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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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...
30-06-2016
'SO CHARGE ME': Alien investigator dares US Government as he releases 'UFO Wikileaks'
'SO CHARGE ME': Alien investigator dares US Government as he releases 'UFO Wikileaks'
A TOP ET disclosure activist publicly "dared" the US Government to charge him after he carried out his own UFO Wikileaks in defiance of the alleged secrecy surrounding the subject.
Canadian UFO disclosure advocate Victor Viggiani made the bold challenge during what has been called the first ever national inquiry in the country into the subject.
He dared the US government to indict him over making public 11 sensitive documents about North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) records of the radar tracking of more than 1,800 UFOs.
I might add, in reference to the NORAD files, I have been threatened with indictment if I release these files. I am hereby releasing it to you, and I dare the US government to charge me.
Victor Viggiani
Quoting from the documents, as he made them public, Mr Viggiani said: "Any distribution of this kind of information threatens National Security and violates the Espionage Act of the United States.”
He said the reports showed the phenomenon of UFOs or Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon (UAPs) as they are often referred to, have “been discussed, analyzed, assessed and sequestered at the highest levels of governance and military authority on the planet.”
He said: "I have here in front of me 11 documents, I call them the Renock files, directly from NORAD."
Mr Viggiani said the documents contained details of UFOs being found and intercepted by the military.
He said joint intelligence committee reports between Canada and the US showed the two countries had colluded to play down the issue of UFOs.
He said: "I might add, in reference to the NORAD files, I have been threatened with indictment if I release these files. I am hereby releasing it to you, and I dare the US government to charge me."
• Don't miss on Express.co.uk tomorrow: What the secret UFO files contain.
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UFOs worried about the explosives we play with
UFOs worried about the explosives we play with
By Sabir Hussain
CHENNAI: In the previous eight columns we discussed the validity of the UFO phenomenon and how efforts even at the highest levels of the American government to seek Disclosure has not borne fruit. But one question many readers keep asking me is why are they coming?
UFOs are not crossing oceans of space and time to visit Earth to see the Taj Mahal or the Pyramids at Giza. The reason can be given in one line. E=MC square. In 1945 we turned this equation into a weapon and they responded.
Since the 1940s there have been many, sometimes repeatedly, UFO incursions at American nuclear weapons manufacturing installations, test sites like Nevada, Pacific Islands, and Weapons Storage Areas like Malmstrom, Loring, Wurtsmith, F E Warren, Kirkland and Fairchild Air Force Bases as well as RAF Bases in England and nuclear bases in former Soviet Union.
But it is only in recent times that 100s of U.S military veterans who were in charge of nuclear facilities and missile bases have come forward to openly testify about these extraordinary incidents thanks to the efforts of UFO researcher Robert Hastings who after interviewing more than 150 military veterans regarding their involvement in nuclear weapons related UFO incidents at various bases around the world since the 1940s, published in 2008 the 600 page book UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites which provided a comprehensive summary of their revelations.
This book exposed the American government’s cover up on incidents involving UFOs and its nuclear weapons and installations. Hastings and Robert Salas one of the officers involved in the 1967 Malmstrom missile/UFO incident even appeared in CNN’s Larry King live program and shared their experiences.
But as usual the American mainstream media and the government ignored these events. The American government and media finds a bunch of Jihadis hiding in the mountains of South Waziristan and Yemen plotting to attack America with AK-47 guns and RDX explosives more dangerous and news worthy than the warnings of people like Hastings. If Hastings, Salas and 150 former military officers are lying about UFOs tampering with nuclear missiles, then they must be tried before the law or their warnings must be taken seriously and acted upon. But neither of the two is happening.
American government’s official policy shrouded in secrecy and dictated by a small unelected, unaccountable group is — See no UFO, Hear no UFO, Speak no UFO. Because any acknowledgement of UFOs will inevitably lead to the release of radical energy clean, green energy technologies that will get rid of our addiction to fossil fuels, which in other words means granting Energy-Independence to 1.3 billion Indians who right now only enjoy political independence. As of now 20 American companies control the world oil market and any truth about UFOs can easily destroy that.
From their perspective as Hastings and Friedman point out, UFOs want to make sure that these children (human race) who have found a gun (atomic power) don’t create problems for them. During the Second World War humans managed to murder 60 million of their own kind. In 1945 humans tested the atom bomb. Few weeks later they dropped it on their own kind — twice. Not surprisingly, the same UFOs started showing up all over the world. In 1903 the Wright Brothers made the first manned flight, 66 years later, in 1969 humans walked on the moon. ETs would be wondering what would happen if these warlike, destructive species start colonising space?
Stanton Friedman notes that during his lectures when he asks his audience — If you were an Alien, would you want Earthlings out there? The answer has always been NO.
(The writer is the Director of INSETS-Indian Society for Extraterrestrial Studies and author of Accidental Apocalypse )
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The sun has gone blank twice this month. This is what it means
The sun has gone blank twice this month. This is what it means
The sun at the moment is completely blank. But don’t worry, everything’s going to be all right.
Picture: NASA
YOU may not have noticed but our sun has gone as blank as a cue ball. As in, it’s lost its spots.
According to scientists, this unsettling phenomenon is a sign we are heading for a mini ice age.
Meteorologist and renowned sun-watcher Paul Dorian raised the alarm in his latest report, which has sparked a mild panic about an impending Game of Thrones-style winter not seen since the 17th century.
“For the second time this month, the sun has gone completely blank,” Mr Dorian says.
“The blank sun is a sign that the next solar minimum is approaching and there will be an increasing number of spotless days over the next few years.
“At first, the blankness will stretch for just a few days at a time, then it’ll continue for weeks at a time, and finally it should last for months at a time when the sunspot cycle reaches its nadir. The next solar minimum phase is expected to take place around 2019 or 2020.”
If you’re confused about what a “blank” sun is, below is a picture of what it normally looks like, in all its solar flare-and-blemishes glory.
Not blank: Plenty going on here. Picture: NASASource:Supplied
Blank: A blemish-free sun indicates decreased solar activity known as a solar minimum.
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According to NASA, the sun goes through a natural solar cycle approximately every 11 years. The cycle is marked by the increase and decrease of sunspots — visible as dark blemishes on the sun’s surface, or photosphere. The greatest number of sunspots in any given solar cycle is designated as “solar maximum.” The lowest number is “solar minimum”.
“During Solar Max, huge sunspots and intense solar flares are a daily occurrence. Auroras appear in Florida. Radiation storms knock out satellites. Radio blackouts frustrate CB radio as well. The last such episode took place in the years around 2000-2001,” the space agency’s website
“During solar minimum, the opposite occurs. Solar flares are almost non-existent while whole weeks go by without a single, tiny sunspot to break the monotony of the blank sun. This is what we are experiencing now.”
Given that the sun is the main driver of all weather and climate, the sinister-sounding “blankness” to which Mr Dorian refers has some experts predicting a “Maunder Minimum” phase similar to one which began in 1645 and which is referred to as the “Little Ice Age”.
The Maunder Minimum, named after solar astronomer Edward Maunder, lasted for a brutal 70 years and was so cold the Thames froze over.
A slightly less intense ice age-like period called the Dalton Minimum — after British Meteorologist John Dalton — arrived decades later and lasted from about 1790 to 1830.
“If history is any guide, it is safe to say that weak solar activity for a prolonged period of time can have a cooling impact on global temperatures in the troposphere which is the bottommost layer of Earth’s atmosphere — and where we all live,” Mr Dorian says.
Mr Dorian’s findings back research by professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University, who warned that a predicted sharp decline in solar activity between 2020 and 2050 was a sign another ice age was coming.
“I am absolutely confident in our research,” Prof Zharkova said.
“It has good mathematical background and reliable data, which has been handled correctly. In fact, our results can be repeated by any researchers with the similar data available in many solar observatories, so they can derive their own evidence of upcoming Maunder Minimum in solar magnetic field and activity.”
A graph showing the top ‘sunspotless’ days since 1849. The peach columns show when relatively brief solar minimums have occurred. In contrast, the ‘Little Ice Age’ of the 17th century coincided with a 70-year solar minimum.
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And there are other consequences of a sun without spots. Not least for astronauts who face the risk of having their DNA “shattered” by cosmic rays, whose potency surges during periods of solar weakness.
According to Mr Dorian, cosmic rays surge into the inner solar system “with relative ease” during periods of solar minimum.
“Solar wind decreases and sun’s magnetic field weakens during solar minimums making it easier for cosmic rays to reach the Earth,” he explains.
“This is a more dangerous time for astronauts as the increase in potent cosmic rays can easily shatter a strand of human DNA. Also, during years of lower sunspot number, the sun’s extreme ultraviolet radiation (EUV) drops and the Earth’s upper atmosphere cools and contracts.
“With sharply lower aerodynamic drag, satellites have less trouble staying in orbit — a good thing. On the other hand, space junk tends to accumulate, making the space around Earth a more dangerous place for astronauts.”
The prehistoric tombs that may have been used as 'telescopes'
The prehistoric tombs that may have been used as 'telescopes'
Researchers think that the entrance passages to 6,000 year-old tombs could have been used to enhance visibility for ancient stargazer
The orientation of the tombs suggests that they are aligned to offer a view of Aldebaran, the brightest star in the constellation of Taurus. Photograph: University of Wales Trinity Saint David/Nottingham Trent University
Ancient passages to stone tombs could have been used by prehistoric humans to boost their view of the night skies as part of an ancient ritual, archaeologists have proposed.
Researchers say that the dark entrances to 6,000 year-old tombs in Portugal could have been an early form of astronomical tool that enhanced the visibility of the stars. In particular, they say, the orientation of the entrances to the passage graves suggests that they are aligned to offer a view of Aldebaran, the red star that is the brightest body in the constellation of Taurus.
The star might have been important to ancient communities who moved their herds and flocks to summer grazing grounds in the mountains each year. The annual event, the researchers argue, could have coincided with the star’s first appearance in the morning twilight each year. “This first rising of Aldebaran occurred at the end of April or beginning of May 6,000 years ago, so it would be a very good, very precise calendrical marker for them to know when it was time to move into the higher grounds,” said Dr Fabio Silva of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.
The passageway’s long corridor acts like a telescope without a lens, says Dr Fabio Silva. Photograph: University of Wales Trinity Saint David/Nottingham Trent University
The team, including researchers from Nottingham Trent University, believe the conditions within the tunnels could have provided viewers with a chance to spot Aldebaran’s first appearance before those outside.
That, they say, could have been linked to ancient rituals in which individuals were left on their own in the tomb with the remains of their ancestors. “There is a wealth of evidence now that these passage graves were not only used as tombs for burials, but they could also be used for rites of passage,” said Silva. Such rituals, he adds, often involved the revelation of an astronomical secret to the initiate. “Could the secret be that he could see the star rising days, if not a full week, before everybody else that was outside the passage grave could see it?” said Silva.
Presenting their work at the Royal Astronomical Society’s National AstronomyMeeting at the University of Nottingham, the team propose that the corridors boast a number of features that would have allowed someone within them to glimpse an early view of Aldebaran’s so-called heliacal rising through the small window provided by the tunnel’s opening.
“The key thing is that a passage grave with its long corridor acts like a telescope that does not have a lens - it is a long tube from which you are looking at the sky,” said Silva. “Its characteristics are going to impact how you are looking at the sky in three or four ways.”
Among these, says Silva, the corridors point towards the horizon, focusing the viewer’s attention on one area of the sky, while the walls would block out the pre-dawn rays from the sun, making it easier to spot other celestial objects and increasing the contrast with the sky. The viewer’s eyes, he adds, would be adapted to the dark of the passage, potentially making them better adjusted to spotting faint stars.
“All you are doing is making sure everything is dark apart from that small area in the sky,” said Dr Daniel Brown from Nottingham Trent University, who is also involved in the research.
Silva and the team are currently testing these ideas by simulating the conditions of the passages in the laboratory.
The researchers suggest that there may have been a ritual significance to viewing the night sky from the tombs. Photograph: University of Wales Trinity Saint David/Nottingham TrentUniversity
“We are going to simulate this star rising at twilight conditions and allow people to tell us when they can see it,” said Silva. “Then [we will] compare that with a control group of people that are in a room which would replicate the conditions of being outside the passage grave.”
The link between ancient sites and astronomy is far from new -Stonehenge being perhaps the most famous example. But the purpose of such sites is notoriously difficult to unpick.
“As any archaeologist will tell you, trying to understand what was going through the minds of the people who built these prehistoric monuments is a difficult task,” said Dr Marek Kukula, public astronomer at the Royal Observatory Greenwich. “But this team is carrying out a fascinating study into how the human visual perception of a small patch of sky can be affected by the narrow views along the passages of the Portuguese structures.”
While the team propose that such properties could have had calendrical and spiritual purposes, Kukula believes the work highlights the central role of stargazing in societies throughout time.
“Whether these really were were the reasons why the passage tombs were originally built is hard to say for sure,” he said. “But this kind of ‘archaeoastronomy’ highlights the fact that human beings have always been fascinated by the stars and that sky-watching has had an important role in human society for millennia.”
Researchers from the Case Western Reserve University, Kenyon College in Ohio, the Institute of Gravitation in Portsmouth University, and the University of Catania in Italy have joined forces to accomplish a momentous task: to build the first model of the universe based on all of the conditions stated by Einstein's full theory of relativity.
A MOMENTOUS TASK
Researchers from the Case Western Reserve University, Kenyon College in Ohio, the Institute of Gravitation of Portsmouth University, and the University of Catania in Italy all come together for one ultimate goal: to create the most precise and detailed representation of the cosmos using all of the equations Einstein ever postulated about the universe.
The partnership will be building the model of the universe using two computer codes developed by a collaborative team from the Case Western Reserve University and Kenyon College. Codenamed “Cosmograph,” the codes are embedded in a mathematical tool hopes to simulate a model of the universe that could provide insights on how gravity affects all objects in the universe.
The new codes are reportedly the first to collate the entirety of the general theory of relativityand would help explain why objects in the universe are where they are—specifically trying to understand how the distribution of matter throughout the universe came to be.
“No one has modeled the full complexity of the problem before,” says Professor Glenn Starkman, a member of the American team of researchers. “These papers are an important step forward, using the full machinery of general relativity to model the universe, without unwarranted assumptions of symmetry or smoothness. The universe doesn’t make these assumptions, neither should we.”
SUPERCOMPUTERS PLUS SPACE EXPLORATION
Einstein’s theory has been a milestone in physics and is so complex that even physicists are struggling to fully understand it to this day—more than 100 years after it was conceptualized.
Perhaps, the dawn of supercomputers would better translate these theories than mortals could. And with the help of developing telescopes as well as space missions on galaxy surveys, fully understanding the mechanisms that govern our universe may just be close to becoming a reality.
“In the end, as always in physics, it will be the interplay between theory and observations that will further our understanding of the universe,” said Dr. Marco Bruni of the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, Portsmouth University.
Astronomers are baffled by a recent finding wherein a magnetar, an immensely magnetic neutron star, is enveloped by a wind nebula. It was previously believed that only young pulsars spin fast enough to harbor a wind nebula and a magnetar definitely does not move fast enough to maintain one. An investigation is underway.
First of all, a magnetar alone is a very rare thing…and quite a scary one too. Magnetars, as their name suggests, are highly magnetic neutron stars. How magnetic? They are 1,000 trillion times more magnetic than our common environment–meaning to 1 quadrillion gauss.
And what does that mean for a human being? According to an article by astrophysicist Paul Sutter: “Get too close to one (say, within 1,000 kilometers, or about 600 miles), and the magnetic fields are strong enough to upset not just your bioelectricity — rendering your nerve impulses hilariously useless — but your very molecular structure. In a magnetar’s field, you just kind of … dissolve.”
Up to now, only 29 of the 2,600 neutron stars ever found have been classified as magnetars. And this is the first time a magnetar has ever been found enveloped in a wind nebula, a massive cloud of high-energy particles.
The magnetar involved was one discovered in 2011 and named Swift J1834.9-0846, J1834.9 for short. Astronomers are now trying to understand how the magnetar managed to sustain a windnebula.
THE MYSTERY
It was previously believed that only young pulsars are capable of harboring wind nebulae due to the fact that they spin fast enough, keeping the wind nebula from escaping out into space. And even these pulsars can lose the wind nebulae as they grow old and spin slower.
Artist’s impression of a magnetar. NASA.
Magnetars are known to spin slower than regular pulsars, making it baffling how J1834.9 manages to keep its wind nebula.
“Right now, we don’t know how J1834.9 developed and continues to maintain a wind nebula, which until now was a structure only seen around young pulsars,” said lead researcher George Younes from George Washington University.
While a magnetar’s behavior is very chaotic and is not very well understood as of now, researchers plan to investigate this occurrence further.
“It represents a unique opportunity to study the magnetar’s historical activity, opening a whole new playground for theorists like me,” says Jonathan Granot from Israel’s Open University.
“If the process here is similar, then about 10 percent of the magnetar’s rotational energy loss is powering the nebula’s glow, which would be the highest efficiency ever measured in such a system,” Younes adds.
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
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
When you look up in the sky and say look a con trail 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. GMOs Are 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.
1. Music Makes You Competitive
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.
Although not an 'official' Vile Vortex, the inland Bridgewater Triangle is likely one of the world's most concentrated areas of diverse paranormal reports.
Located just 30 miles south of Boston, this 200-mile square area has the Massachusetts towns of Abington, Freetown and Rehoboth at its angles. The town of Bridgewater is located nearly dead center within the triangle and the area also encompasses six other Massachusetts towns: Raynham, Taunton, Brockton, Mansfield, Norton and Easton1.
Mysterious Landmarks
The Hockomock Swamp
The Hockomock Swamp, a 5000+ acre area lies within the western section of Bridgewater Triangle and is the hub of many paranormal reports. Also the site of an 8,000-year-old Native American burial ground, when archaeologists opened the graves of Grassy Island, the red ochre within the tombs bubbled and then mysteriously disappeared. Photographs taken of the excavation would not develop1.
The swamp remains shrouded in superstition. Called, "the place where spirits dwell" by the Wampanoag Tribe of the Native American Algonquian nation, the Wampanoag avoided the Hockomock Swamp and the area remains a place filled with foreboding2.
Dighton Rock
On the banks of the Tauntaon River, Dighton Rock lies across from the Grassy Island Burial Grounds of Hockomock Swamp. Numerous inscriptions of unknown origins are carved into the face of the rock. Although various speculations attribute them to Native Americans, Vikings, and even Phoenicians, their identity has never been specifically determined 3.
Profile Rock
Profile Rock is another Bridgewater Triangle landmark that has gained a paranormal reputation. Located in Freetown, from a nearby hill, the rock shows a clear portrait of a Native American face looking out from the stone. Long before Massachusetts colonists arrived, the Wampanoag people considered Profile Rock sacred. Local legends claim that Native American ghost dancers in warrior dress dance around Profile Rock3, 4.
Anawan Rock
Located in Hockomock Swamp along Route 44 in Rehoboth, Anawan Rock is named for Chief Anawan and is the site where Chief Anawan surrendered to the colonists, ending "King Phillip's War". Legend says that the angry spirits of Chief Anawan's warriors continue to haunt the area, starting spectral fires and "ghost dancing".
Bridgewater Triangle Phenomena
Paranormal researcher, Loren Coleman, who named the Bridgewater Triangle in the 1970, revived public attention to the many paranormal reports emanating from the area.
Aside from the number and diversity of paranormal reports, what is phenomenal about the Bridgewater Triangle is that the first report of paranormal activity was made over three centuries ago, in 1760.
At 10 am on May 10, 1760, a "sphere of fire" was reported to hover over New England and emit a light so bright that is cast shadows in the morning sun. Reportedly, the light was seen from both Bridgewater and Roxbury3. Since then, the area has spawned a diversity of reports that include paranormal events that range from ghost dancers to UFOs to Cryptozoological sightings.
Bridgewater Triangle UFOs
The 1760 report is likely the first documented UFO report on the planet. However, it certainly wasn't the last UFO report to come out of the Bridgewater Triangle.
Halloween 1908 marked another UFO sighting, documented in local newspapers.
In 1968, five people claimed that they saw a strange ball of light floating among the trees in a wooded part of Rehoboth3.
In the 1970's, UFO sightings were frequently reported to occur in different areas of the Bridgewater Triangle1. In one 1976 report, two UFOs were seen landing along Route 44 near Taunton.
In 1994, a Bridgewater Law Enforcement Officer reported seeing a triangular shaped craft with red and white lights.
The town of Raynham frequently receives reports of glowing balls of light, floating over the ground at the local dog track3.
Mysterious Creatures
Cryptozoological sightings are numerous and varied in the Bridgewater Triangle. In 1970, reports of a big-foot like, 7-foot tall hairy monster and its footprints instigated both the Bridgewater and Massachusetts State Police canine unit to conduct a search for a bear. However, neither man nor bear was ever found.
In 1978, paranormal researcher Joseph M. DeAndrade claims to have observed another such creature as it slowly walked into the brush of the Hockomock Swamp, about 200 yards from his location. He chronicled his sighting in his 1997 book,Passing Strange: True Tales of New England Hauntings and Horrors8.
Not all of the creatures that allegedly inhabit the Bridgewater Triangle are land-bound. Since 1971, several sightings of phenomenally large, black birds, with wingspans that stretched from eight to twelve feet, have been reported as well. Coincidentally, the first of these reports originated from Bird Hill in Hockomock Swamp. In 1984, two of these avian creatures were allegedly seen fighting in mid-air.
Bridgewater Triangle Ghostly Specters
Besides the legends that tell of Native American ghost dancers, reports of several contemporary ghostly specters come from the Bridgewater Triangle.
A mysterious redheaded hitchhiker haunts a stretch of Route 44 in Rehoboth.
A ghostly phantom appears in Hockomock Swamp near Route 138.
From Freetown, a ghostly trucker is rumored to speed along the winding Copicut Road, blaring his horn and threatening passing motorists.
1. “Bridgewater Historical tidbits.” Bridgewater Public Library 4 Jun 2003. 8 Aug 2008 <http://www.bridgewaterpubliclibrary.org/historical_tidbits.htm>. 2. “The Bridgewater Triangle” Terrifying Tales-Encounters With The Unexplained. 2 Apr 2008. 18 Apr 2008 <http://terrifyingtales.blogspot.com/search?q=Mysterious+Places>. 3. Christopher W. Pittman. “The Bridgewater Triangle.” Massachusetts UFO Resource Site 2000. 27 Apr 2008 <http://members.aol.com/soccorro64/btriangle.htm> 4. “Bridgewater Triangle.” Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2008. 8 Aug 2008 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgewater_Triangle>. 5. Christopher Balzano. “The Cursed County.” Massachusetts Crossroads n.d . 8 Aug 2008 <http://www.masscrossroads.com/bristol>. 6. Brian MacQuarrie. “The old haunting grounds.” The Boston Globe 30 Oct 2006. 8 Aug 2008 <http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/10/30/the_old_haunting_grounds/>. 7. “Paranormal Adventures in the Bridgewater Triangle." I Want to Believe 10 Apr 2006. 8 Aug 2008 <http://apologyispolicy.blogspot.com/>. 8. Ed Hayward. “Bigfoot of Bridgewater, Hockomock Crock?.” Bigfoot Encounters n.d . 9 Aug 2008 <http://www.bigfootencounters.com/articles/bridgewater.htm>.4
NASA finds Mars had a ‘ human ’ breathable atmosphere
NASA finds Mars had a ‘ human ’ breathable atmosphere
It seems that Mars is turning out to have been a nearly identical planet to Earth in its distant history. There is liquid water on Mars; the planet had vas oceans in the past, and now we knwo the red planet had abundant oxygen in the distant past.
A new finding by NASA’s Curiosity has provided evidence of significant amounts of oxygen that once permeated the Martian atmosphere. Apparently, the Red Planet was more Earth-like than many scientists thought until now. In fact, it is highly possible that organisms that thrive on Earth could have thrived on Mars in the distant past. This second one is still debatable.
Using the ChemCam instrument aboard Curiosity, scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have discovered high levels of manganese oxides in cracks filled with minerals present in some Martian rocks of the Kimberley region in the Gale crater.
The presence of this chemical suggests that in the past there were sufficient levels of oxygen in the atmosphere of Mars, which would have made the planet “breathable” for humans.
This finding is yet another important discovery which suggests that the red planet was once very Earth-like.
“The only ways on Earth that we know how to make these manganese materials involve atmospheric oxygen or microbes,” said Nina Lanza, a planetary scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. “Now we’re seeing manganese oxides on Mars, and we’re wondering how the heck these could have formed?”
While researchers are still not sure about microbes, finding traces of oxygen in Mars’ atmosphere is a very important discovery that will help us understand our neighbouring planet which in addition will help plan future trips to the red planet.
“These high manganese materials can’t form without lots of liquid water and strongly oxidizing conditions. Here on Earth, we had lots of water but no widespread deposits of manganese oxides until after the oxygen levels in our atmosphere rose,” said Lanza.
This scene shows NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at a location called “Windjana,” where the rover found rocks containing manganese-oxide minerals, which require abundant water and strongly oxidizing conditions to form. In front of the rover are two holes from the rover’s sample-collection drill and several dark-toned features that have been cleared of dust (see inset images). These flat features are erosion-resistant fracture fills containing manganese oxides. The discovery of these materials suggests the Martian atmosphere might once have contained higher abundances of free oxygen than it does now.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
According to experts, in Earths geological history, the appearance of high amounts of manganese oxide minerals is in important clue which indicates a major change in our atmosphere composition: from low oxygen abundances to the oxygen-rich atmosphere we have today. The discovery of the same materials on the red planet indicates that oxygen levels rose there too, before falling to the present values the Curiosity rover has seen.
“One potential way that oxygen could have gotten into the Martian atmosphere is from the breakdown of water when Mars was losing its magnetic field,” said Lanza. “It’s thought that at this time in Mars’ history, water was much more abundant.”
Experts indicate that without a protective magnetic field shielding the surface of the red planet, ionizing radiation began splitting water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. Mars as we know is a planet with a relatively low gravity which means that the planet was not able to hold onto light hydrogen atoms. However, the heavier oxygen atoms remained on the planet. Researchers speculate that much of the oxygen ended up in Mars geological formations which eventually lead to the rusty red dust that covers the surface of Mars today.
According to scientists, the red iron oxides on Mars need only a mildly oxidizing environment to form, while manganese oxides require a strongly oxidizing environment, which is more than previously known on Mars
Lanza added, “It’s hard to confirm whether this scenario for Martian atmospheric oxygen actually occurred. But it’s important to note that this idea represents a departure in our understanding for how planetary atmospheres might become oxygenated.”
Abundant atmospheric oxygen has been treated as a so-called biosignature or a sign of extant life but this process does not require life.
Planet X, aka Nibiru or Planet Nine, to cause Mass Extinction on Earth in the near future?
Planet X, aka Nibiru or Planet Nine, to cause Mass Extinction on Earth in the near future?
The mysterious, elusive and enigmatic Planet X, aka Nibiru or Planet Nine, with its incredibly long 27-million-year orbit is considered by many as only a myth. However, indications that there is more to it than pure mythology has existed for many decades.
According to one astrophysicist, the elusive planet spells doom for planet Earth. According to researchers, the arrival fo Nibiru (Planet X) could bring about a mass extinction on Earth, wiping out life as we know it.
While many believe Planet X and Nibiru are two completely separate things, many are confident that the day we find Planet X, we will find Nibiru, the mythical home planet of the Ancient Anunnaki, creators of man, according to ancient Sumerian Legends.
Zecharia Sitchin described Nibiru –according to Sumerian cosmology– as the 12th planet. Nibiru is home to an ‘alien race’ called the Anunnaki, who are an extremely advanced extraterrestrial civilization. The planet –which, according to ancient text is around ten times the size of our planet– is located further away from the sun than any known planet ever discovered, beyond the Kuiper Belt.
According to researchers, the larger a celestial body in space is, the larger is gravitational pull is. This means that a bigger planet can gravitationally affect smaller bodies located near it. Jupiter, for example, plays a crucial role in protecting the planets of the inner solar system from comets and meteors. However, Nibiru, Planet X or the Ninth Planet could do the opposite, and many believe there are scientific facts that suggest such a planet could end life on Earth.
In 2008, Japanese researchers announced that according to their calculations, there should be an “undiscovered” planet at a distance of about 100 AU (astronomical units) that has a size of up to two-thirds of the planet Earth. These and many other calculations support the hypothesis of the existence of Nibiru, or Planet X.
According to many, a mass extinction that occurred 27 million years ago was caused by the approach of the elusive planet. Comets and minor celestial bodies plummed into earth changing the planet forever. According to researchers, there are fossils on Earth which suggest such a scenario did, in fact, occur in the distant past when a large object impacted our planet and caused a massive extinction. However, there are those who believe that this scenario is a recurring one and that it will happen in the future.
This diagram shows Planet Nine’s predicted orbit (in orange), next to the orbits of the six most distant known objects in the solar system (in pink) and Neptune’s orbit (in magenta). Calculations suggest Planet Nine’s orbit should cause additional objects to orbit perpendicular to Nine’s plane. Five objects (whose orbits are shown in blue) fit this expectation. (Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC))
Ancient Sumerians and other ancient cultures are said to have documented the existence of the mysterious planet. However, our inability to find it in modern times has categorized the celestial body as being a myth, and not a fact as many believe.
Recent data, however, tells an entirely different story.
According to a retired astrophysicist from the University of Louisiana, Daniel Whitmire, Nibiru, aka Planet X, is real and it is a recurring celestial phenomenon that spells doom for planet Earth. A recently published research presented to the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society suggests that a planet similar to Nibiru could cause and has caused mass extinction on Earth several times in the distant past of our planet. Profesor Whitmire first speculated about the planet and its Mass-extinction connection with Earth in 1985 in the journal Nature.
Profesor Whitmire’s speculation was not taken much into account until earlier this year; scientists started seeing anomalous behavior in a small froup of celestial objects located beyond Pluto. Researchers speculate that only a planet, ten times the size of Earth –probably Nibiru—could influence other celestial bodies in such a way.
Professor Whitmire and his colleague John Matese suggest that a planet like Nibiru (Or Nibiru in fact) orbits our sun and passes through the Kuiper Belt ever 27 million years. During its journey into the inner parts of our Solar System, the massive planet picks up comets and other space debris along its way. As it travels towards the sun, the space rocks it finds during its journey are scattered across the solar system, and some of them end up bombarding planets like Earth, causing mass extinctions to occur.
Whitmire, who retired and has been teaching at Lafayette since 2012 and the University of Arkansas since 2013, says “I’ve been part of this story for 30 years… If there is ever a final answer, I’d love to write a book about it.”
However, astrophysicists Konstantin Batygin and Michael E. Brown, the duo behind the discovery say not so fast. They suggest the existence of a Planet Nine, but nothing like the mythological stories of Nibiru.
“Whitmire has been speculating for decades about a very distant very massive planet pushing comets around. It has to have an orbital period of something like 27 million years,” Brown told Discovery recently.
Whitmire’s theory “may or may not make sense, it definitely has nothing to do with Planet Nine, which is much closer to the sun and thus ‘only’ takes 15,000 years to go around,” Brown added.
Many mythologies predict a doomsday planet. (The Sumerian Seal, Flickr/Tortuga767)
Planet X has received so much attention mostly because of the alleged mystical connection between the celestial body and astronomical observations of ancient civilizations like the Sumerians, and other ancient cultures around the globe. Somewhere along the way, details and information about the planet were distorted and Planet Nine, which most likely exists, was confused with the mythical planet X, say, researchers, like Brian Cox, who refers to Planet x as “an imaginary bullsh*t planet.”
A Mysterious Object Just Smashed Into One of Saturn’s Rings
A Mysterious Object Just Smashed Into One of Saturn’s Rings
According to astronomers, a strange object just smashed into one of Saturn’s narrowest rings, leaving behind a cosmic tail.
Recently, NASA astronomers have spotted a mysterious ding in one of Saturn’s rings using the Cassini spacecraft.
According to a report from NASA: “Saturn is also known as the ‘Jewel of the Solar System’. With sparkling pinks, hues of grey and a hint of brown, its rings look like a painting where nature is the painter”
Researchers have concluded that Saturn’s rings are in fact made up of trillions of particles of dust, rock, and ice which are in orbit around the planet at different speeds (up to thousands of miles per hour.)
Interestingly, researchers have found that the size of these particles can vary in size from as little as a grain of sand to bigger than a building.
Recently, astronomers have found a dent in Saturn’s Fring – the planet’s outermost discrete ring. Astronomers believe the ‘F ring’ is the most active ring in the entire solar system. According to researchers, ‘F ring’ is 30-300 feet wide layer of dust, rock, and ice particles which form a circumference of some 881,000 kilometers, or 550,000 miles.
Scientists are able to observe its features shifting over the course of a couple of hours. The mysterious disturbance, spotted, according to NASA was possibly caused by a small object embedded in the ring.
According to John Weiss, scientists from Washington State:
“There’s good evidence that there’s a lot of these sized bodies in the core of the ring itself, but you can’t normally see them because they’re covered by the dust cloud around them. But they’re in there, and every so often move across the ring space and blow a bunch of those dust particles out. This one was travelling faster than [3 feet (0.9 metres)] per second.”
After the enigmatic object had smashed into the ring’s core, it formed something that astronomers call a ‘Jet.’ Scientists believe these ‘jets’ are created due to the gravitational pull of Saturn’s smaller weird-looking moon Prometheus.
So what was it?
Well, while researchers are still NOT one hundred percent certain, there believe the disruption was caused by objects embedded within the ring that interact with other objects inside it. Due to the influence and gravitational pull of Saturn’s moon Prometheus, mini ‘jets’ are produced which ‘blow’ some particles out of formation.
In a report written by National Geographic, “[Prometheus] acts as a cosmic shepherd, sculpting the F ring as it makes its orbit around Saturn. But the moon’s route isn’t perfectly circular, and its uneven pull can create clumps inside the ring that then shoot out as jets.”
Astronomers consider Saturn’s rings as cosmic sweet spots that reveal clues of cosmic events around it due to the fact that any collision will leave a trail of particles from the rings.
“You get to expecting in planetary science for things to have happened millions of years ago, and you don’t think ever to get to observe things actively happening,” Weiss said. “But that’s the kind of funky thing with Saturn’s rings. You can actually see evidence of things that happened yesterday or the day before.”
“ I Dare the US Government to Charge Me ” – Secret NORAD UFO Files Made Public by Disclosure Advocate
“ I Dare the US Government to Charge Me ” – Secret NORAD UFO Files Made Public by Disclosure Advocate
Canadian disclosure advocate Victor Viggiani has made a bold step towards the disclosure we all dream about by releasing several secret files from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Runic Archives. “And I dare the US Government to charge me,” Viggiani said.
This past weekend has seen Canada’s first public hearing on UFOs take place. ET disclosure was once again brought to the discussion table and this time around, some intriguing documents were released.
A recently-retired school principal from Toronto, Victor Viggiani has been researching Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) for over three decades. When it comes to experience in the area of UFO sightings and anomalous phenomena, he has plenty to go around. Last Saturday, at the Alien Cosmic Expo in Ontario, Canada, Viggiani presented 11 documents that he obtained after filing a Canadian Access of Information Act (AIA) request. The documents reveal some unsettling statistics about what goes on in the sky above our heads.
I have here in front of me eleven documents. I call them the RUNIC Files and they are directly from NORAD indicating that over the last five years an average of 1,800 ‘tracks of interest’ with 75 intercepts. This is directly from the commander of NORAD.”
Mind-blowing. The US-Canadian organization tasked with providing aerospace warning and defense for Northern America intercepts and engages 75 unidentified flying objects per year. This means that the jet fighter pilots manage to get close enough to the UFOs to not only establish visual contact, but also get a target lock. Maybe not all of these encounters feature extraterrestrial airships as primary suspects, but it’s still enough to confirm our suspicions. And remember, this is the number of tracks of interest (TOIs) NORAD officials were willing to disclose. The real number of intercepts could be in the thousands and we wouldn’t even know.
Viggiani’s AIA request was aiming for more complete disclosure, a full “Table of Tracks of Interest” if you will.
This was the official NORAD response:
“The request for “Table of Tracks of Interest (TOI) are classified UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY (FOUO). It is to be controlled, stored, handled, transmitted, distributed and disposed of in accordance with DOD policy relating to FOUO information and is not to be released to the public, the media or other personnel who do not have a valid need-to-know without prior approval of an authorized NORAD official.”
The document continues with:
“However, the NORAD Commander has approved the release of the following information regarding Tracks of Interest and Unknown Tracks.”
The document that lists the TOIs is a six page record (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) in list form, with some of the entries redacted, on account of the sensitive nature of the information they contained. As Viggiani points out, the “missing information is obviously what they saw when they intercepted.” He continues:
“I also have documents relating to UFOs that have been found by the RCMP. I also have an air traffic control report that references Mr Hellyer’s [Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Defense Minister, big proponent of UFO disclosure] indication that two CF-18s chased three UFOs in 2001 out of Comox Air Force Base, at 35,000 feet and gained contact with these UFOs.”
Another one of the documents (dated November 14, 2008) references the discovery of a metal fragment that “had likely formed part of a vehicle that traveled in outer space.” The fragment had been retrieved by an unnamed pilot from the Wollaston Lake area in Saskatchewan and was to be taken to the National Research Council in Ottawa.
The Alien Cosmic Expo public hearing is only the latest in a series of efforts aiming to uncover the truth behind UFOs and the UAP conundrum. Its organizers and the 350 attendees are only a fraction of the disclosure advocates that are sick and tired of the massive sequestering of information during the past 70 years.
As Stephen G. Bassett, the Executive Director of the Paradigm Research Group bluntly puts it, “in a constitutional democracy, the government has always been given the right to keep secrets, but the government has never been given the right to lie to the people.”
It’s become plenty obvious that this unconstitutional hoarding of information crucial to the future development of mankind has to stop. Victor Viggiani took a daring leap in that direction, even if it meant being threatened with indictment.
“Any distribution of this kind of information,” Viggiani read from the NORAD document, “threatens National Security in addition to the Espionage Act of the United States.”
“I am hereby releasing it to you and I dare the US Government to charge me,” he concluded amid cheering and applause
Is mankind on the threshold of a new age of enlightenment? Or are we descending a dwindling spiral, doomed to repeat the lessons from history which we either forget or never seem to learn?
In pre-WWII Germany, the Vril Society used the swastika emblem to link Eastern and Western occultism. They advanced the idea of a subterranean matriarchal utopia ruled by a race of Aryan beings who had mastered a mysterious force called Vril.
This breakaway civilization had survived the antediluvian cataclysms which ended the ice age, and passed on their guarded occult knowledge through initiation into sacred mystery schools.
Vril was known to these mystics as a natural and abundant energy, having disseminated it's divine wisdom world wide under many names.
The Chinese referred to it as "chi", the Hindu as "prana", and the Japanese as "reiki". Albert Pike said: "There is in nature one most potent force, by means whereof a single man, who could possess himself of it, and should know how to direct it, could revolutionize and change the face of the world." Helena Blavatski, the foundress of the Theosophical Society, described this Vril energy as an aether stream that could be transformed into a physical force.
Ancient Technology: Could ancient cultures soften stone?
Ancient Technology: Could ancient cultures soften stone?
Is it possible that ancient cultures possessed thousands of years ago a now-lost technology that allowed them to soften stone? According to numerous researchers, the answer is YES.
Is it possible that the countless megalithic sites around the globe were built with the help of a now lost technology? What if in the distant past, thousands of years ago, ancient cultures from South America, Asia, Egypt and another part of the world, had in their possession an ancient method that allowed them to transport, cut and molded megalithic stones to their desire.
There are numerous inexplicable sites around the globe, and the most noteworthy to mention are Stonehenge, The Pyramids of Giza, Ollantaytambo, Puma Punku and Sacsayhuaman. At all of those places, ancient mankind managed to somehow perfectly place huge blocks of stone weighing hundreds of tons.
These marvelous stones are so heavy that modern-day machinery can be hardy move and put them into position.
This is why we ask: Is it possible that ancient cultures in Peru and Bolivia had a ‘technology’ that allowed them to modify stone and soften it? This would have allowed them to modify and construct huge structures without the need of modern-day tools.
According to a number of researchers like Jan Peter de Jong, Christopher Jordan Jesus Gamarra, some of the granite walls in Cuzco are the ultimate evidence that ancient cultures managed to heat at a very high-temperature different stones. This ‘unknown’ process vitrified the surface of the blocks turning them into giant glassy and smooth structures.
Based on these and other observations, Jong, Jordan and Gamarra conclude that ‘ ancient man possessed an advanced device which allowed them to melt stone blocks which were then placed into position and allowed to cool down next to hard, jigsaw-polygonal blocks that were already in place, forming an extraordinary puzzle that defies rational understanding today.
The end product –perfectly molded stone—would remain fixated against other stones in a nearly perfect manner, giving an impression as if these megaliths stones were melted into position. One fixated, these stones were so precisely placed that not a single sheet of paper could fit in between them.
All of this was achieved thousands of years ago.
However, researchers like Jong and Jordan believe that not only did cultures in ancient Peru and Bolivia possess the technology of melting stone; they believe that evidence of similar technology can be found all around the globe.
If the ancient did, in fact, have the ability to soften the stone, it would certainly explain the countless ancient structures belonging not only to Pore-Inca and Inca cultures but the Maya, Aztecs, and Olmecs that inhabited Central And South America.
Before disproving the theory that the ancient had in their possession sophisticated means by which they softened stone, consider that many of the ancient complexes in the Americas bear incredibly strange markings that could be explained by tooling the surface while it was still ‘soft.’
Some of the stones we are discussing are truly immense and are nearly impossible to maneuver into position using today’s technologies.
Also, it is important to consider that many ancient Inca sites have stones and walls that have up to 12 and 13 PERFECT angles on their visible surface. Below that and the hidden sections, these stones redefine the word perfect.
Better yet is the fact that even with today’s extremely advanced technology, it is impossible fro engineer and architects to replicate walls such as those found at Sacsayhuaman.
In the book Exploration Fawcett, Colonel Fawcett tells a story of how these incredible stones were softened:
And while many people believe that a plant’s liquid can melt stone is something ludicrous, modern scientists are still unable to explain how the megalithic stones of sites like Sacsayhuaman, Ollantaytambo, and Puma Punku were built. Maybe, after all, three is an ancient technology that has been lost through time.
This world is more than meets the eyes, and I literally mean it. Our eyes can perceive only a small part of the light spectrum which means that many things remain hidden from us, or cannot be understood due to the limits set by our body.
It has been discovered recently that an entire world of UFOs coexists with our own. They have the capacity to appear into our dimension – when we can see them with the naked eye, but most of the time they remain hidden from us, and can only be observed with the help of special light filters.
The phenomenon is absolutely real, and it may involve actual alien crafts, artificial intelligence, plasmatic entities with the ability to fly, or even spirits who reside inside the Earth. Mostly referred to as “orb UFOs”, the spectacular appearances are performing bizarre rituals in the sky which are beyond our level of understanding.
Apart from the dynamic movement and the tremendous speeds at which they travel, the orb UFOs were also filmed while morphing, shooting at chem trails or even releasing other small orbs. They appear to be drawn by huge energy fluxes, with some of them appearing above or inside of massive thunderstorms, while others seem to like the energy released by big crowds of people (during music festivals, meditating sessions and so on).
After Jim Martin, a UFO enthusiast and analyst witnessed a peculiar UFO encounter, he decided to upgrade his gear and start chasing UFOs in order to better understand what is going on. With the help of a full spectrum camera and other special lens and filters, he succeeded in capturing numerous UFOs performing different tricks around his house. After a while, he decided to share all the knowledge he had gathered so far with the rest of the world, so he narrated a short but extremely informative video with this intensifying phenomenon.
The orb UFOs behavior vary from sighting to sighting, but they also keep common traits such as the pulsating light which expands and then quickly closes in, and also the dynamic of movement which is a fairly impressive feat as it cannot be achieved by any of our earthly crafts. Speaking of crafts, another interesting thing to note is that ground radars fail to detect all these strange UFOs, thus making the hypothesis of them being otherworldly beings or devices more viable.
The nature or origins of these things remains yet another topic of debate, but from what we have seen, they appear to return to the ground instead of disappearing out in space. Could they reside here on earth? Is it possible that secret alien bases are found on this planet? I believe that it is likely to be so if we think of all the unexplored and inaccessible places on Earth, also since society brought us close inside of industrialized cities, our daily exploration range extends close to nothing.
So how can we explain these playful UFOs? And what might their purpose on our planet be? Are these protective spirits? Or maybe organic beings who used to reside here on Earth long before humanity called this place home?
Whatever the case, since more and more people are attracted by this phenomenon, the truth might surface at some point, and hopefully we and the rest of the world will be prepared to embrace a new concept of life, while erasing and rewriting the current one.
Apparently, a former treaty was made with the Large Grey Aliens which requires FULL disclosure by 2016.
In an article titled “Secret Space War VIII: Alien Quantum Computing and the End of Secrecy?” on the Veterans Today website the author Dr. James Preston refers to a treaty that may have been created between the large Grey alien race and the Secret Shadow Government (SSG). The article describes several alleged treaties between several different alien races and various nations here on earth.
This alleged treaty states that the SSG must provide Complete Disclosure soon or the large alien Greys will allegedly make massive public displays of themselves and their anti-gravity crafts (AGCs) and disclose everything themselves directly to the American people, including the temporary use of the major mass media.
It has been claimed that a certain prior treaty with the large alien Greys requires complete disclosure of alien presence and technology by a certain date or these aliens will supposedly make large public landings in every major city of the world, guaranteeing a systematic but rapidly developing complete end to secrecy and especially the deep black and beyond black programs previously protected by immediate assassinations.
This article also suggests there is a split between the older members and the younger ones who want complete disclosure to be attained in logical steps done in a manner preventing public panic or out of control business changes from occurring too rapidly.
“Klaag me maar aan”: Onderzoeker daagt overheid uit terwijl hij geheime UFO-stukken vrijgeeft
“Klaag me maar aan”: Onderzoeker daagt overheid uit terwijl hij geheime UFO-stukken vrijgeeft
De Canadese UFO-onderzoeker Victor Viggiani heeft tijdens de eerste Canadese hoorzitting over UFO’s iets opmerkelijks gedaan. Hij daagde de Amerikaanse overheid uit hem aan te klagen nadat hij gevoelige stukken over UFO’s openbaar had gemaakt.
De 11 gevoelige documenten zijn afkomstig van NORAD, een militaire organisatie die waakt over het luchtruim van de VS en Canada, en gaan over radaropnames van ruim 1800 onbekende vliegende objecten.
Hoogste niveau
“De verspreiding van dit soort informatie vormt een bedreiging voor de nationale veiligheid en is in strijd met de Amerikaanse spionagewet,” zei Viggiani terwijl hij voorlas uit de stukken. Hij voegde toe dat wereldwijd op het hoogte politieke en militaire niveau is gesproken over dit onderwerp.
“Ik heb hier 11 documenten voor me die rechtstreeks afkomstig zijn van NORAD,” zei hij. In de stukken valt volgens hem te lezen over UFO’s die gevonden en onderschept zijn door het leger.
Contact
Zo wordt onder meer gesproken van twee CF-18’s van vliegbasis Comox in Canada die in 2001 drie UFO’s achtervolgden op 10.000 meter hoogte en daadwerkelijk contact wisten te leggen met de onbekende objecten.
Viggiani zei dat uit rapporten van de Amerikaanse en Canadese inlichtingencommissie blijkt dat de twee landen belangrijke informatie over UFO’s onder de pet houden. “Men heeft gedreigd mij te zullen aanklagen als ik deze documenten zou vrijgeven. Hierbij openbaar ik ze en daag ik de Amerikaanse overheid uit een aanklacht tegen mij in te dienen,” zei hij, waarna luid applaus volgde.
Binnenkort meer over de inhoud van de geheime stukken.
Het grootste deel van onze planeet ligt onder water. Het merendeel daarvan is nog niet verkend. Op de bodem van de Grote Oceaan ligt volgens een Marsonderzoeker een ‘perfecte piramide’ verscholen.
De Argentijnse onderzoeker Marcelo Irazusta ontdekte afgelopen maand met behulp van satellietbeelden een mysterieuze structuur met een lengte van ruim vijf kilometer. Even ten westen van Mexico stuitte hij op een vreemde gloed in de Grote Oceaan.
Verband
Irazusta meent zelf een ‘monumentale ontdekking’ te hebben gedaan, schrijft de Britse Daily Mail. De Google Earth-coördinaten van de structuur zijn 12° 8’1.49″N 119° 35’26.39″W. “Dit object is bijna 5,5 kilometer lang en doet qua vorm denken aan een enorm vliegtuig,” schrijft Irazusta onder de video. “Is dit bewijs voor een grote UFO in de oceaan?”
Volgens Scott C. Waring van UFO Sightings Daily is het een piramide en zou het bouwsel wel 13 tot 17 kilometer groot kunnen zijn. Hij voegde toe dat er mogelijk een verband is met de nabijgelegen piramides van de Azteken en de Maya’s in Mexico en andere Centraal-Amerikaanse landen.
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Sceptici zijn van mening dat we hier te maken hebben met een geologische formatie. Google Earth wordt steeds vaker gebruikt om te speuren naar archeologische vindplaatsen. Onlangs dacht een Canadese tiener nog een verloren piramide van de Maya’s te hebben ontdekt op Google Earth.
En in 2012 zei de Amerikaanse archeologe Angela Micol via Google Earth twee nieuwe sets van piramides in Egypte te hebben ontdekt. Ze beweerde na 10 jaar nieuwe piramides te hebben gevonden in het noorden van het land, op ongeveer 145 kilometer van elkaar.
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ALIEN ATTACK!? WHAT IS THIS?!! BIOLOGICAL UFO!!? STRANGEST UFO EVER!? WTF!!? 6/29/2016
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Het is een bekend gegeven, dat wanneer er een UFO verschijnt de omgeving als gevolg daarvan te maken krijgt met stroomuitval.
Het lijkt erop dat dit op 21 juni jl ook is gebeurd in Diemen, want het antwoord op de grote stroomstoring aldaar verschijnt prominent in beeld bij niemand minder dan de NOS.
Voordat we naar de UFO en NOS gaan, even iets anders, maar ook belangrijk.
Je hebt van die mensen die hun leven wijden aan het onderzoek van vreemde en onverklaarbare zaken in ons luchtruim.
Eén van die mensen is Victor Viggiani, een onlangs gepensioneerd schoolhoofd uit Toronto in Canada.
Al meer dan 30 jaar houdt Viggiani zich bezig met onderzoek en analyse van vreemde gebeurtenissen in het luchtruim.
Enkele dagen geleden, op 25 juni 2016, was er een nationale vergadering (Canadian National Inquiry into UFOs) over UFO’s in Brantford, Ontario, in Canada.
Tijdens die vergadering presenteerde Viggiani een aantal geheime documenten afkomstig van NORAD. De North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is een militaire organisatie die waakt over het luchtruim van de Verenigde Staten en Canada.
Uit die documenten blijkt dat er talloze keren zijn geweest dat er contact is geweest tussen NORAD en onbekende objecten in het luchtruim, UFO’s.
Ook blijkt uit die documenten dat dit soort waarnemingen en contacten met buitenaardsen op het allerhoogste niveau binnen de overheid en militaire instanties wordt besproken.
Tijdens de vergadering geeft Viggiani aan dat hij is bedreigt en zal worden aangeklaagd voor het in gevaar brengen van de nationale veiligheid als hij die documenten openbaar maakt.
Iets dat deze dappere ex schoolmeester desondanks toch gewoon doet. Sterker nog, hij daagt de overheid uit om hem dan maar aan te pakken.
Dan terug naar Nederland, waar ook iets merkwaardigs plaatsvond.
AMSTERDAM (AT5) In een groot deel van Diemen en een deel van Amsterdam Zuidoost zitten flink wat huishoudens zonder stroom.
Dat meldt netbeheerder Liander. Het gaat om postcodes 1000, 1001, 1018, 1096, 1098 en 1102. Sommige getuigen melden dat heel Diemen en heel Zuidoost zonder stroom zitten, maar dat kan Liander niet bevestigen. Ook de trams hebben last van de storing: Tram 9 staat midden op de Kruislaan stil. Andere trams kunnen niet doorrijden.
Op Twitter worden veel liftopsluitingen gemeld. De brandweer is bezig om die mensen te helpen. De bestuurscommissie in Zuidoost moest de vergadering schorsen vanwege de stroomuitval.
De verwachte eindtijd van de storing is inmiddels ruim drie uur verschoven. Liander meldde eerst 22.10 uur, nu duurt de stroomstoring nog tot minstens 01.00 uur.
Tijdens de nieuwsuitzending van het journaal wordt ook melding gemaakt van deze stroomstoring.
Zoals waarschijnlijk bij velen bekend, worden UFO-waarnemingen dikwijls vergezeld van stroomstoringen. Dit kan zowel betrekking hebben op auto’s, batterijen, maar ook de normale stroomvoorziening.
Laat nu datzelfde journaal een beeld tonen van een UFO in de achtergrond, tijdens de stroomuitval in Diemen.
Wij ontvingen het volgende bericht van een lezer:
Vorige week dinsdag was er in Diemen een grote stroomuitval. Dit werd op het NOS Journal bekend gemaakt. Met op de achtergrond een foto van het gebied, was daar op de achtergrond een grote UFO te zien! Heb er foto van gemaakt en een uitvergroting.
This is a cool UFO, but no longer a UFO since of course, its been identified. Its a meteor and its landed right inside this ladies home. Many can be found for much more affordable price, click here to see them. Its value could be astronomical, not only because its from space, but because its landed on a home and was the only one retrieved in that area. This could go for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I also love how the outer shell is revealed from being broken. Its cool to see the melted outer shell of meteors...a sign of a true meteor if its a rocky type. Absolute amazing and beautiful. A piece of the universe came to her. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: PHITSANULOK - A mysterious rock, believed to be a meteorite, crashed through the roof of a house in Phitsanulok's Muang district on Tuesday. The suspected meteorite fell through the roof of a home in Plai Chumphon sub-district at 7.26am, hit a wall and then bounced to the floor, breaking into five pieces. “I was having breakfast when there was a loud bang, like a gunshot sound. I looked around and found a rock about the size of an egg and some fragments nearby.
I picked up the largest chunk and let go quickly as it was very hot,” 65-year-old home-owner Bualom Chalomprai said. Mrs Bualom believes the rock is from outer space and will bring her good luck. Mrs Bualom’s husband, Kittisak, 75, said he heard a sound of explosion in the sky at about 7am before the 300g rock fell through his roof. Media reports said residents in adjacent districts of Nakhon Thai and Chat Trakan also heard the "explosion". Scientists at Naresuan University’s department of physics later carried out an initial examination on a small fragment taken from the Chalomprai family home and concluded the object could very likely be a meteorite given its features and the circumstance under which it had been found. Department head Sarawut Tuantam said the rock’s crust was charcoal black, indicating it had been burned entering Earth's atmosphere at very high speeds. The test also found the chunk contained large amount of iron and was attracted by a magnet. Prof Sarawut added that the Chalomprais could keep the suspected space rock as it had safe radioactivity levels.
NORAD Secret Documents Show 75 UFOs Intercepts Each Year, June 2016, UFO Sightng News.
NORAD Secret Documents Show 75 UFOs Intercepts Each Year, June 2016, UFO Sightng News.
Date of video: June 2016 Maker of video: Earths Mysteries News.
Here is a cool testement to the UFOs recorded on radar by NORAD every year. Some documents were released to the public, but most are decades old. It seems the gov only releases old records, rather than the new more important ones. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states:
In a bold move of defiance to “dare the US government to charge me” Victor Viggiani, a leading Canadian advocate for #Disclosure made public several secret files from the Runic Archive of NORAD proving that the phenomenon of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon or UAPs have “been discussed, analyzed, assessed and sequestered at the highest levels of governance and military authority on the planet.” (ZNNews) http://zlandcommunications.blogspot.ca Vigiani states that in reference to the NORAD documents in his possession he has been threatened with indictment if he releases this file. “Any distribution of kind of information” Viggiani quotes from the document, “threatens National Security in addition to the Espionage Act of the United States.” Viggiani then defiantly released these files to the members of the press attending the most significant event of its kind this year — the ET Disclosure Hearing — Canada’s first national inquiry into UFOs and Extraterrestrials held Saturday, June 25th, 2016 at the Alien Cosmic Expo in Brantford Ontario, Canada.
About 18,000 Mysterious Sightings Spotted On a World Map
About 18,000 Mysterious Sightings Spotted On a World Map
Many people are awakening to the fact that humans are not alone in the universe. For the past few years, there have been a dramatic increase of high-ranking political, military, and other figures coming forward to share their experiences. There was also official documentation released by governments worldwide. Unidentified flying objects, as they are fondly called, are the century’s most controversial and intriguing mysteries. According to a report, there are 70,000 UFO sightings worldwide. Whether or not it is credible, some people are confident that they’ve spotted something suspicious. To gain a massive understanding of what these encounters mean, Stepchild GPU has analyzed data from 18,000 sightings being reported. Programmed in 1991, Stepchild GPU is a highly innovated graphic processing unit from Silicon Valley.
The maps can visualize data according to green dots (sightings) and white dots (duration of sightings). In other words, the United States lights up compared to the rest of the world. Could these encounters be experimental weather balloons or government planes? Does America spotted more UFOs, or conduct Americans research out of reasons to see humans as the center of the universe? Whatever it is, one thing is apparent: If aliens are not fiction, they do not adore or value the Great Plains. To admire the impressive visualization, one is not forced to believe in aliens. Every light represents that someone is searching for. At the root of each haunting, green light is a mind searching for the dark. These are beacons rather than a data point overlaying on a map.
More today, hundreds of theologians, thinkers, and scientists have attempted to answer whether or not there are extraterrestrials. According to some, the speculation that these alien spaceships are from another world is a foolish and absurd proposal. Others assert that they are not only possible but may be technologically advanced who visit the Earth regularly. Are these saucers a product of our imagination? Or, are a genuine people love to dismiss due to fear? These are pertinent questions that an individual must address.
3Doodler' Pen Lets You Draw 3D-Printed Creations in Midair
3Doodler' Pen Lets You Draw 3D-Printed Creations in Midair
By Jaclyn Jansen, Live Science Contributor |
The 3Doodler is a standard 3D printer that has been transformed into a pen.
Credit: 3Doodler
It wasn't long ago that the idea of printing something in three dimensions sounded like science fiction. But over the past decade, 3D printers have become widespread and are now used to create everything from decorative baubles to robot parts to medical devices.
Still, using a 3D printer isn't always simple: The machine is frequently housed within a box the size of a microwave, and it requires technical software and, in some cases, a detailed knowledge of design. But now, a company called 3Doodler has transformed the standard 3D printer into a pen, allowing people to draw 3D creations freely in the air — without the need for a computer or any software.
In 2012, Maxwell Bogue and Peter Dilworth, co-founders of 3Doodler along with Daniel Cowen, were trying to come up with the next greatkids' toy. They said they frequently used 3D printers to craft prototypes of their designs, and one night, they spent 14 hours printing a dinosaur leg, only to find that the printer had missed a section, leaving a gap in the model. [Best Educational Toys & Games for Kids]
The two wished they "could just take the nozzle off the 3D printer and fill in the missing gap," Bogue, now CEO of the company, told Live Science. So, the inventors set out to design a product that could do just that.
Bogue and Dilworth took apart a 3D printer and added a computer chipto the nozzle so that they could control the device. When that rudimentary model worked as a proof of concept, the team set out to streamline the design to create a more user-friendly pen, they said.
The first prototypes came straight from a standard 3D printer. "We printed the shells and the casings and everything that's held together," Bogue said.
The inventors of the 3Doodler originally set out to make the next great kids' toy.
Credit: 3Doodler
When it was done, they pulled the hot nozzle off the printer and used it in their pen. Over about eight months, they refined the design, finally producing the first version of the product, Bogue said.
In a lot of ways, the 3Doodler works like a sophisticated hot-glue gun: A heating element melts plastic, and it is extruded out through a nozzle. But glue guns use a hand pump to push the plastic out of the tip, which can make it clump. The challenge with the 3Doodler was to find a way to make the plastic flow steadily and smoothly, so the inventors designed the pen with a motor to propel the plastic filament, they said.
The heater inside the 3Doodler runs about 355 degrees to 460 degrees Fahrenheit (180 to 240 degrees Celsius) to effectively melt the most common plastic filaments (known as PLA and ABS). But at that temperature, the plastic would take a long time to cool, making it impossible to draw in the air, Bogue said. As a result, Bogue and Dilworth added a cooling fan to the 3Doodler, which brings the temperature of the plastic down to about 280 degrees to 300 degrees F (140 to 150 degrees C) when it leaves the pen, and the plastic hardens within seconds, Bogue said. [The 10 Weirdest Things Created By 3D Printing]
The inventors ran a wildly successful Kickstarter campaign to raise money for the project, collecting more than $2.3 million from more than 26,000 backers. The pen is now in its third version, known as the 3Doodler Create, and it has been used for a variety of creations, including artwork, clothing and wallets.
But despite its early success, the initial iterations of the 3Doodler still didn't satisfy Bogue's original mission. "This would be an awesome kids' toy, but it's too hot," Bogue said.
The 3Doodler Create far exceeds the 127-degree F (53 degrees C) maximum temperature allowed for children's products, as set by the EU Toys Safety Directive. So the company teamed up with materials scientists to develop an entirely new type of plastic, and after three years, they created a biodegradable, food-safe plastic that melts at between 113 degrees and 122 degrees Fahrenheit (45 to 50 degrees C). This means that it is safe for kids and can even be used to draw directly on the skin without causing burns, according to the company.
The new pen, known as the 3Doodler Start, is designed for kids ages 8 and older. The rechargeable battery and 16 different colors of filaments make the pen ideal for not just recreational use but also classroom use, the inventors said. In particular, the company is hoping that the new pen will significantly enhance STEM education, Bogue added.
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Robot Cars Tear Up Track to Test Hazard Response
Robot Cars Tear Up Track to Test Hazard Response
By Tom Metcalfe, Live Science Contributor
A one-fifth scale self-driving rally car at the Georgia Tech Autonomous Racing Facility. The work aims to help engineers understand how driverless vehicles can keep control on dangerous roads.
Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech
Two robotic rally cars are tearing up a dirt track in Atlanta, in an effort by researchers to learn how self-driving vehicles can stay in control when they slide, spin or jump.
In addition to making self-driving cars safer in collisions and hazardous roadconditions, the work could be applied to other types of autonomous systems that may need to make decisions in rapidly changing or unstructured environments, the researchers said. These systems could include robots in human homes or workplaces.
Each of the two custom-designed robotic rally vehicles carries a quad-core computer equipped with a powerful graphics processor. This computer performs the heavy processing required by the software controlling the car. Forward-facing cameras, a GPS receiver, inertia sensors and wheel-speed sensors continuously monitor the location and trajectory of the vehicle. Each car measures about 3 feet (0.9 meters) long and can reach speeds of up to 90 mph (145 km/h). A reinforced aluminumframe protects the equipment from damage in rollovers. [Photos: The Robotic Evolution of Self-Driving Cars]
The researchers, from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) in Atlanta, said the key to the project has been developing an algorithm that can quickly make control decisions with limited computing power, and very limited time.
Georgia Tech researchers with one of the autonomous rally vehicles at the track. From left: Georgia Tech students Sarah Selim, Brian Goldfain, Paul Drews, and Grady Williams.
Credit: Rob Felt, Georgia Tech
The algorithm, called "model predictive path integral control" (MPPI), uses the rally car's onboard graphics processor to analyze data from the sensors in real time and predict the trajectory of the vehicle up to 2.5 seconds in the future. It does so by comparing more than 2,500 possible trajectories in less than 1/60th of a second.
One of the lead researchers on the project, Panagiotis Tsiotras, a mechanical engineer at Georgia Tech's School of Aerospace Engineering, told Live Science that the researchers began by examining how expert human drivers control carsat the edges of the vehicles' handling limits, the moments just before cars lose their grip on the road.
"The interesting thing is that human expert drivers are really good at doing these types of maneuvers," Tsiotras said. "So we thought to ask for help from some expert rally drivers, trying to understand how the vehicles operate in those regimes. And if we understand how they operate, maybe we will be able to autonomously control the vehicle in a similar way to how these expert drivers control the vehicle."
Among the researchers' discoveries was a mathematical description of the equilibrium of forces that allow a vehicle to "power slide," or drift while maintaining a high speed. That research had been the subject of a thesis by one of the students involved with the research.
Some early work on the project was funded by the Ford Motor Company, which wanted to improve the active safety systems, such as anti-skid braking, on the company's passenger cars. For the last five years, the work has been sponsored by the U.S. Army Research Office, which is interested in autonomous vehicles that can operate off-road, Tsiotras said. "We call it 'aggressive mobility for autonomous vehicles’." [Self-Driving Cars: 5 Problems That Need Solutions]
"We're using this algorithm to predict in the very near future how the vehicle is going to behave, and this is not very different than the way human beings do such planning," Tsiotras said.
The research has applications for other autonomous and robotic systems, not just self-driving cars, he added.
"The driving application is interesting — people relate to it because there's a skill factor. But there are a lot of fundamental questions related to controlling autonomous systems in general," Tsiotras said. "Any time that you want to make a decision in terms of sensing, perception and control, that has to be made with limited resources and at very fast timescale. This is an example where these algorithms can be used."
The robotic rally research at Georgia Tech is led by Evangelos Theodorou, a robotics specialist at the School of Aerospace Engineering. The development of the MPPI control algorithm was led by machine-learning specialist Jim Rehg, a professor at Georgia Tech's School of Interactive Computing.
A paper describing the research was presented at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, which was held in Stockholm, Sweden, in May. The findings were published online in May by the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society.
A solid rocket booster for NASA's Space Launch System rocket fires during a ground test in Utah in March 2015.
Credit: NASA
NASA will test-fire a booster for the world's most powerful rocket Tuesday morning (June 28), and you can watch the explosive action live online.
A solid rocket booster for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) megarocket — which the agency is developing to blast astronauts toward Mars and other deep-space destinations — will fire for 2 minutes Tuesday at a facility in Utah, beginning at 10:05 a.m. EDT (1405 GMT). You can watch it live here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV; coverage starts at 9:30 a.m. EDT (1330 GMT).
NASA will hold a press conference at 11 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) Tuesday to discuss the results of the test. You can listen to audio of the press conference here at Space.com as well, courtesy of NASA.
Tuesday's test will be the second and final ground test for the SLS booster before the huge rocket lifts off on its first space mission in 2018, w hich will be an uncrewed trip around the moon known as Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1).
The first ground test, which NASA declared a complete success, occurred in March 2015. The SLS booster burned as planned for 2 minutes — the same amount of time it will fire during a launch — and generated 3.6 million lbs. (1.6 million kilograms) of thrust, space agency officials said at the time.
When it's ready to go in 2018, the SLS will consist of a core stage powered by four RS-25 engines (the same kind that NASA used for the now-retired space shuttle), along with two 177-foot-tall (54 meters) solid rocket boosters like the one being tested Tuesday.
SLS is designed to launch NASA's Orion crew capsule, which is also in development. The duo is currently scheduled to fly astronauts for the first time in the early 2020s.
Tuesday's test, like the March 2015 trial, will take place in Promontory, Utah, at a facility owned by aerospace company Orbital ATK, an SLS partner.
Opal-Studded Meteorite Hints at Origins of Earth's Water
Opal-Studded Meteorite Hints at Origins of Earth's Water
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
Meteorite EET 83309 contains tiny fragments of opal, a material that requires water to form. In this backscattered electron image, a narrow opal rim surrounds a bright metallic mineral inclusion.
Credit: H. Downes
A gem of a meteorite found in Antarctica is studded with pieces of opal, a crystal that is associated with water. The discovery lends greater strength to the idea that meteorites brought water to asteroids and may also have seeded the Earth with the liquid necessary for life to evolve.
"This is more evidence that meteorites and asteroids can carry large amounts of water ice," lead author Hilary Downes said in a statement. Downes, a geochemist at the Birkbeck Institute of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of London, announced the results today (Monday, June 27) at the National Astronomy Meeting in Nottingham, England.
"Although we rightly worry about the consequences of the impact of large asteroids, billions of years ago they may have brought the water to the Earth and helped it become the world teeming with life that we live in today."
On Earth, opal is made up of silica — a common ingredient in sand — and water. As water runs across the planet, it picks up sand and other pieces of silica. When it evaporates, it leaves behind traces of that material that build up to form opals. Scientists have only found one other meteorite carrying the mineraloid — a rock that traveled from Mars. While the Red Planet has opal-like deposits on its surface, none have been found on asteroids.
Downes and her colleagues found that the meteorite EET 83309 is made up of thousands of broken-up rocks and minerals, suggesting that it came fromthe surface of an asteroid. Research on the meteorite by other scientists reveals that the rock was exposed to radiation from the sun, solar wind and other cosmic sources. Since an asteroid lacks an atmosphere to shield it from deadly radiation, its surface is constantly dosed with the deadly rays.
Bits and pieces of other asteroids were also embedded in the meteorite, suggesting that the parent asteroid was struck by numerous impacts. As a result of one of the many impacts, water could have been delivered to the surface of the asteroid, forming opal.
"The pieces of opal we have found are either broken fragments or they are replacing other minerals," Downes said.
If early meteorites carried water to asteroids, they could also have broughtwater to the Earth.
"Our evidence shows that the opal formed before the meteorite was blasted off from the surface of the parent asteroid and sent into space, eventually to land on Earth in Antarctica," Downes added.
Sometimes you’re a planet who’s been with a moon for few eons, and it all becomes a bit too…familiar.
Things started out with a hot and heavy crash, and the two of you get all tangled up with one another. But over time your surfaces cool, your orbits drift apart, and your differences became apparent. And though the living things who mostly hang out at your place do visit your moon once in a while, everyone knows they really want to go somewhere else entirely.
In a situation like that, you might be tempted to take up with a second moon. A small moon, farther away. One that orbits irregularly and most planets wouldn’t even notice.
That’s exactly what Earth did, it turns out.
NASA says asteroid 2016 HO3, which we first heard about via writer George Dvorsky at Gizmodo, is currently locked into “a little dance” with Earth.
The rock’s orbit is irregular, causing it to drift between 38 and 100 times the distance of our planet’s primary moon, and bob up and down across Earth’s orbital plane.
NASA says it’s larger than 120 feet across but no more than 300 feet wide, has likely orbited our world for about a century, and will stick around for many more centuries to come.
Researchers first noticed 2016 HO3 on April 27 with the Pan-STARRS 1 asteroid survey telescope on Haleakala, Hawaii. That telescope is funded by the thoroughly badass-sounding “Planetary Defence Coordination Office,” which tracks near-Earth objects
Watch a cool video by NASA that illustrates how the mini-moon orbits Earth, below.
It turns out that our moon isn’t alone out there, orbiting our planet on its own. Earth has a companion in space which has been orbiting our world for over a century, and NASA has only recently spotted it.
According to new reports from NASA, there is a quasi-moon orbiting around Earth for almost a century, and we have missed it all along.
The new moon isn’t as big as THE MOON is, but, it still keeps our original moon company while traveling across space.
The smaller quasi-moon orbits Earth with an extremely irregular path. Moon 2.0 is actually asteroid 2016 H03, which is locked into a dance with our planet, in fact, it has been dancing with our planet for almost a century and we have failed to notice it until recently. The quasi- moon’s orbit is extremely elliptical causing it to travel between 38 and 100 times the distance of our planet’s ‘original’ moon.
The ‘new’ moon is tilted at around 8° and travels around the sun for 365.93 days, which is a bit longer than our planets 365.24 day-long year.
The orbit of the new moon varies a lot. In fact, due to its tilted and elliptical orbit, 2016 H03 is sometimes closer to the sun and moves faster than our planet and in other times its located farther out and moves slowly. However, researcher shave found it never gets closer to about 14 million kilometers from Earth, nor does it stray off course over 40 million kilometers.
Earth new mini-moon is around 40 meters across and nearly 100 meters wide and will most likely remain as one of Earth’s smaller moon for coming centuries.
The new moon was discovered thanks to the Pan-STARRS 1 asteroid survey telescope in Haleakala, Hawaii.
“Since 2016 HO3 loops around our planet, but never ventures very far away as we both go around the sun, we refer to it as a quasi-satellite of Earth,” said Paul Chodas, manager of NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object (NEO) Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “One other asteroid — 2003 YN107 — followed a similar orbital pattern for a while over ten years ago, but it has since departed our vicinity. This new asteroid is much more locked onto us. Our calculations indicate 2016 HO3 has been a stable quasi-satellite of Earth for almost a century, and it will continue to follow this pattern as Earth’s companion for centuries to come.”
Open Your Third Eye, Like the Ancient Egyptians Did
Open Your Third Eye, Like the Ancient Egyptians Did
Few cultures were as preoccupied with the afterlife as the ancient Egyptians. Their society relied heavily on a mythos of rebirth and transformation through the attainment of higher levels of consciousness. This is especially true of the fortunate few that made up the ruling class, as evidenced standing the symbolism-heavy narrative they left behind etched in stone.
One of their most important symbols – the Eye of Horus- bears testimony to their search for the secrets of this life and, as it turns out, this ancient symbol might be a key to unlocking the perspective of a continued existence on higher planes of existence.
The Sky God Horus was the one of the ancient Egyptians’ most significant deities. The Eye of Horus, also known as Wedjat (sometimes Wadjet) was a symbol of protection and the royal power that the gods bestowed upon mankind. When used properly, it acted as a ward against evil and offered protection in the afterlife. Should it come as a surprise when we realize that this symbol of immense power is actually very similar to the structure in the brain at the center of which the pineal gland is found?
The pineal gland is found in the center of the human brain, between the two hemispheres. It resembles a pine cone (hence the name) and can be found in nearly all vertebrates. Biology tells us that its role in the human body is to secrete melatonin, a hormone that modulates sleep patterns. Some evolutionary biologists believe that the vertebrate pineal cells possess a common evolutionary ancestor with retinal cells. Structurally speaking, the pineal gland acts like it was once an eye.
The Egyptians weren’t the only ones to hold the pineal gland and its representations in such a high regard. This symbol can be found from the ruins of Babylon to the Christian scriptures and everywhere in between. The ancient Greeks considered it the seat of the soul, a notion that was later picked up by the Romans. In Hinduism, it plays an even greater role and is associated with the Ajna chakra, the part of the brain that signifies the conscience.
Throughout history, various cultures have identified the pineal gland as the Third Eye, the All-Seeing organ Plato so ceremoniously described in Republic:
“In every man there is an Eye of the soul which is far more precious than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen. The Eye of the soul is alone naturally adapted to be resuscitated and excited by the mathematical disciplines.”
Mathematical disciplines. Hmmm. Was Plato talking about Sacred Geometry, by any chance? Because the ancient Egyptians made heavy use of this concept, and it permeated many aspects of their culture. The Eye of Horus itself stands testament to this idea.
The ancient Egyptians’ architecture is further evidence of their special relationship with numerology. Many Egyptologists have dedicated their energy to uncovering the sacred knowledge the builders of the pyramids possessed.
One of them was French occultist René Adolphe Schwaller de Lubicz, and in his book The Temple in Man, he describes the multiple instances of hidden symbolism present at the Temple of Luxor in Egypt. In 1935, Schwaller de Lubicz moved to Egypt with his wife and daughter and began the arduous process of mapping and measuring the entire temple. He would spend the next 15 years of his life trying and succeeding in finding clues regarding divine mathematics.
Built nerly 3,500 years ago, the Luxor Temple is a perfect example of the use of sacred geometry in architecture, as it reflects the exact proportions of the human body. Even more important, this masterpiece of symbolist teachings reveals the occult anatomy of man. Schwaller discovered that inside the Temple of Luxor, representations of the Eye of Horus abound in the southern secret sanctuaries. This means that the ancient Egyptians viewed the pineal gland as a doorway or a passage. It represented the symbolic entrance to man’s head, the seat of his intellect and his soul.
The ancient Egyptians relied heavily on symbolism and our knowledge of their culture was extracted from their figurative representations. But this process of deduction is far from being perfect and you can be sure that some of the intricacies of their beliefs were lost in translation.
Despite all this, one thing is abundantly obvious: they held the pineal gland in high regard and they knew it held the key to exploring the spiritual world. By subjecting it to the principles of sacred geometry, they acknowledged the Third Eye as a corridor to the outer cosmos that originated man.
There are reasons to suspect the Egyptian culture might be much older than modern science is willing to accept, pushing back the use of this divine symbol by millennia and giving birth to a legitimate question: did the Egyptians discover the role of the pineal gland on their own or did they receive this esoteric knowledge from a much older and wiser culture? The fact that symbolic representations of the All-Seeing Eye can be found throughout the globe in cultures spanning thousands of years seems to support the latter.
So what does this mean for us? Should we rely on what human anatomy tells us and further demystify the capabilities of this spiritual organ? Do we let it become calcified without attempting to investigate its life-changing powers that seem to transcend time and space? Do we rub sand in our own eyes?
(video) UFO Hunters find mystery tunnels on the surface of the moon
(video) UFO Hunters find mystery tunnels on the surface of the moon
In addition to the numerous anomalies found on the surface of the moon, UFO Hunters have found a set of mysterious tunnels visible on satellite images of the moon that have eventually been brushed away. What are ‘they’ hiding?
Near the landing site of the Apollo missions, UFO hunters discovered a set of tunnels stretching up to one kilometer in length.
The enigmatic ‘tunnels’ were found by UFO hunter Marcelo Irazusta, near the Apollo 17 landing site.
Interestingly, these tunnels appear to have been brushed away in newer versions of Google (Earth) Moon, which has raised speculation as to what is really down there, and why have the ‘mystery tunnels’ been removed.
In the past, UFO hunters from around the globe have discovered countless things that should not be on the moon. However, if these alleged tunnels are just fissure marks on the surface of the moon, why have these ‘faults’ been brushed away in later versions of the satellite images of the area?
In addition to tunnels and strange marks, UFO hunters have found what appear to be domes, towers and strange lights, all visible on Satellite images on the moon and Apollo mission image archives.
Not long ago, a NASA whistleblower released a set of images from the Apollo missions which are considered as the ultimate proof of alien bases on the lunar surface.
Life on Mars or just a big rock? UFO hunters claim sketchy Nasa snap shows human-like alien but the space agency says it simply captures the landscape of the red planet
Life on Mars or just a big rock? UFO hunters claim sketchy Nasa snap shows human-like alien but the space agency says it simply captures the landscape of the red planet
UFO hunters claim Curiosity rover has captured image of a tiny alien
Figure said to be standing behind a rock on Mars, peering around corner
They claim it is six inches tall, and compared it to the 'Atacama alien'
But, DNA tests on Atacama remains found it was a human with a mutation
More than a decade ago, a bizarre six-inch skeleton was discovered in Chile’s Atacama Desert, spurring claims that extraterrestrial visitors had crash-landed on Earth.
Now, alien investigators of the internet have spotted what they say could be a living member of the same species.
Just feet away from Nasa’s Curiosity rover, YouTube user Paranormal Crucible claims a tiny humanoid alien can be seen spying from behind a Martian rock.
Just feet away from Nasa’s Curiosity rover, Youtube user Paranormal Crucible claims a tiny humanoid alien can be seen spying from behind a Martian rock
The original image was captured by the Curiosity rover’s Mastcam, revealing the rocky landscape of the red planet.
But at the bottom-center of the photo, Paranormal Crucible claims to have found something strange.
‘Interesting anomolie [sic] found by the rover, which looks like a little Martian,’ the Youtuber wrote.
‘I have colorized the image and added eyes to the head so its easier to see, but everything is there in the original images, whatever it is it looks humanoid, reminds me of the Atacama Alien, about the same size too, this one is around 6 inches.’
The original image was captured by the Curiosity rover’s Mastcam, revealing the rocky landscape of the red planet. But at the bottom-center of the photo, Paranormal Crucible claims to have found something strange
WHY WE SEE STRANGE THINGS ON MARS
Pareidolia is the psychological response to seeing faces and other significant and everyday items in random stimulus.
It is a form of apophenia, when people see patterns in random, unconnected data.
There have been multiple occasions when people have claimed to see religious images and themes in unexpected places.
On the red planet, one of the most famous is the 'face on Mars' spotted by one of the Viking orbiters in 1976.
This was later proven to just be a chance alignment of shifting sand dunes.
Alien Found on Mars- NASA footage prompts questions
Commenters have speculated that the small figure is likely a Martian woman, based on the shape of its ‘body.’
On UFOSightings Daily, editor Scott C. Waring added to the claims, writing that the figure in the photo is of a Martian species that is alive, but dwindling.
‘This human-like figure is peering around the corner of a rock wall and I can make out its head, chest, shoulders, arm, leg, knee, and foot from this one close up photo,’ Waring writes.
Due to the estimated size, Paranormal Crucible says it ‘could be the same species’ as the ‘Atacama alien.’ In 2013, however, it was revealed that DNA tests on the tiny skeleton found in Chile confirmed that the bizarre specimen was not an alien, but a human with an ‘interesting mutation’
‘Paranormal Crucible says its about 6 inches…I agree. This is one of the species that once lived on Mars and is still living there now, but in lower numbers. The mysteries of Mars just keep revealing themselves one by one.’
Due to the estimated size, Paranormal Crucible says it ‘could be the same species’ as the ‘Atacama alien.’
In 2013, however, it was revealed that DNA tests on the tiny skeleton confirmed that the bizarre specimen found in Chile was not an alien, but a human with an ‘interesting mutation.’
THE MYSTERIOUS 'ATACAMA ALIEN' SKELETON
The 'Atacama alien' remains were found on October 19, 2003 by a man named Oscar Munoz while he was looking for objects of historical value in La Noria – a ghost town in the Atacama Desert.
Near an abandoned church, Munoz found a white cloth containing ‘a strange skeleton no bigger than 15cm [the size of a pen],’ according to a local Chilean newspaper.
It was a creature with hard teeth, a bulging head with an additional odd bulge on top.
Its body was scaly and of dark color. Unlike humans, it had nine ribs.
A few years ago, researchers from Stanford University analysed DNA from bone marrow extracted from the specimen.
CAT-Scan-6- of an alien humanoid INVISIBLE LYCANS TEAM!!!
They concluded that it was an 'interesting mutation' of a male human that had survived post-birth for between six and eight years.
‘I can say with absolute certainty that it is not a monkey.
'It is human - closer to human than chimpanzees. It lived to the age of six to eight,’ Garry Nolan, director of stem cell biology at Stanford University's School of Medicine in California, said at the time.
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Deze foto van Mars is volgens UFO-jagers absoluut bewijs voor leven op rode planeet
Deze foto van Mars is volgens UFO-jagers absoluut bewijs voor leven op rode planeet
Op internet gaan momenteel beelden rond die naar verluidt een kleine alien tonen op de rode planeet. Het filmpje maakt de nodige tongen los op internet, zo melden Britse media.
Het YouTube-kanaal Paranormal Crucible zegt de humanoïde te hebben gevonden op een foto die is gemaakt door Marsrover Curiosity van de NASA. “Interessante anomalie gevonden door de rover die op een kleine Marsbewoner lijkt,” klinkt het.
De beelden doen denken aan de documentaire Sirius over een kleine ‘alien’ die naar verluidt jaren geleden werd gevonden in de Atacamawoestijn in Chili. De documentaire deed heel wat stof opwaaien. Volgens Paranormal Crucible zijn de humanoïden ongeveer even groot.
Scott C. Waring van de site UFO Sightings Daily stelt dat er nu ‘absoluut bewijs’ is geleverd voor leven op Mars. “Deze mensachtige figuur kijkt om de hoek van een stenen muur,” zei hij. “Ik kan zijn hoofd, borst, schouders, arm, been, knie en voet ontwaren.”
Sceptici zijn van mening dat het een geval van pareidolie is, een waanvoorstelling waarbij dingen die gezien worden op een abnormale, met veel fantasie gepaard gaande wijze worden geïnterpreteerd.
A Pennsylvania witness at Rochester reported watching a cigar-shaped UFO that appeared to morph in shape, according to testimony in Case 77094 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first saw the object as a cigar shape. Pictured: Rochester, PA. (Credit: Google)
The witness moved outside into the backyard at 6:34 p.m. on June 14, 2016, when she heard her husband calling out loud that he was seeing a UFO.
“I came outside, but it had gone behind the big trees behind our house,” the witness stated.“We waited two-to-three minutes and then we could see it again.”
The witness described the object.
“It was a white cigar shape, with left end round and the right end triangle shape – like a Q-tip, but bigger ends. It was horizontal. Going straight really slow, then stopped and hovered for a couple minutes, then moved again, hovered etc.”
But then the shape of the object seemed to change.
The object seemed to change shape. Pictured: Rochester, PA.
(Credit: Google)
“It appeared to be shapeshifting or morphing and changing shapes. It would appear round, then elongated, then like a triangle. A large jumbo jet flew by the UFO and it appeared slightly bigger than a jet, but I don’t know if it’s because it was closer than the plane, therefore it looked bigger. At one point the triangle shape to the right moved away from the object – maybe 100-200 feet – and disappeared. It was too far away to guess the actual size, but it appeared big at least 100 feet long.”
The witness wondered what the object was.
“It looked too big to be a drone or helium balloons. Its weird shapeshifting ruled out it being a blimp. It was a windy day but stayed stationary when it stopped to hover. It was solid white and changing shape either from rotating and showing different sides or actual morphing. It is hard to explain the shape. The sun was behind me and it was not reflecting sunlight on the surface. If I held my arm straight out and compared it to my thumb. It was about one-inch long using my thumb as a reference. As wide as my thumb.”
The witness watched the object for 10 minutes before it moved away. Pictured: Rochester, PA.
(Credit: Google)
The witness’s husband retrieved binoculars.
“But the object was too faraway and a little blurry from the morphing changing shapes to make out more details. No lights. Was heading south toward the Ohio River and Pittsburgh, PA. I watched it for about 10 minutes until it moved south and my view was obscured by more big trees. I live about 10 blocks or one mile from the confluence of the Ohio River and Beaver River.”
Rochester is a borough in Beaver County, PA, population 3,657. Pennsylvania State Section Director Sam Colosimo, Jr. is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Witness videotapes three sphere UFOs forming triangle
Witness videotapes three sphere UFOs forming triangle
A California witness at East Los Angeles reported watching and videotaping three bright, yellow spheres that formed a triangle shape, according to testimony in Case 77127 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first saw a silvery object hovering in the sky on June 17, 2016. Pictured: Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was sitting outside on a balcony at 8 p.m. on June 17, 2016.
“I closed my eyes and looked up to the sky,” the witness stated.“When I opened my eyes I saw a silvery object above in the sky which was just sitting there without moving. I thought it was a balloon at first, but the reflection of the sun was making it shine real bright.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness decided to look at the object binoculars, but could not make out the shape.
“I decided to take out my telescope which has an attachment where I can hook up my android phone since I like taking pictures of the moon and the planets once in awhile at night. The object began to move slowly and I was struggling to capture it through my telescope until I was finally able to get it on my phone.”
The witness began video recording the object.
“At first I thought it was balloons once again because it was three spheres that were attached to each other, but they began to move in a circular motion and once in awhile the three spheres would separate from each other and come back together.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness ruled out balloons.
“The three spheres together formed a triangle shape and were bright yellow – almost shining, I don’t know if it was due to the sun hitting the object or what. The object would move around as if it was out of control, but as it was moving in one direction it would suddenly move to another direction.”
At one point in the video a white sphere passes by.
While videotaping the three spheres, another orb-like object moved by. Pictured: Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
“I was unable to stay with the other object or I would have lost the three sphere objects. Finally, I was unable to track the object because the arms that make my telescope move were unable to move further and I lost the object. The sun was setting and clouds began to move in making it difficult to see the object any longer. The object was real high in the sky because it disappeared behind the clouds that were passing by and usually the planes that pass above my house from LAX usually are real high in altitude and they don’t even fly above the clouds. I was able to find another video on YouTube from someone in Cordoba, Argentina who filmed a similar object back in May 2015.”
East Los Angeles is an unincorporated area in Los Angeles County, CA, population 126,496. California State Section Director Denice Marcel is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
8.5 Mile Pyramid Found Under The Ocean, Ancient UFO Or Alien Base Found, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
8.5 Mile Pyramid Found Under The Ocean, Ancient UFO Or Alien Base Found, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: June 2016
Location of discovery: West of Mexico (ocean) Google map coordinates: 12° 8'1.49"N 119°35'26.39"W This was found by Marcelo Igazusta of Argentina. He says its a UFO parked underwater. That could be true. Its a perfect pyramid that measures over 8.5 miles across one side of its base. Thats a conservative estimate, it could be up to 11 miles across. Even if this is not a UFO that landed in the ocean that was being used as an alien base, it still is a monumental discovery. A 8.5 mile pyramid...biggest the world has ever known, and its right off of Mexico, near they ancient Mayan and Aztec pyramids. Humans could never have built such a construction. Only aliens could accomplish making such a massive structure. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: UFO 5.5 km in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico. Google earth image An intense light on the Pacific Ocean is the latest discovery of the Argentine researcherMarcelo Irazusta. This light of almost 5.5 km in length has a shape similar to a plane, but with a large size. Will it be another proof of the existence of a large UFO? The image is published by NASA and Google Earth. The coordinates are 12 ° 8'1.49 "N 119 ° 35'26.39" W Ovni de 5.5 km en el oceano Pacifico frente la costa de Mexico. Imagen de google earth Una luz intensa sobre el oceano Pacifico es el ultimo descubrimiento del investigador argentino Marcelo Irazusta. Esta luz de casi 5.5 km de longitud presenta una forma parecida a un avion, pero con un gran tamaño. ¿Sera una prueba mas de la existencia de un gran ovni? La imagen es de la Nasa y publicada por Google Earth. Las coordenadas son 12° 8'1.49"N 119°35'26.39"W
NORAD Secret Documents Show 75 UFOs Intercepts Each Year, June 2016, UFO Sightng News.
NORAD Secret Documents Show 75 UFOs Intercepts Each Year, June 2016, UFO Sightng News.
Date of video: June 2016 Maker of video: Earths Mysteries News.
Here is a cool testement to the UFOs recorded on radar by NORAD every year. Some documents were released to the public, but most are decades old. It seems the gov only releases old records, rather than the new more important ones. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states:
In a bold move of defiance to “dare the US government to charge me” Victor Viggiani, a leading Canadian advocate for #Disclosure made public several secret files from the Runic Archive of NORAD proving that the phenomenon of Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon or UAPs have “been discussed, analyzed, assessed and sequestered at the highest levels of governance and military authority on the planet.” (ZNNews) http://zlandcommunications.blogspot.ca Vigiani states that in reference to the NORAD documents in his possession he has been threatened with indictment if he releases this file. “Any distribution of kind of information” Viggiani quotes from the document, “threatens National Security in addition to the Espionage Act of the United States.” Viggiani then defiantly released these files to the members of the press attending the most significant event of its kind this year — the ET Disclosure Hearing — Canada’s first national inquiry into UFOs and Extraterrestrials held Saturday, June 25th, 2016 at the Alien Cosmic Expo in Brantford Ontario, Canada.
An Unidentified Flying Object is any anomaly hovering in the sky that is not readily identifiable to the naked eye. Unidentified Flying Objects has always been a debatable subject to people of different ages. Its broad topic and difficult to investigate in nature make the process unresolved for a longer period. Alleged alien sightings have been associated with crank claims, such as the visitation by extraterrestrial life or any government-related conspiracy theories. Since 1964, Richard Hoffman from Open Minds UFO Radio has researched more details about the UFO phenomenon. He is an IT professional that is currently in the Mississippi and Alabama state director for the biggest network called the Mutual UFO Network. He also serves as a director for the planned assignments. He is also part of the Scientific Coalition for Ufology, which is an organization that studied a mysterious video being spotted by the Department of Homeland Security.
In an interview, experts have spoken to Rich about how he obtained the UFO investigations, such as his interactions along with the official UFO investigation by the government called the Project Blue Book. Experts have also spoken to Rich regarding the most recent developments of the Homeland Security footage. You will get to know more information about the Alabama/Mississippi by visiting their page. Do extraterrestrials exist? Thousands of videos and pictures of aliens are taken each year, and the believers believe that a lot of them could be evidence or even a conspiracy. While some stories have been debunked as fakes, some dozens have left the experts wondering and scratching their heads if creatures from other planets have visited humans. It is common to see individuals decide what is genuine, and what is not and all of this on the unverified assumption that people had little to no knowledge as opposed to the people today.
Mummified Alien Discovered In Russia: Does It Belong To Extraterrestrial Race
Mummified Alien Discovered In Russia: Does It Belong To Extraterrestrial Race
For decades, sky and eyes have met to discover the buzzing by the world of unidentified flying objects. Known as UFO, these flying saucers or extraterrestrials have come a long way to share the skies with humans. Alien visitors have been a part of our culture, which is a far-out phenomenon when some judged against Bigfoot and Loch Ness monster. UFOs remain a riddle wrapped in an enigma of mystery. Why so? It is replete with awful video and blurry photos. However, then there are also puzzled and well-intentioned witnesses.
Russian police officers spotted the body of a creature of Kyshtym in 1996. Due to its unearthly features and small size, it was dubbed as the ‘Kyshtym alien’ by the media. When the doctor performed an autopsy, he found out that it was neither animal nor human. Dr. Stanoslav Samoshkin was in charge of the anatomy department when the mysterious body was brought for analysis. According to the findings, the creature was not a human being. It consists of six bones, and that skull was made up of 4 bones. In the skeleton structure, there were differences. Those anomalies did not look like congenital malformations. The mummified creature was 10 inches, had a disfigured and enlarged head, and its eye sockets occupied its face. It was presumed that when it was alive, the Kystym alien looked different from humans. However, it bears a resemblance to Ata, the bizarre mummified body in 2003 found in the Atacama Desert.
One story was about an illiterate and an old woman named Tamara Prosvirina who found a small alien while it was alive. She discovered the small creature in a tomb, took it home, gave it to ‘Aleshenka’, and raised it as her child. The exact origins were still unknown, but the discovery is interesting. To study the body and understand the mechanism through genetic analysis, paranormal and analyst Vadim Chernobrov had traveled from Moscow. Numerous attempts were made to recover the body but have been unsuccessful. Later, rumors resurfaced about the mummified body being cursed when it started to spread. Seeking for the truth could be difficult due to the lack of evidence.
In honor of the summer ritual, Tech Insider dug through the mountain of CIA documentsrelated to UFO sightings, which the agency declassified nearly 40 years ago. Many of the sighting reports date back to the early 1950s, at a time when political tensions were high and flying objects were seen as national security threats.
1. 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.)
2. 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."
3. 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.
4 The East German flying saucers of 1952
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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."
5. The CIA begins to have its doubts about UFOs
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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."
6. Flying objects passing over Casablanca
CIA
In early September 1952, multiple sightings were reported of various UFOs over Casablanca, Morocco. Residents of the town, which was made famous by the 1942 film, 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.
7. A year later, the unidentified aircraft is spotted in Morocco again...
CIA
On the night of September 2, 1953, residents of a small town southeast of Casablanca known as Oued Zem reported hearing a thunderous noise. The next morning, a pair of shepherds claimed to have seen a flying object that was "lighted in many colors and flying at great speed."
The sightings followed two other incidents in July and August, one over Greece and another over Spain. Witnesses in Madrid described the UFO as "flying like a jet plane" but emitting a red reflection and creating no noise.
In Drama, Greece, residents said they saw a rocket-shaped object at low altitude, which stayed stationary for three to four minutes before disappearing into the night.
8. Europe can't agree about what people are seeing in the sky
CIA
In the span of a month between April 15 and May 13, 1954, five separate reports from France and Sweden each described UFOs of a different size and shape.
The first, on April 15, involved an elongated, cone-shaped object with two red and green lights at its base. It flew at a high altitude.
The next, on April 26, was a "cigar-shaped object" observed by a group of people walking through France's Sare region, near the Pyrenees border. The object was traveling at a high altitude — roughly 6,500 feet, the observers claimed — and heading toward Spain.
The final event took place the morning of May 13, in Sweden. Three people separately reported seeing a "brilliant, silver-colored sphere with a tail."
"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."
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Quantum Computer Could Simulate Beginnings of the Universe
Quantum Computer Could Simulate Beginnings of the Universe
By Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor
Researchers simulated the creation of elementary particle pairs out of the vacuum by using a quantum computer.
Credit: IQOQI/Harald Ritsch
Quantum mechanics suggest that seemingly empty space is actually filled with ghostly particles that are fluctuating in and out of existence. And now, scientists have for the first time made an advanced machine known as a quantum computer simulate these so-called virtual particles.
This research could help shed light on currently hidden aspects of the universe, from the hearts of neutron stars to the very first moments of the universe after the Big Bang, researchers said.
Quantum mechanics suggests that the universe is a fuzzy, surreal placeat its smallest levels. For instance, atoms and other particles can exist in states of flux known as superpositions, where they can seemingly each spin in opposite directions simultaneously, and they can also get entangled — meaning they can influence each other instantaneously no matter how far apart they are separated. Quantum mechanics also suggests that pairs of virtual particles, each consisting of a particle and its antiparticle, can wink in and out of seemingly empty vacuum and influence their surroundings. [Beyond Higgs: 5 Elusive Particles That May Lurk in the Universe]
Quantum mechanics underlies the standard model of particle physics, which is currently the best explanation for how all the known elementary particles, such as electrons and protons, behave. However, there are still many open questions regarding the standard model of particle physics, such as whether or not it can help explain cosmic mysteries such as dark matter and dark energy — both of which have not been directly detected by astronomers, but are inferred based on their gravitational effects.
The interactions between elementary particles are often described with what is known as gauge theories. However, the real-time dynamics of particles in gauge theories are extremely difficult for conventional computers to compute, except in the simplest of cases. As a result, scientists have instead turned to experimental devices known as quantum computers.
"Our work is a first step towards developing dedicated tools that can help us to gain a better understanding of the fundamental interactions between the elementary constituents in nature," study co-lead author Christine Muschik told Live Science. Muschik is a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Innsbruck, Austria.
Whereas classical computers represent data as ones and zeroes — binary digits known as "bits," symbolized by flicking switch-like transistors either on or off — quantum computers use quantum bits, or qubits, that are in superpositions — meaning that they are on and off at the same time. This enables a qubit to carry out two calculations simultaneously. In principle, quantum computers could work much faster than regular computers at solving certain problems because the quantum machines can analyze every possible solution at once.
In their new study, scientists built a quantum computer using four electromagnetically trapped calcium ions. They controlled and manipulated these four qubits with laser pulses.
The researchers had their quantum computer simulate the appearance and disappearance of virtual particles in a vacuum, with pairs of qubits representing pairs of virtual particles — specifically, electrons and positrons, the positively charged antimatter counterparts of electrons. Laser pulses helped simulate how powerful electromagnetic fields in a vacuum can generate virtual particles, the scientists said.
"This is one of the most complex experiments that has ever been carried out in a trapped-ion quantum computer," study co-author Rainer Blatt, an experimental physicist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Innsbruck, Austria, said in a statement.
This work shows that quantum computers can simulate high-energy physics — showing how particles might behave at energy levels that are much too high to be easily generated on Earth. "The field of experimental quantum computing is growing very fast, and many people ask the question, What is a small-scale quantum computer good for?" study co-lead author Esteban Martinez, an experimental physicist at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, told Live Science. "Unlike other applications, you don't need millions of quantum bits to do these simulations — tens might be enough to tackle problems that we cannot yet attack using classical approaches." [Big Bang to Civilization: 10 Amazing Origin Events]
The problem the researchers had their quantum simulator analyze was simple enough for classical computers to compute, which showed that the quantum simulator's results matched predictions with great accuracy. This suggests that quantum simulators could be used on more complex gauge-theory problems in the future, and the machines could even see new phenomena.
"Our proof-of-principle experiment represents a first step toward the long-term goal of developing future generations of quantum simulators that will be able to address questions that cannot be answered otherwise," Muschik said.
In principle, desktop quantum simulators could help model the kind of extraordinarily high-energy physics currently studied using expensive atom smashers, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN.
"These two approaches complement one another perfectly," study co-author Peter Zoller, a theoretical physicist at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Innsbruck, said in a statement. "We cannot replace the experiments that are done with particle colliders. However, by developing quantum simulators, we may be able to understand these experiments better one day."
"Moreover, we can study new processes by using quantum simulation — for example, in our experiment, we also investigated particle entanglement produced during pair creation, which is not possible in a particle collider," Blatt said in a statement.
Ultimately, quantum simulators may help researchers simulate the dynamics within the dead stars known as neutron stars, or investigate "questions relating to interactions at very high energies and high densities describing early-universe physics," Muschik said.
The scientists detailed their findings in the June 23 issue of the journal Nature.
New Form Of Atomic Nuclei Just Confirmed, And it Suggests Time Travel is Impossible
New Form Of Atomic Nuclei Just Confirmed, And it Suggests Time Travel is Impossible
CERN
IN BRIEF
A group of scientists confirmed that there is a pear-shaped nucleus. Not only does this violate some laws in physics, but also suggests that time travel is not possible.
PEAR-SHAPED
A new form of atomic nuclei has been confirmed by scientists in a recent study published in the journal Physical Review Letters. The pear-shaped, asymmetrical nuclei, first observed in 2013 by researchers from CERN in the isotope Radium-224, is also present in the isotope Barium-144.
Radium-224 nucleus. Credit: CERN
This is a monumental importance because most fundamental theories in physics are based on symmetry. This recent confirmation shows that it is possible to have a nuclei that has more mass on one side than the other. “This violates the theory of mirror symmetry and relates to the violation shown in the distribution of matter and antimatter in our Universe,” said Marcus Scheck of University of the West of Scotland, one of the authors of the study.
Until recently, there were three shapes of nuclei — spherical, discuss, and rugby ball. There is a specific combination of protons and neutrons in a certain type of atom that dictates the shape formed by the distribution of charges within a nuclei. These three shapes are all symmetric and agree with the theory known as the CP-symmetry, the combination of charge and parity symmetry.
In the end, this could help us understand why our universe is the way that it is. As astrophysicist Brian Koberlein notes, “It’s been proposed that a violation of CP symmetry could have produced more matter than antimatter, but the currently known violations are not sufficient to produce the amount of matter we see. If there are other avenues of CP violation hidden within pear-shaped nuclei, they could explain this mystery after all.”
This uneven distribution of mass and charge in the nuclei causes the isotope to ‘point’ in a certain direction in spacetime, and the team suggests that this could explain why time seems to to only go forward and not backward.
“We’ve found these nuclei literally point towards a direction in space. This relates to a direction in time, proving there’s a well-defined direction in time and we will always travel from past to present,” Marcus Scheck from the University of the West of Scotland told Kenneth MacDonald at BBC News.
That said, it is a rather speculative hypothesis, but it does raise some rather interesting avenues for investigation.
In the end, this recent discovery is another indication that the Universe might not be what we thought, which could propel us to a new era of theoretical physics.
Aboriginal legends reveal ancient secrets to science
Aboriginal legends reveal ancient secrets to science
Scientists are beginning to tap into a wellspring of knowledge buried in the ancient stories of Australia’s Aboriginal peoples. But the loss of indigenous languages could mean it is too late to learn from them.
The Luritja people, native to the remote deserts of central Australia, once told stories about a fire devil coming down from the Sun, crashing into Earth and killing everything in the vicinity.
The local people feared if they strayed too close to this land they might reignite some otherworldly creature.
The legend describes the landing of a meteor in Australia’s Central Desert about 4,700 years ago, says University of New South Wales (UNSW) astrophysicist Duane Hamacher.
It would have been a dramatic and fiery event, with the meteor blazing across the sky. As it broke apart, large fragments of metal-rich rock would have crashed to Earth with explosive force, creating a dozen giant craters.
The Northern Territory site, which was discovered in the 1930s by white prospectors with the help of Luritja guides, is today known as the Henbury Meteorites Conservation Reserve.
Duane Hamacher is glad to see astronomy being taught in Australia’s remote schools
Gigantic wave
Mr Hamacher, who runs an Indigenous astronomy program at UNSW, says evidence is mounting that Aboriginal stories hold clues about events from Australia’s ancient past.
Last year, he travelled to Victoria with tsunami expert James Goff, also from UNSW, to visit members of the Gunditjmara people
“They describe this gigantic wave coming very far inland and killing everybody except those who were up on the mountaintops, and they actually name all the different locations where people survived,” says Mr Hamacher.
He and Mr Goff took core samples from locations between 500m and 1km (0.6 miles) inland, and at each spot, they found a layer of ocean sediment, about 2m down, indicating that a tsunami likely washed over the area hundreds, or possibly thousands, of years ago.
The samples need further analysis but Mr Hamacher says it is a “very exciting” result that suggests the legend could be true.
Earlier this year, another team of researchers presented a paper arguing that stories from Australia’s coastal Aboriginal communities might “represent genuine and unique observations” of sea level rises that occurred between 7,000 and 11,000 years ago.
The crash landing of a meteor in the Central Desert would have been a fiery affair
Nick Reid, a linguistics expert from the University of New England in Australia, co-authored the paper with marine geographer Patrick Nunn from the University of the Sunshine Coast.
Fact checking
The stories they analysed, which had been documented in colonial times, referred to water levels rising over coastal areas that were once dry.
By looking at historical records of sea level rise following the last glacial period, about 20,000 years ago, they were able to match the stories to coinciding dates.
Mr Reid says the relative isolation of Australia’s indigenous people – living for 50,000 years more or less free from cultural disruptions – and the conservative nature of their culture could help explain why there is so much detail in their stories.
“Aboriginal people have very particular beliefs about the importance of telling stories properly, and about stories being told by the right people,” he says.
They also employ a rigid kin-based, cross-generational system of fact-checking stories, involving grandchildren, parents, and elders, which Mr Reid says doesn’t seem to be used by other cultures.
This extreme conservatism and adherence to accuracy can also be seen in rock paintings, drawings and engravings, which were often used to support oral legends, says Les Bursill, an anthropologist and member of Sydney’s Dharawal people.
The Luritja people tell of an object that fell to Earth, scarring the landscape
“They are replicated time after time after time, and if they vary, even by not very much at all, they are scraped off and re-done,” he says.
Secret knowledge
But Mr Bursill doesn’t think Aboriginal communities are interested in sharing their knowledge with modern Australia.
Non-indigenous academics recognise that some Aboriginal communities are suspicious of outsiders.
But Mr Hamacher says his research group has been approached by a number of Aboriginal communities keen to tell their stories.
He says this sharing must be met with a “giving back process” that benefits the Indigenous community.
His team, for instance, has developed a range of educational materials relating to astronomy, which are now taught in remote schools.
It is all part of a growing recognition that Indigenous knowledge has a lot to offer the scientific community.
Australia’s national science organisation, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), is working with Indigenous communities to improve environmental management practices, in order to prevent wildfires and improve ecological health and biodiversity.
But there is a problem – Indigenous languages are dying off at an alarming rate, making it increasingly difficult for scientists and other experts to benefit from such knowledge. More than 100 languages have already become extinct since white settlement.
About 145 Indigenous languages are still spoken in Australia by at least one person but a 2014 report by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies found that 75% of these were considered “critically endangered”.
WAS AN ANCIENT ‘VIMANA’ REALLY UNEARTHED IN 2012?? (Video)
WAS AN ANCIENT ‘VIMANA’ REALLY UNEARTHED IN 2012?? (Video)
An ancient “flying machine” (or parts thereof) reportedly were discovered in a cave in Afghanistan and retreived in 2012, and the news was immediately hushed. The hushed report of the ‘find’ did attracted the attention of world leaders including Barack Obama.
The Vimana (a flying machine often described in Sanskrit texts) was discovered by a group of 8 U.S. soldiers on a mission in the desert of Afghanistan.
The 5,000 year old machine is believed to be protected by an energy barrier, preventing the troops from removing it from the cave.
US Military scientists were deployed to Afghanistan to investigate the disappearance of the eight American soldiers (who were later found asleep after a hard day), and to get more information in what is causing the Vimana to be entrapped in what some are calling a “time well” in the cave.
From the ancient accounts found in the Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata a Vimana is described as measuring twelve cubits in circumference, with four strong wheels. Apart from its ‘blazingmissiles’, 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’.
According to ancient writings found in the cave where the Vimana was discovered, the rightful owner of the flying machine was reportedly the ancient prophet Zoroaster who was the founder of Zoroastrianism.
(ABOVE) ARTICLE CREDIT: SEAN ADL-TABATABAI, EDITOR OF ‘YOURNEWSWIRE.COM’ (O2-2016)
ANCIENT EXPLORERS, WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE WOULD HAVE POWERED THESE AWESOME MACHINES? SHARE WITH US SOME OF YOUR THOUGHTS.
Further On the subject of flying machines
ANCIENT DEPICTION AS DISCOVERED AND DOCUMENTED BY RESEARCHERS: ARE THESE FLYING MACHINES…OR SOMETHING ELSE NOT AS YET DETERMINED?
“The Pushpaka Vimana was a gigantic ‘plane’ the size of a large city entirely capable of holding unlimited numbers of people…”
“…Three flying-cities were made for and were used by the Demons…One was in a stationary orbit in the sky, another moving in the sky and one was permanently stationed on the ground. These were docked like modern spaceships in the sky…and at a fixed latitude/longitude. Siva’s arrow obviously referred to a blazing missile fired from a satellite specially built for the purpose…Vestiges of onetime prosperous civilization destroyed in battles flicker through these legends…”
COMMENTS ABOVE ATTRIBUTED TO PROF. D.K. KANJILAL’S OBSERVATIONS OF THE MATSYAPURANA
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28-06-2016
Was Planet 9 once an exoplanet, stolen by our sun?
Was Planet 9 once an exoplanet, stolen by our sun?
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Lund University
Summary:
Astronomers show that it is highly likely that the so-called Planet 9 is an exoplanet. This would make it the first exoplanet to be discovered inside our own solar system. The theory is that our sun, in its youth some 4.5 billion years ago, stole Planet 9 from its original star.
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Planet 9 was most likely stolen by our sun 4.5 billion years ago.
Credit: Image courtesy of Lund University
Through a computer-simulated study, astronomers at Lund University in Sweden show that it is highly likely that the so-called Planet 9 is an exoplanet. This would make it the first exoplanet to be discovered inside our own solar system. The theory is that our sun, in its youth some 4.5 billion years ago, stole Planet 9 from its original star.
An extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, is by definition a planet located outside our solar system. Now it appears that this definition is no longer viable. According to astronomers in Lund, there is a lot to indicate that Planet 9 was captured by the young sun and has been a part of our solar system completely undetected ever since.
"It is almost ironic that while astronomers often find exoplanets hundreds of light years away in other solar systems, there's probably one hiding in our own backyard," says Alexander Mustill, astronomer at Lund University.
Stars are born in clusters and often pass by one another. It is during these encounters that a star can "steal" one or more planets in orbit around another star. This is probably what happened when our own sun captured Planet 9.
In a computer-simulated model, Alexander together with astronomers in Lund and Bordeaux has shown that Planet 9 was probably captured by the sun when coming in close contact while orbiting another star.
"Planet 9 may very well have been 'shoved' by other planets, and when it ended up in an orbit that was too wide around its own star, our sun may have taken the opportunity to steal and capture Planet 9 from its original star. When the sun later departed from the stellar cluster in which it was born, Planet 9 was stuck in an orbit around the sun," says Alexander Mustill.
"There is still no image of Planet 9, not even a point of light. We don't know if it is made up of rock, ice, or gas. All we know is that its mass is probably around ten times the mass of earth."
It requires a lot more research before it can be ascertained that Planet 9 is the first exoplanet in our solar system. If the theory is correct, Alexander Mustill believes that the study of space and the understanding of the sun and the Earth will take a giant leap forward.
"This is the only exoplanet that we, realistically, would be able to reach using a space probe," he says.
The above post is reprinted from materials provided by Lund University.Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
Journal Reference:
Alexander J. Mustill, Sean N. Raymond, Melvyn B. Davies. Is there an exoplanet in the Solar system?Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters, 2016; 460 (1): L109 DOI:10.1093/mnrasl/slw075
NASA’s Kepler Telescope Discovers a Colossal Artificial Structure Orbiting a Star in Our Vicinity
NASA’s Kepler Telescope Discovers a Colossal Artificial Structure Orbiting a Star in Our Vicinity
NASA’s Kepler Telescope has stumbled upon one of the most fascinating discoveries so far – a colossal artificial megastructure believed to have been constructed by an advanced alien civilization.
Besides Kepler’s ability of finding small, rocky worlds orbiting distant stars, it can also detect different space phenomenon like stellar flares, star spots and dusty planetary rings.
This time however, Kepler detected the signal of a supposed vast artificial structure orbiting a star only 1,500 light years away from Earth.
After finishing all plausible explanations, scientists now believe that this complex structure might be an artificial construction made by an advanced alien civilization way up on the Kardashev scale of comparison.
This megastructure works like a supersized solar array orbiting around its host star, stocking the energy and sending it back to the source. The size of the structure is so grand that it’s blocking a considerable fraction of starlight as it spins around its host.
Normally all the exoplanets discovered by Kepler have a typical planet-shape, meaning they are round. This time however, the telescope detected something that isn’t round and behaves unnatural.
A paper has been submitted to the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in which a particular star named KIC 8462852 is described.
Over the duration of the Kepler mission, KIC 8462852 was observed to undergo irregulary shaped, aperiodic dips in flux down to below the twenty percent level.
We’d never seen anything like this star, it was really weird. We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out. – Tabetha Boyajian, researcher at Yale University
Studies mostly focused on two interesting anomalies at KIC 8462852, one that was recorded between days 788 and 795 of the Kepler mission and between days 1510 to 1570.
The first event showed a single transit causing a star brightness drop-off of 15 percent, while the second event manifested as a burst of several transits, possibly indicating towards mass of different objects, resulting in a brightness dip of up to 22 percent. For such a major dip in brightness to occure, the transiting objects have to be extremely big.
Considering that our galaxy has existed for more than 13 billion years, it’s not hard to imagine that an alien civilization may be out there, possessing technology that allows them to build megastructures around stars.
Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilization to build. – Jason Wright, astronomer from Penn State University
After analyzing all possible situations, scientists concluded that this strange anomaly might be the result of a group of dormant comets recently disturbed by a nearby star. Because this theory is not all that convincing, other researchers are already hypothesizing the possibility of a mega-engineered project created by a Type 2 alien civilization on the Kardashev scale.
This type of aliens would have the ability to use all the available energy radiating from a star. With the help of a vast shell or series of rings surrounding a star, a Dyson sphere-like structure could be constructed. This would block out the star from sight in visible wavelengths, but once the solar energy has been utilized by the alien civilization, the energy would be shifted to longer wavelengths and probably lost as infrared radiation.
Puzzled by these strange recordings, scientists are now trying to point a radio antenna at KIC 8462852 in order to solve the riddle. By doing so, they will be able to detect any artificial radio signals coming from the star and will determine whether or not an intelligent, Type 2 civilization exists in our vicinity, only 1,500 light-years away.
Meanwhile, a second paper is being drafted by top researchers in order to analyze the transit scenario focusing around the possibility of a colossal artificial device engineered by advanced aliens.
“I Dare the US Government to Charge Me” – Secret NORAD UFO Files Made Public by Disclosure Advocate
“I Dare the US Government to Charge Me” – Secret NORAD UFO Files Made Public by Disclosure Advocate
Canadian disclosure advocate Victor Viggiani has made a bold step towards the disclosure we all dream about by releasing several secret files from the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Runic Archives. “And I dare the US Government to charge me,” Viggiani said.
This past weekend has seen Canada’s first public hearing on UFOs take place. ET disclosure was once again brought to the discussion table and this time around, some intriguing documents were released.
A recently-retired school principal from Toronto, Victor Viggiani has been researchingUnidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAPs) for over three decades. When it comes to experience in the area of UFO sightings and anomalous phenomena, he has plenty to go around. Last Saturday, at the Alien Cosmic Expo in Ontario, Canada, Viggiani presented 11 documents that he obtained after filing a Canadian Access of Information Act (AIA) request. The documents reveal some unsettling statistics about what goes on in the sky above our heads.
I have here in front of me eleven documents. I call them the RUNIC Files and they are directly from NORAD indicating that over the last five years an average of 1,800 ‘tracks of interest’ with 75 intercepts. This is directly from the commander of NORAD.”
Mind-blowing. The US-Canadian organization tasked with providing aerospace warning and defense for Northern America intercepts and engages 75 unidentified flying objects per year. This means that the jet fighter pilots manage to get close enough to the UFOs to not only establish visual contact, but also get a target lock. Maybe not all of these encounters feature extraterrestrial airships as primary suspects, but it’s still enough to confirm our suspicions. And remember, this is the number of tracks of interest (TOIs) NORAD officials were willing to disclose. The real number of intercepts could be in the thousands and we wouldn’t even know.
Viggiani’s AIA request was aiming for more complete disclosure, a full “Table of Tracks of Interest” if you will. This was the official NORAD response:
“The request for “Table of Tracks of Interest (TOI) are classified UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY (FOUO). It is to be controlled, stored, handled, transmitted, distributed and disposed of in accordance with DOD policy relating to FOUO information and is not to be released to the public, the media or other personnel who do not have a valid need-to-know without prior approval of an authorized NORAD official.”
The document continues with:
“However, the NORAD Commander has approved the release of the following information regarding Tracks of Interest and Unknown Tracks.”
The document that lists the TOIs is a six page record (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6) in list form, with some of the entries redacted, on account of the sensitive nature of the information they contained. As Viggiani points out, the “missing information is obviously what they saw when they intercepted.” He continues:
“I also have documents relating to UFOs that have been found by the RCMP. I also have an air traffic control report that references Mr Hellyer’s [Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Defense Minister, big proponent of UFO disclosure] indication that two CF-18s chased three UFOs in 2001 out of Comox Air Force Base, at 35,000 feet and gained contact with these UFOs.”
Another one of the documents (dated November 14, 2008) references the discovery of a metal fragment that “had likely formed part of a vehicle that traveled in outer space.” The fragment had been retrieved by an unnamed pilot from the Wollaston Lake area in Saskatchewan and was to be taken to the National Research Council in Ottawa.
The Alien Cosmic Expo public hearing is only the latest in a series of efforts aiming to uncover the truth behind UFOs and the UAP conundrum. Its organizers and the 350 attendees are only a fraction of the disclosure advocates that are sick and tired of the massive sequestering of information during the past 70 years.
As Stephen G. Bassett, the Executive Director of the Paradigm Research Group bluntly puts it, “in a constitutional democracy, the government has always been given the right to keep secrets, but the government has never been given the right to lie to the people.”
It’s become plenty obvious that this unconstitutional hoarding of information crucial to the future development of mankind has to stop. Victor Viggiani took a daring leap in that direction, even if it meant being threatened with indictment.
“Any distribution of this kind of information,” Viggiani read from the NORAD document,“threatens National Security in addition to the Espionage Act of the United States.”
“I am hereby releasing it to you and I dare the US Government to charge me,” he concluded amid cheering and applause.
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China Reveals That a Massive Alien Outpost and Mining Facility is Operating on the Moon
China Reveals That a Massive Alien Outpost and Mining Facility is Operating on the Moon
Ever wondered why no one has set foot on the Moon for decades? And why there’s no permanent outpost already established there? Is it because the Moon is not a viable celestial body to harness, or maybe because all of the above mentioned are already happening, but we are not being told about it?
The answer to these questions may be easier than first anticipated, but complex at the same time. Dr. Michael Salla has pointed out that there is a military industrial extraterrestrial complex (MIEC) on the surface of our ‘natural satellite’, and there’s a strong possibility of an alien regime currently operating on the moon in tandem with humans.
To support his claims and those of many others, the Chinese have released an intriguing photo of what appears to be an artificial complex operating on the lunar surface. The image represents yet another confirmation of secret operations carried out up there, and it may also reveal that the Chinese government has been in touch with otherworldly visitors. That, in turn, would also explain why China has been investing massively in radio telescopes.
The following report will bring further clearance into this matter:
“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 facilities.
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, let’s hope this is the beginning of a new era.“
There’s a chance that the world governments have a secret pact to exploit the moon for its minerals. This pact may be signed by other ET species residing in the Universe, which could explain why this alliance has a secretive nature. However, since greed is a common trait among humans, there shouldn’t be long until someone is excluded out of this alliance, and eventually disclose this secret project to humanity.
Countless rumors speak of an alien base located on the dark side of the moon – the side we never get to see, and it’s no secret that, in 2009, NASA publicly bombed a portion of the moon for unclear reasons. Other leaked images originating from NASA’s headquarters reveal different structures found up there that are likely to be artificial in nature.
Among the most renowned people to speak of this Moon conspiracy is Milton Cooper, a Naval Intelligence Officer who disclosed that the US Navy Intelligence Community knows of the alien base. The term used to describe it is “Luna,” and according to Cooper, its main objective is to mine the underground for certain materials. He also speaks of a massive mother ship found in the vicinity of the moon used by the aliens to store up materials, and also travel to Earth in small “flying saucers” found on the main ship.
“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 describing in sightings reports as mother ships exist there,” Milton Cooper revealed.
So, is it possible that what the Chinese revealed is in fact a small fraction of the mining operation facility called Luna? After all, it strongly resembles the drilling devices used by our own species, and there is no one to debunk it as being a natural formation. (source)
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UFOs Perform Astounding Aerial Spectacle Above a Secluded Forest in Poland
UFOs Perform Astounding Aerial Spectacle Above a Secluded Forest in Poland
Numerous UFOs were recorded over a desolate forest in Poland just when the sun was setting. Their unusual behavior, brisk moves, dip in brightness and morphing techniques are clearly out of this world.
Numerous accounts speak of unusual beings that coexisted together with humans on this planet. Since the rise of modern society, it appears that such entities are nowhere to be found, vaguely indicating that these stories were only fables or myths transmitted by our ancestors from generation to generation. But how much truth does this hypothesis really bear?
Roughly one century had passed since the invention of proper photographic equipment. Since then, countless pictures and videos of UFOs have surfaced, revealing an entire world of sightings that defy most explanations. Although in the last decades the UFO phenomenon had caught much traction and many appearances were debunked as hoaxes, there’s still plenty of authentic material that never got to be explained through our current scientific means and logic.
But what if our ancestors had video cameras back then? Would humanity accept the existence of otherworldly beings on Earth, or would they still be debunked as fake appearances?
Although they lacked the technological means, our ancestors frequently answered to unusual sightings by depicting them using various tools, and on different materials. Fromcave paintings, to scrolls and books, the UFO phenomenon was known throughout thousands of years, but with this rapid technological shift, our attention was drawn by the fact that we can slowly turn our imagination into reality, thus leaving aside the UFO phenomenon until the beginning of the 1990s.
There is no denial that UFOs exist on this planet, and as video cameras become more complex and affordable at the same time, the quality of recorded sightings grows exponentially. Such is the case of this video showing a group of bright objects behaving unnatural over a secluded forest in Poland.
The objects are known as orb UFOs, and people have reported seeing them all across the world. Contrary to the artificial alien crafts, these playful spheres of light are believed to be organic in nature because of the brisk moves they perform that seem to defy our earthly standards of flying devices capabilities.
Dr. Ruehl has studied them a few decades ago and concluded they are plasmatic entities, possibly from another dimension. They don’t rely on a physical body because they’ve progressed to another level of universal knowledge, thus leaving their material bodies behind. They can now switch from one dimension to another, and when they do so, develop an energy shield around them like the one seen in the video above.
Their shape is not always perfectly round, as they are sometimes seen morphing above the ground. This shapeshifting process makes their aspect undefined and vibrant, similar to how a liquid acts in outer space. Bigger entities sometimes release smaller UFOs, a phenomenon explained through their plasmatic nature that allows them to divide into smaller bits that appear to be sentient as well.
Their purpose on this planet remains a speculative matter. One hypothesis proposed they had been residing on the Earth ever since life began, making them a kind of primordial lifeform that had evolved across countless years of evolution. It is also believed that they exist throughout the entire universe.
Other theories claim these UFOs are alien devices used to monitor humanity. They could be either remote controlled by a species of extraterrestrials, or could be sentient because they are a form of artificial intelligence. However, either cases are not sufficient for explaining their shapeshifting and liquid appearance.
The only proposal in this case would be that intelligent devices/entities possess technology that’s way ahead of our time, thus limiting the comparison field available to our species. In other words, it would be impossible (for now) to understand the technology behind a sentient and artificial-in-nature device that’s monitoring the planet.
Whatever the case, we expect that time will eventually reveal the exact origins and purpose of these UFOS. Until then, keep your eyes on the sky and help us spread the word about this ongoing UFO phenomenon.
Did you know our factories produce about 100 million tons of plastics each year? These polyethylene-based plastics are composed of carbon and hydrogen atoms linked together in long chains, and they don’t degrade easily in the environment. Therefore, they are piling up in landfills and are polluting oceans.
Scientists have been working to find a method to degrade plastics that doesn’t require a lot of heat or other energy sources, and which creates a cleaner product.
In a big breakthrough, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of California have found a way to turn plastic trash into liquid fuel. This research is published in the journal Science Advances. It is very significant as the process involved requires less energy and creates a purer end product than other methods. Moreover, it offers an efficient way of turning plastic trash into treasure and will help in reducing the amount of plastics that litter the planet.
How Researchers Managed to Achieve This
The method involves mixing the plastics with an organometallic catalyst (a small, commercially available organic molecule doped with the metal iridium). This reaction weakens bonds responsible for polyethylene’s stiff structure. After this, the team used this breakdown to create a diesel-like fuel.The team also claims that burning this fuel is cleaner than burning other combustible materials.
UFO Hovering Over Mt. Shasta, Could Be From Alien Base Below Mountain, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Hovering Over Mt. Shasta, Could Be From Alien Base Below Mountain, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 25, 2016 Location of sighting: Mt. Shasta, California, USA I remember living in CA as a child and my mother hiking around MT. Shasta then coming home and showing me two small (1 inch) clear crystals she found on it. I asked her about it and she went on to tell me a story about holy beings living below Shasta, and that the crystals came from them. I never thought anything about it till now, but looking it up I found a site talking about the holy city. Click here to read about it. Its kinda amazing. My mom never said aliens...but it makes sense and their physical descriptions from eyewitness match others descriptions. Heres a painting below of what they look like, and a similar crystal he is holding that my mom found on Mt Shasta long ago. I still remember playing with those crystals. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Eyewitness states: So, we saw several UFO's today above Mt. Shasta. Here is a video with one of the main UFO's, waving around the sky, & flashing, with a darker object under it at times. If you go frame-by-frame, then you can see several other white objects shooting around the sky with extras speed. Separately, there are black objects, some of which may be bugs? We were less than a mile from Bunny Flat, which is at 7,000 feet. Mt. Shasta is over 14,000 feet.
Police officers had experienced one of the fascinating encounters with an alleged structured, low- level UFO in the early morning of April 17, 1966. Portage County, Ohio officers at Sheriff’s Department first noticed the strange object rising from near ground level with bright light.
The sergeant ordered a chase of the object and the personnel did it for 85 miles across the border into Pennsylvania. Police officers from other jurisdictions also joined the aerial pursuit operation.
Mounted Deputy Wilbur ‘Barney’ Neff and Deputy Sheriff Dale Spaur investigated an alleged abandoned automobile on Route 224. Spaur said that he usually look behind him, so no one can come up behind. When he looked in a wooded area behind them, he saw something strange. The mysterious thing came up to approximately tree top level – about a hundred feet. Then it started moving towards them.
Spaur looked at Barney and noticed that he still watching the thing as it came over the trees. Barney was stunned, and the object kept getting brighter and started to light the area. Spaur told Barney to look over his shoulder, and he did.
The bizarre object stopped right over on top of them. They looked down to check their hands and clothes, but they weren’t burning or anything. The only sound in the area was a hum.
They were petrified, and both went inside their car. They observed the UFO moved toward the east and hovered again. Spaur reported their experience to the dispatcher as the object was around 250 feet away, lighting up the area brilliantly.
Sergeant Schoenfelt told them to follow and observe it while they got a photo unit to the scene. Spaur and Neff went south on Route 183, then returned east on Route 224, which put the unknown thing to their right.
They continued the chase while Spaur is in conversation with other police cars that were trying to catch up with them. Police Officer Wayne Huston at East Palestine, Ohio monitored the radio broadcasts, and he saw the UFO pass by with the sheriff’s cruiser in hot pursuit. He eventually joined the chase.
According to Spaur, when the UFO stopped and hovered, there was traffic on the radio about jets being sent to chase the UFO. However, the UFO seemed to hear every word about fighter planes that it went straight up at a very fast speed and gone. Until today, the case is unsolved and continues to be a mystery.
Canadian Survey Reveals An Increased Number Of UFO Sighting Reports
Canadian Survey Reveals An Increased Number Of UFO Sighting Reports
Quebec is on top of the list with the most sightings of unidentified flying objects (UFOs), according to the 2015 Canadian UFO Survey.
Winnipeg-based Ufology Research conducted the survey and released the result on Monday. It says that the year 2015 had the second-largest number of sightings in the last 30 years with 1,267. Second only to a whopping 1,981 sightings in 2012, which was also the alleged year of the end of the world based on the Mayan calendar.
Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, and Alberta reported more sightings in 2015 than the year before, but Quebec comprises for around 35 per cent of all reports last year. The number of reported sightings in Quebec was way up from previous years when it was only responsible for between five and fifteen percent.
Montreal has 97 reports; Toronto, 78; Vancouver, 69 and Edmonton with just 36 sightings.
The survey reveals that most sightings last about 16 minutes and over 50 percent of the reports were of simple lights in the sky.
The research noted that UFO sighting reports remain high because of several reasons, including better access to reporting sightings, more secret military flights, or the downturn of the economy that causes people to look upward for assistance.
The study also admitted that no concrete evidence of the involvement of extraterrestrial contact of some UFO cases. The continued increase of reported UFO sightings from the public suggests that further examination of the phenomenon by physical, medical and social scientists is needed.
The “Great Flood” caused by an enormous space cloud?
The “Great Flood” caused by an enormous space cloud?
I am pretty sure the Great Flood did happen. While it is popularized as a Christian story in English speaking countries, the Great Flood transcends almost every single culture around the world. So I don’t doubt it happened. But the main issue is where did the water come from? Most of theories I have seen require bending the rules of the observable reality that we live in.
Back in 2011 scientists had discovered a massive cloud of water deep in space.
So, what if as one point one of these clouds passed through our solar system? It would probably take while to get here maybe a couple hundred years. But during that time a couple hundred years 6-7 generations word of mouth was the only real way to pass history. So for them 2 or 3 generations is all it would take to be “forever”.
During that time the Suns reflection and heat in the atmosphere would make it appear to be sparkling water in the sky, which could explain the firmament.
Once the cloud got near Earth and we started passing through it, the frozen water would melt in the atmosphere and completely saturate the air, it would then start raining.
And it would not be localized like what we see now, it would be entire Earth being rained on for an extended period of time. All that water would rush out to the ocean and anything near rivers or oceans, like a human population for example, would be washed out to sea and buried by all the sediments picked up from higher elevation.
Think of the world as one big mud slide. The people living in the higher elevations would not be as threatened by the flooding. And so the more advanced civilization would be destroyed and only the more simple societies in the highlands would be left, hence a reset.
Once this space cloud passed, things would settle down and Earth would have a lot more water content.
Large cloaked UFO spotted over the Pacific Ocean ( VIDEO )
Large cloaked UFO spotted over the Pacific Ocean( VIDEO )
The Canada-France-Hawaii 3.6 meter optical/infrared telescope a top the summit of Mauna Kea, a 4200 meter, dormant volcano located on the island of Hawaii spotted a large unknown comet-like object over the Pacific Ocean on June 25, 2016.
MrMBB333 who monitors the recorded CFH data frequently says that he has never seen anything quite like this object. It resembles a comet but it looks like something else, like some kind of cloaked UFO of some sort.
There is strong evidence that UFOs, while flying low enough to be seen from the ground, do cloak themselves with clouds which they apparently generate and mists as camouflage to keep themselves hidden from the people.
It is also said that UFOs which travel dimensional produce a cloud of vapor or moisture in traversing from there to here.
About the strange object above the Pacific Ocean, it certainly doesn’t fit any natural classification of a comet, meteor or cloud. It’s more likely an artificially generated object.
Airplane passenger captures strange blue light in the clouds (Video)
Airplane passenger captures strange blue light in the clouds (Video)
A new footage posted to YouTube on June 24, 2016 by user ModernGalaxy purporting to show a UFO being filmed from a plane window.
A powerful blue light from the window caught the attention of a passenger on board the jet airliner when he decided to film the strange phenomenon in the clouds.
As we know, anything that's filmed though a window can pick up any light or lights behind camera, but after a closer look at the object, this does not seem to be the case.
Although the sighting was filmed from an unknown location, it doesn’t seem to be fake or CGI. A reasonable explanation for this phenomenon could be a beacon located at the top of a mountain that emits a blinking shining light skyward unless the blue triangular light belongs to a flying object from unknown origin.
Gaat Marsrover Curiosity met eigen ogen stromend water op Mars zien?
Gaat Marsrover Curiosity met eigen ogen stromend water op Mars zien?
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Er is mogelijk vloeibaar water te vinden op het oppervlak van Mars. En NASA speelt met de gedachte om Curiosity erop af te sturen.
Zo af en toe verschijnen op het oppervlak van Mars donkere strepen. Ze worden ook wel Recurring Slope Lineae (RSL) genoemd en zijn alleen in de warmere seizoenen op de rode planeet te vinden. De ‘streepjes’ zijn vaak minder dan vijf meter breed en worden korter als de temperatuur op Mars daalt. Gaandeweg verdwijnen ze om – als de temperaturen stijgen – weer terug te keren. Aangenomen wordtdat de donkere strepen gevormd worden door zout, stromend water.
Recurring Slope Lineae in een krater op Mars.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Univ. of Arizona.
Curiosity Natuurlijk staan onderzoekers te springen om het water nader te bestuderen. En Marsrover Curiosity kan daar wel eens een sleutelrol in gaan spelen. De rover is op het moment bezig om Mount Sharp te beklimmen. En tijdens die beklimming zou de rover ook dichter in de buurt komen van twee hellingen waar deze donkere strepen wel eens gespot zijn. Curiosity zou de hellingen langdurig kunnen bestuderen om te zien of ze door de tijd heen veranderen en te achterhalen of de donkere strepen daadwerkelijk ontstaan door toedoen van water en niet door een ander (droog) verschijnsel.
Voorzichtig Klinkt als een prima plan. Maar NASA is bijzonder voorzichtig. “Het zijn niet alleen steile hellingen,” vertelt onderzoeker Jim Green. Er moet ook rekening gehouden worden met wat hij ‘planetaire bescherming’ noemt. “In andere woorden: hoe kunnen we zoeken naar sporen van leven zonder deze plekken te besmetten met bacteriën van de aarde?”
Gedijen op Mars Voor ruimtevaartuigen de aarde verlaten, worden ze gesteriliseerd: alle micro-organismen die op de ruimtevaartuigen huizen, worden gedood. Maar uitsluiten dat de ruimtevaartuigen op het moment van vertrek nog micro-organismen bevatten, is onmogelijk. Er is dus altijd een kans dat ook op Curiosity nog micro-organismen huizen. Natuurlijk is het leven op Mars – met onder meer extreme schommelingen in temperatuur – hard. Maar sommige micro-organismen kunnen zich – zeker als ze in kieren en gaten van Curiosity huizen – wellicht prima op de rode planeet redden. Het is natuurlijk niet de bedoeling dat deze micro-organismen ook op de rode planeet gaan gedijen, iets wat kan gebeuren als ze in een gebied terechtkomen met eigenschappen die gunstig zijn voor leven, zoals de aanwezigheid van water. De aardse bacteriën kunnen op Mars belangrijk bewijsmateriaal (voor de aanwezigheid van Martiaans leven) vernietigen of wetenschappers op het verkeerde been zetten doordat ze aangezien worden voor Martiaanse bacteriën.
Afweging Natuurlijk moeten dergelijke situaties voorkomen worden. En dus moet NASA goed nadenken alvorens deze Curiosity naar de donkere strepen stuurt. Hoe groot moet de afstand tussen Curiosity en de donkere strepen minimaal zijn om elk risico uit te sluiten? “Dat is de vraag die we al vroeg in het proces moeten beantwoorden,” stelt onderzoeker Catharine Conley. Ze stelt dat een kilometers grote afstand waarschijnlijk geen probleem is. “Maar als we veel dichterbij willen komen, moeten we op voorhand goed weten hoe groot de kans is dat aardse organismen van de rover komen zetten en dat vertelt ons dan hoe ver de rover (van de strepen, red.) weg moet blijven.”
Curiosity werd in 2011 gelanceerd en arriveerde in 2012 op Mars. Het belangrijkste doel van de rover? Vaststellen of Mars leefbaar is of dat ooit was. Ergens in de komende maanden zal moeten blijken of ook het bestuderen van de donkere strepen op Mars tot het takenpakket van de rover gaat behoren.
Pluto bezit waarschijnlijk een ondergrondse nog vloeibare oceaan
Pluto bezit waarschijnlijk een ondergrondse nog vloeibare oceaan
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De dwergplaneet is bedekt met ijs. Maar daaronder schuilt waarschijnlijk een oceaan die in ieder geval nog niet volledig bevroren is.
Tot die conclusie komen onderzoekers in het blad Geophysical Research Letters. Ze baseren zich onder meer op de laatste gegevens van ruimtesonde New Horizons.
Spannende dwergplaneet In juli vorig jaar scheerde ruimtesonde New Horizons langs Pluto en zijn manen. Al snel werd duidelijk dat de dwergplaneet allesbehalve saai was. Het oppervlak was bedekt met verschillende soorten ijs: water-, stikstof- en methaanijs. Bovendien ontdekten onderzoekers op de beelden die New Horizons van Pluto maakte talloze interessante tektonische kenmerken, waaronder kilometers lange en kilometers diepe breuken. Al snel concludeerden de onderzoekers dat het zeer aannemelijk was dat onder het ijzige oppervlak van de dwergplaneet een oceaan huisde. “Wat New Horizons ons liet zien, was dat er op Pluto tektonische kenmerken te vinden zijn die erop wijzen dat Pluto een periode van wereldwijde expansie heeft doorgemaakt. Een ondergrondse oceaan die langzaam bevroor zou zo’n soort expansie kunnen bewerkstelligen.”
Het ontstaan van een oceaan Onderzoekers denken dat de kern van Pluto ooit veel warmte producerende radioactieve elementen bevatte. Deze zorgden ervoor dat een deel van de ijzige korst die Pluto bedekt, smolt. Maar omdat Pluto ver van de zon verwijderd is, zou het een kwestie van tijd zijn voor die oceaan weer bevroor. En wanneer water bevriest, zet het uit. De ijzige korst moet dan ‘mee rekken’ en kan gaan scheuren. Het resultaat: breuken aan het oppervlak. En die zien we ook op Pluto.
Deels vloeibaar Pluto had dus waarschijnlijk ooit een oceaan en die is gaan bevriezen. Maar hoe staat het nu met die oceaan? Is deze nog steeds aan het bevriezen? Of is de oceaan miljarden jaren geleden al volledig bevroren? Over die vragen bogen onderzoekers van Brown University zich. Gewapend met een model en geüpdatete gegevens van New Horizons gingen ze na hoe het nu met de oceaan zit. En het model suggereert dat de oceaan onder het oppervlak van Pluto nog niet volledig bevroren is. Want wanneer de oceaan volledig bevroren zou zijn, zou het normale ijs waar deze uit bestaat – onder de enorme druk en lage temperatuur waar het binnenste van Pluto mee te maken heeft – snel veranderen in ijs II. Dit ijs heeft een compactere structuur en een oceaan gevuld met dit ijs heeft dus minder ruimte nodig. Een volledig bevroren ondergrondse oceaan zou dan ook niet leiden tot een wereldwijde expansie, maar tot een wereldwijde krimp. Maar: “We zien geen dingen op het oppervlak die we zouden verwachten als er sprake is van wereldwijde krimp,” vertelt onderzoeker Noah Hammond. “Dus we concluderen dat ijs II zich nog niet gevormd heeft en dat de oceaan dus niet compleet bevroren is.”
Een prachtige foto van de atmosfeer van Pluto. Het lijkt erop dat op deze foto een wolk te zien is: de allereerste wolk die in de atmosfeer van de dwergplaneet is aangetroffen.
Afbeelding: NASA.
Slag om de arm Overigens houden de onderzoekers wel een kleine slag om de arm. Ze wijzen erop dat ijs II alleen kan ontstaan als de ijskorst aan het oppervlak van Pluto minimaal 260 kilometer dik is. Als de korst dunner is, kan de oceaan volledig bevroren zijn zonder dat er ijs II ontstond. En als dat is gebeurd, zou er ook geen krimp plaatsvinden. De onderzoekers benadrukken echter dat hun model suggereert dat de ijskap op Pluto tegen de 300 kilometer (misschien zelfs meer) dik is. En ook het stikstof- en methaanijs op het oppervlak van Pluto is goed nieuws voor de ondergrondse oceaan. “Deze exotische ijssoorten isoleren goed en voorkomen mogelijk dat Pluto meer warmte verliest.”
Er zijn al met al dus sterke aanwijzingen dat de oceaan onder het oppervlak van Pluto nog niet volledig bevroren is. “Dat is verbazingwekkend,” stelt Hammond. “Dat er op zo’n grote afstand van de zon op Pluto een oceaan met vloeibaar water kan bestaan en dat hetzelfde wellicht mogelijk is op andere Kuipergordelobjecten is ongelooflijk.”
De afstand tussen ruimtevaartuig Juno en Jupiter wordt iedere dag kleiner en is momenteel minder dan acht miljoen kilometer. Dit betekent dat de gasplaneet al goed te zien is.
Op een foto die Juno op 21 juni maakte, is niet alleen Jupiter te zien. Ook de vier grootste manen van de gasplaneet – Io, Europa, Ganymedes en Callisto – hangen als kroonjuwelen om de koning der planeten. Tijdens het maken van de foto was de afstand nog bijna elf miljoen kilometer.
De komende dagen worden de beelden alsmaar scherper. Juno arriveert namelijk op 4 juli bij Jupiter en zal dan langs de polen om de planeet draaien. Het ruimtevaartuig scheert rakelings langs de gaslagen om erachter te komen wat er onder het dikke wolkendek van Jupiter schuilgaat. Ook hopen wetenschappers te achterhalen hoe de gasreus is ontstaan.
De laatste dagen voor de aankomst bij Jupiter gaan spannend worden. We krijgen dan niet veel foto’s te zien, omdat de instrumenten zich klaarmaken voor de aankomst bij de gasplaneet. Pas twee dagen na aankomst bij Jupiter draaien de instrumenten naar buiten, waarna er foto’s gemaakt kunnen worden. “We zien de wolkenbanden zoals we ze nog nooit eerder zagen”, zegt hoofdonderzoeker Scott Bolton van het Southwest Research Institute. “Zelfs de Grote Rode Vlek.”
De Juno-ruimtesonde is op 5 augustus 2011 gelanceerd en is momenteel dus al bijna vijf jaar onderweg. Dat is een flinke reis. Gelukkig komt het doelwit nu in beeld.
Nieuwe beelden van Jupiter verraden wat Juno te wachten staat
Nieuwe beelden van Jupiter verraden wat Juno te wachten staat
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Over een week arriveert ruimtesonde Juno bij Jupiter. En in wat voor toestand gaat Juno Jupiter aantreffen? Nieuwe beelden lichten een tipje van de sluier op.
De beelden zijn gemaakt door ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) en schetsen een gedetailleerd beeld van de atmosfeer van de gasreus. Op basis van deze en andere beelden worden kaarten gemaakt die laten zien hoe de atmosfeer er nu voor staat, maar ook welke veranderingen deze de afgelopen maanden heeft ondergaan.
Links zie je Jupiter in infrarood, rechts in zichtbaar licht.
Afbeelding: ESO / L.N. Fletcher / Damian Peach.
Voorbereiding “Deze kaarten dienen als voorbereiding op wat Juno de komende maanden zal tegenkomen,” vertelt onderzoeker Leigh Fletcher. “Door op verschillende golflengten van het infraroodspectrum waarnemingen te doen, kunnen we een driedimensionale reconstructie maken van het verticale transport van energie en materiaal in de atmosfeer.”
Toevalstreffers Het is nog niet zo gemakkelijk om vanaf de aarde heldere beelden van de atmosfeer van Jupiter te maken. Onze eigen atmosfeer zit regelmatig in de weg. Om toch scherpe beelden te kunnen verkrijgen, hebben de onderzoekers gebruik gemaakt van een techniek die ‘lucky imaging‘ wordt genoemd. Hierbij worden duizenden afzonderlijke, heel kort belichte opnamen van Jupiter gemaakt. Uit die beelden kiezen de onderzoekers één opname waarbij de atmosferische turbulentie het minst hinderlijk is. Meerdere van die ‘toevalstreffers’ hebben onderzoekers vervolgens gecombineerd om de beelden te verkrijgen die je hier ziet.
Jupiter.
Afbeelding: ESO / L. Fletcher.
Ruimtesonde Juno werd in 2011 gelanceerd en legde maar liefst 3 miljard kilometer af om bij Jupiter te komen. Over precies een week arriveert de ruimtesonde dan eindelijk bij de gasreus. Het is de bedoelingdat de ruimtesonde onder de wolken van Jupiter gaat gluren. Naar verwachting zal de missie een schat aan informatie opleveren over de gasreus en zijn ontstaan en evolutie.
Overal ter wereld neemt het aantal verwoestende hagelbuien toe in hevigheid en aantal.
Dit keer is het niet alleen in het buitenland waar geschokte getuigen allemaal hetzelfde vertellen: “Dit hebben we nog nooit meegemaakt”.
Door alle commotie rondom de politieke show van de elite, genaamd Brexit, zijn de uitzonderlijke gebeurtenissen in het zuiden en oosten van ons land een beetje naar de achtergrond verdrongen.
Ook wij, in ons land, beginnen nu eigenlijk voor het eerst goed te merken wat de komst van de planeet Nibiru voor ons zal betekenen.
Het betreft dan het weer en de extremen die ermee gepaard gingen.
Navolgend een korte impressie uit Brabant enkele dagen geleden.
In de brede lijn Helmond-Venray-Venlo is donderdagavond voor vele miljoenen euro's schade aangericht door hagelbuien waarbij hagelstenen vielen ter grootte van tennisballen.
Dat heeft een woordvoerder van het Verbond van Verzekeraars vrijdag gezegd.
''Het waren geen hagelstenen meer, maar echte ijsballen. Dat ze zo groot waren is echt uitzonderlijk, dat maken we zelden mee. Volgens sommigen leken de hagelbuien wel mortiervuur. Auto's zijn veranderd in poffertjespannen en veel daken en dakramen zijn gesneuveld", aldus de woordvoerder.
Alleen al in de agrarische sector wordt de totale schade geschat op minstens honderd miljoen euro, meldt ZLTO in een verklaring aan Omroep Brabant.
Verwoestende hagel is een fenomeen dat zich in toenemende mate overal ter wereld voor doet. En overal vertellen getuigen hetzelfde verhaal: “Ze hebben zoiets nog nooit meegemaakt”.
Zelfs op plekken waar je normaal gesproken nooit dit soort dingen zou verwachten zoals Alice Springs in Australië, waar nu hagelstenen ter grootte van golfballen naar beneden kwamen.
De Washington Post had over “the hailstorm from hell”, toen ook daar een hagelbui losbarstte die bomen ontwrichte en van geparkeerde auto’s wrakken maakte.
De hagelstenen in Amerika waren zo mogelijk nog groter dan die in Australië en men sprak dan ook van hagelstenen ter grootte van een baseball.
Enorme hagelstenen zorgen voor complete panieksituaties zoals je kunt zien in de volgende video die gemaakt is in Kuala Lumpur en waarbij complete ramen uit een groot kantoor gebouw worden weggeslagen.
Wat hier gebeurt, heeft weinig meer te maken met een zomerse onweersbui.
Nog steeds worden de aluhoedjes voor gek versleten met hun niet bestaande planeet Nibiru en er zal nog veel meer voor nodig zijn, voordat ook het gros van de bevolking in de gaten zal krijgen dat we keer op keer in situaties terechtkomen die zo extreem zijn dat we die nog nooit eerder hebben meegemaakt.
Langzamerhand komt er steeds meer bewijs boven tafel voor het bestaan van deze planeet.
De hierna volgende video is afkomstig van het Leak Project waar Rex Bear, een onderzoeker die door Marshall Masters hoog wordt ingeschat, samen met een gast de laatste afbeeldingen van de planeet Nibiru onder de loep houdt.
En in al die jaren hebben we daar waanzinnige opnames gezien zoals die grote sigaarvormige UFO die met een enorme snelheid de vulkaan in duikt. De beelden daarvan zijn op de Mexicaanse televisie vertoond, maar nooit in onze contreien.
Bij ons zal je dit soort dingen op televisie nooit tegen komen, want ze bestaan niet. En als ze niet bestaan, dan kan je ze ook niet op televisie laten zien, toch?
Dit is wat het Mexicaanse publiek zag in het late najaar van 2012.
Daarna hebben we nog talloze andere vreemde opnames gehad, ook nog van andere sigaarvormige UFO’s zoals te zien in de volgende video, opgenomen in juli 2015:
Dan, enkele dagen geleden, zijn er wel hele vreemde beelden te zien via de webcam.
Het lijkt wel alsof er een feestje van UFO’s plaatsvindt, want uit alle hoeken en gaten komen ze tevoorschijn.
Er zijn wel vaker opnames gemaakt van dit soort UFO’s bij de vulkaan, maar dan was het er altijd maar hooguit één.
Nu zien we misschien wel tien verschillende exemplaren die als het ware een soort dans uitvoeren, alsof ze weten dat ze door de webcam worden opgenomen.
Volgens Scott Waring is de reden omdat de camera op het moment van opname op infrarood stand stond, waardoor het apparaat dingen waarneemt die normaal gesproken niet met het blote oog te zien zijn.
Komende week – 30 juni – is het de dag van de planetoïde. Een goede reden om ons eens even in deze ruimtestenen te verdiepen!
Planetoïde Mathilde: één van de weinige planetoïden waar we close-up foto’s van bezitten. Deze planetoïde heeft een diameter van ongeveer 50 kilometer.
Afbeelding: NASA.
1. Ze zijn niet moeders mooiste Planetoïden zijn ruimtestenen die – net als bijvoorbeeld de aarde – om de zon heen draaien. Ze onderscheiden zich van (dwerg)planeten doordat ze kleiner zijn en onvoldoende zwaartekracht bezitten om een mooie ronde vorm aan te nemen. Echt mooi zijn planetoïden dan ook niet: ze hebben vaak grillige vormen en zijn bovendien vaak bedekt met kraters. Mooi of niet: onderzoekers vinden planetoïden machtig interessant. De ruimtestenen zijn namelijk restanten uit de jonge jaren van het zonnestelsel en kunnen ons naar verwachting veel meer vertellen over hoe het er in die tijd in ons stelsel aan toeging. De meeste planetoïden bevinden zich tussen de baan van Mars en Jupiter, in de zogenoemde planetoïdengordel. Hier zijn miljoenen planetoïden te vinden.
De planetoïden die samen de planetoïdengordel vormen, hebben op deze afbeelding een grijze kleur gekregen. Ze bevinden zich tussen de baan van Mars en Jupiter.
Afbeelding: Mdf (via Wikimedia Commons).
2. Sommige planetoïden hebben een maantje En de planetoïde Ida is er daar één van. In 1993 scheerde ruimtesonde Galileo langs de ongeveer 30 kilometer grote ruimtesteen. En op de beelden die Galileo maakte, ontdekten onderzoekers iets bijzonders. Ida is niet alleen. De planetoïde bleek een eigen maantje te hebben dat de naam Dactylo kreeg. Vandaag de dag is van ongeveer 150 planetoïden bekend dat ze een maan bezitten.
Een artistieke impressie van Chariklo en zijn ringen.
Afbeelding: ESO / L. Calçada / M. Kornmesser / Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org).
4. Soms zet een planetoïde zijn zinnen op een bezoek aan aarde Het kan zomaar gebeuren dat de baan van een planetoïde deze richting de aarde voert. Dat is niet direct reden voor paniek. Alle ruimtestenen kleiner dan 25 meter verbranden in principe in de atmosfeer en vormen dus geen of nauwelijks een bedreiging voor het leven op aarde. Ernstiger wordt het als we met een grotere planetoïde te maken hebben. Als een planetoïde die tussen de 25 en 1000 meter groot is de aarde raakt, resulteert dat lokaal in schade. Is de planetoïde groter dan 1 à 2 kilometer dan kunnen de effecten van deze inslag wel eens wereldwijd gevoeld worden. Volgens NASA wordt de atmosfeer van de aarde ongeveer elk jaar geraakt door een planetoïde ter grootte van een auto. Zo’n planetoïde verbrandt in de atmosfeer (vanaf de aarde zien we dan een vuurbal langs de hemel scheren). Ongeveer elke 2000 jaar slaat een planetoïde groter dan 100 meter op aarde in, waarbij er lokaal heel wat schade ontstaat. Slechts één keer in de paar miljoen jaar krijgen we te maken met een planetoïde die een bedreiging vormt voor de mensheid.
Hier zie je alle banen van de potentieel gevaarlijke planetoïden die groter zijn dan 140 meter en relatief dicht bij de aarde in de buurt komen. Hoewel het plaatje al wat ouder is (2013) laat het duidelijk zien dat het een drukke bedoening is in ons zonnestelsel. Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech.
5. NASA heeft een lijstje Juist omdat planetoïden een bedreiging kunnen vormen voor de aarde, is het zaak dat we ze – voor zover mogelijk – allemaal opsporen en de banen van deze planetoïden in kaart brengen. Alleen zo kunnen we voorspellen welke planetoïden nu of in de toekomst gevaarlijk kunnen worden. En dat is exact wat onderzoekers wereldwijd doen. Het resulteert in een lijstje met daarop ‘potentieel gevaarlijke planetoïden’. Het is niet bewezen dat de planetoïden op dit lijstje op aarde in gaan slaan, maar het zou wel kunnen. Op dit moment staan op het lijstjemeer dan 1700 planetoïden. Dat zijn er heel wat, maar geen reden om vannacht wakker te liggen. De kans dat deze planetoïden de komende 100 jaar de aarde raken, ligt voor alle exemplaren lager dan 0,01 procent.
6. Bruce Willis kan ons niet redden Mocht één van de potentieel gevaarlijke planetoïden toch op de aarde afstevenen, dan is het zeker niet aan te bevelen om Bruce Willis een belletje te geven. Willis redde in de beroemde film ‘Armageddon‘ de wereld door een op aarde afstevenende planetoïde op te blazen. Het leek heel effectief, maar onderzoek heeft al aangetoond dat die aanpak in het echt niet zou werken. Je zou er een bom voor nodig hebben die ongeveer een miljard keer krachtiger is dan de krachtigste bom die ooit is gebouwd (een kernwapen, bijgenaamd Big Ivan). Opblazen is dus geen optie. Maar dat wil niet zeggen dat we maar toe moeten kijken hoe een planetoïde de aarde vernietigt. Er zijn wellicht verschillende manieren om een planetoïde die op de aarde afkomt van richting te doen veranderen. Zo zouden laserstralen wellicht iets uit kunnen richten. Voorwaarde is wel dat we zo’n planetoïde tijdig ontdekken. Het van richting veranderen vereist namelijk tijd.
Ruimtesonde OSIRIS-REx in actie nabij het oppervlak van planetoïde Bennu.
Afbeelding: NASA.
7. We gaan op korte termijn weer naar een planetoïde toe! Een ontmoeting met een planetoïde is niet iets om naar uit te zien. Tenzij niet de planetoïde bij ons, maar wij bij de planetoïde op bezoek gaan. En dat laatste gaat op korte termijn weer gebeuren. Binnenkort wordt OSIRIS-REx gelanceerd. Deze ruimtesonde gaat een bezoekje brengen aan planetoïde Bennu. Bovendien is het de bedoeling dat de sonde materiaal van het oppervlak van Bennu verzameld en terug naar de aarde brengt voor analyse. Daarnaast wil NASA in de toekomst een robot naar een planetoïde sturen, een grote steen van het oppervlak van de planetoïde ‘jatten’ en deze steen vervolgens in een baan rondom de maan plaatsen. Eenmaal in een baan rond de maan is het de bedoeling dat astronauten de steen gaan bezoeken en bestuderen. Het is een ambitieuze missie bedoeld om meer te weten te komen over planetoïden en de mensheid klaar te stomen voor ruimtemissies naar verre oorden, zoals planetoïden of Mars.
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NASA De afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel is gemaakt door NASA / JPL / JHUAPL.
Voor het eerst in de 21ste eeuw is er weer een vortex te zien op Neptunus. De donkere vlek is gesignaleerd door de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop.
Toen de Voyager 2 in 1989 langs de buitenste planeet van het zonnestelsel vloog, toen fotografeerde het ruimtevaartuig al een grote donkere vortex. Vijf jaar later zag Hubble opnieuw de vlek. Daarna verdween de vortex uit beeld.
De wervelstorm op Neptunus is een hogedruksysteem, waardoor er ook heldere wolken ontstaan. Deze heldere wolken vormen zich als een luchtstroom over de cortex beweegt, waardoor er kristallen van methaanijs ontstaan. Donkere wervelstormen ontstaan sneller op Neptunus dan op Jupiter, maar verdwijnen ook weer vliegensvlug. Geen enkele donkere vlek is hetzelfde. Klein of groot, rond of ovaal: het kan allemaal.
Geruchten Overigens zijn er al sinds vorig jaar aanwijzingen dat er weer een donkere vlek op Neptunus huist. Toen maakten amateur-astronomen en wetenschappers melding van heldere wolken op de gasplaneet. Amateur-telescopen zijn echter niet krachtig genoeg om de donkere vlek te spotten, terwijl aardse observatoria – zoals de Keck-telescopen – teveel last hebben van de atmosfeer. Dit geldt niet voor de Hubble-telescoop, die wel vrij zicht heeft op de planeet.
Verlengd contract Gelukkig kunnen we nog lang van mooie Hubble-foto’s genieten. NASA verlengde gisteren het contract voor het beheer van de ruimtetelescoop met vijf jaar. De ruimtelescoop zal tot 30 juni 2021 bestuurd worden vanaf het Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. In totaal trekt de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie hier 196 miljoen dollar extra voor uit.
Steelers and Cowboys offered a lot of memorable plays on the field during their matchups in the 1970s, but something took place in the sky that occupied all the headlines in 1979.
The Steelers had won the game against the visiting Cowboys in Week 9 of the regular season in the score of 14-3 on October 28, 1979. Franco Harris sizzles for 102 yards and two touchdowns, including a 48-yard that sealed the win, in a rematch of Super Bowl XIII.
However, strange objects appeared late in the game, and they took the attention away from the match. Many witnesses left baffled of their identity, but Duquesne University archivist Thomas White believed they were kites designed to look like UFOs.
White explained that those were two kites that might have been connected. He claimed to have seen footage of kites and observed that they moved in very similar fashion to the ones that appeared in the football match.
However, most witnesses did not see those as kites. The debates still continue and perhaps would never end, but one thing is for sure, the sighting was definitely one of the strangest moments in NFL history, particularly in the Steelers-Cowboys rivalry.
Disc over road in Muranga County, Kenya on June 22, 2016.
Filer’s Files #26 – 2016 UFOs Are Real- PART I
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In special reports, this week’s files cover: Rear Admiral Rico Botta UFOs Are Real, General Watson “UFOs are not Extraterrestrail”, Triangles and Boomerang Underwater Bases, Ufology and Astronautics Museum, and Humanoid Next to Mars Rover.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklaoma, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arab Emirates, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland Israel, Kenya, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, 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
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Rear Admiral Rico Botta UFOs Are Real
Admiral Botta worked for the Bureau of Aeronautics, Navy Department, for duty from January 1937 until December 1942, first in the Engineering Division Material Branch, and later as Head of the Power Plant Design Section with exceptional results. He is believed to hav sent spies to Germany to obtain the latest Nazi engine designs. In December 1942 he reported to the Naval Air Station, San Diego, California. According to US Navy Intelligence operative and aerospace engineer, William Tompkins that was revealed on the Jeff Rense Radio Show that he was brought in as part of the staff to Rear Admiral Rico Botta. Tomkins states, “The Admiral’s hobby was way above Naval Intelligence. He had 29 Navy Lieutenants who were operatives, spies, in Germany in 1940 and ’41 and ’42. And these fellas were being astounded in Germany because they found out that Hitler and the SS had signed some sort of agreements with Reptilian extraterrestrials, whereby the Reptilians would give UFOs and different types of vehicles, dozens of different types of weapons and even extended life to the SS.. The spies found evideece of advanced Nazi Disc shaped craft allegedly provided by the aliens.” Italian records indicate a disc crashed in Northern Italy on June 13, 1933. The craft’s technology was shared with the Germans. Tomkins claims he listened to what these Navy operatives did when they came back from Germany. And they presented this information to Admiral Rico Botta, and one of the three captains that I worked for, and the typist and myself.
And so we would get up at 1:00 in the morning and I’d get tapped on the shoulder in my bunk and I knew who it was. And all the Admiral’s aide said is, “He’s here.” So I’d throw my clothes on. He escorts me over to the Admiral’s tower. And in that top tower is a small conference room, and this is where these operatives explained to us all the things that the Germans were doing.Tompkins job was to carry the information to key government and aviation oficials throughout the country.
The Admiral was awarded the Legion of Merit for his service in the war. The citation states in part:“By his outstanding technical knowledge and skill, (he) enabled his department to meet the ever increasing demandsof the Fleet Air Commands for combat aircraft of the latest type and with the latest combat-improved changes installed.”
In February 1946, he became Fleet Air and Maintenance Officer on the Staff of Commander Air Force, Atlantic Fleet. He remained in that assignment until April 1949, when he reported as Assistant Chief of Naval Material and Director of the Production Policy Division, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. He continued serving there until June1950, and on July l, he assumed command of the Naval Air Material Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His leadership likely helped the Navy to lead in the development of disk craft and spaceships.
Willaim Tomkins went to work for Douglas Aircraft, whiose president Donald Douglas, Sr. personally put together an organization of key military people – admirals, generals, and several other aerospace executives. And he formed an organization to study extraterrestrials. He also put together a program to have inside of Douglas Aviation a top secret engineering think tank inside of Douglas Engineering. Douglas, Sr. started these investigations on extraterrestrials from the sightings of possibly 200 UFOs that continued to come in over Southern California of which over a half a million people US watched.William Tomkins has a new book revealingan Amazing history called, “Selected by Extraterrestrials.”
Major General Watson UFOs Are Not Extraterrestrial
Major General Watson was instrumental in integrating the evolving requirements of technology with manufacturing to ensure the field requirements for aircraft engines early in WWII were met. In early 1945 he was instrumental in the recovery of valuable intelligence data, aircraft, parts, and equipment during the war and immediately after the surrender. The primary objective was to learn what technology had been transferred to the Germans. The captured technology would also close the gap between the United States and Germany in reciprocating and jet engines as well as rocket technology. Using his leadership, engineering, manufacturing, and flight skills he successfully brought together and trained pilots to fly the captured aircraft. Watson himself flew every type of captured aircraft. He recruited German engineers and technicians to assist in the maintenance and preparation of these aircraft. German tractors and tanks were drained of diesel fuel so the captured aircraft could be flown. Craft were flown to Cherbourg, France to be transported on the British aircraft carrier H.M.S. Reaper. Watson flew a Junkers 290 aircraft that was later found to have booby trap explosive charges on board that luckily did not explode. Forty advanced German planes were delivered to Cherbourg in 20 days. It is suspected at least one was a disc. General Watson was the government’s biggest expert in exploiting foreign technology from Japan and Germany.
Returning to the United States he acted as a test pilot for many of the captured aircraft and laying the groundwork for the current day National Aerospace Intelligence Center. The documentation captured by Watson and others revealed thousands of scientific advances in aero-technology, electronics, magnetic-tapes, fuels, and other areas which the United States was lagging behind Germany. General Watson told Colonel Ray Sleeper who were both commanders of the Foreign Technology Division at Wright Patterson Air Force Base at different times. “UFOs are not extraterrestrial craft”. Website
Triangles and Boomerang Underwater Bases
Triangle Over Belgium
During January 1981, a huge boomerang shaped craft was seen over Arizona, with one witness proclaiming the object “was bigger than several football fields!” The V shaped craft was later reported over New York State and Connecticut in March 1983. Once again the craft was described as being “as big as two football fields” and this time, the craft flashed its lights on and off as though trying to attract attention. The next major event was the Belgian Flap, when huge triangular craft visited this small country during the period 1989/90. The SOBEPS Group (Societe Belge d Etudes des Phenomenes Spatiaux), were inundated with hundreds of reports during this period. Such was the efficiency of their organization that the Belgian Air Force asked for their co-operation and assistance! With SOBEPS members being widespread throughout the country, they were able to identify Flying Triangles in their locality and report their position to the Belgian Air Force.
In this manner, the SOBEPS members acted as trained observers for the Belgian Air Force. At one stage, two F16 interceptor fighters were placed at their disposal, to be directed to various parts of the country where the FTs were reported! This co-operation resulted in the F16s intercepting a number of the Flying Triangles, although the aircraft were completely unable to match the speed and maneuverability of the FTs, as subsequent cockpit radar film footage showed.
There had meanwhile been a number of isolated reports over the UK, but on the 26th September 1993, a huge Flying Triangle craft arrived over Bakewell in Derbyshire. Many residents of this small town were to share in the experience of watching a huge black craft, slowly and silently flying over their town. With a bright white light on each corner of its triangular shape and numerous smaller lights running along the edges of the craft, the FT flew low and at an estimated speed of only 30 mph. (A witness driving his vehicle at 40 mph overtook it!) The triangular craft the performed several slow maneuvers over the town before returning to its original course and flying slowly out of sight. It was just a few months later, on January 6th 1995, that a British Airways Boeing 737 aircraft was buzzed by a glowing triangular craft as it approached Manchester Airport! This was the forerunner of a Flying Triangle invasion, as the FTs then began to arrive in force.
There were 52 FT incidents recorded in and around the city of Derby from December 1994 to May 1995. These included hovering illuminated craft and in one instance, a huge triangular craft was observed hovering over one of the main traffic islands (Spider Bridge) on the A5111 circular road. Numerous witnesses were able to sketch and describe the FT craft in detail. The reports include FT craft hovering and shining down white beams of light onto the countryside at night. Lights have been reported on numerous occasions, but it seems highly unlikely that they are searchlights as such. Our new Doppler Radar technology enables present day satellites to look down through any weather onto the ground below and we presume that the FTs are the product of a far more advanced technology. The purpose of the FT searchlight beam could be something else, but what? Witnesses have described the FTs white beam of light as sometimes “ending in mid air, like a fluorescent tube.” As the number of FT reports have increased, a pattern of behaviour has begun to emerge. The FT craft appear to be coming in over the East coast of England and flying slowly across the countryside to various destinations including a number of Nuclear Power Stations, before returning back out to sea a few hours later.
Statistics from the Project FT database, under the discerning direction of Victor J. Kean have shown the following:
1995 – TOTAL FT REPORTS – 1797 of which 476 were observed over Nuclear Power Stations.
1996 – TOTAL FT REPORTS 1437 of which 988 were observed over Nuclear Power Stations.
1997 – TOTAL FT REPORTS – 1339 of which 1242 were observed over Nuclear Power Stations.
(NB – Figures for 1996 and 1997 are still being compiled and do not include associate spheres.)
The latest information from the Essex UFO Research Group under the able leadership of Ron West, (sadly no longer with us) (one of thirty groups operating under Project FT), states that since 1995, there have been reports of FT craft being seen entering and leaving the sea off the East coast near Lowestoft. There have also been 25 reports of lights seen moving under the surface of the sea in the same area. Could FTs have an undersea base somewhere along this coastline? Certainly, similar underwater activity has been reported from various parts of the world. One startling coincidence has recently come to light and that is the number of references made to the subject of underwater bases by Larry Warren and Peter Robins in their book Left At East Gate. The book deals primarily with the UFO incident in Rendlesham Forest, which took place in late December 1980, but then Larry Warren then goes on to reveal a further event.
Peter and Larry
Larry and Peter stayed at my home and Larry told me after the Rendlesham Forest incident, he got himself into trouble with the authorities by telephoning his mother about the UFO landing. He was ordered to go to a certain parking lot on the base where he would be met by a dark blue sedan car. When Larry arrived at the parking lot, he saw the car. As he entered into the vehicle, he remembered a greenish glow and then by all account, lost consciousness. He later recovered to find himself in an underground complex under the Woodbridge base, where he learnt from a black uniformed guard that it was part of a tunnel complex that led to the North Sea. Larry Warren was then taken into a strange darkened glass room, where he was contacted by a telepathic alien figure, partly hidden by a glowing screen. (p. 61).
Larry then learnt that he was in an underground complex that had been built in the 1940s. The complex contained many aliens, with their support personnel; Larry went on to state, “The crafts they travelled and entered and exited via an extensive tunnel system. One exit was a mile off Lowestoft, Suffolk another, near Orford Key.” If Larry’s encounter with the alien is true and not a hallucination, could it mean that the aliens are controlling the Flying Triangle craft that have been reported disappearing into the sea off Lowestoft? If there is an underground facility at the Woodbridge air force base, does it have tunnels leading to the North Sea? Larry Warren claims that it does.
His co-writer Peter Robbins states, “It is quite an amazing aspect of “Left At East Gate” and one I am convinced is real though what REAL means has yet to be established”. The latest information received indicates that there is intense UFO activity along the East Coast, particularly near Lowestoft and strange things are still happening in the vicinity of Rendlesham Forest! Just what is going on? Two independent sources have recently confirmed, that not only does a tunnel system exist below Woodbridge, but it is joined to the nearby Bentwaters base and is part of an extensive tunnel system throughout England. We believe that a tunnel complex was built along this coast in the 1940s and we can only speculate that it was probably extended in total secrecy during the recent Cold War period. (O.F. March 1998) Written By Omar Fowler
Kharkov, one of the major cities in Ukraine, has its own Museum of Astronautics and Ufology.
If you ever visit the city, do not forget to come see the Museum as it recognizes the existence of UFOs! It located in the local Planetarium. Website Thanks to Paul Stonehill
Humanoid Next to Mars Rover
Hey guys, I was checking out the newest Curiosity rover photos on the NASA site and found four of them with the shadow of an astronaut or alien in space suit that appears to be fixing the rover May 28, 2016.
This is not the first time an astronaut has been seen in a Curiosity rover photo, but actually the second. A few years ago a reader found a shadow of an astronaut, and on Twitter NASA refused to respond to the many inquires about it.
The photo was seen for over 45 minutes as it was fixing the rover. This just goes to show the public that the rover is being maintained by humans on Mars and that there are other spacecraft kept secret from the public that can carry a peers to Mars in just a few minutes.
Oh, and I got a Taiwanese friend who works at NASA right now. He said a few years ago that he saw a blue/green wheel space craft that hovers like a wheel turning and can carry an astronaut at about 1/20th the speed of light. Thats fast. That would get you to the moon in about 30 seconds. Scott C. Waringhttp://www.ufosightingsdaily.com
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Filer’s Files #26 – 2016 UFOs Are Real - PART II
Filer’s Files #26 – 2016 UFOs Are Real - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Triangle
Glendale — I was driving south and looked up and saw two massive objects in the sky on June 17, 2016. So I pulled over grabbed my camera and watched these two objects approach. The first one a massive building is what it looked like, all black with a black tower on the top. No sound or fire just defying gravity. Then along side of it was another ship that seemed to be an escort for the large building ship. It to was all black with a strange black sphere that was underneath it not attached it flew on its own but stayed under the escort ship. They moved slowly and didn’t seem to care if anyone saw. They came straight at me then turned together as if they were headed to Flagstaff. I have seen many strange thingsbut this was out of this world. I could see details on these craft, but my camera didn’t see them as I did but still captured it ok. Five people at my work also witnessed them. A military helicopter showed up not long after. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Lights
Winton — When we were all coming home and I looked up at the moon and noticed a red star or planet that was in the atmosphere on June 17, 2016. I have a set of binoculars to looked at the red light. Looking at it changed shapes with lights and expanded like a balloon. I then grabbed my camera ad recorded the event.
I was able to obtain the footage which I have included in the pictures. It was amazing to see it glowing and change shapes. The object is still in the sky within the horizon of the moon. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Connecticut Lights
Coventry— I went outside to smoke a cigarette around 10:30 PM, on June 19, 2016. It was brighter out than normal for that time of night, so I was looking up at the moon trying to see if there was a full moon. To the right of the moon I noticed a star that looked bigger and way brighter than every other star in the sky. Then I saw the red light moving and initially rubbed my eyes thinking I was just seeing things. But the lights kept changing. I kept seeing the red light go by rotating from right to left. So I focused on several other stars thinking it’s just got to be my eyes, but no other star in the sky did anything like that. So I started to take pictures, it was hovering so high up in the sky. I watched it for half an hour while it changed lights the entire time. When I came back outside around a half hour later it was gone. I was excited when I first saw it, but the longer I watched it change and hover above I got nervous. I’m still not positive what exactly happened last night. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Light
Rochester — Pamela Stark My husband and I came out of the restaurant in Taylorville, Illinois this evening. My friends were in the sky. Sure did not look like this when I took the picture. Thursday June 16, 2016. The one was closer to the Earth then ever before and alot brighter. Thanks to Pamela Stark
Missouri Light
Wentzville — I was walking out of my garage to smoke a cigarette on June 18, 2016. As I exited my garage, I noticed a green glowing object the size of a large car hovering above my neighbor’s house.
It took off quickly going west towards the sunset. It Stopped and began flying erratically.
So I pulled out my cell phone and captured it on my camera for a few seconds before I lost sight of it.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Curryville— Heading west on Highway 54 as I was passing through Curryville my 6 year old daughter and I noticed a gray disc in the sky emitting two bright beams on June 17, 2016.
It seemed to hover for 10 seconds max then disappeared. A person who passed me on the hwy earlier was stopped taking pictures of this object as well. I have never seen anything like this but feel it was not normal. Attached are three pics, one of the objects when the beams were off and a couple with the beams on before disappearing. I took these from my cell phone so quality is not the greatest.
New Jersey Tripple Flash
Ringoes— I was sitting on the porch when in June 16, 2016, and I saw a bright red light through the trees. I thought it was a drone from the prom party a street over.until I noticed it was moving in my direction and had no sound. As it come more from behind the trees. I got up and went to the clearing and noticed it had a smaller white light attached to it. Which when the red did the tripple flash you could see structure between the 2 lights. It looked like it was going about 10mph. And while passing me almost looked like it stopped and rotated. Like it was looking at me. But then just kept on going in a east direction.I texted my sister to come out and see it. Even with the big bright flashing stobe. Which you could end up seeing from 30 miles away. This is a similar shot of a red orb.Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mantua — Triangular UFO hovered over route 45 in NJ and turned on its side over the road and then flew sideways towards Philadelphia PA. at approximately 10 mph. I have never encountered any aircraft like this in my life. It made no noise and it seemed to have multicolored lights rotating inside one light. If anyone else witness this at approximately 9:40 pm on June 10th 2016. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Orbs in Video Footage
Brooklyn – Here is one of my most recent captures. I’m shooting at full 600 mm and 1/3000th second shutter speed on June 12, 2016. You will have to watch very carefully. There are various white orbs streaking by and one large craft of some kind. The best way to view is to manually use the slide bar and slowly move it across the bottom. See if you can count the white objects. Some are disk shaped.
Note: The witness has sent several other videos of orbs and disk shaped objects taken during the past year. Only 1 of the videos is posted. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
North Carolina Green Ball
Wrightsville Beach — I took pictures at sunset Thursday, June 16 around 7:45 pm at the southern point of the island where the ocean meets the sound. The next day when I was posting them on Facebook, I noticed a glowing green spot on the image, and enlarged it to see what it was. It appeared to be a translucent, glowing, green orb with dots, lights, or spines on the surface. I then discovered another photo in a different location down the beach with a similar orb on the sand, and 3 more photos with similar, but more perfectly round objects in the sky. In the glare of the sunset, I did not actually see these objects when I took the photos. The photos are from my Galaxy 6S Edge phone, and are untouched outside of cropping to view the objects more closely. Other photos taken at the same time do not have this green spot. I only discovered the orbs in photos after I had left the area. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oklahoma Disc
Lawton — My family and I were driving through the Wichita Mountains on May 29, 2016. So I took my husband’s cell phone and started to take pictures. One week later I was going through the photos that I took and noticed something in the sky! So I showed my husband and he said it’s a bug but the funny thing is its too big and it has distance to it. So can you please HELP with this photo and let me know what it really is thank you. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Lights
Eugene – I was at a BBQ party around 9:50 pm on June 18, 2016 when people observed a red light flashing bluish white hovering to our east. I observed it for five minutes before taking out my cell phone and recording it.
It hovered for about 45 seconds after I started filming then it abruptly began to take off in a straight trajectory to the east from our location. I lost it when it passed the trees on the horizon. It was very strange and 100% silent. Still pondering what I saw. ‘Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Valleyford I visit your site about once a week. During my visit today I noticed, for the first time, the middle photo of the three that you have posted at the top of your web page. It reminds me of the photo which I have attached. My photo was taken in 2002, during an active, several month long flap starting in February, 2002. his photo was taken with a 35mm film camera mounted to a small telescope. It is not an exact match to your photo, but it does have some interesting similarity. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Wyoming Object
Casper — My boyfriend and I were walking back to our apartment after taking our dog on a walk on May 26, 2016. I looked up and saw something in the sky… Maybe balloons.. My boyfriend works at the dispatch center which is always notified when special events like that take place. There was not anything going on that day that could explain these objects in the sky so I recorded them. The objects were pretty stationary, hovered and moved slowly. I was feeling extremely curious so I posted the video on a facebook page that is for the town, we got many comments about the video, but none that could explain what we saw.
We were the only people who saw these object, there were so other witnesses. We didn’t loose sight we simply stopped recording and went home.. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Argentina Lights
Rosario River –This is an interesting sighting of some glowing lights over the Rosario River on June 12, 2916. It looks like we are seeing a UFO hovering over the water, hence the two long lights. However the top light is actually the UFO, the bottom light may be the reflection or the illumination from the doorway below the surface which the UFO probably came from. Hiding a doorway underwater that takes you to an underground base is a smart move.Scott C. Waring Website
Silvia Pérez Simondini, director of Visión OVNI and CEFORA, writes, “I was truly amazed on Sunday night. For 26 years, night after night, I have observed and have come to know each spot on the island from the summit of Cerro de la Matanza. On Sunday, with my friend Checo Jaroslav, we visited the summit once more, and I was astonished to see a vast source of light in the middle of the river. The lights of the city of Rosario could be seen in the distance, which gave me the certainty that these lights we were seeing were much closer to Victoria. The bridges are not lit and along the route there is nothing that has such illumination. It was interesting to observe it from hilltop as the upper part of the illumination vanished as if by magic. Since Checo was returning to Buenos Aires along that route, we agreed that he would make sure to see what it was from both sides. The fact is he saw absolutely nothing, or any area illuminated in such a way. We have no idea what it was. These are the photos. News Source: Website
Australia Orb
Gold Coast – I’m not sure what I’m seeing in the photos. They were not visible with the naked eye. The image was taken outside on June 8, 2016. The balcony (no glass window) of the 43rd floor of the Hilton Australia. I noticed the strange object on my first shot so I cleaned the lens and kept taking shots And the object kept moving. Any ideas.Note: There is a possible sun’s reflection on lens. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Sphere
Miquelon Lake — On June 4th at almost midnight our family was camping in Strathcon, Alberta with neighbors when our children asked what the lights were? We were all sitting around a campfire and got up and noticed an orb light followed by three more lights in formation. And then they just kept coming, around 8 more. There was no sound and they look nothing like what my picture looks like, they were high up but bigger, they were like glowing orbs.
My neighbor took a video but there was no sound and it was distorted. We were excited by what we were seeing but I know I was scared, and my daughter was scared. They kept flying and then one by one would disappear.. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ireland Orb
Cork — I took a number of photo’s of the moon with a cheap camera phone. I saw nothing but the moon with the naked eye, until I uploaded the photo’s to my PC! Have a look, remember its not the moon that’s strange in the photo, but the strange objects to the left and down. Zoom in. I also have more photo’s and video footage on a close encounter (60ft) which had a physical affect on me. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Israel Disc
Jerusalem – In late September 22, 2015, we took lots of Photos with one having unknown/seen object in picture. Picture taken seconds before has No object! At first I thought it could be a bird. However, other than an occasional Pigeon seen at and around Human food sources we saw few birds flying anywhere around the country. We have several hundred pictures and only the ones near humans have birds.
We also seen other things of the same nature while there but this is the only picture with an object we didn’t notice or possibly see with the Naked eye? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kenya Disc
Muranga County — It was a flying saucer. It’s a foggy morning in Kenya, and a friend and I are driving down a Murram Road video tapping the heavy fog on June 22, 2016. The fog is falling making it hard to drive. It’s terrible weather for us but not for this UFO that took the chance to fly by unnoticed. The video shows the craft flying low and trees bending as it passes over. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico Disk Over Volcano
Popocatepetl Volcano — CriterioHidalgo has reprinted a photograph of an alleged UFO captured in June 2016 by Webcams de Mexico (which has acquired a worldwide reputation for its captures of unusual phenomena over the Popocatepetl Volcano). The text reads as follows: “A new UFO photo has gone viral on social media, shown near the Volcan de Fuego in the state of Colima. Through its Facebook account, Webcams de Mexico displayed the photograph last Friday, showing an object crossing the sky near the fiery colossus. The photo asks the question “what could it be?” in order that users may leave their comments about what appears to be a flying saucers.”
UFOs continue to be seen regularly at volcanoes around the world, especially the volcanoes Mt. Popocatépetl, Mt. Colima and Mt. De Fuego in Mexico are UFO hotspots. These volcanoes are the most active places in the world if we talking about the numbers of sightings and evidence of UFOs near volcanoes. For many years, UFOs buzzing around, zipping into the craters, mysterious bright lights shooting over these volcanoes and all these UFOs are captured by webcams trained on these volcanoes. Objects were captured by a team of Maurice Mousseau equipped with special cameras owned by CENAPRED, Nobody knows why are these UFOs especially near these areas. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
Portugal Moving Light
Castelo Branco — On June 20, 2016, around 21:30 hours I went to my balcony and saw this bright light in the sky moving fast horizontaly, then making a curve. After a short moment it descended and disapeared behind the buildings in front of my house. I did not hear any sound. The light kept on appearing for several times during around 15 minutes and descended. Could it be a drone with a light for night flight? Possibly! But drones make some noise and as I said it was a silent night in my town and I did not hear any noise. Or it could be far away for me not to hear it. The second time it took-off I rush into my house to grab may camera and made a few recordings of that light. The intensity of the light, kept on changing randomly from time to time. Sometimes it almost disappeared to be bright the next second. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Spain Bell
Toledo — Photographing the city of Toledo on June 18, 2016, and after download photos to your PC could observe a strange ± object in the right tower of the Alcazar. It is shaped like a cone or bell, it seems metallic and duration could be just seconds since in the next photography and earlier no longer appears.
Actually I did not see the object until the picture down the computer. Visible if zoom is done. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK England Orb and Cigar
Taking photos of insects in my garden when I captured an orb or something moving in towards middle of picture and stopping on June 17, 2016.
The picture was at 1/500th of a second so it must of been incredibly fast then there was two more hovering by a dandelion and others in different places. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Marske – At 9.30 pm on June 21st 2016 saw an object in the sky that was moving. It was cigar shaped but looked like it was on fire but left no trail. It moved at the speed you would expect to see an aeroplane move when you look up to the sky.
I thought it may be a comet or a shooting star or possibly some sort of reflection but I have done some research on all of the above and none move in the way this did. It’s speed was constant and it flew out over the North Sea. I videoed it then checked my phone to see it had recorded and when I looked back up, it had gone. I do not know whether it disappeared or simply went out of sight. Whilst it was visible, I rang my neighbor and she also saw it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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The ancient Silla Kingdom reigned over part of the Korean Peninsula from 57 B.C. to A.D. 935, making it one of the longest-ruling royal dynasties. Many of Korea's modern-day cultural practices stem from this historic culture. Yet despite its long reign and wide-ranging influence on culture, the number of Silla burials with intact skeletons remained few and far between, said study co-author Dong Hoon Shin, a bioanthropologist at Seoul National University College of Medicine in the Republic of Korea.
"The skeletons are not preserved well in the soil of Korea," Shin told Live Science in an email. [7 Strange Facts About North Korea]
However, in 2013, researchers had a lucky break while excavating a grave near Gyeongju, the historic capital of the Silla Kingdom. Inside a traditional burial coffin, called a "mokgwakmyo," lay the nearly perfectly intact bones of a woman who died in her late 30s.
Long head
The team managed to extract the woman's mitochondrial DNA, or DNA that is passed from mother to daughter. The analysis revealed that she belonged to a genetic lineage that is present, though not common, in East Asia today. Analysis of the carbon isotopes (versions of carbon with different weights) in the skeleton also revealed that the woman was likely a strict vegetarian, in keeping with the interpretation of Buddhism that was prevalent at the time in the country. She also ate a greater percentage of her calories from foods with a type of carbon found in foods such as rice, wheat and potatoes, versus millet or maize, the researchers reported June 1 in the journal PLOS ONE. (The carbon isotope testing cannot determine whether the diet was composed primarily of rice, potatoes or wheat.)
The team was also able to reconstruct her facial features and head shape based on skull fragments. It turned out that the woman was dolichocephalic, meaning her head width was less than about 75 percent of its length.
That differs somewhat from the trends in the region today, where people are more commonly brachycephalic, meaning their head width is at least 80 percent of the head length.
One possibility is that the head was deliberately deformed to have this elongated shape. Skull deformation has occurred throughout the world, and in fact, archaeologists have unearthed evidence of skull deformation from the neighboring Gaya Kingdom, said study co-author Eun Jin Woo, a physical anthropologist at Seoul National University in the Republic of Korea.
However, the team ultimately ruled out this explanation because heads that are deliberately deformed usually have flatter bones in the front of the skull. To compensate for all of the pressure that head deformation causes, the bones in the side of the skull tend to grow more, Woo said.
"The skull in this study did not show the shape changes in deformed crania," Woo told Live Science in an email. "In this regard, we think her head should be considered as normal variation in the group."
Editor's Note: This article was updated to clarify that foods such as rice, potatoes and wheat produce the same carbon signature, so researchers cannot distinguish which of those specific foods made up the bulk of the Silla woman's diet.
In 2012, Glen MacPherson, of the University of British Columbia, began hearing the sound at night, between 10 and 11 p.m.
Credit: Benoit Daoust / Shutterstock.com
In the spring of 2012, when I was living near the coastal village of Sechelt, on British Columbia’s picturesque Sunshine Coast, I began hearing a humming sound, which I thought were float planes.
The noise usually started later at night, between 10 and 11 p.m. My first clue that something unusual was happening came with the realization that the sound didn’t fade away, like plane noises typically do. And the slightest ambient noise – exhaling audibly, even turning my head quickly – caused it to momentarily stop. One night after the sound started I stepped outside the house. Nothing.
I was the only person in the house who could hear it; my family said they didn’t know what I was talking about.
Naturally, I assumed something in the house was the culprit, and I searched for the source in vain. I even ended up cutting the power to the entire house. The sound got louder.
While I couldn’t hear the sound outdoors, I could still hear it in my car at night with the windows closed and the ignition off. I drove for miles in every direction, and it was still there in the background when I stopped the car. I was able to rule out obvious sources: industrial activity, marine traffic, electric substations and highway noise.
When I searched on the internet for “unusual low-frequency humming noise,” I soon realized that others had conducted the same search. I was part of the small fraction of people who can hear what is called the “Worldwide Hum” or, simply, the “Hum.”
The questions motivating me and thousands of others were the same: “What’s causing this? Can it be stopped?”
One geoscientist’s theory
The classic description of the Hum is that it sounds like a truck engine idling. For some, it’s a distant rumbling or droning noise. It can start and stop suddenly or wax and wane over time. For others, the Hum is loud, relentless and life-altering.
I eventually came across one of the few serious papers on the topic. It was written in 2004 by geoscientist David Deming (who’s also a Hum hearer).
Deming began by describing the standard history: The Hum was first documented in the late 1960s, around Bristol, England. It first appeared in the United States in the late 1980s, in Taos, New Mexico.
He then examined the competing hypotheses for the source of the Hum. Many have pointed to the electric grid or cellphone towers. But this theory is dismissed on two grounds: cellphones didn’t exist in the 1960s, and the frequency emitted by both cell towers and the electric grid can be easily blocked by metal enclosures.
He wondered whether mass hysteria was to blame, a psychological phenomenon in which rumor and “collective delusions” lead to the appearance of physical ailments for which there’s no medical explanation. The fact that so many people have researched the Hum on their own, using a search engine – rather than hearing about it from some other person – moves the conversation away from delusion and hysteria spread by word of mouth.
Deming looked at the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), an isolated military compound in Alaska that uses radio waves to study outer space and for testing advanced communication techniques – and a favorite focus of conspiracy theorists, who have accused the facilityof acts ranging from mind control to weather control. He studied the possibility of otoacoustic emissions, which are naturally occurring sounds caused by the vibration of hair cells in the ear.
Deming eventually fingered Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio waves(between 3 kHz and 30 kHz) as the most likely culprit. The world’s military powers use massive land-based and airborne transmitters on these frequencies in order to communicate with submerged submarines. Radio waves at these frequencies can penetrate up to a solid inch of aluminum.
In the paper, Deming proposes a simple and elegant experiment for testing this hypothesis. Hum hearers randomly enter three identical-looking boxes. The first box blocks VLF radio signals, the second box is an anechoic (soundproof) chamber and the third box is the control.
He left the experiment for others to pursue, and while there are some practical difficulties with the design, Deming’s overall concept has motivated the experiments I am currently conducting.
A disciplined inquiry begins
A plethora of pseudoscience and wild conspiracy theories has the potential to drown out the serious work in this area. I’ve encountered seemingly serious people who have argued that the Hum is caused bytunneling under the earth, the electronic targeting of specific individuals,aliens and mating fish.
Given the need for disciplined inquiry into the phenomenon, in late 2012 I started The World Hum Map and Database Project. The database gathers, documents and maps detailed and anonymous information from people who can hear the Hum. It provides raw data for research in a strictly moderated and serious forum for research and commentary, while providing a sense of community for people whose lives have been negatively affected by the Hum.
Most people have some experience with how disruptive some types of noises can be, which is why there are often noise ordinances in many cities and towns, especially at night. There are many sufferers who dread the nighttime because of how loud and relentless the Hum can be. The Hum database is replete with descriptions of desperate people who have been tormented by the noise for years. The phrase “driving me crazy” is all too common. (I feel fortunate that, in my case, the Hum is more of a curiosity than it is an irritant.)
The project also aims to validate and normalize the phenomenon by discussing it alongside other widely reported auditory phenomena, such as tinnitus, a relatively common medical condition that causes people to hear high-pitched squealing tones. Those who experience tinnitus and also the Hum report the two as being completely different in character.
The latest update of the Hum Map, from June 6, presents roughly 10,000 map and data points, and we’ve already made some notable findings.
For example, we’ve found that the mean and median age of Hum hearers is 40.5 years, and 55 percent of hearers are men. This goes against thewidely repeated theory that the Hum mainly affects middle-aged and older women.
Interestingly, there are eight times as many ambidextrous people among hearers as there are in the general population. As more data are collected from Hum hearers, I hope that specialists in demographics and inferential statistics will be able to generate more detailed results.
The goals of the research
The historical record of the Hum is crucial, because if the current version as narrated by Deming is correct, many theories can immediately be ruled out. After all, cellphones and HAARP didn’t exist until decades after the Worldwide Hum was first documented in England in the late 1960s. I currently have a researcher digging into the Times of London digital archive to search for mentions of the Hum going back to the 18th and 19th centuries. If convincing examples are found, then the direction of my research will shift dramatically because all modern technologies could be ruled out.
In my view, there are currently four hypotheses for the source of the world Hum that survive the most superficial scrutiny.
The first hypothesis – argued by Deming and the one I’m currently pursuing – is that the Hum is rooted in Very Low Frequency (VLF) radio transmissions. It’s increasingly accepted now that the human body will sometimes experience electromagnetic (EM) energy and interpret it in a way that creates sounds. This was established for high-frequency EM energy by the American neuroscientist Alan Frey in his infamous“microwave hearing” experiments, which showed that certain radio frequencies can actually be heard as sounds.
Today, there are biophysical models that predict and explain the impact VLF EM energy has on living tissue. I have designed and built a VLF radio blocking box that should be able to test whether VLF radio frequencies are a prerequisite for generating the Hum.
The second hypothesis is that the Hum is the grand accumulation of low-frequency sound and human-generated infrasound (sounds with audio frequencies below roughly 20 Hz and which can be felt more than they can be heard). This includes everything from highway noise to all manner of industrial activity.
The third is that the Hum is a terrestrial or geological phenomenon that generates low-frequency sounds or perceptions of those sounds. For example, there is a well-documented history of animals predicting earthquakes and taking action to save themselves. From an evolutionary perspective, there may be survival value in having members of a population highly sensitive to some types of vibrations. When it comes to the Hum, some humans may have a similar physiological mechanism in place.
The fourth is that the Hum is an internally generated phenomenon, perhaps rooted in a particular anatomical variation, genetic predisposition or the result of toxicity and medication.
The Hum is now the subject of serious media coverage and, increasingly, scientific scrutiny. The overall goal of my project and the people who contribute to it is to find the source of the Hum and, if possible, stop it.
If the Hum is man-made, then my task is to raise public awareness and advocate turning away from the technologies that are causing it. If the source is exogenous and natural, there’s the possibility that there may be no escape from it, apart from masking it with background sounds.
Of course there is the remote possibility that one of the more exotic explanations will prove to be correct. But, as in all science, it seems best to start with what we know and is plausible, as opposed to what we don’t know and is implausible.
In the new movie "Independence Day: Resurgence," opening in theaters today (June 24), Earth will once again gear up for an epic fight with a hostile alien race. The premise will set up some awesome action sequences, but how realistic is the idea that if aliens were to visit Earth, their one goal would be to destroy us? What do the experts think?
Twenty years ago, the new movie's predecessor, "Independence Day," featured Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum cracking wise while using a computer virus (presumably written in an Earth-based computer language) to disable an alien ship and save humanity. In the new movie's timeline, Earth's nations have since created a huge, planetary-wide defense program to shield our planet, but it may not be enough to defend humanity when the aliens return.
Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has said repeatedly that he's afraid of aliens wiping out the human race the way a human would wipe out a colony of ants. ['Independence Day: Resurgence' Trailer]
In 2015, Hawking co-launched an initiative called Breakthrough Listen, which will search for alien communication signals out in the cosmos, and eventually broadcast signals from the human race, with the goal of enabling communication across the universe.
"We don't know much about aliens, but we know about humans," Hawking said at the Breakthrough announcement. "If you look at history, contact between humans and less intelligent organisms have often been disastrous from their point of view, and encounters between civilizations with advanced versus primitive technologies have gone badly for the less advanced. A civilization reading one of our messages could be billions of years ahead of us. If so, they will be vastly more powerful, and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria."
Are the aliens benign?
Alien invasions of Earth are nothing new in sci-fi. One of the most famous examples is "War of the Worlds," an H.G. Wells 19th-century classic that was adapted into a Tom Cruise movie in 2005. In that film, aliens inexplicably begin bursting from underneath city pavement to incinerate humans.
But some films portray aliens as benign, such as 1997's "Contact," based on a 1980s book written by Carl Sagan. A signal begins spouting prime numbers, which Jodie Foster's SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence) team tries to decode. Their efforts at talking with the aliens turn a little strange, but there definitely is no invasion.
This hopeful view is something that science communicator Ann Druyan, Sagan's widow, shared at the Breakthrough event in 2015. (It's also the belief held by astronomer Jill Tarter, former director of the Center for SETI Research, whom Foster's character in "Contact" was based on.) Druyan is also involved in the Breakthrough initiative.
"We may get to a period in our future where we outgrow our evolutionary baggage and evolve to become less violent and shortsighted," Druyan said. "My hope is that extraterrestrial civilizations are not only more technologically proficient than we are but more aware of the rarity and preciousness of life in the cosmos."
Active SETI debate
Three spacecraft currently heading out of the solar system — the Pioneer probe and the two Voyager probes — contain maps that point the way back to Earth. And there continue to be initiatives to put messages for aliens on spacecraft. When the NASA New Horizons probe finishes its Pluto and possible Kuiper Belt work, some people are hoping to create a crowdsourced message for aliens to upload to its hard drive.
Some researchers, however, aren't sure it's such a good idea to shift SETI efforts from just listening to actually sending out signals — a method some call "active SETI."
"Active SETI advocates broke with the conventional wisdom of the SETI pioneers, which was to listen but not transmit. This change may have been driven by the impatience of younger SETI people after 40 years of unsuccessful searches," Michael Michaud, author of the book "Contact with Alien Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears About Encountering Extraterrestrials" (2007, Copernicus), said in a 2014 interview with Space.com.
"But active SETI is not science," added Michaud, a former U.S. Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. Department of State. "It is an attempt to provoke a response from an alien society whose capabilities and intentions are not known to us."
But Earth's sheer distance from other civilizations might serve as a shield against aliens that don't exactly want us around.
Douglas Vakoch, director of interstellar-message composition at the SETI Institute, said in 2010, "Even if they tend to be hateful, awful folks, can they do us any harm at interstellar distances?"
Enormous Stars Forming in the 'Little Fox' Captured in Stunning Photo
Enormous Stars Forming in the 'Little Fox' Captured in Stunning Photo
By Jennifer Hackett, Space.com Contributor
An image of Vulpecula OB1, a birthplace of massive stars, captured by the Herschel Space Observatory. The image was obtained during the Hi-GAL survey, which mapped the Milky Way by using five different infrared wavelengths.
Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS, SPIRE/Hi-GAL Project
The raw material to create stars for millions of years is captured in this stunning, newly retrieved photo from the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory.
The space-based telescope was built to detect radiation that had been invisible to other telescopes at the time. That ability not only allowed it to fulfill its major objective of discovering how the first galaxies formed and evolved, but also made it an excellent choice for detecting dust and gas clouds that lead to the formation of new stars. Although its mission ended in 2013, scientists are still analyzing the wealth of data that Herschel collected over its four years of operation, uncovering stunning photographs such as this one.
Located in the constellation Vulpecula, or Little Fox, the region (pictured here in infrared wavelengths) births some of the biggest stars in the galaxy. Thesecolossal O- and B-type stars have much more mass than the sun — up to 16 times more for B stars and up to a staggering 100 times more for O stars — and their lives are significantly shorter for it. They last only a few million years before exhausting their fuel, collapsing and exploding as supernovas, triggering the next batch of stellar births in the region. Because they are so short-lived, the presence of a large number of them in one place signals ongoing star formation.
But what is truly surprising about this image is that the filaments of glowing interstellar gas seen here as red and orange threads are part of a vast, structured web that stretches across all of the galaxy's star-forming regions, NASA officials said in a statement. It was obtained via the Herschel Infrared Galactic Plane Survey, which mapped the inner Milky Way in five different infrared wavelengths.
Graphite Found at Pluto Moon Charon and Dwarf Planet Ceres
Graphite Found at Pluto Moon Charon and Dwarf Planet Ceres
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
The dull, gray surface of the dwarf planet Ceres may come from graphite as organic material is bombarded by radiation from the sun.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
The gray surfaces of the dwarf planet Ceres (the asteroid belt's largest resident) and Pluto's biggest moon, Charon, both show signs of containing forms of graphite, the material in pencil lead.
When NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived at Ceres last year to embark on an orbital survey, it found a gray, icy world covered with debris left behind by impacts. Spectral observations of the object, which is both a dwarf planet and an asteroid, revealed evidence of a form of graphite called graphitized carbon on its surface, according to Amanda Hendrix, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona.
Graphitized carbon forms when carbon is heated to high temperatures in the absence of oxygen.
Hendrix studies how carbon forms in the inner solar system. She presented the results of her ultraviolet examination of Ceres at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, in March.
Throughout Ceres' history, carbon-filled meteorites and asteroids have crashed into the dwarf planet. The solar wind's charged particles have collided with the deposited carbon, repeatedly reprocessing it to release hydrogen and leaving behind a dull, gray graphitized carbon. The dark material has a low albedo, meaning it doesn't reflect a lot of light.
"It hasn't evolved to proper graphite," Hendrix told Space.com. But it's close.
Similar carbon processing may occur on other objects in the asteroid belt, she said.
And earlier this year, scientists found that Mercury's surface has high levels of carbon, suggesting that it once boasted a graphite-rich crust.
Pluto's largest moon, Charon, has a dull, gray surface marred by a bright-red spot at the poles. As the red material is deposited, radiation may slowly dull its color, changing it to gray like the rest of the moon.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
A dull moon
The inner solar system isn't the only place to find a gray world. Only a few months after Dawn reached Ceres, NASA's New Horizons spacecraftflew by Pluto and revealed that the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon, has a grayish appearance. That color could have been caused by graphite on the moon's surface, according to lab results presented at the conference by Dale Cruikshank, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center.
The presence of graphite at Charon presents a puzzle because New Horizons didn't spot carbon on Charon, but it did so at Pluto.
Before New Horizons arrived at Pluto, scientists hypothesized that the dwarf planet shared its atmosphere with its largest moon, and observations made by the spacecraft seem to confirm it. So carbon may travel from Pluto over to Charon, New Horizons scientists have said..
But although it is mostly gray, Charon also boasts a bright-red spot at its pole.
Cruikshank performed several experiments to learn more about this unusual color combination. In dousing ices similar to those found on the dwarf planet with radiation, Cruikshank was able to produce a residual organic gunk known as tholin. The color of this substance — named in 1979 by Carl Sagan and his colleague Bishun Khare, who performed similar space-themed experiments that left behind tholin as a sticky residue — resembles the color of Charon's red spot, as well as the color of some features seen at Pluto.
In fact, tholin may be involved in both the gray and reddish hues at Charon.
"The neutral color of Charon is consistent with taking tholin material and irradiating it," Cruikshank said during his presentation. "You end up with graphite."
The reddish region at Charon's pole is likely a newer deposit, whereas the rest of the moon is covered with an older layer, Cruikshank said.
Hendrix called these results surprising. Radiation from the solar wind should be significantly weaker at Charon than it is at Ceres, because Charon lies, on average, about 10 times farther from the sun than Ceres does. If the moon's surface is covered with graphite, she said, "it likely formed a different way."
[Editor's Note: This article previously stated that Charon lies about three times farther from the sun than Ceres does. Charon is actually, on average, about ten times farther from the sun than Ceres is.]
Graphite Found at Pluto Moon Charon and Dwarf Planet Ceres
Graphite Found at Pluto Moon Charon and Dwarf Planet Ceres
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
The dull, gray surface of the dwarf planet Ceres may come from graphite as organic material is bombarded by radiation from the sun.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
The gray surfaces of the dwarf planet Ceres (the asteroid belt's largest resident) and Pluto's biggest moon, Charon, both show signs of containing forms of graphite, the material in pencil lead.
When NASA's Dawn spacecraft arrived at Ceres last year to embark on an orbital survey, it found a gray, icy world covered with debris left behind by impacts. Spectral observations of the object, which is both a dwarf planet and an asteroid, revealed evidence of a form of graphite called graphitized carbon on its surface, according to Amanda Hendrix, a senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona.
Graphitized carbon forms when carbon is heated to high temperatures in the absence of oxygen.
Hendrix studies how carbon forms in the inner solar system. She presented the results of her ultraviolet examination of Ceres at the Lunar and Planetary Sciences Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, in March.
Throughout Ceres' history, carbon-filled meteorites and asteroids have crashed into the dwarf planet. The solar wind's charged particles have collided with the deposited carbon, repeatedly reprocessing it to release hydrogen and leaving behind a dull, gray graphitized carbon. The dark material has a low albedo, meaning it doesn't reflect a lot of light.
"It hasn't evolved to proper graphite," Hendrix told Space.com. But it's close.
Similar carbon processing may occur on other objects in the asteroid belt, she said.
And earlier this year, scientists found that Mercury's surface has high levels of carbon, suggesting that it once boasted a graphite-rich crust.
Pluto's largest moon, Charon, has a dull, gray surface marred by a bright-red spot at the poles. As the red material is deposited, radiation may slowly dull its color, changing it to gray like the rest of the moon.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
A dull moon
The inner solar system isn't the only place to find a gray world. Only a few months after Dawn reached Ceres, NASA's New Horizons spacecraftflew by Pluto and revealed that the dwarf planet's largest moon, Charon, has a grayish appearance. That color could have been caused by graphite on the moon's surface, according to lab results presented at the conference by Dale Cruikshank, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center.
The presence of graphite at Charon presents a puzzle because New Horizons didn't spot carbon on Charon, but it did so at Pluto.
Before New Horizons arrived at Pluto, scientists hypothesized that the dwarf planet shared its atmosphere with its largest moon, and observations made by the spacecraft seem to confirm it. So carbon may travel from Pluto over to Charon, New Horizons scientists have said..
But although it is mostly gray, Charon also boasts a bright-red spot at its pole.
Cruikshank performed several experiments to learn more about this unusual color combination. In dousing ices similar to those found on the dwarf planet with radiation, Cruikshank was able to produce a residual organic gunk known as tholin. The color of this substance — named in 1979 by Carl Sagan and his colleague Bishun Khare, who performed similar space-themed experiments that left behind tholin as a sticky residue — resembles the color of Charon's red spot, as well as the color of some features seen at Pluto.
In fact, tholin may be involved in both the gray and reddish hues at Charon.
"The neutral color of Charon is consistent with taking tholin material and irradiating it," Cruikshank said during his presentation. "You end up with graphite."
The reddish region at Charon's pole is likely a newer deposit, whereas the rest of the moon is covered with an older layer, Cruikshank said.
Hendrix called these results surprising. Radiation from the solar wind should be significantly weaker at Charon than it is at Ceres, because Charon lies, on average, about 10 times farther from the sun than Ceres does. If the moon's surface is covered with graphite, she said, "it likely formed a different way."
[Editor's Note: This article previously stated that Charon lies about three times farther from the sun than Ceres does. Charon is actually, on average, about ten times farther from the sun than Ceres is.]
A video showing several purported UFO sightings across the US have sparked conspiracy theories that aliens landing on earth could be imminent.
The footage was uploaded to YouTube by Tyler Glockner, founder of Secure Team 10 , a UFO hunting website.
And Tyler now believes that the increased frequency of the sightings of 'alien crafts' could mean that they are about to make themselves known to humans.
First up, is a glowing orange orb that was spotted in the sky above Long Beach in California.
Youtube/Secureteam
The glowing orb hovering above Long Beach
Tyler says: "You will see a disc-shaped object. This object appears in the middle of this glowing orb [about halfway through the video].
"It looks to materialise, you can see it plain as day, sitting dead centre to where this orange radiation is coming from."
Youtube/Secureteam
Chinese lanterns?
The object then disappears again, although the orange orb remains in place.
The second video shows a cluster of lights hovering in the night sky in Omaha, Nebraska.
A man's voice in the background of the footage suggests that lights could be Chinese lanterns, but a woman quickly dismisses the idea.
Youtube/Secureteam
A cluster of lights were seen hovering over Detroit
A third piece of footage captured in Detroit, Michigan, again shows a dark night sky with several lights glimmering.
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What were the 'mysterious lights' in the sky above Greater Manchester this weekend?
What were the 'mysterious lights' in the sky above Greater Manchester this weekend?
BYADAM JOHN
People living in Tameside and in Gorton claim to have seen a strange phenomenon in the night sky over the past few days
The strange lights above Gorton
Residents in parts of Greater Manchester say the truth is out there... after snapping what they say were ‘mysterious lights’ in the sky.
People living in Tameside and in Gorton claim to have seen a strange phenomenon in the night sky.
Mitesh Tailor, 31, said he was amazed to spot ‘glowing lights’ above Ashton-under-Lyne’sHartshead Estate on Friday evening.
HR officer Mitesh first spotted the lights from his bedroom window on Friday, which he says have resumed even more brightly on Saturday and Sunday nights.
Intrigued by the phenomenon, Mitesh took photographs of what he saw shortly after midnight on Sunday.
He said: “At first I didn’t think much of it, on Friday I thought it was just normal but last night it was a lot brighter.
“It’s not the moon, that is on the other side of my house. They weren’t artificial lights either, the area is really dark.”
Mitesh Tailor
Shop worker Mitesh Tailor also took pictures of the 'mysterious light' above Ashton
And in a separate spotting, Gorton resident Zac Weaver also snapped images which show a strong milky light coming through the clouds.
Zac explained: “The light abve Gorton is back and as you can see in three of the photos there’s actually a little bright light above the tree that seems to move.
“This can’t be the stone roses events as that ended about an hour ago. And I know it wasn’t because of the event becasue the light hasn’t been there the past couple of days.”
Previously the MEN has reported a number of strange lights above Manchester, with some claiming that the lights were extraterrestrial visitors.
But Tameside resident Mitesh added: “I don’t believe in anything like that! I read the article a few weeks ago and they look very similar.
“I think it maybe Saturn coming closer to Earth, there is probably an astronomical reason.”
Saturn is the furthest planet that can be seen with the naked eye. Earth passed between Saturn and the sun on 3 June this year and for the next few months, the ringed planet will be at its brightest.
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Crops Grown in “Martian Soil” Are Healthy And Edible
Crops Grown in “Martian Soil” Are Healthy And Edible
NASA
IN BRIEF
Dutch scientists have successfully grown crops in soil developed by NASA to simulate the composition of Martian terrain. Tests done on four of the ten crops prove they are safe for humans to eat, and do not contain dangerous levels of metals.
FARMING MARS A POSSIBILITY
A team of scientists from the Wageningen University in the Netherlands used soil developed by NASA that simulated the composition of Martian soil, and they grew crops on it. The verdict: Crops grown in Martian soil would be safe for humans to eat.
This research, which has been ongoing since 2013, adds to the ever-growing support for the idea of colonizing Mars, an ambition SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is serious in pursuing. And given this new study, he is definitely not alone. NASA plans to bring humans to Mars in the next 10 to 15 years, so does Dutch company Mars One (though the Mars One mission is a little suspect).
The team was able to grow radishes, peas, rye and tomatoes and have found them safe to eat, since they did not contain dangerous levels of heavy metals, which Mars is known to contain.
Researcher Wieger Wamelink inspects crops from the “Martian” soil. Wageningen Ur.
Abundant harvests of radishes, peas, rye and tomatoes all grown on the soil were found to contain “no dangerous levels” of heavy metals, said the team from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. “These remarkable results are very promising,” said senior ecologist Wieger Wamelink.
“We can actually eat the radishes, peas, rye and tomatoes, and I am very curious what they will taste like.”
VERIFYING MARTIAN AGRICULTURE
A total of ten crops were grown in the soil and the remaining six of the crops will also be tested to see if they would absorb the high levels of metals in Martian soil, such as cadmium, copper, and lead.
These tests will ultimately reveal whether Martian settlers can be self-sustaining—will they be able to easily bring crops and plant them there?
Definitely not far out. Matt Damon farms his crops in a scene from “The Martian,” 2015.
“It’s important to test as many crops as possible, to make sure that settlers on Mars have access to a broad variety of different food sources,” said Wamelink.
Hubble Found a Dark Spot on Neptune, And It’s As Wide As the United States
Hubble Found a Dark Spot on Neptune, And It’s As Wide As the United States
Futurism M.A
IN BRIEF
Hubble has just confirmed a new Dark Spot on the surface of Neptune. The vortex is ultimately the first observed on the blue world in the 21st century.
Announced just a few days ago (June 23), images captured by the telescope confirmed the existence of the vortex, the first one observed in the 21st century.
Credit: hubblesite.org
Neptune’s dark vortices are high-pressure systems and are usually accompanied by bright “companion clouds,” which are also now visible on the distant planet. The bright clouds form when the flow of ambient air is perturbed and diverted upward over the dark vortex, causing gases to likely freeze into methane ice crystals.
Observers reported seeing bright clouds on Neptune in July 2015, possible signs of companion clouds accompanying a dark vortex.
In September 2015, the Outer Planet Atmospheres Legacy (OPAL) program, revealed a dark spot close to the location of the bright clouds, which had been tracked from the ground. The new Hubble images captured May 16 confirmed OPAL’s findings.
In 2013 NASA went out to explore the two Van Allen Belts–rings of radiation that surround the Earth and affect technologies such as satellite communications and GPS. Much to NASA’s surprise, they discovered not two, but three Van Allen Belts. To their even greater surprise, the third belt seemed to disappear just a few weeks later, and no one was entirely sure why. The answer, it turns out, lies in ‘space tsunamis.’
The Van Allen belts are named for Jame Van Allen, who discovered the belts by accident in 1958 in the early years of space exploration. These belts are regions within the magnetosphere that are comprised of high energy electrons and protons trapped by the Earth’s magnetic field.
And the magnetosphere where the Van Allen belts live–starting at 10,000 km above Earth–is key to protecting the Earth from powerful solar winds and the plasma that is carried on these winds. Some solar winds will produce astounding auroral effects like the Northern Lights, but more aggressive solar winds can be so strong as to create disturbances to electric grids here on Earth.
These storms create ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves of plasma, and it turns out that these waves are strong enough to send the radiation of the outer Van Allen belt harmlessly into interplanetary space. As Ian Mann, a physics professor at the University of Alberta explained and lead author of a study on the discovery explained:
Remarkably, we observed huge plasma waves. Rather like a space tsunami, they slosh the radiation belts around and very rapidly wash away the outer part of the belt, explaining the structure of the enigmatic third belt. We have discovered a very elegant explanation for the dynamics of the third belt. Our results show a remarkable simplicity in belt response once the dominant processes are accurately specified.
And with that, the bizarre mystery of the disappearing third Van Allen belt is solved–and researchers have some more information to help reduce the risk of disruption that space radiation could have on modern technologies used here on Earth.
In 2013 NASA went out to explore the two Van Allen Belts–rings of radiation that surround the Earth and affect technologies such as satellite communications and GPS. Much to NASA’s surprise, they discovered not two, but three Van Allen Belts. To their even greater surprise, the third belt seemed to disappear just a few weeks later, and no one was entirely sure why. The answer, it turns out, lies in ‘space tsunamis.’
The Van Allen belts are named for Jame Van Allen, who discovered the belts by accident in 1958 in the early years of space exploration. These belts are regions within the magnetosphere that are comprised of high energy electrons and protons trapped by the Earth’s magnetic field.
And the magnetosphere where the Van Allen belts live–starting at 10,000 km above Earth–is key to protecting the Earth from powerful solar winds and the plasma that is carried on these winds. Some solar winds will produce astounding auroral effects like the Northern Lights, but more aggressive solar winds can be so strong as to create disturbances to electric grids here on Earth.
These storms create ultra-low frequency (ULF) waves of plasma, and it turns out that these waves are strong enough to send the radiation of the outer Van Allen belt harmlessly into interplanetary space. As Ian Mann, a physics professor at the University of Alberta explained and lead author of a study on the discovery explained:
Remarkably, we observed huge plasma waves. Rather like a space tsunami, they slosh the radiation belts around and very rapidly wash away the outer part of the belt, explaining the structure of the enigmatic third belt. We have discovered a very elegant explanation for the dynamics of the third belt. Our results show a remarkable simplicity in belt response once the dominant processes are accurately specified.
And with that, the bizarre mystery of the disappearing third Van Allen belt is solved–and researchers have some more information to help reduce the risk of disruption that space radiation could have on modern technologies used here on Earth.
An unusual object spotted in the skies over Manchester, England, was filmed recently (well, fairly recently, as we’ll see in a moment), in footage that depicts a flying object described by some as resembling a “torpedo.”
The object, which can be seen in the video below, appears to change color (possibly due to the way light is reflected off of it), as it passes through the sky over the area where it was filmed:
However, there are some issues with the film, or more importantly, the way it is being reported on various news sites. Despite being referred to variously by the Express as “new video footage of a strange cigar-shaped UFO” and “the latest clip”, the footage actually appears to date all the way back to December of last year, according to the YouTube account that uploaded it. Furthermore, no other data appears to have been added along with the video at that time, further removing the film — whatever it shows — from the realm of objectivity.
East Coast Radio in New Zealand, referring to the video as “the world’s scariest UFO sighting ever”, noted that the video was accompanied by the following caption, “Knowing how high it appeared in the sky, I’m guessing its size was massive.” However, the article only mentions that the film was shared via social media, followed by a link to the YouTube video in question which, as stated earlier, does not appear to contain the caption cited here. So what is the object?
The Express further reported that according to one researcher, the object, while resembling a strange “cigar shaped UFO”, was likely to have been a solar balloon of some variety. A number of these balloons are commercially available for purchase, such as the Solar Airship, which is described by online retailer Enviro Gadget as being “a cross between a hot air balloon and a kite. The 8 m long black plastic tube fills with air which heats up, sending it into the air. A 50 M line is attached to tether the airship like a kite.”
Elsewhere, similar models are marketed as “UFO Airships” like this one. With little doubt, the object in the “new” (read: several-months-old) video is merely a solar balloon… which brings us to the $64 question: why is any of this even important?
On the subject of balloons and torpedo or cigar-shaped UFOs, there is actually quite a bit of interesting commentary that can be provided, since it addresses many of the misconceptions about what a UFO is generally alleged to look like, as well as how individuals may perceive (or misperceive) them. In 2014, another variety of balloon managed to spark a small UFO flap over the southeastern United States, when one of Google’s early prototypes for using high-altitude balloons to deliver wifi internet was seen high in the sky by residents in Kentucky and Tennessee:
“This is a balloon that went rogue,” said Google X Rapid Evaluation team leader Rich DeVaul at Smithsonian magazine’s “The Future is Here” festival in Washington, D.C., on May 17. “No one outside Google X knows this,” DeVaul added.
Interestingly, the reports filed by the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), rather than elaborating on the object and attributing “UFO” features to it, instead described the object very much like the balloon it turned out to be:
10:00 AM:Rotating cylinder climbing vertically in sky. Observed for more than one hour over the Piney Flats area.
11:30 AM:Observed tube extend from cylinder shaped object on clear day for approximately 1 hour.
11:45 AM:Silver, slowly rotating, pole shaped object seen in broad daylight. Observation lasted 7 minutes.
12:10 PM: Metallic cylindrical object seen hovering over Johnson City, TN. Observation lasted 20 minutes.
I found this to be significant when I wrote about it two years ago, since it seemed to show that people’s descriptions of the object they observed remained rather grounded, contrary to the notion that an object, when misidentified as being an aircraft or “UFO” of some variety, will also be exaggerated with features like windows, lights, etc, by observers. This may not always be the case, after all.
And of course, while the Express reported that the object in the “new” video, featured earlier in this post, had been “long and narrow, rather than the disc-shape commonly associated with UFOs,” there are in fact a number of reports from over the years that describe cigar shaped objects. In fact, despite the popular “disc” or “saucer” shape popularly attributed to UFOs after Kenneth Arnold’s sighting in the summer of 1947, one year earlier Captain Jack Puckett of Strategic Air Command, while piloting a C-47 en route to MacDill Field, Tampa, Florida, nearly collided with a long, tubular “rocket” with illuminated portholes, which produced a plume of smoke behind it as it traveled.
Puckett’s written statement on the incident read as follows:
“At approximately 6 p.m., while flying at 4000 feet northeast of Tampa, I observed what I thought to be a shooting star to the southeast over the Atlantic Ocean. My copilot, Lieutenant Henry F. Glass, and my engineer both observed this object at the same time. This object continued toward us on a collision course at our exact altitude. At about 1,000 yards it veered to cross our path. We observed it to be a long, cylindrical shape approximately twice the size of a B-29, with luminous portholes.”
Also in the summer of 1946, reports of “ghost rockets” over Scandinavia entailed missile or torpedo-like objects. Hence, despite the popular “Flying Saucer” meme, many of the earliest UFO reports –if not the majority — actually did involve torpedo or cigar-shaped objects which, at times, were very unlike our typical notions about what a UFO “should” look like.
It’s important, from time to time, to break down these preconceptions, especially since this helps us in the broader study of UFOs to understand what, precisely, we are looking at in our skies. And, as the earlier case illustrates, sometimes the UFOs that turn up in videos online, despite their weird appearance, do have quite plausible explanations, whether they be solar balloons sent aloft by hobbyists, or giant wifi hotspots sent skyward by Google!
Ball lightning has been blamed for more UFO sightings than weather balloons and for more ghost sightings than reflections. Part of the problem is that, like UFOs and ghosts, no one can really explain ball lightning either. That may change with a new theory from a Chinese scientist that could explain how these sometimes tiny luminous balls form and how they can seemingly pass through walls to float inside houses and even airplanes.
While called “lightning” because it generally appears during thunderstorms, ball lightning doesn’t act like conventional lightning. It’s spherical, often small and is visible longer than a lightning bolt. Photographs of it are rare, attempts to recreate it in a lab are futile and stories about sightings can border on the unbelievable.
An ‘amazing’ recreation of ball lightning appearing in a room
Enter H.C. Wu, a researcher at the Institute for Fusion Theory and Simulation (IFTS) and Department of Physics at China’s Zhejiang University. In his paper published recently inScientific Reports, he claims to successfully explain many of the reported but unsubstantiated characteristics of ball lightning.
Wu’s theorizes that ball lightning begins when a bolt of conventional lightning hits the ground or an object and accelerates electrons, causing them to release microwave radiation. This radiation then charges the air around it, forming a “spherical plasma bubble” that envelops and traps the radiation. That spherical plasma bubble is ball lightning.
Ball lightning or UFO?
This may explain outdoor ball lighting, but what about the luminescent floating orbs reportedly seen indoors and in airplane cabins? Wu claims that the electrons are moving at nearly the speed of light, which allows them to pass through walls and the metal skin of planes. Really?
He also postulates that the microwave radiation produces chemicals that cause ball lightning’s reportedly foul smell (plausible) and they give it the explosive powers often reported just prior to the smell (like an egg ina microwave?).
Ball lightning, orb or something else?
Wu’s study proposes a number of ways ball lightning might be created in a lab but – in case any kids with access to electricity and microwaves read Scientific Reports – warns that ball lightning is “an alarm signal of the existence of ultrastrong microwaves and abundantly hazardous electrons near the ground or aircraft.”
Is this a sufficient explanation for ball lightning? Does it clear up any UFO, glowing orb or ghost sightings for you?
For those who claim to have had close-encounters with landed UFO craft over the decades, experiences of this sort are recognized as having long-lasting effects on witnesses. Sometimes there are physical changes that occur, which may affect the health of an individual, or even present some residual presence on the environment, which suggests a physical interaction that had taken place.
Occasionally, the broader influence of these kinds of incidents may go well beyond even what the witness experienced, or what was found there afterward. Staking their claim in the histories of the places where they occurred, some UFO incidents have left such a lasting impression that they have been made into memorial sites, as tributes built in their memory.
Perhaps the most famous commemorative sites relating to purported UFO landings is the “UFO Trail” near Suffolk, England, which remembers the famous Rendlesham Forest Incident. The trail is befitted with triangular signs, no doubt an artistic touch that was intended as nod to the triangular or pyramid-shaped craft observed there over the course of several nights in December, 1980.
In Scotland, a similar memorial commemorates the purported “attack” of a man named Robert Taylor, who one year prior to the Rendlesham incident, claimed to have observed the landing of an unusual aircraft at Dechmont Law in Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland in November, 1979. Taylor was a forestry worker at the time, and said a pair of objects that emerged from the landed UFO attempted to drag him on board the craft; he later returned home appearing disheveled, and complained to his wife that he had been attacked. Taylor’s story is further detailed in thevideo below:
Other locations may present less convincing circumstances, despite the memorials that exist there. On May 18, 1946, roughly coinciding with the beginning of Sweden’s “ghost rocket” wave that year, a Swedish businessman Gösta Carlsson claimed to have observed a UFO land near a forested area of Kronoskogen, outside Ängelholm. Researcher Clas Svahn, who studied the incident in-depth (and even authored a book with Carlsson on the case), later reported that no evidence seemed to exist that could substantiate Carlsson’s sighting.
The Ängelholm UFO memorial site.
One of the most peculiar alleged close encounters that would eventually be commemorated with a landmark at the location occurred near Emilicin, Poland, on May 10, 1978. Farmer Jan Wolski was driving a horse-drawn carriage near his home when he observed an elongated, bus-sized aircraft hovering several feet off the ground, which somewhat resembled an Airstream luxury trailer with peculiar external fittings. A number of smallish individuals appeared around Wolski, who joined him on his cart and directed him toward the object. Strangely, Wolski had mistaken them for being “foreigners” due to the language they spoke, and despite the apparent greenish coloration of their faces, which bore peculiar, slanted eyes. Once they reached the object over the field, Wolski was taken aboard, and advised to disrobe, at which time an examination by two objects resembling plates or “saucers”. After this unusual examination, Wolski was allowed to dress, and was offered to partake in an unusual meal with the “creatures” ow what resembled icicles.
