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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...
31-03-2017
British witness videotapes UFOs over Gosport
British witness videotapes UFOs over Gosport
A Great Britain witness at Gosport reported watching and videotaping three lights that at times formed a triangle low in the sky and made random movements before all disappearing from view, according to testimony in Case 81450 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Object image created from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness stepped outside at 10:50 p.m. on January 9, 2017, to dispose of rubbish bags in his work as a cleaner.
“I noticed three green lights at around a 30-degree angle northwest of my position,” the witness stated.“Distance and height were too difficult to estimate from my position, but after checking on Google maps there are mostly only fields in that direction. The postcode I observed from was PO13 0HR.”
The witness described the lights.
“The lights were evenly spaced in a large triangle formation with one more forward than the others when I first noticed them. They then all turned purple and started to move. You can observe in the video how they moved. I had full zoom using a phone camera so quality isn’t great, but they were all bright purple in color and didn’t change again. They seemed to move in a random manor, moving side-to-side and up and down very quickly and turning very sharply. They would pass each other to swap sides, sometimes coming back to form triangles for a few seconds before moving again.”
Object image created from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness stated that several times it looked as though one moved into another and became one light before breaking apart again.
“They disappeared below the houses several times so that I couldn’t see from my position what they were doing until the final time when I waited several minutes before giving up that they wouldn’t appear again. So whatever it was possibly landed because they didn’t appear above the houses again.”
The witness went back inside the building onto the second level to view from a higher angle and could see one light again just above the house, but it quickly disappeared downwards.
“That was the last I saw of them. They never went higher than the initial height I observed them at. There were no other aircraft I noticed in the area, although there is a small airfield behind my position. The weather was dry (although rain earlier in the day), the sky seemed clear, stars were visible overhead but none visible at the angle/height of these lights, presumably because of light pollution. When I left where I was 30 minutes later, the sky around the area where the lights were was a hazy red color. The rest of the sky in the surrounding area was black, but this area specifically was a different color. I thought this might be some kind of heavy light pollution in that direction, but according to Google maps, there are mostly just fields there, nothing that would give off unusual light pollution.”
Object image created from witness video.
(Credit: MUFON)
Gosport is a town and borough on the coast of Hampshire in southern England, population 82,622. Great Britain 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.
STRANGE THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO ASTRONAUTS RETURNING FROM SPACE. SEE FOR YOURSELF!
STRANGE THINGS ARE HAPPENING TO ASTRONAUTS RETURNING FROM SPACE. SEE FOR YOURSELF!
To admire the beauty of the earth we need to see it from the outside. This realisation is very strong in the case of these astronauts. Looking at earth from space, these people realise how beautiful and vibrant the earth is.
A LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE FOR ASTRONAUTS
It appears most beautiful of all the planets known to mankind. As a bright blue globe with the views of oceans, land, clouds, lightening, city lights, demarcation between day and night, the astronauts realise the true beauty and importance of their own planet. From the top there seems to be no boundary between people and countries, no hate, no fight, no wars, just pure and peaceful experience.
The realisation of belonging dawns and that this planet belongs to mankind, it is a fragile place that needs to be tended carefully for the survival of human species. It is a realisation that there should be unity amongst us, it is a unique place almost like an oasis in the middle of this dark space. The understanding that human race is one and should be united living in peace and harmony.
These are some feelings experienced by these astronauts which they claim as an ethereal experience, almost spiritual and they could gaze at it for hours admiring its beauty. It is the same experience when somebody leave their house and then the realisation dawns on how cosy and warm the house was, the same feeling of belonging was experienced by these astronauts. This experience widened their horizon and their way of looking at mother earth against the backdrop vast universe with billions of stars and galaxies.
A very moving experience indeed for these astronauts and they have learnt to admire and appreciate earth better as this experience have changed their perspective on life. They returned to earth as a changed human being. I wish that every human think that way and unite together, breaking all man made barriers to make our planet a safe place.
NUCLEAR PHYSICIST WARNS: ALIENS ARE HERE ON EARTH AND WILL TAKE OVER
NUCLEAR PHYSICIST WARNS: ALIENS ARE HERE ON EARTH AND WILL TAKE OVER
One of Canada’s top nuclear physicists went on record to admit that aliens are already among us and that they make visits to Earth regularly. Stanton Friedman said that extraterrestrials had visited Earth many times and one day they plan on quarantining people on Earth.
Friedman, 82 years old, said that the government has deliberately been keeping secret evidence of alien visits to Earth, in what he said was part of a truth embargo. The Physicist went on to say that there is enough proof without any shadow of a doubt that Earth is continually being visited by aliens.
Friedman claims that the evidence is being kept from people due to the fact that the world would be in upheaval, as people would find alien visits distressing, and there would be mass panic. He also made it clear that if the aliens wanted people to know they were on Earth, they would.
Part of the proof that Friedman claims are being hidden include CIA files that have been declassified on sightings of UFOs. The physicist believes that aliens want to stop humans colonizing space and he firmly believes that they will quarantine people on Earth to stop humans from venturing out into space.
Friedman said that the track record of humans isn’t good; people are evil and said that the government is taking full advantage of the aliens being on Earth so that they can harness their technology, with the aim of achieving world supremacy. It is the belief of Friedman that the first country able to copy alien technology will be able to rule Earth.
He also pointed out that there was a political aspect to the government keeping aliens on Earth a secret, as the US government would not want to put anything out there if the Chinese or Russians don’t.
Friedman has in the past written extensive documentation on aliens and UFOs, and he said the secrecy was the Cosmic Watergate, which of course was about the cover-up scandal of President Nixon, during the 70s. The physicist tours the world giving talks at conferences and universities about his beliefs, but it seems that there are many skeptics out there who he hasn’t been able to convince.
In similar ways, researchers all around the globe have been hunting for Pyramids and lost structures that have eluded experts for decades.
In 2012, American researcher Angela Micol discovered ‘Pyramids larger than those found on the Giza Plateau, using satellite images.
But countless different discoveries have been made using Google Earth.
Last year we reported about a complex of structures that stretch for a staggering 76 miles at its furthest points.
The formations found off the coast of Baja California include mysterious tube-like constructions that are roughly 2.4 miles in width. Given the curious shape and distinguishable lines, many believe these are just some of the many underwater structures on our planet.
However, these new claims go beyond anything we’ve probably ever come across.
This wall’s sheer size and its adherence to linearity indicate it is not a natural formation to many. In fact, many people are convinced that due to the numerous discoveries made across the globe which completely contradict history as we have been taught in school, something like this is entirely possible. After all—they say—Earth is millions of years old and we are begging to uncover evidence that suggests many ancient civilizations inhabited Earth in our planet’s long history.
But, hold on a sec, this can’t be a wall, right?
Zooming in on the provided coordinates you clearly see what seems to be a MASSIVE structure. But who could have erected such a wall? If it really is an artificial structure, how old is it? What was its purpose?
Many disagree and don’t believe we are looking at an actual wall. In fact, there even might be a perfectly reasonable explanation for the enigmatic finding.
What if we are looking at a Google Earth glitch?
Due to the fact that Google Earth uses different images while ‘mapping the planet’, it isn’t uncommon to encounter parts of the map that just didn’t quite match perfectly, resulting in a MASSIVE wall that encompasses the entire planet.
One of the most likely explanations for this ‘impressive find’ is that we are looking at a digital seem in the mapping of the Poles.
Satellite image stitching error?
Image stitching or photo stitching is the process of combining multiple photographic images with overlapping fields of view to produce a segmented panorama or high-resolution image.
Commonly performed through the use of computer software, most approaches to image stitching require nearly exact overlaps between images and identical exposures to produce seamless results.
Image stitching is widely used in today’s world and was used in the satellite images we are seeing on Google Earth.
But an entire wall that encompasses Earth?
A lot of things can have played a role in creating such an effect. Illumination, point of view, reference, and many other things may have played a crucial role in this massive error. One of the most likely reasons for the seam appearing could be the background changing between two images for the same continuous foreground.
Finding a rock isn't something unusual. We see them all the time, yes some can be beautiful and maybe worth collecting. Some may hold secrets of past life by having fossils found within. But this particular rock which was discovered near one of the two legendary alien crash sites in Roswell, New Mexico is like no other rock ever found before.
The rock which was found by a 56-year-old man by the name of Robert L. Ridge back in 2004 seems to be truly a unique find. According to Mr. Ridge, he discovered the rock while out bow collecting and just happened to catch his eye, with good reason. Although completely covered in dirt at the time there was still something strange about the object that caught his interest. When he took the rock home to be cleaned, he found that it was even more of a mystery than he first thought.
The rock was perfectly smooth and rounded, but this was just the beginning of what was different about it. Turns out that this rock also mysterious symbols on it. The only way to describe the symbols on the rock were that these seem to resemble the unexplained crop circles that have also appeared on the earth with no given explanation. The symbols on the rock were like two crescent moons that were joined in the center corners.
Given the proximity of the rock to one of the notorious Roswell alien crash sites could it be something that was carried on one of the space crafts? According to Mr. Ridge, the look of the rock makes it almost seem impossible that such an object could have an origin to the planet earth given it's smooth and perfect edges along with the pattern. Some who have seen this rock believe that it could have been left by the aliens as a message to the earth. It is believed that maybe the aliens were trying to warn the earth of what could be an impending doom.
These, however, are just theories about what the rock cold mean. So far the origins or even the fact that this rock does have any true purpose is still a mystery that is out. Kind of like the famed alien crash sites in Roswell, New Mexico.
The International Space Station films the Black Knight Satellite in orbit
The International Space Station films the Black Knight Satellite in orbit
A video captured by the cameras aboard the International Space Station (EIS) could finally prove right avid seekers of extraterrestrial life. In the video, you can distinguish a strange formation that— many assure— is an alien spaceship, specifically the so-called Black Knight Satellite.
Even though the image itself isn’t crystal clear (as in most cases), UFO enthusiasts argue that we can clearly see the shape of the Black Knight Satellite.
The enigmatic alien vehicle has created quite a buzz in the last couple of years.
The discovery of the Black Knight Satellite is perhaps one of the most (in) famous space objects to orbit our Planet. This “Artificial Satellite” has caused major media interest since the late 50’s, and it has become one of the most talked about objects in space. First thought to be a Russian spy satellite, the Black Knight has gripped the interest of millions worldwide.
The story of the Black Knight made its media debut in the 1940’s when the St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner wrote about the “Satellite” on May 14th, 1954. The Time Magazine wrote about it on the seventh of March, 1960.
According to UFOlogists, the enigmatic alien satellite has been keeping an eye on our civilization for over 13,000 years.
Over the years—especially since the ISS got its live feed installed—the Black Knight Satellite, and countless other ‘alien’ objects have been identified by millions of people around the globe.
This new video, uploaded by UFO hunter Streetcap1 argues that the enigmatic alien vehicle is clearly visible and that it’s not a thermal blanket as many skeptics have claimed.
In fact, the eery object doesn’t really resemble any known man-made object orbiting our planet. Its orbit is odd, and its design and shape are most definitely what you’d expect to see from an alien spaceship (not that we’d know).
UFO hunters argue that there are no solar panels attached to the main body which has led many to conclude that it must employ and rely on an unknown propulsion system.
NASA doesn’t speak out much about alleged UFO sightings but when it does, the American Space Agency usually agrees that most UFOs are either shadows, lights from the International Space Station, and space debris.
Interestingly, when in 1963 Gordon Cooper was launched into space, on his final orbit, he reported seeing a glowing green object in front of his capsule in the distance moving towards his Spacecraft.
The Muchea tracking station, in Australia, which Cooper reported the object to, picked up this unidentified object on Radar traveling east to West. NBC reported this, but after Cooper had returned to Earth, the Reporter were not allowed to ask Cooper about the unidentified object. The official explanation given to Coopers sighting were “high levels of carbon dioxide, which caused hallucinations”.
Interestingly, in 1957, an unknown “object” was seen “shadowing” the Sputnik 1 Spacecraft. According to reports, the “unidentified object” was in Polar orbit, at that time The United Stated nor the Russians possessed the technology to maintain a spacecraft in Polar Orbit. According to our research, the first Polar-orbiting satellite was launched in 1960.
Polar orbits are often used for earth-mapping, earth observation, capturing the earth as time passes from one point and reconnaissance satellites. This would put the Black Knight in the category of an observational Satellite, the only question here is, who placed The Black Knight in a polar orbit and for what purpose?
ANUNNAKI: THE 'FORBIDDEN' MOVIE THAT NEVER CAME TO THE CINEMAS, WHY?
ANUNNAKI: THE 'FORBIDDEN' MOVIE THAT NEVER CAME TO THE CINEMAS, WHY?
And God said: "Let us make man in our image and likeness ..."
In 2006, an unknown American director of his name Jon Gress began filming what should be the most controversial film of the century (surpassing 2012).
DARWIN ... WAS WRONG! ...
The trilogy about the Anunnaki stays on Earth! Since its arrival 450,000 years ago, the pre and post flood empires, the exit and a likely return, by mid-2012.
A very precise and independent film, based on the books of Zecharia Sitchin, which should have been released in 2007, 2008 and 2009. The official site of the film was disconcerting, and there were pre-production photos.
But, something happened (it is not the first time this happens). It was closed, as well as any link related to the movie.
All images, videos, and information have been deleted from the internet. The Anunnaki film was never released, and the tracks of its existence were erased from the media.
Proof of Alien contact? Experts unearth Ancient Maya statue depicting an ‘Alien’ humanoid
Proof of Alien contact? Experts unearth Ancient Maya statue depicting an ‘Alien’ humanoid
Experts have unearthed a mysterious statue belonging to the ancient Maya civilization. The curious item depicts ‘an alien humanoid’ holding a human head.
The statue consists of a snake that seems to surround the figure of a small ‘ALIEN humanoid’ seen in a profile view holding a human head. Notice the strange head and oval-shaped eyes.
Directors of the museum of Xiutetelco—Puebla, Mexico— have revealed the discovery of an important archaeological piece belonging to the ancient Mayan culture, which inhabited the area sometimes during 400 AD. The ‘controversial statue consists of a snake that surrounds the figure of a small ‘ALIEN humanoid’ seen in a profile view, holding a human head. Notice the strange head and oval-shaped eyes.
The fascinating piece contains four inlays of mineral such as obsidian, turquoise, jade and shell, and was found by public workers in the Maxtaloyan community— in the upper part of the mentioned municipality—while improvement works were being carried out.
According to ‘El Sol de Puebla‘, the discovery is “a fundamental sample of the Mayan culture that for a long time inhabited the region, settling in the present day municipality, leaving important vestiges.”
Rafael Julián Montiel, in charge of the museum of Xiutetelco, said that since this area is adjacent to the archaeological zone of Cantona, among other communities, more pieces of this type could be found. In the near future—and especially during construction works—experts will monitor the area in hopes of discovering similar artifacts and preventing damage to possible future discoveries.
Likewise, the director of the museum added that Maxtaloyan is home to a volcano, similar to that of the community of ‘Los Humeros’ in the municipality of Chignautla, which has already erupted in the past, warning that there is danger of the volcano erupting and burying an entire prehispanic settlement.
Monitel concluded:
”At the moment, more than 5 thousand pieces have been discovered in several points of this municipality. All of them have been taken care of and are exhibited in the museum, which receives a large number of visitors who are eager to learn more about the ancestral wealth that Xiutetelco has.”
Experts have not yet concluded what exactly the newly discovered figurine represents, embodied in the ancient Mayan sculpture.
This has led to the emergence of several theories among those who have had a chance to see it in person.
Some people undoubtedly see a classic “gray” alien that holds a human head while others add that the serpent may symbolize an ancient “reptilian deity.”
Many would agree that the ancient statue clearly depicts a gray alien—with his elongated head, and oval shapedeyes.
4th man to walk on the moon makes surprising claims about Aliens
4th man to walk on the moon makes surprising claims about Aliens
Alan Bean—the fourth man to walk on the surface of our moon—says he ‘knows the truth’ about aliens.
According to the former Apollo 12 pilot, aliens have yet to visit Earth our planet and if they did, they would have made contact already. In an interview, the former astronaut confessed that he does not believe that “someone outside the world has visited the Earth”, but despite that, he is convinced that we are not Alone in the Universe.
Even though there is ‘abundant evidence’ that we are being contact by alien civilizations, one of the few humans to have set foot on Earth’s moon says that he knows the truth about extraterrestrials and that if ‘they’ had visited Earth, they would have already made contact
The former NASA pilot has said that advanced alien civilizations would be ‘more altruistic and friendly’ and would have announced their ‘peaceful’ arrival.
Interestingly, Bean followed the footsteps of some of his colleagues who developed an immense interest in countless theories about alien life.
However, while speaking to Megan Palin with News.com.au, the former astronaut said: “I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ever visited the Earth. One of the reasons I don’t believe they have been here is that civilizations that are more advanced are more altruistic and friendly — like Earth, which is better than it used to be — so they would have landed and said ‘we come in peace and we know from our studies you have cancer that kills people, we solved that problem 50 years ago, here’s the gadget we put on a person’s chest that will cure it, we will show you how to make it’.”
The former NASA moonwalker explained that when we finally obtain the ability to travel to distant alien worlds, ‘ in around 1,000 years’, mankind would help aliens in distant parts of the universe by teaching them all of our cures.
Bean continued: “There are so many billions of stars and these stars have planets around them so there must be statistically many planets around many stars that have formed life,’ he said. Maybe some of them are like our life was 100,000 years ago, and some of them are like we are now, and there are probably some out there that are 10,000 years in the future from where we are now.”
However, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut, Air Force Captain, and Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences thinks otherwise:
“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time.”(source)
Furthermore, Dr. Brian O’Leary, Former NASA Astronaut and, Princeton Physics Professor said that: “There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time that their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, which seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon.”(source)
VIDEOHet Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbedrijf SpaceX heeft zijn Falcon 9-raket gelanceerd met een gerecycleerde eerste trap. Dat meldt het bedrijf van Tesla-topman Elon Musk. Het gaat om de eerste lancering ooit waarbij een raket gebruikt werd voor twee verschillende missies. Het bedrijf wil door de recuperatie en recyclage van onderdelen de lanceerkosten drukken.
De draagraket met een telecommunicatiesatelliet van het Luxemburgse bedrijf SES werd gelanceerd vanop de basis in Cape Canaveral om 18.27 uur plaatselijke tijd (23.27 uur Belgische tijd). De eerste trap, die 41 meter hoog is en na 2 minuten en 41 seconden loskomt van de rest van de raket, keerde terug naar de aarde en werd succesvol opgevangen door een platform op zee, dat de naam 'Of Course I Still Love You' kreeg.
De trap werd eerder al gebruikt in april 2016 voor de lancering van een Dragon-capsule naar het internationaal ruimtestation ISS voor een eerste bevoorradingsmissie in het kader van een contract met NASA
Tweede lancering "Ongelooflijk trots op het SpaceX-team om deze mijlpaal in de ruimtevaart te bereiken. Het volgende doel is een tweede lancering in 24 uur", tweette CEO Elon Musk na de lancering, aldus CNN.
SpaceX heeft al veertien pogingen ondernomen om de trap te recupereren, en in negen gevallen lukte dat ook. Volgens algemeen directeur Gwynne Shotwell van SpaceX wil het bedrijf met de recuperatie van de trappen de kosten voor de lancering met 30 procent verminderen. Elke lancering kost ongeveer 62 miljoen dollar (58 miljoen euro).
AUSTRALISCHE ASTRONOMEN VRAGEN HULP AAN PUBLIEK OM ONBEKENDE PLANEET TE VINDEN ( VIDEO )
AUSTRALISCHE ASTRONOMEN VRAGEN HULP AAN PUBLIEK OM ONBEKENDE PLANEET TE VINDEN ( VIDEO )
Op 30 december 1983 verscheen er een artikel in de Washington Post waarin werd gesteld dat er een mysterieus hemellichaam was ontdekt in de richting van het sterrenbeeld Orion.
Op 30 december 2016 verschijnt er een bericht bij NASA waarin wordt geclaimd dat men de net ontdekte Planet Nine kan vinden in de richting van de sterrenbeelden Orion en Stier.
