begun in 2014.
Gravely raising the concerns of the Grand Mosque emissaries, this report continues, was when this mysterious “device/weapon” was discovered on 12 September by a 15-man tunnel digging crew—and who in their attempting to remove it were instantly killed by a massive “plasma emission” so powerful it ejected from the ground toppling a construction crane killing, at least, another 107 people.
Catastrophically worse, this report notes, was that barely a fortnight after the first attempt to remove this mysterious “device/weapon” was made on 12 September, another attempt was made on 24 September which killed over 4,000 due to another massive “plasma emission” which put tens-of-thousands in panic—but which Saudi officials then blamed on a stampede.
After the catastrophic death toll involved with the Saudi’s second attempt to remove this mysterious “device/weapon”, this report says, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill was then contacted by the Grand Mosque emissaries in regards to one of the oldest Islamic manuscripts possessed by the Russian Orthodox Church that was saved from the Roman Catholic Crusaders in 1204 when they sacked the Church of Holy Wisdom (now known as Hagia Sophia) in Constantinople (present day Istanbul, Turkey) titled “Gabriel’s Instructions To Muhammad”.
Important to note, this report explains, and virtually unknown in the West, were that the Roman Catholic Crusades (and like they mirror today) were not only against the peoples of Islamic faith, but also against those having Russian Orthodox faith too—and why, during these crusades, the Russian Orthodox Church not only protected their own religious libraries from being destroyed, but also those belonging to Muslims.
As to the contents of this ancient Islamic manuscript, “Gabriel’s Instructions To Muhammad”, this report briefly notes, it centers around a group of instructions given to Muhammad by the Angel Gabriel in a cave called Hira, located on the mountain called Jabal an-Nour, near Mecca, wherein this heavenly being entrusted into Muhammad’s care a “box/ark” of “immense power” he was forbidden to use as it belonged to God only and was, instead, to be buried in a shrine at the “place of worship the Angels used before the creation of man” until its future uncovering in the days of Yawm al-Qīyāmah, or Qiyâmah, which means literally “Day of the Resurrection”.
As to what this mysterious “weapon/device” actually is we are not allowed to report on due to the strictures we have to abide by in being allowed to publish even the merest glimpses of what happens behind Kremlin walls we are currently permitted to do .
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NASA preparing us ALL for ET contact?
NASA preparing us ALL for ET contact?
NASA are uniting with Scientists and Theologian’s to prepare mankind for Alien contact
It was only a couple of months ago that top US astronomers gathered in front of congress to let them know that Extraterrestrial life exists without question. Their main argument was the size of the universe, emphasizing that there are trillions of stars out there, with one in every five most likely harbouring an Earth-like planet. It’s also important to keep in mind that planets do not have to be “Earth-like” in order to harbour life.
“The number of habitable worlds in our galaxy is certainly in the tens of billions, minimum, and we haven’t even talked about the moons. And the number of galaxies we can see, other than our own, is about 100 billion.” – Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer at California’s SETI Institute
Are we being prepared for what’s to come?
This time, NASA and the Library of Congress have teamed up bringing together scientists, theologians, philosophers and historians from around the globe for a two day symposium in order to discuss how to prepare the world for Extraterrestrial contact, whether it be microbial organisms or intelligent beings.
“We’re looking at all scenarios about finding life. If you find microbes, that’s one thing. If you find intelligence, it’s another. And if they communicate, it’s something else, and depending on what they say, it’s something else!
“The idea is not to wait until we make a discovery, but to try and prepare the public for what the implications might be when such a discovery is made. I think the reason that NASA is backing this is because of all the recent activity in the discovery of exoplanets and the advances in astrobiology in general.
“People just consider it much more likely now that we’re going to find something — probably microbes first and maybe intelligence later. The driving force behind this is from a scientific point of view that it seems much more likely now that we are going to find life at some point in the future.” – Astronomer, symposium organizer and former chief NASA historian, Steven J. Dick
One of the theologians present was Brother Guy Consolmagno, who is the new president of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. This is what he had to say:
“I Believe [alien life exists], but I have no evidence. I would be really excited and it would make my understanding of my religion deeper and richer in ways that I can’t even predict yet, which is why it would be so exciting.”
He is now urging the public not to be so surprised when extra-terrestrial life is discovered, because it will be discovered, sooner than later! He even said that he would be happy to baptize them, if it’s intelligent extraterrestrial life that’s discovered. The Vatican has been very open to the idea of intelligent extraterrestrial life, and they’ve expressed these views for a very long time. Earth is not the center of the universe, it’s not flat, and it’s looking very likely that the next major paradigm shifting revelation will be the fact that we are not alone in the universe and never have been. It’s great to see the mainstream world gather, discuss and prepare for this possibility and ultimate reality, and it’s a great seg-way to create more awareness about the world of secrecy, the world’s within our world that deal with projects the human race knows nothing about.
The Other Probability – Intelligent Extraterrestrial Life is Already Here!!
In just the United States alone, at least half of all Americans say that we are not alone in the universe. Fifty percent of Americans already believe that there is some form of life on other planets, while only seventeen percent think that there isn’t. A quarter of Americans believe that intelligent extra-terrestrial visitors have already come to Earth and have been doing so for a long time.
Here’s one of them:
“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time.” – Apollo 14 Astronaut, Air Force Captain and Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Dr. Edgar Mitchell
There are many reasons why the extraterrestrial question continues to gain increasing popularity. People are starting to ask questions about the world around them, people are starting to wake up and start utilizing critical thinking and investigation. After thoroughly investigating this topic your conclusions will be similar I’m sure, to the conclusions of the majority, we are not alone, and we are being visited.
1. The Size of the Universe
How often do you look up into the night sky and wonder just how many stars, planets, galaxies and more are out there? Looking out at night though our window to the Universe! Space has been a high area of interest that has always fascinated scientists, philosophers, musicians and pretty much just about everyone.
What is it about deep space that grabs our attention so much? To think about just how big the universe is can really put things into perspective.
Counting the stars in the universe is like trying to count the number of sand grains on a beach, not possible.
Although estimates vary among different experts, the general consensus is that there are at least between 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies in our universe. Think about that for a moment, and now throw in billions of stars in each galaxy! This number could very easily be in the trillions for all we know.
Take the Milky Way Galaxy for example, which measures to about 120,000 light years across (it would take light that many years to travel across the galaxy), and contains up to 400 billion stars. Again, that’s billions of galaxies that contain billions of stars.
Scientists estimate that at least 10 billion habitable Earth-sized planets exist in the milky way alone ( one galaxy out of billions), but it’s important to keep an open mind as to what type of conditions and environments some unknown extraterrestrial like forms could thrive in. They all don’t necessarily have to be Earth-like.
Given the estimations of the size of the universe, or multiverse (either or!), the odds are we are not alone.
2. Whistle Blowers
The past few years have seen a surge of whistle-blowers that’ve come out and said some remarkable things. Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have received the most attention, but the reality is that there are hundreds of whistle blowers who have come forward with verified credentials and backgrounds.
Mass survelience and the security state is not the only thing shocking people around the world, it’s the fact that many of these whistle blowers claim that we are not alone in the universe. It wouldn’t be so hard to ignore if it wasn’t for the backgrounds these people have in their respected fields.
The first one that comes to mind is Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defence Minister, the man responsible for unifying the Canadian Air Force, Army and the Navy into one united force now known as the Canadian Forces.
For someone with such a background to come out and make these extraordinary claims definitely grabbed the attention of many people.
Paul Hellyer
“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about the direction we were heading and offered to help. Instead, some of us interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after. Trillions of dollars have been spent on black projects which both congress and the commander in chief have deliberately been kept in the dark.”
”In one of the cases during the cold war, 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying South from Russia across Europe. The supreme allied commander was very concerned and was about ready to press the panic button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole. They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for three years and they decided that with absolute certainty that four different species, at least, have been visiting this planet for thousands of years. There’s been a lot more activity in the past two decades, especially since we invented the atomic bomb.” Paul Hellyer
Paul Hellyer isn’t the only one making extraordinary statements, at least a dozen NASA astronauts have done the same. Just like Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s quote, other astronauts have said some remarkable things. Let’s take a look at a few (out of many) examples.
“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time. That their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, that seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon” – Dr. Brian O’leary, Former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor
“In my opinion I think they were worried that it would panic the public so they started telling lies about it. And then I think they had to tell another lie to cover their first lie, now they don’t know how to get out of it. Now it’s going to be so embarrassing to admit that all these administrations have told so many untruths, it would be embarrassing getting out of it. There are a number of extraterrestrial vehicles out there cruising around.”– Gordon Cooper, Former NASA Astronaut, Aeronautical Engineer and test pilot. One of the seven original Astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States
The list goes on and on and on, the latest in NASA Astronaut statements about UFOs came from the 2005 International Space Station (ISS) Commander, Leroy Chiao. You can read more about that HERE
Here is an intriguing video of John Podesta who was recently appointed as councilor to Barack Obama supporting UFO disclosure. Mr Podesta recently left the Obama administration and stated that one of his biggest regrets was not ensuring that UFO disclosure happened!
Some of the most extraordinary statements about UFOs and extraterrestrials come from persons who have held some of the highest positions known. Those who would be in a position to ‘know’ about possible extraterrestrial encounters and STILL the mainstream media keep quiet about it!?
“Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense” Former head of CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, 1960
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers”– Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy,Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, by other civilizations. Who they are, where they are from, and what they want should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not be the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
The list of military whistle blowers seems to go on forever, with hundreds of them and hundreds of quotes to choose from. To view military whistleblowers (with verified backgrounds) give a press conference at The National Press Club about UFOs deactivating nuclear weapons, click HERE. You can also look up Dr. Steven Greer and his disclosure project. The list of quotes from all fields, from many people is outstanding. I could literally fill pages upon pages so I’ll stop here, I think you all should get the picture by now. These famous quotes by whistleblowers and people with prestigious backgrounds leads perfectly into the next point as to why almost everybody knows that we are not alone in the universe!
“There is another way whether it’s wormholes or warping space, there’s got to be a way to generate energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the fact that they’re here shows us that they found a way.” – Jack Kasher, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Nebraska
“This thing has gotten so highly-classified…it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified” – Senator Barry Goldwater , Chairman of the Senate intelligence committee
3. The Evidence of UFOs
Over the recent years, dozens of governments admitted to allocating resources and having programs to study the UFO phenomenon. For instance, in Canada the RCMP, Transport Canada, and the Department of National Defence recently admitted to tracking UFOs and investigating them.
They, our so-called leaders have been doing it for years, accumulating thousands upon thousands of UFO related documents. Many of these documents have since been officially released.
HERE is the latest batch of UFO files released from the United Kingdom:
Documents released by the National Security Agency (NSA) reveal what is recorded when a UFO is being tracked on radar. HEREis one example. HERE is a four page U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and NSA report describing a particular encounter in great detail.
The NSA Headquarters in FT.Meade
“As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles it lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. Another brightly lighted object came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F4. ”
HERE is also a Wikileak cable that describes how some politicians already know we are not alone in the universe. You can read more about that HERE.
The list goes on and on and thousands upon thousands of UFO related documents are now available in the public domain. For a summary of more documents that have been declassified and made available, a video done by UFO Richard Dolan does a great one in 10 minutes. To watch it click HERE and see what type of information is out there.
4. Mass Mainstream Media Attention
The Media outlets of all kind are covering the topic, almost every movie that comes out these days has something to do with space or some kind of extraterrestrial intelligence. We’ve been bombarded with the topic for a while now so it’s not hard to see how it’s on the minds of many. Just by putting your TV on you are bombarded with references to space and what lies beyond!
The most recent case of mainstream extraterrestrial ‘noise’ was made when scientists recently spoke to the house Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Dan Werthimer of the SETI Research Centre at the University of California, Berkeley, recently called for more funding to be allocated to the search for extraterrestrial life since he is “close to 100 percent” certain that we are not alone.
In mid 2013, the same committee held a hearing about exoplanet discoveries, but perhaps one of the largest UFO/extraterrestrial hearings came at the National Press Club, which also took place in Mid-2013.
At this event, hundreds of researchers, activists and military/ agency/ political witnesses representing ten countries gave UFO/extraterrestrial testimony to six former members of the United States Congress about events and evidence indicating an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.
Former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska), and 2008 presidential candidate said that there is “an extraterrestrial influence that is investigating our planet. Something is monitoring the planet and they are monitoring it very cautiously.” You can learn more about the citizens hearing here.
Apart from these events, UFOs are constantly a topic of interest in today’s mainstream news. Unfortunately, most mainstream media outlets that cover the topic seek out to ridicule it rather than investigating it properly.
To view military whistleblowers (with verified backgrounds) give a press conference at The National Press Club about UFOs deactivating nuclear weapons, click HERE.
Recent Alien News: Whitby councillor claims aliens are influencing President Putin’s actions in the Ukraine conflict
5. Personal Experience & Video Footage
There are literally millions of people out there claiming to have contact with extraterrestrial beings. This has played a large role in spreading the influence of extraterrestrial interest across the world. I myself have a 100% seen ET crafts! All of us seem to be naturally fascinated with the unknown, especially when it comes to space. It seems like human nature, perhaps something built into our Genetic code!?
So many of us have seen something!
Neuroscience can now pretty much explain what happens to our body when we meditate, but it’s something we all knew to be beneficial before the science. Is extraterrestrial life similar? Is it something we all feel deep down inside, something we don’t need proof for? (Even though the proof is very much here).
Besides there being thousands of videos available on YouTube, there is some very fascinating officially documented UFO footage available for us to see. Click HERE to see raw footage of a UFO showing up in Norway for scientists at their observatory.
Click HERE and HERE to see film from the 1991 NASA STS-48 Discovery Space Shuttle mission. It’s some of the best, officially documented UFO footage that’s out there today.
All you have to do is a quick UFO search on youtube and you’ll see many fakes, but many real videos of unknown aerial objects. (avoid Third Phase Of The Moon)
U.I.P Summary
I guess the question was always “Do UFOs exist?” Today that question has been answered well and truly, and the presence of UFOs performing maneuvers that defy our laws of physics has been well documented all over the Planet. The question now has to be, “Is that an extraterrestrial space craft?”
There is nothing to fear, as they have been around forever. They have been aware of us long before we have been aware of them, watching us, possibly reviewing us all. As speculated with our ancient civilizations in Earth’s brief past, perhaps they will one day interact with humanity again. I guess we will see. Perhaps some groups are concerned about our planet, and come here further pushing the idea that we need to start changing the way we are doing things here. Perhaps one day soon we will find out. I definitely believe that a good chunk of these UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin. I also believe that many of these crafts are “ours.” perhaps stolen technology off our ET visitors!?
A leading scientist and astronomer from the SETI Institute has a rather stark warning for the human race, that if alien beings ever visited Earth, they will be the ones to “set the rules”
In what appears to be a rather negative message about life beyond planet earth, it has been said by a senior figure at SETI, that if Aliens managed to travel the depths of space to find us it would Not be particularly good news for us all – due to their far superior technology and advances in science!
Jill Tarter who is part of the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Life (SETI) Institute and a member of the management board for the Allen Telescope Array in California, believes that with the Aliens advance technology will be used to enslave us all.
Alientechnology could be vastly different to our own
With what appears to be a rather negative announcement about the Extraterrestrials, this news appears to be a bit too much of a coincidence that SETI are now officially assisting the US Government/Military (please click HERE) – perhaps they have been promised more funding, if they say what the government WANT them to say!?
Jill Tarter said:
“If they showed up on our doorstep, that means they have technologies that are considerably advanced with respect to ours,” she said.
“And because of that, they’re going to be the ones that set the rules.”
It has also been suggested by SETI that the reason we have not contacted Aliens yet (?) is due to the fact that our technology might not be compatible with theirs – yet more negativity from SETI, almost like they are trying to inform the world that the ‘Aliens aren’t visiting us!’
Could it be that the guys at SETI know more than they are making out?
SETI are currently sending radio waves out deep into the unknown universe, in the hope of one day hopefully receiving a response from the ET’s. But SETI have suggested that perhaps there’s nothing that says that the aliens will be aware of or even use radio waves to communicate – surely a far more advanced species would have ways of discovering unknown signals in space!?
“We may not have invented the right way to do this yet,” concedes Tarter, who obtained a PhD in Astronomy from the University of California, Berkley and worked as a Project Scientist for NASA’s SETI program before it was terminated in 1993. She has received two public service medals from the space agency.
SETI also believe that we may not of discovered the Aliens yet, due to the vastness of space/the Universe! Again yet more negativity which is trying to highlight to the world that ‘we have no knowledge about the Aliens’.
It was according to Tarter, that if you look at space as the equivalent of Earth’s oceans, then on the same scale we’ve examined the equivalent of a glass of water, which is a fair enough comment to make, HOWEVER a far more advanced species cold have explored FAR more of the Universe than what we have!
Destruction for the human race or a day of change when the ET’s officially show up!?
“If there is a civilisation out there that is only 1,000 years older than we are, who knows what type of technology, or what type of process, they’ve put into communicating with others,” agrees Dr Nathalie Cabrol, who now heads up the SETI Institute.
It is rather interesting that while SETI might think we’re some way off communicating with aliens, NASA have recently confirmed that we’ll do it in the next couple of decades – It is clear that both organisations are hiding something.
NASA astronomer Kevin Hand said:
“I think in the next 20 years we will find out we are not alone in the universe.”Said NASA
Nasa Administrator Charles Bolden added: “I would venture to say that most of my colleagues here say it is improbable that in the limitless vastness of the universe we humans stand alone.”
Mars and a number of moons in our solar system have been the focus of the search for alien life for decades. But it is through new telescopes launched into space have massively increased the number of planets outside our solar system that may support life.
U.I.P SUMMARY – First things first, you get good and bad in every walk of life so by SETI making such a negative announcement about the ET’ s makes us guys here at U.I.P wonder about exactly what SETI are up to!?
Could it be that the main guys that now fund SETI again (the US military) are asking the researchers to give this kind of negative news about the Aliens!? Yes I guess there is a risk that there are aliens out there that could present a risk to us all, but on the flip side of this there could also be ET’s out there that could help educate us, and help put an end to our destructive ways.
No matter what, one thing is very clear ~ The Elite do not in any way want us to know the TRUTH and they also want us to be afraid of anybody not from this planet that we live on. I don’t know about you but I feel we need to be more afraid of those that are trying to control us NOW, our world ‘leaders’
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Mysterious Shrieking Noise in Oregon, Feb 2016, TV News Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Mysterious Shrieking Noise in Oregon, Feb 2016, TV News Videos, UFO Sighting News
Date of anomaly: February 2016 Location of anomaly: Forest Grove, Oregon News source: http://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/mysterious-shrieking-sound-frustrates-oregon-community/story?id=36998846 Around the world, strange sounds echoing across the cities are being heard. No one knows where they are coming from and no one has any answers. Often people say it sounds as if its coming from under the ground or from above in the sky itself. Is it caused by a hovering UFO in the area? Or perhaps a newly active alien base under ground? Whatever this is...people are becoming concerned.
There may be a way to find it. There are apps that you can download on your phone that measure the strength of the sound. If you live in this city, download one or two and open it up. I use "Decibel 10th" app, heres a screenshot. Move locations in 30-50 meter intervals until the app indicates the sound is getting stronger. Eventually you will find the epicenter of the sound, but you might want to use some earplugs. Good hunting. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
ABC News states: A mysterious shrieking sound has left the residents of one Oregon neighborhood seriously perplexed. Dave Nemeyer, fire marshal of the Forest Grove Fire and Rescue in Forest Grove, Oregon, told ABC News that he first learned of the strange noise after a local resident recorded and shared a video of it on the city's Facebook page. "It's definitely a horrendous noise," Nemeyer said. "I have no idea what the noise is. [The resident] described to us that it was coming from the middle of the street. To me, it sounds like the sound of train tracks, that metal screeching sound, but there are no train tracks near her home ... so that's obviously ruled out."
Rick Vanderkin, the city's public works superintendent, told ABC News that very few people have heard the sound, making it difficult to locate and even more difficult to make an "educated guess as to what's creating the noise." So far, officials have ruled out a water valve, a gas leak and wildlife as possible culprits. Forest Grove resident Colleen Ahrens told ABC News affiliate KATU in Portland that she's been woken up three or four times by the sound. "It almost sounds like someone needs to change their brakes," she said. Ahrens said her husband is a mechanic and when she described the noise to him, he thought a worn brake pad could be the source. But after she listened to the recording, she's not so sure anymore. Chester Epperson, who lives across the street from Ahrens, hadn't heard the sound himself, but dismissed it after KATU played the recording for him. "Maybe 'The X-Files' back on TV again," Epperson joked. "High-pitched, it's got a pause. I'll keep my ears out."
Top Secret UK Documents Which Prove ‘Aliens EXIST’ To Be Released In Days?
Top Secret UK Documents Which Prove ‘Aliens EXIST’ To Be Released In Days?
Apparently confidential government reports into UFO sightings – dubbed the “British X-Files” – could be made publicly available within days!
The long-awaited boost for alien hunters follows years of campaigning by the British disclosure movement, who want all world Governments to release all their alien files.
UFO researchers, backed by a House of Lords peer, have been fighting for the release of 18 top secret Ministry of Defence (MoD) files about UFO sightings from more than 30 years ago.
The Government faced claims of a cover-up from conspiracy theorists when their release was stalled at the end of 2013.
Some investigators claim the files could provide key evidence of extra-terrestrial life visiting the UK and of specific information about famous controversial sightings such as the Rendlesham Forest incident – a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights and the alleged landing of one or more craft in Suffolk in late December 1980.
Lord Black of Brentwood, who asked the Government for an update through a Parliamentary question last summer, was assured the files would be released by the MoD to the National Archives by March this year.
This could very well be HUGE news for Disclosure – A huge can of worms is about to be opened it appears!
The top-secret files could be declassified within days
This very long-awaited boost for Truth seekers follows years of campaigning by the British disclosure movement, who want all world Governments to release all their alien files.
Leading UFO researchers, backed by a House of Lords peer, have been fighting for the release of 18 top secret Ministry of Defence (MoD) files about UFO sightings from more than 30 years ago!
The British Government faced claims of a cover-up from conspiracy theorists when their release was stalled way back at the end of 2013.
Many leading investigators and researchers believe that these important files could provide key evidence of extra-terrestrial life visiting the UK and of specific information about famous controversial sightings such as the Rendlesham Forest incident – which is a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights and the alleged landing of one or more craft in Suffolk in late December 1980.
Lord Black of Brentwood, who asked the Government for an update through a Parliamentary question last summer, was assured the files would be released by the MoD to the National Archives by March this year – BUT will they stick to this promise!?
Lord Black of Brentwood DEMANDS the truth from the UK Government about the UFO’s in the skies above us!
Truth Seekers around the world are VERY confident that these records could very well prove if extra-terrestrial life actually exists, as these are the most secretive files held in the private offices of various Cabinet ministers – Although the files are being released to the National Archives, it is not yet clear when they will be available for public inspection and many people expect intentional delays, this is because the archive organisation can set its own release date!
In his Parliamentary question, Lord Black asked:
“What is the latest estimate of when the 18 files will be passed to the National Archives, and then released to the public.” He said.
Defence Minister Earl Howe replied:
“The latest estimate of when the 18 files will be delivered to the National Archives is before March 2016.
“The National Archives will make the necessary judgement about when they release these files to the public.”
A large number of older UFO files held by the UK government have already been released, including details of sightings by officials and police.
U.I.P’s friend Nick Pope, who actually used to investigate the existence of UFOs for the MoD, said the files should contain some extremely fascinating sightings.
However, referring to what is often called the most famous UFO claim in history – sparked by claims an alien spaceship crashed in New Mexico, US, in 1947 – Nick Pope added the soon-to-be-released files are probably not a “UK Roswell-style UFO in a hangar style cover up”.
When the release of the files were stalled in 2014, which the MoD blamed on “additional processing requirements”, Mr Pope sympathised with alien researchers and also believed that these were potential ‘delaying tactics’.
He said at the time:
“This massive delay will have conspiracy theorists up in arms. It looks like the MoD is stalling.
“The suspicion will be that there’s a bombshell in these files and that the Ministry does not know how to handle it.
“I can understand why conspiracy theorists will be angry and suspicious.”
Nick Pope also demands the TRUTH.
Nick Pope worked for the British MoD for at least 21 years, but was specifically assigned to investigate UFOs for an intriguing three-year period!
He said:
“Having worked on the MoD’s UFO project I’m sorry to say that we don’t have any crashed spaceships hidden away in some RAF hangar, as some believe, but we do have some fascinating and unexplained cases in our files.”
The ‘Redlesham Forest incident’, which is alleged to have taken place near RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1980, saw US Airman First Class John Burroughs, who was stationed there, exposed to radiation after a mystery “UFO visitation”.
He has since won damages from the American military, but still wants answers about what happened and hopes they will be in the new files.
Pat Frascogna, his lawyer, said:
“We know there is information contained in these MoD files about the Rendlesham Forest incident because the MoD clearly indicated so in responding to a Freedom of Information request by John Burroughs last year.”
Check out this incredible sighting at Rendlesham recently involving a British Apache Gunship and an Orb:
A large UFO and a number of small ones were reported in Long Island, New York near the Brookhaven National Laboratory. That’s the Department of Energy Lab originally set up by the Atomic Energy Commission for peacetime nuclear research. It’s also the place where the wreckage of an alien spacecraft that crashed in Long Island was rumored to be taken for storage and research. Could aliens have finally come back for their ship?
An anonymous witness from Long Island reported seeing a large cigar-shaped UFO on November 23, 2015, at around 6:45 pm. He said the silent UFO had a light at each end, changed altitude and speed quickly and hovered in one spot for over an hour. That spot was over Brookhaven National Laboratory – more on that later. It was also where the large UFO was circled by 4 or 5 smaller UFOs that all eventually disappeared. The witness claimed that he had seen UFOs often in this area and believed it has something to do with the lab.
Aerial view of the Brookhaven National Laboratory
That “something” might be a crashed UFO. According to reports from that time, on November 24, 1992, Walter Knowles saw a UFO near the vicinity of the lab at 7 pm. He stopped his car and watched the tube-shaped UFO with lights at either end along with a number of other motorists. They saw the object fly erratically and crash; then they watched a beam of white light shoot into the sky. The light was reportedly seen by residents in the area, along with what appeared to be the glow of a fire. There were also reports of telephone and cable TV outages, household appliances malfunctioning and car batteries draining.
Knowles claimed he went to the crash site but was turned away, along with local police officers, by men in black jumpsuits. He and others said they saw large objects being taken out of the area on military flatbed trucks to Brookhaven National Laboratory. A video from that time allegedly showed what appear to be bodies or body parts being taken there as well.
This is not a UFO but the lab’s Alternating Gradient Synchroton
The story of the UFO, wreckage and alien bodies has long been dismissed by the lab. The usual explanation is that the lab had the closest firefighting team and equipment and that’s why trucks and personnel were seen traveling to and from the fire.
Is this why UFOs seem to be attracted to the Brookhaven National Laboratory? Or could it be because of accidents, like the 1994 fire in the high-beam flux reactor or the 1997 leak of tritium into local groundwater? UFOs are frequently seen at nuclear sites that have had problems.
As of this writing, there has been no official comment on the latest sighting. The witness is a longtime resident who says it was not a plane from the nearby airport.
Did aliens come back to the Brookhaven lab for their compatriots?
India continues to be the hot spot for UFO activity these days. Hot on the heels of the UFOs spotted in New Delhi at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (which the Indian Air Force has orders to shoot down), a red UFO reportedly landed in a village in southwestern India. Terrified villagers said a “humanoid figure” briefly emerged from the spacecraft, then quickly reentered before the UFO took off in a shower of sparks and flashes.
The women claim that the spacecraft descended close to 500 feet from them and they could spot humanoid figures. They have no clue about aliens and they have not even heard about such things. So we are assuming that they are not lying.
That’s the comment of an investigator who interviewed field workers in Kanagal, a village in the Mysuru district in the southwestern state of Karnataka. The seven villagers who witnessed it claim the incident occurred on October 1st at about 2 pm. After the red UFO landed, the humanoid, dressed in an orange uniform, came towards them, appeared to take some photographs, then went back to the craft and left. The report of sparks and flames is unusual since most UFO witnesses say the crafts are silent and have no exhaust.
UFOs trailed by flames are unusual and may be in trouble
What did these women see? Since it’s a small farming village, some say the witnesses may have seen a military aircraft that they were unfamiliar with. However, they did recognize that the “humanoid” was using a camera (although it seems none of them had one) and that it was definitely an “-oid” and not just a human. What was this humanoid in orange? Why would it appear to take pictures of the villagers? Was it using something other than a camera? Why did it come that close but not attempt to make any other contact? Did it sense their fear? Did their rakes and shovels look like weapons?
An alien in orange … T’Pol?
Is this sighting connected to the recent one at the Indira Gandhi Airport? Kanagal is 2,300 km )1,400 miles) from New Delhi, but that’s probably nothing for an alien spacecraft, especially one that might be hiding from Indian Air Force jets looking to shoot it down. What about the sparks and flames? Was this a do-it-yourself UFO? Did it have a bumper sticker that said ‘My other spacecraft is a mother-ship’?
While we wait for more information, we should keep an eye on India, the new hotbed of UFO activity.
Of the many and varied UFO reports that have been declassified into the public domain via the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, some stand out more than others. A few reallystand out. And here’s one of them. Located in the UFO archives of the FBI, it tells the fascinating story of the tracking of a massive UFO – in 1951 – by the U.S. military. Indeed, upon reading the report, it’s very difficult to rule out the likelihood that something genuinely weird was at the heart of the affair. And it all begins like this…
An FBI document of September 20, 1951, and captioned “Flying Saucers,” reads as follows: “On September 20, Andrew J. Reid G-2 [Army Intelligence] Ft. Monmouth, NJ, provided following report of unconventional aircraft observed by radar at above Army installation. On Sept 10, fiftyone [sic], an AN/MPG-1 radar set picked up a fast moving low flying target, exact altitude undetermined at approximately 11:10 a.m., southeast of Ft. Monmouth at a range of about twelve thousand yards. The target appeared to approximately follow the coast line, changing its range only slightly but changing its azimuth rapidly. The radar set was set to full aided azimuth tracking which normally is fast enough to track jet aircraft, but in this case was too slow to be resorted to. Target was lost in the N.E. at a range of about fourteen thousand yards.”
The story gets even more controversial, as the next part of the report makes very clear: “This target also presented an unusually strong return for aircraft[,] being comparable in strength to that usually received from a coastal ship [italics mine]. The operator initially identified target as a ship and then realized that it could not be a ship after he observed its extreme speed. September 10, fiftyone [sic] an SCR-584 radar set, at 3:15p.m., tracking a target which moved about slowly in azimuth north of Ft. Monmouth at a range of about 42,000 yards at extremely unusual elevation angle.”
In no time at all, a second radar operator was tracking the movements of the “coastal ship”-sized UFO. The file states: “Both sets found it impossible to track the target in range due to it speed and the operators had to resort to manual range tracking in order to hold the target. The target was tracked in this manner to the maximum tracking range of 32,000 yards. The operator said the target to be moving at a speed several hundred mph higher than the maximum aided tracking ability of the radar sets. The target provided an extremely strong return echo at times even though it was the maximum range. However, echo signal occasionally fell off to a level below normal return. These changes coincided with maneuvers of the target.”
Things were far from over. They actually got even stranger: “On September 11, fiftyone [sic] at about 1:30 p.m. the target was picked up on an SCR-584 radar set that displayed unusual maneuverability. Target was approximately over Navesink, NJ, as indicated by his 10,000 range, 6,000 feet altitude and due north azimuth. The target remained practically stationary on the scope and appeared to be hovering [italics mine]. The operator looked out of the vehicle housing the radar in an attempt to see the target, since it was at such a short range, however, overcast conditions prevented such observation.”
Even more extraordinary maneuvers were exhibited by the UFO: “Returning to their operating position the target was observed to be changing in elevation at an extremely rapid rate, but change in range was so slow the operator believed the target must have risen nearly vertically [italics mine]…Once again the speed of the target exceeded the tracking ability of the SCR-584 set so that manual tracking became necessary…The weather was fair when the observation was made September 10th and cloudy for the September 11th report.”
Hardly surprisingly, the report provoked significant concern within the U.S. military and the intelligence community.
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CIA cover up: Spooks secrecy over UFO sightings to prevent 'mass hysteria' exposed
CIA cover up: Spooks secrecy over UFO sightings to prevent 'mass hysteria' exposed
IT HAS long been claimed the US Government, its enforcement agencies, and NASA have been involved in a massive cover up over contact with aliens and UFOs.
Old files released by the CIA have exposed the agency's previous UFO cover ups
Most notably, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have been fingered by conspiracists as being at the heart of it and even responsible for controlling the mythical men in black - mysterious black-suited shades wearing men who turn up to dampen down any UFO or alien hysteria, reportedly telling any witnesses "it didn't happen."
But has the release dampened down the conspiracy or merely confirmed it?
Tucked away in the several files now on its website are a number of references to several sightings official investigators were UNABLE to explain and orders that followed that could be interpreted as a cover up.
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Scores of unexplained UFO sightings were revealed and also a policy not to release details
There is even reference to the potential to mirror Soviet state-controlled media censureship of flying saucer sightings.
As many as 26 per cent of reported sightings could not be explained and could be down to aliens, according to reports written in the 1950s.
One is a report by the then deputy assistant director/acting chief of the Weapons & Equipment Division dated August 1, 1952 and entitled "Flying Saucers" by Edward Tauss.
It was an "overall evaluation of "flying saucer sightings" for the agency.
It told of between 1,000 and 2,000 reported sightings, most were either "phoney," known US aircraft, or natural or weather phenomena such as meteorites, clouds, tricks of the light, or reflections.
But it said there were touching 100 "reasonably credible reports" that remained "unexplainable" - meaning "interplanetary aspects and alien origin were not thoroughly excluded" - so approaching five to 10 per cent of the sightings were unresolved.
Later reports quoted higher amounts of unexplained cases at 20 and 26 per cent.
The report went on to say that while it was likely there could be explanations if more information were available, as long as there remained inexplicable reports, the CIA interest in the subject should continue.
It said: "It is recommended that CIA surveillance of subject matter, in accordance with proper authorities of primary operational concern at Air Technical Intelligence Centre, be continued.
"It is strongly urged, however, that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public, in view of their probable alarmist tendencies to accept such interest as 'confirmatory' of the soundness of the 'unpublished facts' in the hands of the US Government.
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Paragraphs from the report outlining CIA fear over public mass hysteria and the secrecy policy
The earliest UFO sightings
Although many UFO sightings often have rational explanations, a small number truly are unexplained. Here's our pick of the most compelling early UFO sightings from all over the world.
In order to minimise the risk of panic, a national policy should be established as to what should be told to the public regarding the phenomena
CIA memo
On October 2, 1952, a memo was sent from the assistant director of scientific intelligence to the director of central intelligence with the subject Flying Saucers.
It explored the risks of the general population believing aliens were visiting Earth in UFOs.
It said: "Flying saucers pose two elements of danger which have national security implications.
"The first involves mass psychological considerations and the second concerns the vulnerability of the United States to Air Attack."
It went on to recommend developing "a policy of public information which will minimise concern and possible panic resulting from the numerous sightings of unidentified objects".
The memo added that it had found no coverage in the Soviet press, even satirical, of the flying saucer subject.
It added: "With a state-controlled press, this could result only from an official policy decision.
"The question therefore arises as to whether or not these sightings could be 1) controlled or 2) predicted.
"The public concern with the phenomena, indicates that a fair proportion of our population is mentally conditioned to the acceptance of the incredible.
"In this fact lies the potential for the touching off of mass hysteria and panic.
"In order to minimise the risk of panic, a national policy should be established as to what should be told to the public regarding the phenomena."
The released files date from the 1940s to 1978, and the CIA now says it has no interest in the UFO subject, as there has since been found to be no real threat to national or world security from unexplained anaomalies.
It says there is no continued UFO media blackout underway as a result.
But conspiracists, and even respected UFO investigators, disagree and believe that a wealth of more up to date evidence is being kept from the public.
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) is a not-for-profit organisation which investigates UFO and alien phenomena across the globe.
Jan Harzan, executive director of the US-Based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), said he believes the CIA releases were: "Just trying to play off the X-Files TV show to show themselves to be friendly to the American public.
"What would be very helpful is if they would release the 1,000s of reports they probably have since 1978 and even some of the gun camera video footage they have of military jets chasing these objects across the sky, and provide the analysis of what these object could be."
One of the most fascinating of all UFO encounters – an incident that almost resulted in a mid-air collision between a UFO and a Meteor jet – occurred over Royal Air Force Gaydon, Warwickshire, England, on the night of October 21, 1957. Less than a week later, the UK media was chasing down the story. Describing RAF Gaydon as “one of the RAF’s top V-bomber stations,” the Sunday Express newspaper stated that the Air Ministry (today, the Ministry of Defense) had taken rapid steps to get to the heart of the mystery.
Reportedly, the UFO was seen visually by the pilot and tracked by ground-radar personnel – and only a few minutes apart. Questions, unsurprisingly, were quickly being asked: could the UFO actually have been a Soviet spy-plane? It was certainly a scenario that the Air Ministry felt important enough to address. Although – as will become apparent – the description given by the pilot did not sound like that of the average Russian aircraft. Plus, six days after the event occurred, Air Ministry staff were still scratching their heads.
The Sunday Express revealed something notable: “The Air Ministry is awaiting the report of a senior intelligence officer who has visited Gaydon and other stations concerned. This is the first time that an unidentified flying object – as the Air Ministry calls them – has been detected both from the air and the ground.”
The facts were as follows: At 9:18 p.m. on the night in question, Flying Officer D.R. Sweeney – who was described as “a pilot of considerable experience” – was flying aMeteor on a training mission from RAF Station North Luffenham. All was normal until Sweeney reached a height of approximately 28,000 feet. As he flew in a westerly direction, Sweeney “almost collided” with an unidentified object. Whatever the nature of the craft, Sweeney was only sure of three things: (A) the UFO was illuminated by six lights; (B) it was flying at a very slow speed; and (C) he was directly over RAF Gaydon when the encounter occurred, and where “atom-bomber crews train in Valiants.”
Such was his extremely close proximity to the UFO at one point, Flying Officer Sweeney was forced to take immediate “violent avoiding action” after he approached the unknown craft from the starboard side. As Sweeney got closer to the UFO it quickly extinguished its lights and vanished from view. It was, however, when he was at his closest to the object that Sweeney was able to take a careful, but quick, look at it before it disappeared. Oddly, he described the UFO as having a “blurred” outline, adding that it was not of any appreciable size. In fact, quite the opposite.
Back to the Sunday Express: “Senior officers at once connected Flying Officer Sweeney’s report with a radar sighting reported a few minutes earlier from RAF Station Langtoft.” Sure enough, the radar report from Langtoft placed the UFO at 28,000 feet over RAF Gaydon – which accorded exactly with Sweeney’s report. Hasty checks revealed that no other military aircraft were in the area. That went for civilian aircraft, too.
Back in the 1990s, I tried – unsuccessfully – to find the official report on Flying Officer Sweeney’s encounter in the National Archives, Kew, England. We’re told by officialdom that a certain number of early UFO reports held by the Air Ministry were routinely destroyed after a handful of years. Perhaps, that’s what happened to the “Sweeney file.” On the other hand, maybe it’s still filed away, hidden, lost, or misplaced. Maybe, one day, it will surface. If it does, we might know whether or not – back in October 1957 – a UK military aircraft almost collided with something suspected as being not of this earth. Or, maybe, Russian. Although, given the alleged widespread destruction of 1950s-era files said to contain extraordinary UFO data, I’m hardly holding my breath.
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Five-dimensional black hole could 'break' general relativity
Five-dimensional black hole could 'break' general relativity
Researchers have shown how a bizarrely shaped black hole could cause Einstein's general theory of relativity, a foundation of modern physics, to break down. However, such an object could only exist in a universe with five or more dimensions.
The researchers, from the University of Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London, have successfully simulated a black hole shaped like a very thin ring, which gives rise to a series of 'bulges' connected by strings that become thinner over time. These strings eventually become so thin that they pinch off into a series of miniatureblack holes, similar to how a thin stream of water from a tap breaks up into droplets.
Ring-shaped black holes were 'discovered' by theoretical physicists in 2002, but this is the first time that their dynamics have been successfully simulated using supercomputers. Should this type of black hole form, it would lead to the appearance of a 'naked singularity', which would cause the equations behind general relativity to break down. The results are published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
General relativity underpins our current understanding of gravity: everything from the estimation of the age of the stars in the universe, to the GPS signals we rely on to help us navigate, is based on Einstein's equations. In part, the theory tells us that matter warps its surrounding spacetime, and what we call gravity is the effect of that warp. In the 100 years since it was published, general relativity has passed every test that has been thrown at it, but one of its limitations is the existence of singularities
A singularity is a point where gravity is so intense that space, time, and the laws of physics, break down. General relativity predicts that singularities exist at the centre of black holes, and that they are surrounded by an event horizon - the 'point of no return', where the gravitational pull becomes so strong that escape is impossible, meaning that they cannot be observed from the outside.
"As long as singularities stay hidden behind an event horizon, they do not cause trouble and general relativity holds - the 'cosmic censorship conjecture' says that this is always the case," said study co-author Markus Kunesch, a PhD student at Cambridge's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP). "As long as the cosmic censorship conjecture is valid, we can safely predict the future outside of black holes. Because ultimately, what we're trying to do in physics is to predict the future given knowledge about the state of the universe now."
But what if a singularity existed outside of an event horizon? If it did, not only would it be visible from the outside, but it would represent an object that has collapsed to an infinite density, a state which causes the laws of physics to break down. Theoretical physicists have hypothesised that such a thing, called a naked singularity, might exist in higher dimensions.
"If naked singularities exist, general relativity breaks down," said co-author Saran Tunyasuvunakool, also a PhD student from DAMTP. "And if general relativity breaks down, it would throw everything upside down, because it would no longer have any predictive power - it could no longer be considered as a standalone theory to explain the universe."
We think of the universe as existing in three dimensions, plus the fourth dimension of time, which together are referred to as spacetime. But, in branches of theoretical physics such as string theory, the universe could be made up of as many as 11 dimensions. Additional dimensions could be large and expansive, or they could be curled up, tiny, and hard to detect. Since humans can only directly perceive three dimensions, the existence of extra dimensions can only be inferred through very high energy experiments, such as those conducted at the Large Hadron Collider.
Einstein's theory itself does not state how many dimensions there are in the universe, so theoretical physicists have been studying general relativity in higher dimensions to see if cosmic censorship still holds. The discovery of ring-shaped black holes in five dimensions led researchers to hypothesise that they could break up and give rise to a naked singularity.
What the Cambridge researchers, along with their co-author Pau Figueras from Queen Mary University of London, have found is that if the ring is thin enough, it can lead to the formation of naked singularities.
Using the COSMOS supercomputer, the researchers were able to perform a full simulation of Einstein's complete theory in higher dimensions, allowing them to not only confirm that these 'black rings' are unstable, but to also identify their eventual fate. Most of the time, a black ring collapses back into a sphere, so that the singularity would stay contained within the event horizon. Only a very thin black ring becomes sufficiently unstable as to form bulges connected by thinner and thinner strings, eventually breaking off and forming a naked singularity. New simulation techniques and computer code were required to handle these extreme shapes.
"The better we get at simulating Einstein's theory of gravity in higher dimensions, the easier it will be for us to help with advancing new computational techniques - we're pushing the limits of what you can do on a computer when it comes to Einstein's theory," said Tunyasuvunakool. "But if cosmic censorship doesn't hold in higher dimensions, then maybe we need to look at what's so special about a four-dimensional universe that means it does hold."
The cosmic censorship conjecture is widely expected to be true in our four-dimensional universe, but should it be disproved, an alternative way of explaining the universe would then need to be identified. One possibility is quantum gravity, which approximates Einstein's equations far away from a singularity, but also provides a description of new physics close to the singularity.
The COSMOS supercomputer at the University of Cambridge is part of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) DiRAC HPC Facility.
Scientists have discovered something truly remarkable above the Earth’s atmosphere. An invisible shield is located approximately 7,200 miles above Earth that scientists are likening to “force fields on Star Trek.”
According to Front Line Desk, the shield was discovered in the Van Allen radiation belts, two doughnut-shaped rings above Earth that are filled with high-energy electrons and protons. Held in place by Earth’s magnetic field, the Van Allen radiation belts swell and shrink in response to incoming energy disturbances from the sun. The Van Allen radiation belts were first discovered back in 1958. However, scientists only discovered two belts, an inner and outer belt extending up to 25,000 miles above Earth’s surface.
WOW! Scientists Discover 'Invisible Shield' Around Earth, Baffled At How It Formed!
However, last year, Professor Daniel Baker from the University of Colorado Boulder and his team used the twin Van Allen Probes launched in 2012 to discover a third, transient ‘storage ring.’ According to their research, the third belt is located between the previously known inner and outer Van Allen radiation belts. This belt is different in that it seems to come and go as space weather changes.
The purpose of the ring was quite clear to the researchers — the ring is used to block killer electrons from entering deeper into the Earth’s atmosphere. These electrons can be extremely devastating at their near-light speed and have been known to threaten astronauts, fry satellites and damage space systems.
Beta Wired notes that Baker likened the invisible shield to Star Trek force fields. The Earth’s magnetic field holds the belts in place, but the scientist says that the electrons in these belts — which travel at nearly the speed of light — are being blocked by some invisible force that reminded him of the kind of shields used in television series like Star Trek to stop alien energy weapons from vaporizing starships. However, in the case of Earth, the invisible shield is being used to stop killer electrons from entering the atmosphere.
Prior to the invisible shield discovery, scientists assumed that electrons making it into the upper atmosphere of the planet would be dispersed by air molecules, but it looks like these particles don’t even get that far thanks to Earth’s invisible electron shield.
Now that the scientists know the invisible shield exists, they are trying to determine how it was formed and exactly how it works.
“It’s almost like these electrons are running into a glass wall in space. It’s an extremely puzzling phenomenon.”
The 2 Most Dangerous Numbers in The Universe are Threatening the End of Physics
The 2 Most Dangerous Numbers in The Universe are Threatening the End of Physics
CERN has stated that the LHCb experiment had discovered the presence of two new baryon subatomic particles. A deeply worrying and controversial line of thinking has emerged within the physics community. It's the idea that we are reaching the utter limit of what we can understand about the world around us through science. "The next few years may tell us whether we'll be capable of continuing to increase our understanding of nature or whether maybe, for the first time in the history of science, we could be facing questions that we cannot answer," Harry Cliff, a particle physicist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research — better known as CERN — said in a latest TED talk in Geneva, Switzerland.
Equally scary is the reason for this imminent limit, which Cliff says is because "the laws of physics forbid it." At the core of Cliff's argument are what he calls the two most dangerous numbers in the cosmos. These numbers are accountable for all the matter, structure, and life that we witness across the cosmos. And if these two numbers were even somewhat different, says Cliff, the cosmos would be an empty, lifeless place.
Dangerous No. 1: The strength of the Higgs field
The first dangerous number on Cliff's list is a value that signifies the strength of what physicists call the Higgs field, an unseen energy field not completely unlike other magnetic fields that permeates the cosmos. As particles swim through the Higgs field, they gain mass to ultimately become the protons, neutrons, and electrons comprising all of the atoms that make up you, me, and everything we see around us. Without it, we wouldn't be here. We know with near certainty that the Higgs field exists because of a revolutionary finding in 2012, when CERN physicists discovered a new elementary particle called the Higgs boson. According to theory, you can't have a Higgs boson without a Higgs field. But there's something enigmatic about the Higgs field that continues to perturb physicists like Cliff. According to Einstein's theory of general relativity and the theory of quantum mechanics — the two theories in physics that drive our understanding of the cosmos on incredibly large and extremely small scales — the Higgs field should be performing one of two tasks, says Cliff. Either it should be turned off, meaning it would have a strength value of zero and wouldn't be working to give particles mass, or it should be turned on, and, as the theory goes, this "on value" is "absolutely enormous," Cliff says. But neither of those two scenarios are what physicists observe. "In reality, the Higgs field is just slightly on," says Cliff. "It's not zero, but it's ten-thousand-trillion times weaker than it's fully on value — a bit like a light switch that got stuck just before the 'off' position. And this value is crucial. If it were a tiny bit different, then there would be no physical structure in the universe." Why the strength of the Higgs field is so absurdly weak defies understanding. Physicists hope to find an answer to this question by discovering brand-new particles at the recently upgraded particle accelerator at CERN. So far, though, they're still hunting.
Dangerous No. 2: The strength of dark energy
The distribution of dark matter is shown in blue and the gas distribution in orange. This simulation is for the present state of the cosmos and is centered on a massive galaxy cluster. The area shown is approximately 300 million light-years across. Cliff's second dangerous number doubles as what physicists have called "the worst theoretical prediction in the history of physics." This dangerous number deals in the depths of deep space and a mind-meltingly complex phenomenon called dark energy. Dark energy, a repulsive force that's accountable for the accelerating expansion of our universe, was first measured in 1998. Still, "we don't know what dark energy is," Cliff admits. "But the best idea is that it's the energy of empty space itself — the energy of the vacuum." If this is true, you should be capable of summing up all the energy of empty space to get a value demonstrating the strength of dark energy. And though theoretical physicists have done so, there's one gigantic problem with their answer: "Dark energy should be 10120 times stronger than the value we detect from astronomy," Cliff said. "This is a number so mind-bogglingly enormous that it's impossible to get your head around ... this number is greater than any number in astronomy — it's a thousand-trillion-trillion-trillion times bigger than the number of atoms in the cosmos. That's a pretty bad prediction." On the bright side, we're lucky that dark energy is smaller than theorists forecast. If it followed our theoretical models, then the repulsive force of dark energy would be so enormous that it would literally rip our universe apart. The fundamental forces that bind atoms together would be powerless against it and nothing could ever form — galaxies, stars, planets, and life as we know it would not exist. On the other hand, it's tremendously frustrating that we can't use our present theories of the cosmos to develop a better measurement of dark energy that agrees with existing observations. Even better than improving our theories would be to find a way that we can understand why the strength of dark energy and the Higgs field is what it is.
Getting answers could be impossible
Cliff said there is one likely way to get some answers, but we might never have the ability to prove it. If we could somehow confirm that our cosmos is just one in a vast multiverse of billions of other cosmoses, then "suddenly we can understand the weirdly fine-tuned values of these two dangerous numbers [because] in most of the multiverse dark energy is so strong that the cosmos gets torn apart, or the Higgs field is so weak that no atoms can form," Cliff said. To prove this, physicists need to find new particles that would uphold drastic theories like string theory, which predicts the presence of a multiverse. Right now, there's only one place in the world that could perhaps produce these particles, if they exist, and that's the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. And physicists only have two to three years before CERN shuts the LHC down for upgrades. If we haven't found anything by then, Cliff said, it could signal the beginning of the end.
"We may be entering a new era in physics. An era where there are weird features in the universe that we cannot explain. An era where we have hints that we live in a multiverse that lies frustratingly beyond our reach. An era where we will never be able to answer the question why is there something rather than nothing."
Apollo 10 astronauts reported hearing odd 'music' on far side of moon
Apollo 10 astronauts reported hearing odd 'music' on far side of moon
Gene Cernan was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 10 and later commanded Apollo 17. (NASA)
The astronauts who flew the dress rehearsal for the first lunar landing reported hearing mysterious “outer space-type music” while flying behind the moon in May 1969.
The case of the odd, unexplained whistling noise is uncovered during an upcoming episode of the Science Channel series, “NASA’s Unexplained Files.”The episode focuses on a strange event experienced by the crew members of Apollo 10, a mission which flew to the moon, entered lunar orbit and got within 5,000 feet of the moon’s surface in preparation for Apollo 11’s historic flight two months later.
The Apollo 10 astronauts – Tom Stafford, John Young and Eugene Cernan – can be heard on recordings from the flight talking about the strange sound, and whether to tell NASA about it.
“It sounds like, you know, outer space-type music,” one of the astronauts says.
“Shall we tell [NASA] about it?” an astronaut asks.
“I don’t know,” another replies. “We ought to think about it.”
There’s no record of the astronauts discussing the noise with NASA or with the public. It’s unclear if the astronauts ever heard the noise on subsequent passes on the far side of the moon or if other astronauts on subsequent missions heard the sound. Young eventually flew back to the moon and walked on it as the commander of Apollo 16. Cernan commanded the Apollo 17 mission and was the last man to walk on the moon. Stafford flew in space again, but never journeyed back to the moon.
The May 1969 tapes were recorded while Stafford, Young and Cernan were on the far side of the moon, out of radio communication with Earth. The whistling sound lasted nearly the entire hour the astronauts were out of touch. Later, the recordings were sent back to Mission Control where they were transcribed, archived and classified, per protocol.
The conversation was eventually unearthed in 2008.
Some technicians have speculated the sound may have originated from interference from VHF radios on the command module and lunar module interacting with each other, according to researcher and author Andrew Chaikin.
But not everyone buys that explanation.
“The Apollo 10 crew is very used to the kind of noise that they should be hearing,” Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot Al Worden said in a clip from the episode. “Logic tells me that if there was something recorded on there, then there was something there.”
To Make a Moon Village, Think Beyond Science and Engineering (Op-Ed)
To Make a Moon Village, Think Beyond Science and Engineering (Op-Ed)
By Tomoya Mori, Brown University
The European Space Agency has been looking at what it takes to construct a moon outpost.
Credit: ESA/ Foster + Partners
Tomoya Mori is a senior at Brown University pursuing interdisciplinary studies in space exploration, multimedia and education. He is a co-founder at Metaplaneta, a creative think tank that investigates a multidisciplinary approach to space. He contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
"Been there, done that." President Barack Obama famously used that line to help shift the world's attention from the moon to Mars as a space destination in recent years, though the debate on where to go next continues. But whether humanity wants to colonize the moon or terraform Mars, establishing a settlement on other celestial bodies is a challenge of immense scale.
So a more important question to ask is this: What does it take to establish a permanent human presence outside of Earth?
Beyond the usual suspects
This question presents a great diversity of challenges that transcend disciplines. It goes beyond the realm of science and engineering, the two fields often considered the core of space exploration, and include politics, law, architecture, business and design. Extending a human presence beyond the planet will depend on diversifying the space community to include broader interests and perspectives.
Already, a number of institutions collectively foster a multidisciplinary environment within the space industry. The Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) in the University of Houston offers the world's only master of science program in space architecture. Other institutions educate students about space law and policy, including the George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs in Washington, D.C., and Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy in Houston.
These unique programs equip their students with specialized knowledge and skills for the field of space travel. The real value, however, is in bringing new perspectives to the ever-growing space industry. [Moon Base Visions: How to Build a Lunar Colony (Photos )]
Currently, most of those disciplines are functionally independent. Rarely do politicians talk about the architecture of space vehicles, or scientists talk about the potential of space business. But in reality, those fields are so intertwined that interdisciplinary fusion can be a real game-changer.
The space industry should focus not merely on diversification, but also on the process by which diverse disciplines interact. It is time to take a more transparent, integrative and interdisciplinary approach to space exploration.
One method for integrating disciplines, called the integrated design approach (IDA), has proven effective in sustainable design and could provide the same benefits for space.
Lessons from an HVAC
Traditionally, designers have used a linear process to construct sustainable buildings. Architects make sketches and pass them on to the engineers, who evaluate the designs and then assign subcontractors, and so on. However, with that approach, time and money are already running out by the time conflicts and problems arise.
IDA is successful because it involves all project members from the beginning, allowing them to identify and resolve potential conflicts earlier in the process. And the multidisciplinary environment forces project members to think outside their immediate areas of expertise, inspiring innovative solutions to problems and generally producing more energy-efficient and cost-effective results.
For example, in the book "Integrative Design Guide to Green Building" (John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 2009), the authors present real-life situations in which IDA led to a surprisingly efficient outcome. The book was written by 7group, a multidisciplinary team dedicated to sustainability and regeneration, and Bill Reed, a proponent and practitioner of sustainability and regeneration.
In the example, a team of architects, landscape designers and engineers was determining the placement of an HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning) system in an office building, and the architect asked the mechanical engineer to provide an answer. The engineer was stunned, at first. Even though he had more than 20 years of experience designing HVAC systems, never in his life had anyone asked him where to locate one. After a few minutes, he provided a solution that turned out to be extremely efficient and cost-effective. Instead of placing the necessary mechanical room on the roof, which the architects had done in the last project, the engineer proposed placing heat-pump units on the ground floor of the building. Not only did this solution reduce the piping work and save $40,000 in construction costs, it also led to simplified maintenance and significant operational savings.
From that experience, the team realized the importance of questioning assumptions. All components of a building are interdependent, and therefore everyone's input should be respected — not only individuals within one's own area of expertise, but also everyone else in a team.
Innovative solutions or strategies often come from unexpected sources, and in this example, the multidisciplinary environment was critical to promoting openness and stimulating everyone's creativity.
In this artist's rendering, a 3D printing robot pours layer after layer of hardened lunar dirt and dust onto an inflatable dome shell, 3D printing a lunar base.
Credit: ESA/Foster + Partners
Finding transparency (literally)
The work of Danish architects in the Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) provides another illustration. In 2009, the Urban Planning Department of Tallinn, Estonia, and the Union of Estonian Architects held an international competition for a new town hall in in Tallinn. Throughout the design process, the BIG architects received input from the jury about the citizens’ needs and take into account of the city’s governance system. The design had to be flexible and accommodate unexpected demands.
The BIG group's solution was simple yet quite novel; it was to increase the transparency between the citizens and politicians, to improve governance and the town's participatory democracy.
The BIG town hall design has myriad glass windows and an open structure, offering the politicians daylight and a view of the city marketplace, and offering the town's citizens a chance to see their elected officials at work.
Although the mayor of Tallinn had expressed his hope to build a new city hall, the proposal still remains a mere design, albeit one that shows the effectiveness of integrated design. Here, the architects not only provided a great working space for politicians, but also unified the city as a whole.
Space habitation is not just space travel
Space infrastructures are, in essence, organic systems. They need to be more self-sustaining than any regenerative and sustainable green buildings on Earth. And because of the constrained living conditions they present, such buildings must include input from the astronauts and travelers who might use them, and the input from a range of designers, engineers and others.
For example, the habitation modules of the International Space Station must address energy and thermal balance, waste management, mechanical structure, and architecture, in addition to comfort and privacy, among other factors.
The Habitation Design Center in NASA's Johnson Space Center often invites astronauts as consultants to improve module designs and make them more human-centered. It may seem obvious, but it is crucial that space vehicles be designed with feedback from astronauts, instead of becoming function-based machines like fighter planes. Rarely does one see inhabitants involved in the design process of an Earth-bound structure.
For missions, like space colonization, of a larger scale, the IDA approach is even more necessary. Settling on a celestial body is far different from simply going there. To establish a sustainable living space in such a hostile environment, one needs to not only think about science and engineering, but also consider psychological, architectural, societal, political and economic aspects.
Moon Master: An Easy Quiz for Lunatics
For most of human history, the moon was largely a mystery. It spawned awe and fear and to this day is the source of myth and legend. But today we know a lot about our favorite natural satellite. Do you?
Targeting the moon
Today, many of the world's space agencies have expressed interest in sending humans to the moon. Johann-Dietrich Woerner, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), has been pushing his vision to establish a moon village. Although the agency has yet to officially approve that plan, his message has gone global.
Despite the hint of novelty it carries, the concept of lunar colonization existed long before the Apollo era. Numerous books and papers have presented promising plans for a lunar colony, but none have been realized, or even attempted. One of the fundamental obstacles is financial. Even if the moon village concept succeeded, most taxpayers would not understand why it was worth the cost.
And yet, the moon has the potential to help humanity grow as a species. A lunar colony could be a model for a sustainable ecosystem, a testing ground to strengthen international collaboration, a giant laboratory for cutting-edge scientific experiments and technological innovation, a platform for new businesses, a stepping-stone for further exploration of the solar system, and a mental exercise for challenging norms.
But if humanity is to establish a lunar colony, the world must employ IDA, involving all key players at the start.
Space horizons 2016: international city on the moon
Over the weekend of Feb. 19 to 21, Brown University in Rhode Island will host Space Horizons 2016, a student-focused, three-day integrative workshop that brings students and professionals from all disciplines to conceptualize an international lunar city.
The event will consist of four workshops — Politics, Infrastructure, Science, and Business & Technology — that will ask several questions: What would politically motivate participating countries? What is the economic value of a lunar city, and what commercial opportunities can sustain the lunar economy? What new experiments would emerge on a lunar base, and how would they help humanity live on the moon and beyond? What infrastructure is required to sustain a lunar ecosystem?
Through the integrated-design approach, participants will be encouraged to think beyond their immediate expertise, and to recognize the connections between their skills and the space industry, making space more tangible to everybody. Each workshop will have experienced mentors and professionals, including representatives from NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the Lunar and Planetary Institute, PoliSpace, Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture, Masten Space Systems, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Brown University, Yale University in New Jersey, the University of Central Florida and the Rhode Island School of Design. Ultimately, the findings may lead to a joint project or publication.
But Space Horizons 2016 is not the first to take on the moon village concept. At the end of last year, ESA European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) hosted "The Moon Village Workshop", which took place in conjunction with International Symposium on Moon 2020-2030. The workshop invited professionals and students from all over the world to discuss and propose ideas to consolidate visions for the moon village concept. The participants were split into three groups: Moon Habitat Design, Science and Technology Potential in the Moon Village, and Engaging Stakeholders.
The three working groups came up with several recommended actions to be taken by the director general of ESA, including the design and operations of a moon-base simulation at the European Astronaut Centre and the engagement of the most direct stakeholders, such as media, national governments and citizens, at the next ESA Ministerial Council Meeting.
It takes time for educational strategies to prove their effectiveness. And as long as the moon village concept remains a vision, it will be challenging to involve people from nonspace industries, especially in an era in which the space industry is generally considered exclusive to rocket scientists.
However, the future of space exploration is in widening the community. Most innovative ideas are the products of interdisciplinary fusions. Just as much as technological advancements will accelerate space exploration, broader interests and perspectives will also catalyze the process of establishing space colonies. The integrated-design approach has the potential to not only open up new perspectives, but also offer a younger generation an opportunity to design the future of space exploration and radically change humanity's perception of space. It is those people who will advance society into the universe.
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The real life X Files: CIA release former top secret documents about 'alien UFOs landing on earth'
The real life X Files: CIA release former top secret documents about 'alien UFOs landing on earth'
FORMER secret documents detailing a series of strange encounters with UFOs and aliens have been released by the CIA.
The previously unseen files date back to the 1950s
The files, which date back to the 1950s, contain extraordinary witness accounts of extraterrestrials landing on earth.
One document from 1952 is a sworn testimony by former mayor of German town Gleimershausen, Oscar Linke.
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One document from 1952 is a sworn testimony by Oscar Linke, former mayor of German town Gleimershausen CIA
He told how he and 11-year-old daughter Gabriella came into contact with two men in "shiny metallic clothing" and a large object resembling "a huge frying pan".
He described how one of the men had a "lamp" on the front part of his body which "lit up at regular intervals".
In the document Linke recounted the moment his daughter called on him from several metres behind which disturbed the two men.
He said the strange pair then climbed into the object which turned from green to red and began to "glitter" and "hum".
It then reportedly began to "rise slowly from the ground and rotate like a toy" before it disappeared "over the heights and forests".
Linke admitted he would have thought he and his daughter were "dreaming" if not for what happened next.
He explained: "When the object had disappeared, I went to the place where it had been.
"I found a circular opening in the ground and it was quite evident that it was freshly dug."
The file contains accounts from several others living in the area at the time who also reported seeing a similar comet-like object.
Another document from the same year tells of "two fiery disks" sighted in the southern part of the Belgian Congo in the Elisabethville district, now known as Lubumbashi.
According to the report, the disks "glided in elegant curves and changed their position many times" giving off a "penetrating hissing and buzzing sound".
Airman Commander Pierre attempted to pursue the objects in a fighter plane and came within around 120m of one of the discs.
Commander Pierre came within around 120m of one of the discs
Pierre sketched an outline of what he saw
He described the outer rim of the UFO as "veiled in fire" with "an enormous speed of rotation".
The account explained: "Pierre did not regard it possible that the disc could be manned, since the irregular speed as well as the heat wiuld make it impossible for a person to stay inside the stable core."
He estimated their speed to be around 900mph.
One more report from May of 1952 tells of a mysterious flying object emitting flashing light over Barcelona.
The journalist who spotted it, Valentin Garcia, said: "The newspaper office was soon flooded with telephone calls from people who had seen the object."
The following month other witness accounts describe similar incidents over Meknes, Taourirt and Casblanca in Morocco and Algiers in Tunisia.
REAL LIFE X FILES: Once top secret documents reveal a catalogue of unbelievable UFO sightings
The declassified documents detail a catalogue of mysterious encounters with flying saucers and aliens.
In reports going back decades, stunned witnesses describe strange crafts moving at speed through the skies.
Others mention meetings with shadowy figures or bizarre recordings of noises in space.
And if they’re to be believed, the accounts are more incredible than the supposed alien crash at Roswell.
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NOT OF THIS WORLD: Oskar Linke's story about encountering a UFO was among those held by the CIA
“I would have thought that both my daughter and I were dreaming”
Oskar Linke
A file from 1952 gives the sworn testimony of Oskar Linke, the former mayor of Gleimershausen in Germany.
He describes how he spotted two men in “shiny metallic clothing” – one of them with a glowing lamp on his body.
Next to them was a large object "like a huge frying pan" which – when Oskar’s daughter called out to him – they climbed into.
"The object rose to a horizontal position,” he said, “turned toward a neighbouring town, and then disappeared over the heights and forests."
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STUNNED: Oskar said it felt like he and his daughter Gabriella were dreaming
He added: "I would have thought that both my daughter and I were dreaming if it were not for the following element involved.
"When the object had disappeared, I went to the place where it had been.
"I found a circular opening in the ground and it was quite evident that it was freshly dug."
The file notes how many others living in the same area later related to seeing a comet-like object at the time.
Another file from that year describes two "fiery disks" seen lurking over a uranium mine in what was then the Belgian Congo.
Both glided in “elegant curves” said an eyewitness, before coming to a stop mid-air and taking off in a zig-zag fashion.
Commander Pierre, who flew after them from an airfield in Elisabethville - today called Lubumbashi, sketched them.
And the airman – who is described as a "dependable officer" – predicted their speed to be approximately 900mph.
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CLOSE ENCOUNTER: Commander Pierre even sketched the UFO he saw, inset
One more account from May of that year describes a strange object soaring over Barcelona emitting flashes of light.
The journalist who saw it, Valentin Garcia, said: "The newspaper office was soon flooded with telephone calls from people who had seen the object."
Further sightings from different witnesses the following month describe similar encounters over Algiers in Tunisia, and Meknes, Taourirt and Casblanca in Morocco.
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COINCIDENCE: This file recorded several similar sightings in Spain, Tunisia and Morocco
Daily Star Online contacted leading UFO sceptic Robert Sheaffer to try and secure a scientific explanation for the declassified files.
He said: "If you go through old newspapers and UFO books, you will find numerous sensational sightings of landed saucers, little men, etc.
"And none of them have ever resulted in anything beyond the original account."
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"No evidence, no follow-up, in more than 60 years," he added. "No clear photos have turned up, and no artifacts."
Mr Sheaffer, author of Bad UFOs, added "We understand much more clearly than we did 60 years ago what is wrong with uncritically accepting human recollections as being accurate."
But what do you think? Perhaps we’ll never know. Or perhaps the truth is out there.
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Nederlander filmt planeten naast zon vanuit vliegtuig ( VIDEO )
Nederlander filmt planeten naast zon vanuit vliegtuig ( VIDEO )
Vorige week publiceerden wij een artikel met daarin opnamen van twee planeten nabij de zon genomen vanuit een vliegtuig en die na onderzoek echt bleken te zijn.
Afgelopen zaterdag vloog er een landgenoot van Innsbruck in Oostenrijk naar Rotterdam en ook hij zag en filmde een aantal planeten rondom de zon.
Alleen al in dit nog prille jaar zijn er inmiddels talloze opnames gemaakt van één of meerdere planeten zichtbaar naast en rondom de zon.
Uiteraard zullen een aantal van die opnames verklaard kunnen worden als lens flares of bekende hemellichamen zoals de planeet Venus, maar een fiks aantal kan ook niet op die manier verklaard worden.
Zo hadden we vorige week een artikel over een Duitser die tijdens een vlucht van Zürich naar Hamburg een aantal planeten filmde vanuit een vliegtuig. Deze opname is door de onderzoeker Marshall Masters bestudeerd en hij komt tot de conclusie dat deze opname echt is en zich daar wel degelijk een aantal planeten bevinden.
Nu kregen wij een aantal filmopnames toegestuurd van een lezer die afgelopen zaterdag van Innsbruck naar Rotterdam vloog.
Ook daarop zijn meerdere planeten waar te nemen naast de zon. De lens flare in het beeld beweegt en verplaatst/verdwijnt terwijl de "tweede zon" op positie blijft.
Het volgende is wat de lezer schrijft:
Volg al geruime tijd jullie website bedankt voor alle info.
Vanmorgen een vlucht gehad vanaf Innsbruck - Rotterdam en daarbij meerdere planeten gezien rond de zon en ze gefilmd. Heb een klein stukje mee gestuurd.
Na het stijgen kregen we de zon in de rug en lukte het niet meer.
Later op de vlucht nog wel wat beelden die heb ik eventueel ook met 2 zichtbaar rond de zon.
Als wij het bericht goed hebben begrepen is de eerste video gefilmd toen hij direct zicht op de zon had en de andere twee door de telefoon omhoog te houden richting zon.
Bij het eerste filmpje van gisteren had ik wel zicht op de zon. Had me gepolariseerde zonnebril op gedaan. En daar zag ik die ervoor en erachter. Die rechter volgens mij niet maar het ging allemaal erg snel. Mijn telefoon geeft Barwies aan als locatie om 09:55. We gingen om 09.50 de lucht in.
Mysterieuze 150 kilometer lange muur in Jordanië stelt archeologen voor raadsel
Mysterieuze 150 kilometer lange muur in Jordanië stelt archeologen voor raadsel
Een 150 kilometer lange muur in Jordanië stelt archeologen voor een raadsel. Niemand weet wanneer of door wie de muur is gebouwd of wat het doel van de muur was.
De muur, die bekend staat als Khatt Shebib, werd in 1948 ontdekt door Sir Alec Kirkbridge, een Britse diplomaat in Jordanië. Vanuit het vliegtuig zag hij een stenen muur die door het land liep.
Torens
Archeologen hebben de resten van de muur onderzocht aan de hand van luchtfoto’s. Ze ontdekten dat de muur zich uitstrekt over een afstand van 106 kilometer. “Als de resten van een parallelle muur worden meegerekend is de muur in totaal 150 kilometer lang,” zei Rebecca Banks van de Oxford-universiteit in het Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie.
De muur is ongeveer een meter hoog en een halve meter breed. De archeologen hebben ook resten gevonden van zo’n 100 torens met een doorsnee van twee tot vier meter. Sommige torens zijn later pas gebouwd, aldus de onderzoekers.
Aardewerk
Archeologen hebben geen idee wanneer of door wie de muur is gebouwd en waarom. Op basis van aardewerk dat in de torens is gevonden, kunnen de onderzoekers zeggen dat de muur waarschijnlijk ergens tussen 312 voor Christus en 750 na Christus is gebouwd.
Er is meer onderzoek nodig om alle mysteries rond de muur op te lossen. Luchtfoto’s zullen geen antwoord geven op de belangrijkste vragen en daarom zal er veldwerk moeten worden verricht.
Apollo-astronauten hoorden onverklaarbare muziek aan achterkant van de maan
Apollo-astronauten hoorden onverklaarbare muziek aan achterkant van de maan
In 1969 bereikte Apollo 10 de maan. Het ruimtetuig vloog ook langs de achterkant van de maan, waar radiocontact met de aarde niet mogelijk is. Alles ging volgens plan. Althans, dat dacht men lange tijd.
Na bijna 40 jaar kwamen opnames naar buiten waaruit bleek dat de drie astronauten boven de achterkant van de maan iets vreemds hebben meegemaakt. Op de opnames is vreemde ruimtemuziek te horen via de radio van de Apollo, schrijft de Huffington Post.
De ruimtevaarders werden geconfronteerd met een geluid dat ze niet konden plaatsen en zelf een soort kosmische ruimtemuziek noemden.
De drie astronauten gaven aan dat ze geluiden hoorden die ze nog nooit eerder hadden gehoord. “Het klinkt als een soort kosmische ruimtemuziek. Hoor je dat? Dat fluitende geluid? Whoooooo! Dat is zeker rare muziek!”
De onverklaarbare muziek was ongeveer een uur te horen. De astronauten waren zo opgeschrikt door de kosmische klanken dat ze twijfelden om hun ervaring met de ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA te delen.
Vlak voordat het radiocontact met Houston weer mogelijk werd overwogen Thomas Stafford, John Young en Eugene Cernan om het aan Mission Control te melden. “Het is ongelooflijk! Zullen we het hen vertellen? Ik weet het niet. We moeten erover nadenken.”
“De logica vertelt me dat als er daar iets is opgenomen, er daar ook echt iets was,” zegt astronaut Alfred Worden. “De NASA hield informatie achter als ze dacht dat dat in het belang van het publiek was.”
De transcripties van de gesprekken van de astronauten kregen na de missie het stempel ‘vertrouwelijk’ en verdwenen in de NASA-archieven. Waar de vreemde ruimtemuziek vandaan kwam, is nooit duidelijk geworden.
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Shape-shifting UFO over Calapan City, Philippines
Shape-shifting UFO over Calapan City, Philippines
Here’s one interesting footage of an unidentified flying object that was hovering in the daytime sky above Calapan City in Philippines. This was seen and recorded on 15th January 2016.
Witness report:Unknown Object hovering fading in and out, changing shape and disappearing Video by my girlfriend sometime around the middle of the month of Jan. 2016 and in middle of the day. She took the kids to the beach as she usually does a few times a week when she noticed this object. She brought the cam recorder because she has spotted the object around the same area roughly once a month. She also stated that when it appears its always if front of the sun. I was not present but watching the video it seems to change shape or reflect/absorb light. I also noticed what I think looks like a thin red line maybe a light across the object?
Here’s a new video of a bright ball of light in the sky above Euless, Texas. This was taken on 17th February 2016.
What do you think about this footage? Just a meteor or something else?
Witness report:Cool video I captured with my dashcam of a really close meteor. I witnessed a similar incident higher up in the sky 2 days before this… Interesting happening, glad I was driving by at the right moment. This was on 183 Westbound in the Euless area.
Gravitational Waves: What Their Discovery Means for Science and Humanity
Gravitational Waves: What Their Discovery Means for Science and Humanity
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
A computer simulation showing gravitational waves during a black-hole collision. The discovery has major implications for science.
Credit: MPI for Gravitational Physics/W.Benger-Zib
People around the world cheered yesterday morning (Feb. 11) when scientists announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time whose existence was first proposed by Albert Einstein, in 1916.
The waves came from two black holes circling each other, closer and closer, until they finally collided. The recently upgraded Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) captured the signal on Sept. 14, 2015. Not every scientific discovery gets this kind of reception, so what exactly is all the hype about, and what's next for LIGO now that it has spotted these elusive waves?
First of all, detecting two colliding black holes is thrilling by itself — no one knew for sure if black holes actually merged together to create even more-massive black holes, but now there's physical proof. And there's the joy of finally having direct evidence for a phenomenon that was first predicted 100 years ago, using an instrument that was proposed 40 years ago. [Gravitational Waves Detected by LIGO: Complete Coverage]
But what is truly monumental about this detection is that it gives humanity the ability to see the universe in a totally new way, scientists said. The ability to directly detect gravitational waves — which are generated by the acceleration or deceleration of massive objects in space — has been compared to a deaf person suddenly gaining the ability to hear sound. An entirely new realm of information is now available.
"It's like Galileo pointing the telescope for the first time at the sky," LIGO team member Vassiliki (Vicky) Kalogera, a professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University in Illinois, told Space.com. "You're opening your eyes — in this case, our ears — to a new set of signals from the universe that our previous technologies did not allow us to receive, study and learn from."
"Up until now, we've been deaf to gravitational waves," LIGO Executive Director David Reitze, of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), said during an announcement ceremony in Washington, D.C. "What's going to come now is we're going to hear more things, and no doubt we'll hear things that we expected to hear … but we will also hear things that we never expected."
With this new sensory view of the universe, here are some of the things scientists hope to discover.
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LIGO is particularly sensitive to gravitational waves that come from violent cosmic events, such as two massive objects colliding or a star exploding. The observatory has the potential to locate these objects or events before light-based telescopes can do so, and in some cases, gravitational-wave observations could be the only way to find and study such events.
For example, in yesterday's announcement, scientists reported that LIGO had identified two black holes spinning around each other and merging together in a final, energetic collision. As their name suggests, black holes don't radiate light, which means they are invisible to telescopes that collect and study electromagnetic radiation. Some black holes are visible with light-based telescopes, because material in their immediate vicinity radiates, but scientists haven't seen examples of merging black holes with radiating material around them.
In addition, the black holes spotted by LIGO are 29 and 36 times the mass of the sun, respectively. But Reitze said that as LIGO's sensitivity continues to improve, the instrument could be sensitive to black holes that are 100, 200 or even 500 times the mass of the sun that are further away from Earth. "There could be a really nice discovery space that opens up once we get out there," he said.
Scientists already know that studying the sky in different wavelengths of light can reveal new data about the cosmos. For many centuries, astronomers could only work with optical light. But relatively recently, researchers built instruments allowing them to study the universe using X-rays, radio waves, ultraviolet waves and gamma-rays. Each time, scientists got a new view of the universe.
"If we're ever lucky enough to have a supernova in our own galaxy, or maybe in a nearby galaxy, we will be able to look at the actual dynamics of what goes on inside the supernova," said LIGO co-founder Rainer Weiss of MIT, who spoke at the announcement ceremony. While light is often blocked by dust and gas, "gravitational waves come right out [of the supernova], boldly unimpeded," Weiss said. "As a consequence, you really find out what's going on inside of these things."
Other exotic objects scientists hope to study with gravitational waves are neutron stars, which are mind-bogglingly dense, burned-out stellar corpses: A teaspoon of neutron-star material would weigh about a billion tons on Earth. Scientists aren't sure what happens to regular matter under such extreme conditions, but gravitational waves could provide extremely helpful clues, because these waves should carry information about the interior of the neutron star all the way to Earth, LIGO scientists said.
LIGO also has a system set up to alert light-based telescopes when the detector seems to have spotted a gravitational wave. Some of the astronomical events that LIGO will study, such as colliding neutron stars, may produce light in all wavelengths, from gamma-rays to radio waves. With LIGO's alert system in place, it's possible that scientists could observe some astronomical events or objects in various wavelengths of light, plus gravitational waves, which would provide a "very complete picture" of those events, Reitze said.
"When that happens, that'll be, I think, the next big thing in this field," he said.
Relativity
Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, which was published in 1916. That famous theory has stood up to all kinds of physical tests, but there are some aspects that scientists haven't been able to study in the real world, because they require very extreme circumstances. The extreme warping of space-time is one example of this.
"Until now, we have only seen warped space-time when it is very calm — as though we had only seen the surface of the ocean on a very calm day, when it's quite glassy," Kip Thorne of Caltech, another founding member of LIGO and an expert on warped space-time, said at yesterday's ceremony. "We had never seen the ocean roiled in a storm, with crashing waves. All that changed on Sept. 14. The colliding black holes that produced these gravitational waves created a violent storm in the fabric of space and time." [The History & Structure of the Universe (Infographic)]
"This observation tests that regime beautifully, very strongly," Thorne continued. "And Einstein comes out with beaming success."
But the study of general relativity via gravitational waves is far from over. Questions remain about the nature of the graviton, the particle believed to carry the gravitational force (just like the photon is the particle that carries the electromagnetic force). And scientists have many questions about the inner workings of black holes, which gravitational waves may help illuminate (so to speak). But all of that, the scientists said, will be revealed slowly, over the course of many years, as LIGO and related instruments collect more data on more events.
Looking toward the next three years, Reitze said the collaboration is focused on increasing LIGO's sensitivity to its full potential. This will make the observatory — which consists of two big detectors, one in Louisiana and the other in Washington state — more sensitive to gravitational waves. But scientists don't know how many events LIGO will see, because they don't know how often many of these events occur in the universe.
LIGO detected the binary black hole merger even before the instrument began its first official observation campaign after its recent upgrade, but it's possible that this was a lucky break. To get the gravitational astronomy train rolling, LIGO simply needs more data.
When asked to comment on LIGO's impact on the world beyond the scientific community, and about how gravitational-wave science might influence people's daily lives, Reitze simply said, "Who knows?"
"When Einstein predicted general relativity, who would have predicted that we'd use it every day when we use our cellphones?" he said. (General relativity provides an understanding how gravity influences the passing of time, and this information is necessary for GPS technology, which uses satellites that orbit further away from the gravitational pull of the Earth than people on the surface).
LIGO is "the most sensitive instrument ever built," said Reitze, and the technological advances that have been made while building the observatory may feed into technologies that will be used in ways people can't yet predict.
Thorne said he sees the larger contribution of LIGO slightly differently.
"When we look back on the era of the Renaissance, and we ask ourselves, 'What did the humans of that era give to us that's important to us today?' I think we would all agree it's great art, great architecture, great music," he said.
"Similarly, when our descendants look back on this era, and they ask themselves, 'What great things came to us?' … I believe there will be an understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe and an understanding of what those laws do in the universe, and an exploration of the universe," Thorne added. "LIGO is a big part of that. The rest of astronomy is a big part of that. And I think that cultural gift to our future generations is really much bigger than any kind of technological spin-off, than the ultimate development of technology of any kind. I think we should be proud of what we give to our descendants culturally."
Another reminder of space being a creepy place has been presented in the lost Apollo 10 tapes – the mission that circled over to the dark side of the Moon. The tapes contain strange ‘music’ that was received out of Earth’s signal reach.
The mission happened in May just ahead of Apollo 11’s 1969 moon landing two months later. The recordings recovered from Apollo 10 were only declassified in 2008 and will now be played on the Science Channel’s Unexplained Files coming up later this month.
So, what was strange about those recordings? Besides the fact that they contained a very musical dance of frequencies and noise, it was the fact that they could not have come from any manmade source, as there’s no radio signal on the far side of the Moon. This means also that astronauts can’t talk to Earth and are effectively alone in outer space for the duration of their time there.
In 1969, two months before Neil Armstrong would set foot on the moon, Apollo 10 was cruising just above the lunar surface when the crew was surprised by a “whistling sound.” The three astronauts discuss the incident at length in the upcoming show.
Al Worden, astronaut with Apollo 15, explains: “There are recorders that record whatever’s going on the back side, and then you do a data dump when you come around the front side, and Houston or mission control then can see what happened when you were around the back side.”
The “music” transmission lasted for almost an hour, and had the crew talking about whether NASA needed to know at all what they had heard. “It’s unbelievable! You know?” they confess. Almost five decades later there is still no clue as to the source.
When the three eventually got back, they opted not to tell NASA, which could be a smart move, seeing as the agency could have had them remanded into custody and kept from flying because of concerns for their mental state.
The debate will rage on in the upcoming episode of ‘NASA’s Unexplained Files’, as scientists continue to discuss the more prominent theories: one possible one is that charged particles were interacting with a magnetic field, the way they did on Jupiter and Saturn. There’s of course one problem here: the Moon has no magnetic field or atmosphere of any kind.
So where did this broadcast originate from if it wasnt earth?
Dr. Micheal Salla has indicated that there is a Military Industrial Extraterrestrial Complex or MIEC, and that Earth is being assimilated by an alien agenda which also operates on Earth’s Moon.
The photo below is similar to many that I myself have seen. It appears that the Chinese who took the photo, have confirmed that aliens exist. The Chinese have probably been in contact with these aliens already.
That would explain why so many radio telescopes are searching for signals from aliens, and more being built as we speak, yet no reported signals from aliens were reported to the public.
The report stipulates:
“I was sent some pictures by a source who claims China will be releasing Hi Res images taken by the Chang’e-2 moon orbiter, which clearly show buildings and structures on the moon’s surface. He also claims NASA has deliberately bombed important areas of the Moon in an effort to destroy ancient artefacts and facility’s. Pictures yet to be released clearly show nuclear impact craters and building debris caused by explosions in an effort by NASA to destroy the truth. China is moving toward full disclosure of the Extraterrestrial reality, if these images and future ones are verified genuine then NASA should be investigated for fraud and treason. China will be releasing all the data and images from the Chang’e-2 in the coming weeks and months, lets hope this is the beginning of a new era.”
Have you ever wondered why we haven’t returned to the moon again? The truth is that NASA is hiding a very dark secret from us
Is there an “Alien Base” on the Moon? More and more people are coming forward with stories that might prove this is true. Rumors say that there is an Alien Moon Base on the far side of the moon, the side we never see from Earth.Did you ever wonder why the Moon landings stopped and why we have not tried to build a Moon Base? It does seem like a better and easier idea than a floating space station with no access to any raw materials or supplies? According to the NASA Astronaut Neil Armstrong the aliens have a base on the Moon and told us in no uncertain terms to get off and stay off the Moon!Sound far fetched? Milton Cooper, a Naval Intelligence Officer tells us that not only does the Alien Moon Base exist but the U.S. Naval Intelligence Community refers to the Alien Moon Base as “Luna,” that there is a huge mining operation going on there, and that is where the aliens keep their huge mother ships while the trips to Earth are made in smaller “flying saucers”.
LUNA: The Alien base on the far side of the Moon. It was seen and filmed by the Apollo astronauts. A base, a mining operation using very large machines, and the very large alien craft described in sighting reports as mother ships exist there. -Milton Cooper
But in the new video released by YouTube channel Section 51 2.0, the object which looks like a shrunken version of one of the most famous NASA thermal blanket images, is filmed from various angles following the ISS.The clip is entitled ‘ISS films the Black Knight Satellite UFO very close to Soyuz spacecraft – January 2016.’
YouTube channel Section 51 2.0 releases several alleged UFO videos of such good quality that it is repeatedly accused of broadcasting hoaxes which have been digitally-created.
It claims the new footage was leaked out of Russia after being filmed in January by the ISS’s own cameras very close to the Russian Souyez spacecraft which was delivering supplies.
NASA
A series of the NASA thermal blanket images
UFO sighting International Space Station ISS live 2016
Tune in to The Kev Baker Show tomorrow night from 11pm UK to hear our regular guest & Ufogist Ben Emlyn-Jones to discuss all of this and a whole lot more alien/ufo related topics!
Apollo Astronauts Heard Unexplained ‘Music’ On Far Side Of The Moon
Apollo Astronauts Heard Unexplained ‘Music’ On Far Side Of The Moon
The crew of an Apollo mission to the moon were so startled when they encountered strange music-like radio transmissions coming through their headsets, they didn't know whether or not to report it to NASA, it's been revealed. It was 1969, two months before Apollo 11's historic first manned landing on the moon, when Apollo 10 entered lunar orbit, which included traversing the far side of the moon when all spacecraft are out of radio contact with Earth for about an hour and nobody on Earth can see or hear them. As far as the public knew, everything about the mission went smoothly. Almost four decades went by before lost recordings emerged that revealed something unsettling that the three Apollo astronauts had experienced while flying above the far side of the moon.
The taped recordings contained "strange, otherworldly music coming through the Apollo module's radio," according to the upcoming Science Channel series, "NASA's Unexplained Files." The conversation between the three astronauts indicated they heard sounds like they had never heard before: "It sounds like, you know, outer space-type music." "You hear that? That whistling sound? Whooooooooo!" "Well, that sure is weird music!" The unexplained "music" transmission lasted almost an hour, and just before the astronauts regained radio contact with Earth, they discussed whether or not to tell Mission Control what they had experienced: "It's unbelievable! You know?" "Shall we tell them about it?" "I don't know. We ought to think about it." "The Apollo 10 crew was very used to the kind of noise that they should be hearing. Logic tells me that if there was something recorded on there, then there was something there," Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden says on the Science Channel program. "NASA would withhold information from the public if they thought it was in the public's best interest." Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
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Navy Engineer: I Saw Ancient Ruins, Aliens, And Top-Secret Bases In Antarctica!
Navy Engineer: I Saw Ancient Ruins, Aliens, And Top-Secret Bases In Antarctica!
On January 2nd, 2015 the editor of website earthfiles.com received a very unexpected letter from an alleged retired U.S. Navy Petty Officer First Class Flight Engineer.
The letter received recounts experiences where the anonymous Navy officer (refers to himself as “Brian”) recounts his bizarre and extraordinary experiences flying cargo and rescue in Antarctica between the years 1983 to 1997. He claims that a collaboration between humans and aliens exist, and that the Antarctica is a major research ground for these incredible collaborations.
Brian’s high strangeness experiences flying cargo and rescue in Antarctica were in the 1983 to 1997 time period and included several observations of aerial silver discs darting around over the Transantarctic Mountains. He and his crew also saw ancient ruins and a big hole in the ice only about five to ten miles from the geographic South Pole (pink circle on map) that was supposed to be a No Fly Zone. But during an emergency medevac situation, they entered the No Fly Zone and saw what they were not supposed to see: an alleged entrance to a human and E. T. science research base created under the ice. Then at a camp near Marie Byrd Land, some dozen scientists disappeared for two weeks and when they re-appeared, Brian’s flight crew got the assignment to pick them up. Brian says they would not talk and “their faces looked scared.”
In the strange letter sent to Earth Files the officer states that he experienced things such as:
Silver discs darting around over the Transantarctic Mountains
During an emergency they entered a No Fly Zone and saw an entrance to a human and E. T. science research base under the ice
His crew picked up a dozen scientists who had disappeared for two weeks previous. They would not talk and their faces looked scared.
He has decided to share what he experienced between those years in the following letter, reproduced in full below:
To: earthfiles@earthfiles.com Subject: Antarctica UFO Date: January 2, 2015
Hi Linda I am a retired United States Navy LC130 Flight Engineer that retired after 20 years of service in 1997. I have been wanting to write you for a long time about my experience on the Antarctic continent with flying vehicles that I was told not to talk about. I served part of my 20 years in the Navy with a Squadron called Antarctic Development Squadron Six or VXE-6 as it was also known. I served with this squadron from around 1983 till I retired March of 1997. Being a flight engineer and flying more then 4000 hours in that capacity I have seen things that most people have not even imagined on the Continent of Antarctica. The land there seems more alien then earthly. Our deployments to this land started in late September and ended the end of February every year until the Squadron was decommissioned in 1999. This time of year was the summer season when most of the science was done do to warmer temps and 24 hours of daylight.
During my time in the squadron I flew to almost every part of the Antarctic Continent including the South Pole more the 300 times. McMurdo Station which is 3.5 hours of flying time from the South Pole station was the point of squadron operation during our yearly deployments. Between these two stations is a mountain range called the Trans Antarctic’s. With what we called Severe Clear weather from McMurdo to South Pole the Trans Antarctic’s are visible from the altitudes which the aircraft flew approximately 25,000 to 35,000 feet. On several flights to and from South Pole our crew viewed air vehicles darting around the tops of Trans Antarctic’s almost exactly in the same spot every time we would fly by and view them. This is very unusual for air traffic down there due to the fact that the only aircraft flying on the continent were our squadron aircraft. Every aircraft knew where the other aircraft were do to flight schedules being followed.
Another unique issue with South Pole station is that our aircraft was not allowed to fly over a certain area designated 5 miles from the station. The reason stated because of a air sampling camp in that area. This did not make any sense to any of us on the crew because on 2 different occasions we had to fly over this area. One time due to a medical evacuation of the Australian camp called Davis Camp. It was on the opposite side of the continent and we had to refuel at South Pole and a direct course to this Davis Camp was right over the air sampling station. The only thing we saw going over this camp was a very large hole going into the ice. You could fly one of our LC130 into this thing.
It was after this medevac mission we where briefed by some spooks (Intelligence Agents I presumed) from Washington DC and told not to speak of the area we overflew. The other time we got close to “The air sampling Camp” we had navigation and electrical failures on the aircraft and was told to immediately depart the area and report to our squadron commanding officer when we returned to McMurdo. Needless to say our pilot (Aircraft Commander) got his butt chewed and our crew was not on the South Pole supply run for over a month. There were many other times we saw things that was out of the ordinary.
One outlying camp (near Marie Byrd Land) we dropped scientists and their equipment at was out of communication with McMurdo for 2 weeks. Our crew flew back to the camp to find out if the scientists were ok. We found no one there and no sign of any fowl play. The Radio was working fine as we called McMurdo to verify it working properly. We left the camp and flew back to McMurdo as ordered by our CO. A week later the Scientist showed back up to there camp and called McMurdo for someone to come pick them up. Our crew got the flight back there to pick them since we put them into that camp and we knew the terrain and location. None of the scientists would talk to any of the crew on the plane and to me they looked scared.
As soon as we landed back at McMurdo they (Scientists) where put on another of our squadron aircraft and flown to Christchurch New Zealand. We never heard about them again. Their equipment that we brought back from the camp was put in quarantine and shipped back to the United States escorted by the same spooks that debriefed us about our fly over of the air sample camp/ large hole in the ice. I could go on and on about things and situations that I observed during my tour with VXE-6. Talk among the flight crews was that there is a UFO base at South Pole and some of the crew heard talk from some of the scientist working at the Pole of EBEs working with and interacting with the scientists at that air sampling camp/large ice hole.
Brian, now 59 years old, graduated from an Iowa college with an associate’s degree in aviation maintenance technology and an aviation certificate. In 1977, he then enlisted in the U. S. Navy and served for twenty years until his retirement in 1997. He provided Earthfiles his DD-214 documents and other certificates of service including this Antarctic Service Medal given to him on November 20, 1984 as proof of his time in service.
There appears to be many secrets hidden in the Antarctica and we are pretty much hearing different stories every month about military personnel disclosing information about Aliens in that part of the world!
But what a great secluded part of the world for the Aliens to keep out of sight from prying eyes….or so they thought!
In the video below: Ancient megalithic city larger than some of the current mega-cities found in the photographs from orbit. Complex city with a pyramid and a giant megalithic structure in the shape of a swastika
Scientists Find Largest Rocky Planet Ever Discovered, Half as Big as Neptune
Scientists Find Largest Rocky Planet Ever Discovered, Half as Big as Neptune
IN BRIEF
Kepler has discovered a rocky planet bigger than scientists ever thought was possible. Studying BD+20594b will allow scientists to learn more about the way planets form.
An illustration of a large, rocky planet similar to the recently discovered BD+20594b. Credit: JPL-Caltech/NASA
The Kepler Spacecraft, which has the ability to observe distant solar systems, has discovered arocky planet bigger than scientists ever thought was possible. Meet BD+20594b.
ROCKY COMPETITION
The former title holder of “biggest rocky planet” went to Kepler-10c, which has a radius more than double that of Earth. We thought this was as big as rocky planets could get.
Most of our understanding of planetary formation and solar system development has come from direct observation of our own Solar System. We simply couldn’t see any others, and we had no way of knowing how typical—or how strange—our own Solar System might be.
With the discovery of BD+20594b, though, we’re learning, and Kepler-10c has some intense competition. The new planet is about 16 times as massive as Earth and half the diameter of Neptune. Its density is about 8 grams per cubic centimeter (for comparison, Earth is 5.514 g/cm). This is rather dense, but it makes sense, as it’s composed entirely of rock.
The planet, whose existence was reported on January 28 at arXiv.org by astrophysicist Nestor Espinoza and his colleagues at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, is over 500 light years away, in the constellation Aries. The planet was discovered last year, as it passed between Kepler and its host star. Luckily, the planet’s host star is exceptionally bright, allowing a more detailed observation than most exoplanets.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BD+20594B AND KEPLER
The discovery and further study of BD+20594b is important for a couple of reasons. It shows that there is still so much to learn about planetary formation. Kepler’s mission, which started off just confirming the existence of exoplanets, and showing us how common they are, will play a key role in furthering that research.
In addition, there’s much more variety in planetary composition than just what we see in our own solar system. Now that we have this new planet to compare to Kepler-10c, astrophysicists can do further research on planetary formation theories.
China Announces Three Brand New Gravitational Wave Projects
China Announces Three Brand New Gravitational Wave Projects
This illustration shows the gravitational waves thought to be produced by two orbiting white dwarf stars in a binary system called J0651, according to an August 2012 study.
China has proposals for gravitational wave observatories drafted, but will the government approve them? How will they affect the country's rank in space research?
A NEW PLAYER
The scientists at LIGO may be celebrating, but they’re about to have some stiff competition.
The People’s Republic of China now has three projects lined up to investigate gravitational waves as reported by the state media yesterday. These projects were decided upon just days after US scientists confirmed Einstein’s prediction.
The country has a military-run, multi-billion-dollar space program, and if it pursues gravitational wave research, officials say it could lead to China becoming preeminent in this field.
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has already drafted a proposal for a project focusing on gravitational wave detection, as reported by the official Xinhua news agency. The proposal is named “Taiji,” which is a tribute to the “supreme ultimate” of Chinese philosophy. This philosophy is symbolized by the famous Yin and Yang, showing that contrary forces are complementary and interconnected.
Although there are several proposals in place, none of them have received a go signal from the Chinese government.
BECOMING A WORLD LEADER
Chinese physicist Hu Wenrui told the People’s Daily newspaper, the official mouthpiece of the Communist party: “If we launch our own satellites, we will have a chance to be a world leader” in gravitational wave research.
Success “depends on the decision-makers’ resolution and the country’s investment,” he added.
On the other hand, the Chinese Academy of Sciences said: “If we can participate in these sorts of extremely precise technological projects then in a short time it will give a huge boost to our country’s manufacturing industries.”
DISCOVERY OF THE YEAR
A graphic explaining LIGO’s detection of gravitational waves last September. Credit: Nature
Gravitational waves were predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916, and have remained an elusive and much-sought-after quarry for cosmologists ever since. Einstein used the theory of relativity as his basis, which states that gravitational waves transport energy as gravitational radiation—essentially, ripples in the fabric of spacetime.
Until recently, scientists had yet to prove this theory. But last week, the Advanced LIGO team announced that they were able to detect gravitational waves from a merger of two black holes about 400 megaparsecs (1.3 billion light years) from Earth, an event that was named GW150914.
The discovery has been heralded as the beginning of a new era for observational astronomy, and with news of the projected Chinese efforts in gravitational wave detection, along with the American and European projects already underway, the future promises a rich harvest of gravitational wave discoveries.
Filer’s Files #8 2016 – NSA ET Contact Evidence- PART I
Craft taken over Oxford, Connecticut on February 17, 2016
Filer’s Files #8 2016 – NSA ET Contact Evidence- PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: General J. A. Samford and UFOs, UFO Graphics via Metrocosm, NSA Has the Smoking Gun Evidence of Alien Contact, Globular Clusters as Cradles of Life in Advanced Civilizations, Mercy ship Atlantic Ocean UFO, and Chosen: Chronicles of an Alien Abductee
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Massachusetts, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Argentina, Australia, Canada, Finland, Italy, Montenegro, Mexico, Peru, England in the United Kingdom, and Venezuela
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. Forward these files to your friends and neighbors.
George A. Filer III
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
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Special Projects
General J. A. Samford and UFOs
Credible observers reporting incredible objects,” said USAF General J. A. Samford in the year 1952, and his comment is still true today. Honest and intelligent people are still reporting strange objects that are difficult, and sometimes impossible, to relate to known physical phenomena. Enough attention has been brought to this serious problem that the US Government officially took action on two separate occasions. The first time was when it was thought that UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects) might possibly be evidence of the technological capability of a foreign, but an Earth based power. In reaction to that possibility, the US Air Force Foreign Technology Division located at Wright Patterson Air Force Base was given the tough job of determining whether or not the mysterious UFOs were a threat to the security of the United States. Unfortunately, many people thought that the job was to determine exactly what the UFOs were. In the years, which have followed, the Air Force has been unjustly maligned for supposedly “covering up” the “real truth” about UFOs.
In actuality, the Air Force did precisely the job to which it was assigned. It determined the extent to which the UFOs threatened national security. The extent was found to be zero! However, the public was so unhappy with the lack of any real conclusions as to the nature of the UFOs, that the Government took further actions to resolve the issue. One of those actions, in 1966 it contracted for an independent scientific study to determine the real nature of UFOs.
UFO Graphics via Metrocosm
A new excellent map via Metrocosm says in sensational detail, the interactive map compiles more than 90,000 reports of UFO sightings in the United States since 1905. Data was taken from the National UFO Reporting Center and the Mutual UFO Network.
The glowing dots on the map represent witness reports, and are sized proportionately to the number of witness reports in each region for each particular sighting: small (individual report), medium (small group reports), and large (multiple witness reports).
Although Philadelphia itself has been fairly quiet on the UFO front, there have been plenty of UFO reports around the Philly area over the past hundred or so years, particularly in Burlington, New Jersey, where 75 witnesses report seeing “bright beam of light omitted from cylinder” on a September evening in 2007. Numerous sightings occur above the Delaware River shown has black ribbon on the map. Several reports often from police or military personnel indicate the UFOs may hide under water in the river.
The map’s detail includes sketches, photos, and even videos of strange sightings in the Philadelphia area and beyond. Just try not to get lost for hours wading through the first-person witness reports.
Check out this sighting in North Philadelphia in 2014:
I spotted two UFOs directly above my house. They were circular with orange/yellow type lights going around the outside of the two crafts. After a few minutes, one UFO turned off its lights. I could still see this craft even with the lights off. The craft with the lights off then proceeded north leaving the other behind and still lit up. At this point, I ran into my house for binoculars. The craft that was lit turned off its lights and proceeded north. I followed this one with my binoculars as it headed north. Neither UFO made any sound at all. They flew much faster than a commercial jet. Upon reaching a north point, they both picked up speed made a sharp right turn and were gone. My wife spied three more UFOs south of my house that were not lit up, and moved north at a fast rate of speed. During these ten minutes, every dog in the neighborhood was barking. We also smelled the smell of something burning. I do not know if the burnt smell and dogs were related but the dogs stopped barking and the smell went away. Sleep tight, Philly. · UFO Sightings Map [Metrocosm] · Mapping UFO Sightings All Around the D.C. Area [Curbed DC] · Mapping UFO Sightings All Around the Bay Area [Curbed SF] · “That was no flare”: 90,000 UFO sightings combined into one awesome m
NSA Has the Smoking Gun Evidence of Alien Contact
NSA Complex at Fort Meade, Maryland
Not a lot of people realize this but the National Security Agency (NSA) has on their website proof of Extraterrestrial contact under the title “Key to the Extraterrestrial messages” (found under NSA PDF). This is a hugely important step towards Disclosure and something, which is far too overlooked by the UFO community. The original document was cleared for public release back in October 2004, but strangely not ‘officially’ released into the Public Domain until April 2011! Such an important document needs to be seen by the world as this is on the NSA’s actual website, sat there waiting for all to see. We want Disclosure of Alien contact, then here you go! This treasure trove of documents available, one is particularly interesting from the NSA Technical Journal Vol. XIV No 1 with FOIA Case number 41472, which has been titled ‘Extraterrestrial Intelligence’. The document authored by a Dr. Campaigne, presents a series of 29 messages received from outer space.
Here’s an extremely interesting snippet from the journal: “Recently a series of radio messages was heard coming from outer space. The transmission was not continuous, but cut by pauses into pieces, which could be taken as units, for they were repeated over and over again. The pauses show here as punctuation. The various combinations have been represented by letters of the alphabet, so that the messages can be written down. Each message except the first is given here only once. The serial number of the messages has been supplied for each reference.” If anybody ever mocks you for believing in Aliens, then please feel free to steer them towards the NSA’s website!
NSA Document Admits ET Contact
On October 21, 2004, the NSA approved for release to the public a portion of their NSA Journal Vol. XIV No. 1. This is a report of a presentation given to the NSA by Dr. Howard Campaigne regarding the decoding of extraterrestrial messages that had been received “from outer space”. Apparently, these messages had actually been received via the Sputnik satellite, but no one had any idea how to decode them at the time. Dr. Howard Campaigne and some other NSA super mathematicians in the crypto department had been given the task of decoding the messages.
There were a total of 29 messages to be decoded — quite an undertaking. It is curious, to say the least, that this document was cleared for release on October 21, 2004. Why was that? Because the NSA did not release it into public information until April 21, 2011. Though cleared for release, the NSA had been stonewalling it along with hundreds of other NSA documents about contact with UFOs and extraterrestrials until they lost the lawsuit brought by Peter Gersten, a lawyer from Arizona. When they truly lost, the judge’s order had to be carried out, and the documents had to be released. It is curious, though, that during his presentation Dr. Campaigne mentions there are “words” that they have translated, and some “words” they have not yet begun to understand. He gives an example of a connective word that he knows is connective (joining two or more statements) but does not yet understand the translation of that word. Debunkers are scared of the release of this information as it proves beyond any doubt that they are, and always have been, dead wrong.
Globular Clusters as Cradles of Life in Advanced Civilizations
They will be able to send exploratory probes to nearby stars and receive data that takes only days, weeks, or months to reach them. They may be able to travel to nearby planetary systems that are hospitable and establish self-sustaining colonies over time scales far shorter than seems possible for advanced civilizations, which, like our own, inhabit the relatively diffuse Galactic disk. Civilizations spawned in a globular cluster may have opportunities to establish self-sustaining outposts, thereby reducing the probability that a single catastrophic event will destroy the civilization or its descendants. Although individual civilizations within a cluster may follow different evolutionary paths, or even be destroyed, the cluster may always host some advanced civilization, once a small number of them have managed to jump across interstellar space. Civilizations residing in globular clusters could therefore, in a sense, be immortal. PDF
Mercy ship Atlantic Ocean UFO
This happened one night back in 1991 while I was a volunteer on a Mercy ship traveling from Los Angeles, CA to Riga, Latvia. The sighting occurred in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. We had traveled from Los Angeles thru the Panama Canal to the Atlantic. We were traveling on a refurbished World War 2 freight ship. Therefore, it was not a fast ship, after the sighting it took about 4-5 days more to arrive in Germany. Since there is not much to do while at sea, my group of five friends went outside to the quarterdeck of the ship one evening (around 7:30 PM. We were talking and looking at the ocean, when all of the sudden a large lighted rectangular structure suddenly appeared on the ocean surface. It didn’t land or surface, it was as if someone just turned on the lights.
It had several colors of light and they appeared to be positioned on a sequential way and it was cover with light from top to bottom. Since it was at night and at sea, sizes and distances are hard to acquire. Also the rush of adrenaline since we had been trained to always report if we saw something close to the ship, as there are risks of accidents. The ship I was traveling was close to 300 feet long, and this structure was enormous about 5 to 10 times bigger than our ship long wise and about 3-5 times taller. It was suddenly there, and all were alarmed. We started to wonder if it could be a gigantic ship, but it looked too big even for a cruise ship. The size was bigger than any ship and was also practically just a huge rectangular shape or a net of lights. The lights were big and I would guess it had about 500 to 1000 lights, all distributed in a sequential or neat pattern. After a minute, we realized we needed to inform the bridge crew. I and another friend ran up the stairs to inform the crew and when we walked into the flight bridge and you could tell they were alarmed. The First Mate was giving orders and the situation seems a bit stressed out. Once we could talk, we told them, “We saw something big with lots of light very close to the ship”. The First Mate told us that, “It all of a sudden disappeared from the radar”. We stayed there talking with the crew and wondering what it was. Several other crew members at the flight bridge had also seen the structure and were making arrangements to communicate with whatever was nearby. They had seen it on the radar, but it quickly disappeared from the radar and also visually, as if someone just had turned the lights off.
Regarding the location: I wrote Dominican Republic as this was perhaps the closest thing I could find on the map. But, the sighting took place in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. We witnesses talked about it and we all had seen the same thing. Unfortunately, none of us had a camera. It would be interesting to find out if this was documented in the ship’s log. The Picture shows a comparison between the ship and the lighted structure in the ocean. The images were put together using images found online and remember the sighting was at night. Thanks to MUFON CM.
Chosen: Chronicles of an Alien Abductee
Can you imagine the helplessness and fear that a five-year-old would feel when he is first visited by extraterrestrials? How about the look on his parents’ faces when he confesses his alien encounter? This is Byron W. Lacy’s firsthand account of what modern science insists is only folklore.
The first encounters come when he is young—with “little men” entering the room as he hugs his teddy bear. They masquerade as cartoon characters to ease his concern, a dancing Captain Hook—minus the hook—joining his comrades. Future visits lead to psychic connections with his visitors.
Admitting such encounters takes courage, especially when similar comments by a family member placed her in a mental hospital. But Lacy lays it all out on the table as he details what it’s like to be an alien abductee.
Chosen: Chronicle of an Alien Abductee isn’t just for the disbelievers. It’s a free discussion of Lacy’s experience—one meant to encourage other abductees through their own moments of skepticism both from others and within.
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Filer’s Files #8 2016 – NSA ET Contact Evidence - PART II
Filer’s Files #8 2016 – NSA ET Contact Evidence - PART II
Sightings in the United States
Alabama Lights
Wickenburg — We were driving on July 20, 2016, and the sun had set but there was still a hint of sun light. I saw two bright orange lights sitting on a cloud. I thought it was airplanes too close together. One blinked and shut off then the other. I asked my husband if he seen that he said, “No we are not looking for ufos tonight we are training.” An orange red orb lit up the sky and he witnessed that. So we watched it for about 45 minutes. Then it formed in a straight line the lights were turning on one by one and it got bright. It scared us and it disappeared for about 5 minutes. Then I took this picture One shot off came back and then turned its light off. Then one by one, they disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Cloud
Diablo Grande — Driving home from L.A. sightseeing in Hollywood, on out trip home driving north on Interstate 5 when I mentioned the beautiful sunset was on February 15, 2016.
In response, my wife gets my phone and takes a picture then notices after taking the photo that there was a strange anomaly. Therefore, we look to the sky to confirm our findings and we witnessed the exact same shape for not more than 30 seconds when it dispersed, or disintegrated. Can someone explain our curiosity into what we witnessed! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Disc
Littleton — I observed two lights in the sky close to one another for two minutes on February 10, 2016, of a possible UFOs over Lakewood. Both lights faded quickly, one after the other.
Lights seemed too bright for a jet and I could not see anything after they disappeared. Pictures were taken on my phone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Connecticut Triangle
Oxford — I was photographing two black Blackhawks that were flying in tight formation with additional equipment attached to the sides on February 17, 2016. (Looked like extended range fuel tanks because they had medivac badging, so I don’t think it would be pods for weapons). I caught a dark black triangular shaped craft behind them near the horizon. I included the photos to this report… The photo is zoomed and cropped. I took it with my Smartphone. The helicopters did not appear to be aware of the craft, or at least they were not engaging it. The closest manufactured thing to it would be an F117 or B2 but this is not a military operating area nor do those types of aircraft frequent the KOXC or KDXR airports. Blackhawks are seen routinely doing patrols/training, however are not based here. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Orb
I woke up early to see the sunrise from my balcony on February 9, 2016. Sky was still dark. Noticed what I thought it was a plane moving very slowly but realized it was hovering up in the air. I noticed blinking red lights to the right of object that were emanating bright lights! It would turn brighter at intervals repeatedly for about half hour on the same spot at high altitude. I filmed six minutes but my balcony is completely screened so the quality is poor and the object was at a great distance. After about a half hour, the object moved north and I lost sight of it. Sky was brighter as it left. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Orlando — I was driving home from work on February 11, 201, and noticed the sky was filled with hundreds of large orange lights. These were not stars. Hundreds of them began traveling from the south to the north, popping up and moving for five minutes. People were pulling over, getting out of their cars, by the hundreds. They looked like fireball orange orbs traveling completely in silence and close to one another. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Lights
Lithonia— My daughter and I were driving down the road about 9:30 PM, when she spotted lights in the sky on November 27, 2015. I have never believed in UFOs so I ignored them but then they came so I know there’s something out there. We watched it and it lasted over 40 minutes. They were bright lights they became one then divided into twos and fours and sixes changed colors. Helicopters are flying around with their spotlights. We called the police department to find out if they had any complaints, we were told that we were the only ones. People are standing outside on the side of the road videotaping and we have some few videos. I got all excited and saw them twice in the same spot within a two-week period. It lasted for 35 minutes the first time, and we followed. I was scared but then he gave a calming effect. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Idaho Cylinder
Boise –.I was with my sister at a car wash when I noticed a light on June 18, 2015. Above it was over a mile away and not moving. I decided to take a picture with my cell phone. We both commented on how bright it was. I forgot about it until months later, whiny friends started to talk about sightings of lights they had seen and several UFO’s. As they were talking, I decided to search for the picture I took months earlier. I found this picture and everyone got excited. Later I sent it to my laptop and enlarged it. The picture came out a lot clearer with more detail. It would be great to know if this is a new technology from the Air Force or actually a UFO. This light stayed in one place for a long time until it disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Lights
Boston– I was taking sightseeing pictures of the surroundings. I reviewed my iPhone pictures and noticed strange objects on February 1, 2016. Several UFO’s were hovering in the skyline near the port of Boston. I was very surprised and astonished when I reviewed my pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Montana Orb
Great Falls — My daughter took these pictures on February 5, 2016, she was at a local park with her six-year-old son and she told me that on this particular afternoon there were more contrails than usual. She took her, a Samsung Galaxy 3, cell phone and snapped five pictures. Later, she found this object apparently flying across the sky. In the last picture, the object appears to be changing colors and glowing or reflecting light blue differently than in the earlier pictures. Judging by its position in each picture, it was moving across the sky much faster than the jets. She saw jet contrails, almost as if they were searching for something. The object is at 2:00 to the sun, then 3:00 to the sun, and then 11:00 to the sun. That is the sequence of the pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Triangle
Jobstown — I was driving home from campus, it was right after 8:30 pm, and I was on the road I live on, which is a back road, about five miles outside McGuire Fort Dix Joint military base on February 12, 2016. In the sky, I saw three bright lights overtop of the trees that line the side of the road. I approached going about 45 mph; I thought it was weird how low that plane seemed to be. The three lights were large, right above the tree line, and hovering. I stopped at the bottom of the local farm’s driveway, at the most only 40 feet away from the triangular flying object. I was scared for a second because I knew they saw me, and they knew I was slowing down to get a better look. Through the tree line, I tried to identify the tail, which would have to be the back light, because the ship was facing the road at about a 45 degree angle, with the two bright lights on either side where I would have thought the wings would have been were facing toward me at an angle.
It did not appear to be a normal plane, nor was it behaving like any plane I have ever heard of before. This was about 5 miles outside of Joint Base MDL, on the Fort Dix side of the base. Even though I live so close to the base, planes are not that common above this road. This ship was about 3 to 4 stories off the ground, right above the tree line. I grabbed my phone to try to get a picture, but couldn’t turn and use my phone. In the minute it took me to turn around, I could still see the brightness cast from the three lights. As soon as I had fully turned around to see it straight on again, it was gone in a second. It went from hovering, to gone. I was in complete shock because I was still trying to convince myself that this was a small plane. I drove forward for maybe another 30 seconds before I stopped my car to search the sky. I saw faint lights way off in the distance. It was cloudy tonight so I hadn’t seen any stars or other planes before viewing these lights.
I knew that those three lights were the lights 2-3 miles away. I sat in my car for a few seconds still in disbelief, trying to come up with another explanation for what I saw, but I could not. No plane, or military plane comes off base and decides to hover over a random line of trees, I lived here for over 8 years once my dad retired as a high-ranking officer from the military. The sighting lasted under 5 minutes, and once the lights were barely visible I turned back around and drove the 1/4 mile home. I went straight in to find my dad and ask him what that space ship could have been if it belonged to the military. He said maybe a drone, but it was the size of a small plane and hovered in the same spot for at least 2 minutes. No drone I have ever heard of can disappear from sight in one second. Rendering of similar French UFO Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Light
Montour Falls— My friend and I were going to Watkins Glen from Odessa around 10 pm on June 20, 2014. We saw a glowing red object moving above the tree line over the swamp so we pulled over n watched it for maybe 3 -5 minutes.
It moved over the swamp and across the road, we were on and began to climb higher in the sky. There was a small flash and it was gone. I didn’t know what to think. I was shaking and nervous but at the same time excited. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Shuttle
Whitehouse — On my way to the grocery store I noticed there were four or five military like planes circling in the general area on February 14, 2016.
When I noticed they were all closing on a Central target that was in the middle. The target appeared to shoot straight up into the sky and it looked similar to a space shuttle. The craft went upwards in a straight line much faster than the others with a different trail. The military aircraft in the area then scattered in different directions after it went upwards. They were very clearly all headed to the same target before it took off. Unfortunately, the image only shows one of the planes trails and the trail of the craft itself. There were four other planes in the area, which is very uncommon. I also noticed when I got to the grocery store there were several cops sitting in their cars watching it. I live relatively close to a military base but never see air-traffic like this, there was no noise. And this craft is clearly different from the military aircraft and looked like a space shuttle that shot up in a straight line. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Orb
Canby— Driving home to Hubbard on Barlow Road I saw what a very bright blue orb zipping around the trees. I pulled out my iPhone rolled the window down and snapped a picture of it. I rationalized that perhaps it was a reflection off of a tractor. The orb made several fast zipping movements and then was floating in mid air on July 14, 2014.
I was driving a Prius and I saw no way to drive to the area of the sighting. I posted the image on my instagram account and sort of forgot about it. A year later I saw a picture posted by another UFO sighting that has lead me to investigate UFO sightings further. I now believe I saw was a UFO. Thanks to MUFON CMS
West Virginia Light
I was taking photos of the full moon on a friend’s porch and I captured a photo of the object. It appeared out of nowhere and it was there without moving, without sound for about 15 minutes. I watched it gradually camouflage with the sky. There was an odd feeling in the air like static electricity. I felt tingly.
It’s hard to describe and it sounds crazy but I felt almost euphoric during the time I saw it. Even before I saw it, I thought it was just it was a full moon and a beautiful night. All I know is what I saw and I cannot explain it as just some anomaly. When you see the photo, you be the judge. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Argentina Triangle
Buenos Aires–I was returning from work, and noticed an object was silver rising to the sun on May 15, 2015. I took the photo for no apparent reason. The object was seen after a time in my phone. It made me question many things in the universe. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Australia Gold Coast UFO Hot Spot
Robina – Three witnesses saw a large circular disk object with two red/orange lights at the base surrounded by a glowing white ring at 7.35 pm, on March 7, 2014. A flying object hovered very slowly in one spot, much lower than any plane or helicopter I have witnessed in the area. The two red lights at the base of the object faded to orange before flashing rapidly. The object also appeared to be expanding then retracting its size repetitively and flying away extremely fast. The white ring or orb around the disc appeared to act as a bubble or light. The sighting lasted about seven minutes and had three witnesses. We have previously had two sightings identical to this within the past two months from the same location.
Robina, Gold Coast, Queensland –A brightamber orange orb occasionally with flecks of red was seen on March 9, 2014. It would move from east to west at cloud level. It was able to accelerate quickly, to a speed many times faster than any plane, and then it would slow down quickly, and then accelerate again. The orb light had a solid centre, but outer edges were glowing like a star. It eventually disappeared. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
Canada Alien Triangle over Ontario
Walpole Island— It was an unusual warm night with fog on the river, when it should be cold on December 19, 2015. The fog stayed close to the ground reaching a few stories high. I drove the rural way home along the river from the store. When I was getting very close to home, I noticed a cluster of three orange lights very close to me right on the river. This cluster of orange lights was about helicopter height. There was no structure to support the lights that could see due to the fog. They looked exactly the same color and size like the streetlights on my road except that I was looking at a cluster of three lights. The orange lights stayed stationery as I drove down my road and parked in my driveway.
No structure was present as to why the lights would be there. It started moving slowly closer to me. I ran the short distance to get my sister to come outside and look at “this big plane”. There is frequent unusual activity in the sky here so she came running out. We witnessed a giant black triangle shape revealing itself over my neighbor’s house… The triangle backed up a little bit, and then traveled descending directly at me. It was at tree top-level and might be going to crash? I was scared and wanted to run. My sister looked up to see it just as it started to travel toward us. It was not a flat and was several stories in height. It was flat black and way larger than a football field. It was enormous and so close, detail was clear of its structure, size and lights.
It turned on its bottom lights on its way over to my yard. Outlining the craft were small white lights with three sets of red/green lights. In the middle was a large triangle area of what looked like white LED glowing lights. The pattern of these white lights was indescribable. As the front of the triangle arrived at my yard, it started emitting this loud hydraulic engine type of roaring noise and bumpy sounding. I’m familiar with hydraulic engine sounds as to the many boats on our river make those sounds. I had heard that same loud engine noise travel the entire sky a few weeks ago. It scared me as it flew directly overhead, but my sister watched it. I looked up at it after several seconds, as the white lights glowed and it was moving very slowly just over us. I got a good look but don’t know how to describe the white lights in the middle of the craft. Maybe it was a transparent area as well as being lit up. She yelled, “Get out of here”. The craft’s noise was loud enough that I could not hear her yelling at it I hope that’s what made it go away. We watched it until the end of the triangle shape went over us. Its sound and lights stopped after it went over us. The black triangle disappeared into the black night. We still marvel over seeing this triangle and talk about it every day. I have a mixture of feelings; it was a major event for me. Note: The above image is a rendering. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
Finland Boomerang
I had my first sighting here in Finland September 15, 2015 at 12:30 pm. I am interested in amateur astronomy and was out looking at stars. I saw a boomerang shaped craft that looked a lot like a stealth fighter-bomber. It moved to the west and seemed to have electrical field lines showing from its rear. There was no noise at all. It moved out of sight, and within seconds a disk shaped craft appeared a hundred meters or so from me. I could see it was shiny metallic and had a triangular opening on its side. It was dark inside this opening from which a green funnel of light swept the ground below it until it focused right on me!
Then it momentarily stayed on me, as the craft hovered no more that 150 meters away. Then there was a beam of yellowish light that shot out and hit me, so bright I had to turn away! As I looked at the craft, again it slowly was moving away to the north. It was shimmered in the atmosphere, changed into two disks, and slowly moved out of sight.
The disk had the light funnel and a yellow beam. It seemed almost that the boomerang craft was chasing the disk, which seemed to materialize out of nothing.
Then on December 18, 2015, I was again outdoors at 3:00 and a golf ball size white light flew a few meters above me. I am a member of ursa, the Finnish amateur astronomy group, I asked them about these and they have no idea what they were. They even contacted the Finnish Air Force who stated they were not flying near my town then Note: The above image is a rendering. Thanks William Ahern.
Italy Triangle
Soverato — I was walking with my colleague when I noticed a black kite-shaped object hovering on the city at 8:30 AM, on February 12, 2015.
At first, I thought it was a helicopter, but then I heard no sound and the object fluttered all the time. I realized the object couldn’t be a helicopter and took a picture of it.
I arrived at my office, because it could be seen through the window. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Montenegro Lights
Igalo — I was at home watching TV and it became darker outside so I went out on balcony to check the weather on February 12, 2016. My attention was driven to the burning red-orange light just under the base of one thick black cloud. It was circle shaped and was large like flying balloon almost stationary at 800 meters altitude. It started an easy descent and then all the burning light disappeared and the object started moving slowly southwest. When it was above the hill opposite to my house and descended behind the hill. It was silent with red, green, white lights and did not look like a normal aircraft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico Objects
Boca Del Rio – My daughter and I were on the roof and saw the triangle coming from the mountains on December 12, 2015.
I began to take pictures as it flew up again and made a curve and headed east to the ocean. The cats and dogs are very nervous and barking and my cats jump on us.
We always see the shape with binoculars before we write it down and take pictures. Tonight there were eight ships. At 9.09 pm, 9.19 pm, 9;29, 10.52, 11. In addition, 11:18 and 11.19 small white discs flew east, at 9.19 pm, and 11.18 pm, a huge white/red triangle flew east .All the ships lights make circles at the bottom, red and white, and white or red and orange. If we light them, they flash back at us always. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Peru Face
The face of an alien was located in the desert soil of the Nazca desert near the Mandala.
There was not a UFO, but a picture of an alien in the desert of Nazca. All images are screen shots from Google Earth.
Only screen shots of Google Earth are available. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Light
Darlington — My wife likes to take sunset picture from our attic. She showed me the two she took tonight and I noticed the strange light and downloaded them to my PC.
What struck me as strange, being a pilot and photographer, is that this object moved. Not only did it move but also the internal lights changed from five to six. In addition, the six were not in what you could call a formation. In the pictures the object shape never changed, the orange glow. Given that only ten seconds elapsed between shots, this object must have been moving very fast.Thanks to MUFON CMS
Venezuela Cylinder
Ãtida— I took several photographs with mountains in the background on December 19, 2015.
I did not notice anything at the time. In reviewing the photos there was an elongated shaped object in the sky.
It is common to see planes in the area and in the other photographs in the series objects appeared. When I first saw it, I thought it was a plane image. Zooming in it is not plane. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Historic Gravitational Waves Rippled, But Left No Fireworks
Historic Gravitational Waves Rippled, But Left No Fireworks
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
An artist's conception of two black holes merging, much like the one that produced the first detected gravitational waves.
Credit: P. Marenfeld/NOAO/AURA/NSF)
Before confirmation of the first direct observation of gravitational waves rippled through the world, the search had already begun for visible signs of the event that generated the powerful waves in space.
Two separate groups scanned the sky in the region where the historic discovery originated, in hopes of spotting light generated by the event.
"This first attempt to detect visible light associated with gravitational waves was very challenging, but it paves the way to a whole new field of astrophysics," Edo Berger of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics said in a statement. [Stirred, Not Shaken - How Colliding Black Holes Make Waves]
Berger was the principal investigator of a team that used the 4-meter Blanco telescope at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile to make a detailed search for the origination of the gravitational waves identified by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO).
Einstein's general theory of relativity predicts that the movement of massive bodies distorts the space-time through which they travel. Last week, scientists announced the first confirmed detection of such waves, produced by colliding black holes. The detection was kept under wraps until the results were verified and published in a scientific journal. But before announcing the news to the world, the scientists contacted two other teams already in place to follow up on any potential gravitational wave observations.
Berger's team made a detailed search of the region of sky where the preliminary signal was detected. The size of the area was daunting — 700 square degrees of sky, or about 2,800 times as large as the full moon — but astronomers combed the area thoroughly over a period of three weeks hoping to find a visible signal that corresponded to the crashing black holes. Although they did not detect any unusual bursts of visible light, their observations were used to place constraints on the brightness for future attempts.
At the same time, a second team used the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) in Hawaii to search for changes in the night sky. The instrument rapidly mapped the part of the sky where the signal originated. Computers then compared the new map to one made previously and identified any changed objects.
"We didn't find anything in our data that was likely related to the gravitational wave source," Stephen Smartt, director of the Astrophysics Research Centre at Queen's University Belfast and leader of the Pan-STARRS follow-up team, said in a separate statement. "We discovered over 50 new sources that are normal supernovae — exploding stars that we find all the time. We didn't see any hint of unusual behavior."
Back in September, researchers didn't yet know that the gravitational waves detected by LIGO were from two merging black holes, Berger told Space.com in an email. Black holes don't radiate light directly, and LIGO scientist Vicky Kalogera told Space.com that it seems unlikely there would be any matter near a black hole binary that would give off secondary light. But that doesn't mean people aren't looking.
There are "several new papers that come up with exotic scenarios" that could produce light from a double black hole merger, Berger said in an email.
"These papers are mainly driven by the LIGO discovery and I expect that more will show up in the coming days and weeks," he said. "Whether any of these theoretical ideas turn out to be correct is unclear at the present. We will continue to observe future [binary black hole] mergers from LIGO to find out."
Like the observations made at Cerro Tololo, the Pan-STARR search will give scientists a little more information about what happened when the pair of black holes collided. Both teams stand ready to search again when LIGO makes its next detection. Gravitational waves can come from other sources besides a double black hole mergers, like exploding stars or the collision of two neutron stars (the dense, left-over cores of dead stars). Scientists know that most of those scenarios will generate light that telescopes could potentially detect.
"LIGO has opened a brand-new field of astronomy, and confirmation from facilities like Pan-STARRS will be very important to understanding them," Pan-STARRS Director Ken Chambers, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii, said.
When I was young, the only planets we knew about were the ones in our own solar system.
Astronomers presumed that many of the other stars in the night sky had planets too, but this was sheer speculation. We could never know for sure, the thinking went, because such planets were ridiculously small and faint. To ever see or study them seemed a complete impossibility. "Extrasolar planets," or "exoplanets," were a staple of science fiction, but not of professional astrophysics.
But while the golden age of exoplanets has barely begun, an exciting additional chapter is also taking shape: the hunt for exomoons.
Beyond Earth-like planets to exomoons
An exomoon is a moon orbiting a planet, which in turn is orbiting another star. You may not have ever heard of exomoons before now. But if you're a fan of films such as "Avatar," "Return of the Jedi" or "Prometheus," this should be familiar territory: in all three cases, most of the action takes place on an exomoon.
But what about real life? How many exomoons do we know of? At the moment, zero.
Endor: not all exomoons come with ewoks.
Credit: Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi
But the race is on to find the real-life analogs of Endor and Pandora.
You might think searching for tiny rocks orbiting distant planets around faint stars hundreds or thousands of light years away is the ultimate example of an obscure academic pursuit. But exomoons are poised to become a big deal.
The whole reason exoplanets are exciting is that they're a path to answering one of the grandest questions of all: "Are we alone?" As we find more and more exoplanets, we eagerly ask whether life could exist there, and whether this planet is anything like Earth. However, so far we've yet to find an exact match to Earth, nor can we yet really know for sure whether any exoplanet, Earth-like or otherwise, hosts life.
Enter exomoons in the search for life
There are several reasons why exomoons, these little distant worlds, may be the key to finding life elsewhere in the universe.
The Earth's axis is tilted by 23.5 degrees relative to its motion around the sun. This tilt gives us seasons, and because this tilt is relatively small, seasons on Earth are mild: most places never get impossibly hot or unbearably cold. One thing that has been crucial for life is that this tilt has stayed the same for very long periods: for millions of years, the angle of tilt has varied by only a couple of degrees.
In contrast, Mars only has two tiny moons, which have negligible gravity. Without a stabilizing influence, Mars has gradually tumbled back and forth, its tilt ranging between 0 and 60 degrees over millions of years. Extreme changes in climate have resulted. Any Martian life that ever existed would have found the need to continually adapt very challenging.
Without our moon, the Earth, too, would likely have been subject to chaotic climate conditions, rather than the relative certainty of the seasons that stretches back deep into the fossil record.
Moons might contribute to a planet's habitability.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute, CC BY-ND
Exomoons might have Earth-like environments
Overall, as we continue to hunt for another Earth somewhere out there, it seems likely that a twin of Earth, but without a moon accompanying it, would not look familiar. Finding exomoons is a key part of finding somewhere like here.
Meanwhile, we shouldn't be discouraged by the fact that most exoplanets found so far are bloated gaseous beasts, with hostile environments unlikely to support life as we know it. What we don't know yet, crucially, is whether these exoplanets have moons. This prospect is exciting, because exomoons are expected to be smaller rocky or icy bodies, possibly hosting oceans and atmospheres.
This is hardly speculation: Titan (a moon of Saturn) has a thick atmosphere even denser than Earth's, while underground oceans are thought to exist on Enceladus (another moon of Saturn) and on Europa and Ganymede (both moons of Jupiter). Thus, if there is any other life out there somewhere, it may well not be found on a distant planet, but on a distant moon.
The hunt is on. While exomoons are too faint to see directly, astronomers are deploying ingenious indirect techniques in their searches. Those moons are assuredly out there by the billions – and soon we will find them. It won't be too much longer before these tiny worlds help us answer huge questions.
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'Telescope' Documentary Gives Inspirational View of NASA's Next Space Telescope
'Telescope' Documentary Gives Inspirational View of NASA's Next Space Telescope
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
An artist's concept of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope in space. JWST will follow in a long line of instruments that have changed humanity's view of universe — and our own place in it.
Credit: NASA
A new documentary airing on the Discovery Channel tomorrow (Feb. 20), looks at the construction of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, and its place in a long line of universe-changing instruments.
"Telescope," a one-hour documentary, features interviews with many of the scientists involved with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and footage taken at NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center, where the movie's director, Nathaniel Kahn, has been filming and doing research for about two years.
The documentary succeeds in a task that is often taken for granted in science-oriented communications: It generates excitement in its audience. Viewers who may not have heard of JWST prior to viewing the film will likely walk away with a newly ignited curiosity about this massive telescope, what it might reveal about the cosmos and how it might change humanity's view of our place in the universe. [Photos of Hubble's Successor, the James Webb Space Telescope]
"It's hard to predict the impact that [JWST] will have [on astronomy], because I think it's going to be so big," Amber Straughn, an astrophysicist at NASA Goddard, told Space.com.
Straughn, who is interviewed in "Telescope," is an extragalactic physicist, which means that she studies how stars and black holes form in distant galaxies. JWST, which is scheduled to launch in 2018, will help scientists study the very first galaxies to ever form in the universe, Straughn said.
Scientists will often talk about the "impact" that a new instrument will have on science, or even on all of humanity. But illustrating that point and convincing an audience that it is true can be extremely difficult, either because the answer is long and complex, and takes time to sink in, or because the "impact" isn't necessarily relevant to the viewer.
"Telescope" succeeds in showing that the use of telescopes has affected all of humanity, not just scientists, by changing what we know about the universe and our place in it.
"People take for granted that [the telescope], more than any other instrument in the history of innovation, has changed our sense of ourselves," Kahn told Space.com in an interview. "And it's done it not once, but many, many times."
Examples of this that are brought up in the film include the fact that telescopes played a critical role in showing humans that the Earth is not the center of the universe (or even the solar system). It wasn't until the 20th century that scientists had telescopes powerful enough to reveal the presence of other galaxies, providing the first real grasp of just how mind-bogglingly huge the universe is. It was telescopes that revealed evidence of the Big Bang, which at least partly answered the question, "Where did we come from?" or at least, "How long have we been here?" It was telescopes that revealed the presence of planets around other stars, and telescopes that may answer the question, "Are we alone?"
"The history of telescopes is to teach us that we're not that special. It makes us less and less special every time we look at the universe and we learn there's much more out there than we thought before," Jason Kalirai, a project scientist for JWST says in the documentary.
Many documentaries cover this territory, but the central point can get lost amid too much additional information about the science or history of these events. "Telescope" doesn't bite off more than it can chew, or more than a "general" audience can swallow. While going over this telescopic history, it weaves in information about JWST, and illustrates how it will be another rung on this ladder from which humans can better see the size of the universe and their place in it.
The aspect of JWST's science plan that has just about everyone on the edge of his or her seat is the study of exoplanets, and specifically, their atmospheres. JWST is an important part of the journey toward answering the question, "Are we alone?" and it will do amazing things. But I do harbor some concern that the documentary overhypes JWST's exoplanet-studying abilities, especially whether or not it could identify signs of life on an exoplanet.Astrophysicist Sara Seager says in the film that for JWST to detect signs of life on an exoplanet (which depends partly on what the telescope can do and partly on what is out there for it to find), is like "winning the lottery five times." To be clear, that is an effective "No," and viewers shouldn't misunderstand those odds. On the other hand, maybe there's nothing wrong with playing the lottery once in a while; maybe hoping for extreme odds is even essential in order for people to willingly invest in major projects like this one.
Thankfully, JWST has much higher odds for what it will accomplish in other scientific pursuits, such as studying the very first galaxies to form in the universe. Because the light from the most distant galaxies in the universe takes billions of years to reach Earth, scientists see those galaxies as they looked billions of years ago — meaning that in some cases, the scientists will be able to see the very first galaxies in the universe, just as they were in the very early stages of their formation.
"The goal of studying those early galaxies is to sort of put together a picture or a story over time," Straughn told Space.com. "You're trying to progressively see how galaxies change over time. … We know that the earliest galaxies must be different from galaxies in the present-day universe."
Only hydrogen and helium (plus very small traces of a few other elements) existed in the early universe, so the first stars must have been made purely of hydrogen and helium. What kind of impact would that have had on how those galaxies looked and how they evolved?
"That epic of the first stars and galaxies is really what we're after with JWST," Straughn said.
But that's just the tip of the iceberg.
"The really great thing about telescopes like Webb is that they're such general-purpose observatories," Straughn said. "It's an observatory that will cover the entire breadth of the universe, from our own cosmic backyard of the solar system, all the way out to the most distant things that we can't even see yet."
The segments featuring people like Straughn, who speaks passionately and excitedly about JWST, are another strong point of "Telescope," and another element of science documentaries that can be taken for granted.
"As a documentary filmmaker, what you look for is people who are able to talk about what they know about, but who are also able to convey their humanity," Kahn told Space.com. Referring to the scientists he interviewed for the documentary, Kahn said, "Their passion [for] their subject and their life study is so infectious and so wonderful. When you start to probe that part of the scientists' minds and hearts, you suddenly open up this wellspring of marvelous drama, which is very exciting from a filmmaking standpoint to get at. Too often, science programming is trying to get all the information in — which is terribly important, we have to get that, too — but sometimes the emotion of the scientists themselves doesn't make it."
Kahn is an amateur telescope maker, and he got to know Matt Mountain because of his homemade telescope. Mountain, among other things, is the telescope scientist for JWST, and he is featured prominently in the film. Kahn began filming at Goddard two years ago, he said. During that time, he received some funding from the Northrop Grumman Foundation (Northrop Grumman is NASA's primary contractor for building JWST). Kahn began development of the documentary with Discovery channel about a year ago, a Discovery representative said.
"Telescope" is a well-done promotion for JWST that will convey to just about any viewer the reasons why people, not just scientists, should be excited about this instrument. While it is not an in-depth look at the science, technology or history of JWST, it does discuss the many, many ways that the mission could fail — for example, the telescope has to unfold from its cramped payload fairing, unfurling like a butterfly emerging from a cocoon. If any part of that unfolding process goes wrong, the telescope could be effectively useless. In addition, it orbits too far from home to be repaired by a space shuttle mission (if there were still any space shuttles). And the documentary does not pursue this question any further: What would it mean for NASA if an overbudget, multibillion-dollar project did not operate optimally, or not at all?
But those are heavy questions, and the consequences of a mission failure are best-explored when the potential benefits of the mission are fully understood as well. As I've said before in this essay, the ability to fully convey the potential awesomeness that JWST could beam down to Earth is not always easy. If "Telescope" seems like a simple look at this mission, it's because sometimes the simplest things take the most care to convey.
"I think to reach out into the dark and to discover things, one has to take risks," Kahn said. "I think that that's what great nations do, and what great scientists do: take risks. So of course it’s a high-stakes mission. But nothing dared, nothing gained.
"I think that it is missions like this that teach us to be bold, Kahn said. "Observing these people working together — it's given me courage, really honestly, in my own life. It's given me courage to be bold. Because I think that when you see people willing to spend years of their lives to build something that pushes the limits of what is possible, it's infectious. It's not enough to just get by. It's not enough to do what you did before. You have to push the limit of what you yourself are capable of," Kahn said.
"Telescope" will air on the Discovery Channel on Saturday, Feb. 20, at 9 p.m./8 p.m. Central. Check local listings.
Continuing what seems to be a spate of strange events afflicting small towns lately, residents of Forest Grove, Oregon are being tormented by a mysterious sound that no one can seem to identify.
The incredibly loud, prolonged wail almost defies description, making it all the more befuddling and maddening as it randomly erupts during the day and night.
Those who have been victims of the obnoxious noise say that it has been happening for weeks, disrupting their sleep and generally being an enormous nuisance.
A myriad of theories have been offered as to the origin of the sound, including a gas leak alarm or a train, but these possibilities have been ruled out by local officials.
Up until now, authorities have been forced to rely only on the accounts of witnesses who were unlucky enough to have experienced 'the sound.'
However, one resident in the area managed to record the now-infamous noise, which should hopefully lead to someone being able to identify it.
Until that happens and, more importantly, the noise can be stopped, it appears that residents of Forest Grove will have to keep enduring the acoustic anomaly and offering guesses as to what it might be.
Whether they have it better or worse than the folks in Niagara Falls who keep hearing the Iowa Fight song on a continuous loop depends on which type of torture you prefer
Earth and the far side of the moon, where the Apollo astronauts encountered the strange music-like radio transmissions.
The crew of an Apollo mission to the moon were so startled when they encountered strange music-like radio transmissions coming through their headsets, they didn't know whether or not to report it to NASA, it's been revealed.
It was 1969, two months before Apollo 11's historic first manned landing on the moon, when Apollo 10 entered lunar orbit, which included traversing the far side of the moon when all spacecraft are out of radio contact with Earth for about an hour and nobody on Earth can see or hear them.
As far as the public knew, everything about the mission went smoothly.
Almost four decades went by before lost recordings emerged that revealed something unsettling that the three Apollo astronauts had experienced while flying above the far side of the moon.
The taped recordings contained "strange, otherworldly music coming through the Apollo module's radio," according to the upcoming Science Channel series, "NASA's Unexplained Files."
The conversation between the three astronauts indicated they heard sounds like they had never heard before:
"It sounds like, you know, outer space-type music."
"You hear that? That whistling sound? Whooooooooo!"
"Well, that sure is weird music!"
The unexplained "music" transmission lasted almost an hour, and just before the astronauts regained radio contact with Earth, they discussed whether or not to tell Mission Control what they had experienced:
"It's unbelievable! You know?"
"Shall we tell them about it?"
"I don't know. We ought to think about it."
"The Apollo 10 crew was very used to the kind of noise that they should be hearing. Logic tells me that if there was something recorded on there, then there was something there," Apollo 15 astronaut Al Worden says on the Science Channel program. "NASA would withhold information from the public if they thought it was in the public's best interest."
The transcripts of the Apollo 10 mission were classified and untouched in NASA's archives until 2008, producing an ongoing debate as to the nature and origin of the strange sounds heard by the astronauts.
"You don't hear about anything like that until years after the incident occurs, and then you kind of wonder, because it's such an old memory of those things that you get concerned about if they were making something up or was there something really there? Because you never really know," Worden told The Huffington Post.
NASAApollo 15 command module pilot Al Worden says he has a very open mind about what could've happened.
"If you're behind the moon and hear some weird noise on your radio, and you know you're blocked from the Earth, then what could you possibly think?" Worden said.
"We'd had a lot of incidents where guys who flew in space saw and heard things that they didn't recognize, and you wonder about all of that. I have a very open mind about what could've happened. It's somebody's hearsay evidence -- it's only a visual or audio event, which is hard to pin down. Recollection is one thing, but actual proof is something entirely different."
Watch this entire incident unfold on Science Channel's "NASA's Unexplained Files." A sneak preview of the the third season premieres Sunday, Feb. 21 at 10 p.m. and the regular season returns Feb. 23. Check your local listings.
If there really are aliens out there, we sure do spot a lot of them in Wales
If there really are aliens out there, we sure do spot a lot of them in Wales
There have been 25 UFO sightings logged with the Mutual UFO Network (Mufon) in Wales since January 2015.
The sightings range from a white dot travelling three times faster than a jet, to a craft as wide as a street, to a grounded UFO in a field near the RAF base at St Athan... according to the people who say they have spotted them.
And although many are sceptical about whether strange white dots in the sky are anything more than unexplained matter floating through the atmosphere, the descriptions are certainly intriguing.
One sighting in Ebbw Vale on May 13, 2015, described an object that seemed to separate and join together again before disappearing with an orange tail.
'I locked the door just in case'
Another sighting, in Conwy on September 27, involved two bright orbs which were photographed through a window.
The witness, who reported it to Mufon, said: “I was at home looking after the dog. I looked up to look at the moon. I saw the two objects and thought it was weird so I took a picture. I then shut the blinds and locked the door just in case.”
'There was barely, if any, noise'
On May 21, a Cardiff resident said they saw a UFO with a wingspan “nearly the width of the street”.
“I saw there was another identical one just behind it that appeared to be following it.
“There was barely any, if any, noise.
“I was transfixed as they were so big. I was the only car driving down the street and it/they must have seen me.”
There are no photographs of this sighting, but the witness did manage to draw a helpful sketch.
A witness from Pontypool also had a spooky experience after taking a picture of the night sky on February 21 last year.
When they looked at the photo later, they said they saw a strange hovering object below the moon.
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Top Secret UK Documents Which Prove ‘Aliens EXIST’ To Be Released In Days?
Top Secret UK Documents Which Prove ‘Aliens EXIST’ To Be Released In Days?
Apparently confidential government reports into UFO sightings – dubbed the “British X-Files” – could be made publicly available within days!
The long-awaited boost for alien hunters follows years of campaigning by the British disclosure movement, who want all world Governments to release all their alien files.
UFO researchers, backed by a House of Lords peer, have been fighting for the release of 18 top secret Ministry of Defence (MoD) files about UFO sightings from more than 30 years ago.
The Government faced claims of a cover-up from conspiracy theorists when their release was stalled at the end of 2013.
Some investigators claim the files could provide key evidence of extra-terrestrial life visiting the UK and of specific information about famous controversial sightings such as the Rendlesham Forest incident – a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights and the alleged landing of one or more craft in Suffolk in late December 1980.
Lord Black of Brentwood, who asked the Government for an update through a Parliamentary question last summer, was assured the files would be released by the MoD to the National Archives by March this year.
This could very well be HUGE news for Disclosure – A huge can of worms is about to be opened it appears!
The top-secret files could be declassified within days
This very long-awaited boost for Truth seekers follows years of campaigning by the British disclosure movement, who want all world Governments to release all their alien files.
Leading UFO researchers, backed by a House of Lords peer, have been fighting for the release of 18 top secret Ministry of Defence (MoD) files about UFO sightings from more than 30 years ago!
The British Government faced claims of a cover-up from conspiracy theorists when their release was stalled way back at the end of 2013.
Many leading investigators and researchers believe that these important files could provide key evidence of extra-terrestrial life visiting the UK and of specific information about famous controversial sightings such as the Rendlesham Forest incident – which is a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights and the alleged landing of one or more craft in Suffolk in late December 1980.
Lord Black of Brentwood, who asked the Government for an update through a Parliamentary question last summer, was assured the files would be released by the MoD to the National Archives by March this year – BUT will they stick to this promise!?
Lord Black of Brentwood DEMANDS the truth from the UK Government about the UFO’s in the skies above us!
Truth Seekers around the world are VERY confident that these records could very well prove if extra-terrestrial life actually exists, as these are the most secretive files held in the private offices of various Cabinet ministers – Although the files are being released to the National Archives, it is not yet clear when they will be available for public inspection and many people expect intentional delays, this is because the archive organisation can set its own release date!
In his Parliamentary question, Lord Black asked:
“What is the latest estimate of when the 18 files will be passed to the National Archives, and then released to the public.” He said.
Defence Minister Earl Howe replied:
“The latest estimate of when the 18 files will be delivered to the National Archives is before March 2016.
“The National Archives will make the necessary judgement about when they release these files to the public.”
A large number of older UFO files held by the UK government have already been released, including details of sightings by officials and police.
U.I.P’s friend Nick Pope, who actually used to investigate the existence of UFOs for the MoD, said the files should contain some extremely fascinating sightings.
However, referring to what is often called the most famous UFO claim in history – sparked by claims an alien spaceship crashed in New Mexico, US, in 1947 – Nick Pope added the soon-to-be-released files are probably not a “UK Roswell-style UFO in a hangar style cover up”.
When the release of the files were stalled in 2014, which the MoD blamed on “additional processing requirements”, Mr Pope sympathised with alien researchers and also believed that these were potential ‘delaying tactics’.
He said at the time:
“This massive delay will have conspiracy theorists up in arms. It looks like the MoD is stalling.
“The suspicion will be that there’s a bombshell in these files and that the Ministry does not know how to handle it.
“I can understand why conspiracy theorists will be angry and suspicious.”
Nick Pope also demands the TRUTH.
Nick Pope worked for the British MoD for at least 21 years, but was specifically assigned to investigate UFOs for an intriguing three-year period!
He said:
“Having worked on the MoD’s UFO project I’m sorry to say that we don’t have any crashed spaceships hidden away in some RAF hangar, as some believe, but we do have some fascinating and unexplained cases in our files.”
The ‘Redlesham Forest incident’, which is alleged to have taken place near RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1980, saw US Airman First Class John Burroughs, who was stationed there, exposed to radiation after a mystery “UFO visitation”.
He has since won damages from the American military, but still wants answers about what happened and hopes they will be in the new files.
Pat Frascogna, his lawyer, said:
“We know there is information contained in these MoD files about the Rendlesham Forest incident because the MoD clearly indicated so in responding to a Freedom of Information request by John Burroughs last year.”
Check out this incredible sighting at Rendlesham recently involving a British Apache Gunship and an Orb:
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Stealth Alien Invasion Of Earth Under Way?
Stealth Alien Invasion Of Earth Under Way?
Recent multiple reports of mysterious glowing orbs dropping “landing pods” over locations across the U.S. have caused UFO researchers to raise the alarm that a stealth invasion of Earth by possibly hostile alien races could be under way.
The rumors intensified after the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), a U.S.-based organization that reports and documents alien and UFO sightings, received a slew of disturbingly similar reports from across the U.S. in which witnesses sighted and filmed glowing or flashing orbs hovering over the sky and releasing or dropping smaller orbs that fall to the ground.
Members of the alien and UFO community claim that the remarkably similar reports by unrelated witnesses from across the country provide convincing evidence that alien invaders are secretly planting and building up sleeper cells across the country in anticipation of a possibly pre-determined D-Day.
Open Minds-TV, a UFO reporting website linked with MUFON, recently reported an incident in which a stealth orb UFO was observed dropping a “landing pod” pod over Boise, Idaho (see video above).
The incident was reported by at least three unrelated witnesses, whose identical and mutually corroborating accounts prove the authenticity of the sighting, according to UFO enthusiasts.
In the first of the three independent reports filed as Case 52934 in the reporting database of MUFON, a witness driving home with his wife on December 24, 2013, looked up and saw a glowing red UFO in the sky. He drew his wife’s attention to the clearly visible red and glowing object in the sky, and she suggested that they pull over and observe.
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Nick Pope: What does the Government Really Know About UFOs? [FULL]
Nick Pope: What does the Government Really Know About UFOs? [FULL]
Gepubliceerd op 1 jan. 2016
Nick Pope presents at the 2015 New Mexico UFO Conference on the topic of 'What does the Government really know?'. Official UFO Research Day Saturday, October 17 Rio Rancho, New Mexico
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Nick Pope: The Real X-Files 1/11
Nick Pope: The Real X-Files 1/11
Gepubliceerd op 29 okt. 2015
Nick Pope presents at the 2015 New Mexico UFO Conference on the topic of 'What does the Government really know?'. He begins an introduction to his presentation by sharing about fact & fiction with the real X-Files. This is part 1 of 11 Official UFO Research Day Saturday, October 17 Rio Rancho, New Mexico
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Nick Pope: UK Ministry of Defense & UFOs 2/11
Nick Pope: UK Ministry of Defense & UFOs 2/11
Gepubliceerd op 29 okt. 2015
Nick Pope presents at the 2015 New Mexico UFO Conference on the topic of 'What does the Government really know?'. He continues his presentation by sharing about his work with the UK MoD (Ministry of Defence) and UFOs. This is part 2 of 11 Official UFO Research Day Saturday, October 17 Rio Rancho, New Mexico
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Nick Pope: Taranis UAV - Real "UFO" from UK 3/11
Nick Pope: Taranis UAV - Real "UFO" from UK 3/11
Gepubliceerd op 29 okt. 2015
Nick Pope presents at the 2015 New Mexico UFO Conference on the topic of 'What does the Government really know?'. He continues his presentation by sharing about the UK's real "UFO" - the Taranis UAV. This is part 3 of 11 Official UFO Research Day Saturday, October 17 Rio Rancho, New Mexico
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Nick Pope: The Calvine UFO Incident 4/11
Nick Pope: The Calvine UFO Incident 4/11
Gepubliceerd op 3 nov. 2015
Nick Pope presents at the 2015 New Mexico UFO Conference on the topic of 'What does the Government really know?'. He continues his presentation by sharing about the UK's real "UFO" - the Taranis UAV. This is part 4 of 11 Official UFO Research Day Saturday, October 17 Rio Rancho, New Mexico
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Nick Pope: The Rendlesham UFO Incident 5/11
Nick Pope: The Rendlesham UFO Incident 5/11
Gepubliceerd op 7 nov. 2015
Nick Pope presents at the 2015 New Mexico UFO Conference on the topic of 'What does the Government really know?'. He continues his presentation by sharing about The Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident This is part 5 of 11 Official UFO Research Day Saturday, October 17 Rio Rancho, New Mexico
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Nick Pope: Project Condign & UFOs 6/11
Nick Pope: Project Condign & UFOs 6/11
Gepubliceerd op 7 nov. 2015
Nick Pope presents at the 2015 New Mexico UFO Conference on the topic of 'What does the Government really know?'. He continues his presentation by sharing about Project Condign & UFOs. This is part 6 of 11 Official UFO Research Day Saturday, October 17 Rio Rancho, New Mexico
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AFRIKAANSE STAM WEET VAN ONBEKENDE PLANETEN ( VIDEO )
AFRIKAANSE STAM WEET VAN ONBEKENDE PLANETEN ( VIDEO )
Misschien wel één de grootste mysteries op aarde is de astronomische kennis van een Afrikaanse stam, de Dogon.
Zij beschikken over informatie omtrent ons zonnestelsel die ze alleen kunnen weten wanneer ze de beschikking zouden hebben over moderne telescopen.
Na jarenlange discussies door allerlei wetenschappers zijn ze er nog steeds niet uit hoe het mogelijk is dat een primitieve Afrikaanse stam over dit soort kennis kan beschikken.
De stam woont in het tegenwoordige Mali en kent de omloopbaan van een ster die niet zichtbaar is vanaf de aarde.
Wanneer we naar de lucht kijken dan is Sirius één van de helderste sterren aan de hemel. Ze bevindt zich op ongeveer 8.7 lichtjaren van de aarde en heeft een witte dwerg tweelingplaneet, Sirius B genaamd.
Sirius B kan niet met het blote oog worden waargenomen en astronomen hadden voor het eerst rond 1830 berekend dat er nog een planeet moest zijn nabij Sirius. Voordat de planeet fysiek werd ontdekt in 1862 hadden ze al een wiskundige berekening gemaakt van haar omloopbaan rondom Sirius.
Na de ontdekking van Sirius B waren astronomen van mening dat er mogelijk nog een derde ster moet zijn. Omdat er nog iets onbekends is dat invloed uitoefent op de baan van Sirius B. Tot op de dag van vandaag zijn geleerden het nog niet met elkaar eens of die derde Sirius nu wel of niet bestaat.
Eeuwenlang voordat Westerse astronomen de planeet Sirius B ontdekten, wisten de Dogon al van het bestaan hiervan. Dat niet alleen, voor hen is er ook nog een derde Siriusplaneet. Degene die de wetenschappers tot nu toe nog niet hebben kunnen ontdekken.
De Dogon beschrijven Sirius B volkomen correct. Ze zeggen dat deze niet zichtbaar is vanaf de aarde en een 50-jarige omloopbaan heeft rondom Sirius. Een lange elliptische omloopbaan en dat de planeet is gemaakt is van zwaar materiaal dat op aarde niet wordt gevonden, iets dat door wetenschappers wordt bevestigd.
Deze primitieve stam weet ook dat de aarde en andere planeten om hun eigen as roteren en dat ze gezamenlijk rond de zon draaien. Ze weten dat Jupiter vier manen heeft en dat Saturnus een ring om zich heen heeft.
Aangezien de wetenschap uiteraard geen enkele verklaring heeft voor het feit dat de Dogon dit soort dingen weten, gaan ze nu weer speculeren dat het heel misschien in heel uitzonderlijke omstandigheden mogelijk zou zijn om de manen van Jupiter en de ringen van Saturnus met het blote oog te zien, zonder de hulp van een telescoop.
Zelfs de grootste optimist is het er wel mee eens dat ze nooit in staat zijn geweest op welke manier dan ook de planeet Sirius B met het blote oog waar te nemen.
Dus komt men maar tot de conclusie dat de kennis over Sirius B zoals de Dogon die bezitten dan wel op de één of andere mysterieuze manier vanuit de Westerse cultuur naar hen zal zijn doorgesijpeld.
Wat de Dogon weten, is onder andere bekend geworden door Dr. Germaine Dieterlen in de jaren dertig. Zij bezocht als antropoloog deze stam in die tijd diverse keren en heeft een groot deel van haar leven bij hen doorgebracht.
Zij is degene met grotere kennis van hun tradities dan wie dan ook. Zij reageerde ook later op de verhalen over dat de Dogon hun kennis dan wel ergens uit het Westen zouden hebben gekregen met “Absurd”.
Er is ooit een BBC documentaire gemaakt over de Dogon met daarin een interview met Dr. Dieterlen. Daarin liet zij een voorwerp zien dat ongeveer vierhonderd jaar oud was en waaruit bleek dat de Dogon op de hoogte waren van het driesterrensysteem van Sirius. Dit stukje is later uit de uitzending geknipt die in Amerika werd uitgezonden.
De Dogon zelf hebben ook nog wel iets te vertellen over dit alles. Wanneer je hen vraagt, zullen ze zeggen dat hun voorouders de informatie kregen van bezoekers van het Sirius sterrensysteem.
Dus, ver voordat wij hier in het Westen wisten van het bestaan van een Sirius B, wisten de Dogon dit al. Al die kennis is verwerkt in hun objecten en standbeelden en dergelijke. Ook allemaal zaken die stammen uit de tijd voordat wij wisten van het bestaan van Sirius B.
Het contact met de Westerse wereld was in de negentiende eeuw heel beperkt en ook daarna zijn de contacten incidenteel geweest. Theoretisch zouden de Dogon de informatie natuurlijk ergens anders hebben kunnen krijgen, maar erg waarschijnlijk is dat niet.
Wij hebben in een eerder artikel geschreven over de Dogon waarbij ze praten over een donkere ster, onzichtbaar voor het menselijk oog, die de eb en vloed van de stroom van het leven op aarde bepaalt. Dat kan niet de beschrijving zijn van Sirius B omdat een planeet die meer dan acht lichtjaren van de aarde is verwijderd niet het soort invloed kan uitoefenen waar zij over spreken.
Dit zou dan betekenen dat ze ook kennis hebben van de naderende komst van mini zonnestelsel Nibiru.
Zeker ook gezien het geluid dat ze maken tijdens hun ceremonie. Een geluid dat volgens hen wordt gemaakt door de donkere ster en verdacht veel lijkt op al de geluiden zoals die nu door mensen wereldwijd worden waargenomen.
Niet alleen in de Kolbrin bijbel komen we die uitdrukking tegen, ook in de gewone bijbel en wel bij de profeet Jeremia.
Die zegt onder andere het volgende: Jeremia 25:32 en 48:8
’Ziet! Een rampspoed gaat uit van natie tot natie, en een zware storm zelf zal verwekt worden van de meest afgelegen streken der aarde.
Ja, er zal een verwoester komen tot elke stad, zodat geen stad zal ontkomen; en de vallei zal te gronde gaan en de vlakte verdelgd worden, gelijk de Here gezegd heeft.
We hebben al vele malen vaker geschreven. Als we willen weten hoe onze toekomst er (voor een deel) uit zal zien, duik in het verleden. Alles is eerder gebeurd. Wat wij meemaken is niet uniek voor deze wereld.
In 1969, two months before Apollo 11′s first manned landing on the moon, the crew of Apollo 10, Tom Stafford, Gene Cernan, and John Young become only the second crew in history to journey behind the far side of the Moon.
During this period of ‘LOS’ (Loss Of Signal), the astronauts encounter something truly incredible as they heard mysterious music-like radio transmissions.
Almost 40 years went by before lost recordings emerged and remarkable these tapes recordings contained besides the conversation between the astronauts also the mysterious ‘outer space’ music’ coming through the Apollo module’s radio.
Throughout the Apollo program, the CSM and LM spacecraft carried what were known as DSE and DSEA ‘black box’ flight data recorders. These instruments recorded the internal LM and CSM crew conversations while the astronauts were around the lunar far side and out of radio contact with Earth.
Here is an excerpt from the Apollo 10 DSEA audio transcript.
LMP You hear that? That whistling sound? That music even sounds outer-spaeey, doesn’t it? CDR Yes. LMP Whooooooo. Say your.. CMP Did you hear that whistling sound, too? LMP Yes. Sounds like – you know, outer-space-type music. CMP I wonder what it is. LMP isn’t that weird – eerie, John? CMP Yes, I got it, too …. and see who was outside. LMP Boy, that sure is weird music. CMP We’re going to have to find out about that. Nobody will believe us. LMP Yes. It’s a whistling, you know, like an outerspace-type thing. CMP Yes …. VHF-A … LMP Houston, we’ve got you on OMNI’s. You hear music, Tom? That crazy whistling? CDR I can hear it. LMP That’s really weird. CDR It is. LMP We had to have someone on our side that time. CDR Yes. LMP Listen to eerie music’ LMP Boy, it got quiet. CDR Huh? IMP Man, I tell you, it Just got quiet. CDR … to the walls – you can see the freaking walls. CMP I never would have taken my helmet off in that thing. CDR I mean you … What the hell was that gurgling noise? LMP I don’t know. But I’ll tell you, that eerie music is what’s bothering me. You know that - CMP God damn, I heard it, too. LMP You know that was funny. That’s Just like something from outer space, really. Who’s going to believe it? CMP Nobody. Shall we tell them about it? LMP I don’t know. We ought to think about it some. CMP Did you hear it, Tom? LMP Yes, he heard it. CDR Yes. LMP Hell, I just want to get out of this suit.
TRIANGLE CLOSE ENCOUNTER NEAR THE FLORIDA STATE LINE
AUGUST 10, 2014 ………… CHATHAM GEORGIA
My main purpose is to see if anyone else witnessed what I did, if someone could contact and let me know that would be great, also I could fill you in on better details, sorry for the spelling and grammar mistakes in advance. It was between the dates of august 5-10 of 2014, somewhere south bound between Savannah GA. And Jacksonville fl. On 95 south, sometime after midnight, no later then 1:30 am . The whole thing is strange , the sighting and my reaction to it, plus the event’s afterwards.
So I’m driving south bound on 95 there is no traffic from either direction and above the highway is a bright white light. At first thought it might be a helicopter or something, but quickly realized that is was not, the light was very bright. I turned my radio off, and began to slow down thinking something had to be going on up ahead on the road or air.
As I got closer the light just got bigger and brighter, too blinding to make out what it could be, but as I began to drive under the light I could see the underside of a large airplane sized triangle with three neon blue colored doughnut shaped lights. I was looking up through my windshield of my car while passing under the triangle and i could see this thing very clearly, it was only right over the highway directly over my car, but when I was driving towards it before going under it, all I could see was a bright light, never expected to be passing directly under a triangle. I immediately pulled over and by the time I came to a full stop and looked back and up it was gone, not a trace, and strangely I just drove off . I felt very calm, but at the same time something was not right. I felt like I was being watched or followed, just very strange feelings, and even now after all this time, a lot of strange things, ill talk more about that stuff another time, just a lot of unanswered questions, and feelings I cant begin to explain in text, so just have to report this in hopes of answers, and other witnesses. .. sincerely Christopher.
In Siberia, a mining company keeps coming across these strange stone circles that eerily resemble the classic symbol of extraterrestrial life on Earth: the flying saucer. Experts and ancient alien skeptics alike are baffled by the find.
Siberia’s Kuznetsk Basin is one of the largest coal mines in the world, so it’s no surprise to the company when they come across a few mammoth bones every now and again. But these man-made, circular stones are really hindering their work, and freaking out the employees.
Each wheel has a diameter of about 4 feet and is a near perfect circle. The fact that they weigh almost 440 pounds suggests that these babies weren’t made for practical purposes.
However, the oddest thing about the stone wheels is that they were found more than 130 feet below Earth’s surface, dating them at about 10,000 years old. What did these stones mean to ancient man? And do they correspond with the ancient Dropa Stonesfound in Tibet?
Some ufologists claim that this is a small monument to an ancient race of extraterrestrials who appeared on Earth thousands of years ago. It could be that, I guess…or it could be a sign that our early ancestors were just bored and wanted to mess with future generations. What I’m saying is this: We’ll probably never know.
Virgin Galactic, het ruimtevaartbedrijf van Richard Branson, onthulde vrijdag zijn nieuwste ruimteschip in de Mojave Lucht- en Ruimtehaven in Californië. Het toestel dient ter vervanging van het model dat crashte in 2014: daarbij kwam een testpiloot om het leven.
Ladies and gentlemen, please meet the new #SpaceShipTwo. More photos and info coming soon.
Het nieuwe toestel krijgt dezelfde naam als het gecrashte exemplaar: SpaceShipTwo. Virgin Galactic liet ook weten dat er veel meer testen zullen gebeuren vooraleer het toestel een solovlucht zal maken, om een nieuwe crash te vermijden.
Volgens de firma is het nieuwe voertuig erg gelijkaardig aan zijn voorganger, dus zal het "de voordelen genieten van de bijzonder nuttige data uit 55 succesvolle proefvluchten en de brutale, maar belangrijke lessen van één tragisch proefvluchtongeluk".
Commerciële ruimtevaart Zodra het toestel volledig vliegklaar is, wil Virgin Galactic passagiers meenemen tot een hoogte van 80 kilometer boven het aardoppervlak.
"Een ding dat ik bijzonder krachtig vind, is dat we in staat zullen zijn om een nieuwe blik op onze planeet te werpen, terwijl honderden en uiteindelijk miljoenen mensen in staat zullen zijn om de ruimte in te gaan," zei George Whitesides, CEO van het bedrijf.
Meer dan 700 mensen hebben zich al opgegeven om een vlucht te maken met Virgin Galactic, hoewel het bedrijf een voorschot van 250.000 Amerikaanse dollar (225.000 euro) vraagt voor een plaatsje.
Wanneer de eerste passagiersvlucht zal plaatsvinden is nog niet duidelijk. De maatschappij laat weten dat ze niet gehaast is.
Piloot vs. automatische besturing Hoewel sommige toestellen van concurrende ruimtevaartbedrijven volledig vertrouwen op een automatische besturing, is het systeem van Virgin Galactic volledig afhankelijk van de vaardigheden van de piloten. Volgens het bedrijf past die aanpak in hun streven naar eenvoud: "De verantwoordelijkheid is groot. Maar de reden waarom we dit in de eerste plaats doen, is om alles zo eenvoudig mogelijk te houden. De redenering is dat als je een eenvoudig systeem hebt, de kans op fouten kleiner is. Dat maakt het veiliger," aldus hoofdpiloot Dave Mackay.
Met de ontwikkeling van de SpaceShipTwo lijkt de droom van 'betaalbare' commerciële ruimtevaart werkelijkheid te worden. "Het is een belangrijk moment in de luchtvaartgeschiedenis, denk ik," zegt Mackay. "Dit is het voertuig dat honderden gewone mensen voor het eerst in de ruimte zal brengen."
VIDEO Bijna veertig jaar na de missie van Apollo 10 naar de maan is een opname opgedoken waarin schijnbaar 'ruimtemuziek' te horen is. De driekoppige bemanning van het ruimtetuig bevond zich aan de achterkant van de natuurlijke satelliet toen ze allen het geluid waarnamen. De astronauten waren zo opgeschrikt door de kosmische klanken dat ze twijfelden om hun ervaring met de ruimteorganisatie NASA te delen. Dat blijkt uit een opname die te horen is in de documentairereeks 'NASA's Unexplained Files' en waarover de nieuwssite Huffington Post bericht.
De ruimtereis van Apollo 10 in 1969 was zogezegd de generale repetitie voor de eerste maanlanding in datzelfde jaar door de bemanning van Apollo 11. De trip hield onder andere een vlucht voorbij de achterkant van de maan in, het halfrond dat nooit te zien is van op aarde. Tijdens die ongeveer een uur durende tocht is er geen contact met de aarde mogelijk. Aan het publiek werd achteraf meegedeeld dat de missie vlekkeloos verlopen was. Maar in 2008, bijna vier decennia later, doken ineens opnames op waaruit blijkt dat de ruimtevaarders, in de periode dat ze geïsoleerd waren, geconfronteerd werden met een geluid dat ze niet konden plaatsen en zelf "een soort kosmische ruimtemuziek" noemden.
Uit de gesprekken die het drietal voerde, en die binnenkort te horen zijn in de documentairereek 'NASA's Unexplained Files', valt te besluiten dat de ruimtevaarders geluiden opvingen die voor hen volledig onbekend waren:
"Het klinkt als, weet je wel, een soort kosmische ruimtemuziek."
De onverklaarbare klanken waren gedurende bijna een uur te horen. Vlak voordat de ruimtevaarders opnieuw contact hadden met de controlekamer op aarde, bediscussieerden ze of ze al dan niet zouden meedelen wat ze ervaren hadden:
"Het is ongelooflijk! Weet je wel?"
"Zullen we het hen vertellen?"
"Ik weet het niet. We moeten erover nadenken."
"De crew van Apollo 10 wist heel goed welke geluiden ze kon verwachten", zegt Apollo 15-ruimtevaarder Al Worden in de reeks, die vanaf dinsdag door Science Channel wordt uitgezonden. "De logica vertelt me dat als er daar iets is opgenomen, er daar ook echt iets was. De NASA is in staat om informatie achter te houden wanneer die denkt dat het in het beste belang van het publiek is."
"Wanneer je voorbij de achterkant van de maan vliegt, geen contact met de aarde hebt en je hoort vreemde geluiden via de radio: wat moet je daarvan dan denken?" vervolgt Worden.
De transcripties van de Apollo 10-missie werden geclassificeerd en verdwenen tot 2008 in de archieven van de NASA.
De Cassini-Huygens-ruimtesonde pikte jaren later een soortgelijk bizar geluid op bij de planeet Saturnus. Voor die tonen is echter een wetenschappelijke verklaring. Ze worden veroorzaakt door geladen deeltjes die zich door de magnetische omgeving van de gasreus verplaatsen. Die uitleg gaat echter niet op voor de mysterieuze 'maanmuziek'. In de nabije omgeving van de natuurlijke satelliet is immers geen atmosfeer of magnetisch veld te bespeuren.
'NASA's Unexplained Files' is vanaf 23 februari te zien op Science Channel
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VIDEO: Internationaal ruimtestation ISS gevolgd door ‘mysterieus object’
VIDEO: Internationaal ruimtestation ISS gevolgd door ‘mysterieus object’
De camera’s van het internationale ruimtestation ISS hebben een UFO vastgelegd die het ruimtestation lijkt te volgen. Dat schrijven Britse media.
De video is in Rusland opgedoken en toont naar verluidt een ongeïdentificeerd vliegend object dat het ISS volgt. De beelden zouden zijn gemaakt op het moment dat het station wachtte op voorraden, zo meldden Russische media.
Er zijn voor zover bekend geen stemopnames van de astronauten die aan boord van het ISS spraken over de UFO. Het object lijkt dezelfde koers te volgen en dezelfde snelheid te hebben als het ISS.
Critici claimen dat het filmpje nep is omdat beelden van de UFO niet terug te vinden zijn in het archief. De video ging op internet als snel viral en lokte een flinke discussie uit onder kijkers. Sommigen menen dat het een schip is.
Iemand schreef: “Ruimtepuin heeft ongeveer dezelfde snelheid als het ISS. Het is waarschijnlijk een isolatiepaneel.” Een ander stelde: “Als het ruimtepuin was, zou het toch als zodanig zijn gecategoriseerd?”
Here’s one new video of a bright unidentified flying object hovering in the sky above Smyrna in Tennessee on 21st January 2016.
Witness report:My daughters and I were driving East on I-24 in Tennessee. The lights seemed to be hovering over the trees to the southeast of my location. We were driving, so it was hard to tell. I thought they were possibly helicopters from a nearby Air National Guard base. They seemed to remain stationary as we drove right under them. There were four bright points of white lights shaped in a crescent with a twinkling reddish/white in the center of the four brighter points of light. I have lived in this area most of my life and have never witnessed anything like this before. We continued on to our destination writing it off as what we thought it had to be, helicopters. But, curiosity got the best of me….
UFO Expert Dismisses Meteor Theory Of A UFO Over Gladstone
UFO Expert Dismisses Meteor Theory Of A UFO Over Gladstone
Sheryl Gottshall, president of UFO Research Queensland, said that finding the truth is to rule out possibilities. When it comes to UFOs, Gottshall said that it is a must to go through the list of possibilities and tick them off. For example, someone says it is a meteor, then ticking it off is needed.
Gottshall is talking about the theories of the bright light and the massive boom observed above the Gladstone region recently.
Mark Sugars, the member of Bundaberg Astronomy Society, said the description could suggest a meteorite. The strange event was witnessed from Rockhampton to Gympie.
But Gladstone resident Rory Henricks believed it was a plane shooting fireworks out of its rear.
RAAF watch keeper Corporal King has disclosed that carrier KC-30A took off from the nearest air base to Gladstone on the night of the reported sighting.
Residents saw the object over Gladstone region, including Tannum Sands, Agnes Water, Calliope, and Kirkwood and heard a boom sound approximately 9:20 p.m.
Corporal King did not reveal his first name because of strict defence force privacy protocol. He said that the massive plane took off from the Amberley Air Base and it should be the only plane flying from Amberley area that time.
Amberley Air Base is on the outskirts of Ipswich, 40kms south-west of Brisbane. Corporal King can’t reveal the reason of the aircraft in the area and the path it had taken as he isn’t at liberty to disclose such information.
A KC-30A is described as a heavily modified large Airbus A330 airliner. It can carry fuel loads of up to one hundred tonnes for a range of fighter jets and RAAF surveillance aircraft. It can also carry 270 passengers and 34,000 kg of cargo.
Ms Gottshall said that meteor theory doesn’t go well because there are no meteors that rumble for 5 minutes as one witness reported hearing.
Some witnesses also claim to have seen debris flying from the object, creating a theory of a plane crash. Ms Gottshall said that this wasn’t possible as a plane crash would have emergency services arriving in the area.
As of the theory of KC-30A over Gladstone, she said that it could be, but it is hard to tell exactly. If the identity is not surely identified, then it remains unidentified, Ms Gottshall explains.
Something amazing happened at the TED2016 conference today: HoloLens developer Alex Kipman "teleported" a NASA scientist onto the stage, on the surface of Mars.
Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was physically across the street from the auditorium in Vancouver, Canada, but with the HoloLens cameras, a hologram of him (a three-dimensional, talking hologram, which is made entirely of light) was beamed onto the stage where a virtual Mars surface was waiting.
"I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on the stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars a hundred million miles away." [See Photos of the HoloLens Experience and Teleported Scientist]
Kipman demoed the HoloLens for the audience and, for the first time, revealed this new holographic teleportation aspect of the technology.
"I invite you to experience, for the first time anywhere in the world, here on the TED stage a real-life holographic teleportation…," Kipman said. When Norris, wearing a NASA T-shirt and baseball cap appeared onstage (his hologram, that is), Kipman was ecstatic. "Woo. That worked," he said.
The alien scape on which Norris stood was a holographic replica of the planet created from data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.
To infinity and beyond
Kipman sees the technology as a game-changer for the world. Today, he says, humans are limited by our two-dimensional interaction with the world, through monitors and other screens.
"Put simply I want to create a new reality," Kipman said. "A reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other, a reality where people, not devices, are at the center of everything. I dream of a reality where technology senses what we see, touch and feel, a reality where technology no longer gets in the way but instead embraces who we are."
Enter the HoloLens: "This is the next step in the evolution. This is Microsoft Hololens, the first fully untethered holographic computer," said Kipman. "I'm talking about freeing ourselves from the 2D confines of traditional computing." [Here's How the Microsoft HoloLens Works]
The technology relies on a fish-eye camera lens, loads of sensors and a holographic processing unit, according to Microsoft.
And to allow the viewer to walk around in their own environment overlaid with various holograms, the devices maps your home or any surroundings in real-time. "The HoloLens maps in real-time at about five frames per second with this technology we call spatial mapping. So in your home as soon as you put it on holograms will start showing up and you'll start placing them, you'll start learning your home," Kipman said.
For the demo, where Kipman's headset was wirelessly linked to big screens, the HoloLens relied on stored information. "In a stage environment where we're trying to get something on my head to communicate with something over there with all of the wireless connectivity that usually brings all conferences down we don't take the risk of trying to do this live," Kipman said. "So what we do is we pre-map the stage at five frames per second with the same spatial mapping technology that you'll use with the product at home and then we store it."
Demoing more of the HoloLens experience, Kipman shows the audience what he sees through the headset as he dials his world from reality toward the imaginary, turning people in the audience, for instance, into elves with wings.
Exploring with HoloLens
The technology is already being put to good use in the scientific and consumer realm.
Medical students at Case Western University are using HoloLens to learn about medicine and the human body in an augmented-reality world; Volvo has developed a partnership with Microsoft to use the HoloLens for both design of their cars and as a way to enhance consumers' experiences with their vehicles and brand.
And Kipman's "personal favorite" — NASA is using the technology to let scientists explore planets holographically, a partnership dubbed OnSight.
"Today a group of scientists on our mission are seeing Mars as never before, an alien world made a little more familiar because they are finally exploring it as humans should," Norris said of the ability to use HoloLens to experience the planet as if one were there. "But our dreams don't have to end with making it just like being there. If we dial this real world to the virtual, we can do magical things. We can see in invisible wavelengths or teleport to the top of a mountain. Perhaps some day we'll feel the minerals in a rock just by touching it."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have HoloLens headsets so that scientists on Earth can assist them as if both were in the same place.
Something amazing happened at the TED2016 conference today: HoloLens developer Alex Kipman "teleported" a NASA scientist onto the stage, on the surface of Mars.
Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was physically across the street from the auditorium in Vancouver, Canada, but with the HoloLens cameras, a hologram of him (a three-dimensional, talking hologram, which is made entirely of light) was beamed onto the stage where a virtual Mars surface was waiting.
"I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on the stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars a hundred million miles away." [See Photos of the HoloLens Experience and Teleported Scientist]
Kipman demoed the HoloLens for the audience and, for the first time, revealed this new holographic teleportation aspect of the technology.
"I invite you to experience, for the first time anywhere in the world, here on the TED stage a real-life holographic teleportation…," Kipman said. When Norris, wearing a NASA T-shirt and baseball cap appeared onstage (his hologram, that is), Kipman was ecstatic. "Woo. That worked," he said.
The alien scape on which Norris stood was a holographic replica of the planet created from data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.
To infinity and beyond
Kipman sees the technology as a game-changer for the world. Today, he says, humans are limited by our two-dimensional interaction with the world, through monitors and other screens.
"Put simply I want to create a new reality," Kipman said. "A reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other, a reality where people, not devices, are at the center of everything. I dream of a reality where technology senses what we see, touch and feel, a reality where technology no longer gets in the way but instead embraces who we are."
Enter the HoloLens: "This is the next step in the evolution. This is Microsoft Hololens, the first fully untethered holographic computer," said Kipman. "I'm talking about freeing ourselves from the 2D confines of traditional computing." [Here's How the Microsoft HoloLens Works]
The technology relies on a fish-eye camera lens, loads of sensors and a holographic processing unit, according to Microsoft.
And to allow the viewer to walk around in their own environment overlaid with various holograms, the devices maps your home or any surroundings in real-time. "The HoloLens maps in real-time at about five frames per second with this technology we call spatial mapping. So in your home as soon as you put it on holograms will start showing up and you'll start placing them, you'll start learning your home," Kipman said.
For the demo, where Kipman's headset was wirelessly linked to big screens, the HoloLens relied on stored information. "In a stage environment where we're trying to get something on my head to communicate with something over there with all of the wireless connectivity that usually brings all conferences down we don't take the risk of trying to do this live," Kipman said. "So what we do is we pre-map the stage at five frames per second with the same spatial mapping technology that you'll use with the product at home and then we store it."
Demoing more of the HoloLens experience, Kipman shows the audience what he sees through the headset as he dials his world from reality toward the imaginary, turning people in the audience, for instance, into elves with wings.
Exploring with HoloLens
The technology is already being put to good use in the scientific and consumer realm.
Medical students at Case Western University are using HoloLens to learn about medicine and the human body in an augmented-reality world; Volvo has developed a partnership with Microsoft to use the HoloLens for both design of their cars and as a way to enhance consumers' experiences with their vehicles and brand.
And Kipman's "personal favorite" — NASA is using the technology to let scientists explore planets holographically, a partnership dubbed OnSight.
"Today a group of scientists on our mission are seeing Mars as never before, an alien world made a little more familiar because they are finally exploring it as humans should," Norris said of the ability to use HoloLens to experience the planet as if one were there. "But our dreams don't have to end with making it just like being there. If we dial this real world to the virtual, we can do magical things. We can see in invisible wavelengths or teleport to the top of a mountain. Perhaps some day we'll feel the minerals in a rock just by touching it."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have HoloLens headsets so that scientists on Earth can assist them as if both were in the same place.
Something amazing happened at the TED2016 conference today: HoloLens developer Alex Kipman "teleported" a NASA scientist onto the stage, on the surface of Mars.
Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was physically across the street from the auditorium in Vancouver, Canada, but with the HoloLens cameras, a hologram of him (a three-dimensional, talking hologram, which is made entirely of light) was beamed onto the stage where a virtual Mars surface was waiting.
"I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on the stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars a hundred million miles away." [See Photos of the HoloLens Experience and Teleported Scientist]
Kipman demoed the HoloLens for the audience and, for the first time, revealed this new holographic teleportation aspect of the technology.
"I invite you to experience, for the first time anywhere in the world, here on the TED stage a real-life holographic teleportation…," Kipman said. When Norris, wearing a NASA T-shirt and baseball cap appeared onstage (his hologram, that is), Kipman was ecstatic. "Woo. That worked," he said.
The alien scape on which Norris stood was a holographic replica of the planet created from data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.
To infinity and beyond
Kipman sees the technology as a game-changer for the world. Today, he says, humans are limited by our two-dimensional interaction with the world, through monitors and other screens.
"Put simply I want to create a new reality," Kipman said. "A reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other, a reality where people, not devices, are at the center of everything. I dream of a reality where technology senses what we see, touch and feel, a reality where technology no longer gets in the way but instead embraces who we are."
Enter the HoloLens: "This is the next step in the evolution. This is Microsoft Hololens, the first fully untethered holographic computer," said Kipman. "I'm talking about freeing ourselves from the 2D confines of traditional computing." [Here's How the Microsoft HoloLens Works]
The technology relies on a fish-eye camera lens, loads of sensors and a holographic processing unit, according to Microsoft.
And to allow the viewer to walk around in their own environment overlaid with various holograms, the devices maps your home or any surroundings in real-time. "The HoloLens maps in real-time at about five frames per second with this technology we call spatial mapping. So in your home as soon as you put it on holograms will start showing up and you'll start placing them, you'll start learning your home," Kipman said.
For the demo, where Kipman's headset was wirelessly linked to big screens, the HoloLens relied on stored information. "In a stage environment where we're trying to get something on my head to communicate with something over there with all of the wireless connectivity that usually brings all conferences down we don't take the risk of trying to do this live," Kipman said. "So what we do is we pre-map the stage at five frames per second with the same spatial mapping technology that you'll use with the product at home and then we store it."
Demoing more of the HoloLens experience, Kipman shows the audience what he sees through the headset as he dials his world from reality toward the imaginary, turning people in the audience, for instance, into elves with wings.
Exploring with HoloLens
The technology is already being put to good use in the scientific and consumer realm.
Medical students at Case Western University are using HoloLens to learn about medicine and the human body in an augmented-reality world; Volvo has developed a partnership with Microsoft to use the HoloLens for both design of their cars and as a way to enhance consumers' experiences with their vehicles and brand.
And Kipman's "personal favorite" — NASA is using the technology to let scientists explore planets holographically, a partnership dubbed OnSight.
"Today a group of scientists on our mission are seeing Mars as never before, an alien world made a little more familiar because they are finally exploring it as humans should," Norris said of the ability to use HoloLens to experience the planet as if one were there. "But our dreams don't have to end with making it just like being there. If we dial this real world to the virtual, we can do magical things. We can see in invisible wavelengths or teleport to the top of a mountain. Perhaps some day we'll feel the minerals in a rock just by touching it."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have HoloLens headsets so that scientists on Earth can assist them as if both were in the same place.
Something amazing happened at the TED2016 conference today: HoloLens developer Alex Kipman "teleported" a NASA scientist onto the stage, on the surface of Mars.
Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was physically across the street from the auditorium in Vancouver, Canada, but with the HoloLens cameras, a hologram of him (a three-dimensional, talking hologram, which is made entirely of light) was beamed onto the stage where a virtual Mars surface was waiting.
"I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on the stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars a hundred million miles away." [See Photos of the HoloLens Experience and Teleported Scientist]
Kipman demoed the HoloLens for the audience and, for the first time, revealed this new holographic teleportation aspect of the technology.
"I invite you to experience, for the first time anywhere in the world, here on the TED stage a real-life holographic teleportation…," Kipman said. When Norris, wearing a NASA T-shirt and baseball cap appeared onstage (his hologram, that is), Kipman was ecstatic. "Woo. That worked," he said.
The alien scape on which Norris stood was a holographic replica of the planet created from data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.
To infinity and beyond
Kipman sees the technology as a game-changer for the world. Today, he says, humans are limited by our two-dimensional interaction with the world, through monitors and other screens.
"Put simply I want to create a new reality," Kipman said. "A reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other, a reality where people, not devices, are at the center of everything. I dream of a reality where technology senses what we see, touch and feel, a reality where technology no longer gets in the way but instead embraces who we are."
Enter the HoloLens: "This is the next step in the evolution. This is Microsoft Hololens, the first fully untethered holographic computer," said Kipman. "I'm talking about freeing ourselves from the 2D confines of traditional computing." [Here's How the Microsoft HoloLens Works]
The technology relies on a fish-eye camera lens, loads of sensors and a holographic processing unit, according to Microsoft.
And to allow the viewer to walk around in their own environment overlaid with various holograms, the devices maps your home or any surroundings in real-time. "The HoloLens maps in real-time at about five frames per second with this technology we call spatial mapping. So in your home as soon as you put it on holograms will start showing up and you'll start placing them, you'll start learning your home," Kipman said.
For the demo, where Kipman's headset was wirelessly linked to big screens, the HoloLens relied on stored information. "In a stage environment where we're trying to get something on my head to communicate with something over there with all of the wireless connectivity that usually brings all conferences down we don't take the risk of trying to do this live," Kipman said. "So what we do is we pre-map the stage at five frames per second with the same spatial mapping technology that you'll use with the product at home and then we store it."
Demoing more of the HoloLens experience, Kipman shows the audience what he sees through the headset as he dials his world from reality toward the imaginary, turning people in the audience, for instance, into elves with wings.
Exploring with HoloLens
The technology is already being put to good use in the scientific and consumer realm.
Medical students at Case Western University are using HoloLens to learn about medicine and the human body in an augmented-reality world; Volvo has developed a partnership with Microsoft to use the HoloLens for both design of their cars and as a way to enhance consumers' experiences with their vehicles and brand.
And Kipman's "personal favorite" — NASA is using the technology to let scientists explore planets holographically, a partnership dubbed OnSight.
"Today a group of scientists on our mission are seeing Mars as never before, an alien world made a little more familiar because they are finally exploring it as humans should," Norris said of the ability to use HoloLens to experience the planet as if one were there. "But our dreams don't have to end with making it just like being there. If we dial this real world to the virtual, we can do magical things. We can see in invisible wavelengths or teleport to the top of a mountain. Perhaps some day we'll feel the minerals in a rock just by touching it."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have HoloLens headsets so that scientists on Earth can assist them as if both were in the same place.
Something amazing happened at the TED2016 conference today: HoloLens developer Alex Kipman "teleported" a NASA scientist onto the stage, on the surface of Mars.
Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was physically across the street from the auditorium in Vancouver, Canada, but with the HoloLens cameras, a hologram of him (a three-dimensional, talking hologram, which is made entirely of light) was beamed onto the stage where a virtual Mars surface was waiting.
"I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on the stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars a hundred million miles away." [See Photos of the HoloLens Experience and Teleported Scientist]
Kipman demoed the HoloLens for the audience and, for the first time, revealed this new holographic teleportation aspect of the technology.
"I invite you to experience, for the first time anywhere in the world, here on the TED stage a real-life holographic teleportation…," Kipman said. When Norris, wearing a NASA T-shirt and baseball cap appeared onstage (his hologram, that is), Kipman was ecstatic. "Woo. That worked," he said.
The alien scape on which Norris stood was a holographic replica of the planet created from data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.
To infinity and beyond
Kipman sees the technology as a game-changer for the world. Today, he says, humans are limited by our two-dimensional interaction with the world, through monitors and other screens.
"Put simply I want to create a new reality," Kipman said. "A reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other, a reality where people, not devices, are at the center of everything. I dream of a reality where technology senses what we see, touch and feel, a reality where technology no longer gets in the way but instead embraces who we are."
Enter the HoloLens: "This is the next step in the evolution. This is Microsoft Hololens, the first fully untethered holographic computer," said Kipman. "I'm talking about freeing ourselves from the 2D confines of traditional computing." [Here's How the Microsoft HoloLens Works]
The technology relies on a fish-eye camera lens, loads of sensors and a holographic processing unit, according to Microsoft.
And to allow the viewer to walk around in their own environment overlaid with various holograms, the devices maps your home or any surroundings in real-time. "The HoloLens maps in real-time at about five frames per second with this technology we call spatial mapping. So in your home as soon as you put it on holograms will start showing up and you'll start placing them, you'll start learning your home," Kipman said.
For the demo, where Kipman's headset was wirelessly linked to big screens, the HoloLens relied on stored information. "In a stage environment where we're trying to get something on my head to communicate with something over there with all of the wireless connectivity that usually brings all conferences down we don't take the risk of trying to do this live," Kipman said. "So what we do is we pre-map the stage at five frames per second with the same spatial mapping technology that you'll use with the product at home and then we store it."
Demoing more of the HoloLens experience, Kipman shows the audience what he sees through the headset as he dials his world from reality toward the imaginary, turning people in the audience, for instance, into elves with wings.
Exploring with HoloLens
The technology is already being put to good use in the scientific and consumer realm.
Medical students at Case Western University are using HoloLens to learn about medicine and the human body in an augmented-reality world; Volvo has developed a partnership with Microsoft to use the HoloLens for both design of their cars and as a way to enhance consumers' experiences with their vehicles and brand.
And Kipman's "personal favorite" — NASA is using the technology to let scientists explore planets holographically, a partnership dubbed OnSight.
"Today a group of scientists on our mission are seeing Mars as never before, an alien world made a little more familiar because they are finally exploring it as humans should," Norris said of the ability to use HoloLens to experience the planet as if one were there. "But our dreams don't have to end with making it just like being there. If we dial this real world to the virtual, we can do magical things. We can see in invisible wavelengths or teleport to the top of a mountain. Perhaps some day we'll feel the minerals in a rock just by touching it."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have HoloLens headsets so that scientists on Earth can assist them as if both were in the same place.
Something amazing happened at the TED2016 conference today: HoloLens developer Alex Kipman "teleported" a NASA scientist onto the stage, on the surface of Mars.
Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was physically across the street from the auditorium in Vancouver, Canada, but with the HoloLens cameras, a hologram of him (a three-dimensional, talking hologram, which is made entirely of light) was beamed onto the stage where a virtual Mars surface was waiting.
"I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on the stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars a hundred million miles away." [See Photos of the HoloLens Experience and Teleported Scientist]
Kipman demoed the HoloLens for the audience and, for the first time, revealed this new holographic teleportation aspect of the technology.
"I invite you to experience, for the first time anywhere in the world, here on the TED stage a real-life holographic teleportation…," Kipman said. When Norris, wearing a NASA T-shirt and baseball cap appeared onstage (his hologram, that is), Kipman was ecstatic. "Woo. That worked," he said.
The alien scape on which Norris stood was a holographic replica of the planet created from data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.
To infinity and beyond
Kipman sees the technology as a game-changer for the world. Today, he says, humans are limited by our two-dimensional interaction with the world, through monitors and other screens.
"Put simply I want to create a new reality," Kipman said. "A reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other, a reality where people, not devices, are at the center of everything. I dream of a reality where technology senses what we see, touch and feel, a reality where technology no longer gets in the way but instead embraces who we are."
Enter the HoloLens: "This is the next step in the evolution. This is Microsoft Hololens, the first fully untethered holographic computer," said Kipman. "I'm talking about freeing ourselves from the 2D confines of traditional computing." [Here's How the Microsoft HoloLens Works]
The technology relies on a fish-eye camera lens, loads of sensors and a holographic processing unit, according to Microsoft.
And to allow the viewer to walk around in their own environment overlaid with various holograms, the devices maps your home or any surroundings in real-time. "The HoloLens maps in real-time at about five frames per second with this technology we call spatial mapping. So in your home as soon as you put it on holograms will start showing up and you'll start placing them, you'll start learning your home," Kipman said.
For the demo, where Kipman's headset was wirelessly linked to big screens, the HoloLens relied on stored information. "In a stage environment where we're trying to get something on my head to communicate with something over there with all of the wireless connectivity that usually brings all conferences down we don't take the risk of trying to do this live," Kipman said. "So what we do is we pre-map the stage at five frames per second with the same spatial mapping technology that you'll use with the product at home and then we store it."
Demoing more of the HoloLens experience, Kipman shows the audience what he sees through the headset as he dials his world from reality toward the imaginary, turning people in the audience, for instance, into elves with wings.
Exploring with HoloLens
The technology is already being put to good use in the scientific and consumer realm.
Medical students at Case Western University are using HoloLens to learn about medicine and the human body in an augmented-reality world; Volvo has developed a partnership with Microsoft to use the HoloLens for both design of their cars and as a way to enhance consumers' experiences with their vehicles and brand.
And Kipman's "personal favorite" — NASA is using the technology to let scientists explore planets holographically, a partnership dubbed OnSight.
"Today a group of scientists on our mission are seeing Mars as never before, an alien world made a little more familiar because they are finally exploring it as humans should," Norris said of the ability to use HoloLens to experience the planet as if one were there. "But our dreams don't have to end with making it just like being there. If we dial this real world to the virtual, we can do magical things. We can see in invisible wavelengths or teleport to the top of a mountain. Perhaps some day we'll feel the minerals in a rock just by touching it."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have HoloLens headsets so that scientists on Earth can assist them as if both were in the same place.
Something amazing happened at the TED2016 conference today: HoloLens developer Alex Kipman "teleported" a NASA scientist onto the stage, on the surface of Mars.
Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was physically across the street from the auditorium in Vancouver, Canada, but with the HoloLens cameras, a hologram of him (a three-dimensional, talking hologram, which is made entirely of light) was beamed onto the stage where a virtual Mars surface was waiting.
"I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on the stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars a hundred million miles away." [See Photos of the HoloLens Experience and Teleported Scientist]
Kipman demoed the HoloLens for the audience and, for the first time, revealed this new holographic teleportation aspect of the technology.
"I invite you to experience, for the first time anywhere in the world, here on the TED stage a real-life holographic teleportation…," Kipman said. When Norris, wearing a NASA T-shirt and baseball cap appeared onstage (his hologram, that is), Kipman was ecstatic. "Woo. That worked," he said.
The alien scape on which Norris stood was a holographic replica of the planet created from data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.
To infinity and beyond
Kipman sees the technology as a game-changer for the world. Today, he says, humans are limited by our two-dimensional interaction with the world, through monitors and other screens.
"Put simply I want to create a new reality," Kipman said. "A reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other, a reality where people, not devices, are at the center of everything. I dream of a reality where technology senses what we see, touch and feel, a reality where technology no longer gets in the way but instead embraces who we are."
Enter the HoloLens: "This is the next step in the evolution. This is Microsoft Hololens, the first fully untethered holographic computer," said Kipman. "I'm talking about freeing ourselves from the 2D confines of traditional computing." [Here's How the Microsoft HoloLens Works]
The technology relies on a fish-eye camera lens, loads of sensors and a holographic processing unit, according to Microsoft.
And to allow the viewer to walk around in their own environment overlaid with various holograms, the devices maps your home or any surroundings in real-time. "The HoloLens maps in real-time at about five frames per second with this technology we call spatial mapping. So in your home as soon as you put it on holograms will start showing up and you'll start placing them, you'll start learning your home," Kipman said.
For the demo, where Kipman's headset was wirelessly linked to big screens, the HoloLens relied on stored information. "In a stage environment where we're trying to get something on my head to communicate with something over there with all of the wireless connectivity that usually brings all conferences down we don't take the risk of trying to do this live," Kipman said. "So what we do is we pre-map the stage at five frames per second with the same spatial mapping technology that you'll use with the product at home and then we store it."
Demoing more of the HoloLens experience, Kipman shows the audience what he sees through the headset as he dials his world from reality toward the imaginary, turning people in the audience, for instance, into elves with wings.
Exploring with HoloLens
The technology is already being put to good use in the scientific and consumer realm.
Medical students at Case Western University are using HoloLens to learn about medicine and the human body in an augmented-reality world; Volvo has developed a partnership with Microsoft to use the HoloLens for both design of their cars and as a way to enhance consumers' experiences with their vehicles and brand.
And Kipman's "personal favorite" — NASA is using the technology to let scientists explore planets holographically, a partnership dubbed OnSight.
"Today a group of scientists on our mission are seeing Mars as never before, an alien world made a little more familiar because they are finally exploring it as humans should," Norris said of the ability to use HoloLens to experience the planet as if one were there. "But our dreams don't have to end with making it just like being there. If we dial this real world to the virtual, we can do magical things. We can see in invisible wavelengths or teleport to the top of a mountain. Perhaps some day we'll feel the minerals in a rock just by touching it."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have HoloLens headsets so that scientists on Earth can assist them as if both were in the same place.
Something amazing happened at the TED2016 conference today: HoloLens developer Alex Kipman "teleported" a NASA scientist onto the stage, on the surface of Mars.
Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was physically across the street from the auditorium in Vancouver, Canada, but with the HoloLens cameras, a hologram of him (a three-dimensional, talking hologram, which is made entirely of light) was beamed onto the stage where a virtual Mars surface was waiting.
"I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on the stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars a hundred million miles away." [See Photos of the HoloLens Experience and Teleported Scientist]
Kipman demoed the HoloLens for the audience and, for the first time, revealed this new holographic teleportation aspect of the technology.
"I invite you to experience, for the first time anywhere in the world, here on the TED stage a real-life holographic teleportation…," Kipman said. When Norris, wearing a NASA T-shirt and baseball cap appeared onstage (his hologram, that is), Kipman was ecstatic. "Woo. That worked," he said.
The alien scape on which Norris stood was a holographic replica of the planet created from data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.
To infinity and beyond
Kipman sees the technology as a game-changer for the world. Today, he says, humans are limited by our two-dimensional interaction with the world, through monitors and other screens.
"Put simply I want to create a new reality," Kipman said. "A reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other, a reality where people, not devices, are at the center of everything. I dream of a reality where technology senses what we see, touch and feel, a reality where technology no longer gets in the way but instead embraces who we are."
Enter the HoloLens: "This is the next step in the evolution. This is Microsoft Hololens, the first fully untethered holographic computer," said Kipman. "I'm talking about freeing ourselves from the 2D confines of traditional computing." [Here's How the Microsoft HoloLens Works]
The technology relies on a fish-eye camera lens, loads of sensors and a holographic processing unit, according to Microsoft.
And to allow the viewer to walk around in their own environment overlaid with various holograms, the devices maps your home or any surroundings in real-time. "The HoloLens maps in real-time at about five frames per second with this technology we call spatial mapping. So in your home as soon as you put it on holograms will start showing up and you'll start placing them, you'll start learning your home," Kipman said.
For the demo, where Kipman's headset was wirelessly linked to big screens, the HoloLens relied on stored information. "In a stage environment where we're trying to get something on my head to communicate with something over there with all of the wireless connectivity that usually brings all conferences down we don't take the risk of trying to do this live," Kipman said. "So what we do is we pre-map the stage at five frames per second with the same spatial mapping technology that you'll use with the product at home and then we store it."
Demoing more of the HoloLens experience, Kipman shows the audience what he sees through the headset as he dials his world from reality toward the imaginary, turning people in the audience, for instance, into elves with wings.
Exploring with HoloLens
The technology is already being put to good use in the scientific and consumer realm.
Medical students at Case Western University are using HoloLens to learn about medicine and the human body in an augmented-reality world; Volvo has developed a partnership with Microsoft to use the HoloLens for both design of their cars and as a way to enhance consumers' experiences with their vehicles and brand.
And Kipman's "personal favorite" — NASA is using the technology to let scientists explore planets holographically, a partnership dubbed OnSight.
"Today a group of scientists on our mission are seeing Mars as never before, an alien world made a little more familiar because they are finally exploring it as humans should," Norris said of the ability to use HoloLens to experience the planet as if one were there. "But our dreams don't have to end with making it just like being there. If we dial this real world to the virtual, we can do magical things. We can see in invisible wavelengths or teleport to the top of a mountain. Perhaps some day we'll feel the minerals in a rock just by touching it."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have HoloLens headsets so that scientists on Earth can assist them as if both were in the same place.
Something amazing happened at the TED2016 conference today: HoloLens developer Alex Kipman "teleported" a NASA scientist onto the stage, on the surface of Mars.
Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was physically across the street from the auditorium in Vancouver, Canada, but with the HoloLens cameras, a hologram of him (a three-dimensional, talking hologram, which is made entirely of light) was beamed onto the stage where a virtual Mars surface was waiting.
"I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on the stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars a hundred million miles away." [See Photos of the HoloLens Experience and Teleported Scientist]
Kipman demoed the HoloLens for the audience and, for the first time, revealed this new holographic teleportation aspect of the technology.
"I invite you to experience, for the first time anywhere in the world, here on the TED stage a real-life holographic teleportation…," Kipman said. When Norris, wearing a NASA T-shirt and baseball cap appeared onstage (his hologram, that is), Kipman was ecstatic. "Woo. That worked," he said.
The alien scape on which Norris stood was a holographic replica of the planet created from data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.
To infinity and beyond
Kipman sees the technology as a game-changer for the world. Today, he says, humans are limited by our two-dimensional interaction with the world, through monitors and other screens.
"Put simply I want to create a new reality," Kipman said. "A reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other, a reality where people, not devices, are at the center of everything. I dream of a reality where technology senses what we see, touch and feel, a reality where technology no longer gets in the way but instead embraces who we are."
Enter the HoloLens: "This is the next step in the evolution. This is Microsoft Hololens, the first fully untethered holographic computer," said Kipman. "I'm talking about freeing ourselves from the 2D confines of traditional computing." [Here's How the Microsoft HoloLens Works]
The technology relies on a fish-eye camera lens, loads of sensors and a holographic processing unit, according to Microsoft.
And to allow the viewer to walk around in their own environment overlaid with various holograms, the devices maps your home or any surroundings in real-time. "The HoloLens maps in real-time at about five frames per second with this technology we call spatial mapping. So in your home as soon as you put it on holograms will start showing up and you'll start placing them, you'll start learning your home," Kipman said.
For the demo, where Kipman's headset was wirelessly linked to big screens, the HoloLens relied on stored information. "In a stage environment where we're trying to get something on my head to communicate with something over there with all of the wireless connectivity that usually brings all conferences down we don't take the risk of trying to do this live," Kipman said. "So what we do is we pre-map the stage at five frames per second with the same spatial mapping technology that you'll use with the product at home and then we store it."
Demoing more of the HoloLens experience, Kipman shows the audience what he sees through the headset as he dials his world from reality toward the imaginary, turning people in the audience, for instance, into elves with wings.
Exploring with HoloLens
The technology is already being put to good use in the scientific and consumer realm.
Medical students at Case Western University are using HoloLens to learn about medicine and the human body in an augmented-reality world; Volvo has developed a partnership with Microsoft to use the HoloLens for both design of their cars and as a way to enhance consumers' experiences with their vehicles and brand.
And Kipman's "personal favorite" — NASA is using the technology to let scientists explore planets holographically, a partnership dubbed OnSight.
"Today a group of scientists on our mission are seeing Mars as never before, an alien world made a little more familiar because they are finally exploring it as humans should," Norris said of the ability to use HoloLens to experience the planet as if one were there. "But our dreams don't have to end with making it just like being there. If we dial this real world to the virtual, we can do magical things. We can see in invisible wavelengths or teleport to the top of a mountain. Perhaps some day we'll feel the minerals in a rock just by touching it."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have HoloLens headsets so that scientists on Earth can assist them as if both were in the same place.
Something amazing happened at the TED2016 conference today: HoloLens developer Alex Kipman "teleported" a NASA scientist onto the stage, on the surface of Mars.
Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was physically across the street from the auditorium in Vancouver, Canada, but with the HoloLens cameras, a hologram of him (a three-dimensional, talking hologram, which is made entirely of light) was beamed onto the stage where a virtual Mars surface was waiting.
"I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on the stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars a hundred million miles away." [See Photos of the HoloLens Experience and Teleported Scientist]
Kipman demoed the HoloLens for the audience and, for the first time, revealed this new holographic teleportation aspect of the technology.
"I invite you to experience, for the first time anywhere in the world, here on the TED stage a real-life holographic teleportation…," Kipman said. When Norris, wearing a NASA T-shirt and baseball cap appeared onstage (his hologram, that is), Kipman was ecstatic. "Woo. That worked," he said.
The alien scape on which Norris stood was a holographic replica of the planet created from data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.
To infinity and beyond
Kipman sees the technology as a game-changer for the world. Today, he says, humans are limited by our two-dimensional interaction with the world, through monitors and other screens.
"Put simply I want to create a new reality," Kipman said. "A reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other, a reality where people, not devices, are at the center of everything. I dream of a reality where technology senses what we see, touch and feel, a reality where technology no longer gets in the way but instead embraces who we are."
Enter the HoloLens: "This is the next step in the evolution. This is Microsoft Hololens, the first fully untethered holographic computer," said Kipman. "I'm talking about freeing ourselves from the 2D confines of traditional computing." [Here's How the Microsoft HoloLens Works]
The technology relies on a fish-eye camera lens, loads of sensors and a holographic processing unit, according to Microsoft.
And to allow the viewer to walk around in their own environment overlaid with various holograms, the devices maps your home or any surroundings in real-time. "The HoloLens maps in real-time at about five frames per second with this technology we call spatial mapping. So in your home as soon as you put it on holograms will start showing up and you'll start placing them, you'll start learning your home," Kipman said.
For the demo, where Kipman's headset was wirelessly linked to big screens, the HoloLens relied on stored information. "In a stage environment where we're trying to get something on my head to communicate with something over there with all of the wireless connectivity that usually brings all conferences down we don't take the risk of trying to do this live," Kipman said. "So what we do is we pre-map the stage at five frames per second with the same spatial mapping technology that you'll use with the product at home and then we store it."
Demoing more of the HoloLens experience, Kipman shows the audience what he sees through the headset as he dials his world from reality toward the imaginary, turning people in the audience, for instance, into elves with wings.
Exploring with HoloLens
The technology is already being put to good use in the scientific and consumer realm.
Medical students at Case Western University are using HoloLens to learn about medicine and the human body in an augmented-reality world; Volvo has developed a partnership with Microsoft to use the HoloLens for both design of their cars and as a way to enhance consumers' experiences with their vehicles and brand.
And Kipman's "personal favorite" — NASA is using the technology to let scientists explore planets holographically, a partnership dubbed OnSight.
"Today a group of scientists on our mission are seeing Mars as never before, an alien world made a little more familiar because they are finally exploring it as humans should," Norris said of the ability to use HoloLens to experience the planet as if one were there. "But our dreams don't have to end with making it just like being there. If we dial this real world to the virtual, we can do magical things. We can see in invisible wavelengths or teleport to the top of a mountain. Perhaps some day we'll feel the minerals in a rock just by touching it."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have HoloLens headsets so that scientists on Earth can assist them as if both were in the same place.
Something amazing happened at the TED2016 conference today: HoloLens developer Alex Kipman "teleported" a NASA scientist onto the stage, on the surface of Mars.
Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was physically across the street from the auditorium in Vancouver, Canada, but with the HoloLens cameras, a hologram of him (a three-dimensional, talking hologram, which is made entirely of light) was beamed onto the stage where a virtual Mars surface was waiting.
"I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on the stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars a hundred million miles away." [See Photos of the HoloLens Experience and Teleported Scientist]
Kipman demoed the HoloLens for the audience and, for the first time, revealed this new holographic teleportation aspect of the technology.
"I invite you to experience, for the first time anywhere in the world, here on the TED stage a real-life holographic teleportation…," Kipman said. When Norris, wearing a NASA T-shirt and baseball cap appeared onstage (his hologram, that is), Kipman was ecstatic. "Woo. That worked," he said.
The alien scape on which Norris stood was a holographic replica of the planet created from data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.
To infinity and beyond
Kipman sees the technology as a game-changer for the world. Today, he says, humans are limited by our two-dimensional interaction with the world, through monitors and other screens.
"Put simply I want to create a new reality," Kipman said. "A reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other, a reality where people, not devices, are at the center of everything. I dream of a reality where technology senses what we see, touch and feel, a reality where technology no longer gets in the way but instead embraces who we are."
Enter the HoloLens: "This is the next step in the evolution. This is Microsoft Hololens, the first fully untethered holographic computer," said Kipman. "I'm talking about freeing ourselves from the 2D confines of traditional computing." [Here's How the Microsoft HoloLens Works]
The technology relies on a fish-eye camera lens, loads of sensors and a holographic processing unit, according to Microsoft.
And to allow the viewer to walk around in their own environment overlaid with various holograms, the devices maps your home or any surroundings in real-time. "The HoloLens maps in real-time at about five frames per second with this technology we call spatial mapping. So in your home as soon as you put it on holograms will start showing up and you'll start placing them, you'll start learning your home," Kipman said.
For the demo, where Kipman's headset was wirelessly linked to big screens, the HoloLens relied on stored information. "In a stage environment where we're trying to get something on my head to communicate with something over there with all of the wireless connectivity that usually brings all conferences down we don't take the risk of trying to do this live," Kipman said. "So what we do is we pre-map the stage at five frames per second with the same spatial mapping technology that you'll use with the product at home and then we store it."
Demoing more of the HoloLens experience, Kipman shows the audience what he sees through the headset as he dials his world from reality toward the imaginary, turning people in the audience, for instance, into elves with wings.
Exploring with HoloLens
The technology is already being put to good use in the scientific and consumer realm.