Wolski returned to the location later that day with his sons, and a few of his neighbors, but by that time the unusual “craft” had vanished, though evidence of grass nearby that was “trodden down covered with dew and paths coming in all directions” could still be observed. Today, a memorial that exists there commemorate’s Wolski’s unusual experience, stating that, “On 10 May 1978 in Emilcin a UFO object landed. The truth will astonish us in the future”.
Whether or not any “astonishing” future truths are yet to be afforded us is anyone’s guess. However, the stories of these unusual UFO events have indeed been preserved for future generations, thanks to the work of a handful in our midst that are dedicated to understanding, and preserving the history of the ongoing UFO mystery.
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UFO Caught Over Forest Landing Near Eyewitness In California On June 22, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Caught Over Forest Landing Near Eyewitness In California On June 22, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Unaltered photos here. Original.
Date of sighting: June 22, 2016 Location of sighting: Yuba River, Dobbins, California, USA Source: MUFON #77296 UFOs often move fast, so fast that the human eye would not be able to notice it. The digital eye is more perfect and can capture most UFOs, but some are just too fast. This is a great capture of a classic style disk with a raised center dome on top. From the photo I can see a cloud like smear of color above it. That is the direction from which it came. It was heading down. It was probably landing in the trees not far from this person. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Below is altered color to see its detail better.
Eyewitness states: On Wednesday, June 22, I was on a boat fishing trip with my father. We were on the North Fork of the Yuba River. On this day at about 5pm I took several pictures of the surrounding canyon and forrest. We returned home on Thursday June 23. While reviewing all the camping photos, I observed an object in the sky above the treeline in one of the pictures. I had taken three pictures within a few seconds of each other. The second picture has the object. The first and third picture of the same location have no object in them. The object looks rectangular, and shiny silver or white on one side. In the location where the photo was taken there were no aircraft in the sky and the only birds we had had seen were hawks or vultures. The area we were in is very secluded. There were no other people around, and no noise other than the river going over a rock bed.
I was looking over Hubble Telescope photographs, when I ran across this round, snail shaped structure that sits on a rectangle shaped base. I had seen it before, and thought it would be fun to go over it again. The structure appears to be a space station that is sitting within the Crab Nebula, however there is by all accounts more. I looked over the Nebula deliberately and it appears that it is not left overs of a supernova, but may actually be a solid material...like a giant sponge-like structure. The idea of a solid nebula may be a new one, but it makes sense. The root like appendages reach out and can be continually expanded upon over the ages as the population grows. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Explaining the Great Flood, Atlantis, and humans in North America Using Science, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Explaining the Great Flood, Atlantis, and humans in North America Using Science, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of video: June 17, 2016 I really like his ideas in this video. It does make a great hypothesis about what could have caused such floods and changes with the Earth long ago. The Earth is continually moving and so are other things in space, like clouds. Particularly interesting is his thoughts about Plato. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Video states: I’ll set the ground work for each scenario. I am pretty sure the Great Flood did happen. While it is popularized as a Christian story in English speaking countries, the Great Flood transcends almost every single culture around the world. So I don’t doubt it happened. But the main issue is where did the water come from? Most of theories I have seen require bending the rules of the observable reality that we live in. Next is the Firmament. The firmament is something in the book of Genesis that talks about a body of water surrounding the Earth. There is also some interpretation that while the firmament was in place it did not rain much if at all on Earth. After the flood the firmament is gone and today we get lots of rain.
Atlantis is a fabled city written about by Plato in the 300BC time frame. It’s really a tale about an advanced civilization that existed at one time, but vanished at some point. The idea I like about this, is is it possible that humans were more advanced that we thought and something reset us…akin to the saying “send us back to the stone age”. I do not think this is baseless idea, because even today in our current world we have humans that have gone to Moon and sent probes into space, yet there are humans on this planet that still are in the foraging phase.
And finally my last topic is that of humans getting to the Americas. It is believed that humans started in the middle east somewhere around Mesopotamia which is in modern day Iraq. The narrative I was taught as a child was the humans crossed from Russia to North America over a land bridge made of ice during an Ice Age. But there is some disagreement about the earliest humans in the America’s versus when Ice Ages happened. I think this land bridge route is still valid, but I do not require an ice age to cross it. So lets start with the idea that the world we observe today is the same as the way the world was in pre-historic times. The physics and all the other rules are still the same. The water cycle still holds true. So we can assume that amount of the water on the planet today is the amount of water that was on the planet after the Great Flood.
And we can assume that if we do not see a sphere of water surrounding the Earth now, there probably wasn’t one in the past. So that would mean the only way that all this water could be here now, is if it wasn’t here to begin with. With less water that would mean that there could have easily been a real land bridge between Alaska and Russia. They did not have to cross during an ice age. The bridge would have accessible at all times. The Bering Strait is only about 160 feet deep. If we lowered the Earths oceans by 160 feet, that means that much more land would be available throughout the world.
For as long as history has been written, water passages have always been the most important places for humans to live. Even today we see that on the coasts there are metropolitan areas, while deep in the inland the people are much less advanced in terms of quality of life. That has changed in the last 100 years due to motor travel. But up until that point living on the coast or a river was the only way to have successful trade or strategic military advantage. So here is the idea. Back in 2011 I saw this article about how scientists had discovered a massive cloud of water deep in space. What if as one point one of these clouds passed through our solar system? It would probably take while to get here maybe a couple hundred years. But during that time a couple hundred years 6-7 generations word of mouth was the only real way to pass history. So for them 2 or 3 generations is all it would take to be “forever”.
During that time the Suns reflection and heat in the atmosphere would make it appear to be sparkling water in the sky, which could explain the firmament. Once the cloud got near Earth and we started passing through it, the frozen water would melt in the atmosphere and completely saturate the air, it would then start raining. And it would not be localized like what we see now, it would be entire Earth being rained on for an extended period of time. All that water would rush out to the ocean and anything near rivers or oceans, like a human population for example, would be washed out to sea and buried by all the sediments picked up from higher elevation.
Think of the world as one big mud slide. The people living in the higher elevations would not be as threatened by the flooding. And so the more advanced civilization would be destroyed and only the more simple societies in the highlands would be left, hence a reset. Once this space cloud passed, things would settle down and Earth would have a lot more water content.
Argentina UFO: Is It a ‘Pleiadian’ or Nordic Alien Base?
Argentina UFO: Is It a ‘Pleiadian’ or Nordic Alien Base?
Humans live believing that they are the only ones that exist on earth, which is why the alleged existence of aliens has long been a debatable topic. Nordic or Pleiadians aliens refer to the alien race, which are extraterrestrial humanoid creatures from the cluster of stars. Recently, paranormal researchers have made a strange claim that these humanoid creatures have been discovered in a secluded area within the rural Argentina about 70 miles from Salta. Human history is saturated with alien invasions, hundreds of them, and that such attacks have occurred on every continent and in every epoch of world history. The alien invasions continue this day much more in Argentina, where a larger invasion would possible takes place according to the alien hunters.
They even added that their existence was concluded after a careful and thorough research as it is tough for the strangers who are unfamiliar with the unexploited and undeveloped land in Northern Argentina. To make their presence known, the guests who make it to their gates should ring the bell. An investigator recently entered the private community. Members of the community allegedly confessed that they were alien beings from a distant star. According to local paranormal investigators, two Pleiadian communities are the only two identified cultures in Salta, but it is believed that more than thirty are in private communities. In a place nearby Cafayate, there is a community descended from Pleiadian settlers that have been uncovered. In a naked eye, there are only seven stars in the cluster that are visible, but it has been contended that there are hundreds of stars in the system. Nordic aliens or Pleiadians appears totally like humans. In fact, it is very challenging for the untrained eye to tell the difference between them. Hence, they were able to live with the humans undetected for years. Nordic alien or Pleiadian has exaggerated Nordic and Scandinavian features, such as skin, fair hair, and blue eyes.
Resources from Space is a series of videos that explains how we may obtain energy and raw materials from beyond our first planet. Please click a thumbnail below to watch a video, or read on for more information in text and images.
The resource requirements of the human race continue to escalate, with the United Nations anticipating a three-fold increase in resource usage between 2010 and 2050. In response, over the past few decades there has been an increasing focus on 'sustainability' initiatives like recycling and transitioning to alternative energy sources. However, all such measures to consume less can at best only constitute a short-term solution to the resource requirements of future generations. In the long-term, we will therefore need to move Beyond Sustainability to both consume less and find more.
As the resource supplies of the Earth continue to dwindle, the only place we can find fresh supplies of both energy and raw materials is out in space. This could involve the mining of the asteroids and the Moon. But, before that occurs, our most likely option for obtaining exterrestrial resources is space-based solar power.
Solar Energy from Space
Space-based solar power, also known just as space solar power, would generate off-world energy by placing solar power satellites in orbit. These would receive sunlight before it hit the Earth, and would wirelessly transmit their collected energy to a receiving station on the ground. For safe operation, wireless power transmission frequencies would need to be chosen that would not damage animals, plants or machines caught in the beam.
Solar power satellites would be immune to cloud cover, the changing seasons, and atmospheric haze. In a geostationary orbit some 22,000 miles above the Earth, they would also be largely unaffected by night time shadow. Solar power satellites therefore have the potential to be around ten times more efficient than ground-based solar power installations.
Designs for a space-based solar power system were first developed by an American engineer called Peter Glaser, who in 1973 obtained a patent for his 'method and apparatus for converting solar radiation to electrical power'. This envisaged solar power satellites with microwave antennas that would transmit power to large Earth-based receivers called 'rectennas'.
Since Glaser's pioneering endeavours, significant development work has taken place in the United States, Canada, Europe, Japan, China and India. For example, in the 1970s, NASA and the US Department of Energy spent about $20 million on feasibility studies. Between 1995 and 1997, NASA again looked at space-based solar power under an initiative called Fresh Looks. In 2007, the US National Security Space Office also presented a detailed analysis, while in 2009 Pacific Gas and Electric, and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), both put forward ambitious plans. By 2010, in Europe EADS Astrium had also begun to seek partners for a demonstration mission. In 2011, the International Academy of Astronautics, or the IAA, then produced its highly detailed First International Assessment Of Space Solar Power. In April 2014 , JAXA even revealed plans for a space-based solar power system to provide energy to Tokyo by 2030.
According to the 2011 IAA report, 'there are no fundamental technical barriers that would prevent the realization of large-scale SPS platforms during the coming decades.' Having considered many possible approaches, the IAA also highlighted three as the most viable.
The IAA's Type I architecture is based on the now 'classic' Solar Power Satellite Reference System developed in 1979 by NASA and the US Department of Energy. Here, one or more very large arrays of photovoltaic solar panels are coupled to a microwave power transmission system. The architecture requires a large, stabilized platform that rotates on three axis to keep its solar panels pointed at the Sun, and its power transmission dish targeted at a receiving station on the Earth.
The IAA's Type II system transmits solar energy to the Earth using multiple lasers that target a photovoltaic rectenna. While solar-pumped lasers could be used to directly channel focused sunlight to the Earth, electric lasers are likely to prove more effective. Here, sunlight would be turned into electricity using large photovoltaic arrays as in a Type I system. But the power would then transmitted to the Earth by many laser beams operating at the near-visible part of the spectrum. A Type II architecture could comprise an integrated platform with multiple laser installations, or a constellation of single laser platforms.
Finally, the IAA's Type III system is a based on a symmetrical optical concentrator or 'sandwich' design that does not require very large photovoltaic panels. Rather, vast arrays of mirrors collect and redirect sunlight onto much smaller photovoltaic solar cells. The electricity so created is then transmitted to the Earth via a single microwave link. Such an approach requires a less complex power management and distribution arrangement than in than a Type I or Type II system, as captured solar energy would largely be moved around via light redirection, rather than through a physical electrical infrastructure. Type III systems may therefore prove the most viable to construct.
Given that all life as we know it depends on energy from the Sun, it is perhaps hardly surprising that interest in space-based solar power has been growing for over 40 years. Many tentative ventures have even been announced, although no major industrial player or government has yet committed significant resources. This said, several smaller firms -- including SpaceEnergy and Powersat -- continue to pioneer. The recent JAXA announcement also sounds rather hopeful. It is also worth noting that all of the technologies required to build solar power satellites already exist, with advancements in the necessary solar technologies continuing to be made. The transmission of energy over long distances using either microwaves or lasers is also long since proven. A few decades from now, Peter Glaser's vision of obtaining energy from space may therefore become a reality.
While space-based solar power may help to meet some of our future energy needs, it will not assist with the supply of physical resources. To fulfil our future requirement for new raw materials, space pioneers will subsequently have to travel far beyond the Earth to destinations including the Moon and the asteroids.
Asteroids -- also known as minor planets or planetoids -- are chunks of space debris in orbit around the Sun. They are the material left over from the formation of the planets, and range from a few metres, to hundreds of kilometres in diameter.
Most asteroids are located in the Main Asteroid Belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. This contains millions of asteroids, of which 750,000 are more than 1 km across, with over 200 exceeding 100 km in diameter. Asteroids in the Main Belt are so spread out that most are hundreds of thousands of kilometres apart.
Located outside the Main Belt are three groups of 'near-Earth' asteroids called the Atens, the Amors and the Apollos. These contain about 9,000 asteroids, with nearly 1,000 more than a kilometer in size. Due to their relative proximity to our planet, some 1,500 near-Earth asteroids are prime candidates for mining operations.
Asteroids are made of many different materials, with the majority classified as C-type, S-type or M-type. C-type or carbonaceous asteroids are the most common, are greyish in colour, and are thought to consist of carbon compounds, rock, up to 20 per cent water, and some metals. S-type or silicaceous asteroids are then greenish to reddish in colour, and are mostly made of iron and magnesium silicates, with smaller quantities of pure nickel and iron, as well as some platinum group metals. Finally, M-type or metallic asteroids are reddish in colour, and mainly composed of pure nickel and iron, with smaller platinum group deposits. A single, platinum-rich, 500 metre wide asteroid has been estimated to contain up to 174 times the yearly world output of this highly precious material, and 1.5 times the known world-reserves of platinum group metals.
Out in space, the water to be found on C-type asteroids will be just as valuable as metal deposits, as water is a critical commodity both for sustaining humans in space, and as a source of oxygen for rocket fuel. Even basic asteroid rock may prove a valuable building material, as it could shield humans from deadly radiation. As all of these examples illustrate, there are significant possibilities to exploit asteroids as a valuable source of extraterrestrial resources. It has indeed already been calculated that some individual asteroids contain raw materials worth more than one hundred billion dollars.
Asteroids are likely to be easier to mine than the Moon. This is because even the largest asteroids have very low gravitational fields. This means that it would be relatively straight-forward for spacecraft to both travel to asteroids, and to launch back into space. Extracted metals, water and other valuable raw materials could therefore be readily transported to the Earth or other locations, perhaps in vast rocket trains.
Once suitable asteroids have been identified, they could be mined in various ways. For a start, on larger asteroids, bases may be established. Here any human quarters may be cut deep into the rock to provide shielding from deadly cosmic rays. Industrial facilities attached to the surface of the asteroid would then process and store extracted materials.
As an alternative to establishing long-term bases, limpet ships may temporarily attach themselves to asteroids large or small. These potentially robotic mining craft would then eat into the surface, and accumulate extracted raw materials in their cargo bays. Limpet ships are likely to be the preferred option to mine smaller asteroids, or to extract concentrated deposits of critical materials from large asteroids that are largely comprised of less valuable rock.
And as yet another option, processing stations may be positioned near a large asteroid or any densely populated part of a field. Small asteroids or laser-cut asteroid sections would then be fed to the processing station, refined into useful materials, and once again sent back to the Earth. Alternatively, rocket trains may transport small captured asteroids or asteroid sections to processing stations in Earth orbit.
While asteroid mining may sound like science fiction, two companies already have pioneering ambitions. The first is Planetary Resources, which intends to bring the natural resources of space within humanity's economic sphere of influence. Also on an asteroid mining crusade is Deep Space Industries, who note that 'the resource potential of space outstrips that of any previous frontier - [and] without the environmental impacts'. Both Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries plan to commence their off-world activities by prospecting with small satellites.
Asteroid mining will not be easy, and is currently not an economic proposition. But, with the natural resources demanded by humanity set to triple by 2050, and with finite materials here on Earth, we could be excavating space rock not that many decades from now. Further, by the middle of this century, there could also be mining operations on the Moon.
Mining the Moon
Since the dawn of recorded history, human beings have looked up to the Moon. To date, only twelve of us have stood on its surface and looked back to Mother Earth, with the last Apollo astronaut having departed in 1972. But, over forty years on, there is now an increasing appetite for a return trip.
In the last decade Russia, China and the United States have all signalled some level of intention to build a future lunar base. In December 2013, the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program even landed a robotic rover, while in April 2014 Russia reiterated its plans to inhabit the Moon 'forever'. In January 2014, NASA also announced a programme calledLunar CATALYST -- or 'Lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown' -- that will help commercial companies to develop lunar transportation capabilities.
Several private companies, including Moon Express and SpaceIL, now also have lunar ambitions. In part, such pioneers are being spurred on by the Google Lunar X Prize. This was launched in September 2007, and offers $30 million to the first private company to land a robot on the Moon, travel 500 meters, and send two high-definition "Mooncasts" back to the Earth. Thirty-three teams initially registered for this grand challenge to create another 'Apollo moment', with eighteen still in the game to reach the Moon by the competition deadline of 31st December 2015.
Commercial organizations are interested in the Moon as a potential source of raw materials. In particular, our lonely satellite is thought to harbour substantial deposits of cobalt, iron, gold, palladium, platinum, titanium, tungsten and uranium. Since 2009, NASA experiments have also confirmed the presence of water on the Moon, which could prove critical in supporting long-term human occupation. However, the most valuable deposit may be a gas called helium-3 that could fuel future nuclear reactors.
At present, all nuclear power stations use a process called nuclear fission to generate heat and subsequently electricity. Specifically, inside current fission reactors, atoms of uranium or plutonium are struck by neutrons that break them apart. This releases atomic energy, but also results in highly toxic nuclear waste.
In contrast, in future nuclear fission power plants, two fuels could be atomically fused together in a reaction that would not create any nuclear waste. This is where helium-3 comes in, as it could be used in combination with deuterium to power fusion reactors whose only by-product is normal helium and stray protons -- although admittedly the latter will prove difficult to contain. Even so, helium-3/deuterium power stations do have the potential to safely fuel the world in the future.
The problem is, helium-3 does not occur naturally on the Earth. It is, however, emitted by the Sun, and has been accumulating on the surface of the Moon for billions of years. Estimates suggest that there are now over 1.1 million tonnes of helium-3 captured in the first few metres of lunar top soil, and that around one hundred tonnes of helium-3 could fuel our entire planet for a year. Helium-3 is therefore worth billions of dollars a tonne -- so making it potentially economic to mine from the Moon, even with current space technology.
To be commercially viable, any future helium-3 mining operation would have to excavate Moon rock and extract the gas from it on the lunar surface. Mining helium-3 -- or anything else -- on the Moon would therefore require the construction and operation of a significant industrial infrastructure. Such a facility could be powered by the Sun, and may in part be constructed from lunar materials. In fact, the European Space Agency has already funded experiments with a massive 3D printer that may build future lunar dwellings by spaying a binder onto successive layers of powdered Moon rock. This would rapidly produce a very strong and thick structure that would shield its occupants from cosmic rays.
Over the years, The United States, Russia and China have announced various intents to prospect for helium-3 on the Moon, and to set up potential mining operations. But at the time of writing, only China has remotely significant plans with its Chang’e lunar exploration program that has the goal of sending astronauts to the Moon by the early 2020s. This is discussed in more depth by Fabrizio Bozzato in this June 2014 article forThe Diplomat, which in turn is based on his far more extensive and excellent paper here. I also had a chat about the subject with the BBC a few weeks later, as you can hear here.
To avoid the problems inherent in transporting physical materials across 250,000 miles of space, future lunar colonies may beam pure energy directly to the Earth using either microwaves or lasers. Such energy could be generated either by nuclear power stations constructed on the Moon, or else by vast solar arrays manufactured from lunar materials and spread across great swathes of the lunar surface. If this ever happens, the Moon may become the next, great super-power -- dependent on the Earth for some supplies, but dominating its economy.
Our Inevitable Future
All of our endeavours to harvest off-world resources are going to be complex, risky and expensive. And yet, if we don't at least try to obtain resources from space, we face an inevitable future of increasing scarcity, mass depopulation, and relentless decline.
As we pursue the new industrial frontiers of space-based solar power, asteroid mining, and mining the moon, we may perhaps additionally bolster the human spirit by creating a thriving space tourism industry, and just possibly by landing the first human being on Mars. Unless we become extinct first, the destiny of human civilization has to be to evolve into space. The ideas outlined on this page, and in my accompanying "Resources from Space" videos, may therefore be just the beginning . . .
Humanity’s Future in Space Depends on Asteroid Mining
Humanity’s Future in Space Depends on Asteroid Mining
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IN BRIEF
Governments around the globe are teaming with private companies in order to make asteroid mining a reality. Experts assert that we could be engaged in mining operations within the next decade. Here's a breakdown of how we'll do it, and why we need to.
As Earth’s population continues to swell, the strain on our planet’s resources continues to grow. And although ecologists assert that we aren’t at the tipping point just yet, Earth has a finite amount of resources. Eventually, we are going to run out, so it makes sense to start planning for that inevitability now.
One of the most promising avenues? Space.
MINING THE COSMOS
Asteroid mining is an endeavor that aims to acquire natural resources from comets, asteroids, and minor planetary bodies in our solar system. In invokes images of Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck (two of the most well know asteroid miners from cinema); however, asteroid mining isn’t just the stuff of science fiction.
In fact, asteroid mining is quickly becoming a reality, and with good reason.
Want to know how asteroid mining will work? Click the image to see Futurism’s infographic.
According to NASA, the mineral wealth that can be found in the asteroid belt (the region of space that exists between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter) equals out to the equivalent of just about 100 billion dollars for every person on Earth today. That’s a lot of wealth, but more importantly, that’s a lot of resources—and resources (not monetary gains) is really what space mining is all about.
If you aren’t aware, getting materials from planet Earth to outer space takes an extravagant amount of fuel, and that means an extravagant amount of money. To that end, by acquiring raw materials from space itself, we could develop a host of space structures (such as colonies or space stations) and even generate rocket fuel, which will ultimately be needed if we ever hope to explore and colonize our solar system in a way that is economically viable.
As Planetary Resources CEO Chris Lewicki asserts, “Whether it’s the air we breathe, the water we drink, the materials that we build things with, or ultimately, of course, the food that we eat…all of these things are available to us on this planet, but when we head into space, we have to bring all of it with us. That of course, isn’t very scalable.” And to that end, NASA states that, in the 21st century, space exploration will be reliant upon what we can mine in the cosmos: “The metals and minerals found on asteroids will provide the raw materials for space structures, and comets will become the watering holes and gas stations for interplanetary spacecraft.”
To that end, a host of governments and private companies are already working on asteroid mining projects. Luxembourg recently established a €220 million fund for space mining projects; the United States signed the Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act into law (which recognizes the right of U.S. citizens to own asteroid resources); and private companies like Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries have a number of technologies in production to help humanity mine the cosmos.
But how long will it really take us to get there?
ASTEROID MINING: A TIMELINE
Of course, there is a difference between passing laws and working on technology and actually having a functioning mining operation. However, Lewicki notes that such operations really aren’t that far away.
The timeline that we are really looking at is as soon as a decade from now.
“People think that this is something that will be a century away, or maybe something that their grandkids might see,” Lewicki asserts, “but people already doing this. We already have two spacecrafts in orbit around asteroids, and in the first half of the 2020s, we anticipate that we will [Planetary Resources will] be touching on the surface of the nearest asteroid and extracting the first really demonstrable amount of asteroid resources on site.”
That’s ten years away…just ten years until we’re mining our first asteroid. Of course, there are a lot of things that need to happen in order for this ten-year timeframe to be met, but we are well on our way.
The first concern is establishing clear regulations regarding asteroid mining. For example, who really owns asteroids, anyways? Can anyone just venture space with a flag and stake a claim?
Lewicki notes that, while such regulations will take some time to fully flesh out, we are already taking steps to cement laws regarding commercial operations in space: “The United States government has taken up this matter for the last couple of years, seeing how this industry was developing very rapidly. They created the first framework that identifies how we will deal with property rights, regulation, and ownership of things that are developed and obtained in space.”
This is the aforementioned Commercial Space Competitiveness Launch Act, and other nations are already launching similar initiatives. “The United States has led this, and now we’re seeing other countries, and other space programs, follow suit. Earlier this spring, the United Arab Emirates and their newly established space program described their intent to establish some policy related to space resources and space mining, and just last week, the deputy prime minister and the prime minister of Luxembourg announced a very large initiative that the country there is starting, and we’re collaborating with them in that activity, and they are going to form a new space policy which helps create a framework that supports the development of the industry.”
So it seems that the only real hurdle will be developing the necessary technology.
SO HOW VIABLE IS IT, REALLY?
One of the major concerns with asteroid mining is, of course, getting to the asteroids.
As was previously mentioned, a great number of the asteroids in our solar system exist in a belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. And alas, that’s kind of far away. In fact, it’s about 330 million km (204 million miles). For comparison, the Moon is 384,000 km (238,000 miles) away from Earth. Fortunately, as Lewicki asserts, we may not have to go quite that far in order to get to find viable asteroids for mining.
“Asteroids are actually the most accessible destinations once you go out of low-Earth orbit, and a lot of people aren’t aware of that. They think of asteroids as something between Mars and Jupiter, and that’s very, very far away. But that’s the great benefit of the near-Earth asteroids. There are now 14,000 that have already been discovered, and a few thousand of those actually are far easier to make the journey to-and-from.”
And while asteroid mining may seem like an enormous leap, it is important to remember that, just like the first Moon landing, advancements take place in measured steps. Lewicki outlines the stages that Planetary Resources has planned, noting that this incremental process is meant to be self-sustaining: “We have been approaching this audacious idea with an approach where we make progress at every point on the way, and we even actually generate revenue and create businesses at every step. We have done work for the U.S. government, for NASA with technology development, for DARPA, and we’ve supported a number of private companies with some of the technologies that we’re developing. It’s a scaling up process, and we have the opportunity to demonstrate, and test, and even make money as we do that along the way.”
Ultimately, technologies for asteroid prospecting are already set for testing on Earth. Planetary Resources is launching Ceres, a series of Arkyd 100 satellites that will be carrying out advanced imaging of Earth. The sensors, which will eventually be used to prospect asteroids, are going to be used to deliver intelligence regarding the natural resource material on any spot on the planet.
By 2019, the company plans to have a constellation of 10 Arkyd 100 microsatellites in low-Earth orbit, equipped with mid-wave infrared and hyperspectral sensors that can track water content, crop growth, oil and gas leaks, and even forest fires.
And so, it seems, the era of space mining is already well underway, bringing us one step closer to a truly viable space industry.
An infrared web cam observing a volcano in Mexico captured remarkable footage of a veritable fleet of glowing objects that have left viewers guessing as to their nature.
The incident, culled from a livestream video of the Popocatepetl volcano, begins at around 25 seconds into the footage when a handful of glowing orbs come into view.
This initial cadre seemingly gives way to dozens more of the anomalous objects which fill the screen as they fly in all directions.
And then, just as quickly as the swarm formed, it dissipates down to one lone glowing orb that eventually flies away.
Observers have offered a variety of explanations for the enigmatic footage, with skeptics suggesting that the 'UFOs' are only insects or dust from the volcano.
And, to their credit, it certainly does appear that whatever was filmed over the volcano seemed less like an organized group of UFOs and more like some form of mother nature.
However, ET enthusiasts argue that the infrared aspect of the video is key, since they believe that people otherwise would not have been able to see the 'craft.'
Perhaps the two camps can split the difference and decide that the orbs were actually just fairies observing the majesty of Mt. Popocatepetl, like the ones allegedly spotted in Wales last week.
The infrared webcam may be akin to a similar tactic for UFO observation that has become increasingly popular over the last few years: night vision goggles.
Coast Insiders can learn about that burgeoning field of research by checking out previous appearances on the program by the late Ed Grimsley, who many credit with pioneering the technique.
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As tim goes by: UFOs and Time Distortion
By Tim Swartz
For most people, spotting a UFO would be considered extremely unusual, but for two Ohio women, seeing a UFO was the least surprising part of their experience.
In June 2001, two sisters, Angie Whitmeyer and Deborah Simmons, were returning from a day of shopping in Dayton, Ohio, when a strange light in the sky caught their attention.
“We were heading home to Kingman, Ohio, on State Road 73,” Deborah recalled. “It was a beautiful evening around 8:30 p.m., the air was warm and the sky crystal clear. Angie was driving and I was watching the scenery go by when I noticed a bright light in the western sky.”
Deborah watched in amazement as the light grew in intensity and flew towards the car at an incredible speed.
“Deborah asked me what that weird light was,” said Angie. “But we were close to Caesar Creek Lake and the road was pretty dark so I wasn’t paying a lot of attention to it. But then it flew right in front of us so I couldn’t miss it.”
The bright light soared past the car and hovered over the nearby treetops, casting an eerie glow over the entire area. Whitmeyer pulled the car over onto the side of the road so they could get a better look at the unusual object.
Deborah was shocked by how large and close the UFO was to them: “The light was so bright and white that you couldn’t see any shape behind it. But we could tell it was pretty big, at least as big as a house. The funny thing was that I couldn’t hear any sort of engine like you would normally hear with an airplane or helicopter. It was completely silent.” Suddenly, another, identical bright light swooped down from the sky and hovered a short distance away. The two sisters decided the situation was becoming too strange and tried to drive away.
“That’s when I discovered that the car had stopped and I couldn’t restart it,” Angie said. “Nothing worked, the lights, the radio, it was completely dead.”
The two women also noticed an odd silence had descended over the area, accompanied by a strange feeling of isolation. Angie remembered that it seemed as if they were the only people in the world.
“I don’t remember seeing another car come by during the entire time we were there, which is really weird because at that time of an evening there’s always traffic on that road. And it was just dead silent outside, no birds, nothing. It was as if we were in another world.”
Uncertain what to do next, Angie and her sister continued to watch the strange pair of lights, when, unexpectedly, both objects shot straight up and disappeared into the night sky. The area was plunged into darkness, and oddly enough, the normal sounds of the night came back almost as if switched on.
“As soon as the lights flew away,” Deborah said, “the car started running again all by itself. The lights and radio were on just as they were before everything happened.”
According to their watches, the strange encounter had lasted more than 20 minutes. However, when they arrived home, Deborah’s husband seemed unconcerned about what they thought was a late arrival. That’s when they discovered that instead of being after 9:00 p.m., as their wristwatches indicated, it was only 8:35 p.m.
“It was as if the entire time we spent looking at those lights had never happened,” Angie said. “But it did happen, our watches both showed we had been stuck out there for over 20 minutes, but somehow we gained that time back with a few minutes to spare. Normally we should have been home at around ten to nine, but somehow, despite what had happened, we got there early.”
Distortions in Time and Space
One of the strangest aspects of some UFO encounters is the apparent distortion of time when a UFO is nearby. Researchers and writers have tried for years to understand and to interpret what happens before, during, and after a close contact with a UFO. But, many reports of time anomalies have been kept off some UFO databases because such events fall outside of the preconceived notions of what a UFO sighting should entail.
Like the two Ohio sisters, others who have experienced a close contact with a UFO have reported apparent time distortions like the failure of car engines, a strange feeling of isolation (to the point where it is observed that no other vehicles or people are seen during the sighting), unusual silence, spatial changes, altered states of consciousness, and distortions in the flow of time.
Generally, these anomalies disappear along with the UFO. Occasionally, however, the witnesses will suffer from unexpected relapses weeks, even years, after the initial experience.
These anomalous events have created more headaches than answers for researchers who have attempted to find scientific validation for unusual UFO encounters. On the surface, some of the reported anomalies seem to be explainable using modern science. However, upon closer analysis, strange things tend to become even stranger.
Failure of Car Engines
The disruption of car motors, machinery, and electronic devices during a UFO event has been commonly reported. Thousands of these inexplicable stories have been duly recorded over the years and many volumes have been written in an attempt to understand the underlying principles involved.
Mark Rodeghier of the Center for UFO Studies analyzed 441 cases in which “the car, truck, or other motor vehicle in which a witness was either riding or in near proximity to, was seemingly affected by the presence of a UFO. Headlights, radios and even flashlights were also affected.”
Of the vehicle failure cases summarized by Rodeghier, ten percent noted an unusual phenomenon called “spontaneous engine restarts” at the end of a sighting. In reality, this figure is probably much higher considering the amount of underreported and underdocumented cases worldwide.
In these cases the car’s engine would mysteriously restart without the driver turning the key. One witness said: “As soon as the UFO flew away, the car, radio, headlights, switched back on by themselves. One second everything was completely dead, and the next, everything was running smoothly as if nothing had ever happened.”
The witness said he was left with the feeling that his car had been stopped between the ticks of a clock: “Like time had completely vanished.”
The Oz Effect
Another notable feature of many cases is the sudden unusual silence and an overwhelming feeling of isolation in the proximity of a UFO. Many people have noted that normal sounds—birds, insects, traffic—suddenly stop just before and during a close UFO sighting. A man from Wisconsin reported that he had observed a UFO hovering over the treetops directly over his head once while deer hunting. He stated that the day had been windy and the trees were swaying and creaking pretty loudly in the breeze. What made him look up was the fact that all of a sudden the forest went “completely dead.”
He noted that the trees had stopped moving as if “frozen in place.” That is when he noticed a strange, dark, triangle-shaped object floating over the trees.
“It was a little bigger than a pickup truck and was solid black. I didn’t see any lights or hear any kind of sound from it.”
The hunter reported feeling like he was “looking up through a tunnel with me at the bottom and the UFO at the top. I knew that I was completely alone and that no one could help me.”
As soon as the UFO passed overhead the forest returned to normal.
The experience of such unusual sensations around a UFO has been dubbed “the Oz Effect” by UFO researcher and author Jenny Randles, and may indicate that there could be a field of influence that is being emitted around a UFO. Anyone close enough to a UFO would find himself completely contained within this field. The odd effects noticed by eyewitnesses could give us some kind of indication of the true nature of these energy fields. Unfortunately, anecdotal accounts of UFO experiences have rarely been followed up with rigorous studies of their content.
UFOs and Time
Scientists brave (or foolhardy) enough to try and conduct proper research on the nature of UFOs have been unable to find satisfactory answers as to why UFOs seem to cause time distortions. Past interpretations of Einstein’s physics leave little room for localized time anomalies, unless influenced by a gravitationally massive object such as a black hole.
However, the new kids on the physics block, quantum and string theories, may show that time and space are easier to influence than was previously thought. Some physicists believe that it is possible to engineer space-time itself and to surround a spaceship with a local space-time in such a way that locally, the light barrier remains intact, while from the outside the ship is moving at faster-than-light velocity. UFOs that seem to rapidly accelerate, change direction, or even disappear are actually operating conservatively from the viewpoint of their own internal time rates.
If someone or something came close enough to a ship that was creating its own space-time, normal time and space, as they know it, would cease to exist for them, and they would come under the influence of the artificial space-time.
This could explain some of the stranger aspects of UFO encounters, such as environmental sounds disappearing, isolation, the freezing of motors and electronic devices, and the feeling of time slowing down, stretching out, and losing all meaning. The UFO is literally creating an alteration in the local state of space-time, thus generating a major distortion effect that is experienced by the witness. Within this time anomaly the perceived forward motion of time could even disappear, allowing for the past, present, and future to intrude upon one another.
A Glimpse of the Past
In 1981, Linda Taylor and her mother were traveling by car to Chorlton, a district of Manchester, England. The normally busy road became strangely empty and the two women noticed a huge light in the sky that seemed to pace their car.
Linda told investigators that her car “jerked about” and slowed down despite her attempts to accelerate. Suddenly, an “old-fashioned” car appeared in the road ahead and drove straight towards the two women. At the same time the light in the sky turned into a metal disc that hovered over the main road.
As the UFO moved away from Taylor and her mother, the old car vanished instantly. When the women returned home they found that two hours were missing from their trip. As with some others who have had close UFO encounters, Linda later had several odd psychic experiences and further time lapses.
Time distortions may not always occur with a visible UFO nearby. In 1980, Peter Rojcewicz, now a professor of humanities and folklore at New York’s Juilliard School, was in the University of Pennsylvania library reading a UFO book suggested by another professor.
As he read, Rojcewicz noticed that someone was standing in front of him. Looking up, Rojcewicz saw a very gaunt, pale man, about six feet tall and weighing around 140 pounds. The strange man wore a black suit, black shoes, a black string tie, and a bright white shirt. His suit was loose and it looked as though he had slept in it for days.
“He sat down like he had dropped from the ceiling—all in one movement—and folded his hands on top of a stack of books in front of him,” Rojcewicz said. The man asked Rojcewicz what he was doing. Rojcewicz said he was reading about flying saucers.
“Have you seen a flying saucer?” the man asked. Rojcewicz said he hadn’t.
“Do you believe in the reality of flying saucers?” Rojcewicz said he didn’t know much about them and wasn’t sure he was very interested in the phenomena.
The man screamed: “Flying saucers are the most important fact of the century and you are not interested?”
The man then stood up, again, all in a single awkward movement, put his hand on Rojcewicz’s shoulder, and said: “Go well on your purpose.” With that, he left.
Rojcewicz was suddenly overwhelmed by fear: “I had a sense that this man was out of the ordinary and that idea frightened me. I got up and walked around the stacks toward where the reference librarians usually are. The librarians weren’t there. There were no guards there—there was nobody else in the library…I was utterly alone and terrified.”
The professor went back to the table where he had been reading “to get myself together. It took me about an hour. Then I got up and everything was back to normal; the people were all there.”
It would seem that Rojcewicz could have been placed into a separate time-space field in order for his contact to occur. The entire episode may have occurred in the blink of an eye in normal time-space. But for Rojcewicz, an entire hour passed.
One gentleman, who reported his alleged UFO abduction on an Internet forum, said that when he was being returned from an abduction to the motel room where he was staying, he “noticed that there was a person in the parking lot below us (myself and several ‘Grays,’ were ‘floating’ in mid-air so I had a bird’s eye view of the surroundings,) [who] seemed to be frozen in mid-step. Everything was dead quiet and nothing was moving. It was as if time had stopped or frozen for the few moments it took for them to transport me from a UFO back to my room that was located on the second floor of the motel.”
These interesting cases show that there is still a lot we have to learn from UFO reports. Investigators need to be willing to look beyond the traditional “by-the-book” questions and allow the witnesses to relate their entire experience—no matter how unusual it may be. Many researchers and databases fail to mention some of the stranger aspects of UFO encounters because they don’t fit a particular belief system or bias. We can learn much more if researchers put aside their own personal feelings and allow the full information to come forward.
Currently, any theories and conclusions are really little more than speculation. Nevertheless, scientists who are not afraid to look beyond the norm are every day developing new concepts in physics and the true nature of reality.
Tim Swartz is an Emmy-Award winning television producer and videographer. As a photojournalist, Swartz has traveled the world investigating paranormal phenomena and other mysteries. Swartz is also the author of a number of popular books including The Lost Journals of Nikola Tesla, and is the writer and editor of the popular Internet newsletter Conspiracy Journal.
Men in black have been popping up for awhile, usually whenever someone claims to have recently sighted a UFO. Shortly after each sighting, the person in question is visited by strange men who usually wear black suits, black ties, and white shirts.
The details and motives sometimes vary, but even stranger are the variations in the descriptions of the men in question. While some tales simply describe them as cold, aloof gentlemen wearing black suits, others say that they get an uncanny vibe from those who visit them. The stories tell of men who are unnaturally bald, men who talk in an almost robotic voice and wear lipstick over lipless mouths. Some suggest that they are from another world, disguising themselves as humans to learn our ways. Others believe that they are experimental cyborgs in the employ of the government. The truth behind the men in black is still shrouded in mystery, and we may never know the identity of these strange stalkers.
10. The Telepathic Encounter
A man known only as Larry claims that one night he was drifting off to sleep when he was contacted by a strange presence who communicated with him telepathically. This weird presence explained that he was not from Earth, but beyond that he gave no reason for contacting Larry. Somewhat skeptical, Larry asked the presence to provide some proof of its existence beyond simply sending thoughts into his head—he wanted a face-to-face meeting. The presence agreed to provide him with further proof—he would show up during the day when Larry was with his best friend.
Larry wasn’t sure what to make of the entire thing the next day, and while he continued on with life as usual, he obsessed about the dream for months afterward. Eventually, he caught up with his buddy at an Independence Day celebration at a nearby park. As Larry was talking with his friend, a black van pulled up nearby and two black-clad men got out. Two more similarly dressed men exited the van after them, but they did not appear to be entirely human in shape. The strange men sat down at a nearby picnic table, looked over at Larry, and then reentered their van and left just as mysteriously as they had arrived. Larry never found out why they had contacted him.
9. The Teleporting MIBs
Albert Bender was the director of an amateur organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau and he believed that he had finally blown the lid off the whole flying saucer thing. He had his own publication calledSpace Review in which he planned to spread his discovery. After compiling all of his collected wisdom on the matter, he mailed it to a friend to look it over before he unveiled it to the world. Unfortunately, this attracted the attention of the men in black, who decided that it was time to pay him a visit and prevent him from leaking all their secrets to the world.
A couple days later, Bender was on his bed when he suddenly had a dizzy spell. He noticed several dark shapes in the room with him that slowly materialized into men in black suits with black hats obscuring their eyes and faces. He noticed in particular that the men’s eyes lit up with an incredible glow and they seemed capable of speaking directly to his mind. They made him promise to destroy his findings and cease all of his research into the subject—Bender was so scared that he was only too happy to comply.
8. Alleged Men In Black Caught On Video
A video was captured of two men in black who allegedly entered a hotel in Canada and started asking questions about one of the hotel employees. The stories say that the employee in question had recently seen a UFO and had told others about his experience. Not long after, these two men showed up at his place of employment. Luckily for him, he was not working during their visit.
According to witness accounts, the men were asking people not only about the employee in question, but also about conspiracies in general. They had no eyebrows or eyelashes, strange, hypnotic eyes, bald heads possibly disguised by wigs, and clothes that seemed to be meant for fitting in, but somehow were just enough out of place to raise alarm bells. These two men were definitely caught on camera—the question is whether they were clandestine government agents, beings from another world in disguise, or simply the product of a clever hoax. Regardless of the answer, there is something hair-raising about two men in suits walking into a hotel in the middle of the day and asking strange questions about one of the employees, then leaving as mysteriously as they came.
7. A Postal Worker’s Terrifying Experience
An anonymous postal worker from Washington, DC was out delivering mail one day when he decided to stop and eat an apple. When he was finished, he looked around for a trash can and, finding none, decided to just toss it onto the ground. Before he could leave the area, a security guard approached and lectured him for his negligence, explaining that the entire building and surrounding grounds were under constant surveillance. The postal worker thought about this, along with the fact that he already had to be buzzed in to deliver the mail, and began thinking that there was more to this place than met the eye.
Awhile later, he was out on his usual delivery run when he came by the foreboding building again. This time, he saw three men walking toward the building, except they didn’t appear to be like men. They waddled when they walked instead of putting one foot in front of the other, and they wereabnormally thin—it was this thinness more than anything that frightened him.
Though shaken, he decided to soldier on and march his way up to the door to deliver the mail. When he entered, he found a group of men who began questioning him about what he had seen moments earlier. He was flabbergasted and unable to respond until one of the strange beings who he had seen earlier sidled up near him, at which point he felt even more terrified. After more grilling by the men in the room, and after repeating that he had seen nothing at all, he was allowed to leave. His mail route was changed shortly afterward.
6. The Man In Black Who Liked To Hang Out
In most stories, the men in black are malevolent, intimidating entities who only appear briefly after someone sees something they weren’t supposed to. But that’s not always the case. In one account, a woman claims that when she was a child her engineer father was regularly visited by a man in black who went simply by the name Lev. This man was completely bald, which she noted was very odd during her time. When she went to shake his hand, the skin was impossibly smooth, as if he had no hair whatsoever on his body.
The man constantly wore his trademark dark suit, glasses, and hat, even on scorching summer days. He was known for hanging around several engineers in the area, and her father always visited him in a little house near the local supermarket. The woman who tells the story says that she is sure her father knew Lev was an alien, although she never figured out what they talked about during their meetings.
5. A Visit To The State Department
An anonymous man related a tale of a strange experience he had while sightseeing in Washington, DC. Without realizing that there really wasn’t anything of interest for a civilian to see, he wandered into the State Department building. He meandered through the lobby for awhile until security became suspicious of him and headed over to usher him out of the building. However, before they could do so, he saw something that he would never forget.
The elevator opened and five men got out. Two of them were very businesslike and wore gray suits that were formal, but hardly remarkable beyond that. What drew his attention were the other three men in their escort. These men wore black hats pulled low over their eyes and long, black trench coats, even though it was the middle of the summer. The appearance seemed so strange that our observer could only describe it as “cartoonish.”
As they were walking by, one of the strange men lost his footing on the marble floor and fell to the ground, dropping his portfolio in the process. Upon helping him up, he noticed that the man’s legs seemed extraordinarily weak and it felt like there was a thick layer of wool underneath his suit. Even stranger, the man’s expression never appeared to change at all, despite falling onto the hard marble floor. Near the dropped portfolio, he found a small coin with words written in no language he could identify—one side depicted a man with features like a wolf and the other had navigational lines and two crescent moons.
4. The Men In Gray
Normally, the sneaky men who appear after UFO sightings are dressed all in black, but in one tale from Essex, England, they chose gray suits. William Shearer claimed to have seen a UFO, and a few days later two men showed up at his house. One of the men stayed by the car and maintained an intimidating presence while the other grilled Shearer about his experience. On this first visit, however, the man seemed more concerned with gaining permission to enter Shearer’s home than the answers Shearer was giving him.
The men spoke in a strange voice that seemed flat and expressionless and had extremely pale skin. This, along with the oddly intimidating behavior, was enough to scare Shearer and he chose not to let them into his house. Unfortunately for him, his experience was not yet at an end. The men ominously proclaimed that they would visit him again and, not long after, they turned up at his work. They made it clear that they wanted to talk about UFOs and once again asked permission to enter. When Shearer turned them down again, the men vanished and never returned—although Shearer believes that since then his phone has been tapped.
3. The Mystery Of The Loch
Loch Ness has always been a place of mystery and intrigue. Many people believe that the depths of the lake contain a primordial creature from the early days of the Earth and some have dedicated their lives to proving its existence. One man named Frederick Holiday was well known for being passionate about the study of cryptozoology and had spent years looking for evidence of creatures in the lake. Perhaps paranormal phenomena are more connected then we might have thought, because while out investigating the lake for the Loch Ness monster, Holiday had an experience that he would never forget.
Holiday looked up on a hill near the lake and spotted a strange man dressed in a black suit. While it wasn’t remarkable for people to sightsee along the lake, Holiday was struck by the fact that the man seemed to be looking directly at him. He was profoundly disturbed and reported feeling malevolence from the being that was staring him down. Before he could do anything, there was a bizarre noise and the man was gone as mysteriously as he had appeared. Just one year later, Holiday was back at the Loch for further studies when he had a heart attack—as he was being carried to the ambulance, he passed over the exact place where the strange man had been standing.
2. The Angry MIB
A professor of folklore named Peter Rojcewicz told of an experience that occurred one night in the college library while he was reading a book on UFOs that had been recommended to him by a colleague. He was just relaxing in a chair and reading his book when he noticed what appeared to be a leg and a shoe out of the corner of his eye. Before he knew it, there was a man sitting in a chair in front of him. The man immediately asked Rojcewicz about the book he was reading and questioned him on whether he had seen UFOs or was at all interested in the phenomenon.
When the professor stated that he wasn’t really that interested in the subject to begin with and was only reading the book to satisfy the suggestion of a colleague, the man became enraged and angrily asked him how he could not be interested in “the most important facts of the century.” Seemingly satisfied that the professor was not going to dig into the world of UFOs, the man left, but not before telling the professor to “go well on his purpose.” However, while it seems like this would be the end of it, it’s here that the story takes a turn for the extra creepy.
After the encounter, Rojcewicz got up to walk around the library. However, none of the librarians were anywhere to be seen. The same went for the guards and all the patrons. In fact, as far as he could tell, the library was completely deserted except for him. The professor returned to his chair in an attempt to gather his wits. In about an hour, according to the professor, he decided to get up and look around again—and this time he found that everything was as it should be.
1. The Stranded Photographer
Back in the 1960s, Jim Templeton took a photo of his daughter near Burgh Marsh, and before long it made big news. You might have heard of this photo as the Solway Firth Spaceman, which captures what looks like an unexplained figure in an astronaut outfit in the background. Stranger then the photo is the experience that Templeton had shortly after taking it. He was at work when a car arrived with two men who claimed to be working for the government. When asked, they refused to identify themselves beyondthe codes #9 and #10. Even though their badges pointed to no specific government agency, Templeton agreed to get in the car with them and drive back to the Marsh to answer their questions.
The questions were pretty strange. Apart from the expected ones, like where it had happened and whether there were any other witnesses, they also wanted to know about the weather conditions and the behavior of the animals in the area. Templeton told the men that the domestic animals in the area had seemed scared on the day in question and had huddled together for protection.
It was after stating this that the men became much more hostile toward Templeton and started questioning the validity of his story. Of course, Templeton would not go to all this trouble simply to admit defeat, even if his story wasn’t entirely honest, and claimed that he was indeed telling the truth as far as he knew it. The men seemed to be unconvinced and headed back to their car. They drove off and simply left the baffled photographer in the dust to find his own way home.
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Adviseur Pentagon: “Aarde wordt als basis gebruikt door aliens”
Adviseur Pentagon: “Aarde wordt als basis gebruikt door aliens”
Een steeds terugkerend thema rond het UFO-fenomeen is dat van de contacten tussen aliens en aardbewoners. Timothy Good, een ex-adviseur van het Pentagon, toont in deze lezing aan dat veel van de beweringen een gemeenschappelijke rode draad van waarheid bevatten die duidt op contact tussen aliens en aardbewoners.
Eén van de belangrijkste – en meest controversiële – conclusies van Good is dat de aarde als basis wordt gebruikt door aliens.
De voormalig Pentagon-adviseur beweerde enige tijd terug in het BBC-programma Opinionated nog dat de Amerikaanse oud-president Dwight D. Eisenhower drie keer een geheime bespreking heeft gehad met buitenaardse wezens.
Telepathische berichten
De 34e president van de VS sprak de aliens in 1954 op de Holloman Air Force Base, een afgelegen vliegbasis in New Mexico. Eisenhower en enkele hooggeplaatste personen van de FBI communiceerden met de buitenaardsen door middel van ‘telepathische berichten’, aldus Good.
Volgens de Huffington Post gaan er al jaren geruchten rond over de mysterieuze ontmoetingen, maar was het dit keer voor het eerst dat een prominent persoon als Good deze bevestigt. Bij de drie ontmoetingen in New Mexico zouden veel meer getuigen aanwezig zijn geweest.
Kolossale doofpot
Timothy Good vertelde tijdens het BBC-programma dat de aliens een ‘Scandinavisch’ uiterlijk hadden. In een ondertekend verdrag zouden ze ‘Greys’ worden genoemd.
De Brit suggereert dat Washington sinds 1947 niet alleen een kolossale doofpot beheert, maar ook geconserveerde lichamen van buitenaardsen uit op Amerikaanse bodem neergestorte vliegende schotels.
Zijn onderzoek bevat een schat aan verbijsterende gegevens die voor een belangrijk deel nooit eerder gepubliceerd zijn. Hij onthult onder andere gevallen van op aarde gestrande UFO’s, opzienbarende ooggetuigenverslagen van militaire en burgerpiloten en topgeheime documenten.
If the Roswell incident had become so widespread, flying saucer might be so common in our language, experiences and novels, television programming, and films. How common is it for people to see a UFO? On April 24, 1964, at about ten a.m., Gary Wilcox was out on his 300-acre farm in New York, when he noticed an unusual object over the woods. Curious, the 27-year-old farmer drove his tractor for a closer look. As he drew closer, he was not sure how the oblong shaped object was suspended in the place. According to him, it bears a resemblance to an egg of 4 feet high, 20 feet long, and 16 feet wide.
It has a metallic body with an aluminum color. It has a smooth surface, without seams or rivets visible. There were no vibrations, sounds, nor was there heat or anything extraordinary. The groundbreaking encounter was when two 4 foot tall men came out; they were dressed in metallic and white suits. Frightened and anxious, Wilcox said that he did not mention anything. Wilcox claimed that beings told him not to be alarmed as they have spoken to humans before.
After two hours of talking, Wilcox learned that these beings were living in an atmosphere with thin air. They claimed to avoid congested areas, which is why they preferred operating green and clean areas. The men went back to their craft and then disappeared at an estimated distance of about 150 feet. Wilcox took a bag of fertilizer later in the afternoon and left it in a place where the UFOs landed. By the next morning, the fertilizer was gone. During their conversation, the beings told Wilcox their predictions of astronauts Virgil Grissom and John Glenn and the two Russian astronauts would die within a year due to exposure of elements in space. Three years after, it happened. Psychiatrist Dr. Berthold E. Schwarz was impressed with Wilcox’s evidence and background of stability, honesty, integrity, and intelligence.
Pyramid Made By a Mexican Farmer Was an Order from Alien
Pyramid Made By a Mexican Farmer Was an Order from Alien
Whether you believe in them or not, there have been too many sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, Flying Saucers, or whatever you wish them to be like, that have been ignored. Among the most common stories were the spotted strange shaped object hovering in the sky, with or without bright lights. Around 1984, a 33-year old farmer claims that the alien visited him, and requested him to build a pyramid. The man asked the alien why it had to be a pyramid; the latter relate it to faith. Although the rationale is vague, he connects it to the winds and storms that were always pointing upwards.
He told me to build the temple in the form of a pyramid.
Recalling the moment, Herulayka warned him of the possible consequences that would take place when he will begin building the pyramid. First, it would appear an embarrassment on his part for building something without a clear explanation. Second, people will laugh at him because it seems an act of insanity. His alien visitor came from a place called Nefilin, the constellation of Orion which is about 20 times bigger than Earth. It was contended that people living in Nefilin look similar to human beings. His visitor has white hair with honey-colored eyes with tunic tied rope and barefoot. Before they met in person, Mr. Corona had seen aliens in his dreams. According to his visitor, humans were destroying the alien’s planet. As a result, humans should look after it like a child running for their survival. Monclova is more or less 600 miles from the most popular Roswell located in New Mexico, where the balloon of US Air Force surveillance crashed in 1947, hitting rumors of an alien spacecraft existence. Mexico is not only a good destination for travelers but has also become the most active country for alien sightings in the world.
You are not bound to believe that there could be bigger and better planet than earth because the statements were still a speculation as it has not been concluded at the point of human beings.
UFO Emerges From Cloud Over Port Angeles, Washington On June 4, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Emerges From Cloud Over Port Angeles, Washington On June 4, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 4, 2016 Location of sighting: Port Angeles, Washington, USA News source: MUFON #76808 UFOs that want to observe humanity need a place to hide, especially if the alien species doesn't look anything like us, because they can't just walk among us and blend it. So, some species observer from afar and use natures clouds to hide within. When no cloud cover exists, often they will make their own cloud. Incredible close and HD photo of a UFO in a cloud. This is also why if you are recording the sky, focus on the clouds and the edges of the clouds...thats where you will see them. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: While beachcombing w my gf in Poet Angeles, we observed a dark UFO emerge from a cloud over the harbor. We had been commenting on the oddness of the ling, thin, spirally dense cloud on a clear day, and were already photographing the cloud when the object emerged, as if on cue, "posed" as it were, for one shot then retreated back within the cloud.
Floating orb caught on IR Cam in basement In Colorado, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Floating orb caught on IR Cam in basement In Colorado, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: June 25, 2016 Location of sighting: Colorado This is an infrared camera which can catch entity orbs or cloaked UFOs because it can see IR light, something the human eye cannot. This is a great orb and its in Colorado, a place were giant glowing orbs are often seen over the Rocky mountains. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: "I've caught this about five times floating in my basement. It only happens early in the mornings, between 3am - 6am. Does anyone know what this is?"
A Waring To Humanity? Crop Circle Formation At Castle Hill, UK On June 6, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News..
A Waring To Humanity? Crop Circle Formation At Castle Hill, UK On June 6, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News..
Date of discovery: June 6, 2016 Location of discovery: Castle Hill, Wiltshire, UK Many of us believe that some crop circles were made by aliens trying to communicate a message to humanity though space and time. That even an attempt could change future events and save humanity. Its my personal believer that each one found in the same area is a word, and each word will appear at an evenly spaced moment of time from the last...just as we see at Castle Hill over the last few years. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: The June 06, 2016 Castle Hill Crop Circle is in my opinion, a key crop circle, that affirms the return to and the continued focus on the future ritual dates of 9-23 and 9-24. By viewing the crop circle in a negative view, I was able to observe a subtle created and hidden sphere image, created within the image of the Castle Hill Crop Circle. It was this hidden sphere that allowed me to observe and to once again confirm the future intention of using two each 911 false flag events to create the needed time line, needed by the NWO Supercomputer, to ensure their future one world govt and one world domination of the world. The Castle Hill UK Crop Circle for me, marks a key set of dates in time, regarding the mega ritual of time manipulation, that I have been following and pursuing for many year.
Here is a really fascinating story about a UFO that looks like a train. Honestly, alien tech propulsion systems could make a mountain fly if you strapped enough of the alien tech to it, so yes, its possible. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Inexplicata states: Argentina: Army Sergeant Sees a Train-Shaped UFO By Andrea Pérez Simondini Investigation conducted by Carlos Iurchuk Material by Osvaldo Sánchez In October 2010, researcher Carlos Iurchuck made a trip to the Chaco following the trail of cases experienced by military personnel. On October 9, he held a meeting with Osvaldo Sánchez, a researcher and broadcaster who is unquestionably the greatest compiler of case histories in that province. Osvaldo is a retired policeman who once held the rank of commissioner. He became interested in the UFO phenomenon as a result of the stories told by members of the police force, involving experiences in various parts of the Chaco. He has hosted the "Encuentros Cercanos con el Mas Alla" radio show for over 35 years, and after a personal interview, he was kind enough to give Carlos some material, including pages he had written years ago, describing local events as they were told to him. Thus, we share with you an even from the 1970s: "In the early morning hours of 1977 or 1978, perhaps during the months of October or November, the eyewitness, Army sergeant [name withheld], in the company of Mr. [name withheld], a well-known businessman in the province, were travelling along National Route 11 in a Ford Fairlane heading toward Resistencia. When they were north of Santa Fe, both men saw something resembling an "illuminated train" that crossed the road in complete silence and lost itself in the fields. "He said the object looked like "an arrow" and moved flush to the ground. The ghostly apparition startled them greatly. The person telling the story exclaimed - "look out for the train", although his companion replied that he was already aware of it. Once the moment was over, they stopped the car to remark on their sighting, realizing only then that no railroad tracks existed in that area. To this very day in 1993, the witnesses still wonder: "what was that?" [Translation (c) 2016 S. Corrales IHU with thanks to Andrea Pérez Simondini and Guillermo Giménez]
NASA Finds Neptune-Sized Planet Very Close to Home
NASA Finds Neptune-Sized Planet Very Close to Home
NASA/JPL-Caltech
IN BRIEF
NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, in its K2 extended mission, has found a newborn planet orbiting its star at very close proximity, causing astronomers to rethink theories that only old planets get that close to their host star.
Using the transit method, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope on its extended K2 mission has found a newborn planet orbiting its star at a very close proximity, ten times closer than Mercury is to the Sun. It is one of the very few newborn planets found up to now.
The K2-33b is a bit larger than Neptune and makes a full orbit around its host star within five days. This is odd since theories propose that it would take hundreds of millions of years for a planet this size to end up as close to a star, and the K2-33b is presumed to be only around five to ten million years old. The planet was discovered by observing the star it orbits. Researchers noticed periods of dimming that came to be explained as K2-33b’s orbit. In studying the dimming, the planet’s size and orbital period could be determined.
The team says there are only two possible explanations for this. The planet could have taken hundreds of thousands of years to migrate to its current position through disk migration, or it could have formed where it is. The latter possibility will cause astronomers to rethink their theories. “After the first discoveries of massive exoplanets on close orbits about 20 years ago, it was immediately suggested that they could absolutely not have formed there, but in the past several years, some momentum has grown for in situ formation theories, so the idea is not as wild as it once seemed,” said Trevor David of Caltech in Pasadena, lead author of the study.
Next steps for the study of the planet include measuring its mass and density. These metrics can provide clues to the planet’s future.
Reference: Phobos: Facts About the Doomed Martian Moon
Reference:
Phobos: Facts About the Doomed Martian Moon
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this image of the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, from a distance of about 6,800 km (about 4,200 miles).
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
The Martian moon Phobos orbits only a few thousand miles above the Red Planet's surface. Its proximity to its planet is one of the reasons astronomers were unable to see the satellite until the late 19th century. In fact, the moon is getting closer to Marsover the centuries, and eventually will either break up or be pulled into the Martian surface.
Robotic probes on Mars' surface can see Phobos passing overhead:
Mars Orbiter sends first images of Mars' moon Phobos
In the early 17th century, German astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that Mars might host two moons, given that it lay between the Earth and Jupiter, which were known to have one and four satellites. No evidence of such moons could be found. Although most people thought that Mars had no moons, American astronomer Asaph Hall performed a methodical study from the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., searching closer to the planet than previous surveys.
After searching without success, a frustrated Hall was about to give up, but his wife, Angelina, urged him to continue. The next night, August 12, 1877, he discovered the moon that would later be known as Deimos. Six days later, he found Phobos as well. The two moons lay so close to the planet that they were hidden by the glare of Mars. Asteroid-size, they are also two of the smallest moons in the solar system, with the larger Phobos 7.24 times as massive as its companion, Deimos.
In Greek mythology, Phobos was one of the sons of the god of war Ares (Mars to the Romans). The twin sons attended their father in battle. Phobos means fear (as in phobia), while Deimos means flight (especially in the sense of fleeing after a defeat), according to NASA.
Exploring the moons
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity snapped this photo of the larger Martian moon Phobos during a Mars sky observing session. Phobos is Mars' larger moon, but only 14 miles across. Image released Sept. 26, 2012.
Credit: NASA/JPL
It took almost another century for scientists to begin to understand the two tiny Martian moons. In 1971, NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft became the first manmade satellite to orbit another planet. Images from the craft revealed that both Phobos and Deimos have lumpy, potato-like shapes, rather than spherical like most moons. Observations of Phobos were limited by the tidal locking of the moon to the planet, resulting in the same side always facing outward.
As the exploration of continued, scientists were able to learn more information about the satellites circling Mars. The Viking orbiters flew by in the late 1970s. The Soviet Phobos 2 mission, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, and the European Mars Express all provided more clues about the two curious moons. Rovers from the planet's surface even got in on the act, with Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity all providing images from the ground. NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission) has also imaged the moon to try to learn more about Phobos' composition.
In 2011, Russia attempted to send a mission to the Martian moon called Phobos-Grunt, which was supposed to come back to Earth in 2014 bearing a small sample of the moon. The spacecraft, however, was marooned in Earth orbit due to issues with its rocket. Phobos-Grunt fell back to Earth in early 2012 and crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
NASA may not be finished with Phobos yet. The space agency is considering the Phobos Surveyor mission, which would deploy small, hedgehog-like probes to the surface of the moon. The mission is funded under NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program, which looks at concepts that could be decades away from flight.
One of the competing concepts for NASA's next low-cost, Discovery-class mission selection (expected to be completed in 2016) would explore both Martian moons. Called PADME (Phobos And Deimos and Mars Environment), the spacecraft would try to figure out where the moons came from — the asteroid belt, by forming around Mars, or other scenarios. If selected, this mission would launch in 2020 and arrive in 2021.
Some human spaceflight proponents have also suggested NASA should land people on Phobos before Mars; NASA hopes to have a human mission sent there by the 2030s.
The examination of Phobos and its companion revealed more than their odd, non-spherical shapes. The two moons are dark gray in color, and heavily cratered. The moons are some of the darkest, least reflective objects in the solar system.
After observing the pair, scientists concluded that they were made of material similar to Type I or II carbonaceous chondrites, the material that makes up asteroids and dwarf planets. The composition and odd shape led some scientists to conclude that Phobos and Deimos came from the asteroid belt, with Jupiter's gravity long ago nudging them into orbit around Mars.
However, scientists aren't certain that the asteroid belt is the source of the moons' birth. Both have a nearly circular orbit unusual for captured objects. The thin atmosphere of Mars would have a hard time providing the necessary braking to settle the pair into their present-day orbits. Similarly, the moons are not as dense as objects in the asteroid belt.
Instead, the moons may have formed as satellites around Mars, with dust and rock drawn together by gravity.
A more violent birth may have occurred by collision. A large impactor smashing into the red planet could have sent pieces flying into the air, where gravity may have drawn them together. An existing moon might also have been destroyed, creating the rubble that later formed Phobos and Deimos.
Traveling only 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the Martian surface, Phobos flies around the Red Planet three times a day. Crossing the sky in about four hours, the moon appears to rise in the west and set in the east.
Many science fiction films feature large moons dominating alien skies, but despite its proximity to its planet, Phobos is only a third as wide as the full moon seen from Earth. On the other hand, Mars dominates the horizon of Phobos, taking up a fourth of the sky.
Doomed
But Phobos won't zip around Mars forever. The doomed moon is spiraling inward at a rate of 1.8 centimeters (seven-tenths of an inch) per year, or 1.8 meters (about 6 feet) each century. Within 50 million years, the moon will either collide with its parent planet or be torn into rubble and scattered as a ring around Mars.
The unusual characteristics of Phobos, including its decaying orbit, led some scientists in the 1950s and 1960s to conclude that it was artificial. One prominent proponent was the science adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Further examination revealed that the moon bears stronger resemblance to a rubble pile than an artificial satellite, and images sent back from orbiting craft show that it formed in nature.
On the surface
The larger of the two moons, Phobos has a diameter of 10 by 14 by 11 miles (17 by 22 by 18 km). The surface is covered with a dusty powder 3 feet (1 meter) thick, likely caused by meteor bombardment.
A large impact crater dominates the moon. Stretching nearly 6 miles (9.5 km), Stickney Crater covers most of the surface. The impact that formed it likely caused many secondary impacts, as rocks flew up and fell back to Phobos. The crater bears the maiden name of Hall's encouraging wife.
The moon is marred by long grooves. In 2015, a NASA-led study suggested that the grooves on Phobos are actually early signs of the moon breaking apart due to tidal stresses induced by Mars' gravity. Another theory stated that the grooves could be remnants of a huge impact that left behind the crater Stickney, but the grooves did not center on this crater. Another explanation is the moon's grooves could come from material displaced from Mars that hits Phobos' surface, which was espoused in an Open University study published in 2014.
Temperatures vary on Phobos, reaching highs of 25 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 4 degrees Celsius) during the day, while nights can be as cold as minus 170 degrees F (minus 112 degrees C).
The moon is so small that a 150-pound person standing on its surface would weigh only two ounces.
Facts about Phobos:
Radius of moon: 6.9 miles (11.1 km)
Semi-major axis around Mars (distance from planet's center): 5,826 miles (9,376 km)
Closest approach: 5,738 miles (9,234 km)
Farthest approach: 5,914 miles (9,518 km)
Orbit eccentricity: 0.0151
Orbit inclination: 1.075 degrees
Time to make one orbit: 7.65 hours
Mass: 1.0659 x 10^16 kg
Density: 1.872 g/cm^3
Surface gravity: 0.0057m/s^2
Escape velocity: 25 mph (41 km/h)
Additional reporting by contributor Elizabeth Howell.
Reference: Phobos: Facts About the Doomed Martian Moon
Reference:
Phobos: Facts About the Doomed Martian Moon
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took this image of the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, from a distance of about 6,800 km (about 4,200 miles).
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
The Martian moon Phobos orbits only a few thousand miles above the Red Planet's surface. Its proximity to its planet is one of the reasons astronomers were unable to see the satellite until the late 19th century. In fact, the moon is getting closer to Marsover the centuries, and eventually will either break up or be pulled into the Martian surface.
Robotic probes on Mars' surface can see Phobos passing overhead:
Discovery and name
In the early 17th century, German astronomer Johannes Kepler proposed that Mars might host two moons, given that it lay between the Earth and Jupiter, which were known to have one and four satellites. No evidence of such moons could be found. Although most people thought that Mars had no moons, American astronomer Asaph Hall performed a methodical study from the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., searching closer to the planet than previous surveys.
After searching without success, a frustrated Hall was about to give up, but his wife, Angelina, urged him to continue. The next night, August 12, 1877, he discovered the moon that would later be known as Deimos. Six days later, he found Phobos as well. The two moons lay so close to the planet that they were hidden by the glare of Mars. Asteroid-size, they are also two of the smallest moons in the solar system, with the larger Phobos 7.24 times as massive as its companion, Deimos.
In Greek mythology, Phobos was one of the sons of the god of war Ares (Mars to the Romans). The twin sons attended their father in battle. Phobos means fear (as in phobia), while Deimos means flight (especially in the sense of fleeing after a defeat), according to NASA.
Exploring the moons
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity snapped this photo of the larger Martian moon Phobos during a Mars sky observing session. Phobos is Mars' larger moon, but only 14 miles across. Image released Sept. 26, 2012.
Credit: NASA/JPL
It took almost another century for scientists to begin to understand the two tiny Martian moons. In 1971, NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft became the first manmade satellite to orbit another planet. Images from the craft revealed that both Phobos and Deimos have lumpy, potato-like shapes, rather than spherical like most moons. Observations of Phobos were limited by the tidal locking of the moon to the planet, resulting in the same side always facing outward.
As the exploration of continued, scientists were able to learn more information about the satellites circling Mars. The Viking orbiters flew by in the late 1970s. The Soviet Phobos 2 mission, NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, and the European Mars Express all provided more clues about the two curious moons. Rovers from the planet's surface even got in on the act, with Spirit, Opportunity, and Curiosity all providing images from the ground. NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission) has also imaged the moon to try to learn more about Phobos' composition.
In 2011, Russia attempted to send a mission to the Martian moon called Phobos-Grunt, which was supposed to come back to Earth in 2014 bearing a small sample of the moon. The spacecraft, however, was marooned in Earth orbit due to issues with its rocket. Phobos-Grunt fell back to Earth in early 2012 and crashed into the Pacific Ocean.
NASA may not be finished with Phobos yet. The space agency is considering the Phobos Surveyor mission, which would deploy small, hedgehog-like probes to the surface of the moon. The mission is funded under NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts program, which looks at concepts that could be decades away from flight.
One of the competing concepts for NASA's next low-cost, Discovery-class mission selection (expected to be completed in 2016) would explore both Martian moons. Called PADME (Phobos And Deimos and Mars Environment), the spacecraft would try to figure out where the moons came from — the asteroid belt, by forming around Mars, or other scenarios. If selected, this mission would launch in 2020 and arrive in 2021.
Some human spaceflight proponents have also suggested NASA should land people on Phobos before Mars; NASA hopes to have a human mission sent there by the 2030s.
Formation and composition
The examination of Phobos and its companion revealed more than their odd, non-spherical shapes. The two moons are dark gray in color, and heavily cratered. The moons are some of the darkest, least reflective objects in the solar system.
After observing the pair, scientists concluded that they were made of material similar to Type I or II carbonaceous chondrites, the material that makes up asteroids and dwarf planets. The composition and odd shape led some scientists to conclude that Phobos and Deimos came from the asteroid belt, with Jupiter's gravity long ago nudging them into orbit around Mars.
However, scientists aren't certain that the asteroid belt is the source of the moons' birth. Both have a nearly circular orbit unusual for captured objects. The thin atmosphere of Mars would have a hard time providing the necessary braking to settle the pair into their present-day orbits. Similarly, the moons are not as dense as objects in the asteroid belt.
Instead, the moons may have formed as satellites around Mars, with dust and rock drawn together by gravity.
A more violent birth may have occurred by collision. A large impactor smashing into the red planet could have sent pieces flying into the air, where gravity may have drawn them together. An existing moon might also have been destroyed, creating the rubble that later formed Phobos and Deimos.
Traveling only 3,700 miles (6,000 kilometers) above the Martian surface, Phobos flies around the Red Planet three times a day. Crossing the sky in about four hours, the moon appears to rise in the west and set in the east.
Many science fiction films feature large moons dominating alien skies, but despite its proximity to its planet, Phobos is only a third as wide as the full moon seen from Earth. On the other hand, Mars dominates the horizon of Phobos, taking up a fourth of the sky.
Doomed
But Phobos won't zip around Mars forever. The doomed moon is spiraling inward at a rate of 1.8 centimeters (seven-tenths of an inch) per year, or 1.8 meters (about 6 feet) each century. Within 50 million years, the moon will either collide with its parent planet or be torn into rubble and scattered as a ring around Mars.
The unusual characteristics of Phobos, including its decaying orbit, led some scientists in the 1950s and 1960s to conclude that it was artificial. One prominent proponent was the science adviser to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Further examination revealed that the moon bears stronger resemblance to a rubble pile than an artificial satellite, and images sent back from orbiting craft show that it formed in nature.
On the surface
The larger of the two moons, Phobos has a diameter of 10 by 14 by 11 miles (17 by 22 by 18 km). The surface is covered with a dusty powder 3 feet (1 meter) thick, likely caused by meteor bombardment.
A large impact crater dominates the moon. Stretching nearly 6 miles (9.5 km), Stickney Crater covers most of the surface. The impact that formed it likely caused many secondary impacts, as rocks flew up and fell back to Phobos. The crater bears the maiden name of Hall's encouraging wife.
The moon is marred by long grooves. In 2015, a NASA-led study suggested that the grooves on Phobos are actually early signs of the moon breaking apart due to tidal stresses induced by Mars' gravity. Another theory stated that the grooves could be remnants of a huge impact that left behind the crater Stickney, but the grooves did not center on this crater. Another explanation is the moon's grooves could come from material displaced from Mars that hits Phobos' surface, which was espoused in an Open University study published in 2014.
Temperatures vary on Phobos, reaching highs of 25 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 4 degrees Celsius) during the day, while nights can be as cold as minus 170 degrees F (minus 112 degrees C).
The moon is so small that a 150-pound person standing on its surface would weigh only two ounces.
Facts about Phobos:
Radius of moon: 6.9 miles (11.1 km)
Semi-major axis around Mars (distance from planet's center): 5,826 miles (9,376 km)
Closest approach: 5,738 miles (9,234 km)
Farthest approach: 5,914 miles (9,518 km)
Orbit eccentricity: 0.0151
Orbit inclination: 1.075 degrees
Time to make one orbit: 7.65 hours
Mass: 1.0659 x 10^16 kg
Density: 1.872 g/cm^3
Surface gravity: 0.0057m/s^2
Escape velocity: 25 mph (41 km/h)
Additional reporting by contributor Elizabeth Howell.
If Pluto's subsurface ocean had frozen over completely, it would have formed highly pressurized ice that would have caused the dwarf planet to shrink, according to new research. The canyons and valleys on Pluto seem to have formed as the dwarf planet swelled up, rather than as it shrank, indicating that a liquid ocean most likely sits beneath the thick ice crust today, researchers said in the study.
"Thanks to the incredible data returned by [NASA's New Horizons mission], we were able to observe tectonic features on Pluto's surface [and] update our thermal evolution model with new data," Noah Hammond, a graduate student at Brown University, said in a statement from the school. Hammond worked with his advisers — Amy Barr, of the Planetary Science Institute, and Marc Parmentier, also at Brown — to study the likelihood that a liquid ocean hides beneath Pluto's surface. [Pluto Has Ocean Beaneath Its Surface? Scientists Think So (Video)]
A wealth of oceans
When the New Horizons probe flew past Pluto last July, its images of the dwarf planet's surface revealed deep faults, or fractures in the surface, hundreds of kilometers long, according to the statement from Brown. The long canyons appeared to form as Pluto's crust expanded, Hammond said. "A subsurface ocean that was slowly freezing over would cause this kind of expansion," he said.
It didn't take long for scientists to conclude that Pluto once housed an ocean, but the question of whether it had already frozen over remained. Using updated measurements of Pluto's diameter and density, Hammond's model revealed that a frozen ocean beneath the crust would have changed from conventional water ice to a more compact, crystallized structure known as "ice II." As the ice changed, the frozen ocean would have shrunk, creating an entirely different type of feature known as compressional fractures, which are not seen on Pluto's surface.
Long geologic faults on Pluto's surface suggest that a liquid ocean once existed beneath its surface. New research suggests that ocean still splashes today.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
"We don't see the things on the surface we'd expect if there had been a global contraction," Hammond said. "So we conclude that ice II has not formed, and therefore that the ocean hasn't completely frozen."
Ice II would have formed only if the dwarf planet's shell were at least 160 miles (260 kilometers) thick, putting sufficient pressure on the underlying ice, the statement said. Under the thinner shell, the ocean could have remained regular ice, not shrinking at all.
Hammond's model suggests that the shell might be closer to 190 miles (300 km) thick, thanks to high temperatures in the core, according to the paper. The addition of nitrogen and methane ice spotted on the surface of the tiny world may also help keep the water warm.
"Those exotic ices are actually good insulators," Hammond said.
That means oceans could lie not only inside tiny Pluto but also in other similar worlds in the far reaches of the Kuiper Belt, the sphere of ice and rock at the edge of the solar system.
"That's amazing to me," Hammond said. "The possibility that you could have vast liquid water ocean habitats so far from the sun on Pluto — and that the same could also be possible on other Kuiper Belt objects as well — is absolutely incredible."
The alien in Box 24; body intact and UFO wreckage – True or False?
The alien in Box 24; body intact and UFO wreckage – True or False?
The content of the alien in the Box is supposedly part of the wreckage recovered by Sergeant Lyan Macdersen, on October 5, 1948, near Clarkville, Kentucky.
All the recovered material was brought and stored in the Wright Patterson Air Force Base. The ship found in the impact site was associated with UFO observed by several witnesses on May 22 and September 27, 1948 near Hargensfield, New Jersey, and later slaughtered by order of Lieutenant Colonel Nathan F. Twining.
Alien in box 24
At the time Lieutenant Colonel Nathan F. Twining was Chief Command of the US Air Force Material and regarded very seriously the UFO subject. Is he authored the famous secret memorandum, dated September 23, 1947 on flying saucers – that is, two months after the Roswell – which tacitly claimed their superiors in Government: – “The reported phenomenon is something real and not something visionary or fiction. “
We continue then to the rest of the document box 24 …
CONTENT DESCRIPTION:
intact body of an alleged extraterrestrial humanoid in a state of mummification, dressed in a material protective clothing unidentified.
disk fragment, containing nine symbols observed in the event gray REF: (encoded)
Artifact unidentified described as transmitter and repeater high sound pulses at the time of redemption. The sound was recorded on site by Air Force Colonel REF: (encoded). “
So let’s look at the text point by point:
Intact body of an alleged extraterrestrial humanoid in a state of mummification.
And in this regard there is even to be discussed! Here, an overview of the secretive and “indigestible” box contents 24. Dressed in a unidentified material protective clothing – Yes, grants, and details of which can be best seen here:
disk fragment, containing nine symbols observed in the Event Gray REF: (encoded)
Of course such “Gray Event – coded” referred to CASE ROSWELL, occurred a year earlier, in New Mexico, precisely in 1947, where the wreckage of rugged alien ship cabin contained identical symbols!
Artifact unidentified described as transmitter and repeater high sound pulses at the time of redemption. The sound was recorded on site by Air Force Colonel REF: (encoded)
Here, possibly an artifact designed to automatically send signals to calls for help and rescue in case of accident with the ship – a typical security procedure of any advanced technology.
Yeah! And without any irony (or is ironically?), The document contained in Box 24, labeled TOP SECRET and with the observation: EYES ONLY (TOP SECRET) – which meant it could not be copied or disclosed, but read only by authorized personnel – does not make us incur any violation.
And now, visions close of the humanoid face gray and his hand with long fingers in claw form – absolutely everything very typical.observe the facial features, which can be clearly seen reliefs of veins and capillaries.
The truth
But my dear friends, this alien mysterious box of 24 is nothing more than the brilliant work artist Jacob Peterson , who produces many amazing oddities.
As Independence Day: Resurgence is released, we recall the 'Gateshead grey' aliens and UFO sightings over the decades
The Hollywood blockbuster Independence Day: Resurgence has arrived at the cinema.
As a $165m sequel to the original film, released 20 years ago, the newly-released action movie sees the Earth attacked by huge alien spaceships piloted by malign locust-like extraterrestrials bent on taking over our planet.
The stuff of extreme fantasy? Let’s hope so!
But since 1947, and the famous ‘Roswell’ incident in the United States - when a crashed flying saucer and its alien passengers were reportedly captured by the Army - sightings of UFOs around the world have been persistent and plentiful.
The UFO as it appeared when the camera was zoomed out (L) and zoomed in (R).
(Credit: Craig Lowther)
The North East has its own dossier of strange and unexplained phenomena, but do these strange appearances in our skies across the decades have a logical, mundane explanation - or has ET been paying sneaky visits to Geordieland?
A still from a video of what appears to be a UFO. It was captured on video in the North East sky by Craig Lowther, from Tynemouth
Here, we recall 14 intriguing UFO stories from the Chronicle’s archive.
1. In 1940, Robert Hall claimed to have been abducted by aliens from a back lane in Bensham, Gateshead. He was “taken on board a spaceship by a group of grey, horrible- looking creatures.”
2. In 1951, The Chronicle received numerous calls about a “flying pencil” in Newcastle and produced an artist’s impression.
3. During the 1960s, strange sightings in the sky over Gateshead included a sliver saucer the size of a car, shining pink discs, shimmering silver objects and a roving fireball.
4. In 1964, there were mysterious sights on Gateshead’s Leam Lane Estate. Three “egg-shaped” objects were reported in the night sky by a schoolboy. Children in the area later said they saw “little green men”.
5. In 1971, a retired teacher reported a giant object hovering over Alnwick Castle. She said: “It was shaped like a fat cigar, black and with a luminous green strip around its edge. It was easily the length of the castle in the sky. I was amazed.”
6. In 1972, the Chronicle carried a report about a massive silver-coloured flying saucer “as big as five or six jumbo jets” according to one witness, hovering over Westerhope.
A UFO sighted at Filey, North Yorkshire, 2005
7. Also in the 1970s, a Newcastle teacher saw a UFO heading east, high over Denton Bank: “It stopped just over the horizon and was stationary for about 10 seconds. Then it vanished in a low cloud, but left vapour trails visible for about seven minutes. It was a tremendous size.”
8. In 1977, a Flight Lieutenant based at RAF Boulmer reported seeing “bright objects hanging over the sea” including an object that was “luminous, round and four to five times larger than a helicopter”. Other servicemen observed the strange craft and reported the sighting to commanding officers.
9. In 1978, a 21-year-old nurse told us how she watched a small, “deafening” UFO that resembled a “cigar tin” glide between her house and her next-door neighbour’s in Killingworth.
10. In 1979, families in Ashington’s Woodbridge Estate ran into the streets to watch a “saucer-shaped” object hovering above their homes. It was described as a “large silver dome with yellow lights underneath”.
11. In 1980, a 61-year-old woman and her son, 25, were walking through a Jarrow park when, she says, they were “buzzed” by a flying two-foot glowing orange ball which hovered just a few feet away from them.
12. In 1981 , a Felling housewife told the Chronicle how she’d been terrified by a group of 12 two-feet tall “doll-like” aliens who appeared in her bedroom at 4 in the morning.
13. In 2004, a Gateshead vicar photographed a bright object hovering in the night sky. He said: “It was hovering from left to right, and was extremely smooth...then the light just turned off as if it was still there, but hidden.”
14. In 2015, a Tynemouth man filmed a dome-shaped object with pulsating lights hovering over the North East coast. Other people reported seeing the same UFO.
Do you have any “UFO” videos or pictures? We’d like to see them.
Roswell, New Mexico is about three hours south of my parents’ home in Albuquerque. The trip between cities cuts through a wasteland of red sand, and I40 is punctuated by a handful of Podunk towns — Moriarty, Vaughn — whose inhabitants make monthly, several-hour-long trips to Walmart for provisions. New Mexico fancies itself the “Land of Enchantment”, and Roswell is its southernmost fever dream (discounting Las Cruces), where enchanted fans of American kitsch and truly deranged victims of “extraterrestrial abduction” gather annually for the UFO Festival. I have witnessed this event enough times to make several conclusions on the way we talk about aliens – just North of the border.
The most fascinating part of the UFO Fest is the friction that occurs between true believers and the goofy tourists who drove into Roswell expecting a family friendly craft fair. The Fest straddles the line between satisfying believers and tourists as best it can, but it’s no Jean Claude Van Damme.
Both groups are equally committed to attending the Fest, and their sub-events don’t really overlap. It’s easy to stumble between the kids’ costume contest at Roswell High School and the support group for former abductees, which is held in a windowless room on Main Street. I’ve been to both, and they’re equally enthralling.
This is my sister, Pauline, at the Roswell UFO Museum in 2012.
Aliens: for families!
The costume contest pits face-painted children against dour, adult cosplayers, and every competitor lines up onstage to have their get-ups analyzed. I’ve seen Invader Zims, E.T.s, Transformers and classic little green men – but, disappointingly, never the guys from Earth Girls Are Easy.
Though they compete in separate categories, the children and adults line up backstage at the local high school, sipping water through their foam masks and shuffling around until their numbers are called. On one occasion, I tried to infiltrate the group to take photos, but I was quickly ushered back into the auditorium by an angry woman wearing sparkly antennae.
The expression on the small girl in the UFO wagon encapsulates how I felt about most of the festival.
The auditorium offers an escape from Southwest heat, which any local will insist is preferable to the rest of America’s weather, given that “it’s a dry heat, not muggy.” The costume contest in 2012 also featured a talent show, in which a group of elderly women shuffled onstage and performed painfully simple choreography to songs featuring the word “alien”.
In my memory, that dance went on for three hours. I also remember someone’s baby, painted blue and sitting in a stroller mocked up to look like a UFO, being the crowd favorite. In our heat delirium, we started to chant in support of the blue baby. I don’t remember it going over well, but then, that’s the UFO Festival, where everything’s funny but no one’s in on the joke.
Blue Baby was robbed. Also, note Invader Zim in the background.
The dead serious side of UFO talk
There’s no reliable way to count how many people walking among us believe they’ve come in contact with extraterrestrial life, but at the UFO Fest, those people are the majority. A huge crowd gathers to swap stories and listen to experts on alien-related subjects ranging from SyFy programming to the actual classification of alien types witnessed by believers.
This "exhibit" closes out the UFO Museum.
While those who reference “watchers” usually describe feeling paranoid — the “watcher” concept argues that aliens have always been among us, and that they simply observe human behavior without interfering — most believers in Roswell are particularly transfixed with “reptilians”, which the guide below (published at the UFO Museum) calls “Mantis”.
An often repeated phrase at the Festival is, “Reptilians act as bodyguards.” I heard this multiple times, from guest speakers and random believers sorting through novelty t-shirts, as if everyone in the entire town had agreed upon a single thing regarding extraterrestrials. Not only do they definitely exist, but their social structure decrees that reptilian aliens are without empathy and often assigned physical tasks, like protecting the UFO.
Many, many Festivalgoers reference this guide to extraterrestrial life. "Greys" are the most popular by far.
One particular guest speaker, Travis Walton, who presented his experiences with aliens at my last visit to the Fest, maintained that extraterrestrials abducted him temporarily, back in the 70s. Colloquially, run-ins with aliens are typically referred to as “incidents”, as in the ”Roswell Incident” on which the Festival is based. In 1947, an unidentified aircraft crashed just outside Roswell. Though the government called the craft a “United States Air Force surveillance balloon”, a strongly willed group of dissenters alleged that it was, in fact, an extraterrestrial ship that was later hidden in Area 51. The “Roswell Incident” is canon in the town today; the documents released regarding the crash are damn near scripture.
There is a particular sensation that accompanies visiting Roswell, a sort of prickly discomfort mixed with excitement, and that feeling was live and loud while I watched this man speak. When he cleared his throat into the mic to begin, I saw the woman next to me clutch her copy of The Walton Experience, Walton’s autobiography, which was adapted into a film called Fire In the Sky.
Walton asked the crowd, which included my sister and me, to raise our hands if we had ever seen an alien. Almost every single person in the room raised his or her hand – except my sister and me. “That’s great,” he said, “now keep your hand up if you’ve been on board an alien ship.” I cannot emphasize enough how strange it was to see maybe 10, 20 hands remain in the air, each hand leading down a trembling arm to a distraught-looking person. Aliens, I came to realize visiting Roswell, stop being a fun concept once a person believes they’ve been abducted.
People who come to Roswell seeking answers to what they believe are questions borne of actual alien contact do not typically wear the kitschy, gift-shop clothing available on every street corner. A true believer wouldn’t wear the t-shirt I bought, for instance, as an alien-themed Mexican restaurant which says, in glow-in-the-dark letters, “Our Tacos Are c-ALIEN-te!” A true believer makes the pilgrimage to Roswell, America’s alien mecca, to commune with those who believe them. They just happen to hold their somber support groups in the same town, on the same day, as the fun family light parade.
This costumed actor gave us his card without speaking, in case we wanted to hire him for a birthday party.
An Annual Visit
The 2016 UFO Festival is happening again this summer, from June 30th to July 3rd. Though I won’t be in attendance, I have noted that the guest speaker line-upstill includes Travis Walton, alongside actors, scholars and those who profess to have communicated with extraterrestrial life.
It makes perfect sense, culturally, for the UFO Festival to occur annually in New Mexico, a state marked by both the mixing of cultures — Mexican, Native American, white Megachurch-attending bible thumpers, hippies who want to live out Georgia O’Keeffe’s dream — and a dreamy sensibility that evades calling anyone’s opinion “incorrect”.
It’s not like a New Mexican to call her neighbor crazy, so Roswell’s annual event continues on, both satirical and earnest in its construction. Even if you haven’t been on board a UFO and aren’t looking for a community of fellow abductees, the Fest is worth visiting for the Alien Pet Costume Parade alone.
Emily is a writer and editor living in Brooklyn. She is originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico and has written for The Comics Journal, xoJane, The Hairpin, Bitch Magazine, Boston.com, Rookie and Oh, Comely.
Are we really alone? These UFO sightings over the decades suggest a different possibility.
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World UFO day is observed on June 24 to mark the day of the first UFO sighting by aviator Kenneth Arnold. UFO stands for unidentified flying object, most of which just happen to be defence aircraft of a country straying into the air territory of another. However, before it can be identified as such, the UFO alarms already start ringing, giving rise to modern-day urban UFO legends. However, 5-20 per cent of sightings go unexplained each year. Here are some of the most baffling — some unexplained — UFO sightings in history.
The RoswellIncident created a sensation as the first ‘recorded’ UFO crash.
(Source: Francis Brassard-Thibault/YouTube)
1. Roswell Incident (1947):
The most popular of UFO-lore, it is the first recorded ‘UFO crash’ outside a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico. Speculation spread like wildfire for a pre-Internet time. Alien invasion theories floated around until the US military stepped in and clarified that the debris came from a crashed experimental weather balloon.
Until their deaths in the 1990s, Evelyn and Paul Trent earnestly insisted that the photos they captured were of an actual UFO.
(Source: WP:NFCC#4/Wikimedia Commons)
2. McMinnville incident, Oregon, Canada (1950):
Evelyn Trent first spotted a silvery, metallic disk in the early evening sky when she was outside feeding her rabbits. Her farmer-husband watched for a couple of minutes and then decided to take two pictures before the UFO disappeared. The Trents shied away from all publicity and refused to sell the pictures to the media, preferring to keep the news private to avoid getting into trouble with the government. Only one local reporter got lucky. While attempts have been made to examine the photographs for any trickery, none has succeeded so far. Until their deaths in the 1990s, Evelyn and Paul Trent earnestly insisted that the photos were of an actual UFO.
3. Manbhum, Bihar, India (1957):
At least 800 villagers of Kadori, Borsa and Mangalda came out of their huts to witness a sight very strange to them. A flying-saucer-like UFO descended to a height of 500ft above ground, whirring like a motorcar engine. It hovered mid-air for a few minutes and took off at an incredible speed, leaving behind a lot of smoke.
Barney and Betty Hill reported ‘symptoms’ of alien abduction after sighting strange lights on a trip back from Canada. Investigation — which also involved hypnosis — came to the conclusion that they were subject to various lab tests by the aliens. Both of them recounted experiences of being examined by grey aliens.
Residents of Las Rosas, Gran Canaria, reported seeing a gigantic, translucent blue sphere hovering just above ground level. They saw two figures in the gigantic sphere, measuring 30m in diameter. The figures looked like humanoids. The sphere grew larger and larger before ultimately disappearing into the sky. At 9.27pm on the same night, the Navy personnel reported a strange light travelling along the horizon that later split into two distinct objects.
On September 19, 1976, the Iranian air force received frantic calls about a strange light shining in Tehran. Fearing an enemy attack, the Iranian air Force dispatched two F-4 pilots for initial investigation. The pilots reported strange technical activity upon return. The first pilot’s aircraft system began to fail as he approached the UFO. Deciding to abort the mission, the aircraft regained full functioning capacity as soon as he returned. It gets even bizarre with the second one. The UFO launched a defensive attack — a bright beam of light — on the aircraft, which missed due to an evasive manoeuvre executed by the pilot. Tehran was witness to the typical alien-invasion signs — knocked out communications systems, loss of power supply and widespread mayhem on the ground — as the UFO continued to chase the aircraft across Tehran’s skies.
Security patrol at Rendlesham Forest claimed to have seen grey aliens and experienced bizarre altered states of reality.
(In photo: The east gate at RAF Woodbridge, where the incident began, source: Wikimedia Commons)
7. Rendlesham forest UFO landing (1980):
Jointly operating US-UK air bases at Bentwaters and Woodbridge in the UK were on alert upon being buzzed by a UFO for several nights in 1980. On 27 December, the UFO seemed to have closed in for an encounter at Rendlesham forest as the locals started reporting strange lights in the area. The security patrol on duty found a saucer-shaped craft hovering a short distance off the ground. Moreover, they even saw grey aliens who seemed to be working on it. Those who did approach closer to investigate reported experiencing symptoms of altered reality — such as time displacement, “reality bending” phenomena and bizarre atmospheric anomalies.
makes this one stand apart are the sheer number of people who reported them, and the fact the flying saucers in this case weren’t circular discs, but triangular in shape. What made it eerie was that these UFOs didn’t make any sound as they hovered over the city. Some of them were reportedly so large that witnesses described them as a “floating city”.
9. Japan Air Lines Flight 1628 (1986):
The crew of the Tokyo-bound flight from Paris was accompanied by more than one UFO for almost an hour as the Boeing 747 cargo carrier transited the skies over Alaska. The UFOs made motions that suggested gravity had no effect on them whatsoever. Air traffic controllers were not able to detect any UFO activity around the Boeing despite repeated assurances by the crew. The pilot, Captain Kenju Terauchi, is as credible a source one could find as he had served as a fighter pilot and logged more than 10,000 hours in flight.
A straight-out-of-a-Sci-Fi-movie fireball terrorised the residents of Kolkata in 2007. At 3.30am on October 29, witnesses described the gigantic object as a shape-shifting, vanishing ball of fire streaking over the sky. Scientists tried to pin a natural-cosmic-phenomenon tag on it — including a meteor — but ultimately agreed the shape-shifting ability made it hard to identify its origins.
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Researchers find mystery object that outshines entire Milky Way Galaxy by 50 times
Researchers find mystery object that outshines entire Milky Way Galaxy by 50 times
Recently, a mysterious object flared to life and left scientists in awe. It outshines our entire galaxy by FIFTY times, and to date, astronomers are not sure what it is.
Astronomers are not really sure what the mysterious object, that outshines our Milky Way Galaxy by fifty times actually is. While many suspect that the object is, in fact, the result of superluminous supernovae, making it the most powerful one ever seen, there is still a bit of skepticism in the scientific community.
Scientists believe that this discovery “may lead to new thinking and new observations of the whole class of superluminous supernova.” (Source)
It was way back in June 2015 that researchers spotted a ‘ball of hot gas’ located BILLIONS of light years away from our sun. It was radiating with a staggering energy of HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS of suns.
Researchers have been left in awe. At its heart, researchers have identified an object believed to be some 10 miles across. The object is known as ASAS-SN-15lh and is twice as luminous as any other object previously identified by astronomers. (ASAS-SN is the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae)
It is also far brighter than an ordinary supernova, but it happens to outside our galaxy, the Milky Way by FIFTY TIMES!
Todd Thompson, a professor of astronomy at Ohio State, explained that if this is, in fact, a magnetar, it would have to spin at least 1,000 times in a second, converting the rotational energy to light with nearly 100 percent of efficiency. It would be the most extreme example of a magnetar that scientists believe is physically possible in our universe.
Now scientists are guessing what the object might be. Initial studies reveal that the object at the center could be a sort of extremely rare Star, referred to by astronomers as a millisecond MAGNETAR. However, this one is so powerful that it pushes the energy limits proposed by conventional physics. A millisecond magnetar is a rapidly spinning and dense star with an extremely powerful magnetic field. (Source)
This fascinating object cannot be seen with the naked eye due to the fact that it is located nearly four billion light years from Earth. However, the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae is able to detect bright objects in our universe that other telescopes cannot.
Since 2014, ASAS-SN has found 250 supernovae. However, none of them are even close to ASAS-SN-15lh. The explosion that fueled ASAS-SN-15lh was 200 times more powerful than an average supernova. It is 570 BILLION times brighter than our Sun, and it was 20 times more luminous than ALL the STARS in our galaxy combined.
“We have to ask, how is that even possible?” said Krzysztof Stanek, professor of astronomy at Ohio State. “It takes a lot of energy to shine that bright and that energy has to come from somewhere.” (Source)
“The honest answer is at this point that we do not know what could be the power source for ASASSN-15lh,” said Subo Dong, lead author of the Science paper and a Youth Qianren Research Professor of Astronomy at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University. He added that the discovery “may lead to new thinking and new observations of the whole class of superluminous supernova.” (Source)
The Lost Civilization of Atlantis: Buried beneath the Ice of Antarctica
The Lost Civilization of Atlantis: Buried beneath the Ice of Antarctica
Using the nuclear dating method of Dr. W.D. Urry. from the Carnegie Institution in Washington D.C., scientists discovered that Antarctica’s rivers, sources of fine-dispersed deposits, were flowing as depicted on The Orontius Finaeus map, about 6,000 years ago. About 4000 years B. C., glacial sediments started to accumulate.
Is it possible that the lost civilization of Atlantis is buried beneath the Ice of Antarctica?
Antarctica and Atlantis are two words commonly used in the same phrase. It’s not a mystery that many people firmly believe that Atlantis did, in fact, exist on Earth, and Antartica might just be the right place where we should search for Atlantis.
But while Plato was the first to write about the lost city-continent of Atlantis, its noteworthy to mention that many Native American legends are reminiscent of what Plato sustained in the distant past, reinforcing suspicion that Atlantis could have existed.
The legends of Native Americans come from different cultures separated by vast distances and isolated from one another. However, all of them tell a similar story of a once fallen civilization that existed in the distant past. In Central America, this ancient culture lived in Aztlan. According to legends, Aztlan was located to the south, on a white island and perished without warning as a result of natural catastrophic events. Many researchers maintain that Aztlan means “place of whiteness.” This is why it has commonly been connected to Atlantis and Antarctica, suggesting that Aztlan might have been the mythical Atlantis, the mythical place located to the south.
Depiction of the departure from Aztlán in the 16th-century Codex Boturini. Image Credit
It is said that after the catastrophic events, the survivors of Atlantis fled to different continents where their ancient civilization ultimately merged with others and disappeared.
Skeptics will rush to discredit any theory linking Atlantis to Antarctica mostly because Antarctica today is a completely inhospitable and frozen environment where civilizations could not flourish. However, in remote antiquity most of Antarctica was hospitable. Proof of that is a number is enigmatic and ancient maps that depict the continent of Antarctica free of Ice. The most famous cartographical chart is without a doubt the famous Piri-Reis map, drawn by an admiral who served in the Navy of the Ancient Ottoman Empire.
Interestingly, the Piri Reis map was based on a number of even older maps which accurately trace the coastline of Antarctica WITHOUT the layer of ice that covers it today. This indicates clearly that whoever had the technology and ability to survey the continent of Antarctica must have done so thousands of years ago before the continent was frozen.
But how can a continent located to the south be free of Ice? Well, it turns out that Antarctica wasn’t always located where it is today. In fact, in the distant past, the continent of Antarctica wasn’t located at the South Pile, but instead somewhere between it and the Equator of our planet. This means that Antarctica was located farther north and experienced a tropical or temperate climate, meaning that it was covered in forests, and inhabited by various ancient life forms. What does this mean? Well… given the little we know about the life on our planet in the distant past, it is likely that people might have lived on this now, icy continent and developed as a society just like people did in Africa, Europe, and Asia.
ut how was this even possible? Thanks to a scientific theory called crustal displacement.
According to mainstream scholars, and the theory of continental drift, the crust of our planet is in fact divided into several tectonic plates that literally ‘float’ over a molted inner layer, Over the ages, these plates slowly bump against one another.
However, the theory of crustal displacement which expands the theory of continental drift, approximately every 40,000 years, the entire crust of our planet shifts as a single unit. After each ‘shift’ all the land masses on our planet, including entire continents are relocated to a new position on the planet.
Many researchers believed that this happened the last time around 10,000 B.C. and caused the continent of Antarctica to move from its position near the equator to its current position, on top of the South Pole.
“I still find the idea that Antarctica was once forested absolutely mind-boggling”,
“We take it for granted that Antarctica has always been a frozen wilderness, but the ice caps only appeared relatively recently in geological history,” told Jane Francis of the University of Leeds.
Today, Antarctica is composed of around ninety-eight percent ice which is over a kilometer thick. So imagine, if in the distant past, ancient people inhabited Antarctica when it was covered with vegetation and forests, all of their “heritage” is now buried under a thick layer of ice. Even though it is uninhabitable today and only scientists venture out to Antarctica, in the distant past it might have been the perfect place for an ancient civilization to develop.
Interestingly, according to reports from Pravda.ru:
In 1949, Admiral Baird’s expedition bore holes into the Ross Sea in three spots, where Orontius Finaeus marked river-beds. In the cuts, fine-grained layers were found, obviously brought to the sea with rivers whose sources were situated in temperate latitudes (i.e. free of glaciers).The samples were taken from three different locations. 70 deg. 17′ S 178 deg. 15′ W 2,990 M deep, 69 deg. 12′ S 180 deg. S. at 3,130 M. deep, 68 deg. 26′ S 179 deg. 15’W at 3,292 M. deep. (1)
The fine-grained sediment that was found is the sort that is carried by rivers from ice-free continents. Also during the Byrd expedition of 1935 geologists made a rich discovery of fossils on the sides of Mount Weaver (Lat. 86 deg. 58’S) which included leaf and stem impressions and fossilized wood. In 1952 they identified two species of a tree fern called Glossopteris once common to southern continents (Africa, South America, and Australia.)
Core samples taken from the Ross Sea during the Byrd expedition of 1947-1948 shows glacial marine sediment from the present to 6000 years ago. From 6,000 to 15,000 the sediment is fine-grained suggests an absence of ice from the area. Then there is a zone fine-grained sediment from 30,000 to 40,000 years ago, again suggesting that the area was ice free. From 40,000 to 133,550 years ago there are two zones of coarse and two zones of medium-grained texture. While comparing the three samples, two of them show that the end of the temperate period and the beginning of the most recent glacial period started 6,000 years ago and the third just 1,000 years after that. So Antarctica has had recent period of temperate climate. (Source) (Source)
All of this points to the undeniable fact that sometime between the 4th and 12th millennium B.C, there was an extremely advanced civilization on Earth, with great knowledge of navigation, cartography, and astronomy. Their technological advancements were way ahead of other cultures that would appear after them. This ‘lost’ civilization, most definitely preceded our modern civilization by tens of thousands of years. And many people firmly believe that this civilization could have been Atlantis, and evidence of their existence will be found beneath the thick layers of ice that currently cover the continent of Antarctica.
3 ‘Forbidden Archaeology’ Discoveries that PROVE history is Wrong
3 ‘Forbidden Archaeology’ Discoveries that PROVE history is Wrong
The number of artifacts that have been discovered in the last couple of decades, contradicting history are countless. Each discovery proves how ingenious ancient civilizations were thousands of years ago, and that history as we have been taught in history books is full of missing parts.
We have come to understand that the historic picture behind the origin of mankind and civilization is completely wrong.
From numerous discoveries –which have been ignored by mainstream scholars—we have come to understand that mankind knew the Earth was round even before we believed it was flat. We know that Columbus didn’t discover America and that countless civilizations predate the ancient Aztecs, Maya, and Inca.
However, for a reason most of us cannot comprehend, history books were never corrected. Tesla is nowhere to be found in history textbooks even though his inventions have brought civilization to the point where we stand today.
We know that religious dogmas are incorrect and that mankind has been on Earth for hundreds of thousands of years, even before we knew what religion was. We know that ancient civilizations were interconnected thousands of years ago and that some of them, like the ancient Egyptians and other predating them, were most likely capable of interoceanic voyages.
n this article, we take a look at three discoveries that have been tagged as Forbidden Archaeology by many people. These discoveries tell a story that firmly contradicts our history books and mainstream archaeological views.
The Fuente Magna Bowl
One of the most important discoveries which contradicts numerous mainstream theories is the Fuente Magna Bowl discovered in South America.This controversial artifact was discovered near Tiahuanaco (Tiahuanaco is probably the greatest Native American civilization that many people haven’t heard of) and Lake Titicaca by a local farmer in the 1950’s.
Written onto the mystery bowl is sSumerian Cuneiform and Proto-Sumerian hieroglyphs. This is CRAZY! Why? Because according to researchers, Sumerians and the ancient people who inhabited Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku were never connected. So how come Sumerian cuneiform and Proto-Sumerian hieroglyphs are all over the Fuente Magna Bowl?
Today many people believe that the Fuente Magna Bowl was most likely created by Sumerians who settled in Bolivia sometime after 2500 BC, which totally contradicts modern day archaeology and history which claims that these ancient civilizations were never connected.
Numerous mysteries about the Fuente Magna Bowl remain even today, and this enigmatic piece of ancient history has become one of the most controversial subjects among researchers today.
A 30-centimeter long finger
This enigmatic object was discovered in Egypt, and according to reports, its real and even has a certificate of authenticity and X-Ray images. The image in this article was taken in 1988 and published by one of Europe’s leading newspaper, BILD.de.
The object is a huge, mummified humanoid finger of 30 centimeters in length. Researchers from Egypt believe it had to belong to a creäture that was over 5 meters height. Researchers have had mixed feelings when it comes to this mysterious ancient relic. The biggest problem is that the finger does not fit into any conventional theories presented by archaeologists or historians. Simply put, it is impossible. Forbidden archeology?
Located in Australia, at the Brisbane Water National Park, Kariong, researchers have discovered numerous hieroglyphs which shatter mainstream history and patterns. It is another discovery that according to many scholars is impossible and must, therefore, be a hoax.
However, the truth behind the enigmatic ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs in Australia is fascinating.
Not only do many researchers believe these glyphs are authentic, the scribes accurately used several ancient hieroglyphs and ‘grammatical’ variations which, crucially, were not even documented in Egyptian hieroglyphic until recent times.
Interestingly, scholars managed to translate the hieroglyphs and not only are they authentic, the scribes accurately used several ancient hieroglyphs and ‘grammatical’ variations which, crucially, were not even documented in Egyptian hieroglyphic texts until 2012.
The truth about the Illuminati and their influence on society
The truth about the Illuminati and their influence on society
How much do we know about the Illuminati? Are they a real group that exists even today? Or are they the result of complex ideas that have given birth to numerous articles, books, and films about them?
The Illuminati are one of the largest sources of fantasy, controversy, modern mythology, conspiracy theories and debates around the world. People had become more interested in the mysteries behind this secret group in recent decades when numerous articles started flooding the internet, talking about the Illuminati, their secret organization and ultimate plans for humanity. Marketing has done an excellent job of promoting an ‘ideology’ that has been confused as a reality by many people.
The final goal of the Illuminati is to control society in every possible way, and they are often linked to war and political conflicts around the world. Some have even connected them to terrorist attacks such as those at the Word Trade Center, and the Assassination of JFK.
Prominent figures in society like Pope Francis and singers like Beyoncé, Jay-Z among others are often said to be part of this secret group. However, actual evidence linking anyone to them has never been discovered, and most people believe information that delicate will never leak to the press. However, there are those who believe in their official goal: to oppose superstition, obscurantism, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power.
But, is this secret group real? Do they actually exist and rule the world in the background while society remains unaware of their presence? Well, the so-called ‘order of the Illuminati’ was founded in 1776 in Bavaria, Germany. Illuminati is the plural of Latin illuminatus, which means enlightened.
This secret group was founded by Jurist Adam Weishaupt on May 1st in Bavaria. The group’s structure was based on the orders of the Masonic iconography using many symbols for aesthetic purposes linked to the world of the occult, as the staff, the obelisk, and the “all-seeing eye.”
The Illuminati were outlawed in 1785 by Prince Karl Theodor and dissolved. However, authors such as Agustin Barruel, Nesta H. Webster, and William Guy Carr warned that the organization could have continued to operate clandestinely after its dissolution, and have participation in events like the French Revolution or the Bolshevik Revolution. Many people believe that they continue operating illegally even today, and have expanded their influence all across the world. Interestingly, modern historians have even proposed that the founding fathers of the United States of America were part of the Illuminati. Contemporary historian Mitch Horowitz believes that today, the Illuminati are just an empty place where citizens put their concerns about the actual functioning of economic and political powers which dominate in the world.
While millions of people consider that this secret group is, in fact, real, and continues to operate behind our backs, in the shadows. Moreover, there are others who firmly believe that the Illuminati are nothing more than made up stories based on a small group that was founded in the 1770’s but quickly dissolved afterward.
In the 21st century, looking back at history, we will find that the Illuminati have gained extreme popularity due to numerous novels, books and films being published and filmed based on their history.
Whether or not the Illuminati are more than just an idea created by modern society is something up for debate since evidence of their existence is nearly impossible to find.
The Great Pyramid of China: The Largest and oldest Pyramid on the planet?
The Great Pyramid of China: The Largest and oldest Pyramid on the planet?
The story behind the Great Pyramid of China is beyond fascinating. For years, the government has not allowed proper studies to be performed on the numerous pyramids near the city of Xi’an.
Excursions that managed to sneak into the area where the pyramids are, discovered numerous anomalies like a metallic material which could not be identified by researchers. The Pyramids are believed to be over 8,000 years old.
Are the Pyramid of China among the largest on the planet? According to many, one of the Pyramids –kept a secret for years—in China is so large that the Great Pyramid of Giza seems like a miniature monument.
The story of the Chinese pyramid began at the end of the Second World War when American pilot James Gaussman was about to complete a resupply mission to the forces of the Chinese Army.
Suddenly, a fault in the aircraft engine forced him to return to the Assam base located in northern India, for safety reasons, he decided to fly at a lower altitude.
Shortly after flying over the city of Xi’an, heading southwest, the pilot encountered what looked like a gigantic pyramid
Surprised, after making several passes over the humongous structure, he decided to take a number of photographs, which later included a detailed report which were handed to his superiors as soon as he returned to base.
The incident was forgotten among the files of the US Air Force until 40 years later, the ‘Great Pyramid of China’ was brought back to light through the work of Australian writer Brian Crowley, who published one of the photographs of the Pyramid in his book.
As a result, it was known that this wasn’t the first time pilots saw the humongous Chinese Pyramid. In fact, during March 147, when the war was already over, the New York Times published an article making reference to the sighting made by Col. Maurice Sheehan from his plane, when he flew over a gigantic pyramid, described by Col. Maurice Sheehan as having approximate dimensions of 300 meters in height and 450 meters on each side.
It is noteworthy to mention that these dimensions would make the Chinese Pyramid the largest one ever discovered on Earth, dwarfing the Great Pyramid of Giza with a mere 147 meters in height and 320 meters in width
Even more fascinating is the fact that the Great Pyramid of Egypt has around 52,900 square meters, the ‘Great Pyramid of China’ exceeds the number with a staggering 202,000 square meters.
Over the years, numerous pilots claimed to have observed gigantic Pyramids in China, and there is a great amount of images, taken by pilots and satellites which support the existence ef the mysterious structures in Asia.
However, inexplicably, the Chinese authorities have rejected the existence of such monuments.
In the early twentieth century, explorers and traders, like German citizens Frederick Schroeder and Oscar Maman, have testified to the presence of not only one, but several pyramids located around the Chinese city of Xi’an.
But the mystery behind the Pyramid of China is even more fascinating. According to reports, numerous European excursions managed to take samples of objects and metals around the Pyramids of China. Analysis showed that these structures could be well over 8,000 years old, but the most fascinating detail isn’t the age of the Pyramids: Interestingly, the metallic material present at the Pyramids has not been identified so far; since it is made out of materials that are unknown to modern science.
(VIDEO) Alien Bases on the Moon: NASA Whistleblower reveals existence of alien lunar structures
(VIDEO) Alien Bases on the Moon: NASA Whistleblower reveals existence of alien lunar structures
Another NASA Whistleblower has presented a number of images taken by NASA’s Apollo mission Astronauts which show what seem to be extraterrestrial bases on the surface of the moon.
Old Apollo mission images fro a NASA whistleblower’s private collection are believed to contain the ultimate proof of Alien bases on the surface of Earth’s moon.
The images come from the private collection of Ken Johnston, who was a former avionics technician who worked with a number of NASA contractors during the Apollo missions. During his time at NASA working on the Apollo missions, he came across a number of images taken by NASA astronauts during the Apollo missions to the moon which show what seem to be alien bases on the surface.
According to UFO hunters over at Mars Moon Space TV, a video uploaded earlier this month shows a recently released cache of old Apollo images which seem to show Alien bases on the surface of the moon. Ken Johnston is well known among UFO hunters as believed to be one of the most important ‘NASA whistleblowers’ who has come forward with ‘evidence’ of alien activity on the Moon.
In the video uploaded by Mars Moon Space TV, Thomas Jensen speaks about one of the images released from Johnston’s collection which show: “What looks like a base on the moon with visible lights and structures.”
According to Richard Hoagland, who first saw Johnston’s image collection of the Apollo mission in 1995, NASA’s image technicians have been editing original images of the moon for decades in an effort to ‘brush out’ and delete alien structures which are scattered all across the moon. According to Hoagland and others who have managed to take a peek at the images, image scans of Johnston’s collection from the Apollo missions undoubtedly show alien structures on the surface of the Moon, which have been edited removed from publicly available images of the lunar surface.
However, not everyone seems to be convinced with these or other images of the lunar surface where ‘alien’ structures are seemingly present.
Regardless of what skeptics might think, Johnston revealed that he had been ‘ordered’ to destroy the original photos but decided to accept them. Many UFO researchers claim that the images were ordered to be destroyed since NASA does not want society to see any evidence of alien structures on the lunar surface.
In addition to Mars Moon Space TV, YouTube channel Secure Team 10 also featured Johnston’s Apollo mission images containing evidence of alien structures on the moon in one of their videos.
The images in black and white show the Apollo spacecraft flying over the lunar surface. Next to the spacecraft, on the lower left side of the image are mysterious bright spots on the lunar surface which are believed to be part of the alien bases.
According to many, the lights seen in the images appear to be arranged in such a way, suggesting that they are the product of intelligent design.
However, the images of Johnston’s private collection are not the only alleged evidence of alien structures on the moon.
One of the most famous images depicting alien structures on the moon come from NASA’s LCROSS mission to the moon. The main LCROSS mission objective was to explore the presence of water ice in a permanently shadowed crater near a lunar polar region. It was launched together with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) on June 18, 2009, as part of the shared Lunar Precursor Robotic Program, the first American mission to the Moon in over ten years.
But similar mysterious lights from the lunar surface are present in many other images and videos. Not long ago SecureTeam 10 posted a very interesting video which proves there are a number of alien bases on the moon. To back up their claims, SecureTeam10 posted the coordinates of the towering structures on the Moon: 21° 4′ 2.23 N, 148° 39’12.30″ E. If you focus on the area, Ufo hunters claim three massive pillars are visible clearly casting a shadow on the surface of the moon.
Recently, a number of highly ranked government officials, former astronauts military personnel, and scientists have come forward speaking out about the UFO phenomenon and alien life.
“After traveling in space, I am fully confident that the aliens are watching us. I do not know how many, where and how they do it, but watching us; We see these ships at all times.” –Former astronaut Edgar Mitchell
Edwin Eugene Aldrin, Jr., aka ‘Buzz’ Aldrin, former American astronaut and engineer, has also spoken out about the UFO phenomenon. Buzz Aldrin was the Lunar Module Pilot during the Apollo 11 mission, and was one of the first two humans to land on the surface of the moon, and the second person to walk on it on July 21, 1969, at 03:15:16 UTC. Aldrin said that: “On Apollo 11 in route to the Moon, I observed a light out the window that appeared to be moving alongside us. There were many explanations of what that could be, other than another spacecraft from another country or another world.
Millions of people around the globe firmly believe that American astronauts saw and recorded “vestiges of human constructions of antiquity” on the moon and photographed some of the technological evidence found on the surface. After the astronauts brought back the images to Earth. Both of them have accused NASA of editing original pictures of the Moon and replacing them with fake images where the structures on the moon had been erased.
(VIDEO) Drone Footage Reveals Undeniable Evidence of UFO Activity on Our Planet
(VIDEO) Drone Footage Reveals Undeniable Evidence of UFO Activity on Our Planet
An unusual sighting has recently stirred up the entire UFO community who was on the lookout for more evidence of UFO activity on our planet. As a result, they stumbled upon one of the most interesting catches in recent months.
The moment a man takes his drone for a flight is market by a brisk event that almost ended up tragically…for his drone and budget. Concentrating on filming the nearby heavy storm clouds, Skwty Photography of YouTube accidentally surprises the very moment when a speeding UFO dashes next to his flying device, nearly impacting it.
The sighting is spectacular for various reasons:
The speed at which it travels is beyond that of any flying device this size designed by our human intelligence. It can only be compared to a projectile, but as you are about to see, there is more than one such appearance.
The first hasty UFO darts from the ground, almost like being launched by something. It’s not aimed at the drone, but a second object passes by in close proximity.
The second UFO sprints from the nearby cloud and barely misses the drone, a behavior similar to that of an otherworldly device that would scan an intruder trespassing its flying perimeter.
Theories suggest a possible baseball ball thrown off the pitch, or even a sneaky golf ball from a nearby field. After all, what would be better than downing drones in your spare time using only a golf club and your aiming skills?
Others have suggested that it could be a consistent chunk of hail coming from the storm clouds found in the vicinity. This would explain the brightness, size and color but not the fact that first UFO originates from the ground, and the same goes for the chance of it being a meteorite.
So what are these mysterious UFOs? Missiles? Rocketing ice? Or something more out of this world?
To better identify the phenomenon, we’ll have to set the dust off the archives and see if similar sightings had ever been recorded. First reminder comes from a reddit user who recalls witnessing a comparable event.
“ a few years ago I was standing by the ocean in Newfoundland on a normal bright sunny day and I thought I saw something like this shoot out of the water. It was maybe a few inches long like this, white and just flew so fast I couldn’t track it,” Greg Hortall wrote on reddit.
“I remember my first thought was that it was a flying fish – but then it kept going in the direction of the sky an impossible speed. It happened so quickly that I thought I was seeing things. My thought later was maybe there’s some kind of a living thing that is so small and moves so quickly, humanity hasn’t “discovered” it yet. Problem with that is, where are the remains when it dies. If it is of alien origin, you’d have to think it would be a good way to survey a planet – send out a few dozen of these tiny things to whip around and measure/capture/photograph everything, and the locals would have no idea.”
And speaking of hidden things, these intriguing little buzzers were captured on film a few years ago. At that time however, they came out of a larger sphere dubbed the ‘orb UFO’. Mr. Crow of YouTube suggested they could be super-intelligent robots that monitor human activity on planet Earth, or even AI morphing devices, but further proof of their existence lacked in the period that followed.
Could these two cases be related? Are these bright projectiles coming from orb UFOs? Are we being monitored by an advanced species of extraterrestrials that’s far beyond our level of understanding?
Two triangle UFOs reported at New Jersey tree top level
Two triangle UFOs reported at New Jersey tree top level
A New Jersey witness at Barnegat Light reported watching two triangle-shaped UFOs pass over at the tree top level that quickly moved west, according to testimony in Case 76757 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The UFO was moving at the tree top level over Barnegat, NJ.
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The reporting witness and her boyfriend were outside barbecuing on a clear night on June 1, 2016.
“My boyfriend observed the object pass over the tree top with multiple colors, triangle shape, lights all around outside, very little to no noise,” the witness stated.
A second UFO was right behind the first as it moved overhead.
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The two quickly saw a second object.
“The second object was the same, but only three lights – one on each corner, a little to no noise.Both objects headed west. Right over our heads. Thought was either a UFO or a new type of government craft. Did not have camera. Happened so fast.”
Both UFOs moved quickly away. Pictured: Barnegat Light, NJ.
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Barnegat Light is in Ocean County, NJ, population 574. New Jersey State Section Director Robert Spearing investigated and closed this case as an Unknown. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Did a giant species of aliens once exist on on Earth? Most defiantly, but its difficult to comprehend for sure. Many UFO reports have reported seeing 3-5 meter tall aliens existing landed craft. Its really quite extraordinary and also makes me realize that the size of objects change incredibly throughout this universe. For instance, back in about 2007-2008 when I wrote to William Rutledge (about 80 years old) of Apollo 20, he told me about the inside of the cigar ship in Deporte crater that he explored...inside were glass-like tubes along its walls with tiny 2cm skeletons littering its inside, yet the pilot was 5.5 feet tall (retrieved) and was attached with an umbilical cord to the craft from her nose and other areas. Size is relative. What are the limits? Life...has no limits. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states:
A giant African lake basin is providing information about possible migration routes and hunting practices of early humans in the Middle and Late Stone Age periods, between 150,000 and 10,000 years ago. Oxford University researchers have unearthed new evidence from the lake basin in Botswana that suggests that the region was once much drier at certain times and wetter at other times than it is today. They have documented thousands of stone tools on the lake bed, which sheds new light on how humans in Africa adapted to several substantial climate change events during the period that coincided with the last Ice Age in Europe. Researchers from the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford are surveying the now-dry basin of Lake Makgadikgadi in the Kalahari Desert, which at 66,000 square kilometres is about the same size of present day Lake Victoria. Their research was prompted by the discovery of the first of what are believed to be the world’s largest stone tools on the bed of the lake. Although the first find was made in the 1990s, the discovery of four giant axes has not been scientifically reported until now. Four giant stone hand axes, measuring over 30 cm long and of uncertain age, were recovered from the lake basin. Equally remarkable is that the dry lake floor where they were found is also littered with tens of thousands of other smaller stone-age tools and flakes, the researchers report. Professor David Thomas, Head of the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, said: ‘Many of the tools were found on the dry lake floor, not around its edge, which challenges the view that big lakes were only attractive to humans when they were full of water. 'As water levels in the lake went down, or during times when they fluctuated seasonally, wild animals would have congregated round the resulting watering holes on the lake bed. It’s likely that early human populations would have seen this area as a prolific hunting ground when food resources in the region were more concentrated than at times when the regional climate was wetter and food was more plentiful and the lake was full of water.’ (More at source).
Did a giant species of aliens once exist on on Earth? Most defiantly, but its difficult to comprehend for sure. Many UFO reports have reported seeing 3-5 meter tall aliens existing landed craft. Its really quite extraordinary and also makes me realize that the size of objects change incredibly throughout this universe. For instance, back in about 2007-2008 when I wrote to William Rutledge (about 80 years old) of Apollo 20, he told me about the inside of the cigar ship in Deporte crater that he explored...inside were glass-like tubes along its walls with tiny 2cm skeletons littering its inside, yet the pilot was 5.5 feet tall (retrieved) and was attached with an umbilical cord to the craft from her nose and other areas. Size is relative. What are the limits? Life...has no limits. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states:
A giant African lake basin is providing information about possible migration routes and hunting practices of early humans in the Middle and Late Stone Age periods, between 150,000 and 10,000 years ago. Oxford University researchers have unearthed new evidence from the lake basin in Botswana that suggests that the region was once much drier at certain times and wetter at other times than it is today. They have documented thousands of stone tools on the lake bed, which sheds new light on how humans in Africa adapted to several substantial climate change events during the period that coincided with the last Ice Age in Europe. Researchers from the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford are surveying the now-dry basin of Lake Makgadikgadi in the Kalahari Desert, which at 66,000 square kilometres is about the same size of present day Lake Victoria. Their research was prompted by the discovery of the first of what are believed to be the world’s largest stone tools on the bed of the lake. Although the first find was made in the 1990s, the discovery of four giant axes has not been scientifically reported until now. Four giant stone hand axes, measuring over 30 cm long and of uncertain age, were recovered from the lake basin. Equally remarkable is that the dry lake floor where they were found is also littered with tens of thousands of other smaller stone-age tools and flakes, the researchers report. Professor David Thomas, Head of the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford, said: ‘Many of the tools were found on the dry lake floor, not around its edge, which challenges the view that big lakes were only attractive to humans when they were full of water. 'As water levels in the lake went down, or during times when they fluctuated seasonally, wild animals would have congregated round the resulting watering holes on the lake bed. It’s likely that early human populations would have seen this area as a prolific hunting ground when food resources in the region were more concentrated than at times when the regional climate was wetter and food was more plentiful and the lake was full of water.’ (More at source).
UFO Emerges From Cloud Over Port Angeles, Washington On June 4, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Emerges From Cloud Over Port Angeles, Washington On June 4, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:June 4, 2016 Location of sighting: Port Angeles, Washington, USA News source: MUFON #76808 UFOs that want to observe humanity need a place to hide, especially if the alien species doesn't look anything like us, because they can't just walk among us and blend it. So, some species observer from afar and use natures clouds to hide within. When no cloud cover exists, often they will make their own cloud. Incredible close and HD photo of a UFO in a cloud. This is also why if you are recording the sky, focus on the clouds and the edges of the clouds...thats where you will see them. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: While beachcombing w my gf in Poet Angeles, we observed a dark UFO emerge from a cloud over the harbor. We had been commenting on the oddness of the ling, thin, spirally dense cloud on a clear day, and were already photographing the cloud when the object emerged, as if on cue, "posed" as it were, for one shot then retreated back within the cloud.
Russia’s Deep Lakes Are Populated By a Race of Giant Underwater Humanoids
Russia’s Deep Lakes Are Populated By a Race of Giant Underwater Humanoids
Russia is home to a great number of mysteries, each one stranger than the other. The following case is no exception.
Although these particular events have been happening for thousands of years, our story begins in the 1930s, when a Russian researcher of the paranormal named Ilya Grabovsky was exploring strange happenings around Lake Issik Kul, a deep body of water located in the Northern Tian Shan Mountains. “Issik Kul” means “Warm Lake”, a reference to the fact that the lake never freezes, despite being surrounded by icy mountains.
Grabovsky had heard legends about hidden caves in the area so he contacted a local who had inadvertently stumbled into one. At first, the man was reluctant to describe his experience but the paranormal researcher eventually persuaded him to pass the knowledge. He told Grabovsky that he and his friends were fishing on the lake’s northwestern shore when they saw a cave. It was inaccessible so they resolved to return the next day with ropes, torches and pickaxes.
The following day, the men began exploring the cave and made a startling discovery inside its innermost sector. They discovered three human skeletons, each one measuring more than ten feet tall. Around their necks, each skeleton had a silver amulet in the shape of what the men described as “bats.” An interesting aspect, since there have been several reports describing UFOs of this particular shape, not just in Russia but also the rest of the world.
Even more intriguing is a local Kyrgyz legend that references a sunken city on the bottom of lake Issik Kul. The last ruler of the ancient city had been King Ossounes, a giant with “long ears.” The legend also mentions that Ossounes was able to fly between the mountain peaks “in the blink of an eye.”
This discovery frightened the men enough to keep silent about it for years, but not enough to leave the silver amulets behind. They melted the jewelry and sold the silver but kept a small fragment as a memento. No photograph of this fragment survived to this day but Grabovsky would later write that the Soviet scientists who got the chance to examine it were unable to determine its exact age.
Galvanized by the fisherman’s admission, Grabovsky decided to dig deeper into the mystery. Rummaging through local archives, he stumbled upon the earliest mention of similarly-gigantic creatures, dating back to the mid 1800’s. A group of Georgian boys (at that time, Georgia was part of the Russian Empire) were diving for mussels in Lake Issik Kul when they happened upon the underwater entrance to a cave inside the nearby mountain. As you probably guessed it, the cave was home to the last earthly remains of several giants. Despite his best efforts, Grabovsky never found this cave. Or maybe he did but kept silent. Either way, the official version is that he died without sharing the results of his work with the rest of the world. But this isn’t the end of the story.
In the early 1980’s, Lake Issik Kul became the go-to place for Soviet testing of torpedoes, underwater missiles and military diving equipment. It was also one of the places where the Soviet military conducted periodic training of the recon divers known as “frogmen.” Another location was the already infamous Lake Baikal.
In 1982, during a frogmen training exercise in Lake Baikal, the divers encountered a group of strange underwater swimmers. The aquatic humanoids were enormous (more than ten feet tall) and, despite swimming in frigid waters, they wore nothing but tight-fitting silver suits. Although the beings were spotted at a depth of over 150 feet, none of them wore anything resembling scuba gear. They only had sphere-like helmets concealing their heads.
Naturally, this encounter determined the Soviet military leaders to attempt an expedition to catch one or all of the underwater humanoids and a group of seven frogmen was assembled and dispatched to the area. Former Afghan War veteran and author Mark Shteynberg, who has extensively researched this case, recalls:
“As the frogmen tried to cover the creature with a net, the entire team was propelled out of the deep waters to the surface by a powerful force. Because autonomous equipment of the frogmen does not allow surfacing from such depths without strict adherence to the process of decompression stops, all of the members of the ill-fated expedition were stricken by aeroembolism, or the Caisson disease. The only remedial treatment available consisted of an immediate confinement under decompression conditions in a pressure chamber. They had several such pressure chambers in the military region, but only one in working condition. It could contain no more than two persons.
Those local commanders had forced four frogmen into the chamber. As a result, three of them (including the CO of the group) perished, and the rest became invalids.”
As a direct result of this incident, Major-General V. Demyanko, the Commander of the USSR Military Diver Service was flown in to the military base at Issik Kul to inform the local officers about the dangers of attempting to capture the giant underwater humanoids. This serves as evidence that the Soviet high command was well aware of the presence of such creatures in both Lake Baikal and Issik Kul. Would they have issued an order against their capture if the creatures weren’t a real presence?
Not long after that, the Engineer Forces of the Ministry of Defense issued a bulletin addressed to the staff headquarters of the Turkmenistan military region. The bulletin noted many other lakes where similar aquatic humanoid sightings had been reported, alongside the usual flying disks and spheres ascending from and diving into the deep. This leads us into believing the incidents at Lake Baikal and Issik Kul were not singular events, but rather expressions of a much wider phenomenon.
The veracity of this incident is supported by the admission of Russian writer Mikhail Demidenko. After becoming familiar with Shteynberg’s account in 1992, Demidenko remembered spending some time at Lake Baikal in the mid 1980’s, on an assignment from the USSR Union of Writers. It was there that Irkutsk fishermen told him how they saw Soviet divers being thrown out of the water and continuing their ascent to a height of 30-50 feet above the water surface. The fishermen didn’t know about the underwater humanoid episode and had been wondering why the Soviet military subjected their divers to such tests.
So, is this case definitive evidence that Russian lakes are home to a race of giant aquatic humanoids? Not nearly enough, because more palpable proof is needed. But the continuous existence of legends and the admissions of retired high-ranking military officials, such as Col. Vladimir Azhazha seem to suggest there is something lurking in the unexplored depths of our planet.
First-Ever Clear Image of an Exoplanet Located 14 Quadrillion Km Away Released by ESO
First-Ever Clear Image of an Exoplanet Located 14 Quadrillion Km Away Released by ESO
Using the combined power of an array of telescopes from different locations across the globe, ESO astronomers managed to capture the first clear image of an exoplanet located in a star system 11 quadrillion kilometers away from Earth.
Astronomers’ pursuit in finding exoplanets (new planets orbiting other stars) is realized with various methods. One method is direct imaging, which has proved to be successful so far, being effective especially for planets on wide orbits around young stars, because the light reflected from the planet is not eclipsed by light reflected from the host star, making it easier to spot the needle in the haystack.
The captured image confirms the efficiency of this technique, showing a T-Tauri star named CVSO 30, situated about 1200 light-years away from Earth, northwest of Orions Belt, in the 25 Orionis cluster.
CSVO 30 is believed to host one exoplanet called CVSO 30b, as of its discovery in 2012, by the means of transit photometry, a detection method which seeks the light from a star visibly dipping plummeting as a planet heads in front of it.
For the moment, astronomers observe the system with a number of telescopes, combining every piece of information acquired with ESO’s VLT (Very Large Telescope) in Chile, with the data collected from the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, and finally with data gathered from the Calar Alto Observatory facilities in Spain.
Using the centralized data from the three observational facilities, the astronomers now have a better and more defined point of view on what seems to be a second planet. To generate the image, astronomers made use of the astrometry provided by VLT’s NACO and SINFONI instruments.
CVSO 30C. EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY
This new exoplanet entitled as CVSO 30c, is the small dot to the upper left of the frame, the massive blot being the star itself. While CVSO 30b orbits noticeably close to the star, revolving around CVSO 30 in less than 11 hours with an orbital distance of 0.008 au, CVSO 30c orbits considerably further away, at a distance of 660 au, requiring a mind-boggling 27,000 years to execute a single orbit. (For reference, the planet Mercury orbits the Sun at an average distance of 0.39 au, while Neptune sits at just over 30 au.)
“If it is confirmed that CVSO 30c orbits CVSO 30, this would be the first star system to host both a close-in exoplanet detected by the transit method and a far-out exoplanet detected by direct imaging,” ESO representatives wrote in a description of the new image.
“Astronomers are still exploring how such an exotic system came to form in such a short timeframe, as the star is only 2.5 million years old; it is possible that the two planets interacted at some point in the past, scattering off one another and settling in their current extreme orbits,” they added.
In a premiere event, ESO has imaged without prevarication a planet around its host star. Humans are now capable to directly render imagery of exoplanets, an achievement long targeted since the discovery of stellar wobbling that paved the way to the technique first used to detect planets around other stars.
With this discovery, it has become a certainty that new techniques and optics will be developed in order for us to continue the completion of the vast puzzle that is our visible and reachable universe.
Sooner that we expect, it will be possible to image satellites orbiting other planets. With an optical edge, it could also lead to the discovery of alien artifacts that now are undetectable by us. Only time will tell just how deep our knowledge and insight can become.
The Zombie Drake Equation – An Answer to Fermi’s Paradox?
The Zombie Drake Equation – An Answer to Fermi’s Paradox?
Two scientists offer a funny yet perceptive explanation as to why the aliens are being silent.
The scale of the visible universe is mind-boggling. Each galaxy is home to 100 billion stars and astronomers estimate there are at least one hundred billion galaxies out there, but this number is based on how big we think the universe is. For all we know, it could stretch on forever, so this number may very well jump from astronomical to downright inconceivable. But for now, let’s consider the universe a finite space measuring around 91 billion light-years across.
In the early 1960s, the extraterrestrial phenomenon had already gained traction with both the public and certain scientific circles. This prompted astrophysicist Frank Drake to attempt an educated guess at the number of advanced, active alien civilizations in our galaxy. Drake and his fellow astronomers came up with an equation that suggested there might be as little as one (us) civilization and as many as 100,000,000 in the Milky Way alone. And that was before we knew Earth-sized rocky planets were quite common.
Drake’s Equation gave way to an unprecedented wave of optimism in humanity’s search for alien life. Our hopes were further inflated by NASA’s recent announcement about the discovery of over 1,200 new Kepler exoplanets. But something just doesn’t add up. If there are is so much potential for extraterrestrial life to attain high levels of intelligence and technology, then where are all the aliens?
This conundrum is known as the Fermi Paradox and the video below explains it beautifully:
There are a number of counterarguments attempting to dismantle Fermi’s Paradox while an equal number of advocates support it. Out of the backing theories, one stands out in particular, because it has to do with zombies. Don’t ridicule us just yet, we’re dying (couldn’t help it) to explain.
Pop culture succeeded in instilling an obsession with zombie outbreak scenarios. Maybe this is because deep down, nothing scares us more than the prospect of witnessing our civilization crumble while humanity is reduced to an army of mindless vessels, their sole purpose being to spread the contamination even further. But while we sit here and emit cold-sweat hypotheses about zombiedom, two sane and respected scientists have written an interesting study that puts zombies, aliens and our own future on the same page.
Stephen Kane (of San Francisco State University and Center for Global Extinction Pandemic fame) teamed up with Franck Selsis from the Planetary Defense Institute, crunched some (still theoretical) numbers and presented a modified version of Drake’s Equation. They came to the conclusion that as many as 2,500 planets in our cosmic vicinity might have become zombie-infested, and that is why they fell silent.
We know life on Earth has been a never-ending battle between plants and animals on one side and the viruses and bacteria that call them home and food. Pandemics have come and gone, thinning various populations, sometimes to the point of extinction. At times, mankind was threatened by diseases like cholera, bubonic plague and influenza, but, thankfully, we haven’t been hit by what Kane and Selsis call Spontaneous Necro-Animation Psychosis, a.k.a. zombie-ism.
They theorize that SNAS has an undeniable potential to wreak havoc:
Spontaneous Necro-Animation Psychosis is undoubtedly the most dangerous viral condition to infect living organisms. The infectious nature of the condition is maximized by bestowing upon the host an insatiable desire to spread the virus at all costs. This ensures that it will spread quickly and, usually, uncontrollably.”
Although this disease is hypothetical, Selsis and Kane point out that such a condition could easily arise either as a result of natural evolution or genetic engineering gone awry. An alien civilization with a technological level comparable to our own is set to face the same peril and scientific models show there would be little chance of survival in the event of a planetary zombie outbreak.
Detailed modeling of various SNAP outbreak scenarios by Munz et al. (2009) have shown that human civilization would not only be unlikely to survive such an event but would collapse remarkably quickly.”
Fermi’s Paradox is built upon the alleged silence that surrounds us. If there are so many planets capable of supporting life and enough time for it to have evolved into intelligent civilizations, why haven’t we heard from them? However unlikely, Kane and Selsis’ necro-biological explanation for the Fermi Paradox is brilliant:
Our work here shows the resolution of the paradox to be quite simple. The desolation of a civilization requires only that they encounter a case of SNAP during their exploration phase and their entire civilization will collapse.”
The scientists go on to provide guidelines for future space explorers, urging them to avoid zombie-infected planets. But how could such planets be identified?
They stink.
It turns out planets that underwent total zombification would be pretty easy to single out, due to their atmospheric composition. In particular, the strong atmospheric presence of CO2, H2S, CH4, and NH3 will reveal those locations where massive amounts of death and decay have recently taken place.
The study concludes that ” there is a significantly non-zero probability that in the search for life in the universe we will also encounter large amounts of undeath” and that we should avoid zombie planets at all costs.
UFO Breakthrough: UK Alien files due out in weeks will prove Aliens visit Earth
UFO Breakthrough: UK Alien files due out in weeks will prove Aliens visit Earth
It seems that after all, a UFO Breakthrough is happening. Top-Secret UFO Files kept away by the MoD will soon be released detailing the mysterious encounter that happened over thirty years ago near the RAF Bentwaters base in the UK. UFO researchers believe these documents will prove once and for all that aliens have been visiting our planet for centuries.
The day has come for long-awaited British UFO files to be made available to the public. The documents will shed light on the mysterious Rendlesham mass UFO sightings.
Around 18 UFO-related documents were acknowledged last year when the UK’s ministry of defense admitted their existence.
In 2013, the Ministry of Defense made public all top-secret alien files. However, following the Freedom of Information Act requests, a number of addition documents were revealed.
According to website Genzwissenschaft-Aktuell.de, the new documents will be released to the public in August.
In reply to the enquiry by Genzwissenschaft-Aktuell editor Andreas Muller, the National Archives released a statement says they have: „been advised by our transfer team that they are currently in the process of finalising the listing for the records, which include the UFO files, and they are hopeful that the records will be transferred from the MoD to The National Archives within the next month.“
“Some of the files need to have their closure/access status agreed by the Advisory Council on Public Records, which meets in July, so the transfer team are looking at probably August before the records will be released to the public.”
Many Ufologists believe that the content of the classified documents are directly related to the December 1980 Rendlesham sightings –considered by mans as Britains very own Roswell sighting.
The Rendlesham sighting occurred when three US officers based at RAF Bentwaters, near Mildenhall, Suffolk, claimed a mysterious “triangular shaped craft” touched down in the woods near the base, in the early hours of December 26, 1980.
Colonel Charles Halt, the deputy commander at the time said that the officers who were sent out to investigate the lights discovered the mysterious craft ‘on the floor’ and could not account for a period of around forty minutes while scavenging the woods when their radios went offline.
The officers in question, John Burroughs, Bud Steffens, and James Penniston later said they felt a ‘static’ feeling as they observed the mysterious ‘Alien’ craft which had landed in the woods. They were able to see a number of strange hieroglyphs and flashing lights from the craft.
The team that investigated the mystery craft discovered three strange impact holes –beleived to have been left by the UFO as it landed—and damage to the canopies of the surrounding trees. They also discovered anomalous radiation levels at the site where the craft allegedly landed.
The Ministry of Defense investigated the sighting, but no substantial explanations were given.
The documents which will soon be released also include a number of reports from 1971-76, 1996-2000, and some as early as 2004.
Speaking to express.co.uk, Nick Pope ex-MoD, and UFO investigator said:
“Having seen and worked on many of these real life X-Files I’m pleased that they’re finally going to be released, and while the Official Secrets Act binds me for life, I’ll be able to say more about them once they’re in the public domain.
“I understand the frustration of the UFO community, who have been exasperated by the time it’s taking to declassify and release these files, and while I can’t promise a smoking gun, I know the contents will be of interest.
“The publication of these files will be particularly timely given the recent statements on this subject made by Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Scientists Admit there are Countless Alien Species Residing in the Cosmos
Scientists Admit there are Countless Alien Species Residing in the Cosmos
It appears that an abundance of alien species are residing in the Universe according to prominent figures of the 21st century, but we cannot find them because we are a young species unable to comprehend most of the universal laws. Will this however, change for the better in the near future?
The strong conviction in extraterrestrial life forms is a trait of intelligence and acceptance of the reality that the Universe did not grant only to us the gift of life and evolution.
Elon Musk, visionary entrepreneur and founder of the SpaceX program is part of those who not only strongly believe in the existence of alien civilizations, but his scientific projects are deeply rooted in mankinds’ aching desire for further exploration of the Universe and even the possibility of discovering the silent and watchful neighbours that we all suspect they exist even among us.
Elon Musk’s controversial viewpoint (and hope) have been raised as an article published in the New York Times by astrophysicist Adam Frank, headlined „Yes, There Have Been Aliens.”
The astrophysicists research suggests the plausible theory according to which we are not the first generation of intelligent civilizations on the pale blue dot. For humanity to be the only civilized species to have evolved along the billions of years since the birth of our planet, the probability for such a scenario should be astronomically small: less than one in 10 billion trillion.
This staggering statement leads us to two conclusions: either there are still living among us, countless alien species that managed to blend into our civilization, or they were all extinct from various causes, including a short life span.
Science clearly says there is a great chance that your last crush may be related to an ancient extraterrestrial species. If so, we all might share alien genes without us never knowing. Science never lies, only makes mistakes that turn into evolution, so either way it’s a win-win situation.
So, our star is not hosting its first generation of living beings capable of sending radio transmissions into space. Adam Frank’s research denoument is based on the Drake Equation which is not actually a mathematical equation, but more of a proposition series working as a guideline for any scientist looking for any piece of solid evidence of life in the universe.
Drake’s Equation looks very discouraging to even try to understand, for the mundane individual: N=R*fpneflfifcL.
Translated into individual parts, the formula consists of the following factors:
R* = star formation speed in our galaxy
fp = percentage of stars with planets
ne = the number of planets similar to earth, around each star has planets
fl = the number of earthlike planets that can evolve life
fi = the percentage of planets with life that can develop intelligent life
fc = the percentage of intelligent species that develop detectable technology by an outside similar civilization (i.e. radio transmissions)
L = the average number of years the advanced civilizations release detectable signals.
Multypling the two components of the equation with the length of time that advanced civilizations take to communicate reveals the total number of civilizations that have walked the same lands we are exploring today.
In spite of this comprehensive formula, it cannot be solved, at least until we can obtain exact values for each of these parts. This formula’s result can become achievable in a pretty distant future, but it takes a visionary mind to create an equation fit for a tremendously advanced civilization that will reject constructs like: border, war, money, poverty and mind slavery.
The next decade is extremely predisposed to reveal conclusive evidence of alien lifeforms on nearby exoplanets due to the rapid technological shift. The next generation of telescopes will peer deep inside the Milky Way and beyond, making the scenario of finding alien life in the near future extremely likely.
Only time will tell when and how we are going to encounter alien life forms, but instead of waiting for science to do our bidding, we should search our planet where there’s already plenty of traces of unexplained and unidentified phenomenon that, for most of us, already seems to be out of this world.
5 Strange Encounters With Insectoid Aliens and Ancient Mantis Gods
5 Strange Encounters With Insectoid Aliens and Ancient Mantis Gods
It’s probably bug week somewhere in the world so, in honor of this tradition, let’s take a look at the protagonists of some of the strangest alien encounters: the mantis or insectoid aliens.
Witness reports and abduction testimonials suggest there is a large variety of insectoid extraterrestrials keeping their compound eyes on us but one particular group stands out, both through physical appearance and place in the chain of command.
While the grey alien figure is commonly described by those who’ve been aboard an extraterrestrial craft, there is reason to suspect they aren’t actually the ones in charge. In some instances, abductees reported the presence of insect-like creatures overseeing or commanding the entire operation. Although insectoid aliens do not appear in the recollections of all abductees, it’s safe to assume that the creatures occupying the highest positions in the chain-of-command wouldn’t have to show their presence. The medical procedure can be performed by the lower echelon personnel, the short greys.
The most common description of an insectoid alien says they stand up to 9 feet tall and walk in a bipedal position. These beings have narrow faces with long, slanted eyes. Their thin, delicate torsos bring them one step closer to the Praying Mantis that lent them its name.
There are several theories trying explain the nature and origin of the mantis aliens. Some UFO researchers believe that the insect-like nature is a clue about their earthly origins. They cite the fact that insects have been around for a long time and they had plenty occasions to evolve into a sentient, and ultimately highly-intelligent life form. The oldest insect fossil is estimated to be over 400 million years old, giving these invertebrates ample time to become self-aware and a dominant life form. It’s been speculated that by the time the dinosaurs were wiped out during the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event, the insectoids had already achieved a technological level superior to our own. This allowed them to weather out the bad times in underground cities, where they continued evolving and experimenting. Some theorists even believe it was the insectoid aliens who engineered the reptilians by splicing their own DNA with that of the most intelligent dinosaurs living at that time.
Others disagree with this theory, claiming instead that mantis aliens evolved elsewhere in the universe, stumbling upon Earth millions of years ago and keeping their eyes on it ever since. This actually seems more plausible than the endemic to Earth mantis alien theory. After all, why would these insectoids abduct humans aboard their UFOs when they still operated underground facilities?
According to Amariah, a woman who has been in telepathic contact with Mantis beings, these aliens originated in the Sombrero Galaxy, a spiral galaxy three times smaller than our own Milky Way. It’s located approximately 28 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Virgo.
Amariah was told that Mantis beings evolved on an insect planet several hundred million years ago and were one of the first species in our universe to develop advanced self-awareness.
"They developed the use of tools but in unison they became highly sensitive to sound and light and its reflection in colors. They used this special heightened awareness and became highly advanced in the connection and use of frequencies to change their environment and to communicate with each other and their surroundings”
Another interesting glimpse into the world of mantis aliens is provided by artist and abductee David Huggins. He described many of his encounters with insectoid extraterrestrials and various other hybrids in a book called Love in an Alien Purgatory. As the title suggests, Huggins was involved in a lot of hybridization experiments aboard an extraterrestrial craft captained by a Mantis being that also oversaw all experiments.
Huggins claimed he was partnered with a personal hybrid named Crescent and was telepathically guided into having sexual intercourse with her, on multiple occasions. He also wrote that the Mantis Being behaved in a voyeuristic manner and was always present during the alien hanky panky time. Was this because he wanted to learn or simply because he desired to telepathically absorb the emotions the two experienced? Huggins was unable to provide an answer, but the Mantis’ continued presence showed that he wasn’t there on academic missions alone.
Further cementing the idea that the insectoid aliens are the ones in charge, Huggins recalled an episode when the hybrid females petitioned for him to be allowed to stay with them and not be returned to Earth. The Mantis Being firmly refused.
Not all witness reports paint the picture of a benevolent being. There are accounts that portray creatures of a violent nature, often attacking unprovoked. Below is the incident that riled “Jim”, a Londoner that had the unpleasant chance to deal with a group of curious insectoids:
“I woke up at about 2:30 in the morning to find a tall praying mantis looking being and a cloaked being by the side of my bed. I thought to myself “What crazy dream is this?” The cloaked being looked at me from beneath its hood, revealing its black skin, which appeared leathery and reflecting light much like a beetle’s skin. I shut my eyes, thinking this must be a realistic dream! But when I re-opened my eyes, the figures were unfortunately still there.”
Jim recalls being paralyzed with fear as the insectoid aliens used a metal object to shine a green light onto his eye and then his skull. The procedure was painful and traumatic and, even though it happened in 2001, Jim still gets the chills from time to time:
“I sometimes hear clicking sounds inside my head. I was in shock for a long while afterwards; I can say that this definitely happened, this definitely was real. I have no answers or conclusions but I think it’s important to get real life accounts out there. “
As strange as this incident might seem, there are others that involve regular physical attacks from insectoid aliens that materialize/dematerialize at will. In an interview with a former special ops warrior, UFO researcher Ted Twietmeyer noted the peculiarities of his encounter with mantis beings:
Ted: How have you been lately?
Jim2: I’m sick of this place and have to move.
Ted: Why?
Jim2: I’m just sick of the Insectoids. They have been mutilating and decapitating my horses. I’ve shot them outside but they keep coming. You don’t want to discharge any firearm indoors, so I use a machete and simply hack them to pieces.
Ted: So what happens to the bodies after that?
Jim2: It makes a mess that I have to clean up.
Ted: What about the bodies and body parts? What do you do with them?
Jim2: They just disappear. You can count to about 20 and they vanish.
Ted: What about the blood?
Jim2: Any blood that leaves their bodies stays behind.
Ted: What does your wife think of all this?
Jim2: She’s no longer shocked by it. Often when she comes home from work I’m mopping blood off the floor.
Ted: Is there anything else you’d like to add?
Jim2: I would add that I have always experienced a sudden awareness of their presence even if I can’t see them. The energy in the area where they appear seems different just before I can see them. It is the same feeling that I get just the same second as a large bolt of lighting gives me when there is a really bright flash near by.
Even stranger than the second Jim’s account is the one narrated by ufologist Joe Lewels, following his meeting with contactee Rebecca Grant.
In 1996, Grant told Lewels she had been nurturing a relationship with a mantis being she had nicknamed MU, short for Master of the Universe. The being told her that in about twenty years humanity will begin suffering the consequences of their ecological damage. MU told her “The human race is essentially, if not actually, extinct.” This message has been delivered before, but this was the first time it came from an alien bug creature claiming to rule the cosmos. But it doesn’t stop here.
When Lewels asked Grant to inquire whether MU had intervened in Earth’s history, she was given an outstanding answer. The Mantis Being identified himself with Jehovah, the ruthless god of the Ancient Israelites. Yes, the same one that caused the global flood and gave Moses the Stone Tablets of Law.
Like with any other extraterrestrial species, details surrounding the Mantis aliens are sometimes conflicting. But you have to remember most descriptions of insectoid extraterrestrials come from people who’ve suffered at their hands/pincers and recalling traumatic experiences can sometimes produce distorted memories. The same thing goes for hypnosis.
But let’s not get bogged down in details. If the grey aliens aren’t the ones running the show, perhaps it’s the insectoid aliens we should be worrying about. So stay safe and don’t walk into any tractor beams!
In the summer of 1984, six highly trained cosmonauts claimed to have had an unbelievable encounter with a group of gargantuan “celestial beings” of unknown origin in the star filled expanse above our world. Were these colossal beings the result of a mass delusion, a sign of something miraculous, or the heralds of unimaginable doom?
Scores of UFOs and other unidentified airborne objects have been spied by astronauts and their ilk since the earliest days of manned spaceflight. Major Gordon Cooper, Dr. Edgar Mitchell and dozens of other NASA and Russian space explorers harbor no doubt that the Earth is being visited and observed by non-human intelligences with access to technology far in advance of our own, but as fascinating as this phenomenon surely is, the bulk of these sightings pale before a bizarre series of encounters allegedly reported by cosmonauts aboard the Salyut 7 in July of 1984.
AVERTING THE APOCALYPSE
Since the dawn of the atomic age, the threat of global annihilation has hung over the collective heads of the human race like a radioactive Sword of Damocles.
Mercifully, the bitter rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union never manifested in the hellfire of nuclear holocaust that once seemed so inevitable, but for those of us who remember living under that horrific cloud of atomic anxiety a serious question remains: “Did we managed to dodge this apocalyptic bullet by chance or was there some kind of divine intervention?”
The series of events that occurred on the Salyut 7 do not answer this question, but, rather, compel us to consider the possibility that there are “others” in this universe that, in the most dire of times, manifest in ways that force us to question the very foundation of our beliefs as well as our place in the cosmos.
SALYUT 7 SPACE STATION SIGHTINGS
The Salyut 7 — which translates as “Salute 7” — was a low Earth orbit space station that was launched on April 19, 1982. The Salyut 7 represented the Soviet space program’s change from “monolithic” to more “modular” space stations and was first manned in May of 1982.
The station was ostensibly designed to conduct scientific experiments, but in July of 1984, the Salyut 7 would serve as the site of arguably the strangest close encounter in the relatively brief history of manned space exploration.
THE FIRST SIGHTING:
Although the “official” chronicling of this event is fraught with chronological inconsistencies, but, by the best estimations, the first reported sighting of these so-called “celestial beings” — which would also come to be known as “space angels” — occurred on July 12, 1984.
Cosmonauts Leonid Kizim, Vladimir Solovyov and cardiologist Oleg Atkov were on their astonishing 155th day aboard the Salyut 7, conducting “medical experiments,” when the trio noticed what they described as an “brilliant orange cloud” surrounding the station.
The Salyut 7 had been plagued by a steady stream of system failures and the men aboard the craft were understandably concerned that the glow might represent a life threatening fire. Fearing the worst, the cosmonauts rushed to the portholes only to find themselves blinded by an eerily intense luminescence the poured in through the circular apertures.
After their vision adjusted to the light, the curious cosmonauts radioed ground control that the station was bathed in an anomalous, self illuminated mist. The men returned to the portholes, shielding their eyes from the radiance, and that’s when they spied something so incredible that it would forever alter their perception of reality.
According to reports published in newspapers across the globe — including, allegedly, the Washington Post — the three Russian explorers saw colossal, winged, humanoid entities hovering just outside the station in the vacuum of space.
The faces of these beings were said to resemble those of humans with “peaceful expressions” and the Soviet scientists even claimed that the creatures noticed them and offered distinctly beatific smiles.
This quote was published in the later newspaper reports, although it’s difficult to discern which cosmonaut it was credited to, though some have suggested it may have been Solovyov:
“What we saw were seven giant figures in the form of humans, but with wings and mist-like halos as in the classic depiction of angels.”
The cosmonauts went on to described these mist haloed beings as being nearly 80-feet in height with a wingspan comparable to that of a 747 jet; although, it should be noted, that there’s no indication in the public record of how these men of science came to these proportional estimations. The men observed the soaring seraphim for approximately 10-minutes before they vanished; leaving the isolated and surely perplexed comrades to ponder what it was that they had seen and try to gather the courage to report it to their superiors below.
By their own admission, the cosmonauts were themselves reluctant to accept the existence of the oddly angelic beings which they had seen, and concluded that they were more likely suffering from some form of mass delusion brought on by their extended space travel than an actual encounter with alien — or perhaps even divine — entities. Their self induced denial would be put to the test 11-days later when additional cosmonauts arrived at the station and the celestial beings returned.
SVETLANA MAKES HISTORY:
On the evening of July 17, 1984, at 5:41 pm., the Soyuz T-12 spacecraft launched from the LC31 pad of the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is located in the isolated backwaters of Kazakhstan, approximately 124-miles east of the Aral Sea.
The Soyuz T-12 carried with it Crew Commander Vladimir Dzhanibekov, Flight Engineer Svetlana Savitskaya and Research Cosmonaut Igor Volk. Hours later the craft docked with the Salyut 7.
The mission had been hastily thrown together just a month following an announcement made by NASA in November of 1983, stating that astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan would become the first woman to ever perform a spacewalk. The trio of cosmonauts had been tasked with an ostensibly simple mission — make sure that Savitskaya would become the first woman to execute a spacewalk; thus beating the Americans to the punch.
Savitskaya had already ascended into the ranks of Soviet sanctioned idols in 1982, when she became the second woman to ever officially go into space — although there remains speculation that she was actually the third and that the firstperished in orbit — and the powers that be in the Soviet space program wanted very much to post yet another victory their space race against the U.S.
Much to the chagrin of NASA, the Soviets made good on their plan to upstage the U.S. when, on July 25, 1984, Savitskaya engaged in an almost 4-hour EVA (Extra-vehicular activity), officially making her the first woman ever to do so.
As auspicious as this occasion was in both the annals of human space exploration and women’s history, in the long run it would not be this incredible accomplishment that this journey would be known for, but a decidedly more ethereal series of events.
THE SECOND SIGHTING:
According to published reports, just days after the Soviet cosmonauts were safely nestled aboard the Salyut 7, the peculiar, orange glow once again enveloped the station and this time all six of the space travelers were said to have witnessed these gigantic, winged, ghostly beings keeping pace with the station, which they once again dutifully reported to an ever more alarmed ground control team below.
As the six cosmonauts stared out of the portholes one can only imagine that they must have been overwhelmed by sensations of awe, wonder and perhaps a touch of fear. After all these men and woman were highly trained pilots, scientists and even doctors who after years of knowing where they stood on the evolutionary scale were now confronted with enormous, humanoid creatures soaring unprotected in the dark vacuum of space; creatures that seemed not merely alien, but supernatural in origin. According to news accounts, one of the (again unnamed) cosmonauts was quoted as stating:
“They were glowing and we were truly overwhelmed. There was a great orange light, and through it, we could see the figures of seven angels. They were smiling as though they shared a glorious secret, but within a few minutes, they were gone, and we never saw them again.”
After the space angels disappeared a second time, Kizim, Solovyov and Atkov could no longer dismiss the phenomenon as a communal hallucination brought on by the pressure of a long mission in orbit. They now shared this encounter with three new witnesses, all of whom — one might expect — were just as perplexed and frightened as the first set on cosmonauts days earlier. This left both the explorers and the crew at mission control to ponder the question…
WHAT DID THESE COSMONAUTS WITNESS?
Within days Dzhanibekov, Savitskaya and Volk returned to Earth via the Soyuz T-12, but Kizim, Solovyov and Atkov remained in orbit aboard the Salyut 7 for a record setting 237 days.
Upon their return, each of the cosmonauts were subjected to a battery of physical and psychological examinations to try and see if there might be a medical explanation for this potentially heavenly phenomenon, but — according to all accounts — they passed both with flying colors.
If one is to believe the testimony as it’s been presented, then the medical diagnosis leaves only one of two viable conclusions. The first is that six cosmonauts — in two separate instances — were willing to seriously jeopardize their careers, reputations and even their very lives (not to mention opened a Pandora’s Box of questions regarding their psychological well being) all for the sake of a “prank.”
The second conclusion is, quite simply, that they saw “angels,” or at the very least anomalous astronautic entities that bear a very distinct resemblance to what many of the followers of the Abrahamic traditions would consider to be divine messengers. Of course, there are more than a few who stand firmly by the proposition that these otherwise level headed men and woman fell prey to nothing more than a…
MASS HALLUCINATION:
The evidence for mass hallucinations is dubious at best. While episodes of mass hysteria have been chronicled throughout the ages — most of which having to do with a perceived physical ailments or more social phenomena that extend over substantial periods of time — there is very little to suggest that individuals are privy to simultaneous and shared hallucinations.
While there have been reports of individual cosmonauts and astronauts who have seen some decidedly surreal (and occasionally Godly) things from their spacecraft — a phenomenon which NASA researchers have attributed to pressure, temperature fluctuations and oxygen shortage — there’s nothing in the medical record to suggest that these experiences are in any way contagious. In short, barring some kind of heretofore undiagnosed psychic phenomenon, there’s simply no known way to share a delusion as specific as the one that the cosmonauts of the Salyut 7 are believed to have succumbed to.
The current psychological certainty that thoughts are not infectious, combined with the fact that we are dealing with a group of scientists and seasoned space explorers who, by necessity, are not prone to panic or flights of fancy, makes it all but inconceivable that a mass hallucination is the culprit in this case.
So, if for the sake of argument, we agree that we’re not dealing with what is tantamount to a figment of the cosmonauts’ collective imaginations, then we’ve got to at least consider the possibility that we may be contending with authentic entities of either biological or spiritual origin. Perhaps we should cut to the chase and consider the most obvious — and in some ways most disturbing — option. That these creatures are angels and that they might just be…
HERALDS OF THE APOCALYPSE:
I know that for some it might seem like a stretch jumping from what most people would consider to be a benignly heartwarming encounter with celestial beings to the end of the world as we know it, but as a former altar boy and parochial school student there is one thing I know all too well; and that is that when seven angels show up trouble is not far behind.
In my more seasoned years I’ve found a great deal of comfort in eastern philosophies and both Buddhist and Hindu traditions, but as a child I was trapped like a fly in the web of Roman Catholicism. Now, don’t get me wrong, I have a great deal of respect for the teachings of the Abrahamic religions and feel that a tremendous amount of truth lies within their venerated tomes, but there is an overwhelming dire vibe that comes from many of these ancient records and perhaps the most celebrated of these is the Holy Bible’s “Book of Revelations.”
Anyone familiar with Jewish or Christian traditions is probably aware of the fact that the number seven is considered by many to be a sacred number, which represents rectitude and sanctity. The number seven also plays a significant role in the so-called “end of days.”
Note this passage from Revelations 15:1 in which seven angels are said to bear seven trumpets, the sound of which is said to signify the coming of the Apocalypse. They were also said to have “bowls” containing the plagues which would sow the seeds of mankind’s ultimate extinction:
“I saw in heaven another great and marvelous sign: seven angels with the seven last plagues — last, because with them God’s wrath is completed.”
Is it possible that seven angels appeared before these emissaries of the U.S.S.R. as a warning of what would come if both they and the U.S.A. did not tone down their heated rhetoric before the Cold War turned thermonuclear hot?
Or, even more grimly, was it a sign that it was already too late and that events had been sent into motion that could not be undone; events that may still be unfolding at this very day?
While I must admit that I’m not convinced that the “Book of Revelations” is anything more than a metaphorical warning for sinners to mend their ways before it’s too late, if there’s even a chance that it’s the simple truth, then I hope the former option is the correct one and that the angels were showing themselves in an attempt to avert, rather than proclaim, global disaster.
And for those who might suggest that these peacefully smiling angels could not possibly have nefarious intentions I would only state that, according to scripture, the purpose of the Apocalypse is not to cause evil, but to eliminate it from the Earth… and what angel would not be happy about that?
Okay, now that we’ve discussed just a few of the theological implications of the existence of outer space angels, let’s consider a somewhat more plausible hypothesis, which is that these celestial beings are…
ANCIENT ALIENS:
Thanks to the History Channel’s hit series “Ancient Aliens,” there’s been a worldwide revival of Zecharia Sitchin and, famed author of “Chariots of the Gods,” Erich Von Dänike’s theories regarding extraterrestrial ambassadors who supposedly visited Earth thousands of years ago and profoundly affected the evolution of the human race and civilization itself.
According to these two authors, ancient aliens were not looked upon as otherworldly explorers by these primitive peoples — who would have no frame of reference for such a thing — but (understandably) were worshiped by our ancestors as nothing less than gods. Von Dänike’s theories applied not only to primitive religious traditions, but to every major theology on the planet, including Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Stories of angels serving as messengers of God are present in the written testaments of all three major monotheistic religions — not to mention Hinuism — and represent one of the most commonly utilized methods for the divine to communicate with Earthlings in ancient times. Von Dänike and their acolytes are convinced that these beings were not of heavenly, but extraterrestrial, origin.
If we are to entertain this possibility, even for the sake of discussion, then we must consider the prospect that the six cosmonauts aboard the Salyut 7 might have seen not God’s messengers, but corporeal manifestations of these unique alien creatures, which have communicated with mankind since the dawn of history.
Granted, there’s no more evidence to support this “biological” theory, than there is to support the more “theological” supposition, but it’s intriguing to contemplate nonetheless. Of course, leaving behind both the metaphysical and the extraterrestrial, we are forced to wonder if this is all one, big…
COSMIC RUMOR:
One of the major problems in investigating the authenticity in a case such as this lies in the fact that there is no filter that separates the proverbial “wheat” of what may be a legitimate anomalous sighting from the “chaff” of reports from such dubious sources as the Weekly World News.
Who can blame academics or respectable researchers for turning a blind eye to events like those that puportedly took place on the Salyut 7, when stories of the cosmonauts unusual sightings lay side by side with obvious tripe about the Hubble telescope photographing a colossal white city in the depths of space that must be (eye rolls please) the first picture of Heaven?
Conspiracy theories have circulated for years concerning the Hubble Telescope snapping angelic images in the NGC-3532 star cluster that have been shared with only the highest echelons of the U.S., Soviet and French governments as well as Pope John Paul II in the Vatican, who had speculated that these “beings of light” might not be heaven sent. According to these reports the spectacular photos are allegedly being kept under wraps due to the fact that knowledge of the angel’s existence may well through the citizens of Earth into a global tizzy… or so these rumors claim.
This lack of distinction between the work of serious academic researchers and the ramblings of religious zealots is one that also plagues some cryptozoologists, whose investigations into such intriguing phenomena as the Mokele Mbembeand other relic dinosaurs are often co-opted by creationists looking to confirm their own beliefs by reinterpreting native eyewitness accounts to suit their own theological agendas.
While, as stated above, I have nothing but respect for anyone’s personal beliefs, when one is striving to make a legitimate scientific inquiry into events as surreal as those that took place aboard the Salyut 7, then one must take great pains to separate the facts from faith. This is virtually impossible in today’s online climate.
Another fact which bears scrutiny is a news report regarding Vladimir Solovyov’s tour of British schools, which appeared in the Derby Evening Telegraph on January 23, 1997. While visiting Brackensdale and Reigate Junior Schools, Solovyov was asked about whether or not he had ever encountered any alien beings. Here is an excerpt from the Telegraph’s article:
“If you believe the Washington Post Mr Solovev has already come face-to-face with beings from another planet and seven angels who surrounded his craft on a mission in 1984. He added: ‘I could not believe they put that in such a serious paper… I’ve never seen any aliens but I am sure we are not alone in the universe.’”
On the surface Solovyov’s comments seem to put to rest this controversy once and for all, but things are rarely as clear cut as that. To begin with, following his career as a cosmonaut, Solovyov became the Mir flight director before temporarily retiring on February 18, 1994, only to return to lead the Russian section of the International Space Station.
One has to ask the serious question of whether or not a man in Solovyov’s position would be sabotaging his own career and reputation by confirming such a bizarre event. The answer, of course, is that the mass media would become extremely derisive on anyone claiming to have had an encounter with massive space angels and a man of Solovyov’s stature could ill afford to be made a fool of.
Of course, the alternative is that it’s all just pop culture drivel, but who would take the time to make something like this up and what would be the point? And if the original sources used in this story were dubious to begin with then why would this account have been printed in such prestigious publications as the Washington Post or the 1985, New Year’s Edition of the popular Sunday supplement Parade Magazine? Proof? No. Bit it is food for thought.
CONCLUSION
While scores of notable historical events captured headlines during the penultimate act of the Cold War, the strange sightings hailing from the Salyut 7 barely made a ripple in the vast sea of information that the media reported regarding U.S./Soviet relations in the 1980s, and when they did so they would come hot on the heels of a momentous event in the record of manned astronautics — Savitskaya’s space walk.
Although rumor has it that their sighting was immediately classified as a state secret, the tale of the cosmonauts’ run-in with these strange seraphim did eventually make the international news, which is astonishing considering how well the Soviet secrets machine managed to maintain all but total silence regarding other odd events, such as the Dyatlov Pass incident in 1959.
Nevertheless, in the decades that have followed the initial event, this account has taken on a life of its own and has continued to spread with a dogged persistence. Is this due to the fact that the truth has a way of lingering even in the face of conventional logic and fanatical skeptics? Or is it the human fascination with the unknown, particularly the idea of divine intervention, that keeps this legend alive?
In the end the only people who will ever know the whole story of what took place in orbit around the Salyut 7 that July day in 1984, are the men and woman who were aboard the vessel.
While there’s a chance that this whole story in nothing more than wildly exaggerated hearsay, there’s also a minute possibility that celestial beings showed themselves to a group of humans who represented a nation that was among the most dangerous of the 20th Century.
Mayhap this was an an effort to get the U.S.S.R to change their ways… or perhaps the arrival of these entities indicates that it is already too late.
Soviet, and later, Russian cosmonauts have observed interesting , unusual, and often inexplicable phenomena while in space. Some of them have talked about their experiences, although doing so is not encouraged by their space program. A cosmonaut is a person trained by a human spaceflight program to command, pilot, or serve as a crew member of a spacecraft; cosmonauts are professional space travelers.
Cosmonaut Vladimir Lyakhov once remarked about a very unusual phenomenon he observed from his spaceship looking down on Earth: two gigantic waves ascended from the waters of the Indian Ocean, and crashed onto each other. The mass of water resulting from the crash seemed to be a giant mountain that had vanished in an instant (published in Tekhnika-Molodezhi,Issue 3, 1980). Cosmonaut Vladimir Kovalyonok reported a very similar water pillar of over 100 kilometers in height in the Timor Sea near Australia (NLO magazine, 10/11, 1996). In an article published in Tekhnika-Molodezhi(Issue 3) back in 1979, cosmonaut and scientist Yevgeny Khrunov, remarked that UFOs cannot be denied, as thousands of people have observed them. Properties of unidentified objects simply astound the imagination. He was outspoken in another interview, a year later. It was in the pre-perestroika times, and Khrunov could not speak freely. Cosmonaut Aleksei Gubarev went a step further: he admitted that he believed in aliens. Interestingly enough, he mentioned the information that the Americans had at their disposal, information that confirmed his belief (Tekhnika-Molodezhi,Issue 1, 1980). Cosmonaut Valery Rozhdestvensky, a cosmonaut who does not believe in the presence of extraterrestrial civilization anywhere in the close vicinity to us, at the same time revealed knowledge about secret rumors or information that those outside of special circles (the Soviet space program and their military) could not know. In the article in Tekhnika-Molodezhi (Issue 10, 1980) he stated that he did not believe that a “smallgreen man” actually knocked on the porthole of a Soyuz spaceship.
Russian UFO researchers managed to collect more information about cosmonauts and strange phenomena. An article published in Spektra newspaper (Issue 8, Leningrad, 1992, after the demise of the Soviet Union) lists several incidents. In 1976, Cosmonaut Vladimir Kubasov told a reporter that he and others had numerous facts that prove the existence of UFOs. This was the year of the famous Teheran UFO incident. In 1978, Vladimir Kovalyonok observed a strange object on August 15 from the Salyut-6 space station: it approached and distanced itself repeatedly. Cosmonauts Valery Ryumin and Leonid Popov, while aboard the same station in 1980 (from June 14 to 15) had observed a school of white glowing dots that took-off in the area of Moscow, and flew into space above their station. They reported it to the ground control.
An interesting sighting took place on September 2, 1978. Soviet cosmonauts Kovalyonok and Ivanchenkov observed the shadow of Salyut-6 orbital station over the clouds. The shadow had very strange orange-reddish color. What’s more amazing, it changed its size. Earlier that year, on August 25, both cosmonauts observed iridescent clouds: green, purple, reddish, blue, and even violet. Other Soviet cosmonauts (V. Sevastyanov, P. Klimuk) had reported silvery clouds. Their origin remains unexplained. Sevastyanov was mesmerized by their dull, occasionally pearly-white, cold, glitter. The structure of such clouds was either very thin (or bright) on the edges of the pitch-dark sky, or porous, resembling a swan’s wing.
These clouds are said to be a magic spectacle. Russian astronomer Vitold Tsesarsky first reported them in 1885. The clouds are the highest in the Earth’s atmosphere, located at the altitude of 70-90 kilometers. They consist of diffused particles, its nature still unclear.
Colonel Yury Nazarov, former deputy commander of the Soviet Space Mission Control Center, recalled that on August 29, 1978, cosmonauts Kovalyonok and Ivanchenkov (mentioned earlier) , and the newly arrived cosmonaut Bykovsky and East German cosmonaut Sigmund Jähn had observed an unidentified large-sized spherical object that flew around Salyut-6. After the cosmonauts returned to Earth, Soviet UFO researcher Vladimir Ajaja approached Bykovsky, to get some explanations, but the cosmonaut only admitted that they did observe something inexplicable from aboard the Salyut. The source is V. Ajaja’s booklet Znakomtes’, NLO (1990).
Cosmonaut Georgy Grechko reported seeing a strange being of gigantic dimensions over Mongolia. Georgy Grechko and Yuri Romanenko had also reported to the Tsentr (Soviet Space Mission Control Center) that while in their orbital station over the Falkland Islands they had actually observed huge letters. The photograph they took was delivered to Earth by visiting cosmonauts Dzhanibekov and Makarov.
Cosmonaut Vladislav Volkov, who perished in 1971, recalled the inexplicable noises he had heard in space, in his headset intercom: Sounds of dogs barking and babies crying. The Earth was below, and he was in orbit, yet he heard strange noises.
To his death Volkov was not able to explain it.
Cosmonauts Gagarin and Leonov heard music that the former described as “not of this Earth.” Not everything could be explained by sensory depravation. Nor did everyone involved attempt to seek explanations (NLO, 1999).
Cosmonaut Yury Malyshev said that when it comes to UFOs, no one in the world, probably, can say what they are. It is impossible to refute similar phenomena, for there were thousands, or tens of thousands of people who have witnessed them. But the physical nature of the (UFO-P.S.) phenomenon remains indeterminate (Tekhnika-Molodezhi, Issue 11, 1981). Earlier that year, Cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov was more cautious. He said that cosmonauts often observe peculiar light phenomena as of yet inexplicable in nature. The contemporary stage of research of the phenomena is similar to the early establishment of such sciences, as zoology and botany, when the naturalists simply described unknown species of animals and plants (Tekhnika-Molodezhi, Issue 1, 1981)
In the year 1982, on July 12, Soviet cosmonauts Georgy Beregovoy and Valentin Lebedev were able to observe an unusual drop-shaped object on the monitor’s screen of the Salyut-7. It flew, ascending, between the orbital space station and Progressor-14 craft. The object, at the distance of 200 meters, could have been the size of a spaceship. The cosmonauts reported their sighting to the Tsentr. This information comes from the books authored by Gherman Kolchin, former Soviet colonel and UFO phenomenon researcher. The author also recalled speaking with Cosmonaut Pyotr Klimuk in April of 1989, who confirmed he does not refute the existence of UFOs (Fenomenon NLO: vzglyad iz Rossii, Kolchin’s book published in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1994).
An interesting interview was published in Sputnik magazine. The subject of the article was perception of UFOs by cosmonauts and astronauts. It contained stories told by ten Soviet and American space explorers. Only one did not refute the possibility of UFOs coming to our galaxy. Yevgeny Khrunov actually mentioned that it is not possible to deny their (UFOs) presence in our galaxy. Thousands of people have observed them. Maybe they are but optical illusions, but some of their characteristics, for instance the change of their flight course at 90 degrees, boggle imagination.
Cosmonaut Gennady Strekalov mentioned that he saw strange phenomena several times, but is hesitant to classify what he saw as UFOs. But his colleagues did see “flying saucers,” and he envies them. Strekalov did not provide details about their sightings. He described the phenomenon he observed in 1990, on September 28, during his sojourn on the space station MIR: a sphere over the Newfoundland (at the altitude of 20-30 kilometers). The source is Rabochaya Tribuna newspaper, October 16, 1990 issue. The atmosphere was clear and visibility was perfect. The sphere was beautiful, and changed colors. It remained visible for ten seconds, and vanished instantly. Strekalov remembers that it had a perfect shape. He reported the incident to the Mission Control Center, but did not classify it as a UFO explaining that cosmonauts must be cautious. Cosmonaut Gennady Manakov was with Strekalov aboard the MIR space station station, and observed the same phenomenon.
In 1984, the crew aboard the Soviet orbital station Salyut-7consisted of six cosmonauts: Leonid Kizil, Oleg At’kov, Vladimir Solovyew, Svetlana Savitskaya, Igor Volk, and Vladimir Dzhanibekov.
On the 155th day of the station’s flight, the crew was busy with planned experiments, tests, and scientific observations. They were about to start medical experiments. All of them were experienced, skilled cosmonauts. Then, something that was out of their experience, knowledge, and understanding occurred. In front of the Salyut- 7 station, out of nowhere, a large, orange, gas cloud suddenly appeared, its origin unknown. The cosmonauts immediately informed the Tsentrupravleniya poletom (Soviet Space Mission Control Center). While the astonished Tsentr analyzed the report,Salyut-7 entered the cloud. The crew had a brief impression that the orange cloud entered their station.
They were all engulfed by the mysterious orange glow, blinded, out of contact with their comrades. But their sight, however, was restored quickly. The cosmonauts stumbled to the station’s portholes. What they saw left them speechless: seven gigantic shapes could be easily discerned inside the orange cloud. Their political ideals, their faith in Marxist-Leninist postulates were gone in a flash. None doubted their eyes. None questioned the shapes: seven heavenly angels. The angels looked like humans, and yet they were different. Yes, the angels possessed huge wings, and blinding halos. The main difference, however, lay in the angels’ smiles. When they gazed upon the Soviet crew, they smiled. The Soviet cosmonauts recalled what wonderful smiles the angels had. Smiles of joy, of rapture…no human could smile like that. Ten minutes passed quickly. As the clock ticked away the time, the angels disappeared, along with their cloud. The crew of Salyut-7 felt a devastating loss. But Earth was demanding explanation. When the Tsentr received the report, it was immediately classified as “top secret.” A special team of doctors was formed to study cosmonauts’ well-being. Hence, instead of carrying out further experiments in space, the crew was ordered to measure its own physical and mental health. The tests indicated that the cosmonauts were well and of sound mind.
In view of the dominant ideology, the incident, quite embarrassing to the Soviet regime, was hushed up for years. The popular Russian NLO magazine (Issue 9, 1998) carried one account of the incident. The incident took place before the perestroika period, and in order to create unnecessary furor, the Politburo made sure that the report remained secret. The crew of the Salyut-7 was warned to keep silent. No angels could exist inside or outside the Soviet Union.
COSMIC WHISPER
There are still episodes of the Soviet space exploration that are not widely discussed in Russia. Such are the accounts of the so-called “space whisper.” One former cosmonaut known only as, Cosmonaut X, revealed some information, but demanded that his name remain anonymous. He recalled that Soviet cosmonauts heard hushed up rumors about the “whisper,” but did not share definite information among themselves, nor did they report anything to the doctors. They were afraid that the latter would remove them from the space program. Cosmonaut X and his colleague believed the rumors to be a legend created by the first team of Soviet cosmonauts, to scare the greenhorns. He was wrong.
They were aboard a Soviet spacecraft, flying over the Southern hemisphere, when the “whisper” came to them. The narrator said that he suddenly felt as if someone else was next to them. He felt that some invisible being stared into his back; and it was a hard gaze. The cosmonaut had no doubt he was being observed. A second later his comrade, the flight engineer, who was looking into the porthole, sharply turned around and looked about him. Both were quite ordinary people, far removed from any mystical beliefs. But they were good friends, and knew each other long before the Star City training. They were not afraid to compare their impressions after the episode. They received different “texts,” but their initial reaction to the “whisper” was identical: both became mute and dumbfounded. The “whisper” came from the depths of Cosmonaut X’s consciousness and said: “You arrived here too early, and you did it in a wrong fashion. Trust me, for I am your ancestor on the maternal side. Do you remember, she told you; back when you were a child, about your great-grandfather, who had founded the D-s factory in the Urals? Sonny, you should not be here, go back to Earth, do not violate the Laws of the Creator…Sonny, you must return, return, return…”
The “whisper” also told the cosmonaut a very private story, as if to prove knowledge that existed only inside the family; it concerned the cosmonaut’s great-grandfather.
Both cosmonauts were back on Earth two days later. The “whisper” came back to them one more time; the “texts” of what it said were the same as the first time; and both felt the alien presence throughout their time in orbit.
The cosmonauts faced a dilemma: to report the incident or not. If they did, their careers could end immediately. They could be considered impressionable people, their psyche too unstable for further flights into space. Other cosmonauts kept somewhat silent about the “whisper,” at least nothing was reported to their superiors.
Cosmonaut X and his colleague spent endless hours trying to determine what it was that they had experienced. They were atheists, and both liked science fiction. This led them to a conclusion that alien intelligence, using some king of hypnosis, is determined to prevent the mankind from exploring the outer space. To convince the mankind that its sons and daughters in outer space are not experiencing hallucinations, hard facts are presented, facts picked up from probing human brains, memories and subconscious. How long have “they” researched our civilization? Perhaps for thousands of years.
But are the aliens so naïve as not to understand that we would see their ploy? Then, if it was not an alien “whisper”… whose would it be? Did the departed relatives truly visit Soviet crews in space? This conclusion shattered the cosmonauts’ convictions, their atheism, and their view of the world. Does it mean that there is life after death, and that the consciousness (not the physical body) continues to exist on other stages of existence? There must be a hierarchy to such stages, and on the top of the hierarchy would be the Creator, as the great-grandfather had informed the cosmonaut.
Their sense of duty told both cosmonauts that a report had to be made. They did not listen to that sense. But some other cosmonauts, who had heard the “whisper,” did make reports. As a result, special medical teams were introduced into the training program, top-rated medical hypnotists began to explore cosmonauts’ psyches, and the whole fight-training program underwent changes.
Cosmonaut X, who has since retired, does not know how the “whisper” is treated nowadays, and what conclusions Russian scientists have come to (the report was published in Press-Extranewspaper, Issue 135, 1997). He did say that his whole outlook on life had changed. The outer space is full of intelligence, and is much more complicated than we imagine it to be. Our present knowledge does not allow us to understand the essence of most processes taking place in the Universe. Our abilities are still quite limited. But for those who had heard the “whisper” one thing is clear: the future exists, and it is endless, just as time and space are endless.
Who knows what awaits the humans in our exploration of the outer space? We have not wandered far from the embrace of our planets, but have already encountered wonders we are not able, as yet, to explain…
About the Author
Paul Stonehill is a researcher, author and lecturer. He is author of numerous articles for UFO-related and paranormal magazines, as well as of several books about Soviet and Russian UFOs; some of them co-authored with British UFO researcher and writer Philip Mantle.
Paul Stonehill is fluent in Russian, and knows Ukrainian.
The following story of what I observed over the Cascade mountains, as impossible as it may seem, is positively true. I never asked nor wanted any notoriety for just accidentally being in the right spot at the right time to observe what I did. I reported something that I know any pilot would have reported. I don’t think that in any way my observation was due to sensitivity of eyesight or judgment other than what is considered normal for any pilot. On Tuesday, June 24th, 1947, I had finished my work for the Central Air Service at Chehalis, Washington, and at about two o’clock I took off from Chehalis, Washington airport with the intention of going to Yakima, Washington. My trip was delayed for an hour to search for a large Marine transport that supposedly went down near or around the southwest side of Mt. Rainier in the state of Washington. (This airplane has been discovered at the time of this writing - July 29, 1947.) I flew directly toward Mt. Rainier after reaching an altitude of about 9,500 feet, which is the approximate elevation of the high plateau from which Mt. Rainier rises. I had made one sweep of this high plateau to the westward, searching all of the various ridges for this Marine ship and flew to the west down and near the ridge side of the canyon where Ashford, Washington, is located. Unable to see anything that looked like the lost ship, I made a 360 degree turn to the right and above the little city of Mineral, starting again toward Mt. Rainier. I climbed back up to an altitude of approximately 9,200 feet. The air was so smooth that day that it was a real pleasure flying and, as most pilots do when the air is smooth and they are flying at a higher altitude, I trimmed out my airplane in the direction of Yakima, Washington, which was almost directly east of my position, and simply sat in my plane observing the sky and terrain.
There was a DC-4 to the left and to the rear of me approximately fifteen miles distant and, I should judge, at 14,000 feet elevation. The sky and air were as clear as crystal. I had not flown more than two or three minutes on my course when a bright flash reflected on my airplane. It startled me as I thought I was too close to some other aircraft. I looked every place in the sky and couldn’t find where the reflection had come from until I looked to the left and the north of Mt. Rainier where I observed a chain of nine peculiar-looking aircraft flying from north to south at approximately 9,500 feet elevation and going, seemingly, in a definite direction of about 170 degrees north to south. They were approaching Mt. Rainier very rapidly, and I merely assumed they were jet planes.
Anyhow, I discovered that this was where the reflection had come from, as two or three of them every few seconds would dip or change their course slightly, just enough for the sun to strike them at an angle that reflected brightly in my eyes. These objects being quite far away, I was unable for a few seconds to make out their shape or their formation. Very shortly they approached Mt. Rainier, and I observed their outline against the snow quite plainly. I thought it was very peculiar that I couldn’t find their tails, but assumed they were some new type of jet. I was determined to clock their speed. I had two definite points - Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams - to clock them by, and the air was so clear that it was very easy to see the objects and determine their approximate shape and size as far as fifty miles. I remember distinctly that my sweep-second hand on my eight-day clock, which is located on my instrument panel, read one minute to 3 P.M. as the first object of this formation passed the southern edge of Mt. Rainier. I watched these objects with great interest as I had never before observed airplanes flying so close to the mountain tops, flying directly south to southeast down the hog’s back of a mountain range.
I would estimate their elevation could have varied a thousand feet one way or another up or down, but they were pretty much on the horizon to me which would indicate they were near the same elevation as I was. They flew, as I have frequently observed geese fly, in a rather diagonal chain-like line as if they were linked together. They seemed to hold a definite direction, but swerved in and out of the high mountain peaks. Their seed at the time did not impress me particularly, because I knew that our army and air forces had planes that went very fast. What kept bothering me as I watched them flip and flash in the sun right along their path was the fact that I couldn’t make out any tail on them, and I am sure that any pilot would justify more than a second look at such a plane. I observed them quite plainly, and I estimate my distance from them, which was almost at right angles, to be between twenty to twenty-five miles. I knew they must be very large to permit me to observe their shape at that distance, even as clear a day as it was. In fact, I compared a zeus fastener or cowling tool I had in my pocket with them, holding it up on them and holding it up on the DC-4 that I could observe at quite a distance to my left, and they seemed smaller than the DC-4; but I should judge their span would have been as wide as the farthest engines on each side of the fuselage of the DC-4. The more I observed these objects, the more upset I became, as I am accustomed and familiar with most all flying objects whether I am close to the ground or at higher altitudes. I observed the chain of these objects passing another high snow-covered ridge in between Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams, and as the first one was passing the south crest of this ridge the last object was entering the northern crest of the ridge. As I was flying in the direction of this particular ridge, I measured it and found it to be approximately five miles, so I could safely assume that the chain of these saucer-like objects was at least five miles long. I could quite accurately determine their pathway due to the fact that there were several of them as well as higher peaks on the other side of their pathway. As the last unit of this formation passed the northernmost high snow-covered crest of Mt. Adams, I looked at my sweep-second hand and it showed that they had traveled the distance in one minute and forty-two seconds. Even at the time this timing did not upset me as I felt confident that after I landed there would be some explanation of what I had seen. A number of news men and experts suggested that I might have been seeing reflections or even a mirage. This I know to be absolutely false, as I observed these objects not only through the glass of my airplane but turned my airplane sideways where I could open my window and observe them with a completely unobstructed view. Even though two minutes seems like a very short time to one on the ground, in the air in two minutes’ time a pilot can observe a great many things and anything within his field of vision probably as many as fifty or sixty times. I continued my search for the Marine plane, for another fifteen or twenty minutes, and while searching for this Marine plane the things I had just observed kept going through my mind. I became more disturbed, so after taking a last look at Teton Reservoir I headed for Yakima. I might add that my complete observation of these objects, which I could even follow by their flashes as they passed Mt. Adams, was around two and one-half or three minutes - although by the time they reached Mt. Adams they were out of my range of vision as far as determining shape or form. Of course, when the sun reflected from one or two or three of these units, they appeared to be completely round; but, I am making a drawing to the best of my ability, which I am including, as to the shape I observed these objects to be as they passed the snow-covered ridges at Mt. Rainier. When these objects were flying approximately straight and level, they were just a thin black line and the only time I could get a judgment as to their size was when they flipped.
These objects were holding an almost constant elevation; they did not seem to be going up or to be coming down, such as would be the case of rockets or artillery shells. I am convinced in my own mind that they were some type of airplane, even though they did not conform with the many aspects of the conventional type of planes that I know. Although these objects have been reported by many other observers throughout the United States, there have been six or seven other accounts written by some of these observers that I can truthfully say must have observed the same thing that I did; particularly, the descriptions of the three Western Air Lines employees of Cedar City, Utah, the pilot from Oklahoma City, the locomotive engineer in Illinois, John Corlett, a United Press correspondent of Boise, Idaho. Dave Johnson, news editor at the Boise Daily Statesman, Captain Smith, a co-pilot Stevens and Marty Morrow of United Air Lines, and Captain Charles F. Gebian and Jack Harvey of United Air Lines both of whom on July 28, 1947, made their observation on United Air Lines flight 105 westbound out of Boise. It is my opinion that descriptions could not be very accurate taken from the ground unless these saucer-like discs were at quite a great height and there is a possibility that all of the people who observed peculiar objects could have seen the same thing I did; but, it would have been very difficult from the ground to observe these for more than four or five seconds, and there is always the possibility of atmospheric moisture and dust near the ground which could distort one’s vision while air observers I would judge to be much more accurate. I have in my possession letters from all over the United States and Europe from people who profess that these objects have been observed over other portions of the world, principally Sweden, Bermuda, and California. I would have given almost anything that day to have had a movie camera with a telephoto lens and from now on I will never be without one. When I landed at Yakima, Washington airport I described what I had seen to my very good friend, Al Baxter, who is the General Manager of Central Aircraft Company. He listened patiently and was very courteous but in a joking way didn’t believe me. I did not accurately measure the distance between these two mountains until I landed at Pendleton, Oregon, that same day where I told a number of pilot friends of mine what I had observed and they did not scoff or laugh, but suggested they might be guided missiles or something new. In fact, several former Army pilots informed me that they had been briefed before going into combat overseas that they might see objects of similar shape and design that I described and assured me that I wasn’t dreaming or going crazy. I quote Sonny Robinson, a former Army Air Force pilot who is now operating dusting operations at Pendleton, Oregon: “What you observed, I am convinced, is some type of jet or rocket-propelled ship that is in the process of being tested by our government or it could even be by some foreign government.” Anyhow, the news that I had observed these spread very rapidly and before the night was over I was receiving telephone calls from all parts of the world; and to date I have not received one telephone call or one letter of scoffing or disbelief. The only disbelief that I know of was what was printed in the papers. I look at this whole affair as not something funny as some people have made it out to be.
To me it is mighty serious and since I evidently did observe something that at least Mr. John Doe on the street corner or Pete Andrews on the ranch has never heard about, is no reason that it does not exist. Even though I openly invited an investigation by the Army and the FBI as to the authenticity of my story or a mental and physical examination as to my capabilities, I received no interest from these two important protective forces of our country until two weeks after my observation. I will go so far as to assume that if our Military Intelligence was not aware of what I observed and reported to the United and Associated Press and over the radio on two different occasions which apparently set the nation buzzing, they would be the very first people I could expect as visitors. I have received lots of requests from people who told me to make a lot of wild guesses. I have based what I have written here in this article on positive facts and as far as guessing what it was I observed, it is just as much a mystery to me as it is to the rest of the world. I saw them and I know they are real. My pilot’s license is 33489. I fly a Callair airplane, which is a three-place single-engine land ship that is designed and manufactured at Afton, Wyoming, as an extremely high-performance, high-altitude airplane that was made for mountain work. The national certificate of my plane is NC-33355. [Kenneth Arnold was born March 29, 1915, in Sebeka, Minn. Educated at Minot, N. Dak. Interested in athletics, was all-state end in 1932-33. Football under Bernie Bierman interrupted by knee injury. Employed by Red Comet, Inc., manufactures of automatic fire-fighting apparatus, in 1938. In 1940 established his own fire control supply company known as the Great Western Fire Control Supply. Handles, distributes, installs fire-fighting equipment in five states. Uses his plane in his work, landing in pastures and mountain m...
The following story of what I observed over the Cascade mountains, as impossible as it may seem, is positively true. I never asked nor wanted any notoriety for just accidentally being in the right spot at the right time to observe what I did. I reported something that I know any pilot would have reported. I don’t think that in any way my observation was due to sensitivity of eyesight or judgment other than what is considered normal for any pilot. On Tuesday, June 24th, 1947, I had finished my work for the Central Air Service at Chehalis, Washington, and at about two o’clock I took off from Chehalis, Washington airport with the intention of going to Yakima, Washington. My trip was delayed for an hour to search for a large Marine transport that supposedly went down near or around the southwest side of Mt. Rainier in the state of Washington. (This airplane has been discovered at the time of this writing - July 29, 1947.) I flew directly toward Mt. Rainier after reaching an altitude of about 9,500 feet, which is the approximate elevation of the high plateau from which Mt. Rainier rises. I had made one sweep of this high plateau to the westward, searching all of the various ridges for this Marine ship and flew to the west down and near the ridge side of the canyon where Ashford, Washington, is located. Unable to see anything that looked like the lost ship, I made a 360 degree turn to the right and above the little city of Mineral, starting again toward Mt. Rainier. I climbed back up to an altitude of approximately 9,200 feet. The air was so smooth that day that it was a real pleasure flying and, as most pilots do when the air is smooth and they are flying at a higher altitude, I trimmed out my airplane in the direction of Yakima, Washington, which was almost directly east of my position, and simply sat in my plane observing the sky and terrain.
There was a DC-4 to the left and to the rear of me approximately fifteen miles distant and, I should judge, at 14,000 feet elevation. The sky and air were as clear as crystal. I had not flown more than two or three minutes on my course when a bright flash reflected on my airplane. It startled me as I thought I was too close to some other aircraft. I looked every place in the sky and couldn’t find where the reflection had come from until I looked to the left and the north of Mt. Rainier where I observed a chain of nine peculiar-looking aircraft flying from north to south at approximately 9,500 feet elevation and going, seemingly, in a definite direction of about 170 degrees north to south. They were approaching Mt. Rainier very rapidly, and I merely assumed they were jet planes.
Anyhow, I discovered that this was where the reflection had come from, as two or three of them every few seconds would dip or change their course slightly, just enough for the sun to strike them at an angle that reflected brightly in my eyes. These objects being quite far away, I was unable for a few seconds to make out their shape or their formation. Very shortly they approached Mt. Rainier, and I observed their outline against the snow quite plainly. I thought it was very peculiar that I couldn’t find their tails, but assumed they were some new type of jet. I was determined to clock their speed. I had two definite points - Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams - to clock them by, and the air was so clear that it was very easy to see the objects and determine their approximate shape and size as far as fifty miles. I remember distinctly that my sweep-second hand on my eight-day clock, which is located on my instrument panel, read one minute to 3 P.M. as the first object of this formation passed the southern edge of Mt. Rainier. I watched these objects with great interest as I had never before observed airplanes flying so close to the mountain tops, flying directly south to southeast down the hog’s back of a mountain range.
I would estimate their elevation could have varied a thousand feet one way or another up or down, but they were pretty much on the horizon to me which would indicate they were near the same elevation as I was. They flew, as I have frequently observed geese fly, in a rather diagonal chain-like line as if they were linked together. They seemed to hold a definite direction, but swerved in and out of the high mountain peaks. Their seed at the time did not impress me particularly, because I knew that our army and air forces had planes that went very fast. What kept bothering me as I watched them flip and flash in the sun right along their path was the fact that I couldn’t make out any tail on them, and I am sure that any pilot would justify more than a second look at such a plane. I observed them quite plainly, and I estimate my distance from them, which was almost at right angles, to be between twenty to twenty-five miles. I knew they must be very large to permit me to observe their shape at that distance, even as clear a day as it was. In fact, I compared a zeus fastener or cowling tool I had in my pocket with them, holding it up on them and holding it up on the DC-4 that I could observe at quite a distance to my left, and they seemed smaller than the DC-4; but I should judge their span would have been as wide as the farthest engines on each side of the fuselage of the DC-4. The more I observed these objects, the more upset I became, as I am accustomed and familiar with most all flying objects whether I am close to the ground or at higher altitudes. I observed the chain of these objects passing another high snow-covered ridge in between Mt. Rainier and Mt. Adams, and as the first one was passing the south crest of this ridge the last object was entering the northern crest of the ridge. As I was flying in the direction of this particular ridge, I measured it and found it to be approximately five miles, so I could safely assume that the chain of these saucer-like objects was at least five miles long. I could quite accurately determine their pathway due to the fact that there were several of them as well as higher peaks on the other side of their pathway. As the last unit of this formation passed the northernmost high snow-covered crest of Mt. Adams, I looked at my sweep-second hand and it showed that they had traveled the distance in one minute and forty-two seconds. Even at the time this timing did not upset me as I felt confident that after I landed there would be some explanation of what I had seen. A number of news men and experts suggested that I might have been seeing reflections or even a mirage. This I know to be absolutely false, as I observed these objects not only through the glass of my airplane but turned my airplane sideways where I could open my window and observe them with a completely unobstructed view. Even though two minutes seems like a very short time to one on the ground, in the air in two minutes’ time a pilot can observe a great many things and anything within his field of vision probably as many as fifty or sixty times. I continued my search for the Marine plane, for another fifteen or twenty minutes, and while searching for this Marine plane the things I had just observed kept going through my mind. I became more disturbed, so after taking a last look at Teton Reservoir I headed for Yakima. I might add that my complete observation of these objects, which I could even follow by their flashes as they passed Mt. Adams, was around two and one-half or three minutes - although by the time they reached Mt. Adams they were out of my range of vision as far as determining shape or form. Of course, when the sun reflected from one or two or three of these units, they appeared to be completely round; but, I am making a drawing to the best of my ability, which I am including, as to the shape I observed these objects to be as they passed the snow-covered ridges at Mt. Rainier. When these objects were flying approximately straight and level, they were just a thin black line and the only time I could get a judgment as to their size was when they flipped.
These objects were holding an almost constant elevation; they did not seem to be going up or to be coming down, such as would be the case of rockets or artillery shells. I am convinced in my own mind that they were some type of airplane, even though they did not conform with the many aspects of the conventional type of planes that I know. Although these objects have been reported by many other observers throughout the United States, there have been six or seven other accounts written by some of these observers that I can truthfully say must have observed the same thing that I did; particularly, the descriptions of the three Western Air Lines employees of Cedar City, Utah, the pilot from Oklahoma City, the locomotive engineer in Illinois, John Corlett, a United Press correspondent of Boise, Idaho. Dave Johnson, news editor at the Boise Daily Statesman, Captain Smith, a co-pilot Stevens and Marty Morrow of United Air Lines, and Captain Charles F. Gebian and Jack Harvey of United Air Lines both of whom on July 28, 1947, made their observation on United Air Lines flight 105 westbound out of Boise. It is my opinion that descriptions could not be very accurate taken from the ground unless these saucer-like discs were at quite a great height and there is a possibility that all of the people who observed peculiar objects could have seen the same thing I did; but, it would have been very difficult from the ground to observe these for more than four or five seconds, and there is always the possibility of atmospheric moisture and dust near the ground which could distort one’s vision while air observers I would judge to be much more accurate. I have in my possession letters from all over the United States and Europe from people who profess that these objects have been observed over other portions of the world, principally Sweden, Bermuda, and California. I would have given almost anything that day to have had a movie camera with a telephoto lens and from now on I will never be without one. When I landed at Yakima, Washington airport I described what I had seen to my very good friend, Al Baxter, who is the General Manager of Central Aircraft Company. He listened patiently and was very courteous but in a joking way didn’t believe me. I did not accurately measure the distance between these two mountains until I landed at Pendleton, Oregon, that same day where I told a number of pilot friends of mine what I had observed and they did not scoff or laugh, but suggested they might be guided missiles or something new. In fact, several former Army pilots informed me that they had been briefed before going into combat overseas that they might see objects of similar shape and design that I described and assured me that I wasn’t dreaming or going crazy. I quote Sonny Robinson, a former Army Air Force pilot who is now operating dusting operations at Pendleton, Oregon: “What you observed, I am convinced, is some type of jet or rocket-propelled ship that is in the process of being tested by our government or it could even be by some foreign government.” Anyhow, the news that I had observed these spread very rapidly and before the night was over I was receiving telephone calls from all parts of the world; and to date I have not received one telephone call or one letter of scoffing or disbelief. The only disbelief that I know of was what was printed in the papers. I look at this whole affair as not something funny as some people have made it out to be.
To me it is mighty serious and since I evidently did observe something that at least Mr. John Doe on the street corner or Pete Andrews on the ranch has never heard about, is no reason that it does not exist. Even though I openly invited an investigation by the Army and the FBI as to the authenticity of my story or a mental and physical examination as to my capabilities, I received no interest from these two important protective forces of our country until two weeks after my observation. I will go so far as to assume that if our Military Intelligence was not aware of what I observed and reported to the United and Associated Press and over the radio on two different occasions which apparently set the nation buzzing, they would be the very first people I could expect as visitors. I have received lots of requests from people who told me to make a lot of wild guesses. I have based what I have written here in this article on positive facts and as far as guessing what it was I observed, it is just as much a mystery to me as it is to the rest of the world. I saw them and I know they are real. My pilot’s license is 33489. I fly a Callair airplane, which is a three-place single-engine land ship that is designed and manufactured at Afton, Wyoming, as an extremely high-performance, high-altitude airplane that was made for mountain work. The national certificate of my plane is NC-33355. [Kenneth Arnold was born March 29, 1915, in Sebeka, Minn. Educated at Minot, N. Dak. Interested in athletics, was all-state end in 1932-33. Football under Bernie Bierman interrupted by knee injury. Employed by Red Comet, Inc., manufactures of automatic fire-fighting apparatus, in 1938. In 1940 established his own fire control supply company known as the Great Western Fire Control Supply. Handles, distributes, installs fire-fighting equipment in five states. Uses his plane in his work, landing in pastures and mountain m...
Ancient Civilization Beneath Death Valley Of 8 Foot Beings, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Ancient Civilization Beneath Death Valley Of 8 Foot Beings, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Is this just a crazy story? I don't think so. That area is hot, and nothing is out there but rocks, dirt and hills mixed with some jack rabbits and scorpions. But, could a species live below the ground? That is possible. A whole town? Yes. Especially if the people there were 8+ feet tall, because they were probably aliens living in their accustomed way...below the ground for safety. The gold and treasure sounds a bit fairy tailish, but the rest does sound like it could be true. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: Bourke Lee, in his book 'Death Valley Men' chapter: "Old Gold", describes a conversation which he had several years ago with a small group of Death valley residents. The conversation had eventually turned to the subject of Paihute Indian legends. At one point two of the men, Jack and Bill, described their experience with an 'underground city' which they claimed to have discovered after one of them had fallen through the bottom of an old mine shaft near Wingate Pass. They found themselves in a natural underground cavern which they claimed to have followed about 20 miles north into the heart of the Panamint Mountains.
Fleet Of UFOs Fly Around Mexico Volcano On Live Cam! June 19, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Fleet Of UFOs Fly Around Mexico Volcano On Live Cam! June 19, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: June 19, 2016 00:12:03
Location of sighting: Volcano Popocatepetl, Mexico
I have been watching this volcano for over 5 years and have caught a few UFOs here and there, but this is the most extraordinary video from the live Mexico volcano cam that I have ever seen. I have seen such a UFO before on this cam, but it was alone. Here we see over ten of them flying around. I believe the only reason these UFOs can be seen is that at this moment, the camera had on its infrared mode, which means it can see things the human eye cannot...basically its night vision on steroids. Such a camera does exist and can be found for sale by clicking here.
Travis Walton was abducted by Aliens on November 5, 1975, while working with a logging crew, and remained missing for five days. The Walton case received mainstream publicity and remains one of the best-known instances of alien abduction in history. UFO historians agree, few abduction reports have generated as much controversy as the Travis Walton case.
The Walton case is the only alien abduction case with corroborative eyewitnesses. For five days authorities mounted a massive manhunt in search of Travis Walton, or his body. Then Walton reappeared, disoriented and initially unable to tell the whole story of his terrifying encounter. In this presentation, Travis Walton relates in his own words, the best documented account of an alien abduction yet recorded, the story of his harrowing ordeal at the hands of his alien captors and his return to a disbelieving world of hostile interrogators, exploitative press. Travis recounts his struggle to get a fair hearing, and confronts his detractors with a stinging rebuttal. At the time of the event, Travis Walton recklessly left the safety of his logging truck to take a closer look at what appeared to be a UFO. Suddenly, as he walked toward the light, Walton was blasted back by a bolt of mysterious energy. His companions fled in fear.
When they reported an encounter with a UFO to the authorities, something they would have considered impossible if they had not witnessed it themselves – the men were suspected of murder. Get the facts about this amazing story from Travis Walton, the man that was captured by aliens, held for five days, and lived to tell about it.
Two Russian Truck Drivers Encountered Landed UFO Spaceship (1989)
Two Russian Truck Drivers Encountered Landed UFO Spaceship (1989)
On the night of November. 2, 1989, the air temperature dropped to below freezing. The two Russian drivers, Oleg Kirzhakov and Nikolai Baranchikov were driving nearby Arkhangelsk to Moscow and were hurrying home to finish all the business related trips. Within Emtza railway station, the road was blocked by sand and gravel. According to Oleg, the truck’s headlights fell upon a massive structure. Since the road was under construction, they thought it was the machines. When Oleg drove closer, he spotted a huge metallic-like object.
The power source of the headlights connected to the back-up was still on. Initially, they did not understand what had happened. Later on, they realized that they saw something unusual in front, and were scared that something unavoidable would happen. When Oleg approached the object, his body seemed to melt and became difficult to move. Oleg turned back toward the truck and approached the object from another direction. Despite the difficulty of approaching the object, he finally succeeded within about 30–36 feet. As he drew closer, he realized it was not of Earthly origin. In front of Oleg, there appeared an enormous disc-shaped object about 120–140 feet (around 40 meters) in diameter. It has a dome-shaped top without visibility of the structures. Together with the perimeter of the disc, there were dark holes evident. Extending from the lower part, there was visibility of two structures, which seemed to support the ship. The object appeared uninhabited and dark, and there were no visible traces of doors, hatches, and windows.
Despite the efforts of both men, they cannot open the door for a significant length of time. Suddenly, the door cannot open quite easily. Oleg returned to the place on the road where he stood before. However, he cannot move quickly. Oleg proceeds the corridor for 20–25 feet (around 8 meters). On the hall’s periphery, there were five entrances, similar in appearance to the door he had just entered. His legs and hands were trembling. Twenty minutes had passed from the moment the truck had stopped.
Aliens Abducted A Police Officer in West Yorkshire
Aliens Abducted A Police Officer in West Yorkshire
Alan Godfrey was in his patrol car on November 28, 1980, in Todmorden, West Yorkshire to look into reports of a cattle wandering around the area. While on the road, he saw a bright light ahead and thought of it as a bus. But he found out later that it wasn’t as he got closer. It became apparent to him that it was a strange rotating object, hovering over the road.
Suddenly, Godfrey saw a burst of light, and he found himself driving further along the path minus the UFO. When he got back to the police station, he discovered that he had lost approximately 25 minutes of time. He further saw a split in the sole of one of his boots. He also felt itchiness in a red mark on his foot.
Later, Godfrey would have hypnotic regression, where it was discovered that he was taken from the car and brought to the craft. While inside, he reportedly saw robot-like beings and a humanoid wearing a black skull cap. UFO enthusiasts have studied several videotapes of Alan’s hypnosis session. They concluded that his experience has had a negative impact on his life, and indeed, he had nothing to gain if he just made up his story.
1969 Abduction Story of José Antonio da Silva in Brazil
1969 Abduction Story of José Antonio da Silva in Brazil
The term alien abduction was described as being taken secretly against one’s will by nonhuman entities. Such abductions have been classified as close encounters. People are claiming to have been abducted called “experiencers” or “abductees.” Due to lack of physical evidence, most mental health and scientists professionals dismiss the encounter as deception. The following abduction took place in Brazil on May 4, 1969, when a 24-year-old José Antonio da Silva was fishing on a lagoon when he heard voices and feeling the motion of figures moving behind him.
He saw two creatures, about four feet tall, wearing aluminum suits that appeared to be helmets, dragged and seized him to a craft sitting on a road. The object was an upright cylinder and possess black platforms. According to him, the craft rise. The beings animatedly talked in a language unknown to him. The soldier was blindfolded, which led to a large room. A humanoid creature stood in front of him who was hairy and taller than the rest. His long hair was wavy and reddish. As the beings examined his fishing equipment, Da Silva watched and took one of the items. Later on, the humanoid creatures gave him a dark green liquid drink.
The dwarf leader started a strange conservation with the soldier, and the latter understood that they wanted to ask help from him. When he refused, they snatched the rosary’s crucifix. As the soldier started praying, a Cristlike figure appeared and made revelations. Shortly afterward, he was blindfolded again and taken back to earth. He woke up alone near the town of Vitoria and realized that he was away for four and a half days. The right inquiry here is, where was his physical body in 4.5-day absence. Most abductions come from a vision. According to Jacques Vallee, striking parallels between the initiation ordeals and man’s experience. The elements of alien abduction are present in Jose Antonio de Silva.
Pointing out intellectually redemptive attributes inside of a ham-handed, worn-out science fictions clichés can sort of seem like saying you’re really watching pornography to analyze the super-interesting dialogue. So, with common alien invasion stories – often replete with gratuitous scenes of destruction – it’s particularly difficult to find the deeper stuff. And because so many invasion stories are embedded with a somewhat xenophobic premise, what good can come out of alien invasion stories? Other than critiquing alien invasions inside of alien invasions (like in District 9), can an alien invasion actually be seen as a “good” thing? Can extraterrestrial invaders actually teach us a lesson?
The easiest example of aliens landing, and basically telling us what to do with our dumb Earthling lives, comes from Star Trek. While it’s not established immediately in the original 60’s show, by 1996’s Star Trek: First Contact, we learn that the peaceful, tolerant version of Earth was born out of the Vulcans landing on Earth, and saying hello. The Trek series Enterprise then depicted the ways in which the Vulcans more or less ran the Earth’s government, shared technology, and kind of bossed the military — Starfleet — around.
While all of this makes for some fun philosophical speeches on the show about how pushy and manipulative the Vulcans are, the larger positive and err …prosperous … impacts become obvious. Crime on Earth is gone, everyone is getting along, the economy is getting better, etc. All thanks to the Vulcans puppeteering our government!
In Star Trek, there is also an innumerable selection of other alien species who could have dropped in on us first, all of which would have either been a super bad influence on humanity (the Klingons) or destroyed the Earth entirely (the Borg.) In Trek’s evil alternate dimension – “the mirror universe” – it’s also established that the reason a corrupt and ruthless Empire rises in place of the goody toe-shoes Federation is all down to the moment where humans murder the “invading” Vulcans instead of shaking their hands. True, in all timelines, the Vulcans come in peace, so perhaps they’re not technically invaders. Still, in the “good” version of Star Trek’s future, the reason everything is so peachy is because we essentially let extraterrestrials tell us how to run our society better. Might not be a lasers and saucers invasion, but an ideological one for sure.
Though not technically aliens, this idea of cold, ultra-rational, emotionless beings dictating the peaceful survival of the human race has a precedent in the final section of Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot. Here, in a section entitled “The Evitable Conflict,” humankind is being subtly controlled (and saved) by robot influence. Obviously, this fact is kept from the majority of the human population, for the same reason the Vulcans only later revealed they’d had spies living among the human race for like a century before they formally decided to “land” with their spaceships. In Star Trek, the far future humans adopt this same form of spying, which at several points, makes the human crews of Starfleet ships the “aliens,” walking among indigenous populations, subtly judging what they do and don’t like about these various cultures.
Arthur C. Clarke’s famous novel Childhood’s End also depicts parental alien invaders in the form of Overlords, who, unlike the Vulcans in Star Trek, aren’t subtle at all about telling us what they’re up to. I mean, the name “Overlords,” is a pretty dead giveaway as to what they’re up to.
At the risk of reducing a wonderful and multilayered novel to a few basic themes; one of the more predominant points here is that while a certain amount of peace and stability occurs on Earth thanks to the Overlords being in charge, there’s also cultural, artistic, and general creative stagnation among humankind. With a title like Childhood’s End you can probably see where this is going: eventually a new generation of human beings evolve with abilities (like telepathy) that kind of challenge what the Overlords want.
Still, Clarke weaves a more complicated idea of alien invaders here: the fear human beings have of alien invaders isn’t a reaction to being conquered, but a kind of precognitive awareness of what intellectual fallout results from beingtaken care of on a global scale. In this way, the positive aspects of the alien invasion aren’t so much “good” as a fact of life. At some point this kind of thing was always going to happen, and the evolutionary leap human beings make as a result of this invasion is inevitable.
A manipulated, and wholly staged alien invasion forms one of the various premises of Kurt Vonnegut’s novel The Sirens of Titan. Here, we get a full-on invasion from Mars complete with flying saucers! But here’s the rub: though the saucers come from Mars, they are crewed by human beings, all brain-washed and remote-controlled.
Though it is entirely different in tone than Childhood’s End, Vonnegut’s ultimate aim with the Martian invasion in The Sirens of Titan is to demonstrate just how mercilessly human beings would slaughter “creatures from another planet.” This has the roundabout effect on humankind and allows William Niles Rumfoord to establish the Church of the God of the Utterly Indifferent. The ultimate goal here was to show humankind that an alien invasion actually brought out their worst tendencies and the people they killed, were in fact, people they brainwashed. Vonnegut’s fake Martian invasion then succeeds at being both a literal invasion and a critique of the idea of invasions simultaneously.
If more conventional pop-cultural invasions – like Independence Day – are a reflection of reality, then the evil aliens have sort of taken over a long time ago; otherwise these kinds of films wouldn’t keep coming out. But we haven’t learned anything from this variety of aliens, yet. The ultimate and wholly unlikely twist ofIndependence Day: Resurgence would offer the humans some kind of potential advancement from all this senseless obliteration. But, unless those tentacles can figure out how to form the “live long and prosper” hand sign, or telepathically chide us about our faults, any deeper lessons from the new Independence Day are about as likely as having a relationship epiphany while watching a porno movie.
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VIDEO: Vrouw claimt ‘onbreekbare’ wrakstukken Roswell-UFO in handen te hebben gehad
VIDEO: Vrouw claimt ‘onbreekbare’ wrakstukken Roswell-UFO in handen te hebben gehad
Een vrouw zegt tests te hebben gedaan met wrakstukken van een vliegende schotel die zou zijn neergestort in de buurt van Roswell. De getuige, een vrouw van 69 jaar genaamd Jill, deed deze uitspraak tijdens een interview dat op internet is geplaatst door een UFO-onderzoeker.
De vrouw claimt te zijn opgegroeid op de vliegbasis Wright-Patterson in Ohio, waar de wrakstukken na de crash naar verluidt naartoe zijn gebracht. Ze wist naar eigen zeggen de hand te leggen op metalen voorwerpen afkomstig van de UFO die in 1947 bij Roswell uit de lucht was gekomen.
Jill zei het materiaal samen met een vriend te hebben getest. Ze kwamen erachter dat het materiaal niet kon worden verbrand of doormidden gesneden en dat het na een paar dagen weer zijn oorspronkelijke vorm aannam als het in elkaar was gefrommeld.
Aluminium
De video is op YouTube geplaatst door Mary Joyce, een UFO-onderzoeker die de website Sky Ships over Cashiers runt.
Na het Roswellincident hebben zich meerdere getuigen gemeld die naar eigen zeggen lichamen van buitenaardsen hadden gezien in het gecrashte toestel.
Tijdens het interview zegt Jill het materiaal in 1957 in handen te hebben gehad. Haar vader was als piloot gestationeerd op Wright-Patterson. Hij was bevriend met de vader van een jongen genaamd John.
De vader van John was een kolonel die aan rand van de basis in de kelder van een gebouw werkte. “Op een dag vertelde John aan Jill dat hij een verrassing voor haar had,” zei Joyce. “Hij liet haar een vreemd soort metaal zien dat op een vel papier leek. Ze zei dat het op aluminium leek, maar zwaarder was.”
Onverwoestbaar
John gaf haar de opdracht een schaar te pakken en het stuk metaal doormidden te knippen, maar dat lukte haar niet. Een week lang experimenteerden de kinderen met het metaal. Ze probeerden het te verbranden, maar het beschadigde niet.
Een andere getuige, dr. Jesse Marcel jr., heeft soortgelijke uitspraken gedaan over wrakstukken die zijn vader zou hebben gevonden op de plek van de crash. Ook Marcel zei dat het materiaal nagenoeg onverwoestbaar was en altijd zijn oorspronkelijke vorm weer aannam.
Vreemde manier
Volgens Jill reageerde het metaal ’s nachts op een vreemde manier op licht. De kolonel kwam erachter dat het stuk metaal ontbrak en zou tegen Jill hebben gezegd dat ze er nooit iets over mocht zeggen.
De vrouw zegt nu pas naar buiten te zijn gekomen met haar verhaal omdat de andere mensen die erbij betrokken waren niet meer in leven zijn. Joyce omschrijft Jill als een professional die gerespecteerd wordt in de plaats waar ze woont. Ze ontmoette haar in 1998, maar pas in 2008 vertelde Jill haar over het vreemde metaal.
“San Andreasbreuk staat op ontploffen, gigantische aardbeving kan elk moment plaatsvinden”
“San Andreasbreuk staat op ontploffen, gigantische aardbeving kan elk moment plaatsvinden”
De San Andreasbreuk in Californië heeft volgens een Amerikaanse seismoloog zoveel spanning opgebouwd dat een gigantische aardbeving elk moment kan plaatsvinden.
Het zuidelijke deel van de breuk is ‘geladen en klaar om te ontploffen’, aldus Thomas Jordan, directeur van het Southern California Earthquake Center.
Hij voegde toe dat de opgebouwde druk al meer dan 100 jaar niet meer is vrijgekomen. “De veren onder de San Andreasbreuk staan heel strak aangespannen,” zei hij. De breuk is bijna 1300 kilometer lang en loopt langs vrijwel de hele lengte van de staat Californië.
Te rustig
Wetenschappers maken zich vooral zorgen over het gedeelte in de buurt van de stad Los Angeles. De laatste grote aardbeving in de regio dateert van 1857, toen een beving met een kracht van 7,9 op de schaal van Richter in de buurt van de stad plaatsvond. Sindsdien is het volgens Jordan te rustig.
Hij waarschuwt dat Californië zich moet voorbereiden op een mogelijk zeer zware aardbeving. Uit onderzoek van de Amerikaanse geologische dienst blijkt dat een dergelijke aardbeving rampzalige gevolgen kan hebben.
Vrijwel onmogelijk te zeggen
Een nieuwe studie laat zien dat enorme stukken grond rond de San Andreasbreuk omhoog of omlaag bewegen. Het gaat in sommige gevallen om stukken van zo’n 200 kilometer lang.
De nieuwe informatie over de bewegingen kan onderzoekers helpen de breuk beter te begrijpen, aldus hoofdonderzoeker Samuel Howell van de Universiteit van Hawaï. Maar hij voegde daaraan toe dat de informatie niet kan helpen bij voorspellingen over de volgende grote beving.
“Het is vrijwel onmogelijk te zeggen wanneer de volgende grote aardbeving zal plaatsvinden,” zei hij. De studie is gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Nature Geoscience.
UFO Matches Speed With Space Station, Follows For Long Time, June 23, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Matches Speed With Space Station, Follows For Long Time, June 23, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 23, 2016
Location of sighting: Earths orbit at space station
This was sent into us here at UFO Sightings Daily reports and someone that wants to remain anonymous caught a UFO on the live Internet space station cam. The UFO was following the space station as it was on the day side of the earth and even followed it into the night side, as you see below. Excellent find by one of our readers here and thank you so much for sending it in to us. This has to be a UFO. I love how they lay back and observe from a distance, but try to go unnoticed.
Pyramid Shaped UFO Sits Near Passing Planes June 21, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Pyramid Shaped UFO Sits Near Passing Planes June 21, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 21, 2016 Location of sighting: Scarborough, Ontario, Canada SecureTeam10 is showing us an interesting UFO sighting here. A pyramid shaped UFO coming close to a passenger jet over Ontario last week. I really wish we knew if the UFO showed up on radar or not, but if it did, it probably would have been met with Canadian fighter jets. Cool video, gives me a lot to think about. A similar UFO sighting happened and was witnessed by a pilot long ago. Click here to view. It also was a pyramid shaped UFO. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Viewing the night sky amid Sedona's dramatic, rock scenery Shutterstock / Roman Mikhailiuk
Outside The Red Planet Diner, in the high desert town of Sedona, the model of a flying saucer hovered at an awkward angle, its battered body forever anchored to the asphalt. Scanning the restaurant floor, I found a table with a view of the towering red mountains beyond the car park – a backdrop worthy of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Joining me for dinner that evening was Melinda Leslie, manager of the nearby Centre For The New Age. I had signed up for Melinda’s UFO-spotting tour, which employs military goggles to scan the night sky. As our food arrived, she recounted a few of her otherworldly experiences.
“My first abduction was in San Bernardino, California, in 1993,” she said, very matter of factly.
“We were taken into a low-lit room and undressed, then put through a series of examinations. They took some eggs from me, then they attempted to extract sperm from my friend, Mike.” She paused to take a delicate bite of mashed potato. “Unfortunately, he had a vasectomy – so they had some trouble with that...”
Smiling weakly, I tried not to choke on my Space Burger.
The Red Planet Diner (Edmund Vallance)
I had been in Sedona for less than an hour, and already I felt like a peripheral character in a 1950s B-movie. Looking up from my plate, Melinda’s face was framed in a lurid, scarlet sunset, the mountains behind her glowing with alien light.
I had come to Arizona hopeful, fearful and sceptical in roughly equal measure. If I was going to have a close encounter with a flying saucer – or a sperm-hungry extraterrestrial for that matter – I had certainly come to the right place. Sedona is 4,500 metres above sea level, with some of the clearest night skies in North America. Here, shamanic healings, psychic readings and past life regressions are commonplace. Alien abduction seemed only a hop and a skip away.
But tonight was not my lucky night. “Those clouds don’t look good,” said Melinda, pointing out of the window. “I think we’re going to have to postpone our tour until tomorrow.”
The following morning, the sky was clear, and the evening forecast looked promising. Feeling encouraged, I headed towards Spaceship Rock, a saucer-shaped outcrop about an hour’s hike from the Bell Rock trailhead. At close range, Sedona’s mountains are curiously intimidating. As I squinted up at Bell Rock rising from the dust like an angry, crimson dinosaur, my mouth became suddenly very dry. What if strange beings really did use this high elevation as some sort of light-speed playground? What if all my preconceptions were about to be obliterated, like a planet in the path of an alien death ray? In 1997, the former-governor of Arizona, Fife Symington, admitted to observing “an enormous and inexplicable” craft. Many ridiculed him, but he was adamant: the ship was metallic, with “a constant shape” and “a geometric outline”.
Spaceship Rock (Edmund Vallance)
I was having trouble erasing this image from my mind as I walked into Bell Rock’s elongated shadow. I saw chunks of glittering quartz embedded in the dust; hummingbirds buzzing through juniper bushes and the long shadows of tall trees intersecting the red valley floor. Following the path around the base of the mountain, I eventually spied Spaceship Rock hunched on the horizon. At first, I was underwhelmed (it looked more like an Egg McMuffin than The Millennium Falcon) but scrambling up its slippery sides, I was rewarded with 360-degree views of a serene and celestial landscape. Sitting on my alien perch, with Courthouse Butte to my right, and Cathedral Rock to my left, I felt like a marooned astronaut: a shorter, fatter version of Matt Damon’s character in The Martian.