Het is niet toevallig dat Planet Nine net wordt ontdekt. Het is uiteraard dezelfde planeet die in 1983 is ontdekt, alleen was toen de tijd nog niet rijp om dit aan het grote publiek bekend te maken. De reden is onder andere dat de elite voldoende tijd nodig had om haar grote ondergrondse schuilplaatsen voor te bereiden.
Planet Nine is dan ook niets anders dan een voorzichtige bekendmaking van de onbekende planeet Nibiru oftewel Planet X.
“Er is iets net buiten de verste regionen van ons zonnestelsel dat schijnt te trekken aan Uranus en Neptunus. Er is een zwaartekracht actief die de twee reuzenplaneten blijft verstoren, waardoor er onregelmatigheden in haar omloopbanen ontstaan. Deze kracht wijst op een aanwezigheid ver weg van een onzichtbaar groot object dat heel goed de lang gezochte Planeet X zou kunnen zijn”.
“Er is door een ruimtetelescoop van NASA een hemellichaam ontdekt in de richting van het sterrenbeeld Orion, dat mogelijk zo groot is als de enorme planeet Jupiter en dat zich zo dichtbij de aarde bevindt dat het onderdeel is van ons zonnestelsel”.
Men wist dat er “iets” was, omdat dit was ontdekt door de IRAS infrarood telescoop, maar zoals Dr. Gerry Neugebauer, hoofd van het IRAS onderzoeksteam destijds zei: “Het enige dat ik u kan vertellen is dat wij niet weten wat het is”.
Een onbekend object, gevonden in de richting van het Orion sterrenbeeld waar vervolgens de eerstvolgende ruim 30 jaar over wordt gezwegen en waar nu ineens in 2016 een Planet Nine wordt ontdekt in de richting van het Orion sterrenbeeld.
Begint het ergens te dagen?
Natuurlijk is het geen toeval dat deze Planet Nine wordt ontdekt in dezelfde richting als waar men in 1983 Planet X had ontdekt.
In de loop van 2016 komen er steeds meer verhalen over Planet Nine zoals de vraag op de bekende website Space.com of Planet Nine misschien wel verantwoordelijk is voor het kantelen van de zon. Op Forbes verscheen in dezelfde maand een artikel waarin stond dat Planet Nine wel eens verantwoordelijk zou kunnen zijn voor alle verstoringen in ons zonnestelsel.
En plots schrijft niemand meer over nepnieuws of aluhoedjes, want dan opeens is het wél echt.
Natuurlijk noemen ze deze planeet Planet Nine en niet Nibiru of Planet X, omdat dit een slapende massa teveel wakker zou maken en doen inzien dat ze, op z'n minst, meer dan 30 jaar voor de gek zijn gehouden, terwijl de elite zich bezighield met haar voorbereidingen.
Naast alle andere verstoringen die optreden in ons zonnestelsel zoals steeds heftigere aardbevingen, meer en grotere vulkaanuitbarstingen en een steeds groter wordende stroom asteroïden, doet zich nog iets bijzonders voor.
Een mysterieus “iets” zorgt voor een zodanig heftige zonnewind dat zelfs NASA niet in staat schijnt te zijn om dit te meten.
De zonnewind is een stroom van geladen deeltjes die ontsnapt aan het oppervlak van de Zon.
Het is als een geweldige golf energie die de aarde raakt en ook dit probeert men te verbergen.
Iemand die de voorbereidingen van de elite op de komst van de planeet Nibiru nauwlettend heeft gevolgd, is onderzoeker Bob Fletcher. In de onderstaande video vertelt hij uitgebreid over de verschillende aspecten van die voorbereidingen.
Hoe ze zich voorbereiden op een “grote gebeurtenis” en hoe ze enorme hoeveelheden voedsel en dergelijke hebben overgebracht naar geheime ondergrondse schuilplaatsen.
Ook gaat hij in op de vele miljarden dollars aan “verdwenen geld” (black budget) en de vele redenen waarom hij denkt dat de 1 procent zich al lange tijd heeft voorbereid op een “bijbelse gebeurtenis”.
The MetroSpiritual: Disclosing UFO government secrets could help heal a divided nation
The MetroSpiritual: Disclosing UFO government secrets could help heal a divided nation
If everyone were to demand the government release all UFO and ET files, we just might solve the universe’s greatest mystery.
(AARON FOSTER/GETTY IMAGES)
If everyone were to demand the government release all UFO and ET files, we just might solve the universe’s greatest mystery.
If America can handle the shock and awe of Donald Trump being the leader of the free world, then the reality of UFOs and extraterrestrials living among us should be easy for most people to comprehend.
With our country so divided, I can't help thinking that now is the perfect time for this subject to finally be moved from the paranormal fringes and into the mainstream norm.
If everyone were to come together and demand under the Freedom Of Information Act that our government should release all UFO/ET files, we might just get some answers to the age-old questions of “Where do we come from?” and “Why are we here?”
This seems like a much better focus for our country instead of Trump's twisted tweets — and may even bring us closer together as a country.
"I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask, is there not an alien force already among us?" — Ronald Reagan
Among U.S Presidents, Reagan wasn’t alone when it came to a fascination with, if not an outright belief in, UFOs.
Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon and Jimmy Carter have all reported seeing UFOs and likely believed in extraterrestrial beings.
Presidents’ strange encounters with extraterrestrials, in fact, can be traced as far back as the American Revolution.
There are stories about George Washington telling his troops about an alien encounter he experienced. It was in the middle of winter, food was scarce and many men had fallen ill. All hope seemed lost.
One night, Washington saw a bright light in the woods and went out alone to investigate. It was there he claimed to have met a being who showed him a vision of the great country America would become.
After that experience the tides of war changed — the troops rallied and independence from the British was won.
Even former president George W. Bush alluded to the existence of aliens on a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel’s show. When asked about aliens and if he knew any "really great secrets" that he wasn't allowed to share with anyone, Bush, with a sly smile, admitted that he did.
Many UFO researchers had long hoped Hillary Clinton was going to be the first President to reveal what the government really knows after she hinted about it during her failed run for the White House.
For the truth to emerge, it would now be up to President Trump, though so far he has yet to show any interest in doing so.
But it does seem like ETs have shown an interest in keeping tabs on Trump. On two separate occasions UFOs have been spotted around his aircraft. One witness photographed a UFO following Trump's helicopter back on Aug. 15, 2015, at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.
More recently, FOX 10 News in Phoenix aired a video of two UFOs around Trump's plane as it traveled towards Washington for his inauguration in January. Maybe the aliens, like many earthlings, couldn’t believe he was elected and just had to see it to believe it!
Maybe Trump will finally be the one to disclose what’s in all those government UFO files, though most researchers doubt it — which means it may be up to the ETs to decide to make themselves known.
If and when that happens, one thing is for sure: People's differences will seem very small in comparison to finally solving the greatest mystery in the universe.
Of all the pop-punk bands to emerge in the 1990s, few achieved success like Blink-182. Massive hits like “What’s My Age Again?” and “All the Small Things” fueled its distinct brand of cheery-cum-snotty adolescence. By October 2001, the band could draw 15,000 eager fans to Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion. There the crowd watched as Blink-182, then composed of Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker and Tom DeLonge, performed in front of a giant four-letter word set ablaze.
But all flaming swear signs must burn out. The band went on hiatus between 2005 and 2009. In 2015, four years after the New York Times declared that, “no punk band of the 1990s has been more influential than Blink-182,” guitarist and vocalist DeLonge walked away. Hoppus and Barker, in a statement to Rolling Stone, said that DeLonge had left Blink-182 “indefinitely.” The band continued without him.
A different kind of stardom — space, and the aliens who lived there — seduced DeLonge.
Now 41, DeLonge has found success in his post-punk pursuit. In February, the Arizona-based International UFO Congress, which each year holds the largest convention of UFO investigators in the world, awarded DeLonge its UFO researcher of the year award. In March, DeLonge published a book, “Sekret Machines: Gods, Man, & War,” with occult historian Peter Levenda. The book, DeLonge said, marked the first nonfiction entry in a sweeping project that includes science-fiction novels, concept albums and movies.
All of those works are related, in one way or another, to a subject DeLonge calls “the Phenomenon.”
More than 20 years of research and reflection led to the new book. DeLonge’s perspective turned to the heavens in early adolescence, he told The Washington Post in a recent phone interview, after witnessing the conflict between his mother, a devout Christian, and his father, who was “not religious at all.” He began to wonder if something sinister was at work.
“I realized early on there was something odd with the human life experience,” DeLonge said. “There’s all these wars. I had a really difficult, broken family. I got kicked out of high school.”
DeLonge’s phenomenon is a grand unified theory of extraterrestrial encounters. It encompasses virtually all aspects of human culture, including religion, technology, media and science. “It is the UFO phenomenon, to be sure, but that is a box too small to contain it in all its glory,” DeLonge and Levenda wrote in their new book, “as no two experts can agree on what it is.” In “Sekret Machines,” a metaphor for the phenomenon emerges: the human experience as cargo cult.
During World War II, indigenous tribes in the South Pacific, who rarely interacted with outsiders, observed planes airdropping food and medicine. “To this day there are religions based on worshiping those planes,” DeLonge said, “because they did not know what they were.”
There is no question that cargo cults have existed on our planet. One group of villagers in the Vanuatu islands honor a holy savior named John Frum, the spirit of an American who lives in a nearby volcano. (It has been speculated that the name John Frum came from World War II soldiers who greeted the villagers, saying, “I’m John from America.”)
“John promised he’ll bring planeloads and shiploads of cargo to us from America if we pray to him,” one village elder told a Smithsonian magazine reporter who visited the island in 2006. “Radios, TVs, trucks, boats, watches, iceboxes, medicine, Coca-Cola and many other wonderful things.”
Similar events happened on an interplanetary scale, DeLonge said. “Whether it is Joseph Smith meeting an angel and forming the Mormon religion, or it’s the star of Bethlehem or light hovering over a manger,” he said, “what happens is, is people see these things and they create religions off of them. We wanted to say, ‘Well, hey, we are all some form of a cargo cult.’ The question is, why?”
DeLonge’s book will not convince any skeptics about the reality of aliens. Sufficient evidence already exists, DeLonge told The Post, citing the scale of the universe. “There are trillions of galaxies,” he said. “There’s trillions of planets within each galaxy, and people go, ‘Are we alone?’ ” DeLonge dismissed his own question with a word Blink-182 once set on fire.
He also had little time for those who doubt whether aliens had visited Earth. “It’s all out there already,” DeLonge said. “It’s so frustrating when people say they’re waiting for some big person to say something. Well, there’s been a hundred books, national press events in D.C., meetings in Congress and multi-star generals on the record.”
There is no evidence of contact between aliens and humans, according to scientific consensus. “At the moment, life on Earth is the only known life in the universe, but there are compelling arguments to suggest we are not alone,” astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote in 2003.
When Bill Clinton was president, he denied that the White House had proof of aliens. “No, as far as I know, an alien spacecraft did not crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947,” Clinton said during a 1995 speech while in Ireland, responding to a letter sent by Ryan, a 13-year-old resident of Belfast. “And Ryan, if the United States Air Force did recover alien bodies, they didn’t tell me about it, either, and I want to know.”
(As recently as Monday, scientists publicly dismissed the idea. “I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ever visited the Earth,” said Alan Bean, 85, the fourth person to walk on the Moon, to an Australian newspaper.)
In his search for information, DeLonge said he made his way into upper echelons of the American government. In October, the Wall Street Journal reported that DeLonge corresponded with John Podesta, the chair for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign, according to emails WikiLeaks had released; Podesta, for his part, has frequently advocated for the United States to declassify any information regarding Area 51 or other UFO incidents.
It took DeLonge a year, but he managed to set up “very high level meetings” with members of the Defense Department, he said. “And I got to the people that are in charge of this stuff.” He declined to confirm to The Washington Post whether he had met with Podesta or any specific government officials. “I can’t comment on who I met with,” he said, “or what those meetings were about.”
A Defense Department spokesman said in an email to The Washington Post that neither the Defense Department’s Community Relations nor the Air Force had records of such a meeting. The spokesman “did see one open source story that named generals who supposedly worked with Mr. DeLonge.” Both of the generals mentioned had retired, the representative said, the first in October 2013 and the other in June of 2014.
Several scientists involved in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, are optimistic that any alien life advanced enough to happen upon Earth would also be benevolent. “I doubt aliens would drop what they’re doing to come over here and wipe out Clapham Junction — why would they do that?” Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute in California, told the Guardian in July. “They probably have what we have at home — except for our culture, maybe they are big Cliff Richard fans or like our reality television.”
But DeLonge’s air of secrecy — and the government’s — stemmed from the danger that alien contact posed, the former Blink-182 guitarist said. It was a pessimistic view of alien intelligence, a fear shared by physicist Stephen Hawking (though Hawking still supports SETI initiatives such as Breakthrough Listen). DeLonge had been “briefed on things” that caused him to lose sleep “for multiple days on end,” he said. “Because it really, really threw me down the stairs.”
DeLonge’s view was not completely dour, however. Far from it. He said that exposing the phenomenon as a malevolent extraterrestrial influence would persuade humans around the world to cooperate. He likened current global conflicts to someone incorrectly fighting a fire. “When I was in high school, I wanted to be a firefighter. I learned that you spray the base of the flame. You squirt water on the fuel, not the flame itself,” DeLonge said.
“I feel that lot of the fighting taking place across the world, when we drop bombs — that’s spraying on the flames. The fuel of all these wars are our belief systems. And the sooner we attack that,” he said, “that we’ve been duped about our belief systems, maybe we’ll start to realize we’re much more connected.”
Chris Rutkowski is considered one of Canada's foremost UFO experts.
While UFO sightings are near record highs, those standing up to scrutiny are at record lows, according to the 2016 Canadian UFO Survey.
A total of 1,131 UFO sightings were reported last year across Canada, the fifth year in a row the number has exceeded 1,000.
Only four per cent of those could not be explained, said Chris Rutkowski, of Winnipeg-based Ufology Research, which produced the survey with help from investigators and researchers across the country. That’s the lowest rate in 28 years of study and half the previous low of 8 per cent.
"What that means is we’re doing a better job of investigating cases," Rutkowski said.
"The cases are often reported from very good observers, like pilots and nature photographers, but we are eventually able to explain them."
That doesn’t mean he’s stopped believing in extraterrestrial life.
"As an astronomer, that is my belief. We’re just a matter of five to 10 years away from discovering hard evidence of life outside our solar system," he said.
Nearly 40 per cent of UFO sightings were in June, July and August, the 2016 survey found. Lights in the sky accounted for 55 per cent of sightings, while "close encounters" made up less than one per cent.
Quebec led the country with 38.5 per cent of sightings, even though it accounts for less than 24 per cent of the population. Ontario, with 39 per cent of the population, had 26 per cent of sightings, and British Columbia (13 per cent of population) had 17 per cent.
The most popular shape of UFO reported in 2016 was a simple point of light (57 per cent).
Other shapes reported were triangle (four per cent), ball (nine per cent), cigar (three per cent) and fireball (five per cent). "Flying saucers" were reported only 48 times (five per cent) in 2016.
The annual UFO survey was initiated in 1989. In the past 28 years, 18,038 Canadian reports have been catalogued, significantly higher than the files of the United States Air Force’s infamous Project Blue Book, which investigated and recorded 12,618 UFO reports from around the world from 1947 to 1969.
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REVEALED: THESE are the world’s best places to spot an ALIEN
REVEALED: THESE are the world’s best places to spot an ALIEN
ALIENS can be tricky to pin down, but heading to these extraterrestrial hot spots will give you the best chance of having a close encounter with a UFO.
Here are eight places to head for the best chance of catching a glimpse of a UFO.
1. Area 51, Nevada, USA
Area 51 is one of the most infamous places on the planet. A highly classified Air Force base, some believe the remains of a UFO that crashed in Roswell are hidden inside. Many UFO sightings have been made in the area.
Alien sightings: Some places are better than others for spotting a UFO
Here are eight places to head for the best chance of catching a glimpse of a UFO
2. The Nullabor, Australia
This remote area in the Australian Outback has been a hotbed of UFO sightings since the 1950s. Many travellers claim to have been chased by UFOs while driving down the area’s empty roads.
3. The M Triangle, Russia
The Molyobka Triangle is located in the the Ural mountains and is considered the place to go to spot alien activity in Russia. For over 100 years, locals in the area have claimed to see lights and strange symbols in the sky, as well as encountering translucent beings.
4. Roswell, New Mexico, USA
For alien enthusiasts, there is no better place than Roswell for UFO spotting. The site is where an alien spaceship allegedly crashed in 1947 (before being secretly transported to Area 51 by shady government officials). Roswell’s UFO Museum and Research Center hosts events where those who claim to have been abducted share their experiences. The area also boasts the world’s only spaceship-shaped McDonald’s.
5. Warminster, England
The Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire is home to the mysterious stone circles of Avebury as well as Stonehenge. Warminster hit headlines worldwide in the 1960s and 1970s when “alien sounds” were heard in the area, attracting UFO fanatics who flocked there from around the globe to watch the skies. In recent years crop circles have also been discovered nearby.
6. El Enladrillado, Chile
Chile’s tourist board created the country’s first UFO trail after a flurry of extraterrestrial sightings in El Enladrillado in 2008. Passing through the Andes, the 30km trail passes through the sites where UFOs have been spotted before finishing at El Enladrillado, which is alleged to be a landing pad for alien spaceships.
7. Wycliffe Well, Australia
The self-proclaimed UFO capital of Australia, Wycliffe Well has been a hotbed of alien activity since WWII. Locals report seeing lights in the sky fairly frequently, and during the Second World War strange happenings were so common that a serviceman stationed there kept a log book of sightings.
8. Bonnybridge, Scotland
Bonnybridge is located in what is referred to as “The Falkirk Triangle” by UFO experts. This area between Stirling, Fife and the outskirts of Edinburgh is apparently an extraterrestrial hot spot – over 300 sightings are reported each year.
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Bright lights, light-fingered aliens: all part of annual report on UFO sightings
Bright lights, light-fingered aliens: all part of annual report on UFO sightings
A handout photo of a sketch of a UFO reportedly observed in Falcon Lake, Man. in 1967.
The Canadian Press Published Friday, March 31, 2017 1:51AM EDT
WINNIPEG -- Bright lights, airplane near-misses and light-fingered aliens with a penchant for cool shades are all part of the annual report on UFO sightings in Canada.
The 2016 Canadian UFO Survey produced by Winnipeg-based Ufology Research was released this week. In total, there were 1,131 sightings of unidentified flying objects reported across Canada.
In a first for the 28 years the study has been conducted, only four per cent of the sightings could not be explained. Study author Chris Rutkowski said that record-low rating is likely the result of more careful scrutiny of raw report information available.
Summer is the big time of year for UFO sightings and mostly they were simply lights that people saw in the sky.
The provinces with the largest populations had the most reports, so Quebec led the country with 38.5 per cent of the sightings, while Ontario had 26 per cent and British Columbia had 17 per cent.
The most popular shape of UFO reported in 2016 was a simple point source of light (57 per cent). Other shapes reported were triangle (four per cent), ball (nine per cent), cigar (three per cent) and fireball (five per cent). The classic "flying saucer" was only reported 48 times.
As for what the study calls "unknowns," they included such cases as the "gigantic, disc-shaped object with searchlights" that was seen moving over the mountains in North Vancouver, and the boomerang-shaped "cluster of stars" that moved across the sky near St. Thomas, Ont.
There was also the commercial airplane over Toronto that had a near miss with an object while on a routine flight on Nov. 14.
"The flight crew noticed an object directly ahead on their flight path. The object appeared to be solid, approximately five to eight feet in diameter and shaped like an upright doughnut or inner tube," said the study.
"Cabin crew members received minor injuries when evasive action was taken. While the object was not likely a balloon and was suggested to be a drone, it was noted that drones could not fly at that altitude and distance."
The study said the Transportation Safety Board ruled the incident as "a near collision with an unidentified airborne object."
Close encounter cases are in the minority, but high on the strangeness scale.
Those included a man in Cornwall, P.E.I., who reported that a thin, six-foot-tall, long-fingered white alien in a black suit spoke to him in his bedroom before leaving by walking through a wall.