Medical students at Case Western University are using HoloLens to learn about medicine and the human body in an augmented-reality world; Volvo has developed a partnership with Microsoft to use the HoloLens for both design of their cars and as a way to enhance consumers' experiences with their vehicles and brand.
And Kipman's "personal favorite" — NASA is using the technology to let scientists explore planets holographically, a partnership dubbed OnSight.
"Today a group of scientists on our mission are seeing Mars as never before, an alien world made a little more familiar because they are finally exploring it as humans should," Norris said of the ability to use HoloLens to experience the planet as if one were there. "But our dreams don't have to end with making it just like being there. If we dial this real world to the virtual, we can do magical things. We can see in invisible wavelengths or teleport to the top of a mountain. Perhaps some day we'll feel the minerals in a rock just by touching it."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have HoloLens headsets so that scientists on Earth can assist them as if both were in the same place.
Something amazing happened at the TED2016 conference today: HoloLens developer Alex Kipman "teleported" a NASA scientist onto the stage, on the surface of Mars.
Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was physically across the street from the auditorium in Vancouver, Canada, but with the HoloLens cameras, a hologram of him (a three-dimensional, talking hologram, which is made entirely of light) was beamed onto the stage where a virtual Mars surface was waiting.
"I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on the stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars a hundred million miles away." [See Photos of the HoloLens Experience and Teleported Scientist]
Kipman demoed the HoloLens for the audience and, for the first time, revealed this new holographic teleportation aspect of the technology.
"I invite you to experience, for the first time anywhere in the world, here on the TED stage a real-life holographic teleportation…," Kipman said. When Norris, wearing a NASA T-shirt and baseball cap appeared onstage (his hologram, that is), Kipman was ecstatic. "Woo. That worked," he said.
The alien scape on which Norris stood was a holographic replica of the planet created from data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.
To infinity and beyond
Kipman sees the technology as a game-changer for the world. Today, he says, humans are limited by our two-dimensional interaction with the world, through monitors and other screens.
"Put simply I want to create a new reality," Kipman said. "A reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other, a reality where people, not devices, are at the center of everything. I dream of a reality where technology senses what we see, touch and feel, a reality where technology no longer gets in the way but instead embraces who we are."
Enter the HoloLens: "This is the next step in the evolution. This is Microsoft Hololens, the first fully untethered holographic computer," said Kipman. "I'm talking about freeing ourselves from the 2D confines of traditional computing." [Here's How the Microsoft HoloLens Works]
The technology relies on a fish-eye camera lens, loads of sensors and a holographic processing unit, according to Microsoft.
And to allow the viewer to walk around in their own environment overlaid with various holograms, the devices maps your home or any surroundings in real-time. "The HoloLens maps in real-time at about five frames per second with this technology we call spatial mapping. So in your home as soon as you put it on holograms will start showing up and you'll start placing them, you'll start learning your home," Kipman said.
For the demo, where Kipman's headset was wirelessly linked to big screens, the HoloLens relied on stored information. "In a stage environment where we're trying to get something on my head to communicate with something over there with all of the wireless connectivity that usually brings all conferences down we don't take the risk of trying to do this live," Kipman said. "So what we do is we pre-map the stage at five frames per second with the same spatial mapping technology that you'll use with the product at home and then we store it."
Demoing more of the HoloLens experience, Kipman shows the audience what he sees through the headset as he dials his world from reality toward the imaginary, turning people in the audience, for instance, into elves with wings.
Exploring with HoloLens
The technology is already being put to good use in the scientific and consumer realm.
Medical students at Case Western University are using HoloLens to learn about medicine and the human body in an augmented-reality world; Volvo has developed a partnership with Microsoft to use the HoloLens for both design of their cars and as a way to enhance consumers' experiences with their vehicles and brand.
And Kipman's "personal favorite" — NASA is using the technology to let scientists explore planets holographically, a partnership dubbed OnSight.
"Today a group of scientists on our mission are seeing Mars as never before, an alien world made a little more familiar because they are finally exploring it as humans should," Norris said of the ability to use HoloLens to experience the planet as if one were there. "But our dreams don't have to end with making it just like being there. If we dial this real world to the virtual, we can do magical things. We can see in invisible wavelengths or teleport to the top of a mountain. Perhaps some day we'll feel the minerals in a rock just by touching it."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have HoloLens headsets so that scientists on Earth can assist them as if both were in the same place.
Something amazing happened at the TED2016 conference today: HoloLens developer Alex Kipman "teleported" a NASA scientist onto the stage, on the surface of Mars.
Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was physically across the street from the auditorium in Vancouver, Canada, but with the HoloLens cameras, a hologram of him (a three-dimensional, talking hologram, which is made entirely of light) was beamed onto the stage where a virtual Mars surface was waiting.
"I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on the stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars a hundred million miles away." [See Photos of the HoloLens Experience and Teleported Scientist]
Kipman demoed the HoloLens for the audience and, for the first time, revealed this new holographic teleportation aspect of the technology.
"I invite you to experience, for the first time anywhere in the world, here on the TED stage a real-life holographic teleportation…," Kipman said. When Norris, wearing a NASA T-shirt and baseball cap appeared onstage (his hologram, that is), Kipman was ecstatic. "Woo. That worked," he said.
The alien scape on which Norris stood was a holographic replica of the planet created from data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.
To infinity and beyond
Kipman sees the technology as a game-changer for the world. Today, he says, humans are limited by our two-dimensional interaction with the world, through monitors and other screens.
"Put simply I want to create a new reality," Kipman said. "A reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other, a reality where people, not devices, are at the center of everything. I dream of a reality where technology senses what we see, touch and feel, a reality where technology no longer gets in the way but instead embraces who we are."
Enter the HoloLens: "This is the next step in the evolution. This is Microsoft Hololens, the first fully untethered holographic computer," said Kipman. "I'm talking about freeing ourselves from the 2D confines of traditional computing." [Here's How the Microsoft HoloLens Works]
The technology relies on a fish-eye camera lens, loads of sensors and a holographic processing unit, according to Microsoft.
And to allow the viewer to walk around in their own environment overlaid with various holograms, the devices maps your home or any surroundings in real-time. "The HoloLens maps in real-time at about five frames per second with this technology we call spatial mapping. So in your home as soon as you put it on holograms will start showing up and you'll start placing them, you'll start learning your home," Kipman said.
For the demo, where Kipman's headset was wirelessly linked to big screens, the HoloLens relied on stored information. "In a stage environment where we're trying to get something on my head to communicate with something over there with all of the wireless connectivity that usually brings all conferences down we don't take the risk of trying to do this live," Kipman said. "So what we do is we pre-map the stage at five frames per second with the same spatial mapping technology that you'll use with the product at home and then we store it."
Demoing more of the HoloLens experience, Kipman shows the audience what he sees through the headset as he dials his world from reality toward the imaginary, turning people in the audience, for instance, into elves with wings.
Exploring with HoloLens
The technology is already being put to good use in the scientific and consumer realm.
Medical students at Case Western University are using HoloLens to learn about medicine and the human body in an augmented-reality world; Volvo has developed a partnership with Microsoft to use the HoloLens for both design of their cars and as a way to enhance consumers' experiences with their vehicles and brand.
And Kipman's "personal favorite" — NASA is using the technology to let scientists explore planets holographically, a partnership dubbed OnSight.
"Today a group of scientists on our mission are seeing Mars as never before, an alien world made a little more familiar because they are finally exploring it as humans should," Norris said of the ability to use HoloLens to experience the planet as if one were there. "But our dreams don't have to end with making it just like being there. If we dial this real world to the virtual, we can do magical things. We can see in invisible wavelengths or teleport to the top of a mountain. Perhaps some day we'll feel the minerals in a rock just by touching it."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have HoloLens headsets so that scientists on Earth can assist them as if both were in the same place.
Something amazing happened at the TED2016 conference today: HoloLens developer Alex Kipman "teleported" a NASA scientist onto the stage, on the surface of Mars.
Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was physically across the street from the auditorium in Vancouver, Canada, but with the HoloLens cameras, a hologram of him (a three-dimensional, talking hologram, which is made entirely of light) was beamed onto the stage where a virtual Mars surface was waiting.
"I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on the stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars a hundred million miles away." [See Photos of the HoloLens Experience and Teleported Scientist]
Kipman demoed the HoloLens for the audience and, for the first time, revealed this new holographic teleportation aspect of the technology.
"I invite you to experience, for the first time anywhere in the world, here on the TED stage a real-life holographic teleportation…," Kipman said. When Norris, wearing a NASA T-shirt and baseball cap appeared onstage (his hologram, that is), Kipman was ecstatic. "Woo. That worked," he said.
The alien scape on which Norris stood was a holographic replica of the planet created from data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.
To infinity and beyond
Kipman sees the technology as a game-changer for the world. Today, he says, humans are limited by our two-dimensional interaction with the world, through monitors and other screens.
"Put simply I want to create a new reality," Kipman said. "A reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other, a reality where people, not devices, are at the center of everything. I dream of a reality where technology senses what we see, touch and feel, a reality where technology no longer gets in the way but instead embraces who we are."
Enter the HoloLens: "This is the next step in the evolution. This is Microsoft Hololens, the first fully untethered holographic computer," said Kipman. "I'm talking about freeing ourselves from the 2D confines of traditional computing." [Here's How the Microsoft HoloLens Works]
The technology relies on a fish-eye camera lens, loads of sensors and a holographic processing unit, according to Microsoft.
And to allow the viewer to walk around in their own environment overlaid with various holograms, the devices maps your home or any surroundings in real-time. "The HoloLens maps in real-time at about five frames per second with this technology we call spatial mapping. So in your home as soon as you put it on holograms will start showing up and you'll start placing them, you'll start learning your home," Kipman said.
For the demo, where Kipman's headset was wirelessly linked to big screens, the HoloLens relied on stored information. "In a stage environment where we're trying to get something on my head to communicate with something over there with all of the wireless connectivity that usually brings all conferences down we don't take the risk of trying to do this live," Kipman said. "So what we do is we pre-map the stage at five frames per second with the same spatial mapping technology that you'll use with the product at home and then we store it."
Demoing more of the HoloLens experience, Kipman shows the audience what he sees through the headset as he dials his world from reality toward the imaginary, turning people in the audience, for instance, into elves with wings.
Exploring with HoloLens
The technology is already being put to good use in the scientific and consumer realm.
Medical students at Case Western University are using HoloLens to learn about medicine and the human body in an augmented-reality world; Volvo has developed a partnership with Microsoft to use the HoloLens for both design of their cars and as a way to enhance consumers' experiences with their vehicles and brand.
And Kipman's "personal favorite" — NASA is using the technology to let scientists explore planets holographically, a partnership dubbed OnSight.
"Today a group of scientists on our mission are seeing Mars as never before, an alien world made a little more familiar because they are finally exploring it as humans should," Norris said of the ability to use HoloLens to experience the planet as if one were there. "But our dreams don't have to end with making it just like being there. If we dial this real world to the virtual, we can do magical things. We can see in invisible wavelengths or teleport to the top of a mountain. Perhaps some day we'll feel the minerals in a rock just by touching it."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have HoloLens headsets so that scientists on Earth can assist them as if both were in the same place.
Something amazing happened at the TED2016 conference today: HoloLens developer Alex Kipman "teleported" a NASA scientist onto the stage, on the surface of Mars.
Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was physically across the street from the auditorium in Vancouver, Canada, but with the HoloLens cameras, a hologram of him (a three-dimensional, talking hologram, which is made entirely of light) was beamed onto the stage where a virtual Mars surface was waiting.
"I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on the stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars a hundred million miles away." [See Photos of the HoloLens Experience and Teleported Scientist]
Kipman demoed the HoloLens for the audience and, for the first time, revealed this new holographic teleportation aspect of the technology.
"I invite you to experience, for the first time anywhere in the world, here on the TED stage a real-life holographic teleportation…," Kipman said. When Norris, wearing a NASA T-shirt and baseball cap appeared onstage (his hologram, that is), Kipman was ecstatic. "Woo. That worked," he said.
The alien scape on which Norris stood was a holographic replica of the planet created from data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.
To infinity and beyond
Kipman sees the technology as a game-changer for the world. Today, he says, humans are limited by our two-dimensional interaction with the world, through monitors and other screens.
"Put simply I want to create a new reality," Kipman said. "A reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other, a reality where people, not devices, are at the center of everything. I dream of a reality where technology senses what we see, touch and feel, a reality where technology no longer gets in the way but instead embraces who we are."
Enter the HoloLens: "This is the next step in the evolution. This is Microsoft Hololens, the first fully untethered holographic computer," said Kipman. "I'm talking about freeing ourselves from the 2D confines of traditional computing." [Here's How the Microsoft HoloLens Works]
The technology relies on a fish-eye camera lens, loads of sensors and a holographic processing unit, according to Microsoft.
And to allow the viewer to walk around in their own environment overlaid with various holograms, the devices maps your home or any surroundings in real-time. "The HoloLens maps in real-time at about five frames per second with this technology we call spatial mapping. So in your home as soon as you put it on holograms will start showing up and you'll start placing them, you'll start learning your home," Kipman said.
For the demo, where Kipman's headset was wirelessly linked to big screens, the HoloLens relied on stored information. "In a stage environment where we're trying to get something on my head to communicate with something over there with all of the wireless connectivity that usually brings all conferences down we don't take the risk of trying to do this live," Kipman said. "So what we do is we pre-map the stage at five frames per second with the same spatial mapping technology that you'll use with the product at home and then we store it."
Demoing more of the HoloLens experience, Kipman shows the audience what he sees through the headset as he dials his world from reality toward the imaginary, turning people in the audience, for instance, into elves with wings.
Exploring with HoloLens
The technology is already being put to good use in the scientific and consumer realm.
Medical students at Case Western University are using HoloLens to learn about medicine and the human body in an augmented-reality world; Volvo has developed a partnership with Microsoft to use the HoloLens for both design of their cars and as a way to enhance consumers' experiences with their vehicles and brand.
And Kipman's "personal favorite" — NASA is using the technology to let scientists explore planets holographically, a partnership dubbed OnSight.
"Today a group of scientists on our mission are seeing Mars as never before, an alien world made a little more familiar because they are finally exploring it as humans should," Norris said of the ability to use HoloLens to experience the planet as if one were there. "But our dreams don't have to end with making it just like being there. If we dial this real world to the virtual, we can do magical things. We can see in invisible wavelengths or teleport to the top of a mountain. Perhaps some day we'll feel the minerals in a rock just by touching it."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have HoloLens headsets so that scientists on Earth can assist them as if both were in the same place.
Something amazing happened at the TED2016 conference today: HoloLens developer Alex Kipman "teleported" a NASA scientist onto the stage, on the surface of Mars.
Jeff Norris of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was physically across the street from the auditorium in Vancouver, Canada, but with the HoloLens cameras, a hologram of him (a three-dimensional, talking hologram, which is made entirely of light) was beamed onto the stage where a virtual Mars surface was waiting.
"I'm actually in three places," Norris said. "I'm standing in a room across the street, while I'm standing on the stage with you, while I'm standing on Mars a hundred million miles away." [See Photos of the HoloLens Experience and Teleported Scientist]
Kipman demoed the HoloLens for the audience and, for the first time, revealed this new holographic teleportation aspect of the technology.
"I invite you to experience, for the first time anywhere in the world, here on the TED stage a real-life holographic teleportation…," Kipman said. When Norris, wearing a NASA T-shirt and baseball cap appeared onstage (his hologram, that is), Kipman was ecstatic. "Woo. That worked," he said.
The alien scape on which Norris stood was a holographic replica of the planet created from data collected by NASA's Curiosity rover.
To infinity and beyond
Kipman sees the technology as a game-changer for the world. Today, he says, humans are limited by our two-dimensional interaction with the world, through monitors and other screens.
"Put simply I want to create a new reality," Kipman said. "A reality where technology brings us infinitely closer to each other, a reality where people, not devices, are at the center of everything. I dream of a reality where technology senses what we see, touch and feel, a reality where technology no longer gets in the way but instead embraces who we are."
Enter the HoloLens: "This is the next step in the evolution. This is Microsoft Hololens, the first fully untethered holographic computer," said Kipman. "I'm talking about freeing ourselves from the 2D confines of traditional computing." [Here's How the Microsoft HoloLens Works]
The technology relies on a fish-eye camera lens, loads of sensors and a holographic processing unit, according to Microsoft.
And to allow the viewer to walk around in their own environment overlaid with various holograms, the devices maps your home or any surroundings in real-time. "The HoloLens maps in real-time at about five frames per second with this technology we call spatial mapping. So in your home as soon as you put it on holograms will start showing up and you'll start placing them, you'll start learning your home," Kipman said.
For the demo, where Kipman's headset was wirelessly linked to big screens, the HoloLens relied on stored information. "In a stage environment where we're trying to get something on my head to communicate with something over there with all of the wireless connectivity that usually brings all conferences down we don't take the risk of trying to do this live," Kipman said. "So what we do is we pre-map the stage at five frames per second with the same spatial mapping technology that you'll use with the product at home and then we store it."
Demoing more of the HoloLens experience, Kipman shows the audience what he sees through the headset as he dials his world from reality toward the imaginary, turning people in the audience, for instance, into elves with wings.
Exploring with HoloLens
The technology is already being put to good use in the scientific and consumer realm.
Medical students at Case Western University are using HoloLens to learn about medicine and the human body in an augmented-reality world; Volvo has developed a partnership with Microsoft to use the HoloLens for both design of their cars and as a way to enhance consumers' experiences with their vehicles and brand.
And Kipman's "personal favorite" — NASA is using the technology to let scientists explore planets holographically, a partnership dubbed OnSight.
"Today a group of scientists on our mission are seeing Mars as never before, an alien world made a little more familiar because they are finally exploring it as humans should," Norris said of the ability to use HoloLens to experience the planet as if one were there. "But our dreams don't have to end with making it just like being there. If we dial this real world to the virtual, we can do magical things. We can see in invisible wavelengths or teleport to the top of a mountain. Perhaps some day we'll feel the minerals in a rock just by touching it."
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station have HoloLens headsets so that scientists on Earth can assist them as if both were in the same place.
Exoplanet Census Suggests Earth Is Special after All
Exoplanet Census Suggests Earth Is Special after All
A new tally proposes that roughly 700 quintillion terrestrial exoplanets are likely to exist across the observable universe—most vastly different from Earth
More than 400 years ago Renaissance scientist Nicolaus Copernicus reduced us to near nothingness by showing that our planet is not the center of the solar system. With every subsequent scientific revolution, most other privileged positions in the universe humans might have held dear have been further degraded, revealing the cold truth that our species is the smallest of specks on a speck of a planet, cosmologically speaking. A new calculation of exoplanets suggests that Earth is just one out of a likely 700 million trillion terrestrial planets in the entire observable universe. But the average age of these planets—well above Earth’s age—and their typical locations—in galaxies vastly unlike the Milky Way—just might turn the Copernican principle on its head.
Astronomer Erik Zackrisson from Uppsala University and his colleagues created a cosmic compendium of all the terrestrial exoplanets likely to exist throughout the observable universe, based on the rocky worlds astronomers have found so far. In a powerful computer simulation, they first created their own mini universe containing models of the earliest galaxies. Then they unleashed the laws of physics—as close as scientists understand them—that describe how galaxies grow, how stars evolve and how planets come to be. Finally, they fast-forwarded through 13.8 billion years of cosmic history. Their results, published to the preprint server arXiv (pdf) and submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, provide a tantalizing trove of probable exoplanet statistics that helps astronomers understand our place in the universe. “It's kind of mind-boggling that we're actually at a point where we can begin to do this,” says co-author Andrew Benson from the Carnegie Observatories in California. Until recently, he says, so few exoplanets were known that reasonable extrapolations to the rest of the universe were impossible. Still, his team’s findings are a preliminary guess at what the cosmos might hold. “It's certainly the case that there are a lot of uncertainties in a calculation like this. Our knowledge of all of these pieces is imperfect,” he adds.
Take exoplanets as an example. NASA’s Kepler space telescope is arguably one of the world’s best planet hunters, but it uses a method so challenging that it is often compared with looking across thousands of kilometers to see a firefly buzzing around a brilliant searchlight. Because the telescope looks for subtle dimming in a star’s light from planets crossing in front of it, Kepler has an easier time spotting massive planets orbiting close to their stars. Thus, the catalogue of planets Kepler has found lean heavily toward these types, and smaller, farther-out planets are underrepresented, leaving our knowledge of planetary systems incomplete. Astronomers do use other techniques to search for smaller planets orbiting at farther distances, but these methods are still relatively new and have not yet found nearly as many worlds as Kepler. In addition, “everything we know about exoplanets is from a very small patch in our galaxy,” Zackrisson says, within which most stars are pretty similar to one another in terms of how many heavy elements they contain and other characteristics. The team had to extrapolate in order to guess how planets might form around stars with fewer heavy elements, such as those found in small galaxies or the early universe.
The scientists also have similar concerns about the galactic and cosmological inputs of their model but nonetheless they suspect that their final numbers are accurate to within an order of magnitude. With the estimated errors taken into account, the researchers conclude that Earth stands as a mild violation of the Copernican principle. Our pale blue dot might just be special after all. “It's not too much of a fluke that we could arise in a galaxy like the Milky Way, but nevertheless, it's just enough to make you think twice about it,” says Jay Olson from Boise State University, who was not involved in the study. Both he and Zackrisson think the Copernican principle could be saved by some unknown caveat to the findings. “Whenever you find something that sticks out…” Zackrisson says, “…that means that either we are the result of a very improbable lottery draw or we don’t understand how the lottery works.”
But Max Tegmark from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who also was not part of the research, thinks Earth is a colossal violation of the Copernican principle—not because of its location but because of its young age. “If you have these civilizations that had a 3.5-billion-year head start on us, why haven't they colonized our galaxy?” asks Tegmark. “To me, the most likely explanation is that if the planets are a dime a dozen, then highly intelligent life evolves only rarely.” So should we feel insignificant? Should we be reduced to near nothingness? Not at all, he says. “It might be that one day in the distant future much of our universe will be teeming with life because of what we did here.”
For decades, U.S. citizens have reported seeing mysterious helicopters near sites of strange crimes and alien encounters. The government denies these stories are true. Are the phantom helicopters real? And if they are, whom do they serve?
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The top-secret files could be declassified within days
The long-awaited boost for alien hunters follows years of campaigning by the British disclosure movement, who want all world Governments to release all their alien files.
UFO researchers, backed by a House of Lords peer, have been fighting for the release of 18 top secret Ministry of Defence (MoD) files about UFO sightings from more than 30 years ago.
The Government faced claims of a cover-up from conspiracy theorists when their release was stalled at the end of 2013.
Some investigators claim the files could provide key evidence of extra-terrestrial life visiting the UK and of specific information about famous controversial sightings such as the Rendlesham Forest incident - a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights and the alleged landing of one or more craft in Suffolk in late December 1980.
Lord Black of Brentwood, who asked the Government for an update through a Parliamentary question last summer, was assured the files would be released by the MoD to the National Archives by March this year.
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Some people hope the files will include proof aliens exist
Alien hunters are confident these records could prove if extra-terrestrial life actually exists, as these were the most secretive files held in the private offices of various Cabinet ministers.
Although the files are being released to the National Archives, it is not yet clear when they will be available for public inspection.
This is because the archive organisation can set its own release date.
In his Parliamentary question, Lord Black asked: "What is the latest estimate of when the 18 files will be passed to the National Archives, and then released to the public."
Defence Minister Earl Howe replied: "The latest estimate of when the 18 files will be delivered to the National Archives is before March 2016.
"The National Archives will make the necessary judgement about when they release these files to the public."
A number of older UFO files held by the UK government have already been released, including details of sightings by officials and police.
we do have some fascinating and unexplained cases in our files.
Former MoD UFO investigator Nick Pope
Nick Pope, who used to investigate the existence of UFOs for the MoD, said the files should contain some fascinating sightings.
However, referring to what is often called the most famous UFO claim in history - sparked by claims an alien spaceship crashed in New Mexico, US, in 1947 - Mr Pope added the soon-to-be-released files are probably not a "UK Roswell-style UFO in a hangar style cover up".
When the release of the files were stalled in 2014, which the MoD blamed on "additional processing requirements", Mr Pope sympathised with alien researchers.
He said at the time: "This massive delay will have conspiracy theorists up in arms. It looks like the MoD is stalling.
"The suspicion will be that there's a bombshell in these files and that the Ministry does not know how to handle it.
"I can understand why conspiracy theorists will be angry and suspicious."
Mr Pope worked at the MoD for 21 years, but was specifically assigned to investigate UFOs for a three-year period.
He said: "Having worked on the MoD's UFO project I'm sorry to say that we don't have any crashed spaceships hidden away in some RAF hangar, as some believe, but we do have some fascinating and unexplained cases in our files."
The 'Redlesham Forest incident', which is alleged to have taken place near RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk, in 1980, saw US Airman First Class John Burroughs, who was stationed there, exposed to radiation after a mystery "UFO visitation".
He has since won damages from the American military, but still wants answers about what happened and hopes they will be in the new files.
Pat Frascogna, his lawyer, said: "We know there is information contained in these MoD files about the Rendlesham Forest incident because the MoD clearly indicated so in responding to a Freedom of Information request by John Burroughs last year."
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NASA'S NEW WFIRST TELESCOPE TO UNRAVEL DARK ENERGY, ALIEN LIFE
NASA'S NEW WFIRST TELESCOPE TO UNRAVEL DARK ENERGY, ALIEN LIFE
In a fresh attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe, NASA has announced to build a new, wider telescope that will have a view 100 times bigger than that of Hubble Space Telescope.
Called the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), it will help researchers unravel the secrets of dark energy and dark matter and explore the evolution of the universe.
Slated to be launched in the mid-2020s, the observatory will also discover new worlds outside our solar system and advance the search for worlds that could be suitable for life.
WFIRST is the agency's next major astrophysics observatory, following the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope in 2018.
"WFIRST has the potential to open our eyes to the wonders of the universe, much the same way Hubble has," said John Grunsfeld, associate administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, DC.
"This mission uniquely combines the ability to discover and characterise planets beyond our own solar system with the sensitivity and optics to look wide and deep into the universe in a quest to unravel the mysteries of dark energy and dark matter," he explained in a statement.
The observatory will survey large regions of the sky in near-infrared light to answer fundamental questions about the structure and evolution of the universe and expand our knowledge of planets beyond our solar system - known as exoplanets.
It will carry a Wide Field Instrument for surveys, and a Coronagraph Instrument designed to block the glare of individual stars and reveal the faint light of planets orbiting around them.
By blocking the light of the host star, the Coronagraph Instrument will enable detailed measurements of the chemical makeup of planetary atmospheres.
Comparing these data across many worlds will allow scientists to better understand the origin and physics of these atmospheres, and search for chemical signs of environments suitable for life.
"WFIRST is designed to address science areas identified as top priorities by the astronomical community," added Paul Hertz, director of NASA's astrophysics division.
The telescope's sensitivity and wide view will enable a large-scale search for exoplanets by monitoring the brightness of millions of stars in the crowded central region of our galaxy.
By measuring the distances of thousands of supernovae, astronomers can map in detail how cosmic expansion has increased with time.
WFIRST also can precisely measure the shapes, positions and distances of millions of galaxies to track the distribution and growth of cosmic structures, including galaxy clusters and the dark matter accompanying them.
The observatory will begin operations after travelling to a gravitational balance point known as "Earth-Sun L2" which is located about one million miles from Earth in a direction directly opposite the Sun, NASA said
9 Mile Dome City Found on Earths Moon - First Ever Photos of the City of “ Luna ”
9 Mile Dome City Found on Earths Moon - First Ever Photos of the City of “ Luna ”
Supposedly this is where NASA found the abandoned alien base that was still in working order and then they stationed 1000 US Marines on it, or so the story goes from the info that computer hacker Gary McKinnon has stated in interviews.
If this is true and this dome over the crater is the base, then these photos in this video I am posting today may be the first ever photos of the city of “Luna” as its been called in the past.
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The secrets of the solar system hidden under Antarctica
The secrets of the solar system hidden under Antarctica
According to researchers, the secrets of our solar system could be answered by looking at the Icy continent of Antarctica
Researchers have discovered extremely well-preserved asteroids hiding under just 10 centimeters of ice. Scientists believe that due to the heating of the Sun, space rocks might have melted the ice and sank.
Hundreds of iron-rich meteorites which are believed to hold the ultimate answer to the secret of our solar system have been located beneath the surface of Antarctica’s ice sheet. Scientists state that the enigmatic space rocks are located between 10 and 15 centimeters below the surface, saying that iron-rich meteorites are ‘tantalizingly close’.
The study published by researchers from the University of Manchester in Nature Communications last week, states that the vast majority of space rocks are located between 10 and 50 centimeters from the surface, which would allow researchers to get to them without much hassle.
Meteorites fall all over the planet but most of them are collected in Antarctica due to color contrast, between the white color of the ice and black color of meteorites makes them much easier to spot.
Dr. Geoff Evatt and his team suggest that meteorites are missing because of the Sun’s rays penetrating the clear ice and warming iron-rich space rocks more than those which are not made of metals.
Dr. Evatt states that Such warming melts the ice surrounding them, causing it to sink and offset all annual ice ‘upwelling’ – which permanently traps the meteorites just below the surface.
In the study, scientists state:
“Under our hypothesis, sinking (relative to the upwelling ice) of englacial meteorites in an Antarctic MSZ will be seasonally dependent. In the winter months, with little-to-no solar radiation, sinking will not be possible, and so all classes of englacial meteorites can be expected to rise with the speed of the ice (whose surface is still ablating due to scouring by the strong winter katabatic winds12). Conversely, in the long daylight hours of the summer months, solar warming will enable susceptible meteorites to have a local rate of melting that offsets the upwelling process, and hence, for certain meteorite classes, sinking relative to the ice surface can (re)commence.”
The important characteristics of these meteorites are that they invariably originated from deep inside larger planetary bodies which eventually broke apart in the distant past of the history of our solar system. This is why finding, retrieving and analyzing them, might help scientists understand more about where they come from and when they were formed.
Dr. Evatt said: “With the strong possibility that a hidden reserve of meteorites lies just below the ice surface of localized areas of Antarctica, finding conclusive evidence of its existence is imperative to our understanding of the solar system’s formation.
“The challenge is now set: to be the first team to locate this reserve of meteorites and retrieve samples from it.”
The team of scientists was able to combine laboratory experiments with mathematical bodies to demonstrate that typical hawing and freezing processes will cancel out the upward transportation of meteorites with high thermal conductivity – such as those containing iron, allowing those with lower conductivities to emerge from the ice
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UK TO DISCLOSE THEIR TOP SECRET UFO FILES IN MARCH THIS YEAR
UK TO DISCLOSE THEIR TOP SECRET UFO FILES IN MARCH THIS YEAR
For years, scientists have refused to reveal the truth behind unexplained UFO mysteries. This has baffled us and speculations about whether the extraterrestrial life really exists or not just gets murkier day by day.
According to reports, the UK government is all set to release shocking evidence of alien contact, when 18 classified files will be released in March 2016.
However, the British government also stated that they may not make these files public as they contain 'sensitive material'.
It has been claimed by former government employees that at least two of these files contain clear evidence of UFO landings and alien contact.
The UK government had in 2005, admitted to conduct a thorough 30-year long scientific study into UFOs, after years of denial.
It looks like much of their material is related to the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) and the implications of alien contact.
Meanwhile, the US president Barack Obama is assumed to be having a clear idea about the UFO phenomenon, but like his predecesors, he fails to reveal the secret documents pertaining to the alien.
But now, experts are of the view that this may change before March this year, amidst reports of the UK planning to reveal some shocking revelations about the UFO.
The US space agency NASA, has been accused of hiding the extraterrestrial life although it is aware of the alien activity.
Even as scientists suspect extraterrestrial life to exist, there is no unambiguous evidence for its existence so far.
The point here is - Will they or won't they now reveal the truth? Let's hope for the best as we keep our fingers crossed for the big event
Another fireball sighting, this time the witness, while driving at the right moment on 183 Westbound in the Euless area, captured with his dashcam a close meteor flying over Texas on February 18, 2016.
The increase in fireballs is really disturbing as fireballs sightings are now reported almost daily throughout the world and with this new sighting over Texas, yet the report of the Fireball over southern France yesterday, one has to wonder what is really happening.
What is causing this phenomenon? Is a debris field moving in our direction?
Besides the exceptional increase in fireballs, March turns out to be the month of great celestial events in 2016.
On March 21 the comet 252P/LINEAR 12 will make its closest approach yet, passing just 3.1 million miles (5.3 million km).
Comet P/2016 BA14 (PANSTARRS) is set to pass by Earth at a distance of 2.1 million miles (3.5 million km).This is a record-breaking approach to Earth for a comet!
Comet’s P/2016 BA14 (PANSTARRS) passage will be the closest known comet flyby of the last 230 hundred years. Comet P/2016 BA14 (PANSTARRS) was discovered by the Pan-STARRS survey on 2016 Jan 22.
Supermoon and Total Eclipse of the Sun:
The moon turns new on March 8 or 9, 2016, depending on your time zone, the so-called Supermoon will line up with the sun to create a larger-than-average effect on Earth’s oceans.
The first Supermoon of 2016 coincides with the first eclipse of the year, a total eclipse of the sun on March 8-9, 2016.
The total solar eclipse will be visible from Sumatra, Borneo, Sulawesi and from locations in the Pacific ocean.
On March 8th a space rock is set to pass extremely close to our planet for comfort. Asteroid TX68 may skim past Earth’s surface at just 19000 miles (30000 km).The asteroid is approximately twice as large as the Chelyabinsk meteor.
March 8th is the 68th day of 2016. TX68 Earth flyby.
NASA confirms Asteroid’s (TX68) Trajectory is ‘Highly Uncertain’.
Astronomers say the asteroid 2013 TX68 may pass by Earth on March 8 at 00:06 UTC (March 7 at 7:06 pm ET), the time uncertainty is 2 days, which means the space rock may be passing by our planet sometime between the evenings of March 5 and 9.
Latest estimates say the asteroid will pass no closer than 19,000 miles (30,000 km). Even if it passes in this distance the flyby would still be even closer than orbiting communication satellites.
Meanwhile NASA has changed its condition from code 7 to Code 8 (highly uncertain).
Condition code is defined as, “orbit uncertainty estimate 0-9, with 0 being good, and 9 being highly uncertain”.
The next video shows the fireball over Euless in Texas.
The video below contains an interesting compilation of UFOs in space filmed by the Space-Shuttle camera, before NASA decided to censor such video material.
Although the raw footage clearly shows UFOs materialize and change directions, NASA explained it all away as ice, water drops, sun glare, and space junk.
This particular UFO footage is perhaps the most solid evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence.
Researcher Warren Aston has just released details of an amazing UFO cover-up attempted by U.S military personnel based at the top-secret underground Pine Gap base in Australia.
Details have now been released of how two Australian policemen unwittingly foiled an attempt by two U.S military personal to cover-up UFO activity over the nearby town of Alice Springs. Many Alice Springs residents reported fast-moving lights flying over the central Australian town on the evening of 26th November 1996. Police were numbered among those making reports of the strangely maneuvering lights. At least one video of the object was captured by a policeman and is now undergoing analysis in the U.S.
A little over an hour later that same evening, two policemen on patrol (who have requested anonymity) witnessed a number of hot-air balloons slowly bobbing over the town. At the same time a call came in asking them to investigate suspicious activity by a car on an isolated back road in the dessert east of the town. Suspecting a link with the balloons over the town, the two officers sped off and they quickly apprehended a station wagon full of plastic hot air balloons in various stages of construction, including one on the side of the road ready to be sent aloft. The two men in the vehicle had North American accents and at first refused to answer question, but when threatened with arrest they reluctantly produced ID cards identifying them as personal from the massive super-secret Pine Gap facility located nearby.
Under agreement between the Australian and US Governments, personal at this American-run base is virtually immune from legal action. Eventually the men, claiming to be merely a geologist and an engineer, were allowed to drive off into the darkness, leaving behind many unanswered questions. Why would staff from a secret American base in Australia be involved in setting off hot air balloons outside a nearby town? . Clearly, they were attempting to confuse the UFO sightings made earlier that evening. Where they then going to claim that these reports were only hot air balloons? And if so, as seems likely, WHY? Pine Gap base, hidden in the remote and geologically stable Australian about back, has long been linked to covert U.S military/ Intelligence activity concerning recovered Alien craft and secretly developed military programs.
Among other things, Pine Gap has been linked with white disc’s seen flying from hidden access points on the base, and with the beams of “energy” fired into space which caused a fast moving UFO to reverse it’s course in full view of the shuttle Discovery’s cameras in 1991. This latest development will do nothing to quell the growing suspicion that PINE GAP is crucial, perhaps even central, to these covert efforts.
Fiona Powell, a 41-year-old mother, claims to have captured a flying saucer. Her photo shows a classic UFO hovering over Bristol’s area. According to her testimony, she was walking along the promenade on Severn Beach, near the city center, when she was amazed by the view of the clouds. She then decided to capture it on camera.
She noticed nothing strange when she took the photo. However, after several hours, he looked back at the image and spotted the unexpected, but a familiar object. A picture seems to show a dome-shaped aerial object with a thin rim around the middle.
The witness is still undecided whether to believe in aliens or not, but she finds her photo indeed meets the requirements of a UFO.
Her friend zoomed in the image, and it looked like a UFO even more. She also showed the picture to some of her wise friends, and they too were amazed of the capture.
However, the realistic thing of the picture makes some observers think it may have tampered. They say that the mother or someone related to her tempered it with Adobe Photoshop. Others are convinced it could have been from a smartphone application, designed to add a realistic UFO in digital photos.
Some believe it is a good capture, but the image could have been a bird or jet in flight. They say it is a seagull or a fighter plane from an odd angle.
Meanwhile, believers say that it is real and people just having a hard time to accept the concept that there may be alien life. As they say, concept is more tangible than any religion.
A UFO was seen flying slowly through the skies in several cities and towns near Lake Baikal in Siberia. People in these areas posted videos and photos online to support their accounts.
Many witnesses are coming from residents in Irkutsk region. They say the UFO has a resemblance of a meteorite but appears to be much brighter and moves too slowly.
Senior research scientist at Institute of Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Sergei Yazev, gives his take about the video after watching it. He rules out the possibility of it to be a comet because of its extremely slow velocity.
Yazev adds that it is not also a spent rocket stage as the speed when it falls would still be much greater.
Bizarre Balls Of Light Seen Over Several Different Areas In UK
Bizarre Balls Of Light Seen Over Several Different Areas In UK
Several different people reportedly spotted mysterious craft with some witnesses captured the event on their cameras.
In one of the videos, a cluster of mysterious bright objects appears to float in the sky over Kent. It has since sparked UFO rumours among sky observers.
Jake Harvey recorded the video and uploaded it to Twitter. The footage apparently shows the sky over Folkestone.
The strange aerial things were also spotted in nearby Hythe.
Many online viewers have suggested they were flares from military ranges nearby at Hythe and Lydd.
However, MOD confirmed that no activity in there at the time of sightings. Kent Unidentified Flying Objects Research Group spokesman issued a statement saying that the coastlines in East Kent and South Kent are known as UFO hotbeds.
The spokesman further said that towns in these areas have a big number of UFO sightings on the seemingly constant basis. People are reporting UFO sightings over the Thames Estuary and the English Channel continually. The spokesman added that reported UFO sightings have increased dramatically over the years.
Thousands of people have come to Capilla del Monte in Argentina to take part of the annual international alien festival. The weekend festival in Cordoba province includes alien costume contests, a parade of neon lights with famous characters from Star Wars movie, and alien-related shops.
Workshops regarding extraterrestrial stuff are held near a local hill that is believed to be the place where UFO sighting reportedly took place 30 years ago. The strange event, according to general belief, left a huge burning mark on the grass of the hill. It also helps flourish the alien tourism of the town.
A visitor from Chile, Leonardo Fuentes, thinks people come in this place not just for tourism, but more about the energy and all that can be seen.
The festival, which is now in its fourth year, has become famous among tourists, especially alien enthusiasts worldwide because of the infamous UFO sighting three decades ago in the area.
One of the visited sites during the weekend is the Uritorco hill, known as the country’s magic mountain. Many people believe that there’s a presence of energy in the place credited for UFO sightings. Others also believe that it is a door to other dimensions.
Scientists Find Largest Rocky Planet Ever Discovered, Half as Big as Neptune
Scientists Find Largest Rocky Planet Ever Discovered, Half as Big as Neptune
IN BRIEF
Kepler has discovered a rocky planet bigger than scientists ever thought was possible. Studying BD+20594b will allow scientists to learn more about the way planets form.
An illustration of a large, rocky planet similar to the recently discovered BD+20594b. Credit: JPL-Caltech/NASA
The Kepler Spacecraft, which has the ability to observe distant solar systems, has discovered arocky planet bigger than scientists ever thought was possible. Meet BD+20594b.
ROCKY COMPETITION
The former title holder of “biggest rocky planet” went to Kepler-10c, which has a radius more than double that of Earth. We thought this was as big as rocky planets could get.
Most of our understanding of planetary formation and solar system development has come from direct observation of our own Solar System. We simply couldn’t see any others, and we had no way of knowing how typical—or how strange—our own Solar System might be.
With the discovery of BD+20594b, though, we’re learning, and Kepler-10c has some intense competition. The new planet is about 16 times as massive as Earth and half the diameter of Neptune. Its density is about 8 grams per cubic centimeter (for comparison, Earth is 5.514 g/cm). This is rather dense, but it makes sense, as it’s composed entirely of rock.
The planet, whose existence was reported on January 28 at arXiv.org by astrophysicist Nestor Espinoza and his colleagues at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile in Santiago, is over 500 light years away, in the constellation Aries. The planet was discovered last year, as it passed between Kepler and its host star. Luckily, the planet’s host star is exceptionally bright, allowing a more detailed observation than most exoplanets.
THE IMPORTANCE OF BD+20594B AND KEPLER
The discovery and further study of BD+20594b is important for a couple of reasons. It shows that there is still so much to learn about planetary formation. Kepler’s mission, which started off just confirming the existence of exoplanets, and showing us how common they are, will play a key role in furthering that research.
In addition, there’s much more variety in planetary composition than just what we see in our own solar system. Now that we have this new planet to compare to Kepler-10c, astrophysicists can do further research on planetary formation theories.
The CIA Has a Secret Time Travel Program, but They Won’t Let Us Know About It
The CIA Has a Secret Time Travel Program, but They Won’t Let Us Know About It
Portals are found in many books, movies and video games. Some of them are links between distant places, others travel back or forward in time, and the most powerful ones lead into different dimensions. Most people presume that these gateways exist only in the realm of science fiction, but there are some who strongly support the idea that portals have been opened in ancient times and quite possibly in the present days as well.
According to two National Security US Informants, the Department of Defense developed time travel technology over 45 years ago. As early as 1967, the US government possessed a fully operational time travel machinery built on the quantum access researched by Tesla. This technology has been used in order to cloak military facilities, as well as provide political and economic advantages by way of knowing what the future holds. Some claim the CIA seized Tesla’s papers on teleportation shortly after his death.
One of these two National Informants, Michael Relfe, is a former member of the US armed forces who claimed he was a member of a top-secret US operation. Recruited in 1976, he spent the next 20 years adjusting and expanding one of the two US colonies on Mars. Those bases served as strategic high intelligence research point, and in order to preserve their secrecy, they were built in the future.
Relfe said that after serving 20 years on the Martian colony, he was age-reversed and cast back in time. He claimed that this was the usual procedure and that staff members would usually have some memories blocked or erased before being discharged.
Dr. Andrew D. Basiago was a participant in DARPA’s Project Pegasus (1968-1972) that focused on time travel in the time-space hologram. He knew that the CIA was actively training groups of gifted American schoolchildren to become the first generation of time-and-space explorers.
Children were better suited for this mission for several ominous reasons. First of all, they were considered ideal candidates due to their clear minds and lack of impressions or experience. The US government wanted to know if time travel had any side effects over younger bodies and minds. The adult volunteers usually became insane after several journeys, but fortunately children had a different brain constitution that could shield them during such a trip.
Another use for quantum technology was found in political manipulation. According to Dr. Basiago, future persons of interest would be notified early about the roles they were to play in the future. He said that in the early 1970’s in Albuquerque, New Mexico he was present at the table with George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush when they were informed about their future presidencies.
Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton were also paid visits from time travelers, and it’s rumored that in 1982, President Obama had been approached while still a student at UCLA. To back-up this claim, there are numerous witness accounts from people who attended college with Obama and can attest that he would often return from parties and then claim that he would be the future President of The United States. Could this be a coincidence, or is the conspiracy theory really getting true?
Basiago claims that in 1971 he saw images from the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. They had been obtained from the future and brought back for analysis. This implies that the US government knew about 9/11 three decades in advance.
If we are to believe the informants and those who support them, this technology is kept secret despite being funded by the general public. They say that people deserve to know what’s really going on, the truth about space exploration and the presence of earthlings on other nearby planets. Teleportation could solve transportation problems worldwide by transferring people and goods instantly.
If their theories prove to be true, we’re missing out on some revolutionary insight and tremendous technological growth that has been denied to us although it exists for so many years. Are we really living in a big, fat lie?
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Secret Underwater Bases: Beyond Area 51
Secret Underwater Bases: Beyond Area 51
Area 51 isn’t the only base filled with secrecy. As it turns out, there are countless underwater bases spread across different locations on our planet.
While many of us know about Area 51 and Dulce Base, the truth is there are more secret bases than you could ever imagine. Three years ago the CIA finally admitted the existence of Area 51, but many people around the world already knew about it and the mystery and secrecy behind it. Area 51 is just one of the many out there, but interestingly, most secret bases aren’t constructed on land, but deep under the oceans.
Creating underwater bases is probably much more efficient than creating them on land. For starters, it’s nearly impossible to find an underwater base, unless of course you know its location and have the equipment to get there.
Research into the feasibility of underwater bases began nearly 50 years ago. In 1968, the Stanford Research Institute alone discussed the construction of dozens of undersea bases across the globe.
The study entitled “Feasibility of Manned In-Botton Bases,” proposed a series of locations and plans to construct some of the most incredible underwater bases mankind had ever (not) seen.
According to a study written by T G Warfield and L R Parkinson, from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. In 1968:
The construction of thirty manned in-bottom bases within the ocean floors is technically and economically feasible. However, it will be necessary to establish some successive types of experimental facilities before a full construction program can be started. This could take 15 years. The major technology for a land-linked station in bottom is established now; only adaptations are needed.
The remaining experimental phases will require further development of equipment and techniques applicable to remote sea access. There are useful assignments for a succession of three experimental stations other than advancing in-bottom construction techniques. Science and engineering concerned with the oceans and their resources will be furthered and military tests of undersea base functions complimenting deeper operations can be accomplished. The costs of the experimental phase, called here a demonstration program, can be surprisingly modest: approximately one-half billion dollars spent over 15 years.
A distinction between in-bottom bases and on-bottom facilities is made in the numbers of men enclosed. and the depth of water, wherein areas of one-atmosphere space can be created in bottom, and on-bottom facilities are made in the numbers of men enclosed and the depth of water, wherein areas of one atmosphere space can be created in bottom at such low costs the ingress system can be amortized if the space required is reasonably large. Economics thus can dictate the choice between the two types; even so, some on bottom facilities will be needed to aid the construction of remote in-bottom facilities.
Presently, establishing an in-bottom facility and building upon this will present fewer technical difficulties that do the submersibles which would support it and use it. Subsequent to the completion of the third phase of a demonstration program, which would be a remote, deepwater station, and the evaluation of it, a multiple base program, could be implemented. The cost of such a base program would be about $2.7 billion for the construction of a number of bases (assumed at 30).
Reading the above-mentioned study does not only bring up numerous questions that make us wonder how many bases exist in oceans around the world today, but who operates them? Do they belong the governments? Or are they independent ‘research’ facilities?
interest in the creation of underwater bases continued after T G Warfield and L R Parkinson’s study in 1968. 19 years later, in 1987, Lloyd A. Duscha, the Deputy Director of Engineering and Construction for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spoke about the creation of such secret bases during an engineering conference called: “Underground Facilities for Defense – Experience and Lessons.” Lloyd Duscha made a very important statement:
After World War II, political and economic factors changed the underground construction picture and caused a renewed interest to “think underground.” As a result, of this interest, the Corps of Engineers became involved in the design and construction of some very complex and interesting military projects. Although the conference program indicates the topic to be “Underground Facilities for Defense – Experience and Lessons,” I must deviate a little because several of the most interesting facilities that have been designed and constructed by the Corps are classified. (Lloyd A. Duscha, “Underground Facilities for Defense – Experience and Lessons,” inTunneling and Underground Transport: Future Developments in Technology. Economics and Policy, ed. F.P. Davidson (New York: Elsevier Science Publishing Company, Inc., 1987, pp. 109-113.)
The truth is that we will perhaps never now what exactly lies underneath our oceans, but we can almost say with certainty that secret underwater bases exist, and are not something new, they have existed for years, and will continue to operate in the distant future.
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Is The Moon an Alien Space Craft?
In 1970 two Soviet scientists proposed that the moon is actually an alien spacecraft built by extraterrestrials with superior technology and intelligence to observe the Earth from afar. Much further out in history than this though, the African Zulu people of old believed the Moon to be hollow and the home base of the Python or Chitauri, or as some people call them the Reptilians, a race of intelligent aliens who are controlling the human race.
The Spaceship Moon Theory was put forth by two members of the the Soviet Academy of Sciences, Alexander Shcherbakov and Michael Vasin in a an article entitled “Is the Moon the Creation of Alien Intelligence?” Vasin and Shcherbakov’s came to the conclusion that alien beings with technology far superior to anything known on Earth have been using the moon as a space station.
The authors explain that the surface material of the moon is made up of different elements, which include chromium, titanium and zirconium, which are from the surface of the Earth. Furthermore they note that some rocks on the moon are actually older than the oldest rocks on Earth, which again suggests the moon is an alien space craft. They believe that the moon is made up of a rocky outer layer which is a few miles thick and beneath that there is a void, which is where the aliens can be found.
Further out in history, African Zulu legends tell of the alien race called the Chitauri who brought the moon to Earth as a vehicle to observe, manipulate and control the human race. The aliens two were known as the “water brothers” and had scaly skin, kind of like a fish. This tale is actually very similar to the ancient Mesopotamia and Sumerian accounts about the two brothers Enlil and Enki.
It is claimed that there weren’t any seasons and the planet was engulfed by a peaceful mist. The Earth was breath taking in its magnificence But once the Moon was put into place in the Earth’s orbit everything changed. Turmoil in the climate, such as that of the great flood and other major events began to take place.
You can learn more about the African legend in the video below;
If you are interested in learning more, you can check this thorough talk below;
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Boeing's CST-100 Crew Capsule Takes a Dip
Boeing's CST-100 Crew Capsule Takes a Dip
By Jeff Foust, SpaceNews Writer
Engineers from NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, and Boeing dropped a full-scale test article of the company’s CST-100 Starliner into Langley’s 20-foot-deep Hydro Impact Basin.
The test, in a tank at the Langley Research Center, was designed to see how the commercial crew capsule would perform should it have to make a splashdown.
The capsule is designed to land on solid ground, using airbags to cushion its landing. [NASA]
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Helpful Astronaut Application Tips
The deadline for submitting applications for the next round of astronaut selections is today. If you're looking for some last-minute advice, the satirical publication The Onion has you covered. It notes that astronaut requirements include "Fifty or more hours logged driving space shuttle around empty NASA parking lot," "Spotless interstellar criminal record," and, perhaps most importantly, "All candidates screened for their ability to procure $18 billion in funding each fiscal year." Good luck!
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Will the World's Largest Supercollider Spawn a Black Hole? (Op-Ed)
Will the World's Largest Supercollider Spawn a Black Hole? (Op-Ed)
By Don Lincoln, Senior Scientist, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Adjunct Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame
Illustration of a young black hole, such as the two distant dust-free quasars spotted recently by the Spitzer Space Telescope. More photos of black holes of the universe
Cutting-edge science is an exploration of the unknown; an intellectual step into the frontier of human knowledge. Such studies provide great excitement for those of us passionate about understanding the world around us, but some are apprehensive of the unknown and wonder if new and powerful science, and the facilities where it is explored, could be dangerous. Some even go so far as to ask whether one of humanity's most ambitious research projects could even pose an existential threat to the Earth itself. So let's ask that question now and get it out of the way.
Can a supercollider end life on Earth? No. Of course not.
But it's not really a silly question for people who haven't thought carefully about it. After all, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator, is explicitly an instrument of exploration, one that is designed to push back the frontiers of ignorance. It's not so unreasonable to ask how you know something isn't dangerous if you've never done it before. So how is it I can say with such utter confidence that the LHC is completely safe?
Well, the short answer is that cosmic rays from space constantly pummel the Earth with energies that dwarf those of the LHC. Given that the Earth is still here, there can be no danger, or so the reasoning goes.
And that could well be the final story, but the tale is much richer than that short (but very accurate) answer would lead you to believe. So let's dig a bit deeper into what makes some suspect a danger, and then explore a fairly detailed description of the point and counterpoint involved in delivering a solid and satisfying answer to the question.
Can the LHC create an Earth-killer black hole?
Skeptics have proposed that the LHC would produce many possible dangers, ranging from the vague fear of the unknown to some that are strangely specific.
The most commonly mentioned is the idea that the LHC can make a black hole. In popular literature, black holes are ravening monstrosities of the universe, gobbling up everything around them. Given such a depiction, it's not at all unreasonable for people to then wonder if a black hole created by the LHC might reach out and destroy the accelerator, the laboratory, then Switzerland, Europe and finally the Earth. This would be a scary scenario, were it credible — but it's not.
What immediately follows are the weaker (but still compelling) reasons why this possibility is, well, not possible, and in the next section you will see the cast-iron and gold-plated reasons to dismiss this and all other possible Earth-ending scenarios.
The first question is whether a black hole can even be created at the LHC. Alas, when looking at all of the scientific evidence and using our most modern understanding of the laws of the universe, there is no way that the LHC can make a black hole. Gravity is simply too weak for this to occur.
Some skeptics protest that one explanation for the weakness of gravity is that tiny extra dimensions of space exist. According to that theory, gravity is really strong and just appears to be weak because gravity can "leak" into the extra dimensions. Once we start probing those tiny dimensions, the strong gravity could perhaps make a black hole. Sadly for black hole aficionados, no one has found evidence for the existence of extra dimensions, and if they don't exist, the LHC can't make black holes.
So the entire underlying idea of that particular possible danger is built on a long shot. Yet, even in the unlikely case that extra dimensions are real and a black hole can be created, there is a good reason to not worry about black holes damaging the Earth.
The shield against that hypothetical danger is Hawking radiation. Proposed in 1974 by Steven Hawking, Hawking radiation is essentially the evaporation of a black hole caused by its interactions with particles created in the vicinity of the hole. While black holes will absorb surrounding material and grow, an isolated black hole will slowly lose mass.
The mechanism is a quantum mechanical one, involving pairs of particles being made near the surface of the hole. One particle will go into the hole, but the other will escape and carry away energy. Since, according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, energy and mass are the same, this process has the effect of very slowly decreasing the mass of the black hole. Even though one particle enters the hole, the loss of the other results in the hole slowly evaporating. This is a tricky point. Most people think of a black hole as the mass at the center, but it's actually both the mass at the center and the energy stored in the gravitational field. The particle zooming down to the center is just moving around in the black hole, while the particle that moves out escapes the black hole entirely. Both the mass of the escaping particle and the energy it carries are lost to the black hole, reducing the energy of the entire black hole system.
And the rate at which a hole evaporates is a strong function of the hole's size. A large black hole will lose energy very slowly, but a small one will evaporate in the blink of an eye. In fact, any black hole the LHC could possibly make, via any possible theory, will disappear before it can get near any other matter to gobble up.
A simulation of a particle collision inside the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. When two protons collide inside the machine, they create an energetic explosion that gives rise to new and exotic particles.
Credit: CERN
Strange strangelets
Another proposed danger is a thing called a strangelet. A strangelet is a hypothetical subatomic particle composed of roughly an equal number of up, down and strange quarks.
Mind you, there is zero evidence that strangelets are anything other than an idea born in the fertile imagination of a theoretical physicist. But, if they exist, the claim is that a strangelet is essentially a catalyst. If it impacts ordinary matter, it will make the matter it touches also turn into a strangelet. Following the idea to its logical conclusion, if a strangelet were made on Earth, it would result in the entire planet collapsing down into a ball of matter made of strangelets … kind of like turning the Earth into an exotic version of neutron star. Essentially a strangelet can be thought of as a subatomic zombie; one that turns everything it touches into a fellow strangelet zombie.
But there is no evidence that strangelets are real, so that might be enough to keep some people from worrying. However, it's still true that the LHC is a machine of discovery and maybe it could actually make a strangelet … well, if they really exist. After all, strangelets haven't been definitively ruled out and some theories favor them. However, an earlier particle accelerator called the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider went looking for them and came up empty.
Those are but two ideas for how a supercollider could pose a threat, and there are more. We could list all of the possible dangers, but there remains something more unsettling to keep in mind: Since we don't know what happens to matter when we start studying it at energies only possible with the LHC (that is, of course, the point of building the accelerator), maybe something will happen that was never predicted. And, given our ignorance, maybe that unexpected phenomenon might be dangerous.
And it is that last worry that could have potentially been so troubling to the LHC's creators. When you don't know what you don't know, you … well … you don't know. Such a question requires a powerful and definitive answer. And hereit is…
Why the LHC is totally safe
Given the exploratory nature of the LHC research program, what is needed is an ironclad reason that demonstrates that the facility is safe even if no one knows what the LHC might encounter.
Luckily, we have the most compelling answer of all: Nature has been running the equivalent of countless LHC experiments since the universe began — and still does, every day, on Earth.
Space is a violent place, with stars throwing off literally tons of material every second — and that's the tamest of phenomena. Supernovas occur, blasting star stuff across the cosmos. Neutron stars can use intense magnetic fields to accelerate particles from one side of the universe to another. Pairs of orbiting black holes can merge, shaking the very fabric of space itself.
All of those phenomena, as well as many others, cause subatomic particles to be flung across space. Mostly consisting of protons, those particles travel the lengths of the universe, stopping only when an inconvenient bit of matter gets in their way.
And, occasionally, that inconvenient bit of matter is the Earth. We call these intergalactic bullets — mostly high-energy protons — "cosmic rays." Cosmic rays carry a range of energies, from the almost negligible, to energies that absolutely dwarf those of the LHC.
To give a sense of scale, the LHC collides particles together with a total energy of 13 trillion (or tera) electron volts of energy (TeV). The highest-energy cosmic ray ever recorded was an unfathomable 300,000,000 TeV of energy.
Now, cosmic rays of that prodigious energy are very rare. The energy of more common cosmic rays is much lower. But here's the point: Cosmic rays of the energy of a single LHC beam hit the Earth about half a quadrillion times per second. No collider necessary.
Remember that cosmic rays are mostly protons. That's because almost all of the matter in the universe is hydrogen, which consists of a single proton and a single electron. When they hit the Earth's atmosphere, they collide with nitrogen or oxygen or other atoms, which are composed of protons and neutrons. Accordingly, cosmic rays hitting the Earth are just two protons slamming together — this is exactly what is happening inside the LHC. Two protons slamming together.
Thus, the barrage of cosmic rays from space have been doing the equivalent of LHC research since the Earth began — we just haven't had the luxury of being able to watch.
Now one must be careful. It's easy to throw numbers around a bit glibly. While there are lots of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere with LHC energies, the situations between what happens inside the LHC and what happens with cosmic rays everywhere on Earth are a bit different.
Cosmic ray collisions involve fast-moving protons hitting stationary ones, while LHC collisions involve two beams of fast-moving protons hitting head-on. Head-on collisions are intrinsically more violent; so to make a fair comparison, we need to consider cosmic rays that are much higher in energy, specifically about 100,000 times higher than LHC energies.
Cosmic rays of that energy are rarer than the lower energy ones, but still 500,000,000 of them hit the Earth's atmosphere every year.
When you remember that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, you realize that the Earth has experienced something like 2 billion billion cosmic ray collisions with LHC-equivalent energies (or higher) in the atmosphere since the Earth formed. In order to make that many collisions, we'd need to run the LHC continuously for 70 years. Given that we're still here, we can conclude that we're safe.
But to be absolutely sure ...
The cosmic ray argument is fantastic, as it is independent of any possible LHC danger, including ones we haven't imagined yet. However, there is a loophole that potentially reduces the argument's strength. Because cosmic ray collisions are between a fast-moving and a stationary proton, the "dangerous" particle (whatever that might be) gets produced at high velocity and may shoot out of the Earth before it has time to damage it. (It's like in billiards when a cue ball hits another ball. After the impact, at least one, and often both, go flying.) In contrast, the LHC beams hit head-on, making stationary objects. (Think of two identical cars with identical speeds hitting head-on.) Maybe they will stick around and wreak carnage on the globe.
But there is an answer to that too. I picked the Earth because it is near and dear to us, but the Earth isn't the only thing being hit by cosmic rays. The sun gets hit as well; and when a cosmic ray hits the sun, it might make a high-energy "dangerous" product, but that product then has to travel through a much larger amount of matter. And this doesn't take into account that the sun is much larger than the Earth, so it experiences many more high-energy collisions than our planet does.
Further, we can expand the number of cosmic targets to include neutron stars, which consist of matter so dense that whatever potentially dangerous thing we might consider will stop dead in the neutron star right after it is made. And yet the sun and the neutron stars we see in the universe all are still there. They haven't disappeared.
Safety assured!
So that argument is the bottom line. When you ask if the LHC is safe, you have to realize that the universe has already done the experiments for us.
Cosmic rays hit the Earth, the sun, other stars and all the myriad denizens of the universe with energies that far exceed those of the LHC. This happens all the time. If there were any danger, we would see some of these objects disappearing before our eyes. And yet we don't. Thus, we can conclude that whatever happens in the LHC, it poses exactly, precisely, inarguably, zero danger. And you can't forget the crucial point that this argument works for all conceivable dangers, including those that nobody has imagined yet.
So having established the ironclad safety of the LHC, what then? Well, we absolutely hope that we do make black holes in the LHC — as explained, they would be tiny and not gobble up the planet. If we do see tiny black holes, we'll have figured out why gravity seems so weak. We'll probably have established that extra dimensions of space exist. We'll be that much closer to finding a theory of everything, a theory that is so persuasive, simple and concise that we can write its equation on a T-shirt.
While we are now assured that the LHC is utterly safe, it is absolutely true that the safety question was important for scientists to investigate. In fact, the whole exercise was a satisfying one, as it used the best scientific principles to come to a definitive conclusion that all can agree is valid. So now we can push back the boundaries of our ignorance, with only our increasing excitement of the prospect of a discovery to distract us.
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A Violent Wind Blown from the Heart of a Galaxy Tells the Tale of a Merge
A Violent Wind Blown from the Heart of a Galaxy Tells the Tale of a Merge
An international team led by a researcher from Hiroshima University has succeeded in revealing the detailed structure of a massive ionized gas outflow streaming from the starburst galaxy NGC 6240 (Figure 1). The team used the Suprime-Cam mounted on the 8.2-meter Subaru Telescope on Maunakea in Hawaii.
Figure 1: A pseudo-color image of NGC 6240 taken with Suprime-Cam at the Subaru Telescope. Blue, green, and red colors are attributed to the B-band, R-band, and H-alpha (emission line from ionized hydrogen gas) images, respectively. The giant ionized gas blown out from the galaxy is seen in red. Click the figure to jump to the larger image of the central region. (Credit: Hiroshima University / NAOJ)
The ionized gas the astronomers observed extends across 300,000 light-years and is carried out of the galaxy by a powerful superwind. That wind is driven by intense star-forming activity at the galactic center. The light-collecting power and high spatial resolution of Subaru Telescope made it possible to study, for the first time, the complex structure of one of the largest known superwinds being driven by starbirth – and star death.
Starbursts and the Evolution of Galaxies
The term "starburst" indicates large-scale intensive star-forming activity, making a "starburst galaxy" one where starbirth is occurring on a grand scale. The star formation rate (SFR) of our Milky Way Galaxy is approximately one solar mass per year. By contrast, the SFRs of starburst galaxies reach ten, or even a hundred to a thousand solar masses per year.
Starburst activity is a very important part of galaxy evolution. When a starburst occurs, the intense episode star formation rapidly consumes the galaxy's interstellar gas. In addition, ultraviolet light from newborn massive stars as well as gas heating and ram pressure from supernova explosions blows much of a galaxy's gas away into intergalactic space. This galactic-scale energetic wind is called a "galactic wind" or "superwind". Its action forces interstellar gas out of the galaxy very efficiently, which accelerates the galaxy's gas-loss rate. It also chokes off star formation.
The metal-rich gas expelled from the galaxy's disk pollutes its halo as well as intergalactic space. Consequently, starburst and starburst-driven superwind significantly affect the evolution of the galaxy and the gas outside of that galaxy.
One of the mechanisms that seems to induce large-scale starburst activity is galaxy collision and merger. When two gas-rich giant spiral galaxies merge, the gravitational perturbation induced by the merging process disturbs the orbits of stars. At the same time, the gas in the galaxy disks loses its angular momentum via viscous process associated with gas mixture, and falls into the gravitational center of the merger. This creates a vast concentration of gas, which begins to coalesce, creating a starburst knot. The starburst also creates a huge amount of dust which emits strong infrared radiation as it absorbs ultraviolet light from the newly born massive stars.
Starburst Activity in NGC 6240
NGC 6240 is a starburst galaxy fairly close to the Milky Way, at a distance of about 350 million light-years. Its SFR is estimated to be 25-80 times that of our galaxy (Note). It has a peculiar, disturbed morphology (Figure 1) which indicates that two spiral galaxies are merging. Due to the giant starburst at its heart as a result of the merger, NGC 6240 is very bright in infrared light being emitted from heated dust. The total infrared luminosity reaches almost a trillion times of that the Sun's.
NGC 6240 is an important object to investigate in order to understand the physical and evolutional relationship among the processes of galaxy merger, the action of a starburst, and the phenomenon of an active galactic nucleus. Hence, it is one of the most-studied starburst galaxies in the nearby universe within 500 million light-years of the Sun.
Observing NGC 6240 and Its Massive Outflow
The research team wanted a wide-field of NGC 6240. The Suprime-Cam optical camera was used on Subaru Telescope to zero in on the detailed structure of the starburst-driven superwind. In addition, the team searched for important clues to understanding the starburst history of NGC 6240. They observed the galaxy using a special band-pass filter that selectively transmits the light around an emission line produced by ionized hydrogen (called the H-alpha emission line). It allowed them to study the structure of the ionized gas associated with the superwind.
Diving Deep into the Outflow
Their unprecedented deep observation (long-exposure images) revealed a complex giant ionized gas nebula (called an "H-alpha nebula") surrounding NGC 6240 (Figure 2, 3a). This nebula extends out about 300,000 light-years and contains complicated structures of filaments, loops, and blobs (Figure 3b). Astronomers knew that such a large ionized gas nebula surrounds NGC 6240, but the depth of the observation significantly surpassed any previous studies and first allowed the Hiroshima team to study the some of the faintest, most detailed structure of the nebula. Large "broken bubbles" were detected in the northwestern (upper right direction of Figure 3b) and southeastern (lower left direction of Figure 3b) parts of the galaxy. These features are the evidence of a past energetic bipolar-shaped superwind that blew along the minor axis of the main galaxy disk (orthogonal to the main galactic disk).
Figure 2: The giant ionized gas nebula (H-alpha nebula) of NGC 6240. This image was produced by subtracting the stellar continuum light from the H-alpha image and extracting the pure (net) H-alpha emission. The complicated filamentary structure extends over hundreds of thousands light years. (Credit: Hiroshima University / NAOJ)
Figure 3: a) Right panel: Same as Figure 2. The giant ionized gas nebula (H-alpha nebula) of NGC 6240. This image was produced by subtracting the stellar continuum light from the H-alpha image and extracting the pure (net) H-alpha emission. The complicated filamentary structure extends over hundreds of thousands light years. b) Left panel: A sketch of the H-alpha nebula of NGC 6240. (Credit: Hiroshima University / NAOJ)
Starburst-induced Superwinds Trace a Galactic Merger
The research team performed detailed data analysis and found that NGC 6240 has experienced violent starbursts at least three times in the past and each starburst drove an energetic superwind. Those superwinds form complex structure in the H-alpha nebula. The oldest starburst started about 80 million years ago. Astronomers think that the galaxy merger process of NGC 6240 began about a billion years ago, so this work suggests that the later stages of the merger are what excited the gigantic starbursts and subsequent superwinds. These results contribute new information to the studies of galaxy evolution and its relation to galaxy-galaxy mergers.
The research paper based on these observations will be published in the Astrophysical Journal of the American Astronomical Society (Yoshida et al., 2016, "Giant H-alpha Nebula Surrounding the Starburst Merger NGC 6240"). This research was financially supported in part by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research No.2344030, No.15H02069 from Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), No.24103003 from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan, and MOST grant 104-2112-M-001-034- of Taiwan.
The research team:
Michitoshi Yoshida (Hiroshima University, Japan)
Masafumi Yagi (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan / Hosei University, Japan)
Youichi Ohyama (Academia Sinica, Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Taiwan)
Yutaka Komiyama (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan / The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan)
Nobunari Kashikawa (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan / The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan)
Hisashi Tanaka (Hiroshima University, Japan)
Sadanori Okamura (Hosei University, Japan)
Note:
Various different estimation methods of star formation rate of NGC 6240 have suggested this range of the estimate value.
Did NASA Nuke an Alien Base on the Moon While Everyone Was Watching?
Did NASA Nuke an Alien Base on the Moon While Everyone Was Watching?
Could the Government hide something as crucial as the existence of alien structures on the surface of the Moon? And, more importantly, did NASA blow up some of those structures back in 2009?
The idea that our Moon might still preserve mysterious structures built eons ago by some intelligent alien race is not new. Over the years, countless photos of UFOs and other anomalous structures have turned up, revealing constructions with complex architectures that couldn’t had been built by the primitive earth dwellers.
But there is an assumption that draws conspiracy theorists like a magnet and it has to do with NASA’s 2009 LRO/LCROSS missions. Here’s the official chain of events:
On June 18, 2009, NASA launched a new dual mission – a probe the size of a car named Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and a smaller spacecraft called LCROSS (Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite).
LRO sole purpose was to provide detailed maps of the lunar surface while LCROSS had a kamikaze mission – it was sent on a precise and carefully planned collision course interacting with a specific area, a crater found near the Moon’s South Pole.
According to the Agency’s official statement, the impact caused by LCROSS would determine the presence (or absence) of water in the cloaked crater, but some conspiracy theorists couldn’t just simply buy this ‘official’ explanation.
They believe LCROSS had a more complex mission and a more destructive payload than what the space agency is stating. It allegedly carried a small nuclear device and was aimed at destroying the alien base located in and around the crater. But why would they do such a thing?
When you think about it, the existence of an alien outpost on our natural (or artificial) satellite isn’t such a stretch of imagination. If an extraterrestrial species would want to keep a close eye on the evolution of mankind, the Moon would be probably the perfect location to set up camp. After all, in our own space race, we did the same because it simply is a question of logistics.
On October 9th, 2009, at 7:31 a.m., LCROSS fulfilled its mission by impacting the Moon at a velocity of 5,600 miles per hour (9,000 km/h). Despite keeping a watchful eye, observers on Earth couldn’t see the shock wave due to the impact site being on the dark side of the Moon, which is never visible from down here. Because of this, determining whether LCROSS was in fact a mini nuke was impossible.
Although NASA streamed the event live, there are some who believe the entire video feed was manufactured. This wouldn’t have required a great skill since the live footage showed very little.
…alas, the promised giant plume of impact debris was invisible from Earth, leaving a receptive public feeling cheated, said leading lunar and planetary scientist Dr. Paul Spudis.
Is there any to prove those claims? The short answer is yes. Take a look at the photo below of NASA researchers Anthony Colaprete and Karen Gundy-Burlet during work at the Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley.
Seen anything strange? If not, lets have a closer look at the monitor display.
That actually looks like a rectangular structure and the odd thing is that it’s located in the Cabeus crater – the very same crater that LCROSS deliberately crashed into. If we carefully look at the picture, an intricate and artificial design can be observed. This ‘building’ and others like it could be the real reason why we stopped going to the Moon.
But that doesn’t explain the destructive approach towards these ancient lunar structures does it? While some would say it’s easier to just nuke the hell out of anomalies rather than rewrite the history books, others believe that these buildings are meaningless now that the Government has captured alien technology, and so they’re only getting rid of the remaining proof.
Australian researchers are getting ready to begin trials of a new fully implantable bionic eye system.
The Phoenix 99 bionic eye was developed by scientists at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). The eye works through nerve stimulation.
With the aim of helping people with Retinitis pigmentosa (RP), scientists at UNSW have been researching bionic eye technology. RP refers to the group of diseases that causes retinal degeneration. People with RP experience a gradual decline in their vision. Costly medication available in only developed countries can slow its progress, but scientists have yet to find a way to reverse the degeneration.
Bionic vision can help in restoring vision to people affected by RP.
A high-tech chip is inserted through a small incision made in the eye. Patients are made to wear glasses; these glasses have special cameras which capture the image signals. These image signals stimulate the nerve cells in the retina and send signals to the visual cortex of the brain.
The required surgery takes about 2 to 3 hours. A small disc that goes behind the ear transmits power and data to the device, which in turn sends signals to the visual cortex of the brain.
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Wij hebben er één. Saturnus meer dan zestig. En Uranus telt er 27. Geen wonder dat tussen al die manen in ons zonnestelsel best wat vreemde snuiters te vinden zijn.
In ons zonnestelsel zijn tot op heden meer dan 140 manen ontdekt. We hebben het dan alleen over de manen rond de grote planeten en dus niet rond dwergplaneten of planetoïden. Jupiter spant de kroon met 67 manen (van zeventien van deze manen moet het bestaan nog officieel bevestigd worden). En ook Saturnus mag zich rijk rekenen met 62 manen (van negen van deze manen moet het bestaan nog officieel bevestigd worden). Uranus is met 27 manen ook niet eenzaam. Datzelfde geldt voor Neptunus met 13 manen waarvan het bestaan bevestigd is. Zieliger zijn de planeten Venus en Mercurius die het – voor zover we weten – zonder manen moeten stellen.
Vreemd Het is niet zo vreemd dat tussen zoveel natuurlijke satellieten ook wel wat vreemde exemplaren te vinden zijn. De meest bijzondere zetten we vandaag voor je op een rij.
Miranda Als we denken aan bijzondere manen, dan komt deze maan direct bovendrijven: Miranda. Te vinden rond Uranus. De maan – die ongeveer 500 kilometer breed is – ziet er een beetje uit als een misbaksel. Mogelijk is de maan tijdens een botsing met een ander hemellichaam uit elkaar gespat, waarna de brokstukken toch – heel provisorisch – weer samen zijn gekomen en Miranda vormden. Opmerkelijk zijn ook de gigantische valleien op de maan: sommige zijn wel twaalf keer dieper dan de Grand Canyon! Als je in zo’n vallei zou kukelen, zou het een lange val worden. Zeker ook doordat de zwaartekracht op Miranda heel beperkt is. Als je een steentje van de hoogste klif af zou gooien, zou het tien minuten duren voor het op de grond valt!
Miranda: na een botsing weer in elkaar geknutseld? Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech .
Mimas De Death Star: een verzinsel van een enthousiaste sci-fi-auteur? Nou, je zou bijna denken dat het beroemde schip uit Star Wars echt bestaat als je de ogen op Mimas richt. Deze maan – te vinden rond Saturnus – lijkt namelijk sterk op de Death Star. Het heeft alles te maken met een 130 kilometer brede krater op de 400 kilometer brede maan.
Zoek de verschillen. Afbeelding links: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.
Hyperion En we blijven nog even bij Saturnus, want rond de gasreus zijn nog meer vreemde snuiters te vinden. Wat dacht je bijvoorbeeld van Hyperion? Een maan die nog het meeste weg heeft van een spons. Hyperion – met een gemiddelde diameter van 270 kilometer – is waarschijnlijk het restant van een grotere maan die door een inslag vernietigd werd. De kraters op het oppervlak van de maan zijn diep, mogelijk doordat deze heel poreus is. De rotatie van Hyperion is chaotisch: het maantje tuimelt op onvoorspelbare wijze door de ruimte.
Hyperion. Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute.
Io Rond Jupiter vinden we ook zo’n bijzonder exemplaar: Io. De maan is ietsje groter dan de aardse maan en is het meest vulkanisch actieve hemellichaam in ons gehele zonnestelsel! Het oppervlak van de maan wordt hierdoor continu vernieuwd. Niet alleen Jupiter, maar ook de grote manen Europa en Ganymedes oefenen met hun zwaartekracht invloed uit op Io. Net zoals de zwaartekracht van de maan ervoor zorgt dat we hier op aarde getijden (hoog en laag water) hebben, zorgt de zwaartekracht van Jupiter en enkele grote manen ervoor dat ook het oppervlak van Io getijden kent. Het oppervlak van Io kan met wel 100 meter omhoog komen zetten door het getrek van de grote hemellichamen in de buurt. De getijdenwerking zorgt er bovendien voor dat er in Io veel hitte wordt gegenereerd en gesteente net onder het oppervlak vloeibaar wordt. Dat vloeibare gesteente wil naar boven en vandaar dat de maan zo vulkanisch actief is.
Io. Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona.
Atlas Is het een vliegende schotel? Nee, het is een maan! We hebben het over Atlas, te vinden rond Saturnus. Rond de evenaar van de 32 kilometer grote maan bevindt zich een flinke richel die Atlas aan zijn vliegende schotel-uiterlijk helpt. Atlas cirkelt langs de buitenrand van Saturnus’ A-ring en is een zogenoemde herdermaan: de maan houdt de rand van deze ring ‘scherp’ door deeltjes op te vegen of terug in de ring te dwingen. Overigens is Atlas niet de enige maan in ons zonnestelsel met alien-achtige trekjes. Ook maantje Pan lijkt op een vliegende schotel.
Hier zie je Atlas (links) en Pan (rechts). Beiden cirkelen rond Saturnus. Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / SSI.
Callisto Rond Jupiter vinden we Callisto: de maan is ongeveer 4800 kilometer groot en daarmee de op twee na grootste maan in ons zonnestelsel. Maar dat is niet wat Callisto zo bijzonder maakt. Wat pas echt bijzonder is, is de enorme hoeveelheid kraters op het oppervlak van de maan. Geen enkel object in ons zonnestelsel heeft zoveel kraters! Wat tevens bijzonder is, is dat het landschap van Callisto waarschijnlijk het oudste in ons zonnestelsel is. Er is namelijk geen enkele aanwijzing dat Callisto geologische actief is.
Callisto. Afbeelding: NASA / JPL / DLR (German Aerospace Center).
Epimetheus en Janus Deze maantjes zijn op zichzelf niet zo bijzonder, maar wanneer we ze samen bekijken, wel. Epimetheus en Janus draaien namelijk in bijna dezelfde baan rond Saturnus heen. In eerste instantie dachten astronomen dat de maantjes dan ook wel een keer op elkaar moeten botsen. Maar dat gebeurt niet. De ene maan draait 50 kilometer hoger (verder van de planeet verwijderd) dan de ander om Saturnus heen. De maan die verder van de planeet verwijderd is, beweegt ietsje trager dan de andere maan. Het betekent heel concreet dat de ene maan de andere maan inhaalt. Elke vier jaar komen de manen dan ook heel dichtbij elkaar in de buurt. Maar wanneer dat gebeurt, gebeurt er iets bijzonders: de manen beginnen aan elkaar te trekken. De binnenste maan die de andere maan probeert in te halen wordt door die andere maan omhoog getrokken en naarmate de afstand tot de planeet zo groter wordt, gaat deze planeet ook weer trager om de planeet draaien. De andere maan wordt ondertussen door de aantrekkingskracht van zijn soortgenoot naar beneden (richting de planeet) getrokken, waardoor deze weer sneller gaat bewegen. In feite halen de manen elkaar dus nooit in, botsen de manen nooit, maar wisselen ze op het moment suprême heel veilig van baan.
Epimetheus en Janus (niet op schaal). Afbeeldingen: NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory / Space Science Institute .
Enceladus Een maan waar je al heel veel over hebt kunnen lezen, maar die toch echt niet in dit rijtje mag ontbreken: Enceladus. Deze maan bezit onder zijn dikke ijskorst een wereldwijde oceaan. De maan beschikt bovendien over geisers die ijsdeeltjes, waterdam en organische moleculen afkomstig uit die oceaan de lucht inslingeren. Onlangs dook ruimtesonde Cassini door die geisers heen. De maan is met name interessant, omdat in die oceaan wellicht leven mogelijk is.
Enceladus. Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Nog meer bijzondere snuiters Natuurlijk zijn er nog veel meer bijzondere manen in ons zonnestelsel te vinden, maar we kunnen ze helaas niet allemaal uitlichten. Je kunt bijvoorbeeld denken aan Titan: een maan met een dikke atmosfeer. Of Iapetus, een maan die letterlijk een duistere zijde heeft. Of Triton, de enige grote maan die zich in een retrograde baan beweegt (de maan beweegt zich ten opzichte van de rotatie van Neptunus in tegenovergestelde richting). Of Nereid die soms ‘slechts’ 1.372.000 kilometer van Neptunus verwijderd is, maar zich soms ook 9.655.000 kilometer van de planeet verwijderd weet.
Alleen in ons zonnestelsel zijn dus al heel wat bijzondere manen te vinden. Maar hoe zit het dan buiten ons zonnestelsel? Tja, dat is een goeie vraag. Het opsporen van zogenoemde exomanen blijkt best lastig te zijn. Tot op heden is er dan officieel dan ook nog geen maan buiten ons zonnestelsel ontdekt. En zelfs als we er één vinden, zullen we daar op korte termijn niet zoveel vreemde feitjes over kunnen achterhalen. Dus die vreemde exomanen laten nog even op zich wachten! Gelukkig valt er op manen in ons eigen zonnestelsel nog genoeg te ontdekken. Cassini doet nog regelmatig grote ontdekkingen omtrent Saturnus en zijn manen, er zijn serieuze plannen voor een missie naar Jupiter en zijn manen en NASA fantaseert over een missie naar maan Europa en ook een missie naar onze eigen maan staat bij sommige ruimtevaartorganisaties nog hoog op het verlanglijstje.
SpaceShipTwo undertook its 23rd glide flight on Dec. 19 in the pre-powered portion of its incremental test flight program. This was a significant flight as it was the first with rocket motor components installed, including tanks. It was also the first flight with thermal protection applied to the spaceship's leading edges.
Credit: Luke Colby/Virgin Galactic
SpaceShipTwo is a spacecraft that is intended to one day take tourists on brief trips to suborbital space. Manufactured by The Spaceship Company, the vehicle is currently in the testing stage, with commercial operations expected to begin sometime in the next few years.
The technology for SpaceShipTwo was forged in competition for the $10 million Ansari X Prize, which was created to spur the development of private spaceflight. After predecessor SpaceShipOne won the prize in 2004, two companies, Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic, formed The Spaceship Company to work together to commercialize the technology.
Developing SpaceShipTwo has come with its share of setbacks, both privately and publicly, and the date for the first fully operational spaceflight has been pushed back repeatedly. Scaled Composites experienced a fatal explosion in 2007 that delayed development of the rocket engine, and SpaceShipTwo crashed during a test flight on Oct. 31, 2014, killing copilot Michael Alsbury and injuring pilot Peter Siebold.
An investigation by the National Transportation Safety Board determined that the accident was caused by SpaceShipTwo's "feathering" re-entry system deploying too early, as a result of an error by Alsbury. The next version of SpaceShipTwo, which Virgin Galactic will unveil and name during a ceremony on Feb. 19, 2016, includes safeguards that will prevent this scenario from happening again, company representatives have said.
The tragic accident occurred during SpaceShipTwo's fourth rocket-powered test flight. The third powered flight, which took place in January 2014, sent the vehicle to an altitude of 71,000 feet (21,641 meters) and a top speed of Mach 1.4 (1.4 times the speed of sound).
X Prize ancestry
SpaceShipTwo's ancestor, SpaceShipOne, was designed to win the $10 million Ansari X Prize by becoming the first privately funded vehicle to fly to space and back twice within a two-week span. SpaceShipOne was manufactured by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, a joint venture of Scaled Composites — a firm led by famed aerospace designer Burt Rutan — and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Rutan had a different vision of spaceflight than usual. Most of the cargo that leaves Earth does so upon a rocket that goes straight from the ground into space. SpaceShipOne launched instead from underneath a carrier aircraft, called WhiteKnightOne, then separated and rocketed to more than 60 miles (100 kilometers) in altitude.
Just before the spacecraft won the X Prize in 2004, Virgin Galactic's Richard Branson announced that he would work with Scaled Composites to manufacture a commercial version that would take tourists to suborbital space. Development then began on SpaceShipTwo.
"We hope to create thousands of astronauts over the next few years and bring alive their dream of seeing the majestic beauty of our planet from above, the stars in all their glory and the amazing sensation of weightlessness," Branson said in September 2004.
Since then, about 700 people have signed up to take a quick joyride into space. Tickets initially cost $200,000 apiece but were raised to $250,000.
Development milestones
As development proceeded, the company focused on putting together a launch area. The state of New Mexico offered Virgin Galactic a taxpayer-funded $225 million facility in December 2005, called Spaceport America. Virgin Galactic would establish its global headquarters and spaceflight operations there.
Virgin Galactic's first SpaceShipTwo suborbital spaceliner (center) is seen mated to its WhiteKnightTwo mothership in front of the "Faith" hangar at The Spaceship Company during a dedication ceremony in Mojave, Calif.
Credit: Virgin Galactic/Mark Greenberg
The company rolled out several construction milestones in the next year, but the momentum halted in 2007. A fatal fire during a ground test sent shockwaves through Scaled Composites and the greater "new space" community. Three Scaled Composites employees died, and others were injured, during a routine ground test. Work was briefly suspended as an investigation into the cause was launched.
Things began to turn around in July 2008, when Virgin Galactic held a major launch event to showcase WhiteKnightTwo, which would carry SpaceShipTwo into the sky. The first carrier aircraft would be called "Eve." Before 2008 finished, Eve had its first successful test flight.
The first SpaceShipTwo was unveiled in December 2009. It was named VSS Enterprise, after the famous "Star Trek" craft. (Enterprise was also the name of the first NASA space shuttle, but it was used for glide tests only and never made it into space.)
Crewed test flights of Enterprise began in July 2010. The company completed a major glide test in late 2012 that had the spacecraft in its "powered flight configuration," meaning that the hybrid rocket motor and all other components were built in. The first rocket-powered test flight took place in April 2013. (The vehicle was destroyed in the Oct. 31, 2014, crash.)
Virgin Galactic bought out Scaled Composites in 2012 to obtain full ownership of The Spaceship Company.
"The completion of the acquisition comes as Virgin Galactic and Scaled begin to plan the handover of the [SpaceShipTwo] development program to Virgin Galactic," Virgin representatives stated at the time. "Scaled [is] fully committed to the final portion of the [WhiteKnightTwo] and [SpaceShipTwo] test flight programs prior to Virgin Galactic commencing commercial operations."
On April 29, 2013, Virgin Galactic took a huge step toward suborbital spaceflight -- the six-person SpaceShipTwo ignited its rocket engine for the first time in flight, accelerating it to supersonic speeds. Richard Branson called the test "critical." Seen here, WhiteKnightTwo -- SpaceShipTwo's mothership -- taxis along the airstrip at California's Mojave Air ans Space Port shortly before takeoff at 7 a.m. PST.
At an altitude of 46,000 ft, WhiteKnightTwo released the spaceship -- manned by a three-person test crew including Virgin Galactic's lead pilot David Mackay.
Shortly after release, the spaceship's rocket engine lit up, accelerating the vehicle faster than sound.
A telescopic view from the ground highlights the bright exhaust from the SpaceShipTwo's single RocketMotorTwo.
VIRGIN GALACTIC
A typical flight profile
When it begins commercial flights, SpaceShipTwo will carry six passengers. The spaceship will fly to 50,000 feet in altitude underneath WhiteKnightTwo, then separate for the trip into space. SpaceShipTwo will fire its engines for about 70 seconds, then shut off for the final coast to 62 miles (100 kilometers.)
The passengers will feel weightless for about five minutes, Virgin Galactic representatives say, with room "to allow for an out-of-seat zero-gravity experience as well as plenty of large windows for the amazing views back to Earth."
Next, SpaceShipTwo will turn back to Earth. It will "feather" its rudders, turning them up to 90 degrees to increase the drag and control the yaw of the spacecraft. This will allow better control as the vehicle travels through the atmosphere.
"The feather configuration is also highly stable, effectively giving the pilot a hands-free re-entry capability, something that has not been possible on spacecraft before, without resorting to computer controlled fly-by-wire systems," Virgin representatives stated.
At 70,000 feet (21,336 m), the spaceship will have enough air around it to move the rudders back to a configuration that allows for gliding. It will then land back on Earth on a normal runway.
Branson had said he hoped to commence commercial flights in earnest around 2015; the test-flight tragedy will push that timeline back, however. Branson aims to be onboard when SpaceShipTwo is ready to go. The billionaire, an amateur adventurer who is famous for his publicity stunts, has been interested in space since at least the Apollo era.
The lengthy delay in the first Virgin flights caused some ticketholders to ask for refunds, but the vast majority stuck around eager for the experience to begin. Industry watchers have applauded Virgin's patient approach.
"They're taking the time necessary to make sure the vehicles are as safe as they possibly can be before they take paying customers up," said John Gedmark, executive director of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, in a 2011 Space.com interview. "There's never going to be such a thing as perfectly safe spaceflight, but they're going to get as safe as they possibly can."
A tragic accident
Plans to start flights in 2015 were derailed Oct. 31, 2014, when fatal accident killed copilot Michael Alsbury and injured pilot Peter Siebold. The vehicle broke apart during the fourth test flight of the program.
The crash investigation, led by the National Transportation Safety Board, could take as long as 12 months, acting Chairman Christopher Hart said shortly after the incident occurred.
Early results from 2014 indicated that the feathering re-entry system was deployed early during the flight, apparently because Alsbury activated it too soon. That said, the NTSB emphasized the investigation is ongoing.
The design of the system has it activated after two separate actions: a lever must unlock the system, and then the handle is moved to the “feather” position. It appears the system activated on Oct. 31 before the second action occurred; Hart called it “an uncommanded feather.”
After the crash
Branson had some reservations about continuing after the crash, but in a blog post in January 2015, he said he felt the best path was to move forward — especially after talking with the team involved in SpaceShipTwo's engineering.
"In short — was Virgin Galactic, and everything it has stood for and dreamt of achieving, really worth it?” Branson wrote.
“I got a very firm answer to that question immediately when I landed in Mojave. From the designers, the builders, the engineers, the pilots and the whole community who passionately believed — and still believe — that truly opening space and making it accessible and safe is of vital importance to all our futures."
An Associated Press interview with CEO George Whitesides indicated that the company plans to resume test flights in 2015, and to continue using Spaceport America in New Mexico for the program. The first flight date with astronauts has not been announced publicly since the crash.
"I really think we're turning the corner," Whitesides said in the interview. "We've gone through one of the toughest things a company can go through and we're still standing, and now we're really moving forward with pace."
This illustrates a wormhole, where the universe is bent
Alternative wormhole hypothesis
True story
At 2 pm in the afternoon, I had a booked deliverance from C&W Food on wheels (or something like that). At 1:55 pm, five minutes before the expected deliverance I had to use the bathroom. I felt pretty stressed at the time, didn’t want to make the meeting feel awkward. I then went to the kitchen and watch the clock on the microwave oven, still “1:55”. I started doing the dishes and calculated that the amount of cups and plates would take at least 12 minutes to finish. All the time, I was concentrated at the doorbell. I didn’t want to miss the deliverence. As soon as the dishes were done I watched the clock again. “1:55”. I thought that it must have stopped, so I went out and picked up my cellphone, “1:55”, it felt weird but I didn’t mind since they both showed the same time. I then filled the washing machine with new clothes and hung the others, cleaned the floors on the first level and prepared lunch. It started to feel like I got stuck in time somehow. I went back to the clock on the microwave oven and saw that i still had one minute to go before 2:00pm. I just put everything down and kept staring at the clock. Suddenly it turned and a couple of seconds later the doorbell rang…”
To find out what I believed happened, I used Einstein’s Thought Experiment
This is a clever way to use your mind. Einstein used it to start with as an experiment lead by two German scientists. The point was that Einstein actually made most of his inventions without a laboratory.
This was what I came up with:
A wormhole can do two things, it can speed time up or slow it down. If time is slowed down, we can walk a thousand miles in only a minute. In the wormhole, we manage to use each fraction of a second as a minute and it won’t affect us at all. If we speed ourselves up with the help of a machine like a spaceship, the fraction of the minute will become a fraction of the fraction. Still on the outside of the wormhole, time passes normal. This means, as long as you’re in a wormhole, time will not pass or time will pass very little. The second wormhole is the opposite and speed time up. You have surely felt it at some point, since it is the easiest wormhole to catch. You see a vase falling from the table only twenty centimeters from your hand, you reach out and for some reason, you are far too slow”.
If traveling inside a wormhole
…we will see particles that can not be seen when going slow. Going only fast without a wormhole though, will not help. A wormhole is like a current in a sea where you travel faster when accelerating on it. Normally we see time, as the event of the sun going up and down and measure everything in it like it has a weight but not a substance. (rep: weight but NO substance) If it has a weight, you think you can lower it and go back but, if you also see the substance you will understand that for anything to go back, the substance must follow. If any current change direction, it will still be a running forward.
So why did I think this, this is not what scientists claim a wormhole is
Well, we have a built-in atomic clock. “The time it takes for each atom to fall apart or decay”. This is best known in nuclear waste. Let see, if the clock in my kitchen slowed down, everything outside of it, must have done so too. All the headlines in every tabloid would have read “Time slowed down Thursday afternoon 2012, say’s scientists…”.
Then again, those who were not aware of time as I was, wouldn’t have noticed.
Silly headlines. No, for this to occur I myself must have hit a stream somehow and the clock would be on the “outside” of the wormhole. Simply put it, I must have hit a fluctuation in the constant particle swarm around us controlled by the decay of atoms, that is controlling our life cycle clock. Like a bubble of air in the sea. This bubble can only be allowed to affect MY journey because if it affects all, we wouldn’t notice any difference.
Let’s say that the decay of the carbon atom was different, this is what all life is based on. Then our conditions would change. Ex:
“On a football field this morning, a game was played for fun by two young adults. The football that they used wasn’t of the best material and all in all, they estimated that the game could continue for 30 minutes before the football was trashed. The skin seemed to decay and dry up. Suddenly it began to rain and the football got a kind of slippery surface. The young two who was playing, didn’t care much but noticed that the ball lasted for 45 minutes in total.”
Because of the wet sphere around the ball, the decay was delayed. Now what if the decay was delayed in the atoms around us because of that what was needed went missing or changed? Would we also be affected by the particle change?
During these 5 minutes when I managed to clean the entire house, I keep wondering – what would it have looked like if these minutes had been recorded on film? I am asking, what would a “time traveler” look like from the outside?
What DO scientists say about this
The easiest way to explain a wormhole is to mark A) on one end of a napkin and B) on the other. Put the napkin on your lawn, take a pencil and press the middle of the napkin down in the ground. Fair enough, A) and B) are now very close. This is a wormhole, meaning that the universe are bent making a smaller distance .
“A wormhole is a hypothetical topological feature that would fundamentally be a shortcut through space-time. A wormhole is much like a tunnel with two ends, each in separate points in space-time”.
In my last article, Thomas suggested that the transparent UFO’s as in “unidentified flying objects” could be from another time or maybe a different dimension. I think it is reasonably a hypothetical truth. I mean by this, talking about that what we know nothing of or very little about, any answer could be hypothetically true.
This can become a wild goose chase if not careful, although looking for the truth no thought is too big. It is however up to each and one of us to find out what really happened in the end and with more facts, less room is left for guessing.
Red fog in room, blueish chrome disk outside of front door, buzzing and pop noise, weird behavior from wife and dog.
I was awoken from sleep by a presence in the room last night. When I opened my eyes there was a red fog engulfing the entire room. I tried to wake my wife up but she wouldn’t budge. Not even my dog who was sleeping on the bed would wake up. Just like a vacuum, I watched the fog get sucked out of my bedroom door (which was open). I was extremely scared but chose to run to my front door. There was a slight buzzing noise coming from outside (sorry I’m getting goose bumps real bad just thinking about this). I opened the door and looked up. Not 50 feet above the ground was a blueish chrome disk sitting almost motionless in the air. This was at night and it’s weird how I was able to see the distinct blueish chrome color of the disk. There was a slight wobble to it also. I felt like something was staring at me. The disk was about 30 feet around and had a small “base” on top of it. There were no lights or markings on it. It sat there for about! a minute or two (I think but it’s almost like I had been staring at it for 15 minutes) and the buzzing noise stopped. There was a pop that came from it (there go the goose bumps again) like a balloon popping and it slowly lifted straight into the air. When it got about I’d say 100 or so feet up it faded out of sight into nothingness. I ran back into my house to check on my 2 year old son and he was fine.
((NUFORC Note: We spoke via telephone with the source of the report, and he sounded to us to be sincere, and sober-minded. We suspect that he is an excellent, and reliable, source of information. PD) I was able to wake my wife up and asked if she had seen anything. She got teary eyed and without saying anything went immediately back to sleep. My dog almost looked sad and went back to sleep as well. This by far is the weirdest and unnerving thing I have ever witnessed in my life. I’m am scared s**tless since last night. While I have seen “UFO’s” in the sky before and reported them on this site, this again by far has confirmed my belief that something else is out there. I know I wasn’t dreaming, I don’t do drugs, I wasn’t on any medication, nothing. What the hell happened last night?
Pour les familiers du genre littéraire, il est évident que le thème des OVNIs, et principalement celui des "soucoupes volantes", a fait partie très tôt des scénari composant des films tant à succès ("Les Soucoupes Volantes Attaquent" (1956) par exemple) que de films de seconde zone ou peu connu ("The Thing from Another World" (1951) par exemple), et ceci dès les années 1950-1960... les soucoupes volantes étant dans la majorité des cas des vaisseaux extra-terrestres menant des aliens béliqueux sur la Terre. Un film remarquable faisant très tôt le contre-poids de ces films étant par exemple "Le Jour où la Terre s'arrêta" (1951), où ce sont plutôt les humains guerriers et peu compréhensifs qui s'en prennent à une soucoupe pacifique...
On peut noter que certains auteurs affirment que c'est en fait les premiers écrivains de science-fiction (H.G.Wells avec "La guerre des Mondes" en 1898, Jules Verne avec "De la Terre à la Lune" en 1865, ou encore par exemple "la Sphère d'or" (Out of the Silence) de Erle Cox en 1925, qui auraient "influencé" et en fait "inventés" les soucoupes volantes dans l'imaginaire des êtres humains... même s'ils admettent que le genre littéraire a été reconnu (et encore ! l'est-il vraiment ?) très tardivement par les spécialistes et "décideurs-afficheurs" du métier... il est en effet difficile d'admettre qu'un genre assez ignoré (voir méprisé) par une grande majorité de potentiels lecteurs (alors que c'est pourtant bien le seul genre littéraire à avoir prouvé indéniablement la réalité future de ses "prévisions" - voir Jules Verne par exemple, ou Asimov pour la robotique - et donc son importance pour le genre humain !), ait pu d'une quelconque façon "influencer" ainsi un peuple peu lecteur du genre, au point d'y trouver des dizaines de milliers de témoignages du phénomène... y compris en plus des scientifiques, des militaires, policiers, pilotes, assez peu enclins en principe pour céder facilement à la fiction... même si elle peut parfois entrevoir l'avenir de l'humanité. Mais on peut aussi noter que l'Ufologie, en tant que spécialité liée à l'étude du phénomène OVNI, n'a aucun réel lien avec la science-fiction en tant que telle, bien que quelques auteurs (comme Jimmy Guieu par exemple) a réussi avec succès l'intégration "d'affaires ovni" étudiées par des ufologues (dont lui), dans des romans de science-fiction... Le thème "OVNI" a bien sûr été "récupéré" par les auteurs de science-fiction (principalement sous forme de vaisseau alien), mais pas l'ufologie en tant que telle (car je ne considère pas un film comme "Rencontre du 3eme type" comme de la science-fiction, mais bien plutôt un documentaire scénarisé sur les ovnis et un ufologue célèbre (Allen Hynek)...). Le phénomène OVNI est une réalité scientifique pour moi, et est donc a éloigner de l'imaginaire et de la science-fiction pure et dure... même s'il s'avère que, parfois, la science-fiction débouche sur une réalité à venir...
Ces sujets sont débattus dans les vidéos suivantes d'ODHTV, présentées par Gilles Thomas :
Ovni et Science-fiction avec Alix Leproust et David Hauguel
Est-ce que la science-fiction a influencé les témoins ou l'inverse ? Le phénomène s'est-il adapté à notre culture de l'imaginaire ? Alix et David ont présenté les Ovnis dans la science-fiction au cinéma, dans les livres et les magazines. Site d'Ufologie dynamique: http://anomalia-informations.blogspot.fr/
La soirée Ufologie et science-fiction vous est présentée par Gilles.T. Les invités sont Yves Herbo du site Sciences et Fictions et Histoires, Thierry Gaulin, président de l'association Ovni-Languedoc et Franck Maurin, auteur du livre "Mystères du phénomène ovni" et conférencier.
Un petit interview audio dans laquelle je donne mon avis sur les liens (ténus pour moi, je dis pourquoi plus haut) entre l'Ufologie et la science-fiction. Il faut dire tout d'abord que le titre de mon site porte à confusion (un peu involontairement mais à peine, car je n'aime pas les lecteurs qui s'arrêtent aux titres et ne cherchent pas à aller plus loin !), car on y traite très peu du genre littéraire "science-fiction" : il s'agit en fait de l'addition de trois choses qui me passionnent : les Sciences, les Fictions (l'imagination) et l'Histoire (dont les légendes et mythes)... Ma vie passée et le hasard ont fait que, enfant (10 ans), j'ai été le témoin direct d'un phénomène OVNI, dont mes parents ont à l'époque admis la réalité, puis que je me suis mis à écrire très peu de temps après, alors que je ne lisais que quelques BD pour mon âge ("Rahan" ou "Pif" par exemple) et n'écrivais pas du tout auparavant. Et surtout, alors que je n'étais pas adepte du genre, ni des "soucoupes volantes" d'ailleurs, je me suis mis à écrire assez rapidement deux romans d'anticipation (ou science-fiction plus largement)... ces deux livres, mais surtout mes subites rédactions et histoires racontées à l'intérieur, ont ensuite poussé ma professeur de français et mon père à me faire passer un test de QI, qui s'est avéré suffisament concluant pour que l'on me propose un "sautage" de classe... ces deux romans d'anticipation (le premier (Quatre éternités pour une Rose immortelle, paru en 2015 aux éditions Edilivre de Paris) parlant d'un enlèvement de deux ado par un ovni et de toute une histoire "spatiale" s'ensuivant, avec la rencontre d'une entité universelle, le second (Je n'étais qu'un Androïde, paru en 2011) parlant de robots à apparence humaine qui ignorent qu'ils sont des androïdes et qui découvrent leur surprenante origine... ce livre du début des années 1970 affirme par exemple que l'humanité provient d'une autre planète en fait !) ont finalement "dormi" dans un tiroir pendant des décennies, avant qu'un autre hasard fasse que je les redécouvre et qu'ils soient publiés (sans réelle volonté de ma part d'en tirer de l'argent, ce qui est évident d'ailleurs pour le premier éditeur qui romp le contrat), mais c'est surtout parce que j'ai la nette impression qu'ils doivent être lus par certaines personnes précises, pas obligatoirement en nombre... En fait, ma question serait plutôt : pourquoi un OVNI (ou une entité X représentée par cette sphère dans le ciel) influencerait-il un petit enfant pour qu'il écrive quelques semaines plus tard des histoires "futuristes" et à priori totalement imaginaires ? Y a-t-il un message ou un "thème", une certaine approche, qui y serait significative pour quelques lecteurs, pour la science ? C'est une possibilité et la principale raison de ces publications.
Ovni et science-fiction 2: ovnis et extraterrestres dans la littérature et le cinéma. Invité: Franck Maurin
Au coeur du vignoble, un habitant a cru apercevoir, mercredi après-midi, un objet volant non identifié. Les gendarmes sont allés constater
Le Centre d'opérations et de renseignements de la gendarmerie de la Gironde a reçu un appel pour le moins très curieux, hier mercredi en fin d'après-midi. Ainsi, un habitant du secteur de Sainte-Croix-du-Mont affirmait aux forces de l'ordre avoir vu sur sa commune, ce qu'il pensait être un aéronef positionné à basse altitude, qui a ensuite disparu à travers des fumées épaisses.
17 février, 18h20, appel au CORG 33 d'un riverain qui signale avoir vu ce qu'il pense être un aéronef, à basse altitude, disparaitre à travers des fumées épaisses, dans le secteur de Ste Croix du Mont, entre Langon et Cadillac...
Immédiatement, des patrouilles sont dépêchées sur le secteur présumé de la chute, appuyées par un hélicoptère Gendarmerie....
Les autorités ont pris très au sérieux cet appel, au point d'avoir dépêché des patrouilles sur place ainsi qu'un hélicoptère de la gendarmerie. Mais, aucune trace ni disparition d'avion n'ont été signalés. Le mystère demeure.
La gendarmerie a posté l'information sur sa page Facebook. Seule piste plausible avancée à ce jour, un écobuage d'une parcelle de vignes a été repéré par l'hélicoptère, ce qui peut expliquer les fumées signalées par le témoin...
En tout cas, les militaires s'interrogent : peut-être s'agit-il d'une pluie de météorites qui s'était abattue au même moment, dans le sud-est de la France? Mais, les gendarmes savent aussi manier l'humour : ne serait-ce pas une avant première de la série X-Files qui revient sur nos écrans le 25 février après 14 ans d'absence?
The Bermuda Triangle…it conjures up thoughts of what else…Bermuda. Sandy clean beaches, beautiful crystal clear water, fruity drinks with tiny umbrellas in them, tropical breeze blowing gently…what??? That’s not what you think of when you hear the words Bermuda Triangle??? So let me guess, you must think of strange vortexes that swallow up planes and ships with all occupants on board never to be heard from again.
Well I wouldn’t and couldn’t blame you if in fact that is what you think about when those words are mentioned, but I bet you never thought of Alaska. Oh yeah you read that right, there is supposedly a Bermuda Triangle in Alaska, so for all purposes it is the Alaskan Triangle and has been doing the same type of damage for years…it just doesn’t get as much notoriety as its tropical counterpart.
So the Alaskan Triangle stretches well over hundreds of miles between the towns of Anchorage, Barrow & Juneau. It came to its most prominence over 20 years ago, 1972 to be exact, with the disappearance of a plane carrying prominent politicians House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Representative Nick Begich along with the experience bush pilot. They searched for the 3 men for over 35 days and ended up calling off the search and declaring all men deceased.
No trace ounce of evidence of them or the plane has ever been found and I don’t think there ever will be. Now some say that the infamous head of the FBI J. Edgar Hoover was in fact responsible for covering leads to the missing men because of his hatred and constant battles with Boggs in the political arena. Now this type of political espionage and secret plots surrounds Washington more than any other government in this entire world.
There have been over thousands of recorded missing people in the Alaskan Triangle some either hiking or some flying they have all disappeared without a trace. Now it could easily be chalked up to the harsh climate of the Alaskan wilderness and it multitudes of wild animals willing to eat any potential human who gets lost on their way and the winds and weather in the mountains could easily down a plane without ever trying.
So yes, it is quite possible to easily explain the rational to all these people going missing, but to find no trace of any plane or person in all the thousands if missing people cases associated in the area of the Alaskan Triangle, now that seems a bit odd to me. With the technology of today and we can find a single piece of material associated to a missing person leaves me a bit puzzled. Again, though like its counterpart in Bermuda no traces of the ships, planes or people have been either so it isn’t that far fetched after all I guess.
Could the discovery of a Huge Underground Pyramid in Alaska’s mysterious Bermuda Triangle region be the cause of thousands of missing people? On May 22 1992 Chinese Set Off Their Biggest Nuclear Explosion weapons testing program. A huge underground pyramid was identified during the ,Chinese underground test it was much larger than the Great Pyramid at Giza.
There are huge number of disappearances in Alaska, We are trying to figure out why, people are being abducted and not returned. Because so many go missing in Alaska, part of the wilderness has been called the Bermuda Triangle. Thousands of people go missing each year but is there really a mystery here?
According to their folk-lore there exists a man, known as Kushtaka who can shape-shift to an otter and has the ability to lure innocent people and trap them. This theory surrounded by the amount of missing persons list that the state puts up is enough to confirm and verify the truth about Alaska’s Bermuda Triangle. The region’s statistical data of 2,883 missing persons is adequate proof about the insolvability of Alaska’s Bermuda Triangle. The state ranks 50th among the nation’s population count.
Despite it’s supposedly ancient provenance, evidence of the black pyramid’s existence didn’t appear until 26 July 2012, when reporter and cattle mutilation expert Linda Moulton Howe announced its discovery on late night conspiracy radio talk show Coast to Coast AM. That evening, Moulton Howe broadcast a pre-recorded interview with Doug Mutschler, “a retired U.S. Army Counterintelligence Warrant Officer,” who provided many of the initial “facts” (those are sarcastic quotes) about the pyramid, and first alleged the site’s current connection with the U.S. military.
According to Mutschler, geologists had used the detonation to undertake a seismographic study of the earth’s crust, only to find “a pyramid structure larger than Cheops” underground, somewhere west of Mt. McKinley. Mutschler recalls that the local NBC affiliate ran a story announcing the structure’s discovery about 6 months after the detonation, but when Mutschler attempted to follow up with the station to get a copy of the story (evidently not as part of his duties at Fort Richardson) they denied that the story had ever run, and asserted that they certainly didn’t have a copy to provide. Mutschler then called relatives to track down copies of the story that had run on other stations, but apparently none had: the discovery only appeared on Anchorage’s Channel 13 (in case you need to add some numerological significance to the whole thing).
Douglas A. Mutschler gives proof of who he was and tells there is a Ancient Pyramid in Alaska bigger than the biggest one in Egypt. Located between Nome and Mt. McKinley. The Alaskan underground pyramid is HOT and HUMMING, an active underground base, run by who or for what reason? These are Questions that we are asking and want answers to!
From: Douglas A. Mutschler Subject: To Linda Moulton Howe, Pyramid under Alaska? Date: June 22, 2012 To: earthfiles@earthfiles.com
Hello My name is Douglas A. Mutschler CW2, USA (ret) and during my service tour in Alaska I was informed of a pyramid under the land in Alaska. There is other information concerning this that came to my attention after it was reported to us in 1992. I have tried to pass this info to others but have not heard any response to my information. I assure you I am telling you the truth about this and I think that this is being kept quiet by our government as the news was buried the very next day after it was brought to my attention. If you can help me get this info out to you please call me so I can talk to you about this. My phone number ——-. The whole story is pretty interesting and this can be verified with your contacts I’m assured of that, as I do not have them and came up with zero from the news people there. I’ll tell you the whole story if you are interested. I’ve only contacted a couple of people but have not heard back from any of them. I’m wondering if my emails are getting through to them or is this an old story that has no interest to news reporters? Thank you for your time in this matter. Douglas A. Mutschler
So is there in fact a pyramid under Alaska? Is there truly a Alaska Triangle wrecking havoc in this world making people and planes disappear without a trace?
SILENT UFO CLUSTER SPOTTED OVER KENT CAPTURED IN MOBILE FOOTAGE
SILENT UFO CLUSTER SPOTTED OVER KENT CAPTURED IN MOBILE FOOTAGE
A witness has spoken of the moment she saw a mysterious set of lights above Shepway last weekend which seconds later disappeared without a sound - but were caught on camera.
Lynda Baker had travelled to Dymchurch at about 10.30am on Sunday with her partner to walk their dog despite the wet weather forecast. When they arrived she stopped and looked back towards Hythe.
In the sky were a number of strange lights.
Speaking to the Herald, she said: "We thought we'd risk going out when the weather forecast said heavy rain, as when we left home in Horn Street the weather looked good.
"We parked in Dymchurch and when I looked left towards Hythe, I saw ten very bright lights up in the sky, the black clouds coming in close behind them. The lights were very close together, but all spread out evenly.
"I crossed over and went to the top of the steps and they had all disappeared. I couldn't believe this was the case - there hadn't been a sound, and they had disappeared completely within the 10-15 second gap it had taken me to get to the top of the steps from having last seen the lights from half way up."
The strange lights were also caught on camera by Jake Harvey
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Edward Snowden Leaks Top Secret Aircraft Built From Alien Technology
Edward Snowden Leaks Top Secret Aircraft Built From Alien Technology
This photograph began circulating the internet, and allegedly was “leaked” by Edward Snowden. The text associated with the image, disseminated online by Keith Thomson Books, read as follows:
According to an anonymous Internet source, you are looking at a classified photo of a secret space plane, leaked by Edward Snowden.
Adds the source, “These ships were created from technology taken from Alien spacecraft that have been confiscated since the Truman Administration and reverse engineered at Area 51, Los Alamos, and The Dulce’s N.M. Deep Underground Military Base. They are launched into space from the top secret Base on Diego Garcia Island in the Philippines [sic]. Expect Full Disclosure in the coming weeks.”
I’m a bit skeptical because the photo is blurry, but then again most alien/UFO photos are. Also our source misreported the location of Diego Garcia, the atoll in the Indian Ocean, but that may have been a function of haste, perhaps with CIA assassins on his heels. The other thing is, it sort of looks like a computer render, but if the aliens have intergalactic travel capability, they could probably create that effect. What do you think?
It took all of about 2 minutes to show that this is not connected to Edward Snowden and it is not an aircraft.
Artist Alex J. Brady has released many different concept art sketches. Living in England, Mr. Brady has worked on different projects as a freelancer, creating images such as these.
It appears someone took his artwork, and began disseminating it, alleging it was an top secret aircraft, buit by alien technology, and leaked by Edward Snowden.
This one can easily be put to rest as a provable hoax, but for the record, NOT of the doing by the artist. On a personal note, he does some amazing work! Please don’t associate him with this hoax, however, as it appears it was someone else entirely who perpetrated it.
Une étoile filante est le phénomène lumineux qui accompagne l'entrée dans l'atmosphère d'un corps appelé météoroïde, qui correspond à un petit corps circulant dans l'espace à des vitesses de l'ordre de 70 km/s, son orbite croisant celle de la Terre.
Cette traînée lumineuse est causée par la vaporisation du corps et l'ionisation de l'air sur sa trajectoire, ce qui provoque la combustion de ce corps qui laisse derrière lui un sillage de gaz ionisé, le plasma.
Ce phénomène est du principalement à la compression de l'atmosphère en avant du corps supersonique et non à la friction.
L'étoile filante est une fine poussière cosmique qui est vaporisée entièrement avant d'atteindre le sol tandis que le bolide, météoroïde de masse et taille importantes, produit un disque lumineux intense lors de sa rentrée atmosphérique.
Ce bolide peut exploser, généralement à 90 ou 70 kilomètres d'altitude ou atteindre le sol (bolide lui-même ou les fragments issus de son explosion), devenant une ou des météorites.
Le phénomène se passe généralement entre 120 et 85 kilomètres d'altitude, bien que certaines étoiles filantes peuvent être visibles à 400 ou 600 km au-dessus du sol.
Les étoiles filantes ont deux origines : les étoiles filantes sporadiques sont créées par des poussières d'astéroïdes, les étoiles filantes d'essaims sont issues de la poussière libérée par les comètes dont la Terre coupe la trajectoire.
Une météorite est un corps solide naturel d'origine intersolaire (dans le système solaire) ou extrasolaire (à l'extérieur du système solaire) à qui sa traversée dans l'atmosphère n'a pas fait perdre toute sa masseet qui atteint la surface de la Terre ou d'un autre astre(planète, exoplanète, satellite naturel, astéroïde), le corps rocheux ou ferreux n'ayant pas été complètement volatilisé lors de l'impact avec cette surface.
La majorité des météorites proviennent de petitscorps célestes du Système solaire appelésmétéoroïdes (99,4 % des météorites analysées proviennent de fragments d'astéroïdes, quelques centaines de spécimens sont d'origine lunaire oumartienne), elles sont plus rarement produites par l'impact de gros astéroïdes.
La traînée lumineuse produite par l'entrée dans l'atmosphère du météoroïde à des vitesses de l'ordre de dizaines de km/s s'appelle unmétéore qui est soit une étoile filante (petit météoroïde dont la combustion illumine le ciel la nuit), soit un bolide (gros météoroïde brillant assez pour être visible même le jour), ce météore lumineux s'éteignant à une altitude le plus souvent de 20 km et prenant le nom de météorite lorsque son ablation dans la troposphère n'est pas complète et qu'il atteint le sol enchute libre.
La réaction de la météorite lors de son contact avec l'atmosphère, et ensuite éventuellement avec le sol, peut se traduire par un champ de dispersion.
Fin 2011, il y a environ 41 600 météorites classifiées (nom officiel validé) par la Meteoritical Society qui publie chaque année un catalogue des nouvelles météorites analysées, le Meteoritical Bulletin. Ce nombre augmente d’environ 1 500 chaque année
Un bolide est un corps extraterrestre ou météoroïde, émettant une luminosité intense – magnitude inférieure à -4 (plus brillant que Vénus) lors de sa rentrée dans l'atmosphère terrestre.
Ce phénomène, qui se produit à moyenne altitude (entre 80 et 10 km) est causé par le frottement entre la matière et l'air qui s'échauffe, s’ionise, et entraîne la formation d'une traînée lumineuse.
En fonction de sa dimension, de sa densité et de sa trajectoire, un objet extraterrestre pénètrera plus ou moins profondément l'atmosphère terrestre.
En règle générale, plus l'objet est massif, plus sa progression sera importante et plus il sera brillant.
Un bolide peut être de différentes couleurs, les témoins parlent de lumière allant du bleu au rouge. La couleur du météore dépend de la composition de la matière et de l'air. Les météorites sont composées de métaux tel que le sodium, le nickel et le magnésium, qui produisent respectivement une couleur jaune, vert et bleu-blanc. L'azote et l'oxygène de l'air ionisé, comme dans une Aurore polaire, émettent respectivement de la lumière dans le rouge et le vert.
Les météores produisent aussi des sons. Généralement le bruit est entendu pendant plusieurs secondes, voire plusieurs minutes après l’observation visuelle.
On peut entendre des explosions sourdes dites supersoniques, dues à la vitesse de l’objet qui est supérieure à la vitesse du son (phénomène identique à celui d'un avion à réaction qui passe le mur du son). Si le météoroïde se fractionne (explosion généralement entre 70 et 90 kilomètres d'altitude), chaque morceau émet un bruit dont l’ensemble peut être entendu comme un grondement de tonnerre.
Beaucoup d’observateurs disent avoir aussi entendu des sifflements, produits par des phénomènes dits électrophoniques.
Vraagtekens bij evolutietheorie: “We zijn gemaakt door aliens”
Vraagtekens bij evolutietheorie: “We zijn gemaakt door aliens”
Tijdens een aflevering van ‘I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here’ vroeg de Australische cricketlegende Shane Warne zich af waarom moderne apen niet zijn geëvolueerd als mensen van de apen afstammen.
Warne zet vraagtekens bij de evolutietheorie en stelt dat buitenaardsen op een gegeven moment hebben ingegrepen. “Als we van de apen afstammen, waarom zijn zij dan niet geëvolueerd?” vroeg de oud-cricketer tijdens het programma. “Omdat we door aliens zijn gemaakt.”
“Kijk maar naar de piramides,” ging hij verder. “Die kunnen we niet gebouwd hebben. We kunnen die enorme brokken steen niet hebben versleept en een perfect symmetrisch bouwwerk hebben achtergelaten.”
Bestuderen
“Van welke planeet ze ook zijn gekomen, ze besloten op een bepaald moment dat ze leven op aarde gingen maken om ons te bestuderen,” aldus Warne. “Misschien hebben ze een paar apen in mensen veranderd en ging dat goed.”
De evolutietheorie van Darwin stelt niet dat mensen zijn voortgekomen uit apen, maar dat mensen en apen een gemeenschappelijke uitgestorven voorouder hebben.
Verschillende buitenaardse rassen
Ook de Australische zangeres Sia gelooft dat aliens bestaan. Tijdens een aflevering van Carpool Karaoke zei ze dat ze werd overtuigd door een filmpje waarin een Canadese oud-minister van Defensie stelt dat de Amerikaanse overheid samenwerkt met vijf verschillende buitenaardse rassen.
Paul Hellyer, die tussen 1963 en 1967 minister van Defensie was, beweerde in 2013 dat een overheidsdocument voorbereid werd waarin stond dat tenminste vier rassen de aarde al duizenden jaren bezoeken.
“De rillingen liepen over mijn rug,” zei Sia. “We hebben het hier over een ex-minister van Defensie, niet één of andere YouTube-gebruiker.”
Overheid Cyprus gaat fenomeen chemtrails ‘tot op de bodem uitzoeken’
Overheid Cyprus gaat fenomeen chemtrails ‘tot op de bodem uitzoeken’
De overheid van Cyprus gaat een onderzoek instellen naar het sproeien van chemtrails. Dat heeft minister van Landbouw, Plattelandsontwikkeling en Milieu Nicos Kouyialis laten weten, zo meldt de Cyprus Mail.
De milieucommissie van het Huis van Afgevaardigden boog zich woensdag over verdachte vliegtuigsporen in de lucht, door sommigen ook wel chemtrails genoemd. Parlementslid George Perdikis van de Groenen zei blij te zijn dat de minister de zaak gaat onderzoeken.
Als het bestaan van chemtrails wordt bewezen, verwacht hij van de overheid dat er stappen worden ondernomen om hier een einde aan te maken. Tijdens een eerder onderzoek werden de zaken mooier voorgesteld dan ze zijn, aldus het parlementslid.
Weer beïnvloeden
Er zijn sterke redenen om aan te nemen dat vliegtuigen de lucht boven de Sovereign Base Areas gebruiken om te sproeien, voegde Perdikis toe. Hij zei dat er vaak wordt gestopt met sproeien als het volk in verweer komt.
De Groenen denken dat er wordt gesproeid om het klimaat te manipuleren. Men vermoedt dat vliegtuigen deeltjes in de atmosfeer sproeien die het weer beïnvloeden en wolkenvorming tegengaan zodat piloten die luchtaanvallen uitvoeren in Syrië goed zicht hebben.
Spionage
Een andere theorie is dat het sproeien kan worden gelinkt aan spionage en het radarsysteem dat in de Sovereign Base Areas is geplaatst. De microscopische deeltjes zouden volgens deze theorie in de lucht worden gesproeid om de radarsignalen te versterken.
Er wordt ook gezegd dat het sproeien te maken heeft met experimenten die gericht zijn op hersenspoeling, maar Perdikis zei dat zijn partij die theorie vergezocht vindt.
Minister Kouyialis heeft medewerkers van het ministerie opdracht gegeven dit fenomeen tot op de bodem uit te zoeken, zo liet hij per brief aan de milieucommissie weten.
Amateurarcheoloog Manuel Abril zegt in de Spaanse provincie Cuenca een piramide te hebben ontdekt. Volgens de Spaanse zender Cuatro is het voor het eerst dat er een piramide is gevonden in Spanje.
De piramide bevindt zich op een heuvel die bekend staat als El Cabezuelo. Luchtfoto’s maken duidelijk dat El Cabezuelo meer weg heeft van een oude piramide dan een natuurlijke formatie.
Trappiramide
Uit archeologische vondsten zou blijken dat de mens al tenminste in de middeleeuwen actief was in het gebied rond de vermeende piramide. Hoewel de ontdekking nog niet is bevestigd door beroepsarcheologen, denken velen dat we hier te maken hebben met de eerste Spaanse piramide.
Het is op dit moment onduidelijk hoe oud de piramide is of door wie het bouwwerk is gemaakt. Archeologisch onderzoek moet antwoord geven op die vragen. Volgens Abril gaat het mogelijk om een soort trappiramide.
Door mensen vervaardigd
Mario Iglesias, één van de geologen die de vindplaats heeft bezocht, verklaarde dat de blokken steen die bij de piramide zijn gevonden, door mensen zijn vervaardigd en niet in de natuur voorkomen.
Bekijk hieronder beelden die tijdens een aflevering van het tv-programma Cuatro Milenio zijn uitgezonden:
China To Operate The Largest Radio Telescope Ever In Hopes To Find Intelligent Alien Life
China To Operate The Largest Radio Telescope Ever In Hopes To Find Intelligent Alien Life
China is looking to level up the research for intelligent life outside planet Earth as it is preparing for the world’s largest radio telescope. Nearly 10,000 people will be relocated from their homes to give way to the project that is expected to intensify the search for intelligent being in the universe. The presence of people in the area could interfere the telescope’s electromagnetism, which is the reason residents should evacuate their homes.
The FAST will surpass the largest telescope in Puerto Rico with its 500m-wide Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope. The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico only has around 300m in diameter. The telescope, which is due to be operational later in 2016, costs about 1.2bn yuan. It has a high level of sensitivity that necessary to accomplish what they are looking outside of the galaxy, according to the director-general of the Chinese Astronomical Society, Wu Xiangping.
China is increasing its spending in astronomy and accelerating its multi-billion-dollar space exploration program. Interestingly, it also eyes to be the first team to discover not just alien life, but extraterrestrial being with an intellect that is expected to be more advanced than humans.
THE SECRET US PLAN TO USE FEAR OF AN ALIEN INVASION
THE SECRET US PLAN TO USE FEAR OF AN ALIEN INVASION
The US considered the use of fear of aliens as a psychological warfare tactic Details of the shocking plan are buried in once top secret Central Intelligence Service (CIA) UFO files now published on the agency’s website. The potential weapon was discussed in a memo from Marshall Chadwell, assistant director of Scientific Intelligence, to General Walter Bedell Smith, CIA Director of Central Intelligence, which was sent in October 1952, when the CIA was deeply involved in investigating the UFO and flying saucer phenomena following an explosion in sightings. The memo was sent at the height of the Cold War and considered if the number of UFO sightings could be predicted or controlled or, more sinisterly, even “used from a psychological warfare point of view, either offensively or defensively”. It said studies showed public concern, not just in the US but wider, with the phenomena, was so strong that many people may be pre-conditioned to accept the incredible as being true.
The memo added that news of potential alien activity had the potential to spark mass hysteria and panic. Since 1947, the Air technical Intelligence Centre, had received 1,500 official sighting reports, plus more from the public and press. In July 1952 there were 250 reports, and of all sightings 20 per cent remained unexplainable.
With so may sightings happening there was a danger of false alarms for real military invasions from the Soviet Union, or worse still, real attacks being misinterpreted as “phantom” UFOs, the memo said. The report added: “Immediate steps should be taken to improve identification of both visual and electronic phantom so that, in the event of an attack, instant and positive identification of enemy planes or missiles can be made. “A study should be instituted to determine what, if any, utilisation could be made of these phenomena by United States psychological warfare planners.” The paranoia of the Cold War was evident in the memo, which spoke of fears of a Soviet plot to use fear of UFOs against the US public. The memo added it would need to establish “what, if any, defences should be planned in anticipation of Soviet plans to utilise them”. Mr Chadwell continued: ”Other intelligence problems which require determination are: possible Soviet intentions and capabilities to utilise these phenomena to the detriment of United States security interests.” The memo also asked for a probe into how much the Soviet Union knew about UFOs, and the reason behind why there was never any mention of aliens or flying saucers in Russian media. Mr Chadwell signed off his memo adding: “I consider this problem to be of such importance that it should be brought to the attention of the National Security Council, in order that a community-wide coordinated effort towards its solution may be initiated.” It is not clear from the releases what further work was done in these areas, but there are not thought to be any cases on record of either the US or Soviet Union using UFO fears in any form of attack, defence or psychological warfare. However, the disclosure will likely fuel ongoing conspiracy theories which claim the US military and intelligence services maintain a strong interest in the phenomena. One such theory is that the US was planning to initiate a “false flag” incident using hologram technology to stage a fake alien invasion as a way of introducing Marshall Law or other controls on the public. There are also conspiracies surrounding the government’s High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program. It was a US military scientific project which has spawned even more conspiracies than the Large Hadron Collider. It was established by the US Air Force to study the Earth’s ionosphere – a highly charged and active part of the upper atmosphere. But many conspiracists always claimed it was a cover for secretive tests to control the weather or even to research “captured UFO technology” or create a false flag hologram. The air force ended the project in 2014, but some claim it continues. UFO buffs maintain a strong interest in the mysterious top-secret Area 51 military base in the Nevada desert, where it is claimed all evidence of alien visitation of Earth is kept and engineers use recovered alien technology to boost their own. The CIA has previously said it no longer has an interest in the UDFO phenomena, as no real national security threat was ever identified
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BERMUDA TRIANGLE MYSTERY REVEALED IN INDIAN VEDAS LONG TIME AGO
BERMUDA TRIANGLE MYSTERY REVEALED IN INDIAN VEDAS LONG TIME AGO
One of the biggest mysteries that has haunted man since the past century is the Bermuda triangle .Also referred to as the Devil’s triangle geographically , Miami (Florida), San Juan (Puerto Rico) and the Bermuda Island form the three vertices of this much debated triangle . When did it start? On December 5 1945, 5 flights with 14 crew members went missing , later on the same day a rescue plane with 13 crew members set off ,after take off all communications were lost with the rescue plane !!
Many such mysterious disappearances of both planes and ships in the coming twenty years led many to wonder what was happening? What was the reason? While these incidents triggered the probe into the mystery of Bermuda triangle there were several incidents in the past that indicated these mysterious happenings .
While some attributed the existence of a string magnetic field in this part of the ocean , others blamed it on rumors . There are a few possible explanations for this mystery in Vedas .
Bermuda Triangle Mention in RAMAYANA:
In Ramayana there is a mention of the demon Simhika or Chayagrahi , the demon capable of attracting objects by focusing on its shadow , but Simhika’s presence was attributed to the Indian ocean , if her powers extended to the Atlantic ocean it is one possible explanation for the Bermuda triangle What does the RIGVEDA say? According to Brahmanda Purana (composed more than 5000 years ago) and Rig Veda (written more than 23000 years ago) planet Mars was born out of Earth .Hence Mars is referred as Bhauma (‘son of Bhumi’) or Kuja (Ku = Earth + Ja = Born out of ) in Sanskrit.
Asya Vamasya Sukta in Rig Veda states :”When Earth gave birth to Mars, and Mars seperated from its mother, her thigh got injured and she became imbalanced and to stop it heavenly doctors, Aswini Kumars poured iron into the triangular shaped injury and Earth got fixed in her current position. That is why Earth’s axis is bent at a particular angle. ”This triangle shaped injury filled with iron later went on to become the Bermuda triangle . The iron on longstanding through magnetic induction gained the properties of magnet .
Planes and Ships have iron content and hence when they flew or sailed over this region there was a strong force of attraction which drew these objects into the sea
WHAT DOES The ATHARVA VEDA SAY ?
In Atharva Veda there is a mention of a gem named as the Darbha Gem . In Khanda 19 there is adescription which says “As the Sun brings down clouds on earth in the same way oh! Darbha gem you fall down the rising enemies.
”This is due to the high gravitational force of the gem “As the curd is stirred in the same way oh! Darbha gem you stir enemies.”This means that the Gem causes stirring of oceans or in modern language whirlpools Mantra 7 of Sukta 29, says, “to burn the bodies”;This burning is due to the emission of high energy rays like Laser rays which have the ability to burn bodies . All these descriptions indicate the happenings at the Bermuda triangle. Not one but several Darbha gems could cause the effect witnessed at the Bermuda triangle . What modern scientists are trying to solve , India has solved the same decades ago!
Some years ago a very strange story happaned in italy . A woman claimed she…
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UFO photographed over Machu Picchu in Peru
UFO photographed over Machu Picchu in Peru
Location:Machu Picchu archeological site in Peru Date:January 3, 2014 Submitted by Alberto
Witness report: I was visiting the Machu Picchu archeological site in Peru during January 2014. I obviously took a lot of pictures of the astonishing surrounding scenario and mountains. Looking at the photos when returned to Rome, I noticed that in one of those pictures a very little black spot was visibile in the sky on the horizon, at a long distance from the place where I was standing. The tourist guide told us that the area is a no-fly zone and that no helicopters are allowed to fly there any more. That’s a zooming of the original picture, made with my smartphone. I would be pleased to know your opinion about it. Thank you! Best regards
Are you wondering what to do if you see some strange things and surprising bright objects in the sky? Well, it is always a good idea to watch it and enjoy the experience that may come once in your lifetime.
It will be helpful to researchers if you can note where the object comes from and to what direction the object goes – especially if you care to report your sighting later.
If you are with someone during the sighting, you need to agree on the object’s shape and take note of your location from the object, and the time of the sighting.
When it comes to reporting, don’t contact the Air Force as they stopped collecting UFO sighting information in 1969. Also, don’t call the media as most of them think that people who do such thing are either nuts or hoaxers.
If the UFO has landed or if it present danger to public safety or property, then you’ll better call law enforcement. However, if you just want to share your UFO sighting, don’t bother the police as they have other more important things to do than to hear your story.
If you want to register your sighting where it may help UFO researchers, it is recommended to file a UFO sighting report to the Mutual UFO Network and to our report form.
When reporting, state the color, shape, size, direction of motion and tell if there is any sound coming from the object. It is also helpful to include the city, town or village, as well as the state of the sighting. Other people might report the same sighting, and this helps UFO investigators to correlate mass sightings.
UFO sightings tend to increase during Spring. If you see one, just enjoy the experience.
Airplane Passenger Captures UFO Fleet Hovering Below His Plane [HD]
Airplane Passenger Captures UFO Fleet Hovering Below His Plane [HD]
A fleet of UFOs was captured on tape by a passenger aboard of a jet airliner flying to Taiwan. The man succeeded in filming this incredible ‘flock’ of UFOs until a stewardess urged him to turn off the phone due to the landing policy.
After the case was reported to MUFON on October 23, 2014, analysts and UFO hunters alike have tried to find a reasonable explanation for this spectacular sighting, but ended up with no reasonable explanation, other than a UFO scenario, and so the case remained unexplained.
The bright UFOs visible on the plane window do not resemble to any known crafts. They appear relatively small in size and their circular shape is a good indicator that they are if otherworldly origin. Also, the strange orbs are flying at a lower altitude than the jet airliner, right above the clouds that provide a perfect cover-up from ground radars and other devices that could spy on them from below.
Are these flying orbs following or spying on the plane, or is it that they’ve been surprised by the airliner’s passenger by pure coincidence? From what the witness revealed, it appears that a powerful light coming from the window first caught his attention.
I was on the airplane of Eva Airline from Canada to Taiwan, the witness stated. It was October 16, 2014, 30 minutes before landing. The first clip was only five seconds. I saw a bright light flying under. In the second picture I saw three UFOs in my camera.
The third video I have is 38 seconds and it shows about eight UFOs flying under the plane. I used slow motion to film the video until they asked me to turn my camera off due to landing policy. The location is at the northeast of Taiwan, he added.
We can see clearly how the bright orbs are flying just above the clouds while at the same time maintaining the same speed as the plane. They don’t appear to have an organized formation like a military squad would be aligned, therefor raising many questions about their origins and purpose. Could these be alien crafts? Or is it that the military is testing their new toys?
After further analyzing the case, we’ve discovered a lot of similarities between these UFOs and the bright orbs reported all over the world. The objects are flying at the same altitude, which most of the time is just above or below the clouds and have the same features in shape and brightness. While further zooming in, they appear to pulsate, thus explaining the powerful flash of light that caught the attention of the witness.
These curious bright orbs were seen by UFO hunters countless times and are either interfering with some presumed chem trails, or they perform dynamic rituals on the night sky by executing some law-defying maneuvers.
This however, is a rare piece of footage surprised from above, and it reveals an alarming number of these orbs, as well as an oblivious interest in our earthly aircrafts. Why are these UFOs not going for a more cautious approach, behind the plane or even on its sides, instead of revealing themselves so carelessly? Is it because they are already used to our extreme ignorance or maybe because we’re talking about secret military technology here?
Whatever the case, this phenomenon is becoming more and more alarming, and as their numbers increase, so is their level of carelessness towards us. If these orbs are indeed of extraterrestrial origins, military devices or even artificial intelligence, we are yet to find out, but based on their fearless behavior, it might not take that long until they publicly reveal themselves to the world.
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The Extraterrestrial Presence - Linda Moulton Howe On Truth Warrior
The Extraterrestrial Presence - Linda Moulton Howe On Truth Warrior
Published on Feb 17, 2016
Has earth been visted in the past by extraterrestrial beings? Does that continue in modern times and if so, how does that impact...everything? What is the nature of the human soul? These questions and more with Linda M. Howe from www.earthfiles.com
Mars, as seen by India's Mangalyaan orbiter, which arrived at the Red Planet in September 2014.
Credit: Indian Space Research Organisation
If life ever existed on Mars, its last outposts near the Red Planet's surface might have been in very salty environments, new research shows.
This premise might help guide where future rovers land to look for signs of past or present Mars life, scientists say.
The idea that Mars may have once hosted life is rooted in plentiful evidence suggesting that rivers, lakes and seas covered the Red Planet billions of years ago. Because there is life virtually everywhere there is liquid water on Earth, some researchers have suggested that life might have evolved on Mars when it was wet, and that life could perhaps survive on the planet even now. [The Search for Life on Mars: A Photo Timeline]
Currently, the search for signs of possible life on Mars is mostly focused on ancient wet habitats. However, researchers now suggest that future missions to Mars might also want to consider drier places that past Martian life might have inhabited.
Although Mars might once have possessed lots of water on its surface, it dried over time, and is now an extremely arid planet. In the new study, scientists reason that ancient Martian microbes might have colonized the land just as life did on Earth, and then adapted to the Red Planet's increasing aridity.
To reconstruct how ancient Martian life might have evolved to survive the drying of Mars, scientists investigated adaptations to aridity on Earth. They found that "there is a predictable sequence of how organisms adapt to increasing dryness," said study co-author Dirk Schulze-Makuch, an astrobiologist at Washington State University in Pullman.
In Earth's arid regions, many organisms can dry up without dying and can resume life quickly after rehydration, even after years of complete desiccation. Biological soil crusts made of relatively complex communities of microbes can cover up to 70 percent of the surfaces of some deserts, the researchers said.
Sampling at Site Maria Elena in Chile's extremely arid Atacama Desert. Dirk Schulze-Makuch is at left, and Alfonso Davila is on the right.
Credit: Dirk Schulze-Makuch
However, a dramatic change is seen when a region shifts from arid to hyperarid. Biological soil crusts become increasingly fragmented or patchy, and there is a significant decline in microbes' abundance and diversity. Instead, microbes in hyperarid areas are usually lithobiontic — that is, they colonize either the surface, underside or interior of rocks, the researchers said.
In the driest regions of the Earth, relatively complex and abundant communities of microbes can still survive inside porous crusts made of salt. These crusts are hygroscopic — in other words, they tend to absorb moisture directly from the air, the researchers said.
The researchers suggested that, as Mars dried, microbes eventually might have evolved to subsist on atmospheric moisture. Liquid brines within salt crusts might have served as the last available habitats for life near the Martian surface, Schulze-Makuch said.
"The last near-surface life on Mars would most likely be associated with salts," Schulze-Makuch told Space.com.
The scientists suggested that these refuges may have disappeared only recently — or may still exist. As such, future missions to Mars may want to analyze salty rocks, he said.
Schulze-Makuch noted that it's also possible that life survived deep underground on Mars, "such as within lava-tube caves."
Schulze-Makuch and his colleague Alfonso Davila at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute in Mountain View, California, detailed their findings online Feb. 2 in the journal Astrobiology.
Black Holes, Too! Gravitational Wave Find Had Other Surprises
Black Holes, Too! Gravitational Wave Find Had Other Surprises
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
An artist's concept of two black holes circling each other before merging. For the first time in history, scientists have directly observed a black hole merger, using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO).
Credit: NASA
For the first time in history, scientists have physical proof that pairs of black holes will sometimes circle around each other, collide and mush together to form a single, bigger black hole.
This news of binary-pair detection is extremely significant for astrophysicists, but it was somewhat eclipsed by the simple fact that the Large Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) had detected gravitational waves at all. It was the first instance of a direct detection of these ripples through space-time, and it marks the dawn of a new subfield of astronomy.
Vicky Kalogera, a black hole scientist at Northwestern University in Illinois and a member of the LIGO team, said it was appropriate that gravitational waves took center stage last week. But she took some time to talk to Space.com about why the pair of black holes that LIGO detected is particularly strange and exciting, too. [Stirred, Not Shaken - How Colliding Black Holes Make Waves]
There are two things that make the pair of black holes detected by LIGO interesting to astrophysicists like Kalogera.
One of the ways that black holes are thought to form in the universe is via star death. The hypothesis goes that when massive stars stop burning fuel, all their mass collapses down into a very small area, and creates an object with such a massive gravitational pull that not even light can escape. The gravity is so intense that the laws of physics, as humans understand them, break down.
Individual black holes have been observed in various ways, but until last week, there was no physical proof that black holes can exist as binary pairs that circle around each other and eventually collide.
"We see binary stars all the time," Kalogera told Space.com. It should follow that those star pairs should one day die and form black-hole pairs. And yet, "up until now, we had zero experimental evidence, even indirect, that binary black holes exist. … So, the significance of this discovery from an astrophysics point of view is that it confirms all the theoretical predictions that binary black holes exist."
Without a gravitational-wave detector like LIGO, scientists would never have been able to study binary black holes. Researchers can spot individual black holes in distant locations because material around those objects gets accelerated and radiates light.
But Kalogera said scientists don't expect to see any kind of light radiated from around two black holes spinning toward each other and colliding, because the dynamics of the system would be very chaotic, and not very conducive to material accumulating and staying nearby. So detecting them with light-based telescopes may be impossible.
The fact that the recently upgraded LIGO detector spotted a binary black hole merger so early in the instrument's observation period means there's a chance that scientists will have a lot of black hole data to study in the coming years.
Stirred, Not Shaken - How Colliding Black Holes Make Waves | Video
The second really interesting feature of the black hole duo is their mass.
The colliding black holes detected by the LIGO collaboration have 29 and 36 times the mass of the sun, respectively. These are not, by any stretch, the most massive black holes ever detected. The black hole at the center of the Milky Way, for example, is more than 4 million times the mass of the sun. The most massive black holes in the universe seem to be about 12 billion times the mass of the sun. It's still a mystery how these exceptionally massive black holes form.
Using X-ray telescopes, scientists have identified black holes that seem to have formed from stars similar to Earth's sun, but Kalogera said those black holes reach a maximum mass of about 20 times that of the sun. Black holes with masses of 29 and 36 times that of the sun are somewhat hard to explain.
"The 29 and 30-plus solar masses come as an unusual surprise. If you look at most binary stars in [the Milky Way] galaxy, given the composition of the stars, we don't expect black holes of this mass," Kalogera said. "The higher mass tells us that these binary black holes formed from a particular environment [with a] metallicity that is different than [the sun's] metallicity."
Metallicity refers to the fraction of the star that is not made up of hydrogen or helium, but instead consists of heavier elements.
A higher concentration of hydrogen and helium allows the star to retain more of its mass through its lifetime, Kalogera said. Stars continuously loose mass because of stellar wind, a flow of particles away from a star's atmosphere. But in the past seven or eight years, scientists have revised their theories to show that stellar winds are weaker than previously thought.
"If those winds are very strong, you end up with final masses that are very small and you don't form heavy black holes," Kalogera said. "Around in the late 2000s, estimates of how strong [solar] winds are were revised. … Astrophysicists realized from electromagnetic observations that the winds are weaker than we thought. So, if you now put weaker winds in your stellar models, your final masses are heavier, so you're getting these heavy black holes to form in your models. … By now, many groups have confirmed those predictions."
The detection by LIGO further corroborates those theories, but this is just the beginning. More observations of black hole binaries will help scientists refine their models even more.
One major question Kalogera said she hopes astrophysicists will eventually be able to answer is how black hole binaries form. There are two leading models, which she refers to as "vanilla" and "wacky."
Many stars in the universe live as binaries, because stars are born in clouds of gas and dust and these stellar nurseries typically have more than enough material to form multiple stars.
The "vanilla" description of binary black-hole formation starts with a happy, stable pair of normal stars, living their lives in relative peace. They grow up together, they get old, they both explode into supernovas, then collapse into black holes. After that, they stick together and eventually merge.
The "wacky" idea is a bit more chaotic.
"They're dancing, basically, in a swirl of stars, flying around, and sometimes, through recoils, [the stars] can shoot some of the other stars out of the cluster," Kalogera said.
So it could be that binary black holes form from stars that weren't born in the same litter, but were flung from their original homes. Or, these complicated interactions could also lead to scenarios in which multiple, newly formed black holes can move toward the center of a stellar group. There, some of them would be ejected while others remain, forming stable binaries only after becoming black holes.
Eventually, with a larger sample of binary black holes from LIGO, Kalegera said scientists may be able to discern which formation method dominates in the universe.
"We'll be able to tell whether wacky wins or the more vanilla [model]," she said.
Kalogera and the other members of the LIGO scientific collaboration published a paper in The Astrophysical Journal Letters that describes what the researchers have already learned about the newly discovered black hole pair, and how that fits with current theories.
On February 15, Britain’s Express newspaper announced that a new whistleblower is about to publicly emerge with thousands of documents concerning extraterrestrial life. Nick Pope, a former government official that led an investigation by Britain’s Ministry of Defense into UFO files for three years, has declared that the whistleblower is a genuine insider.
The Express described the whistleblower as a third-class petty officer with the U.S. Navy who worked for three years (1986-1989) at the Naval Telecommunications Center within the former Naval Air Station at Moffet Field, near San Francisco, where he gained access to the documents.
The whistleblower, according to the Express, filed a report with the Mutual UFO Network on February 13 claiming he wants to promote “disclosure”. He was quoted as saying:
I’m not reporting a UFO sighting rather a UFO related experience. I have copies of my security clearances. I personally handled, viewed and delivered thousands of documents involving UFO/ET Projects. My secrecy agreement with the US Government expired in October 2014.
“He said that UFO/ET were real [sic] and that hopefully disclosure would happen in my lifetime since he was in his early 60s at the time.” In the report he said: “I was required to deliver TS Code word designation COSMIC to SRI, ESL/SYLVANIA, LOCKHEED SKUNKWORKS, TRW, RATHEON, BERKELEY LABS, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LABS, and other think tanks throughout Silicon valley.”
The whistleblower’s background has important similarities with another recent whistleblower, William Tompkins, who also claims he worked with the U.S. Navy as a courier of highly classified information concerning extraterrestrial life and technology to major aerospace industries and think tanks from 1942 to 1945.
After this, Tompkins worked with a number of leading aerospace companies from 1947, which included Northrup, Lockheed, Douglas Aircraft Corporation, TRW, and General Dynamics. Tompkins has included a number of documents in his autobiography, Selected by Extraterrestrials. They reveal his work in designing kilometer long spacecraft in the 1950s and 1960s. These were eventually built and deployed by the U.S. Navy as space battle fleets in the 1980s.
Tompkins is working on the next edition to his autobiography where he will release more of the documents he accumulated during his military and corporate career that support his claims of U.S. Navy and corporate involvement in extraterrestrial/UFO projects.
Could the thousands of documents soon to be released by the new whistleblower mark the start of the long anticipated document dumps Secret Space Program whistleblower Corey Goode has been discussing since mid-2015?
A full disclosure event would consist of a major data dump on the Internet with many hundreds of thousands of document, audio and video files on multiple mirrored sites for everyone to have access to. There would be a collapse of the corporate media machine and a 24/7 television and radio education campaign would be initiated. Not all channels and stations would be co-opted so people are not overwhelmed and could “tune out” as they needed to due to the stress.
As originally envisaged, the document dumps would reveal all the truth about secret space programs and extraterrestrial alliances, and this would lead to war crimes trials and major global changes. A catalyzing event, such as global economic collapse, was argued by a Secret Space Program Alliance to be necessary for the document dumps plan to move forward.
In a previous article published on January 1, I wrote about recent meetings by elite groups which indicated that negotiations were secretly underway to prevent the catalyzing event from occurring:
A catalyzing event such as economic collapse, as Goode was told, could be prevented by a new financial system being put in place to reform the current financial system. Thus, China and other BRICS nations could come forward to rescue the tottering international financial system in exchange for a variety of benefits.
This has led to Goode’s current report that a decision has been made by an alliance of global elites and secret space program groups that the massive document dumps will not be going ahead after all. A more limited disclosure plan has been agreed upon, which will spread out the document releases over an extended period to allow the public to better acclimate to the disturbing information they contain.
I was told heavily credentialed people who have worked in the lower Military/Intelligence Secret Space Program are being prepped and coached to be whistleblowers and provide the public with the “truth”. This same group had a direct message sent to me that I should back off of the full disclosure narrative as it is “irresponsible to the public”.
Regarding the yet to be disclosed documents awaiting release by the new whistleblower, it will be important to evaluate these documents in terms of how accurately they detail the U.S. Navy’s involvement in extraterrestrial/UFO related projects. This will be seminal when it comes to revelations concerning the existence of secret space programs that Goode and other whistleblowers have previously disclosed, which are investigated in Insiders Reveal Secret Space Programs and Extraterrestrial Life.
Tompkins testimony, as discussed in a series of articles, provides an important basis for evaluating the new whistleblower’s claims and documents. This will help determine whether the new whistleblower’s testimony is part of a partial disclosure plan intended to cover up crimes in space, or a genuine disclosure initiative designed to acclimate the general public to what lies ahead.
As to whether Tompkins testimony itself is part of a full or partial disclosure plan, it’s important to point out that Tompkins received the go ahead to begin writing his autobiography in 2001 by Admiral Hugh Webster, a former Corporate Director of the U.S. Navy League. In 2009, Tompkins began collaborating with Dr. Robert Wood, a retired 43 year veteran with McDonnell Douglas, who was so impressed by Tompkins information and documents that he eventually became the book’s editor.
Selected by Extraterrestrialswas only recently released in December 2015, but its 14 year gestation means that it long predates elite negotiations over full and partial disclosure, some of which Goode claims to have attended beginning in March 2015. The 2001 approval by Admiral Webster suggests that Tompkins revelations are part of a U.S. Navy sanctioned disclosure plan that has been in place for some time, but is now moving into high gear.
Consequently, the February 13 report to MUFON by another U.S. Navy whistleblower suggests that the Navy is encouraging former personnel to openly blow the whistle on top secret projects involving extraterrestrial life and UFOs by coming forward, and releasing documents that substantiate their testimonies.
Different elite groups, secret space programs and ancient “Inner Earth” civilizations are currently negotiating over how much of the truth they are willing to reveal to humanity about their respective existence and the reality of extraterrestrial life. This is according to the latest startling update by Secret Space Program whistleblower, Corey Goode.
Goode claims that he was recently taken to the Kuiper Asteroid Belt where he witnessed a historic meeting between representatives of seven ancient Inner Earth civilizations, and a highly advanced group of extraterrestrials which Goode has previously referred to as the “Sphere Being Alliance”. The Inner Earth groups venerate members of the Sphere Being Alliance – whom they refer to as the “Guardians” – because they have been the ancient protectors of human civilizations on Earth going as far back as 18 million years.
In his January 14 update, Goode refers to the Kuiper Belt meeting as the third in series of meetings that began in early September 2015, which he discussed in a report released on September 23.
I have had 3 meetings where the “Inner Earth Breakaway Civilizations” were present. In one such meeting we met at a base in the Kuiper Belt where representatives of these breakaway groups finally had their chance to meet with the “Guardians”… Gonzales and I stood there for the entire meeting exchanging perplexed glances as the “Guardians” and the breakaway civilization representatives interfaced. They stood there silent and motionless accept for the slight waving of arms and legs of the “Guardian”.
In Goode’s September 23 report, he described a very intense emotional “mind meld” he had with “Kaaree” (Car-ee), a priestess from one of the Inner Earth groups. She was also present at the Kuiper Belt meeting. He said that the Kuiper Belt meeting with the “Guardians” had similar emotional effect on the Inner Earth representatives:
Once the exchange was over the members of the breakaway civilization were visibly shaken and overcome with excitement at the same time. I felt much of the same emotions coming from them as I did after the “mind meld” I had with Kaaree where I shared experiences and information from my adolescence. I was able to speak briefly with Kaaree as they were leaving. She was a little flustered and only made a few comments on her way down the hall.
Goode went on to assert:
I asked her how it went and she replied that her group and some of the more negative groups that had formed this ancient breakaway council had “not been proper stewards” of this planetary sphere. She was in an extreme hurry to get back to the meeting where the rest of the ancient breakaway groups were gathered.
Goode’s revelation that the “Guardians” told the Inner Earth beings that they have “not been proper stewards” is very significant. It suggests that the Inner Earth beings were being taken to task for one or more of their long standing policies dating back millennia. According to Goode’s September 23 report, these could well include collaborating with elites from Secret Societies manipulating surface humanity, yet maintaining strict separation from the rest of humanity, and their emphasis on maintaining genetic purity by isolating themselves.
This kind of chastisement from the Guardians/Sphere Being Alliances apparently led to dissension among the representatives of the seven Inner Earth Groups attending this unprecedented Kuiper Belt meeting.
It wasn’t until later that Lt. Col. Gonzales told me that this was the last meeting these 7 groups had together before a few groups split away soon after this historic meeting.
According to Goode, the Inner Earth group that Kaaree belonged to has decided to change their isolationist policy and begin revealing themselves to surface humanity:
I met with Kaaree again not long after I was briefed on the above information. She made it clear that some of the ancient breakaway groups had decided to take a slow approach to revealing their true identity to those they are in contact with on the surface. They will visit the ones they visit in craft and reach out ethereally to those they are in remote contact with. They are starting with a test group to see how they respond to the news.
Goode went on to describe how humanity is at a critical juncture as negotiations between different secret space programs, ancient breakaway civilizations and elite groups controlling surface humanity, move towards their final conclusion:
The SSP Alliance and the Sphere Being Alliance has made it clear that we as a collective consciousness are choosing a path or future timeline. We are at a critical juncture to where our future could be one of a NWO 2.0 with some debt forgiveness, a bit of free currency and a new Babylonian Money Magic Slave System OR we have a full disclosure event during this time of social catalyst.
Goode made the following appeal in his January 14 update to help bring about “full disclosure,” or otherwise the “Syndicates” (aka Cabal/Illuminati in control of surface humanity) will succeed in implementing a partial disclosure plan:
We are putting out the call for everyone to come together and get involved in whatever way they can. We need to stop focusing on our differences and focus on our common goal… The Full Truth! If we do not, we are giving “silent consent” to the negotiations between the Alliance and these Syndicates and their outcomes.
Goode says that he will soon release a long awaited conclusion to his September 23 reportalong with reports about more recent meetings he has attended.
While there is a great need to continue efforts to substantiate Goode’s incredible claims, there is also a need to be open to the possibility that his revelations about secret negotiations over full or partial disclosure of alien life, classified space programs and ancient breakaway civilizations are genuine.
Given current global events, it’s not hard to agree with Goode that humanity appears to be at an important cross roads – we are about to collectively decide how much of the truth we can handle about a great number of issues that have been previously withheld from us all.
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The Black Knight Satellite: An Alien Spy Satellite watching over mankind
The Black Knight Satellite: An Alien Spy Satellite watching over mankind
The truth behind the Black Knight Satellite is far more mysterious than you’ve ever imagined. Many believe the anomalous object, said to be locked in polar orbit around our planet is, in fact, an extraterrestrial satellite, sent to Earth to monitor mankind
The Black Knight Satellite as seen in space
The mysterious Black Knight satellite has been the subject of debate for years. While many believe the anomalous object, said to be locked in polar orbit around our planet is in fact just space debris, others believe that this enigmatic ‘artificial satellite’ is, in fact, an extraterrestrial satellite, sent to Earth to monitor mankind. According to ufologists, the most striking part about the mysterious Black Knight Satellite is the fact that it is locked into polar orbit around Earth. Polar orbits are often used for earth-mapping, earth observation, capturing the earth as time passes from one point and reconnaissance satellites. This would put the Black Knight in the category of an observational Satellite.
Monitoring agencies around the world have reported picking up radio signals from the anomalous object for over 50 years now. The anomalous satellite has captured the interest of numerous governments around the world, including the government of the US, Russia, and China and there are even rumors that the Great Nikola Tesla was one of the first to intercept signals from this “Alien” satellite. Since the 1930’s Astronomers worldwide have been reporting strange radio signals which allegedly come from the “Black Knight”. (source)
Three weeks ago, headlines announced that the U.S. had detected a mysterious “dark” satellite wheeling overhead on a regular orbit. There was nervous speculation that it might be a surveillance satellite launched by the Russians, and it brought the uneasy sensation that the U.S. did not know what was going on over its own head. But last week the Department of Defense proudly announced that the satellite had been identified. It was a space derelict, the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray. Read the complete story by visiting the Time Magazine website.
The ‘Alien Satellite’ is even said to have been seen in space “shadowing” the Sputnik 1 Spacecraft, when cosmonauts reported seeing a UFO in polar orbit around the planet.
Even more mysteriously, the Gruman Aircraft Corporation showed interest in the alleged Alien Satellite. On September 3, 1960, seven months after the satellite was first detected by radar, a tracking camera at Grumman Aircraft Corporation’s Long Island factory took a photograph of the Black Knight. At that point, people all over the world started identifying the object in the sky, which could be seen as a red light moving at higher speed compared to other satellites in an East to West orbit.
The same year, the Black Knight satellite was located once again in Polar Orbit. Astronomers and Scientists calculated the object’s weight to be over 10 tons which would be at that time the Heaviest Artificial Satellite to orbit our Planet.
Three years after allegedly spotting the Black Knight, when Gordon Cooper was launched into space, it is believed that he actually reported seeing a mysterious UFO, with a glowing green object in front of his capsule in the distance moving towards his Spacecraft. The Muchea tracking station, in Australia, which Cooper reported the object to, picked up this Unidentified object on Radar traveling East to West.
According to believers that suggest, we are being tracked by an alien satellite in polar orbit around Earth, the extraterrestrial satellite carries a mysterious message and originates from the Epsilon Bootes Star System, and was placed to monitor Earth around 13,000 years ago.
There are numerous enigmas surrounding the Black Knight. Today, we cannot know for sure whether we are looking at space debris (thermal Blanket) or something that originated from an otherworldly civilization. Believers and skeptics will continue an ongoing debate, where both sides make good points supporting their theories. The truth behind the Black Knight Satellite, however, remains a profound mystery.
If you still cannot decide whether the Black Knight Satellite is real or not, take a look at this mysterious video from the Russian Space Agency. According to reports, it displays the mysterious Black Knight Satellite near the International Space Station.
Let us know what you think about the Black Knight Satellite, are you a believer or a skeptic?
"These results confirm several very important predictions of Einstein's theory of general relativity," Hawking said in a BBC interview. "It confirms the existence of gravitational waves directly."
As is becoming clear, the direct detection of these ripples in spacetime not only confirm Einstein's famous theory of general relativity, they open our eyes to a previously "dark" universe. Astronomy uses the electromagnetic spectrum (such as visible light, X-rays, infrared) to study the universe, but objects that do not radiate in the electromagnetic spectrum will go unnoticed. But now we know how to detect gravitational waves, there could be a paradigm shift in how we detect and study some of the most energetic cosmic phenomena.
"Gravitational waves provide a completely new way of looking at the universe," said Hawking. "The ability to detect them has the potential to revolutionize astronomy."
Using LIGO's twin observing stations located in Louisiana and Washington, physicists not only detected gravitational waves; the gravitational waves they detected had a very clear signal that closely matched theoretical models of a black hole merger some 1.3 billion light-years away. Already, from initial analysis of the black hole merger signal, Hawking has realized that the system seems to align itself with theories he developed in the 1970's.
"This discovery is the first detection of a black hole binary system and the first observation of black holes merging," he said. "The observed properties of this system is consistent with predictions about black holes that I made in 1970 here in Cambridge."
Hawking is perhaps most renowned for his work on melding quantum theory with black hole physics, realizing that black holes evaporate over time, leading to his involvement in the fascinating "Firewall Paradox" that is continuing to rumble throughout the theoretical physics community. But here he refers to his black hole area theorem, which forms the basis of the "second law" of black hole mechanics. This law states that entropy, or the level of disorganization of information, cannot decrease within a black hole system over time. A consequence of this theorem is that should two black holes merge, like the Sept. 14 event, the combined event horizon area "is greater than the sum of the areas of the initial black holes." Also, Hawking points out that this gravitational wave signal appears to be in agreement with predictions based on the "no-hair theorem" of black holes, basically meaning a black hole can be simply described by its spin, mass and charge.
The details behind how this first gravitational wave signal of a black hole merger agrees with theory are complex, but it is interesting to know that this first detection has already allowed physicists to confirm decades-old theories that have, until now, had little to no observational evidence.
"This discovery also presents a puzzle for astrophysicists," said Hawking. "The mass of each of the black holes are larger than expected for those formed by the gravitational collapse of a star — so how did both of these black holes become so massive?"
This question touches on one of the biggest mysteries surrounding black hole evolution. Currently, astronomers are having a hard time understanding how black holes grow to be so massive. On the one end of the scale, there are "stellar mass" black holes that form immediately after a massive star goes supernova and we also have an abundance of evidence for the existence of the supermassive behemoths that live in the centers of most galaxies. There is a disconnect, however.
If black holes grow by merging and consuming stellar matter, there should be evidence of black holes of all sizes. But "intermediate mass" black holes and black holes of a few dozen solar masses are astonishingly rare, throwing some black hole evolution theories into doubt.
With the detection of gravitational waves on Sept. 14 came the realization that a black hole binary merger caused it. Two black holes, "weighing in" at 29 and 36 solar masses, collided and merged as one, generating a very clear gravitational wave signal. But, as pointed out by Hawking, how black holes of this specific mass came to being could provide some clues as to how black holes grow.
One thing is clear, however: This is the first time that we've acquired direct evidence of a black hole merger — a key mechanism that underlies black hole evolution theories — so it's good to know we're on the right track.
Watch the full BBC Stephen Hawking interview here:
The Sunken City of Cuba - Officials Ignored it for 10 Years Because it's ' Out of Time and Out of Place '
The Sunken City of Cuba - Officials Ignored it for 10 Years Because it's ' Out of Time and Out of Place '
Just over a decade ago, a team of explorers were working on an exploration and survey mission off the western coast of Cuba when their sonar equipment picked up a perplexing series of stone structures lying some 650 metres below the surface.
The structures appeared completely analogous against the barren ‘desert’ of the ocean floor and seemed to show symmetrically organized stones reminiscent of an urban development.
A media flurry soon ensued with news sites sporting headlines such as ‘Atlantis Discovered in Cuba’ and ‘Lost City of the Caribbean Found’.
However, the finding also attracted the attention of the government, national museum, and national geographic, who all made promises to investigate the strange sonar images. Now, ten years on, the story has disappeared into obscurity.
What ever happened to the sunken ‘ruins’ of Cuba? Were they ever fully investigated? And why has the media fallen silent on this unusual discovery?
Dionisio Llanca—The Truck Driver Abducted by Three Blonde Humanoid Aliens [part1]
Dionisio Llanca—The Truck Driver Abducted by Three Blonde Humanoid Aliens [part1]
The UFO phenomenon is varied, ranging from unexplained sightings to alien abductions. Throughout the years, people have had bizarre flashbacks where otherworldly beings or even humans performed different actions on them, and although when awake they couldn’t recall a thing, under hypnosis the situation changed drastically.
According to researchers, this phenomenon is widespread throughout the society, and there may be hundreds of thousands of abductees all across the globe. Even though only a small number of these people have been investigated by researchers, the information gathered offers valuable insight and above all, all the related experiences appear to have common traits, thus leading towards the same source of abduction– aliens.
The beginning of the abduction phenomenon is pinpointed in the late nineteenth century, where cases of healthy people behaving unnaturally started to emerge. Probably the most popular abduction case comes from Nome, Alaska, where 24 people mysteriously disappeared between the 1960s and 2004. FBI homicide detectives who later investigated the case dismissed the Nome missing people’s file as being due to “excessive alcohol and a harsh winter climate.” However, there are other leads pointing at a possible alien abduction, a hypothesis which was strongly supported in the 2009 movie “The Fourth Kind.”
We’re not going to focus our attention on this case though, but on another fascinating story from the 70s, where a truck driver from Argentina claimed he had been abducted by three humanoids.
ILLUSTRATION FROM THE MAGAZINE CONOCER Y SABER
Dionisio Llanca was a skilled truck driver born in Ingeniero Jacobacci, Rio Negro, Argentina. He got out of bed on Saturday, 27 October 1973, unaware of the events that were about to happen. After he had dinner with his uncle Enrique Ruiz, he got into his Dodge 600 truck that was fully loaded with construction materials ready to be delivered to Rio Gallegos.
He left the house at about 12:30 AM on Sunday, and because of the skills developed in his 12 years career as a driver, he noticed something was wrong at the right rear tire. However, he decided to leave the problem for later, so he departed in a trip supposed to last for 2 days. On the way to Rio Gallegos, the tire got really low under the pressure of the heavy cargo and there was nothing that Dionisio could do to remediate the problem other than to get out of the truck in the blinding dark and attempt to fix it on his own. It was 01:15 AM when he began changing the tires, alone on a desolate road.
I braked the truck on the shoulder, got down, took out the jack and the tools and began to change the tire. The road was completely deserted. All at once the road was illuminated with an intense yellow light that seemed to be about 2,000 meters distant. Because of the color I thought that they might be the headlights of a Pugeot and continued with my work. A few seconds passed and I had my shoulder to the light but it became so bright that it lighted the whole area. Now the light had changed to a bluish color similar to an electric arc welder. I tried to get up but could not rise; I had no strength, and a strange thing – – my legs would not respond. I was on my knees. I wanted to get up and look towards the woods that grew along one side of the road.
Then I saw a great thing in the form of a plate suspended in the air at some seven meters altitude, and three persons at my shoulders looking at me. I tried once more to get up but could not. The paralysis became total and I could not even talk. The three beings stood looking at me for a long time, perhaps five minutes. They were two men and a woman. The woman was between the two men. I believed it was a woman because of the form of the breast and the long hair, blonde, reaching to the middle of her shoulders.
The men were also blond with shorter hair in back. The three were about the same height, one meter and 70 or 75 centimeters, and dressed in the same manner: single piece smoky gray coverall suits well fitted to the figure, yellow boots and long gloves reaching to the middle of the arm of the same color. They had no belts, nor weapons, nor helmets nor anything else. Their faces were like ours except for high foreheads and elongated eyes, like the Japanese and a little tilted. They talked among themselves in a language impossible for me to understand. They had no vocal inflections but sounded like a radio badly tuned with chirps and buzzes.
One of them grabbed me by the neck of my sweater and lifted me firmly but without violence. I tried to talk but my voice would not come out. While the one held me up another put an apparatus in the base of my index finger on the left hand. They looked closely at the apparatus. It was like a razor but had a small tube. They applied it to me for several seconds. It did not hurt. When they left I had two drops of blood on my finger, then I passed out.”
It was about 3 AM that Sunday when Dionisio woke up between two cars in the backyard of the Sociedad Rural Bahia Blanca, approximately 9 kilometers from where he met the alien humanoids. He couldn’t recall a single thing from the past experience nor his life, so he started to walk, but soon fainted away. When he woke up again, he followed route 3 walking disoriented until a driver stopped to pick him up for he was in danger of getting killed along that road. He ended up in a local police station, and was furtherly transferred to the Hospital Espanol because the policemen though he was intoxicated.
Doctor Ricardo Smirnoff from the Hospital Espanol diagnosed Dionisio as it follows:
The subject has no visible injuries, but refuses to be touched on the head as if he is having a profound ailment located there. There is also a barely unnoticed abrasion on his left eyelid.
His memory did not return, and he was constantly crying and asking in what city he was, until the hospital staff decided to move him to the Hospital Municipal. It was on October 30, at 10 AM when the man woke up in the other hospital with his memory fully restored. First thing he did was look for a cigarette and see what time it was, but all those items were missing except for his 150,000 pesos. Although he now recalled the entire alien experience in close-up, he was more worried about his truck, but fortunately, the police informed him they found it stationed on a roadside in Villa Bordeu, approximately 18 kilometers from the town of bahia Blanca.
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17-02-2016
President Obama: Will Let You Know When Humans Contact Aliens
President Obama: Will Let You Know When Humans Contact Aliens
By BYRON TAU
ENLARGE
SOMETHING IS OUT THERE? President Barack Obama looks through a telescope during an event on the South Lawn of the White House in 2009.PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS
The truth about extraterrestrial life isn’t known, and when it is, President Barack Obama will let you know.
That is the message Mr. Obama had for six-year-old “presidential expert” Macey Hensley in an interview broadcast Friday. Interviewed by Ms. Hensley on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Mr. Obama said humans haven’t contacted alien life.
“We haven’t actually made direct contact with aliens yet,” said Mr. Obama, with lawyerly precision. “When we do, I’ll let you know.”
Macey also wanted to know if Mr. Obama’s dogs had Secret Service protection.
“Bo and Sunny, they’re on their own. But usually we don’t let them out of the White House unless they’re with us,” he said, referring to his two Portuguese water dogs.
Mr. Obama taped an episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show on Thursday as part of California trip that included both business and pleasure. He is expected to spend the weekend golfing before a summit with Asian leaders next week.
“It’s always good to get out of Washington, which can sometimes be a little depressing,” he told host Ellen DeGeneres.
The lighthearted interview featured a video message from First Lady Michelle Obama to Mr. Obama in honor of Valentine’s Day. The first couple will be apart for the holiday.
“Roses are red. Violets are blue. You are the president. And I am your boo,” Mrs. Obama said in the message.
A new breed of humanoid robots may soon be serving your plane meal onboard an Airbus.
Joint Robotics Laboratory and the Airbus Group have merged together to launch a new Joint Research Program. This new partnership aims to develop humanoid robots that will be used for aviation manufacturing.
“Given the unique nature of aviation assembly and the specialized character of the tasks involved, Airbus Group has very well-defined needs,” explains Abderrahmane Kheddar, the director of the JRL. “For instance, robots must be capable of navigating through narrow spaces such as fuselages, and executing complex tasks from a variety of positions. In short, the manufacturer needs humanoid robots that can make human movements such as kneeling or leaning, and that can perform more sophisticated functions, such as screwing or torqueing,” adds Adrien Escande, the leader of the joint research program.
Since 2004, the team has been making advanced functions on the robots a reality rather than just science fiction.
“By combining Japanese expertise in hardware and robotics along with advanced French knowledge of mathematics and algorithms, we made encouraging initial progress in fields such as robot design and haptics, or tactile perception,” continues Kheddar. “We are now building on these achievements to develop multi-contact locomotion, which enables humanoid robots to move using not just their feet, but also other body parts such as elbows, knees, and hands, as a human would when crawling.”
NEW BREED OF HUMANOID ROBOTS
The project is called COMANOID (Multi-Contact Collaborative Humanoids) European research. They are focusing on the qualities that the robots will need to assist the aviation industry. In short, these humanoids need to be able to kneel, lean, and balance themselves on uneven surfaces. They have to be “trained” in safely moving around the passengers, the aircraft, and their fellow humanoids. They also need to perform tasks, like simple repairs and placing objects in their proper storage places.
The team is expanding these basics by working on more intricate movements that require improvement in two key areas: robot control and planning.
“To illustrate what this means, try to imagine a rock-climber,” suggests Adrien Escande. “To take the next step on a rock face, they must think ahead by identifying possible foot and handholds, and by deciding which movements to make, and in what sequence. This is the planning function. Then there is the control function, which enables the climber to adapt their movements in real-time based on uncalculated events, such as a slip or a gust of wind. We are currently using numerical optimization techniques and advanced algorithms to improve capacity in both of these areas.”
One example is having the humanoid open a panel in an aircraft at knee level. It has to accurately calculate its movements by knowing where to kneel, how to grasp handles, and where to place its hands for support and balance. The calculations should allow the humanoid to react immediately. In a situation where the humanoid needs to assist a human worker, it should be able to anticipate the human’s movements in real time. They should be able to work hand in hand in milliseconds.
No easy task.
To achieve this amazing feat, the researchers needed to model the robot’s perception and behavior. Everything that the humanoid does is based from mathematics. An action is translated as a mathematical problem, which then becomes an equation. The next step is to “solve” the mathematical problem using algorithms developed by scientists.
Joint Robotics Laboratory (CNRS/AIST)/AIRBUS SAS 2015/CNRS-AIST
In the example given previously, about a humanoid opening a panel at knee-length, several calculations need to take place, such as balance, distance and counter-balancing force. For humans, our body adjusts automatically in these types of situations. For robots, we need to program them to “adjust” automatically using algorithms like bipedal locomotion, fall control, and contact force distribution.
THE ROBOTS OF THE FUTURE
With all of the impressive algorithms in place, the team is still trying to improve the robot’s learning capacity. They plan to “teach” these machines to eventually search information over the Internet by themselves.
Ultimately, the project will help robots learn new tasks such as cooking or putting paper in the printer simply by reading information from the Internet. These instructions will be stored in their knowledge base for future use. These various sources are then integrated by the robot in order to carry out the task. Eventually, they want to see robots that are independent and can find solutions to problems on their own.
AVIATION ROBOTS
Aside from airplanes, the humanoid robots will be adapted for helicopter and aerospace activities. Soon, they will also be used in other industries such as train or ship building, where there are more complex tasks at hand.
“It should be very clear that these humanoids are not intended to replace workers, but rather to offer them better working conditions by freeing them from chores that are physically-taxing or that involve contact with pollutants,” concludes Kheddar. “This enables workers to focus on the more skilled and value-added aspects of their activities. In other words, these robots are sophisticated tools intended to assist them as part of a synergistic human-robot collaboration.”
DARPA has announced that its latest submarine hunting drone, ACTUV, is ready for action - potentially starting a drone revolution in naval warfare.
NOT JUST ANOTHER DRONE
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed back in 2010 that is was building an unmanned autonomous, submarine-hunting war machine. Essentially, the program was building a drone for naval warfare.
Now, DARPA has announced that its program is ready for live trials.
The Anti-Submarine Warfare Continuous Trail Unmanned Vessel, or ACTUV (pronounced as active) is scheduled to launch on April 17 from the Vigor Shipyards in Oregon. It will conduct sea-trials for 18 months following its maiden voyage, where it will begin tests for its long-range tracking and self-driving functions.
The eventual objective of ACTUV is to be able to track down enemy submarines in shallow waters. It is designed to operate autonomously for two to three months and eliminate the need for human crew members to guide and operate it. This lack of human crew will also reduce the chance for human error while it is searching for potential threats.
Its launching and trials are but a small part of of the Pentagon’s ongoing Third Offset strategy, which was devised to help the U.S. maintain superiority over rising military powers like China and Russia, which are both involved in regions that include large swathes of international waters.
The Pentagon is dedicating a staggering $18 billion to the effort.
SAVING LIVES, SAVING COSTS
The ACTUV itself is unarmed, but the ship can be used on scouting mission wherein it will locate spying adversaries before other ships are deployed, preventing actual human lives from falling into danger.
Its daily cost of operation is lower than that of other sea vessels with ACTUV costing around $15,000 to $20,000 per day, according to a Sea Magazinereport. In contrast, a destroyer costs about $700,000 per day to operate.
Other advantages of the ACTUV include greater payload and endurance than a ship-launched unmanned surface vehicle, its ability to launch from and recover at a pier, and the elimination of the need to integrate the system with a ship.
Naval operations for ACTUV isn’t restricted to locating submarines. The Navy is also considering using it to locate mines, supply other U.S. naval vehicles and provide logistics in operations. At just 140 tons and 132 feet in length, ACTUV is relatively small for a warship, which can allow naval forces to utilize it in deploying in a variety of waters and situations.
New Study Uncovers How Our Cosmos is Shaped by Dark Matter
New Study Uncovers How Our Cosmos is Shaped by Dark Matter
Galaxy Cluster IDCS J1426
NASA
IN BRIEF
A new research paper suggests that dark matter determines the internal structure of galaxies within galactic clusters, molding our cosmos.
GALAXY CLUSTERS AND DARK MATTER
Scientists have found that dark matter resides in regions of space where matter is dense, which is why galaxy clusters (huge clumps of stars and planets) are vital to learning about the mysterious phenomenon that makes up more than 20 percent of all matter and energy in the universe.
Because dark matter is invisible (despite the fact that it is universally present), scientists must infer its existence by observing how it affects regular matter. They do this based on the idea that, the heavier and denser a cluster is, the more dark matter is in that area, but a new study suggests a more complicated connection.
Hironao Miyatake from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena California says that “Galaxy clusters are like the large cities of our universe. In the same way that you can look at the lights of a city at night from a plane and infer its size, these clusters give us a sense of the distribution of the dark matter that we can’t see.”
In their new study, Miyatake and his team suggest that a galaxy cluster’s internal structure is somehow linked to the the dark matter that resides around it, making it the first time that something other that a cluster’s mass has been linked to the dark matter surrounding it.
Their study was published in Physical Review Letters.
Estimation of dark matter, dark energy, and normal matter. Credit: NASA
LOOKING AT THE BIGGER PICTURE
To make the connection, the researchers studied about 9,000 galaxy clusters with help of theSloan Digital Sky Survey DR8 galaxy catalog. From there, they divided these clusters into two groups based on their internal structures.
In one group, galaxies were more spread out within the cluster, while in the other group galaxies were more densely packed. To help with this cataloging, they used a technique called gravitational lensing, which lets them look at how gravity in the clusters bend light.
They found that in the denser cluster group had fewer neighboring clusters tha the less dense cluster group. This means, according to the team, that dark matter determines how densely packed galaxies within a cluster are.
Miyatake said “this difference is a result of the different dark-matter environments in which the groups of clusters formed. Our results indicate that the connection between a galaxy cluster and surrounding dark matter is not characterized solely by cluster mass, but also its formation history.”
The researchers say that this connection is a “consequence of the nature of the initial density fluctuations established before the universe was even one second old.”
The research team will continue exploring the connection between galaxy clusters and dark matter.
An artist's illustration shows an asteroid disintegrating while in orbit around the sun.
Credit: Karen Teramura, UH IfA.
Near-Earth asteroids generally die a lingering death in the depths of space rather than plunging into the sun as previously thought, a new study suggests.
Researchers studied the properties of nearly 9,000 near-Earth objects (NEOs) — asteroids and other bodies that come within 1.3 Earth-sun distances of our planet — to build a model of the overall NEO population.
This model seemed to have a problem, however: It predicted that astronomers should be seeing 10 times more NEOs that closely approach the sun — come within 9 million miles (15 million kilometers) or so of the star — than they actually observe. [Potentially Dangerous Asteroids (Images)]
The research team spent a year puzzling over this outcome before coming to a surprising conclusion: The missing NEOs are actually being destroyed as they get close to the sun, but long before they actually dive into the star.
"The discovery that asteroids must be breaking up when they approach too close to the sun was surprising, and that's why we spent so much time verifying our calculations," study co-author Robert Jedicke, of the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy, said in a statement.
The team's work should help scientists better understand the NEO population in a variety of ways. For example, many meteors that light up Earth's night skies are pieces of debris shed by parent NEOs on their laps around the sun. Such debris clouds travel on the same orbits as their parent bodies, but astronomers generally have trouble finding these NEOs. The new study suggests that this is because the parent objects have already been destroyed, the researchers said.
In addition, study team members determined that darker NEOs die farther from the sun than brighter ones do, which helps explain something astronomers already knew: Asteroids that approach the sun closely tend to be quite bright.
This finding implies that dark and bright asteroids may differ significantly in structure and composition, the researchers said.
"Perhaps the most intriguing outcome of this study is that it is now possible to test models of asteroid interiors simply by keeping track of their orbits and sizes," lead author Mikael Granvik, of the University of Helsinki in Finland, said in the same statement. "This is truly remarkable and was completely unexpected when we first started constructing the new NEO model."
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Granvik and his colleagues built their model by studying nearly 100,000 images of NEOs acquired by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona over an eight-year period.
To date, scientists have identified and tracked almost 14,000 NEOs, but the overall population is thought to number in the millions. Astronomers think that most of these bodies begin their lives in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and then veer inward after experiencing gravitational nudges by Jupiter and/or Saturn.
The new study was published online today (Feb. 17) in the journal Nature.
Driving home from L.A. sightseeing in Hollywood, on out trip home was quite uneventful…until we were somewhere in the Diablo Grande driving north on Interstate 5 (I-5) when I inadvertently mentioned how beautiful the sunset was, in response my wife gets my phone and takes a picture then notices after taking the photo that there was a strange anomaly.
So we look to the sky to confirm our findings and we witnessed the exact same shape for not more than 30 seconds when it dispersed, disappeared, disintegrated…
Not sure what word to use there. Anyways maybe someone can explain or debunk our curiosity into what we witnessed on February 15, 2016! Mufon case 74507.
A video recently made rounds online as it shows an intriguing sudden explosion of Colima Volcano in Mexico just as a cigar-shaped object flies past above it. Conspiracy theorists say the mysterious object is alien in origin, and it causes the sudden explosive activity of the volcano.
The strange thin disc seems to pass quickly through the smoke and lava that come from the mountain and continue to fly to the other side.
Ufologists say that the video shows an alien spacecraft dropping off and picking up aliens from and to their hideout within the volcanic chamber.
They say the UFO passes over the mouth and through the lava with a burst of light before all goes black. They think that the unidentified flying object transports something or someone to or from their underground base below the volcano.
If the theory is to be believed, aliens or extraterrestrials may have been touring the Earth without the knowledge of the public.
Here’s another footage from Colima volcano filmed on 15th February 2016.
Ook nu duikt er weer een enorm ruimteschip de Colima vulkaan binnen en wordt het hoog tijd dat er eindelijk iets gaat gebeuren.
De wereld heeft er een handje van om bepaalde dingen categorisch te negeren. We doen net alsof we gek zijn, dan bestaat het niet en gaat het vanzelf wel weer weg.
Voor ons is één van de grootste raadsels ter wereld het feit dat er bij de VN in New York niet druk wordt vergaderd over de zo langzamerhand spookachtige dingen die in Mexico plaatsvinden.
Vreemde, bizarre en volkomen onverklaarbare zaken rondom de bekende Mexicaanse vulkanen zoals Popocatépetl en Colima.
Niet alleen is daar druk UFO-verkeer waar te nemen in alle vormen en soorten, voor het eerst hebben we eigenlijk ook bewijs dat enorme ruimteschepen de vulkanen induiken op weg naar hun ondergrondse basis.
Zoals dat gebeurde eind oktober 2012 toen een ongeveer kilometer lang ruimteschip verdween in het binnenste van de vulkaan.
Op het moment dat dit gebeurde, vertoonde een Mexicaanse weerradar het volgende:
Onderstaande afbeelding is afkomstig van de weerradar van Intellicast van 27 oktober, de dag dat een UFO de vulkaan Popocatépetl in vloog. Het beeld de hele dag online tot en met 28 oktober.
Hier zie je heel duidelijk de vorm van de vortex.
Het centrum van de vortex ligt precies op de plaats waar de vulkaan zich bevindt. Dit toeval lijkt ons te groot om geen verband te hebben met de Ufo die op datzelfde moment de vulkaan binnenvloog.
Wetenschappers hebben nog steeds geen idee en een nieuwsbericht van Televisa, het station wat de opname heeft gemaakt, laat weten dat men heeft uitgerekend dat de snelheid waarmee het object naar binnenvloog, groter was dan die van een vliegtuig.
Ufologen wereldwijd zijn van mening dat het óf een basis betreft in de vulkaan, vergelijkbaar met de basis van Marconi in de Andes, óf dat het een ingang betreft naar de Holle Aarde. Een combinatie van beiden zou ook nog een mogelijkheid zijn.
In de loop der jaren zijn dit soort fenomenen gewoon doorgegaan en het is dan ook de inmiddels wereldberoemde Streetcap1 die weer zo’n enorm ruimteschip heeft weten te vangen die een Mexicaanse vulkaan binnenvliegt.
Hij heeft dit gedaan door eenvoudigweg de publieke webcambeelden te bestuderen, waarop je op een gegeven moment kunt zien dat een soort identiek ruimteschip als degene hierboven, in dit geval de Colima vulkaan, in duikt.
Jarenlang gaan dit soort dingen nu door en er gebeurt helemaal niets.
Hebben wij als mensheid zo weinig belangstelling voor wat er gebeurt op onze aarde en in de ruimte om ons heen? Sluiten wij bewust de ogen omdat we bang zijn voor het onbekende?
Waarom wordt er niet eens een wereldwijde (Facebook)actie gestart en een poging gedaan 2016-02-17eindelijk eens onderzoek te doen naar de vreemde, bizarre en niet natuurlijke gebeurtenissen rondom de Mexicaanse vulkanen.
Waarom krijgt de elite alles voor elkaar wat ze willen en laat de bevolking zich keer op keer als een klein kind zonder eten naar bed sturen?
Obama’s Response to Question about Aliens Intrigues UFO-Alien Researchers
Obama’s Response to Question about Aliens Intrigues UFO-Alien Researchers
The television show “The Ellen Show” has caught the attention of UFO/alien enthusiasts as U.S. President Barack Obama guested on the show and answered questions about aliens.
It wasn’t the first time the president responded to this kind of question, but this time, a girl was the questioner. Obama responses, as in the past, are characterized as bit humorous but at the same time don’t deny the issue, leading to many speculations about the real meaning of them.
The little girl asks if aliens are real, and Obama replies with another question “Well, what do you think?” She tells the president that she believes they are real after seeing a TV program. Obama throws some jokes and then replies:
“The truth is we haven’t made direct contact with aliens yet, but when we do I’ll let you know.”
Some speculate that if no direct contact yet, there are already an indirect contact. Others say that the word “yet” implies that the government knows direct contact will soon to happen.
Astronomers who study how planetary formation can happen around binary star systems get the help of new images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.
A TALE OF TWO STARS
To us, with our one lonely star, binary systems seem foreign and strange—like rare diamonds in the sky. But in reality, a vast number of solar systems contain more than one sun. Imagining what the sky would look like on planets in such systems is a favorite pastime of artist and astronomer alike.
But how can such worlds form to begin with?
Indeed, astronomers have long struggled to comprehend how planets are able to form around binary stars. The gravitational pull of two massive stellar bodies would likely eject young planets from the system, or drag them into one of the star’s fiery infernos.
But observational evidence has shown that planets are indeed able to form (and maintain stable orbits) around binary stars.
Astronomers recently had a new, more detailed look at planetary formation around a binary star at a very early stage, and this may give us some answers to the aforementioned questions.
Ultimately, the latest view was achieved with the help of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) at the Atacama desert in northern Chile. The researchers discovered a crescent-shaped region of dust without gas in the outer reaches of a double star’s protoplanetary disk. These findings provide fresh insights into a binary system’s potential to form planets and how such events unfold.
A composite image of the HD 142527 binary star system from data captured by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array
PROTOPLANETARY DISKS
To study this phenomenon, astronomers took a more detailed look at binary star HD 142527and the planet-forming disk around it. The binary system is 450 light-years away from Earth in a cluster of known as Scorpius-Centaurus Association.
The HD 142527 system consists of a large star and a smaller companion star that is separated by 1.6 billion km (1 billion miles), which is about the distance between Saturn and the Sun.
Astronomer Andrea Isella, of Rice University in Houston, notes that scientists were previously well aware of the disk surrounding the star, and that the latest image reveals important insights: “this binary system has long been known to harbor a planet-forming corona of dust and gas. The new ALMA images reveal previously unseen details about the physical processes that regulate the formation of planets around this and perhaps many other binary systems.”
The press release details what was seen: “ALMA’s new, high-resolution images of HD 142527 show a broad elliptical ring around the double star. The disk begins incredibly far from the central star — about 50 times the Sun-Earth distance. Most of it consists of gases, including two forms of carbon monoxide (13CO and C180), but there is a noticeable dearth of gases within a huge arc of dust that extends nearly a third of the way around the star system.”
Astronomers hope to better understand the nature of planet formation across the Universe by studying a wider range of protoplanetary disks with ALMA. But as previously noted, some information has already come to light.
“The temperature is so low that the gas turns into ice and sticks to the grains,” Isella said. “This process is thought to increase the capacity for dust grains to stick together, making it a strong catalyst for the formation of planetesimals, and, down the line, of planets.”
The new images of HD 142527 show a crescent-shaped dust cloud that possibly results from gravitational forces that are unique to binary stars.
“There are between a few hundred and a few thousands we can look at again with ALMA to find new and surprising details. That’s the beauty of ALMA. Every time you get new data, it’s like opening a present. You don’t know what’s inside” said Isella.
This large serving vessel, created in a Greek colony near the Lucanian district of Italy, displays a gathering of deities, including Apollo and Artemis.
Credit: The Getty Museum
Jordanna Max Brodsky is the author of the new book "The Immortals," a modern tale that follows the ancient Artemis. Brodsky hails from Virginia and holds a degree in History and Literature from Harvard University. Living in Manhattan with her husband, she often sees goddesses in Central Park and wishes she were one. Brodsky contributed this article to Space.com's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.
The ancient Greeks called constellations katasterismoi, meaning "placings of the stars" — placed by the gods. The Greeks believed the Olympians put those people, animals and objects in the heavens for a reason: to serve as unmistakable lessons on proper behavior. Often, entire stories play out across the sky, traced from one constellation to the next.
Much of the zodiac (a word coined from the Greek zodiakos kuklos, or "circle of little animals") represents beasts defeated by the great hero Heracles as part of his labors, such as Leo the Nemean Lion, Cancer the Crab, and Taurus the Cretan Bull. Other tales are even more bloody and brutish, reminding humanity of the punishments that await mortals who refuse to pay homage to the gods.
Artemis, the virgin Greek goddess of the hunt, is credited with "placing" more than her fair share of constellations — Ursa Major, Orion and Corvus, to name a few. So many, in fact, that one of her more poetic monikers is Lady of the Starry Host. [Hail Hydra! A Monstrous Constellation Explained ]
My book "The Immortals" (Orbit Books, 2016) is a contemporary fantasy about Artemis, who now prowls the shadows of modern Manhattan under the name Selene DiSilva, defending women from the men who abuse them. Like so many New Yorkers, Selene rarely sees the heavens above — too much light pollution, too many skyscrapers. But when she does, she reads her own history in the patterns of the stars.
Today, we know that humans arbitrarily codified the constellations — there is no scientific reason to group the stars. Yet civilizations throughout history have identified constellations, and even now we still call them by their old Greek or Roman names for a reason: The myths make the stars seem a little less distant , the universe a little less vast. Call that anthropocentric hubris if you like, but it's a universal impulse nonetheless.
So why fight it? Much of our astronomical knowledge, from the identification of the zodiac to the prediction of eclipses, dates back to the ancient world. Sure, they believed in a geocentric universe, but they got a lot of other stuff right. And if nothing else, the myths are as captivating, dramatic and action-packed as any modern blockbuster.
As a primarily oral civilization, the ancient Greeks told many versions of the constellation myths, so there's never one "correct" story. What we do know comes from rare and often fragmentary written sources. But, as a writer, that's part of why I love mythology: There's always room for our own imagination to fill in the blanks.
Here are a few of my favorite stories behind the stars.
Orion: Artemis's lost love
The stars Alnilam, Mintaka and Alnitak form Orion’s belt.
Credit: Martin Mutti, Astronomical Image Data Archive
Orion is the sole male hunting companion of the chaste Artemis . He wants to marry her, but her jealous twin brother Apollo can't let that happen. One day, when Orion is swimming far out at sea, Apollo points to the speck on the horizon and dares his sister to strike the target with her arrows. She accepts the challenge and, being the Goddess of Archery, easily hits the mark. When she realizes her brother has betrayed her, and that she has murdered her friend, she places Orion's body in the stars. Another version of the tale, less personally engaging but more ecologically relevant, claims that Orion boasted that he could kill all the beasts of the Earth and that, as punishment for his hubris, Artemis sent a scorpion to kill him, later turning them both into constellations so they could continue their chase for eternity. Even now, as Orion sets, Scorpius rises.
Ursa Major: The cursed she-bear
This sky map shows how the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear, appears in the night sky from mid-latitudes of North America at about 9 p.m. local time.
Credit: Starry Night Software
The beautiful princess Callisto swears herself to Artemis as a chaste hunting companion. Zeus, the King of the Gods (and a notorious womanizer), seduces the princess anyway. When Artemis notices Callisto's swollen belly, she turns the girl into a she-bear as punishment for breaking her vow of chastity. Years later, Callisto's son, Arcas, sees a bear wandering through the temple grounds. Unaware that the bear is his mother, he sends an arrow through its heart. Callisto ascends to the heavens as Ursa Major, the Great Bear, and Arcas as either Ursa Minor or Boötes, which the Greeks originally called Arctophylax, or Bear-Watcher.
Cassiopeia: The boastful queen
The big W of Cassiopeia, marked in red, shines bright over an alpine hut, high in the Italian mountains, with the International Space Station (seen as a light streak) making a flyby.
Credit: Copyright Huw James Media
Anyone who saw "Clash of the Titans" might remember that Cassiopeia's daughter, Andromeda, was a princess chained to a rock as an offering to a great sea monster. The hero Perseus defeats the monster, saves the princess, and wins himself a bride. But why was she chained up in the first place? Because Cassiopeia bragged that her daughter was more beautiful than the sea nymphs. Poseidon, the Sea God, sends fearsome Cetus the Whale to attack the city as punishment for the queen's hubris. To commemorate the story, the gods placed the entire family, including Andromeda's father, Cepheus, in the stars. For her boasting, Cassiopeia must traverse the heavens lying on her back. [Cassiopeia: The Banished Queen Ruling the Night Sky]
Corvus: The Tattling Crow
The constellation Corvus the crow.
Credit: pace.com using Starry Night software.
Apollo's pregnant lover Coronis, a princess of Thessaly, betrays him by sleeping with a mortal warrior. The god learns of her infidelity from the crow (or raven), his sacred bird. Enraged, Apollo sends his sister, Artemis, to slay Coronis with arrows. But as the princess lies dead on her funeral pyre, Apollo regrets his wrath: He cuts his unborn son from his mother's womb. The baby grows up to be Asclepius, the hero-god of medicine, often identified as the constellation Ophiuchus, the Serpent-Bearer, who carries the snake-twined rod now commonly associated with doctors. To punish the loose-beaked crow, Apollo turns its white feathers black and then banishes it to the heavens. As further punishment, Apollo places the Water-Serpent constellation HYDRA to guard the stars of Crater, the sacred Cup, so that the crow can never slake its thirst. Coronis's Hydra means "crow," while Corvus means "raven." Thus, the constellation Corvus honors them both.
Excerpt from "The Immortals"
Reproduced with permission from Hachette Book Group. A full chapter excerpt is available at Olympus Bound.
After living for millennia without worship, Selene DiSilva no longer possesses the supernatural powers of Artemis, the goddess she once was. Like all the Athanatoi —Those Who Do Not Die — she has faded into a nearly mortal existence. Now, as a newly-revived ancient Greek cult murders virgin women in the streets of modern Manhattan, Selene finds her old powers suddenly revived. But she doesn't know why…
Selene opened the window wide and knelt before the sill, looking up at the sky above the rooftops. Even now, at the darkest hour before dawn, it shone with an unearthly glow.
Selene knew it was just light pollution bouncing off the clouds above, but sometimes she imagined the city possessed the sort of divine radiance once reserved for the gods. Just as in ancient times the Olympians had chosen to walk among mortals in disguise rather than reveal themselves in all their terrible glory, so New York clothed itself in dirt and noise and stench. Its true power would be too much for mortal eyes to bear.
"Imagine, Hippo," she said as the dog rested her chin on the windowsill. "Once I was the Lady of the Starry Host." She'd placed her victims in the heavens as eternal reminders of her rage and mercy. First Ursa Major—a nymph who broke her vows of chastity and was metamorphosed into a bear by Artemis's uncompromising justice. Then Ursa Minor—the son of that illicit union who met the same fate. "But now, even the strongest Athanatoi no longer possess the ability to make men into stars. Especially not here, where the stars themselves are hidden from view. New York's radiance outshines my own."
Over the centuries she'd watched the city's lights quench heaven's fire. With the constellations' disappearance, the history written in their outlines — her own history — dimmed alongside. She'd always imagined herself fading as well. Slowly, imperceptibly, disappearing into myth. But now, for the first time in an age, she felt hope.
She knew the most obvious explanation for her strengthening, and she didn't want to face it. She could barely admit it to herself. It was possible that her mother's decline was adding to her own strength. With one fewer god to siphon away the limited worship man still provided, the remaining Athanatoi might benefit.
Father, she prayed silently. Mighty Zeus, who once granted me six wishes, grant me one more. Help me find the answers I seek. Let my rebirth not come from my mother's death. And if you ever loved gentle Leto, help me save her. She closed her eyes and imagined her words reaching up to the vault of heaven, then soaring past the city, over the vast ocean, all the way to Zeus's lair on the island of Crete. And there the prayer died. Because her father could no longer hear.
Since the Diaspora, Zeus had lost his strength and his wits, eventually breaking his own vow of exile and returning to the Cave of Psychro, where he'd spent his infancy. In the nineteenth century, her half-brother Hermes had finally dared visit the Father of the Gods.
"By day, he looks up at the sky through the cave's mouth and watches the clouds pass," he told the Huntress afterward. "He waves his hands about as if he would bend the wind to his whim, and pouts when the sky doesn't obey. He's gone mad, Sister. There's moss in his hair and mold on his skin. By night, he crawls from the cave and raids the flocks of nearby farmers, eating sheep and goats raw. Mostly, though, he lives on bats and worms."
"Maybe that's all this is," Selene said to Hippo, rising to her feet and reaching for the bow leaning against the windowsill. "My own inevitable descent into madness." She twirled a shaft between her fingers before settling it against the arrow rest. "Maybe this is all a dream."
She sighted between the swaying branches of an oak over a hundred yards away on the border of the park, noting the skittering movement of a squirrel. It dashed down one branch then up another, hidden in the shadows of night. "Maybe I'm not going to make this shot," Selene said quietly. Then she loosed the arrow. A heartbeat later, the wind carried the faintest of squeals to the Huntress's ear. She lowered her bow. "For tonight, at least, I'm the Far Shooter. The Huntress. The Swiftly Bounding One. Go ahead," she said, looking down at Hippo. "Pick an epithet. I've got dozens."
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The dog just cocked her head, oblivious.
For the first time in a long time, Selene wished she had a real friend. Can you see me, Orion? she wondered. Do you revel in my return to power — or dread it?
She looked up to where the scudding clouds left bare a patch of night sky and felt her triumph slip away. In a painful irony, the only stars bright enough to outshine the city lights were those that most tormented her. A star for each broad shoulder, a star for each strong leg, three stars slung in a glittering belt and a last for his sword. Cold, remote, a bare suggestion of a man, light years away from the one she'd known. Yet in the dark gaps of night, she saw strong limbs and fierce eyes, curling hair and a flashing smile. Orion, at once infinitely distant and just beyond reach, stared down like a reproachful judge upon the woman who'd loved him. The woman who'd killed him. The woman who'd placed him in the heavens as an eternal reminder of her guilt, her shame, her heartbreak.
Selene rose and moved to her narrow bed. She thought suddenly of Theodore Schultz. He too had lost someone he loved. But in every photo, friends surrounded him, smiling, laughing, touching. He would grieve, but — unlike Selene — he would not be alone.
She fell asleep with the wind streaming across her face from the open window. For the first time in centuries, she dreamed Orion was with her. He smelled like the dry hills of Attica. Like oregano crushed underfoot. Like sweat and heat and the thrill of the chase. His warm flesh pressed against her back. His fingertips traced a line of fire up her arm, to her neck, where his lips, rough and wind burnt, pressed a kiss into the hollow of her ear.
With the frenzy of a drowning woman, Selene pulled herself from the dream and sat up, sure Orion was there. She imagined she could still smell him on the wind. But dawn reddened the sky, the stars had been put to flight, and she was alone.
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WHISTLEBLOWER TO DISCLOSE 1000S OF UFO FILES INCLUDING THE RENDLESHAM CASE
WHISTLEBLOWER TO DISCLOSE 1000S OF UFO FILES INCLUDING THE RENDLESHAM CASE
Retired Colonel Charles Halt, the most senior former US servicemen to go public about UFOs and the Rendlesham case.
The man, who says he was a third-class petty officer at the Naval Telecommunications Center within NAS Moffett Field from February 1986 to October 1989, also claims he can shed light on the mysterious mass-UFO sighting involving military personal in 1980.
He has yet to be named, but a former British MoD UFO investigator confirmed to us the man is a genuine source, creatinga flurry of excitement within the UFO disclosure community.
Nick Pope, who was charged by the MoD with investigating baffling UK UFO cases, including the Rendlesham incident, said: "I've actually had some personal communication with this individual, and have no doubts about his background.
"It's clear from the language he uses and the information he has that he's a genuine insider."
But Mr Pope stopped short of encouraging the whistleblower to come outinto the open
He added: "While my own secrecy oath means I can't encourage anyone to divulge classified information without proper authority, I'm obviously very interested in his story.
"As I conducted the MoD's cold case review of the Rendlesham Forest incident I'm particularly keen to hear about anything that would shed new light on this case."
The Rendlesham legend has been dubbed Britain's Roswell after the mystery UFO crash said to have happened outside the town in New Mexico, USA, in July 1947.
The UK alien sighting happened when three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters claimed a "triangular shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26 1980.
It has led to several reported sightings on the night by the public and several books and conspiracies.
The man, who has not been publicly named, is claiming the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK Government had a going project looking at UFO sightings, including Rendlesham in the 1980s.
He has filed a report to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) - the world's biggest official alien investigation organisation based in the US, saying he wants to help reach "disclosure".
The disclosure movement among the UFO fraternity, is calling for all world Governments to make public all their top secret files on UFO and flying saucer visitations. In the report filed on Saturday he said:
"I'm not reporting a UFO sighting rather a UFO related experience.
"I have copies of my security clearances. "I personally handled, viewed and delivered thousands of documents involving UFO/ET Projects.
"My secrecy agreement with the US Government expired in October 2014.
"At this point in my life I would like to share my knowledge in hopes that someone will be able to use it effectively towards disclosure."
He said he was given TS SBI/ESI NATO/SIOP Compartmental Security Clearance, which is Top Secret clearance for working in Special Background Investigation, Single Integrated Operation Plan, Exceptionally Sensitive Information and with NATO.
He added: "In addition we had a GS11 employee who was transferred from a Joint US/UK communication station north of London after working at that site for a dozen years.
"He said it was an National Security Agency (NSA)/UK facility tasked with tracking UFO including Rendalsham Forest Incident.
"He said that UFO/ET were real and that hopefully disclosure would happen in my lifetime since he was in his early 60s at the time."
In the report he said: "I was required to deliver TS Code word designation COSMIC to SRI, ESL/SYLVANIA, LOCKHEED SKUNKWORKS, TRW, RATHEON, BERKELEY LABS, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LABS, and other think tanks throughout Silicon valley."
Express.co.uk has contacted MUFON to ask if it is taking his claims seriously or has contacted him to view his credentials, and awaits a response.
In the meantime, there is no way of knowing if his claims are genuine.
However, research shows that at the time in question, Moffett Field was a naval air base, but is now a MFA as a restricted federal airfield, run by NASA.*
The Lockheed Martin Skunkworks is a global security and aerospace company based in Bethesda, Maryland
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Analysts Might Have Just Found First Evidence of Intelligent Life on Mars
Analysts Might Have Just Found First Evidence of Intelligent Life on Mars
There are countless anomalies surprised by NASA’ rovers on the surface of Mars, and although most of them resemble artifacts left behind by a former civilization, or even biological life forms, there is still no conclusive evidence of intelligent design. However, the latest images beaconed by Opportunity rover might turn the tides in this matter.
What if the artifacts found all across the Martian soil act only as a distraction from the bigger picture? What if the ground level details are only meant to mask the real activity that’s happening up in the sky? Indeed, more and more reports of UFOs are surfacing from the vigilant UFO analysts that are constantly on the lookout for anomalies on Mars.
In the last few months, bizarre dots were found in some of the pictures sent by the rovers, and although at first, skeptics believed they were the result of common phenomenon such as lens flares or even dust, they soon realized the opposite after further photos revealed moving objects in consecutive frames.
The most recent case of a UFO on the Red Planet comes from Opportunity rover’s camera, and it reveals an unidentified flying device while in motion. The spectacular image has been highlighted by Streetcap1 of YouTube, who also provided us with an official NASA link to diminish all doubts. The photo clearly shows how a UFO is flying over a nearby hill on a serene sol on Mars. The object leaves a trail behind, indicating its trajectory and from where it came from. Could this surprising image prove that highly intelligent entities exist on the planet?
According to UFO analysts, the UFO could be a surveillance drone spying on NASA’ rover. It could be either remote controlled or piloted by something (or someone). Judging by the distance, the device is flying at a relatively low altitude and appears to have medium proportions. It leaves a trail behind which is a clear indicator of movement. Other than this, the fact that it is found near Opportunity indicates a certain level of interest in the rover.
Scott Waring from ufosightingsdaily also confirmed the above mentioned after he closely analyzed the NASA image:
Reports of strange things in rover photos never seem to cease, but it’s always the public that reports them, he wrote on his site. Here, Streetcap1 of YouTube caught an object not too far in the distance that is moving from right to left of the screen. There is a faded trail behind it, a distortion of sorts which tells us the direction it came from. It looks like the spacecraft in the distance is watching the Opportunity rover, observing it.
If these concerns prove to be true, could Mars be hiding a tremendous secret? Is it possible that NASA already knows about this and is keeping the general public in a cone of shadow? After all, it only takes 9 months to reach the Martian soil, so the space agency is bound to have more insight regarding what is happening on the neighboring planet.
From our perspective, the mysterious black dot could be a fine example of artificial intelligence found in space. Either that, or NASA has a black budged program that’s already operating on Mars. However, since many brilliant minds on Earth discussed the possibility of artificially intelligent beings found in outer space, we find the first mentioned hypothesis more likely than the other. If the renowned space agency knows about this, they will probably reveal more information when they’ll be certain of it. Until then, we can only speculate at what awaits us in the big red wasteland, but day by day the truth becomes harder and harder to swallow. [Official NASA link]
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Gas Cloud Flung Out of Milky Way Is Coming Back for Revenge
Gas Cloud Flung Out of Milky Way Is Coming Back for Revenge
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
This composite image shows what Smith’s Cloud would look like in the night sky, if it were visible to human eyes. The cloud is on a course to collide with the Milky Way in about 30 million years. The cloud appears in false-color, radio wavelengths as observed by the Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia.
Credit: Saxton/Lockman/NRAO/AUI/NSF/Mellinger
This time, it's personal. A massive cloud ejected from the outskirts of the Milky Way galaxy about 70 million years ago is now hurtling back toward the disk at breakneck speed.
The boomeranged collection of gas, known as Smith's Cloud, was discovered in 1963, and scientists say it will collide with the Milky Way in about 30 million years. But a new study looking the composition of the cloud shows that it shares a similar chemical signature as the outer disk of the Milky Way.
Smith's Cloud is 11,000 light-years long by 2,500 light-years wide (for comparison, the Milky Way is about 100,000 light-years in diameter), and is speeding toward the Milky Way at nearly 700,000 miles per hour. While it is invisible to the naked eye, if humans could see it in the night sky, it would appear to be about 30 times the size of the full moon, according to NASA. [Stunning Photos of Our Milky Way Galaxy (Gallery)]
To determine the cloud's composition, the authors of the new research used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. As light from background galaxies passes through the cloud, certain chemical elements inside the cloud absorb the light in specific wavelengths. The dips in brightness reveal which elements are present within the cloud. The researchers looked for sulfur, which provides a good gauge of how many elements heavier than hydrogen and helium are contained by the object.
"By measuring sulfur, you can learn how enriched in sulfur atoms the cloud is compared to the sun," lead author Andrew Fox, of the Space Telescope Science Center in Baltimore, said in a statement from the University of Notre Dame, where one of his co-authors is based.
Trajectory of the Smith Cloud falling into the Milky Way galaxy.
Credit: NASA and ESA
Fox and his colleagues found that the cloud is as rich in sulfur as the outer disk of the Milky Way, a region filled with material created by stars and spread when they exploded into supernovas. This region is about 40,000 light-years from the galactic center.
If the starless cloud originated from the depths of space, as some have proposed, it would contain only hydrogen and helium. The new study reveals that upon collision, the fresh supply of gas should kick-start star formation in the galaxy. It contains enough gas to generate two million suns, according to the statement.
"We have found several massive clouds in the Milky Way halo that may serve as future fuel for star formation in its disk, but, for most of them, their origins remain a mystery," said Nicolas Lehner, of the University of Notre Dame, in the statement. "The Smith Cloud is certainly one of the best examples that shows that recycled gas is an important mechanism for the evolution of galaxies."
China zal bijna 10.000 mensen uit hun woning zetten voor de goede werking van de grootste radiotelescoop ter wereld, een enorm gevaarte dat onder meer op zoek moet gaan naar buitenaards leven. Dat hebben de staatsmedia dinsdag gemeld.
De wetenschappers noemen het ding de "Five-hundred-metre Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope" of FAST. Het zal zich in een geïsoleerd ruraal gebied in de zuidoostelijke provincie Guizhou spreiden over een oppervlakte van dertig voetbalvelden en moet nog in september in dienst treden.
De provinciale autoriteiten willen aldus tegen dan 9.110 bewoners van een gebied in een straal van vijf km rond de luisterpost onthemen, aldus het persbureau Nieuw China. De verhuizingen moeten een "betrouwbare omgeving in verband met elektromagnetische golven bewerkstelligen", zegt de door het staatspersbureau geciteerde hoge ambtenaar Li Yuecheng.
De bewuste mensen zullen een schadevergoeding van omgerekend 1.650 euro krijgen, sommigen krijgen bijkomende hulp.
De bouw van de FAST begon in maart 2011 en heeft al 165 miljoen euro gekost. De radiotelescoop overtreft met een diameter van 500 meter die van Arecibo op het eiland Puerto Rico die een diameter van 305 meter heeft.