That evening, I arrived at the Center For The New Age, adrenalin coursing through my veins. There I met Tom and Mindy, primary school teachers from Boston. This was the couple’s third tour in as many months. Once, Tom told me, he had seen “a triangular object hauling butt across the sky” – on another occasion, “a pair oforange orbs”.
The Sedona landscape (Edmund Vallance)
After Melinda had briefed us on the use of the infrared military goggles – which absorb up to 20,000 times more light than the naked eye – we piled into the back of her car, and drove for about 20 minutes towards a flat-topped hill known as Airport Mesa. I was a little concerned by the name, which seemed to suggest a preponderance of earthling technology, but Melinda assured me that planes were easily identifiable by their flashing navigation lights. “Shooting stars have tails, and satellites fly very slowly towards the horizon,” she said. “When we’ve ruled all these things out, we’re left with the unknowns.”
Over the course of about two hours, we saw at least a dozen white, yellow and orange lights moving quickly across the sky – sometimes solo, sometimes in pairs. Were they high-flying satellites? Shooting stars? Or military aircraft, perhaps? Melinda seemed very sure that they were extraterrestrial craft. But oddly enough, it didn’t seem to matter. Martians or no Martians, Sedona’s night sky was a heavenly sight to behold. Training my goggles on the sparkling expanse, I felt suddenly very small – a grinning child, wide-eyed with wonder.
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Ancient Civilization Beneath Death Valley?
Ancient Civilization Beneath Death Valley?
Another old mystery of ancient civilizations is unsolved in Death Valley, which may conceal an underground city that was described in Paihute Indian legend. The city apparently was first described 68 years ago, in Bourke Lee's book, "Death Valley Men."
In the book chapter: "Old Gold", Bourke Lee describes a conversation which he had several years ago with a small group of Death Valley residents.
At one point two of the men, Jack and Bill, described their experience with an 'underground city which they claimed to have discovered in 1931 after one of them had fallen through the bottom of an old mine shaft near Wingate Pass.
Besides they claimed to have discovered preserved mummies of "a race of men eight to nine feet tall” in several caverns which they have followed about 20 miles north into the heart of the Panamint Mountains.
A band of amateur archaeologists announced today they have discovered a lost civilization of men nine feet tall in Californian caverns. Howard E. Hill, spokesman for the expedition, said the civilization may be "the fabled lost continent of Atlantis".
The caves contain mummies of men and animals and implements of a culture 80,000 years old but more advanced than ours.
One cavern contained their ritual hall with devices and markings similar to the Masonic order.
A long tunnel from this ritual temple hall took the party into a room where, well-preserved remains of dinosaurs, saber-toothed tigers, imperial elephants and other extinct beasts were paired off in niches as if on display.
The 32 caves covered a 180-square-mile area in California's Death Valley and southern Nevada.
According to Howard E. Hill some catastrophe apparently drove the people into the caves.
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Area 6: Is the Nevada desert hiding another secret testing facility?
Area 6: Is the Nevada desert hiding another secret testing facility?
Published on Mar 7, 2016
Area 51 has captured America’s imagination for hidden government locales and secrets, but a smaller facility – known as Area 6 – is probably the site of secret government research-and-development work, according to a recent report. RT’s Brigida Santos has more.
June 2016 – SPACE – Astronomers are not entirely sure what it is. If, as they suspect, the gas ball is the result of a supernova, then it’s the most powerful supernova ever seen. In June of 2015, astronomers viewed a ball of hot gas billions of light years away that is radiating the energy of hundreds of billions of suns. Even in a discipline that regularly uses gigantic numbers to express size or distance, the case of this small but powerful mystery object in the center of the gas ball is extreme. At its heart is an object a little larger than 10 miles across. ASAS-SN-15lh, as the object is known, was twice as luminous as any previously seen, far brighter than any normal supernova, and outshone our entire Milky Way galaxy by 50 times.
The artist’s impression below shows what it would look like from an exoplanet 10,000 light-years away in its home galaxy. The team reported that the object at the center could be a very rare type of star called a magnetar–but one so powerful that it pushes the energy limits allowed by physics. An international team of professional and amateur astronomers spotted the possible supernova, now called ASASSN-15lh, when it first flared to life in June 2015.
The gas ball surrounding the 10 mile wide object can’t be seen with the naked eye because its 3.8 billion light years from Earth. Though ASAS-SN has discovered some 250 supernovae since the collaboration began in 2014, the explosion that powered ASASSN-15lh stands out for its sheer magnitude. It is 200 times more powerful than the average supernova, 570 billion times brighter than our sun, and 20 times brighter than all the stars in our Milky Way Galaxy combined. “We have to ask, how is that even possible?” said Krzysztof Stanek, professor of astronomy at Ohio State. “It takes a lot of energy to shine that bright, and that energy has to come from somewhere.”
“The honest answer is at this point that we do not know what could be the power source for ASASSN-15lh,” said Subo Dong, lead author of the Science paper and a Youth Qianren Research Professor of astronomy at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University. He added that the discovery “may lead to new thinking and new observations of the whole class of superluminous supernova.” Todd Thompson, professor of astronomy at Ohio State, offered one possible explanation. The supernova could have spawned an extremely rare type of star called a millisecond magnetar, a rapidly spinning and very dense star with a very strong magnetic field.
To shine so bright, this particular magnetar would also have to spin at least 1,000 times a second, and convert all that rotational energy to light with nearly 100 percent efficiency, Thompson explained. It would be the most extreme example of a magnetar that scientists believe to be physically possible. “Given those constraints,” he said, “will we ever see anything more luminous than this? If it truly is a magnetar, then the answer is basically no.” –Daily Galaxy
Astronomen breken zich het hoofd over ruimteobject dat 570 miljard keer helderder schijnt dan de zon
Astronomen breken zich het hoofd over ruimteobject dat 570 miljard keer helderder schijnt dan de zon
Het is een kandidaat voor de helderste en krachtigste explosie die ooit werd waargenomen. Maar wat is het? Het opvlammende lichtvlekje werd vorig jaar in juni ontdekt door de All Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASASSN) en ASASSN-15lh (bijnaam ‘de moordenaar’) gedoopt.
De bron, die zich op zo’n drie miljard lichtjaar van ons bevindt, leek ongelooflijk helder voor iets wat op zo’n grote afstand plaatsvond: ruwweg 200 maal helderder dan een gemiddelde supernova en 20 maal helderder dan het licht van de honderden miljarden sterren in de Melkweg bij elkaar.
Als licht door ASASSN-15lh in deze hoeveelheid in alle richtingen evenredig werd uitgezonden, zou het de krachtigste explosie betreffen die ooit werd vastgelegd. Men kent geen enkel stellair object dat zo een krachtige explosie kan veroorzaken. Astronomen breken zich dan ook het hoofd over welk onbekend type ster hier ten onder is gegaan.
Op het hoogtepunt was ASASSN-15lh 50 keer helderder dan de hele Melkweg
(Benjamin Shappee)
In zes maanden tijd gaf het object meer energie dan onze zon in 10 zonnelevens zou doen, aldus hoofdonderzoeker Krysztof Stanek van de Universiteit van Ohio. “Als deze gebeurtenis plaatsvond in de Melkweg, zou het licht helderder schijnen dan de volle maan.”
De kolossale supernova, die 570 miljard keer helderder is dan onze zon, kan volgens wetenschappers de kijk op supernova’s veranderen. Supernova’s fascineren astronomen in het bijzonder omdat de monsterexplosies ons veel kunnen leren over hoe ons heelal is geëvolueerd en nog steeds aan het evolueren is.
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$10,000 reward offered to decipher Roswell UFO memo
$10,000 reward offered to decipher Roswell UFO memo
Last week UFO researcher and author Kevin Randle posted news of a $10,000 reward for anyone who can decipher the text of a memo seen in a picture of what is supposedly debris from the Roswell UFO crash site. Some UFO researchers doubt the debris in the photo is actually from the object that crashed outside Roswell in July, 1947, and believe the text in the memo proves it.
The photograph in question shows General Roger Ramey in his office at Fort Worth Army Air Field, later known as Carswell Air Force Base. He is holding a memo and crouching over debris he claims was from the Roswell crash site, and that he was able to identify as a weather balloon.
General Roger Ramey (left) with Colonel Thomas Dubois looking at the weather balloon Ramey claimed was mistaken for a flying saucer in Roswell in 1947. Ramey is holding the memo in question.
Only hours prior to the photos being taken, the public information officer at Roswell Army Air Field, at the behest of his superior officer, Colonel William Blanchard, sent out a press release claiming that they had discovered debris from a crashed flying saucer. Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer who was dispatched to inspect and collect the material a day earlier, was order to fly himself and the material to Fort Worth.
Memo in Ramey’s hand from above photo enlarged.
Upon arriving in Fort Worth, he was escorted to Ramey’s office where a photographer and Ramey’s chief of staff, Colonel Thomas Dubious, were waiting. On the floor was material that Marcel later said was obviously from a weather balloon. However, according to Marcel, this was not the material he had collected in New Mexico.
Jesse Marcel holding the weather balloon debris in Ramey’s office.
The three men then had pictures taken with the weather balloon debris. The pictures were then used in articles claiming that a mistake had been made, and the flying saucer had actually turned out to be a weather balloon. Marcel says he was ordered to go along with the story, and like a good soldier, he did what he was told, no questions asked.
Incidentally, Dubois also later claimed the debris in these photos were part of a cover-up. He said the weather balloon material was set out to trick the public. You can see his interview in the video below.
The weather balloon explanation was accepted by the press and the public. It was not until the 1980s, when witnesses like Marcel came forward that the incident began to catch the public’s attention. Now, as in the video below, most people have heard of the alleged Roswell UFO crash.
Due to growing public interest, and an inquiry into the matter by New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff, the Air Force later admitted that the weather balloon explanation was a cover-up in an exhaustive reportdebunking the idea that the debris was actually from an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Their conclusion was that it was from a top secret project called Project Mogul. Mogul’s purpose was to send balloons aloft with sensitive listening devices that could detect Russian nuclear tests. They suspected Ramey switched out the debris to maintain the secrecy for Project Mogul.
However, some Roswell UFO researchers believe that Ramey’s photo is the US Air Force’s Achilles heel in the Roswell cover-up. In the photos of Ramey in his office, a memo can clearly be seen in his hands. Using modern technology to zoom in and enhance the image, in one of the pictures in particular, researchers believe some of the words can be made out. David Rudiak in particular has focused on deciphering the text, and he feels he has determined what 80% of the letters are. He says it is clear that there is a reference to a disc, and believes he can also make out a portion of a sentence that reads: “and the victims of the wreck.”
Rudiak says this proves that a disc-shaped craft was recovered. However, perhaps more startling, he says it also corroborates the claims that extraterrestrial bodies were recovered from that wreck.
Portion of the memo deciphered by Rudiak.
(Credit: David Rudiak)
In their Roswell report, the US Air Force says they also tried to decipher the text in the memo. They claim, “the photo was sent to a national-level organization for digitizing and subsequent photo interpretation and analysis.” As for the results, they wrote, “This organization reported on July 20, 1994, that even after digitizing, the photos were of insufficient quality to visualize either of the details sought for analysis.”
Many find those claims to be hard to accept. Especially after looking at a magnified version of the memo. It seems that something should be able to be deciphered. While not all researchers agree with Rudiak’s interpretation, many UFO researchers do believe there is something there. Apparently, an anonymous donor also feels strongly that there is something important to be discovered in the memo.
Randle has spent a lot of time writing about and researching the Roswell UFO crash. He has also posted many blog articles about the research into what is now referred to as the “Ramey memo.”
In a blog titled “Ramey Memo and the $10,000 Reward” posted June 16, 2016, Randle wrote: “A trusted colleague who is not a Ufologist but does have an interested in Roswell and UFOs and who has the money, has taken this in a slightly different direction. He is offering a $10,000 reward for the first person or group/lab that can provide a definite read of the Ramey memo.”
Randle continues, “To claim the reward a number of criteria will need to be met, including full reproducibility of the result (with methodology of the individual/lab completely explained and transparent so that anyone knowledgeable can replicate in much the same way that the placard on the Not Roswell Slides was revealed). There must be overwhelming agreement that the result is definitive with most of the text clear enough that there is little or no disagreement on what it says across a broad spectrum of people of all opinions whether true believer or complete skeptic.”
Some have complained that the requirements are too difficult to meet, and that there is never “little or no disagreement” among “a broad spectrum of people.” Randle argues that in the case of a photograph released last summer of an alleged alien from Roswell, the deciphering of a placard in the image was accepted by a broad spectrum. He pointed out that only those with a vested interested in the photo being an alien disagreed.
Although, the Roswell incident took place nearly 70 years ago, this memo could demonstrate that there is more to be learned about this enduring mystery. No doubt many are still curious about it. I will find out first hand as a speaker for the Roswell Daily Record’s Roswell UFO Anniversary event on July 1 and July 2. The reward will definitely give myself and my fellow UFO enthusiasts more to talk about.
Take a look at the images and Rudiak’s work and let us know what you think. Maybe you will be the one to figure out what the memo says.
The Lost Civilization of Atlantis: Buried beneath the Ice of Antarctica
The Lost Civilization of Atlantis: Buried beneath the Ice of Antarctica
The Lost Civilization of Atlantis: Buried beneath the Ice of Antarctica
Using the nuclear dating method of Dr. W.D. Urry. from the Carnegie Institution in Washington D.C., scientists discovered that Antarctica’s rivers, sources of fine-dispersed deposits, were flowing as depicted on The Orontius Finaeus map, about 6,000 years ago. About 4000 years B. C., glacial sediments started to accumulate.
Antarctica and Atlantis are two words commonly used in the same phrase. It’s not a mystery that many people firmly believe that Atlantis did, in fact, exist on Earth, and Antartica might just be the right place where we should search for Atlantis.
But while Plato was the first to write about the lost city-continent of Atlantis, its noteworthy to mention that many Native American legends are reminiscent of what Plato sustained in the distant past, reinforcing suspicion that Atlantis could have existed.
The legends of Native Americans come from different cultures separated by vast distances and isolated from one another. However, all of them tell a similar story of a once fallen civilization that existed in the distant past. In Central America, this ancient culture lived in Aztlan. According to legends, Aztlan was located to the south, on a white island and perished without warning as a result of natural catastrophic events. Many researchers maintain that Aztlan means “place of whiteness.” This is why it has commonly been connected to Atlantis and Antarctica, suggesting that Aztlan might have been the mythical Atlantis, the mythical place located to the south.
Depiction of the departure from Aztlán in the 16th-century Codex Boturini.
It is said that after the catastrophic events, the survivors of Atlantis fled to different continents where their ancient civilization ultimately merged with others and disappeared.
Skeptics will rush to discredit any theory linking Atlantis to Antarctica mostly because Antarctica today is a completely inhospitable and frozen environment where civilizations could not flourish. However, in remote antiquity most of Antarctica was hospitable. Proof of that is a number is enigmatic and ancient maps that depict the continent of Antarctica free of Ice. The most famous cartographical chart is without a doubt the famous Piri-Reis map, drawn by an admiral who served in the Navy of the Ancient Ottoman Empire.
Interestingly, the Piri Reis map was based on a number of even older maps which accurately trace the coastline of Antarctica WITHOUT the layer of ice that covers it today. This indicates clearly that whoever had the technology and ability to survey the continent of Antarctica must have done so thousands of years ago before the continent was frozen.
But how can a continent located to the south be free of Ice? Well, it turns out that Antarctica wasn’t always located where it is today. In fact, in the distant past, the continent of Antarctica wasn’t located at the South Pile, but instead somewhere between it and the Equator of our planet. This means that Antarctica was located farther north and experienced a tropical or temperate climate, meaning that it was covered in forests, and inhabited by various ancient life forms. What does this mean? Well… given the little we know about the life on our planet in the distant past, it is likely that people might have lived on this now, icy continent and developed as a society just like people did in Africa, Europe, and Asia.
But how was this even possible? Thanks to a scientific theory called crustal displacement.
According to mainstream scholars, and the theory of continental drift, the crust of our planet is in fact divided into several tectonic plates that literally ‘float’ over a molted inner layer, Over the ages, these plates slowly bump against one another.
However, the theory of crustal displacement which expands the theory of continental drift, approximately every 40,000 years, the entire crust of our planet shifts as a single unit. After each ‘shift’ all the land masses on our planet, including entire continents are relocated to a new position on the planet.
Many researchers believed that this happened the last time around 10,000 B.C. and caused the continent of Antarctica to move from its position near the equator to its current position, on top of the South Pole.
“I still find the idea that Antarctica was once forested absolutely mind-boggling”,
“We take it for granted that Antarctica has always been a frozen wilderness, but the ice caps only appeared relatively recently in geological history,” told Jane Francis of the University of Leeds.
Today, Antarctica is composed of around ninety-eight percent ice which is over a kilometer thick. So imagine, if in the distant past, ancient people inhabited Antarctica when it was covered with vegetation and forests, all of their “heritage” is now buried under a thick layer of ice. Even though it is uninhabitable today and only scientists venture out to Antarctica, in the distant past it might have been the perfect place for an ancient civilization to develop.
Interestingly, according to reports from Pravda.ru:
In 1949, Admiral Baird’s expedition bore holes into the Ross Sea in three spots, where Orontius Finaeus marked river-beds. In the cuts, fine-grained layers were found, obviously brought to the sea with rivers whose sources were situated in temperate latitudes (i.e. free of glaciers).The samples were taken from three different locations. 70 deg. 17′ S 178 deg. 15′ W 2,990 M deep, 69 deg. 12′ S 180 deg. S. at 3,130 M. deep, 68 deg. 26′ S 179 deg. 15’W at 3,292 M. deep. (1)
The fine-grained sediment that was found is the sort that is carried by rivers from ice-free continents. Also during the Byrd expedition of 1935 geologists made a rich discovery of fossils on the sides of Mount Weaver (Lat. 86 deg. 58’S) which included leaf and stem impressions and fossilized wood. In 1952 they identified two species of a tree fern called Glossopteris once common to southern continents (Africa, South America, and Australia.)
Core samples taken from the Ross Sea during the Byrd expedition of 1947-1948 shows glacial marine sediment from the present to 6000 years ago. From 6,000 to 15,000 the sediment is fine-grained suggests an absence of ice from the area. Then there is a zone fine-grained sediment from 30,000 to 40,000 years ago, again suggesting that the area was ice free. From 40,000 to 133,550 years ago there are two zones of coarse and two zones of medium-grained texture. While comparing the three samples, two of them show that the end of the temperate period and the beginning of the most recent glacial period started 6,000 years ago and the third just 1,000 years after that. So Antarctica has had recent period of temperate climate. (Source) (Source)
All of this points to the undeniable fact that sometime between the 4th and 12th millennium B.C, there was an extremely advanced civilization on Earth, with great knowledge of navigation, cartography, and astronomy. Their technological advancements were way ahead of other cultures that would appear after them. This ‘lost’ civilization, most definitely preceded our modern civilization by tens of thousands of years. And many people firmly believe that this civilization could have been Atlantis, and evidence of their existence will be found beneath the thick layers of ice that currently cover the continent of Antarctica.
Emily was only a few feet away from the beings and believes she was given messages.
One of the most outstanding UFO experiences involving a group of children took place on September 16, 1994. Approximately 60 children between 5 and 12 years old were playing outside their school on the outskirts of the capital of Zimbabwe when they saw a large spaceship and several smaller craft gliding over the scrubland.
The spacecraft landed beside their playground. The children claim that they were approached by beings from the ships and that the whole encounter lasted about 15 minutes.
Emily Trim was one of those children. As a young student at the Ariel primary school near the town of Ruwa in Zimbabwe, the incident was made famous when it was covered by the BBC, who interviewed the children soon after the incident. Harvard psychiatrist Dr. John Mack traveled to the school to interview the children and recorded their extraordinary accounts.
To this day, she says, the incident still effects her. Standing only a few feet away from the beings she believes that she was given messages.
She has been painting and drawing mysterious and beautiful images she feels are a manifestation of the messages she received.
In this video, Emily Trim speaks publicly of the first time at the Alien Cosmic Expo 2015. Her emotional testimony conveys the depth of her personally moving experience as a child who was face to face with an extraterrestrial being.
EMN apologizes for the sound issues.
Here below is the original 1994 BBC video interview by Dr. John Mack of those young children at the Ariel primary school near the town of Ruwa in Zimbabwe.
“This UFO was probably a drone, since the UFO may have been hiding there for an infinite amount of years.”
However, esteemed scientists have offered a more feasible explanation as to what caused a disruption in the ring.
Nasa said in a statement that it was likely caused by a body such as a rock that was lodged in the ring and became displaced.
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Has an alien been hiding in Saturn's rings?
John Weiss, a ring scientist in Washington State, explained to Fusion: "There’s good evidence that there’s a lot of these sized bodies in the core of the ring itself, but you can’t normally see them because they’re covered by the dust cloud around them.
"But they’re in there, and every so often move across the ring space and blow a bunch of those dust particles out. This one was travelling faster than [three feet] per second.”
Saturn’s rings are made up of dust, rock and ice which can range massively in size from a grain of sand to a large skyscraper.
NASA Captured Alien Creatures Living Under Mars Surface
NASA Captured Alien Creatures Living Under Mars Surface
Recent images from NASA’s Curiosity rover show a strange, worm-like object underneath the surface of Mars. Alien researchers see this as further proof the planet is not the dead, radiation covered wasteland that many have claimed.
NASA’S LATEST IMAGES PROVOKE CURIOSITY
NASA did a tremendous job in naming their rover “Curiosity”. It seems throughout its tenure, all it has done is instill more curiosity for us here on Earth. The latest of these occurrences being NASA’s two newest images on Mars. The first image is nothing unusual. Just another Mars dirt clod that NASA has seen all too many times. It’s the second image however, that seems a bit mysterious. Upon closer examination, one can see what looks to be a worm-like object sifting through the dirt. Alien researchers are jumping at the chance to prove that this is hard evidence. Mars may not just home to microbial life but perhaps something much more.
MORE PROOF OF MARS MYSTERY
As alien hunters will tell you, there is a huge collection of evidence mounting that suggests life exists on Mars. Take this alien skull for example. Besides, the spaceworm that Curiosity caught on camera, a strange object resembles a large skull was also found. This is just one of a long string of weird images captured by the rover. Of course, NASA fails to comment on any of them. Failure to produce any substantial evidence has created suspicion of alien hunter’s claims. Until that happens, the various crabs, lizards, skulls, worms and anything else found on the red planet will not be taken seriously.
LOGIC OVER CONSPIRACY
So if this space worm is nothing but conspiracy, where’s the logic? For one, there the electric universe theory. This theory suggests when two planets get close to each other, large amounts of electricity are discharged. This creates massive thunderbolts and results in the scarred surface the Curiosity rover has been seeing. Additionally, the “wormhole” could very well be the result of drilling. After all, Curiosity is there to take samples. Some believe these images are just a result of a drill sample and not a worm like a creature. This apparently logical response is not convincing alien hunters, though. It seems they’ll stop at nothing to convince the world of their conspiracy.
Humans with blood type Rh Negative belong to an Extraterrestrial lineage according to new theory
Humans with blood type Rh Negative belong to an Extraterrestrial lineage according to new theory
New Theory Suggests that Humans with blood type Rh Negative Belong to an Extraterrestrial lineage
Humans have possible four general blood types: A, B, AB and O; this classification is derived, according to scientists from proteins which are found on the surface of cells which are designed to fight off bacteria and viruses in the human body. The vast majority of humans beings on this planet have these proteins which means they are Rh positive. But a minor group, the Rh Negative lacks these proteins. So how is this crucial difference explained scientifically? And why does it even exist? Throughout the years, several scientific studies have searched for this answer.
Now, scientists believe they have found out a fascinating thing in regards of Rh Positive and negative. According to this “scientific” theory, in the distant past, extraterrestrial beings visited the Earth and created, through “genetic manipulation,” the Rh Negative with an intention of creating a race of “slaves”.
The Basque people of Spain and France have the highest percentage of Rh negative blood. About 30% have (rr) Rh negative and about 60% carry one (r) negative gene.
But Aliens… really? According to investigators, this would explain why Rh negative mothers do not tolerate fetuses with RH Positive blood; thus, this radical, hard-to-explain, by most natural laws intolerance could derive from an ancient genetic modification why Rh positive and Rh negative groups tend to “repel” each other instead of merging.
This theory goes back to ancient sumerian times, when a highly advanced “alien” race came from elsewhere in the cosmos; The Anunnaki, building and creating the first human societies.
It is believed that these ancient beings planed and genetically altered primitive human species, creating stronger and more “adequate” beings that were used as slaves in the distant past.
The Rh negative would be the legacy that the Anunnaki left on Earth among other things. Interestingly, the negative RH strain is characteristic, for example, of the British royal family, which has generated controversial theories about a possible extraterrestrial lineage. although this hypothesis has not been confirmed, the disturbing questions it generates floats in the air: how civilized world would react to the fact that a small portion of the Earth’s population has a genetic code that has been altered in the distant past by highly advanced extraterrestrial beings.
What if it is possible, after all of our “skeptical” views that in the end, the Negative Rh group of people have a connection to “beings” not from earth. What if there still is, a mysterious bond that connects them? How would life on Earth change?
Genesis 6:2 “The sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and took them wives, all of which they chose.”
Genesis 6:4 “God came into the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, and the same became mighty of old.” From the King James Bible: “menchildren – men of Israel, male children of God, not children of man – Ex. 34:23.” Ex. 34:7 states “The iniquity of the father will be unto the children unto the fourth generation.”
Hollow Earth: According to the Macuxi Indians of the Amazon There's An Entire World Inside Our Planet
Hollow Earth: According to the Macuxi Indians of the Amazon There's An Entire World Inside Our Planet
The Macuxi Indians knew about the existence of the Hollow Earth nearly one hundred years ago. But are their legends true or are they another incredible story of folklore?
What if Jules Verne’s classic “Journey to the Center of the Earth” is actually true? And somewhere down there, an entire new world is waiting to be explored, a place where somehow, living beings inhabit the depths of our planet, a place that ancient cultures and civilizations knew existed, or still exists today.
What if, it’s actually true?
The Macuxi Indians are indigenous people who live in the Amazon, in countries such as Brazil, Guyana and Venezuela. According to their legends, they are the descendants of the Sun’s children, the creator of Fire and disease and the protectors of the “inner Earth.”
Their oral legends speak of an entrance into Earth. Until the year 1907, the Macuxies would enter some sort of cavern, and travel from 13 to 15 days until they reached the interior. It is there, “at the other side of the world, in the inner Earth” is where the Giants live, creatures that have around 3-4 meters in height.
According to the Macuxies they were given the task to look out for the entrance and to keep strangers from entering the “hollow Earth.” Legends from the Macuxi people state that those who enter the mysterious cavern travel for three days, only descending giant stairs, which measure around 33” each step.
After the third day, they leave behind their torches, and continue their journey “into” the Earth, illuminated by lights that were already present in the caves. Giant lanterns, the size of a watermelon and shining bright as the sun.
After 4 to 5 days of travel, those inside the cave would lose weight and corporal mass, allowing them to move much faster.
The legends of the Macuxi people state that 5 days into the caverns, they would come upon huge caverns whose ceilings could not be seen, and in one of the chambers in the cavern system, there are four “sun-like” objects which are impossible to stare at, whose purpose is unknown to the Macuxi people.
Inside the Earth, there are places where trees with food are able to grow. The Macuxi say that fruits like cajúes, oaks, mangos, bananas and some lesser plants can be found 6-7 days into their journey.
The further the Macuxi people moved into the Earth, the bigger the areas with vegetation got. But not all the areas are green and prosperous. The Macuxi people say that some places are extremely dangerous and should be avoided, like those with boiling stone and creeks of “azoge.”
The Macuxi oral traditions continue and say that after passing these giant chambers, having passed half of the journey, they need to move carefully since the mysterious “air” can cause people to “fly or float” around.
Continuing their journey, they would reach a place inside the Earth where the Giants lived. There, the Macuxi explorers would eat the food of the giants, where apples the size of human heads would grow, grapes the size of a humans fist, and delicious and giant fish were caught by the giants and given to the Macuxi as gifts.
A diagram of the Earth’s center as a giant ball of fire from the 1678 book “Subterranean World.”
After stocking up with food offered by the giants, the Macuxi explorers would return “home,” to the “outer” world, helped by the giants of the inner world.
The Macuxi are said to be the “guardians” of the underworld, the protectors of the entrance to the inner Earth, and their legends speak of a land, inside the land, which is filled with incredible powers and riches.
This legend of course is considered by many as only that, another story of the ancients. But to the Macuxi, their “legend” was as real as it gets, and they were the protectors of the entrance until British explorers came to the amazon in search of gold and diamonds, venturing into the caves, and never returning again.
Since that they, the Macuxi say that the giants punished them for not fulfilling their duties and the “legends” of the giants faded away with the years.
What do you think? Is it possible that this is just another legend? Or is there something more to the mysterious Macuxi people and their legends? The Hollow Earth is said to exist in many ancient civilizations and cultures around the world.
The existence of giant beings inhabiting our planet is another fact present in dozens of ancient cultures across the world, even present in religious texts such as the bible.
Is it possible that the Macuxi legends are real? And that somewhere in the Amazon, an entrance to the inner Earth existed in the past?
The clip was originally posted by Cryptozoology News, which reported that a 56-year-old man from Ontario, named Paul Shishis, had spotted the UFO in Scarborough, Ontario.
Alien hunter Tyler Glockner, of Secure Team 10 , said: "We have a very mysterious, new UFO sighting that was emailed to me.
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"Apparently this Canadian man had captured images and video of this UFO that was just sitting there as these commercial planes flew by.
"He said he was on an afternoon break last Wednesday when he noticed the UFOflying at about 1,000 feet.
"He said it moved about, zig-zagging and circling near a water tower and he said he took about 50 images.
"He said the sighting lasted around five minutes and that it definitely had a pyramid shape to it.
"If you follow UFO videos online and sightings regularly you'll know that this pyramid-shaped object has been seen before. It's all very mysterious, strange times and strange skies, that's for sure."
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And speaking to Cryptozoology News, Mr Shishis said he took out his camera when he noticed the object performing “strange” maneuvers and changing shapes.
He added: “It moved about zigzagging and circling about near a water tower here.”
Some commenters claimed the UFO could be a TR-3 Black Manta, a secret triangular-shaped surveillance aircraft developed by the United States Air Force.
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Amerikaanse staat in de ban van mysterieuze ‘mannen in zwart’
Amerikaanse staat in de ban van mysterieuze ‘mannen in zwart’
De politie van de Amerikaanse staat Iowa staat voor een raadsel. Er zijn meerdere meldingen binnengekomen van mysterieuze mannen in zwarte jassen die in het donker langs de weg staan en zelfs opduiken in achtertuinen, om vervolgens weer te verdwijnen. Dat meldt de lokale zender KWQC.
De zogeheten ‘mannen in het zwart’ worden vooral gezien langs de snelweg en staan meestal stil, hoewel ze soms ook de weg op lopen, bericht persbureau AP.
“Mijn zoon heeft dit meegemaakt en het is geen grap,” schreef een lokale bewoonster op deFacebookpagina van de politie van Muscatine County. “Het was heel beangstigend voor hem.”
De politie zegt verschillende meldingen te hebben ontvangen en heeft de hulp van het volk ingeroepen in een poging erachter te komen wat er aan de hand is. Politieagenten nemen de zaak serieus.
Mensen houden elkaar via de sociale media op de hoogte van waarnemingen langs de snelweg ten westen van de plaats Muscatine. In de meeste gevallen staan de mannen in zwart gewoon langs de snelweg, maar soms lopen ze ook over de vluchtstrook terwijl automobilisten passeren.
Voormalig topadviseur van president Obama John Podesta baalde ervan dat het hem opnieuw niet was gelukt geheime overheidsdocumenten over UFO’s naar buiten te brengen. Waarom is hem dit niet gelukt?
In 1947 vormde president Harry Truman een geheim genootschap bestaande uit vijf hooggeplaatste legerleiders, twee regeringsmedewerkers en vijf topwetenschappers. Dit genootschap kreeg de naam Majestic 12 en werd belast met het onderzoek naar het Roswellincident.
In de afgelopen 70 jaar is deze groep veranderd in een machtige ‘cabal’ die de informatiestroom over UFO’s beheert, schrijft Sabir Hussain, directeur van de INSETS (Indian Society for Extraterrestrial Studies) in de krant The New Indian Express. Een aantal wetenschappers, astronauten, journalisten en legerfunctionarissen hebben zich openlijk uitgesproken over deze groep.
Achter slot en grendel
Dr. Eric Walker (1910-1995), oud-voorzitter van de militaire denktank IDA en oud-directeur van de Penn State University, zei: “Ik ben bekend met MJ-12. Ik ken ze al 40 jaar. Je kunt hier niets tegen doen.”
Wijlen astronaut dr. Edgar Mitchell, de zesde man op de maan, noemde MJ-12 een clandestiene groep, een quasi-regering die zonder toezicht opereert.
Emmy-winnares en onderzoeksjournalist Linda Moulton Howe merkte op dat het Congres, de vertegenwoordigers van het volk, geen toegang heeft tot informatie over UFO’s en aliens, die achter slot en grendel wordt bewaard door geheime agentschappen.
Alles aan doen
Volgens de gepensioneerde Amerikaanse commandant Will Miller zal MJ-12 er alles aan doen om informatie over hun UFO-onderzoek geheim te houden. Alleen mensen die toegang hebben tot de zogeheten ‘unacknowledged special access programs’, die worden gebruikt om onderzoek naar UFO’s te financieren, mogen weten wat er speelt, aldus Miller.
Hij merkte op dat zelfs de Joint Chiefs of Staff, een militair adviesorgaan van de Amerikaanse overheid, en de militaire inlichtingendienst DIA geen toegang hebben. Ze doen alsof het fenomeen een mythe is, hoewel er geheime documenten over in omloop zijn die Podesta boven tafel probeerde te krijgen.
In september 2005 zei president Clinton in gesprek met een tv-zender in Hong Kong dat het goed mogelijk is dat er bureaucraten zijn die geheimen over UFO’s verborgen houden, zelfs voor presidenten.
Op Google Earth is een ‘reusachtig zeemonster’ gespot bij Antarctica. Een filmpje over de ontdekking gaat momenteel het internet rond. Is het een Kraken? Of misschien iets minder angstaanjagends?
Scott Waring van UFO Sightings Daily denkt dat het om een zeemonster gaat. Dat schrijft de Britse Daily Telegraph. “Het lijkt op een Kraken,” zei hij. “Volgens Google is het wezen 30 meter lang. Het uiteinde lijkt op het middelste gedeelte van een reusachtige inktvis, wat betekent dat het inclusief tentakels wel meer dan 60 meter lang kan zijn.”
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Een Kraken is een mythisch wezen met enorme afmetingen dat in zee leeft. Naar men zegt is het waargenomen voor de kust van Noorwegen.
Zeelieden vertellen al eeuwen over ‘eilanden die blijken te bestaan uit hoofden, horens en zwaaiende tentakels en die in staat zijn zelfs de grootste schepen te laten zinken’. De foto is gemaakt bij het eiland Deception en lijkt een ‘vin’ te tonen.
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Sommigen denken dat het gaat om het Monster van Loch Ness, terwijl anderen vermoeden dat het een UFO is die zich onder water bevindt. Weer anderen komen met meer rationele verklaringen voor het vreemde object, zoals een schip of een rotsformatie.
Vermoedelijk gaat het hier om de afbeelding van een blauwe vinvis of een ander groot dier, aldus de krant. Denk je dat we een Kraken hebben gevonden? Je kunt het zelf onderzoeken door deze coördinaten te volgen: 63°2’56.73”S 60°57’32.38”W.
Witness says Triangle UFO emitted sound of horns, trumpets
Witness says Triangle UFO emitted sound of horns, trumpets
A California witness at Davis reported watching and videotaping a triangle-shaped UFO as it slowly passed overhead that first emitted the sound of horns and trumpets playing, according to testimony in Case 43950 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness reported that his dog seemed anxious and he took it outside at 1:43 a.m. on October 2, 2012, when the incident occurred. The video can be seen above.
The witnesses’ dog seemed to want to go outside when the UFO incident began. Pictured: Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video. (Credit: MUFON)
“I remember hearing a loud sound, of what seemed like horns, or trumpets from all around,” the witness stated.“I remember it being very early in the morning, maybe near two a.m., and thinking, why isn’t anyone else waking to this sound.”
The dog may have also heard the sound which caused the anxiousness.
“I thought about it later, and thought maybe my dog had heard the sound, and that is why she wanted to go out. So On October 2nd, when my dog did this again I was much quicker to go outside. Again I heard the horn/trumpet sound, though this time it seemed a bit muted, almost like I was hearing it in a vacuum, similar to hearing the ocean in a seashell.”
The witness first reviewed the horizon and saw nothing.
“Then from overhead I noticed what appeared to be a triangle of lights, with what appeared to be randomly moving lights running between each of the triangle points. It was very large, and all I could really see were the lights, and definitive darker, more shadowed area within the confines of the lights on the corners.”
The object continued to move away in a southern direction and reached a point on the horizon where is seemed to remain still, or in a relatively central location for a few minutes.
The lights appear to be attached to a triangle-shaped object. Pictured: Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
“I was able to get 31 seconds of video with my cell phone, and then the battery died. The video was shot prior to it reaching the location on the horizon where it hovered,and I opted to stay and watch it, as opposed to trying to go in and get a quick charge on my phone to record more video – which is what I did after watching it hover for a few minutes on the horizon. When I returned to try to record more, it was gone.”
The case was reported to MUFON on November 16, 2012, investigated by Assistant State Director Devlin Rugne, and closed as an Unknown.
“When they went outside he heard a loud sound that seemed like horns or trumpets all around,” Runge stated in his report.“He had heard this same sound the previous night, but this night, it seemed more muted, like he was hearing it in a vacuum, similar to hearing the ocean in a seashell. He couldn’t understand why no one else in the neighborhood was hearing this. He noticed overhead what appeared to be a triangle of lights with what appeared to be randomly moving lights running between each of the triangle points. It was very large and the only thing he could really see were the lights and a more definitive darker, more shadowed area within the confines of the lights on the corners. It continued moving away from him in a southerly direction and reached a point on the horizon where it seemed to hover for a few minutes.”
Runge gathered additional information from the witness.
“The object passed overhead at 90 degrees and when it hovered it was under a mile away over the tree line. It moved very slowly and was large. He said the sound was ‘troubling’ and the three lights at each ‘corner’ were red and stationary, their position is what gave him the impression that the craft was triangular in shape. The sound was like a ‘harmonic’ orchestra – lots of horns and trumpets. The sounds were ‘light tones’ and ‘deeper tones.’ The craft was darker in color than the sky. The colored lights didn’t show up until the craft was hovering over the tree line. The colored lights were in a random pattern and appeared to be ‘jumping around.’ His dog did not bark and was up against the witness’ leg – showing fear. The sighting duration was about 20 minutes. I asked if he noticed the time when he went back inside for the night and he did not. There were no other instances or any kind of poltergeist activity that evening.”
The witness heard music when he first saw the UFO. Pictured: Cropped and enlarged still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
Runge concluded the case.
“I believe the video shot of this object shows an unknown craft. With this craft traveling overhead it gave the witness a clear view of the total light configuration and the witness felt he was seeing an unusual craft. The sound coming from this unknown craft was unusual in itself and ‘troubled’ this guy because he couldn’t in his mind connect the sound with what he was seeing. His dog must have heard it as well because it was the dog that initially got the witness to take him outside a couple of nights in a row. The dog was frightened while the object was being seen and flying overhead. I’m closing this case out as an unknown aerial vehicle.”
Editor’s note: Some have suggested the lights in the video are aircraft strobe lights. I have embedded a video of mountable aircraft strobe lights below for comparison. Let us know what you think.
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A Michigan witness at Clinton Township reported a brief encounter with a circle-shaped UFO hovering just 100 off of the ground and less than 100 feet away, according to testimony in Case 76893 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness saw the object hovering just 100 feet off of the ground. Pictured: Clinton Township,
MI. (Credit: Google)
The witness was outside at 2:15 a.m. on June 3, 2016, on an overnight watch of a yard sale display when he crossed the street to his home for a cup of coffee. On the return trip he noticed the object.
“I just looked up – more so in an easterly direction – maybe 100 feet above the ground and noticed a bright white,circular-shaped object with a thin line encircling the light,” the witness stated.
The object was visible for just a few seconds and then vanished. Clinton Township, MI.
(Credit: Google)
The sighting was rather short.
“It stayed there for a second or two and then just vanished.”
Clinton Township is about 15 miles southeast of Troy, MI.
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Michigan MUFON Chief Investigator Daniel Snow is investigating the report, which was filed on June 8, 2016. No photos or video were included with the report. Clinton Township is in Macomb County, MI, population 96,796. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com. Visitmufonsymposium.com for information on the Orland, FL, annual Symposium August 25-28.
UFOs over China’s Sichuan Province… and other mysteries
UFOs over China’s Sichuan Province… and other mysteries
Sichuan is located in the upper reach of the Yangtze River and the hinterland of Southwest China. It is bordered by Hubei and Hunan in the east, Guizhou and Yunnan in the south, Xizang (Tibet) in the west and Qinghai, Gansu and Shanxi in the north. The name Sichuan means four rivers and it refers to the four most important tributaries to the Yangtze River: Minjiang, Tuojiang, Fujiang and Jialing Jiang which flow through the province fromnorth to south.
Map of China (Credit: Google Maps)
The mountainous, misty Sichuan Province, also known as “The Land of Abundance”, is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization, and home to numerous anomalies, ancient mysteries, cryptozoology, and paranormal phenomena. Only an hour away from Changdu, the province capital, is one of China’s most sacred mountains, O-Mei (also known as Emei Shan). Inhabited more than 5,000 years ago, Emei Shan is rich in history and culture. It is the most famous and highest of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China, rising to 10,103 feet with some 76 monasteries. The province also hosts Xichang Space Center, Rocket and Launch Center, an important part of Beijing’s program to reach the stars. Throughout recorded history China has been the home to some of the most culturally and technologically advanced societies on our planet. The past, present, and future come together in Sichuan. One of the largest provinces of China, Sichuan has had its share of UFO sightings.
Emei Shan Mountains.
(Credit: Cory Grenier/Flickr)
Buddhist Temple in Emei Shan Mountains.
(Credit: Cory Grenier/Flickr)
UFOS OVER THE PROVINCE
Unidentified flying objects have visited China since the distant past. Some observations have been recorded in the annals of the country’s history. Red China lifted the ban on reporting UFO sightings in 1979, ten years before its neighbor and rival to the north, the Soviet Union. But many observations are fairly recent. Let us look at some strange objects in the skies over Sichuan.
Zhang Zhousheng, a former astronomer at the Yunnan Observatory first observed a UFO in Sichuan in 1977. Mikhail Gershtein, Russia’s top UFO researcher and well-known author of numerous books on the subject, has collected information about Zhang’s 1977 sighting. He mentions the sighting in his book Chto skrivayut ufologi , in English What is covered up by ufologists (Moscow, 2006).
Yunnan Observatory
(Credit: Jeff Dai)
The sighting took place on July 26, 1977, in the northern section of Chengdu. Zhang observed a strange spiral-shaped object, and pointed it out to other people. The object was shaped like a sphere that resembled a yellowish star. A large Archimedes spiral emitted from the sphere in a glimmering line, clearly bright in the moonlight. The color of the line was blue and partly green. Because the spiral line emitted from the sphere, it was clearly not as star. It was a probably a relatively small object. The line went around it in three to four coils.
The strange object also moved in the sky in straight line. The velocity was invariable, about ten degrees a minute. The spiral moved synchronically with the sphere. The size, shape, and luminosity of the object did not change, and the spiral did not rotate around the sphere. No trails were left behind in the sky by the object. At 10:14 pm the spiral disappeared behind the clouds at the altitude of 10 degrees. The sighting lasted about five minutes. The Chinese scientist was shocked by what he had seen.
Illustration of July 26, 1977 UFO sighting.
Zhang was not alone; thousands of witnesses observed he UFO that night in 1977. But Zhang’s story does not end there…
The astronomer made a prediction in June, 1981, that in July of the same year there would be sightings of a UFO. On July 24, 1981, millions of people in Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan and Yunnan Province actually saw a flying luminous spiral-shaped body appear in the sky. Zhang claimed that he was able to calculate the arrival of UFOs.
Having been engaged in the study of UFOs ever since 1977, Zhang has also explained his ability to predict arrival of UFOs. According to him, UFO prediction is different from meteor showers; he can predict when a UFO comes, but cannot be sure they are in the right location where we can see them. Zhang also claims that he knows more than anyone else in the world about such predictions. His predictions have been reported in the Chinese media.
Wang Sichao
The 1981 spiral UFO had an altitude of about 650 km, and a speed of about 1.6 kilometers per second before it disappeared, according to Professor Wang Sichao, a planetary astronomer at the Purple Hills Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Professor Sichao believes extraterrestrial beings do exist and their UFOs have the ability to visit our Earth.
Another Chinese astronomer and a dedicated UFO researcher Wang Sichao was interviewed by The Yangtse Evening Poston July 1st, 2002. Having analyzed the descriptions of the witnesses’ accounts, he concluded that the 1981 UFO was a “dimensional flying machine.” Such phenomena had been observed before; he and his colleagues at the Nanjing Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory have recorded, gathered, and analyzed UFO incidents since 1971. Such “dimensional machines” have been observed dozens of times. Mr. Wang believes that the UFO is of intelligent design and not a natural phenomenon.
After the 1981 sighting, Chinese researchers studied ancient chronicles to find analogous events, and found over thirty references to “bent arrows” in the sky and other similar anomalies.
But we are not done with that memorable July 24, 1981 sighting. Soviet TASS news agency referred to the Xinhua story in August 8, 1981. Chen Xia of China.org wrote that China had its first massive UFO sighting on the night of July 24, 1981. Hundreds of thousands of onlookers witnessed an enormous luminous spiral from 10:33 p.m. to 10:53 p.m. The object moved at an unbelievable low speed in the upper atmosphere where helicopters were unable to reach. Later studies showed the object had an abnormal anti-gravity capacity. Purple Mountain Observatory, also known as Zijinshan Astronomical Observatory (located on the Purple Mountain in Nanjing, China) released a communiqué stating, “the population of 14 provinces in our country sighted this celestial phenomenon…”
Purple Mountain Observatory
(image credit: www.chinapage.com)
In 1987, reports of a number of reddish spheres flying over Sichuan circulated in the West. Soviet sources had more information about the sighting. According to Izvestiya newspaper, March 20, 1987, an orange-colored UFO appeared at the altitude of one kilometer over Sichuan Its shape was that of a straw hat. The UFO disappeared in half an hour. There were twenty eyewitnesses; one recalled that the object made strange noises.
There were many reports of UFOs throughout China in December and January, 1999. Chinese military scientists had revealed to unnamed sources that there were tests of a new stealth fighter conducted in the north, east, and south of their nation. But the first tests of the Chinese stealth fighter Kong Shiji yihao were conducted in southwestern China in May, 1998. Numerous cities in Sichuan province reported seeing a ray of light from a UFO. Chinese military sources alleged that when the light is seen, the aircraft takes about 5 – 6 minutes to pass from view, so it was traveling at about 200 kilometers per hour. The new aircraft was to go into service in 2005, according to Beijing Scene (January 1999).
Images of a Chinese stealth fighter first made it into the U.S. media in 2011.
(Credit: Washington Post)
Something very interesting flew over China’s three provinces including Sichuan in June of 2002. As reported by several media sources, on June 30, around 10 p.m., a mysterious, light-emitting, shape-changing object was observed in the nation’s sky (Shanghai Star of July 3, 2002; The Huashan Post, The Tianfu Morning Post, Henan Morning Post and more). The accounts described an orange and white ray of light appearing in the sky. The ray flew from east to west, and was visible for about three minutes. Its size was approximately that of a desk, and it changed its shape from a fang-shaped object to a fan-like one.
The various witnesses’ reports of the shape, size, time duration, and flight path of the UFO were very similar. The object was flying at a great altitude, much higher than an airplane would. The UFO was quite large. A newspaper in Sichuan reported that a pilot from a local air force station flew next to the object and mistook it for an enemy fighter. Tian Xianyuan, an eyewitness and the assistant manager from Chongqing City’s Astronomy Center, was able to point out the object’s exact location (Chongqing, an independent municipality was formerly part of Sichuan Province).
Some UFO sightings are nothing more than rockets launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center. For instance, in one case the UFO turned out to be a sounding rocket used to collect data about high energy and magnetic fields in the ionosphere.
Scientists explain UFO seen over China.
(Credit: China.org.cn)
Perhaps UFOs, whatever their origin may be, are also interested in a very secret Chinese facility. What is known in the West as the Northwest Nuclear Weapons Research and Design Academy (also known as the “Ninth Academy”), was built by the Ninth Bureau of Chinese Nuclear Production Establishment in the early 1960s to produce China’s early nuclear bomb designs. In the late 1970s, the Ninth Academy also established a chemical industry institute to conduct experiments for reprocessing highly enriched uranium fuels.
Northwest Nuclear Weapons Research and Design Academy monument. Reads: “China’s first nuclear weapons base.”
(Credit: Ping Lin/Flickr)
However, according to the official China news agency, Xinhua (July 20, 1995), the secret Ninth Academy was decommissioned in 1987, and the base was moved to other sites in Sichuan Province.
MYSTERIOUS IMAGE
Mengding Mountain is the birthplace of tea civilization in China. Mengding tea is known in the country as “Tea of the Immortals.” For thousands of years the Chinese have enjoyed special tea varieties from the foggy peaks of the Mengding Mountain; the damp climate of the area is superb for growing tea.
Teapot fountain on Mengding Mountain.
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Xie Qiang is a scholar at the Beijing Research Institute of Mineral Resources. His hometown is Ya’an City, in the central part of Sichuan Province, in Mingshan County, on a tributary of the Min River.
Qiang used Google satellite maps to locate his hometown and noticed something truly fascinating. To the north of the city, in the Mengding Mountain area, Qiang observed a very unusual, huge image. It resembled a person, perhaps a warrior, wearing a crown of feathers or a helmet, with an animal next to him. The animal resembled Chinese mythical creature Qilin (Chinese version of unicorn with multiple horns). The size of the image is as follows: the length of 10 kilometers, and height of 4 kilometers (40 square kilometers). According to Qiang, the best position to appreciate this image is in the air 20 to 30 kilometers above the ground. The satellite map shows eyes, mouth, and nose on the face of the person.
Along with the crown or helmet on his head, something that resembles a tunic is on the person’s shoulder of the right arm. A bracelet is visible on the arm. The left arm is bent at the elbow. To some people the warrior resembled a Roman soldier. The mysterious image points in the south-west direction. Who or what created it? Geological formations? Or did Human or humanoid builders create it? Perhaps, a meteorite impact generated it? The specific cause of its formation remains unknown.
Image of anomaly from China Central Television documentary. (Credit: CCTV)
Xie Qiang was amazed, and decided to explore the discovery. In July, he and a geologist arrived in Ya’an City. They made their way to the Mengding Mountain, and reached the location of the warrior’s head. They found rivers in the area, and concluded that millions of years in the past the mountains were shaped by floods. One cannot see the image from the ground, due to its size.
A powerful earthquake hit near Ya’an City in April of 2013 reportedly killing some 200 people. Because of its proximity to Lushan County, the epicenter of the magnitude-7 quake, Mengding Mountain has seen a lot of damage to many of its centuries-old buildings, which survived a magnitude-8 earthquake in the same province in 2008. There have been deadly earthquakes in the province in the recent years, and we do not know how the mysterious image of the Mengding Mountain has fared.
HAPPY POET YUAN MEI
Yuan Mei (1716–1797) was a successful official, a writer of how-to books for the civil service exams, a compiler and editor of volumes of supernatural tales, and a flourishing landscape artist; he has also been considered to be the greatest of all Chinese food writers and was an advocate of women’s education. Yuan embraced the spirit of Zen, but strongly rejected both folk Taoism and formalized Buddhism. As a boy, he was a talented student who earned his basic degree at the age of eleven. He received the highest academic degree at 23 and then went on to advanced studies. He eventually left public office and retired with his family to a private estate named “The Garden of Contentment.” Among other things, he also collected local ghost stories and published them.
Ancient Chinese illustration of Yuan Mei.
Yuan Mei traveled throughout China extensively, and thus, was able to collect its folklore. His book Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories by Yuan Mei contained fascinating descriptions of paranormal creatures; some of them eerily resembling modern-day reports of aliens. Such was the description of the creature encountered in Sichuan Province by scholar Fei Mi and General Yang Zhan during their stay in the government facility said to be haunted by monsters. Neither the General nor his assistant Li believed in monsters, and they decided to spend the night upstairs (the reputed site of the haunting). Fei Mi was asked, or forced, to join them, but he was of a more suspicious nature, and took with him a lantern along with a sword. After the third watch that night a monster tiptoed upstairs. The description of the creature was as follows: it had a face but no eyebrows or eyes. It was lifeless and stiff, like deadwood. It had something of an eye in its back; it gave off a bright golden light. Apparently, it could direct the light at humans.
Yuan Mei’s work was studies and translated into Russian in 1977, by O. L. Fishman. Among the stories is a gripping description of a very-modern-like UFO sighting:
Zhang Xiao-Po from Pinghu was sitting in his courtyard, and the sky was cloudless, All of a sudden he heard a cracking noise. There was a crevice in the sky and in the middle of it two eyes, resembling boats, with shiny pupils that emitted bright light; they were round like the axle of a cart. The entire courtyard was flooded by radiance. Much time had gone by before the eyes closed. Those who know, said that the sky opened its eyes (Yuan Mei, Noviye zapisi Xin Tsi Se ili o chyom ne govoril Konfutsiy, Zi Bu Yu, Moscow 1977).
CONCLUSION
Our world is becoming smaller, and new technologies bring us together. Nations like Brazil, China, India and Russia will share more of their UFO history and research through the work of serious, dedicated people involved in the process. Countries like Israel, Poland, Japan, Chile, Ukraine, Mongolia, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, New Zealand and many more have experienced their own UFO sightings and fascinating cases. This is a worldwide phenomenon, and when the information about UFO — and unidentified submersible objects (USO) — sightings is exchanged and analyzed, we will certainly see patterns and similarities. Someone has been visiting our planet, its oceans, land, and skies since antiquity. And this visit, judging by continuous reports from all corners of the world, has not concluded.
In Hong Kong last weekend a UFO was seen that directly resembles a similar UFO that was recorded (many hours of footage) over Turkey a few years ago. Notice the cloudy myst around the UFO that semi hides its true form, but you can also see two of its propulsion engines on the right and left side. If seeing is believing...then thousands of people just became believers in China on Sunday night. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: Pictures of an unidentified flying object (UFO) spotted above Yin Lai Court in Lai King emerged on the internet on Sunday, Metro Daily reported Monday. Some netizens suggested it might simply be a drone or an aircraft caught in thick fog. The object seen in the pictures look quite a bit like a flying saucer. Other netizens reported they saw lights flashing in the sky above Maritime Square in Tsing Yi. Headline Daily reported that the Facebook post containing the pictures attracted almost 2,000 likes and nearly 300 comments. Szeto Wah-koon from the Hong Kong UFO Club said the object captured in the extended-exposure pictures wasn’t a star, which would have left behind a star trail. He said that if the pictures were taken from indoors, the reflection of lights from within the building could be superimposed onto the image, creating mysterious spots of light.
This is a very interesting post by UFO news site Inexplicata that is located in Mexico. The UFO resembles a cross between a triangle and a disk. Triangle on the bottom, but domed on the top. Its also possible that black ops organizations are operating US gov test flights of alien tech in US hands. The US often conducts test flights over other countries, to take away any suspicion that its a US military craft. The US did that with Project Aurora over the UK back in the 1980s-1990s. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Inexplicata states: Mexico:Eyewitness Declares Tlaxcala a "UFO Contact Area" Sunday, June 19, 2016 -14:11 hrs. People Report Seeing a UFO in the Municipality of Contla. "Only minutes ago, a small UFO was suspended in front of my house near the community of Cuba in San Bernardino Contla."
"There are some very interesting details to be made out," said the person who was able to photograph this object, after explaining that it was only visible for a few seconds, as it vanished in an instant. The person adds that the UFO was at an altitude of 500 meters (1600 feet) The photograph was taken at a 45-degree angle over the horizon. [Translation (c) 2016 S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to Guillermo Giménez, Planeta UFO]
In the upcoming sequel to the 1996 summer blockbuster Independence Day, a massive alien force comes to Earth to avenge losses sustained at Will Smith’s hand 20 years earlier. Aware that this might happen, the planet has spent the previous two decades preparing: creating Earth Space Defense, an international defense program and warning system with bases on the moon, Mars, and Saturn’s moon Rhea, and a lot of laser guns built using repurposed alien technology. The whole thing looks very Hollywood high budget, but, in reality, it represents a paltry effort.
Defending Earth from alien invaders will require a lot more than some outposts and a Hemsworth brother. Still, even that’s better than what we’ve got. As it stands, we possess neither of the two things we’d need to repel an extraterrestrial attack: a system to find and assess alien threats and a means to destroy incoming ships. We’re way closer on the former than the latter.
Believe it or not, planetary defense is a real part of space research and exploration — albeit in terms of protecting the planet against natural threats, like asteroids, comets, surprise solar flares, etc. For NASA, other space agencies around the world, and private companies, planetary defense is basically limited to a discussion of asteroid impact avoidance and deflection, and the development of technologies that allow us to track near-Earth objects that might pose a threat should their travel path ever line up with ours. To that end, NASA has been bolstering its efforts to improve instruments designed to track such rocks zipping through the solar system — most notably through the recent opening of thePlanetary Defense Coordination Office, to better study and characterize different near-Earth asteroids and comets and predict their orbits around the sun in relation to Earth.
Tracking technologies, like the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope, would let us know if an alien battalion were en route to Earth long before it reached the planet — provided the aliens were in a pretty big ship and traveling slow enough to give us time to parse the patterns. The issue with WISE, from a strategic defense perspective, is just how easy it would be for aliens to destroy. It is a scientific instrument and, as such, not designed to be combat ready.
Unfortunately, we still have no actual way of engaging with an object that’s on a crash course for pale blue dot. Under the asteroid-focused planetary defense model, NASA is actually supporting a few off-the-wall projects with a bit of R&D funding, such as the gravity tractor. But this isn’t technology we could use to actually defend ourselves against creatures with superior ships. The only technology we have that can really do that is nuclear bombs.
Whether our lives are threatened by an asteroid or extraterrestrials, bombs are likely the best answer we’ve got. If it comes down to saving humanity, you better believe we’ll be launching nukes straight up.
Of course, this is easier said than done. The problem, as the aforementioned movies each discussed, is that you cant simply launch a nuke or 12 straight into an asteroid theyll barely make a dent into the rock, and will hardly affect the trajectory of the damn thing. When it comes to alien invasion, we might have better luck, since a spaceship would need to slow down upon approaching the planet to ensure its safety. At deceased speeds and with a structure that would presumably facilitate interstellar travel (i.e. made to be lightweight with a relatively hollow interior), an alien ship would be a lot more vulnerable to damage by nuclear weapons.
Unfortunately, if an alien civilization is capable of waging wars light-years away from its home, it’s probably already found a way to mitigate or even totally offset damage by a conventional bombs. We’d have to find a way to crack are way in an blow the ship up from the inside.
Meet the Hypervelocity Asteroid Intercept Vehicle, or HAIV: a seemingly conventional spacecraft carrying a nuclear explosive device capable of blowing an object up from the inside out. HAIV is basically two main components — a “kinetic impactor” that bores a hole into the object and creates a hollow path behind it, and an encasement for the nuke.
A diagram describing how HAIV works.
The genius behind HAIV, aeronautics engineer Bong Wie of Iowa State University, conceived of HAIV as a potential way to defend Earth against asteroid threats. Wie, who is also director the university’s Asteroid Defection Research Center, says his projectile, which would be between 1000 to 2000 kilograms in mass and move at about 5 kilometers per second, contains enough kinetic energy to create a hole or crater about 10 meters deep and 20 meters wide in an oncoming asteroid. The nuclear device would go into that crater behind the spacecraft and, boom goes the dynamite.
If we have at least 5-year warning time, Wie says, mankind will be able to prep a HAIV mission. A nuclear explosion will then occur in space far outside the lunar distance. “Less than 0.1% of resulting fragments would enter Earth’s atmosphere.”
The reason we would need to design and build HAIV from scratch after we know an asteroid is on its way is because you need to cater the whole thing to destroy the asteroid as optimally as possible. For an asteroid with a diameter of 300 meters, the best kind of nuclear device would probably weigh about 1000 kilograms. A larger meteor will need something bigger; smaller rocks could be crushed with smaller bombs.
Wie and his colleagues were previously awarded two phases of funding through the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. “This concept is now further being investigated by a team of researchers from NASA and the national defense laboratories for a possible flight demonstration in the near future,” he says. “However, all previous studies of HAIV were based on conceptual and computational research. No experimental validation or testing of the HAIV concept has been performed yet.
Wie has never explained whether the HAIV might be a useful system to protect us from aliens, but he has said that the use of nuclear devices is the most cost-effective option for mitigating impact threat.
Wie is loathe to speculate on the potential weaponization of his technology. But this is not a trait universal to space scientists. Igor Ashurbeyli is actively planning to repel an attack. The chairman of the Moscow-based International Expert Society on Space Threat Defense, Ashurbeyli told the audience at the 4th Manfred Lachs International Conference on Conflicts in Space and the Rule of Law, that he was prepping a proposal for an armed, unmanned space platform dedicated to monitoring activity in space and on the Earth and capable of directly neutralizingboth.
Artist's rendition of URBOCOP
His concept is called the Universal Robotic Battle Cosmic Platform, or URBOCOP. Exactly what it would look like is hard to say, but Ashurbeyli says URBOCOP would essentially be an autonomously-run system — “free from human bias” — that could identify a variety of threats in advance and defend the planet from them. He lists solar flares, changes to Earth’s magnetosphere, asteroids and comets, man-made space debris, unforeseen effects of climate change, cosmic rays, biological threats from other parts of space — all as potential space threats. This situation reminds one of Russian roulette, he told the audience. “Only with rocks, huge pieces of metal, solar energy and other surprises, acting as bullets and putting all of humanity at fatal risk.”
In addition, Ashurbeyli also thinks URBOCOP could work to defend the Earth against intelligent extraterrestrials, or even man-made threats here on the surface. Imagine two countries warring against one-another and launching missiles back and forth. URBOCOP could very easily strike to shut those launches down before those weapons even get into the air.
All of that raises an enormous number of questions. What kind of A.I. system would be used to make sure URBOCOP doesn’t turn against us or mistakenly destroy civilian equipment or structures? What will this thing look like? If Wie is right and nukes are really the only thing that will protect us from large asteroids, are we prepared to store nukes on a space platform floating in orbit?
Ashurbeyli didnt answer those questions, or even really outline how URBOCOP would work. That’s all being detailed in a presentation later this year. But he’s striving hard to make discussions of planetary defense technologies move from the outer rim of the scientific community, and closer to the mainstream.
There are few reasons to think hes being foolish in this regard. Even if the chances of Earth being attacked by aliens is next to nothing, space is a pretty volatile place. You never know what strange shit the sun will spew on a whim; what weird comet or asteroid will appear out of nowhere and make its way towards our neighborhood; and so forth. And its reality, we seem to already possess the tools we need to pick up on dangers, and strike at them. Its just a matter of refining them and putting them towards ensuring Earth stays a safe place to live — seeing how its the only planet we have so far.
It’s been twenty long years since the War of 1996 and the world is slowly rebuilding from the intergalactic pummeling it received from an alien mothership and its 36 City Destroyers. In that time, mankind has applied alien technology to not only weaponry and vehicles, but to appliances as well, creating bladeless fans and touchscreen smartphones. The man tasked with building it all: Jeff Goldblum.
This is the premise of Independence Day: Resurgence — well, part of it anyway — which comes out Friday. In the trailer, president Elizabeth Lanford announces that “we have found the technology to build a stronger and safer Earth” but after a few bwaahh bwaahhs the audience realizes that might not be totally true. What we’ve found is alien technology better than our own. And we’ve reverse engineered it.
The idea that humans would build their own technology from the leftovers of aliens isn’t just something that sprang from the minds of Resurgencescreenwriters Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin, and Carter Blanchard. Humans have longed assumed advanced technologies (a relative term if ever there was one) were the products of some sort of intergalactic intervention. These conspiracy theories break down into three basic types.
Aliens as the Source of All Technology
The Antikythera mechanism was discovered in 1901.
The 1984 conspiracy bestseller Chariot of the Gods popularized (with “hard scientific facts!”) the idea that ancient civilization landmarks like the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, and the Nazca lines in Peru were actually alien-built structures and landing sites. This line of semi-reasoning proved popular because these spots are hard to understand products of ancient engineer. They are not the only ones. The Antikythera mechanism, a device believed to be an astronomical clock, was built by ancient Greeks. Naturally, people have theorized that it was actually created by an advanced (but apparently not too advanced) alien species.
Considered by scientists as the most technologically sophisticated artifact to exist from antiquity, accredited researchers believe the purpose of the device was to tell the user when lunar and solar eclipses would occur and to track the timing of the Olympic games. The authors behind the theancientaliens.com don’t buy it:
“While many experts try to offer explanations for how this device could have been conceived, designed, and built, all of their concepts fail the tests of logic. There is only one possible explanation. Beings with advanced knowledge of astronomical bodies, mathematics, and precision engineering tools created the device or gave the knowledge for its creation to someone during the first century B.C.”
To which the researchers behind the Antikythera Mechanism Research Projectworking with the mechanism say: “No, by the same argument that it is not evidence of time travel. It fits within a long tradition of astronomical, mechanical, or general scientific development.”
Aliens as the Source of New Materials
Once you dive into the world of alien conspiracy theories, a name that comes up again and again is Philip Schneider. Known as a UFO whistleblower, Schneider claimed to be geologist and structural engineer once employed by the United States government. Before his death under mysterious circumstances in 1996, Schneider embarked on a series of lectures around America to discuss what he claimed to be the longstanding relationship between the U.S. government and aliens. The point of the relationship? Exchanging new tech.
In this undated video, Schneider is giving one of these lectures. At about three minutes in, he explains that he is going to explain “different alien metals that have been produced both in the confines of this planet and in outer-space and are now used in all stealth aircraft.”
Schnieder says that the metal is made of two elements: niobium, which is on theperiodic table, and marinite — an alien element. This metal, he says, comes from alien technology.
Robert Lazarus, who told the media in 1989 that he had been part of a secret military operation that worked on alien technology also claimed he had encountered an alien material: Element 115. Lazarus claimed that this substance allowed aliens to amplify gravity waves, allowing them to fly their spacecrafts. Related: No record of Lazarus’ employment has been found and CalTech and MIT, which he claims to have attended, do not have any record of his admission.
Aliens as the Source of Modern Inventions
This category is the broadest and the most frequently cited: The idea that we’re surrounded by technology that was manufactured from alien tech. Sometimes people say this is stuff that we’ve mistakenly interpreted as normal (like circuit boards and microchips) and other times this refers to tech that has been kept from the public.
In 2002 British hacker Gary McKinnon was arrested by the United Kingdom’s national high-tech crime unit after allegedly conducting an extensive search into the computer networks of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Department of Defense, and NASA. He told the BBC in 2006 that he was looking for evidence of suppressed alien technology— and found it. Here’s an excerpt of that conversation:
SK: Did you find what you were looking for?
GM: Yes.
SK: Tell us about it.
GM: There was a group called the Disclosure Project. They published a book which had 400 expert witnesses ranging from civilian air traffic controllers, through military radar operators, right up to the chaps who were responsible for whether or not to launch nuclear missiles.
They are some very credible, relied upon people, all saying yes, there is UFO technology, there’s anti-gravity, there’s free energy, and it’s extra-terrestrial in origin, and we’ve captured spacecraft and reverse-engineered it.
McKinnon also claimed that he came across NASA communication in which photographic experts said that they “regularly airbrushed out images of UFOs” from images taken from high-resolution satellites. McKinnon’s claims are in line with those of Lazarus who, before he decided to step away from the alien conspiracy game, said that the U.S. military relied upon alien technology to built their own crafts.
The Technologies Aliens Wouldn’t Give Us
In 2013 Canadian ex-Minister of Defense Paul Hellyer told Russia Today that not only is much of the technology we used alien-based, but that they would give usmore technology if we weren’t such assholes. If humankind “[would go about it peacefully](http://www.cnet.com/news/canadas-ex-defense-minister-aliens-would-give-us-more-tech-if-wed-stop-wars/]” they would share the splendor of their tech: Dropping the atom bomb, apparently, was a big sign to extraterrestrials that we’re too sketchy to handle any more gifts.
One piece of tech believers think aliens are holding back from us: Clean energy. Scientists have thrown out the idea that the star KIC 8462853 is surrounded by a Dyson sphere — a hypothetical megastructure that can capture a star’s power output.
The inverse of the aliens-holding-back-tech theory is that they haven’t visited us — but if they did, they would be such super-environmentalists that they would want to destroy us immediately. I’m not sure which idea is more comforting.
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INDIA will be the first country to explain to the world about ALIENS CONTACTS?
INDIA will be the first country to explain to the world about ALIENS CONTACTS?
New Delhi is in the middle of a big secret internal debate. On one side the largest democracy of the world is eager to explain to its citizens and to the world about the ongoing contacts with the UFOs and extraterrestrials. On the other hand there are invisible untold international protocols that prohibit doing anything that may cause worldwide fear and panic.
It is well accepted between the UFO and extra-terrestrial experts that all the five nuclear powers are in contact with the beings from other stars for quite some time. Recently India has seen enormous news on UFO contacts and secret UFO bases in Himalayas near the Chinese bases. In Ladak, for example the locals clearly point out the everyday phenomenon of large triangular spacecrafts coming out below the ground and Indian security forces protecting them.
Military officials and politicians have confessed the fact that India has been contacted. India has been told the rules of the Universe.
The current debate is on whether to keep it secret like other countries are doing or in tradition of a total transparent society come out and tell the truth. India is so open and democratic; it is very difficult to keep a secret for long. The biggest concern of the Government today is that unlike in other countries, it will be very difficult to keep it secret for long. If the information comes out through unofficial channels first and then the authorities are pressed against the wall to confess, two bad things can happen. First, it can really cause a panic in the country as well as the world. Second, the way the Indian politics is run, the ruling party will be thrown out of power in no time i it is ever found that the Government withheld such information from the public.
The recent rush of world leaders to India is remarkable. Starting from Russian President Putin to major Senators from America have visited or are planning to visit India. European Union is in deep discussion with India on cooperation. All sanctions against India’s nuclear programs and Indian Space Research Organization are in the process of being lifted. India is cooperating with Europeans and the Americans in space explorations and technology research program. India is also part of World Trade Organization. India is receiving major outsourcing contracts in IT and call-center service work from America and Europe. India’s Forex reserve is at a level never imagined before because of international direct investments from Western nations, Japan, Korea and others. Interestingly, China the arc rival of India changed its posture in the last few years to make India’s friendship and trade a priority. India is slowly getting to the point when it is accepted as a permanent member of the Security Council. All the five Security Council members China, America, Russia, France and UK support India’s inclusion.
When all these factors are added together and analyzed, it seems like India is being told by the world to abide by the hidden protocols and in exchange be recognized as a major emerging superpower.
The debate the country is facing internally is whether to abide by the laws of the world and the Universe to be recognized as a superpower or be truthful to its citizens and the world.
According to sources close to the Government, the UFO contacts is known by quite a few politicians in the opposition and of course by those who are in power.
The military has legitimate concern of not letting the secrets out either.
Recently, India’s foreign affairs minister Mr. Natwar Singh came out and said that for India it was not necessary to become a nuclear power. He is a strong supporter of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, India’s former Prime Minister who initiated the nuclear program in the mid sixties. India first exploded a nuclear device in Pokhran in early seventies. The whole country including people from his own party questioned Mr. Singh for such an irresponsible statement. But on analyzing his statements, it is evident, that based on what he knows now, being a nuclear power really does not matter much because the technologies controlled by the extra-terrestrials are so advanced that all our technologies mean really nothing. But importantly he may be irritated with this controversial ongoing secret debate and what he really meant was that if India was not a nuclear power, the debate on UFO and extra-terrestrials will never be there in India.
Bizarrely, a team of British intelligence officers were assigned to investigate weird sightings in the skies in World War I – becoming the precursor of UFO investigators both real and fictional.
Most of us think of UFOs and mysterious sightings in the sky as a modern phenomenon – but ‘phantom airships’ became a huge panic in the early years of the Twentieth century, and regularly featured in newspapers.
By the time of World War I, a more scientific approach was needed.
A predecessor to MI5 – Military Observation Department Five (MO5), under the control of Lieutenant Colonel Kell – was assigned the task of classifying sightings in the air.
Amid panic about enemy airships, it was a military necessity to weed out ‘phantom airships’ from real aircraft sightings.
Nigel Watson, author of UFOs of the First World War says, ‘It can be regarded as the first ever official guide to studying UFO reports long before the CIA or any other organisation got with the subject when ‘flying saucer’ sightings were all the rage after WWII.
‘During WW! there were numerous reports of mysterious lights and objects moving about in the skies. These were studied by the Assistant Director of Military Aeronautics, a post held by Lieutenant Colonel W.S. Brancker; the department of Military Training; and by the Brancker and Kell can be regarded as the first Mulder and Scully who studied the flow of UFO-type reports that flowed into their offices.’
Lights in the sky
The reports sent to Brancker and Kell sound eerily like today’s UFO sightings – and came amid widespread panic not only about enemy airships but also more mysterious sightings.
A 1914 telegram from the Chief Constable of Lancashire said, ‘Large red light seen at 8.45pm today passing over Runcorn Bridge Arches. Immediately afterwards, an explosion was heard in Widnes and Runcorn.
The guidelines set out by the war office helped officers of MO5 categorise sightings as of natural origin – or as something more mysterious.
Flying saucers
Various legends about extraterrestrials have circulated about World War I – of which the most astonishing (and implausible) is that German fighter ace the Red Baron shot down a UFO.
Fellow pilots claimed, after the war, that Baron Manfred von Richtofen shot down a flying saucer type craft – from which two inhabitants fled.
Fellow German pilot Peter Waitzrick said that the fighters saw an aircraft like an upside down saucer, ‘We were terrified because we’d never seen anything like it before. The Baron immediately opened fire and the thing went down like a rock, shearing off tree limbs as it crashed into the woods.
‘There’s no doubt in my mind that the Baron shot down some kind of spacecraft from another planet and those little guys who ran off into the woods were space aliens of some kind.
The story is highly dubious, however – given that Waitzrick didn’t share his story until 80 years after the event, and chose to do so in the U.S. tabloid Weekly World News.
The disappearing soldiers
UFO fans claim that aliens may have ‘abducted’ people from the battlefields of World War I – with a claim of hundreds of men ‘vanishing’ into a cloud during the Gallipoli campaign.
Witnesses claimed to have seen British soldiers marching towards Hill 60 at Sulva Bay in Turkey on August 21, 1915 – before being snatched up by a ‘solid-looking’ cloud.
A statement from a supposed eye-witness published in 1965, said, ‘When they arrived at this cloud they marched straight into it with no hesitation, but no one ever came out to fight. About an hour later this cloud very unobtrusively lifted off the ground until it joined other similar clouds, then they all moved away northwards.’
But it seems likely that this is a hoax. Documents released after the Armistice suggest that 180 bodies found behind enemy lines are those of the ‘missing soldiers’ – and the story of the cloud is a myth.
The ‘Angel’ of Mons
An ‘Angel’ which many British soldiers credited with saving their lives in one of the first, brutal battles of World War I has been seized on by UFO fans as evidence of extraterrestrials…
Many soldiers credited the strange apparitions with saving their lives – and the story became a staple of parish magazines.
The battle had been one of the first in which the British faced the Germans – and despite retreating, only 1,600 lives were lost.
Decades later, debate rages still – some attributing the ‘Angel’ to a short story from the Evening Standard, others to British intelligence.
The popular author, Arthur Machen claimed that this legend was created by his fictional ‘The Bowmen’ story published in The Evening News, 29 September 1914.
In it, British soldiers call on St George for aid, and are helped by ghostly bowmen from the Battle of Agincourt. One fact that lends weight to this theory is that few reports of the incident exist before Machen’s story.
Nigel Watson, author of UFOs of World War 1 says, ‘Even today the legend is swathed in controversy. Theories about it range from it being a myth based on Machen’s story, the product of hallucinations due to stress and exhaustion, real angelic visitations, ghosts, swamp gas, airships or alien UFOs projecting or shaping themselves to the expectations of the witnesses.’
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The Vimana, flying machines from ancient India
The Vimana, flying machines from ancient India
What are the Vimana? Are they ancient flying machines? We have been told that the Wright brothers were the first to fly in 1903. Was it the Wright brothers who managed to turn dream into reality? Or is it possible that the dream of flight, was something present in ancient India, thousands of years ago? Today, Vimana is the name attributed to a flying machine used by the gods of ancient India. The earliest accounts of this amazing civilization are written in Sanskrit thousands of years ago, where different types of Vimanas are referred to. These strange flying machines were used in incredible battles, battles resembling modern-day jet panes engaging into action, but only hundreds of years before Christ. In the Mahabharata, these incredible battles are described. The Vimanas are mentioned forty-one times with sophisticated combat weapons that shoot beams of light.
The ancient texts refer to King Salva attacks against the city of Dwaraka, where the God Krishna lived. Salva leads a flying Vimana called Saubha that has the power to become invisible. Krishna returns the attack with lightning that locates and destroys his enemies through sound.
The Ramayana also makes reference to incredible flying machines, telling the adventures of Princess Sita, kidnapped by the evil Ravana, where a Vimana called Puspaka is mentioned.
According to Dr. V. Raghavan, former professor of Sanskrit at the University of Madras, there are countless documents in Sanskrit, dating back thousands of years, that proved that extraterrestrial beings were in ancient India thousands of years ago. There extraterrestrial visitors were referred to as Gods. And these gods had numerous weapons and technologies that were interpreted by ancient people as heavenly.
But not only due to ancient text have the aerodynamic qualities of these Vimana but there are also texts that talk about how these flying machines can be built. The Ramayana indicates that 16 types of metals are needed to build a Vimana, here on Earth we only have three of the metals mentioned in the sacred texts.
According to researchers, these ancient texts also refer to incredible technologies like anti gravity. Dr. Ruth Reyna of the University of Chandrigarh managed to translate some of the texts written in Sanskrit that make reference to “anti-gravitational” forces. Technology that the Yogis developed to “levitate”. According to research, the same anti-gravitational force is what allowed the Vimana to move freely through space.
The Vimana are mentioned in several other texts, apart from Hindu mythology, indicating that these flying machines of the gods were a possibility thousands of years ago. Doctor Raghavan says that the technology was brought by beings from other planets thousands of years ago at a time when the Anunnaki lived among people and the Sumerian culture flushed in ancient Mesopotamia.
Many Ufologists believe that the Vimana are what we today refer to as “flying saucers”. These mysterious vehicles are piloted by otherworldly beings and we can find proof of them in ancient texts across the globe, like the Sanskrit where the flying machines are mentioned in detail. Researchers believe that there are many other texts that have not been translated yet, and hold important details regarding otherworldly visitations and their technology thousands of years ago.
“Those who came from above” is, in Sumerian language, Anunnaki. Ancient Astronaut theorists believe that the Anunnaki showed the Sumerians, then the Babylonians, how to build and manage these sophisticated machines. Some believe this knowledge extended all the way to ancient India pointing towards the iconography of some Hindu gods and some mythological accounts as being evidence of a possible connection to the ancient Anunnaki.
And if ancient texts don’t convince you about ancient flying machines, then check out the incredible similarities between NASA’s new Orion capsule and the ancient Indian Vimanas.
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“Prins Charles gefascineerd door graancirkels”
“Prins Charles gefascineerd door graancirkels”
Oscar-winnaar Mark Rylance is naar eigen zeggen de ‘graancirkel-adviseur’ van prins Charles. Rylance, die te zien is in de nieuwe sprookjesfilm The BFG van Steven Spielberg, zei dat hij net als de prins van Wales gefascineerd is door graancirkels. Het tweetal zou regelmatig brieven met elkaar uitwisselen over het fenomeen.
“Hij is ook geïnteresseerd in graancirkels,” zei Rylance. “Ik stuur hem mijn kalenders en tijdschriften om hem op de hoogte te houden. Ik ben zijn graancirkel-adviseur.”
Afgeblazen
Prins Charles
De prins gaf in 1991 al te kennen geïnteresseerd te zijn in graancirkels, toen er een aantal graancirkelformaties waren verschenen in het zuiden van Engeland, onder meer in weilanden rond zijn Highgrove House.
Prins Charles zou een ontmoeting hebben met graancirkelonderzoeker Colin Andrews, maar die werd op het laatste moment afgeblazen nadat een krant erover had geschreven.
Authentiek
“Er waren graancirkels verschenen op één van de landgoederen van prins Charles en andere royals,” zei Andrews later. “Hij was er erg in geïnteresseerd.”
“Prins Charles wilde dat ik uitleg gaf over de formaties, die in onze ogen authentiek waren,” ging hij verder. “Een ontmoeting ging vanwege een medialek helaas niet door.”
Een woordvoerder van de prins weigerde commentaar te geven.
De laatste weken zijn er regelmatig mensen die vreemde objecten waarnemen in het Turkse luchtruim.
Verklaringen van twee piloten van een Turkse Boeing 737 tot een vader die foto’s neemt van zijn dochter en een man die nietsvermoedend over straat loopt.
De dag nadat vlucht MS804 van Egyptair plotseling verdween van de radarschermen, namen Turkse piloten een vreemd groen licht waar in de lucht.
Het verhaal ging enigszins verminkt de media in omdat ze allemaal vertelden dat de Turkse waarneming gebeurd zou zijn op 19 mei 2016, de dag dat het vliegtuig van Egyptair verdween.
De waarneming van de piloten van Turkish Airlines was echter een dag later, op 20 mei 2016 tijdens een vlucht met een Boeing 737 van Bodrum naar Istanboel.
Op een hoogte van 17.000 voet rapporteerden beide vliegers een groen licht dat hun baan kruiste en met een hoogteverschil van een paar duizend voet over hen heen vloog. Het voorval gebeurde rond half twaalf ’s nachts toen het vliegtuig bezig was met de nadering van het vliegveld van Istanboel.
Wat de waarneming bijzonder maakt is dat beide vliegers dit zagen en dat beiden zeiden dat ze vermoedden dat ze te maken hadden met een UFO.
Dat is iets wat in Turkije kennelijk wel kan. Daar kunnen piloten klaarblijkelijk gewoon vertellen wat ze zien, zonder dat ze bang hoeven zijn om hun baan kwijt te raken. Dit zien we KLM piloten voorlopig nog niet doen.
De verkeersleiding zegt echter niets op de radarschermen te hebben gezien op die bewuste avond.
Op dezelfde dag echter dat de beide piloten het groene licht waarnamen, was er een Turkse toerist in de aan de zuidkust gelegen plaats Fethiye die eveneens een groen licht door de lucht zag bewegen.
Celal Toprakci maakte een aantal foto’s van zijn dochter die aan het paragliden was rond vijf uur in de middag en zag een groenachtig object dat van oost naar west bewoog.
Vreemd genoeg lijkt dit object ook veel op de blauwe planeet die overal ter wereld wordt waargenomen.
Nu wordt recentelijk, een paar honderd kilometer ten noorden van Fethiye in de bergen bij Denizli, een klassieke retro UFO gefotografeerd. Kort geleden was deze ook waargenomen in het nabij gelegen Pamukkale.
De opname hieronder is gemaakt door een inwoner van Denizli, Ahmed.
Ook deze waarneming was aan het einde van de middag rond half zes en het object bewoog zich langzaam door de lucht voordat het uit het zicht verdween.
Ahmed zei het volgende, “Ik wil bij niemand paniek veroorzaken, maar ik heb deze foto met mijn eigen camera genomen en ik begrijp het niet”.
Belgium General says incredible UFO case is a mystery
Belgium General says incredible UFO case is a mystery
In this video, retired Belgian Air Force General Wilfried De Brouwer discusses a wave of triangular UFOs he investigated in 1989 and 1990. He was in charge of the Belgian Air Force’s official investigation. They never came to a definite conclusion as to where the mysterious triangles came from. De Brouwer also discusses the controversial photograph that was allegedly taken in Petit-Rechain.
The story of Barney and Betty Hill, a couple from New Hampshire, is the first from the United States detailing about extra-terrestrial abduction that got worldwide interest. The couple claimed that they have been abducted in 1961 and stayed in a UFO. However, there’s an earlier story of alien abduction happened in 1957 that involves a farmer from rural Brazil named Antonio Villas Boas.
According to the story by Villas Boas, he was abducted by a group of ETs measuring approximately 5 feet tall when he was plowing his fields with a tractor. He was taken inside a spaceship’s room and got sick with a gas that came out of the walls. Then a naked and attractive female came to him. The female entity had blonde hair, red pubic hair and deep-blue eyes. This female forced him to have intercourse.
Villas Boas thought it was the intention of the extra-terrestrials to produce a human-alien hybrid that could live on their planet. Boas noted that he noticed burns on his body when he got back. According to Olavo Fontes, a doctor from reputable medical center and who had contacts with the American UFO research group APRO, Boas suffered radiation burns. However, Boas did not recognize or notice how he got the burns.
In late 1950s, the story received global popularity and many thought that the farmer was not capable to make such false story because he was a humble farmer and uneducated resident from rural Brazil. However, in reality, Boas owned a large farmland and at least a tractor. He later became a lawyer and practiced his profession until he died in 1992.
Dr. Botta Went Inside Flying Saucer in 1950: The Explicit Encounter
Dr. Botta Went Inside Flying Saucer in 1950: The Explicit Encounter
Since there are flying objects that cannot be identified readily, people relate them to extraterrestrials since out of the thousands of sightings, several of them pertains to bright strange shaped object to disk-shaped vessels. For some, the appearance of humanoid creatures. Given that most sightings came from ordinary residents, and were easily debunked due to the lack of evidence, what happened when a doctor confessed to having encountered a flying saucer? Dr. Botta is a credible person that doesn’t believe in extraterrestrial. Unlike others, the doctor’s case was given much weight because the encounter is intense.
In 1950, Dr. Enrique Caretenuto Botta passed his story to Horacio Gonzales at a UFO conference in 1955. At the time of the encounter, Dr. Botta was 40 years old. Since he has a reputable image, he was well respected. Before he became a doctor, he was an ex-war pilot and aeronautical engineer. Botta was driving on the highway in Bahia Blanca when he saw a mysterious metallic disc-shaped object landed on the grass. To watch it apparently, he stopped the car. Since it has no sign of movement, he has gotten closer to the object. Since it is accessible, he decided to go inside.
As he explored further, he saw a divan with four seats. Three were occupied by small beings that are about four feet tall with tiny bodies. The three humanoid creatures were facing on a control panel. As soon as he met the creatures, he realized they were dead. He then panicked and rushed from the saucer and went back to his hotel to share the story with his friends. They planned to go back to see the mysterious humanoid creature, but the craft was not there anymore. As they looked above, they saw a cigar-shaped object hovering the sky.
Even though the details of the strange happenings are less likely feasible, the reputation and character of Botta make this case difficult to discount.
Palpa Lines: Are They Created Before Nazca Lines For Years?
Palpa Lines: Are They Created Before Nazca Lines For Years?
One of the many reasons why some people believe in aliens and some extraterrestrial creatures is the existence of mysterious objects or works of art that appeared centuries ago. According to them, these works were naturally made, as opposed to man-made which can easily be debunked. According to recent studies of archaeological, the first Nazca lines drawings were created in the Valleys of the Rio Grande and Palpa. It was 3000 years ago that our ancestors utilized the flat surface of the mountains. Of course, they also used slopes of the hills just to create high and human representations and geometric figures. Today, archaeologist believes that the data were set up to please ancient gods, who allegedly were supposed to control the forces of nature, such as the floods, drought, and earthquake. Today, visitors may observe all these wonderful features of the past, soaring over the zone on small aircraft, specially built for excellent comfort and huge panoramic windows to take great pictures.
Though not as famous as the Geoglyphs and Nazca Lines, those at Palpa are equally intriguing because they were just recently contended of being the earlier lines existed in this world. Made by the Paracas culture possibly thousand years ahead of the Nazca Lines, there are more than 1600 Geoglyphs and Palpa Lines. No one knows what Nazca lines are. The only debatable fact is that they can be found in South America, specifically at the plateau of the Nazca Desert in the Peru’s southern part. Scattered across the plateau, these lines are massive geoglyphs portraying nature and geometrical objects. They have been carved about 40-50 cm deep and 135 cm wide on the ground. The existence of Palpa lines was believed to be associated with the presence of extraterrestrial beings. At the point of dimensional arguments, the contentions were still hypothetical because there was never a conclusion that cameas a final answer.
Netizens capture photos of ‘UFO’ in sky above Tsing Yi
Pictures of an unidentified flying object (UFO) spotted above Yin Lai Court in Lai King emerged on the internet on Sunday, Metro Daily reported Monday.
Some netizens suggested it might simply be a drone or an aircraft caught in thick fog.
The object seen in the pictures look quite a bit like a flying saucer.
Other netizens reported they saw lights flashing in the sky above Maritime Square in Tsing Yi.
Headline Daily reported that the Facebook post containing the pictures attracted almost 2,000 likes and nearly 300 comments.
Szeto Wah-koon from the Hong Kong UFO Club said the object captured in the extended-exposure pictures wasn’t a star, which would have left behind a star trail.
He said that if the pictures were taken from indoors, the reflection of lights from within the building could be superimposed onto the image, creating mysterious spots of light.
The industrial Swedish town of Norrköping, nestled along an inlet of the Baltic Sea, was once known for its booming textile industry. Now, decades after outsourcing muffled the city’s industrial buzz, Norrköping is known primarily as a quiet student town, dotted with repurposed factories and the snaking waterways that interweave them.
In such surroundings, it seems strange to find the world’s largest open UFO archive. Yet there it is, just a five-minute tram ride from the city center.
The Archives for the Unexplained, formerly known as The UFO Archives, are scattered throughout 10 storage facilities in the housing quarters of Ljura, a neighborhood in the city's south. These facilities are located in the cellars of colorful, structural-functionalist apartment complexes.
As co-founder and administrative manager Anders Liljegren gives me a tour of the first storage unit, we cross paths with several young students exiting the apartment’s double-doors. Do they realize that century-old collections dedicated to the obscure and unexplained reside just beneath their feet? “Most likely not,” Liljegren laughs when I ask him. “They probably think we’re doing a really bad job of hiding a drug operation or something when we bring huge boxes to the units.”
Co-founder and administrative manager Anders Liljegren in the Archives.
Though the Archives for the Unexplained now boasts over 20,000 collections of animalistic phenomena from all around the world, it had very humble, local beginnings. It all started in 1973 when Anders and his two friends Hakan Blomqvist and Kjell Jonsson founded the Work Group for Ufology, a predecessor to the UFO Archives. Curious about unexplainable objects in the sky, the then 23-year-old and his colleagues ran a library out of their student apartments, hoping to create a dialogue about UFOs in Scandinavia. Over time the library expanded and the group officially became known as the Archives for UFO Research in January of 1980.
Anders Liljegren and Håkan Blomqvist at a press conference.
Despite assumptions that the organization is comprised of staunch believers in all things extraterrestrial, Liljegren and his coworkers prefer to take a more academic approach to their archival project. “We’ve had some bad experiences with fanatics," he says. “It is best to have people working here who are more sociologically interested.” Liljegren has been personally involved in a wide array of research regarding Scandinavian “close encounters” and was one of the first to gain access to theretofore-secret government documents detailing the Swedish “ghost fliers” and “ghost rockets” that caused a commotion in the 1930s and 1940s.
At work in the archives.
From ancient alien theories to more contemporary hypotheses, the archive in Ljura seems to have it all. Liljegren shows me the archives’ most recent acquisition, donated by the Spanish group Centro de Estudios Interplanetarios (CEI). It is, as is written on the group’s homepage, “one of the finest and rich report files anywhere in the world with 120 large black file folders and another 30 files of cross-indexes by region.”
While I am in awe over the wealth of material from Spain, I am more taken by an old book from the USSR. As UFO research was then a banned topic, books on the subject were painstakingly put together by hand, complete with carefully composed drawings of UFO sightings. Liljegren points to a child-like drawing of an object hovering above a house. “These sightings were actually just Russia’s missile tests, but nobody knew that then. They had noidea.”
A flying saucer artifact in the archives.
For years Liljegren and the board of the UFO Archives struggled to keep the archives streamlined to exclusively UFO-related material but as of April 2013, the organization has broadened its scope. “We get calls from random benefactors every once in a while,” he says. Somebody will call and say that they have their father’s UFO collection, for instance, and need a place to keep it safe.”
Oftentimes people offer to donate money with a caveat. “We’ll have somebody call in and offer a certain sum if we include ‘x’ and ‘y’ in the archives,” says Liljegren. Now officially known as the Archives for the Unexplained, the organization embraces material regarding anything that can be called into question, from the Loch Ness Monster, to fairies, to parapsychology, and more. They have struggled to find a place to consolidate their extensive collections and are still in search of a fitting locale. “We’ll probably stay in Norrköping,” he says, “there’s just too much to transport.”
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UFOs, climate change and missing airliners: how to separate fact from fiction
UFOs, climate change and missing airliners: how to separate fact from fiction
by Michael J. I. Brown, The Conversation
UFO or lens flare? Credit: Vladimir Petkov/Flickr, CC BY-SA
If you've been on social media then perhaps you've seen the "Ancient Aliens" meme; a wild-haired alien aficionado Giorgio A. Tsoukalos attributing all manner of things to aliens.
Attributing the pyramids to aliens is absurd. But taking something very real and being completely wrong about its cause is all too common, particularly in media reporting. Unfortunately, these attribution errors are often taken more seriously than Tsoukalos' aliens.
Fortunately, scientists have some strategies in their arsenal for avoiding such attribution errors. And you don't require a PhD and research lab to use the strategies.
Searching for MH370
The search for missing Malaysian Airlines MH370 has been marred by false alarms. Many of these false alarms were preventable, using techniques often employed by scientists.
Some searches relied on visual inspection of satellite images, including images that have been digitally altered in the hope of identifying relatively small pieces of debris.
While some searchers were cautious, predictable false alarms arose. Many debris sightings were linked with MH370, when in all likelihood they had nothing to do with the missing jet. There's a lot of fish in the sea, and a lot of rubbish too. Further, people using digitally enhanced images may have misidentified image artefacts as debris.
Giorgio A. Tsoukalos is a well known speculator about alien visitation to Earth. Credit: History Channel
The false alarms could have been reduced using control samples (some searches may have used control samples, but this has gone largely unreported). For example, if satellite images from inside and outside the search area were inspected, one could estimate the number of debris sightings not associated with MH370. In a sense, this happened inadvertently when initial searches unfortunately focused on the South China Sea instead of the Indian Ocean.
Searching for known objects may have also reduced the false alarms. For example, there are claims online that MH370's contrails are visible in satellite images. If this were true, satellite images should also show contrails from other jets with known flight paths crossing the Indian Ocean on the same day. This cross check (among others) is largely absent from online discussions of MH370.
UFOs and Einstein
If I want to quickly find unconvincing UFO stories, the Science section of the UK's Daily Express is a good place to start. (And the Daily Mail isn't that far behind.)
Many UFO snapshots are patterns of light created by lens flares and reflections off windows. These artefacts are well known to astronomers, professional photographers and film director J.J. Abrams, but are perhaps unfamiliar to some tabloid journalists.
Scientists often gain understanding, including correctly interpreting data, by collaborating with relevant experts. And such collaborations shouldn't be limited to scientists.
Searches for MH370 using satellites has been marred by false alarms. Credit: AAP/SASTIND
Last year I was emailed by someone who witnessed a star brighten and then rapidly disappear. Fortunately she recorded the time and location of the event, and I recognised it was an "iridium flare" produced by an orbiting satellite. Someone unfamiliar with iridium flares could believe they saw a UFO or an exploding star, but collaboration demystified the initially strange and inexplicable.
Many Daily Express' alien stories discuss rather elaborate theories about the mundane. A Mars rock that looks a bit like a person (or just about anything) is evidence for aliens. Shadows on the moon aren't just lumps and bumps on the lunar surface, but evidence for a giant insect. Nope.
There may well be aliens somewhere in the universe, but if you are looking at a rocky planetary landscape, you are probably looking at rocks and shadows, not aliens.
Mundane explanations aren't just for debunking tabloid UFO stories. In 2011, the OPERA experiment hinted that neutrinos could travel faster than light. However, even the OPERA scientists were cautious about this result, given it was at odds with Einstein's theory of relativity.
In the case of the speeding neutrinos, a dodgy connection in the experiment was found to be producing erroneously fast measurements. The mundane trumped the headlines.
The Daily Express may think this is science reporting, but I have my doubts. Credit: Google image search
Bed sheets and ski resorts
"Correlation is not causation" is a great victory of science communication. Millions now know that two sets of data can line up very nicely just by random chance.
This is all fine and well, but how do you tell meaningful correlations from the spurious correlations? Indeed, pseudo scientists will invoke "correlation is not causation" to dismiss vaccines or climate science. The answer is science doesn't stop at simple comparisons of data on plots.
For example, the rise in global temperatures is correlated with the rise in atmospheric CO₂. But the science doesn't end there. One can look at temperature rise as a function of location, altitude and time of day. Theory predicts more CO₂ increases the absorption of infrared light, thermal expansion of the warming oceans contributes to sea level rise, and natural impacts on climate aren't ignored. Science is more than a plot correlating two sets of data.
When it comes to pseudoscience, the analysis often stops with the simple plots. Online I've argued with the climate "sceptic" blogger Joanne Codling about her climate claims, which have been publicised by Miranda Devine in the Daily Telegraph.
Is there a lethal connection between bed sheets and ski resorts? Credit: Tyler Vigen
Even a cursory look at measurements of atmospheric particulates shows volcanoes injected far more dust into the air than nuclear tests. Volcanoes had a greater impact on climate than nuclear tests, correlation isn't causation, and science is more than lining up data on graphs.
We live in a data-rich world. We can upload camera phone images in an instant, or download data and examine it with a spread sheet. Understanding the origins of what we see is harder. But with a little bit of scientific method we can all avoid the worst attribution errors.
Through NASA's Cassini rocket, scientists caught "mini-jets" in the act of blowing out particles from the Saturn's F ring, leaving a trail of imperfection in the supposedly flawless discrete ring.
SMEARED OUT OF PERFECTION
Scientists recently found a smeared section on Saturn’s outermost ring, known as the F ring. The “vandalism” was caught using NASA’s Cassini rocket.
But apparently, this isn’t uncommon. In fact, the F ring is Saturn’s most dynamic ring, and scientists can actually see the F ring continuously changing in as short as a few hours and researchers have been observing trails left by objects punching through the particles for years.
Sacrilege! Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute.
In 2012, researchers began scouring through and magnifying thousands of photos in a mission to investigate themysterious behavior of the F ring. “The F ring has a circumference of 550,000 miles (881,000 kilometers), and these mini-jets are so tiny they took quite a bit of time and serendipity to find,” said Nick Attree, an imaging associate for the Cassini. “We combed through 20,000 images and were delighted to find 500 examples of these rogues during just the seven years Cassini has been at Saturn.”
Saturn’s F ring is its narrowest ring, which is a 30-300 feet wide layer made of trillions of dust, rock, and ice particles and has a circumference of about 550,000 miles (881,000 kilometers).
And while it’s a very pretty sight, make no mistake: these particles travel at violent speeds, with some moving at thousands of miles per hour. And these particles range between sizes as small as a grain of sand, to masses bigger than a skyscraper.
WHAT’S THE CULPRIT?
The disruptions are believed to be caused by some objects embedded within the ring and interact with some of the other objects in it, and with the influence of Saturn’s moonPrometheus, producing “mini-jets” that blow some of the particles out of formation.
“[Prometheus] acts as a cosmic shepherd, sculpting the F ring as it makes its orbit around Saturn,” National Geographic writes. “But the moon’s route isn’t perfectly circular, and its uneven pull can create clumps inside the ring that then shoot out as jets.”
The recent collision observed through the Cassini on April 8 happened within a day or so of being caught in the act, and the particles have pretty much put themselves back into order within two months.
In many ways, Saturn’s rings are perfect for leaving clues about cosmic events around it, since any collisions leave trails of particles from the rings.
“You get to expecting in planetary science for things to have happened millions of years ago, and you don’t think to ever get to observe things actively happening,” Weiss said. “But that’s the kind of funky thing with Saturn’s rings. You can actually see evidence of things that happened yesterday or the day before.”
Star Trek Tricorder: Medical Device Can Scan DNA, Diagnose Illness
Star Trek Tricorder: Medical Device Can Scan DNA, Diagnose Illness
A newly developed handheld device can scan for disease, which is a feat previously featured only in science fiction.
After nearly a decade of development, a real life "Tricorder" has been developed to scan for sickness and disease.
(Photo : Getty Images)
The "Tricorder," a medical device used on the famed sci-fi space show "Star Trek," has become a real working device, with the ability to scan DNA and detect multiple diseases within the human body, according to Daily Mail.
Jonathan O'Halloran, a 39-year-old inventor who has been working on the device for eight years, believes that the device can conduct complex lab analysis quickly and easily, saving time and money. O'Halloran is the co-founder of QuantuMDx, a company that is working on bringing simple handheld solutions to doctors all over the world.
One of their headlining inventions, the QPOC, mirrors the abilities of the infamous Tricorder.The device can take samples of blood, check for specific diseases and deliver pinpointed analysis in about 10 to 15 minutes.
"Trying to explain a handheld DNA test in the background of everything that's out there at the moment is very tricky," said O'Halloran. "We're trying to get to a point where we can do in-field diagnosis."
Right now, the current models of the QPOC are being handmade in Singapore for around $88, according to The Kernel.
The company is at work to improve the device and make it more cost effective.
He said: "He's interested in crop circles, too, so I send him my crop circle calendars and magazines that I buy and keep him informed. I'm his crop circle counsellor."
In 1991 Prince Charles was reported to have called in a crop circle expertCREDIT: TIM GRAHAM/GETTY
"He's just a human soul like you or I, but he's been born into this incredible fate," the actor told Australia's Sydney Morning Herald.
"We had a wonderful meeting and then he came to the Globe several times. He is a great lover of Shakespeare – and I met him another time to talk about Shakespeare.
Steven Spielberg and Mark Rylance talk about new film The BFGP
"I still call him 'sir' in respect for his extraordinary fate. He's just a human soul like you or I, but he's been born into this incredible fate and so I respect him as I would respect anyone who has had an extraordinary fate given to them."
Self-styled researcher Colin Andrews was said to have been asked to meet with the Prince, but the meeting was cancelled after a tabloid newspaper revealed the plan.
A crop circle in Wiltshire in 2010CREDIT: CHRISTOPHER JONES
Mr Andrews later wrote: "Prince Charles had crop circles on one of his estates as did other members of Royalty and his interest was high.
"Prince Charles wanted me to explain the features we were convinced at the time were of a genuine phenomenon. Although a plan was set for such a meeting to take place an unfortunate leak to the media scuttled our meeting."
Air Force Plans Flight Tests Of Hypersonic Vehicle
Air Force Plans Flight Tests Of Hypersonic Vehicle
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
A joint U.S. Air Force and Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project is moving speedily along--intended to fly to Mach 20, plus some.
The Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle program is exploring high-speed air vehicles designed for rapid, around-the-world reach. Project goals are to develop hypersonic technology for a glided or powered system, as well as advance small, low cost, and responsive launch vehicles.
A Falcon Hypersonic Test Vehicle-1 (HTV-1) is now on the books for a less than one-hour flight in September 2007. Attaining Mach 19 (19 times the speed of sound), the glided air vehicle will briefly exit the Earth's atmosphere and reenter flying between 19 and 28 miles above the Earth's surface. This inaugural voyage of HTV-1 would end in the Pacific Ocean.
The Falcon HTV program is geared to showcase the ability of a craft to attain hypersonic speeds - ranging from 6,000 to 15,000 miles per hour (Mach 9 to Mach 22), and reach altitudes between 100,000 to 150,000 feet. To do so will necessitate an airframe structure designed to survive intense heat and pressure.
There are other partners participating in the demonstration program: NASA, the Space and Missile Systems Center, Sandia National Laboratories and the Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Air Vehicles and Space Vehicles Directorates.
Critical technologies
Work is now underway to build the Falcon HTV-1's flight hardware components. The test vehicle will be integrated at a Lockheed Martin facility in Valley Forge , Pennsylvania.
AFRL's Space Vehicles directorate, located at Kirtland Air Force Base in New Mexico, is specifically focusing on technologies for the glided system and issued a January 25 background release on the hypersonic work. Technologists there are helping to develop a thermal protection system for the HTV structure to withstand 3,000-degree temperatures and extreme exterior pressures - 25 times those experienced by NASA's space shuttle orbiter.
Other critical technology to be investigated in the Falcon HTV work includes an all carbon aeroshell. This outer casing must tolerate crushing pressures and intense heat. To keep the vehicle interior cool, an advanced multi-layer insulation is being fabricated for long duration flights. In addition, researchers are designing tools for enhanced HTV navigation and maneuverability.
Trio of flights
A second glided flight is slated for 2008 or 2009. That HTV-2 test would feature a different structural design, enhanced controllability, and higher risk/performance factors during its high-speed journey. Like its predecessor, the system will reach Mach 22 speed, and then finish its one-hour plus mission in the Pacific Ocean.
Amazing Super Hypersonic Test Flight (Falcon Project)
Also scheduled is a third and final flight of a Falcon HTV. That test shot is planned for 2009 and will be a departure from the previous two demonstrations.
This time the reusable hypersonic glider will lift off from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Virginia.
Screaming out of the area, the HTV-3 would be recovered in the Atlantic Ocean an hour later. In addition, the HTV-3--flying at a maximum Mach 10 speed--would achieve high aerodynamic efficiency and validate external heat barrier panels that will be reusable.
"We have made great progress and are on track for the first glided hypersonic test vehicle flight in 2007," said Russ Partch, Falcon HTV-1 project manager in the AFRL release. "It will enable a revolutionary capability to quickly respond to events anywhere around the world."
Partch added that the HTVs will prove technologies for global reach vehicles that can get a payload to the area of interest quickly in support of the joint warfighter.
The results of the trio of HTV experimental flights are viewed as having a significant impact in the development of future affordable, adaptable, and responsive military delivery platforms and launch systems.
According to AFRL, the Falcon HTV program is expected--during the next three to four years--to tackle challenges related to hypersonic flight by in-flight validation of technologies while demonstrating operationally responsive space lift.
It seems the moon is not Earth's only cosmic companion.
The newly discovered asteroid 2016 HO3 orbits the sun in such a way that the space rock never strays too far from Earth, making it a "quasi-satellite" of our planet, scientists say.
"One other asteroid — 2003 YN107 — followed a similar orbital pattern for a while over 10 years ago, but it has since departed our vicinity," Paul Chodas, manager of NASA's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statementWednesday (June 15).
"This new asteroid is much more locked onto us," Chodas added. "Our calculations indicate 2016 HO3 has been a stable quasi-satellite of Earth for almost a century, and it will continue to follow this pattern as Earth's companion for centuries to come."
Indeed, 2016 HO3 is the best example of an Earth quasi-satellite ever found, scientists said.
The asteroid was discovered on April 27 by scientists using the Pan-STARRS 1 survey telescope in Hawaii. 2016 HO3's exact size is unknown, but researchers think it's between 130 feet and 330 feet wide (40 to 100 meters).
The newfound asteroid 2016 HO3 has an orbit around the sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
As the space rock circles the sun, it loops around Earth as well, zooming ahead of the planet half of the time and trailing behind the other half, NASA officials said. 2016 HO3's orbit is tilted slightly relative to that of Earth, so the asteroid also bobs up and down through our planet's orbital plane.
The path of 2016 HO3 tends to twist and drift over time, but Earth's gravitational pull keeps the asteroid contained: It never comes closer than 9 million miles (14.5 million kilometers) to our planet, and it never gets more than 24 million miles (38.6 million km) away, researchers said.
"In effect, this small asteroid is caught in a little dance with Earth," Chodas said.
This dance is not dangerous: 2016 HO3 poses no threat to the planet, NASA officials said.
There can be very few people within the field of UFO research who haven’t heard accounts of significant material on UFOs going “missing.” We’re talking about the likesof certain files on the Rendlesham Forest UFO event of 1980, and on the Roswell controversy of 1947. There’s also a very intriguing – but far less well-known – affair from the 1950s. It’s one that I have taken a personal interest in, but which still remains unresolved.
The late Ralph Noyes retired from the British Ministry of Defense in 1977. In an interview with UFO investigator Timothy Good, Noyes revealed that, back in the 1950s, the Royal Air Force had secured “gun-camera” footage of UFOs over the UK. The footage – seen by Noyes at the MoD in 1970, along with a dozen or so other individuals – wasn’t overly spectacular (Noyes described it as “unimpressive”). But, it certainly showed something anomalous and fast-moving. Noyes (whose account you can find in Good’s 1987 book, Above Top Secret) confirmed that he saw the footage while in the employ of the MoD, as did representatives from the Meteorological Office, the Director of Air Defense, and a number of personnel from the Air Staff. A theory was offered that the phenomenon may have been “something obscure meteorologically.”
Nick Pope
In the latter part of 1993, I approached the Ministry of Defense and inquired about the then-current status of that same gun-camera footage. Certainly, it was not available for study at the National Archives. So, where was it? That’s a good question. One of those I spoke with on this matter was Nick Pope. Between 1991 and 1994, Pope worked in one particular Ministry of Defense office that handled UFO reports, Secretariat (Air Staff) 2a.
Pope told me: “I liaised with our archivist people, who are the sort of middlemen between us and [the National Archives]. They made a number of checks and, basically, a check was made of any place where this material might have ended. Now, that includes [the National Archives]. It also includes anything that might have got lodged in a halfway house of archiving. They checked the Imperial War Museum and, I think, the RAF Museum.”
Pope continued: “No-one is disputing that Ralph Noyes saw this footage and that it existed. That’s not in dispute, as far as I’m concerned. I think it’s unfortunate, but I suspect that one of two things happened. Either it got lost or destroyed somewhere, because it wasn’t seen as being of public interest at that time. Or, old film deteriorates; it becomes unstable and you have to destroy it before it becomes a health and safety hazard. But, I think Ralph himself said that the footage wasn’t that spectacular. We did have a thorough look for it and unfortunately it didn’t turn up. Given that we’ve now had a proper look, I think it’s unlikely it will turn up. All I can say is, we gave it our best shot.”
While I have absolutely no doubt that Pope was being entirely honest and sincere in his statements, I find it odd that such footage would have been routinely destroyed – and without copies being made for possible, future reference. After all, whether it was a craft from “somewhere else” or, as Noyes suggested, a strange meteorological phenomenon, the fact is that it was caught on film by a military pilot (or pilots), in British airspace, and remained unidentified.
A study of the available and now-declassified UFO reports of the Ministry of Defense shows that, across the decades, it preserved thousands of reports submitted by the general public. Many of those reports described nothing stranger than sightings of mere lights in the sky. Yet, they were all carefully kept on file. But, evidence obtained by the military was seemingly destroyed. To me, that doesn’t make sense. Unless, of course, there’s another explanation: that, to this day, the footage remains classified and far away from the prying eyes of Ufologists. And even from employees of the Ministry of Defense, too.
In 1997 there occurred in and around Exeter, Devon, England a strange wave of paranormal activity. It included numerous sightings of UFOs, encounters with strange and out-of-place creatures (such as so-called “black panthers”), animal mutilations, and much more. It’s a story chronicled in the pages of The Rising of the Moon, a book penned by Jon Downes and Nigel Wright. It was while he was hot on the trail of the Devon events of 1997 that Wright uncovered a fascinating story concerning the Men in Black.
Wright had decided to spend a day looking through the newspaper archives of the local Exeter Public Library, in an effort to determine if there had been other waves of paranormal activity in the area, in years long gone. It was while doing so that Wright stumbled on the May 21, 1909 edition of England’s Exmouth Journal newspaper. It contained an article titled “Invasion Scares – Queer Stories from Humberside.” The article reads as follows:
“A strange story was told to the Yorkshire Post, Grimsby correspondent by workmen from Killingholm near Immingham new dock works on Tuesday night. They declared that they were seated at noon on the roadside at Killingholm, when a large motor car drove up and two men alighted who walked to the bank on which the workmen were seated and asked if any airships had been recently seen near. The workmen replied: ‘No’, whereupon the motorists asked the distance between Killingholm and Spurn, and whether any mines were laid in the Humber between the two places. The workmen referred their interrogators to a coastguard, saying he would be able to answer them. ‘It does not matter,’ replied the motorists, and, after enquiring the way to the nearest refreshment house, they jumped into their car and drove quickly away.”
This is typical behavior of the Men in Black, pulling up in a car, asking questions about unusual aerial vehicles, and driving off again – except for the fact that it’s a rarity to find pre-1947 reports of such activity. It may well have been Wright’s persistent digging into such matters, and specifically into the matter of the MIB, that led to a dreaded knock on the door from a WIW: a Woman in White.
In 2015, Wright told me: “It was right when we were in the middle of that huge UFO wave, and I had gone to an evening meeting of Jon’s [Downes] Exeter Strange Phenomena research group. And my wife, Sue, was in the flat we lived in, in Exmouth. There was a knock at the door, Sue went to answer it. And when she opened the door, there stood a lady in all white. It was a lovely, sunny, early evening, and the woman was dressed in a long, white coat, white trousers, white headscarf with a little bit of a black fringe poking through, and huge black sunglasses that wrapped right around, and very pasty-looking skin. Which was rather weird, to say the least, with it being hot and sunny.
“Sue said something like, ‘Hello can I help you?’ And she asked if I was there. Sue said, ‘No, he’s out at the moment.’ The woman then said, and I’m working from memory now, of what Sue told me when I got home that night: ‘This thing he is doing with UFOs, tell him to stop it, right away!’ Sue asked why, and this woman didn’t say another thing – at all. She just stared for a moment, then turned and walked down towards the gate.
“Then something strange happened: the road we lived on was a long, dead straight road, about 150 to 200 yards in each direction. As the woman went down the path, Sue turned to pick up our youngster, who was crying, and when she turned back again, about ten seconds later, there was no sign of her in either direction. Sue went to the road and looked both ways and there was no-one, for as far as Sue could see. She had just vanished. It was very odd because just the night before this all happened, I had a hypnotic regression done on a blocked experience from when I was a kid, in which I think I was taken on-board a UFO. And, I actually discussed all this at Jon’s meeting – which would have been the same time the woman was visiting the house. That warning to keep off sounds terribly familiar,doesn’t it?”
It was an event that Wright still cannot banish from his mind, almost two decades later. Such is the lasting, traumatic effect that these sinister characters have on those whose lives they intrude upon. We should also note that the visit to the family home followed Wright’s day spent at his local library, and where he came across the 1909 MIB report cited above. We have seen connections between libraries and both the WIB and the MIB on no less than two, previous occasions, and in relation to (A) a 1967 affairinvolving a Woman in Black and a woman using the name of “Jane” (but who was actually one Jaye Paro); and (B) a 1980 saga in which Peter Rojcewicz had a bizarre encounter with a MIB at the Library of the University of Pennsylvania.
Do the Women in Black (and in white) and the MIB have a particular liking for books and libraries? Maybe so.
One of the great frontiers of human experience and the unknown is that of what happens to us when we inevitably die. It is perhaps the final frontier we face, and certainly the most mysterious. What happens to us when we pass on? Do we simply blink out of existence? Are we reborn into new bodies? Does our soul transfer to another plane of existence? Do we even have a “soul” as we like to think of it at all? These are some of the many questions concerning the afterlife which mankind has pondered since time unremembered. The realm of death is a complete cipher to us, a place into which we can only make a one way journey and which lies in an obscured, unexplored territory more inaccessible than the highest mountain or deepest undersea abyss, indeed more remote than the furthest edges of the solar system and even the edge of the universe as we know it. What becomes of us after death remains a complete mystery to us which we have long been frustratingly unable to explore to any appreciable degree without making that one way journey for ourselves.
Yet, with the advent of science and technology, and our increasing abilities to explore the outer fringes of our understanding, there has arisen a new question: can we scientifically prove and verify what happens to us after death? Can we use our advanced knowledge and technology to settle the age old debate of scientists, philosophers, and lay men alike once and for all? In this era of discovery, where we are ever relentlessly unlocking the secrets to our planet and the universe, pushing out into the boundaries past all that was known before, there have indeed been attempts to scientifically study what lies beyond our demise. These are the efforts of those who would penetrate that last frontier and come back with the answers we seek.
Those who would scientifically attempt to delve into the afterlife have long been plagued by dogma, ridicule, and misunderstanding. In one 1982 poll, it was found that a mere 16% of top scientists from various fields questioned believed that there was an afterlife at all, and only 4% thought we would ever be able to conclusively prove it. This general dismissive attitude and air of disinterest by the scientific community has hampered efforts for those who would seriously try to study the afterlife, as funding is rarely granted for such projects and those who pursue this avenue of research risk ridicule and derisive scorn from their peers. Interestingly, the rate of belief in an afterlife among medical doctors is significantly higher, with a 2005 poll showing that 59% of American medical doctors believed in an afterlife, which is a dramatically higher percentage than any other scientific profession.
Perhaps this stronger belief in something going on beyond the domain of life has to do with medical doctors’ experiences dealing with those who have experienced what are called near death experiences, or NDEs. These are reports by people who have claimed that after clinical death they have retained some form of awareness, no matter how tenuous, and have often reported similar phenomena in this state, regardless of religion or whether they believe in any kind of afterlife or not. These experiences are reported by a staggering number of people, around an estimated 200,000 people per year in the United States alone and untold millions worldwide. Commonly reported NDE experiences include leaving one’s body to observe the room and their own form, seeing a bright light, a feeling of peace or love, or even meeting long dead friends or relatives.
Although reports of NDEs may seem to be wholly subjective and the result of mere hallucinations, the remarkable similarities between them, as well as the sheer number of people who report them hint at an underlying phenomena with elements that may be possible to be objectively and scientifically measured and quantified. One serious study conducted by a team of scientists led by a Dr Berthold Ackermann collected reports of NDEs from hundreds of patients and came to the conclusion that the uncanny parallels between a vast number of accounts from people of all walks of life claiming to have retained consciousness after death suggested that the phenomenon was worth further study. Ackerman said of these similarities:
Most common memories include a feeling of detachment from the body, feelings of levitation, total serenity, security, warmth, the experience of absolute dissolution, and the presence of an overwhelming light.
The presence of these visions in people who were clinically dead, and which remained fairly consistent across faiths and ideals, has convinced some groups of researchers that there is something going on beyond current paradigms, and that it could possibly even point to the existence of some currently unknown duality between the physical brain and consciousness itself, or at the very least some physical process which we have yet to understand. This points squarely at a scientifically provable answer that merely lies beyond our grasp and current tools to fully quantify.
Many of the studies that have delved into observing and objectifying NDEs, and therefore understanding more about life after death, have relied on investigating victims of cardiac arrest. After all, these are people who are at the mercy of a fully controllable environment, and stand a chance of being pulled from the clutches of death. One such study conducted by lead researcher Pim van Lommel, of the Hospital Rijnstate in the Netherlands, in 2001 and published in the British medical journalLancet, focused on 344 patients who had suffered heart attacks to the point of being clinically dead, and then being successfully resuscitated. The study meticulously and methodically questioned patients within a week of dying and being brought back to life, and found that 18% of these patients were able to describe some form of awareness from the time when they were declared clinically dead, meaning that their brain had completely shut down due to lack of blood flow and therefore making it technically not physically possible for them to be conscious of anything. 12 percent of those in the study reported classical NDE experiences such as tunnels of light or seeing dead friends and relatives. The extremely sharp, lucid, vivid, and detailed recall of these events seemed to point at factors other than that they were some sort of hallucination or false memories.
Although the study did not make any concrete proclamations of the existence of an actual soul or an afterlife, nor does it lay out a precise way to measure the existence of a life after death, it does suggest that something very strange is going on. The people in the study had been technically brain dead, meaning that they should not have had any memories of anything at all, and if the phenomena had been caused by a purely physical effect, such as cerebral hypoxia, also called anoxia, which is damage to the brain caused by prolonged lack of oxygen, then it should have been reported by a higher percentage of patients in the study, if not all of them. This convinced van Lommel that there was perhaps something more going on than a purely physical or cellular effect, saying of these NDEs in a Washington Post interview:
Compare it with a TV program. If you open the TV set you will not find the program. The TV set is a receiver. When you turn off your TV set, the program is still there but you can’t see it. When you put off your brain, your consciousness is still there but you can’t feel it in your body.
Another similar study was carried out in 2003 by a Dr Peter Fenwick, a neuro-psychiatrist and senior lecturer at at King’s College, London, who investigated the experiences of cardiac arrest patients in England with the Institute of Psychiatry. During the study, over 60 cardiac arrest patients at Southampton General Hospital’s coronary care unit were interviewed about what they had experienced while technically temporarily brain dead. Of these patients, 7 of them recalled having classic NDE experiences, such as out of body experiences, entering a realm of peace and love, meeting lost loved ones, or journeying through a mysterious tunnel of light. In these cases, the patients had been clinically dead for up to several minutes, which hints that these sensations were not the result of mere normal physical processes or tricks of the brain. Fenwick explained the significance of this thus:
After a cardiac arrest you lose consciousness within eight seconds; within 11 seconds the brain’s rhythms become flat, and within 18 seconds there is no possibility of the brain creating a model of the world – so the brain is down.Yet whenever we asked people when their near-death experiences occurred, they said it was during unconsciousness. If that’s true, their experience was occurring when there was no blood flowing through the brain – and consciousness would appear to exist outside the brain.
Fenwick came to the conclusion that there was something unusual going on that went well beyond a purely physical explanation, and even suggested that it could be potential evidence that the mind in some form operates outside of and independent of the physical brain. He likened this connection to a TV playing programs transmitted over airwaves. He said of his findings:
There is now convincing evidence to challenge the current theory that consciousness can only exist inside the brain – and if you can have consciousness without associated brain function, that is enormously important for our understanding of the mind.
Another extremely ambitious scientific study was launched in 2008, and called the AWARE study (“AWAreness during REsuscitation”). Led by Sam Parnia, an assistant professor of medicine at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and frequent collaborator with Dr. Fenwick, the study was aimed at trying to use the unique perspective of those who had stepped over to the other side and come back to tell the tale in order to peak through the window of the unknown to determine the existence of some form of life after death, or at least clues to the true connection between body and mind. The largest study of its kind ever attempted, 2,060 people who had suffered from major cardiac arrest were examined over a period of 4 years at 15 hospitals in the UK, US and Austria. Throughout the whole study, strict scientific methodology was observed as much as was reasonably possible in order to weed out claims that were based merely on impressions and thus insufficient for use as evidence, and to maintain as much objectivity as was possible.
Of the victims surveyed, 40% of those who had been resuscitated and had survived the cardiac arrest reliably reported some form of consciousness after they had been declared technically dead and had ceased to display any clinical signs of being conscious. Despite this complete lack of any measurable brain activity, these patients were reporting a lingering awareness and consciousness, which should have been impossible. The form this consciousness took varied somewhat from individual to individual, with some describing a sense of awareness but no specific memory, while others reported bright lights, the sensation of floating or conversely sinking, or the feeling of being dragged through water, as well as heightened senses and the sense of time slowing down or speeding up. Many of the patients described an overall sense of peacefulness throughout the ordeal. In the more dramatic accounts, patients described the images of animals, family members, or some form of “mystical being.” There appeared to be little measurable difference between ages or genders when it came to these experiences.
Additionally, 13% of those examined claimed to have separated from their bodies during their deaths, with some of these accounts being rather striking. In one case, a 57-year-old social worker reported that he had floated around the room and witnessed hospital staff trying to bring him back to life. So vivid was his recollection of these events that he even keenly remembered the physical appearance of the doctors and nurses, as well as the distinct beeping and noises of the various different types of machines in the room. Interestingly, the man had been declared dead for 3 minutes at the time, which should have made any awareness completely impossible and rule out the possibility that it could have simply been hallucinations, yet during this time the man was apparently well aware of the scene around him from outside his body.
Parnia suspects that although only 40% of the patients reported any sort of after death consciousness, it is quite possible that the others had indeed experienced these phenomena, but were simply not able to remember them due to the effects of sedatives, drugs, or brain damage. Although the study is unable to unequivocally rule out the possibility that the reports were subjective, and not able to concretely prove that these things really happened or what actually caused them, Dr. Parnia believes that the sheer size of the sampling and the findings of the study are significant, have shed light on the phenomenon, and shown that it warrants a need for further investigation. Of the completed study, Dr. Parnia has proclaimed:
The evidence thus far suggests that in the first few minutes after death, consciousness is not annihilated. Whether it fades away afterwards, we do not know, but right after death, consciousness is not lost. We know the brain can’t function when the heart has stopped beating. But in this case conscious awareness appears to have continued for up to three minutes into the period when the heart wasn’t beating, even though the brain typically shuts down within 20-30 seconds after the heart has stopped. This is significant, since it has often been assumed that experiences in relation to death are likely hallucinations or illusions, occurring either before the heart stops or after the heart has been successfully restarted, but not an experience corresponding with ‘real’ events when the heart isn’t beating.
The presence of a form of consciousness or awareness separate from the physical brain is a recurring theme of such experiments. In another study conducted by a Dr. Alexander Batthyany at the University of Vienna, it was found that in some cases patients with advanced stages of Alzheimer’s disease briefly returned to a state of complete lucidity just before death, despite suffering symptoms so severe that their brains had been rendered more or less practically incapable of functioning at all. The study covered 227 patients, and in 10% of the cases, people who had up until that point been completely lacking any mental functionality at all had displayed briefly before death a sudden bright flash of awareness and memories from before, which should have been impossible if there was no “soul” that existed beyond simply the physical construct of the brain.
In the future, ever innovative technologies may allow us to not only observe these NDEs and other phenomena, but actually venture forth into the land of the dead, much as astronauts have journeyed into the far reaches of the cosmos. This is a theme that has been covered in popular culture before, most notably the 1990 film Flatliners, in which 5 medical students conduct secret experiments to induce death and explore what lies beyond, along with its mystical near death experiences. Such an outlandish idea is perhaps not so far from reality, and we are on the cusp of technology that may allow us to not only study NDEs, but to experience them for ourselves.
Researchers at the Safar Center for Resuscitation Research at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, have developed a revolutionary procedure to put animals in a state of limbo between life and death, a sort of state of suspended animation fluttering over the abyss on the edge of death. In the experiments, dogs are drained of all blood and their veins filled with a frigid saline solution. Their body temperatures lowered to around 7 degrees Celsius (37 F), the animals cease all biological activity and are for all purposes technically dead. After 3 hours in this state, the blood is replaced and a mild shock administered, which jolts them back to the land of the living. The process is not without its problems, as some of the dogs have been reanimated with serious physical or behavioral aberrations, which have caused some critics to accuse the team of creating soulless “zombie dogs.”
Nevertheless, the team has grand plans to one day test the procedure on humans, which could be groundbreaking in the field of putting victims of serious injuries, especially those incurring massive blood loss, into a type of stasis while they await treatment. Such a tool could be invaluable in places like faraway battlefields, or other situations where immediate medical care is not available. Regardless, there have been considerable moral questions raised, such as the idea that any humans subjected to the experiments may wake up without souls, with an essential, key part of them missing. However, the research has mostly been seen as hopeful, with one of the directors saying they are merely pushing back the boundaries of what is considered dead, stating:
The definition of death depends on the technology you have to revive the subject. As medical technology gets better, the limits to being dead are pushed into more extreme physiological states. Death is really when a doctor says: ‘I can’t do any more.
One can most certainly see how such a procedure would be alluring for those who want to research what happens past the veil that separates us from death. Imagine what could be gleaned about the afterlife from someone who spent hours there or even more. We can only wait to see if there is ever a trial on human beings, but one team of psychologists and medical doctors associated with the Technische Universität of Berlin have claimed that they have already done something similar. The researchers have claimed that by using a sophisticated mixture of potent drugs such as epinephrine and dimethyltryptamine, they have managed to induce clinical death in patients for intervals of up to 20 minutes, after which they are revived with a specially designed CPR machine without any ill effects. The process has already been allegedly tested on around 944 volunteers over 4 years, with some people reportedly dead for up to 40 minutes to an hour. It is unclear what sort of NDEs any of these people may have experienced, but it definitely offers an avenue of pursuit for anyone brave enough to try and find out. Are we on the cusp of having the know-how and abilities to allow adventurous souls to make this once one-way journey into realms unknown and allow them to come back, just as astronauts delve into space to plummet back to Earth with wondrous stories to tell? It is an intriguing notion to be sure.
For all of the promising research done on NDEs so far, and all of the potential ways our technology may allow us to further and more deeply explore this mysterious phenomenon in the future, there is still a lot of skepticism aimed at this type of study. For many, the results found so far don’t count because they are adamant that any sort of awareness after death is indicative that the person was never really truly dead at all, despite any measurable amount of brain activity. Michael Shermer, founder of The Skeptics Society, has said of the matter:
There’s a reason that these events are called ‘near’ death experiences. The people who have [near death experiences] are not actually dead. In that murky grey area between life and death, the brain is still functioning on some level and can therefore experience something.
This sentiment has been shared by others, who say that there is very little concrete evidence to suggest that any of the NDEs actually occurred at a point when the brain was fully non-functional. Therefore, they say, the studies of NDEs thus far are deeply flawed. Dr Chris Freeman, consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist at Royal Edinburgh Hospital has said:
We know that memories are extremely fallible. We are quite good at knowing that something happened, but we are very poor at knowing when it happened. It is quite possible that these experiences happened during the recovery, or just before the cardiac arrest. To say that they happened when the brain was shut down, I think there is little evidence for that at all.
The idea that these experiences are caused by merely a malfunctioning brain has been somewhat corroborated by the discovery in recent years of what has been deemed “The God Spot.” In 2000, Swiss researchers at at the Geneva University Hospital were presented with a 43-year-old woman who was admitted for surgery for profound epileptic seizures. An interesting effect was noticed when electrical stimulation was applied via electrodes to the area of the brain responsible for spatial cognition, called the angular gyrus, found in the right cortex. Neurologist Professor Olaf Blanke and colleagues accidentally found that by stimulating that area of the brain, the woman reported having vivid out of body experiences, in which she reported floating about the room above her own body. Blanke concluded that OBEs, and thereby NDEs in general, could be possibly explained by some malfunctioning of the brain rather than an actual soul leaving the body. It nevertheless shows that OBEs are a very real physical phenomenon that deserves further study, no matter what the cause.
A similar physical induction of classical NDE effects has been shown through the use of the drug ketamine, which affects receptors in the brain for the neurotransmitter glutamate. This uncontrolled, totally legal drug can, in the right doses, produce an altered state of consciousness and many of the reported experiences of NDEs, such as out of body experiences, communing with mystical beings, reliving of life events, and traveling through tunnels of light, to the point that one researcher has deemed the use of ketamine to be “experiments in voluntary death.” This has caused skeptics to conclude that all NDEs must be purely the result of misfrings of brain chemistry, but those who have experienced true NDEs are adamant that this is something more. Regardless of who is right, this is yet another case that shows that NDEs are a real phenomenon worthy of further scientific study and not a complete fabrication.
Skeptics remain convinced that these after life experiences are solely the realm of the physical, some last desperate firing of a dying mind. To them this is just psychedelic dreams and euphoria conjured up by chemicals in the brain during death, to which we give unreasonable spiritual weight if we survive the ordeal to return to life. This could describe all of the events of NDEs, including the ubiquitous tunnels of light, which skeptics say could be caused by frantically firing brain cells reacting to a lack of oxygen. Susan Blackmore, a psychology professor at the University of the West of England in Bristol and notable NDE skeptic says of the phenomenon:
I think what’s happening is that people are trying to validate their experience by making these paranormal claims, but you don’t need to do that. They’re valid experiences in themselves, only they’re happening in the brain and not in the world out there.
Interestingly, some of these skeptics have come around once they experienced life after death for themselves. Cell biologist Joyce Hawkes was once just such a skeptic, and did not put much thought into the possibility of an afterlife, until one fateful accident changed her mind forever. Hawkes fell out of a window and sustained life threatening injuries that put her into a state of clinical death. During this time, she claims that she had an experience that did not fit any of her preconceived paradigms and which she remains at a loss to explain. Hawkes said of the incident:
I think that part of me — that my spirit, my soul — left my body and went to another reality. It just was not part of the paradigm in which I lived as a scientist. It was a big surprise to me to have this sense of something different than the body — a consciousness different than the body — and to be in this wonderfully healing, peaceful, nurturing place.
So is there anything to these NDEs? Is this a peek into realms unknown or merely the physical effects of a gasping, dying brain; our last feverish dreams before slipping into nothingness? What lies beyond the curtain of the death that awaits us all, and will we ever be in a position to scientifically find out waits beyond? It seems in a world in which we are finding ways to detect ever more bizarre and weird phenomena such as quantum physics and the strange particles and inner working of our universe there may soon come a time when we may conquer the answers to the perplexing questions of the afterlife as well. Perhaps at some point we will delve out into these badlands just as we journey out into space or the farthest reaches of the deep blue seas, and embark on a journey that will bring with it wondrous discoveries of the unknown which lie on the fringes of our understanding. Until then, we are confined within these flesh prisons of ours, waiting for it to finally be revealed where that final journey will take us.
For all the people who have been waiting anxiously for a definitive explanation for those mysterious bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres, the latest word from NASA is good news for those with sore feet. No, it’s not lights directing aliens to the offices of a podiatrist who specializes in reptilian appendages. The answer from NASA is that the light is a reflection off of hydrated magnesium sulfates, which is a form of the compound better known on Earth as Epsom salt.
New photos of the infamous bright spot (located in what is now called the Occator Crater) and other areas taken by the Dawn spacecraft during a flyover from an altitude of 4,400 km (2,700 miles) were analyzed by a team from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany. Using a new exposure technique that better differentiated between the dark and light areas, the team found a total of 130 bright spots that were almost always in craters. From this they determined that whatever was causing the spots was brought to the surface by asteroid impacts.
An image of the Occator Crater combined with a digital terrain model to show a 3D version of the crater and light
What those asteroid impacts uncovered was identified by spectral analysis to be hydrated magnesium sulphates, which is the main ingredient in Epsom salt on Earth. This finally confirmed the popular theory that Ceres has a subsurface area made of briny water and ice.
While looking at the bright spots, the researchers found something else … ammonia-rich clays. This means that Ceres, which is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, probably came originally from an area loaded with ammonia and nitrogen, like the outer part of the solar system near the orbit of Neptune where nitrogen ice is abundant.
The combination of these two new findings, outlined in the current edition of the journal Nature, indicates that Ceres is not quite an asteroid and not quite a comet but something in between. More details on what this means could come later this month when Dawn, currently in its final orbit at 385 km (240 miles) takes pictures with a resolution of 35 meters (120 feet)
That resolution may be good enough to identify any aliens soaking their feet in a crater of Epsom salts.
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Are Crop Circles Encrypted Messages Assembled by Otherwordly Beings?
Are Crop Circles Encrypted Messages Assembled by Otherwordly Beings?
Throughout the years, people involved in researching crop circles have found that these complex designs may sometimes offer hints of different universal aspects. In other words, crop circles are seen as a message interpreting bits of our human existence, where our journey had begun and where it will come to an end.
Other than a hidden meaning, some crop circles are known to possess potent electromagnetic energies that pose a clear threat to any mechanical equipment approaching them. Reports tell how cameras suddenly malfunction, and when they do work, the images provided frequently appear overexposed, blurry, or even mat black.
Video equipment is no exception to the rule, as cameras experience interferences whenever recording; batteries seem to hold a lot less, and sometimes phones fail to work whenever inside a crop formation. The odd thing is that, whenever pulled outside of the crop, the affected equipment turns back to normal.
One of the most notable crop formation was discovered back in 1991 at the Barbury Castle, England. Researchers consider the formation to be “the ‘Rosetta Stone’ to the understanding of the geometric nature of the dimensions in the universe.
On top of the complex design, locals of the neighboring village of Broughton recall that the night before the crop formation appeared, a sudden blackout engulfed the village. With no available electricity, residents went outside to find the cause of the problem, but they only had their dilemma deepened, as the sky revealed sparkling spheres of various colors that emanated a low rumbling noise as they hovered over the field.
The next day when locals dared approach the area, they found the mesmerizing crop formation that seemed to defy any rational explanation.
It’s a well-established fact that most crop circles, if not all, are man-made and appear either during a night or in plain daylight. The consideration is based on present experiences which involve people either trying to express themselves in an exclusive manner or trying to play a prank on the gullible villagers. But the history of crop circles offer a different kind of perspective that’s far more mysterious and hard to explain.
On July 29, 1880, a paper was published in Journal Nature which depicted a crop circle formed under mysterious circumstances after a powerful storm. In 2000, the account was reprinted in Journal of Meteorology and included a full report of amateur scientist and photographer John Rand Capron who depicted the event in detail:
“The storms about this part of Surrey have been lately local and violent, and the effects produced in some instances curious. Visiting a neighbour’s farm on Wednesday evening (21st), we found a field of standing wheat considerably knocked about, not as an entirety, but in patches forming, as viewed from a distance, circular spots.
Examined more closely, these all presented much the same character, viz., a few standing stalks as a center, some prostrate stalks with their heads arranged pretty evenly in a direction forming a circle round the centre, and outside these a circular wall of stalks which had not suffered.
I sent a sketch made on the spot, giving an idea of the most perfect of these patches. The soil is a sandy loam upon the greensand, and the crop is vigorous, with strong stems, and I could not trace locally any circumstances accounting for the peculiar forms of the patches in the field, nor indicating whether it was wind or rain, or both combined, which had caused them, beyond the general evidence everywhere of heavy rainfall. They were suggestive to me of some cyclonic wind action, and may perhaps have been noticed elsewhere by some of your readers.”
He suggested the crop circles were made as a result of the powerful storm, due to “some cyclonic wind action” without any other possible reasons crossing his mind other than a paranormal scenario. At that time however, the notion of flying saucer or UFO were yet to be invented. Since there was no UFO phenomenon to accuse at that time, we can only blame the weather, but what meteorological phenomenon can lead to perfectly designed crop circles?
As of 1990, the situation changed drastically. Crop circles begun to spring worldwide as they were treated like tourist attraction. A wave of crop formations sprang over Europe, with 1990 alone recording over 500 such appearances. The following years brought thousands of them, thus ending the paranormal label that had governed this intriguing phenomenon in the past.
Today, it is hard to interpret the exact origins of these enigmatic patterns. The authentic ones are known to possess electromagnetic energies and are believed to hold important cryptic knowledge sent to us by some higher dimensional beings or from within the presumed simulated reality we live in.
Curiosity Rover Beams Back Photo of Stalking Mechanical Robot on Mars
Curiosity Rover Beams Back Photo of Stalking Mechanical Robot on Mars
It’s a rock…it’s a natural formation…No, it’s just a giant robot that’s peeking on NASA’s unaware Curiosity rover.
Mars seems to (unofficially) have it all. From liquid water, to living creatures that crawl over the rocky surface, to flying unidentified objects, and even dusty relics reminding of a complex culture that had once flourished in the now desolate highlands of the Red Planet.
Why the renowned space agency doesn’t make a stand in disclosing these truths remains a matter of debate, but silence tends to be an answer in itself. Since there’s an abundance of information originating from NASA, UFO hunters across the world have taken matters into their own hands and are now trying to elucidate the mystery posed by the numerous presumed relics found on the neighboring planet.
Although most finds remind of a former Martian civilization, there is evidence pointing towards the idea of a still-active form of intelligence that’s operating on the Martian terrain, and they don’t seem to be ancient at all.
A peculiar photo released by NASA towards the end of 2015 has once again caught the attention of the general public after a group of UFO hunters enhanced the image and came up with a wild theory as to what the strange object from the frame could be.
On the right upper side of the photo, a massive silhouette appears to be watching the rover. After further zooming in, the characteristics of the object become clear. It appears to be enveloped in a metallic shell, with a rigid surface that only proves its artificial nature.
Paranormal Cruciable who stumbled over the intriguing photo believe it could be some kind of mechanical robot that’s checking on Curiosity. Their analysis show possible turrets stacked on top, and a metallic leg that appears to sustain the superior weight of the object. Notice how there’s a spacing between the leg and the hill, making the possibility of it being nothing but a natural phenomenon extremely unlikely. The Paranormal Cruciable team expressed their point of view on this:
Is it possible that weaponized robotic machines roam the Martian surface?Advanced mechanical devices possibility built and operated by an off world extraterrestrial species? Or perhaps by an indigenous Martian populace? If it is, than this image is compelling evidence that an intelligent life force does indeed exist on the Red Planet.
Although the above are only speculative concerns, there’s still a good chance for the sighting to be authentic. Other traces of flying unidentified object racing over the Martian sky have surfaced in recent months, along with an intriguing silhouette of a presumed astronaut that’s fixing the rover.
If there’s indeed an intelligent species operating on Mars, why haven’t they revealed to us by now?
According to UFO enthusiasts, it could be because NASA already knows of their presence and are keeping this secret because of a secret pact the two parties have agreed upon. Little by little, governmental agencies have started to reveal this ‘reality’ that for many seems to be just a conspiracy.
The first step was making public classified reports of UFOs on Earth from the past decades, and this year NASA has secretly financed a study with over $1 million to see how a global extraterrestrial disclosure would impact religion.
It’s clear that, for many people, the ‘UFO fantasy’ presented as reality by an official authority could be life shattering, that’s why the matter shouldn’t be treated lightly. Until disclosure day arrives, we should keep our eyes and minds open to interpreting such unusual sightings that one day may prove to be palpable and real. Official NASA Link HERE
Strange UFOs with Multiple Glowing Lights Vanishing over Poland, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Strange UFOs with Multiple Glowing Lights Vanishing over Poland, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 12, 2016 Location of sighting: Poland Here is a cool looking UFO that glows brightly as its moving about. Such UFOs have been seen around the world and glowing lights are the #1 most common kinds typically seen. These are flying over a secluded forest in Poland, where few people could see them, but lucky for us, someone noticed them. This is a great video brought to us byFindingUFOs of Youtube. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Here we have a UFO cloaked in a cloud, but the UFO is lowering from the cloud to the mountain, and it makes another disk cloud every time it pushes downward. UFO base are often below oceans, mountains and volcanos because its the one place on Earth humans really don't want to be. Aliens can most of the people most of the time, but they sure as hell can't fool me. Thats a cloaked UFO over that mountain...probably dropping off supplies and people. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: A mysterious cloud, which appeared like a UFO, was seen hovering over Mt Etna in Sicily Italy on June 18, at around 4:50 pm. Due to its shape, residents mistook it for a UFO, with numerous people reacting with amazement. The massive cloud appeared as if suspended over the volcanic mountain raising alarms to the residents of Sicily, Italy who assumed it was alien-like. Images posted on other sites show a big lenticular cloud hovering on top of the mountain. (More at source).
In deze sterrenhoop wemelt het van de reuzenplaneten
In deze sterrenhoop wemelt het van de reuzenplaneten
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Wetenschappers hebben ontdekt dat in de sterrenhoop Messier 67 opvallend veel Jupiters te vinden zijn: veel meer dan ze hadden verwacht.
Astronomen bestudeerden gedurende enkele jaren tientallen sterren in de sterrenhoop Messier 67. Ze waren met name benieuwd of er onder deze sterren exemplaren waren die ‘schommelden’. Zo’n schommeling kan er namelijk op wijzen dat een zwaar object dat in een nauwe baan rond de ster draait – een hete Jupiter – aan de ster trekt. De onderzoekers ontdekten drie van deze ‘schommelende sterren’. Eerder waren in dezelfde sterrenhoop al aanwijzingen gevonden voor de aanwezigheid van enkele andere planeten.
HETE JUPITER
Hete Jupiters zijn grote exoplaneten (hun massa moet minstens net zo groot zijn als een derde van de massa van Jupiter). Daarnaast zijn ze ‘heet’, omdat ze op kleine afstand rond hun moederster cirkelen. Doordat de planeten dicht bij hun ster staan, hebben ze maar weinig tijd nodig om een rondje rond de ster te voltooien (minder dan tien dagen).
Heel veel “Het nieuwe resultaat betekent dat er rond ongeveer vijf procent van de onderzochte sterren in Messier 67 hete Jupiters aanwezig zijn,” vertelt onderzoeker Anna Brucalassi. “Veel meer dan bij sterren buiten sterrenhopen, waarbij dit percentage dicht bij één ligt.”
Verklaring Sterrenhoop Messier 67 bevat dus opvallend veel reuzenplaneten. Hoe is dat te verklaren? Dat is nog niet helemaal duidelijk, maar onderzoekers hebben er wel ideeën over. Zo vermoeden ze dat de hete Jupiters – die heel dicht om hun sterren draaien – niet op hun huidige locatie zijn ontstaan. Waarschijnlijk ontstonden de reuzenplaneten op grote afstand van hun ster en zijn ze gaandeweg naar hun ster toe gereisd. Daarbij zijn de planeten – doordat de afstand tussen de planeet en ster kleiner werd – steeds warmer geworden. Maar waarom bewegen de planeten naar hun moederster toe? Waarschijnlijk komt dat door ontmoetingen met naburige sterren of zelfs planeten van deze sterren. In Messier 67 staan de sterren dicht bij elkaar en is het dus aannemelijker dat dergelijke ontmoetingen plaatsvinden. En dus is het ook aannemelijker dat in de sterrenhoop veel hete Jupiters worden aangetroffen.
Deze artistieke impressie laat een hete Jupiter in Messier 67 zien.
Afbeelding: ESO / L. Calçada.
“Tot een paar jaar geleden was nog niet één hete Jupiter in een open sterrenhoop ontdekt,” vertelt onderzoeker Luca Pasquini. “Maar in drie jaar tijd is het heersende beeld dat zulke planeten daar helemaal niet voorkomen compleet gekanteld. Het tekort is veranderd in een overschot.”
Dat suggereren nieuwe gegevens die ruimtesonde New Horizons recent naar de aarde stuurde. De nieuwe informatie kan een beter beeld geven van hoe Pluto’s manen zijn ontstaan.
New Horizons bestudeerde de manen van Pluto – waaronder Nix – met behulp van LEISA (Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array). En de metingen van dit instrument wijzen er sterk op dat het oppervlak van Nix bedekt is met relatief puur waterijs.
Het betekent dat Nix overeenkomsten vertoont met Hydra: een ander maantje van Pluto dat ongeveer net zo groot is. Maar er zijn ook verschillen. Zo blijkt het ijs op Nix bijvoorbeeld wat grofkorreliger te zijn. Ook weerkaatst Hydra meer zonlicht dan Nix. Dat laatste is verrassend, aangezien Nix een ijziger oppervlak lijkt te hebben en je dus zou verwachten dat Nix meer zonlicht reflecteert dan Hydra.
Op de afbeelding hierboven zie je (v.l.n.r.): Charon (met een diameter van iets meer dan 1200 kilometer), Nix (ongeveer 48 kilometer lang) en Hydra (ongeveer 50 kilometer lang).
Afbeelding: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI.
Niet alleen het oppervlak van Hydra en Nix is met waterijs bedekt. Ook Charon bevat waterijs, zo bleek eerder al. Van de kleinste manen van Pluto – Styx en Kerberos – zijn op dit moment nog geen spectrale gegevens beschikbaar, maar onderzoekers gaan ervan uit dat ook deze manen met waterijs bedekt zijn. Het kan meer inzicht geven in de ontstaansgeschiedenis van de manen van Pluto. “Pluto’s kleine satellieten ontstonden waarschijnlijk allemaal uit een wolk puin die ontstond toen een kleine planeet op Pluto botste,” stelt onderzoeker Hal Weaver.
A video showing several purported UFO sightings across the US have sparked conspiracy theories that aliens landing on earth could be imminent.
The footage was uploaded to YouTube by Tyler Glockner, founder of Secure Team 10 , a UFO hunting website.
And Tyler now believes that the increased frequency of the sightings of 'alien crafts' could mean that they are about to make themselves known to humans.
First up, is a glowing orange orb that was spotted in the sky above Long Beach in California.
Youtube/Secureteam
The glowing orb hovering above Long Beach
Tyler says: "You will see a disc-shaped object. This object appears in the middle of this glowing orb [about halfway through the video].
"It looks to materialise, you can see it plain as day, sitting dead centre to where this orange radiation is coming from."
Youtube/Secureteam
Chinese lanterns?
The object then disappears again, although the orange orb remains in place.
The second video shows a cluster of lights hovering in the night sky in Omaha, Nebraska.
According to reports, three UFOs recently visited Peru. They were reportedly seen by virtually the entire town of San Gabriel de Varadero in Loreto, Peru, on May 16 at about 8 p.m. local time, and they were distinct, very visible, and very loud. Inexplicata reports that thePeru UFOswere just above the rooftops of homes in the town, and when they appeared, they terrified and shocked locals who had no clue what they were hearing and seeing.
At least one of the Peru UFOs was described by witnesses as looking like a classic flying saucer, complete with multi-colored flashing lights that looked “like those of a traffic light.” That Peru UFO reportedly made contact with the ground, landing for several minutes, and leaving behind physical signs that it had been there.
Pobladores se organizan ante presencia de supuesto ovni
En horas de la noche algunas rondas con retrocargas han realizado la vigilancia de la zona. Hasta el momento, no han reportado otra aparición. http://rpp.pe/peru/loreto/pobladores-se-organizan-ante...
Witnesses say that the landing gear of the saucer-like Peru UFO left a triangular marking on the ground where it landed, complete with three indentations. According to reports, local residents who saw the marks left behind by the Peru UFO began screaming for help, with a few even calling the local radio station so that the National Police could be made aware of the situation.
Dr. Anthony Choy, a researcher of UFOs and other paranormal phenomena as well as the host of the Peruvian programViaje a Otra Dimensión, reportedly recorded the call for help, which came in at about 9 p.m. local time, an hour or so after the first UFOs were reported over the small town in Peru.
In addition to seeing UFOs, witnesses to the recent Peru UFO incident also say that they saw creatures with “non-human characteristics” during the incident.
During the recording, voices of terrified and desperate people, frantic in in the wake of the Peru UFOs, can be heard. According to the radio host, he was in shock regarding what he was hearing, and the incident was called “an unprecedented event in Latin America.”
According to one of the witnesses of the Peru UFOs, Agripina Wanse, the incident began suddenly and without warning as she and her family were about to go to bed. The Peru UFOs announced themselves with bright lights and loud grinding noises.
“Just as we were about to go to sleep, we heard a noise descending from above. Within this noise was a sound like that of a blender, something like a motor. [They] even lit up the room in which we were sleeping; some lights were being trained on us. We felt frightened and started to scream.”
Wanse says that the light emitted from the Peru UFOs was similar in color to traffic lights, and that she wasn’t the only one who saw the unbelievable sight. She says that her neighbors came by the house and watched the terrifying event unfold. Herber Canchari watched the Peru UFOs put on their show in the skies barely above the tops of homes in the town.
Reportedly, Canchari was so afraid of what he was seeing overhead that he begin firing at the Peru UFOs with his shotgun, but was unable to inflict any damage.
“The shot I fired wasn’t like firing at a person, who you can see. It was a machine that suddenly moved elsewhere and the shot went astray.”
Eventually, the Peru UFOs vanished as quickly and inexplicably as they’d appeared, according to locals. However, the peace would only be temporary. The next night, once again at 8 p.m. local time, another loud, bright UFO was seen in the same area. That UFO reportedly came to rest over the house of Donilda Lomas, who ran to the street to watch the unfolding horror from a safer vantage point.
It was from her perspective on the roadway that she reportedly saw a “luminous humanoid” creature descend from the craft. According to the witness of the Peru UFO event, it was about 5-and-a-half feet tall, and it never touched the ground.
“The luminous being did not touch the ground when it reached it – it was floating.”
Not surprisingly, the case of the Peru UFOs has garnered worldwide attention, both due to the widespread witnesses of the even, the fact that the last time Peru had a UFO event of this magnitude was in the 1960’s.
Could it be a sign of more Peru UFOs to come?
Possibly. Only two days later, similar events took place in El Dorado, Bolivia. In that case, the UFO was sphere-shaped and reportedly came from the sky in flames. The witnesses in that event were children on their way home from school, so some find it easy to dismiss their claim. However, the children say they saw a humanoid creature exit the UFO, which reportedly landed near a tree, and their claims were taken seriously enough to be investigated by a scientist specializing in UFOs.
Researcher Rolando Fabricio reportedly checked out the site of the sighting, and what he found seemed to substantiate the kids’ claims. He said that electrical anomalies were present in the area. Interestingly, locals had reported an inability to contact authorities at the time of the event because their electrical devices had died.
What do you think? Do you believe in UFOs? Do you think the recent eyewitness accounts of the Peru UFOs are credible?
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8 Scientists Contemplate Place of Human Consciousness in Science
8 Scientists Contemplate Place of Human Consciousness in Science
The founders of quantum physics contemplated the philosophical implications of their findings. They were astounded that the thoughts of the observer seemed to influence the matter being observed. Principles believed to stabilize physical reality didn’t seem to apply.
The power of the human mind to influence physical reality has been recognized in various fields. For example, the effectiveness of placebo treatments has brought the role of human consciousness to bear on conventional modern medicine.
Dr. Robert Jahn served as an engineering dean at Princeton University while studying for decades the impact of human thought on the functioning of mechanical devices. In his book “Margins of Reality,” he reopens the questions once raised by Max Planck, Erwin Schrödinger, and other influential scientists—questions of human consciousness, which Jahn says modern students seem to pay less attention to than the physical data collected by these science greats.
Jahn, Planck, and Schrödinger are not the only scientists to have contemplated the role of human consciousness in science. Many have suggested that scientists must face the enigma and challenges of understanding consciousness for science to make it’s next big leap. Here are the views of eight scientists.
1. Max Planck, Founding Father of Quantum Mechanics
German physicist Max Planck, c. 1930. (Wikimedia Commons)
Planck is regarded as one of the founders of quantum mechanics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918 for “the services he rendered to the advancement of Physics by his discovery of energy quanta,” according to the Nobel Prize website.
In “A Survey of Physical Theory,” Planck wrote: “All ideas we form of the outer world are ultimately only reflections of our own perceptions. Can we logically set up against our self-consciousness a ‘Nature’ independent of it? Are not all so-called natural laws really nothing more or less than expedient rules with which we associate the run of our perceptions as exactly and conveniently as possible?”
2. Erwin Schrödinger, Nobel Prize Winning Physicist
Erwin Schrödinger, 1933. (Nobel Foundation)
Erwin Schrödinger was a physicist and theoretical biologist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 with Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac “for the discovery of new productive forms of atomic theory,” according to the Nobel Prize website.
Jahn quotes Schrödinger: “Consciousness is that by which this world first becomes manifest, by which indeed, we can quite calmly say, it first becomes present; that the world consists of the elements of consciousness.”
3. Robert G. Jahn, Princeton Engineering Dean
Professor of aerospace science and dean emeritus of the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University Robert G. Jahn began studying psychic phenomena some 30 years ago.
Jahn suggested in “Margins of Reality” that the study of consciousness may start by quantifying consciousness in statistical form. He has conducted many experiments on the ability of the mind to influence machines. We will give a very simplified overview of his experiments to illustrate:
He used a random event generator (REG) that can produce bits representing either 0 or 1. Study participants would try to influence the REG either way, toward 0 or toward 1. If the events showed a significant favor in the direction of the person’s will above what chance would dictate, it suggested the person’s will influenced the machine. Human intent was thus boiled down to a measurable, binary form. With many tests, Jahn built up a mass of results that could then become reliable statistics.
He noted, however, “Since most established behavior in consciousness-related domains can only be quantitatively represented in statistical terms, and since all statistical formats are themselves constructions of consciousness, it follows that the validity and limitations of the statistical representations must themselves be well defined and well understood before an anomaly can be claimed.”
4. David Chalmers, Cognitive Scientist and Philosopher at NYU
Chalmers is a philosophy professor and head of consciousness studies at the Australian National University and at New York University.
In a TED Talk earlier this year, he said science is at a sort of impasse in its study of consciousness, and “radical ideas may be needed,” to move forward. “I think that we may need one or two ideas that may initially seem crazy.”
In the past, physics had to incorporate newly discovered fundamental building blocks, such as electromagnetism, that were unexplained by more basic principles. He wonders whether consciousness is another such building block. “Physics is curiously abstract,” he said. “It describes the structure of reality using a bunch of equations, but it doesn’t tell us about the reality that underlies it.” He quoted a question posed by Stephen Hawking: “What puts the fire into the equations?”
Maybe consciousness puts the fire into the equations, Chalmers said. The equations stay as they are, but we see them as means for describing the flux of consciousness.
“Consciousness doesn’t dangle outside the physical world as some kind of extra, it’s there right at itsheart,” he said.
5. Imants Barušs, Psychologist, Member of Society for Consciousness Studies
Dr. Imants Barušs is a psychology professor at the University of Western Ontario in Canada, who teaches courses on consciousness. He studied engineering as an undergraduate student and completed a masters degree in mathematics before receiving his Ph.D. in psychology.
At the inaugural meeting of the Society for Consciousness Studies at The California Institute of Integral Studies on May 31, Barušs presented a paper outlining his vision for consciousness studies and his reasons for supporting it.
He highlighted the importance of such research, and even a paradigm shift, by arguing that strictly materialist science is contributing to mental health problems among youth. Many depressed teens who hurt themselves don’t possess the “hallmarks of a psychiatric disorder,” wrote Baruss, quoting a Toronto Star article titled “Psychiatrists see rise in suicidal teenagers.” “Instead they seem to be suffering an existential crisis that is sort of ‘I’m empty, I don’t know who I am, I don’t know where I’m going, I don’t have any grounding and I don’t know how to manage my negative feelings.'”
Barušs wrote: “Scientific materialism assures us that reality is a meaningless, incidental, mechanistic, collocation of improbable events.”
He summarized some of the ways in which the materialist interpretation of reality has already broken down: quantum events are seen to be non-deterministic; time is no longer linear, as effects have been shown to precede their causes; particles change position depending on where one looks or what one decides to measure.
Finally, he said, “Materialism cannot explain … the sense of existence that people have for themselves.”
He hopes the Society for Consciousness Studies can promote open inquiry. Collectively, scientists interested in this line of inquiry could work to find funding or support those who are censured by their colleagues or employers.
6. William Tiller, Professor Emeritus at Stanford University
Tiller is a fellow at the American Academy for the Advancement of Science, and professor emeritus of materials science at Stanford University.
Tiller has discovered a new level of substance in the empty space between the fundamental electric particles that make up our normal electric atoms and molecules, in the vacuum. This kind of substance is usually invisible to us, and to our measurement devices.
But, he has discovered that human intention can affect this substance in such a way that it interacts with the substances we can see or that we are able to measure.
“Consciousness lifts the higher thermodynamic free energy state [of the vacuum level], then we can access the physics of the vacuum,” Tiller says. “Accessing that new physics allows intention to bring forth effects you wouldn’t imagine.”
The consciousness can, in a way, affect or interact with a power greater than anything conventional instruments have been able to measure thus far.
7. Bernard Beitman, Psychiatrist, University of Virginia
Dr. Bernard Beitman (Courtesy of Dr. Beitman)
Beitman is a psychiatrist forging the emerging discipline of Coincidence Studies. He is a graduate of Yale and Stanford and is the former chair of psychiatry at the University of Missouri–Columbia.
In a 2011 paper, Beitman wrote: “One of the biggest challenges in the development of the new discipline of Coincidence Studies is providing a systematic place in scientific research for subjectivity and for human consciousness. Meaningful coincidences depend upon the mind of the observer. The question of how to develop methods and an accompanying technical language that includes and respects the subjective element built into the fabric of coincidence needs to be answered.”
8. Henry P. Stapp, Physicist Specializing in Quantum Mechanics, University of California–Berkeley
Stapp is a theoretical physicist at the University of California–Berkeley who worked with some of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics.
In a paper titled “Compatibility of Contemporary Physical Theory With Personality Survival,” Stapp looked at how the mind may exist separately from the brain.
A scientist physically affects quantum systems by choosing which properties to study. Similarly, an observer can hold in place a chosen brain activity that would otherwise be fleeting. This shows, said Stapp, that the mind and brain may not be one and the same.
He said scientists should regard “the physical effects of consciousness as a physical problem that needs to be answered in dynamical terms.”
The truth is out there somewhere and if the U.S. government is covering it up, UFO researchers want to know.
They are also encouraged by the fact that Hillary Clinton has said she’ll reveal what she can about the subject if she is elected president – unless it threatens national security, Winnipeg’s Grant Cameron said.
Cameron will be one of seven experts who will address the very first Canadian Public Hearing on UFOs in Brantford, Ont., June 25.
“We need openness on this issue, it’s time to stop playing around,” said Cameron, who has written several books on it, including ‘UFOs, Area 51, and Government Informants.’
“It’s important because, if you look at the implications, the aliens are giving the message that we’re destroying our world,” said Cameron, 62. “And that we’re not the only fish in the fish bowl.”
It could also unite the world against a possible threat instead of people fighting each other, he added.
Cameron first got into UFO research after he believes he saw one during the infamous Charlie Red Star phenomenon around Carman 41 years ago.
“I didn’t really think I’d see anything, but then it flew right in front of our car,” said Cameron, who retired as a University of Manitoba facilities manager six years ago.
But he’s not trying to prove what he saw.
“The answer’s not determined by what you see in the sky, you need to get some better evidence,” Cameron said.
That evidence, he believes, can be found in American files on UFOs. In fact, Cameron recently won two international awards for his research of presidential files on extraterrestrials.
Even John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign manager who also worked for Bill Clinton when he was the president, believes there has been a cover-up and wants it to end, Cameron claims.
The hearing is part of the Alien Cosmic Expo in Brantford that weekend.
“We want the Canadian government to do more on this and if they don’t, they’re part of the cover-up,” said Bob Mitchell, one one of the event’s organizers.
Also speaking will be: former Deputy Prime Minister Paul Hellyer, who will discuss Canada’s knowledge of the subject, Richard Dolan, Steven Bassett, Nick Pope, Stanton Friedman and Travis Walton.
Chris Rutkowski, a well-known local UFO researcher, got a late invitation but was not interested in attending.
“I don’t think there’s anything that’s being kept hidden and, even if there was, I don’t think Hillary Clinton would release it,” Rutkowski said.
The Canadian public hearing on UFOs is meeting in Brantford on Saturday, June 25. Here’s what they’ll be discussing:
UFO sighting reports
The crash at Roswell, NM, in 1947
Official government UFO documents obtained through FOIA and the Canadian Access to Information Act
What U.S. presidents know about the UFO/ET issue
Alien abductions
Documented international UFO incidents over U.S. and UK military and nuclear installations
THE PANEL
Paul Hellyer: Former Canadian deputy prime minister and minister of defence, the highest-ranking former government official to claim the existence of ETs and the world-wide government cover-up.
Richard Dolan: An American UFO author, researcher and historian.
Steve Bassett: A U.S. lobbyist demanding the U.S. government “come clean” on UFOs and alien contact. He is the executive director of the Paradigm Research Group in Washington.
Nick Pope: UFO author, who previously ran the UFO investigation department with the British ministry of defence.
Grant Cameron: A Manitoba-based UFO researcher specializing in “what the presidents know.”
Stanton Friedman: A retired nuclear physicist and expert on the 1947 Roswell incident.
Travis Walton: who says he was abducted and whose book Fire in the Sky was turned into a Hollywood movie.
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7 Strangest Sights and Sounds from the Sky
7 Strangest Sights and Sounds from the Sky
From UFOs hovering over airports to things trailing airplanes to things falling from the sky and leaving strangely shaped holes in the ground...these are the 7 STRANGEST Sights and Sounds from the SKY.
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The Mojave Incident - The Most Terrifying Case Of Alien Abduction
The Mojave Incident - The Most Terrifying Case Of Alien Abduction
Some years ago Elise and Tom Gifford had a phenomenal close encounter. They were both wide awake and side by side during the first hours of the experience. There followed a day-long encounter of great terror and power, during which they were made to relive the most difficult and intimate experiences of their lives.
and check this out. THIS WEBCAST IS UNCENSORED.
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Paul Newman From the movie, 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid'
Thanks to the hit movie starring Will Smith and Tommie Lee Jones everybody has heard of the Men in Black. The movie proposed that their job is to protect the earth from the "scum of the universe." Well, that's just movie talk. The truth is a lot harder to get a handle on. Nobody knows if these guys are government agents, aliens in disguise, or just a group of intelligence operatives trying to keep a secret.
Here's what I do know: They're real. They generally show up when ordinary citizens have an extraordinary sighting or encounter with a flying saucer or its occupants. They seem bent on intimidating those individuals into not talking about what they have seen. They even attempt to do this with law-enforcement officers and military personnel. There have been hundreds if not thousands of incidents reported about these men in black.
What "Black" Means The word 'black' when used in this context means covert, undercover, not seen. When a person enters the intelligence community and becomes involved in operations and projects, all their government files basically disappear. They are no longer accessible through the normal channels. When this happens it is said the person has "gone black."
Some people think the MIBs are Aliens Complicating matters is the fact that many times it appears that the men in black are humanoid-type aliens masquerading as humans. Many people in the military are aware that this may the be case (in some instances).
Are some Men in Black Aliens?
Dr. Herbert Hopkins Dr. Hopkins was actively investigating a UFO abduction case in 1976 when one evening during the summer a stranger called him on the phone and asked if he could come by and talk to him about the case. This was despite the fact that the case had not been publicized at all. Hopkins agreed, hung up the phone, and immediately walked to his door to turn on the porch light so the caller could see the steps when he arrived. Hopkins was surprised to see a man walking up the stairs of the porch as he was turning on the light. He was shocked when the man introduced himself as the person who had just called him. (There were no cellular phones in 1976.)
The Black Suit Routine The man was dressed in black suit, black tie, black hat, and gray gloves. In the summertime! The man's skin was a pale sickly color and he appeared to be wearing bright red lipstick, a fact which turned out to be true as Hopkins later watched some of the lipstick rub onto the man's gray glove.
Vanished Into Thin Air The man asked Hopkins to take out the two coins that were in Hopkins' pocket. Stunned, Hopkins did it. He told Hopkins to watch the coins in his hand. The two coins simply vanished into thin air! Then the man told him, "Neither you nor anyone else on this planet will ever see those coins again."
The man then said his "energy was running low" and left. Shortly after stepping off Hopkins' porch, the man himself disappeared.
When the Scare Started The first widely acknowledged case of Men In Black intimidating UFO witnesses occurred in 1953. A fellow by the name of Albert K. Bender was the editor of a magazine called Space Review. He was also the founder of an organization called the International Flying Saucer Bureau.
During the summer of 1953 Bender apparently discovered some vital information pointing to the cover-up of the existence of flying saucers by the U.S. government. He had written several articles scheduled to appear in the next issue of his magazine. The next thing he knew, three guys show up at his door all dressed in black: black suits, black hats, and sunglasses. They told him they had read his article, even though it had not yet been published. They told him his information was accurate, but that he better not publish the article. In fact, they told him that he'd better not publish anything more about flying saucers. They said, "We advise those engaged in saucer work to please be very cautious." They basically scared him so badly that Bender officially retired from UFO investigations.
Super Secret ' Man In Black'
Other MIB Reports
A teenager is threatened by MIBs and has photos of flying saucers seized from him.
MIBs make a coin disappear from a UFO witness and tell him, "Your heart will do the same if you talk."
A former Air Force officer who learned about information on extraterrestrials from NASA was harassed, tranquilized, and interrogated.
Even the Military Doesn't Know Who MIB's Are In 1967 the United States Air Force expressed concern about finding out more about these guys in black who were going around scaring people and saying they were from the U.S. armed services. Here's a statement by Colonel George P. Freeman, the spokesperson for Project Blue Book at the Pentagon:
"Mysterious men dressed in Air Force uniforms or all in black and bearing impressive credentials from government agencies have been silencing UFO witnesses. We have checked a number of these cases, and these men are not connected to the Air Force in any way. We haven't been able to find out anything about these men. By posing as Air Force officers and government agents, they are committing a Federal offense. We would sure like to catch one, unfortunately the trail is always too cold by the time we hear about these cases, but we are still trying."
Air Force General Hewitt T. Wheless
The Joint Chiefs of Staff are in the Dark Too! Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force Lt. General Hewitt T. Wheless sent a memo on March 1, 1967 to various agencies in the Department of Defense. Here's what it said:
"Information, not verifiable, has reached Hq.USAF that persons claiming to represent the Air Force or other Defense establishments have contacted citizens who have sighted unidentified flying objects. In one reported case, an individual in civilian clothes, who represented himself as a member of NORAD, demanded and received photos belonging to a private citizen. In another, a person in an Air Force uniform approached local police and other citizens who had sighted a UFO, assembled them in a school room and told them that they did not see what they thought they saw and that they should not talk to anyone about the sighting. All military and civilian personnel and particularly information officers and UFO investigating officers who hear of such reports should immediately notify their local OSI offices."
Three Real Cases Here are three encounters with the Men in Black that were told to me personally. In each case the person told me about this event without my initiating the conversation on this topic. Each person asked that I not use his or her real name if I told anyone else. In honoring those requests I'm using a pseudonym for the individual. Understandably, there seems to be a need to tell someone about what happened. With the secrecy and intimidation still surrounding any event that has to do with flying saucers or alien beings, people who have these encounters generally don't trust telling someone who doesn't have a clue that these guys even exist.
Larry Larry approached me following a meeting on UFOs. He was about twenty-five years old, casually but nicely dressed. He walked up to me and said, "You know, I had something very strange happen to me and my buddy. I don't like to talk about it because it kind of scares me." So I asked him what happened. He was clearly nervous and even stuttered a little. Here's what he told me:
Late one night in a state of semi-sleep, he felt a presence in his bedroom. The "presence" communicated with him and let him know it was from another world. Larry asked why all the secrecy and if they were real why they didn't just show up in the daytime. They told him that the next time he was with his best friend (whom they called by name) he would indeed see them and he would know it was them.
Larry said the entire conversation did not exactly take place using words. It was more like he understood what they were thinking and feeling without actual words. I know it sounds weird, but this is very common in human/alien interactions. For the most part, none of the aliens use verbal language, it is all telepathic, and sometimes it's in the human's own language. Many times it is a combination of feeling, "a knowingness", and understanding on a level we have not yet discovered how to describe.
When Larry woke in the morning he wasn't sure if he had been dreaming or not, but the experience was so vivid and unlike any dream he had ever had before that he thought about it daily for months afterwards.
Larry's best friend was now in the military and he didn't see him for months. His friend returned home just in time for the Fourth of July, and they decided to go down to a local park where some of his family members were holding a big picnic. The two of them were just kind of standing around, when a black van pulled up about fifty yards away. The two front doors opened and two men dressed all in black suits with black hats and dark sunglasses got out. Larry was startled because he began to remember his "dream." The two men opened the sliding door on the side of the van and two more guys got out. They too were head-to-toe in black, with shades.
Larry said, "First of all, it was hot. It was the middle of the afternoon and well over 80 degrees, and these guys were in black, with hats! Next, the two guys who got out of the side looked different. They didn't look human. I can't describe it, but their arms looked too long or something. Then they sat down at a picnic table and they all turned around and looked right at me and my buddy. After that he got real quiet. Then they just got back in the van and drove off. My buddy won't talk about it. He pretends like nothing happened, but I know he saw them and he knows I know."
Christine Christine was a career military person. She is a pilot and flew in the Armed Forces of the United States. She is even a member of the now infamous "Tailhook Association." For those who don't know, Tailhook is an association for Navy Fighter pilots. The name Tailhook comes from the hook on the back of fighter jets that is used to catch the planes when they land on an aircraft carrier. Here is what Christine told me:
"One night a large UFO showed up and hovered over the base for about forty minutes. Everybody saw it. We were all pilots and we knew it wasn't ours. We could also tell because the brass didn't know what it was either. When it left, it took off at phenomenal speed. The next day a bunch of black sedans showed up on the base. Each one had four guys all dressed in black with hats. They got out and went to every building on the base and "encouraged" us not to talk about what we saw. I'm not easily intimidated. I know how to use a firearm and I've flown in combat conditions, but these guys meant business."
Colonel Rogers Colonel Rogers had retired from the military and lived alone. Rogers had mentioned to some people he had seen UFOs and his work in the military had assured them that they were real. Several days later a man dressed in black showed up at his door. When Rogers opened it the man began to warn him about not talking about UFOs. Rogers told the man, "OK, just a minute." He excused himself went into his bedroom and came back to the front door with a loaded .45 pistol. He cocked it, pointed it at the man's head and said, "I don't know if you are CIA, NSA, or an alien, but somebody will have a lot of explaining to do if I blow your head off. Now get out of here."
The next day another man showed up wearing regular business attire (no black suit with shades). He hailed the colonel from the front yard with his arms raised, said he was unarmed, and asked if he could talk to him briefly. The colonel allowed the guy to approach. The guy said, "Look Colonel, we're sorry, no more guys will show up at your house. Some of this UFO information is still classified and we would appreciate it if you just didn't talk too much about it. OK? Thanks." And, then the guy left.
Black Helicopters These are similar to the Men in Black. Abductees, contactees, and people who have UFO encounters often report being followed by black helicopters. Once again, no one is sure if these are government aircraft or alien craft disguised as helicopters. There are cases which point to both.
One contactee, author Kim Carlsberg, has recorded being followed by black helicopters on the days following a nighttime abduction experience.
It's Probably the Army Unconfirmed sources say these black helicopters belong to the U.S. Army, 160th SOAR Division. The helicopters are black, or in some cases a very dark green, because they are "stealth aircraft" technology and cannot be detected by radar, just like the stealth bombers and fighters. Apparently these craft are also made available to other government agencies, including but not limited to the CIA, FEMA, and NSA.
FEMA Agency Logo
FEMA Again I mention this again. FEMA stands for the Federal Emergency Management Agency. This is the organization you hear about on your local news whenever there has been a hurricane, tornado, earthquake, flood, or any other major catastrophe. FEMA manages the funds that are doled out by the government to states and individuals to help them recover from these events.
In looking into covert or "black" operations, FEMA comes up again and again. It appears that FEMA is used as a cover to direct funds into these covert operations. Can I prove it? No. However, FEMA turns up again and again from all kinds of different sources whenever government secrecy and funding is the topic. No other "civilian" agency does. Not the FDA, FAA, or USDA! Not only that, but after any major disaster people seem to have a hard time getting relief from this agency, as if there were not enough money there. Let's get a budget review done of FEMA funds and check it out!
Shortly after the printed version of my book was published, a close friend of mine named Kevin read it and then told me the following:
Kevin said that his dad had worked for FEMA for years. However, he didn't know exactly what his dad did. Unlike other dads, his father never spoke about his work and he would often take short unexplained business trips out of town. Kevin always felt that there was much more to his fathers job at FEMA than just helping out with civilian emergencies.
One day Kevin was watching the news on TV with his dad and he asked him, "Dad, what is it exactly, that you do?" At the time, the televsion was giving a news broadcast showing then President Richard Nixon and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Kevin's father pointed at the screen and said: "You see those two fellas there? I was in the same room with them yesterday." That was the end of the conversation. Kevin's dad never said another word about his job or his duties at FEMA.
Former U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger
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Flying Saucers and UFOs are Alien Spacecraft
Flying Saucers and UFOs are Alien Spacecraft
What UFO really means.
Flying Saucers are vehicles.
The first Flying Saucers.
Sizes and shapes of Flying Saucers.
No More UFOs
A suggestion:try to stop using the term UFO. I know this is a tall order. UFO is part of our national vocabulary and is ingrained in our culture. Even on this website I use the term because it's easy to say and write quickly. But, whenever possible, try to use the term flying saucer or alien spacecraft instead. Here are some reasons why:
UFO originally meant Unconventional flying object, not unidentified flying object. The military has known since the 1940s that these were intelligently piloted craft. To confirm this, simply review the Air Force intelligence documents from 1958, which appear in the Government Information section.
The term flying saucer has been used in hundreds of government and military intelligence documents precisely because they are known to be flying, piloted craft. A change in mind-set is needed. It is not just a matter of semantics; it is similar to the difference between referring to someone as a victim or a survivor.
If you saw what appeared to be a boat several miles out in the ocean, you would not say, "Hey, I see a UFO, an unidentified floating object." You would make the assumption it is an example of an intelligently piloted craft that we commonly call a boat. Whether you were actually right or wrong is beside the point. It may actually have been a whale or a buoy. However, you empowered yourself to make an intelligent assessment and committed to it. When you say this you are saying you have some idea of what you saw and people will generally take your assessment at face value.
However, when you say you saw a UFO, you are confirming in your own words that what you saw is unidentified; you have no idea what you saw, or if you saw anything at all, so why should anybody listen?
Craft, Not Clouds
Flying saucers are not like clouds just drifting by. They are more like cars on a freeway; they contain "people" (alien beings) in them and they are on their way to or from a specific destination. Please spend some time thinking about this, since it is an important concept. When you fully embrace this idea you will begin to see the flying-saucer phenomenon in a new light, and some more of the pieces will begin to fall into place.
Commercial pilots report being paced by Alien saucers
Origin of the Term
The first reported modern-day sighting of flying saucers occurred on June 24, 1947. A private pilot, Kenneth Arnold, spotted nine disk-shaped objects flying in formation over the Cascade Mountains in the state of Washington. Based on this sighting the term flying saucers was born. The following July 29, 1947, Arnold saw approximately twenty-five more alien spacecraft that flew within four hundred yards of his plane. An official CIA account of Kenneth Arnold's sightings is included in the Government Documents section.
Keep in mind the year these sightings occurred: 1947. In 1947 flying craft of any kind, even airplanes, were rarely seen by citizens. In 1947 it is estimated that less than 1 percent of the American population had ever seen a helicopter. And, for all intents and purposes, there was no television.
Kenneth Arnold spotted these crescent disks in 1947
Sizes and Shapes of Flying Saucers
Besides the classic "saucer" shape of these alien craft, there are many other forms that have been seen by civilians and noted in military documents. Alien spacecraft sightings have also been reported in ancient texts as well as in the Bible. There are as many configurations of craft as there are shapes of cars and trucks on our planet. Here are some of the ones seen most often:
Saucer or Disk-shaped Craft
These come in different configurations and sizes. Some have small domes or cupolas on top, and some do not. The dome configuration can be rounded or square. These are known to be primarily scout ships and short-range research vehicles.
Cigar-shaped Craft
These vehicles are generally larger than saucers. They are known to be small mother ships containing eight to ten saucer-shaped craft. They are long and cylindrical with a taper at both ends; thus the name.
Huge 'Cigar' craft release smaller flying saucers
Triangle-shaped Craft
These ships are huge; many stretch over several miles along a single edge. These are the craft that were sighted over Belgium in the wave of sightings taking place there in 1989-1990. It is estimated that over 70 percent of the entire population of Belgium saw these craft firsthand, and as a result, Belgium is the only country that officially recognizes the existence of flying saucers.
Super-sized 'Triangle' ships are seen world wide
Boomerang
These craft are also gigantic. They differ somewhat from the triangle-shaped craft in that one arm of the boomerang ship is longer than the other. These are the sort of craft that have been seen and videotaped by thousands of citizens in Phoenix, Arizona in March and April 1997.
Giant Cylinders
Very large craft, a thousand feet or more in length (picture a 70 story building on its side). These craft are not tapered. Many photographs of these have been taken. In photos they look just like a giant, hovering telephone pole on its side and don't look like a craft at all.
The Roswell Craft
One of the most famous flying saucers of all time, the Roswell craft was not really shaped like a flying saucer. Researcher and forensic artist Bill McDonald has reconstructed the Roswell alien spacecraft from several eyewitness testimonies. Bill received confirmation from contacts he has within the U.S. intelligence community. It was McDonald's re-creation of the craft that the Testor Model Company used for their commercially sold scale model.
Roswell Craft hit by lightning
McDonald's intelligence agency sources have stated that Jack Northrup and Kelly Johnson, who were the founders of Northrop and Lockheed's "Skunk Works," had direct access to the data and configuration measurements of the Roswell spacecraft.1 It was said that this information was adapted and applied to the development of the X-33 and X-38 aerospace shuttle planes, NASA's space shuttles, the VentureStar, U.S. Stealth aircraft, TR-3 Black Manta.
The Roswell craft inspired a military vehicle that looks very much like the V-shaped Stealth aircraft the U.S. military built years later
Other Characteristics of Flying Saucers
There are a few characteristics of flying saucers that are not generally known to the public at large. Although these characteristics are never depicted in the movies, you should know about them.
The Wobble
Flying saucers often wobble when they fly. It is very pronounced at lower speeds, giving the saucer a surreal look. It is often this characteristic which first draws the viewer's attention.
This wobble immediately distinguishes the flight of a flying saucer from that of an airplane. It was the wobble that attracted pilot Kenneth Arnold's attention to the first saucers, which he spotted in 1947.
When a saucer is caught on videotape, people often think the tape is fake because of the wobble. It is reminiscent of a model rocket wobbling on a string like in the old Buck Rogers movies. The wobble is thought to be caused by fluctuations of waves in the electromagnetic fields that the saucers use to overcome gravity. To imagine how it looks, think of a high-speed boat bouncing off the water as it moves forward.
Morphing Disks
Another characteristic of these alien craft is morphing; that is, the shape of the saucer changes right before your eyes. Often a saucer will elongate and become a cigar-shaped craft. This transmutation effect has also been caught on videotape.
Jaime Maussan, a reporter and investigator for a show similar to our 60 Minutes in Mexico, has thousands of videotapes, all from different individuals, showing this morphing capability. Maussan has collected over five thousand videotapes of flying saucers from the citizens of Mexico, including many videos taken of the same craft shot at the same time from many different parts of Mexico City. In Mexico, Jaime Maussan is as well known and as well respected as Dan Rather or Peter Jennings.
Jaime Maussan has videotapes that show over fifty flying saucers at one time. They often hold themselves stationary while forming strange designs, like some kind of array of symbols in the sky. This isn't as dramatic as landing on the White House lawn, but it's pretty close.
In March 1998 Jaime told me, "Nobody in Mexico laughs at UFOs. Nobody. They are frequently around the volcano, which now has the strongest electromagnetic field in the world. There have been times when all the traffic in Mexico City was stopped, with millions of people standing outside their cars pointing to the skies. Yet, not one American newspaper has ever carried the story."2
Hyperspace Jumps
Videotapes have also captured what have come to be known as "hyperspace jumps." This is when a flying saucer will jump a distance of fifteen to twenty miles in less than one-tenth of a second. Basically the craft is disappearing and reappearing in another location almost instantly. To the viewer, from a distance it looks like a "jump."
Different Names for Flying Saucers
Flying saucers are a world-wide phenomenon. They are called different things in different countries. In Mexico they are known as "flying plates." In China they are known as "flying woks." In many European countries they are known as "flying shields." This term originated in ancient times and continues in use today in Europe. For background on the origin of this term, see Section Two: UFOs In History.
Sizes of the Craft
Just as with the shapes, there is a wide variety of sizes. Most of the flying saucers we see are scout ships and are about thirty feet across. Their size is often deceiving because although there are larger disks, which are also seen, they are sometimes seen at a great distance and they appear smaller than they actually are.
Some Are Huge
As I mentioned earlier, some of these ships appearing in our atmosphere are huge! People regularly report seeing craft several miles across. A woman in Phoenix was driving with her two sons when a boomerang craft flew over them and hovered over the isolated stretch of highway where they were traveling. Out of fear, she accelerated to over eighty-five miles per hour. One of her teenage sons decided to time how long it would take them to get from beneath the craft. He started timing well after they had driven under the craft, and it took them just over two minutes at eighty-five miles an hour to get from under the wingspan of the ship. That makes the wingspan approximately three miles across!
Satellite Photos
Some of these large craft have been caught on film by our orbiting weather satellites. Judging by the grid on the camera lens and knowing the distance of the satellite's orbit, calculations show these craft to be hundreds of miles across! I have included more of these satellite photos in Section: “Watch The Skies.”
Satellite images routinely pick up Alien spacecraft
Estimating Sizes
I don't know about you, but I have difficulty gauging sizes and distances. For instance, if someone says an object is three hundred feet away, I don't have a clue how far that is. On the state driving test, the words "stay a hundred feet behind the next vehicle" mean nothing to me. But, I do like football, so I can gauge a hundred yards pretty accurately. I also get a clear picture if someone tells me a building is ten stories tall. For some reason, it's easy for me to relate to.
Now I use the reference of a building to help me understand how big something is. For example, it is often reported that flying saucers are about fifty feet across. Translated, this means it was as long as a four-story building on its side. That's pretty big. Bigger than the words fifty feet seem to indicate to me.
Six hundred Feet Across
We found several military sources who have seen craft six hundred feet across. That's a forty-five story building on its side. That's large!
Building sized spacecraft
Folding Space
Just a little teaser to whet your imagination. Aliens beings have the ability to "fold" space. I cover this in more detail later, but here's what this means in relation to space-craft size: Often, the inside of the saucer is much larger than it appears to be from the outside. People who have worked on recovered craft often recall doing a double-take when they first stick their heads inside of a flying saucer. They can't believe it can be that big inside and they pull their head out to look at the outside of the craft. They are in total disbelief. What appears to be a thirty-foot craft on the outside is three times that size on the inside.
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Why do people create UFO hoaxes?
Why do people create UFO hoaxes?
I've had contact with quite a few hoaxers of UFO videos over the years. The motives of these individuals have varied considerably.
(1) Many created material simply for a laugh. While many within ufology doubt people would put in the effort necessary to, say, create a photoshopped image the amount of effort involved is generally far less than most people seem to think.
(2) CGI artists showcasing their talents. Many of these artists openly state their creation of the relevant videos (e.g. including the video in a showreel on their website and/or listing the video on their CV).
(3) Scientific experimentation : There have been a few interesting hoaxes which (at least according to the hoaxers) were done primarily to test the responses of witnesses and ufologists, i.e. they were conducting an experiment. The best known such experiment is the Cradle Hill hoax (referred to in some of the post above as "the Warminster hoax", which is potentially confusing since there were several alleged hoaxes at the Warminster "hotspot"). That one is discussed in quite a few articles online (particularly on the Magonia website, with D I Simpson writing at least two articles giving the background to the hoax) and in about a dozen books that I've noted. I'm happy to post the full list of references to those discussions, but the longest and most informative ones are by: (a) James Oberg in his book “UFOs and Outer Space Mysteries” (1982) at pages 103-106, 116 (in Chapter 5) of the Donning paperback edition; and (b) Jenny Randles in her book “UFO Study” (1981) at pages 135-138 (in Chapter 11) of the Hale hardback edition.
(4) Art : Apart from the obvious example of crop-circle makers, several UFO videos and events have been hoaxed by individuals that considered they were creating works of art. The audience response is part of the art-work. Several crop-circle hoaxers have branched out into this type of UFO "artwork" in the last decade or two.
(5) Income from advertising on Youtube videos - Frankly, I don't think this one is as important as some people think (with plain mischief/pranking being far more common...), but at least some characters in the history of ufology seem to be have been prepared to lie in the hope (often disappointed) that it would make them a lot of money. A few Youtube "UFO" video channels seem to be slick ways to maximise views and thus advertising income. But those channels quickly become known within the ufo community as being unreliable so their videos tend to be circulated more by those outside the UFO community (e.g. people on Facebook with a limited involvement in ufology) rather than on UFO discussion forums/groups.
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Vereenvoudigd type magnetometer voor UFO detectie
door Jan De Ceuster
Een magnetometer wordt in eerste instantie gebruikt voor het meten van de componenten van het magnetische aardveld. Het is een zeer gevoelig apparaat dat in een sterk vereenvoudigde vorm ook bruikbaar is voor het detecteren van de aanwezigheid van een UFO. Het toestel wordt minder gevoelig uitgebouwd en meet alleen de zeer grote waarden van een magnetisch veld op enkele Km rond de opstellingsplaats. Het signaal veroorzaakt door een UFO geeft aanleiding tot zeer grote afwijkingen bij de registratie en kan perfect benut worden om een alarminstallatie aan te sturen. Uit metingen uitgevoerd zou het gaan over veldsterkten van circa 100 Tesla in de onmiddellijke nabijheid van de UFO.
Die resultaten werden bekomen door constatatie van lichtpolarisatie verschijnselen in de omgeving van de UFO alsook door lijnopsplitsing in het lichtspectrum in de nabijheid ervan.
Deze spectraal methode werd reeds in een vroeg stadium door de US-luchtmacht gebruikt ter identificatie van het verschijnsel. Een fluxmagnetometer wordt momenteel ook met succes toegepast door de onderzoeksploeg van het * Institütfür UFO- Forschung* onder de leding van Gerhard Gröschel in een *UFO Hotspot* omgeving van de kerncentrale van Neckarwestheim. Een tweede voorbeeld is het gebruik van magnetometers in het onderzoek in Hessdalen (Noorwegen) door de Italiaanse groep onder de leiding van Dr Massimo Teodorani in zijn evaluatie van een typische UFO waarneming in * Physicsfrom UFO Data* .
Als laatste voorbeeld is de waarneming te vermelden door de eigen opstelling in Sint Katelijne Waver door schrijver dezes op 9 October 2008 ,daarna bevestigd door een visuëele waarneming op 1Km afstand van het meetstation tijdens het zelfde tijdsvenster .
De gegevens van deze visuëele waarneming hebben toegelaten een logische verklaring te geven van de gemeten magnetische registratie alsook de nodige gegevens bezorgd om het traject door de UFO gevolgd te controleren.
De hierna beschreven magnetometer werkt perfect en is volledig uitgetest op zijn goede werking. Deze bestaat in grote lijnen uit 3 hoofddelen: de voeding, het zendgedeelte en het ontvangstgedeelte.
Het toestel is volledig opgebouwd met onderdelen volledig verkrijgbaar in de electronica-handel. Alleen de sensor is zelfbouw en bestaat uit een rechthoekige , gesloten stripkern uit mu-metaal (folie van 0,4mm) in 2 lagen uit een legering van nikkel-ijzer-koper en een klein gedeelte Molybdeen (75/15/5 en rest %) om de gewenste hysteresis-lus met lage verliezen en lage saturatie-inductie te bekomen. De sensor is van het ringkerntype maar in rechthoekige vorm alleen omdat die gemakkelijker te bewikkelen is.
Het schema:
Bovenaan is het zendgedeelte weergegeven
Een oscillator IC 4047 wekt pulsen op met een *DutyCycle* van 50% met een frequentie van ongeveer 900 Hz gevolgd door een versterker die ervoor zorgt dat de pulsen even groot in amplitude zijn tijdens de positieve en negatieve alternanties. Deze worden vervolgens toegevoerd aan de eindtrap met BC549C/ BC559C transistoren .
De pulsen worden dan aangelegd aan de primaire wikkeling van de sensorkern (over de ganse omtrek gewikkeld) in serie geschakeld met een 6,8 Ohm weerstand voor stroomdetectie. De lage verzadiging waarde van de kern laat toe deze te bekomen met een beperkte stroomuitsturing. De verzadiging speelt een grote rol in het bekomen van een goed bruikbare spanningsvorm uit de secondaire koppelwikkeling over de gehele kern.
In de schakeling zijn een aantal belangrijke meetpunt opgenomen en te vinden onder de codes DSCO 49.. .
Onderaan ,links:
De voeding uit het net met een dubbele gelijkrichting en stabilisatie van de spanningen voor beide polariteit (+5V/-5V). Voor beide polariteiten zijn een bruggelijkrichter en een stabilisator (7805) voorzien. Het is essentieel voor de goede werking dat de voeding een zeer goed gestabiliseerde waarde geeft. De uitgang levert immers de spanning voor polarisatie van de integrator in de ontvanger : deze is bepalend voor de stabiliteit van het bekomen resultaat.
Onderaan, rechts:
De ontvanger ontvangt de pulsen uit de secondaire van de sensor kern. De daaropvolgende versterker (741) dient om het kleine signaal uit de sensor te versterken tot het nodige niveau om de daaropvolgende integrator (OP07) goed aan te sturen .
De asymmetrie uit het sensor signaal is een maat voor de geinduceerde flux veroorzaakt door het externe UFO magnetische veld. Dit versterkte verschilsignaal wordt aan de inverterende ingang van de integrator (OP07) aangelegd. De zeer sterk gestabiliseerde polarisatie spanning wordt aan de andere niet-inverterende ingang aangesloten. De uitgangsspanning is een gelijkspanning met een kleine resterende rimpel tengevolge van de schakelwerking op de sensor vanuit het zendgedeelte. Het uitgangssignaal uit de integrator is normaal behoorlijk constant ; alleen tijdens het optreden van een UFO zal die sterk variëren . Het is de bedoeling deze spanning verder te verwerken in een schakeling met 2 comparatoren met boven- en ondergrens instelmogelijkheid als alarmniveau´s .
De magnetometer, zoals beschreven, is alleen het detectorgedeelte in een uitgebreidere opstelling en wordt normaal gevolgd door een zogenaamde uitwerkingseenheid. Deze bestaat gewoonlijk uit een gedeelte met 2 comparatoren met een onder- en bovengrens vrij instelbaar .Een niet gestoord signaal bevindt zich normaal in het bereik tussen deze grenzen Als nu een groot signaal door een externe invloed optreedt gaat de meetwaarde buiten de ingestelde zone met een alarmsituatie tot gevolg. Het circuit bestaat uit zowel een acoustisch als een optisch alsook een aansturing van een schakelaar die de overige registratie toestellen ( eventueel videoapparatuur )in werking gaat stellen.
De waarden ,veroorzaakt door een UFO verschijnsel , liggen ver boven deze die optreden tijdens een magnetische storm ten gevolge van een zonuitbarsting ( waarden steeds kleiner dan 1 µT).De minimale gevoeligheid van deze magnetometer ligt ver boven de maximale invloed van de zon zodat deze laatste geen invloed zal hebben.
De detectieafstand van deze magnetometer lig op ongeveer 8 tot 10Km (Minimum signaal ongeveer 4 µT.
Annex: Schema van de vereenvoudigde magnetometer
Foto´s van de verschillende spanningsvormen in de meetpunten
Registratie van magnetische anomalie met visuële waarneming in Sint Katelijne Waver op 9 October 2008
opmerking jan:
Beste Pieter
Na herhaaldelijk en minutieus beluisteren van het interview opgenomen van de waarneming in Sint Katelijne Waver ,ben ik tot volgende bevinding gekomen: Het zou hier dan gaan om *een sigaar/cylindervormige UFO met een zeer sterk begeleiden magnetisch effect veroorzaakt door de voortstuwingswijze van het toestel*
Ik hoop hiermee het onderzoek hiervan te kunnen afsluiten met een conclusie die gebruik maakt van ALLE terbeschikking staande gegevens
Registratie van magnetische anomalie met visuële
waarneming in Sint Katelijne Waver op 9 October 2008
door J. De Ceuster
Update 2016
Als conclusie werd destijds in het rapport vermeld*een vliegend object van
onbekende oorsprong een zeer groot magnetisch veld voortbrengende*
Bij een minutieuze analyse van de verklaringen van de waarneming tijdens het
Interview kunnen we de bekomen gegevens thans samengevat worden als volgende :
het verschijnsel werd initiëel op grote afstand waargenomen als een hevig licht in Zuidelijke richting met daarnaast een opvallende planeet.
Het heldere licht bleef gedurende een zeer lange tijd ter plaatse hangen terwijl de planeet langzaam opschoof.
Het bizarre in de volgende faze was dat het licht plots zeer snel ging naderen. Het was juist dit effect dat de waarneemster haar aandacht trok.
Wanneer het tuig dichterbij kwam verdween dit licht geleidelijk uit het gezichtsveld terwijl de details steeds beter konden waargenomen worden met volgende details:
een donkere massa
geen aantoonbare vleugels, geen staartvlak, geen motorgeluiden , geen rood en groen navigatielicht kortom geen karakteristeken van een klassiek passagiersvliegtuig
een ovaal/cylindervormig object met aan de zijkant felle rode en gele lichtjes, 7 in totaal
bij het overvliegen vertoonde de onderzijde een zeer donker aspect zonder opvallende details
het toestel was zeer groot : de lengte werd vergelijkbaar met 2 lengten passagiersvliegtuig
de waarneming werd gedaan buiten op het terras dus niet doorheen een glazen wand of vensterruit
de geschatte snelheid van naderen werd als redelijk snel ervaren
als bijkomend gegevenvertelde de waarneemster dat ze voordien niet in Ufo´sgeloofde
Haar kennis beperkte zich tot het vernoemen van het zigzaggend gedrag maar dat vond ze niet logisch. De waarneming gaf haar de overtuiging dat ze iets anders had gezien maar dat het geen klassiek vliegtuig betrof was voor haar een feit (tot 10maal toe herhaald!)
Uit metingen van de aanvlieghoek en van de schijnbare grootte ter plaatse uitgevoerd door W.P. van het * Belgische UFO-meldpunt * waar de waarneming gemeld was bleek algauw dat de grootte van het toestel bij de dichtste nadering ongeveer 140m lang moet geweest zijn.
De overige details opgesomd tijdens het interview gaven een duidelijke verwijzing naar een bekende UFO vorm uit de literatuur namelijk een *cigar/cylindric UFO*
In eerste instantie werd er gedacht aan een discusvormig toestel gezien onder een bepaalde hoek maar achteraf bleek de beschrijving van een sigaarvormig toestel beter overeen te komen met de gegevens.
Volgende gegevens werden gevonden voor de afmetingen van een klassiek passagierstoestel:
Boeiing 747 : 68,6m ; voor 2x de lengte wordt dit 137,2m
Airbus A380 : 73,2m ; voor 2x de lengte : 146,2m
Airbus A330 : 63,7m ; voor 2x de lengte :127,4m
Het resultaat van deze gegevens ligt zeer dichtbij de geschatte waarde en toont een te meer aan de ze op een betrouwbare wijze heeft weergegeven wat ze gezien heeft.
BESLUIT:
De slotconclusie * een sigaar/cylindervormige UFO met een zeer sterke magnetische invloed * is de beste en meest logische uitleg voor hetgeen waargenomen werd.
Een mogelijkheid bestaat erin dat het een tuig betrof met MHD aandrijving ( zie hiervoor de werken van de Franse onderzoeker en wetenschapper J.P.Petit en van onze eigen Professor A.Meessen)
Refenties:
De afmetingen voor de klassieke lijntoestellen : zie Wikipedia op Internet
De afmetingen van een sigaar/cylindervormige UFO :
Antarctica Weddell Bay 8 Jan. 1956: waarneming gedaan door 4 Chileense wetenschappers met vermelding van een lengte van 400ft (137m) en een diameter van 75ft ( 22m).
Blue BookArchives - Ufo Evidence Hall 1964 - Estimatedl enght 200m ; briljant glowing and hoovering cigar-shaped object.
Enkele gelijkaardige, gefotografeerde objecten
Zie bijgevoegde annexe
Annexe bij *Registratie van magnetische anomalie met visuëele waarneming in Sint Katelijne Waver op 9 October 2008
Update 2016
Als conclusie werd destijds in het rapport vermeld * een vliegend object van onbekende oorsprong een zeer grote magnetische veld voorbrengend*
Bij een minutieuze analyse van de verklaringen
Foto1
source:
Arctic Ufo Photograph taken throughthe periscoop of sub- marine USS Trepang
Location: between Iceland and Jan Mayen Island (Norway)
In March 1971
Foto 2
source:
National Ufo Center
Filers file #19-2016
Saint Petersburg – Florida
Region Tampa Bay
Beide foto´s zijn genomen overdag
Ze geven enkel een indruk van datgene de waarneemster in Sint Katelijne Waver kan gezien hebben maar dan wel ´s avonds
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J. De Ceuster
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Les ovnis de retour dans le ciel wallon: voici les preuves !
Les ovnis de retour dans le ciel wallon: voici les preuves !
BRUNO DEHENEFFE ET J. C.
Depuis la vague belge de 1990, le Cobeps continue à recueillir des témoignages interpellants.
(Foto genomen door een getuige. Na bewerking is duidelijk een driehoekig object te zien. Anders van vorm dan de Steal)
Si le phénomène OVNI demeure inexplicable pour la science, d’étranges observations continuent à être rapportées quotidiennement aux quatre coins du globe. Depuis la fameuse vague belge de 1990 durant laquelle plusieurs milliers de personnes – parmi lesquelles des gendarmes, des militaires et des ingénieurs ont aperçu dans le ciel des objets triangulaires atteignant parfois la taille d’un terrain de football – plus rien de comparable ne s’est reproduit au-dessus de nos têtes !
Cela ne signifie pas que les ovnis ont totalement déserté notre espace aérien. Les statistiques du Comité belge d’étude des phénomènes spatiaux (Cobeps) en attestent. Le Cobeps dispose d’une quinzaine d’enquêteurs de terrain issus pour la plupart de la défunte Sobeps dont la mission est de collecter, d’analyser et d’effectuer des recherches rigoureuses sur base des témoignages qui leur parviennent. « Sur Bruxelles et en Région wallonne, on nous signale ainsi entre 80 et 100 observations par an. Nous les filtrons et les identifions quand c’est possible. Après vérification, il subsiste environ 5 % de cas non élucidés qui focalisent notre attention », indique Patrick Ferryn, président du Cobeps.
Pour la première fois , un bilan de l’activité ufologique belge a été réalisé en 2015. Le Cobeps et le Belgisch Ufo-meldpunt ont rassemblé leurs informations pour fournir un aperçu général sur l’ensemble du territoire.« S’il y a eu une augmentation des signalements dans les trois régions avec un total de 319 observations, le nombre de cas inexpliqués a plutôt tendance à stagner », M. Patrick Ferryn.
Aucune des observations récentes n’a cependant l’étrangeté de celle du 12 février 2011 à Engis (Charleroi) où une jeune automobiliste de 27 ans a visualisé un gigantesque engin lumineux et triangulaire parfaitement immobile au-dessus d’un zoning industriel. « Cette chose se trouvait à une altitude si basse que j’ai pensé qu’un avion allait s’écraser ! », rapportera à la police ce témoin émotionné.
Réalisateur retraité, Patrick Ferryn ne tire aucun plan sur la comète quant à l’origine des ovnis, contrairement à d’autres qui prennent leurs fantasmes pour des réalités. « À l’heure actuelle, personne sur terre n’a la preuve matérielle de l’existence d’une incursion extraterrestre. Pour autant, on ne peut en exclure l’hypothèse. Grâce aux outils qu’offre Internet pour calculer l’altitude et la trajectoire d’un avion, il est désormais plus facile de distinguer les vrais témoignages des nombreux canulars, ce qui n’était pas le cas lors de la vague belge. »
D’ici quelques mois, le Cobeps rendra publiques ses conclusions sur la journée historique du 29 novembre 1989 où pas moins de 150 apparitions très interpellantes furent recensées en quelques heures dans un rayon géographique limité du sud de la Belgique.
L’AREPS dévoile des documents exclusifs
La société ufologique présentera ce samedi, à Tournai, des photos et vidéos d’ovnis jamais montrées
Si vous vous intéressez aux ovnis, ne ratez pas le rendez-vous programmé par l’Areps ce samedi 7 mai à Tournai. Présidée par Daniel Recolet, cette société ufologique belge profitera de ses 20 ans d’existence pour dévoiler des documents exclusifs (photos et vidéos) provenant des archives de ses membres. Le fondateur de l’Association de recherche et d’étude des phénomènes spatiaux n’avait que 9 ans lorsqu’il a aperçu pour la première fois un ovni au-dessus du barrage de la Gileppe.
« J’ai remarqué un premier point lumineux bien plus gros qu’une étoile. Celui-ci a été rejoint par un autre, avant que les deux sphères ne se séparent », raconte Daniel Recolet.
Depuis lors, ce passionné de radiocommunication âgé de 69 ans a accroché à son tableau de chasse ufologique bien d’autres observations qui ont bouleversé sa vision de la réalité qui nous entoure. Il prépare à ce sujet un ouvrage dont 158 pages sont déjà écrites.
En dépit de l’incapacité de la communauté scientifique à percer le mystère des ovnis, notre interlocuteur est convaincu à 200 % que ne nous ne sommes pas seuls dans l’univers et qu’il existe une 4e dimension, un univers parallèle auquel l’éminent Albert Einsten croyait lui aussi dur comme fer !
« J’en suis arrivé à la conclusion que les ovnis sont l’œuvre d’une intelligence extraterrestre bien supérieure à la nôtre et que celle-ci, après nous avoir précédé sur terre, a trouvé le moyen de raccourcir l’espace-temps tout en générant l’énergie pour se matérialiser », commente Daniel Recolet.
Ce dernier s’est également beaucoup intéressé aux crop-circles, ces dessins circulaires apparaissant dans les champs et qui, là encore, sont souvent interprétés comme des signes d’une civilisation venue d’ailleurs.
De tout cela, il sera question demain, de 14 h à 17 h, à la brasserie l’Impératrice (rue des Maux n°12B). Sachez encore que l’AREPS organise régulièrement des soirées d’observation à la belle étoile autour d’un barbecue.
Une équation prouve que E.T. existe ou a existé
Selon les calculs de deux chercheurs, Adam Frank et Woodruff Sullivan, de l’Université de Washington, les chances que l’humanité soit la première et seule espèce intelligente de l’univers sont d’une sur 10 milliards de billions. Soit un 1 et 22 zéros. « Pour moi, cela implique que d’autres espèces intelligentes et technologiques ont très certainement évolué avant nous », explique Adam Frank, professeur de physique et d’astronomie à l’université de Rochester, coauteur de l’étude. Depuis le lancement de la sonde Keplper, en 2009, plus de 1.000 planètes vivables ont été découvertes. Pourtant, aucune espèce en vue, en astronomie c’est ce qu’on appelle le paradoxe de Fermi.Ce n’est pas la première tentative de prouver l’existence d’E.T. par les mathématiques, Frank Drake avait déjà établi une équation il y a 55 ans. Mais celle-ci comportait trop d’inconnues pour obtenir des résultats fiables. « Nos résultats montrent que notre évolution n’est, semble-t-il, pas unique et a eu lieu de nombreuses fois dans le passé », concluent les chercheurs publiés dans la revue Astrobiology.
Article publié avec l’aimable autorisation de l’association 3AG (Association des Anciens Agents du Centre Spatial Guyanais)
Article rédigé par Michel Ribardière
1ERE PARTIE La reconnaissance officielle des manifestations ovnis et de leurs origines intelligentes extérieures est-elle un évènement inquiétant pour l’humanité ? L’homme possède-t-il la capacité de rencontrer d’autres espèces plus avancées et d’y survivre ? Ces questions sensibles, ajoutées à celles qui portent sur l’intention des visiteurs surgissent au premier plan dans l’esprit de nos gouvernants lorsqu’ils prennent connaissance de l’envergure du dossier ovni et de ses implications. Parmi toutes les nations, il en est une particulièrement confrontée aux manifestations ovnis, du moins depuis les explosions d’Hiroshima et de Nagasaki, celle des Etats Unis d’Amérique. Les stratégies des présidents américains, les obstacles qu’ils ont rencontrés et les décisions prises sur le traitement du dossier ovni offrent un éclairage saisissant quant à la politique du secret menée par la nation américaine et son influence sur toute la planète. Nous n’aborderons pas les éléments antérieurs aux années 40, telle que la rumeur selon laquelle Georges Washington avait rencontré des êtres étranges dans la forêt de Valley Forge(1). Et nous proposons plutôt de citer quelques éléments chronologiques succincts qu’une recherche personnelle permettra d’approfondir.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)
Le 24 février 1942 dans la soirée, presque trois mois après la première attaque de Pearl Harbor par les japonais, les américains qui craignent à présent une attaque sur la côte Ouest voient apparaitre de nombreuses lumières dans le ciel de Los Angeles. Dans la nuit, pendant près d’une heure, la DCA lance plus de 1400 obus sur les objets étrangers, sans qu’aucun d’entre eux ne soit touché (du moins officiellement). D’autre part, 15 avions d’interception décollent sans être capable de s’approcher des appareils étrangers qui évoluent à de multiples altitudes et avec différentes vitesses. A Los Angeles, les dégâts, les blessés et les morts seront tous les conséquences des retombées des obus ainsi que de la peur liée à l’évènement.
Plus récemment, une série de mémos de la Maison Blanche déclassifiés indique que le président Franklin D. Roosevelt connaissait la présence d’extraterrestres et de vaisseaux spatiaux interplanétaires dès 1942. Une organisation spéciale chargée d’étudier leur technologie avait alors été créée. Elle s’appelait l’«Unité des Phénomènes Interplanétaires ».
En 1950, Eleonore Roosevelt, son épouse, déclara elle aussi, son intérêt pour les manifestations ovni et remercia publiquement les témoins. Rappelons qu’au cours de la seconde guerre mondiale, les armées belligérantes sont parfois l’objet de rencontres aériennes spectaculaires. Celles d’objets d’origines inconnues impossible à abattre, à capturer à suivre ou à semer. Les Foo-fighters, nom que leur donne les alliés, créent parfois des turbulences tellement dangereuses pour les bombardiers en opération que ces derniers sont parfois forcés de se séparer discrètement de leurs bombes avant même de survoler leurs objectifs. Ces faits ne seront avoués par les pilotes qu’après la fin de la guerre.
Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)
En juillet 1947, Harry Truman est aux commandes du gouvernement lorsque la base de Roswell, dans le nouveau Mexique, première base de lancement des bombardiers nucléaires, annonce la récupération d’une soucoupe volante. Les militaires ne savent pas encore gérer une information de cette importance et publient une déclaration.
Le gouvernement prend alors la main et décide de clore le sujet en classifiant le dossier et donnant l’ordre de discréditer un des premiers officiers impliqués dans la découverte du crash, le major Jessy Marcel.
Harry truman est historiquement l’un des présidents qui donneront l’ordre d’abattre les ovnis. Les manifestations ovni de 1952 au-dessus du Capitole – La maison Blanche, le forceront cependant à admettre publiquement leur réalité et les recherches en cours: Référence télévisée Notons au passage que c’est sous son mandat, en septembre 1947 qu’est créée la CIA, laquelle sera naturellement impliquée dans les recherches secrètes et l’application de la politique de black-out sur les ovnis afin de contrôler le sujet et ses conséquences sur la population. Harry Truman est souvent considéré par les chercheurs comme le président ayant autorisé la formation d’un groupe très secret au dessus de toutes les administrations et dont les objectifs consistent dans le contrôle du dossier ovni au niveau national, a faciliter les recherches sur les technologies exotiques et à les introduire dans le secteur militaro-industriel. Ce groupe capable de gérer le dossier en toute discrétion, serait chargé de récupérér les débris des engins exotiques sujets à un crash et d’effacer toutes traces pouvant éveiller l’attention des nations étrangères. Ce groupe aux moyens financiers illimités serait constitué de grands patrons de l’industrie de l’armement, de banquiers, de personnels militaire, du renseignement, de l’armement et de scientifiques. Il aurait porté plusieurs noms tels que MJ12, Majestic 12, etc…
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)
Bien qu’il déclara en 1954 que les soucoupes volantes existent seulement dans l’imagination de ceux qui les voient, le président Eisenhower fut largement concerné par la gestion du dossier ovni. Il aurait réalisé une observation au début des années 50, alors qu’il se trouvait au large des côtes britanniques. L’objet de couleur bleue serait apparu durant une dizaine de minutes. Le président Eisenhower est considéré par les chercheurs comme le probable dernier président américain a avoir eu un contrôle total sur le dossier ovni. Le général Robert Broussard Landry est à l’époque, colonel chargé de la liaison entre le Président Eisenhower et la CIA sur le sujet OVNI comme il l’avait fait au temps du Président Truman.
UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973
Par Richard M. Dolan
Le général Robert Broussard Landry témoigne d’avoir eu pour mission de rédiger auprès du Président Eisenhower, un rapport sur le dossier ovni tous les trois mois. Ce qu’il prétendit avoir fait jusqu’à ce que le Président quitte la Maison Blanche. Plusieurs témoignages, dont celui de la petite fille du Président Eisenhower, Laura Magdalène, prétendent qu’au moins deux rencontres du Président Eisenhower avec des extra-terrestres ont eu lieu. L’une se déroula en avril 1954 sur la base de Muroc/Edwards et une autre en février 1955 sur la base de Holloman dans le Nouveau Mexique. Les témoignages d’anciens responsables des renseignements ou de la Défense confirment que le Président Eisenhower était très impliqué sur le sujet. Dans un témoignage enregistré, un ancien responsable de la CIA raconte la mission qu’un jour le Président lui confie. Il s’agissait de transmettre un ultimatum aux entreprises privées et au commandement dangereusement dégagé de tout contrôle du gouvernement, quitravaillaient sur les épaves extraterrestres au sein de la zone 51. Ces entreprises avaient cessé d’émettre des rapports, refusaient à présent d’en rédiger et prétendaient que leurs activités relevaient du domaine privé. Le président Eisenhower leur donna une semaine pour venir présenter un rapport à la Maison Blanche. En cas de refus, ils auraient à subir une invasion par la première armée des Etats-Unis, et cela, quelques soient les matériaux classifiés qui y étaient développés.Référence télévisée Rappelons-nous que dans son dernier discours présidentiel, Eisenhower alerte l’opinion publique sur le risque qui pèse sur la démocratie à cause de l’accroissement de pouvoir et d’influence des milieux militaro-industriel :référence télévisée
John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)
Le Président John F. Kennedy (1961-1963) avait eu l’occasion lors d’un voyage en bateau d’observer un OVNI de couleur argentée ayant une course descendante, mais son entourage témoigne qu’il leur avait demandé de taire l’évènement. Son frère Robert Kennedy était très intéressé par le dossier. Le 5 novembre 1961, le président Kennedy apprend que l’URSS n’arrive pas à détecter correctement les leurres américains qui ont été envoyés dans l’espace soviétique afin de tester leurs technologies défensives. Le problème de la présence ovni prend alors une importance inattendue car la tension politique entre les deux blocs est à son sommet. Chaque nation a envisagé une confrontation nucléaire et s’interroge sur celui qui attaquera le premier. Les ovnis sont alors perçus comme un risque susceptible de créer une confusion chez les soviétiques et de déclencher par erreur une guerre atomique. Car les soviétiques comme les américains peuvent confondre des ovnis avec des escadrilles ou des missiles nucléaires adverses. John Kennedy tente alors de dialoguer avec ses rivaux afin de comprendre avec eux ces intrusions et d’éviter de déclencher une guerre par accident. Le 11 novembre 1963, les soviétiques lancent un vaisseau spatial inhabité appelé KOSMOS 21. Demeuré en orbite, sa mission est gardée secrète. Le lendemain, le Président Kennedy transmet une directive présidentielle à la NASA, lui intimant l’ordre de collaborer avec le programme spatial soviétique. Il envoie aussi une note à la CIA pour qu’elle partage elle aussi les informations détenues sur les ovnis. Voici le célèbre mémo de demande d’accès aux fichiers sur les ovnis que Kennedy a adressé au directeur de la CIA en date du 12 novembre 1963.
Il ne sera jamais obéi car 10 jours plus tard, il est assassiné. Notons toutefois que plusieurs mois auparavant, Marylin Monroe qui avait été très proche du Président Kennedy mais que ce dernier avait abandonné, semble avoir menacé de tenir une conférence de presse et de révéler des informations confiées par le président Kennedy sur le crash d’un vaisseau extraterrestre et la récupération des corps. Le document ci-dessous a été rédigé par la CIA, 48h avant le décès de Marilyn Monroe.
Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)
Selon Jacques Bergier (qui fut, entre autres, membre de l’OSS et resta toute sa vie « en contact » avec le milieu du renseignement), aussitôt qu’il investit le bureau ovale à la Maison-Blanche, le Président Johnson fut informé de l’existence d’un groupe de pouvoir tellement secret qu’il ne lui en avait rien été dit pendant sa vice-présidence et qu’aucune décision présidentielle ne pouvait être prise sans son aval. Il en fut tellement contrarié, qu’il ne put s’empêcher de l’exprimer, informant à cette occasion certaines personnes qui auraient dû en demeurer dans l’ignorance, et qui sont à l’origine de la fuite. Le président Johnson s’intéressa de près aux ovnis, contraint par la vague de manifestations qui eut lieu en 1965-66 aux USA et dont la presse relatait des rapports émanant de personnalités telles que le gouverneur de la Floride. Le 4 juillet 1966 il signa une loi qui entra en application l’année suivante. Fondée sur le principe de la liberté d’information, elle oblige les agences fédérales à transmettre leurs documents, à quiconque en fait la demande, quelle que soit sa nationalité. C’est grâce à cette loi, que les décennies suivantes vont permettre la déclassifications de nombreux documents administratifs (plus de 100 000) liés au domaine des ovnis.
Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974)
L’intervention de Richard M Nixon sur le sujet OVNI est révélée par deux témoins. L’un d’eux est un ancien responsable de la CIA. Monsieur Nixon, vice-président des Etats-Unis durant le mandat d’Eisenhower aurait assisté au compte rendu d’une mission qui consistait à donner un ultimatum aux responsables de la zone 51, détenteurs d’ovni et d’extraterrestres récupérés lors de crashs afin qu’ils se viennent en urgence à la maison blanche pour présenter un rapport de situation. D’autre part, l’un de ses amis fidèle et célèbre, Jackie Gleason prétend avoir déjà discuté du dossier ovni avec le Président Nixon et qu’un soir, ce dernier serait venu le chercher pour le conduire dans une base militaire de Floride, afin de lui montrer des morceaux d’épaves et les corps d’extraterrestres détenus. (Référence à Hesemann & Mantle: Beyond Roswell Livre sur Amazon).
Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977)
Lorsqu’il était membre du Congrès, Gerald R. Ford avait fortement bataillé contre ceux qui, depuis les sphères du pouvoir, maintenaientsous scellés le dossier des ovnis. Gerald R. Ford est l’un des deux hommes a avoir annoncé son intérêt pour les manifestations ovni avant son élection à la présidence. Puis, en 1966 une vague de manifestations ovni (des centaines d’observations) fut observée dans le Michigan, son Etat de résidence. Après que l’Air Force, par son conseiller, J. Allen Hynek, se fût ridiculisée en expliquant les observations d’ovnis par des « gaz des marais », une campagne de presse sans précédent eu lieu contre les communiqués perçus comme stupides de la part des militaires.
Gérald Ford déclara alors: « Avec la ferme conviction que le public américain mérite une meilleure explication que celle donnée jusqu’à maintenant par l’Air Force, je recommande vivement l’enquête d’un comité sur le phénomène ovni. Je pense que nous devons au peuple d’établir une crédibilité vis-à-vis des ovnis et de produire le plus d’éclaircissements possible sur ce sujet… » La contradiction entre la position des militaires et celle de Gérard Ford pèsera lourdement et de façon positive sur son élection à la présidence. Il proposa que le Science of Astronautics Committee, ou bien le Armed Services Committee de la Chambre des Représentants, ouvre des auditions sur « le sujet des ovnis et invite à témoigner des membres de la branche exécutive du Gouvernement, en particulier ceux qui prétendent avoir observé des ovnis ». (Timothy Green Beckley, op. cit.) Le sous-comité organisa effectivement une audition le 5 avril 1966, mais trois personnes seulement furent invitées à y témoigner, toutes trois liées à l’armée de l’air. Ces derniers déclarèrent au comité qu’ils n’avaient pas de preuve de l’origine extraterrestre des ovnis, ni aucune indication que les ovnis représentent une menace pour la sécurité du pays. (Dennis Stacy, Cosmic Conspiracy: Six Decades of Government UFO Cover-ups). C’est au cours de son mandat présidentiel qu’entrera en application la loi F.O.I.A (Freedom Of Information Act sur la déclassification d’archives de l’administration). Après son mandat, il répondra par courrier à un officier des renseignements : « Au cours de ma carrière au congrès en tant que vice-Président et Président J’ai réalisé de multiples demandes d’informations sur les OVNI. Les autorités officielles ont toujours nié en détenir. »
Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) Ronald W. Reagan (1981-1989) George H. W. Bush (1989-1993) Bill Clinton (1993-2001) George W. Bush (2001-2009) Barack Obama (2009 – 2017 Hillary Clinton (2017 –
UFOs and the National Security State: Chronology of a Coverup, 1941-1973
VIDEO: De verborgen waarheid over het geheime ruimtevaartprogramma
VIDEO: De verborgen waarheid over het geheime ruimtevaartprogramma
Sinds de jaren tachtig is er een geheim ruimtevaartprogramma actief waar het volk niets over weet. Hoogleraar geschiedenis en UFO-onderzoeker Richard Dolan heeft 20 jaar lang bewijs verzameld over dit geheime ruimtevaartprogramma.
Tijdens deze lezing presenteert Dolan al zijn onderzoek. Hij is tot de schokkende ontdekking gekomen dat we sterk vertegenwoordigd zijn in het zonnestelsel en niet alleen zijn in het heelal.
Antizwaartekracht
Dolan kan rekenen op bijval van de Schotse computerhacker Gary McKinnon, die Amerikaanse overheidscomputers doorzocht om bewijs te vinden voor UFO’s, antizwaartekracht en vrije energie.
Hij zegt dit bewijs ook daadwerkelijk gevonden te hebben. Volgens hem runt de VS een geheim ruimtevaartprogramma en zou het land over een geheim ruimteschip beschikken dat door ‘niet-aardse officieren’ wordt bemand. Ook beschikt de VS naar verluidt over antizwaartekracht-apparaten.
Atoomoorlog voorkomen
Het moge inmiddels duidelijk zijn dat er meer gebeurt op en rond de aarde dan ons verteld wordt. Wijlen astronaut Edgar Mitchell, de zesde man op de maan, zei kort voor zijn dood dat vredelievende aliens op aarde een atoomoorlog hebben voorkomen.
Mitchell vertelde aan de media dat de aliens een nucleaire oorlog tussen de VS en Rusland hebben verijdeld. Daarvoor kwamen ze volgens hem naar onze planeet en vlogen ze met hun UFO’s boven Amerikaanse raketbases en boven White Sands, waar de eerste atoombom tot ontploffing werd gebracht.
Are snaps taken by mechanic in 1953 the best 'UFOs' ever caught on camera?
Are snaps taken by mechanic in 1953 the best 'UFOs' ever caught on camera?
IT WAS 63 years ago today that a mechanic from New Mexico claimed to have proved aliens exist by snapping these remarkable pictures of what appeared to be flying saucers.
Mr Villa claimed to have communicated with aliens in this flying saucer.
Apolinar A Villa, known as Paul, was 47 when he allegedly made contact with extra terrestrials and snapped away at their stunning space crafts in Niagara, Albuquerque, New Mexico, on June 16, 1963.
Not only did Mr Villa, who died aged 65 in 1981, claim to have had the good fortune to photograph the spaceships, he said he communicated with them and they welcomed his attention.
The pictures went down in UFO history as being the clearest and most extraordinary captures of alleged alien crafts.
Mr Villa claimed that he had been taught telepathy by aliens from the age of five.
He was regarded locally as a gifted mathematician, electrician, physicist and mechanic who was unusually able to spot defects in engines.
Mr Villa's story when he unveiled the historic pictures was that in the five years before the sighting, he had seen around five flying saucers visit Earth.
He said that 10 years earlier in 1953, he felt an urge to go to the coast at Long Beach, California, while he was working, and encountered a man of seven-feet tall, who was of "superior intelligence" and communicatedwith him
He wrote: "All photographs have a sky background with an unobstructed view of the object.
"It seems unlikely that anyone photographing a UFO from several angles would have all good, clear unobstructed photographs of the object."
"Photograph seven shows the UFO at close range with a leafless branch on the left side of the print, passing behind the object.
"Two twigs from this branch are readily visible on the right side of the object and in good alignment with the main branch.
"It does not seem possible that these twigs are from the tree on the right which is further away.
"Therefore, the object is between the branch and the camera. The object is estimated to be 20 inches in diameter and seven inches high."
The Air Force results have since been duplicated by UFO researchers and photographic experts, and they have all reached the same conclusion that he faked with images using amazing models.
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) has been sent a video clip by a stunned unnamed witness who claims to have recorded the fabled craft flying over a major highway.
TR-3B is alleged by conspiracy theorists to be a secret "black project" spy craft of the US Government that can be flown into space.
The allegations are that these crafts are created at top-secret military bases like Area 51 in Nevada, by reverse engineering alien technology.
Others claim they are actual UFOs flown by aliens visiting Earth.
In the video, which lasts nearly two minutes, an apparent black triangle shape is seen slowly moving silently in the sky. It appears to have large pulsating red and green lights, like many previous alleged TR-3B sightings.
Dude, look at this thing, it is not even f***ing moving. Dude, it's f***ing triangular. Holy s*** dude, that is some wicked s***.
TR-3B witness
In a brief report to MUFON, which is the world's largest UFO investigation organisation based in the US, the witness said: "Triangular UFO hovered over route 45 in Mantua, New Jersey, and turned on its side over the road, and then flew sideways towards Philadelphia."