A man in Lanaudiere, Que., said he was transported into a field of plants and plunged into a bathtub "where he was surrounded by three green, big-eyed humanoid creatures who communicated with him telepathically."
Not all close encouters are so dramatic, however. One person in Tecumseh, Ont., reported that an alien stole his sunglasses and belt, while someone from Rimouski, Que., filed a report which read simply: "They contacted me!"
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Brit Rockstar Reveals Encounters With Aliens After Sighting UFOs
Brit Rockstar Reveals Encounters With Aliens After Sighting UFOs
A musician has shared the story of his unexpected encounters with aliens, as well as physic communication with ETs.
Famous British rocker Dave Davies, 70, claimed he first observed UFOs in northern Devon sky. The Kinks guitarist, who is a believer of life in space, even stated aliens have already made contact with humans.
He further said that the government has knowledge of extraterrestrial life, but did not comment on the alleged wide-scale cover-up.
The revelations have come after Apollo astronaut Alan Bean disclosed that he believes aliens exist out there.
The rock musician, however, does not think extraterrestrials have touched down on Earth.
According to Davies, he began receiving physic impressions or communications from ETs after seeing them in the sky.
Davies told in an interview that he had several experiences of seeing UFOs and they were interesting. He shared his UFO sightings in north Devon, England where he spotted lights and zigzags in the skies.
Rolling Stone Magazine named Davies as one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. He collaborated with Ray Davies, older brother, in The Kinks.
Dave explained that after experiencing with a UFO, he has been keeping those feelings, and then getting into his subconscious and super-conscious.
He continued that he started to understand those feelings when he got into ufology.
UFOs Showing Up All Around Guys House! March 30, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Showing Up All Around Guys House! March 30, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Above I added contrast, below is original untouched.
Date of sighting: March 30, 2017
Location of sighting: Unknown
From the sound of it, I would say this UFO was seen in Scotland or England, but not sure on that. Still there eyewitness posted it yesterday and is fantastic! He catches several UFOs and as he is talking and says hello to a second one, the UFO hesitates, as if it can hear him, or read his thoughts, then continues on its way following the other. I will ask him where he recorded this, and will update soon.
Multiple UFOs caught on tape over Atlanta, Georgia 29-Mar-2017
Multiple UFOs caught on tape over Atlanta, Georgia 29-Mar-2017
This UFO video was filmed in the sky above Atlanta in Georgia on Wednesday, 29th March 2017.
Witness report:
The video was shot on an iPhone around 3am on March 29, 2017. For perspective, the camera is shooting south (from NW side of Atlanta). It was 5 orange lights in a “V” formation with one blue light underneath. There were a few other orange lights that flanked the main formation and possibly one in the distance beyond the rest. It’s hard to see clearly because we were filming through the wood line. Once the lights moved into formation, we heard helicopters coming from the north and moving south — but we couldn’t see them. They sounded like they were flying in big circles, and they did that for hours (until I had to leave). The lights moved slightly up and down every so often but always stayed in formation. What I saw with my eyes was very different than on the footage. Very weird. There was no info online talking about why the helicopters were circling all night. That is also weird. Atlanta PD and all the news outlets are very good about letting us know that kind of stuff.
He has BS and MS degrees in Physics from University of Chicago. As a nuclear physicist for a number of major corporations and military contractors, he worked on secret projects to build nuclear aircraft, fission and fusion rockets, and nuclear power plants to be used in outer space. He was the first civilian to investigate the Roswell UFO incident and has since become known as the Father of Roswell and the Flying Saucer Physicist. Is this enough to believe Stanton T. Friedman when he gives this kind of warning to his fellow Earthlings?
I think they are here. I think they are here to quarantine us, keep us from going out there. With our track record – we’re evil.
Uh-oh. In a new interview, Stanton Friedman addresses the recent Wikileaks releases of formerly-classified CIA documents on UFO sightings around the world. He believes these documents should tell everyone else what he already knows.
We have enough to prove without a shadow of a doubt that Planet Earth is being visited [by aliens].
Do we? Even if the redacted portions of those documents were revealed, it doesn’t seem they contain the “beyond a shadow of a doubt” missing link. Perhaps he’s implying that someone or some organization is keeping that crucial piece of information from us.
This is kept from people because who would want the world in upheaval? There would be mass panic and distress.
He’s right about that. Just the announcement of a potential big snowstorm can cause mass panic. Imagine what a prediction of a 50% chance of alien encounters would do. But this time, Friedman reveals that it’s not governments that are keeping the truth from us, it’s the aliens already on Earth themselves.
If they (the aliens) want to make themselves known, it’s easy – they will.
How much more evil do we have to get for this to happen? Are they secretly sabotaging space travel already? Elon Musk might think so after the problems SpaceX has encountered. Or perhaps they have infiltrated the space program and stopped the return of humans to the moon and any exploration beyond. Is Friedman warning the current administration and private space corporations to back off on going to Mars? Or is he predicting a military conflict that will be caused by the first verified revelation that a nation has reverse-engineered alien technology?
The first country to replicate [alien] technology will rule the roost if they can build it. It’s political too – the US says ‘are we ready to put out anything if the Russians don’t or the Chinese don’t.
Would that trigger a war? Probably. Would it trigger the alien “quarantine” Friedman warns about? Who knows? What would that look like? Armed aliens guarding all of the world’s major launch pads? A Dyson sphere around the planet to keep us in?
Friedman has a long history with military and government contractors and in the field of ufology. Is it time for doubters to start listening to him a little more closely?
Anything unusual that happens or is rumored to have happened at, around or in the general vicinity of Geneva is often blamed on the Large Hadron Collider and its maker, CERN. That…
While I am still on a bit of a Contactee kick, I thought it would be a good time to share with you the story of one of the lesser-known so-called Contactees….
Researchers in England are growing small human brains in their laboratories. Even more lab-grown-mind-boggling, they grew the brains out of human skin cells. Are these tiny brains thinking that this is pretty…
Despite the epic THX-mastered theatrics of science fiction soundtracks, space is a cold, airless vacuum in which sound does not travel. Nevertheless, celestial objects still produce their own sounds which can sometimes be heard within their own atmospheres or with special instruments. Just as a star’s or planet’s physical composition can reveal much information about its history, so too can the sounds that they emit. To pioneer the study of these sounds, researchers at the University of New South Wales Sydney have devised a method of recording and analyzing the sounds coming from the insides of stars in order to reveal their cosmic origin stories.
Each star technically has its own unique sound that could be used to identify it.
The team of astrophysicists used NASA’s Kepler space observatory to record ‘starquakes’ – the massive, turbulent oscillations of energy and plasma inside the hearts of 48 different Red Giant stars in two clusters. Using these otherwordly sounds alone, the researchers were able to correctly determine the directions of each of the stars’ spins. According to UNSW Sydney’s Dennis Stello, this approach could open up completely new avenues of sound-based astronomical research:
Just as seismologists use earthquakes to understand the interior of our planet, we use starquakes to understand the interior of stars. Our new study provides the first evidence that this approach is a powerful way to gain insights into processes that occurred billions of years ago, close to the beginning of the universe.
The authors of this research published in Nature Astronomy claim that the spins of close to 70% of the stars studied in each cluster were closely aligned, meaning that they likely preserved some of their initial directions and momentum after the violent celestial explosions which created them:
It’s remarkable that the imprint of these initial conditions can still be seen billions of years later, by studying tiny oscillations in stars that are many light years away.
It’s a mystifying thought: the songs of the stars are like the soundtrack of the very origin of the universe. Sounds like one hell of a prog rock concept album if you ask me.
In some ways, the sound of the Big Bang is still being sung by the universe’s oldest stars.
Bagpipe players have it rough. Not only do they play one of the loudest, most polarizing instruments out there, but they also have to be vigilant about neighbors murdering them in their…
An experimental ‘ink’ has allowed scientists at the University of Bristol to print living human tissues. The team of researchers has published their results in Advanced Healthcare Materials, and believes this new…
Neither its nature nor origin have been totally explained. Those words were written by a team of astronomers from Keio University in Japan to describe a strange, super fast cloud of molecules…
A study published this month in the journal Biomaterials has proven once again that spinach is basically the best superfood to ever exist. A team of scientists from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Arkansas State University-Jonesboro have successfully used spinach leaves to grow human heart tissue.
While 3D printing definitely has a future in the medical sciences, the technology is still too new and does not have the ability to generate the intricate vascular systems a human heart needs in order to pump blood effectively. In simple terms, 3D printers can give you sledgehammers when you need needle points. However, using existing biological material, such as a plant, does provide the intricate vein system required, but trying to grow human tissue inside a plant is basically impossible. The trick is keeping the veins, but getting rid of the plant.
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
The authors of the paper wrote,
Plants and animals exploit fundamentally different approaches to transporting fluids, chemicals and macromolecules, yet there are surprising similarities in their vascular network structures… The development of decellularized plants for scaffolding opens up the potential for a new branch of science that investigates the mimicry between plant and animal.
So how did the research team keep the intricate vein system needed? Detergent. Using spinach leaves, the team bathed the leafy salad greens in chemical detergents to remove its plant cells, but maintain the cellulose, the fibrous building block of plants. More importantly, cellulose is biocompatible which means that animal cells can build upon it as effectively as plant cells can. Infact, many medical practices already use plant based cellulose in healing wounds and mending cartilage.
Once the leaf’s plant cells were completely removed, all that remained was the cellulose vein structure of the spinach. The team then immersed the ex-spinach into a bath of human cells, and allowed the cells to form around the veins, creating a sort of mini heart. Once the human cells latched onto and successfully grew around the veins of the spinach leaf, the team pumped fluid and microbeads through the vein system to simulate blood flow. As it turns out, the spinach veins handled the concoction perfectly.
While the team admits there is still plenty of work to be done, the use of plant based cellulose in the production of organs, such as hearts, is incredibly efficient, inexpensive, and has almost no environmental impact compared to creating synthetic organs from plastic or other human made materials. The team concludes by explaining that,
By exploiting the benign chemistry of plant tissue scaffolds, we could address the many limitations and high costs of synthetic, complex composite materials. Plants can be easily grown using good agricultural practices and under controlled environments. By combining environmentally friendly plant tissue with perfusion-based decellularization, we have shown that there can be a sustainable solution for pre-vascularized tissue engineering scaffolds.
In other words, your next heart could be a nice leafy green grown by good old Mother Nature. Until then, keep eating your veggies kids, they are better for you than you know.
This is the kind of news story that male writers wonder if they should bury in order to save future generations of men from extinction. A new study has identified a group…
Perhaps Wallace was on to something in “A Grand Day Out” … Gromit, that’s it! Cheese! We’ll go somewhere where there’s cheese! A power plant in the French Alps is generating energy…
Music has long been considered a sort of “universal language,” capable of conveying feeling and emotion within compositions that surpass barriers presented by verbal communication and culture. From the primitive tribal drumming…
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UFO and secret alien base reports found in declassified U.S. Forest Service documents
UFO and secret alien base reports found in declassified U.S. Forest Service documents
The UFO files of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) have been declassified. There are 20 pages in the files, and although there is a dubious claim about the construction of a secret alien base and an unconvincing UFO photo, there is an interesting UFO report from U.S. Air Force personnel at a radar station in Montana.
The Forest Service UFO files were obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by John Greenewald. Greenewald runs TheBlackVault.com, a site that houses over one million declassified files obtained via FOIA requests.
Greenewald says he made the request in November, 2016 and received the files in February, 2017.
UFO Photo in Bighorn National Forest
The first report in the file is a letter and photographs from a man who says he caught something “very strange” in a photograph he took while visiting Lost Twin Lakes in Bighorn National Forest. The witness says he did not see or hear anything unusual while taking the picture, but he noticed an odd object in one of the photos when he reviewed them later. He speculates that perhaps it is a drone, but also says he did some research and did not find any drones that looked like the object in the image.
The marker shows the location of Lost Twin Lakes in Bighorn National Forest.
(Credit: Google Maps)
The photograph was taken at about 2:30 pm on September 12, 2015.
Images of unidentified object at Bighorn National Forest provided to U.S. Forest Service.
(Credit: U.S. Forest Service)
It is hard to make out what exactly the object in the image is, but the USFS files did not include a high resolution image. Greenewald says he did inquire if higher resolution images were available, but they were not.
Enlargement of object in photo.
(Credit: U.S. Forest Service)
Without better images, this blob of light and shadows could be anything, and is likely a bird in flight. Often vacation photos with weird objects that were not noted at the time of their taking turn out to be birds or bugs that look strange in photographs once they are reviewed back home.
The USFS did not include their response to the UFO photog, or if they responded at all.
UFO Sighting at Yaak Air Force Station in Kootenai National Forest
Following the UFO photos letter and was a copy of an article regarding Yaak Air Base. According to the article, Yaak Air Base was in operation from April, 1952 to July, 1960, as part of a number of stations throughout the country that served as an early warning system during the cold war in case of a potential Russian attack. The base was near Yaak, Montana, in the Kootenai National Forest.
Location of Yaak Air Base as described in the article.
(Credit: Google Maps)
For our purposes, the most interesting paragraph in the article is the last, and in the file provided to Greenewald, is highlighted in yellow.
It reads:
The Yaak Radar Station also had its share of mystery, on Sept. 1 , 1952, Yaak, Montana. 4:45 a.m: Two USAF enlisted men, and three men using AN/FPS-3 radar set. Report visually sighting two small, varicolored lights becoming black silhouettes at dawn, and flying erratically for one hour. The crew at the radar station saw a, “dark, cigar shaped object,” right where the radar had the UFO pinpointed. What these people saw is a mystery to this day.
This is my favorite part of the USFA UFO files. Unfortunately, no further information is provided.
Alien Base Construction in Tonto National Forest
The most sensational claim in the files, and the one picked up by silly UK tabloids, is a report of a secret government installation being constructed that has something to do with aliens. The subject of the report is “Secret govt installation being built in the Salt River Canyon area on the TNF [Tonto National Forest].”
Area of alleged construction of secret government base that has some relation to aliens that eat people.
(Credit: Google Maps)
What is scary is that this is not far from my house. However, it does make it less scary for me that I do not believe an alien base was actually built there.
Here is a report regarding the call that was taken by David of the Forest Service on the morning of December 30, 2013 regarding UFOs, aliens and one detached head.
David received a call this morning at the front desk from a male caller reporting the construction of a secret government installation upstream from the Salt River Canyon past Pinal Creek (upstream from Roosevelt Lake). Aliens and at least one detached head are involved.
Caller claims to have seen construction cranes coming out the side of the cliffs, miniature stealth planes and UFOs, aliens and people working together at the site, aliens eating people. He found a severed head and claims to have pictures of some of this stuff.
Caller reported that he is 60, not crazy, and doesn’t do drugs. He said he had already called the “office at the lake,” but he didn’t know if those people were turning the other cheek or maybe those people have been paid off.
David had him leave a message with Bray.
Please let me know if t here are any Talking Points to be developed. I’m sure the Phoenix media will be all over this.
Thanks.
P.S. David and I aren’t doing drugs either.
The only other item in the files was a report in 2012 of a meteor or space junk that landed in George Washington & Jefferson National Forests and caused a fire. It was determined the fire was caused by a lightning strike. The report states, “Witnesses saw flaming space junk or satellite crash land in these mountains [Massanutten Range, Virginia] which may have caused the forest fire of last year: June 24, 2012, at around 1150PM Sunday.”
Star Wars: US Must Prep for Space Battles, Commander Says
Star Wars: US Must Prep for Space Battles, Commander Says
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
On Jan. 22, 2013, space junk created by a 2007 Chinese anti-satellite test hit a Russian satellite.
Credit: Courtesy of Analytical Graphics, Inc.
The United States needs to make clear that it's ready and able to fight a war that extends into space, a top military official said.
Such a "preparation without provocation" strategy would both protect American space assets and help prevent conflicts from flaring up in the final frontier, said Navy Vice Adm. Charles A. Richard, deputy commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM).
"Just as nuclear assets deter aggression by convincing potential adversaries there's just no benefit to the attack, we have to maintain a space posture that communicates the same strategic message," Richard said on March 22 during a presentation at a Center for Strategic and International Studies conference in Washington, D.C. [The Most Dangerous Space Weapons Concepts]
"I submit [that] the best way to prevent war is to be prepared for war, and we're going to make sure that everyone knows we're going to be prepared to fight and win wars in all domains, to include space," he added.
The United States has long ruled "the ultimate high ground" of space, launching sharp-eyed satellites and other high-tech gear that have given the nation critical advantages on the battlefield. But that supremacy is under threat today, Richard said, citing reports that both China and Russia are developing a range of advanced anti-satellite (ASAT) technologies.
Indeed, space is no longer the "benign environment" it used to be, he said.
"While we're not at war in space, I don't think we can say we're exactly at peace, either," Richard said.
This changed situation in orbit is part of a larger struggle for control that's playing out around the globe, he added.
"Major power competition is back on the table in a way that we have not seen in the world for perhaps 15 or 20 years," Richard said. "That applies in all domains."
The United States should work to deter not just conflict, but also "bad behavior" in space, such as the 2007 Chinese ASAT test that created 3,400 new pieces of trackable orbital debris, Richard added.
"Our goal ultimately is to promote secure access to space so it can be explored for generations to come," he said. "While we view space as just another domain — like land, air, sea and cyber — it is still something special. It is still a domain that people look up to and dream. And it's USSTRATCOM's job to help keep it that way."
Lost in Space: How Mars' Atmosphere Evaporated Away
Lost in Space: How Mars' Atmosphere Evaporated Away
By Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Contributor
Mars may have once possessed an atmosphere about as thick as Earth's, but then lost most of it to space due to solar wind and ultraviolet rays, a new study found.
The new finding could shed light on the habitability of not just early Mars, but also distant worlds, researchers said.
Mars is currently a frigid desert world with extremely thin air. The atmospheric pressure on the Martian surface is on average only about one-hundredth to one-thousandth that on Earth at sea level. (In comparison, the atmospheric pressure at the highest point on Earth's surface, the top of Mount Everest, is about one-third that on Earth at sea level.) [The Search for Water on Mars in Pictures]
In the thin air of Mars, water easily boils. Still, previous research has unearthed ample evidence that Mars was once covered in water, with features resembling dry riverbeds and minerals that could have formed only in the presence of water. This suggests that the Martian atmosphere was once much thicker than it is today, with seas that could have supported life billions of years ago.
This artist's illustration of Mars shows the Red Planet's environment in the ancient past (right), when it was thought to contain liquid water and a thicker atmosphere, and cold, dry Martian environment that exists today.
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
To learn more about how the atmosphere of Mars has changed over time, scientists in the new study analyzed data from NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission. They focused on argon, a gas that almost never chemically reacts with other elements.
The researchers examined two different isotopes of argon: the lighter argon-36 and the heavier argon-38. Each isotope of an element has different numbers of neutrons; for instance, argon-36 possesses 18 neutrons in its nucleus, while argon-38 has 20.
Argon-36 is more plentiful than its heavier counterpart, argon-38, at higher altitudes. This makes the lighter isotope more susceptible to getting stripped from the atmosphere by solar ultraviolet rays and by high-energy winds composed of particles from the sun.
The concentrations of the two argon isotopes at different heights in the Martian atmosphere suggest that 66 percent of Mars' argon has disappeared from there since the Red Planet formed, the researchers said. "The escape of gas to space might have played a major role, if not the major role, in changing the climate of Mars over time," said study lead author Bruce Jakosky, a planetary scientist at the University of Colorado Boulder.
This NASA infographic shows how the loss of argon to space from the Martian atmosphere was caused by solar wind.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Using this data on argon loss, the scientists then estimated the amount of other gases that Mars had lost the same way. Their findings suggested that the Martian atmosphere was thick with carbon dioxide, with the atmospheric pressure of this gas on Mars about the same as the atmospheric pressure of air on Earth at sea level, the study said.
Carbon dioxide is a "greenhouse gas," meaning it traps heat and can help warm planets. The loss of this carbon dioxide from the Red Planet may "tell us why the surface of Mars could have gone from habitable in ancient times to not being able to support life today," Jakosky told Space.com.
In addition, "we've identified a set of processes that might tell us more in general about the habitability of planets around other stars," he said.