In het verleden hebben al honderdduizenden Chinezen hun woning moeten verlaten in verband met enorme infrastructuurwerken zoals dammen en kanalen. Een groot aantal van die mensen klaagt over een te lage schadeloosstelling. Soms komt het ook tot geweld.
WETENSCHAPBritse wetenschappers en een doctoraatsstudente van de KU Leuven zijn erin geslaagd voor het eerst de atmosfeer van een superaarde te ontdekken. Naast het feit dat het op de "diamanten planeet" heel erg warm is, blijkt het er ook bijzonder giftig om te wonen, meldt het Institute of Astronomy (KU Leuven).
'Een dag op deze exoplaneet duurt 18 uren en de temperatuur aan het oppervlak loopt op tot 2.000 graden Celsius'
Olivia Venot (KU Leuven)
Superaardes zijn planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel die zwaarder zijn dan onze eigen aarde. Ze komen in onze Melkweg in grote getalen voor.
Wetenschappers maakten gebruik van de NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescoop om een van die superaardes, de 55 Cancri e, te bestuderen. "Een dag op deze exoplaneet duurt 18 uren en de temperatuur aan het oppervlak loopt op tot 2.000 graden Celsius", zegt Olivia Venot (KU Leuven). "De planeet bevindt zich in een planetenstelsel rond 55 Cancri, een ster in het sterrenbeeld van de kreeft op ongeveer veertig lichtjaren van de aarde."
De superaarde 55 Cancri e heeft als bijnaam "de diamanten planeet", omdat op basis van massa en straal vermoed werd dat koolstof in de atmosfeer aanwezig is. "Niettegenstaande bleef het een verrassing dat grote hoeveelheden waterstofcyanide werden aangetroffen. Dergelijke hoeveelheden waterstof cyanide wijzen erop dat voor elk zuurstof atoom in de atmosfeer verschillende koolstofatomen aanwezig zijn."
Een nieuwe generatie infraroodtelescopen moet over enkele jaren bevestigen of de planeet inderdaad rijk is aan koolstof, merkt professor Jonathan Tennyson (UCL) nog op. "Al is waterstofcyanide zeer giftig en is deze planeet misschien niet onze favoriete reisbestemming."
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UFO over Buenos Aires – January 2016
UFO over Buenos Aires – January 2016
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina Date: 14th of January 2016 Submitted by Mihaly
Witness report: Around 22:45 a couple of days ago, I went outside to take some fresh air, and as I like to gaze the stars, I looked up. For my biggest surprise, I have seen something, that looked like nothing I have seen before. It was a mostly blue, redish spot on the sky, that was much larger than a star. It was moving, coming from Notheast, and at a 75 degree angle it stopped, and hovered in that position for about 2 minutes. I quickly grabbed my digital camera, and started recording it. I tried to zoom in to see if I can get a clearer picture of it, and astoundingly, I did. It was just like a dream, only that it was real. And it happened to me. In a circular arrangement I saw 6 lights. 2 red on the left, and 4 blue to the right. Also faintly 1 middle light could be seen blinking in pink. The lights appear as if they are spheres. Then it started to descend to the same direction where it came from. With zoom it was hard to follow it at this time. It disappeared beyond the rooftops. Not thinking about that it might come back, I rushed inside to download my footage and to tell others what happened. However, I was suspicious that it might be back, so I went outside, and there it was again. Seemed to follow the same pattern as earlier. But this time I arrived too late, and it was just about to disappear again, in the same direction where it came from, on Northeast. I have no way to tell the size of the aircraft, it might be much larger than the lights suggest. The distance I believe could not be too far, as it could be zoomed in on by a regular digital camera. I wish I had a better one on me, I could make a great quality footage, that no one have ever seen. It was still an unbelievable sighting.
Location:near Area 51, Nevada Date: 7/21/2015 Submitted by Ashley
Witness report: I was flying from Phoenix to Sacramento around 9am and saw these 2 bright lights far out in the distance from 30,000feet up in the air. They never moved from what I could see and they stayed in view through the clouds for 2 minutes or so as we passed. I took one photo, zoomed in a bit and took another. Both are taken with a cell phone.
UFO sighting reported south of Catalina Island, California
UFO sighting reported south of Catalina Island, California
Location:south of Catalina Island, California Date:1 February 2016 Submitted by Christine
Witness report: PLEASE! people think I am crazy and when I confide my profession dismiss me immediately. I was on a yacht cruising south of Catalina Island returning to L.A. after a weekend ‘party’ cruise. It was late Sunday night. I remained on deck after everyone else had gone below except the helmsman. We encountered a fast moving fog and I saw balls of lightning zoom overhead. the boat rocked violently and dozens of flying fish broke the surface. A HUGE, pewter colored disk rose from the water and hovered overhead silently. I felt vertigo, my stomach lurch and felt myself floating in a beam of intense light. My next memory was of someone pulling me to my feet by my arms. It was bright daylight and a USCG boat was alongside hailing us not to move. There were already armed sailors onboard who roughly handcuffed me and tried not to stare ( my bikini was missing) and men in suits in charge giving orders. My famous companion came out; very groggy and their attitude changed. They claimed we matched a drug runner. they let us go. My companion was upset about publicity and we raced to LA overdue.He told me never to tell anyone we were out and dropped all contact with me. I think I am being watched. I have flash memories and weird things going on physically. I am scared, ashamed without knowing why and nobody will listen.
Location:Medellin, Colombia, South America Date:Satuday, febr 13/2016- Aprox 11:45 pm Submitted by Carlos
Witness report:Informed from my daughther who was looking 3 red lights extrange movements in the Envigado(beside Medellín) night sky, I search in this direction (orient) to take this photos.It seems to have a light tail during ascending. The sighting take aprox 1 minute.
These Are The Vehicles That Will Take You To Space
These Are The Vehicles That Will Take You To Space
Virgin Galactic’s human spaceflight system consists of two vehicle types: WhiteKnightTwo and SpaceShipTwo. The first of each vehicle type was built by Scaled Composites, and all future vehicles in our spaceline fleet will be built by our sister company, The Spaceship Company.
WhiteKnightTwo
WhiteKnightTwo is a custom-built, four-engine, dual-fuselage jet aircraft. It is designed to carry SpaceShipTwo (or LauncherOne) up to an altitude of ~50,000 feet for safe and efficient air launch, a concept that was established by Chuck Yeager’s supersonic Bell X-1, the X-15, and of course SpaceShipOne.
WhiteKnightTwo’s signature design features are its twin fuselage configuration; single-piece, carbon composite high main wing; and four jet engines. The twin boom configuration allows for a spacious central attachment area between the two fuselages for SpaceShipTwo or LauncherOne.
WhiteKnightTwo’s pilots fly the plane from its right fuselage. In the future, with the right regulatory approvals, research experiments or even customers preparing for their flights to space may sit in the cabin of either fuselage.
The first WhiteKnightTwo, called Eve, has completed an extensive four-and-a-half year flight test program.
SpaceShipTwo
SpaceShipTwo is a reusable, winged spacecraft designed to repeatedly carry as many as eight people (including two pilots) into space — a larger total flight crew than any previous space mission except for NASA’s 8-member STS-61-A mission in 1985. Everyone on board SpaceShipTwo will earn official astronaut status, just like the pilots who flew the X-15 spaceplane.
SpaceShipTwo is powered by a hybrid rocket motor — one that combines elements of solid rockets and liquid rocket engines by using a solid fuel source and a liquid oxidizer. Hybrid rocket motors are not a new idea; they have been used in many other applications, including on SpaceShipOne. Although each type of rocket engine has important advantages for different applications (for example, LauncherOne uses liquid rocket engines), hybrids are particularly well suited for SpaceShipTwo because they can be shut down safely and quickly at any point during the flight, unlike solid motors, but do not require the cryogenic propellant tanks or complex plumbing needed by liquid rocket engines.
Like SpaceShipOne before it, SpaceShipTwo uses a unique system to safely re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere. With this system, SpaceShipTwo can mimic the performance of a capsule or of a winged vehicle at the appropriate parts of its trajectory. Each of those vehicle types on its own offers important advantages: winged vehicles provide gentle deceleration and precision landing accuracy but require extremely high precision and advanced thermal protection systems, while capsules require less precision and less advanced thermal protection, but subject astronauts to much harsher decelerations and less accurate landings. By changing its configuration in flight, SpaceShipTwo can benefit from the advantages of both types.
SpaceShipTwo’s cabin has been designed to maximize safety and comfort — it is the only spacecraft in history designed explicitly to optimize its passengers’ experience. A dozen windows line the sides and ceiling of the spacecraft, offering each astronaut the ability to view the black skies of space as well as stunning views of the Earth below. Exposure to G-forces during SpaceShipTwo’s ascent and descent is safely and comfortably managed thanks to systems such as our custom-designed, articulated seats, which are upright during rocket boost and reclined during reentry. The cabin is also designed for unfettered enjoyment of a large floating environment.
With the exception of the rocket motor’s fuel and oxidizer, which must be replenished after each flight, SpaceShipTwo is a fully reusable spacecraft.
The first SpaceShipTwo, called Enterprise, was tragically lost during its 55th test flight. The second SpaceShipTwo, not yet named, is approximately two-thirds assembled and 90% structurally complete. It is expected to commence testing in 2015.
Meet four space tourism programs and see the crafts (and the tech) that can take you beyond Earth
What was once only possible in the pages of science fiction novels, travelling to the edge of space, is now a reality – and you can even choose your ride to get there! Here are some of the best ways that you can actually take yourself to space (or very nearly so).
The unveiling of Virgin Galactic’s new SpaceShipTwo (informally referred to as VSS Voyager) will be one for the books, as none other than physicist – and owner of the only free ticket on the craft – Stephen Hawking will be there (if his health permits) at the ceremony.
After the ill-fated crash of VSS Enterprise, the new SpaceShipTwo has clearly incorporated the lessons from its predecessor into its latest design. It has amped up its safety measures, including a feature that prevents the tail booms from extending prematurely and throwing the craft out of control.
This emphasis on safety is also carried over to its cabin. According to Virgin Galactic’s website, it has custom-designed, articulated seats, which stay upright during rocket boost and recline during re-entry.
But as SpaceShipTwo is still targeted towards promoting space tourism, passengers will be treated to an unobstructed view of the Earth from space through the dozen windows that line its sides and ceiling.
Of course, it won’t be an ‘out of this world’ experience without experiencing zero gravity. SpaceShipTwo is also big enough for passengers to float around during a few minutes of weightlessness.
The unveiling of SpaceShipTwo is scheduled on February 19 at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.
NEW SHEPHARD (BLUE ORIGIN)
Blue Origin
Owned by Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, what sets Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket apart from others in the space tourism race is that it’s re-usable.
In a video released by Blue Origin, it shows New Shephard hitting an altitude of 333,582 feet (63 miles) before landing softly, and vertically, on the ground. If that’s not cool enough, Blue Origin says that, during flights, passengers will experience at least a few minutes of weightlessness after the capsule separates from the booster. At such times, passengers will be able to leave their seats and float about the capsule before a signal tells them to be reseated for landing.
And although no other details of space tourism operations has yet to be released, Blue Origin’s New Shephard has clearly changed the game for space travel by making it cheaper.
LYNX (XCOR AEROSPACE)
Image credit: Lynx/ XCOR
As far as Lynx goes, the company sums up their tech better than anything else:
“Lynx departs direct from the runway under its own rocket power. Supersonic in one minute, weightless in five minutes, Lynx wastes no time delivering the spaceflight experience in full.”
If that doesn’t get you giddy for suborbital space travel, nothing will.
XCOR Aerospace’s Lynx is a reusable two-seat vehicle which can reach sub-orbit in less than four minutes. It’s also equipped with a dozen thrusters that allows the passengers to “roll the vehicle” to get the view they want during that six to seven minutes of weightlessness before returning to Earth.
Currently, it’s estimated that there are already over 350 clients waiting to take their trip to space. You can be one of them for $150,000 a ticket (a hefty fee to be sure, but space isn’t cheap).
VOYAGER (WORLD VIEW)
Artist rendering provided by World View Enterprises
If fast and furious isn’t your space travel style, Arizona company World View has got you covered.
The World View voyage can be likened more to a cruise, with its four to six hour flight – two hours of which are spent at 100,000 feet (20 miles) above Earth.
Its pressurized space capsule suspended beneath a high-altitude balloon has all the amenities of posh hotel suite from a mini bar to a lavatory. There’s also in-flight real-time social media communications available to passengers. Tickets are priced at $75,000 inclusive of a non-refundable $7,500 handling fee.
A radical new weapon that can fire a shell at seven times the speed of sound could be used by the Navy as soon as 2018.
Described as 'Star Wars technology' by researchers, the rail gun can fire a shell weighing 10kg at up to 5,400mph over 100 miles. It does this with such force and accuracy it penetrates three concrete walls or six half-inch thick steel plates.
Development of a futuristic weapon is going well enough that a Navy admiral wants to skip an at-sea prototype in favor of installing an operational unit aboard one of its new Zumwalt-class destroyers.
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A radical new weapon that can fire a shell at seven times the speed of sound could be used by the Navy as soon as 2018. Described as 'Star Wars technology' by researchers, the rail gun can fire a shell weighing 10kg at up to 5,400mph over 100 miles
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Railguns use electricity instead of gunpowder to accelerate a projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound.
Using an electromagnetic force known as the Lorenz Force, the gun accelerates a projectile between two rails that conduct electricity, before launching it at ferocious speed.
This means the railgun can fire further than conventional guns and maintain enough kinetic energy to inflict tremendous damage.
This particulary rail gun can fire a shell weighing 10kg at up to 5,400mph over 100 miles – with such force and accuracy it penetrates three concrete walls or six half-inch thick steel plates.
Electromagnetic launchers were one of the areas researched by Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defence Initiative, nicknamed 'Star Wars' after the science fiction film franchise.
Rail guns use electricity instead of gunpowder to accelerate a projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound — creating enough kinetic energy to destroy targets.
It's technology that holds the possibility of providing an effective weapon at pennies on the dollars compared to smart bombs and missiles.
Admiral Pete Fanta, the Navy's director of surface warfare, has floated the idea of foregoing the current plan to put a prototype on another vessel this year and instead put it directly on future USS Lyndon B. Johnson - though no final decision has been made.
'The Zumwalt-class is one of a number of options being explored for the electromagnetic railgun,' said Lt. Cmdr. Hayley Sims, a Navy spokeswoman.
'Due to the size, weight and power requirements, some platforms will be better suited for the technology than others.'
4/08/2014 -- US Navy tests electromagnetic Railgun -- to be deployed in 1-2 years
Using an electromagnetic force known as the Lorenz Force, the gun accelerates a projectile between two rails that conduct electricity, before launching it at ferocious speed.
This means the railgun can fire further than conventional guns and maintain enough kinetic energy to inflict tremendous damage.
Railguns were first conceived of nearly a century ago and patented by French inventor Louis Octave Fauchon-Villeplee.
Nazi Germany took up the research during the Second World War to adapt its anti-aircraft guns.
There has been talk since the inception of the Zumwalt program that the massive destroyers would be a likely candidate for the weapon because of its power plant.
The USS Johnson will be the third and final destroyer in the Zumwalt class.
Development of a futuristic weapon is going well enough that a Navy admiral wants to skip an at-sea prototype in favor of installing an operational unit aboard one of its new Zumwalt-class destroyers. Pictured is one of two electromagnetic railgun prototypes on display aboard joint high speed vessel USS Millinocket (JHSV 3) in port at Naval Base San Diego in 2014
Rear Admiral Matthew Klunder, head of US Naval Research, said the futuristic electromagnetic railgun – so called because it fires from two parallel rails – had already undergone extensive testing on land
United States Navy Shows its Supersonic Electromagnetic Railgun Weapon
The weapon uses speed rather than explosives to destroy its target
The 600-foot-long warship uses marine turbines similar to those that propel the Boeing 777 to help produce up to 78 megawatts of electricity for use in propulsion, weapons and sensors. That's more than enough power for the railgun.
If it's placed on the warship, the system could replace one of the forward turrets housing a 155mm gun that fires rocket-propelled projectiles.
For now, however, the official plan remains for the railgun prototype to be tested aboard a joint high speed vessel this year.
But there are concerns that the plan may be pushed back into 2017, and Fanta suggested skipping it altogether.
The railgun, along with laser weaponry, are two futuristic technologies that Fanta said have evolved from being a matter of scientific research to one of practical engineering.
The Navy is interested in those weapons — along with smart munitions that can improve existing naval guns — because of their low cost as well as lethality.
'The Navy is determined to increase the offensive punch of the surface warships,' said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst at the Lexington Institute.
'To do that with a limited budget, it needs to look at everything from smart munitions to railguns to lasers.'
The railgun discussion isn't widely known inside the shipyard, where the Zumwalt-calls destroyers are being built.
Bath Iron Works, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, had no comment.
Shipbuilder Charles Davis said there was talk of a railgun when the yard began work on the first ship in the class, but he said there's been no discussion since then.
'They've been pretty tight-lipped about it,' he said.
Navy to Deploy Electromagnetic Railgun Aboard JHSV
There has been talk since the inception of the Zumwalt program that the massive destroyers (pictured) would be a likely candidate for the weapon because of its power plant. The USS Johnson will be the third and final destroyer in the Zumwalt class
Railguns use electricity instead of gunpowder to accelerate a projectile at six or seven times the speed of sound — creating enough kinetic energy to destroy targets. It's technology that holds the possibility of providing an effective weapon at pennies on the dollars compared to smart bombs and missiles
Described as 'Star Wars technology' by researchers for its incredible range, the rail gun can fire further than conventional guns and maintain enough kinetic energy to inflict tremendous damage. Pictured is the Death Star from Star Wars
The Truth Is Out There: CIA Publishes UFO Investigation Tips
The Truth Is Out There: CIA Publishes UFO Investigation Tips
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
High-flying spy planes such as the U-2, seen here, likely spurred many reported UFO sightings over the years, CIA officials have said.
Credit: National Security Archive
In 1947, New Mexico police officer Lonnie Zamora was chasing a speeding car when he heard a loud noise. He saw a flame shoot up in a nearby patch of desert and went over to investigate, thinking a dynamite shack in the area might have exploded.
What Zamora reported is still under intense dispute decades later. He says he saw a sedan-size, shiny object on a hilltop. Once he got closer on foot, the object began making loud noises. Zamora backed away but saw the UFO rise into the sky and speed away until it disappeared.
The UFO sighting — which is still unexplained despite investigators' belief that Zamora told the truth — was investigated by the United States Air Force as a part of Project BLUE BOOK, which recorded 12,618 sightings of strange objects between 1947 and 1969. The Central Intelligence Agency also assisted in analyzing the sightings. [Where to Spot UFOs (Infographic)]
ASA Astronaut Sees 'UFO' Near Space Station (2015 UFO video)
Below are the tips that the CIA learned from "flying saucer intelligence," as the agency highlighted in a recent blog post. Helpfully, the CIA also published a list of UFO cases that Fox Mulder and Dana Scully — the heroes of the recently revived "X-Files" TV series — would enjoy.
Create a group to find and evaluate the sightings. After the 1947 incident, Project SAUCER was established to obtain all possible information about these sightings. (The premise was that the sightings were not necessarily UFOs, but could be foreign craft.) The group was renamed Project SIGN and then Project BLUE BOOK.
Figure out your investigation's goals. Project BLUE BOOK aimed to find out if UFOs were a threat to U.S. security, determine if UFOs have technology that could be used by the U.S., and explain which stimuli cause a person to report a UFO.
Consult with experts. Project BLUE BOOK's outside experts included astrophysicists, federal aviation officials, pilots, academics, and people at the U.S. Weather Bureau, local weather stations, the National Center for Atmospheric Research and NASA, among other organizations.
Organize cases in a reporting system. BLUE BOOK's categories included astronomical, aircraft, balloons, satellites, other (such as reflections or mirages), insufficient data and unidentified.
Eliminate false positives. Examples included misidentified aircraft (particularly the U-2, A-12 and SR-71 spy planes), hoaxes and mass hysteria.
Develop methodology to identify common aircraft (or other phenomena) the public mistook as UFOs.
Examine witness documentation.
Conduct controlled experiments, such as photographing certain types of balloons from different distances under similar weather conditions.
Gather and test physical and forensic evidence. The Zamora investigation included using Geiger counters to look for radiation, and sending soil samples off for expert analysis.
Discourage false reporting. In the 1950s, during the Cold War, there were concerns the Soviet Union could deploy fake "UFOs" to incite panic in the U.S. So officials countered that by teaching the public how to look for similar phenomena, such as astronomical objects (meteors) or illuminated objects (balloons).
The image taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (HIRISE) shows the northern rim of a crater in Deuteronilus on Mars.
At the northern end, we see the crater rim and ridges inside and below that rim. A channel set is entering from the west and passing through a notch in a ridge.
At the bottom of the crater we see a strange (impact?) spot and an object what looks like a flying saucer.
Is it just an optical illusion or HIRISE has captured a UFO that crashed into the crater wall?
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UFO Attempts To Dock With ISS?
UFO Attempts To Dock With ISS?
Remarkable footage has emerged of a possible UFO in close proximity to the International Space Station.
The footage which was recorded during a recent NASA mission appears to show a massive Hexagon shaped UFO very close to the stations remote manipulator system.
Oud-marineofficier ‘staat op punt boekje open te doen over duizenden topgeheime UFO-stukken’
Oud-marineofficier ‘staat op punt boekje open te doen over duizenden topgeheime UFO-stukken’
Een Amerikaanse oud-marineofficier staat naar eigen zeggen op het punt om een boekje open te doen over duizenden topgeheime UFO-documenten, aangezien hij geen geheimhoudingsplicht meer heeft. Hij wil ook zijn licht laten schijnen over een mysterieuze UFO-waarneming in 1980. Dat schrijft de Britse Daily Express.
Volgens een oud-medewerker van het Britse ministerie van Defensie is de man betrouwbaar. “Ik heb enkele keren contact met hem gehad en heb geen twijfels over zijn achtergrond,” zei Nick Pope, die voor het ministerie onderzoek deed naar UFO-meldingen. “Op basis van de informatie die hij heeft en de taal die hij gebruikt kan ik zeggen dat we hier te maken hebben met een ingewijde.”
De marineofficier claimt dat de Amerikaanse spionagedienst NSA en de Britse overheid een project hadden over UFO-waarnemingen, waaronder die in het Engelse Rendlesham Forest in de jaren tachtig.
Disclosure
“Ik heb kopieën van mijn veiligheidsmachtigingen,” zei de man. “Ik heb persoonlijk duizenden documenten over UFO/ET-projecten onder ogen gehad. Ik wil graag mijn kennis delen om zo mijn steentje bij te dragen aan ‘disclosure’.”
Hij zei dat een collega hem had verteld dat de NSA en een Brits communicatiestation belast waren met het volgen van UFO’s. De collega zou verder hebben gezegd dat UFO’s en aliens echt bestaan en te hopen dat deze informatie nog voor zijn dood bekend zou worden.
Historische zaak
Voor zijn werk kreeg de marineofficier naar eigen zeggen geregeld te maken met vliegbasis Moffett Field, Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, Raytheon, Berkeley National Laboratory en Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Silicon Valley.
Moffett werd vanaf 1933 als militair vliegveld gebruikt, maar later ook voor andere doeleinden. Het vliegveld is eigendom van de NASA. Skunk Works is de naam van de ontwikkelingsafdeling van vliegtuigbouwer Lockheed Martin. Raytheon is een groot Amerikaans defensie- en technologiebedrijf. De twee laboratoria werken nauw samen met de NASA.
Woordvoerder van MUFON Roger Marsh sprak van een ‘historische zaak’.
Wanneer je altijd al het gevoel hebt gehad dat je je hier op aarde een beetje machteloos voelt en graag contact zou maken met onze verre ruimtebroeders dan is komende herfst je kans.
In de periode september tot november 2016 kan iedereen gratis een boodschap met de snelheid van het licht de ruimte in sturen.
Deze boodschappen zullen worden gestuurd in de richting van de Polaris, bij ons beter bekend als de Poolster.
Polaris of de Poolster (alpha Ursae Minoris) is de helderste ster in het sterrenbeeld Kleine Beer (Ursa Minor).
De ster staat ook bekend als Alruccabah, Cynosura, Phoenice, Loodsster, Tramontana, Navigatoria, Ster van Arcady, Yilduz en Mismar. De ster maakt deel uit van de Pleiadengroep.
De naam Polaris en Poolster dankt de ster aan het feit dat hij tegenwoordig ongeveer op de plaats van de noordelijke hemelpool staat.
Je gedachten zullen zonder enige twijfel op de Poolster aankomen, al duurt het wel even. Met hun reis door de ruimte zal je boodschap over 434 jaar aankomen op de Poolster.
Natuurlijk zal het daarvoor talloze plaatsen passeren en ook na de Poolster zullen je gedachten verder door de ruimte reizen.
Het project wordt gerund door een aantal wetenschappers die een tijdcapsule willen maken met daarin een soort boodschap in een fles idee, maar dan de ruimte in.
De boodschappen uit het publiek zullen worden omgezet in radiogolven en vervolgens met de snelheid van het licht de ruimte in gestuurd worden.
Nu moet je niet denken dat je zomaar ieder berichtje de ruimte in kunt sturen. Dingen zoals: “Ik wil de groeten doen aan Tante Hannie op de Pleiaden” zijn niet het soort boodschappen waarnaar de wetenschappers op zoek zijn.
De boodschappen die de ruimte in zullen worden gestuurd, zijn allemaal antwoorden op één en dezelfde vraag:
Hoe zullen onze huidige milieuactiviteiten/-interacties onze toekomst bepalen?
Met andere woorden, als we doen wat we nu doen op het gebied van milieu en dergelijke, hoe ziet de toekomst van onze aarde er dan uit. Er staat niet bij dat ze op zoek zijn naar antwoorden om het probleem op te lossen, maar mocht je die hebben dan is dat mooi meegenomen.
Er zijn geen goede of verkeerde antwoorden en ongetwijfeld kan je ook een stukje persoonlijke boodschap toevoegen, maar de wetenschappers uit Engeland zijn benieuwd hoe mensen uit verschillende delen van de wereld denken over dit vraagstuk. Door de antwoorden hopen ze daardoor zelf meer inzicht te krijgen.
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Location: Newton Abbot, Devon, UK Date: 19th of January 2016 Submitted by John
Witness report: I had an incredible sighting on the 19th of January 2016 of a flying saucer. I was sky watching when I noticed a black object far off in the distance in the direction I was looking. The black object got bigger as it got closer. I could clearly see that the object was in fact a flying saucer and I could see a dome on the top of the saucer. The flying saucer turned back in the direction from where it had come from and then disappeared off into the distance and out of sight. I got a very good look at this alien craft and all I can say is WOW!. I also managed to take twenty photographs of this amazing mechanical saucer. The photographs were taken on the 19th of January 2016 the time was approximately 1:10 PM at Newton Abbot Devon UK.
Government UFO-related documents seem to have a habit of disappearing. This time the files belonged to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
John Greenewald has been using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to get formerly classified documents from the government, and to post them online for decades. He began his efforts while in high school in the 1990s and continues his efforts to this day.
Greenewald was inspired to seek out these documents when he heard of UFO files that showed the U.S. government's interest in a UFO incident in Iran that took place in 1976. The government claims it no longer had any interest in UFOs since the official closing of its official UFO investigation, Project Blue Book, in 1969. He requested the document through a FOIA request and, to his surprise and delight, received it.
The file -- and the process of retrieving it -- fascinated Greenewald to the point where it spawned what has become a lifelong effort to retrieve formerly classified files and post them on the Internet. Greenewald's website, TheBlackVault.com, now has over 1.3 million formerly classified pages of documents.
In 1996, in response to a FOIA request, Greenewald received nearly 250 files from the DIA regarding UFOs. Supposedly, everything they had on the topic. However, several of the files were heavily redacted, meaning that there were blacked out sections, presumably, because those portions contained information that is still considered classified.
Occasionally, Greenewald requests that these files undergo a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR). The government is then supposed to review the previously declassified document to determine if redacted material can be unredacted, due to the information that had previously been blacked out having since been declassified.
It was an MDR of a classified document about spy planes that allowed the termArea 51 to be unredacted, thus making the existence of the super secret Area 51 military base official. Of course, that location had already been famous in UFO circles and popculture.
In 2014, Greenewald requested an MDR for the DIA documents he had obtained in 1996. In his inquiry, Greenewald included links to download the files he had received from the DIA which he now wanted reviewed.
Months later, in mid-2015, Greenewald received a reply that the links he had provided did not work, so the case would be suspended. The responses by the DIA are actually a bit confusing, but it appears once Greenewald's links could be accessed, the files he requested were not found.
The DIA wrote, "It appears the FOIA case files have been purged from the FOIA database."
The DIA asked Greenewald to provide the specific names of the files for them to "move forward in conducting a review."
Confused by the request, given that the file names are on the files themselves, Greenewald asked for clarification.
He was told, "The related FOIA case has been purged, the documents could not be identified and/or located."
The DIA officer reiterated, "We would need the titles in order to conduct a good faith effort for our search."
Frustrated, via social media, Greenewald wrote me, "The letter states that, despite me GIVING them the documents, they can't find them, and want exact titles."
He interprets the phrase "good faith effort" to mean they will make another effort, but they already had that information and could not find the documents, so the search is useless. Without the original non-redacted files, the DIA will not be able to conduct an MDR, and whatever information that was in those files that was blacked out is -- officially -- lost forever.
This isn't the first time this has happened to Greenewald. In 2014, he requested an MDR for the National Security Agency's (NSA) UFO files, which were part of a high profile court case.
In the late 70s, the Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS), headed by lawyer Peter Gersten, sought UFO files from several government agencies via a FOIA request. The NSA refused to release their files, so CAUS sued.
The NSA had a large amount of UFO information, not necessarily because it was investigating UFOs, but because it monitors communications worldwide as part of its regular duties. These files are called communications intelligence (COMINT). Among this large amount of data, there were hundreds of files referring to UFOs. However, the NSA felt they should remain classified.
In 1980, Eugene F. Yeates, chief of the Office of Policy for the NSA, submitted a 21-page document to the judge overseeing the case, Federal Judge Gerhart A. Gesell, as to why these files should remain classified. This document is often referred to as the "Yeates affidavit." It, too, was classified.
Although Gesell did not have the clearance to read the documents in question, the Yeates affidavit convinced him that the NSA files should stay classified. He wrote, "The public interest in disclosure is far outweighed by the sensitive nature of the materials and the obvious effect on national security their release may well entail."
When the Yeates affidavit was released, it was heavily redacted. UFO researcher Stanton Friedman shows a page from the document to demonstrate government UFO secrecy, and as he says, this goes over well on television where a simple image can be very effective when making a point.
A heavily redacted page from the Yeates affidavit. (Credit: NSA)
Eventually, in 1997, due to laws making it more difficult to keep files over 25 years old classified, the NSA released a less redacted Yeates affidavit and 156 UFO documents. As Friedman explains it, the affidavit was originally about 75 percent blacked out, the second version only about 20 percent blacked out. However, the UFO documents are heavily redacted.
The NSA might have seen Friedman's talks or television interviews, because instead of mostly blacking out the text, this time they largely whited it out, making it much less visually poignant.
In response to his 2014 MDR for the NSA UFO files, Greenewald was told the unredacted files were lost.
He writes, "NSA said they only have the redacted [files], and 'lost' the originals... as you can see -- DIA is using the same excuse, with the safety note they will try again... asking me for stuff they already have."
Greenewald says he has sent the DIA the titles of the documents, although he's not very hopeful it will help. If it could not find the files with the titles and the content of the documents that is currently available, it's not likely to find them with the titles alone.
The question is, were the files actually "lost," or, like in the recent premiere episode of the new X-Files mini-series, were the files spirited away by some other secret, nefarious third party? Stay tuned.
John Greenewald will present on these files and more government UFO secrets at the 2016 International UFO Congress. You can find out more about his talk here.
Find out more about these files and their relation to recent articles from the CIA on UFOs in the following video.
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SCIENTISTS FIND SUPER EARTH 4 TIMES LARGER THAN OUR PLANET, CLOSEST HABITABLE PLANET TO OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
SCIENTISTS FIND SUPER EARTH 4 TIMES LARGER THAN OUR PLANET, CLOSEST HABITABLE PLANET TO OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
The researchers made extremely important discovery for finding planet similar to earth, super – Earths which is only 14 light years from our sun. Did Wolf 1061c officially next habitable planet outside our solar system, and has a mass four times the size of Earth. According to astronomers, Wolf 1061c sits in the habitable zone, which means that it is highly unlikely that the planet to support liquid water and the necessary conditions, life as we know it. Although scientists have discovered in the last planets that are much closer than Wolf 1061c, these planets are not considered vacant as a candidate by the astronomers.
Simulation orbital configuration Wolf 1061 system. The orbits of planets b, c and d (inner planets outer ordered) time from 4.9 days to 17.9 days and 67.2 days. In the simulation, we showed orbits of the planets are all on one level. Planet habitable zone around a star is green – the color class red (where the planet is too hot) through green (if the surface of the planet could maintain liquid water) to blue (where the planet too cold).
This planet similar to earth is closest discovered a potentially habitable planet outside the solar system and increases the hope of detecting planets in the near future, which could create life on its surface.”This is particularly exciting because all three are sufficiently low mass planets are potentially rocky and rugged surface has,” said lead study author Dr. Duncan Wright of theUniversity of South Nev Vales (UNSV). “
“Middle planet Wolf 1061c, sits in a ‘Goldilocks’ zone in which it might be possible for liquid water – and maybe even your life. – That there’ “It is fascinating to watch in the vastness of space, and I think the star so very close to us – a close neighbor -. It can accommodate habitable planet”
The three newly discovered planets orbiting small, cool, relatively stable star. Their masses are about 1.4, 4.3 and 5.2 times that of Earth. “The proximity of the planet to the wolves in 1061 means that it can happen good chance this planet to face the star,” says co-author Dr Rob Vittenmier. “If that happens, then it may be possible to study the atmospheres of such planets in the future, whether it would be suitable for life.”
Scientists estimate that the largest of the three planets, Volf 1061d outside the external borders of the habitable zone falling, but it is probably a rocky planet to be something. Smaller planets Wolf 1061B too close to the star for a potential life or colonization in the distant future habitable leave Wolf 1061c, but it’s a perfect candidate. The latest discovery was made by a harp spectrograph on the European Southern Observatory 12ft (3.6 meter) telescope at La Silla in Chile made.
Commenting on the findings 1061c Wolf, professor Kris Tinnei said: “Our team has developed a new technique that enhances the analysis of data from this precise purpose-built, planet similar to earth hunting instrument, and we have more than ten years worth of observations explored Wolf 1061.” “These three planets directly beside us to join a small but growing number of potentially habitable rocky worlds orbiting cooler than our sun near the stars. ‘
AFTER INSCRIPTIONS IN POPULAR MECHANICS’ NEW PLANET SIMILAR TO EARTH WAS MADE USING THE RADIAL VELOCITY TECHNIQUE, WHICH INVOLVES FOUND A RED SHIFT OR BLUE SHIFT TO DEMONSTRATE MONITOR (MOVED OR REMOVED IN THE DIRECTION OF THE EARTH) FROM THE STAR’S GRAVITY UNSEEN PLANETS. IT USES THE HARPS SPECTROGRAPH ON THE DEVICE TO ALLOW DETECT SMALL PLANETS, NOT LARGE, JUPITER – WORLDS ARE USUALLY RADIAL VELOCITY “.
Whistleblower about to 'lift lid on 1000s of UFO files' is GENUINE, says ex-MoD man
Whistleblower about to 'lift lid on 1000s of UFO files' is GENUINE, says ex-MoD man
A FORMER US Naval officer who claims his secrecy agreement with the American Government has expired is vowing to lift the lid on thousands of top-secret UFO files he claims to have seen.
Retired Colonel Charles Halt, the most senior former US servicemen to go public about UFOs and Rendlesham Forest
The man, who says he was a third-class petty officer at the Naval Telecommunications Center within NAS Moffett Field from February 1986 to October 1989, also claims he can shed light on the mysterious mass-UFO sighting involving military personal in 1980.
He has yet to be named, but a former British MoD UFO investigator confirmed to Express.co.uk the man is a genuine source, creatinga flurry of excitement within the UFO disclosure community.
Nick Pope, who was charged by the MoD with investigating baffling UK UFO cases, including the Rendlesham incident, said: "I've actually had some personal communication with this individual, and have no doubts about his background.
"It's clear from the language he uses and the information he has that he's a genuine insider."
But Mr Pope stopped short of encouraging the whistleblower to come outinto the open.
He added: "While my own secrecy oath means I can't encourage anyone to divulge classified information without proper authority, I'm obviously very interested in his story.
"As I conducted the MoD's cold case review of the Rendlesham Forest incident I'm particularly keen to hear about anything that would shed new light on this case."
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News of the World reports of Rendlesham at the time
The UK alien sighting happened when three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters claimed a "triangular shaped craft" landed in neighbouring woods in the early hours of December 26 1980.
It has led to several reported sightings on the night by the public and several books and conspiracies.
The man, who has not been publicly named, is claiming the US National Security Agency (NSA) and the UK Government had a going project looking at UFO sightings, including Rendlesham in the 1980s.
He has filed a report to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) - the world's biggest official alien investigation organisation based in the US, saying he wants to help reach "disclosure".
The disclosure movement among the UFO fraternity, is calling for all world Governments to make public all their top secret files on UFO and flying saucer visitations.
In the report filed on Saturday he said: "I'm not reporting a UFO sighting rather a UFO related experience.
"I have copies of my security clearances.
"I personally handled, viewed and delivered thousands of documents involving UFO/ET Projects.
"My secrecy agreement with the US Government expired in October 2014.
I have copies of my security clearances. I personally handled, viewed and delivered thousands of documents involving UFO/ET Projects.
US Navy alleged whistleblower
"At this point in my life I would like to share my knowledge in hopes that someone will be able to use it effectively towards disclosure."
He said he was given TS SBI/ESI NATO/SIOP Compartmental Security Clearance, which is Top Secret clearance for working in Special Background Investigation, Single Integrated Operation Plan, Exceptionally Sensitive Information and with NATO.
He added: "In addition we had a GS11 employee who was transferred from a Joint US/UK communication station north of London after working at that site for a dozen years.
"He said it was an National Security Agency (NSA)/UK facility tasked with tracking UFO including Rendalsham Forest Incident.
"He said that UFO/ET were real and that hopefully disclosure would happen in my lifetime since he was in his early 60s at the time."
In the report he said: "I was required to deliver TS Code word designation COSMIC to SRI, ESL/SYLVANIA, LOCKHEED SKUNKWORKS, TRW, RATHEON, BERKELEY LABS, LAWRENCE LIVERMORE LABS, and other think tanks throughout Silicon valley."
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Military fencing around the former RAF Bentwaters base still said to be a UFO hotspot
The US FAA, other government organizations, and politicians may have dragged their feet on finalizing drone rules and standards, but make no mistake, drones are big business. This week, Oregon representative Earl Blumenauer introduced the Commercial UAS Modernization Act to create a framework to promote in the commercial drone industry. This doesn’t mean that governments and politicians won’t get it wrong; in fact, the drone industry’s success depends directly on federal and state collaboration to provide an environment in which the industry can prosper.
The following infographic shows today’s current aviation services in the regulated civil aviation market and the future of aviation services that includes exploration, inspection and delivery, precision farming, just-in-time delivery, traffic information collection, oil exploration and rigged delivery, cargo transport and last mile delivery, aerial inspection and energy exploration, and information related to remote areas, to name a few.
Future of Aviation & Drones (Image Courtesy http://ec.europa.eu/)
The following infographic “Drones for Good” provides the key facts and expectations of drones going forward to 2025:
projected economic benefits
100,000 new jobs
a growing industry with more than 200 manufacturers
large and small drones from a couple pounds to more than three tons
The uses for drones will include:
pollination
personal security
in-body medical applications as microscopic stealth drones (see video)
asteroid prospecting
planetary science
action sports photography
Drones for Good (Image Courtesy www.zdnet.com)
The following video discusses the future of microscopic stealth drones for medical purposes.
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David enjoys research and writing about cutting edge technologies that hold the promise of improving conditions for all life on planet earth.
WETENSCHAPAmerikaanse onderzoekers zijn erin geslaagd 'levende' lichaamsdelen te printen en implanteren in dieren. De botten, spieren en kraakbeenderen functioneerden normaal. Het is nu afwachten hoe duurzaam de implantaten zijn, maar wetenschappers spreken alvast van een belangrijke vooruitgang voor de heelkunde.
Het idee om menselijke cellen in een bepaald patroon te plaatsen om een geschonden kaak, ontbrekend oor of beschadigde hartspier te vervangen, is niet nieuw. Tot nu toe bleef het echter een grote uitdaging om de cellen in leven te houden. In weefsels dikker dan 0,2 millimeter hadden ze immers een tekort aan zuurstof en voedingsstoffen.
Een team van het Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina forceerde een veelbelovende doorbraak, die verscheen inNature Biotechnology. De wetenschappers ontwikkelden een nieuwe techniek waarbij een weefsel, doorzeefd met microkanalen, ge-3D-print werd. Die kanalen - u kan het zich inbeelden als een spons - laten toe dat zuurstof en voedingsstoffen tot aan de cellen komen.
Het implantaat bestaat uit een combinatie van afbreekbaar plastic, dat het geheel structuur geeft, en een gel op waterbasis die de cellen bevat en doet groeien. Na de implantatie in dieren brak het plastic af en werd het vervangen door een natuurlijk netwerk van eiwitten, geproduceerd door de cellen, bloedvaten en zenuwen.
Een kwestie van tijd
Gelijkaardige technieken, waarbij een afbreekbare structuur gebouwd en nadien in cellen geweekt wordt, worden al toegepast bij patiënten. Volgens professor Anthony Atala, die het onderzoek leidde, opent 3D-printen deuren voor de heelkunde en is het slechts een kwestie van tijd voor weefsels op mensenmaat geprint kunnen worden. De implantaten die voor deze studie gebruikt werden, zijn alvast stevig genoeg. De onderzoekers wachten nu af hoe duurzaam ze zijn.
Daarnaast gaan ze hun techniek verder uitwerken om ook andere menselijke weefsels te produceren. Een breed gamma is mogelijk, volgens Atala. "We zijn er al in geslaagd weefsels van verschillende sterktes te printen, van spieren tot kraakbeen en beenderen", zegt hij aan de BBC. Ook werd een verrassend nauwkeurig oor geprint.
Het ultieme doel is rechtstreeks in een patiënt te kunnen printen. Voor het zover is, is nog veel bijkomend onderzoek nodig. Maar chirurgen zijn hoopvol. "Gezien de grootte van deze doorbraak, de middelen die het Wake Forest Centre ter beschikking heeft en het belang voor de menselijke gezondheid, denk ik dat chirurgen als ik in minder dan een decennium geprinte organen en weefsels op maat aan het testen zijn", zegt chirurg Martin Birchall van University College London in een reactie aan de BBC.
A remarkable appearance lit up in the night sky over Norway, leaving the onlookers in dismay as they couldn’t understand if the 10-minutes-long event posed a threat for them or not. Were they witnessing a missile test, or rather something way more complex?
On 9 December 2009, a mystifying spiral appeared over northern Norway and Sweden. It consisted of a blue beam of light with a greyish curling emanating from one end of it. Hundreds of calls flooded the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, as residents wanted to understand what is happening.
Among the first people to speculate on this was astronomer Knut Jorgen Roed Odegaard, who at first considered the sighting to be a fireball meteor, but quickly after he excluded this possibility because the light lasted for too long. He also suggested that it could be a rare, never-before-seen case of Norwegian lights.
UFO enthusiasts believed they were witnessing a fine example of a wormhole, an interdimensional portal connecting two different points in the universe. The sighting sure looked surprising, with the emanating light twisting and spreading at the same time, but could this actually be the case?
One day later, the Russian Ministry of Defense debunked the event as a failed missile test, suggesting that the unusual light display occurred as a result of the missile’s third stage nozzle being damaged, and furtherly causing the exhaust to come out sideways, making the rocket to spin. According to Russian defense analyst Pavel Felgenhauer:
The missile’s first two stages worked as normal, but there was a technical malfunction at the next, third stage of the trajectory. Such lights and clouds appear from time to time when a missile fails in the upper layers of the atmosphere and have been reported before. At least this failed test made some nice fireworks for the Norwegians.
But can the Russian officials be trusted? After all, they’ve had many other failed rocket tests, but none compared to this one. According to the UFO community, the officials might be hiding something far more important. Some believe the spectacular event was in fact a secret military test aimed at opening a wormhole, while others linked the sighting to the recent high-energy experiments undertaken at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland.
Could the Russians be covering this up? After all, every similar event appears to be explained as a rocket test, but this one was something completely different. The spiral intensified in both length and size, while two different types of lights could be observed. It grew and grew until the object causing the spin swiftly disappeared into thin air, making the other bluish trail more visible. Is it possible that what we see in the video is in fact a craft of some sort preparing for interdimensional travel? Otherwise how can we explain the fact that the object vanished without a trace, and no official photos of the recovered parts were released to the public?
In the lack of other relevant proof, we can either believe the explanation offered by the Russian officials, or rely on our own judgement. The unique phenomenon cannot be linked to anything so far, and most explanations have one or more gaps that prevent them from being completely reliable. However, one thing remains certain – this was an extremely spectacular, and at the same time unique sighting.
Are the Paracas skulls the missing link in the origin of mankind? Do they belong to a species that did not originate on Earth? Or are they just another example of cranial deformation?
The enigmatic Paracas skulls are surely one of the most enigmatic discoveries ever made. Discovered deep in the desert peninsula of Paracas, on the southern coast o Peru, in the barren landscape Peruvian archaeologist, Julio Tello came across a complex and sophisticated graveyard in 1928. What he found buried there could change everything we know about the history of mankind. Even though skeptics remain unconfident about the Paracas skulls, many people believe not only could they indicate a missing link in humans origins, but an entirely new species that did not originate on Earth. It’s up to science to decide who is right.
Here we have 10 interesting facts about the Enigmatic Paracas Skulls, a set of controversial human remains that would forever change how we look at our ancestor and our origins.
The bodies in the tombs had some of the largest elongated skulls ever discovered on the planet.
The Peruvian archeologist discovered over 300 mysterious skulls which are believed to be at least around 3000 years old.
There are certain South American tribes that used to ‘bind infant’s skulls’ in order to change their shape, resulting in a drastically elongated cranial shape that resembled anything but ordinary humans.
By applying constant pressure over a long period of time with the use of pieces of mood, the ancient tribes would achieve a cranial deformation which can also be found in ancient cultures from Africa.While this type of cranial deformation changed the shape of the skull, it did not alter the size, weight or cranial volume, all of which are characteristic traits of regular human skulls.
The cranium of the Paracas skulls is are least 25 % larger and up to 60% heavier than the skulls of regular human beings.
Not only are they different in weight, the Paracas skulls are also structurally different and only have one parietal plate while ordinary humans have two.
Five samples of the Paracas skulls were sent to undergo genetic testing. The samples which consisted of hair, skin teeth and some fragments of cranial bones gave incredible details that have fueled the mystery surrounding these anomalous skulls. The genetic laboratory to where the samples were sent was not informed of the origin of the skulls in order to avoid ‘influenced results’. The mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited from the mother, showed mutations that were unknown to any man, primate or animal found on planet Earth.
The mutations present in the samples of the Paracas skulls suggest that researchers were dealing with a completely new ‘human-like being’, very different from Homo sapiens, Neanderthals or Denisovans.
According to Brien Foerster, “It had mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA) with mutations unknown in any human, primate, or animal known so far.”
A geneticist who participated in the study said: “the individuals from the Paracas skulls were so biologically different that it would have been impossible for humans and them to ‘interbreed’. “I am not sure it will even fit into the known evolutionary tree.”
The truth behind the Black Knight Satellite is far more mysterious than you’ve ever imagined. Many believe the anomalous object, said to be locked in polar orbit around our planet is, in fact, an extraterrestrial satellite, sent to Earth to monitor mankind
The Black Knight Satellite as seen in space
The mysterious Black Knight satellite has been the subject of debate for years. While many believe the anomalous object, said to be locked in polar orbit around our planet is in fact just space debris, others believe that this enigmatic ‘artificial satellite’ is, in fact, an extraterrestrial satellite, sent to Earth to monitor mankind. According to ufologists, the most striking part about the mysterious Black Knight Satellite is the fact that it is locked into polar orbit around Earth. Polar orbits are often used for earth-mapping, earth observation, capturing the earth as time passes from one point and reconnaissance satellites. This would put the Black Knightin the category of an observational Satellite.
Monitoring agencies around the world have reported picking up radio signals from the anomalous object for over 50 years now. The anomalous satellite has captured the interest of numerous governments around the world, including the government of the US, Russia, and China and there are even rumors that the Great Nikola Tesla was one of the first to intercept signals from this “Alien” satellite. Since the 1930’s Astronomers worldwide have been reporting strange radio signals which allegedly come from the “Black Knight”. (source)
But if the mysterious object was in fact just another piece of space junk… why did we give it so much importance in the past? The St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner wrote about the “Satellite” on May 14th, 1954. The Time Magazine wrote about it on the seventh of March, 1960. Here is what they said about it:
Three weeks ago, headlines announced that the U.S. had detected a mysterious “dark” satellite wheeling overhead on a regular orbit. There was nervous speculation that it might be a surveillance satellite launched by the Russians, and it brought the uneasy sensation that the U.S. did not know what was going on over its own head. But last week the Department of Defense proudly announced that the satellite had been identified. It was a space derelict, the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray. Read the complete story by visiting theTime Magazine website.
The ‘Alien Satellite’ is even said to have been seen in space “shadowing” the Sputnik 1 Spacecraft, when cosmonauts reported seeing a UFO in polar orbit around the planet.
Even more mysteriously, the Gruman Aircraft Corporation showed interest in the alleged Alien Satellite. On September 3, 1960, seven months after the satellite was first detected by radar, a tracking camera at Grumman Aircraft Corporation’s Long Island factory took a photograph of the Black Knight. At that point, people all over the world started identifying the object in the sky, which could be seen as a red light moving at higher speed compared to other satellites in an East to West orbit.
The same year, the Black Knight satellitewas located once again in Polar Orbit. Astronomers and Scientists calculated the object’s weight to be over 10 tons which would be at that time the Heaviest Artificial Satellite to orbit our Planet.
Three years after allegedly spotting the Black Knight, when Gordon Cooper was launched into space, it is believed that he actually reported seeing a mysterious UFO, with a glowing green object in front of his capsule in the distance moving towards his Spacecraft. The Muchea tracking station, in Australia, which Cooper reported the object to, picked up this Unidentified object on Radar traveling East to West.
According to believers that suggest, we are being tracked by an alien satellite in polar orbit around Earth, the extraterrestrial satellite carries a mysterious message and originates from the Epsilon Bootes Star System, and was placed to monitor Earth around 13,000 years ago.
There are numerous enigmas surrounding the Black Knight. Today, we cannot know for sure whether we are looking at space debris (thermal Blanket) or something that originated from an otherworldly civilization. Believers and skeptics will continue an ongoing debate, where both sides make good points supporting their theories. The truth behind the Black Knight Satellite, however, remains a profound mystery.
If you still cannot decide whether the Black Knight Satellite is real or not, take a look at this mysterious video from the Russian Space Agency. According to reports, it displays the mysterious Black Knight Satellite near the International Space Station.
Let us know what you think about the Black Knight Satellite, are you a believer or a skeptic?
The new discovery points to a huge, hitherto unknown oxygen source believed to be located somewhere in the lower mantle of our planet
According to scientific reports, there are rivers of liquid oxygen hidden deep below the surface of our planet.
Researchers suggest that the discovery points to a huge and unknown source of oxygen, located deep in the lower mantle of our planet. The mysterious source of oxygen is believed to be so enormous, that it can influence the climate on our planet. Using a special high-pressure chamber at the DESY research center, an international group of scientists has discovered two new iron oxides at DESY’s X-ray light source PETRA III and other facilities. “This finding points to the existence of a previously unrecognized layer in the Earth’s mantle, which contains a lot of liquid oxygen,” reported Science Daily.
The team of researchers led by Dr. Elena Bykova from the University of Bayreuth reported the results in the scientific journal nature Communications.
According to estimates, in this previous unknown layer, there is between 8 and 10 times more oxygen than in the atmosphere of our planet.
„We estimate that this source so far provided an amount of oxygen equivalent to eight to ten times the mass of oxygen in the atmosphere,” says Bykova. “That’s a surprise, and it is not quite clear what happens with the oxygen down there.”
Researchers believe that Earth has this layer of liquid oxygen due to the changes in the molecular structure of iron ore, found in the core of the planet.
This remains to be explored”, says co-author Dr. Maxim Bykov of the University of Bayreuth. “For now, we can only say that there is a huge source of oxygen in the mantle that can significantly affect geochemical processes by changing oxidation states and mobilizing trace elements. This will open a large new field of modeling.”
However, the presence of oxygen inside the Earth could cause complex processes that we know nothing about today. These processes can influence not only the geochemistry but also on the climate and the state of the planet’s atmosphere, say the authors of the study.
In previous studies, researchers have discovered the presence of huge underwater oceans located deep beneath the surface of our planet. Researchers believe that the discovery of the underground ocean suggests that the surface water of the planet came from within Earth, as part of a “complete water cycle on the planet” instead of the dominant theory proposed that water arrived at Earth by icy comets that passed by the planet millions of years ago.
Researchers Discover Colossal Underwater Structure of Artificial Origin
Researchers Discover Colossal Underwater Structure of Artificial Origin
A notable discovery has been made by researchers recently. With the help of Google Earth, they bumped into a huge, flat platform siting on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Could this anomalous structure hide a well preserved secret of the human race?
Approximately 6 miles off the coast of Point Dume in Malibu, California, lies this odd-looking platform submerged under 2,000 feet of water. But what is so strange about it, you might ask? Well, first of all, the oval-shaped design looks like it doesn’t belong on the ocean floor because it’s too smooth. If we also consider the colossal proportions of this, being almost 3 miles wide, the idea of this being an anomaly becomes even clearer.
Apart from this, other bizarre particularities can be observed. The polished top appears to be sustained by 6 large submerged pillars, and if we closely look at the design to the right side, we’ll notice another intriguing row of symmetrically-aligned trenches. Could this be a mere coincidence, or could this underwater structure actually harbor a secret base of some sort?
Jimmy Church, who hosts “Fade to Black” on the Dark Matter Radio Network has dubbed this finding “The Holy Grail of UFO/USO that researchers have been looking for over the last 40 years.” He received the peculiar image from a UFO researcher named Maxwell. Astonished by what he was witnessing, Church then asked graphic designer Dale Romero to investigate the site and capture as many angled images of the anomaly as he could.
I need him to find a way to get it under and above the water, Church said. My first impression was that it was Greek, it looked artificial and didn’t look natural. When you’re looking at it from above, it’s nearly perfect oval shape. In the natural surroundings, nothing is symmetrical. Everything is eroded and covered in rocks and sloping and peaking, and right there, for 2 miles, it is a perfect oval with a black separation or outline to it.
It just stands out that it has to be some type of roof, Church added. It’s not unlike a dome stadium or a covered indoor race track or an Olympic arena – it’s got that feel to it. It looks like a perfect oval manmade structure sitting on a construction site.
According to UFO researchers, the perfect symmetry of the above mentioned features, together with the polished top and colossal pillars sustaining it, makes this without a doubt, a secret underwater alien base. Now, you probably ask why is it of extraterrestrial origins and not human? Simply because if it were of human origins, it would probably belong to the military, and from what we’ve realized so far, every base of the military is blurred on Google Earth so that it cannot be found for obvious security reasons. However, this particular spot on the coast of Malibu, California, holds no restrictions whatsoever.
Some UFO analysts even compared the perfectly aligned trenches to a network of pipes and power lines that follow into the structure, insinuating that the anomalous design could be the masterpiece of an ancient and advanced race that once thrived in the area before it got swallowed by water after a great meltdown which occur in the arctic region.
Whatever may be the case, the spectacular discovery offers unique insight into the depths of the ocean, revealing never-before seen features of submerged structures that could after all hold carefully-preserved secrets of humanity.
Whether this is an artificial alien base, or the remnants of a lost civilization, we are yet to find out, but until an underwater expedition is assigned to inspect the mysterious place, we can only speculate on its true nature. If you plan to see it with your own eyes, here are the coordinates leading down there: 34° 1’23.31″N 118° 59’45.64″W. Also, the video below will offer additional information. Stay vigilant and help us spread the word. Everyone deserves to know about this.
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The Kolbrin Bible-3,600 Year-Old Manuscript to Rewrite Humanity’s History
The Kolbrin Bible-3,600 Year-Old Manuscript to Rewrite Humanity’s History
Surpassing the test of time, this 3,600 year-old Bible speaks of long-forgotten or unknown events from the past, some of them even predating our written history, but also warns about the impending cataclysms that are yet to come.
The Kolbrin Bible, also dubbed the Bronzebook or Coelbook, is the first Judaic-Christian document that combines the events depicted by the currently accepted Bible, speaking of uncharted episodes from humanity’s ancient past that have been purposely hidden by the current Christians textbooks.
It is the only remaining document of its kind to narrate the entire story of the human genesis, from the first people who walked on Earth prior to the arrival of Adam and Eve, to the great Egyptian rulers. According to this ancient text, the term “Fallen Angel” mentioned in Genesis refers to mortal men who married the daughters of Adam and Eve and had children together, instead of the common belief of holy or angelic beings.
It’s also mentioned that these men descended from a highly advanced earthly society which survived the early cataclysms by hiding in underground shelters. They were known as “The Sons of God” and the above-mentioned catastrophe came as a result of their actions. Some researchers even link this story to that of Atlantis and Lemuria, the legendary civilizations believed to have ended after an impending cataclysm hit them.
Composed of eleven books, the Kolbrin Bible offers extensive knowledge of our past, comprising five books written by the Celtic mystics after the death of Jesus Christ, and six books comprised of ancient Egyptian scrolls written by scribes after the events that followed the Hebrew Exodus in Egypt.
A page from the Coelbook
It is thought that Joseph of Arimathea, great uncle of Jesus, succeeded in rescuing the Egyptian scrolls from the conqueror Julius Caesar who invaded Egypt and set fire to the greatest library in the world at that time – the Library of Alexandria, destroying over 700,000 scrolls with priceless knowledge gathered throughout the years. Dogmas dating back before the known written history had burnt that day, but fortunately for us, there were some people who preserved a small portion of that forbidden knowledge.
Joseph and the followers of Jesus later brought the scrolls from Judea to Britain in a desperate attempt to preserve their context. They secretly kept the manuscripts inside the Glastonbury Abbey in Somerset County, in the southwest of Britain for many hundred years. However, a ruthless fire engulfed the abbey in 1184, furtherly eradicating from the preserved scrolls. Fortunately for us, some of the manuscripts were carved into thin bronze sheets and deposited in cooper-clad containers.
After this event, the bronze sheets became known as “The Bronzebook of Britain” and were later combined with another similar collection of forbidden knowledge entitled “The Coelbook,” representing the work of the mystic Celts, wisemen with extended knowledge in the fields of astronomy, medicine, religion, mathematics, and oratory. Much of their teachings remain preserved in the Kolbrin Bible.
According to Crystalinks, The Kolbrin is a collection of ancient manuscripts said to have been salvaged from the Glastonbury Abbey arson in 1184. The Kolbrin said to have a connection with Jesus historically through Joseph of Arimathea, they have been discussed online by James McCanney, Alex Merklinger and others.
It has been rumored that Nicola Tesla acquired some knowledge from this book according to James McCanney. In the past, only a select few, some might say an elite group, have had access to this book. Now, the current caretakers of this ancient knowledge believe ‘these are the days of decision when humankind stands at the crossroad,’ and are making the book available subject to explicit conditions.
The book also contains some unique prophecies. One of them even describes how the notorious Planet X caused The Great Flood, thus linking both events in a never-before-seen scenario:
Then, with the dawning, men saw an awesome sight. There, riding on a black rolling cloud came the Destroyer, newly released from the confines of the sky vaults, and she raged about the heavens, for it was her day of judgement. The beast opened its mouth and belched forth fire and hot stones and a vile smoke. It covered the whole sky above and the meeting place of Earth and Heaven could no longer be seen. In the evening, the places of the stars were changed, they rolled across the sky to new stations, then the floodwaters came.
The floodgates of heaven were opened and the foundations of Earth were broken apart. The surrounding waters poured over the land and broke upon the mountains. The storehouses of the winds burst their bolts asunder, so storms and whirlwinds were loosed to hurl themselves upon Earth. In the seething waters and howling gales, all buildings were destroyed, trees were uprooted and mountains cast down. There was a time of great heat, then came a bitter cold. The waves over the waters did not rise and fall but seethed and swirled, there was an awful sound above.
This curious translation of the text offers a unique perspective over a series of events which can be found in different holy books, however, the happenings are linked together and appear to contradict with every accepted belief so far. Could this mysterious compilation of forbidden knowledge rewrite the history of humanity as we know it? Stay tuned for more exclusive insight from the Kolbrin in the upcoming days.
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UFO Passes Between Earth And Sun On Feb 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Passes Between Earth And Sun On Feb 14, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 14, 2016 Location of sighting: between Earth and Sun Source photo:
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov//data/REPROCESSING/Completed/2016/c3/20160214/20160214_0142_c3_1024.jpg This giant disk was caught by Streetcap1 of Youtube. We can see the direction it came from (above and its heading down toward the sun. Its hard to tell its size, because like Streetcap1said, it could be close to the SOHO satellite. Its shape with the hole it is remarkable and has some resemblance to the living creatures recorded during the Tether Incident. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Close pass of ufo near Lasco cameras on 14 February, 2016. Not huge, not near the sun, but near the SOHO Satellite at point L1 where the gravity of the Sun and Earth meet to form a stable position for satellite imagery. Streetcap1.
A video recently made rounds online as it shows an intriguing sudden explosion of Colima Volcano in Mexico just as a cigar-shaped object flies past above it. Conspiracy theorists say the mysterious object is alien in origin, and it causes the sudden explosive activity of the volcano.
The strange thin disc seems to pass quickly through the smoke and lava that come from the mountain and continue to fly to the other side.
Ufologists say that the video shows an alien spacecraft dropping off and picking up aliens from and to their hideout within the volcanic chamber.
They say the UFO passes over the mouth and through the lava with a burst of light before all goes black. They think that the unidentified flying object transports something or someone to or from their underground base below the volcano.
If the theory is to be believed, aliens or extraterrestrials may have been touring the Earth without the knowledge of the public.
Here’s another footage from Colima volcano filmed on 15th February 2016.
Bright Orb UFO Drops Smaller One In The Sky Over Spokane Valley
Bright Orb UFO Drops Smaller One In The Sky Over Spokane Valley
A Spokane Valley resident in Washington has recorded a bright orb-shaped UFO on video. The mysterious aerial object moved, hovered, and split into two glowing orbs- a large one and a small sphere. The large ball slowly went down to the ground while the little one drifted away and vanished.
Some observers believed it was an alien craft with a detachable section that would serve as a landing pad or as an escape pod during an emergency.
The video is thought to have shown a manned alien UFO releasing a landing module with astronauts onboard, or an unmanned probe releasing a robotic explorer similar to the robotic Mars exploration rovers of NASA.
According to the witness testimony filed in the archives of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) as Case 53762, the witness was on the patio of his Spokane Valley home at around seven p.m. when he noticed the orb UFO with a bright orange-red light flying in the direction of his home. The strange flying thing moved northward from the south, then stopped for a while before it changed direction towards the east.
Finding hard to identify the object, he called his family to view the bizarre event. The orange-red glow of the UFO pulsated and expanded while it hovered mid-air. After it had expanded to a maximum diameter, it started to recede. It then split into two as the brighter and larger orb dropped a smaller ball and flew eastward. The glow of the larger globe also vanished as it moved towards the east.
Unknown lights recorded over oil rig in Cotulla, Texas 5-Feb-2016
Unknown lights recorded over oil rig in Cotulla, Texas 5-Feb-2016
Here’s one interesting footage of a bright unidentified flying object hovering above the sky above Cotulla in Texas. This was filmed on 5th February 2016.
Scientists confirm: Advanced alien civilizations possible in 50 galaxies
Scientists confirm: Advanced alien civilizations possible in 50 galaxies
Just imagine the possibilities out there.
Leading Astronomers and Scientists have stated that Advanced alien life is possible in 50 galaxies,, after finding they are emitting unusually high levels of radiation. A team of scientists at Penn State University in the US, has been studying observations from Nasa’s WISE orbiting observatory looking for traces of the huge energy produced by technologies from sophisticated extra-terrestrial races.
NASA’s WISE orbiting observatory looking for traces of life out there.
Just as Planet Earth sends heat and light deep out into space, researchers say a similar signature would be emitted by other advanced civilisations. And after scouring 100,000 galaxies they have come across 50 which hold promise. “We found about 50 galaxies that have unusually high levels of mid-infrared radiation,” said Roger Griffith, a researcher at Penn State and the lead author of the paper “Our follow-up studies of those galaxies may reveal if the origin of their radiation results from natural astronomical processes, or if it could indicate the presence of a highly advanced civilization.”
After scouring 100,000 galaxies they have come across at least 50 which hold promise. “We found about 50 galaxies that have unusually high levels of mid-infrared radiation,” said Roger Griffith, a researcher at Penn State and the lead author of the paper.
“Our follow-up studies of those galaxies may reveal if the origin of their radiation results from natural astronomical processes, or if it could indicate the presence of a highly advanced civilization.” Roger Griffith, a researcher at Penn State
Theoretical physicist Freeman Dyson originally proposed in the 1960s that advanced alien civilizations beyond Earth could be detected by the tell tale evidence of their mid-infrared emissions. It was not until space-based telescopes like the WISE satellite that it became possible to make sensitive measurements of this radiation emitted by objects in space.
“The idea behind our research is that, if an entire galaxy had been colonized by an advanced spacefaring civilization, the energy produced by that civilization’s technologies would be detectable in mid-infrared wavelengths — exactly the radiation that the WISE satellite was designed to detect for other astronomical purposes,” said Dr Jason Wright, an assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the Center for Exoplanets and Habitable Worlds at Penn State University, who conceived of and initiated the research.
“Whether an advanced spacefaring civilization uses the large amounts of energy from its galaxy’s stars to power computers, space flight, communication, or something we can’t yet imagine, fundamental thermodynamics tells us that this energy must be radiated away as heat in the mid-infrared wavelengths.
“This same basic physics causes your computer to radiate heat while it is turned on.
“As we look more carefully at the light from these galaxies,” said Wright, “we should be able to push our sensitivity to alien technology down to much lower levels, and to better distinguish heat resulting from natural astronomical sources from heat produced by advanced technologies. This pilot study is just the beginning.”
Could there be civilisations in our next door neighbour Galaxy ‘Andromeda
The team also found new phenomenon in our very own galaxy, The Milky Way. Among the exciting discoveries are a bright nebula around the nearby star 48 Librae, and a cluster of objects easily detected by WISE in a patch of sky that appears totally black when viewed with telescopes that detect only visible light.
“This cluster is probably a group of very young stars forming inside a previously undiscovered molecular cloud, and the 48 Librae nebula apparently is due to a huge cloud of dust around the star, but both deserve much more careful study,” Matthew Povich, an assistant professor of astronomy at Cal Poly Pomona said.
The research team’s first paper about its Glimpsing Heat from Alien Technologies Survey (G-HAT), is published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.
Perhaps we are looking for where our Alien Visitor’s are travelling from….
U.I.P Summary
Come on let’s get real the Universe is infested with life out there and we can not rely too much on our present day technology to search out other civilizations…..because let’s be honest even the scientists have stated recently that they don’t really know much about anything in reference to space the final Frontier!
This is an exciting discovery and who knows what advanced civilizations lie out there in an infinite Universe!
But one things for sure, if Aliens out there are far more advanced than us then they WILL know where we are in space and probably have for a very long time!
Perhaps we are like a sight seeing holiday for Aliens out there?!…. (kind of a U.I.P joke)
Government UFO-related documents seem to have a habit of disappearing. This time the files belonged to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).
John Greenewald has been using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to get formerly classified documents from the government, and to post them online for decades. He began his efforts while in high school in the 1990s and continues his efforts to this day.
Greenewald was inspired to seek out these documents when he heard of UFO files that showed the U.S. government's interest in a UFO incident in Iran that took place in 1976. The government claims it no longer had any interest in UFOs since the official closing of its official UFO investigation, Project Blue Book, in 1969. He requested the document through a FOIA request and, to his surprise and delight, received it.
The file -- and the process of retrieving it -- fascinated Greenewald to the point where it spawned what has become a lifelong effort to retrieve formerly classified files and post them on the Internet. Greenewald's website, TheBlackVault.com, now has over 1.3 million formerly classified pages of documents.
In 1996, in response to a FOIA request, Greenewald received nearly 250 files from the DIA regarding UFOs. Supposedly, everything they had on the topic. However, several of the files were heavily redacted, meaning that there were blacked out sections, presumably, because those portions contained information that is still considered classified.
Occasionally, Greenewald requests that these files undergo a Mandatory Declassification Review (MDR). The government is then supposed to review the previously declassified document to determine if redacted material can be unredacted, due to the information that had previously been blacked out having since been declassified.
It was an MDR of a classified document about spy planes that allowed the termArea 51 to be unredacted, thus making the existence of the super secret Area 51 military base official. Of course, that location had already been famous in UFO circles and popculture.
In 2014, Greenewald requested an MDR for the DIA documents he had obtained in 1996. In his inquiry, Greenewald included links to download the files he had received from the DIA which he now wanted reviewed.
Months later, in mid-2015, Greenewald received a reply that the links he had provided did not work, so the case would be suspended. The responses by the DIA are actually a bit confusing, but it appears once Greenewald's links could be accessed, the files he requested were not found.
The DIA wrote, "It appears the FOIA case files have been purged from the FOIA database."
The DIA asked Greenewald to provide the specific names of the files for them to "move forward in conducting a review."
Confused by the request, given that the file names are on the files themselves, Greenewald asked for clarification.
He was told, "The related FOIA case has been purged, the documents could not be identified and/or located."
The DIA officer reiterated, "We would need the titles in order to conduct a good faith effort for our search."
Frustrated, via social media, Greenewald wrote me, "The letter states that, despite me GIVING them the documents, they can't find them, and want exact titles."
He interprets the phrase "good faith effort" to mean they will make another effort, but they already had that information and could not find the documents, so the search is useless. Without the original non-redacted files, the DIA will not be able to conduct an MDR, and whatever information that was in those files that was blacked out is -- officially -- lost forever.
This isn't the first time this has happened to Greenewald. In 2014, he requested an MDR for the National Security Agency's (NSA) UFO files, which were part of a high profile court case.
In the late 70s, the Citizens Against UFO Secrecy (CAUS), headed by lawyer Peter Gersten, sought UFO files from several government agencies via a FOIA request. The NSA refused to release their files, so CAUS sued.
The NSA had a large amount of UFO information, not necessarily because it was investigating UFOs, but because it monitors communications worldwide as part of its regular duties. These files are called communications intelligence (COMINT). Among this large amount of data, there were hundreds of files referring to UFOs. However, the NSA felt they should remain classified.
In 1980, Eugene F. Yeates, chief of the Office of Policy for the NSA, submitted a 21-page document to the judge overseeing the case, Federal Judge Gerhart A. Gesell, as to why these files should remain classified. This document is often referred to as the "Yeates affidavit." It, too, was classified.
Although Gesell did not have the clearance to read the documents in question, the Yeates affidavit convinced him that the NSA files should stay classified. He wrote, "The public interest in disclosure is far outweighed by the sensitive nature of the materials and the obvious effect on national security their release may well entail."
When the Yeates affidavit was released, it was heavily redacted. UFO researcher Stanton Friedman shows a page from the document to demonstrate government UFO secrecy, and as he says, this goes over well on television where a simple image can be very effective when making a point.
A heavily redacted page from the Yeates affidavit. (Credit: NSA)
Eventually, in 1997, due to laws making it more difficult to keep files over 25 years old classified, the NSA released a less redacted Yeates affidavit and 156 UFO documents. As Friedman explains it, the affidavit was originally about 75 percent blacked out, the second version only about 20 percent blacked out. However, the UFO documents are heavily redacted.
The NSA might have seen Friedman's talks or television interviews, because instead of mostly blacking out the text, this time they largely whited it out, making it much less visually poignant.
In response to his 2014 MDR for the NSA UFO files, Greenewald was told the unredacted files were lost.
He writes, "NSA said they only have the redacted [files], and 'lost' the originals... as you can see -- DIA is using the same excuse, with the safety note they will try again... asking me for stuff they already have."
Greenewald says he has sent the DIA the titles of the documents, although he's not very hopeful it will help. If it could not find the files with the titles and the content of the documents that is currently available, it's not likely to find them with the titles alone.
The question is, were the files actually "lost," or, like in the recent premiere episode of the new X-Files mini-series, were the files spirited away by some other secret, nefarious third party? Stay tuned.
John Greenewald will present on these files and more government UFO secrets at the 2016 International UFO Congress. You can find out more about his talk here.
Find out more about these files and their relation to recent articles from the CIA on UFOs in the following video.
An unexplained crop circle in Salinas, Calif., has captured the curiosity of alien enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists across the nation.
The patterns were noticed by aerial photographer Julie Belanger, who told ABC News she was shocked to discover them during a flyover on Monday.
Aerial images show bizarre markings in a field in Salinas, Calif., Dec. 31, 2013 (Credit: 111th Aerial Photography & Video)
(Credit: 111th Aerial Photography & Video)
Adding to the mystery is a video posted on Youtube that shows two friends coming across the patterns after seeing green lights emanate from a field.
A representative from local Echelon Security Co. told the San Jose Mercury News he was hired to protect the land from rowdiness, but could not provide the identity of the landowner. A spokesperson for Echelon declined to provide further comment to ABC News.
A black hole 21 billion times the mass of our Sun is seen by Hubble For now, it lies dormant.
NGC 4889 may be the brightest galaxy in this image, but it has a heart of darkness.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the elliptical galaxy that is home to one of the most massive black holes ever discovered. Located about 300 million light-years away in the Coma Cluster, this record-breaking supermassive black hole weighs in at twenty-one billion times the mass of the Sun.
The event horizon of the black hole– the surface at which even light cannot escape its gravitational grasp–has a diameter of approximately 130 billion kilometers. For comparison, the Earth is a mere 150 million km from the Sun. So if it were at the center of our solar system, this black hole would easily swallow our little planet (and most of the rest of the solar system).
Compare that to the supermassive black hole close to our own Milky Way Galaxy, which is believed to be a mere four million times that of the Sun.
NASA & ESA
A RECORD-BREAKING BLACK HOLE
It is impossible to directly observe a black hole, as light cannot escape its gravitational pull. However, instruments on the Keck II Observatory and Gemini North Telescope allowed the black hole’s mass to be indirectly determined. Astronomers measured the velocity of the stars moving around NGC 4889’s centre. These velocities — which depend on the mass of the object they orbit — revealed the immense mass of the supermassive black hole.
NGC 4889’s black hole has calmed down since its youth, when it would have been considered a quasar (a black hole that is consuming matter and, as a result, is flinging an enormous amount of matter out into space). Back then, the accretion disc around the black hole would have emitted up to a thousand times the energy output of the Milky Way.
Accretion discs are formed as galactic material– such as gas, dust, and other debris– slowly falls into a black hole. When it was active, NGC 4889’s supermassive black hole was fueled by the process of hot accretion. This super-heated material also expelled gigantic and very energetic jets.
PLANNING THE NEXT ATTACK
That life is in its past, though. Now, the black hole seems to be taking a rest after devouring pieces of the surrounding galaxy. In fact, the environment within the galaxy is now so peaceful that stars are forming from its remaining gas and orbiting undisturbed around the black hole.
The black hole, though temporarily satiated, could come alive again someday. Although dormant, its existence allows astronomers to further their knowledge of how and where quasars, these still mysterious and elusive objects, formed in the early days of the Universe.
New analysis by U.S. and European teams indicates that the excess of gamma rays emanating from the center of the galaxy probably comes from pulsars, not dark matter. Future radio surveys should find these objects, which must number in the hundreds if not thousands.
THE MYSTERY OF THE GAMMA RAYS
There’s something strange going on in the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
In 2009, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (principal observing instrument on the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope) discovered an unusually high amount of gamma rays emanating from the center of our galaxy.
It had been speculated that this excessive outpouring of high-energy radiation could be an indication of the annihilation of mysterious “dark matter”—that yet-to-be-found cosmic component that is often invoked to explain the disparities between observed matter and the total gravitational influences at work in the universe.
If true, the detection would be a major breakthrough. It would constitute a new means for investigating the nature of this fundamental conundrum, this “missing mass” of the universe, and perhaps finally allow scientists to complete their census of all cosmic matter, visible and invisible.
But a new analysis of the gamma ray data has quashed such hopes, at least in the near term, and shown the galactic gamma ray excess to have its roots in somewhat more “mundane” astrophysical phenomena.
Gamma ray map of the Milky Way galaxy, from the Fermi Space Telescope. The insets reveal the point-like, localized sources of the gamma rays, which rules out a dark matter origin.
Credit: Christoph Weniger, UvA, UvA/Princeton
THE CASE OF THE MILLISECOND PULSARS
The research was conducted by two different teams, one from Princeton/MIT in the United States, and another from the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. They each used different statistical methods—“non-Poissonian noise” for the Americans, “wavelet transformation” for the Europeans—to filter the Fermi data.
What they found was that the distribution of gamma rays was clumpy and uneven, rather than the smoother, more uniform placement one would expect from continuous dark matter annihilation.
Which indicated, naturally, “unresolved point sources”—in this case, probably millisecond pulsars. Among the most extreme objects in the universe, millisecond pulsars are neutron stars (the ultra-dense, asteroid-sized remnants of the explosions of supergiant stars) that are rotating so rapidly they complete a turn, or several, every thousandth of a second. Imagine that—a spherical object with a diameter roughly equal to the length of Manhattan, packing nearly twice the mass of the Sun, completing a full rotation in a fraction of a second!
Naturally, such a bizarre phenomenon produces immense quantities of energy, and this is precisely what millisecond pulsars do, generating more than enough high-energy photons to account for the Fermi telescope’s gamma ray detection.
But the sheer number of gamma rays is so excessive that only a previously unknown and unsuspected population of hundreds or thousands of pulsars could produce the observed signals.
Which, according to Mariangela Lisanti of Princeton University, is intriguing in its own right: “The results of our analysis probably mean that what we are seeing is evidence for a new population of astrophysical sources in the center of the galaxy. That in itself is something new and surprising.”
So far, the actual source (or sources) of the gamma rays is still unknown; so effectively screened from prying eyes is the galactic center, hidden in its vast dusty cocoon, that telescopes have yet to directly image any such pulsars—or much of anything else, for that matter. But projected surveys by existing and forthcoming radio telescopes should disclose any hidden pulsars in the core, and resolve the mystery once and for all.
Either way, it seems that the center of our galaxy is a very strange and mysterious place.
Will the World's Largest Supercollider Spawn a Black Hole? (Op-Ed)
Will the World's Largest Supercollider Spawn a Black Hole? (Op-Ed)
By Don Lincoln, Senior Scientist, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory; Adjunct Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame
Illustration of a young black hole, such as the two distant dust-free quasars spotted recently by the Spitzer Space Telescope. <a href="http://www.space.com/31-black-holes-universe.html">More photos of black holes of the universe</a>
Cutting-edge science is an exploration of the unknown; an intellectual step into the frontier of human knowledge. Such studies provide great excitement for those of us passionate about understanding the world around us, but some are apprehensive of the unknown and wonder if new and powerful science, and the facilities where it is explored, could be dangerous. Some even go so far as to ask whether one of humanity's most ambitious research projects could even pose an existential threat to the Earth itself. So let's ask that question now and get it out of the way.
Can a supercollider end life on Earth? No. Of course not.
But it's not really a silly question for people who haven't thought carefully about it. After all, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's biggest and most powerful particle accelerator, is explicitly an instrument of exploration, one that is designed to push back the frontiers of ignorance. It's not so unreasonable to ask how you know something isn't dangerous if you've never done it before. So how is it I can say with such utter confidence that the LHC is completely safe?
Well, the short answer is that cosmic rays from space constantly pummel the Earth with energies that dwarf those of the LHC. Given that the Earth is still here, there can be no danger, or so the reasoning goes.
And that could well be the final story, but the tale is much richer than that short (but very accurate) answer would lead you to believe. So let's dig a bit deeper into what makes some suspect a danger, and then explore a fairly detailed description of the point and counterpoint involved in delivering a solid and satisfying answer to the question.
Can the LHC create an Earth-killer black hole?
Skeptics have proposed that the LHC would produce many possible dangers, ranging from the vague fear of the unknown to some that are strangely specific.
The most commonly mentioned is the idea that the LHC can make a black hole. In popular literature, black holes are ravening monstrosities of the universe, gobbling up everything around them. Given such a depiction, it's not at all unreasonable for people to then wonder if a black hole created by the LHC might reach out and destroy the accelerator, the laboratory, then Switzerland, Europe and finally the Earth. This would be a scary scenario, were it credible — but it's not.
What immediately follows are the weaker (but still compelling) reasons why this possibility is, well, not possible, and in the next section you will see the cast-iron and gold-plated reasons to dismiss this and all other possible Earth-ending scenarios.
The first question is whether a black hole can even be created at the LHC. Alas, when looking at all of the scientific evidence and using our most modern understanding of the laws of the universe, there is no way that the LHC can make a black hole. Gravity is simply too weak for this to occur.
Some skeptics protest that one explanation for the weakness of gravity is that tiny extra dimensions of space exist. According to that theory, gravity is really strong and just appears to be weak because gravity can "leak" into the extra dimensions. Once we start probing those tiny dimensions, the strong gravity could perhaps make a black hole. Sadly for black hole aficionados, no one has found evidence for the existence of extra dimensions, and if they don't exist, the LHC can't make black holes.
So the entire underlying idea of that particular possible danger is built on a long shot. Yet, even in the unlikely case that extra dimensions are real and a black hole can be created, there is a good reason to not worry about black holes damaging the Earth.
The shield against that hypothetical danger is Hawking radiation. Proposed in 1974 by Steven Hawking, Hawking radiation is essentially the evaporation of a black hole caused by its interactions with particles created in the vicinity of the hole. While black holes will absorb surrounding material and grow, an isolated black hole will slowly lose mass.
The mechanism is a quantum mechanical one, involving pairs of particles being made near the surface of the hole. One particle will go into the hole, but the other will escape and carry away energy. Since, according to Einstein's theory of general relativity, energy and mass are the same, this process has the effect of very slowly decreasing the mass of the black hole. Even though one particle enters the hole, the loss of the other results in the hole slowly evaporating. This is a tricky point. Most people think of a black hole as the mass at the center, but it's actually both the mass at the center and the energy stored in the gravitational field. The particle zooming down to the center is just moving around in the black hole, while the particle that moves out escapes the black hole entirely. Both the mass of the escaping particle and the energy it carries are lost to the black hole, reducing the energy of the entire black hole system.
And the rate at which a hole evaporates is a strong function of the hole's size. A large black hole will lose energy very slowly, but a small one will evaporate in the blink of an eye. In fact, any black hole the LHC could possibly make, via any possible theory, will disappear before it can get near any other matter to gobble up.
A simulation of a particle collision inside the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest particle accelerator near Geneva, Switzerland. When two protons collide inside the machine, they create an energetic explosion that gives rise to new and exotic particles.
Credit: CERN
Strange strangelets
Another proposed danger is a thing called a strangelet. A strangelet is a hypothetical subatomic particle composed of roughly an equal number of up, down and strange quarks.
Mind you, there is zero evidence that strangelets are anything other than an idea born in the fertile imagination of a theoretical physicist. But, if they exist, the claim is that a strangelet is essentially a catalyst. If it impacts ordinary matter, it will make the matter it touches also turn into a strangelet. Following the idea to its logical conclusion, if a strangelet were made on Earth, it would result in the entire planet collapsing down into a ball of matter made of strangelets … kind of like turning the Earth into an exotic version of neutron star. Essentially a strangelet can be thought of as a subatomic zombie; one that turns everything it touches into a fellow strangelet zombie.
But there is no evidence that strangelets are real, so that might be enough to keep some people from worrying. However, it's still true that the LHC is a machine of discovery and maybe it could actually make a strangelet … well, if they really exist. After all, strangelets haven't been definitively ruled out and some theories favor them. However, an earlier particle accelerator called the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider went looking for them and came up empty.
Those are but two ideas for how a supercollider could pose a threat, and there are more. We could list all of the possible dangers, but there remains something more unsettling to keep in mind: Since we don't know what happens to matter when we start studying it at energies only possible with the LHC (that is, of course, the point of building the accelerator), maybe something will happen that was never predicted. And, given our ignorance, maybe that unexpected phenomenon might be dangerous.
And it is that last worry that could have potentially been so troubling to the LHC's creators. When you don't know what you don't know, you … well … you don't know. Such a question requires a powerful and definitive answer. And here it is…
Why the LHC is totally safe
Given the exploratory nature of the LHC research program, what is needed is an ironclad reason that demonstrates that the facility is safe even if no one knows what the LHC might encounter.
Luckily, we have the most compelling answer of all: Nature has been running the equivalent of countless LHC experiments since the universe began — and still does, every day, on Earth.
Space is a violent place, with stars throwing off literally tons of material every second — and that's the tamest of phenomena. Supernovas occur, blasting star stuff across the cosmos. Neutron stars can use intense magnetic fields to accelerate particles from one side of the universe to another. Pairs of orbiting black holes can merge, shaking the very fabric of space itself.
All of those phenomena, as well as many others, cause subatomic particles to be flung across space. Mostly consisting of protons, those particles travel the lengths of the universe, stopping only when an inconvenient bit of matter gets in their way.
And, occasionally, that inconvenient bit of matter is the Earth. We call these intergalactic bullets — mostly high-energy protons — "cosmic rays." Cosmic rays carry a range of energies, from the almost negligible, to energies that absolutely dwarf those of the LHC.
To give a sense of scale, the LHC collides particles together with a total energy of 13 trillion (or tera) electron volts of energy (TeV). The highest-energy cosmic ray ever recorded was an unfathomable 300,000,000 TeV of energy.
Now, cosmic rays of that prodigious energy are very rare. The energy of more common cosmic rays is much lower. But here's the point: Cosmic rays of the energy of a single LHC beam hit the Earth about half a quadrillion times per second. No collider necessary.
Remember that cosmic rays are mostly protons. That's because almost all of the matter in the universe is hydrogen, which consists of a single proton and a single electron. When they hit the Earth's atmosphere, they collide with nitrogen or oxygen or other atoms, which are composed of protons and neutrons. Accordingly, cosmic rays hitting the Earth are just two protons slamming together — this is exactly what is happening inside the LHC. Two protons slamming together.
Thus, the barrage of cosmic rays from space have been doing the equivalent of LHC research since the Earth began — we just haven't had the luxury of being able to watch.
Now one must be careful. It's easy to throw numbers around a bit glibly. While there are lots of cosmic rays hitting the atmosphere with LHC energies, the situations between what happens inside the LHC and what happens with cosmic rays everywhere on Earth are a bit different.
Cosmic ray collisions involve fast-moving protons hitting stationary ones, while LHC collisions involve two beams of fast-moving protons hitting head-on. Head-on collisions are intrinsically more violent; so to make a fair comparison, we need to consider cosmic rays that are much higher in energy, specifically about 100,000 times higher than LHC energies.
Cosmic rays of that energy are rarer than the lower energy ones, but still 500,000,000 of them hit the Earth's atmosphere every year.
When you remember that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, you realize that the Earth has experienced something like 2 billion billion cosmic ray collisions with LHC-equivalent energies (or higher) in the atmosphere since the Earth formed. In order to make that many collisions, we'd need to run the LHC continuously for 70 years. Given that we're still here, we can conclude that we're safe.
But to be absolutely sure ...
The cosmic ray argument is fantastic, as it is independent of any possible LHC danger, including ones we haven't imagined yet. However, there is a loophole that potentially reduces the argument's strength. Because cosmic ray collisions are between a fast-moving and a stationary proton, the "dangerous" particle (whatever that might be) gets produced at high velocity and may shoot out of the Earth before it has time to damage it. (It's like in billiards when a cue ball hits another ball. After the impact, at least one, and often both, go flying.) In contrast, the LHC beams hit head-on, making stationary objects. (Think of two identical cars with identical speeds hitting head-on.) Maybe they will stick around and wreak carnage on the globe.
But there is an answer to that too. I picked the Earth because it is near and dear to us, but the Earth isn't the only thing being hit by cosmic rays. The sun gets hit as well; and when a cosmic ray hits the sun, it might make a high-energy "dangerous" product, but that product then has to travel through a much larger amount of matter. And this doesn't take into account that the sun is much larger than the Earth, so it experiences many more high-energy collisions than our planet does.
Further, we can expand the number of cosmic targets to include neutron stars, which consist of matter so dense that whatever potentially dangerous thing we might consider will stop dead in the neutron star right after it is made. And yet the sun and the neutron stars we see in the universe all are still there. They haven't disappeared.
Safety assured!
So that argument is the bottom line. When you ask if the LHC is safe, you have to realize that the universe has already done the experiments for us.
Cosmic rays hit the Earth, the sun, other stars and all the myriad denizens of the universe with energies that far exceed those of the LHC. This happens all the time. If there were any danger, we would see some of these objects disappearing before our eyes. And yet we don't. Thus, we can conclude that whatever happens in the LHC, it poses exactly, precisely, inarguably, zero danger. And you can't forget the crucial point that this argument works for all conceivable dangers, including those that nobody has imagined yet.
So having established the ironclad safety of the LHC, what then? Well, we absolutely hope that we do make black holes in the LHC — as explained, they would be tiny and not gobble up the planet. If we do see tiny black holes, we'll have figured out why gravity seems so weak. We'll probably have established that extra dimensions of space exist. We'll be that much closer to finding a theory of everything, a theory that is so persuasive, simple and concise that we can write its equation on a T-shirt.
While we are now assured that the LHC is utterly safe, it is absolutely true that the safety question was important for scientists to investigate. In fact, the whole exercise was a satisfying one, as it used the best scientific principles to come to a definitive conclusion that all can agree is valid. So now we can push back the boundaries of our ignorance, with only our increasing excitement of the prospect of a discovery to distract us.
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This map of the left side of Pluto’s heart-shaped feature uses colors to represent Pluto’s varied terrains, which helps scientists understand the complex geological processes at work.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
A newly created geological map of Pluto's famous heart-shaped region shows just how varied and complex the distant dwarf planet is.
Scientists on NASA's New Horizons mission, which performed the first-ever flyby of Pluto on July 14, have put together a color-coded geological map of Sputnik Planum, the huge nitrogen-ice plain that occupies the left side of Pluto's heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio.
The map covers an area that stretches 1,290 miles (2,070 kilometers) from top to bottom and features a resolution of at least 1,050 feet (320 meters) per pixel, NASA said. (Some parts of the map are even sharper than that.)
The newly released map allows researchers to see variations in Pluto's terrain, which, in turn, can provide insight into the geological history of the dwarf planet.
Pluto’s informally-named Sputnik Planum region is mapped, with the key indicating a wide variety of units or terrains.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
For example, the bright yellow regions on the map are impact craters, which are notably absent from Sputnik Planum proper. This suggests that this portion of Pluto has been resurfaced recently; there hasn't been time for craters to pepper the surface there, scientists have said.
Other colors show different kinds of terrain, which are defined by their texture and form. One area coded with a greenish hue is defined as "featureless plains," while very light blue denotes "bright, cellular plains."
The black lines are troughs, which delineate "cells" of nitrogen ice on Sputnik Planum that are thought to form as a result of convective processes.
The red area at the southern tip of the map shows the 2.5-mile-high (4.0 km) Wright Mons, which might be a volcano that spews ice rather than lava. Scientists aren't sure why the material around it, which looks reddish-brown in New Horizons' "true color" photos, isn't more widespread on the surface, NASA officials said.
To make this map, New Horizons team members used the spacecraft's Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), taking pictures at a distance of 48,000 miles (77,300 km) from Pluto on July 14. At the time, New Horizons was less than 2 hours away from its closest approach, which brought the probe within just 7,800 miles (12,550 km) of Pluto's surface.
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“A WINDOW ONTO THE UNIVERSE”
“My reaction was ‘Wow, I couldn’t believe it!,” said David Reitze, Executive Director of the LIGO Laboratory. “I think we’re opening a window onto the universe, a window of gravitational wave astronomy.”
The detection was made on September 14, 2015. The ensuing months were spent in the arduous task of actually confirming a signal that was, at first, considered too good to be true.
But the researchers finally verified the findings. “It was definitely not a blind injection,” said Gabriela González, spokeswoman for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, referring to false signals occasionally injected into the data to ensure accurate detections.
The signals emanated from a point in the sky somewhere in the southern celestial hemisphere, in the rough direction of the Magellanic clouds. Ultimately, they were emitted roughly 1.3 billion years ago (which means the source was located about 1.3 billion light years away).
The waves resulted from the collision, and subsequent merger, of two black holes. These black holes were 29 and 36 solar masses respectively and about 150 kilometers in diameter. Notably, they collided at half the speed of light.
According to theoretical physicist Kip Thorne of Caltech, a co-founder of LIGO and pioneer in the field of gravitational wave detection, the colliding black holes “created a violent storm in the fabric of spacetime.”
This storm was very brief—lasting only 20 milliseconds—and unleashed an amount of energy equivalent to 50 times the total power output of all the stars in the universe. The two black holes merged to form a single, 62 solar mass black hole. 3 suns worth of gravitational energy was annihilated in the coalescence, releasing the gravitational waves that were detected last September.
Artist’s representation of the merger. Credit: Phys Review Letters
EINSTEIN’S GREAT CONTRIBUTION
The signals exactly matched predictions from Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity regarding what would happen when two black holes collide and merge. In fact, the nature of the event was made clear by running computer simulations and finding which ones produced a signal that coincided with the September 14 event.
“Einstein would be beaming, wouldn’t he?” enthused France Córdova, Director of the National Science Foundation.
The LIGO detectors are some of the most sophisticated, and some of the most sensitive, instruments in the world. Both are located in the United States, with one in Hanford, Washington, and the other in Livingston, Louisiana. A third detector, the VIRGO experiment in Cascina, Italy, is expected to become operational shortly. Once it is online, it will be possible to triangulate gravitational wave sources in the sky.
The interferometers operate by shining laser beams along two perpendicular “arms” that are each 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) long; gravitational waves are registered by minute discrepancies in the distance traveled by the laser light—discrepancies caused when the passing waves “stretch” spacetime.
The discrepancy detected in the September 14 event amounted to about 1,000th the size of an atomic nucleus.
WHAT DOES ALL THIS MEAN?
The new discovery has enormous implications, many of which will require decades to be worked out. It’s an astonishing independent confirmation of the fundamental truth and power of Einstein’s equations, but more importantly, it opens up to human understanding an entirely new dimension of astronomical observation. Whereas before we were restricted to electromagnetic radiations alone, we can now observe the very ripples of spacetime itself.
Thorne expects that further gravitational wave detections will be made in the coming year; when the VIRGO instruments come online, astronomers will be able to pinpoint the sources with greater precision and accuracy.
And there are designs in the works for new detectors that can register gravitational waves with periods, not merely in the millisecond range (as with LIGO), but in the range of minutes to hours, years to decades, and even billions of years.
And there’s likely much more to come.
“As we open a new window in astronomy, we may see things we’ve never seen before,” David Reitze predicted.
You can read the paper, which was published in Physical Review Letters, here. In the event that the peer review article is not accessible, as the website may go down again, the results and abstract are copied below:
PROJECT REDSUN: THEY WENT TO MARS WITHOUT TELLING US
PROJECT REDSUN: THEY WENT TO MARS WITHOUT TELLING US
How much do we know about Mars? Or is it “how much we don’t know about it” a better question to ask?
According to several sources, the distant Red Planet meant an important deal to NASA ever since the late 1950s. As the Apollo program was coming to an end, and with the entire population bathed in excitement because of the huge step humanity took towards progress and innovation, the space agency already had bigger plans for the near future.
Apparently, at that time (in 1970s more precisely) NASA focused more on a manned mission to Mars. As crazy as this sounds, it might prove to be true, and here is why: 50 years ago from now, in the summer of 1965, Mariner 4 became the first successful mission to come near the surface of the Red Planet. The photos returned by the space module caused an immense stir among NASA’s personnel, as it revealed never before seen features of the bizarre “red dot” that could be observed from Earth.
What they learned in 1965 made the agency want to send astronauts there ASAP in order to colonize the Red Planet and who knows what other reasons they had. Therefore, NASA secretly funded a project similar to the Apollo missions which they codenamed Project REDSUN. Its aim was apparently to colonize the planet, but after analyzing the case, it seems that they had some other thoughts as well. Is it possible that NASA encountered some form of intelligent life on Mars?
In 1971, one year before the final Apollo mission, Mariner 9 was orbiting Mars and managed to photograph the entirety of its surface, thus providing conclusive images with ancient riverbeds, a 3,000 mile-long grand canyon, gigantic volcanoes, and other artificial-like structures that we can also see for ourselves today.
What seems rather interesting is the fact that NASA had a free hand to operate under the ongoing lunar exploration hysteria. Another curious thing to note is the fact that the agency was overly prepared to send a second mission to Mars, as Richard Zurek, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s leading scientist revealed:
It was a good thing we had other spacecraft ready, as it might have stopped Mars exploration for a while. The pace of exploration would have slowed – we certainly wouldn’t have had anything as ambitious as the mission in 1970s.
Mariner 9’s photo of Nirgal Vallis, the largest valley network on Mars
It was a planet that seemed similar enough to the Earth that you could imagine it having supported life in the past… We still don’t know for sure if life did develop there.”
In the years that followed, several exploration modules were sent to Mars, probably because of the unimaginable discoveries that were previously unearthed. However, first photos from the actual surface of the planet were taken by the Viking 1 mission and were revealed on July 20, 1976. One day later, the first color picture taken by the Viking 2 lander was available. Considering all the above, we can’t help but wonder what happened between 1970 and 1976, and why the space agency didn’t officially admit the landing of a module on the Martian surface until then?
On August 28, 1973, a secret mission funded by NASA and the US Department of Defense was to depart towards the distant planet Mars under the name of Project Redsun. According to recently leaked documents, the crew consisted of American astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and a fellow comrade from the USSR named Vladimir Ilyushin.
The video below was supposedly leaked from a collection of 16mm archived footage used in the training of NASA astronauts and Air Force pilots. The video reveals how astronauts aboard a spacecraft considered to be the ISV Columbus, are slowly leaving behind Earth’s view to welcome a new, more dusty sight of planet Mars. Some features of the Red Planet are clearly visible during the orbital flight, including the famous South Pole of Mars.
Mission control was established at Cocoa Beach, Florida and it coordinated Project Redsun’s first three launches. All subsequent missions were relocated and administrated from Area 51.
After the video was made public, people begun to question its authenticity, and as usual, NASA denied any form of implication in a manned mission to Mars, considering the footage to be a ridiculous forgery. While people couldn’t accept the agency’s potential for such a quest, seeing as it was 1970 back then, the above footage didn’t receive too much attention. However, it all changed in April 2011 when more evidence was brought to light by an Italian journalist and UFO researcher Luca Scantamburlo. During a press conference, they presented a testimony revealing the details of project Redsun.
I introduce to you a press-release testimony I have written to discuss the presumed existence of a hush-hush military space program called “Project Redsun”, carried out in the 70s of the last century to build a stationary base on Mars, the Red Planet. My source of information – named by me ‘bravoxsierra24’ – had contacted me by email. It is possible to reproduce the pages of the press release, and the picture here presented as well.
The below documents back up this seemingly crazy but not at all impossible hypothesis of an early manned mission to Mars. If this happened indeed, we can think of so many reasons why NASA would engage in such a secret mission. What could NASA had encountered there? Was there an ancient alien base or did they met with intelligent beings who still inhabit the planet? Considering many other possibilities, the reason might exceed all our earthly expectations, and who knows, maybe one they we will find out. Are we prepared for this kind of disclosure?
In 1900, the British physicist Lord Kelvin is said to have pronounced: "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement." Within three decades, quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity had revolutionized the field. Today, no physicist would dare assert that our physical knowledge of the universe is near completion. To the contrary, each new discovery seems to unlock a Pandora's box of even bigger, even deeper physics questions. These are our picks for the most profound open questions of all.
9. What is dark energy?
Credit: NASA
No matter how astrophysicists crunch the numbers, the universe simply doesn't add up. Even though gravity is pulling inward on space-time — the "fabric" of the cosmos — it keeps expanding outward faster and faster. To account for this, astrophysicists have proposed an invisible agent that counteracts gravity by pushing space-time apart. They call itdark energy. In the most widely accepted model of dark energy, it is a "cosmological constant": an inherent property of space itself, which has "negative pressure" driving space apart. As space expands, more space is created, and with it, more dark energy. Based on the observed rate of expansion, scientists know that the sum of all the dark energy must make up more than 70 percent of the total contents of the universe. But no one knows how to look for it.
8. What is dark matter?
Credit: ESO/L. Calçada
Evidently, about 84 percent of the matter in the universe does not absorb or emit light. "Dark matter," as it is called, cannot be seen directly, and it hasn't yet been detected by indirect means, either. Instead, dark matter's existence and properties are inferred from its gravitational effects on visible matter, radiation and the structure of the universe. This shadowy substance is thought to pervade the outskirts of galaxies, and may be composed of "weakly interacting massive particles," or WIMPs. Worldwide, there are several detectors on the lookout for WIMPs, but so far, not one has been found. [If Not Dark Matter, then What?]
Time moves forward because a property of the universe called "entropy," roughly defined as the level of disorder, only increases, and so there is no way to reverse a rise in entropy after it has occurred. The fact that entropy increases is a matter of logic: There are more disordered arrangements of particles than there are ordered arrangements, and so as things change, they tend to fall into disarray. But the underlying question here is, why was entropy so low in the past? Put differently, why was the universe so ordered at its beginning, when a huge amount of energy was crammed together in a small amount of space? [What's the Total Energy in the Universe?]
Astrophysical data suggests space-time might be "flat," rather than curved, and thus that it goes on forever. If so, then the region we can see (which we think of as "the universe") is just one patch in an infinitely large "quilted multiverse." At the same time, the laws of quantum mechanics dictate that there are only a finite number of possible particle configurations within each cosmic patch (10^10^122 distinct possibilities). So, with an infinite number of cosmic patches, the particle arrangements within them are forced to repeat — infinitely many times over. This means there are infinitely many parallel universes: cosmic patches exactly the same as ours (containing someone exactly like you), as well as patches that differ by just one particle's position, patches that differ by two particles' positions, and so on down to patches that are totally different from ours.
Is there something wrong with that logic, or is its bizarre outcome true? And if it is true, how might we ever detect the presence of parallel universes?
The question of why there is so much more matter than its oppositely-charged and oppositely-spinning twin, antimatter, is actually a question of why anything exists at all. One assumes the universe would treat matter and antimatter symmetrically, and thus that, at the moment of the Big Bang, equal amounts of matter and antimatter should have been produced. But if that had happened, there would have been a total annihilation of both: Protons would have canceled with antiprotons, electrons with anti-electrons (positrons), neutrons with antineutrons, and so on, leaving behind a dull sea of photons in a matterless expanse. For some reason, there was excess matter that didn't get annihilated, and here we are. For this, there is no accepted explanation.
The fate of the universe strongly depends on a factor of unknown value: Ω, a measure of the density of matter and energy throughout the cosmos. If Ω is greater than 1, then space-time would be "closed" like the surface of an enormous sphere. If there is no dark energy, such a universe would eventually stop expanding and would instead start contracting, eventually collapsing in on itself in an event dubbed the "Big Crunch." If the universe is closed but there is dark energy, the spherical universe would expand forever.
Alternatively, if Ω is less than 1, then the geometry of space would be "open" like the surface of a saddle. In this case, its ultimate fate is the "Big Freeze" followed by the "Big Rip": first, the universe's outward acceleration would tear galaxies and stars apart, leaving all matter frigid and alone. Next, the acceleration would grow so strong that it would overwhelm the effects of the forces that hold atoms together, and everything would be wrenched apart.
If Ω = 1, the universe would be flat, extending like an infinite plane in all directions. If there is no dark energy, such a planar universe would expand forever but at a continually decelerating rate, approaching a standstill. If there is dark energy, the flat universe ultimately would experience runaway expansion leading to the Big Rip.
Que sera, sera.
3. How do measurements collapse quantum wavefunctions?
Credit: John D. Norton
In the strange realm of electrons, photons and the other fundamental particles, quantum mechanics is law. Particles don't behave like tiny balls, but rather like waves that are spread over a large area. Each particle is described by a "wavefunction," or probability distribution, which tells what its location, velocity, and other properties are more likely to be, but not what those properties are. The particle actually has a range of values for all the properties, until you experimentally measure one of them — its location, for example — at which point the particle's wavefunction "collapses" and it adopts just one location. [Newborn Babies Understand Quantum Mechanics]
But how and why does measuring a particle make its wavefunction collapse, producing the concrete reality that we perceive to exist? The issue, known as the measurement problem, may seem esoteric, but our understanding of what reality is, or if it exists at all, hinges upon the answer.
2. Is string theory correct?
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When physicists assume all the elementary particles are actually one-dimensional loops, or "strings," each of which vibrates at a different frequency, physics gets much easier. String theory allows physicists to reconcile the laws governing particles, called quantum mechanics, with the laws governing space-time, called general relativity, and to unify the four fundamental forces of nature into a single framework. But the problem is, string theory can only work in a universe with 10 or 11 dimensions: three large spatial ones, six or seven compacted spatial ones, and a time dimension. The compacted spatial dimensions — as well as the vibrating strings themselves — are about a billionth of a trillionth of the size of an atomic nucleus. There's no conceivable way to detect anything that small, and so there's no known way to experimentally validate or invalidate string theory.
Physicists can't exactly solve the set of equations that describes the behavior of fluids, from water to air to all other liquids and gases. In fact, it isn't known whether a general solution of the so-called Navier-Stokes equations even exists, or, if there is a solution, whether it describes fluids everywhere, or contains inherently unknowable points called singularities. As a consequence, the nature of chaos is not well understood. Physicists and mathematicians wonder, is the weather merely difficult to predict, or inherently unpredictable? Does turbulence transcend mathematical description, or does it all make sense when you tackle it with the right math?
Technology used to study the "love" between entangled particles is also being used in research to improve deep-space communications.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
When talking about love and romance, people often bring up unseen and mystical connections.
Such connections exist in the subatomic world as well, thanks to a bizarre and counterintuitive phenomenon called quantum entanglement.
The basic idea of quantum entanglement is that two particles can be intimately linked to each other even if separated by billions of light-years of space; a change induced in one will affect the other. [How Quantum Entanglement Works (Infographic)]
In 1964, physicist John Bell posited that such changes can occur instantaneously, even if the particles are very far apart. Bell's Theorem is regarded as an important idea in modern physics, but it seems to make little sense. After all, Albert Einstein had proven years before that information cannot travel faster than the speed of light.
Indeed, Einstein famously described the entanglement phenomenon as "spooky action at a distance."
This cartoon helps explain the idea of entangled particles. Alice and Bob represent photon detectors, which NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the National Institute of Standards and Technology developed.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
In the last half-century, many researchers have run experiments that aimed to test Bell's Theorem. But they have tended to come up short because it's tough to design and build equipment with the needed sensitivity and performance, NASA officials said.
Last year, however, three different research groups were able to perform substantive tests of Bell's Theorem, and all of them found support for the basic idea.
One of those studies was led by Krister Shalm, a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado.
Shalm and his colleagues used special metal strips cooled to cryogenic temperatures, which makes them superconducting — they have no electrical resistance. A photon hits the metal and turns it back into a normal electrical conductor for a split second, and scientists can see that happen.
This technique allowed the researchers to see how, if at all, their measurements of one photon affected the other photon in an entangled pair.
The results, which were published in the journal Physical Review Letters, strongly backed Bell's Theorem.
"Our paper and the other two published last year show that Bell was right: any model of the world that contains hidden variables must also allow for entangled particles to influence one another at a distance," co-author Francesco Marsili, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, said in a statement.
There are practical applications to this work as well. The "superconducting nanowire single photon detectors" (SNSPDs) used in the Shalm group's experiment, which were built at NIST and JPL, could be used in cryptography and in deep-space communications, NASA officials said.
NASA's Lunar Atmosphere Dust and Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission, which orbited the moon from October 2013 to April 2014, helped demonstrate some of this communications potential.
LADEE's Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration used components on the spacecraft and a ground-based receiver similar to SNSPDs. The experiment showed that it might be possible to build sensitive laser communications arrays that would enable much more data to be up- and downloaded to faraway space probes, NASA officials said.
Farewell, Philae: Hunt for Rosetta's Lost Lander Ends
Farewell, Philae: Hunt for Rosetta's Lost Lander Ends
By Irene Klotz, Discovery News
Philae managed to 'sniff' organic molecules on the comet during its short mission, but it soon lost contact with mission control in 2014.
Credit: Artist's impression: ESA/AOES MediaLab
The European Space Agency is giving up on trying to contact the lost Philae comet lander, which had an unexpectedly rough touchdown after its release 16 months ago from the orbiting Rosetta mothership.
Rather than harpooning itself onto the surface of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, Philae bounced several times before coming to a rest against a cliff wall.
The probe ran through an automated three-day series of science experiments and relayed the results back to Earth before its batteries lost power.
Ground control teams tried to re-establish contact with the lander in hopes of a follow-on mission. Philae was designed to analyze materials on the comets surface and subsurface so they could be compared with data collected by Rosetta, which remains in orbit around 67P today.
Scientists were excited when they picked up Philae's signal last summer, but control teams were never able to maintain communications long enough to put Philae back to work, most likely due to a failure of the lander's transmitter, ESA said.
The last contact from Philae was on June 13.
With the comet now well past the orbit of Mars, temperatures on the surface dip down to almost minus-300 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-180 degrees Celsius) at night. The lander was designed to withstand temperatures as low as about minus-58 degrees Fahrenheit (minus-50 degrees Celsius).
If Philae had touched down on its original landing site, it would have had much more sunlight available to recharge its batteries. But it's also likely Philae would have overheated as the comet approach the sun last March.
"Unfortunately, the probability of Philae re-establishing contact with our team is almost zero, and we will no longer be sending any commands,"said project manager Stephan Ulamec, with the German Aerospace Center.
"At the moment, we plan to keep the receivers on the orbiter on, as long as there is no power constraint for Rosetta, no reason to switch them off," Ulamec wrote in an email to Discovery News.
"Chances are very low that we will hear again from the lander... but we keep listening," he added.
As far as Philae's contributions to the mission, Ulamec said that only the lander could provide the "ground truth" for the comet's composition. Philae discovered organic molecules on the surface of 67P, and returned high-resolution pictures that allowed scientists to assess the physical properties of the surface materials.
Philae's radar instrument was able to measure the internal structure of the comet, which turned out to be highly porous. Even Philae's unplanned hops on the surface of 67P provided valuable scientific insight, such as that the comet lacks a magnetic field.
Philae was not able to complete all of what scientists had hoped, including digging out subsurface samples for a chemical analysis.
Analysis from both Philae's mission and the ongoing Rosetta expedition continue.
Scientists are hoping to get a look at the lander on the comet's surface this summer when Rosetta moves in for another round of close flybys.
"We will ... finally locate Philae and understand its attitude and orientation," Rosetta spacecraft operations manager Sylvain Lodiot said in a press release.
Understanding how and exactly where Philae is positioned will help scientists interpret some of the data relayed by the lander during its 60-hour mission.
Philae eventually will be joined on the comet's surface by Rosetta, a permanent testimony to an unprecedented journey.
The group said what they believe was a flying saucer appeared as they stopped to photograph some motorbikes on a bridge.
The terrified family, who have not yet been fully identified, posted the photographs online, causing a stir among conspiracists.
One of the members, named only as Argentinian Verónica, said she took a photo of a group of bikers crossing the bridge when she saw a "strange object" in the sky.
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The family said the appearance of the object terrified them
She said: "I screamed. Everyone looked and we saw it some 50 metres away, for an instant, just when I took the photo. After that, it was no longer there."
She said then they all ran to the car for safety.
She added: "We took off immediately. We shut everything because it truly frightened us."
I screamed. Everyone looked and we saw it some 50 metres away, for an instant, just when I took the photo. After that, it was no longer there."
UFO "witness" Verónica
The family said the incident happened at La Rinconada, near Junín de los Andes in Argentina.
Not everyone is convinced by the story, including die-hard UFO buff Scott C Waring, who edits UFO Sightings Daily, and is convinced he has proved Mars is teeming with life forms from baboons, to bears, giant mice and worms.
He said: "I have a slight problem with her description.
"I have witnessed UFOs before, several times, once with dozens of soldiers in the parking lot. None of us panicked...none of us said...run!
"Usually people stare as long as possible, trying to understand what they are seeing."
But another "UFO witness" posted in response: "The first time I saw a UFO I was with my boyfriend and I was scared! He wanted to stand there and stare at it but the closer it got...I admit I was afraid."
Another added: "Wow, if I had seen a giant black arrow in the sky I would have been freaked out too."
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Lenticular clouds in Eastern Russia
Lenticular clouds in Eastern Russia
The Lenticular clouds that form over Eastern Russia's Kamchatka mountains and volcano are easily mistaken for UFO's because of their strange formations.
A mysterious Lenticular cloud, easily mistaken as a space ship is seen forming over the Kamchatka volcano in Eastern Russia
The serene Lenticular clouds, formed to align with the wind direction over the Kamchatka volcano in Eastern Russia
Lenticuar clouds hrom over Kamchatka's iconic mountains, easily mistaken for a UFO
A Lenticular cloud forms over Kamchatka's iconic volcanos in Eastern Russia, easily mistaken for a UFO
Lenticular clouds swirl around Kamchatka mountains in Eastern Russia as the sky turns a ethereal shade of purple
A lenticular cloud forms over Kamchatka's iconic volcanos in Earstern Russia
Interesting - A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto
A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto
Uploaded on Oct 24, 2010
Japanese artist Isao Hashimoto has created a beautiful, undeniably scary time-lapse map of the 2053 nuclear explosions which have taken place between 1945 and 1998, beginning with the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" test near Los Alamos and concluding with Pakistan's nuclear tests in May of 1998. This leaves out North Korea's two alleged nuclear tests in this past decade (the legitimacy of both of which is not 100% clear).
Each nation gets a blip and a flashing dot on the map whenever they detonate a nuclear weapon, with a running tally kept on the top and bottom bars of the screen. Hashimoto, who began the project in 2003, says that he created it with the goal of showing"the fear and folly of nuclear weapons." It starts really slow — if you want to see real action, skip ahead to 1962 or so — but the buildup becomes overwhelming.
Something crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, 68 years ago. The first military authorized press release stated, “RAAF (Roswell Army Air Field) Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch In Roswell Region.” That’s right, the military was the first to indicate it was a flying saucer.
Then, they quickly said that was a mistake. It was just a weather balloon. But UFO researchers were never satisfied with that answer, even decades later, and the controversy only grew.
The military later revealed that this wasn’t a simple weather balloon, but an aircraft used for clandestine purposes — part of the Army’s top secret “Project Mogul”– to monitor atomic weapon testing in the old Soviet Union. The military also claimed that crash test dummies may have been mistaken for ETs. But that explanation only stirred the controversy.
The central figure surrounding the events of the 1947 Roswell UFO issue was Maj. Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer for the 509th Bomb Group at Roswell Army Air Field. He was assigned the initial task of going out to the debris field to collect some of the material, described as shiny wreckage, including pieces of rubber, super-resistant tinfoil, wooden sticks and metallic-looking I-beams.
Here’s an excerpt from a 35-year-old interview conducted by this writer with Marcel, when he finally felt comfortable talking about the Roswell case more than 30 years after it happened:
We went out to the scene of where the crash was and started picking up the debris. It’s almost indescribable. It’s not the kind of material I’d ever seen in my life, nor have I seen it since. There were various types of materials which I couldn’t identify. There were little members that looked like they were made of wood, but it wasn’t wood and it had some kind of writing or hieroglyphics that I couldn’t decipher and nobody else could. It was flexible, but you couldn’t break it and you couldn’t burn it.
Also, I found a piece of metal which was about the thickness of the foil in a pack of cigarettes. But the amazing part about it was you could put it on the ground, hit it with a sledge hammer and you couldn’t even put a dent in it. That astounded me and I knew it was nothing from here. I was convinced it was not from anywhere on Earth and I’m still convinced of that.
I had brought a counterintelligence man with me in a staff car plus a pickup truck. We got everything we could into that and I sent the agent back to the base. Then I filled up my car with stuff. By the time I got back home, my wife said, ‘What happened to you? There’s been a bunch of news reporters out here, wanting a picture of you.’ And I said, ‘For what?’ And there had been a public relations officer with them. He said, ‘From what happened, your husband will be very popular by tomorrow morning.’ So that’s how it all started.
What amazed me most of all was the weightlessness of all this material — it weighed nothing. I found one piece of metal — supposedly metal — which was about a foot wide and about two-and-a-half feet long. When I got back to the base, we [Marcel and several enlisted men] brought it all into a briefing room and set up a whole lot of tables there. One of the men said, ‘Let me see if I can put some of those parts together, to see what the thing might have looked like.’ He came back later and said [he tried but couldn't do it].
I consulted my CO [commanding officer], who said, ‘You better fly the thing to Wright-Patterson Air Field [Ohio]. So, we loaded up the whole thing — which was not a whole lot of material — onto a B-29. We had only picked up one small fraction of what was out there. It was scattered over such an area about three-quarters of a mile long and several hundred feet wide. We’d been there all day, picking up the fragments.
I asked my CO if it was a better idea to stop at Carswell [Air Force Base] at Fort Worth and consult General Ramey and he said, ‘Yes, you better do that.’ When I got to Fort Worth, I talked it over with the general, and he told me, ‘Don’t open your mouth to the press. Put some stuff on the floor and let them take a picture of it.’ But I was careful not to put out anything with detail on it. So they took pictures, and one picture appeared in the papers.
Gen. Ramey told news reporters this was nothing but a crashed weather balloon, but I do know this: later on, Ramey wanted to cover his statement up, because he didn’t know, himself, what it was. I went back to Roswell to resume my duties, but what they did at Carswell was to make a mock display with a battered weather balloon and they let the press take pictures of that. The whole thing was a cover-up to begin with and that was the last I heard of it.
I know it was not a weather balloon and I’d swear it on the biggest bible. It wasn’t a missile or any part of an aircraft that we know of.
To mark the crash anniversary, Michael Donovan of OuterPlaces.com joined us on the HuffPost Weird News Podcast to discuss Roswell’s unanswered questions.
Two years ago, Donovan was standing in the Roswell crash debris field along with Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr., a highly decorated military flight surgeon.
“It was a moving experience because we’re out on the site and this large thunderstorm was moving toward us — you could see lightning flashing — and he’s standing there with his Iraq war veteran hat on and said, ‘This is amazing. Sixty-six years ago, my father was standing on this very site,’” said Donovan.
“His father had loaded debris into his car, drove back to Roswell, stopping at his house, and showed his wife and son, Jesse Jr., the material after spreading it out on the kitchen floor,” said Donovan. “Here’s a guy — a doctor, a flight surgeon — why would he make up an experience he had in the middle of the night when he was 11 years old? So, when we were standing there at the crash site, I asked him, ‘When they loaded that plane up and flew it to Fort Worth, what happened to it?’ And he said, ‘You know what? I don’t know.’ But he said the base commander’s secretary, a few years ago before she retired, showed somebody a box of stretchy stuff that, if you crushed it, it would pop open. Jesse Jr. said to me, ‘I think that stuff must still be somewhere around, in the military’s possession.’”
Donovan says his belief in UFOs and a possible cover-up surrounding the Roswell UFO incident never gets in the way of his work — which includes co-designing the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
“No, not at all. It goes back to the idea of being on a quest, being a problem-solver, and that’s what designers do. We solve problems. In the reading of science fiction, you begin on a path to discovery. That’s what we do every day and it’s really that kind of interest — learning new things — that put me on the path that I’m now on, relative to OuterPlaces.com.
“In my own mind, I keep trying to create some kind of balance between what I think is a certain appropriate level of secrecy. We’re adults in this country, by and large, and I think the government owes us as much information and let us make up our own minds.”
Here are some unanswered questions that continue to surround the 1947 Roswell UFO crash incident:
What exactly crashed there in 1947? Was it a weather balloon, high altitude spy device, extraterrestrial craft?
Did the military switch materials that Maj. Marcel brought back from the debris field and, instead, allow the press to take pictures of an actual battered weather balloon?
If the crash site debris wasn’t really a weather balloon, where did the real stuff end up?
Why would the military decide to even issue a press release about a captured flying saucer?
Related to the above question, why would the military suddenly change the story from flying saucer to weather balloon?li
Why did the military hire a local Roswell mortician to make child-sized caskets following the UFO debris retrieval?
Why did Jesse Marcel Sr. wait more than 30 years before finally revealing his part in the Roswell UFO events?
If true, why would the U.S. government want to cover up such a monumental event as the crash of an alien ship?
This weekend’s 20th Roswell UFO festival takes off full blast today with speakers giving their presentations at different locations simultaneously. If lectures don’t fit your fancy, there’s always the alien pet and alien costume contests and a UFO festival light parade to check out.
It’s fair to say that something happened outside Roswell in 1947 that literally put the town on the map. The debris is long gone, but the reverberations have never stopped.
Whatever it was, after almost 70 years, it still depends on whom you ask or what you read, and whether you believe them.
A 1997 CNN-Time poll showed that 80 percent of Americans think the government is hiding information about the existence of alien life forms, and nearly two-thirds of the poll respondents believed that a UFO crashed outside Roswell in 1947.
L'exploitation de ce navire sans pilote coûte la bagatelle de 20.000 dollars par jour.
Les Etats-Unis lanceront le 17 avril prochain les essais d'un navire sans pilote baptisé ACTUV et destiné à chasser les sous-marins ennemis, rapporte le site Gizmodo.
Les tests dureront 18 mois. L’ACTUV n'est pas doté d'armements, mais peut accomplir des missions de reconnaissance d'une durée allant de 60 à 90 jours. L'exploitation de ce petit navire (140 tonnes, 40 m de long) coûte entre 15.000 et 20.000 dollars par jour (entre 13.300 et 17.700 euros par jour).
D'ailleurs, l'ACTUV est moins performant que les robots sous-marins dont les travaux de conception devraient aboutir en 2016. Equipés d'armes et largués par un sous-marin, ces submersibles sans pilote pourront donner l’illusion de la présence d'un vrai sous-marin voire attaquer un ennemi.
L'Agence américaine pour les projets de recherche avancée de défense (DARPA) a annoncé en 2010 la création d’un ACTUV capable de détecter les sous-marins à propulsion diesel-électrique. L'ACTUV fait partie de la 3e Stratégie de compensation du Pentagone censée garantir la prédominance militaire des Etats-Unis dans le monde. Les Etats-Unis comptent débloquer 18 milliards de dollars (15,9 milliards d’euros) pour la réalisation de cette stratégie.
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Never before in human history has “Official Disclosure” -- meaning government confirmation of the existence of intelligent, alien life beyond that which is found on our own small planet -- been so tantalizingly close to fruition.
It is imperative to the ultimate success of this endeavour that White House insider John Podesta, who has apparently been made kind of a “point man” in this effort, carefully and deliberatively do everything in his power to make sureOfficial Disclosure is done right.
So what has Podesta been doing in the name of Soft Disclosure, also known as “disclosure with a small-d”? First and foremost, he has “tapped” a small but elite group of notable reporters, including Pulitzer Prize-winner Maureen Dowd of the New York Times, and Jennifer Epstein of Bloomberg Politics.
Whichever investigative reporter ends up being the one who breaks the story of the reality of exopolitics, that person will go down in history as deserving every journalistic prize and award that there are to give. The same goes for POTUS (President f the United States). His or her legacy will be set in stone as being the Disclosure President.
William Jefferson Clinton came close, but on the big day that was to have been "Clinton’s Disclosure Moment," the media -- and most of the world -- allowed themselves to be distracted by that infamous blue dress.
Currently, one of the biggest obstacles Podesta is grappling with is the fact that, in order to maintain the cover-up, the Shadow Government committed many crimes for which they will eventually have to be charged, once the truth comes out. Crimes such as the “murder by suicide” of whistleblower Phil Schneider, former government employee stationed at Dulce base and a prima facie witness to ETs working directly with the United States government. And then there’s the case of Dr. Shafica Karagulla, who was electrocuted by a CIA assassin because she knew too much. No wonder ufologists have begun declaring that progress is made one death at a time. The deaths of these martyrs and many others like them cry out for justice.
Beyond crimes against individuals, heinous as those may be, perhaps even worse are the crimes against humanity involved in hoarding and suppressing the potentially civilization-elevating benefits of various alien technologies, such as free energy, the lengthening of lifespans, the eradication of poverty, disease and hunger, etc. At an even higher layer of meaning and deeper level of Truth, a spiritual battle is going on for the soul of man which affects everything on the planet.
One interesting phenomenon about experiencers is that many of them exhibit psychic powers.
There is, after all, a psychic/alien connection. Therefore, I would like to extend an open invitation to John Podesta, offering transport to another planet. Another high level disclosure advocate, Ben Rich of Skunkworks, leaked classified material showing that they are in possession of a very unique alien vehicle, indeed. The leap in technology involves mind-controlled vehicles. The bottom line is that we can transport to another inhabited planet with this exotic ship and a psychic pilot, and return to Earth with Free Energy and the benefit of being part of the Galactic Federation. With the completion of this mission, we will have successfully lifted humanity out of quarantine. Contact will have been made and established.
The metaphysical aspect psychics provide of the mind over matter connection to transport human diplomats in a UFO iskey to breaking the impasse.
Small-d "disclosure" has already happened, as aliens are the higher power, above POTUS. They don’t need thePresident to speak for 6 billion people. They know what many in the general public already know to be true. That benevolent extra terrestrials are engaging humanity.
Overnight AM Talk Radio has been the last safe haven, which has been doing the heavy lifting of raising publicawareness in regards to the UFO Agenda. I urge Podesta to come on The Conspiracy Show with Richard Syrett and give a full length live-to-air interview about what he knows and what the general public can do in the next steps towardsDisclosure with a capital “D”.
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President Obama tegen 6-jarige: Nog geen ‘direct contact met aliens’
President Obama tegen 6-jarige: Nog geen ‘direct contact met aliens’
De Amerikaanse president Barack Obama schoof donderdag aan bij de populaire tv-show The Ellen DeGeneres Show. Hij sprak met haar uitgebreid over zijn leven met de First Lady en zijn dochters. Ook hadden de twee het over gelijke behandeling.
Tijdens de show gaf hij ook antwoord op een ongewone vraag van een 6-jarig meisje: “We hebben nog geen direct contact met aliens gelegd.”
Obama werd in de talkshow geïnterviewd door de 6-jarige ‘presidentieel expert’ Macey Hensley. Ze vroeg de president onder meer naar het legendarische ‘boek der geheimen’. “Dat is geheim,” grapte de president.
Hensley theoretiseerde dat de ‘geheimen’ in het boek mogelijk antwoord kunnen geven op de vraag of ‘aliens echt bestaan’. “We hebben nog geen direct contact met aliens gelegd,” zei Obama. “Zodra dat wel gebeurt, laat ik het je weten.”
De president verduidelijkte niet of we al wel indirect contact hebben gemaakt met aliens door middel van een tussenschakel.
Dubbed “Britain’s Roswell”, the Rendlesham Forest incident, which took place over a series of nights in December 1980, continues to fascinate UFO enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists. It is easy to understand why. Consider the following three statements, for example:
1) “This was not some vague ‘lights in the sky’ sighting – the UFO actually landed.” – Nick Pope, a Ministry of Defence employee from 1985 to 2006.
2) “When I arrived [at the scene], it was going in and out through the trees and at one stage it was hovering.” – Sgt. Adrian Bustinza, a security police commander who investigated the incident at the time.
3) “Okay, we’re looking at the thing; we’re probably about two to three hundred yards away. It looks like an eye winking at you... And the flash is so bright to the starscope that it almost burns your eye.” – Taken from the Halt tape, recorded on December 27 1980 by United States Air Force lieutenant colonel Charles Halt.
Only last month, a dog walker uploaded fresh footage of unidentified lights in the sky above Rendlesham Forest, while a new film on the subject, produced by long-time Suffolk resident and Rendlesham Forest incident expert Daniel Simpson, has recently been released. There is even an official UFO trail for walkers to follow through Rendlesham Forest. But what actually happened? And, 35 years after the event, are we any closer to unravelling the mystery?
As the years have passed, the facts have become increasingly hazy, as statements change and new witnesses come forward. But what we do know for sure is that, in the early hours of December 26 1980, US military personnel (sections of the US Air Force were temporarily stationed at RAF bases in Woodbridge and Bentwaters) spotted strange lights above Rendlesham Forest.
One of these men, John Burroughs, accompanied by his supervisor and one other individual, went to investigate the blue, red, orange and white lights. In his subsequent witness statement, published in 1981, Burroughs explains: “As we went down the east-gate road and the road that leads into the forest, the lights were moving back and they appeared to stop in a bunch of trees... Also, the woods lit up and you could hear the farm animals making a lot of noises, and there was a lot of movement in the woods. All three of us hit the ground and whatever it was started moving back towards the open field… We got up to a fence that separated the trees from the open field. You could see the lights down by a farmer’s house. We climbed over the fence and started walking toward the red and blue lights and they just disappeared.”
Jim Penniston, who accompanied Burroughs into Rendlesham Forest on December 26, claims to have encountered a craft, covered in hieroglyphic-like characters. “I estimated it to be about three metres tall and about three metres wide at the base,” Penniston later explained. “No landing gear was apparent, but it seemed like she was on fixed legs. I moved a little closer. I had already taken all 36 pictures on my roll of film. I walked around the craft, and finally, I walked right up to the craft. I noticed the fabric of the shell was more like a smooth, opaque, black glass.”
Burroughs does not recall this. Indentations on the forest floor, as well as damage to the trees in the area where the lights had been spotted, were found the following morning, however. Radiation levels recorded at the site of the indentations were also unusually high.
In the book Encounter in Rendlesham Forest, which was published last year, Penniston writes: “I left the forest a different man… I was in awe of the technology and yes, a knowing that it was not an aircraft which could have been manufactured in 1980 or even now.” Both Penniston and Burroughs have since suffered from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Two nights later, a different set of military personnel experienced a similar series of events. On this occasion, when the lights were spotted, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt was prepared. A pragmatic character, Halt intended to disprove the wild rumours swirling around RAF bases Woodbridge and Bentwaters. Arming himself with a recording device, he set out to investigate. The subsequent audio tape is now considered one of the most valuable pieces of evidence in the Rendlesham Forest incident.
The Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident - Top Documentary Films
The transcript of the tape runs to some 18 minutes but includes statements from Halt such as: “I see it too... it’s back again... it’s coming this way... there’s no doubt about it... this is weird... it looks like an eye winking at you... it almost burns your eyes... he’s coming toward us now... now we’re observing what appears to be a beam coming down to the ground... one object still hovering over Woodbridge base... beaming down”. Halt has since given interviews in which he claims that these occurrences were picked up by British radar. “I didn’t know this until recently,” he told AOL News. “Because people have come forward after they’ve retired. There were two radar confirmations.”
The following night, December 28, one final group of men claim to have encountered something out of the ordinary in Rendlesham Forest. Larry Warren, an 18-year-old soldier who was not even at either RAF base on the night of the first incident, was sent out on patrol with Sgt Adrian Bustinza and a number of other military personnel. Sometime after 11pm, the men departed their trucks and headed towards the field where lights had been seen on the previous two nights.
There, Warren claims to have seen “disaster preparedness officers out here with geiger counters, going in an almost half-clockwise motion around this thing on the ground.” A small red light was then seen approaching from the direction of the coast. “It moved in a downward arc, so fast. [It] stopped and hovered about 20 feet off the ground,” said Warren. “It was the size of a basketball, [an] American basketball. [It was] self-illuminated, not quite red, yet that’s the closest I can describe it.”
Things were about to get even stranger, though. This red light suddenly exploded and a craft appeared on the forest floor. According to Warren, it had “no windows, no markings, no flag or country of origin. Nothing. You could hardly look at it head on, and if you looked at it through the side of your peripheral vision you’d get a shape of it… and there it was, clear as a bell.”
A 1983 News of the World headline about Rendlesham sightings (Ian Ridpath/NoW)
At this stage, Warren and Bustinza were asked to retreat by a senior man. From a distance, they then claim to have witnessed Wing Commander Gordon Williams approach the craft and encounter some alien being with “what looked like eyes, facial features, bright clothing and some other device.” Warren is clear that a “silent stand-off”, rather than any communication, took place.
At around 4.30am, Warren returned to his base but Bustinza claims to have seen the craft depart. “When it took off, it was, like, hovering. It went up and, like, took off at about a forty-five-degree angle, and if you would have blinked, you would have missed it… And we got a cold draft of air that lasted about a good ten seconds. You know, like when you get a good blow of dust or wind. No noise though; I do remember that.”
It is understood that almost half of all UFO correspondence directed at the Ministry of Defence relates to the Rendlesham Forest incident. Despite claims of a cover-up, the MoD’s stance has never wavered. It states: “No evidence was found of any threat to the defence of the United Kingdom, and no further investigations were carried out. No further information has come to light which alters our view that the sightings of these lights was of no defence significance.”
Daniel Simpson takes a different view, however. The director of The Rendlesham UFO Incident, a fictionalised account of the story set in the modern day and filmed on location in Rendlesham Forest, is convinced that either there has been a military cover-up or that something extra-terrestrial occurred in December 1980. And moreover, he believes he has uncovered further evidence to prove it. While filming in Rendlesham Forest – “It does have a very strong atmosphere of something strange” – he asked the Forestry Commission to investigate a series of hatches, which Simpson describes as “mysterious”.
“I got the Forestry Commission to tow one of those hatches off with a four wheel drive and there’s a ladder going down,” he explains, as we discuss his film. “Now, they will tell you that those are drainage systems for the airfield but it’s a very elaborate drainage system.”
A drawing from Jim Penniston's original witness statement
Simpson believes that “the twin bases [RAF Woodbridge and Bentwaters] are connected by tunnels underneath, which isn’t that far out a thing to suggest, because a lot of these bases do have an underground facility, especially as it’s a nuclear facility. You don’t keep nuclear weapons on ground level, they have to drop down.”
He continues: “I recently heard a very interesting story of a guy that went up to the Bentwaters air base and, because it’s privately owned, some of those buildings are rented out to people. A company up there wanted to have their internet sorted out and this guy dug down and – he was a telecom guy – he came back and he was sheet white. He couldn’t believe it. He said he’d just come across these cables, two foot down, and they were cables delivering such a powerful internet connection – but they were cables from 1980. I haven’t ever told anyone that story. They [the cables] were from 1980 and yet they were so in advance of what we’ve even got now. I’m told that all the time what we get [technologically] is much behind what they [the military] actually know.”
So what, I wonder, is the truth? Simpson appears conflicted about whether this is a military cover-up at a nuclear facility or something even more alarming. “I honestly believe something very strange went on there and I believe that somewhere is the evidence to prove it but that’s hidden away. I think it’s an extra-terrestrial encounter. I do.”
I put a series of theories to Simpson, which I hope might explain away the idea that extra-terrestrial life landed in a forest in Suffolk 35 years ago. But he bats them all away. Could the lights have come from nearby Orford Ness lighthouse, for example? “The lighthouse theory is rubbish,” he scoffs. “Lighthouses don’t fly down into forests, split up into five different lights and zap off into space at Mach-3. They don’t move through the trees and get mistaken by up to 20 witnesses from the United States Air Force.”
Daniel Simpson's film, The Rendlesham UFO Incident, was shot on location in Rendlesham Forest
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Extraordinary UFO sightings from the US Air Force's Project Blue Book
Extraordinary UFO sightings from the US Air Force's Project Blue Book
Four remarkable stories from the new online database of 130,000 pages of UFO sightings
A photographic negative allegedly showing a fleet of unidentified craft in the skies above Lubbock, Texas
By Morgan Meaker
Between 1947 and 1969, the US Air Force meticulously recorded over 10,000 incidents involving Unidentified Flying Objects. Inside the Project Blue Book archive, which has recently been put online, witnesses described objects as "concave as a soup bowl", "onion-shaped" and resembling "a frosty silvery football" shooting across the sky.
A seed salesman was driving when he saw a flash of light. When he moved closer to the light, his car stopped working.
The light came from a nearby riverbed where he saw an object, resembling a balloon. When he approached the space ship, another flash of light paralysed him.
He was unable to move as two men appeared and began to search him – they asked if he was armed.
After the search, he was able to move again. He asked the men if he could take a closer look at the UFO. They agreed. Inside, he met four men and two women.
They all spoke in German accents and seemed to move around on magnetic fields. The sides, bottom and floor of the ship were perfectly transparent.
After around thirty minutes, they said goodbye. After leaving the UFO, it rose 150ft into the air and disappeared.
At the same time as the sighting, a farmer’s truck broke down two miles away. During the investigation, a blue stain was found on trees near to the scene and green oil was found covering dry leaves.
However the man was assessed by psychiatrists who said his “mental condition” would enjoy publicity. He was later committed to the state mental hospital in Hastings, Nebraska.
An Argentinian truck driver was looking for a hotel to spend the night when he saw small red lights, four miles from Isla Verde.
When he got closer to the lights, his engine cut out. Hoping he might find somewhere to stay, he left the car taking with him a blanket and a gun.
He thought he saw the lights of a vehicle. However these lights disappeared and in their place he saw powerful rays of red light coming towards him.
There was a smell of gas that made his eyes and face sting. Frightened, his knees gave way and he shot at the light with his revolver.
In response “the light gave out a sound, like the rapid braking of a car and went backward a few meters”.
He fled into a field looking for a shelter however from a hill two red lights appeared which “reflected” his steps.
The red light continued to follow him as he walked around, confused. Then a blue lit “vineyard shaped vehicle” appeared.
He said it had two small windows and inside he could see someone “but I didn’t see legs or faces, just a body type form”.
Six hundred feet from the object he saw four human beings “or whatever they were”. He asked them questions but nobody replied.
They just walked beside him. They were 6'5" tall with a sparkling uniform.
One of them came very close with a triangular object in his hand. The truck driver was again afraid and so fired another shot and it was “as if a shadow had fallen backwards”.
They returned to the vehicle and the large object passed him overhead. A blue light however did not leave the man until he reached the city.
The investigation confirmed that the truck was at the place the man had said it was and his footprints were also found.
However the US Air Force received only second hand evidence from the Argentinians and decided it was too expensive and too much time had passed to continue the investigation.
Horace Burns was driving his station wagon when he saw a huge metallic object flying in the sky.
It was crossing the highway about 200ft ahead of him when his engine cut dead.
For approximately 90 seconds, the UFO landed lightly, “like a bubble”, in a small field. Burns said it resembled an “upside down toy top” and was about 90ft high.
There was a blue glow around the base of the machine.
The sighting was investigated by a professor at a college in Virginia who passed on his research to the US Air Force.
He said he picked up “tremendously high reading of radiation” at the scene and a 14 year old boy said he had also seen a large UFO travelling in the same direction. The boy’s parents corroborated his story.
The Project Blue Book report reads that there was a lack of evidence and placed the sighting in the psychological category.
A man was riding his bike on the highway when he saw what looked like a “very powerful flare” and four silhouettes that resembled human beings.
Afraid of an ambush, he ran away and stumbled on a nearby house, where he met a couple and told them what he had seen.
Together, the three watched the light as if blinked from white to dull red. Near to the light they saw three men, about 4'9" tall.
They were immobile, dressed in greyish, beige outfits. The light faded and flew away. When they returned to the scene, with the police, they found the highway had been marked with forms, “black as the casting of costly tar”.
The substance was soft and slightly stuck to the ground.
Although the witnesses were described as “very trustworthy people” in the investigation, the report was classed as “unreliable”.
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14-02-2016
Where Did Those Gravitational Waves Come From? There's a Map
Where Did Those Gravitational Waves Come From? There's a Map
By Ian O'Neill, Discovery News
This map of the Southern Hemisphere skies shows the probably location of the gravitational wave source (a merging black hole) well beyond our Local Group of galaxies.
Credit: LIGO Science Collaboration
With today’s historic and incredibly exciting announcement of the first ever detection of gravitational waves came the news that these waves were generated by two merging black holes approximately 1.3 billion light-years away — an astrophysical event that is mind-blowing in its own right. So the next question that comes to mind is, unsurprisingly, in which direction did this black hole merger occur?
As it turns out, scientists of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) already have an answer, albeit a very general one.
As previously reported, LIGO is composed of two stations — one in Washington and the other nearly 2,000 miles away in Louisiana. The reason for having 2 stations is logical: should a gravitational wave pass through our volume of space (yes, these spacetime ripples pass through the Earth and us unimpeded), it must be detected by both stations to be confirmed as being “real” and not a false positive caused by some kind of local disturbance near one of the stations. Secondly, having 2 stations allows LIGO scientists to triangulate the signal to derive a very general idea as to where these waves are coming from.
Thursday’s grand announcement pointed out that the Livingston station (Louisiana) “heard” the gravitational wave "chirp" 7 milliseconds before the Hanford station (Washington) on Sept. 14, 2015. As gravitational waves travel at the speed of light, this timing difference confirmed that the two detections were indeed the same event. Scientists were immediately able to deduce the direction the gravitational waves were traveling.
Now, the LIGO collaboration has released a map of the Southern Hemisphere skies, giving us a glimpse at the promising future of gravitational wave astronomy. In the map, contours have been added that represent the different probabilities for where the signal originated. The outermost purple line represents a 90 percent certainty that the signal’s source (the colliding black holes) is contained within that area. The innermost white contour line highlights a possible source region to a 10 percent certainty.
The band of stars through the middle of the image is the edge-on disk of the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud (two small nearby galaxies) can also be seen in the bottom portion of the image. It is worth noting that, although there is some uncertainty in the black hole’s distance, its location is far beyond our own galaxy and Local Group of galaxies.
As more gravitational wave detectors go online and their observations added to LIGO’s detections, better precision of the locations of gravitational wave sources will be pinpointed, making for highly detailed gravitational wave maps of the cosmos. So though it may not be precise, this is the first map of its kind where inside its contours two black holes merged 1.3 billion years ago.
I have yet to meet anyone who doesn't have their own theory about what these enormous "black delta" craft might be. We've all heard about them by now and these craft have become the subject of quite a few UFO documentaries, books and internet articles. A quick search of youtube yields dozens of surprisingly clear videos from multiple states, but they seem to be concentrated in Pennsylvania, New York state (the Hudson Valley region), Illinois and of course, southern California. Seeing giant delta shaped and boomerang shaped craft near Bakersfield, CA is at the very least unsurprising given the plethora of black budget aerospace companies that call the area home. However, NY, PA and IL make much less sense if these craft are indeed 'ours.'
This leads me to several important questions that anyone researching this topic should ask:
1) IF there are indeed delta craft in excess of 300 feet in diameter flying low above the heads of stunned onlookers in the Hudson Valley, where exactly are these craft based out of? Upstate NY and PA do not have any operational airbases. The nearest candidate would be Andrews, home of Air Force One. The problem here is that aside from the AF1 hangar, there aren't any hangars at Andrews capable of stowing such a craft. Additionally, the base is surrounded on all sides by residential areas including schools and neighborhoods. Not an ideal base to store an ultra secret black budget aircraft.
2) IF these craft are military in nature, WHY on earth would you fly slowly and at times treetop-level above rural areas such as Pine Bush, NY and Harrisburg, PA? This makes zero sense from a logical standpoint. The first rule of black budget aircraft is to keep them as hidden as possible. Clearly, these delta and boomerang-shaped craft have no problem being seen, and in some cases seem to intentionally draw attention to themselves.
3) WHAT is the story with the utterly insane lighting patterns and non-FAA regulation navigational lights? I can picture a craft such as this needing to pass over a rural area en route to another destination. If so, would it not make sense to go completely dark? No lighting whatsoever? A black craft in a black sky with no lights would very likely not be noticed by the average person, yet the lighting configuration of almost all of these craft go completely against the normal pattern of military thinking.
Clearly, this phenomenon isn't a figment of people's imaginations. There have been far too many sightings in far too many states by qualified eyewitnesses to dismiss this as just one craft, or a flight of daredevil ultralight pilots in formation, or a military spy blimp. Multiple police officers observed and followed this type of craft during the now infamous Highland, Illinois incident in January of 2001. There's a great deal of data available regarding this incident which I'll go into later.
So let's take a look at some possible theories...
TR-3B "Astra"
There has been much talk of this so-called TR3B anti-gravity craft originally brought to light by the controversial Edgar Fouche. I won't go into too much detail about his credentials and questionable background, you can research that on your own here. In a nutshell, this supposedly triangular craft meets most of the criteria of a 'nearly silent, giant black delta' craft. But again, WHY would the military knowingly and willingly reveal this craft to the populace, even if it's at night, and even if it's in a rural area? Is it accidental? Is it a remotely piloted craft not responding to commands? Can you imagine the fallout if one of these craft were to crash in a populated area? None of these possibilities make any rational sense. Furthermore, the description of this craft given by Fouche and others in the aerospace industry do not exactly match descriptions given by the eyewitness's in NY, PA, IL and CA.
Military Spy Blimp
It's no secret that the military has had a distinct need for a very large low-observability surveillance platform with a long loiter time over target. A lighter-than-air vehicle with stealth capabilities would make perfect sense, and Lockheed, Boeing and Northrup Grumman have all explored this avenue (with as yet unknown results). The only military blimp to make it into the 'white world' is the U.S. Army’s Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle (LEMV) which flew for the first time from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, NJ on August 7th. The only problem with the airship theory is that it rules out the majority of the sightings due to the sheer speed and acceleration characteristics. A blimp cannot accelerate from a near standstill to 600+ mph "like ice on a hotplate" as one Highland, IL police officer vividly described his sighting. The slow speed and 'faint humming' sound is certainly in line with the airship theory, but the acceleration and lighting characteristics are not.
Another Type of Military Anti-Gravity Craft?
Almost all of these sightings have the earmarks of an electrogravitic craft. Extremely slow speed combined with extreme acceleration. Silent operation, aside from a low 'humming' sound. Some witnesses even describe an electrostatic charge in the atmosphere: hair standing up on their arms and heads, and even overwhelming feelings of serenity and calm which in the past have been associated with exposure to intense electromagnetic fields.
This still begs the question--why on earth would the military be flying quite possibly the most advanced piece of technology in it's inventory through the Hudson Valley, or above a series of small towns east of St. Louis? Well, in thecase of the southern Illinois incident there's always the possibility that this craft was being tested out of the Boeing Phantomworks facility located at Lambert field in St. Louis, or even out of nearby Scott AFB. A close friend of mine was stationed at Scott AFB in a senior management position during the Highland sighting. I questioned this person regarding that event and they had no recollection of any unusual activity around the base at that time. Would this person have given up any details if there HAD been activity? Perhaps... or perhaps not. Regardless, the Highland incident would have been a major black eye for the military. Having multiple law enforcement officers communicating with eachother across multiple jurisdictions about an enormous, well-lighted delta shaped craft is the last thing the military--or an aerospace manufacturer--wants.
Clues to The Origin?
One possible clue to the origin of these black triangles may be found in the testimony of Dennis Bossack, a Rhode Island resident:
Dennis reports that on February 15, 1999, a triangle passed overhead heading west to east while he was driving on Route 138 north of Woodville. He lost sight of it due to the trees. A few days later, on February 20, he and his wife were sitting in their sunroom at 11:40 PM. They were watching a fox feed on bread they had put outside, when a craft appeared heading in a southerly direction. They stepped out on the porch for a closer look. Dennis states, "The craft passed over us silently, slowly, steadily and very low. The underside of it was dimly lighted by a hazy white light, thus making it possible to see the logo. The logo was a triangle edged in yellow containing the Earth being struck by two lightning bolts with the number '1' in the right hand corner. As it approached, a feeling of serenity and calm came over us making it a wonderful feeling to watch as it passed overhead. I estimate the speed of the craft at five to ten miles and hour.The size was approximately 40 feet in length and forty feet wide at the rear of the craft with the nose of the craft forming a point. The craft looked similar to a Stealth fighter, however it was a much larger plane.* The altitude of the craft was about one hundred feet, I repeat there was not a sound from the craft and it did not even create a breeze. I would appreciate any answers you might have to as what this craft is or who it belongs to." Thanks to Dennis Bossack. Editors Note: I have spent several hours on the phone interviewing Dennis who states the logo or insignia was five feet in diameter and at the front was the Omega symbol. The two lightning strikes that penetrate Earth begin at the 11 and 1 o'clock position. A similar lightning symbol was used by Roman soldiers conquering ancient Britain. The lightning strikes could infer a discharge of atmospheric electricity or perhaps intentions of colonizing Earth. We are also receiving strange communications from someone claiming to be Robert Omega. The Bossack's are respectable home owners mystified by this sighting.
*Note: The F-117 Nighthawk 65 feet in length with a 43 foot wingspan, so my guess is that Dennis' estimates on the size may have been slightly off or it may have been higher than 100 feet (which is incredibly low). When untrained observers witness something very unusual their sense of size and distance tends to be compromised. I suspect this craft was larger than 40 feet in diameter and very likely higher than 100 feet in altitude. But his detailed description of the craft's insignia is what's most important here.
Interestingly enough, his description of the insignia on this craft closely matches that of the US Space Innovation & Development Center out of Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado. IF these craft are US military, then it would make sense that they are involved in space warfare and would be under the command of this division of the military.
Doing a bit more digging around I discovered several other military patches that match elements of Dennis' description, one of them (interestingly enough) being a Cadet Squadron at the Air Force Academy in Colorado. Are we starting to see a pattern of triangular shapes, lightning bolts, the globe, yellow numerals and ties to Colorado? I certainly am.
David Wilcock wrote an excellently in-depth and informative piece entitled "US Space Command: The Proof is in The Patches" which delves further into the symbology of military insignias. I highly recommend reading the article as it is truly a 'rabbit hole' worthy of falling into. We can only begin to guess at the origin and meanings behind patches such as these (note the #1 in the patch to the left). Trevor Paglen wrote a book about patches of the clandestine world which is also worth checking out.
But my main point here is that all of these elements point toward a man-made craft likely operated by the military in a space warfare/defense role. So WHY reveal these craft to people in areas of the country that make little sense? If these craft were routinely being seen in and around areas such as Nellis AFB, southern California and Tonopah, Nevada it would make perfect sense. But they're not only being seen there. Why the Hudson river valley? Why Pennsylvania? Why southern Illinois? WHY? There is a serious logic problem with all of this and it bothers me on multiple levels. These sightings make zero rational sense. Either the military has gotten extremely sloppy (unlikely) or one or more aerospace manufacturers have gotten extremely sloppy (equally unlikely).
This leaves us with our final possibility--that these craft are not military.
So let's assume for the sake of this article that these craft are extraterrestrial in origin as many people believe (excluding Dennis' sighting). Well, that opens up a whole new can of worms, doesn't it? But I still question what their interest was/is in these particular areas. It could be anything.
Were they searching for something or someone?
Was this part of a sequence of abductions?
Were they interested in our nuclear power plants?
Or were they having some technical problems with no real intention of ever being spotted?
We simply don't know. But what we DO know is that these giant black triangles andenormous boomerangs don't seem to be fading into the background. In fact, they're being seen more and more not just in North America, but all over the globe. This fact alone starts to lend more credence to these things not being of earthly origin. The military has no need to spy on some kid in the countryside. Is this a system of acclimation on the part of the military if they're ours? Or conversely, visitors slowly getting people used to the idea of seeing a giant black delta craft in the skies above them? We don't have all the answers yet, but I do think we're getting closer.
Note: For further research into this topic, check out the report on "The Enigma of the Black Triangles" published by the National Institude of Discovery Sciences (NIDS) in 2004. NIDS no longer exists, but I managed to pull this report from Archive.org and placed it on the TOR server for download.
The debate about the existence or non-existence of extraterrestrial intelligence can be an exhausting one. Regardless of whether or not it can be proven, there are any number of strange stories that make the existence of E.T. visitations seem plausible. Some of them are so well-recorded and inexplicable that they might just have been genuine close encounters.
10. McMinnville Incident
In Oregon, in May of 1950, a farmer named Mr. Trent saw a UFO at his farm outside McMinnville. According to Mr. Trent, his wife Evelyn first spotted the object, a silvery, metallic disk. She was outside feeding her rabbits when it appeared in the early evening sky. She called out to her husband, who came outside and watched for a couple of minutes. He then went and got a camera, and took two pictures before the object sped off to the west.
The most striking thing lending credence to the story is the Trents’ behavior. They never made any money off the photographs, and actually had to be convinced to let them be published by a local reporter—apparently, they were afraid of getting into trouble with the government.
There are disagreements as to the veracity of the photos. The Condon Report, a 1967 study into UFO phenomena conducted by the University of Colorado, concluded that relative photographic densities of objects in the photos suggested that the subject was distant, meaning they were somewhat likely to be genuine. A much more recent examination concluded that the object’s geometry was consistent with a small model hanging from a wire. But that wire has never been spotted in either photo, and Evelyn and Paul Trent earnestly insisted, until their deaths in 1997 and 1998, respectively, that the photos were of an actual UFO.
9. Mariana Incident
In 1950, on the night of August 15, minor league baseball manager Nick Mariana became the first person to capture film footage of a UFO. It happened as he was inspecting the diamond before a game in Great Falls, Montana, which has since become a hotbed of UFO sightings, and is close to a US Air Force Base.
Mariana was able to capture two bright dots streaking across the sky on his 16mm movie camera, which he says he routinely kept in his car. After sending the film to be developed, he began to contact local newspapers—significant, as he had not yet seen the developed film and so would not have known if any fakery looked convincing. In October, he wrote a letter to the Air Force and was interviewed at Malstrom Air Force Base.
After examining the film, the Air Force concluded “possible aircraft” and dropped it. While two fighters were on record as having landed at Malstrom at around the time of the sighting, Mariana insisted that he saw those, too—in a different part of the sky. He also claimed that upon his film’s return, several frames that showed the spinning discs more clearly were missing—presumably cut by the Air Force. While the debate has never been resolved, the incident kicked off decades of over 100 sightings in Great Falls, and prompted the renaming of the minor league baseball team to the Voyagers.
8. Chicago O’Hare Incident
When several people state flatly that they observed a saucer-shaped aircraft hovering around before bolting into the sky at incredible speeds, it is tempting to assume that they don’t know much about aircraft. But when just such an incident occurred in Chicago in 2006, it was pretty difficult to make that case—it took place at O’Hare International Airport, and most of the people who saw it were United Airlines employees.
No airline officials, air traffic controllers, or radar records indicated anything out of the ordinary, though a United supervisor did call the tower to ask if any saucers were hovering nearby. The FAA has declined to investigate, which has proved irritating to those who insist that they witnessed the incident. Officials have tossed out the usual balloons, optical illusions, and weather phenomena as possible explanations.
As for the witnesses, they counter that none of those could explain the hole that the craft punched in the clouds while making its quick ascent, which lingered for several minutes. All witnesses agreed that the craft was dark gray, didn’t have any lights or markings, and maintained its position steadily before blasting off.
7. Edwards Air Force Base Sighting
One can’t blame the US Air Force for being sensitive about matters involving UFOs—in 1957, one supposedly landed at Edwards Air Force Base. If that sounds like an insane myth, keep in mind that it was allegedly caught on film and was reported by Gordon Cooper, a test pilot and astronaut in the United States’ first manned space program. He was at Edwards supervising the installation of a new precision-landing system at the time, and his account of the incident was pretty unambiguous.
“I had a camera crew filming the installation when they spotted a saucer. They filmed it as it flew overhead, then hovered, extended three legs as landing gear, and slowly came down to land on a dry lake bed. These guys were all pro cameramen, so the picture quality was very good. The camera crew managed to get within 20 or 30 yards of it, filming all the time. It was a classic saucer, shiny silver and smooth, about 30 feet across. It was pretty clear it was an alien craft. As they approached closer, it took off.”
The camera crew reported this incident to Cooper and turned over the film. Cooper says that he reported the incident to his superiors, and was told to develop the film and send it to Washington, which he did after watching it and finding it to be exactly as described. He says that, after that, the film vanished and didn’t come to light even when the Air Force began Project Blue Book. He suggested using it as evidence and was told it had been lost—not that it would have mattered much. According to Cooper, “Blue Book was strictly a cover-up anyway.”
6. Socorro Encounter
On April 24, 1964, several witnesses in different parts of Socorro, New Mexico, reported different sightings of the same event. Some saw a low-flying object in the sky, some heard loud sounds reminiscent of the takeoff and landing of a powerful craft. But one man swears he actually saw it land and that it could only have been an alien spacecraft. His name was Lonnie Zamora, and it was such an astonishing encounter that it distracted him from the high-speed chase he had been engaged in when he first caught sight of the craft—at the the time of the sighting, Mr. Zamora was an on-duty Socorro police officer.
What grabbed Officer Zamora’s attention was a gigantic cone of blue light rising thousands of feet into the air, which he took to be flames. Abandoning his pursuit, he went in the direction of what was presumably a crash or a miners’ shack explosion—and that was when his day got really intense. He spotted a vehicle in a gully, then two small humanoids glimpsed from the corner of his eye seemed to “jump” at his approach before disappearing. He parked the vehicle and got out, then heard a series of metallic clangs coming from the gully. The source was a huge, metallic oval object standing on girder-like legs. Immediately, a bluish flame shot out of the bottom of the vehicle, and it rose before taking off quickly and silently, vanishing into the distance as the officer got on his radio to report what he had just seen.
A fellow officer responding to his call also saw evidence of the incident—angular indentations where the “landing gear” had made contact and burned foliage from its takeoff—and several witnesses in the area reported either an egg-shaped craft or a blue flame in the sky, some immediately afterward and independently of Zamora’s report. Several who have interviewed the officer about the incident, including journalists and Air Force officials, have similar conclusions to draw, such as former Project Blue Book head Hector Quintanilla Jr. “There is no doubt that Lonnie Zamora saw an object which left quite an impression on him. There is also no question about Zamora’s reliability. He is a serious police officer and a man well-versed in recognizing airborne vehicles in his area. He is puzzled by what he saw, and frankly, so are we.”
5. The Westall UFO
On April 6, 1966, in Melbourne, Australia, witnesses say a silver, disc-shaped craft was spotted whizzing around, and that it then landed in a paddock near a high school and took off again. It would be a somewhat typical report of the type that is normally just a prank or misidentification of something else—except that this incident was observed by over 200 people in broad daylight, and no explanation has ever been offered.
Though eyewitness accounts vary, that is not unusual even in non-paranormal events when so many people are involved. What witnesses agreed on was that a large group of students were finishing their physical education class when several of them pointed out a silver or silvery-green craft about twice the size of a car, buzzing and hovering around a group of pine trees behind the school. After some time it landed among the pines. By that time, more students had come outside to see what was going on and some witnesses claim that private aircraft were approaching to investigate. In full view of this crowd, the craft rose from the trees, tilted at a 45-degree angle, flew into the sky at a rate of speed the private planes were unable to match, and vanished.
The nearest airport reported no private planes taking off in the area at that time, and neither did the military confirm any activity. Those who propose conventional explanations for this event are confounded by the fact that the object was in full view of hundreds of people for over 20 minutes, and was clearly not a plane or weather balloon—yet, no photographic or film evidence exists, and no pilot has ever claimed to have participated in the “chase.” The Westall incident remains one of Australia’s most debated unsolved UFO cases.
4. The Portage County Chase
According to Project Blue Book and the aforementioned Quintanilla, half a dozen or so police officers chased a communications satellite—and then, after losing sight of that, the planet Venus—into the Ohio wilderness and across the state line into Pennsylvania in the pre-dawn hours of April 17, 1966. When this official report was released, the police officers involved had a less-than-receptive response—in fact, they were infuriated by the insinuation that they could be that stupid. Especially considering this statement, signed by Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur, one of the first to observe the object.
“We found an abandoned car on the berm on Rt. 224 between Atwater and Randolph. We left our car to routinely investigate this vehicle. Spaur noticed a light over the trees on the hill next to the berm, and called Neff’s attention to it. As we watched, the light came closer and a large, self-illuminated object was seen as its source. The object came directly overhead and hovered above us. Its light lit up the ground where we were standing, and our cruiser, P-13. It was too bright to look at without hurting the eyes.”
After they understandably retreated to their patrol car and called it in, at least five more officers assisted them in pursuing the object for over half an hour before finally losing sight of it. But it gets stranger still—shortly before Spaur and his partner’s encounter, Police Chief Gerald Buchert saw a saucer-like, illuminated object hovering near his yard at home and snapped a picture of it. While he kept the original photo, he was persuaded to send the negative to Quintanilla, who dismissed the image as a processing defect. The negative, of course, was never seen again.
3. Trans-En-Provence Incident
The French version of NASA documents UFO sightings a little more diligently than its American counterpart. The incident that took place at Trans-en-Provence in January 1981 has been called the most carefully documented sighting of all time. While the incident doesn’t seem spectacular at first glance, its simplicity leaves little room for interpretation.
Retired farmer Renato Nicolai was working in his garden when he heard a sudden whistling sound, accompanied by the appearance of something that he immediately took to be an experimental aircraft. In broad daylight, he watched as a saucer-shaped craft between five and six feet in diameter dropped out of the sky, stopping to hover for half a minute about two meters (six feet) off the ground. Then it rose into the sky, a plume of dust in its wake. Nicolai was about 30 meters (100 ft) away.
The French government’s study found evidence of compacting and heating of the soil near the landing site, depleted chlorophyll in plants around the site, and “black material” that was not oil or residue from combustion, but metallic in nature. A technical report stated, “It was not the aim of the author to identify the exact nature of the phenomenon observed on January 8, 1981 at Trans-en-Provence. But it can reasonably be concluded that something unusual did occur that might be consistent, for instance, with an electromagnetic source of stress.”
2. Warren Air Force Base
Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been the site of a number of alleged UFO visitations since 1965, when red and green flashing lights reported by civilians in the area had local missile sites like Warren on high alert. That’s right—Warren’s UFO problem is part of a troubling larger trend of instances where nuclear missile armories are visited by unexplained objects, and it’s happened several times there.
In a famous 1976 incident reported by retired Minuteman missile launch officer Bruce Fenstermacher, a bright white object with flashing red and blue lights was seen to the North. Guards stationed at the base observed the object, a cigar-shaped craft a little under 20 meters (65 ft) long, moving near the missile silos. Military and police personnel frantically converged on the site, by which time the craft had disappeared. The craft kept switching positions, with the police experiencing car trouble every time they started to get close. Finally, more than two hours after the incident began, the craft departed at blinding speed, becoming a bright white speck on the horizon.
Though several witnesses agreed on this account, it was not included in any official report. None of the other other alleged sightings at the base have been either. As recently as 2010, a power failure to 50 intercontinental nuclear warheads at the base meant that over 10 percent of the US nuclear arsenal was offline for nearly an hour, prompting renewed speculation from UFO enthusiasts.
1. Piney Woods Incident
One December night in 1980, friends Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum, along with Vickie’s grandson, Colby, were driving along a lonely highway through the Piney Woods of Texas when they saw something none of them would ever forget. It was an encounter that left its mark on them all—mentally, emotionally, and physically.
The three came up on a water tower–sized, glowing, diamond-shaped object in the middle of the highway, blocking their way. Flames periodically shot from its underside, making it rise slightly before settling back down. It radiated intense light and heat. The two women, who exited the vehicle to examine the object—the seven-year-old boy wanted nothing to do with it—would later say that they had to use their coats to avoid being burned on the door handles when they re-entered their vehicle, and the plastic dashboard was soft enough to leave a handprint in. As they watched the UFO ascend, one to two dozen military-style helicopters buzzed overhead, surrounding it—a Dayton police officer also confirmed seeing helicopters of this type near the same area at the time. The women drove on, watching the craft and helicopters recede into the distance.
All three suffered bizarre symptoms reminiscent of radiation poisoning or chemical contamination for some time afterward—weakness, nausea, and the feeling of having been sunburned. Betty Cash’s symptoms were bad enough for her to be hospitalized, and as such the Cash-Landrum encounter is one of very few UFO incidents to result in litigation. Citing the presence of the helicopters, the family sued the US government for $20 million—and lost. The military denied deploying any helicopters to that area, or possessing a gigantic, diamond-shaped UFO, and the judge ruled in their favor.
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Why 2015 Was a Weird Year for UFO Sightings
Why 2015 Was a Weird Year for UFO Sightings We're no closer to finding intelligent life from other planets and we might be farther from finding it at home.
Mankind’s relationship to space changed in 2015: Not only did we find liquid water on Mars, the commercial space race heated up, making our own starry ambition seems more plausible than ever. But we didn’t find life and life didn’t find us — at least not in a verifiable way. UFOs were spotted, sure, but they stayed stubbornly U.
The most exciting and provocative alleged UFO sighting actually came from someone who probably has a better view for spotting them than anybody else: Astronaut Scott Kelly was floating 259 miles above the surface of the Earth aboard the International Space Station when he snapped and tweeted this pic:
Immediately, people began asking what that mysterious glint of light was in the corner. What could it be?
The answer, it turns out, was: “Lot of stuff.” Forbes made a pretty convincing argument that it was the High Definition Earth-Viewing System mounted on a module attached to the ISS. Light from the instrument seems to have reflected back at Kelly’s camera as he took the picture. In fact, you can see this much more clearly when you increase the contrast on the image:
That’s a letdown, sure. But there were plenty of other big, weird sightings throughout the year. There were strange lights flying over Los Angeles a few weeks ago, but the Navy claimed responsibility, saying it was part of a missile test flight off the Pacific coast.
Lenticular clouds freaked out a bunch of people over in Cape Cod, South Africa last month. And, to be fair, the whole thing did look an awful lot likeIndependence Day. In this instance, however, it’s much easier to accept a scientific explanation involving strange variations in the atmosphere. Still looks freaky though:
Did you notice the UFO's flying over #capetown yesterday? 👽 Photo by @mijlof 📷
There were two big UFO sightings in India this year — one in June documented by a fifth grade student; and another, much larger object snapped by an individual who claims to have seen the mysterious ship rotating in the air. Both sightings were in the state of Uttar Pradesh and so far, there aren’t any clear explanations as to what they might have been.
That doesn’t necessarily mean those and other UFOs are signs of extraterrestrial objects zipping around through our sky. There are actually a ton of rational explanations for UFOs, ranging from aircraft balloons, aberrations of light, natural objects from space, and even birds. And ticking off those things from the list doesn’t mean it must be a ship from another planet.
Mankind’s constantly increasing access to the internet certainly hasn’t helped people keep a more rational mind about what they’re seeing. Just Google “UFO” one of these days and get lost in a k-hole community of people who are convinced those are alien objects coming to abduct human beings and signing secret deals with the government. In addition, the ubiquity of smartphones means everyone can document whatever strange things they see, and immediately post it to social media. Insert an appropriate hashtag like #UFO or #aliens or #FlyingSaucer. One can get lost in the pile of evidence.
Unfortunately, although smartphone cameras are getting better with every month, they’re still subject to a lot of the deficiencies that limit pretty much any kind of photographic equipment. Strange light or reflections can appear much brighter than they actually are. They might obscure the focus of an object and make it look more strange than it really is. While a lot of cameras allow you to manipulate the image quality in ways that offset those problems, most people neglect to do that before they send something straight to Twitter.
The only UFO this year that actually got scientists’ attention was the WT1190F object that burned up in Earth’s atmosphere about four weeks ago, over the Indian Ocean. No one was really what that piece of debris was, but scientists were pretty sure it was the remnants of some old rocketry equipment used in a previous launch.
Scientists were pretty excited about studying WT1190F reentry into Earth’s atmosphere to study the behavior of how objects plummet down from space into the Earth. It’s unclear yet what they found, but it ought to lead to some insights as to how meteors crash into Earth, and how humans can build better heat shields on spacecraft that are carrying astronauts back to Earth.
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Famous UFO cases: Kaikoura lights – New Zealand, 1978
Famous UFO cases: Kaikoura lights – New Zealand, 1978
UFOs! Obnoxious lights spate the sky!
Kaikoura, N.Z.
Is UFO a meteor or a shooting star? Or Kaikoura lights? The famous UFO Sighting took place in New Zealand in December 1978. In the annals of these alleged UFO sightings, this wasn’t the first of its kind, but definitely the biggest conundrums of New Zealand. The title Kaikoura lights was coined by the media, to memorialize the Kaikoura mountain ranges where the inexplicable phenomenon was perceived.
The conception of this random encounter, with an anonymous target detected on the air base radio was a scare for the Argosy freighter on December 21st, 1978. The aerial vehicle displayed eccentric behavior. For a moment, it would vanish into thin air and in the next; it would re-emerge from a different direction. As put by the pilot, the gleaming lights pulsated intermittently. Consequently, an investigation was called for, pertinent to these UFO sightings. On December 30, 1978, a television crew from Australia rendered a peripheral film for a network show aired on the interviews about these UFO sightings. Aboard the plane, one of the crew members’s claimed to have witnessed a streak of lights and then disappeared abruptly. Struck with astonishment, the pilot turned the plane to get a perspective of what was after them. Only this time, the crew got a 30 second tape recording on the object. After a substantial success, the plane landed safely at its destination, with the UFO still beeping a red dot on the radar.
Following the nature of events that took place that night, theNew Zealand air force was on high alert to intercept any detectable UFOs in sight. One whimsical interpretation purported by the media was that the crew on the air plane had apprehended Venus that night. On the legal front, the police collaborated with the air force to investigate into the matter but later, the famous UFO case of Kaikoura lights, 1978, was referred to the UFO cases department in the intelligence agencies.
The Kaikoura Lights is a name given by the New Zealand media to a series of sightings that occurred in December 1978, over the skies above the Kaikoura mountain ranges of the northeastern South Island of New Zealand. The first sightings were made on December 21 when the crew of a Safe Air Ltd cargo aircraft began observing a series of strange lights around their Armstrong Whitworth AW.660 Argosy aircraft, which tracked along with their aircraft for several minutes before disappearing and then reappearing elsewhere. The pilots described some of the lights to be the size of a house and others small but flashing brilliantly. These objects appeared on the air traffic controller radar in Wellington and also on the aircraft’s on-board radar. The objects were also seen by hundreds of people on the ground.
On December 30, 1978, a television crew from Australia recorded background film for a network show on interviews about the sightings. For many minutes at a time on the flight to Christchurch, unidentified lights were observed by five people on the flight deck, were tracked by Wellington Air Traffic Controllers, and filmed in color by the television crew. One object reportedly followed the aircraft almost until landing. The cargo plane then took off again with the television crew still on board, heading for Blenheim. When the aircraft reached about 2000 feet, it encountered a gigantic lighted orb, which fell into station off the wing tip and tracked along with the cargo aircraft for almost quarter of an hour, while being filmed, watched, tracked on the aircraft radar and described on a tape recording made by the TV film crew.
UFO – Kaikoura Coast, New Zealand, January 3, 1979
A UFO over Kaikoura Coast, New Zealand on January 3, 1979.
Kaikoura UFO
It has been almost 30 years since unidentified flying objects were observed off the coast of Kaikoura during the Christmas/New Year break of 1978.
The sightings are to be marked soon with a commemorative flight, a gathering of enthusiasts and even a musical.
At the time, news of the sightings was reported worldwide and to this day they remain a huge source of controversy.
But the remarkable thing about the sightings is whatever was flying around that night was not just observed, it showed up on radar too and was caught on film.
It is one of New Zealand’s biggest mysteries and one of the world’s best documented sightings of a UFO.
“The most important thing I think about his story is that even to this day, the flight crew and the air traffic controllers are adamant that we saw something highly unusual that can’t be explained in mundane terms,” says journalist Quentin Fogarty. “Now, 30 years later, they still believe that.”
Mr Fogarty was the reporter, with a news crew, that filmed the UFOs on an Argosy freight plane the night of the December 30, 1978.
ART & DESIGNNASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory heeft Don en Ryan Clark - het ontwerpersduo achter Invisible Creature - gevraagd een reeks posters te ontwerpen om het grote publiek een beeld te geven van hoe 'het leven in de toekomst' eruit zou kunnen zien. Elk van de posters - in strak retro-design - verbeeldt een historische NASA-missie in de ruimte.
In een periode van drie maanden tijd ontwierpen Don en Ryan Clark een reeks van 14 vintage posters voor het NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Met de posterreeks wil NASA haar publiek een futuristische blik in mogelijke toekoms: elk van de posters verbeeldt een fictieve buitenaardse wereld, die desondanks zijn inspiratie vindt in reële gebeurtenissen.
"Elke poster stelt een specifieke NASA-missie in de ruimte voor", laat één van de designers horen. "Zo hebben we er bijvoorbeeld eentje voor de Voyager's Grand Tour, de ontdekking van Enceladus en voor het NASA Mars exploration program." Voor het design van hun collectie lieten de ontwerpers zich rechtstreeks beïnvloeden door de typische vintage reisposters uit de jaren 40, 50 en 60.
Het resultaat is een strakke reeks beelden die tegelijkertijd modern en retro aandoen. De hele collectie is integraal en gratis te downloaden op de NASA website.
While writing my previous post,The Shadow People – ‘Interdimensional Beings’ Being Seen By Many, I was shocked to learn thatpeople like Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking both though it was entirely possible we were being visited on “shadow people” from other dimension.
The way they explained it, there are four actual dimensions, and because space-time has the ability to bend light, it is possible that people (or beings) in one dimension can see the shadows of people (or beings) from another dimensions.
More specifically, they said there are three dimensions of space, and one dimension of time, and while it is believed that Shadow People can possibly be seen, according to Stephen Hawking, matter and light are confined to the “membrane” of the dimension they reside in, therefor full scale interdimensional travel he says, is not possible.
Much of the rest of that post goes on to take a very different view than Stephen Hawking, but as I looked into the matter further, imagine my surprise when I learned the FBI “Beings Are Visiting Us From Other Dimensions.”
There has been much talk nowadays about inter-dimensional worlds, especially what with the Large Hadron Collider in CERN officially being fired back up recently to go hunting for them. Whilst we are all considering where the Aliens could be coming from and IF other Dimensions are actually a fact rather than Fiction, along comes this VERY important piece of evidence courtesy of the F.B.I!
And this is a very true story people, the FBI admitted that we have been visited by “beings from other dimensions” and the official link from the FBI vault can be found here: vault.fbi.gov
To be fair it is very surprising that the FBI have shown such a vast amount of interest in the whole study of the UF phenomena?! But is it really that surprising when people have been reporting UFO sightings pretty much since the beginning of time, no not really! I guess it could even be possible that there are a lot of science fiction movies that are actually based on real events, or as some may even call them “leaks” to the general public, given by the government in order to deliberately raise awareness among the population? Subconsciously planting that seed into all of our brains that the Aliens truly are with us!
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind – Could it be that some Science Fiction films have been made to ‘educate’ us about Aliens?
Back in 2011 after there were some important documents which had been “declassified” a report written by a special agent of the FBI in 1947 reached the public. This particular FBI special agent, who was a lieutenant colonel whose identity has remained anonymous because of “national security” had gathered numerous amounts of data on the UFO phenomena after interviewing and studying the phenomena for many years.
According to some of these exciting yet slightly bizarre unexpected reports and “Declassified” documents, we have been visited by numerous extra-terrestrial beings, some of whom, are not only from other planets beyond our own, but also from other dimensions. Apparently some of these Alien beings originate from an ‘ethereal plane coexistent’ within our physical universe. These incredible “entities”, that apparently can “materialize” on our very own planet appeared as huge ‘translucent figures’.
Giant ‘translucent figures’ are visiting Planet Earth – according to the FBI
Please see below a transcript of some of the most important details of the report that you all need to know about:
1. Part of the disks carry crews, others are under remote control
2. Their mission is peaceful. The visitors contemplate settling on this plane
3. These visitors are human-like but much larger in size
4. They are not excarnate Earth people, but come from their own world
5. They do NOT come from a planet as we use the word, but from an etheric planet which interpenetrates with our own and is not perceptible to us
6. The bodies of the visitors, and the craft, automatically materialize on entering the vibratory rate of our dense matter
7. The disks posses a type of radiant energy or a ray, which will easily disintegrate any attacking ship. They reenter the etheric at will, and so simply disappear from our vision, without trace
8. The region from which they come is not the “astral plane”, but corresponds to the Lokas or Talas. Students of osoteric matters will understand these terms.
9. They probably can not be reached by radio, but probably can be by radar. if a signal system can be devised for that (apparatus)
Addendum: The Lokas are oval shape, fluted length oval with a heat-resistaning metal or alloy not yet known the front cage contains the controls, the middle portion a laboratory; the rear contains armament, which consists essentially of a powerful energy apparatus, perhaps a ray.
SUMMARY
Although some of the above can come across a little confusing and not very clear, you can certainly get the gist that they are talking about (in certain areas of the report) the types of craft that are entering our planets atmosphere! Many UFO sightings show the craft as appearing as if its ‘pulsing’ almost changing in shape in our atmosphere, could the above suggest that these crafts are possibly doing this due to being from another ‘Unknown’ Dimension? It definitely appears that way!
Many Orbs that are being seen around the world appear to have a similar energy force around them, as well as other UFO’s captured on Camera, almost like they are not quite real, or put it in a better way relevant to the text below, they almost appear ‘not of this world’.
Please see below a great capture above New York recently which gives a great example of one of these types of craft. Note how its pulsing and changing in different shape, and please also note that this craft is in a strict ‘No Fly Zone’
Perhaps reports and research by those who rule this planet over the last so many years, have created the desire to search for where these Inter-dimensional Beings are coming from ~ Just perhaps this is why we now have our very own ‘Alien Technology’ hunting other worldly Dimensions……the Large Hadron Collider at CERN!
Einstein's theory of general relativity predicted that the space-time around Earth would be not only warped but also twisted by the planet's rotation. Gravity Probe B showed this to be correct.
In 1905, Albert Einstein determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and that the speed of light in a vacuum was independent of the motion of all observers. This was the theory of special relativity. It introduced a new framework for all of physics and proposed new concepts of space and time.
Einstein then spent 10 years trying to include acceleration in the theory and published his theory of general relativity in 1915. In it, he determined that massive objects cause a distortion in space-time, which is felt as gravity.
The tug of gravity
Two objects exert a force of attraction on one another known as "gravity." Sir Isaac Newton quantified the gravity between two objects when he formulated his three laws of motion. The force tugging between two bodies depends on how massive each one is and how far apart the two lie. Even as the center of the Earth is pulling you toward it (keeping you firmly lodged on the ground), your center of mass is pulling back at the Earth. But the more massive body barely feels the tug from you, while with your much smaller mass you find yourself firmly rooted thanks to that same force. Yet Newton's laws assume that gravity is an innate force of an object that can act over a distance.
Albert Einstein, in his theory of special relativity, determined that the laws of physics are the same for all non-accelerating observers, and he showed that the speed of light within a vacuum is the same no matter the speed at which an observer travels. As a result, he found that space and time were interwoven into a single continuum known as space-time. Events that occur at the same time for one observer could occur at different times for another.
As he worked out the equations for his general theory of relativity, Einstein realized that massive objects caused a distortion in space-time. Imagine setting a large body in the center of a trampoline. The body would press down into the fabric, causing it to dimple. A marble rolled around the edge would spiral inward toward the body, pulled in much the same way that the gravity of a planet pulls at rocks in space. [Video: How To See Spacetime Stretch]
Although instruments can neither see nor measure space-time, several of the phenomena predicted by its warping have been confirmed.
Einstein's Cross is an example of gravitational lensing.
Credit: NASA and European Space Agency (ESA)
Gravitational lensing:
Light around a massive object, such as a black hole, is bent, causing it to act as a lens for the things that lie behind it. Astronomers routinely use this method to study stars and galaxies behind massive objects.
Einstein's Cross, a quasar in the Pegasus constellation, is an excellent example of gravitational lensing. The quasar is about 8 billion light-years from Earth, and sits behind a galaxy that is 400 million light-years away. Four images of the quasar appear around the galaxy because the intense gravity of the galaxy bends the light coming from the quasar.
Gravitational lensing can allow scientists to see some pretty cool things, but until recently, what they spotted around the lens has remained fairly static. However, since the light traveling around the lens takes a different path, each traveling over a different amount of time, scientists were able to observe a supernova occur four different times as it was magnified by a massive galaxy.
In another interesting observation, NASA's Kepler telescope spotted a dead star, known as a white dwarf, orbiting a red dwarf in a binary system. Although the white dwarf is more massive, it has a far smaller radius than its companion.
"The technique is equivalent to spotting a flea on a light bulb 3,000 miles away, roughly the distance from Los Angeles to New York City," Avi Shporer of the California Institute of Technology said in a statement.
Changes in the orbit of Mercury:
The orbit of Mercury is shifting very gradually over time, due to the curvature of space-time around the massive sun. In a few billion years, it could even collide with Earth.
Frame-dragging of space-time around rotating bodies:
The spin of a heavy object, such as Earth, should twist and distort the space-time around it. In 2004, NASA launched the Gravity Probe B (GP-B). The precisely calibrated satellite caused the axes of gyroscopes inside to drift very slightly over time, a result that coincided with Einstein's theory.
"Imagine the Earth as if it were immersed in honey," Gravity Probe-B principal investigator Francis Everitt, of Stanford University, said in a statement.
"As the planet rotates, the honey around it would swirl, and it's the same with space and time. GP-B confirmed two of the most profound predictions of Einstein's universe, having far-reaching implications across astrophysics research."
Gravitational redshift:
The electromagnetic radiation of an object is stretched out slightly inside a gravitational field. Think of the sound waves that emanate from a siren on an emergency vehicle; as the vehicle moves toward an observer, sound waves are compressed, but as it moves away, they are stretched out, or redshifted. Known as the Doppler Effect, the same phenomena occurs with waves of light at all frequencies. In 1959, two physicists, Robert Pound and Glen Rebka, shot gamma-rays of radioactive iron up the side of a tower at Harvard University and found them to be minutely less than their natural frequency due to distortions caused by gravity.
Gravitational waves:
Violent events, such as the collision of two black holes, are thought to be able to create ripples in space-time known as gravitational waves. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is currently searching for the first signs of these tell-tale indicators.
In 2014, scientists announced that they had detected gravitational waves left over from the Big Bang using the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) telescope in Antarctica. Such waves are thought to be embedded in the cosmic microwave background. However, further research revealed that their data was contaminated by dust in the line of sight.
"Searching for this unique record of the very early universe is as difficult as it is exciting," Jan Tauber, the European Space Agency's project scientist for the Planck space mission to search for cosmic waves, said in a statement.
Mars Science Laboratory mission team members ran mobility tests on California sand dunes in early May 2012 in preparation for operating the Curiosity rover, currently en route to Mars, after its landing in Mars' Gale Crater.
Michael Malin, left, principal investigator for three science cameras on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, comments to a news reporter during tests with Curiosity's mobility-test stand-in, Scarecrow, on Dumont Dunes in California’s Mojave Desert.
Team members of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission took a test rover to Dumont Dunes in California's Mojave Desert this week to improve knowledge of the best way to operate a similar rover, Curiosity, currently flying to Mars for an August landing.
The test rover that they put through paces on various sandy slopes has a full-scale version of Curiosity's mobility system, but it is otherwise stripped down so that it weighs about the same on Earth as Curiosity will weigh in the lesser gravity of Mars.
Information collected in these tests on windward and downwind portions of dunes will be used by the rover team in making decisions about driving Curiosity on dunes near a mountain in the center of Gale Crater.
First, however, the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, launched Nov. 26, 2011, must put Curiosity safely onto the ground. Safe landing on Mars is never assured, and this mission will use innovative methods to land the heaviest vehicle in the smallest target area ever attempted on Mars. Advances in landing heavier payloads more precisely are steps toward eventual human missions to Mars.
Curiosity is on track for landing the evening of Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (early on Aug. 6, Universal Time and EDT) to begin a two-year prime mission. Researchers plan to use Curiosity to study layers in Gale Crater's central mound, Mount Sharp. The mission will investigate whether the area has ever offered an environment favorable for microbial life.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
Beware Falling Rocks: Asteroid Day Will Highlight Impact Risks
Beware Falling Rocks: Asteroid Day Will Highlight Impact Risks
By Jesse Emspak, Space.com Contributor
Reconstruction of the path of an asteroid that exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, on Feb. 15, 2015. This year, on Feb. 9, researchers held a press conference to discuss the study of asteroids and the dangers of impacts.
Credit: Sandia Labs CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
An international band of asteroid experts gathered Tuesday to discuss the future of asteroid research and avoidance in preparation for the second annual Asteroid Day.
On June 30, 1908, a large meteorite or comet exploded above the remote Russian countryside, flattening 770 square miles (1,990 square kilometers) of forest. Now, June 30 is Asteroid Day, part of a campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of an asteroid strike on Earth.
At a press conference Feb. 9, the organizations behind Asteroid Day announced their plans for the latest effort, inviting a panel of experts to speak about the need for more study of asteroids as well as a commitment to preventing a large body from striking the Earth. The event was held at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC). [Near-Earth Asteroids: Famous Space Rock Flybys and Close Calls]
Strikes from asteroids and comets big enough to threaten people are rare in any given year, but over time they are just about inevitable, the researchers said. For instance, on Feb. 13, 2015, a meteor fell near Chelyabinsk, Russia, and exploded some 18 miles (29 km) above the Earth's surface, the shock wave breaking windows and causing injuries to 1,500 people.
"An event like Chelyabinsk happens about once every 50 years, and we don't have a system designed to discover and track these things," Mark Boslough, a physicist at Sandia National Laboratories who is one of the founders of Asteroid Day, said at the conference.
At a press conference Feb. 9, researchers gathered in Noordwijk, Netherlands, to announce Asteroid Day 2016. The European Space Agency's director of technical and quality management, Franco Ongaro, is pictured on the screen.
Credit: ESA
The organizers of Asteroid Day, among them Brian May, an astrophysicist and former guitarist for the rock band Queen, noted that concerted efforts are needed to find asteroids that might collide with the Earth, and to send spacecraft to study them.
"This is not about fearmongering," said Grig Richters, filmmaker and co-founder of Asteroid Day. "It's about being aware there is a potential threat, and understanding better where we are from."
"Bringing space technology to bear to deflect asteroids will require widespread public support," said Tom Jones, a former space shuttle astronaut who also chairs the Association of Space Explorers' Committee on Near-Earth Objects. "We only need modest resources compared to the cost of absorbing impact. Asteroid Day is to educate the public so we can work together to avoid an impact."
To that end, the scientists who came to ESTEC highlighted some of the work being done to study asteroids — to learn more about them, understand what they are made of and come up with better strategies for preventing a disaster by avoiding getting hit.
One such mission is the proposed Asteroid Impact & Deflection Assessment (AIDA). Planned for a 2020 launch, the spacecraft in this mission would approach the asteroid 65803 Didymos, a binary asteroid that consists of two bodies, one about 800 meters (2,600 feet) across and the other about 150 m (490 feet) across. The craft would orbit the larger of the two bodies, launching a 660-lb. (300 kilograms) impactor at the smaller asteroid as it makes a close approach to the Earth. (While Didymos can get within a few million miles of the planet, there's no danger the object will hit Earth.)
Researchers would measure how much the impact moves the smaller asteroid, and how the asteroid's structure and surface hold up after the strike. [100-Foot Asteroid to Buzz Earth Next Month]
Aside from sending probes to investigate what asteroids are made of, the first big task is to catalogue where the possible threats are, said Detlef Koschny, the Space Situational Awareness Near-Earth Object co-manager at the European Space Agency. ESA established a near-Earth object segment in 2008 to help Europe detect such asteroids by observing wide swathes of the sky. One part of the program, at the University of Pisa in Italy, will track where the asteroids are going; ESA is also discussing further work with other countries.
In Europe, a prototype telescope that can scan the whole sky should be in place next year, said Patrick Michel, a planetary scientist and senior researcher at the French National Centre for Scientific Research. (He noted that the United States has its own efforts in place as well.) And citizens can help, too, he said: "You need to make sure you observe an object again, to make sure we don't lose it again. Amateur astronomers play an important role."
Detection is so important because the further out you find an asteroid, the easier it is to move it, the researchers said. The nuclear bomb approach, made famous by the movie "Armageddon" (and the 1979 film "Meteor") would only be worth doing if there is very little warning, Boslough said, "and we wouldn't be able to test it in space."
The technology, he said, isn't ready yet in any case.
Famed science communicator Bill Nye was also a panelist, and said since humans have the capacity to alter asteroid paths if necessary, it behooves humanity to do it. "We've no evidence the dinosaurs had a space program," he said, "and it cost them."
"I hoped that one day I would see a UFO – but did not really believe that it would happen"
UFO
Steven Spielberg’s film Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released in 1977 upon a mainly unsuspecting public, although UFOs sightings have been reported around the world for some years prior to 1977.
With the release of the film sightings increased dramatically no doubt the film made us much more aware of the possibility of visitors from outer space and, thereafter, we were observing the night sky and also the daytime sky much more than we had in the past.
I must admit that the film fired my imagination. I hoped that one day I would see a UFO – but did not really believe that it would happen.
Well happed it did, and not on one of the occasions when I was searching the night sky – in fact, I was driving my car when the sensational event began.
It was the evening of Mayday 23rd October 1978. At the time I lived on Hinckley’s Hollycroft estate.
On Monday evenings I drove my wife to Hinckley College to a class that she attended.
On this particular Monday I was driving up Hollycroft Hill at about 6.35pm when my wife said: “what is that strange object in the sky?”
I glanced in the direction of the Gas Works in Coventry Road and saw it for myself.
The object appeared to be delta in shape and had lights dotted around it. On arriving at the junction of Upper and Lower Bond Street I observed that the object was high in the sky over the direction of the Borough.
I drove along Lower Bond Street into Council Road and then into Stockwell Head.
All the time my wife was saying the object was overhead. My curiosity overcame me and I pulled into the parking area near to the Concordia Theatre. I noticed that tow or three other cars were doing the same thing.
We got out of the car – as did other people – and looked up. Immediately above us was the object.
It was now perfectly still. How high I could not say. There was no sound coming from it.
There appeared to be some kind of observation cabin below the main structure, which seemed to have numerous windows from which lights flashed on and off.
We all held our breath not knowing what was going to happen next, when all of a sudden there was a loud “whoosh” and then the object had vanished. My wife and I spoke with the other people.
None of us could say what it was we had really seen.
I believe it was a UFO in the true sense of the word. If our Government or any other earthly power was testing some new kind of flying machine, then they have certainly kept it quiet for the past years.
Recently, I discussed the incident with someone far more learned in astronomy than I am, and his belief is that it is impossible that it could have come from another planet.
Well, I can only say what I saw. It certainly was no hallucination as a number of other people had also seen it.
So what did we see on the night of the 23rd October 1978? Whatever it was, it was an unnerving and thrilling experience.
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ALWEER SIGAARVORMIGE UFO BOVEN MARS OPPERVLAKTE ( VIDEO )
ALWEER SIGAARVORMIGE UFO BOVEN MARS OPPERVLAKTE ( VIDEO )
Het is druk in de ruimte om ons heen en overal krioelt het van het leven en activiteit.
Niet alleen worden er buitenaardse besprekingen belegd nabij de zon, ook op Mars zie je grote (bevoorradings)schepen af en aan vliegen.
Wederom is het NASA zelf die komt aandragen met bewijsmateriaal van buitenaards leven op Mars.
Beelden van NASA die dan dikwijls door de bekende Streetcap1 worden ontrafeld.
Zo ook dit keer want de beelden genomen door de NASA Opportunity Rover laten duidelijk een grote sigaarvormige UFO zien boven het Mars-landschap.
Zoals we gewend zijn van NASA zal er ook dit keer geen verklaring komen voor het object dat van rechts naar links door het scherm gaat.
Een UFO die veel lijkt op die die dikwijls worden waargenomen bij de vulkanen in Mexico en wat misschien vrachtschepen zijn die druk bezig zijn met de bevoorrading van de bases op Mars?
En wie weet zijn die helemaal niet buitenaards, maar gewoon menselijk en vormen ze onderdeel van de beruchte geheime ruimtevloot.
UFO images and videos seem to appear every day near the International Space Station. Most of the times, the alleged UFOs in the pictures turn out to be a space debris, light reflections, an antenna attached to the station, and among other usual things.
Howeck said that they got the satellite through the Interorbital Systems, and they will also do the launch as part of the package of buying the satellite. The more fund the team can get, the more scientific equipment can be included on board.ver, it would be interesting to know that someone might launch a satellite into Earth’s orbit with the very particular mission, and that is to detect and prove unknown objects out there.
A team of researchers known as CubeSat for Disclosure aims to use a low-orbit satellite controlled by them to study potential objects in Earth’s atmosphere. They hope to find and verify a real extraterrestrial craft. They are planning to open-source the data to the individuals.
The CubeSat for Disclosure team will launch a little satellite with infrared, electromagnetic and radiation sensors, and two cameras that are capable of photographing a full 360 degrees.
There are many reports seeing UFOs near the ISS, but the video feeds suddenly cut out without apparent reasons. Project coordinator Dave Shock says that this will not happen if they can control the images. He explains that nobody will corrupt or alter the data, so the alleged government cover-up won’t be happening.
CubeSat for Disclosure, however, doesn’t have the launch date yet, and they are still raising more money to pack the satellite as much instrumentation as possible. The team is using the air and spaceport Interorbital Systems out of the Mojave Desert.
ShoShock said that they got the satellite through the Interorbital Systems, and they will also do the launch as part of the package of buying the satellite. The more fund the team can get, the more scientific equipment can be included on board.
Men In Black Russian Documentary With English Subtitles
Men In Black Russian Documentary With English Subtitles
Men In Black is the Documentary advised by Medvedev during an interview regarding how much the russian presidents and institutions knows about aliens living on Earth, it doesn't say all what there is to say and some things are wrong, but it's a good start. Remeber to belive only what you are ready to belive into....
Il documentario consigliato da medvedev riguardo gli alieni di cui i presidenti russi conoscono l'esistenza, purtroppo i sottotitoli sono in inglese, non tutto ciò che viene detto nel documentario è vero, e parecchie cose che vengono dette sono solo ciò che sanno i servizi segreti russi, non la verità universale nè viene detto TUTTO ciò che c'è da dire, non parlano di tutte le razze aliene che conoscono, ma solo di alcune.. per il resto ciò che vi dico è: prendete ciò che viene detto con le pinze, come se fosse una storiella, una favola per bambini e credete solo a ciò che siete pronti a credere.
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Wonders in the Sky: A Breakthrough in UFO Research
Wonders in the Sky: A Breakthrough in UFO Research
Help Us Uncover the Reality of Ancient UFOs
We have re-launched our campaign based on the initial success with early collectors, who have already reserved the first 150 books. Their contributions have enabled us to finish the research and the layout for the book, which is now being printed in China, with an expected release date in the US of late May 2016.
Wonders in the Sky is a collector's limited edition book by world-leading UFO researchers Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck, which presents the scientific research and artistic beauty of 424 UFO sightings prior to the Industrial Revolution. This is the new benchmark in UFO research.
Under our contract with the initial publisher of the paperback edition of Wonders in the Sky (Tarcher-Penguin) we have agreed no more than 500 copies of this exceptional, Limited Edition will ever be printed.
The text has been augmented with many new cases, a new round of analysis of all previous cases, and stunning new iconography in high-resolution color. Only 348 copies are still available for subscription!!
"Golden orb" phenomenon seen at Spoletium (Umbria, Italy) in 91 BC
Collector's Limited Edition of Wonders in Sky
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DISCLOSEthe TRUTH about observations by astronomers and qualified witnesses PROVIDE the RECORD and PRESERVE original documents for future scholars DEMONSTRATE how phenomena in the sky influenced our cultures and religions
REVEAL the FULL HISTORY of UFOs -- BEFORE AIRPLANES were invented
Research has flourished...from collections and museums all over the world
Research has flourished in the last five years, with remarkable material added and unique color images obtained from collections and museums all over the world. With the manuscript completed, and the prototype prepared, we now need your help to independently publish this next generation of Wonders that takes the study and research of UFOs to a higher level. We hope you will support our campaign and come to love your book for both its artistic beauty and scientific merit.
Only 350 Signed and Numbered Copies
This new unique Limited Edition (only 500 signed, numbered and slipcased copies will ever be produced) represents the culmination of many years of exhaustive scientific research. Since the original publication of Wonders in the Sky, two of the world's leading UFO researchers Chris Aubeck and Jacques Vallée have continued to investigate both new and existing cases with the help of a group of experts on the internet. New cases have been researched and appear in this work for the first time (Penguin produced a paperback version in 2010). Meanwhile other cases have been expanded following further investigation, and some cases from the original work have been removed as additional research proved that they lacked merit.
To hear more about Dr. Vallée's research, just clickhereandherefor two videos; a panel about outer space at a global financial conference in Saudi Arabia and a TED talk in Geneva on Futures Research, respectively.
424 Selected Reports
The book you receive will contain more than 420 selected reports of sightings from biblical-age antiquity through the year 1879 -- the point at which the Industrial Revolution deeply changed the nature of human society with the invention of the dirigible, airplanes, rockets, and various prototypes increasing the opportunity for confusion and misinterpretation of new technology as UFOs.
Report of a man in a flying object by nightwatchmen in London, 1710
The Phenomenon Did Not Begin in 1947
As some of you may not be familiar with the original version of Wonders and its research, the following will serve as additional background on the concept. Since the end of World War II, many individual researchers, newspapers, and military agencies have recorded thousands of incidents involving aerial phenomena, often called UFOs. These accounts gave rise to much speculation about flying saucers, visitors from other planets and alien abductions, generally thought to be a recent development. Yet the phenomenon did not begin in the present era.
Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck reveal a thread of vividly rendered -- and sometimes strikingly similar -- reports of mysterious aerial phenomena from antiquity through the modern age. These accounts share definite physical features -- such as the complex evolution of the objects in flight, their spherical or discoid shape and their luminous characteristics -- that have changed little over the centuries, yet have remained unexplained. This work charts a complete chronology, ensuring that cases meet a standard measure of credibility via a specific person on the record having witnessed an event at a specific time and place.
Mirabilis Annus: Progression of the UFO "wave" of 1660-61 in England
The work of Jacques and Chris has received widespread praise for its scientific approach to the study of UFOs. A few of these endorsements are provided here.
"A riveting historical framework"
Sage thinkers have noted that revolutions in thought, scientific or otherwise, are wrought when anomalies are noted and then finally explained. But what does one do when an anomaly continues to show up over thousands of years in the skies above us -- and yet there remains no consistent explanation?! Absent a formal explanation a diligent scientist in today’s era would first chronicle the history, verify the data with best practices, and then provide an objective recounting of the case facts. That is at least what should happen…
In that vein this newly updated Edition of Wonders in the Sky provides a riveting historical framework for a vexing anomaly—that of unexplained aerial objects and, by implication, the potential reasons (intelligence?) behind them. Starting as far back as 1460 BC, Vallée and Aubeck, in magnificent detail, provide a gallery of unexplained aerial phenomena as chronicled by a range of individuals—whether common folk, generals of the day, members of their armies, scientists and astronomers, or leaders of cities or even religions. What is compellingly brought out in Wonders in the Sky are the similarities of the recorded experiences juxtaposed against the extraordinary variety of interpretations by the participants who recorded them. What have these people seen? Why is it there? Is it similar to what is seen today and if not, why not?
Meticulous attention to scientific detail is a hallmark of Vallée’s books, and Wonders in the Sky is a case study in objectivity. By never allowing their writing, or their reader, to fall into the trap of a foregone conclusion, Vallée and Aubeck enable the broadest set of hypotheses to remain on the table. Such focus is what makes this new edition of Wonders in the Sky a landmark on the history of unexplained aerial objects. And it should be a case study in the scientific literature of how to avoid dogma while still leaving open the wonders of what role we play in a larger reality. -Dr. Garry Nolan, Rachford and Carlota Harris Professor of Microbiology & Immunology, Stanford University
"A beautiful synthesis of the humanities and sciences"
Anyone who has dipped into the world of ufology knows just how difficult it is to find an able guide through the dark deep forest of the phenomena, which are diverse, confusing, and often, or so it seems, intentionally confusing. Two beacons high above this forest have been the work of Jacques Vallée and the web-based “Magoniax” research team of Chris Aubeck and his colleagues. The present project, a gorgeously produced new edition of Wonders in the Sky, brings the two together again as they scan human history from antiquity to 1879 for evidence of unexplained aerial objects. In the process, they resist any easy answers or pat interpretations, preferring instead to sit with the historical data in all its complexity and mystery, to listen, as it were, to the historian of religions as closely as the astronomer. The result is a beautiful synthesis of the humanities and the sciences, of the human imagination and the computer, of the visual arts and the art of scholarship. From the striking painting on the cover, which depicts a mysterious object painted on an Italian ceiling in 1561, to the sharp, clear thinking of the text, to the playful medieval symbols attached to each case, the book sets a new standard, and a new aesthetic, for the still developing conversation.
-Dr. Jeffrey J. Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religion, Rice University
"That, I believe, is true science: to follow the data wherever they lead"
Their rigorously scientific insistence allows Vallée and Aubeck to retain the most challenging and interesting aspects of these events without the distraction of premature commitment to any particular interpretation. That, I believe, is true science: to follow the data wherever they lead, and to move away from established theory when it fails to deal adequately with the data.
The other beautiful innovation in Vallée and Aubeck’s work is the combination of science and scholarship. A willingness to combine documentary research, the heart of humanities scholarship, with physical and astrophysical knowledge is rare.”-From the preface to Wonders by Professor David Hufford at the University of Pennsylvania*
106 Color Images and Special Items
Our expanded and updated Wonders in the Sky contains 106 color images of rare photographs and illustrations. These images have been rendered from high quality digital images to create a work of lasting beauty as well as science. Towards this end, you will also receive the following special items for your contribution:
A facsimile commemorative token (coin) of French origin from 1648 depicting a legendary shield from the sky
The token pictured above, which was struck in 1648, shows a disk with a thick border. This kind of object or medal (“jeton” in French) has been mentioned in books and magazine articles as a flying shield either observed in the clouds, passing over a wide landscape or (as in this case) protecting it from spears directed at its curved surface from the sky.
The jeton is a little larger than a U.S. quarter and is similar to many tokens produced in Europe around that time for religious and educational purposes. Rather than a flying saucer (some sort of “Roman Roswell,” as some have suggested), it is thought to represent the “Shield of Numa.”
It is said that on March 1st, 707 BC, during the outbreak of a plague, the second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius, witnessed the fall of an oval shield from the sky during a ceremony. Somewhat astonished, he sought advice from the nymph Egeria and the nine Muses, who assured him that Jupiter had dropped it as a sign of his benevolence. The pestilence soon came to an end, so the grateful king had eleven identical copies made by an armourer, and those were used in dances and celebrations every year. Written around the edges of this coin is the Latin phrase “Resistit paucis obruitur pluribus,” which means “It withstands a few but is overwhelmed by the many.”
Reports of such “flying shields” figure prominently in Wonders in the Sky. We believe this intriguing coin is a worthy accessory minted in support of the research.
A folder of rare 17th and 18th century European broadsheets and placards
Presented are a folder of rare broadsheets, the newspapers of the time, that functioned as mass media, most of them from 17th and 18th century Germany, depicting celestial events observed in central Europe, France and Italy. Produced in facsimile, each one consists of an engraving of the scene (typically enhanced with mythological, allegorical or religious figures) with a text explaining the significance of the event for the benefit of the public.
These records have taken the form of paintings on the walls of caves, carvings in stone walls, statues and stelae, or writings on papyrus and parchment. After the invention of paper and the printing press, the observations could be shared with an eager and curious public. This led to widely distributed poster-size documents known as broadsheets, broadsides or placards. These were posted as notices in a public place or sold as individual sheets.
Please see two of the placards below, and enjoy these rare items that are both pieces of art and critical components of the historical UFO record.
Specifications
TRIM: 8 1/2 x 11; PAPER: text: 157 gsm acid-free matt artpaper; Endpapers: 140 gsm woodfree paper; SLIPCASE: Saifu cloth over 3 mm board with stamping on front and spine; JACKET:: 157 gsm glossy artpaper; BINDING: smythe sewn, sq back, case bound, head and tail bands.
Work on the manuscript and a prototype of the book is now complete and represents the culmination of many years of careful research. We will deliver the highest quality production values, and the books, coins, and placards will arrive in distinctive and protective packaging.
Jacques and Chris are very excited to bring this book to life, and more importantly, bring this updated work of UFO scientific research to you. For everyone interested in UFOs, this is an amazing opportunity that we hope you will take advantage of. This limited edition, updating the Penguin edition, will contain 500 copies signed, numbered and slipcased -- and of course, also a facsimile coin and a folder of rare broadsheets and placards will accompany each book. You will receive one copy of the Limited Edition of Wonders in the Sky as a thank-you gift for each $200 contribution, while supplies last. These magnificent thank-you gifts will be delivered in late Spring 2016.
Additional information about the authors
Jacques Vallée and Chris Aubeck at a conference in Madrid, May 2015
Jacques Vallée holds a master’s degree in astrophysics from France and a Ph.D. in computer science from Northwestern University, where he served as an associate of Dr. J. Allen Hynek, the scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force on the UFO problem. He is the author of several books about high technology and unidentified phenomena, a subject that first attracted his attention as an astronomer in Paris. While analyzing observations from many parts of the world, he became intrigued by the similarities in patterns between modern sightings and historical reports of encounters with flying objects and their occupants in every culture. The result was the seminal book Passport to Magonia, published in 1969. Later, Jacques would become the model for the French scientist character in Stephen Spielberg's Close Encounters played by François Truffaut.
After a career as an information scientist with Stanford Research Institute and the Institute for the Future, where he served as a principal investigator for the groupware project on the Arpanet, the prototype of the Internet, Jacques Vallée cofounded a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, where he works.
Chris Aubeck was born in London. His interest in the historical and sociological aspects of unexplained aerial phenomena began at an early age. He moved to Spain at age 19 and now lives in Madrid, where he works as an interpreter and English teacher at the Madrid Development Institute. A student of folklore and philology, he has helped compile the largest collection of pre-1947 UFO cases in the world. He has spoken on his research in many articles and on public radio. In 2008 he was awarded a prize for his contributions to the field by the Spanish organization Fundación Anomalía.
In 2003, Aubeck cofounded a remarkable collaborative network of librarians, students, and scholars of paranormal history on the Internet. This group, known as the Magoniax Project, extends from North and Central America to Russia and Germany. It has accumulated thousands of references, searched media archives in several languages, and gathered hundreds of rare documents, scientific reports, and newspaper clippings from the last four hundred years.
Lon Strickler reports : I received an inquiry on Wednesday from an elderly woman in the Phoenix suburb of Surprise, Arizona. She witnessed 2 humanoid beings standing outside her bedroom window a few days before Christmas 2015. The following report includes most of the information from the incident…though there are a few personal notes that I have redacted. I called and talked to the witness Thursday night in an attempt to gather more details. I am presenting this case to the readers and other investigators as a means of gathering additional data and knowledge about these beings. The witness was extremely alarmed by the incident and she is desperately seeking answers.
Around 12-21-2015, I woke up about 1:30 am. I glanced out my bedroom window, and this is what I saw: Two gray short people like figures with cone heads. The tallest stood there approx., 4 ft tall, and the smallest one about 3 ft stood directly in front of the taller one. They just stood motionless. I looked, then looked again, as I have never seen anything like this EVER! I set on the edge of my bed and I just kept looking at them. They didn’t move. Neither one of them had facial features at all. It appeared to me they had something over their heads to hide their appearance. I didn’t let my dog out, as I didn’t know what could happen. I laid back down in bed, I went to sleep! I didn’t awake until the next morning 8:30 am. 7 HOURS? I called the police a week or so later. They just told me to go to the ER or to call the Crisis Ctr., then they wrote down the tele# of Crisis Ctr., and they left my home.
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About a week later I went to my church, the priest didn’t believe me, or didn’t want to discuss, this alien encounter! I have done a lot of research online, and these Greys, with cone heads have been seen before, and are described as I have described them. I have never believed in UFO’s or Paranormal sightings, or have I ever viewed any web site on my computer until after I encountered these 2 Grey little people looking in to my bedroom window.This was not a dream! I was completely awake! No medicine I take has any side effects, that would cause me to hallucinate! I am a senior citizen, I am living alone. This has scared me. They have not come back! I worry that they might come back. I have so many questions. I also called CH 113 EWTN TV. The person I talked to at EWTN didn’t believe me and did not want to discuss the matter. Please e-mail me. I have not told my friends or family. Please help me with answers I have. I pray daily that I never see them again! I called the witnessed and received more specific details…though most of it was personal. She did state that these beings wore full-length cloaks that were the same color (grayish-brown) of the cone-like covering over the head and face. The cone was more like a helmet. She also stated that she never sleeps more than 3 hours without waking…but she slept for an uninterrupted 7 hours, which she states she has never done before or since. There was a NUFORC reported UFO sighting over Surprise, AZ the same night of the encounter: Duration:10 seconds – A blue oval light shot over the house behind a tree then shot back the same way it came from behind a tree line it happened so fast.
After receiving the additional details, I came up with one possibility…though I would appreciate other theories. In some respects, these beings remind me of the descriptions for the ‘Teros’ species…a supposed Earth underground dwelling race of humanoids with cone-shaped heads. They do have human-like facial features, so this may have been a face covering of some type. They are also referred to as ‘Sunaynans’…’The Yearly Ones,’ an ancient race that appears at a certain time of the year. Some of the early native people of North America made reference to them…mostly in the desert Southwest.
So this sighting does kind of parallel the legends since this occurred in Arizona. Once again, any information that can be provided to me would be appreciated.
Witness recorded with his phone strange lights in the sky in the South of the Netherlands on February 2, 2016.
Witness states:I filmed this with my phone from inside the car. Can anyone explain to me what I was just looking at?
The Dutch news websites immediately explain it as being “polar stratospheric clouds” but I did not see any other different colors that are specific with polar stratospheric clouds.