He described the craft as flying extremely slowly, at just around 10 miles per hour.
He said: "I have never encountered any aircraft like this in my life.
"It made no noise and it seemed to have multicoloured lights rotating inside one light.
"Did anyone else witness this at approximately 9:40 pm on June 10th 2016?"
Conspiracy theorists have long claimed the TR-3B Black Mantra is an alleged stealth reconnaissance nuclear-powered triangular shaped craft.
Previous conspiracists have claimed the Black Mantra was developed by the US under a cloud of secrecy in the 1970s, but its existence has never been proved.
Over the years, there have been dozens of reported sightings of mysterious-shaped aircraft in Antelope Valley in the Californian desert - an area known to attract Black Mantra hunters as it is near several military research and testing zones.
But, until now, no clear video footage had been captured.
Conspiracists believe the TR-3B Black Mantra is not the first of its kind and is, in fact, a successor to an earlier TR-3A craft.
There are longstanding rumours about the existence of reconnaissance airplanes of the US Air Force under so-called "black projects".
According to conspiracy theorists, the TR-3A Black Manta is a subsonic stealth spy plane designed by Northrop Gruman and was allegedly used in the Gulf War to guide F-117A Nighthawk bombers.
However, there is no proof or direct evidence of the existence of any of the alleged spy planes.
Last June YouTube UFO channel Secureteam 10 released a video claiming to have found a Black Mantra craft sitting in a crater on the moon in images obtained from a camera mounted on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft.
Earlier that month, Secureteam also posted a video claiming they had found similar craft in NASA images of Dwarf planet Ceres.
But the were widely panned as being an odd-shaped rocks.
MUFON confirmed it is investigating the new footage.
The death of a NASA scientist has sent conspiracy theorists into overdrive
Conspiracy theorists have been widely condemned condemned for dreaming up madcap theories around Tiffany Huan Moisan’s death, including another suggestion she may have died after getting too close to government secrets.
Social media users have condemned the speculation, ordering the bizarre theories to stop as those close to her try to come to terms with their loss.
The NASA climatology scientist, 48, was reported missing on June 4, with her body found the next day behind a branch of budget supermarket Food Lion in Princess Anne, Maryland, US.
Local police have ruled out any foul play, but the cause of death has yet to be released and this has led to wild suspicions over what happened to her.
Conspiracy theory website Clapway.com claims the case is suspicious and NASA scientists have gone missing or died in mysterious circumstances before.
In a report, the website suggested: "Signs of suspicion, however, are rampant. Some claim aliens are to blame, while others think she was getting a bit too close to government secrets."
Ms Moisan worked at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Wattsville, Virginia.
According to an obituary on www.legacy.com, she was Born in Taiwan and adopted by an American couple after her mother died in childbirth.
Her adopted father Rodney "Butch" Ashworth was an officer in the US Navy.
She is survived by her husband, John R Moisan and two daughters adopted from China, Katherine Lin Moisan, 12, and Alyssa An Moisan, 9.
Before that, she worked at the University of California and earned a PhD from Scripps Institution of Oceanography at Texas A&M.
Her research specialities were ecology, physiology, optics, and earth science.
She had been involved in a number of missions on oceanographic cruises in the Atlantic.
The Clapway report added: "Seeing as NASA is a space agency, it’s quite curious why they are spending so much time in the ocean.
"NASA, as you may know, has been heavily involved with global warming observations over the past few years.
"Moisan was deep in research, which makes it even stranger why she was found dead behind some budget grocery store in Maryland.
"Unfortunately for Moisan’s family and UFO researchers everywhere, it’s likely the government will remain silent regarding her death.
"In suspicious cases like this, rarely do we hear more than a police report. That’s not exactly comforting. If Moisan uncovered some information that could be harmful to the government, killing her off would not be a far-fetched idea.
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The late scientist pictured in her online obituary.
Although there was no apparent signs of foul play, this incident remains under investigation pending results from the autopsy.
Princess Anne Police Chief Tim Bozman
"It’s been done before, but sadly there’s little evidence. All we are left with are rumours of past NASA scientists disappearing and constant government denial. If it wasn’t the government, could aliens be to blame?"
A number of conspiracy theorists have claimed aliens have secret undersea bases on Earth, and have taken the leap that as Mrs Moison was involved in ocean studies, she may have uncovered this secret and been about to expose it.
The Clapway report added: "Going along with this idea, perhaps this NASA scientist was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Why not just taken her life at sea then?
"It’s quite possible her relationship with aliens was closer than she intended. It would be one thing if Moisan was an individual with a shady past, but she was a respected scientist.
"Respected scientists don’t tend to get involved with crime too often, so bringing aliens into the mix here is not as strange as it sounds.
"Moisan’s death is as weird as they come. Hopefully, her death will not be lost among the mystery like so many others."
Local reports have suggested she may have taken her own life.
Her car was found in the parking area near the chain, and there are also local suggestions she may have had debilitating health problems.
Her body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for an autopsy.
Results are yet to be released.
Princess Anne Police Chief Tim Bozman said: “Although there was no apparent signs of foul play, this incident remains under investigation pending results from the autopsy.”
Online posters on the website of sbynews.blogspot.co.uk urged for the wild speculation to end.
One posted: "Please be sensitive. This young woman was married, had two children, was an outstanding scientist, and she suffered for more than a decade with a serious and sometimes debilitating chronic illness. This is heartbreaking."
There were no apparent signs of foul play, but the investigation will stay open until autopsy results are in.
Black UFO Near White Pyramid Cloud Over Batavia, Illinois, USA June 5, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Black UFO Near White Pyramid Cloud Over Batavia, Illinois, USA June 5, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 5, 2016 Location of sighting: Batavia, Illinois, USA This is a recent video posted to MUFON site this week. A black UFO is seen moving around the rooftops of the area, but there are also some other mysterious things...another small UFO and a white pyramid shaped cloud. Is it a coincidence? Probably not. UFO with actual pilots often need a wingman, much like the US military demands from fighter pilots. Very cool UFO, but is this new drone technology from Bigelow Aerospace? Hmmmm... Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Unedited Witness Statement: i am sending this directly from my iphone, unedited. we just took this video of a ufo. Me and two of my kids(17,20) were leaving chili's parking lot and i begin to joke with them that it was a perfect evening to see an ufo. I believe in ufo but my kids are totally sceptical about it. We jump in the car and I looked up and saw a light. I continue to joke with them and said, "look there, a ufo....hahahaha".... but at the time it was only that, a joke. We continued to watch it as it rapidly start to approach us. then the light started to dim out and we could see a dark form over it. My son then started to literally freak out. That thing came about 300 meters from us and it was a dark squared with rounded corners thing, cruising the sky, no sound whatsoever!!!!!!! The video doesn't reflect even 10% of the clarity of the sighting. unfortunately phone camaras are horrible, specially at dark. But it was so clear to us. it seemed to be the size of a car just crusing there, with almost the same color of the background. My son is still shacking. He never believed in anything paranormal. I am available to give details if you need. tks.
Since its launch in the 1950s, Area 51 has attracted the great interest of a huge number of people, very keen to find out what lies behind the perimeter of the tightly guarded military airbase.
The top-secret location in Nevada desert has remained off-limits to the public for about sixty years, including a large no-fly zone in airspace nearby.
The lack of basic information has led to weird speculation about its primary purpose. Actually, to most, Area 51 has become a term related to outlandish conspiracy theories about government cover-ups and extraterrestrial life.
Eventually, the wild speculations have diverted public attention away from some of the magnificent developments which have occurred at the base over the many years, things that have remained relatively mysterious among the public.
There is still high confusion among the members of the public concerning the driving forces behind this facility since no photos have been released publicly in the recent years.
Area 51 has been the location of on-going secret programs managed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) since its establishment. Used mainly to test fresh technologies, some of the most high-level air capabilities of military started their working life at the base.
Work at the location continues to be improved today, with the recent satellite images revealing that new structures are being constructed. Nonetheless, their purpose stays unclear.
Therefore, to attempt and assist you separate reality from myth, here are 15 things about Area 51 you probably don’t know.
1. Foreign Aircraft Were Present At The Base
Actual Russian MiG-21
The US used the Area 51 location to test captured technology acquired from aircrafts of enemy nations.
The earliest foreign plane to land was the Russian-built MiG-21 that had been captured by the Israeli forces in 1966 when one of the members of the Iraqi air force defected.
The primary purpose of the investigations was to reveal weaknesses in design and performance so that United States forces could exploit them during the combat. In 1970, further examinations of Area 51 began – this time on secretly developed Soviet radar systems.
Some speculate this method of examination goes on with the intergalactic spacecraft allegedly being kept somewhere inside the compound.
2. The CIA Only Acknowledged Its Existence In 2013
Until 2013, the CIA declined to acknowledge the presence of Area 51 in the official documents since the United States government deemed the work undertaken at the base to be very sensitive.
This secrecy gave rise to the elusive nature of the base and without doubt fed the thousands of myths surrounding it.
At first, all the secrecy was as a result of the Cold War. Washington became super paranoid about its military programs alleging that it might fall into the hands of the Soviet Union. Fair enough, it would have been pretty shitty if that would occur, so paranoia warranted.
The existence of Area 51 was eventually admitted in a secret report which covered the first 2 decades of operations at Area 51. It was released in 2013 as a result of a freedom of information request by a popular professor at the George Washington University.
Obama also made an impromptu comment regarding the Area 51 in 2013, making him the first president to openly acknowledge its existence.
3. First Drone Test Flight
Even though the use of drones by the United States military is currently widespread in conflicts in different countries, their development started some time ago.
Area 51 was the site of the earliest test flight of the unmanned drone in 1964. The aircraft was known as D21 and was designed for use as the surveillance aircraft.
It had taken quite some time before the drone was launched individually. However, by 1966, the D21 model had flown to the heights of 90,000 feet.
But during its 4th test flight, something went wrong when a particular drone was released from its primary carrier plane and both aircrafts were damaged, killing one crew member. The D21 drone continue to conduct 4 spying missions over China, from 1969-1971.
4. United States Army Accused Of Using Lethal Substances At Area 51
Suggestions have emerged that the military misused secrecy surrounding Area 51, and the confidentiality obligations assigned to those who work there to dump huge quantities of poisonous waste at the site.
The workers who became sick, and the widows of those who lost their lives, brought together evidence of huge drums of deadly waste being dumped in the trenches prior to being set alight.
A court case was arranged but could not proceed because of national security considerations. Claims were also made that due to the remoteness of Area 51, it was used to dispose of the waste gathered from some other military locations.
5. Area 51 Was Accidentally Disclosed
Area 51 is the well-known secret military base of operations in the entire world. However, a 1967 government memo is the single reason we know of its presence at all.
Protocol meant each reference to the Area 51 had to be redacted from each document but, enquiringly, in this memo that was sent by CIA Director Richard Helms and concerned the positioning of surveillance aircraft in the Vietnam, one slipped through.
The mistake did not reach the public, but the big question stands: was this leak actually accidental?
6. U2 Spy Plane Involved in First Area 51 Operation
The site started in 1955 as a top test center for the U-2 spy plane an aircraft established after WWII. It was able to conduct surveillance over the Soviet Union, and even practice flights were performed using the runways constructed onsite.
When it kicked off the operations over the Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, a cover story was made to display it as a weather research plane.
7. Photos Were Once Accidentally Taken off the Base
Actual photo taken by skylab astronauts in 1974
During the flight on board Skylab in 1974, a certain group of inexperienced astronauts unintentionally took photographs of the Area 51 site.
The incident prompted a national security debate and the likelihood of formally acknowledging the base was regarded. William Colby, retired director of the CIA, was drawn into a huge controversy within the intelligence service that eventually choose not to release the photograph to the public.
Confidential documents since released, show that Area 51 was the only location in the world which CIA had prohibited from being photographed from the space. This offers an indication of how valued the work done there was seen.
8. Area 51 May Have Tested The Helicopters Used In The Bin Laden Raid
A US Army (USA) UH-60L Black hawk Helicopter flies a low
The conspiracy to kill Osama Bin Laden in 2011 was conducted by a team of Navy Seals that were flown to his Pakistan site by 2 Blackhawk helicopters.
Nonetheless, when one helicopter crashed during the mission, aviation professionals recognized that this was no normal helicopter.
Some speculate it was the Blackhawk model which had undergone considerable modification; others claim it was a totally new and formerly unknown model, perhaps one which was purpose-built for this mission.
It is believed the testing grounds for this modern chopper would’ve been Area 51. The improved Black Hawk was regarded near invisible to the radar. Judging by the success of the mission, the aircraft was clearly much harder to sense than its predecessors.
9. The Recent Project May Be A Next Generation Spy Plane
Rumors are circulating, after the appearance of recent satellite data displaying Area 51 which a significant new project is under way. A huge, hangar-like building is supposedly being developed at the end of one of the runways.
According to the defense journalist Tyler Rogoway, the United States air force has indirectly admitted that the prototype of a long-range and the unmanned surveillance aircraft exists that’s believed to be a possible candidate for testing.
The hangar developed at Area 51 has been equipped with large doors, nearly 170 feet wide, suggesting that they’ve been precisely designed to deal with a massive object like an aircraft.
10. Entertainment Options at Area 51
If you are planning an enjoyable getaway to Area 51, you may need to pack some books since you are going to be bored.
Insiders have shown that, early on, the only entertainment choices at Area 51 were a small bowling alley and a single cement tennis court. There was no radio, and TV signals only made it through the nearby mountains in the evening.
However, the good news is that Area 51 workers ate very well. The mess hall occasionally served oysters and lobsters, and they enjoyed a weekly steak night.
Let’s not forget that people have camped near the area 51 gate.
11. Aliases of Area 51
During its early construction, Area 51 was given codenames Watertown, Groom Lake, the Edgar Allen Poe-inspired Dreamland and lastly, Paradise Ranch. It is unclear if Michael Jackson had a contributed any of these naming choices.
The primary idea behind “Paradise Ranch” was that it would eventually make the mission appear more desirable to the contracted construction workers.
Arguably, there was not necessary since months of back-breaking labor in the remote Arizonian desert certainly sounds like an idea of a great time.
“Paradise Ranch” is also the name of the campy Korean TV drama. Does it tells the story of the construction of Area 51? It certainly seems like it.
12. Most Ridiculous Conspiracy Theory of Area 51
There are no deficiencies of these to select from, but perhaps the most disgraceful appeared in the 2011 book, on the history of the top-secret base by Annie Jacobsen.
According to her, Area 51 was an active center of a United States cover-up which went into motion after the alleged crashing of the UFO at Roswell, in 1947.
Refuting that it was a UFO, she alleges that the craft was the Soviet mission, piloted by genetically engineered kids to make people in the United States believe that it was the alien craft, to spread fear.
In this imaginary tale, Area 51 was used as a storage location for the Soviet ship and the remains of its crew. As if this wasn’t going far enough, she also claimed that the fugitive Nazi scientist had conducted the genetic engineering of these kids, Josef Mengele, who is ill-famed for his experiments on the concentration camp prisoners during the WWII.
13. Alien Reports
In 1952, a spectacular spike in the UFO sightings had the CIA admitting the remote prospect that interplanetary aircraft were used. The government considered the phenomenon seriously and even investigated every sighting.
90 percent of reported sightings were simply debunked –whatnot and weather balloons – but the other 10 percent were categorized as “incredible reports from credible observers.”
More than half of the UFO reports from the late 1950s through to the Swingin’ 60s were accounted for by the manned reconnaissance flights over the US. Nearly all of these came from Area 51.
Despite the reasonable explanations, several still claim that the alien aircraft are being kept at Area 51 and reverse-engineered to build new weapons and aircraft.
A recent poll confirmed that more than 70 percent of Americans believe UFOs are real. A number that believes in unicorns stays unconfirmed.
14. Hoax Moon Landing Twist
It is no secret entire hoards of people believe America did fake the moon landing in order to win the coveted Space Race. Most of them believe the staged event happened at Area 51 that’s ground zero for each wild conspiracy theory.
What you may not realize is the sliver of evidence corroborates this specific conspiracy. A huge variety of space equipment – including life-support systems and land rovers – were discovered at adjoining nuclear testing grounds of Area 51.
It is possible these were mainly used for test purposes by various astronauts, but it is still very suspicious.
15. Crashed A-12 Spy Plane
An air-to-air left front view of a A-12 aircraft.
The A-12 is a super-sonic spy plane which was built and tested behind the black curtain of Area 51.
It was almost undetectable to the radar and could cross-continental the USA in only 70 minutes, capturing footage at a remarkable altitude of 90,000 ft.
Pushing the aviation limits came with some risks, still, and finally led to a terrible crash outside of Area 51 in 1963. When fragments of the crashed A-12 were revealed in Utah, the CIA chose to release and even publish photos of the plane.
Reportedly, pilot Ken Collins had managed to parachute to the ground where he was shocked to be meet 3 civilians in a pickup, who provided him a ride to the wreckage of his plane.
Instead, Collins asked them to take him in an opposite direction by informing them the plane had a nuclear weapon on board. In fact, this was a pre-arranged cover story in order to keep the craft secret and even proves the lengths officials were ready to go to.
Nog zeventien dagen en dan komt ruimtesonde Juno aan bij de planeet Jupiter. De afstand tot de grootste planeet van ons zonnestelsel is nog maar dertien miljoen kilometer.
Het is alweer een tijd geleden dat Jupiter langdurig gezelschap kreeg van een ruimtevaartuig. De laatste ruimtesonde was Galileo, die in 1995 aankwam bij de gasplaneet. De Galileo-missie eindigde in 2003, waarna het toestel zichzelf in de dampkring van Jupiter wierp. Nu – dertien jaar later – kunnen we weer genieten van een continue stroom van mooie beelden van Jupiter.
Juno arriveert op 4 juli bij Jupiter en zal langs de polen om de planeet draaien. “Vorig jaar rond dezelfde tijd kwam New Horizons aan bij Pluto”, mijmert Diane Brown van de Juno-missie. “Juno vliegt rakelings langs de atmosfeer van Jupiter. Nooit eerder kwam een ruimtesonde zo dicht bij de gaslagen van deze planeet.” Op 4 juli is de afstand tussen Juno en Jupiter slechts 4.667 kilometer.
Het doel van de missie Maar wat gaat Juno nu eigenlijk precies doen. Uiteraard staat er een mooi achtergrondartikel over de Juno-missie op Scientias.nl. Maar om het even kort samen te vatten: Juno hoopt erachter te komen wat er onder het dikke wolkendek van Jupiter schuilgaat en hoe de gasreus is ontstaan. Het ruimtevaartuig gaat diep in de atmosfeer van de gasplaneet turen en probeert de temperatuur en samenstelling van die atmosfeer vast te stellen. Ook worden de bewegingen van de wolken in kaart gebracht.
Een artistieke impressie van de Juno-ruimtesonde voor de planeet Jupiter.
Straling Om de geheimen van Jupiter te ontrafelen, moet Juno risico’s nemen en rakelings langs de atmosfeer vliegen. “We zijn niet op zoek naar problemen, maar naar data”, aldus hoofdonderzoeker Scott Bolton. Het is algemeen bekend dat Jupiter een krachtig magnetisch veld heeft. Wanneer een ruimtevaartuig dit magnetische veld betreedt, dan krijgt zo’n sonde te maken met veel straling. “Gedurende de hele missie wordt Juno blootgesteld aan meer dan honderd miljoen keer de straling van een röntgenapparaat van je tandarts”, zegt Rick Nybakken, projectmanager van de Juno-missie. “Maar we zijn er klaar voor. De baan van Juno rond Jupiter is zo ontwikkeld, dat er minimale blootstelling is aan straling van Jupiter. Juno kan lang genoeg overleven om voldoende gegevens te verzamelen.”
Kluis van titanium Juno is een bijzonder ruimtevaartuig. Zo beschikt de ruimtesonde over een titanium kluis. In deze kluis bevinden zich de meest waardevolle onderdelen, die andere wetenschappelijke instrumenten aansturen. Denk bijvoorbeeld aan de vluchtcomputer van Juno. De kluis weegt 172 kilo en zorgt ervoor dat de hoeveelheid straling met een factor 800 afneemt. Toch is dat niet genoeg. In de omgeving nabij Jupiter is nu eenmaal teveel straling. Uiteindelijk zal Juno in het harnas sterven, maar hopelijk wel nadat er twintig maanden gegevens zijn verzameld.
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ESO Captures First-Ever Clear Image of An Exoplanet Candidate, And It’s 11 Quadrillion km Away
ESO Captures First-Ever Clear Image of An Exoplanet Candidate, And It’s 11 Quadrillion km Away
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IN BRIEF
For the first time ever, ESO astronomers have been able to capture a clear image of a star system 11 quadrillion kilometers away using the combined forces of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, the Keck Observatory in Hawaii, and the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain.
CVSO 30C STATUS PENDING
For the first time, astronomers were able to capture a clear image of an exoplanet candidate, orbiting a star known as CVSO 30, which lies around 1,200 light-years away. If validated as an exoplanet, CVSO 30c would prove that CVSO 30 has two planets orbiting it.
CVSO 30c. European Southern Observatory
European Southern Observatory (ESO) officials say this could be the first star system discovered to have both a close-in exoplanet and another one that is far-out. “If it is confirmed that CVSO 30c orbits CVSO 30, this would be the first star system to host both a close-in exoplanet detected by the transit method and a far-out exoplanet detected by direct imaging,” ESO officials.
In 2012, astronomers found the first exoplanet, CVSO 3b. They have found that this exoplanet is amazingly close to the star, roughly 1.2 million kilometers in distance — just 11 hours away.
On the other hand, the new exoplanet candidate orbiting it, CVSO 30c, is 98,730,000,000,000 kilometres (61,347,977,809,592 miles) away. This distance is 660 times the Earth’s distance from the sun. Given this fact, it means that one orbital period for this planet would take 27,000 years to complete, making astronomers uncertain whether the star is actually part of the star system. More observations would be necessary to confirm (or disprove) this.
“Astronomers are still exploring how such an exotic system came to form in such a short timeframe, as the star is only 2.5 million years old; it is possible that the two planets interacted at some point in the past, scattering off one another and settling in their current extreme orbits,” ESO officials said.
11,000,000,000,000,000-KILOMETER STALKER RANGE
While CVSO 30c’s status remains undecided, what’s really wonderful about the discovery is how impressive it is that we were able to get a clear image of worlds so far away from us — CVSO 30c is 11 quadrillion kilometers (7 quadrillion miles) away from Earth.
In numerical form, T! That’s 15 zeroes!
ESO researchers worked hard building the appropriately named Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile to make this happen. And that’s not even enough. They needed to combine forces with two other observatories: the Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain.
And at an 11,000,000,000,000,000-kilometer stalker range, it was definitely worth it.
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Will Reach Jupiter on July 4th
NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Will Reach Jupiter on July 4th
This artist's rendering made available by NASA/JPL-Caltech on July 7, 2015 shows the Juno spacecraft above Jupiter. The spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at the planet on July 4, 2016 to begin a nearly year-long study of the gas giant.
NASA's space probe Juno is set to reach Jupiter by July 4, initiating a two year long study on the gas giant that is far more comprehensive than anything before.
JOURNEY TO JUPITER
Fireworks aren’t the only reason to look to the skies this Fourth of July.
As Juno approaches Jupiter’s harsh radiation environment, it will fire its main engine to slow down and then slip into orbit around the planet.
While there, Juno hopes to perform 37 close approaches, trying to learn more about the planet’s origins, structure, atmosphere and magnetosphere.
While this sounds relatively benign, Juno will be facing some of the harshest environs in the Solar System. The combination of the metallic hydrogen along with Jupiter’s fast rotation generates a powerful magnetic field that surrounds the planet with electrons, protons, and ions traveling at nearly the speed of light. This makes for a very harsh radiation environment, deadly for almost any spacecraft.
Because of this, Juno is armored like a knight. Juno’s flight computer and critical electronics are tucked inside a 400-pound titanium vault. It also has special radiation-hardened electrical wiring and shielding.
Juno is running on solar power, with three huge panels designed to face the sun during most of the mission. The wings are 29 feet long and 9 feet wide.
GIANT QUESTIONS
Despite being the biggest kid on the block, we don’t really know that much about Jupiter. Juno hopes help us learn more about Jupiter’s core, answer questions around how much oxygen and water the planet has, and how its magnetic field works. It will also be probing Jupiter’s auroras—the most intense in the solar system.
After Juno completes its mission in 2018, it will plunge into Jupiter and burn up. Scientists planned this finale to eliminate the possibility that it could smack into Europa, one of Jupiter’s watery moons.
Arizona startup Local Motors has just unveiled its electric bus that's 3D printed, and it can talk to its passengers using IBM Watson Internet of Things (IoT) for Automotive.
ALREADY THERE
Self-driving vehicles are the Holy Grail of the transportation technology of the next age. It’s the stuff of science fiction, but it’s coming to life. Big companies like Google, Tesla, General Motors, and even the US Government are accelerating research into the field. But it seems like a small startup beat them to the punch.
The electric vehicle, which can carry up to 12 people, is equipped with IBM Watson Internet of Things (IoT) for Automotive, which is IBM’s car-focused cognitive learning platform.
IBM
The company, unlike others that mix traditional automotive making and self-driving tech, builds the vehicles from the ground up, and produces most components with 3D printers.
The company is able to print a vehicle in about 10 hours and assemble it in another hour. They are also looking at “micro-factories” that could opensource the building of future designs. In fact, the use of 3D printing allows designs based on what individual customers want, and lacks the large infrastructure costs of traditional automakers.
BRAINS OF THE OPERATION
Olli is the first vehicle to utilize the cloud-based cognitive computing capability of IBM Watson IoT to analyze and learn from high volumes of transportation data, which is produced by more than 30 sensors embedded throughout the vehicle.
In fact, IBM Watson will not only allow automated driving, but also interaction with passengers. Passengers will be able to interact conversationally with Olli while traveling from point A to point B, discussing topics about how the vehicle works, where they are going, and why Olli is making specific driving decisions.
“By having authentic conversations with riders about their journey the more they will be connected to technology itself, making them part of the experience rather than an observer. This user experience is the key to making self-driving vehicles a real part of our lives rather than a tech vision of the future”, says Harriet Green, General Manager of IBM Watson Internet of Things in a press release.
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Reference: What Is Artificial Intelligence?
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What Is Artificial Intelligence?
By Jesse Emspak, Live Science Contributor
Much of the recent progress in AI research has been courtesy of an approach known as deep learning.
Credit: PHOTOCREO Michal Bednarek | Shutterstock.com
When most people think of artificial intelligence (AI) they think of HAL 9000 from "2001: A Space Odyssey," Data from "Star Trek," or more recently, the android Ava from "Ex Machina." But to a computerscientist that isn't what AI necessarily is, and the question "what is AI?" can be a complicated one.
One of the standard textbooks in the field, by University of California computer scientists Stuart Russell and Google's director of research, Peter Norvig, puts artificial intelligence in to four broad categories:
The differences between them can be subtle, notes Ernest Davis, a professor of computer science at New York University. AlphaGo, the computer program that beat a world champion at Go, acts rationally when it plays the game (it plays to win). But it doesn't necessarily think the way a human being does, though it engages in some of the same pattern-recognition tasks. Similarly, a machine that acts like a human doesn't necessarily bear much resemblance to people in the way it processes information.
machines that think like humans,
machines that act like humans,
machines that think rationally,
machines that act rationally.
Decades of research and speculative fiction have led to today's computerized assistants such as Apple's Siri.
Credit: by Karl Tate, Infographics Artist
Even IBM's Watson, which acted somewhat like a human when playing Jeopardy, wasn't using anything like the rational processes humans use.
Tough tasks
Davis says he uses another definition, centered on what one wants a computer to do. "There are a number of cognitive tasks that people do easily — often, indeed, with no conscious thought at all — but that are extremely hard to program oncomputers. Archetypal examples are vision and natural language understanding. Artificial intelligence, as I define it, is the study of getting computers to carry out these tasks," he said.
Computer vision has made a lot of strides in the past decade — cameras can now recognize faces in the frame and tell the user where they are. However, computers are still not that good at actually recognizing faces, and the way they do it is different from the way people do. A Google image search, for instance, just looks for images in which the pattern of pixels matches the reference image. More sophisticated face recognition systems look at the dimensions of the face to match them with images that might not be simple face-on photos. Humans process the information rather differently, and exactly how that process works is still something of an open question for neuroscientists and cognitive scientists.
Other tasks, though, are proving tougher. For example, Davis and NYU psychology professor Gary Marcus wrote in the Communications of the Association for ComputingMachinery of "common sense" tasks that computers find very difficult. A robot serving drinks, for example, can be programmed to recognize a request for one, and even to manipulate a glass and pour one. But if a fly lands in the glass the computer still has a tough time deciding whether to pour the drink in and serve it (or not).
The issue is that much of "common sense" is very hard to model. Computer scientists have taken several approaches to get around that problem. IBM's Watson, for instance, was able to do so well on Jeopardy! because it had a huge database of knowledge to work with and a few rules to string words together to make questions and answers. Watson, though, would have a difficult time with a simple open-ended conversation.
Beyond tasks, though, is the issue of learning. Machines can learn, said Kathleen McKeown, a professor of computer science at Columbia University. "Machine learning is a kind of AI," she said.
Some machine learning works in a way similar to the way people do it, she noted. Google Translate, for example, uses a large corpus of text in a given language to translate to another language, a statistical process that doesn't involve looking for the "meaning" of words. Humans, she said, do something similar, in that we learn languages by seeing lots of examples.
That said, Google Translate doesn't always get it right, precisely because it doesn't seek meaning and can sometimes be fooled by synonyms or differing connotations.
One area that McKeown said is making rapid strides is summarizing texts; systems to do that are sometimes employed by law firms that have to go through a lot of it.
McKeown also thinks personal assistants is an area likely to move forward quickly. "I would look at the movie 'Her,'" she said. In that 2013 movie starring Joaquin Phoenix, a man falls in love with an operating system that has consciousness.
"I initially didn't want to go see it, I said that's totally ridiculous," McKeown said. "But I actually enjoyed it. People are building these conversational assistants, and trying to see how far can we get."
The upshot is AIs that can handle certain tasks well exist, as do AIs that look almost human because they have a large trove of data to work with. Computer scientists have been less successful coming up with an AI that can think the way we expect a human being to, or to act like a human in more than very limited situations.
"I don't think we're in a state that AI is so good that it will do things we hadn't imagined it was going to do," McKeown said.
Mars Rover Panorama Shows Sweeping 'Marathon Valley' (Photo)
Mars Rover Panorama Shows Sweeping 'Marathon Valley' (Photo)
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
This view of Marathon Valley, with Endeavour Crater in the background, is a composite of many images captured by NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover during April and May 2016. The panorama spans from north (left) to west-southwest.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.
An epic Mars panorama shows the snaking valley that NASA's long-lived Opportunity rover has been exploring for the last year — and will likely soon leave behind.
The newly released photo — a composite of many images Opportunity captured in April and May — depicts Marathon Valley, a feature that cuts across the western rim of the 14-mile-wide (22 kilometers) Endeavour Crater.
Opportunity arrived in the valley in July 2015 to hunt for clay minerals, signs of which had been spotted from above by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (Clay minerals form via the interaction of liquid water with rock, which makes them of special interest to the Opportunity team; the rover's mission aims to help tease out the history of liquid water on Mars.) [Latest Mars Rover Photos by Opportunity]
While doing this work in Marathon Valley, the rover encountered some curious red crumbly material. Opportunity's handlers used one of the robot's six wheels to scuff the stuff, exposing some fresh samples for study.
The results were intriguing, mission team members said.
"In the scuff, we found one of the highest sulfur contents that's been seen anywhere on Mars," Opportunity principal investigator Steve Squyres, of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, said in a statement.
"There's strong evidence that, among other things, these altered zones have a lot of magnesium sulfate," Squyres added. "We don't think these altered zones are where the clay is, but magnesium sulfate is something you would expect to find precipitating from water. Fractures running through the bedrock, forming conduits through which water could flow and transport soluble materials, could alter the rock and create the pattern of red zones that we see."
This enhanced-color view of Marathon Valley, with Endeavour Crater in the background, is a composite of many images captured by NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover during April and May 2016. The panorama spans from north (left) to west-southwest.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ.
Such analyses may be some of the last work Opportunity does in Marathon Valley; it's about time for the rover to move along, Squyres said.
"We are wrapping up our last few activities in Marathon Valley, and before long we'll drive away, exiting along the southern wall of the valley and heading southeast," he said.
Marathon Valley got its name because Opportunity rolled into the region shortly after its odometer ticked past 26.219 miles (42.195 km) — the length of a marathon race.
As of Tuesday (June 14), the rover had covered a total of 26.59 miles (42.79 km) on the Red Planet, NASA officials said. No other vehicle has ever traveled farther on the surface of a world beyond Earth.
The golf-cart-size Opportunity landed on Mars in January 2004, a few weeks after its twin, Spirit. Both robots were tasked with three-month missions, but they kept exploring long after their warranties expired. Spirit was declared dead in March 2011, and Opportunity is still going strong today.
Centuries-Old Shipwreck Recreated with 3D Printing
Centuries-Old Shipwreck Recreated with 3D Printing
By Edd Gent, Live Science Contributor
The Drumbeg shipwreck lies almost 40 feet (12 meters) underwater in Eddrachillis Bay, off the northwest coast of Scotland. This 3D-printed model shows the three cannon, two anchors and partial hull that remain at the shipwreck site.
Credit: John McCarthy/Copyright Wessex Archaeology 2016
The seabed holds some fascinating historical secrets, but unlike monuments on land, they’re largely hidden from view. Now, archaeologists in the United Kingdom are using 3D printing to bring two historical shipwrecks to life for history enthusiasts and experts alike.
Using data from photogrammetry (measuring the distance between objects from photographs) and sonar imaging, the researchers have produced scale models of a 17th-century shipwreck near Drumbeg, in Scotland, and the remains of the HMHS Anglia, a steamship that was used as a floating hospital during World War I. The steamship was sunk by a mine off the south coast of England.
"It was a proof of concept for us, trying to establish what could be done using sound and light, but there are so many different applications you could use this for," said maritime archaeologist John McCarthy, a project manager at Wessex Archaeology who carried out dives at the Scottish site and was in charge of producing the 3D models. [Photos: Shipwrecks of the Deep Sea]
"People can engage much more easily with a physical object in front of them. You can bring it to schools and conferences, and we are hoping to donate both models to local museums, once we've finished with them," McCarthy told Live Science.
It was not particularly difficult to create 3D-printed representations of the shipwrecks, McCarthy said. The magic, he said, was in creating the virtual models that were fed into the 3D printer.
McCarthy carried out initial experimental surveys of the Drumbeg wreck in 2012 with his colleague Jonathan Benjamin, who is now a lecturer at Flinders University in Australia. McCarthy recently joined him there to begin Ph.D. studies under Benjamin's supervision.
At the Drumbeg wreck site, the pair found three heavily encrusted cannons with evidence of a preserved wooden hull underneath. The ship's identity is still unknown, but one theory holds that it is a Dutch trading vessel called the Crowned Raven, which is known to have been lost in the bay in the late 1600s.
After realizing the techniques they were using could provide enough data for a 3D model, the archaeologists went back to do a more detailed survey in 2014 and used the lessons they had learned from their first attempt.
The archaeologists used a technique called photogrammetry, which involves taking hundreds of overlapping photographs of a site and then feeding them into a computer program that can stitch them together. The application is able to establish the spatial relationships between photos, which allows it to create a so-called 3D point cloud that maps each image in 3D space.
"Once you have a point cloud, you can turn it into a solid surface," McCarthy said. "Then you have a 3D model of the site that's not subjective or an artist's impression, but entirely objective."
The HMHS Anglia was sunk by a mine off the south coast of England. The steamship was used as a floating hospital during World War I.
Credit: John McCarthy/Copyright Wessex Archaeology 2016
The benefits of photogrammetry are that it produces very high-resolution images and it can capture the true color of the site, McCarthy said. The method is easily thwarted, however, by excess marine growth or poor visibility, and it is not well-suited to covering large areas.
Sonar, on the other hand, can see through the murk and can cover much larger areas, McCarthy said. For the 329-foot-long (100 meters) HMHS Anglia, another team from Wessex Archaeology used multibeam sonar — which operates in a similar way to a laser scanner — to do a much larger survey of the shipwreck site.
While multibeam sonar can't match the subcentimeter resolution of photogrammetry, using higher-end equipment and doing many passes can boost accuracy, McCarthy said. The Anglia survey was a particularly high-resolution one, he added, which was part of the reason it was selected for the 3D printing project.
McCarthy pointed out that the Wessex Archaeology team is not the first to create 3D-printed models from underwater imaging data. He said that the field has been booming in recent years, with big advances in both sonar and photographic techniques, and even some novel laser-scanning approaches are beginning to come through.
"All maritime archaeologists are engaging heavily with these techniques now," McCarthy said. "Advances in hardware and software in the last five years has allowed us to do very rapid and cheap surveys, and it has added to the tools we use underwater."
Ex British Police Officer says Aliens are Among Us [FULL VIDEO]
Ex British Police Officer says Aliens are Among Us [FULL VIDEO]
Published on Jan 18, 2016
This is the story of a man's battle to uncover the truth about the alien races who visit Earth. With the experience of many years as a serving police officer Tony has tackled top-secret government cover-ups, survived threats to his life and established telepathic communication with the aliens.
Since he first encountered a UFO, he has sought an explanation for this unexplained phenomenon that has taken him around the world, and brought him into contact with abductees and government officials who believe that the truth about links with alien civilisations can no longer be hidden.
He will convince you that there really IS an Alien presence on planet Earth.
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UFO Lights Seen Over Rosario River, Argentina On June 12, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Lights Seen Over Rosario River, Argentina On June 12, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 12, 2016 19:48 Location of sighting: Rosario River, Argentina News Source:http://inexplicata.blogspot.tw
This is an interesting sighting of some glowing lights over the Rosario river in Argentina last week. It looks like we are seeing a UFO hovering over the water, hence the two long lights. However the top light is actually the UFO, the bottom light may be the reflection or the illumination from the doorway below the surface which the UFO probably came from. Hiding a doorway underwater that takes you to an underground base is a smart move. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: Argentina: Uncanny Light Source Photographed in Argentina The following is a message from Silvia Pérez Simondini, director of Visión OVNI and CEFORA, sent to UFO groups: Dear Friends, I was truly amazed on Sunday night. For 26 years, night after night, I have observed and have come to know each spot on the island from the summit of Cerro de la Matanza. On Sunday, with my friend Checo Jaroslav, we visited the summit once more, and I was astonished to see a vast source of light in the middle of the river. The lights of the city of Rosario could be seen in the distance, which gave me the certainty that these lights we were seeing were much closer to Victoria. I'd like to clarify a few things. The bridges along the Victoria-Rosario route are not lit, much less in this manner. All along the route there is nothing I know that has such illumination. It was interesting to observe it from hilltop, but what happened later was truly fantastic. The upper part of the illumination vanished as if by magic, and since Checo was returning to Buenos Aires along that route, we agreed that he would make sure to see what it was from both sides. The fact is he saw absolutely nothing, or any area illuminated in such a way. We have no idea what it was, only that it was never in the river, and I'm sure that I'll never see it again. These are the photos. The last photo depicts how it was left after the upper section vanished, and what evidently also vanished when Checo departed. [Editor's Note: Cerro de la Matanza - Slaughter Hill - owes its name to a mass killing of natives in 1750 by Francisco Antonio de Vera y Mujica, governor of the city of Santa Fe. The name appears in official documents from 1779.] [Translation (c) 2016 S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to Guillermo Giménez and Silvia Pérez Simondini]
Crop Circle Found On Berlin, Germany Farm, June 12, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Crop Circle Found On Berlin, Germany Farm, June 12, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: June 12, 2016 Location of discovery: Berlin, Germany
This is a fascinating crop formation. It has a flower or question mark appearance to it. It may have hidden symbols to it, but its hard to make out for sure. Today crop formations are both made by hoaxers and by aliens. Ever since the popularity in the 1990s, people noticed that all the attention was cool, and that they too could make such things. But don't be misled...aliens were the ones who started it all, but humans are making a mockery of it by trying to fool their own species. Crop formations have been recorded going way back in history.
Farmers have reported finding strange circles in their fields for centuries. The earliest mention of a crop circle dates back to the 1500s. A 17th century English woodcut shows a devilish creature making a crop circle. People who lived in the area called the creature the "mowing devil."
In an 1880 issue of the journal Nature, amateur scientist John Rand Capron reported on a formation near Guildford, Surrey, in the south of England. He described his finding as "a field of standing wheat considerably knocked about, not as an entirety, but in patches forming, as viewed from a distance, circular spots." He went on to say, "... I could not trace locally any circumstances accounting for the peculiar forms of the patches in the field ... They were suggestive to me of some cyclonic wind action..."
Mentions of crop circles were sporadic until the 20th century, when circles began appearing in the 1960s and '70s in England and the United States. But the phenomenon didn't gain attention until 1980, when a farmer in Wiltshire county, England, discovered three circles, about 60 feet (18 meters) across each, in his oat crops. UFO researchers and media descended on the farm, and the world first began to learn about crop circles.
By the 1990s...crop circles had become something of a tourist attraction. In 1990 alone, more than 500 circles emerged in Europe. Within the next few years, there were thousands. Visitors came from around the world to see them. Some farmers even charged admission to their mysterious attractions. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Baffled astronomers made the announcement that deepened the mystery of the bright spots on the dwarf planet Ceres. They recently claimed that the famous spots blinked at intervals of around nine hours.
With the latest discovery, some UFO hunters suggested that it is a definitive evidence of the theory that bright spots on Ceres are artificial beacons transmitting coded signals. The signals would guide ET spaceships coming in to land at a base on the dwarf planet, the largest body being discovered in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
The unexpected fluctuations in the brightness of the mystery spots were observed in the spectrograph of High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. The widely known spots, called faculae, can be found in an 80-kilometer crater Occator.
Some UFO enthusiasts speculate that it is a signal. It could be a warning signal, a radar tower, or a greeting signal. It must be there for a purpose, according to UFO researchers. Does humanity need to signal back?
Some members of the UFO community think that alien colonists created the bright spots on the dwarf planet. Others speculate the extraterrestrials are still living on Ceres while some believe aliens may have already abandoned the planet long ago, but the lights are still working.
In December 2015, scientists already suggested that the bright spots could be a form of brine containing magnesium sulfate hexahydrate (MgSO4.6H20). Alien hunters, meanwhile, agree with scientists but insisted that aliens have used these materials to make a beacon.
Scientists have a better explanation for the variations in brightness. They suspect the fluctuations could be due to the activity below the surface that involves churning out plumes of material that reflect light when the planet faces the Sun. The brightness decreases when the plumes evaporate. The process could repeat in the next rotation when the planet faces the Sun again.
However, scientists admit they don’t have enough data and observations to confirm the hypothesis.
If there are aliens on the dwarf planet, what do you think the identity of these aliens? Grey aliens? Tall Whites? Pleiadian Nordic aliens? Reptillians? Anakim? Or Altairians?
We were abducted by aliens the beautiful women who claim ET’s got them pregnant
We were abducted by aliens the beautiful women who claim ET’s got them pregnant
A BIZARRE group claims it is creating a race of human-alien hybrids by having sex with extra terrestrials which then take their children into outer space.
The US-based Hybrid Children Community, is trying to recruit more parent breeders, in a bid top “evolve” the human race into a new sub-species which will take over the Earth when the children currently conveniently housed on giant space ships “return to our planet”.Women in the group, who include young glamorous 20-somethings, even claim mating with reptile-like lizards was the best sex they have ever experienced.
These include Bridget Nielsen, 27, from Sedona, Arizona, who is a hybrid mum and medium who charges $65 (£46) for an over the phone session to put parents, who believe they may have conceived hybrid children, in touch with they offspring, according to the community’s website.
Describing sex with a lizard being on a spaceship, she said: “It was great. It was an incredible super primal, super raw, super primal sexual experience.
“There was a really freedom and we were really going for it. It was the best sex I ever had.”
Another young hybrid mum is Aluna Verse, from Los Angeles, California.
Between them Bridget and Aluna claim to have 13 children fathered by aliens.The website, which also charges for other similar sessions and asks for donations, says there are millions of hybrid parents on Earth who have conceived children with aliens either through artificial insemination or full sex, and many remain unaware.The community was founded by Sharon McCormick, aged in her 60s, and former marketing executive Miss Nielsen.
On the website Ms McCormick says: “Since I discovered six and a half years ago that I have many hybrid children, my mission in life has become to help spread the word that they’re real, positive and loving, and to support the parents, siblings and friends of these remarkable kids.
“The concept of hybrid children is so new to so many of us that I believe connecting with each other is of primary importance formoving us all ahead toward the day when we will be vibrationally ready for the children to arrive on Earth.”
Members of the group believe aliens have been harvesting their DNA to create children that combine the best of both human and alien characteristics over a period several years.
Breeding programme: Artwork of childrenFounder members: Sharon McCormick (left) and Bridgit Nielsen
Miss Nielson said alien sex was the “best ever” and refuted claims from sceptics of a lack of evidence for the cosmic carnal encounters, saying ETs only take women who, “want to be taken”.She lives with her dad but claims to have four boys and six girls who she has regular contact with.She said: “They are not just taking our children – they are creating a hybrid race to better humanity.”The parents draw their hybrid children who look, as you might expect like a human/reptilian cross breed with big blackeyes.Ms Verse, a computer game designer who claims to have three hybrids, says she was taken on board a spaceship in a “dream state” and she has vivid memories of the sex.She said: “I was in a classroom setting with other humans.
“All of sudden I’m sat next to this green reptilian creature and immediately I’m so sexually turned on looking at this being.
“I was very surprised. We’re making love in this classroom in front of everyone. Everyone turned their attention to us.”It sounds crazy and people have asked if I’m off my meds, but this is really happening.”Philip Mollica, from Clarkston, Michigan, aged in his 50s, claims to have been discovering his hybrid children since 2012.He said: ” I feel a great love for these children, mine and all the others as well. I look forward with great anticipation as this all unfolds.”In an almost cult-like move, the group say they are planning to establish a property where they can live together as a safe place for their children to visit.
Ms Nielson said: “It will be somewhere away from the cities, somewhere where the children can visit, run free and express themselves. People say we are crazy but we are not, this is really happening to us.”
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Yes, There Have Been Aliens
Yes, There Have Been Aliens
CreditGérard DuBois
LAST month astronomers from the Kepler spacecraft team announced the discovery of 1,284 new planets, all orbiting stars outside our solar system. The total number of such “exoplanets” confirmed via Kepler and other methods now stands at more than 3,000.
This represents a revolution in planetary knowledge. A decade or so ago the discovery of even a single new exoplanet was big news. Not anymore. Improvements in astronomical observation technology have moved us from retail to wholesale planet discovery. We now know, for example, that every star in the sky likely hosts at least one planet.
But planets are only the beginning of the story. What everyone wants to know is whether any of these worlds has aliens living on it. Does our newfound knowledge of planets bring us any closer to answering that question?
A little bit, actually, yes. In a paper published in the May issue of the journal Astrobiology, the astronomer Woodruff Sullivan and I show that while we do not know if any advanced extraterrestrial civilizations currently exist in our galaxy, we now have enough information to conclude that they almost certainly existed at some point in cosmic history.
Among scientists, the probability of the existence of an alien society with which we might make contact is discussed in terms of something called the Drake equation. In 1961, the National Academy of Sciences asked the astronomer Frank Drake to host a scientific meeting on the possibilities of “interstellar communication.” Since the odds of contact with alien life depended on how many advanced extraterrestrial civilizations existed in the galaxy, Drake identified seven factors on which that number would depend, and incorporated them into an equation.
The first factor was the number of stars born each year. The second was the fraction of stars that had planets. After that came the number of planets per star that traveled in orbits in the right locations for life to form (assuming life requires liquid water). The next factor was the fraction of such planets where life actually got started. Then came factors for the fraction of life-bearing planets on which intelligence and advanced civilizations (meaning radio signal-emitting) evolved. The final factor was the average lifetime of a technological civilization.
Drake’s equation was not like Einstein’s E=mc2. It was not a statement of a universal law. It was a mechanism for fostering organized discussion, a way of understanding what we needed to know to answer the question about alien civilizations. In 1961, only the first factor — the number of stars born each year — was understood. And that level of ignorance remained until very recently.
That’s why discussions of extraterrestrial civilizations, no matter how learned, have historically boiled down to mere expressions of hope or pessimism. What, for example, is the fraction of planets that form life? Optimists might marshal sophisticated molecular biological models to argue for a large fraction. Pessimists then cite their own scientific data to argue for a fraction closer to 0. But with only one example of a life-bearing planet (ours), it’s hard to know who is right.
Or consider the average lifetime of a civilization. Humans have been using radio technology for only about 100 years. How much longer will our civilization last? A thousand more years? A hundred thousand more? Ten million more? If the average lifetime for a civilization is short, the galaxy is likely to be unpopulated most of the time. Once again, however, with only one example to draw from, it’s back to a battle between pessimists and optimists.
But our new planetary knowledge has removed some of the uncertainty from this debate. Three of the seven terms in Drake’s equation are now known. We know the number of stars born each year. We know that the percentage of stars hosting planets is about 100. And we also know that about 20 to 25 percent of those planets are in the right place for life to form. This puts us in a position, for the first time, to say something definitive about extraterrestrial civilizations — if we ask the right question.
In our recent paper, Professor Sullivan and I did this by shifting the focus of Drake’s equation. Instead of asking how many civilizations currently exist, we asked what the probability is that ours is the only technological civilization that has ever appeared. By asking this question, we could bypass the factor about the average lifetime of a civilization. This left us with only three unknown factors, which we combined into one “biotechnical” probability: the likelihood of the creation of life, intelligent life and technological capacity.
You might assume this probability is low, and thus the chances remain small that another technological civilization arose. But what our calculation revealed is that even if this probability is assumed to be extremely low, the odds that we are not the first technological civilization are actually high. Specifically, unless the probability for evolving a civilization on a habitable-zone planet is less than one in 10 billion trillion, then we are not the first.
To give some context for that figure: In previous discussions of the Drake equation, a probability for civilizations to form of one in 10 billion per planet was considered highly pessimistic. According to our finding, even if you grant that level of pessimism, a trillion civilizations still would have appeared over the course of cosmic history.
In other words, given what we now know about the number and orbital positions of the galaxy’s planets, the degree of pessimism required to doubt the existence, at some point in time, of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization borders on the irrational.
In science an important step forward can be finding a question that can be answered with the data at hand. Our paper did just this. As for the big question — whether any other civilizations currently exist — we may have to wait a long while for relevant data. But we should not underestimate how far we have come in a short time.
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Scientists discover ‘Unnatural’ mysterious element in formation of solar system
Scientists discover ‘Unnatural’ mysterious element in formation of solar system
Researchers have just confirmed the presence of an ‘unnatural’ mysterious element during the formation of our solar system. It is one of the heaviest known elements and does not occur naturally. Interestingly, on our planet curium can only exist when created in laboratories or as a byproduct of nuclear explosions.
Mysterious ‘unnatural’ element present in the formation of solar system
Curium was named after Marie Curie and Peter Curie whose work lay the foundations of the theory of radioactivity.Researchers identified Curium present in a meteorite nicknamed ‘Curious Marie’ by researchers offers new insight into how stars form. The presence of Curium suggests that nearly all ‘heavy radioactive isotopes’ could have formed at the same time.
The research was published in the Journal Science Advances.
According to scientists from the University of Chicago, a rare element known as ‘curium’ which was found in a meteorite during the formation of our solar system, around 4.6billion years ago. Researchers believe that the element does not occur naturally on earth and it was first produced and identified in 1944 by a group of scientists at Berkley, California.
The lead author of the study, François Tissot said that „Curium is an elusive element“.
“It is one of the heaviest-known elements, yet it does not occur naturally because all of its isotopes are radioactive and decay rapidly on a geological time scale.“
Researchers can use it in order to determine an accurate reading on when our planet was created. According to co-author Nicolas Dauphas: “The possible presence of curium in the early solar system has long been exciting to cosmochemists because they can often use radioactive elements as chronometers to date the relative ages of meteorites and planets.”
Researchers speculate that the enigmatic element could have come into existence as a result of star formations, or massive star explosions that happened before the solar system was born.
Professor Dauphas continued: “This is particularly important because it indicates that as successive generations of stars die and eject the elements they produced into the galaxy, the heaviest elements are produced together while previous work had suggested that this was not the case.”
According to a report from the University of Chicago, „models predict that curium, if present, was in low abundance in the early solar system. Therefore, the excess U-235 produced by the decay of Cm-247 cannot be seen in minerals or inclusions that contain large or even average amounts of natural uranium. One of the challenges was thus to find a mineral or inclusion likely to have incorporated a lot of curium but containing little uranium.“
Nikola Tesla reports in 1895 incredible experience, ” I could see the past, present and future all at the same time
Nikola Tesla reports in 1895 incredible experience, ” I could see the past, present and future all at the same time
In 1895, while conducting research with its transformer, Nikola Tesla had his first indications that time and space could be influenced by the use of a highly magnetic field.
Part of this revelation came from Tesla’s experimentation with radio frequencies and power transmission through the atmosphere. Simple Tesla discovery would, years later, lead to the infamous Philadelphia Experiment and time travel projects. But even before these ultra-secret military programs were to arise, Tesla made some fascinating discoveries about the nature of time and the real possibilities of time travel.
With these experiments in high-voltage electricity and magnetic fields, Tesla discovered that time and space could be violated or deformed, creating a “door” that could lead to other times. But with this monumental discovery, Tesla also discovered, through personal experience, the real dangers inherent with time travel.
The first Tesla experience with time travel was in March 1895. A reporter for the New York Herald wrote on March 13, he came across the inventor in a small café, looking shaken after being hit by 3.5 million volts, “I think you will not find me a pleasant companion tonight,” said Tesla, “the fact is that I almost died today. A spark jumped three feet in the air and took me here on the right shoulder. If my assistant had not turned off the power instantly, it could have been the end of me. “
Tesla, in contact with the resonance of electromagnetic charge, found himself out of his reference space / time window. He reported that he could see the past, present and future all at the same time. But he was paralyzed within the electromagnetic field, unable to help himself. His assistant, turning the power off, saved Tesla before any permanent damage was done. The repetition of the same incident would occur years later during the Philadelphia Experiment. Unfortunately, the sailors involved were left outside your window space reference / time long with disastrous results.
‘I proved human-alien hybrids EXIST’, says scientist who ‘found them living on Earth’
‘I proved human-alien hybrids EXIST’, says scientist who ‘found them living on Earth’
A GREEN energy expert, who helped shape UK renewable power policies, says he is convinced aliens have been secretly implanting extra terrestrial DNA into pregnant humans.
Author Miguel Mendonça, 42, now claims the so-called alien-hybrid community is expanding on Earth and vital to the future of the human race because of how they are helping us “evolve into higher beings”.Mr Mendonça, who suffers with MS, the illness that leaves suffers with neurological symptoms, muscle pain and severe physical and mental exhaustion, even feels better with increased energy levels for having regular contact with the hybrids, although he stressed it could not cure his condition.He said: “It’s made no difference to my condition, but I do feel better on some levels.”Mr Mendonça, from Bristol, was formerly research manager for the World Future Council, which promotes best policy renewable power sources, and has written extensively on green energy policy. However, for his latest publication, Meet The Hybrids: The Lives And Missions of ET Ambassadors On Earth published by Amazon and co-authored with Barbara Lamb, he spent time interviewing eight people who claim they have grown up with implanted alien DNA in their bodies and are part of a mission to improve mankind.Ms Lamb has held great interest in the claims since she first heard them and has been an alien abduction researcher since the 1980s.Mr Mendonça said he began the project with an open mind, but after finishing the research was convinced they were telling the truth and thinks he has now solved the mystery of why UFOs allegedly visit the Earth.Green guru turned alien believer Miguel MendonçaHe said: “I try to keep my feet on the ground as much as possible.“My background is in renewable energy policy gained as an academic, so I have to be sure of my facts.“These hybrids are raising the vibration and awakening people. I have begun to go through this process and to me it is undeniable.“Whenever someone with a strong ET aspect talks to me I feel my energy shift – it just goes through the roof. “I find myself seeing energy with my third eye.“I am a writer, and just wanted to share their stories, and had no clue I would be affected, it’s changed my life.“I will try to use what has been revealed. For one thing, it has solved some of the mystery of the UFO subject.“We know why they are coming here and who they are.”
Co-author Barbara Lamb
Half alien? Robert Frost-Fullington
In researching the book, each ‘hybrid’ was given the same set of questions to answer, including how they discovered they were a hybrid, what their genetic make-up was, and why they were here on Earth.Mr Mendonça told Express.co.uk: “What became clear was how similar each of their accounts were. These were hybrids independent of each other who were describing the same experiences.”Among the interviewees was Robert Frost-Fullington, 36, from California, in the US.He claimed to have DNA from four alien species known as reptilians, Sirians, Tall Whites and those which appear like a praying mantis.He claimed in the book to have had implants inserted under his tongue at the age of five, before experiencing several encounters with aliens. After periods of “conscious recall”, in 2011, he said he realised he was a hybrid.Asked how he was created, he said: “When the human woman becomes pregnant, she’s taken up onto a craft and the beings will take the embryo and create a genetic overlay.”But far from seeing this non-consensual kidnap and interference as sinister, Mr Frost-Fullington and other hydbrids, including women, claim it is being done in the interest of humanity.
The people interviewed claimed their mission on Earth was to “raise” what they believe is a “frequency” on Earth by increasing an energy they refer to as “vibrations.”
Intergalactic heritage: Tatiana Amore
They all suggested this was triggering an ascension to take place, whereby humans will evolve from the third to an alleged fifth dimension, and lead more spiritual rather than physical lives.Things such as war and violence are likely to end, it is claimed.Tatiana Amore, 34, from southern England, was also interviewed, and said she was predominately of the “Pleiadian” race.She said: “I understand the Earth is now changing to a new frequency which is meant to be lighter and better for humans.”However, although the hybrid were described as independent, one of them was Cynthia Crawford, 67, from Arizona.It became clear in the book she had counselled and met several of the other interviewees before the research began.
Legal alien? Cynthia Crawford
Mrs Crawford and Mrs Lamb also both spoke at the 2011 Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) annual convention at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Irvine, California, according to skepticblog.com. We asked Mr Mendonça why he had not extended the research to interviewing the alleged hybrid’s parents, or more scientific tests, such as putting the subjects through DNA and lie detector testing, and locating their alleged implants for further examination.Mr Mendonça said: “Some said their parents were freaked out or did not want to know because they were old-school Christians.”He did not believe DNA screening would show anything unusual, because: “All it would find is their normal code and it would ignore anything else.”He added that they were reluctant to give up their DNA samples amid fears “secret military projects would use it to create human super soldiers.”But he added: “Robert is apparently warming to the idea of doing DNA testing, but we did not ask people to submit to DNA tests as much as anything because we did not have funding for that.”He added he had not considered the use of lie detectors or scans for implants, but that there had been an “independent verification” of interviewee Charmaine D’Rozario-Saytch, a 28-year-old woman from southern England, having a “possible implant”.
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INDIA will be the first country to explain to the world about ALIENS CONTACTS?
INDIA will be the first country to explain to the world about ALIENS CONTACTS?
New Delhi is in the middle of a big secret internal debate. On one side the largest democracy of the world is eager to explain to its citizens and to the world about the ongoing contacts with the UFOs and extraterrestrials. On the other hand there are invisible untold international protocols that prohibit doing anything that may cause worldwide fear and panic.
It is well accepted between the UFO and extra-terrestrial experts that all the five nuclear powers are in contact with the beings from other stars for quite some time. Recently India has seen enormous news on UFO contacts and secret UFO bases in Himalayas near the Chinese bases. In Ladak, for example the locals clearly point out the everyday phenomenon of large triangular spacecrafts coming out below the ground and Indian security forces protecting them.
Military officials and politicians have confessed the fact that India has been contacted. India has been told the rules of the Universe.
The current debate is on whether to keep it secret like other countries are doing or in tradition of a total transparent society come out and tell the truth. India is so open and democratic; it is very difficult to keep a secret for long. The biggest concern of the Government today is that unlike in other countries, it will be very difficult to keep it secret for long. If the information comes out through unofficial channels first and then the authorities are pressed against the wall to confess, two bad things can happen. First, it can really cause a panic in the country as well as the world. Second, the way the Indian politics is run, the ruling party will be thrown out of power in no time i it is ever found that the Government withheld such information from the public.
The recent rush of world leaders to India is remarkable. Starting from Russian President Putin to major Senators from America have visited or are planning to visit India. European Union is in deep discussion with India on cooperation. All sanctions against India’s nuclear programs and Indian Space Research Organization are in the process of being lifted. India is cooperating with Europeans and the Americans in space explorations and technology research program. India is also part of World Trade Organization. India is receiving major outsourcing contracts in IT and call-center service work from America and Europe. India’s Forex reserve is at a level never imagined before because of international direct investments from Western nations, Japan, Korea and others. Interestingly, China the arc rival of India changed its posture in the last few years to make India’s friendship and trade a priority. India is slowly getting to the point when it is accepted as a permanent member of the Security Council. All the five Security Council members China, America, Russia, France and UK support India’s inclusion.
When all these factors are added together and analyzed, it seems like India is being told by the world to abide by the hidden protocols and in exchange be recognized as a major emerging superpower.
The debate the country is facing internally is whether to abide by the laws of the world and the Universe to be recognized as a superpower or be truthful to its citizens and the world.
According to sources close to the Government, the UFO contacts is known by quite a few politicians in the opposition and of course by those who are in power.
The military has legitimate concern of not letting the secrets out either.
Recently, India’s foreign affairs minister Mr. Natwar Singh came out and said that for India it was not necessary to become a nuclear power. He is a strong supporter of Mrs. Indira Gandhi, India’s former Prime Minister who initiated the nuclear program in the mid sixties. India first exploded a nuclear device in Pokhran in early seventies. The whole country including people from his own party questioned Mr. Singh for such an irresponsible statement. But on analyzing his statements, it is evident, that based on what he knows now, being a nuclear power really does not matter much because the technologies controlled by the extra-terrestrials are so advanced that all our technologies mean really nothing. But importantly he may be irritated with this controversial ongoing secret debate and what he really meant was that if India was not a nuclear power, the debate on UFO and extra-terrestrials will never be there in India.
Sudden, radical and often violent, revolutions are usually hard to miss. But it is entirely possible to live through a scientific revolution without noticing until we look back to see just how different our lives have become.
Such a revolution is now sweeping through medicine.
In the quest for cures for everything from cancer and heart disease to organ failure and lost limbs, scientists are increasingly turning towards the same source of answers: the human body itself.
After decades of trying but failing to match our own self-healing abilities, researchers are trying to understand how they work and how to boost them.
Pharmaceutical giants Glaxo- SmithKline and Amgen recently joined leading academic researchers to find ways of using our immune systems to seek and destroy cancer cells.
Known as the Cancer MoonShot 2020 programme, it builds on recent advances in such “immunotherapy", which have had success in treating patients with lung, skin and blood cancers.
Meanwhile, biomedical researchers worldwide are learning to use stem cells – part of the body’s own “repair kit" – to create body parts and even entire organs to order.
Collections of kidney, lung and heart cells have already been made in the laboratory. Work is under way to scale them up, creating replacement organs from patients’ own cells, which can therefore be implanted without fear of rejection by their immune system.
But the biggest advances look set to emerge from one of the most astounding facts about the human body: that most of it is not human at all.
At least half of the cells in our bodies are microbes: bacteria, viruses and other organisms we have acquired in our lifetime.
Collectively known as the microbiome, these fellow travellers might seem like the enemy within. Yet it is now clear that they are vital to our health and well-being – and may explain otherwise perplexing links between diet and the onset of lethal diseases.
We start acquiring our microbiome from the moment of birth, picking up microbes from our mother and anyone else who touches us. Our cells then use specific genes to encourage the growth of beneficial bacteria while attacking harmful ones.
Breastfeeding provides another rich source of microbes, as well as complex carbohydrates and proteins that are specifically designed to encourage the growth of Bifidobacteria, a type of gut bacterium that wards off pathogens.
By adulthood, the microbiome has developed into a complex of hundreds of different types of bacteria, plus at least as many varieties of viruses and fungi.
The biggest concentrations – about 100 billion per millilitre – are found in the gut, where they work alongside human cells to digest nutrients.
Now scientists are investigating this collaboration and how it affects our health for good or ill.
This month, a team in the United States published research into how the interaction of human and microbial cells is affected by what we eat, thus casting light on the link between diet and disease.
According to the team – led by Athena Aktipis, an assistant professor at Arizona State University – in healthy people the two types of cells benefit from each other, with the microbes producing energy and vitamins and attacking pathogens, while the human cells provide them with conditions that allow them to thrive.
But according to Prof Aktipis and her colleagues, this symbiosis can be disrupted by a diet that is low in fibre but high in sugar.
Unlike dietary fibre, sugar can be used not only by human cells but also by potentially harmful microbes, such as pathogenic E. coli. The resulting outbreak of “cell wars" can then lead to obesity, diabetes and an early death.
In separate research published this month in the journal Nature, a team – led by Rachel Perry, a postdoctoral fellow in endocrinology at Yale University – described another potential link between the microbiome and obesity. Experiments on mice showed that changes in gut microbes can alter hormones linked to hunger and digestion – leading to over-eating and obesity.
Diet-related cell wars are also suspected of being triggers for two of the biggest killers in developed nations: cancer and heart disease.
The link with cancer is thought to come about via the immune system’s attempts to fight the pathogens as they attack internal organs. The result is inflammation, leading to malfunctioning healthy cells, which then grow uncontrollably – the hallmark of cancer.
In the case of heart disease, one culprit is thought be the ability of “bad" microbes to turn nutrients into compounds that create artery-clogging plaques.
Recent studies of healthy volunteers on vegan diets found their microbiomes appear to lack these organisms, reducing the risk of heart disease.
Evidence is also emerging that the microbiome provides the “missing link" between the Mediterranean diet – rich in fresh fruit, vegetables and olive oil – and better long-term health.
The microbiome also seems to explain otherwise baffling links found by researchers between heart disease and dental hygiene.
Our mouths play host to more than 100 species of microbes, and gum disease and tooth loss is a symptom of the kind of cell wars now linked to serious disease in the rest of the body.
The promise of more such insights has prompted a proposed US$121 million (Dh444.5m) National Microbiome Initiative among US government departments including the National Institutes of Health.
Unveiled last month, one of its key aims is to set up long-term human studies to reveal more about the links between health and the microbiome.
Meanwhile, drug companies are racing to find compounds that can target specific microbes and quell a cell war before it triggers disease.
Whether so-called probiotic supplements with “good" microbes make any difference remains to be seen. One major question facing researchers is the extent to which all of us need our own special mix of microbes to be in peak condition.
But there is one insight of the microbiome revolution that looks set to stand the test of time: when we eat, we are feeding ourselves and our non-human “other half".
Robert Matthews is a visiting professor of science at Aston University, Birmingham.
Steve Bassett, executive director of the Paradigm Research Group, is the only registered "alien disclosure" lobbyist in the United States and has been campaigning for the White House to disclose what it really knows about UFOs the past 20 years.
The ufo disclosure movement are convinced that world leaders agreed a "truth embargo" on preventing the truth of alien visitations coming out after a legendary "flying saucer crash" in the New Mexico desert decades ago.
http://aquarianradio.com/ Hosts Janet Kira Lessin & Dr. Sasha Lessin interview Stephen Bassett and Grant Cameron on Sacred Matrix on Revolution Radio.
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ZIJN DE REUZEN TERUG OP AARDE ( VIDEO )
ZIJN DE REUZEN TERUG OP AARDE ( VIDEO )
Ooit hebben er reuzen op aarde geleefd, zoveel is zeker. Ze duiken niet alleen op in de bijbel, maar ook in alle verhalen van oude volkeren op aarde.
Misschien dat ze nu, net als de planeet Nibiru, weer terug zijn, want er zijn een aantal reuzen ontdekt bij de piramides van Gizeh in Egypte.
Normaal gesproken zou je zeggen dat het helemaal niet kan dat er een paar reuzen rondlopen op aarde. We leven echter in allesbehalve normale tijden.
Keer op keer schrijven wij op deze website over vreemde dingen die er gebeuren op aarde, zoals bijvoorbeeld de piramides die de naderende planeet Nibiru lijken te begroeten.
Ook de oude piramides lijken wereldwijd weer tot leven te komen en lichtstralen naar de hemel te sturen zoals wij schreven in een eerder artikel:
Ter vergelijking volgen hieronder enkele foto’s van piramides waar energiestralen zijn gefotografeerd.
De eerste is een opname vanaf de Bosnische piramide van de Zon.
De volgende is een opname van 24 juni 2009 toen iemand een foto nam van ChiChen Itza piramide, eveneens in Mexico. Deze straal was niet zichtbaar toen de foto werd genomen, maar werd pas later waargenomen toen de afdruk werd bekeken.
De volgende en laatste opname is al wat ouder en genomen in 2000. Ook hier een merkwaardige energie/lichtstraal afkomstig van de Piramide van de Maan, wederom in Mexico.
De beelden hierboven zijn ook allesbehalve “normaal” te noemen. Iets wat ze in de tijd van de bijbel wel heel gewoon vonden, was dat er in die tijd reuzen op aarde rondliepen.
De eerste aanwijzing dat er hier inderdaad reuzen hebben rondgelopen, vind je in de bijbel, zoals het volgende:
Genesis 6:1-4
"Toen de mensen zich op aarde begonnen te vermenigvuldigen en hun dochters geboren werden, zagen de zonen Gods, dat de dochters der mensen schoon waren, en zij namen zich daaruit vrouwen, wie zij maar verkozen. En de Here zeide: Mijn Geest zal niet altoos in de mens blijven, nu zij zich misgaan hebben; hij is vlees, zijn dagen zullen 120 jaar zijn. De reuzen waren in de die dagen op de aarde, en ook daarna toen de zonen Gods tot de dochters der mensen kwamen, en zij hun (kinderen) baarden; dit zijn de geweldigen uit de voortijd mannen van naam".
Naast in de bijbel, duiken de reuzen ook op in de verhalen van alle oude volkeren op aarde. Rond de Middellandse-zee, bij de indianen in Noord-Amerika en Canada, in Zuid-Amerika, in Tibet en in Australië. In de mythologieën van Oost en West in de sagen over Tiahuanacu en in de heldendichten van de Noormannen en Eskimo’s. De oude Chaldeeën hadden het over de reus Irdubar, in India sprak men van de Danawa en Daita en op Ceylon van Rakshasa, om zo maar een paar voorbeelden te noemen.
Voor wie meer wil weten over hoe het nu precies zit met de Nephilim, de reuzen of de Gevallen Engelen (boeklink) raden wij de volgende zeer informatieve documentaire aan van Trey Smith.
Laten er nu via Google afbeeldingen beschikbaar komen van reuzen, vlakbij de piramides van Gizeh.
Via Google Earth of Maps zie je het volgende als je naar een kleine woonwijk gaat, naast de piramides van Gizeh in Egypte.
Je ziet op de afbeelding aan de linkerkant van de weg een man oversteken die gezien de verschillen met de rest van de omgeving en andere mensen, minsten drie meter hoog moet zijn.
Aan de rechterkant van de weg zien we een man oversteken die zo mogelijk nog groter is dan die aan de linkerkant.
Volgens Google is de afbeelding waarop deze reuzen voorkomen al in 2009 genomen.
Het vreemde is natuurlijk dat, behalve dat we hier reuzen zien, dit gebeurt op een plek vlak naast de meest beroemde piramides op aarde.
De piramides die ogenschijnlijk ook een rol spelen bij de terugkeer van de planeet Nibiru.
Gaan oude tijden herleven en krijgen wij opnieuw te maken met reuzen of gevallen engelen?
Voor de liefhebbers navolgend een deel uit het eerdere artikel met bijbehorende documentaire.
De naam van de documentaire is “Origin of Genetic Evil” en hij neemt je mee op reis langs de menselijke genetica, de langwerpige schedels, de Nephilim schedels, oude schedels, de reuzenschedels en dat allemaal in het licht van exacte Hebreeuwse, Babylonische, Sumerische en Egyptische verslagen alsmede het boek van Henoch.
Nauwkeurige verslagen over de Nephilim, Anunnaki, buitenaardsen en Demonen, Gevallen Engelen en zelfs de vader aller leugens, satan. Van de diepten van de onderwereld en Lucifer tot de Bijbelse onthullingen en profetieën.
Een reis van de hemel naar de hel en de genetische hybriden en entiteiten daar tussenin.
32 UFOs in Google Earth Map All In One Video, June 2016, UFO Sighting News.
32 UFOs in Google Earth Map All In One Video, June 2016, UFO Sighting News
Date of discovery: unknown
Location of discovery: unknown
I love this video. It has a mixture of 32 different UFOs found on Google Earth over the years. Understand that there were hundreds more, but Google deleted those older ones.
Long ago, about 8 years ago, there were dozens of giant metal silver orbs over different countries around the world. Each one was reported (before I had this site so its not posted) and each one was deleted within weeks.
This is a great video put together by Argentine Marcelo Irazusta, and I really hope he gives us an update to the coordinates to this green UFO above.
Sandra Elena Andradestates: 32 UFOs in Google Earth is the new work presented by the researcher and ufologist Argentine Marcelo Irazusta. Perhaps the most complete collection of UFO images of Google Earth. A true work that brings definitive evidence of the existence of UFOs between us. 32 ovnis en Google Earth es el nuevo trabajo presentado por el investigador y ufologo argentino, Marcelo Irazusta. Talvez la coleccion de ovnis mas completa en imagenes de Google Earth. Un verdadero trabajo que trae pruebas definitivas de la existencia de ovnis entre nosotros.
Man Records UFOs "Dancing" Over Massachusetts Skies! 6/18/16 Amazing Video, UFO Sighting News.
Man Records UFOs "Dancing" Over Massachusetts Skies! 6/18/16 Amazing Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 18, 2016 Location of sighting: Massachusetts, USA Here is a cool video by Secureteam10 of Youtube. It shows not one, but a handful of white UFOs shooing around the sky over Massachusetts this week. To see it you really need to make it full screen. I've seen this before over Notre Dame stadium long ago when lightning struck the stadium...small white UFOs shot all around, sucking in the static electricity in the air, due to the storm. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com SecureTeam10 States: Secureteam10 is your source for reporting the best in new UFO sighting news, information on the government coverup, and the alien activity happening on and off of our planet. Send us YOUR footage by visiting the contact links below, and help us continue the good fight for disclosure!
Guys, this UFO is just beautiful. When I added light to the photo, it really made the colors stand out. The green and the pink boarder are really memorizing. Christchurch is famous for its UFO sightings, and this is the best, most clearest that they have ever presented to us. This could be a UFO with an occupant, or it may be a remote drone, that allows the alien light years away to experience most senses through it...sight, sound, smell...maybe not feeling objects, but drones like that must come closer to gather such info. Sorry for the video below, its not on Youtube and I tried to make it bigger, but its still tiny. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: A brightly coloured sphere filmed in the night sky near Christchurch this week joins a tradition, of mysterious objects seen in Kiwi skies, stretching back at least a century. Oisin Lavelle reported seeing and filming one sphere on Monday night and seeing three on Tuesday night. He watched the Monday night sphere for two hours before it sped away amid bursts of bright orange light.
NASA says its an object that was sitting in the ring and then was dislodged, I agee with that. It looks like a UFO was laying dormant in the ring and was suddenly turned on and shot out to do its job. This UFO was probably a drone, since the UFO may have been hiding there for an infinite amount of years.
Of course there are some dormant ships that have a living human-like pilot...for instance the Apollo 20 mission ship in Deporte crater on Earths moon. The pilot (a woman) had a third eye on her forehead and was attached to the pilot controls with an umbilical cord-like tubes. This woman was recovered by the astronauts, taken back to earth...all the time she was said to be in a stasis, not alive...not dead. I askedWilliam Rutledge on Youtube (RetiredAFB) for more info (he was an astronaut on the mission), but his account was hacked, videos mostly deleted, and at about 80 years old, decided to give up trying to teach the world about what he saw. He did leave a message I read saying "congratulations to the ones hacking my account, you have great hacking skills." or something like that. That was the last we ever heard of William 8 years ago.
A bright disruption in Saturn's narrow F ring suggests it may have been disturbed recently. This feature was mostly likely not caused by Pandora (50 miles or 81 kilometers across) which lurks nearby, at lower right. More likely, it was created by the interaction of a small object embedded in the ring itself and material in the core of the ring. Scientists sometimes refer to these features as "jets." Because these bodies are small and embedded in the F ring itself, they are difficult to spot at the resolution available to NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Instead, their handiwork reveals their presence, and scientists use the Cassini spacecraft to study these stealthy sculptors of the F ring. This view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from about 15 above the ring plane. The image was taken in visible light with the Cassini spacecraft narrow-angle camera on April 8, 2016. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 1.4 million miles (2.2 million kilometers) from Saturn and at a Sun-Saturn-spacecraft, or phase, angle of 105 degrees. Image scale is 8 miles (13 kilometers) per pixel. The Cassini mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (the European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging operations center is based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
Paradigm Research Group Wants A Different Form Of Disclosure
Paradigm Research Group Wants A Different Form Of Disclosure
It has been reported many times that Hillary Clinton will dig deeper into the UFO issues once she becomes the next U.S. president. UFOlogists and conspiracy theorists have been claiming that several governments have evidence of extraterrestrial visitations, but keeping it secret to the public because of fear of potential impacts on the rule of law and religion. Bill and Hillary have long intrigued the disclosure movement after making moves in the 1990s related to the disclosure.
Things got more interested when Mrs Clinton promised to look into the alleged alien technology that has been hidden at Area 51 in Nevada. She said: “I’m going to get to the bottom of it.” Temperatures raised another level earlier in March when Hillary’s most trusted advisor John Podesta reaffirmed commitment to declassify top-secret UFO files.
However, Paradigm Research Group would rather want a different form of disclosure from Hillary’s camp. The group is not only interested in alien visitation, but also on claims about aliens secretly engage with world leaders. The research organization wants to lift the truth embargo, which it says has been in force since the 1940s. The controversy stems from Clintons’ dealings with friend Laurence Rockefeller, the late billionaire philanthropist.
Rockefeller made a fortune through oil and banking and was part of the family considered as one of the most influential in U.S. history. In 1993, the business person started an approach to the disclosure, including CIA classified files, in what became the Rockefeller initiative. Rockefeller advocated a review of the legendary Roswell case with the help of then director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and advisor to the president, late Dr John “Jack” Gibbons.
However, the Roswell review initiated by Rockefeller concluded there was no alien involvement and the event mainly involved a balloon, but not a weather balloon, as first reported, but a top-secret nuclear-detection balloon being tested at the time. The US Air Force said that the weather balloon explanation was provided at the time for national security reasons. The UFO community labeled the report a whitewash for not explaining any of the testimony from the witnesses.
Aside from Roswell, Rockefeller had planned to write a direct open letter to then President Bill Clinton along with a threat of taking out adverts in the press. Rockefeller wanted a full disclosure and an amnesty for all witnesses to come forward and avoid prosecution. Dr Gibbons reportedly prevented Rockefeller from doing it. However, the threat somehow carries some weight as Rockefeller secured the ears of Mr and Mrs Clinton at his ranch.
During the seven-day vacation of the Clinton family in August 1995 at the Rockefeller Teton Ranch, the 85-year-old billionaire privately talked the First Lady and the President of UFOs and his hopes. No one knows what was said exactly, but Mr Clinton was carrying a review of how the government handled confidential material at that time. Later that day, Mrs Clinton was photographed walking through the ranch in conversation with Rockefeller, carrying a copy of a Paul Davies book “Are We Alone: Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extra-terrestrial Life.” (Amazon link) However, until today, no member of the Clinton team ever say a word about it publicly.
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In special reports, this week’s files cover: Hermann Oberth Father of Rocketry says UFOs Are Extraterrestrial, UFO History, Mystery of the Black Triangle, UFO History, Space Station Cam Spots UFO, New Planets Found, Beyond Science Fiction, Navy Drone, and Mars Lakes.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Washington
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arab Emirates, Argentina, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malta, and Scotland 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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Hermann Oberth Father of Rocketry says UFOs Are Extraterrestrial
West Germany, in conjunction with other European countries, conducted a secret study from 1951 to 1954, also concluding that UFOs were extraterrestrial. This study was revealed by German rocketry pioneer Hermann Oberth, who headed the study and who also made many public statements supporting the ETH in succeeding years. At the study’s conclusion in 1954, Oberth declared, “These objects (UFOs) are conceived and directed by intelligent beings of a very high order. They do not originate in our solar system, perhaps not in our galaxy.” Soon afterwards, in an article in The American Weekly, October 24, 1954, Oberth wrote “It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our earth for centuries…” In the autumn of 1929, Oberth conducted a static firing of his first liquid-fueled rocket motor, which he named the Kegeldüse. The engine was built by Klaus Riedel in a workshop space provided by the Reich Institution of Chemical Technology, and although it lacked a cooling system, it did run briefly.[10] He was helped in this experiment by an 18-year-old student Wernher von Braun, who would later become a giant in both German and American rocket engineering from the 1940s onward, culminating with the gigantic Saturn V rockets that made it possible for men to land on the Moon.
Mystery of the Black Triangle
These are large, triangular-shaped UFOs, often black in color, with rounded corners and making a low, humming noise. They disappear in horizon at unbelievable speed. These are big crafts and show up from nowhere. The first sighting of these mystery triangles was recorded and reported in 1965. Some say it was first sighted in 1950s. For some time people have said these are secret military projects – the next generation stealth aircrafts. But why are they flying the same way since sixties. How come the technology never changed in last forty-five years? According to many these Flying Triangle UFO Mystery objects are the outcome of direct transfer of technologies from extraterrestrials to human civilization in different parts of the world. The triangle shaped UFOs use anti-gravity propulsion. They also use superconductors to create the electromagnetic flux as well as anti-gravity propulsion. That is why the humming noise comes out. Many of these are available all over the world because most likely the technology has been transferred from the extraterrestrial aliens to human civilization in different parts of the world. Some laugh at this theory and say people are seeing illusions. But when have you heard people seeing exactly same illusions in places tens of thousands of miles apart. The propagation, navigation and feedback controls in these UFOs match the theoretical requirements in a typical advanced extraterrestrial UFO. At the same token it is made by different countries with whom the alien civilizations are collaborating. Such possibilities are very strong says some UFO researchers. The departments and ministries of defense in all the countries involved are tight lipped. They just do not recognize anything anyone saw. However, the facts points finger towards a secret joint development in a collaborative manner with the aliens to develop these UFOs. NOTE: The above image is CGI. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
UFO History
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge , England
Stories of fantastical celestial apparitions have been told since antiquity, but the term “UFO” (or “UFOB”) was officially created in 1953 by the United States Air Force (USAF) to serve as a catch-all for all such reports. The term flying saucers did not describe the various types of craft. Sightings throughout history often were treated as supernatural portents, angels, or other religious omens. Some current-day UFO researchers have noticed similarities between some religious symbols in medieval paintings and UFO reports though the canonical and symbolic character of such images is documented by art historians placing more conventional religious interpretations on such images.
On January 25, 1878, the Denison Daily News printed an article in which John Martin, a local farmer, had reported seeing a large, dark, circular object resembling a balloon flying “at wonderful speed.” Martin, according to the newspaper account, said it appeared to be about the size of a saucer, the first known use of the word “saucer” in association with a UFO.
In April 1897 thousands of people reported seeing “airships” in various parts of the United States. Many signed affidavits. Scores of people even reported talking to the pilots.
On February 28, 1904, there was a sighting by three crew members on the USS Supply 300 miles (483 km) west of San Francisco, reported by Lieutenant Frank Schofield, later to become Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Battle Fleet. Schofield wrote of three bright red egg-shaped and circular objects flying in echelon formation that approached beneath the cloud layer, then changed course and “soared” above the clouds, departing directly away from the earth after two to three minutes. The largest had an apparent size of about six Suns, he said
The three earliest known pilot UFO sightings, of 1,305 similar sightings cataloged by NARCAP, took place in 1916 and 1926. On January 31, 1916, a UK pilot near Rochfordreported a row of lights, resembling lighted windows on a railway carriage that rose and disappeared. In January 1926 a pilot reported six “flying manhole covers” between Wichita, Kansas, and Colorado Springs, Colorado.
In late September 1926 an airmail pilot over Nevada said he had been forced to land by a huge, wingless, cylindrical object.
On August 5, 1926, while traveling in theExtra-Terrestrial Humboldt Mountains of Tibet‘s Kokonor region, Russian explorer Nicholas Roerich reported, members of his expedition saw “something big and shiny reflecting the sun, like a huge oval moving at great speed. Crossing our camp the thing changed in its direction from south to southwest. And we saw how it disappeared in the intense blue sky. We even had time to take our field glasses and saw quite distinctly an oval form with shiny surface, one side of which was brilliant from the sun.”[27] Another description by Roerich was of a “shiny body flying from north to south. Field glasses are at hand. It is a huge body. One side glows in the sun. It is oval in shape. Then it somehow turns in another direction and disappears in the southwest.
In the Pacific and European theatres during World War II, “foo fighters” (metallic spheres, balls of light and other shapes that followed aircraft) were reported and on occasion photographed by Allied and Axis pilots. Some proposed Allied explanations at the time included St. Elmo’s fire, the planet Venus, hallucinations from oxygen deprivation, or German secret weapons.
Photo is of a Nazi craft flying in 1944 courtesy of Jeff Rense.
The phrase “flying saucer” had gained widespread attention after the summer of 1947. On June 24, a civilian pilot named Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine objects flying in formation near Mount Rainier. Arnold timed the sighting and estimated the speed of discs to be over 1,200 mph (1,931 km/h). At the time, he described the objects’ shape as being somewhat disc-like or saucer-like, leading to newspaper accounts of “flying saucers” and “flying discs.
V-2 Rocket
In 1946 more than 2,000 reports were collected, primarily by the Swedish military, of unidentified aerial objects over the Scandinavian nations, along with isolated reports from France, Portugal, Italy and Greece. The objects were referred to as “Russian hail” and later as “ghost rockets” because it was thought that the mysterious objects were possibly Russian tests of captured German V1 or V2rockets. Although most were thought to be such natural phenomena as meteors, more than 200 were tracked on radar by the Swedish military and deemed to be “real physical objects.” In a 1948, Swedish authorities advised the USAF Europe that some of their investigators believed these craft to be extraterrestrial in secret document origin. Website
ISS Cam spots UFO
While watching the space station cam I noticed that the HD cam was zoomed in on an area of the Earth directly below it on June 13, 2016. Then I noticed a disk shaped object that had matched speed with the space station. The ISS travels at about 17,150 miles per hour or 5 miles per second, so yeah…that UFO is moving. Also whenever this UFO passed through the white clouds, the UFO became more visible, until the end of the video when it disappeared below the clouds. Scott C. Waring
New Planets Found
A fascinating photo shows what could be a newly discovered planet circling a star 1,200 light-years from Earth. In 2012, scientists discovered that the star, called CVSO 30 hosts at least one possible exoplanet, named CVSO 30b. But this image, released on Monday, shows evidence of another world — dubbed CVSO 30c for now — that may also be circling the star, according to the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
CVSO 30 is the bright dot in the center of the image, and CVSO 30c — which has not yet been confirmed as a true planet — looks like a little brown smudge up and to the left of the star.
Researchers think that CVSO 30c takes about 27,000 years to orbit the star, while it only takes about 11 hours for CVSO 30b to make a complete circuit.
CVSO 30b was discovered using the “transit method.” It measures minute dips in a star’s light, which can signal a planet passing in from of the stellar object from Earth’s perspective. CVSO 30c, on the other hand, was discovered using direct imaging — which, as the name suggests, involves capturing a direct image of the planet. SEE ALSO: 1,284 alien planets confirmed in new study of NASA Kepler data. Thanks to ESO
Beyond Science Fiction
Jim has had a lifelong interest in UFOs since he was a child in the late 50’s. This led to his current position as a Religious Research specialist for the Mutual UFO Network since 1996. He is also a member of the alumni at Central Bible College and was ordained by the Independent Assemblies of God in 1980. An avid reader, Jim is experienced and comfortable with studying the Bible in its original languages and spending hours in research as a hobby. Originally from Detroit Michigan, Jim founded and served in one of the nation’s first evangelical Christian Motorcycle clubs in the early 70’s. Jim served as Pastor in the inner city of Detroit working within the counter cultures associated with drugs and gangs. He has had almost 30 years experience working in deliverance ministries engaged in spiritual warfare that have enabled many to be set free from these bondages. Taking this experience with him into the investigation of UFOs and Alien abductions,
Jim has become actively involved within the UFO community, with two other colleagues and the Alien Abduction Crises Centers of America was founded. This is a nation-wide network to provide Biblical based support and help for abductees after receiving terminations of their abduction experiences from the Biblical based counseling they provide as a free service. He set up a book store/ museum in Roswell NM. This book is the result of over ten years intensive first hand investigation and study of the subject and the people involved. It promises to be one of the most comprehensive scripturally backed books written so far, that weaves many different topics into one story of Paradise lost and found. Not since the great flood of Noah has there been such an elaborate deception put upon mankind. This book exposes it all for your consideration. Unlike many sensational books that leave you left in fear and hopelessness, this book will leave you with hope and answers for the fearful things described and soon to fall upon an unsuspecting planet.
New Navy Drone
Rear Admiral Ted Branch, commander of Naval Air Forces Atlantic, said, “As our access to overseas ports, forward operating locations and airspace is diminished around the world, the value of the aircraft carrier and the air wing becomes more and more important.” James Lewis, senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, claims that the new Joint Strike Fighter jet “might be the last manned fighter the U.S. ever builds,” because they are “so expensive,” and “so complex,” while the military puts “a human at risk every time it takes off from a carrier.”
Speaking on the effectiveness of the X-47B that launches off carriers, and future stealth drones like it, he claimed, “This is the next generation of military technology — the unmanned vehicles, the unmanned submersibles, the unmanned aircraft. This will be the future of warfare, and it will be a warfare that is a little less risky for humans but maybe a little more effective when it comes to delivering weapons and effect.” The U.S. military claims that the X-47B is experimental; they will just use it to develop drones for use in the future. Remember, however, it wasn’t long ago that the denied the X-47B even existed.
Mars Lakes
The screenshot is untouched and directly from the NASA MSSS link. It’s a bit mind-blowing, but there are lakes on Mars and we now have government evidence to back that up. This is 100% proof that lakes and rivers exist on Mars, which means that fish and water creatures do as well. Water is a main source for animals to exist, so this may also be a big visiting spot from some smaller life forms (remember the Mars rabbit?).
It is believed that NASA was not created to help the public to learn what’s beyond our world, but instead was created to stifle that with mediocre info leaks, holding the Earth back in its knowledge until the government deems the world is ready. Whatsupinthesky37 is not taking this hands down. He is a warrior of the field of alien research on Mars, and he is already raising the level of awareness of all humanity. We now have over 5 or 6 very good shots from the air that seem to show frozen or warm water lakes sitting on the Martian surface. This has never been addressed by NASA since we are still looking for these “miniscule” traces of life and water. I ask you to use your judgment on this one. What does this look like to you? Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com NASA link to the lakes: Website
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Filer’s Files #25 – 2016 New ET Planets Found - PART II
Filer’s Files #25 – 2016 New ET Planets Found - PART II
UFO Sighting s over the United States
Arizona Triangle
Sedona — My life partner and I set out tonight to consciously look for UFOs and to stargaze as we often do. Sedona is the Extra-Terrestrial (e.t.) capitol of the world, so we often engage in long, late night drives like we did on June 9, 2016. We drove on 89A near the Chapel of the Holy Cross and saw several small UFOs, which may have been shooting stars or aircraft. We were the only ones on 89A for several miles. My partner spotted a very bright light off in the distance and seemed to be hovering over the cliff walls to the right of Bell Rock. It was brighter than Sirius and Venus combined together and it just sat there motionless. It was too low for an ordinary plane. My partner stopped the car in the middle of 89A trying to discern whether it was a man-made craft or not. It was silent. I consider extraterrestrials to be my “star family.” The instant I said that, the white light became SO bright that I had to look away for a moment because it hurt my eyes. The white light appeared to be emanating from a dome shaped structure on the top of the craft. Then the craft was rapidly descending and heading straight for our car at astonishing speed. It reached us in seconds. The craft sped SO quickly to us that it was almost scary. It was completely silent and flew at a very low altitude. It was pretty large and definitely not a drone. It was shaped almost like an upside down “Y” and had a definite triangular presence to it and we saw blinking lights in the corners of the “wings” as it literally came to a point right above our car. The craft slowed down above our car.
It didn’t stop but it came at us with the seeming intention of letting us know that its passengers saw us. It started to curve over us a little bit almost like it was going to head towards Airport Mesa behind us. I turned to my partner to see their face (full of pure awe) and when I turned around to see where the craft went, it was completely gone. My partner stated that if we had hit a baseball hard enough, we probably could have hit it. If it had flown towards Cathedral Rock it would have crashed into it because of how low it was. The fact that it shined its light as brightly as it could the minute I addressed it and the fact that it literally zoomed to our car like a little white fireball was extremely intriguing. My partner remembers a blue light, white light, and green light. I saw the massive white light and the green light, but instead of blue I saw a couple of red lights blinking. Sitting there and when I looked at the car clock it said 11:11 p.m. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Lights
Joshua Tree — On June 4, 2016 by Kristie Cowan’s at Contact in the Desert UFO Conference: Around 10:00 in the evening. There was a small airport south of us and a Marine Base northeast of us- but all the activity came from the west going due east. At Orion Lookout we set up for our CE-5 protocols. One of us was filming, and I was spotting with Celestron stargazing binoculars and a green laser. As we began I was able to spot many stars, planets, planes and satellites. There was a parade of 7 orbs/UFOs flying faster than satellites and as high as planes from west over the mountains and disappearing to the east. The orbs were a defused soft green, soft red and soft lilac blue. They gave us quite a show! We pointed our laser pointers and flashed them three times and they flashed us back! The 2nd, 3ed, & 4th ones formed a triangle configuration as they passed us! The crowd of around 100 people went wild with cheers, clapping, and jumping up and down. At this time I did feel a “heart” connection, thanking them and sending love to them. Sadly, my friend that was recording came up with just audio, however a documentary over on Melinda Leslies side got footage of all the activity. Not only are they here, it appears they are friendly! The orbs/UFOs were large enough to be seen with the unaided eye, quite large actually and looked like an orb of soft diffused light. The orbs/UFOs glowed with one single light (unlike recreational and military drones that glow with 2 or more). The type of glow was unlike anything I have ever seen in my research on military drones. I saw no structures connected to the glowing lights. Thanks to Kristie Cowan’s
Colorado Triangle
Loveland — I was out filming in my yard with an old camera on June 12, 2016. I was watching a bunny then I started to look around in the sky (1st look) and saw nothing. I resumed looking around my yard then I looked at the mountains, and then scrolled towards 2 cottonwood trees. In the center, I glanced around. It was until I reviewed the tape that I saw it: Hovering near a cloud, it was a near-transparent pyramid with only the outline visible. In less than a second, it quickly went up and ‘cloaked’ itself. I was pretty spooked… and I showed it to my parents and they said it could be reflection or a cloaked ship. Thanks to MUFON
Delaware Object
Harrington — I was going for my morning walk on Wednesday June 2, 2016. I walked into town, and was planning to buy some water and head home. I looked up high and it was the colors that made me notice it. And then it was tumbling and flying upward in a cartwheel-like manner. It first looked black but then I saw colors. It would flash bright blue, yellow, and red. It started off below the clouds, but as it tumbled, it was rising so that it was very high, above the clouds. I saw it tumbling. On my video, it appeared at the top to jump suddenly from one place to the other. When I finally stopped filming, it was because the drone had reversed its course. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Cylinder
Ormond Beach– I observed something very strange on evening of June 10, 2016 at 9:10 pm. I was outside looking west when I observed what appeared to be a fireball t traveling north. It was three times brighter than Jupiter and very bright white yellow orange and had a slight tail pointing south. I instantly thought fireball, but the object was slowing down, so I thought this object was space junk. This object was “dropping” what appeared to be hot material that was same color as the object. The object continued to slow down and dripped the strange material two times before the object slowed to a complete stop. As the object remained stationary it dripped the bright material momentarily. It took ten seconds to stop- which is far too long of a time for any fireball or space junk. I observed this object stationary for two minutes and shot one still photo with my iPhone. I’ve been a dedicated amateur astronomer for over 40 years and I know the sky well. This was neither a fireball or space junk, ISS, satellites or planets. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Boca Raton — My girlfriend and I Observed a cigar-disc type object hovering low (400-500 feet up) on June 12, 2016. It was silent and had very bright colors rotating around it. It would tilt. And I ran through golf course to get a better video angle on my phone. It started moving south, and then hooked around an apartment building. I saw it come from behind building in distance; and change into an orange energy ball before I lost sight of it at 9:17 pm.
An hour later I observed a black triangle with three flashing bright lights (1 red, 2 white although one of the white lights appeared green at some points). It flew from the southwest approx. 800-1000 feet up, and circled over my head. My iPhone camera got static twice, after circling twice it took off fast to the north. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Object
Rochester – I was taking pictures on June 11, 2016, of sunset when checking pictures to send to local meteorologist I noticed something with four lights in picture. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Object
Vineyard Haven — Doing yard work when I noticed the first object passing over at 3:15 PM, on June 14, 2016. I was in the shadow of my roof line and thought that is a strange shiny object. It passed at a good clip in a NW to SE direction. One minute after another traveled the identical route. Then others passed over pretty evenly spaced by about 1-2 minutes between. As the sixth one passed over my son drove up the driveway and I insisted he watch. He saw one pass over and dismissed it as a Mylar balloon. They didn’t look like balloons to me and I felt they were small craft of some kind. I ran into the house and grabbed my Cannon power shot camera and shot two short clips of video. Took four pictures and the battery died. I got my binoculars and made notes. The sun was reflecting off of them brightly to begin with and they appeared to have a small dome on top and a faint red orange ring at the base of the dome. The shape overall was a fat disc or squashed basketball with the dome on top. The final one I saw was at 4:03 PM and it passed over a small single engine plane. I have to guess that the plane was about 600 to 800 feet and the object was 200 feet higher. The final orb traveled N to S then took a slight hook to the E. This was so fascinating and I saw 25orbs total. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Disc
Jersey City — My mother and special needs sister went up to a family member’s barn to see the horses on June 4, 2016, to take pictures of my sister and animals. My mother later that day came home and sent me pictures of my sister and the horse.
The first and second picture with the object in upper left hand corner peeked my interest. My family truly believes that there is so much more then we even know or can explain. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mantua— Triangular UFO hovered over route 45 in NJ and turned on its side over the road and then flew sideways towards Philadelphia at approximately 10 mph. I have never encountered any aircraft like this in my life. It made no noise and it seemed to have multicolored lights rotating inside one light. If anyone else witness this at 9:40 pm on June 10th 2016.Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Lights
Salem — I’m posting this. A friend of mine was taking a photo of the morning sunrise from work.
He posted this photo on Facebook. I noticed this in the photo. Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Carolina Triangle
Indian Land — A large, black triangle UFO was spotted on May 26, 2016, by a witness that moved away so quickly, it made the witness upset. He was lying in bed when he noticed a light out a bedroom window on May 26, 2016. The witness saw a white light along with red and blue lights blinking on the UFO. It was moving too fast to be a plane, so he got up and ran to the window. Its light so big and considering the distance. The witness just saw the blue and red strobes on the wings. The witness observed the triangle as it moved behind trees, still traveling at very fast speed. He noticed a smaller white light following the first object. Just before the witness lost sight of it, he realized that the two lights were connected and that he was actually looking at a huge, black triangle craft with lights at the points. He was upset when he got outside because it was gone. NOTE: The above image is CGI. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
Pennsylvania Orb
Belle Vernon — Out with my Mom on June12, 2016 she had to go to a few stores that evening; I stopped to get a couple of pictures randomly.
When looking them over later, I found some with an “object” that I hadn’t noticed when taking them originally. I was facing west into the sunset, so these could be artifacts or reflections, but the object shows the same pixilation as the rest of the sky, etc.
So I thought I’d let you guys make that call. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Lights
Killeen — As I was walking out of IHOP with my boyfriend on June 12, 2016, we noticed there was lightening in the sky. We also noticed there were Amber colored lights just falling out the sky at a distance.
We were thinking it was maybe transformers but then I started doing my research and I noticed it could have been a UFO. Yes, my heart dropped. I watch too many movies so of course I was paranoid. I am submitting this so there can be further investigation.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Object
Tacoma – I’m a public school teacher and former lawyer, On June 12, 2016, my birthday, I was at my aunt’s house near the Narrows Bridge and saw what I thought was a helicopter. I watched it through the window for a few minutes, but as it neared I went outside. It had blinking lights that repeated its pattern, much like a plane, but I saw no wings. Once outside, I heard no sound. Once it neared overhead I took this 30 seconds of video. I then went out in the backyard to continue watching it. I showed my uncle and cousin. Neither knew what it was. By the time we got binoculars it was so far in the distance I could no longer spot it. We just saw it within the past 20 minutes.
P.s. After re-examining the footage, it appears the spherical object was rotating on its axis. The light source at its base appears to show this. The object was traveling with the wind (5 MPH from the NNE), too.
Note: The object is not a balloon or helicopter. As stated by witness it has no wings. It is also not a drone. Perhaps it is a real UFO. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Arab Emirates
Dubai — I was in Bin Ladin Signal near the police station around 3 am in Sarah. I didn’t have the remaining balance to pay my taxi so my house is not far from where I stopped. I saw a light moving very fast. From a different direction came three lights forming a triangle. Ten minutes later the craft changed direction and flew different ways. I tried to record but my mobile battery is not charged to record video so I took some pictures with my phone. I can see some high way light and I was scared to even go home alone. When I got home I charge my mobile and zoom the picture in and I can understand the shape., I got home and I feel confused, this is the second time I saw UFO at my company where I live. I asked my boss to get CCTV camera but they did not. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Argentina Disk
El Cholar– The witness said he found an object on Google Earth in Argentina that he wanted me to take a look at, because it had a disk shape. When I checked out the coordinates he gave me, I found that the UFO was visible four times. The first three times it’s seen far away, but still a disk shape. The fourth and final time its extremely close and tilted again. Its also tilted, which is what Bob Lazar (Area S4 scientist) says that disks need to do to move from place to place. It also has an antenna sticking out of it. Purpose may be for magnetic energy waves it harnesses to hover. This is a very old and secluded farms area from the 1800s. This is the perfect location for UFOs to do research on humans or other creatures and not be noticed. Google coordinates: 37°26’35.60″S 70°39’13.09″W Scott C. Waring
Canada Sphere
Hope — I’m contacting you to see if you can help me explain a picture I took on my phone on June 4, 2016, at: 10:46 AM. The blurry object is what puzzles me. I just noticed it when I looked thru my pictures later it freaked me. I will be grateful for any help. Thank you.
Response of Witness to Investigator Questions: This picture was taken in a small town called Hope, in British Columbia. There has been a lot of activity in the Vancouver area for the past 2 to 3 months Note:The object is probably a bird or insect. The camera was zoomed out and the focal length was short. The apparent blurring is probably due to motion and the object is probably close to the lens. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Kenora, Ontario– I was driving down a side road on June 11, 2016, at a remote location.
I stopped and filmed a white object flying at high speed moving right to left. It made no noise.
Perplexing, and my heart was racing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Germany Triangle
Kühren–I was at my friend’s birthday party in a little village that hasn’t many street lights it was already very dark on November 1, 2014. We went outside and played hide and seek. Two friends were hiding in a very dark place and saw three big lights in a triangle shape with a little red light in the middle. It was moving very fast and the lights were steady and not flashing like airplane lights. It made no sounds although it was very big and near to me. It was flying in a straight line and disappeared behind some houses after a couple seconds.
There wasn’t an airport anywhere nearby so why should a plane this size fly so close to the ground and make no sounds. When I saw the object I felt really weird and couldn’t really talk. After it was gone I asked my two friends if they’ve seen it too, they had but they thought it was just an airplane. I am still really confused what this was. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Italy Crop Circle
Alba– Crop Circle of seven pointed star found in field in Alba, Italy on June 13, 2016.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Japan Oval
Tokyo — My sister just came back from Tokyo and as we were looking at her photos we saw that strange orange oval shape.
Any idea what this could be? It was taken at 7:00 PM two weeks ago on June 1, 2016, in Tokyo, Japan.
Sorry for bugging you again. I am just curious. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Malta Disc
Cospicua— At 9:42 PM, while observing night sky on my roof I saw a very bright silvery shining object round disc-shaped heading east. Its size was as much as five times the size and brightness of Jupiter as visible from Earth. It was at 70 degrees elevation in the Ursa Major constellation and disappeared at once as it reached an elevation of 40 degrees. Its speed if at 40K feet from ground was as much as three times that of an aircraft traveling at 850<900 kms="" hr="" at="" the="" same="" height="" this="" fact="" excited="" me="" as="" i="" realized="" it="" was="" not="" an="" aircraft="" 10:05="" and="" 10:12="" pm="" orange="" point="" source="" noticed="" first="" going="" from="" north="" to="" south="" a="" constant="" elevation="" of="" 70="" 75="" degrees="" then="" back="" on="" track="" estimated="" altitude="" round="" 60="" 65k="" feet="" ground="" traveling="" 2000="" witness="" checked="checked" real-time="" flight="" tracking="" radar="" programmes="" web="" but="" none="" indicated="" any="" in="" areas="" mentioned="" thanks="" mufon="" cms="" span="">
UK Scotland Orb
Edinburg — We were in a park when we observed the object in the sky on June 5, 2016. It was not like and airplane or something similar. We thought that maybe would be a satellite but we were very suspicious about the object.
It looked very distant and reflective, not very easy to see. We had the feeling that was something weird and tried to take some pictures with a camera (60mm lens).
For our surprise, the camera was able to catch it (We had to use the trees as a reference to take the picture and also to be able to find the little dot later). Thanks to MUFON CMS
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7 Theories on the Origin of Life
7 Theories on the Origin of Life
By Charles Q. Choi, Live Science Contributor
INTRO
Primordial soup
Credit: NASA/JPL
Life on Earth began more than 3 billion years ago, evolving from the most basic of microbes into a dazzling array of complexity over time. But how did the first organisms on the only known home to life in the universe develop from the primordial soup?
One theory involved a "shocking" start. Another idea is utterly chilling. And one theory is out of this world!
Inside you'll learn just how mysterious this all is, as we reveal the different scientific theories on the origins of life on Earth.
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7.Electric Spark
Lighring may have provided the spark needed for life to begin.
Electric sparks can generate amino acids and sugars from an atmosphere loaded with water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen, as was shown in thefamous Miller-Urey experiment reported in 1953, suggesting that lightning might have helped create the key building blocks of life on Earth in its early days. Over millions of years, larger and more complex molecules could form. Although research since then has revealed the early atmosphere of Earth was actually hydrogen-poor, scientists have suggested that volcanic clouds in the early atmosphere might have held methane, ammonia and hydrogen and been filled with lightning as well.
Or could simple clay have fueled life’s beginning? Read on to find out.
Credit: Chemistry
6. Community Clay
The first molecules of life might have met on clay, according to an idea elaborated by organic chemist Alexander Graham Cairns-Smith at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. These surfaces might not only have concentrated these organic compounds together, but also helped organize them into patterns much like our genes do now.
The main role of DNA is to store information on how other molecules should be arranged. Genetic sequences in DNA are essentially instructions on how amino acids should be arranged in proteins. Cairns-Smith suggests that mineral crystals in clay could have arranged organic molecules into organized patterns. After a while, organic molecules took over this job and organized themselves.
Or maybe life began at the bottom of the sea. Keep going to learn how.
Credit: MARUM
5. Deep-Sea Vents
The deep-sea vent theory suggests that life may have begun at submarine hydrothermal vents spewing key hydrogen-rich molecules. Their rocky nooks could then have concentrated these molecules together and provided mineral catalysts for critical reactions. Even now, these vents, rich in chemical and thermal energy, sustain vibrant ecosystems.
The next idea is a chilling thought. Read on!
Credit: Eric Rignot, NASA JPL
4. Chilly Start
Ice might have covered the oceans 3 billion years ago, as the sun was about a third less luminous than it is now, scientists say. This layer of ice, possibly hundreds of feet thick, might have protected fragile organic compounds in the water below from ultraviolet light and destruction from cosmic impacts. The cold might have also helped these molecules to survive longer, allowing key reactions to happen. [Related: The Ingredients of Life]
Understanding life’s origin may involve unravelling the mystery of DNA's formation, as we explain next.
Nowadays DNA needs proteins in order to form, and proteins require DNA to form, so how could these have formed without each other? The answer may beRNA, which can store information like DNA, serve as an enzyme like proteins, and help create both DNA and proteins. Later DNA and proteins succeeded this "RNA world," because they are more efficient.
RNA still exists and performs several functions in organisms, including acting as an on-off switch for some genes. The question still remains how RNA got here in the first place. And while some scientists think the molecule could have spontaneously arisen on Earth, others say that was very unlikely to have happened. Other nucleic acids other than RNA have been suggested as well, such as the more esoteric PNA or TNA.
A study in 2015 suggests the missing link in this RNA puzzle may have been found.
We have two last ideas to throw at you . . .
2. Simple Beginnings
Instead of developing from complex molecules such as RNA, life might have begun with smaller molecules interacting with each other in cycles of reactions. These might have been contained in simple capsules akin to cell membranes, and over time more complex molecules that performed these reactions better than the smaller ones could have evolved, scenarios dubbed "metabolism-first" models, as opposed to the "gene-first" model of the "RNA world" hypothesis.
The final theory is truly out of this world. Check out the next slide.
Perhaps life did not begin on Earth at all, but was brought here from elsewhere in space, a notion known as panspermia. For instance, rocks regularly get blasted off Mars by cosmic impacts, and a number of Martian meteorites have been found on Earth that some researchers have controversially suggested brought microbes over here, potentially making us all Martians originally. Other scientists have even suggested that life might have hitchhiked on comets from other star systems. However, even if this concept were true, the question of how life began on Earth would then only change to how life began elsewhere in space.
Oh, and if you thought all that was mysterious, consider this: Scientists admit they don't even have a good definition of life!
A European space mission has achieved the closest thing to a true free fall ever observed for a human-created object, demonstrating the technologyneeded to build a future observatory that will hunt for gravitational waves far from Earth, scientists said.
The two gold-platinum cubes inside the European Space Agency's (ESA)LISA Pathfinder spacecraft are virtually motionless with respect to each other, with a relative acceleration equivalent to the weight of a virus here on Earth, mission team members announced today (June 7).
"With LISA Pathfinder, we have created the quietest place known to humankind. Its performance is spectacular and exceeds all our expectations by far," Karsten Danzmann, director at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and director of the Institute for Gravitational Physics at Leibniz University Hannover, both in Germany, said in a statement. [The LISA Pathfinder Mission Explained (Video)]
"Only by reducing and eliminating all other sources of disturbance could we observe the most perfect free fall ever created," added Danzmann, the co-principal investigator of the LISA Technology Package. "And this has shown us that we can build LISA, a space-based gravitational-wave observatory."
According to Einstein's equations, the acceleration of massive objects generates gravitational waves, which then propagate through the universe at the speed of light. Dramatic events such as black-hole mergers andsupernova explosions produce the strongest gravitational waves.
These ripples cause tiny distortions of space-time that should be identifiable, given a precise enough instrument. And in February, the first such direct detection was announced, by scientists with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) consortium, which operates huge detectors in Louisiana and Washington state.
The announcement made a big splash among scientists and laypeople alike, because gravitational waves offer a new way to study the universe. The waves don't interact with matter, so the information they carry across billions of light-years is "pure," free of distortion or alteration, researchers have said. [Gravitational Waves Detected by LIGO: Complete Coverage]
But ground-based instruments such as the LIGO detectors can spot only a subset of gravitational waves, because of interference from seismic activity and other factors here on Earth, ESA officials have said. Space-based observatories will therefore be needed to hunt for lower-frequency waves, such as those generated by mergers between the supermassive black holes that lurk at the hearts of galaxies, the officials added.
ESA aims to launch such an observatory, provisionally known as LISA, in 2034. The mission will likely consist of three spacecraft arrayed in a triangle, with each leg about 620,000 miles (1 million kilometers) long. Inside each craft will be a "free-falling test mass"; lasers will measure the distance between these masses, spotting the minuscule anomalies caused by passing gravitational waves, researchers have said.
Such work will require incredible precision, which means that the test masses will have to be in near-perfect free fall, unperturbed by sunlight pressure and other forces. And that's where LISA Pathfinder comes in.
'We have detected gravitational waves!', breakthrough discovery confirmed (FULL PRESSER)
LISA (short for Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) Pathfinder — whose total cost to ESA is $490 million (430 million euros) — launched on Dec. 3, on a mission to demonstrate the technology required for the future observatory.
At the heart of LISA Pathfinder are the two identical gold-platinum cubes, each of which weighs 4.3 lbs. (1.96 kilograms) and measures 1.8 inches (4.6 centimeters) on a side. The cubes are separated by 1.5 inches (3.8 cm), and they hang inside the spacecraft, which surrounds but does not touch them.
A laser precisely measures the cubes' positions, orientations and distance from each other.
"We can determine the distance of the two free-falling test masses to less than the diameter of a single atom," Gerhard Heinzel, leader of the Interferometry in Space research group at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics and Leibniz University in Hannover, said in the same statement.
On Jan. 22, LISA Pathfinder reached its destination in space, a gravitationally stable spot known as Lagrange Point 1, which lies about 930,000 miles (1.5 million km) from Earth, in the sunward direction.
Then, on March 1, the probe began its six-month science mission, performing a variety of experiments, including a crucial one that attempted to place the test masses in a virtually perfect free fall. LISA Pathfinder used its thrusters to maneuver precisely, shielding the masses from external forces — and did so incredibly effectively.
Artist's impression showing the core of the LISA Pathfinder technology package, which consists of two gold-platinum cubes kept in close to a perfect free-fall state.
Credit: ESA/ATG medialab
The relative acceleration between the two test masses was lower than 1 part in 10 millionths of a billionth of Earth’s gravitational acceleration, mission team members said. This result — which is based on the first two months of datacollection, and was published today in the journal Physical Review Letters — proves out the key technologies required to detect and study gravitational waves in space, Danzmann said.
"At the precision reached by LISA Pathfinder, a full-scale gravitational-wave observatory in space like LISA would be able to detect fluctuations caused by the mergers of supermassive black holes in galaxies anywhere in the universe," he said.
"The results reported by the LPF team are, quite simply, a tour de force in precision measurement," LIGO executive director David Reitze, who's based at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, wrote in an accompanying "Viewpoints" piece that Physical Review Letters also published today.
"These results bode extremely well for the future LISA mission," added Reitze, who was not involved in the LISA Pathfinder (LPF) study. "The LPF experiments firmly establish that the precision needed by LISA for measuring test-mass displacements are well in hand, setting the stage for the next era in gravitational-wave detectors."
Methanol, a Building Block of Life, Found Around Newborn Star for 1st Time
Methanol, a Building Block of Life, Found Around Newborn Star for 1st Time
By Jesse Emspak, Space.com Contributor
Antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Andes. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two companion galaxies to our own Milky Way galaxy, can be seen as bright smudges in the night sky, in the centre of the photograph.
Credit: ESO/C. Malin
Some of the building blocks of life are likely present on many planets from day one, a new study suggests.
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array(ALMA) in Chile spotted methanol in the dusty disk around a newborn star, marking the first time this carbon-containing organic molecule has been spotted in a planet-forming environment.
"Methanol in gaseous form in the disk is an unambiguous indicator of rich organic chemical processes at an early stage of star and planet formation," study co-author Ryan Loomis, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said in a statement. "This result has an impact on our understanding of how organic matter accumulates in very young planetary systems."
ALMA — a collection of radio telescopes high in the Andes Mountains of northern Chile — looked at the sun-like star TW Hydrae, which lies about 170 light-years from Earth.
This artist’s impression shows the closest known protoplanetary disc, around the star TW Hydrae in the huge constellation of Hydra (The Female Watersnake). The organic molecule methyl alcohol (methanol) has been found by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in this disc. This is the first such detection of the compound in a young planet-forming disc.
Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser
Astronomers think TW Hydrae is about 80 percent the mass of the sun, and much younger — barely 10 million years old. (The sun formed about 4.6 billion years ago.) TW Hydrae is surrounded by a disk of dust and gas that could one day form a planetary system.
ALMA mapped the chemical composition of the disk and found methanol, also known as methyl alcohol (CH3OH). Methanol is a relatively simple organic molecule, but it's one of the largest molecules ever found in a protoplanetary disk, researchers said.
Methanol forms as a solid (an ice) on the surface of grains in frigid dustclouds. That means the dust grains are releasing it into space, study team members said.
The methanol was found in a region where comets may be forming, some 30 to 100 astronomical units (AU) out from TW Hydrae. (One AU is the distance from Earth to the sun — about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)
A cosmic rainbow in ultra HD
Comets might be one source of the organic molecules that formed the basis of the first self-replicating molecules on our own planet, so the new results could have bearing on the origins of life on Earth, study team members said.
Generally, the discussion of UFOs today revolves around one of two dominant, relatively polarized positions on the subject. One is the advocacy or “belief” in a real, tangible phenomenon, and the other is the skeptically-oriented attitude that all belief in UFOs can be chalked up to misperception, or some other underlying psychological factor ranging from delusions and fantasies, to outright dishonesty.
While the debate over the existence of UFOs rages on, there is an underlying factor that is less widely discussed, which has little concern for whether a case “for” or “against” UFOs can be made. This is because it deals with the fact that both of these positions have been actively promoted by official agencies over the years, whenever circumstances arose in which one or the other became particularly advantageous in the name of government secrecy.
Because of this, over time I have begun to gravitate more toward what I perceive as being the likelihood that, while certainly not all UFO sightings and reports can be easily explained, a distinct majority of the more well-documented UFO cases over the years involve some element of misdirection, typically presented to one or more individuals that are in some way involved with UFO research. This is typically for the purpose of steering their attitudes on the subject, perhaps in an effort to distract them from coming to more logical conclusions (as we will examine in a moment with the story of Paul Bennewitz), although there are also instances where the broader objectives appear to be aimed at merely gauging the reactions of the targeted individuals.
The story of Paul Bennewitz is, arguably, among the most widely-recognized instances where a person interested in UFOs was deliberately given bad information about the subject by a government agency. Here, the reason for this had been aimed at misdirecting his attention from what were, at the time, secret NSA coded microburst tests that were being carried out at Kirkland Air Force Base (and, as I have noted on many occasions before, my friend Greg Bishop’s book Project Beta is the best source of information on the Bennewitz affair; I also reference Bishop’s research in an article here at MU, which suggests that astronomer and UFO advocate J. Allen Hynek may even have played a roll in the operation). Bennewitz was given equipment that helped him decode what he thought were “alien” messages, and furthermore, was encouraged to continue this UFOlogical research by Air Force authorities that included AFOSI Special Agent Richard Doty.
Influenced by Bishop’s work, London-based researcher and musician Mark Pilkington’s book Mirage Men (upon which a documentary film of the same name was based) delves into numerous other famous UFO cases from the last several decades, in which similar operations could have been underway. These range from the possible manipulation of some of the key players in the famous Maury Island UFO incident, (which included pilot Kenneth Arnold), and the strange role of one man, Fred Crisman, whose role in the affair seems to strongly suggest government involvement; as noted by Pilkington, and cited earlier by researchers Peter Levenda and Nick Redfern, Crisman would go on to be associated with numerous circumstances which makes his appearance all-the-more questionable.
Fred Crisman
No less among these had been the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, as Crisman was later subpoenaed to appear before the Warren court regarding the case against Clay Shaw, the only man prosecuted — and acquitted within one hour of appearing before a jury — in the investigation of the assassination of JFK.
There is also the bizarre kidnapping and sexual escapades of Brazilian farmer Antonio Villa-Boas in the 1950s (an early “UFO abduction” so lacking in sophistication by its players that it can hardly be disputed that the “craft” which kidnapped him had been a helicopter… though his forced sexual encounter with a beautiful blonde “alien” while on board isn’t the worst thing he might have been subjected to). Such staged UFO sightings and phony “alien” encounters were carried out in this way, with the apparent intention of inspiring belief in extraterrestrials among the more imaginative members of the general public… but to what end?
Meanwhile, official disclosures made by government groups and scientific organizations such as the 1968 Rand Corporation study, as well as the University of Colorado UFO Project headed by Edward Condon, presented “objective” opinions on the matter which underscored the need for “badly needed objective data”, paired rather paradoxically with the notion that no further scientific benefit could be derived from the study of UFOs. Of course, we can’t prove precisely who, or what agencies were likely behind incidents like the Villa-Boas “abduction”, or countless other stories involving UFOs; careful review of the evidence, however, suggests that there was hardly anything “alien” about such cases, with the data favoring psychological manipulation and misdirection instead.
Even more recently, the degree to which detailed data has appeared in conjunction with UFO hoaxes has been impressive; consider the famous case of the CARET drones (more about which can be read here). With the plentiful appearance of digital imagery that had been *almost* convincing, paired with shadowy, official-looking documentation, supplemented by further commentary by an individual calling himself “Issac”, the entire affair brought an air of realism to it that was almost on-par with the famous MJ-12 documents… another classic example of bad information that has made its hands into otherwise good researchers, with the net result of dividing opinions, and feeding the polarization of people’s attitudes.
Today, that polarization continues, of course. But as we stop to consider the way our beliefs are so often affected by what information appears before us, we must remind ourselves that there are deeper questions that we must ask from time to time… questions with implications beyond simple “do you” or “don’t you” positions. Between the realms of doubt and belief, one can find that dogmatic attitudes about UFOs, and perhaps countless other subjects, have slowly formed — or have perhaps even been shaped — over time, with the help of those who have pushed either ideology for purpose of gain in other areas.
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CO2 Gets Stoned: Method Turns Harmful Gas Into Solid
CO2 Gets Stoned: Method Turns Harmful Gas Into Solid
By Jesse Emspak, Live Science Contributor
Researchers have captured carbon dioxide from Iceland's Hellisheidi geothermal power plant and turned it into a solid.
Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Engineers have taken a tip from Medusa, it seems. They have stared down the pesky greenhouse gas carbon dioxide and turned it to stone.
The process they used was not as easy as simply eyeballing the gas, though. Essentially, they relied on a sped-up version of natural processes to take the carbon dioxide (CO2) spewed from a power plant in Iceland and transform the gas into a solid.
This ability to capture carbon dioxide and store it indefinitely may help curb the levels of heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere and stem global warming, the researchers noted. [Changing Earth: 7 Ideas to Geoengineer Our Planet]
"We need to deal with rising carbon emissions," lead study author Juerg Matter, now an associate professor of geoengineering at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom, said in a statement. "This is the ultimate permanent storage — turn them back to stone."
Natural carbon storage
Human-caused global warming occurs mostly because of greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, that get poured into the air by humans burning fossil fuels for energy and other processes. These gases trap heat before it can escape out into space. Carbon dioxide is the biggest factor in this warming, scientists have said, because billions of tons of the gas are released every year and it stays in the atmosphere for long periods of time.
Ordinarily, this gas is drawn out of the atmosphere by plants, which use it for photosynthesis, and a chemical process called weathering of rocks. This process happens when carbon dioxide and other gases that dissolve in water form weak acids that then chemically react with minerals in rocks to form other solids, like clays. However, both of those uptake processes are relatively slow, and they can't keep up with human output, the study researchers noted. [The Reality of Climate Change: 10 Myths Busted]
As such, engineers and other scientists have been working on several efforts to somehow inject the carbon dioxide into the ground. For instance, carbon dioxide is pumped into the tiny holes, or pores, in sedimentary rock — the kind laid down by layers of sand, for example, on the ocean floor.
The problem is that the carbon dioxide is a gas, and tends to rise. To keep it underground requires a placing a layer of less porous rock on top of the porous rock where the gas is stored. The carbon dioxide will eventually react with the porous rock and turn into a solid, carbonate compound, but that process can take centuries, if not millennia, according to study co-authorSigurdur Gislason, research professor at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik.
A new way to hide CO2
The team, led by Juerg Matter, now an associate professor of geoengineering at the University of Southampton, tried something different. The researchers took the carbon dioxide emitted by a power plant in Iceland, pressurized it to 25 atmospheres. They then pumped the CO2 into a borehole that was filled with water, dissolving the gas and making something like seltzer water. The mixture was then pumped into a layer of porous, volcanic rock located some 1,640 feet (500 meters) below the surface of the ground. The rock reacted with the mixture and formed carbonate compounds.
Study co-author Sandra Snaebjornsdottir holds a sample of volcanic rock that is loaded with solidified carbonate, formed when the researchers pumped carbon dioxide into the rock.
Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Essentially, the researchers sped up the weathering of rocks, Gislason told Live Science. Here's how it works: The carbon dioxide in the water forms carbonic acid, which dissolves the basalts and makes them more porous. Meanwhile, the carbonand oxygen from the CO2 make new compounds, largely magnesium, iron and calcium carbonates, which are solids that can't go anywhere. "Calcium, iron, magnesium can all form carbonates," Gislason said.
The process is very like what happens naturally, except that when stone — either as mountains or stone buildings – weathers, it happens as it rains, and rainwater only converts a small amount of carbon at a time. In addition, because the CO2 added to the water is under a lot more pressure than it is in the atmosphere, the concentration of carbonic acid is many times higher than in rainwater, or even in the carbonated water that people drink.
The study was conducted over a two-year period, noted study co-author Martin Stute, a research scientist at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in New York. In that time, the team monitored the water as it percolated through the rock using monitoring stations placed some distance from the injection site. They detected no CO2.
Even though the process requires a lot of water initially, that water can be recycled, because the other elements in it — the carbon dioxide and the compounds in the rock — are all removed in the reactions that form the carbonates, said Stute. He added that another advantage is that the water needn't be fresh; seawater should work just as well, though that hasn't been tried yet.
The next steps will be conducting more experiments and scaling up, the researchers said.
Both Gislason and Stute noted that the carbon dioxide would need to be transported to pumping sites if projects like this were built commercially, so the technique probably lends itself best to power plants that are close to areas with porous basaltic rock. Gislason said that describes many areas with power plants. "There are opportunities for this in Indonesia, or Japan," he said.
Still, the method offers a possible way to get rid of carbon dioxide quickly and cleanly, he said. "In a sense, you just mimic nature," Gislason said. "Just speeding up the process."
Eerste contact met aliens laat misschien nog wel 1500 jaar op zich wachten
Eerste contact met aliens laat misschien nog wel 1500 jaar op zich wachten
Caroline Kraaijvanger
We kunnen in theorie elk moment contact leggen met een buitenaards wezen, maar het zou ook helemaal niet gek zijn als het nog meer dan 1000 jaar duurt.
Die conclusie trekken onderzoekers van Cornell University. Waarom moeten we misschien nog wel 1500 jaar geduld hebben? Simpel. Omdat de ruimte heel groot is. “We hebben nog niets van aliens gehoord, omdat het heelal heel groot is, maar dat wil niet zeggen dat er verder niemand is,” vertelt onderzoeker Evan Solomonides.
Fermi Paradox Solomonides en zijn collega’s bogen zich voor dit onderzoek over de Fermi Paradox. Naar schatting zijn er miljarden aardachtige planeten te vinden in ons sterrenstelsel. Maar ondanks dat is er nog geen contact geweest met aliens. En dat is de paradox: er zijn zoveel plekken waar buitenaards leven kan ontstaan en zich kan ontwikkelen, waarom hebben we dan nog nooit iets van aliens gehoord?
Groot Op basis van hun onderzoek komen de wetenschappers tot de conclusie dat de Fermi Paradox eigenlijk helemaal niet zo’n paradox is. “Het heelal is groot. En zelfs al reizen signalen met de snelheid van het licht, dan nog moeten de signalen die beschavingen proberen te versturen een enorme afstand afleggen. Zelfs met de snelheid van het licht duurt het decennia, eeuwen of millennia om die afstanden te overbruggen.”
Tv-signalen Ze illustreren dat aan de hand van een voorbeeld. Wij mensen sturen voortdurend signalen de ruimte in: tv- en radiosignalen. Die haasten zich al zo’n tachtig jaar met de snelheid van het licht van de aarde vandaan. Dat betekent dat deze signalen inmiddels elke ster binnen 80 lichtjaar van de zon bereikt hebben. Het gaat dan om zo’n 8531 sterren en zo’n 3555 aardachtige planeten. Dat lijkt misschien een hoop, maar onze Melkweg telt naar schatting zo’n 200 miljard sterren! We hebben dus nog maar een fractie van de potentieel leefbare planeten in onze Melkweg bereikt.
Logisch Wanneer we rekening houden met de relatief korte periode (zo’n 80 jaar) waarin we signalen uitzenden, de frequentie waarmee leven waarschijnlijk voorkomt en de omvang van het heelal is de Fermi Paradox geen paradox. Sterker nog: het is heel logisch dat er nog geen contact is geweest.
Het lijkt erop dat we nog wel even na kunnen denken over wat we als eerste tegen de aliens gaan zeggen.
1500 jaar Op basis van hun onderzoek stellen de wetenschappers dat we waarschijnlijk pas van aliens horen als ongeveer de helft van de Melkweg door onze uitgezonden signalen is aangedaan. En dat duurt nog zo’n 1500 jaar. “Dat wil niet zeggen dat we dan contact moeten hebben gelegd en we als dat niet gebeurt alleen zijn,” benadrukt Solomonides. “We beweren alleen maar dat het onwaarschijnlijk is dat we dan nog niets van ze hebben gehoord.”
Het kan dus nog wel even duren voor we contact hebben gelegd. Maar we moeten de moed zeker niet laten zakken. “We kunnen elk moment wat horen, maar het is waarschijnlijk dat we over 1500 jaar van nu iets hebben gehoord. Tot die tijd kan het lijken dat we alleen zijn, zelfs als dat niet het geval is. Maar als we stoppen met luisteren of kijken, missen we de signalen misschien. Dus we moeten blijven kijken.”
Astronomen vinden zuurstof op recordafstand van de aarde
Astronomen vinden zuurstof op recordafstand van de aarde
Tim Kraaijvanger
Wetenschappers hebben gloeiend zuurstof gevonden op vele miljarden lichtjaren van de aarde. Het zuurstof is gevonden in een sterrenstelsel, dat astronomen zien zoals het er slechts 700 miljoen jaar na de oerknal uitzag.
Artistieke impressie van het jonge sterrenstelsel.
Het gaat in dit geval om het sterrenstelsel SXDF-NB1006-2. Niet eerder vonden onderzoekers zuurstof in een nog jonger sterrenstelsel dan SXDF-NB1006-2 en dat is vooral te danken aan de Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Astronomen hebben deze radiotelescoop namelijk gebruikt om het zuurstof te vinden. ALMA is het grootste astronomische project op aarde en bestaat uit 66 antenneschotels. De schotels worden ingezet om de koudste objecten in het heelal te bestuderen, zoals de bouwblokken van sterren, maar ook van planetaire systemen en sterrenstelsels.
Het zuurstof in SXDF-NB1006-2 is mogelijk geïoniseerd door de krachtige straling van jonge reuzensterren. In een zuurstofatoom bevinden zich normaal gesproken acht protonen, acht neutronen en acht elektronen. Wanneer een atoom een elektron verliest, dan zijn er meer protonen dan elektronen en dan is de zuurstofatoom geladen, oftewel geïoniseerd.
Kosmische reïonisatie Toen het heelal nog piepjong was, toen waren er nog geen sterren, sterrenstelsels en andere objecten. Het universum was gevuld met elektrisch neutraal gas. Een paar honderd miljoen jaar na de oerknal begonnen de eerste objecten te stralen. Door de krachtige straling braken de ongeladen atomen af en werd het gas geïoniseerd. Deze periode wordt ook wel de kosmische reïonisatie genoemd, een tijd waarin het heelal transformeerde.
De geschiedenis van het universum. 400 miljoen jaar na de oerknal begon de reïonisatieperiode, die duurde totdat het heelal één miljard jaar oud was.
Er is relatief weinig zuurstof gevonden in SXDF-NB1006-2, namelijk tien keer zo weinig als de zon bevat. “Deze geringe abundantie komt niet als een verrassing,” vertelt wetenschapper Naoki Yoshida van de universiteit van Tokio. Ze doelt daarmee op het feit dat zwaardere elementen – zoals zuurstof – pas later in aantallen zijn toegenomen, nadat de eerste generaties sterren explodeerden. “Maar we hebben ook nog iets onverwachts ontdekt: een zeer geringe hoeveelheid stof.”
Het feit dat er geïoniseerde zuurstof is gevonden in het jonge sterrenstelsel is een teken dat er in SXDF-NB1006-2 veel extreem heldere sterren zijn gevormd. Deze sterren zijn tientallen keren zwaarder dan de zon. Deze reuzensterren zenden de intense ultraviolette straling uit, waardoor zuurstofatomen ioniseren.
Vervolgwaarnemingen “Hiermee is de beantwoording van de vraag welk soort objecten de kosmische reïonisatie heeft veroorzaakt een stap dichterbij gekomen,” concludeert Yoichi Tamura van de universiteit van Tokio uit. “Onze volgende waarnemingen met ALMA zijn al begonnen. Nog nauwkeurigere waarnemingen zullen ons in staat stellen om de verdeling en de beweging van geïoniseerde zuurstof in het stelsel te zien, en cruciale informatie opleveren over de eigenschappen van het sterrenstelsel.”
Tien jaar na de klimaatdocumentaire van Al Gore: hoe staan we ervoor?
Tien jaar na de klimaatdocumentaire van Al Gore: hoe staan we ervoor?
Vivian Lammerse
Al Gore, de ex-vice president van Amerika, vertelde in 2006 het verontrustende verhaal van ons klimaat. Maar zette het mensen daadwerkelijk aan tot verandering? Waar staan we nu tien jaar later?
Alweer tien jaar geleden schokte Al Gore met zijn documentaire ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ de hele wereld. IJskappen die als de wiedeweerga smelten, de toename van orkanen en de rigoureuze stijging van de zeespiegel schrijft Al Gore in zijn film allemaal toe aan de door de mens veroorzaakte klimaatverandering. In 2007 nam hij dankzij de documentaire het alom begeerde Oscarbeeldje mee naar huis. Tegelijkertijd kwam er ook veel kritiek op de film: was Al Gore’s verwoording van het klimaatprobleem niet een tikkeltje overdreven?
KOOLSTOFTAX
Duurzame keuzes maken ligt op dit moment nog in handen van de consument. Maar als mensen mogen kiezen tussen een duurzaam geproduceerde smartphone, of een hele goedkope smartphone, kiezen de meeste mensen toch eerder voor de goedkopere variant. Hoe kunnen we duurzamere keuzes meer stimuleren? “Beprijzen,” vindt Bregman. “Laat mensen het maar voelen in hun portemonnee. Als jij iets koopt dat veel CO2-uitstoot heeft veroorzaakt of dat een groot effect heeft op een ecosysteem, zou dat belast kunnen worden met koolstoftaxen.” Dit ligt echter politiek erg gevoelig en bovendien is het lastig de schade te bepalen. Toch zou het een oplossing kunnen zijn voor milieuproblemen. Lees hier meer over de ecoprijs.
Film Bram Bregman, voormalig VN-representant, tegenwoordig businessmanager klimaatverandering bij het KNMI, en hoogleraar klimaatwetenschap en beleid bij de Radboud Universiteit zag de film ook destijds in 2006. “Al Gore was natuurlijk fenomenaal,” zegt hij. “Zowel qua presentatie, communicatief en agendasettend. Ik hoor vaak van mensen dat ze door Al Gore bepaalde duurzaamheidsprojecten op hebben gezet of duurzamer zijn gaan leven. Mensen zijn zich denk ik meer bewust geworden van de dreigingen en zijn daardoor beter gaan nadenken.” Er wordt vaak over de film gezegd dat deze heeft bijgedragen aan het klimaatbewustzijn in de wereld en een hoop mensen heeft geïnspireerd.
Overdrijven Maar Al Gore’s inspanningen om het klimaatprobleem overal in de wereld aan de kaak te stellen, werden hem niet altijd in dank afgenomen. “Ik ken genoeg onderzoekers die zich eerlijk gezegd hebben doodgeërgerd aan Al Gore,” zegt Bregman. “Wij hadden last van zijn manier van overdrijven die zijn geloofwaardigheid aantastte. Amersfoort dat binnen no time aan zee zou liggen, ijskappen die na elkaar naar beneden zouden storten… Aan de ene kant snap ik dat wel. Om het publiek goed te raken en wakker te schudden is enige overdrijving soms nodig. Maar voor beleidsmakers en wetenschappers werkt dat erg verstorend. Wij moesten vervolgens weer gaan uitleggen: ‘nee, zo gaat dat niet, het ligt allemaal iets genuanceerder’.”
“IK KEN GENOEG ONDERZOEKERS DIE ZICH EERLIJK GEZEGD HEBBEN DOODGEËRGERD AAN AL GORE”
Langzaam Nu, tien jaar nadat de film uitkwam, is er op klimaatgebied niet veel veranderd. Sterker nog, het klimaat is er op dit moment nog slechter aan toe. In 2006 was de CO2-concentratie met 300 ppm al hoog, maar vandaag de dag hebben we te maken met een CO2-concentratie van meer dan 400 ppm. “In 2015 was de toename van CO2 in de atmosfeer het hoogst van alle jaren daarvoor,” zegt Bregman. “De groeisnelheid was ongekend. Ik maak me daarom ook best zorgen over de instabiliteit van het klimaatsysteem op dit moment.” Heeft de film dan niets teweeg kunnen brengen? Daar is Bregman niet zo zeker van. De film heeft volgens hem zeker mensen wakker geschud en aangezet tot duurzamer gedrag. Alleen merk je het effect daarvan op het klimaat niet gelijk de volgende dag. “Het heeft tijd nodig,” legt hij uit. “Het klimaat verandert langzaam. Het zou zomaar kunnen dat we over dertig jaar pas het effect van Al Gore gaan zien.” Bregman legt dit wat duidelijk uit met een voorbeeld. “Er zit op dit moment nog een hele hoop warmte in de oceaan, waardoor we een temperatuurstijging gaan krijgen van een halve graad. Ook al zouden we nu wereldwijd stoppen met emissies, dan alsnog krijgen we die halve graad erbij. Daar valt niets meer aan te doen. Het klimaat heeft nou eenmaal een lange adem.”
De CO2-concentratie in de atmosfeer. De zwarte lijn geeft het gemiddelde aan, de rode lijn de maandelijkse schommelingen.
Credits: NOAA
Klimaatakkoord Een stukje Al Gore is volgens Bregman al wel terug te zien in het klimaatakkoord van Parijs. “Het akkoord heeft tot een ongekend resultaat geleid,” zegt hij enthousiast. In het klimaatakkoord staat onder andere dat de gemiddelde temperatuur op aarde niet meer dan twee graden Celsius mag stijgen en dat landen zelfs zullen proberen te streven naar een opwarming van niet meer dan 1,5 graden Celsius. “Je zou kunnen zeggen dat Al Gore daar ook mede een bijdrage aan heeft geleverd,” zegt Bregman. “Hij heeft wel een beweging in gang gezet.”
Mensen die dichtbij een rivier wonen, zullen zich eerder zorgen maken om de gevolgen van klimaatverandering.
Doordringen Toch lijkt het gevaar van klimaatverandering nog niet echt tot mensen door te dringen. We blijven met z’n allen veel te veel CO2 uitstoten. “Alleen mensen die direct de gevolgen van klimaatverandering ondervinden, zullen ook de urgentie ervan voelen,” zegt Bregman. “Dat zijn bijvoorbeeld mensen die bij grote rivieren wonen of in Zeeland. Die zijn misschien daarom ook wel bereid om meer belastinggeld te betalen om droge voeten te houden. Maar mensen in de Achterhoek zullen zich veel minder druk maken om droge voeten. Als je kijkt naar hoogstaande prioriteiten bij gemeentes of provincies staat daar klimaatverandering vaak niet tussen. Wel merk je dat langzaam aan het besef bij mensen begint te groeien. Dat komt deels doordat zich in de wereld steeds meer extremen en rampen voordoen. Deze zijn niet alleen toe te schrijven aan klimaatverandering, maar ze zorgen voor meer bewustwording van de kwetsbaarheid van onze samenleving en dat we niet zo door kunnen gaan met onze manier van leven. Een diepgewortelde duurzaamheidsgedachte over dat we naar een nieuw systeem moeten om de wereld voor onze kinderen en kleinkinderen behapbaar te houden, komt steeds meer naar boven.”
ALS JE KIJKT NAAR DE HOOGSTAANDE PRIORITEITEN VAN GEMEENTES OF PROVINCIES STAAT DAAR KLIMAATVERANDERING VAAK NIET TUSSEN”
Fiasco Als burger kun je zeker meewerken aan een beter klimaat door duurzamere keuzes te maken. Maar het echte goud ligt in handen van politici en beleidsmakers. Toch bleken die in voorgaande klimaatconferenties niet zomaar de handen ineen te slaan. Doelen werden niet behaald, vergaderingen gingen moeizaam en de klimaatconferentie van Kopenhagen liep al helemaal uit op een fiasco. Waar ligt dat nou aan? “Belangen,” zegt Bregman stellig. “Een klimaatakkoord wordt gemaakt op basis van consensus. Iedereen moet het er mee eens zijn. Maar vaak zijn belangen zo tegenstrijdig. Kijk naar Saoedi-Arabië, een belangrijk olieproducerend land. Saoedi-Arabië wil wel compensatie voor gederfde inkomsten. Dan is het erg lastig om compromissen te sluiten.” Een andere reden is het historisch perspectief. “Landen wijzen in eerste instantie naar de rijke landen die de meeste vervuiling hebben veroorzaakt,” legt Bregman uit. “Westerse landen, zoals de Verenigde Staten en Angelsaksische landen worden er voornamelijk op aangekeken. ‘Het is bij hen begonnen dus moeten ze ook zelf maar het vuil opruimen,’ zo wordt erover gedacht.”
“LANDEN WIJZEN IN EERSTE INSTANTIE NAAR DE RIJKE LANDEN DIE DE MEESTE VERVUILING HEBBEN VEROORZAAKT”
Nu, tien jaar na de documentaire van Al Gore en bijna dertig jaar na de eerste geluiden over klimaatverandering, boeken we nog steeds niet veel vooruitgang. Zijn we niet al te laat? “Nee hoor, te laat zijn we nog niet,” zegt Bregman geruststellend. “Maar we kunnen niet blijven wachten. Bedenk dat er nu al eilandstaten zijn die vanwege de zeespiegelstijging de bevolking moet verplaatsen naar andere landen. Omdat het klimaat traag reageert kun je echter niet zeker weten wanneer het echt te laat is. Vandaar dat het voorzorgsprincipe zo belangrijk is. Je kunt het klimaatsysteem namelijk niet stoppen als het te hard gaat, bijvoorbeeld met het smelten van de ijskappen aan de polen. Daarom is het wel de bedoeling dat er nu wat gaat gebeuren.” Met het klimaatakkoord van Parijs zijn we in ieder geval op de goede weg. “Met mijn ervaring in de VN weet ik dat het echt fantastisch is dat dit akkoord er op dit moment ligt. Ik besef ook dat het er nu op neerkomt dat het ook echt uitgevoerd wordt. En dat kan taai zijn, taaier dan je wilt. Maar dat is helaas de realiteit. In ieder geval zijn we tot dit akkoord gekomen. Dat is al heel wat!”
Bronmateriaal:
Interview met Bram Bregman Documentaire An Inconvenient Truth van Al Gore "Recent Global CO2" - NOAA
Star Trek has finally met its match in real life with the U. S. Air Force’s revelation of a new stealth technology that works as effectively as the “cloaking devices” used by Captain Kirk’s nemesis, the Klingons. Officially announced, the X-86b is the world’s first truly invisible airplane, according to the Air Force information office*. While most details of its operation are still classified, it has been confirmed that it uses a large array of carefully-modulated dark-emitting diodes “DEDs” to render the craft invisible to the naked eye.
Fig.1: A photo taken just outside Groom Lake of an aircraft reputed to be the X-86b “DED Jet” displays a stealthy profile.
Although dark-emitting diodes (DEDs) have been manufactured for nearly three decades, their low efficiency and relatively narrow photonic absorption bands limited their use for anything beyond a handful of applications such as power off indicators and active camouflage systems, such as handheld “darklights” and so-called "stealth suits used by some special forces squadrons for covert operations. There have also been persistent rumors about "cloaking devices" for military vehicles, and the long-rumored "DED Jet", believed to be in development since the early 1990's at the Air Force's Advanced Technology Center, located in Groom Lake, Nevada.
The DED Jet's existence was confirmed for the first time yesterday by Pentagon officials, just prior to a hastily-arranged press conference with YoYo Dyne Propulsion Systems, a prime contractor for the project, based in historic Grovers Mill, NJ. In addition to the embarrassment it caused the Pentagon, the incident forced YoYo Dyne to prematurely announce a line of advanced darkness emitters, based on the company's new Zener-enhanced DED technology. Officials of the Grovers Mill NJ-based technology firm apologized for the sudden announcement of the ZeDED yesterday evening which caught the industry by complete surprise. "We'd been planning on introducing our new ZeDEDs at LightFair next month," said John F. Cutbait, Chief Product Evangelist at YoYo Dyne. "Unfortunately, we had to change plans when the stealth aircraft we've been working on with the Air Force hit the news yesterday afternoon" he concluded.
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Fig. 2: a) An early ground-based test bed for DED cloaking techology b) The X-86a, the first airborne prototype stealth aircraft with its DED array deactivated.
Cutbait was referring to the incident which occurred at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station when a DED-equipped experimental stealth aircraft was forced to land after experiencing a minor problem with its flight systems. The highly-classified aircraft landed at the naval air station undetected, thanks to the conformal array of RGBD (red, green, blue and dark) emitters embedded in its composite skin. All went well as the DED jet began to taxi to a remote corner of the field with the intention of making repairs. Unfortunately, the disabled jet's active camouflage was so effective that the driver of an airport service vehicle failed to see the see it crossing an intersection and crashed into it.
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Fig.3: a) The DED-Equipped X-86b in Stealth Mode, as seen by a chase plane during flight tests at 30,000 ft. b) Meanwhile, YoYo Dyne flight engineers monitor the X86b's performance from a bunker located under McGuire AFB.
Analysts believe that the aircraft is the X-86b (unofficially dubbed the “DED-Jet”), a jet-powered version of the earlier X-86a which served as a test bed for DED-based cloaking technologies (see fig.3, above). It is rumored to be built on a retired B-58 “Hustler” airframe recovered from mothball storage in Arizona. Industry experts speculate that an IR-DED-equipped plane would be able to evade heat-seeking missiles and other thermal detection arrays without the use of flares or other conventional stealth technology. Analysts also speculate that research is progressing on using IR-DEDs which have been specially tuned to operate in a sub-harmonic mode that would absorb radar signals from both airborne and ground-based emitters.
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* Editor's note: EDN thanks the U.S. Air Force for permission to cover the accidental exposure if its highly-classified technology. As part of the agreement which made this story possible, EDN has redacted the most sensitive details and agreed to publish it as an "April Fools satire". To the skeptics who wonder if this is a joke or a conspiracy being perpetrated in plain sight, we say: "We report - you decide".
Huge spacecraft and 100 km highway discovered in 1968 moon Photo
Huge spacecraft and 100 km highway discovered in 1968 moon Photo
A 1968 photo taken during a Lunar Orbiter mission to the moon shows what appears to be a spacecraft that is at least 10 miles (16 km) long resting inside the Crater Manlius. Most of the object is well illuminated by the sun, but the rest is in the shadows of the crater which is approximately 24 miles in diameter and 2 miles deep, What appears to be a spacecraft cockpit is in shadows. What is even more compelling in the Lunar Orbiter photo is what appears to be a road that stretches across the entire horizontal width of the photo. The road can be estimated to be 120 miles (200 km) long and as much as a mile wide (1.6 km).
In 70 dagen naar Mars: ‘Brandstofloze’ EmDrive toch niet in strijd met natuurwetten
In 70 dagen naar Mars: ‘Brandstofloze’ EmDrive toch niet in strijd met natuurwetten
Wetenschappelijk onderzoek uit Finland laat zien dat de ‘onmogelijke’ EmDrive, een experimentele aandrijving die een ruimteschip zou kunnen versnellen zonder stuwstof, echt werkt. Dat gaat volkomen in tegen de wet van behoud van impuls, die juist stelt dat stuwstof altijd noodzakelijk is.
Met een EmDrive kunnen we in theorie zonder enige raketbrandstof in minder dan 10 weken naar Mars reizen. De wetenschap kan maar niet verklaren hoe de motor zou moeten werken en toch, op de één of andere manier, doet hij het.
Finse wetenschappers hebben nu ontdekt dat de aandrijftechnologie werkt door microgolven om te zetten in fotonen (lichtdeeltjes). Dr. Arto Annila van de Universiteit van Helsinki, dr. Erkki Kolehmainen van de Universiteit van Jyväskylä en natuurkundige Patrick Grahn van het bedrijf Comsol hebben hun onderzoek gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift AIP Advances.
Transformeren
De EmDrive werd in 1999 uitgevonden door de Brit Roger Shawyer, maar die werd jarenlang geridiculiseerd door de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap. Volgens Shawyer kan de EmDrive de lucht- en ruimtevaartindustrie transformeren en de energiecrisis oplossen.
Sinds 2012 zijn er negen onafhankelijke studies gedaan door wetenschappers uit China, Duitsland en zelfs van de NASA. Ze kwamen allemaal tot de conclusie dat de EmDrive werkt.
“De EmDrive verschilt in principe niet van andere motoren,” zei Annila. “De motor verbruikt brandstof, dat kan iedereen begrijpen – er gaan microgolven in. Het probleem is dat er niets uit lijkt te komen, en om die reden denken mensen dat de EmDrive niet werkt.”
Onzichtbare uitlaat
Terwijl de fotonen in de EmDrive rondstuiteren heffen ze elkaars elektromagnetisch veld op. Ze bestaan dan nog steeds, je kunt ze alleen niet meer zien als licht. Dr. Annila kwam tot de ontdekking dat de fotonen in paren door de wand van het apparaat lekken, een soort onzichtbare uitlaat dus.
De Finse wetenschapper zegt dat de EmDrive zich netjes houdt aan de natuurwetten. Omdat veel wetenschappers nog niet geloven dat de motor werkt, pleit hij voor meer onderzoek.
“We hebben hier te maken met een echt fenomeen. Het moet worden onderzocht. Sceptisch zijn helpt niet,” benadrukte Annila.
“Nieuwe reeks Britse ‘X-Files’ bewijst mogelijk dat Groot-Brittannië is bezocht door aliens”
“Nieuwe reeks Britse ‘X-Files’ bewijst mogelijk dat Groot-Brittannië is bezocht door aliens”
Britse X-Files die binnen enkele weken worden vrijgegeven zullen naar verwachting nieuw licht gaan schijnen op de mysterieuze UFO-waarneming in het Britse Rendlesham Forest.
Afgelopen jaar erkende het Britse ministerie van Defensie het bestaan van de documenten. In 2013 claimde het ministerie al zijn voormalig topgeheime stukken over aliens te hebben vrijgegeven, maar na een aantal Wob-verzoeken bleek dat de overheid stukken heeft achtergehouden.
De papieren zijn inmiddels overgedragen aan het Britse Nationaal Archief, dat moet bepalen wanneer ze worden geopenbaard. De Duitse website Grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de (GreWi) heeft ontdekt dat ze in augustus zullen worden vrijgegeven.
Laagvliegende UFO’s
De stukken bevatten naar verluidt informatie over de UFO-waarneming in 1980 in Rendlesham Forest, die ook wel het Britse Roswell wordt genoemd. Drie Amerikaanse officieren die waren gestationeerd op vliegbasis Bentwaters zagen in de vroege uren van 26 december 1980 een driehoekig vaartuig in het bos landen.
Het drietal sprak van knipperende lichten en hiërogliefachtige symbolen op de zijkant van het object. Een dag later kwam het object terug. Plaatsvervangend commandant kolonel Charles Halt (76) ging met een team het bos in en trof gaten aan in de grond waar het vaartuig zou zijn geland. Ook werden er ongewoon hoge stralingsniveaus gemeten.
De reeks documenten die wordt vrijgegeven bevat ook informatie uit de periode 1971-76, 1996-2000 en 2004. Ze gaan volgens het ministerie over laagvliegende UFO’s en onbekende objecten die op de radar zijn vastgelegd.
‘Smoking gun’
Nick Pope, die jarenlang voor het ministerie onderzoek deed naar UFO’s, zei dat de inhoud van de stukken interessant is, hoewel hij niet kan beloven dat ze een ‘smoking gun’ bevatten.
Pope verwees ook naar de uitspraken die presidentskandidaat Hillary Clinton onlangs heeft gedaan over het onderwerp. In interviews heeft ze aangegeven veel meer gegevens over UFO’s boven Amerikaans grondgebied openbaar te willen maken. “Ik geloof niet dat mensen aan hun keukentafel zitten en deze verhalen verzinnen,” zei ze.
Uit uitspraken die ze door de jaren heen heeft gedaan blijkt dat ze waarschijnlijk ook in buitenaardse bezoekers gelooft. Haar campagneleider John Podesta zei: “De Amerikaanse regering zou beter moeten omgaan met de legitieme vragen die mensen hebben over wat er aan de hand is met ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten.”
An Alaskan witness at Wasilla reported watching and videotaping two bright orange, oval-shaped UFOs, according to testimony in Case 43911 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.
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The witness was loading her children into a vehicle for a trip to a haunted house when the objects were first noticed about 7:50 p.m. on October 27, 2012.
“I saw two bright, orange, oval-shaped objects coming through the trees and going straight up,” the witness stated. “My first reaction was to scream and point.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness felt positive it was not a plane because the objects were moving straight up.
“I took a picture and tried to get a video, but I was a little shaky and scared. I watched it until I could no longer see it and was scared out of my mind.I know this was a UFO sighting.”
Cropped and enlarged still frame from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The report indicates the object were seen under 500 feet and less than 500 feet from the witness.Wasilla is a city in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, Alaska, population 8,621. The case was reported to MUFON November 14, 2012, investigated by Alaska MUFON, and closed as an Unknown.
Wasilla, Alaska.
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Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
A Florida witness at St. Augustine reported watching as many as “32 lighted objects” as low as the tree tops in a vertical, rectangle design colored red and white, according to testimony from Case 76886 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration #1.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was looking out a back door when the objects were first noticed about 8:45 p.m. on May 20, 2016.
“They came out of the west and most headed northeast, but three split off and one went north, one went northwestand one went west,” the witness stated.“These objects appeared to fly in a military configuration.”
Witness illustration #2.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was able to take some photos, “but the objects appear as just dots of light in the photos.”
The witness was unable to upload these images with the original report, which was filed on June 7, 2016.
“These objects were vertical, not horizontal. On most of them, the top three-quarter was red and the bottom one-quarter was white. When they got real low, they appeared to have a pinkish color to them. I was in the Army in Air Defense and these things are like nothing I have ever seen before. My wife also witnessed some of these objects in the sky.”
Witness illustration #3.
(Credit: MUFON)
Florida State Section Director Dinah Lechner is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Internationally-recognized UFO expert Travis Walton speaks at the 2016 Aurora Alien Encounter held on Sat. Apr. 16, 2016 at the MD Resort in Aurora, Texas.
Darin Crapo UFO Show Talks About Travis Walton, June 16, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Darin Crapo UFO Show Talks About Travis Walton, June 16, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of video: June 16, 2016 Maker of video:Darin Crapo This is a cool discussion about Travis Walton and how he is going to appear at a Canadian Expo on June 25. Sounds cool and if you get there, tell us about it. One of the interesting things about the Travis case is that he says there were tentacle-like roots and a sticky slime around his ship he woke up on. That sounds a lot like a biologically grown ship to me. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: Disclosure is closer than ever. With U.S. Presidential race contender Hillary Clinton hinting she will look into whether Extraterrestrials are real – and have been in contact with governments for decades – the time couldn’t be better for hearing into the UFO phenomena. On Saturday, June 25, the world’s attention will be on Brantford, Ontario,Canada where the first-ever Canadian inquiry into UFOs and Extraterrestrials will be held. Seven internationally-renowned experts will be panelists for the ET Disclosure Hearing being held on Saturday June 25 at the Best Western Plus Brant Park Inn in Brantford. Panelists include; Travis Walton, Richard Dolan, Nick Pope, Stanton Friedman, Grant Cameron, Stephen Bassett and former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer. They will be questioned by another panel of Canadian journalists and academics who will challenge the positions of these UFO researchers. Government documents will be presented attesting to Canadian military and NORAD involvement in the tracking of and chasing UFOs. To obtain tickets for the event follow the link below: Main web site:https://aliencosmicexpo.com Tickets: https://aliencosmicexpo.com/tickets/
A Genetic Study Appears To Confirm Advanced Alien Lineage Of Ancient Egyptians
A Genetic Study Appears To Confirm Advanced Alien Lineage Of Ancient Egyptians
There have been talks about an advanced alien race being responsible for incredible structures of Ancient Egypt, such as pyramids, for quite some time now. According to the related theory, the designers and builders of these pyramids had a substantial connection with beings outside the planet Earth.
Stuart Fleischmann, a comparative genomics assistant professor at the Swiss University in Cairo, published the results of their 7-year study that mapped the genomes of nine ancient Egyptian Pharaohs. Their findings have the potential to change the world history books and humanity’s understanding of our role in the Universe.
Fleischmann and his team of scientists started this potentially incredible find when they subjected the samples of ancient DNA to Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR); a process usually used to replicate and amplify a copy of a piece of DNA. The technique offers a far clearer picture to researchers of someone’s genetic fingerprint.
After an initial test, the most exciting thing seemed to happen. All examples except for one returned with somewhat interesting but typical results. The source of the DNA sample from Akhenaten, a 14th century BC pharaoh and father of Tutankhamun, was a little fragment of desiccated brain tissue. The test was repeated using a bone tissue. All tests obtained the same results, but none of them came back completely normal.
CXPAC-5 gene is one of the culprits of an anomaly being discovered. The gene is responsible for cortex growth. The prevalence of the CXPAC5 gene is not usual in Akhenaten. It suggests that Akhenaten had a higher cranial capacity to house a far larger cortex.
The mutation could be an explanation of a human brain to grow like Akhenaten. However, despite many breakthroughs in genetic science no technique yet that could support such theory. Could the finding of Akhenaten sample point to the evidence of ancient genetic manipulation on a human subject? Possibly the work of advanced alien beings?
Fleischmann explained that only two processes can expend telomerase (a genetic enzyme), namely an extreme aging or extreme mutation. Based on archaeological and genetic data, Akhenaten/Amenhotep IV lived for around 45 years, which is way insufficient to consume all the chromosomal telomerase. The explanation leaves behind the mutation theory, but still a possible explanation.
Another fascinating piece of finding can be found in microscope photographs of osseous tissue from the skull of Akhenaten. When compared to a different mummy of similar age, Akhenaten’s sample revealed that he had a far denser and basically different at a nanoscopic scale. It means that Akhenaten had increased strength of the skull bones, which could be an indicator of a rise in brain development.
The story has been here for quite some time, but despite its possible enormous impact on the scientific community, it never made to the mainstream media. If advanced alien entities were involved in the life of some of the most influential people thousands of years ago, then a return would not be impossible. Or perhaps, these advanced extraterrestrials never leave humans at all, and they are just in the skies observing our activities.
Another theory is that the direct descendants of ancient royal lineage, who still have the alien genes implanted in their ancestors’ genomes, continue to have the power and control.
VIDEOAstronomen hebben een kleine asteroïde ontdekt die de Aarde bij haar baan rondom de Zon begeleidt, zo heeft het Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) van de NASA bekendgemaakt. De ontdekking wordt beschreven als een "mini-maan". De asteroïde lift als het ware mee met de Aarde.
Asteroïde 2016 HO3 heeft een diameter van 40 tot 100 meter en wordt door de aantrekkingskracht van onze planeet in zijn baan gehouden en dat zal dat nog eeuwen zo blijven.
De mini-maan draait niet in een nette cirkelvormige baan om de Aarde, maar lift min of meer mee tijdens de baan van de aarde om de zon. Tegelijkertijd wordt het object door de Aarde heen en weer geslingerd.
De afstand tot de aarde is af en toe heel groot en wordt dan in de loop van enkele tientallen jaren weer kleiner. Het hemellichaam verwijdert zich maximaal tot 100 keer de afstand Aarde-Maan en komt niet veel dichter dan 38 keer deze afstand.
Het is volgens het JPL te ver om als een echte maan van ons te gelden. "Wij bestempelen het als een bijna-maan van de Aarde", zei Paul Chodas van het JPL. "Men kan zeggen dat deze kleine asteroïde en de Aarde met elkaar dansen".
Het ding is op 27 april ontdekt met de Pan-Starrs 1 telescoop van de Universiteit van Hawaii in het Nationaal Park Haleakala. Het zou ons al honderd jaar begeleiden.
Het had ook een voorganger: 2003 YN107 draaide in een gelijkaardige baan rondom ons. Maar tien jaar geleden verdween het hemellichaam uit onze buurt.
Naast zijn trouw zal het brok gesteente ook geen brokken maken bij ons. Volgens Lindley Johnson van de NASA is er geen gevaar dat het ding in de komende twee jaar tegen onze planeet zal aanknallen. "Verder in de toekomst kunnen we niet zien".
Wetenschappers hebben met de ALMA-radiotelescoop in Chili zuurstof in het jeugdige heelal ontdekt. Dat heeft de Europese Zuidelijke Sterrenwacht ESO gemeld.
Een team astronomen uit Japan, Zweden, Groot-Brittannië en van het Europese Ruimtevaartbureau ESA gebruikte de ALMA om één van de verste sterrenstelsels waar te nemen die we kennen: SXDF-NB1006-2. Het heeft een roodverschuiving van 7,2. Dit betekent dat we het zien zoals het er slechts 700 miljoen jaar na de Oerknal uitzag.
Meer bepaald wilde het team meer te weten komen over de zware chemische elementen in het sterrenstelsel, omdat die iets kunnen vertellen over de stervormingsactiviteit ervan. Dat levert dan weer aanwijzingen op over een periode in de kosmische geschiedenis die bekendstaat als de kosmische reïonisatie en die het universum drastisch veranderde.
Intense ultraviolette straling Uiterst nauwkeurige waarnemingen met de ALMA leidden tot de ontdekking van elektrisch geladen zuurstof in het sterrenstelsel, waardoor de verst verwijderde eenduidige vondst van zuurstof een feit was. In het sterrenstelsel moeten zich talrijke zeer heldere sterren hebben gevormd, die tientallen keren zoveel massa hebben als onze Zon. Deze reuzensterren zenden de intense ultraviolette straling uit die nodig is om de zuurstofatomen te ioniseren.
SXDF-NB1006-2 blijkt verhoudingsgewijs tien keer minder zuurstof te bevatten dan de Zon, wat volgens de onderzoekers geen verrassing is.
Wel onverwacht is dat slechts een zeer geringe hoeveelheid stof ontdekt. Een emissie van koolstof is helemaal niet gevonden. Dit wijst erop dat dit jonge stelsel heel weinig niet-geïoniseerde waterstofgas bevat, zegt ESO.
Een internationaal team van wetenschappers heeft opnieuw een zwaartekrachtgolf gemeten. Het is pas de tweede keer dat dit lukt. Zulke golven zijn misschien wel het grootste mysterie van het universum. De wetenschap heeft jaren geploeterd en gespeurd, maar nu wordt duidelijk dat ze inderdaad bestaan. De bijzondere meting is gisteren bekendgemaakt op een persconferentie in San Diego naar aanleiding van de jaarlijkse bijeenkomst van de American Astronomical Society.
De nieuwe zwaartekrachtgolf, waarvan het signaal zwakker was dan dat van de eerste gedetecteerde ooit, werd in de nacht van eerste op tweede kerstdag opgepikt door geavanceerde sensoren van het Ligo-instrument in het zuiden en in het westen van de Verenigde Staten, 3000 km van elkaar verwijderd. Het signaal is in feite een schokgolf die door de vezels van het heelal trekt.
Zwarte gaten De golf werd verstuurd op het moment dat twee zwarte gaten samensmolten. Dat gebeurde ongeveer 1,4 miljard jaar geleden. Het ene zwarte gat woog veertien keer zo veel als onze zon, het andere zwart gat ongeveer acht keer zo veel. Bij elkaar wegen ze dus 22 'zonnen', maar het nieuwe object blijkt 21 keer zo zwaar als onze ster. De ene resterende 'zonnenmassa' werd weggeslingerd als energie, naar alle hoeken van het heelal, en komt nu in onze omgeving.
Er is mogelijk ook al een derde zwaartekrachtgolf gemeten, op 2 oktober, maar dat staat nog niet helemaal vast. De wetenschappers hebben tijd nodig om die meting na te pluizen.
De onderzoekers hadden in februari voor het eerst bekendgemaakt dat ze een zwaartekrachtgolf hadden gemeten. Die kwam van de fusie van twee andere zwarte gaten. Door de golf verschoof een speciale laserstraal een miljoenste van een miljoenste van een miljoenste van een meter.
Ruimtetijd Albert Einstein had in 1915 geopperd dat het heelal bestaat uit ruimte en tijd en dat die één geheel vormen. Na een heftige gebeurtenis kan die 'ruimtetijd' trillen. De schokgolven, de zwaartekrachtgolven, gaan dan door het heelal als rimpelingen na een steen in een vijver. Bij zo'n rimpeling rekt de ruimte iets uit of krimpt hij iets. Pas nu kan het gelijk van Einstein worden bewezen, dankzij de meest geavanceerde laserapparatuur.
Wetenschappers kunnen met zwaartekrachtgolven op een hele nieuwe manier naar het heelal kijken. Dan zien ze dingen die tot nu toe verborgen bleven, zoals objecten die geen licht uitstralen.
Wetenschappers van het Amsterdamse onderzoeksinstituut Nikhef, de Radboud Universiteit in het Nederlandse Nijmegen en de Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam zijn bij het onderzoek betrokken.
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Het team dat eerder dit jaar het bestaan van Einsteins zwaartekrachtgolven kon bevestigen, heeft voor vanavond opnieuw een persconferentie aangekondigd. De verwachtingen onder natuurkundigen zijn (opnieuw) groot - er wordt vermoed dat de onderzoekers een tweede zwaartekrachtgolf hebben gezien. Het LIGO-team houdt op de jaarvergadering van astronomen in San Diego een persconferentie, om 19.15 uur Belgische tijd.
LIGO mocht op 11 februari aankondigen dat zij voor de eerste keer de al door Albert Einstein in 1916 beschreven zwaartekrachtgolven hadden opgemerkt. De Duitse fysicus omschreef de golven destijds als "rimpels in het weefsel van ruimtetijd". Volgens Einsteins theorie vervormt elk object dat zich in de ruimte beweegt de ruimte. Hoe zwaarder dat object, planeten bijvoorbeeld, hoe meer vervorming er is. Zwaartekracht is dan het gevolg van de vervorming die massa's geven aan de ruimtetijd.
Die rimpelingen zijn vanop de aarde nauwelijks vast te stellen, maar LIGO kon dat, met de hulp van twee reusachtige L-vormige laseropstellingen in de Verenigde Staten, voor de eerste keer opmerken. Die trilling werd veroorzaakt door de botsing van twee zwarte gaten, 1,3 miljard lichtjaar verwijderd van de aarde.
Bronnen in de sector menen dat LIGO eind december een tweede ruimtetrilling heeft waargenomen. Het signaal zou wel veel zwakker zijn, wat de theoretische analyse minder zeker maakt.
RUIMTEMorgenavond houdt het team van gravitatiegolfdetector LIGO een persconferentie, vermoedelijk met de mededeling dat een tweede ruimtetijdgolf is waargenomen, een rimpeling van het heelal zelf.
Op 11 februari bevestigde LIGO de voorspelling van Albert Einstein uit 1916 dat ruimte en tijd kunnen trillen door heftige botsingen of explosies ver in het heelal. Volgens Einsteins zwaartekrachttheorie vormen ruimte en tijd één geheel en is zwaartekracht het gevolg van de vervorming die massa's eraan geven.
Grote massa's als planeten willen naar elkaar toe bewegen zoals twee bowlingballen op een matras naar elkaar rollen. Heftige botsingen van grote massa's kunnen rimpelingen in de ruimtetijd teweegbrengen als in een waterbed waar een klap op is gegeven.
Versmeltende zwarte gaten
Heftige botsingen van grote massa's kunnen rimpelingen in de ruimtetijd teweegbrengen als in een waterbed waar een klap op is gegeven
De Einsteintrilling werd volgens LIGO veroorzaakt door een botsing van twee zwarte gaten, 1,3 miljard lichtjaar ver weg. Die draaien dan steeds sneller rond elkaar, tot ze versmelten. De golven die ze veroorzaken hebben een steeds hogere frequentie, waardoor een typisch 'chirp-signaal' ontstaat.
Volgens ingewijden is nu een tweede ruimtetrilling waargenomen, weer met de kenmerken van twee versmeltende zwarte gaten. De nieuwe waarneming kan volgens astronomen vooral meer zicht geven op de vraag of op elkaar klappende zwarte gaten in het heelal een zeldzaam verschijnsel zijn of juist vrij normaal.
Ruim tachtig procent van de wereldbevolking kan 's nachts nauwelijks sterren zien door lichtvervuiling. Dertig procent van de wereldbevolking kan zelfs helemaal geen sterren onderscheiden. Oorzaak is kunstmatige verlichting op de aarde, zo blijkt uit onderzoek.
Het onderzoek van de Amerikaanse wetenschappers verscheen in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Science Advances. "Het is goed om via dit onderzoek de ogen van mensen te openen", zegt de Amerikaanse wetenschapper Travis Longcore. Hij bestudeert stadsecologie aan de universiteit van Zuid-Californië in Los Angeles en is niet aan het onderzoek verbonden. "Wat een afschuwelijk idee dat we altijd leven in permanente schemer en dat we de sterren over een aantal jaren niet meer kunnen zien."
Meeste lichtvervuiling
Uit eerder onderzoek bleek dat de afgelopen halve eeuw de lichtvervuiling in Europa en Amerika met zes procent per jaar is toegenomen. In West-Europa zijn alleen in Schotland, Zweden en Noorwegen nog gebieden te vinden die 's nachts compleet donker zijn. Met name de lucht boven Singapore en San Marino is het meest vervuild door licht. Ook in de regio rond Nederland, België en Duitsland is de Melkweg nog maar moeilijk te zien.
In Afrika is de sterrenhemel juist goed te zien: de top tien landen die de lucht het minst vervuilen, bevinden zich allemaal op dit continent.
Volgens onderzoeker Fabio Falchi heeft de lichtvervuiling sterke invloed op dieren en mensen. "Sterke kunstmatige verlichting kan ervoor zorgen dat vogels bijvoorbeeld eerder hun eieren gaan leggen. Mensen die te lang blootstaan aan licht kunnen volgens Falchi meer melatonine gaan produceren, wat leidt tot een verstoord slaapritme en een verhoogd risico op bepaalde vormen van kanker", zegt hij op de nieuwssite Science Now.
"We kunnen de schade zeker verlagen. Maar de schade die we al hebben aangericht kan niet worden teruggedraaid." De onderzoekers zeggen dat het gebruik van afgeschermd straatlicht en bewegingssensoren de lichtvervuiling kan tegengaan. Ook zouden kantoren hun lichten uit moeten doven tijdens sluitingstijd.
Landen waar de Melkweg moeilijk te zien is:
- Singapore en San Marino (100%) - Malta (89%) - West Bank (61%) - Qatar (55%) - België en Koeweit (51%) - Trinidad, Tobago en Nederland (43%) - Israël (42%)
Afrika, Australië en Canada zijn het minst vervuild.
From the the intricate monuments and cities that once covered the ancient Indus Valley, to the weathered steppes of Central Asia; and much further beyond, the ruined, vine-decorated temples of South America, such remnants of the ancient world have long remained among our most fascinating treasures.
The ancient past has long kept many mysteries, some of which we possess at least a degree of knowledge here in modern times. Among these are the notions of ancient cataclysms of truly epic proportion, which seem to suggest that there was more great change on our planet in ancient times than history has managed to yet account for.
Some of the most famous examples of epic, earth-shaking mysteries from times long past come to us in the retellings found in documents from antiquity. For instance, Plato’s dialogue Critias, a text for which only incomplete portions exist today, is famous among both historians and alternative scholars alike, for its description of the fabled island kingdom of Atlantis.
Critias divulges the following about the mythic Atlantean kingdom, and its war with those further inland:
“Let me begin by observing first of all, that nine thousand was the sum of years which had elapsed since the war which was said to have taken place between those who dwelt outside the Pillars of Heracles and all who dwelt within them; this war I am going to describe. Of the combatants on the one side, the city of Athens was reported to have been the leader and to have fought out the war; the combatants on the other side were commanded by the kings of Atlantis, which, as was saying, was an island greater in extent than Libya and Asia, and when afterwards sunk by an earthquake, became an impassable barrier of mud to voyagers sailing from hence to any part of the ocean.”
The passage is indeed a curious one, likened by many to an actual retelling of events, while others maintain that its origins had been a mere thought experiment, never with intention that its contents should be taken literally. Whatever the truth may be, this odd bit of information from the halls of antiquity has spun innumerable legends about the true nature of the lost kingdom of Atlantis, as well as speculation about its origins and possible existence.
Perhaps of equal interest, however, is Plato’s reference to a war that had transpired nine thousand years prior to his own retelling of the events. This, again, might only be a brief, but novel aside in the broader legend; however, its similarity to stories that appear elsewhere — namely those within ancient Hindu epics like the Mahabharataand the Bhagavad-Gita — also seem to describe ancient battles that were fought not only on an epic scale, but with weapons possessing tremendous destructive potential.
The Mahabharata speaks, for instance, of an “unknown weapon” that destroyed an entire race, which is described thusly:
“…. a blazing shaft possessed of the effulgence of a smokeless fire (was) let off… That was how this weapon was perceived. The consequences of its use also evoke involuntary associations. ‘… This makes the bodies of the dead unidentifiable… The survivors lose their nails and hair, and their food becomes unfit for eating. For several subsequent years the Sun, the stars and the sky remain shrouded with clouds and bad weather’.
The weapon, sometimes called either the “Weapon of Brahma,” “Flame of Indra,” was described in the Hindu epics in such a way that, to the modern mind, many of its characteristics resemble our conception of modern nuclear weapons, the likes of which were developed and first used during the Second World War:
“(It was) a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as the thousand suns rose in all its splendor… it was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death, which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and the Andhakas.”
It would be difficult build a case around the existence of actual weapons of mass destruction that were utilized in the ancient world. Nonetheless, such descriptions have provided fodder for the speculations of “ancient alien theorists”, as well as the research of alternative historians like Graham Hancock, which suggests the existence of an ancient super-civilization. With little doubt, there are likely to have been many formations of civilization that have come and gone, and of which we may possess little knowledge today. Could they have utilized technologies similar to those in use in the modern world, and perhaps those with equal destructive potential?
A more plausible scenario would hold that the evidences of epic cataclysms found in texts from antiquity likely represent catastrophic changes occurring on Earth long ago, possibly stemming from any number of different natural sources that range from asteroid impact, to supernovae, or even cosmic ray jets, as suggested by researchers William Topping and Richard B. Firestone, in their 2001 article, “Terrestrial Evidence of a Nuclear Catastrophy in Paleoindian Times”, in which the authors related that, “The entire Great Lakes region (and beyond) was subjected to particle bombardment and a catastrophic nuclear irradiation that produced secondary thermal neutrons from cosmic ray interactions.”
Perhaps this can account for the evidence of mass-destruction in the ancient world, the likes of which many have compared with the effects of modern warfare though, in likelihood, such ancient occurrences were of natural origin. And yes, there is scientific data that helps substantiate such ideas, based on geological and other data spanning the last several hundred thousands of years, showing the degree to which wild changes have occurred on our ancient planet.
Still, no complete picture seems to have emerged. In truth, we may never fully reveal the epic levels of destruction that occurred on this planet since ancient times, though perhaps the persisting question is whether the holy epics and dialogues of antiquity, opposed to being merely folk tales, are actually based on factual occurrences that detail multiple levels of devastation that occurred — perhaps on a global scale — in our ancient world.
Damn you, Fermi! In yet another attempt to determine why we haven’t yet been contacted in some way by extraterrestrials (for those who don’t believe it’s already happened), astronomers at Cornell University say Fermi’s paradox may be resolved and Earth will hear from aliens … but not for 1,500 years.
It’s strictly mathematical, according to Cornell student Evan Solomonides, co-author ofA Probabilistic Analysis of the Fermi Paradox, a paper prepared for the American Astronomical Society’s current meeting.
We haven’t heard from aliens yet, as space is a big place – but that doesn’t mean no one is out there.
Solomonides estimates that Earth has been sending out electronic signals – radio and television – for about 80 years. The good news is, this means they’ve reached around 8,500 stars and 3,500 planets within 80 lights years from us. The bad news is, according to Solomonides, there’s still 200 billion stars left to contact in the Milky Way alone. Then there’s the challenge of deciphering our signals, translating our languages and sending a message back that we can possibly understand.
What about the stars that have heard our signals so far? Isn’t it possible one of them is working on breaking our code and responding in 80 years? Based on the Mediocrity Principle, which basically states that we humans aren’t that special, and the Drake Equation, which estimates the number of possible communicative extraterrestrial civilizations in the galaxy, that’s a definite possibility. However, Solominides’s calculations would seem to tell Fermi that the clock only started 80 years ago and we need to give it more time.
It’s possible to hear any time at all, but it becomes likely we will have heard around 1,500 years from now. Until then, it is possible that we appear to be alone – even if we are not. But if we stop listening or looking, we may miss the signals. So we should keep looking.
The latest in a series of videos appearing online that purportedly show a strange, unidentified triangle-shaped aircraft, has come to the attention of UFO researchers following a submission to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
The video, which the Express featured on its site recently, shows an odd, slow moving object in the distance, which appears on camera for several minutes. The object appears to have a red, green, and white light, each marking one of the three corners of the object (see below).
The object in the recent MUFON video appears to have some resemblance to another aircraft, which was filmed over Longview, Texas one year ago. At that time, the observers labeled it the “Texas (Belgium) Triangle”, due to it’s similarity to an object that appeared throughout a famous wave of sightings over Belgium in the early 1990s.
MUFON has been collecting a number of similar reports over the last several weeks. As reported by Roger Marsh at MUFON’s website, in one recent observation the witness described seeing a large, dark triangle aircraft as it passed at an altitude of just 500 feet as it moved over Shelby County, Ohio. Initially, the witness believed the object had been “a motorized glider.”
Additional reports came from areas that include the town of Indian Land, South Carolina, where a witness reported that on May 26, 2016, the craft was observed as it quickly moved through the sky outside their residence:
“I see a white light with red and blue lights blinking on it flying by. I thought it was just a plane, but what really caught my attention and made me get up and run to the window was how fast the object was moving. I have never seen a plane or anything for that matter move that fast before.”
Additional reports have been made as far away as Britain, where one witness observing the sky in the early evening managed to capture a photograph of an odd, triangular object at it hovered in the sky at some distance.
According to the witness report:
“There was a black triangle hovering in the sky,” the witness stated.“We didn’t take our eyes off it. Very slowly it moved to the north. After approximately 10minutes and to the left of it a black orb appeared. There was another object just below and to the right of the orb that looked like a line and seemed to follow the orb.”
The reports of the alleged triangle “UFOs” appear within weeks of one particularly interesting video, filmed by a motorist in Florida back in May, which appeared to show what some hold to be the best recent footage of one of the unidentified “triangles”, as seen below:
Speculation about the origins of these aircraft have included the theory that many sightings have been of a secret military aircraft. A study carried out by the National Institute of Discovery Science in 2004 noted that, “The United States is currently experiencing a wave of Flying Triangle sightings that may have intensified in the 1990s, especially towards the latter part of the 1990s. The wave continues. The Flying Triangles are being openly deployed over and near population centers, including in the vicinity of major Interstate Highways.”
Space.com similarly reported on NIDS and its findings, which suggested a link to known flight corridors used by the US Air Force. Their conclusion at the time had been that the aircraft are, in likelihood, a variety of stealth blimp being operated by the Department of Defense.
To date, no explanation that offers a conclusive determination on these aircraft has been offered. Hence, the debate as to their origins, and ultimate purpose, remains very much alive; and in likelihood, it is a conspiratorial debate which will continue for some time.
Many decades ago, when the construction of the library facilities at Western Carolina University near Cullowhee, North Carolina, had been underway, a local story tells of the discovery of an underground chamber, in which the bodies of what appeared to be a number of Native Americans were found. As the story goes, the construction proceeded as planned at the time, and the chamber was sealed shortly after a small group of archaeologists were allowed to examine the remains, along with a number of items that also filled the ancient underground chamber.
Whether the story above, related to me by a member of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching, is based on fact, or merely legend, is a worthwhile question. However, there are similar stories that surface from time to time in other parts of the United States as well. The March 12 & April 5, 1909 issues of the Arizona Gazette purportedly carried a story about a similar underground discovery, this time an entire “city”, which was found near the Grand Canyon. One account of the narrative (which can be found here), borrows the very familiar trope of involvement by the Smithsonian Institute in relation to the alleged discovery:
“Smithsonian archaeologists S. A. Jordan and associates also explored the man-made cavern with hundreds of rooms, enough to hold over 50 thousand people. The underground city is about 42 miles up river from El Tovar Crystal Canyon and Crystal Creek, and about 2000 feet above the river bed on the east wall. John Rhodes after 3 years of field research reportedly discovered the Grand Canyon city, which is now being used as a museum for elitist groups and has lower levels that are being used by “super secret black book operatives”, which can only be entered via a stainless steel door at the bottom of a stairwell deep within the “city” that is “guarded by a very lonely soldier staring into the darkness… dressed in a white jumpsuit and armed only with an M16 assault rifle to ward off his imagination.”
The story above is indeed tantalizing, though it should be noted that it contains some conflicting information; namely, the fact that the excerpt discusses a “lonely soldier” armed with an M16 which, despite the story’s attribution to the year 1909, didn’t come into use until after World War II (it is unclear, based on the source, whether the anecdote about the lonely guard was added later).
Similar stories do emerge from time to time that stem from more reliable sources. Researcher Chris O’Brien, author of books like The Mysterious Valley trilogy and co-host of The Paracast, recently told a story related to him by an individual he describes as a “very reliable source”, who had been involved with expansions of the lab facilities at Los Alamos a number of years ago. The individual in question had been an underground demolitions expert, and described “an ancient, antediluvian tunnel system” that he and his team discovered during the underground expansion operation, which he and several others followed for some distance. “They literally went as far as they could before they had to turn around so they could get back by the end of their shift,” O’Brien recalled, with his contact having estimated the tunnels to be at least several thousands of years old.
Another story involving odd underground happenings was featured on the same podcast, as O’Brien and host Gene Steinberg interviewed a friend of mine, Walter Bosley, who discussed his new book Origin: The Nineteenth Century Emergence of the 20th Century Breakaway Civilizations. The book focuses primarily on the 19th Century airship mysteries (as outlined in Bosley’s earlier book, Empire of the Wheel II: Friends from Sonora), although at one point in the interview, Walter begins to discuss an unusual story his father had shared with him decades ago, which seems to offer a radically different interpretation of the famous alleged crash of a mysterious aircraft at Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947.
Bosley’s father had been a member of the U.S. Air Force throughout the 1950s, in what would have been the early years of Project Mercury, the first human spaceflight program which lasted from 1958 to 1963. The senior Bosley’s unit was involved in testing for pressurized spacesuits, and possessed a high security clearance.
At one point, Bosley’s father was stationed further East at Gunter Air Force Base (now called Gunter Annex) near Montgomery, Alabama, when he and a number of others from his unit were ordered to travel to a USAF base in Texas for what was described as a “briefing issue” at the time. As the aircraft carrying the unit passed above Louisiana, its direction changed to a northerly course, and the men in Bosley’s father’s unit were told they were being taken to Wright Patterson in Ohio. Upon arriving, the group was debriefed about what is known today as the Roswell incident.
“From there,” Bosley recalls of his father’s story, “He and the two guys from his unit were then sent out to Arizona, to a specific location — all I know is that it was in the vicinity of Winslow — an underground location where they were a part of the retrieval of the pilots, crew, or whatever of another crash.” Bosley’s father explained that the aircraft, rather than being of “alien” origin, had belonged to “a hidden civilization here on Earth, in the underground, and that’s what Roswell had been.” In other words, the aircraft recovered during these alleged crashes, as well as the bodies (one of which Bosley’s father said he had been shown while visiting Wright Patterson Air Force Base), had belonged to hidden civilization that exists below ground.
“For what it’s worth, he was very sincere telling this story,” Bosley notes, who says the story was told to him years prior to the initial book on the Roswell incident, authored by Bill Moore and Charles Berlitz. “Over the years, he would tell me a little more about it,” Bosley explained. “But I learned the most about it after I was working for the government myself.” (Walter served with the U.S. Air Force for a number of years).
Walter’s story is similar to one told by another colleague of mine, Nick Redfern, in which Redfern recounted an incident involving “mysterious people” that were found in the southwestern desert (admittedly, I don’t recall right off-hand if this was information that appeared in one of Nick’s articles here at Mysterious Universe, or if it was told to me during one of our many personal conversations on subjects like this). Nonetheless, it was implied in Nick’s story that these “people” may have also had some kind of subterranean origin.
Of his father’s strange story, Walter explains that, “Of course, people ask me, do you believe that? Do you think that?” He also notes that he plans to write a forthcoming book which looks more deeply at his father’s claims… stories which, coming from a man who had been involved with the early innovations in manned spaceflight, are indeed rather interesting.
It is worth noting that a lot of insinuations have been made over the years that, in similar fashion, look at the “underground” angle as it relates to UFOs and similar odd happenings. Many of these theories seem to draw influence from earlier narratives and, specifically, the popular “Shaver Mystery” tales that appeared in Ray Palmer’sAmazing Stories magazine back in the 1940s. But whether or not the answers to things like UFO sightings can literally be attributed to legions of lost inner-earth dwellers, it seems an almost inescapable reality that much of the strange phenomena that has been recounted over the years probably have origins of the terrestrial kind… despite having the appearance, at times, of being quite “unearthly”.
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Astronomers predict when aliens will finally make contact with mankind
Astronomers predict when aliens will finally make contact with mankind
BYJOHN VON RADOWITZ
Experts have calculated when ET will finally phone Earth - and don't hold your breath
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It might take another 1,500 years before extraterrestrial aliens make contact with the human race, a team of astronomers has predicted.
The scientists performed a calculation based on the likelihood of technological civilisations arising among the stars, and the probable length of time they had been transmitting signals across space.
They concluded there was no reason to think we are alone in the universe. We just need to exercise a little patience.
US researcher Evan Solomonides, a PhD student from Cornell University, said: “We haven’t heard from aliens yet, as space is a big place - but that doesn’t mean no one is out there.
“It’s possible to hear any time at all, but it becomes likely we will have heard around 1,500 years from now.
“Until then, it is possible that we appear to be alone - even if we are not. But if we stop listening or looking, we may miss the signals. So we should keep looking.”
Astronomers have long pondered why, given the number of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, there has been such a deafening silence from the cosmos, despite attempts by Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) scientists to eavesdrop on alien signals.
There are more than 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, almost half of which may host Earth-like planets, according to one estimate.
If life is not unique to the Earth and has evolved in a similar way elsewhere, the galaxy should be teeming with civilisations. Yet not one confirmed alien signal has ever been detected.
This puzzle was highlighted in 1950 by Italian physicist Enrico Fermi in what has become known as the “Fermi Paradox”.
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A number of logical reasons for the lack of contact have been suggested. These include the possibility that intelligent extraterrestrial life is very rare or non-existent, that all intelligent civilisations eventually destroy themselves before reaching out to the stars, that the aliens have decided inter-species communication is too dangerous, or that they are observing us from afar as part of a “hands off” experiment.
The new research suggests there is nothing contradictory about “Fermi’s Paradox” and we should not have expected to make contact so soon.
The scientists’ starting point is the fact that humans have only been broadcasting TV and radio signals into space for around 80 years. By now these signals should have reached more than 8,500 stars within 80 light years of the sun.
Although this seems a large figure, it is tiny compared with the number of stars in the Milky Way.
Adopting the so-called “Mediocrity Principle” that says there is nothing at all special about the Earth or its occupants, the team ruled out the likelihood of humans being among the first or last civilisations to develop radio technology.
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As a result, the average length of broadcasting history in the galaxy was found to be the same as ours, roughly 80 years.
This figure was included in an equation that also measured the frequency of life arising on extrasolar planets.
The conclusion was that we could expect to start hearing from alien civilisations once their signals had spread across half the Milky Way.
And that could take another 1,500 years, said the scientists, who are to present their findings at the American Astronomical Society’s annual meeting in San Diego, in the US.
“This is not to say that we must be reached by then or else we are, in fact, alone,” Mr Solomonides pointed out. “We simply claim that it is somewhat unlikely that we will not hear anything before that time.”
He added: “We are on the third planet around a tediously boring star surrounded by other completely normal stars about two-thirds of the way along one of several arms of a remarkably average spiral galaxy.
“The Mediocrity Principle is the idea that because we are not in any special location in the universe, we should not be anything special in the universe.”
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Interview with John Mack Psychiatrist, Harvard University
Interview with John Mack Psychiatrist, Harvard University
NOVA: Let’s talk about your own personal evolution from perhaps skepticism to belief …
MACK: When I first encountered this phenomenon, or particularly even before I had actually seen the people themselves, I had very little place in my mind to take this seriously. I, like most of us, were raised to believe that if we were going to discover other intelligence, we’d do it through radio waves or through signals or something of that kind. Quote: I came very reluctantly to the conclusion that this was a true mystery
The idea that we could be reached by some other kind of being, creature, intelligence that could actually enter our world and have physical effects as well as emotional effects, was simply not part of the world view that I had been raised in. So that I came very reluctantly to the conclusion that this was a true mystery. In other words, that I—I did everything I could to rule out other sources, or sexual abuse. Some of these people are abused. But they’re able to tell, distinguish clearly the abduction trauma from other forms of abuse. Some forms of psychosis or people making up stories—I could reject that on the basis that there was no gain in this for the vast majority of these people.
…. I’ve now worked with over a hundred experiencers intensively. Which involves an initial two-hour or so screening interview before I do anything else. And in case after case after case, I’ve been impressed with the consistency of the story, the sincerity with which people tell their stories, the power of feelings connected with this, the self-doubt—all the appropriate responses that these people have to their experiences.
NOVA: So tell us, please, how literally you intend people to take this? Are you suggesting people are really being snatched from their beds by aliens and experiments on board a spaceship?
MACK: Just how literally to take this, is one of the most interesting and complex aspects of this. And I want to walk through that as clearly as I can. There are aspects of this which I believe we are justified in taking quite literally. That is, UFOs are in fact observed, filmed on camera at the same time that people are having their abduction experiences.
People, in fact, have been observed to be missing at the time that they are reporting their abduction experiences. They return from their experiences with cuts, ulcers on their bodies, triangular lesions, which follow the distribution of the experiences that they recover, of what was done to them in the craft by the surgical-like activity of these beings.
All of that has a literal physical aspect and is experienced and reported with appropriate feeling, by the abductees, with or without hypnosis or a relaxation exercise.
….There is a—I believe, a gradation of experiences and that go from the most literal physical kinds of hurts, wounds, person removed, spacecraft that can be photographed, to experiences which are more psychological, spiritual, involve the extension of consciousness. The difficulty for our society and for our mentality is, we have a kind of either/or mentality. It’s either, literally physical; or it’s in the spiritual other realm, the unseen realm. What we seem to have no place for—or we have lost the place for—are phenomena that can begin in the unseen realm, and cross over and manifest and show up in our literal physical world.
So the simple answer would be: Yes, it’s both. It’s both literally, physically happening to a degree; and it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and originating perhaps in another dimension. And so the phenomenon stretches us, or it asks us to stretch to open to realities that are not simply the literal physical world, but to extend to the possibility that there are other unseen realities from which our consciousness, our, if you will, learning processes over the past several hundred years have closed us off.
NOVA: I wonder, if in that vein, you can speak to what you think this experience is about?
MACK: ….There are several effects that these experiences have for those who undergo alien abduction encounters. First is the most familiar aspect or fit, which is a traumatic event in which a blue light or some kind of energy paralyzes the person, whether they’re in their home or they’re driving a car. They can’t move.
They feel themselves being removed from wherever they were. They floated through a wall or out a car, carried up on this beam of light into a craft and there subjected to a number of now familiar procedures which involve the beings staring at them; involves probing of their body, their body orifices; and a complex process whereby they sense in the case of men, sperm removed; in the women, eggs removed; some sort of hybrid offspring created which they’re brought back to see in later abductions. That’s the sort of literal experience.
Now, the effect of that is—or what seems to be going on there, in a number of abductees—not just people I see, but the ones Budd Hopkins and other people see—is to produce some kind of new species to bring us together to produce a hybrid species which—the abductees are sometimes told—will populate the earth or will be there to carry evolution forward, after the human race has completed what it is now doing, namely the destruction of the earth as a living system. So it’s a kind of later form. It’s an awkward coming together of a less embodied species than we are, and us, for this evolutionary purpose.
However, that might not be literally true. It might be that that this is a communication to us. That perhaps we need to change our ways. It may not be that these are literally our babies. It may be a kind of expression of images of babies; or it may be that these hybrids we’re told is what will have to be. It’s a kind of insurance policy if the earth continues to be subjected to the exploitation of its living environment to the point where it can’t sustain human and other life as it’s now occurring. But it may not be literally what is going to happen. So that’s one area.
Another area is the whole visual environmental and informational aspect of this in which people are shown on television screens a huge variety of scenes of environmental destruction of the earth polluted; of a kind of post-apocalyptic scene in which even the spirits have been routed from their environment because they live in the same physical and spiritual environment that we do; and canyons are shown with trees destroyed; pieces of the earth are seen as breaking away—portions of the East Coast or West Coast.
NOVA: …..Alien hybrid. What does that mean?
MACK: Sometimes along the way, as you go deeper and deeper into the person’s consciousness, into their experience, they will discover….what is called a dual identity. In other words, that they are both human—in one dimension; but they also are themselves, have an alien identity. That they are participatory in this reproductive hybrid program, as if they were altogether part of it. And that they may, in fact, even experience themselves as aliens.
One of the men in my book actually was an active participant in taking a woman from Texas up into the ship and being, and acting the reproductive function of the alien being, and felt he was himself alien. And often the abductees will feel that their job, developmentally, is to integrate these two dimensions or these two aspects of themselves: the human and the alien. And that the alien dimension is a part of ourselves, our souls, if you will even, from which we were or have been cut off over the centuries of human beings living on this earth in this densely embodied form.
NOVA: You and others have said that there is no other psychological explanation. But that there is some reality to it. What do you think of the work of people like Michael Persinger and Robert Baker who have these complicated theories about neurology or they charge that hypnogogic hallucinations being at the root of these perceived—these experiences?
MACK: These experiences often occur in literal consciousness. Not in a hypnogogic or dreamlike state. The person may be in their bedroom quite wide awake. The beings show up. And there they are and the experience begins. That they’re not occurring in any dreamlike state. Now sometimes they do occur when a person is dozing off or in a hypnogogic state. But very frequently not.
Also, any theory that is going to look upon this as a purely endogenous phenomenon, by which I mean generated purely from the psyche of the person themselves. Which is a kind of arrogance too, really. Because it means that we just can’t accept the notion there could be another intelligence at work here. Which is a much more economical explanation. But if we must find a theory within ourselves, then we should keep in mind that any theory that’s going to even begin to address this, has to take into account five factors:
Number one, the extreme consistency of the stories from person after person. Which you would not get simply by stimulating the temporal lobes. You would get very variable idiosyncratic responses that would differ a great deal from person to person.
Number two, you would have to deal with the fact that there is no ordinary experiential basis for this. In other words, there’s nothing in their life experience that could have given rise to this, other than what they say. In other words, there’s no mental condition that could explain it.
Third, you have to account for the physical aspects: the cuts and the other lesions on their bodies, which do not follow any psychodynamic distribution, like the stigmata associated with the identification with the agony of Christ.
Fourth, the tight association with UFOs, which are often observed in the community, by the media, independent of the person having the abduction experience, who may not have seen the UFO at all, but reads or sees on the television the next day that a UFO passed near where they were when they had an abduction experience.
And finally, the phenomenon occurs in children as young as two, two and a half, three years old. And any theory that simply attributes this to the activity of the brain, does not take into account at least three of those five fundamental dimensions…
NOVA: Aren’t you really at risk of losing quite a bit, personally and professionally, because of …criticism?
MACK: I think that, in some ways, I’ve gained more than I’ve lost in terms of inviting people into this mystery, having a dialogue with all kinds of very wonderful, open, intelligent, brilliant people from many different fields. It’s been quite exciting. I mean I’ve been attacked, but the attacks have not been really nearly as serious to me as the openness that I’ve found among many people throughout the culture and internationally, who are saying: Yeah, I always suspected something like this was going on, and I’m glad you were willing to come forward and report about it.
……It’s often said that I’m a believer and sort of have gone and lost my objectivity. I really object to that. Because this is not about believing anything. I didn’t believe anything when I started, I don’t really believe anything now. I’m come to where I’ve come to clinically. In other words, I worked with people over hundred and hundreds of hours and have done as careful a job as I could to listen, to sift out, to consider alternative explanations. And none have come forward. No one has found an alternative explanation in a single abduction case.
NOVA: Many say that this is just really a function of cultural images.
MACK: …I have been looking at this phenomenon as it manifests in indigenous people, in Native Americans—the Cherokee, the Hopi, who know these beings as the star people. We’ve looked at this in South Africa, particularly in interviewing in depth a leading South African sangoma, or medicine man, who calls these beings “mandingdas”.
We’ve investigated it in Brazil with a farmer in—outside Belo Horizante who had identical abduction experiences to what have been reported in this country. I’m getting recent—I received a letter about abduction experiences from a person in Malaysia today. In other words, this is—as far as we can tell—a worldwide phenomenon. This is not restricted, as some people have thought, to Western or particularly American culture.
I’ve interviewed airline pilots who have had sighting—close up sightings of UFOs. They will not report it, because they will be removed from their work. Even if they’ve had abduction experience, they will not talk about it. And 25 to 30 percent of airline pilots, according to a survey that one of the people I’ve talked with did, have had close up sightings, but will not discuss it.
This simply is not something that is accepted as OK to talk about or—And that may be changing. I recently saw a Harvard Divinity School student, and I asked him these questions. I said: Do you talk about this among your fellow students? And he said: ‘Oh, yes.’ And it turned out several of them had also had abduction experiences. And even the ones that had not, were fascinated, interested, didn’t ridicule ’em. So maybe the climate is changing.
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Why should we pay attention to the UFO ET Question ?
Why should we pay attention to the UFO ET Question?
When it comes to the question of UFOs and Aliens, a majority of the populace on our Planet remain divided about their understanding and knowledge on the subject, thanks to all the disinformation propaganda and covert planting of false beliefs and self limiting ideas which have confused us, making it even more challenging to find the truth. There has been enough said about this on this website … but its never enough, as we still have a long way to go before we are really ready to face what lies ahead of us … Our true galactic origins and our deep connection with other races and advanced human civilizations. We are being nudged forward to see our true nature ….. realize our true origins which would make us realize how we are all united in spirit, however remain divided when we feed the illusions of separation !
Here is an article by Steven Greer about the UFO/ET questions and its implications ….. Hope this helps some of us deepen our understanding of whats really going on …
NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF THE UFO/ETI SUBJECT
A Brief Summary by Steven M. Greer, M.D August 1995
National security implications of the UFO/ETI subject are profound and far-reaching, albeit currently unrecognized. These implications may be considered in separate but related aspects: those intrinsic to extraterrestrial activity and those arising from current covert management of the issue.
Historical Background:
Early national security considerations dealt with concern over public panic arising from the detection of near-earth and earth-landed extraterrestrial spacecraft (ETS), and from the technological implications of advanced extraterrestrial material as it may impact the arms race and Cold War. Additional concerns were related to the impact on religious belief systems, the political order and economic systems.
Importantly, once actual ETS were retrieved in 1947, thereby allowing extraterrestrial hardware to be studied and back-engineered for possible human military applications, the need for complete secrecy regarding the matter was deemed paramount by authorities at that time. Given the tensions of the early atomic era and the mounting ‘Cold War’ with the USSR, it is understandable that the introduction of extraterrestrial technology was thought to be destabilizing to an already dangerous situation. Moreover, given the history of technological secrets related to atomic and hydrogen weapons being stolen by agents of the USSR, there was understandable concern that any technological breakthrough related to extraterrestrial technology might find its way into Soviet hands. If such an event enabled the USSR to produce actual military applications before the US, obviously this would have placed the US military capability in a potentially catastrophic disadvantage.
Since the 1970’s, we have reason to believe that a degree of cooperation on this matter has evolved with the USSR and the US and perhaps other nations. Certainly the end of the Cold War has largely removed earlier concerns vis a vis technological breakthroughs and the fear of Soviet aggression.
Moreover, the psychological reasons for secrecy related to public panic are not valid today. At least 57% of the population accept that UFOs are real and are of extraterrestrial origin. And 30-40 years of space exploration by human society has prepared the population for the possible existence of other extraterrestrial civilizations capable of space travel. In short, the previous concerns motivating secrecy are not relevant today. Intrinsically, there is no reason to believe that the extraterrestrial presence pose a threat to the national or world security. If hostility and aggression were related to their purpose here, it is likely that events congruent with hostility would have transpired long before now. It is our assessment that the extraterrestrials are not hostile, but are very concerned with human capability related to warfare and the militarization of space. Activity by extraterrestrial assets related to the neutralization of ICBM facilities and to containing military-oriented space exploration should be understood in light of their concern over a known history of human aggression which has been coupled with the advent of weapons of mass destruction and space exploration. Indeed, given the past history of human military assets focusing on and pursuing extraterrestrial spacecraft, we believe the extraterrestrials have responded with remarkable restraint.
Ironically, the threat to national security exists not with the extraterrestrial presence, but the current covert management of the subject. In the absence of extra-terrestrial hostility over 50 years, current secrecy cannot be justified on the basis of fear of extraterrestrial aggression. A disclosure related to the extraterrestrial presence, if calmly and rationally presented, will not cause panic in the USA or elsewhere. 1995 is not 1945, and world society has evolved to the point where this information can be assimilated in a positive fashion.
In contrast, the covert and apparently extra-constitutional management of this matter is a real threat to national and world security, and undermines constitutional freedom and democracy. Unless it is terminated, this covert management will greatly harm US national security and the chances of a lasting world peace.
Assessment:
It is our assessment that the current covert management of this issue involves the following elements which are a direct, immediate and ongoing threat to the national security. 1. The continued denial of the extraterrestrial presence creates a situation where a sudden, undeniable public extraterrestrial event could induce panic, since proactive disclosure efforts which could ameliorate public fears are non-existent. It is likely that such a public extraterrestrial event will transpire within the next 2-10 years or sooner. Therefore, secrecy and denial are a real threat to national and world security.
2. The current covert management of this issue appears to be operating independently and outside of the constitutional chain of command. The group controlling these operations, which involves reconnaissance, extraterrestrial technology back-engineering, and space-based targeting of ETS (among others) is non-responsive to congressional or Executive Branch oversight and control. This constitutes a real and grave threat to national security and to constitutional democracy and freedom. 3. We have credible, first-hand sources who insist that extraterrestrial spacecraft have been targeted by human covert space weapons and on at least two occasions have been destroyed. If true, the risks to world peace and security are real and imminent, and the continuation of these covert activities constitute the gravest dangers to national and world security. Hostile actions taken by human covert assets against extraterrestrial assets constitute a grave and immediate threat to the national security. A relatively small, covert entity, acting without consultation with the United Nations, the Congress, the President of the United States, or the public is engaging in actions on behalf of all humans which endanger the earth and world peace. Unless controlled, these actions could precipitate interplanetary conflict and a disaster for the world generally and the United States specifically. This covert management must be terminated and control of this issue returned to constitutional authority and to public domain.
4. The concentration of the technological advances related to the back-engineering of extraterrestrial technology into the hands of a small covert operation constitutes a grave and immediate threat to the national security, to world security, and to the future of the earth. These extraterrestrial technologies, which have been the object of covert research and development for over 45 years, are potentially of great benefit to humanity if used wisely for peaceful purposes, but are of immense danger when concentrated into a small covert operation which is unresponsive to the public or the legal and constitutional chain of command. The threat this poses to the US and world security is great, and the longer this situation continues, the greater the concentration of advanced technological power in the hands of a relative few. The secret control of such powerful technologies is inherently a threat to freedom, democracy, and to our nation and the world. Its utilization for covert agendas outside constitutional control represents a grave danger to the US and must be restrained and reversed.
5. Importantly, secrecy and covert operatives per se constitute a real threat to the national security, since national security in a constitutional democracy can only be legitimately related to freedom and democratic government. Only in very rare and well- justified circumstances can extreme secrecy and covert operations exist, since by nature freedom and democracy cannot coexist with unrestrained secrecy and secret power. The profound implications of the detection of extraterrestrial civilizations cannot be allowed to be the exclusive domain of covert operations which are unrelated to public discourse and consultation. To do so is to undermine the US Constitution, democracy and freedom, and this constitutes a real and grave threat to national security. 6. Finally, exclusive covert control of this matter has resulted and continues to result in the loss of opportunity for the world to come to terms with the extraterrestrial presence in a peaceful and mutually beneficial fashion. This means that the people of the world, the United Nations and other international and national institutions are deprived of the opportunity to deal rationally with this issue. National and world security are therefore negatively impacted by the loss of opportunities in the following areas:
The environment, which is seriously at risk for large-scale collapse over the next 100 years, would be profoundly improved if extraterrestrial technologies could be peacefully deployed. So-called zero point or free energy systems, which are non-polluting, would permit a sustainable technological civilization to exist on earth and would transform the earth environmentally and economically. Establishing peaceful and mutually beneficial relations with extraterrestrial civilizations would eventually permit us to understand and apply such technologies.
World unity and peace will be enhanced by the global realization that we are not alone in the universe. The acknowledgement of this fact will enhance the awareness that we are really one people living on the shared homeland of earth, and many of the conflicts currently afflicting the earth will be seen in a new perspective. This can be achieved without either deifying or demonizing the extraterrestrial presence, but rather placing it in a fair, scientific, and neutral light. Eventually, world peace and a significant enhancement in the current geopolitical situation may result from the disclosure that we are not alone. An international infrastructure, and institutions capable of dealing peacefully with relations with extraterrestrial civilizations would, of necessity, evolve, and this in turn would strengthen world unity and cooperation.
World culture, ideas, science and many other diverse areas may benefit through the development of peaceful relations with other worlds. While this process may take decades, if not centuries, its delay only puts off the time when the people of the earth will be united not only globally, but with other planetary civilizations as well.
In summary, it is imperative to the national security that the President and Congress undertake measures to terminate the secret, covert management of the UFO/ETI subject. Failure to place this matter in open, public discourse and control constitutes the gravest failure of democracy and government in the history of the world. That we do this is a test of our faith in democracy and our faith in the people. As the 21st century approaches, we must roll up the cancerous excesses of secrecy which are the legacy of the Cold War and unfurl a new era wherein democracy is reaffirmed and a lasting world peace is given a chance.
Steven M. Greer, M.D. Here is an interesting compilation of some intriguing videos by Steven Greer …
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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 you’re 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.
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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Dwarf planet discovery hints at a hidden Super Earth in solar system
Dwarf planet discovery hints at a hidden Super Earth in solar system
Orbits sun at greater distance than any other known object
• 2012 VP 113 may be shepherded by unseen planet • Discovery team call it VP, or ‘Biden’ after US vice president
Astronomers have increased the size of the observable solar system after spotting a 450-km wide object orbiting the sun.
The lump of ice and rock circles the sun at a greater distance than any known object, and never gets closer than 12bn kilometres – 80 times the distance from Earth to the sun.
If its size is confirmed it could qualify as a dwarf planet in the same category as Pluto. Researchers said the discovery proves the existence of the inner Oort cloud, a region of icy bodies that lies far beyond the orbit of Neptune – which at 4.5bn kilometres from the sun is the most remote planet in the solar system.
Until a proper name is decided upon, the body is known only as 2012 VP113.According to the science journal Nature, the team that discovered it call it VP for short, or “Biden”, after US vice president Joe Biden.
Its pink tinge comes from radiation damage that alters the make-up of frozen water, methane and carbon dioxide on the surface.
Three images of the newly discovered dwarf planet 2012 VP 113 taken about two hours apart on 5 November 2012. Photograph: Scott S Sheppard/Carnegie Institution for Science
Though exciting in its own right, the discovery raises a more tantalising prospect for many astronomers: that a “Super Earth” up to 10 times the mass of our planet orbits the sun at such a great distance that it has never been seen.
Astronomers found 2012 VP113 by taking snapshots of the night sky an hour or so apart with an instrument called the Dark Energy Camera on the US National Optical Astronomy Observatory telescope in Chile. When they turned the images into a time-lapse movie of the sky, they could see the new body moving against the background of stationary stars.
“This object has the most distant orbit known,” Scott Sheppard at the Carnegie Institution of Washington told the Guardian. “It extends the known boundary of the observable solar system.”
The object’s orbit brings it as close as 12bn kilometres from the sun, and swings out as far as 67bn kilometres. There are comets that come from even farther out, but they pass much closer to our home planet.
The solar system has three distinct regions. Closest to the sun are the rocky planets, such as Venus, Earth and Mars. Farther out are the gas giants, such as Saturn and Jupiter. More distant still, beyond the orbit of Neptune, is a band of icy objects called the Kuiper belt.
In 2003, astronomers found an object beyond the Kuiper belt, which they called Sedna. For more than a decade, the object was a loner, an anomaly in the solar system. But the new body, 2012 VP113, lurks in the same no-man’s land of space, leading astronomers to believe there could be thousands of similar bodies waiting to be discovered there.
“People wondered if Sedna was unique, and 10 years on, we have at last found another object that shows it is not. There is probably a large population of objects out there,” Sheppard said.
The dwarf planet (coloured dots). Three images, each taken about two hours apart, were combined into one. The first was artificially colored red, second green and third blue. The background stars and galaxies did not move and so their red, green and blue images combine to show up as white sources. Photograph: Scott S Sheppard/Carnegie Institution for Science
The region of space where Sedna and 2012 VP113 were found is called the inner Oort cloud. Astronomers are unsure how this remote cloud of objects formed, but there are three competing theories. One is that a rogue planet was flung out of the early solar system and dragged the Oort cloud material with it.
Another is that the material was pulled out of the inner solar system by a passing star. The third option has the same job done by planets orbiting stars born in the same cluster as the sun.
“What is exciting about this work is that we know the inner Oort cloud is there. This is the second object we know of, and it’s a smoking gun,” said Meg Schwamb, a planetary scientist at theInstitute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Academica Sinica in Taiwan. By studying the objects, astronomers hope to confirm how the inner Oort cloud formed.
Sheppard found the new object, reported in Nature, with fellow astronomer, Chad Trujillo, who works at the Gemini Observatory in Hawaii. Trujillo was a co-discoverer of Sedna in 2003.
The latest work has already thrown up an intriguing possibility. The angle of the body’s orbit and that of Sedna’s are strikingly similar, an effect most likely caused by the gravitational tug of another, unseen body. One possibility is a “Super Earth” that traces so large an orbit around the sun that it has never been seen.
“If you took a Super Earth and put it a few hundred astronomical units out, the gravity could shepherd Sedna and this new object into the orbits they have,” said Sheppard. An astronomical unit (AU) is around 150m kilometres, or the mean distance from Earth to the sun.
Earlier this month, Nasa’s Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (Wise) reported the results from its search for “Planet X”, a hypothesised planet far out in the solar system. It found no evidence for a new planet larger than Saturn within 10,000 AU of the sun. But Saturn is 95 times more massive than Earth, so a smaller Super Earth could go undetected in that region.
A fragment of a mysterious meteorite has been discovered
A small chunk of a giant meteorite has been discovered in a limestone quarry in Sweden, where it had been hidden for more than 270 million years.
The small slice of meteorite – which was once part of a 19 mile long meteorite which smashed into another body before being scattered over Earth – is different to every meteorite that has so far been found on Earth.
Experts have found fragments of the other body, but this is the first time they have discovered a part of the second meteorite that was involved in the collision.
The other meteorite, a much bigger body which was about 93 miles across, is believed to have crumbled in deep space and formed a debris belt between Mars and Jupiter.
However, some of the debris is believed to have rained down on Earth at the same time that invertebrate ocean life boomed – scientists are yet to conclude if the two events are linked.
Study co-author Birger Schmitz of Lund University in Sweden said: “The single meteorite that we now found ... is of a type that we do not know of from today’s world.
“The object contains very high concentrations [compared to Earth materials], of elements such as iridium, which is very rare on Earth.
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At the time the meteorite scattered on Earth, ocean life began to bloom
“The meteorite also contains high concentrations of rare isotopes of the element Neon.”
Scientists base their understanding of the formation of the solar system on meteorites which have fallen to Earth.
But this discovery adds more mystery about how our Sun and its surrounding bodies came to be.
The team explain in their study published in Nature Communications: “Apparently, there is potential to reconstruct important aspects of solar-system history by looking down on Earth sediments, in addition to looking up at the skies.”
It has launched a competition for scientists to create a thick and functional skin tissue that could survive off the planet.
The space agency is studying the health risks and improvements needed to medicine keep space crews healthy during future, longer, space missions.
It was worked with Methuselah Foundation's New Organ Alliance to investigate how to improve bioengineering through a competition called the Vascular Tissue Challenge.
The agency fund to three teams asked to create a "metabolically-functional" human vascularized organ tissue that can be artificially controlled inside a laboratory.
To win, teams have to produce a 1cm-thick tissue that can maintain more than 85 percent survival of its cells over 30 days.
Steve Jurczyk, associate administrator for NASA, said: "The humans who will be our deep space pioneers are our most important resource on the Journey to Mars and beyond."
The competition will test if the human tissue can withstand the factors involved in deep space explorations.
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A NASA spokesman said: "The result of the competition will not only be beneficial to space exploration but it is also expected to revolutionize health care on Earth as well.
"The competition will test if the human tissue can withstand the factors involved in deep space explorations."
Tissues produced during the competition will serve as a model or organ substitute that will be used to study the effects of deep space factors such as radiation.
The spokesman added: "This technique will help NASA minimise the damage to actual healthy cells."
NASA believes that once the key barrier is removed, progress and further understanding follows, "once the 'vascularization limit' is solved, via the NASA Vascular Tissue Challenge, there inevitably will be a historic advance in progress and commercialization of tissue engineering applications to everyone's benefit," said Jurczyk, in a statement.
There are fears that creating artificial tissue will lead on to body parts and possibly eventually, full-blown human cloning.
Moons orbiting the gas giant could house alien life.
The US space agency has announced how scientists using the Kepler Space Telescope, which is used specifically to look for habitable planets, have found a giant Jupiter-sized planet orbiting two suns.
The planet would be unlikely to support life, as like Jupiter it is made of gas.
However, they said any moons orbiting it may be suitable for life to develop.
A team led by astronomers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and San Diego State University (SDSU) in California, used NASA's Kepler Space Telescope to identify the new planet, Kepler-1647b.
A NASA spokesperson said: "Kepler-1647 is 3,700 light-years away and approximately 4.4billion years old, roughly the same age as Earth.
"The stars are similar to the Sun, with one slightly larger than our home star and the otherslightly smaller.
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Comparison of the relative sizes of several Kepler circumbinary planets. Kepler-1647 b is substantially larger than any of the previously known circumbinary planets.
"The planet has a mass and radius nearly identical to that of Jupiter, making it the largest transiting circumbinary planet ever found.
"Like Jupiter, however, Kepler-1647b is a gas giant, making the planet unlikely to host life. Yet if the planet has large moons, they could potentially be suitable for life."
Planets that orbit two stars are known as circumbinary planets, or sometimes “Tatooine” planets, after Luke Skywalker’s home world in Star Wars.
Using Kepler data, astronomers search for slight dips in brightness that hint a planet might be passing or transiting in front of a star, blocking a tiny amount of the star’s light.
SDSU astronomer William Welsh said: "Finding circumbinary planets is much harder than finding planets around single stars.
Like Jupiter, however, Kepler-1647b is a gas giant, making the planet unlikely to host life. Yet if the planet has large moons, they could potentially be suitable for life.
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“The transits are not regularly spaced in time and they can vary in duration and even depth.”
SDSU astronomer Jerome Orosz, a co-author on the study, said: "It’s a bit curious that this biggest planet took so long to confirm, since it is easier to find big planets than small ones.
“But it is because its orbital period is so long.”
The planet takes 1,107 days – just over three years – to orbit its host stars, the longest period of any confirmed transiting exoplanet found so far.
The planet is also much further away from its stars than any other circumbinary planet, breaking with the tendency for circumbinary planets to have close-in orbits.
Interestingly, its orbit puts the planet with in the so-called habitable zone–the range of distances from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet
Mr Welsh said: "Habitability aside, Kepler-1647b is important because it is the tip of the iceberg of a theoretically predicted population of large, long-period circumbinary planets.”
Once a candidate planet is found, researchers employ advanced computer programs to determine if it really is a planet. It can be a grueling process.
Laurance Doyle, a co-author on the paper and astronomer at the SETI Institute, noticed a transit back in 2011. But more data and several years of analysis were needed to confirm the transit was indeed caused by a circumbinary planet.
A network of amateur astronomers in the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope 'Follow-Up Network' provided additional observations that helped the researchers estimate the planet’s mass.
The discovery was announced today in San Diego at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society. The research has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal with Veselin Kostov, a NASA Goddard postdoctoral fellow, as lead author.
L’Hexagone vient de se doter d’un réseau unique au monde de détection des météorites, auquel participe la Suisse. Objectif: faciliter la récupération de ces objets riches en informations
Le 17 mai dernier à 0h50, un bolide a fendu le ciel du nord-est des Etats-Unis et du sud-est du Canada. Les centaines de personnes qui assistaient à la scène raconteront avoir aperçu une «boule de feu», très lumineuse, lancée à pleine vitesse. Quelques-unes feront aussi état d’une détonation, semblable à celle produite par un avion franchissant le mur du son.
De quoi s’agissait-il? Selon l’American Meteor Society (AMS), un petit astéroïde de moins d’un mètre, probablement un objet double, a pénétré cette nuit-là dans l’atmosphère terrestre et explosé en altitude. Mais ces experts ne peuvent guère en dire plus. Ils n’ont réussi ni à établir la provenance de ce corps dans le système solaire, ni à découvrir l’endroit où il était tombé.
Une telle mésaventure devrait être évitée en France. Une équipe du Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN), de l’Observatoire de Paris, du CNRS et d’Universités vient, en effet, d’annoncer le lancement d’un ambitieux projet, baptisé «FRIPON», (pour «Fireball Recovery and InterPlanetary Observation Network») visant à doter l’Hexagone d’un réseau unique au monde de «détection des bolides et des boules de feu», ces météores qui, à la différence des étoiles filantes, sont assez gros pour atteindre le sol.
Points de chute
Grâce à une vingtaine de détecteurs radio et à une centaine de caméras, offrant une vue du ciel sur 360°, disséminées sur le territoire français et dans certains Etats voisins dont la Suisse, ces chercheurs espèrent être bientôt en mesure de repérer et de suivre, au besoin sur des centaines de kilomètres, la trace flamboyante produite par ces astres au moment de leur entrée dans l’atmosphère. Avec un double objectif: reconstituer la trajectoire dans l’espace de ces objets avant leur rencontre avec la Terre et déterminer leurs points de chute à 1 km près. L’idée est de partir ensuite à la recherche des météorites, quitte à faire appel pour cela à des volontaires!
Caméra FRIPON à l'Observatoire du Pic du Midi
C’est ce qu’explique Brigitte Zanda du MNHN: «Une météorite peut apporter autant d’informations sur les astéroïdes que des échantillons ramenés par une mission spatiale.» Ces millions de petits corps rocheux ou cométaires dont 700 000 environ parmi les plus gros sont connus, naviguent, pour beaucoup d’entre eux, dans une région située entre Mars et Jupiter. Classés par familles selon les orbites qu’ils occupent, ils s’écrasent sur notre sol lorsqu’ils croisent le chemin de la Terre.
En théorie, l’analyse des météorites qui en sont les restes pourrait fournir une moisson de renseignements sur leur composition minéralogique, chimique ou isotopique, et permettre de mettre au jour de nouvelles catégories voire d’établir s’ils se regroupent en essaims d’objets de grande taille.
Un voyage mouvementé
Malheureusement, réussir à relier la météorite trouvée au sol à l’astéroïde ou au bolide aperçu dans l’espace, ou dans le ciel, s’avère ardu. En effet, au cours de son voyage mouvementé, l’objet subit toutes sortes de transformations, qui le rendent à chaque étape de moins en moins reconnaissable. Résultat, indique François Colas, de l’Observatoire de Paris: «A quelques exceptions près, on ne sait pas associer à une classe de météorites une famille d’astéroïdes, et encore moins un astre en particulier.»
Et cela même, dans le cas rarissime où la météorite a été récoltée suffisamment vite après sa chute pour ne pas avoir été contaminée par son séjour terrestre! Quant à essayer de suivre de bout en bout l’aventure aérospatiale vécue par l’un de ces objets, la méthode serait affaire de chance. Une seule équipe du SETI (le programme américain de recherche d’une intelligence extraterrestre) a réussi, en 2008, cet exploit. Mais elle avait bénéficié d’un formidable concours de circonstances!
D’où l’idée de revisiter à l’aune des progrès technologiques les vieilles méthodes. Installés en République tchèque, au Canada, en Allemagne, aux Etats-Unis, et en Australie, des réseaux «fireball» («boule de feu») constitués d’abord d’appareils photographiques, puis de caméras automatiques tentent, depuis les années 1950, de saisir l’image des bolides et des boules de feu lorsque, à 100 kilomètres d’altitude, ils pénètrent à une vitesse de 30 à 70 km par seconde dans les hautes couches de l’atmosphère.
Grâce à ces données et en faisant appel à des logiciels sophistiqués tenant compte de la topographie de la région, des vents et même d’une éventuelle fragmentation en morceaux de ces objets, les astronomes qui les utilisent réussissent à déterminer des points de chute. Une quinzaine de météorites ont été récoltées par ce moyen et une vingtaine d’orbites reconstituées!
La participation du public
«FRIPON» prétend faire beaucoup mieux. Le réseau français, entièrement automatisé, a d’abord à son actif d’être le plus dense et le plus étendu du monde. «Il déborde sur des pays voisins comme la Suisse où l’installation de quatre caméras est prévue sur des sites gérés par des amateurs comme celui de l’Observatoire astronomique du Jura à Vicques», explique le passionné suisse Michel Ory, qui est en relation avec l’équipe de «FRIPON».
Il aura ensuite l’avantage d’être équipé d’une vingtaine de récepteurs radio. Branchés en permanence sur le signal du radar militaire français «GRAVES» de surveillance des satellites survolant le territoire de l’Hexagone, ces dispositifs détecteront l’écho des bolides au moment de leur arrivée afin d’établir précisément leur vitesse. Une donnée qui, combinée à d’autres, permettra aux astronomes de reconstituer l’orbite où ils circulaient avant de rencontrer la Terre. Et de là, peut-être, de déterminer la zone du système solaire dont ils sont issus.
Enfin, «FRIPON» pourra compter sur la participation du public mobilisé dans le cadre d’un ambitieux programme de science participative. L’un de ses objectifs est de créer, dans chaque région, des groupes de volontaires prêts à se rendre sur les points de chute, à la recherche des météorites!
Grâce à l’ensemble de ces dispositions, les membres de FRIPON espèrent reconstituer en dix ans l’orbite d’un millier de bolides. Et retrouver une trentaine des 50 à 250 météorites qui selon leurs calculs tomberont sur le territoire français au cours de cette période.
La communauté scientifique suisse pourrait-elle être impliquée? «Ce n’est pas d’actualité, mais il n’est pas interdit de réfléchir à l’idée d’une collaboration tant le projet est enthousiasmant», estime Pierre Bratschi, astronome à l’Observatoire de Genève.
POSSIBLE ALIEN CRAFT CRASH IN SOUTH AFRICA’S WATERS
FEBURARY 18, 2008 …………. PORT SHEPSTONE SOUTH AFRICA
Port Shepstone rescuers are monitoring a mysterious situation in which “numerous” eye-witnesses reported an unidentified object crashing into the sea on 20 May 2006 around Cape Town, during the afternoon, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) in South Africa had reported.
Eddie Noyons, NSRI Shelley Beach Station Commander, said eye- witnesses reported that an unidentified object had crashed into the sea behind the breaker line off-shore of the Port Shepstone High School. Police, rescue craft and a fixed wing aircraft were alerted to the scene to investigate. “Following a full scale search of the area covering 12 square nautical miles nothing has been found.” “There are no reports of activity in the area that may be related to this incident and there are no aircraft reported to be overdue or missing,” said Noyons.