Europe's ExoMars Rover Will Land in 1 of These 2 Spots on Mars in 2021
Europe's ExoMars Rover Will Land in 1 of These 2 Spots on Mars in 2021
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Artist's impression of ESA’s ExoMars rover (foreground) and Russia’s stationary surface science platform (background) on the surface of Mars.
Credit: ESA/ATG medialab
Mission managers have narrowed the landing-site candidates for the ExoMars 2020 rover down to two finalists, European Space Agency (ESA) officials announced today (March 28).
The life-hunting rover and its accompanying stationary platform will touch down at either Oxia Planum or Mawrth Vallis, two locations in Mars' northern hemisphere that harbor evidence of long-ago liquid water activity.
Neither site has been visited by a robotic explorer to date, though Mawrth Vallis was once a candidate for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. (NASA ended up selecting the huge Gale Crater, inside which Curiosity landed in August 2012). [Photos: Europe's ExoMars Missions to Mars in Pictures]
"Both candidate sites would explore a period of ancient Martian history that hasn't been studied by previous missions," Jorge Vago, ESA's ExoMars rover project scientist, said in a statement.
A third site, called Aram Dorsum, had been under consideration as well. But Oxia Planum was selected for further study back in 2015, and Mawrth Vallis emerged as the second finalist after a recent two-day meeting attended by ExoMars team members and other Mars experts from academia and industry, ESA officials said.
Mars’ Mawrth Vallis region, as seen by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter. The valley — visible at the center of this image — is one of two finalist landing sites for the 2020 ExoMars rover.
Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
"While all three sites under discussion would give us excellent opportunities to look for signatures of ancient biomarkers and gain new insights into the planet's wetter past, we can only carry two sites forward for further detailed analysis," Vago said.
Mission team members will continue studying the two finalist sites, assessing them from both a scientific and engineering perspective. This latter work will attempt to ensure that the ExoMars 2020 rover comes down in a safe, flat spot free of dangerous boulders. (Mission managers aim to guide the rover down inside a landing ellipse 75 miles long by 12 miles wide, or 120 by 19 kilometers.)
The final decision will likely be made about a year before the rover's planned 2020 launch, ESA officials said.
The rover and landing platform make up the second part of the two-phase ExoMars program, a project led by ESA with help from Roscosmos, Russia's federal space agency. The first part, which launched in March 2016, consisted of the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) and Schiaparelli, a landing demonstrator designed to prove out technologies required for the rover's 2021 touchdown.
Map of Mars’ Oxia Planum region, one of two finalist landing sites for the 2020 ExoMars rover.
Credit: Base map: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University; analysis: IRSPS/TAS-I
The ExoMars 2020 rover will study the habitability of Mars and search for signs of past or present life. Part of its work will involve drilling up to 6.5 feet (2 meters) beneath the surface to collect samples shielded from the harsh Martian radiation environment.
Instruments aboard the stationary landing platform, for their part, "will provide context imaging at the landing site, and long-term climate monitoring and atmospheric investigations," ESA officials wrote in the statement.
TGO is currently working its way toward its final science orbit. Later this year, the orbiter should begin searching the Martian atmosphere for methane and other gases that could be signs of Red Planet life. The spacecraft will also serve as a communications link for the ExoMars rover and its handlers back on Earth.
A father-of-two chanced upon an unusual meteorological sighting - as he spotted a fleet of UFO-shaped clouds in the sky.
Miles Davis was driving through the town centre of Morriston, Swansea, when he spotted the spaceship-shaped formations.
The 49-year-old stopped his car and grabbed a camera to capture the natural spectacle - which he says looked 'like something out of a 50s' sci-fi film'.
Miles Davis was driving through the town centre of Morriston, Swansea, when he spotted the spaceship-shaped formations
WHAT ARE LENTICULAR CLOUDS?
Lenticular clouds are more or less isolated clouds, which form in the Earth's troposphere (the lowest level of the atmosphere).
They are saucer- or lens-shaped clouds, which are typically stationary in nature.
Lenticular clouds have been divided into three different categories, altocumulus standing lenticular, stratocumulus standing lenticular, and cirrocumulus standing lenticular, depending on the height at which they may be found above the surface of the Earth.
On account of their typical shapes, lenticular clouds have been mistakenly identified as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) in the past.
Mr Davis, a full time carer for his wife, said: 'We had had interesting clouds all day after blanket grey for days on end.
'But these particular clouds didn't pop up until later on in the afternoon.
'I just happened to be in the right place at the right time.
'I was driving through town when I spotted them and I stopped as soon as it was safe so I could jump out my car and get some pictures.
'They do look very UFO like even if you don't have much of an imagination and the lighting was giving them this technicolour hue.
'They look like something out of a 1950s sc-fi B-movie with a limited budget, like a bad painting of UFOs. It was incredible.
'Trying to get my phone camera to focus on something thousands of miles away was tough but I'm really glad I got the photos.
'Everyone I've shown them to has really liked them and my wife thinks they're great.
'I wasn't keeping an eye on the local news that day so I'm not aware of any claims but I wouldn't be surprised at all if some people thought they'd experienced a UFO sighting.
'One guy I spoke to said he saw the same clouds over the valleys which is 25 - 30 miles away.
'They stuck around for a good few hours before they broke up or moved on.'
The lenticular clouds - lens-shaped clouds that form in the troposphere - are renowned for being confused for UFOs throughout history.
The 49-year-old stopped his car and grabbed a camera to capture the natural spectacle - which he says looked 'like something out of a 50s' sci-fi film'
The clouds are a rare spectacle and a treat for Mr Davis, who is a keen cloud spotter.
He said: 'Some days I will take up to ten photos a day. As soon as the weather is nice, I can just sit and watch the clouds go by, changing from one moment to the next.
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Inventing tools for detecting life elsewhere
Inventing tools for detecting life elsewhere
by Whitney Clavin
Artist's rendering of the future Thirty Meter Telescope. Credit: Caltech/IPAC-TMT
Recently, astronomers announced the discovery that a star called TRAPPIST-1 is orbited by seven Earth-size planets. Three of the planets reside in the "habitable zone," the region around a star where liquid water is most likely to exist on the surface of a rocky planet. Other potentially habitable worlds have also been discovered in recent years, leaving many people wondering: How do we find out if these planets actually host life?
At Caltech, in the Exoplanet Technology Laboratory, or ET Lab, of Associate Professor of Astronomy Dimitri Mawet, researchers have been busy developing a new strategy for scanning exoplanets for biosignatures—signs of life such as oxygen molecules and methane. These chemicals—which don't naturally stick around for long because they bind with other chemicals—are abundant on Earth largely thanks to the living creatures that expel them. Finding both of these chemicals around another planet would be a strong indicator of the presence of life.
In two new papers to be published in the Astrophysical Journal and the Astronomical Journal, Mawet's team demonstrates how this new technique, called high-dispersion coronagraphy, could be used to look for extraterrestrial biosignatures with the planned Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), which, when completed by the late 2020s, will be the world's largest optical telescope.
Using theoretical and laboratory models, the researchers show that this technique could detect biosignatures on Earth-like planets around M-dwarf stars, which are smaller and cooler than our sun and the most common type of star in the galaxy. The strategy could also be used on stars like our own sun, using future space telescopes such as NASA's proposed Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission (HabEx) and Large UV/Optical/IR Surveyor (LUVOIR).
"We've shown this technique works in theory and in the lab, so our next step is to show it works on the sky," says Ji Wang, one of the lead authors on the two new papers and a postdoctoral scholar in the Mawet lab. The team will test the instrumentation on the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii this year or next.
Diagram shows how new technology developed at Caltech will work in the future to help astronomers search for molecular biosignatures on exoplanets. Coronagraphs block a star's light, making orbiting planets easier to see. High-resolution …more
The new technique involves three main components: a coronagraph, a set of optical fibers, and a high-resolution spectrometer. Coronagraphs are devices used in telescopes to block or remove starlight so that planets can be imaged. Stars outshine their planets by a few thousand to a few billion times, making the planets difficult to see. Many different types of coronagraphs are in development; for example, Mawet's group recently installed and took initial images with its new vortex coronagraph on the Keck Observatory.
Once an image of a planet has been obtained, the next step is to study the planet's atmosphere using a spectrometer, an instrument that breaks apart the planet's light to reveal "fingerprints" of chemicals, such as oxygen and methane. Most coronagraphs work in conjunction with low-resolution spectrometers. Mawet's new technique incorporates a high-resolution spectrometer, which has several advantages.
One main advantage is in helping to further sift out the unwanted starlight. With high-resolution spectrometers, the spectral features of a planet are more detailed, making it easier to distinguish and separate the planet's light from the lurking starlight.
What this means is that, in Mawet's method, the coronagraph does not have to be as good at sifting out starlight as was thought necessary to characterize Earth-like worlds.
"This new technique doesn't require the coronagraph to work as hard, and that's important because we can use current technologies that are already available," says Mawet, who is also a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which is managed by Caltech for NASA. "With a high-resolution spectrometer, we can improve the sensitivity of our system by a factor of 100 to 1,000 over current ground-based methods."
A laboratory setup of instrumentation designed to search for biosignatures on exoplanets using the future Thirty Meter Telescope. The path that light will take through the devices is animated. The equipment is roughly the same size as what …more
Another advantage of using high-resolution spectrometers lies in the richness of the data. In addition to providing more detail about the molecular constituents of a planet's atmosphere, these instruments should be able to reveal a planet's rotation rate and provide rough maps of surface features and weather patterns. "It's a long shot, but we might even have the ability to look for continents on candidate Earth-like planets," says Mawet.
In the team's design, the coronagraph is connected to the high-resolution spectrometer using a set of optical fibers. Surprisingly, laboratory experiments revealed that the fibers also filter out starlight.
"This was completely serendipitous," says Garreth Ruane, co-author on the two new papers and a National Science Foundation postdoctoral fellow in Mawet's group. "It's icing on the cake."
Next, the researchers will demonstrate their technique at the Keck Observatory. Although the instrumentation cannot yet study potential Earth-like planets—that will require the larger Thirty Meter Telescope—the system should be able to reveal new details about the atmospheres of larger gas exoplanets, including exotic varieties that are nothing like those in our own solar system.
"This new innovation of combining the coronagraph with a high-res spectrometer gives us a clear pathway to ultimately search for life beyond Earth."
More information: Observing Exoplanets with High Dispersion Coronagraphy. I. The scientific potential of current and next-generation large ground and space telescopes. arxiv.org/abs/1703.00582
Observing Exoplanets with High-Dispersion Coronagraphy. II. Demonstration of an Active Single-Mode Fiber Injection Unit. arxiv.org/abs/1703.00583
Chilean government releases video of disturbing UFO sighting
Chilean government releases video of disturbing UFO sighting
By JAKE ELLISON, SPECIAL TO SEATTLEPI.COM
This is a screen grab from a YouTube videopublished by “ufosontherecord” taken on Nov. 11, 2014, by a Chilean Navy helicopter (Airbus Cougar AS-532) equipped with an infrared FLIR high-definition camera,
A video from a helicopter flown by the Chilean navy showing an unidentified flying object releasing something into the atmosphere has been confirmed by an agency in the Chilean government to be official and unexplained so far.
"The incident remains open as we cannot be absolutely certain of its nature, contrary to other incidents whose nature has been proved," said Jose Patricio Lay Lagos, acting director of CEFAA, which is an agency within Chile's DGAC (an agency similar to the FAA but part of the Chilean Air Force).
On November 11, 2014, a helicopter from the Chilean Navy (Airbus Cougar AS-532), equipped with an infrared FLIR high-definition camera, was patrolling in the coastal sector between the port of San Antonio and Quinteros a At 16.48 UTC, when the camera operator detected an unknown object, apparently flying at a constant speed similar to that of the helicopter, and moving forward.
The sighting was visually confirmed by the two officers who made up the crew (pilot and camera operator) and lasted more than 10 minutes.
Officers questioned Air Traffic Control whose radar failed to detect the object.
They also received no response from the unknown traffic when trying to interrogate it in the frequency prepared for these cases.
The DGAC's radar control system failed to capture the object but confirmed, in turn, the absence of authorized traffic in the vicinity of the helicopter.
The video shot by the helicopter crew was released on Jan. 5, as reported in a lengthy exploration of the encounter in the Huffington Post. The videos below were published with that Huffington Post story, which Lay said was "the real version," and embedded from YouTube.
His agency, Lay said, is not seeing UFOs everywhere or jumping to wild conclusions when it runs into one.
"For your information," he wrote in an email exchange, "the Committee's scientific group, all doctorates in diverse disciplines, from Astronomy to Physics, they are all Skeptics. That is of great help for us to keep our feet firmly on the ground and not get carried away by ufologists at large."
Here are three videos clips of the main points of interest in the longer video above.
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"The incident did not cause any particular reaction," Lay said. "In Chile the phenomenon is regarded in a natural way, without fuzz or secrecy." He said the pilots didn't make any statements about the sighting. "They just handed over the video and described the situation as rather unusual," he said.
The journalist who broke the story on Huffington Post, Leslie Kean, wrote that several explanations of the UFO as an aircraft discharging water or other liquid waste have been shot down by the Chilean agency.
The agency wrote:
On two occasions, the object seems to throw a trail of some element that could not be specified.
Some analysts have suggested the hypothesis that it is a medium-sized line aircraft and that the stelae of the detachable element may be the reserve water inside the apparatus, thrown by the crew. However, meteorology asserts that neither the altitude at which the object moved, nor the ambient temperature of that moment, allowed such a wake of condensation.
Data from the various reports eliminate other conventional explanations. Meteorologists determined that no weather balloons were in the sky at that time, and noted that a balloon would not move horizontally along with the plane because the wind was blowing from the west towards the shore. Comparing the footage to similar IR satellite imagery with known temperature values, they stated that the object's temperature must have been higher than 122 degrees F (50 C). The object was not a drone; all drones require registration with the DGAC and whenever flown, the DGAC is informed, just like it is with aircraft. Also, radar would register drones. CEFAA staff went up the chain of command to a Navy Admiral who informed them that there were no joint Naval exercises underway with the US or any other country. The Admiral confirmed that this could not have been a US drone, or any type of espionage or secret vehicle from a foreign country.
Whatever the craft was, it's fairly disturbing to wonder just what it was releasing into the atmosphere. Of course, there's no end of conspiracies about contrails ...
Times reporter Dewey Linz inspects a faux UFO that turned up in the Hollywood Hills in 1957.
(Gordon Wallace / Los Angeles Times)
People know California has out-of-this world mountains, deserts, beaches and food. But the Golden State is otherworldly in another category as well: UFO sightings.
The state has had more than 12,000 reported sightings of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, according to the National UFO Reporting Center and the UFO Sightings Desk Reference, a first-of-its-kind book that analyzes such sightings and was released two weeks ago.
According to the center, the latest sightings in California occurred in Van Nuys and Miramar, in San Diego County. The first sighting occurred on March 17, when someone noticed several “items flying in formation, moving very fast in the night sky” silently before disappearing behind some clouds.
“I am very familiar with the night sky and various normal items that one would see, this was not normal and too silent and too fast to be of terrestrial origin,” the person wrote.
On March 21, someone in Miramar reported to the center that they saw “rapid blinking light that appeared to grow in size, first just one light was visible then the formation became visible,” the witness wrote. “It traveled quite low at a fast speed at one point making a u-turn in the opposite direction.”
The curiosity and fascination over aliens and UFOs has created a cultural phenomenon that has translated to books, television shows and movies such as “Communion,” “E.T. the Extraterrestrial” and most recently, “Arrival.”
On YouTube, people have uploaded unexplained sightings. Two years ago, in November, video blogger Julien Solomita noticed a bright cone of light streaking across the sky in Van Nuys and began to record the object with his camera.
Solomita posted his expletive-filled video to YouTube, titling it "Massive Blue UFO Over Los Angeles." More than 2.5 million people viewed the footage and circulated it widely on social media.
Ultimately, it turned out that the spectacle was caused by a U.S. Navy submarine off the coast that had launched an unarmed missile. The launch was one in a series of unannounced tests the Navy had planned, according to officials.
Hertfordshire residents should be on the look out for mystery 'alien' noises which have been heard in the UK.
Baffled members of the public in Sweden, America and Belgium have reported hearing the strange sounds, which some have attributed to extraterrestrial visitors.
But now they have been heard in the UK in Nottingham.
Calvin Kirlew recorded a video from the window of his flat in the East Midlands city and it appears to catch the mysterious sounds while they are being made.
The 24-year-old marketing worker sent the video to the Nottingham Post.
He told them: "I was amazed I actually managed to get it recorded.
"It was going on for about five or 10 minutes before I started recording and then it carried on for about another 30 minutes.
"It was coming from the direction of the Victoria Centre but from the sky. I was at home with my partner and we could both hear it - it was really weird."
The eerie sounds have been heard at all different times and locations for almost a decade.
The first video of the noise was in posted in 2008 when a user recorded the night sky in Belarus.
That same year, another anonymous user shared the 'ear-deafening' sounds that they insisted 'were not a hoax,' from a quiet neighbourhood believed to be in the U.S.
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Rectangle-shaped UFO described over California town
Rectangle-shaped UFO described over California town
A California witness at Eureka stepped outside after hearing a loud, jet-like sound, and watched a rectangular-shaped object with odd lighting configuration crossing the sky, according to testimony in Case 81992 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness moved outside at 10:35 p.m. on February 9, 2017, after hearing jet sounds moving overhead.
“I heard a very loud jet, similar to a common commercial jet sound, except it was much louder,” the witness stated.“I went out the back door onto the deck to take a look. At first I couldn’t figure out where the sound was coming from. I turned around and scanned the sky behind me toward the east. I then saw what at first I took for a really huge jet, like maybe a military cargo jet, until I realized it couldn’t be, as it looked at first like it had two sets of wings stacked one on top of the other like a bi-plane.”
The witness then noticed the object had a pulsing red light in the center and two big, orange lights that seemed too far behind it for it to be a plane.
“At that point, I said, ‘What the hell is that?’ My wife heard me and came out. I pointed at the object. She tells me to hurry and grab my binoculars, so I ran inside and grabbed them, which took about 10 seconds. I came out and the object was further away than I thought it should be, as if it was speeding up.”
The object appeared to be rectangle-shaped.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The witness the looked through his binoculars at the object.
“I saw a very large, square, or possibly a home plate-shaped object. I perceived it to be fairly flat. There were several orange lights on it configured in a sort of arrow shape, and it had a red pulsing light in the center. The orange lights on it were illuminating the surface of the object, which was a light color. My thought was that the light configuration looked like a swept wing bomber jet from the 40s, and that it might be trying to look like a plane, except with the binoculars, I could clearly see there was surface area to it, where there shouldn’t be if it was a plane. It was clearly rectangular.”
The object did not look like anything the witness could identify.
“The lights that would’ve been the tail of the plane were too far back, and too wide for a plane as well. Those lights were actually on the rear corners of the object. It travelled west to east in a straight line. As it got further away, it seemed to accelerate due to how fast it disappeared into the distance, as compared to the standard passenger jet flying by every so often.”
The object seemed to be flat. Pictured: Eureka, California.
(Credit: Google)
The witness has seen similar objects in the past.
“This is the second time I’ve seen this type of object in the last year and-a-half or so. This time it was a lot higher, different light configuration, and traveling much faster, but the flight path was the same. It is rare to see large jets flying west to east in this area. I checked the website flightaware.com and there were no flights in the area except for a local commuter coming into our little airport. That plane was still quite a ways away still.”
Eureka is the principal city and county seat of Humboldt County in the Redwood Empire region of California, population 27,191. MUFON California Assistant State Director Devlin Rugne 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.
Life Outside Our Solar System Might Exist on Exomoons
Life Outside Our Solar System Might Exist on Exomoons
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Credit: NASA
As some scientists search for habitable planets outside our solar system, other researchers are tackling a similar question for the moons of these planets. So-called exomoons have yet to be found outside our solar system, and a detection could be a decade away — or more.
But scientists, writing in a new research paper, theorize a Mars-sized exomoon of a gas giant planet and ask whether or not liquid water could be found on its surface.
In our own solar system, the closest analog is Jupiter's Ganymede, the biggest moon in the solar system and about five-sixth the size of Mars.