Polar stratospheric clouds also known as nacreous clouds are colorful clouds in the winter polar stratosphere at altitudes of 15,000–25,000 meters (49,000–82,000 ft).
The cloud formation with the three lights/objects is quite different if you compare it with a specific polar stratospheric cloud.
Witness added some stills and contrast effects to enhance the pictures, but the video footage itself is unedited.
Gravitational Waves: What Their Discovery Means for Science and Humanity
Gravitational Waves: What Their Discovery Means for Science and Humanity
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
A computer simulation showing gravitational waves during a black-hole collision. The discovery has major implications for science.
Credit: MPI for Gravitational Physics/W.Benger-Zib
People around the world cheered yesterday morning (Feb. 11) when scientists announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves — ripples in the fabric of space-time whose existence was first proposed by Albert Einstein, in 1916.
The waves came from two black holes circling each other, closer and closer, until they finally collided. The recently upgraded Large Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) captured the signal on Sept. 14, 2015. Not every scientific discovery gets this kind of reception, so what exactly is all the hype about, and what's next for LIGO now that it has spotted these elusive waves?
First of all, detecting two colliding black holes is thrilling by itself — no one knew for sure if black holes actually merged together to create even more-massive black holes, but now there's physical proof. And there's the joy of finally having direct evidence for a phenomenon that was first predicted 100 years ago, using an instrument that was proposed 40 years ago. [Gravitational Waves Detected by LIGO: Complete Coverage]
But what is truly monumental about this detection is that it gives humanity the ability to see the universe in a totally new way, scientists said. The ability to directly detect gravitational waves — which are generated by the acceleration or deceleration of massive objects in space — has been compared to a deaf person suddenly gaining the ability to hear sound. An entirely new realm of information is now available.
"It's like Galileo pointing the telescope for the first time at the sky," LIGO team member Vassiliki (Vicky) Kalogera, a professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University in Illinois, told Space.com. "You're opening your eyes — in this case, our ears — to a new set of signals from the universe that our previous technologies did not allow us to receive, study and learn from."
"Up until now, we've been deaf to gravitational waves," LIGO Executive Director David Reitze, of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), said during an announcement ceremony in Washington, D.C. "What's going to come now is we're going to hear more things, and no doubt we'll hear things that we expected to hear … but we will also hear things that we never expected."
With this new sensory view of the universe, here are some of the things scientists hope to discover.
The universe unlocked: gravitational waves detected
LIGO is particularly sensitive to gravitational waves that come from violent cosmic events, such as two massive objects colliding or a star exploding. The observatory has the potential to locate these objects or events before light-based telescopes can do so, and in some cases, gravitational-wave observations could be the only way to find and study such events.
For example, in yesterday's announcement, scientists reported that LIGO had identified two black holes spinning around each other and merging together in a final, energetic collision. As their name suggests, black holes don't radiate light, which means they are invisible to telescopes that collect and study electromagnetic radiation. Some black holes are visible with light-based telescopes, because material in their immediate vicinity radiates, but scientists haven't seen examples of merging black holes with radiating material around them.
In addition, the black holes spotted by LIGO are 29 and 36 times the mass of the sun, respectively. But Reitze said that as LIGO's sensitivity continues to improve, the instrument could be sensitive to black holes that are 100, 200 or even 500 times the mass of the sun that are further away from Earth. "There could be a really nice discovery space that opens up once we get out there," he said.
Scientists already know that studying the sky in different wavelengths of light can reveal new data about the cosmos. For many centuries, astronomers could only work with optical light. But relatively recently, researchers built instruments allowing them to study the universe using X-rays, radio waves, ultraviolet waves and gamma-rays. Each time, scientists got a new view of the universe.
"If we're ever lucky enough to have a supernova in our own galaxy, or maybe in a nearby galaxy, we will be able to look at the actual dynamics of what goes on inside the supernova," said LIGO co-founder Rainer Weiss of MIT, who spoke at the announcement ceremony. While light is often blocked by dust and gas, "gravitational waves come right out [of the supernova], boldly unimpeded," Weiss said. "As a consequence, you really find out what's going on inside of these things."
Other exotic objects scientists hope to study with gravitational waves are neutron stars, which are mind-bogglingly dense, burned-out stellar corpses: A teaspoon of neutron-star material would weigh about a billion tons on Earth. Scientists aren't sure what happens to regular matter under such extreme conditions, but gravitational waves could provide extremely helpful clues, because these waves should carry information about the interior of the neutron star all the way to Earth, LIGO scientists said.
LIGO also has a system set up to alert light-based telescopes when the detector seems to have spotted a gravitational wave. Some of the astronomical events that LIGO will study, such as colliding neutron stars, may produce light in all wavelengths, from gamma-rays to radio waves. With LIGO's alert system in place, it's possible that scientists could observe some astronomical events or objects in various wavelengths of light, plus gravitational waves, which would provide a "very complete picture" of those events, Reitze said.
"When that happens, that'll be, I think, the next big thing in this field," he said.
Relativity
Gravitational waves were first predicted by Einstein's theory of general relativity, which was published in 1916. That famous theory has stood up to all kinds of physical tests, but there are some aspects that scientists haven't been able to study in the real world, because they require very extreme circumstances. The extreme warping of space-time is one example of this.
"Until now, we have only seen warped space-time when it is very calm — as though we had only seen the surface of the ocean on a very calm day, when it's quite glassy," Kip Thorne of Caltech, another founding member of LIGO and an expert on warped space-time, said at yesterday's ceremony. "We had never seen the ocean roiled in a storm, with crashing waves. All that changed on Sept. 14. The colliding black holes that produced these gravitational waves created a violent storm in the fabric of space and time." [The History & Structure of the Universe (Infographic)]
"This observation tests that regime beautifully, very strongly," Thorne continued. "And Einstein comes out with beaming success."
But the study of general relativity via gravitational waves is far from over. Questions remain about the nature of the graviton, the particle believed to carry the gravitational force (just like the photon is the particle that carries the electromagnetic force). And scientists have many questions about the inner workings of black holes, which gravitational waves may help illuminate (so to speak). But all of that, the scientists said, will be revealed slowly, over the course of many years, as LIGO and related instruments collect more data on more events.
Looking toward the next three years, Reitze said the collaboration is focused on increasing LIGO's sensitivity to its full potential. This will make the observatory — which consists of two big detectors, one in Louisiana and the other in Washington state — more sensitive to gravitational waves. But scientists don't know how many events LIGO will see, because they don't know how often many of these events occur in the universe.
LIGO detected the binary black hole merger even before the instrument began its first official observation campaign after its recent upgrade, but it's possible that this was a lucky break. To get the gravitational astronomy train rolling, LIGO simply needs more data.
When asked to comment on LIGO's impact on the world beyond the scientific community, and about how gravitational-wave science might influence people's daily lives, Reitze simply said, "Who knows?"
"When Einstein predicted general relativity, who would have predicted that we'd use it every day when we use our cellphones?" he said. (General relativity provides an understanding how gravity influences the passing of time, and this information is necessary for GPS technology, which uses satellites that orbit further away from the gravitational pull of the Earth than people on the surface).
LIGO is "the most sensitive instrument ever built," said Reitze, and the technological advances that have been made while building the observatory may feed into technologies that will be used in ways people can't yet predict.
Thorne said he sees the larger contribution of LIGO slightly differently.
"When we look back on the era of the Renaissance, and we ask ourselves, 'What did the humans of that era give to us that's important to us today?' I think we would all agree it's great art, great architecture, great music," he said.
"Similarly, when our descendants look back on this era, and they ask themselves, 'What great things came to us?' … I believe there will be an understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe and an understanding of what those laws do in the universe, and an exploration of the universe," Thorne added. "LIGO is a big part of that. The rest of astronomy is a big part of that. And I think that cultural gift to our future generations is really much bigger than any kind of technological spin-off, than the ultimate development of technology of any kind. I think we should be proud of what we give to our descendants culturally."
Bright UFO Discards Another Glowing Object To Ground Level
Bright UFO Discards Another Glowing Object To Ground Level
A man in Spokane Valley in Washington claimed to have witnessed and recorded a glowing sphere on video. The object apparently stopped to hover and seemed to drop something. On January 26, 2014, the witness noticed a bright object in yellow, red, and orange colors from the outside into a back porch around 7 p.m.
He went north of his house and stopped before he changed direction to the east. He alerted his family for them to witness the strange aerial event.
The witness saw the object hovered, flashed brightly many times, and discarded something glowing from the bottom of it. The object then slowly lost its brightness.
Interestingly, it wasn’t the first time he saw the object. He saw the same object doing the same thing in almost the same place, only slightly farther southeast.
A second witness made a report to UFOSNW of a large glowing orange sphere to the east at approximately 1810 hours on the same date. The witness lived around a mile from the first witness who took a video footage.
MUFON investigator James E. Clarkson closed the case as an unknown aerial vehicle (AUV). He considered the case as strange with technical evidence and strong witness credibility.
In 2015 I met ET-human hybrids for the first time—eight of them. Within two months, my reality was expanding so fast that I had to let go of trying to understand it all intellectually. It became clear that this cannot all be understood with the mind. We cannot turn their information on consciousness, love and oneness into personal knowledge without opening our hearts and occasionally letting the mind take a back seat.
That is just one of the key learnings that came out of the research that Barbara Lamb and I undertook for what has become the book Meet the Hybrids – The Lives and Missions of ET Ambassadors on Earth. The hybrids have access to a level of understanding that answers not just the big questions of ufology, but many of the biggest questions that humans have ever thought to ask.
Let that sink in for a moment. Then let the questions flow: how do they know so much? Who are they? What are they? Why are they here?
This brief introduction to hybrids will only scratch the surface of what we uncovered in the research, but it will give the reader a sense of the complexity and multidimensional nature of the subject.
This has major implications for ufology, and indeed the wider enterprise of human inquiry. I will close with some further thoughts on what this suggests for our continuing research in this field.
What is a hybrid?
There are various types of hybrids it seems. For our glossary, the definition we arrived at—with input from the hybrids—was: a being which has been genetically altered to be more than one species.
How are hybrids created?
Another complex question. One of the hybrids was created as part of a military project, combining DNA from her human parents and two ET races. Four of the hybrids understand they had ET genetics introduced while in their mother’s womb. Commonly, they are composed of a number of ET races. Some call these their ET ‘frequencies’.
One of the hybrids described a process called ‘spinning’, in which the various genetics and ‘energetic imprints’ of the ET ‘parents’ are combined, in order to set up the template for the cell mass. This is then made ready for the being to incarnate on Earth to human parents.
Several understand they made an agreement as a soul to incarnate on Earth as a hybrid, and they may recall doing the planning while in that pre-corporeal state.
Another of the hybrids had several theories as to how he was created, including the possibility that, given his Mantis component, he may have created himself. As these particular Mantis beings don’t die in the way we understand, they can choose a new form as required.
How do they know they are hybrids?
Most of them uncovered their identity slowly, putting pieces together over the years as memories of ET visitations came back, visitations increased or messages from ETs came through more clearly.
They all have ‘guides’ or ‘star families’ they interact with in various ways. These guides may be ET, or human or animal spirits. Sometimes these guides offer hints, sometimes they are more direct with their messages. They can also use physical effects to enhance their messages.
It was common that the hybrids had no shock or surprise at receiving confirmation of their nature. Many expressed relief—a reaction far from what a regular human, I imagine, would have at learning such a thing.
Why are hybrids created?
This is the question the hybrids themselves are most concerned with. What is their purpose—their mission? And what are the ETs trying to achieve through this enterprise?
This is, in my view, the most important information to come out of this research for the field of ufology. The answer depends on which ETs one is referring to. There are principally two classes: those in ‘service to self’, and those in ‘service to others’. Most of the ‘negative’ experiences with ETs may occur with the service to self ETs, who reportedly display little compassion for the needs of humans. The ‘service to others’ class are, in general, more like cosmic missionaries, and are here to help humankind evolve—to move through the ‘Ascension’ process.
Ascension is another contested topic. Some hybrids view it as a process of the planet and its inhabitants shifting from the third to the fifth dimension—becoming less physically dense, and some see it as more of a spiritual evolution, in the sense of becoming more enlightened, and living more harmoniously with ourselves, each other and the world in which we live. So both could be thought of as processes of spiritual development, but the term ‘spiritual’—as ever—has varying interpretations.
Both classes are creating hybrids. The activity of the ‘self’ class has been documented across two key books by David Jacobs, and the ‘others’ class by ourselves, and 17 years ago, by CristiAnne Quiros in her PhD dissertation. Many people have explored aspects of these subjects over the last few decades, but I refer here to specific studies of hybrids.
Understanding of the hybrid subject has been previously somewhat skewed towards a darker interpretation, as Jacobs’ work and conclusions have dominated the discourse. His research has pointed to a ‘colonization’ program, wherein certain ETs seek to take over Earth by producing hybrids which look human but can control the minds of other humans through their superior psychic abilities.
The dissertation of Quiros, a psychology graduate, was (to my knowledge) the first major study of the phenomenon which directly involved people identifying as hybrids. The lives and understandings of six—all North American women—were explored for the purposes of equipping the therapeutic community to assist hybrids and their friends and family. Quiros found that the hybrids saw their creation, and the intentions of the ETs responsible, as being a fundamentally benevolent enterprise, which seeks to preserve and enhance human life, principally through the expansion of human consciousness—relating to the concept of Ascension.
Our research explored the subject in a similar way, but went deeper and wider. What became evident is that Jacobs and Quiros may both be correct in their conclusions—they are simply talking about different ETs. The hybrids noted that among the races we hear of regularly, there are often several varieties. For example, the reptilian hybrids in the book made it clear that they are connected to benevolent reptilians, and the male Mantis hybrid said that there are Mantis beings with very different looks and agendas.
Between these two classes of beings there may be a nebulous middle ground, wherein experiencers are being traumatized by ‘service to others’ ETs who may have their own reasons for giving people the experiences they do. One of the hybrids pointed to the work of Lyssa Royal and Keith Priest, who discuss this in detail.
Bringing these two strands of research together to form a synthesis is an important step in comprehending the apparently contradictory information that has been coming forth over the last six decades concerning ET intentions. If we give credence to both sides of the interpretation, we have a much richer, more comprehensible picture of what is happening on this planet, involving the work and agendas of non-human intelligences.
Missions, abilities and services
Linking into the Ascension process are the missions of the hybrids. Some have numerous aspects to their missions. They are equipped with special abilities that help them carry out these missions, which they will often deliver through particular services.
Their missions range from helping the Earth and its people and animals, to helping other hybrids and starseeds, to developing new technologies.
In terms of abilities, most or all of them have some psychic and healing ability. The healing may involve psychic function at the diagnostic level as well as the treatment level.
Hybrids as spiritual teachers
Within a month of commencing the interviews, it was evident that perhaps above all else, this type of hybrid is effectively a spiritual teacher. Their understanding of the journey of the soul, of the evolutionary process we are all undertaking, is often detailed and profound. This is a subject that refuses to get hung up on the material or the intellectual—no matter how much we may want to apply the standards of Western materialist science to it. John Mack concluded the same in his research. We need to be open to other ways of knowing, particularly direct experience. The book offers advice and techniques from the hybrids for pursuing one’s own Ascension, and even for connecting with ETs directly.
Beyond ufology
The hybrids take us right through and beyond ufology, and throw open a mass of questions as to what we may best do with their information, and how we may continue to make progress with this subject. If we accept the word of the hybrids, and work with their information and techniques personally, we find that ufology becomes too small a place for this exploration. The level of conceptual expansion and personal spiritual revelation available to anyone suggests that we revisit the definition of ufology, and ask whether this is still a useful term, or if it has now been outgrown.
The increasing contact between science and spirituality which is developing in the mainstream—as well as the continuing exploration of space—is opening up opportunities for the information that has been produced by ufology to connect with and contribute to these more conventional modes of inquiry. And given the unprecedented democratization of information flows in our culture, I submit that the time has never been better for those of us committed to expanding our understanding of reality to make progress in offering our research to the mainstream.
The hybrids offer the royal road to solving the mysteries of ufology, and so much more. Let us make the best use of this resource. After all, for many of them, helping us is built into their mission.
Cover: Meet the Hybrids
Miguel Mendonça is co-author with Barbara Lamb of Meet the Hybrids – The Lives and Missions of ET Ambassadors on Earth Now available on Amazon.com and Barnesandnoble.com
Being out under the stars on a clear night can be "food for the soul," and it's been known to trigger a lifelong passion for astronomy in more than one impressionable youngster - myself included! But it can also leave you wondering what you're looking at. Is that bright object a star, or a planet, or even a satellite? Where does one constellation end, and the next one begin? And where can I find that comet that everyone’s been talking about? Is it even visible from where I live?
It's not always convenient to consult an astronomy book, or magazine star chart, in the dark, and not everyone has access to these aids. But nearly everyone has a mobile device these days, and there are plenty of apps available for sky watchers of all ages and knowledge levels. In this series of columns, we'll explore astronomy the 21st century way – with astronomy and space-related apps and gadgets.
Here, we'll explain how to navigate the sky and learn some prominent stars and constellations. We'll learn why different stars are visible at different times of the year. We'll cover how the planets move along the ecliptic (the plane of the solar system), and where to find it. We'll study the moon's motion across the sky, and why it occasionally eclipses a star – or the sun! We'll start off by helping you configure the app so you're ready for the next clear night. [Smart Space Apps to Explore the Universe]
For telescope owners, astronomy apps can offer advice on what to observe, and what’s likely to be visible with your equipment, large or small. Many naked eye stars are actually double or multiple systems, often comprised of stars of different colors - and these can be enjoyed in a backyard telescope. Most of these multiple stars were named before the invention of the telescope, so they only bear a single name. Other stars vary in brightness on a repeating schedule that you can track yourself by observing how they vary compared to their neighbors in the eyepiece field of view. Advanced astronomy apps provide background information of the story behind the names, and the interesting science around the stars’ behavior.
Apps have opened up the universe to anyone with a mobile device, anywhere at anytime.
If you're a planet enthusiast, an astronomy app can tell you where the four Galilean moons of Jupiter are, and whether they are eclipsing one another, or casting their little round black shadows on the great planet's face. Jupiter rotates once every 10 hours or so, so your app is a great aid to determine when to look for the Great Red Spot. We'll explain how to configure and use the app to do all of these tasks.
Deep sky objects, nebulas, star clusters, and galaxies populate the night sky year round. While most galaxies are beyond the reach of backyard telescopes, several are easy to see with unaided eyes, if you know where to look. The Great Andromeda Galaxy, also known as Messier 31, is six full moon diameters across, and the light you're seeing now left there 2.5 million years ago! Messier 31 is one of a list of 110 famous deep sky objects first listed by French astronomer Charles Messier in 1771, many of which can be spotted without a telescope. We'll cover how to generate lists of these objects for your location and observing date, and use your app to find them.
Astronomy and Space VR is coming and we’ll be there to cover it.
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Not all apps are created equal. While we won't play favorites, we will identify the simple ones for beginners, and highlight the ones with advanced features that budding astronomers and even teachers can use, indoors or out, to fully learn the science. When new apps are released or old favorites updated, we'll review them and highlight what's new.
From time to time, we'll explain the purpose for many of the features, like the red screen mode for night vision, the meridian and ecliptic reference lines, and the various coordinate grids that can be switched on. Some of the apps allow you to explore the universe by flying from place to place and seeing the sky from another star. Or view our solar system as seen from another planet.
Some of the apps even allow you to connect to a computerized telescope and drive it around the sky. We'll cover that, too.
Mobile devices have given a 21st century technology boost to even the simplest of stargazing aids.
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This Mobile Stargazing column will go beyond stargazing. We'll look at the apps for various space telescope and planetary exploration missions, including apps that tell you how to see the International Space Station, or watch spacewalks on your phone. There are even apps to alert you when to head outside and look for auroras, also known as northern lights. We'll also see how stargazers use mobile devices as astronomy aids, from taking smartphone astrophotographs, to leveling your telescope tripod, to catching that perfectly composed photograph by predicting where the moon or other objects will be on a given day and time.
In the next column, we'll highlight how mobile devices and apps represent a fundamental shift, allowing us to make a connection with the sky that we just couldn't before. We'll highlight common features found on most astronomy apps and how to set them up for best results. I'm also interested to hear what you want to know about, so please send questions and ideas for topics to cover in future columns. Until then, keep your eyes on the skies!
Meteorite Hunters: How the Experts Can Tell If Rocks Are from Space
Meteorite Hunters: How the Experts Can Tell If Rocks Are from Space
by Laura Geggel, Staff Writer
Meteorite hunter Geoff Notkin searching for space rocks with metal detectors in the Atacama Desert, Chile. Credit: Photographs by Geoffrey Notkin. Copyright 2016 Aerolite Meteorites Inc.
When news broke that a meteorite may have crash-landed in India last weekend, some experts thought it was odd that no one had seen a fiery space rock blaze across the sky.
That turned out to be the first of many clues suggesting that the unusual incident wasn't caused by a space rock, but likely by a land-based explosion — one that killed one person and injured three others, experts told Live Science.
"Initial assessments, based on photos posted online, are not consistent with something from space," NASA said in a statement emailed to Live Science. "Small meteorites do not start fires or cause explosions when they hit the ground." [See Photos of Meteorites Discovered Around the World]
The intense scrutiny paid to the Indian event isn't out of the ordinary. Typically, researchers rush to find meteorites the moment these extraterrestrial rocks hit Earth, said Geoff Notkin, president of Aerolite Meteorites, the world's largest meteorite company, and former host of the TV show "Meteorite Men," which aired from 2009 to 2012 on the Science Channel.
Notkin has chased Earth-bound meteorites for more than 20 years, and shared his tactics for tracking down the space rocks. But first, it's important to review the terminology: Small chunks of rock in space are called meteoroids. They're called meteors (shooting stars) when they fall through Earth's atmosphere, and they're known as meteorites if they touch down on land or in the water.
About 48.5 tons (44,000 kilograms) of meteoritic material falls on Earth daily, but it's usually the large, rare meteors and meteorites that make headlines (and craters), according to NASA.
Fireball in the sky
Large meteors often look like fireballs as they blast across the sky, much like the 2013 Chelyabinsk meteor explosion that rained meteorites across parts of Russia and Kazakhstan, Notkin said. Researchers can use Doppler radar — the same technology that meteorologists use to predict the weather — to follow the meteor and its debris as it breaks apart during its flight.
"If we can get Doppler data on the falling patterns, it can really narrow the search area," Notkin said.
This stone meteorite was part of the massive Chelyabinsk fireball, seen over Russia on February 15, 2013. Credit: Photographs by Geoffrey Notkin. Copyright 2016 Aerolite Meteorites Inc.
Other than that, researchers rely on eyewitness accounts and video footage (if there is any) to track the meteor. Sometimes, meteorites tumble onto private land, and Notkin will ask landowners if he can look on their property. (If the meteorite is later sold after being studied, Notkin and the landowner will agree on how to split the profits, he said.) In the United States, a meteorite that falls on a landowner's property belongs to the landowner, but if a space rock falls on public land, it belongs to the Smithsonian Institution, Notkin said.
Once researchers find the landing site, they examine objects in the area. Chances are, it's a meteorite if it has "a thin, black rind" on its surface — one that formed when the rock was "superheated" as it raced through Earth's atmosphere, he said.
"When they make it to Earth, they look very much like charcoal briquettes," Notkin said.
Moreover, meteorites are rich in iron, so they stick to magnets, he said. But the longer a meteorite sits on Earth, the more it's exposed to oxygen, water, fertilizers and other contaminating elements.
"There's a real urgency to recover them and get them to the lab as quickly as possible," Notkin said. "These are recently arrived visitors from outer space that have a lot of potential valuable information that they can tell us about their origin." [Crash! 10 Biggest Impact Craters on Earth]
Once a meteorite is in the lab, researchers can analyze its components. For instance, the mineral schreibersite, which contains nickel, iron and phosphorous, is found only in iron meteorites, Notkin said. Another clue is the Widmanstätten pattern, a geometric structure unique to iron meteorites, he said. Some meteorites are packed with gemstones, which form on asteroids that once had a molten core and formed crystals out of the magma.
Recovered meteorites can also yield fascinating geologic discoveries. In 2011, researchers found a new type of mineral on a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite.
Space rock skeptic
After investigating countless meteorites, Notkin said he was skeptical when he heard about the Indian episode.
"When there's an unexplained event — when there's an explosion or a strange rock appears — it's very common for people who don't have expertise in meteorite science to say, 'Oh, that must be a meteorite. It must be something that fell out of the sky,'" Notkin said.
NASA seemed to echo that skepticism.
"To form a crater the size of what has been posted online would have required a meteorite of at least several kilograms," NASA said in the statement. "While more details may be forthcoming from local scientists, this is unlikely something from space."
In early 2016, Hillary Clinton gave what might be the most significant signal ever telegraphed to the American people about UFOs.
Or she just confirmed that the concussion she suffered three years ago has finally gotten to her.
On Jan. 4, Clinton, in response to a question from a reporter, stated that she intended to get to the bottom of the UFO issue and opined that she thinks we may have been visited, but wasn’t sure. She also stated that her campaign manager, John Podesta, made her personally pledge to get the information out. She suggested a task force might be created to look into the matter.
This is not the first time a person running for the Presidency has expressed an interest in the topic. President Jimmy Carter, during his 1976 campaign, stated that, as president, he would seek to get all the information about UFOs released to the public. It has beenreported that during a top-secret intelligence briefing, one of the first questions the newly elected President Carter asked the then-current CIA director George H.W. Bush was whether he could get access to the government’s information related to UFOs. Bush denied the request, stating that the president-elect had no “need to know” this information.
President George H. W. Bush
In a strange twist, we fast-forward to Oct. 15, 2015, when that very same former CIA director and former-President George H.W. Bush — while campaigning for his son Jeb — was asked whether the government would ever tell the truth about the UFO phenomenon. His response was, “Americans can’t handle the truth.” Naturally, Jeb’s spokesman said the comments didn’t represent the campaign.
Toward the end of the same article, reporting on the President’s comments, the writer suggested that Bush Sr. was likely suffering from some form of senility; however, undercutting that assertion in the very same article were the former president’s 1988 comments on the subject when his senility was not in question. He verified that the issue was classified, and that he knew a good deal about it.
Mainstream media have long-dismissed stories on the subject by making the obligatory comment about little green men. Everyone then chuckles because educated media types all know that humans are the only beings in the universe.
True to form, when Hillary Clinton broached the subject in January, CNN suggested she was joking. But while she may have been somewhat playful in her demeanor, the substance and extent of her comments suggested purpose and planning.
Clinton has been involved in UFO discussions through what the UFO community refers to as the Rockefeller Initiative. She has a good bit of background on the issue. We can either assume she is senile, was just joking, or she has some calculated interest in revealing what would be the most important disclosure in human history.
Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta
The key is John Podesta. He has stated that getting the UFO files released was his greatest failure while in the Obama Administration.
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He also encouraged Lena Dunham to ask Hillary about UFOs several months ago.
The campaign neither disavowed Hillary’s comments nor suggested she was joking. Also, keep in mind that her comments were made on the weekend at a small-town newspaper, a prime time and location to test the waters on a new issue.
The main directive of any campaign manager is to stay on point. Promoting the campaign manager’s UFO opinions is not part of that prime directive. I find it hard to believe that the campaign hadn’t rehearsed this and probably a thousand other off-the-wall questions. She could easily have said she had no interest in the topic. If she wanted to be playful, why not joke about Donald Trump’s hair being the vestigial remains of his Sasquatch heritage?
Of course, maybe these were the gratuitous ravings of a politician trying to get the UFO community’s vote. But she didn’t just make one statement: She promised action. These tangible expressions and promises for the government to review the issue are steps that no governmental official, past or present, has been willing to even acknowledge, much less pursue.
In this author’s humble opinion, the evidence for the UFO phenomenon is so overwhelming that only the uninformed will be surprised by the reality of UFOs. (Check out the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure for a comprehensive background). What the phenomenon represents is another matter.
The political repercussions of UFO disclosure
Regardless of your view, the perplexing question remains: What could the Democratic frontrunner for the U.S. presidency gain by interjecting the issue of UFOs into her campaign?
The speculation starts with the assumption that UFOs are a real phenomenon that the government knows exists but is unwilling to admit. If we don’t assume at least that much, then I can’t really see any advantage for Hillary Clinton to mention the subject.
As a candidate who is not adored among her supporters nor trusted among the voters generally, what would be the advantage to mention the topic if she thought it were a dead end? It would seem to have only downsides and no upside; however, what if she felt she needed to swing for the fence with some truly game-changing information that could change the dynamic and the topic of the race?
There is no doubt changing the topic of her campaign would be helpful. Recently, she has faced questions about her health. She is facing an insurgent campaign from Bernie Sanders that has gained momentum. Bill Clinton’s sexual escapades have been forcefully reconstituted in the new book, The Clintons’ War on Women, and are systematicallyseeping into the campaign. Her role in the destruction of the credibility of Bill’s victims is a major part of the book and an awkward issue for the campaign. The never shy Donald Trump has not so gently fanned those flames.
The Clinton Foundation’s fundraising from foreign sources is still ripe for discussion. The Benghazi affair lingers. Finally, and probably most importantly, the classified email problem continues to fester and could result in an indictment, and an indictment in the middle of the campaign would be almost insurmountable.
All these issues undercut the image of Hillary as a champion of women and a competent, trustworthy leader. UFO disclosure is the one issue that could vaporize every one of her political liabilities and render Donald Trump and the seven dwarfs irrelevant.
The effects of a Disclosure President
Hillary would probably not be the Disclosure President; however, for Hillary to get the political benefit of disclosure, she only has to set off the chain reaction and watch as President Barack Obama makes the announcement. In this one stroke, Obama is made relevant and thrust back into a worldwide media storm — not the story of the year, but the story of all recorded human history. While President Obama might bask in the attention, he would have to answer some of the most difficult and delicate questions a president has ever been asked, thus clearing the way for the next president to continue the project of disclosure with very little political risk.
In the meantime, disclosure would suck all of the air out of the election, obliterating her political baggage. She would then become a champion of truth on the most important issue of all time. She would be instantly changed into the good government advocate that brought transparency to that good ol’ boy military-industrial complex, which had been sitting on this truth for its own purposes for at least 70 years. It would give her the power to move forward and control the debate on the issue.
It would also disconnect her from the systematic deception of the government. How would Americans react if the country had been denied the benefits of transformative technologies paid for by the citizens but hidden for decades? What if NASA had been building rockets while the government had space technology capable of traveling easily to planets and maybe the stars? By initiating the start of disclosure, Hillary Clinton would guarantee her role as the first woman president and the greatest whistleblower the world has ever seen.
Presidential candidates Cruz and Trump
One can imagine the confusion and consternation of the two leading Republicans with the change of topic. How could Trump recapture the limelight? His campaign against illegal “aliens” would take on a new meaning. He would no doubt brag that he had long known everything there is to know about UFOs. (In fact, he was trailed by a UFO at a recent campaign stop.) But he would be in the most uncomfortable position of having President Obama and Hillary Clinton leading the discussion with the real inside scoop.
Ted Cruz would have a different problem. Since his base is substantially made up of the evangelical right, the religious implications would pose a serious challenge to this group’s religious world views. Would they take the position that disclosure was an elaborate conspiracy? Not a preposterous idea. Would they express the revelation as demonic interference and mesh this notion into their end-times theology? A person with Cruz’s intellect, political smarts and obvious religious faith would have to very quickly come up with a convincing and unifying reaction.
Many Americans would sigh a bit of relief that the government had finally admitted what was obvious to them. The cultural conditioning that has been going on for the last 70 years would finally make sense to everyone.
If Hillary could pull off disclosure, she would likely guarantee her election; however, if she attempted it and failed, it would probably be the final nail in the coffin of her candidacy.
Either way, it would be the most interesting pre sidential campaign in American history.
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Epic Gravitational Wave Detection: How Scientists Did It
Epic Gravitational Wave Detection: How Scientists Did It
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
A technician works on some of the optics for a Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory detector.
Credit: LIGO Laboratory
To spot gravitational waves directly for the first time ever, scientists had to measure a distance change 1,000 times smaller than the width of a proton.
Researchers with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced today (Feb. 11) that they had made history's first direct detection of gravitational waves, enigmatic ripples in space-time whose existence was first predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein's famous theory of general relativity.
The gravitational waves were generated by the merger of two medium-size black holes about 1.3 billion years ago, researchers said. These waves raced through space at the speed of light and encountered Earth, where they were picked up by LIGO's two huge detectors as a brief signal on Sept. 14, 2015. [Gravitational Waves Detected by LIGO: Complete Coverage]
Supersensitive detectors
The LIGO detectors are in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington. Each one consists of a giant L-shaped structure with arms 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) long. A laser beam shines down each arm from the crux of the "L," and mirrors at the ends of these arms reflect the light back.
If the beams from both arms arrive back at the crux at the same time, they cancel each other out, and no signal is produced in the system's light detector. This is the normal, expected scenario. But if one of the beams arrives a bit late, a signal is produced, which could be evidence of a gravitational wave.
Gravitational waves, after all, distort the fabric of space-time. A wave that passes through a LIGO detector — and "passes through" is a fairly apt description, because gravitational waves do not interact meaningfully with matter — will lengthen space-time ever so slightly along one arm of the "L," and compress it along the other arm.
"Ever so slightly" does not fully capture just how minuscule this distance change is, however. The effect LIGO observed last September works out to a shift of a millionth of a millionth of a millionth of a meter — about one one-thousandth the diameter of a proton, project team members said.
To put this kind of sensitivity into yet more perspective, LIGO technology is theoretically capable of measuring the distance from the sun to the nearest star — Proxima Centauri, which lies about 4.25 light-years away — "to a level of about the width of a human hair," David Reitze of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), executive director of the LIGO Laboratory, said during a news conference today.
"LIGO is the most precise measuring device ever built," Reitze added.
Achieving this level of sensitivity isn't easy. For example, LIGO's laser beams travel down the detectors' arms in a near-perfect vacuum. And the system's light-reflecting mirrors hang from pendulums in a sophisticated quadruple-suspension setup, to isolate them from the everyday jiggling and jostling experienced on Earth's surface, LIGO team members said.
Furthermore, the groundbreaking detection wouldn't have been possible without a significant overhaul of the LIGO detectors, which first hunted for gravitational waves between 2002 and 2010. The project then took a five-year observing hiatus, as team members redesigned and upgraded the system's instruments to get a new "Advanced LIGO" up and running. [Study of Gravitational Waves Could Unravel Many Mysteries (Video)]
Advanced LIGO features a sensitivity 10 times that of the original incarnation, project representatives said. The new version began its first official observing campaign in September 2015 — a few days after the historic detection, which was actually made during an engineering test run.
The fact that Advanced LIGO made a detection so soon after getting to work suggests that the system will spot more gravitational waves in the near future, team members said.
"We ought to see some more over the coming year," said LIGO project co-founder Kip Thorne, also of Caltech.
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The Sept. 14 signal was spotted by both LIGO detectors, about 7 milliseconds apart. This double detection gave team members confidence that they had captured a real astrophysical event, rather than something produced by local environmental conditions.
But they still took great pains to rule out alternative explanations, scrutinizing a variety of detector data and the output of numerous on-site instruments that measure seismic activity, radio interference and many other possible sources of "noise" that could conceivably mimic a gravitational-wave signal, team members said.
"It took a long time to get this [result] out, and that's part of the reason," said LIGO project co-founder Rainer Weiss, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
The signal also closely matched that predicted by supercomputer models of black-hole mergers, said LIGO Scientific Collaboration spokeswoman Gabriela Gonzalez, a professor of physics and astronomy at Louisiana State University.
Details of the signal allowed the LIGO team to estimate the masses of the two merging black holes — 29 and 36 solar masses, respectively. The single black hole that resulted from this smashup contains just 62 times the mass of the sun.
"That's because there were three solar masses emitted in energy, in gravitational waves. That's a huge amount of energy," Gonzalez said. "And we can tell all of that from this tiny fraction of a second in the waveform."
Further details embedded in the signal revealed that the wave source lies about 1.3 billion light-years from Earth, she added. And the time delay between the signals recorded in Louisiana and Washington provided more information, allowing the LIGO team to triangulate that source's location to a degree.
"We can tell it came from the southern sky, in the rough direction of the Magellanic Cloud," Gonzalez said.
The LIGO collaboration will publish its results in an upcoming issue of the journal Physical Review Letters.
The LIGO project is operated by scientists at Caltech and MIT, and it's funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Searching for Hollow Earth, Ufologists Find Underwater Skyscraper
Searching for Hollow Earth, Ufologists Find Underwater Skyscraper
Scientists, archaeologists and UFOlogists alike have been using the Google Earth software which proved to be very competent tool when it came to finding relics, unknown geological structures or even signs of extraterrestrial existence.
There have been countless theories and even tens of detailed descriptions of a place called the Hollow Earth, where an advanced civilization discretely makes its living, far away from the savage jungle of our society. The growing interest for this topic made UFOlogists begin an ample search for this legendary place using – you guessed it – Google Earth.
Searching based on symmetry, they divided the globe in 3 zones and zoomed in on a spot located exactly opposite to the great Giza Pyramids. This exact spot held nothing interesting, but widening the search area and zooming in even closer, the UFOlogists discovered a massive structure, measuring approximately one mile in height, on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Most people believe that this tower is not a natural formation, but rather an artificial one, simply because nothing similar has ever been discovered on our planet. For firm believers of the Hollow Earth theory, this was the final proof they needed, not only of its existence, but also the location or pathway. They geologically inspected the tower’s surroundings, and found something looking like a layer, a very large gap streching deeper than the ocean floor.
This so called layer is said to be similar, more or less, to what people who claim to have visited it depict. These people also said that the race inhabiting inner Earth doesn’t really hide there forever, but have chosen to come out very rarely, which probably means they do so in order to study us, and not for the resources (We didn’t believe that Earth was going to run out of resources soon anyway).
Hollow Earth theorists and UFO believers don’t normally agree. This case is a rare exception, and for completely different reasons. UFO researchers don’t really believe in the existence of another, slightly different or more advanced human race, but they have always accepted the possibility of inner Earth.
More than 95% of the world’s seas and oceans are entirely unexplored and most of the globe is covered in water, so mankind only knows very little about the planet it inhabits. What geological structures or life forms lay in the vast unknown areas might be beyond human comprehension. The possibilities are endless.
Also, people normally think of UFOs as pure aircraft or spacecraft. But if aliens could travel through space, then a UFO would have no problem submerging and navigating the oceans just like a submarine. UFOlogists now believe this tower to be part of a global network of such gigantic structures, used by ancient advanced civilizations (human, alien, or both) to transmit and receive large amounts of energy through great distances, or as some would say, from one side of the Earth to another.
Tesla also came up with a similar theory about transmitting the energy through air, proving it possible, but researchers who believe the ancient Egyptians, Mayans or Sumerians also possessed this technology are still not being taken seriously.
No country has yet to make an official statement on this discovery, which seems a bit odd, let alone send an exploration team (at least not officially). So here are the exact coordinates if you want to take a look for yourself. Let us know what you think.
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World Mysteries 2016 | Vimanas - ancient flying machines - Ancient UFO And Spaceships
World Mysteries 2016 | Vimanas - ancient flying machines - Ancient UFO And Spaceships
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Scientists Prove Einstein Was Right After Detecting Gravitational Waves
Scientists Prove Einstein Was Right After Detecting Gravitational Waves
The discovery may usher in a new era of astronomy and answer big questions about black holes.
ULLSTEIN BILD VIA GETTY IMAGES
Albert Einstein at his desk in Germany in 1929. It was years prior, in 1916, when he predicted the existence of gravitational waves as part of the theory of general relativity.
Albert Einstein was right! He hypothesized a century ago that gravitational waves exist, and rumors have been swirling for months that scientists have detected them. Those rumors were confirmed in a press conference on Thursday.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we have detected gravitational waves," Dr. David Reitze, executive director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), said during the conference. "We did it."
His announcement was followed by a round of applause by scientists and journalists gathered at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., for the "status report" from researchers involved in the long quest to detect the waves.
Gravitational waves have been likened to ripples in space-time that flow outward at the speed of light when black holes or other massive celestial objects collide.
Reitze said that the detected waves were found on Sept. 14 and were produced during the merger of two black holes that became a single, more massive black hole. (Watch the video above, and a computer simulation of the colliding black holes below.)
"Our observation of gravitational waves accomplishes an ambitious goal set out over five decades ago to directly detect this elusive phenomenon and better understand the universe, and, fittingly, fulfills Einstein's legacy on the 100th anniversary of his general theory of relativity," Reitze said in a statement.
Before the discovery was confirmed, Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and professor at Arizona State University, told The Huffington Post that detecting these waves would be a "huge milestone."
"It opens a new window on the universe," he said. "Gravitational wave astronomy could be the astronomy of the 21st Century. More than that, it may reveal important information on the nature of gravity, black holes, and fundamental physics."
"Every time we have opened a new window in the past, we have been surprised," he continued. "I would be surprised if we weren't surprised again."
CLAUDIO GIOVANNINI VIA GETTY IMAGESA 3-kilometers-long arm part of the Virgo detector at the European Gravitational Observatory used for the study of gravitational waves in collaboration with LIGO.
Clifford Burgess, a theoretical physicist at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario, offered a similar assessment ahead of the press conference.
"If this is true, then you have 90 percent odds that it will win the Nobel Prize in Physics this year. It's off-the-scale huge," Burgess told Science magazine last week.
The discovery was a collaboration between the California Institute of Technology, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and LIGO, which is a pair of kilometers-long laser devices designed to detect gravitational waves.
The devices -- there is one in Livingston, Louisiana, and one in Hanford, Washington -- have been operating on and off for more than a decade.
Reports of strange things in rover photos never seem to cease, but its always the public that reports them. Here Streetcap1 of Youtube caught an object not to far in the distance that is moving from right to left of the screen. The is a faded trail behind it...a distortion of sorts which tells us the direction it came from. It looks like the spacecraft in the distance is watching the Opportunity rover. Observing it. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
The origins of the Majestic 12 documents has its roots in a complicated set of events that included disinformation, hoaxes, and lies. For this reason, most of this history has been lost or is glossed over. However, the true origins of the documents and how UFO researchers came to know the term Majestic 12, is important when assessing their legitimacy. We have taken months to investigate this story, which has included working with the public relations department of the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations. While our investigation is ongoing, in this video we share with you what we have found thus far.
The Hidden Hand is an award winning film that talks about many controversial matters such as alien abduction, the probability of human and alien hybrids, the reverse engineering of alien technology, and the big cover-up that the government is presently doing to seize the truth about UFOs and ETs from coming out which is something that the government has done very well for more than 60 years since the first ever known UFO sighting in the planet.Alien abduction is one of the contentious documentaries that the film talks about. This issue is so delicate that it is the last occasion that anyone would wish to be in as it is the worst thing that can ever happen in an encounter with the unknown.
Medicine as a science requires so many laboratory experiments with animals like pigs and chimps to do medicine test is a very difficult thing to understand. But what if the human explorers will now be the one to be studied upon inside the laboratory? Will that be difficult to understand too?
Humans are the most intelligent life that mostly dominates all the species here on earth but the visitation of a more intelligent alien species from another planet to experiment on our genetics similar to the way we experiment on other species is a very eerie topic.
The Hidden Hand aspires to make the public become aware of what is happening to abducted individuals. How the incident impacted their lives and how they have survived their journey with the unknown entities.
The Secret Program Full Documentary features in-depth discussions of the secret space program, particularly its real identity, people responsible of its formation, and the reasons behind its development. It answers questions that have long been around, such as the truth about the existence of extraterrestrial civilizations, their advanced technology, and the people who have knowledge about it. It further explores why the truth has been kept secret from the public.
The documentary also features interviews with the Secret Space Program conference’s attendees in Amsterdam. They share their own stories or experiences about UFO sightings. There are also random street interviews of people in Amsterdam where locals share their thoughts about aliens, alien abductions, and alien contacts.
It is believed that a secret space fleet code known as “Solar Warden” has been in secret operation since around 1980, unknown to the public knowledge. The documentary makes you decide if this subject is nonsense, or conspiracy has been going on, or perhaps it is very sensitive that may cause confusion and commotion across the globe.
UFO Congress EBE Award Winner – Best Documentary & Peoples Choice Award. Now featuring one of the best documentaries ever produced on the question of an Extraterrestrial connection to the Crop Circle phenomena. Recommended viewing from start to finish.
This film explores the history of our modern technological age, advances in science, the question of UFOs, and how our world governments have controlled the flow of information to the public regarding the truth about UFOs. Nikola Tesla, Free Energy and Antigravity are also investigated. Includes a fantastic collection of interviews from top scientists and researchers from around the world and incredible photos and video of UFOs in flight.
Perhaps it was the full moon, or maybe the return of the X-Files to the province has upped B.C.'s sense of the paranormal, but whatever the reason, something spooked the residents of Nanaimo on Wednesday night.
Numerous concerned citizens called the RCMP with reports of strange, bright lights floating in the sky over Dover Road in the city. So many, in fact, the police decided there was reason to investigate.
But alas, our friends from galaxies far, far away had not picked the plucky Vancouver Island city to make contact.
Just as they hadn't in January, nor December, nor countless other instances of apparent extra-terrestrial activity reported in Nanaimo over the past few years.
The truth, sadly, is far more mundane: the lights were connected to a box kite that a local man was flying in the wee hours of the morning.
"Normally this would not be odd behaviour, but at 1.30 in the morning it seemed out of place," Cpl. Jon Stuart said in a statement.
"This kite had been flying extremely high (possibly around 10,000 feet), when the line broke, and he lost the kite."
After pointing out the potential dangers posed to aircraft by a kite flying at altitude, the police do not plan on taking the matter further.
This is not the first time a Nanaimo flying saucer has been proven to be a kite.
Police didn't name Wednesday's perpetrator of mass panic, but in the past, local enthusiast Neil Parman has been found to be at the end of the tether.
Just last year, a group of intrepid ghostbusters headed out to track down the source of an eerie November glow, careening bravely around Nanaimo, recording their efforts and posting them to YouTube.
What they found was Parman.
"This is why I say I'm pretty fly for a white guy," Parman says on the video, laughing.
He also explains that the LED lights are connected to the line, so he can see how much lift he's getting on the kite.
Despite having been interviewed about his nocturnal aeronautical activities on local television two years before, Parman says people still show up in significant numbers to find out what's going on.
"I'm surprised this many people track me down."
He says he's trying to break the world record for flying kites,and he'd eventually like to do that for charity.
Perhaps it was the full moon, or maybe the return of the X-Files to the province has upped B.C.'s sense of the paranormal, but whatever the reason, something spooked the residents of Nanaimo on Wednesday night.
Numerous concerned citizens called the RCMP with reports of strange, bright lights floating in the sky over Dover Road in the city. So many, in fact, the police decided there was reason to investigate.
But alas, our friends from galaxies far, far away had not picked the plucky Vancouver Island city to make contact.
Just as they hadn't in January, nor December, nor countless other instances of apparent extra-terrestrial activity reported in Nanaimo over the past few years.
The truth, sadly, is far more mundane: the lights were connected to a box kite that a local man was flying in the wee hours of the morning.
"Normally this would not be odd behaviour, but at 1.30 in the morning it seemed out of place," Cpl. Jon Stuart said in a statement.
"This kite had been flying extremely high (possibly around 10,000 feet), when the line broke, and he lost the kite."
After pointing out the potential dangers posed to aircraft by a kite flying at altitude, the police do not plan on taking the matter further.
This is not the first time a Nanaimo flying saucer has been proven to be a kite.
Police didn't name Wednesday's perpetrator of mass panic, but in the past, local enthusiast Neil Parman has been found to be at the end of the tether.
Just last year, a group of intrepid ghostbusters headed out to track down the source of an eerie November glow, careening bravely around Nanaimo, recording their efforts and posting them to YouTube.
What they found was Parman.
"This is why I say I'm pretty fly for a white guy," Parman says on the video, laughing.
He also explains that the LED lights are connected to the line, so he can see how much lift he's getting on the kite.
Despite having been interviewed about his nocturnal aeronautical activities on local television two years before, Parman says people still show up in significant numbers to find out what's going on.
"I'm surprised this many people track me down."
He says he's trying to break the world record for flying kites,and he'd eventually like to do that for charity.
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Filer’s Fles #7 2016 Astronaut Mitchell Passed ON - PART I
Craft taken over Garbno, Poland by Bogden Geski
Filer’s Fles #7 2016 Astronaut Mitchell Passed ON - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Astronaut Edgar Mitchell Has Died, NASA Apollo 17 Film Shows Triangle, Pilot and Crew Witness Alien Craft over the Atlantic
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Bolivia, Canada, North Korea, Norway, and England in the United Kingdom.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation. The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force and Prince Phillip told me of his personal interest in UFOs. The US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
George A. Filer III
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
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Special Projects
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell Has Passed On
Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell, who became the sixth man on the moon when he and Alan Shepard flew in Apollo 13, has died. He was 85.
Edgar Dean Mitchell was born Sept. 17, 1930, in Hereford, Texas, and grew up working on his father’s cattle ranch in New Mexico. He joined the Navy and got a doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining NASA. Mitchell died February 5, 2016, at a West Palm Beach hospice after a short illness, coinciding with the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 14 mission, which ran from Jan. 31-Feb. 9, 1971.
He joined NASA in 1966 and helped design and tests the lunar modules that first reached the moon in 1969 with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin. Their mission, the third lunar landing had its share of glitches. Shepard and Mitchell almost didn’t make it to the surface because of problems in the lunar module. They landed in a hilly region while Roosa orbited overhead. Once they started for the surface, several problems occurred with a faulty switch and the landing radar was not working correctly. Shepard and Mitchell took the dangerous and rule-breaking step of landing without radar. Fortunately, the radar started working just prior to landing. They collected about 95 pounds of samples in nine hours walking the lunar surface. They showed that astronauts walked nearly two miles on their second expedition onthe surface.
Their mission was popular because Shepard became the first and only golfer on the moon, while Mitchell watched from the rover Mitchell tossed a metal rod making the only “javelin” throws on the moon. Shepard later wrote that Mitchell remained “Mr. Unflappable” during the landing scare”.
Mitchell conducted a telepathy experiment he claimed a success on the three day ride home that would give Mitchell notoriety. He thought humans weren’t the only intelligent life in the universe. Mitchell wrote in his 1996 autobiography. “It occurred to me that the molecules of my body and the molecules of the spacecraft itself were manufactured long ago in the furnace of one of the ancient stars that burned in the heavens about me.”
He left NASA in 1972 and founded the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which is dedicated to exploring the mysteries of the human mind and the universe. Later he devoted his life to exploring the mind, physics and unexplained phenomena.
During a Television program with the Disclosure Project at the National Press Club, I was introduced by Astronaut Edgar Mitchell who told the audience to listen to what I had to say about UFOs. After the show, we were alone talking and Mitchell told me, “I signed a NASA strict security contract that I had seen no evidence of aliens; therefore I didn’t see any evidence of aliens on the moon, but all my astronaut friends had”. I asked what was the UFO situation all about? He told me, “The answer is in the Dead Sea Scrolls. I suggested the War Scroll of the war between the Son’s of Light and the Son’s of Darkness. He smiled and said, “That’s the one”.
He told me many of those involved in the Roswell UFO crash came to him because lived nearby, and he was one of twelve men who walked on the moon. They all told him the alien crash at Roswell was real. He stated, “I have met with credible professionals within two governments who have testified to their own firsthand experiences with close encounters. They include members of military, intelligence, and government whose official duties involved the extraterrestrial presence. As is expected, they were all bound by strict security oath agreements which prevented them from disclosing any of this.” He claimed the U.S. government covered up evidence that aliens had landed here and even most generals, admirals and even presidents were not privy to the information. Mitchell courageously spoke out for the Disclosure of the truth and I consider it a pleasure to have known him.
He may now learn the secrets of eternal life and the universe. He walked on the moon and now will explore heaven.
If you stopped a few people randomly in the street and asked them about UFOs, you’d probably find that some of them had heard about Roswell (and maybe Rendlesham Forest), but that would probably be the extent of their knowledge. With the public, there’s often a (mis)perception that the UFO mystery is a peculiarly American phenomenon. Within the UFO community there’s a better awareness of the true situation, but despite acknowledgement that there’s a lot of activity in countries such as Mexico and Brazil, there’s still a US-centric (and to a lesser extent a UK-centric) bias. Part of this is attributable to the language problem, but there’s a wider cultural bias issue here too. Which brings us neatly to Piotr Cielebiaś and his thought-provoking book “UFOs over Poland”?
In 2013-14 Polish UFO researchers received numerous reports about unidentified aerial devices in form of triangles and boomerangs. Being silent, often camouflaged and active only at night usually near large military installations. That arise question whether we deal with something of human origin, connected with civil war on Ukraine or the new face of UFO phenomenon.
The book certainly ‘does what it says on the tin’, but it’s the subtitle, “The Land of High Strangeness”, that’s really telling, because high strangeness is exactly what we get. This is a real researcher’s book, and a very honest one: instead of highlighting only those cases that fit the author’s beliefs, Piotr dumps a whole bunch of raw data into the public domain as if to say “Here you go, try to make sense of this lot”. Some cases are clearly ‘pure’ UFO incidents, but others are more paranormal in flavour. This book is a wake-up call, because it eloquently demonstrates that the UFO phenomenon is richer, more complex, more diverse, and much more difficult to define than such narrow-minded thinkers seem to understand.
Craft taken over Garbno Poland by Bogden Geski,
Piotr’s meticulously-researched, well-written and hugely entertaining book is a timely reminder that the UFO phenomenon is global. However, it’s only due to the diligence of authors such as Piotr and the tenacity of publishers such as Philip Mantle that we get to hear about some of the more fascinating UFO-related material that exists outside of ufology’s mainstream. Highly recommended by Nick Pope, UK Ministry of Defence (Retired) Website
Phoenix Lights Cockpit Footage
Phoenix— Classified military footage of the Phoenix Lights UFO phenomenon has recently been leaked by a former U.S Air Force aviator. The footage reportedly captures never-before-seen cockpit footage of Lockheed-Martin F-16 and Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II fighter jets in action the night of the original incident 17 years ago on March 13, 1997. 56th Fighter Wing Public Affairs at Luke has received numerous inquiries and requests, but has remained silent on the footage. The report claims additional footage of multiple civilian casualties has been obtained.
The Phoenix lights incident is one of the largest UFO sightings in North America. Thousands of Arizona residents became alarmed when they noticed a sizable object in the sky above Phoenix 19 years ago. Multiple eyewitnesses reported a diamond-shaped craft hovering above the city for at least a couple of hours. Nineteen years later, questions about the Phoenix Lights are still being asked. Arizona residents still remember the phenomenon and the new footage has stirred more tension around the 19-year-old event. The lights have been the subject of intense scrutiny, government denials and internet documentaries. This never-before-seen video of an engagement during the Phoenix Lights was leaked online this weekend, by KWBTV News Journalist David Collins. The FLIR [night scope] video purportedly depicts military and unknown craft on the night of the mass sighting over Phoenix in 1997. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJWebsite. Check out the video here: Website
Letters from Readers
Bill Sell writes, “Frank Edwards has some remarkable evidence recorded in his book Flying Saucers Serious Business and this book should be a mandatory reading for any true Ufologist. I believe Stanton Friedman and Frank Edwards knew each other quite well back then. The US Government classified this subject two points above the Hydrogen Bomb according to Wilbert Smith”.
According to statement made by former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Great Britain,You have to know the whole story, and never tell the public. There is only one answer here; Fear of a Panic. These craft are 300 years ahead of us in technology; we are I believe playing a game of catch-up at Area 51 and Nellis AFB and this has been going on since 1947. Truman knew and so did MJ-12 with General McArthur.
Brett Allen writes, “I just wanted to say I am aware that you did not go all the way giving away the ending of my book on Hanger 1 TV Show “For some reason they (UFOs) seem to have an affinity where there is loss of life.” If you did this intentionally, I certainly appreciate it… although it was certainly a lot to ask of anyone. I just Googled “top states for UFO sightings” and 8 were the scene of Civil War death, one-the top in population, i.e.: deaths, and the other, Gold. Of course, top countries are in the war-torn Middle East.”
It amazes me so many “researchers” continue to miss the big picture, but then academia ignores the existence of our soul and so, what we are told in our most precious ancient texts, is also ignored. So many today also offer opinions like “the Bible is all nonsense”, not even aware that so much of it has been proven archaeologically. Sad so many of our top researchers do not see the connection between our most precious texts with Ufology…
Even the fact that (Wild Men, i.e.: Sasquatch) were included on Cathedral walls for a good reason… they knew them to be heavenly beings! But little by little, the truth is breaking through. Had you heard of last year’s Bigfoot revelation by top Bigfoot researchers who swore they watched a portal open up just like on the Skinwalker Ranch) during a Sasquatch investigation. They swore they could with a flashlight see another world inside.
Chewbacca of Star Wars movie fame looks a lot like Bigfoot.
The Native Americans have long used the same words to describe Sasquatch as Genesis uses to describe Nephilim – part man, part animal, part spirit – beings made by the “fallen” or descended Angels. They have long recounted these creatures as “spirit beings” even connected with the “noseless ones”, and often accompanied by light anomalies. Your friend Brett Allen
Zimbabwe South African Ancient Ruins
No other structure in the world has raised so many important speculations as the ruins on a granite hill in Zimbabwe. Big walls are mostly 10 meters high and up to 7 meters wide at the base. There are two distinct compounds. One of them is an elliptic structure approximately one hundred meters long; the other compound is an acropolis. To build the structure, around 15,000 tons of granite stones 6 – 15 centimeters thick were needed, which were laid on each other with a great precision without using mortar.
A great mystery is the “conic tower,” a nearly 10 meters high broad- top cone with a based diameter of 5 meters. The performance of the builders and the precision with which the stones were bound are fascinating. The compound in Zimbabwe was built in a period when it was already known that a menhir does not have to be a monolith. The broad-top cone is thus clearly a menhir. The great weight of the walls suggests that they may have been used to accumulate energy. The whole area seems to be an energy compound that was built at a place with a strong concentration of energy. However, this may have changed; water flows, to which the whole compound was oriented, may have changed their basins, and the energy components can be somewhere else. Most likely, the ruins are Phoenician as the walls are similar in design. The nearby gold mines were the ones discussed in the Bible bringing gold to Solomon. 1 Kings 10 8 states, “Hiram’s ships brought gold from Ophir; and from there they brought great cargoes of almugwood and precious stones”. King Hiram was the Phoeneician King whose Navy sailed around Africa.
Menhirs were built in great numbers on four continents. This could not have been a coincidence; so people must have communicated with each other. It is possible ships roamed the world in ancient times.
The epic of Mahabharata, of India the most extensive work of world literature (400 BC) depicts with awe a terrible weapon carried by Vimanas (UFOs) able to kill all warriors who had metal on their bodies. “When they learn well in advance that the weapon is to be used, they tear every metal part from their bodies, jump in the river, and wash thoroughly. Ancient radio or UFOs provided contact between the four continents.
Another archeological mystery is the method how people of megalithic culture extracted, processed, and transported stone monoliths weighing up to 2,000 tons. Many of the structures are circular or cylinder as are most UFOs. The ancient times provide amazing structures that we only guess how they were constructed leaving a lot of questions for us to answer.
Washington Redskins Finally Drop Name
Richard Anderson announces that the Redskins NFL Football Team finally drops name
Daniel Snyder, owner of the NFL Redskins, has announced that the team is dropping “Washington” from the team name, and it will henceforth be simply known as “The Redskins”.
It was reported that he finds the word ‘Washington’ imparts a negative image of poor leadership, mismanagement, corruption, cheating, lying, and graft, and is not a fitting role-model for young fans of football.
Please check out New Jersey MUFON’s new webpage at Website
Thanks to Frank Bretschneider and Ken Pfeifer for their commitment!”
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Filer’s Fles #7 2016 Astronaut Mitchell Passed ON - PART II
Filer’s Fles #7 2016 Astronaut Mitchell Passed ON - PART II
Sightings in the United States
Arizona Craft
Phoenix — One night I was outside talking to my dad on the phone as we were talking a bright pulsating light caught my eye on January 31, 2016! I began to walk towards it, as I got closer, I stopped as a truck came around the corner near the dumpsters and it stopped as well! I stood there staring at this massive craft! As it made no noise at all!! The red light continued to pulsating! I was stuck! I couldn’t move my feet! My dad was still on the phone talking! All of a sudden, I was able to move my feet! I told my dad and ran into the house to get my friend!! I screamed and told her that she needed to see this! I got her to come outside with me and the craft was leaving. She yelled, “Let’s go, I’m going in the house and you should too!! She left and I watched it go behind the high trees still seeing the white lights flashing that went steady! I ran in the house and sat down in amazement at what just happened. I didn’t feel threatened while being stuck in place! But that night the dreams started coming and I woke up crying and screaming! I remember being terrified. I know something happened! I haven’t been the same since these things have taken place! I have markings on my body and what looks like 3 perfect ice cream scoop marks! I don’t know what’s going on… I have a really deep feeling that they’re coming back! Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Lights
Citrus Heights — I was at my house an observed an object that was unusually bright in the eastern sky on January 12, 2016. I pointed it out to my brother-in-law and asked him what he thought it was. I observed it slowly ascending about 5:45 AM. I got my telescope and viewed the object through the lens. I observed an object resembling an eye that was slightly pulsating and moving slowly. It was yellowish green in color and had a circle in the middle that was black with three lines like things separating it into three pieces. I was not sure what the object could’ve been, so I proceeded to take pictures through the telescope thus documenting my observation. I thought it was very strange and something I’ve never seen before. I asked several people if they had ever observed anything similar, they had not. I lost sight of the object because the sun finally rose and it was moving upwards slowly. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Disc
Sterling — I was driving home to Eckley, traveling south on the evening of September 27, 2015. It was dark out, and I noticed a low glowing spherical object to the east of me. It was too low to be a star or planet and appeared to be following me. It would appear to be closer then farther away. I tried to take a picture with my cell phone, but my cell phone was dead. I traveled over 50 miles to my home and it was still there to the east, though smaller and farther away. So, I took a picture with my Cannon Camera. There was a full moon out later that night and I took some pictures of the moon as well. The spherical glowing object was gone when I took pictures of the full moon. Later when I zoomed in on the glowing object in my photo, the perimeter appears odd and seems to emit some distance from the perimeter. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Orb
Miami– I was driving on the Bird Road Street when suddenly this object caught my attention on January 26, 2016.
It was hovering and shining very strong, it stayed for about 4 minutes and started to disappear in about 15 seconds.
It made a sideways move and it started to get thinner and thinner until it disappeared. I caught this because I always pay attention to the skies and this is not my first time in events like this. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Louisiana Triangle
Delta shaped craft seen going from south to north in a straight line. It had a white light in front, steady white light on both left and right side with blinking red light in the center. A deep roaring sound was made but not like the sound of a jet noise. It was 8:45 PM, and its estimated altitude was 2000 feet, moving at steady speed. The craft appeared to be very large with lights that illuminated the triangle shape of craft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Policeman Spots Alien Triangle Over the Casinos
Las Vegas — While driving south on 95S, I saw a triangle with an inverted bottom, outlined in chasing white lights hovering/bobbing above Santa Fe Casino on January 5, 2016. I was traveling to work between 9:25 pm and 9:45 pm and passed the Santa Fe Casino and right above it, I witnessed a hovering silent triangle. It may be some type of military stealth flying object. White was the dominant color of its lights. There could have been other colors as well.
The lights were chasing around in the V shape of the object that I was seeing. The bottom was inverted to another v. As it hovered in that spot, it rotated at a half circle as it bobbed up and down slightly. The behavior of the craft frightened me more than the sight of it. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. .THANKS TO Website
New Hampshire Orbs
Salem— I only recognized this sighting last night, (2/7/16) but occurred in the early fall of 2014. I was outside my old work taking a video I clicked on one & a black object caught my eye. At first, I was skeptical & thought it was a bird, until I searched on my Facebook page and found the whole video. I found that these objects appeared as early as: 09 seconds in. They would be visible in one spot, and then disappear. The more I watched it(which I would pause frame for frame) the more I would watch these objects move around, fade, or move further from its spot throughout the same second. At 2:27, the object comes up from behind my head, and as I slowed it, I watched it disperse into two objects. I paused it; screen shot it when the object was one, then again as it changed into three black objects. They moved kind of in a pattern. They seemed to come out of nowhere in the clouds. I don’t know any bird that can multiply itself in mid flight. My first ufo sighting was when I was at 5 years old and checked out books on aliens in first grade. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Triangle
Cherry Hill— I walked outside and stood there watching the stars for ten minutes, as they seemed very bright because there were no clouds. Once my eyes adjusted, I saw a black or dark transparent object moving slowly in a fixed path. It appeared 50 feet away from me and about 50 feet above me as well. The object became still for three seconds once it was above me. Once it reached my brightly lit home, it then continued on at the same rate. I was shocked and awed. I noticed it was there when I saw what appeared to be a moving constellation. Upon further inspection, it blocked out other stars as it moved above me. The front or center (it was difficult to tell where the formation exactly started) had a light-colored part that reflected the street lights which are orange. The whole thing moved silently and smoothly. Three minutes into the sighting, it made the sound similar to the sound of something mechanical moving into place, and it eventually dissipated into the sky or just moved too far for me to see. The exterior lights looked like stars in a triangular, but jointed formation. I counted four “stars” on the object. The above image is a rendering. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Mexico Triangle
Roswell— My friend of mine showed me a video he took over New Mexico when he was on board a plane traveling from Dallas to Los Angeles. It was in October 2014. His GPS showed he was north of Roswell. Numerous passengers inside the plane also saw the same lights during the minute it was visible. After watching the video many times, we still don t know what is! The object looks over the Horizon at 35,000 feet, and it enters the cloud. There is a video to check out, maybe you saw something like this before. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Enormous Black Triangle
Camp Mackall Military Reservation, Ft. Bragg — I am a retired US Army Special Forces operator and instructor. I have spent a career honorably serving my country and I swear that the following statements are true and factual. While assigned as cadre to the JFK Special Warfare Center, I spent the majority of my time teaching tactical combat patrolling to Special Forces candidates. At 2330 hrs (11:30 pm) on the night of 13 September 2010, our student squad of 15 men was in ambush posture on a clear night. I heard jet aircraft and observed two fast moving F-15 fighter jets traveling in formation at 10,000 feet heading north. I have vast military experience directly using numerous types of aircraft for close air support during combat operations in Iraq in 2003.
I lifted my night vision goggles (NVG’s) to my eye so I could get a better look at the F-15s, and a mile in front at 2500 feet altitude was an immensely larger object. I estimate it was about the size of an NFL Football Stadium. The vessel was triangular in shape, gunmetal or carbon black in color, making absolutely no sound as it flew ominously straight line and precisely steady undoubtedly under some form of highly advanced intelligent navigational control. I immediately brought the sight to the attention of my assistant instructor who then also observed it as well. Though my (NVG’s) I could see that the unknown craft had at least one light located at each corner of the triangle under its massive dark outline blackening out the night sky behind it, however upon lowering my optics the lights appeared to be pale blue in color and barely visible with the naked eye. Awestruck, we stood and watched this amazing spectacle pass directly over us and for two minutes until it disappeared over the low tree line with the two jets in trail towards the small town of Hoffman to our north. A minute later, it reappeared having had changed direction, now heading south. There were now three fighters in formation behind it and the craft seemed to have pulled further in front traveling at a higher rate of speed. By this time, the student squad was now also watching the event curiously as the triangle and following jets disappeared again. We both agreed that the fighters behind the craft seemed to be in pursuit rather than in escort. There is also a possibility the event was observed by radar. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
Oklahoma Orb
Durant–At about 10 am, I was driving north on Highway 75 just south of Durant when I saw these strange cloud formations on December 15, 2015. So, I took a few pictures of them and a few days later, when I went to view them I noticed in two of the photos there was a bright orb at the bottom of one of the clouds. I did not see the orb when I took the pictures. So I could not observe any actions, sounds, or movement. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Circle
Fredericksburg — I was driving on 87 towards I-10, when a very fast black object flew from right to left, exactly in front of my car on January 10, 2016. I slammed the breaks and came to a complete stop, so did the driver behind me. As I looked to my right I saw a very shiny object flying erratically then disappeared without any sound, I just felt a very strong gust of wind and, it left a circle-like trace in the sky. I photographed it from that point. A half hour later as I was driving on I-10 towards San Antonio, the “circle” was still in the sky. I was surprised it had not dissipated by then.
It was at the exact same place I saw and reported about 50 creatures in November 2015, that had a very weird purple see thru skin with very dark veins throughout. They were walking on their hands and knees, trying to create the impression they were sheep. It is too cold to shear sheep but when I tried to report the incident to the local authorities, they claimed all I saw was freshly sheared sheep. I grew up on a farm. I know those were not sheep! A week later, police put cones in the area: “cattle”, they claimed. Something odd is happening in the area. Huge installations are brought into town almost every day. It is unusual to see all those huge devises being hauled right through downtown Fredericksburg! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Utah Radar
Doppler Radar Paint near Location and Time f UFO Sighting.
This case was reported to me by Erica Lukes who is the director of MUFON for the state of Utah. She knows a radio show host who was scanning communications between aircraft and the FAA shortly after midnight on January 14, 2016. He heard a conversation between an airline pilot and Air Route Traffic Control. The pilot reported seeing an extremely long bright object that he estimated a mile wide to his right. The air traffic controller told him that he was looking in the direction of Nephi, Utah. Apparently, the air traffic controller told the pilot that the object was not detected on radar. The object appeared to keep pace with the aircraft. Research showed that the aircraft was American Airlines Flight Number 434 which was enroute from San Francisco, to Philadelphia, at 31,000 feet. The actual sighting time was 12:13 AM MST on January 14, 2016. We were able to find segments of the conversation on the Air Traffic Control archives of controller telling the pilot that Nephi, Utah was off to his right. However, the UFO report was not on the tape. The Doppler radar map for Salt Lake City was also obtained showing possible UFO returns along the route at the time of the sighting. The radar was operating in “clear air mode” which means that the gain is turned up making it more sensitive.
Request: Any passengers on American Airlines Fight number 434 are urged to file a report if they saw anything unusual on the flight. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Editors Note: Radar operators are instructed to deny they have UFOs on their radar screens to anyone.
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Strange Alien Object Encounter in Southern Australia
Hackham — I was alone, just my dog and I in my car around 10:55bPM driving down South in Onkaparinga /Hackham driving along Penny’s Hill Road, I witnessed a massive weird shaped object on a vertical angle on January 5, 2016. I pulled over and watched it just suspended there with clear glowing white bright lights underneath it. It looked very overwhelmingly large and sinister looking. It had a dark metallic rippled look but nothing what I would have suspected a UFO would look like. It was suspended above the housing suburb six streets away and was as large as four houses. My brain couldn’t comprehend what I was witnessing. It flew very gracefully silently with elegance like a plane, but at a very quick speed northwest in about 20 seconds. My heart was racing and it all happened in under a minute. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Special thanks to Matt H. for this exciting account. Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
Melbourne –I observed a star like sphere traveling extremely slow in a straight line. It turns, stops, waits for a satellite to pass and it makes a figure 8 turn and reverses direction. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Lights
St.Marie-St.Racheal, N.B— These pictures were taken with my friend’s huntingcamera in the woods near his home on January 11-2016. He gave me his permission to send it to you. I was only able to send 9 pictures; the remanding 20 pictures are much brighter. They were taken on two different nights, 8 pictures on January 11-2016 late in the night and 21 pictures on January 13. In the back ground, you will notice the feeding box for the animals and strange light shinning down. Since this event happen, all the animals have stop coming to eat in these area, whereas before they would come on a daily bases. We are curious to know your thoughts and would like a follow-up please. Thank you.
Unknown object strikes Colombian A320 in cruise
By: David Kaminski-Morrow reports Colombian investigators are trying to ascertain the nature of an object which struck an Airbus A320 at cruise altitude in the country’s airspace. The LAN Colombia aircraft had been operating flight 4C3509, a service to Bogota from Cancun, on January 10, 2016. Preliminary information from Colombian authorities, disclosed by the French investigation agency BEA, states that the aircraft had been cruising at 35,000 feet within the Bogota flight information region when hit. It was travelling between the waypoint KAKOL, on the Panamanian border, and the VOR at Rio Negro when the incident occurred. BEA says that, “the aircraft, flying at 480 knots, sustained an impact from an unknown object”.There was no alarm or indications of a malfunction, it states, and the crew – having checked the A320’s systems – opted to continue to Bogota. Inspection of the aircraft revealed a 20 cm depression on the forward left-hand side of the aircraft. Investigators also state that there were visual indications of a substance of unclear origin, and that a sample is being studied to determine its composition. Thanks to Jim Nelson Website
Morphing Alien Craft Encounter in Norway
Asker— I am 30 years old and on Saturday October 10, 2015, I had an experience that I cannot explain. I was a passenger in a car and on my way home suddenly became aware of a very bright cigar formed object in the sky. Right behind the object a smaller object of the same shape occurred. I was looking at these two cylinders. It was so big, but with no wings and suddenly it disappeared. I was looking around in the sky trying to find it, but the sky was empty. Five seconds later, it suddenly appeared again in the sky, but this time in a new shape much closer to my car. It was V-shaped, very white, and bright, but no lights, and squared like boxes. It had mass and behind the big V was a smaller V just hanging. I could not understand what it was. On Google, I found a woman and her 21 year old son telling a similar story. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Thanks to Thanks to Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
South Korea Red Objects
Kunsan AFB — What my four man crew and I saw on that clear night sky on the flight line was nothing of ours.
At least four red objects that looked like stars slowly made right angle turns in a group in 1973. Andy Miller states, “Nothing we had flew like that”.
Thanks to UFOINFO
UK/England Lights
Stoke On Trent – On February 3, 2016, I saw an object like a jellyfish Faberge egg.
Two of the same were seen to the south with binoculars. They look like stars.
See my picture drawn. Has anyone else seen s like this?
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Walsall – On February 1, 2016, Twitter user Mike Macaroon shared this image, taken from Tong Street, Walsall.
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Gravitational waves are the "smoking gun" of the Big Bang.
Predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity in 1916, a massive object like Earth distorts space-time around it like a bowling ball dropped on a trampoline. The larger the object, the more space-time is distorted by it. If a marble were circling around the bowling ball on the dimpled trampoline, it would fall inward, toward the bowling ball, like a rock in space circling a planet. Gravitational waves are ripples in space-time that travel outward from a source.
This illustration shows the gravitational waves thought to be produced by two orbiting white dwarf stars in a binary system called J0651, according to an August 2012 study.
Credit: NASA
Scientists think that powerful gravitational waves are created when two extremely dense objects — like a pair of neutron stars or a black hole and a neutron star — orbit one another in binary pairs. The interaction of those two objects swirl space-time, creating ripples that theoretically can be measured using powerful instrumentation. [See images of gravitational waves]
Direct evidence
In 2014, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics found a faint signal in the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) that signifies the first direct evidence of gravitational waves ever discovered. Gravitational waves were the last untested part of Einstein's general theory of relativity.
The Harvard-Smithsonian study spotted gravitational waves as ripples in space-time possible left over from the rapid expansion of the universe (called inflation) right after the Big Bang nearly 13.8 billion years ago.
Scientists working on the study found a distinct curling pattern in the CMB — the comic fog that fills the universe and represents the earliest detectable radiation — that further supports the idea that the universe went through a huge period of inflation a fraction of a second after the Big Bang.
"This work offers new insights into some of our most basic questions: Why do we exist? How did the universe begin?," astrophysicist Avi Loeb, who wasn't a member of the study team said in a statement about the Harvard-Smithsonian research. "These results are not only a smoking gun for inflation, they also tell us when inflation took place and how powerful the process was."
Cosmic inflation
CMB radiation came into existence about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. Scientists have mapped the CMB across the sky and found that it is a uniform temperature, evidence that bolsters cosmic inflation theory.
"Why the cosmic microwave background temperature is the same at different spots in the sky would be a mystery if it was not for inflation saying, well, our whole sky came from this tiny region," Chuck Bennett, principal investigator of NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) mission, told Space.com in 2013. "So the idea of inflation helps answer some of these mysteries, and it explains where these fluctuations came from." ['Smoking Gun' of Universe's Inflation: Gravitational Waves (Infographic)]
New experimentation
Experiments like Advanced LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) and Advanced Virgo, could potentially detect those binary-created ripples in space-time, although neither has found a clear signature yet.
"The advanced LIGO detectors that are now being installed will see out through a substantial part of the universe," California Institute of Technology emeritus professor of physics Kip Thorne, a leading proponent of LIGO, said in 2012. "We expect to see black holes colliding at a rate of perhaps somewhere between once an hour and once a year."
Gravitational waves are different from gravity waves, which are ripples created in the atmospheres of planets by the interactions of winds whipping over geological features on the planet's surface.
These ancient Maya artifacts are a set of extremely provocative items that according to many prove that ancient mankind was visited, in the distant past, by beings not from Earth.
According to reports, the contact between an Alien species and the ancient Maya is supported by the translation of certain codices withheld by the Mexican Government.
Whether ancient mankind was visited or not by extraterrestrial beings is a provocative debate that will remain as one of the most enigmatic subjects for years to come. While many people still have doubts where we have been visited by Alien beings in the past, other people firmly believe we have been visited and state that the evidence can be found among an ancient cultures around the globe, from ancient texts to intricate cave paintings, the evidence can be found everywhere.
The alleged artifacts were created by the Ancient Maya and have been in the possession of the Mexican government for at least 80 years.
“Mexico will release codices, artefacts and significant documents with evidence of Mayan and extraterrestrial contact, and all of their information will be corroborated by archaeologists,” he said. “The Mexican government is not making this statement on their own – everything we say, we’re going to back it up.”
The mysterious artifacts were presented for the first time in 2011 by Dr Nassim Haramein during a conference held in Saarbrücken, Germany:
Above is an image of the disks in question. Various areas have been numbered so we can discuss each image depicted.
1)Is believe to be the earth and its atmosphere. This is depicted by two rings.
2/3)It is believed to be a comet or asteroid moving in towards earth.
4)Is believed to be a specially designed spacecraft to hit or deflect the comet.
5) Believed to be an astronaut controlling the craft.
6) Believed to be an intelligently controlled spacecraft.
According to Luis Augusto García Rosado “Contact between the Mayans and extraterrestrials is supported by translations of certain codices, which the government has kept secure in underground vaults for some time.”
According to accounts, it is believed that deep in the Mexican Jungles are landings pads that are at least 3000 years old. These landing pads were left behind by the ancient visitors from the skies.
This would have blown Albert Einstein's mind: We now know what ripples in the fabric of space-time sound like.
On Thursday (Feb. 11), scientists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project announced that they had made history's first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves, mysterious phenomena first predicted a century ago by Einstein in his theory of general relativity.
LIGO's two detectors — one in Louisiana and the other in Washington state — recorded the space-time distortions caused by gravitational waves that were produced 1.3 billion years ago during the merger of two black holes.
LIGO records such distortions on a photodetector, based on how long it takes laser light to travel down both 2.5-mile-long (4 kilometers) arms of each L-shaped detector. But it's a relatively simple step to convert this information into sound waves, project team members said.
"We can hear gravitational waves. We can hear the universe," LIGO Scientific Collaboration spokeswoman Gabriela Gonzalez, a professor of physics and astronomy at Louisiana State University, said during a news conference Thursday.
"That's one of the beautiful things about this [detection]," she added. "We are not only going to be seeing the universe — we are going to be listening to it."
So, what do gravitational waves sound like? The original conversion to sound waves evokes the thump of a heartbeat, while an adjusted version designed to better accommodate the range of human hearing could be mistaken for a drop of water falling into a bucket.
The LIGO project is led by scientists from the California Institute of Technology and the Massachussetts Institute of Technology, and funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
Voor het eerst zwaartekrachtsgolven opgevangen van zwarte gaten
Voor het eerst zwaartekrachtsgolven opgevangen van zwarte gaten
Tim Kraaijvanger
Zwaartekrachtsgolven bestaan! Voor het eerst zijn de rimpelingen in de ruimtetijd gemeten door twee LIGO-observatoria. Wetenschappers beschouwen de ontdekking van zwaartekrachtsgolf GW150914 nu al als één van de hoogtepunten van dit jaar.
Om half vijf werd er een persconferentie gegeven in Washington DC om de ontdekking aan te kondigen. “Dames en heren, we hebben zwaartekrachtsgolven ontdekt”, riep directeur David Reitze van LIGO door de speaker. “We hebben het voor elkaar gekregen!” Dit kwam voor toeschouwers natuurlijk niet als een totale verrassing, want de geruchtenmachine draait al zeker een week op volle toeren.
De zwaartekrachtsgolven zijn afkomstig van een paar zwarte gaten. Op een afstand van ruim 1,3 miljard lichtjaar van de aarde zijn twee zwarte gaten steeds dichter om elkaar gaan draaien, wat uiteindelijk resulteerde in een samensmelting. De twee zwarte gaten waren respectievelijk 29 en 36 keer zo zwaar als de zon en draaiden net voor de samensmelting 75 keer per seconde (!) om elkaar heen. Nu is er een zwart gat ontstaan met een massa van 62 zonnen. Het totale proces duurde slechts 0,2 seconden. Wetenschappers hebben de zwaartekrachtsgolven die tijdens de samensmelting ontstonden – met de naam GW150914 – opgevangen.
“De totale output van zwaartekrachtsgolven tijdens de samensmelting was vijftig keer meer dan alle energie die alle sterren in het universum samen afgeven”, zegt wetenschapper Kip Thorne van Caltech. Hij is één van de oprichters van de LIGO-observatoria. “Dit is natuurlijk onvoorstelbaar.”
EERDERE CLAIMS
In 2014 kondigden onderzoekers aan dat ze mogelijk sporen van zwaartekrachtsgolven hadden gedetecteerd. Het was wereldnieuws, maar later onderzoek toonde aan dat het door de onderzoekers aangevoerde bewijs helemaal niet zo overtuigend was. Het signaal dat de onderzoekers aanzagen voor zwaartekrachtsgolven kon ook wel eens door iets anders veroorzaakt zijn.
Maar even terug, wat zijn zwaartekrachtsgolven? Zwaartekrachtsgolven zijn rimpels in de ruimtetijd. Albert Einstein stelde ruim honderd jaar geleden dat onmogelijk is om te spreken over tijd en ruimte als afzonderlijke entiteiten. De vier dimensies van de ruimtetijd zijn lengte, breedte, hoogte en natuurlijk duur. Zo weten we dat licht in één seconde een afstand van 299.792.458 meter aflegt.
Je moet je de ruimtetijd voorstellen als een vel papier. Planeten en sterren liggen als knikkers op dit vel, waardoor de ruimtetijd lokaal gekromd is. Daarnaast reizen er golven door de ruimtetijd. Dit zijn zwaartekrachtsgolven, die ontstaan bij hele bijzondere gebeurtenissen, bijvoorbeeld wanneer twee zwarte gaten fuseren of wanneer een gigantische ster ontploft. Je kunt het vergelijken met wanneer je een steentje in een plas water gooit. Er ontstaan direct kringen rondom het steentje.
Waarom zijn zwaartekrachtsgolven nu pas ontdekt? Je vraagt je wellicht af waarom zwaartekrachtsgolven niet eerder zijn ontdekt. Op het strand zijn golven in de zee makkelijk te spotten. Waarom niet in de ruimte? Dit komt omdat de hele aarde op een golf meebeweegt. Stel, je rijdt met een snelheid van 120 kilometer per uur op de linkerrijstrook en de automobilist naast je rijdt ook exact 120 kilometer per uur, dan lijkt het alsof zijn auto niet beweegt, maar dat is visueel bedrog. Dit geldt ook voor zwaartekrachtsgolven. De enige manier om ze te vinden is door op meerdere plekken metingen te verrichten en deze metingen vervolgens naast elkaar te leggen. Een goed voorbeeld is het LIGO-experiment in de Verenigde Staten. In twee vacuümbuizen van vier kilometer lang wordt de lengte van een bundel infraroodlicht gemeten. Met deze apparatuur is het mogelijk om piepkleine variaties te meten in de lengte van de bundel, zelfs als die variaties kleiner zijn dan eenduizendste van de diameter van een atoom!
“DIT IS HET BEGIN VAN EEN NIEUW TIJDPERK VOOR DE STERRENKUNDE”
Mysteries ontrafeld Wetenschappers kunnen zwaartekrachtsgolven gebruiken om meer te leren over het heelal. Een zwart gat zendt geen lichtdeeltjes uit, waardoor wij nooit weten wat er exact gebeurt in een zwart gat. Zwaartekrachtsgolven kunnen door geen enkele vorm van materie worden tegengehouden, waardoor we naar deze rimpels kunnen luisteren om meer te weten te komen over zwarte gaten.
Maar er is meer. Dankzij zwaartekrachtsgolven kunnen wij ook achterhalen wat er kort na het ontstaan van het heelal allemaal gebeurde. Aangezien de oerknal bijna veertien miljard jaar geleden plaatsvond, zijn de zwaartekrachtsgolven heel erg zwak in het huidige heelal. Het is dus onwaarschijnlijk dat deze golven snel worden opgepikt.
Stel, twee zwarte gaten of neutronensterren draaien om elkaar heen en smelten uiteindelijk samen, dan zouden de zwaartekrachtsgolven er ongeveer zo uit moeten zien:
Hieronder zie je de gemeten zwaartekrachtsgolven door de twee LIGO-observatoria kort voor, tijdens en na de samensmelting:
Fantastische (inter)nationale prestatie Wetenschappers in binnen- en buitenland zijn betrokken bij deze fantastische ontdekking. Zo hebben sterrenkundigen van de Radboud Universiteit en natuurkundigen van Nikhef en de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam belangrijke bijdragen geleverd aan het valideren en analyseren van zwaartekrachtsgolven.
“Wat we hebben gemeten is fantastisch”, zegt zwaartekrachtsgolvenspecialist Jo van den Brand. Hij is hoogleraar subatomaire fysica aan de Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. “Het opgevangen signaal is zó helder dat het met het blote oog in de ruwe data is te zien. Een verrassend aspect van deze ontdekking is dat de zwarte gaten die zijn samengesmolten veel zwaarder zijn dan de zwarte gaten die we kennen in dubbelsterren in onze Melkweg.”
“Het signaal komt precies overeen met wat je zou verwachten volgens Einsteins theorie”, zegt Chris van den Broeck. Hij is wetenschapper bij Nikhef en werkte samen met collega’s maandenlang aan de analyse. “Nu kunnen we de theorie in de meest extreme situaties testen.”
“We kunnen nu beginnen met het onderzoeken van de ‘verdraaide’ kant van het universum”, zegt Thorne. “Denk aan objecten en fenomenen die zijn gemaakt door een verstoring in de ruimtetijd. Samensmeltende zwarte gaten en zwaartekrachtsgolven vormen nu het begin.”
“Dit is het begin van een nieuw tijdperk voor de sterrenkunde”, beweert sterrenkundige Gijs Nelemans van de Radboud Universiteit. “We krijgen een compleet nieuwe manier om naar het heelal te kijken en de meest extreme objecten te bestuderen. Met de nieuwe instrumenten kunnen we het einde van de complexe evolutie van zware dubbelsterren voor het eerst goed vastpinnen.”
Gravitational Waves Detected by LIGO: Complete Coverage
Gravitational Waves Detected by LIGO: Complete Coverage
By SPACE.com Staff
The probable location of a black hole collision that spawned gravitational waves detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory is shown in this still from a National Science Foundation press conference in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 11, 2016. The collision occurred 1.3 billion years ago in a region of space over Earth's Southern Hemisphere, scientists say.
Credit: National Science Foundation
Astronomers have directly detected elusive gravitational waves, 100 years after the existence of these spacetime ripples was first proposed by Albert Einstein in his theory of general relativity. Scientists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the find in a news conference today (Feb. 11). DISCOVERY STORY: In Historic First, Einstein's Gravitational Waves Detected Directly / Video Explainer
You can watch the gravitational waves science update live online here. Gravitational waves are generated by the acceleration (or deceleration) of massive objects in the cosmos. There's convincing indirect evidence that gravitational waves exist, but a direct detection had proven elusive, until now.
Read more about LIGO, gravitational waves, and what a direct detection means for astronomy, in Space.com's complete coverage below. (Note: Some of the stories below discuss a putative discovery of primordial gravitational waves in 2014 by a team using the BICEP2 telescope in Antarctica. But outside researchers have called that detection into question, claiming the gravitational-wave signal was likely caused by space dust.)
DISCOVERY STORY: In Historic First, Einstein's Gravitational Waves Detected Directly In one of the biggest discoveries in the history of space science, researchers have directly detected gravitational waves, the ripples in space-time predicted by Einstein. The detection should open a new era of astronomical observations.
Epic Gravitational Wave Detection: How Scientists Did It To spot gravitational waves directly for the first time ever, scientists had to measure a distance change 1,000 times smaller than the width of a proton. Here's how they did it.
Have Gravitational Waves Been Detected? Scientists Provide Update Today Researchers affiliated with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) are holding a news conference today (Feb. 11) at 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT) at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. You can watch it live on Space.com.
Gravitational Waves Simply Explained With A Cube And Marble ESA LISA Pathfinder project scientist Paul McNamara explains the phenomena predicted by Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity. The LISA Pathfinder mission will test the "concept of low-frequency gravitational wave detection."
Have Gravitational Waves Finally Been Spotted? Scientists are holding a press conference Thursday (Feb. 11) to discuss the search for gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of spacetime whose existence was first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1916 in his theory of general relativity.
Tuesday, Jan. 12
Gravitational Wave Rumors Rumble Social Media In the roller-coaster rumor mill that surrounds some of the biggest physics endeavors of our time, it pays to remain skeptical when extraordinary claims of historic discoveries are made on social media.
5 Myths About Gravitational Waves So are we likely to ever find gravitational waves? And would they really provide irrefutable evidence for the Big Bang? Here are five common myths and misconceptions about gravitational waves.
Do Gravitational Waves Cause Tiny Earthquakes? The Earth and moon can serve as giant detectors for ripples in the fabric of space-time known as gravitational waves, which are given off by stars, black holes and other massive objects in deep space, researchers say.
Project LIGO: How Lasers Could Reveal Glimpses of Gravitational Waves The ripples from violent cosmic collisions can be felt far across the universe, and thanks to a new, sensitive detector expected to start collecting data next year, scientists might be able to see evidence of those ripples from Earth for the first time.
Cosmic Inflation & Gravitational Waves: Complete Coverage of Major Discovery On March 17, 2014 scientists announced the first direct detection of the cosmic inflation behind the rapid expansion of the universe just a tiny fraction of a second after the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago. Gravitational waves play a big role.
UFO now believed to be H2O Phil Drake, pdrake@greatfallstribune.com
UFO now believed to be H2O
Phil Drake, pdrake@greatfallstribune.com
These are new photos taken Feb. 10 of water dropped from a turkey baster.(Photo: Courtesy Dr. Richard O’Connor)
CLANCY — What at one time was believed to be a UFO has turned out to likely be H2O, a Clancy resident says.
On Nov. 4, motion detector cameras set up on the back upstairs balcony of Dr. Richard O’Connor’s home captured photos of what he believed was a UFO. They were among 280,000 photos his cameras have taken over two years.
O’Connor, who is interested in UFOs and said he had set up the cameras in the hope of capturing something flying by, tried to have the photos analyzed and got various opinions, ranging from some saying that the photo had not been manipulated to others saying it had.
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UFO captured? Clancy man believes he proves they exist
After dozens of emails from all over the country, O’Connor ran experiments on suggestions that the photo may be of a falling water drop. He said he used a turkey baster and dropped water so that the cameras could take some pictures.
“I am now convinced beyond a shadow of doubt that the Nov. 4 photo ... was, in fact, simply and only a couple of falling raindrops fortuitously (or not) captured by the Reconyx camera,” he wrote in an email Wednesday to friends. “Why all of these images of the water drops appear as flattened ovals rather than spheres I cannot explain ... This must have something to do with the acceleration of the water drops combined with the camera's shutter speed.”
“It is difficult for me to put into words just how disappointed I am about this news, especially when I consider just how many people, including myself, were truly fascinated by the Nov 4, 2015 photo as well as all the time and effort I have put into going over all of these (280,000) photos,” he wrote.
Debate over UFOs, roaming bison, Congressman Zinke
“Probably no Nobel Prize for me. Perhaps a Darwin Award?” he asked.
His email is addressed to ‘Friends of the JAML,” which is the Jesse A. Marcel Library that is on his property. The library is in honor of O’Connor’s friend, the late Jesse Marcel, a Helena physician who, as a boy in 1947, said he had viewed UFO wreckage in Roswell, N.M.
The group meets on Tuesdays at the library to discuss UFOs and other related issues. The next meeting is 7 p.m. March 1.
“Please do not bring any tar, feathers, or pitchforks,” O’Connor wrote.
UFO controversy
Tribune readers commented about a Sunday Tribune story on unidentified flying objects, including a photo; Gov. Steve Bullock’s move on Yellowstone Park area bison; and U.S. Rep. Ryan Zinke’s vote in favor of the $1.15 billion federal omnibus spending bill.
John Trimble:
Sorry, Doc; what you saw was a drone disguised to look like the Millenium Falcon. They exist and people have been remotely flying them, lights attached and all for the full effect.
Ida Huff Lydick Bramhall, Greenleaf, Idaho:
I have seen a few UFOs in my lifetime. The most impressive one was in Bishop, Calif., in 1966 or ’67. It was huge and gave off a green glow in the dark color.
CG Arnell:
I applaud the efforts of the few to prove UFOs, the extra-terrestrial kind, exist. But it is more than a little annoying that no one, nowhere has ever taken a good, closeup picture or video of a UFO. Thousands of “sightings”... no video!
Merville Frederick, Seattle:
Just because we can’t identify an object in the sky, doesn’t mean little green men. It just means we can’t identify the object. The extraterrestrial is a whole other level of proof, but a UFO is a start.
Dan Thomson:
I have no doubt that we are not alone. I believe the UFOs we see are robotic probes that are like our probes to Mars and elsewhere; they do not always succeed. Roswell was a failed probe that was shot down. Marcel only saw wreckage, because it was a probe launched millions of years ago by an advanced civilization that is probably waiting another million years to hear back from their probes.
William Tash, Pinellas Park, Fla.:
If you spend years taking pictures and hoping to see a hammer, eventually you will see a hammer.
Bison roaming
Speak for the Animals Slaughtered by Wolves:
The boundaries of the park are the boundaries of the park. Period. The governor has no authority to dump these inbred, diseased bison on residents outside those boundaries. We don’t want them and this does nothing to control the overpopulation.
Zinke’s vote
Howard Strause, Tucson, Ariz.:
About 54 percent of all federal discretionary spending goes for military purposes. We spend as much on the military as the next highest nine countries combined. Yet (U.S. Rep. Ryan) Zinke says we need to spend even more. He suggests we cut the budget for the EPA. But spending for the EPA has decrease 75 percent, measured against the total budget, since 1980. The EPA's budget is only about .3 percent of the total budget. It spends close to 50 percent of its budget on clean water issues, something very important to Montana.
When we look at the aerospace industry today and the countries and companies leading it, some basic themes emerge. Today’s top companies are building global aerospace ecosystems to help manage the complex technology and products they provide. Many of these projects have multi-government support.
Aerospace leaders are embracing robotics in manufacturing to improve capabilities and processes and create a new generation of best practices and advancements.
It’s as if the aerospace industry is entering the Golden Age in which huge payoffs abound and we are only limited by our imaginations and determination.
A Trend Toward Privatization
Privatization and private company cooperation with state-supported aerospace are a major trend that has emerged over the past 15 years with talented and visionary tycoons including Elon Musk, Richard Branson, and Jeff Besos using deep pockets to do things that were once thought impossible.
Aerospace Industry Consolidation
At the same time, what any one company can do by itself doesn’t seem enough given the huge capital expenditures and risks involved in aerospace ventures. As a result, Europe’s defense industry is on the verge of a historic consolidation, a transformation that will allow its aerospace companies to share risk and prosper.
In addition, the number of global cross-border joint ventures between major aerospace manufacturing companies (with the help of governments) is increasing. The recent agreement between Boeing of the United States and Tata of India to co-produce Apache fuselage aerostructures and integrated systems is just one of dozens of joint ventures created each year.
The Global Aerospace Industry
As the following infographic shows, the aerospace industry is global with at least a dozen major players on nearly every continent and suppliers on every continent.
The following graphic is a look at the huge budgets spent on space exploration ventures in 2015, with the United States’ NASA at $18.01 billion, Russia’s ROSCOSMOS at $8.14 billion, and the EU’s ESA at $4.94 billion. Some of NASA’s goals include sending humans to an asteroid by 2025, sending humans to Mars during the 2030s, and funding the Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion Space Crew Vehicle that will be used for deep space exploration.
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This appearance could be one for Mulder and Scully! A woman has spotted what could be a UFO while she was walking her children.
Fiona Powell, 41, from Bristol, was walking her children with friends along the promenade on Severn Beach, Bristol, when she took a photo of their surroundings.
But on closer inspection, the corner of one of the photos contained what appeared to be a flying saucer.
A close up of the object Fiona Powell snapped while out walking with family and friends along the promenade on Severn Beach, Bristol
She said that before the incident she had been slightly dubious about the existence of extra-terrestrials, but that this close encounter was now giving her pause for thought.
Fiona, who took the photo on 9 February, said: 'I'm undecided whether I believe in aliens or not, but this photo certainly meets the criteria of a UFO.
'After I had taken the photo, my friend zoomed in and it looked even more like a UFO. I have shown the photo to a few sensible friends and they all think it is incredible.'
De opwarming van de Aarde zorgt ervoor dat de ijskappen smelten en het niveau van het zeespiegel stijgt. Maar tegelijk wordt het aardoppervlak warmer en droger, en absorbeert het daardoor een deel van het extra water dat die opwarming met zich meebrengt. Dat blijkt uit een studie die het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA heeft gepubliceerd.
De aarde gaat zich gedragen als een spons
J.T. Reager
Uit gegevens die de afgelopen tien jaar zijn verzameld via satellieten, blijkt dat de continenten 3.200 miljard ton water extra hebben geabsorbeerd in de bodem, meren en aquifers (watervoerende lagen in de ondergrond), aldus de studie, die werd gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Science.
Dat fenomeen heeft de stijging van de zeespiegel tijdelijk met 20 procent vertraagd, zo blijkt. "We hebben altijd gedacht dat de groeiende afhankelijkheid van de mens aan grondwater voor irrigatie en consumptie, zich vertaalde in meer water dat zich van de aarde naar de zee beweegt", aldus J.T. Reager, van het Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) van NASA. "We hadden tot nu toe echter niet gemerkt dat de veranderingen in de wereldwijde watercylcus het afgelopen decennium de verliezen door het oppompen van grondwater meer dan compenseren, omdat de aarde zich gaat gedragen als een spons."
Betere voorspellingen
De watercyclus bestaat erin dat het water uit de oceaan verdampt, weer op de aarde terechtkomt in de vorm van neerslag, en dan weer richting de oceaan stroomt via beken en rivieren.
Volgens de onderzoekers van NASA zal deze ontdekking leiden tot betere voorspellingen over de stijging van de zeespiegel in de toekomst. De onderzoekers ontdekten het fenomeen nu pas, omdat ze tot nu toe niet over instrumenten beschikten waarmee ze metingen konden uitvoeren op heel de planeet.
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E.T. Intervention Prevented Nuclear War, Says Former Apollo Astronaut
E.T. Intervention Prevented Nuclear War, Says Former Apollo Astronaut
One of the six men to set foot on the moon back in 1971, Edgar Mitchell, has never held back on remarks about extraterrestrial existence and activity, but his recent statements are nothing short of amazing.
He says aliens were not just simply visiting our planet or studying human behavior, but actively attempting to stop the Cold War before it even began.
The Apollo 14 member tells us he has knowledge of UFO presence during almost every single weapon-test carried out by the U.S. The peculiar and fast moving objects are said to have been spotted by not only regular troops, but also members of a higher rank.
One such facility was the infamous White Sands, where the first ever nuclear explosion took place, but most missile testing bases had been visited frequently by spacecraft during that period, according to Mitchell, who quotes military insiders on his claims.
He also states he has knowledge of his own, because he spent his childhood and teen years in New Mexico, somewhere around the bomb testing base, and also in the vicinity of Roswell, where the worldwide UFO community firmly believes the most notorious extraterrestrial encounter happened.
He says the aliens were showing interest in White Sands because they knew humans were testing a weapon they hadn’t yet completely developed and wanted to know about America’s ability when it came to such powerful weapons.
One other reason could be the aliens were worried that nuclear warfare or even testing might somehow affect their planet or some other parts of the universe. The veteran doesn’t’ think so though. He is firmly convinced their sole focus was to keep peace on Earth.
Edgar Mitchell says it is not only his opinion, but also that of people he has spoken to along the years who have been part of such encounters. For example, he says the staff camped at important missile bases in the harshest period of the Cold War could often see flying objects directly above them, in those uncertain moments when the push of a button could wipe out a whole continent.
Many times the aliens would make their equipment or missiles malfunction. In areas of the Pacific Ocean, personnel reported their flying missiles being shot down by unidentified aircraft. Mitchell also suggests the number of UFO encounters during that period is simply too high to be taken like a joke or conspiracy theory.
When asked about his thoughts on Edgar Mitchell’s remarks, Nick Pope (the Ministry of Defense’s UFO investigator) said Mitchell is a respectable and honest man, but we can’t be sure his sources, high ranking officials or not, have been similarly honest with him, so his claims could never really be verified because of the classified aspect of his discussions with such people.
Pope also said that the possibility of aliens attempting to keep peace on our planet by sending simple flying aircraft above military bases was a naïve fairy tale, because if we’re really being watched by extraterrestrials, they’re probably so advanced compared to us that they had far more powerful things available if they wanted to stop a nuclear war.
Well’ you can’t tell us we’re all crazy Mr. Pope. There’s another Pope already doing it.
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3 Types of UFO You Probably Didn’t Know About [Video]
3 Types of UFO You Probably Didn’t Know About [Video]
The UFO phenomenon is full of mysteries, and I’m not talking about what the government and other agencies are hiding from us. There is a huge number of sightings each year, each of them having distinct particularities, so there is no risk of dying of boredom when analyzing these cases.
So why is there no official action directed towards these things? Why there’s no signal picked up by our advanced ground radars you might ask? Or why is there no trace of a downed alien craft if the appearances are so many?
According to some UFO analysts, the answer to this is quite simple – UFOs are more diverse than what you would think. They can vary from advanced artificially designed crafts such as the notorious Black Knight satellite, to speeding orbs that are capable of performing law-defying maneuvers, and last but not least, the organic UFOs.
If we look at the first type of UFO – the artificially designed craft of either earthly or alien origins, it’s easy to imagine a governmental cover-up scenario. If the officials manage to get their hands on one of this extremely advanced pieces of technology they are in for a treat since such a great “technological cake” would serve them well, and they’ll probably share it with no one.
Such a craft might be extremely hard to capture, however, according to numerous accounts, the above scenario is likely to have happened. If this type of UFO is artificial, then our earthly radars should be able to track it and ultimately capture it. So why is there no official evidence to back-up these claims? Well, because officials cannot be trusted when it comes to revealing classified information, but fortunately for us, there are some brave people who succeeded in smuggling actual footage of UFOs being chased by the military.
The below video surfaced in 2014 and it shows how a Black Hawk helicopter belonging to the Aguadilla Coast Guard is pursuing a presumed UFO. Watch carefully at 01:24 (timer displayed in upper left corner), when a second UFO comes out of the ocean joining formation with the original one, then both crafts smoothly descend into the water, seemingly unaffected by the hydrodynamic forces.
The second UFO example is the orb UFO. These small buggers appear to be the size of a drone and they’re capable of reaching tremendous speeds at a very high altitude while also performing impossible maneuvers such as brusque turns or drop-offs.
This type of UFOs are the most intriguing since there are no earthly devices that can match them. UFO researchers and enthusiasts have been documenting these peculiar orbs, and consider them to be artificially intelligent devices that are either remote controlled or piloted on their own. Below is a classic example of an orb UFO.
Alas, the third type of unidentified flying objects – the mysterious organic beings. This particular appearance is extremely puzzling to say the least. Franklin Ruehl, the renowned American ufologist and cryptozoologist depicts these UFOs as otherworldly beings that evolved from organic compounds found in space in order to survive its seemingly unlivable conditions, and may very well be the first lifeforms to arrive in the cosmos.
Different videos show how these beings are shapeshifting in the sky, morphing into various forms while steadily floating at high altitude, and when highlighted by the Sun, they form an aura of rainbow colors. These UFOs are also found in large groups, similar to a flock of birds, and some people even claim to summon them using only telepathic abilities.
The UFO phenomenon is real and it’s intensifying. If it involves actual alien beings or secret military technology we are yet to find out, and considering the great technological advancement of our species, the hour of disclosure might come sooner than you’d think.
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8 US Soldiers Disappear removing 5000 yr old Flying Machine from Afghan Cave
8 US Soldiers Disappear removing 5000 year old Flying Machine from Afghan Cave
A vimana has been discovered in a cave in Afghanistan. It has attracted the attention of world leaders including U.S. president Obama. A group of soldiers made the discovery on a scout mission in the desert of Afghanistan. 8 U.S. troops are missing after making the discovery. FYI a vimana is an ancient flying machine described in ancient Indian Sanskrit epics. The vimana found in Afghanistan is reported to be an estimated 5,000 years old. It is said to be protected by a strange energy barrier that is preventing troops from extracting the vimana.
What caused the sudden rush of these most powerful leaders of the Western World to go to Afghanistan, this report continues, was to directly view the discovery by US Military scientists of what is described as a “Vimana”entrapped in a “Time Well” that has already caused the “disappearance” of at least 8 American Soldiers trying to remove it from the cave it has been hidden in for the past estimated 5,000 years.
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From the ancient accounts found in the Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata, we know that a Vimana measured twelve cubits in circumference, with four strong wheels. Apart from its‘blazing missiles’, The Mahabharata records the use of its other deadly weapons that operated via a circular ‘reflector’. When switched on, it produced a ‘shaft of light’ which, when focused on any target, immediately ‘consumed it with its power’.
Most intriguing of all about this report is its stating that not just any Vimana has been discovered, but from the ancient writings contained in the cave where it was discovered, it claims that its “rightful owner” is the ancient prophet Zoroaster who was the founder of arguably one of the most important religions of all time called Zoroastrianism.
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An Alien observer: Was the Moon set in place 4.53 billion years ago?
An Alien observer: Was the Moon set in place 4.53 billion years ago?
The Moon used to rotate at a faster rate in the distant past, and for some reason, its rotation slowed down and became tidally locked with Earth. There are traces of titanium, uranium 236, mica, and neptunium 237 on the moon… these elements have not been found to occur naturally… What is going on?
Mankind has always been fascinated by Earths loyal satellite, the moon. Believed to have been ‘formed’ around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth’s moon is one of the largest ‘natural’ and most mysterious satellites in the solar system. Many details about the moon have led numerous researchers and scientists to question its real purpose. Why is the moon in synchronous rotation with Earth, always showing us the same face? And why is it so important for life on Earth?
In the 21st century, there are many UFOlogists around the world who speculate that the moon is actually a giant base where extraterrestrials survey mankind’s progress. While this theory might sound absurd to many readers, there are quite a few details about the Moon which are simply put, inexplicable.
Robin Brett, a scientist from NASA stated, “It seems easier to explain the non-existence of the Moon than its existence.”
Set in place 4.53 billion years ago?
According to studies, if our moon did not exist, life on Earth would have probably had a hard time surviving. For example, its gravitational influence produces ocean tides and body tides on Earth. Mysteriously, The Moon’s current orbital distance is about thirty times the diameter of Earth and is exceptionally large relative to Earth: a quarter its diameter and 1/81 its mass. Even more interesting is the fact that the Moon used to rotate at a faster rate, but early in its history, its rotation slowed and became tidally locked.
But if the moon was ‘engineered’ as some suggest and is, in fact, an artificial ‘structure’ wouldn’t there be something on the moon that could uncover its mystery? Well, if we look closer, there are a couple of very interesting things. According to studies, the moon has a solid shell of around 20 miles made of highly resistant materials such as titanium, uranium 236, mica, neptunium 237. Definitely, elements that you would not expect to find “inside” the moon.
In the 1970’s Mikhail Vasin and Alexander Shcerbakov from the Soviet Academy of science wrote an article called: “Is the Moon the creation of Alien Intelligence?
How is it possible that the surface of the moon is so hard and why does it contain minerals like Titanium?
Mysteriously, there are some lunar rocks that have been found to contain PROCESSED METALS, such as Brass, Mica and the elements of Uranium 236 and Neptunium 237 that have NEVER been found to occur naturally. So how did they get there?
Uranium 236 is a radioactive nuclear waste which is found in spent nuclear and reprocessed Uranium. More interestingly, Neptunium 237 is a radioactive metallic element and a by-product of nuclear reactors and the production of Plutonium.
There are some lunar rocks that have been found to contain ten times more titanium than “titanium rich” rocks on planet Earth. Here on Earth, we use Titanium in supersonic jets, deep diving submarines and spacecraft. It’s unexplainable. Dr Harold Urey, Nobel Prize winner for Chemistry said he was “terribly puzzled by the rocks astronauts found on the moon and their Titanium content. The samples were unimaginable and mind-blowing since researchers could not account for the presence of Titanium.
Even more fascinating is the incredible orbit of the moon. It is the only known moon in the solar system that has a stationary, nearly “perfect” circular orbit. It’s a fact that the Moon does not spin like a natural celestial body. In other words, our Moon does not share any characteristics with other moons found in our Solar System. If it wasn’t strange enough, from any point on the surface of our planet, only one side of the Moon is visible.
What is the moon hiding… and why have we stopped going to the moon?
Here’s one new footage of a bright unidentified flying object flying across the sky above Homestead in Florida. This was filmed on 10th February 2016.
Witness report:Swirls of light in the sky in early morning close to Air Force Base Leaving my home in the morning to work when I saw swirls of lights in the sky in a pack but scattered a bit from each others. Seemed like burning debree falling from the sky. But the flame looking objects stayed and swirled around and return to its original spot. There was more than 6 of them and then slowly faded away one by one. This was close to the Air Force Base in Homestead, Fl. This is the first time I see anything such as this
The following interesting sightings were reported to the Mutual UFO Network. MUFON is the world’s oldest and largest UFO phenomenon investigative body where you can share and report your sighting.
Case 1: Gradually cloaked object in the sky over WV, US.
I was taking photos of the full moon on a friend’s porch and I captured a photo of the object. It appeared out of nowhere and it was there without moving, without sound for about 15 minutes.
I watched it gradually camouflage with the sky. There was an odd feeling in the air. Like static electricity. I felt tingly. It’s hard to describe and it sounds crazy but I felt almost euphoric during the time I saw it.
All I know is I know what I saw and I know I cannot explain it as just some anomaly. When you see the photo, you be the judge.
Case 2: High speed UFO over Gilroy CA, US.
I was leaving through my kitchen door to the back patio on the step before exiting I saw a huge dark, seemingly stationery object in the sky.
In a reflex, I quickly turned and picked up a camera from the kitchen table next to me.
Instinctively, I just aimed the camera in the direction of the object and clicked to take the shot. Instantaneously the object disappeared and I believed that I had not got the photo I was after.
The roll of film got left to one side, not till some time later did it get developed. I noticed there was something on a photograph, sometime later when I then had photographic software I came across the photo put it in my computer and was able to look at a larger version of my photo. It was then, that I realized I had managed to get a picture of the object I’d seen earlier. The image was taken in 1996-08-14.
Case 3: Silvery UFO over Buenos Aires.
I was returning from work when I decided to capture some photographs from the rising sun when I saw a silver shining object that moves slowly in the sky before it disappeared.
I took some images of this strange object which made no noise. Seeing something what I cannot explain gave me a mixed feeling inside of me.
Case 4: Pulsating and moving UFO captured with Telescope in Citrus Heights, CA, US.
I was at my house in Citrus Heights moving my car for my brother-in-law to go to work. I observed an object that was unusually bright to the east in the sky.
I pointed it out to my brother-in-law and asked him what he thought it was. I observed it slowly ascending into the sky 40 degrees from the horizon. This was about 5:45 in the morning.
I returned inside to get the telescope that we have. I proceeded to set up the telescope outside my front door and view the object through the lens.
I observed an object resembling an eye that was slightly pulsating and moving slowly. It was yellowish green in color and had a circle in the middle that was black with three line like things separating it into three pieces.
I was not sure what the object could’ve been initially, so I proceeded to take pictures through the lens of the telescope thus documenting my observation.
I thought it was very strange and something I’ve never seen before. I asked several people of my acquaintance and family if they had ever observed anything that was similar; they had not.
I lost sight of the object because the sun finally rose and the light obscured anything else to be seen. To my knowledge it never stopped moving upwards.
A flying saucer reportedly appeared as a family stopped to take a picture of some motorbikes on a bridge. After the family posted photos of their sighting, many conspiracy theorists offer their thoughts about it. A photograph shows an apparent UFO above the motor bikers.
Argentinian Verónica, one of the family members, said she took a photo to capture a group of bikers crossing a bridge when she spotted unusual flying object above it.
After she had screamed, other familymembers looked at it in the sky some 50 meters away. The object allegedly disappeared after the photo was shot. Verónica said they ran back to their car for safety.
The family revealed the sighting occurred at La Rinconada, close to Junin de Los Andes in Argentina.
As usual, not everyone is convinced about her story. Many believe Verónica is making up aUFO sighting story. UFO enthusiasts wonder why the family run away after seeing something unusual. They say that people usually stare as long as possible and try to understand what they are seeing.
However, another UFO witness defends the reaction of the family. The witness said that the first time she saw a UFO was with her boyfriend, and she was scared. Her boyfriend reportedly wanted to stare, as it got closer, she was afraid.
Another commenter said that he/she would do the same thing after seeing a giant black arrow in the sky.
UFO enthusiasts had observed disc-shaped object orbiting an asteroid very close to earth, igniting speculations of NASA covering up an alien spaceship.
NASA said that it was nothing but a small moon. Nevertheless, this doesn’t stop UFO enthusiasts to accuse the space agency of not telling the truth and insist that the object is a spaceship.
Tyler of Secureteam10 made a video explaining the reason he believes the object discovered on asteroid 2004 BL86 is not what NASA had told. The object in question passed 199,600 km from Earth on January 26, 2015.
Tyler says the 7-metre in diameter object doesn’t look like a moon as it has a long, metallic cylindrical hull with two other smaller cylinders that appear like arms sticking out the side.
Even though Tyler admits it isn’t a conclusive proof, he is pretty confident it is of alien origin. He says that even if NASA had a better footage of the UFO, they would edit it for it to look like a moon.
Some YouTube viewers commended the work of Tyler saying that it is important to keep a critical eye and common sense when it comes to dealing with any information from NASA.
However, others argue that NASA is correct as objects spotted close to every asteroid have always been in a circle, oval, or disc-like shape. One commenter said that the small object moving in from the top of the frame is the asteroid’s satellite, meaning the moon.
The YouTube user further explained that hundreds of professional astronomers and thousands of amateur astronomers have been monitoring this object. He said that NASA released information after it was examined by dozens of non-government agencies, including those who are seriously researching evidence of extraterrestrial life.
The post continued that it was quite odd that out of 20,000 individuals who have looked into the matter, none of them claimed what Tyler was claiming. The commenter concluded that it was a moon.
James Gilliland had an interview this week on the Weekend Today Show in Austrailia. He is a unique person, who seems to shun the fancy cloths for something more comfortable. He runs the ECETI Ranch at Mount Adams, Washington, where its famous for its nightly UFOs and orbs. Although the mountain sky is busy with UFOs, the aliens don't seem interested in direct contact, but have met him personally on a few occasions. Perhaps direct contact with humans today is forbidden for some reason. Anyway, I wish I had been to his live talk he had for fans in Melbourne. Would have been cool to hear him in person, his thoughts, his experiences at the ranch. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
This UFO was caught by Streetcap1 of Youtube. The UFOs are over a national monument in Mexico. Inside the monument is a museum. Aliens probably have a high interest in historical sites and may watch us to see how we react to our own history. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
We've finally found gravitational waves, so can we time travel?
We've finally found gravitational waves, so can we time travel
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Physicists working with a powerful observatory on Earth announced Thursday that they have finally detected ripples in space and time created by two colliding black holes, confirming a prediction made by Albert Einstein 100 years ago.
These ripples in the fabric of space-time, called gravitational waves, were created by the merger of two massive black holes 1.3 billion years ago. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) on Earth detected them on Sept. 14, 2015, and scientists evaluated their findings and put them through the peer review process before publicly disclosing the landmark discovery today.
While this finding potentially opens a up a new way to learn more about how the universe works, there's one question in particular non-scientists seem to want answered: Can we finally travel through time now?
First of all, it's not a bad question.
Think about space-time as a fabric that stretches through the universe and is affected by matter like stars, black holes, planets and other cosmic objects. Massive bodies warp space-time around them, creating what we feel as gravity on Earth.
It would follow that learning more about it could lead to some kind of understanding of how to manipulate space-time to somehow travel through time.
However, according to one well-known expert, this new gravitational wave discovery won't necessarily get us there.
"I don’t think it [the detection of gravitational waves] is going to bring us any closer to being able to do time travel. I wish it would," said LIGO co-founder Kip Thorne during a press conference announcing the discovery.
Thorne should know, given that he was also an executive producer on the 2014 film Interstellar, which involved travel through a wormhole in space-time.
Even though we probably won't be able to surf a gravitational wave into the future or the past, this finding still means a lot for physics.
The merger of the two black holes "created a violent storm in space-time," Thorne said, allowing scientists to see the disruption in space-time as it passed through Earth's part of space.
By confirming that gravitational waves are produced by the extreme collisions of massive objects in the universe, it gives scientists a new way to explore space. Instead of just looking at the cosmos in infrared, optical and ultraviolet light, researchers can now use gravity as another way to investigate.
But the book isn't necessarily closed on the time travel question.
Some scientists haven't yet counted out the idea that this discovery could lead to something unexpected way down the line.
“The discovery will allow us explore space and time in a spectacular new way," physicist Brian Greene told Mashable. "Might that one day yield breakthroughs in space travel or perhaps even in time travel? Who knows. But deep understanding is the first step forward."
For decades, those who had contact with aliens, or contact with UFOs and how they work said that that the disks ride gravitational waves like a sailboat on water. That the disk three propulsion units allows it to ride these waves, and since the waves travel at or faster than the speed of light, time travel is possible. Just a few weeks ago, scientists also announced some new elements discovery. Element 115, if cut into a coin-size piece, can power a UFO for over 20 years non stop, is now recognized by scientists to exist. It seems its possible to build a light speed capable ship. Scott C. Waring
News states: Physicists working with a powerful observatory on Earth announced Thursday that they have finally detected ripples in space and time created by two colliding black holes, confirming a prediction made by Albert Einstein 100 years ago. These ripples in the fabric of space-time, called gravitational waves, were created by the merger of two massive black holes 1.3 billion years ago. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) on Earth detected them on Sept. 14, 2015, and scientists evaluated their findings and put them through the peer review process before publicly disclosing the landmark discovery today.
While this finding potentially opens a up a new way to learn more about how the universe works, there's one question in particular non-scientists seem to want answered: Can we finally travel through time now? First of all, it's not a bad question. Think about space-time as a fabric that stretches through the universe and is affected by matter like stars, black holes, planets and other cosmic objects. Massive bodies warp space-time around them, creating what we feel as gravity on Earth. It would follow that learning more about it could lead to some kind of understanding of how to manipulate space-time to somehow travel through time. (More at source).
Ironically, this interview with Dr. Edgar Mitchell was done in Roswell, New Mexico. Dr. Mitchell is a personal friend, one of those wise men with unconventional wisdom because he surpasses the confining boundaries of scientific research when he discusses “Quantum Cosmology!” He is honest and wants the planet to progress on its evolutionary path and he does include that “paranormal phenomena” that Allen Hynek once told me not to overlook.
Interview with Dr. Edgar Mitchell Apollo 14
Roswell July 5, 2004
“I think I've reached the point that I'm convinced enough of the reality of the ET presence and I'm not going to deny it and shy away from it
… It is time to open this up to the public.”
Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14
Paola: It is a pleasure to see you here in Roswell. I think that you said that you grew up in this area. I think you said that you lived here when you were about 3 to 13 years old?
Mitchell: I lived here from when I was five until I went off to College. We had a family business in the valley. It was between Roswell and Artesia.
Paola: Friends talked you into coming to speak here at the UFO museum?
Mitchell: I resisted for a long time.
Paola: Did you resist because it was connected with the UFO phenomenon?
Mitchell: No. I think I've reached the point that I'm convinced enough of the reality of the ET presence and I'm not going to deny it and shy away from it. I don't get into it in detail. That is not my area.
Paola: I know that your area is more the metaphysical.
Mitchell: Well, I think it is an interaction there. Particularly, since there does seem to be a non-local communication or mental tie here with some of these functions, whether they are real or not, I don't know.
Paola: Can I ask you, why is it they pick you of all the astronauts? In the media, you have beenselected as one who represents the astronauts' testimony as to this UFO reality, although you mentioned you never saw one in space. Gordon Cooper talks a lot more about it in his book Leap of Faith. So why you? Is it by talking about the metaphysical they have attached you to the weirdness factor?
Mitchell: I think it was the personal connection, since I had personal contacts in this area. I think it is my credibility as a scientist. I am very, very incredulous about what I see. I can't throw caveats in. I don't make blanket statements. Although my experience is not first hand experience, I have become a spokesman for my colleagues who did have first hand experience. I am very clear about all of these things and I am very clear about where our lack of knowledge is. What is the frontier? What are the unknowns? What are the parameters that we don't understand? I think this gives me a lot of credibility.
Paola: What advice would you give those serious researchers that want an answer and, let's say, dream of harmony with cosmic cultures? What advice would you give them?
Mitchell: We are dealing with a difficult process here. The main problem is that we, as an Earth civilization, have not come to understand ourselves; see ourselves in a cosmic sense at all. We are still very provincial. We fight over religion. In my opinion, fundamentalist Christians are just as bad as fundamentalist Islam and, at the very core, neither religion is like that. In the inner core of both of them, these religions talk about qualities like Love and Brotherhood.
Paola: You are saying that there are more similarities than differences?
Mitchell: Of course. It's the cultural differences. It is not an intrinsic difference. It is like I said in my talk last night: “the transcendent experience is common to every culture in the world” and the transcendent experience is Brotherly Love, Nature, Harmony, the Unity, and cultures, in trying to define it, try to define an external deity as opposed to the process.
Paola: It is easier that way because you don't have any responsibility. I guess a proverb could be: You can blame it on the devil or God. It is a lack of taking responsibility for who we are.
Mitchell: Well, that's right, and our ignorance, and it is based on the egos we have. It is the unwillingness to go beyond ego. Transcendence gets you beyond ego. If you go beyond ego, you see all of this in a more decent perspective and you can start to put all pieces together. We haven't done that yet. Not as a civilization.
Paola: That is why you think that contact is not likely until we get there. Right? Humanity as a species is not there. You mentioned in your talk yesterday, if they ask where you are from, you don't say from Earth, you say from LA.
Mitchell: Yes. That's true
Paola: So do you think there has to be a one world, kind of, political situation?
Mitchell: Of course, that is what has to happen.
Paola: People have some commonality. Right?
Mitchell: In due course, that's what has got to happen. If we survive that long. We might wipe ourselves out before that. I don't think it is a forgone conclusion that we are going to survive. That is where the philosophic, the whole notion of determinism and what the future is like, applies. We are creating the future. It is not determined. If we get our act together and solve our current problems, we could have a sustainable, abundant future. If we don't, we could wipe ourselves out. We are on the verge of doing it with our current politics. It is regressive; going back the other way.
Paola: I need to ask you a personal question. Would you have liked to have contact with a cosmic culture?
Mitchell: Yes. Of course!
Paola: This is very ironic because you are the chief astronaut spokesman for the ET presence and have never had contact. [That is] like me, who has been in this work for over 30 years now and has never seen a UFO.
Mitchell: Yes. I would. I would like to speak from first-hand experience instead of second-hand experience.
Paola: Has it been lonely for you to have this vision and not many people to share it with, because the vision you have is kind of a “completion” vision; a kind of overall picture vision, and it is true that you are spending three quarters of your time trying to explain it to people.
Mitchell: I would not put it in those terms because I spend ninety per cent of my time trying to explain it to myself!
Paola: But you know that is truth for you. You are outspoken about that.
Mitchell: Well, I'd like to discover Truth; when I can latch on to something that I think is true. Our knowledge base is incomplete and all we do is keep adding to our knowledge base. I think it laughable, frankly, that the Physics community comes up with a theory for everything. There isn't one theory for everything. There is not one explanation. We may eventually have several theories that can tie things together nicely but there is not a single theory of everything.
Paola: Like the Big Bang being the main theory of creation – and what about Super String theory and others…?
Mitchell: Well, the Big Bang has gone away but as far as Super String that is suspicious for me. It all starts out with the notion of Big Bang, which starts out, if it were true, starts out with incredibly high temperatures. So they think [we] need to get these high temperatures for this broken symmetry; all this broken symmetry reunited, and we do not have enough energy in the whole galaxy to get to those temperatures, to prove their point. To me, that is the single flaw in Super String theory. Now there are a lot of good points but if it could hold together any better than the Big Bang theory I don't know. I'm not a physicist.
Paola: You are not going in that direction. You are more into the awareness and what you can accomplish as a human. Is that right?
Mitchell: Yes. And I also think we are moving into a direction of quantum cosmology, as opposed to starting with “big bang” and trying to make quantum physics fit into it.
Paola: Quantum Cosmology. That's a new term.
Mitchell: That originates from Quantum processes. That is, the quantum fluctuations within a zero-point field can start the process that builds the process, which builds into matter, an irreversible process. We have some evidence that suggests that. We don't have a Big Bang but we have a lot of little pops! A continuous set of little pops!
Paola: That is a good metaphor. In your talk, one of the things you talked about is that the “intent” creates action. The intent creates our reality, which makes us who we are. If that is true, then that makes us powerful on a planet that has always been undermined by great powers trying to put down the masses. So, is the idea that “intent” creates, and we can create realities, and we can also create events?
Mitchell: We are creating. I don't create yours and you don't create mine but we each create “ours!”
Paola: In the past we have always given up our power to the power structures, so would you agree that it is very likely unpopular to the individual people and that it is hard for them to believe they have power?
Mitchell: You have to tie it with transcendence because, when you transcend the transcendent states, you get past the ego structure, and at that point you don't need laws, you have “morality!” You have inborn, natural ethics because it is built on Love.
Paola: That seems to be the secret word.
Mitchell: Yes. That is why the ancient traditions, even Christianity, say God is Love. There is symmetry here. The fundamental step where you get into this transcendent state is this feeling of ebullience, love and caring and unity.
Paola: And you do not need laws.
Mitchell: That is the law! You learn to live in that. It is hard to live in that too when you are in this world, that is why the great mystics go to the mountains tops; to get away from the world, so they don't have to deal with it – but it doesn't help the world that much.”
Paola:I do admit that to effect change you need to submit to the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” and, especially for a woman researcher, it becomes a severe credibility issue. We all get discouraged at times, but to have a conversation like this with Dr. Mitchell was a once-in-a-lifetimeevent. The metaphysical methodology he speaks about is the very “key” to unlocking the phenomena. This wisdom is that of many centuries of study.
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Einsteins zwaartekrachtsgolven waargenomen: "Belangrijkste ontdekking in jaren"
Einsteins zwaartekrachtsgolven waargenomen: "Belangrijkste ontdekking in jaren"
door Michaël Temmerman
Honderd jaar geleden was Albert Einstein al overtuigd van het bestaan van gravitatie- of zwaartekrachtsgolven, nu zijn wetenschappers er ook voor het eerst in geslaagd om ze waar te nemen. "Een van de belangrijkste ontdekkingen in jaren", zegt Leen Decin, professor sterrenkunde aan de KU Leuven. "Hierdoor kunnen we het universum op een heel andere manier gaan bekijken."
"Gravitatiegolven zijn trillingen in het ruimteweefsel", aldus Decin. "De ruimte is geen leegte waarin planeten rondzwerven, maar een weefsel dat vervormd kan worden. Vergelijk het met een trampoline waar een zware bal op ligt. Door het gewicht van de bal zakt de trampoline in. Dat is in de ruimte net zo. Elk object dat zich in de ruimte beweegt, vervormt die ruimte. En hoe zwaarder het object, hoe meer vervorming."
Hoe ontstaan ze?
Als wij ons bewegen, zijn die trillingen zo miniem dat ze geen invloed hebben en niet waar te nemen zijn. "Echte gravitatiegolven ontstaan alleen bij heel spectaculaire, explosieve gebeurtenissen", vervolgt de professor. "Bij een explosie van een supernova, de samensmelting van twee zwarte gaten of het ontstaan van het universum, bijvoorbeeld."
Hoe gemeten?
Maar zelfs bij zulke gebeurtenissen is zo'n golf nauwelijks waar te nemen: we kunnen ze niet zien of horen. Er werd dan ook een zeer speciaal meetinstrument voor ontworpen: de Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, kortweg LIGO genoemd. Het gaat om twee tunnels van elk vier kilometer lang waarin voortdurend laserstralen worden afgevuurd. Die meten de afstand. Als er een gravitatiegolf passeert, dan zou die afstand in principe een beetje moeten afwijken. "Maar die verschillen zijn minuscuul", zegt Decin. "Een fractie van een atoom, ofwel tien tot de min achttiende meter."
De door Ligo gespotte zwaartekrachtsgolf is volgens de onderzoekers verwekt door de fusie van twee zwarte gaten van elk ongeveer 30 zonnen zwaar. De waarneming gebeurde al op 14 september 2015, maar werd nu pas bekendgemaakt op een persconferentie.
Omdat de trillingen zo minuscuul zijn, duurde het honderd jaar om ze waar te nemen. Maar nu zijn het Amerikaanse Ligo-observatorium, het Europese deeltjeslab Cern en de Italiaanse Virgo-detector er toch in geslaagd. Een zeer belangrijke ontdekking, luidt het bij experts. "Nobelprijs-waardig in mijn ogen", aldus Decin. "We krijgen hierdoor een totaal nieuw venster om naar de ruimte te kijken. Dit zal ons in staat stellen om een aantal fenomenen te ontrafelen die we vroeger gewoon niet konden zien. Met het licht konden we maar beperkt terugkijken in de tijd, met de gravitatiegolven kunnen we terug naar de eerste seconde van het ontstaan van het heelal. Want in tegenstelling tot licht worden gravitatiegolven door niets tegengehouden."
Toch is het heel moeilijk om nu al concrete toepassingen te koppelen aan de ontdekking. "Maar dat is vaak zo in de wetenschap. Toen Faraday zijn inductiewet voorstelde, wist hij ook niet dat er honderden jaren later fornuizen op dat principe zouden werken. Deze ontdekking stelt ons gewoon in staat om op een heel nieuwe manier naar de ruimte te kijken en dingen te zien die we vroeger gewoonweg niet konden zien."
The Brown Mountain Lights Might Prove that Extraterrestrials are REAL
The Brown Mountain Lights Might Prove that Extraterrestrials are REAL
The Appalachian Mountains have always been a hotbed for some of America’s best-kept mysteries. Countless reports of bizarre creatures and moving lights have surfaced in the past couple hundreds of years, and they were all ignored or forgotten until new conclusive evidence emerged from the valleys of North Carolina’s Brown Mountain.
Long before white settlers laid claim to the area near the mountain, the Native Americans told stories of luminous entities that had taken up residence inside their holy mountain. When the temperatures dropped during the autumn, the entire tribe would gather on the nearby hill to watch in amazement as massive, glowing orbs of light darted out of the cliffs and hovered in the sky while performing strange dances over the treetops.
The Cherokee people residing at the base of the Brown Mountain were witnessing this anomalous display since at least 1200 A.D. They thought the dancing lights were spirits of ghostly maidens who’d lost their husbands in a great battle with the Catawba tribe.
After the first pioneers established in the area, they too witnessed the plasmatic lights, considering them to be the torches carried by Native Americans. By the 40s, the countless myths behind the Brown Mountain Lights had turned into campfire stories about nomad ghosts with their lanterns, however, the bizarre phenomenon remained the same. Whatever the lights were, they were as real as it could get.
After the Roswell incident back in 1947, the entire ghostly perspective changed into a fresh, and probably more realistic explanation – the peculiar Brown Mountain lights were coming from outer space. But can this hypothesis be trusted in the absence of certain proof? According to different accounts, researchers tried numerous times to debunk the ghostly or alien view of the hovering lights, but without success. Such attempts are broadly discussed in the book The Brown Mountain Lights as it follows:
From Wiseman’s View on Linville Mountain the lights can be seen well. They first appear like a large star coming over the mountain. Sometimes they have a reddish or blue-ish cast. On dark nights they pop up so thick and fast that it is impossible to count them.
The U.S. Geological Survey has conducted two investigations on the lights. The first was in 1913, when the conclusion was reached that the lights were locomotives’ headlights from the Catawba Valley south of Brown Mountain.
However, three years later in 1916 the great flood swept through the Catawba valley knocking out the railroad bridges and keeping locomotives out of the valley for weeks. Roads were also washed out and the power lines were down. But the lights continued to appear as usual, making it appear that they could not be reflections from locomotives or automobile headlights.
So what are these mysterious lights and where do they come from? Since many reports refer to them as appearing from the sky and also from the remote cliffs of Brown Mountain that are out of reach for humans without special equipment, the extraterrestrial explanation seems to be the most likely.
Even more, in 2010 the National Geographic documentary “Paranatural” succeeded in capturing on tape some of the best footage of the phenomenon to date, further puzzling researchers as to their origins.
YouTube user ElitexxRainx describes his experience with these lights, adding up even more to the extraterrestrial possibility.
I saw these aliens when I went camping in the Brown mountains. There were a few of them, then they stopped and scanned the gorge with a sort of beam. Then they focused on my family and I, and they started to strobe at us as if they were trying to communicate.
We flashed flashlights back at them and they continued to flash at us. But, right after we took out a phone to try and record it they disappeared, and that was the end of it. This happened in the summer of 2014. Also, the lights were zipping above the tree tops and along the side of the mountain edges. Not anywhere a human could go, or anyway a human could move.”
Other theories range from campfires, to cars, to people throwing flashlights in the air, but most of these claims have been disproved by the many professional and amateur studies conducted in the area. Could there be a more perplexing explanation for this anomaly? Is it possible that the Brown Mountain harbors a secret alien base? Well, that would explain a good part, if not all the reports coming from the Brown Mountain in North Carolina.
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Alien Secrecy Remote Viewing UFOs and Stargates
Alien Secrecy Remote Viewing UFOs and Stargates
In this special Dark Journalist episode he welcomes back Bestselling author of Alien Agenda Jim Marrs for a fascinating rundown of his latest cutting edge research on UFOs, Remote Viewing, Stargates. Genetic Engineering and Alien DNA.
Remote Viewing UFOs
Marrs reveals his 20 year investigation into the shadowy Black Ops world of Psychic Spies, Remote Viewers, UFO Encounters and Government Cover-ups of advanced technology reverse-engineered from ET craft.
Some controversial Remote Viewing by its denizens Ingo Swann and Pat Price reveals that there are ET-controlled UFO bases on Earth, located in four very remote places, in separate continents across the planet.
Jim also sees a massive covert program dedicated to keeping the truth of alien involvement on Earth a secret and he details the efforts that Presidents from JFK onward have made, sometimes with fatal results, to wrest the control of the advanced UFO technology from the breakaway military faction inside the Deep National Security State!
Akhenaten is Moses
They also explore fascinating and undeniable links to alien involvement in our ancient past and the shocking implications of the parallel lives of the enigmatic Pharaoh Akhenaten and the Biblical Prophet Moses and how their historical paths have intertwined to such an astounding degree that it has led him to the stunning conclusion that they are in fact: The Same Person!
Jim describes evidence that strongly suggests that our distant ancestors were technologically advanced and that sophisticated devices like the Ark of the Covenant were achieved by a close interaction with an advanced off-world culture that is best recorded in the sumerian mythological and historical tablets as the Anunnaki.
He describes the two warring alien factions in possession of powerful genetic labs and DNA hybridization knowledge that were given the names Enki and Enlil and who formed the basis for the original books of the bible and represent the concepts of good and evil.
He also explores the incredible similarity between the Egyptian Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau, Mayan Astronomy Pyramid layouts, and Archaeological Ruins including the Face on Mars.
This strongly suggests an advanced off-world culture playing a major role in human development in antiquity.
Navy Whistleblower Richard Theilmann
Jim also reveals his connection to whistleblower Richard Theilmann, a Navy Lt. Commander and veteran of black ops that was part of a mission for the Secret Space Program to perform top secret surveillance of space targets and who had been operated on and given enhancements to help him perform Deep Space Missions.
The Cult of Secrecy
This fascinating Dark Journalist episode exposes the great expanse between the public consciousness and awareness about UFOs, largely controlled by the mass media vs the true reality on the ground, only available to a few elite insiders who form the greater part of an invisible power structure that is dedicated to ET secrecy in order to preserve the great advantage of the advanced off-world technology.
The massive system of Black Budget money that has been harvested from the public budget to research and develop UFO crash retrievals is becoming abundantly obvious as more and more billions go missing from the federal budget.
In addition, Marrs touches on his experience and research with anecdotes on the SRI Remote Viewing Program, NASA, Physicists Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff, Remote Viewers Ingo Swann and Pat Price, Harvard Professor John Mack, Colonel Phillip Corso, Astronaut Gordon Cooper, Military Cover-ups, and more…
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If Aliens Asked You to Board Their Craft,..What Would You Do?
If Aliens Asked You to Board Their Craft,..What Would You Do?
If Aliens Asked You to Board Their Craft,..What Would You Do?
This is a question I ponder many times when thinking about UFO’s and a possible Extraterrestrial Presence on Earth.
What would I do if a Extraterrestrial craft landed in my backyard and the door opened or some kind of entry appeared where it seemed like I was being invited in to the craft?
Here is my thoughts on how my experience may play out! Please tell me what yours may be!
Maybe “they” would even be beckoning me telepathically or even standing by the entrance gesturing for me to come forward into the craft.
So hopefully after my initial shock and disbelief I would be still be thinking rationally and come up with a answer and either move forward and enter or maybe try to ask a few important questions like, “So your not going to poke and probe?”,..and “We are coming back right?”
As I run this scenario thru the my thought process, I realize I also should be documenting my experience with photo’s and video! “Where’s my Camera?”, “I’m Exited, Overwhelmed and Delirious in What I should Do!”
Then reality sets in and questions rise up as to why I would be experiencing this?
Why Me?
If a highly advanced race of Aliens made the journey to earth ,…why my backyard?
Surely Stephen Hawking, Seth Shostak (head of SETI), or even Giorgio A. Tsoukalos the “Alien Guy” would be a better choice?
This cant be Good!
I revert back to instinct and a voice in my head screams load and clear!
“NOT IN MY BACKYARD!”
Humans are the Species on Earth that claims ownership to the Planet and the dirt beneath its feet. Although we share the Planet with millions of other species we have claimed that we are the dominate species and ruler of the Planet,..and its Galaxy. With our technological advances we have claimed the Moon, Mars and more as ours. If we land there,we own it type attitude. Consuming property as our history as shown over and over again with each human empire pushing for more land and more control.
We defend what we own.
As humans we own our backyard and eliminate any intruders we find “unworthy”. We manicure our lawns and eliminate pests, rodents and plants we consider undesirable. We get angry if our space is trespassed by other people, I myself have been frustrated with teenagers who use my backyard as a short cut between streets. Also in our community complaints arise about crop duster noise and low flying planes over “MY BACKYARD”.
Even if we traverse past our own claimed domains we make temporary ownership. We camp in a forests and bring weapons to protect agonist predators!… in their own backyard! We dam rivers, manipulate weather, and continue to defy mother nature and build wherever we want to.
We may decide that parts of the Amazon are needed for our expansion?,..Oh we have done that!,.. or the Moon is ripe for strip mining! The Planet Mars for our new home away from home!
Haman quest is to always to reach past that final frontier and stake the flag indicating ownership.
“Planting the flag” usually means making a claim to something, usually … Throughout history men have “planted the flag” claiming ownership.
Realizing that no self-respecting galactic colonization force can conquer other planets without a proper flag, Oskar Pernefeldt created the International Flag of Planet Earth and showed off how it might look on a spacesuit and planted on extra-terrestrial soil.
The International Flag of Planet Earth Finally, a signpost to plant when we conquer alien worlds.
So what would I do if a Alien Craft landed in my backyard?
Well, I didn’t go in to the backyard at night without some protection!
As the craft approached and attempted landing in my garden I unleashed a a warning shot over its spinning translucent top.
With visible extraterrestrials in the cockpit and as they ignored my warnings and landed on my sweet corn I took action.
I unleashed my Pit bulls on the open door in the craft! They took off as I unloaded the remaining bullets in the clip and although as they took off with my earth enslaved animals and seemed to explode in space due to the carnage I expect on board, I cant help wonder if they came in Peace?
This is just my thoughts and yours could be vastly different!
I hope they are and would love to hear them! (Cause I’m not a good ambassador candidate, obviously)
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Aliens Landing (In Your Back Yard!) John Prescott – Wingert-Jones Publications
WETENSCHAPEen groot raadsel van het heelal is opgelost. De mysterieuze zwaartekrachtgolven bestaan, zoals Albert Einstein honderd jaar geleden had voorspeld. Dat is donderdag bekendgemaakt. Het signaal werd op 14 september opgepikt door twee detectoren, allebei in de Verenigde Staten. Na doorrekenen bleek dat het geen meetfout was, maar een echte zwaartekrachtgolf. De golf is afkomstig van twee zwarte gaten, die 1,3 miljard jaar geleden op elkaar zijn geklapt en zijn samengegaan.
Tot nu toe waren we doof, maar nu kunnen we horen. We openen een raam naar het universum.
"Elk zwarte gat was ongeveer 150 kilometer in doorsnee, maar woog dertig keer zo veel als onze zon. Die zijn met de helft van de snelheid van het licht gebotst'', legde David Reitze van de detectoren uit.
De ontdekking gaat over het fundament van het heelal. Einstein stelde dat ruimte en tijd één geheel vormen. Dat noemde hij ruimtetijd. Die kan trillen. Daar zijn heftige gebeurtenissen voor nodig, zoals een botsing van twee zwarte gaten. Als dat gebeurt, gaan de schokgolven het heelal door, als rimpelingen na een steen in een vijver.
Bij een rimpeling rekt de ruimte iets uit of krimpt hij iets. Dat is nauwelijks meetbaar. Daardoor is het pas na honderd jaar gelukt met de meest geavanceerde laser-apparatuur. Wetenschappers zijn enthousiast omdat ze met zwaartekrachtgolven op een hele nieuwe manier naar het heelal kunnen kijken. Dan zien ze dingen die tot nu toe verborgen bleven, zoals objecten die geen licht uitstralen. "Tot nu toe waren we doof, maar nu kunnen we horen'', aldus Reitze. "We openen een raam naar het universum."
Wetenschappers van Caltech en het Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) maakten de aankondiging in Washington en andere locaties op de wereld. De voorbije dagen werd al vermoed dat de onderzoekers zouden aankondigen dat ze deze golven ontdekt hebben, wat de onderzoekers de Nobelprijs voor Fysica kan opleveren. Het signaal dat LIGO, een observatorium met sites in Louisiana en Washington, detecteerde, was heel duidelijk en laat geen ruimte voor twijfel, zei Bruce Allen, directeur ad interim van het Duitse Max Planck Instituut. De aankondiging bevestigt Einsteins laatste onbewezen theorie, die uit 1916 dateert. Volgens Einsteins theorie bewegen die golven in een vacuum aan de snelheid van het licht en laten ze de ruimte rimpelen.
VIDEOEen Amerikaanse onderzoeksgroep heeft donderdag aangekondigd dat ze voor de eerste keer zwaartekrachtgolven ontdekt heeft. Met deze ontdekking zetten de wetenschappers een forse stap vooruit naar een volledig begrip van de zwaartekracht. Einstein beschreef ze 100 jaar geleden voor het eerst als "rimpels in het weefsel van ruimtetijd". Volgens wetenschappers opent deze ontdekking ook "een nieuwe blik op de kosmos". "Deze golven kunnen ons toegang geven tot de donkere geheimen in het heelal", aldus professor Gijs Nelemans van het Instituut voor Sterrenkunde (KU Leuven) en betrokken bij het onderzoek.
Wetenschappers van Caltech en het Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) maakten de aankondiging in Washington en andere locaties op de wereld. De onderzoekers werkten nauw samen met hun collega's van het Franse CNRQ en het Frans-Italiaanse Virgo. De voorbije dagen werd al vermoed dat de onderzoekers zouden aankondigen dat ze deze golven ontdekt hebben, wat hen de Nobelprijs voor Fysica kan opleveren. Fysici maken de vergelijking met de ontdekking van het Higgs-Bosondeeltje, in 2012.
Het signaal dat LIGO, een observatorium met sites in Louisiana en Washington, detecteerde, was heel duidelijk en laat geen ruimte voor twijfel, zei Bruce Allen, directeur ad interim van het Duitse Max Planck Instituut.
Einsteins laatste onbewezen theorie De aankondiging bevestigt Einsteins laatste onbewezen theorie, die uit 1916 dateert. Die theorie bouwt voort op zijn algemene relativiteitstheorie, en zegt dat deze golven bewegen in een vacuüm aan de snelheid van het licht, en de ruimte laten rimpelen. Ze ontstaan wanneer grote objecten, zoals bijvoorbeeld sterren, zich verplaatsen. Ze comprimeren en rekken de ruimte, en zijn theoretisch beschouwd de dragers van de gravitatiestraling. Vaak wordt de vergelijking gemaakt met de kringen die zich vormen wanneer een steen in het water gegooid wordt.
Omdat deze golven waarnemen technologisch een enorme uitdaging is, liet dat nog 100 jaar op zich wachten. Dat kon met het LIGO-observatorium, een zogenaamde interferometer. Zo'n toestel bestaat uit twee armen van elk enkele kilometers lang die in een hoek van 90 graden staan. Als een zwaartekrachtgolf passeert, zal de ene arm wat langer worden, de andere wat korter. Dit minieme verschil moet met een heel grote nauwkeurigheid gemeten worden, wat de onderzoekers in staat stelde zo'n golf op 14 september vorig jaar te detecteren.
Die zwaartekrachtgolf was afkomstig uit twee samensmeltende zwarte gaten die zich op een afstand van ongeveer 1,5 miljard lichtjaar van de aarde bevinden. De zwarte gaten waren 35 en 30 zonsmassa's zwaar voordat ze samensmolten tot een nieuw, snel roterend zwart gat van 62 zonsmassa's. De overige drie zonsmassa's zijn, via Einsteins beroemde formule E = mc², omgezet in energie en uitgestraald als zwaartekrachtgolven.
Nieuw tijdperk voor sterrenkunde Astrofysicus David Shoemaker, bij het MIT verantwoordelijk voor LIGO, vermoedt dat deze ontdekking kan helpen om zicht te krijgen op hoe sterrenstelsels gevormd worden.
"Dit is het begin van een nieuw tijdperk voor de sterrenkunde", zegt Nelemans. Hij coördineerde de interpretatie van de gebeurtenis die aanleiding gaf tot de geobserveerde gravitatiegolven en is met zijn team lid van de Virgo-samenwerking, die een vergelijkbare detector bouwt in Italië. "We krijgen een hele nieuwe manier om naar het heelal te kijken en de meest extreme objecten te bestuderen."
WETENSCHAPSinds Einsteins relativiteitstheorie uit 1915 zijn fysici op zoek naar bewijs van zwaartekrachtsgolven. Vandaag wordt dat bewijs vermoedelijk geleverd, tijdens een aangekondigde presentatie van het LIGO-project. De ontdekking zal, als ze straks bevestigd wordt, volgens wetenschappers zeker beloond worden met een Nobelprijs. Maar wat zijn die zwaartekrachtsgolven nu eigenlijk?
Zwaartekrachtsgolven worden door wetenschappers het ontbrekende puzzelstuk in het heelal genoemd. Het bestaan ervan werd in 1915 voor het eerst voorspeld door Einstein, die jaren later echter aan zijn eigen theorie begon te twijfelen.
De bewegingen van massa in de ruimte veroorzaken cirkelvormige rimpelingen, die trekken en duwen aan de ruimte en alles wat daarin zit. Alles wat massa of energie heeft kan dergelijke zwaartekrachtsgolven veroorzaken en dus de ruimte vervormen.
Het LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory) in de Verenigde Staten werd gebouwd om zwaartekrachtsgolven te kunnen ontdekken. Het bestaat uit twee reusachtige golfdetectoren. Jarenlang werd er zonder resultaat gezocht. Recent werd het observatorium enkele jaren stilgelegd om het van de meest geavanceerde meetinstrumenten en gevoelige detectoren te voorzien. In september werd het weer in gebruik genomen. Wetenschappers voorspelden toen al dat het slechts een kwestie van tijd zou zijn voor het LIGO een baanbrekende ontdekking deed.
Een voorbeeld is de beweging van de de aarde rond de zon. De reden dat onze planeet in een cirkel draait, is de massa van de zon. Die is zo groot, dat ze de ruimte eromheen vervormt. Een object dat in een rechte lijn voorbij een dergelijke vervorming probeert te gaan, gaat automatisch in een cirkel bewegen.
In vergelijking met de andere krachten in het heelal is zwaartekracht echter zeer zwak. Daardoor hebben de meeste zwaartekrachtsgolven geen meetbaar effect. Om grote rimpelingen te veroorzaken die wij kunnen detecteren, zijn er destructieve gebeurtenissen nodig, zoals de explosie van een ster of een botsing van twee zwarte gaten. Als dat gebeurt, gaat er een schokgolf door het heelal, vergelijkbaar met de rimpelingen in het water nadat u een steen in een vijver gooit.
De Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA legt het visueel uit in onderstaande video, waarin ESA-wetenschapper Paul McNamara de ruimte voorstelt als een laken. De massa van een object doet dat laken doorbuigen, waardoor een knikker die errond beweegt vanzelf een boog volgt.
Een vergelijkbare uitleg krijgt u in deze video van PHD Comics, een project van wetenschapper Jorge Cham.
Europese en Amerikaanse wetenschappers hebben na honderd jaar waarschijnlijk eindelijk het bewijs gevonden waarnaar ze al die tijd op zoek waren. Vandaag komt er nieuws over het bestaan van zogeheten zwaartekrachtgolven. Die zijn het ontbrekende puzzelstuk in het heelal. Albert Einstein opperde dat al in 1916, maar alleen in theorie was berekend dat ze zouden moeten bestaan. Hard bewijs ontbrak tot nu toe.
De spanning in de wetenschap is al maanden voelbaar. Zolang gaan er al geruchten over onverwacht goede metingen van zwaartekrachtgolven bij LIGO, een duo van reusachtige golfdetectoren in de Amerikaanse staten Washington en Louisiana. De jongste weken bereikten die een nieuw hoogtepunt nadat een speciale LIGO-presentatie op de jaarconferentie van de Amerikaanse wetenschapsorganisatie AAAS in Washington werd aangekondigd.
De ontdekking gaat over het fundament van het heelal. Einstein stelde dat ruimte en tijd één geheel vormen, wat hij ruimtetijd noemde. Die ruimtetijd kan trillen. Daar zijn heftige gebeurtenissen voor nodig, zoals een botsing van twee zwarte gaten. Als dat gebeurt, gaan de schokgolven het heelal door, als rimpelingen na een steen in een vijver. De ruimte rekt iets uit of krimpt iets, ook al is het nauwelijks meetbaar.
Wetenschappers zijn enthousiast omdat ze met zwaartekrachtgolven op een hele nieuwe manier naar het heelal kunnen kijken. Dan zullen ze dingen zien die tot nu toe verborgen bleven. Zwarte gaten bijvoorbeeld, die geen licht uitzenden en al het licht opslokken. Dan kunnen wetenschappers misschien ook een beter beeld krijgen van de oerknal, waarmee het heelal ongeveer 13,7 miljard jaar geleden ontstond.
"Als ze beet hebben, is dit off the scale", zei CERN-fysicus Freya Blekman van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel, zelf niet bij het onderzoek betrokken, gisteren in de Volkskrant. Vorig jaar vergeleek Bernard Schutz van de Universiteit van Cardiff, tevens voormalig directeur van het Albert Einstein Institute in Potsdam, het heelal met een jungle. Astronomen hebben altijd naar het heelal gekeken als naar een foto van een jungle, zei hij. "Maar als je ook kunt luisteren, gaat er een hele nieuwe wereld voor je open. Ons heelal is een jungle, bevolkt door wilde dieren."
De presentatie van het langverwachte nieuws gebeurt gelijktijdig in de Verenigde Staten en Italië.
1916Albert Einstein voorspelt het bestaan van zwaartekrachtgolven
1937In een nieuw artikel twijfelt Einstein aan zijn eigen voorspellingen
1974De Amerikaanse astronomen Russell Hulse en Joe Taylor vinden indirect bewijs voor het bestaan van zwaartekrachtgolven, door te kijken naar het baanenergieverlies van een dubbelster
2002De Amerikaanse LIGO-detector verricht zijn eerste metingen, een jaar later gevolgd door de Europese tegenhanger Virgo
2015Advanced LIGO gaat van start (18 september): nieuwe apparatuur met een tien maal zo hoge gevoeligheid
2015Lancering van de Europese satelliet LISA Pathfinder (2 december), om technologieën uit te testen voor een toekomstige zwaartekrachtgolfdetector in de ruimte
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Liegt NASA over grote UFO bij asteroïde die pas langs de aarde vloog?
Liegt NASA over grote UFO bij asteroïde die pas langs de aarde vloog?
Op internet wordt al enige tijd druk gediscussieerd over de asteroïde 2004 BL86 die eind vorige maand langs de aarde vloog. Uit beelden die zijn gemaakt met een radiotelescoop van de NASA blijkt dat de asteroïde een eigen maan heeft.
De asteroïde is ongeveer 325 meter groot en eromheen cirkelt een maantje van zo’n 70 meter in doorsnee. Van alle asteroïden die in de buurt van de aarde komen, heeft ongeveer 16 procent één of twee maantjes, aldus de NASA. Het duurt zeker 200 jaar voor 2004 BL86 weer in de buurt van de aarde komt.
Cilindervormige romp
Volgens sommigen liegt de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie en is het object in werkelijkheid een UFO. In een filmpje op YouTube claimt Tyler van de groep Secureteam10 dat het object niet lijkt op een doorsnee maan.
Hij stelt dat het object een lange cilindervormige romp heeft en aan weerszijden twee kleinere kokers bevat. Hij zei geen ‘sluitend bewijs’ te hebben dat het een ruimteschip is, maar is ‘redelijk zeker’ van zijn zaak.
Korrelig en onscherp
“Als de NASA betere beelden vindt zal het ruimteagentschap die bewerken zodat het object alsnog op een maan lijkt,” zei Tyler.
Sommige YouTube-gebruikers zijn het met hem eens. Eén iemand schreef: “We moeten allemaal kritisch blijven als we informatie krijgen van de NASA. Het is je goed recht om te denken dat dit iets anders is dan een maan. Ik sta achter je.”
Iemand anders schreef: “Geweldige beelden. De meesten weten het al. NASA staat voor Never A Straight Answer.”
Anderen zeggen dat het gewoon een maan is. Zij zijn van mening dat de maan een ongewone vorm heeft omdat de foto’s korrelig en onscherp zijn.
Wij schrijven al langer over de vreemde wolken die je soms in de lucht ziet en die daar eigenlijk op dat moment niet op een natuurlijke manier thuis horen.
Wanneer je daar een beetje op let, zie je vaak dat er zich in die wolk een UFO bevindt zoals dit ook gebeurde in Colorado.
De volgende opname is gemaakt in oktober 2014 in de Amerikaanse staat Colorado.
Een man zit op zijn veranda naar de lucht te kijken en ziet op een gegeven moment een merkwaardige wolk.
Niet alleen dat, maar er komt een UFO uit tevoorschijn.
De man heeft dit soort UFO’s diverse malen waargenomen in Colorado Springs, maar was er nog nooit in geslaagd om dit op film vast te leggen.
Wat hem zelf niet is opgevallen, is dat het vreemd is als je een strakblauwe lucht hebt en daar fladdert als het ware een donkere verdwaalde wolk rond. Die bovendien duidelijk wordt gebruikt door de UFO door er in en uit te vliegen.
Misschien is deze kleine UFO een verkenner en bevindt zich binnen in de wolk een groter schip wat op deze manier voor de buitenwereld verborgen blijft.
Het is eigenlijk merkwaardig hoe weinig mensen naar boven kijken en werkelijk zien wat er boven hun hoofd gebeurt.
Misschien, als je zelf ook graag een keer UFO’s wilt zien, is het een idee om te beginnen met goed op te letten op vreemde wolken in de lucht. Een enkele wolk in een verder onbewolkte hemel is vreemd.
Glowing UFO Over Winchester, Hampshire, UK On Jan 12, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Over Winchester, Hampshire, UK On Jan 12, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 12th 2016 Time of sighting: 03:30-03:35 Location of sighting: Southeast of Winchester, Hampshire, UK These glowing UFOs have been recorded around the globe year round. They are there during day (not glowing, but white) and glow like a star at night. They are most often diamond or crystal shaped. Sometimes having small orbs orbiting it every few seconds...which some older UFO reports that the tiny orbs are guidance systems...a type of security blanket for the UFO. I recorded a similar one over Taiwan a few years ago (click here), which was also seen over China just days earlier. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Witness states: As is often my habit I was skywatching early on the morning of January 12th 2016 when I noticed among the sparsely laid out starfield a 'star' which seemed to be moving at very high altitude. I quickly checked my suspicions (as to actual movement over the illusion of movement due to atmospherics) with binoculars and then filmed two short sample footage sessions with my digital camera, wherein during the second session the object seemed to shoot out of sight. The object seemed to consist of a dull section which remained off to the left of the frame and the more brilliantly lit, and at times, haloed object which was from my point of view making small triangular course changes in the sky while I observed. I apologize for the low quality video, but after conversion and in order to make it available from the original high-format it was necessary to reduce the depth as to make it possible for sending to B.E.A.M.S. for inclusion in their archives, although I have the original video here unaltered.
Interesting UFO activity over Air Force Base in Homestead, Florida
Interesting UFO activity over Air Force Base in Homestead, Florida
Here’s one new footage of a bright unidentified flying object flying across the sky above Homestead in Florida. This was filmed on 10th February 2016.
Witness report:Swirls of light in the sky in early morning close to Air Force Base Leaving my home in the morning to work when I saw swirls of lights in the sky in a pack but scattered a bit from each others. Seemed like burning debree falling from the sky. But the flame looking objects stayed and swirled around and return to its original spot. There was more than 6 of them and then slowly faded away one by one. This was close to the Air Force Base in Homestead, Fl. This is the first time I see anything such as this
Over the last year, U. Mass Dartmouth physicist Gaurav Khanna and his colleagues have been using a high-powered platform of computers to simulate the interior of a rotating black hole.
Although moviegoers have been treated to a view of the interior maelstrom in the popular film Interstellar, scientists have actually never been able to simulate the inside of a black hole until now.
The good news is that, theoretically, using a black hole as a portal to other points in the universe could be possible.
“This has never been done before,” Khanna told me in an email, “although there has been lots of speculation for decades on what actually happens inside a black hole.”
The problem is challenging. Together with Lior M. Burko, professor at the School of Science and Technology, Georgia Gwinnett College, Lawrenceville, Georgia; and Anil Zenginoglu of the Center for Scientific Computation and Mathematical Modeling, University of Maryland; Khanna developed several new mathematical and computational techniques which they applied with the help of Khanna’s unique Sony Playstation based array of processors.
(Image courtesy of NASA/Alain Riazuelo.)
According to the U. Mass press release:
They used a linear model, which allows them to simulate the early portion of the inner horizon of an old black hole, very much like the black hole shown on Interstellar. For the first time it became possible to see how physical fields blow up on the approach to the singularity. The simulation shows that the singularity is weak, in the sense that while the gravitational tidal forces blow up, they do so fast enough that their interaction with physical objects is still bounded, such that the latter may arrive intact to the singularit
In essence, Khanna et al have shown that space travel, or more accurately spacetimetravel, via black hole could work. Their simulation is certainly consistent with any number of science fiction novels in which black holes are used as portals for the adventurous.
Computer models are, of course, limited by their nature. Khanna’s simulation captures some of the features of the physical system, the early phases of the singularity, but it is by no means a colete rendering.
More complex models need to be tried, he said. And one major challenge, for example, is how the features of the singularity would be modified by quantum gravity, a theory that is still yet to be fully worked out by physicists.
“I expect this to be a new additional area of focus for my research program over the next several years,” said Khanna.
Of course, this still leaves unsolved the problem of how to transport astronauts to the nearest useful black hole. But that’s a problem for engineers….
Waarom we nog geen bezoek van aliens hebben ontvangen?
Waarom we nog geen bezoek van aliens hebben ontvangen?
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Nu astronomen dankzij nieuwe onderzoekstechnieken en krachtige telescopen steeds meer planeten ontdekken waar de omstandigheden geschikt zijn voor de ontwikkeling van leven, rijst de vraag waarom we tot nu toe geen signalen van aliens hebben ontvangen?
Een groep Australische ruimtedeskundigen heeft daarvoor een eenvoudige uitleg: buitenaards leven sterft uit voor het intelligent kan worden.
Volgens de onderzoekers bieden de meeste bewoonbare planeten een te onstabiele omgeving voor de ontwikkeling van intelligent leven. Veel van die planeten lijken op Mars of Venus, zeggen de wetenschappers: ze kenden ooit wel een periode van gematigde temperaturen, maar tegenwoordig zijn ze zo koud of juist zo warm dat leven er onmogelijk is geworden.
Te fragiel om te overleven
Alle microbiële leven dat op zulke planeten kon ontstaan is dus wellicht uitgestorven voor het zich kon ontwikkelen.
“Vroege levensvormen zijn fragiel, we geloven dat ze zelden de kans krijgen om zich te ontwikkelen,” zegt astro-biologe Aditya Chopra van de Australische National University in een uitzending van CBSNews.
Omdat het erop lijkt dat intelligent leven miljarden jaren evolutie nodig heeft om zich te ontwikkelen – op een planeet met een uitzonderlijk stabiele omgeving – is het wellicht extreem zeldzaam. Mogelijk is de aarde zelfs de enige planeet waar intelligent leven een kans kreeg, zo denken de wetenschappers.
A powerful greenhouse effect can destroy a planet's chances of hosting life, a new study suggests.
Until proven otherwise, scientists on Earth assume water is necessary for life to arise on other planets. In the search for life outside the solar system, scientists focus on a "habitable zone" around other stars. Inside such a habitable zone, Earth-like planets are neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on the surface.
A planet that orbits too close to its sun may become parched because of the solar heat. But now, scientists think an extreme greenhouse effect can also push a planet into dry conditions — similar to what happened on Venus. [A Field Guide to Alien Planets]
The new research shows that warming due to carbon dioxide is as powerful as solar heat due to orbit when it comes to drying out a planet. The modeling study was published today (Feb. 9) in the journal Nature Communications.
"This is interesting because it tells you that you need to know more than just the position of a planet to know whether it might be habitable or not," said Max Popp, lead author of the study and a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, Germany.
In the case of hot, hellish Venus, water that evaporated from the planet's surface built up high in the planet's atmosphere and eventually escaped into space. This is called a "moist greenhouse." Today, the atmosphere of Venus is almost entirely carbon dioxide. (Earth is able to keep its water because this planet's upper atmosphere is quite dry.)
To better understand the conditions that trigger such extremegreenhouse effects, Popp and his colleagues created a 3D model of an Earth-like planet that was entirely covered by water. This simulated water-world meant the scientists could ignore the complicated effects of continents and seasons.
The researchers discovered that once carbon dioxide levels in the model reached 1,520 parts per million, the planet's climate was unstable. The surface temperatures rapidly jumped to about 135 degrees Fahrenheit (57 degrees Celsius), creating a warm, moist greenhouse regime, the study reported. (The measurement means there are 1,520 molecules of carbon dioxide for every 1 million air molecules.)
"A planet like Earth will eventually change to a very warm climate, and it will occur relatively abruptly," Popp told Live Science.
The researchers think changes in large-scale cloud patterns drive the warm, moist greenhouse effect, Popp said. The location and thickness of cloud cover can change how much solar heat is trapped on a planet.
Although the findings suggest that greenhouse gases can be as lethal for a planet as orbiting too close to a sun, this process would occur at carbon dioxide levels significantly higher than those experienced on Earth today, the researchers said.
Popp said it's likely impossible for human activity to induce a similar moist greenhouse effect on Earth. To do so, human activity would have to raise the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere considerably, even more than if all the available fossil fuel reserves were burned, the researchers said.
"This is an idealized study designed to give a comparison between solar [heating] and carbon dioxide," Popp said. As such, Popp said a similar scenario wouldn't happen on Earth anytime soon.
NASA's 2017 Budget Request: Reactions from Space Industry Experts, Lawmakers
NASA's 2017 Budget Request: Reactions from Space Industry Experts, Lawmakers
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
Artist's concept showing the 77-ton configuration of NASA’s Space Launch System rocket launching into space.
Credit: NASA/MSFC
The proposed NASA budget for the 2017 fiscal year, $19 billion, has evoked mixed reactions from government officials and space organizations.
White House officials unveiled the Obama administration's 2017 budget proposal today (Feb. 9), and NASA's share came in $300 million lower than the agency's final budget for 2016. The proposed NASA budget would decrease funding of space exploration but add some to aeronautics and space technology and redistribute the science budget. A breakdown of the budget request is available here, and there is also a full summary available.
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas, chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives' Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, expressed disappointment in the proposal's allotment to different projects.
"This administration cannot continue to tout plans to send astronauts to Mars while strangling the programs that will take us there," he said in a statement. "And the administration once more proposes cuts of more than $100 million to the planetary-science accounts, which have previously funded missions like this past year's Pluto flyby.
"At the same time, this proposal shrinks space exploration priorities within NASA's budget; it disproportionately increases earth-science accounts to more than $2 billion — a 70 percent increase since 2007," Smith continued. "This imbalanced proposal continues to tie our astronauts' feet to the ground and makes a Mars mission all but impossible. This is not the proposal of an administration that is serious about maintaining America's leadership in space."
However,Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, who also serves on the House Science Committee, praised the program overall.
"As in past years, the president's budget will help ensure that the U.S. can compete in a 21st century global economy and solidify America's place as a scientific and technological leader," Johnson said in a statement. "The investments in the full range R&D and STEM — including advanced manufacturing research, prioritizing basic research, investing in clean transportation and civil space activities, and education programs like Computer Science for All — are truly investments to help us meet our greatest challenges not only for the year ahead, but for decades to come."
Mary Lynne Ditmar, director of the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration, a space advocacy organization, expressed concern.
"While we appreciate the funding proposed for the International Space Station and its transportation systems, space science programs — including the James Webb Space Telescope, and proposed deep-space habitat — we are deeply concerned about the administration's proposed cut to NASA's human exploration development programs," she said in a statement.
"This proposed budget falls well short of the investment needed to support NASA's exploration missions, and would have detrimental impacts on cornerstone, game-changing programs such as the superheavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS) and the Orion spacecraft — the first spacecraft designed to reach multiple destinations in the human exploration of deep space," she added.
"The greatest challenge to these programs is not technical, but budget stability — plain and simple," Ditmar continued. "At this critical stage, it is important to ensure that the significant progress already made on the development of the SLS and Orion spacecraft continues, so as to meet important milestones, including the first integrated launch in 2018 and crewed missions beginning in 2021. Fully developing these systems will enable the United States to realize its aspirations for human exploration, planetary missions, international collaboration and scientific discovery."
Eric Stallmer, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, praised the budget proposal. "I commend the Administration for crafting a budget that provides robust funding for NASA and FAA AST," he said, referring to the Federal Aviation Administration's Office of Commercial Space Transportation. "We applaud the proposals that would enable and utilize private space capabilities to help build a sustainable American expansion into the solar system from the edge of space through low-Earth orbit to the moon and beyond. It builds on the strong foundation established by the FY16 Omnibus and Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act. We look forward to working with the Congress to fully fund a number of the proposals in this request, while also championing efforts to shore up areas that need additional input and support."
Casey Dreier, The Planetary Society's director of space policy, broke down the proposed budget overall on the society's blog. On planetary science in particular, he said: "Well, we're five for five. This is the fifth year in a row that the White House has proposed cutting NASA's Planetary Science Division. While every other science division at NASA would receive a funding boost in this budget, Planetary Science, the year after flying by Pluto and confirming flowing water on Mars, earns a $110 million cut.
"Now, credit where credit is due," he continued. "The request is for $1.52 billion, which, compared to previous requests, is a marked improvement and very much a step in the right direction. We've been advocating for at least $1.5 billion for this program for years now, and it is satisfying to see this number reflected back in the president's budget.
"But the fact of the matter is that this program has been underfunded for years and needs to rebuild," Dreier continued. "Congress stepped up and provided $1.631 billion last year, and that number needs to continue to improve in order to position NASA for a spectacular decade of planetary exploration in the 2020s. As expected, most of the cut appears to impact the Europa mission (which would get about $50 million in 2017, down from $175 million in 2016). The administration is sticking with its intent to launch in the late 2020s. The request tones down some of the optimistic planning for the Europa flyby mission set forth in last year's budget. NASA runs the numbers to assume an Atlas V launch, not SLS, though SLS is very much under consideration.
"In more positive news, all existing missions are funded through 2017," Dreier said. "That means [the Mars rover] Opportunity can keep on roving, and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter can keep collecting data through the year. No arbitrary zeroing out of mission budgets here."
Some Scientific Facts About Crop Circles That Nobody Really Knows About
Some Scientific Facts About Crop Circles That Nobody Really Knows About
Crop circles have been appearing around the globe for a very long time, and while some might represent the sloppy and obvious work of a few pranksters, others are so elaborate, so clever, so intricate, and so meaningful that their creation would require the use of highly advanced technology. It’s truly difficult to imagine how some of these designs could be done in the dead of night, with no footprints left behind, in just a few hours of time.
“Some of these formations are so immense and complex as to defy reason. And after all these decades, none of the perpetrators have been caught in the act of making any of the truly extraordinary formations.” – Richard Dolan, historian, academic, author, and one of the world’s leading UFO researchers (source)
The circles that are most likely to be genuine have actually been being studied by reputable scientists from all over the world for decades. For example, Richard Taylor, a University of Oregon physicist, published a paper on them in the 2011 issue of Physics World, stating:
Crop circle arts are not going to give up their secrets easily. This summer, unknown artists will venture into the countryside close to your homes and carry out their craft, safe in the knowledge that they are continuing the legacy of the most science-oriented art movement in history. (source)
Yes, you read that correctly: “the most science-oriented art movement in history.” What would cause a physicist to conclude that these works do not have an extraterrestrial explanation? or to even consider the issue seriously? This photo might offer some clues:
Above is a picture of an 800 foot crop circle that appeared in Wiltshire, England back in 2001. It caused a lot of commotion, and as you can see, it was very beautiful and extremely complex. The design consisted of 409 circles that form what’s known as a triskelion, a symbol that dates back thousands of years. There is some great footage of it in the documentary Crop Cricles: Quest for Truth by Academy Award-winning director William Gazecki. You can view that here.
“It was so large that it took us half an hour to find the center.” (quote taken from video link below)
There are some more great images of it in this YouTube video. You can also see footage of it taken by a helicopter flying above from the documentary Thrive in this video (at the 26.16 minute mark). This circle marks just one of thousands of verified formations that continue to baffle scientists, researchers, and onlookers alike.
Richard Taylor, the aforementioned scientist who studied these circles, again expressed his belief that this was one of the greatest art revolutions in history when he published his scientific analysis of crop circles in the journal Nature in 2010.
After studying the affected grass in the lab, he concluded that the circle makers must be using GPS devices, lasers, and microwaves to create these designs because the nodes of some of the stalks had been blasted out on one side. This same effect has been replicated by highly localized microwave heating, which is what causes the stocks to flop over to one side.
While he was able to come up with a scientifically feasible explanation for this phenomenon, he fails to address how hoaxers could come into possession of such advanced technology. It’s clear that there would be no other way to make some of these circles, so what is really going on here?
“If something like this caused the formations, then we are clearly talking about a highly sophisticated agency behind the phenomenon.” – Richard Dolan (source)
Did you know that the electromagnetic field over the area where a circle appears is usually electrostatically charged? Or that there is a rare form of electromagnetic energy called an “ionized plasma vortex,” also known as ball lighting, involved with these formations? (source)
The helicopters you see in the video are military helicopters. Military involvement with UFOs is well documented, and this should be no surprise. For more information on that you can read this article.
These are verified facts, which is why studies published in scientific journals have tried to come up with explanations that differ from unknown or extraterrestrial. For example, Dr. Terence Meadon, a professional physicist, meteorologist, and archaeologist at the University of Oxford, said that these balls of light are a result of wind currents and ionized plasmas. Whatever the case may be, the fact that scientists are taking note should signal that this phenomenon is worth our attention.
“The patterns of the formations themselves have been studied endlessly. Aside from being supremely beautiful, many seem to be messages in one form or another, often with cosmological implications. None seem ominous or evil. If one receives any sense or feeling from them, it is benevolence. If it were to be the case that these formations are created by an extraterrestrial or non-human intelligence, we may conclude that at least one of the groups here might in fact care about us and wish to help us.” – Richard Dolan (source)
So, the next time somebody tells you about a crop circle, perhaps you should think twice before brushing it off as a hoax. Although many of them are, some truly do seem to be otherworldly.
Have you ever wanted to reach out from far away and just … slap someone? Usually, it’s pretty difficult, but if you’re both standing in some water, it’s not so hard. You slap the water, the water makes a wave, the wave travels to your adversary and it does the slapping for you.
The key here is the nature of space-time. I’ve discussed before the importance of space-time — how space and time are unified in a single fabric that stretches across eternity in four dimensions. That was the magic that enabled Albert Einstein to develop his theory of special relativity. But to make special relativity more general, Einstein had to make another leap: Space-time isn’t just a stage, fixed and unmoving, a background for all particles and forces to play around on.
In general relativity, space-time is dynamic. The stage is an actor, too! It can warp and twist, and bend and flex. It can wave. It responds to the presence of matter and energy, and can influence the behavior of that same matter and energy, exactly as you can. Space-time is a thing.
Space-time isn’t a wooden floor; it’s a trampoline. It bends and curves underneath you, and that bending affects the motion of stuff around you. Go ahead: Stand in the center of a trampoline, and have a few friends roll some balls around. Look at how their paths curve. Congrats — you’re a living, breathing general-relativity demo.
Just like any other dynamic stuff, like water or air, space-time allows waves to travel through it. But waves of what?
Well, water waves are waves made of water. Air waves are made of air. Space-time waves are made of … you guessed it: space-time!
I feel the need to note that this is a huge prediction of general relativity, and would never come about in pure Newtonian gravity. In fact, I’m pretty sure Isaac Newton would have you imprisoned for even mentioning it.
You can think of a wave as a disturbance in both time and space. Float in one spot in the ocean, and you will bob up and down with each passing crest. Take a picture of the ocean from your penthouse balcony, a moment frozen in time, and you can see the wave pattern stretch to the horizon.
But if you’re doing your buoy impersonation (“David Buoy?”) in the middle of the water, you’ll notice that unless there’s a current dragging you around, you’ll actually stay more or less in one spot. Bobbing up and down, yes, but always returning to where you started. Waves don’t transfer stuff; they transfer energy.
That’s what enables the slapping. The waves breaking on a shoreline are the result of distant ferocious storms beating against the water or faraway winds brushing across the surface. You can’t see the storm, but it still gets to transfer some of its energy to you.
And gravitational waves (note here, they are not "gravity waves"; that name was taken before general relativity got going) are similar. They make you bob up and down. Well, almost. It’s more like in and out. Or stretchy-squeezy, like space-time is playing with putty. As a gravitational wave passes through you, you literally get stretched out and squashed, over and over again.
But how could a simple ripple in space-time affect you like that? What force is it using? It’s using gravity, because that’s what gravity is: the bending and warping of space-time. And if space-time is wiggling, you get to jiggling.
It’s pretty easy to make a gravitational wave. Just move around. See? I said it was easy! But to make one even barely substantial, it helps to be heavy. Like black-hole heavy. [The Search for Gravitational Waves (Gallery)]
Brian Greene Explains That Whole General Relativity Thing
A black hole just sitting there, minding its own business, isn’t going to make waves, just as you standing in the center of a pool won’t. But if that black hole starts moving — say, by spiraling in on a collision course with a relative — it’s going to ring space-time like a bell.
Those waves travel throughout space-time at the speed of light, eventually washing over the Earth. But even big waves from the most momentous events in the universe are exceedingly tough to find. I mean, it’s not like you or I feel continuously taller and shorter minute by minute. You might feel them, if they were strong enough — or if you were unlucky enough to get close to the merger event — but even the heavies in our universe make only the barest of space-time breezes.
It’s not like we haven’t seen evidence for gravitational waves already. The 1993 Nobel Prize in physics was awarded for the indirect detection of these waves: a pulsar orbiting a neutron star, steadily losing energy by waving the space-time underneath them, causing them to slowly fall together.
What we’re hoping for with experiments like the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is to directly observe gravitational waves as they slosh onto the Earth. Imagine all the fantastic events happening in the cosmos: black holes colliding, massive stars blowing up, even the faintest whispers from the universe’s earliest moments. But shrouded behind dense layers of impenetrable gas or buried deep in cosmic time, they remain unreachable, inaccessible to traditional astronomy. But the waves persist.
The ability to directly see gravitational waves would take the blinders off one of the last great windows into the universe, allowing us to study the fundamentals of gravity in some of the most extreme corners of the cosmos. What wonders will be revealed to us? What new mysteries will confront and confound us?
The sky above us is ringing from the cacophony of countless bells, each one given a unique signature from the event that created it. Those waves wash over us and through us, subtly and gently flexing the space-time under our feet and in our bodies.
Somewhere out in deep space, a black hole is trying to slap you. Gently, caressingly, but slap you nonetheless. Can you feel it?
Editor's Note: The LIGO team is holding a news conference Thursday (Feb. 11) at 10:30 a.m. EST (1530 GMT) to provide a "status report" on the search for gravitational waves. You can watch this news conference, which is widely expected to announce history's first direct detection of these space-time ripples, live here at Space.com.
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The witness was driving her husband, who finished work at midnight, and her baby daughter from their home in Wagga Wagga to her parent’s home at Jamberoo, near Kiama, for the weekend. Shortly after leaving Wagga on the Hume Hwy with her husband and baby asleep, a large brightly luminous disc shape UFO appeared in the sky ahead of her at an estimated 300-400 metres distance. The object stayed in this position while she drove approx. 120 km., disappearing as she went through towns, and appearing again on the other side of the town. It mostly stayed relatively still but occasionally shot off at great speed to the left or right only to return seconds later to the same position. The object disappeared just north of Goulburn as the dawn was lightening the sky. It rapidly gained altitude until out of sight in seconds. There was no interference with the normal operation of the car , according to the witness and the amount of traffic she remembers was normal for that time of morning.
Supposedly after having great difficulty waking her husband at one point, he glanced at the object , mumbled “yeah yeah” and was immediately asleep again. Normally on this trip she would stop at Yass for an hour’s break for coffee and arrive at Jamberoo at about 7- 7.30am. This time, on arrival she was genuinely surprised to find the trip had taken 1.5 to 2 hours longer than normal, even without the break at Yass. No subsequent sickness or body markings were noticed and as the witness suspected no abduction at that time no further investigation was undertaken until reported to Paradox in 1997.
REPORT STATUS. Celestial records show no planet, star or even the moon, which could have explained the sighting. The lack of reaction from other traffic could indicate the phenomenon was a purely subjective one, however, until further evidence is forthcoming the case will remain as UNEXPLAINED.
In this special Dark Journalist episode he welcomes back Bestselling author of Alien Agenda Jim Marrs for a fascinating rundown of his latest cutting edge research on UFOs, Remote Viewing, Stargates. Genetic Engineering and Alien DNA.
Remote Viewing UFOs
Marrs reveals his 20 year investigation into the shadowy Black Ops world of Psychic Spies, Remote Viewers, UFO Encounters and Government Cover-ups of advanced technology reverse-engineered from ET craft.
Some controversial Remote Viewing by its denizens Ingo Swann and Pat Price reveals that there are ET-controlled UFO bases on Earth, located in four very remote places, in separate continents across the planet.
Jim also sees a massive covert program dedicated to keeping the truth of alien involvement on Earth a secret and he details the efforts that Presidents from JFK onward have made, sometimes with fatal results, to wrest the control of the advanced UFO technology from the breakaway military faction inside the Deep National Security State!
Akhenaten is Moses
They also explore fascinating and undeniable links to alien involvement in our ancient past and the shocking implications of the parallel lives of the enigmatic Pharaoh Akhenaten and the Biblical Prophet Moses and how their historical paths have intertwined to such an astounding degree that it has led him to the stunning conclusion that they are in fact: The Same Person!
Jim describes evidence that strongly suggests that our distant ancestors were technologically advanced and that sophisticated devices like the Ark of the Covenant were achieved by a close interaction with an advanced off-world culture that is best recorded in the sumerian mythological and historical tablets as the Anunnaki.
He describes the two warring alien factions in possession of powerful genetic labs and DNA hybridization knowledge that were given the names Enki and Enlil and who formed the basis for the original books of the bible and represent the concepts of good and evil.
He also explores the incredible similarity between the Egyptian Great Pyramid on the Giza Plateau, Mayan Astronomy Pyramid layouts, and Archaeological Ruins including the Face on Mars.
This strongly suggests an advanced off-world culture playing a major role in human development in antiquity.
Navy Whistleblower Richard Theilmann
Jim also reveals his connection to whistleblower Richard Theilmann, a Navy Lt. Commander and veteran of black ops that was part of a mission for the Secret Space Program to perform top secret surveillance of space targets and who had been operated on and given enhancements to help him perform Deep Space Missions.
The Cult of Secrecy
This fascinating Dark Journalist episode exposes the great expanse between the public consciousness and awareness about UFOs, largely controlled by the mass media vs the true reality on the ground, only available to a few elite insiders who form the greater part of an invisible power structure that is dedicated to ET secrecy in order to preserve the great advantage of the advanced off-world technology.
The massive system of Black Budget money that has been harvested from the public budget to research and develop UFO crash retrievals is becoming abundantly obvious as more and more billions go missing from the federal budget.
In addition, Marrs touches on his experience and research with anecdotes on the SRI Remote Viewing Program, NASA, Physicists Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff, Remote Viewers Ingo Swann and Pat Price, Harvard Professor John Mack, Colonel Phillip Corso, Astronaut Gordon Cooper, Military Cover-ups, and more…
DO YOU KNOW NIKOLA TESLA’S 5 LOST INVENTIONS THAT THREATENED THE GLOBAL ELITE?
DO YOU KNOW NIKOLA TESLA’S 5 LOST INVENTIONS THAT THREATENED THE GLOBAL ELITE?
Most great inventions fundamentally change the society in which they exist. Since the people at the top of the social structure have more to gain by reinforcing the status quo, they suppress revolutionary technologies favorable to the world but dangerous to their existence. Engineering genius Nikola Tesla was no exception. Here’re some of those technologies, ‘they’ don’t want you to know about Nikola Tesla:
Death Ray
Nikola Tesla claimed to have invented a “death beam” which he called Teleforce in the 1930s. The device was capable of generating an intense targeted beam of energy “that could be used to dispose of enemy warplanes, foreign armies, or anything else you’d rather didn’t exist”. The so-called “death ray” was never constructed because he believed it would become too easy for counties to destroy each other. Tesla proposed that a nation could “destroy anything approaching within 200 miles… [and] will provide a wall of power” in order to “make any country, large or small, impregnable against armies, airplanes, and other means for attack”. He said that efforts had been made to steal the invention. His room had been entered and his papers had been scrutinized, but the thieves, or spies, left empty-handed.
Tesla’s Oscillator
In 1898, Tesla claimed he had built and deployed a small oscillating device that, when attached to his office and operating, nearly shook down the building and everything around it. In other words, the device could allegedly simulate earthquakes. Realizing the potential terrors such a device could create, “Tesla said he took a hammer to the oscillator to disable it, instructing his employees to claim ignorance to the cause of the tremors if asked”. Some theorists believe the government continues to use Tesla’s research in places like the HAARP facility in Alaska.
Free Electricity System
With funding from JP Morgan, Tesla designed and built Wardenclyffe Tower, a gigantic wireless transmission station, in New York in 1901-1902. Morgan thought the Wardenclyffe Tower could provide wireless communication across the world. However, Tesla had other plans.
Tesla intended to transmit messages, telephony and even facsimile images across the Atlantic to England and to ships at sea based on his theories of using the Earth to conduct the signals. If the project worked, anyone could have electricity by simply sticking a rode into the ground. Unfortunately, free electricity is not profitable. And this system could be incredibly dangerous for the global elite because it could profoundly change the energy industry. Imagine how different the world would be if society didn’t need oil and coal to function? Could the great world powers maintain control? Morgan refused to fund the changes. The project was abandoned in 1906 and never became operational.
The Flying Saucer
In 1911, Nikola Tesla told The New York Herald that he was working on an anti gravity “flying machine”.
“My flying machine will have neither wings nor propellers. You might see it on the ground and you would never guess that it was a flying machine. Yet it will be able to move at will through the air in any direction with perfect safety, at higher speeds than have yet been reached, regardless of weather and oblivious of “holes in the air” or downward currents. It will ascend in such currents if desired. It can remain absolutely stationary in the air, even in a wind, for great length of time. Its lifting power will not depend upon any such delicate devices as the bird has to employ, but upon positive mechanical action.”
Tesla’s flying saucer was powered by free energy system at a time when the fledgling aviation and motor car industry depended on oil and petroleum. His invention met the same fate as his free energy system.
Improved Airships
Tesla proposed that electrically-powered airships would transport passengers from New York to London in three hours, traveling eight miles above the ground. He also imagined that airships might draw their power from the very atmosphere, never needing to stop for refueling. Unmanned airships might even be used to transport passengers to a preselected destination or for a remote aerial strike. He was never given credit for his invention. However, today, we have unmanned drones carrying out combat missions, supersonic airplanes that fly at amazing speeds and space shuttle technology that can circle the Earth in the upper atmosphere.
It was long suspected that the FBI literally stole all of his work, research, and inventions that he had in his possession when he died. This rumor has now been confirmed by recent, heavily redacted Freedom of Information Act requests released by the FBI
This 8 Minute Surgery Will Give You Superhuman Vision For The Rest Of Time
This 8 Minute Surgery Will Give You Superhuman Vision For The Rest Of Time
In an incredible feat of modern science and medicine, a new bionic lens for the eye currently in development would give humans 3x 20/20 vision at any age. Called Ocumetics Bionic Lens, the lens was developed by Dr. Garth Webb, an optometrist from British Columbia, Canada, who sought a way to optimize eyesight.
With this lens, patients would have flawless vision. No more glasses for driving or reading and no more invasive contact lenses either. Glasses will one day be a thing of the past.
The lens is surgically implanted too, meaning you can never get cataracts as the lens replaces that of your natural eye. Anyone over the age of 25 is ideal for the surgery.
"This is vision enhancement that the world has never seen before," says Dr. Webb "If you can just barely see the clock at 10 feet, when you get the Bionic Lens you can see the clock at 30 feet away."
The surgery is quick and painless with Dr. Webb asserting it can be done in about 8 minutes. Vision is immediately corrected.
The project has been in development for 8 years and has cost $3 million in research and development fees. His mission has become an obsession to free himself and others from glasses and corrective lenses. Webb has been saddled with glasses since he was in the second grade.
"My heroes were cowboys, and cowboys just did not wear glasses," Dr. Webb says.
Doctors all over the world are intrigued.
"I think this device is going to bring us closer to the holy grail of excellent vision at all ranges — distant, intermediate and near," said Dr. Vincent DeLuise, an ophthalmologist who teaches at both Yale University and Weill Cornell Medical College in New York.
Lost City of Giants Unearthed in the Jungles of Ecuador
Lost City of Giants Unearthed in the Jungles of Ecuador
Ecuadorian myths speak of ancient cities of giants hiding in the Amazon jungle, left behind by their “unusual” inhabitants and slowly being reclaimed by nature. In fact, the majority of tribes from the Amazonian basin recall stories of a timeworn race of gigantic humans that constructed prosperous settlements long before regular-sized humans reached the area.
Led by the local beliefs of mythical beings, a team of researchers travelled to a remote place in the rain forest of Ecuador to see with their own eyes whether the stories were true. The Aboriginals led the crew to a place they called holy, where the local tribes gathered to celebrate the powerful spirits believed to inhabit the site.
When they reached this sacred place, megalithic structures started to take shape, with the largest being a 260 foot tall by 260 foot wide pyramid with an irregular angle. The structure had been built using hundreds of huge boulders weighing no less than 2 tons. When they inspected the top of the pyramid, the researchers discovered a flat, polished stone probably used as a ceremonial or sacrificial stand.
It looks like a paved wall, an ancient street or plaza with a 60 degrees angle, perhaps the roof of a large structure, said French-American archaeologist Benoit Duverneuil. Many of the stones were perfectly aligned, have sharp edges and seem to have been sculpted by human hands.
Most of the structure’s body was covered by lichen, but the remaining visible stones revealed a thick and seemingly impenetrable material that bound the boulders together. Could this represent one of the first examples of concrete being used in America? And how were the Amazonian giants able to create such a complex material in those ancient times?
But probably the most fascinating discovery comes in the form of manufactured tools. Oversized and old, they blended with the forest floor. What they served for is unclear, but the researchers consider they were utilized in metalworking. However, one thing remains clear – their size would have made it impossible for a modern-day human to wield such a tool or weapon.
Bruce Fentom, writer, researcher and member of the team that found this presumed city of giants, believes the uncovered tools present the ultimate proof of giant humans that inhabited Earth.
What really strongly points towards this habitation having housed the same race of giants if the presence of extremely oversized hammers, or at least the stone hammerheads, he said.
Assuming there were attached to hard wood handles they would be both incredible size and weight, making their use as tools impractical for a typical Inca or indigenous Indian, these beings were generally around five feet or so.”
Former expeditions in the rain forests of Ecuador brought results supporting the fact that giants once existed. Oversized bones were found scattered in caves all over the Americas, and there is still evidence emerging on a daily basis, indicating that our written history might need some rethinking.
Another interesting thing to note is the secrecy displayed by the local authorities. In 2013, when the Ecuadorian Ministry of Culture sent their representatives to investigate the site, they concluded that the pyramid-shaped building was nothing more than a natural formation.
On the contrary, Fenton and his crew believe the diameter and shape of the boulders, the complex pattern after they were manufactured, also their fine assembly appear to aim at an artificial origin. Other than that, there are still oddly shaped structures in the area nearby waiting to be investigated.
Several massive mounds which appear unnatural to the place are waiting to be excavated in the upcoming years. Even though a dense layer of vegetation took over them, there are some researchers claiming there could be chambers and tunnels buried underneath. Others have suggested there could be an entire complex of pyramids and houses that could hide remnants of a long-lost race of giants.
Until further investigation, we can only think of such a hypothesis. However, the lack of cooperation shown by the local authorities clearly raises some question marks. Is there something of extreme importance buried somewhere in the Amazonian jungle that they intend to keep as a secret?
UPDATE: UFO expert says it wasn't a meteor over Gladstone
UPDATE: UFO expert says it wasn't a meteor over Gladstone
The KC-30 was recently acquired by the RAAF. Source: RAAF.
UPDATE 6:00pm:
UFO EXPERT Sheryl Gottsthall hasn't come any closer to identifying what flew over the Gladstone region last night - but she has ruled out some theories.
Ms Gottshall, president of UFO Research Queensland, has investigated plenty of these cases before and she said the formula for finding the truth is ruling out possibilities.
"With UFOs, we have to go through the list of possibilities and tick them off," she said.
"If someone says it's a meteor, we have to tick that off."
And Ms Gottshall said the theory that it's a meteor just "doesn't gel" because "meteors don't rumble for five minutes", as one reader reported hearing.
She said while some readers reported seeing debris flying off the object, "if it was a plane crash --- a plane crashing and exploding --- you'd expect all sorts of emergency services to be arriving".
As for the theory of the air force's KC-30A carrying out an operation over Gladstone, "it could be jets, but I mean, it's really hard to tell".
UFO Research Queensland has received more than 5000 reports of UFO sightings since it was established in 1956.
And Ms Gottshall said interrogating witness accounts is the only way of getting closer to the truth.
"It's about getting a better description of what they saw --- the size, the speed, the distance, the colour, how they were affected," she said.
"What it was I really can't tell you. And in that respect it remains unidentified."
EARLIER: Was it the air force's KC-30A over the Gladstone region last night?
THEORIES of what was behind the bright light and the massive "boom" over the Gladstone region last night are running rampant.
Bundaberg Astronomy Society member Mark Sugars said descriptions of the sighting, which were reported from Rockhampton to Gympie, could suggest it was a meteorite.
But Gladstone's Rory Henricks said he thought he saw a plane, saying he thought it was "shooting fireworks out of its rear".
And Royal Australian Air Force watch keeper Corporal King has revealed that a bulk carrier KC-30A took off from the closest air base to Gladstone last night and is the only air force aircraft that could've been spotted in the vicinity last night.
Residents said the object, seen over the Gladstone region --- including Kirkwood, Calliope, Agnes Water and Tannum Sands --- made a "boom" sound around 9:20pm.
Corporal King, who couldn't reveal his first name because of strict defence force privacy protocol, said the KC-30A had taken off from the Amberley Air Base.
"It was the only aircraft that was flying from the Amberley area during that time," he said.
Amberley Air Base is 40kms south-west of Brisbane, on the outskirts of Ipswich.
Why the aircraft was in the area and what path it had taken remains a mystery, as corporal King said, "I'm not at liberty to disclose that information".
A KC-30A is a large aircraft described as "a heavily modified Airbus A330 airliner" on the air force's website.
It's regularly used to carry fuel loads of up to 100 tonnes for a range of RAAF surveillance aircraft and fighter jets, such as the F/A-18A/B Hornets and F/A-18F Super Hornets.
It can also carry 34,000kg of cargo and 270 passengers.
The Observer is still waiting for the RAAF to explain what was behind the "boom" that was reported by residents.
KC-30A Multi Roll Tanker Transport Specifications
The bulk carrier was recently acquired by the RAAF. Source: RAAF.
I first met moonwalker Edgar Mitchell in late 1995, at a restaurant in the back yard of Kennedy Space Center, which was getting ready to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Apollo 14. Given how NASA types tended to treat UFO questions like warlocks and unicorns, De Void was unprepared for Mitchell’s receptivity. No, he insisted, he hadn’t seen evidence of UFOs during his off-planet adventures. “NASA at that time was so sure there were no such things, there was no discussion of it." But he added this: "I would say, however, that if there was knowledge of ET contact existing within the government, and we were sent into space blind and dumb to such information, I think it is a case of criminal culpability."
Criminal culpability. Whoa. Thus began a long conversation with one of the old astronaut corps’ unique thinkers. This was a guy who, after admitting he conducted ESP experiments on the moon in 1971, took a lot of crap from colleagues – and he didn’t care. He went onto formalize his curiosity about human consciousness by founding the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which went on to publish papers on everything from meditation to the “Physical effects of collective attention at Burning Man 2013.”
"There seems to be more to the universe than random, chaotic, purposeless movement of a collection of molecular particles." -- Dr. Edgar Mitchell /CREDIT: collectspace.com
Anyhow, the former Navy captain rolled his own tobacco that night, back when you could still smoke indoors, and he talked about one of his even more unusual intrigues. A year or so earlier, during Air Force efforts to resolve General Accounting Office questions aboutmissing records related to the 1947 Roswell controversy, USAF Secretary Sheila Widnall had granted amnesty to potential whistleblowers who might produce leads, but by that time the major players were dead. One year after that, without naming names, Mitchell said he was in discussions with former military or government operatives who wanted to extend immunity to cover even more UFO insiders.
“The purpose of the meeting was not to convince anybody else of their stories,” he said, “but to get people released from their security oaths with regard to these phenomena. Given who they were, and their credentials, I have to tell you, it pushed my confidence level up five notches.” Mitchell said he was shaken by what he was learning. “I am convinced there is a small body of valid (UFO) information, and that there is a body of information ten times as big that is total disinformation put out by the sources to confuse the whole issue.” He described the setup as “a body of semi- or quasi-private organization” operating with black-budget federal funding. “And nobody knows what goes into black budgets. The prime requisite is security first and everything else second.”
Without more details, Mitchell’s allegations sounded like something Fox Mulder’s scriptwriters could’ve hatched without really trying. We now know that the sixth man on the moon had, in 1995, begun huddling with “Ambassador to the Universe” Disclosure guru Steven Greer, whose ET outreach tuition now begins at $2,500 a pop. The Mitchell-Greer bond fell apart when Greer began using Mitchell’s name as a witness to promote his Disclosure initiative. Mitchell, in fact, had no first-hand knowledge of Greer’s alleged cloak-and-dagger scenario, and he charged Greer with “overreach(ing) his data continuously.”
But in 2008 – and once again, without naming names – Mitchell stoked the embers when he told CNN’s Larry King he had met a high-level Pentagon official pooh-bah who told Mitchell that he – the pooh-bah official – couldn’t get his hands on classified UFO documents because he lacked the proper security clearance. But that was a story Greer had been repeating for years. And that official was Rear Adm. Thomas R. Wilson, former Defense Intelligence Agency director and – at the time of his meeting with Mitchell in 1997 – director of intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
So De Void got on the horn to Wilson, whose golden parachute had made for a soft-retirement landing with a defense contractor in Minnesota. Wilson definitely remembered Mitchell asking him about pursuing UFO leads. But Wilson also said he had all the security passes he needed. “What is true is that I met with them,” Wilson told De Void in a phoner. “What is not true is that I was denied access to this material, because I didn’t pursue it. I may have left it open with them, but it was not especially compelling, not compelling enough to waste my staff’s time to go looking for it.”
Mitchell told De Void he was “shocked” by Wilson’s answer. Ever the gentleman, however, Mitchell declined to argue: “I do not wish to engage him on this matter.” For his part, Greer stood by his Wilson story in an email: “I was there and I know what he said. I was also informed prior to the meeting that, after sending him a secret document with UFO-related code names and numbers, that he located one of the compartments but was specifically denied access to the operation.” And that was that.
But so earnestly did Mitchell want to get to the bottom of the mystery that he traveled to Mexico City for the unveiling of what would be the biggest UFO fiasco of 2015 – the Roswell space alien cadaver pix, which were being hyped as a game-changer. Within days, the images were discovered to be Kodak slides of a Native American mummy. De Void didn’t attempt to contact the Apollo veteran for reaction after that. But living in fear of making mistakes would’ve been an untenable prospect for one of only a dozen men to leave bootprints on another world.
“The desire to live life to its fullest, to acquire more knowledge, to abandon the economic treadmill,” he wrote in his autobiography The Way of the Explorer, “are all typical reactions to these experiences in altered states of consciousness. The previous fear of death is typically quelled. If the individual generally remains thereafter in the existential state of awareness, the deep internal feeling of eternity is quite profound and unshakable.” After literally expanding the perimeters of human history, what could possibly be intimidating after that? Name-calling?
So bon voyage, Dr. Mitchell. And here’s hoping that your greatest wish for those who determine our fates will someday come to pass: “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”
NASA Europa Mission May Not Launch Until Late 2020s
NASA Europa Mission May Not Launch Until Late 2020s
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
NASA is developing a mission that would perform dozens of flybys of the ocean-harboring Jupiter moon Europa.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
NASA's anticipated mission to the potentially life-supporting Jupiter moon Europa may not get off the ground until the late 2020s, agency officials say.
Last year, Congress granted NASA $175 million to continue developing its Europa mission, which will perform dozens of flybys to gauge the life-hosting potential of the icy moon's huge subsurface ocean.
In that allocation, Congress declared that NASA must have the Europa mission ready to launch by 2022. But NASA's fiscal year 2017 budget request, which was released Tuesday (Feb. 9), includes just $49.6 million for the Europa effort — a level that, when combined with predicted funding in the coming years, "supports a Europa mission launch in the late 2020s," NASA chief financial officer David Radzanowski said during a news conference Tuesday. [Europa May Harbor Simple Life-Forms (Video)]
Getting the Europa flyby spacecraft ready to launch by 2022 would probably require a 2017 investment of about $194 million (out of a total NASA budget request of $19.03 billion), Radzanowski said. The space agency has provided this estimate to Congress, he added.
"Within our $19 billion request, to find an additional $150 million — whether within the science portfolio or abroad — we felt would upset the balance of the overall portfolio," Radzanowski said. "So we do not think it's prudent to support a 2022 launch at the funding level requested."
NASA planned mission to search for life on Jupiter’s moon Europa
Scientists regard Europa as one of the solar system's best bets to host life beyond Earth. The moon's vast ocean — which harbors more water than all of Earth's seas combined — is in contact with Europa's rocky mantle, making possible all sorts of interesting chemical reactions, researchers say.
So astrobiologists are eager to explore Europa — and they're not the only ones. Congress shares this enthusiasm, in large part because of John Culberson (R-TX), who chairs the House of Representatives' Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, and has a longstanding interest in the search for alien life.
Indeed, in the 2016 budget deal, Congress directed NASA to make its Europa mission more ambitious, ordering the agency to add a component that would actually touch down on the icy moon. The deal also stipulated that NASA use the agency's in-development Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket, as opposed to a currently available booster. (Launching atop the powerful SLS would cut travel time to Europa considerably.)
NASA is still assessing how it can incorporate these directives, and how doing so would change the Europa mission's pricetag, Radzanowski said. (The flyby-only version, which would conduct 45 close encounters with Europa from Jupiter orbit over 2.5 years or so, is estimated to cost about $2.1 billion.)
It's too soon to know exactly what's going to happen with the Europa mission, which is still in the early-development phase. For example, Congress may end up giving NASA far more for the project than the $49.6 million it requested this year, bringing a 2022 liftoff back into the realm of possibility.
In fact, that will probably happen, if precedent is any indication. NASA didn't ask for any Europa-mission funding in 2013 or 2014 but ended up getting more than $120 million for those two years combined. And in 2015 and 2016, NASA requested a total of $45 million for the Europa project, and Congress allocated $275 million.
STILL DON’T BELIEVE IN ALIEN LIFE? YOU NEED TO READ THIS
STILL DON’T BELIEVE IN ALIEN LIFE? YOU NEED TO READ THIS
Whatever word we put to it – Source, God, The Universe, the under lying fabric that makes up all-that-is – IS… ever-evolving, infinite creation. These fundamental, base structures of geometries are what make up our universes, atoms, a blade of grass and our very consciousness. It is infinite expression, much of which transcends our perception of what is real – it exists outside of 3D concept.
Now, fractal this back down to your life. You and I and everything are fundamentally made up of the same geometries of creation. Something like an alien, a conscious being that exists outside of time, a fairy or even a thought, idea or concept are, at their core, a different expression of the same energy.
So, straight up, scientific, hard logic minds need to understand that:
“Seeing is believing” is not how it works.
Believing allows you to see.
Physicality is a product of the mind. Consciousness is something we are just beginning to understand scientifically, yet it
is something to be understood intuitively – that is the intelligence of our heart
Doing the introspective, emotional work alongside actually researching, discerning and gathering data objectively – brings you to the truth. It is not anyone’s truth, it is obvious to all who look. A simple expression of energy like a Grey Alien who interacts on our planet is not an opinion – it’s a regular occurrence.
We are collectively coming to the end of a cycle where ideas of tradition, cultural norms and social constructs have limited our potential. We are so much more than a physical vessel, and when you really feel that at your core, no scientific study or tangible proof is needed, it’s just as real as anything.
The infinite universe exists outside of our container of what we consider real, so for the last time:
Everything exists, creation is infinite: Aliens exist and have been interacting on our planet for some time now. There’s many that want to openly contact us but we are not collectively ready.
Discern what resonates with you and what doesn’t; this is not about convincing.
See what’s really going on.
Former CIA Agent Reveals Truth on his Deathbed
Canadian Minister of Defense on the Interaction with Extraterrestrials
Paul Hellyer again on RT explaining like a boss, when asked”Why do you say UFO are as real as the airplanes flying over our heads.” He replies with“Because I KNOW that they are, in fact, they’ve been visiting our planet for thousands of years.” He goes on to say:
“There’s been a lot more activity in the past two decades, especially since we invented the atomic bomb. They are very concerned about that and if we will use it again, because the whole cosmos is a unity and it affects not just us but other people in the cosmos. They’re very much afraid that we might start using atomic weapons again and this would be very bad for us, and them also.”
“There is a federation of these people, and they have rules, one of them is that they don’t interfere with our affairs unless they are invited. They have accepted the fact that this is our planet, and we have the right to run it but they are very concerned, they don’t think that we are good stewards of our planet. We are ruining our planet, we’re doing all sorts of things that we shouldn’t be doing, and they don’t like that. They’ve made it clear, and they have given us a warning.”
A citizens hearing on UFO disclosure was held at the National Press Club in Washing, DC. A number of professors, historians, scientists, high ranking political and military personnel gathered April 29th to May 3rd to elaborate on the ongoing reality of extraterrestrial life. Here are the thoughts of the congress men and women who open mindedly understood the information on the existence of aliens.
A wiki leaks cable reporting the U.S. Ambassador calling on Mahmadsaid Ubaidulloev, the Dushanbe Mayor at his parliamentary office. They began what was said to be a lengthy discourse which ended in the Mayor saying:
“We know there is life on other planets, but we must make peace here first.”
Okay and for you who like to dig deep, see all the sides and take in all the information, this video is worth a watch. The point isn’t to immediately make decisions, jump to conclusions or even take everything as a truth.
When you get down to it, contradicting ideas, impossible thoughts and everythingalready exist, so the information in this video is as only as “out there” as you deem it to be. You are a creator, what you deem anything to be, it is to you.
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10 Reasons Why Humans May Not Have Come From Earth
10 Reasons Why Humans May Not Have Come From Earth
You know the phrase: Men are from Mars, women are from Venus … but what if we’re all from Alpha Centauri?
An American ecologist by the name of Dr Ellis Silver thinks that he might have spotted a few telltale signs that humans did not originate from Earth, and that we’re actually beings from another world.
There is a pretty well-accepted theory out there that organic matter may have been delivered to planet Earth by meteors, perhaps as single-celled organisms or just as the building blocks of life such as amino acids.
But Dr. Silver goes one step further: That we arrived as fully formed, complex organisms, between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago. Perhaps we interbred with Neanderthals, perhaps we’re just straight up aliens, all Silver knows is that there are some things about our physiology that just doesn’t add up.
Citing everything from sunburn to childbirth in his book Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence, Dr. Ellis Silver points out all of the things that seem to contradict the idea that we evolved over millions of years in our earthly environment. Who knows, perhaps Earth is even some kind of prison colony, and we’ve been sent to this little galactic backwater to learn our lesson whilst the rest of the universe zooms about in lightships?
Granted, these theories should probably be taken with a healthy pinch of salt, but what does the venerable Dr. Silver have to say about the possibility that we’re all just spacemen?
11. Bad Backs
If we evolved on this planet, why does just standing up on it hurt us?
Silver argues that the gravity on our home planet must’ve been stronger, and so we’re progressively growing taller and taller with each generation, causing us to have bad backs.
It is thought, in the wider scientific community, that on planets with stronger gravity, human-like life forms would evolve to be much shorter and stockier to deal with the extra gravity bringing them down.
When that gravity isn’t there, we apparently start to grow like forced rhubarb, ending up so tall and willowy that our own skeletons can’t support us very well.
There could also be a counter argument that the gravitational pull on our home planet is, in fact, weaker, and the fact that our bodies will slowly bow to the pressure of Earth’s gravity over our lifetimes is proof that we evolved to deal with weaker gravity.
As we grow older, we hunch over and even shrink, gravity slowly wears us down, starting with a crick in the neck and ending with a hunchback.
Silver also wonders about the possibility that the food on this planet is more nutritious than on our home planet, causing a growth spurt.
If we spent all our time back home chewing on tough, woody vegetation (yum), then were sudden plunged into a world of strawberries and fillet steak, it’s possible that all of those abundant nutrients made us shoot up like a 14-year-old boy who lives on McDonalds and Red Bull.
10. Childbirth
In further expanding his argument, Silver points to the excessive nutrition on earth and a possible cause for the difficulties of human childbirth.
The fact that humans have to spend hours screaming in pain to bring new life into the world, whereas the rest of the animal kingdom can drop a sprog in their sleep, has long puzzled anthropologists. Why is it such an ordeal for us to have kiddies when it’s literally our only biological purpose?
Silver thinks that the high levels of nutrition that we get could cause our babies to grow far bigger in utero than our bodies are designed to cope with.
Indeed, it is a well-known phenomenon that people with diabetes have much larger than average babies due to the high sugar levels in their blood – this demonstrates that there is, in fact, a clear link between high nutrition and baby size.
Whether or not that means that diabetics are even more alien-y aliens than us regular aliens, Dr. Silver doesn’t specify.
Perhaps this is also a result of our newer, willowy frames (thanks to the lack of gravity, remember?). Perhaps, back on our own planet, there are a load of stocky, troll-like beings happily squeezing babies out of their wide, childbearing hips left, right and centre.
9. The Sun
Ahh, it’s that classic summer scene. The moment there’s a little bit of sun, every spare bit of grass, beach or garden is littered with people turning gradually pinker.
But why is that? Why does our own sun do us so much harm?
This is one of Ellis Silver’s arguments for our alien origins. Humans will easily burn through sun exposure, whereas many creatures won’t.
Humans, in contrast with other species, cannot sunbathe for more than short periods at a time without getting sunburned. This indicates that the human body is not effectively adapted to constant exposure to our sun, which is a funny thing for a species that have no protective layer of fur.
Our own sun, from which all life on Earth draws its energy in one way or another, will literally give us cancer if we stay out in it too long, other creatures have evolved so that this doesn’t happen. A lizard, for example, can sit out all day and not get so much as a tan line and some corals even produce their own SPF to protect themselves.
Silver thinks that this is because we evolved with a much weaker sun, or perhaps we originated on a planet with lots of cloud cover.