He said numerous eye witnesses—including teachers and pupils attending a sports event at the high school and other by-standers including local fishermen—were convinced they had seen an craft go into the water, including seeing smoke and water exploding. Interviews with the witnesses revealed that some also reported seeing flames. “Some reported seeing something, an unidentified object, splash into the sea causing a ripple effect of waves,” Noyons said.
Due to the number of eye-witnesses with similar reports, it was presumed that weather activity in the area at the time might have given the impression of something falling into the sea. “We will continue to monitor the situation which remains a mystery,” he had said.
An image of the center of our galaxy, where Sagittarius B2 is located.
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/CXC/STScI)
A peculiar new molecule hovering within a star-forming dust cloud in deep in space could help explain why life on Earth is the way it is.
The cloud, called Sagittarius B2, resides near the center of the Milky Way, and it’s there that researchers from the California Institute of Technology discovered an organic element that displays a key property shared by all life. Propylene oxide is the first element discovered outside of our solar system to exhibit chirality, or the presence of two distinct, mirror-image forms. Many complex molecules have this property, including myriad organic molecules necessary for life. The chemical formula of these two versions is exactly the same, but the structure is flipped.
Chirality? So What?
All life on Earth is composed of chiral molecules, and the versions organisms use, either right- or left-handed, determines fundamental properties of their biology. For example, all living things only use the right-handed form of the sugar ribose to form the backbone of DNA, giving it that the signature twist. You can think of molecular handedness by picturing gloves — hence the “handed terminology”. The gloves, or molecules, may look similar, but you could never put a left-handed glove on your right hand.
Ignoring the chirality of the molecules that we put in our bodies can have deadly consequences. The drug thalidomide, used in the mid-20th century as a sedative for pregnant women, turned out to cause terrible birth defects if taken at the wrong time. It turned out that thalidomide was made up of chiral molecules — some were left-handed and others were right-handed. One version would act as a sedative, while the other would lead to birth defects.
The fact that we are made up of molecules that look one way and and not the other has long presented a near-ontological question for researchers. The various building blocks of life here, sugars and amino acids, all share chirality with each other —sugars are all right-handed and amino acids are all left-handed — what’s called homochirality. While just one version may exist here on Earth, both right and left-molecules are possible. It isn’t known how life on this planet chose its preferred molecular handedness.
The question for researchers now is whether molecules on Earth are inherently better suited for life, or if chirality is a product of pure chance. It could be that conditions in the universe favor one form of organic molecules over the other — it has been suggested that the way that photons or electrons are polarized could preferentially destroy one form of a molecule over another.
“[It] provides us with a lab to try and test theories about the role chiral molecules played in the origins of life on earth and elsewhere in the galaxy,” says Brandon Carroll, a PhD candidate at Caltech and coauthor of the paper.
Powerful Telescopes
The researchers found traces of propylene oxide in Sagittarius B2 with the help of two radio telescopes, one in West Virginia and one in Australia. Every molecule emits radio waves in a unique frequency as it moves through space, which serves as an invisible signature. Using radio telescopes, researchers detect these emissions and match the wave frequency to known spectra. Using this method, the Caltech researchers determined that Sagittarius B2 contains significant amounts of propylene oxide, an organic chemical often used to manufacture plastics here on Earth.
While this propylene oxide is not used by any organic lifeforms here on Earth, it does prove that finding chiral molecules beyond our solar system is possible. They couldn’t determine which form of the molecule was present in Sagittarius B2, but the researchers say that it may be possible to determine handedness in the future by exploiting differences in how polarized light passes through the cloud.
We have previously found chiral organic molecules on comets and asteroids from our solar system, but scientists wanted to discover the presence of such molecules beyond our backyard. Our entire solar system was likely formed from a cloud of dust and gas much like Sagittarius B2, and the chirality of the molecules that went on to form the Earth, and eventually us, determined some of the most basic features of Earthly life. Discovering chiral molecules elsewhere is an important step toward elucidating the role that chirality plays in creating life and guiding its development.
This post has been updated to clarify that amino acids and sugars display different handedness.
1) Thalidomide rapidly racemizes under physiological conditions. Resolving the optical isomers achieves nothing. NSAIDs like ibuprofen had better be resolved, for the wrong isomer is overtly toxic - and these molecules slowly racemize in vivo. Think about that, pill poppers. 2) Any tetrahedral carbon with four different substituents is a chiral center. Finding propylene oxide in space pronounces on nothing re biological homochirality. "the structure is flipped." No, the structure is mirror-image (one coordinate axis' signs all reversed) non-superposable by only translations and rotations. 3) "you could never put a left-handed glove on your right hand." Turn it inside-out. Right glove! 4)" sugars and amino acids, all share chirality with each other" NO, all natural chiral sugars are right-handed, all natural chiral amino acids are left-handed - and don't use CIP notation for that, re cysteine. Racemases invert amino acid handedness for biological advantages. Remember naughty glycine. 5) "They couldn’t determine which form of the molecule was present in Sagittarius B2" Enantiomers have rigorously identical physical properties absent a chiral field to create diastereomeric divergence re optical rotation, linearly polarized light being a racemic mixture of left- and right-circularly polarized light interacting with a net chiral medium to suffer different refractive indices, hence a relative phase shift. 6) Electronic chirality is generated by a pseudoscalar, a vector, and a pseudodeviator. Only the first requires geometric chirality. 7)"Discovering chiral molecules elsewhere is an important step toward elucidating the role that chirality plays in creating life and guiding its development." Aw, crap. Yo momma so stupid she she thinks menopause is a boy's bathroom.
Initially the article' writing made me think they'd found a lot of left-handed propylene oxide. That would have been stunning. However, it looks to me like they have zero evidence the stuff they found is not merely a racemic mixture. And that "discovery" is of absolutely no interest.
Aliens unlikely to be in contact for 1,500 years, scientists calculate
Aliens unlikely to be in contact for 1,500 years, scientists calculate
Based on the number of stars in the Milky Way, aliens will not be in touch for 1,500 years
Humans are unlikely to hear from aliens for at least 1,500 years, scientists have calculated
Astronomers at Cornell University in the US have developed a new equation which seeks to explain the Fermi Paradox, a philosophical conundrum which asks why extra-terrestrials have not been in touch if billions of Earth-like planets exist in our galaxy.
Essentially, if the universe is teeming with aliens, as predicted, where is everyone?
The scientists have calculated that signals from Earth would need to reach half of all the Sun systems in the Milky Way to be sure of being picked up by an advanced civilisation. And that is unlikely to happen for 1,500 years.
Zoom into the heart of the Milky Way in Hubble Space Telescope's new videoPlay!00:38
“We haven’t heard from aliens yet, as space is a big place but that doesn’t mean no one is out there,” said student Evan Solomonides , who is presenting the equation at Astronomical Society’s meeting June 16 in San Diego.
“It’s possible to hear any time at all, but it becomes likely we will have heard around 1,500 years from now.
“Until then, it is possible that we appear to be alone, even if we are not. But if we stop listening or looking, we may miss the signals. So we should keep looking.”
Signals are being beamed from Earth - pictured here surrounded by orbiting satellites - all the time, and should be picked up by a civilisation within 1,500 years
Aliens are likely to first hear TV and radio signals that are being sent into space all the time as a by-product of broadcasting.
These signals have been traveling from Earth for 80 years at the speed of light.
For aliens receiving these transmissions, they would likely be indecipherable, and only an advanced civilisation would be capable ofdecoding radio waves into sounds, then working out the languages spoken.
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So far Earth’s broadcast signals have reached every star within about 80 light-years from the Sun, around 8,531 stars and 3,555 Earth-like planets. But our Milky Way galaxy alone contains 200 billion stars so there is still a long way to go.
However Mr Solomonides is optimistic because of the Mediocrity Principle, which suggests that Earth is unlikely to be unique in the Universe.
Stephen Hawking Launches Search for Signs of Life in Universe
“We are on the third planet around a tediously boring star surrounded by other completely normal stars about two-thirds of the way along one of several arms of a remarkably average spiral galaxy,” he added.
“We are not in any special location in the universe, we should not be anything special in the universe.”
Last year Russian billionaire Yuri Milner and Professor Stephen Hawking announced a multi-million pound project to hunt for signs of alien life.
BOOK REVIEW: The Aztec UFO incident by Scott Ramsey, Suzanne Ramsey, and Frank Thayer, PhD (The Career Press) 2016
It was around 1982 when I came across a copy of Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore’s 1980 book The Roswell Incident, with its garish, red dust jacket, in a public library in Little Rock, Arkansas.
By that time I was already consuming vast pages of Berlitz material, including his popular books about The Bermuda Triangle, The Philadelphia Experiment and the lost continent of Atlantis. It was much later when I learned that both Berlitz and Moore were likely covert government agents who were possibly spreading disinformation.
Nevertheless, I was hooked on the information in that book and other books to come about the 1947 Roswell UFO crash and the mystery (and government cover-up) surrounding it.
On the periphery of the Roswell story involved another UFO crash in another part of New Mexico, this one near the small town of Aztec, in the northern part of the state, near the Colorado line. It was here, on March 25, 1948 - some eight months after a saucer crashed near Roswell - that a similar “extraterrestrial spacecraft” crash-landed on a mesa, above Hart Canyon, and was seen by dozens of civilians who happened to be in the area, until the military swooped in, secured the area and trucked the craft away.
A pretty extraordinary story, right? You bet! I’d heard rumors about it but nothing substantial. And since 1980, the word “Roswell” has dominated, sucking all the air out of the room. But with this Aztec story, it was usually dismissed as a hoax, even though it was back in 1950 when journalist Frank Scully wrote Behind the Flying Saucers, the book that brought the Aztec mystery to the masses, only to be smeared by various intelligence agents and jealous journos of the day (against the backdrop of the Cold War and witch hunts against anti-American “subversives”), leaving a cloud hanging over the story for decades. The authors, here, get into that matter as well, explaining it clearly.
My views on Aztec, however, have definitely changed. In fact, I would say the UFO crash near Aztec, N.M., as described in The Aztec UFO Incident by husband-and-wife research team Scott and Suzanne Ramsey, along with journalist Dr. Frank Thayer, has utterly convinced me that a 100-foot diameter flying saucer – complete with dead aliens onboard – did go down that spring morning 68 years ago.
And while skeptics often point to books like The Roswell Incident as sloppy and quick cash-ins meant to both titillate and (possibly) deceive the public, The Aztec UFO Incidentinvolved literally three decades of research; lengthy interviews with witnesses and their families and friends, examinations of thousands of government documents, numerous visits to the actual crash site, samples of soil taken and studied, and an indefatigable desire to present the truth about what happened at Aztec all those years ago.
And there is plenty of page-turning intrigue and “wow” moments in these pages, along with photos, maps and photocopied documents related to the Aztec mystery. The Ramseys and Thayer have done their homework here – and then some!
One eyewitness, a Colorado preacher named Solon Brown, told his son – who told the authors – about coming upon the crash site that morning and seeing the large, disc-shaped craft and “little bodies (that) had passed on” and appeared to have been burned. The experience shook Brown to the core and he would share this – tears in his eyes - with others at his church, people who knew this respected pillar of the community would never make up an outrageous story.
Another eyewitness, Fred Reed, told of being in the OSS (Office of Strategic Services) and being involved in the “clean up” of the crash site, “re-landscaping,” which involved planting new trees where existing ones had been damaged in the crash.
There are more stories like that, gathered by these three authors who exhaustively – and conclusively – prove that an unidentified flying object, likely disabled, came out of the sky, struck a mesa and continued flying northward until it landed at another mesa near Aztec. Oil field workers, police, ministers and other saw the craft – and a dozen or so dead alien bodies.
(OpenMinds.tv)
The Aztec UFO Incident is a gripping story, in a way that is even more bizarre than the Roswell crash in that so many more eyewitnesses were present. But with the US Government stung by the aftermath of Roswell – the initial report and the subsequent cover-up – made them wiser and more secretive about future incidents such as Aztec. But this book shines a spotlight on this world-shaking event, and we have these authors to thank.
Hopefully, The Aztec UFO Incident will open the eyes of the public – a public that has been lied to, by its own government, for far too long when it comes to the UFO reality.
Last night, friends of the Scotland From The Roadside page got in a Facebook frenzy after this '"fireball" dropped from the sky.
The original poster, Reg Connon, uploaded some pictures from Macduff on the Moray Firth coast , and asked "Last night about 10pm dot in the sky - any ideas what it is?"
The (more than 120) answers he got ranged from an aeroplane reflecting the sun to a passing International Space Station, aliens landing in a UFO and even Superman.
Some thought it was a meteor and others blamed a 'second coming'.
The most plausible explanation came from Steve Balfour, who worked out which plane it could have been.
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‘Gloed in de lucht’ en harde explosies: Siberische landschap bezaaid met mysterieuze kraters
‘Gloed in de lucht’ en harde explosies: Siberische landschap bezaaid met mysterieuze kraters
Overal in Siberië ontstaan reusachtige gaten in de bevroren grond. De explosies die daarmee gepaard gaan worden tot op een afstand van 100 kilometer gehoord, schrijft de Siberian Times. Waar komen de mysterieuze gaten vandaan?
Een groep herders ontdekte drie jaar geleden in West-Siberië voor het eerst zo’n krater, meldt Tech Insider. De herders werden naar eigen zeggen bijna opgeslokt door de krater. Daarna zijn er nog zo’n 20 enorme gaten gevonden, waarvan sommige meer dan 100 meter diep zijn.
Lokale bewoners die op enkele tientallen kilometers van een krater wonen, zeggen vreemde dingen te hebben gezien en gehoord kort voordat de krater werd gevonden. “Inwoners van nabijgelegen dorpen spreken van een geluid als een explosie en één van hen zag duidelijk een gloed aan de hemel,” zei de gerespecteerde wetenschapper dr. Vladimir Epifanov.
Poort naar de onderwereld
In 2014 werd door een piloot een enorme krater gespot op het Siberische Jamal-schiereiland. Men noemde onder meer aliens en ondergrondse raketten als mogelijke verklaringen, aldus de Washington Post.
Aangezien het gebied enorm groot en dunbevolkt is, is het aannemelijk dat er nog meer kraters zijn. Drie jaar later tasten wetenschappers nog steeds in het duister over de oorzaak van de kraters.
De Batagaika-krater zorgt bij wetenschappers voor kopzorgen. ‘De poort naar de onderwereld’ zoals het gapende gat ook wel wordt genoemd, wordt ieder jaar 20 meter breder. Ondertussen is het gat al meer dan een kilometer lang en 90 meter diep. De grootste bezorgdheid bij de lokale bevolking zijn de luide ploffen die te horen zijn in de krater.
Pingo’s
Wetenschappers zien de opwarming van de aarde als de grote boosdoener, maar permafrostdeskundige Jorien Vonk is voorzichtiger. De klimaatopwarming hoeft volgens haar geen dader te zijn. “De opwarming zorgt met name voor effecten aan het oppervlak en niet zozeer op grote diepte,” zei ze.
Om te achterhalen hoe de mysterieuze gaten zo plots kunnen ontstaan, heeft aardwetenschapper Ko van Huissteden met zijn collega’s een onderzoeksvoorstel ingediend. Hij wil met satellieten vier jaar lang bijhouden waar de grond inzakt.
Van Huissteden ziet instortende heuvels als een mogelijkheid. “In de aardwetenschap heten deze heuvels pingo’s,” zei hij. “Ze ontstaan als onder de grond water bevriest. Omdat water uitzet als het bevriest, drukt het de grond omhoog. In de zomer ontdooit het water waardoor de grond ineens kan instorten.”
California pilot reports ‘dogfight’ with sphere UFO
California pilot reports ‘dogfight’ with sphere UFO
A California private pilot at San Bernardino reported a close encounter with a sphere-shaped UFO that came within 150 feet of his aircraft, according to testimony in Case 76954 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The pilot encountered the object at about 1,000 feet AGL. Pictured: San Bernardino, CA, skyline.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The event occurred on June 5, 2016, while the witness was flying a private aircraft shortly after takeoff while still in the traffic pattern.
“I encountered an unidentified object at approximately 1,000 feet AGL,” the witness stated.“Object was going in the opposite direction and passed within 300 feet off my left wing. It was a metallic orb that reflected the light brilliantly and was approximately the size of a basketball.”
The object first passed within 300 feet of the aircraft. (Credit: Google)
The pilot banked hard left in an attempt to chase the object, placing his aircraft at its 6:00 position.
“Almost immediately the object did a hard left turn accelerating to a position opposite my left wing and within 150 feet. I banked hard left again and became engaged in a two-turn ‘Dogfight’ with the object as we both tried to get on each other’s tail. After the second turn the object broke away in a southern direction. I lost sight after that.”
This is the second encounter the pilot has had with an identical object while in the air. The pilot stated that the last encounter was in 1978.
The object came within 150 feet of the airplane on a second pass.
(Credit: Google)
San Bernardino is the county seat of San Bernardino County, CA, population 209,924. California Field Investigator Linda Flechtner is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
This is a really cool sighting from Mexico. I actually saw something like this yesterday on the Colima cam, but didn't report it because it wasn't clear enough, but this one is fantastic. Here you can make out dark disk with a thick center area and a round window or doorway on the edge. Wow, just mind-blowing. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Inexplicata states: Mexico: A "Flying Saucer" over Colima's Volcán de Fuego Mexico's Criterio Hidalgo (from Pachuca, state of Hidalgo)has reprinted a photograph of an alleged UFO captured by Webcams de Mexico (which has acquired a worldwide reputation for its captures of unusual phenomena over the Popocatepetl Volcano). The text reads as follows: "A new UFO photo has gone viral on social media, shown near the Volcan de Fuego in the state of Colima. Through its Facebook account, Webcams de Mexico displayed the photograph last Friday, showing an object crossing the sky near the fiery colossus. The photo asks the question "what could it be?" in order that users may leave their comments about what appears to be a flying saucers."
Internationally-recognized UFO expert and conspiracy theorist Jim Marrs speaks at the 2016 Aurora Alien Encounter held on Sat. Apr. 16, 2016 at the MD Resort in Aurora, Texas.
Writer Nick Redfern, expert on the paranormal who has written dozens of books on UFOs, cryptozoology, and other arcane subjects, will give a presentation about famous UFO cases in Texas including the Lubbock Lights, the Levelland UFO case, the Cash-Landrum UFO Incident, and the Stephenville Lights. Redfern has been featured on numerous TV shows including the BBC’s Out of This World; the SyFy Channel’s Proof Positive; and the History Channel’s Monster Quest, America’s Book of Secrets, Ancient Aliens and UFO Hunters. Originally from the United Kingdom, Nick now resides just outside of Dallas
Texas author Noe Torres, will talk about another UFO crash in Texas similar to the Aurora case but 58 years later. Torres’ book The Other Roswell: UFO Crash on the Texas-Mexico Border first disclosed the amazing story of Air Force Reservist Colonel Robert Willingham’s encounter with a crashed UFO near Del Rio, Texas, in 1955. Willingham said he visited the site of the saucer and saw three non-human entities through a hole in the ruptured hull of the ship. The strange beings, two of which were badly mangled, appeared to have died in the crash. “It didn’t look like humans to me,” Willingham said. The retired aviator said the beings had large heads, slit-like mouths, and “arms like broomsticks.” World-renowned UFO investigator Dr. Bruce Maccabee calls the case “One of the world’s most interesting UFO crash retrieval stories.” He has written seven books about famous UFO cases, has appeared on the History Channel’s UFO Hunters television series, the Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the National Parks, and has spoken at and also helped organize numerous UFO conferences throughout Texas.
Texas UFO researcher Stephen Andrasko, will talk about UFO sightings in the 1800s, as featured in the recent book The Real Cowboys and Aliens: UFO Encounters of the Old West, for which he assisted with the research. When the Steven Spielberg movie Cowboys and Aliens was released in 2011, many people wondered if UFOs were really ever seen by the cowboys and ranchers of America’s Old West. The answer is a resounding “YES,” according to Andrasko, who will present a number of incredible tales of encounters between real cowboys and real UFOs.
Award winning Writer Tui Snider, specializing in offbeat, quirky travel destinations. Aurora, was featured in her book Unexpected Texas: Your guide to Offbeat & Overlooked History, Day Trips & Fun things to do near Dallas & Fort Worth. She has titled her talk “What on Earth were they Thinking? Public Reaction to the 1897 Texas Airship Mystery.”
An Expert Warns Human Race Has No Match Against Alien Invasion
An Expert Warns Human Race Has No Match Against Alien Invasion
The extraterrestrial threat may not be the same as what Hollywood movies are trying to portray where humans put up a defiant fight against alien invasion. Top scientist Dr Michio Kaku, who believes there’s life out there undiscovered, suggests that aliens can destroy humanity very quickly. However, he claims they may not be bothered by our existence.
NASA’s Kepler satellite has so far discovered over 100 confirmed alien planets. However, Dr Kaku, Discovery channel’s Curiosity series advisor, claims even if extraterrestrial beings do exist, they may not be bothered.
Dr Kaku says that Hollywood gets it all wrong on its portrayal of the human-alien hostile encounter. Kaku explains that Hollywood assumes advanced civilisations of maybe 100 years can be defeated if we have a secret weapon that will defeat the aliens. He stresses that this assumption is wrong.
Dr Kaku offers two possible scenarios; either the aliens consider humans too primitive, and it is a waste of time to bother about us, or if they do invade, it will like Bambi vs. Godzilla.
He notes that the universe is 13.7 billion years old, and extraterrestrials could be a thousand, or even a million years advanced than mankind.
Dr Kaku, however, believes that humanity can still defeat aliens if humanity will learn and adapt to their technology.
He uses the feat of the Barbarians against the Romans as an example. The Barbarians did not have a secretive weapon against the Romans, but the former learned the technology from the latter. The Barbarians eventually defeated Caesar and the Romans.
This Day In UFO History; Man Meets With Aliens And Takes Photos, June 16, 1963, UFO Sighting News.
This Day In UFO History; Man Meets With Aliens And Takes Photos, June 16, 1963, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: June 16, 1963 Location of sighting: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA Source:
June 16, 1963-close Albuquerque, N.M. Apolinar A. Estate, Jr., 49, a technician of 601 Niagara N.E.; Albuquerque, New Mexico, had a one of a kind benefit having prearranged gatherings with Space People for the particular reason for taking photos of their art.
Evidently, contacts of some kind with space individuals are not new to Mr. Estate. He says that he has been taught clairvoyance by extraterrestrial insight since he was five years of age. Despite the fact that he didn't finish the tenth grade of school, he appears to have a decent learning on such subjects as arithmetic, power, material science, and mechanics, and has a bizarre "blessing" for distinguishing deformities in motors, generators, and so on.
Manor says that preceding capturing his first arrangement of saucers in 1963, he had seen around five Flying Saucers in the past five years, and he had chatted with a spaceman already. He said that his first picture-taking contact was his second in-individual meeting with extraterrestrial creatures. The first was in 1953 while he was working for the Department of Water and Power in Los Angeles. While at work one day in Long Beach, he had a compelling impulse to go down to the shoreline, an inclination he didn't get it. There he met a man around 7 feet tall. At first Villa was a perplexed and needed to flee. Be that as it may, the man called him by name, and let him know numerous individual things about himself. "Manor understood that he was speaking with an extremely predominant insight, and he then got to be mindful this being was a spaceman. "He knew all that I had in my brain and let me know numerous things that had happened in my life," Villa says. " He then instructed me to watch out past the reef. I saw a metallic looking plate formed item that appeared to drift on the water. At that point the spaceman inquired as to whether I might I want to get onto the art and glance around, and I ran with him." He said the saucer inhabitants were totally humanoid in appearance, albeit preferable looking as a rule over Earth individuals, as they were certainly more refined in the face and the body. Additionally they had a propelled learning of science, as confirm by their specialty, and by their discussion with him."
They advised Villa that the entire cosmic system to which our Earth has a place is a grain of sand on an immense shoreline, in connection to the unbelievable number of possessed worlds in the whole Universe. In view of their innovative progression, their spaceships can infiltrate the Earth's radar location framework, with the goal that they are gotten on our radar screens just when they point out their nearness in our skies. It appears that their art are always dynamic over our surface, and that they arrange more sightings and arrivals with a specific end goal to expand open consciousness of their presence.
They said they were here on a neighborly mission to help our kin; that they have bases on our moon; that Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars is empty and is misleadingly developed; and that their is a Superior Intelligence that represents the Universe and everything in it.
For his first arrangement of pictures, Mr. Estate says his space contacts let him know, clairvoyantly, to drive his get truck on June 16, (1963), to the meeting place, alone. There he saw a landed Flying saucer which he assessed to be around 70 feet in distance across. There were nine individuals on board the boat: four men and five ladies. They landed through a hermetically fixed entryway. These creatures, he says, extended in range from seven to nine feet and were proportional. Some were light; some were red-headed; (like cleaned copper); and some had dark hair. They let him know they originated from the cosmic system of Coma Berenices, numerous light years separation.
They could talk numerous dialects, and in addition to convey clairvoyantly. Manor was told the art worked as a Mothership for its nine remotely-controlled observing plates which were 14 inches in measurement, and were controlled from instrument boards in the Mothership. They could get pictures and sounds from any zone from which they were coordinated, and after that could then transfer them to TV boards on board the Mother Craft. They allowed Villa to take photograph's of their boat which postured and drifted near the surface somewhere around 2 and 4P.M. while he took different shots of the art surrounded by the trees in the frontal area. He utilized a Japanese-made Rokuoh-Sha camera with a f4.6, 75mm lens stacked with 120 Kodak film. Two of the photograph's demonstrate the boat in a vertical position, on its side, to show that the Space People have made a manufactured gravity inside the specialty, and in this way are totally agreeable regardless of what position the boat is in, with respect to a planet's surface..
By chance, in photograph #7...???, the vents in the body, thought by some to be port gaps, are not windows, but rather are openings straightforwardly worried with the drive of the boat. Manor says they let him know that the vents are opened just inside a planets environment - never in space.
Another contact... for his second arrangement of pictures, Villa was clairvoyantly guided, to another region close Bernalillo, New Mexico - around 15 miles north of Albuquerque. This was on Easter Sunday, April 18, 1965. The boat found in photograph's #1,2 and 3, anticipated a beam which brought about a little wildfire. The smoke from the flame is visible(more unmistakably in color)in the trees just underneath the art, and simply above and to one side of the rear end of Villa's truck.(Note: I have the photo's..Dex) In one photograph they scorched a tree top - by utilization of a beam coordinated from the boat.
These things were done to exhibit some of their capacities. The boat landed and Villa passed judgment on it to be 300 feet in distance across. It had telescopic, tripod landing gear, which are distending from the base of the art in photograph's ???(Note: I don't have...Dex). The three crew member had light chestnut hair and tan skin. They gave off an impression of being around 5'8" or 5'9" tall. Estate chatted with them for almost two hours about individual and also broad matters. They let him know that our Astronauts, Edward White and James McDivitt, on their now-renowned GT-4 flight, were truly seeing a spaceship when they reported locating the Pegasus-like item. They additionally said our Government won't discharge the Mariner-4 photograph's since they indicate pumping stations for the waterway frameworks on Mars. They included, that by 1966, 17 countries will have the Atomic Bomb. Manor says they bantered both in Spanish(his local language)and in English. On their recommendation, the Contactee says, he quit smoking to upgrade his capacity to get clairvoyant interchanges.
'Twisty' Molecule Essential to Life Spotted in Deep Space For 1st Time
'Twisty' Molecule Essential to Life Spotted in Deep Space For 1st Time
By Sarah Lewin, Space.com Staff Writer
For the first time, scientists have measured a "handed" molecule in interstellar space. The molecule, propylene oxide, comes in both "left-handed" and "right-handed" varieties. It was found in the huge star-forming cloud of gas Sagittarius B2, pictured here alongside Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center.
Credit: B. Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF from data provided by N.E. Kassim, Naval Research Laboratory, Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Molecules with "right-handed" and "left-handed" versions are essential to all life on Earth, and have been found in meteors and comets. Now, for the first time, one has been spotted in interstellar space.
Discovering such molecules in deep space, called chiral molecules, can help researchers understand the development of life on Earth, which is rich in those complex molecules — what presenters at the American Astronomical Society's summer meeting in San Diego called "life's first handshake." The discovery is explained in this new video by Science Magazine.
"This [discovery] is going to provide us with a laboratory to try to test theories about the role that chiral molecules played in the origins of life here on Earth and how that chirality might play a role in the origins of life elsewhere in the galaxy," Brett McGuire, a researcher at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Virginia and co-first author on the new work, said at the AAS press conference today (June 14). [50 Fabulous Deep-Space Nebula Photos]
The researchers used the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia and the Parkes radio telescope in Australia to pinpoint the intricate molecule propylene oxide near the center of the Milky Way, in the mammoth star-forming cloud of gas called Sagittarius B2.
Science of chirality
Key biological reactions on Earth rely on molecules with the property called chirality — compounds that can form in two different varieties that are mirror images of each other, sort of like left and right hands. Though the molecules are made of the same components, it's impossible to flip one around to make it exactly match the other.
On Earth, most chiral molecules exist largely in a single formation, even though when you create them chemically from scratch, both varieties will form. Many chemical reactions only work when molecules of a particular "handedness" interact with each other.
"When you shake somebody's hand, your right hand shakes another right hand, and it forms that nice, interlocking gesture; if you try to shake a left hand with your right hand it's a little awkward because the interaction is different," McGuire said. "Chiral molecules work the same way."
(For instance, the chemical carvone will smell like spearmint in one configuration, but its mirror image smells like caraway.)
Processes powered by one particular "handedness" will produce more of that same type of molecule, and molecules with the wrong "handedness" won't work at all in many biological systems. Because of that, most of the important chiral molecules on Earth, like amino acids, are all the same "handedness" as each other. But scientists don't know how the Earth came to favor particular varieties to start with.
A cosmic handshake
Researchers have found complex organic molecules on meteorites and comets, including chiral molecules which have shown a slight preference for one handedness over the other. Just a few percent excess "could be the tipping point that pushed life in a single direction, and that gave life the push it needed to, say, use only left-handed amino acids," Brandon Carroll, the work's other first author and a chemistry graduate student at California Institute of Technology, said at the conference.
"But if we want to understand where and how this started, we have to go even further back than the meteorites; we have to look at the gas clouds where these molecules formed from," he added.
In this case, they spotted a hefty dose of propylene oxide in distant interstellar space — about 80 percent Earth's mass, which at room temperature would take up five and a half earths' worth of space, Carroll said.
If chiral materials had existed already in the cloud of gas and dust from which the solar system formed, or if they'd fallen to Earth on a meteoriteor had been carried on a comet, that could explain Earth's preference — and also help explain the process of life's first formation on Earth.
The researchers' measurements of the propylene oxide don't reveal which handedness the far-off molecules have; the data from the radio telescopes show only the composition, not how each molecule is put together. However, future work could try to determine that by watching how the molecules interact with polarized light, which corkscrews in a particular direction, the researchers said.
"Now it gives us a testbed, some molecule we can actually go back and perform the far more complicated and challenging observations necessary to detect the handedness," Carroll said. "That's what we're really excited about, because that will let us start to test theories about processes that might actually have chiral preference in the interstellar medium."
Gravitational Wave Detector Finds Double Colliding Black Holes — Again (Woot!)
Gravitational Wave Detector Finds Double Colliding Black Holes — Again (Woot!)
By Calla Cofield, Staff Writer
Distortions in the fabric of space-time, which were predicted by Albert Einstein a century ago, have been directly detected for the second time.
Approximately 1.4 billion light-years from Earth, two black holes spiraled around each other and collided, creating ripples in the fabric of space-time. These ripples, known as gravitational waves, arrived at Earth in December 2015, and were detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO).
The LIGO collaboration announced the finding today (June 15) during a news conference at the 228th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in San Diego. The gravitational wave signal — officially known as GW151226 — was detected by LIGO on Dec. 25, 2015, at 11: 38 p.m. EDT (0338 a.m. GMT on Dec. 26). [Again! Gravitational Waves Detected from 2nd Black Hole Collision]
In the U.S., many of the LIGO scientists were still been celebrating Christmas Day when the news arrived, and it "destroyed a few family dinners," said Vicky Kalogera, an astrophysicist at Northwestern University and a member of the LIGO collaboration, in an interview with Space.com.
LIGO made the first-ever direct detection of gravitational waves in September 2015, and team members announced that finding in February. That first gravitational wave signal was also created by two colliding black holes.
An artists illustration of two black holes circling around each other and colliding, 1.4 billion light years from Earth. The merger created ripples in spacetime called gravitational waves. LIGO detected those waves in December, 2015.
Credit: LIGO
"The second discovery means the first discovery was not a one-off, 'we got lucky,' kind of thing," David Reitze, current executive director of the LIGO Laboratory, told Space.com. "If I could encapsulate what the second discovery means … it's that LIGO is for real."
LIGO scientists waited until now to announce the second detection because they had to make sure that it was real, and that it was caused by a black hole collision, team members said.
Warped space
Einstein showed that space is not a fixed stage on which cosmic events play out, but rather a flexible fabric, like a 3D rubber sheet. Space can be warped by gravity, so the mass of the Earth, for example, creates a curve in space. (Einstein also showed that time is par of this universal fabric, and he combined space and time into the single universal feature called space-time).
Black holes are the densest objects in the universe, and create intense curves in space-time. When two black holes move around each other very quickly, those curves in space become ripples, and move outward.
This graph shows the gravitational wave signal detected by LIGO on in December of 2016.
Credit: LIGO
Kalogera said the masses of the black holes provide clues about how they formed. Lighter black holes — those around 10 times the mass of the sun — very likely formed from two massive stars that lived close to each other, each perhaps siphoning material away from the other in a sort of cannibalistic relationship.The black holes that collided 1.4 billion years ago weighed about 14.2 and 7.5 times the mass of the sun, according to a paper detailing the new finding, published in the journal Physical Review Letters this week. (The gravitational wave signal detected by LIGO in September was created by two colliding black holes with masses of about 29 and 36 times that of the sun.) [How Gravitational Waves Work (Infographic)]
The fate of the two stars most likely followed a pattern seen all over the universe: Eventually the stars ran out of fuel, and their internal engines stopped burning. With nothing to keep them inflated, the stars collapsed. Following such a collapse, most massive stars will explode into a supernova, but at their core, the rapid inward rush of material drives up the internal pressure to the point that it creates a black hole. The gravitational pull of the new object is so intense, even light cannot escape.
The two black holes remain partners even after death, slowly spiraling around each other, eventually colliding. Einstein also showed that mass and energy are two sides of the same coin, and during this black hole merger, a quantity of mass "roughly equivalent to the mass of the sun was converted into gravitational waves," according to a statement from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which operates LIGO in collaboration with the California Institute of Technology.
This map of the sky shows the region where the gravitational wave signal detected by LIGO in December, 2015, came from. The detectors are currently only able to narrow down the location of the signal source to an area spanning 1,400 square degrees of sky.
Credit: LIGO
The signal from the newly discovered black holes was slightly fainter than the signal detected in September. The faintness of the signal partly determines how well LIGO can narrow down the location of the event in the sky — the new signal came from somewhere in a region that measures 1,400 square degrees (the full moon is about one-half a degree on the sky). The September signal, which was "louder," came from a region measuring 600 square degrees.
Scientists hope to be able to narrow down the location of future events with the addition of more gravitational wave detectors, including the Virgo facility, located in Italy, which is scheduled to come online in January. The Virgo collaboration consists of 19 European research groups.
LIGO's first detection of gravitational waves back in September came immediately after a significant upgrade to the instruments, which increased LIGO's overall sensitivity. The observatory's detection of two double-black-hole collisions in its first four months of operation after the upgrade suggests that the observatory will be seeing more of these events in the future, Reitze said.
Black holes, true to their name, do not radiate or reflect light. However, in some cases, rapidly moving matter around a black hole will generate light and reveal the monster's presence to astronomers.
But as two black holes orbit around each other, any nearby matter is expected to be flung outward, like a cosmic salad spinner. According to scientists with the LIGO collaboration, that means these types of black hole pairs (those that are about 10 to 100 times the mass of the sun) are not expected to be visible to telescopes and observatories that see light or other particles.
"So far, gravitational wave detectors are the only way to see these kinds of systems," Reitze said. "So that's pretty exciting. I think we've opened up a window on black hole astrophysics that heretofore has not been opened."
(However, Kalogera added that the astrophysics community is open to the possibility that observations of these black hole collisions will reveal surprises, including, perhaps, the discovery that they do create light).
Each detector is an L-shaped structure with arms 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) long. A laser beam shines down each arm from the L's crux, and mirrors at the ends reflect the light back. If a gravitational wave passes through the detector, it warps space-time, lengthening one arm relative to the other very slightly — a change that the detector can pick up.
LIGO has been described by Reitze and other LIGO scientists as "the most precise measuring device ever built," and this sensitivity essentially requires that there be two detectors — a signal must be picked up by both detectors to ensure that it is not a false alarm.
Currently, LIGO is undergoing additional upgrades that will make it as much as 20 percent more sensitive than it was last fall (when the two detections were made), Reitze said. The improvements will allow LIGO to search for signals in a volume of space 1.5 to 2 times larger than before, according to the statement from MIT.
An Ex-NASA Chief is Making Chips That Use The Same Biological Principles As The Brain
An Ex-NASA Chief is Making Chips That Use The Same Biological Principles As The Brain
Above: KnuEdge founder and former NASA head Daniel Goldin.
Image Credit: KnuEdge
IN BRIEF
Ex-NASA Chief Dan Goldin has revealed his company KnuEdge, which develops neural chips that follow the principles of the human brain and produces voice recognition and authentication technology.
OUT OF THE SHADOWS
After almost 10 years of working incognito, former National Aeronautics and Space Administration head Daniel Goldin is finally ready to formally present KnuEdge to the world.
KnuEdge is a “neural technology innovation company,” an outfit that builds hardware and software based on neural technology, with a main focus on human-machine interaction. While newly revealed publicly, it has been in stealth mode for a decade now, and has already raised $100 million in funding to build its neural chips.
The company has revealed its two primary products: KnuVerse, which is a voice authentication technology, and KnuPath, its state-of-the-art neural chip. It has also unveiled Knurld.io, a software development kit with a cloud-based voice recognition and authentication service.
PRODUCTS
Foremost of these offerings is KnuPath. Its inspiration comes from the inner workings of the brain, much like several products of IBM. Specifically, the chip is built on the same biological principles that the brain uses to get a lot of computing work done with a small amount of power, something called “sparse matrix heterogeneous machine learning algorithms.”
Say that three times fast.
The KnuPath neural chip. Credit: KnuEdge
KnuPath has something called LambdaFabric computing. The chip, KnuEdge’s first model, has 256 cores. Each of the cores could be made to run a different algorithm and run them simultaneously, since the LambdaFabric makes it possible to instantly connect these cores to each other. The LambdaFabric is designed to connect up to 512,000 devices, which gives it an interaction delay of only 400 nanoseconds.
KnuVerse comes from military-grade voice recognition and authentication technology, and hopes to develop the potential of voice interfaces in next-generation computing. It primarily focuses on the biometrics side, the use of the human voice to authenticate computers, mobile/web apps and IoT (Internet-of-Things) devices. Its technology eliminates noise, allowing for use even in extremely loud environments.
Part of the development of voice technologies is Knurld.io, which allows businesses and other parties to tap into the technology of KnuVerse. It delivers speaker authentication interfaces for developers and businesses, so that the voice recognition and authentication service can be integrated into apps and other UI’s.
Above: KnuEdge’s KnuPath chip.
Image Credit: KnuEdge
And to think—the idea for the company and its cutting edge technology arose over a perceived need to supply faster and more efficient computing, able to crunch tens of millions of lines of computer code, for a potential Mars mission.
“It all started over a mission to Mars,” says Goldin, with immense and justifiable pride in the new endeavor.
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LIGO Just Detected Gravitational Waves From a Second Black Hole Collision!
LIGO Just Detected Gravitational Waves From a Second Black Hole Collision!
IN BRIEF
Scientists at LIGO have found more gravitational waves—another signal from two black holes, 14 and 8 times the Sun’s mass, that collided 1.4 billion years ago.
RUSSELL KIGHTLEY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY
An artist's illustration of the merger of two black holes (centre) causing gravitational waves to spiral out from the collision.
THEY’VE DONE IT AGAIN!
Scientists at LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) just observed gravitational waves for the second time—another historic milestone for the observatory, in what is proving to be a very fruitful year for gravitational wave research.
Five months ago, there was still some doubt as to whether these elusive ripples in the fabric of spacetime—first predicted a century ago by Albert Einstein—would ever be detected. Now, in the span of little more than four months, the observatory has detected two major events resulting from the merger of black holes in the distant universe.
The first detection was announced on February 11, and involved the merger of two black holes roughly 30 times the mass of the Sun. The second detection—which was actually made on December 26, 2015—shows what promises to be the great diversity of gravitational wave generating events. These merging black holes were much smaller, 14 and 8 solar-masses, releasing a quantity of gravitational wave energy equivalent to the total mass of the Sun to produce a final object of 21 solar-masses.
To learn more about gravitational waves, and why discovering them is so fantastically groundbreaking, check out the video below:
IT PUTS THE “O” FOR OBSERVATORY IN LIGO
“It is very significant that these black holes were much less massive than those observed in the first detection,” says Gabriela González of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration.
“Because of their lighter masses compared to the first detection, they spent more time—about one second—in the sensitive band of the detectors. It is a promising start to mapping the populations of black holes in our universe.”
The merger occurred about 1.4 billion years ago, producing a detectable signal during the final 27 orbits of the two black holes before they coalesced. Due to the arrival lag of the signal—it arrived 1.1 milliseconds earlier at the Livingston, LA detector than the Hanford, WA detector—it’s possible to at least roughly ascertain the signal’s point of origin in the sky.
In the future, it’s hoped that the soon-to-be-online Virgo gravitational wave interferometer in Europe will work in conjunction with LIGO to triangulate these signals, which we now know must be fairly frequent.
“With detections of two strong events in the four months of our first observing run,” says Caltech’s Albert Lazzarini, deputy director of the LIGO Laboratory, “we can begin to make predictions about how often we might be hearing gravitational waves in the future. LIGO is bringing us a new way to observe some of the darkest yet most energetic events in our universe.”
This is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the brand-new science of gravitational wave observation. Ultimately, these are the remarkable first fruits of a rich new harvest of astronomical information. LIGO’s next observing run, to begin this fall, will include an upgrade in sensitivity that’s expected to allow it to encompass 1.5 to 2 times more of the universe’s volume. Virgo is also expected to be online by that time, marking the true beginning of the age of gravitational wave astronomy.
Astronomers: There May Be Two (Or More) Extra Planets In Our Solar System
Astronomers: There May Be Two (Or More) Extra Planets In Our Solar System
T. PYLE, CALTECH/NASA
IN BRIEF
Astronomers are debating new research that suggests there may be two additional massive planets beyond Neptune in our Solar System.
PLAN(ET) NINE FROM OUTER SPACE
Planet Nine, the massive icy world that may be lurking in the farthest reaches of our Solar System, might have a friend. After performing new calculations on the data that originally gave rise to the Planet Nine hypothesis, astronomers believe multiple planets could be hiding at the edge of our Solar System.
Yes, that’s right. Astronomers say there could be at least two more planets in our Solar System
José Antonio Peñas (SINC)
Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) originally found evidence for Planet Nine based on the unusual movement of six large objects floating in the Kuiper belt, suggesting that their orbits are shaped by a hidden planet. Now, a new team of astronomers suggests that these Kuiper belt objects (KBOs) might not be as stable as had been previously thought.
“With the orbit indicated by the Caltech astronomers for Planet Nine, our calculations show that the six ETNOs [extreme trans-Neptunian objects, which are often dwarf planets], which they consider to be the Rosetta Stone in the solution to this mystery, would move in lengthy, unstable orbits,” says one of the team, Carlos de la Fuente Marcos, an independent Spanish astronomer.
In other words, the gravitational effect that Planet Nine itself would have on these ETNOs could help make them too unstable to be moving the way the Caltech scientists thought. According to de la Fuente Marcos, it’s possible that the stability of these objects might instead be due to the gravitational pull of a number of undiscovered planets.
“That is to say we believe that in addition to a Planet Nine, there could also be a Planet Ten and even more,” said de la Fuente Marcos.
NASA WEIGHS IN
So, should we start rewriting the science textbooks? Not everyone is convinced. Mike Brown, a member of the Caltech team, is critical of the new findings.
“I think it’s way too early to start speculating about a second planet, but, in general, I am confused by their results,” he told Abigail Beall at the Daily Mail. “We have a nearly identical analysis which shows nearly the opposite result.”
Jim Green, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, also weighed in on the possibility of a Planet Nine (and beyond), clarifying that the results are interesting and inspiring, but that thisevidence does not equate to a discovery:
“The possibility of a new planet is certainly an exciting one for me as a planetary scientist and for all of us. This is not, however, the detection or discovery of a new planet. It’s too early to say with certainty there’s a so-called Planet X. What we’re seeing is an early prediction based on modelling from limited observations. It’s the start of a process that could lead to an exciting result.”
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
Mars as viewed by NASA's Curiosity rover. Nice vistas, but what does the Red Planet smell like?
Credit: NASA/JPL
Robot explorers have found Mars to be a world of sulfur, acids, magnesium, iron and chlorine compounds, all of which are sunbaked and wrapped in a carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere.
But what would this complex and exotic brew smell like?
It turns out that everyone — not just Mars explorers — might be able to find out, because there may be ways to recreate whiffs of the Red Planet here on Earth. [The 7 Biggest Mysteries of Mars]
Headspace tech
One relatively recent innovation in the perfume business is "Headspace" .
"It gathers the molecules, and then the sample is brought back to the lab to be analyzed by spectral analysis. The results are typically synthesized to create a scent that mimics the smell of those molecules," said Jacquelyn Ford Morie, founder and chief scientist of the California-based company All These Worlds LLC, which uses virtual reality (VR) and other technology to create "immersive experiences" for a variety of applications.
A scent collar has been invented to bring the power of smell to augment virtual-reality experiences.
Credit: All These Worlds
Morie thinks Headspace, or something like it, could be used to decode the smell of Mars.
"I think that new artisan fragrance designers would love to design a series of scents that are their own, nonsampled interpretations of what Mars might smell like," she told Space.com.
A future mission could take a spectroscopic reading of the Martian atmosphere, then beam that information back to Earth, where Headspace hardware could reconstruct (or evoke) the Red Planet scent, Morie added.
"That's the cool thing about the artisan scent designers," she said. "They can add the more stinky elements to make a scent that hints at the real Mars while still being cool to smell. Many top fragrances have small bits of those otherwise smelly elements in them."
Eau de Red Planet
Astronaut-geologist Harrison Schmitt on an Apollo 17 moonwalk in 1972. The cohesive nature of the lunar soil is borne out by the "dirty" sheen of his space suit, later tracked into the nearby lunar module. Apollo crewmembers likened the smell of lunar regolith to spent gunpowder.
Credit: NASA
Morie suspects that the predominant Mars odor is a slightly acrid, gassy smell of sulfur compounds, with a chalky, sweet overtone punching through. This scent would become a big part of Red Planet settlers' lives.
"Imagine 30 or 40 years from now, when we have established colonies on Mars, and the colonists have become not only accepting of the scented detritus they track into their habitats, but actually consider it the smell of home," Morie said.
Future colonists could perhaps also use finely crafted habitat scents as harmonious counterpoints to the native smells of their adopted planet, she added.
Studies have shown repeatedly that smell is intimately tied to memory; whiffs of a familiar scent can trigger nostalgia and other strong feelings about times long past.
So, if Mars colonists "need to return to Earth, they would absolutely require a vial or two of 'Eau de Red Planet' to remind them of their life on this distant human outpost," Morie said.
Extraterrestrial encounters
Decoding or replicating Mars' scent would not be the first extraterrestrial encounter of the odor kind.
During the Apollo lunar landing program, for example, some of the moonwalkers noticed that they had brought back rock and dust particles into their lunar module. The material tainted their spacesuits. Once the astronauts took off their helmets, the moon's smell — which was likened to wet ashes in a fireplace, or spent gunpowder from a just-fired shotgun — was evident.
Then, in 1998, scientists with New York-based International Flavors & Fragrances Inc. (IFF) sent a miniature rose plant aboard the space shuttle Discovery on its STS-95 mission, to study the effect of microgravity on scent.
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Using proprietary technologies, the team, led by Braja Mookherjee, tracked radical shifts in the living flower's scent over the course of the shuttle flight.
"Ultimately, they discovered and created new-to-world profiles that have since gone on to enormous commercial success," IFF representatives wrote in a blog post late last year.
In addition, artisan Carrie Paterson has investigated making scents of life on Earth that can be embedded as olfactory information into multichannel interstellar messages. Then, there's the work of designer Saskia Wilson-Brown, who's interested in finding out what UFOs might smell like.
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet," to be published by National Geographic this October. The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel six-part series coming in November. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on Space.com.
'Mysterious Object' May Be First 'Extinct' Meteorite
'Mysterious Object' May Be First 'Extinct' Meteorite
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
A newly found fossil meteorite is of a kind different than any ever found, suggesting it may come from a parent asteroid consumed by collisions whose fragments no longer fall to Earth.
Credit: Birger Schmitz
A newly uncovered meteorite may be the first-ever "extinct" meteorite — a member of a class of meteorite that no longer falls to Earth. The ancient rock may yield insights on a cosmic impact that created most of the meteorites that now crash on Earth, and which may have influenced the evolution of life on Earth, researchers said.
The most common meteorites on Earth, which make up about 85 percent of the rocks that fall onto this planet from space, are known as ordinary chondrites. Chondrites are made up of tiny round pellets known as chondrules, which form when molten mineral droplets quickly cool in space. These stony meteorites are thought to come from similarly rocky asteroids. [Photos: Rare Meteorite Found in Minnesota]
The most common kind of ordinary chondrite is known as the L-type, which makes up about 47 percent of those rocks. Previous research on meteorites embedded in ancient marine limestone revealed that about 470 million years ago, there was an at least hundredfold rise in the number of L-type chondrites that crashed onto Earth. This suggested that the parent asteroid of all the L-type chondrites experienced a major collision with another asteroid at about that time.
"If we see that changes in the asteroid belt correlate with changes in Earth's biosphere or climate, then there is probably a connection and we will be able to better tie Earth's history to the history of the solar system," Schmitz told Space.com. "Earth scientists have for the past 200 years had a tendency to look on Earth as a closed system, but the discovery of the asteroid impact that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago made at least some earth scientists understand that the history of life and Earth is connected to the astronomical realm."
Now researchers say they may have discovered a meteorite that is a remnant of the asteroid that smashed into the parent of the L-type chondrites.
"The single meteorite that we found on the Ordovician seafloor is of a type that we do not know of from today's world," Schmitz told Space.com. "This hints that the types of meteorites that fell on Earth in the ancient past were very different than those falling today."
More than 100 fossil meteorites embedded in marine limestone have been found in Sweden's Thorsberg quarry. The meteorites fell to Earth around 470 million years ago after asteroids smashed into one another.
Credit: Birger Schmitz
The newfound meteorite is a rock about 3.15 inches (8 centimeters) long that is about 470 million years old. It was unearthed in Thorsberg quarry near the Swedish village Österplana alongside more than 100 L-type chondrites of similar age.
The meteorite possesses grains of crystals known as spinels that are very different from those found in all other known meteorites. Further analysis of the strange meteorite found that its ratio of chromium to oxygen isotopes is unlike any seen from known meteorite types.
"For a long time we called the meteorite the 'Mysterious Object' because we could not understand what it was," Schmitz said.
Schmitz and his colleagues measured how long the newfound meteorite had been exposed to cosmic rays, a dating technique called cosmic ray exposure, and they found that the impacts that gave birth to the meteorite, now named Österplana, or Öst 65, and to the L-type chondrites found with Öst 65 both occurred about 1 million years before all these meteorites crashed on Earth. This suggests that the impact that formed Öst 65 was the same one that destroyed the parent of the L-type chondrites, the scientists said.
The researchers said the parent asteroid of Öst 65 may have been almost destroyed during its collision with the progenitor of the L-type chondrites, which could explain why this kind of meteorite was previously not discovered on Earth.
"This is the first documented example of an extinct meteorite — that is, a type of meteorite that no longer falls on Earth today," Schmitz said. "We knew of extinct animals, and it has been speculated that there is something like extinct meteorites, but this is the first one found."
The findings suggest that the meteorites largely found on Earth today may not give a full picture of the kinds of bodies in the asteroid belt more than 500 million years ago, or in the nebula cloud of gas and dust that gave birth to the solar system about 4.6 billion years ago.
"We base our view of how the solar system formed and evolved on the meteorites that fall on Earth today," Schmitz said. "If these meteorites are not representative of what has been falling on Earth in the past, we have to take that into consideration when reconstructing how the original nebula condensed into solid planets and asteroids."
Future research may discover other classes of extinct meteorites, the researchers said.
The Very Large Telescope in Chile captured this direct image of a likely exoplanet to the upper left of the star CVSO 30 (which is the bluish-white blob at center).
Credit: ESO/Schmidt et al.
A jaw-dropping new photo shows a probable alien planet orbiting a star that lies 1,200 light-years from Earth.
The potential planet appears as a brownish dot to the left of the bright bluish-white star CVSO 30 in the newly released image, which was captured by the European Southern Observatory's (ESO) Very Large Telescope in Chile.
To appreciate just how fantastic it is to have a direct image of this candidate world, consider that CVSO 30 is about 280 times farther away from Earth than is Alpha Centauri, the star system nearest to our own. [Alien Planet Quiz: Are You an Exoplanet Expert?]
And remember also that 1 light-year is about 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion kilometers). So the newly photographed world, known provisionally as CVSO 30c, is about 7 quadrillion miles (11 quadrillion km) away (in the direction of the constellation Orion, for what it's worth).
CVSO 30c remains a candidate planet, awaiting confirmation by follow-up observations or analysis. If it does indeed exist, the planet circles the star at a whopping distance of 660 astronomical units (AU), completing one orbit every 27,000 years, researchers said. (One AU is the Earth-sun distance — about 93 million miles, or 150 million km).
Astronomers spotted another planet candidate, CVSO 30b, around the same star back in 2012 via the "transit method," which looks for the tiny brightness dips caused when orbiting planets cross their host stars' faces.
Both potential alien worlds are gas giants, like Jupiter and Saturn. But they occupy very different spaces; CVSO 30b, if it exists, completes one orbit every 11 hours and lies just 0.008 AU from the star, astronomers said.
Scientists Say This Planet Could Have Suitable Conditions To Sustain Life
"If it is confirmed that CVSO 30c orbits CVSO 30, this would be the first star system to host both a close-in exoplanet detected by the transit method and a far-out exoplanet detected by direct imaging," ESO representatives wrote in a description of the new image.
"Astronomers are still exploring how such an exotic system came to form in such a short timeframe, as the star is only 2.5 million years old; it is possible that the two planets interacted at some point in the past, scattering off one another and settling in their current extreme orbits," they added.
Direct imaging has been used to discover just a handful of alien planets to date. (Most of the 3,300-odd confirmed alien worlds have been found via the transit method, by NASA's Kepler space telescope.) But direct imaging promises to be more productive in the near future as technology improves, and may even provide the first convincing evidence of alien life, some astronomers have said.
The study reporting the detection of CVSO 30c — which relied on observations by the Keck Observatory in Hawaii and the Calar Alto Observatory in Spain in addition to the Very Large Telescope (VLT) — has been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. You can read it online for free here: http://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/potw1624/potw1624a.pdf
The VLT, part of ESO's Paranal Observatory, consists of four individual telescopes, each of which has a main mirror that's 26.9 feet (8.2 meters) wide.
The incredible images of Unidentified Flying Objects in the Arctic originated from the USS Trepang, SSN 674 in March 1971.
The following case was made available thanks to John Greenewald from “The Black Vault” who in turn received the incredible images from researcher Alex Mistretta.
The photos here displayed are evidence of a “close encounter” between forces of the United States Navy and Unidentified Flying Objects on the “edge” of the Arctic Ocean in March 1971.
These images were supposedly taken in March 1971 from a United States Submarine, the USS Trepang (SSN-674), a Sturgeon-class attack submarine.
The official location where the sighting occurred was between Iceland and Jan Mayen island in the Atlantic Ocean. (Jan Mayen belongs to Norway, and is only inhabited by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute and the Norwegian military.)
The UFO sighting occurred by accident as the military was in the region on a routine joint military and “scientific” expedition. According to reports, the officer who initially spotted the Unidentified Flying Object was John Kilika using the periscope.
So after looking at the images what are your thoughts? When I first looked at the images I was shocked. I have seen thousands of images of alleged UFOs throughout the years while some of them cannot be explained in any way, some others are certainly fabricated images.
The images made available by Alex Mistretta have certainly puzzled me and seem authentic. Yet, they seem to resemble the movie “Battleship” at the moment the giant alien ships which were submerged under the ocean, come out underneath the ocean and confront the military.
The USS Trepang sighting will surely become one of the best recorded UFO sightings in history.
Let us know what you think about these images, do you think they are really depicting extraterrestrial vehicles? Or is it possible that another explanation, more “human” can be attributed?
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Was There a Great UFO Battle Over Sweden in 1665?
Was There a Great UFO Battle Over Sweden in 1665?
This historic account from 1689 tells about a massive UFO sighting that took place over Sweden. People witnessed a great battle in the sky and afterwards they fell sick in mysterious circumstances.
Sightings of paranormal phenomena are not so unusual as the term might suggest. Our vast imagination casts its reflection onto anything new we came across, to ease our perception over its nature and definition, so we can explain it to ourselves and the others.
But some things are unexpectedly more staggering and plainly inexplicable. Such is the case of one of the most intriguing UFO sightings ever recorded.
In the noon of April 8, 1665, in Barhofft, Sweeden (now in Germany), several fishermen witnessed one of the most vivid and active displays of UFO phenomena: ships in the sky battling one another, followed in the end by the appearance of a dark hovering object.
This event was marked in the historic annals by Erasmus Francisci in 1689 in “Der wunder-reiche Ueberzug unserer Neider-Welt/Oder Erd-umgebende” (translated as “the beautifully – rich covering of our world / or earth-surrounding”), after gathering sufficient relevant reports related to the so-called UFO battle.
“After a while out of the sky came a flat round form, like a plate, looking like the big hat of a man… Its color was that of the darkening moon, and it hovered right over the Church of St. Nicolai. There it remained stationary until the evening. The fishermen, worried to death, didn’t want to look further at the spectacle and buried their faces in their hands. On the following days, they fell sick with trembling all over and pain in head and limbs,” wrote Erasmus Francisci in “Der wunder-reiche Ueberzug unserer Nider-Welt/Oder Erd-umgebende” in 1689
The fishermen’s illness was linked to the UFO battle since no other causes were determined, with any means of diagnosis lacking in this particular case. Although the event happened centuries ago, Chris Aubeck and Martin Shough decided to carry on the discontinued investigations and unravel the mistery once and for all, from a scientific perspective.
Martin Shough is a research associate for the NARCAP (National Aviation Reporting Center on Anomalous Phenomena) and Chris Aubeck is the founder of the Magonia Exchange historical research group. Chris Aubeck can be considered a very reliable source and an authority in the field of UFOs as cultural history, also being known as a prolific writer on this subject.
Their research project regarding the alleged 1665 UFO battle started with the first reasonable explanations for the phenomenon, conducting the investigation with a more rational and scientifical approach. For instance, after meticulous calculations of the sun’s angle, they ruled out the possibility of an ice halo that would substantially contribute to the massive optical illusion.
Taking into account the episode took place in a maritime environment, the researchers consider the sighting to be most likely the result of a natural phenomenon that occurs from a distance, above the horizon at an exact conjunction of thermal layers in the air. In the right conditions, the horizon can display a surrealistic dynamic image, a Fata Morgana effect, only this time it happened at a higher distance in the sky, for a longer period of time. Besides, the Fata Morgana couldn’t have cast a hat-shaped object. Science- 0, UFO- 3.
These are the critical factors that rise even in the most skeptical minds, the slight possibility of this event being an actual UFO manifestation leaving more than enough room for those who truly believe, making a firm denial of extraterrestrial activity impossible.
Other unshakable minds refuse to accept this sighting as proof of UFOs’ millennial existence on Earth, and blame this unusual phenomenon on a mere flock of birds that merged into a pattern ressembling a warship. It still doesn’t explain the sighting of the dark round object.
Still, mirage or not, this extremely tricky and extremely vivid visual experience took the unaware fishermen by surprise, thus increasing the shocking experience from an emotional state up to the point of physical sickness.
UFO Hovering Over Mount Shasta Surprised by Google Street View Cameras
UFO Hovering Over Mount Shasta Surprised by Google Street View Cameras
The recent discovery of what appears to be a UFO above the legendary Mount Shasta has reinforced the belief that something mysterious is happening in the area. The odd occurrence appeared on Google Street View and caused an unprecedented stir inside the UFO community, since the place of the sighting is renowned for its richness in unexplained aerial phenomenon.
Mount Shasta in California is the central point of a large number of local legends. People say strange activity occurs beneath the mountain due to the existence of a secret and massive alien outpost kept away from sight deep inside the crust of the earth.
Native Americans in the area tell stories of the Great Spirit Chief Skell who came from the sky and never really ascended back, but instead he remains hidden underneath the mountain even today. In more recent years, it was speculated that beneath Mount Shasta continues to exist a city established by survivors from the lost continent of Lemuria.
As the legend goes, British prospector J.C. Brown discovered the underground city in 1904. While looking for gold, he stumbled into a cave that spiraled down for 11 miles and eventually led to the city of Talos. Brown presumably found giant mummies, gold, weapons and shields but was never heard from again once he decided to carry an expedition to the heart of the mountain.
During the last few decades, Mount Shasta shared the reputation of one of the “few global power centers” and plays an important role within the New Age movement. The UFO surprised here only confirms the intense activity in aerial phenomenon depicted by the local inhabitants of the area.
Hypothesis on the mysterious object varies. The most skeptics consider the UFO to be nothing more than a raindrop on the lens of the camera, and others have even suggested that it could be a smashed bug. However, the elucidating hypothesis might be the one involving a glider, considering that the margins of the object are curved, and from afar it seems like a piece of cloth in the wind.
But further analysis indicate the glider scenario might not be the case either. After zooming in on the picture, its full spherical form is revealed. Its smooth design points towards a refined mix of metals that’s constituting the outer carcass of the object.
Upon moving the camera throughout the sky resort, the UFO is no longer visible. Was this caused by a simple glitch, or is it more to it than meets the eye?
According to some UFO enthusiasts, the above phenomenon is clear evidence of UFOs on our planet. Their beliefs are based on the fact that other photos don’t show the craft anymore, proving that it traveled at an extreme speed compared to the Google car. That, and Mount Shasta, a renowned place where numerous UFO sightings occur on a regular basis.
Are there really signs of activity springing from beneath the mountain? If so, can the UFO surprised by the Google Street View camera be somehow related to this secret activity?
“De wereld die je waarneemt met je zintuigen bestaat hoogstwaarschijnlijk niet”
“De wereld die je waarneemt met je zintuigen bestaat hoogstwaarschijnlijk niet”
Is onze werkelijkheid niets meer dan een extreem realistische computersimulatie? Begin deze maand zei ondernemer Elon Musk, de baas van Tesla en ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX, tijdens een technologieconferentie in Californië dat de wereld die je waarneemt met je zintuigen hoogstwaarschijnlijk niet bestaat.
Volgens Musk is de kans minder dan één op een miljard dat we de ‘echte’ werkelijkheid zien. Omdat er waarschijnlijk heel veel beschavingen in ons universum leven, heeft een aanzienlijk deel daarvan al het punt bereikt waarop ze zeer realistische simulaties kunnen creëren, zo is zijn gedachte. De kans is dus groot dat we in één van die simulaties leven.
Matrix
Al meer dan 2000 jaar wordt gespeeld met de gedachte dat wat wij waarnemen niet de werkelijkheid is. Plato schreef al dat we slechts een afspiegeling zien van de werkelijkheid, een idee dat hij inzichtelijk maakte met zijn allegorie van de grot.
En in de scienfictionhit The Matrix staat de mens in dienst van machines, maar zijn ze zich daarvan niet bewust omdat zij alleen een gesimuleerde realiteit zien.
Een soort Sims gemaakt door aliens
Miljoenen spelers spelen tegelijkertijd realistische 3D-games waarin ze elkaar tegen het lijf kunnen lopen. Binnenkort komen daar virtual reality en augmented reality bij.
Als de ontwikkeling in dit tempo doorgaat, hebben we over 1000 jaar spellen waarin er geen onderscheid meer is tussen echt en nep. Misschien leven we wel in een soort Sims gemaakt door aliens.
Moeilijk te weerleggen
Ook de Belgische natuurkundige Thomas Hertog stelt vast dat de zogeheten simulatiehypothese moeilijk te weerleggen valt. “We hebben geen enkele aanwijzing dat een fysische realiteit moet beantwoorden aan onze wiskundige modellen,” zegt hij.
Het is niet ondenkbaar om een universum te simuleren, aldus Hertog. Hij merkt op dat we de vorming van een sterrenstelsel al in detail kunnen simuleren.
Planeet X, Nibiru? Wetenschappers: “Ons zonnestelsel bevat 10 of zelfs nog meer planeten”
Planeet X, Nibiru? Wetenschappers: “Ons zonnestelsel bevat 10 of zelfs nog meer planeten”
Ons zonnestelsel bevat mogelijk 10, 11 of nog meer planeten, zo hebben wetenschappers voorspeld aan de hand van nieuwe computermodellen. De modellen bevatten gegevens die hebben geleid tot de ontdekking van Planeet Negen.
In januari voorspelden astronomen professor Konstantin Batygin en professor Mike Brown van het California Institute of Technology het bestaan van een negende planeet nadat ze hadden ontdekt dat 13 objecten in de Kuipergordel als een soort schaapskudde bijeen werden gedreven door een enorm object.
Wetenschappers van de Cambridge University en Spaanse onderzoekers hebben nu ontdekt dat de objecten mogelijk door meer dan één verre planeet worden beïnvloed. Sverre Aarseth van Cambridge en astronomen Carlos en Raúl de la Fuente Marcos vermoeden dat Planeet Negen niet alleen staat.
Zelfs nog meer
“We denken dat naast Planeet Negen ook nog een Planeet Tien en zelfs nog meer [planeten] bestaan,” zei Carlos de la Fuente Marcos. De studie is gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Onderzoeker Alexander Mustill van de Universiteit van Lund in Zweden zei dat de nieuwe planeet mogelijk van buiten het zonnestelsel is gekomen en dus een exoplaneet zou kunnen zijn. Hij denkt dat onze zon deze planeet 4,5 miljard jaar geleden heeft ‘gestolen’ van een naburige ster.
Naarstig op zoek
Wetenschappers vermoeden dat Planeet Negen 10 keer zo zwaar is als de aarde en tussen de 10.000 en 20.000 jaar doet over een rondje om de zon. Astronomen zijn naarstig op zoek naar de planeet, die heel erg groot zou zijn en alleen met de grootste telescopen gespot zou kunnen worden.
Pluto stond oorspronkelijk te boek als de negende planeet, maar werd in 2006 gedegradeerdtot gewone dwergplaneet.
An Illinois witness at Batavia reported watching and videotaping a square or rectangle-shaped UFO silently crossing the sky about 8:50 p.m. on June 5, 2016, according to testimony from Case 76835 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
A square or rectangle-shaped UFO moved toward the witness on June 5, 2016. Pictured: Cropped, enlarged and enhanced still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness and his two children, ages 17 and 20, had just joked about it being a perfect evening to see a UFO as they were pulling away from a Chili’s restaurant parking lot.
“I looked up and saw a light,” the witness stated.“I continued to joke with them and said, ‘Look there, a UFO…hahahaha,’ but at the time it was only that – a joke.”
Pictured: Cropped, enlarged and enhanced still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The three continued to watch the object as it rapidly started to approach them.
“Then the light started to dim out and we could see a dark form over it. My son then started to literally freak out. That thing came about 300 meters toward us and it was a dark square with rounded corners thing, cruising the sky, no sound whatsoever.”
Pictured: Cropped, enlarged and enhanced still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness believes the video does not completely capture the event well.
“The video doesn’t reflect even 10 percent of the clarity of the sighting. Unfortunately phone cameras are horrible, especially at dark. But it was so clear to us. It seemed to be the size of a car just cruising there, with almost the same color of the background. My son is still shaking. He never believed in anything paranormal.”
Pictured: Cropped, enlarged and enhanced still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
Batavia is a Chicago suburb in Kane County, IL, population 26,045. Illinois Assistant State Director Roger Laurella and Illinois Triage Director Daniel Snow are investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
FATHER & SON UFO HUNTERS [AMAZING PROOF] WAIT TELL YOU SEE THIS! 2016
FATHER & SON UFO HUNTERS [AMAZING PROOF] WAIT TELL YOU SEE THIS! 2016
WOW!!! FATHER & SON UFO HUNTERS [AMAZING PROOF] WAIT TELL YOU SEE THIS! 2016
UFO EVIDENCE Quote From Eye Witness Peter “Hi, after my son has taken 4 photos in last march of a vessel crossing the field near the farm, we bought better equipment.
On June 4th 11pm we went on a nearby hill and mounted our cameras and tripods | We saw many moving lights which were not passing planes | The following images (and later video) were taken by me with a Canon Powershot G5X and a Rollei ball head tripod on a hilltop in the Rhine Lahn county in Germany | We took RAW photos of a partly translucent Mothership and 4 other different ship types | Disturbing | Such vessels we have never seen before in TV, movies or pictures.
Here is the Video we have put together from the RAW images:
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Vorige maand verdween vlucht MS804 van Egyptair plotseling van de radar, terwijl het zicht helder was en er geen problemen door de bemanning waren gemeld.
Als oorzaak wordt een bomaanslag aangewezen, maar een mogelijk andere, wie weet de werkelijke, reden zorgt voor nog meer levensgevaarlijke toestanden in de luchtvaart.
Op 19 mei verdween vlucht MS804 plotseling van de radar tijdens het laatste deel van de vlucht tussen Parijs en de Egyptische hoofdstad Cairo.
Er was geen enkele aanleiding voor dit toestel om neer te storten. Het weer was helder, er waren geen problemen gemeld door de bemanning, dus een technische mankement leek daardoor zo goed als uitgesloten.
Het meest waarschijnlijke scenario was dan ook, zoals wij eerder schreven, een terroristische bomaanslag.
Mogelijk is er echter een andere verklaring en die wijst naar de naderende planeet Nibiru als hoofdschuldige aan dit ongeluk.
Zij stellen al jaren dat de komst van de planeet verantwoordelijk is voor plotselinge heftige elektromagnetische pulsen richting aarde die dan allerlei vreemde effecten kunnen veroorzaken zoals onder andere te zien op het volgende plaatje:
Los van mooie beelden in de lucht veroorzaken deze verstoringen, die EMP's worden genoemd, ook voor andere grote problemen.
Een EMP is een elektromagnetische puls. Zo'n puls bestaat uit een vaak zeer krachtig elektromagnetische straling.
Het zijn deze elektromagnetische pulsen die rampzalig kunnen zijn voor onder andere de luchtvaart. In de volgende video legt Nancy uit hoe deze EMP golven ontstaan.
En volgens Nancy is vlucht MS804 van Egyptair niet door een bom naar beneden gekomen, maar door een EMP.
Zij stelt dat identiek aan eerdere rampen, ook hier een bomscenario is gebruikt als uitleg, omdat wanneer mensen de waarheid zouden weten er niemand meer in een vliegtuig zou stappen.
Voor iedere ramp wordt gezocht naar een schuldige of oorzaak zodat iedereen weer rustig kan verder slapen.
Net zoals de ramp met het Germanwings toestel werd toegeschreven aan een zelfmoordgezagvoerder en de piloten van de verdwenen vlucht MH370 ook de schuld kregen van het laten verdwijnen van hun toestel. De verdwijning van Air France vlucht AF447 in 2009 werd toegeschreven aan de weersomstandigheden, maar ook dat was niet de werkelijke toedracht. Wat in het geval van dat toestel nergens wordt vermeldt is dat het complete elektronische systeem van het toestel plat ging.
Die informatie is verkregen via het ACARS systeem. (Het Aircraft Communications and Reporting System (ACARS) is een digitale vorm van radiocommunicatie tussen vliegtuigen en grondstations. Het is een datalink. ACARS is een alternatief voor spraakverbindingen.)
Vandaag de dag is het de gewoonte om ieder vliegtuig dat om onverklaarbare reden uit de lucht naar beneden stort, het predicaat bomaanslag mee te geven.
Zo ook vlucht MS804.
Een kenmerk dat alle toestellen gemeen hebben die de laatste jaren met onverklaarbare oorzaak zijn neergestort of verdwenen, is dat ze allemaal opereren via de zogenaamde fly-by-wire technieken.
Fly-by-wire-technologie is het gebruik van elektronische signalen om de stuurcommando's van een stuurorgaan in de cockpit van een vliegtuig door te geven aan de actuatoren van de stuurvlakken. Ook kenmerkend voor een fly-by-wiresysteem is dat ook een computer in het systeem is opgenomen en dat gebruik wordt gemaakt van sensoren voor de terugkoppeling. In een traditioneel systeem verzorgt een persoon (de vlieger) alle sturing en de terugkoppeling (seat of his/her pants). Een vergelijkbare term voor voertuigen is drive-by-wire.
Overal worden de voordelen van fly-by-wire opgehemeld. Als je in de Wikipedia kijkt, zie je alleen woorden zoals: het voordeel is dit of dat of het voordeel is zus of zo. Het is pas als je in de Wikipedia voor kinderen kijkt dat je een essentieel nadeel tegenkomt:
Het bekendste nadeel is, ondanks alle reserve-systemen, stroomuitval. Omdat Fly-By-Wire gestuurd wordt met computers, die elektriciteit nodig hebben, is een complete stroomuitval een grote bedreiging. Het vliegtuig zal volledig onbestuurbaar worden.
Bij vlucht MS804 is er nog iets vreemds dat opvalt:
Het vliegtuig slingerde onderweg naar beneden. Eerst 90 graden naar links en vervolgens een volledige 180 graden naar rechts. Dit is vreemd voor een vliegtuig dat door een bom uit elkaar zou zijn gereten. Wat dan overblijft zijn honderdduizenden kleine stukjes en niet een vliegtuig wat heen en weer beweegt.
Er zijn nog meer aanwijzingen dat we hier niet met een bom te maken hebben. Het al eerder genoemde ACARS systeem registreerde drie minuten voor de crash een foutmelding van een aantal sensoren. Onder andere de rooksensoren, maar ook andere maakten drie minuten lang melding dat er iets niet goed was. Toen opeens stopte alle communicatie met het vliegtuig, maar het was daarna nog wel zeven minuten lang zichtbaar op de radar. Allemaal tekenen dat we hier niet met een bom te maken hebben.
Een EMP is een veel logischere verklaring voor wat er is gebeurd met deze vlucht en ook die anderen.
Een EMP kan alle systemen in dergelijke vliegtuigen plat leggen en het kan voor verstoringen zorgen op ieder denkbaar elektronisch gebied. De radio werkt niet meer, de motoren, de mogelijkheden van de piloten om het vliegtuig te kunnen besturen. Alles stopt plotseling.
Er kunnen explosies in de motoren ontstaan omdat de bladen van de jet motoren opeens stoppen en er zich nog brandbare kerosine in de motoren bevindt die geen kant meer op kan, waardoor je eerst aan de ene kant van het vliegtuig en vervolgens aan de andere een explosie kunt krijgen. Iets wat bewegingen op de radar zou laten zien zoals met vlucht MS804.
Ook verklaart dit waarom er geen noodsignaal is uitgezonden door de bemanning. Het is dan ook niet voor niets dat al dit soort ongelukken gebeuren met fly-by-wire toestellen.
De belangen van de industrie zijn zoals gewoonlijk groter dan de veiligheid van burgers. Wanneer bekend wordt bij het grote publiek dat met de nadering van de planeet Nibiru er zich meer en meer EMP situaties voor zullen doen, stapt niemand meer in een fly-by-wire vliegtuig en lijdt de industrie een enorme schade.
In de navolgende toestellen kun je fly-by-wire verwachten:
Fly-by-wire wordt sinds de F-16 toegepast in gevechtsvliegtuigen en is voor het eerst in lijnvliegtuigen toegepast bij de Concorde. Airbus gebruikt het in de A320, de A330, de A340, de A350 en de A380. Boeing gebruikt het systeem in de B777 en de B787. Ook het Russische widebodyvliegtuig Il-96 en de populaire Russische Soechoj Superjet 100 maken er gebruik van.
Je moet dan ook niet vreemd opkijken als zich in de nabije toekomst meer ongelukken voordoen waarbij vliegtuigen op mysterieuze wijze van de radarschermen verdwijnen.
Giant UFO Near Jupiter Seen Through Telescope for 10 Minutes! Video, March 23, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Giant UFO Near Jupiter Seen Through Telescope for 10 Minutes! Video, March 23, 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 23, 2016 Location of sighting: Near Jupiter This is some amazing footage of a giant UFO moving past Jupiter back in March.TakeBackSpace TV was using a 8" Nexstar telescope with a Sony a6000 camera. Its a nice set up and as you see, it self tracks really steady. This UFO is almost in focus and look really big. Jupiter has 67 known moons, and three of the biggest are visible near Jupiter. This UFO looks to be about the size of any one of those moons. Each is about 25% that of Earth...thats one big UFO. Also did you notice that the UFO gets brighter, the closer it got to Jupiter? That means its really close to Jupiter, within its orbit.
Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com TakeBackSpace TVstates: Hey everyone! I finally got around to editing this capture from last month. I could not match it up with satellite transits online, but that doesn't mean it's not a high altitude known object. I personally don't know what it is, but it seems like it gets brighter (possibly reflecting light) and dimmer in certain parts. There are parts that are just a dot on the screen, but I wanted to provide the full capture as best I could. Jump to the last minute for the sped up portion if you want, but I encourage you to enjoy the whole experience.
Today in the newest batch of Mars Curiosity rover photos I found a worm in the microscopic camera. This same camera took two photos just 18 minutes apart. The first camera shows no worm, but a place the worm is buried. The second photo 18 minutes later of the same location shows the worm had crawled out.
How can this be? NASA has not yet announced any life ever found on Mars and yet this is the second worm I have found in only a few months. The funny thing about both the worms...they look the same! They do, and NASA had to have seen them, but still they haven't said a single word. So, tell me why is NASA not responding about these discoveries? Why is it so bad for the public to know that life still exists on Mars? Is NASA really afraid of a little worm on Mars causing chaotic anarchy across Earth?
Look, I will tweet to NASA about this and also Obama and the Secretary General of the United Nations. I can only make them aware of the discoveries, but they may not care.
Here is a great redo of one of the most amazing faces ever found. A giant skull on a mountain. Also in this photo are a lot of signs of broken cornerstones, walls, and other parts of structures strewn about. Clearly this location was once a thriving community. Great work by Paranormal Crucible at retouching it to make it more clear, and to see what it might have looked like when it was new. But what is this material they used to make their buildings, heads and such? It looks like its a simple mix of the blueish sand found on Mars, mixed with some kind of cement mixture to give it lasting strength. Much how we make cement for buildings and sidewalks. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Paranormal Cruciblestates: I decided to take a second look at this artifact and do a little more enhancing and re-building to get a better idea of what it actually was. It is an elongated skull, possibly thousands of years old in my opinion. I also mirrored the image and discovered a possible skull encrusted altar with a pyramid either side, and a possible alien head-dress. I will be enhancing the mirrored image in a few days and will either create a video report on it or i will post the image on my facebook page, so far its very interesting. Thanxx
60 Meter Giant Squid Found On Google Earth, The Legends Are Real! June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
60 Meter Giant Squid Found On Google Earth, The Legends Are Real! June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 9, 2016
Location of sighting: Near Deception Island
This looks like the Kraken. I used Google ruler and it says this is 30 meters (100 feet) from head to end, but the end looks like just the mid area of a giant squid, which means it could be 60+ meters long with tentacles. That sounds like a Kraken to me. Maybe the stories about the giant monster of the deep are all true. A lot of storers are based on truths. I think we found the Kraken.
No idea what this is but it's circulating a few places right now and when I saw it, it IMMEDIATELY made me think of a Plesiosaur fin. Was hard to see from the images I was seeing so I went there on my own, to Google Earth. Here's what I found and how you get there. That's one massive disturbance in the ocean down there and who knows what really caused it. Maybe now we know the source of The Bloop! Go there on Google Earth and form your own opinion. Coords below if you don't want to follow in vid. nav: 63° 2'56.73"S 60°57'32.38"W
Jetpacks are One Step Closer to Becoming Standard for U.S. Soldiers
Jetpacks are One Step Closer to Becoming Standard for U.S. Soldiers
Futurism M.A
IN BRIEF
Jetpack Aviation, the company that made the JB 9, has revealed to the Wall Street Journal that they are in talks with the U.S. military to further develop their jetpack technology.
ROCKET MEN
Back in 2015, the world was given a real treat as the first true jetpack was unveiled. More interesting, however, is that the innovation drew attention from the U.S. Military.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Jetpack Aviation is in talks with U.S. special forces for the development of a militaristic jetpack. The WSJ said that the company now has a research and development agreement with the U.S. Special Operations Command for the development of a four-turbine jetpack that will lift twice the weight as current models, and require twice the fuel.
The company’s current version of the jetpack is the JB9. In development for about 10 years and costing around $10 million, it is an 85-pound aluminum and carbon-fiber machine that burns 11 gallons of jet fuel for a 10-minute flight.
Further improvements to the JB 9 could include rocket-propelled parachutes, for use during unscheduled landings. For this, the nine-person firm is now seeking a $2-$5 million investment. It hopes to bring its jetpack to market for about $250,000 a piece.
A CLUTTERED FIELD
While Jetpack Aviation has certainly made strides in the field, it is far from the only player. The one closest to market is the Martin Jetpack, produced by Martin Aircraft Co. Ltd. produced in New Zealand. While it bends some of the jetpack rules by having the pilot strap himself into the machine, it has a maximum flight time of 30 minutes and a price tag of at least $250,000.
Meanwhile, former Swiss Army fighter pilot Yves “Jetman” Rossy has unveiled his “jetwing,” a 7-foot carbon-fiber wing with four small jet engines. It can reach 322 kph (200 mph) and fly for about 10 minutes. While French jet-ski champion, Franky Zapata, has set the Guinness world record for “farthest flight by hoverboard,” using the Flyboard Air, a hoverboard that runs on jet fuel.
Even in the most fantastical innovations do we see capitalism work its way to give us, the consumers, the best-finished product.
A study by a Harvard graduate student hints at the existence of ancient planets richer in carbon than normal planets, which bodes well for the possibility of life in the early universe.
TAR-BLACK PLANETS
The first potentially habitable planets in the universe may have had a very different composition from our Earth. A new study explores the possibility that a class of carbon-rich, “anemic stars” host tar-black, carbon planets, which form as carbon dust clumps together into masses. Researchers believe this will help us figure out how the early universe started— before supernovae seeded the universe with heavy elements.
The research proposes that these planets were filled with diamond, carbon, and graphite, and can be distinguished by identifying a certain class of stars suspected of hosting them.
These host stars are a rare class of old stars that have very little iron—around 100,000 times less than that of our Sun—known as carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars. These objects have more carbon content than other stars of their age, and the carbon dust around them can develop into carbon-rich planets within the CEMP star’s protoplanetary disk.
The black, extremely low-albedo surface of a carbon planet.
“These stars are fossils from the young universe,” explains Avi Loeb, PhD thesis advisor of Natalie Mashian, the research student at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who led the study. “By studying them, we can look at how planets, and possibly life in the universe, got started.”
“We have good reason to believe that alien life will be carbon-based, like life on Earth, so this also bodes well for the possibility of life in the early universe,” Mashian adds.
Artist’s depiction of how carbon affects the molecular conditions for life in the universe. NASA/Jenny Mottar
THE SEARCH IS ON
It would be difficult, however, to tell these unusual planets apart visually. But there’s one surefire method: Testing their atmospheres for methane and carbon monoxide, compounds that such planets should have in abundance.
While there is no definitive proof yet that these planets exist, the transit technique could be used to detect potential CEMP stars, which would hopefully lead astronomers to the discovery of these unusual planets.
After all, weirder things have been found lurking out in the universe of late. “We’ll never know if they exist unless we look,” says Mashian.
New Research Shows Skin Cells “Walking” To Wound Sites
New Research Shows Skin Cells “Walking” To Wound Sites
Washington State University
IN BRIEF
New research from Washington State University shows that skin cells "walk" when a wound needs to be repaired.
Given how much we already know about human biology, it is astounding what we are still learning about our own bodies. Take, for example, skin. We have been using skin cells to do all kinds of amazing things, like make other organs and cells, but up until now, we never saw them walk.
But apparently, that’s what research from Washington State University is showing us (though to be honest, it looks a little more like shuffling to me) The study, published in FASEB Journal,shows that skins cells will alter the proteins holding them in place and move to repair a wound.
Normal skin cells are held in place by contact with surrounding cells and proteins that bind them to underlying connective tissue. The researchers saw how cells in the epidermis will dissolve the glue that binds them and reuse some of the proteins to move to seal a wound site. The cells will also grow more cells to form new, healed skin.
While the process behind it will still need further study, being able to manipulate the phenomenon will mean better wound healing, especially for the elderly and diabetics.
Developments and improvements in the process and the materials in the field of 3D printing have taken up applications in different sectors. 3D printing industry applications range from aerospace design to health care. However, one application that will put a smile on your face is helping injured animals.
A team of doctors in Sao Paulo has come together because of their common love for science and animals. The team, known as ‘Animal Avengers,’ has successfully reconstructed artificial beaks for three toucans, a parrot, and a goose. They have designed the first ever titanium prosthetic pecker for a Macaw and built a brand new plastic-based replacement hull for a traumatized tortoise.
A tortoise whose shell was completely burnt in a bush fire was fighting for its life when Animal Avengers came to his rescue. The reptile named Freddy is the world’s first turtle with a 3D-printed prosthetic shell.
The team explained that this task was very difficult. Graphic designer Cicero Moraes explained the process: “It took about 40 photos [to build a model and reconstruct the shell]. We took a healthy animal, took the same 40 photos, reconstructed that animal in 3D and put it into the computer.”
To create the complete shell, the design was printed out with the help of a desktop printer in four individual pieces using a low-cost corn-derived material. These four pieces were later slotted together like a jigsaw puzzle. It took 50 hours to print a single piece.
Image courtesy sciencealert.com
Nidhi Goyal
Nidhi is a gold medalist Post Graduate in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences. You can also find Nidhi on Google+.
In the summer of 1985, a strange light was observed by thousands of onlookers as it passed through the skies over Santiago, Chile. Among the observers present, a number of them believed they knew the origins of this seemingly “alien” craft, thanks to a story that had risen to popularity after appearing on the Chilean television program Ovni,which dealt with a mysterious island off the Southwest coast of Chile.
This object, they believed, belonged to the strange inhabitants of a place called Friendship Island.
Researcher Diego Zúñiga summarized the incident in an article for the Chilean magazine La Nave de los Locos, which also appeared later at the Magonia blog. In it, Zúñiga notes that the incident became so sensational that, “the news department of Television Nacional de Chile, channel 7, used a special camera to record the object on videotape.” The object, however, was later revealed to have had earthly origins, and nothing having to do with the supposed “Friendship”: it was merely a weather balloon, released as part of a French stratospheric research project one month earlier.
“Too many people refused to accept the sad reality,” Zúñiga wrote, “and today they still insist that it was, in fact, a ship manned by inhabitants of Friendship Island.”
Indeed, the majority of the sources of information available on the web that discuss the sordid details of the Friendship Island affair still attribute the entire things to “alien beings” who, rather strangely, were said to resemble humans of Nordic appearance. Based on this description, a variety of alternative theories have emerged as well that suggest everything from a secret base where escaped Nazis were keeping various technologies hidden, to more fanciful ideas about a joint-project between these Germans and American intelligence agencies, collaborating on a South American equivalent to Nevada’s most infamous USAF installation, Area 51.
Area 51, viewed distantly from Tikaboo Peak.
Apart from all the speculation, it is hard to know what to make of the Friendship Island stories. Back in the summer of 2012, I wrote a short piece on it here at Mysterious Universe, which despite only recounting a few of the most basic details of the case, went on to become one the of more popular English-language articles on the subject; in truth, this says much less about the depth of the article in question, but rather, it shows us just how little is known of the Friendship case outside the Spanish-speaking world.
In that original article, I detailed the essentials on how the story of the Friendship Island affair began, which presents most of the story’s key players:
It was 1984, someplace near the Southern coast of Chile, and a mysterious distress signal had just buzzed across the receiver of ham radio operator Octavio Ortiz. A business agent who operated a small 27-megacycle CB station in his pastime, Ortiz, who went by the ham operator’s handle Lucero or “bright star,” was mystified by what he was hearing, as it seemed to have to do with a bright celestial object of an entirely different kind.
The captain of a ship called the Mitilus II had been sending these strange messages Ortiz had intercepted, which pertained to an object in the sky it had been following… or perhaps, had been followed by. The Mitilius II was tasked under the Department of Oceanography for the nearby University of Chile, and had been in an approach for the Mitague lighthouse when a strange, bright object had appeared in the sky, then slowly began to descend. By the time Ortiz had come across the messages from Alberto, this strange object was now hovering directly over the distressed captain’s ship.
Shortly after Alberto’s distress messages were received by Ortiz, the light over his ship had apparently already gone. However, Alberto and Ortiz remained in communication after the incident, via their CB radios, and it was eventually related by Alberto that he had been hired by a group of foreigners for various smuggling jobs off the southwestern coast of Chiloe Island. These men, Alberto claimed, had taken him to a strange island where an underground facility existed, and after fitting his ship with various odd electronic equipment, tasked him with various jobs for them. Alberto had been introduced to these “gringos”, he said, by a man named Ernesto de la Fuente, a central character within the broader “Friendship” narrative, as he had not only claimed to have met the Friendship on many occasions, but had also been taken to their island and, incredibly, cured of cancer by the technologies they possessed.
Ernesto de la Fuente had risen to fame in Chile after he appeared on the Ovni episode detailing the weird story of the Friendship, although he had made earlier television appearances as well: one Chilean program from the mid-1990s depicted de la Fuente as an experiencer of various paranormal or “ghostly” phenomenon. For some, it had been de la Fuente’s ongoing experiences with the unexplained that seemed to diminish his credibility, although shortly after publication of my MU article, my colleague and fellow blogger Miguel Romero (also known as Red Pill Junkie) and I shared a brief exchange with de la Fuente’s nephew, Francisco Ilabaca, who now resides in the United States. Ilabaca was able to confirm, based on family information, certain details about the case:
“Ernesto De La Fuente is my great uncle. I’ve been trying to contact him but I now live in the US. According to my mother, the cancer was real. After the chilean tv show OVNI aired their story, he received countless phone calls and was constantly harassed for information by people wanting to get cured. Eventually he moved to the north of chile to a secluded town in the interior of the country, and converted to Mormonism. I haven’t talked to him or my aunt in years. He was also involved in a famous ghost apparition case in Chile that aired on TV. His first wife shot herself in their home and would appear from time to time. I spent many weekends of my childhood playing in that house, and only remember one weird incident.”
The stories about Friendship Island would continue, however, even beyond the involvement of Ernesto de la Fuente and the other initial players. Researchers Scott Corrales of the Hispanic Institute for Ufology, as well as researcher Raul Nunez, have continued to collect reports that appear to be somewhat related to the case (a number of these can be read here, and admittedly, some of the stories are quite fascinating).
My personal research into this case, while leading me to believe it has very little (if anything) to do with UFOs, has nonetheless left an impression there is still something to the entire affair. Little-known as it is in the United States, it was suggested to me by researcher Peter Levenda during an email exchange, and a subsequent Skype conversation, that the case does appear to bear some similarities to Levenda’s own experiences in Chile decades ago, when he visited a secretive — and infamous — commune in the Maule region of central Chile known as Colonia Dignidad.
Villa Baviera, as it appears today.
Today, the location in question is called Villa Baviera, although at the time Levenda went there in the late 1970s, it was a hideout for former Nazis that included Paul Schäfer, an accused child molester who had served as the colony’s leader and central figure. Levenda believes he was mistaken for being an Israeli Mossad agent, which led to him being detained briefly upon arriving, and thereafter ordered to leave the country.
Although little is said of Friendship Island in the English speaking world (Levenda, at the time he contacted me, had apparently not heard of it either), there are still occasional threads that turn up elsewhere. For instance, I managed to find a very peculiar English-language advertisement that appeared in 2009 in a newspaper called El Llanquihue, published in the community of Puerto Montt, Chile (near the alleged location of Friendship Island. Below is an image of the advertisement, which apparently ran for close to three weeks:
This is indeed a rather tantalizing clue to emerge, in the midst of an already odd case that, to the most skeptical among us, represents little more than another phony story around which a hopeful “UFO religion” has been slowly built in South America. Who knows, perhaps there is more to it after all… although as I stated previously, my feeling is that this case, and the grains of truth it represents, have much less to do with UFOs, aliens, angels, or miraculous healings, and instead probably represents another piece of the bigger puzzle that comprises secret, Cold War-era operations that were taking place in South America… some of which probably did, in fact, have something to do with the German presence there after World War II.
As always, I invite anyone who may have their own ideas on any of this to contact me about it via email, or you may, of course, use the comments section below this post just as well.
In the modern lexicon used by most non-fringe writers today, the subject of UFOs would generally be referred to as a “conspiracy theory”. The general attitude behind this presumption holds that UFOs, if they exist, are something most “believers” presume to be extraterrestrial visitors; an unlikely possibility that, in order to remain unsubstantiated, would almost have to rely on world governments maintaining a degree of secrecy on the matter.
Thus, to believe in UFOs almost requires one to find acceptance with other fringe areas of thought just as well; such things as a “shadow government”, and equally-shadowy scenarios where the “real truth” about our universe is kept from the general public by those in authority. In other words, there would seem to be hardly any way the subject of UFOs can be discussed in a modern context, without an air of conspiracy eventually entering the discussion.
Interestingly, most writers and researchers within the UFO field have been accepting of the idea of a conspiratorial angle relating to UFO studies. Arguably though, these individuals would dismiss the notion (and perhaps rightly so) that the insinuation of a “conspiracy” is necessarily something that reduces the credibility of a pro-UFO argument. As historian Richard Dolan has noted, the usage of the term conspiracy theory actually has a history in the intelligence community; more specifically, the term began to see popular use in the years following the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, which became useful in marginalizing theories about the incident that fell outside the findings of the Warren Commission and its official report.
Decades ago, for the subject of UFOs to be referred to as a “conspiracy theory” might have seemed strange. However, in modern usage it is all too common to find articles in which terms like “UFO conspiracy theorists” are thrown about (in fact, I can think of one notable instance where Mysterious Universe was actually referred to as a “conspiracy theory website”, as stated by a writer for Snopes.com. Although some conspiracy theories are discussed here, I would also argue that a broad range of non-conspiratorial subjects are addressed here too).
In Michael Barkun’s book, A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America (University of California Press),the author makes many examples of conspiratorial thought within UFO studies and belief. In the excerpt below, one of the most convoluted and polarizing situations in UFO history, which involved the controversial MJ-12 papers, are discussed, in relation to how the debate over their legitimacy has helped foment further advocacy for a conspiratorial nature to the broader UFO phenomenon:
In the years since the MJ-12 papers became widely known, they have taken on a life of their own. Additional, related documents periodically appear, some as recently as 1998. Just as with the Kennedy assassination, MJ-12 has generated a cottage industry of commentators, authenticators, and critics. More broadly, MJ-12 laid the foundation for elaborate conspiracy theories by suggesting that UFOs were of extraterrestrial origin, that the federal government was aware of them as early as the late 1940s, and that a secret bureaucracy had been created to study and control the situation. These claims allowed some ufologists to shift from observation of flying saucers to attempts to unravel alleged government machinations. The proliferation of MJ-12 documents and theories not only identified the enemy as a segment of the government, but— inasmuch as this “secret government” was supposed to have hidden all relevant information— allowed great latitude in what might be “revealed.” It mattered little whether publicly available evidence confirmed a claim; its author could always respond, “The government knows it, but won’t tell you.”
Perhaps it could be argued, without sensationalism, or even the insinuation of “fringe” ideas, that publicly available evidence does exist which seems to confirm — if not that UFOs as an extraterrestrial or other exotic technology do exist — that government agencies have at very least maintained an interest in the subject.
In many cases, this interest likely has had more to do with how belief in the subject might be controlled or influenced. For instance, if we accept the most widely-agreed upon explanation for the aforementioned MJ-12 affair — one in which the papers were determined to be forgeries aimed at misleading elements within the UFO community — it would certainly seem that we do not, therefore, acknowledge that the majority of the ideas expressed within the documents were legitimate. Nonetheless, if we recognize the broader context in which the alleged “leak” of those papers occurred, involving numerous similar UFO misinformation campaigns directed at notable researchers within the community, we do begin to see that government agencies played a clear role in the affair. More specifically, Richard Doty, who had been an AFOSI Special Agent at the time, had worked to assist with the careful presentation of information pertaining to UFOs to researchers that included Paul Bennewitz and a number of others, aimed at misleading and, thus, discrediting them.
Former AFOSI Special Agent Richard Doty
What I’ve presented here might be viewed as a justification, by some, for belief in conspiracies among the UFO community. To the contrary, this argument merely illustrates the way the “conspiracy theory” terminology and its related stereotypes have helped marginalize the UFO advocacy groups over time, despite the fact that historical precedent exists for actual “UFO conspiracies”, and even some degree of government involvement in them. However, it could be further argued that in a broader assessment of UFOs, a general belief in conspiracies among its proponents does not render any significant benefits.
Because of this, I have long argued the necessity for a more scientific and, when warranted, skeptical outlook on the phenomenon, applied by independent researchers and investigative organizations alike. In my recent essay, “Toward a Better UFOlogy: Applying Science to the Study of UAP“, I presented a number of reasons why the research community might benefit from less focus or adherence to the idea (or politcal movement, essentially) of UFO disclosure; in equal measure, I present a newly updated system of classifications for various UFO types, and finally, a set of “filters” for helping identify various unidentified flying objects, with the aim of being able to help observers make reasonable identifications of various conventional aircraft, objects, and natural phenomena that often lead to UFO reports. In my view, the proper ability to assess information in the truly “unidentified” UFO reports would help reduce our data set to a much smaller number of reports; the very best of these may then begin to represent a much clearer picture of what some UFO technologies (if they are indeed technological) actually are.
In the end, if we are to ask whether UFOs are a matter of science, or one of pure conspiracy, there may not be any pure distinction. The UFO subject is inevitably linked to conspiracies, both of the real kind, and of the variety implied through popular terminology. However, despite the persistence of conspiracies in relation to all this, in order to reliably move forward in our understanding of this subject is to attempt to apply science to it; while UFOs may never fully escape the stigmas of fringe belief, they nonetheless represent a subject that could benefit from, and perhaps even be beneficial to, science.
Right now, I have a new book out titled Women in Black: The Creepy Companions of the Mysterious M.I.B. It’s a book which, as the title suggests, tells a very strange and at times even disturbing story. It is a story that has pretty much consistently stayed under the radar of the UFO research community. This is hardly surprising, however, taking into consideration the fact that reports of the WIB are so often overlooked, or deliberately ignored, by saucer-sleuths. There is a very good reason why such a situation has occurred. For many people within Ufology, if it’s not good old “nuts and bolts” Ufology – of the kind that got Donald Keyhoe so excited decades ago – they don’t want to know about it. Much like those many dedicated Bigfoot-seekers who have no time for the weirder side of Sasquatch.
The Women in Black are clearly not a part of that aforementioned “nuts and bolts” domain. They’re much weirder – even though there is an undeniable connection to the UFO puzzle. Which, of course, raises big questions about the true nature of the UFO phenomenon. Just like their male, black-clad counterparts, the WIB are not the employees – or the “secret agents” – of any arm of government, of the military, or of the intelligence community. Indeed, just about all of the presently available data suggests they aren’t even human.
As I note in my book, none other than the recently departed Albert Bender – who, in near single-handed fashion brought the Men in Black mystery to life in the early 1950s – was exposed to the Women in Black enigma roughly a decade and a half before he had his own chilling encounters with the MIB. As I also note in the book, there’s no doubt that the Woman in Black and the MIB of the Bender family were connected. The link practically jumps out. The WIB connection to the so-called “Contactee” movement of the 1950s also comes to light – providing that one knows where to look for it.
In the 1960s, John Keel – of The Mothman Prophecies fame – came to realize that the Men in Black had their female equivalents, and he even incurred their ominous wrath. And their unsettling manipulation, too. By the 1970s, things got decidedly weird. Black-wig-wearing, pale-faced women were knocking on doors and terrifying those they visited, silencing UFO witnesses, and asking crazy questions.
And, as with the MIB, the Women in Black are always looking to spread their wings. We’re talking about WIBs silencing seekers of cryptozoological creatures, threatening those that delve into the world of the occult, and monitoring those investigating so-called “animal mutilations.” Then, there’s what is quite possibly the most alarming part of all. We’re talking about people quickly falling sick after encountering the Women in Black. No, I don’t mean the likes of panic-attacks or sleepless nights.
Rather, I mean serious physical illnesses – as if the WIB have the ability to somehow supernaturally “infect” us. Controversial? Of course! But, everything about the Women in Black is controversial – such as their sometimes-reported plastic-like skin, their uncanny knack of seemingly controlling the minds of the poor souls they target, and their “here one second and gone the next second” abilities.
Should you ever receive a late-night, slow knock on the front-door, be careful. Verycareful. Inviting one of the Women in Black into your home may not be a wise move. In fact, it may be just about the biggest mistake possible.
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Schok: Topwetenschapper zegt definitief bewijs te hebben dat God bestaat
Schok: Topwetenschapper zegt definitief bewijs te hebben dat God bestaat
De wereldberoemde futurist en theoretisch natuurkundige Michio Kaku heeft voor een schok gezorgd in de wetenschappelijke wereld. In een recent opgedoken video zegt Kaku, die meer dan 70 artikelen publiceerde in wetenschappelijke tijdschriften, bewijs te hebben voor het bestaan van God. Dat meldt nieuwssite WND.
In het filmpje dat hij enige tijd geleden maakte voor Big Think zegt de wetenschapper dat hij gelooft dat God achter het universum zit. “Ik heb geconcludeerd dat we in een wereld leven met regels die geschapen zijn door een universele intelligentie,” zegt Kaku in de video.
11-dimensionale hyperruimte
“Voor mij is het duidelijk dat we leven in een wereld die wordt gestuurd door bepaalde natuurwetten die zijn opgesteld en geschapen door een universele intelligentie, en niet door toeval,” zegt hij verder.
“De eindconclusie kan luiden dat God een wiskundige is,” aldus Kaku. “Het brein van God, zo geloven we, is als kosmische muziek. Als muziek van violen die resoneren naar een 11-dimensionale hyperruimte.”
Matrix
De wetenschapper zegt onlangs bewijs te hebben gevonden dat er een hoger wezen is, dat hij omschrijft als een kracht ‘die alles aanstuurt’. Kaku, één van de ontwikkelaars van de revolutionaire snaartheorie, zegt dat een theoretisch deeltje genaamd tachyon kan worden gebruikt om het bestaan van God te bewijzen.
Een tachyon is een exotisch hypothetisch deeltje dat sneller gaat dan het licht. Na een aantal tests stelde de professor van het City College of New York vast dat we in een soort ‘Matrix’ leven.
A British witness at Maidstone reported watching and photographing a triangle UFO during a multi-UFO sighting, according to testimony in Case 76186 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness Image 1.
(Credit: MUFON)
The reporting witness and her 17-year-old daughter were sitting inside with the blinds open at 9:30 a.m. on May 4, 2016, when the daughter asked about an object in the sky she was seeing.
“There was a black triangle hovering in the sky,” the witness stated.“We didn’t take our eyes off it. Very slowly it moved to the north. After approximately 10 minutes and to the left of it a black orb appeared. There was another object just below and to the right of the orb that looked like a line and seemed to follow the orb.”
Cropped and enlarged version of witness Image 2.
But then the orb changed shape.
“Very slowly the orb changed shape and became another black triangle. We could no longer see the ‘line ‘ and by now the first triangle had moved out of sight as our view was obstructed by a building. The second triangle was stationary to begin with then very slowly moved north as the first one had. Eventually we couldn’t see it.”
Cropped and enlarged version of witness Image 3.
The witness described the orb.
“When it was an orb it seemed to come closer and get bigger before it turned into a triangle. There were no lights. I couldn’t hear any noise, but my hearing is not as sharp as it used to be and my daughter is adamant there was a humming noise. From the position of the objects it looked as if they were over a nearby motorway. A plane went past at one point, much higher than the triangle and with lights, where what we saw had none. When the object was stationary it was moving very slightly from side-to-side. It all lasted approximately one hour.”
Cropped and enlarged version of witness Image 4.
The witness ruled out known objects.
Cropped and enlarged version of witness Image 4.
“As we watched we spoke to each other about what it could be. It certainly wasn’t a plane, helicopter or balloon. We’re certain what we saw was nothing manmade or natural. We felt like we didn’t want it to leave.”
River Medway, Maidstone.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Maidstone is the county town of Kent, England, 32 miles southeast of London, population 113,137. British National Director Jack Turnbull investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
UFO Near Passenger Jet In Australia On June 12, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Near Passenger Jet In Australia On June 12, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: June 12, 2016 Location of sighting: Mudgee, Australia This is an awesome video of a UFO that was seen over Australia, checking out a jet.ColourUFO of Youtube did use a special camera...a Sony SCR-TRV 530, and his infrared filter would see any cloaked ship, because sunlight hits all things. Infrared is invisible to the eye, but this filter and camera allows you to see objects normally hidden. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
ColourUFO states: The camera was using. SONY. D C R- T R V 530.Digital camera with I R.850. Infra red Optical filter fitted.
UFO Appears To Fly 50 to 100 Times Faster Than Any Terrestrial Flying Objects
UFO Appears To Fly 50 to 100 Times Faster Than Any Terrestrial Flying Objects
A flight tracker app spotted a bizarre object and showed it (object) hurtling across the ocean. The mysterious aerial thing, according to conspiracy theorists, flew 50 to 100 times faster than a typical aircraft over Australia.
The so-called evidence shows dozens of different aeroplanes in the area.
It shows several airplanes operating in New South Wales, Australia.
However, the object in question seems to travel much faster than the other aircraft.
Additionally, a New Zealand news website also claimed traffic cameras in Australia captured the UFO speeding from the ocean across the skyline of the city.
The images were apparently captured on May 6, 2016. The video, which was uploaded to YouTube, has now been viewed over 200,000 times.
However, a lot of viewers appear less convinced about the authenticity of the footage.
One YouTube user wrote that a tracker app like it uses Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B). The user explained that the transponder was on the aircraft for it to show up, making the unknown object a terrestrial one.
While many doubt the clip, others are convinced it shows something strange, saying that UFOs are becoming the worst kept secret in the world.
Telescopes May Ride Giant Balloons to Better See the Stars
Telescopes May Ride Giant Balloons to Better See the Stars
By Kasandra Brabaw, Space.com Contributor |
A space-based version of the Large Balloon Reflector could be used to float a 20- to 30-meter (66 to 98 feet) telescope, the Terahertz Space Telescope, into space to investigate the evolution of the universe.
Credit: Christopher Walker
A giant balloon could forever change the way astronomers look at the stars.
Technology under development by a 2014 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts award winner aims to raise a telescope directly into space, nestled inside a balloon the size of a football field.
Christopher Walker, an astronomy professor and professor of optical sciences and electrical engineering at the University of Arizona, won Phase 2 funding from the program two years ago and is now seeing his concept come to life.
He calls it LBR, for large balloon reflector. The balloon would consist of an inflatable, half-aluminized spherical reflector inside a much larger stratospheric balloon. The outer balloon would also act as protection for the telescope once in position outside Earth's atmosphere.
Walker said he hopes to launch the balloon to about 120,000 feet (37,000 meters) above Earth. When looking up, it would act as a particularly powerful telescope, free from almost 99 percent of the atmospheric absorption that keeps telescopes on Earth from seeing certain wavelengths of light, Walker said. That would allow the telescope to scan the universe in far infrared. Measuring those wavelengths could help scientists not only see stars that already exist, but also pinpoint where new stars are likely to form, NASA officials said in a statement.
This version of the Large Balloon Reflector would fly high in the stratosphere.
Credit: Christopher Walker
LBR could serve as more than a telescope as well. When the balloon is looking down, it could sense changes in the Earth's atmosphere and greenhouse gases and eventually become a hub for telecommunication, Walker said.
Now, Walker and his team are working on a space-based version of LBR, which he's calling the Terahertz Space Telescope (TST). TST would monitor space for the formation and evolution of galaxies. Once in space, the instrument would shed the large outer balloon and leave the balloon's spherical reflector.
"You're not fighting gravity to make it spherical," Walker said in the statement. "It makes it structurally easier to achieve very high tolerance of 'sphere-isity.' In space, the sphere can be radiatively cooled to very low temperatures, allowing a better view of the distant universe."
As of now, though, TST is still just a concept and needs more development to determine whether it's feasible both technologically and economically.
"It's a tough road ahead, but we'll keep pushing forward," Walker said. "I'm hopeful I can get people motivated and excited about the concept … to think outside the box."
Black holes and wormholes are the ultimate fodder for science fiction. Need to travel through time? No problem! Build a wormhole. Want to see a different universe? Dive into a black hole!
Though these imaginings are often far-fetched and, let's face it, likely impossible, most are based on real theoretical physics ideas and, in new research focused on the nature of space-time inside a black hole, theorists have come up with a possible means of zipping around time and space... though it certainly wouldn't be comfortable.
A black hole is as gravitationally extreme as it can get. Throw together enough matter in the same place and its mutual gravity will crush everything down to a single point until space-time itself collapses in on itself. Everything we know and love occupies space-time, so as it becomes warped around a black hole nothing, not even light, can escape its gravitational clutches. The point of no escape (where the gradient of space-time is so steep it traps light) is known as the event horizon.
For the most part, we have no experience of what goes on beyond the event horizon, it is off-limits to external observers. But theory says that for the black hole to exist, there needs to be a singularity in the center. A singularity is basically where math (and, by extension, nature) breaks down; it's where the cosmic calculator divided by zero and got infinity. This cosmic computing mistake is hidden in the depths of the event horizon -- if we can't experience it, does it really matter what it is?
WATCH VIDEO: The Race To See The Black Hole At The Center Of Our Galaxy
According to a team of physicists led by Diego Rubiera-Garcia of the University of Lisbon, Portugal, actually the weird physics of a black hole's singularity could turn our "classical" idea about black holes on its head. What if general relativity breaks down and the singularity isn't a singularity at all? What if we replace the singularity with a wormhole? Suddenly, instead of being the ultimate trash compactors of the universe, black holes become the ultimate sci-fi dream: they could be space-time transportation hubs.
But, as is the case with most black hole stories, there's a catch.
In previous calculations, Rubiera-Garcia's team created a theoretical model of a black hole without a singularity. To their surprise, in the singularity's place, a finite-sized and spherical wormhole structure appeared. This is very important; it seems that instead of spitting out a confounding singularity, the math naturally creates a wormhole.
Before we can understand why this is important, we first have to consider why singularities are a thorn in the side of theorists and sci-fi writers alike. It is predicted that as an object (or unfortunate astronaut) falls into a black hole, tidal forces will be so extreme that "spaghettification" becomes a thing. The tidal forces at the astronaut's toes would be much larger than what they'd feel at their head. They'd experience crushing forces from the sides, but extreme stretching between their toes and head. The best way to imagine it is to think about making spaghetti, only with the human body instead of pasta.
Should our stretched astronaut reach the singularity, they'd be infinitely long and infinitely thin -- a situation that doesn't make much sense.
But swap an infinitely tiny singularity with a finite-sized wormhole and things get a lot more interesting. Wormholes are a mathematical consequence of Einstein's general relativity, but we have yet to find any evidence they actually exist. If they do exist, they would be made of a tube of spacetime, opening a passageway to another location or time (as space and time are intimately linked) in the universe. As the "neck" of the wormhole's opening is finite, there's none of this mathematical singularity nonsense messing with our astronaut. Sure, he or she would still be spaghettified, but they'd be more of a linguine than a spaghetti. So, hypothetically, their extremely tidally deformed body could pass through the neck of the wormhole.
"Each particle of the observer follows a geodesic line determined by the gravitational field," said Rubiera-Garcia in a statement. "Each geodesic feels a slightly different gravitational force, but the interactions among the constituents of the body could nonetheless sustain the body."
In the paper published in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, the researchers do point out that this wormhole isn't a "traditionally traversable" wormhole, so it's not the kind of wormhole that you could fit a stonking great spaceship through and expect it to resemble a spaceship on the other side. It would be microscopic and not traversable by macroscopic objects, but it would be a wormhole nonetheless.
Needless to say, this work is steeped in theoretical number-crunching and it's hard to see how we could prove there's a wormhole sitting in the centers of black holes except, perhaps, to do a Matthew McConaughey and find out for ourselves.
'Star Trek' Dating Service Lets You Look for Love in the Final Frontier
'Star Trek' Dating Service Lets You Look for Love in the Final Frontier
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
The USS Enterprise adorns the wedding cake of TrekDating.com founder Jonathan Bird, who met his wife (also a "Star Trek" fan) on his own website.
Credit: Jonathan Bird
If you're looking for the perfect redshirt to snuggle with under a USS Enterprise blanket while watching "Star Trek" reruns, you're in luck.
Single Trekkies of all sexual orientations can beam up their profiles on TrekDating.com, a site established in 2013 when founder Jonathan Bird was looking for love himself. It worked, by the way. He and wife Dawn met on the website just two days after she joined. (Jonathan Bird said the marriage is still going well, even though Dawn doesn't speak Klingon.)
"A few years ago, I wanted to teach myself code," Bird told Space.com via email. "I'd already opened a few dating sites but never built them from scratch myself. I knew I'd have to build something that kept me interested; after all, it's the only way to learn. So, being a Trekkie myself, I figured, Why not TrekDating.com?"
Millions of users have already signed up, Bird said. But he's anticipating an even bigger surge in traffic now that the "Star Trek" franchise has hit its 50th anniversary. (The original TV series debuted in 1966.) In the last year alone, TrekDating.com has added nearly 100,000 members, most of whom hail from the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia, Bird said.
The U.K.-based website is part of a growing group of dating sites and services that cater specifically to fans of comics, science fiction and fantasy. Many comic conventions offer a speed dating service to attendees, for example. Other options are also available online, such as StarTrekDating.com, Trek Passions and Trekkie Dating.
"TrekDating.com shows no signs of slowing down," Bird said. "Our plan is simple: Continue to support the fans and give them a safe place to meet. Because without them, the site won't boldly go anywhere."
A weird UFO that produced a really loud sound scared a mother and daughter when they saw the mysterious object in the sky over a busy road on a windy day in Australia. They managed to capture the enigmatic unidentified flying object on video.
The footage, which was taken in the city of Melbourne, was posted online and has gone viral, with many UFO seekers and alien enthusiasts insisting this is final proof that intelligent beings not from our planet have visited us.
However, we hear about ‘final proof’ at least once a week, then the claims are heard no more, and the public’s gaze is directed to the next mysterious object, which nine times out of ten is another example of ‘final proof’.
The UFO was seen while a mother and daughter were driving along a motorway in Melbourne, Australia. SecureTeam10 has asked other potential witnesses to contact them.
(Image: YouTube)
A mother was driving with her daughter as passenger last Tuesday when they saw the diamond-shaped UFO up in the sky.
UFO did not look man-made
According to SecureTeam10, an organisation that claims to receive hundreds and hundreds of UFO sightings, sifts through them and posts the most interesting or seemingly authentic ones online, the mother and daughter said the mysterious objects ‘did not look like anything man-made’.
he video narrator, SecureTeam10’s Tyler Glockner, started off with the following comment:
“The next piece of video is going to blow your mind, and I’m at a loss for words as to what it is.”
The footage begins with the camera looking through the front windscreen of a car in what looks like a busy motorway.
Tyler explained:
“They saw this strange, triangular UFO – it also looks more like a rectangle, I don’t know, but it has a very odd shape. They said it did not look like anything man-made, it wasn’t a plane, obviously, it wasn’t a drone, kite or anything like that because they said it was extremely windy out.”
Tyler explains that the witnesses said ‘it was windy out’. However, in the video, the trees do not move at all – not even a tiny little bit. That does not make sense.
(Image: YouTube)
According to Tyler, a drone or kite would not hover motionless up in the air on a very windy day. However, I saw absolutely no sign of any wind at all when I looked at the tall trees next to the motorway – the trees did not sway, not even a little bit.
The UFO was described as moving at its own pace before disappearing behind some trees and a wall next to the motorway.
A diamond-shaped object is clearly visible on the video, up in the sky beyond the trees. Tyler is sure, after carefully examining to film, that it was not a smudge on the glass.
The mother said the UFO was making a ‘really loud sound – a very odd loud sound’.
At Market Business News, we suspect that SecureTeam10 consists of just one person – Tyler. I have seen many of their videos, and have only ever heard his voice on it.
Viewer responses
Comments ranged from expressions of ridicule, amazement to jokes and humour.
One person, who uses the name The LEGO Work Shop, wrote:
“Aliens are such attention whores…always flying around in hopes of getting on YouYube.”
Some people suggested that if the aliens really wanted fame on Earth, they should consider landing their craft, coming out and talking to us. Kat Holiday did not think this would be a good idea, and wrote:
“Hey! We all wanna keep away from ending up like the Kardashians!”
Like me, a viewer – Steven Mactavish – also wondered how the trees could be completely still on a very windy day. He wrote:
“Extremely windy -> trees standing still :D. The trees don’t even sway.”
Some viewers noticed that Tyler initially said he was ‘at a loss for words’, and then talked non-stop for 11 minutes.
Several people though it might be Uranus, twin weather balloons caught in an updraft, or a large cardboard box caught in the wind.
One viewer – Latrine67 – wrote:
“There are definitely two other smaller similarly weirdly coloured things that kinda pop briefly into view, it does look like it might be something blowing in the wind at least the smaller pieces while they’re visible looks like it’s getting blown around, but the other smaller things seem to appear and disappear out of nowhere.”
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Pourquoi nous devrions transformer des astéroïdes en vaisseaux spatiaux autonomes
Pourquoi nous devrions transformer des astéroïdes en vaisseaux spatiaux autonomes
Voyager plus loin, plus longtemps, en brisant les dernières frontières qui nous séparent de l’inconnu : telle est la vision de la société Made In Space, basée en Californie,...
Made in Space
Voyager plus loin, plus longtemps, en brisant les dernières frontières qui nous séparent de l’inconnu : telle est la vision de la société Made In Space, basée en Californie, qui a récemment obtenu un financement de la NASA pour étudier la manière de transformer des astéroïdes géants en vaisseaux spatiaux mécaniques et autonomes.
L’idée semble romanesque, elle fait pourtant son chemin. Pour preuve, le projet baptisé RAMA (Reconstituting Asteroids into Mechanical Automata) vient de jouir d’une jolie subvention (100 000 dollars) du programme de la NASA Innovative Concepts avancés (NIAC), qui vise à encourager le développement de technologies visant à l’exploration spatiale. Leur idée : étudier la manière de transformer des astéroïdes géants en vaisseaux spatiaux mécaniques et autonomes, dans le but de transporter des fournitures et autres matériaux pour les avant-postes qui pourraient être placés dans les limites du système solaire, voire même au-delà.
« Aujourd’hui, nous avons la capacité d’apporter des ressources de la Terre dans l’espace » concède volontiersJason Dunn, co-fondateur et directeur de la technologie chez Made In Space. « Mais quand nous arrivons à un point de basculement où nous avons besoin de nouvelles ressources dans l’ espace, tout devient alors beaucoup plus compliqué » explique-t-il.
À cette problématique se greffe une idée : s’atteler aux astéroïdes, prélever des roches, puis utiliser cette matière première pour construire des systèmes de propulsion, de navigation, de stockage d’énergie et autres systèmes clés directement sur place grâce à l’impression 3D. L’homme sait de quoi il parle ; Made In Space possède une expertise d’impression 3D considérable. C’est d’ailleurs sa société qui a construit les deux dernières imprimantes installées à bord de la Station spatiale internationale.
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Transformés en vaisseaux spatiaux autonomes, les astéroïdes pourraient alors être programmés pour se rendre à une station minière située dans l’espace Terre-lune, ou partout ailleurs où ils seraient nécessaires. Une approche beaucoup plus efficace que les lancements onéreux et systématiques de nouvelles sondes. Les astéroïdes ainsi convertis ne ressembleraient en rien à l’idée du traditionnel vaisseau spatial, équipé de moteurs de fusée et de circuits électroniques complexes. Au contraire, tout serait ici mécanique et relativement primitif.
« L’ordinateur serait analogique, semblable, peut-être, au mécanisme d’Anticythère inventé par les Grecs anciens pour tracer le mouvement des corps célestes« , explique Dunn. « Le système de propulsion pourrait être une sorte de catapulte contrôlée, propulsant ainsi la roche de l’espace dans la direction opposée (comme décrit par la troisième loi du mouvement de Newton), a-t-il ajouté.
Concernant les échéances d’un tel programme, toute discussion est pour le moment spéculative. Le chercheur estime néanmoins que l’effort pourrait nécessiter 20 ans ou plus. Si tel est le cas, la première embarcation de semences pourrait décoller à la fin des années 2030.
Residents claim UFO sighting in touristic Turkish district
Residents claim UFO sighting in touristic Turkish district
Several people in the touristic district of Bodrum in the southern province of Muğla claim to have seen an illuminated object moving erratically in the sky, stirring speculation about a possible “UFO” sighting. A number of residents of the district’s Çiftlik neighborhood said the object they saw was both moving and staying still.
The alleged object was spotted during sahur, the meal before dawn during Ramadan, creating excitement in the district, as the residents claimed the object remained in the sky for 20 minutes.
“When we got up for sahur, we went to the terrace of the house. I always look at the sky and watch the stars. I was shocked to see an object that I’ve never seen before shining in sudden movements and changing its color, while it stayed still sometimes,” said Necla Karaca, 39, who witnessed and took photos of the “UFO,” while adding that the “weirdly moving” object didn’t look like a plane.
“Our neighbors and relatives also witnessed this. We got excited and became suspicious of the object being an UFO,” she added.
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Yes, There Have Been Aliens
Yes, There Have Been Aliens
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CreditGérard DuBois
LAST month astronomers from theKepler spacecraft team announced the discovery of 1,284 new planets, all orbiting stars outside our solar system. The total number of such “exoplanets” confirmed via Kepler and other methods now stands at more than 3,000.
This represents a revolution in planetary knowledge. A decade or so ago the discovery of even a single new exoplanet was big news. Not anymore. Improvements in astronomical observation technology have moved us from retail to wholesale planet discovery. We now know, for example, that every star in the sky likely hosts at least one planet.
But planets are only the beginning of the story. What everyone wants to know is whether any of these worlds has aliens living on it. Does our newfound knowledge of planets bring us any closer to answering that question?
A little bit, actually, yes. In a paper published in the May issue of the journal Astrobiology, the astronomer Woodruff Sullivan and I show that while we do not know if any advanced extraterrestrial civilizations currently exist in our galaxy, we now have enough information to conclude that they almost certainly existed at some point in cosmic history.
Among scientists, the probability of the existence of an alien society with which we might make contact is discussed in terms of something called the Drake equation. In 1961, the National Academy of Sciences asked the astronomer Frank Drake to host a scientific meeting on the possibilities of “interstellar communication.” Since the odds of contact with alien life depended on how many advanced extraterrestrial civilizations existed in the galaxy, Drake identified seven factors on which that number would depend, and incorporated them into an equation.
The first factor was the number of stars born each year. The second was the fraction of stars that had planets. After that came the number of planets per star that traveled in orbits in the right locations for life to form (assuming life requires liquid water). The next factor was the fraction of such planets where life actually got started. Then came factors for the fraction of life-bearing planets on which intelligence and advanced civilizations (meaning radio signal-emitting) evolved. The final factor was the average lifetime of a technological civilization.
Drake’s equation was not like Einstein’s E=mc2. It was not a statement of a universal law. It was a mechanism for fostering organized discussion, a way of understanding what we needed to know to answer the question about alien civilizations. In 1961, only the first factor — the number of stars born each year — was understood. And that level of ignorance remained until very recently.
That’s why discussions of extraterrestrial civilizations, no matter how learned, have historically boiled down to mere expressions of hope or pessimism. What, for example, is the fraction of planets that form life? Optimists might marshal sophisticated molecular biological models to argue for a large fraction. Pessimists then cite their own scientific data to argue for a fraction closer to 0. But with only one example of a life-bearing planet (ours), it’s hard to know who is right.
Or consider the average lifetime of a civilization. Humans have been using radio technology for only about 100 years. How much longer will our civilization last? A thousand more years? A hundred thousand more? Ten million more? If the average lifetime for a civilization is short, the galaxy is likely to be unpopulated most of the time. Once again, however, with only one example to draw from, it’s back to a battle between pessimists and optimists.
But our new planetary knowledge has removed some of the uncertainty from this debate. Three of the seven terms in Drake’s equation are now known. We know the number of stars born each year. We know that the percentage of stars hosting planets is about 100. And we also know that about 20 to 25 percent of those planets are in the right place for life to form. This puts us in a position, for the first time, to say something definitive about extraterrestrial civilizations — if we ask the right question.
In our recent paper, Professor Sullivan and I did this by shifting the focus of Drake’s equation. Instead of asking how many civilizations currently exist, we asked what the probability is that ours is the only technological civilization that has ever appeared. By asking this question, we could bypass the factor about the average lifetime of a civilization. This left us with only three unknown factors, which we combined into one “biotechnical” probability: the likelihood of the creation of life, intelligent life and technological capacity.
You might assume this probability is low, and thus the chances remain small that another technological civilization arose. But what our calculation revealed is that even if this probability is assumed to be extremely low, the odds that we are not the first technological civilization are actually high. Specifically, unless the probability for evolving a civilization on a habitable-zone planet is less than one in 10 billion trillion, then we are not the first.
To give some context for that figure: In previous discussions of the Drake equation, a probability for civilizations to form of one in 10 billion per planet was considered highly pessimistic. According to our finding, even if you grant that level of pessimism, a trillion civilizations still would have appeared over the course of cosmic history.
In other words, given what we now know about the number and orbital positions of the galaxy’s planets, the degree of pessimism required to doubt the existence, at some point in time, of an advanced extraterrestrial civilization borders on the irrational.
In science an important step forward can be finding a question that can be answered with the data at hand. Our paper did just this. As for the big question — whether any other civilizations currently exist — we may have to wait a long while for relevant data. But we should not underestimate how far we have come in a short time.
The topic of Unidentified Flying Objects is one that’s currently gripping the attention of many, so much so that it looks like the United States will be releasing some of its UFO files in the near future, according to longtime White House insider John Podesta, Hillary Clinton, and several other sources from where the ‘official’ announcement will most likely come. Although it’s hard to expect any sort of full truth about this topic to be fully disclosed in the mainstream, ‘official’ files from several different governments and intelligence agencies from around the world already confirm the existence of UFOs (links below), so don’t get your hopes up for any type of new information that another country hasn’t already disclosed, but who knows?
You can read more about ‘official government disclosure’ and what we have to be cautious of i it does ever happen in an article published earlier this month, here.
It’s interesting that this topic is getting so much attention right now in the mainstream, especially with Hillary Clinton making her comments about it as of late (article on that linked above). That being said, as mentioned above, it’s important to recognize that we’ve been ‘bamboozled’ by the government and corporate media for so long, with so many different examples ranging from the war on terror to the war on drugs, that it’s hard to expect any type of honest revelation about what’s really going on. For anybody who has researched the topic of UFOs in depth, it’s quite clear that this issue goes well beyond government parameters. It appears, to me at least, that politicians are simply told what to say on most topics; they too have ‘bosses’ and those they take instruction from. So, keep that in mind when the government decides to disclose the ‘truth.’
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 (source)(source)
Although the files (of which there are thousands) that have been made available for public viewing d0 contain some eye-opening details, most notably objects of unknown origin performing maneuvers and travelling at speeds no known aircraft can, they contain no hard evidence that states the objects are extraterrestrial in origin, but, there is, as former NASA astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor Brian O’leary puts it, “abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time.” (source)
If you’d like to see some of these files, you can read THIS article—it’s heavily sourced and includes a number of examples of what happens when the military tracks a UFO on radar. Yes, the military tracks UFOs on radar, and the objects are also confirmed by the pilots who are sent to take a closer look. Official pictures have also been released; here’s one of many examples in Canada. Not only are they tracked on radar, but they disrupt critical instrumentation and communications within our military jets.
Dr. Jacques Vallee, notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA, and for his work at SRI International on the network information centre for ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, also published a paper in the Journal of Scientific Explorationtitled “Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases Of Unexplained Ariel Objects With Defined Luminosity Characteristics.” (source)(source) This also details other phenomenon associated with this craft.
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 the CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, 1960 (source, NY Times)
What’s the point? The point is that UFOs have been confirmed as real by these previously classified files, as well as by hundreds of military personnel of every rank over the past few years. Some of the cases described in these files are truly amazing, and now that thousands of them have been officially declassified, the people involved in these incidents have no more fear of coming forward and sharing their stories.
For a quick 10 minute summary video to get you up to speed on the topic, you can watch THIS clip taken from a Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, given in front of several former U.S. congresspeople, by people from within the military realms, political realms, and the world of academia.
Before going into the story below, it’s important for readers to recognize the ‘seriousness’ of this issue and the concerns that people are having, and have had for years.
One of these people is a now retired Navy commander pilot Graham Bethune who held a top-secret clearance. He was a VIP Plane Commander who flew most of the high-ranking officers and civilians from Washington, DC. In his testimony below, he explains how he was flying a group of VIPs and other pilots into Argentia, Newfoundland, when every single person on the plane witnessed a 300 foot object that traveled 10,000 feet straight up in a fraction of a second toward their plane. As you can see from the video below, he has documented the event extensively.
Below are some very interesting quotes taken from the interview. The interview was conducted by Dr. Steven Greer, founder of the Disclosure Project, which has interviewed hundreds of military personnel of all ranks.
To access the official files pertaining to this particular case, you can visit the government’s ‘Project Bluebook’ files to read them. You can find those links and the files for this case at the National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomenon.
And I was flying at that time, Admiral McCormick who had relieved Eisenhower. Admiral McCormick was the NATO commander…(15:44) There was quite a few that knew about this so this is where I learned a lot that really was not official.
I do know that we did bring some of the craft back from Germany after World War II.
Then we knew that it was a friendly encounter, we knew it knew we were there, we knew it came out to see us. We watched it for a while.
Since then I’ve learned from the boys upstairs why we saw different colours as it was coming toward us. The colours were around the perimeter. And it turned from a yellow to an orange to almost a fiery red and then almost a purplish-red. And they said that that had to do with the amount of energy being used or dissipated. It had to do with the UFO power settings. When it slowed down, close to us, in a fraction of a second, it was back to the yellow range. And it was foggy around it or a plasma mist.
On the flight line where we parked our plane, most of the time, we weren’t too far from what looked like a hangar. Every time my boss and I went by there, he could not understand why I was not interested in going and looking at what was behind the metal wall…And he told basically that they had a craft back there and he told me basically that they did have bodies there…
The last quote you see above the video is one example of why the extraterrestrial hypothesis as an explanation for some of these UFOs existing. Sure, we have files that basically confirm the existence of UFOs, but the extraterrestrial part comes from stories like this one. Another example is former Canadian Defence Minister Paul Hellyer, who told the world that visitors from other planets have been coming here for years, and that global militaries are aware of this (source). The 6th man to walk on the Moon, the late Dr. Edgar Mitchell, told us that “yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered” and that he happens to be “privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.” (source)(source)(source)
The list literally goes on and on of why the extraterrestrial hypothesis exists, another great example comes from a school in Zimbabwe, where more than 60 school children witnessed a large craft landing and intelligent humanoids around it. You can read more details about that case here.
The evidence to examine the UFO topic, and the extraterrestrial hypothesis, is huge, and would take thousands of pages to present.
Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, ETs, etc…They are visiting Earth NOW; this is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking. – Theodor C. Loder III, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire (source)
Again, to access the official files pertaining to this particular case, you can visit the government’s ‘Project Bluebook’ files to read them. You can find those links and the files for this case at theNational Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomenon.
This is a topic that will leave no aspect of humanity untouched. From science, history to technology and consciousness. This is a major paradigm shift moment for our species, and it’s only a matter of time.
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New Study Achieves Breakthrough in Antimatter Research
New Study Achieves Breakthrough in Antimatter Research
Researchers from the international ALPHA Collaboration just published a paper that has been heralded as a “breakthrough in antimatter research.” Published in the journal, Nature, the outcome of research focus on the properties of antihydrogen. Through their work, the team has enhanced our measurements of the charge of this material by a factor of around 20. This lets us to better comprehend the nature of anitmatter, and the more precise measurements could eventually help us answer some of the most important questions plaguing modern physics. Case in point, one of the most longstanding questions in the study of antimatter (and physics in general) is based on the supposition that the Big Bang generated matter and antimatter in equal amounts. If this is certainly the case, and it appears that it is, then why is there presently so much more matter than antimatter in the cosmos? Where did all the antimatter go?”
Understanding Charges
According to our understanding of the rules of physics, every particle of matter should have an oppositely charged antiparticle with equal mass. But it appears that the “rules” may be slightly different than we expected. According to Dr. Andrea Capra, “we take the charge of matter and antimatter for granted, though, you cannot analyze data or make an experiment assuming it’s true.” To that end, if we want to understand what caused the loss of antimatter in our cosmos, then we need to have a firm understanding of the charge of antimatter. So, what do the new findings reveal? They don’t explain why there is so much missing antimatter, but they do help us better comprehend what didn’t cause the scales to tip in favor of matter.. “That means the electrical charge of antihydrogen – the antimatter analogue of hydrogen – can be ruled out as the answer to the antimatter question,” clarifies York University Professor Scott Menary, an ALPHA member.
A view from the Experimental Zone floor of the ALPHA-2 Cryostat . Image Credit: Robert Thompson, ALPHA-2 member, University of Calgary
Piece of the puzzle
However, we don’t have a final answer, the results do add a piece to the overall puzzle. Furthermore, this was just the first experiment that was performed using the upgraded “ALPHA-2” system, whose biggest component (the cooling cryostat) lent itself to the creation of the stable cryogenic environment that permitted for the higher trapping rate of the technology—and this first experiment was extraordinarily successful, giving us exactly the information that we hoped to gain. The success of this experiment now prompts the ALPHA Collaboration team to begin working on answer other antimatter questions. “We will now look at the other pieces of the puzzle, such as the color of the light discharged by antihydrogen, and test whether hydrogen and antihydrogen produce light in the same way,” says Capra. “We are also working on measuring the gravitational acceleration of antihydrogen and finding whether matter and antimatter have the same gravitational behavior. The next several years are going to be very exciting.” And hopefully, they will give us ideas regarding the final solution to the missing antimatter.
Mysterious Object is 570 Billion Times Brighter than the Sun
Mysterious Object is 570 Billion Times Brighter than the Sun
Billions of light years away, there is a huge ball of hot gas that is brighter than hundreds of billions of suns. It is hard to visualize something so bright. So what is it? Astrophysicists are not really sure, but they have a couple theories. They think it may be a very infrequent type of supernova — called a magnetar — but one so powerful that it pushes the energy limits of physics, or in other words, the most powerful supernova ever seen as of today. This object is so luminous that astrophysicists are having a really hard time finding a way to describe it. “If it truly is a magnetar, it's as if nature took everything we know about magnetars and turned it up to 11,” said Krzysztof Stanek, professor of astronomy at Ohio State University and the team's co-principal investigator, comedically suggesting it is off the charts on a scale of 1 to 10.
The object was first detected by the All Sky Automated Survey of Supernovae (ASAS-SN or “assassin”), which is a small network of telescopes used to find bright objects in the cosmos. Although this object is extremely bright, it still can’t be observed by the naked eye as it is 3.8 billion light years away. ASAS-SN, since it started in 2014, has found nearly 250 supernovae, though this finding, ASASSN-15lh, stands out because of its sheer magnitude. It is 200 times more powerful than the average supernova, 570 billion times brighter than the sun, and 20 times brighter than all the stars in the Milky Way Galaxy combined. “We have to ask, how is that even possible?” said Stanek. “It takes a lot of energy to shine that bright, and that energy has to come from somewhere.”
Todd Thompson, professor of astronomy at Ohio State, has one probable explanation. The supernova could have produced a very rare type of star called a millisecond magnetar — a swiftly spinning and very dense star with a crazy strong magnetic field. This is how crazy magnetars are: to shine as bright as it does, this magnetar would have to spin at least 1,000 times a second, and change all of that rotational energy to light with almost much 100% efficiency — making it the most thrilling example of a magnetar that is physically possible.
“Given those constraints,” Thompson said, “will we ever see anything more luminous than this? If it truly is a magnetar, then the answer is basically no.” Over the coming months, the Hubble Space Telescope will try to solve this enigma by giving astrophysicists time to see the host galaxy surrounding this object. The team may find that this bright object lies in the very center of a large galaxy — meaning the object is not a magnetar at all — and the gas around it is actually evidence of a supermassive black hole. If that is the case, then the bright light could be explained by a new kind of event, said study co-author Christopher Kochanek, professor of astronomy at Ohio State. It would be something that has never, ever been seen before at the center of a galaxy.
Whether it is a magnetar, a supermassive black hole, or something else entirely, the results are probably going to lead to new thinking about how objects form in the universe.
GROTE VLOOT RUIMTESCHEPEN PASSEERT DE AARDE ( VIDEO )
GROTE VLOOT RUIMTESCHEPEN PASSEERT DE AARDE ( VIDEO )
We leven in vreemde tijden, waarbij veel mensen voelen dat er dingen staan te gebeuren en waar de aarde zich op alle fronten roert.
Niet alleen gebeuren er op aarde opzienbarende dingen, het is ook heel druk in de ruimte.
Afgelopen weken schreven we regelmatig over vreemde voorgevoelens en/of dromen die mensen hebben over de toekomst en in één van die artikelen kwam het volgende voor:
Afgelopen maandag klonk er in de middag een keiharde knal. Ik schrok me echt een hoedje en mijn dieren eveneens. Ik liep naar buiten en meteen klonken er 2 korte harde knallen achter elkaar.
Het leek vanuit de lucht te komen. 's Avonds kreeg ik mijn overbuurman op visite en die vertelde over de knallen. Hij stond op dat moment met meerdere mensen op de parkeerplaats van een supermarkt en iedereen keek omhoog. Ik ben woonachtig te Friesland, nabij Heerenveen. Weten jullie of er meerderen zijn die deze knallen hebben gehoord die misschien weten wat het geweest zou kunnen zijn?
Dit werd uiteraard in de media afgedaan als vliegtuigen die door de geluidsbarrière gaan, maar daarop schrijft een lezer (dank!) het volgende:
Ik was ook maandag buiten met mn vrouw en kinderen, we waren net allemaal terug van de kinderen van school halen, en opeens, rond 15:45 in die buurt was het, misschien 5 minuten eerder, was er een doffe klap te horen, vervolgens begon er wat te trillen, toen was t even stil, met meteen erachteraan nog een GIGANTISCHE klap, met enorme trillingen tot gevolg.
De paniek sloeg wel toe bij ons allen, en wij vroegen ons onmiddellijk af: Aardbeving??? Aangezien wij in het aardbevingsgebied wonen, Siddeburen, Gemeente Slochteren, is dat geen rare gedachte.
Ik dacht meteen: Ik zal eens kijken of er meer mensen zijn die dit gehoord hebben, dus ik plaatste snel even wat op Facebook(dan is zo'n medium wel handig).
Toen ik kort erop in huis ging om eens te kijken op Facebook naar meerdere meldingen, zag ik dat er een reactie was die op twitter allerlei meldingen had binnengekregen in de omtrek van waar de knallen op dat moment gehoord waren.
Roden, Groningen, Westerbroek, Slochteren, Siddeburen, Noordbroek, dat was op dat moment al een groot gebied.
Al snel keek ik ook eens op twitter, en toen bleek dat de vliegbasis Volkel oefeningen zou hebben die dag. toen werd bekend dat er een vliegtuig (boeing 737-800) boven de Nederlandse/Duitse grens geen radioverbinding had, en dus moest er een QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) uitgevoerd worden door 2 F16's. Die zouden door de geluidsbarrière zijn gevlogen, en ze zouden het contact via gebaren met de piloot hersteld hebben.
ECHTER!!! ik heb mn sterke twijfels bij dit verhaal.
Wanneer er 2 F16's naar dezelfde plek moeten, en die gaan door de geluidsbarrière, hoe komt het dan dat de ene knal harder klinkt dan de andere?
De geluidssnelheidsgrens zal dan doorbroken worden, maar de knal blijft toch hetzelfde? De tweede knal was echt gigantisch.
Hoe kan je nou via gebaren(er was geen radiocontact), in een vliegtuig zorgen dat de ander weer verbinding krijgt? Dit is praktisch onmogelijk, want je vliegt met enkele honderden kilometers per uur, en je kan niet dicht op elkaar vliegen, want de gevolgen zouden catastrofaal zijn.
Wanneer je Vliegbasis Volkel vraagt om iets simpels als het vluchtnummer van het radioloze vliegtuig word er gewoon niet geantwoord, dat vind ik ook nogal raar.
Een oude vriendin van mij woont niet ver van de basis af, en die hoort altijd alle vliegtuigen die er overkomen, dus zeker een F16, en die heeft die middag geen F16 gezien, of gehoord.
Mijn conclusie is dus: Er waren geen F16's, er was geen Boeing 737-800 zonder radiocontact.
De mensen worden wederom met een simpel verhaal als bovenstaand afgescheept, en men gelooft het gewoon, want het klinkt geloofwaardig, en dan zie je het weer....Vergelijkingen met 9/11(vliegtuigen) je moet geen 2e 11 september willen....en al dat soort opmerkingen.
Er is iets gebeurd met die knallen wat niemand mag weten, en ik weet zeker dat een F16 die door een geluidsbarrière gaat, never nooit zo'n gigantische oppervlakte zal halen waar de knallen te horen waren. Ga uit van ongeveer heel Prov. Groningen, en een deel van Drenthe, en aangezien de lezer uit Friesland het gehoord heeft, dan weet je wel genoeg.
Mijn gevoel zegt dat er iets gevaarlijks aan de hand is, misschien wel iets met de pole-shift.
Leuk weetje nog: het was maandag 6 juni 2016, zet dat om in getallen: 06-06-16, en neem van alle 3 de laatste: 666, UITGEREKEND op die dag 2 knallen...Toeval??? Nee, geloof ik niks van.
Bovenstaand verhaal past ook weer bij een andere gebeurtenis die is vastgelegd door de inmiddels bekende Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1.
De man ziet via de SOHO ruimtetelescoop een enorme vloot UFO’s voorbij komen waarvan hij zegt:
“Ze vliegen in formaties van kleine groepen, wat er misschien op wijst dat het militaire schepen zijn. Ik heb teveel UFO-vloten gezien om niet te weten dat deze echt is”.
Ook een andere ufoloog, Scott Waring, is onder de indruk van de beelden en hij zegt ook duizenden beelden van de zon gezien te hebben via SOHO, maar nog nooit iets dergelijks.
Hij zegt dat het feit dat het hier een vloot betreft geen goed teken. Een vloot van dergelijke omvang die de aarde passeert is een teken dat er iets bijzonders aan de hand is.
Naar schatting bestaat de vloot uit zo’n 80 tot 100 schepen en de grote vraag is natuurlijk wat ze hier te zoeken hebben op dit moment.
Wordt er misschien dan inderdaad in de achtergrond een massale evacuatie van de aarde voorbereid?
VIDEO: Toont foto van Mars een schedel van een alien?
VIDEO: Toont foto van Mars een schedel van een alien?
Op een NASA-foto is een voorwerp op het Marsoppervlak te zien dat doet denken aan een schedel. De foto heeft de aandacht getrokken van het Amerikaanse nieuwsmagazine Inside Edition.
De afbeelding, die door Marsrover Curiosity naar de aarde is gestuurd, is het onderwerp van een video van een onderzoeksgroep waarin close-up beelden van het curieuze voorwerp op de planeet worden getoond.
Is het een schedel? En zo ja, van wie is de schedel? Of van wat? Paranormal Crucible schreef: “Vreemd artefact gevonden door de rover, lijkt op een grote schedel van een alien, kan het gaan om resten van een Sasquatch of een bizar Marswezen?”
Sinds augustus 2012, toen Curiosity landde op de rode planeet, komen er geregeld foto’s voorbij van vreemde dingen op Mars. Ze variëren van primitieve voorwerpen – zoals stukken metaal en vreemd gevormde stenen – tot kleine dieren en vrouwelijke figuren.
NASA was niet gelijk bereikbaar voor commentaar, aldus het magazine.
UFO Recorded By Google Car Mapping Argentina, June 12, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Recorded By Google Car Mapping Argentina, June 12, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: June 12, 2016 Location of discovery: El Cholar, Argentina Google coordinates:37°26'35.60"S 70°39'13.09"W
This was sent into me yesterday by a reader of UFO Sightings Daily. He said he found a an object on Google Earth in Argentina that he wanted me to take a look at, because it had a disk shape. When I checked out the coordinates he gave me, I found that the UFO was visible 4 times. The first three times its seen far away, but still a disk shape...tilted. The fourth and final time its extremely close and tilted again. Its also tilted, which is what Bob Lazar (Area S4 scientist) says that disks need to do to move from place to place. It also has an antenna sticking out of it, this shows us the direction its moving, the antenna seems to be bent the opposite way. Purpose may be for magnetic energy waves it harness to hover. This is a very old and secluded area. I see brick buildings that were made in the 1800s nearby, with very few farms ever few miles. This is the perfect location of UFOs to do research on humans or other creatures and not be noticed. Absolute proof of UFOs existing and aliens observing humans from a distance. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Scary black ring UFO above Disneyland, Families Panic, April 27, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Scary black ring UFO above Disneyland, Families Panic, April 27, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 27, 2016 Location of sighting: Disney Land, California, USA Ring UFOs are super rare, but they have been seen a lot. This UFO is over Disney Land and causes the family to worry about an alien invasion. However since this is over a theme park, its possible that one of the rides may have caused it. For Instance, there is a World of Color Celebrate show in Disney California Adventure. During the Star Wars and Finale unit there a flamethrower that shoots up to 150 feet which caused a huge smoke fire ring effect in the air. It also could have been a transformer blowing out. However, such UFOs have been recorded by the US Army back in 1957 during the Ft Belvoir case. Click to view. No way to be certain either way, but awesome the object was caught on video, which shows its moment. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: No idea what this could be... Walking up main Street at Disneyland, following the parade. Everyone around me starts looking up and pointing at this daunting black ring floating methodically above us. It was a windy night, couldn't have been a smoke ring. Everyone watched it in fear/confusion. I half expected an alien portal to open up through this ring as we were gazing up in disbelief... The strangest thing I've ever seen. I yanked my phone out to record as soon as I saw this thing, then immediately uploaded to YouTube. This is raw footage, apologize for shakiness.
Space Station On Alert Keeping Close Eye On UFO, June 13, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Space Station On Alert Keeping Close Eye On UFO, June 13, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Above is altered screenshot, below is original screenshot.
Date of sighting: June 13, 2016 Location of sighting: Earths Orbit Source: NASA Space Station Live Internet Cam While watching the space station cam I noticed that the HD cam was observing unusually close, zoomed in on an area of the Earth directly below it. Then I noticed a disk shaped object that had matched speed with the space station. The ISS travels at about 17,150 miles per hour or 5 miles per second, so yeah...that UFO is moving. Also whenever this UFO passed through the white clouds, the UFO became more visible, until the end of the video when it disappeared below the clouds. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
This Day In UFO History; Aliens Seen Through Windows of UFO In Medellin, Spain On June 14, 1974. UFO Sighting News.
This Day In UFO History; Aliens Seen Through Windows of UFO In Medellin, Spain On June 14, 1974. UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 14, 1974 Location of sighting: Medellin, Spain
The month of June delivered yet another "animals" case. It was distributed in the Madrid evening paper Pueblo of June 22, composed by a columnist by name of J.M. Amilibia. Sr. Guerard includes that Sr. Amilibia has some expertise in writing about UFO sightings for Pueblo, and appears to be straightforward and earnest. He likewise kept in touch with the witness, however did not expect an answer, since he is a basic laborer and will be unable to compose. This was the daily paper report:
"Santiago Pulido Romero, 46, wedded, the father of six youngsters, conceived in and an occupant of Medellin (Badajoz), a sunburned and climate beaten outside man, is the observer in an incredible story, which he energetically advises to both doubters and devotees alike. Santiago isn't troubled by open mocking, and on the off chance that you let him know he's insane, he wouldn't fret. He truly couldn't care less, in light of the fact that he himself would have giggled only a couple days back on the off chance that another person had recounted to him the same story that he now tells.
He recounted to me his story on the spot where it occurred. Before us, we can see the Castle of Medellin, on top of a meseta, an imperative milestone in our history, where Calderon de la Barca composed his well known work 'Life is yet a Dream.' We are presently in a mud shaded field; to our privilege is a bunch of trees.
"The undertaking occurred at 5.30 a.m. on June 14, 1974, and as indicated by Santiago, this basic man who is totally adjusted, and would appear to be unequipped for such development, says: 'That morning (it was still dim), I was heading off to my dad's ranch, and on passing that bunch of trees, I was hit in the eyes by a solid light. I saw an entertaining looking contraption flying at a low level, somewhere in the range of 100 meters over the ground, I assume. It was going at an inconceivable pace, as quick as my sight could tail it. It was on one side of the stronghold, and as it was by all accounts coming towards me. I turned out to be frightened to the point that I imagined that I'd hop out of my skin. At that point I exchanged off my auto lights and proceeded in second apparatus, going moderate. I was shaking everywhere. Tune in! You can't envision what a huge impression a thing like that makes on a man! I'd simply jump at the chance to see another man in my shoes at once like that to perceive how he'd act! The thing is that this mechanical assembly tailed me for around 70 meters to my right side, and when I got to that slope over yonder, 1 exchanged the lights of my auto back on, and the contraption came towards me again at fast yet just to blur off when I turned out the lights. I got to the homestead and saw that it stayed close to the entryway, around 100 meters off the ground, moving upwards and downwards now and again. My first believed was to secure myself up in the house, and I did only this. At that point, subsequent to having recouped a bit, I turned out with a pitchfork close by, just in case...you can envision how startled I was; to such an extent, truth be told, that I was considering taking to the mountains where I know a couple of good spots to stow away out..."
"Despite everything he demonstrates the remaining parts of that frenzy on his face. Santiago talks flawlessly plainly, letting us know what he saw, orderly. On occasion, he shakes with feeling as the chill of apprehension helps him to remember the experience...
"When I left the house, it was stopping over the ranch. The light it radiated was intense to the point that it looked like daytime. It was exactly then that I got centering my headlights on it keeping in mind the end goal to see what was going on. At that point the thing set out toward me like a bat out of damnation; I turned out the lights again and it stayed calm for a minute and afterward started to climb and down."
"How did the device move?" I asked him.
"At rapid and turning in the same spot, in spite of the fact that now and again, it crisscrossed or stayed still, or influenced like a pendulum of a clock. For a minute it would resemble a star, and afterward, in the following minute, it was in that spot close to me. Now and again it appeared to me to move like a hurricane, you know what I mean? — like a fantastic maelstrom...Well, it's simply that I haven't the capacity to clarify it; words come up short me!"
"What shape would you say it was?"
"Round on the base and with a kind of cone-formed tower on top. The round part was straightforward and an awesome yellow light originated from inside it. The tower shone and resembled a metal structure."
"You say it was straightforward. Did you see anything inside when it gravitated toward to you?"
"Yes. I could see three men plainly. Three extremely tall men, more than two meters tall, who appeared to clutch some kind of control levers, and they were wearing some kind of caps on their heads. They were holding up. Tune in, man, this was truly something to see!"
"How enormous do you think the thing was?'
"The round part was around 20 meters in distance across; the tower, around 10 meters high."
"Did it make any unique sort of sound?'
"No. It moved in complete hush."
"To what extent did you watch it from the ranch?'
"Well, I'd say until the sun started to go down, around sevenish. It was then that it took off towards Villaneuva at a huge rate. At the point when my youngsters touched base at the homestead, I was still gray, as while as a ghost...If I live to be a thousand, I'll always remember that experience! Never, never, never. I swear that it was a horrible thing. You and all the rest can trust me or not, it's all the same to me. I know it is valid and that is the only thing that is in any way important. I was constantly exceptionally suspicious about such things; I used to imagine that they were the innovations of idlers and visionaries, only a considerable measure of garbage. In any case, now 1 realize that there's something to it."
"What do you think it is?'
"Creatures from different universes. What I saw, that device thing, is not from this world on the grounds that there can't be anything even comparative. All things considered, at any rate, this is the thing that I believe...because I never saw any semblance of such."
"What was the nearest you came to it?"
"Around 50 meters. It was dreadful, essentially unnerving. Thus noiseless thus splendid. Presently I've quit leaving the house in the early hours of the morning. Presently I sit tight for the sun to turn out before setting off to the homestead."
"This is the confirmation of Santiago Pulido. Be that as it may, then there were others from Medellin who likewise saw it. For instance, there was a young man, going to Medellin from La Oliva, who saw it from the street, and additionally two occupants of San Benito. They likewise say that two policemen from Medellin told their families that they had seen it as well. At any rate, it is a confirmation worth examining. One more story to add to the greater part of the others..."
What are “UFOs”? Where do they come from? The research provides an exciting new look into this baffling phenomena. The researchers and scientists are coming to the judgment which provides new insight into their mysteries and why thousands of encounters have been reported. Detroit is becoming more and more popular as one of the tourist destinations in the Midwest. Never thought of before as a city that would hold much appeal to anyone but businessmen, Detroit is opening its doors as a location that will keep you entertained for several days. However, Detroit is not only rich in attractions and trades but has also become a hotspot of aliens and extraterrestrials. A woman from Detroit was mistakenly seen as a crazy person when she stands by on her beliefs of seeing a mysterious object hovering in the sky on June 3, Friday.
The encounter took place on the evening when Vanessa Oliver has recorded a footage of what she believes to be a strange unidentified object above her Detroit home, nearby Gratiot Avenue and Van Dyke. In the clip, Oliver claims to have seen the same light hovering in the sky many times before but has finally captured one on a video. As opposed to what she saw, where there are more colorful and detailed lights, she firmly believes that the clip did not do it justice. She even recalled seeing the lights floating and moving around.
If you can remember, many sightings took place around the world. Unfortunately, their encounters remained a mystery. There can now be little question in anyone’s mind that the phenomenon is real. Over the decades, the worldwide has grown their interests in the subject. Wave after wave of flying saucer appearances, alien encounters, cattle mutations, abduction experiences, and crop circles have come and gone. They have baffled the public and scientists alike for many years due to their secrecy.
Low Flying Triangle UFO Visits Indian Land In South Carolina
Low Flying Triangle UFO Visits Indian Land In South Carolina
A large, black triangle UFO was spotted at Indian Land by a South Carolinian witness. It reportedly moved away so quickly, which made the witness upset. He reported his strange experience to Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) and his testimony was filed in Case 76605 in the witness reporting database.
According to the report, he was lying in bed with a headphone listening to music when he noticed a light after looking out a bedroom on May 26, 2016.
The witness claimed to have seen a white light along with red and blue lights blinking on the UFO. He was thinking of a plane, but the object was moving so fast than any other typical planes that he had known. The speed caught his attention, so he got up and ran to the window.
Also unusual to him was the size of the light. It was so big and considering the distance, some detail could be made out if it was a plane, said the witness. The witness just saw the blue and red strobes on the wings, but it was just a ball of light to his view.
The witness observed the unidentified flying object as it moved behind trees, still traveling at very fast speed, and then emerged again from the trees.
He then apparently noticed a smaller white light following the first object at the same rate. Just before the witness lost sight of it, he realized that the two lights were connected and that he was actually looking at a huge, black triangle craft with lights at the points.
He was upset not to get outside to see it because he almost had a panic attack and it was too late for him when he got outside because it was gone.
The witness testimony was filed on May 26, 2016, along with one illustration.
The rise in meteor and asteroid doomsday scenarios lately may have you a bit worried. In fact, there are several near-Earth asteroids within the grasp of our orbit. But us Earthlings may have unlikely friends in the fight to save Earth. It isn’t Russia or China. Definitely not Trump. It is aliens that have taken up arms to help us survive. This may seem like a big steamy pile of s@#t. But a recent YouTube video posted by MLordandGod discusses the odd possibility that aliens are in fact protecting Earth. This could put NASA in a bind. Or NASA may be working with aliens to keep us safe.
Aliens Are Our Friends
Recent footage shown by MLordandGod on YouTube discusses what looks like a meteor exploding over Maine. Before the meteor exploded, a second object was reported entering the Earth’s atmosphere. Many conspiracy theorists have stated that the second object was a UFO. The UFO of aliens shot the meteor into pieces before it impacted Earth. Some UFO enthusiasts also think that aliens have galactic patrols circling Earth. Protecting the planet since they know we have yet to develop the tech to shoot down deadly meteors.
NASA Cover-Up or Alien Partnership?
After the meteor was allegedly shot down by aliens, NASA and other government agencies responded. And the cover-ups began flying. The American Meteor Society stated that the second object in the sky was simply a piece of the larger meteor. Interestingly, this isn’t the first time for such an event. This alien protection was seen across the northeast of the U.S. and Canada. There were roughly 700 reports of the incident. It could be possible that NASA is working with aliens to help protect Earth. This would explain a lot of the recent UFO sightings NASA has also been quickly covering up.
Why is Earth so Important to E.T.?
One question everyone should be asking is why aliens are so hell-bent on protecting Earth? Could they be simply saving us only to harvest humans at a later date? The sci-fi inspired conspiracy theories are endless. The fact that E.T. is saving us and our planet from a mass extinction via meteor could reduce NASA budget increases in the future as well. Who can save us? Where are Elon Musk and SpaceX in such a crisis?
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OSIRIS-REx: de sonde die materiaal van planetoïde Bennu gaat 'stelen'
OSIRIS-REx: de sonde die materiaal van planetoïde Bennu gaat 'stelen'
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Nog iets meer dan drie maanden en dan vertrekt OSIRIS-REx naar de machtig interessante planetoïde Bennu. De opdracht: materiaal van de planetoïde ‘pakken’ en terugbrengen op aarde.
OSIRIS-REx is een acronym dat staat voor Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer. Een mondvol en dat hoef je ook niet te onthouden. Het belangrijkste om te weten is dat OSIRIS-REx een prachtige missie belooft te worden die het meer dan waard is om op de voet te worden gevolgd. Dat hopen wij natuurlijk te gaan doen, maar eerst blikken we vooruit. Hoe steekt OSIRIS-REx in elkaar? En wat gaat de sonde precies doen?
OSIRIS REx arriveert bij Bennu.
Afbeelding: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab.
Bennu Zoals het er nu naar uitziet, wordt OSIRIS-REx op 8 september gelanceerd. De bestemming? Bennu: een planetoïde die één keer in de zes jaar bij de aarde in de buurt komt. De planetoïde is zo’n 510 meter groot en haast zich met een gemiddelde snelheid van ongeveer 100.000 kilometer per uur door de ruimte. De planetoïde heeft zo’n 1,2 jaar nodig om een rondje rond de zon te voltooien en doet er 4,3 uur over om een rondje om de eigen as te draaien. En..ook niet onbelangrijk: er is een gerede kans (ongeveer 1 op 2500, voor zover we nu weten) dat de planetoïde aan het eind van de 22e eeuw de aarde raakt.
Primitieve planetoïde Je ziet: we weten al aardig wat over deze planetoïde. En toch stuurt NASA er een ruimtesonde op af. Waarom? Bennu is een zogenoemde ‘primitieve planetoïde‘. Dat betekent dat deze sinds zijn ontstaan – zo’n 4,5 miljard jaar geleden – eigenlijk heel weinig veranderd is. Onderzoekers hopen dan ook dat deze planetoïde ons veel meer kan vertellen over de omstandigheden in het jonge zonnestelsel. Ze zijn met name nieuwsgierig welke organische moleculen – stoffen die een bijdrage hebben geleverd aan het ontstaan van het leven op aarde – in de jonge jaren van ons zonnestelsel reeds voorhanden waren. Aangenomen wordt dat planetoïden zoals Bennu deze stoffen bezaten en deze – door op aarde in te slaan – op onze planeet afleverden.
Momenteel wordt OSIRIS-REx nog uitgebreid getest.
Afbeelding: NASA / Dimitri Gerondidakis.
De instrumenten Werk aan de winkel dus voor OSIRIS-REx. Aan boord van de sonde vinden we verschillende instrumenten die een antwoord kunnen bieden op de vele vragen die wetenschappers hebben. Zo zijn aan boord van OSIRIS-REx onder meer drie camera’s te vinden. Daarnaast bevindt zich aan boord een instrument dat OLA (OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter) wordt genoemd. Dit instrument kan met behulp van laserpulsen de exacte afstand tussen OSIRIS-REx en Bennu bepalen en zo bijdragen aan topografische kaarten van de planetoïde. Daarnaast zijn er nog drie instrumenten aan boord te vinden die onder meer in staat zijn om mineralen te detecteren en identificeren.
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OSIRIS-REx wordt op 8 september gelanceerd en moet in augustus 2018 bij Bennu arriveren. In oktober 2018 start de sonde dan met het bestuderen van Bennu. Een belangrijk onderzoeksdoel is het kiezen van een plekje waar materiaal van het oppervlak kan worden verwijderd. In 2019 moet de sonde dan daadwerkelijk wat oppervlaktemateriaal van Bennu opnemen. In 2021 verlaat OSIRIS-REx Bennu en keert terug naar de aarde. In 2023 komt OSIRIS-REx bij de aarde in de buurt en zal deze de ruimtecapsule met daarin het verzamelde oppervlaktemateriaal richting de aarde sturen. OSIRIS-REx keert zelf niet terug naar onze planeet, maar zal zich in een stabiele baan rondom de zon nestelen.
De arm Maar misschien wel het meest interessante onderdeel van OSIRIS-REx is TAGSAM (Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism). Het is een arm die aan OSIRIS-REx bevestigd zit. Op een bepaald moment in de missie is het namelijk de bedoeling dat de ruimtesonde materiaal van het oppervlak van Bennu verzamelt. Om dat te doen, zal de sonde de planetoïde tot op zo’n 5 meter afstand naderen en TAGSAM uitstrekken. De arm moet dan minimaal 60 gram (en maximaal zo’n 2 kilo) materiaal van het oppervlak van Bennu opnemen. Als dat lukt – de arm kan dat in totaal drie keer proberen – dan wordt het verzamelde materiaal opgeslagen in SRC (Sample Return Capsule). Aan het eind van de OSIRIS-REx-missie zal deze ruimtecapsule – met aan boord het verzamelde oppervlaktemateriaal van Bennu – terugkeren naar de aarde. Daar kan het materiaal uitgebreid worden geanalyseerd. Dat neemt naar verwachting zo’n twee jaar in beslag.
Missiedoelen Materiaal van het oppervlak van Bennu halen en terugbrengen naar de aarde is zonder enige twijfel het belangrijkste doel van OSIRIS-REx, maar onderzoekers hopen nog veel meer uit de missie te halen. Zo willen ze dankzij OSIRIS-REx een gedetailleerde topografische kaart van de planetoïde kunnen maken. Daarnaast willen ze achterhalen welke invloed zonne-energie op de baan van de planetoïde heeft (ook wel het Yarkovsky-effect genoemd).
Wanneer OSIRIS REx het oppervlak van Bennu nadert om materiaal van het oppervlak te halen, zullen de zonnepanelen van het ruimtevaartuig een V-vorm aannemen. Dit om te voorkomen dat stof op de zonnepanelen terecht komt.
Afbeelding: NASA / Goddard / Chris Meaney.
ARM De missie kan bovendien gezien worden als een belangrijke leerschool voor toekomstige missies van NASA. Denk dan met name aan ARM (Asteroid Redirect Mission). Tijdens deze missie wil NASA een grote kei van het oppervlak van een planetoïde halen, in een baan rond de maan plaatsen en vervolgens astronauten naar de kei sturen om deze te bestuderen en stukjes ervan naar de aarde te brengen.
Het moge duidelijk zijn: OSIRIS-REx belooft een prachtige missie te worden die een schat aan informatie op kan leveren over het jonge zonnestelsel en de samenstelling van planetoïden en bovendien de opmaat vormt naar zoveel meer. En de missie start dus binnenkort. We kunnen niet wachten!
Charlie Knott and friend (left) with the UFO man and (inset) it inclose up.
Some believe they are proof of aliens on Earth, but in the latest case, there are suggestions a teen may have captured on camera a secret army experiment.
It came after a video showing a mystery "flying man" was captured.
Some commentators have even said the mysterious figure could be wearing some sort of next-generation personalised transportation device such as a jetpack.
The strange object was said to have been spotted flying hundreds of feet above the ground.
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It's happened before: UFO humanoids caught on camera last year.
Amazing video footage showing 2 disc-shaped UFO passing over people on the beach during daytime. On 27 June 2004, Roshnie Naidu observed and video-taped a very bright, colourful light that was suspended near her home in Durban for 3 hours. She was able to alert family members and neighbours to its presence, and observed it changing shape from circular to oval.
In 2009 two formations of high-flying, orange-red objects, were seen by many witnesses, and video-recorded by some, as they travelled between the towns of Middelburg and Witbank, 25 kilometres (16 mi) apart. The first formation of 7 objects were seen at 21:51 on 27 February, as they flew westwards from Middelburg towards Witbank. Due to their altitude they eventually disappeared behind clouds. At 20:00 on 6 March, they were noted again high in the sky, but this time greater in number, 23, and traveling in the opposite direction.
On the evenings of 21 and 22 July 2010, residents of Booysens, Pretoria, observed a triangle of bright lights which hung motionless in the sky for two hours. In each instance the object commenced a slow descent towards the horizon at 20:30. Binocular observation revealed nothing more than a blue and emerald light, with a white light which shone straight downwards.
On the evenings of 11, 20 and 21 May 2011, a host of silent, orange lights with consistent luminosity were observed as they travelled faster than a commercial aeroplane over Tierpoort near Pretoria (some 20 objects) and Krugersdorp respectively. On 15 June seven of these objects were observed and some photographed as they crossed the sky in single file over Tierpoort. At 22:00 on 30 October 2011, a Mr van Greuning photographed two of the five silent fireballs which he observed traveling southwards in low cloud near the town of Harrismith.
A reported UFO was spotted in Cape Town on the evening of 28 November 2015. Social media was abuzz with various reports of what seemed to be a green light over the city.
Neuroscientists working at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) have discovered that the brain of both human and non-human primates is capable of anticipating any new situation that might be encountered in its lifetime by creating a special kind of neural network.
The study, published in the PLOS Computational Biology journal, postulates that primates’ ability to come up with a wide variety of behaviors not anticipated by evolution is in fact a product of connections between neurons that form recurrent loops where inputs can rebound and mix in the network. Such reservoir networks can generate a unique combination of inputs that can then be used to develop the correct behavior for any new situation.
The researchers demonstrated their findings by training a network to perform a novel problem-solving task, and then by comparing the neuron activity in that model with that of a pre-frontal cortex of a primate trained to perform the same task. Needless to say, the comparison revealed striking similarities in the activity of neurons in both instances.
This discovery is an important step in understanding the local recurrent connectivity in the brain which essentially allows primates to tackle unfamiliar tasks.
Further details of Cayce’s life and work are explored in the classic book, There is a River (1942), by Thomas Sugrue, available in hardback, paperback, or audio book versions.
The idea of an alien life form that has been visiting Earth from Arcturus is frequently associated with the writings of Edgar Cayce.
According to Cayce, the Arcturians are a ‘fifth dimensional‘ life-form. They are highly advanced both technically and spiritually.
Since his early writing of this Race of Aliens, Edgar Cayce has been referred to the father of theArcturians.
Today, many people have discovered the different way to communicate with the Arcturian Aliens; however, only one has been deeded the most sure way.
Because Arcturian Aliens exist in different dimensions (not just the fifth dimension) it is now known that to communicate with the higher planes of existence, one must enter into a dream state.
In this dream state many believe that Edgar Cayce entered into direct communication with the ArcturianAliens.
Today many people have claimed to have communicated with the Arcturians. For example, Norma J. Milanovich is the author of the famous book We the Arcturians: A True Experience, which explains the life style and way of life of these benevolent race of Arcturian Aliens.
The Arcturian legacy and mythology continues and although there are many reasons to believe that these aliens are more than just a myth, we continue to explore the possibilities for compelling evidence. Edgar Cayce gave us the doorway to enter into the universe of a vast existence.
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Why alien abductions are down dramatically
Why alien abductions are down dramatically
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A bust of an alien described by Betty Hill sat on her coffee table. Hill and her husband, Barney, said they were abducted in New Hampshire in 1961.
By Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
DENISE STONER WAS 2½ years old the first time she remembers the alien taking her. She was at home in Hartford with her grandfather. Her mother was at the hospital giving birth to her younger sister. She remembers staring out a large picture window and seeing an egg-shaped object in the sky, hovering over some power lines. “What’s Humpty Dumpty doing up in the sky?” she asked. She remembers the fear in her grandfather’s face when he suggested it was time for bed.
Later that night, as she lay staring at her nursery rhyme-themed wallpaper, an entity walked through her wall. “He looked like a monk, he had a robe, and he was carrying a light. I wasn’t afraid of him,” she said. “He put out his other hand for me to take it, and I did. We walked out into the hallway.” The alien pointed his light at the wall, and they disappeared through it; she remembers being in a large, dome-shaped room with a lot of other children, and they seemed to be learning something. In the morning, she was back in her bed.
ince then, she says, she has been taken more than 50 times, from her home, from the street, from her car, the last time only three years ago, driving through the mountains in Colorado. Each time, it’s the same being responsible. “He looks like your typical gray [alien], but he’s one of the tall ones. It’s just the very subtle shape of his face, his chin is a little wider,” she explained. She calls him her escort. “There’s no friendship. . . . He comes to get me, and I know I’m going to be safe,” she said. “He’s also going to oversee whatever is done.”
Stoner, 68, lives in Florida with her husband. Now retired, she works with fellow “experiencers,” people who feel they have had contact with intelligent nonhuman entities. She also conducts investigations on behalf of the Mutual UFO Network, or MUFON. Being an experiencer is very much part of her identity. Her story is coherent, she doesn’t ramble or get lost in the telling.
Do you believe her?
If you said yes, then you might be among the 77 percent of Americans, according to a 2012 National Geographic poll, who believe that aliens have visited Earth, or the 30 percent of Americans who believe that the government has covered up evidence of alien visitation, according to a 2015 YouGov poll. Or maybe it’s happened to you: There are few hard numbers, however, a 2014 survey for a British talk show found that one in 25 respondents believed they’d been abducted by aliens.
Belief that alien life exists on other planets is persuasive, sensible; nearly 80 percent of Americans do believe it, according to a 2015 poll. But belief that the aliens are already here feels like something else, largely because it requires a leap of faith longer than agreeing that the universe is a vast, unknowable place. Abduction and contact stories aren’t quite the fodder for daytime talk show and New York Times bestsellers they were a few decades ago. The Weekly World News is no longer peddling stories about Hillary Clinton’s alien baby at the supermarket checkout line. Today, credulous stories of alien visitation rarely crack the mainstream media, however much they thrive on niche TV channels and Internet forums. But we also still want to believe in accounts that scientists, skeptics, and psychologists say there is no credible evidence to support.
The abduction phenomenon began with strange case ofBetty and Barney Hill. On Sept. 19, 1961, the Hills were driving from Montreal to their home in Portsmouth, N.H. Betty spotted a UFO following them. Barney stopped the car on the highway, near Indian Head in the White Mountains, and got out to look at the craft through binoculars. Seeing humanoid figures in Nazi-like uniforms peering through its windows, he ran back to the car, screaming, “Oh my God, we’re going to be captured!” They drove off, but two hours later, they found themselves 35 miles from the spot where they’d first seen the craft (there is now a commemorative marker at the site), with little memory of how they’d gotten there. Soon after, Betty began having nightmares.
In 1964, the Hills underwent hypnotherapy. Under hypnotic regression — hypnosis with the intent to help a subject recall certain events with more clarity — the couple said that they had actually been pulled on board the vessel by aliens and subjected to invasive experiments. The Hills’ story, revealed to the public in 1965 with an article in the Boston Traveler and a year later in the book “The Interrupted Journey,” launched a flurry of public fascination with abductions.
Barney died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1969, but Betty went on to become a kind of sage of paranormal experiences. Their story became the blueprint for alien abduction experiences in the years that followed, especially after the airing of the 1975 made-for-TV film “The UFO Incident,” starring James Earl Jones as Barney Hill. Subsequent experiencers would describe similar missing time or have bizarre dreams and flashbacks of things they couldn’t understand. Many would use hypnotic regression to recall their experiences.
Over the next two decades, the alien abduction narrative wound its way into the American consciousness, fed by science fiction films like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” and breathless news reports of mysterious incidents. In 1966, a Gallup poll asked Americans if they’d ever seen a UFO; 5 percent said they had, but they meant it in the literal sense of an unidentified flying object — only 7 percent of Americans believed that the UFOs were from outer space. By 1986, a Public Opinion Laboratory poll found that 43 percent of respondents agreed with the statement: “It is likely that some of the UFOs that have been reported are really space vehicles from other civilizations.”
Some experiencers said the aliens were here to save us and study us, some said they were here to harvest our organs and enslave us. But by the late 1980s, people whose stories would have been dismissed as delusional a generation earlier were being interviewed by Oprah and “true stories” of alien experience, such as Whitley Strieber’s “Communion” and Budd Hopkins’s “Intruders,” were bestsellers. By the 1990s, those who believed in the literal truth of alien abduction stories gained an important ally in John Mack, a Harvard professor and psychiatrist who compiled his study of the phenomenon into a 1994 book titled “Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens.” He later told the BBC, “I would never say there are aliens taking people away . . . but I would say there is a compelling, powerful phenomenon here that I can’t account for in any other way.”
“These books sold really, really well, they were on book racks in airports and railway stations. You couldn’t really avoid it,” said Dr. Chris French, head of the anomalistic psychology department at Goldsmiths College in London and author of a study on alien abductees. And it wasn’t just books — one of the most popular television shows of the 1990s was devoted almost entirely to alien conspiracy theory: “The X-Files.” “All of these things influence people’s beliefs about what might be true, what might be plausible,” said French.
Other social currents, some of them peculiarly American, informed these stories and our interest in them. Space exploration in the 1950s and ’60s forced the country to admit that a vast unknown lay beyond our atmosphere — at the same time, the Cold War inspired existential fear of invasion. The 1960s and ’70s were attended by horizon-broadening mysticism, publicized experimentation with drugs — people talked about out-of-body experiences. The 1980s saw an explosion of angst around “stranger danger,” with a near-constant reports of child abduction and sexual molestation, and then, recovered and repressed memory. Alien abduction stories absorbed those strains, re-inventing them as anal probes and sinister hybrid breeding programs.
Meanwhile, psychologists like French were examining alien abduction narratives from a more skeptical perspective. And what they found is that the truth wasn’t so much out there as it was in our heads. “People have weird experiences in all societies, given that our nervous systems are the same the world over,” explained French. “It’s the interpretations that might differ.”
A small but stubborn percentage of alien abduction experiences defy clear scientific explanation, but many of the rest can have a number of different physiological or psychological explanations, including epilepsy, which can be preceded by visual disruptions, narcolepsy, or sleep paralysis.
In normal sleep, your body is relaxed nearly to the point of paralysis, presumably to keep you from acting out your dreams. Sleep paralysis is a disruption of lucid dreaming in which the mind partially wakes but finds that the body has not. It can be terrifying: Individuals report sensing entities in the room with them and being unable to move, pressure on their chests, out-of-body-like sensations coupled with intense, heightened emotions. In the past and in other cultural contexts, this experience was attributed to demons or evil spirits or a religious phenomenon. In America, science fiction was increasingly part of mainstream entertainment, and stories about alien contact experiences were covered as news, so aliens seemed like a plausible explanation for these experiences.
Then there’s the slippery nature of memory itself. The richness of a remembered experience is no guarantee of its objective reality, even less so if that memory was “recalled” through hypnotic regression. Though now largely dismissed by mainstream psychology, hypnotic regression remains popular with experiencers. Psychologists say that discerning true memories of actual events from true memories of imagined events is impossible, especially if the individual was predisposed to believe in paranormal or alien experiences.
Additionally, there’s old-fashioned hallucination. A recent international survey of more than 30,000 people, none of who were diagnosed with schizophrenia or other mental health issues, found that 6 percent of them reported experiencing a hallucination unrelated to drugs, alcohol, or sleep. Finally, Michael Shermer, prominent American skeptic and columnist for Scientific American, notes, “Sometimes people just make stuff up.”
By the end of the 1990s, the alien abduction bubble had burst. Ratings fell for the “The X-Files.” In April 2001, reports (later denied) circulated that the British Flying Saucer Bureau, 1,500 members strong at its peak, was shutting down after a long dry spell of no sightings. Five months later, two planes crashed into the Twin Towers and no one cared about little green men anymore. “X-Files” director Chris Carter, at the 2008 San Diego Comic Con, declared that after 9/11, the mood justwasn’t right anymore. In 2006, Ben Macintyre, columnist for The Times, declared that the Internet had undermined belief in UFOs and alien visitation: “The unidentified flying object has been identified, and cannot fly any more. ET has gone home.” Skepticism, it seemed, had killed the UFO.
Except that it hadn’t. Not really.
David Clarke is a UFO researcher who investigated the British government’s UFO files — a former believer, he’s now a skeptic and author of several books, including “How UFOs Conquered the World.” In his view, the Internet didn’t kill alien belief so much as offer up hundreds of echo chambers for it to thrive in. “I think there are just as many people who believe that these things happen, but I think that they’ve retreated from public view and they just talk to themselves,” said Clarke. “In order for you to be a party to that, you need to buy into that reality.”
Skeptics want to believe that fewer people believe, that more people are aware of explanations like sleep paralysis or false memories. “People are capable of these fantastic experiences without them being real outside of the brain,” said Shermer, adding, too, that the camera-phone age is increasing the burden of evidence on experiencers.
Experiencers want to believe that public skepticism is subsiding. Rosemary Ellen Guiley, a prolific American writer about paranormal and mystical experiences, explained, “More people are willing to talk about their experiences because media has opened the door, because there has been a lot of media attention on all kinds of experiences, positive and negative. . . . This is validating, that they can talk about it and not be ridiculed.”
Yet if periodic polls are any indication, Americans have remained consistent on the subject of aliens for the last three decades. At any given moment, roughly 10 percent of Americans believe they’ve seen a UFO. A Gallup poll from 1990 found that 47 percent of respondents believed UFOs were “real,” as in alien. A 2015 Ipsos poll found that 56 percent of Americans believed in UFOs. American disbelief of the government line on UFOs has also remained steady. In 1996, 71 percent thought the government was hiding something; it was 79 percent in 2012, according to a National Geographic Survey. In other words, more people believe that the US government is covering up evidence of alien life than believe that Jesus is the son of God (a 2013 Harris Poll survey found that 68 percent of respondents believed Christianity’s central tenet). That makes Hillary Clinton’s campaign promise to open up files on Area 51 look all the more canny.
It also points to a strange moment for us humans, for how our understanding of our place in the universe has changed over the last 50 years. “We’ve become more materialistic, scientific, secular, and yet we are exactly the same human beings . . . with the same physiological and psychological makeup. Our brains are hard-wired to believe in something other than ourselves,” said Clarke. “People will carry on believing it because I think it’s just a natural part of what we are.”
On that point, some skeptics and some believers agree. There’s a long history of anomalous experiences attributed to angels, fairies, gods, and monsters — nonhuman contact experiences made to fit a cultural context. Those experiences point to something common in human consciousness. “We have had experiences throughout history that demonstrate that we are connected to something greater than ourselves,” Guiley said.
Or maybe not. In 1979, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet James Merrill published “Mirabell: Books of Number,” a work transcribing the poet’s conversations with spirits using a Ouija board. “If the spirits aren’t external, how astonishing the mediums become!” he said in an interview. The implication is perhaps disappointing — it’s not spirits, it’s not aliens, it’s just us — but also beautiful. And useful. “Investing time and money into why people have these kinds of extraordinary experiences might help us to answer fundamental questions that we don’t have answers for, like why do we have consciousness? I don’t believe in aliens, but I do believe that something unusual is happening to these people and it ought to be studied,” said Clarke.
Solving those riddles takes a lot of serious work, leads to a lot of dead ends, and might not prove satisfying even if we arrive at answers. Which is why, in the end, it may just be easier to attribute to aliens all the many wonderful things that we simply do not understand about the condition of being human.
Linda Rodriguez McRobbie is an American freelance writer living in London.
The MJ-12 documents are an eight-page memo dated November 18, 1952, outlining the establishment of a secret group by outgoing President Harry Truman. The memo was prepared for President-elect Dwight Eisenhower.
The document simply describes the fact that the U.S. government recovered a crashed alien spacecraft and bodies in 1947 outside of Roswell, New Mexico. It also states that another crash occurred in Texas near the Mexican border in 1950. At that time Truman established a group known as Majestic-12, sometimes referred to as MJ-12. The purpose of the group was to determine how to handle the implications of the Roswell incident and the existence of extraterrestrial beings. The original members of the group were the very top people in government and science. Since they have all died and the names may not be familiar to you, a list of who they were and what positions they held is included.
They are the most dramatic UFO documents ever leaked to the public!
Where Did the Documents Come From? The MJ-12 documents were received on a roll of undeveloped 35mm film by UFO researcher Jaime Shandera in 1984. Shandera had earlier worked with a group of military intelligence personnel who referred to themselves as the "Insiders," who had expressed a desire to have the true facts about flying saucers released to the public.
The documents are the first to uncover the true facts of the dramatic UFO/alien body crash recovery that occurred at Roswell. The story of the investigation of the MJ-12 documents alone could fill a book, and did (see below).
Alien crash at Roswell, NM in 1947
The Controversy The MJ-12 documents have undergone intense scrutiny both by people who claim they are genuine and by those who claim they are fake. Complicating matters is the fact that the actual paper documents have never been available for examination. Instead, there are only photos of the documents which Shandera received on a roll of film.
Clearing the Smoke After clearing the smoke, here is what remains: The preponderance of evidence leans heavily towards those who think the documents are genuine. The research on the "real" side is more thorough.
The side arguing that the documents are fake have made several lightweight claims, most of which were easily refuted by research. In fact, the "fake" side, led by known UFO debunker Philip Klass, had to pay off a $1,000 bet when Klass'claims that certain parts of the document were fake were disproved. The check was written out to Stanton Friedman. Friedman has kept copies of the cancelled check, and made them available for all to see.
Here is the key point: Even if the documents had been faked the research into confirming their authenticity led to finding 160 eyewitnesses who saw or handled wreckage or bodies from the crashed flying saucer! Many of these eyewitnesses have signed sworn affidavits. Others have given what amounts to dying declarations, both allowable as evidence in any court of law in the United States. In addition, all their stories fit together like the workings of a fine watch. Their time frames all line up, as do their descriptions. The evidence that the crash at Roswell really did occur is now so overwhelming that the MJ-12 documents are just a confirmation of the event.
The Double Reverse In another effort to authenticate the MJ-12 papers, one researcher used a unique but effective approach. Lee Graham, an aerospace worker, realized that anything stamped "Top Secret" (like the MJ-12 papers) fell under government security regulations; specifically, Department of Defense regulation 5200.1-R, which requires government employees or government-contracted workers to report any leak or breach of security with Top Secret documents. The forging or faking of Top Secret documents is also a violation of this statute.
The FBI Checks Them Out Graham reported the MJ-12 documents as being either stolen or forged. The FBI spent over one year investigating whether these documents were forged or not. The FBI concluded two things:
First, if the MJ-12 papers were forged, it was an incredible forgery, unlike any they had ever seen in the past. The details of the people and events from fifty years ago were absolutely accurate and coincided with their internal documents.
And second, if the documents were real, they could not get any part of the U.S. government to acknowledge that they had lost them.
So, here for your review are the MJ-12 documents. For a complete history of the MJ-12 documents, get Stanton T. Friedman's Final Report on Operation Majestic 12. To see a complete set of the MJ-12 documents, go to the 'Documents' section of this website
The Original Members of Majestic-12
Dr. Lloyd V. Berkener Explorer and scientist, he headed a group that later became the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group. He was also a member of a CIA panel that determined that UFOs did not constitute a threat to U.S. national security. Berkener was the executive director at Carnegie Institute, and was a member of the Joint Research and Development Board in 1946.
Dr. Lloyd Berkener
Dr. Detlev Bronk Physiologist, aviation expert, and prominent member of the National Academy of Science, he served as president of both Johns Hopkins and Rockefeller Universities. He was chairman of the Nuclear Research Committee and the medical advisor for the Atomic Energy Commission. Bronk also served on the Scientific Advisory Committee of Brookhaven National Laboratory where he worked with Dr. Edward Condon (who completed a major UFO study for the Air Force).
Dr. Detlev Bronk
Dr. Vannevar Bush A leader in research and development at MIT and Carnegie Institute, he was at one time the head of each of the following: Office of Scientific Research and Development, the Joint Research and Development Board, and the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. The Office of Scientific Research and Development was responsible for the development of the atomic bomb. Bush also put together the National Defense Research Council in 1941.
Dr. Vannevar Bush
James Forrestal Forrestal was under secretary of the Navy, then secretary of the Navy. He became the first secretary of Defense in 1947, during the time of the Roswell crash. In 1949 he committed a very mysterious suicide. There was talk that he didn't want to hide the truth about flying saucers from the public. His suicide was considered to be just as weird in his day as the Vince Foster suicide was during the Clinton administration.
James Forrestal
Gordon Gray Secretary of the Army, he later held several high security positions under Presidents Truman and Eisenhower. He was also a consultant on UFOs and reported directly to CIA Director Walter B. Smith.
Gordon Gray
Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter He was the first director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Later he became a member of NICAP, the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena. He publicly stated that "UFOs are real É through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense."
Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter
Dr. Jerome Hunsaker Head of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics; chairman of the Departments of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at MIT.
Dr. Jerome Hunsaker
Dr. Donald Menzel Director of the Harvard College Observatory and an expert in cryptoanalysis, the science of breaking codes and deciphering unknown languages and symbols. Menzel was involved in very high-level intelligence operations during and after World War II.
Dr. Donald Menzel
General Robert M. Montegue Head of the Armed Forces Special Weapons Center, he was also an Army general at Fort Bliss and as such had control over the White Sands Nuclear Research facility and the Sandia Atomic Energy Commission facility at Albuquerque, New Mexico during the time of the saucer crash at Roswell.
General Robert Montegue
Admiral Sidney Souers Souers was the first director of Central Intelligence, the precursor to the Central Intelligence Agency. He was also a member of the National Security Council and a special consultant for military intelligence operations.
Admiral Sidney Souers
General Nathan Twining Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force, Twining was also the commander of the Air Materiel Command based at Wright-Patterson Air base, where the debris and bodies from the Roswell crash were taken. Twining was known to have cancelled a scheduled trip on July 8, 1947, just days after the crash at Roswell and the same day Roswell Army Air Base sent out a press release stating that a flying saucer had been recovered. In a now-famous memo, Twining stated that UFOs were very real.
General Nathan Twining
General Hoyt Vandenburg Chief of Staff of the U.S. Air Force and former director of Central Intelligence, he was allegedly in charge of security for the MJ-12 group. Vandenburg Air Force base in California, where the space shuttle often lands, is named after him.
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VIDEO: Deze oud-regeringswetenschapper claimt aan buitenaardse schepen te hebben gewerkt in Area 51
VIDEO: Deze oud-regeringswetenschapper claimt aan buitenaardse schepen te hebben gewerkt in Area 51
Emmy-winnaar George Knapp wordt gezien als de allereerste journalist die schreef over het gebruik van buitenaardse technologie op een geheime basis die inmiddels bekendstaat als Area 51. Tijdens deze lezing gaat hij dieper in op het mysterie rond Area 51, 25 jaar na zijn oorspronkelijke publicatie.
Hij brengt ook nieuwe informatie naar buiten over Bob Lazar, een voormalig regeringswetenschapper die claimt aan buitenaardse ruimteschepen te hebben gewerkt in Area 51. George Knapp werkt voor CBS News in Las Vegas, waar hij veel aanzien geniet.
Knapp won twee keer een Peabody Award en vele Emmy Awards. Area 51 is een militaire basis van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht. In 2013 gaf de CIA geheime documenten vrij waarin de basis als Area 51 wordt beschreven.
Vanwege alle geheimzinnigheid rond de basis in Nevada zijn er allerlei geruchten ontstaan over wat zich daar afspeelt. Zo zou de VS er de wrakstukken bewaren van een UFO die in 1947 bij Roswell zou zijn neergestort. Series als The X-Files vergrootten de bekendheid van de basis.
Area 51 EXPOSED SECRET ALIEN UFO CRAFT!!! DELTA IV BLACK KNIGHT Agenda NROL-37 MISSION! 2016
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Sure you have seen mountains, and volcanos before. You may have even seen the tallest mountain in the world, or been lucky enough to have conquered it with a majestic climb, but have you seen a mountain so high that its bigger than the Earth itself? Thats why I am sharing this with you today. I found this mountain on the sun, thats so big it is slightly bigger than the Earth. I saw this and thought you would like to see it too. It may be a giant UFO leaving the sun, below all that molten material, but we will never know for sure. Still, it puts thinks into perspective a bit, doesn't it? Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
The screenshots above are all untouched and directly from the NASA MSSS link above. Its a bit mind-blowing, but there are lakes on Mars and we now have government evidence to back that up. This is 100% proof that lakes and rivers exist on Mars, which means that fish and water creatures do as well. Water is a main source for animals to exist, so this may also be a big visiting spot from some smaller life forms (remember the Mars rabbit?). It is believed that NASA was not created to help the public to learn whats beyond our world, but instead was created to stifle that with mediocre info leaks, holding the Earth back in its knowledge until NASA deems the world ready. Whatsupinthesky37 is not taking this hands down. He is a warrior of the field of alien research on Mars, and he is already raising the level of awareness of all humanity. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com WhatsUpInTheSky37 States: We now have over 5 or 6 very good shots from the air that seem to show frozen or warm water lakes sitting on the Martian surface. This has never been addressed by NASA since we are still looking for these "miniscule" traces of life and water. I ask you to use your judgement on this one. What does this look like to you?
Past UFO and Crop Circle Clips: Are We Fascinated With Aliens?
Past UFO and Crop Circle Clips: Are We Fascinated With Aliens?
Even in this age, where science and technology have boomed so significantly, the mystery about aliens rests with the anonymous possibilities of knowing them. According to other experts, a lot of us do not even accept that aliens are a detail and not imagination. There are many kinds of stuff about aliens that people think about. However, with the contradicting answers due to the different views, experience, and perceptions of people, everything about them looks to be a complete mystery. When will the mystery uncover itself? As soon as it reveals, will it give you the answers you were looking for?
Much of the fiction genre is covering stories about alien species. Why are aliens so fascinating to writers and readers alike? Well, alien species are blank creatures, we can do with them what we like. This recently discovered video of a strange object caught circling a secluded field might prove that alien theory does exist. The clip was filmed in Wiltshire near Oliver’s Castle. It has a small white dots that appear to be hovering haphazardly above a cornfield. As the objects travel around the field in circular formations, it appears in the corn beneath and suddenly disappear, leaving traces of mystery circles in their wake.
Crop circles have appeared since the 1980s and became the subject of paranormal investigators. While many believe them as a sign that extraterrestrial creatures are communicating the Earth, some scientists discredit this theory. According to a research professor working at the National Institute of Aeronautics and Space, the ‘thing’ cannot be scientifically proven.” Therefore, the mystery runs on. Despite the controversy, the particular video has resurfaced. Whether or not you believe in aliens, the question of their existence still exists. According to a foreign expert, there are over 200 species visiting Earth regularly. Meanwhile, in the North East of England, the sightings have had enthusiasts convinced of their existence.
At a recent Microsoft Developers Build Conference in San Francisco, one presenter discussed how robots are being designed to do human work through the use of machine learning (ML). Take, for instance, lettuce cutting. A new robot from Blueriver Technology, known as LettucBot, uses ML algorithms to cut lettuce precisely. Blueriver’s motto is “smart machines for digital agriculture.”
Robots Handling Vastly More Variables
It’s not that robots are smarter than humans, it’s that they have more capability of handling significantly more variables than humans. Humans handle 10 to 15 variables at a time while ML algorithms handle thousands. What’s more, ML algorithms can be designed to slice and dice information to identify hierarchical layers of information, create outlines, and synthesize this information to make decisions in a split-second or less.
A current trend in robotics known as cobots, where humans and robots work together, is likely to fade into history as ML, AI, and sensor and motion capture camera technology gets better and faster. The ultimate goal is use machine learning to develop cognitive computing systems that will integrate AI and machine learning to perform increasingly humanlike tasks including thinking, planning, and decision-making.
Use of Machine Learning in a Variety of Industries
Already in the investment world, hedge funds including Two Sigma and Renaissance Technologies are using ML and AI to design and manage investment portfolios.
The following video is a speech about ML by Tom Simonite of Google. According to the video description:
Google has deployed practical A.I. throughout its products for the last decade — from Translate, to the Google app, to Photos, to Inbox. The teams continue to make fundamental breakthroughs in machine learning, publishing promising new results at an accelerating pace. Now TensorFlow and Cloud Machine Learning make it even easier for researchers and developers around the world to collaborate. So as we work together to drive machine learning forward, what are the most exciting possibilities? What are the top challenges? And what’s on the horizon? Join Google’s machine learning leads in a discussion with veteran technology editor Tom Simonite as we explore the promise of machine learning.
David Russell Schilling
David enjoys research and writing about cutting edge technologies that hold the promise of improving conditions for all life on planet earth.
The Ehang 184 is designed to carry a 220-pound load, fly under 650 feet in the air, and cruise for 23 minutes at an average speed of 62 mph, according to the specs. Electric charging takes two to four hours. The four-rotor drone also uses an app for takeoff and landing. I picture it being sort of like a pedicab that gets airborne.
Recently the Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development and the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems announced an agreement with EHang to collaborate on flight testing, training, and development at the state's FAA unmanned aircraft systems test site. The goal is for Ehang's drone to ultimately get regulatory approval. The people involved called the agreement "historic," but "futuristic" sounds more accurate to me.
"I personally look forward to the day when drone taxis are part of Nevada's transportation system," Tom Wilczek, an aerospace and defense industry specialist for the Governor's Office of Economic Development, said in a press release.
A specific timeline for testing is still in the works but Ehang expects to begin later this year, theLas Vegas Review-Journal reported. If everything works out, it will be a first for the state and the country. Not that getting regulatory approval will be easy. Plus, there are other challenges like the drone's limited 23-minute cruise time and its lack of manual flight controls should anything go awry. Hrm.
Having driven across Nevada once during a cross-country road trip, I'd gladly hand over the controls to a super-safe drone for that same stretch, though. The road was so straight and the surroundings so sparse that I lost perspective and felt like the car could have been going 100 mph or 10. It all felt like a strange dream.
Here's hoping the Nevada testing involves automatic avoidance capabilities for the Ehang 184. There's weirder stuff in the skies out there.
The Ehang 184 is designed to carry a 220-pound load, fly under 650 feet in the air, and cruise for 23 minutes at an average speed of 62 mph, according to the specs. Electric charging takes two to four hours. The four-rotor drone also uses an app for takeoff and landing. I picture it being sort of like a pedicab that gets airborne.
Recently the Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development and the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems announced an agreement with EHang to collaborate on flight testing, training, and development at the state's FAA unmanned aircraft systems test site. The goal is for Ehang's drone to ultimately get regulatory approval. The people involved called the agreement "historic," but "futuristic" sounds more accurate to me.
"I personally look forward to the day when drone taxis are part of Nevada's transportation system," Tom Wilczek, an aerospace and defense industry specialist for the Governor's Office of Economic Development, said in a press release.
A specific timeline for testing is still in the works but Ehang expects to begin later this year, theLas Vegas Review-Journal reported. If everything works out, it will be a first for the state and the country. Not that getting regulatory approval will be easy. Plus, there are other challenges like the drone's limited 23-minute cruise time and its lack of manual flight controls should anything go awry. Hrm.
Having driven across Nevada once during a cross-country road trip, I'd gladly hand over the controls to a super-safe drone for that same stretch, though. The road was so straight and the surroundings so sparse that I lost perspective and felt like the car could have been going 100 mph or 10. It all felt like a strange dream.
Here's hoping the Nevada testing involves automatic avoidance capabilities for the Ehang 184. There's weirder stuff in the skies out there.
The Ehang 184 is designed to carry a 220-pound load, fly under 650 feet in the air, and cruise for 23 minutes at an average speed of 62 mph, according to the specs. Electric charging takes two to four hours. The four-rotor drone also uses an app for takeoff and landing. I picture it being sort of like a pedicab that gets airborne.
Recently the Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development and the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems announced an agreement with EHang to collaborate on flight testing, training, and development at the state's FAA unmanned aircraft systems test site. The goal is for Ehang's drone to ultimately get regulatory approval. The people involved called the agreement "historic," but "futuristic" sounds more accurate to me.
"I personally look forward to the day when drone taxis are part of Nevada's transportation system," Tom Wilczek, an aerospace and defense industry specialist for the Governor's Office of Economic Development, said in a press release.
A specific timeline for testing is still in the works but Ehang expects to begin later this year, theLas Vegas Review-Journal reported. If everything works out, it will be a first for the state and the country. Not that getting regulatory approval will be easy. Plus, there are other challenges like the drone's limited 23-minute cruise time and its lack of manual flight controls should anything go awry. Hrm.
Having driven across Nevada once during a cross-country road trip, I'd gladly hand over the controls to a super-safe drone for that same stretch, though. The road was so straight and the surroundings so sparse that I lost perspective and felt like the car could have been going 100 mph or 10. It all felt like a strange dream.
Here's hoping the Nevada testing involves automatic avoidance capabilities for the Ehang 184. There's weirder stuff in the skies out there.
The Ehang 184 is designed to carry a 220-pound load, fly under 650 feet in the air, and cruise for 23 minutes at an average speed of 62 mph, according to the specs. Electric charging takes two to four hours. The four-rotor drone also uses an app for takeoff and landing. I picture it being sort of like a pedicab that gets airborne.
Recently the Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development and the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems announced an agreement with EHang to collaborate on flight testing, training, and development at the state's FAA unmanned aircraft systems test site. The goal is for Ehang's drone to ultimately get regulatory approval. The people involved called the agreement "historic," but "futuristic" sounds more accurate to me.
"I personally look forward to the day when drone taxis are part of Nevada's transportation system," Tom Wilczek, an aerospace and defense industry specialist for the Governor's Office of Economic Development, said in a press release.
A specific timeline for testing is still in the works but Ehang expects to begin later this year, theLas Vegas Review-Journal reported. If everything works out, it will be a first for the state and the country. Not that getting regulatory approval will be easy. Plus, there are other challenges like the drone's limited 23-minute cruise time and its lack of manual flight controls should anything go awry. Hrm.
Having driven across Nevada once during a cross-country road trip, I'd gladly hand over the controls to a super-safe drone for that same stretch, though. The road was so straight and the surroundings so sparse that I lost perspective and felt like the car could have been going 100 mph or 10. It all felt like a strange dream.
Here's hoping the Nevada testing involves automatic avoidance capabilities for the Ehang 184. There's weirder stuff in the skies out there.
In special reports, this week’s files cover: General George S. Brown and UFOs, US State Department Cables Warn Do Not Discuss UFOs entering Earth orbit, DSP Satellite FastWalkers (UFOs, Space Fence, UFOs a Threat to Argentina, and Nibiru.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New York, Ohio, Texas, Washington, and West Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Ecuador, Iran, Serbia, Russia, Turkey, 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.
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General George S. Brown and UFOs
“I don’t know whether this story has ever been told or not. They weren’t called UFOs. They were called enemy helicopters. And they were only seen at night and they were only seen in certain places. They were seen up around the DMZ [demilitarized zone] in the early summer of ’68. And this resulted in quite a little battle. And in the course of this, an Australian destroyer took a hit and we never found any enemy, we only found ourselves when this had all been sorted out. And this caused some shooting there, and there was no enemy at all involved but we always reacted, always after dark.” The same thing happened up at Pleiku at the Highlands in ’69.”
General Brown, as USAF Chief of Staff, addressing the appearance of UFOs during the Vietnam War at press conference in Illinois, October 16, 1973.
As Executive Officer he took part in the famous low-level bombing raid against oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania, on August 1st, 1943. The 93rd Group was the second of five B-24 groups which raided Ploesti from a temporary base at Benghazi, Libya. The 93d Group, led by its commander, flew directly into heavy defenses to hit three of the six target refineries. The lead plane and 10 others were shot down or crashed on the target. General Brown, then a major, took over the lead of the battered 93rd and led it back to Benghazi. He received the Distinguished Service Cross for his actions on that mission.
Editor’s Note: As an Intelligence officer, I briefed General Brown in Saigon, Vietnam almost every morning at 7th Air Force Headquarters during 1968. He treated all ranks with respect, and was always friendly even when I was just a Captain. Later, he became Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1978 to 1982 and was well aware of UFOs.
US State Department Cables WarnDo Not Discuss UFOs entering Earth orbit
Gordon James Gianninoto writes, I had brought this up first when Julian Assange mentioned there wereUFOs mentioned in state department official cables. Nothing much has transpired since he admitted he had seen such cables, and that they existed.
Now I learn that our favorite freedom of information activist pursuing the US government documents concerning UFOs, Larry Bryant has identified one such cable dated from November of 2005 in which the US State Department specifically instructed US Embassy personnel in the Ukraine NOT discuss ‘UFOs entering Earth Orbit’, or concerns the Department of Defense has with such matters.
According to the contents of a U. S. State Department “cable” message recently acquired from the Wikileaks… huge cache of such official communications, certain State officials have warned their personnel to refrain from discussing (even among themselves) the reality that planet Earth apparently is being reconnoitered by alien spacecraft (aka UFOs). The document in question, dated Nov. 9, 2005, reportedly was sent to a diplomat at the U. S. embassy in Kiev, Ukraine, stating:
“It is critical all embassy staff understand that they are not to discuss under any circumstance concerns DOD [U. S. Department of Defense] has with UFOs entering orbit, once again the seriousness of this matter cannot be overstated.”
Photo from US Satellite. Hillary ClintonSecretary of State; In office January 21, 2009 – February 1, 2013 … This article is part of a series about Hillary Clinton claims she will look into the UFO situation if elected president. She probably saw similar cables reporting UFOs entering our atmosphere as Secretary of State.
DSP Satellite FastWalkers (UFOs)
The Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite has been detecting FastWalkers (UFOs) entering our atmosphere for decades. The DSP analyzes the temperature, location and trajectory of a hot infrared source could build up both a description of the type of missile as well as its target dramatically reducing the chances of a surprise ICBM attack. The satellite weighed about 2,000 pounds and had a 12-foot long Schmidt infrared telescope with a linear array of 2,048 lead sulfide detectors that detected infrared energy. The satellite rotated six times per minute as the sensor “scanned” the entire face of the Earth. The sensor provided below-the-horizon coverage by spotting the missile’s exhaust plume and carried sensors for detecting nuclear explosions in the atmosphere. The first DSP satellite was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 6, 1970, atop a Titan 3C rocket.
By late June 1973, the four DSP satellites in orbit had detected a total of 1,014 missile launches. They had proven quite successful and had relieved some of the tension that was always present during the Cold War. DSP also presented some surprises to its operators. The satellites began detecting infrared returns within and above the atmosphere that were entering and leaving the atmosphere. Some of these returns were caused by sunlight reflecting off the satellites or meteorites and these events were soon designated “Fast Walkers.“. DSP satellites, which are operated by the Air Force Space Command, detect missile or spacecraftlaunches and nuclear explosions using sensors that detect the infrared emissions from these intense sources of heat. During Desert Storm, for example, DSP was able to detect the launches of Iraqi Scudmissiles and provide timely warnings to civilians and military forces in Israel and Saudi Arabia.
Warrant Officer Joe Stefula reports, “Our DSP satellites track the launch of various missiles using various types of sensors but chiefly with Infrared sensors. In addition to the missiles the sensors also are able to pick up unidentified flying objects that are entering and leaving our atmosphere called Fast.Walkers” UFO buffs were able to correlate ground UFO reports with ascending and descending UFOs
Slower anomalous objects are referred to has Slowwalkers. The DSP satellite system once composed of 18 units in deep space orbit picks up several UFO intruders or “FastWalkers” ascending and descending severaltimes a week. AeroJet General engineer and MUFON member Ron Regehr, helped design the satellites. Insiders report there is a great deal of excitement as the UFOs sometimes trigger the early warning system. Often they are referred to as Uncorrelated Targets indicating they are not in the computer data base for all known objects in space.
Editor’s Note – Uncorrelated targets coming into and leaving the atmosphere are picked up several times a week. Correlated targets are various types of space junk tracked and kept in Air Force computers while uncorrelated targets are unknowns. Our Earth is an oasis in space and UFOs likely stop for resupply, relaxation and recreation.
Space Fence
The People [London] reports, “This is the top secret air force base which a former defense chief believes is used to spy on alien activity above Britain [photo’ shows two radomes positioned close to perimeter fence at RAF Feltwell”
Lord Hill-Norton, chief of the defence staff in the Seventies, is convinced that a United States Air Force squadron in Suffolk [on the Norfolk/Suffolk County border and 70 crow miles NNE of London — G¬] is tracking UFOs which may threaten Earth. “There’s something fishy at the base and I am puzzled,” he told me. “I have asked a number of questions about the base and never get a satisfactory answer.” The Ministry of Defence did admit that RAF Feltwell has a special US unit “Tracking man-made objects in deep space”. But it refused to answer Hill-Norton’s question about how many objects “remain unidentified and how many of these were transmitting a signal” citing the need for secrecy.
A MoD spokesman said: “We are entitled to refuse certain information on topics which we consider to be sensitive.” But he did admit that UFOs would be tracked if they were spotted. “They need to catalogue everything up in space,” he added. Officially, the US 5th Space Surveillance Squadron (5thh SSS) is part of Britain’s early warning system to protect against missile attack from space. But Lord Hill-Norton will not accept that it is there purely to defend us against earthling enemies. “For a start, there are no man-made objects in inter-stellar space. So I want to know what they are really doing. “And I want to know what the Government is doing about the UFO problem. “There are things flying about in our atmosphere and we don’t know what they are, who directs them or what their purpose might be. We ought to know.” Lord Hill-Norton believes that UFOs are the product of “extra-terrestrial intelligence’s”. He added: “There is overwhelming evidence that there are physical objects in Earth’s atmosphere and they are not man-made.” Date: Sept 13, 1998 Thanks to the People.com
Note: The 5 SSS was inactivated in 2003,
The U.S. Air Force selected Lockheed Martin to build a $914 million Space Fence Radar
Lockheed Martin’s Space Fence solution, an advanced ground-based radar system, will enhance the way the U.S. detects catalogs and measures more than 200,000 orbiting objects. With better timeliness and improved surveillance coverage, the system will protect space assets against Lockheed Martin Builds Space Fence
Lockheed Martin is currently developing its technology solution for Space Fence, a program that will revamp the way the U.S. Air Force identifies and potential crashes that can intensify the debris problem in space.
“Space Fence will locate and track space objects with more precision than ever before to help the Air Force transform space situational awareness from being reactive to predictive.”
Lockheed Martin will deliver up to two advanced S-Band phased array radars for the Space Fence program. The Space Fence radar system will greatly improve Space Situational Awareness of the existing Space Surveillance Network.
Construction of the new Space Fence system on Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands began in early 2015 to meet the program’s 2018 initial operational capability goal. With more than 400 operational S-band arrays deployed worldwide, Lockheed Martin is a leader in S-band radar operation. The Lockheed Martin led team, which includes General Dynamics and AMEC, has decades of collective experience in space-related programs.
Headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, Lockheed Martin is a global security and aerospace company that employs approximately 113,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. Website
Data collected from a new space fence’s sensors would potentially feed into the joint space operations center mission system, which is used to track objects orbiting the earth, monitor space weather and assess foreign launches. Used by operators at the 614th Air And Space Operations Center at Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., the 614 aoc’s 24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week support provides vigilance of global and theater operations and equips the joint functional component command for space operations with the tools to conduct command and control of space forces.A new Space Fence is envisioned to be a system of two or three S-band ground-based radars designed to perform uncued detection, tracking and accurate measurement of orbiting space objects. The Space Fence is intended to replace the Air Force Space Surveillance System, or VHF Fence, that was transferred from the Navy to the Air Force in 2004. The shorter wavelength of the S-band Space Fence allows for detection of much smaller satellites and debris.
Note: Last September I visited Vandenberg AFB and was surprize3d to see multiple rocket launch sites.
UFOs a Threat to Argentina
BUENOS AIRES — Argentina’s Air Force has said it has received many reports of sightings by pilots and radar of unidentified flying objects (UFOs) that are a ‘potential threat to national air security’. The Air Force said often combat planes have reported following strange objects in the skies above Argentina.
Even the local media have reported that dozens of photos reach their offices regarding alleged UFOs. The Air Force press office said the country’s military unit will set up a multi-disciplinary commission to investigate such UFO sightings, Prensa Latina reported. The commission will be made up of specialists from the meteorological service, pilots, astronomers, doctors and radar and land experts.
On May 9, 2013, there was a sighting of a very big UFO in Neuquén that was seen as well in Chile around the same time. This is a sighting very similar to the one of a very big UFO with blinking lights very similar to at least a) the sighting earlier in 2012 Santiago de Chile and also very similar to b) a sighting on March, 13th 1997 in Phoenix. Thanks to Prensa Latina,
Jacob Israel the maker of video presents some deep thoughts about Nibiru. We have talked about Planet X for over 5 years here and just last month NASA admitted that there is a 9th planet out there with a 10,000 to 20,000 year orbit. They said the evidence exists to back it up that there is a ninth planet. Scott C. Waring Website
Jacob Israelof Youtube states: The internet is buzzing about famous Slooh Observatory Astronomer Paul Cox, and his curious comments about a Second Sun, Nibiru and that NASA is covering up both… After being coincidentally/miraculously inspired or led to find out more about Nibiru months ago, and after dream after dream motivated me to take all of this “coincidence” seriously I began looking into Nibiru, the Annunaki and more… After sharing my recent video on the topic I have been blown away at all of the ACTUAL EVIDENCE pointing the world slowly to such… but these comments made by Slook Website should not only make us all pause and take in the enormity of what this means for everyone on planet earth, but also why it feels like yet another cover up…. The TRUTH shall set us free…
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Filer’s Files #24 – 2016 FastWalkers (UFOs) and Space Fence - PART II
Filer’s Files #24 – 2016 FastWalkers (UFOs) and Space Fence - PART II
UFO Sighting s over the United States
California Orbs
Joshua Tree — On June 4, 2016 by Kristie Cowans at Contact in the Desert UFO Conference: Around 10:00 in the evening.There was a small airport south of us and a Marine Base northeast of us- but all the activity came from the west going due east. At Orion Lookout we set up for our CE-5 protocols. One of us was filming, and I was spotting with Celestron stargazing binoculars and a green laser. As we began I was able to spot many stars, planets, planes and satellites. There was a parade of 7 orbs/UFOs flying faster than satellites and as high as planes from west over the mountains and disappearing to the east. The orbs were a defused soft green, soft red, and soft lilac blue. They gave us quite a show! We pointed our laser pointers and flashed them 3xs and they flashed us back! The 2nd, 3ed, , & 4th ones formed a triangle configuration as they passed us! The crowd of around 100 people went wild with cheers, clapping, and jumping up and down. At this time I did feel a “heart” connection, thanking them and sending love to them. Sadly, my friend that was recording came up with just audio, however a documentary over on Melinda Leslies side got footage of all the activity. Not only are they here, it appears they are friendly! The orbs/UFOs, were large enough to be seen with the unaided eye, quite large actually and looked like an orb of soft diffused light. The orbs/UFOs glowed with one single light (unlike recreational and military drones that glow with 2 or more). The type of glow was unlike anything I have ever seen in my research on military drones. I saw no structures connected to the glowing lights. Thanks to Kristie Cowans
Delaware Object
Harrington — I was going for my morning walk on Wednesday June 2, 2016. I walked into town, and was planning to buy some water and head home. I looked up high and it was the colors that made me notice it. And then it was tumbling and flying upward in a cartwheel-like manner. It first looked black but then I saw colors. It would flash bright blue, yellow, and red. It started off below the clouds, but as it tumbled, it was rising so that it was very high, above the clouds. I saw it tumbling. On my video, it appeared at the top to jump suddenly from one place to the other. When I finally stopped filming, it was because the drone had reversed its course. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Orb
Orlando –Very strange shape was hovering in the sky on June 9, 2016, which could very much be the moon behind cloud cover.
I’m adding photos of it unaltered and the photo I edited which gives off a lot of detail.
I observed the moon which was white then approximately 15-20 minutes until we saw this yellow object then the moon turned orange with a crescent shape which is why I’m thinking this could be the moon. Please give me your thoughts to this. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Object
White light in sky became red-orange then dimmed and a dark object became visible on June 5, 2016.
Dark object flew from left to right in the clouded sky. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kansas Object
Dodge City — I was storm chasing and did not notice this object with my naked eye on May 24, 2016. But after looking at picture, I noticed the orange object in front of tornado at upper right. I have picture to share, raw file as well. Not sure what it is, I do not think it is lens artifact, water spot, plane, debris or bird. The object does not appear in frame right before or right after. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Cylinder
South Deerfield — We were driving through town after a stop at Cumberland Farms on June 1, 2016. at 11:30 AM. My husband said “What is that? It looks like a giant telephone pole on, its side. We lost site for a few seconds, but I had a perfect view through the sunroof and shot with my Samsung phone. It appeared to hover and gently sway like a balloon. My pictures didn’t capture how big it was. My 18 year old son and a friend also observed it. I took several pictures but see it in only two photos. My husband offered, maybe a huge tire float display escaped, and we were viewing it from the side. I have been checking news, websites to see if anyone else saw it. It left appeared to be going higher, and to the west, slightly north. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Cylinder
Hamtramck– I was driving on I-75 on June 2, 2016, and the object didn’t look normal in the bright sky. It hovered and went east moving back and forth over the freeway in a straight line. I freaked out and then started taking pictures.
I turned around to talk to someone and lost sight of the object. I started taking pictures and turned around to talk to someone and lost sight of the object. I thought it was a bird. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Montana Orb
I live deep in the wilderness probably 1% of most remote locations in the lower 48 states. I let my old dog out on June 7, 2016, and wanted to make sure he did not wander as this is big cat and bear country.
I observed a nice red sky and this white blob of liquid like light came out of nowhere and hovered over a nearby home. I thought this to be most unusual and grabbed my camera.
I was less than 30 seconds getting the camera and got this one shot before the pulsating blob ejected into the sky in a millisecond. The horse seemed unaffected but the blob seemed to have left a smoke type of trail. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Hampshire Disc
Bartlett – I was at the Attitash Grand Summit Hotel on June 6, 2015, at a weekend conference. I broke away at 4 pm to take a quick hike up one of the ski trails behind the hotel and snapped a picture from the top. After looking closely at the picture later, I saw an object I could not identify in the air. It looks a roundish saucer with an appendage on top like an antenna? I did not see it at the time I took the picture.
I did not want to report this incident until this year’s conference so that I could take another look and picture from the same spot. When I took the original picture, I would be very interested if you could enhance this picture and let me know what you think. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Orb
Sherman — I was in between jobs, and staying in my parent’s garage until I could afford to get a place. My father has a security camera in the garage, so he checked it after the motion sensor went off on September 10, 2014. I woke up and my dad told me that the security camera caught something the previous night while I was sleeping. As I watched the clips from the camera, I got chills from looking at the entity/orb, especially when it seems to look over the car at me. We are an extremely skeptical family, so we tried replicating the orb seen on the video with laser pointers from every window, flashlights from every direction. We even tied a dead spider to the end of a string and held it in front of the camera. What we noticed though, was that whenever ANYTHING came in view of the camera, it would focus on that object and the background would dim just a little. When the orb comes into view, it has absolutely no effect on the background, leaving you to wonder why. It’s unlike any orb I’ve ever seen in that it acts like a shape-shifting blob of energy instead of a perfect circle. If you look closely, you can even make out a figure top-right of the orb with a head that appears to look down at me on the air mattress. This video had an enormous impact on my life and the way I view the world. I hope it can do the same for many others. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Light
Sheffield Lake — On June 6, 2016, I saw a light hovering in the sky. and got a picture with zoom. You can see one walking away from light portal and or windshield and another picture with one standing dead center. In the second picture (not shown) look to the lower right and a blow up looks like a being floating in mid air.
Note: The photo reveals a dot in the center of the light. I don’t have an explanation for this photo. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Strange Alien Cubes Encounters over Texas and Antarctica
El Paso — Two mysterious cube-shaped UFO sightings have been getting a lot of attention this week. A strange cube that appears to be in a portal or vortex was photographed by witnesses in Texas while a low-flying cubic glowing orb was seen in a video feed from a station in Antarctica. The cube-shaped Texas UFO was spotted on June 29th, 2015, over El Paso. First posted anonymously, the photograph was eventually attributed to Walter C. Lance who says he first saw nothing but storm clouds. At around 1 pm, he noticed the clouds swirl into a portal or vortex shape. As the center turned black, he took a series of pictures with his cell phone. While the original photos taken at a distance show a fuzzy cube shape, of the close-ups appear to be enhanced and others seem to be a different cubic or rectangular UFO. After his posting, another anonymous witness released a picture she took at about the same time of what appears to be the same or similar cube UFO. She also reported hearing a humming sound. Another image of the El Paso cube UFO taken by a second witness. As expected with a report with little information on such an odd (or some might say menacing) UFO, speculations on what it might be or where it came from are running rampant. Meanwhile, a photo from what appears to be an observation web camera pointed at Davis Station in Antarctica shows a low-altitude glowing orb that is somewhat cube-shaped. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Spokane– I was standing outside smoking a cigarette on June 4, 2016, and what I thought was a street lamp turned out to be a dancing flame like orb in the west. It scared me, and stood there and “danced” for at least and hour. It was just below Mars. I immediately took photos and then went back inside because it seemed to be drawing closer towards my direction. Thanks to MUFON CMS
West Virginia Triangle
Clendenin — What is the truth about Aliens and Extraterrestrials? Do these creatures exist out there? If they do exist, are they more advanced than humans? Since then, humanity has looked at the stars and still wondered. If you’ve read some books on UFOs, you may be wondering why it is such a big deal for the military and governmental forces to protect the people by hiding the truth. A West Virginia witness in Clendenin, reported watching a triangle-shaped mysterious object “the size of a mountain.” The sighting was seen by the witness along with her 31-year-old son on May 24, 2016, at 9:30 p.m.
At first, they noticed a ball of light streaking in from the west. Seconds later, it abruptly stopped. For over a two-hour period, it stayed until it slowly moves towards the east. The witness started to see the sheer mass of the object after it cleared the western trees. According to the witness, three white lights underneath it were moving with it. The witness could see a triangular shape of the object as the moon brightened. He added that it was so big that it bears a resemblance to a mountain moving through the sky. Clendenin is situated in Kanawha County, West Virginia with a population of 1,227. NOTE: The above image is a rendering. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Object near Sun
Na— The object shown in the attachments were recorded by NASA next to the Sun on May 17, 2016. I was looking at some past images from the SOHO satellite today and noticed the object positioned to the lower left of the Sun.
I was intrigued enough to analyse the image further and the result leads me to strongly suspect that the object is not any naturally derived phenomenon. In other words it could be a craft of some sort. It appears to have wing-like structures. The image is blurry, but nevertheless, due to its shape could not be confused with a planet for instance. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Light
Dauphin, Manitoba— This is my second time May 18, 2016 waking up with these marks on May 18, 2016. The last time was about 12 to 14 years ago. I went to the doctor both times and he had no idea both times. I do have interesting events that happen when I was younger and also today. Feel free to contact me anytime. I would like some answers too.
Note: It is not known what “experience” that the witness is referring to. I have written to the witness to find out what happened before the marks were noticed. Updates will be posted. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Scarborough, Ontario— While on break in the mid- afternoon on June 1, 2016, I noticed a this loud low fasting moving plane directly overhead. So I thought to take some pictures to capture the moment at 3:23 pm.
After reviewing the four pictures noticed something odd caught on film in two pictures
It appears long and white – almost naked eye? Thought it interesting to be in two photos. Enjoy and thanks once again for Filer’s Report. Thanks to Paul Shishis
Ecuador Cylinders
This UFO was recorded and is on video, on June 2, 2016; however the video is only on Facebook so click here to view it. The UFOs do appear similar to real UFOs seen in the past in the sky. I do have some reservations about UFOs being recorded through windows, because windows can reflect light as you are recording and thus make a UFO appear as though it’s real. An Alleged UFO over Guayaquil on May 30, a video posted to Facebook exceeded 52,000 hits. According to the person posting (Boris Tacle Lopez), the clip showed a “flying saucer”. The object flies next to a rainbow in the sky. Inexp Website and Website
Iran Disc
Isfahan and Kasha – I was visiting the country of Iran, driving back on the passenger side of the car going from the city of Isfahan to the city of Tehran on June 1, 2016. I noticed some odd vertical dust lines in the horizon something that I never seen before. I decided to take a picture of the event, I did not noticed at the time I only saw it after I came back to my hotel room and saw the picture. I was able to take 2 pictures of the object and 4 more from the odd vertical lines that actually shifted angles after the object passed by. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Serbia Triangles
Zrenjanin — I was in my backyard looking with my wife thru the Meade etx-70 telescope. I was looking for M51 whirlpool galaxy when noticed triangle shaped silhouette hovering on August 12, 2015. Then suddenly the triangle changed direction to the east, then stopped. I called my wife to see and we were able to track that one object for about 15 minutes. Then another triangle shaped UFO came right next to the first one and both had lights, all around object. We saw clearly that both of them were triangle shaped UFO’s. Then for about 50 minutes we were able to track them. Then we lost them because they were so fast, and flew in unpredictable directions.They made sharp turns with sudden stops. We saw them with the telescope, so I don’t know that they were in our atmosphere or in space.It looked like a B2 airplane or F117. My wife was excited since it was the first time to see UFOs. About 1 hour 10 minutes later, they just turned off the lights and disappeared from our sight. NOTE: The above image is CGI. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
Russia Lights
UFO was spotted in the sky through night vision on June 4, 2016, in the morning.
I watched the first of the ISS, and then after some time noticed a bright object fly from the south to the northwest.
In the video displaying the UFO and the ISS, to compare their brightness. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Turkey Disc
Denizli — This UFO was seen over the mountains of Turkey in early June 2016, and it does look like a dark disk. This is the classic disk shape and has been seen two times recently. News states: Today at noon an object in the skies of Denizli was seen, it brought to mind the possibility of UFOs. It was an issue that the UFO again appeared in Denizli. Earlier it was seen in Pamukkale and thought to be a reflected image onto the TV camera, but this time it was recorded by a private citizen named Ahmed. The pictures were taken in front of the Pamukkale travertine as Özel at 17:40 hours. An unidentified flying object was seen over Travertine. After a while the object was seen moving across the sky to settle over the ancient theater before it slowly disappeared. Ahmed stated, “Well, I do not want you to panic, but I took this photo with my own camera and I do not understand.” Scott C. Waring Website
UK England Lights
London — I was in a park, enjoying the first warm day this year on May 7, 2016. I looked at the sky and thought ‘what a nice weather and clouds. Then noticed bright blue lights that just stayed there so I thought what if those are aliens? There’s just sooooo much info being put out there about aliens, so I kind of smiled at the idea. It started moving and startled me a bit (kind of got freaked out by the idea of it really being the aliens). It moved in a straight line and took out my phone, took a while to open the camera (didn’t want to take my eyes off of the object), took a picture. Observed the object for a few more minutes, taking a picture (with trembling hands, I might add)). Then the object disintegrated into thin air. On the spotlights just faded and that’s it. There was nothing there. Sent the picture through whatsapp to my friends. They thought it was incredible moving against the wind faster than the clouds. Basically, we all came to a conclusion that it was cool. Could it be some kind of military deal? Not sure if anyone else saw this, but would’ve been great if someone did. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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11-06-2016
Could We Build 'Star Trek's' Starship Enterprise?
Could We Build 'Star Trek's' Starship Enterprise?
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
A diagram of the real-life starship Enterprise proposed by an engineer who says most of the technology is at hand.