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NASA confirmed in 2015 the presence of a liquid ocean on Ganymede after performing Hubble Space Telescope observations of the moon's auroras, which appear to rock back and forth less than expected with Jupiter's magnetic field. The space agency said the attenuation is likely due to a salty ocean under Ganymede's surface.
As for this theoretical Mars-sized exomoon, the picture is murky. The scientists considered energy sources such as stellar radiation (which changes as a function of distance to the star), the stellar reflected light from a Jupiter-sized planet on the moon, the planet's own thermal emission on the moon, and the tidal heating inside the moon that is generated due to the changing gravitational pull of the planet. (This tidal heating would be most pronounced if the moon had an eccentric orbit, like the volcanic moon Io has around Jupiter.)
It's know that tidal heating rates decrease if a moon is molten inside, because lava creates an inherent negative feedback mechanism where the heating sort of switches off, and the moon cools down inside. This is called the "tidal thermostat effect," co-author of the paper Rene Heller said in an email. Heller is an astrophysicist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Germany.
"We investigate, for the first time, the interplay of all the possible exomoon heat sources as a function of various distances from the host star," he added. "Actually, we even consider two possible types of host stars: a sun-like star, and a red dwarf star (an M dwarf)."
For a sun-like star, the authors found that any moon around a gas giant beyond three astronomical units, or three Earth-sun distances, would have a high enough energy flux to stop the tidal thermostat effect from happening. But if the moon is volatile enough, it could have global volcanism — just like what we see on Io.
Heller described this situation as "dangerous" for organisms.
"They might have lots of liquid surface water, but their surfaces could at the same time be blotched with devastating volcanoes," he wrote. "Nevertheless, we illustrate that they could be habitable given the right amount of tidal heating, and we show at which distances to their planets these moons would need to be."
M-dwarfs are a common target for exoplanet searches because they are smaller and dimmer, making it easier to see planets passing across their surfaces, or the effect of planets tugging on the star itself. But for exomoons, it's even less clear how habitable they would be in such a system. "Moons cannot be stable in the very inner regions of the stellar habitable zone," Heller said.
The best examples for tidally heated bodies in our own solar system are all moons: Jupiter's Io and Europa, as well as Saturn's Enceladus. While Europa and Enceladus are strongly suspected to have oceans underneath an icy surface, Heller pointed out his research is more focused on habitability on the surface of the moon. A better analog, he said, might be Saturn's moon Titan — but with a much warmer surface. Titan has a thick orange atmosphere, as well as liquid hydrocarbon lakes.
"Due to observational selection effects, which will prefer big moons around low-mass planets, I think the first exomoon will be unlike anything we know from the solar system," Heller said.
"It could be a Mars-like thing around an Earth-like planet, or an Earth around a Neptune, at a distance to their star that could be similar to Mercury's distance from the Sun (sufficiently close so that we have enough transits to find it). It'll probably be something that will be incredible at first glance, like a planet around a pulsar or a hot Jupiter. I'm really curious to know what this object will be like."
While there are several new planet-hunting telescopes joining astronomy in the next decade, Heller said they are not optimized for exomoons. Searching for exomoons is financially risky and the payoff highly uncertain, which means it is likely to remain a low priority for the astronomical community.
The James Webb Space Telescope, a multi-purpose telescope which launches in 2018, is expected to look at only a few exoplanets — so its chances of finding an exomoon are low, Heller said. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, which also launches next year, will only observe very short-period transiting planets. "These planets will be so close to their stars that any moon around the planet would be immediately flung out of the system by the stellar gravitational perturbations," Heller said.
Better other chances could come with the European Extremely Large Telescope, which is currently under construction, or CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanets Satellite), another European space telescope.
"I know that some people in the CHEOPS Science Team are actively compiling strategies to go and search for moons around transiting planets in wider orbits," Heller said. But he added the "ultimate weapon" would likely be PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars), which will launch around 2024. It will conduct dedicated planet searches like the Kepler space telescope, but around more bright stars.
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Are we entering a golden age of the conspiracy theory?
Are we entering a golden age of the conspiracy theory?
‘Post-truth’ society provides the perfect conditions for dubious theories to flourish. But are some people more susceptible to conspiracy theories?
Why, in the face of all available evidence and despite apparent public consensus to the contrary, would a person believe that the moon landings were faked? Photograph: Swann Galleries,/Swann Auction Galleries
“I want you all to know that we are fighting the fake news. It’s fake, phoney, fake. A few days ago, I called the fake news the enemy of the people. And they are. They are the enemy of the people …”
Donald Trump’s assault on “terrible, dishonest” journalists (“the lowest form of life”) has become one of the hallmarks of his fledgling administration. But as many have noted, this posturing echoes developments closer to home. It was Michael Gove, of course, who claimed during the Brexit campaign that “people in this country have had enough of experts”.
Scott Pruitt, the new chief of the US Environmental Protection Agency, certainly seems comfortable dismissing scientific consensus: “I believe that measuring, with precision, human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do, and there’s tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact. So, no, I would not agree that it’s a primary contributor to the global warming that we see.”
From a certain perspective, this is knockabout political theatre. And a little scepticism is prudent, for sure. Blithely accepting whatever we’re told is clearly unwise. Information can be unreliable; cover-ups do occur. But if we dismiss everything we hear in the media, if we assume that scientists and scholars are untrustworthy, we leave ourselves vulnerable to manipulation, misinformation, and rumour. This makes us wonder: are we entering a golden age of the conspiracy theory?
Not that this type of cognitive error is new, of course. The idea that individuals or groups have conspired to commit some crime and then cover it up reaches back centuries — witness, for example, the belief that Jews were poisoning wells and killing Christians or that Roman Catholics were secretly plotting to undermine the Protestant English state. However, if we’re now living in a “post-truth” society, with traditionally trusted sources of information routinely undermined and informal communication possible like never before via the Internet, one of the dubious fruits of this febrile climate may be a growth in the power and reach of conspiracy theories.
What makes such ideas so credible for some people? Why, in the face of all available evidence and despite apparent public consensus to the contrary, would a person believe that the moon landings were faked, that the Aids virus was created by the US government, or that the British security services murdered Princess Diana to prevent a marriage to the Muslim Dodi Al-Fayed? Are some groups more likely to endorse conspiracy theories than others? And, if so, what do we know about the characteristics of these people?
As we discovered when we went looking for answers to these questions, specific scientific studies of conspiracy beliefs are few and far between. And so we began by seeing what we could discover from general epidemiological surveys, mining their findings in search of associations between particular social and psychological factors and a belief in conspiracy theories. With Richard Bentall of the University of Liverpool we turned to the rich dataset of one of the largest surveys of psychological health ever carried out: the US National Comorbidity Survey-Replication. The NCS-R is a few years old now: it was carried out in 2001-03, predating the current skeptical turn. But it was large, nationally representative, and scientifically robust. The results of our research are published today.
The NCS-R covers a lot of ground, but one of the statements participants were asked to consider was this: “I’m convinced there’s a conspiracy behind many things in the world.” More than a quarter of those who responded to the item felt that it was true – a statistic that provides food for thought in itself. And that was fifteen years ago.
These people had several things in common. They were, for example, more likely to be male and unmarried. But what really struck us were the above-average levels of social disadvantage. Here was a group with lower levels of education and income. They were more likely to be from an ethnic minority. They were more likely to carry a weapon. Religious attendance may help mitigate some of the effects of disadvantage; this group was far less likely to go to services regularly.
It wasn’t just demographic characteristics that the conspiracy theorists shared. They tended to report lower levels of physical and psychological wellbeing; and to see themselves as socially inferior, both in comparison to their local community and to the nation as a whole. They were more likely to have seriously considered suicide. Their social networks were weaker (they often felt, for example, that they couldn’t rely on friends and family in times of trouble) and they found it harder to maintain secure relationships.
Childhood relationships with parents had frequently been challenging. Often these individuals hadn’t lived with both biological parents; they’d spent extended periods away from home; or had experienced violence at the hands of their parents.
What we see then is a clear association between a belief in conspiracy theories and a wide range of negative life circumstances and personal distress. So far an association is all it is. Do these types of problems make the people affected especially susceptible to conspiracy theories or is it the other way around? That research hasn’t been done. But our view is that the low self-esteem, smaller social networks, and marginalisation we see in so many of the US sample may play a key role at an early age, providing fertile ground for a distrust of authority: feeling that society has rejected them, they learn to reject the beliefs that society endorses.
Experiences like this in childhood may have a lasting effect on the way we make sense of the world. When an event occurs that doesn’t fit our expectations or that seems threatening, we feel anxious and disturbed. We want certainty and reassurance. Rather than thinking it through, we’re liable to jump to conclusions, to look for the answers that conform to our preconceptions rather than calmly weighing up the evidence.
The upshot of that process may be a conspiracy theory. In the short term, it’s a belief that brings benefits — in place of anxiety and uncertainty, we are soothed by what feels like knowledge. Our bruised self-esteem is boosted by the sense that we are one of the small minority who really know what’s going on. And thanks to the Internet we’re able to connect with these like-minded souls: suddenly we can feel part of a community.
Psychological models of conspiracy theories need testing, for sure. Indeed, we don’t know enough about conspiracy theories full stop. But given the current socio-political climate has this kind of research ever been more necessary?
Daniel and Jason can be found on Twitter as @ProfDFreeman and @JasonFreeman100.
AMAZING! MYSTERIOUS STATUE DEPICTING AN ALIEN UNEARTHED IN MEXICO!
AMAZING! MYSTERIOUS STATUE DEPICTING AN ALIEN UNEARTHED IN MEXICO!
One of most fascinating ancient civilizations can be found in the American continent and holds some of the most mysterious legends and myths.
The Mayan civilization had built vast cities and also erected monolithic structures during ancient times. They have left many artifacts, and relics behind that is desired among archaeologists and history enthusiasts.
But some of these treasures left behind by such a notorious civilization has a great deal of mystery behind them.
Recently an ancient statue with the appearance of an Alien humanoid holding a human head was discovered in Mexico by public workers in the Maxtaloyan community. There's a snake surrounding the figure with the top head looking like the face of a Grey alien or some reptilian entity.
Perhaps the statue represents a God figure that they worshiped at the time, probably of extraterrestrial origin, and the human head could be a symbol of them being above us as our creators.
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EXCLUSIVE: World is 'about to be told ALIENS EXIST and are HERE on EARTH'
EXCLUSIVE: World is 'about to be told ALIENS EXIST and are HERE on EARTH'
GLOBAL governments are preparing the world for an imminent announcement that intelligent aliens exist and are already here on Earth, it has astonishingly been alleged.
The claim is made by lobby group The Disclosure Activists, a new international consortium trying to force the alleged truth about aliens out into the open.
Conspiracy theorists have claimed for years aliens have been visiting Earth and world leaders are aware, but it has been kept from the public under an alleged "truth embargo" amid fears of the impact it would have on religion and the rule of law.
But now The Disclosure Activists claim and number of recent UFO file declassifications, means the lid is about to come off once and for all.
In a statement, the organisation said "the historical stance of widespread denial and misinformation has shifted".
Group, co-founder Russell Calka: "Recently there is a systematic effort from within the US and other world governments to release this information to the public."
Victor Viggiani, the senior strategic adviser to organisation, added: "All of the evidence that has been accumulated by researchers, military witness testimony, and acquired from declassified government documents over the last 70 years points to three very basic conclusions — the planet Earth has been and is being engaged by off-world civilisations.
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The Disclosure Activists claim we are aboutto receive big news about aliens.
"Secondly — this information has been hidden from the public in a well orchestrated and systematic embargo on the truth.
"Thirdly, governments know these conclusions are true — researchers of this topic know these conclusions are true, and it is now time for humanity to learn these truths.”
The statement added: "The Disclosure Activists contend that Disclosure is already underway.
"Earlier this month, the Spanish Ministry of Defence released a cache of previously classified UFO documents, similar to documents released by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in January 2017, and similar to other document releases from governments in the UK, Chile, and Mexico.
"NASA reported the discovery of additional habitable exoplanets (bringing the total to well over 3000) and just this month, former President George W Bush alluded to his knowledge of the UFO phenomenon in an interview on late night television with Jimmy Kimmel.
Recently there is a systematic effort from within the US and other world governments to release this information to the public.
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"There have also been email leaks, via Wikileaks, that indicate this topic is of substantial interest to government and military, as they prepare citizens for disclosure of extraterrestrial visitation."
Group co-founder Dr Lisa Galarneau said: "Through these government disclosures, scientific discoveries of exoplanets, leaks, and hints from insiders, the public is being prepared for official announcements regarding extraterrestrial visitation.
"This awareness building campaign is deliberate in its attempt to prepare humanity for formal Disclosure.
"This is an important step towards open contact with extraterrestrial intelligences who have not shown hostile intentions and could help humanity with some of our most intractable problems, including energy, climate change, pollution, and resource scarcity."
The statement ended saying: "Disclosure is imminent.
"We are not alone in the cosmos and we never have been. Citizens have a need to know."
Sceptics claim there is no truth embargo, because no aliens have ever visited Earth.
They argue that if such a secret had been kept secret for so many years, particularly since the age of whistleblowing websites like Wikileaks began, that tangible evidence of aliens existing would have been leaked.
A new conspiracy theory says, before religious texts like the Bible were written, alien lifeforms visited Earth and were seen as "gods" by the more primitive humans.
In an article entitled "Aliens Are Coming Back To Retrieve 'Their' Religion," the website ufointernationalproject.com tried to explain the theory.
It claims either aliens created the religious texts for the benefit of mankind, or they were written by humans based on the "alien gods" who visited at that time.
It went onto say much more advanced extraterrestrial species were angry that humans had used religions as a reason for waging countless wars across the globe over hundreds of years.
The article said: "Religion was not designed for terrorism
"The aliens quite knew that man is so destructive in nature, that’s the more reason why Religion was bestowed to us, to serve with faith and fear of the unknown, but man has completely failed the experiment."
It went on to list a series of wars carried out in the name of religion, including the bitter conflicts in the Middle East against Islamic State.
The unnamed author of the piece said: "I have studied all religions for over 20 years, and it has led me to nothing more than one vast conclusion.
"Man was not smart enough to write any of the religions, and I mean the eastern spiritualism (the self), western religions (God – which I always have referred to as the extraterrestrial) or American Creationism (Nature itself, including man).
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A new theory claims that aliens began religion on Earth.
"One of the oldest religious text 'The Egyptian Book of the Dead' dates back more than 3000 BC.
"When writing was invented and the scribes and artists first wrote down what the priests had used in their prayers and litanies, they were very perplexed and hardly understood the text.
"What I am getting at is that all religions were not composed by humans at the time they were created.
"These Aliens would truly be gods to us humans.
"Their civilisations could be millions of years old, they know exactly how this macrocosm works.
"They might have seen other worlds come and go, and destroy themselves.
"They know the evolutionary steps cognition has to go through, and that is the crucial point for the aliens, they want to protect our beautiful Universe from harm.
"After all, when you have become God, you don’t want to see your world being destroyed. And that brings us to the crux of religion."
It went on to say that aliens would want their religions returned, and will quarantine us here on Earth to prevent any cosmic disasters.
It added: "Now be ready to give it back, since humans have no respect for life, ideas, other races and cultures.
"That brings me to my final point - with us humans pointing a cannon at anything different from ourselves, the aliens will not allow us to transverse the Universe.
"We have an idea of how the atom works, and if we ever develop spaceships using antigravity, they do not want us to explore space pointing a cannon at everything alien to us, especially since we failed to master our emotions."
Alien conspiracy theorists have been saying for years that extraterrestrials have already visited Earth, and world leaders know this, but it is kept from us under an alleged "truth embargo" amid fears over the impact the truth would have on religion and the rule of law.
Several people are campaigning for the "embargo" to be lifted and the "disclosure" of all facts about aliens on Earth.
The article finished saying that the only thing that would stop wars on Earth was so-called disclosure.
It added: "Truly the only thing that can put a stop to the wars on earth both religious and others which have killed thousands of innocent people including children and animals, is only one thing – DISCLOSURE!"
Nigel Watson, author of The UFO Investigations Manual, told Express.co.uk: "These ideas are very much like those of the alleged alien contactees of the 1950s, who said they had meetings with space people and had rides in their flying saucers.
"Ironically, it is a bit like the view of some religious groups that say we should not venture into space because that is the domain of God.
"I don't think we will be producing spacecraft capable of visiting nearby alien civilisations for a very long time, and it is still a matter of debate whether they will
welcome us or attack us.
"Certainly, Professor Stephen Hawking says we should be wary of making any type of contact with aliens.
"As for disclosure as a means of uniting humanity, I don't think that will ever happen."
The mysterious Piri Reis Map: Is this evidence of a very advanced prehistoric civilization?
The mysterious Piri Reis Map: Is this evidence of a very advanced prehistoric civilization?
The Piri Reis map is a world map compiled in 1513 from military intelligence by the Ottoman admiral and cartographer Piri Reis.
Approximately one third of the map survives; it shows the western coasts of Europe and North Africa and the coast of Brazil with reasonable accuracy. Various Atlantic islands, including the Azores and Canary Islands, are depicted, as is the mythical island of Antillia and possibly Japan.
The historical importance of the map lies in its demonstration of the extent of exploration of the New World by approximately 1510, and in its claim to have used Columbus’s maps, otherwise lost, as a source.
It used ten Arab sources, four Indian maps sourced from the Portuguese, and one map of Columbus. More recently, it has been the focus of pseudo historic claims for the pre-modern exploration of the Antarctic coast.
Surviving fragment of the Piri Reis map showing Central and South America shores. Source
The map was discovered accidentally on 9 October 1929, through the philological work of the German theologian Gustav Adolf Deissmann (1866–1937). He had been commissioned by the Turkish Ministry of Education to catalog the Topkapi Palace library’s non-Islamic items.
At Deissmann’s request to search the palace for old maps and charts, the director Halil Edhem (1861–1938) managed to find some disregarded bundles of material, which he handed over to Deissmann. Realizing that the map might be a unique find, Deissmann showed it to the orientalist Paul Kahle, who identified it as a map drawn by Piri Reis.
The discovery caused an international sensation, as it represented the only then known copy of a world map of Christopher Columbus (1451–1506), and was the only 16th-century map that showed South America in its proper longitudinal position in relation to Africa. Geographers had spent several centuries unsuccessfully searching for a “lost map of Columbus” that was supposedly drawn while he was in the West Indies.
After reading about the map’s discovery in The Illustrated London News, United States Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson contacted the United States Ambassador to Turkey Charles H. Sherrill and requested that an investigation be launched to find the Columbus source map, which he believed may have been in Turkey.
In turn, the Turkish government complied with Stimson’s request, but they were unsuccessful in locating any of the source maps.
The Piri Reis map is currently located in the Library of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Turkey, but is not usually on display to the public.
The map was depicted on the reverse of the Turkish 10 million lira banknote of 1999-2005 and of the new 10 lira banknote of 2005-2009.
The map is a portolan chart, as shown by the four compass roses (two large and two small) from which lines of bearing radiate. Some analyses assert that the map is an a zimuthal equidistant projection centered on Cairo, but a 1998 analysis by Steven Dutch of the University of Wisconsin Green Bay shows a better fit with a point near the intersection of the present-day prime meridian and the equator.
There are extensive notes in Turkish around the edges of the map, as well as some interior detail which is mostly inaccurate and fanciful.
The Iberian peninsula and the coast of Africa are rendered accurately; as for the Americas, the northern portion of the South American coast is also fairly accurate and positioned correctly with respect to Africa. Much of the Caribbean is also mapped fairly accurately and appears to reflect Columbus’s maps of the area.
The area representing North America bears almost no resemblance to its real coastline (which is unsurprising, since by this time, it was still almost totally unexplored) except for one projection which might be Newfoundland; an island labelled “Antilia” may actually be Nova Scotia, since it has a note attached which refers to the legendary voyages of Saint Brendan.
There is some suggestion that this area may represent the Asian coast. Island groups in the east Atlantic are accurately placed, but are depicted out of scale.