Another thing that he highlights as odd is the fact that humans seem to suffer from seasonal mental disorders such as Seasonal Affective Disorder. Other animals migrate, hibernate or just tough it out when it comes to surviving an Earth winter, but humans just can’t seem to hack it.
We can’t cope with a lot of sun, we can’t cope with a lack of sun – why are we so ill-suited to the comings and goings of the seasons if we’ve spent millions of years evolving on this planet?
8. We Look So Different
Right, so what’s the deal with this bipedal thing? How come everything else on the planet has remained perfectly happy with a low centre of gravity and sturdy base, whereas we wobble around on two legs?
Perhaps it’s just because we’re looking at it from the inside, but you have to admit that we tend to stick out a bit. Two legs, extremely fine coat, hair growing out of odd places, opposable thumbs, huge heads, big, flat feet – we look much more like aliens than natives.
Silver points to our lack pf body hair as a particularly odd feature of humans. It is necessary for humans to wrap themselves in the furs of other animals, just to stop ourselves freezing to death, even on the hot African plains where we are supposed to have evolved.
The theory is that perhaps on our home planet, the temperature didn’t fluctuate so much between night and day and at different latitudes. Possible reasons for this could be a thicker cloud layer that insulates the planet (a bit like on Venus), a binary star system (so that the sun effectively never sets), or even that the crust of the planet is much thinner, allowing the heat from the molten core to come up through the ground.
As a weird side note: Our relatively high levels of subcutaneous fat and almost total hairlessness, as well as our bipedalism, would actually make us excellent swimmers. Maybe we were some kind of race of semi-aquatic dolphin people on our home planet.
7. We’re Too Advanced
The most conspicuously different feature of the human race, is just how much more advanced we are when compared to the rest of life on Earth.
Why are we so far ahead of every other animal? It sounds like classic human arrogance, but for all our talk about how intelligent dolphins are because they can recognise themselves in a mirror – they didn’t invent the bloody mirror, did they?
Okay, how about if we argue that inventing things like wheels and mirrors and social media executives isn’t necessarily an indicator of intelligence? It’s still drastically different to what everything else on the planet is doing.
Why are we such outcasts from the natural world? It could be because it’s not our natural world.
If we arrived on a primitive Earth with a head start, it could explain why we appear to be leaps and bounds ahead of every other species. Dr. Silvers also cites that fact that the “missing link” that would connect us with our common ape ancestors is still, er, missing (it’s not, but never mind).
We could have come from a planet where a number of species were similarly advanced – perhaps that’s even the reason we left, to go and rule elsewhere.
It all seemed to happen at once too. Evolutionarily speaking it took us fricking ages to get the hang of sharpened rocks, then, all of a sudden, we invented agriculture, writing, language, art, electricity, machinery, chemistry, quantum physics and pretty much everything else around us today. What the hell happened?
6. We Can’t Sleep
One of Silver’s arguments is that the human circadian rhythm is out of whack with the actual day-night cycle on Earth.
The circadian rhythm is the thing that regulates your sleeping and eating patterns. It means that you’re tired at night and awake in the morning and is the reason why you feel jet-lagged after a long haul flight. As the Earth’s day and night cycle lasts for around 24 hours (not including leap seconds because come on), it would make sense for our circadian rhythm to also be on a 24 hour cycle, but it’s not.
Dr. Silver uses the argument that the human circadian rhythm is on a 25-hour cycle, meaning that it makes more sense that we should have evolved on a planet with 25 hour days. Unfortunately, Silver is wrong with the 25-hour figure, but not about the fact that it doesn’t match up.
It used to be thought that our circadian rhythm was a whole hour off, turns out it’s actually anything from a quarter to half an hour off. This doesn’t seem like much until you realise that (providing you stuck to your natural circadian rhythm) it would only take you a month to potentially be 7 hours out of whack. That’s a whole night’s sleep for most people.
This means that our home planet could have been slightly bigger than Earth, in order to have longer days (although, again, it’s not quite that simple), and so this also feeds into Silver’s theory that our home planet had slightly higher gravity.
5. We Don’t Like It Here
Evolution generally means that a species adapts to its environment, but we don’t seem to want to play that game.
A big part of the theory comes down to the fact that we have altered the planet to fit us, rather than the other way around; we just can’t seem to bear living in the natural world. The fact that we have altered our environment so drastically makes it seem as though we’re just not suited to living in earth’s natural habitat.
In fact, what we’re doing appears not to be evolving, so much as terraforming.
Another of Silver’s arguments is that we’re seemingly terrible at reading our own planet. Many animals have built-in sensors for natural phenomena such as earthquakes, tsunamis and even just the ability to predict the weather, whereas we have had to intervene with our technology in order to keep up with them.
It could be that we came from a planet that is not so geologically active, meaning that there would be no benefit for us to be able to predict earthquakes.
Then, we have the fact that we can’t eat most of the food on this planet without altering it in some way. Whether it’s by cooking it, or through selective breeding, most of the food that we eat is not as nature intended it.
We’re not saying that our home planet had hamburger trees and rivers of lemonade (if it does then book us a one-way ticket to Alpha Centauri), but that fact that most animals, apart from us, are perfectly fine eating grass and raw zebra is a bit weird.
4. Rapid Overpopulation
Humans are spreading, and they’re spreading fast.
As of 2015, there are over seven billion of us crammed onto this tiny little planet and the number is always going up. Not exactly a balanced eco-system.
It’s almost as though we’re an invasive species.
What happens when you introduce a new species into an environment that they did not evolve in? A lot of the time, they take over.
This is due to the fact that they do not have any natural predators and the local fauna are not equipped to defend themselves against them. This means that the non-native species has free reign to hunt, eat and breed, with the potential to decimate the local environment.
This does sound an awful lot like how we interact with the natural world. We’re so far up the food chain, that we don’t even feature as the apex predator in it, we actually exist outside of earth’s eco-system. It does seem to scream foreign species.
Even with other invasive species, the ecosystem will ofetn find a way to restore istelf back to normality. With “normal” imbalances in nature, that balance can be quickly restored as the food runs out, and the invading species will quickly begin to reduce in number again. This doesn’t appear to have happened to humans so far.
Perhaps, when the resources finally do run out, we’ll go the way of many other species and simply become one rogue algea bloom in the long natural history of the planet.
3. A Prison Planet?
One of Dr. Silver’s slightly more esoteric theories is that the Earth may actually be a prison colony for a society of galactic beings.
It is apparently our naturally violent, vengeful, lustful, criminal natures that makes him think this. The fact that you don’t often observe this kind of behaviour in the animal kingdom makes Silver think that it could well be because these are traits that come from a completely different race of people.
The theory is that we could have had our memories wiped and been dumped in a primitive backwater by a civilisation of space-faring beings as a sort of “cooling off” period, presumably after becoming too much of a menace to intergalactic society.
Perhaps they hoped that we would integrate with the natural world on a young planet and become a peaceful race of hunter-gatherers, or something.
But actually what happened is that we almost immediately wiped out the Neanderthals and set about transforming the Earth to suit our anti-social ways, so they left us here.
To be fair, given our earthbound history of shipping criminals off to somewhere out of sight and out of mind, this does sound like exactly the sort of thing we’d do if we ever became a planet-hopping race of pan-galactic beings. The question is, has it already happened?
2. So Where Did We Come From?
In order to figure out our origins, Dr. Ellis Silvers then takes us through the practicalities of colonising another planet, and he’s certainly given it a lot of thought.
So, if we presume that this ancient race of humanoids has developed the technology to travel at near light speed, they would need to originate from somewhere that can be travelled to within a human lifetime. Say, 30-ish light years away.
Silver reckons that these early settlers could well have brought frozen embryos with them to kickstart the whole breeding process, as they would have been elderly by the time they arrived (although this does sort of ruin the whole “Earth is a space prison” thing).
Dr. Silver then goes on to list his top picks for our potential homeworld, including Alpha Centauri A and B (1 lightyear), Epsilon Eridani (10.5), 61 Cygni A and B (17), Epsilon Indi (20) and Tau Ceti (22). Do let us know if one of those names stirs something primordial in you, it could be the proof we need.
The Alpha Centauri binary system eventually claims the top spot due to its proximity and the fact that it’s a binary system (remember our earlier discussion about the sun that never sets?). It would mean that, at even a fraction of the speed of light, it would still be reachable within one lifetime.
Although, fair-minded as always, Dr. Silvers also allows for the idea that a race of galactic beings could well have harnessed the use of hyperspace and wormholes in order to reach our humble little Earth from pretty much anywhere in the universe.
So that doesn’t really narrow it down.
1. An Editor’s Note
Okay, it should be said at this point that Dr. Silver’s theories should be taken with a healthy pinch of salty skepticism.
The idea of planet seeding is one that is gaining lots of interest in the scientific community and many have expressed interest in investigating Silver’s thoughts more thoroughly. Of course, there have also been those who have said that “it is possible to drive a coach and horses through several of his arguments.”
Which is also a fair point.
Silver often mistakes cause for effect and relies too heavily on the assumption that evolution is a perfect process. The idea that every mutation has to “make sense” completely is false, and the idea that evolution does not compromise is wrong. If the benefits of a particular mutation outweigh the cost, then it’s likely to stick around, warts and all.
For example, this accounts for the idea that childbirth is very difficult. In fact, it is because we essentially walk on our hind legs that our pelvises have changed shape. Luckily, the benefits of walking on two legs, thereby freeing up your hands for things like tool-making, outweigh the drawbacks of difficult and painful births (we can even use our hands to help each other give birth). This is known as the Obstetric Dilemma.
Whilst this doesn’t Silver’s theory, it does slightly weaken the “Childbirth, what’s that all about, eh? Eh?!” angle. Something that Dr Sliver relies on quite a bit.
There are quite a few holes like this in Dr. Silver’s theory. But, then again, Silver himself has said that his arguments are designed to spark open debate, and are by no means conclusive proof that we’re all aliens.
So, with that in mind, let us know what you think in the comments. Are we a bunch of hyper-evolved aliens, trapped on this godforsaken rock, or are we just a bunch of apes in shoes after all?
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Nikola Tesla: Life Exists on Other Planets
Nikola Tesla: Life Exists on Other Planets
Nicola [sic] Tesla discussed communication between the earth and other planets today as if he regarded this as a feat no neater than telephoning to the cordial shop around the corner.
Tomorrow he will be 76. It will be forty-six years since he came, a shy, unheralded youth, from the Province of Lika, in Eastern Austria. But the fire of his tremendous endeavor seemed to burn as fiercely this morning as it has any time down the years in which he has established his prominent place among scientists.
Interplanetary communication is only one phase of that endeavor, he hurried to say. Annihilation of distance, he said, sums it up; annihilation of distance by transmission of energy.
Certain of Life Elsewhere. “I am in dead earnest.” He spoke quietly and carefully. “I feel certain of what I tell you.
“The transmission of energy to another planet is only a matter of engineering. I have solved the problem so well I don’t regard it as doubtful.”
He is certain, too, he said, that there are creatures on other planets whose ways are like the ways of those on this one.
“It is mathematically certain that other planets are inhabited. Every other planet has to pass through practically the same phase of existence the earth did, and life is started on them, during that favorable phase, by rays of some sun.
“It develops in the presence of moisture and heat and light in much the same manner as life does on the earth.
Interplanetary Forum. “We know that light propagates in straight lines, and consequently our perceptions of the forms through the images projected on the retina must be true.
“Therefore, it should not be hard to establish intelligent exchange of ideas between two planets.”
The earth, he thinks, might be the beneficiary.
“It is conceivable that there is civilization on other planets far ahead of ours. If communication were established by the earth, the consequences to human beings would be incalculable.”
Busy in Laboratory. He had been at work all day in his mid-town laboratory. Characteristically, he did not want to say much about it. As it always did, it concerns fundamentals; the application may come decades after his success in principle, as it has in radio and high-tension electricity.
“I’m giving all my time to annihilation of distance. Same as ever. To my mind that’s the most important achievement to be hoped for in the furtherance of the intellectual development of man, as well as in the promotion of his material welfare.
Radio Just a Step. “The wireless art already fulfills this in a large measure, but we must establish transmission of power in all its innumerable applications.
“This has been my life work and I hope to see its full fruition before I am gathered to my forefathers.”
Spruce and slim, with cane and gloves and a tailored air, he did not look 50 as he rose and stood by a desk on the mezzanine floor of the hotel where, a recluse among millions, he takes cover.
Longs for His Wine. About him there was none of the traditional coldness of the pure scientist. He felt, he said like a boy.
Why? Well, no coffee and no tea, for one thing. Another, he has never been married. He would be even more fit, he thinks, if they had not taken his wine away.
“Just the same I could climb a tree 100 feet tall.”
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Meteorite Did NOT Kill Man in India: Experts
Meteorite Did NOT Kill Man in India: Experts
By Discovery News
The rock taken by police from an impact site in India is being examined now by experts.
Credit: Tamil Nadu Police
It would have been a first — but it probably wasn't.
A report earlier this week suggested that a falling meteorite killed a bus driver and injured three others in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. However, scientific experts have since looked into the matter and cast serious doubt on the initial report from Indian government authorities.
"Considering that there was no prediction of a meteorite shower and there was no meteorite shower observed, this certainly is a rare phenomena if it is a meteorite," G.C. Anupama, the dean of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, told the New York Times.
NASA scientists, meanwhile, were more definitive in disclaiming the meteorite report. They said in a statement that photographs of the 5-foot-deep, 2-foot-wide impact crater indicated a "land-based explosion" may have caused the damage.
In fact, according to the International Comet Quarterly, no meteorite-caused death has ever been confirmed. The closest report yet, according to the New York Times, was a 1908 incident in Tunguska, Siberia when a "blast" was reported entering Earth's atmosphere. The blast flattened hundreds of square miles of forest and killed two men and hundreds of reindeer. But no meteorite was recovered.
As for the supposed meteorite recovered from the scene in India, reports are hardly definitive that it is, in fact, a meteorite. According to the BBC, some reports said police recovered "small stone weighing about 10g," while others refer to a "hard, jagged object in dark blue and small enough to be held in a close hand."
Derek Sears, a meteorite and asteroid expert at Nasa's Space Science Division, saw a photograph of the rock. He told the BBC that "the image of the stone is too poor to tell anything, but I would have thought if the object killed someone we would have a large stone?"
If the falling object was not a meteorite, then what was it? Sears suggested to the BBC it could have been an object falling from an aircraft passing overhead. Others have said it could have been a bit of space junk that didn't burn up completely after passing through Earth's atmosphere.
Needless to say, the definitive explanation remains a mystery.
According to a new calculation designed to determine the habitability of a planet, the Earth only scores a little over 80%.
ONLY 82 PERCENT
The world has long been obsessed with finding extraterrestrial life. Sadly, most of the planets that we stumble across seem rather uninhabitable. Indeed, the number of worlds that we see as being “habitable” is rather low.
This makes recent findings about the Earth’s habitability rather surprising, and it seems that the universe may be more welcoming that we think.
According to a study, which is based on a new calculation that rates exoplanet habitability, our planet (the one that we live and breathe on) scores just 82 percent on the habitability index.
The Earth scores 82 percent on the habitability index. Image Credit: NASA
You see, despite the fact we are a hundred percent sure that this planet has living inhabitants, the habitability index places us a little too close to the Sun.
“Basically, where we lose some of the probability, or chance for life, is that we could be too close to the [Sun],” said astronomer Rory Barnes from the University of Washington. “We actually are kind of close to the inner edge of the habitable zone. If we spotted Earth with our current techniques, we would reasonably conclude that it could be too hot for life.”
HABITABILITY INDEX
This new calculation was developed as a way to help scientists in their search for alien life on other planets. The index was created last year based on habitability-influencing factors, such as atmospheric pressure, access to water, geology, and how much energy the world in question can absorb (or reflect) from its nearest star.
All things considered, researchers have come to the conclusion that anyone looking at Earth for possible signs of life would assume our proximity to the Sun means our planet could very well be too warm to be habitable. As a result, they may focus their attention on other nearby planets that score higher on the habitability index.
“Remember, we have to think about Earth as if we don’t know anything about it,” said Barnes. “We don’t know that it’s got oceans, and whales and things like that – imagine it’s just this thing that dims some of the light around a nearby star when it passes.”
Of course, we must also remember that alien life might have evolved on worlds that are far, far warmer than our own. As such, their “habitability index” would look very little like our own.
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Amazing! Miles Long UFO Exiting Tycho Crater On The Moon
Amazing! Miles Long UFO Exiting Tycho Crater On The Moon
Amazing! Miles Long UFO Exiting Tycho Crater On The Moon
A very popular target with amateur astronomers, Tycho is located at 43.37°S, 348.68°E, and is about 51 miles (82 km) in diameter. The summit of the central peak is 1.24 miles (2 km) above the crater floor. The distance from Tycho's floor to its rim is about 2.92 miles (4.7 km).
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Triangle UFO caught on tape over Dulce, New Mexico 8-Feb-2016
Triangle UFO caught on tape over Dulce, New Mexico 8-Feb-2016
Here’s one interesting UFO video of an unknown lights forming triangle formation. This was seen and recorded over Dulce in New Mexico on 8th February 2016.
A halo is an optical phenomenon produced by light interacting with ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere, resulting in a wide variety of colored or white rings, arcs and spots in the sky (Wikipedia).
Here’s one new footage of an unidentified flying objects flying in the sky above Mexico City during the halo phenomenon. This was filmed on 21st May 2015.
New Star Trek TV Series Beams Up Bryan Fuller as Co-Creator
New Star Trek TV Series Beams Up Bryan Fuller as Co-Creator
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
"Star Trek" is coming back to TV in 2017 via CBS Television Studios. Here, the original Starship Enterprise model hangs in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.
Credit: National Air and Space Museum
Move over, James T. Kirk, "Star Trek" has another captain now. CBS Studios has tapped "Hannibal" creator Bryan Fuller — a veteran Trek writer — as a co-creator for its new Trek TV series launching in 2017.
Fuller has written for "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Star Trek: Voyager," and brings a deep appreciation of the "Star Trek" world to the new show, according to CBS Studios representatives. The new show will air on CBS All Access, a digital streaming platform. (The first episode will air on live TV.)
"My very first experience of Star Trek is my oldest brother turning off all the lights in the house and flying his model of a D7 Class Klingon Battle Cruiser through the darkened halls," Fuller said in a statement. "Before seeing a frame of the television series, the Star Trek universe lit my imagination on fire. It is without exaggeration a dream come true to be crafting a brand new iteration of Star Trek with fellow franchise alum Alex Kurtzman and boldly going where no Star Trek series has gone before."
Kurtzman, the new show's other executive producer — who was a co-writer and producer on the recent reboot films — added his support of the new showrunner: "Bringing 'Star Trek' back to television means returning it to its roots, and for years those roots flourished under Bryan’s devoted care," Kurtzman said in the statement. "His encyclopedic knowledge of Trek canon is surpassed only by his love for Gene Roddenberry's optimistic future, a vision that continues to guide us as we explore strange new worlds."
The show will introduce new characters and follow storylines unrelated to the movies, although it will be set after the upcoming film "Star Trek Beyond."
The Legendary Thunderbirds Might Inhabit the US Even Today
The Legendary Thunderbirds Might Inhabit the US Even Today
Our planet has plenty of room left to explore, and judging by the tens of thousands of new animal species discovered each year, who knows what exotic and bizarre creatures are waiting for us out there?
Each year, between 15,000 and 18,000 new animal species are being discovered all around the globe and are classified using the latest DNA tests. As it happens, extinct or even unknown creatures are still being found on Earth. So what happens when the legendary becomes the ordinary, or better said: what happens when creatures believed to be extinct come into the picture?
North American indigenous people often sculpted totems, told tales and also sang about the great Thunderbirds. These legendary creatures were depicted as large birds, capable of creating thunderstorms with the beating of their enormous wings that measured no less than 20 feet.
They were believed to reside on desolate mountain peaks and were the servants of the Great Spirit of the World. While these creatures were usually venerated, the indigenous people feared them because of their wrath and most of the time they were careful not to cross the Thunderbird’s path.
In the modern world, the Thunderbirds are associated with Pteranodon, a genus of Pterosaurs that included some of the largest known flying reptiles. Fossilized remains were discovered mostly in North America, more precisely in present day Kansas, Alabama, Nebraska, Wyoming and South Dakota.
But what’s the point if these timeworn birds have gone extinct millions of years ago? Well, as a matter of fact, they haven’t. For more than 200 years, inhabitants of the areas mentioned above have reported several incidents involving enormous birds with lizard-like features, very much alike the extinct Pterosaurs.
A bizarre photograph has surfaced in the 1950s that caused quite a stir in the U.S. It revealed an unknown event from the American Civil War in 1864 – Near the city of Vicksburg, a huge bird distinct from any known species at that time, was standing under the feet of six American soldiers equipped with rifled muskets.
It had a remarkable wing span, along with a prolonged beak and an unfamiliar head. Is it possible that this creature was indeed one of the famous Thunderbirds depicted by the American indigenous people?
Another report from July 25, 1977, highlighted an incident involving three children from Lawndale, Illinois. They told how two giant birds chased them until one of them grabbed their ten-year-old friend Marlon Lowe. The bird had long legs with distinguishable claws, and it managed to get hold of the boy and lift him up about two feet of the ground before he was released as a result of his struggle.
The local authorities were informed about this incident but didn’t pay too much attention until four-fingers footprints were discovered about half a mile from the area where the boys were chased.
Since our planet has a lot of unknown and inaccessible places, we find it likely that these creatures exist even today. We might consider the hypothesis of it going extinct, but because of its predatory features and imposing proportions, it’s hard to believe that it did not manage to survive.
Even though no recent reports of such birds have surfaced, the known cases along with a symbolism rooted into the Native American culture might prove that these legendary birds have surpassed the test of time and managed to preserve their species for millions of years.
If they are to be found remains once again an issue of time, but with all the technological progress this century, it’s likely that someday the magnificent Thunderbirds will be discovered, and hopefully the witnesses will live to tell about it.
L’univers est-il d’une toute autre nature que celle purement physique que nous cherchons à comprendre? Sommes-nous des éléments infimes d’un ensemble «vivant» dont les éléments n’ont pas forcément conscience de l’existence.
Le scientifique Ethan Siegel tente de répondre à cette difficile question sur son blog publié par le magazine Forbes. Elle est formulée de la façon suivante: «sommes-nous les cellules du cerveau d’une créature bien plus importante, à une échelle planétaire, qui n’a pas conscience de son existence? Comment le savoir? Comment tester cette hypothèse?»
Il existe d’indéniables et troublantes analogies entre le vivant et le physique, entre l’infiniment petit et l’infiniment grand. Les atomes sont à l’image des systèmes solaires avec leurs électrons comme des planètes tournant autour d’un noyau comparable à une étoile. La structure à très grande échelle de l’univers et de ces galaxies n’est pas sans rappeler non plus les neurones du cerveau humain. Autre coïncidence remarquable, le très grand nombre d’étoiles dans une galaxie, de galaxies dans l’univers, d’atomes dans une cellule et de cellules dans un corps humain est compris entre 10 puissance 11 et 10 puissance 14. Des nombres qui sont comparables.
L’idée philosophique selon laquelle l’ensemble de l’univers est en fait une créature sensiblen’est pas nouvelle. Et il est presque impossible d’y répondre. Tout simplement et pour commencer parce que nous ne savons pas exactement ce qu’est la conscience d’exister. Nos connaissances sont avant tout celles, partielles, de la réalité physique de l’univers. A partir de cela, on peut essayer de construire un raisonnement sur ce que serait un univers vivant et voir si cela correspond à cette réalité physique.
«Nous savons les choses suivantes: quel est l’âge de l’univers, combien de temps il faut pour que les différents éléments qui le compose envoient et reçoivent des signaux les uns des autres et quelle est la taille des structures gravitationnelles les plus importantes… Si nous faisons ces différents calculs et les comparons avec ce qu’il se passe même dans la plus simple des structures cérébrales, nous pouvons apporter une réponse partielle à la question de savoir s’il existe des structures sensibles à une échelle cosmique quelque part dans l’univers», écrit Ethan Siegel.
L’univers existe depuis 13,8 milliards d’années depuis le Big Bang et il est en expansion à un rythme rapide. Cela est cohérent avec l’hypothèse selon laquelle cet univers est composé de 68% d’énergie noire, 27% de matière noire, 4,9% de matière «normale», 0,1% de neutrinos et 0,01% de photons.
Comme la lumière se déplace à une vitesse constante dans cet univers, la plus rapide possible, nous pouvons déterminer combien il existe de différentes «communications» entre deux objets pris dans cette expansion. Le premier grand problème c’est l’expansion. Si nous envoyons aujourd’hui des signaux à la vitesse de la lumière, nous ne serons capables que de toucher 3% des galaxies de l’univers observable, le reste est inatteignable compte tenu de la vitesse à laquelle nous nous éloignons les uns des autres.
Les communications sont évidemment beaucoup plus faciles au sein de notre groupe local de galaxies avec la Voie Lactée, Andromède, la galaxie Triangulum et une cinquantaine d’autres plus petites. Elles vont peut-être, sans doute, fusionner pour former une structure plus massive de centaines de milliers d’années lumières au cours des prochains milliards d’année. De nombreux groupes et clusters de galaxies vont probablement connaître la même évolution.
Mais si nous comparons ces structures «locales» de l'univers avec le seul cerveau humain qui possède environ 100 milliards de neurones et 100 000 milliards de connections activées 200 fois par seconde par chaque neurone, il faudrait des milliers de milliards d’étoiles confinées dans un petit volume de l’espace pour avoir quelque chose de comparable. Ce n’est pas le cas.
Cela signifie que notre compréhension actuelle de la réalité physique de l’univers fait qu’il ne peut s’agir d’une entité vivante comparable à notre forme de vie et de conscience de nous même. Cela ne signifie pas que l’univers n’est pas vivant. Mais que cette forme d’existence, si elle existe, n’a tout simplement rien à voir avec la notre.
Everything Is Awesome About These New Lego Space Sets
Everything Is Awesome About These New Lego Space Sets
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Lego's new "Avenjet Space Mission" is one of three newly released space-themed Lego play sets.
Credit: The Lego Group
Whether you love building model observatories or helping the Avengers save the universe, there's a Lego set that caters to your needs.
Recently, the brick-building giant released three new skywatching and space sets, which include a bunch of awesome features.
This Lego "Lakeside Lodge" set can also convert into a space observatory.
Credit: The Lego Group
You can find the first, an observatory, in Lego's "Lakeside Lodge" ($29.99), a 3-in-1 set. The lodge version includes a campfire, balcony, stove, table, moose, frog and minifigure. It can be rebuilt into an observatory or a small cabin.
Fans of the Lego "Friends" line of products have a new addition as well: "Olivia's Exploration Car" ($14.99). Olivia and her robot, Zobo, plan to take their SUV to an observatory platform that is complete with a turning platform, telescope and sky map. The sky map even includes a magnifying glass for Olivia to get a better look at constellations when aiming the telescope.
Three Avengers take on Hyperion and Thanos in this new "Avenjet Space Mission" set from Lego.
Credit: The Lego Group
Or if superheroes are more your style, you can ride along on the Avengers' "Avenjet Space Mission" ($59.99). An Avenjet is a vertical takeoff and landing shuttle that Iron Man created for the superhero team's field missions, according to the Marvel Avengers Wiki.
The mission includes three Avengers (Captain Marvel, Captain America and Iron Man) pitted against Thanos and Hyperion. Comics Alliance points out that Hyperion is usually a good guy,"but there are a few versions of that guy floating around the multiverse, so you can never be too sure. I guess?"
The products are available from the Lego website as well as stores where Lego is usually sold.
Project Blue Book: 130,000 pages of US Air Force's UFO files declassified, hits the web
Project Blue Book: 130,000 pages of US Air Force's UFO files declassified, hits the web
The truth is out there — and it's now on the web.
The fabled Project Blue Book, the Air Force's files on UFO sightings and investigations, have tantalized and frustrated extraterrestrial enthusiasts for decades. But this week, nearly 130,000 pages of declassified UFO records — a trove that would make Agent Fox Mulder's mouth water — hit the web.
UFO enthusiast John Greenewald has spent nearly two decades filing Freedom of Information Act requests for the government's files on UFOs and other phenomena. On Jan. 12, Greenewald posted the Blue Book files — as well as files on Blue Book's 1940s-era predecessors, Project Sign and Project Grudge — on his online database, The Black Vault.
Project Blue Book was based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Between 1947 and 1969, the Air Force recorded 12,618 sightings of strange phenomena -- 701 of which remain "unidentified."
According to a 1985 fact sheet from Wright-Patterson, posted online by the National Archives, the Air Force decided to discontinue UFO investigations after concluding that "no UFO reported, investigated and evaluated by the Air Force has ever given any indication of threat to our national security [and] there has been no evidence indicating that sightings categorized as 'unidentified' are extraterrestrial vehicles." Wright-Patterson also said the Air Force has not seen any evidence suggesting the sightings "represent technological developments or principles beyond the range of present-day scientific knowledge."
Skeptics smelled a whitewash. The private and now-defunct National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena, for example, charged throughout the 1960s that the federal government was covering up what it knew about UFOs and pushed for congressional hearings.
The National Archives has made these files available to public on microfilm in its Washington headquarters. Parts of the Project Blue Book files have previously been posted online in various locations, Greenewald said. But his webpage is the first time the complete files have been posted in PDF form in a searchable database, he said.
The more than 10,000 cases include a 1950 incident at Holloman Air Force Base in Alamogordo, New Mexico, where an Air Force Office of Special Investigations agent reported a star-like craft that shifted from a bright white color to red and green as it moved erratically in several directions.
And in 1965, Air Force Maj. Jack Bond, the deputy for reconnaissance at the Directorate of Advanced Recon Planning, reported seeing an unidentified object moving in a sine wave pattern while on a flight out of Wright-Patterson. Bond said the object strongly reflected the sunlight as it rose and appeared gray as it descended. It rose and fell three times at varying speeds, before leveling off and accelerating away at more than 600 knots.
The investigator dismissed Bond's observation as a mirage caused by the sun, due to the motion of Bond's plane and the hazy atmospheric conditions.
One thing you won't find online are records related to the alleged 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, incident, where conspiracy theorists maintain the military recovered a crashed alien spacecraft and its occupants.
But Roswell does pop up several times in the files. There are several blurry photographs of lights in the sky taken at Roswell in 1949, for example. And in 1950, airmen there spotted a circular object 10 feet in diameter with a bluish-white color going fast at 8,000 feet and taking a sharp turn to the right.
The National Archives maintains it "has been unable to locate any documentation among the Project BLUE BOOK records which discuss the 1947 incident in Roswell, New Mexico."
But that is just what they would say, wouldn't they?
It has been claimed that CIA killed former US President John F Kennedy after requiring the agency to release top-secret UFO files.
Kennedy was shot dead while in an open-topped car travelling on November 22, 1963, through the centre of Dallas, Texas.
The incident brought shockwaves not just in the US but also around the world and has created dozens of conspiracy theories.
However, UFO experts recently shared perhaps the most astonishing claim to date. They said that the president made a letter and sent it to the CIA head ten days before he was assassinated.
They further revealed that the president also made a visit to NASA’s base at Cape Canaveral in Florida just four days after he sent the memo.
In the letter, JFK seemingly asks the CIA to give details about everything it knows about UFO sightings.
The letter specifically asks a review of the high threat cases. It stresses the important to have a clear distinction between the knowns and unknowns. It also proposes an arrangement of the program of data sharing with NASA where unknowns are a factor. The president also apparently sent a letter to NASA requesting the agency to cooperate with the Soviets on UFO issues.
UFO conspiracy theorists believe that JFK was worried that the Soviets could mistakenly identify UFOs over Russia as spy planes. They also think that presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who makes a promise to release all UFO files to the public if she wins, does not know it yet, but she doesn’t have the power to release such information. They add that CIA would kill Hillary before she could do it, just like JFK. They believe that Hillary will be too scared to release the truth.
FEBURARY 12, 2016 …………………. CITRUS HEIGHTS CALIFORNIA
I was at my house in Citrus Heights moving my car for my brother-in-law to go to work . I observed an object that was unusually bright it to the east in the sky . I pointed it out to my brother-in-law and asked him what he thought it was . I observed it slowly ascending into the sky 40 degrees from the horizon . This was about 545 in the morning , I returned inside to get the telescope that we have . I proceeded to set up the telescope outside my front door and view the object through the lens. I observed an object resembling an eye that was slightly pulsating and moving slowly . t was yellowish green in color and had a circle in the middle that was black with three line like things separating it into three pieces. I was not sure what the object could’ve been initially so I proceeded to take pictures through the lens of the telescope thus documenting my observation. I thought it was very strange and something I’ve never seen before I asked several friends and family if they had ever observed anything that was similar they had not . I lost sight of the object because the sun finally rose and the light of secured anything else to be seen . To my knowledge it never stopped moving upwards it was extremely slow and not the space station . See pictures of follows .
Overtuigend bewijs dat tijdreizen bestaat ( VIDEO )
Overtuigend bewijs dat tijdreizen bestaat ( VIDEO )
In april 2006 wordt er in de straten van de Oekraïense hoofdstad Kiev een enigszins verwarde man aangehouden door de politie die hem vragen naar zijn identiteitsbewijs.
Dat is het begin van een bizar verhaal waar iemand na het nemen van een foto met daarop een UFO ruim 50 jaar later in de tijd opduikt.
In april 2006 loopt er een man met een enigszins verdwaasde blik door de straten van Kiev, de hoofdstad van Oekraïne.
Zijn kleren zien er nogal ouderwets uit en om zijn hals hangt een antiek uitziende camera.
Het lijkt alsof de man verdwaald is en vraagt voorbijgangers naar een straat die allang niet meer bestaat in Kiev.
Uiteindelijk raakt de politie erbij betrokken en vraagt aan de man om zich te legitimeren. De man pakt een document, laat dat zien en dan blijkt het om een document te gaan uit de Sovjet tijd van meer dan 50 jaar geleden.
De politie denkt altijd heel simpel en kwam dus tot de conclusie dat de man waarschijnlijk geestelijk gestoord was en brachten hem naar een psychiatrische kliniek in Kiev.
Daar werd hij op 26 april 2006 onderzocht door Pablo Kutrikov en dat gesprek werd opgenomen.
In dat gesprek vertelt hij dat in 1932 geboren is in Kiev en dat is natuurlijk heel vreemd voor iemand die eruit ziet als iemand van begin 30.
Verder vertelde hij dat hij op een dag in 1950 samen was met zijn verloofde en buiten een aantal foto’s had genomen en dat hij daarna opeens in de straten van Kiev liep, maar dan wel 56 jaar later.
Dr. Kutrikov besloot om de filmrol in de camera van Sergei te laten ontwikkelen en de fotograaf die dit moest doen was heel verbaasd omdat de film duidelijk heel oud was en anders ontwikkeld moest worden dan wij tegenwoordig gewend zijn.
Daarnaast was hij ook verbaasd dat de filmrol nog in zo’n goede conditie was na al die tijd.
Toen de foto’s waren ontwikkeld verschenen daarop straatbeelden uit Kiev, maar dan wel van 56 jaar geleden.
Op één van die foto’s was een jonge vrouw te zien en op een andere Sergei, net zoals hij er nu uitzag met zelfs precies dezelfde kleren als die hij droeg in 1950.
Op de laatste foto kwam boven de straten van Kiev een UFO tevoorschijn in de vorm van een klok. Iets dat door Sergei al was beschreven voordat de foto’s waren ontwikkeld.
Die UFO boven de straten van Kiev is ook het laatste dat Sergei zich herinnert voordat hij in 2006 weer in dezelfde stad over straat loopt.
Dan iets heel bijzonders dat ook door de beveiligingscamera is vastgelegd. Na zijn gesprek met Dr. Kutrikov gaat Sergei terug naar zijn kamer in de kliniek. De camera legt vast dat hij zijn kamer in verdwijnt en daarna is er nooit meer iets van hem vernomen.
De kamer had geen andere uitgang en omdat het een psychiatrische kliniek was zaten er tralies voor de ramen en kon daar ook niemand uit.
Als het verhaal zoals dat verteld word inderdaad waar is dan is dat fascinerend natuurlijk. Want dan zou dat een verband kunnen aantonen tussen de aanwezigheid van UFO’s en tijdreizen.
Steeds vaker als mensen over straat lopen in het donker, maar ook overdag zien ze lichten die onverklaarbaar zijn.
Dit overkwam iemand enkele dagen geleden in Groningen, maar dat is niet de enige plek waar dit soort dingen gebeuren.
We hebben miljoenen auto’s in dit land en die gebruiken we dan ook volop. De blik op oneindig, aansluiten in de file en gaan met die banaan.
Maar, misschien is het helemaal niet zo’n gek idee om wat vaker een stukje te gaan lopen. Want dat zijn vaak de momenten waarop mensen bijzondere dingen waarnemen in de lucht.
Zoals in Gorinchem:
Ik liep in de nacht van 27 of 28 januari over de Nieuwe Wolpherensedijk in Gorinchem.
Ik was mijn hond uit aan het laten. Achter de Karwei ligt de Boven Merwede (een rivier voor de mensen die het gebied niet kennen).
Ik merkte dat iets mij steeds trok daarnaar te kijken, maar ik wist niet waarom. Ik liep verder, maar mijn hond werd steeds onrustiger. Toen ik nogmaals keek zag ik een vaag schijnsel hoog in de hemel.
Natuurlijk heb ik vaker dat soort dingen gezien, een vliegtuig dat over raast of een helikopter. Maar dit maakte geen geluid en bleef even stil hangen om daarna WEL te bewegen! Vooral het stilhangen en daarna bewegen vond ik raar.
Daarnaast zag ik niet waar het licht vandaan kwam, alleen iets wat op heel donker, bijna zwart metaal leek. Het geheel duurde nog geen tien seconden. Maar het voelde heel raar, alsof iet sof iemand wist dat ik keek.
Op aanraden van een vriend plaats ik het hier. Hij zegt dat dit soort dingen gemeld moeten worden. Ik weet nog steeds niet wat het was, maar ik begin wel steeds meer te twijfelen en te denken dat het een ufo was.
Of in Groningen:
Op 04-0-2-2016 rond 19:30 liep ik door de oude Kijk in't Jatstraat in Groningen. Ik was op weg naar de Vismarkt. Op een gegeven ogenblik voelde ik dat ik naar boven moest kijken, het geen ik toen zag was een flikkerende lichtgevende witte bol.
Ik bedacht mij geen seconde en pakte zo snel als ik kon, mij telefoon. Het eerste wat ik deed waren een paar foto's maken, en heb daarna nog een korte opname kunnen maken van deze licht gevende bol.
Helaas is mijn telefoon niet voorzien van een hele goede camera, maar ik heb gelukkig toch nog iets vast kunnen leggen.
Helaas weet ik niet hoe je zo'n filmpje wat meer kunt vergroten maar misschien kunnen jullie er iets meer mee. Het zou namelijk mooi zijn, als je het beeld wat meer zou kunnen inzoomen.
Want een ding weet ik zeker, dit was geen vliegtuig of helikopter, en ook geen drone. Ik ben benieuwd naar jullie reactie, en of er mogelijk nog meer mensen zijn die dit het zelfde als mij hebben gezien
Dat ze niet alleen in ons land voor komen, maar over de hele wereld blijkt ook nog eens uit de navolgende collectie van de meest interessante UFO-waarnemingen in de maand januari.
The 6 Alien Species Currently Fighting for Control Over Earth
The 6 Alien Species Currently Fighting for Control Over Earth
Hundreds of sightings, abductions and first-hand accounts have made it possible to distinguish several distinct alien species that have been in cahoots with military forces, deciding our future without ever consulting us. Below are some of the least obscure ones we could find.
1. The Sirians
Hailing from the Sirius B star system, the Sirians are as advanced as they are ancient. Throughout history, they have imparted their knowledge to human civilizations of their choosing. They gifted the ancient Egyptians with medical and astronomical information and the great pyramids and temples are said to have been built with their help.
The Mayans also had a special relationship with the Sirians, who shared information with this enigmatic South American civilization. The extraterrestrials originating from Sirius B are believed to have played a part in the disappearance of the Maya. They are accredited with leaving behind amazing artifacts such as the crystal skulls.
Another earthly civilization that benefited from the Sirian presence were the Atlanteans; it is believed that during the cataclysmic event that sunk Atlantis, the Sirians were instrumental in leading the rescue operations. Other civilizations have been influenced by the Sirians, the most notable case being that of the Dogon tribe of West Africa.
Although they were more involved during our planet’s past, nowadays the Sirian’s supposedly play a more subtle role through technology exchange programs. They are often mentioned in connection with covert or exotic weapons research as well as time travel experimentation.
2. The Short Grays
Also known as the Zeta Reticulums, the Grays are some of the most well-known aliens. They are commonly depicted throughout alien pop culture and are the culprits of most alien abductions.
According to most descriptions, they stand 3 to 5 feet tall, have bulbous heads and over-sized black eyes. Although they possess a mouth, they seldom speak, as most communication is carried out telepathically. The short Grays are said to be a genetically-engineered worker race that are controlled by their superiors, the Tall Grays. Their telepathic abilities allow them to constitute a type of hive mind consciousness.
Being genetically-designed to carried out scientific missions, the short Grays are emotionless and cruel. They are alo responsible for creating a human-gray hybrid race.
3. The Tall Grays
Standing 7 to 8 feet tall, hairless, and pale, the Gray Masters are the ambassadors of most meetings between human and alien forces. They represent both human and gray biological material combined, and therefore play a lead role in assisting the Short Grays with interacting with humanity. This species is involved in many genetic experiments, and there has now been a hybrid human-Gray race created, containing mind control and diplomatic agreements with the ‘shadow government,’ to which they represent. Sources claim they originate from a star system in the Orion constellation.
The Tall Grays supervise all abductions and human experiments but are seldom present during these events. They prefer to employ the services of their minions, the Short Grays. As it would seem, they are keen on developing a stable human-gray hybrid race, one worthy of inheriting Earth.
An advanced, self-centered race, they place little value on human life. They consider us their property.
4. The Alpha-Draconians
Corrupt and vicious, the Alpha-Draconians infiltrated human society thousands of years ago, and are the oldest known reptilian race in our galaxy. Although they came to Earth from their colonies on Alpha Draconis, their original home world is unknown.
They lay eggs and use a “battle hormone” to accelerate the birthing process. They are a duality. This is why ancestral females do not participate in war, because if they did, there wouldn’t be anybody there to help with the eggs. They also have to be there to secrete their hormone. I am only sharing with you what I know about them through years of research.
A decidedly giant reptilian species, they measure anywhere from 14 to 22 feet tall and weigh an estimated 1,800 pounds of mostly muscle. They can be compared to the Tyrannosaurus Rex. These Alpha-Draconians have black leathery brown scale bellies, whiskers along their chin and jaw line and have multiple abdomens. They are an intelligent race with large heads and reptilian eyes. Some accounts describe them as having tails or even wings and they are, in fact, the only genetic line of their ancestry that is not extinct.
Contactee Alex Collier says he was allowed to share some details about these extraterrestrials:
The Draconians are the force behind the repression of human populations everywhere in this galaxy, instilling fear-based belief systems and restrictive hierarchies.
[…]they’re extremely clairvoyant and extremely clever, and they can also be extremely sinister.”
The Draconians view themselves as the first intelligent species to evolve in the Milky Way galaxy. Competitive and expansive, they have populated many worlds. Their immense egos allows them to see themselves as the rightful rulers of lesser evolved worlds such as Earth.
Their continuous exploitation of the human race proves they consider us an inferior species.
Reports say there are actually two types of Alpha-Draconians divided into two castes: the giant ones are part of a royal caste called the Ciakar while the smaller ones (8 feet tall) form a well-trained warrior class.
5. The Native Reptilians
Often confused with the warrior caste of the Alpha Draconians, these reptilians are said to be native to Earth. Typically, Reptilians are described as being 6 to 8 feet tall, bipedal, with green scaly skin, body odor and large eyes with a vertical pupil. The little information available for this species states that they were originally left behind by the Alpha-Draconians to colonize Earth.
Their interaction with mankind goes back thousands of years, sometimes offering assistance but more often than not using us as a commodity. They have infiltrated almost all aspects of human life and hold positions of power. Several ancient peoples all over the world have described reptilian beings, acting hostile towards human beings. Common Reptilians manipulate our elites and rule our institutions and organizations. They built our current financial system and influence all religions.
The underground reptilian race is also said to control the media and all corporations. They are behind most crimes against humanity.
6. The Anunnaki
According to scientists, there is a 12th planet in our solar system (known as the possible ‘Planet X’). They refer to this planet as Nibiru, which is located somewhere beyond Pluto. This planet, unlike any other planet in our solar system, has an elliptical orbit and moves clockwise rather than counterclockwise. It is said that the collision of Nibiru and another planet in our solar system (Maldek) was what created Earth.
This planet is inhabited by the Anunnaki, who landed on Earth, and originally colonized it. They first came with the intention of mining Earth for gold and other minerals, and live a kind of idealistic society in a small colony. Before heading to Earth, the Anunnaki colonized the planets in the Orion star system.
In need of a workforce, they are said to have created mankind. Through genetic manipulation and in vitro fertilization, they upgraded the genus Homo to sapiens quality. Present on Earth since our inception, the Anunnaki have influenced every aspect of human life. We’ve inherited their patriarchal culture of violence and vengeance, it’s in our engineered DNA.
The Anunnaki are in direct competition with the Draconians for control over mankind.
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How to Get Abducted by Aliens
How to Get Abducted by Aliens
If you are interested in getting abducted by aliens, there are some things that you need to know. You can be sure that extraterrestrial types are not going to simply travel billions of light-years just to abduct the average person. Certain people are more likely to get abducted than others, and you may or may not fall into the popular categories. Not only do they need a good reason to choose you, but you have to be at the right place at the right time.
There are certain types of people that are seemingly more attractive to aliens than others. For example, young children are more likely to be taken away than elderly people. Why is that? Here are some of the main reasons:
Children may be more willing to cooperate.
The developmental stages of the human race are fascinating.
They have enough time in their expected life span left for tracking and monitoring post-abduction.
Young tissue is more expendable.
Children are far from the only type of person that is likely to get abducted. Teenagers are also an attractive group. That is because:
Many teens tend to have a desire to detach themselves from their parents.
Post-abduction tracking and monitoring is exceptionally entertaining during high school years.
Teenagers can provide interesting psychiatric variants, as this group tends to be extremely experimental (drugs, sex, alcohol, friendships, dangerous/risky stunt-like activities)
Others who may be abducted
If you are beyond these age groups and are interested in being abducted, fear not. There are certain groups that, regardless of age, aliens would be extremely eager to study. These groups include:
Poets
Musicians
Mathematicians
Video gamers
Collectors of rare items
Smokers (of any kind)
College professors
Politicians
This is by no means a definitive list. If you still do not fall into one or more of these categories, there are certain places where you will be most likely to get picked up by aliens. Sometimes, simply by being in the right place at the right time, the average adult is abducted. Please take note of the areas and times of day that extraterrestrials are likely to snatch you.
Places to get abducted
Dark areas. Aliens love to hover over unsuspecting humans flashing their bright scanners. Any area with too much sunlight would ruin the cool effect of their beam. Plus, aliens are rather shy when they are people-picking, and would rather not be caught. For this reason, busy cities are the least likely of places to get abducted.
The most prime locations for human selection are large forests, the open countryside, mountaintops, deep and vast canyons, and deserts. While many of these places can have a significant amount of sunlight during the day, nightfall creates the perfect environment for abduction. A general guideline when seeking out a place to wait for them to come for you is the stars. The more stars you can see in the sky, the more likely you are in an attractive area. Depending on your location, the darkest time of night will vary.
Generally, you shouldn't expect any noticeable activity from a spaceship until between the hours of midnight and 4am.
Waiting to be taken up
First of all, when you go to a dark location, as described earlier, bring a flashlight. If you injure yourself, it could weaken your appeal. It is more time efficient not to have to repair a human subject before studying it. Bring something to eat as well, because there is no way to be sure when they will show up, if at all.
Another tip is not to go alone. A choice of various humans is preferred over a single human staring at the stars with his or her arms open. You should sit, lie or stand at least one foot apart from each other so that they are not forced to take two or more if they are only looking for one person at the time. (The cruel experiments are always done on the 'extra' one.) Each person in your party should understand that they too could be abducted, and should be prepared.
Don't look too anxious to get taken away. Be yourself, and don't wear an alien costume or bring any glitter-filled signs asking to be taken. Costumes are rather insulting since you have no idea what they really look like, and you should respect their right to choose. When you get to your location, just pass the time in any way that you choose. If you are idle, the aliens may assume that you are expecting them, and will not take you or alert you to their presence in any way. All abductees are at least seemingly unsuspecting.
Should you notice a bright light, a beam or some type of glowing coming from above, run. Aliens love the thrill of the chase. Put up a fight, and act like you don't want to go with them. This alone makes you an attractive candidate.
If you consider this advice, you have a good chance of being abducted. There is however, no guarantee. Good luck to you.
This UFO was caught by Streetcap1 of Youtube and he asks the question, is this a message? It could be. But can we interpret that message? The UFO seems to be four or more separate sections that disassemble when it needs to do its job. Whatever that job may be. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Het klonk al te bizar om waar te zijn: een buschauffeur in India zou afgelopen weekend zijn omgekomen nadat hij geraakt werd door een meteoriet. Ruimteorganisatie NASA verklaart nu dat het niet waar is. De man is waarschijnlijk gestorven door een explosief.
Het was maandag bijzonder nieuws: een buschauffeur in het zuidoosten van India nam even pauze en ging zijn gezicht wassen bij een kraantje toen hij ineens werd getroffen door een meteoriet. De chauffeur overleed ter plekke en drie anderen - twee tuinmannen en een student- raakten gewond.
In de grond waar de man stond, was na de explosie een krater ontstaan en er werd een zwarte steen gevonden die een 'pokkenachtige tekening toonde'. De steen werd doorgestuurd voor onderzoek naar het Indian Institute of Astrophysics. Er werden volgens de politie geen resten van explosieven gevonden. Het moest volgens de Indiase autoriteiten dus wel om een meteoriet gaan.
Sceptisch Maar de NASA was direct al sceptisch, want nooit eerder in de geschreven geschiedenis is er iemand dodelijk geraakt door een meteoriet. Bovendien was er die dag geen meteorenregen zichtbaar. Dit wordt door de NASA nauwkeurig in de gaten gehouden. En nu, na het bestuderen van de foto's en de informatie, weten ze het zeker: dit was geen meteoriet.
Lindley Johnson van de NASA schrijft in een e-mail aan de Amerikaanse krant The New York Times dat een dode door een meteorietinslag zo zeldzaam is, dat het nog nooit wetenschappelijk is beschreven. "Er zijn wel beschrijvingen van verwondingen, maar zelfs dat waren extreem zeldzame gebeurtenissen", aldus de NASA-deskundige.
De laatste keer dat er sprake was van grote schade door ruimtepuin was in 2013 na een meteorietinslag in Rusland. Zo'n 1200 mensen werden toen behandeld voor snijwonden doordat veel ramen kapotsprongen na een inslag van het ruimtepuin.
Incidenten Er zijn eerder incidenten geweest met vallende meteorieten. In 2009 werd een Duitse jongen geraakt. Een stukje ruimtepuin zo groot als een erwt schampte zijn hand. Een Amerikaanse vrouw werd in 1954 door een vier kilogram zware meteoriet geraakt terwijl ze lag te slapen. Ergens in 1650 zou een monnik zijn geraakt in Milaan. In Zweden kwamen in 1674 twee zeemannen om toen hun boot getroffen werd door een steen uit de ruimte.
I caught this UFO over a volcano that was named by the ancient Aztecs. This UFO was caught...mind you...during sunset! Sunset is the #1 best time of the day to catch a UFO. Below is an interesting Aztec story about Popocatepetl. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com The Aztec story about the volcano goes like this: Iztaccíhuatl's father sent Popocatepetl to war in Oaxaca, promising him his daughter as his wife if he returned. Iztaccíhuatl's father presumed he would not return and so arranged several suitors for his daughter. When Iztaccíhuatl heard of this she killed herself with a dagger, because she knew that Popocatepetl would never survive in battle, and did not want to marry anyone else. When Popocatépetl returned, and discovered the death of his lover, he took her to the top of the mountain, hoping the cold would wake her but Instead he froze. God covered them with snow and changed them into mountains. Iztac cíhuatl's mountain was called "La Mujer Dormida, (the "Sleeping Woman"), because it bears a resemblance to a woman sleeping on her back. Popocatépetl became the volcano Popocatépetl, raining fire on Earth in blind rage at the loss of his beloved.
I have a slight problem with her description. I have witnessed UFOs before, several times, once with dozens of soldiers in the parking lot. None of us panicked...none of us said...run! We did ask each other in soft voices, "what the hell are those things?" But we never freaked out. We just straight up like turkeys in a rain storm. I just don't think people would do that. Usually people stare as long as possible, trying to understand what they are seeing. This is why I calling bullshit on this sighting. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Inexplicata UFO News States: Argentina: Seeing is Believing - Family Photographs an Alleged UFO at La Rinconada The members of a family from Cutral Co claim having been able to see an unidentified flying object (UFO) for fleeting seconds at La Rinconada, not far from Junín de los Andes. They took photographs of the event, which frightened them. The Cutral Co al Instante web portal conveyed the statements made by Verónica, one of the protagonists of the incredible story, who noted that [the family] was on its way to Junín and stopped at La Rinconada spend some time on the banks of the Collon Cura River. Verónica says that she took a photo of a group of bikers crossing the bridge when she saw the strange object in the sty. "I screamed. Everyone looked and we saw it some 50 meters away, for an instant, just when I took the photo. After that, it was no longer there," she explained. Their initial reaction was to run and get into the car. "We took off immediately. We shut everything because it truly frightened us," said the resident of Cutral Co, who shared the photo that went viral over the weekend through social media.
Daytime UFO sighting filmed from a plane over New Mexico
Daytime UFO sighting filmed from a plane over New Mexico
Here’s one older UFO video that was just recently reported to MUFON. This was taken over New Mexico on 15th October 2014.
Witness report: A friend of mine showed me a video he took over New Mexico when he was onboard a plane from Dallas to Los Angeles. It was in October 2014. I don’t know the exact date. His GPS showed he was over New Mexico, north of Roswell. This can’t be a reflection because numerous passengers inside the plane saw the same light during an approximate 1 minute time frame. After watching the video many times, we still don’t know what is was! The object looks like it was over the horizon line at 35,000 feet, and then it entered the cloud.
Extra-terretrial organism is proof that there is life on other planets
Discovered using super-powerful magnets to capture minute pieces of debris floating in space, the “bull-shaped” particle is a “complete living entity”.
Professor Milton Wainwright the University of Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology claims it proves life exists outside Earth.
Its discovery was the result of an exploratory project in Derbyshire which involved launching powerful magnets into the stratosphere.
Professor Wainwright explained the image shows a crystal of salt with the bizarre horned creature erupting from one surface which was captured during the study.
He said it points further towards the panspermia theory that not only is there life in space but that it is constantly raining down to Earth.
He said: “The picture illustrates what we believe to be alien microbes high up in the stratosphere.
University of Buckingham
The 'organism' is said to be a complete living entity
“Our team has caused quite a stir over the last couple of two years by claiming these microbes are continually arriving to Earth from space.
“Our critics have been vocal in dismissing our work but, as yet, no one has provided a viable alternative explanation for our peer reviewed work.”
He said the structure is an “amorphous form” attached to a grain of salt and was discovered with rare elements including dysprosium, lutetium, neodymium and niobium.
He said: “As far as we can tell the particle has no relation to anything found on Earth.
“This latest launch is also exciting because the team has found particles containing, so-called, rare earth elements at a height close to 30 kilometres in the stratosphere.
“These particle masses are too big to have been carried up from Earth and, like the alien life forms we find, must be incoming to Earth from space.”
The microscopic metallic globe, also found by Professor Wainwright and his team, appeared to spew out a liquid thought to contain genetic material.
The latest find adds further “proof” to Professor Wainwright’s controversial theories that alien life exists within close parameters to Earth.
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Professor Wainwright has previously spoken about the existence of extraterrestrial life
His work is supported by Astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe who has long held we are not alone in the universe.
It comes as a separate report penned by professor Wickramasinghe and Gensuke Tokoro of Japan’s Institute for the Study of Panspermia and Astroeconomics claims “extraterrestrial microbial life exists”.
Professor Wickramasinghe said: “From the turn of the millennium an impressive body of evidence has accumulated to indicate that microbial life does indeed exist outside the Earth.
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Other particles have also been discovered
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“It is permitted nowadays to assert that comets and meteorites delivered the chemical building blocks of life to form a primordial soup from which life originated on the Earth some four billion years ago.
“The idea of life originating on the Earth ‘in some primordial soup’ is deeply rooted in the religious and scientific culture of the Western world.
“We note that with the rapidly growing evidence that all points to the existence of extraterrestrial life it would be unwise to ignore the facts.
“Wrong ideas have crippled science in the past. If we are not vigilant it could happen again, and this time round the societal and economic consequences could be more disastrous.”
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If this theory was true, our ages of the universe would be wrong, would only apply to the areas around us. It would be a positive because when our planet is no longer livable because of the age of our sun or something else, we can travel toward the origin, and find younger solar systems.
It also means there could be civilizations older than what we even think of the universe as.
In "The Big Bang Theory" Sheldon is bummed out because according to his calculations, he'll miss being able to download his consciousness into a digital format and living forever by "that much!"
Perhaps even that might be far behind what's possible. Looking at what we have achieved, just since WW2, what could we achieve in billions of years? Maybe we won't be tied to our meat suits anymore. Maybe we'll be able to exist without measurable mass at all and be able to find our way past what we think of as laws of nature.
Personally, I think there is, and must be something out there. My thoughts on this were changed considerable about a month ago when I heard first hand, from the actual witness, the most credible "UFO siting" I had ever heard.
This guy is the assistant sales manager at the dealership I work for. We'll call him Joe. Very laid-back, confident, quiet type. In the 2 years I've known him, I've never heard him say anything to draw attention to himself, build up other's opinions of him, shock people, or anything. I don't always like him, but he's like the most even keeled guy I know.
You can tell he actually dislikes attention. He's one of those sales managers that stays behind his desk and doesn't talk to customers, like ever.
Anyway, me (He doesn't seem to like me, didn't care much about the other guy, which adds credibility to me) one other guy and Joe are talking, I brought up some person I knew who was a crackpot, believed in all these conspiracys, and psychics, and Aliens etc.
And Joe starts off with, well I don't know about all the rest, but nothing against the alien part after the things I've seen.
"When you've seen the stuff I've seen, than you know."
And of course we insisted multiple times he tell us what he saw.
He isn't a creative person. This is literally the most complete story I have ever heard from him. He goes on a fishing trip for a week and I ask him how it went, his reply? "Good." Catch anything" "Ya, a couple small ones." Like he doesn't even tell fish stories...
He was on his first elk hunt when he was 14, with one other guy his age, and 8 adults. They are all sitting around the campfire etc, when Joe says "what's that?" He sees some odd lights low in the sky at the base of a mountain about 5-6 miles away. They are kinda hovering and moving around in a random way. So all 10 people are looking at it, see it, when it suddenly seems to recognize their focus, and in about 2 seconds, goes from 5-6 miles away, to directly overhead, like hundreds of feet he said. He could clearly see the disk shape, and the lights around the outside.
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It hovered there for what seemed like an eternity I'm sure, he said at least several seconds, and then it streaked off into the Horizon and disappeared within a second.
He called the guy who was his age 20 years later and brought it up, and the other guy remembered it clear as day as well.
I had never taken eye witness testimony seriously before, you'd have to know Joe... he is very uncreative, even keeled guy. He wouldn't, probably couldn't make something like that up. And he was clear that he had 9 other witnesses, so it wasn't a dream or anything.
And it couldn't be any technology we have because of how it moved, as if it's breaking the laws of physics. Obviously we couldn't even conceive how to start and stop at speeds like that.
So that's the best evidence I've heard, and really took extraterrestrial life from the realm of crackpot to possible for me.
We also talked about and I've seen some intriguing pictures from ancient civilizations.
I know a good amount of psychology as it's a hobby of mine, I don't really buy any other explanation in this case.
If true, Aliens could easily be the origin of many if not all our religions. If we found another planet with life on it, what we do? I'm assuming we would monitor it, without disturbing it as much as possible, and just observe evolution.
If you are advanced to that kind of level, they wouldn't need our resources, they can strip them from dead planets I'm sure.
So you observe them in the name of science.
It kinda makes you think, what would be the difference between a "god", and an ultra advanced alien life form from billions of years ahead of us?
People talking about the problems with abiogenesis, often don't think there was time for life to arise in the time it did. (Not saying I agree, we've made a lot of progress in this area)
But maybe it did take more time. Maybe it took billions of years on a DIFFERENT planet to come up with DNA, and it was seeded here, hence the relatively new arrival and diversification of life.
It's an interesting thought of course, though still far from verified, and I wouldn't advocate anyone quitting there job and chasing aliens, we should be working to improve our planet, our civilization, and our technology, and if there is an advanced intelligence out there, it'll make contact when and how it chooses.
2. Do you believe in Aliens?
by Dilip Kumar Kushwaha, Geographer,Traveler,Perpetual learner,proud of being Swadeshi Bihari Indian(F...
Do you believe in Aliens??? It’s complicated to answer. Aliens, Extraterrestrials, Space Men whatever you call them, sightings have been around since man first gazed into the skies. No one knows the facts. But we bring to you 9 signs that will give you goose bumps and may prove that they very well exist.
Apollo 11′s Sighting: Starting with NASA’s Apollo 11 Mission. During the three days of mission the crew reported a strange flying object not far from their location. First they assumed it as a piece of the detached SIV-B rocket until they received word that it was over 6,000 miles away. Since that time, the highly-trained crew and team of NASA scientists have no official explanation for what the object could have been.
Ancient Signs of Modern Technology: Egyptian Hieroglyphics show what appear to be images of a helicopter, submarine, boat, and jet airplane before it was invented. So many believe, it is proof that aliens once visited the ancient Egyptians, arriving in their advanced technology and leaving behind quit an interesting story for our ancestors to tell.
Napoleon’s Micro Chip: Scientists found a small, half-inch long foreign object embedded within the skeletal remains of once French ruler, Napoleon Bonaparte. However, that time it wasn’t invented. It created suspicions over Bonaparte’s own story of abduction when he disappeared for several days in July 1794, claiming he had been held prisoner against his will by a strange group of men.
The Battle of Los Angeles: On February 24, 1942, a local Los Angeles air base reported a UFO. Worried about another Japanese airstrike after the attack on Pearl Harbour, the sky was quickly filled with searchlights that swiftly found the aircraft. Now here comes the interesting point — however, the unidentified object was hit multiple times with anti-aircraft fire; it appeared to take no damage and soon disappeared, never to be seen again.
The “Wow Signal”: Ohio State University researches received a signal coming from nearly 220 million light years away that was so powerful, it was named the “Wow Signal”. Scientists were shocked that how a signal so strong could come from so far away without the use of advanced technology.
UFO stories: The number of near-collisions involving UFOs and commercial airlines seem only to grow larger with every passing year. There are countless stories, which claim to witness UFO. Many of these encounters are caught on FAA audio tape too.
Mars’ Methane: Back in 2004, 3 independent groups reported massively high amounts of methane within the atmosphere of Mars. That’s not very exciting. Until, you know that nearly all methane on earth is created by living organisms. So something is there….
“Call back” Radio Signals: Radio waves are frequently sent out to space from earth in an attempt to reach life other than our own. In 2004, scientist examined a series of radio waves from space only to discover that one signal in particular was getting stronger. So maybe they’re finally calling back.
The Alien Harvest: A team of British scientists sent a balloon into the outer reaches the stratosphere; it came back carrying tiny biological organisms. These organisms, which the balloon accidently harvested in space, have the scientist convinced that alien life exists....I have taken it from India.com...........
3. The following well-respected people all affirm the existence of UFOs.
Many have gone on record and have sworn under oath to testify that they have seen evidence of UFO intelligence first hand. With a few exceptions, most UFO reports on record from military pilots have come from the World War II and Korean War eras, or from recently retired officers. Military pilots, naturally are restricted from discussing sightings freely while they are on active duty. Airline pilots however, have contributed some of the best reports on record, although in recent years some have reported pressure not to discuss sightings. The following well-respected people all affirm the existence of UFOs. Many have gone on record and have sworn under oath to testify that they have seen evidence of UFO intelligence first hand. With a few exceptions, most UFO reports on record from military pilots have come from the World War II and Korean War eras, or from recently retired officers. Military pilots, naturally are restricted from discussing sightings freely while they are on active duty. Airline pilots however, have contributed some of the best reports on record, although in recent years some have reported pressure not to discuss sightings. John F Kennedy - Former US President Jimmy Carter - Former US President Ronald Reagan - Former Harry S Truman - Former US President Former President Gerald Ford Captain A D Yates - United Airlines Al Worden - NASA Astronaut, Apollo 15 Allen Dulles - Former CIA Director Dr Brian O'Leary - NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman - NASA Astronaut, Shuttle Mission STS-73 Buzz Aldrin - NASA Astronaut, Apollo 11, First man to land on the moon (along with Neil Armstrong) Charles J Camarda - NASA Astronaut J Edgar Hoover - Former FBI Director Major General Charles P Cabell - Director of Intelligence, US Air Force, Director of the Joint Chief of Staff (1951) Captain Donald Slayton - Mercury Astronaut Ed White - NASA Astronaut Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter - Former Director of the CIA Dr Garry Henderson - NASA Commander Eugene Cernan - Commander Apollo 17 Mission Astronaut Captain Edgar Mitchell - Sixth Man on the Moon (Apollo 14) Frank G Rawlinson - Physicist, NASA Space Flight Center and NICAP Special Advisor Dr Samuel A Goudsmit - Advisor, Robertson Scientific Advisory Committee on UFOs, Pentagon / NASA Walter Schirra - NASA Astronaut Sigma 7 Scott Carpenter - NASA Astronaut, Mercury 7 Dr Story Musgrave - NASA Astronaut and Scientist James Irwin - NASA Astronaut, Apollo 15 James Lovell - NASA Astronaut, Gemini 7 Mission Dr Jerry Linenger - NASA Astronaut Joseph A Walker - NASA Astronaut/Pilot Martyn Stubbs - Secret NASA Transmission Department, NASA Adolph Wagner - Deputy Coordinator, Civil Defence Lieutenant General Akira Hirano - Chief of Staff of Japan's Air Self-Defence Force Reverend Albert Baller - Pastor, German Congregational Church, Clinton, Mass & NICAP Board Member Alan C Holt - Experimental Specialist, NASA Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston and NICAP Special Advisor Albert M Chop - Deputy Public Relations Director of NASA & Former US Air Force Spokesman for Project Bluebook Sergeant Alberto Covas - Portuguese Air Force, Ota Air Base Dr Anthony O Mirarchi - Air Force Geophysical Laboratory Brigadier General Arthur E Exon - Former Commander, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base Arthur H Sorensen - Research Geologist, Wallace, Idaho and NICAP Special Advisor Captain Art Shutts - Trans-world Airlines Air Marshal Azim Daudpota - Zimbabwe Air Force Senator Barry Goldwater - Retired Air Force Brigadier General General Benjamin Chidlaw - Commanding General of Air Defence Command Benjamin (Ben) R Rich - Director, Lockheed Skunk Works Bill Gates - American Airlines First Officer Bruce Foster - Bell Aircraft Company Engineer Dr Bruce Maccabee - Physicist US Navy & Head of the Fund for UFO Research Captain C S Chiles - Eastern Airlines Pilot and NICAP Special Advisor C W Sonner - Chief of Interstate Airways Communication Station Carl J Henry - Chairman, Industrial Commission of Missouri, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations Dr Carl Jung - Swiss Psychologist Colonel Carl Sanderson - US Air Force Dr Carol Rosin - Aerospace Executive, Fairchild Industries Captain Casey Pierman - Capitol Airlines Pilot Charles A. Carson - California State Policeman Professor Charles A. Maney - Head of the Defiance College Physics Department and NICAP Board Member Charles B Moore - Aerologist, General Mills Balloon Technicians Lieutenant Colonel Charles Brown - US Air Force Charles Fisher - Civil Engineer Dr Charles Gaston - Space & Atmospheric Sciences, IBM, Wheaton, Maryland and NICAP Special Advisor Dr Charles H. Otis, Professor Emeritus of Biology, Bowling Green State University Pilot Charles Kratovil - Trans World Airlines Charles W James - Photographer, Philadelphia Enquirer Captain Charles Zammett - Pan American Airways Chuck Sorrels - Air Traffic Controller, Edwards Air Force Base Clark C. McClelland, Former ScO (Spaceraft Operator), Space Shuttle Fleet, Kennedy Space Centre Florida Sergeant Clifford Stone - Sergeant 1st Class, US Army Clyde Clark McClelland - US Space Program Pioneer Dr Clyde Tombaugh - Astronomer, Discovered planet Pluto, Optical Scientist, White Sands Missile Range Monsignor Corrado Balducci - Vatican Theologian Insider close to the Pope D Shenkel - Former Air Force Pilot Lieutenant D A Swimley - US Air Force Daniel Salter - US Air Force, Chief Master Sergeant, NRO Dan Willis - US Navy Dr Darell B Harmon Jnr - Deputy Program Manager., McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co, Santa Monica Dave Richey - Canal Fulton Patrolman, Northeast Ohio David McCurry - Northeast Ohio State Police Air Commodore David Thorne - Director of General Operations for the Zimbabwe Air Force in 1985 Delbert C Newhouse - US Navy, Chief Photographer of Aviation and NICAP Special Advisor Rear Admiral Delmar S Fahrney - US Navy Missile Chief and former NICAP Board Member Delmus Early - Carroll County Police Officer, Northeast Ohio Captain Dermott - Capitol Airlines Pilot Major Dewey J Fournet - US Air Force, Former US Air Force HQ Monitor to Blue Book Dick Beemer - Aviation Photographer, North American Aviation Don Newman - Former Air Force pilot Don P Hollister - Goodyear Aircraft Corporation Technical Writer Don Phillips - Lockheed Skunkworks, CIA Contractor Deputy Sheriff Donald E. Corey - Mahoning County, Northeast Ohio Major Donald E Keyhoe - United States Marines Donna Hare - NASA (Airbrushing) Department Houston General Douglas MacArthur Doyle Kline - Scripps, Howard Staff Writer Lieutenant Colonel Dwynne Arnesson - US Air Force, SAC Control Officer Dr Earl Douglas - Religious Writer & Columnist Ed Nugent - Radar Controller
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UFO Sightings in Belgium: the situation in 2015
UFO Sightings in Belgium: the situation in 2015
The Belgisch UFO-meldpunt1 for the Flemish part of the country and COBEPS2 for the French part have merged their data to establish the first national survey of UFO sightings.
A UFO sighting is the public statement made by UFO witnesses, from the witnesses point of view. Such declarations are done, mainly, by the way of forms directly filled in and available on the websites of the two organisations. However, a UFO seen by one or more witnesses does not mean that it is not identifiable by experts. The Belgisch UFO-meldpunt and COBEPS make investigations about these sightings and, when possible, propose explanations.
The level of investigation depends on the strangeness of the case, the quality of the information given by the witnesses, and their credibility. There were 319 UFO sightings in 2015 and 237 in 2014. There is an increase in the two regions. This increase is probably the result of a bigger media attention around two videos relevant for the Flemish part, but which is not statistically significant for the French part. The two organisations agreed that there is no increase of the number of unidentified phenomena following investigations.
VIDEOVanuit de huiskamer meekijken hoe het met de rijdende Marsrover Curiosity gaat: het kan nu. De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA plaatste maandag een nieuwe video van Curiosity mét rondkijkmogelijkheid op YouTube.
De 3D-panoramavideo is samengesteld uit honderden beelden die werden genomen op 8 december 2015. Op de beelden zijn de Namib duinen te zien, op zo'n zeven meter afstand van de camera.
Op de achtergrond is het Marsgebergte Mount Sharp te zien. Dit zijn de eerste beelden die gemaakt zijn van zandduinen op een andere planeet dan de aarde, verklaart NASA.
De Curiosity Mars Rover is sinds 2012 op Mars voor onderzoek naar het klimaat en het milieu op mars.
RUIMTEVAARTEr is iets eigenaardigs aan de hand met het sterrenstelsel NGC 1487, dat zich op 30 miljoen lichtjaren van de aarde in de constellatie Eridanus bevindt. Deze foto van de ruimtetelescoop Hubble toont dat het niet bestaat uit één, maar uit meerdere sterrenstelsels die bezig zijn samen te smelten.
'We zijn er getuige van hoe twee of meer sterrenstelsels samensmelten tot één nieuw'
Volgens NASA mogen we het sterrenstelsel niet bekijken als een object, maar eerder als een evenement. "We zijn er getuige van hoe twee of meer sterrenstelsels samensmelten tot één nieuw", legt de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie uit in een blogpost. "Elk van die sterrenstelsels heeft bijna alle sporen van zijn originele uitzicht verloren, omdat sterren en gas overhoop gegooid worden door de zwaartekracht."
Door het enorme geweld waarmee dit gebeurt, is het moeilijk te bepalen hoeveel sterrenstelsels deel uitmaken van het fusieproces en wat hun eigen karakteristieken zijn. Volgens NASA zijn de gele en rode sterren aan de buitenzijde van het sterrenstelsel ouder, en zijn de heldere blauwe sterren in het midden wel licht het resultaat van de fusie.
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VIDEO: Marokko in de ban van ‘uit de lucht vallende wolken’
VIDEO: Marokko in de ban van ‘uit de lucht vallende wolken’
Op internet gaat momenteel een filmpje rond waarin te zien is hoe een vreemde schuimachtige substantie zich door de Marokkaanse regio Doukala-Abda verspreidt. De maker van het filmpje reageert vol verbazing.
Op de sociale media is het filmpje inmiddels vele honderdduizenden keren bekeken. In de video is te zien hoe grote vlokken van het raadselachtige goedje over de grond rollen. De cameraman zegt dat hij nog nooit eerder zoiets heeft gezien en gelooft dat het wolken zijn die uit de lucht zijn gevallen. “Ik heb nog nooit wolken gezien die op de grond vallen,” zei hij. “Dit is vreemd.”
Sommigen menen dat ze het gevolg zijn van chemtrails. Anderen denken dat het echte wolken zijn die op de grond zijn gevallen. Dan is er nog een groep die stelt dat het gewoon zeeschuim is dat door de wind aan wal is geblazen, aangezien de regio aan de Atlantische Oceaan grenst.
Eén iemand reageerde op YouTube dat de substantie mogelijk ‘kunstmatig schuim is, dat gemaakt is om in de lucht te zweven en op wolken lijkt’. “Ik denk dat het iets te maken heeft met chemtrails,” zei iemand anders.
Op de sociale netwerken wordt druk gespeculeerd over de rare witte substantie. Experts hebben nog niet kunnen vaststellen wat het precies is. Klimatoloog Said Karrouk vertelde aan de Huffington Post: “Dit is schuim dat ontstaat bij vervuiling en zeker geen wolk.”
Met de enorme toename van vuurbollen (meteorieten) in de lucht was het een kwestie van tijd voordat de eerste mens zou worden getroffen.
Zo zijn alleen al in Amerika het aantal vuurbollen de afgelopen drie jaar vervijfvoudigd en dat alles heeft uiteraard een oorzaak.
Vorig jaar schreven wij een artikel naar aanleiding van een inslag van een meteoriet in Iran die nogal wat schade veroorzaakte, maar waar in de wereldpers nauwelijks aandacht aan werd besteed.
Volgens Iraanse kranten hadden we te maken met een behoorlijk grote meteoriet van enkele meters groot. Deze is misschien verder uit elkaar gevallen en de brokstukken zijn op verschillende plekken terechtgekomen. Er wordt gesproken over gebroken ramen en ontzette ramen en deuren.
Dit is een verhaal dat op iedere voorpagina ter wereld zou horen te staan. Een niet ontdekte asteroïde die op de aarde afstormt en als meteoriet aanzienlijke schade veroorzaakt op deze planeet.
Voor diegenen die de uitdrukkingen asteroïde en meteoriet verwarrend vinden, hier een uitleg van het verschil tussen beiden.
De vraag is dan ook waarom dit nergens in de Westerse mainstream media wordt vermeld.
Het antwoord zal voor veel mensen misschien komen als een schok. Het is simpelweg omdat de mensheid helemaal niets mag weten over dit soort gebeurtenissen. Daarom is men ook heel blij, als het inderdaad toeval is, dat deze meteoriet terechtgekomen is in Iran want dan is het niet zo moeilijk om dit voor de Westerse wereld verborgen te houden.
Het aantal asteroïden dat onze kant op komt zal met de komst van de planeet Nibiru alleen maar verder toenemen. Als er íets is dat men zo lang mogelijk voor de mensheid verborgen wil houden dan is het wel dat we binnen niet al te lange tijd zullen kennismaken met deze planeet.
We hebben afgelopen jaren dan ook de meest vreemde voorvallen meegemaakt waarbij meteorieten insloegen door daken van huizen, maar nog nooit dat een mens werd getroffen door een meteoriet en daarbij het leven liet.
Het lijkt erop dat dit precies is wat er in India is gebeurd en wel in de stad Vellore in de Zuid Indiase deelstaat Tamil Nadu.
Een man met de naam Kamaraj, die als buschauffeur werkte bij een technisch college, kwam zaterdag om het leven toen er vlakbij de watertank een explosie werd gehoord. Kamaraj die onderweg was om wat te gaan drinken en daar liep werd getroffen en overleed aan zijn verwondingen.
Naast de explosie ontstond er ook een krater in de grond.
Naast Kamaraj raakten nog drie mensen gewond en braken de ruiten in gebouwen en de bussen die daar geparkeerd stonden.
In eerste instantie dacht men aan een bomexplosie, maar al snel werd duidelijk dat een meteoriet de schuldige was.
Dit verhaal komt dan wel in de mainstream-pers terecht omdat het bijzonder is dat een mens wordt getroffen door een meteoriet.
Waar dan weer géén aandacht aan wordt besteed is het feit dat het aantal vuurbollen (meteorieten) die de aarde bereiken de laatste jaren schrikbarend is toegenomen.
Hieronder een grafiek voor Amerika, maar die geldt eigenlijk ook voor de rest van de wereld omdat dit fenomeen zich overal voordoet en niet is beperkt tot een bepaalde regio.
Dan zie je een explosieve stijging van vuurbollen gedurende de afgelopen paar jaar.
Triangle-shaped UFO over San Jose, California 5-Feb-2016
Triangle-shaped UFO over San Jose, California 5-Feb-2016
Check out this interesting footage of a transparent triangular object flying across the sky above San Jose in California. This was filmed on 5th February 2016.
Unidentified flying object over San Antonio, Texas 26-Jan-2016
Unidentified flying object over San Antonio, Texas 26-Jan-2016
Here’s one interesting UFO sighting video of an unknown lights in the night sky above San Antonio in Texas. This paranormal event happened on 26th January 2016.
Witness report:What I recorded was a large, unidentified craft being “escorted” by a jet. The lighting, to me and my son, was unusual. So was it’s speed, it’s flight path, and altitude. I do not claim to be an expert in aeronautics. However, I can tell what is typical for my area.
Mulder and Scully have witnessed far too much nutty space shit to remain incredulous.
An old, recognizable poster is visible on the wall of Fox Mulder's office during the new X-Files miniseries. It shows a blurry image of what appears to be a flying saucer hovering over a forest. Printed in bold type below the shot: i want to believe. It serves as a testament to Mulder's earnest faith in extraterrestrial or paranormal beings and a deep skepticism towards a heavy-handed federal government that suppresses and obfuscates their existence.
That the iconic image still hangs in the same spot since The X-Files pilot aired way back in 1993 is a little wink to longtime fans. But in 2016, it's also a cringe-inducing, laughably outdated relic—both because of events that have occurred over the last 23 years in Chris Carter's beloved sci-fi universe and, more importantly, what's transpired in our own world.
The gap in The X-Files's internal logic is the size of a black hole, and it's the most glaring problem that drags down the six-episode miniseries. (Episode four airs tonight.) The show asks viewers to be smart enough to follow its dense plots and labyrinthine conspiracy theories while also demanding they turn off their brains long enough to swallow the idea that this pair of FBI agents and ex-lovers still question the existence of otherworldly beings and strange phenomena after being exposed to a lifetime's worth of crazy in the original pilot alone.
The show's writers have taken great pains to muddy the supernatural waters with fake-outs and red herrings; it's part of the purpose of Dana Scully's character. By playing the rationalist Clarence Darrow to Mulder's William Jennings Bryan in all things unexplained, she plants seeds of doubt in the viewer's mind. But presumably the duo has witnessed far too many slimy aliens, werebeasts, and shadowy men in black during their tenure to remain incredulous. As a spook-hunting sleuth, Scully's been abducted, impregnated by aliens, and made out with a shapeshifter—just to name a few indignities. (The 401k and health benefits at the FBI's X-Files division must be amazing.) After all that does she really still think all this nutty space shit is a product of psychosis and natural phenomena?
Still, The X-Files has bigger problems than the amnesia of its characters: the show's core premise has aged much worse than its attractive lead actors. The Roswell incident is a fun diversion, but there's something hopelessly quaint about being obsessed with the cover-up of a gaggle of big-eyed aliens that crashed in the New Mexico desert 60 years ago when measured against the insanity of the present.
Consider that we currently live in a world where nation-state superpowers prepare for the possibility of a proxy war in space and our own government openly spies on us by scanning our e-mails and listening to our phone calls ("I've heard of Edward Snowden," Mulder quips during the first episode, but offers no further commentary). It's hard to give a shit about UFOs when our own military employs drone fleets to shoot missiles at foreigners for associating with suspected enemy militants, and is now experimenting with building a robot army for the ground war of the future. The biggest cover-ups in our government are not conducted in some secret government lab—they're out in the open. Lobbyists and super PACs backed by massive corporations cast doubt on the irrefutable truth about climate change and ensure no new federal gun regulations are passed. Who's afraid of a few ghosts when we've got the ghosts in the political machine?
And conspiracy theories? Those things are a dime a dozen these days. It's hard to buy 2016 Mulder as some sort of fringe personality because of his views of American government when a significant number of us have adopted some version of those same views.
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Some of the conspiracy theories spread by the 2016 Republican presidential candidates make Fox Mulder look like Walter Cronkite.
In 1958, 73 percent of Americans trusted the government, according to aPew Study. But by April 1980, that number had cratered to 28 percent. In Ronald Reagan, we elected a president who positioned himself as someone who shared that same outlook, who saw overgrown government as "the problem, not the solution." There were plenty of legitimate reasons for the mounting disillusionment towards Washington—Watergate, Vietnam, the Cold War, the excesses of the CIA and FBI, you name it. But some suspected that we were only seeing the tip of the iceberg of government overreach and power, and they concocted ideas that the feds covered up JFK's real killer or faked the moon landing or concealed an alien spaceship near Roswell.
By the time that The X-Files debuted in 1993, it tapped into a certain breed of paranoia that didn't just expand but went mainstream, especially on conservative talk radio. As the top syndicated talk show host in country, Rush Limbaugh was unafraid to spout off conspiratorial theories about, say, the death of White House deputy counsel Vince Foster. During The X-Files's peak later in the decade, Rupert Murdoch's Fox News institutionalized and legitimized a more virulent strain of American thought about the nature of the entities that govern us. Today when Republican presidential candidates offer crazy theories about President Obama—that he was born in Kenya or is secretly instituting Sharia law in America or will authorize an obscure, 20-year-old nonbinding United Nations resolution that will abolish private property—that person isn't straitjacketed and given a tinfoil hat to wear. That person wins the Iowa caucus and pushes on against the tyranny of better health care.
Not that conspiracy theories are relegated to the right. The left is increasingly rife with batty ideas: "9/11 was an inside job!" "Vaccines cause autism!" "There are toxins in all my food!" "The Koch Brothers control everything!"
Perhaps that's why midway through the first episode of the new miniseason of The X-Files, the showrunners rip up decades of the franchise's mythology to unveil the "real conspiracy" that drives world events, one that scratches the left's anxieties just as much as those of the right. A faux Fox News commentator Tad O'Malley (Joel McHale) clues in Mulder to an elaborate plot that somehow incorporates climate change, the prison-industrial complex, agribusiness, the NSA, and more. Turns out that extraterrestrials were benevolent do-gooders come to earth in the prime of the nuclear age to save us from ourselves. But the government killed them and have spent the last several decades exploiting and developing their technology and driving world events to a coming moment where this elite top 0.1 percent will take over the world.
It's like a postapocalyptic horror movie coauthored by Occupy Wall Street and Ayn Rand, and it's sure a lot to put on a poster. But I'm sure Fox Mulder will find a way; after all, every man of faith needs an icon.
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Dwarf Planet Ceres Still Stuns, 215 Years After Discovery
Dwarf Planet Ceres Still Stuns, 215 Years After Discovery
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
215 years after its discovery, we know so much more about the dwarf planet Ceres. NASA's Dawn spacecraft captured this amazing view of Ceres in the asteroid belt, showing the dwarf planet's Occator Crater in false color, after it arrived in orbit around Ceres in 2015.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
The dwarf planet Ceres was first glimpsed through a telescope 215 years ago, and as researchers learn more than ever, they continue to be amazed by the object.
NASA's Dawn mission arrived at the dwarf planet last year and saw odd features that observers are still trying to figure out: more than 130 reflective areas are likely made up of salt, and the small body also hosts a rather large, cone-shaped mountain.
"When [Italian astronomer Giuseppe] Piazzi discovered Ceres, exploring it was beyond imagination," Marc Rayman, mission director and chief engineer for Dawn at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement. "More than two centuries later, NASA dispatched a machine on a cosmic journey of more than 3 billion miles to reach the distant, mysterious world he glimpsed." [Photos: Dwarf Planet Ceres, the Solar System's Largest Asteroid]
But back when Ceres was discovered, Piazzi didn't quite understand what he was looking at. After his first observation on Jan. 1, 1801, he noticed that the object had changed position slightly on his next observing night. His first suspicion was that it was a comet, but he also had evidence that the object might be something else.
"I have presented this star as a comet, but owing to its lack of nebulosity, and to its motion being so slow and rather uniform, I feel in the heart that it could be something better than a comet, perhaps," Piazzi wrote to fellow astronomer Barnaba Oriani.
Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered Ceres on Jan. 1, 1801, using this instrument, called a Ramsden Circle. The telescope is on display at the Palermo Observatory in Sicily.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Palermo Observatory
Piazzi also wrote to astronomer Johann Elert Bode, who devised a mathematical formula that he said would predict the locations of planets in the solar system relative to the sun. There was an undiscovered planet, the formula said, between Mars and Jupiter. For this reason, Ceres caught Bode's attention. Bode had already marshaled a group of astronomers to search for an object in that region, and he was determined to uncover more information. (We now know that the formula merely outlined a coincidence in the planets' positions.)
Piazzi spoke to the press about his finding, but he did not give his data to other astronomers. This made things difficult when he fell ill and was unable to continue his observations. In February of that year, Paris-based astronomer Jérôme de Lalande asked for some data from Piazzi, who provided it in April, after he had recovered. One of Lalande's students, Johann Karl Burckhardt, then calculated that the orbit of Ceres appeared to be circular, unlike a comet's.
But by the spring of 1801, no one had been able to see the new object besides Piazzi, because the skies had been cloudy. Also, by that time, Ceres was so close to the sun, from Earth's perspective, that it couldn't be seen at night. There was a real risk of losing it in the skies forever. After immense pressure from other astronomers to make his observations public, Piazzi published the data in July. Ceres was finally spotted again in December 1801 by astronomer Franz Xaver von Zach, using projections from mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss.
Astronomers still debated about the status of Ceres — comet, planet or something else — until other objects like it were discovered between Mars and Jupiter. These findings included Pallas (1802), Juno (1804) and Vesta (1807). Astronomer William Herschel suggested that these smaller objects be called "asteroids," because they appear starlike in telescopes.
Today we have found hundreds of thousands of asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres was reclassified as a dwarf planet in 2006 along with Pluto, due to its size and circular shape. Researchers have viewed it with the Hubble Space Telescope and up close with NASA's Dawn mission, which is orbiting the dwarf planet.
Dawn is currently in its lowest orbit ever, just 240 miles (385 kilometers) from Ceres' surface, where it will reveal even more about the mysterious dwarf planet.
Mount Kailash, which means “precious jewel of eternal snow” remains a place shrouded in mystery and legend.
According to ancient beliefs, this enigmatic Tibetan mountain represents the axis of the world or the stairway to heaven. In many eastern countries Mount Kailash is considered the holiest place on Earth. Some ancient sources say this is where we can find the mysterious city of the gods.
Located around four long rivers, the Indus River, the Sutlej River, the Brahmaputra River, and the Karnali River, Mount Kailash remains a very sacred place and a great repository of mystical knowledge.
Considered as the holy abode of Lord Shiva, the mountain is currently considered unconquered. It advised not to climb the mountain, since that would be sacrilege and cause misfortune.
A man-made pyramid?
Mount Kailash somewhat unusual shape has led to speculations that perhaps the mountain is not a mountain at all. Russian scientists have suggested that the top of Mount Kailash is actually a giant man-made pyramid from ancient times. Now, if this is true, then human history has to be re-written. It would mean that this is the largest known pyramid known today.
Scientists who have studied the mountain’s topography and structure say that it has a pyramidal shape, and not unlike all known pyramids, is strictly oriented to the cardinal points. “The results of recent Russian studies of Tibet and the Kailash range in particular, if true, could radically alter our knowledge on the growth of humanity and civilizations. One of the theories that the Russians have put forth is that Mt. Kailash could be a vast, human-built pyramid, the heart of an entire complex of a hundred smaller pyramids.
Additionally, this complex might be the center of a world-wide system connecting other monuments or sites where miraculous and paranormal phenomena have been observed.
Numerous travelers, especially in the beginning of the 20th century, have come to proclaim this owing to the fact that Mt. Kailash is too perfect to be a totally natural phenomenon, or at any rate give the appearance of human intervention.
Its shape resembles a vast cathedral and hellip; the sides of the mountain are surprisingly perpendicular and fall sheer for hundreds of feet.
The stratum is horizontal with the layers of stone slightly varying in color. The dividing lines show up clear and distinct, which gives the entire mountain the facade of having been built by giant hands, of huge blocks of reddish stone,” Researchers Club reports.
Ancient aliens at Mount Kailash?
There are also some ancient Buddhist legends about Mount Kailash that indicate the place was used by powerful gods who possessed alien advanced technology.
According to one legend, a Buddhist “sorcerer” named Milarepa challenged the sorcerer of the Bön religion, Naro Bön-chung. There was a fierce superhuman battle, but both sorcerers turned out to be equally powerful.
They then decided to race each other to the top of Mount Kailash.
One of them used some sort of magic drum to reach the top, while the other won by using ‘rays of the sun’. What was the “magic drum” and “rays of sun”? Was it some kind of ancient alien technology? Were the “magicians” actually ancient aliens flying in spaceships?
What is causing the rapid aging?
Another mysterious aspect about the mountain concerns the rapid aging of those who visited the area. After spending 12 hours in the region, the length of nails and hair is equal to two weeks in normal conditions! Is this caused by some energy surrounding this mysterious place?
A secret entrance to Shambala?
Interest in Mount Kailash goes back far in time. Several mystics have said the mountain has a secret entrance leading to the legendary kingdom of Shambala.
Some Indian sects believe that there is a region north of the Himalayas called Kapapa, where “perfect men” reside. Shambhala itself is supposed to be a land in or just north of Tibet, where many travelers have heard of the tradition from holy men:
“In the midst of high mountains there are unsuspected enclosed valleys. Many hot springs nourish the rich vegetation. Many rare plants and medicinal herbs are able to flourish on this unusual volcanic soil.
Milarepa was a yogi, sage, and poet much-beloved by the Tibetan people. He was often depicted as in the illustration shown here, with a hand raised to his ear in a listening gesture, symboling his way of teaching the Buddhist wisdom through songs.
Shambhala, the land safeguarding the Kalachakra teachings is difficult to find. A Himalayan explorer, Nicholas Roerich (1874-1947) was one of those who believed in existence of Shambhala. Many others did the same and even tried to reach Shambala.
Some of them disappeared forever and never found this fabulous kingdom whose reality is visionary or spiritual as much as physical or geographic.
“In Tibetan texts it is written that Shambhala is a spiritual country that is located in the north-west of Kailash. It is hard for me to discuss this topic from a scientific point of view. But I can quite positively say that Kailash complex is directly related to life on Earth, and when we did schematic map “City of the Gods”, consisting of pyramids and stone mirrors, we were very surprised – the scheme was similar to the spatial structure of DNA molecules,” Professor Ernst Muldashev said.
According to Tibetan Buddhist Teachings, Shambhala is a “Place of Happiness and Tranquility” and also a place where many religious teachings originated.
It is rumored that when the ice finally melts, it will reveal “THE EYE”. Prof. Ernst Muldashev Ph.D., a doctor and explorer, after exploring Tibet said:
“There are two underground countries, the Shambhala and Agartha, which are each part of the gene pool of humanity and civilization. Information provided by the Thule Society (Eckhart and Haushofer), shows there is a higher civilization, coming from the Gobi, from the Himalaya and divided into two branches, the Shambhala and Agartha. The former being the center of power, protected by unknown forces and energy. It seems that not only are there underground centers in Tibet and the Himalayas but these tunnels are widespread all over the entire globe”
Home of the gods
Mount Kailash is of great religious significance. Hinduism teaches that Lord Shiva, the destroyer of evil and sorrow, resides at the summit of the legendary mountain Kailash, where he sits in a state of perpetual meditation along with his wife Parvati. According to Vishnu Purana the mountain’s four faces are made of crystal, ruby, gold, and lapis lazuli. It is a pillar of the world and is located at the heart of six mountain ranges symbolizing a lotus.
Mount Kailash was home of Lord Shiva.
According to Buddhism, the mountain is home of the Buddha Demchok who represents supreme bliss.
It is also said that it was on this sacred mountain that Buddhism replaced Bon as the primary religion of Tibet. The Bon is an indigenous religion which predates Buddhism in Tibet. In Jainism, Kailash is called Mount Ashtapada and is the site where the first Jain Tirthankara, Rishabhadeva, attained liberation from rebirth.
Ancient secrets of Mount Kailash remain embedded in the heart of the Himalayas and this mysterious place will continue to fascinate people for a very long time. Perhaps one day in the future, we will be able to unravel the mysteries of Mount Kailash and find answers to questions that intrigue us. There is no doubt this is a place of great cultural and spiritual significance.
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Ondes gravitationnelles : encore une prédiction d'Einstein confirmée !
Ondes gravitationnelles : encore une prédiction d'Einstein confirmée !
Pour la première fois, les "vibrations de l'espace-temps" prédites par Einstein ont été détectées. Une découverte plus importante que celle du boson de Higgs.
Au départ, ce n'était qu'une folle rumeur. Un message posté le 11 janvier sur Twitterpar le cosmologiste Lawrence Krauss, de l'université d'Arizona State : « Mes dernières informations au sujet du Ligo ont été confirmées par des sources indépendantes. Restez branchés ! On a peut-être découvert des ondes gravitationnelles !! Excitant. » Retweeté plus de 1 900 fois, le tweet du cosmologiste a fait le tour de la planète science, s'attirant une volée de réactions sceptiques tant la nouvelle était à peine croyable. Mais, désormais, la découverte est quasi officielle : des physiciens sont parvenus à détecter des ondes gravitationnelles. « Si l'information est confirmée, c'est l'une des plus importantes découvertes scientifiques de notre temps. À mon avis, plus importante encore que celle du boson de Higgs ! explique au Point Catherine Bréchignac, secrétaire perpétuelle de l'Académie des sciences. La preuve que nous disposons maintenant d'un appareil capable de mieux comprendre l'infiniment grand. Nous n'allons plus nous contenter de regarder les étoiles, mais voir à l'intérieur d'elles, car ces ondes pénètrent la matière au seuil de laquelle la lumière s'arrête. »
L'histoire des ondes gravitationnelles commence il y a cent ans avec Albert Einsteinqui se met en tête de comprendre comment se propage le champ gravitationnel dans la toute nouvelle théorie de la gravitation qu'il vient de construire, la théorie de la relativité générale. Mais l'article que le physicien écrit en 1916 contient une importante erreur, et ce n'est qu'en 1918, dans un deuxième papier, qu'il en donne la bonne description. Les ondes gravitationnelles, « OG » de leur petit nom, forment l'un des éléments-clés de la théorie de la relativité générale : la propagation par ondes, à la vitesse de la lumière de la gravitation. La relativité générale prédit en effet que tout corps qui se déplace génère une déformation de la structure de l'espace-temps, autrement dit, modifie les distances et le temps, et cette déformation se propage par ondes successives dans le cosmos à la manière d'une vague à la surface de l'eau. Seuls des événements extrêmement violents génèrent des OG, des cataclysmes cosmiques, tels que la formation d'une étoile dans un trou noir, l'explosion d'une supernova ou encore la collision de deux étoiles à neutrons. Mais, pour autant, personne n'avait encore réussi à détecter ces déformations de l'espace-temps, qui se propagent dans l'Univers à 300 000 km/s, la vitesse de la lumière.
« Courage »
Cela fait trente ans pourtant que les scientifiques les traquent activement. D'un côté, Virgo, une antenne de détection construite à Pise sous l'égide du CNRS et de l'Institut national de physique nucléaire italien (INFN), qui mobilise six équipes françaises (APC, LAL, LAPP, LMA, LKB, OCA). De l'autre, Ligo de la National Science Foundation avec ses deux interféromètres situés aux États-Unis. En 2014, vu l'ampleur du défi, Virgo et Ligo ont signé un accord pour mettre en commun leurs données. En septembre 2015, ce sont les deux interféromètres américains qui ont enfin capté des signaux, éphémères – ils n'ont duré qu'une petite fraction de seconde –, provenant du mouvement orbital, puis de la fusion de deux trous noirs géants, chacun d'une masse équivalant à 30 soleils, situés à environ un milliard d'années-lumière de la Terre. C'est cette observation qui vient donc d'être confirmée après vérification des données.
Pendant longtemps, on a douté de l'existence de ces ondes. « La première preuve mathématique n'a été apportée qu'en 1952 par Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat, spécialiste de la relativité. Puis, à la fin des années 50, un autre pionnier, Joseph Weber, a eu le courage de penser qu'il fallait construire des détecteurs assez sensibles pour détecter les OG », raconte Thibault Damour (1), professeur à l'Institut des hautes études scientifiques, qui a notamment fourni au réseau Ligo/Virgo une méthode inédite pour décrire le signal émis par la fusion de deux trous noirs et faciliter ainsi sa détection.
« Courage », le mot n'est pas trop fort si l'on interroge les chercheurs qui ont consacré tout ou partie de leur carrière à la quête des ondes gravitationnelles. « Dès le début de construction de Virgo, il y a eu plusieurs voix conservatrices qui se sont levées : c'est trop risqué, trop cher, mieux vaudrait investir sur d'autres domaines. Heureusement, le CNRS a tenu bon ; c'est cela, l'avantage principal des organismes nationaux de recherche, leur persévérance sur des cibles scientifiques de longue durée », se souvient Stavros Katsanevas, directeur adjoint scientifique de l'Institut de physique nucléaire et physique des particules (IN2P3) du CNRS et président de l'Observatoire européen des ondes gravitationnelles (EGO/ VIRGO) de 2002 à 2012. « Cela dit, la construction de Virgo a commencé trois ans plus tard que celle de Ligo. Les collègues de Virgo ont fait des efforts remarquables, et le retard s'est réduit à quelques mois seulement. Les deux collaborations travaillent main dans la main et des contributions cruciales dans l'analyse de ces événements ont été apportées par les équipes européennes, telles que le laboratoire Astroparticule et Cosmologie de l'IN2P3/Paris-Diderot/CeA/Obs de Paris. »
Vertigineux
Depuis l'annonce de la détection, c'est comme si le monde de la physique avait subi une onde gravitationnelle, et ceux qui n'avaient pas brillé par leur enthousiasme jouent désormais des coudes pour être sur la photo. Il est vrai que l'exploit de Virgo/Ligo donne ni plus ni moins naissance à une nouvelle astronomie. Quatre cents ans après l'astronomie optique lancée par Galilée lorsqu'il a braqué sa lunette vers le ciel. « Les premiers radiotélescopes ont ensuite ouvert la voie à l'astronomie radio, les satellites ont lancé l'astronomie des rayons X, puis celle des rayons gamma, etc. Des astronomies toutes basées sur les ondes électromagnétiques jusqu'à ce que les premiers détecteurs de neutrinos cosmiques inaugurent l'astronomie neutronique. La détection des ondes gravitationnelles, d'un autre type de signal donc, nous donne de nouvelles lunettes pour voir des choses nouvelles dans l'Univers », précise Thibault Damour.
De fait, les perspectives sont vertigineuses : pouvoir sonder l'énergie noire, cette force étrange qui expliquerait l'expansion de notre Univers, mieux explorer le cosmos et, pourquoi pas, remonter dans le temps jusqu'à 14 milliards d'années. En effet, non seulement les physiciens ont capturé le signal émis par des ondes gravitationnelles, mais ils ont aussi observé, pour la première fois, la fusion de deux trous noirs. La preuve de l'existence de ces ogres dévoreurs de lumière, qui détiennent peut-être le secret de la naissance de notre Univers. Au début des années 2000, Jean-Pierre Luminet, astrophysicien à l'Observatoire de Paris-Meudon et directeur de recherche au CNRS, écrivait : « Les frontières de la science sont toujours un mélange bizarre de vérité nouvelle, d'hypothèse raisonnable et de conjecture extravagante. » La prouesse que viennent d'accomplir les physiciens américains, français et italiens ouvre une fenêtre sur l'Univers en apparence extravagant inventé par Einstein il y a un siècle.
(1) Le prochain cours de Thibault Damour à l'IHES, les 18 et 25 février, porte sur « Ondes gravitationnelles et systèmes binaires » :WWW.IHES.FR
Dutch police are collaborating with a raptor training company named Guard From Above in an attempt to train eagles to take down rogue drones.
Honestly, it’s a pretty genius idea to train birds of prey for such a thing versus having some idiot with a gun going “drone hunting.”
While testing is still ongoing to make it as safe as possible for the eagles, you can clearly see in the footage below how easily an eagle can take out a drone.
In the future, it’s possible we see some type of animal dream team specifically deployed to take out drones, which could include eagles, gorillas, geese, dogs, and kangaroos.
Under the terms of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, the Defense Intelligence Agency has declassified several hundred pages of documentation on UFOs. Of course, the file does not contain any kind of definitive smoking-gun. It does, however, provide the reader with more than a few intriguing reports on notable incidents. One such incident, described in the DIA’s files, occurred in the summer of 1979.
The DIA documentation notes that late on the afternoon of August 8, 1979, “…the Embassy here received information that a strange object had been found on a farm near Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Source stated that the object was about 70 centimeters in diameter and two meters in circumference with a hole in one side and a metal skin covering of approx one-half inch thickness. Later the object was described as ‘about three times the size of a basketball.'”
Additionally, we have the following information: “A second fireball fell from the sky early in the morning of the same day that the first one was found near Cotoca. This second one was found 200 kilometers north of the city of Santa Cruz on the farm of Juan Saavedra by the Campesino Gonzalo Menacho Viveras. The place is in the area of Buen Retiro near the Yapacane River. According to the information given by the Campesino, around 12:30 a.m. on Friday last week he heard a loud whistling sound and saw a fireball followed by an explosion. He said that the next evening a silent aircraft that had three lights was flying over the explosion area.”
The document continues: “After dawn on Friday morning the Campesino started looking around the area of the impact and found a sphere. As it was not heavy, he took it home where he kept it until his friend, Nataniel Mendez Hurtado, learned of the other sphere in Cotoca and passed on information concerning this second sphere. The mystery of finding these two spheres, exactly alike, is that according to the witnesses they were fireballs. That is to say that these spheres became real balls of fire when they entered the atmosphere because of the friction and after a high speed fall they hit the ground. However, in the area where they’ve been found, there were no signs of the impact and looks as though the spheres landed smoothly.”
The file also reveals that American personnel had secured “a roll of 35mm film for color prints and a roll of Kodachrome 40 movie film. The 35 mm film will be developed and printed here in La Paz. The movie film will be forwarded to DIA.” Back in the late 1980s – using the Freedom of Information Act – I tried to obtain copies of the film and the photos. But, unfortunately, with no luck. I wasn’t denied access to the material, I should stress. It could no longer be found by the time of my request.
It must be said that this particular case almost certainly has a prosaic explanation. Namely, that the spheres were probably debris from a rocket-launch, or from a satellite decaying in the Earth’s atmosphere. Here’s a perfect and near-identical example. On the other hand, that the spheres seemed to have landed in a fashion described as “smoothly,” rather than slamming into the ground after a violent descent through the Earth’s atmosphere, is thought-provoking. As is the fact that there was no noticeable impact point – at either site – which again reinforces the image of a smooth descent. And what are we to make of that “silent aircraft” which flew over the “explosion area” one night after the second event occurred?
As is so often the case in such affairs, we’re left with more questions than answers.
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SpaceX's Grasshopper: Reusable Rocket Prototype
SpaceX's Grasshopper: Reusable Rocket Prototype
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
On Oct. 7, 2013, SpaceX's Grasshopper rocket climbed 2,441 feet (744 meters) into the air before safely landing back on its launch pad in McGregor, Texas.
Credit: SpaceX
Grasshopper was a reusable vertical-takeoff-and-landing rocket prototype tested by the company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) in preparation for more ambitious launches. After progressively higher hops and pinpoint landings in two years, SpaceX wrapped up the program in 2013 to move resources into the Falcon 9 rocket.
The first stage of several versions of the Falcon 9 rocket have splashed down successfully, and SpaceX is now aiming to land the rocket on an automated barge. Several barge-landing attempts have been made since 2015, but the rocket has not survived any of them yet. SpaceX, however, says that it is getting close to success and that the technology is possible to make the pinpoint landing happen.
Grasshopper was the first stage of SpaceX's Falcon 9, which the company still uses today for the Dragon cargo spacecraft flights to the station. Test flights ran between 2012 and 2013 and were successful, according to SpaceX.
First announced in September 2011, Grasshopper was one piece of SpaceX's desire to make a fully reusable system that will fly cargo and people to and from space. Traditionally, rockets have been considered "throwaway" items, with few exceptions (such as the space shuttle's external solid rocket boosters.)
SpaceX's vision then included fly-back first and second stages on the rocket as well as a spacecraft that can land on land. The Dragon spacecraft currently lands on the water, similar to how the Apollo spacecraft used to do. The human-rated version of the spacecraft will also initially land on water, but later versions are expected to reach solid ground with the stabilizing help of Dragon's SuperDraco engines.
"We will see if this works," SpaceX CEO and founder Elon Musk said when announcing Grasshopper. "And if it does work, it'll be pretty huge."
SpaceX's reusable Grasshopper rocket prototype rises skyward from its McGregor, Texas launch pad during a June 14, 2013 test flight that reached 1,066 feet (325 meters) before descending back to Earth. This still was taken from a video recorded by a small unmanned hexacopter.
Credit: SpaceX
The six-foot flight
The first test flight of the rocket took place Sept. 21, 2012, when Grasshopper made a quick six-foot (1.8-meter) jump up and down at SpaceX's test facility in McGregor, Texas. With each subsequent flight, the company then tried to shoot a bit higher or do something different.
Over several test flights in 2013, Grasshopper demonstrated an ability to fight back against wind gusts, as well as to move sideways in the air to its target. It also flew several hundred feet high on a few occasions. The company filmed the rocket flights from the air using autonomous aircraft, providing high-definition views that it uploaded to the Web for sharing.
Among Grasshopper's notable flights was a jump in April 2013 that saw the 10-story vehicle fly 820 feet (250 m) high. In June 2013, Grasshopper leaped 1,066 feet (325 m) and made a near-perfect landing. A subsequent flight test in August included a 100-foot lateral or sideways maneuver before the rocket touched down safely on the ground.
The program capped off Oct. 7, 2013, when the rocket flew 2,441 feet (744 m) into the air, making a flawless takeoff and landing in a flight that lasted about 79 seconds. SpaceX then decided to retire the prototype in favor of using the personnel and money for other programs, notably the Falcon 9 rocket.
On April 18, 2014, SpaceX made a world-first controlled splashdown of the first stage of a Falcon 9, during a Dragon spacecraft resupply run to the International Space Station.
After several water landings, SpaceX tried to make a world-first attempt for a barge landing in January 2015 during a cargo flight to the International Space Station. The first landing made it on target, but the rocket landed hard enough to damage some of the support equipment on the ship, according to Musk.
Another attempt was called off in February 2015 when on landing day, the barge was facing 3-meter waves (almost 10 feet) and also had a malfunction in one of its four thrusters, making it tough to stabilize the ship. SpaceX instead elected for a water landing, which it pulled off successfully.
SpaceX also made hard landings on the ship in rocket flights in April 2015 and January 2016. The first malfunction was partly traced to a problem with the control system, while the second failed because one of the landing legs did not latch. SpaceX did, however, land the rocket's first stage safely on land (near its launch site at the Kennedy Space Center) in a December 2015 flight.
Musk's ultimate goal is to establish a colony on Mars by bringing the cost of spaceflight down as much as he can. Launch costs are considered one of the toughest things to overcome, since it takes a lot of fuel and velocity for a rocket to fight against Earth's gravity to bring items into space.
What Is a 'Morning Star,' and What Is an 'Evening Star'?
What Is a 'Morning Star,' and What Is an 'Evening Star'?
By Joe Rao, SPACE.com Skywatching Columnist
Skywatcher Shawn Malone took this photo of two "evening stars," Venus and Jupiter, in Eagle Harbor, Michigan, on March 10, 2012. Whether a planet qualifies as a "morning star" or an "evening star" can vary throughout the year.
Credit: Shawn Malone
I received an interesting inquiry recently from a woman who wanted to know the meaning of the terms "morning stars" and "evening stars."
"I mean, they're not stars … they're planets, right?" she asked. "So why do we call them stars? And is a morning star only visible in the morning, like at the crack of dawn, or at other times as well? Hope you can clear this up for me because I'm totally confused!"
Originally, the terms "morning star" and "evening star" applied only to the brightest planet of all, Venus. Far more dazzling than any of the actual stars in the sky, Venus does not appear to twinkle, but instead glows with a steady, silvery light. The fact that Venus was a "wandering star" soon became obvious to ancient skywatchers, who noticed its motion relative to the background stars, going from the eastern sky in the morning to the western sky in the early evening. Nicolas Camille Flammarion, a noted French astronomer in the late 19th and early 20th century, referred to Venus as "The Shepherd's Star." I myself like to refer to Venus as the "night light of the sky." So, it's easier to understand the origin of the terms "evening star" and "morning star" if we only considered Venus.
Of course, Venus is not the only wandering "star" in the sky; there are four others that are also visible to the unaided eye (five, if you include Uranus, which is barely perceptible without any optical aid on dark, clear nights). The difference is that, with the possible exception of Jupiter and, on rare occasions, Mars, none of the others stands out in the same manner as Venus. Nonetheless, somewhere in the distant past, "morning star" and "evening star" became plural in order to account for the four other planets.
When an evening star is branded as a morning star
This upcoming week, there are officially no evening stars, only morning stars.
But the distinction between these terms is not very precise. As an example, let me call attention to the fact that rising in the east this week, between 7:30 p.m. and 8 p.m., is the planet Jupiter. It will attain its highest point in the southern sky between 1:30 a.m. and 2 a.m. local time, and will still be visible, sinking in the western sky at dawn. The giant planet is thus ideally situated for observations of its changing cloud bands and four big satellites for much of the night.
The fact that Jupiter is already above the horizon during "prime-time" evening hours should qualify it for evening-star status. By the same reasoning, it is a morning star as well!
The next planet due to come into view will be Mars, which rises soon after 12:30 a.m. local time and is crossing the southern meridian by sunrise. So, the Red Planet must be a morning star.
With Mercury and Venus, there is never such ambiguity, as they are never very far from the sun in the sky. In fact, in the pre-Christian era, both of these planets had dual identities — two names — as initially, it was not realized that they alternately appeared on one side of the sun and then on the other. Mercury was called Apollo when it shone as a morning star, and was called Mercury when it appeared in the evening sky. Venus was Phosphorus in the morning and Hesperus in the evening. We can thank Pythagoras around the 5th century B.C. for pointing out that Hesperus and Phosphorus were really one in the same.
Because they orbit the sun more closely than Earth does, Mercury and Venus are called "inferior" planets. Elongation refers to the angle between the sun and a planet, as seen from Earth. In general, when Mercury or Venus has a western elongation from the sun, it is a morning star; with an eastern elongation, it is an evening star.
Different planets may appear together in the morning or evening sky, depending on their location relative to Earth and the sun. Jim Gemmel of Warrenton, Virginia, took this picture of Venus and Jupiter on March 10, 2012.
Credit: Jim Gemmel
Transition at opposition
This rule can be extended to the planets that orbit the sun beyond our own orbit — the so-called "superior" planets, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. When a superior planet is in the same spot in the sky as the sun, it is at conjunction. While a superior planet is moving from conjunction with the sun to just a day prior to its opposition (when it is directly opposite the sun in the sky), it is a morning star. At opposition, it rises approximately when the sun sets and sets as the sun rises. From then on, it is branded as an evening star, rising or already in the sky as daytime ends.
So, going by this nomenclature, Jupiter will arrive at opposition and will become an evening star on March 8, Mars on May 22 and Saturn on June 3. Until then, they are all morning stars, even though, as we have already seen, Jupiter — and, eventually, Mars and Saturn — will be readily visible in the evening sky well before their opposition dates.
Joe Rao serves as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He writes about astronomy for Natural History magazine, the Farmer's Almanac and other publications, and he is also an on-camera meteorologist for News 12 Westchester, New York. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.
In India is een onderzoek begonnen naar de vraag of een buschauffeur door een meteoriet is omgekomen. De chauffeur werkte voor een technische school en stond op het schoolterrein op het gras vlak bij een cafetaria toen er een soort explosie leek te zijn. De man raakte daarbij zo ernstig gewond dat hij op weg naar het ziekenhuis overleed. Indien dit aan een meteoriet te wijten is, zou dat het eerste geval in 52 jaar zijn.
In de grond was een krater ontstaan en er werd een blauwe steen gevonden die de vorm van een diamant heeft. In hetzelfde incident raakten ook drie tuinmannen gewond.
Geen explosieven Ooggetuigen stelden dat ze zaterdag rond de middag een vliegend object zagen neerstorten op de school. De politie dacht aanvankelijk aan een terreuraanslag, maar een woordvoerder verklaarde aan The Indian Express dat er geen spoor van een explosief of granaat werd aangetroffen. Met behulp van een wetenschapper die in het district verbleef na een gelijkaardig incident twee weken geleden besloot de politie dat het om een meteorietinslag ging.
De premier van de betrokken deelstaat Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa Jayaram, zei vandaag dat de man door een meteoriet is gedood en dat de familie meer dan 1.300 euro smartengeld krijgt. Het gevonden materiaal moet echter nog worden geanalyseerd, aldus wetenschappers. Indien de man inderdaad door een meteoriet is omgekomen, zou dat het eerste geval in bijna 52 jaar zijn.
Koe in Venezuela Dodelijke meteorieten werden al eerder gemeld, maar nooit officieel bevestigd. Uitzondering daarop vormt een koe die in 1972 in Venezuela door een meteoriet werd getroffen. Die meteoriet, die al die tijd als deurstop dienst had gedaan, werd in 2007 geveild.
Het enige menselijke slachtoffer van een meteoriet ooit was Ann Hodges. Zij werd in 1954 in haar huis in Alabama getroffen maar overleefde.
Chelyabinsk Het meest onderzochte incident met meteorieten uit het recente verleden is dat in de Russische stad Chelyabinsk in 2013. De schokgolf van de meteoriet beschadigde gebouwen en zorgde voor honderden gewonden, maar er vielen geen doden.
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Amerikaanse astronaut Edgar Mitchell overleden: “We worden bezocht, de vraag is alleen waar ze vandaan komen”
Amerikaanse astronaut Edgar Mitchell overleden: “We worden bezocht, de vraag is alleen waar ze vandaan komen”
Afgelopen week is astronaut Edgar Mitchell op 85-jarige leeftijd overleden. Mitchell was de zesde man die voet zette op de maan. Hij maakte onderdeel uit van de missie Apollo 14.
Tijdens een interview met NBC in 1996 zei Mitchell dat hij drie functionarissen uit drie verschillende landen had ontmoet die claimden contact te hebben gehad met aliens. Dergelijk contact wordt volgens hem geheim gehouden door de overheden.
In een interview met de St. Petersburg Times zei Mitchell: “We weten allemaal dat UFO’s echt zijn. De vraag is alleen waar ze vandaan komen.” Hij voegde toe dat ingewijden binnen de Amerikaanse overheid onderzoek deden naar de geborgen lichamen van aliens.
Disclosure Project
Hij zorgde in 2008 voor opschudding toen hij op de radio vertelde dat buitenaardse wezens de aarde hadden bezocht. Volgens hem hebben regeringen de zaak de afgelopen 60 jaar verborgen. “Het fenomeen van UFO’s is reëel,” zei hij.
Mitchell werkte in 2009 mee aan het Disclosure Project. Veel prominenten verklaarden zeker te weten dat er ontmoetingen zijn geweest met buitenaardsen. Mitchell riep de Amerikaanse overheid op om de waarheid te vertellen over buitenaards leven.
Area 51
Hij verwees onder meer naar het zogenoemde Roswellincident. Mitchell groeide op in de buurt van die Amerikaanse plaats. De VS zou daar, op de geheime locatie Area 51, de wrakstukken van een UFO bewaren die daar in 1947 zou zijn neergestort. De CIA gaf het bestaan van Area 51 onlangs toe, maar verklaarde niets over UFO’s en buitenaards leven.
Afgelopen jaar nog vertelde hij aan de Daily Mirror dat vredelievende aliens een nucleaire oorlog tussen de VS en de Russen hebben vermeden. Daarvoor kwamen ze naar onze planeet en vlogen ze met hun UFO’s boven Amerikaanse raketbases. “Jullie kennen de regio niet zoals ik,” zei hij. “Het is een testgebied voor kernwapens en dáár waren de aliens in geïnteresseerd.”
Na zijn vertrek bij de NASA, richtte Mitchell een instituut op dat zich bezighoudt met het paranormale en het onverklaarbare.
NASA legt enorm moederschip in de ruimte vast ( VIDEO )
NASA legt enorm moederschip in de ruimte vast ( VIDEO )
Een beetje gevoel voor humor is de mensen bij NASA nu ook weer niet te ontzeggen.
Wanneer ze radaropnames hebben van een gigantisch ruimteschip, noemen ze het een asteroïde.
Soms is het voor ons moeilijk om voor te stellen hoe geweldig groot de afstanden in de ruimte zijn.
Objecten in de ruimte zoals het Internationaal Space Station cirkelen op een afstand van ongeveer 400 kilometer boven ons aardoppervlak.
Ver voorbij dat ruimtestation bevinden zich natuurlijk ook talloze andere interessante objecten.
We zien regelmatig opnames voorbij komen die zijn gemaakt door de ruimtetelescopen van NASA zoals SOHO, maar waar we minder vaak wat van zien is het Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex.
Het Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex (GDSCC), ook wel Goldstone Observatory, is een gebied in de Mojavewoestijn in het zuiden van de Amerikaanse deelstaat Californië, 60 kilometer ten noorden van Barstow waar een aantal antennes op gestationeerd zijn.
Het observatorium maakt onderdeel uit van NASA's Deep Space Network, wordt beheert door ITT Corporation voor Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Het belangrijkste doel van het complex is het volgen van en communiceren met ruimtemissies. Het Deep Space Communication Complex komt driemaal voor in de wereld. De andere twee zijn gevestigd in Madrid (Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex) en Canberra (Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex).
De volgende opnames zijn gemaakt door dit Deep Space Network op een afstand van ongeveer 120.000 kilometer van de aarde.
Volgens NASA moet dit object een asteroïde voorstellen, maar wij geloven daar helemaal niets van. Dit lijkt in de verste verte niet op de gewone afbeeldingen die NASA maakt van asteroïden.
Dit object draait klaarblijkelijk in 10,5 maanden rond de zon, iets sneller dus dan de aarde die dit doet in 12 maanden.
De afstand van het object tot de aarde varieert dan ook van 120.000 tot 314.000 kilometer.
Wanneer een object op die afstand door NASA wordt vastgelegd, praten we niet over een klein object. Bovendien suggereert de vorm allerminst een brokkelige asteroïde.
Waar het op lijkt, is dat we te maken hebben met iets hebben zoals het ISS, maar dan toebehorend aan een buitenaardse beschaving. Een soort gigantisch moederschip dat in een permanente baan om de zon cirkelt en wellicht dient als basis voor onderzoek in ons gedeelte van het zonnestelsel.
En wie weet wordt de mensheid te zijner tijd wel geëvacueerd naar dat soort steden in de ruimte wanneer deze planeet onleefbaar zou worden.
I do believe, as technology advances, so will the publics abilities to record and even contact aliens. Technology will arm the UFO researchers with very powerful tools. The one I want the most is a tool that can detect CGI in video to tell me if its real or not. There is an overwhelming amount of fake UFO videos on Youtube and we really need to know the truth, and fakes don't help the cause. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
CHICAGO (FOX 32 News): Mark Hammergren knows that the truth is out there. An astronomer for the Adler Planetarium – and a confessed X Files fan – he’s lived a life looking up into the stars. And when it comes to reported sightings of UFOs around the Chicago area, he’s heard a tale or two. Mark often gets phone calls at the Adler, with people claiming to see unexplainable lights and objects in the sky – unexplainable until Mark starts investigating. Modern UFO sightings in the U.S. began nearly 70 years ago. During that time, no definitive proof has ever been uncovered. But that doesn’t mean that the search is over, especially for astronomers. A quick Google search of UFOs in Chicago will yield a seemingly never ending trail of rumors, theories and speculation. And Mark will always be there to follow the trail. Because he’s a man who knows the value of looking into the night sky. He knows, somewhere out there, the truth is waiting.
Below, you see the close up view of the UFO that is orbiting asteroid 2004 BL86 right now. The UFO is 70 meters long. They call the UFO a small moon, but its not. As you see from the focused photos below, The UFO has a long metallic cylinder hull and two more smaller cylinder sections on opposite sides. The UFO is spinning, which gives us a great view of it from different angles as you see below. It came 750, 000 miles from Earth. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Above is the focused altered version, below is the original untouched version.
Deep Space Network JPL News States: 1/27/2015 UPDATE: The Goldstone scientists observing 2004 BL86 are part of a team of astronomers from around the world who have been characterizing the asteroid. Spectroscopic observations of 2004 BL86 made by Vishnu Reddy, a research scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, using the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, indicate the asteroid's spectral signature is similar to that of massive asteroid Vesta. Located in the heart of the solar system's main asteroid belt, asteroid Vesta was the recent destination of NASA's Dawn mission, which is now on its way to the icy world Ceres. Scientists working with NASA's 230-foot-wide (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, have released the first radar images of asteroid 2004 BL86. The images show the asteroid, which made its closest approach today (Jan. 26, 2015) at 8:19 a.m. PST (11:19 a.m. EST) at a distance of about 745,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers, or 3.1 times the distance from Earth to the moon), has its own small moon. The 20 individual images used in the movie were generated from data collected at Goldstone on Jan. 26, 2015. They show the primary body is approximately 1,100 feet (325 meters) across and has a small moon approximately 230 feet (70 meters) across. In the near-Earth population, about 16 percent of asteroids that are about 655 feet (200 meters) or larger are a binary (the primary asteroid with a smaller asteroid moon orbiting it) or even triple systems (two moons). The resolution on the radar images is 13 feet (4 meters) per pixel. The trajectory of asteroid 2004 BL86 is well understood. Monday's flyby was the closest approach the asteroid will make to Earth for at least the next two centuries. It is also the closest a known asteroid this size will come to Earth until asteroid 1999 AN10 flies past our planet in 2027. Asteroid 2004 BL86 was discovered on Jan. 30, 2004, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) survey in White Sands, New Mexico.
Here’s one new video of a bright unidentified flying object hovering in the sky above Smyrna in Tennessee on 21st January 2016.
Witness report:My daughters and I were driving East on I-24 in Tennessee. The lights seemed to be hovering over the trees to the southeast of my location. We were driving, so it was hard to tell. I thought they were possibly helicopters from a nearby Air National Guard base. They seemed to remain stationary as we drove right under them. There were four bright points of white lights shaped in a crescent with a twinkling reddish/white in the center of the four brighter points of light. I have lived in this area most of my life and have never witnessed anything like this before. We continued on to our destination writing it off as what we thought it had to be, helicopters. But, curiosity got the best of me….
“UFO Did Crash In Roswell” Confirmed The Man Who Walked On The Moon. R.I.P Edgar Mitchell
“UFO Did Crash In Roswell” Confirmed The Man Who Walked On The Moon. R.I.P Edgar Mitchell
Former NASA astronaut Edgar Mitchell who once walked on the Moon, sadly passed away on Thursday 4th February 2016. He always claimed that he STILL believes a UFO with aliens DID crash in a US desert before the government covered it up and wants the world to know the TRUTH!
The former NASA astronaut and man on the moon Edgar Mitchell, has always remained adamant that more than one alien landed at Roswell nearly 70 years ago – and some of them were captured alive and could still be alive somewhere to this day. He went on to say:
“The truth about it is that it was real. I was there when the Roswell incident took place. I was on my way to college and had just graduated high school.
“One day, it was in the Roswell Daily Record, which was a newspaper in Roswell, about an alien spacecraft that had crashed, and the next day that it had been denied by the Air Force, saying that it was a weather balloon.
“I believed that and went off to college.
“Many years later, after I had been to the moon and came back, I went out to Roswell to give lectures, talk and meet people I knew since I was a kid.
“Many of the people I knew, along with descendants of the people who had been involved in the Roswell incident, told me their stories.” He said.
Edgar confirmed that the descendants included the son of an undertaker who provided “coffins for the alien bodies” and the son of a sheriff who “kept traffic away from the crash site” and helped keep the area secure from prying eyes!
Mr Mitchell once stated a very wise comment and said that we do not know what beings are in the Universe, because our planet is “like a grain of sand on a huge beach”.
Mr Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 14 mission in 1971.
Edgar Mitchell exploring the Moon in 1971
Mr Mitchell also added:
“A family friend who was a major in the United States Air Force told me it was all real.
“I got the stories from all of these various people into my head when I came back from the moon, and I then went to the Pentagon and told them my story about that and said, give me your opinion.
“The admiral who I spoke to said, ‘I don’t know anything about it, but I’m going to find out.’
“He went out to New Mexico and checked all around, came back and told me, ‘Your stories are quite correct and all real.’”
Edgar was also keen to confirm that the US government found dead and live aliens on board the crashed craft at Roswell!
Apparently, the US Government covered up the Roswell incident because they did not know if the ‘visits’ were hostile and also did not want Soviet Russia discovering about it….and possibly stealing any potential knowledge or technology!
Apparently the US Government were nervous about a potential hostile situation with Aliens after the Roswell event!
Edgar told how governmental agencies in the US did not know at all what to do with the alien crashed saucer and its “superior technology” for fear of it getting into Soviet hands and being used against them one day!
“The best course of action was to just lie about it, and keep it to themselves. They labeled it ‘above top-secret,’ and that created the long running iron curtain separating a secret group within the government, and the American public.” He said.
Mr Mitchell also made a shocking statement that he had been made aware of “many UFO visits to Earth during his career with NASA” with each and every one covered up!
Please check out an intriguing video with Edgar below:
U.I.P Summary
Edgar Mitchell no matter what, deserves a lot of respect as believe it or not but he did once upon a time walk on the moon, even though a lot of people think that this was faked. Mr Mitchell is a brave man, not just for his work as an Astronaut for NASA, but also for putting his reputation at stake by declaring his belief in Aliens and the events that happened at Roswell!
Yes Edgar was part of the fiasco that was the Roswell Slides recently, however you get the impression by his sudden non arrival at the event that he smelt a rat about the whole slides thing so perhaps had a change of heart! But when a man who used to work for NASA as an Astronaut declares that Aliens exist, then there is no denying the fact that the world has to LISTEN UP to what he is telling us all….
Sadly Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the Moon, passed away at a hospice in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Thursday 4th January 2016. He died alongside his loving family. He was 85 years of age, and spent many of those years seeking the truth about who our ET visitors are – We salute you Sir for your bravery and for helping Humanity discover the truth about what lies beyond.
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FBI’s Memo Confirms “Aliens DO EXIST”
FBI’s Memo Confirms “Aliens DO EXIST”
A memo has recently been discovered, apparently claiming by the ‘FBI’ that Aliens do exist! This memo was discovered by some leading UFO Researchers it has been confirmed.
The UFO Investigators are based at the Hakui Centre for UFO Research in Tokyo, Japan. Claiming that they have discovered an important document PROVING that Extra-terrestrial life exists.
The unusual memo supposedly confirms the existence of 3 foot Alien Beings, which piloted flying saucer type crafts.
According to some insiders, the FBI have become VERY anxious about this find and are concerned that if the document is released into the public domain members of the public gaining access to thousands of documents!
This recent exciting Memo found, apparently confirms the below:
“An investigator for the Air Force states that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. “They were described as being circular in shape with raised centres, approximately 50 feet in diameter.
“Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture.
“According to Mr (name blanked out), the saucers were found in New Mexico due to the fact that the Government has a very high-powered radar set-up in that area and it is believed the radar interferes with the controlling mechanism of the saucers.”
The Truth Is Coming??
U.I.P SUMMARY – Is it just me, but it really does feel like the FBI, NSA, MI5 and the CIA really do need to be a lot more careful with this ‘top secret’ information!? It feels like every month we are learning more and more about what is supposedly REALLY going on, by leaked information by Government Agencies.
Like we mentioned above, this is not the first time that the FBI has leaked information about Alien Beings and I am sure it is not that last time either. The NSA even have on their website an apparent ‘recorded Alien message’ from space, which they must have posted on there very discreetly!? Even the UK’s government agencies appear to be slipping up recently……!?
Could it be that this is all part of the ‘drip feeding of disclosure’ or just sloppy maintenance by these ‘supposed’ professional government agencies??
This is ALL of our Universe that we live in and we are ALL part of the Universe – So we should all know the truth about our Extra-terrestrial visitors opposed to having to depend on leaked government memos/documents.
VIDEOVanuit de huiskamer meekijken hoe het met de rijdende Marsrover Curiosity gaat: het kan nu. De Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA plaatste maandag een nieuwe video van Curiosity mét rondkijkmogelijkheid op YouTube.
De 3D-panoramavideo is samengesteld uit honderden beelden die werden genomen op 8 december 2015. Op de beelden zijn de Namib duinen te zien, op zo'n zeven meter afstand van de camera.
Op de achtergrond is het Marsgebergte Mount Sharp te zien. Dit zijn de eerste beelden die gemaakt zijn van zandduinen op een andere planeet dan de aarde, verklaart NASA.
De Curiosity Mars Rover is sinds 2012 op Mars voor onderzoek naar het klimaat en het milieu op mars.
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Crazy! Object Falls from Space, Explodes On Impact and Kills 1 Man In India
Crazy! Object Falls from Space, Explodes On Impact and Kills 1 Man In India
Gepubliceerd op 7 feb. 2016
www.undergroundworldnews.com It's been confirmed that it was an object falling from the sky, and not a blast of explosive substances, that killed a bus driver of an engineering college near Natrampalli in Vellore on Saturday.
Chief Minister J. Jayalalithaa has announced Rs. 1 lakh as solatium to the family of the deceased driver, Kamaraj.
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Alien Disclosure : A Timeline of Secrecy [FULL VIDEO]
Alien Disclosure : A Timeline of Secrecy [FULL VIDEO]
Documents the efforts by Prime Minister St. Laurent’s government in the early 1950s to investigate flying saucers. This effort included building a flying saucer observatory, studies called Project Magnet and Second Storey, gravity control experiments, and the plan to land an alien at a Top Secret base in Alberta at the same time that high level officials in the USA and UK were meeting with aliens. Grant Cameron will show conclusively that high level officials in Canadian and US government knew the extraterrestrial nature of the phenomena from almost day one.
Officials have also known the nuclear connection and Mr. Cameron will talk about nukes in 1945, 1954, 1975, and 1988. Grant will name the officials since 1948 that have provided Top Secret briefings to the President, how Bill Clinton dealt with the effort by Laurance Rockefeller in 1993 to get disclosure, and Hillary Clinton’s interest in the subject as she runs for President in 2016.'
Quick, what's the best way to provide an alternative source of energy for the Earth?
If you answered, "Get a mini black hole to orbit Earth," then you andphysicist Stephen Hawking may be thinking on the same wavelength.
In a lecture on Feb. 2, the famed scientist said tiny black holes, about as massive as the average mountain, could power all of the world's energy needs.
"There is nothing technically wrong with this idea, but it is not very practical, at least within the next 10,000 years," said Sabine Hossenfelder, a physicist at the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics, who blogs at backreaction.blogspot.com.
Leaky black holes
Originally, scientists believed black holes were regions of collapsed matter so dense that nothing, not even light, could escape from their gravitational pull. Then, in 1974, Hawking put forward the idea that black holes leak quantum particles, a process now known as Hawking radiation.
The biggest black holes, which are billions of times more massive than the sun, live at the hearts of galaxies, while black holes about 10 times the size of the sun are peppered throughout the universe, Hossenfelder said. Such massive black holes are very cold, and so emit Hawking radiation. But researchers have also proposed the existence of relatively tiny black holes that would be hotter, and so emit more particles via Hawking radiation.
"A mountain-sized black hole would give off X-rays and gamma-rays at a rate of about 10 million megawatts, enough to power the world's electricity supply," Hawking said in the lecture. "It wouldn't be easy, however, to harness a mini black hole. You couldn't keep it in a power station, because it would drop through the floor and end up at the center of the Earth."
Elusive space objects
But there's another problem: No one has ever found evidence of these mini black holes, and there are good reasons to doubt they exist, Hossenfelder said.
In theory, these black holes formed early in the universe's history, when matter existed in a hot soupy plasma. As this primordial soup got squished together and flung apart, causing fluctuations in density, the theory held, occasionally some regions got so dense that the matter collapsed in on itself, forming mini black holes, Hossenfelder said.
But to form these primeval black holes, most models assume a high level of density fluctuations, which also tend to produce many more black holes than are present in the universe.
"You don't want everything to end up in black holes," Hossenfelder told Live Science.
Major towing problem
Then, presuming these miniature black holes are real and that people could detect the objects' existence, the problem becomes how to reach the monstrous powerhouses. That could take tens of thousands or even 100,000 years, Hossenfelder noted.
Next comes the monumental task of harnessing the black holes' power for energy.
"You cannot land on it and put some booster on it and move it, because it does not have a surface," Hossenfelder said. By using the gravity of a much larger object, people could theoretically tow a mini black hole, eventually coaxing it to sit in Earth's orbit, she said. Scientists would also have to harness the black hole's energy while simultaneously shielding humans from the black holes' harmful radiation (a relatively simple matter compared to all of the other tasks involved in the setup, she said).
DIY black holes
Of course, if venturing deep into outer space is unrealistic, there are other ways to harness mini black holes, Hawking said in the lecture.
But these extra dimensions may or may not exist: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has so far seen no trace of them, Hossenfelder said. And if there are extra dimensions, that doesn't mean that lab-made mini black holes could power anything. If particle colliders such as the LHC did produce these tiny black holes, the objects would stick around for just 10 raised to the minus 23 seconds, she said.
"These tiny black holes would decay immediately. There is no way you could harness their energy," she said.
Deux trous noirs qui fusionnent émettent des ondes gravitationnelles (simulation). Crédit : MPI
Cent ans exactement après qu'Einstein ait prédit leur existence, les ondes gravitationnelles viennent d'être observées par l'observatoire américain Ligo.
L'analyse des données, réalisée conjointement avec l'équipe européenne de Virgo, montre un signal émis par la fusion de deux trous noirs de 29 et 36 masses solaires.
Voir l'univers gravitationnel
Parmi les physiciens et astrophysiciens qui en ont eu vent - nous ne parlons pas là des rumeurs qui couraient il y a quelques semaines -, cette découverte est qualifiée « d'extraordinairement importante. ».
Bien sûr, les scientifiques sont convaincus depuis des années de l'existence des ondes gravitationnelles — le comportement du pulsar binaire PSR1913+16, découvert par Russel Alan Hulse et Joseph Hooton Taylor, prix Nobel en 1993, ne peut s'expliquer que par l'émission de telles ondes. Mais encore fallait-il les voir !
Désormais, l'Univers n'est plus observé seulement à travers le prisme des ondes électromagnétiques. Les frémissements de la trame de l'espace-temps, ces fameuses ondes gravitationnelles imaginées par Albert Einstein dans un article de 1916, vont permettre de sonder le cosmos à des distances et dans des régions inatteignables jusqu'ici : des confins de l'Univers aux horizons des trous noirs.
« Et il y aura des surprises ! » s'enthousiasme un chercheur qui, n'étant pas impliqué, tient à garder l'anonymat jusqu'à l'annonce officielle prévue le 11 février 2016.
À vrai dire, cette première observation est déjà en soi une surprise : personne ne s'attendait à ce que le premier événement observé par un détecteur d'ondes gravitationnelles au sol soit dû à une fusion de trous noirs. Les spécialistes auraient tous misé sur des événements un peu moins violents, mais plus courants : des fusions d'étoiles à neutrons.
Par ailleurs, les masses mises en jeu sont un peu plus importantes que ce que les astrophysiciens attendaient. Faudra-t-il amender les modèles de physique stellaire sur lesquels reposent les prédictions des chercheurs ? Il est évidemment trop tôt pour le dire.
Tester les idées d'Einstein
Cette observation, qui valide une fois de plus la théorie de la relativité générale d'Einstein, promet aussi de pouvoir la tester dans un régime nouveau, dans lequel la gravité est très intense (en « champ fort »). Les théoriciens ont en effet réalisé des prédictions très précises sur la forme et l'intensité des ondes gravitationnelles obéissant strictement à la théorie d'Einstein.
Seront-elles validées ? Il faudra sans doute attendre le lancement de la mission spatiale européenne Elisa en 2034, chargée de détecter les ondes gravitationnelles depuis l'espace, pour avoir la réponse.
BRITISH CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY HIGHLY INTERESTED IN PILOTS' UFO SIGHTINGS
BRITISH CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY HIGHLY INTERESTED IN PILOTS' UFO SIGHTINGS
Despite the fact the UK's Ministry of Defense officially ended its UFO investigations in 2009, it appears that the British Civil Aviation Authority decided -- unbeknownst to the public -- to continue collecting reports that involved UFOs with possible flight safety issues.
"They were only interested in sightings that definitely had a bearing on aircraft or flight safety, and were no longer interested in reports from the public, who'd seen things in the sky and reported them to the Civil Aviation Authority," said David Clarke, the official UK National Archives consultant and a journalism lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University.
Clarke, seen at right, told the Huffington Post that the Civil Aviation Authority -- a different government department from the MoD -- kept separate records of UFO cases, "not only by the aircrew, themselves, but also anything unusual that was seen by air traffic controllers on the ground at airports."
Through the filing of Freedom of Information requests, Clarke found that the Royal Air Force specifically requested any UFO reports submitted to the Department of Transport would no longer be forwarded to the MoD.
The RAF specifically states that "members of the public who make such reports are not encouraged to believe an investigation will take place."
It's now known that British air traffic controllers have been receiving UFO reports on almost a regular basis.
Speaking on the BBC Radio's "Today" programme, on Aug. 17, Richard Deakin, the head of the UK's National Air Traffic Control Services, was asked if he or his staff had ever been unable to identify a flying object.
"Well, occasionally, there are objects that are identified that don't conform to normal traffic patterns -- not just from the UK point of view, but from around the world," Deakin responded.
"I have to say it's not something that occupies a huge amount of my time." Deakin added that these sightings occur "typically around one a month."
If that's true, then Clarke's calculations of how many actual UFO sightings were written up as Mandatory Occurrence Reports, or MORS, was substantially higher.
"As far as MOR reports that I got from using the Freedom of Information, from December 2004 to October 2010, their actual database listed 10 instances of UFOs or unidentified aircraft," said Clarke. "Now [Deakin] is saying they get a report every month," he added.
"If that was the case, I'd expect it to be 80 in that six-year period, not 10. So, my question is: Where did all the others go?"
This comes on the heels of the Ministry of Defense's ruling that all UFO investigations in the UK have come to an end.
According to the MoD's website: The MoD has no opinion on the existence or otherwise of extra-terrestrial life.
However, In over fifty years, no UFO report has revealed any evidence of a potential threat to the United Kingdom.
The MoD has no specific capability for identifying the nature of such sightings.
There is no defence benefit in such investigation. Furthermore, responding to reported UFO sightings diverts MoD resources from tasks that are relevant to defence.
UK pilots have reported a number of chilling near-misses with UFOs.
One incident involved David Hastings, a British pilot pictured below, who, along with his co-pilot, David Paterson, was flying a Cessna Skymaster plane over the Mojave Desert in America on Sept. 9, 1985.
"We were sitting there enjoying the sunshine when we both suddenly saw this speck out on the horizon at our 12 o'clock position," Hastings told HuffPost.
"This speck suddenly grew extremely quickly until we saw this huge shadow go over the top of us," he recounted. "But the most amazing thing about it was there was no noise and absolutely no movement or turbulence at all. We looked at each other, saying, 'What the hell was that?'"
At that point, both pilots felt that something was in the air off the port (left) side of their plane, but they couldn't see anything there. They agreed that they were able to sense something moving outside.
Hastings walked to the back of the plane, grabbed his camera and returned to the cockpit where he snapped two pictures out the window. All he was able to see in the camera viewfinder was the left wing of the plane and the ground below.
It was only after they returned to San Francisco and got the pictures developed that they knew they'd encountered something extraordinary.
"One picture showed what we expected to see -- the aircraft wing and the ground," said Hastings. "But in the second one, there was this [cigar-shaped] thing. We were both convinced that it was not a manmade object.
"Several pilots have seen UFOs in England, so it didn't surprise me, but I was surprised that we actually got a picture of it."
Hastings recalls that, although he wasn't frightened by the object, he was mostly concerned about the initial encounter with it and the possibility of a mid-air collision. No hoax was ever determined in this case, which remains unexplained to this day.
Why do aviation officials avoid talking about UFOs? In the UK, Clarke suggests it's something that could result in bad publicity ( via huffingtonpost.com ).
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Einsteins zwaartekrachtgolven zouden zijn gespot DS.be
Einsteins zwaartekrachtgolven zouden zijn gespot - DS.be
Albert Einstein. Foto: AP
Volgens aanzwellende geruchten zouden Amerikaanse en Europese fysici zich opmaken om aan te kondigen dat ze zwaartekrachtgolven hebben waargenomen. Donderdag is er een gezamenlijke persconferentie van het Amerikaanse Ligo-observatorium, het Europese deeltjeslab Cern en de Italiaanse Virgo-detector.
Geruchten over de ontdekking doen al weken de ronde. Als ze kloppen, dan is dit voor de natuurkunde wat de ontdekking van het Higgsboson in 2012 was: héél groot nieuws, en kunnen de betrokken onderzoekers zich verlustigen in een zekere Nobelprijs.
Einstein
Het bestaan van zwaartekrachtgolven werd honderd jaar geleden door Einstein in zijn relativiteitstheorie voorspeld, maar niemand heeft ze sindsdien ooit waargenomen. De golven zijn ‘rimpels’ in de tijdruimte, zo volgt uit de formules van de theorie. Ze ontstaan bij gewelddadige gebeurtenissen in de ruimte waarbij grote massa’s betrokken zijn. Explosies van sterren bijvoorbeeld, of botsingen van zwarte gaten, of melkwegstelsels die in elkaar schuiven. Die gebeurtenissen brengen de tijdruimte aan het trillen en genereren daarbij zwaartekrachtgolven.
Dat zwaartekrachtgolven bestaan, daaraan twijfelt geen astronoom meer. Maar niemand heeft ze ooit al waargenomen, omdat ze uiterst zwak zijn. Vandaar dat enkel uiterst precieze meetinstrumenten ze op de staart kunnen trappen. Op aarde staan er zo meerdere opgesteld, waaronder die van Ligo en Virgo, maar die hadden tot nog toe nooit beet gehad.
Zwarte gaten
Volgens Alexander Sevrin, hoogleraar fysica aan de VUB, zouden de geobserveerde zwaartekrachtgolven zijn veroorzaakt door de fusie van twee zwarte gaten ‘met een totale massa van enkele tientallen malen die van onze zon’. Dat zou blijken uit indiscreties bij het Europese deeltjeslab Cern. De onderzoekers zouden de kans op minder dan één op drie miljoen schatten dat hun waarnemingen zijn te wijten aan toevallige fluctuaties van de achtergrondruis.
Ook de Leuvense fysicus Thomas Hertog, Belgisch verantwoordelijke bij het geplande ruimte-observatorium voor zwaartekrachtgolven van de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie Esa heeft signalen opgevangen dat de geruchten over de eerste waarnemingen van gravitatiegolven zouden kloppen. ‘Als het waar is, dan is de ontdekking qua impact vergelijkbaar met die van het Higgsdeeltje in 2012.’
Spanning
In de natuurkundige wereld stijgt de spanning, maar pas donderdag weten we of er nu wel of niet zwaartekrachtgolven zijn gezien en wat die heeft veroorzaakt. Wat er precies verteld zal worden op de persconferentie, blijft voorlopig een goed bewaard geheim.
Russia and Europe Join Forces Toward Building a Permanent Base on the Dark Side of the Moon
Russia and Europe Join Forces Toward Building a Permanent Base on the Dark Side of the Moon
Space projects have started to intensify this century, and the plans and expectations of space agencies are big and daring like never before.
While Russia plans to build a permanent lunar base, as well as an orbiting outpost by 2030, the European Space Agency (ESA) decided that it will be a good idea to join forces with them, in order to diminish their efforts and also start a ripe collaboration between the two space agencies.
The ESA announced that it will offer key tech for a planned exploration mission scheduled for 2020, and also provide important resources for the future plan to construct a permanent outpost.
Lead scientist on the project, Igor Mitrofanov, from Russia’s space agency Roscosmos, told the BBC that:
" We have to go to the Moon. The 21st Century will be the century when it will be the permanent outpost of human civilization. Our country has to participate in this process, and we have to do it together with our international colleagues."
The two space agencies will send Luna 27, a robotic lander that will reach the South Pole-Aitken basin, a colossal crater located on the dark side of the Moon, in order to prospect resources that will be used by astronauts for the development of the future Moon outpost.
"It will be for astronomical observation, for the utilization of minerals and other lunar resources and to create an outpost that can be visited by cosmonauts working together as a test bed for their future flight to Mars. – Mitrofanov declared"
However, ESA’s lead scientist, James Carpenter revealed an interesting fact about this future space mission. The location where Luna 27 will set up camp is covered under a veil of mystery. He claimed that this so far unexplored part of the Moon will provide essential conditions for future space missions due to its “completely different environment”.
"The south pole of the Moon is unlike anywhere we have been before. The environment is completely different, and due to the extreme cold there you could find large amounts of water-ice and other chemistry which is on the surface, and which we could access and use as rocket fuel or in life-support systems to support future human missions we think will go to these locations."
While they assume that a Luna 27 base can work using the resources provided by the environment to create rocket fuel and other complex designed materials, it is more likely that the two space agencies will use an already existent base in order to achieve their goals, well hidden in the far south side of the Moon.
Considering that astronauts will reach the distant Red Planet starting with 2020, this Lunar Project seems rather insignificant, unless it holds other meaningful secrets. – Is it possible that this particular project is evolving around an already existent base of extraterrestrial origins?
The chances might seem small, but reading through the lines of another curious statement belonging to ESA’s lead engineer on Luna 27, Richard Fisackerly, the hypothesis of an existing alien base on the south pole of the Moon furtherly takes shape.
"This whole series of missions feels like the beginning of the return to the Moon but it is also starting something new in terms of overall exploration of the Solar System."
If this is indeed an ambitious plan for humans trying to systematically explore and conquer space or if it’s rather a sophisticated staging attempt of an already existing ET base that is gathering precious resources using advanced alien tech, we can only presume, but because truth is always found half way when official announcements are made, there is plenty of room left for speculations.
Columnist Cheryl Costa discusses what you need to do to report your UFO sighting.
So you are out for a walk with your significant other and low and behold, the two of you see some strange and amazing bright object in the sky. What do you do?
My advice: watch it and enjoy the experience.
If you have the presence of mind to note what direction it came from and traveled to, it would be helpful for researchers — especially should you care to report the sighting later. The two of you should come to a consensus about the shape of what you saw, as well as make a note of where you were and what time it was that you saw the UFO.
OK, regarding reporting: This is where it gets a bit complicated. First off, don’t call the Air Force, as they haven’t collected UFO sighting information since 1969. In fact, since 1969, no United States government agency publicly collects UFO data.
Don’t call your local newspaper. Most news editors I’ve met tend to blow off the topic of UFOs. Many I have known think that people who report such sightings are either nuts or hoaxers, so don’t bother with them.
While I don’t want to paint all journalists and news directors with the same brush, I’d also advise against calling your local television or radio station. Experience has shown they aren’t any more receptive than the newspaper folks are.
What about law enforcement? My advice is if the UFO has landed or is a clear and present danger to property or public safety, then by all means call law enforcement. Many of the best UFO sighting reports over the years have been filed by law enforcement and public safety officers. But if you just want to tell somebody about your amazing sighting, don’t bother law enforcement. They have enough to do.
If you file a report, it’s important to just get it down concisely to the facts and only the facts. You wouldn’t believe how many sighting reports that I’ve read that rambled on about whose back yard barbecue it was at and how amazing the sighting was. But nowhere do they tell us size, shape, color, direction of motion and sound, if any.
Likewise, it’s important to fill in the blank of what city, town or village you were in, and the correct state. An accurate date and time of the sighting is also critical, especially if other people report the sighting. All of this helps UFO investigators correlate mass sightings.
Be sure to share your identification and contact information. The NUFORC and MUFON folks are honest people, but if you really want to remain anonymous that’s ok too.
Finally, you really only need to file the report with one of the two UFO reporting services. Most the researchers monitor both databases.
Spring is coming and with it comes the season for UFO sightings. Enjoy the experience if you see one!
LET’S LOOK AT SOME RECENT UFO SIGHTINGS IN NEW YORK SKIES:
Jan. 17, 2016: At 4:15 a.m., a resident of Accord witnessed three bright golden lights flying in a tight formation. The lights were moving slowly above the tree line.
Jan. 17, 2016: At 8:30 p.m., a resident of Manhattan observed a white cloud-like object that was rotating.
Jan. 22, 2016: At 6 a.m., a resident of Middle Village witnessed a bright object fly across the sky in a high arc.
Jan. 24, 2016: At 11:45 p.m. a resident of Whitestone watched a bright light streak across the sky.
If you are interested in joining a monthly UFO discussion group in the Onondaga County area, drop Cheryl an email NYSkies@DragonLadyMedia.com. If you have a UFO sighting to report, you can use either one of the two national database services: nuforc.org or mufon.com. Both services respect confidentiality.
Cheryl Costa would love to hear the when, where and what of your New York sighting. Email it to NYSkies@DragonLadyMedia.com. The names of witnesses will be omitted to protect their privacy.
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5 of the most chilling British UFO sightings in history revealed
5 of the most chilling British UFO sightings in history revealed
The UK has seen some chilling reports of UFO sightings over the years Getty
TALES of unidentified flying objects have always shaken up conspiracy theorists and, in the spirit of the X-Files, we’ve rounded up the top five British sightings which sent shivers down our spine.
1) Not the whole picture... Photos plundered
In 1990, two hikers in the Scottish Highlands were startled when a huge diamond-shaped object appeared in the air, where it hovered for 10 minutes before shooting off into the sky.
Whilst most UFO ‘sightings’ lack convincing photo evidence, these savvy spotters managed to snap the mysterious craft.
A series of 6 colour photos showed the 25-metre metallic craft with an RAF jet in pursuit, and the pictures were said to be the best ever evidence of UFO activity.
Of course, these snaps ended up in the hands of government officials, but Nick Pope, an MoD employee charged with logging UFO sightings, said a blown-up image was removed suspiciously from his office.
He said: “It was the best UFO photo we ever received... intelligence personnel came to the conclusion that these photographs are real – it’s a solid craft and no-one has the faintest idea what it is.”
He claims this was part of an internal cover-up, but he was told by officials there was no record of the original photos when he pressed them.
In December 1980, two members of a US security patrol at an Air Force base in Suffolk went to investigate a suspicious light in nearby Rendlesham Forest.
One of the men, Jim Penniston, claimed he saw a strange craft in the woods.
“I estimated it to be about three metres tall and about three metres wide at the base,” he said. “I walked right up to it. I noticed the fabric of the shell was more like a smooth, opaque, black glass.”
The object then apparently vanished, but other staff at the base noticed some strange sights over the next few days.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt described a hovering object and “a beam coming down to the ground”, whilst other guards investigating another supposed UFO landing in the forest were warned away by shadowy military personnel.
Whilst the official investigation said the sightings were due to a lighthouse, Halt, now, 75, claims he obtained reports saying local radio operators did log a mystery craft.
He believes he was part of a serious UFO cover-up.
A hovering craft and a "beam of light" were reportedly seen at the base Getty
Former British cop Alan Godfrey believes he was the victim of an alien abduction when he was on a night patrol in November 1980.
The respected policeman was suddenly startled by a brightly lit craft on the road in front of him, which he claimed was “the size of a bus.”
The UFO was 14ft tall, rotating and hovering five feet above the ground, but when the creeped-out cop tried to radio for help, Pc Godfrey found his device was dead.
The next thing remembered was driving along the road again 30 yards beyond the point where he was stopped.
He found he couldn’t remember the 15-minute period after spotting the craft, and filed an official report when other officers and a lorry driver saw similarly strange lights in the same area as his encounter.
Under hypnosis, the policeman later recalled seeing small beings on the UFO, as well as a figure who conducted medical tests on him. Pc Godfrey said: “This was a solid craft, not a trick of the mind.
“I would swear on the Bible it was from somewhere else."
Abduction... Pc Alan Godfrey claims he was nabbed by aliens
A black triangular UFO spotted several times over the Midlands has been dubbed the ‘Dudley Dorito.’
In 2008, the craft was snapped over Dudley, with a report following in 2010 that a triangular craft “four or five time bigger than a plane” had been spotted in the region.
And, mere weeks later, 21-year-old quality inspector Minuesh Mistry saw a similar craft hovering above his home in Tipton.
He said: “Me and my closest friend saw an amazing fast-moving and silent craft in the shape of a triangle made up of what appeared to be three lights fly across the sky at a mind-boggling speed.”
Officials dismissed the reports as likely to be caused by “supernormal atmospheric plasma phenomenon”.
This snap of the mysterious tortilla-shaped craft turned heads in the Midlands
A shocked jumbo jet pilot was left fearing for his life after a near-miss with a UFO in July 2013.
His aircraft was flying over Berkshire at 34,000ft when the cabin crew spotted a strange object hurtling towards his port side window.
In the last moment, the “bright silver rugby ball-shaped” craft allegedly vanished into thin air as quickly as it appeared.
The panicked pilot radioed air traffic control, but radar came up blank – as did military scanners when an official report into the sighting was launched.
The investigation concluded it was “not possible to trace the object or determine the likely cause of the sighting.”
NJ REPORTER Saul Cooke-Black looks back at news from across the decades.
1966
A DOG owner from Nailsworth was celebrating after two of her Shetland sheepdogs won national trophies for their obedience.
Blackbird of Exford, owned by Ms D Homfray, was awarded the Moonen Shield Trophy for gaining the most points in obedience and Gleam of Exford was runner-up.
Ms Homfray was the senior trainer of the Stroud Dog Training Club.
FORMER Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home visited Bisley to attend the wedding of his nephew in the village church.
The ex-Conservative minister attended the wedding of Charles Douglas-Home and Jessica Gwynne with Lady Douglas-Home.
PUPILS at King’s Stanley Primary School had an unexpected extra day off after a fault with the boiler.
The stock of anthracite which fed the boiler had run out and because of a rail hold-up, the County Education Department was unable to get a new supply to the village.
The eighty-five pupils and teachers were forced to take the day off as it was decided it was too cold.
1976
A MUCH-LOVED mum from Chalford passed away – 12 days after she had celebrated her 100th birthday on Christmas Day.
Annie Pearce, a strong supporter of the Labour Party, grew up in Chalford where she met and married John Pearce.
The couple had one child together, Gwen, who Annie lived with along with her son-in-law before her passing.
A FARMER from Painswick appeared on HTV West television programme West Country Farming to discuss a controversial new dairy unit at the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester.
The show, presented, by Richard Hughes, a former student at the college, discussed the merits of the unit which was controversial due to its cost.
THE introduction of music cassettes at Stroud Library was proving popular.
An array of cassette cases could be seen in the main hall of the library, mainly consisting of classical and light classical music.
Stroud had joined other county libraries Cheltenham, Gloucester, Cirencester, Cinderford and Moreton-in-Marsh in introducing the new state-of-the-art technologies.
1986
THE FUTURE of St Matthew’s Church Hall in Cainscross hung in the balance after a decision by Stroud District Council not to develop the land for sheltered housing.
The hall was situated on a site which was soon to be put up for sale by the PCC.
Users of the hall feared that unless the land was bought by the council, it would be sold to a developer who would pull down the hall to build on the land.
THE new chairman of Stroud Show Peter Chapman was drawing up plans for a spectacular event.
It was announced that the Band of the 15th/19th The King’s Royal Hussars would lead the carnival procession at the event in July.
Mr Chapman, from Minchinhampton, had been the society’s treasurer for several years and was this year taking over the mantle of being chairman of the show.
1996
GENEROUS readers helped raise more than £1,000 for a teenager who was left paralysed in an accident.
Rob Blanch, who was 14, needed the money so that he could get a £7,000 wheelchair which could climb stairs so that he could then attend Maidenhill School in Stonehouse.
Rob, from Cashes Green, Stroud, suffered a broken back, damaged spinal chord and fractured skull after he fell from a tree while on holiday at Eastnor Castle in Herefordshire.
He spent three days in intensive care before being transferred to the specialist Duke of Conrwall spinal unit in Salisbury.
Discharged in time for Christmas, Rob was aiming to get back to school in April but needed the wheelchair as the school had three storeys.
THE Stroud Football Poets reached their cup final – an appearance at the launch celebrations of the European Championships.
The group of literary experts with a love of the beautiful game were to appear for 20 minutes at the Festival Hall in London in June in a spot called 90 Minutes of Football Poetry.
The group was set up by Stuart Butler and Dennis Gould. Mr Butler was also putting together a book of football poems written by staff and pupils at Brockworth School where he worked as a history teacher.
2006
WITNESSES who saw a bizarre object hover over in the sky over Cainscross were so concerned they contacted a UFO investigation group.
Michael Soper, from the group Contact International UK, said “We were contacted by a man who reported seeing a very large pinkish object.
“It was 1,000 feet up and silent.
“It took about 30 seconds to pass over Stroud and it was travelling from north west to south east.”
He said it was unlikely to be a plane because of the colour.
PARENTS heaved a sigh of relief after new premises were found for a Stroud nursery.
Beanstalk Nursery had been running at Stroud College since 1992 but in June staff were shocked to discover plans to create a new state-of-the-art-college which did not include space for a childcare facility.
But Stroud District Council found the nursery new premises in the old tennis pavilion at Stratford Park Leisure Centre.
The rooms were being refurbished to make them suitable for a nursery.
Stuart saw light emanating through the tall trees...
PARANORMAL investigator Damon Simms has explored some of Staffordshire's spookiest locations. This week he interviews a man who encountered something inexplicable in the woods...
The paranormal world is something I find absolutely fascinating but if there is one subject that really stirs my imagination it is the prospect of life on other planets and the thought that it has visited us here on Earth.
UFOs and aliens to some people would seem fantastical. However, for others they are all too real... as Stuart found out in July of 2013.
Stuart works for the fire and rescue service locally and, in his spare time, enjoys walking his dog at Cannock Chase.
His dog is a three-year-old husky called Nanook - named after the dog from the classic 80s horror movie The Lost Boys.
Day or night, come rain or shine, he would always take time out to enjoy a long stroll with his dog.
It was late July and the sun was setting over the Chase. Stuart hasn't seen another soul for almost an hour.
As man and dog ventured further into the dense and vast woodland area, Stuart and Nanook were both enjoying the fresh evening air.
Stuart described an almost intoxicating and revitalising smell of natural pine which became stronger the further they walked into the towering trees.
Normally around this time on their walks, Nanook would become excitable and run off - only to return with a random sticks and cones for his owner.
However, for some reason on this occasion Stuart noticed that Nanook seemed hesitant to leave his side.
In the distance Stuart thought that he kept getting glimpses of light emanating through the tall trees.
He remembers Nanook kept glancing towards the light as if he could hear or sense something.
Stuart stopped walking so that he could pay attention to the strange situation.
At that moment, Stuart claims he could not only sense but smell what he describes as a static or electrical atmosphere envelope them.
He says Nanook became agitated and began to growl in a protective and aggressive manner in the direction was where the light was coming from.
Stuart said that he felt as if he was rooted to the ground and became paralysed with fear.
The more intense the atmosphere became the more terrified he felt and the more agitated his dog became.
The lights flashed again. This made Nanook even more agitated.
By now his fur was standing up all over his back, his head was bowed low and his teeth were bared as he snarled at whatever the perceived threat was.
Then something even stranger happened.
The lights that seemed to be just off the forest floor began to rise - 10 feet, then 15 feet, then 20 feet into the air.
Still the lights continue to rise until it seemed to Stuart they had risen above the top of the trees.
Looking up, Stuart stared with his mouth wide open.
Finally, he could make out where the lights had been coming from and as he looked above the treetops he could now clearly see what looked like a large, metallic disc-shaped object 'the size of the centre circle on a football pitch'.
Struggling to take in what he was actually witnessing, he attempted to calm his dog but he says the words wouldn't come out. By this point Nanook was uncontrollable.
The object stopped rising into the air and suddenly changed direction. Slowly but steadily it moved towards Stuart and his canine guardian.
Stuart managed to shake himself out of an almost trance-like state and began to stumble away - dragging Nanook with him.
Stuart told me that he even tried to hide behind a number of trees - hoping to shake off the strange UFO but the object seemed to just know where they were.
For a moment Stewart and his dog lost sight of the object.
Then suddenly it rose to approximately 50 feet in the air and hung there motionless for about a minute before thundering into the sky at what Stuart described as an unbelievable speed.
Then it was gone.
Shaking, yet feeling exhilarated from his experience, Stuart returned home with Nanook.
He informed me that he has told a few close friends and family and that most didn't believe his story.
However, I have no doubt - having spent quite some time interviewing him - that Stuart himself believes that he encountered something inexplicable that night at Cannock Chase...
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Moonwalker, Outspoken UFO Enthusiast Ed Mitchell Dead At 85
Moonwalker, Outspoken UFO Enthusiast Ed Mitchell Dead At 85
In the news yesterday, not much was made of the passing of Edgar Mitchell, who walked on the moon in 1971. According to his family, Mitchell, 85, died in a Lake Worth, FL, hospice after a brief illness Feb. 4, the day before the 45-year anniversary of his lunar landing. Of the dozen humans who have walked on the moon, that leaves just seven still alive.
Edgar Mitchell, sixth human to walk on the Moon, in February 1971. After his space flight, Mitchell became a UFO enthusiast.
(Photo courtesy of NASA)
Two thoughts immediately come to mind about the relative lack of media interest. First, in a culture obsessed with fame and faux celebrity, perhaps Mitchell did not rise to the glib mediocrity of say, a Donald Trump, the Kardashians or a past Super Bowl ad. Then again maybe it was the fact that Mitchell, in addition to his stellar astronaut credentials, was outspoken about the controversial subject of UFOs. Ask any pilot or credible witness who has seen something – it is a no-no to report it.
In 1952 Mitchell earned a B.S. Then, while on active military duty he completed his M.S. at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and earned a Ph.D. in aeronautics and astronautics from MIT. In 1970, the former Korean War fighter pilot was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and, in 1997, inducted into the Astronaut Hall of Fame.
A few years back I had the privilege of chatting with Mitchell. To give a sense of what the man was about, following are selected edited excerpts. I found him thoughtful, modest and smart as a whip. He was brave, too – not only in his commitment to space exploration, but in a willingness to share his controversial views with the world.
The Apollo 14 lunar crew (left to right): Stuart Roosa, Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell. (Courtesy of Wikipedia)
Jim Clash: Was there much emotion when you became the sixth man on the moon?
Edgar Mitchell: Sure it was wonderful, we were pleased to do it and it was enjoyable to be among the first, but it was just part of a checklist we had practiced week after week at Cape Kennedy. We would go through the whole routine, modify it, rewrite it, modify it again until we were comfortable with the order. And, of course, our mission was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be very careful about getting everything in during the allotted time. Apollo 11 and 12 were just to prove physically we could get [astronauts] down, and then back safely. Apollo 14 was to start doing science.
JC: You had a famous spiritual “moment” on your return to Earth.
EM: All I had to do then was monitor the spacecraft systems, which were functioning perfectly. I could lie back in weightlessness and watch the slow progress of the heavens. Suddenly I felt tuned into something much larger than myself, larger than the planet in the window – something incomprehensibly big. Even today, the perception baffles me. It wasn’t religious or otherworldly, nor was it new scientific understanding which I had suddenly become aware of. It was a pointer showing the direction toward greater understanding.
Apollo 14 moonwalker Edgar Mitchell later in life. He passed away Feb. 4, 2016, near his home in West Palm Beach, FL.
(Photo by Phil Konstantin)
JC: What’s your knowledge of the famous 1947 Roswell incident?
EM: After my space flight, I was contacted by some descendants of the original Roswell observers, including the person who delivered the child-sized coffins to the Air Forceto contain the alien bodies. Another was one of the children of the deputy sheriff who was patrolling traffic around the site back then. There was also a military officer who was a friend of the families not involved in that particular operation but who did share office space there. They all seemed credible with their stories that the bodies were alien.
JC: If that’s the case, why do you believe it has been covered up?
EM: Initially, there was justification in that leadership officials thought the people weren’t ready to handle it. But I think we are well past that now. Frankly, and this is just a personal opinion, remember what [President Dwight D.] Eisenhower in his final speech said: “Beware the military industrial complex.” I suspect that’s what we’re talking about. But it’s not just the military. It’s a cabal of money and military organizations primarily for the profit motive. We invented aircraft at the beginning of the 20th century. Twenty years later, we had an airline industry. Think of what that could mean in terms of space travel with control of that [UFO] machinery, that technology. There’s a lot of money involved.
JC: Is it separate efforts within countries like the U.S, Russia, China, etc., or is it a worldwide cabal?
EM: I think it’s worldwide, but I have no way of proving that. It’s just speculation on my part.
What Neurologist Discovered With Alien Abductions Victims
What Neurologist Discovered With Alien Abductions Victims
eople claiming to have been abducted by aliens are considered mentally delusional. However, as stories of alien abduction become more and more mainstream, it is hard to dismiss the credibility of these alien abduction witnesses. The idea of aliens has been discussed for many years now by different persons. There are many researchers exploring the existence of ancient aliens and whether they have already visited our planet or not.
When asked about the possible delusion, Neurologist Dr. Michael B. Russo claimed he didn’t know what to say to his patients who shared their abduction stories. He said that the majority of the doctors of his current patients sent them because the latter complained of primary headaches or some neurological problems. But their physicians didn’t have any idea about their abduction stories not until Dr. Russo asked them about the duration of the problem. As part of his examination, Dr. Russo used his dense array electroencephalography, or DEEG, a machine worth $200,000. The machine maps the electrical activity in the brains of his patients. Russo wondered if there are similarities to patients complaining about being abducted with regards to brain wave activity.
According to his examination, those patients claiming to have been abducted by aliens have shown abnormalities in their parietal lobe brain wave activity. The electrical brain wave activities of abductee patients are similar to patients who experienced traumatic brain injury. He tries to look at the experiences as different based from his patients’ point of view and works with them to alleviate their problem.
When performing DEEG tests, patients often ask the possibility of interpreting or reading transmitter. Russo confirmed that he couldn’t see the wire, but he can see the brain signals. Russo has experienced success using pharmacological therapies in alleviating the headache pains. Russo will share his findings, which co-authored with Shane Endicott, Ryan Nillo, Melba C. Stetz, and Judith Profant on their upcoming meeting at the Hawaii Convention Center.
60 years after the publication of the second book of George Adamski called “Inside the Space Ships”, some still regard this experience as one of the most important contacts between humans and aliens.
One of The Most Compelling Alien Abduction Cases In History
One of The Most Compelling Alien Abduction Cases In History
The following documentary is about one of the most mysterious and compelling UFO, and potential extraterrestrial/alien abduction cases from the witnesses’ perspective themselves.
Twin brothers Jim and Jack Weiner, together with their two friends Charles Foltz and Charles Rack, went on a trip for canoeing and camping to the Allagash in Maine in August 1976. One night they experienced a UFO encounter.
Years after that alien encounter, the brothers suffered nightmares and underwent regression hypnosis. Regressed separately, they shared similar recollections of what took place on the night of their UFO sighting.
Une ancienne civilisation aurait vécue dans des grottes sous le Grand Canyon ?
Peut-être que la suppression (secret) la plus étonnante de toutes est l’excavation d’une tombe égyptienne par le Smithsonian lui-même dans l’Arizona. Une longue 1ère page historique.
de la Gazette de Phoenix du 5 Avril 1909 a présenté un rapport très détaillé de la découverte et de l’excavation d’une voûte taillée dans la roche par une expédition menée par un professeur SA Jordan de la Smithsonian.
Le Smithsonian, cependant, prétend n’avoir absolument aucune connaissance de la découverte ou de ses découvreurs…
Secrets archéologiques … par David Hatcher Childress
Le World Explorers Club a décidé de vérifier cette histoire en appelant le Smithsonian à Washington, DC , mais nous avons senti qu’il y avait peu de chance d’obtenir quelconque information réelle. Après avoir parlé brièvement à un opérateur, nous avons été transférés à un archéologue du personnel du Smithsonian, et la voix d’une femme est venue au téléphone et s’est identifiée.
Je lui ai dit que je faisais des recherches sur l’histoire de Phoenix et les articles de journaux de 1909 au sujet de l’Institut Smithsonien qui disent avoir fouillé des voûtes taillées dans la roche dans le Grand Canyon où des artefacts égyptiens avaient été découverts, et si l’Institut Smithsonian pourrait me donner plus d’information sur le sujet .
Elle dit : « La première chose que je peux vous dire, avant d’aller plus loin, c’est qu’aucun artefact égyptien de toute nature n’a déjà été trouvé dans le nord ou l’Amérique du Sud. Par conséquent, je peux vous dire que l’Institut Smithsonian n’a jamais été impliqué dans de telles fouilles. «
Elle était très serviable et polie, mais, à la fin, ne savait rien. Ni elle, ni personne d’autre avec qui j’ai parlé ne pouvait trouver aucune trace de la découverte ou que ce soit GE Kinkaid et le professeur S.A. Jordan. S’il ne peut être écarté que toute l’histoire soit un canular de journal, le fait qu’elle était sur la première page, a nommé le prestigieux Institut Smithsonian, et a donné un récit très détaillé qui a duré plusieurs pages, prête beaucoup à sa crédibilité.
Il est difficile de croire qu’une telle histoire aurait pu venir de nulle part. Si cette histoire est vraie, cela changerait radicalement la vue actuelle qu’il n’y a eu aucun contact transocéanique à l’époque précolombienne, et que tous les Indiens d’Amérique, sur les deux continents, descendent des explorateurs de l’Age de Glace qui ont traversé le détroit de Béring .
C’est l’idée que des Egyptiens venus dans la région de l’Arizona dans le passé antique est si répréhensible et absurde qu’elle doit être cachée ? Peut-être que l’Institut Smithsonien est plus intéressé à maintenir le statu quo que de faire des vagues avec une étonnante nouvelle de découvertes qui bouleversent les enseignements académiques précédemment acceptés .
L’historien et linguiste Carl Hart, éditeur de Word Explorer, a pu obtenir une carte pour les randonneurs du Grand Canyon, à partir d’une librairie de Chicago.
Penchés sur la carte, nous avons été surpris de voir que beaucoup de la région sur le côté nord du canyon avait des noms égyptiens. La zone autour de Ninety-four Mile Creek et de Trinity Creek avait des zones (des formations rocheuses, apparemment) avec des noms comme Tour de Set, Tour de Ra , Temple d’Horus, Temple d’Osiris et Temple d’Isis.
The Isis Temple
The Tower of Ra
The Tower of Set
Zoroaster Temple
Dans la zone du Canyon Haunted il y a des noms tels que la pyramide de Khéops, le Cloître de Bouddha, le
Temple du Bouddha, Manu Temple et Temple de Shiva. Il y a-t-il une relation entre ces lieux et les prétendues découvertes égyptiennes dans le Grand Canyon ?
Nous avons appelé un archéologue de l’Etat au Grand Canyon, et il a dit que les premiers explorateurs devaient aimer les noms égyptiens et hindous, mais il est vrai que cette zone était interdite aux randonneurs ou d’autres visiteurs, en raison des cavernes dangereuses.
En effet, toute cette zone avec les noms de lieux égyptiens et hindous dans le Grand Canyon est une zone interdite – nul n’est autorisé dans cette grande surface. Nous ne pouvions qu’en conclure que c’était l’endroit où se trouvaient les voûtes. Pourtant, aujourd’hui encore, cette région est curieusement hors-limites de tous les randonneurs et même, en grande partie, du personnel du parc.
Je crois que le lecteur averti verra que si seulement une petite partie de la preuve « Smithsoniangate » est vraie, alors notre institut archéologique le plus sacré a été activement impliqué dans la suppression de preuves sur des cultures américaines avancées, des preuves de voyages antiques de diverses cultures vers le Nord Amérique, la preuve de géants et d’autres objets excentriques, et la preuve qui tend à infirmer le dogme officiel qui est maintenant l’histoire de l’Amérique du Nord.
Le conseil des gouverneurs de l’Institut Smithsonien refuse toujours d’ouvrir ses réunions aux médias ou au public. Si les Américains n’ont jamais été autorisés à l’intérieur du « grenier de la nation », comme le Smithsonian a été appelé, quels squelettes pourraient-ils y trouver ?
Rapport de G. E. Kinkaid
GE Kinkaid croyait être la première personne de race blanche née dans l’Idaho. Il a été un explorateur et un chasseur toute sa vie, 30 années de travail à l’Institut Smithsonien. Voici des extraits de son journal de ses aventures présumées dans la grotte.
» Je voyageais sur le fleuve Colorado dans un bateau, seul, à la recherche de minéraux. A quelque 42 miles (67 km) en haut de la rivière du El Tovar Crystal Canyon, j’ai remarqué, sur le mur est, des taches dans la formation sédimentaire à environ 2.000 pieds (610 mètres) au-dessus du lit de la rivière. Il n’y avait pas de piste à ce moment, mais j’ai pu finalement l’atteindre avec grande difficulté. «
Cette falaise est censé être l’emplacement de l’entrée de la grotte à la mystérieuse citadelle souterraine.
» L’entrée est à 1,486 pieds (453 m) au-delà du mur du canyon. Au-dessus d’une avancée qui le cachait à la vue de la rivière, se trouvait l’entrée de la grotte. Il y a des escaliers menant à cette entrée à une trentaine de mètres de ce qui était à l’époque le niveau de la rivière.
Quand j’ai vu les coups de ciseau sur la paroi interne de l’entrée, je m’y suis intéressé. J’ai armé mon fusil, je suis entré.
J’ai rassemblé un certain nombre de reliques, que je transportais par la Colorado jusqu’à Yuma, d’où je les ai expédiées à Washington avec les détails de la découverte. Par la suite, d’autres explorations ont été menées. Assez intéressés sont devenus les scientifiques, au point que des préparatifs sont en cours pour équiper notre camp pour des études approfondies, le nombre d’archéologues est en augmentation de 30 à 40. «
» Du long passage principal, une autre chambre de mammouth (géante) a été découverte à partir de laquelle rayonne des marques de passages, comme les rayons d’une roue.
Plusieurs centaines de pièces ont été découvertes, atteintes par des passages allant du passage principal, l’un d’entre eux ayant été exploré sur 854 pieds (260 m) et un autre sur 634 pieds (193 m). Les découvertes récentes incluent des artefacts qui n’ont jamais été connus comme originaires de ce pays, et sans doute qu’ils avaient leur origine en Orient. Des armes de guerre, des instruments de cuivre, acérés et durs comme l’acier, indiquent l’état de civilisation atteint par ces personnes.
Le passage principal est d’environ 12 pieds (3,70 m) de large, se rétrécissant à neuf pieds (2,70 m) vers la fin plus loin. Environ à 57 mètres de l’entrée, la première branche secondaire passe à droite et à gauche, le long de laquelle, des deux côtés, un certain nombre de pièces de la taille de pièces de vie ordinaires d’aujourd’hui, même si certaines sont de 30 par 40 pieds carrés (9 par 12 mètres carrés). Elles sont ouvertes par des portes de forme ovale et sont aérées par des trous d’air ronds à travers les murs dans les passages. Les murs sont d’environ trois pieds six pouces d’épaisseur (1,07 m).
Les passages sont ciselés ou taillés aussi droits que pourraient l’être aménagés par un ingénieur. Les plafonds de la plupart des chambres convergent vers un centre. Les passages secondaires partant près de l’entrée prennent à un angle aigu par rapport à la salle principale, mais vers l’arrière ils l’atteignent progressivement par un bon angle dans la direction. «
» A plus d’une centaine mètres de l’entrée est le Hall en Croix, de plusieurs centaines de mètres de long, dans lequel on trouve l’idole, ou l’image, du dieu du peuple, assis les jambes croisées, avec une fleur de lotus ou de nénuphar dans chaque main. La forme du visage est oriental. L’idole ressemble presque à Bouddha, bien que les scientifiques ne sont pas certains du culte religieux qu’il représente. Prenant en considération tout ce qu’on a trouvé à ce jour, il est possible que ce culte ressemble le plus à l’ancien peuple du Tibet.
Autour de cette idole se trouvent de petites figurines, dont certaines très belles dans leurs formes, d’autres avec des formes tordues et déformées, symboliques, probablement, du bien et du mal. Il y a deux grands cactus, les bras en saillie, un de chaque côté de l’estrade sur laquelle repose le Dieu. Tout cela est gravé dans le marbre ressemblant à du rocher dur.
Dans le coin opposé de ce Hall en Croix a été trouvé des outils de toutes sortes, en cuivre. Ces gens connaissaient sans doute l’art perdu de durcir ce métal, qui a été tenté par des produits chimiques pendant des siècles sans résultats.
Sur un banc qui court autour de la salle de travail était un peu de charbon et d’autres matières probablement utilisées dans le processus. Il y a également des scories et des trucs similaires à du métal, montrant que ces anciens ont fondu des minerais, mais jusqu’ici, aucune trace d’où ni comment cela a été fait n’a été découverte, ni sur l’origine du minerai.
Parmi les autres découvertes sont des vases ou des urnes et des tasses de cuivre et d’or, très artistiques dans leur conception. Le travail sur la poterie comprend de la céramique émaillée et des récipients vitrifiés.
Un autre passage mène aux greniers comme on en trouve dans les temples orientaux. Ils contiennent des graines de toutes sortes. Un très grand entrepôt n’a pas encore été fouillé, comme il est de douze pieds de haut (3 m 70) et ne peut être atteint que par le haut.
Deux crochets de cuivre dépassent du bord, ce qui indique qu’une sorte d’échelle avait été fixée . Ces greniers sont arrondis, comme les matériaux dont ils sont construits, que je pense être un ciment très dur. Un métal gris se trouve également dans cette caverne, qui choque les scientifiques, son identité n’a pas été établie. Il ressemble à du platine. Parsemé pêle-mêle sur le sol partout se trouvent ce que les gens appellent des « yeux de chat », une pierre jaune sans grande valeur. Chacune est gravée avec une tête du type malais. «
Sculptés sur toutes les urnes, au-dessus des portes et des tablettes de pierre, se trouvent de mystérieux hiéroglyphes, la clé que l’Institut Smithsonien espérait découvrir.
Les gravures sur les tablettes ont probablement quelque chose à voir avec la religion du peuple. Des Hiéroglyphes similaires ont été trouvés dans le sud de l’Arizona.
Parmi les œuvres picturales, seuls deux animaux se trouvent – l’un d’eux ressemble à un animal préhistorique.
» Le tombeau ou crypte dans laquelle les momies ont été trouvées est l’une des plus importantes des chambres, avec les murs inclinés en arrière à un angle d’environ 35 degrés. Sur des niveaux il y a des momies, chacune occupant une tablette taillée séparée.
A la tête de chacune est un petit banc, sur lequel on trouve des tasses de cuivre et des pièces d’épées brisées. Certaines de ces momies sont recouvertes d’argile et toutes sont enveloppées dans un manteau
Les urnes ou les découpes aux niveaux inférieurs sont grossières, tandis que quand les niveaux élevés sont atteints, les urnes sont plus fines dans leur conception, montrant un stade ultérieur de la civilisation. Il est intéressant de noter que toutes les momies examinées jusqu’ici se sont révélés être des hommes, pas d’enfants ou de femmes étant enterrés ici. Cela conduit à la conviction que cette section extérieure était la caserne des guerriers.
Parmi les découvertes, aucun os d’animaux n’ont été trouvés, aucune peau, pas de vêtements, pas de literie. La plupart des chambres sont nues mais pour des récipients d’eau.
Une chambre, d’environ 40 (12 m) par 700 pieds (213 m), était probablement la salle à manger principale, puisque des ustensiles de cuisine sont disponibles ici. Que ces gens vivaient ici est un problème, si on suppose qu’ils sont venus du sud en hiver et faisaient de l’élevage dans les vallées, et en allant vers le nord en été.
Au moins 50.000 personnes ont pu vivre dans ces cavernes confortablement. Une théorie est que les actuelles tribus indiennes trouvées en Arizona sont les descendants des serfs ou des esclaves des gens qui ont habité la grotte.
Sans doute un bon plusieurs milliers d’années avant l’ère chrétienne, un peuple vivait ici, qui a atteint un haut degré de civilisation. La chronologie de l’histoire humaine est pleine de lacunes.
Une chose dont je n’ai pas parlé, ayant peut-être un intérêt. Il y a une chambre de passage qui n’est pas ventilée, et quand nous l’avons approchée, une mauvaise odeur de mort nous a frappé.
Notre lumière ne pouvait pas pénétrer dans la salle, et jusqu’à ce que de plus fortes soient disponibles, nous ne saurons pas ce que la chambre contient. Certains disent qu’il y a des serpents, mais d’autres pensent qu’elle peut contenir un gaz ou des produits chimiques utilisés par les anciens. On n’entend aucun son, mais ça sent mauvais tout de même.
L’ensemble de l’installation souterraine donne des nerfs fragiles ou la chair de poule. Le sentiment sombre d’avoir comme un poids sur ses épaules, et nos lampes de poche et nos bougies font seulement rendre moins noire l’obscurité. L’imagination peut se vautrer dans des conjectures et rêveries impies à travers les âges qui se sont écoulés, jusqu’à ce que les circuits de votre esprit vous mènent vertigineusement dans l’espace. «
Une Légende Indienne…
Dans le cadre de cette histoire, il est à noter que parmi les Indiens Hopi, la tradition raconte que leurs ancêtres ont vécu dans un monde souterrain dans le Grand Canyon, jusqu’à dissension s’éleva entre le bon et le mauvais, les gens d’un seul cœur et les habitants de deux cœurs.
Machetto, qui était leur chef, leur conseilla de quitter le monde souterrain, mais il n’y avait pas d’issue. Le chef a ensuite provoqué la croissance d’un arbre et a percé le toit de la grotte, et puis les gens avec un seul cœur sont sortis. Ils passèrent par Paisisvai (Red River), qui est le Colorado, et ont semé le grain et le maïs.
Ils ont envoyé un messager au Temple du Soleil, demandant la bénédiction de la paix, de bonne volonté et de la pluie pour les personnes d’un seul cœur. Ce messager ne revint jamais, mais aujourd’hui, dans les villages Hopi, au coucher du soleil peut être vu les vieillards de la tribu sur les toits, regardant fixement vers le soleil, à la recherche du messager. Quand il reviendra, leurs terres et ancien lieu d’habitation seront restitués. C’est la tradition.
Parmi les gravures d’animaux de la grotte est considérée l’image d’un cœur au-dessus de l’endroit où il se trouvait. La légende a été apprise par W.E. Rollins, l’artiste, au cours d’une année passée avec les Indiens Hopi.
Il y a deux théories sur l’origine des Egyptiens. La première est qu’ils venaient d’Asie ; l’autre que le berceau de la race était dans la région du Haut-Nil. Heeren, un égyptologue, croyait à l’origine indienne des Egyptiens. Les découvertes dans le Grand Canyon peuvent jeter un nouvel éclairage sur l’évolution humaine et de la préhistoire…
Possible localisation de la cité troglodyte perdue :
Marble Canyon a obtenu son nom du Major John Wesley Powell, qui, en Août 1869, écrit dans son journal sur des « falaises de marbre », qui contenaient « un grand nombre de grottes ». Il est important de noter ici que Powell a déclaré que Marble Canyon contenait « un grand nombre de grottes ». La «citadelle» dont Kincaid parle dans son histoire est dans une « grotte ».
Depuis ces temps, de nombreuses grottes de Powell ont été notées ou découvertes dans la région de Marble Canyon, y compris la grotte de Stanton, une grande grotte dans la formation de Redwall au kilomètre (mile) 31,7 et un important site archéologique.
« L’Arizona, le Nouveau Mexique et la région des “Quatre Coins” où se rejoignent les états de l’Arizona, de l’Utah, du Colorado et du Nouveau Mexique, sont les plus importantes régions de la Terre quant aux bases souterraines reptiliennes. Mais des mondes et des villes souterrains, anciens et modernes abondent de par la planète. »
« Denver est apparemment prévue pour loger les quartiers généraux de la section ouest des Etats-Unis sous l’état fasciste global appelé Le nouvel ordre mondial et qui est planifié au-delà de l’année 2000. On dit qu’Atlanta serait le centre pour la section de l’est et je me souviens avoir pensé il y a quelques années combien la similarité du modèle des aéroports de Denver et d’Atlanta est frappante; maintenant, j’en connais la raison.
Le Colorado est un des endroits de prédilection pour le Nouvel ordre mondial. La reine d’Angleterre, sous un nom d’emprunt, a acheté des terres dans cette région. »
« Un des principaux contacts d’Alex Christopher était un individu appelé Phil Schneider, le fils d’un commandant d’un destroyer allemand durant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale, qui a été commissionné à construire de profondes bases souterraines aux États-Unis.
J’ai vu certaines de ses conférences enregistrées sur vidéo où il commençait à dévoiler publiquement l’existence d’un réseau souterrain constitué de bases, de villes et de tunnels dispersés à travers les États-Unis. Il est mort plus tard dans des circonstances suspectes qui devaient laisser croire à un “suicide”.
Schneider disait que l’aéroport de Denver était relié à une profonde base souterraine d’au moins huit niveaux. Elle comprenait une ville souterraine de 4,5 milles carrés (11,65 km2) et une vaste base, a-t-il dit.
D’autres contacts, qui sont allés sous terre à l’aéroport de Denver, prétendent qu’il y a beaucoup d’esclaves humains, dont beaucoup d’enfants qui travaillent là sous le contrôle des reptiliens. Deux des bases que Phil Schneider prétend avoir aidé à construire sont l’infâme Zone 51 au Nevada et Dulce au Nouveau Mexique qui est reliée par un réseau de tunnels au laboratoire national de Los Alamos. »
« Il y a au moins sept niveaux souterrains à Dulce, probablement plus, et Bishop a compilé des récits d’ouvriers qui ont décrit ce qu’ils ont vu là. Leurs comptes-rendus reflètent les descriptions concernant les Annunaki des textes sumériens, dans lesquels ils effectuent des croisements d’espèces pour produire des hybrides monstrueux de genres diversifiés. Voici ce que les ouvriers ont dit de Dulce :
“ Le niveau numéro six est secrètement appelé, le “hall du cauchemar” qui sert aux laboratoires génétiques. Les rapports d’ouvriers qui ont vu des expériences bizarres, se lisent ainsi : “ J’ai vu des “humains” à plusieurs jambes qui ressemblaient à des êtres mi-humains, mi-pieuvres. J’ai aussi vu des reptiliens-humains et des créatures velues aux mains humaines qui pleuraient comme des bébés en imitant des mots humains… Il y avait aussi une énorme quantité d’hybrides humains-lézards dans des cages ”.
Il y a des poissons, des phoques, des oiseaux et des souris qui pourraient difficilement êtres considérés comme des spécimens de leurs espèces. Il y a aussi plusieurs cages (et des fosses) d’humanoïdes ailés, de créatures grotesques ressemblant à des chauves-souris… mais de trois pieds et demi à sept pieds de haut (1.06 à 2.13 m).
Et aussi des êtres ressemblant à des gargouilles et à des dragons-reptiliens.
“ Le niveau numéro sept est pire : rangée après rangée, des milliers d’humains et d’hybrides humains dans un entrepôt frigorifié. Ici aussi, il y a des cuves d’entreposage d’embryons humanoïdes à des stades de développement divers. (Un ouvrier a dit) “…J
j’ai fréquemment rencontré des humains en cage, généralement hébétés ou drogués, mais quelquefois ils pleuraient et nous suppliaient de les aider. On nous a dit qu’ils étaient des fous incurables et qu’ils étaient sujets à des tests de drogues à haut risque pour guérir la folie. On nous a dit de ne jamais essayer de leur parler. Au début, nous avons cru cette histoire. Finalement, en 1978, un petit groupe d’ouvriers a découvert la vérité ”.
photo dulce
Cette découverte a apparemment mené à la “guerre de Dulce”, une bataille entre les humains et les extraterrestres en 1979, au cours de laquelle beaucoup de scientifiques et de militaires ont été tués.
Phil Scheider affirme avoir participé à une fusillade contre les aliénigènes à Dulce dans laquelle il a été touché par un fusil laser qui lui a déchiré la poitrine. Il avait certainement une incroyable cicatrice comme il l’a dévoilée publiquement. Résultant de ce conflit, la base a été fermée pendant un certain temps mais réouverte depuis. »
« Une autre base souterraine reptilienne se trouve sous le canyon Boynton à Sedona, en Arizona. On croit que le centre de la base est situé dans ce qui est appelé bien à propos, le canyon secret. »
« Rhodes ajoute : “ À partir de leurs bases souterraines, les militaires reptiliens extraterrestres… établissent un réseau de croisements humano-reptiliens qui s’infiltre ensuite à différents niveaux de la culture de surface, dans les complexes militaro-industriels, les corps gouvernementaux, les groupes ovni/paranormaux, les ordres religieux et fraternels, etc.
Ces “fruits” de croisements génétiques, dont certains sont ignorants de la présence des instructions de leur code de “contrôle mental” génétique reptilien, actualisent leurs rôles subversifs en tant “qu’agents reptiliens”, mettant ainsi en place le scénario adéquat pour une invasion par des ET, sous la conduite des reptiliens ”.
Je n’ai été mis en contact avec l’oeuvre de John Rhodes que quelques jours avant la complétion de ce livre et tel que vous le verrez dans le texte détaillé, j’en étais venu exactement aux mêmes conclusions.
Rhodes déclare qu’après l’invasion d’une planète par les reptiliens à partir de l’espace et de leurs bases souterraines, la population en surface capitule rapidement devant la supériorité de l’armement. Alors, les reptiliens défolient la planète de ses ressources telles que l’eau, les minéraux et l’information concernant l’ADN. L’infiltration du tissu humain via les sociétés secrètes est une méthode clef du contrôle reptilien comme je le préciserai. »
Do civilizations of advanced human beings exist scattered in the Galaxy?
by John Stokes
Artistic representation from Eyewitness testimony of Asket, the extraterrestrial human woman, reference: www.gaiaguys.net
A group of researchers working at the Human Genome Project indicate that they made an astonishing scientific discovery: They believe so-called 97% non-coding sequences in human DNA is no less than genetic code of extraterrestrial life forms.
The non-coding sequences are common to all living organisms on Earth, from moulds to fish to humans. In human DNA, they constitute larger part of the total genome, says Prof. Sam Chang, the group leader. Non-coding sequences, originally known as “junk DNA”, were discovered years ago, and their function remained a mystery. The overwhelming majority of Human DNA is “Off-world” in origin. The apparent “extraterrestrial junk genes” merely “enjoy the ride” with hard working active genes, passed from generation to generation.
After comprehensive analysis with the assistance of other scientists, computer programmers, mathematicians, and other learned scholars, Professor Chang had wondered if the apparently “junk Human DNA” was created by some kind of “extraterrestrial programmer”. The alien chunks within Human DNA, Professor Chang further observes, “have its own veins, arteries, and its own immune system that vigorously resists all our anti-cancer drugs.”
Professor Chang further stipulates that “Our hypothesis is that a higher extraterrestrial life form was engaged in creating new life and planting it on various planets. Earth is just one of them. Perhaps, after programming, our creators grow us the same way we grow bacteria in Petri dishes. We can’t know their motives – whether it was a scientific experiment, or a way of preparing new planets for colonization, or is it long time ongoing business of seedling life in the universe.”
Professor Chang further indicates that “If we think about it in our human terms, the apparent “extraterrestrial programmers” were most probably working on “one big code” consisting of several projects, and the projects should have produced various life forms for various planets. They have been also trying various solutions. They wrote “the big code”, executed it, did not like some function, changed them or added new one, executed again, made more improvements, tried again and again.”
Professor Chang’s team of researchers furthermore concludes that, “The apparent “extraterrestrial programmers” may have been ordered to cut all their idealistic plans for the future when they concentrated on the “Earth project” to meet the pressing deadline. Very likely in an apparent rush, the “extraterrestrial programmers” may have cut down drastically on big code and delivered basic program intended for Earth.”
Professor Chang is only one of many scientists and other researchers who have discovered extraterrestrial origins to Humanity.
Human Genome Project Coordinators find absolute proof of Extraterrestrial contact with ‘Earth humans’ via DNA evidence.
Professor Chang and his research colleagues show that apparent “extraterrestrial programming” gaps in DNA sequencing precipitated by a hypothesized rush to create human life on Earth presented humankind with illogical growth of mass of cells we know as cancer.”
Professor Chang further indicates that “What we see in our DNA is a program consisting of two versions, a big code and basic code.” Mr. Chang then affirms that the “First fact is, the complete ‘program’ was positively not written on Earth; that is now a verified fact. The second fact is, that genes by themselves are not enough to explain evolution; there must be something more in ‘the game’.”
“Soon or later”, Professor Chang says “we have to come to grips with the unbelievable notion that every life on Earth carries genetic code for his extraterrestrial cousin and that evolution is not what we think it is.”
Human Genome Project Discovery Implications associated with “Human-looking Extraterrestrials”
The implications of these scientific finds would reinforce claims by other scientists and observers of having contact with ‘off-world’ human looking extraterrestrials.
The ‘off-world’ human looking extraterrestrial have been claimed to have provided some of the genetic material for human evolution, and that many of these extraterrestrials have allowed some of their personnel to incarnate as ‘starseeds’ on Earth in human families. These “star seeds”, “star children” or “star people” are described by Brad and Francie Steiger as individuals whose ‘souls’ were formerly incarnated on the worlds of other star systems and then traveled to Earth and decided to incarnate here in order to “boost” the spiritual evolutionary development of humanity. Most of humanity would consider this group of extraterrestrials to be ‘benevolent’ as described by ‘contactees’ such as George Adamski, Orfeo Angelucci, George Van Tassell, Howard Menger, Paul Villa, Billy Meier and Alex Collier who each explain the nature of their voluntary interactions with these human looking extraterrestrials. These “contactees” often provide physical evidence in the form of photographs, film and/or witnesses of their contacts with extraterrestrial races. The most extensively documented and researched contactee is Eduard ‘Billy’ Meier who provided much physical evidence for investigators.
Representations concerning ‘Ancient astronauts’
Indeed, ‘ancient astronaut’ writers believe that a race of intelligent extraterrestrial beings visited and/or colonised Earth in the remote past, whereupon they upgraded the primitive hominid Homo erectus by means of genetic engineering to create the human race as we know it: Homo sapiens.
Evidence for this idea is found (a) in the improbability of Homo sapiens emerging so suddenly, according to the principles of orthodox Darwinism; and (b) in the myths of ancient civilisations which describe human-like gods coming down from the heavens and creating mankind ‘in their own image’.Homo sapiens is thus regarded as a hybrid being, incorporating a mix of terrestrial genes from Homo erectus and extraterrestrial genes from an ascribed “race of the gods”.
Prior to the modern age of space travel and genetics, this theory for the origins of humankind could not have been conceived. And even now, in the 21st century, there are many people who would regard it as science fiction. However, in the light of the problems with the orthodox theory of human evolution, the idea of a genetic intervention by an intelligent human-like species (who themselves evolved on another planet over a more credible time frame) does require to be taken seriously as a potential solution to the mystery.
The most famous exponents of the ancient astronaut intervention are the Swiss writer Erich von Daniken and the American writer Zecharia Sitchin. The latter, in particular, has argued the case in great detail.
Representation by academics from “Exopolitics” groups
Dr. Micheal E. Salla is one of the founders of an Exopolitics movement which seeks an open and informed dialogue on, and with, Extraterrestrials, toward the affirmation of “global democracy” and the quality-of-living of humankind as socially responsible beings in the Universe. Dr. Salla indicates that “There are an extensive number of extraterrestrial races known [by various research institutions and agencies] to be currently interacting with Earth and the human population.
Dr. Salla, is also the author of Exopolitics: Political Implications of the Extraterrestrial Presence (Dandelion Books, 2004). He has held full time academic appointments at the Australian National University, and American University, Washington DC. He has a Ph.D. in Government from the University of Queensland, Australia. During his professional academic career, he was best known for organizing a series of citizen diplomacy initiatives for the East Timor conflict funded by U.S. Institute of Peace and the Ford Foundation. He is also the Founder of the Exopolitics Institute ; and Chief Editor of the ‘Exopolitics Journal’ and Convener of the “Extraterrestrial Civilizations and World Peace Conference.”
In a 1998 interview, Clifford Stone, a retired U.S. army Sergeant who served in the U.S. Army for 22 years and allegedly participated in operations to retrieve crashed extraterrestrial ships and extraterrestrial biological entities (EBE’s), revealed there were a variety of extraterrestrial races known [by various institutions and agencies]”. Dr. Salla further elaborates that “The most compelling testimonies on the different extraterrestrial races comes from ‘whistleblowers’ such as Sergeant Stone; and also ‘contactees’ who have had direct physical contact with extraterrestrials and communicated with them.”
Dr. Salla further notes that Master Sergeant Bob Dean had a twenty seven year distinguished career in very senior areas of the military indicates that among the know extraterrestrials one group “looked so much like us they could sit next to you on a plane or in a restaurant and you’d never know the difference.”
Apparently “Human extraterrestrial races can easily integrate with human society in the manner described by Dean and others where they can be indistinguishable from the rest of humanity.” Dr. Salla corroborates.
According to Alex Collier who claims to be a “contactee”, “a variety of extraterrestrial races have provided genetic material for the ‘human experiment’. ” Alex Collier indicates that “Earth humans” are “a product of extraterrestrial genetic manipulation, and are possessors of a vast gene pool consisting of many different racial memory banks, also consisting of at least 22 different races.”
Alleged Human ET efforts to promote the unity of humanity through religious spirituality
Alex Collier further claims that constituents of “Human ETs” seek to “ensure that global humanity evolves in a responsible way without endangering both itself and the greater galactic community of which it is part. ” Exopolitics groups and independent contactees also indicate that constituents of “Human ETs” seek to “uplift human consciousness and to promote the unity of religion.”
Alex Colliers alleged contact with ETs suggest that fundamentalist messages in from Christianity to Judaism to Islam, and other institutionalized religions, as well as outright apparent ‘cult’ groups, have been specifically placed by “hostile elements” to manipulate and control humankind.
Jesus, who many groups allege was a “Human ET” sought to inspire the social consciousness of humankind toward unity, and not to create a “Christian religion”, with its sexually repressive as well as homophobic undertones, which also have been used for the execution of racism, and to legitimate atrocities like the ‘slave trade’.
ETs who allegedly contacted Alex Collier, also further allegedly stipulate that Jesus did in fact live; and lived out the rest of his life in Massada; and that Jesus was only crucified through the religious doctrine, and myth-making associated with ‘the palms’.
As far as the “saviour scenario” is concerned, for example, Alex Collier was allegedly told by ETs that it has been put into our belief systems to “disempower us.” The saviour scenario within the dogma of institutionalized religions legitimate the creation of an elite-driven oppressive power structure who appoint themselves as “judgers of morality”. These religious elites have historically used their self-appointed roles to execute a comprehensive system of social controls that complement their joint pursuit of greed-oriented self-aggrandizement with other elites from government to business enterprises.
The alleged efforts of socially progressive Human ETs to inspire the affirmation of the quality-of-living of ‘Earth Humans’ through spiritual and other “emissaries”, have been undermined by the efforts of “capitalists” to exploit such alleged initiatives in the pursuit of an oppressive agenda of greed and fascistic power.
Constituents of Human ETs allegedly seek to “help humanity find freedom from oppressive structures through education and consciousness raising.”
Allegations of “Human ET” encounters on Earth
In Dr. Salla’s article “Extraterrestrials Among Us” published in October 2006, he alleges that, “There is startling evidence from a number of independent sources that ‘human looking’ extraterrestrial visitors have integrated with and lived in major population centres up until recently, and this is known by a select number of institutions.
Aside from whistleblower testimonies, like Sergeant Major Robert Dean, a number of private individuals claim to have encountered extraterrestrials posing as ordinary citizens in major cities around the planet.
George Adamski was the first to write about extraterrestrials secretly living among the human population. In his second non-fiction book describing his extraterrestrial contact experiences, “Inside the Flying Saucers”, Adamski discussed how human looking extraterrestrials had established a presence among the human population. “They apparently looked so much like us”, Dr. Salla notes “that they could get jobs, lived in neighbourhoods, drove cars, and could blend in easily with the human population.”
Dr. Salla further notes that “Adamski wrote about how they contacted him to set up meetings that led to his famous flights aboard extraterrestrial vehicles.” But as Dr. Salla explains “While controversy over Adamski’s contact experiences and his credibility continues, Adamski’s UFO sightings and contacts with extraterrestrials were supported by an impressive collection of witnesses, photographs and films that a number of independent investigators concluded were not hoaxes.”
Dr. Salla additionally stipulates that “Adamski’s testimony offers important insights into how extraterrestrials may be living incognito among the human population. After discussing the Adamski case and the strongest evidence supporting it, Dr. Salla in that article further discusses other contactees similarly claiming to have encountered extraterrestrials acting like ordinary citizens. Finally, Dr. Salla in “Extraterrestrials Among Us” examines the official testimony of a number of whistleblowers concerning knowledge that extraterrestrials live among ordinary Earth-bound individuals.
Contact Testimonies of ‘Extraterrestrials Among Us’
Adamski’s famous “Desert Center” meeting with an extraterrestrial emerging from a ‘scout ship’ on November 20, 1952 was apparently seen by six witnesses who signed affidavits confirming Adamski’s version of events in his subsequent book, The Flying Saucers have Landed (1953). In fact, four of the witnesses immediately reported what had happened to a nearby newspaper, the Phoenix Gazette,that published a story on November 24 featuring photos and sketches. The Desert Center encounter was among those of Adamski’s claims regarding extraterrestrial contact that, according to UFO researcher Timothy Good, were “accurately reported,” and “sensible and verifiable”, as footnotes by Dr. Salla. Given the clear supporting evidence supporting Adamski’s first meeting with an extraterrestrial traveling in a scout craft, it is worth examining closely his alleged subsequent meetings with extraterrestrials living on Earth.
In the first chapter of Inside the Flying Saucers, Dr. Salla re-visits Adamski’s testimony of his meeting with two extraterrestrials while he was sitting in the lobby of a Los Angeles Hotel on February 18, 1953.
“I looked at my wrist watch and saw that it said ten-thirty. The lateness of the hour, with still nothing of extraordinary significance having taken place, sent a wave of disappointment through me. And just at this moment of depression, two men approached, one of whom addressed me by name. Both were complete strangers, but there was no hesitancy in their manner as they came forward, and nothing in their appearance to indicate that they were other than average young businessmen. I noted that both men were well proportioned. One was slightly over six feet and looked to be in his early thirties. His complexion was ruddy, his eyes dark brown, with the kind of sparkle that suggests great enjoyment of life. His gaze was extraordinarily penetrating. His black hair waved and was cut according to our style. He wore a dark brown business suit but no hat. The shorter man looked younger and I judged his height to be about five feet, nine inches. He had a round boyish face, a fair complexion and eyes of grayish blue. His hair, also wavy and worn in our style, was sandy in color. He was dressed in a gray suit and was also hatless. He smiled as he addressed me by name. As I acknowledged the greeting, the speaker extended his hand and when it touched mine a great joy filled me. The signal was the same as had been given by the man I had met on the desert on that memorable November 20, 1952. (Described in the bookFlying Saucers Have Landed).”
Significant in Adamski’s description is how the two extraterrestrials could pass off as businessmen. Aside from a penetrating stare, nothing struck him as unusual in their appearance. Adamski goes on to explain how he went with them in their car to travel to a remote desert location:
“Together we left the lobby, I walking between them. About a block north of the hotel, they turned into a parking lot where they had a car waiting. They had not spoken during this short time, yet inwardly I knew that these men were true friends. I felt no urge to ask where they proposed to take me, nor did it seem odd that they had volunteered no information. An attendant brought the car around, and the younger man slid into the driver’s seat, motioning me to get in beside him. Our other companion also sat with us on the front seat. The car was a four-door black Pontiac sedan. The man who had taken the wheel seemed to know exactly where he was going and drove skillfully. I am not familiar with all the new highways leading out of Los Angeles, so I had no idea in which direction we were headed. We rode in silence and I remained entirely content to wait for my companions to identify themselves and explain the reason for our meeting.”
“What’s significant here is that the two extraterrestrials possessed a car and knew how to navigate on the newly completed Los Angeles highway system. This is no mean feat and suggests that the extraterrestrials had taken the time to learn the road traffic rules and how to navigate through Los Angeles.”
Dr. Salla indicates in “Extraterrestrials Among Us”, that Adamski further reveals:
“Lights and dwellings thinned as we left the outskirts of the city. The taller man spoke for the first time. His voice was soft and pleasant and his English perfect. I had noticed that the younger man also spoke softly, although his voice was pitched higher. I found myself wondering how and where they had learned to speak our language so well.”
“.We are what you on Earth might call ‘Contact men.’ We live and work here, because, as you know, it is necessary on Earth to earn money with which to buy clothing, food, and the many things that people must have. We have lived on your planet now for several years. At first we did have a slight accent. But that has been overcome and, as you can see, we are unrecognized as other than Earth men. “At our work and in our leisure time we mingle with people here on Earth, never betraying the secret that we are inhabitants of other worlds. That would be dangerous, as you well know. We understand you people better than most of you know yourselves and can plainly see the reasons for many of the unhappy conditions that surround you.”
Dr. Salla indicates also that, “This passage [previous] is significant since it describes how the extraterrestrials have spent years living on Earth, learning the language, getting jobs and mixing with the human population. Furthermore, it appears as though extraterrestrials living among the human population may work in pairs, a kind of buddy system that would make sense in terms of ensuring safety and communications with the home world if an emergency ever occurred. If Adamski is accurate in his recollections and the extraterrestrials are telling the truth, then it would appear that there could be a significant number of extraterrestrials who are living incognito among the normal population in many if not most major cities on the planet. Upon examining other contactee cases and the testimonies of whistleblowers, it does appear as though this is indeed the case.”
Exopolitics groups furthermore provide additional representation that Adamski was not the only one of the contactees making representation that extraterrestrials were blending in with the human population. Howard Menger, for example. also claimed to have been contacted by extraterrestrials posing as ordinary human citizens. In one case, the extraterrestrial was posing as a real estate salesperson and asked Menger to accompany him in one of the extraterrestrial vehicle.
In addition to seeking to learn about human values and civilization, it appears that “Human ET” visitors were conducting a low key education effort to promote awareness of their presence to a limited number of individual ‘contactees’.
These “Human extraterrestrial visitors” have been represented has often having as very attractive physical characteristics, with “Human extraterrestrial females” being described as among the most beautiful women that male observers have witnessed.
The “Human extraterrestrials visitors” furthermore have been represented as going to great trouble in learning the indigenous language of the culture they are immersed in, learning how to drive and navigate on highways systems, and taking innocuous jobs over several years.
Extraterrestrials living among us appear to be operating in a manner similar to a “celestial peace corps” where they try to blend in. They presumably wish to learn about Earth culture and behaviour; and to, perhaps, assist in passing on information to selected individuals.
Representation on Earth Humans relative to “non-Earthbound” humans:
Advanced Human ETs as viewing Earth Humans as barbarians and savages which are a threat to themselves
Alex Collier alleges that ET’s revealed to his that there are over 135 other billion human beings in the 8 galaxies closest to ours.
Alex Collier alleges that “The first time I walked on to one of their ships [Human ETs] , a bunch of their children started to run away from me. They knew that I was from Earth.”
“We have a very bad reputation,” Alex Collier indicates, “because we are the only human race in the galaxy that kills itself, that turns on itself. We are the only race [human] that allows itself to live in poverty. We are the only ones who allow members of our race to starve. We are the only ones that allow members of the race to be homeless. We are the only race that would sell itself into slavery. I don’t like the reflection they give me of us. It’s not that they are judging. They just don’t understand why we do it. If anyone’s got an answer for it, I’m open. Yes, we’ve been manipulated by belief systems, but why do we believe these belief systems?”
According to testimony by Alex Collier in associated with alleged ET contacts, Earth Humans “are the only race of human beings which oppresses and kills itself.”