Credit: BuildtheEnterprise.org
Since its first appearance on the original "Star Trek" series in 1966, the starship Enterprise has become a symbol for space travel. Recently, an anonymous engineerclaimed that an approximation of this iconic ship could be built in the next two decades. But just how close is mankind to zipping through the stars at warp speed?
On the website BuildTheEnterprise.org, a self-proclaimed engineer who identifies himself only as "BTE-Dan" suggests that a working facsimile of the iconic ship could be built and launched over the next 20 to 30 years. The ship would require a few modifications, but would look a great deal like Captain Kirk's famous ship.
Built in space, the ship would never visit the surface of any moon or planet, and so would never need to reach the high speeds necessary to escape surface gravity. The engines would be powered by nuclear reactors onboard the ship, and use argon rather than xenon for propellant, saving a few hundred billion dollars in cost. As an added bonus, BTE-Dan notes that argon can be mined from the atmosphere of Mars.
Although such a ship would a lack a warp drive (the technology that allows the "Star Trek" version to zip between stars across the galaxy), it could reach the moon in three days and Mars in three months. BTE-Dan suggests it might function as a combination of a space station and a space port, allowing humans to orbit planets and moons within the solar system while using a "universal lander" to travel to and from their surfaces. Such a spaceship could house 1,000 people within its gravity wheel. [The Top 10 Star Trek Technologies]
The entire ship would be more than 3,000 feet (almost 1 kilometer) long, with its central disk making up nearly half its length.
According to the website, much of the technology needed to build the ship described is within our grasp, including the rotating gravity wheel, which could be suspended by electromagnets within a vacuum to eliminate mechanical wear and tear. Also easily within reach, he claims, are a 1.5 GWe (gigawatt electrical) nuclear reactor safe to carry in a spacecraft, and composite materials that would save mass, add strength and improve radiation shielding.
A still from the 2009 film "Star Trek" showing the reimagined U.S.S. Enterprise.
Credit: Paramount Pictures.
Design challenges
BTE-Dan describes himself as a systems and electrical engineer who has spent the past 30 years employed at a Fortune 500 company. He is presently declining interviews.
Though the prospect of a real-life Enterprise is appealing, the proposed ship is not without problems.
Adam Crowl, an engineer with Icarus Interstellar Inc., a nonprofit foundation dedicated to interstellar exploration, pointed out that a spaceship built with a sufficiently powerful nuclear reactor would need large thermal radiators, ruining the classic Enterprise look.
"Engineering physics doesn't respect our aesthetics," he told SPACE.com by email.
BTE-Dan's ship is essentially an iconic replica of the famous starship, and may not be practical.
"I would love to see 1,000 people go to Mars, but I need convincing that they need to be on the Enterprise to do so," said Crowl.
Other engineers said the similarities between BTE-Dan's ship and the Enterprise are only skin-deep.
"He wants to build something using foreseeable technology that just looks like the Enterprise," said Marc Millis, an aerospace engineer at NASA's Glenn Research Center. "It's nowhere close to being what the Enterprise is."
Still, the site received so many visits soon after its launch that it crashed, revealing how appealing the idea is to many people.
Star Trek: Lost Enterprise - Episode 1 " The Discovery"
Though some aspects of the Enterprise are far out of reach today, many are within our grasp, and some are part of our daily lives. Sliding doors, futuristic in the 1960s, now welcome almost every grocery store visitor, and today's flip-open cellphones resemble Star Trek's tricorders. The touch-screen devices ubiquitous today even look like those used in the 1990s episodes of "Star Trek: The Next Generation."
"If you had shown someone an iPad in the 1990s and told them it was 23rd century technology, they would have believed you," Richard Obousy, co-founder and president of Icarus Interstellar Inc., told SPACE.com.
Advances with 3D printers also provide opportunities for voyages through space, allowing the replication of parts while using materials found at the destination. Andreas Hein, an aerospace engineer also with Icarus Interstellar, suggested that it might not be long before such printers make food similar to the way meals were synthesized by replicators on the Enterprise.
Additionally, engineers working at NASA's Advanced Propulsion Physics Laboratory, informally known as Eagleworks, are working on a Q-thruster that bears a striking resemblance to the impulse engines on the Enterprise.
Nuclear woes
Millis suggested the next step in rocket propulsion will likely include utilizing a nuclear power source, an option that is stymied by the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. He acknowledged that the barriers aren't just political ones, as people are nervous about the idea of launching nuclear rockets from Earth's surface, despite the fact that it could be done safely.
Obousy agreed that nuclear rockets could provide the necessary thrust, pointing to the large, multibillion-dollar projects around the world seeking ways to unlock fusion as an energy source. Of course, such projects primarily focus on powering homes and cities on Earth, but once unlocked, fusion could be used to travel through the stars. [Gallery: Visions of Future Human Spaceflight]
"In terms of propulsion technology, fusion engines are potentially within a generation or two," Obousy said, though he added that sudden technological jumps could accelerate the process.
Visiting a planet without being seen may also be not too far out of reach.
"We're doing things with meta-materials that'll allow practical cloaking, maybe even invisibility," Crowl said.
Gravity presents one of the greatest challenges: The Enterprise of television and the movies lacks a gravity wheel, instead utilizing synthetic gravity. According to Millis, if we could find a way to master gravitational forces, such technology could also be utilized in tractor beams or the ship's propulsion.
Star Trek: Lost Enterprise - Episode 2 "From The Shadows"
Star Trek's faster-than-light warp drive is an idea that even serious scientists don't want to let go of.
"Star Trek"-like propulsion remains a key problem. Fans are familiar with the warp drive, which accelerated the ship faster than the speed of light and allowed its crew to zip between stars. Such travel defies our present understanding of physics.
"I think this is one of the most important aspects that prevents an Enterprise-type ship in the near future," Hein said.
Obousy agreed. "One of the staples of these warp drives is that they require an exotic form of energy that we have not been able to create in the labs, dark energy being the salient example," he said.
Dark energy is the unexplained force behind the accelerated expansion of the universe. Scientists don't yet understand what it is, which makes it a challenge to use in propulsion.
A warp drive would require an enormous amount of energy. Theoretical calculations using dark energy to move a starship would require more energy than that contained within the planet Jupiter, making it uneconomical.
In the "Star Trek" universe, the warp drive relied on antimatter. When matter and antimatter annihilate one another, the energy produced is immense. Though such an energy source could conceivably power the ship, it is available only briefly.
Crowl pointed out that antimatter technology itself is developing rapidly. Ultra-high intensity lasers may soon allow it to be directly created from energy, and useful amounts may be trapped in the magnetic fields of planets like Earth and Saturn.
But, like dark energy, antimatter may prove to be more trouble than it's worth.
"Using antimatter right now is very expensive," Millis said. "But that doesn't mean that it always will be."
When mankind finally travels to the stars, we may have to forgo warp speed for something else, such as the manipulation of space-time itself. According to Albert Einstein, nothing in the universe can travel faster than the speed of light. But Millis points out that such limits do not necessarily apply to space-time. Theories in peer-reviewed journals explore the possibility of surrounding a craft with a bubble of space-time that expands and contracts, perhaps allowing it to exceed the speed of light.
"It's the difference between moving a pencil across a piece of paper or moving the whole paper," Millis said. [Video: Warp Drives and Worm Holes]
Beam me up, Scotty
Another potential challenge to recreating the "Star Trek" universe is the system of matter transmission. The crew often traveled to a planet by transporter, beaming from the Enterprise directly to the surface by way of machines that could scan a body, atom-by-atom, and then recreate it in another place.
Recent advances have been made in quantum teleportation, but Obousy and Millis both stressed the difference from "Star Trek"-style travel.
In quantum teleportation, "it's not the same photon you started out with, but a replica," said Obousy.
Such travel would require enormous precision.
"If you were going to recreate a human being transported from one place to another, you'd want to make sure everything's in the exact place," he said.
Millis suggested that, rather than matter transmission, scientists might one day learn how to utilize very small wormholes for travel.
"Of course, if you put mass through it, it might make the wormhole collapse," he noted.
Ultimately, the greatest challenge to replicating the Star Trek journeys may not come from the technological front.
"One of the things that I really liked about watching [the show] was the very good behavior of the crew," Millis said. "The prejudices and petty human differences that make up so much of television are pretty much absent. When I think about relative impossibilities, I think it will be easier to make technology for the starship Enterprise than to finally make humans behave that honorably."
Visit www.buildtheenterprise.org to see more details on the proposed construction of a real-life Enterprise.
The Hubble mosaic unveils a collection of carved knots of gas and dust in a small portion of the Monkey Head Nebula (also known as NGC 2174 and Sharpless Sh2-252). The nebula is a star-forming region that hosts dusky dust clouds silhouetted against glowing gas.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Astrophysics is a branch of space science that applies the laws of physics and chemistry to explain the birth, life and death of stars, planets, galaxies, nebulae and other objects in the universe. It has two sibling sciences, astronomy and cosmology, and the lines between them blur.
In the most rigid sense:
Astronomy measures positions, luminosities, motions and other characteristics
Astrophysics creates physical theories of small to medium-size structures in the universe
Cosmology does this for the largest structures, and the universe as a whole.
In practice, the three professions form a tight-knit family. Ask for the position of a nebula or what kind of light it emits, and the astronomer might answer first. Ask what the nebula is made of and how it formed and the astrophysicist will pipe up. Ask how the data fit with the formation of the universe, and the cosmologist would probably jump in. But watch out — for any of these questions, two or three may start talking at once!
Goals of astrophysics
Astrophysicists seek to understand the universe and our place in it. At NASA, the goals of astrophysics are "to discover how the universe work, explore how it began and evolved, and search for life on planets around other stars," according NASA's website.
NASA states that those goals produce three broad questions:
How does the universe work?
How did we get here?
Are we alone?
It began with Newton
While astronomy is one of the oldest sciences, theoretical astrophysics began with Isaac Newton. Prior to Newton, astronomers described the motions of heavenly bodies using complex mathematical models without a physical basis. Newton showed that a single theory simultaneously explains the orbits of moons and planets in space and the trajectory of a cannonball on Earth. This added to the body of evidence for the (then) startling conclusion that the heavens and Earth are subject to the same physical laws. [Related: How Isaac Newton Changed the World]
Perhaps what most completely separated Newton’s model from previous ones is that it is predictive as well as descriptive. Based on aberrations in the Newtonian orbit of Uranus, astronomers predicted the position of a new planet, which was then observed and named Neptune. Being predictive as well as descriptive is the sign of a mature science, and astrophysics is in this category.
Milestones in astrophysics
Because the only way we interact with distant objects is by observing the radiation they emit, much of astrophysics has to do with deducing theories that explain the mechanisms that produce this radiation, and provide ideas for how to extract the most information from it. The first ideas about the nature of stars emerged in the mid-19th century from the blossoming science of spectral analysis, which means observing the specific frequencies of light that particular substances absorb and emit when heated. Spectral analysis remains essential to the triumvirate of space sciences, both guiding and testing new theories.
Early spectroscopy provided the first evidence that stars contain substances also present on Earth. Spectroscopy revealed that some nebulae are purely gaseous, while some contain stars. This later helped cement the idea that some nebulae were not nebulae at all — they were other galaxies!
In the early 1920s, Cecilia Payne discovered, using spectroscopy, that stars are predominantly hydrogen (at least until their old age). The spectra of stars also allowed astrophysicists to determine the speed at which they move toward or away from Earth. Just like the sound a vehicle emits is different moving toward us or away from us, because of the Doppler shift, the spectra of stars will change in the same way. In the 1930s, by combining the Doppler shift and Einstein’s theory of general relativity, Edwin Hubble provided solid evidence that the universe is expanding. This is also predicted by Einstein’s theory, and together form the basis of the Big Bang Theory.
Also in the mid-19th century, the physicists Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) and Gustav Von Helmholtz speculated that gravitational collapse could power the sun, but eventually realized that energy produced this way would only last 100,000 years. Fifty years later, Einstein’s famous E=mc2 equation gave astrophysicists the first clue to what the true source of energy might be (although it turns out that gravitational collapse does play an important role). As nuclear physics, quantum mechanics and particle physics grew in the first half of the 20th century, it became possible to formulate theories for how nuclear fusion could power stars. These theories describe how stars form, live and die, and successfully explain the observed distribution of types of stars, their spectra, luminosities, ages, and other features.
Astrophysics is the physics of stars and other distant bodies in the universe, but it also hits close to home. According to the Big Bang Theory, the first stars were almost entirely hydrogen. The nuclear fusion process that energizes them smashes together hydrogen atoms to form the heavier element helium. In 1957, the husband-and-wife astronomer team of Geoffrey and Margaret Burbidge, along with physicists William Alfred Fowler and Fred Hoyle, showed how, as stars age, they produce heavier and heavier elements, which they pass on to later generations of stars in ever-greater quantities. It is only in the final stages of the lives of more recent stars that the elements making up the Earth, such as iron (32.1 percent), oxygen (30.1 percent), silicon (15.1 percent), are produced. Another of these elements is carbon, which together with oxygen, make up the bulk of the mass of all living things including us. Thus, astrophysics tells us that, while we are not all stars, we are all stardust.
Ariel Balter has a Ph.D. in physics. He teaches and writes about science.
Scholes UFO expert claims RAF Bentwaters encounter was aliens searching for nuclear weapons
Scholes UFO expert claims RAF Bentwaters encounter was aliens searching for nuclear weapons
BYSUSIE BEEVER
Revelations from Gary Heseltine come 36 years after UFOs were spotted at a Suffolk RAF base
A police officer's report of a UFO sighting near Emley Moor TV mast on November 2 1986 and Gary Heseltine, pictured in 1989 while training at the Ashford Police Training School in Kent
A UFO expert has made a shocking revelation about a famous British extra-terrestrial encounter.
Gary Heseltine, from Scholes, Holmfirth, claims aliens who visited RAF Bentwater in Suffolk in 1980 were interested in a “secret stash” of nuclear weapons.
Dubbed as the “British Roswell”, the site was claimed to have been visited by UFOs over three nights that December.
Gary was at the airbase while making a documentary.
Gary, who himself has served in the RAF, says witness
Colonel Charles Halt told him at the scene that the UFO had “shone a beam on the weapons storage area (WSA)”, which “had more nuclear missiles than anywhere else in Europe”.
He claims he was told the secret while touring at the site for a documentary which was never finished.
Gary Heseltine with Colonel Charles Halt when they met shortly after the UFO incident at RAF Bentwaters
Gary, 56, said: “It was the year Russia invaded Poland who were threatening to break from the Soviet regime, and the US Middle East hostage crisis.
“It was a tense time which would explain why they had weapons.”
The claims have been backed up by Gary’s wife Lynn, who had joined the pair during filming.
Gary has now come forward with the theory after watching a documentary on UFO sightings at nuclear bases, suggesting other life forms may be interested in the weapons.
“It’s no coincidence that UFOs were turning up at that base”, Gary added.
Col Halt and the UK government have previously denied the base was holding deadly weapons.
UFO expert Gary Heseltine
The Colonel said: “My comment to Gary was, ‘it appears the beam was in or near the weapons storage area’.
“I never made such a statement about weapons to Gary. Those are his conclusions.”
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Fleet of UFOs Filmed While Harvesting Energy from Thunderstorm [Video]
Fleet of UFOs Filmed While Harvesting Energy from Thunderstorm [Video]
A new video revealing a compact formation of 7 UFOs has recently surfaced. The sighting is extremely intriguing as the flying device appear to be charging from this massive thunderstorm, and as the storm light up the sky, the traits of a mothership are also revealed.
The objects were clearly visible for a relatively long period of time. Their spherical design and brightness emanating from them make this sighting impossible to miss, even with the naked eye. At one point, we can see one of them shutting down its lights and thus becoming invisible for a few seconds, before turning bright again. Such a behavior indicate these may be the notorious orb UFOs that keep showing up everywhere across the globe.
Most UFOlogists believe extraterrestrial vessels use many types of energy, electricity being just one of them, and have methods (unknown to us) for harvesting it from sources we can’t possibly imagine. The web is full of footage of UFOs plunging in active volcanoes or gathering water from the oceans, and the vast amount of electricity produced by a thunderstorm should also serve as their battery recharger.
This theory is also backed by the earlier video, as the UFO seems drained of power and seeking lightning and slowly moves towards it.
The authenticity of the video is undeniable, the quality is not too good or too bad. Just before the 1:20 mark, as a powerful bolt of lightning splits the sky, it also illuminates what seems to be a gigantic mother ship, incorporating the 7 round bright lights. Throughout the recording, the peculiar orbs become even brighter whenever lightning strikes, indicating the possible moment when they capture energy.
Could the visible structure behind the small UFOs be in fact a mothership recharging?
This incident is almost identical to the one in Phoenix, Arizona. Back in 1997, strange lights lit up the sky, leading authorities into believing that the luminous objects were in fact signaling flares used by the army. This is not the case however, as there was no military or industrial testing of any kind anywhere in the area when the footage was captured.
Furthermore, flares wouldn’t even be visible in a bright storm such as this one, let alone be made more visible by lightning. But, this time, authorities haven’t even bothered giving an explanation.
Some skeptics suggested the bright dots are nothing more than drones, but since the autonomy of drone battery can’t hold for more than five minutes, not to mention the harsh conditions imposed by the extreme weather, such a possibility is extremely unlikely.
However, since the military has technology way ahead of our time, it’s possible that their new toys are being tested in the storm. If they have indeed achieved such a feat, than the moment when Project Blue Beam will impose a new world order isn’t as far as some would expect.
The matter remains debatable since numerous ufologists consider the objects you’re about to see in the video to be clear evidence of extraterrestrial activity. Although some consider our earthly technology less evolved than that of aliens, the possibility of world governments being in close relationship to these otherworldly beings, sharing technology in exchange for abduction programs and tons of data may be why their wrong.
If there’s indeed a pact between humanity and extraterrestrials, it could explain why there’s so many breakthrough discoveries going on right now. Whatever the case, we are yet to find out what these ‘higher forces’ have in store for us.
Watch the video and judge for yourself. What do you think?
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NASA OPENLY ADMITS ALIEN LIFE EXISTS: GET READY FOR DISCLOSURE
NASA OPENLY ADMITS ALIEN LIFE EXISTS: GET READY FOR DISCLOSURE
Most people ‘in the know’ realize that NASA is just part of the military industrial complex, but a recent open admission on mainstream news that “there are indications of alien life” is likely the beginning of a bid to get your undivided attention before full-forced disclosure ensues.
Most people already believe what NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan states:
“I think we’re going to have strong indications of life beyond Earth within a decade . . .I think we’re going to have definitive evidence within 20-30 years.”
It isn’t going to take that long if we open our eyes.
Stofan goes on to say:
“We’re on the verge of things that people have wondered about for millennia. Within all of our lifetimes we’re going to understand that there is life on other bodies in the solar system. We’re going to understand the implications of that for life here on Earth.”
What we’re going to understand is that our ‘secret’ government has been hiding this fact for ages. In an effort to transition the US and other countries through its reach to a cabal-run oligarchy, ourshadow government has been lying about off-planet corporate slavery rings, alien abductions, benevolent beings who can only do so much until our collective consciousness elevates, and much, much more.
William Cooper, among others, tried to disclose the true purpose of NASA, but he was exterminated. His death, among thousands of others, will not be in vain.
We will learn that aside from extraterrestrial beings visiting our planet and many different ET races tinkering with our DNA over millennia, there are ancient humanoid races that are more than 10 million years old.
We will also learn that chemtrails and GMOs were the LEAST of plans made for us ‘sheeple’ and ‘useless eaters’ by a Luciferian cabal, and that President Harry Truman signed a document with certain ETs that allowed the ‘elite’ to conduct highly technological experiments with intelligence gained from these ETs in exchange for looking the other way when certain humans were abducted for ET experiments.
We will learn that we are not helpless, as we have beenprogrammed to believe. We are, in fact, a rare humanoid race that has an incredible range of emotion and creative power. We will learn that our minds and emotions can either fuel chaos on this planet, or restore it to its rightful place of peace and cooperation, of care for others at least as much as ourselves.
We will learn that our ascension into infinitely peaceful beings is indeed possible, and it has been described in countless books, many of which have been suppressed along with UFO information.
NASA is telling us now that the likelihood of alien life is a ruse. Be sure to remember those who have been executed to try to prove this information to us decades ago, and to use discernment when the truth is finally revealed.
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The fossil that inspired Alien: 300 million-year-old relic which designer used to create extra-terrestrials in sci-fi classic
The fossil that inspired Alien: 300 million-year-old relic which designer used to create extra-terrestrials in sci-fi classic
Most of us do not believe in aliens but looking at this strange fossil might just make you stop and think.
This relic is in fact the ancient fossil that inspired the extra-terrestrial antagonists in Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi horror, Alien.
The creator of Alien was Swiss surrealist artist, Hans Rudolf Giger, who was sought out by Ridley Scott to design the creatures after he saw Giger’s artwork Necronom IV, one among his many designs that are said to have been based on the fossils.
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Alien abduction: This 300-million-year-old fossil, which inspired the artist who designed the extra-terrestrial antagonist of the Alien films, was stolen and and later returned to a Swiss museum
Mr Giger’s designs – one of which was all too memorably seen bursting out of a character’s chest on screen – went onto win his team an Academy Award for Best Achievement for Visual Effects on the 1979 film and the franchise that followed.
But the stranger than fiction fossil is actually the remains of an early form of life that existed on our own planet an incredible 300 million years ago.
And the extremely rare fossil captured the public imagination so much when it went on display in Switzerland that it not only attracted plenty of visitors, it also tempted a thief.
Police believe the thief – who broke into the case and stole the Aathal dinosaur museum’s prize exhibit – is a fossil collector.
The iconic scene in Ridley Scott’s film when one of the alien’s wrapped itself around John Hurt’s face
The relic was the inspiration for Ridley Scott’s blockbuster film Alien
Last week police released the photo in a bid to find the exhibit and track down whoever who took it.
And now the priceless piece has been returned after it was put into the museum’s post box tucked inside a padded envelope.
Museum curator Dr. Thomas Bolliger said: ‘It was comparatively undamaged – although one of the arms had broken off.
‘It really is a remarkable fossil and shows two separate species of a spineless animal that lived at the bottom of the sea around 300 million years ago.’
A museum spokesman added: ‘It is a very valuable but also a very unique fossil and it will be very difficult for anybody to sell or indeed to keep secret given the publicity around the theft.'
Inspired: Necronom IV by H.R. Giger is based on the ancient Swiss fossils and is the artwork that got Mr Giger the Academy Award-winning job as head of the Alien design team
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Controversial Discovery Of Adam’s Bridge – A 1,700,000 Year Old Man-Made Structure
Controversial Discovery Of Adam’s Bridge – A 1,700,000 Year Old Man-Made Structure
Over the years, a number of remarkable underwater structures have been discovered. Many of them cannot be explained by the traditional views of prehistory, as interpreted by mainstream scientists.
The NASA images of the ancient bridge between India and Sri Lanka show ancient history is linked to mythology.
Rising seas submerged the Bering Land Bridge, which carried the first Americans from Asia into Northern America, about 11,000 years ago. The recession that melted the Ice Bridge of the Bering Strait might have contributed to global flooding, which is described among all ancient cultures.
The Great Flood is not a pure myth, but a real event that occurred in the distant past and led to the extinction of almost all life on this planet. Recent archaeological and geological findings corroborate the ancients’ claims of a great cosmic catastrophe that took place some thousands years ago. The rise and fall of global sea levels has exposed and submerged the land bridge in several times during the Pleistocene epoch, between 1.8 million years to 11000 years ago. People and animals could move freely across the continents.
Adam’s Bridge
According to Dr. Elias, of the University of Colorado’s Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, the Bering Land Bridge was flooded about 10,500 years ago.
The level of the Pacific Ocean rose to within 40 meters of its present level and spilled across into the Artic Ocean. The catastrophe led to that the American continent was cut off from Euroasia.
Native Americans are very familiar with the Great Flood and they often have detailed accounts describing the cosmic catastrophe. The Athapascan Indians recall:
“Every day it rained, every night it rained. All the people slept. The sky fell, the land was not. For a very great distance there was no land. The waters of the oceans came together. Animals of all kinds drowned. Where the waters went, there were no trees. There was no land. Water came, they say. The waters completely joined everywhere. Trees and grass were not. There were no fish or land, animals or birds. Human beings and animals alike had been washed away. The wind did not blow through the portals of the world, nor was there snow, nor frost, nor rain. It did not thunder, nor did it lightning. Since there were no trees to be struck, it did not thunder. There were neither clouds nor fog, nor was there sun. It was very dark.”
The Chimalpopoca describe conditions during the Great Flood and relate how people tried to escape the disaster.
“The sky drew near to the Earth and in the space of one day all was drowned. The mountains themselves were covered with water. ….a tremendous hurricane that carried away trees, mounds, houses, and the largest edifices, notwithstanding which many men and women escaped, principally in caves and places where the great hurricane could not reach them. All this were in darkness, without seeing the light of the sun, nor the moon, that the wind had brought them.”
There are literally hundreds of similar Flood myths all over the world. A good example showing myths of the ancients that should not be dismissed easily is the Adam Bridge. At the beginning of 2003, NASA’s satellites caught extraordinary images that caused a lot of controversy and debate among scientists. The images display an ancient and up to now unknown bridge in the Palk Strait connecting India with Sri Lanka. The bridge has been named Adam’s Bridge. It is approximately 18 miles long and could be man-made.
Hanuman is a Hindu god, who was an ardent devotee of Rama according to the Hindu legends. He is a central character in the Indian epic Ramayana and its various versions. “…all the monkeys, following Nala’s (monkey’s) orders, gathered trees and rocks and brought them from the forests to the shore, and set them in the sea. Some carried timber, some used the measuring-rods, some bore stones; huge was the tumult and noise of crags and rocks thrown into the sea. The first day fourteen leagues were made, and on the fifth day the bridge was finished, broad and elegant and firm — like a line of parting of the hair on Ocean’s head. Then the monkey host passed over, Rama and Lakshman riding upon Sugriva and Angada. Some monkeys went along the causeway, others plunged into the sea, and others coursed through the air, and the noise of them drowned the sound of the ocean waves…” (Myths of the Hindus, A. K. Coomaraswamy)
According to the Indian ancient epic the Ramayana, the worshipped hero, Hanuman was honest, loyal and dedicated to Rama. He led his great army of monkey and bears to build the bridge from India to the island of Lanka. Lord Rama could in this way cross the waters and rescue his abducted wife.
At this point, it gets very interesting because this bridge is actually described in ancient Hindu scriptures.
Satellite photo of Adam’s Bridge.
In the epic it is mentioned how Ramayana built a bridge 1,700,000 years ago between Rameshwaram (today’s India) and the coast of Sri Lanka.
Ever since this discovery was made there has been a heated debate whether the structure seen on the satellite images is really man-made or a natural formation. For a long time, the city of Dwaraka, a city in gold, one of the seven holy cities was considered to be nothing but a pure myth. Dwaraka was Krishna’s city and it said that: “On the same day that Krishna departed from the earth the powerful dark-bodied Kali Age descended. The oceans rose and submerged the whole of Dwaraka”. The people of Dwaraka witnessed the approaching catastrophe and the city’s submergence in the sea. Everything is described in detail in the Mahabaratha.
“The sea, which had been beating against the shores, suddenly broke the boundary that was imposed on it by nature. The sea rushed into the city. It coursed through the streets of the beautiful city. The sea covered up everything in the city. I saw the beautiful buildings becoming submerged one by one. In a matter of a few moments it was all over. The sea had now become as placid as a lake. There was no trace of the city. Dwaraka was just a name; just a memory”
Ancient city of Dwaraka discovered underwater.
Dwaraka was considered to be a legend for more than 5,000 years until Dr. R.S Rao, a respected Indian marine archaeologist discovered underwater structures under the sea-bed off the coast of Dwaraka in Gujarat. He described the remarkable finding in his book The Lost City of Dwaraka. What inundated Dwaraka is uncertain, perhaps a tsunami. What is certain on the other hand is that myths are often corroborated by scientific discoveries.
The ancient structural remains found off the shore of Dwaraka demonstrate that ancient myths and legends should not be ignored without further investigation.
The submergence into the sea of Dwaraka, as it is described in the great epic Mahabaratha is no myth. This city did exist and its remains rest underwater.
When the ancient people wrote of Adam’s Bridge, they did not lie. The remains of the bridge have also been discovered.
Our ancestors knew more of the ancient world then we do. If our goal is to learn more about the history of this planet, then it is essential to take myths and legends more seriously and compare them with the latest scientific discoveries. In the end, many more “myths” might soon be confirmed by science.
For the first time in history, astronomers found cold, dense clouds raining on a supermassive black hole, feeding it and making it bigger. This contradicts the long-standing belief that black holes only consume hot ionized gases.
NOT A PICKY EATER
Black holes have been, and still are, one of the universe’s biggest enigmas. Perceptions over what they are and what they eat keep flipping from one side to the other. After decades of declaring them bald, next thing we know, they have hair.
It was also previously thought that supermassive black holes only consume hot ionized gases. And now, for the first time ever, astronomers caught one red-handed, feeding on cold, dense clouds.
“Although it has been a major theoretical prediction in recent years, this is one of the first unambiguous pieces of observational evidence for a chaotic, cold ‘rain’ feeding a supermassive black hole,” said Yale astronomer Grant Tremblay, who lead the study.
Tremblay and his team saw the clouds, traveling as fast as a million kilometers per hour, heading towards a black hole in a galaxy located at the center of Abell 2597, a cluster of about 50 galaxies one billion light years away from Earth.
WILL THE BLACK HOLE FINISH ITS “DESSERT”?
Artist’s impression of a black hole rain. NRAO/AUI/NSF; Dana Berry/SkyWorks; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
Megan Urry, co-author of the study, says while she is not certain whether all of these cold gas clouds will be consumed by the black hole, the observation, captured by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile, is an important find.
“We can’t know whether all or only part of this ‘meal’ of cold gas will ultimately fall into the black hole, but the ALMA data spectacularly highlights the importance of this kind of cold accretion,” she says.
Abell 2957's black hole.
Credit: B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)/G. Tremblay et al./NASA/ESA Hubble/ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)
The cold dense clouds are condensing around the supermassive black hole, and this cold rain is therefore feeding it, making the already massive black hole even bigger.
Co-author Louise Edwards, says this “a real step forward” in further understanding how the active galactic nuclei (AGN), or the luminous centers of galaxies, interact with the rest of the galaxy.
The researchers plan on using the ALMA to keep a lookout for similar “rainstorms” to establish if they are a common phenomenon in the universe.
Physicists Say They’ve Figured out How Spacecraft Could Make It Through a Wormhole
Physicists Say They’ve Figured out How Spacecraft Could Make It Through a Wormhole
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A new paper asserts that a physical body might be able to pass through a wormhole in spite of the extreme tidal forces that are at play.
A physical object, such as a person or a spacecraft, could theoretically make it through a wormhole in the centre of a black hole, and maybe even access another universe on the other side, physicists have suggested.
In what looks like the logical extension of the plot of Interstellar – where astronauts try to hunt down another universe after the catastrophic effects of climate change destroy Earth – physicists have modelled what would happen to a chair, a scientist, and a spacecraft, if each one ended up inside the spherical wormhole of a black hole.
“What we did was to reconsider a fundamental question on the relation between the gravity and the underlying structure of space-time,” said one of the team, Diego Rubiera-Garcia from the University of Lisbon in Portugal.
“In practical terms, we dropped one assumption that holds in general relativity, but there is noa priori reason for it to hold in extensions of this theory.”
So let’s take a step back first, and go through some of the basics. According to Einstein’s theory of general relativity, at the centre of a black hole lies a singularity – the point at which the forces of gravity are at their most intense, and time and space effectively end.
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If an object approaches the event horizon, it would be crushed in one direction, and stretched in another, thanks to the extreme tidal forces of gravity at play inside a black hole. If the object stays intact long enough to make it to the centre of a black hole, it will be infinitely long and thin: basically, it’s been spaghettified beyond recognition.
Physicists have been playing around with the assumption of a singularity in the centre of a black hole for years, because until we can actually prove it exists, there could be any number of possibilities that still work – in theory.
Earlier this year, physicists from the University of Cambridge in the UK argued that there’s no reason why a singularity necessarily has to be on the inside of a black hole. They suggest that in a universe with five or more dimensions – which isn’t out of the question for us – a ‘naked’ singularly could exist, which is not bound by an event horizon.
Of course, this would mean big, huge things for our current understanding of how the laws of physics govern our Universe, because it basically needs Einstein’s theory of general relativity to be wrong.
“If naked singularities exist, general relativity breaks down,” said one of the team, Saran Tunyasuvunakool, back in January. “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.”
If you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up. There’s a way out.
Einstein being wrong isn’t out of the question, either. Stephen Hawking has been battling for decades with the way general relativity appears to clash with quantum mechanics in black holes – a problem known as the information paradox.
So assuming that the stipulations of general relativity aren’t set in stone, the new study from Rubiera-Garcia’s team argue that if you remove singularity from a black hole, what you get in the centre instead is a finite-sized wormhole.
Then, they figured out what could happen if various objects – a chair, a scientist, and a spacecraft – made it beyond the event horizon and into the wormhole. These objects are referred to as ‘observers’.
They modelled these observers as an aggregation of points connected by physical or chemical interactions that hold everything together as the object travels along a geodesic line. A geodesic line is simply the path in spacetime that a free-falling object follows.
“Each particle of the observer follows a geodesic line determined by the gravitational field,”says Rubiera-Garcia. “Each geodesic feels a slightly different gravitational force, but the interactions among the constituents of the body could nonetheless sustain the body.”
Publishing in the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity, the researchers demonstrate this by showing how the time spent by a light ray in a round trip between two parts of the body is always finite.
This means that finite forces, no matter how strong, could compensate for the impact of the gravitational field near and inside the wormhole on a physical body travelling through it.
“Thus, different parts of the body will still establish physical or chemical interactions and, consequently, cause and effect still apply all the way across the throat of the wormhole,” they explain.
So while the theory of general relativity predicts that an object approaching a black hole will be crushed along one direction and stretched along another infinitely, if we assume that the centre of a black hole is a wormhole with a finite radius, the object can only be crushed just as much as the size of the wormhole.
This means according to Rubiera-Garcia’s hypothesis, an object could survive a journey through a wormhole and make it out the other side – and potentially to another universe – technically intact, but it would be crushed to the size of the finite wormhole. At least it’s not completely destroyed, right?
“For a theoretical physicist, the suffering of observers is admissible (one might even consider it part of an experimentalist’s job) but their total destruction is not,” Rubiera-Garcia and his team quip in an opinion piece.
Until we figure out how to actually see a black hole, all of this is going to remain well and truly in the realm of pure hypotheticals. But we’re beginning to see how black holes might not be the horrible, existence-obliterating death traps we thought they were.
As Hawking said at a conference back in August 2015 about his solution to the information paradox: “The message of this lecture is that black holes ain’t as black as they are painted. They are not the eternal prisons they were once thought. … If you feel you are in a black hole, don’t give up. There’s a way out.”
This teleporting alien traveler was captured in cctv in Nepal street in 2015, as some sort of portal opened and child came out.
It seems people were not able to see him or feel him as he jumped out he simply runaway toward another street, or this aliens can make the people ignore the sight as apart off their technology , and allow the people see the hybrid alien after the teleport as an normal human.
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5 Historic Paintings That Show Undeniable UFO Activity
5 Historic Paintings That Show Undeniable UFO Activity
Various paintings depicting important historical events from our recent history have in common an intriguing element illustrated in all cases in the form of a UFO, or more like an unusual object that’s strongly resembling a flying saucer.
This out of this world imagery appears in paintings belonging to different movements that all have in common religious motifs that illustrate divine events, which indicates that there’s a strong link between divinity and extraterrestrial activity.
Next, we will enumerate a few iconic examples of pieces of art that simply speak for themselves.
1.The Annunciation with Saint Emidus, painted in 1486 by Italian artist Carlo Crivelli, displaying the Virgin Mary before being told of giving birth to Jesus the Messiah. In this picture we can clearly see a beam of light streaming down from a flying round shape towards Virgin Mary.
The art critics interpreted this obvious UFO activity as a projection of the Lord’s halo, but alien enthusiasts don’t share the critics’ opinion on Jesus’ divine nature. Their belief takes a more plausible and pragmatic approach, worthy of a sci-fi scenario: Jesus was a geneticly engineered embodiment of human perfection implanted in the context of Immaculate Conception. This scenario may have involved Mary’s abduction for impregnation by an alien race.
The light beam’s consistency inside Mary’s chamber adds relevance to the more scientific theory, since the people who claimed that they have been abducted reported that they were inside their houses when a strange light glared from outside, moments before their apprehension.
2.The Baptism of Christ, painted in 1710 by Dutch artist Aert de Gelde, depicts a disc shape object in the sky shining down four beams of light upon the baptismal scene on the ground.
Considering that Gelde was an ardent student of Rembrandt, some say this was his key to accessing forbidden knowledge stored within the walls of Vatican. This work of art may be a hidden clue to a piece of that forbidden knowledge.
3.The Miracle of Snow, by Masolino da Panicale reflects his vision in reference to the legend of snowfall that occurred in a hot summer day in the fourth century.
The painting depicts Jesus and Mary watching from a cloud over the scene of this extraordinary event. Besides the interpretation of that cloud being a kind of window from the heavens down to earth, there are plenty other disk-shaped clouds that for a rapid glance it may seem like a massive UFO activity that could mean that these clouds are an important part of the legend.
This phenomenon is linked to a strikingly similar event that took place on October 27, 1954, when several disk-shaped aircrafts were seen in the sky by the many spectators on a stadium in Florence. The witnesses reported silver glitter identical to snowflakes falling from the sky as the UFOs hovered above them.
4.The next example comes from the Church of Dominican Monastery in Sighisoara, Romania, and it’s pretty self-explanatory: a giant disc-shaped floating object above a burning church.
The German caption below the painting whose author is unknown, reads: “Israel, put your hope in the Lord”. The initial interpretation is that the disc-shaped object is in fact a shield, just like the ones in the 17th century French getons paintings, or so the historians have allegedly debunked. Still, why “shields” and why does it leave behind a trail of smoke?
5.A final outstanding example of alien presence in our lives comes in the form of The Crucifixion of Christ, a fresco that can be seen in Svetishoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, Georgia.
In this wall painting a bizzare flying object on both sides of the cross is clearly depicted, strongly sustaining theories regarding our divinity’s alien-human hybrid nature.
This work of art might hint at the fact that aliens have always been present in key events along our questionable history, and we are being monitored on every step we make on the evolutionary path.
The holographic universe proves that the physical world we believe is real is in fact illusion. Energy fields are decoded by our brains into a 3D picture, to give the illusion of a physical world.
The perceptions we observe may well be coming from an artificial source.
Suppose we could take our brain out of our body and keep it alive in a glass jar. Put a computer in which all kinds of information can be recorded. Transmit the electrical signals of all the data related to a setting such as image, sound and smell into this computer. Connect this computer to the sensory centers in our brain with electrodes and send the pre-recorded data to our brain.
As our brain perceives these signals it will see and live the setting correlated with these.
This article is based upon a BBC Radio 4 radio program, Abduction, Alienation and Reason, originally broadcast June 8, 2005.
Abduction, Alienation and Reason
Not many scientists are prepared to take tales of alien abduction seriously, but John Mack, a Harvard professor who was killed in a road accident in north London last year, did. Ten years on from a row which nearly lost him his job, hundreds of people who claim they were abducted still revere him.
Professor John E Mack was an eminent Harvard psychiatrist, psychoanalyst and Pulitzer Prize winner whose clinical work had focused on explorations of dreams, nightmares and adolescent suicide.
Then, in 1990, he turned the academic community upside down because he wanted to publish his research in which he said that people who claimed they had been abducted by aliens, were not crazy at all. Their experiences, he said, were genuine.
They were not mentally ill or delusional, he said, and it was the responsibility of academicians and psychiatrists not only to take what they said seriously, but to try to understand exactly what that experience was.
And if reality as we know it was unable to take these experiences into serious consideration then what was needed was a change in our perception of reality.
“What are the other possibilities?” said Mack. “Dreams, for instance, do not behave like that. They are highly individual depending on what’s going on in your sub-conscious at the time.
“I would never say, yes, there are aliens taking people. [But] I would say there is a compelling powerful phenomenon here that I can’t account for in any other way, that’s mysterious. Yet I can’t know what it is but it seems to me that it invites a deeper, further inquiry.”
Lifeline
For many people who claimed they had been abducted, John Mack was a lifeline. He worked with more than 200 of them, including professionals, psychologists, writers, students and business people.
Many had never told anyone else of their experiences apart from Mack for fear of ridicule from colleagues, friends and family. Here at last was a highly respected psychiatrist who was not only prepared to listen – but also take what they were saying seriously.
An abductee – or “experiencer” as they prefer to be known – says that alien encounters begin most commonly in their homes and at night. It can however happen anytime, anywhere. They say they are unable to move; they become extremely hot and then appear to float through solid objects, which their logical mind tells them can’t be happening.
Usually the experiencer says they are accompanied by one or two or more humanoid beings who guide them to a ship. They are then subjected to procedures in which instruments are used to penetrate virtually every part of their bodies, including the nose, sinuses, eyes, arms – abdomen and genitalia.
Sperm samples are taken and women have fertilized eggs implanted or removed.
Hybrid offspring
“Have I questioned my own sanity”? says Peter Faust an experiencer and close friend of John Mack’s. “Absolutely, every day to a certain degree because the majority of the world says you’re crazy for having these experiences. But if it was just me who had contact with aliens, who had intimate experience with female aliens and producing hybrid offspring, I would say I’m certifiable, put me away, I’m crazy.
“And that’s how I felt when I initially had these experiences. My wife thought I’d lost it. But then I began to look at the experience outside myself and realized that hundreds if not thousands of people reported that exact same experience. And that gave me sanity. That gave me hope. I knew I couldn’t be fantasizing this.”
The whole experience is often accompanied by a change in the experiencer’s understanding of humanity’s place in the universe.
And it was this that forced Mack to question who we are in the deepest and broadest sense.
“I have come to realize this abduction phenomenon forces us, if we permit ourselves to take it seriously, to re-examine our perception of human identity – to look at who we are from a cosmic perspective,” he said.
Extraordinary work
In 1990 John Mack’s book Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens was published. It shot to the top of the best sellers list and John Mack appeared on radio and television programs. Harvard decided enough was enough.
Mack was sent a letter informing him that there was to be an inquiry into his research on alien abductions. It was the first time in Harvard’s history that a tenured professor was subjected to such an investigation.
John Mack decided to fight back and hired a lawyer, Eric MacLeish.
“It was appalling that John had to go through this,” says MacLeish now. “And we made it clear that if we were to have a full blown trial here, then we were going to have a very public trial and call on everyone who worked with John – all of whom had nothing but praise for his extraordinary work and dedication to his patients – and I don’t think that’s what Harvard had in mind at all.”
There followed 14 months of stressful and bitter negotiations.
“They tried to criticize me, silence me – by saying that by supporting the truth of what these people were experiencing, possibly I was confirming them in a distortion, or a delusion. So instead of being a good psychiatrist and curing them, I was by taking them seriously, confirming them in a delusion and harming them,” said Mack.
The inquiry made front page headlines all over the world and eventually Harvard dropped the case and a statement was issued reaffirming Mack’s academic freedom to study what he wished and concluding that he “remains a member in good standing of the Harvard Faculty of Medicine”.
He continued to work and write.
But Mack was killed in a car collision last year in north London after leaving a Tube station. He was visiting the city to deliver a lecture on the subject which had won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1977, T.E. Lawrence.
But Mack’s work lives on with an institute which now bears his name; the hundreds of people who count themselves in “the experiencer community” still hold him in particular affection.
His search for an expanded notion of reality, which allows for experiences that might not fit traditional perceptions and worldviews, is one they, at least, will be hoping continues. }
Keep watching the night sky for small Galactic Federation crafts. They may appear as blinking red/white/blue lights, and some may be stationary and can be mistaken for stars.
Numerous channeled sources have now confirmed the announcement of the October 14th 3-day Galactic Federation appearance of a large craft in US skies, and as highly spiritually evolved beings, they come with LOVE to assist and prepare us and the planet for an over-due paradigm shift and our spiritual evolution.
Their first priority is to help assist us in removing the current obstacle that is the Illuminati Global Elite, as we are now indeed witnessing their collapse at this time.
Nazis Thought Yeti Could Be Progenitor of Aryan Race
Nazis Thought Yeti Could Be Progenitor of Aryan Race
As icy temperatures blast much of the northern hemisphere and winter approaches with chilling speed, a mysterious creature from the Himalayas reminds us that the north is home to more than just snow.
This mysterious creature often takes a backseat to the more notable Bigfoot. However, similar in stature and structure to Bigfoot, the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman as he’s sometimes called, is best known for inhabiting the Himalayan Mountains and is an indispensable part of local lore in Nepal and the surrounding area.
Sightings of the creature have also been reported in other parts of the world, including the United States.
The Yeti has a rather extensive history.
According to National Geographic, Alexander the Great came across tales of the beast-man as early as 326 B.C. during his campaign to conquer the Indus Valley.
When he pressed the natives to present a specimen, they refused, saying that the creature could not survive at lower altitudes.
The Nazis were also interested in the Yeti, believing that it might be a progenitor of the Aryan race. Head of the S.S. Heinrich Himmler supposedly sent German Professor Ernst Schäfer to search for the creature in 1938, reported National Geographic. Schäfer came to the conclusion that the Yeti was a Tibetan bear.
Differences Between Yeti and Bigfoot
The Yeti is similar to Bigfoot, but different in several key aspects. The bipedal ape-like creature can come in a variety of shapes and sizes, but it is often covered with dark-gray or reddish-brown fur, weighing in at 200 to 400 pounds.
The most distinctive feature between Bigfoot and Yeti is the height; Yeti reports place the creature at an average of about 6 feet tall, according to Live Science, and Bigfoot is said to average about 8 feet tall but accounts come in of it being 10 feet or taller.
Evidence?
Evidence for the Yeti, as with many creatures of myth, is often very hard to come by or unreliable. Unlike the many Bigfoot footprints that are often found and casted, the snowman’s footprints are usually found in snow, which makes it more difficult to differentiate from other creature’s prints.
In 1960, Yeti lore seemed to be reaching new heights when Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to scale Mt. Everest found what he thought might be a scalp from the mysterious beast while searching for physical evidence of the creature. However, the hide was actually from a serow, an animal similar to a goat that is native to the Himalayas.
However, as with Bigfoot, the absence of physical evidence doesn’t mean the creature definitely doesn’t exist. The Himalayas are both remote and vastly uninhabited with a range about 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) long.
The Yeti is said to inhabit the space from the tree line, at a height of about 14,000 feet, to the permanent snow area at about 20,000 feet. Mount Everest’s peak sits at 29,028 feet.
Recent Sighting
One of the last alleged sightings wasn’t in the Himalayas, but rather in Litchfield, Maine, last winter.
The sighting was reported to the International Cryptozoology Museum, according to WMTW 8, a local ABC affiliate.
The person who purportedly viewed the Yeti preferred to remain anonymous, only leaving his initials, “M.P.” This person claims the Bigfoot-like beast had fur that was all white.
Yeti’s Place in Nepal’s Culture
Back in Nepal, the Yeti is taken rather seriously and an important part of the culture.
During the Mani Rimdu Festival, which takes place during the first full moon of the 9th month of the Tibetan lunar calendar (late October), the local monks wear masks to represent divine beings during their ritual dance.
During their dance, one of the monks traditionally takes on the role of the Yeti.
The native Sherpas also have a legend surrounding the Yeti, and it states that the Yeti will only show itself to those who believe in it.
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Robbert van den Broeke ontdekt graancirkels in weiland Noord-Brabant
Robbert van den Broeke ontdekt graancirkels in weiland Noord-Brabant
In een graanveld in Standdaarbuiten in Noord-Brabant is een graancirkelformatie aangetroffen. Zelfverklaard medium Robbert van den Broeke uit Bosschenhoofd claimt de cirkels op maandag te hebben gevonden.
Van den Broeke was in het verleden al vaak betrokken bij het fenomeen graancirkels, schrijft de krant BN DeStem. De graancirkels waar het nu om gaat zijn gevonden in een weiland langs de A17 bij Standdaarbuiten. Het gaat om twee grote cirkels van ruim 20 meter breed en zeven kleineren.
Lichtflitsen
Het publiek kan de cirkels bezoeken, de boer heeft zijn weiland hier namelijk voor opengesteld. Bezoekers moeten zich wel aan een aantal regels houden, aldus de krant. Ze moeten onder meer voorkomen dat er schade aan het weiland en gewas ontstaat. Daarnaast moet de formatie intact blijven en mag er geen afval op de grond worden gegooid.
Er zouden ook lichtflitsen zijn waargenomen boven de cirkel. De formatie is te vinden aan de Langeweg-Noord 1 in Standdaarbuiten.
An Indiana witness in Crawford County reported watching and photographing “three, bright, white, hovering orbs” in a triangle formation, according to testimony in Case 76612 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was out driving at 3 a.m. on March 2, 2015, when three orbs were noticed in the sky.
“I disregarded them and kept driving,” the witness stated.“When making my second round through the same area, I noticed the three orbs were in the same spot. I thought that I may have been too sleepy to really know, so I stopped in the road and starred for approximately 2-3 minutes and realized they weren’t moving.”
Witness photo of three orbs. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness was on the phone with a friend and the call kept dropping, but was detailing to the friend exactly what was being seen.
Cropped portion of witness photo.
(Credit: MUFON)
“I decided to go another round and saw that the orbs were still in the same spot. I pulled over again and noticed a cloud was between the orb formation and decided to take a picture of the orbs. The orbs were bright white and glowing but did not emit a noise, light, or cause any other trouble. I have traveled this same route numerous times at the same time at night and have never seen it before or since. The whole ordeal lasted approximately 45 minutes to an hour. The orbs stayed exactly the same and I decided to go home. I didn’t feel nervous, scared, or anxious. I just felt curious and interested.”
The witness was tired and drove away from the orbs that remained hovering. Pictured: Crawford County is in south-central Indiana.
(Credit: Google)
The report was filed with MUFON on May 26, 2016. Indiana Field Investigator Patrick O’Brien investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown. Crawford County, IN, has a population of 10,713. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
This UFO fleet was caught by Streetcap1 of Youtube. Its an awesome find. I have seen thousands of SOHO sun photos, but never one like this. here we see fleets of ships in groups of 2, 3 and even 4. This is a fleet, which is not a good sign. For a fleet this size to be passing Earth, something big is about to happen. Yes, you can bet money that they know we are here, but they are so technologically advanced that we are not threat to them. Thus, they ignore us. We see a 60-80 ships here, that the SOHO image caught. Many more it didn't catch. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Streetcap1 states: They are flying in small group formation which might suggest military craft. I have seen too many ' ufo fleets ' now to be in any doubt that this is a reality. Streetcap1.
UFO Seen Off Popular Florida Beach, Spectators Are In Awe. Is it a ship? Is it a UFO? June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Seen Off Popular Florida Beach, Spectators Are In Awe. Is it a ship? Is it a UFO? June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
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Date of sighting: June 7, 2016 Location of sighting: Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA This looks to me like a UFO that has risen out of the water and is hovering over the water. UFOs often try to discuss themselves, thats not news to most of us. They make themselves look like meteors as they enter the atmosphere. They make themselves look like passengers jets, but morph. Now we have evidence that they make themselves look like ships...but they fly. You see, they can play their tricks all they want, but sooner or later they get caught. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: The video captured the rare Fata Morgana Mirage at Cocoa Beach, Florida.
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Residents claim UFO sighting in touristic Turkish district, June 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Residents claim UFO sighting in touristic Turkish district, June 2016, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: June 2016 Location of sighting: Bodrum, Mugla, Turkey News source:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/residents-claim-ufo-sighting-in-touristic-turkish-district.aspx?pageID=238&nID=100342&NewsCatID=341 There glowing orbs are increasing in frequency around the globe and they always look like these white balls light. These photos however show some of the greatest close ups ever of these orbs. The orbs are observing humanity, watching us, but for what reason. The fact that so many of these particular types of UFOs are being seen makes me a bit nervous. Why so many? And why spread them around the world? They are everywhere like a satellite defense system waiting to be activated over every country in the world. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
News states: Several people in the touristic district of Bodrum in the southern province of Muğla claim to have seen an illuminated object moving erratically in the sky, stirring speculation about a possible “UFO” sighting. A number of residents of the district’s Çiftlik neighborhood said the object they saw was both moving and staying still. The alleged object was spotted during sahur, the meal before dawn during Ramadan, creating excitement in the district, as the residents claimed the object remained in the sky for 20 minutes. “When we got up for sahur, we went to the terrace of the house. I always look at the sky and watch the stars. I was shocked to see an object that I’ve never seen before shining in sudden movements and changing its color, while it stayed still sometimes,” said Necla Karaca, 39, who witnessed and took photos of the “UFO,” while adding that the “weirdly moving” object didn’t look like a plane. “Our neighbors and relatives also witnessed this. We got excited and became suspicious of the object being an UFO,” she added.
Glowing UFOs over Nevada: Are These Mystery Crafts Belong To Aliens?
Glowing UFOs over Nevada: Are These Mystery Crafts Belong To Aliens?
Alien theorists believe that “ancient aliens” landed on earth. However, what evidence could exist for these encounters? On Friday, June 3, 2016, a hunter claims to have spotted a fleet of the mysterious object over Henderson in Nevada. While people have argued the footage showing the glowing lights hovering over the place, alien believers insist that the footage likely shows alien filmed in an area nearby the hotspot, Nellis Air Force Base. In this place, it is where the conspiracy theorists claim a race known as the Tall Whites, which have been maintained as a secret base since the year 1950s. Steven Barone, a UFO hunter, has recalled his experience that he missed the chance to record the strange objects. He admitted seeing them after waiting for several minutes but suddenly disappeared. The quick appearance has led him to miss recording on such footage.
From the comments made by Barone, one could conclude that Henderson is swarming with strange objects. He captured on camera three separate events from his backyard in the affluent Summerlin area of Las Vegas on June 3, 2016. However, some Youtube commenters provides an insight as to why enthusiasts believe that the metropolitan area of Las Vegas is running rampant with aliens is related to a notorious hotspot, with a history of alien sightings. The Nellis Air Force Base is about eight miles outside Las Vegas. The place features famous alien folklore as the site of a top-secret Tall White Alien base. The base accommodates a small community of Tall White engineers and scientists who work with the USAF and provide technical assistance essential to ongoing black projects.
According to one UFO blogger, the aliens filmed by Barone were probably Tall While alien taking off from the Nellis Air Force base, hovering in the outer space. Alien conspiracy theorists claim that in 1950, the U.S. government entered into a secret trade agreement with the Tall White aliens. Under the agreement, the aliens would allow the U.S. government to get access to advanced technology as a swap for access to natural resources, such as titanium and aluminum. The aliens were believed to have an identical appearance to humans. The only physical features that made them difference are their large dark pink or blue eyes or chalky white skin.
NASA Captures Magnetic Field Explosions Over Earth
NASA Captures Magnetic Field Explosions Over Earth
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IN BRIEF
The findings of NASA's MMS mission have been published, and they detail the fundamental processes that occurs when there is magnetic reconnection, and how we managed to capture this event.
MAGNETIC RECONNECTION
Back in 2015, NASA launched four spacecraft known as Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS). Their job was to study the magnetic fields around Earth to gain information on how they connect and disconnect. Now, the mission is getting its first results, with initial observations having been published in the journal Science.
To break this down a bit, the mission was sent to space to find areas where magnetic reconnection occurs. This is a process that converts magnetic energy to kinetic or thermal energy. It occurs during solar flares, coronal mass ejections, and when solar winds interact with the Earth’s magnetic field sans solar storm.
When two sets of magnetic fields connect, an explosive reaction occurs: As the magnetic fields realign and snap into a new formation, they send particles zooming off in jets. This is magnetic reconnection. And since solar winds have their own magnetic fields, when they reach Earth and hit the magnetosphere, magnetic reconnection occurs.
NASA sent up the satellites to witness this phenomenon. Before, all that could be seen was the particles that zoom off after the filed collide, much like seeing the debris flung out from a tornado, but we’ve never seen the storm itself.
SPACE WEATHER
By having the MMS mission, NASA was able to observe one of the fundamental forces of nature. On Oct. 16, 2015, the spacecraft traveled straight through a magnetic reconnection event. In only a few seconds, the total of 100 sensors collected thousands of observations, including how the magnetic and electric fields changed, as well as the speeds and direction of the various charged particles.
But why collect the information?
Well, such information helps map out the details of our space environment — crucial information as we journey ever farther beyond our home planet. The phenomenon also affects the “space weather” found in the Earth’s magnetosphere. Better understanding of the phenomenon allows NASA to improve its predictions for magnetic reconnection and, as a result, better control its equipment in space.
China is planning to build an enormous underwater lab for research purposes; however, the country notes that "it will carry some military functions."
China plans to build a huge sea lab 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) below the surface of the South China Sea. This project is part is China’s thirteenth five-year economic plan, and it is ranked two in the country’s top 100 science and technology priorities. The purpose of this project is to help China find minerals in the waters…but it may also have military purposes.
Only a little information is available for the public as of the moment.
The platform will be movable, as noted in the recent presentation by the Ministry of Science and Technology. The deep-sea station is spearheaded by China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation. It will have a dozen crew on board and could stay underwater for about a month.
So. Just how feasible is this? Well, general location faces both geological and technical challenges, such as frequent occurrence of typhoons. The area is estimated to have around 125 billion barrels of oil and around 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. China already spent 1.42 trillion yuan ($216 billion) on research and development in 2015. So they are investing big in the project.
Notably, China previously proved that they can live up to their deepsea ambitions by setting a world record when they sent their submersible Jiaolong to descend 7 kilometers (23,000 feet) into the Indian Ocean.
Interestingly, the “Underwater Great Wall Project,” a network of sensors to help detect US and Russian submarines, has also been proposed.
Astronautentrainer: “NASA verbergt buitenaardse activiteit op de maan”
Astronautentrainer: “NASA verbergt buitenaardse activiteit op de maan”
Medewerkers van de NASA hebben geknoeid met beelden die bewijzen dat er buitenaardse activiteit op de maan is. Dat heeft voormalig astronautentrainer van de NASA Ralph Kennedy Johnston sr. gezegd.
De oud-adviseur van de NASA zegt met eigen ogen te hebben gezien hoe mensen van de NASA beelden bewerkten die tijdens de Apollomissies zijn gemaakt. Hij heeft besloten zijn hele archief te doneren aan het International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell.
Het gaat onder meer om kopieën van drie boeken die NASA-beelden bevatten en interviews die hij heeft gedaan. Het meeste materiaal is uniek en nooit eerder vertoond, hoewel sommige foto’s inmiddels ook online te vinden zijn en gedeeld zijn met onderzoekers.
Details wegpoetsten
Het museum beschikt over één van de grootste verzamelingen informatie over buitenaardsen en UFO’s ter wereld. Ieder jaar mag het zo’n 180.000 bezoekers verwelkomen. Er ligt ook materiaal over UFO’s opgeslagen van het Smithsonian Institution, een Amerikaans onderzoeksinstituut.
Toen Johnston in 1971 astronauten trainde in het Lunar Receiving Laboratory in het Johnson Center van de NASA, zag hij naar eigen zeggen hoe medewerkers van de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie bepaalde details wegpoetsten op maanfoto’s.
Vernietigen
Volgens Johnston zit er een groot verschil tussen de oorspronkelijke foto’s en videobeelden en wat door de NASA beschikbaar is gemaakt voor het publiek. Hij heeft onder meer een Apollo 14-film gescreend voor een NASA-astronoom waarin vijf koepelvormige lichten in een krater te zien zijn.
Hij kreeg de opdracht om de foto’s van de maanmissies te vernietigen, terwijl hij vond dat de beelden gedoneerd moesten worden aan universiteiten of onderzoeksinstituten.
Hij gaf een aantal foto’s aan een universiteit, maar zei dat de meeste foto’s zijn verdwenen. De oud-piloot geeft geregeld lezingen en interviews over wat in zijn ogen bewijs is voor buitenaardse activiteit op de maan. Op zijn website Kenjohnstonmedia.com zijn een aantal foto’s te zien.
VIDEO: ‘Resten van 2000 jaar oude verzonken stad gevonden voor kust Tanzania’
VIDEO: ‘Resten van 2000 jaar oude verzonken stad gevonden voor kust Tanzania’
Het lijkt er sterk op dat scubaduiker Allen Sutten echt een ‘verloren stad’ heeft gevonden voor de kust van Tanzania. Door een ongewoon lage waterstand werden de resten van een vier kilometer lange muur blootgelegd.
Onderzoekers zeggen dat het zou kunnen gaan om Rhapta, een meer dan 2000 jaar oude stad. De verloren stad Rhapta wordt ook wel omschreven als de eerste metropool van Afrika. Het zou één van de rijkste steden van zijn tijd en een handelsknooppunt voor ijzeren wapens en schildpadden zijn geweest. Verder is er maar weinig over Rhapta bekend.
Kijk op geschiedenis veranderen
Sutten spotte de ruïnes vanuit een helikopter en besloot ze van dichtbij te bekijken. Het duurde liefst drie jaar voordat hij de exacte locatie had gevonden.
Na de ontdekking besloot professor Felix Chami van de Universiteit van Dar es Salaam naar de plek af te reizen. Hij zegt dat de vondst onze kijk op de Afrikaanse geschiedenis weleens zou kunnen veranderen.
Onderzoek verricht
Er wordt nog steeds onderzoek verricht op de plek waar de ruïnes zijn gevonden, dus op dit moment is er nog weinig bekend over de verloren stad voor de kust van Tanzania.
Mysterious orange orb caught on video in Vancouver
Mysterious orange orb caught on video in Vancouver
A UFO hunter in Vancouver caught an orange orb on video recently, using his specially outfitted UFO spotting cameras and lenses. He says the object was able to be filmed using his night vision camera, but it did not show up on his thermal, heat-sensing camera.
Charles Lamoureux has been hunting UFOs for a long time. He uses a system he calls his Skywatcher’s Mobile Unit (SMU). He says it is “fitted with Night vision, thermal camera, and regular camcorder, etc.”
Lamoureux is not one to call every light in the night sky a UFO. Often he points out birds, planes, satellites, and other more mundane objects that often get mistaken for UFOs. However, what he captured on the night of June 3rd, 2016, he cannot explain. He sent the video (seen above) to OpenMinds.tv, and gave us some information on how it was obtained.
Still image from Lamoureux ‘s video. The thermal black and white image does not show the object, while the color night vision video does.
(Credit: Charles Lamoureux/YouTube)
According to Lamoureux, he first spotted the object on night vision at around 11:45 pm. It was about 2 hours into his skywatching session.
“I noticed 1 orange fuzzy object and realized it was within 200 feet from me since I had to focus the camera,” Lamoureux explained via email. “I know this because of my camera is usually set for infinity and if I have to focus when I know the object must be within 200 feet as per experience using this camera over the years.”
He says the object appeared to be sphere shaped, and he began attempting to identify what the objectwas.
“Most night vision captures I see, I can easily see wings if it’s a bird, bug or any other mundane object,” Lamoureux continued. “This object was semi translucent, so I ruled out balloon. I then followed it, and since it was fairly close, I looked directly at the sky and did not see anything.”
Lamoureux’s SMU unit also includes a thermal camera for picking up heat signatures, but the object was not being detected with it. A small bird, or other heat-emitting object, was able to be seen on the unit above the orb he was tracking. This can be seen in the video. However, although the bird can be seen in the thermal and the night vision, the orb is only seen on the night vision.
Thermal imaging shows objects that are different temperatures as different colors. Lamoureux concluded that the orb could not be seen on the thermal camera because it was either the same temperature as the air around it or colder.
Lamoureux estimates the object was at about 80 degrees over the horizon to the southwest of him. The object passed in front of buildings towards the end of his video, so using their height, he estimated the object was about 30 stories high. He says there was no wind – “not even a breeze” – leading him to believe it was not an object being carried by the air.
Lamoureux is convinced the object is unusual. He wrote, “It’s been 15 months since my last witnessed event, and I skywatch almost every clear night since. This is the real deal and for sure 100 percent spherical.”
In order to get another opinion from an experienced skywatcher and “UFO” video analysts, I asked the Mutual UFO Network’s chief video and photo analyst Marc D’Antonio to take a look.
“I looked at the video, and noticed that he is using the Luna Optics full-color MicroLux camera. The sensitivity is about 0.3 lux so it is an interesting camera,” wrote D’Antonio. “As for what he caught on the footage, it’s not very far away, it’s only about 100 feet away from him by his own admission.”
Luna Optics LN-DM50-HRSD night vision camera, like the one used to capture the UFO video.
(Credit: Luna Optics)
D’Antonio continued, “It appeared to me to be more like a plastic bag flying around in the air. I am not saying that is what it is, but that would account for the reason why there is no thermal signature which he thought was very important.”
D’Antonio notes that the object was filmed in a city, and there is a lot of trash blowing around. He has seen trash floating around in a city be mistaken for UFOs before.
However, D’Antonio wanted to be clear that he is not making any final conclusions, just suggesting another possibility. He also points out that the video does not provide any evidence that puts it in the “extraterrestrial category” either.
D’Antonio gave me a similar conclusion to a video I was given many years ago of an object floating around the Las Vegas strip.
Although, D’Antonio feels the object might be trash floating around the city streets, the object does appear to be spherical in shape, as Lamoureux has pointed out. At one point, it also appears to change direction.
Lamoureux’s UFO research is being featured in a French-Canadian documentary titled (translated) “Lights in the sky.” He says it is a “Very unbiased look at [UFOs],” and that “the film follows me in my travels to find answers.”
He says a French version will be aired on Canadian television soon, and an English version of the documentary is in the works.
Take a look at the videos Lamoureux has provided, and let us know what you think in the comments below.
Sphere UFO described as size of ‘football stadium’
Sphere UFO described as size of ‘football stadium’
A New York witness at Saranac Lake reported watching a sphere-shaped UFO move overhead the size of a “football stadium,” according to testimony in Case 76535 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The sphere-shaped UFO moved directly overhead under 500 and appeared to be the size of a football stadium.
Pictured: The village of Saranac Lake, with Lake Flower below and Lake Colby above, from Scarface Mountain to the southeast. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The witness had gone out with friends to see a band play and the group was sitting around smoking cigarettes afterwards at 2:30 a.m. on May 13, 2016, when the incident occurred.
“I saw it coming very slowly, at first looking like something out of ‘Doctor Who’ or ‘Star Wars,’” the witness stated. “I stared at it in awe for a good 15 seconds before my brain kicked in and I realized I should point it out.”
One witness said the object looked like a shuttle. Pictured: Lake Flower, from Riverside Park, Saranac Lake, New York.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The object had now moved directly overhead at under 500 feet.
“I could see the most beautiful blue color I’ve ever seen forming thick circles, smaller ones around the edges. At this point the ship looked spherical, like a glass planet. I saw what looked like hundreds of observation windows. I told my friends to look up, and we all watched as it very slowly, noiselessly continued onward.”
One of the friends commented that the object looked like a shuttle.
“It kind of did by the three very bright lights visible on its backside. If I hadn’t of looked up, it would have buzzed us and we would never have seen it. I live in the mountains near Canada and have spent many years searching a light pollution-less sky. I have never seen anything like this. It was comparable to having a football stadium pass right over your head, slowly and silently.”
The sighting lasted about five minutes. Pictured: The village of Saranac Lake, bottom, with Lower Saranac Lake, above, from Baker Mountain, to the east. Lake Flower is at lower left. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The group watched the object until it was out of sight – about five minutes of total viewing time.
New York Field Investigator John “Jack” Fay and New York Chief Investigator Nicholas Voulgaris are investigating. Saranac Lake is a village in New York, population 5,406. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
NASA KLOKKENLUIDER WEET DAT ER BASES ZIJN OP DE MAAN EN OP MARS ( VIDEO )
NASA KLOKKENLUIDER WEET DAT ER BASES ZIJN OP DE MAAN EN OP MARS ( VIDEO )
Het komt niet iedere dag voor dat je te maken krijgt met NASA klokkenluiders. Vandaag is er zo iemand en wel Dr. Ken Johnston Sr.
Een vroegere marinepiloot en één van de vier civiele consultants voor astronauten die bij NASA hebben gewerkt.
Dr. Ken Johnston heeft als consultant bij diverse afdelingen van NASA gewerkt. Zo trainde hij onder andere de astronauten die de Lunar Module moesten bedienen bij de landingen op de maan tijdens de Apollo-missies.
Johnston is getuige geweest van de manipulatie van beeldmateriaal door NASA in Houston tijdens de Apollo-reizen.
Soms komen er beelden boven water uit de privé-verzameling van Ken Johnston, zoals de volgende, waarbij duidelijk te zien is dat er zich op de maan, links van de Lunar Module, een basis bevindt.
Deze foto is gemaakt tijdens één van de Apollo missies, is door Ken onderschept bij NASA en deze foto zul je dan ook niet terugvinden in de NASA archieven. Ken heeft ook een periode gewerkt in het Lunar Receiving Lab, de plek waar de astronauten en datgene wat ze hadden meegenomen van de maan een tijdlang in quarantaine werden gehouden.
Wanneer er iets meer contrast wordt toegevoegd, wordt het beeld een stuk duidelijker en zie je ook duidelijk de structuren van gebouwen.
Enkele dagen geleden heeft Johnston Sr. op zijn website bekendgemaakt dat hij zijn complete archief met fotomateriaal zal doneren aan het UFO Museum & Research Centre in Roswell, New Mexico.
Hij doet dit omdat Ken de stad Roswell ziet als een bijzondere plek, waar heel veel mensen samen komen die belangstelling hebben voor buitenaardse zaken.
Wie belangstelling heeft voor bijzondere dingen raden wij aan te kijken naar het volgende interview dat Project Camelot aan het begin van dit jaar had met Ken Johnston Sr.
De man die zegt dat hij hele duidelijke foto’s heeft gezien van koepels en andere gebouwen op de maan en zeker weet dat er bases zijn zowel op de maan als ook op Mars.
UFO hovering over Detroit Causes Excitement On June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO hovering over Detroit Causes Excitement On June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 3, 2016 Location of sighting: Detroit, Michigan, USA Detroit News source:
http://www.clickondetroit.com/features/video-woman-claims-to-see-ufo-hovering-over-detroit I usually don't post a lot of night UFO sightings due to the fact its night, and not much can be seen, but this in cool, because it does look like a disk and she gets more than a minute of footage. Possibly checking into how the polluted chemical ridden water is affecting the residence of the city. There is always a reason when they appear. We just rarely know about it. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com News states: DETROIT - A Detroit woman says everybody thinks she's going crazy -- but she is standing by what she saw hovering above her home on the evening of Friday, June 3. Vanessa Oliver has video of what she claims to be a UFO above her Detroit home, near Gratiot Avenue and Van Dyke. More Features Headlines Michigan's Bath School disaster remains deadliest of its kind in US history When the 'Purple Gang' ruled Detroit Netherlands UFO gets international attention In the video, Oliver claims she has seen the same light in the sky several times before, but finally captured it on video. Oliver tells Local 4 the video didn't do it justice; that she could see more detailed, colorful lights. She captured the video around 9 p.m., on June 3, which shows the mysterious light floating, and moving around in the night sky. "Tell me I'm going crazy. Tell me that I don't see what I think I see," Oliver said in the video. "I will not sleep tonight. This is scary."
Fishermen Watch UFO Over Lake In Sau Pablo, Brazil On June 8, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Fishermen Watch UFO Over Lake In Sau Pablo, Brazil On June 8, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: June 8, 2016 Location of sighting: Sau Pablo, Brazil This UFO was caught in Brazil this week and shows a UFO moving over a local lake at Sau Pablo with some fisherman watch it. The video is short, but is further proof that UFOs are more easily seen during sunset than any other time of the day. The angle of the sun and the position of the person and UFO make it perfect. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Bright UFO spotted over Hume Highway, NSW Australia
Bright UFO spotted over Hume Highway, NSW Australia
Location:Hume Highway, NSW Australia Date:18th May 2016 Submitted by Lynda
Witness report: I saw the same object as seen in the video ‘Amazing UFO video: Flying saucer over eastern Australia?’ We were travelling along the Hume Highway towards Sydney. The object was geo-static for at least 30 minutes after I first noticed it. I did not see it fade away. We pulled off the Highway and I took a couple of still photo’s. It was higher than the clouds and aircraft taking off from or landing? at Sydney airport as I saw 2 planes pass left to right below the object.
Witnesses Claimed Seeing an Alien Climbed the Trees
Witnesses Claimed Seeing an Alien Climbed the Trees
Remember extraterrestrials and alien creatures? Some people might not believe it—but there’s a time when a claim to have been abducted by aliens was debunked as a hoax or a myth. Since some people believed it to be fictional, anyone desperately trying to provide explanations should consider the evidence. One mysterious creature was seen climbing through the trees. Afterward, it jumped back on board when it was seen. According to the local TV news, three students have allegedly seen the entity circling Argentine city Santa Cruz before making the dramatic landing. According to a report on Notivision, locals claimed that a UFO is an extraterrestrial creature descended from its ‘vessel,’ before exerting efforts to get back on board.
It was believed that three students witnessed the EL Dorado sighting as they returned home from school. It started with a bright light when the unimaginable object occurred. Another witness claimed to have heard a very loud sound. Unfortunately, the sounds cannot be recorded because the signals went out. While there are no other ways to keep a track on the sound, it was caught on the camera before it landed. According to the reporter, a mysterious object was seen by the residents. The strange sighting was crashed on the district’s Calle 2 describing a mysterious creature that climbed a tree. Another witness told reporters that couple of eyes constantly looked at him.
It was son Friday that the strange event took place in the El Dorado district around 10 pm local time. Please remember that El Dorado district is situated in the El Bastión sector of the city. Whether or not the encounter and sighting is a genuine one has not been concluded yet, but witnesses firmly admit that it did happen. In fact, there is one resident that provided a layout of what it looked like.
Glowing Diamond UFO Looks Similar to Infamous Sighting in 1980
Glowing Diamond UFO Looks Similar to Infamous Sighting in 1980
A video has brought many commotions among experts after it shows an activity analogous to aUFO sighting in 1980.
The footage shows a UFO in a diamond shape, which is observed from inside a plane flying 43,000 feet above Texas in the U.S.
A man only identified as Steve was the one who recorded the video. He reportedly works as an aircraft maintenance director for a corporate jet fleet in the nation.
He apparently sent the video to SecureTeam10, a group of people who love to spend time analysing UFO sighting videos and share their findings on their YouTube channel.
Tyler of SecureTeam said that after they had watched the clip, they realised that the diamond-shaped UFO looked the same to the Cash-Landrum incident in December 1980 involving two women Betty Cash and Vicky Landrum. Cash and Landrum were on their way to their home from dinner with Colby, the seven-year-old grandson of Vicky. While travelling, they saw a large diamond object in the sky.
According to the reporting witnesses, the mysterious aerial object emitted flames from underneath and Betty got terrible burns as she got out to investigate.
Both of them said the unknown thing started to move away when 23-military-type helicopters appearedto approach it.
Openness and Honesty About Aliens and UFOs in the UK
Openness and Honesty About Aliens and UFOs in the UK
A video that shows David Cameron promising to be open and frank about extraterrestrial life has increased hopes of an official announcement of the existence of such life outside planet Earth.
UFO hunters are expecting and wishing that US President Barack Obama will go public about it before leaving the office.
Lobbyist Stephen Bassett believes that if Americans make the first move, the Prime Minister will follow suit.
It looks like the Tory leader will love such move after stating that no government shall hide the truth.
Richard’s letter to David Cameron asks for an interview
Chartered electrical engineer, Richard D Hall, interviewed Cameron in 2009 (before he became Prime Minister) and asked him about Dr. Edgar Mitchell, who said on a British radio station that the American government have had contact with aliens on multiple occasions and still happening at present.
The Tory chief poked fun at the question at first saying that alien life forms have been visiting Earth, and one of them was the trade secretary Peter Mandelson.
However, it looked like he changed his tone when he found out that Richard, who hosts the television show Rich Plane and runs the Rich Planet website, was serious about it.
David Cameron’s polite reply
According to Cameron, he has no idea whether ET intelligent life exists or alien sightings that have happened have any basis in truth.
He adds that UFO or alien sighting reports tend to have rational explanations and show that they are not what people who believe in UFOs suggest. However, he notes that the government should be as open as possible. He is happy to give the public a guarantee that he is open and frank about it because it‘s not something that any government should hide from anybody.
Muhammad Ali Saw UFOs Including Mothership on Numerous Different Occasions
Muhammad Ali Saw UFOs Including Mothership on Numerous Different Occasions
Do you think that the only people who saw aliens and extraterrestrial objects are your typical everyday Joes? Now, think again. The truth is, there has been a sequence of famous sightings by politicians and celebrities. Boxing and world’s heavyweight champion Muhammed Ali claimed to have spotted strange objects on different occasions. This boxing legend was an avid alien believer and claimed to have spotted and encounter beings that were shrouded in mystery and secrecy. Ali even claimed to have seen a huge alien Mothership that bears a resemblance to the ETs He also believed that alien visitations were very much relevant to the whole world. Though aliens have a blank space regarding who they are and what they are, Ali believes that they are friendly visitors from another world.
In a tribute online, Mr. Green Beckley used extracts from a book about celebrities with extraterrestrial experiences to discover Ali’s thoughts on them. Beckley had four meetings with the legend boxer when they discussed aliens. In the book, it stated that Ali spotted one in the park and later at his home in New York City. The second sightings reportedly had a glowing red trail behind it. In his book, he continued that he brought the attention to his trainer, who was standing nearby. Both of them watched behind the skyline, which moved slowly across the sky for at least 15 minutes. Later on, he finds out there were other sightings on that same night, including the Newark Airport sighting. Due to the numerous times he spotted strange objects, he wrote in a book saying how the aliens were playing tag among the stars. At the end of the day, both Ali and the author had one final formal, but short meeting about the aliens. Mr. Beckley recalled that Ali always speaks his mind.
UFO sighting caught on tape over Mesa, Arizona 16-Mar-2016
UFO sighting caught on tape over Mesa, Arizona 16-Mar-2016
Here’s one new footage of a bright unidentified flying object hovering in the sky above Mesa, Arizona.
Witness report: On Saturday night, 16 March 2013, starting at 2150 to 2209, I recorded the following lights crossing the Mesa, Arizona skyline. I was on the second floor of an apartment complex on Lindsey and US-60. I was going to close the blinds in my daughter’s room when the incident occurred. The reason I find this interesting is that there are 2-red vertical lights that slowly moved from the North-West to the East. Possibly coming from the Anthem, Cave Creek Area headed toward Superstition Mountains. An aircraft is supposed to have green lights on this side. Red was the only light visible throughout the whole recording and it was steady and never rotated or moved out of position. At about 11-minutes into filming the top light begin to fade than went out. At 15-minutes 20 seconds the second light began to fade than went out. Near the end of the filming I do show an aircraft landing at Falcon Field. I have 21-years in Naval Aviation as an Aviation Ordnanceman working on Fixed & Rotary Wing aircraft and there weapons; and 6-years in the Aerospace Industry. Three of those were manufacturing Military Helicopters and three were in Iraq & Afghanistan as a Contractor with numerous Army Medivac Units. I have been in combat situations both in the Navy and as a Contractor. With all this said, I know for a fact these are not Military Flares or other ordnance. As far as an Air Ship, Balloon or other type of aircraft, I am 99% sure it is not. I do not know of any aircraft like this or that has formation lights like this and/or then extinguishes itself. There were no clouds or haze this night. It was a comfortable cool air. As far as a shape, I could not tell. I did try to look for something that would identify its shape and transparency but did not find any evidence of it. It was too far away to determine if it had a sound. I can only guesstimate the object(s) were 8-10 miles from me.
More than 100 people are said to have seen a UFO fleet make a triangle formation.
Yesterday Express.co.uk exclusively revealed how a female pilot claimed she and her boyfriend were left with a "life-changing" experience after seeing "four UFOs" in the desert during the Contact in the Desert conference in the Joshua Tree National Park, California, which is one of the world's biggest ET conferences.
The woman, who is also a lawyer and has yet to be named, said the possible alien spacecraft appeared on Saturday evening during a special skywatch event in a report to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) which investigates UFO cases across the globe.
Now a second report about the incident has been filed with MUFON, claiming there were MORE UFOS, and that more than 100 people witnessed the strange triangle formation.
Kristie Cowans has filed a report to MUFON, claiming there was an attempt by the skywatchers known as CE-5 contact, to summon the presence of UFOs through meditation, before the phenomenon.
She said it took place at 10pm local time on Saturday and she had stargazing binoculars and a green laser.
She pointed out there was a small airport to the south and a Marine Base north-east of them, but all the "UFO" activity came from the west going due east.
She wrote: "As we began I was able to spot many stars, planets, planes and satellites as part of the process of really looking at what was above us-then the unexpected happened.
"There was a parade of seven orbs/UFOs flying faster than satellites and as high as planes & helicopters from west over the mountains and disappearing to the east.
"The colours of the orbs were bright, but a diffused soft green, diffused soft red, and diffused soft lilac blue, with the blue one being larger than the others."
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Contact in the Desert is attended by 1000s of UFO buffs.
There was a parade of seven orbs/UFOs flying faster than satellites and as high as planes & helicopters from west over the mountains and disappearing to the east.
UFO witness Kristie Cowans
"The type of glow was unlike anything I have ever seen in my research on military drones as my skeptical mind considered this possibility.
"They did not look like drones - I saw no structures connected to the glowing lights, the glowing light floated independent of any structure."
The unnamed pilot previously independently reported seeing five of the coloured UFOs.
She described how the first UFO zipped overhead, followed by a third, fourth and fifth, the three of which then formed a triangle formation.
The woman and her boyfriend said they have been left profoundly affected by what they saw and estimated around 30 people in total would have witnessed the event.
Contact in the Desert is a four-day annual event held in the remote desert with several UFO and alien expert speakers and the opportunity for skywatching.
Their sighting and a short video showing the triangle formation is now being investigated by MUFON.
In her report to MUFON, the woman said: "We are both highly educated, professional people with an interest in UFOs.
"He is a Management Consultant and I am an attorney. I am also a private pilot."
She said the pair queued for about an hour for the "Night Vision Experience" which involved scouring space with military grade night vision goggles from around 10pm local time.
She said: "There was a yell from another participant.
"We swung our goggles to look in the northerly direction. I focused on a white, glowing object which looked like a ball of light with fuzzy edges coming over the horizon rather fast, traveling west to east and then slowlydisappearing.
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The formation was said to be similar to this one previously snapped by UFO chasers.
"Process of elimination set in: Not a plane, helicopter because no blinking lights.
“Fuzzy edges, ball shaped.
“Not a satellite because too low on the horizon and moving too fast. These objects were large enough and bright enough to be seen with the naked eye."
She said as they watched, a second object, blue in colour, "came out of the west and traveled rapidly to the east”.
It was ball shaped, glowing, with fuzzy edges, and slowed down, she said.
She added: "The third object then came from the west, this time green in colour. Same shape, characteristics as above. This one slowed down also.
"The fourth, object, I'm uncertain about the colour as people were now very excited and many thoughts were racing through my mind.
"Now, the second, third and fourth object had slowed to a triangle formation. With the apex of the triangle facing up. They did not stop but kept moving to the east."
"Ever since that evening, my boyfriend and I have been processing this event.
"Since then, we have not stopped thinking about what we saw. We are both logical, sane people.
"Neither one of us has ever experienced anything like it in our lives.
"We cannot stop thinking about what we saw at Joshua Tree."
Sceptics suggest that at events where many people attend, particularly when they want to see something, mass hysteria can kick in, an the memory becomes distorted or embellished.
Others have said that drones could be the cause of the sighting, and with it being a UFO conference taking place, it could have been pranksters flying them overhead at the time of the skywatch.
The meteor, which was filmed on phones and dashcams, prompted calls from shocked locals to police and even paranormal UFO investigators.
The fireball was seen streaming over Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky and Michigan.
Videos of the meteor have been uploaded to social media after sightings across the USA mid-west, with claims it was "a flash that fell from the sky".
Even the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the world's biggest organisation for investigating alleged alien and UFO sightings, was contacted by open-jawed witnesses, claiming to have seen the fireball in Arizona, where one was reported just three days earlier.
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A brilliant fireball lights up the predawn skies over Arizona on June 2, 2016, as this still from a NASA meteor camera in the Santa Rita Mountains, southeast of Tucson, shows
I saw a streak of white light followed by a burst of yellow/orange before the object disappeared."
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Tom Stolze, who runs the website O'Fallonweather.org, posted a video showing the bright light soaring over houses in O'Fallon, Missouri.
While a witness from Wendelin, Illinois, wrote on the American Meteor Society (AMS) website: "It looked like one of the more expensive fireworks shooting down instead of up. I could have sworn it landed in the field I was driving by."
Another user added: "I saw a streak of white light followed by a burst of yellow/orange before the object disappeared."
The sightings came just days after a fireball lit up the skies and was captured in fantastic footage over Arizona.
According to the AMS several thousands of meteors fall each day, but most cannot be seen in daylight, and many more fall over the ocean where no one can see them.
The website said: "Additionally, the brighter the fireball, the more rare is the event."
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Une météorite dans le ciel carolo ?
Une météorite dans le ciel carolo ?
Une étrange boule de feu et de fumée a traversé le ciel carolo mercredi.
Photo prise à Vaucelles ves 22h.
Le phénomène a été immortalisé par plusieurs témoins ce mercredi. La question était sur toutes les lèvres: que se passe-t-il dans le ciel carolo? Une fusée? Une boule de feu? Une comète? Selon RTL, qui a interrogé des spécialistes de l’IRM, il pourrait s’agir d’une météorite ou pourquoi pas «de déchet de l’espace».
S vous avez vu aussi cette étrange boule, n’hésitez pas à envoyer vos photos à rfi@lavenir.net avec votre nom.
Mysterieus voorwerp boven Charleroi heeft België een dag in de ban gehouden
Mysterieus voorwerp boven Charleroi heeft België een dag in de ban gehouden
Is het Eddy Wally zaliger die uit een vliegmachine springt? Of toch een UFO? Het geheimzinnige voorwerp dat gisteren boven Charleroi werd gefilmd was een raadsel voor velen. Maar aan alle mensen die in buitenaards leven geloven: de Koninklijke Sterrenwacht liet zopas weten dat het niet om E.T. en zijn volgelingen gaat, maar om een vliegtuig.
Gisteren vloog er een vreemd voorwerp in de regio rond Charleroi. Was het een meteoor, een komeet of een UFO? Da's moeilijk in te schatten, zei Jan Cuypers van de Koninklijke Sterrenwacht deze morgen nog aan VRT Nieuws.
"Het is niet onmogelijk dat het gaat om een meteoor of restanten van een satelliet, maar het is wel erg onwaarschijnlijk", vertelt Jan Cuypers. "Eerst en vooral hebben we enkel weet van meldingen in dezelfde - kleine - regio, terwijl een meteoor op veel meer plaatsen zou moeten te zien zijn. Op de beelden zien we ook dat het verschijnsel zich boven de wolken heeft voorgedaan en dat je bovenaan een einde ziet aan het traject. De kans dat het iets uit de ruimte is, is dus klein."
Tip brengt uitsluitsel
Na een nieuwe tip deze namiddag is het bijna zo goed als zeker wat ons zo in de ban hield, vertelt Cuypers aan VRT Nieuws. Het zou gewoon om een vliegtuig gaan. "De zon zat op sommige plekken echter op een goede plaats waardoor de schaduw van het vliegtuig op de condensstreep viel, die zo op rook leek. Honderd procent zeker ben je in deze gevallen nooit, maar die verklaring lijkt mij zeer waarschijnlijk."
Mysterie onthuld: dit voorwerp was te zien boven België
Mysterie onthuld: dit voorwerp was te zien boven België
Tientallen mensen maakten woensdagavond melding van een "mysterieus voorwerp" boven ons land. Vooral de inwoners van Charleroi zagen de "oranje vuurbal" duidelijk aan de hemel. Sommigen dachten dat het een komeet was, anderen hadden het over een ufo. Na onderzoek komt de Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België met een verklaring.
Enkele inwoners van Charleroi meldden het vreemde voorwerp woensdagavond aan RTL. Meteen deden geruchten de ronde dat het om een meteoor zou gaan of een stukje puin van een raket. Sommigen dachten zelfs aan een ufo.
De Koninklijke Sterrenwacht van België ging op zoek naar de juiste verklaring. Daar werd al meteen duidelijk dat het zeker geen komeet was. "Daarna bekeken we of het misschien een meteoor was", zegt astronoom Jan Cuypers. "Ook die optie konden we uitsluiten. Een meteoor is meestal maar korte tijd zichtbaar en er is zelden tijd om foto's te nemen. Bovendien hing het voorwerp te laag in de lucht en bewoog het te trag om een meteoor te zijn."
Daardoor werd al snel gedacht dat het om een "aards voorwerp" ging. Een brandende wensballon, een raketje dat gelanceerd was vanop de aarde of een drone... Alle mogelijkheden werden bekeken.
"We hadden er echt het raden naar, tot we telefoon kregen van een man uit Oudenaarde", aldus Cuypers. "Hij vertelde ons dat hij het voorwerp ook gezien had, maar dat het er helemaal niet zo vreemd uitzag vanuit zijn standpunt. Een man uit Charleroi zei bovendien aan RTL dat hij het voorwerp vijf minuten gevolgd had."
Daardoor werd de echte aard van het voorwerp ontdekt. "Het "mysterieuze voorwerp" was gewoon een vliegtuig", klinkt het. "Een vliegtuig laat normaal witte condenssporen achter. Door de stand van de zon werd echter een uitzonderlijke schaduw op het vliegtuig en het spoor geworpen. Daardoor leek het even op een "oranje vuurbal"."
Unbelievable 'UFO sighting' behind massive cloud caught on camera - is it proof aliens exist?
Unbelievable 'UFO sighting' behind massive cloud caught on camera - is it proof aliens exist?
BYKIRSTIE MCCRUM
As a cloud formation filled the sky, Scott Wareing believed that he saw something else hiding in its shadow
A UFO enthusiast has shared footage which he believes shows a massive unidentified craft hidden in a cloud formation.
Scott Wareing has put this video online after he said he though the cloud rectangle, captured on May 12, was impossible.
He believes the cloud, recorded in Belgium, was hiding a "weird, giant saucer", and has even shared other instances of this on his website, UFO Sightings Daily.
Scott, who lives in Taiwan, wrote: "It is a well known fact that not only do UFOs hide in clouds, but they actually create the cloud around them.
"...The 1957 Fort Belvoir, Virginia, incident is an example of this. Back then a soldier took photos of a black UFO ring that headed over the base, but change from a ring to a disk cloud in just under a minute."
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The cloud has been a source of interest for UFO fanatics like Scott Wareing
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The footage was shot in Belgium on May 12 in the early evening
Mr Wareing says that the "groundbreaking" images from that incident showed all that "UFOs do make clouds".
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Mr Wareing says that he believed that the cloud was not naturally formed in that shape
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UFO fans believe this is the massive unidentified craft hidden in a cloud formation.
Commenters online are split over the accuracy of his claims. One wrote: "Bizarre not normal, true extraterrestrial hidden in cloud."
But another added: "Lame. it's called a cumulonimbus. They often have flat tops and often look like anvils."
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Witness upset after watching low flying triangle UFO
Witness upset after watching low flying triangle UFO
A South Carolina witness at Indian Land reported watching a “huge, black triangle” UFO that moved quickly away and made him upset, according to testimony in Case 76605 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was lying in bed listening to headphone and looking out a bedroom window and noticed a light on May 26, 2016.
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
“I see a white light with red and blue lights blinking on it flying by,” the witness stated.“I thought it was just a plane, but what really caught my attention and made me get up and run to the window was how fast the object was moving. I have never seen a plane or anything for that matter move that fast before.”
The object also seemed very large.
“Also what I thought was odd was how big the light was. At the size of the light and the distance, usually if it was a plane, you should be able to see some detail at that point. Like oh okay, I see the blue and red strobes on the wings. But nope, it was just a ball of light.”
The witness watched as the object moved behind trees, still moving very fast, and then emerged again from the trees.
The witness realized the lights were attached to a large, black, triangle-shaped object. Pictured: Indian Land, South Carolina.
(Credit: Google)
“I noticed a smaller white light following it at the exact same speed. Then all of a sudden just before it flew out of sight, I noticed the two lights were connected and that what I was actually looking at was a huge, black triangle craft with lights at the points.”
The sighting upset the witness.
“This freaked me out pretty good and I think I almost had a panic attack. As soon as I lost sight of it I ran downstairs and outside to try and see it, but It was completely gone. Which is also weird because in the 20 seconds or so it took me to get downstairs, even if it was really far away it still should have been in sight. But it was gone. I was pretty freaked out after the more and more I thought about it, but also cool.”
Indian Land is about 20 miles directly south of Charlotte, South Carolina. (Credit: Google)
The witness provided one illustration with the MUFON report, which was filed on May 26, 2015. South Carolina Field Investigator Jeff Hughes and State Director Cheryl Ann Gilmore investigated and closed this case as an Unknown.
Indian Land is an unincorporated community in the northernmost part (the “Panhandle”) of Lancaster County, South Carolina. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
A Michigan witness at Ludington reported watching a low flying, triangle-shaped UFO, according to testimony in Case 76674 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness was out on a bike ride on his Harley Davidson beginning at about 9:30 p.m. ending up in the town of Ludington at 10:55 p.m. at a bridge over the Sable River where he parked for a cigarette.
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
“I took a puff off my smoke and looked up to see it,” the witness stated.“It was large and broad, moving east down the lakeshore over the water. It was dull and darkand triangular in shape. The underside didn’t seem to be lit, but it had some reddish and bluish lights at its point and midway down the side. It seemed to be a half-mile out or so.”
The witness watched the object moving over the water and then it seemed to stop.
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
“The only other lights able to be seen in the direction of the object were the coastal lights that are Butterville and the Ludington light house beam. No other vehicles were around. I quickly shifted into gear and took off. I was twisting the throttle hard trying to bridge the distance between us fast. I was in top gear going about 80 to 90 mph as wind drifts the sand over the road and it can be hazardous. I wanted to go faster, but didn’t dare.”
The witness continued to watch the object.
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
“It’s like it just hung there, waiting. It then shot north over the road and hung there. I panicked, slowing to a stop. It looked to be a half-mile to a mile up above the ground. It hovered there for at least three minutes and then shot straight up over to the south and then disappeared. I recall the lights seemed to rotate while it waited.”
The witness included three illustrations with the MUFON report, which was filed on May 29, 2016. Michigan Chief Investigator Daniel Snow is investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
10 Mile UFO Seen Moving Across Earth From Space Station, June 8, 2016, UFO Sightings Daily.
10 Mile UFO Seen Moving Across Earth From Space Station, June 8, 2016, UFO Sightings Daily.
Date of sighting: June 8, 2016 Location of sighting: Earths orbit While watching the NASA live cam, I noticed a white disk moving over the Earth at a higher than normal altitude. This UFO does have a cloud-like appearance, yet is a perfect disk that is 7-10 miles in diameter. The cloud appearance is the perfect illusion to hide behind. Who would possible question that a cloud is anything other than a cloud...except me of course. My decades of experience and my in depth research into past sightings has taught me that not all cloud are clouds. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Giant UFO is Hiding In The Great Cloud Rectangle, May 12, 2016 Evening, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Giant UFO is Hiding In The Great Cloud Rectangle, May 12, 2016 Evening, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 12, 2016 Location of sighting: unknown Its a well known fact that not only do UFOs hide in clouds, but they actually create the cloud around them. For instance the 1957 Fort Belvoir, Virgina incident is an example of this. Back then a soldier took photos of a black UFO ring that headed over the base, but changed from a ring to a disk cloud in just under a minute. But his amazing set of photos while it was changing was groundbreaking for all to prove that UFOs do make clouds. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Crop Circles 2016 - Castle Hill, Mere, Wiltshire, UK - 6th June 2016 - UFO 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Crop Circles 2016 - Castle Hill, Mere, Wiltshire, UK - 6th June 2016 - UFO 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of discovery: June 6, 2016 Location of discovery: Castle Hill, Wiltshire, UK This is a beautiful crop formation found in Wiltshire this week. The formation may hold a code within it. A message from the aliens that created it to humanity. Can you decipher this code? If so, please tell us in comments below. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
FIRE IN THE SKY! Strange "Burning" UFOs Seen Across The World 6/8/16, Video, UFO Sighting News.
FIRE IN THE SKY! Strange "Burning" UFOs Seen Across The World 6/8/16, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: June 8, 2016 Location of sighting: Varnin, Bulgaria This is some amazing footage from Bulgaria. SecureTeam10 talks about the relation between this footage and others seen around the world. Its true that one of the most common types of UFOs seen is glowing balls of light. My own personal experience in the USAF was of similar balls of light that were bigger than the B1 bombers I worked on and over 25...back in 1989-1990 Rapid City, SD. So, yeah, I have experience with them, how they move, how they leave, even the sounds we heard them make...like a wooden cart dragged along a cobblestone road. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com SecureTeam10 states: Secureteam10 is your source for reporting the best in new UFO sighting news, information on the government coverup, and the alien activity happening on and off of our planet. Send us YOUR footage by visiting the contact links below, and help us continue the good fight for disclosure!
Plan to Turn Asteroids Into Spaceships Could Spur Off-Earth Mining
Plan to Turn Asteroids Into Spaceships Could Spur Off-Earth Mining
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Artist's illustration of an asteroid that has been turned into a giant mechanical spacecraft, which could fly itself to a mining outpost.
Credit: Made In Space
A few decades from now, asteroids may be flying themselves to mining outposts in space, nobly sacrificing their abundant resources to help open the final frontier to humanity.
That's the vision of California-based company Made In Space, which was recently awarded NASA funding to investigate how to turn asteroids into giant, autonomous spacecraft.
The project, known as RAMA (Reconstituting Asteroids into Mechanical Automata), is part of Made In Space's long-term plan to enable space colonization by helping make off-Earth manufacturing efficient and economically viable. [How Asteroid Mining Could Work (Infographic)]
"Today, we have the ability to bring resources from Earth," Made In Space co-founder and chief technology officer Jason Dunn told Space.com. "But when we get to a tipping point where we need the resources in space, then the question becomes, 'Where do they come from and how do we get them, and how do we deliver them to the location that we need?' This is a way to do it."
Diagram of an asteroid that has been converted into a mechanical spacecraft by a robotic "Seed Craft."
Made In Space's idea involves sending an advanced, robotic "Seed Craft" out to rendezvous with a succession of near-Earth asteroids in space.
The Seed Craft would harvest material from the space rocks, then use this feedstock to construct propulsion, navigation, energy-storage and other key systems onsite with the aid of 3D printing and other technologies. (Made In Space has considerable 3D-printing expertise; the company built the two 3D printers that were installed aboard the International Space Station in the past year and a half.)
Thus transformed into autonomous spacecraft, the asteroids could be programmed to fly to a mining station in Earth-moon space, or anywhere else they were needed. This approach would be much more efficient than launching a new capture probe (or probes) to every single space rock targeted for resource exploitation, Made In Space representatives said.
The converted asteroids wouldn't resemble the traditional idea of spacecraft, with rocket engines and complex electronic circuitry. Rather, everything would be mechanical and relatively primitive.
For example, the computer would be analog, akin, perhaps, to the Antikythera mechanism invented by the ancient Greeks to chart the motion of heavenly bodies, Dunn said. And the propulsion system might be some sort of catapult that launches boulders or other material off the asteroid in a controlled way, thereby pushing the space rock in the opposite direction (as described by Newton's Third Law of Motion), he added.
"At the end of the day, the thing that we want the asteroid to be is technology that has existed for a long time. The question is, 'Can we convert an asteroid into that technology at some point in the future?'" Dunn said. "We think the answer is yes."
Project RAMA is not starting from scratch. Autonomous 3D printers that use mechanically driven systems already exist, Dunn noted, as do mechanical computers made of 3D-printed parts.
Still, making it happen will require significant advances in a number of areas, including in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) — the art of living off the land. Made In Space is counting on NASA to push ISRU technology forward, Dunn said. (Advanced ISRU tech will be vital for supporting astronauts on Mars and other off-Earth outposts, NASA officials have said.) [What Technology Will Humans Need to Explore Mars? (Video)]
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Early days yet
Made In Space's larger vision won't be realized for a while, because RAMA is still in the very early stages.
In April, the project received a Phase 1 grant from the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program, which aims to encourage the development of potentially revolutionary space-exploration technologies.
Phase 1 NIAC awardees get $100,000 for nine months' worth of initial feasibility studies. (Recipients can then apply for a Phase 2 NIAC award, which is worth about $500,000 and funds two years of further concept development.)
Any discussion of Project RAMA timelines is therefore incredibly speculative, Dunn stressed. Still, he estimated that the effort might require 20 years or so of technology development and other work. If that's the case, the first Seed Craft may get off the ground in the late 2030s — perhaps just as asteroid-mining and off-Earth manufacturing are coming into their own.
"The anticipation is that the RAMA architecture is a long time line, and when it becomes capable is about the same time that people really need the resources," Dunn said.
Project RAMA could also have applications here on Earth, he added, saying that machines similar to Seed Craft could do a variety of jobs around the planet.
"You could build infrastructure in remote locations somewhat autonomously, and convert resources into useful devices and mechanical machines," Dunn said. "This actually could solve some pretty big problems on Earth, from housing to construction of things that make people's lives better."
Rosetta's adventures are not over yet; recent events include taking pictures of a very dusty area, going into safe mode and zooming into a higher orbit above the comet. Here are some of the highlights of the past few weeks:
1. A Dusty Environment
Rosetta was about 20 kilometers from Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko when it took this image on June 1.
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
In this spooky image from Rosetta, you can see lots of dust flying off the comet. The dust is very apparent close up, but in March officials discovered that the dust trail expands away from the comet for an incredible 10 million kilometers (6 million miles).
"The long trail is made up of larger grains left behind in the orbit of the comet, probably from several previous passages of the comet around the sun," ESA wrote at the time. "When the Earth passes through similar dust trails from other comets it gives rise to meteor showers. Unfortunately this won't happen with 67P/C-G, as the orbit does not approach our planet."
2. Carrying the Solar System's History
A picture taken of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on March 25, a few days before Rosetta detected amino acid glycine in the comet's atmosphere (coma).
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/NavCam – CC BY-SA IGO 3.0
Scientists have hoped that Rosetta will show us a few things about the solar system's formation, such as if comets of its type brought water to Earth (the short answer is no) and what kind of life-bearing molecules could be on its surface. In late May, scientists announced that they had found the amino acid glycine, which they said is common in proteins and phosphorous (part of DNA and cell membranes).
It's the first time that glycine has been definitively found on a comet; while the Stardust mission found the amino acid in Comet Wild-2, those samples were suspected of contamination upon return to Earth.
"We see a strong link between glycine and dust, suggesting that it is probably released perhaps with other volatiles from the icy mantles of the dust grains once they have warmed up in the coma," said Kathrin Altwegg, principal investigator of the ROSINA instrument that detected the gylcine, in a statement.
3. Going into Safe Mode, and Out Again
A picture of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko taken by Rosetta several hours before going into safe mode on May 28.
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
Because Rosetta is experiencing such a dusty environment, from time to time unexpected things happen. Among them was when the spacecrafttripped into "safe mode" on May 28 because it confused the dust with stars, which it uses for navigation. The spacecraft lost contact with Earth for about 24 hours, but the team was able to recover it by sending commands.
Controllers spent a few days making sure that the spacecraft was okay, which included waiting to turn the science instruments back on from their automatic shutdown. By June 2, Rosetta was well on its way to normal operations, with the science instruments on and an orbital maneuver set to go.
4. Into the Black
Rosetta continues to produce stunning imagery after nearly two years at the comet.
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
At roughly 670 days into its mission, Rosetta continues to produce amazing imagery of its comet -- such as this one focusing on the "neck" region (in shadow), when the spacecraft was roughly 8 kilometers away from the nucleus. As of this week, the spacecraft is now zooming to a 30 kilometer orbit from its previous orbit of five kilometers.
Rosetta's other recent findings include uncovering clathrates (a crystalline type of ice). It is believed that if Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko is covered with ices of this type, it could have formed from ice fragments closer to the sun.
5. Asking the Public For Help
Surface changes that Rosetta scientists saw in the Imhotep region in 2015.
Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA
Since Rosetta arrived at Comet 67P/Chruymov-Gerasimenko, more than 20,000 images have been posted for public consumption. In a request to use the wisdom of the crowd, officials are now asking that if the public sees anything changing on the comet's surface, they submit their ideas to this web page for possible future blog posts.
"Do remember to be cautious when comparing images of the same region that have been taken under varying illumination conditions, or from different distances and therefore have a different scale – this can sometimes lead to mistaken identification," ESA wrote.
System would destroy asteroids that threaten Earth -- Could a laser weapon save earth from killer asteroids?
System would destroy asteroids that threaten Earth
As an asteroid roughly half as large as a football field—and with energy equal to a large hydrogen bomb—readies for a fly-by of Earth on Friday, two California scientists are unveiling their proposal for a system that could eliminate a threat of this size in an hour. The same system could destroy asteroids 10 times larger than the one known as 2012 DA14 in about a year, with evaporation starting at a distance as far away as the Sun.
UC Santa Barbara physicist and professor Philip M. Lubin, and Gary B. Hughes, a researcher and professor from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, conceived DE-STAR, or Directed Energy Solar Targeting of Asteroids an exploRation, as a realistic means of mitigating potential threats posed to the Earth by asteroids and comets.
"We have to come to grips with discussing these issues in a logical and rational way," said Lubin, who began work on DE-STAR a year ago. "We need to be proactive rather than reactive in dealing with threats. Duck and cover is not an option. We can actually do something about it and it's credible to do something. So let's begin along this path. Let's start small and work our way up. There is no need to break the bank to start."
Described as a "directed energy orbital defense system," DE-STAR is designed to harness some of the power of the sun and convert it into a massive phased array of laser beams that can destroy, or evaporate, asteroids posing a potential threat to Earth. It is equally capable of changing an asteroid's orbit –– deflecting it away from Earth, or into the Sun –– and may also prove to be a valuable tool for assessing an asteroid's composition, enabling lucrative, rare-element mining. And it's entirely based on current essential technology.
"This system is not some far-out idea from Star Trek," Hughes said. "All the components of this system pretty much exist today. Maybe not quite at the scale that we'd need—scaling up would be the challenge—but the basic elements are all there and ready to go. We just need to put them into a larger system to be effective, and once the system is there, it can do so many things."
The same system has a number of other uses, including aiding in planetary exploration.
In developing the proposal, Lubin and Hughes calculated the requirements and possibilities for DE-STAR systems of several sizes, ranging from a desktop device to one measuring 10 kilometers, or six miles, in diameter. Larger systems were also considered. The larger the system, the greater its capabilities.
For instance, DE-STAR 2—at 100 meters in diameter, about the size of the International Space Station—"could start nudging comets or asteroids out of their orbits," Hughes said. But DE-STAR 4—at 10 kilometers in diameter, about 100 times the size of the ISS –– could deliver 1.4 megatons of energy per day to its target, said Lubin, obliterating an asteroid 500 meters across in one year.
The speed of interplanetary travel—far beyond what is possible with chemical propellant rockets used today—could be increased with this sized system, according to Lubin. It could also power advanced ion drive systems for deep space travel, he said. Able to engage multiple targets and missions at once, DE-STAR 4 "could simultaneously evaporate an asteroid, determine the composition of another, and propel a spacecraft."
Larger still, DE-STAR 6 could enable interstellar travel by functioning as a massive, orbiting power source and propulsion system for spacecraft. It could propel a 10-ton spacecraft at near the speed of light, allowing interstellar exploration to become a reality without waiting for science fiction technology such as "warp drive" to come along, Lubin said.
"Our proposal assumes a combination of baseline technology—where we are today—and where we almost certainly will be in the future, without asking for any miracles," he explained. "We've really tried to temper this with a realistic view of what we can do, and we approached it from that point of view. It does require very careful attention to a number of details, and it does require a will to do so, but it does not require a miracle."
Recent and rapid developments in highly efficient conversion of electrical power to light allow such a scenario now, Lubin said, when just 20 years ago it would not have been realistic to consider.
"These are not just back-of-the-envelope numbers," Hughes concurred. "They are actually based on detailed analysis, through solid calculations, justifying what is possible. And it's all available under current theory and current technology.
"There are large asteroids and comets that cross the Earth's orbit, and some very dangerous ones going to hit the Earth eventually," he added. "Many have hit in the past and many will hit in the future. We should feel compelled to do something about the risk. Realistic solutions need to be considered, and this is definitely one of those."
A Solar Powered “Forever Drone” May Be Replacing Our Satellites
A Solar Powered “Forever Drone” May Be Replacing Our Satellites
Airbus Defence and Space
When Sputnik 1 reached low Earth orbit in 1957, it did more than kick-start America’s space program and send American schoolchildren scurrying for cover under their desks. It launched the satellite age. The orbiting platforms, which now number in the thousands, revolutionized communication, navigation, and watching football.
Satellites, though, are expensive to build, expensive to launch, and difficult to update once in orbit. Drones are another story. They’re relatively cheap, easily launched, and readily updated. Of course, they can’t stay aloft very long.
Or can they?
Airbus recently announced the successful maiden flight of its Zephyr T aircraft, a drone powered only by sunshine. Six decades after Sputnik launched the space race, the European firm joins the likes of NASA and Facebook in a race to build high-altitude drones that combine the advantages of a satellite and the flexibility of a plane. “You don’t have to go through the rigor that current space-based satellite systems use,” says John Del Frate, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center.
This Startup Wants to Use Drones to Drop Blood, Not Bombs
These “high altitude pseudo satellites,” as Airbus calls them, won’t drop bombs or deliver packages. They’ll do many of the things satellites do and return periodically for new batteries or new tech. One day, swarms of solar-powered drones could monitor military or intelligence targets, track forest fires, or provide communications in an emergency. By flying far lower than satellites, drones could provide sharper photos of Earth. They could provide high-bandwidth links, using lasers to relay information to other drones or receivers on the ground, providing the sort of line-of-sight communication isn’t possible with satellites that orbit the planet and disappear over the horizon.
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NASA’s 1999 Helios prototype was among the first forays into this technology. In one experiment, NASA used boomerang-like aircraft, made of carbon fiber and Styrofoam, as an airborne cell phone tower. It was funky but graceful, with a wingspan of 247 feet and 14 electric propellers, but crashed into the Pacific near Kauai in 2003. Helios topped out at more than 96,000 feet, and was designed to stay in the air for at least 24 hours.
Flying something at those extreme altitudes, for long stretches, and on solar power, poses new challenges. For Helios, the killer was power storage. The team experimented with fuel cells, but batteries are a better choice. “Endurance is huge,” says Del Frate, who managed the program. “Anything you put up there has to be ultra-reliable. It’s kind of like your refrigerator, you just want to plug it in and forget it.”
Airbus started working on pseudo satellites in 2008, aiming to fill the “capability gap” between satellites in orbit and the low-altitude, limited drones of the day. In 2010, Zephyr 7 smashed the world record for longest flight without refueling (14 days). After that, the company decided to move to commercialization with two new models, the Zephyr Sand Zephyr T. The British Ministry of Defense has dibs on the first two S models, and will likely use them for surveillance. Airbus just tested a one-quarter scale model of the T, which will stretch the Zephyr S’s 82-foot wingspan to 108 feet. It will quadruple its payload capacity to 44 pounds, enough to carry the radar and other gear military customers will want to keep airborne.
The solar-powered planes are designed to cruise at around 65,000 feet, nearly twice the altitude of commercial airliners. The Zephyr 7 prototype can fly for 14 days on end. Airbus plans to get that up to at least a month.
To achieve that, the team is taking cues from nature, says Steve Whitby, head of business development for the Zephyr program. Instead of the upturned winglets now common on commercial aircraft, his aircraft sport downturned tips, like a buzzard’s wings. “Because of the speed we’re flying at, which is quite slow, we want to gain the maximum lift,” he says. This aerodynamic trick effectively gathers wind beneath the wings, for a 15 percent efficiency gain. Weighing as little as possible helps, too: The S model—which resembles a wire hanger that’s figured out how to fly—is just 143 pounds. The twin-tailed T weighs just over 300, counting its payload.
The biggest issue impacting endurance is what happens in the dark, when photovoltaic cells can’t generate power. A solar plane currently circumnavigating the planet offers one idea: Solar Impulse 2 spends the day at about 30,000 feet, then slowly descends to 5,000 at night, trading altitude for distance. Zephyr can’t drift down quite so much, or it will enter commercial airspace and spend all day returning to its operational height. Airbus says the electric propulsion it uses is already efficient, but expects improves as battery tech advances.
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There’s plenty of competition here. The Solar Impulse team says its next project will focus on a lightweight solar drone capable of remaining aloft for six months. Google isexperimenting with high-altitude drones and balloons to provide wireless service. Facebook is developing a solar drone called Aquila, which would fly for three months at a time to provide Internet access to remote areas.
Airbus hopes to combine the lessons from Zephyr program with its experience building conventional satellites to launch and maintain a fleet of forever drones. This isn’t a concept anymore—the Zephyr Sis already in production, and before long will be pinging above our heads, just like Sputnik 1.
IN BRIEF
Airbus is developing a solar-powered drone that could spend years roaming the stratosphere—and may replace expensive satellites.
European aviation firm Airbus recently announced the successful maiden flight of its high-flying, solar-powered drone—the Zephyr T.
The success of this initiative would mean that the company is flying in the right direction with their ambitious dream of replacing the current webwork of space-based satellites with what they are calling “high altitude pseudo satellites.” These are essentially autonomous drones that would execute all the functions of current satellites, but at a drastically lower cost; and they could potentially operate for much longer periods than satellites, only returning occasionally for power and tech upgrades.
Airbus started developing pseudo satellites in 2008—bridging the gap between satellites in space and the drones flying above people’s roofs. The company made a world record in 2010 with the Zephyr 7, which flew for 14 days without refueling.
The solar-powered drones could be used for military monitoring, emergency communications, and even for high-speed internet connection.
Airbus is working on the endurance issue, or simply what happens to the solar-powered drone when there is no Sun. The company said the Zephyr’s electric propulsion is already efficient, but can still improve with battery tech advances.
In the meantime, we eagerly await a world where high-flying armadas of drones eliminate the dangers of space junk and declutter Low Earth Orbit.
Seeking answers to unexplained observations would seem a part of the human DNA, with our search for the "God particle" and other truths motivating many a scientist. And while unexplained flying objects have no real science going for them, that hasn't stemmed any interest and want to believe in them.
And while UFO sightings abound all year, apparently there was a spike this August 2011. In fact, for some states the number of UFO sightings doubled compared with normal. "It's pretty exciting," said Clifford Clift, the international director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), told Life's Little Mysteries about the spike. "When you average 500 a month [nationwide] and go to 1,013 in one month, that's an interesting spike in sighting reports." (MUFON tracks UFO reports.)
Spikes in UFO sightings have various explanations, including the fact that they tend to appear high in the sky, so whatever is really causing the sight is in view of thousands of people. That means reports could be of the same incident or several. Movies and other media also can pique people's interest in aliens and UFOs.
In addition, flying objects lend themselves to UFO interpretations. For instance, last year, a cluster of silvery, shiny lights floated above Manhattan's Chelsea district set off claims of UFO sightings. Later officials from a school in Mount Vernon identified these flying objects as helium balloons that had escaped from an engagement party.
The sightings were very similar to a famous UFO report from New Jersey's Morris County on the evening of Jan. 5, 2009, when an 11-year-old girl noticed bright lights in the sky. The glowing, slowly moving, red lights were later explained as a hoax; two pranksters had tied road flares to helium balloons and released them "as a social experiment."
Such sightings have quite a history. The first reported incident of an alleged alien abduction occurred in the 1960s when Barney and Betty Hill claimed they had been abducted by aliens. They reportedly said they were pursued by a glowing UFO through parts of New Hampshire. The couple came to believe that they had been abducted by the UFO's occupants, who then erased their memories. With psychiatric help and under hypnosis, the couple reported full-blown, detailed "repressed memories" of their abduction.
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Second layer of information in DNA confirmed
Second layer of information in DNA confirmed
by Erik Arends
The rigid base-pair model is forced, using 28 constraints (indicated by red spheres), into a lefthanded superhelical path that mimics the DNA conformation in the nucleosome. Credit: Leiden Institute of Physics
Leiden theoretical physicists have proven that DNA mechanics, in addition to genetic information in DNA, determines who we are. Helmut Schiessel and his group simulated many DNA sequences and found a correlation between mechanical cues and the way DNA is folded. They have published their results in PLoS One.
When James Watson and Francis Crick identified the structure of DNA molecules in 1953, they revealed that DNA information determines who we are. The sequence of the letters G, A, T and C in the famous double helix determines what proteins are made ny our cells. If you have brown eyes, for example, this is because a series of letters in your DNA encodes for proteins that build brown eyes. Each cell contains the exact same letter sequence, and yet every organ behaves differently. How is this possible?
Mechanical cues
Since the mid 1980s, it has been hypothesized that there is a second layer of information on top of the genetic code consisting of DNA mechanical properties. Each of our cells contains two meters of DNA molecules, and these molecules need to be wrapped up tightly to fit inside a single cell. The way in which DNA is folded determines how the letters are read out, and therefore which proteins are actually made. In each organ, only relevant parts of the genetic information are read. The theory suggests that mechanical cues within the DNA structures determine how preferentially DNA folds.
Simulation
For the first time, Leiden physicist Helmut Schiessel and his research group provide strong evidence that this second layer of information indeed exists. With their computer code, they have simulated the folding of DNA strands with randomly assigned mechanical cues. It turns out that these cues indeed determine how the DNA molecule is folded into so-called nucleosomes. Schiessel found correlations between the mechanics and the actual folding structure in the genome of two organisms—baker's yeast and fission yeast. This finding reveals evolutionary changes in DNA—mutations—that have two very different effects: The letter sequence encoding for a specific protein can change, or the mechanics of the DNA structure can change, resulting in different packaging and levels of DNA accessibility, and therefore differing frequency of production of that protein.
More information: Behrouz Eslami-Mossallam et al. Multiplexing Genetic and Nucleosome Positioning Codes: A Computational Approach, PLOS ONE (2016). DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156905
Sure, claiming the Moon is artificial might sound crazy, but why does it ring like a bell when struck?
Previous expeditions to the Moon have brought back considerable amount of information, but our planet’s natural satellite still remains mostly a mistery for researchers. The first man ever invested by NASA to head the Commission of Lunar Exploration, Dr. Jastrow, referred to the Moon as “ the Rosetta stone of the planets.”
Many UFOlogists are convinced that the Moon, who everybody believes to be a natural satellite, was in fact built by a more advanced civilization as a study base where they could document the behavior of our species.
Others believe the aliens aren’t that interested in our society as they don’t understand intra-racial violence, so the Moon serves as a simple watchtower that would let them know if mankind would ever try to leave Earth and travel through space.
Moderate theorists say its body is covered by a rocky layer, which could measure more than 3 miles from the surface, sitting on top of a shell, made out of extremely durable chemical components, that could even withstand a large scale impact like with an asteroid or a comet without sustaining much damage.
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A researcher named Robin Brett once stated that : “It seems easier to explain the non existence of the Moon than its existence.”
Here are some strange facts that make us believe the Moon was actually built from scratch.
In 1969, the United States built a module for the sole purpose of crashing it into the Moon in order to study the after effects. The estimated power it packed upon impact was said to be that of one thousand Kilograms of TNT. After the controlled crash, experts observed the waves generated by the shock and were amazed. The Moon made a sound resembling that of a gigantic bell, and the echo went on for more than half an hour.
Ken Johnson, the man supervising photo and information stated that the Moon also vibrated or “wobbled” in a symmetric manner, “ almost as though it had gigantic hydraulic damper struts inside it” .
Alexander Shcerbakov and Mikhail Vasin published an article sometime in the 70s, named “Is the Moon the creation of Alien Intelligence?” In the article, they ask some very legitimate questions and expose known facts that defy any logical explanation. The surface of the Moon, the only part that could be studied, contains minerals and is mostly made up of uncommonly hard matter.
Samples retrieved from the Moon have also been found to hold forged metal material, which couldn’t have formed there or arrive by itself. Scientists found parts of highly processed Uranium that science has never been able to achieve via natural processes. They have also found traces of radioactive metals normally used to produce Plutonium on a large scale. This is all clear evidence that the Moon is not as inactive as we’re being led to believe.
It is common knowledge that our moon doesn’t have a hard nucleus as other planets or natural satellites do and the mass is concentrated in a number of points, most of which are located at a very low depth.
Another well known fact is that the Moon is older than 4 and a half billion years, which makes it older than our planet by almost a million years. It is different from any other satellite known across the universe. Unlike any other natural satellite, the moon describes a perfect round orbit around the planet it’s circling. No matter which point you look from, one side of the moon will always be invisible.
Titanium, a very rare and expensive metal on Earth, used for the development of advanced technology (space shuttles or submarines), is found in large and concentrated quantities inside rocks on the moon. Harold Urey, a Nobel prize winning chemist, is still very confused by this fact.
Strange facts as the ones you’ve just read keep piling up every day, while modern science keeps failing to explain them. Not only is the amount of information about the moon very scarce, but the percentage of people with access to it is being kept under control.
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Meet the Igigi –The Ancient Astronauts who rebelled against the Anunnaki
Meet the Igigi –The Ancient Astronauts who rebelled against the Anunnaki
The Ancient Anunnaki are said to have created the human race by genetically modifying early humans in order to use them as a labor force. But before humans were created, the Igigi were used by the ancient Anunnaki as their main labor force.
It is said that the Igigi –they who turn and see—were the Ancient Astronaut Gods of the younger generation, the servants to the mighty Anunnaki who came to Earth to mine gold.
The terminology used to describe the gods is extremely complicated and still needs much study.- Researchers believe the term Igigi is of Semitic origin and indicates the group of gods in the Mesopotamian pantheon. It is still unclear which ancient gods belonged to the Igigi, but many scholars suggest Mardik –the patron god of the city of Babylon—was one of the Igigi.
Mainstream scholars use the term Igigi to make reference to the Sumerian mythological deities. According to mainstream scholars, mythologically speaking, the Igigi were the younger servants of the Anunnaki who initiated a rebellion against their masters and dictatorship of Enlil. Eventually, the Anunnaki replaced the Igigi with humans.
In the myth of Atrahasis –the Babylonian story of the Flood and a precursor to the flood story in the Gilgameš Ep– the Sumerian paradise is described as a garden where lower gods (the Igigi) were put to work digging a watercourse by their masters, the Anunnaki:
“When the gods like men bore the work and suffered the toil, the toil of the gods was great, the work was heavy; the distress was much.” (Source)
“The Seven great Anunnaki were making the Igigi suffer the work.” (lines 5-6) (Source)
“When the gods, man-like, Bore the labor, carried the load, The gods’ load was great, The toil grievous, the trouble excessive. The great Anunnaku, the Seven, Were making the Igigi undertake the toil.”
Ancient Astronaut hypothesis suggests that the Igigi were similar to the Anunnaki, remaining in constant orbit around our planet. They were basically considered as intermediaries between our planet and Nibiru –home of the Anunnaki.
Many believe that the Igigi remained in constant orbit around our planet in giant platforms which processed ores which were delivered from Earth. After processing the minerals, the material was transferred to other ships and eventually transported to the home planet of the Anunnaki.
The Igigi were apparently ever encountered by mankind. It is said that several texts make reference to them, saying the Igigi were “too high up for Mankind,” and consequently “ were not concerned with the people.”
After years of tenuous and hard work for the Anunnaki, the Igigi rebelled against their masters. It is sad that they ‘set fire to their tools and surrounded Enlil’s great house by night’ forcing the ancient Anunnaki to find another source of labor.
This is why the ancient Anunnaki replaced the Igigi after genetically engineering ancient humans creating a greater workforce.
Many authors suggest that the human ‘slave race’ was created after the ancient Anunnaki genetically modified their genes and that of early humans nearly 500,000 years ago.
Ending the secrecy surrounding the UFO/ET subject is a laudable goal. It is long overdue. It would transform the world in ways both simple and profound.
And yet it is fraught with danger.
The covert projects which have been running UFO related programs for nearly 60 years are not interested in a disclosure which upsets their apple cart. They want such a disclosure to transform their apple cart into a freight train. And they potentially have the power and connections to do it. There are multiple scenarios attending the disclosure of the UFO subject- and not all of them have the best interests of humanity at heart. Elsewhere, in the new book Extraterrestrial Contact: The Evidence and Implications I write about the kind of disclosure the world needs. An honest one. An open one. One which replaces secrecy with democracy. A disclosure which is peaceful, scientific and hopeful.
But then there is the disclosure the powers that be would like to see: Manipulated. Calculated to consolidate power and engender fear. Configured in such a way that chaos and a deepening need for Big Brother is carefully inculcated into the masses.
We have seen the plans and it is not a pretty picture. I write this as a warning. A warning that the wolves in sheep clothes are very cunning indeed. And have almost limitless resources. Most who work with them do not even know they are wolves. Indeed, it is likely that many of the wolves have been convinced that they are sheep.
The UFO matter is not so much a mystery as a matter deliberately obfuscated and mystified. Confusion and a lack of clarity serves the larger covert goal of keeping it off the long-range radar of society while power and plans are consolidated quietly. And the one thing more dangerous to society than all this secrecy is a planned, contrived disclosure run by the keepers of the secrets.
For years such plans have been made - to be unfurled at just the right time. During a time of great expectation. Of social confusion. Perhaps of millennial madness?
I have personally met with a number of people who are very involved with such plans. I do not speculate here. Be aware: The disclosure of UFO reality is being planned very carefully. It will assiduously follow a scheme to spin the subject in just the right way - the only way which will further redound to the glory and power of the secret-keepers. It will be a false disclosure - one born out of the age-old bane of human existence: selfishness and greed. Greed for power. Greed for control. Greed for domination.
In "Hidden Truth – Forbidden Knowledge" Dr. Greer provides his own personal disclosure based on years of high-level meetings with over 450 military and government-connected insiders and whistle-blowers and briefings with senior government officials, such as former CIA Director R. James Woolsey, members of the US Senate and senior UN officials.
In addition to these disclosures, "Hidden Truth – Forbidden Knowledge" unveils the actual contact experiences Dr. Greer has had with UFOs and Extraterrestrial Civilizations, beginning as a young child. In one of the most amazing and moving personal stories ever shared, he explains how after a prolonged near-death experience at age 17, he experienced cosmic consciousness and found the Rosetta Stone of ET contact: the power of the unbounded mind within each of us. Later this led to numerous Close Encounters of the 5th Kind: contact with ETs initiated by Dr. Greer and later by larger groups of people through the CSETI (Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence) project.
We must be mature and informed on such matters. Only a vigilant and informed public can see through such deceit - and correct it should such a plan be unfurled. Every citizen needs to know that great good can come from the truth being known. But the mature citizen must also recognize that the 'truth' can be spun and spun again - until the goals of those who crave secret and overt power are met.
Consider: One scenario for disclosure is that the UFO and Extraterrestrial subject is acknowledged in a way which is scientific and hopeful. Excessive secrecy which lacks executive branch and congressional oversight is ended. Humanity begins to entertain open contact with other civilizations, with peaceful engagement as the goal. Technologies which are currently suppressed are allowed to be disseminated: Pollution ends. An economy of abundance and social justice is firmly established. Global environmental destruction and mind-numbing world poverty become a faint memory. Zero-point based energy devices transform the world. Electro-gravitic devices permit above ground travel without paving over the world's precious fertile farm land. As an ET once told Colonel Philip Corso, "Its a new world, if you can take it...". This is the disclosure which we are working for.
But the disclosure envisioned above could have happened in 1950. It did not - Why? For such a disclosure would lead to the total transformation of the status quo. Centralized energy systems would be obsolete. Oil would be useful only for lubricants and synthetics. The geo-political order of today would be a thing forgotten: Every country and people on Earth would have such a high degree of progress and advancement that all nations would have a seat at the global table. Power would need to be shared. Peaceful acknowledgment of life from elsewhere would make the Earth seem like the very small, organic homeland which it is. The vast trillion dollar global military - industrial sector would be reigned in. And a universal spirituality might dawn...
But remember, there are hugely powerful interests who dread this scenario. For them, it is the end of the world as they know it. The end of centralized, elite power. The end of a controlled geo-political order which today leaves nearly 90% of the people of Earth barely one step out of the stone age. And they do not wish to share the power they wield.
Dr. Steven Greer - Nov. 21, 2015 - How the Secret Government Works: The Most Explosive Expose - HD
Now, let me describe the 'disclosure' which would make these covert control programs happy. This is the false or contrived 'disclosure' which has only one clear goal: The further consolidation of their power and their paradigm. It has to do with fear, not love. With war, not peace. With division and conflict, not unity. It is the dominant paradigm - but it is slipping away slowly. And a carefully orchestrated disclosure of the 'facts' of the UFO and ET subject could secure their power. This is the disclosure which is to be dreaded. This is the disclosure to watch out for. This is the disclosure which is already occurring.
My meetings over the past 9 years with covert operatives who have worked on UFO related programs have introduced me to some characters right out of a spy novel - and then some. Whether in private high tech industry, at the Pentagon or at a midnight meeting in a private mansion, a theme has emerged. It is one of immense, though currently hidden, power. It transcends government as we know it (at this point the government of 'We the people...' has been made irrelevant on this issue). And the theme has two main strands - the eventual covert militarization of the ET subject and a weird covert religious strain which can only be viewed as bizarre. Here, we find some very strange bed-fellows indeed. War mongers and militarists in cahoots with industrialists who share a certain bizarre eschatological bent: A dark view of the future, featuring an extraterrestrial Armageddon - or at least the threat of it. Such a theme supports retrograde and fanatical religious causes as well as deeply covert military-industrial plans to expand the arms race into space.
In fact, the big players in the so-called 'civilian UFO community' are tied into such beliefs and agendas. It strains credulity, I admit, but here is what we have found by penetrating these operations.
From a military-industrial perspective, the disclosure of choice is one which frames the UFO/ET issue in a threatening manner. If a threat from space can be established (as President Reagan liked to say) then the entire world can be united around the need to fight such a threat. This would ensure trillion dollar plus military - industrial spending well into the next century, and beyond. If you think the cold war was costly, wait until you see the price tag for this 'protection' from the 'threats' in space: The trillions spent on the cold war will look like a blue light special.
Retrograde and fanatical religious groups, similarly, have great vested interests in fulfilling the promise of Armageddon. An eschatological paradigm, well enshrined in the belief systems of those running covert UFO projects, is supported by the portrayal of a cosmic conflict in the heavens. Voila! We have the necessity of spinning the UFO/ET issue in the evil invading aliens (translates in religious terms as demons) direction. Indeed, this has already been accomplished, courtesy of the 'civilian UFO community' and the tabloid media (swhich at this point is virtually all media...).
Additionally, there is a subtext which can only be viewed as thinly veiled racism. You will note that part of the 'new myth' regarding UFOs involves the 'good ETs', which invariably are described as 'Pleidians' who are 'handsome' white, blue-eyed Aryan appearing types. Naturally, those 'evil, bad ETs' are darker, shorter, look funny and smell funny. Please. Such clap-trap would have us trade age-old human racism for an extraterrestrial variety. This nonsense and propaganda could only make Hitler proud. In one lengthy meeting with a multi-billionaire, I was told that he gave great support to UFO activities which propel the so-called 'alien abduction' subject into public awareness because he wanted humanity to unite around fighting this 'alien threat'. Later, this very influential figure informed me that he believed these demonic ETs were the cause of every setback in human history since Adam and Eve. Sound familiar?
Military interests, which are heavily involved in covert projects which hoax ET events, such as human military- related abductions, have a shared goal of demonizing the UFO/ET phenomenon. Doing so lays the foundations for the fear and dread necessary for an organized opposition to all things ET. And this subserves the longterm need to provide a rationale for an expanding global military even should world peace emerge. In fact, under this scenario, 'world peace', or strictly speaking peace on Earth, could be secured by the world uniting, eventually, against the 'threat from space' referred to by resident Reagan. (By the way, personally I believe Reagan was the victim of disinformation specialists who surrounded him and who manipulated him into the statements he made on this subject.)
Under this scenario, currently being gamed and 'disclosed' courtesy of the trial balloon UFO 'community', we would get peace on Earth - in exchange for interplanetary conflict. One step forward, ten steps back. Wonderful. Such a false and contrived 'disclosure of the truth' regarding UFOs and ETs would, then, subserve agendas held by powerful covert interests in both the military-industrial sector and those of a strange collection of religious fanatics, who pine for Armageddon - and the sooner the better.
Lest the reader think such a strange amalgam of militarists and cult-like religious interests are unlikely, remember the weird views of the Third Reich. Or more recently, the views of one US Department of the Interior cabinet secretary during the Reagan years named James Watt. It was he who, not knowing a microphone was still on and recording his comments, stated in the 1980s that we did not need to worry about all these environmental problems since Armageddon was coming soon and the world would be destroyed anyway...This bizarre view, held by a man who shaped and applied policy for the Interior Department of the US Government, was later reported in the general media. At the time a comical footnote perhaps. But what does it say about the degree to which such beliefs may be shaping covert UFO policy - and specifically disclosure plans? We have found that such views - bizarre as they may seem to most - are heavily represented in covert policy development on the UFO subject.
And most disconcerting of all: This strange mixture of military cosmic saber-rattling and bizarre religious beliefs are the dominant forces shaping both the 'civilian UFO community' and the planned eventual 'spin' on UFO disclosure. Let the buyer beware.
Dr. Steven Greer - THE MOST IMPORTANT DOCUMENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UFO SUBJECT [2015, London]
To the rational and intellectual, such views seem ridiculous. Why, you might ask, would anyone want a cosmic war in space, an Armageddon and the destruction of the Earth? To comprehend this, you have to get inside the head of people who hold such beliefs - people like James Watt. In his case, why worry about a little bit of deforestation, air pollution and areas of dead oceans if the entire world is going to be destroyed in a couple of years anyway?
But the thinking goes further than this. Because such fanatical thinking has within it the concept that as a result of the Armageddon we will see the return of Christ- and with it the good people's salvation. Now, people are free to believe what they want. But what we have found is a deliberate influencing of covert policy on UFOs by such beliefs. Some of these people want Armageddon - and they want it ASAP.
Strictly speaking, the militarists and war-mongers, itching to 'kick some alien butt' as it was said in the movie Independence Day, may actually only want a pretext to justify their existence and get the world to eventually spend huge sums of money on a perceived (if contrived) threat from space. But in some cases - high up on the food chain of the covert entity running UFO secrecy - the two views meet. A place where militarism and eschatology merge. Where Star Wars and Armageddon join.
In tracing the history of both the UFO civilian community and the covert policy-making group concerned with UFOs, we have found a growing penetration of the latter into the former. So much so that at this point there are projects which ostensibly are innocent civilian initiatives but which in reality are totally controlled and financed by 'cut-outs' from ultra-secret projects.
Moreover, our careful penetration of such projects yielded the disturbing finding that deep-cover black project operatives are working closely with alleged civilian researchers, journalists and UFO glitterati. CIA and military intelligence operatives are working with civilian 'think tank' heads, alongside very wealthy business people who are eschatologists, and being advised by 'civilian' technologists and scientists - who are themselves proponents of bizarre religious belief systems involving the end of the world and ETs...
Thus, the new 'chosen ones' have been assembled. They are planning your disclosure on the UFO/ET subject. They are owned by the money whores and power brokers doing the bidding of the secret entity which runs UFO projects to begin with. And it all looks like a civilian initiative. So innocent. So well-intended. So 'scientific'. And by the way, the sky is falling courtesy of ET and we need your money and your souls to defend against it. Do not be deceived. You need to be awake to the darker scenarios which some would like to thrust upon the world. And you need to know that there are alternatives. If a 'disclosure' is unleashed on the world which is xenophobic, militaristic and terrifying, know that it comes from the spinmeisters of secrecy- regardless of how respectable the person or group may appear to be.
And remember: Part of this disclosure plan involves the use of UFO look-alike devices made by humans in an attack on Earth or military assets of Earth. This would be a well-orchestrated use of advanced human technologies to hoax an ET attack- all for the purpose of disclosing the truth with the desired military-oriented spin. In such a scenario, most of humanity will be deceived into believing the threat from space has arrived - and that we must fight it at all costs. This is nothing more than long-term social security for the military-industrial complex. There must be people who can expose this fraud.
But why should we wait for these darker scenarios to be unleashed on an unsuspecting world?
Here is another idea: Why don't 'we the people' unite and launch a disclosure which resembles the first one described above. An honest one. One which leads to peace, not war. To a sustainable and beautiful world, free of pollution and brimming with abundance, of all types. One which reaches out into the unknown, instead of firing particle beam weapons into the darkness of space.
Dr. Steven M Greer -The Untold History Behind Disclosure HD, March 2015
Additionally, we welcome those who can come forward with first hand knowledge of the machinations referred to in this paper and who wish to expose such madness to contact us. The one thing the darkness of secrecy cannot tolerate is a spotlight shining right on it. And the more of us holding the light, the better.
Evil steps in when good people do nothing. This is a lesson taught through thousands of years of human history. We stand at the beginning of a new time, and a new world awaits us. But we must embrace it, and help create it. For if we are passive, others will have their way- at least in the short run.
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Proof of Alien Life: Aliens Hidden on Distant Diamond and Graphite Planets?
Proof of Alien Life: Aliens Hidden on Distant Diamond and Graphite Planets?
Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Life in the early universe might have formed on carbon planets made of carbides, graphite, and diamond, according to a study accepted for publication and is available online in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. The study’s researchers from Harvard University claim this indicates that even planets that contain minute amounts of carbon can still support life.
“This work shows that even stars with a tiny fraction of the carbon in our solar system can host planets,” adds the study’s lead author Natalie Mashian, a graduate student from Harvard University. “We have good reason to believe that alien life will be carbon-based, like life on Earth, so this also bodes well for the possibility of life in the early universe.”
The research team suggests that ancient CEMP stars or carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars, formed before heavy metals crucial for life on Earth, were spread throughout the universe that influenced planet formation by clumping carbon dust grains together to form carbon planets. Although theseplanets would be considered as tar-black worlds with the same size and mass as other Earth-like worlds, these are still capable of sustaining life.
Artist’s concept of Earth vs 55 Cancri e, which mass could be in the form of diamond. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC)
“These stars are fossils from the young universe,” says Mashian’s Ph.D. thesis advisor Avi Loeb from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. “By studying them, we can look at how planets, and possibly life in the universe, got started.”
If this theory turns out to be true, astronomers still need to assess the tar-black planets’ atmosphere to determine other details they do not know about. However, they think that the planets’ atmosphere contain huge amounts of methane and carbon dioxide.
Finding these planets could be possible using the transit technique. This technique is the same method used by scientists to detect other exoplanets, which Loeb asserts is a practical method for analyzing how early planets could have formed during the universe’s infancy.
UFO sighting in the United States is a common phenomenon. This time, there is yet another incident of an unidentified flying object in the skies of Florida, which holds uncanny similarities to the notorious UFO sighting in 1980.
A man identified as Steve, who works as a director of aircraft maintenance for a corporate jet fleet in the USA, managed to take an “amazing footage of the UFO, which he recorded from his plane, as it flew 43,000 feet above Texas in the USA, notes Mirror. There was also anotherreport that hints at proof of aliens spotted on the moon.
The clip taken by the man caused a stir among experts of SecureTeam10 to whom he sent the footage to, so that they could analyze its details and share the findings. While it is still not known whether the recent mysterious sighting in the sky is indeed an alien object, it surely relives the memories of the 1980 Cash-Landrum incident.
Vicky Landrum and Betty Cash were returning home in December 1980 from a dinner party with Vicky’s seven-year-old grandson Colby when they saw a huge diamond-shaped object in the sky.
According to their reports to the media, the object was emitting flames from underneath. What was shocking was that when Betty got out of the car to have a better look at the object, she suffered terrible burns. Finally, the object started to move away when approached by 23 military-style helicopters,.
According to Tyler from SecureTeam, “This [the Cash-landrum] UFO sighting, and I will quote a well-known UFO researcher, is perhaps one of the most baffling and frustrating cases of modern times, in that it is shrouded in a maze of dead ends, denials and even official deviousness by the government and military.”
The video has, however, evoked speculations among UFO aficionados, with some alleging that the lights and the V-shaped frame prove that the US military is experimenting with reverse-engineering alien technology. Another group of enthusiasts opined that lights emitted from the unidentified object clearly indicates that aliens visit earth multiple times, reported Enstarz. In recent times, there were reports of UFO spotted near a US military base in Ohio. Read more here!
A UFO spotted near the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, about ten miles from Dayton, Ohio, is building a lot of traction over the internet. The mysterious object was filmed by a Dayton couple while they were looking at the sunset from their home, according to Daily Mail.
The video footage shows the object having a pointed end downwards; hanging in the sky and moving slowly. It shows some strange markings on its surface.
“What the f*** is that? ” says the woman. “It looks like it’s moving with the clouds.”
After some time, the object disappears into the clouds. “Oh my god, it f****** disappeared,” says another onlooker.
The couple recorded the video last week on Wednesday, May 25. They sent it to different alien investigation websites, including Tyler Glockner of Secure Team 10.
Describing the object, Glockner called it mind-blowing. He said that the object had no sound and was solid. It seems to be the same object spotted two times a month ago near Dayton, Ohio. It is the third sighting by a different source.
While showing other older sightings, he said: ’It’s the same UFO. I am simply amazed, we have someone corroborating this sighting.”
However, he said that the object could be an engineered aircraft on trial by some black project over the military base.
‘There is no doubt in my mind this is either an alien craft or a very very strange drone – which I highly doubt.” he said at the end of the video.
The strange UFO sightings are not new at Airforce Base. Since 1947, the base has been witnessing several bizarre objects near the area. Between 1947 and 1969, the airbase recorded 12,618 sightings. Out of those, 701 were tagged as unidentified. All were recorded in Project Blue Book, a record book for UFO sightings and investigation, according to USA Today.
The base came into the highlight after John Greenewald, an amateur historian, shared 100,000 pages of documents at his website The Black Vault.
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The First 3D Photos Reveal What Is Located In One Of The Oldest Pyramids
The First 3D Photos Reveal What Is Located In One Of The Oldest Pyramids
Using cosmic rays, thermal cameras and lasers, a team of experts made 3D maps which show the internal structure of one of the oldest Egyptian pyramids.
An international team of archaeologists discovered the first performance of the Bent Pyramid in Dashur, from which have developed 3D photos. So they approached the public to look at the inner chambers of the buildings old 4,600 years.
Bent Pyramid is one of the earliest built in the time of the Old Kingdom Pharaoh Sneferu, father of Khufu. This pyramid has two entrances that open to two lanes, leading to two burial chambers, placed one above the other.
Tajoubi Mehdi, head of Egypt’s “Heritage Innovation Preservation Institute”, said plates placed 40 days inside the pyramid collected data on the particles that make up the bulk of the cosmic radiation that reaches Earth’s surface. The particles fall through empty space, but also absorb and other surfaces. A study of the deposition of particles on the surface, scientists have concluded much about the construction of the pyramids.
“We analyzed more than 10 million tracks of particles. Based on the number and angle which they are deployed, we could reconstruct a picture. It is the first time in history in this way to be discovered the inside of the pyramid,” explained Tajoubi, adding that the idea the project is to find an answer to the mystery of the pyramids, or how they were built. It is thought that Sneferu was buried inside the hidden chamber in the pyramid, but it has denied so far.
3D scanning technology and lasers will be used to study the hidden chamber in the tomb of Tutankhamun, which is believed to have belonged to Queen Nefertiti, says Daily mail.
They Found A New Earth: NASA Says There Is A Sensational Discovery!
They Found A New Earth: NASA Says There Is A Sensational Discovery!
Telescope “Kepler” discovered something very important, so the experts of the space agency announced that their findings will be publish on May 10.
Having launched in 2009, the telescope “Kepler” discovered more than 1,000 exoplanets, and several thousand await confirmation.
But this latest find is so large that it was announced that there will be press conference. Everything is still kept in secret and there are not any details, but we know that NASA organize such conferences for only major findings, as when it was discovered water on Mars.
Some speculate that the discovery is linked with the planet “Kepler 452B” which is considered to be the twin of our Earth, and that they found atmosphere on her or some form of life. Others say that “new Earth” has been found which could have life conditions.
The scientific possibility of parallel universes first arrived with Hugh Everett III’s Relative State Formulation in 1957. Not long after, Bryce Seligman DeWitt renamed Everett’s theory and introduced it to the masses, bringing us the popular term Many-worlds Interpretation.
But there are others, each attempting to solve the quantum measurement problem and, in this case, Everett’s formulation. These include the Many-minds interpretation and, my personal favorite, Many-histories.
Interpretations of interpretations, yeah. It’s very messy.
But for now, any thoughts of dimension-hopping adventures and interacting with parallel universes are relegated to science fiction. It’s just not possible.
Or is it?
Let’s take a quick look at some of the weirder “clues” that maybe, just maybe, we’re living in one ofmany worlds.
1. Ghosts & Paranormal Activity
So here’s a snapshot of an alleged ghost that popped up at the 16th Century palace of King Henry VIII. It appeared on CCTV footage after security guards were notified of someone repeatedly opening the fire exit. (And I’m not saying this is an actual ghost…just using it as an example).
Beyond ghostly photographs, though, many of these sightings could have an even more exotic explanation: parallel worlds bleeding into one another. A ghost, a specter, the haunting visage of the deceased — perhaps this person is alive and well in another world, and you’ve simply caught a glimpse into their universe.
Or perhaps this particular “parallel universe” is the realm of the dead, itself!
2. Déjà vu & Alter vus
A Déjà vu is one of several strange phenomena of the mind (including Déjà vecu and Déjà Visité, among others). Déjà vu, in particular, is the uncanny sensation that you’ve experienced something before, that an event is repeating itself. With Déjà vecu, you may even feel that you know what’s going to happen next.
An Alter vu, as well, is a term that popped up during the John Titor saga to describe when someone remembers their worldline differently. Conflicting memories, something changed about the world they live in. Think about Marty McFly at the end of Back to the Future; he’d remember the name of the mall as Twin Pines Mall, but due to his time travel, it’s changed to Lone Pine Mall.
He remembers both realities.
Both experiences have neurological and memory-based explanations, but is it possible that Déjà vus are “memories” from other versions of ourselves in other universes, or that Alter vus are truly memories from alteredworldlines?
3. Dreams & Parallel Universes
If sleep is a little slice of death, then what are dreams?
Some dreams we remember, most we don’t. While the mechanism for dreaming is fairly understood (they tend to occur during REM sleep), we still don’t know their true purpose, if there is one. A glimpse into the unconsious mind, a way for our brains to sort out information?
Or could they be windows into another world?
4. Parallel Universe Stories
Believe it or not, there have been a few cases of individuals who claim to belong to another world, or whose origins otherwise could not be traced. True, false, I don’t know.
Consider these two stories:
1.Lerina García, who woke up one day in a world — our world — that did not belong to her.
According to the story, as her day progressed she continued to notice “small incongruities,” little things that were just off. But there were big things, too:
“So I went to work in my car, which was parked where I’d always parked, and it was the same office I’d worked in for the last 20 years. But when I got to my department, it wasn’t my department. It has names on the door and mine wasn’t on it. I thought I was on the wrong floor, but no, it was my own floor. I went over to the office’s wireless section and looked myself up. I still worked there, but in another department, reporting to a superior I didn’t even know.”
2. A strange man who arrived in Tokyo in 1954 with a passport from a country that didn’t exist, called Taured. Japanese customs officials detained the man, but his passport was not a fake: it had the proper stamps, was issued by the country of Taured, and even included Japanese stamps from a previous visit. The man swore that Taured was a European country that had existed for 1,000 years, and he also held other papers, such as bank statements, with the country’s name on them.
After several hours, customs officials eventually placed the man in a hotel, with security nearby to ensure that he did not leave his room, while they checked things out.
The next morning, he was gone. No trace. A manhunt ensued, but there was no point; he had simply vanished.
Obviously, the veracity of these two stories can’t be confirmed, at least to my knowledge. But you work with what you have, you know?
So, do parallel universes exist?
The above “clues” are just some possibilities that I find intriguing, not that I believe any of them. But the universe is a strange place. What do you believe?
Black holes are a fixture in science fiction, but human beings have never laid eyes on one. Researchers from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have now developed an algorithm to help people see these stellar wonders.
The algorithm is called Continuous High-resolution Image Reconstruction, or CHIRP. CHIRP will act as one large telescope, piecing together information collected from radio telescopes on the Earth’s surface. An image of a black hole will be created by filtering data and removing all atmospheric sound and interference.
This collective telescope, called the Event Horizon Telescope array, has six observatories currently participating. They will be attempting to "photograph" Sagittarius A*, a black hole at the center of our galaxy.
Katie Bouman, an MIT graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science said, "We would never be able to see into the center of our galaxy in visible wavelengths because there's too much stuff in between." Bouman, who led the development of CHIRP, explained that, "A black hole is very, very far away and very compact. It's equivalent to taking an image of a grapefruit on the moon, but with a radio telescope. To image something this small means that we would need a telescope with a 10,000-kilometer diameter, which is not practical, because the diameter of the Earth is not even 13,000 kilometers."
The researchers stated, "You could think of the model as a rubber sheet covered with regularly spaced cones whose heights vary but whose bases all have the same diameter," and that "Fitting the model to the interferometric data is a matter of adjusting the heights of the cones, which could be zero for long stretches, corresponding to a flat sheet. Translating the model into a visual image is like draping plastic wrap over it: The plastic will be pulled tight between nearby peaks, but it will slope down the sides of the cones adjacent to flat regions."
We’ll take their word for it, but we can’t wait to see that mysterious celestial object and compare it to its cinematic representations.
“Ze hielden me in de gaten”: Bokslegende Muhammad Ali zag meerdere UFO’s, waaronder moederschip
“Ze hielden me in de gaten”: Bokslegende Muhammad Ali zag meerdere UFO’s, waaronder moederschip
Bokslegende Muhammad Ali, die afgelopen vrijdag op 74-jarige leeftijd overleed, was er heilig van overtuigd dat UFO’s bestaan. Dat schrijft de Britse Daily Express.
UFO-expert en schrijver Timothy Green Beckley had vanwege zijn fascinatie voor aliens meerdere ontmoetingen met het boksicoon. “Ali claimde zelfs een enorm UFO-moederschip te hebben gezien, dat hij in de gaten werd gehouden door aliens en dat buitenaardse bezoekers ‘van ongelooflijk groot belang zijn voor de wereld’,” zei hij.
In een ontroerend eerbetoon aan de bokser en mensenrechtenactivist haalt Green Beckley passages uit een boek aan dat hij schreef over beroemdheden die geïnteresseerd zijn in buitenaards leven.
Sigaarvormig schip
“Van alle beroemde mensen met wie ik heb gesproken over UFO’s en theorieën over buitenaardse beschavingen en leven in de ruimte, wist de gepensioneerde wereldkampioen in het zwaargewicht Muhammad Ali het meeste over het onderwerp,” schreef hij. Green Beckley had vier ontmoetingen met Ali waarin werd gesproken over aliens.
Ali haalde het nieuws toen hij claimde samen met zijn trainer niet één, maar twee UFO’s boven New York City te hebben gezien. Hij zei dat meerdere mensen melding hadden gemaakt van de UFO’s, waaronder een piloot die op weg was naar Newark Airport. “Dit is geen grap. Al mijn vrienden hier hebben het gezien,” vertelde hij aan Green Beckley.
Ali claimde daarop dat UFO’s hem ‘al enige tijd in de gaten hielden’. Hij zei eens een sigaarvormig schip te hebben gezien boven een auto waar hij in zat. “Wat een prachtig gezicht was dat. We konden de schaduw die de UFO op de zijkant van de weg wierp duidelijk zien.”
UFO-verkenningsschip (Timothy Green Beckley)
Zoveel andere mensen
De bokslegende maakte ook een tekening van wat volgens hem een UFO-verkenningsschip was. De drie bollen stellen het landingsgestel voor. “Deze verkenners zijn hier om hun voorraad zuurstof aan te vullen,” zei Ali. “Wijlen profeet Elijah Muhammad – mijn religieuze leider – zei dat Ezechiël’s wiel uit de Bijbel de eerste verwijzing ooit is naar UFO’s.”
Green Beckley ziet Ali als een geloofwaardige getuige. “Hij sprak eigenlijk alleen over zijn ervaringen als er iemand bij was die het verhaal kon bevestigen.”
“Ik zeg wat ik denk omdat ik heb ontdekt dat er zoveel andere mensen zijn die iets soortgelijks hebben gezien,” citeerde Green Beckley Ali. “De laatste jaren heb ik veel lezingen gegeven op universiteiten en ik merk dat studenten erg openstaan voor dit soort dingen. Ik hoop dat anderen in de toekomst gaan luisteren omdat ik ervan overtuigd ben dat UFO’s van ongelooflijk groot belang zijn voor de wereld.”
Ophefmakende publicatie: Ons DNA heeft mogelijk buitenaardse oorsprong
Ophefmakende publicatie: Ons DNA heeft mogelijk buitenaardse oorsprong
In een ophefmakende publicatie toonden Franse wetenschappers onlangs aan dat ribose, een suikerbouwsteen van genetisch materiaal in levende organismen, zich mogelijk in kometenijs heeft gevormd.
Het genetische materiaal van alle levende organismen op aarde is opgebouwd uit DNA en het meer primitieve RNA. Dat laatste wordt verondersteld één van de eerste moleculen te zijn die leven op aarde kenmerkt.
Ribose, een sleutelcomponent van RNA, was nog nooit in buitenaards materiaal gedetecteerd of in een laboratorium onder ‘astrofysische omstandigheden’ geproduceerd. Tot nu toe. Door het simuleren van kometenijs hebben de Franse onderzoekers aangetoond dat ribose succesvol kan worden verkregen.
Geen aardse oorsprong
“Dit overtreft onze stoutste verwachtingen,” zei Uwe Meierhenrich van de Universiteit van Nice.
Uit nieuw onderzoek van de Universiteit Parijs-Saclay blijkt nu dat ons DNA door een komeet naar de aarde zijn gebracht. Onderzoekers hebben namelijk bewezen dat ribose, een enkelvoudige suiker waar het grootste deel van ons DNA uit bestaat, zich kan vormen op een komeet.
Wetenschappers van het Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale en het Institut de Chimie de Nice hebben ontdekt dat de nucleïnezuren waar het DNA uit bestaat mogelijk geen aardse oorsprong hebben.
Onmogelijk geacht
De jonge zon werd in eerste instantie omringd door een wolk van gas en stof. Kleine, bevroren hemellichamen klonterden samen en vormden planeten, waarbij veel chemische verbindingen ontstonden.
De onderzoekers simuleerden deze omstandigheden. Op het moment dat een komeet dichter bij de zon kwam en opwarmde, werden ribose en andere suikers gedetecteerd. Voorheen werd gedacht dat ribose de voorloper van DNA was, maar het nieuwe onderzoek laat zien dat er tenminste drie andere kandidaten zijn die daarvoor in aanmerking komen en die mogelijk nog ouder zijn.
Tijdens het experiment is bovendien suiker geproduceerd uit formaldehyde, iets wat door scheikundigen altijd onmogelijk werd geacht. Hoewel bekend was dat formaldehyde kan bestaan op kometen, dacht men niet dat het de drijfveer kon zijn achter de vorming van ribose.
This is some terrible news, but I thought you would want to hear about it. This astronaut was charged with murder of two children today and must come as a big blow to NASA. Very sad situation all around. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
CNN States: (CNN) A retired NASA astronaut has been charged with murder following an auto collision in Alabama that resulted in the death of two girls. James Donald Halsell Jr., 59, was arrested and charged Monday with two counts of murder in a possible DUI accident that killed Naiomi Deona James, 11, and Jayla Latrice Parler, 13, in the wreck near Tuscaloosa. The girls were half-sisters, according to the AL.com news website. Halsell's vehicle hit a Ford Fiesta from behind at an extremely high rate of speed, crushing and pushing the Fiesta sideways across the highway and into a median early Monday, according to court documents. The Fiesta flipped at least twice and landed in the lane of opposing traffic, the documents said. James was pronounced dead at the scene, and Parler was taken to DCH Regional Medical Center in Tuscaloosa, where she was pronounced dead. Halsell served on five space shuttle missions for NASA before retiring in 2006. Halsell served on five space shuttle missions for NASA before retiring in 2006. The girls were not wearing seat belts and were ejected, Alabama Senior Trooper Reginal King said. Pernell Deon James, 37, and another passenger, Shontel Latriva Cutts, 25, were taken to the hospital and treated for injuries that weren't life-threatening, King said. James is the girls' father, AL.com reported. Halsell had been traveling to West Monroe, Louisiana, and stopped before the crash to get a room at a Motel 6 in Tuscaloosa, according to the court documents. While at the motel, he allegedly told police, he drank three glasses of wine. Halsell, whom police detained at the crash scene, said he didn't remember leaving the motel or how the crash happened, according to the court documents.
He allegedly tried to take the vehicle of a motorist who had stopped to assist the victims, police say in the documents. Police did not find any evidence of drugs or alcohol at the crash scene, but while searching Halsell's hotel room they found an empty bottle of wine and 10 empty sleeping pill packages, the court documents said. Halsell was booked into the Tuscaloosa County Jail and was released later after posting a $150,000 bond, Sgt. Alex Miles of the Tuscaloosa County Sheriff's Office said. Halsell logged more than 1,250 hours in space throughout five space shuttle missions for NASA, according to biographical data from the space agency. He commanded three of those missions before retiring in 2006. He led the space shuttle's return-to-flight planning team after the Columbia disaster in 2003. CNN's attempts to reach Halsell and his family have been unsuccessful.
NASA declined to comment about the arrest. Under the Alabama criminal code, a person can be charged with murder if he or she, "under circumstances manifesting extreme indifference to human life ... recklessly engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of death to a person other than himself or herself, and thereby causes the death of another person."
An Ohio witness in Shelby County reported watching a low flying, black, triangle-shaped UFO that silently moved overhead, according to testimony in Case 76700 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Sidney, OH, pictured from the east, is the county seat of Shelby County. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The witness was outside assembling a kid’s swimming pool at 8:40 p.m. on May 27, 2016, when the incident occurred.
“I saw a black object coming towards my backyard that was flying close,” the witness stated. “I thought it was a motorized glider.”
As the object moved over the witnesses’ yard, he realized it was not a motorized glider.
“My son asked,‘Dad, what is that?’ I said,‘I have no idea of what it is.’ I said it’s an alien. The object made no noise. It was black.”
The witness first thought the low-flying object was a motorized glider. (Credit: Google)
The witness asked his kids to go inside and get his wife.
“I really have no idea of what it is. I told my parents the next day I saw a weird object in the sky. The object was just floating in the sky and going northwest.”
The witness report indicates the object was moving less than 500 feet overhead. Ohio Field Investigator Joseph Pavlansky is investigating.
The object moved overhead under 500 feet. (Credit: Google)
Shelby County is in west-central Ohio, with a population of 49,423. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Arizona witness videotapes red lights UFO over Mesa
Arizona witness videotapes red lights UFO over Mesa
An Arizona witness at Mesa reported watching and videotaping two red lights in a vertical position moving northwest to east, according to testimony in Case 46492 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The Mesa, AZ, witness watched the two lights positioned vertically from each other for more than 15 minutes. Pictured: Cropped and enlarged photo from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness videotaped more than 15 minutes beginning at 9:50 p.m. on March 16, 2013, from a second floor apartment complex along Lindsey at U.S. Route 60.
“I was going to close the blinds in my daughter’s room when the incident occurred,” the witness stated.“The reason I find this interesting is that there are two red, vertical lights that slowly moved from the northwest to the east. Possibly coming from the Anthem, Cave Creek area headed toward Superstition Mountains.”
The witness was comparing light colors to known objects.
“An aircraft is supposed to have green lights on this side. Red was the only light visible throughout the whole recording and it was steady and never rotated or moved out of position. At about 11 minutes into filming the top light begin to fade and then went out. At 15 minutes, 20 seconds, the second light began to fade and then went out. Near the end of the filming I do show an aircraft landing at Falcon Field.”
The witness has an aviation background and could not identify the object. Pictured: Cropped and enlarged photo from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness has an aviation background.
“I have 21 years in naval aviation as an Aviation Ordnanceman working on fixed and rotary wing aircraft and their weapons; and six years in the aerospace industry. Three of those were manufacturing military helicopters and three were in Iraq and Afghanistan as a contractor with numerous Army Medivac Units. I have been in combat situations both in the Navy and as a contractor. With all this said, I know for a fact these are not military flares or other ordnance. As far as an air ship, balloon or other type of aircraft, I am 99 percent sure it is not. I do not know of any aircraft like this or that has formation lights like this and/or then extinguishes itself. There were no clouds or haze this night. It was a comfortable cool air. As far as a shape, I could not tell. I did try to look for something that would identify its shape and transparency but did not find any evidence of it. It was too far away to determine if it had a sound. I can only guesstimate the object(s) were 8-10 miles from me.”
Field Investigator Sandra Anthony investigated for Arizona MUFON and closed this case as an Unknown.
“Another sighting of most likely the same object from that evening was filed as Case #46242, which occurred at 9 p.m., Anthony wrote in her report.“The field investigator, Snow, concluded that it was an Unknown. This investigator also determined that there were three additional reports of this object that were not reported to MUFON.”
The Field Investigator stated that the wind direction at the time of the sighting indicates this is not a sky lantern. Pictured: Still frame from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
Anthony also noted weather information during the time of the sighting: 75 degrees, 3.5 mph winds out of the east-southeast, clear sky.
“Wind direction would not indicate sky lanterns, etc.,” Anthony stated.
News states: Today at noon an object in the skies of Denizli was seen, it brought to mind the possibility of UFOs. It was an issue that the UFO again appeared in Denizli. Earlier it was seen in Pamukkale and thought to be a reflected image onto the TV camera, but this time it was recorded by a private citizen named Ahmed. The pictures were taken in front of the Pamukkale travertine as Özel by 17:40. An unidentified flying object was seen over travertine. After a while the object was seen moving across the sky to settle over the ancient theater before it slowly disappeared. Ahmed stated, "Well, I do not want you to panic, but I took this photo with my own camera and Ido not understand."
Here’s How SpaceX Plans to get to Mars in Two Years
Here’s How SpaceX Plans to get to Mars in Two Years
SpaceX
IN BRIEF
SpaceX is outlining how it plans to deliver on CEO Elon Musk's declarations regarding sending a spacecraft to Mars in 2018, which would be a precedent to its succeeding plans of safely transporting people to the planet in 2025.
Reusable rockets are one of the world’s biggest breakthroughs the past years. Instead of being destroyed, discarded, and forgotten after their maiden voyage, rockets can be launched, refueled and reused for another trip.
SpaceX is one of the leading companies building these rockets. That is because CEO Elon Musk plans on not only flying people to Mars and back, but also colonizing the red planet. In this year’s Code Conference, Musk declared that SpaceX will be sending a test ship to Mars in 2018, followed by a spacecraft to transport people on the Red Planet on 2025.
Getting the spacecraft to Mars is far easier than landing it. This stems from the fact that Mars has an atmosphere that is 1000 times thinner than Earth’s. Therefore, if something goes wrong, and the people in the spacecraft are lucky enough to be within Mars’ atmosphere when it happens, parachutes will not be able to save them.
Watch the video with Musk’s plans to overcome the immense challenges of Martian terrain, and safely sending people to Mars…and back.
Meet THOR—a Lightweight Mini-Plane Fresh out of the 3D Printer
Meet THOR—a Lightweight Mini-Plane Fresh out of the 3D Printer
Airbus S.A.S.
IN BRIEF
Airbus introduces the aviation world to a mini-plane called THOR (Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality). It is the first aircraft to be produced using 3D printing technology.
PRINTABLE AIRCRAFT
Airbus, a leading aircraft manufacturer, has just unleashed THOR—Test of High-tech Objectives in Reality—a miniature aircraft constructed from 3D printing technology. The windowless, pilotless, and propeller-driven THOR weighs in at 21 kg, and measures less than 4 m long.
Though it is much smaller than a regular jet, THOR is capable of stable flight and even promises to save on time, fuel and money.
The Airbus THOR 3D-printed aircraft was unveiled this month at the International Aerospace Exhibition in Germany. Credit: Tobias Schwarz / AFP
The use of 3D printing technology in the field of aviation presents many benefits. Jens Henzler of the Hofmann Innovation Group, a leading supplier of automotive plastic components, says, “The printed pieces have the advantage of requiring no tools and…they can be made very quickly.”
Aside from the speedy production of parts, the metal components created from 3D printing technology are lighter than traditionally-manufactured parts by 30-50%. 3D-printed components also eliminate manufacturing waste and cut manufacturing costs.
Credit: Tobias Schwarz / AFP
Engineers also have plans to apply this technology to spacecraft. In fact, the European Space Agency (ESA) plans to begin using the Airbus Ariane 6 rocket in 2020, which will feature many printed components and potentially halve the costs incurred by its predecessor, the Ariane 5.
AVIATION INNOVATION
The latest 3D printers are capable of printing longer and more complex designs. Airbus is exploring this by testing methods enabling them to print an injection assembly for an engine, reducing the number of individual pieces from 270 to just three.
And because 3D-printed aircraft are lighter, they require less fuel, reducing carbon emissions and other pollutants from being released into the environment. As air traffic is expected to double in the next 20 years, reducing the carbon footprint in aviation is a priority. Ralf Fuecks—head of the Heinrich Boell foundation think tank of the German Green Party—says, “the decisive issue is radical technical innovation in a relatively short time.”
He may have a point. A survey of air industry insiders reveals that many believe that, by 2030, most spare aircraft parts will be printed on site at the airport, and that even the aircraft themselves will be entirely 3D-printed.
As most credible UFOlogists readily admit, proving that extraterrestrial spacecraft have visited our planet is a maddeningly difficult chore.
“The hassle over the word 'proof' boils down to one question: What constitutes proof?” Edward J. Ruppelt, who headed the U.S Air Force’s secret investigation of UFOs in the early 1950s, once wrote. “Does a UFO have to land at the River Entrance to the Pentagon, near the Joint Chiefs of Staff offices? Or is it proof when a ground radar station detects a UFO, sends a jet to intercept it, the jet pilot sees it, and locks on with his radar, only to have the UFO streak away at a phenomenal speed? Is it proof when a jet pilot fires at a UFO and sticks to his story even under the threat of court-martial? Does this constitute proof?”
More recently, Investigative journalist Leslie Keen, author of the 2011 book “UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record,” has noted that in roughly 90 to 95 percent of UFO sightings, observers turn out actually to have seen weather balloons, ball lightning, flares, aircraft, and other mundane phenomena. But another five to 10 percent of sightings are not so easily explainable, but that’s not the same as demonstrating that they are extraterrestrial in origin. Nevertheless, she argues, the hypothesis that UFOs are visitors from other worlds “is a rational one, and must be taken into account, given the data that we have.”
Here is some of the most compelling reasons that UFOs may be more than simple misidentifications of natural phenomena or terrestrial aircraft:
• The long, documented history of sightings.
UFOs were around, in fact, long before humans themselves took to the air. The first account of a UFO sighting in America was back in 1639, when Massachusetts colony governor John Winthrop noted in his journal that one James Everell, “a sober, discreet man,” and two other witnesses watched a luminous object fly up and down the Muddy River near Charlestown for two to three hours. There are documented sightings of what were then called “airships” during the 1800s as well, such as the July 1884 sighting of a Saturn-shaped UFO (a ball surrounded by a ring) in Norwood, NY, and a fast-moving object that briefly hovered over the startled townspeople of Everest, KS in 1897.
• Numerous modern sightings by credible, well-trained professional observers.
In Ruppelt’s 1955 book , “The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects,” he documented numerous instances of military service members, military and civilian pilots, scientists and other credible professionals who had observed UFOs. In one instance, Ruppelt describes the experience of a pilot of an Air Force F-86 fighter jet, who was scrambled to track a UFO and got to within 1,000 yards of a saucer-shaped object that abruptly flew away from him in a burst of speed after he fired upon it. He also mentions a 1948 UFO encounter in which two airline pilots got to within 700 feet of a UFO and saw two rows of windows with bright lights.
• Consistencies in the descriptions of purported alien ships.
Over the decades, witnesses who’ve seen UFOs have shown remarkable consistency in the shapes and other characteristics of the objects they’ve described. In 1949, the authors of the report for Project Sign, one of the early military investigations of UFOs, identified four main groups of objects—flying disks or saucers, cigar or torpedo-shaped craft without wings or fins, spherical or balloon-shaped objects that were capable of hovering or flying at high speed, and balls of light with no apparent physical form that were similarly maneuverable. Nearly a quarter-century later, a French government investigation headed by Claude Poher of the National Center for Space Research found similar patterns in more than 1,000 reports from France and various countries. One caveat is that in recent years, reports of wedge-shaped UFOs—which bear a similarity to the latest terrestrial military aircraft—have begun to supplant some of the traditional shapes.
• Possible physical evidence of encounters with alien spacecraft.
The 1968 University of Colorado report, compiled by a team headed by James Condon, documented numerous instances of areas where soil, grass, and other vegetation had been claimed by witnesses to have been flattened, burned, broken off, or blown away by a UFO. A report by Stanford University astrophysicist Peter Sturrock, who led a scientific study of physical evidence of UFOs in the late 1990s, describes samples of plants taken from a purported UFO landing site in France in 1981. French researchers found that the leaves had undergone unusual chemical changes of the sort that could have been caused by powerful microwave radiation—which was even more difficult to explain, considering that they found no trace of radioactivity at the site.
• Physiological effects on UFO witnesses.
The Sturrock report describes in detail various symptoms reported by individuals who had encountered UFOS, ranging from burns and temporary deafness to persistent nausea and memory loss. Among the most vivid examples: Betty Cash, Vickie Landrum and Landrum’s young grandson Colby, who reportedly happened upon a “large, diamond-shaped object” hovering over a Texas road in December 1980. All three became ill afterward; Cash, for example, developed large water blisters on her face and swelling that closed her eyes, in addition to severe nausea and diarrhea. The effects persisted for years, and she was hospitalized more than two dozen times.
All these UFO sightings throughout history and other compelling pieces of evidence are more than enough to justify an official investigation into this phenomenon. Skeptics say "provide real evidence", but "real evidence" as in like an alien spaceship is hard to come by. What do want MUFON and every other UFOlogist to do? Try to hijack a UFO? If these are actual alien spacecrafts, then even if you have every single plane, nuke, bullet, cannon, anti-aircraft batteries, etc at your side, it would probably be totally useless. UFOs can supposedly go at tremendous speeds that could completely leave our best fighter jets in the dust. Reports say they can accelerate instantaneously. There is also some sort of bias against anyone who claims he or she has seen a UFO. Mainstream news outlets and scientists very rarely mention UFOs at all. Of course I can also look at this from the skeptics' point of view. Good evidence is almost nowhere to be found. There are too many nutcases who only disrupt credible UFOlogists and other people who genuinely want to see if there's something to this phenomenon. Frankly, the only chance I see of there being a real concern about this in mainstream news is if the aliens decide to fly their ships in broad daylight over the White House or any other famous landmark. You may think that all we can do is just wait and see, but the government is almost surely aware of the fact that UFOs are a genuine concern. We can do something about all the questions we have about these objects. Whether you want to disprove or prove that these UFOs are alien crafts or not, an official investigation should be launched.
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Scientific panel concludes some UFO evidence worthy of study
Scientific panel concludes some UFO evidence worthy of study
In the first independent review of UFO phenomena since 1970, a panel of scientists has concluded that some sightings are accompanied by physical evidence that deserves scientific study. But the panel was not convinced that any of this evidence points to a violation of known natural laws or the involvement of an extraterrestrial intelligence.
The review was organized and directed by Peter Sturrock, professor of applied physics at Stanford University, and supported administratively by the Society for Scientific Exploration, which provides a forum for research into unexplained phenomena. The international review panel of nine physical scientists responded to presentations by eight investigators of UFO reports, who were asked to present their strongest data. Von R. Eshleman, professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford, co-chaired the panel.
Although UFO reports date back 50 years, the information gathered does not prove that either unknown physical processes or alien technologies are implicated. But it does include a sufficient number of intriguing and inexplicable observations, the panel concluded. "It may be valuable to carefully evaluate UFO reports to extract information about unusual phenomena currently unknown to science." To be credible to the scientific community "such evaluations must take place with a spirit of objectivity and a willingness to evaluate rival hypotheses" that has so far been lacking, it added.
This conclusion differs from that reached by Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the Colorado Project, in his 1968 UFO report. He concluded that "further extensive study of UFOs probably cannot be justified in the expectation that science will be advanced thereby." It is very similar, however, to the conclusion reached by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' Kuettner Report issued two years later, which advocated "a continuing, moderate-level [research] effort with emphasis on improved data collection by objective means and on high-quality scientific analysis."
In the current study, the scientific panel focused on incidents involving some form of physical evidence, including photographic evidence, radar evidence, vehicle interference, interference with aircraft equipment, apparent gravitational or inertial effects, ground traces, injuries to vegetation, physiological effects on witnesses, and debris. Of particular concern are reports that UFO encounters may be hazardous to people's health. Some witnesses have reportedly suffered radiation-type injuries. These reports led the panel to draw the attention of the medical community to the possible health risks involved.
The scientists found that some of the reported incidents may have been caused by rare natural phenomena, such as electrical activity high above thunderstorms or radar ducting (the trapping and conducting of radar waves by atmospheric channels). However, the panel found that some of the phenomena related to UFOs are not easy to explain in this fashion.
Further analysis of the evidence presented to the panel is unlikely to shed added light on the causes underlying the reports, the scientists said. Most current UFO investigations lack the level of rigor required by the scientific community, despite the initiative and dedication of the investigators involved. But new data, scientifically acquired and analyzed, could yield useful information and advance our understanding of the UFO problem, the panel said.
The reviewers also made the following observations:
• The UFO problem is not a simple one, and it is unlikely that there is any simple, universal answer.
• Whenever there are unexplained observations, there is the possibility that scientists will learn something new by studying them.
• Studies should concentrate on cases that include as much independent physical evidence as possible.
• Continuing contact between the UFO community and physical scientists could be productive.
• Institutional support for research in this area is desirable.
The review panel consisted of Von Eshleman; Thomas Holzer, High Altitude Observatory in Boulder, Colo.; Randy Jokipii, professor of planetary science, University of Arizona, Tucson; Francois Louange, managing director of Fleximage, Paris, France; H. J. Melosh, professor of planetary science, University of Arizona, Tucson; James J. Papike, professor of earth and planetary sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; Guenther Reitz, German Aerospace Center, Institute for Aerospace Medicine, Cologne, Germany; Charles Tolbert, professor of astronomy, University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and Bernard Veyret, Bioelectromagnetics Laboratory, University of Bordeaux, France. Eshleman and Holzer served as co-chairs of the panel.
The UFO investigators who presented evidence were Richard Haines, Los Altos, Calif.; Illobrand von Ludwiger, Germany; Mark Rodeghier, Center for UFO Studies, Chicago; John Schuessler, Houston; Erling Strand, Ostfold College, Skjeberg, Norway; Michael Swords, professor of natural science, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo; Jacques Vallee, San Francisco; and Jean-Jacques Velasco, CNES, Toulouse, France.
The study was initiated by Laurance S. Rockefeller and supported financially by the LSR Fund.
Stephen Hawking says black holes may be a portal to another universe
In a newly published paper, the eminent physicist has theorised that black holes, which scientists still know little about, could be a portal to another universe.
It had been thought that black holes have such a strong gravitational pull that even light cannot escape from them and that they are all consuming of everything within their reach.
However, the 74-year old has now said that they might not be as dangerous as previously thought and may just be a door to another universe.
Writing in a paper, alongside Andrew Strominger from Harvard and Malcolm Perry from Cambridge University, Hawking addressed the belief that black holes have “no hair”.
The study, Physical Review Letters, said that anything that went into a black hole was lost forever.
However, the basic laws of the universe state that anything that has ever been in the universe is preserved via its “information”.
This led to a paradox as it was assumed that anything that fell into a black hole was gone.
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Black holes have baffled scientists
But since last year, Hawking has been stating that all is not lost inside a black hole.
He said last year: “Black holes are not the eternal prisons they were once thought.
“If you feel you are trapped in a black hole, don’t give up. There is a way out.
“The existence of alternative histories with black holes suggests this might be possible.
“The hole would need to be large and if it was rotating it might have a passage to another universe. But you couldn’t come back to our universe.”
His latest paper states that black holes do indeed have “hair” which either stores the information on the boundary or the event horizon.
This would mean, according to the paper, that if you were looking at a black hole in the right way – in the distant future for example – you would be able to see the hairs of a black hole which store the information.
A new report suggests that the emergence of life on the “billions” of habitable planets in the universe is bound to be fairly common.
However, due to the violence and instability of early planetary formation, it is extremely difficult to sustain and will go extinct in its infancy.
The report, published in Astrobiology, states that life on Earth was extremely fortunate that the planet remained habitable and points to our neighbours Venus and Mars for the “default” life cycle that they go through.
Mars and Venus once shared a similar climate to Earth, but the former underwent extreme cooling while the latter experienced extreme heating, which made it impossible to sustain life.
It says that life needs to emerge and evolve quickly, as life breeds life, if the planet is to remain habitable.
The paper reads: “If life emerges on a planet, it only rarely evolves quickly enough to regulate greenhouse gases and albedo, thereby maintaining surface temperatures compatible with liquid water and habitability.”
It continues: “Due to large impacts and unstable abiotic volatile evolution with no tendency to maintain habitability, almost all life goes extinct early—with the rare exceptions of life that has undergone unusually rapid evolution.”
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Alien life is likely common
In a separate comment piece published on The Conversation, the researchers, Aditya Chopra And Charley Lineweaver, Australian National University, write that life in the universe has likely been and gone.
They said: "Our suggestion that the universe is filled with dead aliens might disappoint some, but the universe is under no obligation to prevent disappointment.
“We should not expect technological or spacefaring civilisations because there is no evidence that biological evolution converges to human-like intelligence.
“And subjective philosophical notions of life in the universe should not inform our estimates of the probability of life beyond Earth.”
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'Best piece of UFO evidence in years' filmed by NASA as Tim Peake docked with ISS
'Best piece of UFO evidence in years' filmed by NASA as Tim Peake docked with ISS
THIS footage of the International Space Station apparently surrounded by Unidentifed Flying Objects (UFOs) this week as been branded "the best piece of evidence in years" for the existence of aliens.
Were aliens buzzing the ISS as British astronaut Tim Peake docked?
The footage has caused a storm after being uploaded on a video by YouTube channel Mister Enigma entitled "UFOs seeen everywhere during Soyuz docking on NASA USTREAM."
It shows a portion of the docking between the Russian Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft and International Space Station (ISS) on December 15, when Tim Peake became the first British astronaut to board the space station.
In the video, the narrator, who speaks with a creepy robotic voice, says: "This video, which was taken by the ISS on Tuesday during the docking between the Souyez spacecraft and the ISS is the best piece of UFO evidence captured in years.
"Dozens of UFOs can be seen in the background - some zipping off in the distance, others gently floating by, and even one gigantic doughnut-shaped UFO that seems to inspect the event.
"Once the camera zooms out the sun seems to light them up."
In the video, the narrator, who speaks with a creepy robotic voice, says: "This video, which was taken by the ISS on Tuesday during the docking between the Soyuz spacecraft and the ISS is the best piece of UFO evidence captured in years.
"Dozens of UFOs can be seen in the background - some zipping off in the distance, others gently floating by, and even one gigantic doughnut-shaped UFO that seems to inspect the event.
"Once the camera zooms out the sun seems to light them up."
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Several objects are seen passing the ISS in the clip including the doughnut (ringed)
This video, which was taken by the ISS on Tuesday during the docking between the Souyez spacecraft and the ISS is the best piece of UFO evidence captured in years
Mister Enigma video narrator
The new footage has been likened to the "Tether UFO incident" of 1996, when a satellite which was tethered to a space shuttle broke off.
When it was later filmed by the astronauts on board, it appeared to be swarmed by hundreds of "UFOs" that appeared like organisms swimming in a sea.
"The footage is like the infamous UFO tether video that took place in the 90s, and it's very strange that it aired live and did not get cut off like most ufo’s that are seen on the NASA screen."
During the tether incident footage the objects are brushed off by the astronauts as being "some of the debris that follows us being caught by sunlight.
Others have said these weird anomalies in NASA space videos are ice particles or just lens flares.
In 39 days this type of engine could get us to Mars. That sounds pretty cool and expensive but some think it is definitely worth it besides satisfying intellectual curiosity. But of course the first challenge is thrust. Current rocket engines that burn solid fuels are super powerful but likely could not get us to the red planet or other parts of the solar system with people in a reasonable time frame. However, this technique which is barely at the prototype phase has yielded some promising results.
Is this insane or what?
Let’s find out more about how this could work in the video on page
Here is a bit more information on how this thruster works. The basic technology has been known for a few decades but they made some improvements:
Known as a Hall thruster, these engines have been operating in space since 1971, and are now routinely flown on communication satellites and space probes to adjust their orbits when needed. These things are awesome, and scientists want to use them to get humans to Mars, except there’s one – rather large – problem: the current lifespan of a Hall thruster is around 10,000 operation hours, and that’s way too short for most space exploration missions, which require upwards of 50,000 hours.
What do you think? Is this a reasonable way to get people to Mars? And if we did that, what would the purpose be and what would be the best things to do first? Feel free to comment with your ideas.
And they are actually discussing future fundings in congress right now for some of these types on engines which should pique the interest of space fans too.
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”.
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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’.
MWV
Please see another of our previous posts on this on this matter –
Former NASA astronaut trainer R. Ken Johnston Sr. of Belen, right, has said that NASA officials have doctored photographs and films that show evidence of extraterrestrial activity on the moon. On Friday he gave his books, which include NASA photos, to the International UFO Museum and Research Center. Executive Director Jim Hill, left, presented him with a certificate commemorating his donation (Lisa Dunlap Photo).
A former National Aeronautics and Space Administration consultant pilot who says he witnessed NASA employees doctoring photos and films from Apollo missions has donated his archives to the International UFO Museum and Research Center.
Ralph Kennedy (Ken) Johnston Sr. of Belen provided digital copies of his three books, which contain NASA photos and images, to the UFO Museum’s library Friday morning. He also provided copies of interviews he has done. He said that he has not donated the material to other institutions at this time, although some copies of some photos are available online and have been shared with researchers.
Executive Director Jim Hill presented Johnston with a certificate recognizing his donation and support of the museum and research center, which has one of the world’s largest collections of materials related to extraterrestrials and UFOs. The museum attracts about 180,000 visitors a year and is a Smithsonian Institution depository site for UFO-related reference materials.
Johnston, the author of three books in the “Ken’s Moon” series and former trainer of astronauts on the use of the Lunar Module, has said that while he was working at the Lunar Receiving Lab of the NASA Johnson Center in 1971 he saw NASA staff painting details out of lunar photos from Apollo missions and was aware of other anomalies between original photos and films he observed firsthand and what was cataloged by NASA or made available to the public. He was ordered to destroy five full sets of photos from lunar missions, he said, even though he argued that they should be donated to universities or research institutions. He gave one set to a university, but said most of the photos disappeared. Holding a doctorate degree in metaphysics and former pilot, he frequently gives presentations and interviews about what he thinks is evidence of extraterrestrial activity on the moon that has been denied by NASA and other government officials. Some images can be seen on his website: kenjohnstonmedia.com.
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Reference: What Are Cosmic Rays?
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What Are Cosmic Rays?
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Showers of high energy particles occur when energetic cosmic rays strike the top of the Earth's atmosphere. Most cosmic rays are atomic nuclei: most are hydrogen nuclei, some are helium nuclei, and the rest heavier elements. Although many of the low energy cosmic rays come from our Sun, the origins of the highest energy cosmic rays remains unknown and a topic of much research. This drawing illustrates air showers from very high energy cosmic rays.
Credit: Simon Swordy (U. Chicago), NASA
Cosmic rays are atom fragments that rain down on the Earth from outside of the solar system. They blaze at the speed of light and have been blamed for electronics problems in satellites and other machinery.
First discovered in 1912, many things about cosmic rays remain a mystery more than a century later. One prime example is exactly where they are coming from. Most scientists suspect their origins are related to supernovas (star explosions), but the challenge is that cosmic ray origins appear uniform when you look across the entiresky.
History
While cosmic rays were only discovered in the 1900s, scientists knew something mysterious was going on as early as the 1780s. That's when French physicist Charles-Augustin de Coulomb — best known for having a unit of electrical charge named after him — observed an electrically charged sphere suddenly and mysteriously not being charged any more.
At the time, air was thought to be an insulator and not an electric conductor. With more work, however, scientists discovered that air can conduct electricity if its molecules are charged or ionized. This would most commonly happen when the molecules interact with charged particles or X-rays.
But where these charged particles came from was a mystery; even attempts to block the charge with large amounts of lead were coming up empty. On Aug. 7, 1912, physicist Victor Hess flew a high-altitude balloon to 17,400 feet (5,300 meters). He discovered three times more ionizing radiation there than on the ground, which meant the radiation had to be coming from outer space.
Among the products of these star explosions are gamma-ray photons, which (unlike cosmic rays) are not affected by magnetic fields. The gamma rays studied had the same energy signature as subatomic particles called neutral pions. Pions are produced when protons get stuck in a magnetic field inside the shockwave of the supernova and crash into each other.
In other words, the matching energy signatures showed that protons could move at fast enough speeds within supernovas to create cosmic rays.
Current science
We know today that galactic cosmic rays are atom fragments such as protons (positively charged particles), electrons (negatively charged particles) and atomic nuclei. While we know now they can be created in supernovas, there may be other sources available for cosmic ray creation. It also isn't clear exactly how supernovas are able to make these cosmic rays so fast.
Cosmic rays constantly rain down on Earth, and while the high-energy "primary" rays collide with atoms in the Earth's upper atmosphere and rarely make it through to the ground, "secondary" particles are ejected from this collision and do reach us on the ground.
But by the time these cosmic rays get to Earth, it's impossible to trace where they came from. That's because their path has been changed as they travelled through multiple magnetic fields (the galaxy's, the solar system's and Earth's itself.)
According to NASA, cosmic rays therefore come equally from all directions of the sky. So scientists are trying to trace back cosmic ray origins by looking at what the cosmic rays are made of. Scientists can figure this out by looking at the spectroscopic "signature" each nucleus gives off in radiation, and also by weighing the different isotopes (types) of elements that hit cosmic ray detectors.
The result, NASA adds, shows very common elements in the universe. Roughly 90 percent of cosmic ray nuclei are hydrogen (protons) and 9 percent are helium (alpha particles). Hydrogen and helium are the most abundant elements in the universe and the origin point for stars, galaxies and other large structures. The remaining 1 percent are all elements, and it's from that 1 percent that scientists can best search for rare elements to make comparisons between different types of cosmic rays.
Scientists can also date the cosmic rays by looking at radioactive nuclei that decrease over time. Measuring the "half life" of each nuclei gives an estimate of how long the cosmic ray has been out there in space.
Space radiation concerns
Earth's magnetic field and atmosphere shields the planet from 99.9 percent of the radiation from space. However, for people outside the protection of Earth's magnetic field, space radiation becomes a serious hazard. An instrument aboard the Curiosity Mars rover during its 253-day cruise to Mars revealed that the radiation dose received by an astronaut on even the shortest Earth-Mars round trip would be about 0.66 sievert. This amount is like receiving a whole-body CT scan every five or six days.
A dose of 1 sievert is associated with a 5.5 percent increase in the risk of fatal cancers. The normal daily radiation dose received by the average person living on Earth is 10 microsieverts (0.00001 sievert).
The moon has no atmosphere and a very weak magnetic field. Astronauts living there would have to provide their own protection, for example by burying their habitat underground.
The planet Mars has no global magnetic field. Particles from the sun have stripped away most of Mars’ atmosphere, resulting in very poor protection against radiation at the surface. The highest air pressure on Mars is equal to that at an altitude of 22 miles (35 kilometers) above the Earth’s surface. At low altitudes, Mars’ atmosphere provides slightly better protection from space radiation.
Harvard Scientists Announce Plans To Create Synthetic Human Genomes
Harvard Scientists Announce Plans To Create Synthetic Human Genomes
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As a kind of follow-up to the Human Genome Project, Harvard scientists are proposing to create a synthetic human genome from scratch, with the aim of developing resistance to cancer and disease.
Humanity’s pursuit of perfection seems to be well underway. This past weekend, a group of scientists led by DNA pioneer George Church, who is a Harvard biologist, announced that they’re working on synthesizing human genes from scratch.
With the goal of addressing a number of human health challenges, scientists said that the project, dubbed the HGP-Write project, will explore growing replacement organs, engineering cancer resistance, and building new vaccinations using human cells.
In short, they could forever alter how humans respond to diseases…and even what it means to be human.
Related: What is CRISPR
However, such dramatic shifts are a long ways off. Before any of that can happen, researchers will need to start defining what a “perfect” human would look like—and that means literally making a blueprint for what such a genetic sequence would look like. Church published a paper in 2014 about “de novo synthesis,” or the creation of perfect genes from scratch, so he is no newcomer to the field.
The project is pretty similar to the current gene editing CRISPR technique, which could very well prove to be life-saving for people with a variety of terminal illnesses. The main difference is that this new endeavor will also take into account the ethics and economics of how far humans should go with gene editing in order to develop their blueprint.
We may have a new combat exoskeleton prototype in 2018. It will have body armor that makes use of a liquid that solidifies in milliseconds, and a tiny, powerful engine for recharging the suit's systems.
We’ve all seen what Iron Man can do in the movies, and it’s rather impressive—what with all the flying and absorbing bullets.
Ultimately, all of his abilities come from the incredible technology behind his suit. And it’s to this inspiration that Special Operations Command (SOCOM) is turning for their future combat exoskeleton prototypes, which are to be ready in 2018.
An initial design of the TALOS exoskeleton. Credit: Army
LIQUID ARMOR
In 2013, SOCOM expanded their development of such a suit, which they call the Tactical Assault Light Operator Suit (TALOS). Navy SEALs or Special Forces would use these suits for special operations.
However, unlike the metallic, clunky suit of Iron Man, these military operators need to move with great mobility; therefore, the suits will be made with a “liquid body armor” that transforms into solid within milliseconds when a magnetic field or an electric current is applied through the material.
The technology is being developed by scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A Polish company, Moratex, is working on a similar kind of liquid body armor, using a non-Newtonian liquid called Shear-Thickening Fluid (STF).
Essentially, what’s being designed is a suit of armor that remains soft and malleable during normal operations, but hardens instantaneously at the point of contact—deflecting and dispersing the immense destructive energy produced by a hit from an enemy round or shrapnel.
POWERED BY A SMALL ENGINE
TALOS is reportedly going to be a physiological subsystem that will use various sensors on the skin to monitor the wearer’s vital signs in great detail. More than that, it will provide vastly increased strength.
And all of this added capability needs a great deal of power.
General Atomics intends to provide the TALOS suits with a tiny combustion engine, that can nevertheless run at 10,000 RPM. This technology will rely on Liquid Piston’s ‘X’ engine, which employs the High Efficiency Hybrid Cycle. According to the company, this engine has a theoretical efficiency of 75%, and can be very quiet since it only consists of two moving parts: a shaft and a rotor.
The purpose of the engine in the exoskeletal suit would be to recharge batteries, which in turn supply energy to all of the power-thirsty components which will be integrated with the TALOS suit—including computer and sensor systems, as well as robotic strength augmentation.
It’s a fascinating glimpse into the future of warfighting technology—and it brings a whole new meaning to the Army’s old recruiting slogan “Be All You Can Be.”
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Surprise! The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Scientists Thought
Surprise! The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Scientists Thought
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Hubble Space Telescope view of the galaxy UGC 9391, which contains Cepheid variable stars and supernovas that scientists studied to calculate a newly precise value for Hubble's constant.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Frattare (STScI)
The universe is expanding 5 to 9 percent faster than astronomers had thought, a new study suggests.
"This surprising finding may be an important clue to understanding those mysterious parts of the universe that make up 95 percent of everything and don't emit light, such as dark energy, dark matter and dark radiation," study leader Adam Riess, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, said in a statement.
Riess — who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for the discovery that the universe's expansion is accelerating — and his colleagues used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to study 2,400 Cepheid stars and 300 Type Ia supernovas. [Supernova Photos: Great Images of Star Explosions]
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows Cepheid variable stars (circled in red) and a Type Ia supernova (blue "X") in the galaxy UGC 9391. Astronomers studied these and other "cosmic yardsticks" to calculate how fast the universe is expanding.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Riess (STScI/JHU)
These are two different types of "cosmic yardsticks" that allow scientists to measure distances across the universe. Cepheids pulse at rates that are related to their true brightness, and Type Ia supernovas — powerful explosions that mark the deaths of massive stars — blaze up with consistent luminosity.
This work allowed the team to determine the distances to the 300 supernovas, which lie in a number of different galaxies. Then, the researchers compared these figures to the expansion of space, which was calculated by measuring how light from faraway galaxies stretches as it moves away from Earth, to determine how fast the universe is expanding — a value known as the Hubble constant, after famed American astronomer Edwin Hubble.
The new, unprecedentedly precise value for the Hubble constant comes out to 45.5 miles (73.2 kilometers) per second per megaparsec. (One megaparsec is equivalent to 3.26 million light-years.) Therefore, the distance between cosmic objects should double 9.8 billion years from now, the researchers said.
The new figure is 5 to 9 percent higher than previous estimates of the Hubble constant, which relied on measurements of the cosmic microwave background radiation — the light left over from the Big Bang that created the universe 13.8 billion years ago.
There are a number of possible explanations for this discrepancy, study team members said.
Illustration showing the three steps astronomers used to measure the universe's expansion rate to an unprecedented accuracy, reducing the total uncertainty to 2.4 percent.
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Feild (STScI), and A. Riess (STScI/JHU)
For example, the mysterious force known as dark energy, which is thought to be behind the universe's accelerating expansion, may be stronger than astronomers had thought. It's also possible that "dark radiation" — an unknown, superspeedy subatomic particle or particles that existed shortly after the Big Bang — could be playing a role that hasn't been taken into account, the researchers said.
Enigmatic dark matter, which is thought to be four times more abundant than "normal" matter throughout the universe, could also have some weird and unappreciated characteristics. Or maybe there's something important missing from Einstein's theory of gravity, the researchers said.
In short, there's a lot of work left to do before astronomers can fully appreciate the meaning of the new results.
"We know so little about the dark parts of the universe; it's important to measure how they push and pull on space over cosmic history," study co-author Lucas Macri, of Texas A&M University, said in the same statement.
The new study has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
Scientist says he found definitive proof that God exists.
Scientist says he found definitive proof that God exists.
One of the most respected scientists of today says he has found evidence of the action of a force "that governs everything."
The theoretical physicist Michio Kaku claims to have developed a theory that might point to the existence of God. The information has created a great stir in the scientific community because Kaku is considered one of the most important scientists of our times, one of the creators and developers of the revolutionary String Theory which is highly respected throughout the world.
To to come to his conclusions, the physicist made use of what he calls “primitive semi – radius tachyons “.
Tachyons are theoretical particles capable to “unstick ” the Universe matter or vacuum space between matter particles, leaving everything free from the influences of the surrounding universe.
After conducting the tests, Kaku came to the conclusion that we live in a “Matrix”.
“I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence”, he affirmed. “Believe me, everything that we call chance today won’t make sense anymore.”
“To me it is clear that we exists in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.”
The Space Shuttle Endeavor, silhouetted on the mesosphere. (Photo: NASA/Public Domain)
If you happen to frequent the more UFO-happy corners of the internet, you'll see a lot of weird things: exploding blue lights high above the horizon, eerie white specks floating around the Space Shuttle, and something called "space dandruff".
If you don't believe your eyes, try scrolling down to the comments. You might find, sprinkled among them, the strangest sight of all: former NASA employee James Oberg, calmly explaining what is really going on.
Oberg worked at Mission Control in the late '90s, and then became a space journalist and historian. A few years ago, he picked up a new hobby: taking UFOs seriously. Unlike other debunkers, Oberg is less into dismissing theories offhand (an activity he calls "stomping on dormice") and more interested in figuring out exactly why people react so strongly to outer space images and footage.
To do this, he has combed through decades of supposed UFO sightings, reading eyewitness testimony and cross-referencing it with mission logs. In the process, he's come to an interesting conclusion: human senses, evolved in and trained on (relatively) slow-moving objects, certain light conditions, and an atmosphere, get thrown into a tizzy when those conditions change. "Our sensory system is functioning absolutely perfectly for Earth conditions," says Oberg. "But we're still a local civilization. Moving beyond our neighborhood has been visually confusing."
Here are three outer space phenomena that Oberg says tend to bamboozle the human eye, and the truth behind them.
1. Super-High Plumes
Last November 7th, Californians who happened to be out stargazing got a little more than they bargained for. Around 6 p.m., a strange object began shooting across the sky, drawing mass attention. Then, before their eyes of a freaked-out populace, it erupted, growing what looked like a huge, bright tail of blue flame. The sight sent the whole state into a frenzy. Even Julien Solomita and Jenna Marbles, rapid-talking YouTube stars whose footage of the event has been viewed nearly 10 million times, stayed quiet for several minutes as the weird thing passed overhead.
The New York Times was also on it, taking the opportunity to ask experts why people are so eager to pin such sightings on aliens. "Extraterrestrials are like deities for atheists," author Michael Shermer explained at the time. "It's almost a replacement for mainstream religion."
But you don't really need a spiritual void in order to jump to conclusions about an expanding cone of blue light high-tailing it across the sky. You just need eyes that grew up on Earth. As Oberg explains, that giant blue blast was actually a plume—a swarm of particles emitted by a rocket thruster as it shoots through space.
A more familiar contrail plume, emitted by an Air Force jet.
We're used to seeing bulbous smoke plumes, or the skinny vapor trails left by planes. Rocket plumes, though, look and act much differently. Because they're unencumbered by air, they spread out into wide-angled cones. Some of the particles even ricochet off the rocket itself, and end up in front of or alongside it, expanding the plume further. Most importantly, if the rocket is high enough above us, it might be in full sunlight, even if we, its observers, are still in the dark. This effect is most pronounced at twilight. From Earth, and to our untrained eyes, the object looks like it's shooting fire—but it's really just a plume, enjoying some solar backlight.
This particular plume was from a Navy test missile. Others have shown up inRussia, Australia, and the Canary Islands, garnering similar responses. "There were thousands of people who were absolutely processing their visual stimuli correctly if [the plume] was a mile away or ten miles away," says Oberg of the California event. "But it was 300 miles away, up in space and sunlit, which never occurred to them, because this is not something within the normal range of human experience."
2. Space Dandruff
Many NASA space shuttles went up with backward-facing cameras, which researchers used to study lightning pulses and other phenomena. Footage from these cameras, much of which can be found on YouTube, largely shows grainy views of the Earth from above. Sometimes, though, mysterious white spots will pop up and "dance" in front of the camera. (In the video above, which shows the so-called "Zig-Zag UFO" from STS-48, these spots are best visible starting around 3 minutes in.) Viewers have speculated that these lights are anything from "Star Wars testing" to rogue satellites to alien crafts.
But as Oberg points out, such theories require an Earthly frame of mind, in which the viewer is standing still. In reality, the space shuttle is hurtling at around 17,500 miles per hour. A Soviet rocket or alien craft at cross-orbits with the shuttle would only be visible on camera for a split second as it zipped by, like a car going the other direction on the highway. Because of this, anything that stays alongside a shuttle long enough to remain in a camera's field of view almost definitely comes from that shuttle. The particular dots can't be precisely identified—after all, they're just dots—but they are almost certainly ice flakes, fragments of insulation, or other bits and pieces that have peeled off the shuttle itself and are now floating alongside it. Oberg calls this stuff "space dandruff."
If there's enough dandruff out there, watching it can even be a beautiful experience. When Oberg worked at NASA, he and his coworkers would sometimes take breaks to watch these videos for fun. "The earth's still dark, the sky is full of stars, and these little snowflakes are playing out there, tumbling," he remembers.
3. Twilight Shadowing
While poring over similar videos recorded by various space shuttles, Oberg noticed that all the most convincing ones had something in common. "They tend to occur at a very special time every orbit, when the shuttle has just come up out of the Earth's shadow and is now bathed in sunlight," he says. "The camera is pointed back toward the receding horizon, and stuff suddenly appears, like it's coming up from behind the horizon, or behind a cloud." You can see this in the above video, fromthe Space Shuttle Columbia's November 1996 mission.
Extraterrestrial buffs are particularly into the part around five minutes in, when small specks of light blip in and out of sight, eventually forming a roughly circular shape.
Even if you happen to know that most shuttle-adjacent objects are just dandruff, their sudden appearance and disappearance might be cause for confusion. But as Oberg explains, the objects aren't actually jumping through a wormhole, or rising suddenly over the horizon—they're just moving in and out of the shuttle's shadow.
On Earth, when an object blocks sunlight from reaching something, like the ground, a wall, another object, it casts a shadow on its surface. Since space lacks such a surface, the Shuttle's shadow is invisible—until, suddenly, it swallows up some dandruff, and then spits it back out. Oberg calls this "twilight shadowing." "You can see things floating out of it and floating into sunlight," says Oberg. "They look like stuff that's coming up from beneath the clouds, or from beyond the edge of the Earth." Really, though, they're just coming back into our line of vision.
These various types of visibility, and how we interpret them, are endlessly fascinating to Oberg. Their very weirdness helps us remember that we're dealing with an environment that's very strange to us—even stranger, maybe, than the ideas that propagate in an Internet rabbit hole. "Everyone on YouTube just calls each other morons or sheeple," says Oberg. "But really it's just that out there, your visual assumptions are no longer valid." Once you remember that, he says, "there's often an epiphany, where you realize, wait a second—this is outer fucking space."
Mysterieuze ploffen die te horen zijn in de Batagaika krater in Siberië, doen alle alarmbellen afgaan bij experten. De lokale bevolking vreest de 'poort naar de onderwereld'. Verschillende specialisten zijn om veel wetenschappelijke redenen ernstig bezorgd: door de opwarming van de Aarde wordt de krater elk jaar 20 meter breder.
De permafrost - een aardlaag die volgens de definitie permanent bevroren blijft - is aan het smelten en daardoor zet de krater snel uit. Nu is het 'gat' al een kilometer lang en 90 meter diep. Elk jaar wordt de krater 20 meter breder. In de buurt van de kraterrand wandelen, is dan ook een risicovolle onderneming. Zeker nu luide ploffen te horen zijn.
De Batagaika krater die 25 jaar geleden ontstond, geeft aan hoe snel onze planeet aan het opwarmen is. Bovendien blijven steeds meer kleinere kraters opduiken op het noordelijk halfrond.
Het smelten van de permafrost bekijken onderzoekers met argusogen want het houdt grote gevaren in. In de bevroren bodemlaag zit namelijk een enorme hoeveelheid methaan verborgen. In niet-vaste toestand ontpopt methaan zich tot een belangrijk broeikasgas.
Indien de permafrost volledig smelt - een proces dat op een epische schaal op gang komt bij een opwarming met 4 graden - dan belandt de Aarde mogelijk in een horrorscenario dat moeilijk te beschrijven valt.
Professor Julian Murton van de universiteit van Essex is net terug van een tocht naar de krater. Hij bestudeerde er geologische lagen van meer dan 200.000 jaar oud. Dat was de laatste keer dat de Aarde warmer was dan nu.
"Batagaika geeft ons een beeld van wat er in het verleden gebeurde en wat de toekomst voor ons in petto heeft", verklaarde de expert. "Het smelten van het ijs in de bodem zal zorgen voor snelle veranderingen in de reliëfvorm van het aardoppervlak. Niet al het water kan in de poriën van het losse materiaal worden opgenomen, waardoor de bodem ontstabiel wordt."
De bodem van de Batagaika krater zit vol ravijnen en geulen. Er liggen restanten van mammoeten, muskusossen en oude boomstronken. De professor vond evenwel geen bewijs van een tunnel naar de onderwereld. "De bodem bestaat uit rotsen, ik heb geen poort gezien."
Er wordt vermoed dat de krater ontstond toen de lokale bevolking in de jaren tachtig bomen begon te kappen. "Eens je de aanwezige vegetatie verstoort die zich boven de permafrost bevindt, dan is dat het startschot van een aantal evenementen die elkaar in sneltreinvaart zullen opvolgen", aldus Murton. En probeer die trein dan maar eens te stoppen.
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SHOCK CLAIMS: Humans could be ALIENS from another galaxy brought to Earth by a comet
SHOCK CLAIMS: Humans could be ALIENS from another galaxy brought to Earth by a comet
THE DNA that created the building blocks for life and created humans could have originally been bought from space on a comet that collided with a primitive Earth.
DNA for life could have been brought to Earth on a comet.
Researchers made the staggering claim after "proving" that ribose, the basic sugar from which much of our DNA is composed, is able to form on a comet.
Scientists from the Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, and the Institut de Chimie de Nice, claim to have discovered that the nucleic acids that make up our DNA, are formed primarily from ribose, and therefore may not be originally from Earth.
At the formation of our solar system, the young Sun was surrounded by a circumstellar disc of gas and dust.
Planets then formed by aggregation of these small, frozen bodies that met violently and merged, bringing many chemical compounds.
Researchers simulated these conditions to create a synthetic comet.
They said as the synthetic comet "warmed", as though it were nearing the Sun, ribose and a similarly structured family of sugars were detected.
A spokesman for the research said: "It was previously thought that ribose was the original sugar and precursor to DNA, yet the research exposed at least three others that may have been around at the same time or before.
This was the first occurrence of a prebiotic synthesis of ribose from the basic elements found in comets, without human interaction.
Study spokesperson
"This was the first occurrence of a prebiotic synthesis of ribose from the basic elements found in comets, without human interaction."
Additionally, the experiment produced a formose reaction, or the formation of sugars from formaldehyde, which was previously deemed impossible by chemists due to its complexity.
Although it was known that formaldehyde can exist on comets, it was not predicted that solvated electrons, found in the ice, could act as the necessary catalyst in the creation of ribose.
Although the existence of ribose in real comets is yet to be confirmed, scientists say the new discovery completes the list of molecular building blocks of life that can be formed in interstellar ice on a comet.
It is claimed it adds further support to a theory that comets are the source of the organic molecules that made life possible on Earth, and
One of the world’s most iconic astronomy sites, Puerto Rico’s giant Arecibo Observatory, may be facing the end of its era. The National Science Foundation (NSF), the primary funder of Arecibo—which is the largest existing radio telescope and was featured in the movies Contactand GoldenEye, among others—is holding public meetings on June 7 to “evaluate potential environmental effects of proposed changes to operations at Arecibo Observatory,” according to an NSF announcement. Because those proposed changes include the option of shutting down the 305-meter dish telescope altogether, officials will likely get an earful about more than air quality and groundwater. Defenders of the observatory will have a chance to speak their minds at two meetings—at the San Juan DoubleTree Inn and the Puerto Rico Professional College of Engineers and Land Surveyors—and can submit comments in writing through June 23.
Since its completion in 1963 the storied telescope found fame for discoveries such as the first-ever planets outside the solar system in 1992 and the first indirect evidence of gravitational waves in 1974, a finding that earned its makers a Nobel Prize, among other landmark accomplishments. But the beloved observatory now stands on a precarious threshold. The NSF has to balance the operations of new and expensive facilities such as the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array in Chile against older ones like Arecibo while weighing federal scientific priorities and setting aside enough money for grants to individual scientists. With the NSF’s budget essentially flat since 2010, the agency cannot afford to run all its telescopes indefinitely, continue building new ones and still pay the country’s scientists. But researchers who use Arecibo argue that it has a useful life of novel discoveries ahead of it, even if is not as shiny as the newcomers, especially in some areas where it makes a unique contribution.
The observatory’s latest announcement follows recommendations made by two committees associated with the NSF, in 2012 and earlier 2016, reevaluating the agency’s role in running the telescope and “significantly decreasing funding.” This year the NSF also did a “feasibility study” to map out various futures for Arecibo and asked potential partners to propose ways they could take over some telescope operations. The NSF currently funds Arecibo at $8.2 million a year, two thirds of the telescope’s total cost, with NASA kicking in the last third to bankroll the observatory’s study of near-Earth asteroids. But two NSF divisions—Astronomical Sciences and Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences—which split their cost equally, are reconsidering their roles.
The “environmental impact statement,” for which the upcoming meetings seek public comment, will attempt to define the earthly effects of five different hypothetical scenarios, each involving a different financial commitment from the NSF. In one, everything would stay much the same. But the agency could also team up with “interested parties” who could help fund the telescope or other interested parties who want to run it as an educational facility.
More pessimistically, the NSF could mothball the site, shutting it down in such a way that it could restart (sometime in the future). Or it could dismantle the telescope altogether and restore the area to its natural state, as required by law if the agency fully divests itself of the observatory and closes it. Previous studies have said such a process could cost around $100 million—more than a decade’s worth of its current funding for telescope operations. Jim Ulvestad, director of the NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences, says the agency is still investigating, not concluding. “No alternative has been selected at this juncture,” he says. And much consideration will go into the final financial decision, whatever it may be. Some outside the agency see writing on the wall. “NSF is dead serious about offloading Arecibo funding to someone else—anyone else,” says Ellen Howell, a former staff scientist at Arecibo and now a faculty member at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) in Tucson, Arizona.
This is hardly the first time Arecibo’s future has felt precarious. A quick Google search will net you various “SaveArecibo!” campaigns from the 2007 era—for instance, after an NSF-commissioned report recommended decreasing the agency’s funding for the telescope from 2007’s $10.5 million to $4 million in 2011. Its current $8.2 million-a-year allowance is a compromise. And the observatory has company in its current crisis. The Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia, the Very Long Baseline Array spread across the country, and several older telescopes on Kitt Peak in Arizona are wading through similar budgetary muck, trying to work out new private partnerships (with NSF assistance) after the agency decided to cut their cords. And according to documents and e-mails obtained byTheSydney Morning Herald, the Parkes radio telescope in Australia is facing similar funding shortfalls. A “likely recommendation,” according toThe Herald, will be that Parkes and another Australian facility “raise external funds by charging for access to the telescope facilities.” Green Bank, Arecibo and Parkes are three of the world’s most powerful radio telescopes—historically open to scientists who successfully submit proposals to use them—and government-based financial problems may lead them all into eventual closure or into the arms of private interests, where whoever pays gets to choose what type of science is done.
Arecibo currently is used for radio astronomy, space and atmospheric science as well as radar studies of comets, asteroids and planets. These areas are brimming with potential for the observatory to make many exciting discoveries in the future, advocates say. Xavier Siemens, an astronomer at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, is especially excited about the possibility for using Arecibo to detect gravitational waves—ripples in spacetime—coming from supermassive black holes. Because it is the largest and most sensitive single-dish radio telescope in the world, Arecibo is one of the best instruments available for detecting pulsars, the fast-spinning remnants of dead, once-huge stars. Scientists like Siemens currently use Arecibo and the also-threatened Green Bank Telescope to find and monitor a network of pulsars they hope will help detect gravitational waves.
Without Arecibo, he says, that search would be crippled. Although the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), which announced the first detection of gravitational waves in February to much fanfare, will continue running, it catches different waves than pulsar studies such as Arecibo’s do. “What’s really amazing to me is that in the wake of the discovery of gravitational waves, NSF is going to shut down the world’s most sensitive radio telescope and hinder the detection—the opening of the only other gravitational-wave window that we can open in the next few years,” he says. “It’s surreal.”
It may be surreal but Howell believes it is also realistic. “I am afraid that NSF has already made up its collective mind to reduce their support to much less than the current $8 million per year or so to perhaps nothing,” Howell says. “I think this is an embarrassment after so many years of scientific achievements when so little could continue the productivity.”
Michael Nolan, now at the LPL, worked at Arecibo for 20 years and was director from 2008 to 2011. He claims the observatory used to have better friends in high places, specifically in the NSF’s Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences division. “The two main advocates are now retired, and it seems like that voice is, too,” he says. “The Astronomy division has seemed like managers rather than advocates for a long time, though, of course, I'm not privy to their internal discussions.”
And whereas the NSF’s deliberations have not yet resulted in a decision to back away from the observatory completely or at all, the delay of what may be inevitable is not doing the telescope any favors, Nolan argues. Arecibo’s leaders cannot ask new potential donors to make up for a specific shortfall because they do not know if or by how much the NSF might curb its aid. Recalling his tenure at Arecibo, and the regular jeopardy it was in even back then, Nolan wishes the facility did not have to be so often rescued from the brink: “You know that line in The Incredibles?” he asks. “‘Sometimes I just want it to stay saved, you know? For a little bit.’”
In addition to its scientific import, Arecibo also plays a concrete, down-to-earth role in the community. An economy exists around the rural facility, which provides jobs to local residents and infuses the area with cash-dispensing visitors—both touristic and scientific. The environmental statement will also evaluate those human impacts. If the NSF does decide to tighten the purse strings and no other organization steps up to fill the gap, the consequences will ripple across science and society, space and time. “If Arecibo has to close because NSF has other priorities, it will not be possible to bring it back anytime soon, when or if we come to our senses,” the LPL’s Howell says. She and many scientists would agree that an empty Arecibo site would be—as Jodie Foster says in Contact—an “awful waste of space.”
The science of bacteria in the atmosphere is getting its moment in the sun.
BY CHELSEA WALDILLUSTRATION
BY TIANHUA MAO
Rippling like a jellyfish, a helium balloon big enough to envelop the Empire State Building lofted over the New Mexico desert. Its passengers, suspended below in a boxy white gondola, were hardy specimens: millions of cells of a remarkably resilient bacterium known as Bacillus pumilus SAFR-032. NASA scientists had first collected the strain more than a decade ago in the Mars Odyssey assembly facility, where the bacteria had survived sterilization. Before sending the pill-shaped cells into the sky last October, researchers starved them until they morphed into endospores, an armored dormant state.
Higher and higher the wee wayfarers rose: to 17,000 feet, the maximum altitude at which trees grow; to 24,000 feet, the upper limit of the highest-flying migratory bird, the bar-headed goose; to 60,000 feet, where atmospheric pressure is so low that water in bodily tissues would boil away. At last, at 100,000 feet, the balloon reached its destination. Here in the stratosphere, above the troposphere and most of Earth’s protective ozone layer, conditions are extreme: cold as an Antarctic winter, drier than the driest desert, and flooded in ultraviolet rays. “Mostly, it’s eventual death,” says Cindy Morris, a microbial ecologist at the French National Institute for Agriculture Research.
A GIANT LEAP FOR LIFE: A NASA research balloon that carried bacteria to the stratosphere in October 2015.NASA / David J. Smith
Yet scientists are finding that a rich variety of life—archaea, bacteria, and single-celled eukaryotes—can thrive at high altitudes. In the troposphere, where day-to-day weather happens, each cubic meter of cloud contains on average tens of thousands of microbial cells. Even above the clouds in near space—as high as 250,000 feet, according to a 1978 Soviet study—rocket and balloon missions have collected hearty voyagers. “We’re not just finding corpses that are blown up there and preserved,” says Brent Christner, a microbiologist at the University of Florida. “Some fraction of these organisms is still alive.”
Lacking wings or pressure suits, these Lilliputian aeronauts have devised ways to protect themselves from irradiation, desiccation, and severe cellular stress, and find food in the bleakest of food deserts. Their unique set of survival skills has allowed them to soar the skies, dispersing to some of the harshest environments on Earth. And perhaps beyond: If B. pumilus cells can live through a balloon ride to the stratosphere, what’s stopping them from hitching a lift to Mars? “If organisms are blowing around in the stratosphere, and we took them and we put them on the Mars surface,” Christner says, “they wouldn’t even know the difference.”
Of course, microbes don’t need balloons to fly. Some fungal spores catapult from cannon-like structures in their parent. Wind or sea spray can similarly launch cells into the air. But most simply levitate, Mary Poppins style, in a passing updraft. “There’s always upward movement of air because the Earth is always heating the atmosphere,” Morris says. “It’s impossible for a particle that small to not get incorporated in these currents.”
Once airborne, the tiny drifters ride a complex and ever-shifting network of “highways in the sky,” says David Schmale, an aerobiologist at Virginia Tech. With engineer Shane Ross, he is developing ways to predict these turbulent routes. By pairing fluid dynamics modeling with data from air-sampling drones, the team has identified atmospheric features as large as countries, called Lagrangian coherent structures (LCSs), that behave “like waves moving through the atmosphere,” Schmale says. As an LCS moves over the landscape, it morphs much like an ocean swell, shuffling microbes along various air masses, like plankton along eddies.
What would happen if hardy microbes stowed away in a dark crevice on a lander?
Depending on their size and aerodynamics, microbes can stay aloft in the atmosphere for days to weeks—long enough to jump a continent, or an ocean, in one go. Analyses of meteorological data, for instance, suggest that transatlantic winds carried fungal spores from West Africa to the Americas, spreading sugarcane and coffee leaf rusts to New World plantations in the 1970s. Bacteria kicked up by dust storms in Africa’s drought-plagued Sahel appear to be making a similar leap to the Caribbean, where they are killing coral reefs. And in China, at the start of every growing season, spores causing wheat yellow rust migrate hundreds to thousands of miles from plants in the western provinces of Sichuan and Gansu to recolonize the country’s main wheat belt farther north.
Most of this globetrotting happens in the troposphere because the air there rarely mixes with air in the stratosphere above. But there are ways to catch a lift to loftier locales, including transport via thunderstorms, volcanic eruptions, and deep tropical convection. Microbes that make it to the stratosphere get swept along in its steady horizontal currents, allowing them to sail swiftly over vast distances, Christner says. “It’s a ticket to anywhere on the planet.”
BACTERIA TRAP: The gondola of the NASA research balloon seen in the photo above. If bacteria can live in this extreme environment, they may be able to survive similar conditions on Mars.NASA / David J. Smith
No known organism can survive high altitudes indefinitely. Scientists estimate that even the fittest microbes probably last no longer than a week in the stratosphere, and around a couple of weeks in the troposphere. Eventually they “get fried by radiation,” says David J. Smith, a NASA microbiologist who led the October balloon mission testing the stamina of B. pumilus cells. As a result, some high-flying species may have evolved a method to get down fast: hijacking the weather.
Microbial matter typically falls from the sky in rain or snow. To precipitate, clouds must grow ice crystals big enough to outweigh air, but pure water vapor won’t normally freeze above -36 degrees Fahrenheit—unless it gets help from an “ice nucleator.” Most often, airborne particles such as salts or mineral dust provide this service. By supplying a seed around which water molecules can arrange themselves, a nucleator enables ice to form at temperatures up to 5 degrees. Some microorganisms produce proteins that catalyze the process in even warmer conditions, up to 28 degrees in a laboratory. Scientists have yet to prove this happens in real clouds. But if it does, it’s a handy trick: Not only have these microbes found a way to encase themselves in an icy escape capsule, but they may be able to make it drop from the sky when it otherwise wouldn’t.
According to one model, possessing these icemaking powers could help shorten a microbe’s time in the sky to about a twentieth of what it would be if it couldn’t nucleate ice at all. “The ones that are not ice-nucleation active have a little more trouble getting out,” Morris says. From a microbe’s perspective, she explains, the atmosphere is like a subway system. “There are people there all the time, but the metro is not a place to live—it’s a place to move.”
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If Earth’s atmosphere is a microbial metro, it’s an especially brutal one, and commuters have evolved various means to survive the trip. Some, like the B. pumilus cells in the NASA balloon, form endospores. “Sporulation is like hibernation for bacteria,” Smith says. “They shrivel down, dehydrate all of their innards, and wrap their DNA. They remain in that state until water and nutrients arrive, and then they flip the switch and germinate, and go on living.”
Other longest-distance travelers sequester themselves in protective dust plumes. Researchers have collected deposits of African dust from all over the world, and “they’re just loaded with microbes,” Schmale says. Shade from dust can cut UV radiation by half. And as the plumes cross water bodies, they pick up particulates such as pieces of algae or phytoplankton, which “can provide wetting, moist environments for microbial populations to sustain viability as they trek across the ocean.”
Microbes can also make a temporary home in clouds. Atop the 5,000-foot peak of Puy de Dôme, in central France, microbial ecologist Pierre Amato sucks up cloud water with a droplet impactor—“a vacuum cleaner, basically,” he says. He then takes the samples back to his lab at the National Center for Scientific Research, in Aubière, where he extracts living bacteria and cultures them in flasks. Some specimens can subsist on formaldehyde and other organic compounds commonly found in cloud water, suggesting they can metabolize, and perhaps even reproduce, in clouds. “They eat some very strange things,” he says.
The most successful cloud-squatters, Amato has found, are bacteria that spend their terrestrial lives on plants—no surprise, he says, considering that these species are well-adapted to life on the surface of a leaf, where light, temperature, and humidity change rapidly, as they do in a cloud. Many of these organisms have also evolved protections against UV radiation: pigments that act as sunscreens, for instance, or the ability to rapidly repair their own DNA.
Where these widespread adaptations first arose is an open question. Did microbes hone their survival skills on the ground and then use them to take to the skies? Or vice versa? Smith, for one, argues that the arduous conditions of the upper atmosphere likely provided a selective pressure that drove terrestrial life to be as robust as it is. “Think about trillions upon trillions of tiny cells continuously passing through the Earth’s deadly upper atmosphere for billions of years,” he says. “In that framework, evolved resistance to environmental extremes seems almost inevitable.”
Take Antarctica’s ice sheets. Some of the most hostile places on Earth, they were once thought to be devoid of life. Yet in the past decade, scientists have discovered microbial species living on and in the ice, and in lakes buried below. “These microbes might not be growing actively—they might just be frozen in suspended animation—but as the climate changes and as these places melt, and as surface water starts to form, you may well see them metabolizing and reproducing,” says David Pearce, a microbiologist at Northumbria University in the United Kingdom who is part of an international collaboration to survey microbial diversity over Antarctica. Many ice dwellers, Pearce suspects, probably arrived on the winds: When he and his colleagues analyzed microbial DNA from air samples over a remote research station, they found that almost half of the airborne explorers not associated with human activity had likely originated from soils and other terrestrial sources on other continents. (Incredibly, some of these strains have also been found in spacecraft assembly rooms.)
“The upper atmosphere acts like a pre-selection filter,” Pearce says—it ensures that only the hardiest individuals disperse to colonize Earth’s remotest and most barren outposts.
The same might be said for other worlds. If the rigors of air travel can prepare microbes to thrive in Antarctica, why not the atmosphere of Venus, where relatively mild temperatures and pressures may be able to sustain Earthly life? Or the surface of Mars, where conditions aren’t so different from Earth’s upper atmosphere? If microbes like B. pumilus can survive the stratosphere, Smith says, they may be able to persevere long enough on the Martian surface to establish themselves in a more hospitable spot, such as underground, “where it might be warmer and wetter.” His team is still analyzing results from the balloon mission, but he says they seem “consistent” with what’s already known about these super-survivors, which have endured stratospheric simulation chambers and once lived for 18 months outside the International Space Station while shaded from UV light.
How Earth life might get to other planets is a matter of much debate. Airborne cells can’t reach escape velocities great enough to break free of Earth’s gravitational pull. Nor have scientists come up with a convincing explanation of how they would survive the long transport times and lethal radiation levels in deep space. But that hasn’t stopped astrobiologists from musing about panspermia, the hypothesis that life spreads throughout the universe via meteors and other cosmic vehicles—like, say, spacecraft.
For NASA, this is a very real, and troubling, possibility. The agency has identified hundreds of bacterial strains like B. pumilus that have outlived spacecraft sterilization procedures such as peroxide baths, heat shock, and UV radiation. What would happen if these or other hardy microbes stowed away in a dark crevice on a lander, or latched on as it passed through Earth’s atmosphere?
“These organisms are really very robust,” Morris says, “and they are going places.” All they need is a lift.
Chelsea Wald is a science writer in Vienna, Austria, who writes often for Nautilus
VIDEO: “Vloeibaar kwik in Azteekse piramide mogelijk te linken aan aliens”
VIDEO: “Vloeibaar kwik in Azteekse piramide mogelijk te linken aan aliens”
Miljoenen mensen van over de hele wereld geloven dat we in het verleden zijn bezocht door buitenaardse wezens. Erich von Däniken schreef er al over in zijn boek ‘Waren de goden kosmonauten?’ (1968).
Vooral in de laatste jaren is er steeds meer bewijs verzameld waaruit men kan opmaken dat er in een ver verleden door aliens is ingegrepen op aarde, meldt History Channel.
‘Goden’
Op satellietbeelden boven Kazachstan zijn geogliefen te zien die erg lijken op de Nazcalijnen in Peru. Op radarbeelden zijn resten van een oude technologie ontdekt in Machu Picchu.
En een warmtescan onthulde dat achter de graftombe van farao Toetanchamon verborgen ruimtes liggen, waarin mogelijk resten van buitenaardse wezens liggen, aldus de zender.