Although there are frequent claims for the extreme accuracy of this chart, McIntosh, in comparing the Piri Reis map to several other portolan-style maps of the era, found that
The Piri Reis map is not the most accurate map of the sixteenth century, as has been claimed, there being many, many world maps produced in the remaining eighty-seven years of that century that far surpass it in accuracy. The Ribeiro maps of the 1520s and 1530s, the Ortelius map of 1570, and the Wright-Molyneux map of 1599 (‘the best map of the sixteenth century’) are only a few better-known examples.
The likely explanation of the southern part Piri Reis Map. Source
There are two major discrepancies from known coastlines: the North American coast mentioned above, and the southern portion of the South American coast. On the Piri Reis map, the latter is shown bending off sharply to the east starting around present-day Rio de Janeiro.
A more popular interpretation of this territory has been to identify this section with the Queen Maud Land coast of Antarctica. This claim is generally traced to Arlington H. Mallery, a civil engineer and amateur archaeologist who was a supporter of pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact hypotheses. Though his assertions were not well received by scholars, they were revived in Charles Hapgood’s 1966 book Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings.
This book proposed a theory of global exploration by a pre-classical undiscovered civilization based on his analysis of this and other ancient and late-medieval maps. More notoriously, these claims were repeated in Erich von Däniken’s Chariots of the Gods (which attributed the knowledge of the coast to extraterrestrials) and Gavin Menzies’s 1421: The Year China Discovered the World (which attributed it to supposed Chinese voyages), both of which were roundly denounced by both scholars and debunkers of fringe works, but which attracted huge popular followings.
A more sober analysis of these claims was published by Gregory McIntosh, a historian of cartography, who examined the map in depth in his book The Piri Reis Map of 1513 (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 2000). He was able to find sources for much of the map in Columbus’s writings.
Certain peculiarities (such as the appearance of the Virgin Islands in two locations) he attributed to the use of multiple maps as sources; others (such as the errors in North American geography) he traced to the continued confusion of the area with East Asia. As far as the accuracy of depiction of the supposed Antarctic coast is concerned, there are two conspicuous errors.
First, it is shown hundreds of miles north of its proper location; second, the Drake Passage is completely missing, with the Antarctic Peninsula presumably conflated with the Argentine coast. The identification of this area of the map with the frigid Antarctic coast is also difficult to reconcile with the notes on the map which describe the region as having a warm climate.
It should be kept in mind that maps of the period generally depicted a large continent named Terra Australis Incognita of highly variable shape and extent. This land was posited by Ptolemy as a counterbalance to the extensive continental areas in the northern hemisphere; due to a lack of exploration and various misunderstandings, its existence was not fully abandoned until circumnavigation of the area during the second voyage of James Cook in the 1770s showed that if it existed, it was much smaller than imagined previously.
The first confirmed landing on Antarctica was not until 1820, and the coastline of Queen Maud Land did not see significant exploration before Norwegian expeditions began in 1891. In 1513, Cape Horn had not yet been discovered, and indeed Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage of circumnavigation was not to set sail for another six years.
It is unclear whether the mapmaker saw South America itself as part of the unknown southern lands (as shown in the Atlas Miller), or whether (as Dutch thought) he drew what was then known of the coast with substantial distortion, but in any case, serious scholarship holds that there is no reason to believe that the map is the product of genuine knowledge of the Antarctic coast.
UFO Crash at Aztec – The Roswell Connection | 69th Anniversary
UFO Crash at Aztec – The Roswell Connection | 69th Anniversary
As a kid growing up in Aztec, NM in the late 1940’s to the late 1950’s, I had heard many rumors and talk about the UFO crash north of Aztec. The other kids at school would occasionally discuss the event and when and where it occurred. I also remember going outside at recess and looking at some of the mass UFO formations in the area about 1950.
For the old time Aztec folks, I attended Mrs. Martin’s 2nd grade class in the old 4 room, red brick, 2 story schoolhouse. There were big enclosed fire escape slides from the second floor. It was located on the site where the “new” high school was constructed in the mid-1950’s.
I had heard my Dad and other roughnecks in the oil “patch” discuss the crash and the “little guys inside!” I don’t think my dad seriously believed the event occurred, as he was not witness to the happenings. But the subject of the crash was the topic of many conversations at The Gas Cap Café, The Aztec Café; Bill’s Place Bar, and The Highway Lounge. I went to all of these places with my dad. While we were looked down upon as “oilfield trash,” the so-called “good” people of Aztec had no problem cashing my Dad’s oilfield paychecks.
I went into the US Air Force in March of 1960. Was stationed at Bolling AFB, Washington, D.C. and later at Kunsan AB, Korea. After the isolated tour of duty in Korea, I was allowed my choice of duty assignments. I opted for a consecutive overseas assignment, and I asked for Japan, England, France, or anyplace in Europe. In 1964, I was assigned to the U. S. munitions base at RAF Welford, Newbury, Berkshire, England.
Duty in England was good. I bought a little English car, a Morris Minor. My sister in Farmington, NM mailed me a NM State University window sticker, which I put in the window of the little car.
I was at work at the base motor pool one day when a fellow from the vehicle maintenance shop walked across the street and asked if I was from New Mexico, as he had seen the sticker on my car. We introduced ourselves. His family name was XXXX, with the nickname of “Sam.” We compared past duty stations, and realized that we had both been stationed in Korea about the same time! I was at Kunsan AB, and Sam had been at Osan, AB in 1963/1964, before we were both reassigned to RAF Welford in England.
I told Sam XXXX that I was from the 4-Corners area of New Mexico and he asked me if I ever lived in Aztec? I told Sam XXXX that I had indeed lived in Aztec and that I knew the area and town fairly well. Sam said that he had been in Aztec briefly in 1948. I assumed that he had been in the oilfield. Sam suggested that we meet at the Airman’s Club after dinner and talk. I agreed.
Our conversation was pretty much about Aztec. I asked Sam XXXX why he was so interested in Aztec, NM?
Sam asked me what all I knew about the UFO crash at Aztec in 1948? I told him that I had heard about it for most of my life, but that I had no direct knowledge about it. Sam XXXX then asked me if I thought we were alone in the universe? I replied that I thought there had to be intelligent life out there somewhere. Sam told me that he knew for a fact there was life from elsewhere, as he had seen some actual “little bodies” and that he had been involved with the UFO crash retrieval at Aztec, NM in March of 1948! He had been stationed at Roswell, NM and was flown with a group of USAF personnel to Durango, CO by C-47 (DC-3) aircraft, then driven on down to the crash site.
Sam told me that he had seen the bodies at the Aztec crash site, as they were loaded onto a truck. He did not tell me if the bodies were in body bags, caskets, or preserved in any way, but he thought they were placed in the cargo truck for protection from the elements and out of sight. He thought the bodies were eventually moved to Ohio by road transportation and that the craft was moved by road transportation to the new secure airport at Las Alamos, NM. Sam also related that a light, spring, snowstorm had occurred while the detachment was at the crash site before the craft was dismantled and removed. Sam was amazed that snow and ice accumulated on the military vehicles, but there was no accumulation on the craft’s surface.
I asked Sam XXXX about food and quarters for the troops while at Aztec. Sam said they were on the crash site 24/7 and never left. They were provided food rations and sleeping bags. Sleep in shifts was in, under, or in the cargo bed of some of the military vehicles. No tents or cots or hot chow was available. Latrine facilities were in the brush. Sam XXXX’ main duty was to provide perimeter security of the crash site, to keep unauthorized persons away. Sam XXXX was at the very bottom in the chain of command, and was a very young trooper at the time.
We carried on this conversation for the next three years in which Sam’s story was never changed, enhanced, or embellished. Sam XXXX warned me not to talk about the event at Aztec, as talking about the UFO crash had caused his US Air Force career to suffer badly. He was the only A/2C (E-3) with nearly 20 years of service that I had ever met. I was 22 years old, and Sam was in his late 30’s. Sam XXXX always looked over his shoulder, and always ended our conversations that perhaps “he had talked too much already.”
Sam XXXX and I both were advanced to A/1C (E-4) about the same time at RAF Welford. Sam and I both got married about the same time in 1965. We both moved into the married quarters on the base at RAF Welford, into trailer houses next to each other for nearly three years. Sam is a good friend, and I certainly hope that he can be located. I hope that he survived Vietnam!
I went back to the US for separation from the US Air Force and entry into the US Navy Seabees, in July of 1968. Repeated tours of Vietnam followed. Sam XXXX went directly to an air base in Vietnam, I think, about the same time. Have not seen or heard about Sam XXXX since. As I am now 63 years of age, Sam XXXX will be about 83 years of age or more.
I heard Stanton Friedman on a radio program one evening in 2003 talking about Scott Ramsey and his research into the 1948 UFO crash at Aztec, NM. Mr. Friedman asked for anyone with any knowledge of the event to e-mail him. I sent an e-mail and it was forwarded to Scott Ramsey.
U.S. astronaut Alan Bean kneels in front of a lunar module in the NASA training center.
Only 12 individuals from Earth have been fortunate enough to actually walk on the surface of another world ― specifically, our moon.
The historic manned lunar landing in July 1969 gave us Apollo 11’s first moonwalkers, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, followed four months later by Apollo 12’s Pete Conrad and Alan Bean leaving their footsteps on Earth’s natural satellite.
Lunar module pilot Bean, now 85, became the fourth man to set foot on the moon, and he continued with the space program as a spacecraft commander on the 59-day Skylab Mission II, in 1973. He was later named backup commander for the 1975 joint American-Russian Apollo-Soyuz test flight.
When Bean retired from NASA in 1981, he became an excellent artist who paints the experiences of fellow astronaut-moonwalkers.
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Astronaut Alan Bean holds a container of lunar soil collected during Apollo 12 extravehicular activity.
Bean’s spacefaring experiences have given him plenty of time to think about the question of whether earthlings are alone in the universe, and specifically, whether aliens have discovered us.
“I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ever visited the Earth,” Bean told the Australian news site news.com.au. “One of the reasons I don’t believe they have been here is that civilizations that are more advanced are more altruistic and friendly ― like Earth, which is better than it used to be ― so they would have landed and said, ‘We come in peace and we know from our studies you have cancer that kills people, we solved that problem 50 years ago, here’s the gadget we put on a person’s chest that will cure it, we will show you how to make it.’
“Just like someday, say, 1,000 years from now, when we can go to another star and see a planet, that’s what we would do, because we will know how to cure cancer, cure birth defects, so we would teach them.”
Bean doesn’t think that we’re alone in the vast expanse of planets.
“There’s so many billions of stars, and these stars have planets around them, so there must be statistically many planets around many stars that have formed life,” he said.
But this raises the question of how Bean could assume that, if aliens have landed here, they would automatically offer to help with our problems. We can’t simply expect an extraterrestrial species to think the way we do, or to understand our thoughts and motivations. And why would he presume that when we are eventually able to travel to other planets, we would go out of our way to help aliens we may find with their problems?
Bean has obviously never heard of the United Federation of Planets prime directive, which forbids Starfleet explorers from interfering with any ET cultures.
Seriously, let’s be fair. Bean was a very accomplished astronaut and is certainly entitled to his opinion. And so is another, well-known astronaut.
In 2009, Apollo 14 moonwalker Edgar Mitchell spoke at a National Press Club news conference about UFOs and the possibility that Earth has been visited by extraterrestrials.
”I don’t have firsthand experience with the ET effort, except the fact that I know there is no doubt we are being visited and I’m suggesting it is now time to put away this embargo of truth about the alien presence, and I call upon our government to open up,” Mitchell told the media.
A year earlier, Mitchell, who died in 2016, appeared on a British radio show, where he proclaimed he was “privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet and the UFO phenomenon is real, although it’s been covered up by our governments for the last 60 years or so. There’s more nonsense out there about this than there is real knowledge. I have been deeply involved in certain committees and research programs with very credible scientists and intelligence people that do know the real inside story, and I am not hesitant to talk about it.”
Mitchell was an Apollo astronaut whose opinion on whether aliens have been to Earth was the complete opposite of Bean’s. He showed the importance of keeping an open mind about what’s real and what isn’t.
Just because an accomplished astronaut makes a claim about a controversial issue like UFOs or aliens doesn’t make it the truth.
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UFO die bromtoon voortbrengt houdt gemoederen bezig in Groningen
UFO die bromtoon voortbrengt houdt gemoederen bezig in Groningen
In de afgelopen dagen is boven de provincie Groningen tot twee keer toe een UFO gesignaleerd die een brommend geluid voortbrengt.
Groningen komt de laatste tijd vaak in het nieuws vanwege de problemen door gaswinning, maar misschien gebeuren er ook wel wat vreemdere zaken.
Afgelopen zaterdag zagen inwoners uit het dorp Meedhuizen een vreemd object dat ze omschrijven als een bal met kleine vleugels:
We zaten in de tuin en onze hond keek ineens erg strak naar boven wat ze normaal bij vliegtuigen nooit doet. Dus wij keken ook naar boven en zagen daar een bol met 2 kleine vleugels erg langzaam voorbij vliegen. Het had geen motor of iets in die richting. Wel maakte het een zacht brommend geluid.
Op 14 maart zag een inwoner uit het dorp Winsum een UFO in de lucht die een lage bromtoon voortbracht:
Gisteravond toen ik wilde gaan slapen keek ik uit mijn raam zoals ik dat vaker ‘s avonds doe.
Hier viel mij gelijk iets geks op, namelijk een bijzonder helder licht en daarbij een bijzonder lage bromtoon. Het zag er apart uit, maar deed weinig met me en ik besloot te gaan slapen.
Rond 3 uur ‘s nachts schrok ik wakker, door mijn gordijnen zag ik een schim. Deze schim had menselijke trekken, maar wat langere armen. Ik ging dan ook direct uit van een inbreker of iets dergelijks.
Ik besloot op dat moment mijn gordijnen open te doen. Hierbij constateerde ik dat er niemand op het dak van de serre stond, een beetje gespannen ben ik verder gaan slapen.
Een klein uur later was ik weer wakker, nu in compleet andere omstandigheden. Ik had het gevoel dat ik vastgenageld aan mijn bed was. Over mij heen hingen drie gedaantes en het heldere licht en het lage geluid waren terug.
Tot hier gaat mijn herinnering en werd ik de volgende ochtend gewoon weer wakker. Direct ben ik op internet gaan zoeken wat het zou kunnen zijn; slaapverlamdheid, lucide dromen, enz.
Dit was helaas niet toepasbaar op mijn ervaringen.
Mijn vraag is: zijn er nog meer mensen met deze ervaring?
Staan deze ervaringen los van elkaar, of is er een verband?
Mysterious Shadows Seen From Space Station, Possible UFO Docking At ISS, March 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Mysterious Shadows Seen From Space Station, Possible UFO Docking At ISS, March 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 2017 Location of sighting: International Space Station Now this shadow really looks like a very large craft is moving behind the space station, blocking out the sun. I have looked at the video over and over again and just can't find any explanation for it other than something large was on the other side of the ISS and casted its shadow onto Earths atmosphere upper layer. Very cool, and if its a UFO...very freaking big. Awesome catch by Streetcap1 of Youtube. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
This is the full real-time actual footage captured on the 19th March, 2017. I still do not have a clue as to what this is. No alterations to actual footage were made in this or the previous video. Streetcap1.
On behalf of Cinelou Films, we’re excited to share the official trailer for PHOENIX FORGOTTEN. Don’t miss this thriller based on shocking untold true events of mysterious lights appearing above Phoenix, Arizona on March 13th, 1997. From the producers of The Martian & 300 and the creative team behind The Maze Runner, this sci-fi adventure will be in Theaters April 21st!
PHOENIX FORGOTTEN
In Theaters Friday, April 21st
Cast: Florence Hartigan, Chelsea Lopez, Justin Matthews, Luke Spencer Roberts Director: Justin Barber Writers: T.S. Nowlin and Justin Barber Producers: Wes Ball, T.S. Nowlin, Ridley Scott, Mark Canton, Courtney Solomon Genre: Thriller, Sci-Fi, Horror, Drama Studio: Cinelou Films
Based on the shocking, true events of March 13th, 1997, when several mysterious lights appeared over Phoenix, Arizona. This unprecedented and inexplicable phenomenon became known as “The Phoenix Lights”, and remains the most famous and widely viewed UFO sighting in history.
Phoenix Forgotten tells the story of three teens who went into the desert shortly after the incident, hoping to document the strange events occurring in their town. They disappeared that night, and were never seen again. Now, on the twentieth anniversary of their disappearance, unseen footage has finally been discovered, chronicling the final hours of their fateful expedition. For the first time ever, the truth will be revealed…
Agency in the Chilean Government Confirmed the Authenticity Of A Disturbing UFO Video
Agency in the Chilean Government Confirmed the Authenticity Of A Disturbing UFO Video
An agency in the Chilean government confirmed the video from a Chilean Navy helicopter showing a UFO releasing something into the atmosphere.
Jose Patricio Lay Lagos, CEFAA acting director, said that the incident has been open since they cannot be certain of its nature, unlike the other events where nature has been proved. CEFAA is an agency within Chile’s DGAC, can be compared to the FAA, but part of the Chilean Air Force.
According to the official report Airbus Cougar AS-532, a helicopter from the Chilean Navy mounted with an infrared FLIR HD camera was patrolling between the port of San Antonio and Quinteros at 4:48 pm UTC on November 11, 2014. The camera operator noticed a UFO moving forward at a constant speed, the same to that of the helicopter.
The pilot and the camera operator visually confirmed the sighting, which reportedly lasted more than ten minutes.
The two officers questioned the Air Traffic Control, but their radar failed to detect the mysterious flying object. They also tried interrogating it in the frequency designed for these cases, but they received no response from the unknown traffic.
The radar control system of DGAC also failed to capture the object.
The CEFAA acting director confirmed the video that made the rounds online in the first week of January to be the real version.
Lay explained that their scientific group, composed of people with doctorates in diverse disciplines, from Physics to Astronomy, are all skeptics and would not jump to wild conclusions.
Lay said that the two officers did not make any statements about the incident. They just instead handed over the video and described the content of it as rather unusual.
An Irish witness at Galway recalled a UFO incident from 1986 now referred to as the Salthill UFO Sighting, according to testimony in Case 82139 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The events occurred on March 1, 1986.
“One early spring day I walked up a hill on my way to Salthill beach,” the witness stated.“It looked liked it could rain, even though there were patches of blue in the sky. As I examined the clouds, to judge if it would rain soon, a cigar-shaped object appeared in the sky between the roofs of a row of houses. As I continued walking the object moved in the sky relative to the position of the houses on the ground, due to the perspective.”
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness attempted to estimate the object’s distance.
“It hovered above the roof tops about one or two miles away, not moving. It’s appearance and color made me think of a Zeppelin. Then I continued walking and the object disappeared behind the roof of a house and some trees, because I moved and the perspective changed. I expected to see it again where it should have reappeared, but it remained disappeared.”
Witness illustration.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness then walked back to where the object was last seen.
“A slow-moving blimp should still have been in about the same position in the sky. But the object was no longer there. All this happened within a few seconds. After I reached the top of the hill I walked down to the beach promenade, I could see that there was a lot of activity in Claude Toft Park, next to the beach. It looked like a festival was going on. At the seafront, I had a clear view of the whole sky, and I asked people about having seen a blimp or if balloons had been launched for the festivities, but no one had seen anything.”
Witness-submitted image.
(Credit: MUFON)
Galway is a city in the West of Ireland in the province of Connacht, population 79,504. 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.
Italian car companies have been renowned for decades for the beautiful sports cars they design. It looks like their designers have turned their eyes to the skies and are getting ready for the next generation in hot ways to travel … sports flying saucers. You’ve seen crafts that are called flying saucers before, but this one will truly make ETs jealous.
The “Identified Flying Object” (IFO) was recently presented to the public by inventor Pierpaolo Lazzarini, the CEO of Jet Capsule, a maker of futurist enclosed jet skis that Lazzarini proudly calls mini-yachts. They and the rest of his designs fully live up to his motto:
Think about the Future, never forget the past.
If his name sounds familiar, it’s because last year Lazzarini unveiled his “Unidentified Floating Object” – a flying-saucer-shaped floating party boat. While it’s cool, it’s not ready yet. On the other hand, the prototype for the Identified Flying Object has been made and the crowd-funding has begun.