If Human ETs do exist, as scholarly and other representation suggests, the saving of Humanity from its current apparent course of self-destruction, including on-going catastrophic Global Warming, may very well vitally rely on human governance systems placing its greed-driven bigotries aside, toward a constructive dialogue.
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JFK wrote to the CIA demanding access to their files about UFOs
JFK wrote to the CIA demanding access to their files about UFOs
Before being killed, John F. Kennedy demanded from the CIA and NASA intel on UFO’s
JOHN F. KENNEDY
Declassified documents have generated suspicions about the motives that led to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As new documents have emerged, some researchers suggest that President Kennedy was killed because he was “too close” to Aliens.
Just ten days before being killed, former President of the United States John F. Kennedy asked the CIA for classified documents about UFO’s, according to the Freedom of Information Act.
Letter from JFK to CIA director asking for access to UFO files, which has been released to an author under the Freedom of Information Act
We are talking about two letters written by the former President of the United States. One of the letters was sent to the director of the CIA while the other one was sent to NASA. In the letters, former President John F. Kennedy asked for the establishment of a “Space cooperation” with the Soviet Union. These letter surfaced thanks to the work of writer William Lester, as he was gathering information for a book about the life of John F. Kennedy.
‘One of his concerns was that a lot of these UFOs were being seen over the Soviet Union and he was very concerned that the Soviets might misinterpret these UFOs as U.S. aggression, believing that it was some of our technology,’ Mr Lester told AOL News. ‘I think this is one of the reasons why he wanted to get his hands on this information and get it away from the jurisdiction of NASA so he could say to the Soviets, “Look, that’s not us, we’re not doing it, we’re not being provocative. “.’
A second memo written by JFK on November 12 1963, 10 days before his assassination, which has been released by the CIA
The information provided here puts back on the table sensitive documents regarding the CIA. The documents that were saved from being destroyed, are one of the most interesting files ufologists have got their hand on.
In the ‘burned memo’ the CIA director allegedly wrote: ‘Lancer [JFK] has made some inquiries regarding our activities, which we cannot allow’
The current owner of the ‘burned memo’, who bought it from Timothy Cooper in 2001 told AOL News that it shows that when JFK asked questions about UFOs that the CIA ‘bumped him off’. Robert Wood, former director of one of the largest aircraft contractors of the US government, claims to have had access to this memo in the past, saying that it would have been part of the Majestic-12 documents.
The Majestic 12 (or MJ-12) is the code name of an alleged secret committee of scientists, military leaders, and government officials, formed in 1947 by an executive order by U.S. President Harry S. Truman to facilitate recovery and investigation of alien spacecraft. According to the U.S. Air Force Office of Special Investigations, no such committee had ever been authorized or formed, and that the documents were “bogus.” The FBI subsequently declared the MJ-12 documents to be “completely bogus
UFO investigator Robert Wood tested the paper on which the memo was printed on, the ink age, watermarks, font types and other markings.
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SETI scientist claims: If Aliens did visit us, they’d take control over everything
SETI scientist claims: If Aliens did visit us, they’d take control over everything
One thing is sure… if aliens came to Earth, we surely wouldn’t have the upper hand say scientists, who agree that an Alien species with such advanced technology could prove to be difficult to contain.
Are we ready for contact?
But are we ready to greet our cosmic neighbors? Not as different nations but as ONE species from planet Earth?
Many people believe that intelligent extraterrestrial beings are out there somewhere, and many firmly state that, the time when we actually meet them, we might be in for a surprise as it might not end up like in the famous movie E.T.
Jill Tarter, astronomer, and co-founder of the SETI Institute said that if aliens visit our planet, they could take control of everything thanks to their clearly superior technology. However, Tarter added that aliens capable of finding Earth may be co-operative…
“If they showed up on our doorstep, that means they have technologies that are considerably advanced with respect to ours.” “And because of that, they’re going to be the ones that set the rules,” Tarter said in an article published by TechCrunch.
However, she adds that an Alien civilizations capable of developing such sophisticated technology, which enables them to overcome the obstacle of vast interstellar distances. Would probably make them more benevolent than hostile, since by then they would have learned to behave peacefully in order to prevent their own annihilation.
This neutral-benevolent attitude of extraterrestrial visitors has already been proposed by scientists in different countries based on thorough analysis of extensive historical and modern documents.
SETI’s project ‘search for extraterrestrial intelligence’, currently continues its search for radio waves and optical signals in the universe that can indicate the presence of other civilizations. In this regard, in an exercise of sincerity, Dr. Tarter admitted: “Perhaps we have not yet invented the correct way to do this.”
Or perhaps we have to continue searching. Talking about Alien life and why we haven’t found it yet, Tarter explained: „if you set the search space equal to the size of the Earth’s oceans, we’ve only examined one glass of water from those oceans for intelligent life. We’ve only looked at one small part of a very large picture.“
Along the same lines, Dr. Nathalie Cabrol, a colleague of Tarter, said in September last year that an alien civilization might be trying to contact us, but humans could be “too primitive to see those signs.”
And as the great Carl Sagan once said… “The universe is a pretty big place. If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.” ― Carl Sagan in Contact
But many other scientists have spoken out about the possible presence of Alien beings in the cosmos and their benevolent or hostile reactions when arriving at Earth.
One of the most famous quotes in modern times in regards to Alien visitations to Earth comes from the Great Professor Stephen Hawking who said that when Aliens arrive at earth, the outcome could be very similar to when Christopher Columbus et foot in the New World.
“If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn’t turn out well for the Native Americans.” – Stephen Hawking
An interesting statement was made last year when Astronaut John Grunsfeld spoke out about aliens suggesting that if extraterrestrial beings are out there, they already know we exist.
‘We put atmospheric signatures that guarantee someone with a large telescope 20 light years away could detect us,’ said Grunsfeld at the Astrobiology Science Conference in Chicago.
‘If there is life out there, intelligent life, they’ll know we’re here.’
5 Ancient Civilizations that vanished under mysterious circumstances
5 Ancient Civilizations that vanished under mysterious circumstances
The definition of ‘civilization’ on planet Earth is a very relative term today. Looking back as far as we can go in recorded history, we will understand that before our advanced society, many others existed on Earth.
Traces of these lost civilizations can be found in ancient texts, legends, and myths while others have left behind great monuments and temples, that speak out to the world ‘we were once here’.
But just why did great civilizations abandon their mighty cities? Where trade, agriculture, and society were very well defined? Regrettably these are just some of the questions that history cannot offer an answer to.
Here we have our list of great ancient civilizations whose mysterious disappearance remains a profound mystery.
1. The Indus Valley Civilization
One of the greatest ancient civilizations to disappear is without a doubt the Indus Valley Civilization or the Harappan civilizations. In the distant past, this great civilization had a total population over 5 million people, spreading across a region encompassed by today’s India, Pakistan Afghanistan and Iran. The Great Indus Valley civilizations were without a doubt, one of the most sophisticated on Earth with elaborate roadside drainage, massive multistory houses, and incredible monuments that speak of the might of this great ancient civilization that mysteriously vanished from the face of our planet. Many researchers believe that drastic changes in weather caused this ancient civilization to break apart until eventually their cities were abandoned due to lack of food and supplies.
2. The Easter Island Civilization
Another great example of an ancient ‘lost’ civilizations is that of the people of Easter Island. Well-known for their enormous stone statues of human heads referred to today as the Moai statues, these giant figures are lined up along the island coastline, standing tall and proud, watching over the horizon. Just like many other ancient civilizations, the people of Easter Island were extremely skilled builders, but for an unknown reason, they do disappeared from Earth. After centuries of monument building and social development, researchers believe that the people of Easter Island moved to another place after using up all of the Islands resources.
The Ancient Maya civilization was without a doubt one of the best-known ancient civilizations to inhabit our planet.
The most widely accepted theory, as of 2010, is that the first Maya settlements were established around 1800 BCE in the Soconusco region of the Pacific Coast; corresponding to the Early Preclassic period. According to scholars, the most distinctive Maya achievements were in abstract mathematics and astronomy. Interestingly, the ancient Maya were one of the earliest ancient civilization to use the number ZERO.
There are two theories regarding the origin of the Maya that have been developed in the archeological community: Either the Maya came into existence and developed independently, or they developed directly from an older “mother culture” known as the Olmec culture.
The reason why the ancient Maya collapsed is still debatable, several theories have been proposed but scholars worldwide have a difficult time defining what exactly caused this great civilization to collapse. Most scholars seem to agree that a drought was the main reason the ancient Maya civilization collapsed, but deforestation, famine, and warfare are also possibilities that cannot be overruled at present.
4. Göbekli Tepe
Göbekli Tepe is a Neolithic sanctuary located 2500 feet above sea level at the top of a mountain ridge in the Southeastern Anatolia Region of Turkey, some 15 kilometers (9 mi) northeast of the town of Şanlıurfa. The megalithic stone circles are believed to be the oldest temple ever created on our planet and predate Stonehenge in England by several thousand years. Researchers believe that t these ancient megalithic ruins were created by hunter-gatherer society, something that is being ruled out by more archeologists lately. The mysterious temple, which consists of three huge stone circles was deliberately buried for an unknown reason in the distant past. However, Göbekli Tepe raises more questions than answers. What or who did the ancient builders worship at Göbekli Tepe? What was their true origin? And what was their true age? Today, Göbekli Tepe remains as one of the most mysterious sites on Earth, and we have no idea why this incredible, sophisticated temple was abandoned, and why it was buried…
5. Ancient Olmec civilization
The Olmecs were a very advanced civilization that predates the Ancient Maya and Aztec empires. Their knowledge of geology allowed this mysterious ancient civilization to literally “terraform” certain regions. The San Lorenzo plateau is one of those examples. It is considered one of the most important architectural projects in ancient times.
The great Olmec civilization is mainly noted for their giant heads, which have become a giant mystery ever since their discovery. To date, researchers have not been able to understand how the ancient Olmecs managed to create these giant heads and what was their exact use.
Just like the Aztecs and the Maya, among other freat ancient civilizations, the ancient Olmecs disappeared into the mists of history. At the beginning of the Christian era and for no apparent reason, it is believed that the Olmecs gradually abandoned their sites. The people who settled into the Olmec sites acted in a vengeful spirit, tearing down the Olmec sculptures.
NASA’s Curiosity rover takes image of Alien sphere on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity rover takes image of Alien sphere on Mars
Is is possible that this time, NASA’s very own “Alien” rovers captured on image a sphere, belonging to another civilization? According to the latest images beamed back to Earth it is quite possible.
The object in question is a sphere which seems to be “levitating” off the Martian ground according to ufologists.
According to NASA the image was taken on April 10, 2015 by the rover’s Mast Camera (Mastcam), during the 952nd Martian day, or sol. NASA altered the image, according to NASA’s website, “The color has been approximately white-balanced to resemble how the scene would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.”
This image where the “mysterious Alien sphere” is visible, was taken near mount Sharp.
Close up of the object in question.
Credit NASA
So what is this mysterious object? Is it possible that this isnt a sphere at all? Is it possible that what we are seeing here is a game of lights, making us believe that this sphere-shaped object is levitating above the ground? Experts in image editing suggest just that. They believe we are seeing a game of shadows created on the red planet. Experts believe that we are seeing two different rocks in the image. The position of these two rocks makes it look as if one “spherical” object is floating while it’s not. That’s the view for experts. Ufologists on the other hand, suggest that we are actually seeing a levitating object in the image. Experts in the field of ufology state that It is not the first time that a discovery like this has been made on the Red Planet. We have seen dozens if not hundreds of images where mysterious unexplained things are seen. Some of these objects defy logic, they cannot be explained rationally as much as skeptics want to debunk them.
Image of the surrounding scenery and the object in question visible at the center of the image
But just how likely is it that there are Alien “spheres” on the red planet? We have seen several images where mysterious objects are seen in the Martian sky, and while experts and scientists suggest that these objects, seen in the red planet’s sky are just image deformations and dead pixels, Ufologists suggest that these are alien crafts observing our rovers and spacecraft on Mars. If these UFO’s and Spheres do exist on the Red planet… what is their purpose? Where did they originate from? And is it possible that somehow, there is life on the red planet, life that has been present on Mars all the time, right under our nose.
Many researchers believe that there is life on the Red Planet and they stress that we have to look underground, and not on the surface.
So which theory is more likely to be true? What are your thoughts about yet another mysterious image beamed back to Earth by NASA’s Curiosity rover. Is this truly an alien sphere or have we been fooled by lights and shadows on Mars?
For all of those interested, here is the link to the RAW image by NASA.
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Elon Musk: Private Space Entrepreneur
Elon Musk: Private Space Entrepreneur
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Elon Musk is an entrepreneur best known in space circles for Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX), which became the first private company to ship cargo to the International Space Station in 2012.
A long-time advocate of Mars exploration, Musk has publicly talked about ventures such as building a greenhouse on the Red Planet and more ambitiously, establishing a Mars colony. He also is rethinking transportation concepts through ideas such as the Hyperloop, a proposed high-speed system that would run between major cities.
The South African-born businessman describes himself as "an engineer and entrepreneur who builds and operates companies to solve environmental, social and economic challenges."
Besides his work at SpaceX, Musk is the founder of electric car company Tesla Motors, and is the chair of a solar energy designer/installer called SolarCity.
NASA administrator Charles Bolden (left) congratulates SpaceX CEO and chief designer Elon Musk on June 13, 2012. Behind them is the Dragon capsule that on May 25 became the first private vehicle ever to dock with the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Early years
Musk grew up in South Africa and earned degrees in physics and business from the University of Pennsylvania. His first venture after school was Zip2 Corp., an Internet company that provided software and services for businesses.
"Things were pretty tough in the early going. I didn't have any money — in fact I had negative money [because] I had huge student debts," Musk recalled in a 2003 Stanford lecture.
He showered at a local YMCA and lived in his office, managing to keep expenses very low despite his low revenue stream. "So when we went to VCs [venture capitalists], we could say we had positive cash flow," he said.
After Compaq bought Zip2 for more than $300 million in 1999, Musk turned his attention to online bill payments. That company, later known as PayPal, sold to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002.
Musk now had a small fortune in hand, and at the tender age of 30 was looking to put his energies into something new. He began SpaceX in 2002 with ambitious plans to launch a viable, privately funded space company. In the face of naysayers, he doubled down and worked on a business plan.
'Ridiculously recalcitrant problem'
Musk has repeatedly said that humans must be an interplanetary species to combat the threat of asteroids, and potential human catastrophes such as nuclear war or engineered viruses.
What is blocking us from doing that, Musk wrote in a 2008 Esquire piece, is "the ridiculously recalcitrant problem of big, reusable reliable rockets."
"Somehow we have to ... reduce the cost of human spaceflight by a factor of 100," he added. "That's why I started SpaceX. By no means did I think victory was certain. On the contrary, I thought the chances of success were tiny, but that the goal was important enough to try anyway."
This problem has been one of the themes of Musk's work since starting SpaceX. The first successful rocket the company flew, the Falcon 1, took four tries to get off the ground before a successful test flight in September 2008.
Musk funded SpaceX through his own money at first, and then gained enough experience to attract millions of dollars for NASA to develop his rockets and spacecraft, and to bring cargo to the ISS. He has also received launch contracts from entities such as the U.S. Air Force. [Infographic: How SpaceX's Dragon Space Capsule Works]
The company's track record was a factor in NASA awarding it money to develop the Dragon spacecraft for cargo runs to the International Space Station. Dragon won multiple rounds of funding under NASA's Commercial Crew program and made a world-first docking with the International Space Station in 2012. It is now sending regular shipments of cargo to the station.
SpaceX is now developing a human-rated version of Dragon that is expected to bring astronauts to the orbiting complex around 2018. Like its cargo counterpart, the human-rated Dragon spacecraft received money from NASA for development and is now one of two spacecraft types (along with Boeing's CST-100) in the final stages of funding for human certification.
Dragon is hefted using a heavier rocket called the Falcon 9. Since 2014, SpaceX has attempted to re-use the first stage of the rocket by landing it in various situations. To date, SpaceX has successfully achieved ocean and land-based soft landings of the Falcon 9's first stage. It is also trying to do a pinpoint landing on an automated ocean barge. All attempts so far have been unsuccessful, but the company says it's close; a landing in January 2016 failed because a landing leg strut didn't deploy.
Dreams of Mars
Musk has often said that around 2002, he looked up the schedule for when NASA was supposed to send astronauts there, and was shocked to see there was no timeline. (Today, NASA says it hopes to land astronauts there in the 2030s). That's when, he told Wired, he came up with an idea to do a simple Mars mission "to spur the national will."
"The idea was to send a small greenhouse to the surface of Mars, packed with dehydrated nutrient gel that could be hydrated on landing. You’d wind up with this great photograph of green plants and red background — the first life on Mars, as far as we know, and the farthest that life’s ever traveled," he said.
"It would be a great money shot, plus you’d get a lot of engineering data about what it takes to maintain a little greenhouse and keep plants alive on Mars."
He eventually turned aside from the idea due to financial concerns, but in 2012 he sketched out plans to establish a Mars colony, along with other entities, with 80,000 people living on the Red Planet. (Musk later tweeted he meant to say 80,000 making the journey per year.)
The settlers would live off the land as much as possible, using equipment to generate methane, fertilizer and oxygen from Mars' atmosphere and subsurface water ice. They would arrive using a fully reusable rocket that will be a next generation to the Falcon 9 booster.
Still, the cost for such an ambitious plan would be around $36 billion, Musk told Space.com in 2012.
"Some money has to be spent on establishing a base on Mars. It’s about getting the basic fundamentals in place," Musk said.
"That was true of the English colonies [in the Americas]; it took a significant expense to get things started. But once there are regular Mars flights, you can get the cost down to half a million dollars for someone to move to Mars. Then I think there are enough people who would buy that to have it be a reasonable business case.
Des structures en silice en forme de choux-fleurs observées par le rover Spirit en 2008 et en 2009 autour du site Home Plate, où il demeure bloqué, pourraient avoir été formées par des microbes, ont suggéré deux chercheurs dans leurs travaux présentés en janvier à l’AGU. La ressemblance avec des « expressions nodulaires » trouvées dans le désert de l’Atacama, où les conditions climatiques et géologiques présentent des traits communs avec Mars, est troublante. Toutefois, pour les scientifiques, la prudence s’impose.
Les 4 et 25 janvier dernier, la Nasa fêtait respectivement le douzième anniversaire de l’atterrissage de Spirit et Opportunity, dont la mission initiale (Mars Exploration Rover) devait durer trois mois. Aujourd’hui, le second est en bonne forme et roule toujours, explorant actuellement la vallée de Marathon qui incise le cratère Endeavour alors que le premier, à plusieurs milliers de kilomètres de là, s’est hélas immobilisé en mars 2010, après plus de six ans d’enquête, au pied du site Home plate, nommé ainsi en référence au marbre dans le baseball (voir sa position ici).
Début janvier, à l’occasion des rencontres de l’AGU, l’Union de géophysique américaine, Steven Ruff et son collègue Jack Farmer de l’université d’Arizona, ont présenté leurs recherches et réflexions portant sur des petites structures de silices en forme de choux-fleurs, approchées par Spirit en 2008 et en 2009, au sein du milieu où il séjourne. Selon eux, elles pourraient avoir été façonnées par une activité microbienne à l’image de ce qui est observé dans certains endroits surTerre.
Le cratère Gusev (environ 166 kilomètres de diamètre) où a débarqué l’astromobile en 2004 fut sélectionné pour les signes tangibles, détectés par l’orbiteur MGS (Mars Global Surveyor), que de l’eau y fut présente dans un passé lointain (un probable ancien lac). Sur place, le rover a par la suite témoigné par ses relevés et analyses que l’environnement autour d’Home Plate et la structure elle-même, sont le produit d’une ancienne activité hydrothermale d’origine volcanique, « c’est même l’unique exemple attesté sur Mars », soulignent les auteurs de ces recherches, interrogés par Smithsonian.com.
Pour expliquer la formation de ces « expressions nodulaires » et de leurs minuscules «protrusions digitées », ensemble qui évoque des choux-fleurs, les hypothèses géochimiques proposées dans un premier temps n’ont pas convaincu Ruff et Farmer. Frappés par les ressemblances avec des structures qu’ils ont étudiées sur Terre, dans des milieux inhospitaliers, les deux planétologues avancent l’idée que ceux de Mars ont pu naître par les mêmes procédés.
« […] De nouvelles observations de dépôts de silice produits par de petits canaux d’évacuation de sources chaudes et de geysers dans un champ géothermique en haute altitude connu sous le nom d’El Tatio, dans le désert de l’Atacama au nord du Chili, révèlent des caractéristiques remarquablement similaires, y compris la signature spectrale infrarouge, et que nous décrivons ici comme structures de silice micro-digitées ». Pour eux, ces structures, également remarquées dans des sources chaudes du parc national de Yellowstone, la région volcanique de Taupo en Nouvelle-Zélande et l’Islande, « apparaissent via une médiation microbienne de la précipitation de la silice, des sortes de microstomatolites qui fournissent un environnement favorable pour la capture et la conservation de biosignatures microbiennes ».
Avec des températures qui peuvent descendre jusqu’à -25 °C (et grimper jusqu’à +45 °C), une humidité très basse (il pleut moins de 100 millimètres par an) et où, à environ 4.000 mètres d’altitude, l’atmosphère laisse passer davantage d’ultraviolets, le désert de l’Atacama apparaît aux yeux des scientifiques comme l’un des milieux terrestres les plus ressemblants avec la Planète rouge, qui aujourd’hui arbore des conditions hostiles à la vie. Il y a plus de 80 geysers dans la région d’El Tatio et, comme l’indiquent les chercheurs, il n’y a peut-être pas beaucoup d’animaux « mais la vie microbienne y prospère ». Aussi, puisque cela est possible dans ces conditions, on peut légitimement se demander si cela n’a pas été le cas sur la Planète rouge.
La prudence s’impose bien sûr. Des processus non biologiques peuvent en effet être impliqués dans la formation de structures complexes qui s’en approchent. Pour en savoir plus et avant de clamer que des traces de vie anciennes ont été découvertes sur Mars, le mieux serait bien sûr d’y retourner et de rapporter des échantillons dans les laboratoires terrestres.
Cela pourrait devenir possible avec la future mission Mars 2020 Rover, dédiée à la recherche de la vie – la première depuis Viking 1 et 2 –, car le cratère Gusev figure justement sur la liste des sites sélectionnés par la Nasa pour son débarquement.
À découvrir en vidéo autour de ce sujet :
Prévu pour 2016, le premier lancement du programme ExoMars approche. Cette mission, parmi les plus ambitieuses jamais entreprises sur la planète aura pour but de rechercher des traces de vies passées ou présentes sur Mars. L'Esa nous offre en vidéo un avant-goût de cette mission qui s’avère passionnante.
THESE EXCERPTS FROM NASA'S APOLLO MISSION TRANSCRIPTS POINT TO EVIDENCE OF ALIEN LIFE
THESE EXCERPTS FROM NASA'S APOLLO MISSION TRANSCRIPTS POINT TO EVIDENCE OF ALIEN LIFE
When Americans first landed on the moon back in 1969 (if they did at all), it inspired a wave of excitement about space travel.
Many believed that this excitement would lead to settlements on the moon, which would make mankind an interplanetary species.
Sadly, that never happened.
Could that be because the first men on the moon weren't alone up there?
It sounds like an outlandish claim, but judging by these NASA transcripts from the Apollo missions, there might be some truth to it.
Here's an excerpt from that mission:
03 16 44 39 LMP: There’s a strange light down there.
03 16 h4 45 CDR: Is it a bonfire?
03 16 24 47 LMP: It might be campfires.
03 16 h5 03 C5: How does it look?
This one is especially scary.
03 08 20 18 IRP: That’s a spectacular crater.
03 08 20 23 CDR: Did you shoot some pictures while you were over there?
03 08 20 25 CMP: No, it’s just going by. We’d better get it later. There will be better times.
03 08 20 42 CMP: Boy, there must be nothing more desolate than to be inside some of these craters, these conical ones.
03 08 20 50 CDR: People that live in there probably never get out.
Some weird stuff was happening on the Apollo 10 mission.
04 06 13 02 LMP: That music even sounds outer-spacy, doesn’t it? You hear that? That whistling sound?
04 06 13 06 CDR: Yes.
04 06 13 12 CMP: Did you hear that whistling sound, too?
04 06 13 14 LMP: Yes. Sounds like – you know, outer-space-type music.
04 06 13 18 CMP: I wonder what it is.
04 12 09 16 CDR: What the hell was that gurgling noise?
04 12 09 25 LMP: I don’t know. But I’ll tell you, that eerie music is what’s bothering me.
04 12 09 28 CMP: God damn, I heard it, too.
04 12 09 29 LMP: You know that was funny. That’s just like something from outer space, really. Who’s going to believe it?
04 12 09 34 CMP: Nobody. Shall we tell them about it?
04 12 09 39 LMP: I don’t know. We ought to think about it some.
04 12 09 41 CMP: Did you hear it, Tom?
04 12 09 42 LMF: Yes, he heard it.
04 12 09 43 CDR: Yes.
04 12 09 47 LMP: Hell, I just want to get out of this suit.
And what they said during this conversation is more than a little bit freaky.
03 12 22 39 I2_P: Really an interesting one, huh? Got a rugged one right out here with the central peaks.
03 12 23 05: Sure does. Really got a very complex central structure.
03 12 23 08 CR: It’s got one of the biggest central peaks. It’s a very unusual crater. But there are some dark areas in it and Farouk has gone on record saying that they are dikes.
03 12 23 37 CMl: That’s one right down there. Just shows how it dominates the whole photograph. Just an extremely bright crater. Sun angle just isn’t high enough for you to see it here …. Yes, they’re mining it, I think.
One person was killed and three others were injured when an object believed to a meteorite fell on the campus of a private engineering college near Natrampalli in Vellore district in northern Tamil Nadu early on February 6, 2016.
A loud blast was heard near a water tank shortly after midnight on the Bharathidasan Engineering College premises in K.Bandarappalli village. Kamaraj, a college employee, who had gone to drink water suffered serious injuries and was declared dead when taken to the Vaniyambadi Government Hospital. Three others suffered minor injuries. a top police official told The Hindu.
Window panes and wind screens of buses parked nearby and the water tank were broken in the impact of the blast. A crater was formed at the site of blast.
After a similar blast was reported in a paddy field at Alangayam in the same district on January 26, a senior Astrophysicist of the National Physical Laboratory, Ahmedabad, came to the district for a study. In the earlier incident, local people remember having seen an object falling from the sky in the field,” the official said.
Ruimtevaartorganisatie heeft donderdag een foto gepubliceerd van wat volgens hen de "drijvende heuvels" van Pluto zijn. De foto werden genomen door het New Horizons ruimtetuig tijdens zijn vlucht in 2015.
De heuvels liggen in een omvangrijke ijsvlakte. NASA gaat ervan uit dat die ijsformaties kilometerslang zijn. De wetenschappers vermoeden dat de mysterieuze drijvende heuvels bestaan uit waterijs en vergelijkbaar zijn met reusachtige gletsjers.
Aangezien waterijs lichter is dan stikstofijs, drijven de heuvels boven een zee van stikstof. De beweging van de gigantische klompen waterijs is vergelijkbaar met ijsbergen die drijven in onze Arctische Oceaan. Mogelijk zijn de heuvels afgebroken van de ruige hooglanden en schuiven ze richting het Sputnik Planum.
Vorige maand maakte NASA al bekend dat de dwergplaneet bedekt is met meer water dan ijs dan het Amerikaanse ruimteagentschap aanvankelijk verwachtte.
Pluto heeft een bijzonder fascinerende geografie: de planeet herbergt niet alleen drijvende ijsheuvels, maar mogelijk ook ijsvulkanen.
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Experts: “Video van mysterieuze lichten die in formatie over Rusland vliegen is authentiek”
Experts: “Video van mysterieuze lichten die in formatie over Rusland vliegen is authentiek”
Beelden van een groepje UFO’s die in formatie over Moskou vliegen, zijn door experts authentiek verklaard. Dat meldt nieuwssite News.com.au.
In het filmpje, dat eind vorige maand is gemaakt in de Russische hoofdstad, zijn vier ongeïdentificeerde lichten te zien die door de lucht bewegen. De objecten lijken zich met hoge snelheid voort te bewegen en blijven dan in formatie in de lucht hangen.
De beelden zijn inmiddels bekeken door vele duizenden mensen. De man die het gebeuren heeft vastgelegd, ene Timur, legde uit: “Er waren vier lichtbollen. Een rode aan de linkerkant, twee witte in het midden en een minder felle aan de rechterkant.”
Ruitvormige formatie
Hij voegde toe: “Soms verdween de rechter een tijdje, om daarna weer tevoorschijn te komen. Ze vlogen in een ruitvormige formatie.”
Volgens critici gaat het mogelijk om reflecties van lichten op de grond. Timur is het niet met hen eens: “Ik woon hier al twee jaar en heb nog nooit zoiets gezien.”
Authentiek
De Russische UFO-expert Vadim Tsjernobrov heeft nu bevestigd dat de beelden authentiek zijn, meldt de site. “De lichten kunnen niet worden verklaard als atmosferisch of kosmisch fenomeen,” legde hij uit. “Het is ook onmogelijk dat het een soort luchtspiegeling is, vanwege de geometrische vorm die de objecten aannemen.”
Tsjernobrov voegde toe: “Sommigen hebben gezegd dat ze op Thaise ballonnen lijken, maar gezien de bewegingen en snelheid van de objecten wil ik die mogelijkheid ook uitsluiten.”
Unidentified Space Craft in 10 Month Solar Orbit. Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 2016 Location of sighting: Earths Orbit This object is clearly made by intelligent beings. The big question is, is it ours or theirs? Meaning is it a top secret project? Its possible this is the ancient satellite called Dark Knight that has orbited Earth for thousands of years. We really have to wait till Feb 20 to see the results of the radar images. If it belongs to the US, then it makes sense that NASA gave the space station away to Russia to control. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com BPEarthWatch States: These images were taken by the 230-foot (70-meter) Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif. Each of the 72 frames required 320 seconds of data collection by the Goldstone radar. The observations were made as the object was moving away from Earth. The object's distance from the radar dish increased from 74,000 miles (120,000 kilometers) to 195,000 miles (314,000 kilometers). The resolution is 13 feet (four meters) per pixel. The images span close to eight hours and clearly show an elongated object undergoing roughly one full rotation. The images suggest that the object has a long axis of about 130 feet (40 meters). The radar observations were led by scientists Lance Benner and Marina Brozovic of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Additional Goldstone radar observations are scheduled on February 18, 19 and 20.
As you can see in the video below, this UFO is to slow to be a meteor. It looks like a falling jet on fire, but no reports of lost aircraft were made. If this is not a UFO, then it has to be space junk, probably a spy satellite that governments want to hide from other governments, because it loaded with secrets. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: A video shot in Russia has got UFO watchers excited after some claimed it was an alien vehicle plunging into the earth. The video was shot by Russian man Mikhail Litvinov who said he spotted the device leaving a huge plume of gas behind it as it plunged to earth on the outskirts of the central Russian city of Kemerovo. It quickly attracted thousands of views as people debated what it could be, with many pointing out it was too slow to be a meteorite, but producing too much of a gas trail to be an aeroplane. The gas is off-white in colour at the tail end but becomes blacker closer to the object. Speaking to Russian news site Komsomolskaya, Linvinov said: 'From my side I hope it was a shooting star.' Journalists from Russian news site Bloknot contacted Russian airborne forces who said that there were no registered incidents in the skies over Kemerovo at the time involving either crashed craft or meteorites. One online commentator said: 'It was going down so fast I reckon it was a Russian Rouble.' While another observed: 'It is certainly too slow to be a meteorite implying it is mechanical in origin.' One supposed expert pointed out that it was a 'cigar' UFO due to its long thin shape. These are apparently less widely known than 'saucers'. The first well-known UFO sighting occurred in 1947, when businessman Kenneth Arnold claimed to see a group of nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington while flying his small plane. Arnold estimated the speed of the crescent-shaped objects as several thousand miles per hour and said they moved 'like saucers skipping on water.' This is how the term flying saucer was coined as, in the newspaper report that followed, it was mistakenly stated that the objects were saucer-shaped.
PHOENIX (KSAZ)– In 1947, the valley had become controversial with the reports of a UFO crash at the base of Piestewa Peak, called Squaw Peak Mountain at that time. Many have concluded that the government had undertaken all the necessary measures to hide all evidence of the crash.
One version of the story is outlined in Frank Scully’s book “Behind the Flying Saucers,” (Amazon link) written in 1950. Scully wrote in the book that an alien space saucer crashed in the valley in October 1947. It allegedly bounced, skipped, and landed several miles away in Cave Creek or Paradise Valley.
Another story of the incident was that remains of aliens were recovered, and the U.S. government hauled them away. Dreamy Draw Dam was then apparently constructed over the site to cover the truth of an alien crash.
Open Minds Radio host, Alejandro Rojas, said that he tried to investigate the incident at Dreamy Draw, and all he could find were rumors about the UFO crash. He was able to find one witness who claimed to have spotted something strange either in Dreamy Draw, Paradise Valley, or Cave Creek. Unfortunately, the witness died before Rojas was able to talk to the witness directly.
Rojas, a UFO researcher and journalist, acknowledges that there are several holes in the Dreamy Draw Dam UFO story. The witness apparently has morally offensive character with little credibility. Moreover, Rojas points out that the UFO crash event happened in 1947 while the dam, which was apparently built to hide the crash site, was constructed in 1973 for flood control purposes.
On July 7, 1947, few months before the incident, William Rhodes of Phoenix had taken a UFO picture that was considered as one of the first and one of the best UFO photos ever taken. Rhodes claimed that government agents visited him after the photo was published in the Arizona paper.
According to Rhodes, the agents borrowed the negative and promised to bring it back to him after they made a copy of it. However, the borrowers allegedly had never returned the negatives to him.
Are the two claims a coincidence or stories of real extraterrestrial visitations? Rojas says that when rumors and stories continue to exist for many years, there’s likely a shred of truth on them and finding the truth is likely to persist as well.
Chemitrail-wolken vallen vallen op de grond ( UPDATE + VIDEO )
Chemitrail-wolken vallen vallen op de grond ( UPDATE + VIDEO )
Het zijn vreemde tijden, maar wat een aantal mensen in Marokko enkele dagen geleden meemaakten, grenst aan het ongelofelijke.
Complete, onnatuurlijke wolken die uit de lucht op de grond vallen.
Update vandaag 07 februari:
Al snel volgden mogelijke verklaringen van lezers (dank!) op onderstaande artikel van vandaag. Het fenomeen dat men zeeschuim noemt, zou kunnen zijn wat we hier in Marokko zien:
Dit lijkt erg veel op Zeeschuim.
Waar komt dit schuim vandaan? In de zee leven microscopische kleine plantjes(algen). Een moeilijke naam voor deze plantjes is fytoplankton. Phuthon betekent 'plant' in het Grieks en plankton komt van het Griekse 'plagktos' wat 'dwalend' betekent. Fytoplankton is dus het geheel van microscopische kleine plantjes die in de zee drijven. Eén van de vele algenfamilies is Phaeocystis of schuimalg. In het late voorjaar is er al veel zonlicht, voldoende voedsel en heeft het water al een zachte temperatuur. Dit zijn ideale omstandigheden voor deze plantjes om zich razendsnel te vermenigvuldigen. Het water kleurt dan letterlijk groen, rood of bruin afhankelijk van de algensoort. We zeggen dan: 'De bloei zit in het water.' Deze microscopische kleine plantjes vormen kolonies. Dit zijn grote hoeveelheden die bij elkaar samenklitten. Ze hechten zich in een laag gelatine. Wanneer deze kolonies afsterven, wordt de gelatine door de golven tot schuim opgeklopt. De wind en de stroming voeren dat schuim naar het strand.
Origineel artikel vandaag:
De volgende bizarre gebeurtenis vond plaats in de Marokkaanse regio Doukkala.
Ook wij zien bij ons wel eens wolken aan de grond vormen. Dit komt dan soms bijvoorbeeld voor in de vorm van ochtendmist die laag op de grond hangt en die dan vervolgens optrekt wanneer de zon voldoende kracht heeft.
"Een wolk is een zichtbare verzameling wolkenelementen – al dan niet onderkoelde waterdruppeltjes of ijskristalletjes – in de atmosfeer op enige hoogte van het aardoppervlak.
Waterwolken ontstaan doordat waterdamp in verzadigde lucht condenseert rondcondensatiekernen. Waterdamp kan ook verrijpen tot ijskristalletjes om zo ijswolken te vormen. In gemengde wolken komen zowel waterdruppeltjes als ijskristallen voor."
Maar, dat alles is niet van toepassing op wat er in Marokko te zien was.
Wat hier uit de lucht valt, zijn allesbehalve natuurlijke wolken, maar een soort chemische pakketten, een soort badbubbels, die waarschijnlijk te zwaar zijn geworden om in de lucht te kunnen blijven hangen.
Ongetwijfeld zullen meteorologen wel weer met een verhaal komen over wat voor soort wolken dit precies zijn (cumulusavon oftewel zeepstapelwolk?), maar voor ons is het duidelijk dat we hier te maken hebben met chemische substanties zoals die dagelijks boven onze hoofden worden uitgestrooid.
Waar het op lijkt is een heterdaad waarbij je nog maar eens duidelijk bewijs ziet dat chemtrails met ongezonde stoffenerin absoluut geen fabeltje zijn.
The Cash-Landrum Incident: Was a Nuclear Aircraft Involved?
The Cash-Landrum Incident: Was a Nuclear Aircraft Involved?
Of all the best-known and often reviewed UFO cases of the last few decades, many would contend that one of the most puzzling had been the Cash-Landrum incident, which occurred near Dayton, Texas on 29 December, 1980.
The story, well known in UFO circles, involved two women: Betty Cash and Vicky Landrum, as well as Vicky’s grandson Colby, all of whom purportedly observed an unusual, very bright source of illumination over a country road on the night in question. After seemingly hovering above the highway for several minutes, the strange object was surrounded by a group of helicopters in tight formation, and removed from the area, according to the witnesses.
Among those seeking to understand the incident, and what the evidence (little though we have) actually entails, researcher Curt Collins has examined the witness testimony in-depth, covering everything from the later developments and health problems reported by the witnesses, to the earliest statements they gave about the object’s shape and appearance, depicted in the image at the outset of this article (the image is an original work produced by Christian P. Lambright, X Desk Publishing, copyright 2013, as featured in Curt Collins’ original article at his site Blue Blurry Lines, which can be viewed here. Also, Curt’s article details a number of other renderings of the object, and I recommend folks visit his site for further background on this case).
Over the years, some have presented this case as one of the best UFO reports of the modern era, rife with details and credible testimony that points strongly toward a physical object seen on the night in question. On the skeptical side of things, it has been argued that this case is yet another crude hoax, and that perhaps the witnesses had gone to great lengths to create the appearance of poor health following the encounter, with hopes of obtaining money in recompense from the U.S. Air Force or some other agency.
Much like Collins has worked to try and do, looking at the case very carefully, I feel that there may still be things we can surmise about this incident, even decades after it occurred, as I recently outlined in an article on the subject. Following its publication online, one reader wrote to me addressing the long-held theory that the object or craft may have been utilizing an experimental propulsion system, perhaps one involving a nuclear engine:
“I’m a bit surprised you didn’t go into NEPA (Nuclear Engine Propulsion Aircraft) at all Micah. Especially when considering the witnesses suffered from radiation exposure combined with their reports of a rocket type exhaust. As I recall, they reported the craft appeared to be having difficulties, which would help to explain the Chinooks.”
Stanton Friedman – nuclear physicist
As a rather interesting aside, a number of years ago I had actually considered what my reader proposes, which had prompted me to ask researcher Stanton Friedman about his feelings regarding this particular case. As a nuclear physicist who had worked on various projects that explored whether a nuclear engine propulsion craft might be feasible for air or space travel, it had been Friedman’s view that no such manmade technology would likely have existed at the time of the Cash-Landrum incident (that was his opinion, at least). Hence, Friedman felt that the object, whatever it was, “hadn’t been one of ours”, if the object had indeed exhibited any kind of a nuclear power source.
One of the first problems with the NEPA argument is actually an obvious one: despite the long-held assertions about radiation poisoning, there was never any real evidence that nuclear radiation had been found at the site (and further, it should be noted that the precise location of the observation could not be found either). Betty Cash’s vehicle similarly failed to display any convincing evidence of nuclear radiation, despite the likelihood that the vehicle had been the same distance from whatever source might have caused the witnesses to become ill afterward. This was confirmed by researcher John Schuessler, who had examined Cash’s vehicle with a geiger counter during his investigation of the incident.
Betty Cash (right)
While the witnesses certainly displayed symptoms similar to radiation sickness, it had been the problems with finding evidence of nuclear radiation on the vehicle that led researcher Brad Sparks to consider whether the health problems had been the result of something else; he suggested a chemical component, perhaps an aerosol, that may have been present in the environment instead.
However, I find that the ailments that the witnesses described (especially Betty Cash) were also consistent with health problems associated with exposure to a high dose of some variety of ionizing (or perhaps non-ionizing) radiation; since the object was described as extremely bright, infrared or ultraviolet might be possibilities here. Thus, the effects described might somewhat resemble conditions like sun poisoning, resulting in photochemical damage that seems more plausible than chemical reactions or nuclear radiation… especially since no convincing evidence for either of these had been found.
In my original article on the subject, I also presented information on a specific patent for an infra-heat emitter, designed for purpose of the quick inflation of balloons, and perhaps allowing infrared detection for military applications (night training missions, etc). The patent predates the Cash-Landrum incident by several years, and if we were to consider some similar device had been behind the illumination the witnesses observed, it might also account for a source of radiation–perhaps in the infrared or ultraviolet portions of the spectrum–where photochemical effects (i.e. damage to the skin, etc) certainly can occur.
Finally, we should note that a fairly high-energy ionizing source of radiation would have been able to cause effects such as damage to the skin, without resulting in radioactivity being induced in objects nearby. This seems consistent with the lack of radiation noted by Schuessler during his investigation.
In conclusion, perhaps some of the problems we face in understanding what really happened on the night of December 29, 1980 have more to do with inaccuracies and assumptions that are often made about the case, rather than hard facts. In order to make a proper assessment of the events related by Betty Cash and the Landrums, a careful review of the facts is paramount; and even after more than three decades, it may also help us come to new, better-informed conclusions about the case and its implications.
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What Ever Happened to the “Flying Saucer” Shaped UFOs?
What Ever Happened to the “Flying Saucer” Shaped UFOs?
Beginning in early 1951, Edward J. Ruppelt, a young, witty, and overall promising US Air Force officer, began his service as chief of the USAF’s famous Project Blue Book. Housed within the Air Technical Intelligence Center, Ruppelt and a handful of staff would begin fielding the most credible reports of aerial phenomena which, at the time, were considered a legitimate potential threat to national security: these were, of course, the famous “flying saucers” that had been reported since the summer of 1947.
“UFO,” Ruppelt would later affirm, “is the official term that I created to replace the words ‘flying saucers’.” The reason for this had been rather obvious: in the foreword written by Drunvalo Melchizedek, it was noted that there a handful of “types” of UFO that the USAF documented during the Blue Book years under Ruppelt’s oversight; these were the, Triangular craft, Cigars, Balls of Light, Balls of Flame, and of course, the famous “Flying Saucer”. “The Air Force’s conclusion,” Melchizedek notes, “after about four years of dramatic study was that this phenomenon was not the work of the Russians, not the United States — not anyone from this planet.”
Whether or not the non-terrestrial nature of the alleged craft can indeed be affirmed, it is clear that there had been far more occurring throughout the 1950s—and throughout the decades that would follow, just as well—than most conventional surveys of aviation history would indicate. In equal measure, it can hardly be argued that a number of the sorts of “saucers” and other UFOs that were being reported as humankind coasted along into the Atomic Age were, in fact, of terrestrial origin. Just within the last few years, the release of previously classified documents pertaining to aircraft test flights like the Oxcart program, the CIA’s codename for its project for development of the Lockheed A-12 reconnaissance aircraft, have shed new light on strange “saucers” seen at high altitudes above the American Southwest… saucers which, obvious though it seems to us today, bore more resemblance then to the advanced jet aircraft most of us are used to seeing today.
But that’s not to say that there haven’t been some legitimate reports of UFOs that aren’t so easily ID’d in retrospect, particularly those bearing the now-famous “saucer” shape. Consider the following account, once again sourced from Ruppelt’s own book on the subject:
“Just before noon on March 16, Chief Petty Officer Charles Lewis saw a disk shaped UFO come streaking across the sky and buzz a high flying B-36. Lewis first saw the UFO coming in from the north, lower than the B-36; then he saw it pull up to the big bomber as it got closer. It hovered under the B-36 for an instant, then it went speeding off and disappeared. When the press inquired about the incident, Captain M. A. Nation, commander of the air station, vouched for his chief and added that the base tower operators had seen and reported a UFO to him about ten days before.”
Similar non-air force reports have yielded fruit on occasion in the years that would follow. In my own personal research into UFOs over the last several years, a number of witnesses have described such seemingly-impossible aircraft to me; witnesses that I have come to know quite well in many instances, and whose judgement and credibility have earned my sincerest confidence.
One such report was related to me in the summer of 2013 by an individual named “Betty”. Having formerly worked as a statistician in various branches of the U.S. government throughout the 1980s and 90s, Betty confided to me that she had never been particularly interested in UFOs, and considered herself to be a “skeptic”. This, however, hadn’t caused her to dismiss her own observation of a classic, saucer-shaped aircraft in the early 1970s.
As Betty describes:
I must have been about 12, my brother Billy (11 months older) was there as well. We lived in Venice, California at the time, about a mile from the beach. Anyway, one night, Billy and I were outside playing around. Suddenly we stopped at a loud engine sound and looked up to see the Goodyear Blimp flying low about a block away, heading west. We were able to clearly see the advertisement on the side of the blimp. Later, we stopped again to see the Goodyear Blimp slowly flying by to the east. Every child in Los Angeles knows the Goodyear Blimp.
Billy and I had resumed our playing when suddenly I heard a vibrating sound coming from the right corner of the house. I looked up and hovering close to the house was some sort of craft. Because it was so close to the house I could only see about a 3rd of it’s size (an estimation). I saw the lights that appeared to go around the craft. I remember red and white lights, too much time has gone by to remember for sure if there were other colors as well. As I focused in on the rest of the exposed craft, I could see what appeared to be a “classic” flying saucer of the 1960s. There were no apparent lights on the upper portion of the craft, it was grayed in its own lighting and from my house and street lamps. I glanced at Billy who was staring with his mouth open. I looked back at the craft and saw it slightly tilt downward toward us. I was so excited! Just then my brother yelled “go get mom!” I ran inside the living room and yelled at my mother “There’s a UFO!” as she stared at me from the dining room with my oldest brother. I pivoted there and ran back outside. By the time I returned to my spot, my mom and older brother were already there.
“Where’d it go!” I demanded from Billy. Looking like he was shaken, he said that as soon as I turned to go into the house, the UFO shot out of there in a flash. It was extremely fast and shot out toward the Venice Pier. I looked out that way but could only see small orbs of light, much like airplanes from the airport (there are no stars in Los Angeles).
Billy and I were scoffed at and we were left to ponder over what we saw.
The next day my mother told me that in the paper, there were reports of an unusual light seen out over the Venice pier.”
Betty’s encounter is like many that have crossed my desk over the years, supplied by clear-minded, sober individuals that, if anything, have maintained very little interest in the UFO subject. And yet, in such instances, the famed, if not archetypal “flying saucer” shape has remained, though perhaps not prevalently.
It is indeed funny, in retrospect, the way that so many things that once scared us become relegated to the lunatic fringe; like the drive-in horror movies from decades ago that scared the daylights out of us which, today, we laugh at, and point at the dangling bits of wiggling rubber that make up the monstrosities that once caused us to cower.
Maybe the UFOs are no different, in a sense: the only thing that could have actually been as scary as bug-eyed aliens in saucers from someplace else would have been the once-inevitable conclusion that the USAF had thought they might eventually determine: that the “saucers” had been something of our own making, and belonging to the boys across the pond, who were now waving the bigger stick. That ended up not being the case, of course… but if not Russian, then whose were they?
Even today, the odd disc shaped aircraft are still reported. They appear only sparingly–almost as if just to assert themselves from time to time–or maybe to be taken as some archaic reminder of the kind of weirdness that UFOs “used to be”. Or at least, a reminder of how things were back in the good ol’ days, when the flying saucer craze that swept the nation in the earliest years of the Cold War was still something new, refreshing, enticing, and yes, even scary.
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Mulder, Scully, Fact & Fiction, Pt.3
Mulder, Scully, Fact & Fiction, Pt.3
The opening paragraph of part-1 of this three-part article began with the following: “Now that the new series of The X-Files is already halfway through its brief return to television, I figured it would be a good time to address an issue that often crops up in conversation. And particularly when I’m lecturing on the “government files” angle of the UFO controversy. Namely, does the real FBI have its very own X-Files department? Well, the short answer is ‘No. It does not.’ That’s not to say, however, that the FBI hasn’t played a significant role in the investigation of the kinds of mysteries that would have Mulder drooling at the mouth and Scully rolling her eyes and shaking her head.”
So far, we’ve addressed the FBI’s files on UFOs in 1947, an alleged UFO crash in 1948, and the Contactee/”Space Brother” controversy that began in the early 1950s. Now, it’s time to move on. Covering the period from 1957 to 1960, we have the FBI’s files on Extra-Sensory Perception, ESP. Of this very interesting document collection, the FBI says: “ESP is considered a perception of information about events beyond what may be discerned through the five physical senses or deduced from past experience or knowledge. This release consists of cross references to ESP found in FBI files from 1957 to 1960. Several of the documents concern William Foos, a proponent of ESP. Others concern claims that ESP could be used in espionage investigations. The FBI found no scientific support for this or other claims and did not pursue the matters raised in these references.”
Predating the more well-known “Remote Viewing” programs of the early 1970s onward, the ESP file shows how, for a while, officialdom got quite excited by the idea of potentially employing psychic 007’s to spy on the likes of the Reds.
Without doubt, the weirdest mystery that the FBI found itself involved in during the 1970s was that concerning so-called “cattle mutilations.” The FBI’s file is titled “Animal Mutilation.” The FBI says of this particular dossier: “In the mid-1970s, reports of scattered animal mutilations in western and mid-western states concerned many people. The FBI was asked to investigate, but was unable to do so because of a lack of jurisdiction (except when such mutilations were found on Indian lands). These files consist mainly of press clippings and correspondence concerning the issues between 1974 and 1978.”
Indeed, it’s the correspondence that is particularly notable. The file is filled with New Mexico State Police reports of case after case of very odd – even macabre – cattle mutilations. Many of the incidents occurred in and around the New Mexico town of Dulce – a place with a notorious tie to Ufology. The files tell of animals found dead with their legs broken, as if they had been dropped from significant heights. There are reports of black helicopters skulking around. Aliens, secret bio-warfare operations, satanic cults, and predators all come under the scrutiny of law enforcement officials. To call the reports real-life X-Files would not be wide of the mark. It would be right on it. Now, let’s head on to the 1980s.
It’s time to turn our attentions to Jack the Ripper. What on Earth does the world’s most infamous serial-killer have to do with the Bureau? The answer comes from the FBI: “In 1888, a series of unsolved homicides in London, England were attributed to a serial killer called ‘Jack the Ripper.’ In 1988, Supervisory Special Agent John Douglas of the FBI’s National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime performed an analysis of the case for the Cosgrove-Meurer Production Company. This release consists of his analysis.”
Also in 1988, the FBI found itself embroiled in the controversy surrounding the notorious “MJ12 documents.” “Leaked” to certain figures within the UFO research community a handful of years earlier, the supposedly Top Secret documents tell of a UFO crash at Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947, and of a highly-classified group tasked with overseeing the matter: Majestic 12. Or, MJ12. Of this file, the FBI tells us: “In 1988, two FBI offices received similar versions of a memo titled ‘Operation Majestic-12…’claiming to be highly classified government document. The memo appeared to be a briefing for newly-elected President Eisenhower on a secret committee created to exploit a recovery of an extra-terrestrial aircraft and cover-up this work from public examination. An Air Force investigation determined the document to be a fake.”
Indeed, a meeting occurred in Washington, D.C. on November 30, 1988 between agents of the FBI and agents of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, in which the FBI was told that the MJ12 documents were a “fabricated hoax.”
And there we have it: probably the closest thing to the fictional X-Files of a certain TV show now making a comeback. You may be interested to know I could have made this article a 4- or even 5-part one, such is the extent of the “weird files” held by the FBI. Those I didn’t touch on include files on sci-fi author Philip K. Dick; Spontaneous Human Combustion; Nicola Tesla; Wilhelm “Orgone” Reich; and rocket-pioneer and Aleister Crowley disciple, Jack Parsons. And, indeed, there may be others, still awaiting declassification.
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Mysterious People Who Appeared from Nowhere
Mysterious People Who Appeared from Nowhere
History is rife with strange tales of people who have mysteriously vanished from the face of the earth without a trace, but one area that seems to get decidedly less coverage is the various accounts of those who did just the opposite, appearing out of nowhere cloaked in mystery and emanating questions and puzzles around them that have never been satisfactorily answered. Here we have strangers who have stepped out of thin air from another place, perhaps even another time or plane of existence, and have gone on to leave impenetrable mysteries in their wake to this day. Stepping out of blue and into our imagination, these baffling appearances represent a phenomena every bit as perplexing as strange disappearances. Let us journey into the bizarre world of mysterious individuals who seemingly appeared from nowhere.
One of the earliest, most well-known, and indeed bizarre cases of people appearing out of nowhere occurred in the mid-12th century, when two children mysteriously appeared in the sleepy village of Woolpit, in the English county of Suffolk, and went on to become an enduring mystery known as the Green Children of Woolpit. Allegedly one day, two young children, a boy and a girl, suddenly and inexplicably emerged from a deep pit used for trapping the wolves that terrorized the region in those days. If this wasn’t already odd enough, it immediately became apparent that these were no ordinary children, as they both reportedly had skin that was tinted green, and were dressed in strange, unfamiliar clothing made from an unusual fabric that no one recognized. The children seemed to be more or less healthy but somewhat dazed and confused, and when villagers tried to speak to them they spoke a strange, unintelligible language that no one had ever heard before. Not knowing what to do with these enigmatic children, the locals presented them to a wealthy landowner by the name of Sir Richard de Calne, who took them into his care. Things would only get stranger from there.
The children immediately started crying uncontrollably when they arrived at their new caretaker’s house, chattering with each other in their alien tongue but no one could understand a word of what they were saying. When presented with food, the green-skinned children would not eat anything, even though they made it clear that they were quite hungry. Bread, meat, fruit and vegetables were all offered, but everything was refused by the children until they were presented with beans still in their pods, which they ravenously devoured. For several months this was the only food the children would eat, until they gradually began to consume other things such as bread. Tragically, the boy purportedly became increasingly morose and sullen in this new environment, eventually becoming very ill and wasting away until he died. The girl, on the other hand, seemed to adapt reasonably well to the new world she had found herself in, her green pallor gradually dissipated, and she even started picking up the English language. That’s where things got even weirder still.
When she was able to somewhat express herself in English, the girl began to try and explain where they had come from. She claimed that the boy had been her brother and that they had come from a faraway land located deep underground, where the sun never shone, where it was always dark, and where all of the people had green skin; a fantastical place she called St. Martin. When asked how they had arrived at Woolpit, the girl told the mesmerized villagers that she had been out herding cattle with her brother and had followed the animals into a large cavern. As they plunged deeper into the cavern the girl claimed that they had heard a strange sound like bells, which they followed into the uncharted blackness, becoming more and more disoriented until there was a sudden bright shaft of light that had pierced through the gloom and hurt their eyes. When the children had followed the light they exited the cavern, only instead of their homeland before their eyes it had been the bottom of the wolf trap pit they had been found in. It was a bizarre tale to be sure, and nobody was quite sure what to make of it, although there was all manner of speculation. The girl would subsequently go on to live a relatively normal life in the village, adjusting comfortably to her new home, integrating into society well, and even being baptized and eventually getting married.
The story of the Green Children of Woolpit went on to become a popular tale of curiosity and is still much discussed to this day. It is difficult to know what to make of this story, and hard to ascertain just how many elements actually took place and which are mere myths, exaggeration, folktale, fancy, and fairy tale. There have been a wide range of theories proposed for the Green Children’s origins, ranging from the somewhat plausible to the more far-fetched. The enigmatic children have been alternately theorized as being from a parallel dimension, aliens, inhabitants of some hidden subterranean civilization, feral children raised by animals, orphans with arsenic poisoning or malnutrition which made their skin green, or Flemish immigrant refugees fleeing persecution and a battle that had killed their parents. In the end, no one really knows who they were, where they came from, or indeed how much of the story is even based in reality, and so the story of the Green Children of Woolpit has become an enduring mystery that will perhaps never be solved.
Plaza Mayor, Mexico
Another story similarly rendered muddy and murky by the passage of time and retellings is a strange appearance in Mexico City on October 26, 1593, of a Spanish soldier who seems to have appeared out of thin air after being teleported over vast distances. On the day in question, guards at Mexico City’s Plaza Mayor noticed a dazed looking man walking about in a trance and wearing the uniform of a Philippine soldier. In addition to him being very far from the Philippines, no one could figure out how the intruder could have possibly slipped past the high security of the premises, and the suspicious guards immediately detained him. When the stranger was questioned, he had quite the fantastic story to tell. He claimed that his name was Gil Perez, a soldier and guard at the Governor General in Manila, Philippines, and that on October 23, 1593 had been at his post on high alert following the shocking assassination of governor Don Gómez Pérez Dasmariñas. Exhausted, Perez had allegedly leaned on a wall and closed his eyes for a moment, but when he opened them again he was in an unfamiliar place, surrounded by new sights and smells. Disoriented, Perez nevertheless had dutifully gone back to his guard detail until he realized that his uniform was not the same as the guards around him, which was around when he had been apprehended. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the skeptical Mexican guards did not believe a word of this spectacular tale, and Perez was promptly thrown into prison and accused of being a “servant of the devil.”
Perez languished in prison for months until a ship arrived from the Philippines along with news of the Manilla governor’s assassination, which had until that point been unknown in Mexico. Further corroborating Perez’s story was the testimony of someone on the ship who claimed to know Perez and to have actually seen him on duty on October 23, although it was not known that he had gone to Mexico. Considering that he had been detained since the 26rd of October and that he could not possibly have known of the assassination, since the news had taken months to travel across the ocean by ship, as well as the claims by those on the ship who apparently knew him, the Mexican authorities had no real choice but to grudgingly believe Perez. In light of this information, the Mexican authorities then reportedly released him and allowed him to go home, this time the long way by ship. It is not known if Perez was really who he claimed to be, and indeed it is uncertain just how much of this story is true, if any, or what parts may have been exaggerated or fabricated over retellings, but theories by those who put stock in it include the ideas that he was simply a lying imposter or a deserter, to spontaneous teleportation, interdimensional portals, or even alien abduction.
Similarly bizarre is the tale of a man who allegedly teleported not over space, but seemingly through time itself. The story goes that one evening in June of 1950 a man wearing 19th century clothing was suddenly observed wandering aimlessly about in the middle of a busy intersection in New York City. As the dazed man walked around in aimless circles he was then allegedly hit by a taxi and killed. When the body was examined things became bizarre fairly quickly. The man, estimated as being about 30 years old, was dressed in immaculate clothing and shoes, but they were around a century out of date, right down to shoes that were fastened with old fashioned oversized buckles. The man was also found to have been carrying some rather odd items, including very old banknotes with dates preceding the 1870s, a 5-cent copper token for beer at a saloon no one had ever heard of, a bill for the care of a horse and washing of a carriage from a livery stable that turned out not to exist anywhere, and a letter from Philadelphia dated June 1876. There was also a business card emblazoned with an address and the name Rudolph Fentz.
Armed with a name and address, a Captain Hubert V. Rihm with the NYPD Missing Persons Department then allegedly went about trying to track down the identity of the puzzling stranger and was quickly met with frustration. The address written on the card led to people who had never seen or heard of the man, the name Rudolph Fentz was not listed in the phone book nor were any next of kin, he did not turn up any fingerprint records, and no one by that name had been reported missing. He seemed to not exist. It was almost by chance that the baffled investigator came across a listing for a Rudolf Fenz Jr. in a telephone directory dated 1939. This led Rihm to an elderly lady who claimed to be the widow of Rudolf Fenz Jr., and it was this lady who would tell a story that would make everything even more bizarre.
However, as incredible as this story sounds, there is unfortunately evidence that it is at least partly a fictional account, if not entirely fabricated. Although there have been many articles and books citing the account as a genuine, factual report, it was later found that the first such mention of the Fentz story, which appeared in the 1972 May/June issue of the Journal of Borderland Research, was originally sourced as being from a 1953 book called A Voice from the Gallery, by Ralph M. Holland. It seems that Holland had gotten this particular account from a magazine called Collier’s, in a short story entitled I’m Scared, which was by a science fiction author named Jack Finney. Considering that the story is almost exactly the same as the account so often classified as a real event, it is very likely that the case of Rudolph Fentz is based on pure fiction. It is still an interesting case nevertheless, and illustrates just how muddied the waters can get when trying to determine how credible a particular account is or how closely intertwined with reality it is.
Another case from history which has gained quite a lot of recognition is that of a mysterious young man named Kaspar Hauser. The setting of this account is Nuremberg, Germany, where on 26 May 1828 a young man in his teens who no one recognized suddenly appeared wandering the streets. The seemingly bewildered, confused boy was found to be carrying a letter addressed to a Captain von Wessenig, who was the captain of the 4th squadron of the 6th cavalry regiment. The unknown author of the letter stated that the boy was attained as an infant, taken in, educated at home, and had never left the confines of the house. The letter ended with the statement that the boy wished to be a cavalryman, that his father had been a cavalryman, and Wessenig was given the ultimatum to either “take him in or to hang him.” Another short letter was found that seemed to be from the mother, who called the boy Kaspar and claimed that his true father had been a cavalryman who had died for reasons unspecified. Oddly, both letters seemed to be written in the exact same handwriting.
The lady claimed that a 31-year-old Rudolph Fentz Sr. had mysteriously disappeared while out for his daily walk in 1876, when her husband had been only a child. At the time, authorities had apparently launched a massive investigation into the disappearance and had turned up no trace of the missing man. He had vanished without a trace. Intrigued by this new information, Rihm then supposedly checked missing person reports from 1876 and found to his astonishment that indeed a Rudolph Fentz had disappeared that year during an early evening walk and was never found, just as the lady had told him. Eerily, the description for Fentz on the day he vanished matched the mystery man’s exactly, right down to the clothes he had been wearing, and the photo included was a dead ringer for the man. Fearing that no one would ever possibly believe him, Rihm was then said to have dropped the odd findings from the official investigation. Over the years the mysterious story of Rudolph Fentz has inspired speculation that he may have been somehow sucked up in some sort of vortex and inadvertently time travelled, and the tale has made the rounds sparking debate for years.
Kaspar Hauser
Questions posed to the boy and indeed all attempts to communicate with him proved to be frustratingly futile, as the only thing he would say was “I want to be a cavalryman, as my father was” or “Horse!” repeated over and over again. When pressed on anything, he would simply say “Don’t know.” He refused to eat or drink anything except bread and water. He also showed only the most remedial awareness of common everyday rituals such as using money or basic grooming and social skills, and he was only able to read to a very limited degree. The only useful information he seemed to be able to provide was his full name in a childish scrawl on a piece of paper; Kaspar Hauser. Other than that, no one had any idea of who he really was or where he had come from. He was a total enigma.
The first theory as to Kaspar’s origins was that he was some sort of feral child raised among animals out in the wilderness, which would explain his lack of social awareness and limited communication skills. However, as Kaspar began to gain the ability to more fully express himself more light began to be shed upon his mysterious background. He described how he had essentially been raised in a dungeon; a tiny darkened cell not even large enough to stand in, in which he had lived totally alone and slept on a straw bed. His meals were claimed to have been bread and water left for him each morning. He claimed that not once in all of his years growing up did he ever meet his mysterious caretaker, or even another human being for that matter. The boy had never learned to talk or even walk, and had lived his whole life hunched over in that cramped, dank cell with only a few small wooden toys to keep him company. It was not until right before he was released that he had met another person for the first time, who he claimed was a man who did not show his face and had taught him to write his name, stand, and walk. The enigmatic stranger also had apparently taught Kaspar his first words by phonetic repetition and rote memory, “I want to be a cavalryman, as my father was,” the actual meaning of which he could not comprehend at the time.
Such a strange yet undeniably intriguing story soon circulated among the media, and before long Kaspar Hauser was big news all over the world, with people everywhere wondering just who he was. At the time, theories were already swirling, claiming that he was everything from royalty to a flat out liar. In the meantime, Kaspar was taken into the care of a schoolmaster and philosopher by the name of Friedrich Daumer, who further educated him in a wide variety of subjects. Over time, Kaspar adjusted to his new life, but no one was any closer to understanding his murky origins. Indeed, a series of bizarre occurrences would only serve to deepen the mystery surrounding him.
Kaspar Hauser
On 17 October 1829, Kaspar was found in the cellar with a cut on his forehead after he had failed to show up for his usual lunch. The visibly shaken boy claimed that he had been attacked by a man in a hood, who had sounded exactly like the man who had brought him to Nuremburg and who had threatened him before cutting him with a knife and fleeing. Kaspar then claimed that he had escaped down into the cellar to hide, leaving a trail of blood along the floor as he did so. In the wake of the mysterious attack, Kaspar was moved into the care of a municipal authority by the name of Johann Biberbach for his own safety. It was never found out for certain just who had attacked him, or indeed whether he had merely inflicted the wound on himself. The move would not stop the strange string of events unfolding. After Kapsar had settled into Biberbach’s house, yet another odd incident would occur, when on 3 April 1830 there was a sudden gunshot that rang out from his room. Kaspar was found to be bleeding from a gash on the side of his head, and when pressed on what had happened he claimed that he had been climbing up on a chair to reach some books and had accidentally knocked down a gun hanging on the wall, which had then gone off. Oddly, the cut on his head did not seem have been consistent with a gunshot wound. Kaspar was moved yet again, this time to the house of his next patron, a landowner named Baron von Tucher.
During this time, there were beginning weird rumors that Kaspar was a rather unpleasant, abrasive person to be around. In fact, both Biberbach and von Tucher openly complained that the boy was disagreeable, a habitual liar, and extremely vain, with an exasperated Biberbach once stating that Kaspar was skilled in the “art of dissimulation” and “full of vanity and spite.” Claims such as these started to eat away at the boy’s credibility, and there was increasing speculation that he had faked the knife attack and gunshot perhaps in order to manipulate others into feeling sorry for him. Further evidence of deception would come when a British nobleman named Lord Stanhope took him into custody and spent immense resources trying to investigate Kaspar’s past based on his accounts, but had come up completely empty-handed, leading him to doubt that the boy was telling the whole truth. Yet another caretaker of Kaspar’s named Johann Georg Meyer quickly parted ways with the boy after a strained relationship full of arguments and lies, and he would later proclaim “I had been deceived.” Yet another caretaker by the name of Anselm von Feuerbach would later say of Kaspar “Caspar Hauser is a smart scheming codger, a rogue, a good-for-nothing that ought to be killed.” Not exactly words of praise.
With doubt cast on the veracity of his story, and his credibility unravelling even as speculation boiled on where he had come from or even who he was Kaspar would meet an end that was every bit as mysterious as his life had been. On 14 December 1833, Hauser came home with a deep wound in his chest, and claimed that he had been attacked by a knife-wielding man in Ansbach Court Garden. An investigation would turn up a purse lying in the garden which contained a cryptic note scrawled on a piece of paper which was written in mirror writing in German and rife with grammatical mistakes. The mysterious note read:
"Hauser will be able to tell you quite precisely how I look and from where I am. To save Hauser the effort, I want to tell you myself from where I come _ _ . I come from from _ _ _the Bavarian border _ _On the river _ _ _ _ _I will even tell you the name: M. L. Ö."
It has never been conclusively determined what the message means, who wrote the note, or what role they had to play in Kasper’s fate, if any. Kaspar Hauser would die of the grievous knife wound on 17 December 1833; his death as every bit as weird and mysterious as his life had been, leaving behind the strange note and far more questions than he had ever been able to answer. The headstone of his grave, located in the city cemetery of Ansbach, is testament to his enigmatic origins and life, reading “Here lies Kaspar Hauser, riddle of his time. His birth was unknown, his death mysterious. 1833.” Indeed, the mystery and speculation surrounding the life and death of Kaspar Hauser has shown little sign of waning in the subsequent years, and he has spawned numerous theories about who he could have been and who was responsible for his death.
One popular theory at the time was that Kaspar was in fact the hereditary prince of Baden, and the prince had been switched with another baby before mysteriously appearing 16 years later in Nuremburg as Kaspar Hauser. In this scenario, Kaspar was imprisoned by the Countess of Hochberg so that her sons could be successors to the title in the absence of any surviving male progeny of Charles, Grand Duke of Baden, and indeed it was for this reason that he was surmised to have been ultimately murdered. While this theory has often been thrown about, there is very little evidence to show that this was the case and it has largely been dismissed by historians.
Memorial statue of Kaspar Hauser
In light of many of the inconsistencies and oddities of Kaspar’s story, there are others who believe that the whole thing was more or less a big scam carried out by Kaspar himself, or that it was merely a tall tale woven by a possibly mentally impaired teenager. There are several issues that cast doubt on Kaspar’s own version of events. One is that when he was found he did not seem to exhibit any of the health issues that one would expect of someone who had lived their whole life in a cramped, subterranean dungeon as claimed. For instance, such a long, uninterrupted period of time in absolute darkness should have most certainly resulted in rickets, yet the records show that Kaspar had no such condition, and in fact he was described as being rather healthy looking with a vibrant complexion. He was also in good physical condition for someone who claimed that they had been unable to stand their whole life and had just learned to walk, and Kaspar was able to run or climb stairs with no particular difficulty. It seems that anyone who had lived under such harsh conditions for their entire life would likely have been paler, sicklier, less physically fit, and indeed far more mentally impaired than Kaspar seemed to be. It has also been pointed out that the letters he had been carrying when he was originally found bore handwriting that was uncannily similar to his own. For these reasons, it is thought that the whole account of his previous life had been a fanciful fiction, that Kaspar was a pathological liar, and that the attacks he had suffered were also lies, with the wounds self-inflicted.
Indeed, in this theory the very knife wound that killed him may have been from Kaspar himself, and he had simply cut himself more deeply than he had intended. Other clues surrounding his death point to this possibility as well. For instance, the handwriting and grammatical mistakes of the note found in the garden from the alleged attacker were similar to Kaspar’s, and the letter had been folded in the same characteristic way that he folded other letters he had written. However, for all of the speculation and theories, to this day no one really knows for sure who Kaspar Hauser was, where he came from, how much of his story was true, or who really killed him and the case continues to be a baffling enigma that puzzles to this day.
Equally baffling is yet another strange account which allegedly took place in 1954 at Haneda Airport in Tokyo, Japan. In July of that year, a Caucasian looking man dressed in a suit stepped off a plane that had originated in Europe and causally made his way to customs. When customs asked him the purpose of his visit, he told them that he was there on business, and had indeed been to Japan several times before for the same reason. In fact, the man was conversant in Japanese, as well as French and Spanish. Indeed, his wallet contained currencies from a few European countries. At this point, he seemed to be just an intelligent, well-travelled business man, and there was no reason to be suspicious. Yet then they asked him where he was from and things got strange.
When asked his country of origin, the man matter-of-factly stated he was from Taured, as if it was the most natural answer in the world. The problem is, there is no such country, and when the suspicious customs officer informed him of this the man looked baffled, presenting his passport and insisting that this was indeed where he was from and that it was a country lying between France and Spain. The official-looking passport was indeed issued from a country called Taured, and held customs stamps from several European countries, as well as three previous stamps from Japan, just as the man had said. The man even had a valid-looking driver’s license from Taured. At this point the enigmatic stranger was starting to arouse suspicion, and he was ushered away for further questioning. He was shown a map of Europe and asked to point out where Taured was, yet he seemed genuinely bewildered when he could not locate it there where he claimed it should have been. The only country that was in the location he indicated was the tiny nation of Andorra, and the frustrated man claimed that it was Andorra was the made-up country and that in its place should be Tuared; a country he claimed had existed for over 1,000 years. The skeptical customs officials asked him where he was headed for work, and when they tried the number that the man provided the company on the other end of the line stated that they had never heard of him. A call to the hotel where he claimed to be staying likewise turned up no evidence that he had ever booked a room there, and furthermore the bank information he gave turned out to be from a bank that no one had ever heard of and which could not be contacted. Baffled authorities decided to book him into a hotel under observation as they tried to figure out what to make of his story, yet the following day the man was nowhere to be found in his room, despite the fact that authorities had been outside the whole night. He had simply vanished. Later, when police went to the airport to retrieve the man’s passport and driver’s license for an investigation, they were found to be mysteriously gone without a trace as well.
It is hard to know what to make of this account. Although it has appeared in many Internet articles, as well as mentioned as a factual account in several books, such as The Directory of Possibilities and Strange But True: Mysterious and Bizarre People, there seems to be a lack of any solid original source to verify it, giving it more the distinct air of an urban legend. Nevertheless, there have been numerous theories posed for who the mysterious stranger could have been, ranging from a time traveler to a visitor from some parallel dimension who had somehow pushed through the veil that separates our realities. Unfortunately, there is little we can do to prove or disprove this amazing story, and it remains a mystery.
Curiously, this would not have been the first case of such a puzzling stranger appearing from a phantom country no one had ever heard of. In an eerily similar case, in 1851 a man calling himself Joseph Vorin was found wandering about a village in the rural German district of Lebas, near the town of Frankfort-on-the-Oder. Thinking he was a vagrant drifter, authorities approached the stranger and asked him where he had come from. The stranger, who appeared to be Caucasian, answered in broken German that he was from a faraway country called Laxaria, which he claimed could be found out over the seas in a region he identified as Sakria, neither of which were real places that anyone had ever heard of. When he was detained and brought to Frankfurt for further questioning, things got more bizarre still. Vorin was found to be unfamiliar with any other European language except German, of which he had only a rudimentary grasp, but he claimed to be a native speaker of two unintelligible languages which he said were called Laxarian and Abramian, with one being the written language of the “Clerical Order of Laxaria” and the other the common language of his people. The stranger was apparently very persuasive, explaining the geography of his country and even his religion, which he called Ispatian, in great detail. Vorin further claimed that he had been searching for his missing brother, but that he had become shipwrecked on his journey and had ended up in Germany. It seems that in the end, the baffled authorities came to the conclusion that he was telling the truth and released him.
In 1905 in Paris, France, another such stranger was apprehended when he tried unsuccessfully to pilfer a loaf of bread from a marketplace. When questioned by police, the man claimed in imperfect French that he was from a country called Lizbia. It was at first thought that he was trying to say “Lisbon,” and a Portuguese translator was brought in to help police further question him in more detail. However, the stranger did not speak a word of Portuguese, and indeed did not seem to even be able to locate the country on a map. The man humored authorities by speaking in what he claimed to be his native language, and although it seemed to follow basic rules of syntax and have its own vocabulary, no one had ever heard of it before and indeed no linguist was able to place it. Unfortunately, the authorities could not do much to keep him, and when he had been sternly warned about attempted theft he was released. This is another case for which it is hard to ascertain the parts which could be true or fabricated, and which will probably always remain a curious puzzle.
So what are we to make of all of this? In these disparate stories of mysterious strangers who have appeared from seemingly nowhere do we have in some instances cases of such oddities as time travel, interdimensional portals and spontaneous teleportation? Is there truly something at work here that goes beyond what we know of our universe, with these people somehow walking the line on the limits of reality, transcending the horizons of what we think we understand of space and time? In other cases, such as that of Kaspar Hauser, do we have a true tale of intrigue or merely the ramblings of a swindling degenerate liar? Is any of this possibly real or is this all just urban legends, tall tales, and exaggeration over time, with some of these people having never really even existed at all? Who were these inscrutable strangers, where did they come from, and what did they want? There is a plentitude of questions raised in cases like these to which we are likely doomed to never know the answers to, with the clues fading into legend and obscurity, vanishing just as surely as these mysterious people allegedly appeared.
The US military is looking at how it can turn “average” soldiers into super cyborgs by building an “implantable neural interface” that will allow direct communication between the human brain and a super computer. This will culminate in a killing machine.
The research is part of the Obama administations BRAIN Initiative (Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies), which itself is a very dodgy program to begin with, since it entails studying the manipulation of the human brain.
The concept is being developed together with DARPA, a government at the forefront of military technology and warfare. The new interface will be a small sized bio-compatible unit that will enable the user to communicate with a computer using up to a million neurons at a time, which is about one thousand times faster than any current system in existence.
Although this is sure to excite those who have a rather childish Hollywood view and outlook of military and warfare, this concept is extremely dangerous for multiple reasons. Not only does it trivialize the concept of warfare by degrading it to a type of virtual reality game, which will ultimately be waged at the expense of the poor in resource rich countries who cannot defend themselves, but by allowing government affiliated scientists to connect their technology onto the brains of soldiers automatically runs the risk of them manipulating the human brain. Scientists affiliated with secret government projects have a history of engaging in unethical behaviors, as can be found in multiple experiments such as the tests of MKULTRA or the Tuskegee experiment, among others.
Yes, it is true that the BRAIN initiative can be used for good, but these applications will most certainly be used for warfare and selfish government agendas that are not in the public’s best interest, but rather their own.
1. Snohomish County, WA: A 16-yr. old male and his mother, located approximately 15-20 miles north of Seattle, witnessed a blue-green object suddenly descend from the sky, hover, and then accelerate to the south-southwest and disappear in that direction at approximately 2120 hrs. (PDT).
2. Poulsbo, WA: Larry Swanson, a former federal employee and computer specialist, who resides approximately ¼ mile from the northeast corner of the Bangor Submarine Base, allegedly witnessed a brightly lighted, disc-shaped object glide silently over the center of that military facility at approximately 2122 hrs.. The object tilted somewhat, so the witness was able to see the ventral side of the object quite clearly, he reports. A computer-generated graphic, provided by the witness, is shown above.
3. Auburn, WA: A man out walking his dog witnessed a perfectly circular, blue-green ball of light descend from north to south in the western sky at 2120 hrs. at a very high velocity.
4. Puyallup, WA: A man driving to work witnessed a striking blue-green ball of light descending at a 30-35 degree angle from north to south in the western sky at a very high velocity.
5. Shelton, WA: A young father witnessed a blue-green ball of light streak across the sky to the west of his location.
6. Oakville, WA: A mother and her two sons, driving west on State Route 12, located to the west of Interstate 5, witnessed a “disc shaped” object, imbedded in a cloud of blue-green light, streak from north to south in the western sky. The object appeared to “follow the contour” of the horizon, dipping down suddenly, and then rising up again during its rapid flight to the south. The object was reported to generate a peculiar “tail,” which streamed off the aft end of the object for a fleeting instant. All three witnesses believed they observed three lights on the top of the disc, and three lights on its ventral side, as well.
7. Steilacoom, WA: A woman witnessed a blue-green ball of light streak from north to south in the western sky at 2123 hrs.
8. Vancouver, WA: A husband and wife witnessed a blue-green ball of light move slowly from north to south in the western sky. Very peculiar appearance to the object, they reported, with a peculiar looking “mist” surrounding the object.
9. Portland, OR: A young musician witnessed a blue-green ball of light move from west to east in the northern sky from his vantage point in the city of Portland, OR.
10. Vancouver, WA: A male Ph.D. in computer science, driving north on Interstate 5 witnessed a blue-green ball of light, that seemed to him to descend vertically ahead of his automobile and hover momentarily above the highway. The witness added that he had experienced some very unusual emotional reactions to the event.
11. Yakima, WA: A law enforcement officer witnessed a blue-green ball of light moving at a very high velocity from south to north for approximately 2 seconds. During his sighting, the object suddenly changed its color from green to red. The sighting occurred at 2130 hrs., the witness thought.
Scientists Successfully Decode Thoughts, Reading Individuals’ Minds in Real-Time
Scientists Successfully Decode Thoughts, Reading Individuals’ Minds in Real-Time
Subjects viewed a random sequence of images of faces and houses and were asked to look for an inverted house like the one at bottom left. "That was a distractor," Jeff Ojemann said. "We were interested in what the brain was doing at the other times."
PLOS
IN BRIEF
Using electrodes implanted in epilepsy patients, scientists have decoded brain signals at nearly the speed of perception with better than 95 percent accuracy.
GETTING INSIDE YOUR HEAD
Mind-reading is often dismissed as nothing more than a charlatan trick, but scientists and researchers are trying to change this ‘decoding of the brain’ from quack-science to hard science.
Indeed, significant advancements have been made in this area already. And now, University of Washington scientists have developed technology that allows a device to effectively read your mind.
With a combination of brain implants and sophisticated software, the team was able to interpret their subjects’ thoughts and extrapolate what their subjects were seeing. Thanks to this study, scientists were able to gain insight into how people are able to translate sensory information from an image into something our minds can comprehend.
In their work, which was published in PLOS Computational Biology, the researchers implanted electrodes for a week in seven epilepsy patients. The electrodes were initially implanted to determine where the seizures were originating, but the scientists saw an opportunity to use them to gather data for research (with patients’ permission, of course).
“We were trying to understand, first, how the human brain perceives objects in the temporal lobe, and second, how one could use a computer to extract and predict what someone is seeing in real time?” explained Rajesh Rao, one of the lead authors, in their press release.
UNDERSTANDING YOUR THOUGHTS
Source: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004660
With electrodes in their brains, patients were shown a random sequence of images varying from human faces, houses, and empty gray screens in brief 400 millisecond intervals. The patients were instructed to look out for an image of an upside-down house.
Data was gathered during this time period from the electrodes. This data reflected what is called “event related potentials,” the massive inflow of neurons lighting up after seeing the image, and “broadband spectral changes,” lingering signals after the image was seen.
A computer sampled and digitized the incoming data at a rate of 1,000 times per second, which enabled it to figure out the correlation between the images seen by the patients and the electrode location. Using this data, it was able to distinguish which location is more sensitive to an image of a face and that of a house. This data was used to train the software.
Another set of images, both containing houses and faces, that weren’t shown in the earlier sequences was then shown to the patients. The computer was able to interpret the incoming brain signals in the data and determine what image the subject was then viewing with a 96 percent accuracy—despite a lack of prior exposure to these new picture.
It accomplished all that within 20 milliseconds from the arrival of the data, or almost at the speed of perception itself.
What is more interesting is that the software was only able to accomplish this when it analyzed the signals using both event-related potentials and broadband spectral changes, suggesting that impulses across the region (and not only from the neurons in question) is important to how a person perceives an object.
This research is significant, as scientists are currently trying to map our brains. In the end, brain mapping could identify how various neurons, and their locations, relate to how we process our information and ultimately improve our understanding of how neurological diseases affect us.
A new image from NASA’s New Horizons mission shows the existence of “icebergs” on Pluto, hills of water ice floating in glaciers of denser nitrogen ice. It is but another of many fascinating discoveries returned by this fruitful mission.
WATER ICE AND NITROGEN ICE
NASA’s New Horizons mission keeps astonishing us with new images and new revelations about the mysterious, demoted dwarf planet, Pluto.
The most recent discovery is this little gem: Pluto has hills and small mountains that literally float across its surface. It’s weird and unearthly, but we’re dealing, after all, with a very alien world on the outskirts of the Solar System.
And things are bound to get even weirder.
The newly discovered hills are mostly small, typically a few kilometers across, and were discovered in the immense frozen ocean of the so-called “Sputnik Planum,” which represents the western lobe of the famous heart-shaped Tombaugh Regio, the most prominent feature on Pluto.
It seems these hills are composed of familiar water ice (so they really are icebergs, just like their terrestrial counterparts); since water ice is less dense than nitrogen ice, these hills are literally bobbing in a vast glacier or frozen ocean of nitrogen.
The ice-hills themselves appear to be fragments of the water-ice uplands that ring the smooth Sputnik Planum, and they have apparently broken off and been swept away by the nitrogen glaciers, just like any iceberg in Earth’s Arctic or Antarctic oceans.
Annotated New Horizons image of the “floating hills” in the Sputnik Planum. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
THE CELLULAR TERRAIN
Once afloat in the midst of Sputnik Planum, the ice-hills fall under the sway of the strange forces at work in the vast nitrogen ice glacier. The so-called “cellular terrain” in the central regions of the glacier result from the slow, aeon-spanning convective forces of the nitrogen ice; the ice-hills are caught up in these convective cells, and pushed to their edges, forming small clusters or chains in some cases up to 20 kilometers (12 miles) long.
An unusually large concentration of these “icebergs” was found in a feature called Challenger Colles (“the Challenger hills,” named after the ill-fated Space Shuttle). The feature (seen at the top of the image), with dimensions of 60 by 35 kilometers (37 by 22 miles), seems to represent a kind of “reef” or shallows where a large number of the ice-hills accumulated and “ran aground.”
The discovery of icebergs on Pluto seems to provide a familiar reference-point and link to the geology, hydrology, and other forces at work on Earth; but, once we look into things a little more closely, we understand just how truly alien this distant member of our Solar System really is.
Astronomers have released a new X-ray/radio composite image of the distant galaxy Pictor A, showing a huge jet of high-energy particles produced by a supermassive black hole. They were also able to determine how this jet, over three times the size of the Milky Way galaxy, produces such powerful X-ray emissions.
JET AND COUNTERJET
In the 2014 film Interstellar, Matthew McConaughey and friends were shown exploring a series of planets orbiting a supermassive (but relatively benign) black hole in a distant galaxy. The black hole, called “Gargantua,” was supposed to have an event horizon—that is, a point of no return—about as large as the Earth’s orbit; nevertheless, Gargantua was depicted as fairly quiescent and neighborly.
But the reality of these colossal cosmic nightmares, as a recent image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows, is something very different.
The newly released picture shows the terrifying power of an actual supermassive black hole located in the galaxy Pictor A, some 500 million light years distant. This black hole is about 40 million times the mass of the Sun (that’s about 10 times larger than the black hole at the center of our own galaxy), and if it were to replace the Sun within our Solar System, its event horizon would swallow the orbits of both Mercury and Venus.
So it’s pretty big.
Unlike Gargantua, however, the Pictor A black hole is an energetic and ferocious beast, lashing out at the universe with all the considerable power at its disposal. The new image shows how the material being consumed by the black hole—stars, planets, interstellar gas, unwary astronauts (kidding)—releases a tremendous surplus of energy as it swirls around the event horizon in a massive accretion disk.
All of this unbridled energy is channeled into two immense jets of particles that pierce the intergalactic medium at nearly the speed of light. In fact, these particle beams are so powerful that the observed jet—which is pointed roughly in the direction of the Earth—maintains its integrity for a distance of nearly 300,000 light years.
That’s over three times the length of our own Milky Way galaxy!
Which just serves to underscore the unfathomable energies involved. The new image—which was compiled over 15 years from Chandra data, and is combined with radio imagery from theAustralia Telescope Compact Array—also betrays a fainter “counterjet.” Because it is on the opposite side of the Pictor A galaxy, moving away from Earth, this counterjet is far less visible.
The radio data, which is red in the image (blue represents the Chandra data), also show two huge “radio lobes,” each many times larger than the Milky Way, caused by the jet interacting with intergalactic gas, and a blue X-ray “hotspot” on the far right, the result of shock waves produced by the jet.
Annotated image of the Pictor A galaxy and jets. Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Hertfordshire/M.Hardcastle et al., Radio: CSIRO/ATNF/ATCA
SYNCHROTRON EMISSIONS
The researchers who studied the new data were able to determine that the X-rays generated by the jets of the Pictor A supermassive black hole are most likely caused by what is called “synchrotron emission.” In this mechanism, X-rays are emitted by electrons caught up and spiraling around in powerful magnetic fields.
They were also able to rule out a competing theory: the notion that electrons flung at near light-speed from the central black hole collide with photons from the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Theoretically, such a collision should boost the CMB photons into the X-ray part of the spectrum. But the X-ray signatures did not match this scenario, effectively eliminating it from contention.
Whatever the case, it’s safe to assume there aren’t any inhabitable planets circling the supermassive black hole of Pictor A, and that even Matthew McConaughey would think twice before exploring the environment of this monster.
Major satellite launches have often been followed by UFO sightings soon afterwards, for example, after Sputnik I and II in 1957. In Ottawa, Canada, UFOs were seen on March 3, 1969 after the Apollo 9 launch, on June, 5, 1969 after a suborbital (failed launch) to the moon by the Soviet Union, and in July, 1969, as Apollo 11 orbited the Moon. These correlations, among others, suggest that major rocket launches, especially those extending out of near-Earth orbits, tend to stimulate UFO activity.
Introduction
Major rocket launches have often been followed by UFO activity, possibly coordinated from outposts on the Moon (Lorenzen, 1966, pp. 266, 267).
By 1969, however, there were so many rocket launches and UFO sightings that any attempt to establish correlations between them would be difficult. A decade earlier, there were fewer objects in orbit, though many suborbital flights were still taking place in the late 1940s. To establish the proper sequence of events in this article, Universal Time (designated Z for Zulu) will be given, as well as some local (24 hour time) equivalents (in parentheses).
Following the launch of Sputnik 1 from Baikonur, which the Encyclopedia Astronomica (1957) recorded as onOctober 4, 1957 at 19:28 Z (Oct. 5, 0:28 local time),Lorenzen (1966, p. 65) reported that a 23 year-old farmer inBrazil, Antonio Villas-Boas, observed a nearby area “...lighted as if by a giant searchlight” at about 11 p.m. local time (Oct. 6, 02:00 Z).
This observation was therefore made 30 hours, 32 minutes after the Sputnik I launch. Subsequently, while plowing a field on October 14, the same farmer saw a cartwheel-shaped UFO about 122 meters (400 feet) off the ground, an observation suggesting a UFOfor the earlier Oct. 5 source of light.
UFO activityspiked after the launches of Sputnik I and II, as numerous reports in the NICAP 1957 Sighting Wave Chronology (2014) reveal. Only 1.5 to 4 hours after the Sputnik II launch on Nov. 3, 1957 at 2:30 Z, for instance, a glowing egg-shaped object landed on roads and stalled car engines near Levelland, Texas; on Nov. 4, a UFO was tracked for 20 minutes on radar and was seen by two people at Kirtland Airforce Base (Hynek, 1972; Encyclopedia Astronomica, 1957).
Also on Nov. 4, 1957 at 05:03 Z a large disc-shaped UFO with an orange glow descended at an army garrison atItaipu, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and produced a wave of heat that struck two soldiers, causing first- and second degree burns to 10 percent of their bodies (Lorenzen, 1966).
In some UFO cases, the time lag between a rocket launch and a UFO sighting has been relatively short.
For example, a UFO tracked a Polaris missile during test firing on January 10, 1961; similarly in 1964 soon after another launch, a UFO intercepted an Atlas rocket (Dolan, 2000; Fox & Coleman, 2007). Most surprisingly, perhaps, only four minutes after launch of a rocket carrying China’s first female astronaut on June 16, 2012, an infrared video camera recorded two glowing UFOs nearby (Good, 2013). If it is assumed that UFO responses are coordinated from a Moon base, then launches made from the side of the Earth hidden from UFOs on the Moon would not be as rapid (and the launch site would be obscured), as if they were made from the side of the Earth facing the Moon. These relationships could explain different time lags between rocket launches and UFO sightings, though this would assume that the UFOs were all stationed on the Moon at launch times.
Apollo 9 Test of Lunar Module Docking Maneuvers in Earth Orbit
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March 4, 1969, Ottawa, Canada
Less than 34 hours after launch of Apollo 9 on March 3, 1969 at 15:00 Z , a round UFO was observed onParliament Hill by seven (7) RCMP officers between 0:45 and 2:34 Z. Twenty-six minutes later another RCMPofficer reported two red flashing lights in the sky above Sussex Drive without any associated engine noise(Bondarchuck, 1979).
In addition to the three rocket launches on June 5 described by Nentwich (2008), there was a fourth launch, namely aSoviet Luna mission to the Moon, which failed to achieve orbit
Although this launch was excluded from Clark’s (1977) list of Luna launch failures, Greg Kennedy, compiler of the online “Chronology of Human Space Exploration Part 5: 1967-1974” informed me in an email on Oct. 17, 2008that the ‘Mission Planner’s Manual Proton Commercial Launch Vehicle’ document, printed in 1989 by the Space Commerce Corporation in Houston listed the launch on June 5th, with the note that the second stage failed, while the 1996 TRW Space Log listed the same launch as June 4th, also pointing out that it failed to orbit.
The ideal time for this launch, as given in a “1969 June 1 – Soviet lunar plans”, would have been June 3, 1969 at 23:18 Z, and because Soviet lunar launches were usually within an hour of the ideal time, as noted by Clark (1977), an early June 4th launch seems to be the most likely. In fact, Sokolov (2001) confirmed the Luna launch on June 4 or earlier, stating that because of an electrical problem (p. 461) “...the upper stage could not fire. The complex fell into the Pacific Ocean.”
In addition, he pointed out that another rocket was launched afterLuna on June 4, 1969which reached a height of only 100 metres,at which point it exploded with a power of about ten (10) kilotons!
Editor's note: The Hiroshima A-Bomb blast equaled approximately 20 kilotons
A resident of Uba, Brazil was driving in a car with six passengers when at 09:00 Z their car was “...pursued by a bright orange-colored object which flew around in circles above them, producing interference with the car radio and stopping the engine for a few moments” (Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, 1971, p. 16; UFOCAT, 2005). In addition, several witnesses also observed a UFO after 20:00 Z at a lake 60 km west of Quebec City, Canada,
Between 22:50 and 23:00 Z, more than 50 witnesses reported UFOs in Iowa (Southern Illinoisan, June 6, 1969; Muscatine Journal, June 6, 1969).
Dr. J. Allen Hynek“stated he understood the phenomenon was flashing silver, orange and copper colored, with chunks flying off of it”, while other reports told of two or three objects with bluish-green wakes (Southern Illinoisan, June 6, 1969, p. 14).
Dr. Hynek suggested that the objects could have been parts of a re-entering Russian satellite, although an official with the Space Defence Center stated that “…it was highly unlikely that the objects were from a satellite because one is rarely placed in an east-west orbit.”(Daily Capital News, June 7, 1969, p. 1)
An FAA official stated that sightings at Riverside and Iowa City, were “...variously described as a bright ball of fire, flash[ing] and cigar-shaped objects” with “Colors…from silver to blue and blue-green” (Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 6, 1969, p. 4). The azimuth of the ground path of the “Iowa Fireball” on the map of plate 4 in Klass (1975) was about 272º, equivalent to an inclination of 178º, and therefore larger than the maximum reported inclination of any satellite launched up to that time.
Here it should be noted that the ground path of a satellite is determined by the inclination of its orbit, which is the angle between the Earth’s equatorial plane and a spacecraft’s orbital plane (major axis). Of the thousands of launch-related items in the NORAD Catalog (2012) prior to June 7, 1969, with the exception of 13 which did not re-enter the atmosphere in the June 4 to 6 time interval, the maximum inclinations were all less than 121º,corresponding to azimuths larger than 329º but less than 90º.
Three (3) satellites were expected to re-enter June 5 or 6 but would not cross the sky from east to west (Southern Illinoisan, Friday, June 6, 1969, p. 14).
A Soviet rocket body (NORAD ID 3223) with an inclination of 64.8º (25.2º azimuth) re-entered the atmosphere onJune 5, as listed in the NORAD Catalog (2012), but obviously did not have the east to west ground path of the “Iowa fireball”.
Cosmos 284 had an inclination of 62.3º (azimuth 27.7º), re-entering the atmosphere on June 6 at 5:46 Z, making a soft landing in the Soviet Union (Fairbanks Daily News, June 6, 1969, p. 1; NORAD Catalog, 2012)
For all of these reasons, Cosmos 284 was not responsible for the “Iowa fireball” and, in o summary, neither a rocket launch nor a re-entering satellite explains the “Iowa fireball”.
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory concluded that the “Iowa fireball” had been a meteor, and members of its Meteorite Recovery Project proposed a landing site in southern Iowa (Blue Book files, 1969; Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 7, 1969). However, the following descriptions from several witnesses should be considered before drawing such a conclusion. For instance, a pilot, a teenager and a woman described the object “…as blue and circular, with no wings or indication of a propulsion system…flying east to west above the runway at an altitude of less than 1,000 feet” and with a speed between 483 and 644 km/hr (300 and 400 mph) (Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 6, 1969, p. 3).
A witness north in St. Louis, Missouri reported three objects in a line heading WNW for 60 to 80 seconds, with shapes resembling elongate badminton shuttlecocks (Blue Book files, 1969, p. 14 - 21). A student in East St. Louis, Illinois saw three bright self-luminous, lime-green oval objects beside each other about 805 meters (half a mile) away, decreasing in altitude from 518 to 457 meters (1,700 to 1,500 feet), whereas another witness saw four objects in a line heading west, one of which was oval-shaped with a blue-silver tail (Blue Book Files, 1969, p. 24 – 42).
Several other witnesses saw one of the objects speeding up relative to the other two, while a civilian 53 km (33 miles) northwest of downtown Chicagosaw a single tear-drop shaped object (silvery-aqua color), with a tail 10 times as long as the diameter of the head, and with a piece falling upwards from the object as it traveled silently straight and level (Blue Book Files, 1969).
The most easterly sighting was made by a pilot and two other persons in an airplane near Greenfield, Indiana, who, for about 30 seconds saw a single object with an almost metallic “face” south of Greenfield heading west (Blue Book files, 1969, pp. 47-50). Its trajectory was south of the one shown in plate 4 of Klass (1975), such that different objects were travelling along separate parallel paths.
To summarize, the object(s) had the following characteristics, some of which were not meteor-like: a silvery metallic appearance; flying without being heard; one “piece” moving upwards; one object speeding up relative to the other two; a change in relative positions of the objects from one after another to one beside the other; visibility in flight for over a minute; apparent shapes resembling either a tear-drop, oval, cone, bullet or badminton shuttlecock.
The most compelling evidence for a UFO interpretation, however, was described in a UFO Investigator (1972) article, based on a sighting by an FAA controllerand several pilots, who were flying east near St. Louis, Missouri on June 5. Interestingly, a drawing of a side view of the object in that article resembles the side view of the Roswell UFOillustrated in Randle and Schmitt (1994). The UFO was described in this 1972 article as hydroplane-shaped, 18 to 20 feet long, 7 to 8 feet thick and 12 to 14 feet across at the back end. Viewed from the side, such an object could have had an elongate teardrop shape, but seen at different angles from a distance, it would have had different shapes.
June 6, 1969 in the West End of Ottawa, Canada
On June 6, 1969 between 2:00 and 2:45 Z, and most likely at about 2:30 Z (June 5, 22:30), a UFO about 60 m long (Fig. 1)was observed in the west end of Ottawa (Nentwich, 2008). Its surface wasnot uniformly reflecting light, but was partly covered with a black film.
Figure 1: Side and cross-sectional end views of the Ottawa UFO described in Nentwich (2008).
At about the same time in Ottawa, UFOs appeared over Parliament Hill, after which they travelled to Uplands Airport (Bondarchuk 1979).
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July 18, 1969 about 321,861 km into the flight of Apollo 11
Buzz Aldrin wrote that with the help of an on-board telescope, a UFO was seen pacing their spacecraft; the UFO resembled “a series of ellipses, but when you made it real sharp it was sort of L-shaped”
An employee of the National Research Council, as well as some of her neighbors and a police officer, reported a UFOin Hull (now Gatineau just north of Ottawa) between 11:00 and 1:00 Z. The NRC employee stated that it was “A single object, shaped like a watermelon, glowing brightly with an orange hue”... that “Passed slowly overhead and then travelled at great speed across the Ottawa River to the Parliament Bldgs”, over which it hovered (NRC File N69-128, 1969). This sighting was on the same day as the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
Apollo Flights and UFO Sightings
Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA communications systems, quoted in Good (1988, p. 385), stated that “...all Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin....Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed Mission Control, who ordered absolute silence.” Further evidence supporting this claim includes an analysis of Apollo 16 film by Nakamura (2003, p. 409),who described an enormous domed disc travelling 20 to 40 km/second and wobbling like a leaf falling from a tree.
In addition, indirect evidence presented by Good (2013) suggests that after landing the lunar module on the Moon, theApollo 11 astronauts observed large UFOs nearby. A summary of tentative evidence concerning life on the Moon, including UFO activity there, has been considered by Proud (2013, pp. 279-356), based on many sources in the literature.
Conclusions
UFOs appearing after major rocket launches at or near the launch site or even following the rockets leaves little doubt that such launches stimulate UFO activity. In some cases, however, UFOs have appeared large distances from the launch sites, as in the Texas UFO sightings after the Sputnik 2 launch. These cases are less convincing though the appearance of a UFO shortly after a launch when there were only a few objects in orbit is still significant. The reports of UFOs in Ottawa after the Apollo 9 and Luna launches, and on the day of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, considered together, do not seem entirely coincidental, especially if one includes the Apollo 11 sightings on the way to the Moon.
It may be that UFO reports correlate more strongly with artificial satellites sent by humans beyond near Earth orbits than they do with orbital or suborbital flights. On the other hand, UFOs were also reported on dates when there were no Apollo flights. For instance, a UFO on April 22, 1969 about 25 miles east of Ottawa was seen flying along a power line while another was seen on May 11, 1969 on Allumette Island west of Ottawa (Bray, 1979; Rutkowski, 2006).
Acknowledgements
I thank the staff of the Archives, University of Ottawa for making available the article from Flying Saucer Review Case Histories. Also, I am grateful to Greg Kennedy for the Luna launch data sources. All newpaper articles were retrieved from:
Flying Saucer Review Case Histories (1971, Oct.). Case 129. Early June 1969. Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, Supplement No. 7, 16. The original source was a June 13, 1969 article in O Dia, a Rio de Janeiro newspaper.
Fox, J., & Coleman, T. (Executive Producers). (2007). Out of the Blue: The Definitive Investigation of the UFO Phenomenon. Special (Updated) 5 Year Anniversary Special. [Documentary Film]. Produced and directed by J. Fox, T. Coleman, & B. Zubov. Part 4 of 9 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH4geZ58pVQ
Good, T. (1988). Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up. MacMillan: Toronto.
Good, T. (2013). Earth: An Alien Enterprise. Pegasus: New York, NY.
Hynek, J. A. (1972). The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry. Ballantine Books: New York, NY.
Klass, P. J. (1975). UFOs Explained. Random House: New York, NY.
Lorenzen, C. E. (1966). Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space. A Signet book. New American Library: New York, NY.
NRC File N69-128. (1969). In: Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics. Planetary Sciences Section. National Research Council of Canada RG 77, Vol. 306, File N69/128, 1 page. On Microfilm Reel T-1741 at the National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
Proud, L. (2013). The Secret Influence of the Moon: Alien Origins and Occult Powers. Destiny Books: Rochester, Vermont.
Randle, K. D., & Schmitt, D. R. (1994). The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell. Avon Books: New York.
Rutkowski, C. (2006). The Landing on Allumette Island. In C. Rutkowski and G. Dittman: The Canadian UFO Report: The Best Cases Revealed (pp. 103-104). Dundurn Press: Toronto, Canada.
Where the Super Bowl Meets Space: NASA's Aerodynamics Lab
Where the Super Bowl Meets Space: NASA's Aerodynamics Lab
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
Student intern Joe Burces at NASA's Ames Research Center observes a football in a fluid dynamics chamber.
Credit: NASA Ames/Dominic Hart
Throwing a tight spiral to a receiver downfield isn't so different from trying to get a rocket to fly smoothly through the atmosphere.
Or at least these tasks are similar when viewed from an aerodynamic perspective: Both present questions about how air flows over the surface of an object as the object is hurtled from one point to another through the atmosphere.
So perhaps it's not a coincidence that Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California — where Super Bowl 50 will take place this Sunday (Feb. 7) — isn't the only place in California where people are studying the best way to throw a football. Only a few miles away is the NASA Ames Research Center, where engineers can use wind tunnels, water channels and other tools to study the aerodynamics of rockets, airplanes — and even footballs. [Our 5 Favorite Super Bowl Commercials with a Space Twist]
In Ames' Experimental Aero-Physics Branch lab, scientists use a fluid dynamics chamber to recreate the conditions of an object flying through the air. The chamber has the bonuses of keeping the object in one place, and showing engineers the normally invisible motion of the air around the object. For example, using lasers and smoke, it is possible for scientists to see how the air curls and swirls as it flows off the back of a football, just as it might when the football leaves the quarterback's hand and heads toward the receiver.
"What we are looking for in the smoke patterns is, at what speed the smoke patterns suddenly change," Rabi Mehta, chief of the Experimental Aero-Physics Branch at Ames, said in a statement.
One of the major factors in determining how well an object flies through the air is the so-called "boundary layer" — a thin layer of air around the object that can act like a buffer, letting the air slide over the object and thus making it more aerodynamic, according to NASA. If the boundary layer is torn off the object, friction can slow down the object or cause it to wobble.
"It is the state and behavior of that layer that is critical to the performance of the ball," Mehta said. "The materials used, the ball's surface roughness and its [weight] distribution determine its aerodynamics."
A golf ball, for example, is dimpled for a very important aerodynamic reason: The dimples make the boundary layer more turbulent, which keeps it wrapped around the ball longer. A smooth golf ball loses its boundary layer faster, and only travels about half the distance as a dimpled ball, the statement said.
A football isn't dimpled, but it is "shaped like a wing and more aerodynamic than a round ball, so the flow [of air] is very different," Mehta said.
"When a quarterback throws the football, he ideally wants to throw a tight spiral with high rotation rate to help stabilize the ball as it flies through the air," he said. "This produces lower drag than a wobbling ball, so it will get there faster."
These types of studies can also provide insight into why a baseball curves, or why a football punter should try to kick the ball so that it rotates around a horizontal axis.
Smoke and lasers show the flow pattern around an Adidas Brazuca soccer ball at NASA's Ames Research Center.
Credit: NASA Ames/Eric James
Mehta has spoken to athletes about the aerodynamics of the balls used in their respective sports, and says the athletes often seem to understand exactly what he's talking about. Even though they haven't studied aerodynamics in a lab, their experience on the field has taught them lessons about how a ball moves through the air. Talking to nonscientists about the aerodynamics of footballs and other sports equipment can also be a way to get them interested in science.
"Sports provide a great opportunity to introduce the next generation of researchers to our field of aerodynamics by showing them something they can relate to," Mehta said.
Time-Traveling TV: LG Super Bowl Ad Features 'Man from the Future'
Time-Traveling TV: LG Super Bowl Ad Features 'Man from the Future'
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Liam Neeson stars as "The Man from the Future" in a Super Bowl ad for LG's new G6 OLED TV.
Credit: LG
The Super Bowl commercial for LG's new ultra-thin TV has a decidedly sci-fi bent.
The minute-long ad, which will air Sunday (Feb. 7) during Super Bowl 50 between the Carolina Panthers and Denver Broncos, stars Irish actor Liam Neeson as "The Man from the Future," who travels back in time to tell a younger version of himself (played by Neeson's son, Micheal) about the coming revolution in viewing technology.
That revolution, according to the commercial, is the G6 OLED TV, a soon-to-be-launched product that LG representatives say is as thin as four credit cards stacked on top of one another.
The ad's executive producer is Ridley Scott, the director of such prominent sci-fi films as "Alien" (1979), "Blade Runner" (1982), "Prometheus" (2012) and 2015's "The Martian," which was recently nominated for six Academy Awards. Scott's son Jake directed the new "Man from the Future" LG ad.
Filer’s Files #6 – 2016 We Can Take ET Home - PART I
UFO photographed over Highway 75, in Florida on January 4, 2016
Filer’s Files #6 – 2016 We Can Take ET Home - PART I
In Special Reports, This Week’s Files Cover: Shiki Kaifu, Prime Minister, Japan and Ufos, Nasa Archives Ufo Research Studies, Paul Hill’s Unconventional Flying Objects, Space Travel Shorter Time Period Than Thought, We Can Take E.T. Home, and ISS Sees UFO.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Bolivia, Canada, France, Korea, Nigeria, Spain, and England in the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The weekly intelligence report provides you with information on the latest sightings and UFO news that you need to understand the world situation. The purpose of these files is to report the UFO eyewitness and photo/video evidence that occurs on a daily basis around the world and in space. These Files assume that extraterrestrial intelligent life not only exists, but my hypothesis is that the over a thousand UFOs reported each month represent technologically advanced spacecraft conducting surveillance of Earth. I personally became interested in UFOs when London Control ordered me to intercept one over England while flying for the US Air Force and Prince Phillip told me of his personal interest in UFOs. The US Air Force investigated UFOs for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFOs are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
Toshiki Kaifu, Prime Minister, Japan and UFOs
Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu “First of all, I told a magazine this past January that, as an underdeveloped country with regards to the UFO problem, Japan had to take into account what should be done about the UFO question, and that we had to spend more time on these matters.”
Toshiki Kaifu, former Prime Minister stated, “In addition, I said that someone had to solve the UFO problem with far reaching vision at the same time. Secondly, I believe it is a reasonable time to take the UFO problem seriously as a reality… I hope that this Symposium will contribute to peace on Earth from the point of view of outer space, and take the first step toward the international cooperation in the field of UFOs.
Toshiki Kaifu, Prime Minister, Japan, in a letter to Mayor Shiotani of Hakui City, dated June 24, 1990, endorsing an upcoming Space & UFO Symposium.
NASA Archives UFO Research Studies
Dr. Alan Holt writes UFO Research studies indicate that the unexplained (residual) UFO phenomena may be due to extraterrestrial visitors, parapsychological experiences, or a combination of the two. If some UFO phenomena are caused by extraterrestrial visitors in very advanced spacecraft, then the frequency of visits and the large number of different types of visitors (many different humanoids have been described) imply ability to cross-large stretches of galactic and inter-galactic space in relatively short time frames.
If the speed of light is a true limit of velocity in space-time, then the potential extraterrestrial visitors must utilize a form of transportation, which transcends space and time to keep the trip times short. UFOs are often observed to disappear instantaneously. In a subset of these cases, the UFO later reappears at a nearby location implying a disappearance from and reappearance into space-time. The high speed, right angle turns, abrupt stops or accelerations of UFOs, and the absence of sonic booms despite calculated speeds of 22,000 mph or more suggest that UFOs may generate an artificial gravitational field or otherwise use properties of space-time which we are not familiar with, UFO propulsion systems appear to involve electromagnetic or hydromagnetic processes as evidenced by radiative effects on the environment such as burns, dehydration, stopping of automobile engines, TV and radio disruption, melting or alteration of ground and road surfaces, power disruptions, and static electricity effects.
This data suggests that the unknown relationship between electromagnetic and gravitational fields may be used in UFO propulsion systems.
HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PROPULSION CONCEPT
The concept of transcending space-time for interstellar and intergalactic travel was felt to be a viable possibility based solely on theoretical studies in physics and ‘astrophysics and UFO studies. However, with the postulation and potential discovery of black holes, the potential for experimental support for this concept in the near future has been established. Astronomers have already speculated on the possibility that the mass and energy absorbed by a black hole may reappear in white holes or quasars. For mass and energy to be transported from one space-time point to another without an observable connection implies some form of higher dimensional space transcending space-time as we know it. The existence of a higher dimensional space would open up new space travel” possibilities since the connections between space-time points through this hyperspace could involve laws much different from those, which are so constraining in space-time. For example, if each space-tine point can be assumed to be unique and if a relationship does exist between gravitational and electromagnetic fields, then each space-time point defined by a geometric form (Einstein’s tensor metric) would be expected to have natural resonances with certain electro/hydro magnetic wave forms (geometric forms) which are (effectively) higher or lower harmonics of that space-time point (which is a”projection”of the higher dimensional space). Excerpt from FIELD RESONANCE PROPULSION CONCEPT Thanks to Dr.Holt.”Propulsion Concepts for Galactic Spacecraft Website
Unconventional Flying Objects
NASA’s Paul Hill’s book, Unconventional Flying Objects, is based on solid NASA/US Military data. It is solid physics and engineering showing that UFOs have some kind of propellant less inertial drive based on a micro-miniaturized, probably nano-engineered, smart high temperature superconducting outer shell. The Modanese theory fits this scenario quite well and is mathematically simple.
The Paul R Hill Special Collection is held by the Archives of American Aerospace. He was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Service Medal in 1969.This award was “… granted for significant achievement or service characterized by unusual initiative or creative ability that clearly demonstrates substantial improvement in engineering, administrative space flight, or space-related endeavors which contribute to NASA programs”. In 1970, Hill received a citation for outstanding scientific leadership for “directing research applicable to space laboratories and other spacecraft.”
He authored the first NACA technical paper on ram jet technology and headed the NACA’s Pilotless Aircraft Division.
By the early 1950s, in part inspired by his personal interest in the ‘flying saucer’ or ‘UFO‘ phenomenon, Hill began experimenting in his own time with kinesthetically controlled flying platforms.
In 1956 the US Air Force established project HYWARDS, with the aim of developing a hypersonic design capable of up to Mach 12, as a successor to the X-15. Hill made a number of important contributions, particularly in the design of hypersonic wind tunnels. By 1959, Hill became involved in research for a future lunar mission.
Space station research began in earnest at NASA-Langley in the early 1960s and Hill played a prominent role.
He maintained a long-term interest in Unidentified Flying Objects. He had two personal UFO sightings. The first was on July 16, 1952, with his future wife, Frances Hoback, and was reported to the USAFBlue Book project. This sighting was officially classified as aeroplanes as a flight of bombers were in the area.
The then head of Blue Book, Captain Edward Ruppelt was later to write of the case, that,
“The only possible solution to the sighting was that the two men (sic) had seen airplanes. We investigated this report and found that there were several B-26’s from Langley AFB in the area at the time of the sighting. However, none of the B-26 pilots remembered being over Hampton Roads. In fact, all of them had generally stayed well south of Norfolk until about 10:30 P.M. because of thunderstorm activity northwest of Langley. Then there were other factors – the observers heard no sound and they were away from all city noises, also aircraft don’t carry just one or two amber lights, and the distance between the two lights was such that had they been on an airplane the airplane would have been huge or very close to the observers. “And last, but not least, the man from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics was a very famous aerodynamicist and of such professional stature that if he said the lights weren’t airplanes they weren’t.”
Hill’s second personal UFO sighting, in 1962, was not reported to Blue Book, but is described in his book. Hill was a strong proponent of the extraterrestrial hypothesis, which suggests that some UFOs represent structural craft of extraterrestrial origin. After retiring from NASA he developed his analysis with the aim of demonstrating that those UFOs that are not misidentifications of mundane objects or phenomena, have a coherent and consistent set of performance characteristics that are in line with what is allowable within physical theory. Hill presented his case within his book, ‘Unconventional Flying Objects: A Scientific Analysis’. The book was published posthumously.
‘Unconventional Flying Objects’ was well received by pro-UFO commentators and is widely referenced by pro-UFO writers,
Space Travel Shorter Time Period Than Thought
The basis for the shortened trip in space is NASA scientist engineer’s Paul R. Hills book “Unconventional Flying Objects“ with a forward by astronaut Edgar Mitchell. Hill obtained numerous UFO reports at Langley Air Force Base where I was stationed. NASA was picking up evidence for alien bases on the Moon and the Shuttle was videotaping UFOs. He developed a chapter on space travel with the appropriate math.
He states the trip to, “Aloha Centuri, a triple star system 4.3 light years away made by accelerating at 140 g to a v/c of 0.9999 is accomplished from a standing start to a standing finish in 6 weeks.” He points out that aliens traveling from many of the 2000 known planets could reach here in less than two years, the time it took Sir Francis Drake to go around the world.
Hill states, “I hope I have made it clear that there is an important distinction to be made between the time experienced by the space traveler and the time which passes meanwhile on the home planet and on the planetary destination. The tremendous acceleration, speed, and energy capabilities displayed by UFOs make them well suited to capitalize on this distinction by the attainment of greatly reduced on board times realizable by approaching the speed of light. Even an approach to 90 % of light speed gets the job done for the nearer stars. Higher fractions of light speed give attractive time reductions for longer trips. Don’t be misled by countless statements in the literature that interstellar distances and the speed of light constitute some kind of barrier to space travel. There are only two paths to this conclusion:
Nobody in the universe has the technology to approach the speed of light.
Observer time is significant, and on board time is to be ignored.
Both paths are false ones. The confused second view is more common. Its proponents are using the observed time for light to travel as the shortest possible time for passage is totally false”. Pages 272 and 278. Thanks to NASA’s Paul Hill.
Editor’s Note: There are also strong indications large Mother ships are in this solar system and they have developed bases on the Moon, Earth, and on nearby planets.
Provo – 1967 disc from Lt. Col. Wendell Steven’s files now owned by Open Minds. Air Force Captain Harvey Williams was flying a C- 47 at 12,000 feet when he took this photo of a possible Alien Reproduction Vehicle 25 miles southwest of Provo, Utah. Allegedly, the disc could operate near the speed of light by reducing the mass of the vehicle and withdrawing energy from the space environment.
The late Ben R. Rich, a UCLA School of Engineering alumnus (MS ’50) who is known as the “Father of Stealth,” is recognized as one of the best aircraft engineers in the world and led development of the heralded F-117 stealth fighter. At an engineering conference in Los Angeles on March 23, 1993, Dr. Ben R. Rich stated to the future International Director of the Mutual UFO Network engineer Jan Harzan that “We already have in our possession the technology to take ET home.” This was in a conference room full of aerospace and computer engineers from many different UCLA School of Engineering alumni who worked for aerospace and software companies
Ben showed slides and went through the history of the Skunk Works. Showed pictures of U2 and SR-71 and drones that no one had seen before.-The last slide showed a black disk headed for space. Ben showed this and made the statement, “We now have the technology to take ET home”. During Questions and Answers afterwards he told the engineers that it was now possible to travel to the stars. There was an error in the equations, which was corrected. The time of travel is fast, but he didn’t say how fast. Ben said he believed that security was too oppressive and that the time had come to develop this technology in the commercial world now that the cold war has ended. He died of cancer months later.
A series of retired engineers from TRW, McDonald Douglas, and Lockheed are now revealing that the US has unbelievable advanced technology. That standard college level scientific education is thirty plus years behind.
The US Air Force Academy Space Sciences Textbook warned if UFOs exist they make many of the laws of physics obsolete such as Einstein’s law.
Colonel Donald G. Carpenter writes, “Something that must be guarded against in any such study is the trap of implicitly assuming that our knowledge of Physics (or any other branch of science) is complete. An example of one such trap is selecting a group of physical laws, which we now accept as valid, and assume that they will never be superseded. Five such laws might be:”
Every action must have an opposite and equal reaction.Every particle in the universe attracts every other particle with a force proportional to the product of the masses and inversely as the square of the distance.3. Energy, mass and momentum are conserved.4. No material body can have a speed as great as c, the speed of light in free space.
5. The maximum energy, E, which can be obtained from a body at rest is E=mc2, where m is the rest mass of the body.
Space Station UFO
On January 29, 2016, looking ISS Space Station on my computer I saw an object outside the ISS. I have a movie you can watch of a cylinder shaped object pass by the ISS and picked up in the Netherlands.
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Filer’s Files #6 – 2016 We Can Take ET Home - PART II
Filer’s Files #6 – 2016 We Can Take ET Home - PART II
Sightings in the United States
Arkansas Cylinder
LD Harbor — On Russian New Year’s around 8:15 pm, I was headed down to the gym to pick up my daughter on January 14, 2016. She had just called to say that only two of her friends and herself were there and she wanted to be picked up early. As I rounded the corner, I thought I saw a shooting star off to my right, towards the hillside. As I got to the store, I realized it was three blinking lights close together. I thought maybe it was a remote control airplane or a drone. Also, the object was flying pretty fast. When I arrived at the school, I could see the three girls swinging on the swing set waiting for me. My daughter came running at me full speed waiving her arms. She was all excited saying, “Did you see that mom? It was a big drone or something right above us! It hovered right above us! I searched the sky above the school and caught site of the blinking lights. Three colors, the object traveled fast, south, toward the church, then took a sharp left out toward the bay.It headed straight to the airstrip fast! I thought it was going to land. My daughter wanted me to follow it and we spotted it heading our way from the airstrip. It was still out over the bay, my daughter wanted me to stop the truck. She said it was coming closer to check us out, that freaked me out but I stopped the truck anyway. I looked just in time to see the blinking lights fly up higher, fast and go towards the hillside and disappear.
Witness two,. My daughter states, “My two friends saw it hover for some 5 minutes about eight feet above us. After my mom pulled up, it glided toward the church and then over the ocean toward the airport..” Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Lights
Anaheim — My daughter took a picture of the pinkish sky. In the process she captured these four ufo like circles in the picture.
I looked up and saw them as well briefly as I was driving. but as soon as I turned to keep an eye on the road they disappeared.
These don’t look aircraft like in any way and made no sign, or trace, or sound.. And the spacing between all for is exact to the dimension.
I don’t know what we saw but vanished quite quickly. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Note: Four lights are likely a reflection on the camera lens.
El Cajon–The photographer made a great catch of a UFO shooting past a contrail of a jet to investigate it on January 14, 2016. UFOs often monitor aircraft, the closest things to them, and things that fly interest them a lot.#73895 Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Orb
I was driving along I-75 when I spotted this seemingly stationary object on January 4, 2016.
I used my daughters monocular to view the oval object with no familiar shapes or markings. I snapped several photos as best as I could but had to remain safe with children in car.
My eight year old observed object as well. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Lake Buena Vista — I was watching the parade at the Magic Kingdom on January 4, 2016. 2) I was seeing the pictures I had taken, they were good. 3) Just asked my mother and my father what they thought. 4) I did not see the object in the sky, I just saw the picture. 5) I was struck by the photo and what it could be. 6) Unfortunately I did not notice the object in the sky during the event. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Light
Edinburg – These pictures were taken this evening January 30, 2016. They followed me from Edinburg to Taylorville, Illinois, which is only ten miles from me.
It is just hard to believe that people around here do not even notice the different objects in the sky. I guess their not interested like I am. Hope you are well. Take Care Pam Stark
Indiana Green Ball
Noblesville — The day before Thanksgiving, on November 25, 2015, my husband, Jay, accompanied me to the store. At 21:21 hours, local time, a cloud was lit, from above, as though a plane were just above it. A bright green ball of light passed through the cloud and descended 3,000 feet, slowly towards the ground. My first thought was that maybe this was a missile, but it was traveling excessively slowly. There was no noise, and we could not see it touchdown anywhere because of the terrain. It was a bright emerald green ball of light, I have never seen anything like it. I am glad my husband saw it, too, because I still cannot believe that what we saw was real. Thank you for your website and the work you do. Thanks to Monica
Nebraska Light
Grandisland – I was driving down Highway 281 and seen this funnel like shape cloud coming from the ground and working its way higher on January 27, 2016. I stopped and took a picture of it and at that time, it just stayed in the same spot for about a minute. It then started to work its way back up into the sky.
Then in a blink of an eye, it took off and it was gone. I guess it went into space. But, when I got home, I looked at the pictures and I saw there were white dots in the pictures, which I saw when I took them. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nevada Cloud
Rachel — For our tenth wedding anniversary my husband and I decided to make the trek to Rachel, since we both love sci-fi and have always wanted to go there. We were between the front and back gate when we saw these clouds so I whipped out my good camera to snap a few shots since the clouds looked cool on May 20, 2012, but the more we look at them and the longer we watched them the more we have become convinced that they were unusual. I felt this huge need to share. I also live near an active air force base and have seen strange craft before, but never ever like this. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Vapor
Gallaway – I was with three other women in a cemetery on November 1, 2015, All Souls Day to take pictures of orbs. I decided to lie down on graves and said I would treat it like a séance. After getting up and walking over to the Bowen graves, we all were taking pictures of orbs, as it’s believed that the veils are thinner this time of the year. We were reviewing our pictures, and mine was different than the others. They had never seen what I captured. I have attached picture. I thought it was ghosts or spirits that only my camera captured. After seeing Steven Greer’s two hour lectures and his pictures this weekend, I realized it could be associated to ETs. I submitted pictures to Weird NJ and editor said he has seen them before but never as bright as mine. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Light
My story begins with what seemed to be a very unusual lucid dream on November 22, 2015. In my dream, I found myself standing in the hall bathroom doorway, wondering how I got there. I turned left and saw a “grey”-type looking creature crouching under my dining room table looking at me. I felt what he was feeling instead, as he stared back at me. He was angry. I knew he had been there for a while, and felt his anger towards my observing him. He was short and crouched, naked, with an enlarged head, and skin like bluish sharkskin. ]
He had a pot like belly and wrinkles around his almond eyes. After those first few moments of our encounter, I awoke, and my fiancé jumped awake at the same time to a huge crash in the dining room. He went and checked first and I followed from the bedroom to the dining room. The corner table had smashed to the ground, two legs broken off. It was even stranger that it seemed to be UNDER the dining table. That is when we realized the dining table had moved three feet towards the wall. A tablet controls it and the tablet just said the company name that manufactures it. No buttons worked, nothing on it worked at all. But all windows and doors were secure and locked. We looked outside and to our shock two unusual bright orbs hung ahead from our front door. This then further supported this strange encounter in our home only moments earlier. We took this photo of one of the orbs. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Cylinder
Cleveland— We were both at The Pier in Lakewood, hoping to catch a beautiful sunrise of the skyline on December 12, 2015. We both are photographers and tend to only notice the scene, not many specifics. When I did my normal photo analysis I found a weird silver stick-like figure by the Key Bank building. So I zoomed in and found that the figure has a metal look to it. I first got other opinions and when even my professors told me “I have no clue what that is” I knew I caught something literally out of this world.
At first, I was a skeptic and thought it was a plane, but there are no wings. I finally smartened up and concluded it was a UFO. On the second photo, there was a little light that shot into the distance. I felt as though there was a different presence while we were both shooting. It was a weird comfort I had up until the object shot off. The photos were documented at 7:15 am. There was cloud cover, which means it was flying too low in the city for a plane. Sight was lost when it shot off towards the lake area. This raises the question, is this a UFO or a USO? We may never know, but my findings could become key. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Cleveland– It is now January 6, 2016, and at 9:00 pm, last evening I looked at the stars in a very clear sky. Then noticed a much larger very bright white and red triangular shaped object. Thought perhaps a satellite. Two hours later, there were at least five triangles. The original one I viewed had changed position, but only slightly. Some seemed to mingled amongst stars, yet stand out in distinct appearance. We are 30 miles from Cleveland. I’ve seen these twice before in the past. They appear triangular, but seem as if one took three oblong shapes and connected them in the center. Thanks to Mary
Oregon Orb
Vancouver — Grants Pass— My sister lives just outside of Grants Pass and an object just appeared there on January 1, 2016. It then changed direction and she took a string of pictures over almost 30 minutes.
The odd thing is she has no memory of the incident. She had these images on her camera the next day and uploaded them on to her computer.
I thought you should be made aware of this incident. My sister gave me permission to post these pictures. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Tennessee Disc
I was standing at the river taking pictures of the clouds and lightning on February 2, 2015. I spotted the UFO after looking at the photo.
I can even see a vapor-like emission coming from the bottom as commonly described. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Lights
Fort Worth — It was 8:24 pm on January 21, 2016, and I went outside to grab something from my car when I noticed something in the sky that looked like a really bright star. Then another one appeared next to it, and at that time my 8 year old son came outside. “I told him to look,” and right as I said that, another one appeared. I then told him to go inside and get his grandma, and when she came outside another one aligned with the previous three. The objects hovered in the same spot for a few minutes and then began to gradually move away.
The objects would still stay in place for the most part when the airplanes would fly by them. The objects seemed to be about 3-4 times the size of the airplanes. We spotted at least 6 different objects all in different areas. Some of the objects were moving and getting brighter, while others faded away. We watched for about 30 minutes and we filmed a lot of it. Snip. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Orb
Tacoma — This is the third time my wife and I have seen these lights flashing across the sound. Tonight January 24, 2016, at 7:15 PM, my grandson was with us. We have a view over the Puget Sound. They have come from the same area. It looks like they appear over the water and one flew the same route two years ago. I tried taking video, but they appear like yellow and soft red lights, not blinking like aircraft. They made no sound of any kind. Their flight appears more of a hovering motion unlike aircraft that fly in straight line and emit some type of sound. When they got to the same spot in the sky they went up fast and disappeared. They were too high and fast to be drones. On my video and I can see some type of outline. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Worldwide Sightings
Australia Black Rim
Geelong — It was the size of my thumbnail at arm’s length and looked like an F-16 fighter from behind without the wings. The after burn was flame colored with a very large black rim with no movement at all on November 14, 2004. There was a bit of wind too so it was definitely not a balloon. It hovered dead still for five minutes so I decided to drive closer to it. That’s when it vanished and gave me goose bumps looking at it because I felt it was checking us out. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Cairns – I was smoking a cigarette at the rear patio at 7:20 pm local time, when a brilliant white rapidly blinking light crossed the sky in a northeast direction, with a directional change resembling a snake’s slither on January 30, 2015. The blinking light travelled very quickly, too fast for a satellite pass, then it stopped abruptly, and hovered for a minute or so. The multiple lights, with the brilliance of the strobe seemed to emanate from alternating point, very close to each-other that changed to bright red.
It then descended like a falling leaf, paused, at which time I had to stand on a chair to view over my neighbors’ roof, The object/light then shot off at high speed. My girlfriend was in the shower when I first viewed the object, and I asked her to wrap a towel around herself, and come out to see this thing. She did this, and also witnessed the object. The object was in clear sky at first and hovered long enough for the clouds to draw closer to it. The cloud-base was around 2500 feet. The object was smaller, and closer, than I had at first guessed, because it was just below the clouds before descending. It occurred to me that this might be a drone, but was travell
ing very fast, over a long distance, in controlled airspace. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Bolivia Disc
Chochis Santa Cruz— We walked two kilometers from the Sanctuary of Chochis and saw a light from afar. We went to investigate. To our surprise it was approaching us.
This light was a vibrating machine and I quickly took a photo with my cell phone. Its speed was impressive. These sites continue to be worth investigating. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Orb
Camrose– On January 23, 2016, around 10:00 pm, we were heading west on Hover Road and off to the northwest we spotted an unusual bright light high in the sky.
James took pictures with his camera. See photograph for details on type of photo and time. It was not a planet and not an aircraft. It just hovered and then slowly moved towards the west. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Regina — At 4:30 AM, a blinding bright light coming through the blinds of the bedroom window on January 30, 2016 woke me up. This happened to me once before in Switzerland in this exact same scenario. At the time, I woke up and noticed how bright it was, and my dog started to howl. The object seemed to move side to side a tad, but stayed hovering with a pulsing bright light which continued until I got tired and went back to sleep. The moon is currently half full so it was not the moon. The light was so bright it woke me up. In the video you can clearly see the pattern of the brightness changing as it pulses in a pattern. The aura around the light is visibly illuminated in a large diameter. Thanks to MUFON CMS
France White Light
When flying from France on January 20, 2016 on the BA flight from Algiers to London in 2547, I clearly watched a very bright white light, stable, who drew on the front cover as a target (a perfect circle with a dot in the middle). This observation was at 3:45 p.m..
The plane was flying at that moment in the Result Region of Limoges in Central France. The cloud cover was at 1500 meters below the unit. The “target” was at least 300 meters in diameter. It was clear that this target was awesome. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Korea Light
Daegu — This is my video reports regarding my mass sightings from South Korea on April 25. 2015. I already reported these videos to other related organizations, SETI Institute, NASA and Breakthrough Listen HQ team. However there was no answer. Please kindly review my edited two videos and contact me if you want. We can capture them anytime in our country! Thanks to MUFON CMS
Nigeria Light
Akwa-Ibom State — Ifot Favou Johnnie writes, “It was said that days after Easter of 2014 in a town in Akwa-Ibom State that an unidentified object came from the sky while the rain was falling at about 21:00 hours.” The bright object came as a light object from the other part of the village in a ship like form.
A bright light entered a house around the village and all the light bulbs exploded. The object passed through a Banana tree, Coconut tree and a Pear tree and in the morning it was found out that the trees where all decayed and dead. The said unidentified object traveled down to the earth and the point where it entered the ground/soil was very soft the next day. From my point of view, I think that these object needs to be examined to know what it really is. Thanks to Ifot Favou Johnnie
Philippines Disc
Please believe…me and my cousin saw a ufo on March 1, 1986, near the volcano. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Spain UFO
Morales de toro (Zamora) – In our family house at 17 hours. I looked at the sky and saw the object the last few seconds before it was hidden in a cloud.
It was the first UFO I’ve seen in my life. It was a silver plate, sphere reflecting the sun that was perfectly spherical. It was hidden to the right side on a cloud and never left. I was surprised and excited by what I saw. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Object
Between Leicester & Derby — I was driving southbound on M-1 approaching Junction 21 on January 15, 2015. There was traffic on the road and travelling about 20 mph. I noticed through my front windscreen an unusual white short sharp trail perhaps 5 mm in length. It looked well over a mile away in the southeast sky. It started as very small white trail with a 45-degree angle. Then the trail seems to change direction going vertical. At this point, I felt that an object was causing this trail as the trail took an upside down very shape appearance. Which looked like it was caused by drag against whatever this object was. All I could see was the trail though and not an object. It then appeared to change direction again by which it looked like it was going back to the left almost like back on itself, which I have never seen before. I thought best to try to take several pictures. Reviewing the pictures, I managed to capture a transparent star shaped object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Venezuela Lights
Caracas — A set of flashing lights of red and green color that flew over the mountains of El Ávila National Park.
The lights were observed last October 3, 2015, by Jesus Martinez and his wife.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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The Secret Past of Antarctica
The Secret Past of Antarctica
Antarctica was once Atlantis. An antediluvian island continent paradise from where evil nephilim overlords ruled the entire Earth with great ruthlessness using occult knowledge that included things like black magick & super advanced technology taught to them by their fathers - the watchers that fell in the days of Jared [see 1 Enoch 9:6-9].
Poseidonis was the capital of Atlantis. The island continent appeared to sink into the ocean during the Great Deluge mentioned in Genesis 6:5-7,11-13 & 7:17,19-24. Later it was flash frozen due to sudden global crustal displacement where it was covered with ice until the Nazis learned from esoteric Tibetan monks that Antarctica used to be Atlantis during their expedition there from 1938-1939.
The Nazis built Base 211 in Antarctica and started searching for all the flash frozen advanced technology which they tried to retro-engineer until the Americans took over the operation during Operation Highjump.
The Americans then took all the technology found then and later during Operations Deep Freeze with all the occult Nazi scientists back to the U.S.A. to keep retro-engineering all the technology in D.U.M.B.s hidden in the remote desert.
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PROJECT REDSUN: THEY WENT TO MARS WITHOUT TELLING US PROJECT REDSUN: THEY WENT TO MARS WITHOUT TELLING US
PROJECT REDSUN: THEY WENT TO MARS WITHOUT TELLING US
How much do we know about Mars? Or is it “how much we don’t know about it” a better question to ask?
According to several sources, the distant Red Planet meant an important deal to NASA ever since the late 1950s. As the Apollo program was coming to an end, and with the entire population bathed in excitement because of the huge step humanity took towards progress and innovation, the space agency already had bigger plans for the near future.
Apparently, at that time (in 1970s more precisely) NASA focused more on a manned mission to Mars. As crazy as this sounds, it might prove to be true, and here is why: 50 years ago from now, in the summer of 1965, Mariner 4 became the first successful mission to come near the surface of the Red Planet. The photos returned by the space module caused an immense stir among NASA’s personnel, as it revealed never before seen features of the bizarre “red dot” that could be observed from Earth.
What they learned in 1965 made the agency want to send astronauts there ASAP in order to colonize the Red Planet and who knows what other reasons they had. Therefore, NASA secretly funded a project similar to the Apollo missions which they codenamed Project REDSUN. Its aim was apparently to colonize the planet, but after analyzing the case, it seems that they had some other thoughts as well. Is it possible that NASA encountered some form of intelligent life on Mars?
In 1971, one year before the final Apollo mission, Mariner 9 was orbiting Mars and managed to photograph the entirety of its surface, thus providing conclusive images with ancient riverbeds, a 3,000 mile-long grand canyon, gigantic volcanoes, and other artificial-like structures that we can also see for ourselves today.
What seems rather interesting is the fact that NASA had a free hand to operate under the ongoing lunar exploration hysteria. Another curious thing to note is the fact that the agency was overly prepared to send a second mission to Mars, as Richard Zurek, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s leading scientist revealed:
It was a good thing we had other spacecraft ready, as it might have stopped Mars exploration for a while. The pace of exploration would have slowed – we certainly wouldn’t have had anything as ambitious as the mission in 1970s.
Mariner 9’s photo of Nirgal Vallis, the largest valley network on Mars
It was a planet that seemed similar enough to the Earth that you could imagine it having supported life in the past… We still don’t know for sure if life did develop there.”
In the years that followed, several exploration modules were sent to Mars, probably because of the unimaginable discoveries that were previously unearthed. However, first photos from the actual surface of the planet were taken by the Viking 1 mission and were revealed on July 20, 1976. One day later, the first color picture taken by the Viking 2 lander was available. Considering all the above, we can’t help but wonder what happened between 1970 and 1976, and why the space agency didn’t officially admit the landing of a module on the Martian surface until then?
On August 28, 1973, a secret mission funded by NASA and the US Department of Defense was to depart towards the distant planet Mars under the name of Project Redsun. According to recently leaked documents, the crew consisted of American astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Neil Armstrong and a fellow comrade from the USSR named Vladimir Ilyushin.
The video below was supposedly leaked from a collection of 16mm archived footage used in the training of NASA astronauts and Air Force pilots. The video reveals how astronauts aboard a spacecraft considered to be the ISV Columbus, are slowly leaving behind Earth’s view to welcome a new, more dusty sight of planet Mars. Some features of the Red Planet are clearly visible during the orbital flight, including the famous South Pole of Mars.
Mission control was established at Cocoa Beach, Florida and it coordinated Project Redsun’s first three launches. All subsequent missions were relocated and administrated from Area 51.
After the video was made public, people begun to question its authenticity, and as usual, NASA denied any form of implication in a manned mission to Mars, considering the footage to be a ridiculous forgery. While people couldn’t accept the agency’s potential for such a quest, seeing as it was 1970 back then, the above footage didn’t receive too much attention. However, it all changed in April 2011 when more evidence was brought to light by an Italian journalist and UFO researcher Luca Scantamburlo. During a press conference, they presented a testimony revealing the details of project Redsun.
I introduce to you a press-release testimony I have written to discuss the presumed existence of a hush-hush military space program called “Project Redsun”, carried out in the 70s of the last century to build a stationary base on Mars, the Red Planet. My source of information – named by me ‘bravoxsierra24’ – had contacted me by email. It is possible to reproduce the pages of the press release, and the picture here presented as well.
The below documents back up this seemingly crazy but not at all impossible hypothesis of an early manned mission to Mars. If this happened indeed, we can think of so many reasons why NASA would engage in such a secret mission. What could NASA had encountered there? Was there an ancient alien base or did they met with intelligent beings who still inhabit the planet? Considering many other possibilities, the reason might exceed all our earthly expectations, and who knows, maybe one they we will find out. Are we prepared for this kind of disclosure?
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This Is the Entire Universe Squeezed into One Image
This Is the Entire Universe Squeezed into One Image
By Danny Clemens, DSCOVRD
Pablo Carlos Budassi created a dazzling logarithmic visualization of the observable universe in 2013.
Credit: Pablo Carlos Budassi/Wikimedia Commons
An enterprising artist has taken on one of the biggest concepts known to man: the universe.
Pablo Carlos Budassi is drawing eyes across the Internet this week for a dazzling logarithmic visualization of the observable universe that he created and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons in 2013.
The spectacular illustration features our solar system at the very center, followed by "inner and outer planets, Kuiper belt, Oort cloud, Alpha Centauri, Perseus Arm, Milky Way galaxy, Andromeda galaxy, nearby galaxies, Cosmic Web, Cosmic microwave radiation and Big Bang’s invisible plasma on the edge," according to the file’s description on Wikimedia Commons.
In an interview, Budassi told Tech Insider that he was inspired to craft the visualization while drawing hexaflexagons.
"Then when I was drawing hexaflexagons for my sons birthday souvenirs I started drawing central views of the cosmos and the solar system," he told the website. "That day the idea of a logarithmic view came and in the next days I was able to it with Photoshop using images from NASA and some textures created by my own."
Date of sighting: January 16, 2016 Location of sighting: Victoria, Australia
Here we have a baby monitor video of an entity standing over the head of the baby. The entity has a tilted head, looking down at the babies face. For an alien to come to a baby, it must have some vested interest in this child. What I mean is, the child may have been implanted with knowledge or abilities beyond that of human understanding.
Its no secret that Australia is a hotbed for UFO sightings. It appears that the aliens in that region are trying to change humanity by implanting certain knowledge and skills that would one day help tilt humanities future into the direction that aliens see as more desirable. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: A mother capturing two ghostly spirits in the cradle of her daughter as she slept A mother claims to have captured the disturbing moment when two “ghostly spirits” interacted with her daughter as she slept. Jade Yates, who lives in Barongarook, Victoria, Australia, observed through the creepy video baby monitor, where two figures seem to float above the crib notes, she shared the video on Facebook on 23 January 2016.
AMAZING PHOTO OF A STRANGE GLOWING OBJECT IN BOLIVIA
JANUARY 21, 2016 ………. SANTA CRUZ BOLIVIA
This happened in the town of Chochis, Santa Cruz, Bolivia. I witnessed this while on holiday. I had already heard stories that these types of things were often seen in the area. After visiting all the places we wanted to, we walked two kilometers from the Sanctuary of Chochis. Here we went to see a farm that belonged to a friend. It was then that we saw a light, at first from afar. It was where he kept his cattle. We went closer to investigate, and then we were surprised to see this light approaching. We called it a machine as you could make out the shape as it flew. This object appeared to vibrate as it went.
We were able to take a couple of pictures quickly with our cell phones. Soon, the object sped up and was gone from sight. We feel that this area warrants much more investigation for UFOs. We will return to see if we find anything else like what we saw this night.
Many paintings between 14th and early 18th century depict different, unusual aerial objects that look very similar to modern-day UFOs at first glance. It’s just normal to wonder why artists in these times appeared to be obsessed with these objects that they included them in scenes surrounding the stories of Jesus Christ’s birth and death.
For example, the mural or fresco from 1350, “The Crucifixion,” at the Visoki Decani Monestary in Kosovo, the unknown artist included two strange-looking objects with apparent pilots in the sky on both sides of Jesus.
The details in the upper right and left portions of the Kosovo fresco may refer to something readily familiar to modern eyes – the sun and the moon. The two celestial bodies are somewhat personified by two crouching figures, creating a man in the moon effect.
The Annunciation with Saint Emidius
Another painting from 1946 “The Annunciation with Saint Emidius,” by Carlo Crivelli, at the National Gallery in London, shows a circular object making a thin beam of light down to the Virgin Mary.
The reasons for this could be the form of symbolism the artists were trying to depict, but why these things crop up in so many works of art from these times.
Computer scientist Jacques Vallee said that “It is true that these paintings don’t represent actual sightings by artists or contemporary events of the scene.” Valle and co-author Chris Aubeck will publish an extensive update to their book “Wonders in the Sky,” which goes in depth into reports of mysterious aerial objects reported by several people starting in 1879, and moving backward to biblical sightings.
Vallee said: “The value of it, scientifically, is that now we can anchor the beginning of theUFO phenomenon into real, documented history.”
“You can’t only say that, because somebody spotted something circular in the sky duringmedieval times, it’s a similar phenomenon that people see today. We are not making that statement. We’re merely describing what people saw and the events associated with it to contribute the comprehensive study of the history of the event.”
Baptism of Jesus
“I think the skeptics are correct in stating that many of the accounts have to do with things that, in recent times, we recognize as comets, meteors, or other natural phenomena. And that is fair. We go through that and remove those and we keep the ones that are unidentified,” Vallee said.
“We do not go into ideology. We are not saying it is proof of alien. We’re saying there is a phenomenon, and it has some characteristics of the modern phenomenon, and we let it go at that. You still have to account for various depictions because of the changes in cultures and media, through which the data has arrived at us.”
A 15th-century painting “Madonna and Child with the Infant St. John” at the Palazzo Vecchio Museum in Florence, Italy, shows Mother Mary looking down while something strange is taking place in the background.
On another painting, a man can be seen with his dog standing on a ledge looking up what appears to be a domed UFO.
Lastly, the painting from 1710, “Baptism of Jesus,” by Arendt de Gelder, shows a large, round object making beams of light down to Jesus.
New “ X-Files ” Will Take On 9/11 Conspiracy, World Government And NSA Spying
New “ X-Files ” Will Take On 9/11 Conspiracy, World Government And NSA Spying
Government corruption was always one of the main themes that played out in the classic television show “X-Files,” and it was typically shown in the form of UFO and alien cover-ups. However, the show’s creator said in a recent interview that the new revival of the series will also touch on some of the more political conspiracies that take place in our world.
X-Files creator Chris Carter said Edward Snowden and issues like the 9/11 conspiracy will be fair game in the new revival of the show. The new series will feature the same classic characters, David Duchovny as Fox Mulder and Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully.
“A lot of the rights and liberties that were signed away [with the Patriot Act] are being abused now, and no one seems to care,” Carter said.
“We see the admitted spying by the government. These are not things we’re making up and it informs everything Mulder and Scully are doing,” he added.
Entertainment Weekly reported that the new series featured issues like, “war in the Middle East, NSA spying, chem-trails (here called ‘aerial contaminants’), police militarization, supposed FEMA prison camps, and the eventual military ‘takeover of America’ by a UN-like group of ‘multinational elites.’”
“The idea of a New World Order is relevant,” Carter says.
The article states that this elaborate web of conspiracies will tie back to the alien cover-up that took center stage in the older series.
Carter continued, “I’ve kept my finger to the wind and trying to figure out what’s relevant and possible credible. People know the show deals with science and fact and also deals with far-flung theories about not only the supernatural but government conspiracies. It throws out as many questions as it does answers. And I have to say what it’s done for me and the writers it has given us a whole new open field which to run. It’s given the show an interesting new life and context that it might not have had in 2002.”
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Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe
Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe
Results and Discussion
Genetic studies of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) show that all present-day non-Africans belong to two basal mtDNA haplogroups (hgs), M and N [10]. The time to the most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) of each of these two clades has been estimated independently at around 50,000 years ago (50 ka) (95% confidence interval [CI], 53–46 ka) and 59 ka (95% CI, 64–54 ka), respectively [11]. However, whereas present-day Asians, Australasians, and Native Americans carry both M and N mtDNA hgs, modern individuals with European ancestry lack almost completely lineages of the M clade [12]. The different spatial distributions and TMRCA estimates of these two ancestral clades have been interpreted as evidence of an early spread of modern humans carrying hg M into Asia, perhaps via a southern route, followed by a later non-African diffusion of the N clade, perhaps via a northern route [7]. However, an alternative model proposes a rapid and single dispersal across Eurasia, with Asia being reached first, whereas Western Eurasia would have been settled only after a hiatus, during which hg M was lost [4].
Little is known about the genetic makeup of the first European hunter-gatherers, who likely arrived ∼45 ka [13], or about the subsequent population dynamics during the nearly 40,000 years spanning from the Late Pleistocene to the Neolithic transition [14]. Here, we reconstructed 35 complete or nearly complete mtDNAs (from 11× to 1,860× average coverage) of ancient modern human individuals from Italy, Germany, Belgium, France, Czech Republic, and Romania, spanning in age from 35 to 7 ka (Figure 1; Table S1). Hybridization capture of mtDNA in combination with high-throughput sequencing technologies [15] allowed us to evaluate typical DNA damage patterns and average fragment length [16] as criteria for authentication of ancient DNA (Supplemental Experimental Procedures). Both features were taken into account in an iterative probabilistic approach [17] that jointly estimates present-day human contamination and reconstructs mtDNA sequences (Table S2). Combining 311 modern and 66 ancient dated worldwide mtDNA genomes (both new and from the literature; Table S3), we used Bayesian phylogenetic methods [18] to estimate the mutation rate and hg coalescence times. Further, we combined our 35 new mtDNA genomes with 20 previously published ancient European mtDNAs for a total of 55 pre-Neolithic sequences (Table S4) and explicitly tested scenarios of the early population history of Europe using coalescent demographic modeling paired with approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) [19] (Supplemental Experimental Procedures).
Hg assignment of the authenticated mtDNAs confirmed that the vast majority of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene individuals belonged to the U lineage, which is a subgroup of the N clade [20] (Figures 2 and S1). We also found a basal U lineage that had no derived position leading to known sub-hgs in a 33,000-year-old Romanian individual. Surprisingly, three hunter-gatherers from Belgium and France dating to between 35 and 28 ka carried mtDNA hg M, today found predominantly in Asia, Australasia, and the Americas, although it is almost absent in extant populations with European ancestry [12].
We used 66 ancient dated mtDNAs as tip calibration points in BEAST v1.8.1 [18] in combination with 311 modern worldwide mtDNA sequences to reduce the possible impact of sample biases (Table S3 and Supplemental Experimental Procedures) in estimating the mtDNA mutation rate and hg M and N divergence times. Strict and uncorrelated lognormal relaxed clocks were tested, under both a constant size and a Bayesian skyline tree prior. The four analyses returned mtDNA mutation rates (Table 1) consistent with previously published rates using similar methodology [21, 22]. The Bayesian skyline, in combination with strict rate variation among branches, performed best according to stepping-stone and path sampling methods [23] and highest effective sample size (ESS) values, giving a best estimate of the mutation rate of 2.74 × 10−8 (95% highest posterior density [HPD], 2.44–3.01 × 10−8) mutation/site/year. This model allowed us to refine time estimates for the TMRCA of the basal non-African clades M and N of circa 49 ka (95% HPD, 54.8–43.6 ka) and 51 ka (95% HPD, 55.1–46.9 ka), respectively (Table 1; Figure 2; Supplemental Experimental Procedures).
Table 1Haplogroup Divergence Times and mtDNA Mutation Rate
Tree Prior
Clock
Statistic
Divergence Time
Clock Rate Whole mtDNA
Log Marginal Likelihood
TMRCA hg M
TMRCA hg N
Stepping-Stone Sampling
Path Sampling
Constant
strict
mean
58,869
57,482
2.62 × 10−8
−48,759
−48,754
median
58,578
57,181
2.62 × 10−8
95% HPD
68,163–50,380
64,363–51,387
2.30–2.93 × 10−8
ESS
585
445
651
Constant
relaxed
mean
58,961
58,531
2.67 × 10−8
−48,755
−48,751
median
58,507
58,207
2.67 × 10−8
95% HPD
70,389–49,125
66,398–51,664
2.30–3.04 × 10−8
ESS
354
416
431
Skyline
strict
mean
49,106
50,562
2.74 × 10−8
−48,577
−48,571
median
48,837
50,317
2.74 × 10−8
95% HPD
54,780–43,598
55,138–46,892
2.44–3.01 × 10−8
ESS
741
799
863
Skyline
relaxed
mean
48,005
50,179
2.77 × 10−8
−48,550
−48,546
median
47,695
50,021
2.77 × 10−8
95% HPD
53,917–43,054
54,189–46,483
2.47–3.07 × 10−8
ESS
251
285
348
The values reported are obtained in BEAST [18] using 377 worldwide mtDNAs, 66 of which come from ancient dated human remains. A Bayesian skyline tree prior in combination with strict rate variation between branches performed better than the other three tested models according to higher log marginal likelihood estimates (compared to the constant tree prior models) and effective sample size (ESS) values. HPD, highest posterior density. See also Table S3 and the Supplemental Experimental Procedures.
The observed mtDNA hg variation through time, including the apparent loss of hg M in Europe, suggests a genetic bottleneck that may have been influenced by climatic events (Figure 3). This period of European prehistory was accompanied by severe climatic fluctuations, such as the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 25 to 19.5 ka) and, at the end of the Pleistocene, the Bølling-Allerød interstadial followed by the stadial Younger Dryas—a period we refer to as the Late Glacial (14.5 to 11.5 ka) [24, 25]. These climatic changes have been proposed as a driver of the range contraction to refugia in many species [26], including modern humans, for whom there is absence of evidence of northwestern European occupation during the LGM [25, 27]. We used coalescent modeling paired with ABC [19] to test a range of explicit models of European hunter-gatherer demography (Figure S2; Table S6), using the complete set of 55 pre-Neolithic ancient mtDNA genomes (Table S4). The best-fitting model (Figure 3 and 2b inFigure S2) strongly supports maternal population continuity through the LGM, albeit as a single genetic bottleneck, before being replaced by a new incoming population at the onset of the Late Glacial 14.5 ka (model posterior probability,P2b = 0.807). Based on the estimated parameter values of this model (Table S5), we infer that this surviving population diverged from the ancestral one around 29 ka (95% HPD, 36–25 ka), prior to the beginning of the LGM.
The new hunter-gatherer mtDNA genomes reported here approximately triple the available sequences from pre-Neolithic Europe. One novel finding, that three out of 18 European pre-LGM hunter-gatherers carry a previously undescribed basal mtDNA lineage M (Figure 1A), has important implications for the timing of the dispersal of modern humans into Eurasia. Excluding a ∼40,000-year-old Romanian individual known not to have contributed notably to the modern European gene pool [28], our BEAST analyses give a TMRCA for clades M and N from 44 to 55 ka, respectively. Our estimated dates, together with the oldest accepted archeological evidence for the presence of early modern humans in Australia and Europe (both dated to at least 45 ka [13, 29]), are consistent with a model of a single, late, and therefore rapid dispersal of a source population containing both M and N hgs, which contributed all the mitochondrial diversity of present-day non-Africans (cf. [7]). Human individuals whose ancestries trace back to potential earlier expansion(s) outside Africa [30, 31] are thus unlikely to have left any surviving mtDNA descendants.
Figure 1
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Archeological Sites and Hunter-Gatherer mtDNA Haplogroups
(A) Pre-LGM dispersal of non-African populations, carrying both M and N lineages (hgs R, U, U5, and U2′3′4′7′8′9 belong to the N clade, distinct from the M clade).
(B) Post-LGM re-expansion in Europe while ice sheets retracted.
Figure 2
Maximum Parsimony Tree of Present-Day Human and 55 Pre-Neolithic mtDNA Genomes
Pre-LGM samples are shown in blue, Post-LGM in green, Late Glacial in magenta, Holocene hunter-gatherers in red, and present-day individuals in black print. Average values of 14C dates are reported next to each specimen when available. Red arrows indicate divergence times of M and N clades. Hg M is almost absent in present-day individuals with European ancestry. Oase1 represents a pre-N lineage. The tree is rooted with one Neanderthal and 16 deeply divergent African mtDNAs (not shown). See also Figure S1 and the Supplemental Experimental Procedures.
Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene Climatic Fluctuations and European Hunter-Gatherer Demography
On the left is the NGRIP δ18O climate record, and on the right is an illustration of the best-supported demographic model (2b inFigure S2). Each colored point gives the mtDNA hg of the 55 dated pre-Neolithic individuals used in the coalescent modeling analysis. West-East site locations for each sample are approximated. See also Figure S2, Table S4, and the Supplemental Experimental Procedures.
Phylogeographic inference based solely on mtDNA has limitations [2], but information from single loci can provide meaningful constraints on models of human prehistory. In particular, the fact that hg M has never previously been found in Europe is generally interpreted as an important limitation for the proposed scenarios of non-African population dispersals [4, 7]. According to the most popular model [4], an early expansion occurred before the M and N diversification with a subsequent loss of M in only the population ancestral to Europeans. Our evidence for the existence of hg M in Late Pleistocene Europe revises this scenario. It suggests that the loss of hg M may be due to population dynamics that occurred later within Europe itself. The expansion either occurred before the diversification of M and N, with subsequent migration bringing both lineages into Europe, or the dispersal was later, occurring after their TMRCAs. Contrary to recent findings [11], though similar to a previous study [32], our two TMRCAs are almost identically dated, suggesting a single major dispersal after 55 ka for all non-African populations, including Europe. The genetic evidence of pre-LGM hg M indicates that this lineage reached Western Europe by at least 35 ka (GoyetQ116-1), either alongside the first arrival of N or later. The reconstructed phylogeny (Figure 2) with both basal N and M lineages in Late Pleistocene Europe possibly mirrors the inferred back migration into Africa, which has been suggested by the existence of hgs U6 and M1 in modern-day North Africans [33]. Therefore, the major modern human dispersal described here after 55 ka might have affected not only non-Africans, but also African populations to some extent.
The potential impact of climatic events on the demography, and thus the genetic diversity of early Europeans, has previously been difficult to quantify, but it likely had consequences for the relative components of ancient ancestry in modern-day populations [14]. Our demographic modeling reveals a dynamic history of hunter-gatherers, including a previously unknown major population shift during the Late Glacial interstadial (the Bølling-Allerød, ∼14.5 ka). Under our best-fitting model (Figure 3 and 2b in Figure S2), the small initial founder population of Europe slowly grows up until ∼25 ka and survives with smaller size in LGM climatic refugia (25–19.5 ka) [25] before re-expanding as the ice sheets retract (Figure 1B). Although this model supports population continuity from pre- to post-LGM, the genetic bottleneck is consistent with the apparent loss of hg M in the post-LGM. The subsequent Late Glacial period is characterized by drastic climatic fluctuations, beginning with an abrupt warming during the Bølling-Allerød interstadial and followed by a similarly drastic period of cooling during the Younger Dryas [24]. Globally, the early warming phases of the Late Glacial are strongly associated with substantial demographic changes, including extinctions of several megafaunal species [34] and the first expansion of modern humans into the Americas [35]. In European hunter-gatherers, our model best explains this period of upheaval as a replacement of the post-LGM maternal population by one from another source. Although the exact origin for this later population is unknown, the inferred demographic history (Figure 3 and 2b in Figure S2) suggests that it descended from another, separate LGM refugium. On the basis of mtDNA alone, we cannot rule out some degree of genomic continuity throughout the Late Pleistocene and early Holocene hunter-gatherer populations, and thus into present-day Europeans [14]. For this reason, we interpret our model as capturing the maternal signal of a major population shift, rather than a complete replacement. Ancient nuclear DNA data and additional geographically and temporally distributed specimens may provide a more comprehensive picture, possibly identifying the source and ancestry of these later incoming hunter-gatherers.
In conclusion, the large dataset presented here allowed us to provide a late upper bound on the major dispersal of all non-Africans and to uncover unexpected population dynamics of European hunter-gatherers. The Late Glacial event that we identify here is the oldest in an accumulating list of major European population turnovers revealed by ancient mtDNA [20].
Author Contributions
D.G.D., H.R., C.C., F.V., C.T., M.F., M.M., M.B., M.L., E.G., G.C. I.C., C.B., D.F., M.G., J.v.d.P., R.C., B.G., A.R., K.W., H.B., D.G., J.S., D.C., P.S., K.H., and N.J.C. provided archeological material and related information. C.P., A.M., A.F., and C.W. performed laboratory work. C.P., G.R., W.H., A.P., and J.K. analyzed genetic data. C.P., W.H., A.P., and J.K. wrote the manuscript with input from all co-authors.
Acknowledgments
We are grateful for comments from Stephan Schiffels, Hugo Reyes-Centeno, David Reich, Maria Spyrou, Henrike Heyne, Heidi Colleran, and members of the Department of Archaeogenetics of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, as well as the three anonymous reviewers. We thank Pontus Skoglund, Qiaomei Fu, Viviane Slon, and Eppie Ruth-Jones for access to unpublished data, Martyna Molak, Alexander Peltzer, Marek Dynowski, and Judith Beier for technical support, and Annette Günzel for graphical support. We further thank the Soprintendenza Archeologia della Puglia, which authorized and supported the excavations at Grotta Paglicci, and Professor A. Palma di Cesnola for fieldwork and studies over the years. Part of this work was performed on the computational resource bwGRiD Cluster Tübingen funded by the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts Baden-Württemberg and the Universities of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, within the framework program bwHPC. J.K. and C.P. were supported by the Baden Württemberg Foundation, J.K. and A.M. by the DFG grant KR 4015/1-1, and K.H. by the European Research Council (ERC StG 283503). The Goyet project led by H.R. was funded by the Wenner-Gren Foundation (grant no. 7837), the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences of CSUN, and the RBINS.
Accession Numbers
The accession numbers for the 35 mtDNA genome sequences reported in this paper are GenBank: KU534947–KU534981.
DNA evidence uncovers major upheaval in Europe near end of last Ice Age
DNA evidence uncovers major upheaval in Europe near end of last Ice Age
A photograph of les Closeaux at Rueil-Malmaison, Paris Basin, France. Credit: L. Lang
DNA evidence lifted from the ancient bones and teeth of people who lived in Europe from the Late Pleistocene to the early Holocene—spanning almost 30,000 years of European prehistory—has offered some surprises, according to researchers who report their findings in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on Feb. 4, 2016. Perhaps most notably, the evidence shows a major shift in the population around 14,500 years ago, during a period of severe climatic instability.
"We uncovered a completely unknown chapter of human history: a major population turnover in Europe at the end of the last Ice Age," says leading author Johannes Krause of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany.
The researchers pieced this missing history together by reconstructing the mitochondrial genomes of 35 hunter-gatherer individuals who lived in Italy, Germany, Belgium, France, the Czech Republic, and Romania from 35,000 to 7,000 years ago. Mitochondria are organelles within cells that carry their own DNA and can be used to infer patterns of maternal ancestry.
"There has been a real lack of genetic data from this time period, so consequently we knew very little about the population structure or dynamics of the first modern humans in Europe," Krause says.
The new data show that the mitochondrial DNA of three individuals who lived in present-day Belgium and France before the coldest period in the last Ice Age—the Last Glacial Maximum—belonged to haplogroup M. This is remarkable because the M haplogroup is effectively absent in modern Europeans but is extremely common in modern Asian, Australasian, and Native American populations.
Dolnte Vestonice burial 16, South Moravia, Czech Republic Credit: Martin Frouz
The absence of the M haplogroup and its presence in other parts of the world had previously led to the argument that non-African people dispersed on multiple occasions to spread across Eurasia and Australasia. The researchers say the discovery of this maternal lineage in Europe in the ancient past now suggests instead that all non-Africans dispersed rapidly from a single population, at a time they place around 50,000 years ago. Then, at some later stage, the M haplogroup was apparently lost from Europe.
"When the Last Glacial Maximum began around 25,000 years ago, hunter-gatherer populations retreated south to a number of putative refugia, and the consequent genetic bottleneck probably resulted in the loss of this haplogroup," explains first author of the study Cosimo Posth of Germany's University of Tübingen.
The researchers say their biggest surprise, however, was evidence of a major turnover of the population in Europe around 14,500 years ago, as the climate began to warm. "Our model suggests that during this period of climatic upheaval, the descendants of the hunter-gatherers who survived through the Last Glacial Maximum were largely replaced by a populationfrom another source," says Adam Powell, another senior author at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
The researchers say the next step is to construct a more comprehensive picture of the past by analyzing the complete genomes of these ancient individuals along with additional specimens representing more times and places.
More information:Current Biology, Posth et al.: "Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe" dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.037
The digital eye often sees the things we miss, so its no surprise to see that he didn't notice it until he got home. This happens a lot and since its so easy to enlarge a digital photo and keep the detail, these UFOs are getting caught more often. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Inexplicata Newsstates: Argentina: UFOs (or BLURFOs) Over Barreal? A man took photographs along the Route 149 near San Martín street without seeing a single thing. He was startled, however, upon viewing the images. SAN JUAN - Hector Eduardo Sawiak is a resident of San Juan and a fan of extraterrestrial phenomena, as well as a member of ICOU (Investigadores de Campo Unidos - United Field Researchers), a federal network that extends throughout the country. A few days ago, while visiting Barreal, he stopped along Route 149 near San Martín street to take a photo of the landscape. He noticed nothing unusual at first. But upon downloading photos to his computer, he found something striking. "Normally, they move at speeds imperceptible to the human eye," he told DIARIO DE CUYO, regarding the UFO phenomenon. "I take my humble camera everywhere I go, sometimes in an effort to photograph something, at others just to shoot the landscape," he added. [Translation (c) 2016 S. Corrales IHU with thanks to Guillermo Giménez, Planeta UFO, and Diario de Cuyo)
Apollo astronaut and the sixth man to walk on the moon, Dr. Edgar Mitchell has died at the age of 85.
In 1971, Mitchell piloted the Apollo 14 mission which landed on the moon, earning him a myriad of awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom and a place in the Science Hall of Fame.
Mitchell differed from most of his fellow astronauts due to his strong advocacy for the reality of UFOs and extraterrestrials.
Although he did not see a UFO during his space travels, Mitchell believed the evidence for the phenomenon was overwhelming.
He was also an ardent researcher of consciousness and the nature of psychic phenomena, founding the exceptional Institute for Noetic Sciences in 1973.
Mitchell's contributions towards the understanding and acceptance of paranormal phenomena cannot be understated and all students of the unexplained owe him a tremendous debt of gratitude.
Edgar Mitchell, die als zesde man ooit op de maan wandelde, is gestorven. Dat maakte het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap Nasa bekend. Mitchell werd 85.
Mitchell stierf donderdag al, in West Palm Beach in Florida. Dat was net één dag voor de 45ste verjaardag van de Apollo 14-missie, die hem naar de maan bracht. De astronauten van die missie zetten er een recordverblijf neer.
Mitchell en het andere bemanningslid Alan Shepard waren het derde team dat door de Nasa naar de maan was gestuurd. Ze kwamen er aan op 5 februari 1971. Een eerdere lancering met de Apollo 13 was afgebroken na technische problemen.
De leden van Apollo 14 verbleven maar liefst 33 uur op het hemellichaam, goed voor twee maanwandelingen. Ze kwamen ook terug met 43 kilo aan gesteente.
De tv-beelden van deze maanmissie waren de eerste in kleur. Er is te zien hoe Shepard een partijtje golf speelt op de maan.
Na zijn vertrek bij de Nasa, richtte Mitchell een instituut op dat zich bezighield met het paranormale en het onverklaarbare. Hij geloofde openlijk in buitenaards leven en in gebedsgenezing. In 2011 spande de Amerikaanse overheid een proces aan tegen de man omdat hij geprobeerd had een camera te verkopen die is gebruikt bij zijn ruimtemissie.
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UFO's boven Moskou, Rusland zijn echt ( VIDEO )
UFO's boven Moskou, Rusland zijn echt ( VIDEO )
Verbazingwekkende opnames van UFO’s boven Moskou zijn door een expert als echt beoordeeld.
Het zal je gebeuren dat je ’s avonds even een stukje gaat lopen in de Russische hoofdstad en je ziet een aantal vreemde objecten boven je hoofd.
De beelden zijn ondertussen heel Rusland door gegaan en de maker van de video die bekend staat onder de naam Timur, vertelt het volgende:
“Er waren vier lichtbollen. Links een rode, twee witte in het midden en rechts een minder felle”.
“Soms verdween het object rechts en kwam dan weer terug. Allemaal samen maakten ze een geometrische vorm van een ruit.
De Russische UFO expert Vadim Chernobrov heeft de beelden bestudeerd en hij denkt dat de opname echt is. Verder zegt hij, “Deze lichten kunnen niet worden verklaard als iets atmosferisch of kosmisch”.
“Ook kun je dit niet een soort mirage noemen omdat we hier te maken hebben met een exacte geometrische vorm die door de objecten werd gevormd”.
“Sommige mensen komen uiteraard weer met de bekende Thaise ballonnen, maar dat is onzin vanwege de bewegingen en de snelheid van de objecten”.
Er zijn meerdere video’s beschikbaar, maar de meest uitgebreide die wij hebben kunnen vinden is die van Timur zelf en duurt ongeveer zeven minuten.
Alleen lijkt het in die zeven minuten durende video alsof die objecten stilhangen in een bepaalde formatie. Aangezien er in de media wordt gesproken over snel bewegende objecten zal dat misschien een andere video zijn die wij dan niet hebben.
Maar goed, evengoed fascinerend als je ’s avonds even een rondje over straat loopt en je ziet een aantal vreemde objecten in de lucht hangen.
Gezien de manier waarop de lichten strak in de ruitformatie blijven, is er ook nog de mogelijkheid dat alle vier lichten onderdeel vormen van één schip wat niet duidelijk zichtbaar is.
Het zou ons niets verbazen als er een afvaardiging van de Galactische Federatie even koffie kwam drinken bij Poetin om de instabiele situatie in onze wereld door te spreken.
The Moon’s tug on the Earth’s atmosphere has a slight but measurable effect on rainfall.
Credit: Jessie Eastland, CC by-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
When the moon is high overhead at night, its gravity actually can reduce the amount of rainfall very slightly, new research reveals.
In an article for Geophysical Research Letters, University of Washington scientists Tsubasa Kohyama and John M. Wallace report that the moon causes the Earth's atmosphere to bulge toward it. That causes the pressure, or weight of the atmosphere, on that side of the planet to go up, which in turn increases the temperature of air below.
Since warmer air can hold more moisture, the same parcels of air are now farther from their maximum moisture capacity, resulting in a slight dip in rainfall.
The researchers studied 15 years of data collected by NASA and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite from 1998 to 2012. It proved that the rain is reduced by an amount that is measurable, though imperceptible to humans — a change of about 1 percent in the total rainfall variation.
"As far as I know, this is the first study to convincingly connect the tidal force of the moon with rainfall," said Tsubasa Kohyama, a doctoral student in atmospheric sciences.
While the effect isn't going to affect agriculture or alter weather forecasts, the knowledge is potentially beneficial to climate researchers, who can use it to test the physics behind their climate models.
The effect of the moon's position on air pressure on Earth was first detected back in 1847, and researchers showed in 1932 that the moon could affect air temperature as well. A 2014 study by the same University of Washington researchers confirmed that air pressure on Earth varies with the position of the moon.
Wallace plans to conduct future studies to see whether certain types of rain storms, such as heavy downpours, are more susceptible to the moon's position, and whether the moon has any effect on the frequency of storms.
Universe's 'Dark Ages' May Come to Light with Moon Orbiter
Universe's 'Dark Ages' May Come to Light with Moon Orbiter
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
The Dark Ages Radio Explorer would orbit the moon, taking readings with a radio telescope while it was shielded from Earth in order to probe the universe's early "dark ages."
Credit: University of Colorado
A proposed spacecraft would orbit the moon, sheltering in its shadow to gaze uninterrupted into the early days of the universe.
The Dark Ages Radio Explorer (DARE) mission would dodge Earth's noisy, disruptive environment to peer back into the universe's dark ages and cosmic dawn — the mysterious epoch just as the first stars and galaxies began to shine — with a little help from the moon.
"The moon, in this case, is just a big blocking disk," said Jack Burns, director of the Lunar University Network for Astrophysics Research at University of Colorado, Boulder and DARE's principal investigator. [How the DARE Dark Ages Moon Orbiter Will Work (Infographic)]
"We've argued that this is a unique way, and may turn out to be effectively the only way, of probing these first stars and galaxies that occurred in our universe — that led to galaxies like the Milky Way, stars like our sun, several generations later," he told Space.com.
Research suggests the universe formed in the Big Bang about 13.8 billion years ago, and the earliest light astronomers can detect, called the cosmic microwave background (CMB), dates from about 400,000 years later.
But soon after that, until about 1 billion years after the Big Bang, the universe was filled with a haze of neutral hydrogen — atoms with one proton and one electron each. That haze muffled the signals of the first stars' formation so they are not detectable today.
Burns and his collaborators plan to measure the neutral hydrogen itself, which surrounded and was heated by the very first stars and galaxies, to learn about that long-ago epoch.
The signal neutral hydrogen gives off is easy to detect when it's relatively close by; researchers have measured its 21-centimeter-long wavelength (about 8 inches) since the 1950s to learn about the diffuse gas that lies between stars. But when the signal is coming from the universe's far reaches, things get more complicated: the farther away the source is, the more stretched out the signal gets, because the source is moving away from Earth faster and faster. That "redshift" effect means that, because the universe is expanding, light will always appear redder when it comes from farther away (which also means earlier in time).
With the time periods DARE is dealing with, and the distance the light has to travel, those easily measured 21 cm waves can get very stretched out — the researchers plan to look for wavelengths from 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) to 24.6 feet (7.5 m) long, Burns said. Plus, he added, they shine incredibly faintly.
This raises two main problems. First, the charged layer of Earth's atmosphere, the ionosphere, "wreaks havoc" with the radio waves that come through, Burns said, absorbing and refracting them until they're too difficult to interpret. And many of the wavelengths he's interested in run up against a major Earth emission — FM radio, which uses the same wavelengths of light and overwhelms the faint signal. [The Universe: Big Bang to Now in 10 Easy Steps]
"We've concluded that these observations are best done from a very quiet place that has no ionosphere," Burns said. "And in the local part of our solar system nearest the Earth, that would correspond to the far side of the moon."
DARE would take observations during the portion of its 2-hour orbit when the moon shields it from Earth's radio waves, while it's on the moon's far side. When shielded from the sun as well, the spacecraft could collect higher-quality data; the best possible time is during the full moon, DARE materials said.
Blasting off
Burns hopes to submit a proposal to NASA's Explorer program in December — if selected to do a concept study and chosen for flight after that, the mission could launch somewhere around 2021 or 2022, he said.
The DARE team has partnered with Ball Aerospace, which is also based in Boulder, to develop plans to repurpose one of the company's smaller spacecraft to deliver the probe to lunar orbit.
"One of the main differences between this mission and most other satellite missions is the lunar orbit," Lisa Hardaway, the lead for Ball Aerospace on the DARE spacecraft, told Space.com in an email. "We used a motor that acts as a third stage, similar to when Apollo was launched. There have been a few missions to the moon that have used similar techniques, but most of our launches are for Earth orbit, so this is anything but routine." A separate mission partner will be in charge of the rocket and booster, she added.
Once in place around the moon, isolated from Earth's noise, measuring the faint signals will still be a challenge, Burns said. For instance, radiation from the spacecraft itself can distort the sensitive measurements if it's not properly shielded. The mission will also need to rule out the much brighter "foreground" radiation in the Milky Way itself.
"The telescope and spacecraft have to work together to collect the needed data, yet be isolated from each other so that spacecraft signals do not interfere with instrument signals," Hardaway said. "To that end, instrument electronics are buried within the spacecraft except for those highly sensitive electronics that need to be directly with the antenna."
Undiscovered worlds
Other projects are in progress, on the ground, to look at slightly later periods in the universe's history with the same neutral-hydrogen signal. For instance, the proposed Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization Array, HERA, would look at the "reionization period," when ultraviolet light from newly forming stars destroyed the neutral hydrogen and eventually rendered the universe visible at high wavelengths again. Projects like HERA require similarly sensitive antennas to pick out the signals they're searching for.
"The biggest challenge is not unique to DARE," said HERA project leader Aaron Parsons, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley. "There's a lot of other stuff in the sky that's bright, that is emitting light at these frequencies. It's maybe 100,000 times brighter than the signal that we'd like to see in the early universe." [Amazing Photos from Giant Radio Telescope ALMA]
DARE makes some aspects of detecting faint signals easier by getting away from interference, and certain signals can only be detected from space, Parsons told Space.com, but designing precise-enough antennas will still be difficult.
In fact, Parsons said, strides made in ground-based radio telescopes could make missions like DARE more plausible in the long run.
"Once you've shown the science capabilities of [detecting the signal], then the stage will be really set for something like DARE, where you bring this out into space," he said.
For both DARE and ground-based radio telescope projects, neutral hydrogen is the key to seeing what the universe was like long ago — giving a perspective that no earlier astronomy has been able to give, the researchers said.
"It's only been in the last, let's say 30 years that we've been able to answer quantitative questions about cosmology; where our universe came from, what it was like long ago, how did we get to where we are, what's the ultimate fate of the universe," Parsons said, adding that this knowledge has all come from measuring a tiny snippet of the universe's early history, when the cosmic background radiation was emitted. "One little slice, and we've learned all this incredible stuff about cosmology."
Projects such as DARE and HERA would extend our sight into the vital moments after the universe went dark, and as it transitioned to being light again, Parsons said.
"Rather than just having this thin shell that we're learning from, we can be learning from the whole volume of the universe," he said. "And that's really incredible."
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Ruimtevaartdeskundige Coen Vermeeren voert een eenmansstrijd tegen het ongelovige wetenschappelijke establishment
De Nederlandse lucht- en ruimtevaartdeskundige Coen Vermeeren (53) wil dat de wetenschap ufo's ernstig neemt. Hij zet daarmee zijn eigen reputatie op het spel. Maar zijn integriteit is hem meer waard. "Er is geen belangrijker onderzoeksterrein dan buitenaards leven."
Mijn geconditioneerde brein had een aan lager wal geraakte professor verwacht. Een schichtig om zich heen kijkende plomperd met een versleten Star Wars-T-shirt en een kapsel dat dringend opnieuw moet voorgesteld worden aan een fles shampoo, wil het ooit nog door vrouwenhanden aangeraakt worden. Een op Red Bull en Aïki-noedels overlevende ufo-gek die op gedempte toon praat en zich intellectueel superieur waant omdat hij in alfabetische volgorde vijftig planetoïden kan opsommen.
Grand Canyon Underground Citadel - Evidence of Giants and Underground Cities in America.
Grand Canyon Underground Citadel - Evidence of Giants and Underground Cities in America.
The most famous report - about giants and underground cities - appeared in the April 5, 1909 edition of The Arizona Gazette, entitled “Explorations in Grand Canyon.” Explorer G.E. Kinkaid discovered a huge underground “citadel” while rafting on the Colorado River.
David Hatcher Childress, hailed as the real life Indiana Jones is an explorer and seeker of ancient civilizations, structures and knowledge. This piece is full of amazing and enlightening information the astonishing 1909 Phoenix *(USA) newspaper report about Egyptian chambers and artefacts in The Grand CanyonNOW!!! If that doesnt intrigue you then Im not sure what will!
Exploring a tunnel that stretched “nearly a mile underground,” Kinkaid found this citadel, which was filled with tablets carved with some type of hieroglyphics, and home to a stone statue he described as resembling Buddha.
Copper weapons lined the walls, but the most intriguing aspect of this ancient dwelling/worship place/tomb, were the mummies, all wrapped in a dark fabric.
The mummies were supposedly more than nine-feet-tall. To feed the fire of conspiracy, and to keep anyone from finding the giants of the citadel themselves, the United States government allegedly closed that area of the canyon from public view.
But this well-known story of American giants isn’t alone .
The New York Times reported a nine-foot-tall skeleton of a man discovered in a mound near Maple Creek, Wisconsin, in December 1897. The Times also carried the story “Strange Skeletons Found”near Lake Delevan, Wisconsin, in its May 4, 1912 issue. The skulls of giant skeletons excavated from a mound had “a minute resemblance to the head of the monkey.
” But an April 9, 1885 story in The New York Times entitled: “Missouri’s buried city: A strange discovery in a coalmine near Moberly,” revealed a find that predated the supposed citadel in the Grand Canyon by 24 years. Moberly, the largest city in Randolph County, Missouri, had a population of 6,108 in the 1880s.
Coal miners, sinking a shaft 360 feet deep, broke into a cavern revealing “a wonderful buried city,”the article claimed. Lava arches stretched across the roof of the cavern, looming over the streets of an ancient city “which are regularly laid out and enclosed by walls of stone, which is cut and dressed in a fairly good, although rude style of masonry.
” Workers, along with Moberly city recorder David Coates and Moberly city marshal George Keating, inspected the site and found a 30-by-100-feet hall in the cavern filled with stone benches and hand tools. “Further search disclosed statues and images made of a composition closely resembling bronze, lacking luster,” the article read.
Explorers discovered a stone fountain in a wide court, still pouring “perfectly pure water” into its basin. But it was what lay beside the fountain that interested the people exploring the site.
“Lying beside the foundation (of the fountain) were portions of the skeleton of a human being,” according to the article. “The bones of the leg measured, the femur four and one-half feet, the tibia four feet and three inches, showing that when alive the figure was three times the size of an ordinary man, and possessed of a wonderful muscular power and quickness.
” Its skull, the story reported, was shattered; bronze tools, granite hammers, metallic saws and flint knives were scattered all around. “They are not so highly polished, nor so accurately made as those now finished by our best mechanics, but they show skill and an evidence of an advanced civilization that are very wonderful,” according to the article.
Explorers spent twelve hours in the buried city and resurfaced only after the oil in their lamps burned low. “No end to the wonders of the discovery was reached,” the article stated. “A further extended search will be made in a day or two.”
No record of the extended search could be found
Dr. Tom Spencer, a professor in the department of History, Humanities, Philosophy and Political Science at Northwest Missouri State University, said that’s because after printing the story, the newspapers tried to forget it. “A lot of the time I think these stories were written based entirely off hearsay and little or no direct on-site reporting,” he said. “As the story grew, the details got more and more outrageous.”
He equates it to a childhood game where children sit in a circle and one child whispers a story into another’s ear and by the time the story completes the circle, it was completely different. “If you recall, sometimes the ‘finished story’ bore little resemblance to the original story,” he said.“My guess is one element of this story is factual – like the strange shaft formation or a long femur was found – and it became more and more embellished as it went around the journalistic circle at the time.”
So what happened to the fabulous buried city under Moberly, Mo.? “There were stories like this periodically at the time and they usually disappear quietly because someone goes to investigate and there’s nothing to it,” Spencer said. “In order to avoid the embarrassment the newspapers just don’t say anything else about it.”
However, Moberly resident John W. wants to find out for certain. “Myself and several friends have researched the article archived at The New York Times,” John said. “The article discusses coal miners finding a Crystal City with several advanced features as well as the bones of what can only be called a giant.”
John and his group plan to investigate the claim of an underground city. “We have found the mine. Our hopes are to take a field trip and find the underground city if we can access the mine,” he said. “We have driven by and the site exists. You can still see remnants of the old access road through the field. It would appear this mine has not been in use since the time period of the news article.”
Moberly calls itself “The Magic City.” Hopefully John and his crew can discover just how magic it is.
Alien Megastructures exist after all? Confused scientists cannot explain strange dimming at distant Star
Alien Megastructures exist after all? Confused scientists cannot explain strange dimming at distant Star
Is it possible that Alien Megastructures exist after all? After months of observations and studies, the only thing we know about Star KIC 8462852 is that it has gotten even stranger.
The whole fuss created last October when astronomers noticed strange flickering at a distant star might not be a natural phenomenon after all. Much has been said in the last couple of months about The Star (Nicknamed „Tebby’s Star“, after its discoverer, Tabetha Boyajian) and the mysterious dimming around it. So far, no one has been able to understand or explain what’s causing the star to ‘lose’ around 20% of its light.
Despite the fact that a Jupiter-sized planet can cause darkening of the star, it only corresponds to 1%, while the amount observed at KIC 8462852 corresponds to 22%, meaning that something HUGE was causing the light coming from the star to be clocked out of sight.
The Star made headlines around the world when Jason Wright, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State University, suggested that it could be surrounded by some type of alien megastructure. Quickly dismissed, Wrights theory was rejected when astronomers proposed that a more logical –yet less exciting—reason behind the stars dimming could, in fact, be a swarm of comets.
However, after tedious studies and calculations, scientists aren’t sure what to think as its nearly impossible for comets to cause the strange dimming around Tabby’s star.
Bradly Shaefer, an astronomer at the Louisiana State University has studied the history of the star looking at old photographic plates, hoping that these could shed more ‘light’ onto the mysterious dimming around the star. To his surprise, and that of people around the world, not only does the stars random dimming date back more than a century, it has been gradually dimming over that period, another mystery that makes it even harder to explain. Schaefer calculated that it would require 648,000 comets, each 200 kilometers wide, to have passed by the star – something that according to many is completely implausible.
But if the strange dimming isn’t caused by natural phenomenon such as a swarm of comets, then what is causing it?
According to many people, these indications suggest that it’s very likely that we have observed Alien technology that goes far beyond our explanation.
Unlike many other astronomers, Boyajian does not reject the idea of Alien megastructures causing the dimming of the star. Boyajian thinks the theory suggesting alien megastructures deserves a follow-up.
According to Phil Plait, slate blogger and astronomer the dimming registered is actually something that you would expect to see if aliens were building a „Dyson Sphere“, or something similar to it. Plait calculated how big the megastructure would actually be: „Aliens would need to build a minimum of 750 billion square kilometers (290 billion square miles) of solar panels to account for the 20 percent drop in their star’s brightness. “That’s 1,500 times the area of the entire Earth.“
Who knows maybe after all… its ALIENS
Even though SETI turned their telescopes towards the star, they have come up empty-handed in their search. This, however, doesn’t mean aliens aren’t there, it might just be that we don’t have the technology to see or hear them in outer space.
Considering the „Comet theory“, Massimo Marengo, an associate professor of astronomy at Iowa State University who co-authored a study suggesting the likely cause of the Star’s dimming was caused by comets told Space.com “It would be more mass than what we have in the whole Kuiper Belt” [the band of icy bodies in the vast region beyond Neptune].“
“You can get out of that if you assume it’s the same family of comets passing in front of the star over and over, but with the century-long dimming trend, too, that family of comets has to get bigger every time it passes the star. “It’s a difficult thing to do,” added Marengo.
Alien megastructure or not, KIC 8462852 has certainly given us a lot to talk about in recent months. While we don’t have to be looking at alien megastructures, if we do, we probably wouldn’t even recognize them, so until we can confirm or deny one theory, all options are available for debate and must be accepted equally.
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The Greatest Smithsonian cover up: Dozens of Giant skeletons discovered around the world
The Greatest Smithsonian cover up: Dozens of Giant skeletons discovered around the world
It seems that the idea that Giants walked on Earth is a possibility being considered by more people in the last couple of years. Due to the number of mysterious findings around the world, a large number of researchers is considering the possibility that these ‘mythological’ beings actually existed on Earth in the distant past.
Stories and tales about gigantic beings inhabiting Earth occur in almost all ancient cultures and civilizations. We can find stories in many mythologies of the ancient world: Greek, Norse, Germanic, Indian, Indo-European, and also in the new world as in the traditions of the Mayans, Aztecs and Incas; but most importantly in almost all mayor sacred books of antiquity: the Lebhar Gabhale, the Hindu Ramayana and even in the Bible.
One of those ‘crucial’ pieces of evidence is a discovery made in Wisconsin, a discovery that was omitted by researchers who remained silent and decided not to speak about the lost race of giants found in burial mounds near Lake Delavan in Wisconsin. The mysterious discovery, which was first reported in the 4 May 1912 issue of the New York Times states that at least 18 anomalous skeletons had been found in Wisconsin exhibiting extremely weird features unlike any known species to date. The excavation side was overseen by the Beloit College and included over 200 mounds. (source)
These anomalous skeletons were unlike anything seen before, totally differing from any known human species with alleged heights that ranged between 8 to 10 feet.
“…presumably those of men, are much larger than the heads of any race which inhabit America to-day.”
Vine Deloria, a Native American author and professor of law said:
“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.”
The long lost “Fallen Angels” the Nephilim?
“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.” Genisis 6:4
The Smithsonian Institute has been accused by many people of deliberately hiding discoveries that could potentially alter the views society has on history and life on Earth.
Discoveries of beings that are unlike any know human species have been made around the world. In 2002, a report by National Geographic state that over a dozen of giant skeletal remains were found in Greece, ranging in height between 10 and 12 feet.
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 center of a teeming population numbering not less than 200,000,” the Times said.
“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.
The mysterious stories continue throughout the years, and in 1897, the Times wrote another story about large burial mounds discovered in Maple Creek, Wisconsin.
“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.”
In 1870 the Wisconsin Decatur Republican wrote an article about two well-preserved giant skeletons of an unknown race discovered near Potosi.
The list of the anomalous discoveries goes on and on… and giant skeletal remains have been found in Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and New York, and other places around the world. Strangely, these discoveries have never been given proper attention by the media, and most researchers consider them as being unimportant to history.
We cannot forget to mention the 200 million year old Giant Footprint found in Africa that hasn’t been explained by researchers who have tried very hard to ignore it since it could potentially rewrite history as we know it.
Yesterday, a strange sky phenomenon took place in the region of Doukkala in Morocco.
On February 4, 2016, a group of citizens witnessed the moment that weird clouds fall to the ground. The rare phenomenon occurred days after strange sounds were heard in other regions of Morocco.
But, clouds cannot plunge off the sky and settle on the ground, the clouds shown in the video falling in Doukkalaq is artificial foam according to Meteorologists..
Well, if it’s artificial foam where it comes from and are these ‘clouds’ another proof of geoengineering and weather manipulation?
I am 30 years old and I am from Norway. On Saturday October 10, 2015 I had an experience that I cannot explain. I was a passenger in a car and on my way home from a course in a location called Asker. I suddenly became aware of a very bright cigar formed object on the sky. Right behind the object a smaller object of the same shape occurred. I was looking at these two objects and I was trying to understand what it was. It was so big, but with no wings and suddenly it disappeared. I was looking around in the sky trying to find it, but the sky was empty. Five Seconds later it suddenly appeared again in the sky, but this time in a new shape and much, much closer to the car I was sitting in. It was V-shaped and upside down if you understand. It was very white and bright but no lights. It was V shaped upside Down and squared like boxes. So I had a 3D sight of it. It was not just a flat thing on the sky, it had mass. (This is in the middle of the day). Behind the biog V it was a smaller V hanging. I was looking at this thing and I was trying to make sense out of it, but I could not understand what it was.
My friend who was driving the car did not see it because she was looking at the road. I was planning to tell her to turn her head around to look at it, but I could not make myself tell her to look. I felt paralyzed by the sight and I was to busy in my head trying to find out what this thing was. And then suddenly it disappeared! The sky was empty again. The big, huge thing was just gone. When I came home I started to look up pictures on Google and I found this web page with the Woman and her 21 year old son telling her story that is similar to mine. The shape is the same I guess, but the object I saw was an upside down V. And I did see a cigar shaped object first and then it suddenly became V shaped after disappearing and reapparing again. I am just looking for answers. Do you have more information about others seeing stuff like this V shaped thing that I did see this weekend? I have never seen anything like this. The thing was just hanging in the sky. I am just confused. I will be happy if you got more stories like this.
UFO Fleet Over Tennessee Town Feb 3, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Over Tennessee Town Feb 3, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 3, 2016 Location of sighting: Smyrna, Tennessee, USA Source: MUFON #74278 Here you can see the UFOs pass behind a building as the car moves down the road. There are about six glowing lights, but only 4 are visible most the time. This looks like many small ships in formation, but I believe it to be one single large ship. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: My daughters and I were driving East on I-24 in Tennessee. The lights seemed to be hovering over the trees to the southeast of my location. We were driving, so it was hard to tell. I thought they were possibly helicopters from a nearby Air National Guard base. They seemed to remain stationary as we drove right under them. There were four bright points of white lights shaped in a crescent with a twinkling reddish/white in the center of the four brighter points of light. I have lived in this area most of my life and have never witnessed anything like this before. We continued on to our destination writing it off as what we thought it had to be, helicopters. But, curiosity got the best of me....
Oregon Witness Photographed Sphere UFO Over A Tree Line
Oregon Witness Photographed Sphere UFO Over A Tree Line
A witness from Oregon claimed to have spotted and photographed a black sphere UFO in Eugene just over the tree line in an adjacent area. He first noticed a dark object while looking out a kitchen window facing east. The strange aerial thing was above the tree line of a neighbor’s backyard at 9:24 in the morning on October 6, 2015.
The witness stated that he had enough time to get the camera and managed to take multiple in-focus images of a dark sphere or something round and black. He was standing in a doorway of a sliding glass when he pictured the thing before it moved behind a tree and lost sight of it.
The witness filed a case to Mutual UFO Network on October 7, 2015, and sent three images. His testimony can be found in Case 71227 of MUFON’s witness reporting database. Oregon MUFON Assistant State Director Keith Rowell is still in the process of investigating the case.
Eugene is Oregon’s second largest city. It’s the county seat of Lane County with 160,552 individuals. Investigator Rowell is expected to announce the result of his investigation soon.
On the morning of Feb. 4, 2016, the waning crescent moon will be between Saturn and Venus, seen here half an hour before sunrise.
Credit: Starry Night Software
For the last couple of weeks, early risers have been enjoying the "parade of the planets," as all of the naked-eye planets gather in the dawn sky. Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter have been strung like glistening jewels across the southern sky.
For the next few mornings, the waning crescent moon will join the array, as Mercury moves to its best position this month.
On Thursday morning (Feb. 4), the moon will be about one-third of the way from Saturn to Venus. Venus is, as always, the most brilliant object in the predawn sky. Saturn is less bright, but gradually coming into its own as it moves away from behind the sun. If you have a telescope, be sure to check out Saturn's famous rings, now tilted toward Earth almost as far as they can get, and its surrounding cluster of tiny moons. [5 Dawn Planets and a Dusk Comet: Feb. 2016 Skywatching Video]
By Friday morning (Feb. 5), the moon will have moved so that is now two-thirds of the way from Saturn to Venus, and its crescent will have shrunk noticeably. Now would be a good time to look for "earthshine" — light reflected from Earth shining on the portion of the moon not in direct sunlight. Binoculars will help make this visible.
By Saturday morning (Feb. 6), the moon will have shrunk to a narrow sliver and will have moved to between Mercury and Venus, again seen half an hour before sunrise.
Credit: Starry Night Software
On Saturday morning (Feb. 6), the moon will have moved past Venus, and will be forming a tight triangular group with Venus and Mercury. This provides a great opportunity to spot tiny Mercury, the smallest of the planets and one that is rarely seen because of its proximity to the sun.
Mercury is easiest to see about half an hour before local sunrise. Use binoculars to first pick it up; you should then be able to see it with your naked eye. It sometimes helps to use "averted vision" — look slightly to one side of where Mercury is located, putting it on the more sensitive portion of your eye's retina.
These close conjunctions make for excellent photo opportunities, and, as always, we welcome your images of the planets of dawn. Use a telephoto lens and try to frame them with a nearby tree or building.
Editor's note: If you capture a stunning view of the moon, a planet or any other celestial sight and would like to share it with us and our news partners, you can send in images and comments in to managing editor Tariq Malik at: spacephotos@space.com.
Un élément suffit presque à lui seul à prouver le mensonge. Lorsque vous observez Mars depuis la Terre, dans un télescope amateur, jamais vous ne verrez Mars être rougeâtre. Il existe de nombreuses photos de la NASA qui sont trafiquées, et l’agence l’avoue elle-même pratiquement.
Le mythe veut aussi que la planète Mars soit rouge, or elle n’est pas « rougeâtre », mais brune clair ou foncé, selon les zones. Voici Mars photographié depuis un télescope amateur. Ceci est une image authentique !
Les images de la NASA sont 100% fausses. C’est une agence aux mains de la cabale qui a été infiltrée par les nazis après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, cela n’est même plus à prouver. La NASA n’est qu’un écran de fumée pour le grand public crédule. La NASA est là seulement pour déformer la réalité, cacher des vérités, on peut citer notamment la dissimulation des programmes spatiaux secrets.
Alors d’où proviennent ces photos, si elles ne proviennent pas de Mars ?
Les photos de la NASA sur Mars sont prises sur la Terre, sur l’île Devon au Canada…
Il y a une augmentation du nombre de personnes qui pensent que les rovers martien de la NASA n’ont jamais quitté la Terre et que les photos qui parviennent de la planète Mars sont prises dans des régions reculées de notre planète.
Mais si les rovers de la NASA ne sont pas sur Mars, alors où sont-ils exactement ?
Tout d’abord, il semble que les photos que nous voyons sur le site Web de la NASA ne sont même pas prises par le rover Curiosity et le rover Opportunity.
Il est très probable qu’actuellement, les deux rovers sont stockés dans un hangar, quelque part au Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) et qu’ils aient été remplacés par leurs petits frères plus petits et plus pratiques.
Un des emplacements connus où la NASA joue avec ces petits rovers est l’Île Devon !
Il convient de souligner que l’île Devon est « la plus grande île inhabitée sur Terre », ce qui semble être un très bon emplacement pour une fausse séance photo Martienne. Il suffit de jeter un coup d’œil à ces photos…
Base de la NASA dans l’île Devon au Canada. Même sans filtre de couleur, le décor est étonnamment similaire à Mars…
Les « rovers » de la NASA, prenant des photos sur l’île Devon, au Canada…
Bien sûr, on pourrait penser que la NASA a juste besoin d’un endroit où ils peuvent simuler les conditions de la planète Mars, mais à quoi bon de simuler ces conditions avec des rovers miniatures, qui ressemblent et fonctionnent comme leurs grands frères...
Ces robots ne possèdent pas de laboratoires en leur sein contrairement aux vrais rovers qui en possèdent, donc qu’est-ce qui est simulé ? Hormis prendre des photos, « les rovers » de l’ île Devon semblent inutiles.
Vidéo ci-dessous pour de plus amples éléments de preuve …
Les caméras équipées sur les «rovers» ont déjà des filtres de couleur appliqués, mais les images finales, celles que nous téléchargeons sur le site Web de la NASA subissent encore plus de correction couleur, jusqu’à ce qu’elles affichent cette fausse couleur rougeâtre qui nous est maintenant si familière.
Nous avons été dupés par le mythe que mars est une « planète rouge » même si pourtant toutes les photos des télescopes amateurs prouvent le contraire, donc la NASA désormais ne fait seulement que perpétuer le mensonge.
Comme vous pouvez le voir clairement par vous-même, Mars n’est pas rouge. Mars est brune clair et foncé, semblable à ce que la Terre ressemblerait s’il n’y avait plus d’eau et de végétation. Voici plus de photos amateurs de Mars…
Ce qui suit est une compilation d’images d’Antonio Cidadao (1999)…
Noter que Mars a une atmosphère et des nuages bleu, très similaire à celle de notre planète.
Maintenant, nous ne pourrions sans doute pas respirer sur Mars comme nous le faisons sur Terre, encore que, mais où sont les cieux bleus dans les photos de la NASA ?
La NASA a admis à plusieurs reprises qu’elle modifie les couleurs de ses photos avant de les poster en ligne, de sorte qu’elles ressemblent plus à ce que nous devrions voir, si nous étions sur Mars. Voici quelque chose provenant directement du site Web de la NASA.
La NASA admet ouvertement la correction des couleurs, l’équilibrage des couleurs et même le peaufinage des couleurs de leurs images, de sorte que vous pouvez voir ce qu’ils veulent que vous voyiez.
Pourquoi ne pas prendre simplement des photos de l’environnement tel qu’il est ? Pourquoi changer ses couleurs en quelque chose d’autres ?
C’est la même vieille rengaine disant que le gouvernement sait ce qui est le mieux pour nous. Les gens ont été dupés dans une croyance aveugle et nous croyons cela sans réfléchir, sans nous poser des questions.
Mais le peaufinage des couleurs n’est qu’une partie de ce qu’ils font pour les images originales. La NASA a été confondue plus d’une fois, trafiquant des environnements entiers provenant soi-disant de Mars.
Voir ci-dessous une images montrant le trucage des photos de Mars…
Il est maintenant plus facile de comprendre pourquoi les amateurs trouvent tant d’incohérences et d’anomalies dans les images de la NASA. Prenons l’image ci-dessous, par exemple...
Les médias l’ont appelé ‘’le rat de Mars’’, mais c’est en fait un lemming arctique... le lemming est un rongeur, on voit clairement un œil, une oreille et sa patte avant sur la photo ci-dessus et il est couramment trouvé… vous l’avez deviné… sur l’île Devon au Canada.
Voici une photo du lemming arctique, pris sur l’île Devon.
Cette photo a été prise dans une zone avec de la végétation, mais comme vous pouvez le voir dans les deux premières images il y a beaucoup de paysages sur l’île Devon.
La technique de la NASA est de colorer l’ensemble du sol pour faire en sorte qu’il ressemble à Mars comme vous le verrez, cela fait que le petit rongeur ressemble au final à une roche, jusqu’à ce que quelqu’un ayant un œil aiguisé l’ait découvert.
Dans la vidéo, de la minute 3:18 à 5:30, vous pouvez voir à quel point il est facile de faire en sorte que n’importe quel environnement terrestre ressemble à un désert martien. L’auteur de la vidéo, Danny Wilten, prend une photo aléatoire de la Terre (Irlande , pour être plus précis), où il y a beaucoup de végétation et où il y a une route avec une camionnette blanche.
En seulement cinq minutes de travail, il parvient à retirer la camionnette et la route, et à transformer l’ensemble de la végétation en un paysage rougeâtre, stérile, similaire aux images que la NASA nous montre de Mars...
Comme touche finale, il ajoute même une partie du rover dans le coin inférieur gauche de l’image éditée, ce qui rend l’image presque indiscernable des images diffusées par la NASA.
Maintenant, imaginez ce qu’un expert Photoshop peut faire avec une image qui avait déjà des filtres de couleur appliquées à la caméra, et a été emmené dans un environnement ou est contrôlé l’emplacement, l’éclairage, l’exposition, etc.
Tout le monde se souvient de la célèbre photo suivante, dans laquelle nous pouvons voir l’ombre du rover et, juste à côté, l’ombre d’un homme en combinaison spatiale, semblant faire quelques ajustements...
Cela signifie soit qu’il y a déjà des humains sur Mars... ou que cette image a été prise sur la Terre.
Voici une photo du scientifique de la NASA Pascal Lee, il porte une combinaison spatiale sur l’île Devon, au Canada.
Récapitulons :
Sur l’île Devon, il y a un paysage identique à celui des images de la NASA (présentées à nous comme étant des images de Mars) ils ont des bases permanentes sur l’île, les rovers miniatures sont équipés de caméras se promenant partout, et des personnes équipées en costumes d’astronautes.
Avec la NASA qui avoue truquer les photos avant de les diffuser au public et le fait qu’elle a été prise plus d’une fois truquant les paysages, la connexion devient limpide... les photos ne sont PAS de Mars !
Les missions de la NASA vers Mars ne sont qu’une triste plaisanterie…
Les Rovers n’ont jamais quitté la Terre et les pouvoirs en place ont détourné encore d’autres milliards de l’argent des contribuables, utilisés pour leurs projets noirs.
La NASA utilise un emplacement secondaire sur la Terre pour simuler l’environnement Martien, il se trouve dans le Désert de Mojave.
Dans cet emplacement, ils apprennent aux astronautes à se promener et faire leurs travaux quotidiens en étant habillé dans des combinaisons spatiales. Il est aussi possible que la NASA envoie leurs équipes dans des zones reculées diverses sur Terre, pour prendre des photos de l’environnement stérile, lesquelles seront modifiées plus tard pour ressembler à Mars.
Ils peuvent même créer des environnements totalement faux, en combinant deux ou plusieurs images, ou par ajout/retrait de roches, de collines ou même de montagnes, techniques déjà bien rodée avec les clichés lunaire !
L’image suivante est une autre preuve que les clichés soit disant pris sur Mars sont faux !
Malheureusement pour la NASA, ils ne peuvent pas présenter cela comme étant un ballon météo, un avion, un oiseau, un drone, ou une lanterne chinoise, comme ils le font habituellement, parce que l’image aurait été prise sur Mars.
Alors, soit ils doivent admettre que les soucoupes volantes sont réelles, ou que ces photos sont prises sur Terre. Un choix vraiment impossible...
LA NASA est un écran de fumée pour un programme spatial secret avancée…
La NASA est juste un écran de fumée pour le programme spatial réel, qui tombe dans le domaine militaire, et hautement top secret avec l’US Navy.
McKinnon le pirate qui a réussi à pénétrer les ordinateurs du Pentagone, de l’armée de l’Air, de la Marine et de la NASA, a découvert que l’US Navy dispose d’une flotte de vaisseaux spatiaux pleinement opérationnels. Voici ce qu’il affirme avoir trouvé...
Maintenant, en corroborant tout cela, il devient évident qu’ils ont vraiment un programme spatial secret avancé depuis des décennies, que la NASA est juste un écran de fumée pour le public, et que tous les cliché, qu’ils soient martien, ou lunaire, sont de vulgaires fakes !
Source : ZONE INFORANDIA
Mais repassons vite fait sur l'Île Devon, qui est une île du nord de l'archipel arctique canadien. 27e île mondiale par la superficie, 6e du Canada et 2e des îles de la Reine-Élisabeth. C'est aussi la plus grande île du monde qui soit entièrement inhabitée. Sa superficie est d'environ 55 000 km².
La vie animale et végétale est également faible sur l'île en raison des conditions climatiques dues à la latitude et à l'altitude. On y trouve principalement de petits oiseaux, des bœufs musqués et d'autres petits mammifères arctiques.
L'été la température ne dépasse jamais les 10 °C et descend fréquemment à -50° durant le long hiver polaire. Les précipitations y sont également faibles.
Géologiquement, l'île est principalement composée de gneiss et de schiste. On y trouve aussi un cratère de 20 km de diamètre dû à l'impact d'une météorite de 2 km de diamètre tombée il y a environ 23 millions d'années. C'est le cratère de Haughton.
Durant l'été, le site est occupé pour des activités scientifiques liées à la recherche spatiale, de la vie sur Mars, le site météoritique étant proche de ceux que l'on peut trouver sur la planète rouge la géologie, la microbiologie, etc.
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Un spécial OVNIs en Belgique pour cette reprise en douceur des publications de votre site Sciences et Fictions et Histoires. Avec les interventions de Gaetan Bovy et Rémy Fauchereau qui vous présentent UFOwallonia et de Gilles Durand qui vous parle de l'Histoire de l'ufologie Belge.
Présenté par Gilles.T., voici également en enregistrement audio, Gaetan Bovy, qui vous parle de la vague d'ovnis en Belgique des années 89-90.
Pour finir, un extrait de documentaire sur cette même vague d'OVNIS de 1989-1990 en Belgique. Bien qu'un faussaire ait reconnu récemment avoir fabriqué une maquette pour la prendre en photo et faire mesquinement parler de lui en trompant l'humanité pendant de nombreuses années, il est évidemment impossible que tous ces témoignages, y compris ceux de policiers et de pilotes d'avions de chasse, et aussi de controleurs aériens-radaristes, sur une bonne partie du territoire belge, concernent cette unique maquette du faussaire qui s'est déclaré bien tardivement... Le 29 novembre 1989, dans l'Est de la Belgique, de nombreux témoins, dont des policiers, signalèrent avoir vu des OVNIS dans le ciel, ce qui fut le début de ce que l'on nommera par la suite "la vague Belge" qui dura en tout 18 mois. Ce soir là, des agents de la police fédérale belge patrouillaient près de la frontière allemande, dans la ville d'Eupen, lorsqu'ils furent les témoins d'OVNIS de forme triangulaireévoluant dans le ciel sans aucun bruit. Ils décidèrent alors de contacter leur QG qui était submergé par des appels téléphoniques signalant ces apparitions...
Mirror Installation Complete for NASA's Next Space Telescope
Mirror Installation Complete for NASA's Next Space Telescope
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
In a clean room at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, a robotic arm installs the last of 18 mirrors onto the James Webb Space Telescope structure.
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn the 18 mirrors for the Webb Telescope In this rare view, the James Webb Space Telescope's 18 mirrors are seen fully installed on the James Webb Space Telescope structure at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. Credits
The biggest-ever space telescope is now one major step closer to completion.
On Wednesday (Feb. 3), technicians installed the 18th and final primary mirror segment on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an $8.8 billion observatory that's scheduled to launch in 2018 to investigate some of the biggest questions in astronomy.
"Scientists and engineers have been working tirelessly to install these incredible, nearly perfect mirrors that will focus light from previously hidden realms of planetary atmospheres, star forming regions and the very beginnings of the universe," John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C., said in a statement. [Images: The James WebbSpace Telescope]
A rare view shows all 18 mirrors installed on the James Webb Space Telescope structure at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn
"With the mirrors finally complete, we are one step closer to the audacious observations that will unravel the mysteries of the universe," Grunsfeld added.
JWST is billed as the successor to NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope. The new observatory features a much larger light-collecting surface than Hubble; with the 18 segments installed, JWST's primary mirror is 21.3 feet (6.5 meters) wide, compared to 7.9 feet (2.4 m) for Hubble.
Each of JWST's hexagonal mirror segments is about the size of a coffee table and weighs 88 lbs. (40 kilograms), NASA officials said. Workers at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, used a robotic arm to fit the last of the 18 sections into place on Wednesday.
"Now that the mirror is complete, we look forward to installing the other optics and conducting tests on all the components to make sure the telescope can withstand a rocket launch," JWST project manager Bill Ochs said in the same statement. "This is a great way to start 2016!"
Whereas Hubble's most famous images have been captured in visible light, JWST is optimized to view the universe in longer infrared wavelengths. Infrared light can penetrate dust clouds, allowing the observatory to look across vast stretches of the universe to study the formation of galaxies, stars and planets, mission team members have said.
Astronomers will also use JWST for a number of other purposes — including the search for possible signs of life in the atmospheres of relatively nearby alien planets.
The observatory's primary mirror segments were built by Colorado-based Ball Aerospace, a subcontractor for Northrop Grumman, which is building JWST for NASA. The mirror installation was performed by Harris Corp., another Northrop Grumman subcontractor, NASA officials said.
"The Harris team will be installing the aft-optics assembly and the secondary mirror in order to finish the actual telescope," Gary Matthews, director of universe exploration at Harris Corp., said in the same statement.
"The heart of the telescope, the Integrated Science Instrument Module, will then be integrated into the telescope," Matthews added. "After acoustic, vibration and other tests at Goddard, we will ship the system down to [NASA's] Johnson Space Center in Houston for an intensive cryogenic [extremely cold temperature] optical test to ensure everything is working properly."
NASA Jupiter Probe Fine-Tunes Path to Giant Planet
NASA Jupiter Probe Fine-Tunes Path to Giant Planet
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Artist's illustration of NASA's Juno spacecraft at Jupiter. The probe will enter orbit around the solar system's largest planet on July 4, 2016.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
A NASA spacecraft now has Jupiter more squarely in its sights ahead of its July 4 arrival at the solar system's largest planet.
NASA's solar-powered Juno probe performed an engine burn Wednesday (Feb. 3), consuming 1.3 pounds (0.6 kilograms) of fuel to change its speed by about 0.7 mph (1.1 km/h). Juno was roughly 51 million miles (82 million kilometers) from Jupiter when it conducted the maneuver, agency officials said.
"This is the first of two trajectory adjustments that fine-tune Juno's orbit around the sun, perfecting our rendezvous with Jupiter on July 4 at 8:18 p.m. PDT [11:18 p.m. EDT; 0318 GMT on July 5]," Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in a statement.