Tijdens opgravingen onder een Azteekse piramide zijn verder grote hoeveelheden vloeibaar kwik gevonden in diverse oude grafkamers. Wetenschappers staan voor een raadsel, hoewel sommige onderzoekers geloven dat het kwik mogelijk kan worden gelinkt aan de wezens die de Azteken hun ‘goden’ noemden:
Ingang
De Franse ingenieur David Presley ontdekte enkele jaren geleden een verborgen kamer in Machu Picchu. Volgens sommigen is de stad gerealiseerd met de hulp van buitenaardse wezens.
Radarbeelden tonen een grote ruimte en mogelijk trappen die omlaag leiden. Presley stelt dat het gaat om een ingang die ooit is afgesloten door de Inca’s. De autoriteiten ontzegden hem de toegang tot de stad, waardoor het voor hem onmogelijk is om onderzoek te verrichten:
This is magnificent! Not because of the fact that aliens spoke to him and not because he was trying to impress the aliens, but because its just beautiful. Look at the design, the doorway, the care that went into the placement of every stone on the structure. Even if aliens didn't tell him to make it, is still many levels of awesome. This is an interesting article about aliens, a farmer, romance, and god. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
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Raymundo Corona, a farmer from Mexico, has gone and built a 22-foot Aztec pyramid in the desert, 74 km from the Mexico-US border. When people asked him why he went through the trouble of building a pyramid in the desert, he said he was simply following the instructions of an alien who paid him a visit three decades ago. Speaking to a local newspaper, Corona described the alien as a tall man with honey-colored eyes and white hair, by the name of Herulayka. He apparently came from a planet called Nefilin, which Corona says is 20 times the size of Earth and is located in the constellation of Orion. The Mexican farmer added that Herulayka warned him that he would be taken for a drunk or a drug addict if he ever built the pyramid, but his conviction was so strong that he went ahead and did it anyway. He really believes that the alien paid him a visit in 1984, when he was 33 years old. His wife was pregnant at the time and about to give birth to their baby girl when he first saw the strange man in his dreams.
A few nights later, he heard a knock on his door and it turned out to be the same man. Corona was scared out of his wits and ran outside, but then regained his composure and got back home. He figured the strange figure might be a God, but the man, sensing his thoughts, said: “I’m not a God, I am a man like you, I have the same importance as you.”
“He told me to build the temple in the form of a pyramid,” Corona explained. “When I asked him why it had to be in the form of a pyramid, he said it was because it should be like my faith, something that winds and storms couldn’t move and was always pointing upwards.” “He told me he came from the constellation of Orion, from a place called Nefilin which is a place 20 times larger than Earth where people are similar to human beings,” he added. “He was a tall man with honey colored eyes and white hair down to the ground. He was barefoot and wore a tunic tied with a rope.”
The man supposedly warned Corona that building the temple would not be easy, telling him: “Many people will laugh at you, defame and say it was an act of insanity or something he did during a bender, it was an act of a madman or a drug addict.” The alien also said that humans were destroying their own planet and needed to look after it like a child. Building a temple in the form of a pyramid was not an easy task, especially not for Corona, who had only studied until the sixth grade. He had to make several mathematical calculations that were way beyond his understanding, and to this day, he has no idea how he managed to do it. He just believes that the knowledge was embedded in his genetic system, waiting for him to access it.
Nest Cam Catches Huge UFO Or Meteor Over Arizona (6/1/2016), Video, UFO Sighting News.
Nest Cam Catches Huge UFO Or Meteor Over Arizona (6/1/2016), Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 1, 2016 Location of sighting: Arizona This nest cam caught a UFO flying across the sky. It could be a meteor and it could also be a UFO. UFOs entering the Earths atmosphere will want to make themselves appear like a meteor...simple camouflage to confuse those who see them. Humans use mind games all the time, so its no surprise to see aliens using them. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Meteor? Or aliens? Nest Cam clips capture light show over Arizona last week.
Glowing UFO Over City Of Rudolph, Ohio - May 26, 2013, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Over City Of Rudolph, Ohio - May 26, 2013, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: May 26, 2013 Location of sighting: Rudolph, Ohio, USA Source: MUFON #47675 This is a serious video guys. I can see that this is excellent evidence that UFOs are real and observing us, and yet...and yet...MUFON.com has decided to hold it back for three long years. This concerns me. This appears to be deliberately withheld from the public until 3 years later. Did Bigelow Aerospace pay them to hold back this case file also? I see on the MUFON site, the date that this sighting was submitted was May 27, 2013. I'm just one guy, working one site, and yet MUFON has thousands of people working with them...three years to get it to the public? Really? This case is extremely significant, because of one thing over all...it was held back by MUFON for three years before they talked about it. I have two particular questions for MUFON. 1st, why wait three years? 2nd, what didn't you want the public to see in this video? There must be something that was very important and known to the US government to be flying around Rudolph, Ohio in 2013, so the final question is...was it alien or was it USAF? The more information we get, the more questions it creates. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: Unedited Witness Testimony:My husband and I were sitting out in our backyard. He suddenly looked over my shoulder and said "What the hell is THAT?" The object was almost directly over us and was huge. It was a large translucent square and within the square was a very bright pulsating white light that changed to a faint glowing red and then back to white. We watched it slowly and silently float across the sky until it was out of our view due to the tree line. It moved slower than a plane. We both video taped it with our smart phones.
UFOs Return For Second Night In A Row Over Las Vegas, Nevada June 4, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Return For Second Night In A Row Over Las Vegas, Nevada June 4, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 4, 2016 Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA You can see a glowing UFO in the sky and a mountain in the background far below it. This UFO is clearly flying over Vegas and must have been noticed by others in the city. Vegas actually has its own US Air Force Base. This base just happens to be Nellis AFB...which has us home to a separate base inside for the Tall Whites, an alien species that looks like us 95% as children, but as adults are unusually tall and aggressive. Its a dangerous species that only wants to interact with us to have fun, not to actually know us. Yes, they have been seen entering Vegas casinos with military escorts. Lets just say...shaking the hand of a Tall White, could be the last thing you ever do. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Steven Barone states: I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of June 4, 2016. It was over 100 degrees while I was outside last night but it was worth staying out until this event was over. I recorded the same object I did the night before in the same location only, this time, the event cleary took place in the sky above the mountain. At times, the video makes it appear as if there was only a single object, especially the night vision camera but there were at least two objects. They were so close together they appeared to be one object. Fortunately, the camcorder was able to define two objects. They didn't go through the same routine as the night before but there was a point where they became intensely bright. The brightness seemed to ebb and wane until they finally disappeared for good.
UFO activity over Joshua Tree, California 4-Jun-2016
UFO activity over Joshua Tree, California 4-Jun-2016
Here’s a new interesting UFO video of a huge objects flying over Joshua Tree in California. This was filmed on Saturday, 4th June 2016.
Witness report:Attending Contact in the Desert at Joshua Tree. My boyfriend and I signed up for possible sightings of UFO with Night Vision Glasses. Observed 4 balls of glowing light moving across the sky.
My boyfriend and I were attending “Contact in the Desert” at Joshua Tree National Park. We are both highly educated, professional people with an interest in UFOs. He is a Management Consultant and I am an attorney and previous R.N. I am also a Private Pilot.
We had signed up for the “Night Vision Experience” on Saturday evening. It involved looking at the Night Sky with Military Grade Night Vision Goggles. We got in line at approximately 9:15 pm at the outer edges of the retreat center. Our wait in line was approx. 45 minutes to an hour. While waiting, we could hear the Group Facilitator making comments as to what to look for and what not to look for: satellites, airplanes, helicopters etc. We could hear as people commented they saw “something” but they always turned out to be satellites or aircraft.
As such, were NOT expecting to see any actual UFOs at all.
When it was our turn, we put the Night Vision goggles on as instructed and started scanning. I saw a few satellites, discernible because of their smooth movement from horizon to horizon at a high altitude. I saw some aircraft, discernible by their blinking position lights: red on the left and green on the right. Being a pilot, I am aware what aircraft lights look like at night.
Suddenly, one of the group yelled out that they had seen something. We swung our goggles to look in the northerly direction. I focused on a white, glowing object which looked like a ball of light with fuzzy edges coming over the horizon rather fast, traveling west to east and then slowly disappearing. Process of elimination set in: NOT a plane, helicopter bc no blinking lights. Fuzzy edges, ball shaped. NOT a satellite because too low on the horizon and moving too fast. These objects were large enough and bright enough to be seen with the naked eye.
As we were watching this white object, the second object, this time blue in color, came out of the west and traveled rapidly to the east. Ball shaped, glowing, fuzzy edges. This one slowed down.
The third object then came from the west, this time Green in color. Same shape, characteristics as above. This one slowed down also.
The fourth, object, I’m uncertain about the color as people were now very excited and many thoughts were racing through my mind. Is this real? I looked at them with my naked eye and the goggles and yes, they were there.
Now, the second, third and fourth object had slowed to a triangle formation. With the apex of the triangle facing ‘up.” They did not stop but kept moving to the east.
At his point, the group facilitator said that we needed to give the people in line a chance to see because they “were dying to see.” So we handed over the goggles and started walking back to the Center. We lost sight only because we were instructed to leave. By my guess, there were about 30 people with goggles who saw this take place and perhaps a few who saw with the naked eye.
Ever since that evening, my boyfriend and I have been processing this event. Yes, we are interested in UFOs and the nature of reality, consciousness etc.. We asked, did this predispose us to experiencing this? My answer is No. Remember, we were NOT expecting to see ANYTHING but satellites or airplanes. It was just a fun experience to sign up for. Since then, we have not stopped thinking about what we saw. We are both logical, sane people.
Neither one of us has ever experienced anything like it in our lives.
We cannot stop thinking about what we saw at Joshua Tree.
A UFO On Stunning Video Brings Life Anew To Phoenix Lights Case
A UFO On Stunning Video Brings Life Anew To Phoenix Lights Case
Phoenix Lights Incident comes to life once again after a recent video apparently shows a UFO similar to one of the most incomprehensible mass sightings.
ET enthusiasts believe it can prove once and for all space aliens visit planet Earth.
A seemingly shocked driver captured the strange object at night in Florida.
FindingUFO YouTube channel first broadcast the clip. The man who recorded the unusual aerial activity can’t contain his astonishment at it.
The unnamed witness reportedly shot the footage on Highway 46 on May 7 of this year.
In the video, he says that the object is moving then hovering before disappearing.
The man describes the thing as round in the video, but experts are convinced it is an incredible video of the unusual triangle-shaped UFOs allegedly observed during the Phoenix Lights Incident in 1997.
Witnesses described the size of it in variations from Boeing 747 to multiple football fields.
Some UFO investigators believe that the Phoenix Lights case is the most compelling evidence of alien visitation to Earth.
However, some conspiracy theorists think the triangular flying objects are just the US Government secret military planes that are part of the reported black projects to invent spy planes.
According to FindingUFO, the witness told them that he was driving on Route 46, but in the video, he reportedly got the GPS wrong, the reason he said 426. He then saw some odd looking lights on the left side of the road.
He first thought of a plane with an unusual light pattern. However, he saw it getting bigger while crossing the road. He got curious of the sight this time.
All of a sudden, the witness claimed to have seen lights flashing from the object while moving across the road and then hovering on the right side. The object then disappeared few seconds after the witness turned the camera.
Claims of an alien spacecraft have emerged after an intriguing footage appears to show strange aerial event that involves a UFO being sucked into a portal.
A swirling white vortex can be seen in the blue sky in the 45-second video. As it coils, it becomes smaller.
The background of the video produces a sound commonly heard from a large airplane or a jet flying at low altitude.
As the vortex continues to decrease in size, a small glowing ball of light apparently appears in the bottom left corner of the clip.
The UFO allegedly rises rapidly to the centre of the portal. Once it reaches there, it seems that the white formation swallows it, making the mysterious thing to disappear without a trace in the blue sky.
Misterio Canal uploaded the video to YouTube few days ago and had been viewed thousands of times.
However, it’s hard to tell where the video was shot. It is titled “Dimensional portal in the sky absorbs a UFO.”
Some viewers doubt the video’s authenticity. One suggests that it could be digital effects, and another believes it is just a plain tornado.
When a UFO is reported, or say, someone bothers and knows who, what and where to report it to, the most common ending is, these sightings turn out to be, 90%, probably more, are perfectly identifiable objects. Most UFOs are not UFOs at all. For decades now, sky and eyes have met to witness the buzzing unidentified flying objects. Termed as UFOs, they are simply flying vessels. Extraterrestrials have come a long way to revealing their colors purportedly. As the saying goes on, aliens have remained to be a riddle inside a mystery wrapped in an enigma. Why? First of all, the field demands evidence, which is clear and actual. However, most people present awful video and blurry photos. However, then there are also puzzled and well-intentioned witnesses.
According to testimony in Case 76537 from the MUFON, a resident of Illinois at Spring Grove claimed to spot a massive, illuminated triangular-shaped flying object on May 22, 2016, about 9:30 p.m. The object was in proximity at that time. While driving southbound along the Wilmot Road, the witness noticed the object at an estimated height of 200 feet above the ground. As he drove closer, he was able to get ~75-80 degrees from the horizon. To find a location to turn around, the witness continued driving in less than one minute. During that time, the mysterious object traveled northwest and was seen moving slightly and slowly angled. On the side of the road, the object became obscured behind trees. Later on, it visually lost. An entire encounter took less than two minutes. The object was supported by illustrations as well as a map showing the movement of the object. Gregory Cisko, Illinois MUFON State Section Director, investigated the case. Spring Grove has a population of 5,778. It is a village in McHenry County, Illinois. While most sightings can be explained as man-made or natural, please remember that classifying as such is not an easy job.
ZAL EEN DEEL VAN DE MENSHEID GERED WORDEN DOOR ENORME MOEDERSCHEPEN ?
ZAL EEN DEEL VAN DE MENSHEID GERED WORDEN DOOR ENORME MOEDERSCHEPEN ?
Wanneer wij kijken naar de huidige instabiele toestand op de wereld en de vele tekenen die wij krijgen, is alleen maar te concluderen dat het er niet goed uit ziet voor de aarde.
Meer en meer mensen voelen dat er dingen staan te gebeuren, maar ook zijn er steeds meer mensen met wat lijkt op voorspellende dromen.
Vaak zeggen mensen die weten dat ze voorspellende dromen hebben niets om hun omgeving niet te alarmeren of om niet voor gek te worden versleten of allebei.
Feit is dat wij mensen zijn aangesloten op een soort universeel bewustzijn waar tijd niet bestaat en via waar wij soms hele nuttige boodschappen door krijgen.
Dit kan in de vorm van bijvoorbeeld een visioen, maar kan ook heel goed in een droom.
Gisteren publiceerden wij de droom van een dame die misschien wel een komend Killshot scenario voorspelt. Als reactie daarop kregen wij van een andere lezeres eveneens een droom toegestuurd (dank!).
We beginnen met het laatste deel van wat zij schrijft en dat is het volgende:
Als klein kind heb ik vaak nachtmerries gehad over een verlaten wereld , er was een grote dorre dode boom naast de boom lag een ei en verder alles was vlak stil en leeg. Dat ei werd steeds groter en groter totdat het me dreigde te bedelven waarop ik schreeuwend wakker werd. Ik probeer positief te blijven maar als ik om me heen kijk en de verhalen hoor en het nieuws begin ik me af te vragen of dit waarschuwende/voorspellende dromen waren. Het is namelijk ook nog zo dat ik verschillende keren voorspellende dromen over mensen heb gehad en die kwamen uit. dat waren geen leuke dromen.
Als toevoeging , het is zo dat ik vaak lichten (ufo's) in de lucht bij ons thuis heb waargenomen en zelfs telepathisch contact leek te hebben, onder andere dat ik naar het raam moest komen en daar was er weer éen en ook een keer twee die een soort rondedans om elkaar heen deden . Ook een keer toen ik met mijn man in de tuin stond en ik zei ;''kijk eens daarboven'' maar hij zag het niet, het was heel klein en hoog, op dat moment werden de lichten op volle sterkte als een grote felle lamp aangezet zo van;'' hier zijn we ''en weg was het weer ,hij was flabbergasted. Zo zijn er meer onverklaarbare vreemde dingen die ik gezien heb ook in huis.
Okay misschien hebben jullie wat aan dit verhaal , misschien is het een idee om mensen hun verhalen in te laten sturen? Zeker in deze tijd? Zodat we weten dat we niet gek of raar zijn. Hahhaha
We doen er waarschijnlijk verstandig aan om dromen van iemand die duidelijk gevoelig is zoals de vrouw hierboven, serieus te nemen. Zij heeft zonder enige twijfel een bepaalde verbinding met dat universeel bewustzijn. Het maakt niet uit hoe je het noemt, maar het is een speciaal lijntje zoals je die ook soms aantreft bij bepaalde gevoelige kinderen.
Hier volgt de droom:
ik las het artikel en dacht gelijk weer over 2 dromen die ik een aantal jaren geleden vrij snel achter elkaar kreeg. De eerste droom was dat er rechthoekige ufo's vanuit de lucht neerdaalden ze leken op oorlogstanks maar dan zonder loop en rupsbanden,je zag ze overal naar beneden komen, Ik had nog nooit wat gezien of gelezen over rechthoekige UFO's( dacht altijd dat ze rond waren ,had me er nooit in verdiept , na deze dromen wel ;-)
De volgende beelden in die droom waren dat ik met nog een groepje van zo'n 25 man aan het rennen waren , heel gehaast er was paniek, we kwamen bij een open veld en ik zag honderden of misschien wel duizenden mensen schreeuwend op ons afrennen van alle kanten , heel beangstigend. In die droom begreep ik niet waarom ze op ons afkwamen en dan ook nog zoveel..
Later toen ik wakker en erover na had gedacht bedacht ik dat het was natuurlijk raar was er dat zóveel mensen ONS te na zouden willen komen ,zomaar zonder reden, dus begreep ik dat ze allemaal mee wilden omdat er iets aan de hand was.
Ik wist toen nog niks over een killshot enz...
We kwamen aan bij een soort voertuig dat net boven de grond hing en we moesten een metalen trap op een soort zigzag trap ,dus eerst een stukje dan een plateautje en dan haaks daarop weer een stuk trap , .Bovenaan stond een man van een jaar of 30 /35 qua uiterlijk met een handgebaar te wijzen dat we snel naar binnen moesten Hij sprak niet. Eenmaal binnen zag ik een soort van koven /openruimten aan de zijkanten waar strakke precies erin passenden moderne lig/rust bedden zaten . Alles was grijs getint, er liep een wat dikkere man op het gangpad voor die koven en mopperde wat , ik zei nou misschien zijn we wel voer , die grap kon hij niet waarderen ,en zei nou mooi is dat. Daar hield de droom op.
Vrij snel nadien kreeg ik een droom waarop we uit een voertuig stapten en wat ik zag was zo desolaat zo verlaten dus, alles was grijs, stoffig, bergen puin ,geen bomen planten, geen huizen alleen hier en daar een muur die overeind stond. Ik zag een oude man lopen en een herdershond .We zagen een halve keuken d.w.z een muur en daarachter een keuken waar een bom ontploft leek, er waren nog stoelen en een tafel en daar gingen we, toen nog een man of 8 aan zitten,We keken elkaar aan en zaten daar maar wat , ik voelde me totaal leeg er was geen voor of achter geen heden geen toekomst gevoel een totaal niets , alleen het hier en nu en een verlaten wereld daar hield ook die droom op.
Het scenario waarbij de mensheid of een deel daarvan wordt weggehaald van deze planeet is natuurlijk niet zo vreemd.
Alleen mensen die volledig hun ogen sluiten voor alles wat zich niet in het acht uur Journaal aandient, zullen dit misschien een raar idee vinden.
Het wemelt van het leven buiten deze planeet, zoveel is zeker. Keer op keer wordt het bewijs daarvan geleverd door bijvoorbeeld instanties zoals NASA.
Het grote ruimteschip op de volgende afbeelding kwam enkele dagen geleden boven water op een foto genomen door NASA tijdens de Apollo 17 missie.
Het is een groot ruimteschip dat net boven het oppervlak van onze maan zweeft.
De maan zelf, wat waarschijnlijk ook een groot ruimteschip is mede omdat er geen enkele logische verklaring is voor een maan van dergelijke afmetingen zo dichtbij onze aarde.
Iemand die daar net zo over denkt, is David Icke.
Regelmatig worden er enorme moederschepen waargenomen in de buurt van de zon, zoals te zien in het hiernavolgende stuk uit een eerder artikel.
Op 15 juli 2015 werd er op één van SOHO afbeeldingen een enorm ruimteschip waargenomennaast onze zon.
Het zag er ongeveer als volgt uit:
Wanneer je dat schip een beetje dichterbij haalt dan zie je dat dit object een structuur heeft en dus door iets of iemand is gemaakt.
De ontdekker van dit ruimteschip, Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1 zegt dan ook, “Dit object heeft een bepaalde structuur en voor NASA om dit als zijnde niets af te doen, is een belediging voor de intelligentie van het publiek.
Als zij dingen publiceren dan kunnen ze verwachten dat mensen vragen gaan stellen wanneer er vreemde objecten op hun afbeeldingen verschijnen.
Maarja, wat moet NASA zeggen? Ze zijn best slim door helemaal niet te reageren want dan hoeven ze ook niet te liegen.
Dat er zich gigantische ruimteschepen nabij onze zon bevinden, is iets dat ze nooit zullen toegeven.
Kortom, de gedachte dat er in ieder geval een aantal van ons ergens in de toekomst plaats zullen nemen in een dergelijk enorm schip is helemaal niet zo vreemd en velen van ons zullen er mogelijk dan ook naar uitkijken.
De karretjes van NASA blijven vrolijk rondrijden op het oppervlak van Mars en brengen ons de ene na de andere verbazingwekkende ontdekking.
Dit keer is het de Curiosity Rover die een opname maakt van een machine die eruit ziet als een soort killer robot.
Er is bij NASA een afdeling waar een groep mensen de hele dag niets anders doet dan foto’s bewerken zodat er “geen gekke dingen” op staan. Dat wil zeggen dingen die niet te verklaren zijn met het officiële verhaal zoals ons dat wordt verteld.
Vaak zijn ze echter slordig met dit werk en blijven objecten ondanks alle poetswerk toch nog zichtbaar. Meestal worden deze dan door goed bestuderen van de foto’s ontdekt omdat de vormen van bepaalde “natuurlijke objecten” niet in het landschap passen.
Zoals de volgende ontdekking van een vreemde vorm die, wanneer deze een beetje wordt verbeterd, duidelijk de vorm krijgt van een soort robotachtig wapen.
Het mooie van NASA foto’s is dat ook nooit iemand kan zeggen dat we te maken hebben met nepopnames zoals vaak gebeurt als iets door “gewone mensen” is vastgelegd. Het geloof in deze mainstream organisaties is ongelofelijk krachtig.
De originele NASA foto is hier te vinden en rechts op de foto zie je duidelijk het vreemde object.
Bovenstaande is natuurlijk slechts één van de vele dingen die door NASA zijn vastgelegd.
In de video hieronder zie je een overzicht van de meest opmerkelijke vondsten die de afgelopen tijd zijn gedaan.
Je vraagt je wel eens af hoeveel dingen er eigenlijk boven water moeten komen voordat de grote massa begint te begrijpen dat Mars absoluut geen dode planeet is.
Alex Collier claims to be a ‘contactee’ with a race of Nordic looking humans from the constellation of Andromeda.
He has had a number of contact experiences since his childhood and this developed over the years as he was given more and more information by his Andromedan contacts.
I have analyzed Alex Collier’s information, had phone interviews with him, and also interverviewed him over a four day period in September 2005. I have witnessed some physical evidence he has provided to support his testimony. I have also spoken with a direct witness verifying various aspects of Alex’s contact experiences.
Alex has also revealed that he was the recipient of threats from shadow government agencies and abruptly chose to stop disseminating his information in 2000. Furthermore, Alex has give face to face interviews with veteran UFO researcher Paola Harris who has had the opportunity to examine the evidence supporting his testimony and concludes he is credible.
My conclusion from my investigation so far of Alex is that he is very credible and very likely a genuine contactee with a ‘friendly’ extraterrestrial race.
I therefore recommend taking the information he has to reveal very seriously. All those interested in galactic diplomacy and understanding a variety of extraterrestrial races interacting with humanity, will find Alex’s work to be very helpful.
I and others sincerely hope that Alex soon resumes his public life and disseminate the additional information he has to share about his Andromedan contact experiences, and the evidence he has prepared to substantiate these.
The next place to go learn about Alex is his own writing in terms of his book, Defending Sacred Ground, and his discontinued journal “Letters from Andromeda“.
Video Interview October 1994
At the recent international UFO Congress, Rick Keefe showed a video interview of Alex Collier from October 1994.
In it Alex talked about his contacts with ‘benevolent’ extraterrestrials from the constellation of Andromeda, and the efforts by these extraterrestrials and others to assist humanity resolve its many problems. This interview was done fairly early in Alex’s public career.
One gets a good idea of the strong emotions he felt in hearing about and revealing some of the things he had been told about ‘regressive ETs’.
The video allows one to judge for themselves the credibility of Alex’s testimony since one can directly observe Alex’s body language and emotions.
Circumstantial Evidence Supporting ‘ First Contact ’
Circumstantial Evidence Supporting ‘ First Contact ’
On the night and early hours of February 20-21, 1954, while on a ‘vacation’ to Palm Springs, California, President Dwight Eisenhower went missing and allegedly was taken to Edwards Air force base for a secret meeting.
When he showed up the next morning at a church service in Los Angeles, reporters were told that he had to have emergency dental treatment the previous evening and had visited a local dentist.
The dentist later appeared at a function that evening and presented as the ‘dentist’ who had treated Eisenhower. The missing night and morning has subsequently fueled rumors that Eisenhower was using the alleged dentist visit as a cover story for an extraordinary event.
The event is possibly the most significant that any American President could have conducted: an alleged ‘First Contact’ meeting with extraterrestrials at Edwards Air Force base (previously Muroc Airfield), and the beginning of a series of meetings with different extraterrestrial races that led to a ‘treaty’ that was eventually signed. This astonishing First Contact event, if it occurred, will experience its 50th anniversary on February 20-21, 2004.
This paper explores the evidence that the First Contact meeting had occurred with extraterrestrials with a distinctive ‘Nordic’ appearance, the likelihood of an agreement having been spurned with this ‘Nordic race’, the start of a series of meetings that led to a treaty eventually being signed with a different extraterrestrial race dubbed the ‘Greys’, and the motivations of the different extraterrestrial races involved in these treaty discussions.
The paper will further examine why these events were kept secret for so long, the significance of the 50th anniversary of Eisenhower’s meeting with extraterrestrials, and whether an official disclosure announcement is likely in the near future.
There is circumstantial and testimonial evidence supporting Eisenhower’s meeting with extraterrestrials and the start of a series of meetings that culminated in the signing of a treaty with a different group of extraterrestrials.
The most intriguing are circumstances surrounding Eisenhower’s alleged winter vacation to Palm Springs, California from February 17-24, 1954. Firstly, the”vacation for the President” which was announced rather suddenly and came less than a week after Eisenhower’s ‘quail shooting’ vacation in Georgia. According to UFO researcher, William Moore, all this was quite unusual and suggested that there was more to the one week visit to Palm Springs than a simple holiday. [2]
Second, on the Saturday night of February 20, President Eisenhower did go missing fueling press speculation that he had taken ill or even died. In a hastily convened press conference, Eisenhower’s Press Secretary announced that Eisenhower had lost a tooth cap while eating fried chicken and had to be rushed to a local dentist. The local dentist was introduced at an official function on Sunday February 21, as “the dentist who had treated the president”.
Moore’s investigation of the incident concluded that the dentist’s visit was being used as a cover story for Eisenhower’s true whereabouts.
Consequently, Eisenhower was missing for an entire evening and could easily have been taken from Palm Springs to the nearby Muroc Airfield, later renamed Edwards Air Force base. The unscheduled nature of the President’s vacation, the missing President and the dentist cover story provide circumstantial evidence that the true purpose of his Palm Springs vacation was for him to attend an event whose importance was such that it could not be disclosed to the general public.
UFO 'that could prove Phoenix Lights incident once and for all' caught on stunning film
UFO 'that could prove Phoenix Lights incident once and for all' caught on stunning film
A STARTLING video capturing a UFO described as being like those seen in the world's most inexplicable mass sighting - the mysterious Phoenix Lights Incident - has caused amajor stir.
"I'm just minding my own business. Man ohhohohoho, I hope I caught it.
"I mean, I never expected to see it and it would be, you know, round like a flying saucer, but that was f***ing round like a flying saucer. Dude, I just saw a UFO."
But, although the man described it as round in his video, experts who analysed it are convinced it is the best footage yet of the mysterious so-called triangle-shaped UFOs reportedly seen during the 1997 Phoenix Lights case.
I mean, I never expected to see it and it would be, you know, round like a flying saucer, but that was f***ing round like a flying saucer. Dude, I just saw a UFO.
UFO witness
The best known case of such triangle UFOs being seen was the Phoenix Lights incident.
In March 1997 thousands of witnesses reported seeing huge triangular UFOs, drifting over Arizona and the city of Phoenix.
The size of them varied from a Boeing 747 to multiple football fields.
Many UFO investigators believe the Phoenix Lights incident is the most inexplicable mass UFO sighting case and proof aliens do visit Earth.
But other conspiracy theorists believe the triangular craft are actually US Government secretive military craft as part of classified so-called black projects to develop specialist spy planes.
In a more composed report to FindingUFO, the witness added: "I was driving on route 46 (I said 426 in the video, as I read the GPS wrong), and saw some weird looking lights on the left side of the road.
"I thought it was just a plane with a weird light pattern.
"Well, when it crossed the road, and got bigger, I got a little more curious.
"Then I saw it's lights flashing, and move across the road, and then hover on the right side. As you can see, after turning on the camera, it didn't last before it disappeared."
A spokesman for FindingUFO described the new video as amazing footage and so similar to the descriptions of the Phoenix Lights, that it could be the same type of craft and prove the existence of aliens.
However, sceptics have said the light formation in the sky was just a reflection of the same-coloured lights that can be seen in the originla footage.
The UFO sighting graphic was created by brain child MBS candidate Christian Pearson, who used a web-based softaware and data collected from the UFO re
Whether you believe in UFO's or not, there is something going on in our skies. This map show every UFO sighting since 1933 and is perfectly sequenced, you are able to see the flashing lights all over the world which depicts every sighting.
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The UFO sighting graphic was created by brain child MBS candidate Christian Pearson, who used a web-based softaware and data collected from the UFO reporting centre. The map is part of Quanbait which is a visual story telling map that highlights the economic, social and political issues.
Pearson says about the Map "was a fun way of conveying the point that beautiful data visualisation can provide deep insights,"
For many UFO's enthusiasts this map could become the holy grail, the map shows that sightings seem to jump towards the 1950s and 1960's and the cold war era, this backs up many theories that there was many more UFO sightings because alleged aliens where concerned about the use of nuclear weapons, with many sightings seen in Military Airforce bases including Rendlesham Forestin the UK.
Sightings in the United States seem to correspond with the C.I.A's U-2 program which was a Cold War air surveillance active from 1954 to 1974. The program saw the C.I.A test spy crafts at the famous area-51, the notorious Nevada facility which became know around the world for AlienConspiracy theories. Pearson also adds that there are better data records of more recent sightings.
The general assumption that UFO sightings are mainly seen in rural areas away from the big cities, a myth that this map swipes away rather quickly. Pearson adds "The map clearly shows large clusters of reporting in urban areas,"
Quatre images tirées de la vidéo de sphères lumineuses filmée à Faibanks, en Alaska, dans la nuit 13 mai 2016.YouTube
Dans la nuit du 13 mai dernier en Alaska, un agent de sécurité a filmé une étrange lumière qui semble se diviser en plusieurs objets distincts.
« Inexpliqué » : telle est la conclusion lapidaire de l’enquête du Mufon, la plus grande association ufologique américaine, qui s’est penché sur cette vidéo d’un objet lumineux filmé à Fairbanks, la deuxième ville d'Alaska le 13 mai 2016, vers 3 heures du matin. « J’ai remarqué une lumière clignotante et j’ai d’abord cru qu’il s’agissait d’un avion explique le témoin. Mais quand je suis arrivé de l’autre côté de l’immeuble Morris Thompson, orienté à l’est, j’ai vu un gros orbe brillant filer droit vers le sol tandis que la première lumière d’où l’orbe était sorti restait stationnaire. »
Le témoin, qui travaille dans le secteur de la sécurité, précise qu’il était « en patrouille » au moment de l’incident mais ajoute qu’il ne peut pas donner le nom de la société qui l’emploie. Il a aussitôt commencé à filmer ce phénomène avec son smartphone: « J’était très excité d’assister à ça. Malheureusement, l’appareil ne rend pas justice à l’intensité de la lumière qui a même troublé ma vision et m’a donné mal à la tête. La partie la plus intéressante de la vidéo est entre 1’03’’ et 2’30. Mais, à 3’20’’ je suis si impressionné que je lâche un ‘wouah’. L’objet se déplace soudainement à toute vitesse avant de regagner sa position initiale. Puis, à la fin, il disparaît. »
Dans le rapport du Mufon, l’enquêtrice Jessica Desmond note que le témoin n’a entendu aucun bruit caractéristique d’un engin à moteur -hélicoptère ou avion- comme en atteste l’enregistrement vidéo. « Les seuls sons audibles étaient les chants des oiseaux. » Elle insiste aussi sur l’effet inhabituel produit par la lumière sur la vision du témoin, incapable de faire le point sur l’objet principal et obligé de le regarder indirectement sur l’écran de son smartphone. »
Toutefois, l’élément le plus intéressant de cette observation est la division du supposé OVNI en plusieurs éléments, des points lumineux qui semblent se détacher du premier objet avant de disparaître. Ce type de phénomène est assez fréquemment décrit dans la littérature ufologique. On le retrouve dans cette vidéo tournée en 2013 à Boise, dans l’Idaho et transmise au MUFON. La scène est en tout point similaire à cette tournée par l’agent de sécurité, trois ans plus tard en Alaska.
Britse premier Cameron belooft ‘open en eerlijk’ te zijn over buitenaardsen en UFO’s
Britse premier Cameron belooft ‘open en eerlijk’ te zijn over buitenaardsen en UFO’s
Er is een video opgedoken waarin de Britse premier David Cameron belooft ‘open en eerlijk’ te zullen zijn over buitenaards leven. Het filmpje heeft geleid tot verwachtingen over een officiële aankondiging dat buitenaardsen bestaan.
De Tory-leider zei eerder al dat geen enkele overheid de waarheid zou moeten verbergen. Elektrotechnicus Richard D. Hall ondervroeg Cameron in 2009 over het onderwerp, toen hij nog geen premier was.
“In juli vorig jaar was de gerespecteerde wetenschapper en astronaut dr. Edgar Mitchell, de zesde man op de maan, te horen op een Britse radiozender,” zei Hall. “Hij zei dat de Amerikaanse overheid meerdere keren contact heeft gehad met buitenaardsen en dat het contact nog steeds plaatsvindt.”
Doofpot
“Hij sprak over het Roswellincident in 1947, waarbij het wrak van een gecrashte UFO met daarin lichamen van buitenaardsen was geborgen ,” vervolgde hij. “Hij zei dat de overheden dit jarenlang in de doofpot hebben gestopt.”
“Ben je het met me eens David dat het Britse volk het recht heeft om te weten of we zijn bezocht?” vroeg Hall. “En zo ja, zul je het volk dan de waarheid vertellen als je premier wordt?”
De Tory-leider deed er in eerste instantie lacherig over. “Ik ben ervan overtuigd dat we zijn bezocht door buitenaardse levensvormen en dat één van hen minister Peter Mandelson is,” grapte hij.
Brief
Toen hij besefte dat het menens was, veranderde zijn toon. “Ik heb geen idee of er intelligent leven is in de ruimte en geen idee of de incidenten die zich hebben voorgedaan op waarheid berusten,” zei hij. “Ik weet wel dat ik geloof in de vrijheid van informatie en openheid. Ik vind dat we hier zo open en duidelijk mogelijk over moeten zijn.”
“Ik garandeer je dat ik altijd open en eerlijk zal zijn over dit soort dingen als ik premier word,” ging hij verder. “Ik denk dat niemand van ons weet of er intelligent leven buiten de aarde bestaat en het is zeker niet iets dat een overheid zou moeten verbergen voor wie dan ook.”
Hall nodigde Cameron daarop uit voor zijn tv-programma, maar hij wees de uitnodiging af. Wel schreef hij Hall een brief waarin hij zijn belofte bevestigde.
As people who know me well will be aware, my views on the nature of the UFO phenomenon have radically changed over the years. Back when I was in my twenties, I was of the opinion that UFOs (the truly unknown ones) were extraterrestrial. As indefinitely extraterrestrial. As I slid into my thirties, however, my thoughts slowly began to change (something which also happened for a few friends of mine in the field, too). And as many people will also know, my views – today – are far closer to those suggested by John Keel. Namely, that we’re dealing with something that co-exists with us and which masquerades as ET. It’s not enough for me to say “My views have changed.” There are the reasons why my mind has altered since my early thirties (or thereabouts). And, there are several reasons, rather than just one.
There’s the nature of the entities themselves: they practically overemphasize who, or what, they claim to be. Take, for example, all those “soil-sampling” aliens of the 1950s and 1960s. You know the ones: someone is working in their field, or driving down a stretch of road, when they encounter a couple of diminutive aliens collecting specimens of local plants, flowers, and vegetables. ET on a scientific mission, right? No, not in my view.
We only have to take a careful look at such cases (and there are more than a few on record – here’s a link to a number of classic cases) to see that these “incidents” are clearly stage-managed. It’s a game, a scenario that has nothing to do with real soil-sampling, but everything to do with trying to emphasize the ET meme. Are we to believe that, time and time again, aliens are so stupid that they can’t collect a few of those aforementioned samples without having their cover blown? Of course, they could easily avoid us! But, here’s the deal: they want to be seen. It’s not an accident. It’s carefully planned. And it’s designed to plant an image of “ET scientists” in the mind(s) of the witness(es).
It’s much the same with the way in which – in both Contactee and Abductee cases – the aliens aren’t just keen to tell us which planet, star-system, or galaxy, they’re from. They’re more than a bit too keen to do so. Once it was Venus and Mars. Then, it wasZeta Reticuli. Or is it the Pleiades? The problem is not so much where they claim to come from. Rather, it’s their eager insistence on letting us know where they’re from – and time and again. There’s another issue, too. Over the decades, we have allegedly been visited by long-haired Space Brothers, stacked Space-Babes, black-eyed and large-headed dwarfs, bipedal reptiles, praying mantis-type creatures, and…well…the list goes on and on. But, they all seem perfectly comfortable with the Earth’s gravity, temperature, oxygen levels, etc. Doesn’t that strike you as a bit odd?
And there’s also the fact that many UFO encounters are far more visionary in nature than of a “nuts-and-bolts” type. Tales of Contactees heading out to isolated and desert-based locations, and meeting very human-like entities, abound. They’re not at all unlike multiple accounts that one can find in numerous religions. In fact, they’re near-identical. Lives are radically changed, and people find themselves on new paths. Gods, angels, demons, the “little people,” and – today – aliens: it’s all one and the same. A force that we presently don’t understand and which impacts upon us – and manifests before us – in a fashion that is relevant to the people of the particular era in question.
Of course, there’s nothing new about all (or any) of this: it mirrors the work of the likes of Terence McKenna, Jacques Vallee, and the aforementioned John Keel. I don’t fullydeny the ET angle of the UFO controversy. Maybe, they really are just inept plant collectors. But, I can say for sure that, every year, my views that we are dealing with something much stranger than ET grow stronger. Inter-dimensional? Time-Travelers? An ancient terrestrial race that exists alongside us? I don’t know. But, ET? Probably not. The main reason: the phenomenon works too hard to come across as alien. As McKenna said: “We are part of a symbiotic relationship with something which disguises itself as an extra-terrestrial invasion so as not to alarm us.”
The subject of UFOs presents us with quite an enigma. It deals with ambiguities, in a world where certainties are not just the norm; they are requisite. Otherwise, there is little seriousness to be afforded something that, while seemingly tangible within the context of a body of data purporting to offer good evidence, remains so inescapably odd and downright unreal.
In the past, I have devoted a good bit of time to the assessment of “what a UFO is,” though honestly, there are times where I begin to question whether they can be easily defined at all. To illustrate this, the most common idea about UFOs present today addresses the subject through a lens of unreality, in which strange objects in the skies are taken to be alien spaceships. A host of conspiracy theories (yes, conspiracy theories) exist that offer “evidence” of this: crash landings in the American southwestern deserts, purported extraterrestrial assessment teams like the so-called “MJ-12”, and hosts of reports from proclaimed abductees who discuss their interactions with Star Guests that literally point to where in the universe they hail from.
Who knows. For all you or I may be able to discern, any (or all) of the above may be true. However, there appears to be so little hard evidence to substantiate such claims, despite years and years of collective research by the UFO community, that at times the silence begins to seem damning.
To be clear, my best assessment of the subject is that there is a phenomenon, though it remains ambiguous, and no conclusive data seems to exist that clearly, irrevocably indicates that the sole source is extraterrestrial visitation. My colleague Nick Redfern (who, as I write this, will soon be en route to the location where I’m staying here in Texas, for a coffee and a chat about all this), also wrote about this recently at MU, noting the way his ideas and attitudes have changed over the decades, carrying him along from a once-believer in ET or alien UFOs, to his present position as one who, like the late John Keel, thinks UFOs may be “something masquerading as aliens.”
Interestingly, the UFOs (or their occupants, if they have any) may not be the ones hiding behind the extraterrestrial meme at all. It very well could be that while some kind of phenomenon does exist, our perception of an “alien” origin is our very own creation, rather than something that is intentionally presented to for purpose of misdirection.
I nonetheless think Keel was fairly close with his assessment. It may be that Nick and I would agree on many points, or that we may not, as far as any “final conclusions” go. But I think that it is telling that so many researchers who have looked seriously at this phenomenon over the years begin to move further from the “extraterrestrial hypothesis” (ETH), which at one time had seemed the most likely conclusion.
Back in the mid to late 1980s, UFO researcher Jacques Vallee had begun to express serious doubts about an extraterrestrial component underlying the UFO phenomenon. His five primary arguments against the ETH were as follows:
Unexplained close encounters are far more numerous than required for any physical survey of the earth
the humanoid body structure of the alleged “aliens” is not likely to have originated on another planet and is not biologically adapted to space travel
the reported behavior in thousands of abduction reports contradicts the hypothesis of genetic or scientific experimentation on humans by an advanced race
the extension of the phenomenon throughout recorded human history demonstrates that UFOs are not a contemporary phenomenon
the apparent ability of UFOs to manipulate space and time suggests radically different and richer alternatives
One may, for sake of argument, dispute Vallee’s assessments, just as I have (despite essentially sharing his views). One reason for this is because, if we are to make a scientific argument, we must be careful to check for whether it is falsifiable. While UFO incidents seem to exceed the amount required for an alien survey of our planet, who knows what kinds of scientific motivations, and hence what other requirements, an “alien survey” might call for? Also, with no comparison as far as life on other planets, can we be sure that extraterrestrials would not possess features very similar to humans? We could go on, but the fundamental point remains that virtually any argument presented about UFOs could be debated… while I could continue the exercise of deconstructing Vallee’s analysis here, seemingly lending support to the ETH, I will nonetheless point out again that the ETH can be deconstructed just as simply; we are left with nothing that is truly conclusive about the phenomenon at the end of the day.
For the modern skeptic, this lack of clarity on the subject is roughly equivalent to no subject at all, rather than an apparent phenomenon that remains ambiguous. In likelihood, if there is anything more to UFOs than a cultural belief system and/or a social movement built around the idea, the first step toward understanding what they may be is to start thinking outside the box.
Extraordinary claims do require extraordinary evidence, as is so often said; but maybe it’s time that a bit of ordinary thinking should be applied to the subject, rather than going to such lengths to “prove” something extraordinary, when it may be very different in the end.
Are UFOs real, and do they represent any form of tangible phenomenon? Or are UFOs merely an idea, representative of some vestige within our collective memories of a social movement, built around paranoia and international concerns following the Second World War?
To the UFO advocate, the notion that unidentified flying objects could be anything but physical, tangible aircraft would seem laughable. And yet, among the many questions we face in our study of the phenomenon, one is particularly troubling: if the UFO subject represents a single, consistent “alien” phenomenon, then why has it changed so frequently over the decades?
This question was paraphrased to me recently during a correspondence with Jason Bradley, a skeptically-minded colleague of mine. “You have discussed the idea that maybe abduction stories share some similarities between some of the other rash of paranormal claims, like the cult terror in the 70’s and 80’s,” Jason said. “I have always maintained that something glaring about the UFO phenomena is that it’s always followed patterns. Saucers to cigars, cigars to triangles, triangles to lights and so on. I’ve always found this concept interesting, and can’t think of a moment when it’s been addressed. To me this is one of those situations that belies a possible cultural and meme like experience. Ultimately tracking those patterns may help us understand where the psychological component plays into this.”
Mirroring Jason’s ideas presented above, in the past I have similarly discussed the notion that certain trends do appear to emerge, especially within memes presented in UFO literature. However, it is difficult to argue that any definite or distinct lineage emerges from these; in other words, the idea of “saucers to cigars, cigars to triangles,” and the like may not be the most accurate representation of the UFO phenomenon as it has progressed over the years. Nonetheless, there are periods of change that begin appear when looking a bit further back, which thus help to place the “modern” UFO phenomenon of the last few decades into a broader cultural context.
For instance, beginning in the 1890s we can note the prevalence of reports that involve “mystery airships”, which began to appear in many American newspapers (there are, however, similar stories that appeared elsewhere, including parts of South America, as well as Australia, around this same time). Modern UFO historians view the airship craze as a sort of “cultural predecessor” to the modern UFO phenomenon, and it is indeed interesting to note the way that such “UFOs” didn’t appear to resemble saucers, cigars, or triangles of any sort; they represented aircraft that were remarkably similar to those appearing in fiction at that time, namely the work of authors like Jules Verne. Similar to such books and stories, the prevailing theories about the origins of the mystery airships had involved some intrepid inventor who, according to many rumors, was believed to be based somewhere in California, and had managed to construct an impressive new flying machine, which he kept secret from the public.
Not to be entirely dismissive of the purported “airships” of the 1800s, my article “Airships in the 1800s: An Odd History of Aerial Phenomena” discusses a number of crude airships that were, as a matter of historical fact, actually built in California throughout the later 1800s. The most compelling of them all was (or rather, would have been) that built by a Dr. Charles Abbot Smith of San Francisco, an inventor who had garnered a large amount of publicity for his airship operation beginning in early 1896. It remains unclear whether Smith’s airship was ever able to fly, although historians Timothy Parrot and Michael Busby have been among those who have argued for the existence, and successful flight, of such a craft.
Interestingly, if one weighs the actual historical basis of the “airship craze” of the 1890s against the modern UFO era beginning in 1947, there is little similarity to be found. The most credible among the classic airship stories, ranging from inventors who actually did succeed in building crude airships, to the more far-out tales of aircraft actually observed in the sky, still seem to deal with a very earthly technology. Yes, there were some fanciful newspaper accounts that tell of the operators aboard these craft being “visitors from space”, but these were the likely concoctions of area “liars clubs”, or the occasional journalist writing on a day when legitimate news was lacking (such hoaxes were especially common during this period, and among the most famous were two penned by none other than Mark Twain).
These tales of “airships”, however, when compared with the flying saucers that would emerge after the Second World War, indeed seemed to be the stuff of very different worlds. And despite this, the early reports of “saucers” often bore little or no resemblance to any kind of disc-shaped craft at all, as I noted here of Kenneth Arnold’s famous encounter from the summer of 1947. In truth, reports of “cigar-shaped” objects preceded the era of saucers by at least a year, with the numerous reports of cigars and torpedo-like objects referred to as “ghost rockets” which purportedly swarmed the skies above Scandinavia in the summer of 1946. Similar American reports, such as that described by Captain Jack Puckett of Strategic Air Command in the summer of 1946, also predated Arnold’s sighting by several months.
Throughout the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s, UFOs would appear to take every shape imaginable: some were discs, while others were rounded spheres or eggs; some were cylinders, some shaped like footballs, and some were literally described as resembling “floating houses”. By the late 80s or early 90s, reports began to emerge of odd triangle-shaped aircraft that behaved, if anything, more like blimps; like their predecessors in the 1890s, these objects first appeared mostly over California, with subsequent reports occurring in numerous other locales. In particular a “wave” of triangle-shaped UFOs were reportedly seen over Belgium during the early 1990s.
Many have opined that these modern “triangles”, rather than being some exotic alien craft, are likely to be a variety of stealth aircraft employed by the U.S. military. The benefit of a large aircraft of this sort might include the large amount of material stock or rations it could transport over a long distance in a single stop; however, the size might also be attributable, more simply, to the amount of lift required to get an object like that off the ground, again presuming that they are something akin to blimps or dirigibles.
Coming back to the notion of “trends” that emerge in UFO literature, while it may be debatable whether there are indeed “patterns” that can be attributed with any conclusiveness, it would indeed be appropriate to note the apparent changes the phenomenon seems to have undergone in decades past. Close encounters with UFO occupants were, throughout the 1950s, largely comprised of credulous-sounding occurrences espoused by individuals who, along with retelling their encounters, were equally interested in promoting their involvement in the burgeoning UFO field, and capitalizing on it if possible. Hence, stories like that of George Adamski and his meetings with “Orthon” described, rather mundanely, encounters with an “alien” that was indistinguishable from any other man… apart from his telepathic powers, and unique mode of transportation through space. However, by the early 1970s, stories of UFO contact experiences were beginning to take on a much darker tone: the abductees now told of encounters with diminutive, emotionless humanoids, replete with bug-like eyes and other insect-like features, who were focused almost solely on brief examinations of their captives.
By the 1990s, the bulk of UFO related books focused on the apparent occupants of these presumed spacecraft, as featured in the written work of authors like Budd Hopkins and others. However, today those operating within the field of UFO studies have seemed to shift focus back toward the objects themselves, rather than having such preoccupation with “beings” seen in relation to UFO encounters. And yet, even the reports of objects seen in the skies have seemingly diminished; this decline in noteworthy UFO reports is, as I have observed elsewhere, interesting for a number of reasons. It has also led a number of commentators (including those found here, here,here, and here) to believe the field of UFO research may “changing” to such an extent that it is literally dying altogether.
Looking back, an interesting trend that does emerge, rather than being related to memes present elsewhere within the field of UFOlogy, is the apparent similarity between UFO abduction cases and other, unrelated phenomena. Namely, the descriptions of hallucinatory environments described by psychedelic “experiencers”, such as those featured in the written work of researchers like Rick Strassman, M.D., come to mind. In equal measure, we find such similarities in the Satanic ritual abuse panics of the 1980s, in which horrific torture and memories of abuse are recovered through hypnosis; again, the similarities emerge in more recent claims of “super-soldiers” who argue that their memories, recovered through hypnosis, seem to indicate their secret work as a government operative, memories of which were suppressed by utilizing advanced mind control technologies.
If we look further back in the last century, hypnotic regressions have similarly facilitated belief that some may have experienced encounters with highly advanced technologies and alien environments in other ways: namely through perceived “past lives”, during which the experiencers claim to remember lives in places like the lost city of Atlantis, asdescribed by Edgar Cayce, among others.
What can be made of all this, and how might our recognition of these apparent changes or “trends” help us to reevaluate some areas of the modern study of UFOs? Perhaps, at the heart of the matter, it is still a question of how the human mind perceives UFOs, and what beliefs — whether or not founded in reality — may be built around valid observations of strange aerial objects that are collected over time.
To conclude with a final anecdote, it was the late Fortean researcher John Keel who had often reminded us that “belief is the enemy”. Much as Keel suggested, perhaps it is our belief in UFOs that informs us the most about the subject… rather than what the phenomenon itself may actually represent.
The thought that another life form could be out there is a fascinating thing to think about, but what is Aliens have already been down to see us. What if the government know about this and are keeping the public in the dark about it all? So from the mysterious case of a supposed UFO crash in Mexico where dead aliens were apparently taken away by US soldiers, to the legendary Rosewell incident. Here are five stories that could prove that extraterrestrials have already been to earth and its all been covered up over the years.
Date of video: June 2016 Maker of video:Open Minds
Here is a fantastic report of three different sightings reported to MUFON and Open Minds give a great presentation about them, not to mention a load of facts that will really weigh on your mind. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Open Minds states: An Illinois witness at Spring Grove reported watching a “large, illuminated” triangle UFO at close proximity about 9:30 p.m. on May 22, 2016, according to testimony in Case 76537 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
A Virginia witness at Charlottesville reported watching and photographing a triangle-shaped UFO that briefly hovered and moved away at a fairly low altitude, according to testimony in Case 76512 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
An Alaskan witness at Fairbanks reported watching and videotaping a pulsating, sphere-shaped UFO that appeared to emit other objects, according to testimony in Case 76358 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
It is believed that a discovery of an ancient Vimana was hidden from the public. However, based on the several reports regarding this finding, it is believed that this discovery did take place.
According to several reports, in 2012 8 soldiers allegedly participated in a top-secret mission in the desert of Afghanistan. Inside a cave, a Vimana or at least parts of the vimana were found.
The leaked report by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service created for President Putin, speaks of the discovery of a mystery craft spotted by military personnel in Afganistan. Inside a cave, 8 soldiers discovered traces of advanced technology which ultimately led them towards the mystery craft.
The Vimanas are described in ancient sacred texts called the ‘Vedas’ as incredible flying ships that visited our planet over 6000 years ago. Interestingly, ancient cultures around the globe mentioned incredible stories where visitors from the heavens came down to Earth with similar ‘crafts.’
The vimana said to have been discovered in Afghanistan is believed to be between 5,000 and 6,000 years old. It has a sophisticated energy shield that has kept it safe for thousands of years.
Researchers who visited the site allegedly described the finding as a ‘Vimana’ encased in a ‘Time Well’. According to ancient accounts in ‘The Mahabharata,’ a Vimana flying machines is said to measure twelve cubits in circumference, with four solid wheels. These ancient texts also depict sophisticated offensive mechanisms incorporated into the Vimana.
Reports indicate that the Vimana discovered in the cave belonged to one of the greatest religious leaders of ancient man. Its ‘rightful owner’ is the great prophet Zoroaster, founder of Zoroastrianism – the official religion of Persia and its distant subdivisions.
While many people indicate the story connecting eight soldiers, the cave and an ancient vimana is beyond bizarre, many people firmly believe that numerous pieces of advanced technology can be found scattered across the desert in what is today modern-day Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and as far as the Vimana discovered in a cave in Afghanistan the evidence is nonexistent.
However, this does not necessarily mean the above is a false report. It is well-known that throughout the last couple of decades there have been a number of discoveries that have directly contradicted the strict patterns set forth by mainstream scholars. History as we know it is incomplete, and there ar countless findings which indicate, without a doubt, that in the distant past of our planet, fascinating, and extremely sophisticated ancient civilizations existed on the planet. Maybe the ancient Vimana described in ancient Hindu texts are just one of the many pieces of lost technology ancient cultures around the globe had access to.
Interestingly, Not long ago, a group of Chinese researchers came across what appear to be ‘blueprints’ for building interstellar spaceships, using ‘antigravitational propulsion methods’. The alleged manuscript written in the fourth Century BC was discovered in Lhasa Tabet by Chinese Researchers. Many believe that this ancient documents, ( now in possession of the Chinese) stretch the frontiers of modern science rewriting history along the way.
The ancient texts discovered in Tibet are believed to be part of a much larger collection of ancient Sanskrit writings describing the ancient Vimana and the different propulsion systems used by them.
In order to find out what the ancient documents meant, the Sanskrit text from the 4th century were sent to Dr. Ruth Reyna for translation. (citation needed).
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1,500 light years away from Earth, there could be alien megastructure says Dr. Michio Kaku
1,500 light years away from Earth, there could be alien megastructure says Dr. Michio Kaku
Dr. Michio Kaku revealed that an alien megastructure could be located 1,500 light years away from Earth.
He made this assumption on the basis of an anusual light that is coming from a star know as KIC 8462852.
The mystery dimming of star KIC 8462852 has fueled intensive research as dozens of scientists have desperately tried explaining what causes the mysterious light fluctuations of the star.
Theoretical Physicist Michio Kaku believes that the potential alien megastructure around the mystery star could be “the biggest story in the past five-hundred years!”
According to Dr. Kaku, “this star is breaking all the rules” and “we would have to rewrite astronomy textbooks” to think anything different.
“Basically, if a planet eclipses a Mother Star, goes in front of the Mother Star, Starlight drops maybe one percent at maximum–however starlight has been dropping at twenty-two percent,” Dr. Kaku explained in an interview.
“There is a colossal, humongous, object of some sort blocking the starlight from this star. We’ve ruled out all of the usual suspects; rouge planets, comets, asteroids and the only thing left is an ‘alien superstructure’ of some type.”
“We’re talking about what’s called a Type Two Civilization that could build a gigantic [Dyson Sphere] sphere possibly bigger than Jupiter to absorb starlight, to produce energy and is right out of science fiction,” added Dr. Kaku.
So far scientists continue monitoring the mystery star which displays hundreds of anomalous dips in the star’s light. Mysteriously, these dips do not appear to be parodic at all and have strange shapes as well. Researchers agree that it’s nearly impossible that the strange dips in the Stars luminosity are caused by planets since it would cause a dip pattern which repeats itself regularly, something that is not happening at KIC 8462852.
Researchers believe that two to three years of continuous observations using the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT), could most likely enable the team to spectroscopically identify material around KIC 8462852, and solve one of the biggest astronomical mysteries of the 21st century.
Media interest in the mystery star went viral when a group of astronomers from Pennsylvania State University published a
This UFO was found in three differentness Apollo 14 photos by Streetcap1 of Youtube. This glowing blue UFO reminds me of the UFO often seen over the UK and was actually a USAF secret called the Aurora Project which was a prototype spacecraft that was made using alien technology. Awesome discovery by Streetcap1and please click this link and give him a thumbs up. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
That giant flaming star in the sky does rotate, but moves at a much slower pace than the Earth.
It takes 24 hours for the Earth to make a full rotation, but since the sun isn't a solid object like a planet, its rotation is harder to pinpoint.
"Since the sun is a ball of gas/plasma, it does not have to rotate rigidly like the solid planets and moons do,"according to NASA.
In fact, our gaseous sun is divided into different zones and layers, with each of our host star's regions moving at varying speeds. On average, the sun rotates on its axis once every 27 days. However, its equator spins the fastest and takes about 24 days to rotate, while the poles take more than 30 days. The inner parts of the sun also spin faster than the outer layers, according to NASA.
Back in 1612, Galileo Galilei noticed something odd: sunspots moved across the sun's disk over time, confirming the sun's rotation, according to Stanford University's Solar Center. Even today, researchers are able to monitor the sun's movements and rate of rotation by observing its sunspot activity.
Sunspots occur where the sun's plasma interacts with its magnetic field and can lead to solar flares and other types of solar storms.
You'd expect sunspots to be hot, but they're actually cold areas on the sun's surface, though "cold" is a relative term. Sunspots average around 5,000 to 7,500 degrees Fahrenheit (2,760 to 4150 degrees Celsius), in contrast to the areas surrounding them, which average around 9,900 degrees F (5,480 C).
Editor's Note: This article was first published on Dec. 16, 2010.
The Truth Is Out There: Do Area 51 Files Hold Secrets of UFOs?
The Truth Is Out There: Do Area 51 Files Hold Secrets of UFOs?
By Taylor Kubota, Live Science Contributor
An aerial view of Area 51 and Groom Lake in Nevada.
Credit: Public domain
In her race to secure the Democratic nomination for president, Hillary Clinton has recently drawn support from an unusual voter base — alien enthusiasts. First in a radio interview, then again on "Jimmy Kimmel Live," Clinton expressed interest in making public files about UFOs and the mysterious Nevada site called Area 51.
"I would like us to go into those files and hopefully make as much of that public as possible. If there's nothing there, let's tell people there's nothing there," said Clinton, speaking with Kimmel. She confirmed that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had also gone looking for extraterrestrial information during his presidency and came up empty.
"If anyone is expecting to find flying saucers or dead aliens or any of that stuff, I think they'll be very disappointed," said Jeffrey T. Richelson, senior fellow with the National Security Archive at George Washington University, of this hypothetical release, in an interview with Live Science.
The National Security Archive, a nonprofit founded in 1985 to uncover and archive government documents and release them to the public, holds the second-largest collection of declassified U.S. files (the federal government has the largest repository).
As part of the archive's efforts, Richelson edited a release of declassified Area 51 files in 2013 that included more than 60 documents. Among many other activities, these files shed some light on Area 51's role in the development of stealth programs and the test flights of covertly obtained Soviet MiG fighter jets during the Cold War.
What is Area 51?
Warning signs tell people to stay away from Area 51.
Located in Nevada about 80 miles (130 kilometers) northwest of Las Vegas, Area 51 is a military base that is restricted to the public. Its official name is the Nevada Test and Training Range, which is part of the Edwards Air Force Base.
Over the years, people who have worked (and claimed to have worked) at Area 51 have added fuel to the UFO fire with claims of working with aliens or having access to alien technology gathered from spacecraft crash sites. [7 Huge Misconceptions About Aliens]
"It's important to separate [what really happened there] from what most people think of when they think of Area 51: that that's where there is alien technology, a crash that had occurred somewhere that had been picked up by the military and kept there in a super-secret base, and all that kind of stuff," said Roger D. Launius, associate director for collections and curatorial affairs at the National Air and Space Museum. "That piece of it is a folklore that has no bearing [on] and no relationship to any reality whatsoever."
The scoop on spy planes
What is real, added Launius, is the facility's involvement in highly classified aerospace research and development.
Area 51's connection to experimental aircraft may be a reason why people have connected it with extraterrestrial cover-ups. After all, it is a well-known yet super-secret base that has many strange aircraft fly in and out of it, Richelson said. By his estimation, further details about the different aircraft programs that have connections to Area 51 would be the most likely results of any actions Clinton would take to declassify documents about the facility.
Specifically, Richelson theorized that further declassification of Area 51 documents could fill us in on what has gone on there after the U-2, OXCART (the successor to the U-2), F-117 and SR-71 Blackbird secret aircraft projects, which were featured in the 2013 document release. It's a challenge to theorize about the contents of secret documents, but Richelson's best guesses were that the public might gain additional information about stealth-drone programs, such asthe RQ-170 and RQ-180, and other exotic aircraft that were tested but never produced in significant numbers.
One aircraft that he said we could learn more about is the Northrop Tacit Blue, a battlefield surveillance aircraft that, according to the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, "tested advanced radar sensors and new ideas in stealth technology." This unusual plane, with curves reminiscent of a to-go box, flew 135 times before the program ended in 1985.
Regardless of whether people are invested in extraterrestrial revelations, Launius said there is an important point to be made about Clinton's declassification discussions. "I would like to think that, whoever the president is — whether it's Mrs. Clinton or it's Mr. Trump, or it's somebody else, or the current president as well — that every piece of classified information that exists inside the federal government that is no longer necessary for our national security, should be declassified," he said.
While he is in favor of openness in regard to government records, Launius also notes that declassification does require significant effort and may take several years to complete, even with a presidential push.
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OSIRIS-REx: de sonde die materiaal van planetoïde Bennu gaat 'stelen'
OSIRIS-REx: de sonde die materiaal van planetoïde Bennu gaat 'stelen'
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Nog iets meer dan drie maanden en dan vertrekt OSIRIS-REx naar de machtig interessante planetoïde Bennu. De opdracht: materiaal van de planetoïde ‘pakken’ en terugbrengen op aarde.
OSIRIS-REx is een acronym dat staat voor Origins Spectral Interpretation Resource Identification Security Regolith Explorer. Een mondvol en dat hoef je ook niet te onthouden. Het belangrijkste om te weten is dat OSIRIS-REx een prachtige missie belooft te worden die het meer dan waard is om op de voet te worden gevolgd. Dat hopen wij natuurlijk te gaan doen, maar eerst blikken we vooruit. Hoe steekt OSIRIS-REx in elkaar? En wat gaat de sonde precies doen?
OSIRIS REx arriveert bij Bennu.
Afbeelding: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab.
Bennu Zoals het er nu naar uitziet, wordt OSIRIS-REx op 8 september gelanceerd. De bestemming? Bennu: een planetoïde die één keer in de zes jaar bij de aarde in de buurt komt. De planetoïde is zo’n 510 meter groot en haast zich met een gemiddelde snelheid van ongeveer 100.000 kilometer per uur door de ruimte. De planetoïde heeft zo’n 1,2 jaar nodig om een rondje rond de zon te voltooien en doet er 4,3 uur over om een rondje om de eigen as te draaien. En..ook niet onbelangrijk: er is een gerede kans (ongeveer 1 op 2500, voor zover we nu weten) dat de planetoïde aan het eind van de 22e eeuw de aarde raakt.
Primitieve planetoïde Je ziet: we weten al aardig wat over deze planetoïde. En toch stuurt NASA er een ruimtesonde op af. Waarom? Bennu is een zogenoemde ‘primitieve planetoïde‘. Dat betekent dat deze sinds zijn ontstaan – zo’n 4,5 miljard jaar geleden – eigenlijk heel weinig veranderd is. Onderzoekers hopen dan ook dat deze planetoïde ons veel meer kan vertellen over de omstandigheden in het jonge zonnestelsel. Ze zijn met name nieuwsgierig welke organische moleculen – stoffen die een bijdrage hebben geleverd aan het ontstaan van het leven op aarde – in de jonge jaren van ons zonnestelsel reeds voorhanden waren. Aangenomen wordt dat planetoïden zoals Bennu deze stoffen bezaten en deze – door op aarde in te slaan – op onze planeet afleverden.
Momenteel wordt OSIRIS-REx nog uitgebreid getest.
Afbeelding: NASA / Dimitri Gerondidakis.
De instrumenten Werk aan de winkel dus voor OSIRIS-REx. Aan boord van de sonde vinden we verschillende instrumenten die een antwoord kunnen bieden op de vele vragen die wetenschappers hebben. Zo zijn aan boord van OSIRIS-REx onder meer drie camera’s te vinden. Daarnaast bevindt zich aan boord een instrument dat OLA (OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter) wordt genoemd. Dit instrument kan met behulp van laserpulsen de exacte afstand tussen OSIRIS-REx en Bennu bepalen en zo bijdragen aan topografische kaarten van de planetoïde. Daarnaast zijn er nog drie instrumenten aan boord te vinden die onder meer in staat zijn om mineralen te detecteren en identificeren.
TIJDLIJN
OSIRIS-REx wordt op 8 september gelanceerd en moet in augustus 2018 bij Bennu arriveren. In oktober 2018 start de sonde dan met het bestuderen van Bennu. Een belangrijk onderzoeksdoel is het kiezen van een plekje waar materiaal van het oppervlak kan worden verwijderd. In 2019 moet de sonde dan daadwerkelijk wat oppervlaktemateriaal van Bennu opnemen. In 2021 verlaat OSIRIS-REx Bennu en keert terug naar de aarde. In 2023 komt OSIRIS-REx bij de aarde in de buurt en zal deze de ruimtecapsule met daarin het verzamelde oppervlaktemateriaal richting de aarde sturen. OSIRIS-REx keert zelf niet terug naar onze planeet, maar zal zich in een stabiele baan rondom de zon nestelen.
De arm Maar misschien wel het meest interessante onderdeel van OSIRIS-REx is TAGSAM (Touch-And-Go Sample Acquisition Mechanism). Het is een arm die aan OSIRIS-REx bevestigd zit. Op een bepaald moment in de missie is het namelijk de bedoeling dat de ruimtesonde materiaal van het oppervlak van Bennu verzamelt. Om dat te doen, zal de sonde de planetoïde tot op zo’n 5 meter afstand naderen en TAGSAM uitstrekken. De arm moet dan minimaal 60 gram (en maximaal zo’n 2 kilo) materiaal van het oppervlak van Bennu opnemen. Als dat lukt – de arm kan dat in totaal drie keer proberen – dan wordt het verzamelde materiaal opgeslagen in SRC (Sample Return Capsule). Aan het eind van de OSIRIS-REx-missie zal deze ruimtecapsule – met aan boord het verzamelde oppervlaktemateriaal van Bennu – terugkeren naar de aarde. Daar kan het materiaal uitgebreid worden geanalyseerd. Dat neemt naar verwachting zo’n twee jaar in beslag.
Missiedoelen Materiaal van het oppervlak van Bennu halen en terugbrengen naar de aarde is zonder enige twijfel het belangrijkste doel van OSIRIS-REx, maar onderzoekers hopen nog veel meer uit de missie te halen. Zo willen ze dankzij OSIRIS-REx een gedetailleerde topografische kaart van de planetoïde kunnen maken. Daarnaast willen ze achterhalen welke invloed zonne-energie op de baan van de planetoïde heeft (ook wel het Yarkovsky-effect genoemd).
Wanneer OSIRIS REx het oppervlak van Bennu nadert om materiaal van het oppervlak te halen, zullen de zonnepanelen van het ruimtevaartuig een V-vorm aannemen. Dit om te voorkomen dat stof op de zonnepanelen terecht komt. Afbeelding: NASA / Goddard / Chris Meaney.
ARM De missie kan bovendien gezien worden als een belangrijke leerschool voor toekomstige missies van NASA. Denk dan met name aan ARM (Asteroid Redirect Mission). Tijdens deze missie wil NASA een grote kei van het oppervlak van een planetoïde halen, in een baan rond de maan plaatsen en vervolgens astronauten naar de kei sturen om deze te bestuderen en stukjes ervan naar de aarde te brengen.
Het moge duidelijk zijn: OSIRIS-REx belooft een prachtige missie te worden die een schat aan informatie op kan leveren over het jonge zonnestelsel en de samenstelling van planetoïden en bovendien de opmaat vormt naar zoveel meer. En de missie start dus binnenkort. We kunnen niet wachten!
Jupiter Moon Europa's Ocean May Have Enough Energy to Support Life
Jupiter Moon Europa's Ocean May Have Enough Energy to Support Life
By Jesse Emspak, Space.com Contributor
This enhanced-color view from NASA's Galileo spacecraft shows an intricate pattern of linear fractures on the icy surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ SETI Institute
Jupiter's moon Europa might be able to support life even if there's little or no volcanic activity under the satellite's icy shell, a new study suggests.
A salty ocean of liquid water is believed to lie beneath Europa's icy exterior. Scientists think this ocean could be habitable, if it harbors the required chemical building blocks and the right proportion of elements to provide energy for biological systems — the right ratio of oxygen to hydrogen, for example.
The new study suggests that there is, indeed, enough of that energy. A research team led by Steve Vance, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, found that, even without taking possible volcanic processes into account, Europa likely produces 10 times more oxygen than hydrogen, just as Earth does.
According to the team's calculations, Europa's hydrogen is generated as seawater reacts with rock in the moon's crust. Europa has cooled slowly over the eons, forming new cracks in the crust that expose more rock to seawater, thus generating more hydrogen, the researchers said.
Meanwhile, the oxygen would come from ice on Europa's surface. Radiation from Jupiter — which is far more intense than anything experienced on Earth's surface — breaks water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen then reacts with other compounds in the water as well as the hydrogen. As the oxidants sink, they get recycled into Europa's interior, and then into the ocean, study team members said.
Until now, many planetary scientists thought that Europa, kneaded by Jupiter's gravity, would be volcanically active. After all, the neighboring moon Io is the most volcanically active body in the solar system; Jupiter's gravity and tidal forces deform Io's crust and mantle, generating huge amounts of heat.
Something similar could be happening at Europa, but nobody knows for sure if it is. Much speculation about possible Europan life envisions a biosphere that resembles the clusters of life found near hydrothermal vents on Earth's ocean floor. But the new research suggests that volcanism isn't necessary to cycle chemicals through the ocean, and thus is probably not necessary for living things to survive, study team members said.
The study was published online last week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
UFO hunters claim to have spotted yet another unidentified object passing close to the International Space Station.
The footage, posted on YouTube by SecureTeam10, appears to show a streak of light captured by the cameras on-board the ISS.
Hundreds have commented on the video, offering their thoughts on what the object could be.
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UFO hunters claim to have spotted yet another unidentified object passing close to the International Space Station. The footage, posted on YouTube by SecureTeam10 , appears to show a streak of light captured by the cameras on-board the ISS (pictured to the right of the silver module)
According to the video’s narrator, SecureTeam received the footage via email from someone who was combing through hours of recordings of ISS live streams.
‘This amazing footage of the ISS…has got me very excited,’ said Tyler from SecureTeam.
It shows a streak of light passing behind the International Space Station when the orbiting base is in the shadow of the Earth.
The burst of light appears in the background for just a few seconds, changing colour from white to red before disappearing.
‘When you look at this thing up close, it comes directly up out of nowhere, out of the darkness of space,’ explains the video's narrator.
He proclaims: ‘It can’t be a fireball, ‘cos there’s no air in space – hence there can’t be any fire,’ before adding: ‘My mind is just blown. What is this thing?’.
Fourth UFO Buzzes International Space Station Strange Object In NASA Video Feed?
A close up of the unexplained streak of light shows it appears to be a mixture of white, yellow and red light
WHY WE SEE UFOS NEAR THE ISS
Sightings of this kind are not uncommon, and Nasa has spoken out in the past to explain that the 'UFOs' and other phenomena spotted in the ISS footage often have simple explanations.
In the case of the'fireball', the object could be a meteor or space debris – such as a discarded stage of a rocket launch – burning up as it enters Earth’s atmosphere.
Other 'objects' may be a result of reflections from the space station windows, structures from the ISS itself, or lights from Earth.
The skies above the home planet are becoming increasingly busy, with communications and research satellites collecting and relaying data for modern life.
The footage comes from a recorded stream of the ISS captured on Tuesday, and can be seen by fast forwarding to 15:25 of the recorded stream.
The consensus among YouTubers is a meteor or space debris – such as a discarded stage of a rocket launch – burning up as it enters Earth’s atmosphere.
More grandiose claims reported recently by UFO hunters include evidence of secret 'missile launcher' aboard the space station.
The images captured from Nasa's live feed sent conspiracy theorists into a frenzy, claiming it shows an 'interesting UFO or missile' being released from the ISS.
However, the footage coincided with the planned release of a number of cube satellites from the station.
In possibly the most bizarre claim, UFO-hunters said they had found evidence of a trail left behind during the departure of time-travelling aliens.
A flash of light, supposedly captured by Nasa during a live stream from the International Space Station, was claimed to be hundreds of miles wide.
The footage shows a streak of light passing behind the International Space Station when the orbiting base is in the shadow of the Earth (pictured left). The burst of light appears in the background for just a few seconds (right), changing colour from white to red before disappearing.
Sightings of this kind are not uncommon, and Nasa has spoken out in the past to explain that the 'UFOs' and other phenomena spotted in the ISS footage often have simple explanations. Pictured is an illustration of the International Space Station
In two bizarre explanations, conspiracy theorists proposed that the ‘energy beam’ had come from a UFO leaving the ocean, or that it may have been a wormhole used to transport aliens through time.
In the footage, the round object can be seen just to the left of centre. It stays in one position for a short time before ascending upward and off-screen.
The phenomenon was first spotted by Nicholas D'Amario, who reported it to UFO spotting site MUFON.
It was then picked up by outspoken alien hunter Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily earlier this week.
He also points out the subsequent energy beam that ‘shot up from the Earth toward the UFO’s former location.’
Is it a missile or a UFO? Space station images cause intrigue
‘Also a UFO is seen, but its to [sic] small to be the earth, may possibly be Jupiter, since its [sic] very visible in the night sky right now.'
‘Hard call. That light however…its [sic] thickness its [sic] incredible. Covering a width of hundreds of miles. It must have come from the ocean, and left so fast it left a visible trail for a few seconds,’ Waring continues.
‘Then…it could have been a wormhole, a long tunnel to transport someone or something a far distance. We see the tunnel made then disappear. Nothing to worry about, just time traveling aliens.’
Sightings of this kind are not uncommon, and Nasa has spoken out in the past to explain that the 'UFOs' and other phenomena spotted in the ISS footage often have simple explanations.
Earlier this month, a Nasa spokesperson told MailOnline: 'Reflections from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or lights from Earth commonly appear as artefacts in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory.'
More grandiose claims reported recently by UFO hunters include evidence of a trail left behind during the departure of time-traveling aliens. The conspiracy theorist proposes that the ‘energy beam’ (pictured) has come from a UFO leaving the ocean, or that it may be a wormhole used to transport aliens through time
A mysterious object emerging just above Earth’s horizon, followed by the appearance of a glowing beam was spotted during a live Nasa UStream from the ISS. In the footage, the round object can be seen just to the left of centre. It stays in one position for some time before ascending upward and off-screen
The skies above the home planet are becoming increasingly busy, with communications and research satellites collecting and relaying data for modern life.
The most recent claim comes days after another ‘craft’ was spotted in an ISS live feed just before the transmission mysteriously went down.
It has prompted debate among conspiracy theorists who believe the feed was cut intentionally as part of an alien cover-up being conducted by Nasa.
In the clip, a glowing horseshoe-shaped object appears to be floating toward the ISS while rotating on the horizon.
The feed is then apparently cut for around an hour before it resumes and a much smaller white light can be seen in the distance.
Conspiracy theorists say this may be the same craft that has since moved away - dismissing the idea that it could be lens flare or even the moon.
But the footage that left some alien chasers doing somersaults with excitement has crashed back to Earth with a bang after being exposed as nothing more than a hoax.
The bizarre YouTube video, which clocked more than 109,000 views in just a few days, was suggested as showing a glowing UFO being pulled into a swirling cloud vortex as if being transported to another dimension.
It was initially branded the “best ever to emerge online”.
But UFO hoax busters soon rounded on the hoax, the latest in a series of CGI clips that have attempted to dupe the internet.
The video was uploaded by Misterio Canal (Mystery Channel) which appears on a number of UFO hoax blacklists.
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Hoax video: The "UFO" circled entering the vortex.
CGI over a time lapse of clouds. The spiral and object are creations made in Photoshop.
UFO hoax buster
The slatings continued with another saying: “This is so false that you could put it in a Disney movie.”
The channel has nearly 60,000 subscribers and hoax busters complain such films are being made to raise cash through YouTube advertising by conning viewers.
But, oddly, some viewers of the Spanish-language video, with a title that translates to “Dimensional portal in the sky absorbs a UFO,” thought the footage was real.
The clip starts with white clouds swirling in a double spiral pattern in the sky.
A white circular shape is then seen flying towards the shrinking heart of the vortex, before both disappear.
A cameraman is heard saying “that is just insane” on the film.
One viewer said hopefully: “It’s definitely aliens this time.”
Another said: “Sceptics always looking for proof, they want an alien to appear on your doorstep.”
In January another confirmed UFO hoax channel Section 51 2.0 uploaded a similar clip claiming to show a UFO “jumping dimension” by entering into a vortex above CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Geneva, Switzerland, allegedly filmed by two American tourists.
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Astronomer ‘exposes NASA cover up’, claiming second sun, and Nibiru REAL during broadcast
Astronomer ‘exposes NASA cover up’, claiming second sun, and Nibiru REAL during broadcast
A RESPECTED astronomer sensationally suggested NASA has been covering up the existence of a second sun in our solar system and the fabled Nibiru planet, during a live broadcast.
Conspiracy theory websites have gone into overload following comments made by seasoned astronomer Paul Cox during a live broadcast of Mercury transiting the sun.
Mr Cox, a presenter for the respected online Slooh Telescope channel, which broadcasts live shows to coincide with significant astronomical events, made the comments as Mercury was filmed as a tiny dot passing over the surface of our sun.
Nibiru, or Planet X, is an alleged huge planet with a vast orbit, that conspiracy theorists claim will one day pass so close to Earth that its gravitational pull could break havoc on our planet, triggering earthquakes and other catastrophic events.
Believers of the conspiracy claimed they were right earlier this year after NASA announced there was a new planet, nine times the size of Earth, lurking at the edge of our solar system.
Now, Mr Cox’s remarks have added to the belief it is real.
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Strange: Paul Cox questioning the existence of Nibiru on the Slooh channel.
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CGI image of the fabled planet Nibiru, destroying Earth.
Speaking about the view from the telescope, which showed the Sun and Mercury to the left, and part of another large glowing shape to the right, which some viewers thought was just the sun being reflected, he said: “You can see there, the sun is on the left.
“You can see the small black dot…that is Mercury.
“Now you may be asking yourself what is that large round thing to the right of our sun.
“That’s our second sun. I don’t know if you knew that we had a second sun but there it is.
“It’s normally hidden from view. NASA and other organisations, they usually hide that stuff away from us, but there it is. It is true.
A subtitle also appeared saying “second sun?” Another added “NASA cover up?”
Later, speaking about another frame which showed just a glow to the right of the sun, he added: “Oh wow, can you see that mysterious glow on the right hand side?
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Fact or fiction? Was Paul Cox just messing with us?
That’s our second sun. I don’t know if you knew that we had a second sun but there it is. It’s normally hidden from view. NASA and other organisations, they usually hide that stuff away from us.
Astronomer Paul Cox
“Do you think it is the mysterious planet Nibiru, maybe appearing in these live shots.
“We don’t cover up stuff like NASA does.”
Some viewers suggested Mr Cox and the channel were just joking with them, but others saw him as having a “David Icke moment”, like when the former BBC1 Grandstand presenter came out as “The son of Godhead” on chatshow Wogan in 1991.
Regardless of how he made the remarks, it has prompted a flurry of conspiracy theory YouTube videos suggesting Nibiru is about to make its pass.
One video was made by blogger Jacob Israel, who claims not to be a conspiracy theorist, but is investigating the existence of Nibiru after “having dreams about it”
Mr Israel said: “Was he slipping that in, when he says NASA covers stuff up is that whats going on?
“Coming from somebody who is credible in the field and professional when you say stuff like that, it is meant to be taken seriously, it’s not a joke.”
He suggested they may just have been joking, but doubted they would be able to retract it.
He said: “If they were making fun of people who believe there is life outside this planet and there is more to these myths…I find it interesting that these astronomers would say this.
“I just find it crazy that within the last month or so they found a dwarf star and with planets very similar to ours that rotate around it and we are possible in a binary sysrtem and all this crazy stuff that I dreamed about may be real.
“And, of course, the people that believe there may be a possible planet, a dwarf star that may be heading towards us that may affect climate change and make things a lot harder for us, which would explain Jade Helm and underground bunkers.
“I know I sound a lot like a conspiracy guy, but there was a reason I was brought into this..when you have a professional, someone who is respected in the field, say such a thing, what is it they are not telling us and why won’t they be frank.”
Astronoom: “Zie je die mysterieuze gloed aan de rechterkant? Dat is onze tweede zon”
Astronoom: “Zie je die mysterieuze gloed aan de rechterkant? Dat is onze tweede zon”
Een gerespecteerde astronoom heeft tijdens een webcast gesuggereerd dat de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA het bestaan van een tweede zon in ons zonnestelsel verbergt. Dat schrijft de Britse Daily Express vandaag.
Complotwebsites zijn in rep en roer over uitspraken die de doorgewinterde astronoom Paul Cox heeft gedaan tijdens een webcast over de Mercuriusovergang. Hij deed zijn uitspraken op het moment dat Mercurius als stipje over de zon trok.
“Zie je die mysterieuze gloed aan de rechterkant?” vroeg hij. “Denk je dat het de mysterieuze planeet Nibiru is die in deze livebeelden is te zien? We verbergen dingen niet zoals NASA. We gaan het je straks vertellen.”
Tweede zon
Sommige kijkers dachten dat Cox een grapje maakte en dat het om een reflectie ging, maar enige tijd later wees de astronoom opnieuw op de grote oplichtende vorm rechts van de zon. “Je ziet de zon aan de linkerkant,” zei hij. “De kleine zwarte stip is Mercurius. Misschien vraag je jezelf af wat dat grote ronde ding rechts van ons zon is. Dat is onze tweede zon.”
“Ik weet niet of je op de hoogte bent van het bestaan van een tweede zon,” vervolgde hij. “Die is normaal gesproken niet te zien. NASA en andere organisaties houden dat soort dingen vaak voor ons verborgen, maar je kunt hem hier zien.”
Geslaagde grap?
Of het nu een geslaagde grap was of niet, op veel complotwebsites verschenen filmpjes waarin wordt gesuggereerd dat Nibiru op het punt staat de zon te passeren, aldus de krant.
Volgens sommigen waren de Babyloniërs al op de hoogte van het bestaan van een tiende planeet, die Nibiru werd genoemd. Deze planeet zou een zeer langgerekte elliptische baan hebben en daardoor eens in de 3600 jaar in de buurt van de aarde komen.
Hieronder kun je de webcast van Slooh over de Mercuriusovergang terugkijken. Vanaf 51:20 begint Cox te praten over de mysterieuze gloed rechts van de zon. Rond 3:19:08 stelt de astronoom dat deze gloed onze tweede zon is.
Op elk werelddeel bestaan er mythische verhalen over reuzenvolkeren. Ook in de Europese mythologie spelen de reuzen een belangrijke rol. Volgens het boek Genesis bevolkten deze mythologische reuzen Kanaän en werden ze Nephilim genoemd.
In de Griekse mythologie bijvoorbeeld zijn ‘de giganten’ schepselen van Gaia, de aarde als godin. Bij de Griekse dichter en zanger Homerus (8e eeuw voor Christus) zijn de giganten een aan de goden verwant volk.
Zondvloed
De Nephilim waren ‘mannen van zeer grote gestalte’. De Israëlieten beschouwden zichzelf als sprinkhanen in vergelijking met de Enakieten, die volgens Numeri 13:33 ‘van de reuzen’ waren. De Nephilim worden voor het eerst genoemd in verband met de tijd van Noach.
Volgens schrijver Aaron Judkins, bekend van History Channel, moeten we begrijpen dat er ‘goden’ op de aarde waren voor de zondvloed uit de tijd van Noach. Hij meent dat ze in de toekomst zullen terugkeren en zich bekend zullen maken.
Belangrijke vraag
In het verleden hadden deze goden gemeenschap met aardse vrouwen en brachten ze een subras voort: de reuzen. De namen van deze oude goden zijn terug te vinden in de Griekse, Romeinse en Babylonische mythologie, aldus Judkins.
Deze goden zouden gevallen engelen zijn van wie de reuzen afstamden. Judkins probeert in deze lezing op het MUFON Symposium 2015 antwoord te geven op de belangrijke vraag waarom ze hier zijn en wat hun intenties zijn.
TR3B or UFO Seen Near Space Station As Inflatable Room Is Successfully Completed, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
TR3B or UFO Seen Near Space Station As Inflatable Room Is Successfully Completed, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 1, 2016 Location of sighting: Space Station, inflatable room. Source:Third Phase of the Moon The first three minutes of this video discusses a UFO seen near the space station just as the inflatable room successfully opens. Note, the first time it failed a few days ago. The UFO seen here is triangle in shape. I have seen similar UFOs near the ISS and this could the Bigelow Aerospace using a TR3B to observe the outside of the space station and to witness their room being successfully inflated. This is big money for their future if it is successful and useful. So why not use a top secret USAF project to observe their other creation? I really like how Third Phase of the Moon talks about this issue and considers many possibilities. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Group Of UFOs Over In Henderson Nevada On June 3, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Group Of UFOs Over In Henderson Nevada On June 3, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 3, 2016 Location of sighting: Henderson, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA These glowing lights were recorded over Las Vegas last night and there is a high probability that they are UFOs. This is an area near Nellis AFB where a Tall Whites underground base is located. Ships only come and go during the night to hide, but often use lights to avoid planes when close to an Air Force Base. Steven Barone, a UFO researcher in Las Vegas caught these UFOs and believes that aliens frequent the area right below the noses of the people of Vegas. I believe his is correct. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Steven Baronestates: I'm glad I was patient enough to stay outside just a little longer last night. Nothing happened for the first hour and a half and it was still really hot so I was getting ready to go inside and chill out. This is a good example of hanging in there because three different events happened. I got some footage of objects in the north valley which led to these ones over in Henderson. While this was happening another event started on a mountain about nine miles from my home. I really like this particular video though because it clearly shows a minimum of three UFOs together brightly lit up. In reality, there were probably quite a few more that just stayed low key. I honestly believe that UFOs are here every single day in one form or another but we just don't see them all the time. I can only imagine how much footage I would have if it were possible to catch everything that happens around here. It would truly be astonishing.
What's Hiding Below Jupiter's Clouds? New Radio Map Reveals Ammonia Swirls
What's Hiding Below Jupiter's Clouds? New Radio Map Reveals Ammonia Swirls
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
A new radio map of Jupiter, built with data from the Very Large Array in New Mexico, shows the movement of ammonia gas in the planet's atmosphere. Here, new radio measurements (above) are compared with a visible-light map from Hubble Space Telescope images, in approximate true color.
Credit: Michael H. Wong, Imke de Pater (UC Berkeley), Robert J. Sault (Univ. Melbourne). Optical: NASA, ESA, A.A. Simon (GSFC), M.H. Wong (UC Berkeley), and G.S. Orton (JPL-Caltech)
Just one month before the Juno spacecraft arrives at the gas giant Jupiter, the most detailed radio-wave maps ever of the planet's atmosphere dig beneath surface-level clouds to reveal the whirling ammonia flows that help form its distinctive features.
Researchers used the upgraded Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope in New Mexico to probe 60 miles (100 kilometers) below the top of the gas giant's pervasive clouds — revealing a correlation between the colorful whirls and spots on the visible surface and the movement of gas below, which is driven by Jupiter's internal heat source.
"We in essence created a three-dimensional picture of ammonia gas in Jupiter's atmosphere, which reveals upward and downward motions within the turbulent atmosphere," Imke de Pater, an astronomer at the University of California, Berkeley, and lead author on the new work, said in a statement. [Amazing Photos of Jupiter and Its Many Moons]
Transition from optical image of Jupiter to new radio map; many of the same features are visible. In the radio view, rising ammonia-rich gases are dark and sinking, ammonia-poor gases are bright. Clouds of condensed ammonia are not visible by radio.
Credit: Radio: Robert J. Sault (Univ. Melbourne), Imke de Pater and Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley). Optical: Marco Vedovato, Christopher Go, Manos Kardasis, Ian Sharp, Imke de Pater.
Those maps reveal more detail than any previous radio map, spotting features just 800 miles (1,300 km) across, UC Berkeley officials said in the statement.
The researchers saw that ammonium-rich gases rose to form the upper cloud layers — ammonium hydrosulfide at about 200 Kelvin (minus 100 degrees Fahrenheit) and a cloud of ammonia-ice at 160 K (minus 170 degrees F), both of which can be seen with optical telescopes, officials said in the statement. The map also revealed gases with less ammonia sinking back down into the planet.
The areas with less ammonia, spread in a broad band around the planet, seem to correlate with "hot spots" on the planet's surface — areas that researchers have pinpointed as particularly bright in radio and infrared images. Those "hot spots" appear as holes in the planet's cloud cover, and look hazy in optical light.
"With radio, we can peer through the clouds and see that those hotspots are interleaved with plumes of ammonia rising from deep in the planet, tracing the vertical undulations of an equatorial wave system," Michael Wong, an astronomer who is also at UC Berkeley, said in the statement.
A new radio view of Jupiter at three wavelengths: 2 cm in blue, 3 cm in gold and 6 cm in red. Researchers created this image from 10 hours of data, averaged, so instead of fine detail the features are smeared by the planet's rotation. The pink glow comes from radiation caused by electrons trapped in Jupiter's magnetic field.
Credit: Imke de Pater, Michael H. Wong (UC Berkeley), Robert J. Sault (Univ. Melbourne)
To build the new map, the researchers observed the many different wavelengths of radio waves emitted by the planet's atmosphere over time. While visible-light telescopes can get back images from the surface quickly, the VLA radio telescope has to observe for multiple hours. The telescope's upgraded sensitivity, combined with new data-processing algorithms, let the researchers unblur the smeared images that are made by the fast-moving planetary atmosphere. Those images can be combined with the Hubble Space Telescope's visible views of the planet and others to get a fuller view of the environment.
"We now see fine structure in the 12- to 18-gigahertz band, much like we see in the visible, especially near the Great Red Spot, where we see a lot of little, curly features," Wong said, referring to the massive storm on Jupiter's surface that's two times Earth's diameter. "Those trace really complex upwelling and downwelling images there."
On July 4, NASA's Juno spacecraft will reach Jupiter and begin studying its weather, composition and magnetic environment before diving down through the planet's deep atmosphere. These new Jupiter maps will help researchers fit those findings into the bigger picture of the planet.
Gorgeous 'Twilight Zone' Photo of Pluto May Show Cloud for 1st Time
Gorgeous 'Twilight Zone' Photo of Pluto May Show Cloud for 1st Time
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
This backlit Pluto photo was captured on July 14, 2015 by NASA’s New Horizons probe, shortly after its closest approach to the dwarf planet. Mountains, ice plains and a possible cloud are visible in the sunlit portion of the photo (top inset), while rugged topography is apparent on Pluto’s dark side (bottom inset).
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
A spectacular new image of Pluto shows rugged mountains, nitrogen-ice plains and, perhaps, a big cloud scudding through the dwarf planet's exotic skies. NASA even described the view as the "twilight zone" of Pluto.
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured the photo shortly after its closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015, when the sun was on the other side of the dwarf planet from the probe's perspective.
In the backlit twilight view, sunlight filters through Pluto's many-layered atmosphere and lights up certain features, including the towering Norgay Montes mountain range and the vast plain known as Sputnik Planum, whose surface is likely renewed every 500,000 years or so by churning convective processes.
Also illuminated is a bright wisp tens of miles across "that may be a discrete, low-lying cloud in Pluto's atmosphere; if so, it would be the only one yet identified in New Horizons imagery," NASA officials wrote in a photo description Thursday (June 2) that dubbed the image Pluto's "twilight zone." "Atmospheric models suggest that methane clouds can occasionally form in Pluto's atmosphere."
This spectacular full-view of Pluto's so-called "twilight zone" was captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its July 14, 2015 and released on June 2, 2016.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
These features — mountains, plains and possible cloud — all lie in a sliver of sunlight, at the top limb of Pluto. But intriguing landscape details are also visible near the bottom of the photo, which depicts Pluto's night side.
"The topography here appears quite rugged, and broad valleys and sharp peaks with relief totaling 3 miles (5 kilometers) are apparent," NASA officials wrote.
New Horizons took the newly released photo with its Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera about 19 minutes after closest Pluto approach, from a distance of about 13,400 miles (21,550 km). (Closest approach brought the probe within 7,800 miles, or 12,550 km, of the dwarf planet's surface.)
The photo features a resolution of about 1,400 feet (430 meters) per pixel, NASA officials said.
New Horizons is still beaming flyby data home, and will continue to do so through this coming fall. (The probe is currently about 3.2 billion miles, or 5.15 billion km, from Earth; such a vast distance makes transmission rates slow, due to the significant weakening of New Horizons' radio signal.)
The spacecraft is currently zooming toward a small object called 2014 MU69, which lies about 1 billion miles (1.6 billion km) beyond Pluto. If NASA approves and funds a proposed extended mission, New Horizons will study 2014 MU69 up close on Jan. 1, 2019.
Close encounters in Canada: UFO data reveals unexplained alien sightings
Close encounters in Canada: UFO data reveals unexplained alien sightings
Graham Slaughter, CTVNews.ca
A pair of orange fireballs streaking across the dark horizon. A mysterious object crashing into Lake Winnipeg. A nighttime visit from a “being with blonde hair and blue skin.”
These are among 1,267 reported UFO sightings across Canada in 2015, the second-biggest year for unexplained alien activity in the last 30 years.
The detailed Canadian UFO Survey released Monday by the Winnipeg-based group Ufology Research includes accounts of where, when and precisely what Canadians claim they saw in the sky last year.
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A UFO was reported in Esquimalt, B.C. in connection with this undated photograph.
An unidentified flying object was spotted near Nat Bailey Stadium in Vancouver on Sept. 4, 2013. (YouTube)
Winnipeg-based UFO researched Chris Rutkowski tells CTV News Channel that UFO sightings have steadily increased since the Canadian UFO Survey began in 1989.
The trove of strange stories includes dozens of unexplained lights, aircrafts shaped like discs and diamonds, silently hovering UFOs and a few close encounters of the third kind.
In one case from Quebec, someone reported seeing three short “humanoids” with heads too big for their bodies and “big, black slanted eyes.” They then heard a high-pitched hum and woke up the next morning.
The stories may sound unbelievable, and researchers admit that many don’t hold up. Only about 12 per cent of the reports were classified as “unexplained.”
“The ridicule factor is quite certainly there, but we’re not saying the little grey guys are here. This is simply what people are reporting,” Winnipeg-based UFO researched Chris Rutkowski told CTV News Channel on Tuesday.
The data was collected from 17 sources across the country including Transport Canada, Canada National Defense, the National UFO Reporting Center and YouTube.
Witnesses included pilots, police officers and “other individuals with reasonably good observing capabilities and good judgement,” researchers wrote.
The only year with more UFO sightings than 2015 was 2012. Researchers believe that may have related to reports of a supposed “end-of-days” phenomenon from the Mayan calendar.
“We do know that the UFO reports continue to be made in growing numbers every year and this is just indicative that people are paying attention to what is in the sky. They’re not just looking down at their cellphones,” Rutkowski said.
Quebec led the country with 35 per cent of all UFO reports in 2015 -- a notable jump from previous years when that figure wavered between five and 15 per cent.
“It could be (that) the media are a little more attentive to the UFOs in Quebec,” Rutkowski said.
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland all had an increase in UFO sightings in 2015. In terms of major Canadian cities, Montreal had the most reports with 97, with 78 sightings in Toronto and 69 in Vancouver.
The average sighting lasted about 16 minutes.
Ufology Research has collected the reports on a yearly basis since 1989. Since then, they’ve compiled 16,905 sightings.
Many strange lights, few alien beings
By and large, Canadians mostly reported seeing strange lights in the night sky. They came in a variety of colours (pink, orange, “brilliant white”) and shapes (orbs, triangles), and some moved in curious zigzagging or stop-and-go patterns.
The data becomes particularly strange is in several isolated reports of one-on-one contact with alien beings.
In Montpellier, Que., a “humanoid” reportedly approached a house after lights were seen. In Kentville, N.S., an alien reportedly entered a person’s bedroom and held their shoulders. In Oshawa, Ont., someone reported being abducted aboard a spaceship (a note indicates “photos that don’t show anything.”)
In an attached essay on the data, researchers ponder what, if not proof of alien life, underlies the eyewitness reports.
“Is this phenomenon psychological, sociological, cultural, and/or physical? Is it our contemporary culture’s storytelling? Is it our collective psychological and social mythology generating what myths have generated since ancient times, answers to our desires, visions of our nightmares, and insights into what our future may hold? Or is the phenomenon something else? Physical objects created by our species or another form of life we cannot beginto understand?”
Canadians more open to discussing UFOs
The steadily rising reports of UFOs could be linked to several factors: the popularization of drones, camera phones, laser pointers, at-home strobe lights. But Rutkowski suggests that the increase likely relates to the country’s collective curiosity.
“People are more interested. I think other people will talk to each other at a party or in school or university, and these are the types of topics people are interested in,” he said.
He added that, as writers like Stephen Hawking continue to pen popular books on outer space, humankind will continue to question the existence of extra-terrestrial life.
“Because space is so much in the public eye, I think people are paying a little more attention to the possibility that we are not alone.”
A Terrifying experience was recalled by an English woman who believed that she was abducted by an alien twenty years ago. Her alien encounter story will be detailed in a new book written by an expert and author of UFO Roy named Dutton. On July 16, 1981, around 1:45 a.m., Valerie Walters said she was driving home with her two friends, Vivienne, and Rosemary from a night out in Sheffield, United Kingdom. She was 26 years old at that time when a strange light hovering in the sky started to appear that terrified them.
Moments later, a massive extraterrestrial aircraft flying directly above their car. Though she cannot remember what happened next, she is certain that there was a beeping noise that made her very sleepy. As soon as she woke up, she noticed that her friends were gone. So, she came out of the car to look for them. Before she heard a strange voice, the car suddenly disappeared. The mysterious voice reminded her not to be afraid. Her head went red as she felt like she was being vacuumed after hearing the voice. She was already in front of some mysterious beings the next thing she knew. She recalled being in a white wedge-shaped room with two creatures, both with hypnotic blue eyes and shoulder length dark hair. Walters admitted that she and her friends reported the horrible extraterrestrial encounter to the police, but their case was not handled seriously. As with her friends, they cannot entirely recall what happened.
Alien abduction stories are not rare in humans. In fact, the Walters’ story is not the first case. According to the Inquisitr, it started in the 1950s, when people reported having been abducted by aliens in the “UFO Case Book.” In 2005, Donna Lee claimed to lose her baby after she and her husband were abducted by aliens repeatedly. Another man, in the same year, also claimed that aliens abducted him after spotting a strange object in his backyard.
I was home, in backyard looking with my wife thru telescope meade etx-70. I was looking for M51 whirlpool galaxy when noticed triangle shaped siluette hovering. then suddenly fast changed direction to right (east) then stopped. I called my wife to see. We was able to track that one object for about 15 minutes, then another triangle shaped UFO came right next to first one and both of them had lights, all around object. Then we saw clearly that both of them were triangle shaped UFO’s. Then for about 50 minutes we able to track them on sky, for moments we lost them from site because they were so fast, and they have unpredictable directions, they was flying straight then sharp turns, then sudden stop, but we able to find them again. We didn’t see them with naked eyes, just with telescope so I don’t know that they were in our atmosphere or in space.
First time to me, it looked like a airplane B2 or F117 but planes can’t hover and change directions like that. Hovering, fast moves, unpredictable directions, fast start and sudden stop, and hovering again. I was excited, so as my wife. that is her first time to see something, for me that was the last, but saw few times strange lights and objects earlier.
About 1 hour 5-10 minutes later, they just turned off the lights and disappeared from our sight.
From that day I’m always using astro cam and laptop in case I see something strange again.
WETENSCHAPEen vuurbal heeft de nachtelijke hemel boven de Amerikaanse staat Arizona gisteren enkele seconden lang doen opklaren. De oorzaak was een ontploffend brokstuk van een planetoïde. Video's van NASA tonen de indrukwekkende lichtflits, die de All-Sky-camera's van de ruimtevaartorganisatie een tijdlang volledig verblindde.
De lichtflits was tien keer zo helder als een volle maan en ging naar verluidt gepaard met enkele supersonische knallen. De ontploffing was voelbaar op de grond. Schade lijkt er niet te zijn, al achten wetenschappers de kans groot dat er meteorieten op aarde zijn terechtgekomen.
NASA schat dat het brokstuk 1 à 2 meter groot was, en dat het met 64.700 kilometer per uur onze dampkring binnenkwam.
Deze video van een meteoorcamera brengt de lichtflits spectaculair in beeld:
Deze video werd gemaakt door de Sedona Red Rock Cam van NASA:
RUIMTEVAART SpaceX-topman Elon Musk zit doorgaans niet om een gewaagde uitspraak verlegen, en ook op de developersconferentie Code 2016 liet hij weer van zich horen. Niet voor het eerst had Musk het over zijn plannen om mensen naar Mars te sturen. Voor het eerst is er nu ook een concrete timing: de eerste Marsreizigers zullen gelanceerd worden in 2024, om een jaar later op de rode planeet te arriveren. Dat meldt Forbes.
Musk was op de conferentie aanwezig om de recente ontwikkelingen toe te lichten van zijn pogingen om raketten opnieuw te doen landen. SpaceX is daar dit jaar al meermaals in geslaagd. De bedoeling van het project is delen van een raket te kunnen hergebruiken, om de kosten van ruimtevaart drastisch te doen dalen. Tegen het einde van de zomer hoopt het bedrijf een eerste raket met gerecupereerde onderdelen te lanceren.
Nog dit jaar wil Musk voor het eerst ook de grotere Falcon Heavy-raket lanceren. Die was aanvankelijk gepland voor 2012/2013, maar is nu nog steeds in ontwikkeling. Volgens Musk wordt de Falcon Heavy de krachtigste raket sinds de Saturn V die voor het eerst mensen naar de maan bracht.
Kolonisering
Al deze plannen leiden voor Musk naar het ultieme doel: naar Mars reizen. Tijdens de IAC-conferentie in september zal hij zijn langetermijnplannen voor de kolonisering van Mars bekend maken, maar op Code 2016 lichtte hij al een tipje van de sluier.
Zoals bekend wil Musk in 2018 een Dragon naar Mars sturen. Na die eerste lancering, zo voegde hij er nu aan toe, plant het bedrijf een nieuwe lading naar de rode planeet te sturen telkens als de banen van de aarde en Mars dat toelaten. Die gelegenheid is er eens om de 26 maanden.
In 2024 hoopt het bedrijf dan de eerste mensen naar Mars te sturen. Al moet zelfs Musk toegeven dat er omtrent dat plan nog wat onzekerheden bestaan.
Gesteld dat SpaceX erin slaagt vele mensen op Mars te krijgen, ziet Musk "grote ondernemingskansen" op de planeet, van "de eerste ijzerertsraffinaderij tot de eerste pizzatent". "Wat SpaceX nu probeert te doen, is een klimaat scheppen zodat ondernemers op Mars kunnen bloeien", klinkt het.
Lost Underwater ‘City’ Revealed as Natural Geological Formation
Lost Underwater ‘City’ Revealed as Natural Geological Formation
By Kacey Deamer, Staff Writer
Disc and doughnut-shaped structures appeared to be architectural remnants of a city, but scientific analysis showed the formations to actually be a naturally occurring geological phenomenon.
Credit: University of Athens
What was thought to be an underwater, lost city is actually a naturally occurring geological phenomenon.
Pipe-like, disc and doughnut-shaped structures discovered by underwater divers near the island of Zakynthos, Greece, were originally believed to be ruins of an ancient city, such as remnants of paved floors, courtyards and columns.
Archaeologists with the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities of Greece, a department within the Greek Ministry of Culture specializing in marine archaeology, examined the site; they found no further evidence that this was indeed an ancient civilization. Suspecting a geological explanation, the Greek Ministry brought in researchers from the University of East Anglia and the University of Athens to investigate the oddly shaped structures.
"The site was discovered by snorkelers and first thought to be an ancient city port, lost to the sea," lead study author Julian Andrews, a professor at UEA's School of Environmental Sciences, said in a statement.
"There were what superficially looked like circular column bases and paved floors but, mysteriously, no other signs of life — such as pottery."
Divers examine a doughnut-shaped structure off the island of Zakynthos, Greece.
Credit: University of Athens
Using microscopy, X-ray techniques and chemical analyses, the researchers studied the mineral content of the underwater formations. These analyses showed that the "ruins" are likely the fossilized remains of a natural plumbing system, located beneath the seafloor, for ancient hydrocarbon seeps. Here, methane and other hydrocarbons escape from the seafloor into the water above.
While beneath the seafloor, microbes in the sediment would have used the carbon in methane as fuel, forming a natural cement around the structures. The resulting structures are known to geologists as concretion.
Erosion then exposed the underground structures to the bustling ecosystem in the modern, shallow subtidal zone, where the structures were "bored and encrusted by modern marine organisms," Andrews and colleagues wrote in the study, which appeared today (June 2) in the journal Marine and Petroleum Geology.
"The disk and doughnut morphology … is typical of mineralization at hydrocarbon seeps — seen both in modern seafloor and paleo settings," though such formations "looked a bit like circular column bases," Andrews said. "We found that the linear distribution of these doughnut-shaped concretions is likely the result of a subsurface fault which has not fully ruptured the surface of the seabed. The fault allowed gases, particularly methane, to escape from depth."
Though the site is not in fact an ancient, underwater city, the discovery near Zakynthos is rather uncommon geologically, Andrews said. The phenomenon is rare in shallow waters, as most similar formations can be located hundreds or thousands of meters deep underwater, he said.
The globular cluster NGC 6397 (seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image), located about 7,200 light-years away, is estimated to be 13.5 billion years old; that makes the cluster among the first objects of the galaxy to form after the Big Bang.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and H. Richer (University of British Columbia)
Scientists now know the universe is expanding, at an ever-increasing rate. So if it's ballooning, what is it growing into? In other words, what is beyond the known universe?
Defining this "beyond the universe" would imply that the universe has an edge. And that's where things get tricky, because scientists aren't certain if such a drop-off exists.
The answer depends on how one views the question.
Cliff-hanger
One form of the question asks, "Could you go somewhere that you could look 'beyond' the universe," the way one might peer beyond a cliff edge or look out a window to see the outside of a building? The answer to that query is "probably not."
One reason involves the "cosmological principle," said Robert McNees, an associate professor of physics at Loyola University Chicago. The cosmological principle states that the distribution of matter in any part of the universe looks roughly the same as in any other part, regardless what direction you look in; in scientists' terms, the universe is isotropic.
The cosmological principle is, in part, a consequence of the idea that the laws of physics are the same everywhere. "There's lots of local variation — stars, galaxies, clusters, etc. — but averaged over big chunks of space, no place is really that different than anywhere else," McNees told Live Science in an email
The implication though, is that there is no "edge"; there is no place to go where the universe just ends and one could look in some direction and see what's beyond it.
One analogy often used to describe this edgeless universe is the surface of a balloon. An ant on such a surface can walk in any direction and it would look like the surface was "unbounded" — that is, the ant might come back to where it started but there would be no end to the journey. So even though the surface of a balloon is a finite number of square units, there's no edge to it, no boundary (since you can go forever in any one direction). In addition, there's no "center," so there's no preferred point on the balloon's spherical surface.
The universe is a three-dimensional version of the balloon's skin.
Ballooning universe
But how can the universe be expanding if there is no end or edge to it?
Using the balloon analogy again, if one were to add more air to the balloon, the ant would observe other things on the balloon's surface getting farther away. And the greater the distance between the ant and some object, the faster that object would be receding. But no matter where the ant skittered, the speed at which those objects were receding would follow the same relations — if the ant came up with an equation describing how fast the farthest objects were receding, it would work the same way anywhere on the balloon's surface.
However, balloons, when blown up, are expanding into a three-dimensional space. The problem is that this doesn't apply to the universe. By definition, the universe contains everything, so there is no "outside." Physicist Stephen Hawking has often said that the whole question makes no sense, because if the universe came from nothing and brought everything into existence, then asking what lies beyond the universe is like asking what is north of the North Pole. [The Big Bang to Civilization: 10 Amazing Origin Events]
Dr. Katie Mack, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of Melbourne in Australia, told Live Science that it might be more useful to think of the universe as getting less dense, rather than expanding. That is, the concentration of matter in the universe is decreasing as the universe expands, she said.
That's because galaxies aren't moving away from each other through space — it's space itself that is getting bigger. So any aliens in the galaxies that humans see would all come to the same conclusion that Earthlings do: Everything else is moving away in all directions, and the local galaxy is at rest.
Because space is expanding, it's possible for the galaxies to appear as if they are moving faster than light, without violating relativity — which says that nothing can go faster than light in a vacuum. The actual size of the observable universe is 46 billion light-years in any direction, even though the universe began only 13.8 billion years ago, Mack said. But that still sets a limit on the size of the universe humans can see, called the observable universe. Anything outside of that radius of 46 billion light-years is not visible to Earthlings, and it never will be. That's because the distances between objects in the universe keep getting bigger at a rate that's faster than the light beams can get to Earth.
And on top of that, the rate of expansion has not been uniform. For a brief fraction of a second after the Big Bang, there was a period of accelerated expansion called inflation, during which the universe grew at a much faster pace than it is growing now. Whole regions of space will never be observable from Earth for that reason. Mack noted that assuming inflation happened, the universe is actually 1023 times bigger than the 46 billion light-years humans can see. So if there is an edge to the universe, it's so far away Earthlings can't see it, and never will. [Big Bang, Deflated? Universe May Have Had No Beginning]
An infinite space?
Meanwhile, there's the issue of whether the universe is infinite in space to begin with, which Mack said is still an open question. Or, the universe might wrap around itself in a higher dimension in the same way that the 2D surface of a sphere wraps around itself in three dimensions, she said.
An additional factor is whether the universe popped into existence out of nothing at all, via small fluctuations in a vacuum, or, as Hawking and James Hartle proposed, time and space become interchangeable close to the beginning. If either one is the case, then asking what came before the universe and what is outside of it makes no sense.
Mack said there are ongoing attempts to resolve the question of whether the universe is like a sphere, curving back on itself so that if you travel in one direction you eventually return to your starting point.
"We look for repeated spots in the sky," she said. "That's what people look for when seeking evidence for the universe being finite. … Our space could be a 3D space embedded in a four-dimensional space." (The universe has four dimensions that humans interact with, three of space and one of time, but this would imply there is an additional, fourth spatial dimension.)
If astronomers found two places on opposite sides of the sky that were exactly the same, that would be a strong indication that the universe is curved in that way. There are no guarantees, though. While some cosmological theories such as string theory posit higher dimensions, most of those would be "rolled up" and small, whereas a curved universe's "extra" space dimension would have to be large.
All of this means that if there's an end to the universe, humans might well never be able to see it, and there is the real possibility that the universe is shaped so that it can't have a boundary to begin with.
More and more people around the world are demanding “UFO” disclosure, and governments are responding. In fact, dozens of governments have already admitted to having departments in charge of UFO research and have released decades’ worth of declassified files. While these files do not contain strong evidence to support the existence of extraterrestrial beings, they do officially report objects travelling at high rates of speeds performing maneuvers that no known aircraft can perform. These well-documented encounters raise a number of important questions, and politicians are now beginning to promise us answers.
You can access the United Kingdom’s files here, and to access some more files that detail military encounters with UFOs, you can read this article.
“An extraterrestrial influence is investigating our planet. Something is monitoring the planet and they are monitoring it very cautiously.” — 2008 Presidential Candidate Mike Gravel (source)(source)
The gentleman you see in the picture above with Barack Obama is Jon Podesta, who was Obama’s councillor prior to becoming the head of Hillary Clinton’s current presidential campaign. Before working for Obama, he was White House Chief of Staff for Bill Clinton’s administration. He has gone on record with the following statements about UFOs:
I’m skeptical about many things, including the notion that government always knows best, and that the people can’t be trusted with the truth. The time to pull the curtain back on this subject is long overdue. We have statements from the most credible sources – those in a position to know – about a fascinating phenomenon, the nature of which is yet to be determined.
A number of years ago he made an appearance at the National Press Club emphasizing the same thing. You can watch that clip here.
As you can see, this topic is now receiving a lot of mainstream media coverage, so much so that Hillary Clinton has promised she will try to achieve disclosure of American UFO files to the public.
On the left you will see a picture of Hillary Clinton with Laurence Rockefeller which was recently published in the New York Times. The book you see Hillary Clinton holding is titled Are We Alone? It was written by Paul Davies, a respected American physicist who has held professorships at various universities. Most of his research has been focused on quantum field theory. The book ponders the ramifications of contact with intelligent extraterrestrials, and we published an article on the implications of this photo that you can access here.
Laurence was a big proponent of getting this information out into the public domain, and although Hillary Clinton does not appear to be the favourite presidential candidate, it seems she will be the one to officially disclose American UFO files. This picture at the very least confirms that she has been interested in the topic for some time.
I do wonder if Hillary is using our interest in UFOs to gain more votes, but there is no way to know that for certain. Regardless of her intentions, we here at Collective Evolution believe that voting only offers the illusion of democracy. Theodore Roosevelt told us that ‘presidents are selected, not elected,’ and he wasn’t the only one to do so. The entire superdelegate process in itself completely undermines democracy, and it appears that Hillary’s path to the presidency was carved out long before anybody even know she would travel it. This is why it looks like ‘UFO’ disclosure is on its way.
Important Things To Remember About Government UFO Disclosure
It’s a shame that mainstream media and Western governments have spread so much misinformation. People trust them implicitly, making it easy for them to twist the truth for their own ends. So even if they do offer official remarks about UFOs, it’s unlikely that they will be honest when doing so. If the ‘war on terror’ and the ‘war on drugs’ are any indication, we should be wary of anything they tell us about UFOs. But it should be clear to anyone who has researched this subject that powerful and influential people take it very seriously. Whatever information does get released will not be the whole of it.
Why do we always wait until the government or the media verifies something in order to believe it’s true? Why do we assume that anyone without these official credentials is lying, or crazy, or both? If we simply did our own research, we could come to our own conclusions and we wouldn’t be so easily fooled when these official sources lie to us. There is so much information out there and so much evidence to support not only the existence of UFOs but of extraterrestrials as well. We don’t need the government to tell us what is already apparent. We just need to do independent research and think for ourselves.
If you’d like to learn more about this subject, you can start with the two articles I’ve linked below, as well as a book recommendation. These articles are a good starting point to get you up to speed on some of the information that’s already out there.
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Is Turkey hiding alien encounters?
The Sirius Space Sciences Research Center displays visuals of alleged UFO sightings in Manisa, Turkey, May 24, 2015.
(photo by SIRIUS SPACE SCIENCES RESEARCH CENTER/Koray Arguz)
Is Turkey hiding alien encounters?
I was on holiday in Bodrum in July 2014 when at about 5 p.m. a strange, bright object appeared in the sky. My first thought was that this was a balloon, but a balloon would not appear so large from that altitude. Moreover, the object was emitting a bright light and moving faster than a balloon. It disappeared in 10-15 seconds. It had taken me by surprise, and I was uncertain if I had just seen a UFO.
Summary⎙ Print The number of UFO sightings over Turkey has significantly increased in the past few years, with some Turkish Airlines pilots convinced that the bright lights in the Turkish airspace are in fact UFOs.
Bodrum is one of the most popular resort towns in Turkey, where foreign and local tourists flock to in the summer months. Announcing in public that I had just seen a UFO would have surely resulted in responses mocking my observation. Since I wasn’t sure of what I had seen, I didn’t make a fuss out of it and just told my wife, who replied, ”It could be something else such as a laser show.”
But two days later, the newspapers carried reports that a UFO had been seen from Bodrum. The Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center that studied the photos taken by three people in Bodrum asserted that it was indeed a UFO and posted the photos on its website. Skeptical citizens came up with explanations such as “It could be the Ramadan cannon” (marking the end of the fasting day) and “The end of the world must be near.”
Then started a flow of reports from citizens who recounted having seen UFOs, the latest of which was taken rather seriously when two Turkish Airlines pilots from the same plane reported having seen one. On May 20, pilots of a Turkish Airlines Boeing 737 flying from Bodrum to Istanbul reported seeing an unidentified object emitting green light at an altitude of about 17,000 feet crossing over them as they approached the airport around 11:30 p.m. The following is what the pilots reported to air traffic control at Istanbul Ataturk Airport: “An unidentified object emitting green light crossed in front of us at a distance of 2,000-3,000 feet and disappeared. We think it is a UFO. Both pilots saw the object.”
Airport officials, however, reported no such detection on their radars, and Turkish Airlines Flight 2525 landed at the airport at 00:37 a.m. A senior Turkish Airlines pilot commented on his colleague's report to daily Hurriyet, saying, “They were able to report a UFO because they were in Turkish airspace. They couldn’t have said this in European airspace to avoid embarrassment.”
The news spread fast globally. British newspapers Daily Mail and Daily Mirror gave it headline coverage and reported that 500 miles away an Egyptian plane had crashed into the Mediterranean Sea about an hour after the pilots had reported seeing the UFO. However, both papers mixed up the days as the Egyptian plane had crashed a day before the UFO sighting. Turkish newspapers mocked the British papers for trying to start a conspiracy and said it was the British newspapers that had veered off course.
While the report of the Turkish Airlines pilots was not confirmed by the authorities, a Turkish tourist from the Dead Sea-Fethiye resort in the south of the country offered new evidence. On the day of the sighting, Celal Toprakci — who was photographing his daughter paragliding around 5 p.m. — noticed an object emitting green light moving east to west. Toprakci could not understand what he had seen, but after returning to his hotel he heard on TV the report by the two pilots. “I looked at the four frames I had photographed and noted a green object had moved from my right to my left and then disappeared over the horizon,” Toprakci said.
Hakan Akdogan, the chairman of the Sirius UFO Space Sciences Research Center, insisted the pilots had actually seen a UFO. He told Al-Monitor, “Two pilots saw the object simultaneously. These are people who can distinguish what they see in the sky and they say it passed close to them. In UFO literature, a 600-meter proximity is not easily encountered. This report does mesh with conventional technology. Anyhow, there shouldn’t be any other object in the landing path of a plane. The fact that the object was not detected by radar means it was an extraterrestrial object. Moreover, the photographs taken by a tourist at Fethiye confirms the sighting of the pilots.”
Last year, Ibrahim Bilir — a Turkish Airlines pilot with 40 years of flight experience — said that in 2010 returning from Osaka his team had seen a UFO at an altitude of 11,000 meters. “We were flying with three pilots. Four other planes were flying in the same direction. In front of me was a Turkish Airlines flight from Shanghai and behind me was a Lufthansa flight. We saw a bright light approaching that came very close. It was silver-colored, very bright and was extremely powerful; it burned our eyes. All three pilots on our plane saw it; it came toward us and flew over us, all in 30-45 seconds. If I had been the only witness, you could say it was a hallucination. But the crews of all four planes saw it.”
In Turkey, UFO events are monitored by the Sirius center. According to their records, last year between April 1 and Oct. 28 there were 3,640 reports of UFO sightings; 526 of them were recorded on camera, and 468 of them could have been satellites, Chinese lanterns, birds, balloons, photoshopped photos, light reflections or simple mistakes. A total of 79 were confirmed as UFOs.
In 2012, UFO reports went up by 35% compared to the year before, and that trend continued with a 45% increase in 2013 and a 60% increase in 2014. Akdogan said, “We predict that UFO sightings will seriously increase in Turkey and internationally in the coming years, and 2016-2020 will be a turning point in UFO sightings. We believe that governments will then have to reveal the realities they have been concealing.”
The world has been witnessing these kinds of sightings for many years; reports keep piling up but governments are yet to acknowledge the phenomenon. Akdogan added, “The states know about it. They have evidence, but their citizens have to be prepared for this reality on a psychological level with appropriate information. This is what films accomplish right now.”
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Beams Back Photos of Possible Astronaut Found on Mars
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Beams Back Photos of Possible Astronaut Found on Mars
Recent photos beamed back by NASA’s Curiosity rover of a shadowy figure that’s strongly resembling an astronaut may prove that intelligent lifeforms are already operating on the surface of Mars.
There are still countless mysteries on our planet waiting to be unraveled. When it comes to other alien worlds such as Mars, the matter heightens to a staggering proportion, considering that all information originating from this not-so-far-away place is only revealed by a few space agencies.
Are we able to draw clear conclusions based on only what they serve us? And even more, can we truly affirm that no human beings have set foot on the Red Planet so far?
To better understand the above questions, I’ll present you with a pile of peculiar photos captured during Curiosity’s mission, where an alleged shadow of an astronaut can be observed just near the rover.
Although the shadowy figure can be interpreted in many ways, there’s no denial that it strongly resembles an astronaut that’s taking care of technical issues encountered by the earthly rover.
Its defined shape is noticed not in one, but in four photos taken over a period of 45 minutes. It constantly changes position, and the last two pictures expose it while bent over the back panel. So can this hypothesis of an astronauts taking care of our rover have any solid background?
According to Scott C. Waring from ufosightingsdaily, this is not the only case when an unusual shadow slips into an official picture. A few years ago, a man stumbled across another similar shadow of a presumed astronaut equipped with an oxygen tank that appears to be fixing the rover.
Can these two appearances be considered a case of pareidolia – a psychological phenomenon that links something inexistent to a familiar pattern? Or rather a true fact that our minds refuse to acknowledge because of the social standards we’re all accustomed to?
The UFO community finds this catch to be clear evidence that something is wrong with this entire Martian mission, if it’s really Mars we’re talking about. Scott Waring who posted this amazing discovery on his blog has an interesting point of view on this:
“I was checking out the newest Curiosity rover photos on the NASA site and found four of them with the shadow of an astronaut in spacesuit that appears to be fixing the rover. This just goes to show the public that the rover is being maintained by humans on Mars, and that there are other spacecraft kept secret from the public that carry a person to Mars in just a few minutes.”
He added another remark that’s a bit unrealistic, but worth the mention:
“I got a Taiwanese friend who works at NASA right now. He said a few years ago that he saw a blue/green wheel spacecraft that hovers like a turning wheel and can carry an astronaut at about 1/20 the speed of light. That’s fast, and would get you to the moon in about 30 seconds.”
Such a scenario is not that hard to imagine considering the technological advancement in recent years (not to mention the hidden toys of the military), but I think that it’s highly unlikely because, even if we could achieve such speeds, the human body will be unable to withstand the atmospheric pressure.
Whatever the case, the shadowy figure found in close vicinity to Curiosity is sure to raise a lot of question marks.
Are there already astronauts on the Red Planet operating in secrecy for NASA and other space agencies? Or maybe we have already designed a form of artificially intelligent robot that’s helping maintain the rovers. Mars is clearly the perfect testing ground for such a machinery.
Other UFO enthusiasts have once again proposed the idea of Curiosity rover being somewhere on Devon Island, Canada, instead of Mars. This is a reasonable point of view that would explain the presence of human beings (or just beings) in spacesuits.
However, these remain only speculations based on our disbelief in governmental institutions, but there’s a good chance for this to be more than just a conspiracy theory.
It is possible that humanity may be at the threshold of the most important moment in its history; contact with an extraterrestrial civilization may be imminent.
Until now, this has been the topic of science fiction books and films. But scientifically speaking, the Universe is too big to maintain only one civilization, the human one.
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) was started in the past century, with many projects that were funded by the U.S. government and by private sources. For the moment, nothing has been found to confirm its existence, or if anything has been found, it has not been announced to the public. However, planets have been discovered in our galaxy that indicate similarities with Earth and possibilities of life on those planets.
A few months ago, according to unverified information, there was a meeting of a committee of the U.N., comprised of the permanent members of the Security Council that deals with such issues. It had been the first time in many years that the committee had met and of course very few humans know what was discussed.
Then something very interesting happened. One month after the visit of the Pope to the U.S., the Vatican daily,“L’Osservatore Romano,” hosted an interview on May 13 with the director of the Vatican’s Observatory, titled “The alien is my brother,” in which he says some very important things.
Let us read the contents of his interview.
When he was asked about the possibility of extraterrestrial life, he responded by saying,
“It is possible, even if until now we have no proof. But certainly in such a big universe, this hypothesis cannot be excluded.”
Asked if he sees a contradiction between the Catholic faith and believing in aliens he replied,
“I think there isn’t a contradiction. Just as there is a multiplicity of creatures on the earth, so there could be other beings, even intelligent beings, created by God. This is not in contradiction with our faith, because we cannot establish limits to God’s creative freedom. To say it with St. Francis’ words, if we can consider some earthly creatures as brothers or sisters, why could we not speak of a brother alien? He would also belong to creation.”
It is important to note that the Vatican, for the first time in its history, issued a statement of that kind. And the Vatican never makes statements unless there is a reason.
Objectively there is no reason for the Vatican to make such a statement at this time.
Subjectively there may be a reason that humanity does not yet know about.
Let us be more concrete.
When there were contacts between civilizations on Earth in the past, what usually happened was that the stronger one influenced or absorbed the weaker one or that the weaker one died out. This is one of the reasons that the Neanderthal race of humans disappeared and Homo sapiens prevailed. If there was to be contact between humanity and an extraterrestrial civilization, the first casualty could be the religions of Earth, if it were proven that the existence of extraterrestrial life would contradict human religions.
In order to prevent the collapse of human religions, which could lead to chaos and to the loss of the planet’s religious institutions’ power, the Vatican made an effective pre-emptive strike by announcing that no such contradiction exists.
Consequently it is possible that contact between humanity and an extraterrestrial civilization may be imminent and that technical details of such an encounter may be in the process of being worked out. This would explain the Vatican statement.
If that were the case, then all the other problems of the planet would become temporarily irrelevant, in view of the importance of such a contact.
But let us wait and see.
Ponder our thoughts, dear humans, for your benefit.
The three small islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino float in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, south of Sicily and east of the Tunesian coastline.
Though small, their history dates back thousands of years – and continues to throw a magical spell on many visitors. And we need to ask whether the modern tourists are the last in a series of sun worshippers that came to these islands.
Various megalithic monuments are located on Malta, dated at approx. 4000 BC.
What is important is that the buildings are unique in style and that their builders – as is so often the case – are unknown.
Malta is by far the biggest of the three islands: it measures 40 km in length and is 20 km wide. The eastern part of the island has the megalithic monuments of Tarxien, Hagar Qim and Mnajdra. The most northern is Tarxien, a vast temple complex that has become surrounded by a modern town. Next to the old temple rises a modern church, as if underlining that what was once sacred, still is.
The megalithic “church” consists out of a series of oval-shaped “chapels” – typical for the Maltese temple structure.
The temple of Tarxien is unique as it holds its own spring. Archaeological finds in the form of vessels suggest that water must have played an important role on this site – and it is more likely that the role of the spring and its water was spiritual, rather than economic.
Better known is the subterranean chamber complex nearby: the famous Hypogeum, dating from the 4th and 3rd millennium BC. It is here that the remains of no less than 7000 people were discovered. Archaeologists believe that both Mnajdra and the Hypogeum should be considered as one whole, but as the purpose they served, that remains an open question. Was the Hypogeum a temple of the dead, a cemetery? Certain finds inside do suggest that rituals were held inside the complex.
The sites are located in the middle of a modern town, which makes it difficult to imagine the temples in a more original setting. But that setting can be perceived in the southern parts of Malta.
On a slope near the coastline are the temples of Hagar Qim and Mnajdra.
Both temples are close to each, a few hundred meters apart. Again, it suggests that both temples were part of one complex. When the complex is approached from the direction of Tarxien, the visitor finds himself in a valley that leads to the sea. It is there that the famous “Blue Grotto” can be found, an impressive display of nature that for modern tourists is still considered to be a “must see”.
It is perhaps this natural wonder that might explain the presence nearby of the temple complex, as it is located at a mere few hundred meters.
Hagar Qim is the most impressive of all Maltese monuments. The finesse that was used to join the stones can be compared with the precision employed in the Valley Temple, next to the Sphinx, at Gizeh (Egypt), where the builders equally carved out massive stones and placed them together as if it was the easiest job in the world.
But it is only the massive size of the stones that allows for such a comparison. Other than that, both sites have their own unique design and decoration. Still, as we know, that the Hagar Qim monument predates the Valley Temple with many centuries… could this Maltese knowledge of working with giant stones have made it into Egypt?
The small island of Gozo also has a megalithic temple: Ggantija. The name is derived from local folklore, which says that only giants (gigantes) would have been able to construct such a complex. Its folklore is just a modern remain of the legendary importance the Greeks had instilled on the island.
In Greek mythology, Gozo was the island where the nymph Calypso held Odysseus imprisoned for no less than 7 years. Her cave is situated near the temple, with the cave offering one of the most stunning view of the most famous sandy beach of the island.
If Odysseus was indeed imprisoned here, the view from his prison window was excellent.
The temple of Ggantija contains – according to UNESCO – the largest free standing stone in the world.
In itself, this is not that impressive, as there are larger stones elsewhere – they are just not free standing. Nevertheless, Ggantija is yet another impressive temple. What is very intriguing is that north of the temple itself, a stone circle can be found – showing that “classic megalithic monuments” were also constructed on the island.
It is here that archaeologist, in 1987, uncovered human skeletons. The Xaghra stone circle furthermore has a subterranean complex of natural caves, which seem to have been used as a cemetery – thus apparently identifying this location as a Gozo counterpart of the Hypogeum on Malta’s mainland.
The presence of a temple connected with a subterranean cemetery seems to hint at rituals to do with the dead. Perhaps the temples – as was popular elsewhere – might also have been used by priests, employed to contact the ancestors.
As there are no written traditions, at present, it is important to be more prudent and thus conclude that perhaps the temples and underground complexes were merely used for funerary rituals.
The megalithic monuments no longer have a roof, but drawings that date from previous centuries and small models that were left by the megalithic builders themselves reveal that the temples once were roofed. If the roof was made from stone, then it is a major enigma where they disappeared to.
Perhaps it is more like that other material was therefore used.
Still, some archaeologists have concluded that stone would have been the preferred material for the roof – as such a roof would have been virtually impossible to build, they have concluded the temples never had a roof. Still, if we assume that the temples did have a roof – made of stone – than these structures would have closely resembled caves: artificial caves, made to resemble the natural caves?
Many temples are decorated with spirals, and the temples have oval shaped chapels. Certain temples have three ovals, though most have seven. Most temples also contained statues, though most have been partially destroyed – either by the passing of time, or by a deliberate act of destruction at some point in the past. Some of the statues seem to be of a giant woman, with giant breasts, thighs and arms.
Were they statues of the Mother Goddess?
Many archaeologists believe this is indeed the case, though certainty should not be confused with belief in such cases.
Though many archaeological discoveries have occurred in the last century, certain questions remain open: who were the people that build these temples? Where did they come from?
Apart from the temple, there are also the enigmatic “cart ruts”, which can be found in certain sections of the island. What purpose they served is unknown, but some speculate that they may have been markings in the rocky surface which would allow cows or bulls to follow the grooves, “guided” as it were by a mechanism that connected them to the ruts.
This theory has become a hot topic of debate, even though near one car rut, a wheel, made from lava stone, was discovered. Perhaps they had an astronomical purpose, but if so, it is highly improbable that this can ever be proven. At present, the most likely possibility is that they will remain a mystery… though a major discovery seems to be made approximately every decade, so one will never know…
Malta is an island; the closest land – Sicily – is invisible from its shores. Was Malta on par with Crete, as a site of a very ancient culture? There are certain parallels between the two islands. First of all, though both islands have their unique style, the general layout is largely identical: the presence of temples is in the eastern second of the island, close to the sea, and mostly in the northern and southern part (of that eastern section). They are – furthermore – temples: buildings.
At the same time, they are separated by 2000 years. But as on Crete, it is clear that there is an interrelationship with caves and temple complexes – though the caves of Malta could never be found at the altitudes that some of the Cretan mountains rise to. Finally, some of the artifacts recovered from the sites are identical to artifacts recovered at e.g. Knossos, specifically the vessel.
Though such comparisons can be made, it does not explain why Malta was chosen, and not Sicily. Certain demographic conditions might have already existed so many millennia ago that did not allow these people to build there – but perhaps there is a reason why Malta was specifically chosen.
Malta has a unique climate: an incredible amount of sunshine, a statistic it shares with e.g. Carnac in France, where other major monuments are found. Furthermore, the Carnac structures were constructed at roughly the same time as the monuments of Malta. Were the people of Malta solar worshippers?
The possibility that the religion of the Maltese temple builders was sun worship seems likely, particularly when certain information, identified by Joseph Ellul, is taken into account. Ellul’s father was the caretaker of the Hagar Qim complex – a privileged position to learn much about the complex and be confronted with a wide variety of visitors, each giving their insights.
As a result, Ellul was able to identify that certain chapels of the complex were carefully orientated towards the sunrise and sunset of the equinoxes and solstices (e.g. December 21 and June 21). The moon was also an important phenomenon, specifically its 19 year Metonic period. Certain doors “frame” the full moon at the start of this cycle, which also shows that the planning of these complexes must have taken many decades.
Perhaps it is indeed the fact that Malta is an island which has set it apart by the temple builders. Many ancient religions speak of an island, where the sun god had created the world.
In Egypt, this was the god Atum, who masturbated the world in existence. In the French town of Carnac, we find an artificial hill, on top of which can be found specifically phallic-like standing stones. We note that the Mother Goddess statues of Malta might perhaps be more displays of fertility – and hence creation: pregnancy, when breasts become larger than they normally are.
The Maltese builders did not leave us any written documents. The quest for the final answer continues. But it is clear that Malta is no longer the enigma that it once was. It has certain unique characteristics, but also some features that can be found elsewhere.
If the voices of the old giants could speak…
An island near the coastline of the Hagar Qim: does it feature in the legends of an island of creation?
Declassified Documents Reveal Project Horizon: The Lunar Outpost of the US Army
Declassified Documents Reveal Project Horizon: The Lunar Outpost of the US Army
Declassified documents reveal Project Horizon 1959: Plans of the United States Army to build a manned lunar outpost.
“The establishment of a manned base of operations on the moon has tremendous military and scientific potential. Because invaluable scientific, military, and political prestige will come to the nation that first establishes a lunar base, it is imperative that the United States be first.“ (Source)
It isn’t a secret that Earth’s moon has been considered as a critical strategic celestial body. Looking back at history, we will find that numerous countries had planned ‘scientific’ outposts on its surface. However, there are certain documents that have only recently revealed militarization projects of the moon. There is a requirement for a manned military outpost on the moon. The lunar outpost is required to develop and protect potential United States interests on the moon; to develop techniques in moon-based surveillance of the earth and space, in communications relay, and in operations on the surface of the moon; to serve as a base for exploration of the moon, for further exploration into space and for military operations on the moon if required; and to support scientific investigations on the moon. (Source)
On June 9, 1959, the United States Government decided that the construction of a lunar outpost is of great importance to the country. Project Horizon: The establishment of a Lunar Outpost was created in response to growing interest of other nations, like the Soviet Union in the militarization and exploration of the moon. However, its primary goal was to protect potential United States interests on the lunar surface.
During 1959, the Space Race was adopting a whole new level. Two years after the initial proposal of Project Horizon, the first Apollo mission would launch, on October 27, 1961, creating a new chapter in the history of mankind. However, countries around the globe –primarly the US and the Soviet Union—werent only planning traveling to the moon and placing astronauts into orbit around the planet, their plans were way ahead of time, and they had numerous projects already lined up that would have kickstarted the militarization of our solar system.
The rapid advances in propulsion, electronics and space medicine and other astronautical sciences in the 1950’s would have allowed the successful construction of a military outpost on the moon.
“To be second to the Soviet Union in establishing an outpost on the moon would be disastrous to our nation’s prestige and in turn to our democratic philosophy. Although it is contrary to United States policy, the Soviet Union in establishing the first permanent base may claim the moon or critical areas thereof for its own.“ (Source)
The outpost was planned to be of sufficient size in order to contain sufficient equipment that would later be used in the militarization and exploration of the moon. The military outpost was designed in order to allow the survival and moderate, constructive activity of ONE person, and 10-20 on a sustained basis.
During planning, researchers considered that the outpost needed to be designed for expansion facilities, supply and operation of personnel in order to maintain the maximum extension of sustained occupancy. The futuristic project of 1959 was planned to be self-sufficient for as long as possible without any additional support from Earth.
However, not only was Project Horizon the first step of lunar militarization, the base was designed so it could sever as a permanent manned installation on the moon, which eventually would allow the investigation of scientific, commercial and military potential on the lunar surface.
The lunar outpost was intended to serve as an observation post which would facilitate –in the near future—travel between Earth, the moon and eventual exploration of our solar system and outer space.
The establishment of a manned US outpost on the moon will:
Demonstrate the United States scientific leadership in outer space
Support scientific explorations and investigations.
Extend and improve space reconnaissance and surveillance capabilities and control of space.
Extend and improve communications and serve as a communications relay station.
Provide a basic and supporting research laboratory for space research and development activity.
Develop a stable, low-gravity outpost for use as a launch site for deep space exploration.
Provide an opportunity for scientific exploration and development of a space mapping and survey system.
Provide an emergency staging area, rescue capability or navigational aid for other space activity.
Project Horizon included a ‘sophisticated’ defense system that would be incorporated into the lunar outpost. The base would be defended against Soviet overland attack by man-fired weapons
Unguided Davy Crockett rockets with low-yield nuclear warheads
Conventional Claymore mines modified to puncture pressure suits
Take in count that all of this was possible in 1959. Over half a century later, with the numerous technological advancements, just imagine what we are capable of.
To my knowledge, this maybe the first time that somebody is telling the rest of the world about subterranean UFO Bases he has found. I suppose there is a first time for everything.
On the map further up this report is a reference to the “Mount Dragon UFO Base” entrance. This is definitely a current UFO Base used by Aliens. The entrance to this subterranean Base is a waterfall-lake about 2,500 feet high on the western side of a 5-kilometre long valley, and is approximately 8-kilometres from the coast.
I spent several months living in a village called “Chapuru”, of Cape Esperance, which is north on the coast from the “Subterranean Terrestrial UFO Base” (ST’s new word), and in this area, the Alien activity from this Base is seen of regularly, meaning like nearly every night. During the time I lived at this village, I began to lose count of these UFO sightings at around 60 times, but I do remember estimating that it would be 100 by now.
The reason why I eventually called this unnamed mountain UFO Base entrance “Mt. Dragon” is because the Guadalcanal people who live in this area call these flying ‘balls-of-light’ UFOs, “Dragon Snakes”.
To the people of Northwest Guadalcanal, as they have been observing these “Dragon Snakes” for well over a century, and most probably much longer, although they fear them because people have been killed, injured, or have gone missing due of them, they generally give them no more of a second thought unless in close proximity, as they can be found flying around in the area nearly every night.
As an example of this accepted part of life, about a kilometer East from “Chapuru”, the village I once lived, the current Prime Minister of the Solomon Islands, Prime Minister “Sir Alan Kemakeza’s” main residence is found, and he has seen these UFOs many more times than I have. “Ezekiel Alebua”, a once Prime Minister, the previous Guadalcanal Premier, and Guadalcanal Minister again, also knows of the Waterfall Lake UFO Base entrance.
You can ask anyone from Northwest Guadalcanal about their UFOs, and I mean anyone about them and they will tell you heaps, as they are seen of virtually every night and have been for well over a century.
That is if the American led Australian Solomon Islands Government allows Tourism to continue in the Solomon Islands and doesn’t place restricted no go zones everywhere.
As these sightings did not always become second nature to me, after some extensive investigation to find out where these UFOs go when they were not flying around, over a six-day period there and back, myself and another Guadalcanal friend made an arduous trip to this UFO Base, and from a hidden position in the nearby mountains above it, was when we first discovered that there was more than one “UFO/Dragon Snake” using this place as one of their residence in the Solomon Islands.
This Alien Base is still there today. Apart from all the people of the area, the best person to confirm this Base and its position is “Ezekiel Alebua”. Also, may I say, the current Solomon Island’s Prime Minister, “Sir Allan Kemakeza”, who I know, being from Guadalcanal, knows all about the Giant race existing on his Island, but was unaware of the real reasons why the Australian Prime Minister after many years all of a sudden had a change of heart and started offering assistance with a military interdiction immediately after he got back from visiting the American President.
You cannot tell me that the Americans, British and Australians do not know of these UFO Bases, because I have overwhelming proof that they do. The current ‘Solomon Islands Interdiction’ by the American led Australian Multinational Forces has been named, “Operation Helpem Friend”. No More! Hemi “Operation Containem, and Bringem Come Oil and Gas”.
Incidentally, it was during my adventurous stay at this village that I first began to learn about the Giants of Guadalcanal also.
On the map above is shown the entrances of the UFO Base located in the Central East Coast of Malaita that I know of, and the location of the ‘Ramo mountain remanence’ mentioned.
The question mark represents:
“I know there is some kind of base in that location somewhere too”.
Although one pin is missing near the left-hand arrow, I believe that cluster of pins are all entrances that make up one big UFO Base under the Island.
Contrary to popular belief, NASA, or whoever that mob was, first made contact with the Aliens at the subterranean UFO Base of Central East Malaita in 1961. No doubt this is one of the ways of how they began to gain what partial secret technology that they have today. Back then; during the height of the ‘Cold War’ in attempts to gain technological advantages, they blackmailed these particular Aliens.
This all happened because when the great British Geologist “Mr. Gropher” was doing his few expeditions in the area in-between 1958-1960, he first saw these UFOs and then reported them back to England. In 1961, a Whiteman who claimed himself to be from NASA came to that part of the Island and asked assistance from my wife’s relatives to take him to the UFO subterranean Base entrances, which they did.
Requesting privacy, they left him at the desert coast above the UFO Base. This self-claimed NASA guy (or whoever he was) was gone a week, during which somehow he made contact with these Aliens, until he arrived again, when he asked my wife’s relatives once again for further assistance to take him back from where he came. Most of the people of Kwaio and Kwara’ae know of this NASA guy happening.
In the map above, you will notice the right-hand red pushpin on the east coast with an arrow pointing at it. This is a 50-meter in diameter ‘bottomless circular reef’ in amongst the surrounding 10-meter deep coral reef and is few miles North of ‘Kwoi Island,’ (which is on the border of the Kwaio and Kwara’ae tribes) and South of Namo’ere’ere of Central East Malaita. “Singalanggu Harbour” is slightly further south.
“Balls-of-light” UFOs can be seen going in-and-out of that bottomless circular reef virtually every night. My friends like fishing down this UFO hole during the daytime, because it saves them going out to the danger of the ocean, as lots of big fish like found in the ocean can be found down there.
They have let down over hundred 200 meters of 100 lb line and it still hasn’t hit the bottom. I always think of this hole being made by a huge spaceship that hovered above it and shot a huge laser into the crust of the earth.
Maybe the Australian minesweeper currently in the Solomon’s could go over this UFO hole to determine for us all how deep it is, that is, if they don’t know already. I mean to say, the minesweeper really does belong to us “Australian” taxpayers, and because we are paying 300 million dollars a year to contain these momentous world scattering discoveries instead of putting it into the much in-need hospitals, dental, and education services, just to name a few, maybe they could do this and let us all what they found out.
The left-hand pushpin with the arrow, directly inland from that circular-reef hole UFO Base entrance, about 3-4 miles on the mainland of the Island is a lake of which when the boys are out fishing at night, the UFOs can be seen going in that lake and coming out the circular-reef, or vice-versa. Both entrances are definitely connected. I personally have only seen their activities at the lake in this area.
A UFO coming out of this lake at dusk, incinerated my good friend’s Grandfather, and everyone in the area knows about it. These Aliens, for the want of another name, have installed fear in these people for generations, and many people have gone missing, and I think I know where they are. In the Kwaio and Kwara’ae area are three other entrances in their jungle mountains that I know of, where these ‘balls of light’ type UFO vehicles can be seen going in-and-out.
It is my belief that all these entrances are not individual Bases, but are all connected making up one big one under the Island. I may be wrong, but I also believe one of the many reasons why they there, is that, for reasons of their own, they have been mining a very rare type of gemstone under this highly mineralized Kimberlite base carrying rock volcanic Island of multitude type gemstones.
The rare gemstones of the Alien’s interest that my wife’s relatives possess have a far higher specific gravity than that of diamonds, and a refractive index that when you put the stone in sunlight, you see your mirror image deep in the centre of the stone. Also, holding them to the sun, they are a very deep transparent silvery-blue. For their size, they are noticeably extremely heavy.
I once had one of these “E.T. Stones” that was 32.4 caret, which had these characteristics. Ironically enough, the more customary people of this Island call these particular UFOs “Diamond Snakes”, and there are some old folklore stories supporting the Alien’s interest in these unique gemstones.
As there are many remanence of the “Ramo civilization” to be found on top of the Island, and “the Aliens” underneath for what appears has been a very long time, there is every chance there is a connection between the two. And that goes for Guadalcanal also.I can only speculate about remote Choiseul, but that wouldn’t surprise me in the least, as I know that they also have quite a lot of Giants, and a lot of UFO traffic over that way too.
Nevertheless, if there ever were a place that one could call “UFO Headquarters”, it would have to be Central East Malaita. Mind you, these are only the ones I know of.
Goodness knows what other UFO Bases are really in the rest of the Solomon Islands.
Zijn we alleen? Beelden vanuit het ISS tonen vuurbal-achtige UFO die door de ruimte schiet
Zijn we alleen? Beelden vanuit het ISS tonen vuurbal-achtige UFO die door de ruimte schiet
Opmerkelijke beelden uit het internationale ruimtestation ISS donderdag. In een video die door de UFO-onderzoekers van SecureTeam 10 op YouTube is geplaatst, is een mysterieuze vuurbal te zien.
Er is nu een debat ontstaan over de vraag of de vuurbal in werkelijkheid een buitenaards ruimteschip is. Onder het filmpje, dat binnen enkele uren na publicatie tienduizenden keren werd bekeken, stromen de reacties binnen. Sommigen denken dat het een komeet of een meteoor is, terwijl anderen er zeker van zijn dat het een UFO is.
Rode lichten
“Deze indrukwekkende beelden zijn enkele minuten geleden naar me opgestuurd,” vertelde Tyler Glockner van SecureTeam 10 aan de Britse Daily Mirror. “We hebben veel filmpjes van het ISS waarin deze UFO’s te zien zijn.”
Volgens Glockner kan het object geen vuurbal zijn omdat er geen zuurstof is in de ruimte en materiaal om die reden niet kan verbranden. “Het [object] doemt uit het niets op, vliegt achter het ISS langs en vlak voor het verdwijnt kunnen we rode lichten zien die op het ISS schijnen,” zei hij.
Beeld op zwart
Veel mensen zeggen echter dat de vuurbal een meteoor is die de dampkring van de aarde binnenkomt. “Het is een meteoor,” zei iemand. “Als je de rand van de aarde volgt kom je uit bij de plek waar de ‘UFO’ verscheen. Het is duidelijk een meteoor die de atmosfeer binnengaat.”
“Lijkt op de meteoriet die boven Arizona explodeerde,” schreef iemand anders.
Complottheoretici hebben zo hun eigen ideeën. “Afgelopen jaar keek ik twee keer naar de livefeed van het ISS en beide keren zag ik binnen een kwartier een schip verschijnen waarna het beeld op zwart ging.”
Een recente aflevering van het Spaanstalige Amerikaanse tv-programma Al Rojo Vivo stond in het teken van UFO-waarnemingen in het zuidoosten van Bolivia. Verschillende inwoners van het dorp Chochís zeggen schepen in de lucht te hebben gezien.
Eén van hen, Franklin Rivero, zag naar eigen zeggen een UFO-vloot boven het gebied. Hij legde ook vreemde lichten vast op camera. Er komen zelfs toeristen naar de regio om UFO’s te spotten.
‘Buitenaards wezen’
Afgelopen maand was Bolivia in de ban van een ‘buitenaards wezen’ dat uit een UFO zou zijn gestapt en zou hebben rondgewandeld in een buitenwijk van de Boliviaanse stad Santa Cruz. Toen het de aandacht van lokale bewoners trok, zou het weer terug naar zijn ‘schip’ zijn gegaan, meldden Boliviaanse media. Getuigen lieten aan de hand van een tekening zien hoe het wezen er volgens hun uitzag.
Eind vorig jaar beroerden beelden van een vliegend voorwerp boven een gebergte in Bolivia het internet. UFO-jagers waren er rotsvast van overtuigd dat het om bezoek van buitenaardse wezens ging.
Cirkelvormig object
Het onbekende object werd op 6 december waargenomen boven een bergketen bij El Alto. Er was een cirkelvormig object te zien dat traag boven de horizon bewoog. Vervolgens schoot het met hoge snelheid weg en verdween het in de wolken.
Ontdekking dat heelal veel sneller uitdijt dan gedacht druist in tegen theorie van Einstein
Ontdekking dat heelal veel sneller uitdijt dan gedacht druist in tegen theorie van Einstein
Een team astronomen onder leiding van Nobelprijswinnaar Adam Riess heeft met gegevens van ruimtetelescoop Hubble ontdekt dat de uitdijing van het heelal veel sneller verloopt dan gedacht. Dat heeft de NASA bekendgemaakt. De ontdekking roept vragen op over de juistheid van de relativiteitstheorie van Albert Einstein.
Met behulp van de Hubble hebben de wetenschappers afstanden tussen sterren in 19 nabije en verre sterrenstelsels nauwkeuriger dan ooit gemeten. Ze kwamen tot de conclusie dat het universum bijna 10 procent sneller uitdijt dan het aanvankelijk berekende tempo.
Onbekende deeltjes
Dit kan tot belangrijke nieuwe inzichten leiden over wat het nu precies is dat het universum voor 95 procent vult en geen licht of straling uitzendt. Een mogelijkheid voor de afwijking is dat het heelal onbekende subatomaire deeltjes bevat, die lijken op neutrino’s en die de lichtsnelheid van 300.000 kilometer per seconde naderen.
Een ander idee is dat donkere energie, een in 1998 ontdekte maar nog altijd mysterieuze vorm van energie, sterrenstelsels met grote kracht uit elkaar trekt. De hoge acceleratie kan ook betekenen dat de donkere materie een aantal onbekende, vreemde kenmerken heeft.
Mogelijk deels onjuist
“Je begint bij de twee uiteinden en verwacht elkaar ergens in het midden tegen te komen als al je metingen kloppen,” zei Riess, die verbonden is aan het Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. “Maar nu liggen beide bevindingen heel ver uit elkaar en we weten niet precies waarom.”
De ontdekking betekent ook dat de algemene relativiteitstheorie van Albert Einstein – die gebruikt wordt om te berekenen hoe de fundamentele bouwstenen van de materie op elkaar inwerken – mogelijk deels onjuist is.
Kids tested material from Roswell UFO debris, claims witness
Kids tested material from Roswell UFO debris, claims witness
In an interview on YouTube posted by a UFO researcher, a woman claims to have obtained material from the famous alleged crash of an extraterrestrial spacecraft near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. She says she was a child at the time, and she and her friend tested the material before having to return it.
The video was posted on YouTube by UFO researcher Mary Joyce, who runs a website called Sky Ships over Cashiers. Via email, Joyce wrote me that she usually transcribes alleged witness testimony and posts it as a story. However, she felt the witness, who chose to remain anonymous, was so compelling in her retelling that she had to let readers experience her words for themselves.
“The woman we call ‘Jill’ painted such great word pictures, and there was such feeling in the way she told her story that written words couldn’t capture it,” explained Joyce. “So we set up our own YouTube channel just so we could posted it as a video.”
Indeed, this video is the only video on their YouTube channel, and Joyce is right. The way Jill articulates her story makes for a compelling and interesting listen. So much so, we wanted to share the story with our readersas well.
Field where the Roswell debris is said to have been found.
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Joyce says she had known Jill for years before Jill shared this story with her, and several years have passed since then, before Jill would allow Joyce to share it. Jill and Joyce seem to assume the metal comes from the Roswell incident, and the descriptions given by Jill in the interview are similar to those described by witnesses who allege to have handle debris from the object that crashed in Roswell in 1947.
In the interview (heard above), Jill says, in 1957 she was about 10 years old, and her father was a pilot with the U.S. Air Force. Jill says her father was off on duty all over the world, but was stationed at Wright-Patterson Air Force base.
Her father was friends with the father of a boy named John, whom Jill describes as “kind of like my boyfriend.” John’s father was a Colonel, and worked out of a building on the outskirts of the base. John had told Jill that if you look into the building his father works in, you would not see anything because his office is underground. John said his father had to take an elevator down to his office.
Jill described the Colonel as a stoic individual. He was very serious, and not kid-friendly, like her father. However, she did respect the man very much.
One day, John told Jill he had a surprise for her and showed her a strange metal that Jill remembered to be about 8 inches by 11 inches, similar to a sheet of paper. She said it looked like aluminum, but it was heavier. John told her to stand back. He then wadded up the sheet of metal and threw it at Jill. Before the metal could reach her, it transformed back into a flat sheet.
This feature is similar to a property of the metal described by others who say they handled the Roswell debris. In particular, Dr. Jesse Marcel, Jr., who, as a child, handled debris his father alleges to have collected from the Roswell crash site. His father was an Air Force intelligence officer stationed at the Roswell Army Air Field in Julyof 1947.
Jesse Marcel Jr. at the Roswell debris field.
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Marcel Jr. says the metal his father let him play with also would return to its original form when crushed. Marcel is considered one of the most credible sources when it comes to the material. He also had a military background as a flight surgeon.
Jill says John also told her to grab a pair of scissors and try to cut the metal, but they were not able to cut it. Over the next week, the children experimented with testing the metal. They tried to burn it, but it would not get damaged and would remain at room temperature.
The children were careful to keep the metal secret, because John knew he was not supposed to have it.
Even so, soon after, when John saw Jill playing with Silly Puddy, he was so fascinated by the Silly Puddy he offered to trade Jill the mystery metal for the Silly Puddy. After some consideration, Jill accepted. That night, while riding her bike with the metal in her bicycle basket, Jill noticed the metal reacted strangely when light hit it.
(Credit: Sky Ships over Cashiers/YouTube)
However, she was not able to experiment with this new found property. John and his father came to her home and the Colonel asked for the material back. Jill says she could see John was shaken and knew he was in trouble.
The Colonel told Jill she never saw or had the material, and not to tell anyone about it.
“Do you know what cold happen to me if anyone found out you had this?,” he asked her.
He said he could lose his job, and if he did it would be on her.
“I was terrified, of the man, so of course I was not going to say anything,” Jill explained. ” And for many years I didn’t.”
It was a mix of fear and respect that kept Jill silent, and she believed if she had told anyone, John’s father would have lost his job. So she kept the secret for decades, until now.
“Naturally, I asked her why she decided to do the interview,” Joyce wrote me in her email. “She just said, it was time because she was 69-years-old and the people who would be hurt by telling the story were no longer living. She also had to wrestle with her conscience because she had made a solemn promise and she always keeps her promises.”
Joyce believes Jill’s story. She says, “I should add that Jill is a professional who is well known and well respected in the county where we live.”
According to Joyce, she met Jill in 1998, and although Joyce has an interest in UFOs, Jill did not tell her the story about the metal until 2008.
Joyce said, “Of course I thought what a great story this would make and asked her if I could interview her about it. Her answer was ‘Well, I’ll have to think about that.’ Periodically, I’d ask her again and always got that same answer. Then after eight years, she agreed to be interviewed, but I had to promise to always keep her identity a secret. As hard as it is to believe, she hasn’t even told her husband and son.”
But now you know. Listen to the audio in the YouTube video at the top of this story. Hearing the story in Jill’s words is important. Once you have heard Jill’s story, let us know what you think in the comments below.
A California witness at Grass Valley reported watching and photographing a sphere-shaped UFO that seemed to change shape during a seven-minute sighting, according to testimony in Case 76704 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The object was first seen at 7:30 p.m. on May 28, 2016, when the witness stepped outside onto a back deck.
Cropped and enlarged version of Witness Image #1.
(Credit: MUFON)
“Just by pure chance I looked up and noticed a tiny dot high in the sky,” the witness stated.“At first I thought it was a planet, but after observing I realized it was slowly moving from left to right (east to south) in a slight upward angle. It was moving much too fast to be a planet and much too slow to be a satellite.”
The witness called out to his roommate, asking for a camera.
“Once I was able to show him the anomaly, he was able to get five pictures. The object stopped moving from left to right and began moving straight up until it crossed a very high altitude transparent cloud. Once it was in the area of the cloud it slowly faded from sight. The entire event lasted about 7 minutes.”
Cropped and enlarged version of Witness Image #2.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness stated that he was aware that the ISS was to do a flyover in his area – but the scheduled event was not to take place until 9:35 p.m., two hours after the observed event.
“It was an hour before sunset, so the sun was low to the west. To the naked eye the object appeared spherical and brighter on the side of the sun. Occasionally the object would dim. At no time did it look self-luminous, nor did it twinkle. I would say that it looked reflective, then less reflective, then reflective again, but with no apparent pattern.”
Cropped and enlarged version of Witness Image #3.
(Credit: MUFON)
The two attempted to analyze the images.
“My roommate downloaded the photographs to his laptop, opened them in an image viewer and zoomed in up to 800 percent. Of the five photographs, we had images of very different objects even though they were all the same object. One image appeared as a fuzzy sphere, one a metallic sphere,one very fuzzy but with two points of reflection, one oblong and orange with what looks like a silver sphere at the bottom and, lastly, one that looked like an orange gold bell with a number of reflective spheres at its base. No two images are alike, yet all are of the same object only moments apart.”
Cropped and enlarged version of Witness Image #4.
(Credit: MUFON)
Other attempts at photo analysis were not successful.
“One final note, Beale Air Force Base is about 30 miles west of where I live.”
California MUFON Field Investigator Donna Rothenbaum is investigating.
Cropped and enlarged version of Witness Image #5.
(Credit: MUFON)
Grass Valley is in Nevada County, California, population 12,860. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
An Ohio witness at Rudolph reported watching and videotaping a UFO described as a “large ball within a translucent square,” according to testimony in Case 47675 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Main Street in Rudolph, Ohio.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The reporting witness and her husband were outside sitting in the backyard about 9:30 p.m. on May 26, 2013, when the incident began.
“He suddenly looked over my shoulder and said, ‘What the hell is that?’ The object was almost directly over us and was huge.”
Cropped and enlarged still image from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness described the object.
“It was a large, translucent square and within the square was a very bright, pulsating, white light that changed to a faint, glowing red light and then back to white. We watched it slowly and silently float across the sky until it was out of our view due to the tree line. It moved slower than a plane. We both videotaped it with our smart phones.”
The case was reported to MUFON on May 27, 2013, and investigated by Ohio Field Investigator Donovon Lee and closed as an Unknown.
Cropped and enlarged still image from the witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
“The object was spherical in shape and appeared to be glowing and/or pulsating as if it was ‘burning,’” Lee reported in the MUFON case file. “Color described as white but glowing to a reddish hue. Made no noise.
“The temperature was typical at 38 degrees with winds due south at 15 mph and partly cloudy. Investigator is personally familiar with the area where object would have been flying over and attests that it is simply farmland in the middle of nowhere, sparsely populated, with no major airports within 40 miles and no military bases in the region. Object derivation is indeterminablefrom videos, however, the following irregularities are noted: · Object moves too slow for a balloon/kite and too fast for an airplane. · Object is not visually consistent with any known toy or hobbyist vehicle. · Object moves opposite of the slight breeze, so it is self-propelled, not ‘pushed along.’· Not reported to MUFON, but on witnesses’ posts in YouTube, they also indicate a difference in size, saying, ‘Before we started taping, it was much bigger’ so it appears the object somewhat vacillated in size. Upon viewing the video, this is substantiated in the opposite – at 20 seconds into the video, object appears to glow, increasing approximately one-third in size.”
Cropped and enlarged still image from the witness video.
( Credit: MUFON)
The Field Investigator also noted that two other Ohio cases were similar.
“The most unique aspect about this case is that there are two correlating cases of possibly the same type object. Case 47720 and a second reportfrom Ottawa, Ohio. I shared the video from this case with the witness in both cases and both verbally indicated that the object was, in their opinion, the same.”
Rudolph is an unincorporated community in eastern Liberty Township, Wood County, Ohio, population 458. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Editor’s note: A light inside of a “transparent square” is also a good description of a Chinese Lantern, which is most likely what this object is. However, there are differing opinions on this video. Share your’s below.
A Tennessee witness at Knoxville reported watching triangle UFO where each of its three sides was “over a mile long,” according to testimony in Case 76678 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The Knoxville witness said the triangle UFO was more than a mile long. Pictured: Knoxville, TN.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The witness was inside his home at 9:38 p.m. on May 29, 2016, when his father called him outside.
“My dad had gone out to get a briefcase out of the car, and he looked up and saw them,” the witness stated.“Then called me outside.”
The witness was not sure what he was looking at.
“Unidentifiable of course. It was a very large triangle. You could see three lights which was how we identified it. Each side looked to be over a mile long at the least. You could see a slight outline that was a bit lighter in color than the night sky.”
The object hovered in place for several minutes while the witness and his father watched. Knoxville, TN.
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The witness described how the object was moving.
“It was moving in a straight line, and then took a slow turn to head northeast. It was flying too perfectly synchronized to be planes or helicopters. Also, there were no blinking lights.”
The witness got excited and went back inside in search of a camera.
“I ran to get the closest thing, which was my camcorder. I was not able to get a video though. If the picture is too dark it cannot take a video. I was amazed because I am a strong believer in aliens, so I never thought I would have an actual sighting. So I was excited and slightly scared at the time.”
The sighting lasted just a few minutes.
The object moved slowly away until it was out of view. Pictured: Downtown Knoxville, viewed from the south waterfront.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
“At first the object went behind a tree, but then moved out from behind the tree where we watched it for several minutes before it suddenly started a slow turn away from us.”
The incident is under investigation by Tennessee MUFON.
Knoxville is the county seat of Knox County, TN, population 183,270. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Jaar na jaar nemen het aantal waarnemingen van al dan niet exploderende vuurbollen in de lucht in razend tempo toe.
Het zal steeds moeilijker worden om het verschil te zien tussen UFO’s en vuurbollen en in een televisiefilm van 1994 werd dat al voorspeld.
De mensheid doet er verstandig aan om de komende jaren geregeld naar de lucht te kijken. Veel mensen lopen voorover gebogen met hun neus naar de grond, maar misschien toch verstandig op dat hoofd eens omhoog te heffen.
Er zullen steeds vaker interessante dingen zijn waar te nemen en soms zal het moeilijk zijn om een onderscheid te maken tussen of iets een door mensen of buitenaardsen gemaakt object is, of dat we hier te maken hebben met een meteoriet die de atmosfeer binnenkomt.
Regelmatig schrijven wij over de enorme toename van vuurbollen in de lucht. Hoe sterk die toenemen is te zien op de volgende afbeelding.
Het is een overzicht van de eerst vier maanden van ieder jaar vanaf 2009 tot en met 2016. Wat opvalt is, zoals wij eerder constateerden, de enorme toename dit jaar.
Voor ons is duidelijk dat dit alles te maken heeft met de verstoringen die optreden in ons zonnestelsel als gevolg van de nadering van het mini zonnestelsel Nibiru.
Wanneer dit zonnestelsel nadert met een aantal planeten, dan is het ook logisch om meer buitenaardse activiteiten te verwachten in de lucht. Wij gaan er tenminste vanuit dat op de planeet Nibiru die nu steeds dichterbij komt nog steeds leven is.
Toen ik in de herfst van 1986 in Arnhem bij De Slegte binnenliep, werd ik aangetrokken en gestuurd naar een boekenkast en daarin viel mij meteen een roestrood boek op. Ik pakte het en...
bladerde door het boek en las de tekst op de achterflap. Er ging een rilling... nee een siddering door me heen. Van stuit tot kruin en weer terug... en ik 'wist meteen' dat dit boek me verder zou helpen. Dat was en dat is ook zo. Ik begon er thuis meteen aan en in korte tijd had ik het geheel in me opgenomen. Ik keek nu door de bril van de Amerikaanse onderzoeker en schrijver Zecharia Sitchin en zag de wereld voortaan anders dan tot dan toe. In die zelfde periode zag ik de Maastrichtenaar Berend Willem Hietbrink in het programma 'De Stoel' van Rik Felderhof en deze man trok mijn aandacht en raakte me.
Hij vertelde dat er nog een planeet in ons zonnestelsel moest zijn... en dat was precies wat die Sitchin ook beweerde in zijn boek. Sterker nog; Sitchin beweerde zelfs dat astronauten/kolonisten ver in ons verleden al met raketten naar onze planeet waren gekomen en als de 'goden' voortleefden in onze herinnering.
Gezien de enorm toenemende activiteit in de lucht, zal het soms ook best moeilijk zijn om goed onderscheid te kunnen maken tussen een vuurbol (meteoriet) of een daadwerkelijke ufo.
Neem als voorbeeld de volgende opname die op 20 mei 2016 is gemaakt in India. Je ziet een spectaculaire opname van iets dat in verschillende delen uit elkaar schijnt te vallen in de lucht.
De één noemt het een meteoriet, een andere zegt, bestaat niet, dit is een UFO.
Of, zoals de beelden die hier volgen van Secureteam die opgewonden vertelt dat iemand hem een opname heeft gestuurd van een UFO die langs de hemel scheert, gemaakt door de camera’s van het ISS ruimtestation.
Hier dezelfde vraag? Hebben we hier te maken met een meteoriet, puin uit de ruimte of een UFOdie langs vliegt.
De elite bereidt de mensheid altijd ver van te voren voor op werkelijke gebeurtenissen. Dit gebeurt dan vaak door middel van Hollywood- of televisiefilms die worden gebracht als sciencefiction.
Op het moment dat deze films worden vertoont aan het publiek is dat ook vaak het geval. Men weet echter op dat moment al dat in de toekomst dit soort scenario’s werkelijkheid zullen worden.
De video hieronder valt in die categorie. Het is officieel fictie en laat de gebeurtenissen zien door de ogen van een Amerikaanse nieuwszender wanneer er volkomen onverwacht op drie plaatsen in de wereld een object uit de ruimte neerstort.
Gemaakt in 1994 lijkt het op de situatie zoals je die vandaag de dag zou verwachten met de enorme toename van vuurbollen zoals wij die nu meemaken.
De titel is dan ook “Without Warning”. Zonder enige waarschuwing verschijnen ze. Een hele interessante film met voor de liefhebber verrassende ontwikkelingen.
DULCE, DE ECHTE ALIEN HOOFDSTAD VAN NEW MEXICO, USA ( VIDEO )
DULCE, DE ECHTE ALIEN HOOFDSTAD VAN NEW MEXICO, USA ( VIDEO )
De stad waar een enorm UFO industrie gaande is en die zichzelf als de belangrijkste UFO stad in New Mexico doet voorkomen, is Roswell.
Natuurlijk is daar in 1947 een UFO neergestort, maar de stad waar tot op de dag van vandaag bovengrondse en ondergrondse UFO en ET activiteiten voorkomen, is Dulce.
Als het gaat over buitenaardse zaken en de Amerikaanse staat New Mexico, dan is meestal Roswell waarover men praat.
Wereldberoemd geworden na de crash van een UFO in 1947, is de stad in New Mexico nu het centrum van wat je zou kunnen noemen een booming UFO business. Vanuit dat standpunt willen ze eigenlijk geen concurrentie.
Want, er is nog een tweede, kleinere plaats in New Mexico, die ook een claim heeft op buitenaardse gebeurtenissen en dat is de stad Dulce.
Een gehucht met iets meer dan 2.000 inwoners, waar tot op de dag van vandaag nog steeds UFO’s worden waargenomen en zelfs meldingen van buitenaardsen die door de lokale bevolking zijn gezien op de berghellingen die het plaatsje omringen.
Dulce is vooral bekend geworden door de geheime ondergrondse basis die zich daar bevindt en waar allerlei dingen gebeuren met buitenaardsen.
Dulce komt nu weer meer in het nieuws zoals te zien in de volgende reportage, onlangs gemaakt door een lokaal televisiestation.
Door de jaren heen worden UFO’s waargenomen rondom Dulce, zoals bijvoorbeeld de volgende in 2013:
Misschien is Dulce nog wel het meest bekend geworden door Phil Schneider, waarover wij schreven in eerdere artikelen.
Meer concrete aanwijzingen krijgen we echter van de in 1996 overleden Phil Schneider, waar we reeds eerder een artikelover hebben gepubliceerd.
“Schneider was een geoloog en explosievenexpert. Hij beweerde te hebben gewerkt aan dertien van de in totaal 129 D.U.M.B.S. (Deep Underground Military Bases) die de VS hebben gebouwd sinds de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Twee van deze bases zijn zeer groot en een daarvan is die in Dulce, New Mexico.
Hier werkten volgens Schneider de Gray buitenaardsen samen met Amerikaanse technici. In 1979 ontstond er een misverstand. In de schietpartij die volgde werden 66 geheimagenten, FBI personeel en militairen gedood, samen met een onbekend aantal Gray's. Hierbij werd ook Schneider geraakt door een soort laserwapen wat later bij hem kanker veroorzaakte. Vele getuigen hebben later verklaard dat Schneider inderdaad een groot litteken had".
In de hieronder staande documentaire vertelt Schneider het verhaal over hoe hij plotsklaps oog in oog staat met Gray’s. Hoe hij vertwijfeld zijn pistool trekt en er enkele neerschiet, waarbij blijkt dat ze niet onsterfelijk zijn.
Hoe één van de Gray’s er nog in slaagt om een hand naar zijn borst te brengen, waardoor een soort krachtige laserstraal volgt richting Schneider. Hoe het voelde alsof hij werd geraakt door enorme stroomstoot en dat dit ook hetgeen was dat hem twee vingers van zijn linkerhand kostte.
Dat Scheider, die in het begin van de jaren negentig Amerika rondtoerde met zijn verhaal, gestopt zou worden, werd door velen al vermoed, waaronder hij zelf: "Als ik ooit zelfmoord pleeg", zo zei hij tegen een vriend, "dan hebben ze mij vermoord".
Dat Schneider zelfmoord zou hebben gepleegd is uiteraard onzin. Uit de foto’s van de autopsie zoals die in de documentaire zijn te zien, blijkt duidelijk dat Phil is vermoord. Ook zijn ex vrouw heeft altijd volgehouden dat hij om het leven is gebracht.
Dat is waarschijnlijk ook de reden dat de indianen weigeren om echt veel informatie prijs te geven. We hebben gezien dat het technisch gezien mogelijk is om een dergelijke ondergrondse basis te bouwen, zonder dat ook maar één iemand er iets van merkt.
We hebben de vele UFO waarnemingen van de indianen die het de gewoonste zaak van de wereld vinden dat die daar rondvliegen en we hebben de getuigenverklaringen van mensen zoals Phil Schneider. Al met al redenen genoeg om aan te nemen dat er mysterieuze zaken plaatsvinden onder de Archuletta Mesa.
Wat niemand wordt verteld, is dat dit alles wordt veroorzaakt niet door opwarming, maar door een mini zonnestelsel dat met de dag dichterbij komt en voor nog veel meer verstoringen gaat zorgen.
Op maandag 9 mei 2016 konden mensen getuige zijn van de passage van de planeet Mercurius voor de zon langs. Deze was gedurende een periode van ongeveer 7 uur te zien als een zwarte stip tegen het oppervlak van de zon.
Van deze passage werd ook verslag gedaan door een astronomisch instituut Slooh, dat ook nauwe banden onderhoud met NASA.
Het live verslag werd gedaan door één van hun astronomen, Paul Cox, en enkele keren tijdens het verslag wees hij op een gloed die aan de rechterkant in beeld kwam en vroeg aan de kijkers of zij wisten wat dit was.
Toen kwam hij met de mededeling dat dit onze tweede zon was en begon over de planeet Nibiru. Dat gebeurde niet eenmaal, maar enkele keren.
Nu wordt er uiteraard gezegd dat dit wel een grap geweest zal zijn, maar een aantal mensen is daar niet zo van overtuigd.
Eén van die mensen is de maker van de volgende video, waar ook de fragmenten met Paul Cox in voor komen.
Deze man heeft net zoals een aantal van onze lezers keer op keer dromen over de planeet Nibiru. Hij begrijpt er zelf ook niet zoveel van, want hij is normaal gesproken niet iemand die snel in dit soort dingen gelooft.
Maar, zijn dromen zijn zo echt dat hij het gevoel heeft dat hij dit moet delen met de mensheid.
Hierna volgt een email die iemand naar Paul Cox heeft gestuurd, met daarop zijn antwoord. We weten niet of dit echt is, maar degene die het online gezet heeft, zegt van wel, dus bij deze.
De bovenste email is het antwoord van Paul Cox en daaronder staat het originele bericht met de vragen.
UFO Fleet Over Chochis, Bolivia On May 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Fleet Over Chochis, Bolivia On May 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 2016 Location of sighting: Chochis, Bolivia Source:Al Rojo Vivo This is a TV show from Bolivia and it explores a sighting by a man near a local hospital and a mountain bluff. I cannot translate the spanish, but he also recorded them at night near the Santa Lucia Hospital. They say that the city of Chochis is a UFO hotspot. The community is very religious somehow see the UFOs as a good sign of some sort. If you speak Spanish, please help us out and tell us what they say about the sighting. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Three Amazing UFO Reports That Will Blow Your Mind, June 2016, video, UFO Sighting News.
Three Amazing UFO Reports That Will Blow Your Mind, June 2016, video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of video: June 2016 Maker of video:Open Minds
Here is a fantastic report of three different sightings reported to MUFON and Open Minds give a great presentation about them, not to mention a load of facts that will really weigh on your mind. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Open Minds states: An Illinois witness at Spring Grove reported watching a “large, illuminated” triangle UFO at close proximity about 9:30 p.m. on May 22, 2016, according to testimony in Case 76537 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. A Virginia witness at Charlottesville reported watching and photographing a triangle-shaped UFO that briefly hovered and moved away at a fairly low altitude, according to testimony in Case 76512 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database. An Alaskan witness at Fairbanks reported watching and videotaping a pulsating, sphere-shaped UFO that appeared to emit other objects, according to testimony in Case 76358 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Mysterious UFOs Filmed During Apollo 10 Moon Mission (1969), June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Mysterious UFOs Filmed During Apollo 10 Moon Mission (1969), June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: June 2016 Location of discovery:Earths Moon, in Apollo 10 video This is a mind-blowing video made by FindingUFO of Youtube. It was just released today and shows several UFOs in old Apollo 10 footage. I must have missed these, because I have never seen this raw footage before. This just goes to prove that even back during the Apollo age, the astronauts knew and saw UFOs on a regular basis. These are the videos that NASA doesn't want you to see. These are the pieces of evidence that NASA wants you to ignore. The time has come where we can no longer turn our back on the truth. Finding UFO really outdid themselves here. Click the above link and please give them a thumbs up on their video. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Woman Recalls Horrible Extraterrestrial Encounter: Was She Abducted?
Woman Recalls Horrible Extraterrestrial Encounter: Was She Abducted?
Roy Dutton with abductee Valerie Walters
A Terrifying experience was recalled by an English woman who believed that she was abducted by an alien twenty years ago. Her alien encounter story will be detailed in a new book written by an expert and author of UFO Roy named Dutton. On July 16, 1981, around 1:45 a.m., Valerie Walters said she was driving home with her two friends, Vivienne, and Rosemary from a night out in Sheffield, United Kingdom. She was 26 years old at that time when a strange light hovering in the sky started to appear that terrified them. Moments later, a massive extraterrestrial aircraft flying directly above their car. Though she cannot remember what happened next, she is certain that there was a beeping noise that made her very sleepy.
As soon as she woke up, she noticed that her friends were gone. So, she came out of the car to look for them. Before she heard a strange voice, the car suddenly disappeared. The mysterious voice reminded her not to be afraid. Her head went red as she felt like she was being vacuumed after hearing the voice. She was already in front of some mysterious beings the next thing she knew. She recalled being in a white wedge-shaped room with two creatures, both with hypnotic blue eyes and shoulder length dark hair. Walters admitted that she and her friends reported the horrible extraterrestrial encounter to the police, but their case was not handled seriously. As with her friends, they cannot entirely recall what happened.
Alien abduction stories are not rare in humans. In fact, the Walters’ story is not the first case. According to the Inquisitr, it started in the 1950s, when people reported having been abducted by aliens in the “UFO Case Book.” In 2005, Donna Lee claimed to lose her baby after she and her husband were abducted by aliens repeatedly. Another man, in the same year, also claimed that aliens abducted him after spotting a strange object in his backyard.
Filer’s Files #23 -2016 Douglas Aviation Studied UFOs - PART I
Captured over Wilmington, North Carolina on May 27, 2016
Filer’s Files #23 -2016 Douglas Aviation Studied UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Douglas Aviation Think Tank Held the Secret of UFOs, William Tompkins Selected by Extraterrestrials, Solar Warden, Floods and Tornados Causing Death and Destruction Can be Controlled, and UFO Rods Are Real Claims Renowned Scientist
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Alabama, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, 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.
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Douglas Aviation Think Tank Held the Secret of UFOs
Donald Douglas with DC-8 Commercial Jet
Donald Douglas, CEO of Douglas Aircraft founded the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1921 and built various aircraft successfully for years. Under his leadership, the company became one of the leaders of the commercial aircraft industry, engaging in a decades-long struggle for supremacy with Boeing Aircraft Company. Douglas gained the upper hand, particularly with his revolutionary and highly successful Douglas DC-3 airliner and its equally popular World War II military transport version, the C-47; at the start of the war. His airplanes made up 80% of all commercial aircraft in service. In 1942, Douglas had a sighting of UFOs over Southern California and spoke frequently of the reality of UFOs. He studied UFOs and setup an engineering team at Douglas Aircraft to study UFOs. William Tomkins was part of the think tank studying UFOs.
From its very inception the men of RAND knew much about saucers. RAND was conceived by Donald Douglas and two Air Force officers conceived the concept of developing
RAND. These were Major General Curtis LeMay above (the US Air Force’s Chief of Development) and General Hap Arnold (considered the “father” of the modern U.S. Air Force.)
RAND Corporation was established in 1946 by the US Army Air Force as Project RAND (for Research and Development) and is today registered as a nonprofit organization. In May of 1948 RAND was separated from Douglas Aircraft and became its own operating entity. Among RAND’s earliest government reports was the release of the enigmatically titled, “Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship.” LeMay expressed deep interest and concern about the flying saucer phenomena. More than this, LeMay himself was a keeper of the purported 1947 Roswell UFO crash debris. This was revealed in a stunningly candid interview with the late U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater, who was a U.S. Presidential Candidate in 1964, a Major General and Command Pilot. He was the Air Force Chief of Staff, General LeMay’s professional associate and close friend. LeMay’s UFO involvement was related by Goldwater in a live worldwide broadcast with CNN’s Larry King in 1994. The USAF had just issued its report that debunked the Roswell crash of 1947 as a Mogul balloon. Goldwater informed King that he knew the truth to be far different. He knew this, he explained, because in the 1960’s he had approached LeMay about the crashed UFO issue.
Goldwater -who no doubt himself held the highest security clearances- told Larry King:
“I think at Wright-Patterson, if you could get into certain places, you’ll find what the Air Force and the government knows about UFOs. Reportedly, a spaceship landed. It was all hushed up.
I called Curtis LeMay and I said, ‘General, I know we have a room at Wright Patterson where you put all of this secret stuff. Could I go in there? I’ve never heard General LeMay get mad, but he got madder than hell at me, cussed me out and said, ‘Don’t ever ask me that question again!” Goldwater never did.
The Rand-Battelle Connection and UFOs
RAND Corporation
Anthony Bragalia writes, “Since the 1940’s the U.S. government has quietly engaged one of its key defense and intelligence agency contractors as a secret UFO think tank.” New investigation reveals that the esteemed RAND Corporation is a “think tank” that has given far more than “passing thought” to things extraterrestrial.
Rand’s hidden history of UFO involvement has been discovered to include work in policy analysis; evaluation of evidence and in advising on the potential technological advantages achieved from UFO study. Telling connections have also been found between RAND and the Roswell crash event of 1947.
The RAND Corporation (for Research and Development) is funded through government contracts, university collaborators and by “private donors.” Rand’s primary agency clients include the CIA and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.) Headquartered in Santa Monica, CA the think tank maintains branches worldwide. Rand’s stated mission is to “help to improve policy and decision making through objective research and analysis.” Its work is officially conducted “for the public welfare and security of the United States of America.”
Over 30 Nobel Prize winners have been employed by RAND. From physics to economics, the 2000 person think tank provides high-level information and evaluation to the U.S. government. RAND has conducted studies in weapons development, intelligence gathering and the design of sensitive underground installations for the USAF. Far more concealed is Rand’s intimate involvement in UFO studies for the U.S. government.
Battelle Memorial Institut
“Like RAND- Battelle Memorial Institute was heavily engaged by government to study UFOs.” It now appears that Battelle metallurgists likely analyzed the Roswell memory metal retrieved from the 1947 crash. That conclusion was drawn from a “reverse engineering of information” of the literature on shape recovery metal; by the revealing statements of two U.S. Generals; through the confession of analysis by a senior Battelle scientist and by establishing other connections.
But perhaps the most interesting of these telling connections is this: The Director of Battelle at the time of the Roswell crash -Clyde E. Williams- simultaneously sat on the Board of Trustees of the RAND Corporation! Thanks to Deep Secrets of a UFO Think Tank Exposed! by Anthony Bragalia
RAND and UFOs – Keeping it all in the Family with Ben Rich
Benjamin Rich helped to lead aerospace giant Lockheed Martin as President of Lockheed Advanced Aeronautics. He oversaw the ultra-secret Lockheed “Skunk Works” division where he spearheaded the development of the Stealth bomber and universally acknowledged as “the father of Stealth technology.” Ben Rich stated some extremely revealing things about the reality and nature of UFOs before he passed on. In a letter to his friend and associate John Andrews he replies to Andrew’s observations about the UFO phenomena. Andrews had written a letter to Rich in which Andrews says, “I believe with certainty in manmade UFOs. I am tending to believe there are also extraterrestrial UFOs.”
Rich -In handwritten letter- replies to Andrews, “Yes, I am a believer in both categories.” Andrews was a forensic illustrator and aviation model-maker. Before his own death, Andrews related that Rich went further in privately explaining that, “there are two types of UFOs, the ones we build and the ones ‘they’ build.” Rich told Andrews of his concern that the public should not be told. But Rich told Andrews he had recently changed his mind on this and that, “those involved in dealing with the ‘subject’ could represent a bigger problem to citizens than knowledge of the visitors themselves.” Just before he died, Andrews says that Rich confirmed to him that “items” were recovered at the crash at Roswell in 1947. Rich also told associate John Goodall, “We have things at Area 51 that you and the best minds in the world won’t even be able to conceive for the next 30-40 years.” He stated, “We have the technology to take ET home.” In fact Rich gave numerous clues and hints about the alien reality to several people before he passed.
Rand’s Executive Vice President is Michael D Rich who is also Director of RAND National Security Research. A family man, Mr. Rich’s own family history is very telling. His father was aviation genius Benjamin Rich.
William Tompkins Selected by Extraterrestrials
He states, “That our planet has been a battleground for warring extraterrestrial cultures for thousands of years. The result has been wars, destruction and attempts to hinder our progress. Recently there has been a great spike in technical innovation due to help from friendly aliens. He believes that perhaps he and many other uniquely talented people have been gifted with skills that more closely reflect what human intelligence is capable of when not held back by outside forces. Regardless of your opinion of the UFO phenomenon, Mr. Tompkins has taken on this subject with energy and claims we have eight cylinder shaped craft 600 feet long carrying smaller fighting craft”.
He has done extensive research into extraterrestrials and unidentified flying objects. He is preparing a six-volume autobiographical study on the subject entitled “Selected by Extraterrestrials.” He states that our planet has been a battleground for warring extraterrestrial cultures for thousands of years. The result has been wars, destruction and attempts to hinder progress by some, but also recently, a great spike in technical innovation is due to help from others. Tomkins claims most of the Mars life is underground in various caverns. Some human’s ancestors are from other star systems.
Naval Air Station San Diego replaced an Admiral Obacca had 29 numerous spies in Germany had signed agreement with Reptilians gave Nazis UFOs and life lengthen capability. Navy operatives in a small conference room in a tower at the base. Put data into packages and fly these proposals to top secret Naval Research Facilities and universities. They were to develop parts of UFOs such as Lockheed, Douglas, Northrop, Grumman, JPL, etc.
After the war, some German scientists and their technology were brought to the US in Project Paperclip along with their advanced technology. He claims we were able to bring the Roswell alien craft down using an advanced technology.
Solar Warden
U.S Navy
William Tomkins revealed US Navy has Battle Groups operating outside the Earth. He personally designed five space ships and thirty support ships. Using the latest technology, he designed different space ships for Northrop Aviation Company. Northrop started building the huge craft underground in Utah. These craft now cruise the solar system and fight against Reptilian craft. The battles with them are very short, but we need more battle groups as they are becoming stronger. The US works closely with the Nordic aliens who have similar craft. Tomkins secretary at Douglas Aviation was a Nordic who was very beautiful and gave us advanced technology.
They apparently came from the Orion Constellation and influenced the building of the pyramids. A large moon size craft flies throughout the galaxy. The Reptilians attack various planets, take them over, and put the residents into slavery. The popularity of the Star Wars movie may be because the public understands the story is close to the truth being withheld from the public.
Tomkins claims we are now building even better Battle Groups. The Apollo moon landings were also designed to build a base on the moon. We have had bases on the moon along with bases on Mars and Jupiter’s moons. The rovers are expensive cover-ups and it is time to tell the public the truth. He has been cleared by the Navy to reveal this information. TRW was part of the group with unlimited money to build these advanced craft. We do know Tomkins worked for the right companies and was inside special units where advanced designs were produced. At age 93 he chooses to reveal the projects he was working on. He joined the Navy during World War II and his job was to disseminate highly classified data for the full length of the war. Later he went to work for Northrop 2 years, and 12 years at Douglas 1951 to 1962 then went to Lockheed.
UFOs flew over Los Angeles and San Diego in 1942, Bill saw a small ball of light coming from the ocean in San Diego, with a light shining down. Then it shined on his house with a blinding light. About 12:30 AM UFOs were being fired on all over Southern California.
Tomkins worked for Northrop Corporation when they developed the Flying Wing Aircraft a jet-powered heavy bomber aircraft shortly after World War II for service with the U.S. Air Force. The YB-49 featured aflying wing design and was a jet-powered development of the earlier, piston-engined Northrop XB-35. The flying wing was passed over in favor of the more conventional Convair B-36 piston-driven design. Design work performed in the development of lying wings proved to be valuable decades later in the development of the B-2 stealth bomber, which entered service in the early 1990s.
Stuart Symington the Secretary of the Air Force told Northrop to join with Convair Aircraft but Northrop refused. Technically they had won the competition against the B-36. The Northrop flying wings were more difficult to pick up on radar and could fly much faster and was and excellent bombing platform.
Tompkins frequently visited China Lake Naval Station that has a large cavern underground and a network of rail systems underground.
Bill Tompkins said, he drove up to Lake Isabella on the highway to Walker Pass where his family of five were abducted. The auto engine and radio stopped working and his five family members are abducted. They lost time but Tompkins no recollection of what happened.
William Tomkins joined along with Admiral Webster and developed a Navy League Council from 1982 to-2000 in Southern Oregon. Former Navy officers had been seeing UFOs coming in and out of Mt. Shasta in Northern California. They flew their private planes to attempt to locate the doors that opened to let the craft pass though. Children were being contacted and met with an alien lady would use holograms to explain ET in Medford, Oregon. Many had taken ETs lessons and later joined the Navy.
Floods and Tornadoes Causing Death and Destruction Can be Controlled
James Edward McDonald (May 7, 1920 – June 13, 1971) was an American physicist. He is best known for his research regarding UFOs. McDonald was senior physicist at the Institute for Atmospheric Physics and professor in the Department of Meteorology, University of Arizona.
What is not remembered is that his work was in weather and cloud modification that can lead to billions of dollars in savings from the destruction from hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, and drought. McDonald wrote articles concerning cloud and weather modification that many countries of the world now use to protect their citizens. Unfortunately his work seems to be forgotten by the United States. McDonald had publications that showed his inside of knowledge of weather modification such as:
Sciatic Basis of Weather Modification, Science 124, 86 (1956), Website
An Historical Note on an Early Cloud-Modification Experiment, Bull. Am. Meteor. Soc. 42 195 (1961),Website
He was the author of Physics of Cloud Modification, in the fifth volume of Advances in Geophysics. The Physics of Cloud Modification, Adv. in Geophys. 5, 233-303 (1958), Website
Evaluation of Weather Modification Field Tests, in Weather Modification, Science and Public Policy, ed. by R.G. Fleagle (U. Wash. Press, 1969), Thanks to Wikipedia
Weather modification was used effectively in 1960s in Vietnam and Laos to create heavy rainstorms on enemy supply routes. It is my opinion that the US and its allies are under attack by enemies using weather modification, disease, financial disruption, natural disasters, and terrorism. These attacks are hard to prove and but very effective. For example what is causing the severe drought in California? Russian equipment is diverting the rain clouds to Mexican crop growing operations. Several countries such as China, Russia have large scientific teams studying weather alteration and the ability to make catastrophic modifications. The Beijing Weather Modification Office is part of China’s nationwide weather control effort, believed to be the world’s largest; it employs 37,000 people nationwide putting silver iodide into clouds. We seem to falling behind in the weather control race, aircraft modern such as the C-17s, C-130s and C-5s could drop chemicals into Tornado forming clouds and greatly weaken their potential destruction. Mc Donald’s weather studies showed how weather modification could occur with devices like HAARP.
He wrote that the government in the USA has failed to properly support basic scientific research since in weather modification in the mid-1970s. He wrote essays:
On the Electrical Conductivity of the Lower Stratosphere, Trans. Am. Geophys. Un. 34, 529 (1953),Website
13 Oct 1947, the U.S. Military (as part of Project Cirrus involving General Electric) dropped 80 kg of dry ice into a hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean, safely off the eastern coast of the USA. (Havens, the hurricane changed direction and traveled inland, where it did extensive damage to property in Georgia. The U.S. military classified the data from the seeding of this hurricane to frustrate litigation. (Ball 1949, pp. 225-226, p. 233). McDonald was an expert in cloud seeding and weather modification and very valuable asset in the weather wars. A similar event seemed to occur with Hurricane Andrew causing billions in damage to New York and New Jersey.
China may be also affecting our weather as it is already spending $100 million to make rain as scientists and employees are actively changing the weather. Additionally, there are other forces in the world ready to cause great destruction and loss of life.
Russian HAARP facilities (shown) are likely working to punish the US by changing the path of the jet stream as it flows around the world. HAARP facilities could be affecting the weather in the US and Northern Europe attempting to control the jet stream to cause damaging weather. Successful Russian rain making equipment exported to Mexico also likely adding to the severe drought conditions in California. Manipulation of climate through modification of Cirrus clouds is neither a hoax nor a conspiracy theory, but currently the best option in geo-engineering considered by decision makers to counter global warming. The tornadoes and flooding are equivalent to bombing runs against our citizens. It’s time for the US to protect its citizens from these dangers. Dozens are being killed and the destruction of homes and schools is rampant including five soldiers at Fort Hood by flooding. Air National Guard and Reserve equipment could be diverted to conduct cloud seeding operations..
Russia uses a variety of aircraft to create favorable weather conditions using cloud seeding
See evidence of a newly discovered and previously unknown life form that currently exists on this planet. In this program is stunning high quality video of “Rods” in flight taken by a production company working for the Discovery Channel while taping cliff jumpers in South America. New methods are presented using the sun which illuminates the phenomenon, providing incredible detail for analyzing the anatomy of this life form. Included in this program are comments by renowned scientists as part of the process of authentication. Discover new sky fishing methods for capturing this entity on film that you can use with your own camera.
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Filer’s Files #23 -2016 Douglas Aviation Studied UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #23 -2016 Douglas Aviation Studied UFOs - PART II
Sightings of the UFOs in the United States
Alabama Object
Huntsville — I was simply taking a picture of a cloud. Later, when I looked at the photo I noticed the object on August 24, 2016. There was a strange blue light in the sky.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Cylinder
Grass Valley — At 7:30 PM, Saturday, May 28.2016, I went to my back deck looked up and noticed a tiny dot high in the sky. I realized it was slowly moving from east to south in an upward angle. It was moving much too fast to be a planet and much to slow to be a satellite. I yelled to my roommate to get his camera and he was able to get five pictures. They began moving straight up until it crossed into a very high altitude cloud and faded from sight. The entire event lasted about 7 minutes. It was an hour before sunset; and the object appeared spherical and brighter on the sun side apparently reflecting the sun. We downloaded the photos and saw very different objects. One image was a fuzzy sphere, one a metallic sphere, one oblong, one was a silver sphere, and lastly one like an orange gold bell. Beale Air Force Base is about 30 miles west of where I live. Thanks to Derek and MUFON CMS
Florida Sphere
Gainesville — My son was running behind our house at sunset in a wooded area, beneath power lines on 25 May 2016. At 20:55 he saw an orange globe-shaped object silently hovering in place in the western sky. He ran toward it to get closer, stopped and took two pictures. Two beams of light appeared below the craft, but did not reach the ground. The beams appeared to be part of the propulsion system as moments after the beams appeared, the object slowly moved to the east. The beams did not point straight down, instead were slightly angled outward. He lost view of the object as it slowly moved behind the trees to the east. He texted me to come see an odd object in the sky, I ran out there, but it had disappeared behind the trees at that point. We ran down the hill to see if we could see it, but it was gone. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Massachusetts Sphere
Williamstown — I was at a friend’s farm alone on May 28, 2016, about 1130 am, and took a pretty picture of the view there with my Iphone. Then I went home and did not notice anything at the time.
Then I loaded the picture on my computer with no alteration and just happened to notice an object high in the sky.
I zoomed in and noticed it had a definite shape that seems like metal. It was not an airplane and we are not on any flight path.
So I have no idea what it is. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Triangle
Ludington – About 9:45 pm, on May 21, 2016, I started my bike and rode through Sterns Park Beach and Lake Michigan water front to look up to see it. It was large and broad moving east down the lakeshore over the water, it was dull and dark, triangular in shape. The underside didn’t seem to be lit but it had some reddish and bluish lights at its point and mid way down the side, it seemed to be a half mile out or so, it continued its current course still over the water, then it seemed to stay stock still. The only other lights were coastal lights. No other vehicles were around. I quick shifted into gear and took off fast. I was in top gear going about 80 to 90 mph as wind drifts the sand over the road and it can be hazardous. I panicked slowing to a stop. It looked to be a half mile to a mile up above the ground. It hoved there for at least three minutes then shot straight up over to the south and then disappeared. I recall the lights seemed to rotate while it waited. NOTE: The above image is CGI. Ken Pfeifer MUFON NJ Website
Minnesota Lights
Upon taking our puppy outside at 9:41 pm on Sunday May 29th, 2016 my fiancé and I observed a bright white light with an orange colored aura around it. It wasobserved NW from our home and very quickly disappeared thereafter. We decided to sit and watch for a while to see if it came back. It did at 9:52 pm. The light appeared bright white, but when it dimmed, it had an orange glow, flickered, pulsated-like, and then dove down quickly. Over the course of three hours, the light came and went but did not stay in view for very long and dimmed too much for video. However, I was able to take a few pictures with my Iphone 6 Plus). During that time, we witnessed the light change direction (from North to South and West to East), descend and ascend. emit orbs of light, disappear and re-appear, hover and sometimes follow a path or fly together with the orbs of light it had emitted. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Hampshire Lights
Nashua — Just before twilight, my wife and I had just finished walking our dog on May 29, 2016, when I saw two strange large red orange lights. They rose from behind the white pine trees heading southwest on an overcast evening. These orbs moved in a floaty but controlled way, but unlike any aircraft I know. As they traveled, they seemed to have subtly moved around as they headed on their trajectory. These two orbs were followed by four more in an identical way. My wife and I were completely amazed. I captured this event on my iPhone. My wife told me that she saw two of them move together then apart as they were departing. Ten minutes later, we saw two more of these same orbs acting in a similar manner. These orbs were below cloud level and disappeared by fading into a small dot. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Disc
Wilmington –At the beach in my brother and his wife fishing sister in law notice rough waters and took picture on May 27, 2016.
After posting on Facebook shenoticed this strange object that she didn’t notice when she took picture. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Light
Grove City — The sky was a storm brewing on May30, 2016. I took picture just because of the sky. I did not see a dot in the sky or over the house until I viewed a picture later. I zoomed in and it’s a strange object that appears to have lights inside. Maybe it’s just a cloud but a weird one. A chemtrail was nearby as well. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Ball of Light Explodes
Portland– On May 25, 2016, a man experienced a bright ball of light in his bedroom that immediately exploded. The next day the man noted a strange scar on his ankle that wasn’t there before.
He said that the mark resembled a claw. The man regularly tries to communicate with higher intelligence (aliens) through crystals.
Reading— Took notice of a red light in the sky on May 25, 2016, that looked like a red star. I thought it might be Mars, but became clear that it was a moving object in the sky. It moved closer into view and then hovered completely still with its red glow for 5 minutes. It shocked me to see it shift from left to right at amazing speeds then slowly go back to hovering. Then it descended lower, and shot back up into the sky and vanished. This was clearly something with so much control and speed. There were three other people with me who witnessed the event. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Light
Dallas — Watching thunderstorms on my balcony oon May 29, 2016, an orange ball flew overhead parallel to US 35. This was very different from the hundred of aircraft I see taking off or landing at DFW or Love field, which are also visible from my balcony. At first I thought it was a plane but within a couple of seconds I realized this was different. I went from that’s weird, to I need to film this, so I turned on my iPhone 6S to video. My wife was with me and observed it as well. I lost sight of the object when it ascended above the cloud deck in the direction of DFW airport. I went inside to get a better camera when a second object appeared, identical to the first. I tried to get the lens cap off, and focus the camera quickly but it disappeared before above the clouds before I could. This was distinctly different from aviation lights I see all the time. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Disc 3 Bright Objects
Port Macquarie– Objects wee moving in sync in the sky on May 3, 2016. They traversed across the sky from NNW to SSE.
I checked with several satellite tracking sites and found no correlation to this formation.
I’m keen to know what they are. It is possible to be military or other? Thanks to William Puckett, DirectorWebsite
Canberra — I went outside for a cigarette late in the afternoon on May 18, 2016, and stood at the end of the driveway near the road. Looked to my left and noticed a very bright object in the sky to the northwest. At first I thought it was a jet with vapor trail but it wasn’t moving. I then grabbed my camera which had an x 1.8 teleconverter attached and a tripod.
I began filming the object in HD and notified my neighbors when they arrived home. They came to see it as well. It looked like a glowing jellybean. I rang two friends while filming it. It moved very slowly to the west. It seemed to be glowing but the darker it got the dimmer it got. I filmed it for over 40 minutes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Light
Keswick, Ontario — On May 23, 2016 my wife watched what seems to be the same thing you saw. I managed to take a picture before it disappeared.
The object was a red and orange ball that looked similar to a flare, but was definitely not a flare. It flew directly towards us at a height of approximately 1,000 feet then veered away from us, climbed quickly and then accelerated out of sight.
We viewed it for about 5 minutes in total. It was the most fascinating thing I have ever seen. I wish I could have got a better shot of it. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Website
Germany UFO
Alling – In the Bayern Region of Germany — A strange flying object was seen. I took a spontaneous photo.
It was only 500 feet to a mile away. It hovered for awhile and then flew away on a path. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ireland Object
Cork – I was looking at the moon with the naked eye, until I uploaded the photo’s to my PC!
Have a look and remember it’s not the moon that’s strange in the photo, but the strange objects to the left and down. Zoom in.
I also have more photos and video footage on a close encounter at 60 feet which had a physical affect on me. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Zealand Light
TAUPO — While traveling home from work I was stopped at road works. I noticed as the sun was going down 2 orbs one above the setting sun and one to the Left in what looked like a another sunset. The orb on the left is Green with 4 white dots on its surface and the one above the Sun was white. I thought it was very strange to see another mini sunset to the left and then I could just make out the green orb. When I arrived home and enlarged the picture I noticed the 4 white dots on its surface and also the other orb. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Portugal Light
Charneca de Caparica — One more night chasing UFOs on May 25th, 2016, and this one was more bright than the others crossing. At the same time I have now the planets of Jupiter, Mars and Saturn. At this time of observation no planes were flying or passing by.
If we multiplied this observation for the people who are seeing the same as me, we arrived to a conclusion: this planet doesn`t belong to us. The logistics are so big that we can calculate an invasion. I have a son 11 years old, what kind of legacy have I left him!? We must do much more to bring the true to the world, later we do that worse will be to the society, remember my words. Thanks to MUFON CMS and Sal
Peru Disc
Cachachi — Today at 10 PM, we were alerted by teachers in kindergarten that they could observe a white disc hovering in Araqueda Cachachi, Cajamarca.
An unidentified object of surprises dwells in center village on May 24, 2016.
The sky above Araqueda, they used zoom lens captured the following image. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK England Object
Leigh — I had just gone into my rear yard to put an empty bottle into the bin I saw flashing lights in the sky. There were four red lights flashing brightly and when they faded there was a constant green band of light across the middle, separating the top half from the bottom. At first I thought the police helicopter was out again, but as i watched i realized there was no noise. No noise at all. There were planes flying over as i live about 12 miles from Manchester airport and i could hear those. It didn’t seem to be moving at all. Just flashing. I ran into the house and woke my partner up. I was excited. When you have cancelled everything else out, it could only be one thing. A ufo. I grabbed my phone and went back outside. My partner joined me and we both tried to work out just what it was. We both watched and agreed we had never seen anything like it before. After about 15 mins my partner went back in and left me to it. It seemed to be moving extremely slowly. In the 50 minutes i was watching i would say it had traveled approximately 10 miles. It seemed to be stopping at points. The lights looked to be brighter then but that might have been my eyes because it was dark. I watched planes of all altitudes travel across the sky and all were gone in less than five minutes. Eventually it vanished behind the roof of the house behind ours. I tried to video it but my phone would zoom in far enough and being dark you couldn’t see any thing but a small light. The video is jumpy because im at full zoom, so it is the phone not the object moving. You can see it flashing though. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Prehistoric X-Men: How the 'First Mutants' Gave Humans 'Superpowers'
Prehistoric X-Men: How the 'First Mutants' Gave Humans 'Superpowers'
By Michael Dhar, Live Science Contributor
The world's "first mutant," played by Oscar Isaac, in "X-Men: Apocalypse," may be far-fetched. But real-life mutations have given humans some pretty cool superpowers.
In "X-Men: Apocalypse," hitting theaters Friday (May 27), a big, blue powerhouse called "the world's first mutant" threatens humanity with his fearsome abilities. Though real-life mutations haven't given people apocalyptic powers (yet!), science has hinted at some of the human lineage's "first mutations."
From genes implicated in the ballooning of the human brain to mutations associated with the modern diet, genetic tweaks to our human ancestors helped make this species the dominant one on the globe — at least until an Apocalypse comes along.
Here are some of the "first mutants" in humanity's prehistory.
Big brains
In the movies and the original comic books, the X-Men follow the lead of Professor Charles Xavier. "Professor X's" mutant telepathy offers an appropriate sci-fi echo of some of the real mutations that set humans apart in prehistory: genetic changes that allowed for big, powerful brains. [10 Features That Make Humans Special]
Research into the fully sequenced genomes of gorillas helped to identify one such gene: Called RNF213, it showed accelerated evolution in the branch of primates that includes humans, gorillas and chimpanzees, said Aylwyn Scally, a geneticist at the University of Cambridge in England, who led the research.
"What we mean [by accelerated evolution] is not just that it's accumulated a lot of differences," Scally told Live Science. "What we're looking for in accelerated evolution are changes that really do change the protein sequence."
And that's just what happened with RNF213, he said. What's more, other researchers have linked deficiencies in RNF213 with moyamoya disease, which involves decreased blood flow to the brain. This suggests RNF213's evolution helped facilitate the large blood flow needed by big, energy-hungry brains, Scally said.
In general, Scally and his colleagues found that genes related to brain development and sensory-information processing showed accelerated evolution in the human lineage. In fact, RNF213 is just one of many genes, such as "Frizzled-8" and ASPM, linked to brain-size evolution in humans, Katherine Pollard, who studies human genetics at the University of California, San Francisco, told Live Science.
Powerful computers
Of course, human brains aren't just big. Like Professor X's brain-boosting "Cerebro" computer, the real human brain is a powerful processor. And scientists have also identified a few mutations that might have helped to juice up the human computer.
Disease studies revealed that a DNA region called HAR1 shows activity in the human brain, which means the DNA is turned on, and not suppressed in brain cells. Specifically, during brain development, this region shows activity within neurons that help lay down the pattern of the cerebral cortex, the gray-matter seat of consciousness, language and memory. Moreover, early studies comparing the human and chimpanzee genomes identified HAR1 as evolving rapidly in humans after the human-chimpanzee split.
"We thought the most important chimp-human differences would be these sequences that had been frozen throughout evolution … but then changed just in humans," Pollard said. Those regions are the HARs (human accelerated regions), and HAR1 was the fastest-evolving of those regions in humans, Pollard told Live Science.
Research has linked another gene, FOXP2, with an important accomplishment of the human brain: language. Individuals with FOXP2 mutations have speech difficulties, and the gene was identified by Pollard as another evolutionary hotspot.
"So that's very exciting and suggests that it could have a role in our language abilities," Pollard said. "It's interesting because that region of the genome, both in its regulation and the gene itself, are quite different between humans and chimps."
Conquering mouths
Professor X isn't the X-Men's only claim to fame, just as the brain isn't the be-all and end-all of human prowess. Like fan-favorite Wolverine, whose mutant "healing factor" tamps down toxins, humanity owes some of its success to an ability to ward off sickness. [11 Surprising Facts About the Immune System]
The migration of ancient humans across the globe, over the period from 200,000 years ago to 18,000 years ago, suggests they could eat a wide variety of plants, said Nathaniel Dominy, an anthropologist at Dartmouth College. Research by Dominy and colleagues suggests that a gene called AMY1 helped make such a wide-ranging diet possible.
"One of the really extraordinary things about modern humans is … how we rapidly colonized the rest of the world," Dominy told Live Science. And the only way that could have happened "is if we were able to adapt to local conditions, and that would have entailed the experimentation of new, local plant foods."
Plants have defenses, though, which often result in diarrhea, sapping unlucky diners of nutrients. AMY1, which codes the enzyme that digests starch, may have helped early humans obtain the glucose from plants before getting sick, Dominy said.
That's because modern humans have more copies of AMY1 compared to human relatives (chimps and bonobos), and in humans and close relatives, AMY1 is expressed in the mouth, not just in the intestines. This means people can begin effectively digesting starch as soon as they take a bite — long before the meal hits their intestines and could make them sick, Dominy said.
It's complicated
Despite these exciting findings, geneticists have gotten more conservative in their predictions about human evolution, Pollard said. In other words, just as the X-Men franchise oversimplifies mutation, early research into human genes may have oversimplified how human evolution occurs.
Linkages like that between HAR1 and the brain's cortex are based on "guilt by association" evidence, Pollard said. "It's in the right place at the right time to have that effect," she said. Actually proving such an effect has been more difficult, she said.
More recent work has dismantled the idea that a single gene may encode intelligence, language, bipedalism and other complex human traits, Scally said.
"With complicated phenotypes, like intelligence, it seems those are also very complicated at the genetic level," Scally said. "It's a very marginal change across a whole bunch of genes." Phenotypes are the traits of an organism.
In addition, many scientists have focused their attention on regulatory regions of DNA, which turn other genes on and off, Pollard said. That work "suggests that humans and chimps aren't different because we have different building blocks or proteins, but that we're using those same building materials in different ways," she said.
But coming to terms with those complications is just part of the process of unraveling humanity's genetic background, Scally said.
"We are groping towards that question of what makes humans unique," he said. "But we're still fairly near the beginning of that journey."
New Evidence That Black Holes May Actually Be 2D Holograms
New Evidence That Black Holes May Actually Be 2D Holograms
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IN BRIEF
A team of theoretical physicists used Loop Quantum Gravity, string theory's biggest contender, and showed that the calculations are consistent with the idea that black holes have no insides, but that objects are stuck on their surface.
BLACK HOLE: NOT BLACK, AND NOT A HOLE
There’s a lot in our universe we don’t completely understand, such as dark matter and dark energy. Indeed, in the bizarre world of quantum physics, ideas are constantly shifting and changing regarding the true nature of the (somewhat mysterious) forces that govern our universe.
This is what’s happening now in the debate over what black holes really are.
Renowned theoretical physcist Stephen Hawking has previously stated that, given enough time, black holes will evaporate. And now, a new calculation by a team of theoretical physicists supports the idea that black holes are not even holes at all—that they are flat, two-dimensional holograms projecting a three-dimensional illusion.
Interestingly, this comes shortly after reports of a behemoth black hole, 600 million times the mass of the Sun was uncovered.
THE MATH IS RIGHT.
The new model makes sense of the inconsistencies between Einstein’s theory of gravity and quantum physics, particularly the black hole information paradox. If the previous belief that everything a black hole absorbs gets destroyed is true, then it clashes with the theory that information, like energy, cannot be destroyed.
Physicists suggest that the reason we can’t understand what a black hole is, is because we’re trying to make sense of it in a three-dimensional perspective. Some advocate that black holes have no insides and that everything that a black hole allegedly sucks in is actually just stuck on its surface, with all the information preserved until the radiation emissions or Hawking radiation leaks it back out into space.
Physicist Daniele Pranzetti from the Max Planck Institute for Theoretical Physics in Germany and her team came up with calculations consistent with this idea using an approach calledLoop Quantum Gravity (LQG).
“We were able to use a more complete and richer model compared with what [has been] done in the past … and obtain a far more realistic and robust result,” says Pranzetti. “This allowed us to resolve several ambiguities afflicting previous calculations.”
While there is currently no way to definitely prove (or disprove) the idea, this might help theoretical physicists generate more models to cross-check with the hypothesis. For now, only one thing is absolutely certain: Quantum physics is very strange.
Weird Shapes on Pluto Hint at Icy 'Face-Lift' Over Time
Weird Shapes on Pluto Hint at Icy 'Face-Lift' Over Time
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
The strange polygon-shaped terrain on Pluto can be seen clearly on the right side of this image captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft during its historic flyby on July 14, 2015. Scientists say the strange shapes are signs of geologic activity from churning nitrogen ice that can change the face of Pluto over time.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Strange geometric shapes miles wide seen on Pluto's icy surface likely formed because of a churning sheet of frozen nitrogen more than a half-mile thick, two new studies find. The findings reinforce the idea that Pluto is not cold and dead but surprisingly geologically active, the researchers say.
The findings could shed light on how other icy dwarf planets far beyond Pluto in the solar system might behave, the researchers added.
Scientists analyzed the most prominent geological feature on Pluto — a vast, oval-shaped basin informally named Sputnik Planum. The area, which stretches across Pluto's equator, is about 347,500 square miles (900,000 square kilometers) and at least 1.2 to 1.8 miles (2 to 3 km) deep. Its shape and surrounding mountains suggest it is a crater left over from a giant cosmic impact "maybe 4 billion or more years ago," said William McKinnon, a planetary geophysicist at Washington University in St. Louis and lead author of one of the two studies analyzing Pluto. [See the Amazing Pluto Pictures by New Horizons]
The surface of Pluto’s icy Sputnik Planum — seen here in a photo captured by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft during its close flyby of the dwarf planet on July 14, 2015 — is covered with churning ice “cells” that are geologically young and turning over due to convection.
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute
The mystery of Pluto's polygons
Sputnik Planum is filled with ice made up predominantly of nitrogen. This frozen nitrogen is broken up into odd, irregular polygons about 6 to 25 miles (10 to 40 km) across, and the centers of some of these polygons rise about 165 feet (50 meters) above their sides.
To discover the origins ofthese mysterious polygons, which the researchers also called "cells," the scientists analyzed data from NASA's New Horizons spacecrraft, which made the first-ever flyby of Pluto in July 2015. Their computer models suggest that convection, or churning that arises from the rising and sinking of warmer and cooler matter, could help explain the giant sizes of these cells. (Pluto's innards are warmer than its surface because of heat from long-lived radioactive material.)
Pluto's polygon-shaped terrain is located in Sputnik Planum, a region that forms the bright, western half of the heart-shaped region near the center of this enhanced image of Pluto from NASA's New Horizons flyby.
Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI
Specifically, the research team's models suggest that layers of nitrogen ice more than 0.6 miles (1 km) thick are convecting to create these cells. "The convection you're seeing here is unlike anything seen before in the solar system, because the material that's convecting isn't rigid and strong — everything here is softer," McKinnon told Space.com. "Nitrogen ice is not soft like a gummy bear is soft, but still more pliable than water ice on Earth, so it's convecting vigorously and forming these polygonal cells."
A face-lift for Pluto
The scientists estimated that convection likely leads the surface of Sputnik Planum to renew itself about every half-million years. This makes it one of the youngest surfaces in the solar system.
McKinnon noted that in the past, "Pluto's internal heat flow would have been higher, so the convection would have been even more vigorous, and could even have led to melting of the solid nitrogen at depth, which, by being buoyant, would have erupted as a very fluid 'lava.'"
Pluto, the most famous dwarf planet in our solar system, underwent a well-publicized (and somewhat controversial) reclassification that took away its title as the ninth and most distant planet from the sun. So, how well do you know this fascinating world?
The scientists detailed their findings in two papers, one here and the other here, in the June 2 issue of the journal Nature.
Picture sensation: Does viral image show crashed UFO on its way to mysterious Area 51?
Picture sensation: Does viral image show crashed UFO on its way to mysterious Area 51?
A photo of a flatbed semi-hauler snapped on Friday morning — March 4, 2016 — as it transported a mysterious saucer-shaped object draped in tarpaulin on Arizona State Route 77 near Holbrook, has gone viral on social media. Public curiosity about the mysterious object was piqued after inquiries with the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) by a local Arizona station elicited a “cryptic response.”
The photo (see below) was uploaded to social media by Charlene Yazzie. She passed the truck while driving on Arizona State Route 77 near Holbrook in Arizona. She was surprised when she noticed the truck was escorted by black Department of Public Safety (DPS) vehicles. She wondered what the covered flying saucer-shaped object could be and snapped a picture.
When KPHO approached the DPS for an explanation of the mysterious tarp-draped object, the Duty Office responded, saying, “Unfortunately we do not know what that is but it looks interesting.”
UFO BEING TOWED IN NEVADA NEAR AREA 51? APRIL 28, 2015 (EXPLAINED)
The response fuelled suspicion and sparked even wilder speculation, with conspiracy theorists construing it as an acknowledgment that the object was top secret and that the DPS personnel who escorted it had also been kept in the dark about what it was.
UFO hunters alleged that the “higher ups” were hoping they could get away with transporting alien technology newly recovered from a crash site to Area 51 in broad daylight.
UFO conspiracy theorists believe that the military and government agencies have recovered crashed UFOs from multiple sites in the past and that government scientists and engineers are working in multiple top-secret bases to reverse-engineer the propulsion technologies of the UFOs.
“According to UFO hunters the ‘higher ups’ were transporting an alien UFO newly recovered from a crash site to Area 51 in broad daylight.” [Image via Shutterstock]
According to conspiracy theorists, the first case known to the public occurred in 1947 when an alien UFO allegedly crashed at a ranch near Roswell in New Mexico. It was rumored that the military authorities recovered alien corpses from the crash site. Some conspiracy theorists claim that alien survivors in the crash were housed secretly in Area 51 and forced to help government scientists to reverse-engineer the spacecraft’s propulsion technology.
Related conspiracy theories that emerged in the decades after the Roswell incident claim that the U.S. government entered into military-technology alliance with advanced alien races that helped the Nazis to develop the V-2 rocket technology.
Major breakthroughs in the U.S. space program in the era after the Second World War were due to assistance received from advanced alien races, such as the Grays, the Tall Whites, and the highly evolved Arcturian races.
Reports of ongoing advanced research into “impossible” EM Drive technology at NASA’s Eagleworks Laboratory and a new technology called “directed energy propulsion,” which could make a journey to Mars last only 30 minutes, have fuelled speculation that major breakthrough has been achieved in decades-long efforts to reverse-engineer UFOs recovered from UFO crash sites.
According to conspiracy theorists, government agencies are deliberately teasing with snippets of information released to the media to prepare the public for the unveiling of new radical technologies derived from alien spacecraft reverse-engineering projects.
UFO blogger Scott C. Waring also asserted that the semi-hauler was carrying a flying saucer UFO, and that it was being transported from the top-secret Area 51 military base in the Nevada Desert.
He suggested that the UFO could be the latest advanced technology from the U.S. government’s alien allies.
“This could be some of the alien tech being moved out of Area S4, part of Area 51,” he wrote. “For the USAF to be transporting it and not flying it, means this is the newest alien tech — probably given recently from aliens to the USAF as a gift.”
But some skeptics criticized Waring’s assumption that the government would transport “earth shattering secret equipment down a civilian roadway.”
“Ha ha! What is dumber than transporting a potentially earth shattering piece of secret equipment down a civilian roadway? Do it during the light of day! C’mon guys,” one skeptic wrote.
Another commented, “But it is a well-known fact that Scott don’t have a clue what he is talking about. This is no UFO nor is it alien tech.”
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Artificial Intelligence: What We Have to Look Forward to and What We Have to Fear
Artificial Intelligence: What We Have to Look Forward to and What We Have to Fear
Getty
IN BRIEF
"Everything we love about civilization is a product of intelligence, so amplifying our human intelligence with artificial intelligence has the potential of helping civilization flourish like never before – as long as we manage to keep the technology beneficial."
Max Tegmark
WHAT IS AI?
From SIRI to self-driving cars, artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly. While science fiction often portrays AI as robots with human-like characteristics, AI can encompass anything from Google’s search algorithms to IBM’s Watson to autonomous weapons.
Artificial intelligence today is properly known as narrow AI (or weak AI), in that it is designed to perform a narrow task (e.g. only facial recognition or only internet searches or only driving a car). However, the long-term goal of many researchers is to create general AI (AGI or strong AI).
While narrow AI may outperform humans at whatever its specific task is, like playing chess or solving equations, AGI would outperform humans at nearly every cognitive task.
WHY RESEARCH AI SAFETY?
In the near term, the goal of keeping AI’s impact on society beneficial motivates research in many areas, from economics and law to technical topics such as verification, validity, security and control. Whereas it may be little more than a minor nuisance if your laptop crashes or gets hacked, it becomes all the more important that an AI system does what you want it to do if it controls your car, your airplane, your pacemaker, your automated trading system or your power grid.
The creation of strong AI might be the biggest event in human history…it might also be the last.
In the long term, an important question is what will happen if the quest for strong AI succeeds and an AI system becomes better than humans at all cognitive tasks. As pointed out by I.J. Good in 1965, designing smarter AI systems is itself a cognitive task. Such a system could potentially undergo recursive self-improvement, triggering an intelligence explosion leaving human intellect far behind.
By inventing revolutionary new technologies, such a superintelligence might help us eradicate war, disease, and poverty, and so the creation of strong AI might be the biggest event in human history. Some experts have expressed concern, though, that it might also be the last, unless we learn to align the goals of the AI with ours before it becomes superintelligent.
There are some who question whether strong AI will ever be achieved, and others who insist that the creation of superintelligent AI is guaranteed to be beneficial. At FLI we recognize both of these possibilities, but also recognize the potential for an artificial intelligence system to intentionally or unintentionally cause great harm. We believe research today will help us better prepare for and prevent such potentially negative consequences in the future, thus enjoying the benefits of AI while avoiding pitfalls.
HOW CAN AI BE DANGEROUS?
Most researchers agree that a superintelligent AI is unlikely to exhibit human emotions like love or hate, and that there is no reason to expect AI to become intentionally benevolent or malevolent. Instead, when considering how AI might become a risk, experts think two scenarios most likely:
The AI is programmed to do something devastating:Autonomous weapons are artificial intelligence systems that are programmed to kill. In the hands of the wrong person, these weapons could easily cause mass casualties. Moreover, an AI arms race could inadvertently lead to an AI war that also results in mass casualties. To avoid being thwarted by the enemy, these weapons would be designed to be extremely difficult to simply “turn off,” so humans could plausibly lose control of such a situation. This risk is one that’s present even with narrow AI, but grows as levels of AI intelligence and autonomy increase.
The AI is programmed to do something beneficial, but it develops a destructive method for achieving its goal: This can happen whenever we fail to fully align the AI’s goals with ours, which is strikingly difficult. If you ask an obedient intelligent car to take you to the airport as fast as possible, it might get you there chased by helicopters and covered in vomit, doing not what you wanted but literally what you asked for. If a superintelligent system is tasked with a ambitious geoengineering project, it might wreak havoc with our ecosystem as a side effect, and view human attempts to stop it as a threat to be met.
As these examples illustrate, the concern about advanced AI isn’t malevolence but competence. A super-intelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren’t aligned with ours, we have a problem.
You’re probably not an evil ant-hater who steps on ants out of malice, but if you’re in charge of a hydroelectric green energy project and there’s an anthill in the region to be flooded, too bad for the ants. A key goal of AI safety research is to never place humanity in the position of those ants.
WHY THE RECENT INTEREST IN AI SAFETY
Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak, Bill Gates, and many other big names in science and technology have recently expressed concern in the media and via open letters about therisks posed by AI, joined by many leading AI researchers. Why is the subject suddenly in the headlines?
The idea that the quest for strong AI would ultimately succeed was long thought of as science fiction, centuries or more away. However, thanks to recent breakthroughs, many AI milestones, which experts viewed as decades away merely five years ago, have now been reached, making many experts take seriously the possibility of superintelligence in our lifetime.
Since it may take decades to complete the required safety research, it is prudent to start it now.
While some experts still guess that human-level AI is centuries away, most AI researchers at the 2015 Puerto Rico Conferenceguessed that it would happen before 2060. Since it may take decades to complete the required safety research, it is prudent to start it now.
Because AI has the potential to become more intelligent than any human, we have no surefire way of predicting how it will behave. We can’t use past technological developments as much of a basis because we’ve never created anything that has the ability to, wittingly or unwittingly, outsmart us. The best example of what we could face may be our own evolution. People now control the planet, not because we’re the strongest, fastest or biggest, but because we’re the smartest. If we’re no longer the smartest, are we assured to remain in control?
FLI’s position is that our civilization will flourish as long as we win the race between the growing power of technology and the wisdom with which we manage it. In the case of AI technology, FLI’s position is that the best way to win that race is not to impede the former, but to accelerate the latter, by supporting AI safety research.
Footage from the International Space Station’s live feed on Thursday captured an amazing scene of what appears to be a large fireball streaking through space.
The footage, posted to YouTube by UFO investigators from SecureTeam 10, has extraterrestrial hunters excited, and has sparked debate over whether the fireball is an alien spacecraft.
The video, which had been viewed nearly 20,000 times within hours of being posted, has been flooded with comments from people debating the fireball, with claims ranging from a comet, to a meteor or justan old-school UFO.