The two-seat IFO has a spherical cockpit capsule measuring 2 meters (6.5 ft.) in diameter. The saucer shape surrounding it is a 4.7-meter-wide (15.4 ft.) carbon fiber disc (available in various colors) containing eight electric rotary engines to drive eight rotors. Power comes from eight rechargeable batteries, one for each engine, and a backup for emergencies. The IFO has a top speed of 190 kmph (120 mph) at a helicopter altitude and can stay aloft for up to 70 minutes depending on load, speed, weather, etc.
That takes care of the tech specs. Let’s move on to the beautiful design.
On land, the IFO stands 10 feet high on six fold-in extendable legs. The doors of the cockpit capsule swing upwards for easy access. The cool way to enter the cockpit is from underneath via an electric elevator.
Alternatively, each passenger can enter from their side of the IFO using a detachable stairway, giving it the classic look for the flying saucer in the original version of The Day Te Earth Stood Still.
Once inside the cockpit, the controls are as easy to use as the latest technology in quadcopters. While there are plenty of engines to keep the IFO airborne, in the event of a serious emergency the capsule can quickly separate from the disc and descend safely to the ground via parachute.
That’s all of the info Lazzarini released at the announcement. He did not reveal a suggested retail price but assured potential investors that all components are readily available in today’s market.
Will the Identified Flying Object become the Ferrari of the sky? It looks like we’ll soon find out. To paraphrase Pierpaolo Lazzarini, think about the IFO and forget about hoverboards, jetpacks and flying cars.
Aquariums displaying the colorful peacock mantis shrimp are warned to place it in a tank with reinforced glass because the little crustacean can pack a big punch using its fist-like front club….
The Hebrew Bible contains an interesting story in II Kings about a particular way of humiliating enemies in defeat. They brought out the sacred pillars of the house of Baal and burned…
Pain relievers and joint replacement surgery were not available 70-million years ago, especially for dinosaurs. Hadrosaur had to roam the earth in great pain and immobility from arthritis. For the first time,…
For a number of years, reports of unusual, silent moving, triangular-shaped aircraft have presented a recurring motif in UFO lore. Reports of such aircraft have helped foment a number of responses from the public, which range from notions of “alien visitation”, to the more down-to-Earth (and frankly, the more likely) idea that secret military aircraft operate in our skies, representative of “black projects” that fall well beyond public knowledge.
Perhaps, it could be argued, such technologies fall well beyond the knowledge of not just the public, but of a wide variety of military agencies beyond those specialized fields in which development of said craft may occur.
A recent report seems to detail this sort of “cloak and dagger” aviation, as released to John Greenwald of The Black Vault. The query was received from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) via Freedom of Information Act Request.
The (NRC) “was created as an independent agency by Congress in 1974 to ensure the safe use of radioactive materials for beneficial civilian purposes while protecting people and the environment.” The agency oversees and monitors commercial nuclear facilities, as well as the use of distributed materials which are nuclear in origin, which require inspection and regulation.
According to the documents obtained by Greenwald, between 1986 and 1989, a triangular unidentified flying object (UFO) reportedly violated a protected area on the property of Cooper Nuclear Station, near the Missouri River. The incident, according to the report, was not reported to the NRC as required.
The summary of the report makes for fascinating reading, as it describes multiple witnesses to a pair of sightings made over the course of two consecutive nights, and my multiple members of the security staff.
A portion of the summary reads as follows:
While posted at the intake structure one night, he observed an “unidentified flying object” fly down the Missouri River about 150 feet in the air and hover in front of the intake. He observed it for a few moments and then contacted a fellow security officer who also observed it (he could not recall the individual’s name exactly but his first name was [REDACTED] and his last name was either [REDACTED ]. After they together observed the UFO, it turned and went back up the river and did not come back that shift. He and the other officer shared their observation with their peers who did not believe them.
The next evening he again was posted at the intake and observed the UFO return again. This time he didn’t call anyone until the UFO had traversed into the protected area and hovered above the protected area just north of the Reactor Building. He said it was roughly triangular in shape with a circle of rotating lights on the bottom. He could not hear any propulsion noise from the UFO. He believes that it was roughly 1/3 the size of the Reactor Building. Once the UFO hovered in the protected area. He called the security break room and most of the officers on shift observed the UFO.
The report notes that the observers, whose names were redacted from the document, were all security officers at the facility, all of whom were still employed at the facility in June of 2010 when the report was filed.
“After hovering there for a few minutes,” the statement concludes, “the UFO exited the protected area and returned back up the river to the north as it had the previous night. The [observer] said that he never saw the UFO at the plant again after that evening.”
“The [observer] believes that this incident should have been reported as a violation of the protected area space but was not reported.” The entire report can be read online here.
The nature and origin of such unusual aircraft as these remain mysterious, though they have been consistently reported over the years. In February, KLAS Las Vegas reporter George Knapp, renowned for his interest in unidentified aerial phenomena, reported on massive, triangular-shaped aircraft which have repeatedly been seen over Nevada for a number of years, leading to some speculation about a “super-size stealth fighter” or other similar massive aircraft.
Prominent aviation writers say they’ve heard rumors about a so-called super size stealth fighter, but the program has not been confirmed. Such a plane would be valuable because it could carry more bombs than the stealth we know today. Clark figures the military wanted to show it off “by flying it across the Valley in broad daylight. They can’t have a press conference since they don’t exist”
In the early 1990s, the Federation of American Scientists conducted their own study into claims of unusual aircraft such as this, which had simply been titled “Mystery Aircraft.” According to the Federation’s Government Secrecy Project Director Steven Aftergood, “The study argues that secrecy in military aerospace has exceeded all reasonable justifications. Such secrecy cannot, in any case, be effectively maintained beyond the early research and development phase, and has little point in the absence of a high-tech adversary.”
“Secrecy in aerospace functions above all as a mechanism for enhancing the political fortunes of questionable programs,” Aftergood wrote. “In short, it appears that many black aircraft programs are designed only to penetrate Congressional airspace.”
This is an interesting note to end on, since the idea that a number of secret aviation technologies might operate with little purpose other than for surveillance and monitoring here at home, rather than for use in operations abroad. Naturally, it does seem to constitute a concern with relation to efforts against unnecessary government secrecy.
As for why they appear from time to time? Much like the observers in the Cooper Nuclear Station incident, their testimony was not believed at the time the observation occurred; hence, there is little need for hiding away something that is so seldom seen, and so strange in appearance that it is hardly to be believed anyway.
As the old saying goes, often the best place to hide something is in plain sight.
There are a variety of cultural beliefs that have been associated with impending disasters, ranging from the appearances of owls, howling wolves, and various other natural occurrences which may have ghostly overtones,…
Of all the best-known and often reviewed UFO cases of the last few decades, many would contend that one of the most puzzling had been the Cash-Landrum incident, which occurred near Dayton, Texas on 29…
The American public can access these documents from the comfort of their homes. Approximately 13 million pages of declassified documents from the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) were released online this week…
The crew of an offshore supply vessel reportedly witnessed a massive UFO rise from the Gulf of Mexico and speed away into the skies, according to testimony logged with MUFON and NUFORC, the National UFO Reporting Center. In the NUFORC report, the chief engineer aboard the unnamed craft claims that on March 21, 2017, he and four members of his crew witnessed a UFO rise silently from the ocean just before dusk.
Approximate location of the sighting.
According to the engineer’s testimony, the craft was completely silent and even appeared to repel water as it rose from the gulf:
The scene lasted about 40 seconds. The craft rose up out of the water (Gulf of Mexico) about 40 feet, no water was dripping from the craft. Within a split second the craft disappeared at a 30-degree angle into the sky. Speed appeared to be faster than the speed of a light turning on in a room. Within seconds it had disappeared completely. I can say for sure that the craft was dark colored, oval in shape and made no sound whatsoever.
NUFORC reportedly followed up with the witness by telephone and assures the chief engineer to be a “very capable, and very reliable, witness.” According to the reports, the craft appeared to be over five times the size of the supply ship.
The offshore supply vessel was in the area to provide material support for oil extraction operations.
While there is only one official testimony so far, the chief engineer claims that there are likely dozens of other witnesses aboard an oil rig located near the location of his vessel at the time of the sighting. This incident took place 80 miles southeast of New Orleans – suspiciously close to the location of the 2010 BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Are these two events related? Could the oil spill have caused by alien visitors in an attempt to wean our fledgling civilization off of the perilously dirty fossil fuels on which our modern economy depends?
…but why would aliens be interested in fossil fuels to begin with?
Probably not, but conspiracy theories still surround the controversial spill including a slew of allegations of alien interference. More likely, though, was this reported sighting some kind of strange, misguided attempt to draw public attention back to the environmental damage caused by the oil spill? Who knows. Until more testimony is gathered, this one remains unverified.
In the 1980s, Medellin, Colombia, developed a reputation as the most violent city in the world due to the drug cartel run by Pablo Escobar. The violence and crime began to drop…
In the United Kingdom, UFO disclosure seems to be an ongoing hobby the Ministry of Defense has undertaken. Spanning regular periodic intervals, large quantities of formerly classified government data pertaining to UFOs…
Way back in 1970, one of the most important UFO-themed books ever published was unleashed upon the world. Its title: Operation Trojan Horse. Its author was John Keel, perhaps most noted for…
Dave Davies is a well-respected man. One of Rolling Stone Magazine’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, he was the founder, lead guitarist and occasional vocalist for The Kinks, one of the most influential bands of the 60’s British invasion and a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Dave Davies has earned his place in music history. Now, like other rock stars, he finally feels comfortable in opening up about his UFO experiences and alien encounters. Could it be that Lola walked like a woman but talked like a man because she was a shape-shifting alien?
Dave Davies today
In a recent interview with Vulture, Dave Davies talks about a screenplay he’s working on (who isn’t?) about a cop in “futuristic New York” and a “mystic-witch” woman who sings to him from another planet. While it wasn’t directly inspired by an alien experience, Davies admits that he’s seen UFOs.
It was really interesting. I saw them in north Devon in England — lights and zigzags in the skies.
That’s not surprising – Devon is a known hotspot for UFO sightings. But Davies believes that his encounters with UFOs were more than just the usual sightings.
Then when I started to dig deeper into my experience, I understood I was also getting communications — psychic impressions — from aliens.
Davies feels that people like himself who have kept their UFO experiences hidden internally for years get strange feelings from them penetrating their “subconscious and super-conscious.” Over time, he decided to get “really into ufology” and determined that his sightings were related to Sirius, the Dog Star, and that the communications he was receiving originated there.
The early Kinks
As with any rock star from the 60’s and 70’s, one wonders if these “communications” may have been the result of the ingestion of certain psychedelic substances. Davies understands, but thinks they’re real and, if they’re not from aliens, they’re from some other beings.
I’m part Irish, and in Irish folktales there are elementals called pookas that communicate with people. There are all sorts of phenomena about consciousness that we can’t quite explain but that give us wisdom and guidance.
Pookas or púcas are shape-shifting creatures from Celtic mythology (Lola?). Fans of the movie Harvey will remember that Jimmy Stewart’s character referred to his invisible rabbit friend as a pooka. Dave admits that he’s a spiritual person and this other-consciousness connection may run in the family – he says he and his brother Ray rarely need to communicate verbally. In fact, he relates a 1982 “out-of-body experience with myself and an inner-body-experience with other intelligences” where the “other intelligences” communicated with him through sense of smell.
While Dave Davies focuses on the spiritual aspects of his UFO and alien experiences, he acknowledges in the interview that he believes the government knows about aliens and covers it up, but he refuses to discuss this or politics any further.
Was Lola an alien? Davies didn’t say, but he hinted that he and Ray have been playing new songs and might possibly release an album … if he gets a sign to do it.
Scientists, in their never ending search for extremities that may find practical use in aiding humankind, have stumbled upon some fascinating discoveries in recent years. Just to illustrate the point,while conductivity is cool, superconductivity is really cool….
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Consciousness is something that is well worthy of our study. Of course, it is presently among those things deemed unexplained just as well, and hence, at times it becomes difficult to discern just…
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“Overheden bereiden burgers voor op onthullingen over buitenaards bezoek”
“Overheden bereiden burgers voor op onthullingen over buitenaards bezoek”
Volgens The Disclosure Activists, een internationale organisatie, wordt de aarde al minstens 70 jaar bezocht door buitenaardsen.
Hiervoor is veel fysiek en forensisch bewijs, aldus de groep. Mede-oprichter Russell Calka merkt op dat er sprake is van een kentering.
“De laatste tijd worden binnen de Amerikaanse overheid en andere overheden inspanningen gedaan om deze informatie vrij te geven,” zei hij.
Drie conclusies
“Op basis van het bewijs dat is verzameld door onderzoekers, getuigenissen van militairen en geopenbaarde overheidsstukken komen we tot drie conclusies,” zei Victor Viggiani, strategisch adviseur van de groep.
“Ten eerste werd en wordt de aarde bezocht door andere beschavingen,” vervolgde hij. “Ten tweede wordt deze informatie doelbewust achtergehouden.”
“Ten derde weten overheden en onderzoekers dat dit zo is en is het nu aan de mensheid om achter de waarheid te komen,” benadrukte Viggiani.
Naar buiten
Langzaam maar zeker komt informatie hierover naar buiten. Onlangs gaf het Spaanse ministerie van Defensie een aantal UFO-stukken vrij.
In januari 2017 maakte de CIA soortgelijke documenten openbaar. Eerder deden de Britse, Mexicaanse en Chileense overheid hetzelfde.
In een interview met tv-presentator Jimmy Kimmel zei oud-president George W. Bush dat hij niets mocht zeggen over eventuele UFO-documenten.
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Uit gelekte e-mails die door WikiLeaks zijn gepubliceerd blijkt dat de overheid en het leger erg geïnteresseerd zijn in dit onderwerp.
“Zij bereiden burgers voor op onthullingen over buitenaards bezoek,” zeggen The Disclosure Activists.
“Via deze openbaringen, ontdekkingen, lekken en hints wordt het volk voorbereid op officiële aankondigingen over buitenaards bezoek,” zei mede-oprichter dr. Lisa Galarneau.
“Dit is een belangrijke stap in de richting van open contact met buitenaardse intelligenties die ons als ras kunnen helpen met onze problemen,” voegde ze toe.
Strange new images of Mars suggest that aliens could be building towers on the planet's surface, according to conspiracy theorists.
A Nasa satellite probe has spotted a large spherical object on the red planet.
The sphere was snapped perched on one of Mars's ancient dried up lakes by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).
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A Nasa satellite probe has spotted a huge spherical object on the red planet (circled). The sphere was snapped perched on one of Mars's ancient dried up lakes by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and casts a long shadow across the planet's surface
WHAT ARE MARTIAN SPHERULES?
Also known as blueberries because of a blue hue given to the objects in false-colour images, Martian spherules were discovered by the Mars rover Opportunity in 2004.
One theory is that the spheres may have formed when molten rock was sprayed into the air by a volcano or a meteor impact.
Another suggests they formed when groundwater flowed through porous rocks creating chemical reactions that cause iron minerals to precipitate into layered balls.
The satellite has been mapping Mars from the planet's orbit since 2005.
The bright sphere, which casts a long shadow across Mars's dusty surface in the picture, was spotted by Alien hunters MarsMoonSpaceTV.
In the video, the team zoom in on an image taken by Nasa's MRO of a Martian lake that dried up millions of years ago.
The sphere can be seen perched on the edge of what remains of the giant lake in an area that was once covered by water.
'The massive white spherical object is unmistakable,' UFO YouTube channel SecureTeam10 explains in a video about the sphere.
'As you look around the image you don't see anything else like this and that's why it stuck out like a sore thumb.
'From the shadow it's casting I would have to say that this thing is not only large but it may have some height to it, so we may have a tower structure here.'
The sphere was snapped perched on one of Mars's ancient dried up lakes by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). The satellite has been mapping Mars from the planet's orbit since 2005
Nasa satellite picks up image of bizarre white sphere on Mars
LINKS BETWEEN CONSPIRACY, NARCISSISM AND SELF-ESTEEM
Over the course of three online-based studies, researchers at the University of Kent showed strong links between the belief in conspiracy theories and these psychological traits.
The results showed that those people who rated highly on the narcissism scale and who had low self-esteem were more likely to be conspiracy believers.
However, while low self-esteem, narcissism and belief in conspiracies are strongly linked, it is not clear that one - or a combination - causes the other.
But it hints at an interesting new angle to the world of conspiracy and those who reinforce belief.
'Conspiracy theorists are fascinated by the idea that there are towers on Mars,' Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told MailOnline.
'This would be proof that in the past Mars hosted highly organised and advanced civilisations, unfortunately it seems to be a matter of wishful thinking.
'For me it is a large stretch of the imagination that this sphere provides evidence of a tower structure. Such things are more likely to be caused by natural formations, but until we get boots on the Martian surface we are all left to guess.'
The images most likely show an example of a Martian 'spherule'.
Also known as blueberries because of a blue hue given to the objects in false-colour images, Martian spherules were discovered by the Mars rover Opportunity in 2004.
One theory is the spheres may have formed when molten rock was sprayed into the air by a volcano or a meteor impact.
Another theory suggests they formed when groundwater flowed through porous rocks creating chemical reactions that cause iron minerals to precipitate into small, layered balls.
Captured by the Mars Rover Curiosity, an image taken on 1 January (pictured) shows a small dark sphere looking out of place lying among the familiar red dust and craggy rocks
The pictures most likely showed an example of a Martian spherule. One theory is that the spheres formed when molten rock was sprayed into the air by a volcano or a meteor impact
The strange sphere is not the first to be spotted on Mars's surface this year.
Captured by the Mars Rover Curiosity, an image taken on 1 January shows a small dark sphere looking out of place lying among the familiar red dust and craggy rocks.
Some suggested it was a marble, but experts claimed it was an example of a Martian spherule.
'A number of straightforward geological processes can yield round shapes,' said Dr Hap McSween, an Opportunity science team member from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
A black and white picture taken on 20 December 2016 shows the same ball in the same place, although Martian dust appears to have covered surrounding rocks since then.
The pictures were taken by Nasa's Curiosity rover - which has been examining the surface of Mars since it landed in 2011 - using its right mast camera.
The pictures were taken by Curiosity's rover (artist's impression pictured), which has been examining the surface of Mars since it landed in 2011
This mosaic image shows some Martian spherules partly embedded, spread over the (smaller) soil grains. Another theory suggests they formed when groundwater flowed through porous rocks creating chemical reactions that cause iron minerals to precipitate into layered balls
Latest alien scoop: Mars images show spoon shaped object
New book will detail how to hunt for micrometeorites
By William J. Broad • New York Times News Service
After decades of failures and misunderstandings, scientists have solved a cosmic riddle — what happens to the tons of dust particles that hit the Earth every day but seldom, if ever, get discovered in the places that humans know best, like buildings and parking lots, sidewalks and park benches.
The answer? Nothing. Look harder. The tiny flecks are everywhere.
An international team found that rooftops and other cityscapes readily collect the extraterrestrial dust in ways that can ease its identification, contrary to science authorities who long ago pooh-poohed the idea as little more than an urban myth kept alive by amateur astronomers.
Remarkably, the leader of the discovery team — and co-author of a recent paper in Geology, a monthly journal of the Geological Society of America — turns out to be a gifted amateur who devoted himself to disproving the skeptics.
A noted jazz musician in Norway, he rearranged his life to include eight long years of extraterrestrial sleuthing. His hunt has now produced a significant discovery, a colorful book for lay readers and what scientists call a portrait gallery of alien visitors.
“I hope and believe this will start something,” the musician, Jon Larsen, said in an interview. His goal? “Making it easy.”
His book, “In Search of Stardust: Amazing Micro-Meteorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters,” due out in August, details the secret of his extraordinarily successful hunts. Its 150 pages and 1,500 photomicrographs, or photos taken through a microscope, tell how Larsen taught himself to distinguish cosmic dust from the minuscule contaminants that arise from roads, shingles, factories, roof tiles, construction sites, home insulation and holiday fireworks.
As his book puts it, “To pick out one extraterrestrial particle among billions of others requires knowledge both about what to look for and what to disregard.”
The diminutive flecks to which Larsen, 58, has devoted himself represent the smallest parts of a cosmic downpour that has lashed the Earth for billions of years.