The second of these engine burns is scheduled to take place on May 31, NASA officials said.
The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched in August 2011. Its main goal involves mapping Jupiter's gravitational and magnetic fields in precise detail, to help scientists learn about the gas giant's structure, formation and evolution, mission team members have said.
Juno will perform its science work from orbit. The nominal mission plan calls for the 4-ton spacecraft to zip around Jupiter 33 times, coming within just 3,100 miles (5,000 km) of the planet's cloud tops once every 14 days, NASA officials said.
Jupiter
Jupiter, the giant of our solar system, is as fascinating as it is photogenic. How much do you know about the king of the planets?
Juno carries three 30-foot-long (9 m) solar panels, which together hold a total of 18,698 individual solar cells. Such extensive light-collecting gear is necessary to power the spacecraft in the relatively dim environment around Jupiter, which orbits more than five times farther from the sun than Earth does.
Last month, Juno became the farthest-flung solared-powered probe in spaceflight history. The previous record was held by the European Space Agency's comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft, which got a maximum of 492 million miles (792 million km) from Earth in October 2012.
The Moon or Mars? NASA Must Pick 1 Goal for Astronauts, Experts Tell Congress
The Moon or Mars? NASA Must Pick 1 Goal for Astronauts, Experts Tell Congress
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer |
NASA is targeting a manned mission to Mars in the 2030s, but big challenges loom for a trip to the Red Planet.
Credit: NASA
NASA can't afford to put humans on Mars while also pursuing missions to put astronauts back on the moon, according to a panel of experts who testified to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Space yesterday (Feb. 3).
"Today the future of NASA's human spaceflight program is far from clear," said Tom Young, former director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. "There has been continual debate about should we go to the moon or Mars or both … It is clear, again, that we cannot do both. And there is a need to focus our attention, capability and resources on one option."
NASA has been advertising its "Journey to Mars" campaign, with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden saying that humans could go to the Red Planet as early as the 2030s. But in addition to the technological and fiscal hurdles, the three panelists agreed that without a solid plan in place, none of the proposed human-spaceflight goals would come to fruition. [5 Ideas for Manned Missions to Mars]
"In the current fiscal environment, there are no good pathways to Mars," said John Sommerer, retired director of the Space Department at Johns Hopkins University.
Sommerer contributed to a report that Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences to assemble, which looked at the feasibility of human spaceflight endeavors. The results of its investigation were released in a report called "Pathways to Exploration," in 2014.
The report concluded that "the first crewed Mars landing might be possible 20 to 40 years from now, after a cumulative expenditure on the order of half a trillion dollars," Sommerer said.
If the current budget of $9 billion spent on human spaceflight "remains constant, with the addition of inflation," Young said, then approximately $180 billion "with today's spending power" will be spent on human spaceflight over the next two decades.
"Just as it is not feasible to take a cross-country trip on a child's allowance … we may well never be able to get to Mars at current expenditure levels," Sommerer said. "It might be better to stop talking about Mars if there is no appetite in Congress and the administration for higher human spaceflight budgets, and no willingness to cut programs that do not contribute to progress."
Subcommittee member Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., spoke enthusiastically to the panel about the possibility of a human mission to Mars, and pointed out some of the young people in the room who might be the ones to go to Mars. He showed the panel a bumper sticker that read "Mars 2033: We Can Do This." He pressed Sommerer to confirm that, if given a sufficient budget, NASA could put humans on Mars in only 17 years.
"If you give [NASA] the date, and the money, and help with the discipline, the answer is yes," Sommerer said. "If any of those three things is missing, the answer is almost certainly no."
Mo Brooks, R-Ala., noted that the United States is currently facing serious budget concerns. He mentioned the Constellation program — which aimed to put humans back on the moon by 2020, but which was defunded in 2010 — and asked the panelists to talk about how to avoid putting money into missions that would ultimately not come to fruition, and what lessons could be learned.
Young spoke about the desire to have fewer "tombstones" for cancelled projects and more "memorials" to successful ones. He reiterated the thesis of his opening remarks, that what NASA needs more than anything is a concrete plan for how it should proceed.
"I am personally passionate about humans going to Mars, but I'm equally passionate about a good, disciplined plan that is not frivolous," he said. "A plan that does what is required, but also … doesn't just do what's possible."
In a response to Brook, Sommerer brought up the possibility of defunding human spaceflight and relying entirely on robotic missions, which are "much more cost effective."
"That's a choice that, in really grim financial straits, the country might be forced to make," Sommerer said. "But it doesn't seem to be something people want to stand up and proudly say, 'Let's end the human space endeavor and rely on only robots.'"
He added, "Although the robot stuff is pretty cool."
The third member of the witness panel was Paul Spudis, a senior scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute at the Universities Space Research Association. Spudis' research is focused on the geology of the moon. In his opening remarks, Spudis laid out reasons why NASA and humanity should not only return humans to the surface of the moon, but also develop an entire infrastructure in cislunar space (the space between Earth and the moon) that would include "transport vehicles, staging nodes, deep-space habitats, power stations and fuel depots."
In the journey to send humans to other planets, a pit stop at the moon might be the right way to go, Spudis argued. A moon base might help humans develop technologies and know-how to survive on Mars. Humans could potentially harvest resources from the moon, like water, which can be used to keep humans alive — as well as broken up into oxygen and hydrogen to fuel spacecraft. Having access to those resources could make a trip to Mars more feasible, he said. (This is a discussion going on in congress for some time).
"America's space program is in disarray," Spudis said. "What we need is a logically arranged set of short-term, realizable space goals that are not only interesting in and of themselves, but whose attainment will build capability in the long term."
Spudis also spoke about the need to have crewed spacecraft that can be used to visit satellites that humans are relying on more and more for communications and other daily services, such as GPS.
"Many of these satellites are national security assets. Satellites upon which we are critically dependent," Spudis said. Currently, when those satellites break, often the only option is to let them die and replace them, Spudis said.
Spudis also said that China is developing the ability to "travel throughout and loiter within cislunar space," which might enable the country to disable satellites belonging to other countries. Such a move would put the United States at a disadvantage if it didn't have the same capabilities, he said.
A cislunar program would also offer NASA a set of goals that could be obtained on much shorter timelines than a human mission to Mars. The appeal of financing a set of shorter-term goals, rather than a single, long-term goal, was echoed by subcommittee member Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., who expressed concern at the prospect of investing in a human Mars mission, only to have it set aside if a more pressing priority arose.
A panel of witnesses testified before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Space about the path forward for NASA's human spaceflight program. The witnesses were (l to r) Tom Young, former director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, John Sommerer, retired director of the Space Department at Johns Hopkins University, Paul Spudis, a senior scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute at the University Space Research Association.
Credit: House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Moving forward
It is highly unlikely that the United States would be able to afford to simultaneously pursue a human mission to Mars while also deploying human missions to the moon or cislunar space, said Young during his testimony.
If congress decided to push for NASA to pursue a human mission to Mars, Young said, the agency would need to develop a specific plan in the near future "that takes us from today to humans on Mars." He listed a dozen things that such a plan would need to address, including defining intermediate missions that would be needed to prepare for a Mars trip, assessing risk, getting an idea of the resources that would need to be allocated and applying those resources "in the most effective manner."
"An argument against a plan at the current time is that we are not ready to finalize the necessary elements of the plan," Young said. "I believe a strength of NASA program management is to establish a plan relatively early, with the recognition that as new information becomes available, the plan can be changed."
"We have our work cut out to us," subcommittee chair Brian Babin, (R-Texas, 36th District) said in his closing comments. "I agree that whatever NASA puts their mind to we can do. But we do have the parameters of an almost 20 trill dollar national debt that we have at this time. … I think we have our marching orders. We just have to get organized on this."
Astronaut Edgar D. Mitchell, who was part of the Apollo 14 missions, that flew to the moon in 1971, died late Thursday in West Palm Beach.
Mitchell was the sixth man to walk on the moon, as a member of the eighth manned mission in the United States Apollo program. Mitchell was the lunar module pilot on the mission.
Stuart Roosa, Alan Shepard, and Edgar Mitchell
In his 1996 memoir, “The Way of the Explorer,” he described the experience on his return as: ” What I experienced during that three-day trip home was nothing short of an overwhelming sense of universal connectedness. I actually felt what has been described as an ecstasy of unity.”
Mitchell was also a long-time advocate for the release of information pertaining to UFOs, being a firm believer that an extraterrestrial presence had and continues to monitor planet Earth.
Despite his personal beliefs, he was an American icon, and will be missed, but surely not forgotten.
As per NASA, the sun irradiates the earth with 174 Petawatts (Pw) of solar energy per day. Approximately 30% of this energy is reflected back into space, and a major part of it is absorbed by our atmosphere. Even if we get only 10% of this energy, which is about 17.4 Pw per day, it is still more than the daily energy requirement for the entire planet.
A team of researchers at NextPV (a partnership between the French National Center for Scientific Research and the University of Tokyo), is doing an amazing job overcoming some of the limitations of standard ground-based solar panels. They are creating solar balloons which would be able to float above the clouds where the sun is shining all the time.
Concepts behind solar balloons:
Limitations like the requirement for energy storage for nighttime and the effects of cloudy or inclement weather on solar electricity production will be covered in this unique photovoltaic solution.
These solar balloons would be deployed above the clouds (6 km or 3.7 miles above the ground), where there will be no clouds or any diffusion by the atmosphere to interfere with their efficiency.
This innovation involves using hydrogen as an energy carrier. The solar energy captured during the day will be sent to a fuel cell, which would convert the current into hydrogen and keep the balloon afloat. At night, the fuel cell will take over to recover the hydrogen and convert it back into a charge, which is then fed to the ground.
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You can’t fly over Area 51. That’s the rule, even if you’re an Air Force pilot in a jet that’s running out of fuel. Find another runway; you can’t land there.
Private pilots who have mistakenly entered “The Box”—the restricted airspace over Area 51—have been “escorted” down by military jets, and there are tales of planes actually being shot down, as inthis infamous call to radio host Art Bell in 1997.
New Signs Have Appeared atthe Area 51 Base Borders Banning Consumer Drones
A NEW AREA 51 BAN
Drones? Now they’re banned too.
We don’t just mean the remote-piloted planes the US uses in the Middle East to take out terrorists and wedding parties. We’re talking about the drone you got for your birthday, the one that can go a thousand feet up, the one with the GoPro attachment, the one that (if you’re in the US) you had to register with the FAA.
Now that consumer drones are widely available, you knew someone was going to try and fly one over Area 51. We don’t have reports of anyone’s drone being shot down over the base, but that may just mean that the drone flight was successful. Or, maybe the base management realized what could happen and is merely being proactive.
THE REAL REASON FOR THE BAN
Some have suggested this new drone bad is strictly for safety: they do test aircraft (and probably other kinds of, ahem, craft) at Area 51, and the borders are patrolled by helicopter. A consumer drone flying out of control nearby could cause a catastrophe for sure.
We don’t believe that’s the real reason for ban, though. The real reason: these drones have cameras mounted in them. Video cameras.
Most consumer-grade drones can’t go 20-odd miles away from their remote controls, so one would need to be modified in order to reach the base. But it is within the realm of possibility. And if someone got a drone into base territory, some 500 feet up, the drone could take some nice pictures of things that are not supposed to exist.
That is what Area 51 officials are afraid of. That is what prompted this ban.
THEY CAN’T BAN ON PUBLIC LAND
The nearest legal observation point to the base is Tikaboo Peak, and, being public land, there is still no drone ban there. Our friends over at Finding UFO ventured out to Tikaboo and took some footage from their drone, which they posted to their excellent YouTube channel. Check it out below.
Nieuw onderzoek suggereert dat de aarde frontaal op Theia botste. Het kan verklaren waarom de aarde en de maan qua samenstelling sterk op elkaar lijken.
Dat de maan zo’n 4,5 miljard jaar geleden ontstond door een gewelddadige botsing tussen de aarde en Theia, is al jaren bekend. Maar nieuw onderzoek onthult nu enkele nieuwe details over die botsing. Zo zou het een frontale botsing zijn geweest. Dat staat haaks op eerdere ideeën over de botsing, die stellen dat de aarde en Theia elkaar zijdelings raakten (zie het filmpje hieronder).
Gesteenten Dat er sprake moet zijn geweest van een frontale botsing, baseren de onderzoekers op de samenstelling van gesteenten op de maan en de aarde. Ze bestudeerden zeven gesteenten die tijdens de Apollo-missies van de maan naar de aarde waren gebracht. Ook bestudeerden ze zes vulkanische gesteenten, vijf van Hawaii en één uit Arizona. Ze richtten zich op zuurstofisotopen en dan met name op de verhouding tussen O-16 en O-17. Opvallend genoeg blijkt – in tegenstelling tot wat eerdere onderzoeken suggereren – dat de verhouding tussen die isotopen op de aarde en de maan vergelijkbaar is. “We zien geen verschil tussen de zuurstofisotopen op de aarde en de maan: ze zijn niet van elkaar te onderscheiden,” stelt onderzoeker Edward Young.
Hetzelfde En dat is veelzeggend. Als de aarde en Theia elkaar zijdelings hadden geraakt, zou het grootste deel van de maan bestaan uit Theia en zouden de aarde en de maan andere zuurstofisotopen bezitten. Tijdens een frontale botsing tussen de aarde en Theia zou je echter verwachten dat de aarde en de maan een vergelijkbare chemische samenstelling hebben. “Theia werd evenredig met de aarde en de maan gemixt,” stelt Young.
Theia overleefde de klap met de aarde dus niet en ging deel uitmaken van de maan en de aarde. Theia was in die tijd waarschijnlijk een ‘planetaire embryo’ die nog volop aan het groeien was. Als de botsing met de aarde niet had plaatsgevonden, was Theia waarschijnlijk uitgegroeid tot een planeet.
Mensen teleporteren: behoort het al bijna tot de mogelijkheden?
Mensen teleporteren: behoort het al bijna tot de mogelijkheden?
Het – over kleine afstand – teleporteren van atomen behoort al tot de mogelijkheden. Wanneer zijn we zover dat we ook mensen kunnen teleporteren?
Interstellaire reizen maken: dat vraagt om nieuwe oplossingen. De afgelopen weken zijn op Scientias.nlverschillende van die oplossingen de revue gepasseerd. We schreven over warp-speed en wormgaten. Maar er is nog een manier om razendsnel van A naar B te reizen. Een manier die de meesten van ons kennen uit Star Trek en die steevast geassocieerd wordt met de woorden “Beam me up, Scotty!” We hebben het natuurlijk over teleportatie.
Wat is het? Teleportatie is eigenlijk niets anders dan van A naar B reizen, zonder dat je fysiek de ruimte tussen A en B doorkruist. Je verdwijnt simpelweg op plek A en je komt op plek B weer tevoorschijn.
Sciencefiction? Klinkt het als sciencefiction? Dat is terecht. Want het teleporteren van mensen is inderdaad nog steeds toekomstmuziek. Maar..teleporteren van bijvoorbeeld informatie is dat niet. In 2014 hebben wetenschappers van de TU Delft informatie in een kwantumbit geteleporteerd naar een kwantumbit drie meter verderop. Ze deden dat met behulp van ‘verstrengeling’. “Als twee deeltjes verstrengeld zijn, smelten hun identiteiten samen,” zo vertelde onderzoeker Ronald Hanson daar in 2014 over. “Hun gezamenlijke toestand is exact bepaald, maar de identiteit van elk afzonderlijk is verdwenen. De verstrengelde deeltjes gedragen zich als één, ook als ze ver van elkaar verwijderd zijn. In ons geval was dat drie meter, maar dat zou in theorie ook de andere kant van het universum kunnen zijn.” Het experiment van Hanson en collega’s was veelbelovend. Ze waren de eersten ter wereld die erin slaagden om informatie te teleporteren tussen kwantumbits in verschillende computerchips door die kwantumbits met elkaar te verstrengelen. “Het bijzondere aan de methode die wij gebruiken, is dat de teleportatie met 100 procent zekerheid werkt. De informatie komt altijd aan, zogezegd.”
Veilig communiceren Wetenschappers die – zoals Hanson – graag experimenteren met teleportatie doen dat niet direct omdat ze in de voetsporen van Scotty willen treden. Hun werk is niet gericht op het teleporteren van mensen, maar op het teleporteren van informatie. Het voordeel van teleportatie is namelijk dat de informatie niet fysiek van A naar B reist en dus ook onderweg niet onderschept kan worden. Het is dus fundamenteel onmogelijk om geteleporteerde informatie af te luisteren.
Microben Allemaal heel interessant, natuurlijk, maar hoe zit het nu met het teleporteren van mensen? Dat is vooralsnog onontgonnen terrein. Alhoewel wetenschappers recent met een idee kwamen om de kwantumtoestand van een micro-organisme te teleporteren. De onderzoekers denken dat het mogelijk moet zijn om een kopie van de eigenschappen van een levende microbe te teleporteren. Hoe dan? Door de microbe op twee plaatsen tegelijk te laten zijn. En dat kan alleen door deze in superpositie te brengen. Uit eerder onderzoek is al gebleken dat een specifiek membraan – als je het voldoende af laat koelen – in superpositie kan worden gebracht. De onderzoekers stellen nu voor om de microbe op dit membraan te plaatsen. Zo moet het mogelijk zijn om eigenschappen van de microbe (de kwantumstaat) over te brengen naar een andere plaats in het elektrisch circuit waar de microbe deel van uitmaakt (zie ook de afbeelding hieronder). Het blijft echter een gedachte-experiment, het is onderzoekers dus nog niet gelukt om een levende bacterie te teleporteren.
Fundamentele problemen Tot op heden blijft teleporteren dus beperkt tot lichtdeeltjes en atomen. En misschien is dat maar beter ook, zo vertelde onderzoeker Carlo Beenakker, hoogleraar theoretische natuurkunde aan de universiteit van Leiden, enige tijd geleden aan Scientias.nl. “Er zijn een paar fundamentele problemen die het mijns inziens onmogelijk maken om mensen te teleporteren.” Het belangrijkste probleem is onze kwetsbaarheid. Beenakker illustreert het met behulp van een voorbeeldje: röntgenonderzoek. “Soms gaat er tijdens röntgenonderzoek iets mis en wordt een heel klein stukje DNA van mensen aangetast,” vertelt hij. “Dat kan leiden tot kanker.” Bij teleportatie moet informatie aan het eind van het traject worden uitgelezen. Een klein foutje tijdens dat proces kan al desastreuze gevolgen hebben. “Als je het zo bekijkt, is teleportatie de ultieme kankermachine.”
Zijn we slechts atomen? Maar teleportatie roept nog meer vragen op. Een heel interessante is of wij mensen niet meer zijn dan de atomen waaruit we bestaan. In andere woorden: als je een mens atoom voor atoom uit elkaar haalt en vervolgens op de eindbestemming weer atoom voor atoom in elkaar zet, heb je dan weer dezelfde mens?
“EEN HEEL INTERESSANTE VRAAG IS OF WIJ MENSEN NIET MEER ZIJN DAN DE ATOMEN WAARUIT WE BESTAAN”
Even geduld! Onderzoek van de universiteit van Leicester wijst verder uit dat teleporteren een tijdrovende aangelegenheid is. Alle data waaruit een mens bestaat – de menselijke genetische code, de neurale informatie – moet immers omgezet worden naar eentjes en nulletjes en vervolgens verstuurd worden. Dat alleen kost naar schatting al zo’n vijf biljard jaar.
Star Trek wil ons doen geloven dat teleportatie ergens aan het begin van de 22e eeuw werd uitgevonden. We hebben dus nog even als we dit stukje sciencefiction werkelijkheid willen laten worden. Maar dat wil niet zeggen dat het haalbaar is. ““Men begint nu pas na te denken over het teleporteren van bacteriën,” stelde Beenakker in 2013. “Dat zou een mijlpaal zijn, maar ik denk niet dat wij dat nog gaan meemaken.” Dus bewaar die OV-kaart en fiets in de schuur nog maar even: voorlopig wordt het verzoek ‘Beam me up!” alleen in sciencefictionfilms gehonoreerd.
Planetoïde scheert begin maart op nog onbekende afstand langs de aarde
Planetoïde scheert begin maart op nog onbekende afstand langs de aarde
De planetoïde passeerde de aarde twee jaar geleden ook al, maar zal begin maart mogelijk veel dichter bij onze planeet in de buurt komen. Maar: geen paniek!
De planetoïde draagt de naam 2013 TX68 en passeerde de aarde twee jaar geleden op een afstand van ongeveer 2 miljoen kilometer. Op welke afstand de planetoïde de aarde op 5 maart zal passeren, is nog onduidelijk. Schattingen lopen uiteen van 14 miljoen kilometer tot 17.000 kilometer.
Schattingen omtrent de afstand waarop de planetoïde langs de aarde zal scheren, lopen sterk uiteen. Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
Onzeker Dat onderzoekers nog niet goed weten hoe klein de afstand tussen de aarde en de planetoïde werkelijk zal zijn, komt doordat de baan van de ruimtesteen nog niet helemaal duidelijk is. “De baan van de planetoïde is onzeker en het zal lastig zijn om te voorspellen waar we deze kunnen zien,” vertelt onderzoeker Paul Chodas. “Er is een kans dat de planetoïde tijdens de scheervlucht van volgende maand wordt opgemerkt door één van onze telescopen en we meer te weten komen over de baan die de planetoïde rond de zon trekt.”
Kansen De baan mag dan onduidelijk zijn, wetenschappers sluiten uit dat 2013 TX68 begin maart op de aarde zal botsen. Wel is er een héél klein kansje dat de planetoïde in de toekomst een gevaar vormt. Zo wordt de kans dat deze op 28 september 2017 op de aarde afstevent, geschat op ongeveer 1 op 250 miljoen. De kans op een inslag tijdens latere scheervluchten langs de aarde – in 2046 en 2097 – is nog kleiner. “De mogelijkheid van een botsing tijdens één van deze drie scheervluchten is veel te klein om je echt zorgen over te maken,” benadrukt Chodas.
De planetoïde is naar schatting ongeveer 30 meter groot. Ter vergelijking: de planetoïde die drie jaar geleden in de atmosfeer boven Tsjeljabinsk uit elkaar spatte was twintig meter groot. Als een planetoïde ter grootte van 2013 TX68 de aardse atmosfeer binnendringt, zou daarbij ongeveer twee keer zoveel energie vrijkomen als tijdens de situatie boven Tsjeljabinsk.
The dwarf planet Ceres as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Parker (Southwest Research Institute), P. Thomas (Cornell University), L. McFadden (University of Maryland, College Park), and M. Mutchler and Z. Levay (STScI)
Ceres is a dwarf planet, the only one located in the inner reaches of the solar system; the rest lie at the outer edges, in the Kuiper Belt. While it is the smallest of the known dwarf planets, it is the largest object in the asteroid belt.
Unlike other rocky bodies in the asteroid belt, Ceres is an oblate spheroid, rounded with a rotational bulge around its equator. Scientists think Ceres may have an ocean and possibly an atmosphere. The recent arrival of a probe has unlocked some of the dwarf planet's secrets, but others remain hidden. [See more photos of the dwarf planet Ceres]
Bright spots & lonely mountains
On March 6, 2015, NASA's Dawn Spacecraft became the first probe to orbit two bodies in the solar system. After leaving the asteroid Vesta, Dawn traveled to Ceres, an icy world that has tantalized scientists for years. While most asteroids are made of rock, Ceres revealed hints that it could contain water on its surface since 1991, though those hints remained unconfirmed for more than 20 years.
As Dawn drew closer to the giant asteroid, a bright spot on its surface grew clearer. After observing Ceres, 130 similar spots of varying brightness were found on the planet. The surface of Ceres is generally as reflective as freshly poured asphalt, while the spots ranged from the dull sheen of concrete to the startling brightness of ice floating on Earth's oceans. The brightest region lies in the 56-mile-wide (90 kilometers) Occator Crater, which contains the most famous collections of shining spots on the surface of Ceres.
Early speculation regarding the spots included the possibility of ice volcanoes on the dwarf planet. However, only a single "lonely mountain" rises from the surface. The pyramid-shaped mountain rises to an altitude of 21,120 feet (6,437 meters). The 4-mile high mountain stands solitary, with no evidence of volcanic or other geologic activity to suggest its puzzling origin.
A recent study of the spots found that they are made up of hydrated magnesium sulfates, the same material that makes up Epsom salt back on Earth. Most of the bright regions are associated with craters, suggesting that their formation could be related to impacts. These findings tie into earlier understanding of the formation of the dwarf planet.
Ceres has a density of 2.09 grams per cubic centimeter, leading scientists to conclude approximately a quarter of its weight is water. This would give the dwarf planet more fresh water than Earth contains. By comparison, Earth has a density of 5.52 grams per cubic centimeter.
Scientists think that water-ice serves as the mantle of the dwarf planet. The thin, dusty crust is thought to be composed of rock, while a rocky inner core lies at the center. Spectral observations of Ceres from Earth reveal that the surface contains iron-rich clays. Signs of carbonates have similarly been found, making Ceres one of the only bodies in the solar system known to contain these minerals, the other two being Earth and Mars. Formed by a process that involves heat and water, carbonates are considered good potential indicators of habitability. [The Search for Life on Mars (A Photo Timeline)
When large bodies crash into Ceres, they may scoop out a region of the crust, cutting into the icy mantle beneath to leave the ice closer to surface. When sunlight heats the outer layer, the ice could go from solid to gas through a process known as sublimation.
In 2014, the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory detected plumes of water vapor escaping from the dwarf planet at a rate of 13 lbs. (6 kilograms) per second.
"This is the first clear-cut detection of water on Ceres and in the asteroid belt in general," said Michael Küppers of the European Space Agency, Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain. Küppers led the study of the vapor that appeared in Nature.
Ceres is thought to contain a thin outer layer of dust and rock over an icy layer.
Credit: NASA/ESA/STScI
History & discovery
Astronomers in the late 18th century mathematically predicted the presence of a planet between Mars and Jupiter, eagerly turning their telescopes to the region in search of the missing body. On Jan. 1, 1801, Sicilian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered what was then considered a planet, naming it Ceres for the Roman goddess of corn and harvests.
Within a decade, four new objects were discovered in the same region, all also considered planets. Nearly 50 years passed before more, smaller bodies were found scattered between Mars and Jupiter — the components of the asteroid belt — and Ceres was demoted to the status of an asteroid.
In 2006, Ceres was promoted to the status of a dwarf planet; it did not reach full planetary status because it failed to gravitationally clear its neighborhood of debris, though it often retains its classification as an asteroid, as well. [Infographic: Dwarf Planets in the Solar System]
The largest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres makes up nearly a third of its mass. Even so, it remains the smallest known dwarf planet, only 590 miles (950 km) across — roughly the size of Texas. A day on Ceres lasts a little over 9 Earth-hours, while it takes 4.6 Earth-years to travel around the sun.
The close proximity and low mass of Ceres have led some scientists to suggest that it could serve as a potential site for manned landings and a launching point for manned deep space missions.
Asteroid Basics: A Space Rock Quiz
Asteroids are fascinating for lots of reasons. They contain a variety of valuable resources and slam into our planet on a regular basis, occasionally snuffing out most of Earth's lifeforms. How much do you know about space rocks?
The source of Earth's water?
Unlike most of the asteroid belt, Ceres contains a significant amount of ice. This could mean similar worlds in the early solar system could have been responsible for bringing water to Earth.
Under current solar system models, Earth would have formed primarily rocky. Any water it held on its surface would have been vaporized when a large protoplanet collided with it to form the moon. For a long time, scientists thought that comets might have delivered water to the reformed Earth as they collided with its surface. However, comet-studying probes have shown that the icy rocks don't contain the right kind of water for their siblings to be responsible for those deliveries. New studies have turned to objects known as main belt asteroids, rock and icy neighbors of Ceres.
"One quarter of the mass of Ceres is water, and three quarters is rock," Dawn scientist Chris Russell told Space.com in 2015.
"If we had just a few Ceres-type bodies colliding with the Earth, we can explain where the water came from."
Moon Trees, like this one at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, stand as living monuments to the 1971 Apollo 14 mission.
Credit: NASA
They are spread across the United States, standing as living monuments to a moon mission 45 years ago this week.
The "Moon Trees" — redwoods, loblolly pines, sycamores, Douglas firs and sweetgums sprouted from seeds carried to the moon and back between Jan. 31 and Feb. 9, 1971 — are reminders of the Apollo 14 mission, even if some, if not many, of the trees' locations have now been lost to the passage of time.
Apollo 14 was the third mission to land astronauts on the moon. Commander Alan Shepard and lunar module pilot Edgar Mitchell explored the moon's Fra Mauro highlands, while command module pilot Stuart Roosa orbited above. Shepard and Mitchell conducted two moonwalks, almost making it to the rim of Cone crater while using a pull cart to carry their equipment and collect moon rocks. [NASA's 17 Apollo Moon Missions in Pictures]
Shepard, who 10 years prior had become the first United States astronaut to fly to space, was the first commander to wear red stripes on his spacesuit, an identifier still used by NASA today. Shepard was also the first to hit a golf ball off the moon, a record that is perhaps better remembered today, four and a half decades later, than Apollo 14's other, more official achievements.
While Shepard was packing the "little white pellets" for his "miles and miles" moon shot, Roosa chose to fly with him 500 tree seeds as a nod to his previous history as a smoke jumper for the U.S. Forest Service.
The five species of seeds, which were provided to Roosa by the Forest Service's genetics research staff, were more than just a memento of the flight.
"It was part science, part publicity stunt," Stan Krugman, a former Forest Service geneticist, told NASA in 2002. "The scientists wanted to find out what would happen to these seeds if they took a ride to the moon. Would they sprout? Would the trees look normal?"
Unfortunately, a mishap with the seeds after they returned to Earth made their fate even less certain: the canister that held the seeds for their flight to the moon was burst open during its decontamination, scattering its contents.
But the trees did grow, and by 1975, saplings were ready to leave Forest Service nurseries to be planted across the nation.
"We wanted to give them away as part of the bicentennial celebration in 1976," Krugman recalled.
The first of the Moon Trees, a sycamore, was planted with Roosa's help in Philadelphia's Washington Square Park on May 6, 1975. (The tree that grows there today is a clone of the original, which died in 2011.) [Apollo Landing Sites Spotted in Sharp New Detail (Video)]
Another of the arboreal monuments, a loblolly pine, went to the White House in Washington. At the time, President Gerald Ford described it as "a living symbol of our spectacular human and scientific achievements."
"May this young tree renew our deep-rooted faith in the ideals of our Founding Fathers," stated Ford, as relayed by telegram to the sites holding Moon Tree ceremonies. "May it inspire us to strive for the kind of growth that benefits our own citizens and all mankind."
Unfortunately, detailed records were not kept as to where the Moon Trees were planted. In 1996, 25 years after the Apollo 14 mission, David Williams, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, began a website to track where the Moon Trees had gone.
"They look like ordinary trees — but they're special because they've been to the moon," said Williams in a 2002 NASA article. "I found one Moon Tree right here at Goddard near my office. I had no idea it was there."
Twenty years after beginning the search, Williams has now recorded the locations of more than 75 Moon Trees in 25 states. Trees were also planted in Brazil, Switzerland and presented to the Emperor of Japan.
Though clones and second-generation trees continue to be planted, finding the originals has taken on a new sense of urgency in recent years.
Some of the trees are long-lived species, but others have fallen victim to the effects of old age, severe weather and disease, according to NASA. Some two dozen of the trees have died, including the loblolly pine planted at the White House and a pine in New Orleans that was damaged by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and later removed.
"I think when people are aware of the heritage of the trees, they usually take steps to preserve them," Williams said. "That's why we want to locate as many as we can soon. We want to have a record that these trees are — or were — a part of these communities, before they're gone."
NASA’s 1971 Apollo 14 crew: Stuart Roosa (left), Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell.
Credit: NASA
Roosa died in 1994, but his children continue to make sure the legacy of his Moon Trees lives on.
"The trees are the only living thing to commemorate man's most impressive achievement," said Roosa's son, Jack, in 2015.
This is the moment a mysterious UFO is spotted 'hovering' in the skies above Greater Manchester.
Video footage shows what appears to be a black object in the air with dark grey trails streaming out behind it above Ashton-under-Lyne.
As the recording plays through, the UFO continues to fly through the air, but doesn't appear to move in any direction.
Aliens? This is the moment a mysterious UFO is spotted 'hovering' . Video footage shows what appears to be a black object in the air with dark grey trails streaming behind it above Ashton-under-Lyne
Sophie Birch says she and her partner were so shocked by what they saw while driving in Ashton-under-Lyne, they had to pull the car over.
Sophie, a 23-year-old PA from Ashton, said: 'We were driving along and suddenly we spotted it. We just couldn't believe it - at first I thought it was a plane or something but it just wasn't moving, it was hovering.
My boyfriend was driving and he slammed on his brakes, then we pulled over so we could both see it better.'
On the video the couple have a conversation trying to work out what it is they are seeing, but Sophie says it remains unexplained.
She said: 'It was so unusual, we kept watching it for quite a while and there's no simple explanation as to what it is, I think it could be aliens - my sister said it was.
Shock: Sophie, a 23-year-old PA from Ashton, said: 'We were driving along and suddenly we spotted it. We just couldn't believe it - at first I thought it was a plane or something but it just wasn't moving, it was hovering
'You can see on the video it's like a black ship, with something coming out of the back.
'At one point we saw a flock of birds flying suddenly away from it like they were scared.'
The first well-known UFO sighting occurred in 1947, when businessman Kenneth Arnold claimed to see a group of nine high-speed objects near Mount Rainier in Washington while flying his small plane.
Arnold estimated the speed of the crescent-shaped objects as several thousand miles per hour and said they moved 'like saucers skipping on water.'
This is how the term flying saucer was coined as, in the newspaper report that followed, it was mistakenly stated that the objects were saucer-shaped.
Mysterious: Sophie said: 'It was so unusual, we kept watching it for quite a while and there's no simple explanation as to what it is, I think it could be aliens - my sister said it was'
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Giants With Double-Rowed Teeth, Flattened Heads and Six Fingers
Giants With Double-Rowed Teeth, Flattened Heads and Six Fingers
The Cherokee called them the Moon People. The Utes and Paiutes spoke of a hideous race of cannibals ten feet tall living in caves. And the Choctaw also have an account of the race of giants that first colonized the Ohio Valley.
From Old World Roots of the Cherokee, chapter 5, "America's Middle Ages," pp. 78-79, we read:
What kind of Indians lived in the territory the Choctaw and Chickasaw carved out for their new home? According to their traditions, reports Cushman, as confirmed by excavations of bones in Tennessee, it was a “race of white giants”:
[T]he tradition of the Choctaws... told of a race of giants that once inhabited the now State of Tennessee, and with whom their ancestors fought when they arrived in Mississippi in their migration from the west, doubtless Old Mexico.
Their tradition states the Nahullo (race of giants [literally, wizards]) was of wonderful stature; but, as their tradition of the mastodon [which used to be found on the Great Plains], so this was also considered to be but a foolish fable, the creature of a wild imagination, when lo! Their exhumed bones again prove the truth of the Choctaws’ tradition (151).
These giants could have been Rafinesque’s Atlans.
Cushman then recounts the discovery in 1880 at a burial mound site near Plano, Texas, of human bones “of enormous size... the femoral bones being five inches longer than the ordinary length, and the jaw bones... so large as to slip over the face of a man with ease.”
Cushman goes on to identify them with the older occupants of North America called Allegewi or Taligewi (Talegans). Many historians, moreover, speculate they were the builders of the Adena mounds.
As for the Chickasaw, Cushman notes that they have no record of their history before the colonial period, although it is assuredly "the same as the Choctaws, being one tribe and people until the division made by their two chiefs Chikasah and Chahtah many years after their arrival and location east of the Mississippi River" (p 358).
Of the Natchez, Cushman records that they, "if tradition may be believed, also came from Mexico where they had lived for centuries" (p 440).
A story was told by the Comanches in 1857:
Innumerable moons ago, a race of white men, ten feet high, and far more rich and powerful than any white people now living, here inhabited a large range of country, extending from the rising to the setting sun.
Their fortifications crowned the summits of the mountains, protecting their populous cities situated in the intervening valleys.
They excelled every other nation which was flourished, either before or since, in all manner of cunning handicraft — were brave and warlike — ruling over the land they had wrested from its ancient possessors with a high and haughty hand. Compared with them the palefaces of the present day were pygmies, in both art and arms.
They drove the Indians from their homes, putting them to the sword, and occupying the valleys in which their fathers had dwelt before them since the world began.
At length, in the height of their power and glory, when they remembered justice and mercy no more and became proud and lifted up, the Great Spirit descended from above, sweeping them with fire and deluge from the face of the earth.
The mounds we [i.e. the speaker Chief Rolling Thunder and his Spanish listener] had seen on the tablelands were the remnants of their fortresses, and the crumbling ruins that surrounded us all that remained of a mighty city.[i]
The word Nahoolo or Nahullo “is now emphatically applied to the white race and no other... The Nahullo were of white complexion, according to Choctaw tradition, and were still an existing people at the time of the advent of the Choctaws to Mississippi,” concludes Cushman (p 153).
In agreement, the Indian trader Adair often refers to the Nani Ishtahoolo as departed white ghosts vested with spiritual powers whose descendants were priests and magicians.
Their cries and magic spells could still be heard in the mounds like those at Ocmulgee.[ii] These references contribute to the suspicion that the “Indians” who preceded Asiatic tribes from Mexico were, as we would say today, Caucasian.
About exactly a year ago on this blog, we published a post about "Neanderthals in America," mentioning also the peculiar archaic skeleton that is now a roadside attraction in Arizona, called The Thing. In the meantime, we acquired a copy of Fritz Zimmerman's book, The Nephilim Chronicles, which reproduces over 300 historical accounts of Giant skeletons.
Many are associated with the earliest mound sites in America, but Zimmerman's survey of this worldwide phenomenon ranges from the Hunter-Fisher People of northeast Europe and Red Paint People whose movements were circumpolar to the giants of the Bible, noted by the Babylonian Talmud as having double rows of teeth, and "Giants' Remains in the British Isles" (pp. 157-65).
Navajo legends speak of the Starnake People, a regal race of white giants endowed with mining technology who dominated the West, enslaved lesser tribes and had strongholds all through the Americas. They were either extinguished or "went back to the heavens."
The name may be a corruption of the Biblical race known as Anakim (Num. 13:33, Deut. 1:28). The name Og (Hebrew "chief") appears to be characteristic (see Zimmerman, pp. 188-91). The ogham alphabet is attributed to this cultural founder.
Certainly, many of the mound sites uncovered in the nineteenth century tell a story of constant warfare by incoming Asiatic tribes against the giants occupying the land. One grisly scene showed thousands of skeletons, male, female and young heaped in a mass grave, with warriors' skulls pierced by arrows.
It would appear that as these aboriginal inhabitants of the Ohio Valley were gradually displaced, some members of their society went over into the ranks of the new conquerors, bequeathing a strain of great stature still noticeable, for instance, in the Mobilian chief Tuscaloosa and DeSoto's Indian queen Cofitachiqui, both of whom were said to be seven feet tall.
We are struck by the following traits of this giant race or ethnic group from human prehistory:
-Mother Goddess religion
-Copper (not bronze) axes
-Polished slate tools including fishing plummets, which were apparently regarded as sacred
-Belief that the Grandmother Moon was the repository of souls
-Diet emphasizing shellfish (for which the double row of teeth probably was selected as an evolutionary advantage in their beachcomber origin out of Africa?)
-Building of fish weirs in North American rivers to trap migrating eels
-Certain vegetarian habits (wild rice, for instance)
-Inscriptions on artifacts, especially pipes, often buried with the dead
-Use of coal and petroleum
-Weaving and looms
-Knowledge of seafaring, mathematics and engineering, including canals and irrigation
-Burying of a dog with a child to guard the latter in the afterlife
-A language apparently Afro-Asiatic and close to Semitic tongues
-Kingcraft: nobles were buried in seated positions on thrones surrounded by a coterie of their retainers
When Denisovan Man was first discovered, we had just a fingerbone to go on. We can only extrapolate the look of the skull. Geneticists conjecture, however, that it was an Austronesian type.
We suggest that a modern prize of science will belong to the geneticist who can derive ancient DNA to study and classify from the bones of giant hominids that are unavoidably plentiful in the archeological and mythological records of humankind.
Maybe the owner of The Thing will allow researchers to borrow one of the femurs for laboratory analysis and measurement.
If that's not possible, the Smithsonian, Carnegie Institute and dozens of local historical societies throughout the Midwest have basements and storage facilities brimming with these relics of American history.
Plumes erupting off the surface of Enceladus, an icy moon. Credit: NASA/JPL/SSI
How acidic is the ocean on Saturn's icy moon Enceladus? It's a fundamental question to understanding if this geyser-spouting moon could support life.
Enceladus is part of a family of icy worlds, including Europa (at Jupiter) and Titan (also at Saturn), populating our outer solar system. These bodies are some of the most promising places for life because they receive tidal energy from the gas giants they orbit and some contain liquid water.
The Cassini spacecraft has been taking regular measurements of Enceladus for more than a decade to evaluate its environment. One of the key factors influencing the habitability of an environment is its chemical composition, in particular its pH. On Earth, it's possible for life to exist near the extremes of the pH scale that ranges from 0 (battery acid) to 14 (drain cleaner). Knowing the pH can help us to identify geochemical reactions that affect the habitability of an environment, because many reactions cause predictable changes in pH.
Oceanography of another world
While we cannot stick a strip of pH paper into the ocean water on Enceladus to measure the pH directly, it can be estimated by looking at molecules in its plumes that change form in response to pH changes.
Serpentinization, which is believed to occur on Enceladus, may also happen on other moons such as Europa (pictured). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SETI Institute
Recently, geochemist Christopher Glein led a team that developed a new approach to estimating the pH of Enceladus' ocean using observational data of the carbonate geochemistry of plume material. This is a classic problem in geochemical studies of Earth (such as rainwater), but scientists can now solve the carbonate problem on an extraterrestrial body thanks to measurements of dissolved inorganic carbon by the Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA), and carbon dioxide gas by the Ion and Neutral Mass Spectrometer (INMS) onboard Cassini.
Glein's team tried to create the most comprehensive chemical model to date of the ocean by accounting for compositional constraints from both INMS and CDA, such as the salinity of the plume. Their model suggests that Enceladus has a sodium, chloride and carbonate ocean with an alkaline pH of 11 or 12, close to the equivalent of ammonia or soapy water. The estimated pH is slightly higher by 1 to 2 units than an earlier estimate based on CDA data alone, but the different modeling approaches are consistent in terms of the overall chemistry of an alkaline ocean.
"It's encouraging that there is general agreement, considering that these approaches are based on spacecraft data from a plume. This is much more difficult than getting the pH of a swimming pool, so it would not be surprising if the models are missing some of the details. Of course, we are trying to reconcile the data as much as possible because the details may provide clues to understanding the eruptive processes that turn an ocean's chemistry into a plume," said Glein.
A paper based on Glein's research, "The pH of Enceladus' ocean," was published in Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta in August. Glein is a research scientist at Southwest Research Institute, but completed the research while at the Carnegie Institution of Washington. The work was funded by the NASA Astrobiology Institute element of the Astrobiology Program at NASA.
Hydrothermal activity for life
A portion of the “Lost City” hydrothermal vents in the Atlantic Ocean, which may be most similar to what is happening on Enceladus. Credit: NASA
It is believed that Enceladus' alkaline chemistry comes from a geochemical process called serpentinization. This happens when a rock that is rich in magnesium and iron is converted to clay-type minerals. On Earth, we see this process in very limited locations, such as the low-temperature hydrothermal vent field named Lost City in the Atlantic Ocean.
"It's exactly what we would expect if there is a liquid water ocean in contact with rocks on and below the ocean floor on Enceladus," Glein said.
In addition to a high pH, this process produces hydrogen gas, a potent fuel that can drive the formation of organic molecules that in some cases can be building blocks of life.
An unresolved question, however, is whether serpentinization is taking place now. If the activity is ongoing, this would provide habitable conditions, which could support an ecosystem similar to Lost City. If it occurred long ago, the high pH may be a relict and life may be less likely, although still not impossible if there are other sources of chemical energy.
Cassini did a final flyby of Enceladus in late October that targeted the chemistry of the plumes directly. The INMS team, which includes Glein, is searching for molecular hydrogen in that plume, which would be chemical evidence of active serpentinization. An absence of molecular hydrogen would be a sign that the serpentinization is extinct.
The data analysis from this flyby may be completed in time for the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting in December. Glein added that the planned NASA mission to Europa includes advanced descendants of both the CDA and INMS instruments, meaning that in a decade or two, scientists can start to make these same measurements at Europa. This will allow us to better understand the importance of serpentinization across the Solar System.
"On other icy worlds, if they have liquid water oceans, [serpentinization] should be inevitable because these bodies are massive mixtures of water and rock," he said. "Maybe the methane we see in Titan's atmosphere formed when hydrogen from serpentinization combined with deep carbon in a hydrothermal environment. There may also be liquid water on [dwarf planet] Pluto, through cryovolcanoes and a youthful surface. We expect there to be some degree of water-rock interaction on suchocean worlds, setting the stage for serpentinization and the generation of hydrogen that could be utilized if there is anyone out there."
You can now send a 'message in a bottle' that'll reach the North Star in 434 years
by FIONA MACDONALD
If you've ever wanted to reach out to potential life outside of our Solar System, this is your chance. A new project will beam people's text-based messages into space at light speed later this year, with the communications predicted to reachPolaris - or the North Star - in 434 years.
The messages will be transmitted as radio signals, and the researchers hope they'll form something of a 'time capsule' that will reveal insights into how we feel about the environment at this crucial point in our history. "This project will create a culturally inspired message in a bottle capturing global perspectives that will travel into space for aeons," explains one of the project coordinators, Paul Quast, from the University of Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland.
The 3-minute binary transmission was put together by Frank Drake, creator of the famous Drake equation, and astronomer Carl Sagan, and contained a whole lot of encoded information about our DNA, a graphic image of a human, a map of the Solar System, and other information that aliens might find handy if they wanted to know more about us.
Since then, a range of other projects have beamed radio-wave transmissions towards distant planets and stars, mostly with the aim of providing any intercepting extraterrestrial intelligence with crucial insights into humanity. Or, if nothing else, asking them to hit us back with a message of their own.
This new project, titled A Simple Response, is a little different, because its aim isn't to speak to life outside our planet (although there's always the possibility of the transmission being intercepted). Instead, the researchers involved hope the messages will help them understand more about how people around the world think about climate change, regardless of geography or background.
To that end, the project is asking people to answer a simple question: "How will our present environmental interactions shape the future?" The results will be compiled and beamed into interstellar space as radio waves in August this year. That next step is something they're now working on with physicists and astronomers at the University of Edinburgh.
Thanks to the fact that radio waves travel at the speed of light, within 21 hours of transmission, the signal will have travelled deeper into space than one of our most famous message-carriers - Voyager 1, which was launched in 1977 and is now venturing through interstellar space.
Polaris was chosen as the target for the new message because of its significance as a reference point for navigators and stargazers throughout the ages, the project website explains.
It also allows us the emotional benefits of being able to track our tiny human time capsule as it makes it way out into the depths of space. And if that doesn't help to remind people that we're all just one species, living on lonely rock with the common goal of survival, I don't know what will.
CubeSats offer the chance for unprecedented access to space at a low cost. Low enough, indeed, that a group of UFO researchers were able to crowdsource the funds on IndieGoGo to launch their own UFO-hunting satellite into low-Earth orbit.
It all started on IndieGoGo with the CubeSat 4 Disclosure project, led by Vancouver-based UFO researcher David Cote. While the project fell short of its $50,000 goal, they were able to get $16,641, enough to nearly buy them the $19,000 CubeSat kit. They've turned to Kickstarter, where they hope to raise an additional $10,000 to cover the cost of the science instruments.
Once they raise those funds, the group of six behind the CubeSat 4 Disclosure project will be able to launch their small sat into space from the Mojave Desert-based Interorbital Systems, which also provided the CubeSat system. The cost of the kit includes the cost of the launch. It will spend three months in low-Earth orbit, armed with a radiation detector and a camera. If an anomalous amount of energy is picked up, it'll sprout into action and take pictures of whatever is going on.
While the group hopes to find the smoking gun of UFO research (a close-up picture of an alien craft), it also may be able to help more mainstream scientists by detecting solar flares and other upper atmosphere phenomena in its short time. After three months, the craft will likely have been deorbited by gravity and solar radiation. The group promises to make their findings open source ... whatever findings they may have.
"Maybe we'll get data readings and pictures of solar-flare caused auroras. Maybe we'll capture images of some very interesting meteors," Cote said on the IndieGoGo page. "And maybe we'll actually capture a verifiable craft."
While plenty of UFO researchers keep an eye on the International Space Station's live feeds and there's always a headline in British tabloids about something Curiosity saw in the distance on Mars, this may be the first dedicated UFO hunting satellite. And with launch kits as low as $20,000, it probably won't be the last.
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Earth scores an unimpressive 82% chance of sustaining life in 'habitability' calculation
Earth scores an unimpressive 82% chance of sustaining life in 'habitability' calculation
Aliens watching might think we're too close to the Sun.
With so much human hope and endeavour focused on the task of identifying extraterrestrial life on worlds outside our Solar System, it can be pretty disheartening when scientists point out how slim the prospects could really be.
Which is why a recent finding that Earth itself would only rate an 82 percent chance of being habitable – per a new calculation designed to rate exoplanet habitability – could actually be considered rather positive news. Wait… what?
Yes, strange as it sounds, researchers say that their 'habitability index', developed to help scientists prioritise the search for alien life on exoplanets, doesn't actually award Earth a 100 percent score in terms of the likelihood of being able to sustain life.
Which is more than a little ironic, when you think about it, given it's the only planet we 100 percent know for sure does sustain life. So why the less-than-perfect rating?
"Basically, where we lose some of the probability, or chance for life, is that we could be too close to the [Sun]," said astronomer Rory Barnes from the University of Washington. "We actually are kind of close to the inner edge of the habitable zone. If we spotted Earth with our current techniques, we would reasonably conclude that it could be too hot for life."
Barnes and his fellow researchers developed their index last year, which ranks exoplanets based on habitability-influencing factors such as whether their atmospheric pressure would be sufficient for liquid water to exist on the surface, how rocky they are, and how much energy they absorb or reflect from their host star.
When these details are considered, the researchers say Earth would look good but not great to alien astronomers observing our home from afar. Chiefly, this is because our proximity to the Sun might lead them to conclude that we're simply too close to the superheated inner edge of our star's habitable zone.
"Remember, we have to think about Earth as if we don't know anything about it,"said Barnes. "We don't know that it's got oceans, and whales and things like that – imagine it's just this thing that dims some of the light around a nearby star when it passes."
According to the researchers, this could mean astronomers on other planets – if they were to arrive at the same conclusions – might focus their efforts on other planets offering better habitability scores than Earth and overlook us entirely, having taken our home as being a little on the crispy side.
"The point of the paper is that the [higher-ranking planet] is the best to spend our time on. Because it's less in danger," said Barnes. "But, it's obviously based on this very limited information."
Robert Salas is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, class of 1964. He served seven years on active duty before separating from the Air Force in 1971. While on active duty he worked as a Weapons Controller, flew target drones, commanded inter-continental ballistic missiles as a launch officer, and a worked as an Air Force missile propulsion engineer on the Titan III program.
UFOs shut down the missle systems while he was on duty.. talk about interesting..
The flyby of asteroid 2013 TX68 is the closest ever predicted Earth approach for an object this large. The 150 feet (45 meters) rock could pass 11,000 miles (17,000km) from Earth on March 5th which is 21 times closer to our planet than the moon, although NASA admits it might also pass nine million miles away as the asteroid’s orbit is highly uncertain (condition code 7) and the distance of its pass is not precisely known at this time experts say.
However, if the asteroid passes at its closest possible distance of just 11,000 miles (17,000 km), the flyby will be an exceedingly close one and If that were the case, the asteroid would come even closer than orbiting communications satellites.
Asteroid 2013 TX68 has an estimated mass of about 130,000 metric tons. The space rock is traveling at about 32,211 miles per hour (51,839 kilometers per hour), relative to Earth.
According to NASA, if an asteroid of a size similar to that of 2013 TX68 were to impact Earth, it would release approximately 2.5 megatons of energy in the atmosphere and would be expected to cause regional devastation.
A comparison to the impact potential of an asteroid the size of 2013 TX68 could be made to the impact of a near-Earth object that occurred in 1908 in Tuguska, Siberia.
Known in the asteroid community as the “Tunguska Event,” this impact of an asteroid just slightly smaller than 2013 TX68 (approximately 100 – 130 feet/30-40 meters across) is believed to have flattened about 825 square miles (2200 square kilometers) of forest in and around the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in what is now Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia.
The asteroid was discovered by the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey on Oct. 6, 2013, as it approached Earth on the nighttime side. After three days of tracking, the asteroid passed into the daytime sky and could no longer be observed. Because it was not tracked for very long,
Although scientists cannot predict its precise orbit around the sun, they say that it cannot impact Earth during its flyby next month.
Furthermore, it seems cosmic rays are rising rapidly and the Earth is tilting North, which is a physical Pole Shift combined with a magnetic polar shift. In the second video BPEarthWatch explains these developments as well as an analysis of Asteroid 2013 TX68 based on the information given by ESA instead of NASA.
Australische moeder filmt ‘geest’ bij haar slapende baby
Australische moeder filmt ‘geest’ bij haar slapende baby
Op Facebook gaat een filmpje van een slapende baby viraal omdat er een geest naast het bed lijkt te zitten. De video is inmiddels al meer dan twee miljoen keer bekeken en ruim 23.000 keer gedeeld.
Moeder Jade Yates uit het Australische Victoria geloofde tot voor kort nooit in geesten, maar daar is door dit filmpje verandering in gekomen. In de video lijken één of meerdere geesten bij de slapende Ruby aanwezig te zijn.
De moeder meent dat er een baby en een volwassene bij Ruby te zien zijn. Volgens haar hebben de geesten geen kwade bedoelingen. “Ik denk niet dat ze slecht zijn, de volwassene is erg oplettend,” zegt ze.
Over de geest wordt inmiddels druk gespeculeerd. Sommigen denken dat de geest een overleden baby is. Yates laat weten dat er bij haar in de buurt pas geleden een oude man is overleden. Ze zegt verder dat er niets voor het raam hangt, dat de deur van Ruby’s kamer dicht is en dat het verder helemaal donker in de kamer is.
Topoverleg in Witte Huis, Washington, USA vanwege dreiging aardbevingen.
Topoverleg in Witte Huis, Washington, USA vanwege dreiging aardbevingen.
Met de komst van het mini-zonnestelsel Nibiru worden er in het geheim talloze voorbereidingen getroffen.
Daarnaast gebeuren er ook dingen open en bloot zoals nu opeens een overleg in het Witte Huis en het in alle haast opzetten van waarschuwingssystemen voor aardbevingen.
Na een jarenlange stilte is er nu weer volop belangstelling voor onbekende planeten in ons zonnestelsel, maar men gaat niet zover door de wereldbevolking het volledige verhaal te vertellen.
Die hernieuwde formele belangstelling is nodig om enerzijds de massa langzaam te laten wennen aan het idee dat er misschien toch wel iets meer is in onze zonnestelsel dan ze altijd hebben gedacht mede omdat steeds meer mensen ook met het blote oog dingen waarnemen en anderzijds om de steeds verdergaande voorbereidingen van de elite enigszins te maskeren.
In plaats van een soort Nibiru of Planet X disclosure kiest men ervoor om kleine beetjes waarheid naar buiten te laten lekken zoals de bekendmaking van “het ontdekken” van een tot nu toe onbekende planeet in ons zonnestelsel.
De gevolgen van de nadering van dit mini-zonnestelsel beginnen natuurlijk steeds duidelijker te worden. Niet alleen worden er fysiek planeten waargenomen rondom de zon, ook de invloeden van deze enorme planeet op onze aarde begint steeds merkbaarder te worden.
Eén van die dingen is dat er steeds meer asteroïden onze kant op komen en waarvoor nu in alle haast door NASA een nieuwe speciale afdeling in het leven is geroepen zoals we eerder deze week schreven.
Net zoals vele mensen zich afvragen of NASA misschien iets weet dat zij niet weten, geldt dat een beetje hetzelfde voor een aankondiging die enkele dagen geleden door het Witte Huis werd gedaan.
Onder het mom dat The Big One (mega aardbeving) misschien toch vroeg of laat zal toeslaan, werd afgelopen dinsdag door het Witte Huis ineens een soort live topoverleg gevoerd met allerlei wetenschappers en dergelijke over wat men kan doen om beter voorbereid te zijn op aardbevingen.
Het doel was ondanks dat niemand precies kan voorspellen waar aardbevingen zullen plaatsvinden toch een systeem te ontwikkelen waarbij mensen wellicht tijdig gewaarschuwd kunnen worden voor een ophanden zijnde aardbeving.
Met dit overleg werd een nieuw programma gelanceerd dat Earthquake Resilience Summit heet en waar aan seismologen en wetenschappers wordt gevraagd om mee te denken aan een zogenaamd “early warning system”.
Op zich zou dit misschien allemaal niet zo’n opvallend bericht, behalve wanneer je weer kijkt naar de timing.
Waarom wordt er nu ineens topoverleg gevoerd op het Witte Huis in verband met dreigingen van aardbevingen? Waarom wordt nu ineens een nieuwe afdeling van NASA in het leven geroepen om onbekende objecten in de ruimte op te sporen?
Dit alles wordt gedaan zodat de elite voldoende gelegenheid krijgt om zich te barricaderen in de grote ondergrondse schuilplaatsen die wereldwijd zijn gemaakt.
Wat dit alles ook laat zien, is dat het nu echt dichterbij komt, maar ook dat het niet volgende maand ineens op de stoep staat. Gezien de manier waarop de elite het nu speelt en de voorbereidingen die nu in gang worden gezet, lijkt het meer iets van ergens tussen de vijf en tien jaar van nu.
De wereld wordt voorbereid op allerlei oefeningen en observaties in de ruimte. Als schuldige voor de steeds verder toenemende aardbevingen en vulkaanuitbarstingen zal ongetwijfeld de opwarming van de aarde aangewezen worden.
En misschien is het toeval, maar enige weken geleden verscheen het bericht dat de Amerikaanse warenhuisgigant Wal-Mart honderden winkels in Amerika gaat sluiten, maar dat er ook weer talloze nieuwe winkels geopend zullen worden.
Op het volgende plaatje is te zien waar die winkelsluitingen in Amerika zullen plaatsvinden. Dan zie je dat ze behoorlijk geconcentreerd zijn op bepaalde locaties zoals midden Amerika en delen van de oostkust.
Bij de Zeta’s van Nancy Lieder wordt al langere tijd gesproken over de komende aardbevingen bij de zogenaamde New Madrid breuklijn in het midden van Amerika.
Niet alleen zullen zich daar zware aardbevingen voor doen, ook zal na de passage van Nibiru de kustlijn en het midden van Amerika behoorlijk zijn veranderd.
Op de volgende afbeelding is te zien waar dan volgens de Zeta’s straks de nieuwe kustlijn zal liggen.
Dan zie je dat dit precies de plaatsen zijn waar Wal-Mart nu ineens talloze winkels sluit om elders in Amerika nieuwe winkels neer te zetten. Met andere woorden, zij weten wat er gaat komen en anticiperen daar nu op door winkels in grote risicogebieden te sluiten.
Zoals we eerder schreven is eigenlijk de enige manier om erachter te komen hoelang het nog gaat duren voordat er echt heftige dingen gaan gebeuren dankzij de nadering van het mini-zonnestelsel Nibiru om goed je ogen open te houden en het signaleren van afwijkende dingen.
Misschien heeft Wal-Mart hele andere redenen om al die winkels daar te sluiten en nieuwe te openen op andere locaties. Misschien heeft het Witte Huis de beste bedoelingen om een topoverleg te beleggen voor komende aardbevingen en misschien is NASA nu echt wakker geschrokken en gaan ze beter uitkijken naar asteroïden die onze kant op komen.
Gezien de historie echter waar zo goed als alles verborgen wordt gehouden voor de mensheid en een wereld waar “toeval” alleen in Israël bestaat, kan het absoluut geen kwaad om iets verder te denken en niet alles maar op face value aan te nemen als waar.
Het schijnt dat de Tweede Kamer gisteren nogal verbijsterd was over het feit dat Nederland heeft verzuimd om essentiële radarbeelden op te vragen bij Oekraïne.
Het Openbaar Ministerie zegt echter vol vertrouwen die radarbeelden níet nodig te hebben om de schuldigen aan te kunnen wijzen.
De oppositie is verbijsterd over hoe het kabinet omgaat met de opsporing van MH17-daders. Kamerleden snappen niet waarom er niet nu al al het mogelijke gedaan wordt om bewijs te verzamelen.
De uitleg van minister Van der Steur (Veiligheid en Justitie), minister Koenders (Buitenlandse Zaken) en staatssecretaris Dijksma (Infrastructuur) kan daar vanavond tijdens een debat over de MH17-ramp, niets aan veranderen. Ook de coalitie is kritisch over de opstelling van de bewindslieden.
De volgende zin in het verslag van de Telegraaf zegt eigenlijk alles:
Het kabinet blijft beweren dat het OM zelf vindt dat het geen extra radargegevens nodig heeft om de daders te vervolgen.
Dat kan dan heel leuk worden straks als het OM komt met de daders. Ze hebben de radarbeelden klaarblijkelijk niet nodig om vast te kunnen stellen wie dat vliegtuig uit de lucht heeft geschoten.
We kunnen niet wachten op de eindrapport van het OM want daarin zal ook ongetwijfeld worden verteld welk militair toestel zich ophield nabij het ten dode opgeschreven Malaysia Airlines toestel.
Dat vliegtuig dat door talloze getuigen op de grond is gezien en te bekijken en beluisteren waren in een heel snel geschrapt BBC programma.
Het vliegtuig dat ook verscheen tijdens de Russische persconferentie direct na de ramp. Een militaire jet die klom op een onderscheppingskoers naar vlucht MH17 en zich slechts op een paar kilometer afstand bevond.
Ongeacht welk eindrapport het OM later zal presenteren, ze moeten daarin hoe dan ook met een verklaring komen over dat onbekende toestel.
Oekraïne beweert die dag geen militaire toestellen in de lucht te hebben gehad. Van welk land was die jet dan wel als het niet van Oekraïne was?
Het Russisch Onderzoekscomité dat onderzoek doet naar de ramp met MH17 heeft het verhaal van de Oekraïense getuige bevestigd die vertelde dat hij een SU-25 vliegtuig zag vertrekken op 17 juli, uitgerust met twee air-to-air raketten en dat deze zonder deze wapens terugkeerde op de basis.
Uitzonderlijk intelligent van het OM dat ze kunnen bepalen of en welke jet er daar ter plaatse was zonder dat ze daarvoor radarbeelden nodig hebben. Er zijn maar weinig landen op de wereld die zo’n knap OM hebben als wij.
Daarnaast zullen ze ongetwijfeld die getuigen ook zelf hebben gehoord (niet dus) want dat is natuurlijk standaard onderdeel van een uitgebreid onderzoek.
Alles komt goed want onze grote leider heeft beloofd dat de onderste steen boven komt en dan zal het gelukkig niet lang meer duren voordat we na al die tijd weten welk vliegtuig zich die dag in de buurt van MH17 op hield.
Anonymous Leaks NASA Files Proving Something Astonishing
Anonymous Leaks NASA Files Proving Something Astonishing
Anonymous have leaked information that they claim originate from NASA servers, showing evidence of an extensive drone weather modification program that prove that Chemtrails exist.
Anonsec released a paper that contained a detailed account of their hack, as well as analysis of the NASA data they recovered. The data reveals information about NASA’s connection to weather modification research in a log of a DC-8 jetliner, which was conducting a flight in accordance with their “Alternative-Fuel Effects on Contrails and Cruise EmiSSions” project.
Trunews.com reports: Anonsec Admin Dêfãult Vírüsa leaked the information early last week to Mikael Thalen of I-n-f-o-w-a-r-s, before making a public release Sunday. Also released Sunday was a 276 Gigabyte (GB) data package of 631 aircraft and radar videos, 2,143 flight logs and the personal data of 2,414 NASA employees.
In Anonsec’s zine, they claim that they were discovered and lost access to the NASA servers after altering the flight path of a $222.7 million US Drone flying across the Pacific. In the hijacking, the group planned to crash the GlowbalHawk drone into the ocean.
NASA officials have not yet commented on the information leak, nor confirmed its validity, but the released NASA employee information has been verified as real and a drone flight log has been discovered which coincides with Anonsec’s story.
In an official statement released by headquarters spokesman Allard Beutel, NASA is denying the claims made by the hacking group AnonSec ( via anonews.co ). Beutel also inferred that the information leaked was already public by saying:
NASA strives to make our scientific data publicly available, including large data sets, which seems to be how the information in question was retrieved.
The statement ended with an attempt to calm nerves by reiterating their bottom line that:
NASA takes cybersecurity very seriously and will continue to fully investigate all of these allegations.
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UFO is Detonated Over San Diego — Chembomb or Secret Military Project?
UFO is Detonated Over San Diego — Chembomb or Secret Military Project?
Many strange events occur all around us on a daily basis without us knowing about them, and it wouldn’t pose a problem unless the general population would be at risk.
Some of us have probably wondered why the conspiracy theorists, the former NASA astronauts, employees, or other people from all around the globe are struggling to divulge all these weird stuff about the reality we live in. I bet we all asked ourselves: Is this legit? Do you think this guy is crazy or in need of funding? Does he have any proof?
These burdening questions have probably made one consider and then reconsider the facts presented, so what key element could unlock a crazy theory and turn it into an actual belief? What could convince me that you are not talking nonsense? Well, it’s quite easy – EVIDENCE.
For a better understanding of this topic, the following video will show how a UFO is detonated over a large populated area of San Diego, spraying it with unknown substances.
The bright orb was deliberately launched from a high altitude and over a densely populated area, full of houses and people. Even if we don’t exactly know its composition, an assumption can be made regarding its content, and because it was secretly launched from afar, the assumption tends to be more negative rather than positive. Could this be part of a mass human experiment?
Considering the aspects discussed in the first part of the article, a lot of stuff is going on while we sit comfortable in our homes, in our cities, with this being only a small part of it. Away from our concrete environment, the sky is much clearer and unaltered by all the chemtrails. Surrounded by darkness and with the right equipment or even with the naked eye, the most bizarre things can be observed over the night sky: from bright orbs hovering over random areas to orbs detonating far from sight. Some people even reported scary encounters with the bright orbs, as Alexander Opanasenko from Russia describes:
I found refuge at my cabin in the mountains after I got tired of all the city fuss. Out here, at about 2,000 meters altitude, I see the world like never before. Many strange UFOs appear during the night, sometimes even in daylight, they manifest in different ways that’s why I think not all of them are related to aliens, but a part of them have to be. Even if I stay here on my own, I have friends who visit me once in a while so they can also confirm about what happened one night when they dropped by.
While we were having a nice chat and a beer over a fire, a luminous orb approached us from the forest. It stood only 100-200 meters away from me and my buddies. We were petrified for the first few seconds, couldn’t move a muscle until Dimitrov whispered to us to run. We took separate ways as we scattered in fear. When I looked back, the bright object the size of a car was gone. That’s when we all understood that we are being watched, surveilled.
Even if this particular event offered no proof in terms of video footage or pictures, we took it into account as an authentic story because Alexander described this with such intensity and with so many relevant details that he led us into believing his story. Apart from this, he had three other friends to back up his claims, friends who paid no attention to the UFO phenomenon until then.
If relevant evidence is shared on the internet, it will be deleted sooner or later if it reaches a large number of people, so how can we rely on the proof if some entities do not allow it to be uncovered? We strongly believe that going outside, doing some research on our own will undoubtedly lead us to the truth.
There is no need for HD video evidence in order to see the obvious, only to open our eyes and to start searching for ourselves. Many strange things are going on literally above our heads, but there is some sort of distortion created using the chem-bombs presented in the video above that doesn’t allow people to have a clear view of what is actually happening up there.
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UFO Moves Over Las Vegas Hills In Daytime, Jan 9, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Moves Over Las Vegas Hills In Daytime, Jan 9, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: January 9, 2016 Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Source: MUFON #74266 This UFO flew over Las Vegas this week and seems to have been ignored by most of the city. Its moving slowly and as a lower front section which could be a military blimp that got lose again, but it is riding the ridges of the mountains, staying a distance from the town on purpose. Hard call to make, but it does appear 100% authentic. We do however need more eyewitnesses to come forward on this one, to confirm or disprove it being an alien craft. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: While at a sales conference at the Red Rocks Resort I had just gotten ready for my walk to the conference center somewhere between 7:15-7:40am. Remembering I told my family I would take a photo from my hotel of the beautiful landscape and the Vegas city skyline. I opened my curtain on this sunny morning. I got my phone ready and began to scan the view for the best picture. After a quick glance I noticed a hot air balloon to the right it was a typical looking hot air balloon. I looked to the left side of my window and noticed a dark shape that seemed contrast in color and shape against the mountain chain. I looked a few moments longer and thought wow that large shape is actually moving. I starred for a few moments and came to the firm conclusion that the object was indeed moving slowly left to right from my viewpoint. After a few minutes of personal viewing I thought I might take a video cause no one will believe me. So I began to take video and a short time into it the video stopped and a message of lack of storage came up. I thought to myself- I should have bought the 32GB phone. Any way, I took a few moments to clear up some storage glancing up to make sure the craft was still there, and it was still moving almost hovering as it had been doing. I cleared the necessary memory and began to take a picture and video again. I wondered what it could be moving so slow it didn't look like any blimps I have seen at sporting events. It was moving too slow for conventional aircraft, it seemed large for a drone. At one point I quickly pan to the right to see the hot air balloon I had seen earlier to give some perspective. In addition, you can see cars driving underneath. while the first video is a bit shaky I made sure to lean on the window support to try to steady the video. After about four minutes I stopped recording because I had get my rear downstairs to work my booth at our convention. Honestly I do not know what it is which is why I have submitted it to you. I would be interested to hear what the locals or experts have to say about its identity. Summary, seemingly large craft dark in color, moving left to right somewhat steady buy very slow almost hovering. Traveling toward Las Vegas.
Russian Expert Confirms UFO Video Sighting As Authentic
Russian Expert Confirms UFO Video Sighting As Authentic
Experts declared a video footage showing a cluster of UFOs authentic. Taken in the sky of Moscow, the video shows four unidentified lights that seem to hover and swoop in apparently synchronised flying.
The video has gotten thousands of views, mostly from people in Russia that are intrigued by the great speed of the objects before they hover together.
The videographer, who only known as Timur, said in the local media that there was one ball to the left, two balls in the middle, and less bright one to the right. He revealed that the one on the right would disappear and come back at times. All four balls formed a geometric shape of a rhombus, Timur described.
Some viewers of the video suggest that the lights can be light reflections on the ground. However, Timur dismissed this theory and explained that he never seen anything like those objects since living in the district for two years.
Now, the sighting has gotten more interesting as Russian UFO expert Vadim Chernobrov believes the footage is genuine. He confirms that the lights can’t be explained as either a cosmic or an atmospheric image. He also dismisses the possibility of them to be some mirage because of the precise geometric form of the strange objects.
Some have speculated they could be Chinese lanterns, but Chernobrov also dismissed the possibility because of the speed and movements of the objects.
Planet-Building 'Flying Saucer' Disk Is Surprisingly Cool (Video)
Planet-Building 'Flying Saucer' Disk Is Surprisingly Cool (Video)
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
Everyone knows that UFOs are cool, but the surprisingly low temperatures of one cosmic flying saucer may force astronomers to rethink their ideas about how planets form.
Scientists have made the first direct measurements of large dust grains in the planet-forming region of a disk dubbed the Flying Saucer, which surrounds a young star in the star-formation region Rho Ophiuchi, about 400 light-years from Earth. The researchers created a video to zoom in on the cosmic Flying Saucer to highlight their study.
"The disk is not observed against a black and empty night sky. Instead, it's seen in silhouette in front of the glow of the Rho Ophiuchi Nebula," study lead author Stéphane Guilloteau, of France's Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, said in a statement. "The resulting negative signal means that parts of the disk are colder than the background." [Planet Being Assembled As Astronomers Watch (Video)]
uto study The Flying Saucer scientists theAtacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile (which is called 2MASS J16281370-2431391), and then compared these measurements to observations of the background glow obtained by the IRAM 100-foot (30 meters) telescope in Spain.
The Hubble Space Telescope captured this infrared view of the young star 2MASS J16281370-2431391, which is surrounded by a disk of gas and dust that has been nicknamed the Flying Saucer.
Credit: ESO/NASA/ESA
The team found that temperatures in the disk were as low as minus 447 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 266 degrees Celsius), only a few degrees above absolute zero. Models of planet formation suggest that the disk should be between minus 432 and minus 423 F (minus 258 to minus 253 C).
The surprisingly low temperatures suggest that scientists might need to take another look at how planets form within the disks surrounding newborn stars, researchers said.
"To work out the impact of this discovery on disk structure, we have to find out what plausible dust properties can result in such low temperatures," co-author Emmanuel di Folco, also of Laboratoire d’Astrophysique, said in the same statement.
The young star 2MASS J16281370-2431391 lies in the Rho Ophiuchi star formation region, about 400 light-years from Earth. It is surrounded by a protoplanetary disk of gas and dust that is seen nearly edge-on from Earth; the disk's appearance in visible-light images has led to its being nicknamed the Flying Saucer. The main image shows part of the Rho Ophiuchi region; an enlarged close-up infrared view of the Flying Saucer from the Hubble Space Telescope is shown as an insert.
Credit: Digitized Sky Survey 2/NASA/ESA
"We have a few ideas — for example, the temperature may depend on grain size, with the bigger grains cooler than the smaller ones," di Folco added. "But it is too early to be sure."
If such low temperatures are commonly found within other proto planetary disks, there could be intriguing implications for how worlds form around stars. Different dust properties could affect how particles come together to build planets, and could even result in giant planets forming closer to their parent stars than current models allow, study team members said.
Planetary disks form at various angles with respect to the sun. However, the disk studied by the astronomers appears edge-on from Earth, resulting in its nickname, the Flying Saucer.
"The Earth is quite literally in the shadow of the Flying Saucer!" Guilloteau said.
Even the dumbest person knows that the world is controlled by certain individuals. Some say they are the richest families, some say secret organizations with members posing as a president’s right hand, some even say aliens in disguise.
The truth is, no matter who, the 99% is controlled by the 1% and there are things that the 1% would be happy if the 99% never find out of. But, be that as it may, the Murphy ’s Law still stands even for those individuals who steer the wheel and as the law says “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”.
People with humanity still in their hearts leaked some information, people who see things as they really are revealed conspiracies, and some with a little logic still in the head discovered the truth hidden from the 99%. Here are some of the greatest secrets “They” don’t want you to know of:
6. They Control the Earth’s Environment
You have probably heard about the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). It is a project funded by The US Navy and The US Air Force and its cover is technology that can allow US military to communicate with its fleet of submarines through very long distances. How this works? There is an instrument in HAARP called “Ionospheric Research Instrument” which is a facility that transmits high-power radio frequency directly into a limited area of the Ionosphere.
This instrument manipulates the Ionosphere, the place where free electrons exist, and has a potential to create radio waves that will manipulate the earth’s magnetic field. You get yourself a control of the earth’s magnetic field and you control the earth.
Even more frightening is the fact that HAARP has a potential to control emotions through wave frequencies and manipulate human minds. Who knows, maybe they are responsible for our sudden mood swings. Project HAARP was shut down in May 2013, or was it?
5. Tap Water Makes You Poor
(Fluoride monitor (at left) in a community water tower pumphouse, Minnesota, 1987)
There is absolutely no need for fluoride in tap water, well for us, but for the ones who want to control the world and make sure no one rises above them, fluoride in tap water is essential element. Why? Let me explain a little bit.
Fluoridation was recommended by Edward Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud. Mind manipulation is written all over their foreheads. Fluoride is a chemical that has an effect on the Pineal Gland of our brain, some call it “The Third Eye”. This gland is responsible for majority of our emotions, as well as our serotonin and melatonin level.
Fluoride damages this gland and promotes apathy, depression, and low vibrations. This results in lack of motivation, bad health and boredom. To survive in the world today we must earn money to buy the necessary things like food, water, shelter, medicine.
Instead of following our dream and escaping the system, we are depressed and unmotivated which forces us to work for someone just so we can survive. These 2 forces, The survival instinct and apathy, limit us to follow the system and never rise above it. We are scared for our survival but unmotivated to go our own way, so we let others lead our whiny ass to safety. Their safety. Just like sheep in the herd.
4. Chemtrails Spray Us With Fluoride
trail
When you look up in the sky and say look a con you may be wrong, it may be a chemtrail. Don’t worry, it’s nothing, it’s just some guys spraying you with Aluminum, Arsenic, Barium, Boron, and yes Fluoride. Why? Because you ask too much. Now shut up and keep doing what “They” tell you.
Fluoride is now also being added to almost every food product made with water. Fluoride is also in insecticides and other poison products, toothpaste, mouthwash, and many psychotropic medicines, and if we are good we may even get houses made of fluoride, yay!
3. GMO is Destroying All Humanity
Genetically Modified Organisms or GMOs are plants or animals created through the gene splicing techniques of biotechnology. This experimental technology merges DNA from different species, creating unstable combinations of plant, animal, bacterial and viral genes that cannot occur in nature or in traditional crossbreeding.
In other words GMO is taking God’s dice in our own hands. It is the greatest disbalance nature has ever seen. The Universe has one divine rule and that is that whatever happens it must always keep balance, every action has its own opposite reaction. We make disbalance to nature, but as we know The Universe will always find balance, so our action will result in conflict between us and nature.
The dumbest man knows that we come from Nature and the conflict will be between ourselves resulting in us becoming something else that is not Nature or our extinction, because let’s face it, we cannot go on the opposite side of the scale with such force and expect balance.
2. Sacred Geometry is The Language of The Universe and Beauty
What is Beauty? Victoria’s Secret Angels, I know, but what is the definition of beauty? The combination of elements like shape, color, size that pleases the sense of sight. But, we know that music has a beauty too, smell also, so if you ask me I would say that beauty is a harmony between elements and forces.
Sacred geometry is found where elements meet The Golden Ratio (1.618033989...) and it exists through all The Universe between gravity of planets, Nature, design of flowers, shape of animals, proportions of land, crop circles, it also exists in many manmade objects or famous arts like the works of Leonardo DaVinci, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, Greek and Roman architecture... Almost everything we find harmonious, beautiful, and with that x-factor we cannot explain has The Golden Ratio shinning through it.
Why is this kept a secret? Well, it’s like a magic show. We find magic in things with The Golden Ratio but we don’t know why or how. The magician knows the trick and in order to manipulate the audience nobody else is allowed to know how it’s done.
Do you know that in 1955 the International Standardization Organization made 440 Hz a general tuning standard for musical pitch? Before that was 432 Hz.
As you may know sounds have the biggest impact in our thinking. 432 Hz makes the sound of music more harmonious, calm, promotes happiness and deep understanding, passion. 440 Hz is more energetic, faster, it is almost like racing.
It is more competitive and focusing on the details, the understanding of the things we can see. So why would someone and most importantly how, decides that 440 Hz is better than 432 Hz?
Because music touches us where nothing else can, where the essence of our Emotional Being is, and if you control what emotions/thoughts the music promotes, than your work of controlling the world is 99% done.
“They” don’t want people to understand Our True Nature and Our Higher Self. They want us to be in a hurry, to believe only what we see and be competitive about material things.
This way the 99% will live in the reality the 1% will create for them. This whole article is about that, the purpose of the 1% is to shape the reality of the 99% and through various of things “They” have accomplished that, and “They” are damn good in keeping the control.
Red Dwarfs: Meet the Last Stars That Will Burn in the Cosmos
Red Dwarfs: Meet the Last Stars That Will Burn in the Cosmos
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures the image of the red dwarf star CHXR 73 and its companion, thought to be a brown dwarf. CHXR 73 is one-third less massive than the sun.
Credit: NASA, ESA and K. Luhman (Penn State University)
IN BRIEF
When our Sun dies, we need to find a new home planet. And red dwarfs may hold the key (and the planets) to keep the human race living.
There will come a time that the universe will turn dark. A time after all the stars die out. We know that our beloved Sun will soon lose its energy. When this happens, humans must find another habitable planet to call home. Fortunately, there will be other stars….for a time anyways.
The hero of this tale are the red dwarfs. They are tiny stars that may be our best bet to find a habitable new home planet.
In our universe, 70% of all stars are red dwarfs. They are very dim stars and cannot be seen by the naked eye. Even with our high-level equipment, we can only see red dwarfs that are relatively close to our planet.
Ultimately, 20 to 30 of the stars near Earth are classified as red dwarfs. They would be he easiest for us to get to, obviously. And they are such good candidates for life after Earth because these stars fuse hydrogen into helium. However, they mix helium and hydrogen continuously, so they use up their fuel very slowly before extinguishing. Because they burn so very slowly, they have a life span average of 1 to 10 trillion years.
Our Sun can survive another 5 billion.
Our Sun. Image credit: NASA
As an interesting aside, since the universe is estimated to be around 13.75 billion years old, all red dwarfs are therefore just “babies.” To date, there are no “old” red dwarfs in existence.
Ultimately, scientists assert that it is these red dwarfs that are our best chances of finding another habitable Earth-like planet. It is estimated that 5% of red dwarfs may host habitable planets like ours. This means we have around 50 billion potential planets to choose from.
These stars are known to be hosts to planets half (or up to four times) the mass of our planet. However, these planets need be close to the red dwarfs in order to be habitable, as they are somewhat cooler stars than our own. This posts several problems for the planets.
If a planet is too close to the star, only one side of it would face the sun; as a result, the other side of the planet would be somewhat less than habitable. Too close, and gravitational forces could also squeeze the planet, causing it to lose water and become too hot as well.
Red dwarfs also vary in energy input, so this means that some of them are way too dim. This affects the planet’s temperature and lowers it down to freezing levels. Some may also have sudden outbursts of flares.
Still, since these stars have such a long lifespan, they could be the only way to guarantee our future in the long term (the very long term, that is).
Our planet is estimated to be 4 billion years old. Our Sun will continue to provide us with energy for another 1 billion years. So we still have plenty of time to go planet-hunting.
But in reality, all stars will lose their energy and die out some day.
These micro-drones are expected to change the face of counter terrorism and warfare, as well as law enforcement and surveillance, in a big way.
CICADA
The Close-In Covert Autonomous Disposable Aircraft, or CICADA, is playfully described as a “paper airplane with a circuit board” in a recent AFP article. The micro-drone is intended to be deployed in, what the U.S. military has taken to calling, “swarms.”
The CICADA swarm is dropped from an airplane to glide down to the Earth’s surface, directed by an on-board GPS which can guide the drones to within 4.5 meters (approx. 15 ft) of its target destination from a 17 km (approx. 11 mile) descent.
The CICADA is designed to operate as miniature, remote listening posts that, when scattered across a large area, can be used to monitor enemy activity. The Naval Research Laboratory’s Aaron Kahn spoke to the AFP, saying that the military can “equip these with a microphone or a seismic detector, drop them on that road, and it will tell you ‘I heard a truck or a car travel along that road.’ You know how fast and which direction they’re traveling.”
At a Department of Defense Lab Day event in Washington, D.C. back in May, aerospace engineer Daniel Edwardsstates that the tiny drones were amazingly durable, and could keep going in spite of most encounters.
He told The Washington Post, “they’ve flown through trees. They’ve hit asphalt runways. They have tumbled in gravel. They’ve had sand in them. They only thing that we found that killed them was desert shrubbery.”
Aside from surveillance, another notable application of the CICADA involves the delivery of “payloads at precise waypoints,” according to an official description by the Naval Research Lab.
This indicates the CICADA can possibly be used to deliver explosives.
BLACK HORNET
The Black Hornet
However, these aren’t the first little drones to be employed in combat situations. Another surveillance micro-drone has already been used by the British military. This was in Afghanistan back in 2012.
Dubbed as the first “commercially available personal Reconnaissance System,” the Black Hornet is a small helicopter that weighs less than 250 grams (0.5 pound) that can either be remotely controlled or programmed for automated flight.
It is also has an on-board lightweight camera and capable of transmitting live video. Although this may raise concerns about spying and surveillance, the rise of robotic eyes and ears in the military could ultimately help save lives.
The tiny drones are coming: Here a stand host holds a QH micro quadcopter drone by Chinese manufacturer Lian Sheng at the 2015 CeBIT technology trade fair on March 16, 2015 in Hanover, Germany.
US National Academy of Medicine wants to modify the DNA of embryos to prevent diseases; however, the FDA is concerned about the future of children with 3 genetic parents.
The US National Academy of Medicine is looking to the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) to approve clinical trials to transfer DNA from healthy human eggs to diseased embryos.
This controversial gene-therapy technique involves replacing an embryo’s energy-producing mitochondria with a healthy mitochondria from a second woman. The goal here is to prevent diseases from being transmitted to future children.
However, the FDA is hesitant about this procedure due to the safety of mitochondrial replacement, and the psychological and social implications of children with three genetic parents.
Reports indicates that the academy panel suggests limiting the tests of mitochondrial replacement to male embryos as a safety precaution. Male offspring would not be able to pass their modified mitochondria to future generations, because a child inherits its mitochondria from its mother. It also outlines several additional steps to monitor the safety of mitochondrial replacement. These include following the children made by the technique for years and sharing the resulting data on their health.
The advisory panel says that, if mitochondrial replacement is proven safe in male offspring, it could be expanded to female embryos.
On the other side of the world, the United Kingdom approved mitochondrial replacement last year with no restrictions on the sex of the modified embryo. Some ethicist who advised the UK government on the implications of mitochondrial replacement argued that the risks of the technique are poorly understood, but others disagreed with the questions regarding the implications of the procedure, and it went through.
Zephyr / Science Photo Library
Replacing diseased mitochondria in a human embryo could prevent the transmission of some inherited diseases.
OTHER SCIENTISTS COMMENT ON THE DECISION
Shoukhrat Mitalopov is a reproductive-biology specialist at the Oregon Health Sciences University in Portland. In his opinion, the advisory panel’s recommendation is a hollow victory. The FDA commissioned the US$1.1 million National Academy of Medicine review in 2014 after Mitalipov applied to perform a clinical trial of mitochondrial replacement therapy with human embryos.
But the fiscal year 2016 government spending bill enacted last month includes language preventing the FDA from approving any applications to implant modified human embryos into women.
The FDA says it cannot comment on any individual application, but confirms that the law covers mitochondrial transfer, even if the resulting genetic modifications cannot be passed to a third generation.
“The future seems very hazy compared to a few months ago,” Mitalipov says, given the restrictions included in the spending bill. Still, his lab is beginning to breed monkeys treated with mitochondrial replacement, in hopes of understanding how this genetic modification could affect subsequent generations of offspring.
However, the 2016 spending legislation also directs the FDA to appoint an independent committee — including experts from “faith-based institutions” — to review the National Academy of Medicine report and report back to Congress. The FDA says it is reviewing the report and cannot comment on its future plans.
Jeffrey Kahn, a bioethicist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, who led the academy panel, notes that it included a religious expert. As for the resulting report, he says, ”I feel like it’s had a fairly rigorous review for all issues.”
Others disagree with the National Academy of Medicine panel’s conclusions. The new report “realised all the concerns and leapt to the conclusion that things should go forward despite all the concerns,” says Marcy Darnovsky, president of the non-profit Center for Genetics and Society in Berkeley, California, who has opposed mitochondrial replacement in humans on both safety and ethical grounds.
Darnovsky says that she would like to see an international agreement and legislation to ban techniques that edit embryos’ nuclear genomes. “I would have more faith in the argument if allowing this technology isn’t going to pave the way for more concerning forms of germline editing,” she says.
Yet, one must question why it is ethically responsible to edit the genes of non-human animals but irresponsible to conduct such tests on humans even if there are no associated safety concern. Hopefully, much of these murky waters will be waded in the coming years.
Famous UFO cases: Rendlesham Forest UFO incident – 1980
Famous UFO cases: Rendlesham Forest UFO incident – 1980
The Rendlesham Forest Incident is the name given to a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights and the alleged landing of a craft of unknown origin in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England in late December 1980. Some Ufologists believe it is perhaps the most famous UFO event to have happened in Britain, ranking amongst the best-known UFO events worldwide. It has been compared to the Roswell UFO incident in the United States and is sometimes referred to as “Britain’s Roswell”.
Following the event, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) denied that it posed any threat to national security and stated that it was therefore never investigated as a security matter. Later evidence indicated that there was a substantial MoD file on the subject and this led to claims of a cover-up. Some interpreted this as part of a larger pattern of information suppression concerning the true nature of unidentified flying objects, by both the United States and British governments (see the UFO conspiracy theory). However, when the file was released in 2001 it turned out to consist mostly of internal correspondence and responses to inquiries from the public. The lack of any in-depth investigation confirmed that the case was never taken seriously by the MoD.
Location
Rendlesham Forest is owned by the Forestry Commission and consists of approximately 15 square kilometres (3700 acres) of coniferous plantations, interspersed with broadleaved belts, heathland and wetland areas. It is located in the county of Suffolk, about eight miles (13 km) to the east of the town of Ipswich.
The incident occurred in the vicinity of two military bases (now both abandoned by the USAF). These are RAF Bentwaters, which is situated just to the north of the forest, and RAF Woodbridge which extends into the forest from the west. At the time, both were being used by the United States Air Force (USAF) and were under the command of wing commander Colonel Gordon E. Williams. The base commander was Col Ted Conrad, and his deputy was Lieutenant Colonel Charles I. Halt. It is Halt’s written memo to the Ministry of Defence on the incident, and his personal involvement in the second night of the sightings, that has given the case credibility.
The main events of the incident, including the supposed landing, took place in the forest, almost a mile (1600 m) to the east of the East Gate of RAF Woodbridge.
Orford Ness lighthouse, which skeptics identify as the flashing light seen off to the coast by the airmen, is another five miles (8 km) further east of this location.
All these locations are shown on the adjacent map. Commentators have published more detailed maps of the location and a modern aerial view of the region can be found on Google Maps.
Date
Retired Sgt. John Burroughs (LE) states that the events took place over three successive nights (pm into am); 25th-26th, 26th-27th and 27th–28th December 1980. One of the key pieces of primary evidence—the “Halt memo”, described below—suggests that the first sightings were on the 27th, rather than 26th. However, the memo was written almost two weeks after the event and its author later agreed that he had probably made a mistake in his recollection of the dates. This discrepancy in dates has not only confused subsequent researchers but also led to confusion at the time, for example in the MoD’s investigation and analysis of contemporaneous radar records.
Main events
26 December
Around 3 a.m. on 26 December 1980 strange lights were reported by a security patrol near the East Gate of RAF Woodbridge. Servicemen initially thought it was a downed aircraft but, upon entering the forest to investigate, they saw many strange lights moving through the trees, as well as a bright light from an unidentified object. Shortly after 4 a.m. local police were called to the scene but reported that the only lights they could see were those from the Orford Ness lighthouse, some miles away on the coast. Some reports claim that local farmyard animals had been behaving in a state of fear and panic, although this was an arable farm and had no animals.
Three servicemen were sent out to investigate and came upon a triangular and brightly lit object silently hovering in the woods several feet off the ground. It was a conical metallic object, suspended in a yellow mist, hovering over a clearing in the trees, with a pulsating blue and red circle of light above. One made detailed notes of its features, touched its “warm” surface, and copied the numerous symbols on its body. The object flew away after their brief encounter. One eyewitness claims to have seen triangular landing gear on the object leaving three impressions in the ground that were visible the next day.
The airmen were allegedly debriefed, threatened and ordered to sign documents that vowed silence; one even claimed to have been forced to sign a document claiming the UFO was a lighthouse. Some reports suggest that they were reportedly ordered to stay quiet, with the warning “bullets are cheap”. Lieutenant Colonel Halt, however, claimed in a 2008 interview for U.S. news channel CNN that to this day he has not been debriefed over the incident.
After daybreak on the morning of 26 December, servicemen returned to the small clearing where the conical object had been seen, and found three small impressions in a triangular pattern, as well as burn marks and broken branches on nearby trees. Plaster casts of the imprints were taken and have been shown in television documentaries. At 10.30 a.m. the local police were called out again, this time to see the impressions on the ground, which they thought could have been made by an animal.
28 December
The servicemen returned to the site again in the early hours of 28 December 1980 with radiation detectors, although the significance of the readings they obtained is disputed. The deputy base commander Lt Col Charles I. Halt investigated this sighting personally and recorded the events on a micro-cassette recorder (see “The Halt Tape”, below). The site investigated by Halt was near the eastern edge of the forest, at approximately 52° 05’ 20” N, 1° 26’ 57” E.
It was during this investigation that a flashing light was seen across the field to the east, almost in line with a farmhouse.
Later, starlike lights were seen in the sky to the north and south, the brightest of which seemed to beam down a stream of light from time to time.
There are claims that the incident was videoed by the USAF; but, if so, the resulting tape has not been made public.
Primary and secondary sources
The first public report of the incident was published in the tabloid newspaper News of the World, on 2 October 1983, beneath the sensational headline UFO lands in Suffolk – and that’s official. The story was based on an account by a former US airman, using the pseudonym Art Wallace (supposedly to protect himself against retribution from the USAF), although his real name was Larry Warren.
The Halt memo
The first piece of primary evidence to be made available to the public was a memorandum written by the deputy base commander, Lt. Col. Charles I. Halt, to the Ministry of Defence (MOD). Known as the “Halt memo”, this was made available publicly in the United States under the US Freedom of Information Act in 1983. The memorandum (left), was dated “13 Jan 81” and headed “Unexplained Lights”. The two-week delay between the incident and the report might account for errors in dates and times given. The memo was not classified in any way.
Picture right: Letter from Lt. Col. Charles Halt. Click to enlarge.
Statements from eyewitnesses on 26 December
The Scottish researcher James Easton succeeded in obtaining the original witness statements made for Col. Halt by Fred A. Buran, 81st Security Police Squadron, Airman First Class John Burroughs, 81st LE, Airman Edward N. Cabansag, 81st Security Police Squadron, Master-Sergeant J. D. Chandler, 81st Security Police Squadron and Staff-Sergeant Jim Penniston, 81st Security Police Squadron. These documents are now in the public domain and scans of them are available on Ian Ridpath’s website.
These documents describe the sightings of strange lights. Penniston, for instance, states that a “large yellow glowing light was emitting above the trees. In the center of the lighted area directly in the center ground level, there was a red light blinking on and off 5 to 10 sec intervals. And a blue light that was being for the most part steady.”
There were some strange noises, too. Burroughs reported a noise “like a woman was screaming” and also that “you could hear the farm animals making a lot of noises”. Halt heard the same noises two nights later. In a CNN interview in January 2008 he said: “The livestock around the barn seemed to be going crazy”. However, other sources dispute that there were animals on the nearby farm. Such noise could also have been made by Muntjac deer in the forest, which are known for their loud, shrill bark when alarmed. Burroughs’ statement also states that “We could see a beacon going around so we went towards it. We followed it for about two miles [3 km] before we could [see] it was coming from a light house.”
Penniston’s statement is the only one that positively identifies a mechanical object as the source of the lights. He states that he was within 50 metres of the object and “it was defidently mechaniclal in nature” [spelling as in original]. Penniston has shown on television a notebook in which he claims to have made real-time notes and sketches of the object. The notebook is headed with the date 27 December and the time 12:20 (00:20 GMT), which does not accord with the date and time given by the other witnesses for the encounter. In addition, Penniston claims that he saw the object at a different landing site from the one investigated by Halt, much closer to RAF Woodbridge.
The witnesses were unnerved by their experience and believed that they had witnessed something, as Buran expresses it, “out of the realm of explanation”.
The Halt Tape
Also, in 1984, a copy of what became known as the “Halt Tape” fell into the hands of researchers. Unfortunately, because of static and the fact that the tape had been dubbed on an old machine, much of its background conversations could not be discerned. The US Sci Fi Channel acquired the original recording, which documents Halt and his patrol investigating a UFO sighting in Rendlesham Forest in December 1980. This tape not only reveals much more of the background conversations but features names that could not be heard on the poor-quality 1984 dub. The tape has also been transcribed by researcher Ian Ridpath, who includes a link to an audio download.
Suffolk Police log
Suffolk Constabulary have a record, dated 26 December 1980, of a report from the law Enforcement Desk of RAF Woodbridge, stating that “We have a sighting of some unusual lights in the sky, we have sent some unarmed troops to investigate, we are terming it as a U.F.O. at present”. The police investigated this report and the result is recorded as follows: “Air Traffic Control West Drayton checked. No knowledge of aircraft. Reports received of aerial phenomena over southern England during the night. Only lights visible this area was from Orford light house. Search made of area – negative.” The “aerial phenomena” probably refers to the re-entry of the Russian Cosmos 749 rocket which was widely seen over southern England on the evening of December 25. A letter in the police file notes that one of the PCs returned to the site in daylight in case he had missed something. “There was nothing to be seen and he remains unconvinced that the occurrence was genuine. The immediate area was swept by powerful light beams from a landing beacon at RAF Bentwaters and the Orfordness lighthouse. I know from personal experience that at night, in certain weather and cloud conditions, these beams were very pronounced and certainly caused strange visual effects.” A scan of the report is available at Suffolk Constabulary’s website.
Other military installation involvement
Some researchers have claimed that personnel from Porton Down visited Rendlesham in 1980 after the Rendlesham Forest Incident. However, no evidence has been presented and there seems to be confusion with other alleged UFO incidents.
Lord Hill-Norton asked Her Majesty’s Government: “Whether they are aware of any involvement by Special Branch in the investigation of the 1980 Rendlesham Forest Incident [HL303]”. Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean gave the reply that “Special Branch officers may have been aware of the incident but would not have shown any interest unless there was evidence of a potential threat to national security. No such interest appears to have been shown.”
In 2001 the British Government released its file on the incident to researchers following a request from Dr David Clarke under the Code of Practice for Access to Government Documents, a precursor to the Freedom of Information Act. The Ministry of Defence has since made these documents available online. However, the United States continues to remain silent despite the SciFi Channel-sponsored investigation entitled “UFO Invasion at Rendlesham”, the History Channel’s “UFO Files – Britain’s Roswell” and Coalition for Freedom of Information inquiries.
Scepticism
Jim Penniston and John Burroughs went to investigate the craft together. However, there is a major inconsistency in separate interviews of Jim Penniston and John Burroughs. In an interview with Larry King on November 9, 2007, Jim Penniston claimed that he did a 45 minutes full investigation of the craft on the ground, touched the craft and took photos of the craft. However, in a separate interview in Robert Stack’s Unsolved Mysteries, John Burroughs described that after suddenly encountering the craft on the ground, “we all hit the ground, and it went up into the trees”. The interviews with Jim Penniston and John Burroughs have subsequently been made available on Youtube.
Science writer Ian Ridpath investigated the incident in 1983, initially for BBC TV’s Breakfast Time news programme, and on 5 January 1985 wrote an article for The Guardian which did much to discredit the accounts of the UFO sightings at Rendlesham. Ridpath asked local forester Vince Thurkettle about the flashing light, and he indicated that it originated from a nearby lighthouse, which as seen from the forest edge appears to hover slightly above the ground and would appear to move as the witnesses moved. Also, if a UFO was present, the airmen should have reported a second source of light (the lighthouse) in the same line of sight. In the Halt tape (mentioned above), one can hear an unidentified airman call out “There it is again…there it is” with an interval of 5 seconds, the same frequency at which the Orford Ness lighthouse flashes. Video footage of the lighthouse as seen from Col Halt’s vantage point at the edge of the forest shows it flashing at this rate.
Thurkettle saw the alleged “landing marks”, as did the local police, and believed them simply to be old “rabbit diggings” covered with pine needles. USAF photographs of the marks discovered by researcher Georgina Bruni were sent to the MoD by Lord Hill-Norton in 2001 and released under the Freedom of Information Act in 2007. Moreover, the supposed burn marks in the trees were actually axe cuts made by foresters that indicated the trees were ready to be felled. To give further pause to accepting the alleged UFO sighting, a meteor “almost as bright as the full Moon” was spotted over southern England at exactly the time of the initial reports of a bright object “landing” in the forest, according to Dr John Mason, who collects reports of meteor sightings for the British Astronomical Association.
Crucial amongst the evidence is the interpretation of the levels of radiation in the area (clearly heard on the “Halt tape”). Experts at the UK’s National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) have pointed out that the equipment used for this measurement was not intended to measure background radiation and therefore the readings at the low end of the measurement scale are meaningless.
Steuart Campbell proposes an alternative explanation. He agrees with the standard explanation that the incident began with the sighting of a fireball (bolide) which was interpreted by guards at the base as an aircraft falling in flames in the nearby forest. In fact it would have been hundreds of miles away over the North Sea. Campbell argues that the object subsequently seen by Halt and his men on their nocturnal expedition was the lightvessel Shipwash and that the supposed “spacecraft” were actually bright planets, such as Venus. Campbell is critical of the USAF’s abilities with their equipment.
Another theory is that the incident was a hoax. The BBC reported that a former US security policeman, Kevin Conde, claimed responsibility for creating strange lights in the forest by driving around in a police vehicle whose lights he had modified. Conde has since withdrawn the claim that he was responsible for the incident. “It is my impression that I pulled my stunt during an exercise. We would not have had an exercise during the Christmas holiday [when the UFO sightings occurred]. That is a strong indication that my stunt is not the source of this specific incident”. However, it remains possible that the coloured lights seen in the forest on the first night of the incident were due to a hoax by a perpetrator who has never come forward.
Other explanations for the incident have included a downed Soviet spy satellite or a nuclear incident.
Researchers and commentators
Some of the first people to examine the event in detail were the British Ufologist Jenny Randles in her book “Sky Crash”, and Nick Redfern in his books “Cosmic Crashes” and “A Covert Agenda”.
Georgina Bruni has researched the subject and in her book You Can’t Tell the People publishes a photograph of the supposed landing site taken on the morning after the first sighting. The late Lord Hill-Norton, (Admiral of the Fleet and former Chief of the Defence Staff of the UK) also believed that a UFO landed at Rendlesham and repeatedly questioned the UK Government on the issue.
Larry Warren who was the source of the original News of the World article has written extensively on the subject and is a firm believer in an extraterrestrial explanation. Warren was certainly a USAF airman at the Woodbridge base, but his own claims that he was a witness to the incident are disputed by others, notably by Col. Halt.
Bruni and Warren do not, however, agree on the details and have clashed publicly over the supposed inaccuracies of their respective accounts.
Prominent amongst the sceptics is Ian Ridpath (mentioned above). Much of his research is available on his website, which also includes much of the raw evidence, including the original eyewitness statements.
Jenny Randles, who originally brought the case to prominence, wrote an extensive article in her book with David Clarke and Andy Roberts, (The UFOs That Never Were) entitled “Rendle Shame Forest” where she came to the conclusion that “While some puzzles remain, we can probably say that no unearthly craft were seen in Rendlesham Forest. We can also argue with confidence that the main focus of the events was a series of misperceptions of everyday things encountered in less than everyday circumstances.”
One of the most prominent believers in the extraterrestrial origin of the Rendlesham UFOs is Nick Pope who worked for the MoD, researching and investigating UFO phenomena between 1991 and 1994. He discussed the Rendlesham Forest Incident in his various books and in his articles: “Selected Documents”, which relates to the MOD documents on the Rendlesham Forest incident, “Rendlesham – The Unresolved Mystery”, “The Rendlesham Files Reviewed” (a detailed commentary and analysis of the MOD documents) and “Rendlesham Forest UFO Incident”. He has gone on record as saying that “the Rendlesham Forest Incident is bigger than Roswell”.
Additionally, Lieutenant Colonel (later Colonel) Charles I Halt, the former Deputy Base Commander of USAF Bentwaters and Woodbridge, who was a major witness to these events, is also a firm believer and contributor to books and documentaries.
Forest clearing in the UFO Trail at Rendlesham Forest
Rendlesham Forest today
Today, the forest looks quite different: the Great Storm of 1987 (winds equivalent to a category 3 hurricane) caused extensive destruction of trees, and the Forestry Commission undertook a massive replanting programme in its aftermath. However, some of the locations associated with the supposed incident are still identifiable and the Forestry Commission have marked a trail (the UFO Trail) for walkers, which includes the principal locations such as the small clearing where the object allegedly landed.
At the start of the UFO trail, there is a large triangular shaped metal information board. It features a map of the forest, clearly marking the UFO trail and gives a basic account of what happened in 1980, although with an erroneous date for the initial sighting:
“In December 1980 several sightings of UFOs were reported in Rendlesham Forest. Many think these mysterious events are the most significant UFO incident to have occurred in the UK.
“During the evening of 26 December a resident of Sudbourne, a village approximately 6 miles (10 km) to the North East of Rendlesham Forest, reported a mysterious shape (like an upturned mushroom) in the sky above his garden. Later that night two USAF patrolmen at the East Gate of RAF Woodbridge spotted unusual lights in the forest, and were given permission to investigate. What they reported was very strange.
“This was the time of the ‘Cold War’ and because of the sensitive military situation at the time, the incident was officially reported to the Military Authorities by the Deputy Base Commander Lt. Colonel Charles Halt, USAF.
“There is, of course, no tangible evidence of a UFO on the ground – no debris was found apart from some broken tree top branches. We can, however, piece together, from transcripts and recordings which were taken at the time, an intriguing picture.”
Official government sources
* MOD Documents covering the UFO incident at Rendlesham Forest in 1980 were first released in May 2001 to Dr. David Clarke of Sheffield University who had requested them under the Code of Practice for Access to Government Information (which preceded the UK’s Freedom of Information Act). Dr Clarke discusses them on his website In 2008 the files were transferred from MoD to The National Archives (TNA) and removed from the MoD website.
* As of August 2009, all documents relating to the incident are available on the National Archives UFO section under reference DEFE 24/1948. These documents include the request above, along with details of the Ombudsman judgment which followed. For the next few months, access to this file, and other files released on the same date will be free to view and download.
UFO Landing in ENGLAND in 1980 This is a military document that reports a UFO landing near airforce base in England in 1980. They were 3 witness on site that day.
Bentwaters UFO Case Dec 1980 A look at the Bentwaters UFO case in the UK of December 1980.
SCI-FI Declassified – UFO Invasion At Rendlesham
The Rendlesham Forest Incident is the name given to a series of reported sightings of unexplained lights and the alleged landing of an extraterrestrial spacecraft in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England in late December 1980. It is perhaps the most famous UFO event to have happened in Britain, ranking amongst the best-known UFO events worldwide. It has been compared to the Roswell UFO incident in the United States and is commonly referred to as “Britain’s Roswell” or the “English Roswell”.
Following the event, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) denied that it posed any threat to national security and stated that it was therefore never investigated as a security matter. Later evidence indicated that there was a substantial MoD file on the subject and this led to claims of a cover-up. Some interpreted this as part of a larger pattern of information suppression concerning the true nature of unidentified flying objects, by both the United States and British governments (see the UFO conspiracy theory). However, when the file was released in 2001 it turned out to consist mostly of internal correspondence and responses to inquiries from the public. The lack of any in-depth investigation confirmed that the case was never taken seriously by the MoD.
SPOOKY tape recordings of US military men investigating a UFO in British woodland 30 years ago have finally been released – read more here (articles, …)
Scientists: Geological evidence shows the Great Sphinx is 800,000 years old
Scientists: Geological evidence shows the Great Sphinx is 800,000 years old
One of the most mysterious and enigmatic monuments on the surface of the planet is without a doubt the Great Sphinx at the Giza plateau in Egypt. It is an ancient construction that has baffled researchers ever since its discovery and until today, no one has been able to accurately date the Sphinx, since there are no written records or mentions in the past about it. Now, two Ukrainian researchers have proposed a new provocative theory where the two scientists propose that the Great Sphinx of Egypt is around 800,000 years old. A Revolutionary theory that is backed up by science.
The study was presented at the International Conference of Geoarchaeology and Archaeomineralogy held in Sofia titled: GEOLOGICAL ASPECT OF THE PROBLEM OF DATING THE GREAT EGYPTIAN SPHINX CONSTRUCTION.
The authors of this paper are scientists Manichev Vjacheslav I. (Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and Alexander G. Parkhomenko (Institute of Geography of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine).
The starting point of these two experts is the paradigm shift initiated by West and Schoch, a ‘debate’ intended to overcome the orthodox view of Egyptology referring to the possible remote origins of the Egyptian civilization and, on the other, physical evidence of water erosion present at the monuments of the Giza Plateau.
According to Manichev and Parkhomenko:
“The problem of dating the Great Egyptian Sphinx construction is still valid, despite of the long-term history of its research. Geological approach in connection to other scientific-natural methods permits to answer the question about the relative age of the Sphinx. The conducted visual investigation of the Sphinx allowed the conclusion about the important role of water from large water bodies which partially flooded the monument with formation of wave-cut hollows on its vertical walls.”
“The morphology of these formations has an analogy with similar such hollows formed by the sea in the coastal zones. Genetic resemblance of the compared erosion forms and the geological structure and petrographic composition of sedimentary rock complexes lead to a conclusion that the decisive factor of destruction of the historic monument is the wave energy rather than sand abrasion in Eolian process. Voluminous geological literature confirms the fact of existence of long-living fresh-water lakes in various periods of the Quaternary from the Lower Pleistocene to the Holocene. These lakes were distributed in the territories adjacent to the Nile. The absolute mark of the upper large erosion hollow of the Sphinx corresponds to the leel of water surface which took place in the Early Pleistocene. The Great Egyptian Sphinx had already stood on the Giza Plateau by that geological (historical) time.”
A strong argument was made by Ukrainian scientists in regards of the Sphinx, arguments based upon geological studies which support Schoch’s view regarding the Sphinx and its age. Manichev and Parkhomenko focus on the deteriorated aspect of the body of the Sphinx, leaving aside the erosive features where the Sphinx is located, which had been studied previously by Schoch. Ukrainian scholars focused on the undulating terrain of the Sphinx which displays the mysterious pattern.
Mainstream scientists offer explanations for this sharp feature and state that it is based on the abrasive effect of the wind and sand, the undulations were formed because the harder layers of rock are better at withstanding the erosions while the softer layers would have been more affected, forming voids.
However, as noted Manichev and Parkhomenko, this argument does not explain why the front of the head of the Sphinx lacks such features. In regards to the argument made by Schoch about the heavy rain period which occurred around 13,000 BC, the Ukrainian scientists recognized Schoch hypothesis partially suggesting that the erosive features of the Sphinx go further back than 13.000 BC. Manichev and Parkhomenko argue is that the mountainous and coastal areas of the Caucasus and Crimea, which they know well, have a type of wind erosion that differs morphologically to the erosive features noted on the Sphinx. Essentially, they argue that such wind erosion has a very soft effect, regardless of the geological composition of the rocks.
The western wall of the Sphinx enclosure, showing erosion consistently along its length. Courtesy and copyright of Colin Reader.
“In our geological field expeditions in different mountains and littoral zones of the Crimea and Caucasus we could often observe the forms of Eolian weathering which morphology differs considerably from the weathering taking place on the GES. Most natural forms of weathering are of smoothed character, independent of lithological composition of the rocks.”
They continue further and explain:
“Our personal experience in scientific investigation of geology of the sea coasts gives reasons to draw an analogy with the GES and to suggest another mechanism of its destruction. Specialists-geologists, who work in the field of sea-coast geomorphology, know such forms of relief as wave-cut hollows (Morskaya Geomorfologiya, 1980). They can be one- and multi-storey. They are arranged horizontally to the sea water surface, if the coast makes a vertical wall (cliff). Especially deep wave-cut hollows are formed in precipitous cliffs built by the strata of carbonaceous rocks. Such forms of the coast relief are well-known and studied in detail on the Black-Sea coast of the Caucasus and Crimea (Popov, 1953; Zenkovich, 1960). General model of formation of the wave-cut hollows in the rocks of the Caucasian flysch is given by Popov (1953, 162; Fig. 3). In dynamics of the process of wave-cut hollows formation one can notice such a characteristic feature that the wave energy is directed to the rock stratum at the level of water surface. Besides, both saline and fresh water can dissolve the rocks.”
Manichev and Parkhomenko propose a new natural mechanism that may explain the undulations and mysterious features of the Sphinx. This mechanism is the impact of waves on the rocks of the coast. Basically, this could produce, in a period of thousands of years the formation of one or more layers of ripples, a fact that is clearly visible, for example, on the shores of the Black Sea. This process, which acts horizontally (that is, when the waves hit the rock up to the surface), will produce a wear or dissolution of the rock.
The fact is that the observation of these cavities in the Great Sphinx made the Ukranian scientists think that this great monument could have been affected by above said process in the context of immersion in large bodies of water, not the regular flooding of the Nile.
Manichev and Parkhomenko suggest that the geological composition of the body of the Sphinx is a sequence of layers composed of limestone with small interlayers of clays. Manichev and Parkhomenko explain that these rocks possess different degree of resistance to the water effect and say that if the hollows formation were due to sand abrasion only, the hollows had to correspond to the strata of a certain lithological composition. They suggest that the Great Sphinx hollows are formed in fact within several strata, or occupy some part of the stratum of homogeneous composition.
The Back of the Great Sphinx of Egypt
Manichev and Parkhomenko firmly believe that the Sphinx had to be submerged for a long time under water and, to support this hypothesis, they point towards existing literature of geological studies of the Giza Plateau. According to these studies at the end of the Pliocene geologic period (between 5.2 and 1.6 million years ago), sea water entered the Nile valley and gradually creating flooding in the area. This led to formation of lacustrine deposits which are at the mark of 180 m above the present level of the Mediterranean Sea.
According to Manichev and Parkhomenko, it is the sea level during the Calabrian phase which is the closest to the present mark with the highest GES hollow at its level. High level of sea water also caused the Nile overflowing and created long-living water-bodies. As to time it corresponds to 800000 years.
What we have here is evidence which contradicts the conventional theory of deterioration caused by Sand and Water, a theory already criticized by West and Schoch, who recalled that during many centuries, the body of the Sphinx was buried by the sands of the desert, so Wind and Sand erosion would not have done any damage to the enigmatic Sphinx.
However, where Schoch clearly saw the action of streams of water caused by continuous rains, Ukrainian geologists see the effect of erosion caused by the direct contact of the waters of the lakes formed in the Pleistocene on the body Sphinx. This means that the Great Sphinx of Egypt is one of the oldest monuments on the surface of the Earth, pushing back drastically the origin of mankind and civilization.
Some might say that the theory proposed by Manichev and Parkhomenko is very extreme because it places the Great Sphinx in an era where there were no humans, according to currently accepted evolutionary patterns. Furthermore, as it has been demonstrated, the two megalithic temples, located adjacent to the Great Sphinx were built by the same stone which means that the new dating of the Sphinx drags these monuments with the Sphinx back 800,000 years. In other words, this means that ancient civilizations inhabited our planet much longer than mainstream scientists are willing to accept.
Hundreds of people have seen a major UFO sighting of a “blazing UFO” from California all the way to Nevada. Authorities have since claimed it was a “Russian SL4” which itself is actually quite disturbing.
This is not the first of its kind though, which has been chalked up as being a rocket or military exercise of some sort. Just one month ago there was major speculation about a possible UFO which was seen by hundreds of people once again.
The authorities, likewise, explained it was a rocket, which, again, is actually just as interesting when compared to the prospect of a UFO.
Many, however, believe both of these incidents are just the usual conventional explanations to prevent the masses from questioning the existence of UFOs.
According to a report from ABC in relation to the sighting a month ago, “Vandenberg Air Force Base did not launch any rockets Saturday evening, according to a representative.”
This only fuels the fire of what this may have been, since sightings took place overnight from Saturday to Sunday.
According to the Sunday Express, reporting last month on this story, “California has been UFO hotspot in recent weeks, with a bizarre ‘alien corpse’ found outside someone’s home, the day after another mass ‘blue UFO’ sighting, which was later explained by the authorities as a Trident missile test.”
A well known Pastor named Paul Begley was one of the witnesses and videoed the incident. He believes it was most likely a missile, in the form of a warning shot, being fired due to tensions between the US and Russia, which itself is extremely disturbing.
“I know it was not a meteor, it was way too slow. It was a rocket of some sort, I don’t know if it was from the US, Russia or China, but there is a lot of tension.”
Now we have a similar situation and this time it is claimed to be a Russian rocket. The obvious question here, is what is going on? Is there a covert game of chicken being played between Russia and the United States? Is this possibly of alien origin? Or is it something else?
A few months ago in September, an incredible sighting took place in Miami which was claimed to be a rocket launch, but people are once again very suspicious and after you watch the video you will understand why. This is the latest video below along with some commentary, check it out for yourself and draw your own conclusions;
Here’s an update video about the invasion of flying saucers that took place in the nation’s capital in 1952. Photographs and film show the UFO’s as they fly by the capital building itself. If they aren’t UFO’s then what explanation could there possibly be? How would someone hoax this in 1952? Ah ha! What if it wasn’t a hoax at all? The truth is out there. Or just below in the following Parabreakdown video.
I was out walking my dog just before midnight. The sky was clear and the stars were unusually bright. As I was looking up at the sky, I noticed and extremely bright star. It first appeared to be round with beams of light emitted from it in bright white (as one would envision the Christmas star). It was the only star that bright, all the others were “normal”.
After almost half a minute of keeping an eye on just that “star”, I noticed that the rays it produced were only forming on the top half of the orb. Looking closer, I noticed that it was not just white with a hint of blue. Two different shades of blue were present with flashes of red and green. When a flash ended, the space it had been in was more amber than yellow or white.
I thought, even at this point, my eyes were playing tricks on me. So, I waited and thought I saw it move up then down. The dog started pulling on his leash, so I went inside.
About 10 minuets later, I decided that I wanted to take another look and headed back outside. It was sill there, and the color activity was more intense. The shape was more disc like, but I could not see the actual bottom. It looked like the light illuminated the outline of the top of the disc, with the light being emitted from the top. Now when the colors appeared, they ran from left to right along the rim of the disc, and came one after the other. One color would get just past the middle of the object and another would begin it’s trip around.
Again, I thought I noticed movement, so I purposely stepped into an area where there were low tree branches. Since there was no wind, I could use this vantage point as a marker to see if there really was movement.
The object swayed left to right, like it was in a hammock. Then it traveled up from below a branch to well above it, then back down, not going fast and never going back to the exact same space. I knew this was not me moving as I had sat down in a chair to be sure to be steady and not rock or sway as I stood looking up.
I stood watching it become more mobile for 5 minuets more then headed inside for 5 minuets. When I went back outside to check on it again, it was further south than it had been. Very little light activity was happening at this point, and the swaying had stopped. I immediately came in to report this.
NOTE: The above image is a rendering.
This case is under investigation by MUFON State Director Ken Pfeifer
While driving on 95S, i saw a triangle with an inverted bottom, outlined in chasing white lights hovering/bobbing above Santa Fe casino. I live in the Centennial Hills area of Las Vegas, NV. This is the northwest. I was traveling to work southbound on the 95 freeway. I was late for work. I always watch the skies. I don’t know why, it’s not like I ever see anything. On 1/5/2016 between the hours of 9:25pm and 9:45pm, I actually did. As I passed the Santa Fe Casino, on my left, right above the casino I witnessed a triangular V-shaped object over the casino. I cannot remember if it was over the parking garage area or closer to the casino part. I am not sure. What I am sure of, however, is that I was seeing a V-shaped aerial object. The object that I saw was “hovering” in the air, as low as a helicopter could fly. (I have had airplanes fly by or helicopters sit idle near me and I hear a sound) This object was emitting absolutely NO sound. It was close enough for me to hear a sound. I would have heard a sound. Were this a helicopter or an airplane, I’m sure I would have heard sound. I thought maybe it was some type of military stealth flying object. But why would it be just hovering Non-stealthily over the nasty old Santa Fe Casino? Also I saw lights. I cannot say for sure what other colors I saw besides white. White was the dominant color, I do know that for sure. There could have been other colors as well. What I can say for absolute assurity is that the lights were chasing. Chasing like those Christmas lights that people have.
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The lights were chasing in the shape of the object that I was seeing, which was a V shape (acute triangle) two long sides with a shorter bottom. The bottom was invert! ed to another v. As I was seeing this, my psyche attempted to explain away my optical. The reason I was unsuccessful at explaining this away, was because of the motion of the object. As it hovered in that spot, it rotated at a half circle as it bobbed up and down slightly, while slightly tilted to the right. The movement of the craft, the location of the craft and the fact that I could hear no sound from a craft that was in such close proximity to my vehicle are the reasons why I am writing this report. The behavior of the craft frightened me more than the sight of it. I felt an immediate fear mixed with excitement mixed with dread mixed with sadness. A combination of feelings that I have never felt. Please be advised that I was driving when I witnessed this. I pulled to the carpool lane and started to drive very slowly to ensure that I was seeing what I was seeing. I started to swerve cause I was looking at the object instead of looking at the road. I turned away to keep from getting pulled over for a traffic violation. I was afraid to stop and pull over. This happened to me. I do not have any history of mental illness. I have never made a report of something like this before. I believe in the existence of something other than human beings for several reasons that I will not go into, because that is not what this report is for. I just want whoever this gets to, to take my accounts seriously. I am a previous member of law enforcement. I have had to listen to reports like this frequently from crazy people. I know the difference. I hope you do too. I know what I saw. I just would like someone to tell me why I saw it.
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Comets May Not Explain 'Alien Megastructure' Star's Strange Flickering After All
Comets May Not Explain 'Alien Megastructure' Star's Strange Flickering After All
By Shannon Hall, Space.com Contributor
An artist's conception shows a family of comets as it passes in front of a star — one of the best explanations for the strange dimming around Tabby's star.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
It's looking less likely that a swarm of comets or an "alien megastructure" can explain a faraway star's strange dimming.
The star (nicknamed "Tabby's Star," after its discoverer, Tabetha Boyajian) made major headlines last October when Jason Wright, an astronomer at Pennsylvania State University, suggested that it could be surrounded by some type of alien megastructure. A more likely idea — one that's far less exciting — is that the star is orbited by a swarm of comets. But scientists can't be sure either way.
Now, Bradley Schaefer, an astronomer at Louisiana State University, has probed the star's behavior over the past century by looking at old photographic plates. Not only does the star's random dipping date back more than a century, but it also has been gradually dimming over that period — a second constraint that makes it even harder to explain. [13 Ways to Hunt Intelligent Alien Life]
The first signs of the star's oddity came from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler space telescope, which continually monitored the star (as well as 100,000 others) between 2009 and 2013. Astronomers, citizen scientists and computers could then search for regular dips in a star's light — a sign that an exoplanet has passed in front of that star. The largest planets might block 1 percent of a star's light, but Tabby's star dropped by as much as 20 percent in brightness. That, in and of itself, would be weird. But the periodic dimmings didn't occur at regular time intervals, either — they were sporadic. The signature couldn't be caused by a planet, scientists said.
In September, a team led by Boyajian, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, tried to make sense of the unusual signal. First, the researchers looked into any angles that might mean there was something wrong with the data itself. They even checked in with Kepler mission scientists. But everything came out clean. "The data that we were observing with Kepler is, in fact, astrophysical," Boyajian told Space.com.
Still, nothing about the observations indicated what might be causing the extreme interference. After considering many possible scenarios, Boyajian determined that dust from a large cloud of comets was the best explanation. But she admits that "it's a bit of a stretch to have comets that are large enough to block that much of the light from the star." With her paper published, she hoped that other astronomers would jump in with alternative solutions.
And they did. A month later, the star exploded into the public's eye when Wright announced that an advanced extraterrestrial civilization could be responsible for the signal, assuming this civilization built a megastructure, like solar panels, around the star. And Boyajian thinks the theory is definitely worth a follow-up.
"We have to look at every angle that we can — and that's one angle, as wild and crazy as it seems," she said. Slate blogger and astronomer Phil Plait, too, admitsthat "while it's incredibly unlikely, it does kinda fit what we're seeing."
So Schaefer turned to old photographic plates from the Harvard College Observatory. Lucky for him, the star has been photographed more than 1,200 times as part of a repeated all-sky survey between the years 1890 and 1989. That many data points revealed that Tabby's star is acting strangely in more than one way: It's flickering on short timescales, as the Kepler and Harvard data show, and it's dimming over the course of a century, as the Harvard data show.
"Occam's razor [the simplest explanation is likely the best one] needs to be considered in a scenario like this," Boyajian said. A single phenomenon must be causing both behaviors, she added. But what is it?
Well, the results don't look good for a family of comets. It would take a vast number of comets to pass in front of the star for a century, astronomers say.
"It would be more mass than what we have in the whole Kuiper Belt" [the band of icy bodies in the vast region beyond Neptune], said Massimo Marengo, an associate professor of astronomy at Iowa State University who co-authored a paper supporting the comets theory in December.
"You can get out of that if you assume it's the same family of comets passing in front of the star over and over," Marengo told Space.com. But with the century-long dimming trend, too, that family of comets has to get bigger every time it passes the star. "It's a difficult thing to do," he said.
The results also change the requirements for the alien megastructure hypothesis. Plait pointed out that the general fading is actually what you'd expect to see if aliens were building a massive sphere around their star. But before you get your hopes up, consider this: Plait calculated that aliens would need to build a minimum of 750 billion square kilometers (290 billion square miles) of solar panels to account for the 20 percent drop in their star's brightness. "That's 1,500 times the area of the entire Earth," Plait wrote. "Yikes."
So astronomers now have to hope that future observations might shed light on this stellar oddity. "Nature can help us by creating another one of these events," Marengo said. "But sometimes, we don't get lucky."
'Embryo' planet plowed into Earth, creating moon ... and stayed
'Embryo' planet plowed into Earth, creating moon ... and stayed
By Elizabeth Armstrong Moore
In this 1968 photo, the Earth rises over the horizon of the moon during the Apollo 8 mission. (AP Photo/NASA, File)
Scientists already know that roughly 4.5 billion years ago planet Earth wasviolently smacked into by another mass—Theia, a so-called "planetary embryo" that was still forming and may have been just as large as Earth.
But now UCLA researchers report that the collision was not a 45-degree angle "powerful side-swipe" as thought, but rather a "head-on assault" that resulted in the formation of the moon as well as the Earth's mantle.
Their evidence lies in the oxygen isotopes of rocks on both Earth and the moon. Reporting in the journal Science, they reveal that the oxygen isotope ratios, which differ from one planet to the next and thus act as fingerprints, are "indistinguishable" in rocks on the moon and Earth, suggesting a common origin.
"Theia was thoroughly mixed into both the Earth and the moon, and evenly dispersed between them," the lead researcher tells ScienceAlert. "This explains why we don’t see a different signature of Theia in the moon versus the Earth." A violent head-on collision also likely robbed Earth of its water, which was probably added tens of millions of years later when small asteroids collided with the Earth's surface.
"While it's pretty sad to think about our planet wiping out another one in order to get where we are today, it's fascinating to think about all the accidents that had to come together to result in life on Earth," notes Fiona MacDonald at ScienceAlert.
Anonymous Release NASA Documents Proving Something Unbelievable …
Anonymous Release NASA Documents Proving Something Unbelievable …
Anonymous have leaked information that they claim originate from NASA servers, showing evidence of an extensive drone weather modification program that prove that Chemtrails exist.
Anonsec released a paper that contained a detailed account of their hack, as well as analysis of the NASA data they recovered.
The data reveals information about NASA’s connection to weather modification research in a log of a DC-8 jetliner, which was conducting a flight in accordance with their “Alternative-Fuel Effects on Contrails and Cruise EmiSSions” project.
Anonsec Admin Dêfãult Vírüsa leaked the information early last week to Mikael Thalen of I-n-f-o-w-a-r-s, before making a public release Sunday.
Also released Sunday was a 276 Gigabyte (GB) data package of 631 aircraft and radar videos, 2,143 flight logs and the personal data of 2,414 NASA employees.
In Anonsec’s zine, they claim that they were discovered and lost access to the NASA servers after altering the flight path of a $222.7 million US Drone flying across the Pacific. In the hijacking the group planned to crash the GlowbalHawk drone into the ocean.
NASA officials have not yet commented on the information leak, nor confirmed its validity, but the released NASA employee information has been verified as real and a drone flight log has been discovered which coincides with Anonsec’s story.
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In an official statement released by headquarters spokesman Allard Beutel, NASA is denying the claims made by the hacking group AnonSec.
“Control of our Global Hawk aircraft was not compromised,” Beutel said, continuing that the space agency “had no evidence to indicate the allegedly hacked data.”
Beutel also inferred that the information leaked was already public by saying, “NASA strives to make our scientific data publicly available, including large data sets, which seems to be how the information in question was retrieved.”
The statement ended with an attempt to calm nerves by reiterating their bottom line that, “NASA takes cybersecurity very seriously and will continue to fully investigate all of these allegations.”
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Fast Moving UFO Over Oregon
Fast Moving UFO Over Oregon
A witness in LaGrange, Oregon claimed to have spotted and recorded on video a glowing, disc-shaped UFO. He reported the sighting to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), and it was filed in Case 53207 of the organization’s witness reporting database.
The reporting witness was with his wife outside on a balcony enjoying a barbecue when the object made an appearance around 10:05 p.m. on August 15, 2013.
The husband knew at that moment that it wasn’t ordinary. He was taking the video when the mysterious object blasted off so fast or disappeared.
MUFON received the report of the sighting on January 3, 2014. Oregon assistant director Keith Rowell investigated the case and closed it as unknown.
Rowell stated in his report that the witness saw the aerial object maneuvered around a bit. It had a reddish/whitish color that flashed randomly and appeared to be glowing. Both witnesses believed it was disk-shaped and had a dome and windows. The video doesn’t show it, but it does reveal an unusual and fast-changing, lighted object.
While investigating the video, Rowell could only think two possible identifications for the UFO, namely, the hobbyist RC aircraft and burning balloon-like object. However, the UFO’s characteristics don’t fit all to both RC object and burning object.
Rowell explains that an RC object doesn’t vary in shape too radically several times and its color does not vary from virtually washed out white to reddish/yellow. He adds that lighted RC’s internal image structure would be more regular, even if it were programmed randomly as light show type of RC craft.
Rowell further explains that a burning object would have been fit the random look of the UFO in the video, but the UFO’s movement doesn’t fit well with characteristics of a drifting, airborne object.
Area 51 might be the most well-known top secret military base in the world. It has appeared in movies, tv, books, and video games. Yet we still don’t know what is going on in there. We take a trip to the middle of nowhere to find out what’s going on with Area 51! What goes on in Area 51? Where is Area 51?
A possible Martian creature has been found on the red planet by the Mars Curiosity Rover.
The bizarre creature which was discovered by ufo researcher Scott Waring was photographed by the rover as it surveyed the martian landscape. This is probably a fossil or the skeletal remains of a Martian critter.
A recently discovered asteroid is scheduled to fly by Earth in March, but NASA can’t quite tell how far away it will be when that happens. One estimate is as close as 11,000 miles, about 95 percent closer than the moon.
The asteroid known as 2013 TX68, was first discovered three years ago, as its name implies, but the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey was only able to track its path for three days before it entered daytime skies, where monitoring is not possible. That short amount of time precluded scientists from getting a better understanding of what the asteroid’s orbit around the sun looks like.
NASA to send 13 tiny satellites into deep space in preparation for manned Mars missionhttp://on.rt.com/73h9
What is known is that the asteroid is 100 feet (30 meters) in diameter and will be in Earth’s neighborhood for quite some time, but what is not known is whether that means 11,000 or 9 million miles away from our planet by next month. For comparison, the moon is 238,000 miles away.
"This asteroid's orbit is quite uncertain, and it will be hard to predict where to look for it," Paul Chodas of NASA's Center for Near Earth Object Studies said in a statement.
"There is a chance that the asteroid will be picked up by our asteroid search telescopes when it safely flies past us next month, providing us with data to more precisely define its orbit around the sun," Chodas added.
The next flyby for 2013 TX68 will be in September of 2017, when it will have a one in 250,000,000 chance of Earthly impact. By comparison, the odds of winning the $1 billion Powerball jackpot last month were one in 292,000,000. NASA predicts the following flybys in 2046 and 2097 will be even less likely to end in collision.
Planetary defense: NASA creates office to oversee asteroid detection http://on.rt.com/71bi
"The possibilities of collision on any of the three future flyby dates are far too small to be of any real concern," Chodas said. "I fully expect any future observations to reduce the probability even more."
An F-35 Lightning II fighter jet during a test flight.
Credit: Lockheed Martin Corp.
The U.S. military's next-generation F-35 fighter jets will make their long-awaited overseas debut this summer at two air shows in the United Kingdom, Air Force officials recently announced.
The 56th Fighter Wing, stationed at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona, will showcase F-35A Lightning IIsat the Royal International Air Tattoo in Gloucestershire and the Farnborough International Airshow in Hampshire, both in July.
"We're very excited about demonstrating this capability to the world," Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Mark A. Welsh III, said in a statement. "The F-35 represents a new way of thinking about data integration, weapons and tactics. We're thrilled to highlight the program and the amazing Airmen who support this cutting-edge fighter."
The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is billed as the most advanced warplane of its type yet developed, but the program has been plagued with delays and cost overruns. In July 2014, the U.S. military canceled what would have been the F-35's international air show debut after one of the planes suffered an engine fire. The United States' entire fleet of F-35s was subsequently grounded for two weeks as military leaders and aviation authorities investigated the cause of the fire, which was later determined to be from a damaged turbine blade.
At this summer's British air shows, the U.S. Air Force will also demonstrate World War II-era planes, along with aircraft from the Korean and Vietnam wars, according to military officials.
"Being a part of these heritage flights allows the world to learn more about the F-35 and at the same time see just how far air power has come over the years," Brig. Gen. Scott Pleus, commander of the 56th Fighter Wing, said in a statement. "The F-35 will be the backbone of the Air Force fighter fleet and represent the future for the U.S., our partners and allies. This will be a great opportunity for everyone to see how amazing the F-35 is."
UFOs Fly Side By Side At Space Station During Spacewalk On Live Cam, Feb 3, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Fly Side By Side At Space Station During Spacewalk On Live Cam, Feb 3, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 3, 2016
Location of sighting: Earths orbit at ISS
The UFO was caught on live ISS cam when astronauts were performing a spacewalk and doing repairs. It was caught by UFO Lou of Youtube. The UFO UFO flashes as its moves along side the space station in the background. The UFO appears to be a rectangle and is rotating, which causes the flashes of light. UFO Lou actually made two videos of these objects. In the second video he caught not one, but three UFOs watching the astronauts on their spacewalk! These are alien drones that monitor and upload life feeds to aliens throughout our solar system. Think of them as alien paparazzi.
.UFO Recorded Over Madison, Wisconsin Heading Into Lake Michigan, Feb 1, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Recorded Over Madison, Wisconsin Heading Into Lake Michigan, Feb 1, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 1, 2016 Location of sighting: University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA This UFO was caught shooting down from our atmosphere and entering Lake Michigan. The Great Lakes is notorious for its UFO sightings, especially night catches. This UFO tries to make itself look like a comet or meteor, but it has no long tail like meteors always do. Also there are no fragmenting parts. This UFO did disappear over Lake Michigan, it is due East of Madison, and this live cam stationed at the university there is pointing East. Hundreds of videos can be found on Youtube with glowing objects in the day and night over Lake Michigan. There is an alien base below the lake, not on its floor, but several km below the floor level. This UFO today, reinforces the evidence of that base existing. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
A Motorist Pulls Over To Film A UFO With Dark Grey Trails Above Greater Manchester
A Motorist Pulls Over To Film A UFO With Dark Grey Trails Above Greater Manchester
A mysterious aerial object was spotted in the skies over Greater Manchester. A video shows an apparent black object with dark grey trails behind it over Aston-under-Lyne.
The UFO flies through the air and streams out dark grey trails above Ashton-under-Lyne but does not seem to move in any direction.
One of the witnesses Sophie Birch said that she and her partner saw the object while driving in Ashton-under-Lyne. They pulled over to have a better view of the object. Sophie said that the object just wasn’t moving at all and just hovering in the air.
The couple’s conversation can be heard on the video trying to figure out the bizarre object, but they just could not explain it.
She said that it was so unusual to them and that they kept on watching and observing it for quite a while. But they just can’t find a simple explanation as to what the thing is. Sophie suggested that it could be aliens and her sister thought the same thing.
The video appears to show a black ship with something coming out of the back. Sophie said that they noticed a flock of birds flying at one point and they seemed to fly away because of fear.
What happened? This case was one of the very first UFO sightings reported by commercial pilots. Whilst flying from Houston to Atlanta, pilots Chiles and Whitted encountered a large, cigar-shaped craft flying close to them, barely missing them at times. At one point, the object appeared to stop abruptly before vanishing into thin air. The pilots agreed that it was a long, thin craft, with two rows of windows that emitted a blueish glow. It was moving really fast, leaving a trail of orange/red exhaust in its wake. What makes this sighting more credible is that this sighting wasn’t only reported by Chiles and Whitted. Several witnesses at an airbase in Georgia claim to have seen an identical object half an hour before the pilots’ experience. Government officials were able to rule out the possibility of it being a military or commercial flight as there were no fitting flights scheduled at that time.
How was it explained?After an investigation, government debunkers wrote the sighting off as an illusion caused by temperature inversions, and later changed their minds and claimed it was a meteor. However, as the description of the object does not at all fit that of a meteor, this sighting is still classed as ‘unexplained’.
The Valentich Disappearance
When? 21 October 1978 Where? Bass Strait, Australia
What happened? Frederick Valentich disappeared whilst piloting a light aircraft over Bass Strait. During his routine flight, Valentich reported to Melbourne Air Traffic Control that a ‘strange aircraft’ 1,000m above him was following him. He also complained that his engine was running roughly and his craft began to act in strange ways. The transcript from Valentich’s conversation with Melbourne tells us that the unidentified craft was a long ‘shape’, moving at three times his speed and orbiting him. He also said that its lights were beaming and looked a little like landing lights. Perhaps the most chilling extract from the transcript comes just before Valentich is cut off for good. He says: “It’s hovering – and it’s not an air craft…” Valentich and his aircraft disappeared shortly after this conversation. There was an extensive 7-day search of land and sea and not a single trace of Valentich or his plane was found. The Department of Transport were never able to determine the cause of Valentich’s disappearance, but it was ‘presumed fatal’ for him.
Valentich with a Cessna, similar to the aircraft he disappeared in.
How was it explained? The Australian government came up with several potential explanations. Firstly, as he had enough fuel to fly 800km, they have suggested he may have staged his own disappearance. However there were no reports of matching aircrafts plotted on any radar at this time. Secondly, they claimed that he may have been disoriented and was flying upside down – meaning that the lights he saw were actually a reflection of his own in the water. Finally, they have suggested that he may have committed suicide. However, many believe that – as there was no trace of him or his craft, and he was a competent and qualified pilot with a happy life – he was abducted.
The Lubbock Lights
When? August-September 1951 Where? Lubbock, Texas
What happened? On the night of 25 August 1951 Dr. W.I. Robinson was standing in the back garden of his home with two of his colleagues from the Texas Technological College, Professor Ducker and Dr. Oberg. All of a sudden all three men saw several lights fly across the sky, silently. They flew across the whole horizon within a matter of seconds, and the same thing happened again a few moments later. Between August and November Professor Ducker claims to have seen 12 similar flights, and several of his colleagues witnessed some as well. Hundreds of other non-scientists claimed to have seen the lights too. On the evening of 30 August, Texas Tech student, Carl Hart Jr. spotted the lights and was able to take five successive photos of them with his 35-mm Kodak camera. He was paid $10 for the photos and they were printed in papers nationally. However, the professors stated that these photos did not accurately portray the lights they had been seeing. Carl photographed the lights flying in a V formation – the professors had consistently seen them flying in a U shape.
The Lubbock Lights, 1951
How was it explained? Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, who would later become the first director of Project Blue Book, was sent to Lubbock to investigate the lights. To this day, an extraterrestrial explanation for the lights has never been fully debunked, however, other possible explanations have been cited. It was suggested that it was a group of Plover birds, shooting stars or comet fragments – though none of these explanations ever really fit the bill.
The Belgian UFO Wave
When? 1989 - 1990 Where? Across Belgium
What happened? These sightings began in 1989 but peaked with the events on 30/31 March 1990. On that night several unknown objects were tracked by two Belgian aircrafts and photographed. Additionally, they were witnessed by around 13,500 people with 2,600 filing official written statements detailing what they saw. The general description of the sighting is of three unusual lights, brighter than stars and changing colour, flying across the sky towards the South-East of Brussels. Patrols of Belgian aircraft were sent to investigate and try to track the lights, which had formed into small triangles. They managed to obtain a radar lock onto the unidentified crafts on three occasions, but their targets rapidly accelerated each time before descending to ground level. The pilots never made visual contact with the targets. The sudden changes in speed of the unidentified crafts should have been fatal to their pilots. Ground witnesses, the police and the pilots all give identical accounts of this sighting.
How was it explained? Many people are sceptical about these sightings, mainly because the only photo to emerge from the wave turned out to be a hoax. A lot of people explain the sightings as mass delusion, from misinformation spread by the media and the UFO logical organisation. Others argue that they were simply helicopters, their silence explained by a strong natural wind, or other noise drowning their engine sound out. However, nothing has been confirmed or verified, and the Belgian UFO Wave remains unexplained.
The Battle of Los Angeles
When? 1942 Where? Los Angeles, California
What happened? On the night of 24 February 1942, not too long after the attack on Pearl Harbor, air raid sirens rang out across Los Angeles. Thousands of people witnessed searchlights around Los Angeles fixing on a target hovering over the city, and the Coast Guard Anti-aircraft guns were ready to fire. They assumed it was an attack from Japan – but they were wrong. To this day, the Japanese claim they never attacked and there is no wreckage or other evidence to say that they did. People inland started to report seeing the large craft, or fleet, and Air Raid Wardens put the city into blackout. Some witnesses describe the sighting as a tremendous single object, crawling through the sky, whilst others say it was a group of smaller objects. At 3.16am a barrage of AA shells began, and the firing at the object continued throughout the night until the blackout was lifted at 7.21am. Several buildings were damaged in the firing and six people were killed – three by friendly fire and three from stress caused by the attacks.
How was it explained? The next morning the papers were filled with several different explanations. Some reported that it was Japanese planes that were shot down – though there was no evidence to say that this was the case. The LA Times ran a front-page picture showing an image of an odd object caught in the searchlights. The Government denounced the whole story, calling it a false alarm caused by ‘war nerves’, however many witnesses confirm that they believe what they saw was extra-terrestrial.
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Do aliens exist? Most compelling evidence of alien existence
Do aliens exist? Most compelling evidence of alien existence
Some say it’s obvious we’re not alone, others scorn the very idea and still others yet will hauntingly report their own experiences of alien probings following their casual night-time stroll through the fields of small town America. But with everything from increasingly bizarre reportings from increasingly credible sources, to basic mathematical probability suggesting the likelihood of alien life, these days, scepticism is harder won. Whatever your opinions, you may well find that the following examples have some impact on them.
Ancient evidence
It’s easy enough to write off much recent phenomena, quoting anything from wayward weather balloons to the perpetuation of the legend and UFO sightings in pop culture providing a cohesive image of extra terrestrials for eye witnesses to draw on should someone cry alien. But what’s slightly harder to dismiss is the ancient evidence (i.e. pre the National Enquirer). Enter the ‘The Madonna with Saint Giovannino’, otherwise known as the UFO painting.
"The Madonna with Saint Giovannino" Arcangelo di Jacopo del Sellaio [FAL], via Wikimedia Commons
Created in the 15th century, it depicts the Virgin Mary and in the backdrop of the painting, a man and his dog staring up at a hovering disk-like object that is suspiciously familiar. And this painting isn’t alone either, with everything from ancient cave paintings to Sanskrit Scrolls all depicting alien life. A sighting even crops up in the Bible in The Book of Ezekiel. Either this is compelling evidence, or humanity has a rich tradition of conspiracy theorists.
In the ancient city of Paracas, Peru, archeologists have uncovered mummified remains with elongated skulls dating back to 300 BC.
Statistical data
Back in 1961, astronomer Frank Drake devised an equation by which he could estimate the likelihood of the existence of alien life, taking into account a number of factors including the average number of planets able to support life and the fraction that could go on to support intelligent life. This was then implemented in 2001. The result: statistically, hundreds of thousands of such planets should technically exist.
Unsolved sightings
There are more registered sightings of UFOs than there is the word count here to deal with them and the majority of the time, there’s a thorough debunking accompanying them. But throughout history there have been a number that have been harder to explain away, from the to 1853 sighting by a number of students and professors at the Tennessee College campus, to the oft quoted Stephenville Lights case from 2008, with over 200 witnesses spotting the UFO including three policemen who remained anonymous. Consider these compelling cases unsolved.
Astronauts’ claims
If you’re going to believe any reports of UFOs, you might as well trust those coming from the men who have actually been to space (who usually also come with all their teeth and a P.H.D.). The list of those who have made claims of sightings includes Edgar Mitchell, Cady Coleman and Dr. Brian O’Leary, many also referencing government knowledge of alien existence and cover-ups. Buzz Aldrin has also spoken of his own experience on board the Apollo 11 when they saw something flying alongside them. At first they thought it was the final stage of the detached rocket, until mission control confirmed it was 6000 miles away from them…
Government files
While some US presidents have released classified files on the subject of UFOs, with Jimmy Carter famously describing his own encounter, others still have been denied access to classified information on the subject altogether, Bill Clinton claiming to be among them. This has led many believers to suggest there’s a cover up afoot. Clinton has been consistently vocal on the existence of aliens and it’s worth noting his opinions on an ‘Independence Day’ situation too. You know, just in case…
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Unidentified flying object slowly flying above Melbourne, Australia 1-Feb-2016
Unidentified flying object slowly flying above Melbourne, Australia 1-Feb-2016
Here’s one new interesting 2016 UFO sighting of a huge craft slowly flying across the night sky above Narre Warren, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia. This was filmed this Monday.
Witness report: This is not a plane. There was no noise after this passed over unlike planes that have a sound after they pass. This came from Berwick direction at approx. 10:15pm 1/2/2016.
UFO and Extraterrestrial Visitors: The Truth Is Finally Out There
UFO and Extraterrestrial Visitors: The Truth Is Finally Out There
The truth is absolutely, undeniably, out there and the aliens have undeniably been here. This has been an area that I have taken intrinsic interest in for some time now and it is necessary to believe that not only do aliens exist, but they have visited Earth not once, but multiple times. Now, let’s put to the side that X-Files is my favorite show and let’s leave my love of Tralfamadore out of this discussion. The Fourth Kind is terrifying and not true (not literally true). Also, I will not cite Ancient Aliens from the History Channel.
The preoccupation with extraterrestrials visiting Earth is a fundamental idea that seeks to answer the question, “Are we alone?” A look at the stars says we are not. The sheer number leaves the door wide open that there is living intelligent or not-so-intelligent life out there. Astronomers today use Frank Drake’s equation to determine life in our Milky Way Galaxy alone and though the results are varied; the odds favor other life is indeed out there. And that’s just our galaxy. Humans are always searching for the next bold frontier. It is our nature. The search for extraterrestrial life is a fundamental and necessary search that humans cannot help but undertake. It’s human nature at work.
But did extraterrestrial life forms ever visit Earth? This is a question that can never truly be proven as a definitive “yes” or a definitive “no.” It all comes down to belief in the evidence and whether one “wants to believe” or doesn’t “want to believe.” Skeptics see the evidence and write it off as nonsense, people who believe we are not alone and have been visited see evidence and believe it. A skeptic will always see what’s been proven false and a believer will always see what can’t be disproven.
UFO sightings and alien abductions are the stuff of rednecks and crackpots. This is the stuff of the paranoid and the crazy. But, underneath all the doubt and skepticism lies room for debate. There are multitudes upon multitudes of cases spanning not just 70 or 80 years (since the UFO fascination began in the 1940s) but since the very dawn of civilization itself. Records of extraterrestrial visitors are found in cave art, ancient texts, the bible itself as well as in works of art. Photographs of UFOs and reports of strange phenomena are all out there to be found.
For every case disproven, there is at least one that lies unsolved. The first case I want to point to is perhaps the most well known case of a downed UFO and recovered alien bodies: The Roswell Incident and Area 51. This arguably started the infatuation with UFO sightings, but this case also stands out in the level of government secrecy surrounding the event and the action taken following the event. In July 1947 something crashed in the New Mexico desert outside of Roswell. On July 8th, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) reported capturing a flying saucer and it was widely reported in the newspapers. They transported the wreckage to a top-secret Air Force Base, Area 51. Following the event, Major Jesse Marcel, who was involved with the original clean up, reported that alien bodies were recovered and taken away by the government.
Following the crash of the UFO, Harry S. Truman issued the Majestic-12 Documents. The documents were government protocol for dealing with downed UFOs, in particular the crash at Roswell, as well as handling extraterrestrial entities found in the wreckage. A briefing to the incoming President Eisenhower included a documents list of all persons associated with the Majestic-12 report as well as a briefing on the recovered aircraft from Roswell and one other recovered craft found in northern Mexico in December 1950. The Majestic-12 documents led to the now-decommissioned Project Blue Book that was the United States Air Force’s official investigation into any and all UFOs, downed UFOs and extraterrestrial entities.Project Blue Book was reviewed by an ad hoc committee headed by Carl Sagan. The purpose was to put the documents under a more rigorous scientific investigation. The conclusion was that all the unidentified flying objects, whatever they were, did not behave in a manner that threatened national security. The review did not discredit the documents.
Project Blue Book was reviewed by an ad hoc committee headed by Carl Sagan. The purpose was to put the documents under a more rigorous scientific investigation. The conclusion was that all the unidentified flying objects, whatever they were, did not behave in a manner that threatened national security. The review did not discredit the documents.
The official documents and government memos concerning the UFO phenomena and extraterrestrial visitors to Earth points to an attempt to discredit public accounts of such things while placing serious emphasis on research and dealing with encounters. Cover-ups such as this have been going on in the United States government for years; even Bill Clinton showed an interest. There is a truth that is being concealed in plain sight. Does that sound too paranoid? Sorry.
The Phoenix Lights was a phenomenon that was witnessed by hundreds of people in the Arizona skies. It was witnessed and addressed by the governor of Arizona and it is an extremely well documented case. The most well-known and documented occurrence of the lights occurred on March 13, 1997. Hundreds of people saw what has been referred to as a “parade” in the skies over the Phoenix area. Between 7:30 pm and 10:30 pm, hundreds of people witnessed lights pass over the state in a triangular formation in the space of 300 miles. The case for many was undeniable proof of extraterrestrial visitors.
A case such as this is important because it is not just the word of one person, but it is the word of hundreds of first-hand accounts. Regular people living in a metropolitan area witnessed a triangular shaped object slowly move over the state. Just this past March, another case of lights over Phoenix were seen and documented with no official explanation as to what they were. It is a bizarre case and it is certainly one that deserves careful consideration before dismissing it as weather balloons or flares.
It is also worth mentioning that extraterrestrials have been visiting our planet and interacting with humans for thousands of years. The “ancient astronaut” theory points to evidence of remarkable human achievement that could seemingly not be done without the aid of an advanced entity. The Nazca Lines in Peru are hundreds of gigantic carvings in the ground that portray various animals and designs that are only visible from the sky. The freestanding stones at Stonehenge, the pyramids, and the statues at Easter Island all seem to be larger-than-life creations given the technology available when they were created. Theorists claim that extraterrestrials had a hand in the creation of these ancient structures and they were created in a sort of homage to the extraterrestrials.
The bible and other ancient texts seem to point to aliens visiting Earth. The Ramayana from the 4th Century BCE in India speaks of intricate flying ships called Vimanas. The text, though very old, does seem to speak with an air of knowledge regarding machines that are not supposed to be seen on Earth for another 2,000 years: “O royal skilled engineer, construct sea-boats, propelled on water by our/experts, and airplanes, moving and flying upward, after the clouds that reside/in the mid-region, that fly as the boats move on the sea, that fly high over/and below the watery clouds. Be thou, thereby, prosperous in this world/created by the Omnipresent God, and flier in both air and lightening.” Yajur Veda 10.19
The bible also makes references that seem to point to extraterrestrial visitors in the Old Testament and the Vatican has come out in support of the idea of extraterrestrial life. What secrets does the Vatican Library and Conservatory hold? We may never know.
Skull-elongation in ancient Egypt is also seen as a means to emulate extraterrestrial visitors or they are said to have been alien-human hybrids living and breeding here on Earth with humans. According to alien abduction accounts, the “grays” (the conventional image of an alien when you think of one) are often depicted as having an elongated skull and large eyes. One of the most well-documented and researched abduction cases is the case of Betty and Barney Hill in New Hampshire in 1961. The Hills were among the first to offer a description of alien visitors in this way. The Hill’s case is perhaps the most well-known and well-researched abduction case. It is a notable place to begin research into alien abductions and there is a great deal of evidence that lends truth to the Hill’s claims; frozen time, reoccurring dreams, hypnotism and all.
The truth of it all is that there is so much out there to look through and so much to include in this discussion. There is plenty to bring up when making the case for extraterrestrial contact on Earth and it takes a certain interest in the subject to want to look further. There are truths being kept that still need to be found and understood.
Abduction cases, ancient marvels, UFO sightings and extraterrestrial encounters are happening everyday. It is simply human nature to take these into account and wonder, “Are we alone?” The next great frontier is always at the forefront of our endeavors and humans have been forging ahead at the top of the pyramid for a long time now. It is a natural wonder to feel that there is something out there watching us and waiting, slightly ahead of the curve for us to come around. The truth is out there and the evidence is here. Let human nature do its thing and find it.
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CIA Released Hundreds UFO Files After New Season X-Files
CIA Released Hundreds UFO Files After New Season X-Files
New series of X-Files was kicked off in the United States. The US spy agency CIA decided at the same time to release hundreds of UFO documents on the investigation into UFOs.
The CIA’s website states that the pieces are mainly from the forties and fifties. “We decided to bring some documents to the attention, both skeptics and believers will find this interesting”, says the espionage service.
The CIA announced the revelation of the UFO documents on Twitter:
The CIA declassified hundreds of documents in 1978 detailing the Agency’s investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). The documents date primarily from the late 1940s and 1950s.
To help navigate the vast amount of data contained in our FOIA UFO collection, we’ve decided to highlight a few documents both skeptics and believers will find interesting. Below you will find five documents we think X-Files character Agent Fox Mulder would love to use to try and persuade others of the existence of extraterrestrial activity. We also pulled five documents we think his skeptical partner, Agent Dana Scully, could use to prove there is a scientific explanation for UFO sightings.
The truth is out there; click on the links to find it.
Top 5 CIA Documents Mulder Would Love To Get His Hands On:
Southbound on a lone desert highway, police officer Lonnie Zamora was in pursuit of a speeding car outside the town of Socorro, New Mexico, when he was startled by a loud roar! Seconds later, he saw a large flame rise from the ground and pierce the sky above a remote patch of desert southwest of the highway. Fearing a nearby dynamite shack might have exploded, Zamora let the speeding car go, turned right, and drove down a bumpy gravel road that ran alongside the shack.
Zamora’s cruiser clunked along the rocky road until he came upon a steep hill. Rising from behind the hill was a smokeless fire that glowed in a funnel of blue and orange tinted flames. The hill obscured the origin of the flames, so Zamora attempted to drive up it. His cruiser’s tires slipped and swayed on the loose gravel, but after three attempts, Zamora finally made it to the top.
A shiny object, the size of a sedan, sparkled in the late afternoon sunshine about 150-200 yards from where Zamora was perched on the hilltop. At first glance, he thought it was a car overturned in an arroyo (dry creek bed), but when he drove closer, it appeared to be aluminum in color, not chrome, and oval-shaped like a football.
Zamora drove toward the object, along the hill’s crest, for about 50 feet and then stopped the car. He radioed back to the sheriff’s office that he would be busy checking on a wreck “down in the arroyo,” and then he descended on foot down the hill toward the object.
Roooaaarrr! Zamora was startled again by a very loud rumble, not exactly like a blast but also not steady like a jet engine. It started at a low frequency, with the pitch slowly rising. The flame appeared to be coming from the underside of the object, glowing light blue on top and orange at the bottom. Zamora panicked, afraid the object was about to blow.
Zamora sprinted to his car, hit his leg on the fender, and crashed to the ground. He got up, ran another 25 feet or so, and when he looked back again, he saw the object begin to rise.He ran to take cover but turned back to look at the object as he fled. He noticed a red symbol on the side, shaped like a point that was about 2 inches high and 2 inches wide. The object was smooth, a shiny white aluminum, with no visible windows or doors. There appeared to be two metal legs, slanted outward, supporting it.
It rose to the level of the car, then higher, about 20 to 25 feet in the air.
Zamora ran another 50 feet from his car, just over the edge of the hill, and ducked. Kneeling as close to the ground as he could, he covered his face with his arms for protection. Suddenly, the roar stopped. In the uneasy silence, Zamora lifted his head and looked.
The object sped away from him, toward the southwest, appearing to go in a straight line at about 10-15 feet off the ground. It cleared the eight foot tall dynamite shack by about three feet and then continued in a southwesterly direction, until it went over the high desert mountains and disappeared…
Hector Quintanilla, the last chief officer of the US Air Force’s famous UFO investigation program, Project BLUE BOOK, was in charge of the Zamora case. His team was convinced that Zamora was telling the truth, and despite an extremely thorough investigation, they were unable to locate the object or its origins. In an article for Studies in Intelligence called, “The Investigation of UFO’s,” Quintanilla says that the Zamora sighting is “the best-documented case on record.” It remains unsolved.
Project BLUE BOOK was based at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. Between 1947 and 1969, the Air Force recorded 12,618 sightings of strange phenomena — 701 of which remain “unidentified” like the Zamora case. Although the CIA was not directly affiliated with Project BLUE BOOK, the Agency did play a large role in investigating UFOs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, which led to the creation of several studies, panels, and programs. Former CIA Chief Historian, Gerald K. Haines, wrote an in-depth article looking at the Agency’s role in studying the UFO phenomenon for Studies in Intelligence. In his article, “CIA’s Role in the Study of UFOs, 1947-90,” Haines says that “while the Agency’s concern over UFOs was substantial until the early 1950s, CIA has since paid only limited and peripheral attention to the phenomena.”
With over 20 years of investigations, from the late 1940s until Project BLUE BOOK’s termination in 1969, the CIA and USAF have learned a thing or two about how to investigate a UFO sighting. While most government officials and scientists now dismiss flying saucer reports as a quaint relic of the 1950s and 1960s, there’s still a lot that can be learned from the history and methodology of “flying saucer intelligence.”
10 Tips When Investigating a Flying Saucer:
1. Establish a Group To Investigate and Evaluate Sightings
Before December 1947, there was no specific organization tasked with the responsibility for investigating and evaluating UFO sightings. There were no standards on how to evaluate reports coming in, nor were there any measurable data points or results from controlled experiment for comparison against reported sightings.
To end the confusion, head of the Air Force Technical Service Command, General Nathan Twining, established Project SIGN (initially named Project SAUCER) in 1948 to collect, collate, evaluate, and distribute within the government all information relating to such sightings, on the premise that UFOs might be real (although not necessarily extraterrestrial) and of national security concern. Project SIGN eventually gave way to Project GRUDGE, which finally turned into Project BLUE BOOK in 1952.
2. Determine the Objectives of Your Investigation
The CIA’s concern over UFOs was substantial until the early 1950s because of the potential threat to national security from these unidentified flying objects. Most officials did not believe the sightings were extraterrestrial in origin; they were instead concerned the UFOs might be new Soviet weapons.
The Project BLUE BOOK team, according to Quintanilla, defined three main objectives for their investigations:
To determine if UFO phenomena present a threat to the security of the US;
To determine if UFO phenomena exhibit any technological advances which could be channeled into US research and development; and
To explain or identify the stimuli which caused the observer to report a UFO.
Although BLUE BOOK, like previous investigative projects on the topic, did not rule out the possibility of extraterrestrial phenomena, their research and investigations focused primarily on national security implications, especially possible Soviet technological advancements.
3. Consult With Experts
Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, various projects, panels, and other studies were led or sponsored by the US government to research the UFO phenomenon. This includes the CIA-sponsored 1953 Scientific Advisory Panel on Unidentified Flying Objects, also known as the “Robertson Panel.” It was named after the noted physicist H.P. Robertson from the California Institute of Technology, who helped put together the distinguished panel of nonmilitary scientists to study the UFO issue.
Project BLUE BOOK also frequently consulted with outside experts, including: astrophysicists, Federal Aviation officials, pilots, the US Weather Bureau, local weather stations, academics, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, NASA, Kodak (for photo analysis), and various laboratories (for physical specimens). Even the famous astronomer Carl Sagan took part in a panel to review Project BLUE BOOK’s findings in the mid-1960s. The report from that panel concluded that “no UFO case which represented technological or scientific advances outside of a terrestrial framework” had been found, but the committee did recommend that UFOs be studied intensively to settle the issue once and for all.
4. Create a Reporting System To Organize Incoming Cases
The US Air Force’s Air Technical Intelligence Center (ATIC) developed questionnaires to be used when taking reports of possible UFO sightings, which were used throughout the duration of Project BLUE BOOK. The forms were used to provide the investigators enough information to determine what the unknown phenomenon most likely was. The duration of the sighting, the date, time, location, or position in the sky, weather conditions, and the manner of appearance or disappearance are essential clues for investigators evaluating reported UFO sightings.
According to Quintanilla, “a sighting is considered unidentified when a report apparently contains all the data necessary to suggest a valid hypothesis, but its description cannot be correlated with any known object or phenomenon.”Project BLUE BOOK categorized sightings according to what the team suspected they were attributable to: Astronomical (including bright stars, planets, comets, fireballs, meteors, and auroral streamers); Aircraft(propeller aircraft, jet aircraft, refueling missions, photo aircraft, advertising aircraft, helicopters); Balloons; Satellites; Other (including missiles, reflections, mirages, searchlights, birds, kites, spurious radar indications, hoaxes, fireworks, and flares); Insufficient Data; and finally, Unidentified.
5. Eliminate False Positives
Eliminate each of the known and probable causes of UFO sightings, leaving a small portion of “unexplained” cases to focus on. By ruling out common explanations, investigators can focus on the truly mysterious cases.
Some common explanations for UFO sightings discovered by early investigations included: misidentified aircrafts (the U-2, A-12, and SR-71 flights accounted for more than half of all UFO reports from the late 1950s and most of the 1960s); celestial events; mass hysteria and hallucination; “war hysteria;” “midsummer madness;” hoaxes; publicity stunts; and the misinterpretation of known objects.
Even history can shed some light. An interesting citation found by the 1953 Robertson Panel noted that some sightings had been attributed to an older phenomenon – “Foo Fighters” – that pre-dated the modern concept of UFOs: “These were unexplained phenomena sighted by aircraft pilots during World War II in both European and Far East theaters of operation wherein ‘balls of light’ would fly near or with the aircraft and maneuver rapidly. They were believed to be electrostatic (similar to St. Elmo’s fire) or electromagnetic phenomena… but their exact cause or nature was never defined. If the term ‘flying saucers’ had been popular in 1943-1945, these objects would have been so labeled.”
6. Develop Methodology To Identify Common Aircraft and Other Aerial Phenomena Often Mistaken for UFOs
Because of the significant likelihood a common (or secret military) aircraft could be mistaken for a UFO, it’s important to know the characteristics of different types of aircraft and aerial phenomenon to evaluate against each sighting. To help investigators go through the troves of reports coming in, Project BLUE BOOK developed a methodology to determine if the UFO sighting could likely be attributable to a known aircraft or aerial phenomenon. They wrote up detailed descriptions characterizing each type of aircraft or astronomical phenomenon, including how it might be mistaken for a UFO, to help investigators evaluate the incoming reports.
7. Examine Witness Documentation
Any photographs, videos, or audio recordings can be immensely helpful in evaluating a reported UFO sighting.
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A famous case examined by the Robertson Panel was the “Tremonton, Utah Sighting” of 1952, where a couple and two children traveling cross-country on State Highway 30 outside of Tremonton saw what appeared to be 10-12 bright shining objects moving westward in the sky in a rough formation. The husband was able to capture some of the objects on film.
The case was considered significant because of the “excellent documentary evidence in the form of Kodachrome motion picture films (about 1600 frames).” The Panel examined the film, case history, ATIC’s interpretation, and received a briefing from representatives of the USN Photo Interpretation Laboratory on their analysis of the film. The laboratory believed the objects were not birds, balloons, aircraft, or reflections, and therefore had to be “self-luminous.” The panel disagreed with the assessment that the objects were self-luminous, believing that if a controlled experiment was conducted, a terrestrial explanation for the sighting would be confirmed.
8. Conduct Controlled Experiments
As suggested by the Robertson Panel for investigating the Tremonton, Utah sighting (mentioned in tip #7), controlled experiments might be required to try and replicate the unknown phenomena. In the Tremonton case, the Panel suggested an experiment where scientists would photograph “pillow balloons” at different distances under similar weather conditions at the site. They believed such an experiment could help dispel the “self-luminous” theory about the objects in the film. Unfortunately, in this case, the cost of conducting such an experiment made the idea unfeasible.
9. Gather and Test Physical and Forensic Evidence
In the Zamora case (from the introduction), Quintanilla contends that during the course of the investigation and immediately thereafter, “everything that was humanly possible to verify was checked.” This included bringing in Geiger counters from Kirtland Air Force Base to test for radiation in the landing area and sending soil samples to the Air Force Materials Laboratory. “The soil analysis disclosed no foreign material. Radiation was normal for the ‘tracks’ and surrounding area. Laboratory analysis of the burned brush showed no chemicals that could have been propellant residue,” according to Quintanilla. “The findings were all together negative.” No known explanation could be found for the mysterious event.
10. Discourage False Reporting
The Robertson Panel found that the Air Force had “instituted a fine channel for receiving reports of nearly anything anyone sees in the sky and fails to understand.” This is a classic example of needing to separate the “signal from the noise.” If you have too many false or junk reports, it becomes increasingly difficult to find the few good ones worthy of investigation or attention.
The CIA in the early 1950s was concerned that because of the tense Cold War situation and increased Soviet capabilities, the Soviets could use UFO reports to ignite mass panic and hysteria. Even worse, the Soviets could use UFO sightings to overload the US air warning system so that it could not distinguish real targets from supposed UFOs.
In order to lessen the amount of false-positive reports, the Robertson Panel suggested educating the military, researchers, and even the public on how to identify objects or phenomena commonly mistaken for UFOs. For example, they recommended training enlisted, command, and research personnel on how to properly recognize unusually illuminated objects (like balloons or aircraft reflections), as well as natural phenomena (such as meteors, fireballs, mirages, or noctilucent “night” clouds). By knowing how to correctly recognize objects that were commonly mistaken for UFOs, investigators could quickly eliminate false reports and focus on identifying those sightings which remained unexplained.
All of the photographs (and document photographs) in this article are from the Socorro, New Mexico case, with the exception of the alleged UFO photograph (taken in New Jersey, 1952). Courtesy of the National Archives.
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The Iranian UFO Chaser – 1976 Tehran UFO Incident
The Iranian UFO Chaser – 1976 Tehran UFO Incident
In 2013, I sent my first FOIA request for any information and documents pertaining to to the 1976 Tehran UFO incident. This event remains one of the most well-documented and fascinating UFO encounters ever reported by military pilots and witnesses. After receiving a response to my request, I wrote the following article to give everyone an idea of just exactly what I was able to pull from the documents I received, and testimony from several witnesses, including Major Parviz Jafari of the Iranian Air Force. I hope this will give you some insight into this deeply dramatic event.
FOIA Request Answered!
It was approximately 12:30 am on September 19th, 1976, when the Imperial Iranian Air Force received a phone call at their main command post in the city of Tehran. A civilian from the city district of Sheridan reported seeing a large, bright light emanating in the night sky. The call made several connections and landed in the ear of General Yousefi, Assistant Deputy Commander of operations. His first reaction was to phone the Mehrabad International Airport to see if they had anything flying in that vicinity. They reported that they had nothing in the skies whatsoever. Yousefi then assumed that perhaps the civilian was seeing a bright star or even the planet, Venus, which was quite visible at that time of year. But when Yousefi went out to investigate the object himself, he had no trouble seeing it, and concluded that it was much too large and close to be a star or planet. This is when he made the decision to send a fighter jet into the air to intercept and investigate further.
Approximately 175 miles west of Tehran, an F-4 Phantom Fighter jet was deployed from Shahrokhi Air Force Base. Piloted by Captain Mohammad Reza Azizkhani, the jet made it’s way towards the object. Azizkhani reported that the object was of such brilliance that it could be seen from almost 70 miles away. Whatever it was, it was very, very large. At about 25 nautical miles from the object, Azizkhani’s instruments began to malfunction. Communication capabilities were also dropped. At this point, the confused and scared pilot had no choice but to abort the interception, heading back to base. As he distanced himself from the object, his instruments began to function once again, but he didn’t want to take any chances. He headed back to base to explain what had happened to his superiors.
In response to Azizkhani’s experience, a second F-4 jet was scrambled to see if it was merely the original plane that somehow malfunctioned, rather than having anything to do with the unknown object. Piloted by Lieutenant Parviz Jafari, he headed toward the object and was able to acquire a radar lock on it. Jafari would later report that the object’s radar signature was massive, comparable to that of a Boeing 707 aircraft. As he closed in on the object, it began to move. Clearly, it was aware of the interception occurring. Jafari tried to estimate the size of the object, but just like Azizkhani’s observation earlier, it was just too bright to make a fair estimate. Jafari, however, was able to make out different colored lights alternating in blinking succession. Blues, red, and orange were rapidly flashing all at once. Jafari continued south, tailing the object. That is when things got interesting.
Lt. Parviz Jafar
Suddenly, a smaller object detached from the original, and began a quick advance towards Jafari’s F-4. Defense-mode kicked in as he believed this was an attack. Jafari attempted to launch an AIM-9 sidewinder missile at the object, but just like before, his instruments malfunctioned. All weapon and communication capabilities were lost. Jafari would later state that he even tried to eject from the aircraft at this point, but even that had malfunctioned. He quickly turned the F-4 and made a negative G dive. The smaller object dropped behind him and followed him for a moment, making it clear that it was now in control. Jafari nervously tried to outmaneuver the object to no avail. After a few nautical miles of cat and mouse, the smaller object would eventually break off and reunite with the larger object.
Jafari, having absolutely no idea what he was dealing with, retreated to assess the situation. The further he distanced himself from the object, his instruments and communications returned. He would relay that another object was soon detaching from the original. It made a rapid descent towards the ground. Jafari believed that at that speed, whatever it was would explode upon impact, but stated that whatever it was, it gently landed on a bed of rocks as Jafari severely decreased his altitude to personally witness this. Whatever it was, it landed near Rey Oil Refinery just on the outskirts of Iran, in the city of Mehrabad. Civilian airliners in the area also reported instrument failure in the same area where the object had landed.
Jafari, making one last attempt to investigate this extremely terrifying and extraordinary encounter, witnessed one more object, cylindrical in shape, buzzing in the area. Mehrabad International Airport was notified, and responded saying that they had no aircraft in flight at the time. However, flight tower personnel were able to corroborate Jafari’s sighting of this last object, stating that it even overflow the towers, all of their electrical equipment going down for a short period of time. Soon, this object made way back to the primary object, a large flash of light occurred, and it disappeared out of sight.
The following morning, the F-4 pilots went out, by helicopter, to gather any evidence of the smaller landed object. They determined that it has landed near a dry lake bed, but when they circled the area to survey, no visible evidence could be found. They did, however, receive a high amount of beeps from their helicopter meters, beeping most loudly as they approached a nearby house. They landed the helicopter and decided to question the residents to see if they had seen or experienced anything at the time of the incident. They didn’t have much to say, but did admit that a loud noise had occurred and bright light filled the area like a large burst of lightning. This would ultimately be the end of the investigation for Jafari and the other pilots, as they were specifically told to move on as if it had never occurred.
Jafari, 3rd in from the left in the middle row. 2007 National Press Club Event.
This didn’t stop them from going public, however, and in 2007, Jafari would stand before the National Press Club in Washington D.C., to recount his extremely detailed and unbelievable story before other very high ranked officials and military personnel. The Tehran incident garnered a lot of buzz both in the Middle East and clearly in the United States as well. Soon after the incident, a detailed four page report was recorded by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and was distributed to no less than the White House, NSA, and CIA. Whatever happened in the skies that day in Tehran was a dogfight of perhaps interplanetary proportions. It was one of few cases that stretched national borders, and remains one of the most well documented and perhaps, most dangerous threats to the security of our skies.
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03-02-2016
What Lies Beyond the Edge of the Observable Universe?
What Lies Beyond the Edge of the Observable Universe?
That’s a lot of universe that we are missing. So, what *exactly* are we missing? What lies beyond the edge of what we can’t see?
Roughly 13.75 billion years ago, our universe came into existence. Very shortly thereafter, primordial light started shooting across the cosmos and spreading throughout the early universe. At this juncture, the universe itself was also expanding. The inflation of the universe slowed after the first initial burst, but since then, the rate of expansion has been steadily increasing due to the influence of dark energy.
Essentially, since its inception, the cosmos has been growing at an ever increasing rate. Cosmologists estimate that the oldest photons that we can observe have traveled a distance of 45-47 billion light years since the big bang. That means that our observable universe is some 93 billion light-years wide (give or take a few light years). These 93 some-odd billion light-years contain all of the quarks, quasars, stars, planets, nebulae, black holes…and everything else that we could possibly observe.
However, the observable universe only contains the light that has had time to reach us. A lot more universe exists beyond what we are able to observe.
But wait, how can the universe be 93 billion light-years across if it is only 13.8 billion years old? Light hasn’t had enough time to travel that far…?
Well, according to special relativity, objects that are close together cannot move faster than the speed of light with respect to one another; however, there is no such law for objects that are extremely distant from one another when the space between them is, itself, expanding. In short, it is not that objects are traveling faster than the speed of light, but that the space between objects is expanding, causing them to fly away from each other at amazing speeds.
According to the theory of cosmic inflation, the entire universe’s size is at least 10^23 times larger than the size of the observable universe.
Unfortunately, since we can’t see it or measure it, we don’t know what lies beyond the bounds of the observable universe. However, we have several theories regarding what exists in the great unknown…
Despite its strangeness, this first idea is one of the easiest to digest. Astronomers think space outside of the observable universe might be an infinite expanse of what we see in the cosmos around us, distributed pretty much the same as it is in the observable universe. This seems logical. After all, it doesn’t make sense that one section of the universe would be different than what we see around us. And honestly, who can envision a universe that has an end….a huge brick wall lurking at its edge?
So, in some ways, infinity makes sense. But “infinity” means that, beyond the observable universe, you won’t just find more planets and stars and other forms of material…you will eventually find every possible thing. Every. Possible. Thing.
That means that, if this holds true and we follow it to its logical conclusion, somewhere out there, there is another person who is identical to you in every possible way. And there is also a you who is only *slightly* different from you in every possible way. They may be reading this article right now; the only difference is that they just picked their nose while you didn’t (or did you?). This notion seems inconceivable. But then, infinity is rather inconceivable.
Another theory deals with something called “dark flow.” In 2008, astronomers discovered something very strange and unexpected – galactic clusters were all streaming in the same direction at immense speed, over two million miles per hour. One possible cause: massive structures outside the observable universe exerting gravitational influence. As for the structures themselves, they could be literally anything: amazingly huge accumulations of matter and energy (on scales we can hardly imagine), or even bizarre warps in space-time that are funneling gravitational forces from other universes. We simply don’t know what these massive objects could be.
Recent analyses have claimed to debunk the dark flow model, but this debunking is still being disputed.
And some believe that the whole of our universe could exist in a small “bubble” in the midst of a vast array of other bubbles. Theorists call this a “multiverse.” Interestingly, the idea runs that these universes can come into contact with one another—gravity can flow between these parallel universes, and when they connect, a Big Bang like the one that created our universe may occur.
Artist’s rendition of a multiverse. Image source (unknown)
These idea are just a few of the more popular hypotheses. There are a lot more out there but, unfortunately, I don’t have the space necessary to detail all of them. Neither do I have the space to detail the ones I mentioned as in depth as I would like. So be sure to check the links for more information.
P.S.– Reread the last paragraph. Did you notice my pun? I hope so.
Five weird theories of what lies outside the universe
Five weird theories of what lies outside the universe
Physicists have long studied the nature of the universe. But some go a step further into the unknown (and probably unknowable), contemplating what lies outside the boundaries of our universe.
Is it possible that something else exists beyond existence? Yes. Here are five theories about what that “something” might be.
The “outside the universe” question gets tricky right off the bat, because first you have to define the universe. One common answer is called theobservable universe, and it’s defined by the speed of light. Since we can only see things when the light they emit or reflect reaches us, we can never see farther than the farthest distance light can travel in the time the universe has existed. That means the observable universe keeps getting bigger, but it is finite – the amount is sometimes referred to as the Hubble Volume, after the telescope that has given us our most distant views of the universe. We’ll never be able to see beyond that boundary, so for all intents and purposes, it’s the only universe we’ll ever interact with.
Beyond the Hubble Volume.
We know with some certainty that there’s “more universe” out there beyond that boundary, though. Astronomers think space might be infinite, with “stuff” (energy, galaxies, etc.) distributed pretty much the same as it is in the observable universe. If it is, that has some seriously weird implications for what lies out there. Beyond the Hubble Volume you won’t just find more, different planets. You will eventually find every possible thing. Read that again and let it sink in.Everything. If you go far enough, you’ll find another solar system with an Earth identical in every way except that you had cereal for breakfast this morning instead of eggs. And another where you skipped breakfast. And one where you got up early and robbed a bank. In fact, cosmologists think that if you go far enough, you will find another Hubble Volume that is perfectly identical to ours. There’s another version of you out there mirroring your every action 10 to the 10^188 meters away. That may seem unlikely, but then, infinity is awfully infinite.
Dark Flow.
In 2008, astronomers discovered something very strange and unexpected – galactic clusters were all streaming in the same direction at immense speed, over two million miles per hour. New observations in 2010 confirmed this phenomenon, known as Dark Flow. The movement defies all predictions about the distribution of mass throughout the universe after the Big Bang. One possible cause: massive structures outside the Hubble Volume exerting gravitational influence. This would mean that the structure of the infinite universe beyond our view is not uniform. As for the structures themselves, they could be literally anything, from aggregations of matter and energy on scales we can barely imagine to bizarre warps funneling gravitational forces from other universes.
Infinite Bubbles.
Talking about things outside the Hubble Volume might be a bit of a cheat, since it’s still really the same universe, just a part of it we can’t see. It would have all the same physical laws and constants. In another version of the story, the post-Big Bang expansion of the universe caused “bubbles” to form in the structure of space. Each bubble is an area that stopped stretching along with the rest of space and formed its own universe, with its own laws. In this scenario, space is infinite, and each bubble is also infinite (because you can store an infinite number of infinities inside a single infinity). Even if you could somehow breach the boundary of our bubble, the space in between the bubbles is still expanding, so you’d never get to the next bubble no matter how fast you went.
Black Hole Spawning.
A theory proposed by physicist Lee Smolin, known as the fecund universes theory, suggests that every black hole in our universe causes the formation of a new universe. Each universe will have slightly different physical laws than the forerunner universe. In this way, Smolin suggests a sort of natural selection for universes, as laws that lead to the frequent formation of black holes lead to the creation of more universes, while non-black hole forming universes “die out.” This theory has since been discounted (by Smolin himself and others).
Many Parallel Universes.
There are tons of theories about parallel universes, but the most accepted one these days involves an evolution of the ideas of string theory to involve membranes that vibrate in other dimensions. It’s beyond the scope of this article to get too detailed about string or membrane theory, but the upshot of the whole thing is that these rippling membranes in the 11th dimension are whole other universes, and when the ripples slam into each other they form a new universe. The effects of the rippling motion help explain the observed distribution of matter in our universe. One of the weirdest elements of the theory is the idea that all the gravity we experience in our universe is actually leaking into it from another universe in another dimension (which explains why gravity here seems so weak compared to the other fundamental forces).
THE BOOK OF GIANTS FOUND AMID THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NEPHILIM
THE BOOK OF GIANTS FOUND AMID THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS AND THE DESTRUCTION OF THE NEPHILIM
More than 60 years ago, excavations at the Qumran Caves revealed almost one thousand ancient scrolls that offered important glimpses into humanity’s past.
Archaeologists were stumped to find one unusual text among these, a scroll that offers clues regarding the demise of the Nephilim. It is called The Book of Giants. The Bible makes several references to the Nephilim and most of them can be found in the book of Genesis.
The bulk of information pertaining to these giants of old come from the apocryphal Book of Enoch. This ancient Jewish religious work is attributed to Noah’s great-grandfather, although some scholars date parts of it to around 300 BC. Enoch is a puzzling character, to say the least.
The book of Genesis tells us he lived on Earth for 365 years, before being taken by God; “he walked with God: and he was no more; for God took him.” During his time down here, our planet was also inhabited by ‘angels’ who interacted freely with humans, eventually interbreeding with the “daughters of man” and giving birth to a race of unnaturally strong and giant hybrids called the Nephilim.
The origin of the word “Nephilim”isn’t fully understood but scholars have proposed several etymologies: “the fallen”, “apostates”, or “those that cause others to fall down.” Regardless of their name, the Nephilim have always been a synonym for giants.
The Book of Giants found in the Qumran Caves offer a perspective that is different from that of the Book of Enoch.
Although incomplete, the scroll fragments paint a grim picture: the Nephilim become aware that, as a result of their violent and deviant ways, they face imminent destruction—and that scares them enough to ask Enoch to speak on their behalf in front of God.
The text begins by detailing how the Nephilim plagued the Earth and all that lived on it. But once they all start receiving prophetic dreams of doom, fear seeps into their hearts.
The first one to have these dreams was Mahway, the titan son of the angel Barakel. In his dream, he saw a tablet being submerged in water. When the tabled emerges, all but three names have been washed away. This symbolizes the Flood and subsequent destruction of all but Noah’s sons.
At the time, this fact had not become obvious to the Nephilim so they debated the meaning of Mahway’s dream, but were unsuccessful in interpreting the signs.
Soon after, two more giants, Ohya and Hahya, the sons of the fallen angel Shemyaza, begin having similar dreams; they dreamed of a tree being uprooted except for three of its roots.
Following this, the rest of the group of giants began having apocalyptic dreams: Thereupon two of them had dreams and the sleep of their eye fled from them, and they arose and came to […and told] their dreams, and said in the assembly of [their comrades] the monsters […In] my dream I was watching this very night [and there was a garden…] gardeners and they were watering […two hundred trees and] large shoots came out of their root […] all the water, and the fire burned all [the garden…] They found the giants to tell them the dream…” The giants now realize the prophetic nature of their dreams and seek help from Enoch. Unfortunately, Enoch had already disappeared from the face of the Earth so the Nephilim elected one of their members to undertake a cosmic journey in order to find him. [Mahway] mounted up in the air like strong winds, and flew with his hands like eagles […he left behind] the inhabited world and passed over Desolation, the great desert […]and Enoch saw him and hailed him, and Mahway said to him […] hither and thither a second time to Mahway […]The giants await your words, and all the monsters of the earth. If […]has been carried […] from the days of […]their […] and they would be added […] we would know from you their meaning […] two hundred trees that from heaven came down…”
Unfortunately, parts of the scrolls were damaged beyond repair but the general direction of the text is obvious.
One of the Nephilim traveled outside of Earth in search of Enoch and his vision interpreting powers. The text becomes very interesting if we substitute a few terms and regard it not as an allegorical account, but the description of a real event whose meaning became muddled over time.
If we consider flying “with his hands like eagles” a metaphor, can we hypothesize that Mahway took off from Earth in a space ship?
In this case, does “Desolation, the great desert” refer to interstellar space?
It depends on how far we’re willing to interpret a fragmentary, 2,000 year-old scroll but ancient alien theorists do more than just take it at face value.
Enoch sends Mahway back where he came from, promising him he will speak to God on their behalf.
Unfortunately for the Nephilim, the tablets Enoch sent them as a response did not bring good news: The scribe Enoch […] a copy of the second tablet that [Enoch] sent in the very hand of Enoch the noted scribe […In the name of God the great] and holy one, to Shemyaza and all [his companions…] Let it be known to you that not […] and the things you have done, and that your wives […] they and their sons and the wives of [their sons] by your licentiousness on the earth, and there has been upon you […and the land is crying out] and complaining about you and the deeds of your children […] the harm that you have done to it. […] Until Raphael arrives, behold, destruction [is coming, a great flood, and it will destroy all living things] and whatever is in the deserts and the seas. And the meaning of the matter […] upon you for evil. But now, loosen the bonds bi[nding you to evil…] and pray.”
Whether they prayed or not, the text cannot say. But they don’t appear to be here anymore, once again proving the effectiveness of a global flood.
Below is a trailer of "Attach on Titan". The return of the Nephelims to Earth. WATCH NEXT:
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Famous UFO cases: Nazi UFOs
Famous UFO cases: Nazi UFOs
Nazi UFO (German: Rundflugzeug, Feuerball, Diskus, Haunebu, Hauneburg-Geräte, VRIL, Kugelblitz, Andromeda-Geräte, Flugkreisel, Kugelwaffen or ironically Reichsflugscheiben) refers to claims of advanced aircraft or spacecraft Nazi Germany attempted to develop prior to and during World War II. Some believe that ex-Nazi or possibly American scientists continue to develop new flying saucers in secret underground bunkers in the New Swabia region of Antarctica, South America or the United States. The probably fictional craft appear in science fiction, conspiracy theory, and underground comic books, although there are more than a few documentaries on the subject available through video sharing services.
While there is no credible evidence to support the theory of Nazi spacecraft, the stories are often associated with esoteric Nazism; an ideology that supposes the unlikely possibility of Nazi restoration by supernatural or paranormal means. Consequently all but the most plausible accounts of actual spacecraft are generally held to be religious, political and scientific heresy.
These accounts were likely inspired by historical German development of specialized engines such as Viktor Schauberger’s “Repulsine” around the time of WWII. (right photo: Viktor Schauberger)
Context
Nazi UFO tales and myths very often conform largely to documented history on the following points:
* Nazi Germany claimed the territory of New Swabia in Antarctica, sent an expedition there in 1938, and planned others.
* Nazi Germany conducted research into advanced propulsion technology, including rocketry, Viktor Schauberger’s engine research[citation needed], flying wing craft and the Arthur Sack A.S.6 experimental “flying disc”.
* Some UFO sightings during World War II, particularly those known as foo fighters, were discovered to be prototype enemy aircraft designed to harass Allied aircraft through electromagnetic disruption; a technology similar to today’s electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons.
Early claims
The earliest non-fiction assertion of Nazi flying saucers appears to have been an article which appeared in the Italian newspaper Il Giornale d’Italia in early 1950. Written by Professor Giuseppe Belluzzo, an Italian scientist and a former Italian Minister of National Economy under the Mussolini regime, it claimed that “types of flying discs were designed and studied in Germany and Italy as early as 1942”. Belluzzo also expressed the opinion that “some great power is launching discs to study them”.
The same month, German engineer Rudolf Schriever gave an interview to German news magazine Der Spiegel in which he claimed that he had designed a craft powered by a circular plane of rotating turbine blades 49 ft (15 m) in diameter (left picture – click to enlarge). He said that the project had been developed by him and his team at BMW’s Prague works until April 1945, when he fled Czechoslovakia. His designs for the disk and a model were stolen from his workshop in Bremerhaven-Lehe in 1948 and he was convinced that Czech agents had built his craft for “a foreign power”. In a separate interview with Der Spiegel in October 1952 he said that the plans were stolen from a farm he was hiding in near Regen on 14 May 1945. There are other discrepancies between the two interviews that add to the confusion.
In 1953, when Avro Canada announced that it was developing the VZ-9-AV Avrocar, a circular jet aircraft with an estimated speed of 1,500 mph (2,400 km/h), German engineer Georg Klein claimed that such designs had been developed during the Third Reich. Klein identified two types of supposed German flying disks:
* A non-rotating disk developed at Breslau by V-2 rocket engineer Richard Miethe, which was captured by the Soviets, while Miethe fled to the US via France, and ended up working for Avro.
* A disk developed by Rudolf Schriever and Klaus Habermohl at Prague, which consisted of a ring of moving turbine blades around a fixed cockpit. Klein claimed that he had witnessed this craft’s first manned flight on 14 February 1945, when it managed to climb to 12,400 m (41,000 ft) in 3 minutes and attained a speed of 2,200 km/h (1,400 mph) in level flight.
Aeronautical engineer Roy Fedden remarked that the only craft that could approach the capabilities attributed to flying saucers were those being designed by the Germans towards the end of the war. Fedden (who was also chief of the technical mission to Germany for the Ministry of Aircraft Production) stated in 1945:
“I have seen enough of their designs and production plans to realize that if they (the Germans) had managed to prolong the war some months longer, we would have been confronted with a set of entirely new and deadly developments in air warfare.”
Fedden also added that the Germans were working on a number of very unusual aeronautical projects, though he did not elaborate upon his statement.
In 1959, Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, editor of the U.S.A.F.’s Project Blue Book wrote:
“When WWII ended, the Germans had several radical types of aircraft and guided missiles under development. The majority were in the most preliminary stages, but they were the only known craft that could even approach the performance of objects reported to UFO observers.”
Later claims
Morning of the Magicians
Main article: Le Matin des Magiciens
Le Matin des Magiciens, a 1967 book by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier, made many spectacular claims about the Vril Society of Berlin.(left: Vril Society logo). Several years later writers, including Jan van Helsing, Norbert-Jürgen Ratthofer, and Vladimir Terziski, have built on their work, connecting the Vril Society with UFOs. Among their claims, they imply that the society may have made contact with an alien race and dedicated itself to creating spacecraft to reach the aliens. In partnership with the Thule Society and the Nazi Party, the Vril Society developed a series of flying disc prototypes. With the Nazi defeat, the society allegedly retreated to a base in Antarctica and vanished.
Terziski, a Bulgarian engineer who bills himself as president of the American Academy of Dissident Sciences, claims that the Germans collaborated in their advanced craft research with Axis powers Italy and Japan, and continued their space effort after the war from a base in New Swabia. He alleges that Germans may have landed on the Moon as early as 1942 and established an underground base there. Terziski relates that when Russians and Americans secretly landed on the moon in the 1950s they stayed at this still-operating base. According to Terziski, “there is atmosphere, water and vegetation on the Moon,” which NASA conceals to exclude the third world from moon exploration. Terziski has been accused of fabricating his video and photographic evidence.
Ernst Zündel’s marketing ploy
Main article: Zündel: Nazi UFOs-Antarctica
When German Holocaust denier Ernst Zündel started Samisdat Publishers in the 1970s, he initially catered to the UFOlogy community, which was then at its peak of public acceptance. His books claimed that flying saucers were Nazi secret weapons launched from an underground base in Antarctica, from which the Nazis hoped to conquer the world and possibly the planets. Zündel also sold (for $9999) seats on an exploration team to locate the polar entrance to the hollow earth. Some who interviewed Zündel claim that he privately admitted it was a deliberate hoax to build publicity for Samisdat, although he still defended it as late as 2002.
Miguel Serrano’s book
In 1978 Miguel Serrano, a Chilean diplomat and Nazi sympathizer, published The Golden Band, in which he claimed that Adolf Hitler was an avatar of Vishnu and was at that time communing with Hyperborean gods in an underground Antarctic base in New Swabia. Serrano predicted that Hitler would lead a fleet of UFOs from the base to establish the Fourth Reich. In popular culture, this alleged UFO fleet is referred to as the Nazi flying saucers from Antarctica.
Nazi Saucers & the UFO Conspiracy
Flying saucers and the Third reich
Hitler and the Third Reich led Europe into a decade of terror in the first half of the 20th century that culminated in World War II. Technology played a greater part in that war than in past conflicts and the Germans developed an amazing array of secret weapons in a short time. Were flying discs part of the Luftwaffe arsenal? And if so, was this secret looted and used by the Allied victors after the war? More than any war before it, World War II was the war of secret weapons. A few of these advances, like the American atomic bomb and the British ability to crack the German communication ciphers may have actually tipped the outcome of the conflict. The Axis powers also had their secrets and many of the most clandestine German war-time technical advances are now well known.
German Secret Weapons
Hitler’s forces flew the first military jet, the German Heinkel 178, in 1939. In 1943 the Germans also deployed the only jet fighter to go into regular service during the war: The Messerschmitt 262. This ME-262 could easily overtake the fastest Allied aircraft and only Hitler’s misguided orders that the planes be outfitted as bombers instead of defensive fighters saved Allied aircraft from devastating casualties.
Cruise missiles, a staple of current advanced arsenals, were also first used by the Third Reich during the war. V-1 flying bombs were launched from German-held territories across the channel into England. The “buzz bombs,” as they were sometimes called because of the sound of their impulse jet engines, could outrun most Allied aircraft, making the V-1’s almost impossible to stop. The V-1’s weakness was its guidance system (a problem solved in modern cruise missiles by the use of computer-controlled radar). Because it couldn’t hit a pinpoint target, the V-1 could only be used to cause random terror and not zero in on truly important military assets.
The German V-2 rocket was the predecessor of the intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that filled the nuclear arsenals of the Soviet Union and the United States during the Cold War. It traveled up to 225 miles at five times the speed of sound and a single hit could demolish a city block. During the war, the V-2 killed 2724 civilians and injured another 6467. Like the V-1, though, it lacked a guidance system that would have allowed it to effectively strike at important targets.
Hitler’s engineers even developed a rocket-powered fighter, the ME 163. Though it never was put into regular service, it was the first aircraft to fly faster than 600 miles an hour.
After the war, rumors surfaced that the Nazis had one more secret weapon that was still hidden: flying disc-shaped aircraft. According to these stories, some of the victorious Allied nations had plundered the German laboratories where these aircraft were being developed and secret testing of these devices explained many of the reports of flying saucers that appeared in the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950’s.
German Flying Discs
Many of the reports of Nazi flying saucers can be traced back to a book entitled German Secret Weapons of World War II written by Rudolf Lusar in the late 1950’s. Lusar had been a major in a German army technical unit during the war. His book covered many of the acknowledged advances like the V1 and V2, but also included a chapter on “Wonder Weapons.”
According to Lusar, a German aircraft designer named Rudolf Schriever, along with other engineers Habermohl, Mierth and Bellanzo (who was Italian), were working on several disc-shaped aircraft toward the end of the war. At a facility near Breslau, Poland, a group headed by Miethe constructed a prototype of a circular air vehicle 137 feet in diameter with an elongated hump on top for the cockpit. The aircraft was to be powered with “adjustable jet engines.” In Lusar’s account, the device was destroyed when the plant where it was being constructed was blown up by retreating German troops before it could be overrun by the Soviets in 1945.
At a second location just outside Prague, Czechoslovakia, according to Lusar, another group headed by Schriever and Habermohl were working on an additional disc aircraft. Diagrams included in the book show a central egg-shaped control pod surrounded by a nearly flat disc. The flat disc appears to be composed of fan blades that rotate to create lift. Ports on the lower part of the pod appear to be connected to jet engines that provide the forward propulsion.
Lusar states that the Schriever machine was tested in 1945 and supposedly reached an altitude of 12 kilometers (39,000 feet) in a little over three minutes. He continues by saying it had a top speed of 2000 kilometer an hour (1,200mph) – substantially faster than the speed of sound.
These claims seem somewhat incredible. According to conventional history, the first aircraft to break the sound barrier the X-1, an American rocket-powered plane in 1947. It seems unlikely that Schriever’s group would have been able to make such a drastic leap in performance so early and so quickly. In addition, comments from Schriever himself, who relocated to the United States after the war, indicate that any prototypes of the craft were destroyed before flight test as the Germans abandoned their facilities in the face of advancing Allied troops.
Foo Fighters
According to Lusar, the Germans’ had also developed small automated, unconventional aircraft. One version was called the Feuerball while another, capable of vertical takeoff, was referred to as the Kugelblitz. According to stories, these craft were only armed with devices designed to guide them to allied aircraft and interfere with their electronics and engines.
The Feuerball and Kugelblitz stories seem to parallel tales of “foo-fighters” told by Allied pilots during the war. Despite this, it seems unlikely that Feuerballs and Kugelblitzs were ever actually built or flown. The “foo-fighters” observed were probably some purely natural phenomena (right photo). No Allied plane ever reported being attacked or disabled by a foo-fighter and it is likely that if the Germans had invented a device capable of tracking planes as well as the foo-fighters apparently did, they would have soon armed it with more effective weapons.
The “Legend”
Nick Cook, a respected aviation journalist for Jane’s Defense Weekly Nick looked into the claims for German flying discs in his 2001 book The Hunt for Zero Point. Cook became interested in unconventional aircraft after seeing some articles written in the 1950’s that quoted respected experts of the era, like Lawrence D. Bell (whose company designed the supersonic X-1) predicting that the next major breakthrough in aviation could be anti-gravity devices. His research led him to Lusar’s book and the stories of German flying saucers.
Cook was perhaps one of the few aviation writers that was willing to take the “Legend” of German flying saucers seriously. While researching his book he visited many of the locations mentioned in German Secret Weapons of World War II. He also connected the stories of the German saucer designers to the work of a man named Victor Schauberger.
Victor Schauberger
Schauberger was born in Austria in 1885 and was considered by many to be a crackpot. Schauberger himself is quoted as saying, “They call me deranged. The hope is they are right…” While his professional training was as a “forester,” Cook, after visiting the Schauberger’s grandson and examining his papers and the machinery he had constructed, concluded that Schauberger was actually more of an engineer. Schauberger believed that machines could be designed better so that they would be “going with the flow of nature” rather than against it.
One of Schauberger’s projects was to produce a flying machine, saucer shaped, that used a “vortex propulsion” system. His theory was that “if water or air is rotated into a twisting form of oscillation, known as a ‘colloidal,’ a build-up of energy results, which, with immense power, can cause levitation.”
According to some accounts, Schauberger built several models, one of which was almost five feet in diameter and was powered by a 1/20 hp electric engine. Some reports indicated that one of the models actually flew. In an echo of the story of the Schriever disc, Schauberger wrote to a friend that a full-sized prototype of one of his designs was constructed using prison labor at the Mauhausen concentration camp. This craft flew on February 19th of 1945 near Prague and obtained an altitude of 45,000 feet in only 3 minutes. The letter goes on to say the prototype was destroyed by the Nazis before it could be captured by the Allies.
After the war Schauberger moved to the United States, where some contend he worked on secret projects for the U.S. government. He died in 1958, apparently claiming his ideas had been stolen.
Cook concluded that if the stories about Schauberger’s work were true, his devices must have created an anti-gravity effect. Cook even visited a location in the remote Sudeten Mountains in Poland where antigravity experiments were supposed to have taken place using a bell-shaped device that glowed a pale blue when operating.
Advantages of Disc Aircraft
The “Legend” of German flying saucers is fascinating, but is any of it true? It certainly seems likely that there was some experimentation with the concept within the Reich, as there was in the United States. Disc-shaped aircraft have several advantages, including low stall speed and low drag, even at high speeds. The rounded shape can also lower the craft’s radar profile making it “stealthy.”
The low stall/drag of the shape would have been particularly interesting to the Germans at the end of the war. Months of bombing had reduced German runways to rubble. A saucer-shaped craft might have been able to lift off the ground with a short runway or even do a vertical-takeoff-and -landing with no runway at all.
In his book Cook concludes that Nazis flying saucer technology was appropriated by the United States and the Soviet Union at the end of the war. This suggestion is not wholly without merit, since it is now clear that US and USSR rocketry development in the 50’s and 60’s owed a lot to German scientists. These engineers, quietly brought into the United States via operation “Paperclip,” assisted the United States in its space program and its Cold War struggle against the Soviet Union. Similarly, according to author Jim Wilson in an article in Popular Mechanics in July 1997, there are records that suggest at least two people, brothers named Walter and Reimar Horten, were sought by the United States after the war because of their participation in German military saucer programs.
UFOs and Antigravity Myths
It is clear that at least some of the Nazi saucer lore developed after the war, rather than during it. In his book, UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapons? author Ernst Zundel claims that Hitler escaped at the end of the war to establish a flying saucer base in Antarctica. Zundel’s tale is connected with the discredited idea that the earth is hollow and the interior can be accessed from the polar regions. As colorful as such stories are, they are so far afield from reality that they can’t be taken seriously.
In contrast, Cook’s assertion in The Hunt for Zero Point that antigravity technology was spirited out of Germany at the end of the war doesn’t seem all that far-fetched. It is difficult to believe, however, that such advanced knowledge, if it really worked, would not have shown up in the intervening 60 years in U.S. military equipment or through the NASA space program. The ability to shield an object from gravity, if it could be done, would greatly decrease the cost and difficulty of putting objects into space.
It seems like every day, a video or image emerges that appears to show a UFO near the International Space Station. And it generally -- OK, always -- turns out not to be a UFO. It's normally space debris, light reflections from the station windows, an antenna attached to the station, etc.
But wouldn't it be interesting if someone actually launched a satellite into Earth orbit (illustrated above), with the specific mission of trying to detect and prove unknown objects are actually out there?
Get ready for CubeSat for Disclosure, a team of researchers brought together by software engineer Dave Cote, who have a common purpose in launching their own satellite: To find and verify a real extraterrestrial craft.
"We have former astronauts, military personnel, police officers and the former defense minister of Canada come forward stating that extraterrestrial UFOs are real, and that we are being visited," Cote said in a press release. "How can this be ignored and brushed off as nonsense?"
On the following CubeSat for Disclosure video, Cote says his project "aims to use a low-orbit satellite controlled by us, the individuals, to study potential objects in our Earth's atmosphere."
"Maybe we'll get data readings and pictures of solar flared-caused auroras; maybe we'll capture images of some very interesting meteors; and maybe, we'll actually capture a verifiable craft. All we can do is try, and by doing this our way, we can open-source the data to you, the individuals," said Cote.
Current technology allows private citizens to build small, relatively affordable satellites, launch them into Earth orbit and perform various experiments. CubeSats are about the size of a shoebox, into which a variety of scientific equipment can be placed.
These nano-satellites can reach a height of around 195 miles above Earth for around $20,000, and have orbital lifespans of about three months before they burn up on re-entry.
For its UFO hunt, the CubeSat for Disclosure team will load the little satellite with infrared, electromagnetic and radiation sensors, as well as two cameras set to photograph a full 360 degrees.
"We control what the images are. We will have the images," said project coordinator Dave Shock. "If you're watching a live feed from the International Space Station, it can suddenly cut out and they'll say, 'Oh, we lost the signal.' But we will have total control of everything. Nobody will alter or corrupt our data so that the government can't cover up what we may find. This is all ours," Shock told The Huffington Post.
CubeSat for Disclosure doesn't have a launch date yet, and they're raising money to pack as much instrumentation into the satellite as possible.
"We're using the air and space port, Interorbital Systems, out of the Mojave Desert," Shock said. "We got the satellite through them and they'll do the launch. It's a whole package: You buy the satellite, you also get the launch. The more money we get, the more scientific equipment we can pack on board."
MOON CONSPIRACY MOVIE WAS MADE BY DUPING NASA INTO THINKING IT WAS A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE APOLLO PROGRAM
MOON CONSPIRACY MOVIE WAS MADE BY DUPING NASA INTO THINKING IT WAS A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT THE APOLLO PROGRAM
Quick, what’s your favorite conspiracy theory? Unless you’re partial to Reptoid Aliens Living Under Denver International Airport, it’s probably Faked Moon Landing. And why shouldn’t it be? It’s got everything necessary to be a late-night talk radio/dorm room smoke session favorite: A super-secret government organization (probably the CIA) enlists a filmmaker (possibly Stanley Kubrick) to fake footage of US astronauts on the moon. Matt Johnson milks this preposterous idea for drama and laughs in Operation Avalanche, which opened at Sundance last week.
The story focuses on a group of ambitious young CIA agents who infiltrate NASA under the guise of a documentary crew in order to uncover a Russian mole. Upon learning that NASA is about to blow the deadline for a putting a man on the moon, they get a new mission: Fabricate the Apollo 11 lunar landing. Yes, Stanley Kubrick gets involved. And yes, they find themselves in over their heads
But here’s the best part: That storyline isn’t just the plot—it’s how Johnson actually made the movie.
“We called NASA and said, ‘Hey we’re making documentary about the Apollo program, can we come shoot it there?’ And they said, yes,” Johnson, who wrote, directed, and starred in the film, said during a Q&A after a screening last week. “So all those scenes where you see me saying, ‘Oh we’re just making a documentary’ or introducing myself as a documentary filmmaker? That’s real.”
As soon as we knew the door had a crack in it we were like, 'Oh wicked! We're going to make the most illegal movie ever.' Director Matt Johnson
For many scenes, the crew got just one take—you can’t really ask people to do or say things twice—and had to work without a script for obvious reasons. They also had to figure out how to legally clear the footage shot under false pretenses and the images of Kubrick that appear in the film. In the end, they used a loophole: The copyright-skirting legal concept known as fair use.
“There is a really great fair use [argument] if you are trying to make a story about something specific and you need the locations that you’re shooting in for that story,” Johnson says. “Because fair use, especially in the United States, and property law is changing so quickly, you’re able to make films like this. That’s something we started to discover on our first film The Dirties, but as soon as we knew the door had a crack in it we were like, ‘Oh wicked! We’re going to make the most illegal movie ever.'”
Thankfully, Operation Avalanche has more going for it than its questionable legality. (It’s not that questionable; Johnson actually shouted out the film’s lawyer following its Sundance screening.) Set against the backdrop of the Cold War in 1967, it’s by turns a buddy comedy, a thriller, a conspiracy theory film, and—thanks to a gnarly car chase—an action movie. It starts out like a Christopher Guest film, winds its way through Oliver Stone’s JFK and/or Wag the Dog, and eventually becomes Enemy of the State.
Soon you’ll get to know exactly what we mean; Operation Avalanche should hit theaters later this year. Lionsgate snapped up the film months ago, and already has a distribution plan. In the meantime, fire up Room 237 and start polishing your tin-foil hat
The Truth Is Out There: CIA Publishes UFO Investigation Tips
The Truth Is Out There: CIA Publishes UFO Investigation Tips
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
High-flying spy planes such as the U-2, seen here, likely spurred many reported UFO sightings over the years, CIA officials have said.
Credit: National Security Archive
In 1947, New Mexico police officer Lonnie Zamora was chasing a speeding car when he heard a loud noise. He saw a flame shoot up in a nearby patch of desert and went over to investigate, thinking a dynamite shack in the area might have exploded.
What Zamora reported is still under intense dispute decades later. He says he saw a sedan-size, shiny object on a hilltop. Once he got closer on foot, the object began making loud noises. Zamora backed away but saw the UFO rise into the sky and speed away until it disappeared.
The UFO sighting — which is still unexplained despite investigators' belief that Zamora told the truth — was investigated by the United States Air Force as a part of Project BLUE BOOK, which recorded 12,618 sightings of strange objects between 1947 and 1969. The Central Intelligence Agency also assisted in analyzing the sightings. [Where to Spot UFOs (Infographic)]
Below are the tips that the CIA learned from "flying saucer intelligence," as the agency highlighted in a recent blog post. Helpfully, the CIA also published a list of UFO cases that Fox Mulder and Dana Scully — the heroes of the recently revived "X-Files" TV series — would enjoy.
Create a group to find and evaluate the sightings. After the 1947 incident, Project SAUCER was established to obtain all possible information about these sightings. (The premise was that the sightings were not necessarily UFOs, but could be foreign craft.) The group was renamed Project SIGN and then Project BLUE BOOK.
Figure out your investigation's goals. Project BLUE BOOK aimed to find out if UFOs were a threat to U.S. security, determine if UFOs have technology that could be used by the U.S., and explain which stimuli cause a person to report a UFO.
Consult with experts. Project BLUE BOOK's outside experts included astrophysicists, federal aviation officials, pilots, academics, and people at the U.S. Weather Bureau, local weather stations, the National Center for Atmospheric Research and NASA, among other organizations.
Organize cases in a reporting system. BLUE BOOK's categories included astronomical, aircraft, balloons, satellites, other (such as reflections or mirages), insufficient data and unidentified.
Eliminate false positives. Examples included misidentified aircraft (particularly the U-2, A-12 and SR-71 spy planes), hoaxes and mass hysteria.
Develop methodology to identify common aircraft (or other phenomena) the public mistook as UFOs.
Examine witness documentation.
Conduct controlled experiments, such as photographing certain types of balloons from different distances under similar weather conditions.
Gather and test physical and forensic evidence. The Zamora investigation included using Geiger counters to look for radiation, and sending soil samples off for expert analysis.
Discourage false reporting. In the 1950s, during the Cold War, there were concerns the Soviet Union could deploy fake "UFOs" to incite panic in the U.S. So officials countered that by teaching the public how to look for similar phenomena, such as astronomical objects (meteors) or illuminated objects (balloons).
Flying saucers: Proof of alien life or a storm in a teacup?
Flying saucers: Proof of alien life or a storm in a teacup?
Troy LennonHistory editorThe Daily Telegraph
US Coast Guard photograph of “flying saucers” over Salem in 1952.
The return of the much-loved sci-fi series The X-Files has reignited our obsession with whether “the truth is really out there”. And the CIA recently published its UFO files online for the first time, encouraging people to “take a peek into our X-Files”.
Since the end of the Cold War, people have trained their eyes skyward looking for anything unfamiliar or suspicious. Instead of objects launched by the enemy, many people claimed to have seen unexplainably weird things that they reported to the authorities.
US government agencies have been inundated with reports that had to be investigated, with most proving to be easily explained by natural or man-made phenomena. A few were truly inexplicable, which gave rise to something of an unidentified flying objects mania in the 1950s and ’60s.
The files show that most had earthly explanations, but conspiracy theorists will continue to speculate.
Aboriginal Wandjina rock-style paintings from Kimberley in Western Australia.
Mysterious objects were seen in the sky thousands of years before the CIA existed. Prehistoric cave paintings and carvings show flying objects and even men wearing what appear to be space suits, such as the Aboriginal Wandjina figures. In ancient times any inexplicable object in the air was generally interpreted as supernatural, a visitation of the gods.
Most were probably terrestrial phenomena like optical illusions, meteorites or lightning. But others were more puzzling, like the ancient Roman account of glowing ships in the sky from 218BC.