"This amazing piece of ISS footage that was just emailed to me a few minutes ago has got me very excited,” Tyler Glockner of the UFO-spotter’s group told the Mirror.
"We have posted a lot of ISS videos showing these UFOs up there," he added.
Glockner opined that the object could not be a fireball, as there is no oxygen in space, and therefore material cannot combust.
"It comes out of the darkness of space,’ he declaimed, “flies up behind the ISS and we can actually see, just before it disappears, some red lights shining on the ISS.”
"When the ISS finally comes into view of the sun and you can see the Earth beginning to show underneath it and you can see in the exact spot where this object appears, there is nothing there."
Still, most suggest that the fireball is simply a meteor entering Earth’s atmosphere.
“It's a meteor. If you continue the line of the earth's borders it matches up with the spot where the "ufo" appeared. It's quite obviously a meteor hitting the atmosphere,” a commenter posted.
"Looks like a view from the ISS of the meteorite exploding over Arizona,” another said.
Conspiracy theorists remain unappeased, however, as one user posts: "2 times last year I went to the live feed of the I.S.S. and both times within 15 mins or so… I seen a ship coming into view of the camera one was unbelievable and they cut the feed."
Believers will believe what they want, but the image remains a spectacular sight.
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Study Asserts That Earth is Not The First Intelligent Civilization In The Universe
Study Asserts That Earth is Not The First Intelligent Civilization In The Universe
Exoplanet Kepler 62f. Credit: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle
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IN BRIEF
Two scientists from the University of Rochester and the University of Washington have developed an “archaeological form” to the famous Drake equation, which will allow us to determine how many technological civilizations have formed in the history of the universe. And it seems there may be a number of them.
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE
Are we alone? It is, perhaps, one of the most significant questions human beings have ever asked—right up there with “Why are we here?” and “How did it all begin?”
Indeed, as soon as we understood that the universe was not circumscribed by the Earth’s horizons, but extended outward for unfathomable distances and contained within its compass innumerable worlds like our own, we began to wonder whether we are unique and alone, or if there might not be others out there—like us, and yet very unlike us.
The famous “Drake equation,” formulated by astronomer Frank Drake in 1961, sought to establish a mathematical, probabilistic framework to understand the question of whether or not humanity is really alone in the cosmos; it used a number of ingenious terms to estimate the number of technological civilizations in our galaxy.
The problem with Drake’s formulation was that three of those terms, in particular, were just too uncertain to permit a reliable estimate.
According to Adam Frank, astronomy and physics professor at the University of Rochester, and a coauthor of the paper (appearing in the journal Astrobiology): “We’ve known for a long time approximately how many stars exist. We didn’t know how many of those stars had planets that could potentially harbor life, how often life might evolve and lead to intelligent beings, and how long any civilizations might last before becoming extinct.”
Infographic of the Drake equation and its new “Archaeological form” addendum. Credit: University of Rochester
SETTING SOME LIMITS
Recent exoplanet research, particularly with the Kepler Space Telescope, has constrained the first of these terms, determining that about one-fifth of stars possess planets within their habitable zones.
That leaves the second and third terms—the probability for advanced life to evolve, and the longevity of technological civilizations—but Frank and his colleague, Woodruff Sullivan of the University of Washington, simply altered the math a little. They eliminated the second term by calculating the odds against humankind being the only advanced civilization in the universe; and they dismissed the third by formulating a “cosmic archaeological question”—how often does intelligent life evolve throughout cosmic history?
Their new equation, which they call the “Archaeological form” of the Drake equation, looks like this—Nast x fbt.
Nast, the number of habitable planets, is defined as Nast = N* x fp x np, where N* is the total number of stars, fp is the fraction that form planets, and np is the average of those planets circling in the habitable zones of their parent stars. The second term of the Archaeological form equation, fbt, is defined as the likelihood of an advanced technological civilization arising on one of these habitable planets.
The results suggest that humankind is only likely to be unique if the odds of another civilization developing on a habitable world are less than one in 1022.
That’s a very—some might say improbably—small number.
“To me, this implies that other intelligent, technology producing species very likely have evolved before us,” says Frank. “Think of it this way: before our result you’d be considered a pessimist if you imagined the probability of evolving a civilization on a habitable planet were, say, one in a trillion. But even that guess, one chance in a trillion, implies that what has happened here on Earth with humanity has in fact happened about 10 billion other times over cosmic history!”
A White Mars: The Red Planet Is Just Emerging From Its Last Ice Age
A White Mars: The Red Planet Is Just Emerging From Its Last Ice Age
NASA
IN BRIEF
A new study finds that Mars just exited its last ice age, which blanketed much of its surface with snow and ice. This leaves us with much water for terraforming the planet.
THE ICE OF AGES PAST
While not many people know a great deal about the solar system, most know what color each planet is. Earth is blue, so are Uranus and Neptune. Saturn is yellow. Jupiter is a mix of yellow and orange. While Mercury and Venus are burnt yellow. And Mars is red. That’s one of the first things we knew about Mars, that it is the red planet.
In the study published in Science, the team used cameras and a radar-pinging device on board NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to look into the layers of snow and ice packed onto the Red Planet’s northern pole. They found out that its last ice age wouldn’t have been more than 370,000 years ago.
When Earth’s scientists want to turn back the clock and look at our planet’s ancient climate, they take long, tubular ice cores and study the particles locked into the ice of the poles. Here, they did something similar. They used NASA’s Shallow Subsurface Radar to look at (and beneath) Mars’ ice caps—about 2 km deep, to be precise.
UNLOCKING POTENTIALS
The Red Planet’s ice ages come from its peculiar orbit: Its spin variation of about 60 degrees (compared to Earth’s 2 degrees), and an orbit that can bring it up to 12 percent away from the Sun. What they saw was that Mars is actually in a lull between ice ages. The next one is expected to come around 150,000 years in the future.
Which gives us plenty of time to “unlock” Mars’ potentials. Terraforming is predicated on our ability to release its gases and liquids into the atmosphere, and the radar mapping of the poles reveals a lot of H2O and CO2 trapped there.
Clinton Plays the “UFO” Card and Snags the ‘Alien’-ated Crowd
Clinton Plays the “UFO” Card and Snags the ‘Alien’-ated Crowd
For those who are not yet current on the UFO phenomenon—get ready—but also for the rest of us, for whom these infuriating delays are like, testing our mettle.
Seriously, how can we like, take any politician seriously who actually uses “like” this way? Maybe WE could have, like, a task force and throw you in jail like we should have done years ago.
Unless you live under a mossy rock, you like, had to know this campaign promise was coming! How could it not after the witty late-night television repartees? And, like nearly all campaign promises in America, it, too would get swept into the ditch and wind up in the sewer drain—IF—Clinton were elected. But she won’t be.
Even with Holder’s campaign fund raiser (see that story below) the criminals cannot pull this off. They’re thick as thieves and protect and support each other—which will make it that much easier to round them up.
The email security issue aside—Benghazi, the blatant lies, the money laundering, the pedophilia, the murders… The FBI like, HAS to indict Clinton, and if they don’t—there will be some serious repercussions in America.
Americans not only have guns, they like, know how to use them, and we don’t want to go there. We had better hope destiny unfolds in favour of The People and set a powerful intention for a peaceful transition. ~ BP
With vows to open files, Clinton pulls in UFO vote
By Amy ChozickNew York Times
When Jimmy Kimmel asked Hillary Clinton in a late-night TV interview about UFOs, she quickly corrected his terminology.
“You know, there’s a new name,” Clinton said in the March appearance. “It’s unexplained aerial phenomenon,” she said. “UAP. That’s the latest nomenclature.”
Known for her grasp of policy, Clinton has spoken at length in her presidential campaign on topics ranging from Alzheimer’s research to military tensions in the South China Sea. But it is her unusual knowledge about extraterrestrials that has struck a small but committed cohort of voters.Clinton has vowed that barring any threats to national security, she would open up government files on the subject, a shift from President Barack Obama, who typically dismisses the topic as a joke. Her position has elated UFO enthusiasts, who have declared Clinton the first “E.T. candidate.”
“Hillary has embraced this issue with an absolutely unprecedented level of interest in American politics,” said Joseph G. Buchman, who has spent decades calling for more transparency in government about extraterrestrials.
Clinton, a cautious candidate who often bemoans being the subject of Republican conspiracy theories, has shown surprising ease plunging into the discussion of the possibility of extraterrestrial beings.
She has said in recent interviews that as president she would release information about Area 51, the remote Air Force base in Nevada believed by some to be a secret hub where the government stores classified information about aliens and UFOs.
In a radio interview last month, she said, “I want to open the files as much as we can.” Asked if she believed in UFOs, Clinton said, “I don’t know. I want to see what the information shows.” But, she added, “There’s enough stories out there that I don’t think everybody is just sitting in their kitchen making them up.”
When asked about extraterrestrials in an interview with The Conway Daily Sun in New Hampshire late last year, Clinton promised to “get to the bottom of it.”
“I think we may have been” visited already, she said in the interview. “We don’t know for sure.”
While Americans typically point to issues like the economy and terrorism as top priorities for the next president, a desire for answers about aliens has inspired a passionate bloc of voters, who make their voices heard on social media.
Stephen Bassett, who lobbies the government on extraterrestrial issues, views a Clinton presidency as a chance to finally get the United States to disclose all it knows about life beyond Earth. Since November 2014, Bassett’s organization has sent roughly 2.5 million Twitter messages to presidential candidates, elected officials and the media urging a serious discussion of the issue.
“That was a storm and now it’s like a steady drip,” Bassett said.
The movement viewed Clinton’s decision to correct Kimmel’s use of the term UFO, which some view as loaded and more rooted in science fiction rather than in science, in particular, as a breakthrough because it “suggested she’d been briefed by someone and is not just being flippant,” Buchman said.
In fact, Clinton had been briefed. She was prepped by her campaign chairman, John D. Podesta, who is not only a well-respected Washington hand, having served as a top adviser to Obama and President Bill Clinton, but is also a crusader for disclosure of government information on unexplained phenomena that could prove the existence of intelligent life outside Earth.
“The time to pull back the curtain on the topic is long overdue,” Podesta wrote in his foreword for the 2010 book “UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record” by Leslie Kean, an investigative journalist.
Hillary Clinton’s position is not a political response to public sentiment — 63 percent of Americans do not believe in UFOs, according to an Associated Press poll. But it reflects the decades of overlap between the rise to power of Bill and Hillary Clinton and popular culture’s obsession with the universe’s most mysterious questions.
In 1996, Hillary Clinton was ridiculed after Bob Woodward reported, in his book “The Choice,” that as first lady she had held discussions with her deceased role models, Eleanor Roosevelt and Mohandas K. Gandhi. The offbeat tabloid Weekly World News dreamed up sensational headlines about Hillary Clinton adopting an alien baby and having a “UFO love nest.”
Bill Clinton’s presidency also coincided with the hit television series “The X-Files” and movies like “Independence Day,” which gave way to an era of fascination with the existence of aliens and the possibility of a government cover-up.
John Podesta
Podesta, an “X-Files” fanatic, ran a fan club for the show in the Clinton White House. “The X-Files fan club would like to invite you and Mulder to lunch at the White House. Don’t let the boss know,” he wrote in a 1998 email, referring to the show’s fictional FBI agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, according to White House documents. In 1999, Podesta had an “X-Files”-themed 50th birthday party that the Clintons attended.
When Podesta left the White House last year, before joining Hillary Clinton’s campaign, he posted on Twitter: “Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files. #thetruthisstilloutthere.”
Podesta declined to comment for this article.
Clinton, who speaks frequently about her childhood aspirations to be a NASA astronaut, has been sympathetic to Podesta’s efforts.
In 1995, when she was photographed visiting Laurance S. Rockefeller, the billionaire philanthropist, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, she had tucked under her arm a copy of “Are We Alone?: Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life” by Paul Davies.
Before that meeting, John H. Gibbons, former director of the White House Office’s of Science and Technology Policy, had warned Clinton about Rockefeller, who had spent years pressuring the government to release files relating to a 1947 crash at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, that had become the source of theories about a cover-up of an alien spaceship. He will “want to talk to you about his interest in extrasensory perception, paranormal phenomena and UFOs,” Gibbons wrote.
The meeting enthralled conspiracy theorists and, in turn, inspired Hollywood writers.
“If you look at our mythology, there are elements of those kinds of meetings,” said Chris Carter, creator and executive producer of “The X Files,” said in an interview. Carter, who is supporting Clinton, added, “If I have to become a fundraiser to get an invite to her opening up the files, I’ll do it.”
When Clinton started to talk openly about UFOs and government disclosure in her 2016 campaign, some activists traced the remarks back to the 1995 meeting with Rockefeller.
To this subset of Americans who say the government is covering up what it knows about aliens, and who are incredibly vocal on social media, Clinton’s discussion of extraterrestrials signaled an important turn.
Other activists do not care as much about Clinton’s vow to “open the files,” but do want prominent politicians to seriously acknowledge that humans may not be the only intelligent life in the universe. A major victory, some say, would be for the candidates to be asked about the topic in a presidential debate.
“It shouldn’t be a source of embarrassment to discuss it,” said Christopher Mellon, a former intelligence official at the Defense Department and the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“We should be humble in terms of recognizing the extreme limits of our own understanding of physics and the universe.”
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Clinton Plays the “UFO” Card and Snags the ‘Alien’-ated Crowd
Clinton Plays the “UFO” Card and Snags the ‘Alien’-ated Crowd
For those who are not yet current on the UFO phenomenon—get ready—but also for the rest of us, for whom these infuriating delays are like, testing our mettle.
Seriously, how can we like, take any politician seriously who actually uses “like” this way? Maybe WE could have, like, a task force and throw you in jail like we should have done years ago.
Unless you live under a mossy rock, you like, had to know this campaign promise was coming! How could it not after the witty late-night television repartees? And, like nearly all campaign promises in America, it, too would get swept into the ditch and wind up in the sewer drain—IF—Clinton were elected. But she won’t be.
Even with Holder’s campaign fund raiser (see that story below) the criminals cannot pull this off. They’re thick as thieves and protect and support each other—which will make it that much easier to round them up.
The email security issue aside—Benghazi, the blatant lies, the money laundering, the pedophilia, the murders… The FBI like, HAS to indict Clinton, and if they don’t—there will be some serious repercussions in America.
Americans not only have guns, they like, know how to use them, and we don’t want to go there. We had better hope destiny unfolds in favour of The People and set a powerful intention for a peaceful transition. ~ BP
With vows to open files, Clinton pulls in UFO vote
By Amy ChozickNew York Times
When Jimmy Kimmel asked Hillary Clinton in a late-night TV interview about UFOs, she quickly corrected his terminology.
“You know, there’s a new name,” Clinton said in the March appearance. “It’s unexplained aerial phenomenon,” she said. “UAP. That’s the latest nomenclature.”
Known for her grasp of policy, Clinton has spoken at length in her presidential campaign on topics ranging from Alzheimer’s research to military tensions in the South China Sea. But it is her unusual knowledge about extraterrestrials that has struck a small but committed cohort of voters.Clinton has vowed that barring any threats to national security, she would open up government files on the subject, a shift from President Barack Obama, who typically dismisses the topic as a joke. Her position has elated UFO enthusiasts, who have declared Clinton the first “E.T. candidate.”
“Hillary has embraced this issue with an absolutely unprecedented level of interest in American politics,” said Joseph G. Buchman, who has spent decades calling for more transparency in government about extraterrestrials.
Clinton, a cautious candidate who often bemoans being the subject of Republican conspiracy theories, has shown surprising ease plunging into the discussion of the possibility of extraterrestrial beings.
She has said in recent interviews that as president she would release information about Area 51, the remote Air Force base in Nevada believed by some to be a secret hub where the government stores classified information about aliens and UFOs.
In a radio interview last month, she said, “I want to open the files as much as we can.” Asked if she believed in UFOs, Clinton said, “I don’t know. I want to see what the information shows.” But, she added, “There’s enough stories out there that I don’t think everybody is just sitting in their kitchen making them up.”
When asked about extraterrestrials in an interview with The Conway Daily Sun in New Hampshire late last year, Clinton promised to “get to the bottom of it.”
“I think we may have been” visited already, she said in the interview. “We don’t know for sure.”
While Americans typically point to issues like the economy and terrorism as top priorities for the next president, a desire for answers about aliens has inspired a passionate bloc of voters, who make their voices heard on social media.
Stephen Bassett, who lobbies the government on extraterrestrial issues, views a Clinton presidency as a chance to finally get the United States to disclose all it knows about life beyond Earth. Since November 2014, Bassett’s organization has sent roughly 2.5 million Twitter messages to presidential candidates, elected officials and the media urging a serious discussion of the issue.
“That was a storm and now it’s like a steady drip,” Bassett said.
The movement viewed Clinton’s decision to correct Kimmel’s use of the term UFO, which some view as loaded and more rooted in science fiction rather than in science, in particular, as a breakthrough because it “suggested she’d been briefed by someone and is not just being flippant,” Buchman said.
In fact, Clinton had been briefed. She was prepped by her campaign chairman, John D. Podesta, who is not only a well-respected Washington hand, having served as a top adviser to Obama and President Bill Clinton, but is also a crusader for disclosure of government information on unexplained phenomena that could prove the existence of intelligent life outside Earth.
“The time to pull back the curtain on the topic is long overdue,” Podesta wrote in his foreword for the 2010 book “UFOs: Generals, Pilots and Government Officials Go on the Record” by Leslie Kean, an investigative journalist.
Hillary Clinton’s position is not a political response to public sentiment — 63 percent of Americans do not believe in UFOs, according to an Associated Press poll. But it reflects the decades of overlap between the rise to power of Bill and Hillary Clinton and popular culture’s obsession with the universe’s most mysterious questions.
In 1996, Hillary Clinton was ridiculed after Bob Woodward reported, in his book “The Choice,” that as first lady she had held discussions with her deceased role models, Eleanor Roosevelt and Mohandas K. Gandhi. The offbeat tabloid Weekly World News dreamed up sensational headlines about Hillary Clinton adopting an alien baby and having a “UFO love nest.”
Bill Clinton’s presidency also coincided with the hit television series “The X-Files” and movies like “Independence Day,” which gave way to an era of fascination with the existence of aliens and the possibility of a government cover-up.
John Podesta
Podesta, an “X-Files” fanatic, ran a fan club for the show in the Clinton White House. “The X-Files fan club would like to invite you and Mulder to lunch at the White House. Don’t let the boss know,” he wrote in a 1998 email, referring to the show’s fictional FBI agents Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, according to White House documents. In 1999, Podesta had an “X-Files”-themed 50th birthday party that the Clintons attended.
When Podesta left the White House last year, before joining Hillary Clinton’s campaign, he posted on Twitter: “Finally, my biggest failure of 2014: Once again not securing the #disclosure of the UFO files. #thetruthisstilloutthere.”
Podesta declined to comment for this article.
Clinton, who speaks frequently about her childhood aspirations to be a NASA astronaut, has been sympathetic to Podesta’s efforts.
In 1995, when she was photographed visiting Laurance S. Rockefeller, the billionaire philanthropist, in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, she had tucked under her arm a copy of “Are We Alone?: Philosophical Implications of the Discovery of Extraterrestrial Life” by Paul Davies.
Before that meeting, John H. Gibbons, former director of the White House Office’s of Science and Technology Policy, had warned Clinton about Rockefeller, who had spent years pressuring the government to release files relating to a 1947 crash at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, that had become the source of theories about a cover-up of an alien spaceship. He will “want to talk to you about his interest in extrasensory perception, paranormal phenomena and UFOs,” Gibbons wrote.
The meeting enthralled conspiracy theorists and, in turn, inspired Hollywood writers.
“If you look at our mythology, there are elements of those kinds of meetings,” said Chris Carter, creator and executive producer of “The X Files,” said in an interview. Carter, who is supporting Clinton, added, “If I have to become a fundraiser to get an invite to her opening up the files, I’ll do it.”
When Clinton started to talk openly about UFOs and government disclosure in her 2016 campaign, some activists traced the remarks back to the 1995 meeting with Rockefeller.
To this subset of Americans who say the government is covering up what it knows about aliens, and who are incredibly vocal on social media, Clinton’s discussion of extraterrestrials signaled an important turn.
Other activists do not care as much about Clinton’s vow to “open the files,” but do want prominent politicians to seriously acknowledge that humans may not be the only intelligent life in the universe. A major victory, some say, would be for the candidates to be asked about the topic in a presidential debate.
“It shouldn’t be a source of embarrassment to discuss it,” said Christopher Mellon, a former intelligence official at the Defense Department and the Senate Intelligence Committee.
“We should be humble in terms of recognizing the extreme limits of our own understanding of physics and the universe.”
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Astronomers just picked up a hydrogen signal from this galaxy 5 billion light-years away
Astronomers just picked up a hydrogen signal from this galaxy 5 billion light-years away
Amazing!
PETER DOCKRILL
Scientists have broken a new astronomical record, detecting the faint signal of hydrogen in an extremely distant galaxy located some 5 billion light-years away.
The team made the find using the Very Large Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in New Mexico, which just had a substantial upgrade to the antennae, allowing them to pick up on hydrogen signals from almost double the distance of the previous record.
"Due to the upgrade of the Very Large Array, this is the first time we've been able to directly measure atomic hydrogen in a galaxy this far from Earth," said one of the researchers, Ximena Fernandez from Rutgers University in New Jersey. "These signals would have begun their journey before our planet even existed, and after 5 billion years of travelling through space without hitting anything, they've fallen into the telescope and allowed us to see this distant galaxy for the very first time."
The researchers say the galaxy would once have contained billions of young, massive stars, created from the fuel of surrounding neutral hydrogen (HI) gas.
Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy with overlay of the hydrogen emission that was recently discovered.
Credit: Fernandez et al, NRAO/AUI/NSF, NASA
"Hydrogen is the basic element in the universe. That's where everything had to start," astronomer Attila Popping from the University of Western Australia told Garrett Mundy at the ABC. "It's the first building block of gas and stars and galaxies. So with the survey we tried to understand the evolution of HI. How it evolves over time."
The team says the ability to peer so far across the Universe – and so far back in time as a result – is crucial to learning more about galaxy formation, and finding how the process has changed across galaxies over billions of years.
"This is precisely the goal of the project, to study how gas in galaxies has changed through history," said Fernandez. "A question we hope to answer is whether galaxies in the past had more gas being turned into stars than galaxies today. Our record-breaking find is a galaxy with an unusually large amount of hydrogen."
Artist's impression of the gas cloud and galaxy.
Credit: ICRAR/Peter Ryan
But the snapshot the researchers have taken – seen in a composite image above, along with an artist's impression underneath it – is not the way the galaxy would look like now, with billions of years of stellar activity likely to have radically altered the composition of the star system.
"The hydrogen has probably been turned into stars," Popping told the ABC. "It's been eaten by the galaxy and become a supernova explosion and expelled again. The gas itself is probably in a different state now than as we can see it."
Vijandelijke drones uit laten schakelen door grote roofvogels. Dat is het idee van een Nederlands bedrijf. Werkt het ook?
Misschien heb je ze wel eens gezien tijdens roofvogelshows: grote roofvogels die indrukwekkend goed naar hun trainer luisteren. En als die vogels kunnen leren om op commando terug te keren of het luchtruim te kiezen, waarom zou je ze dan ook niet kunnen leren om een drone uit de lucht te halen? En dat laatste is exact wat een Nederlands bedrijf doet. Het traint roofvogels om vijandelijke drones uit te schakelen.
Low-tech “De overheid zoekt al enkele jaren naar oplossingen om ongewenst dronegebruik te bestrijden,” vertelt oprichter van het bedrijf – Guard from Above – Sjoerd Hoogendoorn. En het antwoord op dat high-tech probleem blijkt heel low-tech te zijn. “Door gebruik te maken van het dierlijk instinct van roofvogels bieden wij een doeltreffende oplossing voor deze nieuwe dreiging.”
Afbeelding: Guard from Above.
Snel en wendbaar Het idee is niet zo gek. Drones zijn snel en wendbaar. Als je ze uit wilt schakelen, moet je dat ook zijn. En daar draaien roofvogels hun poot niet voor om. “Twee van de opvallendste eigenschappen van roofvogels zijn hun kracht en wendbaarheid,” vertelt Ben de Keijzer, mede-oprichter van Guard from Above. “Die gebruiken ze dagelijks bij het jagen: zij zijn de heersers van het luchtruim. Door deze roofvogels specifiek te trainen, kunnen we ze nu ook inzetten om drones te onderscheppen.”
Afbeelding: Guard from Above.
Politie De afgelopen jaren hebben Hoogendoorn en De Keijzer het idee – roofvogels gebruiken om drones uit te schakelen – uitgebreid verkend. Met verschillende soorten roofvogels perfectioneerden ze hun technieken. Inmiddels is het bedrijf zover dat het zijn diensten ook daadwerkelijk aan kan gaan bieden. “We werken voornamelijk voor nationale en internationale overheidsinstanties in het veiligheidsdomein,” zo laat het bedrijf op de site weten. “Een belangrijke klant waar we nauw mee samenwerken is de Nationale Politie. We onderzoeken gezamenlijk in een innovatieproject in hoeverre roofvogels ingezet kunnen worden tegen ongewenst dronegebruik.”
Maar is het bestrijden van drones niet gevaarlijk voor de roofvogels? Dat valt volgens het bedrijf wel mee. Men wijst erop dat roofvogels gewend zijn om grote en gevaarlijke prooien te pakken en van nature beschermd zijn tegen bijvoorbeeld beten van hun prooi door schubben op de klauwen. Wel wordt er continu gekeken of er extra maatregelen moeten worden genomen om de vogels te beschermen. Tevens onderzoekt TNO momenteel of het bestrijden van drones een impact heeft op de klauwen van de roofvogels.
As far as the scientific study of unidentified flying objects in the 20th century goes, few names would stand out in the minds of UFO researchers, past and present, like that of J. Allen Hynek.
Hynek served as the official scientific advisor to the U.S. Air Force and its UFO study program, Project Blue Book, throughout the 1950s and 60s. Later, with the formation of the Center for UFO Studies, Hynek would go on to become one of the leading proponents of the idea that the UFO mystery represents a real and valid phenomenon, capable of scientific study, and the possible rewards that might result from such studies.
However, what Greg had to say was indeed rather disturbing, rather than presenting the usual kind of “sunny” perspectives on the life of one of the most visible UFOlogists of the last century.
Greg writes:
“In 1980, Paul Bennewitz was trying to figure out what he was hearing on his home–built radio receiver, with its antenna array pointed at the Kirkland Air Force Base and the NSA’s coded microburst tests. With his knowledge of electronics, he was just beginning to figure out what was zipping into his DIY master control maze, which it almost filled his den and was starting to spill into the bedroom. His home-built computers and software were reeling off a frightening array of alien transmissions. Because of his special relationship with the Air Force, he told them what he was picking up, and what he thought it was.”
The story Greg begins to outline here is a pretty familiar one in UFO circles, having been previously outlined in the aforementioned Project Beta. The short version of the story here is that the Air Force got antsy about what Bennewitz had managed to uncover, but rather than spilling the beans and warning him that this was classified information, a dodgy misinformation campaign began against Bennewitz, with the objective of scrambling the information so that, rather than hiding it altogether, Bennewitz would continue to obtain new data, and with the help of the Air Force, misinterpret it horribly.
Greg continues:
“To this and, an unnamed computer scientist was hired to write a program specifically for Bennewitz. Instead of words like “telemetry,” “range,” and “target,” others were substituted. The same signals would now spit out things like “aliens,” “Home planet,” and “death ray.” Now, the whole thing needed to be delivered to Bennewitz’s doorstep.”
This is where things get really strange, however. In 1982, UFO researcher Bill Moore would be in attendance at a MUFON annual symposium, the same year J. Allen Hynek of the Center for UFO Studies had been there lecturing. According to Bishop, Moore told him that while talking with Hynek over drinks at the bar that year, Hynek admitted to having presented the “bogus” computer setup to Bennewitz, describing it as one of the last “official” actions he carried out during his tenure with the USAF.
This is unsettling data, to say the least, and it suggests a number of things about Hynek and his work. These range from Hynek apparently being complicit with one of the most infamous and well-known Air Force misinformation campaigns against the UFO community, as well as questions raised in relation to just how much official work he may have continued to carry out for the U.S. government after his tenure with the Air Force.
Greg Bishop at the grave of Paul Bennewitz (photo courtesy of Nick Redfern)
“If true,” Greg notes of the incident, “this throws new light on the sort of dealings that some major ufologists may go through in order to keep a line of communication (however tainted) open to authorities who can push the right buttons and make the right calls when they are needed.”
And in hindsight, maybe it bolsters some of the suspicions many in the UFO community have had over the years, especially as it pertains to the long-held concern that those in government — no matter how benign their individual intentions — may nonetheless serve as some part of a broader apparatus that does not want the public to know the full truth about UFOs.
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Is er een wolk ontdekt in de atmosfeer van Pluto?
Is er een wolk ontdekt in de atmosfeer van Pluto?
Tim Kraaijvanger
Negentien minuten na de scheervlucht langs Pluto keek de New Horizons-ruimtesonde terug en fotografeerde een in duisternis gehulde dwergplaneet. Op de foto is mogelijk een wolk te zien.
De lichte kring rondom Pluto is de atmosfeer. Er zijn nevels te zien die tot zo’n 130 kilometer boven het oppervlak van Pluto reiken. “Mijn mond viel open toen ik deze eerste foto van een buitenaardse atmosfeer in de Kuipergordel zag,” stelt onderzoeker Alan Stern.
Maar nu onthult deze foto opnieuw een geheim. Wie goed naar het midden van de inzet (rechtsboven) kijkt, ziet een heldere zweem. Deze zweem is mogelijk een wolk met een lengte van tientallen kilometers. Als dit klopt, dan is dit de eerste wolk die is aangetroffen in de atmosfeer van de dwergplaneet. Het is overigens geen gekke gedachte, want uit atmosferische modellen van Pluto blijkt dat methaanwolken zouden kunnen ontstaan.
De tweede inzet toont de zuidpool van Pluto. Het terrein is ruw, waardoor de valleien en scherpe pieken op een afstand van 21.550 kilometer van de dwergplaneet nog duidelijk te onderscheiden zijn. Het gebied is enkele dagen voor de scheervlucht ook al gefotografeerd, alleen toen van een veel grotere afstand. Het donkere terrein kan dus gebruikt worden als een soort ankerpunt om de hoogte van het terrein beter te bepalen.
Inmiddels is New Horizons alweer ver van Pluto verwijderd. Het ruimtevaartuig is onderweg naar Kuipergordelobject 2014 MU69 en zal daar naar verwachting in januari 2019 langs scheren.
Asteroïde explodeert boven de Amerikaanse staat Arizona
Asteroïde explodeert boven de Amerikaanse staat Arizona
Tim Kraaijvanger
Gisteren verbrandde er een twee meter grote asteroïde in de atmosfeer boven de staat Arizona. In de wijde omgeving was er een flinke knal te horen, maar gelukkig zijn er geen slachtoffers gevallen.
De ruimtesteen explodeerde kort voor 04:00 uur lokale tijd, waardoor er een lichtflits ontstond die tien keer zo helder was als een volle maan. Volgens de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie had dit brokstuk een gewicht van enkele duizenden kilo’s en kwam er bij de explosie ongeveer een halve kiloton aan energie vrij. Dit betekent dat de explosie te vergelijken is met het ontploffen van 500 ton TNT.
Volgens ooggetuigen bewoog het object boven het Tonto nationale bos ten oosten van het dorp Payson. De asteroïde werd voor het laatst gespot op een hoogte van 35 kilometer boven hetzelfde bos. Wetenschappers sluiten niet uit dat kleine fragmenten van de meteoriet op de aarde zijn beland. De asteroïde veroorzaakte een bijzonder patroon in de lucht, die te zien is in de onderstaande video en op de foto bovenaan dit artikel (gemaakt door Mike Lerch).
Deze video laat de baan van de asteroïde zien.
De laatste video toont de kracht van de lichtflits van de vuurbol. Deze video is gemaakt door de Sedona Red Rock Cam.
Het is niet de zwaarste inslag van de afgelopen jaren. In 2013 stortte een meteoriet neer in Rusland, die een spoor van vernieling achterliet. De meteoriet brandde deels op in de atmosfeer, waarna er kleinere stukken op aarde vielen. Wetenschappers schatten dat de Russische asteroïde twintig meter groot was en dat er bij de inslag zo’n tachtig keer zoveel energie vrijkwam dan bij de explosie boven Arizona. Zo’n grote inslag komt gemiddeld een keer per honderd jaar voor. De laatste keer dat een meteoriet van deze grootte op aarde belandde, was in 1908. Een meteoriet stortte toen neer in Tunguska (Siberië).
Astronomen hebben de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop ingezet om de afstanden tot sterren in negentien verschillende sterrenstelsels te bepalen. Wat blijkt nu: het universum dijt sneller uit dan verwacht.
Het universum groeit vijf tot negen procent sneller dan dat wetenschappers eerder hebben berekend. “Dit is een belangrijke vondst, omdat het ons inzicht geeft in mysterieuze zaken, zoals donkere energie, donkere materie en donkere straling”, vertelt astronoom Adam Riess van de Johns Hopkins universiteit.
De snelheid waarmee het heelal uitdijt komt niet overeen met de expansiesnelheid kort na de oerknal. Eén mogelijk verklaring voor de snelle uitdijing is het bestaan van een nieuw subatomisch deeltje, die kort na het ontstaan van het heelal wellicht invloed heeft gehad op de evolutie van het universum. Een andere verklaring is dat het effect van donkere energie groter is dan verwacht.
Hubblecostante De verhouding van de snelheid waarmee een bepaalde lengte groter wordt door de uitdijing van het heelal wordt de Hubbleconstante genoemd. Wetenschappers hebben de Hubbleconstante nu vastgesteld op 73,2 kilometer per seconde per megaparsec. Stel, twee sterrenstelsels staan één megaparsec (=3,26 miljoen lichtjaar) uit elkaar, dan groeit de afstand tussen deze twee stelsels met een snelheid van 73,2 kilometer per seconde. De New Horizons-ruimtesonde reist met een snelheid van 50.000 kilometer per uur, maar zelfs dat is bij lange na niet genoeg om van het ene sterrenstelsel naar het andere sterrenstelsel te reizen. Sterker nog: pas bij een snelheid van ruim 263.000 kilometer per uur is er sprake van break-even en blijft de afstand tussen het ruimtevaartuig en het doel (het andere sterrenstelsel) gelijk.
Het einde van het heelal Het onderzoek van de astronomen zegt in principe weinig over de toekomst van het heelal. Er zijn verschillende scenario’s, zoals de Big Freeze (het heelal blijft uitdijen), de Big Crunch (het heelal krimpt) en de Big Rip (het heelal scheurt uit elkaar). Het idee van een Big Rip is niet gek. Een Big Rip ontstaat mogelijk wanneer het universum steeds sneller en sneller uit blijft dijen. Dat zou dan na een tijdje zó snel gaan, dat het universum letterlijk ‘uit elkaar wordt getrokken’. Toch lijkt het alsof we te maken gaan krijgen met de Big Freeze: het heelal blijft uitdijen en alle materie dooft op een bepaald moment uit. Dit stervingsproces gaat overigens heel langzaam. Zo is 75% van alle sterren in de Melkweg een rode dwergster en zo’n rode dwergster gaat mogelijk tien biljoen jaar mee. Dat duurt dus nog even!
An example of a UFO crash that Chris Rutkowski considers more compelling than Roswell is from Wallaston Lake, Sask., where this fragment from a “space vehicle” was found and taken to the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa.
Rutkowski, a Winnipegger who has researched UFOs since the 1970s, spent a few months studying UFO crashes in Canada. He was surprised to find "more than a dozen well-witnessed and well-documented examples of odd or unexpected objects apparently descending from the sky and landing or crashing on Canadian soil."
Rutkowski, who listed the incidents on his blog (uforum.blogspot.ca), defined the crashes as anything unexplained that was witnessed to have fallen from the sky and didn't fly away.
"Certainly the Roswell one is the most famous one, but the purpose of this report was to show that there are many such cases not just around the world, but here in Canada," Rutkowski, research co-ordinator for UFOlogy Research of Manitoba, said Thursday. "To find more than a dozen, I think that's pretty interesting.
"Roswell has such a tremendous machine behind it to promote it ... it's taken on a mythology of its own. The fact is we actually have better cases, it's just that we're not Roswell."
The only Canadian example that received its share of attention globally happened in Shag Harbour off the coast of Nova Scotia in 1967, Rutkowski said, adding it's sometimes called "Canada's Roswell."
"This classic case is actually a bit better than Roswell, because a number of official documents have been located suggesting something really happened, unlike Roswell," he wrote in his report.
A glowing disc-shaped object was witnessed to have been flying over the harbour before it crashed into the water about 200 feet from shore, then floated for a moment. RCMP were called to the scene and attempts were made to reach the object, thought to be a crashed plane.
However, they failed to reach it before it sunk into the ocean, leaving a thick yellow foam.
Another example Rutkowski considers more compelling than Roswell is from Wallaston Lake, Sask., where a fragment from a "space vehicle" was found and taken to the National Research Council of Canada in Ottawa. One of the pages of RCMP documents is titled: "U.F.O. Found in Northern Saskatchewan."
Manitoba had an incident in 1792 in Thicket Portage "when something fell to earth that sounded like it was a massive jelly, according to explorer David Thompson," Rutkowski said.
The brilliant object broke into many luminous pieces after hitting the river ice, Thompson noted in his diary. When he went to see the hole in the ice the object should have made, there was no sign of impact.
"If he says that happened, we can be fairly sure that it actually did happen," Rutkowski said, noting Thompson was a respected explorer who wrote extensively about his discoveries in Manitoba.
The most famous Manitoba UFO case happened in May 1967 at Falcon Lake. Stephen Michalak claimed he witnessed a UFO land and take off again while prospecting in the Whiteshell Provincial Park, but this incident isn't included in Rutkowski's report as it wasn't considered a crash.
Unlike the U.S., records of UFO incidents in Canada are easy to obtain, Rutkowski said.
"In Canada, there's a tremendous amount of information that's been available since the 1940s on objects seen in the sky and crashing," he said.
"It's good that we have relative open access to information."
More than 50 years ago, before man had ever set foot on the moon, the United States military hatched a daring plan to best the Soviet Union with a secret spy base on the lunar surface, dubbed Project Horizon.
The Project Horizon study was declassified by the National Security Archive last week, on the 45th anniversary of Apollo 11’s historic moon landing, as io9 reports, and is a fascinating look into a cold war mentality that placed victory over the Soviet Union above all else. Project Horizon was originally published in 1959, and at over 100 pages long, it details a plan to construct a “moon-to-earth surveillance system,” that would allow “communications with and observation of the earth.”
The United States military once planned to build a surveillance station on the moon.
Code named "Project Horizon," a declassified report released today on the 45th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's historic moonwalk outlines the military's detailed plans to install a moon-to-Earth surveillance system that would have been used for "facilitating communications with and observation of the earth." The report that was originally published in 1959 exceeds 100 pages.
Project Horizon also included a proposal to build a moon-based weapons system that would have allowed the military to launch offensives from the moon towards Earth and even into outer space.
The declassified documents also reveal that the military attempted to investigate the effects of detonating a nuclear weapon on and in the vicinity of the moon.
Although no such detonation occurred, the report tries to speculate the effects nuclear radiation would have had on alien lifeforms.
Another declassified report entitled "The Kidnapping of the Lunik" details how American operatives stole and later returned a Soviet space capsule called the Lunik during a Soviet exhibition tour in order to gather intelligence on Soviet space capability.
Researchers at the time advocated setting up the Project Horizon base as a permanent installation, and recommended that construction begin as soon as possible:
“The program to establish a lunar base must not be delayed and the initial base design must meet military requirements. For example, the base should be designed as a permanent installation, it should be underground, it should strive to be completely self-supporting, and it should provide suitable accommodations to support extended tours of duty.”
Some ideas haven’t changed in the past half-century. As The Inquisitr previously reported, recently discovered holes in the moon, thought to be a byproduct of lava tubes, are being considered by NASA as a pre-formed shelter for astronauts sent to establish a permanent presence on the moon’s surface.
As ABC News reports, the Project Horizon documents also reveal that the military wished to investigate the effects of detonating a nuclear device “on and in the vicinity” of the moon. The plan was to send several astronauts to the moon to scout ahead, with reinforcements to follow soon after. The astronauts would have to construct a nuclear reactor once they arrived, and would be supplied with specially outfitted tractors to handle all foreseeable construction needs. The military even considered launching poultry and fish to the base, as sources of food for the 12 astronauts that would staff the moon base.
While scientists conceded that the technology didn’t exist to implement Project Horizon at the time, they nonetheless believed that it was only a matter of time before a permanent moon base was a fact of life:
“Based on present knowledge, the study has concluded that it is technically feasible to establish a manned base on the moon. “Technically feasible” is not meant to imply that the equipments are available, or the techniques are completely known.”
Image courtesy : Artist's representation of what the technology could look like. BristolIG
We hear sounds all around us all the time, but we can’t actually touch them.
The only exception is when we can think of it as a physical presence, as the vibrations that sounds create in other objects.
The idea that something so intangible as sound can lift or move material without having to touch anything seems unbelievable. But acoustic levitation does just that and uses sound waves to handle dangerous and fragile materials without contact.
A team of researchers at the University of Bristol, England called Bristol Interaction Group (BIG) have invented a sonic screwdriver gauntlet (or GauntLev) by utilizing the properties of sound waves. The Gauntlet puts acoustic levitation in the palm of your hand using wearable acoustic levitators.
Image courtesy Youtube
Apart from the main device, GauntLev, BIG has also developed a ‘Sonic Screwdriver’ and ‘Ultra Tongs’ that levitate small particles in mid-air using acoustic levitation. The devices can be used manually but for better stability and accuracy, the team has also designed it to work with a computer.
Currently, BIG can levitate small objects, but the plans for the future could revolutionize the production and transportation of dangerous and fragile materials.
Nidhi Goyal
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Amazing International Space Station footage shows 'fireball-like UFO streaking through space'
Amazing International Space Station footage shows 'fireball-like UFO streaking through space'
BYKEYAN MILANIAN
The footage purportedly shows a UFO coming into shot behind the ISS and was reportedly captured on the unit's live feed on Thursday
This incredible footage is said to show a UFO speeding through space close.
Captured by the International Space Station's base's cameras, the clip has been released on Facebook - and conspiracy theorists are torn over what it shows.
Posted by UFO investigators Secure Team 10, it has had more than 5,500 views.
But commenters have clashed over whether the images show an alien craft.
Commenting on the film, Tyler Glockner, from Secure Team, said: "This amazing piece of ISS footage that was just emailed to me a few minutes ago has got me very excited.
YouTube/secureteam10
UFO caught on ISS live stream
"We have posted a lot of ISS videos showing these UFOs up there."
He goes on to explain how a source had been rewatching recorded ISS live stream footage, recorded on Thursday, and came across the inexplicable clip.
Tyler adds: "He says he sees what looks like a fireball of some sort streak in behind ISS.
YouTube/secureteam10
UFO caught on ISS live stream
"There is this bright object which cannot be a fireball because there's no air in space, hence there cannot be any fire.
"It comes out of the darkness of space, flies up behind the ISS and we can actually see just before it disappears some red lights shining on the ISS.
"When the ISS finally comes into view of the sun and you can see the Earth beginning to show underneath it and you can see in the exact spot where this object appears there is nothing there."
But some YouTube users were unconvinced, claiming the UFO was in fact a meteor.
One, Neil Conafray, wrote: "Looks like a view from the ISS of the meteorite exploding over Arizona."
While another said: "2 times last year I went to the live feed of the I.S.S. and both times within 15 mins or so... I seen a ship coming into view of the camera one was unbelievable and they cut the feed."
Dan Flynn:Have aliens reported throughout history? Have there been reports of spherical UFO’s in Egypt, thousands of years ago? Did the fill the sky and scorch the pyramids, and most of the surface of the planet earth? Are they returning?
In trying to make the videos’ shorter, I dare say, jam packing them full of information takes a lot more time than I expected. Made for content. Every 3600 years an alien race invades earth? What do you think?
The evidence in history seems to imply just such the further back you look. Leave a comment below, and let the debate begin.
Professor Paul Springer from the U.S. Air Command and Staff College was authorized by his employers to discuss military plans to respond to an alien invasion.
Springer responded to questions by an Australian Television program exploring possible responses to an alien invasion that aired on Easter Sunday.
In the segment titled “U.S. military making plans for an alien invasion,” he discussed the implications of humanity being confronted by an extraterrestrial threat. Springer’s comments echoed the sentiments by Professor Stephen Hawking in April 2010 that advanced extraterrestrial life is likely to be ‘predatory‘, and humanity needs to be prepared for contact with hostile off-world visitors.
That really depends on why they are here in the first place. If they are here for the extraction of a specific resource, for example, they might just want to eliminate any resistance that might block them from their objective.
If, on the other hand, their goal was actual occupation and conquest, then they would probably have to prioritize anything they perceive as a threat to their own dominance.
So, they would probably start by wiping out as many communications networks as possible and eliminating as many weapons that might represent some form of threat either to them, or to the resources they are trying to extract.
So they might very well want to counter every nuclear weapon, not because it represented a threat to them, but because it might destroy whatever they’re here to collect.
Significantly, Springer addresses how the Pentagon would view extraterrestrial interference with nuclear weapons.
Aliens would interfere with nuclear weapons not because they are dangerous to life here or elsewhere, but because nuclear weapons are a threat to what the aliens wish to collect from Earth.
It has been well documented that for 60 years or more, UFOs have been monitoring nuclear weapons facilities, and in some situations have actively interfered with nuclear weapons. Many UFO researchers have interpreted this as a sign that extraterrestrials were trying to warn humanity of the global threat posed by nuclear weapons.
Indeed, numerous individuals claiming to have been contacted or abducted by extraterrestrials since the early 1950s have made a similar point. Springer’s comments reveal the contrasting conclusion drawn by the Pentagon in their planning scenario.
Springer is then asked:“Wouldn’t it be a strange situation if humanity had to band together, fighting alongside Russia, or I guess, the Taliban?”
He responded:
It would, but keep in mind that many of the greatest civilizations in human history have been formed, basically, to counter a common enemy. When you look at the great world powers of the globe today, you find a lot of them formed because of the fear of a common enemy.
Significantly, this echoes the same sentiment drawn by former President Ronald Reagan at a famous speech at the UN General Assembly in September 1987:
In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond.
I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside of this world. And yet I ask – is not an alien force already among us?
Reagan’s last question reveals that he did not believe that an alien invasion scenario was something that lay ahead in future decades.
It was a contingency humanity had to grapple with in the immediate moment – an extraterrestrial presence was already among us. Global unity was an imperative to deal with all the implications of such a presence! It appears that Reagan was secretly briefed about extraterrestrial life, and some of the threats this posed to humanity.
Was he really warning the world about classified alien secrets withheld from the global public? Not so fast according to reporters such as Alex Jones and Kurt Nimmo.
They believe that the alien invasion scenario described by Springer would in fact be a false flag operation using very earthly advanced technologies to simulate an alien invasion:
The goal would be to justify the creation of a one world government where more and more civil liberties would be lost – especially for U.S. citizens.
A false flag alien invasion scenario was first revealed by Dr Werner Von Braun, a founder of the US Apollo Space Program, to Carol Rosin shortly before the former’s death in 1977.
This gives credence to a possible agenda behind the Pentagon leaking an alien invasion plan.
The threat would be contrived, extraterrestrials aren’t real at all. What, however, would be the case if Reagan’s warning was authentic, and extraterrestrials are already here?
In such a scenario, there would be many good reasons why Jones and Nimmo are wrong, and greater global governance would be essential in dealing with advanced extraterrestrial life and technology.
Prof Springer’s revelation of classified Pentagon plans to respond to an alien invasion raises many intriguing questions.
Most importantly, Springer reveals that the Pentagon acknowledges the importance of thinking through the many national security issues surrounding the ’possible’ existence of extraterrestrial life and technology.
Whether one agrees with former President Reagan that extraterrestrials are already here and constitute a global threat, or whether the Pentagon plan is merely a ruse for a false flag event to usher in a one world government; in either case, the time for serious study of issues concerning extraterrestrial life has come.
The global media and scholarly community need to educate themselves and the public about the many political implications of advanced alien life, evidence that such life is already visiting us, and finally whether extraterrestrials are our friends or foes.
What is the truth about Aliens and Extraterrestrials? Do these creatures exist out there? If they do exist, are they more advanced than humans?
Since then, humanity has looked at the stars and still wondered. If you’ve read some books on UFOs, you may be wondering why it is such a big deal for the military and governmental forces to protect the people by hiding the truth. A West Virginia witness in Clendenin, reported watching a triangle-shaped mysterious object and described as “the size of a mountain.”
The sighting was seen by the witness along with her 31-year-old son on May 24, 2016, at 9:30 p.m. At first, they noticed a ball of light streaking in from the west. Seconds later, it abruptly stopped. For over a two-hour period, it stayed until it slowly moves towards the east. The witness started to see the sheer mass of the object after it cleared the western trees.
According to the witness, three white lights underneath it were moving with it. The witness could see a triangular shape of the object as the moon brightened. He added that it was so big that it bears a resemblance to a mountain moving through the sky. Due to the uniqueness of the encounter, he chalked it as one of the most unexplainable things that he has ever seen.
Clendenin is situated in Kanawha County, West Virginia with a population of 1,227. A MUFON Field Investigator is investigating for West Virginia MUFON.
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What Would Happen If Humans Disappeared? What Would Happen To The Earth? June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
What Would Happen If Humans Disappeared? What Would Happen To The Earth? June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of video: May 24, 2016
Maker of video: #Mind Warehouse
Human beings have been spreading across earth for thousands of years. It is believed that we originated from Southern Africa around 200,000 years ago and Around 130,000 years later we migrated out of Africa and colonised pretty much the entire planet. Within these tremendous years humans have used and destroyed parts of the earth for our own benefit. We have invented all sorts of things to improve our own quality of life and have only recently started to worry about what our actions mean for our home planet. But what if our time is nearly up? What if the human species was wiped out, or maybe we drained the resources we use to survive and just upped and left? What would the earth be like without humans. Well it is said that one of the first things to happen if humans disappeared would be very destructive. Man kind has built 437 nuclear power plants around the world and if we left, the generators that circulate cold water around the reactors would lose power. This could lead to over heating and melt down, causing hundreds of radio active areas. Some of the air, rivers and oceans close to the reactors would be polluted with radiation for many years. But in the other areas of the world, Mother Nature would start to recover, trees and plants would be allowed to grow freely and certain animals would thrive. General livestock would struggle without human aid, and most would likely become prey for other animals. But other more wild animals become free to wander the abandoned streets of our city's and towns. Even domesticated animals would have to rediscover their wild ways. Monuments like the Eiffel Tower that are made of steel would start to rust and the roads would become rubble and overgrown with weeds. Many buildings would start to fall apart. Books, photographs, electronic data would fade away, leaving little evidence that we ever existed.The natural world would take back its land. Some more hard wearing structures would likely survive over many years, maybe even some of the ancient structures would out last our modern buildings and look as if they were the last civilisation on earth. But it is still believed that even after thousands and thousands of human free years, you would still be able to find many objects that we had left behind in our legacy. From plastic shopping bags to frames of airplanes or even some buildings. Maybe after millions of years even a new species of animal would become dominate and evolved in to a Homo sapiens like creature. Some scientists believe that pretty much any vertebrate land animal could evolve intelligence, provided it finds the right environmental challenges that favor strategic thinking. Obviously this would not happen overnight, but it is still a possibility that with the right amount of time an animal could evolve a complex brain like our own. This would take millions of years without the presence of humans to happen, but if we can still find traces of the dinosaurs from 65 million years ago, surely parts of the human race would still exist to be discovered. I suppose we will never really know what will truly happen unless we left and monitored the planet. But when you look around in your day to day life and see how we have changed and shaped the planet. You do have to wonder if mother nature could ever wipe the evidence of man kind away completely. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
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Today we are presenting you a video on an unusual topic. Imagine that all people suddenly disappeared from the planet. The reason is irrelevant, just imagine the result. Now we are going to tell what is going to happen after we are gone.
UFO Over Ecuador Recorded Over Street On June 2, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Ecuador Recorded Over Street On June 2, 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: June 2, 2016 Location of sighting: Ecuador Source: www.metroecuador.com.ec and http://inexplicata.blogspot.tw
This UFO was recorded and is on video, however the video is only on Facebook so click here to view it. The UFOs do appear similar to real UFOs seen in the past in the sky. I do have some reservations about UFOs being recorded through windows, because windows can reflect light as you are recording and thus make a UFO appear as though its real. This looks like such an incident to me, but I could be wrong. Tell me your thoughts on this sighting in the comments below please. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Inexplicata states: An Alleged UFO Over Guayaquil On May 30, a video posted to Facebook exceeded 52,000 hits. According to the person posting (Boris Tacle Lopez), the clip showed a "flying saucer". As of this writing, the publication has been shared over 1000 times. As the image shows, the object flies next to a rainbow in the sky. No critical version of this event exists as of this moment. What do you think?
: U.S. Government Official Talks About UFO Cover-Up
: U.S. Government Official Talks About UFO Cover-Up
Colonel Wilfried De Brouwer
A US investor, who held positions in the Ministry of Defence and within the intelligence community, has openly expressed for the first time about the information the government has onhand on UFOs.
Working 20 years for the federal government, Christopher Mellon received several awards. He claimed to have visited Area 51 and various other military bases.
His interest in UFOs started as a child when his friend showed him a video clip of a massive disc-shaped, golden object. He then began to read books on UFOs and performed a research project for his university Physics professor.
Mellon doesn’t believe Hillary Clinton will ever get a chance to get access to secret government programs on UFOs if she wins her presidential bid. Mellon shared instances where White House employees couldn’t gain access to Ministry of Defence secret programs. He thinks that Clinton and other people like her may hold high positions for years without getting at secret programs of the Ministry, which mostly involve the development of new weapons.
Mellon also pointed out some incidents involving UFOs when he worked for the government.
A Navy pilot called him one day to report about a UFO circling a fighter. As far as Mellon knew, the Navy didn’t conduct further investigation.
Another instance involved four or five bright UFOs that were captured on the radar in the evening sky. Mellon said that everyone was puzzled, but no government employee gave some interest, even after a TV program, Nightline, showed the images. Mellon said that political correctness resulted in complete lack of scientific curiosity.
Mellon suggested that Clinton should reach out to NORAD and let them perform the research if she is serious to find out the UFO topic deeply. NORAD is a military organization that monitors the U.S. airspace.
According to Mellon, there are many well-documented UFO sightings, including the UFO sighting that took place in November 1989 in Belgium. There were 13 police officers and hundreds of other people witnessed two triangular objects flying in the sky. However, authorities could not give clear explanation even after the Belgian Air Force launched an investigation with a group of scientists and experts from the U.S. and NATO countries.
In another UFO sighting, more than a hundred witnesses, including soldiers and law-enforcement officers, saw a triangular object above England on March 30, 1993. It managed to move away suddenly at a very fast speed from a standstill. The British Ministry of Defense failed to know the origin of the aerial object.
Could it be that the UFO’s in the sky are actually Alien ‘probes’? According to leading Mathematicians YES!
In recent months a new statement from two top mathematicians in the UK, from the University of Edinburgh, have stated that “Alien probes” could very well be operating in our very own Solar System – Possibly scouting the area for signs of life and habitable planets.
Could this mean that the now well-known Black Knight Satellite might actually be a reality? And now supported by Science? It appears that way doesn’t it. This could also help explain what many of these sightings are seen above the planet, including those bright pulsing large Orbs that many of us around the world have witnessed over the years.
Could those Orbs in Space have been sent into space ‘scouts’?
The scientists from the University of Edinburgh believe that there is a good possibility that “self-replicating” robotic ET spacecraft are now exploring our very own solar system that we live in. If true, these probes would be a product of such highly advanced technology, impossible for us to yet understand – it could also mean that these probes could even appear completely invisible to human beings, the researchers said.
The basic rules to slingshot g a craft into space
Powerful computers were used to come up with these predictions, of which the two mathematicians then analysed the possibility that probes could travel through space, which was highlighted in a study published in the ‘Journal of Astrobiology’
The two gentleman involved, Duncan Forgan and Arwen Nicholson have confirmed the possibility that there may very well be highly advanced ET races taking advantage of the intense ‘gravitational field’ of the stars in order to speed up their high-tech craft travelling through space.
Perhaps the UFO’s that we see near the Sun are using this technique to travel the vastness of space!? Us humans already use this “technique” take for example the Voyager probe which uses the gravitational field of the planets in our solar system to gain and travel through the depths of space and time – perhaps some of the Alien crafts have super intelligent robots onboard, looking for other planets to discover and in some cases possibly to even attempt to take over!? (Please click HERE to read more about this!).
The voyager craft in space – Humans own ‘probe’
The intriguing mathematical analysis that supports this theory, has suggested that you could quite possibly have a fleet of alien probes out there, with incredibly advanced technology onboard which could self-replicate itself, creating new realities for themselves, whilst at the same time making full use of any cosmic dust and gas, then dividing into parent and child probes which would set off to explore a different star, in their goal to look for signs of life and so on in their never-ending journey throughout the vastness of the universe! They would make our Voyager craft look somewhat ‘prehistoric’ in comparison.
It has also been suggested that this level of technology is that advanced that these “alien” probes could explore any galaxy out there in the vastness of space, in a relatively short time. Let’s not forget that there are planets out there which have millions if not even BILLIONS of years ahead of us – just imagine the level of technology any beings on these types of planets may have discovered.
Alien probes in space, possibly sent by advanced civilizations
The researcher made by Duncan Forgan and Arwen Nicholson coincides with a study made by Jacob Haqq-Misra in 2011, where it is suggested that extraterrestrial objects could exist right now in our solar system without our knowledge. These objects are so advanced technologically speaking that we couldn’t even identify them even if we wanted, perhaps our minds could not even comprehend their existence. Or could it be that some of these strange UFO’s seen in the skies above us, could actually be Alien probes, scouting for life.
The scientists said interestingly went on to conclude that:
‘We can conclude that a fleet of self-replicating probes can indeed explore the Galaxy in a sufficiently short time…orders of magnitude less than the age of the Earth.’
U.I.P SUMMARY –
It really does feel like we are being ‘drip fed’ information nowadays about the existence of life beyond planet earth! Who knows perhaps there is some kind of major project at hand which involves some of the worlds key figures in Science to push out the TRUTH onto the masses! I still believe that the ‘Elite’ are not going to confirm the existence of Alien life anytime soon and NOW is the time that we push harder than ever in order to find out who our ET visitors are.
This story is very similar to my own personal thoughts on some of the UFO’s captured in the skies above us. I have often said that some of these strange looking crafts/Orbs caught above Earth, could very well be ET technology sent out into space to scout for life beyond their own solar system. Some people may ‘scoff’ at this suggestion, but is it really that daft to say that some advanced alien civilizations out there may have the technology to send out space probes to discover what lies beyond….NO of course it isn’t, as we are doing it ourselves with the Voyager craft, which is probably a very basic version of what the ET’s are using in space.
Who knows perhaps the Black Knight satellite seen above earth is actually an Alien probe which was sent out to find other lifeforms, or who knows perhaps it has made to watch over us all!? It is very interesting how the recent Pepsi advert is all about the Black Knight Satellite and deciphering the code on-board the unknown mysterious craft, which at the end of the advert shows the masses on Planet earth uniting for some strange kind of ‘New World Order’ – Perhaps the scene is being set out, as to what’s to come!?
No matter what these unknown UFO’s are, one thing is for sure we are VERY much NOT alone in the Universe.
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UFO’s Protecting Earth From Huge Objects From Space?
UFO’s Protecting Earth From Huge Objects From Space?
Many people believe that these images could quite possibly show “friendly aliens” in the process of saving the planet from a potentially destructive deadly meteor strike. This isn’t the first time UFO’s have apparently saved the planet from dangerous meteors from Space, just a few years ago a clear ‘BLACK’ UFO was witnessed destroying a huge chuck of rock which was hurtled towards the Russian city of Chelyabinsk.
This recent intriguing theory emerged after the release of footage of a fireball exploding in the skies above Maine, New England, USA
Clips of the natural phenomena show what appears to be a second, smaller object entering the Earth’s atmosphere during the event on Tuesday. The American Meteor Society (AMS) has since confirmed a second object was present, but says it was just a smaller fragment of the meteor as it broke up in our atmosphere – many people are now disputing this and believe that this was a UFO rushing to earth to help stop imminent disaster – the seemingly satisfactory explanation, has done nothing to dampen speculation from die hard alien chasers looking for evidence of extra terrestrial visitations.
The most popular theory out there is that it was an alien craft dispatched to destroy the meteor to prevent an impact. At this moment in time there is NO other true theory as to what this could be!
The meteor was caught on webcam entering Earth’s atmosphere
It has also been claimed that there could be some kind of Alien galactic patrols watching over us as all and they know that we do not yet have the technology to deal with any asteroid or comet strikes which could potentially wipe out life on this planet – This would explain the sheer amount of UFO sightings seen across the Planet by many people.
Originally at the time of this event, most eyewitnesses saw only one object enter the atmosphere, steak across the skies and then burn up. It was only until the footage was properly analysed that you can see the small UFO appear next to the incoming meteor!
The AMS had more than 700 reports from witnesses with the fireball also seen over New Hampshire, New Jersey, Vermont, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and in Canada!
A YouTube channel called ‘Nemesis Maturity’ uploaded a video showing two objects arrived, one appearing to follow the other. The second, smaller unknown object, then appeared to strike the bigger one before a huge explosion – almost as if this UFO stopped this meteor in its track!
This intriguing footage was taken from a security camera at Burlington International Airport, South Burlington, Vermont and uploaded by AMS.
Nemesis Maturity, confirmed that some leading UFO researchers analysed the footage, before taking the leap that the second object could have been an alien UFO that shot down the speeding meteor. The video said: “The meteorite that exploded over Northeastern US was hit by an unknown object causing it to explode before it crasheddown.”
Please check out their interesting video below:
You can clearly see the smaller UFO in the images highlighted below:
The Russian Black UFO vs The Chelyabinsk Meteor
This is not the first time people have claimed that UFOs are watching from space to prevent asteroid strikes and even a potential nuclear conflict! One of the most exciting incidents happened back in 2013 above a city in Russia. The Chelyabinsk meteor (named after the city it exploded over!) was a superbolide caused by a near-Earth asteroid that entered Earth’s atmosphere over Russia on 15 February 2013 at about 09:20 YEKT (03:20 UTC), with a speed of 19.16 ± 0.15 kilometres per second (60,000[5]–69,000 km/h or 40,000[5]–42,900 mph).[6][7] It quickly became a brilliant superbolide meteor over the southern Ural region. The light from the meteor was brighter than the Sun, up to 100 km away. It was observed over a wide area of the region and in neighbouring republics.
Some eyewitnesses also felt intense heat from the fireball, but many also saw what appears to be a second object which appeared to ‘destroy’ the Meteor in front of everybody’s very own eyes. Perhaps the ET’s saved many lives on that now famous day back in 2013 – Many people described the object as a ‘Black UFO’ which didn’t move like anything man-made!
This video below is one of U.I.P’s favourites as we have checked the original footage and this video has NOT been edited in any way and is a 100% legit. Please make sure you watch and PAUSE the video at 2:26 minutes – You can also CLEARLY see the UFO come in from left to right:
U.I.P SUMMARY
The thought of Aliens rescuing us from potentially dangerous earthbound Meteors may appear a little over the top, but is it really!? It is VERY obvious that we are being watched daily and who is to say that some of the ET’s watching us are ‘bad’ – If they have the technology to get to us, I am sure they have the capability to stop a Meteor in its track!
It is important to remember the Tunguska Event which happened back in June 30, 1908 a colossal ‘magnificent’ flash lit across the sky over Siberia. The explosion was thought to have been caused by a massive explosion at least 1,000 times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped over Hiroshima in World War 2! But the unfortunate thing about this entire event was that it happened over a large completely uninhabited area in the basin of the Podkamennaya Tunguska river basin in modern-day Russia. There was not one direct witness to the event sadly, however people heard from a far loud booming noise! It is believed that some unknown craft potentially STOPPED a large Meteor from hitting the earth! Please click HERE to read more –http://www.ufointernationalproject.com/latest-news/the-tunguska-event-1908-alien-intervention-in-the-sky/
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Michio Kaku: “This Has To Be An Alien Super Structure!”
Michio Kaku: “This Has To Be An Alien Super Structure!”
Well respected Top Theoretical Physicist Michio Ksku believes that the recent announcement about a potential Alien Super structure being found next to a star “1,500 light years away” could actually be “the biggest story in the past five-hundred years!” He also believes that has to be proof of an advanced Alien civilisation.
We recently posted an article about this very same subject (please click HERE) and it now appears that many leading figures are getting behind this exciting theory, that there is a potential ‘Alien superstructure’ around star KIC 8462852″ which was first discovered in 2009.
KIC 8462852 (pictured), located 1480 light-years away, and has produced a series of bizarre light fluctuations researchers have not been able to conclusively explain.
Michio Kaku who has written many intriguing books and appeared on many TV shows with his exciting views on things, appears VERY excited about this latest discovery!
“This could be the biggest story in the past five-hundred years,” Michio Kaku explained.
Kaku said went on to say that “this star is breaking all the rules” and that “we would have to rewrite astronomy text books” to think anything different.
“Basically if a planet eclipses a Mother Star, goes in front of the Mother Star, starlight drops maybe one percent at maximum–however starlight has been dropping at twenty-two percent,” Kaku explained.
“There is a colossal, humongous, object of some sort blocking the starlight from this star.”
“We’ve ruled out all of the usual suspects; rouge planets, comets, asteroids” and the only thing left is an ‘alien superstructure’ of some type.
“We’re talking about what’s called a Type Two Civilization that could build a gigantic [Dyson Sphere] sphere possibly bigger than Jupiter to absorb starlight, to produce energy and is right out of science fiction.”
Michio Kaku – “There is a colossal, humongous, object of some sort blocking the starlight from this star.”
U.I.P SUMMARY – Kaku went on to state the below which makes some extremely valid points and puts our very own existence in the Universe very much into perspective:
We here on Earth are “what’s called a Type Zero Civilization” because “we get our energy from oil and coal.”
“Type one would be like Buck Rodgers” and imagine we are talking Type II.
“Next we are going to focus our radio-telescope to see if we can eavesdrop” on them, Kaku said.
We want to “see if there is any regular radio emissions from that planet.”
KIC 8462852, located 1480 light-years away, and has produced a series of bizarre light fluctuations researchers have not been able to conclusively explain. @MailOnline
I recently read an interesting article about the different civilizations out there, which really does make you think about how far behind we probably are from other ‘older’ more advanced species out there in deep space (and possibly other dimensions). Please have a read of the below about the Kardashev Scale:
The Kardashev Scale
The scale was initially made in 1964 by the Russian astrophysicist, Nikolai Kardashev (who was searching for signs of extraterrestrial life within cosmic signals). It has 3 base classes, each with an energy usage level: Type I (10¹⁶W), Type II (10²⁶W), and Type III (10³⁶W). . Other astrophysicists have prolonged the scale to Type IV (10⁴⁶W) and Type V (the energy accessible to this kind of civilization would equal that of all energy accessible in not just our cosmos, but in all universes and in all time-lines). These additions reflect both energy access as well as the amount of knowledge the civilizations have access to.
Initially, it is significant to note that the human race is not even on this scale yet. Since we still sustain our energy requirements from dead plants and animals, here on Earth, we are a poor Type 0 civilization (and we have a LONG way to go before being promoted to a type I civilization). Kaku inclines to believe that, all things taken into concern, we will reach Type I in 100 – 200 years time. But what does each of these classes really stand for in literal terms?
A Type I title is a given to species who have been capable of harnessing all the energy that is obtainable from a nearby star, collecting and storing it to meet the energy demands of a growing population. This means that we would need to increase our current energy production over 100,000 times to reach this status. Though, being capable of harnessing all Earth’s energy would also mean that we could have control over all natural forces. Human beings could control volcanoes, the weather, and even earthquakes! (At least, that is the impression.) These types of achievements are hard to believe, but compared to the advances that may still be to come, these are just basic and basic levels of control (it’s completely nothing comparative to the abilities of societies with higher rankings).
The next step up – a Type II civilization – can harness the power of their whole star (not just converting starlight into energy, but controlling the star). Numerous methods for this have been suggested. The most popular of which is the hypothetical ‘Dyson Sphere.’ This device, if you want to call it that, would include every single inch of the star, collecting most (if not all) of its energy output and transporting it to a planet for later use. Instead, if fusion power (the mechanism that powers stars) had been mastered by the race, a reactor on a truly enormous scale could be used to fulfill their requirements. Nearby gas giants can be utilized for their hydrogen, gradually drained of life by an orbiting reactor.
What would this much energy mean for a species? Well, nothing known to science could wipe out a Type II civilization. Take, for instance, if humans lived long enough to attain this status, and a moon sized object arrived our solar system on a crash course with our little blue planet–we’d have the capability of vaporizing it out of existence. Or if we had time, we could move our planet out-of-the-way, totally dodging it. But let’s say we didn’t want to move Earth… are there any other options? Well yes, since we’d have the ability to move Jupiter, or another planet of our choice, into the way – pretty cool, right? So we’ve gone from having control over a planet, to a star, which has resulted in us harboring enough “disposable” energy to fundamentally make our civilization immune to extinction. But now, onto Type III, where a species then becomes galactic traverses with knowledge of everything having to do with energy, resulting in them becoming a master race. In terms of humans, hundreds of thousands of years of evolution – both biological and mechanical – may result in the populations of this type III civilization being extremely different from the human race as we know it. These may be cyborgs (or cybernetic organism, beings both biological and robotic), with the offspring of regular humans being a sub-species among the now-highly advanced society. These completely biological humans would possibly be observed as being disabled, poorer, or unevolved by their cybernetic colleagues.
At this stage, we would have developed colonies of robots that are proficient of ‘self replication’; their population may upsurge into the millions as they spread out across the galaxy, inhabiting star after star. And these being might build Dyson Spheres to encapsulate each one, making a huge network that would carry energy back to the home planet. But extending over the galaxy in such a manner would face numerous difficulties; namely, the species would be constrained by the laws of physics. Chiefly, light-speed travel. That is, except they develop a working warp drive, or use that spotless energy cache to master wormhole teleportation (two things that remain theoretical for the time being), they can only get so far.
Kardashev believed a Type IV civilization was ‘too’ advanced and did not go beyond Type III on his scale. He thought that, confidently, this would be the extent of any species’ capability. Many think so, but a few believe there is a further level that could be achieved. (I mean, surely there is a limit?) Type IV civilizations would almost be capable of harnessing the energy content of the whole universe and with that, they could traverse the accelerating expansion of space (additionally, advance races of these species may live inside supermassive black holes). To previous methods of producing energy, these kinds of feats are considered impossible. A Type IV civilization would require to tap into energy sources unknown to us using strange, or currently unknown, laws of physics. Type V. Yes, Type V might just be the next possible advancement to such a civilization. Here beings would be like gods, having the knowledge to manipulate the universe as they please. Now, as I said, humans are a very, very long way from ever reaching anything like this. But it’s not to say that it cannot be achieved as long as we take care of Earth and each other. To do so, the first step is to preserve our tiny home, extinguish war, and continue to support scientific advances and discoveries.
Advanced Civilizations out there in deep space.
All of the above shows how potentially far we are behind the rest of the Universe! Like us guys always state here at U.I.P “In an infinite Universe, comes INFINITE possibilities!”
These are exciting times – but how much are they ‘truly’ going to tell us about!?
MWV – U.I.P
Source info on the Kardashev Scale – Article Originally Published on FQ2Q Author: Joe Garland
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British Fighter Jets Scrambled After UFO Comes Up From Sea 5/6/16
British Fighter Jets Scrambled After UFO Comes Up From Sea 5/6/16
Published on May 6, 2016
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Clinton campaign head says he filed FOIA request for UFO documents
Clinton campaign head says he filed FOIA request for UFO documents
Hillary Clinton has often been depicted as an enemy of government transparency in the long-running controversy over her use of a private email server during her tenure as Secretary of State. It took severallawsuits under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a law that gives the public access to government documents and data, to pry her emails loose from the State Department.
But during a talk today at Code Con, Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta said he helped the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee use the very same law to request transparency on an issue she’s interested in — UFOs. Podesta claimed that he helped Clinton file a FOIA request for documents related to a possible UFO incident.
Clinton and Podesta have been vocal about their interest in extraterrestrial life. During a March appearance onJimmy Kimmel Live!, Clinton said she would fight for the release of government documents related to UFOs if elected president. Podesta, who was formerly President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff, has also championed government transparency about UFOs.
Podesta didn’t offer many details on the incident that led to their FOIA request, saying simply that it involved a crash of what he described as a possible UFO or Soviet device.
“I worked with her and filed an FOIA case on it,” Podesta said, adding, “The files had disappeared but it was clear there’d been some investigation by the Air Force.”
The frustration of seeking documents under FOIA only to be rejected is probably a familiar one for the journalists who worked to make Clinton’s emails public, and Podesta acknowledged that Clinton’s use of a private email server had damaged her as a presidential candidate. “I think it’s definitely hurt her,” he said.
“The decision at the outset to use a private email system was, in retrospect, the wrong one. She did it out of convenience but it’s been anything but,” Podesta continued. However, he said the contents of Clinton’s emails spoke to her capability as a candidate.
“What you see is someone working hard, doing the job that the President entrusted to her,” Podesta said.
Podesta also discussed Clinton’s California campaign and her relationship with Silicon Valley. He said that support for Clinton is building in the tech industry and suggested that the campaign would soon release a list of her Silicon Valley supporters. “We’ll probably roll out a group of technology leaders who support her before the election and I think that will be an impressive list,” Podesta said.
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"It Defies Language!" by Greg Bishop
"It Defies Language!" by Greg Bishop
BOOK REVIEW:It Defies Language! Essays on UFOs and Other Weirdness by Greg Bishop (Excluded Middle Press) 2016
My first true encounter with the work of writer, researcher, blogger, fringe-culture historian, radio host and Ufologist Greg Bishop was via his excellent 2005 book Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth, which I reviewed at the time for a Louisiana newspaper.
What impressed me most that was despite Bishop’s obvious interest in the topic of UFOs and related “high weirdness,” he was willing to do the yeoman’s work and produce a book that exposed a lot of the rumors out there about a New Mexico physicist – Paul Bennewitz – who urgently believed an alien invasion was imminent and that an underground base near the town of Dulce, N.M. (read our review of Greg Valdez’s Dulce Basehere) was already populated with sinister aliens.
And yet, in Project Beta, we learn it was all a government disinformation campaign to get Bennewitz off the trail of down-to-earth technology (the strange lights over Albuquerque) being tested at nearby Kirtland Air Force Base. Sad thing is, the experience left Bennewitz a paranoid and broken man, and committed to a mental institution.
So, upon learning about Bishop’s latest UFO-tinged book project, It Defies Language!, I knew I would be of great interest to me, since it featured a bunch of his posts from the defunct UFOMystic.com website (2006-2011), one that was prominently linked here atRed Dirt Report, and also featured work by our friend Nick Redfern, prolific author and regular at Mysterious Universe.
Broken up into nine chapters, It Defies Language! starts off in the introduction with Bishop straight-up saying, “Some people build model railroads.Others collect stamps or bottlecaps. I write and think about UFOs.” And I can relate to that to a certain extent.
I can also relate to Bishop’s approach to the topic that he is not necessarily a “nuts-and-bolts” UFO guy, that there is likely a metaphysical angle to the phenomenon, noting "there is no real, verifiable evidence that UFOs and apparent associated beings come from other planets."
Anyway, Bishop jumps around with the posts, but even though it isn’t necessarily chronological, we get insight into the intellectually honest process he undertakes when it comes to tackling the difficult subject of UFOs and related phenomena and even fellow UFO researchers who aren’t always as honest about their objectives as they should be, some even covertly working for the US government to sidetrack researchers. It happens.
Being an obsessive fan of the David Lynch TV show Twin Peaks (1990-91), which will be rebooted for Showtime next year, I was interested in one 2007 UFOMystic post Bishop includes titled “David Lynch, Twin Peaks, and UFOs (and the Government).” In the post he notes that an unnamed source told a friend of his, Miles Lewis, that Lynch created his “Agent Dale Cooper” character based on someone who worked in the government, someone he simply calls “Agent Cooper.”
Notes Bishop: “However, from what I understand, under this ‘Agent Cooper’s” urging, Lynch infused certain codes and secret messages pertaining to different things he had learned from ‘Agent Cooper’ – and they are scattered throughout the series.”
Don S. Davis as Maj. Garland Briggs - UFO seeker - in Twin Peaks. (Lynch/Frost Productions)
It is true that Twin Peaks features a rather esoteric storyline where Air Force Maj. Garland Briggs (Don S. Davis) works, in a classified manner, with “deep space monitoring” and also for the infamous Project Blue Book, where the Air Force was allegedly looking into UFO sightings between 1952 and 1969. But the real purpose, Bishop is told, is “to test to the general public’s perception and reaction to UFO reports and sightings, and to use the data gleaned from this study as a mean to maximize the effectiveness of using such UFO stories to manipulate the population.”
In another 2007 post, Bishop delves into the aforementioned subject of “underground bases.” What is their purpose? What is hidden there? Was there a “firefight” between US soldier and “alien humanoids” at an underground base in Dulce, N.M. as claimed by one Philip Schneider? And was Schneider “killed for talking about alien bases”? He goes into that, as well as the issue of cattle mutilations, the 1950's "contactee" movement, crop circles, and even a bit on “alien writing.” It is that subject where Bishop, in talking about the "alien symbol" research of the late Dr. Mario Pazzaglini, also notes that “one of the earliest concrete examples of what was purported to be extra-human communication was channeled by medium Edward Kelley, and his boss, Elizabethan astrologer and all-around magician John Dee, from 1582-1589.”
Like those who come across alleged alien “symbols” following an encounter, it was Dee who said the “Enochian” symbols he received from an "angel," dictated through medium Kelley. Is there a connection between the 400-plus year old findings of Dee and the symbols being discussed today? Bishop is of the opinion that this "as-yet unknown, non-human intelligence or consciousness that interacts with us from time-to-time" has likely been around for a very long time.
Bishop has a smart and easy-to-understand style that will appeal to both serious UFO researchers and those with, perhaps, simply a passing interest in the topic. For Bishop, putting this online essay collection together was a labor of love, for someone who has a passion for investigating the unknown.
Regardless, in It Defies Language!, there is plenty of thoughtful - and even humorous and lighthearted - information to sink your teeth and your mind into.
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02-06-2016
Tucson driver catches amazing shot of meteor on dashcam video
Tucson driver catches amazing shot of meteor on dashcam video
Steven Paris via Facebook
A Tucson driver captured dashcam video of a meteor burning up as it entered Earth's atmosphere over Arizona early Thursday morning.
Steven Paris was driving to work when he caught the meteor on his dashcam. In the video that he posted to Facebook, Paris is headed north on Swan Road near River Road just before 4 a.m. when a fireball lights up the sky to daylight in front of him.
An expert in meteorites told the AP that the bright flashing light looks like a single meteor.
Radar footage shows that meteorites may have fallen to the ground early Thursday near the eastern Arizona community of Cibecue, said Laurence Garvie, curator of the Center for Meteorite Studies at Arizona State University.
“The most mysterious star in the galaxy” was bound to spur some scientific debates.
KIC 8462852, located 1,480 light years away, perplexed scientists when they saw its light dip by as much as 20 percent. There's no satisfactory explanation for it. The two most popular guesses, that the light is being obscured by either a family of giant comets or a huge structure built by aliens, don't quite fit with the data. (Not to mention the fact that aliens should always be your last guess when you're doing science.)
The mystery deepened when another researcher—astronomer Bradley Schaefer from Louisiana State University--found that KIC 8462852 (aka "Tabby's Star") may also have been dimming over the last century by an unprecedented amount. This made the comet hypothesis even less likely, since something like 648,000 giant comets would have to be circling that star to dim it.
However, Schaefer's results were called into question earlier this month by grad student Michael Lund and data analyst Michael Hippke. Their work was largely misreported by the media when a press release made it seem as if they had debunked the alien hypothesis and proven the comet hypothesis, when really all they did was cast doubt on the long-term dimming theory. (Rest assured that Tabby's Star is definitely still bizarre.)
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Illustration of the star KIC 8462852
The weird light blips coming from this star might be caused by a family of comets or collision debris passing in front of the star
It was those public misconceptions that partially drove Schaefer to respond to the critiques in a rather scathing blog post last week. He says he is concerned that the erroneous reports were hurting the Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to monitor the star. Schaefer writes:
In the usual way of ‘social media’, Hippke’s and Lund’s claims have been highlighted as a refutation of the century-long dimming, and this has been extended to everything about KIC 8462852. For example, on the first day of the launch of the Kickstarter program, the Reddit talk had the statement that the person ‘thought this has all been refuted’.
Despite all the publicity, it is Hippke and Lund who are “definitely wrong,” he says. The explanation is pretty technical, so we'll try to keep it simple.
Star wars
Both papers analyzed old photographic plates collected by telescopes from the 1890s to the 1980s. Schaefer found that the light from Tabby's Star dropped by about 16 percent over a century, whereas other stars' light curves stayed flat. Lund and Hippke saw other stars dimming by similar amounts and concluded the effect was just an artifact of different telescopes being used over time.
Schaefer's blog post counters that Lund and Hippke used the wrong comparison stars. Their check stars were crowded together with other stars, he says, which makes the light curves from those stars unreliable.
Schaefer's second critique of the Lund and Hippke papers is that they used the wrong calibration technique, which often shows slopes in light curves.
"No experienced researcher" would make these choices, writes Schaefer. He, on the other hand, has "a vast experience with the Harvard plates, with nearly continuous work since 1979, something like 50 papers in refereed journals, plus five papers on the theory of photographic photometry."
While a scientist cannot prove a point based on experience alone--he needs data to back it up--Schaefer notes that Harvard astronomer Josh Grindlay has arrived at the same measurements.
I think that these two solid measures by the most experienced people in the world are to be strongly preferred to a claim coming from people who have yet to lay eyes on any archival photographic plate.
Harsh.
Keivan Stassun, a co-author on the Hippke and Lund papers, declined to respond to Schaefer's criticisms. "The proper forum for working out scientific debates is the peer-reviewed, refereed literature in which the plural of 'ad hominem' is not data," he told Popular Science, referring to the ad hominemstyle of argument that attacks a person rather than the data.
A bright outlook
Let's not get too sucked into the drama. Caltech astronomer Ben Montet explained to Popular Science that the problem stems from the fact that "there aren't many people who have considered looking for long-term trends in this data before." Scientists aren't sure what sorts of things could cause the photographic plate data to be wonky, how often those mishaps happen, and what effects they might have.
The short answer, says Montet, is that "the star looks like it's dimming on the plates, and we as a community are still trying to figure out if that's normal or not."
But there is hope that scientists will get to the bottom of the debate, and the answer could come from an independent data set--possibly Montet's.
Schaefer's blog post notes that if Tabby's Star really is dimming over the long-term, they should be able to detect a very, very faint dimming of the star over the four years that the Kepler telescope monitored it. Montet has combed through the Kepler data, and his preliminary conclusion is that the star is indeed fading.
However, the team is still going analyzing the data, and the study's not published yet, so it's still premature to say "case closed." We could see another paper in coming weeks to add to the debate.
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Pilot recalls encounter with low flying rectangle UFO
Pilot recalls encounter with low flying rectangle UFO
A Virginia witness at Sumerduck recalled a rectangle-shaped UFO hovering 200 feet over a car dealership during a 1993 incident, according to testimony in Case 76664 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The 1993 UFO sighting occurred at the intersection of US 17 and County Route 634, pictured, where the object was hovering 200 feet over a car dealership. (Credit: Google)
The sighting occurred at the intersection of US 17 and County Route 634 at 2:24 a.m. on November 25, 1993.
“I was returning home from Thanksgiving Day weekend in Maryland with my wife,” the witness stated.“We lived about 1.3 miles from this intersection. The lights hovered for about two minutes as we stopped to observe them. Then they slowly moved northeast and disappeared from sight in another two minutes.”
The UFO hovered at this location for about two minutes. (Credit: Google)
The witness is a private pilot and stated he had never seen anything like this before.
“We were about 100 feet to the west of the dealership while observing this. Both my wife and I heard no sounds emanating from the craft. While approaching the intersection in a southeast direction our initial thought was that it was helicopters from Quantico Marine Base, but that was very quickly dismissed as there was no sounds coming from the object and it was way too big to be a helicopter. Both my wife and I have the hairs on our bodies standing straight up during the incident. The rectangular light pattern was approximately 40 feet by 80 feet. The light pattern did not change during the whole incident.”
The witness was about 100 feet from the intersection, pictured, when the incident occurred. (Credit: Google)
Virginia Field Investigator Victor B. Rodriguez is investigating. Sumerduck is a small rural village located equidistant between Fredericksburg, Culpeper, and Warrenton, in Fauquier County, Virginia. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
HET HALVE MAINSTREAM-VERHAAL OVER BUITENAARDSE DOLK FARAO
HET HALVE MAINSTREAM-VERHAAL OVER BUITENAARDSE DOLK FARAO
De complete mainstream media en hun trouwe volgers komen allemaal met hetzelfde verhaaltje over de buitenaardse tolk van farao Toetanchamon.
De buitenaardse dolk moet gemaakt zijn uit een meteoriet, kan niet anders, terwijl iedereen zwijgt over de UFO-invasie 100 jaar voordat Toetanchamon leefde.
Maakt niet uit waar je kijkt binnen de mainstream, overal zie je hetzelfde van elkaar gekopieerde verhaaltje.
De Egyptische farao Toetanchamon is begraven met een dolk die van buitenaards materiaal is gemaakt. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van Italiaanse wetenschappers en het Egyptisch museum in Caïro.
De ontdekker van het graf van Toetanchamon, Howard Carter, vond de dolk in 1925 op de dij van de farao. Lang was onduidelijk waar het ijzer vandaan kwam. Het delven en gebruiken van ijzer was nog geen algemeen gebruik in de tijd van de beroemde farao.
(Op sommige websites is enige variatie in het kopiëren aangebracht, zoals: Howard Carter, de ontdekker van het graf van Toetanchamon, trof de dolk in 1925 aan op de dij van de farao.)
Wat voor de mainstream-media van groot belang is, is dat er een verklaring wordt gevonden die past in het heersende beeld van wat mensen is voorgeschoteld.
En dat is dat buitenaards leven niet bestaat en dus moeten we maar een passende verklaring zien te vinden.
Dat is wonderwel gelukt, want:
Het ijzer blijkt 11 procent nikkel te bevatten, veel meer dan in normale ijzeren objecten zit. Zo'n hoge concentratie nikkel is wel te vinden in meteorieten, stukken ruimtepuin die vaak lang geleden op aarde zijn neergekomen. De dolk bleek ook kobalt te bevatten. Ook dat komt voor in ijzermeteorieten.
Waar ze toch een beetje mank mee lopen met die verklaring is dat men in die tijd in Egypte geen ijzeren voorwerpen maakte.
Het delven en gebruiken van ijzer was nog geen algemeen gebruik in de tijd van de beroemde farao.
Dus, lossen we dat zo op:
Het bewerkte metaal is van hoge kwaliteit en bewijst dat de Egyptenaren in de veertiende eeuw voor Christus al bedreven waren in het bewerken van ijzer.
Verder zeggen ze dan dat uit antieke teksten zou blijken dat ijzer uit de lucht komt vallen.
Maar, wanneer we dan toch kijken naar antieke teksten, zien we dat er 100 jaar voordat Toetanchamon regeerde er tijdens het bewind van farao Thoetmoses III iets heel merkwaardigs gebeurde.
Iets dat de herkomst van deze dolk zou kunnen verklaren. Een betere verklaring dan: "de Egyptenaren konden opeens ijzer maken, terwijl ze dat normaal gesproken nooit deden".
We hebben inderdaad een buitenaardse dolk, want die dolk is hoogstpersoonlijk gebracht door buitenaardsen.
Op een in 1933 door Alberto Tulli van het Vaticaan museum ontdekt papyrusdocument wordt het verhaal verteld hoe er tijdens het bewind van Toethmoses III eerst één UFO verschijnt, enkele dagen later gevolgd door een ware armada van ruimteschepen.
Wat er niet verteld wordt in het papyrusdocument is of er daadwerkelijk contact werd gemaakt met de buitenaardsen.
Dat dit waarschijnlijk wel gebeurd is en dat ze wellicht toen deze dolk als een geschenk hebben gegeven aan de farao zoals wij vroeger kralen gaven aan de Sylvana's inboorlingen is waarschijnlijker dan dat de Egyptenaren dit zelf gemaakt zouden hebben.
Zelfs de theoretische mogelijkheid van een werkelijk buitenaardse dolk wordt in de media vakkundig buiten de deur gehouden.
Triest als je met zo’n “closed mind” en enorme oogkleppen op moet werken van je baas.
NASA Astronomer Breaks Silence About Nibiru? May 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
NASA Astronomer Breaks Silence About Nibiru? May 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of video: May 11, 2016 Maker of video:Jacob Israel Here is some deep thoughts about Nibiru. We have talked about Planet X for over 5 years here and just last month NASA admitted that there is a 9th planet out there with a 10,000 to 20,000 year orbit. They said the evidence exists to back it up that there is a ninth planet. This astronomer Paul Cox works for Slooh, an organization with close ties to NASA. He says there is a second sun. The truth is often stranger than fiction. Tell us your thoughts about Planet X in comments below. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Jacob Israelof Youtube states: The internet is buzzing about famous Slooh Observatory Astronomer Paul Cox, and his curious comments about a Second Sun, Nibiru and that NASA is covering up both... After being coincidentally/miraculously inspired or led to find out more about Nibiru months ago, and after dream after dream motivated me to take all of this "coicidence" seriously I began looking into Nibiru, the Annunaki and more... After sharing my recent video on the topic I have been blown away at all of the ACTUAL EVIDENCE pointing the world slowly to such... but these comments made by Slook http://live.slooh.com/ should not only make us all pause and take in the enormity of what this means for everyone on planet earth, but also why it feels like yet another cover up.... The TRUTH shall set us free...
West Virginia Witness Videotaped Triangular-shaped UFO
West Virginia Witness Videotaped Triangular-shaped UFO
symbolic image
What is the truth about Aliens and Extraterrestrials? Do these creatures exist out there? If they do exist, are they more advanced than humans? Since then, humanity has looked at the stars and still wondered. If you’ve read some books on UFOs, you may be wondering why it is such a big deal for the military and governmental forces to protect the people by hiding the truth. A West Virginia witness in Clendenin reported videotaping and watching a triangle-shaped mysterious object, and described as “the size of a mountain.” The sighting was seen by the witness along with her 31-year-old son on May 24, 2016, at 9:30 p.m. At first, they noticed a ball of light streaking in from the west. Seconds later, it abruptly stopped. The good thing, he was able to take a picture. For over a two-hour period, it stayed until it slowly moves towards the east. The witness started to see the sheer mass of the object after it cleared the western trees.
According to the witness, three white lights underneath it were moving with it. The witness could see a triangular shape of the object as the moon brightened. He added that it was so big that it bears a resemblance to a mountain moving through the sky. Due to the uniqueness of the encounter, he chalked it as one of the most unexplainable things that he has ever seen. The videos did not throw a justice on it as it does not show the three lights underneath that connect the entire element. Also, the third light was not transparent.
Clendenin is situated in Kanawha County, West Virginia with a population of 1,227. Delmer Kelley, the Field Investigator, is investigating for West Virginia MUFON. With a large amount of data available, one should see the topic in an objective manner. Take note that most sightings can be explained as man-made or natural.
A YouTube video taken near Wright Patterson Air Force Base apparently shows a UFO. The base has been a UFO hotspot since the end of WWII.
A couple in Dayton, Ohio shot the video as they were observing the sunset from their home. The unidentified flying object appears with its pointed end facing downwards. Mysterious markings are seen along the side of the bizarre aerial object.
The woman was the one who filmed their sighting using her phone. She was surprised to see an unusual object in the sky moving with clouds. Another person in the background appeared to look at the thing in amazement.
After the camera zooms in on the strange object, it fades and eventually vanishes into the clouds.
Another shocked onlooker can be heard in the background.
Tyler Glockner of Secure Team 10 calls it mind-blowing. Glockner claims this sighting isn’t the first one as he has two other sources who shot videos of the same object in the same area.
Glockner adds that the video most likely shows an alien craft. While he doesn’t discount the possibility of it to be a drone, he says that it is very unlikely.
The video was allegedly shot near the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, located ten miles from Dayton.
Between 1947 and 1969, Air Force has logged 12,618 sightings of strange activity in the sky with 701 of them deemed as unidentified.
What do you think about this footage? Real or a CGI?
Here’s one older UFO debate from 2011 Arizona UFO conference with Stanton Friedman, retired nuclear physicist and professional ufologist and a retired U.S. Army infantry officer and colonel John B. Alexander.
People were flocking near Chilbolton radio telescope in Hampshire, the UK on Tuesday, August 21, 2001, to see two crop formations. Featuring a large number of small pixels, both looked very impressive, especially the view from above.
One formed a human face and the other represented a radio transmission that Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) sent from the Arecibo radio telescope in 1974. According to the witnesses, the Arecibo formation was created on August 20. The two formations were 200m apart in the same field.
The interpretation of the human face came from researcher and writer Wayne Herschel. In his analysis, the face looks like an Egyptian Sphinx and Viracocha. However, the Mars Face could be the most thought provoking resemblance.
The Arecibo in the northern coast of Puerto Rico contains a natural disc-shaped hole in the rock. Inside the bowl is a 100-feet diameter radio telescope, the largest one in the world.
Some modifications performed to the transmitter in 1974, allowing it to broadcast up to 20 terawatts. SETI decided to transmit an encoded message to the heavens as an inaugural test of those modifications or improvements. The signal was directed to the globular star cluster M13, estimated to be 25,000 light years away and consisted of around 300,000 stars in the constellation of Hercules.
Transmitted on November 16, 1974, the message consisted 1679 pulses of binary code (o’s and 1’s), which needed only a little under 3 minutes to transmit on a 2380MHz.
The reason for 1679 is down to mathematics. The number is the unique product of two prime numbers, 23 and 73. The people behind the decision of the number assumed that any lifeform with enough intellect would look for unique, universal constructs, such as binary digits, chemical element frequencies, and prime numbers.
Only the two prime numbers 23 and 73 produce 1679 when multiplied together, so there can only be one way to arrange the signal if converted it into a matrix grid – 23 squares by 73 squares. The pattern in Chilbolton crop field was decoded as:
“Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises.
Much pain, but still time. Believe there is good out there.
We oppose deception. Conduit closing. 0x07″
The 0x07 is a binary code that means a bell sound or a sound of an old typewriter.
More information about how to decode or decipher mathematically sophisticated designs from crop circle formations can be viewed in the video below.
I can tell you about the SR-71 Blackbird's titanium frame, its Pratt&Whitney J58-P4 engines, or its genesis. But that's not important. What really matters is the thrill of flying it in an extremely dangerous mission, as remembered by this pilot.—JD
In April 1986, following an attack on American soldiers in a Berlin disco, President Reagan ordered the bombing of Muammar Qaddafi's terrorist camps in Libya. My duty was to fly over Libya and take photos recording the damage our F-111's had inflicted. Qaddafi had established a 'line of death,' a territorial marking across the Gulf of Sidra , swearing to shoot down any intruder that crossed the boundary. On the morning of April 15, I rocketed past the line at 2,125 mph.
I was piloting the SR-71 spy plane, the world's fastest jet, accompanied by Maj Walter Watson, the aircraft's reconnaissance systems officer (RSO). We had crossed into Libya and were approaching our final turn over the bleak desert landscape when Walter informed me that he was receiving missile launch signals. I quickly increased our speed, calculating the time it would take for the weapons-most likely SA-2 and SA-4 surface-to-air missiles capable of Mach 5 - to reach our altitude. I estimated that we could beat the rocket-powered missiles to the turn and stayed our course, betting our lives on the plane's performance.
After several agonizingly long seconds, we made the turn and blasted toward the Mediterranean 'You might want to pull it back,' Walter suggested. It was then that I noticed I still had the throttles full forward. The plane was flying a mile every 1.6 seconds, well above our Mach 3.2 limit. It was the fastest we would ever fly. I pulled the throttles to idle just south of Sicily , but we still overran the refueling tanker awaiting us over Gibraltar.
Scores of significant aircraft have been produced in the 100 years of flight, following the achievements of the Wright brothers, which we celebrate in December. Aircraft such as the Boeing 707, the F-86 Sabre Jet, and the P-51 Mustang are among the important machines that have flown our skies. But the SR-71, also known as the Blackbird, stands alone as a significant contributor to Cold War victory and as the fastest plane ever-and only 93 Air Force pilots ever steered the 'sled,' as we called our aircraft.
As inconceivable as it may sound, I once discarded the plane. Literally. My first encounter with the SR-71 came when I was 10 years old in the form of molded black plastic in a Revell kit. Cementing together the long fuselage parts proved tricky, and my finished product looked less than menacing. Glue, oozing from the seams, discolored the black plastic. It seemed ungainly alongside the fighter planes in my collection, and I threw it away.
Twenty-nine years later, I stood awe-struck in a Beale Air Force Base hangar, staring at the very real SR-71 before me. I had applied to fly the world's fastest jet and was receiving my first walk-around of our nation's most prestigious aircraft. In my previous 13 years as an Air Force fighter pilot, I had never seen an aircraft with such presence. At 107 feet long, it appeared big, but far from ungainly.
Ironically, the plane was dripping, much like the misshapen model had assembled in my youth. Fuel was seeping through the joints, raining down on the hangar floor. At Mach 3, the plane would expand several inches because of the severe temperature, which could heat the leading edge of the wing to 1,100 degrees. To prevent cracking, expansion joints had been built into the plane. Sealant resembling rubber glue covered the seams, but when the plane was subsonic, fuel would leak through the joints.
Origins The SR-71 was the brainchild of Kelly Johnson, the famed Lockheed designer who created the P-38, the F-104 Starfighter, and the U-2. After the Soviets shot down Gary Powers' U-2 in 1960, Johnson began to develop an aircraft that would fly three miles higher and five times faster than the spy plane-and still be capable of photographing your license plate. However, flying at 2,000 mph would create intense heat on the aircraft's skin. Lockheed engineers used a titanium alloy to construct more than 90 percent of the SR-71, creating special tools and manufacturing procedures to hand-build each of the 40 planes. Special heat-resistant fuel, oil, and hydraulic fluids that would function at 85,000 feet and higher also had to be developed.
In 1962, the first Blackbird successfully flew, and in 1966, the same year I graduated from high school, the Air Force began flying operational SR-71 missions. I came to the program in 1983 with a sterling record and a recommendation from my commander, completing the weeklong interview and meeting Walter, my partner for the next four years He would ride four feet behind me, working all the cameras, radios, and electronic jamming equipment. I joked that if we were ever captured, he was the spy and I was just the driver. He told me to keep the pointy end forward.
We trained for a year, flying out of Beale AFB in California , Kadena Airbase in Okinawa, and RAF Mildenhall in England . On a typical training mission, we would take off near Sacramento, refuel over Nevada, accelerate into Montana, obtain high Mach over Colorado, turn right over New Mexico, speed across the Los Angeles Basin, run up the West Coast, turn right at Seattle, then return to Beale. Total flight time: two hours and 40 minutes.
One day, high above Arizona , we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna pilot asked the air traffic controllers to check his ground speed. 'Ninety knots,' ATC replied. A twin Bonanza soon made the same request. 'One-twenty on the ground,' was the reply. To our surprise, a navy F-18 came over the radio with a ground speed check. I knew exactly what he was doing. Of course, he had a ground speed indicator in his cockpit, but he wanted to let all the bug-smashers in the valley know what real speed was 'Dusty 52, we show you at 620 on the ground,' ATC responded. The situation was too ripe. I heard the click of Walter's mike button in the rear seat. In his most innocent voice, Walter startled the controller by asking for a ground speed check from 81,000 feet, clearly above controlled airspace. In a cool, professional voice, the controller replied, ' Aspen 20, I show you at 1,982 knots on the ground.' We did not hear another transmis sion on that frequency all the way to the coast.
Permanent Awe The Blackbird always showed us something new, each aircraft possessing its own unique personality. In time, we realized we were flying a national treasure. When we taxied out of our revetments for takeoff, people took notice. Traffic congregated near the airfield fences, because everyone wanted to see and hear the mighty SR-71 You could not be a part of this program and not come to love the airplane. Slowly, she revealed her secrets to us as we earned her trust.
One moonless night, while flying a routine training mission over the Pacific, I wondered what the sky would look like from 84,000 feet if the cockpit lighting were dark. While heading home on a straight course, I slowly turned down all of the lighting, reducing the glare and revealing the night sky. Within seconds, I turned the lights back up, fearful that the jet would know and somehow punish me. But my desire to see the sky overruled my caution, I dimmed the lighting again. To my amazement, I saw a bright light outside my window. As my eyes adjusted to the view, I realized that the brilliance was the broad expanse of the Milky Way, now a gleaming stripe across the sky. Where dark spaces in the sky had usually existed, there were now dense clusters of sparkling stars Shooting stars flashed across the canvas every few seconds. It was like a fireworks display with no sound. I knew I had to get my eyes back on the instruments, and reluctantly I brought my attention back inside. To my surprise, with the cockpit lighting still off, I could see every gauge, lit by starlight. In the plane's mirrors, I could see the eerie shine of my gold spacesuit incandescently illuminated in a celestial glow. I stole one last glance out the window. Despite our speed, we seemed still before the heavens, humbled in the radiance of a much greater power. For those few moments, I felt a part of something far more significant than anything we were doing in the plane. The sharp sound of Walt's voice on the radio brought me back to the tasks at hand as I prepared for our descent.
The SR-71 was an expensive aircraft to operate. The most significant cost was tanker support, and in 1990, confronted with budget cutbacks, the Air Force retired the SR-71.The Blackbird had outrun nearly 4,000 missiles, not once taking a scratch from enemy fire.
On her final flight, the Blackbird, destined for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum , sped from Los Angeles to Washington in 64 minutes, averaging 2,145 mph and setting four speed records.
The SR-71 served six presidents, protecting America for a quarter of a century. Unbeknownst to most of the country, the plane flew over North Vietnam , Red China, North Korea , the Middle East, South Africa , Cuba , Nicaragua , Iran , Libya , and the Falkland Islands . On a weekly basis, the SR-71 kept watch over every Soviet nuclear submarine and mobile missile site, and all of their troop movements. It was a key factor in winning the Cold War.
I am proud to say I flew about 500 hours in this aircraft. I knew her well. She gave way to no plane, proudly dragging her sonic boom through enemy backyards with great impunity. She defeated every missile, outran every MiG, and always brought us home. In the first 100 years of manned flight, no aircraft was more remarkable.
Approaching the Libyan Coast With the Libyan coast fast approaching now, Walt asks me for the third time, if I think the jet will get to the speed and altitude we want in time. I tell him yes. I know he is concerned. He is dealing with the data; that's what engineers do, and I am glad he is. But I have my hands on the stick and throttles and can feel the heart of a thoroughbred, running now with the power and perfection she was designed to possess. I also talk to her. Like the combat veteran she is, the jet senses the target area and seems to prepare herself.
For the first time in two days, the inlet door closes flush and all vibration is gone. We've become so used to the constant buzzing that the jet sounds quiet now in comparison. The Mach correspondingly increases slightly and the jet is flying in that confidently smooth and steady style we have so often seen at these speeds. We reach our target altitude and speed, with five miles to spare. Entering the target area, in response to the jet's new-found vitality, Walt says, 'That's amazing' and with my left hand pushing two throttles farther forward, I think to myself that there is much they don't teach in engineering school.
Out my left window, Libya looks like one huge sandbox. A featureless brown terrain stretches all the way to the horizon. There is no sign of any activity. Then Walt tells me that he is getting lots of electronic signals, and they are not the friendly kind. The jet is performing perfectly now, flying better than she has in weeks. She seems to know where she is. She likes the high Mach, as we penetrate deeper into Libyan airspace. Leaving the footprint of our sonic boom across Benghazi , I sit motionless, with stilled hands on throttles and the pitch control, my eyes glued to the gauges.
Only the Mach indicator is moving, steadily increasing in hundredths, in a rhythmic consistency similar to the long distance runner who has caught his second wind and picked up the pace. The jet was made for this kind of performance and she wasn't about to let an errant inlet door make her miss the show. With the power of forty locomotives, we puncture the quiet African sky and continue farther south across a bleak landscape.
Under Attack Walt continues to update me with numerous reactions he sees on the DEF panel. He is receiving missile tracking signals. With each mile we traverse, every two seconds, I become more uncomfortable driving deeper into this barren and hostile land. I am glad the DEF panel is not in the front seat. It would be a big distraction now, seeing the lights flashing. In contrast, my cockpit is 'quiet' as the jet purrs and relishes her new-found strength, continuing to slowly accelerate.
The spikes are full aft now, tucked twenty-six inches deep into the nacelles. With all inlet doors tightly shut, at 3.24 Mach, the J-58s are more like ramjets now, gulping 100,000 cubic feet of air per second. We are a roaring express now, and as we roll through the enemy's backyard, I hope our speed continues to defeat the missile radars below. We are approaching a turn, and this is good. It will only make it more difficult for any launched missile to solve the solution for hitting our aircraft.
I push the speed up at Walt's request. The jet does not skip a beat, nothing fluctuates, and the cameras have a rock steady platform. Walt received missile launch signals. Before he can say anything else, my left hand instinctively moves the throttles yet farther forward. My eyes are glued to temperature gauges now, as I know the jet will willingly go to speeds that can harm her. The temps are relatively cool and from all the warm temps we've encountered thus far, this surprises me but then, it really doesn't surprise me. Mach 3.31 and Walt is quiet for the moment.
I move my gloved finder across the small silver wheel on the autopilot panel which controls the aircraft's pitch. With the deft feel known to Swiss watchmakers, surgeons, and 'dinosaurs' (old- time pilots who not only fly an airplane but 'feel it'), I rotate the pitch wheel somewhere between one-sixteenth and one-eighth inch location, a position which yields the 500-foot-per-minute climb I desire. The jet raises her nose one-sixth of a degree and knows, I'll push her higher as she goes faster. The Mach continues to rise, but during this segment of our route, I am in no mood to pull throttles back.
Walt's voice pierces the quiet of my cockpit with the news of more missile launch signals. The gravity of Walter's voice tells me that he believes the signals to be a more valid threat than the others. Within seconds he tells me to 'push it up' and I firmly press both throttles against their stops. For the next few seconds, I will let the jet go as fast as she wants. A final turn is coming up and we both know that if we can hit that turn at this speed, we most likely will defeat any missiles. We are not there yet, though, and I'm wondering if Walt will call for a defensive turn off our course.
With no words spoken, I sense Walter is thinking in concert with me about maintaining our programmed course. To keep from worrying, I glance outside, wondering if I'll be able to visually pick up a missile aimed at us. Odd are the thoughts that wander through one's mind in times like these. I found myself recalling the words of former SR-71 pilots who were fired upon while flying missions over North Vietnam They said the few errant missile detonations they were able to observe from the cockpit looked like implosions rather than explosions. This was due to the great speed at which the jet was hurling away from the exploding missile.
I see nothing outside except the endless expanse of a steel blue sky and the broad patch of tan earth far below. I have only had my eyes out of the cockpit for seconds, but it seems like many minutes since I have last checked the gauges inside. Returning my attention inward, I glance first at the miles counter telling me how many more to go, until we can start our turn Then I note the Mach, and passing beyond 3.45, I realize that Walter and I have attained new personal records. The Mach continues to increase. The ride is incredibly smooth.
There seems to be a confirmed trust now, between me and the jet; she will not hesitate to deliver whatever speed we need, and I can count on no problems with the inlets. Walt and I are ultimately depending on the jet now - more so than normal - and she seems to know it. The cooler outside temperatures have awakened the spirit born into her years ago, when men dedicated to excellence took the time and care to build her well. With spikes and doors as tight as they can get, we are racing against the time it could take a missile to reach our altitude.
In Love With the Blackbird It is a race this jet will not let us lose. The Mach eases to 3.5 as we crest 80,000 feet. We are a bullet now - except faster. We hit the turn, and I feel some relief as our nose swings away from a country we have seen quite enough of. Screaming past Tripoli , our phenomenal speed continues to rise, and the screaming Sled pummels the enemy one more time, laying down a parting sonic boom. In seconds, we can see nothing but the expansive blue of the Mediterranean . I realize that I still have my left hand full-forward and we're continuing to rocket along in maximum afterburner.
The TDI now shows us Mach numbers, not only new to our experience but flat out scary. Walt says the DEF panel is now quiet, and I know it is time to reduce our incredible speed. I pull the throttles to the min 'burner range and the jet still doesn't want to slow down. Normally the Mach would be affected immediately, when making such a large throttle movement, but for just a few moments old 960 just sat out there at the high Mach, she seemed to love and like the proud Sled she was, only began to slow when we were well out of danger.
I loved that jet.
Major Brian Shul is the author of Sled Driver, a fascinating account of his experiences as a pilot of the SR-71 Blackbird. The book has been out of print for two years now, but now you can buy one of the 3,500 limited edition copies—signed by Shul and other SR-71 legends—here. There are only a few left, so hurry up.
Excerpts via vfp62.com, a site dedicated to the officers and enlisted men who served with VFP-62, Light Photographic Squadron 62, Home Base Cecil Field (NZC), FLA. It's full of great anecdotes and images.
The SR-71 wasn’t like other planes. It didn’t retire like them either.
On this day in 1990, SR-71 #972 took its final flight for the U.S. Military and was officially retired. It ran from Los Angeles to Washington, headed to the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum. In typical Blackbird fashion, it set four speed records on the way.
Pilot Lt Col Ed Yielding and Reconnaissance Systems Officer Lt Col Joseph Vida took off at Palmdale, California and landed at Washington-Dulles a scant hour, four minutes, and 20 seconds later. This was enough to set records from the West Coast to the East Coast, from Los Angeles to Washington, from Kansas City to Washington, and from St. Louis to Cincinnati.
The average speed (just the average!) was 2,145 mph, as Brian Shul recalled in his account of his experiences as an SR-71 pilot, Sled Driver. You can read an excerpt of that book right here.
The Blackbird has a feel of a world record about it, in itself. You can look at an SR-71 and get a sense of standing human achievement, of something that appears almost like a natural creation. That it set a record on its final run is only fitting.
It is a commonly held belief that our lives are guided by some higher power. This higher power is usually God or fate. God or fate gives us small pushes throughout life. And these pushes can lead people to average things. Or lead them to exceptionally great things. These higher powers, however, may be of the space variety. New ideas behind some of the history’s greatest minds discuss an alien presence. Rather than a spiritual one. Some alien believers think that UFO sightings are simply aliens checking up on us. They have been called the “watchers.” Could aliens be behind how our lives actually turn out? Does the government know about this?
Foo Fighters (not the band) See UFO
The Foo Fighters of World War 2 saw a UFO while flying over Germany in 1944. These pilots reported glowing objects following their planes during the night. German and Japanese pilots also saw these glows during the war as well. This odd glow may support the recent Turkish pilots report of alien spacecraft.
British Roswell X-Files
Another government UFO sighting came in 1980. Called the British Roswell. It is one of the most popular cases in history. And also subject to a wealth of conspiracy theories. John Burrows, a U.S. soldier at the time of the incident, investigated the blue, red, and white glowing with other soldiers. They found a UFO that was made of smooth black glass. One soldier actually touched the alien spacecraft. He said his brain was given a code the second he touched it.
Alien Life on Earth
The former Defense Minister of Canada, Paul Hellyer, accused government agencies of keeping alien life on Earth secret. Hellyer has openly said that he has met aliens. And went further saying that four different alien species have visited Earth. He had strongly asked for government officials to come out of the UFO closet.
The former government official, Phil Snyder, had openly talked about UFO secrets. His death has also been the subject of myth. Since many believe he was assassinated. He spoke about government UFO cover-ups and black budgets. There were also debates about a government and alien partnership. A partnership that allowed the taking and testing of humans by aliens.
The Roswell Incident
Roswell made news in 1947, and is the most famous of all UFO and alien reports in history. Several government workers have openly shared the details of the Roswell event openly. The reports have detailed the capture of a flying saucer on a ranch near the military base. Three aliens were also reported to be found. This eye-witness report came from a Rancher who accidentally walked into an exam room where the aliens were held. Could all these people be lying?
Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) have been a topic of interest for decades, and with the recent release of thousands of previously classified government documents, we now know without question that government, military, and other defence agencies have had a high level of interest in this topic for a very long time.
These files indicate that objects are commonly tracked on both air and ground radar, as well as visually confirmed by the pilots who are sent out to intercept them.
Everything is in a process of investigation both in the United States and in Spain, as well as the rest of the world. The nations of the world are currently working together in the investigation of the UFO phenomenon. There is an international exchange of data. – General Carlos Castro Cavero (1979). From UFOs and the National Security State, Volume 2, written by Richard Dolan.
For instance, here is an excellent example of a defence intelligence agency report detailing what commonly happens when a UFO is tracked on radar, and pilots attempt to intercept it (one of thousands). Apart from traveling at tremendous speeds and performing impossible maneuvers that no known aircraft can perform, when military jets enter the object’s vicinity, they usually experience critical instrumentation failure.
When President Truman made the statement that they discuss this issue at every conference that the government has held with the military, many people took notice. Peter Andrew Sturrock, a British scientist and an Emeritus Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University, reminded us decades ago that we need to move forward with UFO research; this was in the 1960s. He stated that:
If it does indeed turn out that there is relevant physical evidence, if this evidence is carefully collected and analyzed, and if this analysis leads to the identification of several facts concerning the UFO phenomenon, then will be the time for scientists to step back and ask, What are these facts trying to tell us?(source)
After that, we had scientists like Dr. Jacques Vallee, notable for co-developing the first computerized mapping of Mars for NASA, and for his work at SRI International on the network information centre for ARPANET, a precursor to the modern Internet, publishing work in peer-reviewed scientific journals. For example, a study published in Scientific Exploration titled “Estimates of Optical Power Output in Six Cases Of Unexplained Aeriel Objects With Defined Luminosity Characteristics.” Apart from performing impossible maneuvers, the files also indicate some sort of electromagnetic effect when craft enter the vicinity of some of these UFOs. Critical weapons and electronic systems completely shut down. You can read about a classic example of that from two Canadian military pilots here.
To read about more examples, you can read this article we published on the topic a few years back. These are truly astonishing cases.
Above is just a tidbit of information regarding the UFO phenomenon. This field is littered with information ranging from declassified documents, from video footage, to statements from some of the ‘highest-ranking’ military and political people in the world.
So, ask yourself, why has it taken so long to accustom people to the fact that these objects are real, do exist, and have possibly existed well before the existence of modern day humans? Former head of the CIA, Roscoe Hillenoketter told the NY times in 1960 that:
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.
Here is an excellent video summarizing the UFO problem up in 10 minutes, give by UFO researcherRichard Dolan, given at the citizens hearing on disclosure organized by Steven Basset. It was a conference that gathered academicians, high ranking military and political personnel from around the world. I’ve used it multiple times in my articles so forgive me if you’ve already seen it.
Do UFOs = Extraterrestrial Craft?
Intelligent beings from other star systems have been and are visiting our planet Earth. They are variously referred to as Visitors, Others, Star People, ETs, etc. . . . They are visiting Earth NOW; this is not a matter of conjecture or wistful thinking. – Theodore C. Loder III, Phd, Professor Emeritus of Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire (source)
UFO doesn’t necessarily mean extraterrestrial, but, as with all of the evidence that presented itself prior to the disclosure of their existence, we have similar evidence and a great deal of information to believe that the extraterrestrial hypothesis is a possible explanation for some of these UFOs. A few years ago, you were branded a ‘conspiracy theorist’ for believing that UFOs are real. Today, more than half of the American population believes in their existence, and this was before dozens of governments decided to disclose their existence. A simple google search of the latest polls will show you this statistic.
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 (source)
Both NASA astronauts and high-ranking military personnel have told us that we are not alone, and that governments are aware of several different extraterrestrial races. It wasn’t long ago when Paul Hellyer, former Canadian Defence Minister stated that the government knows of at least four, or the Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon told us that he has been privileged enough to be in on the fact that we are not alone, and that ‘they’ have been visiting us for years. (source)
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 (source)
Perhaps it’s stories like the one that came out of Zimbabwe decades ago, where Harvard professor John Mack, heavily sponsored by Lawrence Rockefeller, uncovered a case of more than 60 school children witnessing a large craft landing with alien beings emerging from it. You can read more about that here. Perhaps it’s the fact that hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people have reported supposed encounters with extraterrestrial beings, either forced, friendly, or ‘unfriendly,’ or perhaps its the implant phenomenon. The list as to why the extraterrestrial hypothesis is plausible is a very long one, just as with the UFO phenomenon and the validity of it before it became mainstream, the reality of the extraterrestrial hypothesis is also very plausible, and based on my 10 + years of research, 100% definite. As former NASA astronaut and Princeton Physics professor Brian O’leary told the world, “there is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time.” (source)
It is my thesis that flying saucers are real and that they are space ships from another solar system. I think that they possibly are manned by intelligent observers who are members of a race that may have been investigating our Earth for centuries. -Herman Oberth, one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics(source)
Even in the mainstream, scientists have told the world that we are not alone, that the probability for that possibility is next to zero, and that extraterrestrial life will most likely be discovered within the next couple of years.
Here is another video that I’ve used dozens of times, but I just want to get the point across that there is strong evidence for the extraterrestrial hypothesis, despite the fact that some believe it is weak.
What Will Happen When The World Finds Out We Are Not Alone?
The question is not if, it’s when.
We’ve been bombarded with alien propaganda for decades, and now, the topic is being taken more seriously by the mainstream, and people within the public eye. Hilary Clinton is a great example, as she is getting mainstream coverage regarding her willingness to ‘find out the truth.’ Even the head of her current presidential campaign, Jon Podesta, is a big advocate for UFO disclosure.
But this is confusing, given the fact that a number of government and military officials worldwide have been telling us the truth for decades. Why is truth only truth when mainstream media, or a person of extreme popularity within the public eye brings it up? This is a problem. When a big event happens, like 9/11, or, let’s say, an official announcement about the extraterrestrial presence, the worldwide population will be glued to the TV screen awaiting an explanation, without questioning it. I would be cautious of any information we receive from western governments that comes in the form of a major announcement.
We’ve seen deception on a number of different topics, from the ‘war on drugs’ to the ‘war on terror,’ so don’t expect something like this to be any different. Mainstream media like sot take real events and twist our perception regarding what’s going on behind them.
That being said, when we do find out, en masse, that we are not alone, there are so many questions to ask. The mere existence of these UFOs without the alien hypothesis even being contemplated brings up questions of science. How are they moving the way they do? They perform maneuvers that no known aircraft can. They tend to stop on a dime and hover, what type of propulsion systems are they using?
It’s certainly not the burning of fossil fuels. Who are they? Where do they come from? What else do they know? How do they get here? What about religion? What about panic? What about all of the years of secrecy and the questions that have been asked and answered by those keeping secrets? As you can imagine, there will be multiple questions, and you can bet that the world will come to a standstill in search of answers to their questions. It’s a topic that will touch all aspects of humanity, and humanity would be changed forever.
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. (source)
Perhaps the realization that we are not alone, and eventual open contact with extraterrestrials can help us answer questions about ourselves. Of course, contact is already happening, just not on a massive scale.
Yes, it’s both. It’s both literally, physically happening to a degree; and it’s also some kind of psychological, spiritual experience occurring and originating perhaps in another dimension. And so the phenomenon stretches us, or it asks us to stretch to open to realities that are not simply the literal physical world, but to extend to the possibility that there are other unseen realities from which our consciousness, our, if you will, learning processes over the past several hundred years have closed us off. – John Mack (source)
It seems to me that we are beyond the ‘panic’ point. I personally believe that we’ve been visited for a very long time, and if anything like that was to ever happen, it would have already taken place.
To really learn more about this topic, one has to be interested in it. To find out the why, whats, and the where, one can do the research and come up with educated guesses without ever being sure. It’s a deep topic that has branched into so many other areas of our existence: to faith, to health, and technology, all the way to our socio-economic structure and the way we decide to do things here on our planet.
The main point here is that people are going to have questions, and we are going to need teachers other than those who have been using mainstream media to dish out lies to the masses in order to fulfill some sort of agenda.
It will no doubt be interesting to see, in fact, it’s already taking place on an individual level. Slowly butsurely.
Some of what people report as UFOs are extraterrestrial (ET) vehicles. Some of those extraterrestrial vehicles actually have ET crews, and some of those ET crews catch and release humans. — Dr. Don Donderi, a retired McGill University Professor of 40 years in the Department of Psychology (source)
VIDÉO - La Nasa livre des images à couper le souffle de la surface de Pluton
VIDÉO - La Nasa livre des images à couper le souffle de la surface de Pluton
Des images prises par la sonde New Horizons en juillet 2015 sur la planète naine révèlent un paysage accidenté et somptueux, proche de ce qu'on peut observer à la surface de la Terre.
New Horizons' Extreme Close-Up of Pluto’s Surface (no audio)Crédit Image : capture d'écran YouTube
Plateaux, cratères et glaciers d'azote : ce sont des images incroyables qu'a révélé la Nasa. Dans une vidéo diffusée le 27 mai sur son site internet, l'agence spatiale américaine montre des images de la surface de Pluton, prises par la sonde spatiale New Horizons en juillet 2015, quand celle-ci était avait approché au plus près la planète naine.
Selon la Nasa, il s'agit de "l'aperçu le plus détaillé de la surface de Pluton" que l'on pourra voir avant un long moment. D'une résolution de 80 mètres par pixels, ces images vont permettre aux scientifiques d'examiner en détail les différents types de sols de Pluton et de comprendre comment ils se sont formés.
On peut notamment y discerner un terrain accidenté, des chaînes de montagnes anguleuses et chaotiques, d'immenses plaines, des glaciers et de profondes crevasses. "Ces images sont simplement magnétiques", résume Alan Stern, chercheur au Southern Research Institute de Boulder (Colorado).
In 1950s the idea of creating the nuclear airplane, the long range strategic bomber powered on the power of atom was considered as a necessity by Soviet generals. At that time there was already built first Russian atomic ice breaker with its independent nuclear reactor on board. So the plane seemed to be pretty real. To give you a little spoiler on this post - yes, they finally was to able to build a working plane with a nuclear reactor on board which was powering it during the flight. Interested? Let's see how it all looked like:
There were almost 1,000 long range strategic bombers in the USA able to deliver nuclear bombs right into Russia at that time and Soviet army officials were afraid they had no such long range planes so they decided to get those, but not traditional propeller or jet powered ones but rather a nuclear one.
Why nuclear? Because according to their calculations the supersonic planes of big size needed for the transportation of lots of bombs would need over 10,000 tons of fuel just for one flight. Even storing such amounts of aircraft petrol in one place tend to be a problem.
Here on the pictures you can see a proposed design for the first plane with atomic nuclear reactor on board.
In June 1952 the leading Soviet nuclear engineer Alexandrov was telling the "godfather" of Soviet atomic industry Kurchatov: "Our knowledge of atomic reactors allows us to raise a question of achieving the development of engines powered with atomic force in nearest years".
However during these "few years" - three years to be exact, already the "conventional" heavy bombers appeared - for example the TU-95s "Bears" - which are still being used in Russian air force and are planned to be in service for as long as 2040 minimum.
Meanwhile, the planned nuclear plane has got its model name "M-50" and the nuclear engine initially was planned to be placed in the front part of the plane, but later as you can see on this picture was moved backwards.
This was one of the final looks of M-50 - it was now called M-52, M-56K or even M-60 - depending on the specimen that was developed - in parallel there were a few of similar planes prepared by separate groups of engineers.
Most of such planes had the nuclear engines that used molten metals to transfer heat from the nuclear reactor to the engine itself. Those were molten lithium or sodium. The engines also had an option to work on regular aircraft fuel - just like your regular hybrid car can go on electricity and on gas.
Also those planes were hosting one small plane - drone as we call it now - inside of themselves. You can see it on the previous picture (one which is above this one). It is marked red there and is located in the mid part of the plane. The idea for this drone was to be able to shoot bombs in more precise manner without the main plane going too much down from the supersonic altitidues it was going to fly at. So it just dropped this little plane which did all the job closer to the ground. Sort of a nuclear Soviet sub-orbital mothership.
Sadly, this exact plane was not finished. The main engineer who supervised those groups was moved to more important task at time - building the ballistic missiles - the ones that can reach far far away countries for sure and without the tricks of dropping drones or using molten lithium. So the project was closed.
However, remember I told you the nuclear planes still were built? Yes, there was another group working on those, and here is their story:
On this picture you can see the real and once being highly classified top secret Soviet nuclear plane. It was not a supersonic jet as the one before, was using the power of propellers to move, however it was still a nuclear powered strategic bomber!
It was developed in TU agency and their task was initially more simpler - to build a normal propellered but nuclearly powered plane.
At first in 1956 they built a "Flying Nuclear Lab" based on the normal TU-95 plane. Later the real nuclear TU went into process of building.
This is a real scheme of the nuclear turbo engine of the TU lab.
And this was another type of the engine they developed. The nuclear elements in this one was placed in round fashion around the engine.
This was an unground testing site for those engines.
And this is how the reactor, the engine and the sensors were hosted inside of the plane's body. The plane got its name TU-95LAL.
Behind the pilots cabin there was a very thick layer of radiation protection installed. However the outer walls were not that thick and radiation could go on the sides.
Here is this plane photographed unclose. Once very top secret now possible to see and explore - this photo shows the walls around the nuclear reactor inside this plane.
And this is how they were removing and installing the reactor from/into the plane.
Believe it or not but they were able to get this plane into the skies and just in one year - 1961 the year of the first Russian cosmonaut - this plane has took 34 flights alone.
The main danger they figured out was that such plane could contaminate huge areas of land with radioactive wastes. Remember that think side walls? So this project was dropped too!
The plane was left abandoned on the nuclear test site for over 15 years and then demolished by special order of top party officials.
However, this is still not the end of the nuclear planes history of Russia.
What if I tell you there was also a third plane?!
Yes, there was - please meet AN-22 01-07:
After the first two projects were abandoned most of the knowledge and developed technologies were then used to build the nuclear submarines. They successfully have been proved a good working idea and tested the approaches to the compact reactors for years. So later 1970s they were able to build the most advanced Soviet nuclear plane to date. How about the poisonous wastes? Nothing like that. "The only waste it produced was the heated air stream", remembers the engineer, "it was more ecologically sound than even the regular gas powered planes - no wastes at all".
This was achieved because after 1950s-60s they dropped the idea of nuclear reactors with "open cycle" and developed the "closed cycle" ones.
This is a drawing of this engine. It was called "combined turbo jet nuclear engine.
The engineers were telling that everything was nice with this engine - no waste, almost unlimited flight range (sic!). Just imagine this plane could fly around without landing as long as it wanted or as long as it was technically sound. The only problem says the engineer was the damage of the reactor or engine - if someone shoots down the plane or it falls down due to some technical mischiefs. In this case the casing of the engine/reactor can be damaged and lots of nuclear toxic stuff can be leaked. So they moved on to protect the engines further but...
But then the cold war ended, the Soviet Union collapsed, and we still don't see the ecological, cheap and unlimited air flights.
ALIEN ENCOUNTER: UFOs have been spotted across Hull
While Hull has never experienced a close encounter of the third kind (or so we think), there have been hundreds of sightings of UFO's around the city. And, it seems, even our city's beloved sporting teams have been affected by an out-of-this-world experience.
In 1980, at the start of Hull KR's glory days, there was a report of a strange red and white object hovering over Craven Park before disappearing. In the five years that followed, the club had an unprecedented run of success. Spooky, eh?
The Craven Park sighting and hundreds of other UFO reports in Hull have been filed and released by the National Archives in recent years. Here, local historian Mike Covell looks at ten of the strangest.
1. The Bransholme encounter
A National Archive record of the Bransholme sighting
In October 1986 twenty people on Bransholme saw a moon shaped object with a curved cone on the top and red lights flying towards the direction of East Park. The group consisted of two adults and 18 children playing football. They contacted Humberside Police who in turn contacted RAF Binbrook, but the sighting was never explained and remains unsolved.
2. Patrington 'zig-zag' UFO
A bunker in RAF Holmpton, one of the big UFO recording stations
RAF Patrington, known today as RAF Holmpton, was one of the primary recording stations for the phenomena in the region. Whole files from the National Archives feature cases investigated by the staff at the base from civilians, police, and flight personnel. One such case was the sighting of a spherical object with flashing lights, moving in a zig-zag pattern up the River Humber towards Hull, on December 12, 1987. It was reported to Humberside Police who reported it to the RAF base but the case remains unsolved.
3. Tower Grange gets involved
Days after the sighting at RAF Patrington, on December 27, 1987, an east Hull couple contacted Tower Grange Police Station, who in turn contacted the MOD, with reports of a large, oblong shaped craft, with 50 to 100 bright yellow lights flashing around its edge. The unnamed couple saw the craft for a short period before it zoomed away.
In February 1988, a taxi driver and his passenger were heading along Robson Way, Sutton, towards Leads Road, when they saw a large orange-red orb hovering silently above the road. It was described as looking like a spherical hot air balloon, without anything slung underneath. The report was sent to Humberside Police, who forwarded it on to the MOD.
5. Craft descends on Craven Park
MYSTERY: The old Craven Park in Holderness Road.
Without a doubt the strangest sighting came in September 1980, when an unnamed individual spotted a red and white round craft hovering above the sports ground. The person said it was there for four and a half minutes, and reported to the Humberside Police, who forwarded the sighting to RAF Binbrook.
6. Hessle's flying triangle
On July 13, 1990, an unnamed woman residing in Hessle spotted a UFO that looked like a giant flying triangle. She watched it for 45 minutes, but stopped and hovered for 30 minutes. It was seen to fly off after emitting a bright flash from its rear end. She ran upstairs and woke up her son and using binoculars, they watched it together. She reported the incident to Hessle Police Station and was described as being "a mature woman of sound mind."
On December 26, 1990, a large cigar shaped object was seen over Park Street, Hull, with blue and green lights at the rear. The unexplained craft flew west, then south, but hovered near Hull Royal Infirmary. The eyewitness was described as "sounding sober". It was reported to Humberside Police, who forwarded it to RAF Waddington, but the case remains unsolved.
8. Bransholme school teacher's encounter
In October 1990, a teacher, at Winifred Holtby School, Bransholme, was standing in the car park at 7pm when he saw an object fly towards the east from the west. It remained in view for several minutes before vanishing over the horizon. The observer was described as having worked at the school for nine months, had previously been at another school for seven years, was married for five years, and most importantly, "appears sensible and in complete control of all mental senses."
9. Humber Bridge UFO
Are aliens attracted to the other-worldly Humber Bridge?
Humber Bridge, unsurprisingly, features regularly in the UFO reports. One of the sightings occurred in April 1991, when two UFOs with blue, red and green lights, flew over the bridge. It was investigated by the Humberside Police and the details of their investigation were passed on to RAF Waddington.
Another sighting at the bridge took place in July 1997, when a silver cigar-shaped object flew over the bridge. It was described in the official files as having sharp, pointed wings, with a red light on one and a green light on the other.
It was said to have hovered by the bridge before shooting off at great speed towards Beverley. Interestingly, the official file goes on to state that nine witnesses saw the UFO, "the names of whom are held by the Hull Daily Mail."
One of the files features an encounter from October 17, 2002, and is described as a "credible witness UFO sighting". It was sent to Humberside Police's Incident Handling Unit, Northern Command Centre at Hessle Police Station on what can only be described as an official UFO reporting form.
The incident was recorded under log number 70, of 17/10/02 at 2.39am, when a member of the public in east Hull claimed to have seen two large flying lights near BP Saltend, seemingly communicating with each other through flashes.
Humberside Police despatched officers, one of whom saw it from Hedon, other officers spotted it from BP, and another said they saw it in Thorngumbald.
All described the lights as looking like stars but stopping and moving at great speeds. Despite this, and an investigation using the Humberside Police helicopter, the file claims the sighting was nothing more than a star or satellite, possibly affected by the nearby gasses emitted from the chemical works.
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David Cameron's vow to be 'open and honest' about aliens and UFOs sparks hope truth will out
David Cameron's vow to be 'open and honest' about aliens and UFOs sparks hope truth will out
BYJON DILLON
A video of Cameron discussing extra-terrestrial life has raised hopes an official announcement will be made when Barack Obama leaves the White House
Footage showing David Cameron vowing to be "open and frank" about alien life has raised hopes of an official announcement that extra-terrestrials exist.
UFO hunters are keeping their fingers crossed that US President Barack Obama will go public before he leaves office.
Lobbyist Stephen Bassett, who is calling on the US Government to release its secret UFO files and hold Congressional hearings, believes the Prime Minister would follow suit if the Americans made the first move.
And it seems the Tory leader could be in favour of such a move after previously stating no government should hide the truth.
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David Cameron vows to be open and honest about alien sightings and UFOs
Richard D Hall, who is a chartered electrical engineer, quizzed Cameron during one of his 'Cameron Direct" meetings in 2009, before he became Prime Minister.
While taking questions from the audience, Richard asked him: “In July last year, the respected scientist and astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, who was the sixth man to walk on the moon spoke on a British radio station.
"He said that the American government have had contact with extra-terrestrials on multiple occasions and that these were on going.
"He spoke about the Roswell event of 1947, where wreckage from a downed UFO was recovered and found to contain alien bodies.
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It's hoped that Obama will confirm the existence of extra-terrestrials before he leaves the White House
"He said that this event was real and had been covered up by governments for many years.
"Do you agree with me David, that the British people have the right to know if we have been visited.
"And if so, when you become Prime Minister, as I know you will, will you seek to lift the veil of secrecy and tell the public the truth that they deserve, which has been covered up for all of these years.”
Initially the Tory chief poked fun at the question, saying: "I’m convinced we have been visited by alien life forms, and one of them is the trade secretary Peter Mandelson."
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Richard's letter to David Cameron asks for an interview
But he changed his tone once he realised Richard, who hosts his own TV show called Rich Planet and runs the Rich Planet website, was serious.
Cameron said: "I have no idea whether there is intelligent life out there and no idea whether any sightings that have taken place or incidents that have taken place have any basis in truth.
"All I know is I do believe in freedom of information and openness, and if this question has been asked from time of governments in this country and indeed in the US, I think we should be as open and as clear as possible.
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David Cameron's polite reply
"What’s tended to happen when people look at the Roswell incident or people look at pictures and other things that have happened is a rational explanation tends to be produced to try and show that its not what those who believe in UFOs suggest.
"But I think we should be as open as possible so I would be quite happy to give you a guarantee that if I was Prime Minister I would always be entirely open and frank about these things.
"I do not think any of us have any clue whether there is any intelligent life out there, and it is certainly not something that any government should seek to hide from anybody."
Following his response, Richard invited Cameron onto his TV show but he declined. He did, however, acknowledge his pledge in a personal letter.
More recently, democratic contender Hillary Clinton and her campaign boss John Podesta have championed the disclosure cause during her bid to become the next president.
Mr Bassett told Mirror.co.uk: "The UK has steadfastly stuck with the US regarding the truth embargo on the extraterrestrial presence for more than six decades.
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Natuurkundige: “De zwaartekracht bestaat niet”
Natuurkundige: “De zwaartekracht bestaat niet”
Natuurkundige Erik Verlinde zorgde vijf jaar geleden voor ophef met zijn theorie dat de zwaartekracht niet bestaat. Hij zei dat de zwaartekracht de uiting is van een dieper proces.
Verlinde legt momenteel de laatste hand aan een publicatie waarin hij laat zien dat zijn theorie één van de grote vraagstukken uit de kosmologie oplost: donkere materie. Astronomen nemen aan dat deze donkere materie bestaat, omdat ze anders de bewegingen van sterrenstelsels niet kunnen verklaren.
Gedacht wordt dat de totale hoeveelheid massa en energie van het heelal voor slechts vijf procent uit normale materie bestaat. De rest is allemaal onzichtbaar, maar ook onvindbaar. Wetenschappers zoeken al tientallen jaren tevergeefs naar de bouwstenen van donkere materie.
Hologram
Erik Verlinde (Wikicommons)
De leermeester van Verlinde was hoogleraar en Nobelprijswinnaar Gerard ’t Hooft. Die kwam met het idee dat de waarnemingshorizon van een zwart gat een soort hologram is. In dat hologram is alle informatie opgeslagen over zaken die in het gat zijn verdwenen. De materie is weg. Wat rest is informatie op de horizon.
Als materie in een zwart gat verdwijnt, leidt dat tot een herschikking van de materie op de horizon, zo bedacht Verlinde. Je rolt een internetkabel netjes op, maar na verloop van tijd komen er altijd weer knopen in. Hij heeft geconcludeerd dat de zwaartekracht geen fundamentele kracht is, maar een bijproduct van de natuur die streeft naar wanorde.
Raadsel oplossen
“Het heelal dijt uit en hoe verder een sterrenstelsel van ons vandaan staat, hoe sneller het zich verwijdert,” stelt de natuurkundige. “Dan is er een punt waarop de verwijdering sneller gaat dan het licht. Dat is onze horizon. Die horizon heeft fysisch dezelfde eigenschappen als de horizon van een zwart gat.”
Net als bij het zwarte gat zit de meeste informatie over het heelal op die horizon, aldus Verlinde. Nu hij die informatie in zijn afleiding van de wetten van Newton en Einstein heeft gestopt, kan hij het raadsel van donkere materie en donkere energie oplossen.
Farao Toetanchamon is begraven met een dolk die is gemaakt van buitenaards materiaal, zo blijkt uit onderzoek van Italiaanse wetenschappers en het Egyptisch museum in Caïro.
Howard Carter, de ontdekker van het graf van Toetanchamon, trof de dolk in 1925 aan op de dij van de farao. Het ijzeren lemmet heeft onderzoekers sinds de ontdekking door Carter verbaasd. IJzerwerk was zeldzaam in het oude Egypte en de dolk was niet verroest.
Met behulp van röntgenapparatuur hebben de wetenschappers het lemmet geanalyseerd. Het ijzer blijkt 11 procent nikkel te bevatten, veel meer dan in normale ijzeren objecten zit.
Gift van de goden
Zo’n hoge concentratie nikkel is wel te vinden in meteorieten. De dolk bleek bovendien kobalt te bevatten, een metaal dat ook voorkomt in meteorieten. Uit oude teksten blijkt dat de Egyptenaren wisten dat hun zeldzame ijzer uit de lucht kwam vallen.
Volgens de wetenschappers hechtten de oude Egyptenaren grote waarde aan meteorieten, die zij als een gift van de goden zagen. De gebruikelijke term in die tijd voor ijzer was ‘ijzer uit de lucht’.
Niet het enige buitenaardse voorwerp
“De introductie van de term suggereert dat de oude Egyptenaren in de 13e eeuw voor Christus wisten dat er zeldzame stukken ijzer uit de lucht vielen,” schrijven de onderzoekers, die hun bevindingen publiceerden in het tijdschrift Meteoritics & Planetary Science. “Zo’n 2000 jaar eerder dan de westerse cultuur.”
De dolk is niet het enige buitenaardse voorwerp dat in de tombe van Toetanchamon is gevonden. Een sieraad in het graf bevat een scarabee van silica-glas. Dat is hoogstwaarschijnlijk gevormd als gevolg van de inslag van een meteoriet of komeet.
One of the very best photographs ever taken of a triangular UFO was snapped by an anonymous cameraman in Belgium in April of 1990. Recognized by anyone familiar with UFOs, it became the cornerstone of the Belgian UFO wave of 1989. On November 29, 1989, a triangular UFO with lights sparking underneath was seen by multiple witnesses-three groups of policemen included. This began a case which still baffles investigators today.
First Sightings:
The first night of sightings was only the beginning of one of the best documented and witnessed UFO waves ever. On more than one occasion, two F-16 fighter jets chased the unknown flying crafts, but without results. One of the most notable sightings of the wave came on March 30, 1990 from a Belgian National Police captain, who watched a giant, triangle UFO passing overhead. Two separate radar stations corroborated the sighting.
Radar Stations Report:
The triangle was moving very low, and very slowly over the landscapes of Belgium near the city of Glons, which is southeast of Brussels.
A NATO manned radar station was reporting the object, and they soon found that four more stations also were getting a return from the object. The flying object would not answer hails to identify itself, and sent no transponder signal. Jets would be sent to find the object.
F-16s Sent to Intercept:
Two American-made F-16s were scrambled by the military to intercept and identify the object. One of the jet radars did lock on the object, which appeared as a diamond shape on the screen. Seconds after the lock on, the UFO quickly moved out of the plane's radar range. The F-16 went after the UFO, but after a chase that lasted an hour, the UFO escaped unidentified, except for two more radar returns.
Beyond Our Technology:
The F-16 pilot knew that he was chasing something that had speed and maneuverability far beyond the capabilities of his jet. At one point, radar returns showed that the UFO had dropped from 10,000 to 500 feet altitude in 5 seconds, an unbelievable move. The sightings of the giant triangles continued for months, being witnessed over and over again. They often flew low enough to easily be seen with the naked eye.
Getting a Photograph:
The sighting wave became a big story in the Belgian media, and it became apparent that getting a photograph of the UFOs was almost impossible... many witnesses snapped photos of the triangles, only to see blurred imagery. This unusual occurrence was investigated by physics professor Auguste Meesen, who discovered that infrared light was not allowing the objects to be photographed.
Finally Captured on Video Tape:
Finally, one good video film was taken of the object. The image showed the bottom of the triangular shape, with three red spotlights on the corners. The photograph associated with the Belgian wave is actually a frame capture taken from the video. The film was taken over the town of Petit Rechain.
Classic Status:
The Belgium wave has obtained classic status in UFO lore. With over 1,000 witnesses, confirmed radar sightings, plane radar lock-ins, and military confirmations, the fact that an unknown craft moved across the country of Belgium cannot be denied. The case is also important for its unique information sharing. Civilian and military officials were forthcoming with the reports, and set a model for others to follow in their pursuit to uncover the mystery behind the UFO enigma.
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Red Shot Above Earth at Space Station In June 1, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Red Shot Above Earth at Space Station In June 1, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: June 1, 2016 Location of sighting: Earths orbit, ISS This red shot as Streetcap1 calls it was seen at the space station. It does seem to appear to be coming from the Earth, however I think its much closer, just a few meters from the space station. This object would be about the size of a motorcycle. It is probably a living entity...an organism that lives in the depths of space and has created this glowing color, much like deep ocean creatures making a glow to help find one another. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Streetcap1 states: This is shown at real-time speed. When I turned the object in Irfanview, it resembled the shape of a craft or entity.
For many years now, UFOs have more than not been identified as "flying saucers," or disc-shaped objects. Of course, there were other unknown flying object reports of odd-shaped vehicles of many different descriptions, but these were the exception and not the rule.
In the last 30 years or so, the triangle shape has become a topic of much discussion. Often reported as flying low and running silent, with several lights on the bottom, these strange objects have become an enigma in UFO circles. Sightings of these objects often come in waves, and they are reported as being able to go from a crawl to a high speed departure in a matter of seconds.
A Government Project?
Many feel that the triangle UFO may be a top-secret government craft, still in the experimental stage, and more than likely designed with military implications. Some researchers feel that they are the next step in the Stealth series of craft, capable of flying low and making their exit without being detected by enemy radar.
This type of craft would be indispensable for enemy surveillance, especially with weapon capabilites.
I will agree that a good portion of triangle UFO sightings may be attributed to a government manufactured craft, but this cannot account for all of them. The man on the street cannot know just how advanced governmental or military technological prowess may be, but reports of the flight characteristics of the triangles seem to surpass even our most liberal estimates of what modern technology is capable of.
Reports Increasing
Although the triangle craft seem to be a dark, mysterious entity, according to researcher and author, Clyde Lewis, triangle sightings in the United Kingdom are almost an everyday occurrence. He states in his article, "Mystery of the Black Triangles," there have been approximately 4,000 reports of the triangles since 1990 in the UK alone.
There have also been waves of triangle sightings in Belgium, France, Holland and Germany, beginning with the most celebrated wave of all, the 1989-1990 triangle wave over Belgium.
In this particular case, in addition to triangle sightings, other anomalous events took place. As some of the triangles were picked up by military radar, jets would be scrambled to get a close look at exactly what was invading Belgian airspace. However, although the jet fighters could briefly lock in on the mysterious UFOs, when their weapons were set to fire, their electrical systems would malfunction, and soon the triangles were out of range.
Anomalous Effects
A second unusual fact during the Belgian wave was the inability of eyewitnesses to capture the objects on film. There are a couple of fairly decent, distant videos of them, and finally one good photograph was taken in April, 1990 in the city of Petit Rechain.
This photograph, clearly shows a triangle-shaped object with red lights on the belly.
There were approximately 1,000 sightings of the Belgian triangle, and many of these were reported by ground observers who could clearly see the craft, and took what they felt would be a good, clear picture. However, when their film was developed, the image was blurry, and had no probative value. This fact came to the attention of August Meessen, physics professor, who was employed by the Catholic University at Louvin.
He developed a theory that the photographic failures were caused by infrared light. He proved his theory through scientific experiments. What this actually means is open to debate, but it appears from witness statements, that the farther away the triangle was from the photographer, the better chance to get a good image.
The sightings over Belgium were investigated, and there was no doubt that unknown, triangular-shaped objects moved over the country for about two years. They were caught on radar, seen by pilots, and witnessed by a general cross section of the public, including policemen.
No explanation could be given, except to say that something very unusual occurred in the Belgian skies. This is one of the best examples of the triangle UFOs, but in future articles, I will detail other special cases of these strange, low-flying craft.
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1910-1930 Battleship or submarine found that is 100 meters long on island, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
1910-1930 Battleship or submarine found that is 100 meters long on island, June 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: June 1, 2016 Location of discovery: Farquhar island Google Earth Coordinates: 10° 9'12.13"S 51° 3'5.36"E
Yeah, I know, its not a UFO, but it is really cool. I was teaching for more wreckage form the flight MH370 and stumbled upon this old ship or sub. Google ruler says its 95+ meters across, but since one side looks split open, its closer to 100 meters. There is a visible metal railing all around the edge of the craft so that tells me the ship has a metal outside hull. The floor of the craft is hard to make out, so I can't really tell if its metal or wood, which would help narrow down the date of the sinking and the type of craft. I did notice that the ship has a heart shape large fin, like a submarine would have in the back, but it may be just part of the reef its sitting on. If you know what kind of craft this is, what the name of this ship or sub is, or when it sank, please let me know in the comments below. Its driving me nuts not knowing. thanks, Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
Red Shot Above Earth at Space Station In June 1, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Red Shot Above Earth at Space Station In June 1, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: June 1, 2016 Location of sighting: Earths orbit, ISS This red shot as Streetcap1 calls it was seen at the space station. It does seem to appear to be coming from the Earth, however I think its much closer, just a few meters from the space station. This object would be about the size of a motorcycle. It is probably a living entity...an organism that lives in the depths of space and has created this glowing color, much like deep ocean creatures making a glow to help find one another. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Streetcap1 states: This is shown at real-time speed. When I turned the object in Irfanview, it resembled the shape of a craft or entity.
VIDEO – 1986 UFO Incident Over Alaska with a Japanese freighter aircraft
VIDEO – 1986 UFO Incident Over Alaska with a Japanese freighter aircraft
In November, 1986, a Japanese crew of a jumbo freighter aircraft witnessed a UFO while flying over the state of Alaska. This sighting gained international attention when the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that it was going to officially investigate this sighting because the Air Route Traffic Control Center in Anchorage, Alaska, had reported that the UFO had been detected on radar. Captain Terauchi was featured on numerous radio and TV programs and in People Magazine.
Japan Airlines Flight 1628 Encounters a Massive UFO Midflight Over Alaska
One of the prevailing modern themes among UFO researchers today entails that UFOs have gradually changed in appearance over time. Beginning with amorphous “green fireballs” and “ghost rockets” in the 1940s, by the 1950s and 60s, these “UFOs”, as they were dubbed by head of the USAF Project Blue Book Edward Ruppelt, began to often appear as saucer or disc-shaped. Later, objects resembling eggs, cigars, and a host of other shapes were continually reported up until the later 1980s, when large, silent triangle-shaped aircraft began to become most prevalent amidst popular reports of mystery aircraft in our skies.
A skeptical friend of mine recently questioned me about this apparent trend, noting that, “it’s amazing to me that no one seems to have ever pointed this out or discussed it.” This, of course, was a misperception on his part — although quite an honest one, I believe — as I am often confronted with similar “why has nobody ever…” by my more skeptical friends (and in truth, rather than these being cases of some trend or question never having been addressed by serious UFO researchers, instead they tend to be evidential that many skeptics haven’t, for better or for worse, take time to familiarize themselves with literature about the UFO subject).
Perhaps the idea of “trends” in relation to changes among UFO descriptions over the years isn’t entirely without merit. It does seem that the alleged “silent triangle” UFOs began to appear with greater frequency during the 1980s and early 90s. In equal measure, fewer of the classic “Daylight Discs”, to borrow J. Allen Hynek’s terminology, seem to be seen in the modern era. So it does seem that an argument could be made that descriptions actually have changed some over time.
However, if we look more closely at the reports that have been collected over the decades, and truly attempt to dig deeply enough, at least, that we find credible ones in their midst, we find that many of the so-called “trending” UFOs have actually appeared numerous times over the course of the history of UFOlogy, and are not restricted to specific periods.
Take, for instance, the triangular UFO craft, the earliest appearances of which are largely attributed to the 80s and 90s. Looking further back, we actually find a number of credible witness reports that seem to suggest otherwise. In his 1965 book Anatomy of a Phenomenon, Jacques Vallee shared the following report that occurred in Poland in 1959:
“In March of 1959, on the coast of Poland near Kolobrzeg, Polish soldiers saw the sea suddenly become agitated. A triangular object, each side measuring about four meters, came out of the water and started to fly in circles over the barracks, then sped away and vanished.”
In 1996, my fellow MU blogger Nick Redfern also managed to find a report that occurred six years later in 1965, which had been reported to the MoD at the time it occurred.
“While digging through a whole host of formerly classified files on UFOs at the National Archives at Kew, England in 1996, I came across a one-page report dated 28 March 1965 that, I confess, I almost overlooked. On closer inspection, however, I realized that it was potentially one of the most important UFO-related documents that I had ever come across. According to the MoD paperwork, on the night in question a witness saw at approximately 9.30 p.m. over moor-land near Richmond, North Yorkshire, England: ‘Nine or ten objects – in close triangular formation each about 100ft long – orange illumination below – each triangular in shape with rounded corners, making low humming noise.’ ”
Redfern managed to track down the original witness to this 1965 episode, whose name was listed on the report. The man recalled the encounter with amazement once Nick reached out to him, describing that his car’s motor began to handle roughly immediately prior to the appearance of a large triangle, approximately 100 feet across and moving slowly toward him. The object then took off with amazing speed, angling upward and rising altitude to join a fleet of similar aircraft, which left the area together. For some time after the incident, the witness received numerous calls from an unidentified individual that claimed to work with a division of the government, who inquired about whether he had observed the craft again, or if anyone had interviewed him about it.
Researcher David Marler, author of the book Triangle UFOs: An Estimate of the Situation, also notes early reports of triangle shaped UFOs. Marler and I met in April, 2016, at a conference in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, where I asked him if he had been aware of a report of a triangle-shaped “cloud” with a red light in the center, first related (as far as fringe literature goes, at very least) in Charles Fort’s classic work, The Book of the Damned. Not only had Marler indeed seen this and included it in his own book on the subject, but he had managed to glean a number of similar reports of triangle-shaped objects aircraft that well predated the more popular “modern” reports of silent triangle UFOs.
With little doubt, the same analysis could be applied to other descriptions or classification groups of UFOs, but using the preceding as a general example, the presumption that the UFO phenomenon appears to follow distinct trends over time may not be completely true. Or, at very least, as with all sets of rules, one will generally find exceptions if they look closely enough.
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VIDEO: Inwoners van Boliviaanse stad zien ‘buitenaards wezen uit UFO komen’
VIDEO: Inwoners van Boliviaanse stad zien ‘buitenaards wezen uit UFO komen’
Inwoners van de Boliviaanse stad Santa Cruz hebben naar eigen zeggen een ‘alien’ uit een UFO zien komen. Diverse inwoners van de wijk El Dorado zagen eerst een helder licht aan de hemel dat begon te dalen en vervolgens bij een boom neerkwam. Dat meldt de Boliviaanse krant El Deber.
Het ongeïdentificeerde vliegende object werd gezien op donderdagavond 16 mei rond 22.00 uur. Het is volgens de krant voor het eerst dat zich zoiets in Santa Cruz heeft voorgedaan.
Drie tieners die op weg naar huis waren zeiden dat ze uit het object een vreemd schepsel met lange armen en korte benen zagen komen, dat uiteindelijk tussen de takken verdween. Het wezen zou ook voetafdrukken hebben achtergelaten, melden lokale media.
Heel hard geluid
De getuigen zeiden dat het licht op vuur leek en ook hoorden ze een donderend geluid. “Het wezen had grote ogen,” vertelde één van de getuigen aan de Boliviaanse tv-zender Red Uno.
“We hoorden een heel hard geluid,” zei een vrouw. “Alles viel uit. Er was geen mogelijkheid om het geluid op te nemen. Plotseling viel het naar beneden en verdween het. Ik weet niet wat het geweest is.”
Recht naar beneden
Een andere getuige zei: “Er kwam iets naar beneden, recht naar beneden. Een licht kwam recht naar beneden en kwam neer in die boom. Het probeerde bij dat huis naar binnen te gaan.”
In Bolivia worden vaker UFO’s gezien. Eind vorig jaar beweerde Maria Prado met zijn mobiele telefoon een vliegende schotel te hebben gefilmd in de lucht boven de stad El Alto in La Paz. Het cirkelvormige object verdween uiteindelijk in de wolken. De Mexicaanse krant Excelsior zette echter vraagtekens bij de echtheid van de beelden.
In onderstaande video laten getuigen zien hoe het wezen er volgens hun uitzag:
No matter which candidate is elected U.S. president in November, will he or she have full access to classified UFO and ET documents and will they be able to unveil them to the public? That question was addressed recently by Christopher Mellon, a 20-year high-level employee of the federal government in a variety of national security positions and a member of famous wealthy family that has long held the power and finances to gain access to such data. What does he think and why should we listen to him?
Chris Mellon
According to its website, UFODATA was founded a few years ago “to design, build and deploy a global network of automated surveillance stations that will monitor the skies full time looking for UFOs. UFODATA has no interest in alleged government conspiracies or adding more witness reports or FOIA documents to the thousands already on file.” Despite that pledged aversion to conspiracies, it recently added Chris Mellon to its board. According to his bio on the website, Mellon was “… a Legislative Assistant for Senator William S. Cohen he drafted the legislation establishing the US Special Operations Command … Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Security and Information Operations during the Clinton Administration … Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Intelligence in the Clinton and Bush Administrations.” He also professes a lifelong interest in UFOs. Sounds like someone who might know something about classified UFO documents, doesn’t it?
Since his appointment to the UFODATA board, Mellon has shared his insights on, among other things, the promises that Hillary Clinton and her campaign manager, John Podesta, have made to open government UFO and Area 51 files to the public. Because Area 51 falls under the Department of Defense, Mellon claims presidential access to secret or “compartmented” Programs is on a need-to-know basis.
I recall instances when White House officials sought briefings on highly compartmented Department of Defence (DoD) programs and were flatly refused … In general, nobody outside DoD, including the Secretary of State, is deemed to have a need to know.
Nobody. Mellon goes further to discuss government involvement with UFOs during his time in Washington and what he expects the response to be..
During all those years, I never detected the faintest hint of government interest or involvement in UFOs … I think the conspiracy theorists will be angry and unconvinced.
Not a hint. Why? Mellon says “the UFO mystery is a scientific problem” and, as board member of UFODATA, he offers this advice to Hillary Clinton:
If Clinton really wants to get to the bottom of the UFO issue, I think she should officially task NORAD with collection and analysis responsibility. Simultaneously, she should assign the Office of Science and Technology Policy the job of reviewing available evidence, coordinating with other countries and providing scientific assessments and recommendations.
UFODATA’s proposed approach to collecting UFO data
A scientific approach to UFO research. Would that work? Would the results be accepted by the public? By the skeptics?
Would Chris Mellon and UFODATA be standing by to offer its “global network of automated surveillance stations that will monitor the skies full time looking for UFOs”? If there’s a budget, that’s one question with an easy answer.
Cela fait déjà plusieurs années que j'appuie les faits et découvertes sur nos prédécesseurs (je n'affirme pas "ancêtres" comme certains car non prouvé) sur cette Terre, principalement sur le fait qu'ils n'étaient pas autant "arriérés" ou "préhistoriques", "hommes-singes" ou même "hommes des cavernes" que ce que la majorité des scientifiques croyaient sans réelles preuves, mais juste une certaine psychose de la supériorité (non justifiée) du genre "Homo Sapiens ou Homme-moderne"...
C'est bien sûr le cas pour notre cousin néandertalien avec ces nombreux articles (voir en bas de cet article) et découvertes récentes qui, petit à petit, ont mené à un fort changement de paradigme (et surtout les "a priori" rarement justifiés des scientifiques des 19ème et 20ème siècle) les concernant, la toute dernière découverte en France, absolument extraordinaire, enfonçant encore plus profondément le clou... mais j'en profite aussi pour affirmer qu'encore plus anciens, les "Homo Erectus" ont très probablement aussi leur part d'inventivité et de mystères que nous commençons aussi seulement à entrevoir...
C'est une récente publication scientifique, effectuée après près de 3 ans d'études, dans le très sérieux Nature qui bouleverse ainsi ce qui n'était après tout surtout que des hypothèses, des dogmes basés sur la fausse pensée que seuls les "hommes modernes" avaient des possibilités en matières d'arts, de constructions et de créativités...
C'est dans une profonde grotte située sur la commune de Bruniquel, une petite bourgade de 600 habitants qui surplombe l’Aveyron, perchée sur un piton rocheux, dans le Sud du Quercy, dans le Tarn et Garonne français. La grotte a été découverte en 1992 par un très jeune spéléologue (Bruno Kowalsczewski, 15 ans à l'époque,s'était en fait rappelé que son père lui avait parlé d'un courant d'air sortant d'un trou ou terrier à cet endroit, qu'il avait senti dans les années 50-60 !) qui a réussi a se frayer un chemin sur les 330 mètres en grandes parties obstrués qui séparent la salle principale de l'entrée. Une entrée où il a d'abord découvert des restes de bisons, rennes, cerfs et plusieurs ours bruns... un peu comme un indicateur le menant à se glisser dans des couloirs et passages très étroits et difficiles, obstrués parfois par des coulées d'argiles qu'il déblaie et qui le mènent à une vaste cavité ornée par des draperies de stalactites et possédant un petit lac souterrain ! Et une surprise énorme qui le fera alerter les archéologues : sur 30 mètres carrés environ, des morceaux de stalagmites arrachés et découpés sont disposés en forme de cercle, couchés horizontalement pour la plupart et sur plusieurs couches, alors que d'autres sont disposés comme des étais pour soutenir cette construction étrange ! Puis il tombe sur un os d'ours brûlé, la trace de l'homme, indéniablement...
Prise de mesures pour l'étude archéo-magnétique de la grotte de Bruniquel.
Photo Etienne FABRE. SSAC
Bien sûr dans les années 1990, les scientifiques n'en reviennent pas... des premières analyses et datations ont été effectuées avec les seuls moyens à l'époque, le carbone 14 et ses limites qui sont atteintes avec l'os d'ours brûlé : -47.000 ans... le débat fait rage car on sait déjà à l'époque que seul neanderthal (à priori toujours) était déjà présent en France, la première apparition (à priori) de Cro-Magnon étant estimée à -40.000 ans... La première publication dans le magazine de spéléologie Spelunca (N° 60) raconte en détail la découverte et les premières spéculations et datations. La grotte Chauvet (avec une visite humaine la plus ancienne datée à 37.000 ans récemment) n'a pas encore été découverte, seule Lascaux avec son ancienneté estimée à -22.000 ans sert de référence pratiquement en matière de grotte encore à l'époque...
Mais dès 1996 et les publications dans la presse (Voir Libération), le débat fait rage entre les tenants de l'hypothèse d'un néandertalien plus intelligent, artiste et constructeur et les tenants de l'hypothèse d'un Cro-Magnon présent en France plus tôt que découvert jusqu'à présent (certains ne veulent pas renoncer à l'idée d'une suprématie de Homo Sapiens et aussi d'une certaine "évolution linéaire")... la description des lieux est un peu plus fournie : " pour y pénétrer, il faut d'abord se glisser dans un boyau étroit. Des éboulis et une pente plus tard, démarre une dégringolade vers l'inconnu: une vaste salle, étrange. Le sol ressemble à un cratère lunaire, creusé de dépressions. On dirait des jacuzzi, ce sont des bauges à ours, par dizaines. Des ossements traînent çà et là. De l'ours des cavernes, du castor, de la chauve-souris, du renne...
Les parois sont vierges, tout juste balafrées par des griffades d'ours, venus se nettoyer les pattes ou s'étirer comme de gros chats. La troupe s'avance dans un couloir. A plus de 250 mètres, encore une grande salle. Et là, au beau milieu, l'étrange structure apparaît. « Ça ressemble à un haricot avec un petit rond à côté, dit Michel Soulier, président du club de spéléo de Caussade. En tout cas, c'est du jamais vu sous terre : ici, des centaines de concrétions ont été arrachées, brisées, assemblées pour dessiner un quadrilatère de 4 m sur 5. En son centre, deux amas. A côté, une structure circulaire plus petite. Les spéléologues invitent à Bruniquel François Rouzaud, conservateur du patrimoine à la Direction des affaires culturelles de la région Midi-Pyrénées.... "
L'hypothèse d'une tente et comparaison avec des structures en os de mammouths découvertes en extérieurs sont effectuées à l'époque... car la datation de 47.600 ans est trompeuse et oblige à comparer ce qui est comparable aux mêmes dates (mais on sait maintenant que ces datations sont fausses : les structures sont beaucoup, beaucoup plus vieilles...)
" En Russie, en Ukraine et en Moldavie, des structures (de 45 000 ans environ) mais à l'air libre évoquent celle de Bruniquel. Là-bas, on a retrouvé des assemblages d'os de mammouths, dessinant aussi un quadrilatère, avec, au milieu, deux petits tas : des cale-poteaux. Le tout étant destiné à dresser une toile de tente, une peau de bête. « Ce qui est troublant, c'est que la masse de nos concrétions est équivalente à celle des os de mammouths », dit François Rouzaud. Mais quelle idée de se monter une tente dans une grotte ? En ce temps-là, il faisait plus froid (YH : oui il y a -47.600 ans, et oui aussi à -176.000 ans : c'est la glaciation de Riss, bien qu'il y ait eu une période de douceur s'arrêtant vers -190.000 ans !) et peut-être l'homme de Bruniquel a-t-il cherché à se faire un petit chez soi, facile à chauffer. « On peut aussi imaginer qu'ils ont cherché à améliorer l'éclairage, la tente jouant le rôle d'un abat-jour... Plutôt un comportement de Cro-Magnon. » "
Puis la grotte est restée fermée, sur sa propriété privée à l’emplacement secret, pendant quinze ans...
C’est en 2011 seulement que Bruniquel a reçu la visite de Sophie Verheyden, chercheuse à l’Institut royal des sciences naturelles en Belgique. Elle est également intriguée par les étranges structures de stalagmites et demande l’autorisation de lancer de nouvelles études, car les techniques de datation ont fait beaucoup de progrès depuis les années 1990 : la méthode radioactive «uranium-thorium» permet désormais de remonter jusqu’à - 600 000 ans, et n’est pas limitée à la matière organique comme le carbone 14 : elle fonctionne également avec les minéraux sédimentaires comme les stalagmites et c'est donc l'idéal ici. Une nouvelle équipe se monte, composée de Sophie Verheyden, Jacques Jaubert et du directeur de recherche au CNRS Dominique Genty, avec comme premiers objectifs de faire un relevé de la grotte en 3D, de mesurer le magnétisme de la cavité pour repérer les matériaux brûlés et de carotter les stalagmites pour établir une bonne datation. Car le bris des stalagmites puis la reprise des concrétions et donc la création de nouvelles stalagmites au-dessus des anciennes va permettre une datation très précise, puisqu'il y a une interaction précise des humains sur les sédiments à un moment donné !
Restitution 3D des structures de la grotte de Bruniquel telle qu’elle était avant les repousses stalagmitiques. (image X. Muth. Get in Situ, Archéotransfert, Archéovision. SHS 3D. Base photographique Pascal Mora)
Six carottes de deux centimètres de diamètres ont été effectuées sur des stalagmites comportant les différentes states, pour comparer les résultats, faire une moyenne et limiter les erreurs. Après une attente raisonnable des résultats de plusieurs laboratoires américain et chinois, la surprise est annoncée. La date de fin de pousse des stalagmites couchées et la date de repousse correspondent parfaitement. Sophie Verheyden appelle Jacques Jaubert pour lui donner la datation officielle. Les résultats sont tous très concordants et fiables, et l'âge donné est vertigineux : 176 500 ans avec une marge de + ou - 2000 ans !
Autant on sait que l'homme moderne, nommé aussi Homo Sapiens ou encore Homme de Cro-Magnon visitait des grottes pour y laisser des peintures ou y déposer des sépultures, s'y réfugier, on sait aussi qu'on n'a aucune preuve à ce jour de son existence en Europe avant 40 000 ans par rapport à maintenant (les premières traces de l'homme moderne étant en Roumanie pour l'Europe). Le seul qui est identifié pour une période aussi lointaine en Europe est l'Homme de Neanderthal, et encore c'est un néandertalien "archaïque". Un cousin disparu vers 35 000 ans dont on ne sait presque rien question mode de vie, sinon qu'il s'habillait tant de plumes que de peaux et cuirs, se tatouait, qu'il savait fabriquer des outils de pierre, utilisait le feu et pratiquait possiblement certaines formes d'art (découvertes très récentes) et de rites. Certaines reconstitutions le décrivent comme étant pale aux yeux bleus-gris et possiblement roux (néandertalien de Spy en Belgique), il aurait traversé plusieurs âges de glace pour finir par disparaître mystérieusement 10 000 ans après l'arrivée des hommes modernes en Europe...
La déduction est logique principalement à cause de l'identification de tous les ossements découverts avant 40.000 ans en France comme étant ceux de la race néandertalienne... est-ce vraiment fiable, est-ce que certaines datations ne devraient pas être effectuées avec les moyens modernes plus récents ? Est-ce que des comparaisons avec d'autres races découvertes récemment (Denisovien par exemple) ne devraient pas être tentées avant de tomber à nouveau dans la facilité de déduction ? La possibilité d'une autre race ou même d'une race encore inconnue (l'ADN semble montrer qu'il manque une race pour compléter le génome humain !) est-elle a exclurecomplètement d'emblée ?
Les questions fusent : la présence de ces constructions, assemblages intelligents de stalagmites à 335 mètres de l’entrée de la grotte, dans une obscurité complète implique que ceux qui les ont faites, Neanderthal ou autre, maniait les torches en sous-sol bien avant l’homme moderne (rappel : on a trouvé des foyers vieux d'un million d'année en Afrique, donc Erectus avait déjà domestiqué le feu). « C’était probablement un groupe, un collectif avec des personnes qui éclairaient pendant que d’autres transportaient et agençaient les stalagmites », réfléchit Jaubert. Donc il y avait toute une organisation avec des rôles différents et répartis entre les individus. Une coordination, des échanges. Peut-être aussi une hiérarchie, un chef ou un "connaisseur" qui donnait des ordres ou des conseils. Sans oublier la phase préalable de recherche et de choix des matériaux pour monter la drôle de structure. Le travail fut complexe : il y a 400 «speleofacts» dans la cavité – un néologisme créé par les trois chercheurs pour désigner les spéléothèmes (concrétions minérales) transformées par ceux qui ont créé cet assemblage.
Détail de «spéléofacts», structures aménagées composées de stalagmites brisées et agencées, noircis par le feu. (Photo Michel Soulier. SSAC)
Les visiteurs préhistoriques de la grotte « ont arraché des stalagmites, les ont basculées, sectionnées, fragmentées, tronçonnées voire même calibrées pour les disposer de manière circulaire ou les entasser dans les parties centrales de la structure, selon un plan qui était certainement prédéterminé. Les hommes ont déplacé entre 2,1 tonnes et 2,4 tonnes de matériaux. Ce n’est pas un acte anodin. Les bâtisseurs avaient certainement un objectif en amont, mais il est impossible de le connaître à l’heure actuelle. Par élimination, on peut supposer qu’il n’y a pas trop de raisons de type habitat (la tente ou cabane montée dans une grotte n'est pas une hypothèse retenue par les scientifiques), de raisons techniques ou alimentaires… On est progressivement acculés dans le domaine de l’immatériel, qu’on a du mal à appréhender pour ces périodes très anciennes. » De l’art ? Un rite ou un culte ? « C’est un terrain très dangereux, et il faut vraiment réfléchir à deux fois avant de lâcher un mot de ce genre. »
Pourtant, les preuves d'une intervention intelligente sont bien là : Dominique Genty détaille les différentes preuves : d’abord, la carte des anomalies magnétiques réalisée dans la grotte montre les différents endroits où de la magnétite a été créée en chauffant des minéraux. Cette carte coïncide avec les foyers relevés par les chercheurs en observant la calcite rougie ou noircie par le feu. Ensuite, il y a ce bout d’os qu’on a retrouvé coincé entre une stalagmite couchée et sa repousse. « C’est de l’os carbonisé, conclut Genty. On l’a analysé avec un spectre infrarouge, et on sait qu’il a été chauffé à 300 ou 400 degrés. » Donc des hommes étaient là, avec leurs outils préhistoriques pour faire le feu, au moment où les stalagmites ont été installées. Enfin, ce n’est pas une preuve formelle mais les tronçons de stalagmite ont manifestement tous une taille similaire : il y a un calibre moyen pour les tronçons de la grande structure circulaire, et un autre calibre moyen pour les plus petites structures. Or « la nature ne calibre pas les stalagmites ».
Un seul problème pour l'instant, mais les fouilles doivent être très prudentes de peur de détériorer cette construction : aucune réelle trace de néandertalien dans la grotte, pas d'outils, d'empreintes laissées... mais ce n'est que le début, il va falloir des années pour tout étudier et répondre aux multiples questions : Les Néandertaliens (ou autres ?) sont-ils venus monter leur structure d’un seul jet, en une fois, ou sont-ils venus sur plusieurs saisons ? Combien de temps faut-il pour organiser savamment deux tonnes de stalagmites à la lueur de torches, à 50 mètres de profondeur ? « On s’est promis de se donner les moyens de répondre à cette question », affirment les trois chercheurs, qui devraient étudier Bruniquel de nombreuses années encore. Au programme de 2016, ils espèrent faire un peu d’archéologie expérimentale : « Il faut trouver une grotte qui soit accessible, avec suffisamment de concrétions que l’on puisse bouger… On aimerait bien manipuler des spéléothèmes. ». Il serait en effet possible de reconstituer le travail accompli à cette lointaine époque.
Il serait aussi intéressant de dater la fermeture de la grotte, qui est bien moins accessible aujourd’hui qu’au paléolithique moyen, et puis revoir des empreintes et des griffures d’ours au fond de la grotte, dans une zone qui n’a pas encore été très explorée de peur de l’abîmer. Peut-être y a-t-il d’autres traces humaines de ce côté-là ? C'est donc une découverte à suivre, avec probablement des réponses à certaines questions, qui vont encore plus probablement en amener d'autres...
Une donnée importante à retenir : il y a une vingtaine de "points de chauffe" (ou "âtres", "foyers", "torchères") et ils sont tous situés au-dessus des structures montrées et non pas sur le sol même...
Pour finir, je rappelle également la découverte de structures étranges en forme de cercles et de quadrilatères (un peu comme ces structures faites en stalagmites donc) en Afrique du Sud, donc l'âge estimé par certains chercheurs va jusqu'à 200 000 ans, donc assez proches de ces structures découvertes en France... un possible lien pourra-t-il être établi un jour ? Voici le lien vers un article qui est consacré à ces découvertes étranges en Afrique du sud (vers le bas de l'article) :
Scientists have captured dramatic video footage of what happens to liquid droplets when they are hit with the beam of an X-ray laser. Spoiler alert: They explode.
These are the first movies of the microscopic realm showing water being vaporized by the world's brightest X-ray laser, taken at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. Data from this research could lead to better understanding and use of X-ray lasers in experiments, according to SLAC.
The footage shows the X-ray pulse ripping a drop of liquid apart, which creates a cloud of smaller particles and vapor. When the X-ray pulse hits a jet of liquid,it initially creates a hole in the stream. As the gap grows, the ends of the jet become an umbrella-like shape, eventually folding back to merge with the jet. [Gallery: Dreamy Images Reveal Beauty in Physics]
Scientists use X-ray lasers' extremely bright, fast flashes of light to take atomic-level snapshots of nature's speediest processes.
"Understanding the dynamics of these explosions will allow us to avoid their unwanted effects on samples," Claudiu Stan of the Stanford PULSE Institute, a joint institute of Stanford University in California and SLAC, said in a statement.
"It could also help us find new ways of using explosions caused by X-rays to trigger changes in samples and study matter under extreme conditions," he said. "These studies could help us better understand a wide range of phenomena in X-ray science and other applications."
Liquids are commonly used to bring samples into the X-ray beam's path for analysis. In only a tiny fraction of a second, samples can blow up from the power of an ultrabright X-ray, but researchers can, in most cases, take the data they need before damage sets in.
The new study, published online May 23, 2016, in the journal Nature Physics, shows, in microscopic detail, how these explosions unfold. The researchers took one image, timed from five-billionths of a second to one ten-thousandth of a second, for each X-ray pulse hitting the liquid. The images were then edited together into movies.
From the data gathered during these experiments and their resulting movies, the researchers developed mathematical models to describe the liquid explosions. These models could help researchers tune the lasers more precisely, and will eventually be used in experiments employing extremely high-powered X-ray lasers. That could include the European XFEL, a laser currently under construction in Germany that will fire thousands of times faster than those at SLAC.
"The jets in our study took up to several millionths of a second to recover from each explosion, so if X-ray pulses come in faster than that, we may not be able to make use of every single pulse for an experiment," Stan said. "Fortunately, our data show that we can already tune the most commonly used jets in a way that they recover quickly, and there are ways to make them recover even faster."
Where Are All The Stars? They’re Being Destroyed By Black Holes
Where Are All The Stars? They’re Being Destroyed By Black Holes
Kavli IPMU
IN BRIEF
Scientists finally have the evidence to support the theory that black holes are to blame for preventing some galaxies from forming new stars, a long-standing mystery referred to as "galactic warming."
BLACK HOLE CAUGHT RED-HANDED
For years, astronomers have been baffled by a mysterious phenomenon in which galaxies are left dormant, with only red dwarf stars remaining in them. These galaxies have the full resources to form new stars, but for some reason, they are not making any new ones—a process called “galactic warming.”
Astronomers have long suspected that black holes were the culprit, but could not find enough incriminating evidence.
However, they were recently caught red-handed—using the Sloan Digital Sky Survey’s (SDSS) new field spectroscopic survey, Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory (MaNGA), a new addition to the Sloan Foundation Telescope’s arsenal.
Because MaNGA can provide more detailed images of galaxies, particularly “two-dimensional maps of stellar velocity” and “velocity dispersion and ionized gas velocity,” among other elements for observation, it is capable of capturing subtle and quick changes to galaxies.
According to the SDSS: “Unlike previous SDSS surveys which measured spectra only at the centers of target galaxies, MaNGA bundles sets of optical fibers into tightly-packed arrays, enabling spectral measurements across the face of each of ~10,000 nearby galaxies.”
Artist’s rendition of the phenomenon. Akira (right) has a black hole that pulls gases from nearby galaxy Tetsuo (left). Credit: Kavli IPMU
HOW IT HAPPENS
Astronomers observed that a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy, named Akira, was pulling gases from another nearby galaxy, Tetsuo. This fuels the black hole in Akira, keeping it alive, and causing it to detonate winds so hot and energetic that it prevents the formation of new stars.
Edmond Cheung, astronomer at the University of Tokyo’s Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, lead the study along with an international team of astronomers.
“You can think of these winds as super-heating the atmospheres of galaxies,” says Cheung. “As soon as any gas starts to cool, it gets blasted by this wind, like water droplets turning to steam.”
The barren galaxies are named “red geysers,” due to the geyser eruption-like wind outbursts the black hole emits, destroying any new stars before they form and leaving the galaxy with only old red dwarfs.
Planet nine: op zoek naar de ‘best mogelijke verklaring’
Planet nine: op zoek naar de ‘best mogelijke verklaring’
DOOR BENEDICTE LEMMELIJN.
Wetenschappers ontdekten onlangs een nieuwe planeet. Of daar gaan ze toch van uit. De planeet werd nooit echt geobserveerd en het bestaan ervan wordt afgeleid uit indirecte bewijzen. Het is immers de ‘best mogelijke verklaring’. Als zoiets kan binnen de exacte wetenschappen kan het in de theologie dan ook voor de duiding van de werkelijkheid die ons ‘overstijgt’?
Of u het ook vernam, weet ik niet, maar ik kwam het te weten via de krant… Intussen kan u het overal googelen en het via een leerrijk filmpje te weten komen: Amerikaanse wetenschappers maakten onlangs de ontdekking bekend van een nieuwe planeet in ons eigenste zonnestelsel, ‘planet nine’, de negende. Op zich is dat al opzienbarend nieuws, maar voor mij nog opzienbarender is de wijze waarop deze kennis tot stand komt. Wat ik u hier vertel heeft natuurlijk ongetwijfeld te lijden onder mijn beperkt positief-wetenschappelijk begripsvermogen, maar de kern ervan komt toch wel min of meer in de buurt. Men ontdekte in ons zonnestelsel, héél héél ver van hier, een reusachtige planeet, die tot tien keer groter is dan de aarde met een diameter van twee tot vier keer deze van de aarde, en die twintig keer verder van de zon verwijderd is dan Neptunus, onze verste buur. De kring van haar baan duurt niet één jaar zoals bij de aarde, of tien jaar zoals bij Jupiter, maar twintigduizend jaar! Op zijn minst indrukwekkend…
Als u nu, zoals ik, dacht dat men deze planeet ontdekt heeft met reuze-telescopen of andere ingenieuze toestellen, dan hebt u het mis. Men heeft namelijk deze planeet nog op geen enkele wijze gezien. Er is geen enkele directe observatie. Men beschikt alleen over ‘indirect bewijs’. Het aannemen van het bestaan van deze megaplaneet wordt, weliswaar op basis van verworven kennis in gelijkaardige observaties, ‘de best mogelijke verklaring’ genoemd voor een aantal verschijnselen die men wél kan zien. Men heeft met name vastgesteld dat elementen zich in de zogenaamde Kuipergordel bewegen in een vaste baan en in dezelfde richting. Er wordt een soort zwaartekracht waargenomen, en dit in een zone die veel groter is dan die van eender welke andere planeet in ons zonnestelsel. De kans dat zoiets toevallig is, is 0,007%: “onmogelijk… tenzij er iets anders aanwezig is”, concluderen de ontdekkers in de Astronomical Journal. “We hebben getracht eerst sceptisch te zijn”, beweren de onderzoekers, maar het blijft “de meest plausibele verklaring”: er moet een planeet zijn die dit alles veroorzaakt.
Indirecte aanwijzingen
Onze nieuwe verre buur wordt dus niet bekend gemaakt omdat hij direct geobserveerd werd. Neen, zijn bestaan wordt ‘gepostuleerd’, en ja, u leest het goed: ‘gepostuleerd’, op basis van deductie tegen de achtergrond van de toepassing van wiskundige modellen en computersimulaties. Voor mij, die geleerd werd dat positieve wetenschappen met ‘bewijzen’ en ‘feiten’ werken, klinkt dit merkwaardig. Als we in de theologie en de filosofie nadenken, observeren, induceren en deduceren en dat ook op een methodische wijze – lees: ‘wetenschappelijke’ wijze –, doen, dan wordt dit niet positief-wetenschappelijk genoemd. Maar wat me nog méér treft, is de volkomen analogie in een andere deductie.
Al duizenden jaren zien, observeren en beschrijven wij, kleine mensen, wat er is, wat er groeit en bloeit, wat er beweegt en zich ontplooit in de natuur die ongelooflijk mooi en ingenieus in elkaar zit. We bewonderen de kern van de menselijke cellen en de bouw van een regenworm. We onderzoeken de samenstelling van de wolken en beschrijven met verbazing de wijze van ademhalen en drinken van een sprietje duingras. En niet in het minst staren we ons blind op het heelal in al zijn duizelingwekkende grootsheid… Bij het aanschouwen van zoveel ‘indirect bewijs’, zij wij, mensenkinderen, tot de conclusie gekomen dat ‘de best mogelijke verklaring’ zou zijn dat er ‘iets anders en groters moet zijn’ aan de oorsprong van dat alles. In de grondlaag van alle religies articuleerde zich een scheppingsgedachte die ingebed werd en wordt in een ‘geloof’ in iets dat die mooie wereld overstijgt, in het ‘transcendente’. Dat iets werd Iemand, en die Iemand wordt God genoemd.
Neen, we zien dat ‘andere’, dat ‘grotere’, dat ‘goddelijke’ niet. Inderdaad, we geven het in onze theologie ook grif toe. ‘God is groter’: we kunnen hem niet ‘vatten’ of begrijpen. Maar wat we wél zien, zijn ‘indirecte aanwijzingen’, zou men kunnen zeggen. En alle filosofische en theologische godsbewijzen die al dan niet overtuigen ten spijt, is het zien van wat we wel kunnen zien – net zoals de vliegende elementen in de baan van onze nieuwe mysterieuze planeet – de eerste aanleiding tot het ‘postuleren’ van de ‘best mogelijke en meest plausibele verklaring’ ervan: iets of iemand, hoe we die ook omschrijven of zijn gaan invullen, die ons mensen en onze hele wereld, het heelal en ‘planet nine’ incluis, overstijgt…
An Alien in Our Solar System: Planet 9 Might Have Once Belonged to Another Star
An Alien in Our Solar System: Planet 9 Might Have Once Belonged to Another Star
NASA
IN BRIEF
Astronomers at Lund University in Sweden have discovered—through detailed computer simulations—that the hypothetical “Planet 9” might actually be an exoplanet that was stolen by the Sun from another star during the chaotic early days of the Solar System.
THE CHANGELING
It seems our Solar System’s planets might have a foster sibling. “Planet 9,” which has been much in the news of late, may really be the spawn of another sun.
At least that’s the word coming out of a computer simulation study run by a team of astronomers at Lund University in Sweden, which examined the orbital dynamics of the Solar System during its early youth, some 4.5 billion years ago.
If it’s true, it means our Solar System hosts an interstellar interloper—an extrasolar planet that’s not “extrasolar” at all, but is a member of our Sun’s own retinue of planetary bodies.
Which leads to a very unusual possibility—the first exoplanet we visit may actually belong to our own Solar System.
“It is almost ironic that while astronomers often find exoplanets hundreds of light years away in other solar systems, there’s probably one hiding in our own backyard,” observes Alexander Mustill of Lund University.
“Planet 9” lurking in the lonely marches of the outer Solar System. Credit: K. Gill
CRADLE-ROBBING
Now, this doesn’t mean our Sun was a malignant and mean-spirited parent, robbing sibling stars of their rightful children. But it’s a function of the curious gravitational dynamics that were likely at play in the Solar System’s natal cloud—what was probably a giant star-formation factory, somewhat like the famous Orion or Carina nebulas.
These immense molecular clouds are dominated by a central cluster of extremely big—and extremely short-lived—O and B type stars; these explode after a few million years, releasing density waves that further contract the star-formation cloud, and spawn the condensation of thousands of smaller stars.
So our own Sun was merely one of many similar stars that formed in very close proximity to each other. In fact, 4.5 billion years ago, our sun was closer to other stars than it ever will (very likely) be again. This meant a lot of fidgety jostling, as young siblings are wont to do—a lot of gravitational pushing and shoving.
And the Lund University simulation indicates that the Sun probably captured Planet 9 after a particularly energetic bit of stellar horseplay.
“When the Sun later departed from the stellar cluster in which it was born, Planet 9 was stuck in an orbit around the Sun.”
It’s even possible than certain outer planets of our own early Solar System were stripped away and captured by the Sun’s nursery-mates; in any case, if Planet 9 really is a captured exoplanet, it probably means our only real chance to study an alien planet up close.
“This is the only exoplanet that we, realistically, would be able to reach using a space probe,” Mustill concludes.
America’s New Superweapon? Electromagnetic Projectile Launchers That Fire at 4500 MPH
America’s New Superweapon? Electromagnetic Projectile Launchers That Fire at 4500 MPH
The railgun projectile gains speed as it travels the length of a 32-foot barrel, exiting the muzzle at 4,500 miles an hour, or more than a mile a second.
How it works!
U.S. Department of Defense
IN BRIEF
The new focus of military weapons right now is the railgun. It is capable of launching a projectile 125 miles at Mach 6 speeds using electromagnetic fields.
EXPERIMENTAL WEAPONS
For several years now, America has been toying with the idea of railguns, weapons that fire not through gunpowder or chemical explosives, but through electromagnetic fields. Yes, these are electromagnetic projectile launchers. Now, they are not only close to reality, but right on the cusp of deployment.
Essentially, the railguns being developed right now operate on the following concept: There are electrical current charges on either side of the barrel of the gun, creating magnetic fields that push projectiles at amazing speeds.
What’s more, in contrast to conventional bullets that lose acceleration mere moments after the powder ignites, railgun bullets actually speed up. The railgun projectile gains more speed as it travels the length of the 32-foot (~10 m) barrel, exiting the muzzle at a staggering 4,500 miles an hour (more than 7,000 kph), or more than a mile a second.
Check out the tech in the video below:
Amazing speeds make for amazing impacts…and the utter destruction of amazing targets. The military is already envisioning the use of railguns against basically everything—tanks, aircraft, ships, terrorist camps, even other missiles.
But in truth, railguns are not an entirely new field for the military. Former President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative—the Star Wars missile defense—wanted to use the railgun to shoot down nuclear missiles. Those plans were stalled by 1980s technology. Now they are actually possible.
BRINGING BACK BATTLESHIPS
One of the first platforms the railgun will be gracing is, not surprisingly, ships. Particularly, battleships and destroyers. Due to the large power requirements of the gun— a 25 megawatt power plant and large capacitor bank— only ships can carry it, with the most likely candidate being the DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class destroyers and its 78-megawatt integrated power system
The Navy retired much of its gun battleships after WWII, due to limited range and accuracy of gunpowder weapons. Missiles and jet fighters became the name of the game during the Cold War, extending range of ship operations. Now, battleships may get a resurgence.
The Navy’s current 6-inch guns have a range of 15 miles (24 km). The 16-inch guns of WWII battleships are at 24 miles (38 km). In contrast, the railgun has a range of 125 miles (201 km).
When fitted with railgun tech, the range of 6-inch Navy guns was extended to 38 miles (61 km). The Army’s 155mm howitzers also got extended range when fitted with the tech.
Polar Mesospheric Clouds Illuminated by Orbital Sunrise
Polar Mesospheric Clouds Illuminated by Orbital Sunrise
acquired June 16, 2010download large image (302 KB, JPEG, 1440x720)
Polar mesospheric clouds can be observed from both the Earth’s surface and in orbit by astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The clouds are also called noctilucent, or “night-shining,” clouds because they are usually seen at twilight. When the Sun sets below the horizon and the Earth’s surface gets dark, these clouds are still briefly illuminated by sunlight. Occasionally the space station’s high-altitude orbital track becomes nearly parallel to the Earth’s day/night terminator for a time, allowing polar mesospheric clouds to be visible to the crew at times other than the usual twilight.
This unusual astronaut photograph shows polar mesospheric clouds illuminated by the rising, rather than setting Sun. Low clouds on the horizon appear yellow and orange, while higher clouds and aerosols (particles like dust and pollution) are illuminated a brilliant white. Polar mesospheric clouds appear as light blue ribbons extending across the top of the image. These clouds typically occur at high latitudes of both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, and high altitudes (76–85 kilometers, near the boundary between the mesosphere and thermosphere atmospheric layers).
The ISS was located over the Greek island of Kos in the Aegean Sea (near the southwestern coastline of Turkey) when the image was taken at approximately midnight local time. The ISS was tracking northeastward, nearly parallel to the terminator, making it possible to observe an apparent “sunrise” almost due north. Earlier this year, a similarly unusual alignment of the ISS orbit track, the terminator position, and the seasonal position of the Earth in its orbit around the Sun allowed astronauts to capture striking imagery of polar mesospheric clouds over the Southern Hemisphere.
Astronaut photograph ISS024-E-6136 was acquired on June 16, 2010, with a Nikon D2Xs digital camera using a 180 mm lens, and is provided by the ISS Crew Earth Observations experiment and Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, Johnson Space Center. The image was taken by the Expedition 24 crew. The image in this article has been cropped and enhanced to improve contrast. Lens artifacts have been removed. The International Space Station Program supports the laboratory as part of the ISS National Lab to help astronauts take pictures of Earth that will be of the greatest value to scientists and the public, and to make those images freely available on the Internet. Additional images taken by astronauts and cosmonauts can be viewed at the NASA/JSC Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth. Caption by William L. Stefanov and Michael Trenchard, NASA-JSC.
FOOTAGE of a UFO captured by an amateur drone enthusiast has mystified internet users attempting to identify the strange object.
The four-second clip, filmed from 80 metres above Silicon Valley, California, last year, shows a small white object shoot across the sky past the hovering drone.
The speed of the object appears to rule out insects or dust from air pollution as possible explanations.
Confused Reddit users attempted to make sense of the mystery.
YOUTUBE
MYSTERIOUS LIFE: Internet users are struggling to explain what the object could be
“Even though it's quite a bit of motion blur on the object it appears to have some what of a distinct shape to it,” said Wyldcat.
“Either a disc shape or a wing shape with a cylinder/jet engine on top of it.”
Other users called for freeze frames to be analysed of the shape in order to ensure that they were not being fooled by CGI hoaxers.
“I thought it was a bug at first, but after watching the slow motion video it has to be some kind of military drone or something,” said EducatedHippy.
YOUTUBE
SKY HIGH: A drone hovering at 80m above Silicon Valley, California, captured the video
One YouTube user estimated the distance the object travelled as around one mile every one to two seconds.
That would give it a speed of around 2890 km/h, roughly 2.4 times the speed of sound.
The airspeed record is held by the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, clocking in a top speed of 3,529.6 km/h.
“I have no idea what this is, maybe a bug, hummingbird, reflection or alien space craft!” wrote the video’s author, Darmino, on a drone enthusiasts’ forum.
“The only thing I know for sure is that I did nothing that would cause this.”
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Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for May 2016:
Monthly Statistical MUFON Report - for May 2016:
CMS continues to amass sighting reports from around the globe. In May 2016 there were 545 sightings reported to MUFON through CMS from the following countries;
Country
Number of Reports
UNITED STATES
395
CANADA
47
UNITED KINGDOM
20
GERMANY
9
AUSTRALIA
8
INDIA
8
NEW ZEALAND
5
IRAN, ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF
3
BRAZIL
3
SOUTH AFRICA
3
PUERTO RICO
3
PERU
3
PORTUGAL
2
FRANCE
2
NORWAY
2
ITALY
2
TAIWAN
2
MALAYSIA
2
SPAIN
2
GREECE
1
CHINA
1
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
1
CZECH REPUBLIC
1
POLAND
1
PANAMA
1
FINLAND
1
COSTA RICA
1
SLOVENIA
1
NETHERLANDS
1
FIJI
1
TANZANIA, UNITED REPUBLIC OF
1
ROMANIA
1
ZIMBABWE
1
OMAN
1
TURKEY
1
COLOMBIA
1
GUAM
1
THAILAND
1
EGYPT
1
IRELAND
1
GEORGIA
1
TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
1
LITHUANIA
1
TOTAL:
545
Within the United States the distribution by State was as follows;
State
Number of Reports
California
51
Texas
30
New York
19
Arizona
18
Michigan
18
Pennsylvania
18
Ohio
17
Florida
16
Washington
12
North Carolina
12
Missouri
11
Georgia
10
New Jersey
10
Tennessee
10
Illinois
9
New Mexico
8
Massachusetts
7
Oregon
7
Virginia
7
Indiana
7
South Carolina
7
Kentucky
7
Maine
6
Iowa
6
Minnesota
6
Colorado
6
Connecticut
6
Utah
5
Idaho
5
Alabama
4
Alaska
4
Maryland
4
New Hampshire
4
Wisconsin
4
Nebraska
3
Nevada
3
Kansas
3
Mississippi
3
Oklahoma
2
West Virginia
2
Louisiana
2
North Dakota
2
Vermont
1
Arkansas
1
Rhode Island
1
Montana
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 on www.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 at http://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 May 2016 are the shape of the UFOs reported which were as follows;
Shape of Object
Number of Reports
Sphere
105
Triangle
53
Other
45
Star-like
44
Disc
43
Unknown
37
Circle
35
Oval
33
Fireball
32
N/A
24
Cylinder
19
Square/Rectangular
17
Diamond
12
Flash
12
Cigar
10
Blimp
8
Boomerang
8
Chevron
7
Saturn-like
5
Teardrop
5
Egg
4
Bullet/Missile
4
Cone
3
Cross
3
as well as the distance from the observer;
Distance from Witness
Number of Reports
< 100 ft
103
101-500 ft
71
501 ft - 1 Mile
102
Over 1 Mile
154
Unknown
170
NO VALUE
24
Most impressively there were 17 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.
A new NASA study reveals that dozens of ancient advanced civilisations much like ours once existed on Earth, but they all came to an abrupt end.
The study suggests that humanity as we know it could come to an end in the next few decades based on the patterns observed with these previous civilisations.
If we look back in history, 3000 – 5000 years, we will find a historical record that clearly shows us how advanced and complex civilizations were just as susceptible to collapse as we are today. This ongoing pattern has led researchers to question the future existence of society and civilization as we know.
If we were to look back further back in time, over 10,000 years, we would encounter evidence of advanced civilizations that possibly predate the Pre-Inca, Olmec, and Ancient Egyptian civilization, not to mention other advanced ancient civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia.
It is difficult to overlook the repeating patterns identified by scholars in most of these civilizations and the NASA funded study is clear evidence of the path ancient civilizations on EArth have taken for thousands of years. This is considered by many people as a sign that clearly states that ancient civilizations have reset a number of times.
These factors have kept on repeating themselves and have been the culprit for ancient civilizations before us. In the report, applied mathematician Safa Motesharri and his “Human and Nature Dynamical” model claims that “the process of rise-and-collapse is actually a recurrent cycle found throughout history.”
"The fall of the Roman Empire, and the equally (if not more) advanced Han, Mauryan, and Gupta Empires, as well as so many advanced Mesopotamian Empires, are all testimony to the fact that advanced, sophisticated, complex, and creative civilizations can be both fragile and impermanent.”
The study came to the conclusion that there are two key social features that contributed to the collapse of every single advanced civilization from the past: “the stretching of resources due to the strain placed on the ecological carrying capacity”; and “the economic stratification of society into Elites [rich] and Masses (or “Commoners”) [poor]” These social phenomena have played “a central role in the character or in the process of the collapse,” in all such cases over “the last five thousand years.”
Even though our civilizations is at a very advanced technological stage, this does not necessarily mean that we are saved from imminent chaos. In the study we find that “Technological change can raise the efficiency of resource use, but it also tends to raise both per capita resource consumption and the scale of resource extraction, so that, absent policy effects, the increases in consumption often compensate for the increased efficiency of resource use.”
One of the best examples of advanced ancient civilizations disappearing can be found in Mesoamerica.
If we take a look at the ancient Maya who were an extremely advanced ancient civilization we find that several factors played a crucial role for this once great empire to crumble eventually. While most researchers would agree that Deforestation, Famine and Drought where some of the key components in the failure of the ancient Maya, we find a similar pattern in other civilizations, not only I the Americas, but around the globe.
Motesharrei and his colleagues conclude that under conditions “closely reflecting the reality of the world today… we find that collapse is difficult to avoid.” In the first of these scenarios, civilization:
“…. appears to be on a sustainable path for quite a long time, but even using an optimal depletion rate and starting with a very small number of Elites, the Elites eventually consume too much, resulting in a famine among Commoners that eventually causes the collapse of society. It is important to note that this Type-L collapse is due to an inequality-induced famine that causes a loss of workers, rather than a collapse of Nature.”
POSSIBLE ALIEN ABDUCTION IN THE UNITED KINGDOM WITH PHOTOS
MAY 28, 2016 …………… NEWTON ABBOT DEVON ENGLAND
Hi ken, I hope all is well. I was sky watching when I spotted a mystery object that was hanging in the sky. I managed to take one photograph of this object before it moved off into the distance at incredible speed. When I later looked at the photograph I could see what appears to be a small alien being that appears to be sticking it’s head and body out of the side of the UFO. This is very strange as there are no visible signs of a door or window on the UFO. what’s even more strange is the alien being appears to be wearing a hat. WTF. I have taken some really strange photographs and have had many strange experiences in my lifetime. You Just couldn’t make this up it’s truly bizarre. The photograph was taken on the 28th of may 2016 at 12:19 PM GMT at Newton Abbot Devon UK. Newton Abbot seems to be a hot bed for strange activity.
I have seen a similar alien before three years ago in fact. One morning I was on my way to work and had a strange encounter. It was 4.30 am in the morning and it was pitch black. All the street lights were out because the council were trying to save money by switching them all off at night.
Because there were no street lights, I carried a small LED torch so I could see were I was walking. It was a cold morning and I had just walked past the local church and cemetery when I heard a loud crash that seemed to come from further down the road. I continued walking in that direction and heard another loud crashing sound. I turned my LED torch in the direction of the crashing sound. I could see all the dustbins were knocked over and there was a midget in a parka coat standing there looking towards the bins. The bins had been emptied the day before so there was no rubbish. The midget noticed my presence and turned towards me. I could see that the midget’s parka coat hood was pulled really tight around his head and face. I could barely see his face. He looked strange…
There was something not quite right about him. We stood there face to face for a second before I plucked up the courage to say something. I said morning. There was no response from the midget. With that the midget turned back around to where he had originally been facing. The midget then started to stand the bins up one by one until the bins were in a row. The midget then started laughing in a very strange squeaky voice and then ran at the bins with all his might knocking the bins flying in different directions. I looked on bemused as the midget started to stand the bins again. The midget then ran at the bins once again. I then shouted what the F**K are you doing! With that there was an intense bright white light that lit up the housing estate like it was a summer’s day. The light was so bright it hurt my eyes.
After what seemed like a couple of seconds the light went out. It was pitch black again and I shone my LED torch over the area where the midget had been standing but the midget was no longer there. All the bins were stood up neatly in a line and there was no sign of any disturbance. I looked at my watch and I had lost about 15 minutes. I felt very sick and my eyes were extremely sore. I was late for work and I was feeling sick and dizzy so I returned home dazed and confused . I did not go into work that day. I was really ill. I have been puzzled by this bizarre experience for three years now and seeing that alien in the photograph brought back memories of this encounter. The hat wearing alien looks very similar to that midget in a parka coat. Did I really see this or is this a False memory?. I could not account for the 15 minutes I lost. Was this a case of alien abduction or a strange alien encounter? What do you think ken? Have you ever heard of anything quite like this before.
The Coso Artifact—Did the Ancients Use Electricity Some 500,000 Years Ago?
The Coso Artifact—Did the Ancients Use Electricity Some 500,000 Years Ago?
Discoveries of man-made objects confined in pieces of rock or coal offer a very alluring and tangible evidence that in the “impossibly” distant past, humanity was significantly more technologically advanced than we could even comprehend.
At the top of a mountain peak, 4,300 feet above sea level, encased inside a stone lay a genuine example of ancient advanced technology, dating from millennia before the historical advent of the Homo sapiens.
On February 13, 1961, Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey and Mike Mikesell, owners of the Gem and Gift Shop in Olancha, California, went into the Coso Mountains to supply the minerals stock for their shop.
To their surprise, in that day they would find not only minerals, but something that may unravel a major conundrum of the ancient human history. In their search for minerals, they stumbled upon an unusual fossil-encrusted geode. Having caught their interest, Mike Mikesell decided to investigate further over the peculiar rock’s structure.
In the process of cutting it open, Mike Mikesell found to his fascination that the geode proved to contain something strange. In the middle of the stone there was a metal core, about 2 millimeters in diameter.
Casing the core was what seemed to be a ceramic collar that was itself sheathed in a hexagonal sleeve carved out of wood that had become petrified, presumably at a later date.
Around the fossilized wooden shell was the exterior layer of the geode consisting of solidified clay, pebbles, scraps of fossilized shells, and two non-magnetic metallic items that seemed identical to a regular nail and washer.
A piece of copper still remaining between the ceramic and the fossilized wood indicates that the two may have been detached by a now decomposed copper sleeve.
X-ray tests of the item brought to light an object that resembles very much to present-days’ spark plugs.
Considering the approximate layering and structure of the outer crust, the object has been dated from 250,000 to 500,000 BC. However, the name of the geologist is either kept a secret or simply not mentioned in any source material.
n an earlier statement from 1961, an INFO member claimed the object had magnetic properties, but a few years later, in 1969, said magnetism was no longer present.
Despite its assumed extraterrestrial origins, the Coso artifact isn’t just a random spark plug encased in a fossil. Its construction clearly reveals that it is very similar to the first superconductors.
After a series of thorough tests and meticulous X-ray analysis of the Coso artifact, it was revealed that the so called geode was actually a form of mechanical device. Its metallic shaft presented rust at one end, but the other end was bound to a metal spring.
The ceramic finish and the copper and metallic inner parts hint at a kind of electrical apparatus. Though it’s very much alike a spark plug, its helix terminal does not relate to any of our days’ spark plugs.
To push the mystery around the Coso artifact even further, some geologists claim that the rock where it was found encased was at least 500.000 years old, because it fossilized in sedimentary rock deposited during the Great Flood.
This artifact is of extreme importance to archaeologists and geologists, for it reveals the antediluvians had attained impressive progress beyond our expectations: they had discovered and learned to manipulate electricity many thousands of years before the reintroduction of this knowledge into our age of civilization.
Like all ancient artifacts that may hold clues to our enigmatic ancient history, the artifact disappeared three years after it was displayed for only three months at the Eastern California Museum of Independence.
To spice these intriguing conspiracy-like events, in September 1999, an attempt to track the missing artifact has proven unsuccessful, having no leads to the whereabouts of the first people that discovered the Coso artifact, although the chances were some of the three people involved in the discovery had died before then. The only one known to be still alive is Virginia Maxey, but she refuses to publicly comment about the artifact.
Is this Strange Desert Mineral Evidence of Ancient Nuclear Warfare
Is this Strange Desert Mineral Evidence of Ancient Nuclear Warfare?
Seven years after the nuclear detonations in New Mexico, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the ‘father of the atomic bomb’ was asked during a lecture if he had been the first person to conduct atomic tests. His reply was: Yes, in modern times.
Although at the time his answer was considered cryptic or at least vague, Dr. Oppenheimer was alluding to a series of ancient Hindu texts that described the occurrence of large-scale catastrophes that did not correspond to any recorded natural disasters. More specifically, he was referring to the Bhagavad Gita, an ancient Sanskrit writing that portrayed the detonation and effects of a powerful “unknown weapon”.
This subject is obstinately avoided by the scientific community but there is evidence supporting events such as this one. This evidence routinely comes in the form of fused glass fragments found in many deserts all over the world. These pieces of glass closely resemble those found at the Alamogordo atomic proving grounds, the place where the modern world’s first nuclear device was detonated. Desert glass forms when temperatures in excess of 3,300 degrees Fahrenheit (1,800º Celsius) cause the sand grains to melt and fuse together.
A STRANGE PIECE OF GLASS FROM THE LIBYAN DESERT
They were first described by Patrick Clayton who encountered them while surveying the Sahara in 1932. Clayton discovered huge chunks of yellowish-green glass in the sand and presented them to fellow geologists. A possible explanation came almost 50 years later when one of the engineers that helped create the atomic bomb was revisiting the testing site in New Mexico. He noticed glass fragments that were similar to those he had seen in the desert, albeit much smaller.
NEW MEXICO ATOMIC GLASS, NAMED TRINITITE, AFTER THE TRINITY PROJECT
Being open-minded, he made a connection. Being an engineer, he did the math and was astounded by the results. In order to produce desert glass the size of the pieces found by Clayton, the explosion had to have been 10,000 more powerful than the one in New Mexico. A very plausible explanation was proposed: the glass had formed due to asteroid/comet/giant meteorite impacts. Such impacts would certainly fit the profile as they cold easily produce the tremendous amount of heat required to fuse silicon crystals.
But an impact that great would also leave behind a noticeably large crater and no such craters were found in the desert. Glass was found in the Sahara, the Mojave and the Desert of Libya but neither sonar nor satellite imagery could find any accompanying craters. Furthermore, the Libyan glass had a very high purity and clarity (over 99 percent). In the case of meteorite impact, the silicon is fused together with iron from the meteorite itself as well as other adulterants.
METEORITIC DESERT GLASS
When we piece together all the clues, the picture becomes clearer and we have to ask ourselves: is it truly impossible that ancient civilizations reached a technological level similar to others? Have we truly explored all possibilities? After all, depictions of terrible weapons capable to obliterate entire cities are found in the legends of many cultures, separated by both space and time. Were those depictions nothing more than the work of human imagination envisioning the superlative weapon? What about the physical evidence then? Where does it fit?
In my opinion, considering ourselves the first and only civilization on Earth to have split the atom is nothing short of absolute vanity and we all know where that leads to.
There are many UFO photographs and videos circulating on the web , and although we do not doubt the existence of life on other planets , we can not help but question the veracity of each of the images shown . Therefore the question … How accurate and real are the compilation of images that were released by the KGB and CIA?
Weird Things Keep Happening in Mexico’s Mysterious Zona del Silencio
Weird Things Keep Happening in Mexico’s Mysterious Zona del Silencio
The Bolsón de Mapimi basin in Mexico is home to a very strange area called La Zona del Silencio – The Silent Zone. Located between the states of Durango, Chihuahua and Coahuila, this area achieved notoriety thanks to a number of unexplained anomalies.
The Zone of Silence first gained attention in the 1930s, when a Mexican airplane pilot named Francisco Sarabia experienced some difficulties while flying over the mysterious patch of desert. The instruments aboard his plane inexplicably started malfunctioning; he couldn’t receive nor send any radio transmissions and the compass had a hard time pointing north. He chalked it off to some disturbances in the local magnetic fields and, for another 30-something years, the issue would remain in obscurity.
Attention was once again drawn to the area in the 1970’s when an Athena test missile was launched from a military base near Green River, Utah. Its destination was the White Sands Proving Grounds in New Mexico. Without warning or explanation, it went 400 miles off course and crashed into the Zona del Silencio. A team of scientists and US Air Force officials were promptly and secretly sent to recover the missile and investigate the region. To their surprise, they ended up discovering several abnormalities.
Careful measurements showed that within the Mapimi basin there is an unspecified, fluctuating area through which radio signals cannot travel. The zone acts like an absorbent barrier for television, radio, short wave, microwave and satellite signals. Despite increasing the intensity of the transmission, these waves simply couldn’t make it through. The name Zone of Silence was quickly adopted and scientific interest brought a number of researchers looking for answers.
With the aid of the U.S., the Mexican government built a research facility whose purpose was to allegedly study the local flora and fauna. It is said that plants and animals in the Zone of Silence suffer strange and unique mutations found nowhere else in the world. But there are rumors claiming that this is just a front for far more secretive and obscure groundwork taking place in the Silent Zone.
One of the odd attributes of the region is its unusually high levels of magnetite and uranium deposits that scientists believe are causing electromagnetic pulses able to disrupt radio signals. It is also a hotbed for meteorites, which could account for the magnetic properties that cause metallic objects to end up falling from the skies. But things still don’t add up.
As it turns out, the Zone of Silence is located on the same latitude as the Egyptian Pyramids, the ill-fated Bermuda Triangle and the sacred cities of Tibet. Mere coincidence or further evidence towards the zone’s peculiar characteristics?
THE STRAIGHT LINE DOESN’T LIE
Some say the area could be a magnetic grid point where the Earth’s energy is concentrated and the unusually high energy levels are drawing in extraterrestrial activity. And if there’s one thing the Zone of Silence has plenty of, it’s unusual occurrences linked to the UFO phenomenon.
Strange lights, floating orbs, burning bushes, flying saucers, and alien encounters have all been reported with a degree of abundance in the area. Locals report mysterious lights filling up the night sky and floating aircraft landing in the desert and causing small, localized fires wherever they touch the ground.
Some theorists proposed the continued existence of a portal in the area. Mexican ranchers tell tales of mysterious lights hovering over the Silent Zone and strangers appearing out of thin air. Multiple witnesses report encountering the same three blonde humans that always asked for water, but never for food. When asked where they were from, the strangers invariably responded that they “came from above.”
As always, tangible evidence was not provided or perhaps is being kept secret. Regardless of the official answers, the area is home to several phenomena that defy explanation. We are left wondering whether the unusual magnetic properties of the Silent Zone are a natural occurrence or are caused by something that we do not yet understand.
VIDEO Het is een intrigerende vraag waar we graag een antwoord op willen krijgen. Het YouTube-kanaal 'Mind Warehouse' kijkt vooruit en schetst de gevolgen van een mensloze Aarde in een beklijvende video. Zal de planeet ons missen?
Probeer het je eens in te beelden: van de ene dag op de andere verdwijnen alle mensen op deze aardkloot. De gevolgen zijn onmiddellijk tastbaar. Energiecentrales vallen stil want deze kunnen niet blijven functioneren zonder menselijke tussenkomst. De metrolijnen zullen vol water lopen omdat het pompsysteem normaal door mensen wordt aangestuurd.
Huisdieren die kunnen ontsnappen, moeten de strijd aangaan met wilde dieren om te overleven. Vooral de grote honden zullen standhouden terwijl kleinere soortgenoten worden verslonden. De wolven zien hun kans schoon om terug te keren naar de verlaten steden en zullen zich voortplanten met de grote hondenrassen.
Een maand na onze verdwijning is al het koelwater uit de kerncentrales verdampt en vinden er grote nucleaire explosies plaats. Maar de natuur zal zich herstellen en zelfs vat krijgen op onze bouwwoede. Metalen constructies zoals de Eiffeltoren en de Golden Gate Bridge zullen na driehonderd jaar in elkaar stuiken door corrosie. Enkel de bouwwerken uit steen zoals de Chinese Muur en de piramides blijken veel langer bestand tegen de natuurkrachten.
De Aarde zal er honderd miljoen jaar over doen om al onze sporen uit te wissen alsof de mensheid nooit heeft bestaan. En wat blijkt? Onze planeet is er dan veel beter aan toe: de lucht is vele malen zuiverder, verdreven vogelsoorten keren terug en de walvispopulatie zal exponentieel groeien.
Het gedachte-experiment van Mind Warehouse is trouwens niet uniek. De gebruikte beelden zijn afkomstig van de serie 'Life After People' van de Amerikaanse themazender History.
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David Icke claims the moon is HOLLOW and built by ALIENS in crazy new theory
David Icke claims the moon is HOLLOW and built by ALIENS in crazy new theory
FORMER Grandstand presenter David Icke has claimed the moon is hollow and was a space ship abandoned by aliens in his latest outlandish conspiracy theory.
David Icke has said he believes the Moon was an ancient alien space craft
Mr Icke, who earlier this month told Andrew Neil on BBC1's This Week, the Royal Family were reptilian aliens, has a bizarre theory about how our moon got there.
Mr Icke reached the conclusion after taking the leap from a general scientific consensus to say the moon shouldn't really be there.
Many scientists agree the size of the moon is one of our solar system's biggest anomalies.
Twenty five years ago Mr Icke shocked Britain by coming out as the "son of the Godhead" during a press conference and subsequent appearance on prime time chat show Wogan.
The former footballer had been a household name as a co-presenter of the BBC's flagship Saturday marathon sports programme Grandstand, who went on to become a spokesman for the Green Party.
Although Mr Icke disappeared from mainstream media after the initial shocking story died, he went on to become something of an "awakening guru" on the conspiracy theory circuit and within alternative media.
Icke has written countless books and toured the globe lecturing on his odd theories, making the bizarre his business over the past quarter of a century.
His latest concerns our moon.
Physics has been unable to explain why a planet the size of Earth has a moon of such a large size in comparison.
Our moon would be expected to be about 40 miles in diameter, but is closer to 2,000 miles.
Mr Icke has deduced that, because of this, it must have been artificially built, rather than being broken off Earth after it was hit by another planet, as scientists suggest.
In a video posted to his YouTube channel, Mr Icke explains his madcap theory.
He said: "They have no bloody clue where they moon came from and it shouldn't by physics be there.
"The Earth not only has a satellite, but it is a giant satellite.
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Out of this world: Icke has put forward a madcap Moon theory
They have no bloody clue where they moon came from and it shouldn't by physics be there. The Earth not only has a satellite, but it is a giant satellite
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"Some scientists don't talk about a planet-moon relationship, but a planet-planet relationship - the Moon is bigger than Pluto.
"And then we get the hollow moon, this is what I'm saying and others have said it's a hollowed out planetoid."
He said the Moon was hit by a lunar module to the equivalent of one tonne of TNT in November 1969 and the shockwaves built up, with NASA scientists saying the Moon rang like a bell.
He described a launch vehicle later striking the Moon with the equivalent force to 11 tonnes of TNT and NASA said the Moon "rang like a gong and continued to vibrate for three hours and 20 mins to a depth of up to 25 miles".
Mr Icke said in the video: "These two Russian scientists from the Society Academy of Science, wrote an article in 1970 in Sputnik magazine in Russia headed 'Is the Moon the creation of an alien intelligence?'
"And all these years later it indicates to the fact that they were right."
Mr Icke said the outer surface of the Moon is "extremely hard and contains minerals like titanium, processed metals including brass and micre and the elements uranium 236 and neptunium 237 that have never been found to occur naturally".
He said: "The surface is a poor heat conductor.
"This space ship of ages long past we call the Moon is superbly constructed.
"If you are going to launch an artificial sputnik, it is advisable to make it hollow.
"It is more likely that what we have here is a very ancient space ship the interior of which was filled with fuel, for the engines, and materials and appliances for repair work and instruments, observation equipment, and all manner of machinery.
"In other words every thing needed to allow this caravel of the universe to serve as a Noah's Ark of intelligence, perhaps even as the home of a whole civilisation envisaging a prolonged thousands of millions of years s of existence, and long wandering through space thousands of millions of miles and the hull of such a space shift must be super tough to stand up to the blows - the meteors and sharp fluctuations between extreme heat and cold."
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Icke: “De maan is hol en gebouwd door aliens”
Icke: “De maan is hol en gebouwd door aliens”
Voormalig BBC-verslaggever David Icke heeft een nieuwe video gepubliceerd waarin hij claimt dat de maan hol is. Volgens hem is het een ruimteschip dat ooit is achtergelaten door aliens, schrijft de Britse Daily Express.
“Ze hebben geen idee waar de maan vandaan komt. Natuurkundig gezien zou hij er niet moeten zijn. De aarde heeft niet alleen een satelliet, het is een gigantische satelliet,” zei hij, toevoegende dat de maan groter is dan Pluto.
Galmde na als een gong
Volgens Icke is de maan hol. Anderen hebben gezegd dat het een uitgeholde planetoïde is, merkte hij op. Toen er in 1969 een maanmodule op het maanoppervlak landde, galmde de maan volgens NASA-wetenschappers na als een gong. Tot drie uur en 20 minuten na de landing werden er tot op een diepte van 40 kilometer trillingen gemeten, stelt Icke.
“Twee wetenschappers van de Russische Academie van Wetenschappen schreven in 1970 in het magazine Sputnik een artikel met de titel ‘Is de maan de creatie van een buitenaardse intelligentie?’,” zei hij. “Het lijkt er nu op dat ze al die tijd gelijk hebben gehad.”
Zeer oud ruimteschip
Icke zei verder dat het oppervlak van de maan ‘extreem hard is en mineralen bevat die niet van nature voorkomen. “Het is aannemelijker dat we hier te maken hebben met een zeer oud ruimteschip, waarvan het binnenste gevuld was met brandstof voor de motoren, materialen voor reparatiewerkzaamheden, instrumenten en machines,” klonk het nog.
South Carolina witness reports silver residue after UFO sighting
South Carolina witness reports silver residue after UFO sighting
A South Carolina witness at Ladson reported watching a red orb hovering at the tree line and then discovering a silvery residue in a pattern on her lawn, according to testimony in Case 76542 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness image. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness went outside about 11:30 p.m. on May 21, 2016, with her dogs when the incident occurred.
“I saw the red orb I have seen twice before out front – now outback hovering above the tree line,” the witness stated. “It wasn’t there for a long time and then it just disappeared. It silently hovered, moved forward, and went in reverse which I found odd. It descended somewhat at an angle slowly and quietly was like a leaf falling.”
Witness image. (Credit: MUFON)
The entire event last about less than 10 seconds.
“I came in wondering what that was. My oldest dog has severe fear of thunderstorms, and panics, pants shakes, whinesand hides. She began to act this way about 20 minutes or so after we came in, but we were not having rain. The next morning when I took them out, I noticed what looked like a black mark on my back yard, which actually made me mad. I was wondering who burned my yard. I went out to look at it, and there was a silvery, metallic substance on my ground in a pattern, one curved arch on either side of some center pattern.”
Witness image. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness called her sister in North Carolina.
“I sent her pictures and I took a sample of it. Her husband advised that I contact your group.”
South Carolina Field Investigator Jeffrey Elliott and State Director Cheryl Ann Gilmore investigated and closed this case as an Unknown.
“Arrived at the home of witness,” Elliott and Gilmore stated in their report,“where she pointed out where she had seen the red orb the size of a basketball (aspirin at arm’s length) hovering about three feet above the trees across from her house. I estimated the distance of the sighting to be approximately 80 to 100 feet from where she stood. The witness stated it was completely silent and hovered for a few seconds, moving backward at times, and then moved left (north) and simply disappeared.
Witness image. (Credit: MUFON)
“Witness stated she saw a red orb on the back side of the house (which is the reason for her report) on the 21st. The orb behaved in the same manner as before, hovering just above the tops of the trees across the creek northwest of her property. As for the markings in the back yard, I checked for radiation with negative results using a calibrated Geiger counter with fresh batteries. Two samples, soil and vegetation, were taken and bagged – results pending. Theodolite pictures documenting pertinent data were taken and added to this report.
Witness image. (Credit: MUFON)
“I asked if the possibility of Chinese lanterns, balloons, or UAVs could have been involved. She stated that she has seen all of those things and that very positively was not any of them. At this moment there is no viable explanation of the event. Soil and vegetation samples were taken and I am in the process of getting them tested.”
Ladson is in Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester counties, South Carolina, population 13,790. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
West Virginia witness videotapes UFO ‘size of mountain’
West Virginia witness videotapes UFO ‘size of mountain’
A West Virginia witness at Clendenin reported watching and videotaping a triangle-shaped UFO “the size of a mountain,” according to testimony in Case 76582 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Maywood Avenue in downtown Clendenin, West Virginia. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The reporting witness and her 31-year-old son stepped outside on a deck at 9:30 p.m. on May 24, 2016, and noticed an amber ball of light streaking in from the west.
“It then stopped abruptly and hovered,” the witness stated.“I quickly took a picture. It then started slowly moving east over a two-hour period. After it cleared the western trees we could start to see the shear mass of it.”
Cropped and enlarged still image from the witness video. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness described the object.
“There were three white lights way below it that were moving with it. As the moon brightened we could see the shape of a triangle that connected all of the lights. It was like a mountain moving through the sky it was so big.”
The witness and her son watched the object for about two hours until it left the clearing.
“I will chalk this up as one of the most unexplainable things I have ever seen in my life. The videos do not do it justice. It does not pick up the bottom three lights that connect it all and the third light was not visible to us until later. But that’s okay. It was amazing.”
Witness image. (Credit: MUFON)
Clendenin is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia along the Elk River, population 1,227. Field Investigator Delmer Kelley is investigating for West Virginia MUFON. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Editor’s note: Some people have reported being able to see a triangular shape in the UFO video under the right lighting.
I really like this photo sent into us at UFO Sightings Daily. It appears it was taken from a drone with a camera and it recorded a disk if the distance. This UFO is defiantly a disk and and seems to blend in with the color of the cloudy overcast sky. If its gone in 2 minutes as the eyewitness described, then we know its not a cloud. This is a great catch by one of our readers here at USD. I just want to say thanks so much for sending it into us. Its a beautiful example of a classic disk UFO.
After reviewing photos taken from the evening I zoomed in and can't decide what the object floating in the sky on the right hand side just above the horizon was. It does not appear to be a plane and a photo taken 2 minutes after shows nothing floating or flying in the sky. When zooming in it appears to be disc shaped and have lights.
UFO Caught Over San Antonio, Texas On May 30, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Caught Over San Antonio, Texas On May 30, 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: May 30, 2016 Location of sighting: San Antonio, Texas, USA This is the most common way to catch a UFO, to sit a camcorder out and let it record for a few hours. Then go through the footage to see if you got lucky. Its hard, and its a lot of time, but when you get one...it feels great. I have done this before, but it will often take days to catch something, then many hours of going over the video. Excellent video by SAUFOTX of Youtube. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com Eyewitness states: May-30-2016 a pulsating U.F.O was captured Materializing over the Skies of San Antonio,Tx Using SKYFISHING Technique.. ... SKYFISHING Technique...Which It involves setting a camera on a fix point with some kind of reference point..(example top of a building,tree tops,telephone pole ect..)..And wait to capture some kind of Unknown Anomaly... ...Camera was left recording for 15 min..At one point a U.F.O Materializing over the Skies of San Antonio,Tx ..You can see it come into view travel in a control manner..This orb was captured only for a couple of seconds as it slowly faded away..You will clearly see this U.F.O traveling low in altitude with some reference points such as tree top's..Using filters such as 0.6xSpeed/sharpen/saturation a U.F.O can be observed .....After reviewing the footage several times in my opinion this Orb is clearly not an aircraft or weather balloon/satellite.Orb was traveling low in altitude and on its own power not blown by the wind...
The heat is on an official spokesperson in this video as UFO revelations are reported to be on the President's agenda before he leaves offices
This is the moment a White House spokesperson dodges a question about the Roswell incident - only to be warned: "You're not going to get off easy like that."
White House press correspondent April Ryan quizzed press secretary Josh Earnest about the famous incident during a media briefing.
It is the second time the spokesman has come under fire from reporters about UFOsin a week.
Another correspondent had earlier asked Earnest about Area 51 and whether Barack Obama would "beat Hillary Clinton to the punch" by revealing America's secrets about extra-terrestrials.
The questions follow weeks of publicity of the Democratic presidential candidate's pledge to release Government-held UFO files, if she wins the election in November.
Press secretary Josh Earnest laughed off the question concerning Roswell
Earlier this month, MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell also asked Hillary Clinton's spokesmanBrian Fallon about her being declared the "first ET candidate."
Ryan, who is also Washington bureau chief for American Urban Radio Networks, asked Earnest: "There’s this increased interest in Roswell. You’re doing your dance at the podium about it. Is there a such a thing?
"Are you keeping quiet because of security concerns? Are we to think that there might be life beyond here? You need to answer this."
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Correspondent April Ryan posed the alien question to the White House spokesperson
Earnest, appearing nervous and drinking water after being put on the spot, replied: "I’ll just say, April, there are some questions that even the White House Press Secretary doesn’t have answers to, and this is one of them."
Unhappy with his response, she hits back: "You’re not going to get off easy like that."
The Roswell incident happened in July 1947 when a 'flying saucer' allegedly crashed in the New Mexico desert.
Witnesses claim the military recovered the wreckage and alien bodies but the US Airforce said it was a weather balloon with crash test dummies on board.
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UFOs are part of the conversation for presidents and presidential candidates
Stephen Bassett, America's only lobbyist on the ET/UFO issue, believes President Obama is on the brink of telling the world the truth.
He told Mirror online: "When Andrea Mitchell and April Ryan pressed the White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest for comments on the breaking story about the Clinton/ET/Disclosure/Rockefeller Initiative connection, a milestone was reached.
"This campaign issue is now publicly seen as inside the White House. Almost certainly more questions will be raised in the West Wing in the coming weeks."
Grant Cameron, an expert on US presidents and UFOs, said: "For the third time in a week the White House is asked if the ET story is for real.
"The last time this happened was in 1997 when Bill Clinton's aide Webb Hubbell put out his book 'Friends in High Places' and then you have to go back to 1954 with President Eisenhower.
"The blood is in the water and the reporters have started to circle. These questions go to confirm that the president is the Wizard of Oz behind the cover-up.
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