Occasional sightings of mysterious lights or objects in the sky seemed to increase in World War II, when people were on the alert for enemy planes.
Some sightings turned out to be rockets and other experimental weapons or aircraft being tested. One peculiar series of sightings involved “flying balls” menacing aircraft. American pilots dubbed them “foo fighters”.
Many scientists now believe that foo fighters were either surface-to-air weapons fired at the aircraft or just strange forms of electrical discharge, like St Elmo’s fire.
But it planted ideas of extraterrestrial craft in the minds of the public.
As the world moved into the Cold War people never got out of the habit of nervously watching the heavens, and saw more unusual aircraft and objects, again many of them experimental military weapons and aircraft.
In June 1947 American aviator and businessman Kenneth Arnold reported seeing disc-shaped objects while flying near Mt Rainier in Washington.
He later said that they moved “like saucers skipping on water”. They were quickly dubbed “flying saucers”, a name that stuck.
In July that same year a paper reported that the military had found a “flying disc” near Roswell in New Mexico in the US. The military later retracted that press release and said that the object found was a weather balloon. However people later interpreted the retraction as a cover-up.
But the words “flying disc” and “flying saucer” firmly wedged in the public consciousness. Suddenly the number of sightings boomed. People even began reporting having contact with or being abducted by aliens.
In 1948 the US Air Force began Project Sign to investigate unidentified aircraft and objects. This would later become Project Blue Book. Captain Edward J. Ruppelt, who headed Blue Book, coined the term unidentified flying object, or UFO.
Project Blue Book continued up until 1969 when it was dismantled after physicist Edward Condon, who helped to compile a report that concluded there was no evidence of anything but earthly origins for the sightings and the phenomenon didn’t warrant further investigation.
On January 27th, 1959, nine cross-country skiers from Russia’s Ural Polytechnical Institute set out on a hike from Vizhai in the northern province of Sverdlovsk Oblast to Otorten—a name that means “Don’t go there” in the language of the Mansi people indigenous to the area.
On February 1st—57 years ago today—the group moved through a mountain pass near Kholat Syakhl, where a snowstorm picked up and forced the group off their intended path. With temperatures well below zero degrees, the group decided to set up camp on the mountain’s slope, hoping to outlast the storm.
The hikers never reached Otorten. Rescue teams found no trace of the expedition until February 26th, when a band of volunteer searchers found the group’s tent in the snow, collapsed, crumpled, and slit open with razor blades. Five of the bodies were found nearby with the aid of footprints, but the remaining four members of the expedition were nowhere to be found for months.
Finally, on May 4th, over three months after their disappearance, the final four bodies were found, buried under some 10 feet of snow in a ravine well beyond where any of the other bodies were found.
The disappearance of the hikers has become known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident, named after Igor Dyatlov, the 23-year-old leader of the expedition. The details uncovered after an investigation of the area and the autopsies of the bodies resulted in more questions than answers.
Most of the group’s equipment and clothes were still inside the tent when rescuers found it. Some of the hikers were found wearing each others’ clothes; others were found in only their underwear. The footprints found near the site were made by people with either bare feet, socks, or one single shoe. Two of the hikers had suffered head injuries, and one woman was found without her tongue. Forensic radiation tests found alpha radiation on the group’s clothes.
The secretive nature of the official reports only added to the mystery. Some of the injuries were caused by blunt force trauma well beyond what a human attacker would be capable of generating—one Soviet doctor compared it to a car crash. The official cause of death was suspiciously noted as a “compelling unknown force.” But without evidence of foul play, the inquest was closed less than a month after the final bodies were found, and the files were made classified until after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1989.
Further details from witnesses only complicated things further. One witness at the funeral of the deceased hikers noted the bodies had a “strange brown tan”and grayed hair. Another group of hikers near the same area reported seeing “bright orange spheres” to the north, in the general vicinity of the Dyatlov group.
Nine people rushing out of their tent and into sub-zero temperatures and certain death was suspicious enough. The combination of their gruesome injuries, the mystery of the remote mountain range, the unexplained radiation and objects in the sky, and the secrecy of the Soviet investigation have made the Dyatlov Pass Incident the ultimate in imagination fuel. Wild speculation on what really happened has come from scientists, documentarians, and even wild eyed YouTube conspiracy theory channel hosts.
UFO theorists have latched onto the mysterious “orange spheres” to suggest the hikers were attacked by aliens. The “compelling unknown force,” in this theory, could be an alien superweapon.
“It’s not a coincidence that UFOs were reported by these hikers in the Ural mountains, in the place of the dead, ‘don’t go there,’ and so on,” Philip Imbrogno, a “ufologist,” said on History Channel’s Ancient Aliens. “I believe that many UFO sightings come in here from a parallel reality and they come from portals. This area may be a hot portal.”
“The orbs themselves could have been a life form, the orbs themselves could have been extraterrestrial probes,” Bill Birnes, another of History Channel’s ufologists, said. “It could have been inadvertent. The orbs, in probing the area where the humans were, created collateral damage. Maybe they didn’t mean to harm human beings, maybe it wasn’t an attack as much as the power of the orbs, the energy, was so intense the humans were prematurely aged, irradiated, and suffered all kinds of lethal biological symptoms.”
Lately, though, another supernatural theory has risen to prominence, albeit one originating from our own world. The frozen wastelands of Russia have long been of interest to Yeti enthusiasts.
So much so that the Kemerovo region of Siberia arranged a sham scientific conference in 2011, complete with academic experts and researchers flown in from America to boost the event’s credibility. The region stated on its website that evidence of “footprints, a probable den and various markers that Yetis mark their territory with” led scientists to state they were “95 percent sure” Yetis do exist.
Dr. Jeff Meldrum, one of the American researchers flown in by the Keremovans, said he felt the whole thing was “orchestrated” and purely “publicity stunts.” But that hasn’t stopped the theories.
In 2014, Discovery Channel produced a documentary titled Russian Yeti: The Killer Lives, a two-hour program presenting evidence that not aliens but the Yeti was responsible for the deaths of Dyatlov and his hiking crew. Quoth the channel of discovery: “Following the trail of evidence, [Director] Mike [Lebecki] finds proof that the hikers were not alone—a photograph, taken by one of the hikers a day before they died that suggests that they encountered a Yeti. But just how far will they go to find the answers?”
Lebecki went so far as to arrange a nighttime stay in the very same Yeti cave Meldrum toured in 2011. He also found a Mansi woman to tell a story of a legendary creature called the “Menk,” conveniently a six-to-nine foot tall biped that has been known to steal people’s tongues.
For his proof, Lebecki cites an anonymous YouTube video in which a grainy dark blob is visible, the same kind of “proof” offered for Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster for decades. For his coup de grace, he presents one of the pictures found on a camera recovered from the campsite in 1959. “It shows a strange tall creature, lurking in the woods, looking over towards where the students must have been. But what is it?”
Lebecki also cites an entry in the newspaper log the hikers were keeping of the trip, which cryptically states, “From now on we know that the snowmen exist.” But this is either a naive or intentionally deceptive reading of what was a largely joking diary the students were keeping of their journey. The full passage says, “They can be met in the Northern Urals, next to Ortoten mountain,” and it was likely a self-referential joke rather than proof of their Yeti suspicions.
Others suggest the explanation is not supernatural at all, but perhaps even more insidious: The students stumbled upon a military testing area and were either killed by Soviet soldiers protecting the area or were scared into fleeing by the sounds of nearby explosions, as suggested by British author and researcher Keith McCloskey.
The Ural area is near the site of the 1979 Sverdlosk anthrax leak, a “biological Chernobyl” which caused some 100 deaths and was initially explained by the Soviets as a tainted meat outbreak. Further, the Soviets, as with most world powers, were notoriously secretive about their military testing.
There is, however, a far simpler answer. The slope on which the skiers set up camp was at a 22-23 degree angle, well above the 15 degrees at which avalanches become a risk. Most of the evidence conspiracy theorists point to as odd—injuries like the skull fractures and cracked ribs without other soft tissue damage—would be consistent with being crushed by falling snow.
The gruesome missing tongue, the lynchpin of Lebecki’s Yeti theory, could have been caused by a fall into the ravine, a blow from a falling rock suffered while screaming, or local scavengers. And while an avalanche can’t account for the radiation, thorium gas mantles, commonly used in kerosene lanterns, are known to emit a small amount of alpha radiation.
Brian Dunning of Skeptoid, a podcast devoted to examining wacky conspiracy theories, sums up his research as such: “I’m still looking for something in the Dyatlov Pass mystery that lacks a simple and mundane explanation.” But even this answer is incomplete.
If it was an avalanche, what was it caused by? Was it just a freak of nature, or was it the result of a human-produced explosion? What of the orange spheres? What of the incomplete investigation records and the Soviet government’s secrecy?
Of course, Dunning is probably right. But where’s the fun in simple and mundane? As logical as Dunning’s summary is, there remain enough holes in our knowledge of what really happened at Dyatlov Pass to allow our imaginations to fill in the gaps with whatever suits our own personal proclivities.
Whatever really happened in those mountains 57 years ago, there are many in this world who want to believe, and that belief will always run deeper than cold, mundane logic.
He racked his brains for an explanation to the strange phenomenon, but couldn’t reach a viable conclusion due to it’s lack of movement and sound.
He told the Express Online: “At first I thought it was a Chinese lantern but it wasn’t moving. It could have also been an Apache, but there was no noise.
“I went back the next day in the day time to see if it was a crane or something, but there was nothing there.”
Ian Jones
A strange light appeared hovering in the sky
The video was shot by the Wiltshire resident on the evening of January 19, near to the village of Alderbury – about a mile east of Salisbury.
Mr Jones, who says that he has never encountered anything like this in his life, showed it to his close friends and family.
He added: “Once they stopped laughing after I told them that I had filmed a light in the sky, they said ‘well that is quite weird’.”
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Could it have been an alien spacecraft?
This is not the first time that Wiltshire residents have encountered alien phenomena which they are unable to explain.
From 1965 to 1975, the south west county’s residents reported many UFO sightings.
On August 20 1965, a couple on a motorcycle felt it stall as two white spheres of light hovered overhead, changing colour.
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Crop circles have also appeared in Wiltshire
The same year, on October 8 1965, a woman driving towards Warminster felt her car lose power after seeing a bright orange ball before the vehicle stopped. She then saw a dark object rise from a nearby field, sparking red and blue, before the engine started up again.
In 1967, a businessman driving past Clay Hill felt his car become hot and heard a high-pitched noise before the engine failed. He got out and saw a glowing white disc overhead before it sped off.
In August 25 1975, a serviceman driving near Warminster reported to a police patrol that his car malfunctioned after seeing a bright-red light in the sky.
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Warning Space Aliens: Earth's UFO-Hunting Satellite Is Coming For You
Warning Space Aliens: Earth's UFO-Hunting Satellite Is Coming For You
"We have former astronauts, military personnel, police officers and the former defense minister of Canada come forward stating that extraterrestrial UFOs are real ... How can this be ignored and brushed off as nonsense?"
It seems like every day, a video or image emerges that appears to show a UFO near the International Space Station. And it generally -- OK, always -- turns out not to be a UFO. It's normally space debris, light reflections from the station windows,an antenna attached to the station, etc.
But wouldn't it be interesting if someone actually launched a satellite into Earth orbit (illustrated above), with the specific mission of trying to detect and prove unknown objects are actually out there?
Get ready for CubeSat for Disclosure, a team of researchers brought together by software engineer Dave Cote, who have a common purpose in launching their own satellite: To find and verify a real extraterrestrial craft.
"We have former astronauts, military personnel, police officers and the former defense minister of Canada come forward stating that extraterrestrial UFOs are real, and that we are being visited," Cote said in a press release. "How can this be ignored and brushed off as nonsense?"
On the following CubeSat for Disclosure video, Cote says his project "aims to use a low-orbit satellite controlled by us, the individuals, to study potential objects in our Earth's atmosphere."
"Maybe we'll get data readings and pictures of solar flared-caused auroras; maybe we'll capture images of some very interesting meteors; and maybe, we'll actually capture a verifiable craft. All we can do is try, and by doing this our way, we can open-source the data to you, the individuals," said Cote.
Current technology allows private citizens to build small, relatively affordable satellites, launch them into Earth orbit and perform various experiments. CubeSats are about the size of a shoebox, into which a variety of scientific equipment can be placed.
These nano-satellites can reach a height of around 195 miles above Earth for around $20,000, and have orbital lifespans of about three months before they burn up on re-entry.
For its UFO hunt, the CubeSat for Disclosure team will load the little satellite with infrared, electromagnetic and radiation sensors, as well as two cameras set to photograph a full 360 degrees.
"We control what the images are. We will have the images," said project coordinator Dave Shock. "If you're watching a live feed from the International Space Station, it can suddenly cut out and they'll say, 'Oh, we lost the signal.' But we will have total control of everything. Nobody will alter or corrupt our data so that the government can't cover up what we may find. This is all ours," Shock told The Huffington Post.
CubeSat for Disclosure doesn't have a launch date yet, and they're raising money to pack as much instrumentation into the satellite as possible.
"We're using the air and space port, Interorbital Systems, out of the Mojave Desert," Shock said. "We got the satellite through them and they'll do the launch. It's a whole package: You buy the satellite, you also get the launch. The more money we get, the more scientific equipment we can pack on board."
Former U.S. Air Force aviator has recently leaked a classified military video of the Phoenix Lights UFO phenomenon. It is being claimed that the footage showed a cockpit video of Lockheed-Martin F-16 and Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II fighter jets.
The never-before-seen footage had received a lot of interest from the public as it showed the two fighter jets in action in the night when the famous Phoenix Lights UFO took place 19 years ago. The report further claimed that another footage has been obtained showing multiple civilian casualties.
Dubbed as one of the largest UFO sightings in North America, the Phoenix lights incident had alarmed thousands of Arizona residents when they apparently saw a massive object in the sky above Phoenix.
Several eyewitnesses reported a craft in diamond shape hovering over the city for a couple of hours. Until today, questions about the incident are still being asked. The eyewitnesses can still recall the phenomenon clearly, and the newly released video has stirred more tension on the infamous event.
Multiple internet documentaries have featured government denials of the incident, which has been the subject of intense scrutiny.
KWBTV news journalist David Collins released the newly leaked video on the internet this weekend. The footage allegedly depicts military and UFO on the night of the 1997 mass sighting in Phoenix.
In an article published in 2015, NASA’s Near-Earth Object Observations Program says there have been no asteroids or comets observed that would impact Earth anytime in the foreseeable future.
All known potentially hazardous asteroids have less than a 0.01% chance of impacting Earth in the next 100 years. In fact, not a single one of the known objects has any credible chance of hitting our planet over the next century.
A statement that contradicts itself as NASA jump-started their new project called Planetary Defense Coordination Office, announced by NASA in January 2016.
Planetary defense is the term used to encompass all the capabilities needed to detect the possibility and warn of potential asteroid or comet impacts with Earth, and then either prevent them or mitigate their possible effects.
Even the recently passed federal budget for fiscal year 2016 includes $50 million for NEO observations and planetary defense, representing a more than ten-fold increase since the beginning of the current administration.
Why set up this new office and increase the budget if there is no threat to humans from an asteroid impact the next one hundred years?
Despite NASA has been engaged in worldwide planning for planetary defense for some time we may wonder why this happens all now.
What is also striking is that this new Planetary Defense Coordination Office has received very little attention in the mainstream media, not really an announcement as we’re used from NASA.
Even more disturbing is the fact that the agency is committed to perform a leadership role in national and international efforts for detection of these natural impact hazards, and to be engaged in planning if there is a need for planetary defense.
Moreover, the office also will continue to assist with coordination across the U.S. government, participating in the planning for response to an actual impact threat, working in conjunction with FEMA, the Department of Defense, other U.S. agencies and international counterparts.
According Niburu.co the answer to all these developments is the approach of a mini-solar system. Besides the new NASA department is also very useful to keep things in mind such as the arrival of Nibiru and her companions which will bring asteroids and meteors.
The fact that this NASA department is named in one breath with FEMA means that there is more going on than just the theoretical possibility of an asteroid impact.
Meanwhile, fireballs keep coming. The last fireball was filmed by cameras placed at the University of Madison, Wisconsin on February 1, 2016.
Een gigantische gaswolk is op weg naar een clash met ons melkwegstelsel. Het gevaarte heeft een massa van maar liefst één miljoen zonnen en reist aan een duizelingwekkende snelheid van 1.126.540 km/u. Het goede nieuws: de botsing is nog niet voor de komende 30 miljoen jaren.
De gaswolk is qua omvang te vergelijken met het sterrenbeeld Orion. Ze is gevuld met zwavel, is meer dan 11.000 lichtjaren lang en 2.500 lichtjaren breed, en heeft evenveel massa als een miljoen zonnen. Maar ze is niet zichtbaar in optische golflengten, omdat ze geen sterren heeft.
T. Rex De gaswolk werd in 1963 in Nederland ontdekt door Gail P. Smith vanuit de Dwingeloo Radiotelescoop. Waarschijnlijk werd de wolk zo'n 70 miljoen jaren geleden - toen de dinosaurus T. Rex nog op aarde vertoefde - uit ons Melkwegstelsel gezwierd, en is ze er nu dus weer naar op weg. Wat omhoog gaat, moet vroeg of laat ook weer omlaag.
Sinds 1963 werd de zogenaamde 'Smith-wolk' nog herhaaldelijk waargenomen via radiogolflengten in West-Virginia, en recent nog met de bekende ruimtetelescoop Hubble. Die stelde vast dat de wolk toch zware elementen zoals zwavel bevat, in tegenstelling tot wat eerder was gebleken uit analyse.
2 miljoen nieuwe sterren "De wolk laat ons zien hoe een sterrenstelsel doorheen de tijd kan veranderen", zegt Ander Fox van het Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. "Ze vertelt ons dat de Melkweg een borrelende, erg actieve plaats is waar gas uit één deel van de schijf kan worden weggekatapulteerd om daarna weer neer te dalen op een ander deel."
Die tweede schijf is in dit geval die van onze melkweg - een afgeplat cirkelvormig volume van sterren - waarmee de gaswolk naar verwachting over ongeveer 30 miljoen jaar zal botsen, zo beweren wetenschappers. Als de clash voldoende materie en energie zou hebben, dan zouden er twee miljoen nieuwe sterren met zonnemassa kunnen ontstaan rond de impactzone, zegt Fox. "Ons melkwegstelsel recycleert zijn gas via wolken, zoals de Smith-wolk, en zal op nieuwe plaatsen sterren vormen. De omvang van de Smith-wolk die Hubble mat, geven ons een beeld van hoe actief de schijven van de sterrenstelsels zijn."
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VIDEO: Enschedeër legt onverklaarbare zaken vast in het luchtruim
VIDEO: Enschedeër legt onverklaarbare zaken vast in het luchtruim
Geregeld wordt er melding gemaakt van onverklaarbare gebeurtenissen in ons luchtruim. Dennis Meenderink uit Enschede heeft al veel vreemde objecten vastgelegd in de lucht, meldt RTV Oost.
“Als je elke dag in de lucht kijkt zie je echt aparte, vreemde dingen,” zegt hij. Meenderink begon vier jaar geleden met het spotten van UFO’s. Samen met een collega-spotter speurt hij het luchtruim af op zoek naar onverklaarbare zaken. Volgens hem zijn er in zijn omgeving meer mensen die vreemde dingen aan de hemel zien.
Oranje lichtbollen
Sinds 2012 houdt hij zich met name bezig met de zogeheten oranje lichtbollen of ‘orange orbs’. Dit zijn volgens Meenderink oranje energiebollen die boven de horizon zweven. Hij heeft na al die jaren nog altijd geen verklaring kunnen vinden voor dit fenomeen.
De UFO-spotter benadrukt dat niet alles wat hij ziet meteen verdacht is. “Ik ben niet zo doorgeslagen als veel andere UFO-spotters,” zegt hij.
Contrails
Arnold Tukkers van de Cosmos Sterrenwacht in Lattrop vermoedt dat het contrails zijn. “Het zijn vliegtuigen die opstijgen op bijvoorbeeld Schiphol en richting Engeland vliegen. Door de bolling van de aarde kun je ze over een afstand tot wel 150 kilometer zien.”
Zeker weten doet hij het niet, want dat er dingen zijn die ook hij niet kan verklaren is wel zeker.
Hackersgroep: “NASA is verantwoordelijk voor chemtrails”
Hackersgroep: “NASA is verantwoordelijk voor chemtrails”
Een groep hackers heeft gevoelige informatie van de NASA gestolen en dreigt die openbaar te maken, tenzij de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie openheid van zaken geeft over het manipuleren van het klimaat door middel van kunstmatige regen.
Hackersgroep AnonSec claimt sinds 2013 toegang te hebben gehad tot systemen van NASA. De groep wil alle informatie die zij heeft vergaard openbaar gaan maken. AnonSec beweert onder meer dat de NASA radioactief materiaal in de atmosfeer sproeit.
Zware metalen
Volgens AnonSec is de NASA betrokken bij verschillende complotten. Op Pastebin schreven de hackers:
Chemtrails lossen niet op, maar laten zo ver het oog reikt strepen achter in de lucht. Bovendien bevatten de aerosolen zware metalen en radioactief materiaal. Ze waaieren uit en vormen een waas die de hele hemel bedekt.
Om hun statement kracht bij te zetten, publiceerden de hackers een screenshot van een vlucht van een drone van de NASA die ze bijna hadden laten crashen. AnonSec nam de controle over van de drone, die data verzamelt voor wetenschappelijk onderzoek, en stuurde het toestel in de richting van de Grote Oceaan.
NASA ontkent
Oplettende medewerkers van NASA konden via een satelliet toegang krijgen tot de drone en voorkomen dat het peperdure gevaarte in de oceaan belandde.
Zelf ontkent NASA gehackt te zijn. Volgens het ruimteagentschap heeft AnonSec nooit de controle gekregen over de drone. In een verklaring zei de NASA alle aantijgingen verder te zullen onderzoeken.
In 2014 legde een 15-jarige hacker een computersysteem van de ruimtevaartorganisatie, waarmee onder meer wordt gecommuniceerd met het ruimtestation ISS, 21 dagen plat.
A witness in Hazlet, New Jersey claimed to have seen and videotaped a silent, triangular unidentified flying object with three red lights. According to the witness testimony filed in Case 53663 of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database, the witness saw the object on Christmas Eve of 2013 when he was returning from the house of a friend.
The witness was with his wife travelling along Middle Road in Hazlet, NJ when three red lights were appearing in their view. They were in triangular formation moving slowly towards the east at approximately a hundred feet over the houses on the right side of Middle Road.
To their curiosity, the reporting witness stopped his vehicle at the first house next to Airport Plaza shopping center. He took out his mobile phone and aimed it at the object. The object was over him when he started videotaping it, which began moving straight up at that moment. The witness heard no sound of it. He recorded it on video until became out of sight.
MUFON received the case on January 22, 2014. New Jersey MUFON state director Ed Dobson investigated and closed the case as unknown.
In his report, Dobson said that the object was triangular with red and white pulsating lights. The witness called the police to know if there were complaints about it, but there was none. He also claimed that his brother-in-law spotted a similar object the weekend before.
Door buitenaardse ontvoerde vrouw zag kernexplosie ( VIDEO )
Door buitenaardse ontvoerde vrouw zag kernexplosie ( VIDEO )
Voor de 57-jarige Sue Sill uit het Engelse Huddersfield is de vraag of wij alleen in het universum zijn gemakkelijk te beantwoorden.
Het Engelse Huddersfield is voor haar niet alleen een centrum waar veel UFO activiteit is, maar het is ook de plek waar zij door buitenaardsen werd ontvoerd.
Sue Sill filmt al tientallen jaren vreemde, onbekende objecten in de lucht boven Huddersfield.
“Ik was bezig met het uitzoeken wat ik de volgende morgen nodig zou hebben en liet tegelijkertijd water in het bad lopen. Ik liep terug naar de slaapkamer en het was alsof ik een trance was gegaan. Ik zat op de rand van het bed en direct daarna verschenen er een aantal figuren.
Ze waren klein en hadden een zwarte huid of ze droegen zwarte pakken. Ze hadden lange dunne armen en hun gezichten waren niet goed zichtbaar, het leek wel of die vloeibaar waren.
Ze kwamen naar de rand van het bed en er kwam een soort sluier over mij heen.
Het volgende moment bevond ik mij in een ruimteschip en zag de aarde beneden. Het schip was doorzichtig zoals een bubbel en ik kon alles om mij heen zien en vroeg mij af hoe het mogelijk was dat ik onze planeet kon zien.
De wezens communiceerden telepathisch en lieten mij de aarde zien. Opeens vond er een geweldige explosie plaats op aarde en het zag eruit als een paddenstoel en ik voelde mijn hart in mijn schoenen zakken.
Toen legde een wezen die eruit zag als ET een hand op mijn schouder. Hij had een lange middelvinger. Het was alsof hij zich voedde met mijn emoties.
Ik kan mij herinneren dat het wezen tegen mij zei dat ik mij geen zorgen moest maken. Ik denk niet dat ze mij of de aarde kwaad wilden doen, maar ik denk wel dat ze zich zorgen maakten over wat er op aarde gebeurt. Wij verwoesten de planeet.
Plotseling kwam Sue weer bij haar positieven en zag dat ze volledig gekleed op haar bed lag. Sinds het laatste moment dat ze zich kon herinneren waren uren verstreken.
Ze zei, “Ik probeerde op te staan, maar dat ging niet. Ik voelde mij misselijk. Ik probeerde de dingen te doen die ik altijd doe, zoals het klaarmaken voor mijn werk, maar ik had een gevoel alsof ik een jetlag had.
“Ik zag mijn buurman en die vroeg wat er aan de hand was. Toen ik zei dat ik dacht dat ik was ontvoerd begon hij te lachen”.
“Ik dacht dat ik gek werd en ging direct naar mijn huisarts. Deze keek naar me en stuurde mij gelijk door naar een psychiater die zei dat alles goed was met mij en dat ik niet gek was.”
Sinds die tijd heeft ze vaker vreemde dingen meegemaakt en waargenomen in de lucht. Heel vaak gebeuren dingen als ze met haar gezin samen is. Sue is er van overtuigd dat buitenaardsen vaak contact maken met meerdere leden van een bepaald gezin of familie.
Paniek bij NASA vanwege komst van NIBIRU ( VIDEO )
Paniek bij NASA vanwege komst van NIBIRU ( VIDEO )
Alhoewel NASA beweert dat we de eerste honderden jaren niets te vrezen hebben van objecten uit de ruimte bewijzen hun acties precies het tegenovergestelde.
Ze hebben een nieuwe afdeling opgericht genaamd de Planetary Defense Coordination Office dat samen met FEMA op van alles voorbereid moet zijn.
Enkele dagen geleden was te lezen hoe een asteroïde die volgens een tijdreiziger in 2032 de aarde zal raken, door NASA wordt afgedaan als niets bijzonders en niemand hoeft zich ergens druk over te maken.
Datzelfde zeggen ze over andere asteroïden die onze kant opkomen, sterker nog, ze gaan zover dat ze ons nu al kunnen vertellen dat het onwaarschijnlijk is dat een groot object de aarde in de eerstvolgende paar honderd jaar zal raken.
Een aardige geruststelling zou je zeggen, maar wel één die volkomen in tegenspraak is met wat ze zelf aan het doen zijn.
Als er helemaal geen bedreigende objecten onze kant op komen waarom zou je je dan bezighouden met het opzetten van een Planetary Defense Coordination Office. Een afdeling die onder leiding zal komen te staan van een Planetary Defense Officer.
Volgens NASA zijn er op dit moment meer dan 13.500 zogenaamde Near Earth Objects (NEO) ontdekt. Objecten die relatief dichtbij de aarde komen en een mogelijk een gevaar zouden kunnen vormen. Ieder jaar opnieuw worden er nog eens zo’n 1.500 NEO’s ontdekt. Van die objecten is ongeveer tien procent groter dan een kilometer in doorsnee en als één van die dingen de aarde zou raken dan hebben we een aardige ELE (Extinction Level Event), een gebeurtenis waarbij het leven op aarde weinig of geen kans heeft om te overleven.
De nieuwe afdeling zal zich ook bezighouden met het uitwerken van wat men noemt redirect opties. Dat wil zeggen, asteroïden die op een ramkoers liggen met de aarde van koers laten veranderen zodat ze ons niet raken.
Tenslotte wordt erbij gezegd dat als toch zou blijken dat een botsing met de aarde onvermijdelijk is, zij kunnen samenwerken met de beruchte FEMA en de noodzakelijke noodoperaties starten. Die noodoperaties zijn formeel voor het redden van zoveel mogelijk burgers, maar in werkelijkheid is het om de elite en de door hen geselecteerde mensen zo snel mogelijk veilig in de ondergrondse schuilplaatsen te kunnen laten komen.
Wat eveneens opvalt, is dat dit nieuwe Planetary Defense Coordination Office heel weinig aandacht heeft gekregen in de mainstream-pers. Hier en daar een klein verhaaltje, maar niet echt een aankondiging zoals we die van NASA gewend zijn.
Waarom een dergelijk centrum opzetten als er de eerste honderden jaren geen enkel gevaar bestaat zoals ze zelf zeggen.
Waarom gebeurt dit dan nu allemaal?
Het antwoord is voor ons helder als glas. De komst van het mini-zonnestelsel Nibiru brengt ook een regen van asteroïden met zich mee die al dan niet op de aarde terecht zullen komen.
Daarnaast kan de nieuwe NASA afdeling ook hele nuttige zaken in de gaten houden zoals de komst van Nibiru en haar metgezellen. Ook het feit dat deze nieuwe afdeling van NASA in één adem wordt genoemd met FEMA betekent dat het wel iets meer is dan een theoretische mogelijkheid.
Zelfs mensen die absoluut niet geloven in de komst van Nibiru beginnen zich af te vragen of ze bij NASA soms iets weten wat de rest van de mensheid niet weet.
Waar het vroeger nog iets bijzonders was als er een asteroïde in de vorm van een meteoriet de aardatmosfeer binnenkwam, tegenwoordig is het dagelijkse kost en valt er iedere dag wel ergens ter wereld een vuurbol aan de hemel waar te nemen.
Iets dergelijks gebeurde ook afgelopen zaterdagavond rond zes uur aan de oostkust van Amerika waar mensen van Canada tot New Jersey deze vuurbal in de lucht zagen.
Zo ook de piloot van een klein eenmotorig vliegtuig, een Piper Archer, die op een hoogte van zo’n 500 meter boven de Hudson rivier vloog. Aan de achterkant van het vliegtuig was een camera bevestigd en die legde de vuurbol in de lucht dan ook keurig vast.
In de navolgende video is het te zien en ook is de verbaasde piloot te horen die vraagt aan de verkeersleiding of ze iets hebben gezien. Na ongeveer 7 seconden zie je de meteoriet rechtsboven in beeld verschijnen. Later wordt dit nogmaals in slow motion herhaald.
Long UFO Drops Off Two Orbs Over Los Angeles, CA On Feb 1, 2016, Video UFO Sighting News.
Long UFO Drops Off Two Orbs Over Los Angeles, CA On Feb 1, 2016, Video UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 1, 2016 Location of sighting: Los Angeles, California, USA This UFO was reported by Youtube user jmhz71 and shows a long white object in the sky with orbs dropping off of it. This particular type of UFO has been seen a lot in South America, but less common in North America. Its also interesting that these objects were moving into the clouds. Now because the camera focus is off a bit, I have some concerns about this being an accidental sighting of a bunch of wedding balloons that escaped. Its difficult to tell, but I will let you be the judge. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
The Phoenix Lights (sometimes referred to as the “lights over Phoenix”) were a series of widely sighted optical phenomena (generally unidentified flying objects) that occurred in the skies over the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, and the Mexican state of Sonora on March 13, 1997. A repeat of the lights occurred February 6, 2007, and was filmed by the local Fox News TV station.
A similar incident occurred April 21, 2008. This incident was later revealed to be prank–flares attached to helium balloons.
Lights of varying descriptions were seen by thousands of people between 19:30 and 22:30 MST, in a space of about 300 miles, from the Nevada line, through Phoenix, to the edge of Tucson. There were two distinct events involved in the incident: a triangular formation of lights seen to pass over the state, and a series of stationary lights seen in the Phoenix area. The United States Air Force (USAF) identified the second group of lights as flares dropped by A-10 Warthog aircraft which were on training exercises at the Barry Goldwater Range in southwest Arizona. Witnesses claim to have observed a huge carpenter’s square-shaped UFO, containing lights or possibly light-emitting engines. Fife Symington, the governor at the time, was one witness to this incident.
History
Initial reports
At about 18:55 PST (6:55 PM PST), (19:55 MST [7:55 PM MST]), a man reported seeing a V-shaped object above Henderson, Nevada. He said it was about the “size of a (Boeing) 747”, sounded like “rushing wind”, and had six lights on its leading edge. The lights reportedly traversed northwest to the southeast.
An unidentified former police officer from Paulden, Arizona is claimed to have been the next person to report a sighting after leaving his house at about 20:15 MST (8:15 PM MST). As he was driving north, he reputedly saw a cluster of reddish or orange lights in the sky, comprising four lights together and a fifth light trailing them. Each of the individual lights in the formation appeared to the witness to consist of two separate point sources of orange light. He returned home and through binoculars watched the lights until they disappeared south over the horizon.
Prescott and Prescott Valley
Lights were also reportedly seen in the areas of Prescott and Prescott Valley. At approximately 20:17 MST, callers began reporting the object was definitely solid because it blocked out much of the starry sky as it passed over.
John Kaiser was standing outside with his wife and sons in Prescott Valley, when they noticed a cluster of lights to the west-northwest of their position. The lights formed a triangular pattern, but all of them appeared to be red, except the light at the nose of the object, which was distinctly white. The object, or objects, which had been observed for approximately 2–3 minutes with binoculars, then passed directly overhead the observers, they were seen to “bank to the right”, and they then disappeared in the night sky to the southeast of Prescott Valley. The altitude could not be determined, however it was fairly low and made no sound whatsoever.
The National UFO Reporting Center received the following report from the Prescott area:
“While doing astrophotography I observed five yellow-white lights in a “V” formation moving slowly from the northwest, across the sky to the northeast, then turn almost due south and continue until out of sight. The point of the “V” was in the direction of movement. The first three lights were in a fairly tight “V” while two of the lights were further back along the lines of the “V”‘s legs. During the NW-NE transit one of the trailing lights moved up and joined the three and then dropped back to the trailing position. I estimated the three light “V” to cover about 0.5 degrees of sky and the whole group of five lights to cover about 1 degree of sky.”
Dewey
At the town of Dewey, 10 miles south of Prescott, Arizona, six people saw a large cluster of lights while driving northbound on Highway 69. The five adults and a youth stopped their car to observe the lights which were directly overhead when they exited the car.
The lights appeared to hover for several minutes. The caller, who was an experienced flyer, said that the object was so large that he could clench his fist and hold it at arm’s length and still not completely cover the light. He estimated the object to be not over 1,000 feet above the ground and that it was moving at a considerably slower pace than an aircraft would fly. Calls to the UFO centre were also received from Chino Valley, Tempe, and Glendale.
First sighting from Phoenix
Tim Ley and his wife Bobbi, his son Hal and his grandson Damien Turnidge first saw the lights when they were above Prescott Valley about 65 miles away from them. At first they appeared to them as five separate and distinct lights in an arc shape like they were on top of a balloon, but they soon realized the lights appeared to be moving towards them. Over the next ten or so minutes they appeared to be coming closer and the distance between the lights increased and they took on the shape of an upside down V. Eventually when the lights appeared to be a couple of miles away the witnesses could make out a shape that looked like a carpenter’s square with the five lights set into it, with one at the front and two on each side. Soon the lights appeared to be coming right down the street where they lived about 100 to 150 feet above them, traveling so slowly it appeared to hover and was silent. The lights then seemed to pass over their heads and went through a V opening in the peaks of the mountain range towards Squaw Peak Mountain and toward the direction of Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.
Arriving in Phoenix
When the triangular formation entered the Phoenix area, Mitch Stanley, an amateur astronomer, observed the lights using a Dobsonian telescope outfitted with a TELEVUE 32mm Plössl eyepiece, which produces 43x magnification. After observing the lights, he told his mother, who was present at the time, that the lights were aircraft.
Even though former Phoenix Councilwomen and Vice Mayor, Frances Emma Barwood, received over 700 reports of mile wide V or boomerang shaped craft and orbs, Mitch Stanley’s report was the only one publicized in the Arizona print media.
In addition to the triangular formation, a separate phenomenon occurred in the Phoenix area. A series of lights appeared, one by one, and then were extinguished one by one. At this point many widely publicized videos and photographs were taken.
Bill Greiner, a cement driver hauling a load down a mountain north of Phoenix, described the second group of lights: “I’ll never be the same. Before this, if anybody had told me they saw a UFO, I would’ve said, ‘Yeah, and I believe in the tooth fairy’. Now I’ve got a whole new view. I may be just a dumb truck driver, but I’ve seen something that don’t belong here”. Greiner stated that the lights hovered over the area for in excess of 2 hours.
After Phoenix
A report came from a young man in the Kingman area who stopped his car at a payphone to report the incident. “[The] young man, en route to Los Angeles, called from a phone booth to report having seen a large and bizarre cluster of lights moving slowly in the northern sky”.
Reports
Governor
In March 2007, former Arizona Governor Fife Symington III (photo right) said that he had witnessed one of the “crafts of unknown origin” during the 1997 event, but noted that he did not go public with the information. Shortly after the lights, Symington held a press conference, stating that “they found who was responsible”. He proceeded to make light of the situation by bringing his aide on stage dressed in an alien costume. (Dateline, NBC). In an interview with The Daily Courier in Prescott, Arizona, Symington said, “I’m a pilot and I know just about every machine that flies. It was bigger than anything that I’ve ever seen. It remains a great mystery. Other people saw it, responsible people. I don’t know why people would ridicule it”. Symington had earlier said, “It was enormous and inexplicable. Who knows where it came from? A lot of people saw it, and I saw it too. It was dramatic. And it couldn’t have been flares because it was too symmetrical. It had a geometric outline, a constant shape.
Symington also noted that he requested information from the commander of Luke Air Force Base, the general of the National Guard, and the head of the Department of Public Safety. But none of the officials he contacted had an answer for what had happened, and were also “perplexed”. Later, he responded to an Air Force “explanation” that the lights were flares: “As a pilot and a former Air Force Officer, I can definitively say that this craft did not resemble any man made object I’d ever seen. And it was certainly not high-altitude flares because flares don’t fly in formation”.
Frances Barwood, the 1997 Phoenix city councilwoman who launched an investigation into the event, said that of the over 700 witnesses she interviewed, “The government never interviewed even one”.
Videotapes, still photos
Imagery of the Phoenix Lights falls into two categories: images of the triangular formation seen prior to 10 pm in Prescott and Dewey, and images of the 10 pm Phoenix event. All known images were produced using a variety of commercially available camcorders and cameras. There are no known images taken by equipment designed for scientific analysis, nor are there any known images taken using high powered optics or night vision equipment.
During the Phoenix event, numerous still photographs and videotapes were made, distinctly showing a series of lights appearing at a regular interval, remaining illuminated for several moments and then going out. These images have been repeatedly aired by documentary TV channels such as the Discovery Channel and the History Channel as part of their UFO documentary programming.
The most frequently seen sequence shows what appears to be an arc of lights appearing one by one, then going out one by one. UFO advocates claim that these images show that the lights were some form of “running light” or other aircraft illumination along the leading edge of a large craft (estimated to be as large as a mile in diameter) hovering over the city of Phoenix. Other similar sequences reportedly taken over a half hour period show differing numbers of lights in a V or arrowhead array. Thousands of witnesses throughout Arizona also reported a silent, mile wide V or boomerang shaped craft with varying numbers of huge orbs. A significant number of witnesses reported that the craft was silently gliding directly overhead at low altitude. The first-hand witnesses consistently reported that the lights appeared as “canisters of swimming light”, while the underbelly of the craft was undulating “like looking through water”. However, skeptics claim that the video is evidence that mountains not visible at night partially obstructed views from certain angles, thereby bolstering the claim that the lights were more distant than UFO advocates claim.
UFO advocate Jim Dilettoso claimed to have performed “spectral analysis” of photographs and video imagery that proved the lights could not have been produced by a man-made source. Dilettoso claimed to have used software called “Image Pro Plus” (exact version unknown) to determine the amount of red, green and blue in the various photographic and video images and construct histograms of the data,
which were then compared to several photographs known to be of flares. Several sources have pointed out, however, that it is impossible to determine the spectral signature of a light source based solely on photographic or video imagery, as film and electronics inherently alter the spectral signature of a light source by shifting hue in the visible spectrum, and experts in spectroscopy have dismissed his claims as being scientifically invalid. Normal photographic equipment also eliminates light outside the visible spectrum (e.g., infrared and ultraviolet) that would be necessary for a complete spectral analysis. The maker of “Image Pro Plus”, Media Cybernetic, has stated that its software is incapable of performing spectroscopic analysis.
Cognitech, an independent video laboratory, superimposed video imagery taken of the Phoenix Lights onto video imagery it shot during daytime from the same location. In the composite image, the lights are seen to extinguish at the moment they reach the Estrella mountain range, which is visible in the daytime, but invisible in the footage shot at night. A broadcast by local Fox Broadcasting affiliate KSAZ-TV claimed to have performed a similar test that showed the lights were in front of the mountain range and suggested that the Cognitech data might have been altered. Dr. Paul Scowen, visiting professor of Astronomy at Arizona State University, performed a third analysis using daytime imagery overlaid with video shot of the lights and his findings were consistent with Cognitech. The Phoenix New Times subsequently reported the television station had simply overlaid two video tracks on a video editing machine without using a computer to match the zoom and scale of the two images.
In comparison, there are few known images of the Prescott/Dewey lights. KSAZ reported that an individual named Richard Curtis took a detailed video that purportedly showed the outline of a space craft, but that the video had been lost. The only other known video is of poor quality and shows a group of lights with no craft visible.
Explanations and skepticism
There is some controversy as to how best classify the reports on the night in question. Some are of the opinion that the differing nature of the eyewitness reports indicates that several unidentified objects were in the area, each of which was its own separate ‘event.’ This is largely dismissed by skeptics as an over-extrapolation from standard deviation common in necessarily subjective eye-witness accounts. The media and most skeptical investigators have largely preferred to split the sightings into two distinct classes – a first and second event – for which two separate explanations are offered:
The first event—the “v,” which appeared over northern Arizona and gradually traveled south over nearly the entire length of the state, eventually passing south of Tucson—was the allegedly “wedge-shaped” object reported by then-Governor Symington and many others. This event started at about 8:15 over the Prescott area, and was seen south of Tucson by about 8:45.
The second event was the set of nine lights falling behind the Sierra Estrella, a mountain ridge to the southwest of Phoenix, at around 10pm. This was also observed by numerous people who may have thought they were seeing the same lights as those reported earlier.
Proponents of two separate events propose that the first event still has no provable explanation, but that some evidence exists that the lights were in fact airplanes. According to an article by reporter Janet Gonzales that appeared in the Phoenix New Times, videotape of the v shape shows the lights moving as separate entities, not as a single object; a phenomenon known as illusory contours can cause the human eye to see unconnected lines or dots as forming a single shape. Ortega also spoke with amateur astronomer Mitch Stanley, who was outside that night using a Dobsonian telescope, which yielded a view 60 times the magnification of the human eye.
According to Stanley, the lights were quite clearly individual airplanes; a companion who was with him recalled asking Stanley at the time what the lights were, and he said, “Planes”. However, no pilots have yet been found who admit to flying such a formation that night, and many witnesses continue to insist that they actually saw the entire object blocking the stars.
The second event has been more thoroughly covered by the media, due in part to the military’s backing of the explanation. The USAF explained the second event as slow falling, long burning flares dropped by an A-10 Warthog aircraft on a training exercise over Luke Air Force Base. An investigation by Luke AFB itself also came to this conclusion and declared the case solved.
Air National Guard pilot, Lt. Col. Ed Jones, responding to a March 2007 media query, confirmed that he had flown one of the aircraft n the formation that dropped flares on the night in question. The squadron to which he belonged was in fact in Arizona on a training exercise at the time, according to the Maryland Air National Guard. A history of the Maryland Air National Guard published in 2000 previously asserted that the squadron, the 104th Fighter Squadron, was responsible for the incident. The first reports that members of the Maryland Air National Guard were responsible for the incident were published in The Arizona Republic newspaper in July 1997.
Military flares such as these can be seen from hundreds of miles with correct environmental conditions. Later comparisons with known military flare drops were reported on local television stations, showing similarities between the known military flare drops and the Phoenix Lights. An analysis of the luminosity of LUU-2B/B illumination flares, the type which would have been in use by A-10 aircraft at the time, determined that the luminosity of such flares at a range of approximately 50–70 miles would fall well within the range of the lights viewed from Phoenix. However, this was not brought forward until July 1997, and the flares were reportedly dropped before the sightings took place.
The “Stealth Blimp” theory
The “giant V shaped object” (right picture: simulation) description also matches the description made by witnesses describing a similar object seen in Lebanon, Illinois, Guernsey, United Kingdom, and Stephenville, Texas. In the case of the Stephenville sighting, there is radar data from the FAA and National Weather Service that correlate to these eyewitness accounts. It is believed this object is a “Stealth Blimp”, which Lockheed Martin proposed building as far back as 1982.
Reappearance
On April 21, 2008, lights were again reported over Phoenix by local residents. These lights appeared to change from square to triangular formation over time.
A resident of Deer Valley in North Phoenix, Tony Toporek videotaped those lights. He was talking to neighbors around 8 p.m. when the lights appeared. Toporek stated, “Four brilliant red lights first formed a vertical or diagonal line, next a U-shape, then as I retrieved my camera and began to roll tape, the lights spread apart and made a diamond or cross shape, similar to the ‘Southern Cross'”.
Another resident reported that shortly after the lights appeared, three jets were seen heading west in the direction of the lights. An official from Luke Air Force Base denied any United States Air Force activity in the area.
Media coverage of the reappearance of the lights was significant, with photos and videos appearing on local and national newspapers, television news broadcasts, and web sites.
On April 22, 2008, a resident of Phoenix told a newspaper that the lights were nothing more than his neighbor releasing helium balloons with flares attached (photo left). This was confirmed by a police helicopter. The following day a Phoenix resident who declined to be identified in news reports stated he had attached flares to helium balloons and released them from his back yard.
Phoenix lights 1997 – Original UFO footage part 2; different angle
Phoenix lights 2007 – Original UFO footage
Triangle UFO Phoenix Arizona March 1997
14th March 2010 update: Phoenix Lights a UFO Sighting, 13 years ago (2010)
September 12, 2010 UPDATE:
‘UFOs’ excerpt: A look at the Phoenix Lights
(by Leslie Kean, the author of the New York Times best-seller “UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record” – Amazon link / Kindle edition)
It was March 13, 1997, a pleasant spring evening in Arizona, clear and still. Countless families were outside in larger-than-usual numbers gazing at the sky because Comet Hale-Bopp was to be visible that night.
Instead, beginning about 8 p.m, they were provided with an even more astounding aerial spectacle: a series of massive, eerily silent craft gliding overhead.
One central object moved from the north, southeast across the state, traveling about 200 miles from Paulden to Tucson, passing near Phoenix and surrounding communities. It was on display from 8:15 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Many hundreds – more likely thousands – saw it that night.
Police phone lines were jammed, and Luke Air Force Base was overwhelmed with calls. Reports of sightings from around the state flooded the lines at the National UFO Reporting Center, a well-known Seattle-based repository for UFO reports cited in the Federal Aviation Administration manual.
Even so, air-traffic controllers apparently did not register the strange objects on radar. Although descriptions of the array of lights differed, one overriding characteristic prevailed: The craft was massive; it was a solid object, not merely lights; and it often appeared to be low in the sky, blocking out the stars behind it.
No government officials were dispatched to investigate or respond to questions from alarmed and awestruck citizens. To put it bluntly, the federal government failed to react to the presence of something huge and unknown invading restricted airspace over a capital city in the United States.
Phoenix Councilwoman Frances Emma Barwood, responding to pressure from journalists and her constituents, was the only elected official to launch a public investigation.
But she said that she, too, received no information from any level of government. Barwood says she spoke with more than 700 witnesses who called her office, including police officers, pilots and former military personnel, all providing similar descriptions of the objects.
Minimal coverage was provided at the time of the incident by the media, even in Phoenix, with a few local papers and news stations making note but few following up.
Three months later, on June 18, that all changed when USA Today brought the case into the national spotlight with a front-page story. It was further catapulted onto the network evening news when the sightings were covered, although minimally, by ABC and NBC, and became known as the Phoenix Lights.
The next day, on June 19, Gov. Fife Symington announced that he was ordering a full investigation and would make “all the necessary inquiries.”
“We’re going to get to the bottom of this,” he said. “We’re going to find out if it was a UFO.”
Check out this interesting daytime UFO sighting 2016 that happened over Las Vegas, Nevada on January 9. This unknown craft was slowly flying at a low altitude above the city.
What do you think about this video?
Witness report: While at a sales conference at the Red Rocks Resort I had just gotten ready for my walk to the conference center somewhere between 7:15-7:40am. Remembering I told my family I would take a photo from my hotel of the beautiful landscape and the Vegas city skyline. I opened my curtain on this sunny morning. I got my phone ready and began to scan the view for the best picture. After a quick glance I noticed a hot air balloon to the right it was a typical looking hot air balloon. I looked to the left side of my window and noticed a dark shape that seemed contrast in color and shape against the mountain chain. I looked a few moments longer and thought wow that large shape is actually moving. I starred for a few moments and came to the firm conclusion that the object was indeed moving slowly left to right from my viewpoint. After a few minutes of personal viewing I thought I might take a video cause no one will believe me. So I began to take video and a short time into it the video stopped and a message of lack of storage came up. I thought to myself- I should have bought the 32GB phone. Any way, I took a few moments to clear up some storage glancing up to make sure the craft was still there, and it was still moving almost hovering as it had been doing. I cleared the necessary memory and began to take a picture and video again. I wondered what it could be moving so slow it didn’t look like any blimps I have seen at sporting events. It was moving too slow for conventional aircraft, it seemed large for a drone. At one point I quickly pan to the right to see the hot air balloon I had seen earlier to give some perspective. In addition, you can see cars driving underneath. while the first video is a bit shaky I made sure to lean on the window support to try to steady the video. After about four minutes I stopped recording because I had get my rear downstairs to work my booth at our convention. Honestly I do not know what it is which is why I have submitted it to you. I would be interested to hear what the locals or experts have to say about its identity. Summary, seemingly large craft dark in color, moving left to right somewhat steady buy very slow almost hovering. Traveling toward Las Vegas.
A recent study has revealed how the human DNA was encoded using an extraterrestrial signal which was used by ancient aliens who once visited Earth in the distant past – and who are perhaps back again!
Two top researchers from the from the Department of Mathematics, respectively Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan, have been working on something called “The Wow! Signal” of the terrestrial genetic code”. This could quite possibly be one of the greatest ever discoveries ever!
The two leading authors of this extremely important study, Vladimir I. shCherbak and Maxim A. Makukov, trust in the existence of something called the “Biological SETI” – which is a mathematical code residing inside the human races DNA structure – it is something that can definitely NOT be explained via the course of evolution, as traditional theories claim. This appears to be a potential game changer for all we know about our past and origins on planet Earth.
The missing link to our past ~ ET creation?
This important study could actually prove that science is now a massive step closer to proving the Ancient Astronaut theory, as well as the hypothesis of our species being engineered by advanced aliens through DNA manipulation. The two leading researchers stated in the Icarus Journal:
“Once fixed, the code might stay unchanged over cosmological timescales. In fact, it is the most durable construct known. Therefore it represents an exceptionally reliable storage for an intelligent signature. Once the genome is appropriately rewritten, the new code with a signature will stay frozen in the cell and its progeny, which might then be delivered through space and time”.
“In other words, the human DNA is designed with such a precision that it reveals an “ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of symbolic language”.
Perhaps the ET’s are our Creators?
As a result of this intriguing study, many more researchers from around the world are now discussing about the probability of us humans being engineered somewhere ‘outside’ of our solar system by our alien creators several billion years ago – a hypothesis which has for a long time been strongly supported by the many ancient texts found on here on Planet Earth, that speak of the creation of mankind and the creator gods or deities. Perhaps it is the Aliens who are our Gods?
Another part of the study goes on to explain that life on Earth could have emerged as a direct result of ‘microbiological particles’ being carried throughout the darkness and mass of the cosmos on the back of asteroids and comets, which in affect act like huge transportation devices that go around planting life on different planets capable of sustaining it. This thought provoking theory differs a lot from the classic evolution theory, as many supporters believe that we were definitely not a random product of evolution, but quite possibly a certain creation of our makers, prepared and designed and then sent to Earth on purpose!
This theory was actually covered in the Hollywood Blockbuster film called ‘Prometheus’, please see below the opening scene of this ‘drip feeding’ of Disclosure film ~ Just like the evidence that has recently been discovered:
The two researchers Cherbak and Makukov went on to present a very detailed analysis (please see link below) of the human genome that shows a previously ignored precision-type method in the mapping between the DNA’s nucleotides and amino acids. The pair said that:
“Simple arrangements of the code reveal an ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of symbolic language. Accurate and systematic, these underlying patterns appear as a product of precision logic and nontrivial computing”.
U.I.P SUMMARY –
I guess this important find asks many important questions! Like, is it possible that we were possibly designed by advanced alien species who had a rather extended knowledge of creating life through DNA manipulation? And if this is true, does this mean that we are all Aliens on planet earth!? Is the human race possibly a product originating from another planet out there in the infinite Universe? Or could it be that we are a product which has been designed on Earth by an advanced race who anchored on this planet in the ancient past, as many age-old texts have even suggested??
Whilst it is impossible to deny the ‘panspermia hypothesis’ which claims that life on the earth could have originated from microorganisms or chemical precursors of life present somewhere out there in outer space, that were able to initiate life upon reaching a suitable environment, us guys at U.I.P find it FAR more likely that life on Earth is actually a product of a far more intelligent species who have the unique ability to create life on other planets.
No matter what, the up-coming years will reveal to us all far more information regarding of research, which that were until now either forbidden/ignored or just covered up by the Elite.
Perhaps this is why many of us feel that we are from ‘another place’.
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[HD] UFO Filmed Over Colima Volcano in the Moment of Eruption
[HD] UFO Filmed Over Colima Volcano in the Moment of Eruption
A fascinating and at the same time rare sighting of a UFO flying over an active volcano has been recorded by the surveillance cameras tracking volcanic activity on January 3, 2016.
Accounts show that a large number of UFOs are attracted by high amounts of energy, whether it originates from a powerful lightning storm, an active volcano or even a large crowd of people. While some sightings appear to be accumulating energy from the storm clouds, possibly for recharging, others seem to be studying human behavior from above.
However, when it comes to active volcanos, UFOs tend to have a more peculiar behavior. UFO analysts have launched different theories about the unexplained pattern a UFO follows when found over an erupting mountain, but let’s first have a look at this recent case to better understand the situation.
A couple of weeks back, the cameras constantly recording the Colima Volcano surprised a UFO flying over the top just before the eruption. About five seconds into the video, a strange disc-shaped craft makes its presence noticed, and when the volcano erupts, it flies right over it. Is it likely that the passing UFO is responsible for the immediate eruption?
According to some UFO researchers, volcanos might act as a transition zone between the outer realm and the inner Earth, often referred to as Shamballa or Agartha. In the moment of the eruption, the flying craft appears to drop something inside the raging mountain.
Could this be interpreted as a propulsion system which sent the pilots of the UFO through the active volcano and further into the Inner Earth?
If this is the case, we can only guess, but there are other videos revealing UFO activity near the erupting volcanos. Could there be a link between them after all?
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Ruins Of Ancient City Found In Antarctica
Ruins Of Ancient City Found In Antarctica
A California TV crew missing since November 2002, a video they left behind and a mission by U.S. Navy SEALs are the key elements in a story that claims extensive ancient ruins have been found under the ice of Antarctica. That’s according to archaeologist and adventurer Jonathan Gray of World Education Research Ltd in his free newsletter Archaeology News Flash.
A spokesman for the company is reported to have said at the time that “The U.S. government said it will seek to block the airing of a video found by Navy rescuers in Antarctica that purportedly reveals that a massive archaeological dig is underway two miles (3,200 meters) beneath the ice.”
“The AtlantisTV production crew that shot the video is still missing.” reports Gray.
Attorneys for the Beverly Hills-based AtlantisTV stressed at the time that the company’s primary concern was for the safety and welfare of the crew.
But they stated they would vigorously oppose any attempts to censor material that is clearly in the public interest and public domain.
The icy continent of Antarctica, they pointed out, belongs to no nation. "The U.S. has no jurisdiction there.”
McMurdo Station Antarctica
“That video is the property of AtlantisTV, said a company spokesman, We shot it. It’s ours. And as soon as it is rightfully restored to us, were going to air it. End of story.”
WATCHED BY NAVY OFFICERS
“Two Navy officers who saw the tape described its contents to National Science Foundation (NSF) researchers upon their return to the Amundsen-Scott Station at the South Pole,” asserts Gray in his recent newsletter.
Amundsen-Scott Station
So reported sources at McMurdo Station, the main American base in Antarctica.”They said it showed spectacular ruins and other things they couldn’t go into", an NSF scientist reported.
“We chalked it up to some kind of subzero-induced delusion,” he said, “until a helicopter full ofNavy SEALs landed and picked them up and took off. Now, were scratching our heads.”
Officials of the U.S. Naval Support Task Force in Antarctica predictably denied the story or the possession of any video shot by the missing AtlantisTV crew.
Navy sources said they found the video in an abandoned supply dump 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of Vokstok Station.
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At least four YouTube posters think there just may be a lost city on the continent of Antarctica.
A team of researchers are claiming that they have discovered three ancient pyramids on the ice covered continent of Antarctica. Exact details are sketchy, but the team have released three intriguing pictures of their discovery. according to Stephen Hannard ADGUK
The international team comprises researchers from the United States, and several other, are from various European countries. Two of the huge pyramid structures were found approximately 10 miles inland, the third one not far from the coastline, clearly visible from ocean.
The team are currently planning an expedition to reach one of the pyramids to find out if it is a natural or an artificial structure. No further Details have been reported from the team as of 29 August 2012. More news is pending. Im undecided on this one guys until further confirmation, so as always you decide.
LONDON — If you happen to have looked up into the sky recently and spotted strange patterns of shifting colours, don't panic — the weird bodies of lights appearing above Britain aren't UFOs, they're nacreous clouds.
According to the Met Office, they're basically clouds that have been lit up with luminous light from below. The clouds are usually found in Northern countries during polar winter when the sun is hanging low in the sky, and their rainbow-like appearance has earned them the nickname "mother of pearl clouds".
The sky did it again this morning so incredibly beautiful. Been watching this for about an hour. #nacreousclouds
Mashable has reached out to the Met Office for more information on the clouds' appearance over Britain, and we will update this article when we receive a response.
UPDATED 16:45 2 FEBRUARY: The Met Office have contacted Mashable with more information about the clouds.
"Currently, we are able to catch sight of them because cold air which usually circulates around polar regions in the stratosphere (the stratospheric polar vortex) has been displaced from its usual position over the north pole to be over the UK," a Met Office spokesperson said.
"Our weather forecast models indicate the cold polar vortex will remain nearby for the next few days, so we should be able to see Nacreous Clouds when the skies are clear.
"The position of the vortex shifts towards the end of the week taking the coldest air, and the Nacreous Clouds, away from above the UK."
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Tonight, on Channel 5, Mulder and Scully will reopen the X-Files - so we thought we would delve into our own tales our intrigue, terror and general weirdness.
Below are stories of UFOs, alien abduction fears and even paranormal activity. Read on – if you dare!
We start with a motorist who reported seeing lights in the sky above Hythewho said he had no idea what he saw– but was sure was not a plane or helicopter.
Matt Law, 29, had been driving towards Dymchurch in March 2014 to take his dog Jessie for a run when he saw triangular lights in front of him.
As he got closer, they did not move so he came to a halt directly below, opened his window and found there was no sound.
Perplexed, he watched as the lights disappeared.
He told the Herald: "I'm not saying it was a flying saucer – I'm a bit of a sceptic – but it was no plane or helicopter."
Motorcyclist Michael D was "terrified" when a UFO hovered over his car while he travelled at about 35 miles per hour.
The witness reported online he had been riding home from a friend's house when he spotted a "massive flying thing" in the sky. The unknown entity hovered above him as he drove from Hawkinge towards Canterbury at about 1.50am on December 27 2014.
He said: "I caught up with it and saw it had a green light on one side and red on the other, both flashing slowly with a dot of white underneath. It was as if it stopped over me but had no sound."
Footage we showed of strange lights seen flying over a home in Folkestone was described as "intriguing" by one of the UK's foremost experts on UFOs.
The video was uploaded to YouTube and was watched about 30 times by curious viewers
When shown the clip by the Herald, Nick Pope, who investigated UFOs for the Ministry of Defence, said: "Assuming it's genuine, it's an intriguing piece of footage."
A pensioner who spotted an unidentified flying object over his home in Cheriton claimed visitors from another world are watching us.
That was the opinion of former Ministry of Defence worker Derek Clarke, who said he saw a UFO over his home in Biggins Wood Road in 2010.
The skies over Lydd are the site of an unsolved UFO incident, according to official Government documents released in 2008.
The reports showed a passenger plane was involved in a near miss with an unidentified flying object over Kent.
The incident, reported in April 1991, involved a fast-moving object thought, at first, to be a missile.
A description made out to the Civil Aviation Authority said: "The pilots reported seeing a missile cross above their position whilst descending as they prepared to land in London."
The Alitalia flight, en route from Milan to Heathrow, was piloted by Captain Achille Zaghetti. In an official review he said: "During descent I saw for about 3 to 4 seconds a flying object flying about 1,000ft higher than us."
Government letters, reports from the Folkestone Herald and details of an RAF investigation into a UFO sighting near former MP Michael Howard's home featured in UFO files released by the Ministry of Defence.
Eyewitnesses in Burmarsh and New Romney saw the ''humming'' object, the size of two passenger planes, near Mr Howard's home on March 8 1997, when he was serving as home secretary for the Conservative government.
Sophie Wadleigh, 25, from Hythe, reported the sighting to the Folkestone Herald.
She told the newspaper: ''It was so peculiar, it all felt really odd and I heard this humming noise."
When landlord Stuart Whiffen feels a gentle push on his back he knows he has to ask a customer to leave the premises – or risk annoying a spirit which shares his Sandgate pub.
Since taking over the Ship Inn 29 years ago he says he has encountered at least two ghosts, who on one occasion even forced his staff to flee the building in terror.
The first, who he calls the fish woman owing to the stench which accompanies her, he has only seen on one memorable occasion a few years ago, when she was wearing a distinctive dress.
But the other is a different story.
Mr Whiffen told the Herald: "The second one is a bit of a madam.
"We've had music turn up and down on its own and doors crash shut – so much so that we've called police as we think we have intruders."
Has the CIA ever seen UFOs? What type of information about UFOs has the CIA released to the public? Are the X-Files real? The CIA has released an online library of UFO documents and sightings called “UFOs: Fact or Fiction?” The entire library can be found at this link. The document below is one of the most intriguing from the library. In it, the CIA admits back in 1952 that it has confirmed reports of unidentified objects flying near military installations, and these objects cannot be attributed to natural occurrences or any known military aircraft. The sightings required immediate attention. See the document below:
The CIA has released photos of alleged UFOs -- its own real-life X-Files cases. These documents were actually already declassified back in 1978, but they're being released again with easier online access due to renewed interest after The X-Files relaunch. We've dug a little deeper into the CIA's FOIA releases to bring even more UFO photos to this gallery. Are UFOs real? Did the CIA really release photos of UFOs? Click through the gallery to see some of the best UFO reports and photos and judge for yourself.
This first and one of the most compelling photos is taken from a released CIA report published on July 29, 1952. The paper is titled "Recent Sightings of Unexplained Objects." In this document, the CIA admits that there are unidentified objects near U.S. military installations that they could not identify. Specifically, it reads:
Recent reports reaching CIA indicated that further action was desirable... At this time, the reports of incidents convince us that there is something going on that must have immediate attention... Sightings of unexplained objects at great altitudes and travelling at high speeds in the vicinity of major U.S. defense installations are of such nature that they are not attributable to natural phenomenon or known types of aerial vehicles."
To read the entire document, please see this story. To see all the CIA UFO documents, please visit the CIA's website here. (CIA)
Stephanie Dube Dwilson is a news, entertainment & science/tech writer at Heavy. She's also a featured cat blogger for CatTime, runs a post-apocalyptic blog, and is a guest writer for a number of publications. In her spare time, Stephanie writes screenplays and novels about sci-fi mysteries. You can follow her on Twitter at @StephanieDube or contact her by email here.
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Famous UFO cases: 2004 Mexican UFO incident
Famous UFO cases: 2004 Mexican UFO incident
On May 13, 2004 Jaime Maussan ( above ) released his interview of Mexican Air Force pilots showing an infrared video footage from a military air patrol on March 5, 2004 against drug smuggling, that shows at least 11 very hot “spheres” moving irregularly with apparent great speed. Location: Over Campeche state, Mexico. The objects could not be seen with the naked eye, neither the crew on board nor ground personnel confirmed any radar contact with the objects in question. The crew did however pick up an earlier radar contact of an object moving at 60 mph which was later described as a lonely truck on the highway below which has been located to the front of the two engine Merlin C26A aircraft whereas the infrared targets were picked up through a dome mounted IR-system a little later at abt. -130° azimuth relative to the aircraft’s flight direction in its 8 o’clock position.
Skeptics
Skeptics have suggested that the UFOs were actually oil platform burn-off flares of the Cantarell oil field located around19°22′04″N 92°00′25″W / 19.36778°N 92.00694°W / 19.36778; -92.00694, some 240 kilometres (149 mi) to the north west of the aircraft. This would have placed the objects near the horizon so as to appear on the same level as the aircraft. Captain Alejandro Franz analyzed the latter option and published his results from July 2004 to May 2008. (right: Location of Mexican Air Force sighting)
Frame from FLIR infrared video camera of objects flying near plane.
Associated Press / Jaime Maussan
Mexican Air Force pilots filmed 11 unidentified flying objects in the skies over southern Campeche state in Mexico, a Mexican Defense Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday. A videotape was made widely available to the news media.
“Mexican Air Force Pilots Film 11 UFOs”
Associated Press 5/11/04
MEXICO CITY (AP) – Mexican Air Force pilots filmed 11 unidentified flying objects in the skies over southern Campeche state, a Defense Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday.
A videotape made widely available to the news media on Tuesday shows the bright objects, some sharp points of light and others like large headlights, moving rapidly in what appears to be a late-evening sky.
The lights were filmed on March 5 by pilots using infrared equipment. They appeared to be flying at an altitude of about 3,500 meters (11,480 feet), and allegedly surrounded the Air Force jet as it conducted routine anti-drug trafficking vigilance in Campeche. Only three of the objects showed up on the plane’s radar.
“Was I afraid? Yes. A little afraid because we were facing something that had never happened before,” said radar operator Lt. German Marin in a taped interview made public Tuesday.
“I couldn’t say what it was … but I think they’re completely real,” added Lt. Mario Adrian Vazquez, the infrared equipment operator. Vazquez insisted that there was no way to alter the recorded images.
The plane’s captain, Maj. Magdaleno Castanon, said the military jets chased the lights “and I believe they could feel we were pursuing them.”
When the jets stopped following the objects, they disappeared, he said.
A Defense Department spokesman confirmed Tuesday that the videotape was filmed by members of the Mexican Air Force. The spokesman declined to comment further and spoke on customary condition of anonymity.
The video was first aired on national television Monday night then again at a news conference Tuesday by Jaime Maussan, a Mexican investigator who has dedicated the past 10 years to studying UFOs.
“This is historic news,” Maussan told reporters. “Hundreds of videos (of UFOs) exist, but none had the backing of the armed forces of any country. … The armed forces don’t perpetuate frauds.”
Maussan said Secretary of Defense Gen. Ricardo Vega Garcia gave him the video on April 22.
C26A crew members/eye witnesses
Mexican researcher and journalist Jaime Maussan’s press briefing, Mexico City, 5/12/2004:
Following yesterday’s news story about the sighting of eleven UFOs by a Mexican Military aircraft, the Mexican Department of Defense – under Secretary of Defense General Clemente Vega Garcia, commander of all armed forces in the country – have taken the unprecedented step of publically confirming the incident. The press conference took place at the Hotel Sevilla Palace in Mexico city and international media representatives were invited.
JAIME MAUSSAN’S PRESS BRIEFING DOCUMENT:
THE FACTS: On April 20, 2004 Jaime Maussan was contacted by a high officer of the Department of Defense to have a private meeting and discuss a subject of a high relevant matter. The next day Maussan met General Clemente Vega Garcia, Secretary of Defense and his major staff and was informed about an incident that took place on March 5, 2004 on the aerial space of Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche where an Air Force Merlín C26A Bimotor airplane was doing a routine flight to detect a smuggling drug airplane during an ant-narcotics operation.
The Merlin C26A was equipped with a high tech advanced digital equipment to register and record all the activities during the operation. Powerful sensor detectors like a FLIR STAR ZAPPHIR II and a RADAR AN/PS 143 BRAVO VICTOR 3 were being used by qualified personal aboard the airplane and all the operation was being recorded both in normal and infrared mode. The airplane was under the command of Mayor Magdaleno Jasso Núñez.
The FLIR operator was Lt. Mario Adrián Vázquez and the RADAR operator Lt. German Ramirez, all of them members of the 501 Aerial Squadron. This airplane is programmed only for surveillance and detection procedures, not for interception or combat manouvres. Their duty is to detect and identify drug dealers flights and then immediately report them to the base where combat planes are scrambled to intercept those narcotics smugglers. At approximately 17:00 PM the Merlin C26A detected an unknown traffic at 10,500 feet over Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche airspace and according to the protocol and suspecting a drug dealer airplane Mayor Magdaleno Jasso made a maneuver to approach the unidentified traffic at certain range to get a close look and record the target with their equipment.
At the same time Mayor Jasso reported by radio to the base that a possible suspect was detected requesting the interceptor planes to be in alert condition. The RADAR AN/PS 143 BRAVO VICTOR 3 was detecting the unknown traffic and the FLIR STAR ZAPPHIR II was recording the object in infrared. As the Merlin C26A tried to approach the unknown traffic to make a visual identification it suddenly in a surprising maneuver escaped flying away at tremendous speed.
By this time Mayor Jasso tried to persecute the target but it was very fast. All this was being recorded by the FLAIR and also the radio conversations with the base describing the unexpected maneuver of the unknown. However the C26A still have not made visual contact with the unknown object. Just some moments passed when suddenly the unknown object returned and began following the Merlin C26A in a surprising situation.
This was detected by the RADAR and the FLIR while the personal aboard were trying to make visual contact of the unidentified traffic now following them. In seconds the equipment detected now not only one but two traffics following them. The images in both RADAR and the FLIR were clear and unmistakable. But both pilot and personal still couldn’t have visual contact with these two traffics following them adding a great suspense to this disconcerting situation. Mayor Magdaleno Jasso reported to the base the incident that was taking place giving detail of all the information registered by the equipment while keep trying to make visual contact of the unknowns. The FLIR kept recording in infrared every movement made by the two unknown objects that seemed to be keeping their distance from the C26A but still following it. The personal aboard the Merlin C26A were confused and disconcerted seeing the images on the FLIR and the RADAR asking themselves what was going on with this situation.
THE INCIDENT TURNS MORE DRAMATIC
But the stressing moment that the C26A crew were passing through was just the beginning of something more dramatic that will turn their undesirable experience into a real nightmare. Some minutes passed while the Mexican Air Force Merlin C26A crew continued making maneuvers to have a visual contact of the unknowns because despite both RADAR and FLIR were showing perfectly clear both unidentified objects for unexplained reasons there was not a visual contact even that the objects by this time were at close range. It was during this round and round maneuvers to identify these two objects that something amazing happened. In a matter of seconds more unknown objects arrived to the scene and the disconcert of the C26A crew was total.
The RADAR and the FLIR detected immediately the presence of nine new objects of the same size and characteristics, unknown objects that arrived to the scene surprisingly like coming from nowhere.
Now the situation has entered into a high level of danger so Mayor Magdaleno Jasso reported by radio to the base this new situation requesting instructions. But the most bizarre thing was that even though there were eleven unknown objects close to them, still the crew couldn’t see them, no visual contact with the unknowns was possible for some reason never experienced before by these high trained men. However the high tech sophisticated equipment and sensors were not lying, there were eleven targets outside them with unpredictable intentions.
At the middle of a complete confusion and disconcert among the C26A crew the unknown objects suddenly made a maneuver surrounding the Mexican Air Force airplane in a circle at close range. The RADAR and FLIR presented an image of an eleven objects near by in a circle formation around the Merlin C26A. The situation turned out of control. Mayor Magdaleno Jasso reported to the base that the C26A situation was now in red alert, surrounded by eleven mysterious round shaped objects camouflaged with a certain unknown advanced technology that avoid any visual contact of them.
However Mayor Jasso kept the calm as well as the crew who were working fast measuring and recording every detail of this unique incident conscientious of their duty as military and trained men. Confronting this situation surrounded by unidentified objects in an unpredictable ending Mayor Magdaleno Jasso took the decision of turning out all the airplane lights and wait to see what happened. Moments of high suspense lived by the crew while the FLIR was recording the images of those bright objects even that visual contact was not possible, moments of silence and uncertainty.
The C26A crew kept calmed doing their duty, documenting every moment of the strange incident while Mayor Jasso continued in contact with the base. After some stressing minutes the eleven objects disappeared giving an end to the strange experience that these members of the 501 Aerial Squadron just lived. The Merlin C26A returned safe to the Air Force Base and Mayor Magdaleno Jasso prepared a complete report of the incident along with the C26A crew. The Secretary of the Defense took notice of Mayor Jasso’s report and began a full investigation studying and evaluating every element of the case.
Statements of the crew, images, lectures, measurements of all the equipment as well as a complete evaluation of the meteorological data . The incident was taken very seriously by the Department of Defense Staff and after several weeks of investigation they decided under the command of General Clemente Vega Garcia to contact researcher and TV journalist Jaime Maussan for a special collaboration in this investigation as an experienced researcher in these matters. On April 22, 2004 General Clemente Vega, Secretary of Defense gave Jaime Maussan a copy of all the tapes and data collected by the Merlin C26A during the incident for study, evaluation and analysis by Maussan’s research team as complement of this investigation and as an external collaborating source trying to establish a definition of the possible motives and consequences of the March 5, 2004 incident.
General Vega as well as his staff were very open to discuss the subject and showed their legitimate interest in conducting this investigation in order to establish the truth of what happened. General Vega authorized the Merlin C26A crew to give Jaime Maussan the interviews needed without any censorship, giving all the facilities to present this case to the Mexican people, an historic and unprecedented decision that will open a new era of mutual collaboration among the Mexican ufologists and the military forces, a collaboration based in respect and interest to find the truth of the intense UFO activity we have been experiencing here in Mexico since the beginning of the Amazing Mexican UFO Wave back in July 11, 1991.
This new era of relationship among the Mexican UFO witnesses, skywatchers, ufologists and our military forces will try to establish and give form to a new legislation in our law system focused to be prepared for any incident involving these unidentified flying objects, our people, our commercial and military airplanes etc. for learning and understanding what are we going to do and how are we going to confront this reality.
Summary:
On April 20, 2004, Mexican UFO investigator and television personality Jaime Maussan was summoned by Mexico’s Department of Defense to a private meeting to discuss a matter of national importance. Maussan met with General Clemente Vega Garcia, Secretary of Defense, and other members of his staff. Maussan was informed that on March 5, an extraordinary incident took place in the skies over Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche.
Anti-Narcotics Operation:
A Mexican Air Force Merlin C26A bi-motor airplance was performing routine duties to detect drug smuggling airplanes, in a anti-narcotics operation. The plane had a high-tech FLIR STAR ZAPPHIR II and a RADAR AN/PS 143 BRAVO VICTOR 3, which implements infrared video. Mayor Magdaleno Jasso Núñez was the commander of the plane, Lt. Mario Adrian Vasquez was FLIR operator, and Lt. German Ramirez was radar operator-all three were members of the 501 Aerial Squadron.
Unknown Target Detected:
The plane was not a combat plane-its mission was to detect planes without flight plans, and report their find to base headquarters, where combat planes would be scrambled to encounter the smugglers. At 17:00 hours, the Merlin detected unknown traffic at 10,500 feet over Ciudad del Carmen. The plane then flew closer to the unknown target to record it with their equipment. They reported their unknown target to base. (right picture: Frame from FLIR infrared video camera of objects flying near plane. Click for enlarge.)
UFO Follows Plane:
The Merlin’s radar was painting the object, and the infrared cameras were filming it. The Merlin attempted to move closer yet for a visual confirmation, but as it did, the unknown target made a surprise maneuver, and flew away at great speed. The entire event was being recorded, and the details were being reported as they occurred to base. Without warning, the unknown object suddenly reappeared, and began following the Merlin.
No Visual Contact:
In a moment, the Merlin’s radar was now seeing two objects, but there had still been no visual contact. The crew became alarmed because they could not make a maneuver that would enable a visual confirmation of the unknown objects. In a minute or two, there would be nine more objects , which seemed to come from out of nowhere. In another unexpected move, the eleven unknown objects were now circling the Merlin.
Full Investigation Ordered:
Though close enough to see the unknowns, the crew aboard the Merlin stated the objects must have been invisible. After some stressful moments, suddenly the eleven UFOs were gone-nowhere to be seen or recorded on camera. The Merlin returned to the Air Force base, and Jasso prepared a full report on the incident. After the Secretary of the Defense read Jasso’s report, he ordered a full investigation into the incident.
Air Force Freely Releases Information:
On April 22, 2004, General Clemente Vega, Secretary of Defense contacted Maussan and his research team, and turned over all of the tapes and information collected by the Merlin. In a rare move, the Mexican military declared that they were open to discuss and evaluate the sighting of the UFOs without suppressing any information from the public. This collaboration between the military and the general public had its beginnings during the Mexico UFO Wave of 1991.
Infrared Video of UFOs:
The extraordinary FLIR video of the eleven unknown objects flying over Campeche became news all over the world. UFO investigators were thrilled to finally have solid, undeniable evidence of the existence of UFOs flying over our skies. The UFO video was freely shared over the Internet, and discussed on many UFO web sites, and forums.
Solid Proof:
The debunkers would get in their two-cents worth, claiming that the glowing objects recorded by the camera of the Merlin plane were nothing more than oil field fires bouncing off of the clouds. This explanation has been accepted by some, but many hold to the film as solid proof of UFOs.
Mexico Ufo Encounter 11 UFO’s The most famous sighting ever! Original footage.
This footage was filmed in 2004 over mexico by military personnel who were looking for drug smugglers flying private planes they thought they had something when this happened, they managed to capture on film this amazing encounter with upto 11 ufo’s whilst flying in there aircraft, this footage has since become very famous and mexico even came out to the public and admitted the story was very true and are now taking the ufo issue very seriously. The footage speaks for itself!
“A friend said, he would never forget the sight of the alien looking TR-3B based at Papoose. The pitch black, triangular shaped TR-3B was rarely mentioned–and then, only in hushed whispers–at the Groom Lake facility where he worked. The craft had flown over the Groom Lake runway in complete silence and magically stopped above Area S-4. It hovered silently in the same position, for some 10 minutes, before gently settling vertically to the tarmac. At times a corona of silver blue light glowed around the circumference of the massive TR-3B. The operational model is 600 feet across.” The TR-3B is Code named Astra. The tactical reconnaissance TR-3B first operational flight was in the early 90s. The triangular shaped nuclear powered aerospace platform was developed under the Top Secret, Aurora Program with SDI and black budget monies. At least 3 of the billion dollar plus TR-3Bs were flying by 1994. The Aurora is the most classified aerospace development program in existence. The TR-3B is the most exotic vehicle created by the Aurora Program. It is funded and operationally tasked by the National Reconnaissance Office, the NSA, and the CIA. The TR-3B flying triangle is not fiction and was built with technology available in the mid 80s. Not every UFO spotted is one of theirs.
The TR-3B vehicles outer coating is reactive to electrical Radar stimulation and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness, and color. This polymer skin, when used in conjunction with the TR-3Bs Electronic Counter Measures and, ECCM, can make the vehicle look like a small aircraft, or a flying cylinder–or even trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or several aircraft at various locations. A circular, plasma filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter, surrounds the rotatable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology. Sandia and Livermore laboratories developed the reverse engineered MFD technology. The government will go to any lengths to protect this technology. The plasma, mercury based, is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin and accelerated to 50,000 rpm to create a super-conductive plasma with the resulting gravity disruption. The MFD generates a magnetic vortex field, which disrupts or neutralizes the effects of gravity on mass within proximity, by 89 percent. Do not misunderstand. This is not antigravity. Anti-gravity provides a repulsive force that can be used for propulsion. The MFD creates a disruption of the Earth’s gravitational field upon the mass within the circular accelerator. The mass of the circular accelerator and all mass within the accelerator, such as the crew capsule, avionics, MFD systems, fuels, crew environmental systems, and the nuclear reactor, are reduced by 89%. This causes the effect of making the vehicle extremely light and able to outperform and outmaneuver any craft yet constructed–except, of course, those UFOs we did not build.
The TR-3B is a high altitude, stealth, reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. Once you get it up there at speed, it doesnt take much propulsion to maintain altitude. At Groom Lake their have been whispered rumours of a new element that acts as a catalyst to the plasma. With the vehicle mass reduced by 89%, the craft can travel at Mach 9, vertically or horizontally. My sources say the performance is limited only the stresses that the human pilots can endure. Which is a lot, really, considering along with the 89% reduction in mass, the G forces are also reduced by 89%.
The TR-3Bs propulsion is provided by 3 multimode thrusters mounted at each bottom corner of the triangular platform. The TR-3 is a sub-Mach 9 vehicle until it reaches altitudes above l20,000 feet–then God knows how fast it can go! The 3 multimode rocket engines mounted under each corner of the craft use hydrogen or methane and oxygen as a propellent. In a liquid oxygen/hydrogen rocket system, 85% of the propellent mass is oxygen. The nuclear thermal rocket engine uses a hydrogen propellent, augmented with oxygen for additional thrust. The reactor heats the liquid hydrogen and injects liquid oxygen in the supersonic nozzle, so that the hydrogen burns concurrently in the liquid oxygen afterburner. The multimode propulsion system can; operate in the atmosphere, with thrust provided by the nuclear reactor, in the upper atmosphere, with hydrogen propulsion, and in orbit, with the combined hydrogen oxygen propulsion. What you have to remember is, that the 3 rocket engines only have to propel 11 percent of the mass of the Top Secret TR-3B. The engines are reportedly built by Rockwell. Many sightings of triangular UFOs are not alien vehicles but the top secret TR-3B. The NSA, NRO, CIA, and USAF have been playing a shell game with aircraft nomenclature – creating the TR-3, modified to the TR-3A, the TR-3B, and the Teir 2, 3, and 4, with suffixes like Plus or Minus added on to confuse further the fact that each of these designators is a different aircraft and not the same aerospace vehicle. A TR-3B is as different from a TR-3A as a banana is from a grape. Some of these vehicles are manned and others are unmanned.
USAF Top secret nuclear powered flying triangle – The TR-3b.
Click on the picture to enlarge.
Their has been a lot of interest in this Military aircraft known as the TR3B. The TR3B is a triangular shaped Nuclear powered aerospace craft. Many, like myself wounder what the propulsion is, that makes it possible. Here how Mr. Edgar Fouche (on the right photo) a physics expert. A circular,plasma filled accelerator ring, called the Magnetic Field Disruptor surrounds the rotatable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology. The plasma, mercury based, is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres, at a temperature of 150 degrees kelvin and accelerated to 50,000 RPM to create a super conducted plasma, resulting in gravity disruption. The MFD generates a magnetic vortex field, which neutralizes the effects of gravity by up to 89%. He goes on to say some of his soures said the performance is only limited only to the stresses to the human pilots can endure. With 89% reduction in G’s what would have been 4.2g limit is now a 40G limit. The TR3B’s main propulsion is by three multi-mode thrusters mounted at each corner of the triangle. The craft is a sub mach 9 craft, at 120,000 feet,and below.Its never been tested any higher, so who know its limits. The first pictures ever taken of the TR3B were in Belgium March 31 1990 (LINK), it was again sighted in Idaho in 2000 when it flew within 200 feet of some people camping. The one thing that makes it stick out is the three lights,one on each corner, and one main light in the center
The campers said it was noiseless except for a small huming,when it moved. Rumors that the pending official disclosure of the existence of the TB3R a been around for a while now. Most want to know how it works, but I’m sure its going to be a while before it becomes public.
Orange Fireballs and Little People in England—the Incredible 1994 UFO-Humanoid Case at Silbury Hill
Orange Fireballs and Little People in England—the Incredible 1994 UFO-Humanoid Case at Silbury Hill
By Gregory Little
This is one of the most bizarre multiple-witness UFO cases ever recorded in the UK and it rivals the famous 1955 Kelly-Hopkinsville (Green Men Case) for strangeness. The entire 1994 Silbury Hill event is detailed in 11 pages by Andrew Collins in his 2012 book Lightquest. This article is only a brief synopsis of the events and subsequent experiences reported by the witnesses. The case is little known outside the UK but is clearly one of the most important cases in UFO history. The book Lightquest includes several full-page illustrations of the objects and the beings encountered by the witnesses.
In July 1994 three people climbed England’s Silbury Hill and planned to spend the night atop the 131-foot high mound to watch for possible crop circle activity. The three people (two men and a woman) were soon met by two other friends, but the two friends left shortly before dark. A group of 5-6 teenagers was also on the summit of the mound at the same time. The teenagers fell asleep around midnight as fog began to encircle the mound and they appeared to be “frozen” or deeply asleep when the strangeness began to unfold.
Around 1:00 am the three witnesses heard what they thought were the sounds of someone ascending the hill by coming straight up the side—not by using the spiral path that leads up and around the hill. Looking over the side of the steep mound they thought they could see small dark forms moving around, forms resembling children, but their attention was immediately grabbed by the sight of an orange fireball appearing about a mile away—slowly floating above the ground. When all three people looked at the orange, fiery orb another fireball immediately appeared beside the first. At that distance the witnesses described them as looking like flaming, orange torches. Immediately they smelled sulfur and something like burning rubber and they could hear dogs in the distance now barking wildly. The fireballs floated quickly toward the three witnesses and when the orbs were about 170 yards away from the mound, one of the witnesses turned on a flashlight. Immediately the orange orbs stopped moving. The witnesses then could clearly see a “structured form” hanging below each of the orange orbs. The balls of orange fire appeared to be about 2-feet in diameter, but the objects below each were larger. The objects under the orbs were tetrahedron shaped—a three-sided pyramid—and floating above the ground. When the flashlight was turned off, the floating lights continued moving toward them. They watched as what looked like electrical discharges occasionally flashed to the ground from the orbs. When the forms got closer, the witnesses were stunned by what they saw.
Inside both of the now translucent pyramid-shaped objects they could see a small being sitting with crossed legs and hands clasped on their laps. The beings were glowing orange and were estimated to have been 4-5 feet tall. The female witness — for reasons she could not explain — blurted out, “They’re little people.” The fireballs floated higher and eventually elevated to about 10 feet above the hill and about 15-20 feet away from the witnesses. At that point, everything seemed to mentally move in slow motion. They heard a cracking sound and what seemed to be whispering. One of the witnesses believed that the creatures were somehow communicating with them. As the orange glow from the objects was reflected onto the surrounding trees and the hill, both fireballs silently expanded in a massive and blinding flash of light.
The orbs and dangling pyramid shaped objects reappeared after the light flash subsided and then floated down the hill, they then joined together into a single fireball, and moved over a nearby road to an adjacent field. It was at this point the most bizarre event occurred.
One of the humanoid beings slowly emerged from the fireball, but as it emerged it was holding the hand of the other humanoid, also pulling it out of the orb. Both of the orange, glowing beings floated next to the orb, hand-in-hand, and then they re-entered the fireball. At that moment from behind the object several more orange orbs suddenly appeared, numbering from 3-4. Below each of these the witnesses could see a translucent tetrahedron with a small humanoid being sitting inside. The group of orange objects then moved away from Silbury following a road toward the town of Marlborough, illuminating the road as they moved.
Unexpectedly, a car then appeared on the road moving toward the lights. In response, the orange orbs merged into a single light and shrank to the size of a tennis ball and rapidly jumped off the road into a hedgerow. As the three witnesses saw the car then hit its brakes, a man suddenly came up to the top of the hill and startled them. He said he had been sleeping on a portion of the other side of the hill and was awakened. Then, all 4 witnesses saw the tennis-ball size light reappear and rapidly move toward Silbury Hill and spin around it. Shortly thereafter the witnesses saw what they described as a string of multi-colored lights moving up a nearby hill and over it out of sight.
The three main witnesses decided to tell no one about their experience, but for years thereafter they were haunted by the experience. Nightmares, fear, changes in career, and various other emotional issues emerged. Andrew Collins, who is well-known and respected in that area of the UK, extensively interviewed all of the witnesses while researching the book Lightquest and was convinced of their honesty. The first time that the story was publicly revealed was in his book.
The area around Silbury and nearby Avebury is a hotbed of strange reports: UFOs, crop circles, humanoids, strange lights, and apparitional phenomena are frequently reported. Around 2006 my wife and I stayed with the Collins’s for a week at Avebury exploring Silbury, the Avebury circle, and nearby sites. We spent several nights walking the standing stone grassy avenues leading for miles in various directions to different sites. Oddly, each night we observed small orbs of blue/green/white lights emanating from the hills running alongside the avenues.
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DIAMOND SHAPED ALIEN CRAFT ENCOUNTER IN FLORIDA
DIAMOND SHAPED ALIEN CRAFT ENCOUNTER IN FLORIDA
DIAMOND SHAPED ALIEN CRAFT ENCOUNTER IN FLORIDA
OCTOBER 4, 2012 ………… SAINT PETERSBURG FLORIDA
I was laying on the roof of a building with a friend while we were waiting on a buddy to get out of class. My friend was walking around on the roof while I was lying down. I was staring up at the stars when I saw a bright white elongated diamond shape appear out of nowhere. The object looked as though it was coming through the atmosphere because it had a contrail but the color was nothing like a comet’s trail; It was more of a pink color. The ‘front’ of it was the elongated, more acute angle (i.e. the pointier end of the diamond). It traveled a short distance in a straight line before it disappeared. (approx. 2 inches if I held my arm straight up). The contrail seemed to be coming off of the object and disappeared just as the object did. At this point I yelled “Holy ****! Dude did you see that?” Just as I was saying this I saw another white diamond appear in the same area of sky. This time the contrail was red/purple. The object flew perpendicular to the first object’s path. It seemed a little bit bigger than the first one, but I am not sure if it was the same object a little closer or if it was a second object. This object was visible for the same amount of time (1-2 seconds) before it vanished just like the first one. I wanted to make sure my friend saw it, so I yelled “Look up!” and pointed towards the area as the second one was going by. By the time he looked up it had vanished. Then a third diamond appeared in the same area of sky! This time its path was parallel to the previous one; the flight path of all three basically made the shape of a capital ‘H’. It was bright white like the others but there was no trail coming off of the object on this pass. It moved slower this time and it was much closer; I could actually see the diamond shape spin on its long axis! Again, it vanished after a couple of seconds had passed.
I asked my friend if he saw it too, he said “Yea, what the hell was that?!” (More like he yelled in a panicked tone). Of course, I had no answer for him. At this point I felt a wave of anxiety come over me and I wanted to get off of the roof as quickly as possible and go somewhere inside. So we both hurried down to the ground and went indoors. I asked him what he saw and he basically said it looked like a bright spinning arrowhead that appeared and disappeared. The images of them have been burned into my memory and I have reflected upon that moment quite often. I am not sure if it was the same object slowly making its way through the atmosphere or three separate objects. I am also not sure if the brightness of the object was from the heat produced by an object entering the atmosphere, but that is the only explanation I can think of; it still bugs me that the third sighting had no trail but was still bright white. I simply do not know how to rationalize it.
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This Day in Spaceflight History: 3 Launches, 2 to the Moon
This Day in Spaceflight History: 3 Launches, 2 to the Moon
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
Ham, the first chimpanzee in space, after flight.
Credit: NASA
In the five-plus decades that humans have managed to escape from Earth's gravity well, Jan. 31 has been a busier day than usual.
Today marks the 55th anniversary of the Mercury Redstone-2 launch, which carried Ham the chimpanzee into space; the 50th anniversary of the launch of the Soviet moon lander Luna 9; and the 45th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 14, the third crewed lunar landing.
These anniversaries mark significant milestones in humanity's journey toward the stars. One was a precursor to NASA's first human spaceflight, one was a critical step in getting human technology all the way to the moon and one was the first lunar mission following a nearly disastrous attempt to put humans on the moon. [Giant Leaps: Biggest Milestones of Human Spaceflight]
First chimp in space
The Mercury Redstone-2 (MR-2) mission, which launched on Jan. 31, 1961, was one of a series of flights that laid the groundwork for eventually putting humans into space. Among the animals that NASA sent to space as part of that preparation was Ham the chimpanzee, the first chimp in space. Ham returned safely to Earth, but other primates perished during American test flights in the 1940s and 1950s.
Only a few months later, on April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first person ever to fly in space. On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard took off aboard another Mercury Redstone rocket, becoming the first American in space.
Lost Luna 9
The former Soviet Union's Luna 9 spacecraft.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/NSSDC
The Luna 9 probe was the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on an extraterrestrial body. It took off on Jan. 31, 1966, and made it to the moon on Feb. 3 of that year. It sent back close-range images of the surface of the moon, and represented an incredible feat of spaceflight engineering.
But to this day, no one knows exactly where Luna 9 came to rest. There was no way to precisely track its location. As recently as last November, researchers announced they'd be searching for Luna 9 using NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.
First golfer on the moon
Apollo 14 lifts off on Jan. 31, 1971.
Credit: NASA
The three crewmembers of Apollo 14 left Earth on Jan. 31, 1971. It would become the third crewed mission to successfully reach the surface of the moon. (The nearly disastrous Apollo 13 mission was the third attempt at a crewed moon landing.)
The crew consisted of Alan Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa. Shepard surprised the world when, just before the crew returned home, he pulled out a six iron and teed off on the lunar surface. The crew returned to Earth on Feb. 9.
This model of the USS Enterprise starship was used in the original "Star Trek" TV series, which aired from 1966 to 1969.
Credit: National Air and Space Museum
Since viewers first heard the famous tagline, "… to boldly go where no man has gone before," "Star Trek" has represented the hope of what space — “the final frontier” — can mean for humanity in a few centuries.
Over several television series and films, the franchise mostly follows the adventures of crews on the USS Enterprise. Humanity is just one of a vast number of alien species participating in a quasi-military organization called Starfleet, whose main goal is to explore the universe for scientific reasons. Starfleet has strict rules about interacting with more primitive species and protecting uncolonized planets, but from time to time the crews in the show run afoul of these rules — sometimes with tragic results.
General franchise history and overview
"Star Trek" was created in the 1960s by Gene Roddenberry, a WWII veteran who began his screenwriting career writing freelance scripts while with the Los Angeles Police Department. Famously, NBC executives did not like the first pilot. They reportedly said the show had too little action and was “too cerebral” for viewers; however, they offered the chance for a second pilot. Except for an alien called Spock (Leonard Nimoy), the cast was switched out for a different crew led by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner).
"Star Trek" first aired in 1966. The series followed the adventures of the USS Enterprise on a five-year mission to “explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.” The show was cancelled in 1968 due to ratings concerns, but did well enough in syndication to justify several Hollywood films.
The original series (often referred to as "TOS") spawned six motion pictures between 1979 and 1991 (plus a partial appearance by some members of the original crew in a 1994 "Star Trek" film). Along with an animated series (1973-74), this helped keep the series alive in the minds of fans.
Syndication success eventually led to the creation of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987-1994), which was set many years after the original series, with a new USS Enterprise helmed by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). This generation of "Star Trek" tackled issues such as racism, gender and torture, and remains one of the most popularly cited series to this day. "TNG" eventually moved into theaters, with four films between 1994 and 2002.
Roddenberry died in 1991. While "TNG" was still on the air, a different series, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993-1999), premiered. The show followed the exploits of a crew on a space station, rather than the traditional starship.
"Star Trek" also saw two more commercial TV series. "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995-2001) followed the exploits of a crew that was stranded in space, led by the series' first main female captain, Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew). Finally, "Enterprise" (2001-2005) took to the air as a prequel to the events of The Original Series, where Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) helmed the first warp-drive capable Enterprise.
"Enterprise" was cancelled in 2005, but four years later The Original Series came back to Hollywood with a reboot of the original characters of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy — plus the rest of the main crew. The 2009 film was a hit and has so far spawned three other films – "Star Trek: Into Darkness" (2013), "Star Trek Beyond" (2016) and an untitled film in the works for 2019.
Meanwhile, Star Trek is expected to return to television – at least through CBS streaming – in 2017, when an untitled series makes its debut.
Franchise impact on real-life space exploration
Perhaps the most famous example of Star Trek inspiring real-life took place in the 1970s. The United States was preparing to run test flights of the space shuttle program using a prototype vehicle called Constitution. In response, thousands of "Star Trek" fans staged a write-in campaign to the White House and NASA asking for the prototype shuttle to be named Enterprise. When Enterprise was indeed unveiled in 1976, most of the main cast of TOS was on hand. Enterprise was not designed to fly in space, however.
Decades later, space tourism company Virgin Galactic named one of its planned spacecraft VSS Enterprise, after the television show. The spacecraft, built in 2004, did several in-atmosphere tests in preparation for eventually bringing it and other prototypes into space. VSS Enterprise, however, was destroyed in 2014 during a crash that killed one pilot and severely injured another. The National Transport Safety Board later determined a unique “feathering” system — intended to slow down the spacecraft as it was in the upper atmosphere — deployed early and was the leading cause of the crash.
A few astronauts have appeared on "Star Trek" over the years, according to fan site Memory Alpha. Mae Jamieson is the first one the site records as appearing on a show; she was on the 1993 sixth season episode of TNG's “Second Chances,” where she was visited by TOS' Uhura (Nichelle Nichols). While in space during STS-47, Jamieson reportedly began shifts with Mission Control by quoting Uhura's famous line: “Hailing frequencies are open.” The next recorded astronauts were Mike Fincke and Terry Virts, who appeared on the series finale of "Enterprise" in 2005.
While no "Star Trek" regular actor has flown in space (yet), several of them have recorded supportive messages for NASA, such as Nichols and Wil Wheaton. Nichols not only did a video message, but also flew on NASA's SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy) aircraft in 2015.
"Star Trek" actors have also bantered with real astronauts on Twitter, most notably early in Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield's International Space Station mission in 2012-13 when he spoke with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Wil Wheaton and George Takei. (Shatner asked: “Are you tweeting from space?” to which Hadfield replied, “Yes, Standard Orbit, Captain. And we're detecting signs of life from the surface.") After Nimoy died in February 2015, NASA sent out a tweet honoring the actor: "RIP Leonard Nimoy. So many of us at NASA were inspired by Star Trek. Boldly go…"
Star Trek tech
Several early "Star Trek" technologies have also made their way into our everyday lives. "Communicators" are now cell phones, which connect to each other via satellite. Tricorders, which were used to gather medical information, are now available as MRIs — some of which are being developed for space. Enterprise crewmembers can also be seen using tablet computers, and global positioning satellites, which can zero in on your position on the planet, are similar to how teleportation devices worked on the show.
However, human teleportation still eludes us, as does faster-than-light warp drive. In 2015, NASA downplayed several media reports that a “faster-than-light” EM Drive they were developing was on the verge of a breakthrough. “NASA is not working on 'warp drive' technology,” officials said, adding that the EM Drive was “a small effort that has not yet shown any tangible results.” Teleportation, meanwhile, hasonly been achieved on the quantum scale across a few miles.
List of film and TV appearances
Numerous fan-made productions and series spinoffs (such as books and comic books) have been produced; however, this list represents the "official" films and television series that have been released. There are plans to release a fourth in the “rebooted” series of "Star Trek" films in 2019, and to start a new television series via streaming in 2017.
This time of year most people are thinking about how they can tidy up around the house and de-clutter their New Year. Cleaning up is a great emotional challenge that often ends in procrastination. But for NASA and other space agencies around the world, decluttering is a 24x7x365 day obsession.
Launching rockets and satellites into space is so expensive, $10,000 a pound, that fixing the space debris problem is essential to saving money and lives as well as keeping dreams of multi-planet exploration alive. Should spaceships and satellites be damaged or destroyed by space junk, these dreams and aspirations will be sabotaged. If humans are to become spacefarers, we must clean up after ourselves!
Annoying Traffic Jams
Only people in Los Angeles, Bangkok, Beijing and other chronically congested cities can understand how annoying traffic jams can be. Imagine getting stuck in a space traffic jam hundreds of miles from Earth and floating aimlessly amongst debris that could puncture holes in your spacecraft at any moment. For all intents and purposes, space junk is a dangerous human-created asteroid belt.
Traffic Jams in Space (Image Courtesy www.investeur.com)
Developing Technology to Clean Up Space
Unfortunately, according to NASA, 65% of debris includes cataloged objects produced by more than 250 explosions and collisions. All told, the number of space debris objects exceeds 30,000. According to reports, the Chinese missile that exploded in 2007 generated 2,000 pieces of debris in just one mishap.
Space junk has built up over six decades and may not just hinder space exploration but the billions of dollars of communication and research satellites circling the globe and providing critical data to researchers on the ground.
The following video explains how space debris could negatively affect the future of space use and exploration.
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David enjoys research and writing about cutting edge technologies that hold the promise of improving conditions for all life on planet earth.
Elon Musk's dream of creating a superfast new transportation system got a step closer to reality over the weekend.
On Saturday (Jan. 30), a team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) won the first stage of the SpaceX Hyperloop design competition, which was held at Texas A&M University in College Station.
The MIT grad students beat out more than 100 other teams with their design for a passenger-carrying Hyperloop "pod," and will now start building a small-scale prototype to test this summer next to SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, California. [Images: Elon Musk's Hyperloop Transit System of the Future]
"MIT has been involved in so many technological breakthroughs in the past century," team captain Philippe Kirschen, a master's student in aeronautics and astronautics, said in a statement. "It just makes sense we would help advance what might be the future of transportation."
Some members of the MIT team, which submitted the winning pod design for the SpaceX Hyperloop design contest in January 2016.
Credit: Courtesy Nargis Sakhibov
Musk — the CEO of private spaceflight company SpaceX and electric-car company Tesla Motors — announced his vision for the Hyperloop in a 2013 white paper. The system would use pods, traveling in tubes in a near-vacuum, to move people between big cities that are no more than 900 miles (1,500 kilometers) apart, such as San Francisco and Los Angeles.
The pods would levitate above the ground. They would therefore encounter very little friction, and could zoom along at nearly the speed of sound (about 767 mph, or 1,234 km/h, at sea level), according to Musk.
Musk envisioned using a cushion of air to achieve levitation, but the MIT team decided to go with magnets above a conducting plate. The aluminum test track that SpaceX is already building near its headquarters will serve as this conducting plate, MIT team members said.
"The beauty of the system we designed is that it's completely passive, an elegant property that will make our pod very scalable," Kirschen added.
The MIT team's prototype Hyperloop pod will be about 8.2 feet (2.5 meters) long by 3.3 feet (1 m) wide and weigh 550 lbs. (250 kilograms), with the aerodynamic feel of a bobsled, Kirschen said. The vehicle will be built to accommodate a mechanical pusher (which will provide propulsion) as well as a variety of sensors, university officials said.
The MIT team will need to finish final assembly of its pod by mid-May. The students will aim to achieve a speed of at least 225 mph (362 km/h) during the vehicle's 20-second inaugural run, which will not include carrying any passengers.
Five of my favourite from the "best" UFO sightings/encounters
So, I've been thinking, as there is a current slump (it appears) in UFO activity (I believe such things are cyclic, and possibly next year will be a big year), and there are so many hoaxes out there on the net these days, I thought I'd revisit some old cases and list five that really stand the test of time for me. They probably aren't what you expect, but here goes....
Vickie Landrum (left) and Betty Cash fell victim to radiation sickness after a December 1980 close encounter.
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Cash Landrum Possibly not extraterrestrial, but certainly unknown, what Betty Cash and Vickie Landrum experienced definitely had an effect on them physically and mentally - there is no doubt they experienced exposure to some kind of radiation/chemical agent. This incident happened the day after the Rendlesham Incident in the UK. I've always wondered if what they encountered was actually one of ours - possibly a test article of some kind of new nuclear propulsion system (although there apparently was no trace of abnormal radioactivity in the area) or, possibly a live test of some form of chemical warfare/hallucinagen spraying where they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Certainly a UFO in the true sense of being unidentified and irrefutable that something happened to them.
Capt. Terauchi (from People Magazine).
JAL 1628 When an experienced ex-fighter pilot turned Heavy Cargo jet Captain goes public and tells you his aircraft was followed by an object the size of two aircraft carriers over Northern Alaska, its time to sit up and take notice. When the whole incident is recorded on audio, and on radar, and corroborated by ground controllers and the rest of the aeroplane crew, and is unwavering to this day, its time to wonder what the hell these people encountered. What started as two lights ahead of the plane and a question of whether there was military traffic in the area certainly escalated, and pretty quickly. There are drawings out there made by the captain of what he saw, and it must have been terrifying and exquisitely tantalising at the same time.
Drawings by pupils at Ariel School in Zimbabwe of the aliens’ visit to their school in September 1994.
Zimbabwe School Landing Kids make things up, right? Everyone knows kids are prone to flights of fancy. However, when 62 of them all claim that a UFO landed right next to their school, the day after a mass UFO sighting in Zimbabwe, and that some form of alien entity approached them, scaring them half to death you have to start to wonder what they saw. This case has baffled psychiatrists who have investigated it and walked away believing that the children are definitely scarred from some kind of incident. The story has also stood the test of time, with the witnesses never changing any details as they have grown up. It makes for interesting and (potentially) chilling reading.
Lonnie Zamora Incident In recent years, people have tried to explain this case away, suggesting that Lonnie Zamora was the victim of a prank. I say that those explanations are crap, bought about by someone trying to make a name for themselves in UFOlogy. Zamora was a well respected cop with no reason whatsoever to lie about what he saw and this case has all the hallmarks of something unusual. Police officer sighting, corroborating witnesses to something unusual in the area, ground evidence and traces of activity - so much so that J.Allen Hynek described it as a genuine unknown.
The Cosford Incident This is one of EX-MOD investigator turned UFO researcher Nick Pope's favourite UFO incidents. That should be enough to pique anyone's curiosity and it seems that something really rather huge and triangular shaped traversed a large chunk of British airspace in 1993. It was sighted by multiple independent witnesses, including RAF personnel at two separate bases. Made even more unusual by the fact that there was satellite debris re-re-entering the atmosphere at one point during the evening (the times of sightings differ from that of the re-entry) AND even more extraordinary by the responses to Nicks investigation and answers/questions from the US government, this is one my standout cases, and one that keeps me looking up hoping it'll come back one day.
There are other compelling cases, but I won't run through them all because I'm interested in what you guys might want to add to the list of "the best" with one caveat - no Roswel (its been done to death) - throw some more of your faves at me, or give me your thoughts on what I've listed above?
Deze foto’s bewijzen volgens wetenschappers dat er onzichtbare entiteiten zijn op aarde
Deze foto’s bewijzen volgens wetenschappers dat er onzichtbare entiteiten zijn op aarde
Wetenschappers die zoeken naar antimaterie in de ruimte beweren op onbekende ‘onzichtbare levensvormen’ te zijn gestuit op aarde. Het bedrijf Thunder Energies zou deze onzichtbare entiteiten in de aardatmosfeer hebben gedetecteerd, schrijft de Britse Daily Express.
Het bedrijf wordt gerund door de Italiaans-Amerikaanse kerngeleerde Ruggero Santilli, die zegt dat er sprake is van een samenzwering tegen de ‘nieuwe wetenschap’. Veel mainstream wetenschappers nemen hem niet serieus.
Het onderzoeksteam van Santilli denkt dat de onbekende levensvormen ons mogelijk bespioneren. De organismen zijn ontdekt met behulp van een telescoop met een holle lens. Normaal gesproken zijn telescopen uitgerust met een bolle lens.
Twee soorten
“Wij mensen hebben altijd geloofd dat we alles wat bestaat met onze ogen en optische instrumenten kunnen waarnemen,” zei hij. “Daar komt nu verandering in omdat we entiteiten op aarde hebben gevonden die we niet met het blote oog of optische instrumenten kunnen zien, maar wel met nieuwe instrumenten.”
Santilli claimt ‘tenminste twee verschillende soorten’ onzichtbare entiteiten te hebben gedetecteerd. Hij voegde toe dat zijn resultaten zijn bevestigd door een aantal Amerikaanse astronomen.
Een entiteit vastgelegd op camera (Thunder Energies)
“Onze overheid moet antwoord geven op de vraag wat deze entiteiten zijn omdat ze met name industriële en militaire installaties lijken te bespioneren,” zei de kerngeleerde.
Santilli’s collega dr. George Gaines steunt het onderzoek. “We hebben ontdekt dat de realiteit een stuk groter is dan we in eerste instantie dachten,” zei hij. “Met onze telescoop kunnen we dingen zien die we nog nooit eerder hebben gezien.”
In Beyond Science, Epoch Times explores research and accounts related to phenomena and theories that challenge our current knowledge. We delve into ideas that stimulate the imagination and open up new possibilities. Share your thoughts with us on these sometimes controversial topics in the comments section below.
The FBI opened “The Vault“—a library of documents released to the public through the Freedom of Information Act—in 2011. In the following two years, a particular document now known as the “Hottel Memo” received nearly a million views.
It was written on March 22, 1950, by Guy Hottel, then head of the FBI field office in Washington, D.C. It states:
“An investigator for the Air Forces stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed fliers and test pilots.”
Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall.
In 2013, the FBI made a public statement on the memo, since it had received widespread attention.
Some people had connected the memo to the alleged conspiracy to cover up a UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico. The FBI stated, “The Hottel memo is dated nearly three years after the infamous events in Roswell in July 1947. There is no reason to believe the two are connected.”
After initial reports that a UFO crashed in Roswell, the military said it was a weather balloon that had crashed.
The FBI said it did not further investigate the saucers reported by Hottel: “The Hottel memo does not prove the existence of UFOs; it is simply a second- or third-hand claim that we never investigated.”
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Vrijgegeven FBI-memo: Vliegende schotels met 9 aliens gevonden?
Vrijgegeven FBI-memo: Vliegende schotels met 9 aliens gevonden?
In 2011 opende de FBI ‘The Vault’, een digitale bibliotheek waarin allerlei vrijgegeven documenten zijn opgeslagen. In de jaren erna werd één specifiek document bijna een miljoen keer bekeken.
De memo is op 22 maart 1950 geschreven door FBI-agent Guy Hottel. De memo leest als volgt:
“Drie zogenoemde vliegende schotels zijn aangetroffen in New Mexico. Ze worden omschreven als cirkelvormig en bol in het midden, met een diameter van ongeveer 15 meter. Elke schotel was bemand door drie lichamen met menselijke vormen. Ze waren echter slechts een meter groot, gekleed in een verfijnde metaalachtige stof. Elk lichaam droeg een pak dat testpiloten dragen.”
Roswell
In het document is de naam van de inspecteur die deze onthullingen tegenover Hottel deed geschrapt. Bovendien is er geen melding gemaakt van de datum van de ontdekking.
In 2013 kwam de FBI met een verklaring naar buiten over de memo, omdat er zoveel aandacht voor was. Sommige mensen brachten de memo in verband met de vermeende cover-up rond het Roswellincident in juli 1947 in New Mexico. De FBI benadrukte dat de memo drie jaar na het incident bij Roswell is geschreven.
Niet verder onderzocht
De publicatie van het document is volgens de FBI geen bevestiging voor de vondst van aliens. Met het document wordt alleen duidelijk dat de geruchten bij de FBI zijn gedocumenteerd, aldus de inlichtingendienst. Uit de memo blijkt ook dat de FBI-agent de zaak niet verder heeft onderzocht.
he Magic Kingdom ' a Secret Underground Base in Hampshire, UK, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
he Magic Kingdom ' a Secret Underground Base in Hampshire, UK, Feb 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of video: Feb 2016 Location of base: Hampshire, UK The fact that this secret base has this alien figure depicted on its surface above shows us that there is a sign to the alien who may work here that they are a welcome part of the base. As we all know from research, faces and figures of alien species are very important to their cultures and found all over every planet and moon in our solar system. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com BeamsInvestigations of Youtubestates: The British Earth and Aerial Mysteries Society (BEAMS) have released a comprehensive final report, (now 127-pages!), following a "special investigation" into the former MoD Defence Evaluation and Research Agency site now run by the world's leading defence, security and aerospace developer Qinetiq... part of which is referred to by insiders as 'The Magic Kingdom'. BEAMS reveals that Farnborough has had high UFO sighting and alien abduction activity for years and is certain that this is connected to this facilty. ~Concealed~ "One source (who holds a sensitive government post) says that he knows several people currently employed at British subterranean facilities where acquired alien technology and genetics programs are being carried out." and how "there is as least as much hidden below ground at Qinetiq's Farnborough site as there is above", and what goes on down there in this deep facility includes Classified medical programs involving experiments on abducted human subjects (all part of a MKUltra-type project), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project... and futuristic flight development. Possible alien involvement is also suggested. Illuminati/Masonic-type geometric symbols have been "discovered" in aerial photographs taken of the site, and these are presented together with both intelligence service whistleblower testimonies, responses from remote viewers/researchers (who have psychically travelled some 3 miles down into 'The Magic Kingdom' to spy on what is happening there), and gathered archival research material.
Enormous black triangle observed by soldiers training near Camp Mackall, NC. Black Triangle Sighting Monday, 13 Sept., 2010, 2330 hrs (11:30 PM) Camp Mackall Military Reservation, Ft. Bragg, NC. . Richmond County NC. Sandhills State Game lands (MGRS): 17SPU357718 / (UTM): 17S 635768 3871862 / (Lat-Long) 34.9802,-79.5126 I am a retired US Army Special Forces operator and instructor. I have spent a career honorably serving my country with the highest level of integrity and I swear that the following statements regarding my observation of the events I describe here are true and factual. While assigned as cadre to the JFK Special Warfare Center, I spent the majority of my time teaching tactical combat patrolling to Special Forces candidates in the pine fore sts and swamps of both the Federal Mackall Military Reservation and NC State Sandhills Game lands, surrounding a small military training facility called Camp Mackall located about 30 miles southwest of Ft. Bragg, NC. At approximately 2330 hrs (11:30 pm) on the night of 13 September 2010, our student squad of 15 men was in ambush posture on the west side of a small trail located at vicinity grid (MGRS) 17SPU357718 facing east. It was a clear night and my assistant instructor and I were located in position together roughly 20 meters behind their assault line waiting for the enemy role-players to approach. It was at this time in my peripheral, I heard something moving in the sky behind us to the west. Looking up in that direction over the tree line, I first observed 2 fast moving F-15 fighter jets traveling in formation. They were about 10,000 ft above ground level and heading north. I knew these were fast movers because both had multiple blinking lights and I could hear the distant but distinct roar of their jet prop engines. Other than my own vast military experience directly using numerous types of these air platforms to include the B-52 and B-1 Stealth Bombers for close air support during combat Operations during the invasion in Northern Iraq in 2003, it was not at all uncommon to routinely observe numerous types of military aircraft in the skies around Camp Mackall. There are active runways at Mackall Army Airfield and Luzon Drop zone both of which are within the immediate training area, frequently used in support of military training and airborne operations.
I lifted my PVS 14 night vision goggles (NVG’s) to my eye so I could get a better look at them in the night sky and it was at that time to my complete surprise I noticed something startling. Approximately a mile in front of the two planes at a significantly lower altitude of approximately 2000 to 3000 ft above ground level, was something unimaginable that I immediately knew I had never seen before. Immensely larger than the fighter jets behind it or for that matter any other aircraft I have ever seen it was what I estimated to be about the size of an NFL Football Stadium. The vessel was triangular in shape, gunmetal or carbon black in color, making absolutely no sound as it flew ominously straight line and precisely steady undoubtedly under some form of highly advanced intelligent navigational control. I immediately brought the sight to the attention of my assistant instructor who then also observed it as well. Though my (NVG’s) I could see that the unknown craft had at least one light located at each corner of the triangle under its massive dark outline blackening out the night sky behind it, however upon lowering my optics the lights appeared to be pale blue in color and barely visible with the naked eye. Awestruck, we stood and watched this amazing spectacle pass directly over us and for the span of about 2 minutes until it disappeared over the low tree line with the two jets in trail towards the small town of Hoffman, NC, on the horizon to our north. About a minute later while we were attempting to rationalize what we had just witnessed, it reappeared having had changed direction, returning from over the same northern tree line now heading south and bit further to our west. There were now three fighters in formation behind it and the craft seemed to have pulled further in front traveling at a higher rate of speed. By this time the majority of our 15 student squad had sensed our excitement, overheard our conversation and was now also watching the event curiously as the triangle and following jets disappeared again this time over the tree line to the southwest. In an immediate after action review and analysis with my assistant who is also a senior Special Forces operator, we both agreed that the fighters behind the craft seemed to be in pursuit rather than in escort. There must be record of the sortie as I imagine they flew out of Pope AFB co-located with Fort Bragg 30 miles east. There is also a possibility the event was observed by radar by the air control tower at Mackall Army Airfield which is in constant operation positioned approximately 3 miles northeast from the location of the sighting.
Again, although having served in special operations for many years with vast experience working with helicopters, fighters and bombers in support during training as well as combat operations, I am absolutely positive that I have never seen or encountered anything even close to the advanced level of technology we observed that night. Its massive size and capacity of flight in absolute silence and complete absence of any force propulsion disturbance such as wind defies all reason and known laws of physics. In my opinion it was definitely not something made by human hands and moved as though it could have possibly been using some type of electromagnetic anti gravitational method of propulsion. Immediately following this incident my assistant and I debated if we should even share this story in concern of our professional credibility and or sanity but the very next morning a news story appeared in the Richmond County Daily Journal that there had been numerous other sightings reported in the area that night including one from a law enforcement officer, a Sheriff’s Deputy in Wadesboro, NC, which was also reported to MUFON. Although I have since searched the papers online digital archives for the article to no avail, I still maintain an original copy of that report in my personal possession. It is a night I will never forget.
Earthquakes Can Cause Mysterious Lights In The Sky
Earthquakes Can Cause Mysterious Lights In The Sky
Earthquake Lights (EQLs) seem to be old phenomena. Irish engineer and amateur seismologist Robert Mallet published a catalogue in 1851-1855, where he dated back EQLs to Biblical times, interpreting descriptions of fire-columns in the Bible as early observations of EQLs. The Italian priest and naturalist Ignazio Galli published in 1910 a first classification scheme of EQLs. In his book Raccolta e classificazione dei fenomeni luminosi osservati nei terremoti (Collection and Classification of luminous phenomena observed during earthquakes) he recognized four types: short-lasting (just a few seconds) and long-lasting (for minutes or hours) diffuse lights, flares and luminescent clouds and finally moving orbs of light.
He also noted that the different EQL types show different temporal patterns. For example, short-lasting lights like flashes occur mostly before a quake, clouds and orbs during a quake and flames after. However, nobody could explain the origin of these apparitions. One of the most plausible explanations at the time, proposed by Italian seismologist Giovanni Ciuseppe Bianconi in 1840, explained the lights as burning gas (“Swamp gas?” as agent Mulder would state), coming from fissures opening during a quake. However, burning gas could explain only small flames, not large-scale glowing clouds.
For a long time, only anecdotal accounts and tales existed and most seismologist didn´t take accounts of EQLs very serious. It wasn’t until 1973 that Japanese geologist Yutaka Yasui provided some photographic evidence, showing glowing reddish and blue clouds in the sky above the city of Matsushiro during a series of earthquakes occurring between 1965 and 1967.
So EQLs seem to be a real thing, however, we still don´t know exactly why they occur. Today’s best explanation considers electromagnetic effects behind the atmospheric glow; this could also explain reports of malfunctioning electronic devices (especially telephones) during such events. Electric charges can accumulate over time during the tectonic deformation of rocks, during an earthquake this energy is suddenly released in form of a visible spark. EQLs could also be a sort of glowing gas, formed by the ionizing properties of this energy.
Some researchers made even a connection of EQLs to another, supposedly unexplained phenomenon – Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs. In 1977, psychologists Michael A. Persinger and Ghislaine Lafreniere published the book Space-Time Transients and Unusual Events, arguing that UFOs are misidentified electric sparks from underground caused by accumulated electric charges.
Going even further, some UFOlogists speculated that the generated electric fields are strong enough to influence a bystander´s mind and cause hallucinations. To support their hypothesis the authors tried to correlate UFOs sightings with seismic zones in the U.S. However, there also seems to be a high correlation with booze consumption…
UFOs, UFOs everywhere …. simplified map with seismic activity in the United States and supposed areas of increased UFOs sightings in 1870-1960, modified after PERSINGER and other authors.
Interested in reading more? Try:
DERR, J.S. & PERSINGER, M.A. (1990): Luminous Phenomena and Seismic Energy in the Central United States. Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 4 (1): 55-69
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.N.J.'s own 'X-Files': 1 town's mysterious and complicated UFO sighting
N.J.'s own 'X-Files': 1 town's mysterious and complicated UFO sighting
Do you believe in aliens and UFOs? From unexplained phenomena, to known hoaxes, and popular culture depictions N.J. has had its share of alien experiences. More than 1,800 UFO sightings have been reported to the National UFO reported center as of Aug. 2015.
But whether you believe in UFOs or are just a fan of the show, many people in New Jersey have claimed sightings through the years, and one state township's little-known UFO history, beginning with a mysterious 1970s sighting, serves as a reminder that the "truth (could be) out there."
North Bergen: A little-known UFO history
It was after 2 a.m. on Jan. 12, 1975.
72-year-old George O'Barski was on his way home, after finishing up his work as a liquor store owner in New York City.
Suddenly, as he was driving through a short-cut in North Hudson Park, O'Barski later would say, his car radio suddenly filled with static.
A brightly lit 30-foot-long domed aircraft descended, he claimed.
O'Barski said about 11 3.5-feet-tall helmeted, "uniformed figures" had walked out of the craft and quickly taken soil samples, before the spacecraft flew away within four minutes.
The sighting was later covered covered in The Village Voice, in March 1976.
Is North Bergen a UFO capital?A UFO tracker, professor, & local spokespeople sound off
1. North Bergen police spokesman Captain Patrick Irwin...had not gotten any UFO calls in 25 years.
"None."
2. North Bergen spokesman Phil Swibinski... had not heard about the sightings.
"North Bergen is known as a progressive community where people really care about each other and residents love to live here because of its cultural diversity, stable property taxes and great public schools, among many other reasons. A few UFO sightings several years ago are not especially relevant to the township's image."
3. Saint Peter's University's Communication Professor Barna Donovan (who studies conspiracy theories)... found the 1975 incident intriguing.
"By (1975) UFO movies were kind of passé... Something like the O'Barski case, if I personally was sitting in the basement of a real-life X-Files office, and I had to stamp this, I would probably say 'This is unexplained.' With all that detail, either it's true or he's making it up."
But he was highly skeptical.
"We're so close to three major airports and so many smaller regional airports. Basically the skies are so full of flying objects, it's so easy to misidentify things... Why would aliens want to go take soil samples in a place as busy, as crowded, as Hudson County?"
4. Washington-based National UFO Reporting Center Director Peter Davenport (who has recorded 1,910 alleged UFO sightings in N.J.)... had not heard of North Bergen's mid-1970s sighting or its UFO reputation.
"I have yet to find a settlement or a city or a village that doesn't claim it has a hot spot with UFO activity... (but I hold) Budd Hopkins's work in very high regard."
Evidence existed that O'Barski was telling the truth, Hopkins claimed: marks in the ground, and a mysteriously shattered glass window in the lobby of the iconic Stonehenge apartment building across the street, where the doorman told Hopkins he had seen unusual bright lights about 10 feet off the ground.
The end... or is it?
After that, some people in North Bergen were scared, and others were claiming sightings.
Bose Bozicevic, a retired North Bergen police officer, remembers the commotion.
When he was a high school student in North Bergen, Bozicevic and his 17- and 18-year-old friends thought the UFO stories were hilarious: "UFOs? Yeah, right," he said.
To test people's gullibility, his friends once even dressed Bozicevic in tinfoil, gave him a WWII gas mask from one of their grandfather's closets — and then unleashed him in North Hudson park.
"They start screaming 'oh there, he is!' People were freaked out by seeing me. I thought it was pretty obvious this is somebody just (messing) around. The police, they see me in the distance. My buddies take off, but I got tinfoil all over me, as you can imagine," Bozicevic recalled.
"I start jogging away. I hear one of the bystanders screaming 'Shoot him! Shoot him! He ate my grandmother!' As I'm running, I'm ripping the tin foil off. It looked like Forest Gump."
The irony is that about 10 years later, Bozicevic became a police officer, and he was on duty on Park Avenue near the Guttenberg-North Bergen border when he would have his own seeming UFO sighting.
His story has gotten him more than enough grief from his smirking officer buddies, he says, but he shares it anyway.
At about 4 a.m. one Sunday morning in the 1980s, as he was in the midst of writing a parking citation, Bozicevic heard a whirring in a desolate street, he said, and then saw a "ship, a something," with bright lights, float over his head, "inches" above the buildings.
"I remember reaching for the radio on the car to call something in. I was holding it and I was looking at this thing and I put it down. I said 'nah,'" he said. "As I reached 79th Street, the thing made a right and went sideways and just went 'zsst' and disappeared right down past the Hudson River... I was like, 'Wow, nobody can corroborate this.'"
A Stonehenge maintenance worker, who did not give his name because he wasn't authorized to speak, told NJ Advance Media this past fall that he believed the Stonehenge never learned why that window smashed.
"No rhyme or reason, supposedly," he said. "It was just a very strange set of circumstances that took place that day."
North Bergen has an interesting story but it's not special when it comes to UFO sightings: Based on the New Jersey database from the National UFO Reporting Center, there have been numerous UFO sightings reported all around the state for the past several decades, and counting. (Check to see if your town is a UFO hotspot here.)
However, in some ways, the North Bergen 1970s sighting was relatively unique among New Jersey sightings: the month of January, and a sighting time of around 2 a.m., are relatively rare, based on a National UFO Reporting Center data analysis, through Fall 2015.
Below, a map of all the UFO sighting locations in New Jersey, dated from 1930 through Fall 2015, as reported to the National UFO Center database:
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15 years of UFO Shapes over NY
15 years of UFO Shapes over NY
Columnist Cheryl Costa explores the magnitude of UFO shapes seen in New York skies for the past 15 years.
I frequently have people tell me about their personal UFO sightings and every one of them does their best to describe the shape of the object in question. When words fail to describe the object, they often resort to drawing on a pizza box or a cocktail napkin. One lady I remember fondly was so passionate about showing me her UFO, she dug out an eyeliner tube from her purse and drew the UFO shape on the table top at a diner.
If you want to see a chart of the various types of UFO configurations, there are plenty of sighting charts on the Internet; simply Google: “UFO shapes.” In the spirit of the UFO shapes discussion, I’ve decided to share a summary of the 3,163 UFO shapes reported in the past 15 years from 2001 through 2015.
It’s not all that uncommon for people to see some bright light in the sky that behaves in a unusual way, so 643 reports of witnessing “light” doesn’t surprise me. The next most common sighting is a “circle.” Most usually it’s reported as a ring of lights, like a string of bright, glowing balls. The other way I’ve heard circle UFOs described is being glowing rings, sort of like a glowing “hula hoop.”
Next up are fireballs, which are frequently described as red-orange. I have seen one and it’s an amazing thing to see. First off, it has a flicker, which my author friend Thomas Conwell, crisply described as a pulsed digital flicker. These things aren’t Chinese lanterns, as some write me to suggest, because when they not hovering or darting around like a bumble bee they’re flying at the speed of an airliner. Fireballs are increasing in the reporting numbers and we see a lot of them in NY.
Following fireballs on the list are black triangles. Now before some of the arm chair skeptics try to casually write these craft off as something developed by our industrial military complex, please know there have been reports of these triangles in the late 19th century.
Flying spheres are the next, and happen to be some of the first UFOs I witnessed when I was around the age of 12. A huge silver ball hung in the western sky for roughly 20 minutes before whizzing off at tremendous speed. It took my breath away to see it. We only see about a dozen reports of them a year here in the Empire State.
The last UFO shape I will discuss is the disc. When the UFO fever hit this country in the 1940’s, 50s and 60s, the moniker given to the flying disc was “flying saucer.” The number of disc-shaped UFO reports average about a dozen per year. Some Ufologists suggest that the classic disc is being slowly phased out by the black triangle. I suppose one can’t argue with a popular new model!
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REMEMBERING THE SANTA ROSA ENCOUNTER
REMEMBERING THE SANTA ROSA ENCOUNTER
By Rainbow Radaelli
Sometimes memories are locked away in places that aren’t necessarily secret but for some strange reason they are placed in obscure places, undisclosed even to us. A run of the mill day can pass by without any forethought or care beyond the expected and then all of a sudden with no warning, we recall an experience that we swore to ourselves we would never forget. It’s moments like this that reminds us, we are not alone and that sometimes there are unique encounters, that change our world just by a chance meeting. It’s these fleeting moments in time when we are taken from our comfortable existence, and thrust outside the box of accepted reality into a world of unlimited possibilities.
To put it simply, memories changed my world. Not just any memories but parts of my life that were remarkable beyond any definition of the word. Unfortunately for me, up to a certain point, these memories were purposely blocked, gathering cobwebs of forgotten moments in time … but by whom?
These hidden memories, came rushing at me like a broken dam, crashing into my subconscious, one summer day when I was driving on the Westside of town in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2003. It was a day just like any other with the exception of being invited to participate at a children’s festival at a community center.
Strangely, as that particular morning progressed, I found it hard to prepare for my performance because a headache came out of the blue, increasing in strength as the moments ticked by. It was a peculiar kind of headache because it felt as if my head was going to explode, almost like my subconscious was trying to break free from something. I could feel intense pressure from behind my eyes and at the top of my head. It was very painful but I forged ahead anyways as best I could and started the drive to the community center, excited to see the kids.
Time seemed to slow down a bit and it felt as if I was held back by multiple lights turning red, one right after the other. I decided to turn on my dance music so I could pass the time better. While I was waiting at one of the red-lights, a golden, yellowish dash of light, literally rushed towards me and through my front windshield, blinding me for a second. I felt tingly feelings in my head and I felt an unusual pulsating rhythm of something foreign, touching my body, taking it over one pulse at a time. A film strip started to flash before my eyes showing me past experiences of being in spacecrafts, and interactions I had with various ET races from childhood on up to adulthood. As I sat completely paralyzed, something literally took over the car and drove me to the community center. The flashes of memories slowly faded away once I was in the parking lot. I almost thought I must have passed out, but then that didn’t make any sense because how did I get there in one piece? It was all I could do not to lose my sanity, right then and there. I was too shocked to cry and barely made it out of the car. Once I regained my composure, I walked inside totally frazzled but I knew I had to act as if nothing had happened. Who would believe me anyways?
Later that day after I returned home from the center; tears filled my eyes along with the feelings of relief mixed with utter bewilderment. It was as if the illusion of normalcy melted away, along with my sense of who I thought I was. For a few months, as you can imagine, my mind was literally a confused mess.
Recounting each memory was like looking into a scrapbook of a forgotten life. They were surreal, comforting and frightening all at the same time. I felt like a mixed bag of emotions, conflicted, numb and exasperated but after awhile, each memory seemed to find its place within my transformed existence and I was almost human again. Subsequently, I was able to place certain memories into a various categories that together started to make sense.
There were memories that were extraordinary and then there were some that played a greater role in shaping my life, even though I didn’t know it. One such memory that I would like to share with you, stands out in particular because it happened in a lackluster sort of place, near Santa Rosa, New Mexico. The memory was unusual for the mere fact that it took place while I was working cattle with my ex-husband, Kelly. Does the movie, “Cowboys and Aliens” come to mind? My encounter wasn’t action packed like the movie, but it was interesting in its own way.
It was around 1984 when my ex-husband, Kelly and I decided to go and help out a friend who was hired to manage a small cow and calf operation on the outskirts of Santa Rosa, New Mexico. It was summer and I remember the heat was really intense more so because it felt like we were in the armpit of New Mexico. We pulled our caravan of horses, chickens and dogs towards a corral that was on a dirt road, forty five minutes away from the main highway. The welcomed sunset wasn’t much of a reprieve from the heat and the wind most of the time, seemed to be nonexistent. The only bright spot about our campsite was riding out before sunrise and seeing the sun cast its first rays of light upon the vast open spaces.
One morning, we set out to locate some cows and calves we hadn’t seen for a few days. It was already hot by about nine o’clock in the morning and I was really uncomfortable and sweaty. We rode our horses around a bend in the road that opened up into a large ravine. As we got around the bend, we saw a saucer shaped craft on a tripod that was about 30 to 40 feet in diameter about 20 yards away from us. As we rode towards this amazing sight, we saw a tall blonde woman standing next to it. I couldn’t believe my eyes but contrary to me, my ex-husband acted like it was a sight he had seen many times before.
As we rode up to the spacecraft, the tall blonde woman waved at us, smiling and we waved back. We got off our horses and walked towards her and the silvery-grey colored craft. The blonde woman was beautiful and tall, about 6 foot or more and she was wearing a grayish, silver body suit that hugged her body. Kelly walked over and started to talk to her but I decided check out her amazing mode of transportation. I felt compelled to touch the craft and ran my hand along its smooth surface. It felt like stainless steel yet softer but what I found most interesting was that it wasn’t hot to the touch. Being that the sun was beating down on it, I found this kind of weird.
The tall blonde woman spoke English and she told us that she was doing some repairs on her spacecraft. She indicated that the sun was a source of power for her craft. How … I don’t know. I initially got an invitation to follow her into the craft but Kelly declined. Once we got in, we had to crawl towards the center because it was very compact. I noticed that the windows were small. I had assumed since I was a Star Trek fan that all flying spacecraft had to have big windows. She laughed and thought it was funny that I had issues with the size of the windows. There was a silver colored pillar positioned close to what looked like her cockpit, with one of its panels off. I could see the inside gadgets and different colored lights but when she told me how it worked, it went over my head because her technology was beyond anything I could understand.
I asked her if I could go for a ride, (who wouldn’t) and she told me no, that it would be very uncomfortable for my body, almost like an out of body experience that would become very Remembering, the Santa Rosa Encounter
Sometimes memories are locked away in places that aren’t necessarily secret but for some strange reason they are placed in obscure places, undisclosed even to us. A run of the mill day can pass by without any forethought or care beyond the expected and then all of a sudden with no warning, we recall an experience that we swore to ourselves we would never forget. It’s moments like this that reminds us, we are not alone and that sometimes there are unique encounters, that change our world just by a chance meeting. It’s these fleeting moments in time when we are taken from our comfortable existence, and thrust outside the box of accepted reality into a world of unlimited possibilities.
To put it simply, memories changed my world. Not just any memories but parts of my life that were remarkable beyond any definition of the word. Unfortunately for me, up to a certain point, these memories were purposely blocked, gathering cobwebs of forgotten moments in time … but by whom?
These hidden memories, came rushing at me like a broken dam, crashing into my subconscious, one summer day when I was driving on the Westside of town in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2003. It was a day just like any other with the exception of being invited to participate at a children’s festival at a community center.
Strangely, as that particular morning progressed, I found it hard to prepare for my performance because a headache came out of the blue, increasing in strength as the moments ticked by. It was a peculiar kind of headache because it felt as if my head was going to explode, almost like my subconscious was trying to break free from something. I could feel intense pressure from behind my eyes and at the top of my head. It was very painful but I forged ahead anyways as best I could and started the drive to the community center, excited to see the kids.
Time seemed to slow down a bit and it felt as if I was held back by multiple lights turning red, one right after the other. I decided to turn on my dance music so I could pass the time better. While I was waiting at one of the red-lights, a golden, yellowish dash of light, literally rushed towards me and through my front windshield, blinding me for a second. I felt tingly feelings in my head and I felt an unusual pulsating rhythm of something foreign, touching my body, taking it over one pulse at a time. A film strip started to flash before my eyes showing me past experiences of being in spacecrafts, and interactions I had with various ET races from childhood on up to adulthood. As I sat completely paralyzed, something literally took over the car and drove me to the community center. The flashes of memories slowly faded away once I was in the parking lot. I almost thought I must have passed out, but then that didn’t make any sense because how did I get there in one piece? It was all I could do not to lose my sanity, right then and there. I was too shocked to cry and barely made it out of the car. Once I regained my composure, I walked inside totally frazzled but I knew I had to act as if nothing had happened. Who would believe me anyways?
Later that day after I returned home from the center; tears filled my eyes along with the feelings of relief mixed with utter bewilderment. It was as if the illusion of normalcy melted away, along with my sense of who I thought I was. For a few months, as you can imagine, my mind was literally a confused mess.
Recounting each memory was like looking into a scrapbook of a forgotten life. They were surreal, comforting and frightening all at the same time. I felt like a mixed bag of emotions, conflicted, numb and exasperated but after awhile, each memory seemed to find its place within my transformed existence and I was almost human again. Subsequently, I was able to place certain memories into a various categories that together started to make sense.
There were memories that were extraordinary and then there were some that played a greater role in shaping my life, even though I didn’t know it. One such memory that I would like to share with you, stands out in particular because it happened in a lackluster sort of place, near Santa Rosa, New Mexico. The memory was unusual for the mere fact that it took place while I was working cattle with my ex-husband, Kelly. Does the movie, “Cowboys and Aliens” come to mind? My encounter wasn’t action packed like the movie, but it was interesting in its own way.
It was around 1984 when my ex-husband, Kelly and I decided to go and help out a friend who was hired to manage a small cow and calf operation on the outskirts of Santa Rosa, New Mexico. It was summer and I remember the heat was really intense more so because it felt like we were in the armpit of New Mexico. We pulled our caravan of horses, chickens and dogs towards a corral that was on a dirt road, forty five minutes away from the main highway. The welcomed sunset wasn’t much of a reprieve from the heat and the wind most of the time, seemed to be nonexistent. The only bright spot about our campsite was riding out before sunrise and seeing the sun cast its first rays of light upon the vast open spaces.
One morning, we set out to locate some cows and calves we hadn’t seen for a few days. It was already hot by about nine o’clock in the morning and I was really uncomfortable and sweaty. We rode our horses around a bend in the road that opened up into a large ravine. As we got around the bend, we saw a saucer shaped craft on a tripod that was about 30 to 40 feet in diameter about 20 yards away from us. As we rode towards this amazing sight, we saw a tall blonde woman standing next to it. I couldn’t believe my eyes but contrary to me, my ex-husband acted like it was a sight he had seen many times before.
As we rode up to the spacecraft, the tall blonde woman waved at us, smiling and we waved back. We got off our horses and walked towards her and the silvery-grey colored craft. The blonde woman was beautiful and tall, about 6 foot or more and she was wearing a grayish, silver body suit that hugged her body. Kelly walked over and started to talk to her but I decided check out her amazing mode of transportation. I felt compelled to touch the craft and ran my hand along its smooth surface. It felt like stainless steel yet softer but what I found most interesting was that it wasn’t hot to the touch. Being that the sun was beating down on it, I found this kind of weird.
The tall blonde woman spoke English and she told us that she was doing some repairs on her spacecraft. She indicated that the sun was a source of power for her craft. How … I don’t know. I initially got an invitation to follow her into the craft but Kelly declined. Once we got in, we had to crawl towards the center because it was very compact. I noticed that the windows were small. I had assumed since I was a Star Trek fan that all flying spacecraft had to have big windows. She laughed and thought it was funny that I had issues with the size of the windows. There was a silver colored pillar positioned close to what looked like her cockpit, with one of its panels off. I could see the inside gadgets and different colored lights but when she told me how it worked, it went over my head because her technology was beyond anything I could understand.
I asked her if I could go for a ride, (who wouldn’t) and she told me no, that it would be very uncomfortable for my body, almost like an out of body experience that would become very painful. She said the inside of the space craft wasn’t suited for humans in flight. I looked for another seat and she sensed my curiosity. She said that it was designed for just one person. Her seat looked like a metal lawn chair that was positioned in a way that had her lying down, slightly bent at the knees, an arms length away from the control panel above. I didn’t think it looked very comfortable but she assured me it was and I believed her.
When we got out of the spacecraft, Kelly was smiling and asked me how I liked it. I blurted out, “I’ll never forget this day, ever!”
The tall blonde woman smiled at me and told me that she had no choice but to make me forget. I didn’t understand what she meant by that and told her, becoming a little hot under the collar, that there was no way I would forget meeting her and being inside her spacecraft. In my mind, I knew it wasn’t even possible. Yet again, she told me very apologetically that I would forget and just before I could get another word out, time stood still for a split second and the tall blonde woman became a blur. Within an instant, I found myself back on my horse riding up on a ridge looking for the cows and calves. Kelly was smiling and I was wondering what he was smiling about. When I asked him, he said, “Oh, nothing.”
Our time together lasted six years beyond that encounter before we split up. I ended up moving on to another state. As time passed, I eventually lost contact with Kelly. By the time my memories came back, I hadn’t seen him for about 15 years. I wasn’t even sure I could find him, so I could get some kind of validation that this encounter actually happened. In the later part of 2008, I was lucky enough to meet up with a mutual friend of ours, who was planning on visiting Kelly in his home state of Texas within the coming week. He said he would be more than happy to convey my unusual question to Kelly for me.
A few weeks later, I got the phone call I had been anxiously waiting for. Kelly told him to tell me, “I’ve been waiting all this time for you to remember and was starting to wonder if you ever would.”
That one phone call, in many ways, changed my life just as drastically as that fateful day when my memories came back. I had so many questions for Kelly like first and foremost, why was my memory blocked and his wasn’t? Kelly invited me to come visit him so we could talk face to face about that encounter and any others that I remembered. Unfortunately, as fate would have it, I wasn’t able to get to Kelly fast enough because he died a short time later in the first part of 2009. Just imagine what those conversations would have revealed…
I realized something important from the one validation I did get from Kelly, that in the scope of things, what matters is that the memories came back to me and I’m aware of them now. But I must say, there is apart of me that would love to meet up with that tall blonde woman again just so I can say, “I remember.”
Major satellite launches have often been followed by UFO sightings soon afterwards, for example, after Sputnik I and II in 1957. In Ottawa, Canada, UFOs were seen on March 3, 1969 after the Apollo 9 launch, on June, 5, 1969 after a suborbital (failed launch) to the moon by the Soviet Union, and in July, 1969, as Apollo 11 orbited the Moon. These correlations, among others, suggest that major rocket launches, especially those extending out of near-Earth orbits, tend to stimulate UFO activity.
Introduction
Major rocket launches have often been followed by UFO activity, possibly coordinated from outposts on the Moon (Lorenzen, 1966, pp. 266, 267).
By 1969, however, there were so many rocket launches and UFO sightings that any attempt to establish correlations between them would be difficult. A decade earlier, there were fewer objects in orbit, though many suborbital flights were still taking place in the late 1940s. To establish the proper sequence of events in this article, Universal Time (designated Z for Zulu) will be given, as well as some local (24 hour time) equivalents (in parentheses).
Following the launch of Sputnik 1 from Baikonur, which the Encyclopedia Astronomica (1957) recorded as onOctober 4, 1957 at 19:28 Z (Oct. 5, 0:28 local time),Lorenzen (1966, p. 65) reported that a 23 year-old farmer inBrazil, Antonio Villas-Boas, observed a nearby area “...lighted as if by a giant searchlight” at about 11 p.m. local time (Oct. 6, 02:00 Z).
This observation was therefore made 30 hours, 32 minutes after the Sputnik I launch. Subsequently, while plowing a field on October 14, the same farmer saw a cartwheel-shaped UFO about 122 meters (400 feet) off the ground, an observation suggesting a UFOfor the earlier Oct. 5 source of light.
UFO activityspiked after the launches of Sputnik I and II, as numerous reports in the NICAP 1957 Sighting Wave Chronology (2014) reveal. Only 1.5 to 4 hours after the Sputnik II launch on Nov. 3, 1957 at 2:30 Z, for instance, a glowing egg-shaped object landed on roads and stalled car engines near Levelland, Texas; on Nov. 4, a UFO was tracked for 20 minutes on radar and was seen by two people at Kirtland Airforce Base (Hynek, 1972; Encyclopedia Astronomica, 1957).
Also on Nov. 4, 1957 at 05:03 Z a large disc-shaped UFO with anorange glow descended at an army garrison atItaipu, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and produced a wave of heat that struck two soldiers, causing first- and second degree burns to 10 percent of their bodies (Lorenzen, 1966).
In some UFO cases, the time lag between a rocket launch and a UFO sighting has been relatively short.
For example, a UFO tracked a Polaris missile during test firing on January 10, 1961; similarly in 1964 soon after another launch, a UFO intercepted an Atlas rocket (Dolan, 2000; Fox & Coleman, 2007). Most surprisingly, perhaps, only four minutes after launch of a rocket carrying China’s first female astronaut on June 16, 2012, an infrared video camera recorded two glowing UFOs nearby (Good, 2013). If it is assumed that UFO responses are coordinated from a Moon base, then launches made from the side of the Earth hidden from UFOs on the Moon would not be as rapid (and the launch site would be obscured), as if they were made from the side of the Earth facing the Moon. These relationships could explain different time lags between rocket launches and UFO sightings, though this would assume that the UFOs were all stationed on the Moon at launch times.
Apollo 9 Test of Lunar Module Docking Maneuvers in Earth Orbit
Less than 34 hours after launch of Apollo 9 on March 3, 1969 at 15:00 Z , a round UFO was observed onParliament Hill by seven (7) RCMP officers between 0:45 and 2:34 Z. Twenty-six minutes later another RCMPofficer reported two red flashing lights in the sky above Sussex Drive without any associated engine noise(Bondarchuck, 1979).
In addition to the three rocket launches on June 5 described by Nentwich (2008), there was a fourth launch, namely aSoviet Luna mission to the Moon, which failed to achieve orbit
Although this launch was excluded from Clark’s (1977) list of Luna launch failures, Greg Kennedy, compiler of the online “Chronology of Human Space Exploration Part 5: 1967-1974” informed me in an email on Oct. 17, 2008that the ‘Mission Planner’s Manual Proton Commercial Launch Vehicle’ document, printed in 1989 by the Space Commerce Corporation in Houston listed the launch on June 5th, with the note that the second stage failed, while the 1996 TRW Space Log listed the same launch as June 4th, also pointing out that it failed to orbit.
The ideal time for this launch, as given in a “1969 June 1 – Soviet lunar plans”, would have been June 3, 1969 at 23:18 Z, and because Soviet lunar launches were usually within an hour of the ideal time, as noted by Clark (1977), an early June 4th launch seems to be the most likely. In fact, Sokolov (2001) confirmed the Luna launch on June 4 or earlier, stating that because of an electrical problem (p. 461) “...the upper stage could not fire. The complex fell into the Pacific Ocean.”
In addition, he pointed out that another rocket was launched afterLuna on June 4, 1969which reached a height of only 100 metres,at which point it exploded with a power of about ten (10) kilotons!
Editor's note: The Hiroshima A-Bomb blast equaled approximately 20 kilotons
A resident of Uba, Brazil was driving in a car with six passengers when at 09:00 Z their car was “...pursued by a bright orange-colored object which flew around in circles above them, producing interference with the car radio and stopping the engine for a few moments” (Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, 1971, p. 16; UFOCAT, 2005). In addition, several witnesses also observed a UFO after 20:00 Z at a lake 60 km west of Quebec City, Canada,
Between 22:50 and 23:00 Z, more than 50 witnesses reported UFOs in Iowa (Southern Illinoisan, June 6, 1969; Muscatine Journal, June 6, 1969).
Dr. J. Allen Hynek“stated he understood the phenomenon was flashing silver, orange and copper colored, with chunks flying off of it”, while other reports told of two or three objects with bluish-green wakes (Southern Illinoisan, June 6, 1969, p. 14).
Dr. Hynek suggested that the objects could have been parts of a re-entering Russian satellite, although an official with the Space Defence Center stated that “…it was highly unlikely that the objects were from a satellite because one is rarely placed in an east-west orbit.”(Daily Capital News, June 7, 1969, p. 1)
An FAA official stated that sightings at Riverside and Iowa City, were “...variously described as a bright ball of fire, flash[ing] and cigar-shaped objects” with “Colors…from silver to blue and blue-green” (Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 6, 1969, p. 4). The azimuth of the ground path of the “Iowa Fireball” on the map of plate 4 in Klass (1975) was about 272º, equivalent to an inclination of 178º, and therefore larger than the maximum reported inclination of any satellite launched up to that time.
Here it should be noted that the ground path of a satellite is determined by the inclination of its orbit, which is the angle between the Earth’s equatorial plane and a spacecraft’s orbital plane (major axis). Of the thousands of launch-related items in the NORAD Catalog (2012) prior to June 7, 1969, with the exception of 13 which did not re-enter the atmosphere in the June 4 to 6 time interval, the maximum inclinations were all less than 121º,corresponding to azimuths larger than 329º but less than 90º.
Three (3) satellites were expected to re-enter June 5 or 6 but would not cross the sky from east to west (Southern Illinoisan, Friday, June 6, 1969, p. 14).
A Soviet rocket body (NORAD ID 3223) with an inclination of 64.8º (25.2º azimuth) re-entered the atmosphere onJune 5, as listed in the NORAD Catalog (2012), but obviously did not have the east to west ground path of the “Iowa fireball”.
Cosmos 284 had an inclination of 62.3º (azimuth 27.7º), re-entering the atmosphere on June 6 at 5:46 Z, making a soft landing in the Soviet Union (Fairbanks Daily News, June 6, 1969, p. 1; NORAD Catalog, 2012)
For all of these reasons, Cosmos 284 was not responsible for the “Iowa fireball” and, in o summary, neither a rocket launch nor a re-entering satellite explains the “Iowa fireball”.
The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory concluded that the “Iowa fireball” had been a meteor, and members of its Meteorite Recovery Project proposed a landing site in southern Iowa (Blue Book files, 1969; Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 7, 1969). However, the following descriptions from several witnesses should be considered before drawing such a conclusion. For instance, a pilot, a teenager and a woman described the object “…as blue and circular, with no wings or indication of a propulsion system…flying east to west above the runway at an altitude of less than 1,000 feet” and with a speed between 483 and 644 km/hr (300 and 400 mph) (Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 6, 1969, p. 3).
A witness north in St. Louis, Missouri reported three objects in a line heading WNW for 60 to 80 seconds, with shapes resembling elongate badminton shuttlecocks (Blue Book files, 1969, p. 14 - 21). A student in East St. Louis, Illinois saw three bright self-luminous, lime-green oval objects beside each other about 805 meters (half a mile) away, decreasing in altitude from 518 to 457 meters (1,700 to 1,500 feet), whereas another witness saw four objects in a line heading west, one of which was oval-shaped with a blue-silver tail (Blue Book Files, 1969, p. 24 – 42).
Several other witnesses saw one of the objects speeding up relative to the other two, while a civilian 53 km (33 miles) northwest of downtown Chicagosaw a single tear-drop shaped object (silvery-aqua color), with a tail 10 times as long as the diameter of the head, and with a piece falling upwards from the object as it traveled silently straight and level (Blue Book Files, 1969).
The most easterly sighting was made by a pilot and two other persons in an airplane near Greenfield, Indiana, who, for about 30 seconds saw a single object with an almost metallic “face” south of Greenfield heading west (Blue Book files, 1969, pp. 47-50). Its trajectory was south of the one shown in plate 4 of Klass (1975), such that different objects were travelling along separate parallel paths.
To summarize, the object(s) had the following characteristics, some of which were not meteor-like: a silvery metallic appearance; flying without being heard; one “piece” moving upwards; one object speeding up relative to the other two; a change in relative positions of the objects from one after another to one beside the other; visibility in flight for over a minute; apparent shapes resembling either a tear-drop, oval, cone, bullet or badminton shuttlecock.
The most compelling evidence for a UFO interpretation, however, was described in a UFO Investigator (1972) article, based on a sighting by an FAA controllerand several pilots, who were flying east near St. Louis, Missouri on June 5. Interestingly, a drawing of a side view of the object in that article resembles the side view of the Roswell UFOillustrated in Randle and Schmitt (1994). The UFO was described in this 1972 article as hydroplane-shaped, 18 to 20 feet long, 7 to 8 feet thick and 12 to 14 feet across at the back end. Viewed from the side, such an object could have had an elongate teardrop shape, but seen at different angles from a distance, it would have had different shapes.
June 6, 1969 in the West End of Ottawa, Canada
On June 6, 1969 between 2:00 and 2:45 Z, and most likely at about 2:30 Z (June 5, 22:30), a UFO about 60 m long (Fig. 1)was observed in the west end of Ottawa (Nentwich, 2008). Its surface wasnot uniformly reflecting light, but was partly covered with a black film.
Figure 1: Side and cross-sectional end views of the Ottawa UFO described in Nentwich (2008).
At about the same time in Ottawa, UFOs appeared over Parliament Hill, after which they travelled to Uplands Airport (Bondarchuk 1979).
July 18, 1969 about 321,861 km into the flight of Apollo 11
Buzz Aldrin wrote that with the help of an on-board telescope, a UFO was seen pacing their spacecraft; the UFO resembled “a series of ellipses, but when you made it real sharp it was sort of L-shaped”
An employee of the National Research Council, as well as some of her neighbors and a police officer, reported a UFOin Hull (now Gatineau just north of Ottawa) between 11:00 and 1:00 Z. The NRC employee stated that it was “A single object, shaped like a watermelon, glowing brightly with an orange hue”... that “Passed slowly overhead and then travelled at great speed across the Ottawa River to the Parliament Bldgs”, over which it hovered (NRC File N69-128, 1969). This sighting was on the same day as the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
Apollo Flights and UFO Sightings
Maurice Chatelain, former chief of NASA communications systems, quoted in Good (1988, p. 385), stated that “...all Apollo and Gemini flights were followed, both at a distance and sometimes also quite closely, by space vehicles of extraterrestrial origin....Every time it occurred, the astronauts informed Mission Control, who ordered absolute silence.” Further evidence supporting this claim includes an analysis of Apollo 16 film by Nakamura (2003, p. 409),who described an enormous domed disc travelling 20 to 40 km/second and wobbling like a leaf falling from a tree.
In addition, indirect evidence presented by Good (2013) suggests that after landing the lunar module on the Moon, theApollo 11 astronauts observed large UFOs nearby. A summary of tentative evidence concerning life on the Moon, including UFO activity there, has been considered by Proud (2013, pp. 279-356), based on many sources in the literature.
Conclusions
UFOs appearing after major rocket launches at or near the launch site or even following the rockets leaves little doubt that such launches stimulate UFO activity. In some cases, however, UFOs have appeared large distances from the launch sites, as in the Texas UFO sightings after the Sputnik 2 launch. These cases are less convincing though the appearance of a UFO shortly after a launch when there were only a few objects in orbit is still significant. The reports of UFOs in Ottawa after the Apollo 9 and Luna launches, and on the day of the Apollo 11 Moon Landing, considered together, do not seem entirely coincidental, especially if one includes the Apollo 11 sightings on the way to the Moon.
It may be that UFO reports correlate more strongly with artificial satellites sent by humans beyond near Earth orbits than they do with orbital or suborbital flights. On the other hand, UFOs were also reported on dates when there were no Apollo flights. For instance, a UFO on April 22, 1969 about 25 miles east of Ottawa was seen flying along a power line while another was seen on May 11, 1969 on Allumette Island west of Ottawa (Bray, 1979; Rutkowski, 2006).
Acknowledgements
I thank the staff of the Archives, University of Ottawa for making available the article from Flying Saucer Review Case Histories. Also, I am grateful to Greg Kennedy for the Luna launch data sources. All newpaper articles were retrieved from:
Flying Saucer Review Case Histories (1971, Oct.). Case 129. Early June 1969. Flying Saucer Review Case Histories, Supplement No. 7, 16. The original source was a June 13, 1969 article in O Dia, a Rio de Janeiro newspaper.
Fox, J., & Coleman, T. (Executive Producers). (2007). Out of the Blue: The Definitive Investigation of the UFO Phenomenon. Special (Updated) 5 Year Anniversary Special. [Documentary Film]. Produced and directed by J. Fox, T. Coleman, & B. Zubov. Part 4 of 9 from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH4geZ58pVQ
Good, T. (1988). Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-up. MacMillan: Toronto.
Good, T. (2013). Earth: An Alien Enterprise. Pegasus: New York, NY.
Hynek, J. A. (1972). The UFO Experience: A Scientific Inquiry. Ballantine Books: New York, NY.
Klass, P. J. (1975). UFOs Explained. Random House: New York, NY.
Lorenzen, C. E. (1966). Flying Saucers: The Startling Evidence of the Invasion from Outer Space. A Signet book. New American Library: New York, NY.
NRC File N69-128. (1969). In: Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics. Planetary Sciences Section. National Research Council of Canada RG 77, Vol. 306, File N69/128, 1 page. On Microfilm Reel T-1741 at the National Archives of Canada, Ottawa, Canada.
Proud, L. (2013). The Secret Influence of the Moon: Alien Origins and Occult Powers. Destiny Books: Rochester, Vermont.
Randle, K. D., & Schmitt, D. R. (1994). The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell. Avon Books: New York.
Rutkowski, C. (2006). The Landing on Allumette Island. In C. Rutkowski and G. Dittman: The Canadian UFO Report: The Best Cases Revealed (pp. 103-104). Dundurn Press: Toronto, Canada.
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Famous UFO cases: Hessdalen Lights
Famous UFO cases: Hessdalen Lights
Hessdalen Lights are unexplained lights (a type of Will-o’-the-wisp ) usually seen in the valley of Hessdalen, Norway. These lights are well known and have been recorded and studied by physicists. One explanation attributes the phenomenon to an incompletely understood combustion process in the air involving clouds of dust from the valley floor containing scandium. Some sightings, though, have been identified as misperceptions of astronomical bodies, aircraft, car headlights, and mirages.
Hessdalen is a small valley in the central part of Norway. At the end of 1981 through 1984, residents of the Valley became concerned and alarmed about strange, unexplained lights that appeared at many locations throughout the Valley. Hundreds of lights were observed. At the peak of activity there were about 20 reports a week.
Project Hessdalen was established in the summer of 1983. A field investigation was carried out between 21.January and 26.February 1984. Fifty-three light observations were made during the field investigation. You may read the details in the technical report. There was an additional field investigation in the winter of 1985. However, no phenomena were seen during the period when the instruments were present.
Lights are still being observed in the Hessdalen Valley, but their frequency has decreased to about 20 observations a year. An automatic measurement station was put up in Hessdalen in August 1998.
National geographic, aired 1st March 2010 For centuries, people around the world have witnessed a strange phenomenon – orbs of light hovering in the night sky. Some say the lights chased after them as they drove away in their cars, and military pilots have reported spotting the lights on secret missions. Many wonder if the lights could be ghosts, or visitors from outer space. Now, (National geographic) joins the investigation and meets a team of researchers with a new theory on the origin of these strange lights.
Documentary about the UFO hotspot in Hessdalen, Norway (2009)
The Belgian UFO wave refers to a series of sightings of triangular UFOs in Belgium, which lasted from November 29, 1989 to April 1990.
The sightings
The Belgian UFO wave peaked with the events of the night of 30/31 March 1990. On that night unknown objects were tracked on radar, photographed, and were sighted by an estimated 13,500 people on the ground – 2,600 of whom filed written statements describing in detail what they had seen. Following the incident the Belgian air force released a report detailing the events of that night.
At around 23:00 on 30 March the supervisor for the Control Reporting Center (CRC) at Glons received reports that three unusual lights were seen moving towards Thorembais-Gembloux which lies to the South-East of Brussels. The lights were reported to be brighter than stars, changing color between red, green and yellow, and appeared to be fixed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle. At this point Glons CRC requested the Wavre gendarmerie send a patrol to confirm the sighting.
Approximately 10 minutes later a second set of lights was sighted moving towards the first triangle. By around 23:30 the Wavre gendarmerie had confirmed the initial sightings and Glons CRC had been able to observe the phenomenon on radar. During this time the second set of lights, after some erratic manoeuvres, had also formed themselves into a smaller triangle. After tracking the targets and after receiving a second radar confirmation from the Traffic Center Control at Semmerzake, Glons CRC gave the order to scramble two F-16 fighters from Beauvechain Air Base shortly before midnight. Throughout this time the phenomenon was still clearly visible from the ground, with witnesses describing the whole formation as maintaining their relative positions while moving slowly across the sky. Witnesses also reported two dimmer lights towards the municipality of Eghezee displaying similar erratic movements to the second set of lights.
Over the next hour the two scrambled F-16s attempted nine separate interceptions of the targets. On three occasions they managed to obtain a radar lock for a few seconds but each time the targets changed position and speed so rapidly that the lock was broken. During the first radar lock, the target accelerated from 240 km/h to over 1,770 km/h while changing altitude from 2,700 m to 1,500 m, then up to 3,350 m before descending to almost ground level – the first descent of more than 900 m taking less than two seconds. Similar manoeuvres were observed during both subsequent radar locks. On no occasion were the F-16 pilots able to make visual contact with the targets and at no point, despite the speeds involved, was there any indication of a sonic boom. Moreover, narrator Robert Stack added in an episode of Unsolved Mysteries, the sudden changes in acceleration and deceleration would have been fatal to one or more human pilots.
During this time, ground witnesses broadly corroborate the information obtained by radar. They described seeing the smaller triangle completely disappear from sight at one point, while the larger triangle moved upwards very rapidly as the F-16s flew past. After 00:30 radar contact became much more sporadic and the final confirmed lock took place at 00:40. This final lock was once again broken by an acceleration from around 160 km/h to 1,120 km/h after which the radar of the F-16s and those at Glons and Semmerzake all lost contact. Following several further unconfirmed contacts the F-16s eventually returned to base shortly after 01:00.
The final details of the sighting were provided by the members of the Wavre gendarmerie who had been sent to confirm the original report. They describe four lights now being arranged in a square formation, all making short jerky movements, before gradually losing their luminosity and disappearing in four separate directions at around 01:30.
A supposed black triangle, 15 June 1990, Wallonia, Belgium. Claimed to have been taken during the UFO wave, though released thirteen years later.
Photograph
On April 1990, a photo was taken of the aircraft, and it remains as one of the most famous UFO pictures to date.
After appraising the evidence, the Belgian Air Force found it could offer no explanation for the sighting, but did reject the following possibilities:
* Balloons * Ultralight aircraft (ULM) * Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) * Aircraft (including Stealth) * Laser projections or holograms * Mirages or other meteorological phenomena
Skeptical explanations
In The Belgian UFO Wave of 1989-1992 – A Neglected Hypothesis, Renaud Leclet & co. discuss the fact that some sightings can be explained by helicopters. Most witnesses reported that the objects were silent. This report argues that the lack of noise could be due to the engine noise in the witnesses’ automobiles, or strong natural wind blowing in the direction of a witness, combined with the wind due to driving a vehicle.
Petit Rechain, Belgium, 1990. One of the most famous UFO pictures ever taken. The photographer, to my knowledge, still remains unnamed. Taken on an April night during a well known “wave,” the photo very clearly shows a triangle-shaped object with lights. One of the best proofs of UFOs we have, especially of a triangle. Original photo was too dark to show object outline, and had to be lightened. Occurred during the wave beginning in 1989.
Summary Report on Observations 30-31 March 1990
Summary: Summary of the offical report by the Belgian Air Force regarding the UFO events of March, 1990.
Background: 1. Starting early Dec 89 the BAF has been contacted on several occasions by eyewitnesses who observed strange phenomena in the Belgian airspace. On some occasions they described the phenomena as a triangle-shaped platform up to 200 feet wide with 3 downward beaming projectors, hovering at +- 100 m above the ground and making only a very light humming noise. Some witnesses saw the object departing at very high speed after a very fast acceleration. All observations were made in the evening or during the night. 2. The radar stations which had been alerted by eyewitnesses could not definitely determine a correlation between the visual observations and their detection on radar. On two occasions the BAF scrambled 2 F16 during the evening hours. a. On the first occasion the F16 arrived +- 1 hour after the visual detection. Nothing was observed. b. On the second occasion, pilots could identify a laser-beam projector on the ground. After investigation it appeared however that the description of the observations totally differed from previously described phenomena. 3. Consequently the Belgian Airforce, anxious to identify the origin of the phenomena, authorised F16 scrambles if following conditions were met: a. Visual observations on the ground confirmed by the local police. b. Detection on radar.
Events: 4. On 30 Mar 1990 at 23.00 Hr the Master Controller (MC) of the Air Defense radar station of Glons received a phone call from a person who declared to observe three independent blinking lights in the sky, changing colours, with a much higher intensity than the lights of the stars and forming a triangle. Meteo conditions were clear sky, no clouds, light wind and a minor temperature inversion at 3000 Ft. 5. The MC in turn notified the police of WAVRE which confirmed the sighting at +- 23 30 Hr. Meanwhile the MC had identified a radar contact at about 8 NM North of the ground observation. The contact moved slowely to the West at a speed of =- 25kts and an altitude of 10.000 Ft. 6. The ground observers reported 3 additional light spots which moved gradually, with irregular speeds, towards the first set of lights and forming a second triangle. 7. At 23.50 a second radar station, situated at +- 100 NM from the first, confirmed an identical contact at the same place of the radar contact of Glons. 8. At 00.05 2 F16 were scrambled from BEAUVECHAIN airbase and guided towards the radar contacts. A total of 9 interception attempts have been made. At 6 occasions the pilots could establish a lock-on with their air interception radar. Lock-on distances varied between 5 and 8 NM. On all occasions targets varied speed and altitude very quickly and break-locks occurred after 10 to 60 seconds. Speeds varied between 150 and 1010 kts. At 3 occasions both F16 registered simultaneous lock-ons with the same parameters. The 2 F16 were flying +- 2 NM apart. No visual contact could be established by either of the F16 pilots. 9. The F16 flew 3 times through the observation field of the ground observers. At the third passage the ground observers notified a change in the behavior of the light spots. The most luminous started to blink very intensively while the other disappeared. Consequently, the most luminous spot started to dim gradually. 10. Meanwhile the head of the police of WAVRE had alerted 4 other police stations in the area. All four, separated +- 10 NM from each other, confirmed the visual observations. 11. The aircraft landed at 01.10 Hrs. The last visual observation was recorded at +- 01.30 Hrs.
Conclusions: 12. The Belgian Air Force was unable to identify neither the nature nor the origin of the phenomena. However, it had sufficient elements to exclude following assumptions: a. Balloons. Impossible due to the highly variable speeds (confirmed visually and by radar). b.ULM. Same as for balloons. c. RPV. Impossible due to the hovering characteristics. d. Aircraft (including Stealth). Same as for RPV. No noise. e. Laser projections or Mirages. Unlikely due to lack of projection surface (no clouds). Light spots have been observed from different locations. Light spots moved over distance of more than 15 NM. Form of inlighted part of spots has been observed with spectacles. Laser projections or mirages can not be detected by radar.
{signed} W. DE BROUWER Kol Vl SBH VS3
source: Belgium Air Force
Eyewitness drawings and reconstructions of triangular craft seen in Belgium between 1989 and 1993. Courtesy of SOBEPS (click on the picture to enlarge)
Belgium UFO
UFO Sightings in Belgium, 1990
The Belgian Air Force discusses sightings there in 1990 and the use of F-16 jets to locate them along with radar. Recorded in 1993. Interview with General Wilfried de Brouwer.
Short documentary on the significant ufo sightings in Belgium in 1989/90 backed with the refreshing openness of the Belgium airforce and excellent witness testimony and of course very good radar evidence that proves something very unusual took place involving highly advanced technology.The G forces were later calculated at 30G for the mystery craft,this would obviously kill a human pilot.
In the late 1980s, the UFO phenomenon found its way to Belgium, where hundreds of people reported seeing a strange formation of lights in the sky. A very interesting picture emerged from the sightings.
Robert Salas is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, class of 1964. He served seven years on active duty before separating from the Air Force in 1971. While on active duty he worked as a Weapons Controller, flew target drones, commanded inter-continental ballistic missiles as a launch officer, and a worked as an Air Force missile propulsion engineer on the Titan III program.
Columbia Disaster: What Happened, What NASA Learned
Columbia Disaster: What Happened, What NASA Learned
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
On Feb. 1, 2003, space shuttle Columbia broke up as it returned to Earth, killing the seven astronauts on board. NASA suspended space shuttle flights for more than two years as it investigated the disaster.
An investigation board determined that a large piece of foam fell from the shuttle's external tank and fatally breached the spacecraft wing. This problem with foam had been known for years, and NASA came under intense scrutiny in Congress and in the media for allowing the situation to continue.
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Columbia, on mission STS-107, left Earth for the last time on Jan. 16, 2003. At the time, the shuttle program was focused on building the International Space Station. However, STS-107 stood apart as it emphasized pure research.
The seven-member crew — Rick Husband, commander; Michael Anderson, payload commander; David Brown, mission specialist; Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist; Laurel Clark, mission specialist; William McCool, pilot; Ilan Ramon, payload specialist from the Israeli Space Agency — spent 24 hours a day doing science experiments in two shifts. They performed around 80 experiments in life sciences, material sciences, fluid physics and other matters.
This image of the STS-107 shuttle Columbia crew in orbit was recovered from wreckage inside an undeveloped film canister. The shirt colors indicate their mission shifts. From left (bottom row): Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist; Rick Husband, commander; Laurel Clark, mission specialist; and Ilan Ramon, payload specialist. From left (top row) are astronauts David Brown, mission specialist; William McCool, pilot; and Michael Anderson, payload commander. Ramon represents the Israeli Space Agency.
Credit: NASA/JSC
During the crew's 16 days in space, NASA was investigating a foam strike during launch. About 82 seconds after Columbia left the ground, a piece of foam fell from a "bipod ramp" that was part of a structure that attached the external tank to the shuttle. Video from the launch appeared to show the foam striking Columbia's left wing.
Several people within NASA pushed to get pictures of the breached wing in orbit. The Department of Defense was reportedly prepared to use its orbital spy cameras to get a closer look. However, NASA officials in charge declined the offer, according to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) and "Comm Check," a book about the disaster.
This image is a view of the underside of Columbia during its entry from mission STS-107 on Feb. 1, 2003, as it passed by the Starfire Optical Range, Directed Energy Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The image was taken at approximately 7:57 a.m. CST. This image was received by NASA as part of the Columbia accident investigation and is being analyzed.
Credit: NASA
On Feb. 1, 2003, the shuttle made its usual landing approach to the Kennedy Space Center. Just before 9 a.m. EST, however, abnormal readings showed up at Mission Control. They lost temperature readings from sensors located on the left wing. Then, tire pressure readings from the left side also vanished.
The Capcom, or spacecraft communicator, called up to Columbia to discuss the tire pressure readings. At 8:59:32 a.m., Husband called back from Columbia: "Roger," followed by a word that was cut off in mid-sentence.
At that point, Columbia was near Dallas, travelling 18 times the speed of sound and still 200,700 feet (61,170 meters) above the ground. Mission Control made several attempts to get in touch with the astronauts, with no success.
It was later found that a hole on the left wing allowed atmospheric gases to bleed into the shuttle as it went through its fiery re-entry, leading to the loss of the sensors and eventually, Columbia itself.
Searching for debris
Twelve minutes later, when Columbia should have been making its final approach to the runway, a mission controller received a phone call. The caller said a television network was showing video of the shuttle breaking up in the sky.
Shortly afterward, NASA declared a space shuttle "contingency" and sent search and rescue teams to the suspected debris sites in Texas and later, Louisiana. Later that day, NASA declared the astronauts lost.
“This is indeed a tragic day for the NASA family, for the families of the astronauts who flew on STS-107, and likewise is tragic for the nation,” stated NASA's administrator at the time, Sean O’Keefe.
An overall view of the shuttle flight control room (WFCR) in Houston’s Mission Control Center (MCC) at the Johnson Space Center (JSC). At the time this photo was taken, flight controllers had just lost contact with the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Credit: NASA
The search for debris took weeks, as it was shed over a field of some 2,000 square miles (5,180 square kilometers) in east Texas alone. NASA eventually recovered 84,000 pieces, representing nearly 40 percent of Columbia. Among them were the crew remains, which were identified with DNA.
Much later, in 2008, NASA released a crew survival report detailing the Columbia crew's last few minutes. The astronauts probably survived the initial breakup of Columbia, but lost consciousness in seconds after the cabin lost pressure and then died as it disintegrated.
Report calls for more funding, emphasis on safety
In the weeks after the disaster, a dozen officials began sifting through the Columbia disaster, led by Harold W. Gehman Jr., former commander-in-chief of the U.S. Joint Forces Command. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board, or CAIB, as it was later known, later released a multi-volume report on how the shuttle was destroyed, and what led to it.
Besides the physical cause – the foam – CAIB had a damning assessment about the culture at NASA that led to the foam problem and other safety issues being minimized over the years.
"Cultural traits and organizational practices detrimental to safety were allowed to develop," the board wrote, citing "reliance on past success as a substitute for sound engineering practices" and "organizational barriers that prevented effective communication of critical safety information" among the problems found.
CAIB recommended NASA ruthlessly seek and eliminate safety problems, such as the foam, to help astronaut safety in future missions. It also called for more predictable funding and political support for the agency, and added that the shuttle must be replaced with a new transportation system.
"The shuttle is now an aging system but still developmental in character. It is in the nation's interest to replace the shuttle as soon as possible," the report stated.
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Returning to flight
The shuttle's external tank was redesigned, and other safety measures implemented. In July 2005, STS-114 lifted off and tested a suite of new procedures, including one where astronauts used cameras and a robotic arm to scan the shuttle's belly for broken tiles. NASA also put more camera views on the shuttle during liftoff to better monitor foam shedding.
Due to more foam loss than expected, the next shuttle flight did not take place until July 2006. After STS-121's safe conclusion, NASA deemed the program ready to move forward and shuttles resumed flying several times a year.
"We're still going to watch and we're still going to pay attention," STS-121 commander Steve Lindsey said at the time. "We're never ever going to let our guard down."
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Columbia's loss – as well as the loss of several other space-bound crews – receives a public tribute every year at NASA's Day of Remembrance. That date is marked in late January or early February because, coincidentally, the Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia crews were all lost in that calendar week.
The crew has received several tributes to their memory over the years. On Mars, the rover Spirit's landing site was ceremonially named Columbia Memorial Station. Also, seven asteroids orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter now bear the crew's names.
Dwarf Planet Eris, Pluto’s Twin living Far Far Away
Dwarf Planet Eris, Pluto’s Twin living Far Far Away
At a distance bigger than 5 thousand million kilometers from our Sun, there is a dwarf planet which resembles the former planet Pluto: Eris.
Eris is a dwarf planet with the same size of Pluto, it lies too in the Kuiper Belt but circles our star from about three times farther away than the former planet. The image on top is an artist’s impression of this peculiar dwarf planet and its moon, Dysnomia.
Eris’ perihelion is 5.8 thousand million kilometers, but the aphelion is almost three times the perihelion, 14.6 thousand million kilometers. This is a huge difference of distances, which means that its orbit is extremely excentric, having also a period of 561.37 Earth years.
The researchers concluded that Eris is a spherical body. And, by studying the motion of Eris’ moon Dysnomia, they peg the dwarf planet to be about 27% heavier than Pluto, which means it’s considerably denser than Pluto as well.
“This density means that Eris is probably a large rocky body covered in a relatively thin mantle of ice,” said co-author Emmanuel Jehin, of the Institut d’Astrophysique de I’Université de Liège in Belgium.
What’s most fascinating about Eris is how almost every single information about it was found just by seeing Eris passing in front of a dim star in 2010.
“It is extraordinary how much we can find out about a small and distant object such as Eris by watching it pass in front of a faint star, using relatively small telescopes,” said study lead author Bruno Sicardy, of the Pierre et Marie Curie University and Observatory of Paris.
And finally, Eris is one of the reasons for Pluto’s demotion. It was first observed in 2005 and it was thought to be 10th planet of our Solar System.
Since Pluto shares the Kuiper Belt with lots of other big objects such as Eris, it failed to meet the IAU (International Astronomy Union) third criterion for a body to be a planet: it has “cleared its neighborhood” of most other orbiting bodies. And because of this, Pluto (and Eris) were named dwarf planets.
And those are the main informations about dwarf planet Eris. I’ll end with the best image of Eris, credits for ESO.
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NASA's Next Great Space Telescope: The Quest Begins
NASA's Next Great Space Telescope: The Quest Begins
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
An artist's impression of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which took the infrared image in the background. What will NASA choose for its next major space mission?
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The hunt is on! NASA has begun a quest to select its next big instrument to study the cosmos.
Observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope have revolutionized humanity's view of the cosmos. And upcoming projects, such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and the WFIRST-AFTA mission — which the agency aims to launch in 2018 and the mid-2020s, respectively — promise to make big discoveries of their own.
But what will happen after that? What kind of space telescope does NASA aim to build a few decades from now? The picture is getting a little clearer: Earlier this month, the space agency announced that it is forming four working groups to investigate possible concepts for a large-scale space mission that would likely launch in the 2030s. [The Most Amazing Views of the Cosmos from Hubble]
One of the four mission concepts is focused on direct imaging of the surfaces of exoplanets, to potentially search for signs of life. The other three concepts are for space telescopes built to detect specific wavelengths of light: the ultraviolet/optical/near-infrared range, similar to what Hubble sees; X-ray light; and far-infrared light. The space agency is now accepting applications from scientists to join one of the four groups. Paul Hertz, director of NASA's astrophysics division, delivered a town hall talk at the 227th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Florida earlier this month, in which he announced the formation of the groups and put out a call for applications.
The groups will put together a report that will show what kind of science each concept could accomplish, what capabilities it would have, what limitations exist for building it, and how each space telescope would benefit the entire astronomy community. Much of the potential science that each mission could accomplish was written about at length in NASA's 2013 Astrophysics Roadmap: "Enduring Quests, Daring Visions: NASAAstrophysics in the Next Three Decades."
Here is a brief description of each of the four mission concepts and what they hope to accomplish.
This artist's illustration shows some of the planets identified in the Habitable Planets Catalog. A telescope designed to directly image the surface of exoplanets could potentially identify more signs of habitability, or even life, on other planets.
Scientists have indirectly identified about 2,000 planets outside Earth's solar system using the Kepler Space Telescope and other instruments. Now, scientists want a way to look directly at exoplanets that aren't too far from Earth. A direct-imaging planetary telescope could potentially reveal the atmospheres and surface conditions of alien worlds, and would search for signs of habitability or even bio-activity (yes, alien life), according to Bertrand Mennesson, an exoplanet scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, who is helping to lead this mission concept group.
The so-called "HabEx" mission would "help assess the prevalence of habitable planets and [the] possibly of primitive life in our galaxy," Mennesson told Space.com in an email. HabEx would also allow scientists to look at the atmospheres and surface conditions on all kinds of planets, including ice giants, gas giants and rocky planets, around various types of stars and in various solar system arrangements.
Such a telescope would also capture images of young planetary systems in the early stages of formation, providing a look at solar system evolution across the galaxy. Direct imaging of exoplanet atmospheres has already been demonstrated from the ground, Mennesson said.
Large ultraviolet, optical and infrared (LUVOIR) telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope, with its 7.9-foot-wide (2.4 meters) primary mirror, has revolutionized how humans see the cosmos. Imagine what a space telescope with a 39-foot (12 m) mirror could do.
There have been many proposals in the astronomy community for a 26- to 39-foot (8 to 12 m) telescope that collects light in the ultraviolet, optical and infrared wavelengths, as Hubble does. One of the most recent such proposals has been named the "High Definition Space Telescope," (HDST), but the general concept is called LUVOIR (Large Ultraviolet Visible Infrared). (The $8.8 billion JWST has a 21.3-foot-wide (6.5 m) mirror and will collect light mostly in the infrared, with some capability in the optical range.)
The star cluster Westerlund 2 and gas cloud Gum 29, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. A much larger telescope similar to Hubble has been proposed for NASA's next large-scale mission.
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team
"LUVOIR could study the formation of stars and planets in our galaxy, map the evolution of galaxies, illuminate the birth of the first stars in the universe and probe into black hole environments," said Aki Roberge, a scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who is helping to lead the group for this mission.
A LUVOIR telescope could also have some overlap with an exoplanet direct-imaging instrument such as HabEx, and would be able to characterize the atmospheres and surfaces of a wide range of planets, potentially identifying signatures of life. These capabilities are discussed extensively in an HDST report that was published in 2015.
"There will likely be a greater emphasis on astrophysics capabilities in the LUVOIR study than in the HabEx study, though both will be looking hard at exoplanet capabilities," Roberge told Space.com in an email. "LUVOIR may enable a broader range of exoplanet observations. The two teams aim to collaborate on the overlapping science and technical aspects as much as we can." [The Strangest Alien Planets]
The galaxy Messier 51, imaged by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Wesleyan Univ./R.Kilgard, et al; Optical: NASA/STScI
X-ray surveyor mission
The X-ray universe has already revealed itself to be a strange and beautiful place, through observations (and jaw-dropping images) taken with various space telescopes, including NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton observatory and NASA's NuSTAR mission.
All of these telescopes have helped scientists study a wide variety of fascinating cosmic objects, including supernovas (exploding stars), black holes (and the disks of matter that swirl around them), galaxies and mysterious dark matter. [Photos: The X-Ray Universe Revealed by Chandra]
A new X-ray surveyor could provide insight into how matter behaves in some of the cosmos' most extreme environments, such as the region around a black hole, proponents say. It could provide a look at the birth and growth of the first supermassive black holes in the universe, and would allow scientists to look at how galaxies have formed and evolved over the lifetime of the universe (13.8 billion years). This backward glance would also reveal a look at the evolution of the larger structure of the universe according to the NASA Astrophysics Roadmap, and NASA scientists working with the concept group.
The X-ray surveyor would look out to the edge of the visible universe, allowing scientists to observe how galaxies have formed and evolved over the lifetime of the universe (about 13.8 billion years). This backward glance would also reveal a look at the evolution of the larger structure of the universe.
If NASA does end up building the X-ray Surveyor, the mission would provide orders of magnitude more sensitive than any other X-ray mission, the scientists said.
Far-IR surveyor mission
An infrared image of the Orion Nebula, a site of massive amounts of star formation, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S.T. Megeaty (Univ. of Toledo,OH).
All the stars in the universe collectively radiate an incredible amount of visible light, but scientists now know that as much as half of that starlight is blocked by dust clouds, and then reradiated as infrared light.
"If you don't do things in the infrared, you're missing half the picture, effectively," Kartik Sheth, a program scientist in the astrophysics division at NASA Headquarters, told Space.com.
With a next-generation far-infrared space telescope, scientists could study how stars and planets form by studying in detail the nurseries where these cosmic babies come to life. Infrared observations are also especially good for identifying the chemicals present in distant cosmic objects. This could mean looking for water in newly forming solar systems.
The vast majority of elements in the universe are made by stars (which means that "we are made of starstuff," as the late astronomer Carl Sagan famously said). A next-generation far-infrared telescope could study stars at various stages of their life cycles to reveal when and where different elements are being made. Effectively, such an instrument would provide scientists a list of ingredients in many cosmic objects, advocates say.
The far-infrared mission concept would look at a range of wavelengths that fall between what will be observed by JWST and the ground-based Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), which is coming online in Chile. This particular range of light gets distorted by Earth's atmosphere, which means scientists must put an infrared telescope into space to capture them properly. The instruments on NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope that captured light in the far-infrared range have all shut down (although a few shorter wavelength instruments are still operational). Following Spitzer's retirement, there will be no space observatories studying the far-infrared wavelength range. The only other observatory operating in this wavelength range is NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), which is a modified Being 747 aircraft that can fly to altitudes where the Earth's atmosphere is significantly thinner. It is currently the largest airborne observatory in the world.
"The far-infrared community has not had a space-mission like Hubble or Chandra that has continuously operated for a long time," Sheth said.
Which mission will be selected?
NASA invests in missions of various sizes, such as the Fermi Gamma Ray Telescope, or the Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). But the four mission concepts being reviewed by the newly announced working groups will be large-scale missions that follow in the footsteps of Hubble, JWST and WFIRST-AFTA (whose name is short for Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope-Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets). Missions of this size take decades to complete, which is why NASA is starting the process now, even though any of these missions might not begin operating until the mid-2030s or 2040, Hertz said.
The decision about which, if any, of these concepts becomes a reality will likely be strongly influenced by a group outside of NASA. Every 10 years, the National Academy of Sciences' National Research Council puts together a committee to talk about what priorities the astronomy and astrophysics communities should set for the coming decade. The committee then releases a report, known as the "decadal survey," that makes specific recommendations for the next 10 years. Past surveys have recommended current NASA projects including JWST and WFIRST-AFTA. NASA typically follows the recommendations set by this survey.
The four concept groups will work to provide the decadal committee with all the information they need to make a decision about which mission concept should become a reality. One of these mission concepts may inform NASA's next big mission to explore the cosmos.
Now that "The X-Files" has been revived as a miniseries, the CIA decided to resurface those files. Many of them trace back to the early 1950s, at a time when political tensions were still frozen over and flying objects were seen as national security threats.
A memo on national security and the 'vulnerability to air attack' from flying saucers
CIA
On October 2, 1952, the Assistant Director in the Office of Scientific Intelligence sent a memoto the Director of the entire CIA with the subject "Flying Saucers."
As the AD wrote, "'Flying saucers' pose two elements of danger which have national security implications. The first involves mass psychological considerations and the second concerns the vulnerability of the United States to air attack."
The AD recommended more research be conducted to explore the "implications of the 'flying saucer' problem."
(If you listen closely enough, you can almost hear them typing the word "drones" decades ahead of time.)
Uzbekistan's mysterious light show
CIA
The late 1940s in the Uzbekistan capital city of Tashkent saw more unidentified light shows than it could count.
"From May to September 1947," a CIA information report reads, "three light phenomena happening at intervals of about 15 minutes were seen almost every night between 9 and 10 p.m. local time." At its highest point, the light seemed to be roughly a fifth the diameter of a full moon.
As the report details, the light always began as a bright red ball. Within seconds it would grow a fiery tail and then morph into a green, then white, mass.
"Smoke trails, noises, or detonations were not noticed."
Fiery disks looming over Belgian uranium mines
CIA
A daily newspaper in Vienna, of all publications, reported on a peculiar sighting of "two fiery disks" hovering over uranium mines in mid-August, 1952.
As the report explains, the two objects supposedly tore through the airspace in a highly erratic fashion. At one point they would be soaring vertically away from the onlookers, and the next they'd be diving down "to within 20 meters of the tree tops."
Commander Pierre of the local airfield took off in his own fighter plane to wrangle the unknown aircraft. However, "Pierre had to give up pursuit after 15 minutes since both disks, with a loud whistling sound which he heard despite the noise of his own plane, disappeared in a straight line toward Lake Tanganyika."
Pierre later estimated the disks were traveling more than 900 miles per hour.
The East German flying saucers of 1952
CIA
The CIA published this internal document reporting on one German man's fantastic account of a 45-foot-wide disk he spotted in a forest when his motorcycle broke down.
Accompanied by his 11-year-old daughter, the man approached the strange-looking object to find two men in "shiny metallic clothing" kneeling over the disk, which had a cone-shaped capsule on top.
Once the two men realized they were being watched, the man says, they hopped into the capsule and the disk began to leave the ground. Eventually, it rose high above the trees and took off.
"I had never heard of the term 'flying saucer' before I escaped from the Soviet Union into West Berlin," the man later said. "When I saw this object, I immediately thought it was a new Soviet military machine."
Flying objects passing over Casablanca
CIA
In early September 1952, multiple sightings were reported of various UFOs over Casablanca, Morocco. The town made famous in the 1942 film of the same name saw two flying saucers that were "elongated in shape" and "followed by a trail of white light."
On a separate occasion in July, two other people reported seeing a "blue-green, ball-shaped object" just before midnight "moving at a high rate of speed." The mysterious object disappeared after only three or four seconds, however, "as though it had literally melted into the sky."
The very next morning, another couple observed a mysterious object around 9 a.m. for roughly 30 seconds. Several more accounts, all with differing details, emerged that summer.
"The object appeared to have a diameter of 15-20 meters (50-65 feet)," the CIA report stated. "After the workers had observed the object for a while, it suddenly flew away at great speed in a northwesternly direction."
They were the only people who reported seeing the object, unfortunately for them. "They swear, however, that their report is true."
The CIA begins to have its doubts
CIA
With all these reports coming in, it didn't take long for the CIA to get suspicious. In August 1952 (keep in mind, still two months ahead of its memo on those two national security concerns), the Deputy Assistant Director of the Scientific Intelligence office released a memodiscounting the threat posed by UFOs.
"Of 1000 to 2000 such reports received by ATIC (Air Technical Intelligence Center), a large percentage are clearly 'phoney,'" the report reads. In fact, many of the reported flights were easily explained as known missions using US equipment, the report went on.
Owing to the agency's uncertainty, however, the Deputy AD recommended CIA surveillance continue on the mysterious "flying saucers" under the cover of darkness.
"It is strongly urged ... that no indication of CIA interest or concern reach the press or public," the report read, "in view of their probable alarmist tendencies to accept such interest as 'confirmatory' of the soundness of 'unpublished facts' in the hands of the U.S. government."
La scène se passe en 1950 aux Etats-Unis, dans la cafétéria du Laboratoire national de Los Alamos où la bombe atomique américaine a été développée pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Le Prix Nobel de physique 1938, l'Italo-Américain Enrico Fermi, entouré de quelques collègues, se demande si notre civilisation est la seule à avoir atteint un stade technologique dans la galaxie. Le raisonnement est schématiquement le suivant : si ce stade a été atteint par des peuples extraterrestres, il y a de bonnes chances que certains l'aient fait depuis des milliers voire des millions d'années. Par conséquent, ils ont eu le temps de résoudre les problèmes des voyages interstellaires et de mener à bien la colonisation de la Voie lactée. D'où la question, logique, que Fermi pose : "Si les extraterrestres existent, où sont-ils donc tous ?"
Devenue célèbre sous le nom de paradoxe de Fermi, cette question posée à une époque où, primo, l'aventure spatiale humaine n'avait pas encore véritablement commencé et où, secundo, on était fort loin de découvrir la première planète extrasolaire – il faut bien que les extraterrestres vivent quelque part – a fait cogiter nombre de chercheurs, qu'ils soient astronomes ou biologistes. Les décennies ont passé et bien des inconnues que mettait en lumière le paradoxe de Fermi se sont estompées. On sait que les exoplanètes rocheuses semblables à la Terre sont sans doute pléthore dans la Voie lactée et on a mieux précisé les conditions favorables à l'apparition de la vie. Dans son livre A l'écoute du vivant, le chercheur belge Christian de Duve, Prix Nobel de médecine, expliquait ainsi que "la vie fait partie de l'Univers. C'est une manifestation normale de la matière qui obéit à ses lois." Une affirmation qui renforçait encore le caractère "poil à gratter" du paradoxe de Fermi car si le passage de l'inerte au vivant est réellement un processus physico-chimique simple, à condition qu'on ait beaucoup de temps devant soi, qu'est-ce qui empêche qu'E.T. soit partout ou qu'il ait du moins laissé des traces visibles par tous ?
A la fin des années 1990, alors que le programme SETI d'écoute du ciel à la recherche de signaux radio artificiels ne faisait état que d'un assourdissant silence, a émergé, sous la plume de l'économiste Robin Hanson, le concept de Grand Filtre : ainsi que le résume le site Astronomes.com d'Olivier Esslinger, le Grand Filtre est"un obstacle insurmontable qui empêche le passage de la matière inerte à une civilisation galactique". A un moment donné, quelque chose bloque. Ce "quelque chose", ce goulot d'étranglement, a souvent été placé très tôt dans le long processus censé mener à l'avènement de cette "civilisation galactique".
Dans une étudeaustralienne publiée le 20 janvier par la revue Astrobiology, les chercheurs Aditya Chopra et Charles Lineweaver pensent que le point de blocage ne se trouve pas au tout début de la chaîne mais plus loin : si l'on suit leur raisonnement, si les extraterrestres ne sont pas partout, c'est parce qu'ils sont morts avant d'en avoir eu le temps et non pas parce que la vie naît difficilement. Pour arriver à cette conclusion, les deux auteurs de cette étude ont, un peu comme la check-list d'un pilote et d'un copilote, méthodiquement repris les grandes étapes de l'apparition et de l'évolution du vivant pour voir où le Grand Filtre avait le plus de chances de se placer. Y a-t-il un problème astrophysique ? Non, car les étoiles autour desquelles des planètes rocheuses sont susceptibles de se former à une distance où l'eau serait présente sous forme liquide se comptent probablement en milliards dans la Voie lactée, voire davantage. Y a-t-il un problème chimique ? Non, car les éléments essentiels à la vie telle que nous la connaissons, à savoir les CHNOPS (carbone, hydrogène, azote, oxygène, phosphore et soufre), sont aussi parmi les éléments les plus courants dans l'Univers. Y a-t-il un problème d'énergie ? Non plus, car l'étoile en fournit suffisamment.
Pour Aditya Chopra et Charles Lineweaver, le problème est ailleurs. On peut, selon eux, trouver facilement des environnements propices dans lesquels la vie éclora. En revanche, rien ne garantit que ces environnements garderont durablement des conditions favorables, parce qu'une planète, à sa manière, est "vivante", qu'elle évolue, qu'elle est soumise à des règles physiques et à des cycles. Ces deux chercheurs reprennent ainsi les exemples de Vénus et de Mars, nées dans la "zone d'habitabilité" du Soleil. L'eau y a coulé sous forme liquide. Peut-être la vie y est-elle même apparue. Mais si c'est le cas, elle n'a pas pu s'y maintenir : soumise à un effet de serre galopant, Vénus s'est transformée en enfer surchauffé, à plus de 400°C, tandis que Mars a perdu son atmosphère et s'est gelée. Il faut bien admettre que l'eau n'est pas facile à maintenir sur une planète sous sa forme liquide. D'ailleurs, elle aura disparu de la Terre d'ici un à deux milliards d'années...
L'étude d'Astrobiologypose la question de savoir si le fait que la vie ait perduré sur notre planète est uniquement dû à des conjonctions physiques favorables. Et la réponse est surprenante. Pour ses auteurs, si la Terre n'a pas perdu son habitabilité, c'est probablement grâce... au vivant lui-même. Celui-ci n'est en effet pas un simple"passager passif", pour reprendre la jolie expression présente dans cet article, mais il "modifie et régule activement son environnement". Comment ? Par exemple en agissant sur la composition de l'atmosphère, sur les gaz à effet de serre, sur l'albédo de la planète, c'est-à-dire sur sa capacité à renvoyer ou à absorber les rayons solaires. Par ces mécanismes dits de rétroaction, la vie crée les conditions de sa propre perpétuation... ou, si tout tourne mal, de son extinction.
J'en prends pour exemple, même s'il n'est pas cité dans l'étude, l'épisode dit de la Grande Oxydation. Les premiers organismes terrestres étaient anaérobies : ils n'avaient pas besoin d'oxygène pour fonctionner et celui-ci était même une sorte de déchet relargué dans l'océan où il était capturé par le fer. Mais lorsque tout le fer a été utilisé, l'oxygène s'est accumulé dans les mers et dans l'atmosphère. Non seulement cet élément était toxique pour les organismes de l'époque mais il s'est aussi associé avec le méthane présent dans l'air, retirant de l'atmosphère ce puissant gaz à effet de serre. Cela aurait provoqué une chute brutale des températures et, entre 2,4 et 2,1 milliards d'années, l'épisode dit de la glaciation huronienne, où la Terre aurait été recouverte de glaces. Catastrophe ? Au terme de cette très longue glaciation, de nouvelles formes de vie compatibles avec une atmosphère riche en oxygène ont pris le relais et nous sommes leurs lointains descendants. Cette histoire illustre bien la capacité de la vie à influencer les cycles géochimiques et à les transformer en cycles biogéochimiques. On pourrait aussi citer l'action de l'homme sur le cycle du carbone et toutes les conséquences qui en découlent...
Au bout du compte, si les extraterrestres ne sont pas partout, c'est, estiment les auteurs de cette étude, parce que, sur la plupart des planètes, le changement des conditions physiques "conspire à éliminer la vie naissante avant qu'elle ait une chance d'évoluer suffisamment pour réguler les cycles globaux". Selon leurs modèles, la grande majorité des planètes vivables seraient incapables de maintenir leur habitabilité plus de 1 ou 1,5 milliard d'années. Les planètes telles que la Terre, celles où le vivant a pris la barre avant d'être balayé, seraient donc une minorité chanceuse.
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for January 2016:
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for January 2016:
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In January 2016 there were 687 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
Country
Number of Reports
UNITED STATES
502
CANADA
66
UNITED KINGDOM
28
AUSTRALIA
13
GERMANY
9
SPAIN
6
BRAZIL
5
NEW ZEALAND
4
ITALY
3
NETHERLANDS
3
MALAYSIA
2
COLOMBIA
2
VENEZUELA
2
SOUTH AFRICA
2
IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF
2
PUERTO RICO
2
JAPAN
2
PORTUGAL
2
INDIA
2
FRANCE
1
ISRAEL
1
QATAR
1
PHILIPPINES
1
VIRGIN ISLANDS, U.S.
1
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
1
KENYA
1
GREENLAND
1
CHILE
1
ZAMBIA
1
MALTA
1
BOLIVIA
1
NORWAY
1
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
1
GREECE
1
GUAM
1
TAIWAN
1
VIET NAM
1
BULGARIA
1
NETHERLANDS ANTILLES
1
TOGO
1
LITHUANIA
1
MEXICO
1
NICARAGUA
1
BELIZE
1
SWEDEN
1
IRELAND
1
BELGIUM
1
ICELAND
1
POLAND
1
TOTAL:
687
Within the United States the distribution by State was as follows;
State
Number of Reports
California
65
Florida
43
Texas
41
Pennsylvania
24
Washington
22
New York
21
Michigan
18
Ohio
17
Oregon
17
North Carolina
17
Georgia
14
Nevada
12
New Mexico
12
Oklahoma
10
Illinois
10
Kentucky
10
Missouri
10
Maryland
9
Indiana
9
Colorado
8
Tennessee
8
Arizona
7
Minnesota
7
Mississippi
7
Montana
6
New Hampshire
6
New Jersey
6
West Virginia
6
Iowa
6
Alabama
5
Maine
5
Virginia
5
Arkansas
5
Massachusetts
5
North Dakota
4
Utah
4
South Carolina
4
Wisconsin
4
Louisiana
2
Hawaii
2
Idaho
2
Kansas
2
Alaska
1
Nebraska
1
Connecticut
1
South Dakota
1
Wyoming
1
If you are getting more sighting reports than listed here, please be sure to enter them manually into CMS. To make this happen automatically, make sure your local MUFON Website is pointing to the CMS Reporting form onwww.mufon.com and direct all calls you get to the MUFON website so that witnesses can enter their own report directly into CMS.
ALL sighting reports received by CMS are already filled in by the witness, saving you and your investigators time. Each report is automatically sent to YOU, the State Director and Assistant State Director, for you to assign someone to follow-up and complete the report.
If a UFO sighting comes in over the phone, or by e-mail, and you want to enter it yourself, simply go to CMS athttp://mufoncms.com (once logged in) and click on "ADD CASE" in the upper right hand corner of the screen. This gives you a blank sighting reporting form that you can fill out while the witness is on the phone. Once the report is filled out be sure to click "SAVE" and you will have easily added your NEW report to CMS.
Other interesting data points in CMS during January 2016 are the shape of the UFOs reported which were as follows;
Shape of Object
Number of Reports
Sphere
129
Circle
66
Other
64
Triangle
58
Disc
57
Unknown
48
Star-like
47
Fireball
38
Oval
34
Square/Rectangular
27
N/A
17
Boomerang
17
Cylinder
16
Cigar
14
Diamond
11
Cone
10
Flash
9
Chevron
6
Blimp
4
Saturn-like
4
Bullet/Missile
4
Teardrop
3
Egg
2
Cross
2
as well as the distance from the observer;
Distance from Witness
Number of Reports
< 100 ft
129
101-500 ft
105
501 ft - 1 Mile
144
Over 1 Mile
169
Unknown
194
NO VALUE
28
Most impressively there were 28 Landings, Hovering, or Takeoffs reported and 1 Entities observed.
To review the CMS data yourself go to www.mufon.com and click on "UFO Case Files" to 1.) Easily look at the Last 20 Sightings, or 2.) Do a customized search of the CMS database by date and/or location, or 3.) Logon to CMS for even more detailed UFO sighting information about your State and the World.
I hope you are enjoying our new internet based Sighting and Reporting System. For questions regarding its use please refer to the User Guide available on your CMS main menu screen. Please send your questions and/or suggestions to Jan Harzan at janharzan@hotmail.com.
Bob Lazar 25 Years Later - "Wish I Hadn't Told The Truth"
Bob Lazar 25 Years Later - "Wish I Hadn't Told The Truth"
Published on Jan 10, 2016
It has been 25 years to the day since a live interview with a shadowy guy named "Dennis" changed everything for America's most secret military base. "Dennis" turned out later to be a man named Bob Lazar, who claimed he worked at a secret facility built into a mountainside just south of Area 51's main facilities.
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According to Ufologists, a cigar-shaped UFO caused the eruption of one of Mexico’s volcanoes
According to Ufologists, a cigar-shaped UFO caused the eruption of one of Mexico’s volcanoes
According to Ufologists, a cigar-shaped UFO caused one of Mexico’s volcanos to erupt. But was the explosion caused by an otherworldly craft? And just what is the mysterious object seen flying above the volcano if not an Alien ship? These are some of the questions being asked on social networks after a mysterious footage showing what appears to be a cigar shaped UFO popped up online, causing the UFO community to enter into a debate with skeptics.
It seems that 2016 has started off with some incredible UFO footage around the world and some of that footage come from the Volcano in Colima, Mexico, one of the 18 most active volcanoes found in Mexico. The objects seen in the vicinity of The Volcán de Colima, also known as Volcán de Fuego, are bright flying objects that have an elongated shape most of the time while people have recorded other spherical objects sometimes emerging from with the belly of the volcano. Whether the presence of the mysterious objects is directly connected to the activity of the volcano remains a profound mystery.
About five seconds into the footage captured by WebCams Mexico, a mysterious object approaches the volcano about to erupt, at the moment of the explosion, the UFO makes its way across the sky while the Volcano continues to go up in lava. After the explosion, the mysterious object disappears from view.
The anomalous footage seen near to Volcano was recorded by the cameras from WebCams Mexico located at the Carrizalillo Lagoon in Colima. The even recorded on video demonstrates that the volcano has attracted – for an unknown reason– these objects for quite some time. According to video footage, the most impressive of the sightings occurred on the night of January 3 at 20:35 hours Mexican time, when an elongated UFO ( just like the one seen entering Mexico’s Popocatepetl volcano a couple of years ago) flies near the volcano. According to users on social networks, this mysterious object ist most definitely not from Earth, and cannot be a man-made vehicle, something that skeptics firmly reject.
The object in question moved at a constant speed and low altitude, and when the UFO approached the crater of the volcano, there was a tremendous explosion that caused incandescent material to be thrown from the volcano. As expected, the video which was posted on different social networks quickly raised uproar and all kinds of speculations in the UFO community, from those who report that there is an alien base inside the volcano, as well as those who claim that the energies that are released are able to open doors to other dimensions which are used by these UFO’s to move through space.
Scott Waring from UFO sightings daily commented on the mysterious event.
‘This long UFO was caught over Colima Volcano on Jan 3. The UFO passes over and through the lava shot up from the mouth of the volcano,’ Warring wrote.
‘As it gets above the mouth, there is a burst of light and all goes black. The UFO then flies away.
‘I believe that as the UFO went over the mouth, it transported someone or something too or from the underground base below the volcano.’
Other Alien hunters have come up with several other theories trying to explain what caused the volcanic eruption and what the mysterious object is.
‘Wow. As if it had a preconceived notion of the arruption [sic]. I think it leans towards refuelling as opposed to the underground base theory,’ one user commented on the UFO Sightings Daily post.
Witness Statement: I was driving south bound on route 202 when I saw 2 VERY bright lights to my right (northwest). At first I thought they were planets Bc around the lights were the normal helicopters and airplanes far away. But as I got closer the lights got bigger...they are horizontal, about three of them. The object was stationary. The second object either headed north or disappeared. There were NO flashing lights on what I was recording. Just three white lights that stayed on. I was driving and watching the road while filming so my apologies for the lack of focus.
After about a minute it's gone. Then later on as I approached 30bypass west I see another object with two flashing whites that appeared to be hovering in front of a helicopter.
Could these be drones? The only drones I've seen have blue and red lights. Nothing nearly this bright, nor this big. Or was it something else? (Read more…)
http://www.todaysufovideos.com Witness Statement:I was driving south bound on route 202 when I saw 2 VERY bright lights to my right (northwest). At first I thought they were planets Bc around the lights were the normal helicopters and airplanes far away. But as I got closer the lights got bigger...they are horizontal, about three of them. The object was stationary. The second object either headed north or disappeared. There were NO flashing lights on what I was recording. Just three white lights that stayed on. I was driving and watching the road while filming so my apologies for the lack of focus.
After about a minute it's gone. Then later on as I approached 30bypass west I see another object with two flashing whites that appeared to be hovering in front of a helicopter.
Could these be drones? The only drones I've seen have blue and red lights. Nothing nearly this bright, nor this big. Or was it something else?
Analysis:This appears to be a large object or objects in formation hovering in one area. Due to the distance and the size of the object as road signs go in front of it seems to point to a large size like an aircraft possibly and not a small drone. Aircraft of this size usually do not hover and by law must emit flashing safety lights which this craft does not. Leave your thoughts in the comments below and don’t forget to visit the original video as well.
Zo zijn er geregeld waarnemingen vanuit het grensgebied tussen India en China, maar ook in het land dat tussen beiden ligt ingeklemd, Nepal.
Daar werd enkele dagen geleden de volgende video opgenomen. Het betreft klaarblijkelijk een groep Amerikaanse onderzoekers die opeens worden omringd door vreemde orbs of UFO’s.
Je ziet de mensen lopen en iets verder boven de bergen zie je een aantal witte bollen rondvliegen alsof ze boel aan het verkennen zijn. Voor zover ons bekend heeft niemand nog kunnen aantonen dat deze video niet echt zou zijn en in dat geval praten we hier over bijzondere beelden.
Naast deze bijzondere witte bollen worden er ook regelmatig opnames gemaakt zoals de volgende in het Himalayagebergte.
Ook deze week werd er door een Youtube gebruiker uit Mexico een bijzondere ontdekking gedaan op Google Earth.
Het lijkt alsof hij een geheime ingang heeft gevonden naar wellicht een buitenaardse basis in het Himalayagebergte in Nepal.
Deze ingang, als het dat is tenminste, bevindt zich in een onherbergzaam gebied. Ook is het een plek op een helling die niet snel door klimmers zal worden gevonden. Het kan ook zijn dat Google, zoals ze wel vaker doen, iets weggepoetst heeft door dit zwarte vlak er overheen te zetten. Dat betekent dat er zich inderdaad iets bevindt wat wij niet geacht worden te zien.
Daarnaast bevindt het zich klaarblijkelijk ook nog eens op grote hoogte. In ieder geval op een plek waar je niet of nauwelijks mensen zult verwachten.
Dit is ook niet de eerste keer dat iets dergelijks wordt ontdekt. Ook vorig jaar verscheen er een video waarin iets wordt getoond dat lijkt op een ingang naar iets onbekends in de bergen.
Wanneer je dit jaar eens een hele speciale vakantie wilt dan is het misschien een idee om af te reizen naar Nepal. Grote kans dat je daar merkwaardige dingen zult tegenkomen.
Author Timothy Good Talks About The W56 Alien Group Below Rocca Pia, Italy, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Author Timothy Good Talks About The W56 Alien Group Below Rocca Pia, Italy, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of alien contact: 1956 Location of contact: Rocca Pia, Italy I love to hear about the W56 in Rocca Pia. The alien base is located below the old castle there. They recruited many humans in that area to interact with them, but interactions are limited, as are the reasons why they asked for certain deliveries to be made. For the full W56 story click here. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: In this exciting episode Dark Journalist interviews the legendary UFO investigator and best-selling author Timothy Good. His deep research on ET contact has led him to the startling conclusion that there are both benevolent and sinister alien beings battling for influence and control of planet earth! In his newly revealed investigation Timothy has discovered an ongoing worldwide contactee group known as "Amicizia" or "Friendship" that spans over five decades of alien contact. These helpful ET visitors, who are known simply as the "W56," closely resemble human beings and want to help humanity grow spiritually. However, Timothy also reveals that contacts deep inside military intelligence have informed him of a technologically super-advanced negative ET group. These malevolent aliens are attempting to genetically engineer a hybrid race comprised of human DNA spliced with alien genes from the species traditionally known as the "Greys." Highly scientifically advanced, these aliens have also constructed massive, sophisticated underground bases around the world and are attempting to complete their evil takeover plan in a one hundred year period ending in 2046!
This ship was caught heading directly at our sun last week by Streetcap1 of Youtube. This really puts humanity in an awkward position. Honestly, who has the rights to use the sun as they see fit? I mean, what if they mess with it to much and cause a solar explosion so big it destroys the first three planets? What can they say, "oops, my bad!" That just doesn't work with me. WTF are they doing with our sun and why is NASA trusting the existence of all life on Earth to these aliens messing with it? Sure we are the little guys, but we are not all blind to the workings beyond our atmosphere. NASA and SOHO are responsible for taking video and photos of our sun, so they are 100% aware of it. Why are they not talking about this to the public? Perhaps they are scared of the public panicking? NASA never owns up to it and seems they never will.
Oh, and a message to the aliens out there. Stop messing with our #@$%ing sun! We know the consequences of you making a mistake...we have to pay for it.
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Over mijzelf
Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
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so incredibly beautiful. Been watching this for about an hour. 
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