Careful observers of the night sky are familiar with shooting stars — speeding bits of extraterrestrial rock that plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere, often burning up completely.
The biggest can strike the ground, some forcefully enough to dig craters. In 2013, a relatively small rock exploded over the Russian city Chelyabinsk, releasing a shock wave that injured hundreds of people, mainly as windows shattered into flying glass.
But all that represents a tiny fraction of the downpour. Scientists say most of the cosmic material is remarkably small — barely the width of a human hair. Known as micrometeorites, they rain down on the planet more or less continuously but have proved remarkably hard to find. Some bits are so small and lightweight that they drift down to the Earth’s surface without melting.
The dust consists of tiny remnants from the solar system’s birth, including debris from the lumps of dirty ice known as comets and from ages of smashups among planets and the big rocks known as asteroids. While most of the particles are interplanetary in nature, some contain grains of matter from outside the solar system, or true stardust. Their diversity makes them excellent windows on the cosmos.
Scientists have found micrometeorites mainly in the Antarctic, remote deserts and other places far from civilization’s haze. Starting in the 1940s and 1950s, investigators tried to find them in urban areas but eventually gave up because of the riot of human contaminants.
Significantly, it turns out that specialists trying to establish the cosmic origins of the tiny specks have tended to examine their chemical signatures rather than their overall appearance. That left a large opening for Larsen.
Matthew J. Genge, one of the Geology paper’s four authors and a senior lecturer in earth and planetary science at Imperial College, London, used an electron microprobe at the Natural History Museum in London to determine the chemical makeup of Larsen’s finds and confirm their cosmic origin.
In an interview, he said that, overall, the grains that survive the atmospheric plunge and land on the Earth’s surface add up to more than 4,000 tons annually, or more than 10 tons a day. “He’s done a valuable thing in classifying the contaminants,” Genge said of Larsen’s work. “It has wide-reaching implications.”
Donald Brownlee, an astronomer at the University of Washington who helped establish the field, called Larsen a true citizen scientist whose work will aid the global hunt for the tiny specks.
“Your car is covered with cosmic dust,” Brownlee said. “We inhale this stuff. We eat it every time we eat lettuce. But normally, it’s incredibly difficult to find.”
Larsen came to what he calls Project Stardust as a jazz guitarist in Norway, perhaps known best as the founder of Hot Club de Norvège, a string quartet. His group helped spur the global revival of gypsy jazz.
As Larsen tells the story, he was an enthusiastic rock collector as a child but did so well as a musician that he set aside his early scientific ambitions. Then, in 2009, at a country house outside Oslo, he was cleaning an outdoor table when a bright speck caught his eye.
“It was blinking in the sunlight,” he recalled. He touched the fleck. “It was angular in some way, kind of metallic but so small — a tiny dot.”
Intrigued, Larsen suspected it was a cosmic visitor and began to look for more. He collected dust samples from Oslo and cities around the globe, moonlighting as a scientist while vacationing or touring with his jazz group. He took samples from roads, roofs, parking lots and industrial areas.
Put indelicately, he collected hundreds of pounds of dreck — sludge from drains, gutters and downspouts, the dregs of civilization that most people try to avoid.
“Still, I didn’t find a single micrometeorite,” he recalled. “It was very frustrating.”
Larsen then changed tactics. Rather than looking exclusively for cosmic dust, he taught himself how to classify the dozens of different kinds of earthly contaminants, starting a process of elimination that slowly narrowed the candidates and raised the chances that some tiny fraction of the urban debris might turn out to belong to the cosmos.
The breakthrough came two years ago. In London, Genge studied one of the gathered particles — from Norway, not Timbuktu — and confirmed that it was indeed a traveler from outer space. Larsen quickly identified hundreds more.
“Once I knew what to look for, I found them everywhere,” he said.
In the Geology paper, the scientific team reports the discovery of about 500 micrometeorites — collected mainly from roof gutters in Norway — and tells of the detailed analysis of 48 of the extraterrestrial specks. The team includes two of Genge’s students, Martin D. Suttle of Imperial College and Matthias Van Ginneken of the Université Libre in Brussels.
In an interview, Larsen described his method — sorting through the contaminants in a process of elimination — as “something that anybody can do. It could and should become part of teachings in schools, an aspect of citizen science.”
Brownlee of the University of Washington agreed. He said that, while many schools try to find cosmic dust particles in programs meant to make science classes more inviting and accessible, few if any succeed. “It could help a lot,” he said of Larsen’s method. “For education, it’s pretty cool.”
Genge of Imperial College said Larsen’s techniques, if adopted widely, might also open a new lens on the cosmos.
The gravitational pull of the planets, he noted, appear to tug on the dust clouds of the solar system and slowly change their orbits. He said a wave of new terrestrial finds could help scientists better map the clouds, raising more questions for science about the structure of the universe.
“I consider my microscope a telescope,” Genge said. “It can give you a pretty big picture.”
Dave Davies.Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Sundance
With his aggressive, distorted guitar riffs for the Kinks, Dave Davies changed a lot of lives, as his playing on British Invasion hits like “You Really Got Me” helped open the path from rock toward punk and metal. He’s also deeply affected people in ways that have nothing to do with music: Davies — who recently turned 70 and has a lovely and reflective new album recorded with his son Russ, Open Road, out March 31 — is a prolific New Age writer and teacher. And, for very personal reasons, he knows an awful lot about UFOs.
Davies shared some of his supernatural experiences — with and without the Kinks — from a sofa at the Gibson guitar showroom in midtown Manhattan, where was taking a break from rehearsals in advance of a tour that begins April 6 in Milwaukee.
I know you’re open to the idea of reincarnation. Assuming you come back around for another go, would you want to live life as a rock star again?
[Long pause.] That’s something to think about, isn’t it? Rock star, I don’t know, but when I come around again, I would hate if music wasn’t part of my existence. But who knows what will happen? Life can be an adventure if you let it. You have to choose to ignore the forces that try and put all these rules on you: where you can park, how you spend your day, what to do with your money. Are all these rules here to help us or tie us into knots?
You and your brother Ray are some of rock’s most infamously combative siblings. Did your problems with him make you at all hesitant to work with your son on the new album? Being in business with your family isn’t easy.
No, I wasn’t hesitant at all. Me and Russ have worked together before and it went beautifully. One of those projects was a mix of science fiction and strange spiritual ideas. I’m writing a screenplay for that now. I’m also trying to turn it into a theatrical piece and take it one the road, but it’s hard to find the time and money.
What’s it about?
It’s about two lovers. The woman is on another planet and the main guy is a disillusioned cop who’s a bit of a drunk. It takes place in a futuristic New York where the whole city is run by crime. These two people know each other from past lives, and the guy keeps having dreams with this woman in them where she’s singing to him from her planet — she’s a mystic-witch type. It’s complicated, but it’s basically about the two of them trying to connect with each other.
Is it based on any experiences you’ve had? You’ve claimed to have seen UFOs, right?
Yeah, I have. I’ve had several experiences seeing UFOs. It was really interesting. I saw them in north Devon in England — lights and zigzags in the skies. Then when I started to dig deeper into my experience, I understood I was also getting communications — psychic impressions — from aliens.
How did you know it was aliens and not just you having a brain blip or something?
I’m sure there are many people in the world who can explain it better than I can. You have an experience with a UFO, and you keep those feelings, and then it gets into your subconscious and super-conscious. When I investigated what those feelings could be, when I got really into ufology, I could’ve sworn I was having connections with the Dog Star, with Sirius. Sirius has very deep connections with Earth. Over time, there’s been contact that developed into — did you ever see the film Harvey?
Yeah. That’s the one where Jimmy Stewart has an imaginary human-sized rabbit friend.
Maybe this extraterrestrial intelligence is my rabbit. I’m part Irish, and in Irish folktales there are elementals called pookas that communicate with people. There are all sorts of phenomena about consciousness that we can’t quite explain but that give us wisdom and guidance.
Does your pooka or alien intelligence have any thoughts about whether or not there’s ever going to be a new Kinks album?
Good question! Come back to Earth, Dave! Come back to the ground! Me and Ray are getting on a lot better now than we have in the past. We always talk about doing things together, but I don’t know. We’re old men now for Christ’s sake. We worked on a few demos not that long ago and maybe we’ll turn those into an album. I don’t want to say much more about it now and talk myself into any corners. If I get a special feeling like I did when Ray wrote that riff for “Sunny Afternoon,” it’ll be a sign we should maybe do new Kinks music.
What does Ray think about your interest in spiritualism and UFOs?
He gives me a hard time about everything. The funny thing is that Ray is a very psychic person. It runs in our family. My mom had so much wisdom. Sometimes I’m just waking up from sleeping and I can swear I hear Ray’s thinking — his ideas and songs. He’s very sensitive. When he and I used to walk into the studio, we’d never really have to communicate verbally. I actually found it difficult when I started playing with other musicians because they wouldn’t know what I was thinking. I’d be feeling, Why don’t they just know what to do? [Laughs.] Life is strange and just gets stranger.
Does the government know about aliens?
[Nods.]
But they’re covering it up?
I’m not going to say anything about this.
Do you think it’s possible that our belief in things like pookas and UFOs and New Age spiritualism are metaphors we’ve unconsciously come up with to try and provide a framework for understanding the experience of our lives?
My pooka, my Harvey, is my inner light. I know it exists. It happens a lot that people get irritated when I talk about these things. Nowadays people are much more open-minded, but in the early ’80s when I first started talking about these things people thought I’d gone ’round the bend. Probably I had. I think we try to pretend we all know what we’re doing, when none of us know what we’re doing. Nobody really knows anything. But that shouldn’t prevent us from looking for answers.
Did you have a single revelation or experience that made you believe in esoterica?
I had several. A spiritual journey isn’t one thing, it’s peaks and valleys. When I had my first kind of nervous breakdown at the end of the ’60s, start of the ’70s, I did not feel right about anything.
What caused the breakdown?
It was too much drugs and drinking — the same old rock-and-roll story. My whole system was out of balance. I was like a one-legged man trying to hop through life. Then I discovered yoga and astrology and I liked how they helped me to see that maybe we’re all part of a more cosmic story than the one I was living. Science knows all about this, about alpha waves and such, but it just chops everything up into such small pieces that you never get a sense of the whole. It’s a vast subject we’re talking about.
Can you share a specific revelation you’ve had?
I had a spectacular one in 1982. It was an out-of-body experience with myself and an inner-body-experience with other intelligences. It was as real as you and me sitting here talking. Probably more real.
What information did they give you?
It’s hard to describe. A lot of the information I was given came through sense of smell. Smell is a language. Why do we get inspired by the smell of jasmine? Because it speaks to us.
Does someone with your interests have much to say about politics right now? Or does that seem like mundane earthly foolishness?
I don’t touch on politics. I’m not a political person. [Long pause.] I’m not going to say it.
Say it.
Say what I’m not going to say?
Yeah.
Politics rules the world in this age, but I don’t think politics works. If the system’s rigged, I don’t think politics are the solution to our problems. There are other ways to learn from each other and help each other without all this confrontation. Why are we in competition with each other? We need to transcend that.
There was a New York Times article recently about how Steve Bannon and these far-right thinkers are into the fascist writer Julius Evola, who was deeply into the occult. It reminded me of how Himmler and some of the Nazi leadership were also fascinated with occult and magic.
Oh, yes.
On the off chance that some of the new wave of neo-Nazis and alt-right bozos are into magic rituals, is there any good magic we can use against them?
I can’t speak to exactly what you’re asking about, but I’ll say this: Know your enemy. Sometimes, it’s important to know about things like black magic in order to know what to do about it. It’s necessary to go through darkness to find out about ourselves. But if someone wants to bring someone else down, that’s entering into Darth Vader territory — the dark side. There is no great secret to doing good. Everything is energy, we’re all magicians. It seems pretty obvious to me that you can choose the good over the evil. It’s all about balance: left and right, dark and light. Bringing these things into harmony will result in positive energy. And don’t forget we all have aspects of male and female.
Like how everyone is born with nipples?
Yeah. We overcomplicate things because we get fearful and confrontational. These are all vast subjects you’re bringing up. Do you know the answers to all these questions?
Nope.
Neither do I. That’s the fun part.
What’s the best Kinks guitar riff?
Obviously “You Really Got Me” was an immense turning point for us and for a lot of people. There was nothing like that on the radio before. One of my favorites though is “Powerman.” I came up with all the riffs on that, the chromatic up and down. I played that song recently when I was listening to some old Kinks stuff and thought, That’s really good. We did all right, didn’t we?
The March 25, 1966 edition of The Ann Arbor News included some of the few images captured of the unidentified flying objects. ANN ARBOR DISTRICT LIBRARY NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE
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Stateside's conversation with UFO enthusiast Harry Willnus.
It began in March, 1966 , with a sighting over a farm in Dexter.
Lights were seen hovering and then zipping across the sky. Reports came in from all over the area. One Washtenaw County sheriff deputy was quoted as calling the objects, whatever they were, “the weirdest things I’ve ever seen.”
The official explanation — flares caused by the burning of gases bubbling up from the area’s swamps — was unsatisfactory to many of those involved. Then-congressman Gerald Ford called for a congressional investigation. It never happened.
It wasn’t long before that UFO mania had swept the nation. UFO reports were pouring in from all over the country. This was the era that sparked Hollywood’s love-affair with aliens, leading to blockbusters like E.T. the Extra Terrestrial and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Walter Cronkite anchored a 1966 CBS report titled, “UFO: Friend, Foe or Fantasy?” which featured the Dexter incident.
But after the UFO fever subsided, after the Hollywood productions made their millions, after NASA's moon program closed for good—in short, after America moved on — the question remained: what really happened in Dexter that March?
This March 14, 1966 article from the Ann Arbor news described the area's initial UFO sighting.
CREDIT ANN ARBOR DISTRICT LIBRARY NEWSPAPER ARCHIVE
Harry Willnus was a teacher in the area at the time. He has been searching for an answer to that question for the last 51 years.
During the course of that half-century, Willnus has spoken with many of the most important humans involved in the incident.
Nothing he's heard or seen has convinced him that the official version of events is the correct one.
“I’ve been studying this,” Willnus said, “I’m convinced that planet Earth is being observed.”
Willnus described a particularly strange series of events involving Allen Hynek, the scientist brought in by the Air Force to investigate the incident.
One afternoon not long after the sightings, Hynek spent several hours looking for evidence in the Dexter swamp. He was accompanied by Washtenaw County Sheriff Douglas Harvey, who led the local response to the sightings.
Afterwards, on the drive back from the swamp, Hynek told the sheriff he still did not have an explanation for the sightings. But later, back at the sheriff's office, Hynek received a phone call from Washington, D.C.
"Hynek stepped out of the office, took the call, came back in a few minutes later. Harvey described him as looking a bit shaken," Willnus said. "He had his head down and he was mumbling ‘Swamp gas, swamp gas, it was swamp gas.' I don’t think Hynek knew what swamp gas was.”
Listen to our full interview with Harry Willnus above, in which he recounts a UFO sighting of his own.
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UFOs in Houston
UFOs in Houston
Meteorologist Brooks Garner , KHOU
Classicaly-depicted UFO, features "saucer-like" features. Officially, these do not exist.
HOUSTON- Houston is known as, "Space City", thanks to NASA. Many real life astronauts call it home. Perhaps it's only natural that we'd also be an epicenter for UFO reports. Or, is there something more going on?
Each year the KHOU 11 weather team gets several viewer reports of strange lights in the sky. As meteorology encompasses everything in the sky, we welcome such reports and encourage you to contact us without fear of being stigmatized.
UFO enthusiasts might suggest that strange lights in the sky are the direct result of the presence of our expansive space industry as perhaps our astrophysicists are working directly with, "ET's" to innovate new technologies. That's pure speculation of course, but then again, isn't all talk of UFO's? Maybe, "ET observers" are hovering above, hoping to witness human history being made as we plan a mission to Mars. Maybe aliens know Houston makes the best breakfast tacos in the solar system, so they drop in from time to time.
Even accomplished NASA professionals like astronaut Gordon Cooper (died 2004) and Dr. Edgar Mitchell (died 2016) claimed UFO's were not imagined. They submitted to TV interviews testifying to their experiences adn beliefs on the subject. Dr. Mitchell started a research foundation (FREE). Both fully understood the taboo and stigma associated with such viewpoints -- knowing their professional legacy was on the line.
Skeptics will say the lights are explainable: we have two major airports and several busy secondary air strips, resulting in scores of planes flying in our skies at any one time. They'll point out that when jets are on, "final approach", their landing lights are illuminated and can look like bright orbs, apparently floating in the sky for minutes, relative to the observer. They'll say that we're beyond reach of other solar systems for casual space travel, due to the limitations of the speed of light.
Then there's the actual reports. Just last week, the popular UFO organization, MUFON (Mutual UFO Network) reported an entire maritime crew on a supply ship seeing a large alien craft over the Gulf of Mexico, as emerging from underwater, about 80 miles off New Orleans. Without dripping even a drop of water as it broke the surface, it then zipped off into space, accelerating at unimaginable rate. This report is just one of many around the area.
So what's going on? Is there something about Space City, or do we all have moments where our imagination runs away with our sense of logic?
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California is the top state with most UFO sightings, say UFO experts
California is the top state with most UFO sightings, say UFO experts
JAKE ELLISON, SPECIAL TO SEATTLEPI.COM
Think you may have caught a glimpse of a metal, sphere-shaped object looming in the night sky above? Well, you're not alone.
According to a new UFO reference book, self-published by two UFO experts, California is the top state with the most UFO sightings in the country. California is followed by Florida, Texas, Washington and Pennsylvania respectively. New York came in at 6th followed by Arizona, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio.
She used both databases every week looking for New York sightings for her column in the weekly Syracuse New Times, she said, and started publishing tables for number of sightings in each New York county, shape of UFOs, when they were reported, etc.
Response to those stats was strong, she said. So when her spouse and co-author Linda Miller Costa got the idea of working through the reports to see just how far down they could drill for every state in the country, they started digging. The end result a year later is the 374-page desk reference.
She said there have been more than 120,000 UFO sightings reported from 2001-2015 in the U.S. She didn't want to give away all the stats (you know, they do want you to get the book) but she said California holds down the top position with almost 16,000 sightings, and Los Angeles County outranks 40 individual states with 3,200 sightings.
Here are the five most recent California sightings according to The National UFO Reporting Center:
Miramar on March 21, 201
Van Nuys on March 19, 2017
Palm Springs on March 18, 2017
Riverside on March 17, 2017
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Her interest in UFOs stem from her personal UFO sightings, Cheryl Costa said, but her drive to write about sightings came from reading a short news story claiming UFO sightings had fallen off. The report suggested UFO were clearly not real since fewer and fewer people were reporting them, she said.
"That didn't sound right," she said. "I went out to one of the national data bases and the bar chart (of sightings) goes up like a rocket launch."
And, she added, the reports were not from clearly crazy people.
"I found that the majority of sighting reports where by people who were very sincere, and it had energized them to find a place to report what they saw," she said. "They wanted to get this off their chest."
A couple other trends she noticed were, one, "the people who see the majority of sightings are outside having a smoke, walking the dog or outside smoking walking the dog." And, two, "there's a seasonal pattern." For most of the country, reported sightings begin to climb during spring and summer. In places without notable shifts from winter to summer — Texas, Florida and Arizona, for example — the number of reporting’s stays relatively flat. Basically, she figures, come spring and summer, people are simply outside more.
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Virginia witness reports silent, low flying boomerang UFO
Virginia witness reports silent, low flying boomerang UFO
A Virginia witness at Alexandria reported watching a large, boomerang-shaped object with five, large, circle-shaped lights underneath crossing the sky silently over 500 feet, but under the cloud cover, according to testimony in Case 82719 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration of the object.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was outside sitting on his apartment deck smoking a cigar at 8:30 p.m. on March 19, 2017, when the incident occurred.
“I was facing in a southern direction, looking at the constellation Orion,” the witness stated.“My eyes were well adjusted to the night sky when some movement below Orion (but much closer my location) caught my eye.”
An object in the sky caught his eye.
“I fixed my eyes on the movement, and realized it was a large, boomerang-shaped aircraft moving in a straight southern direction at fairly slow speed. It had five large circles on the underside of the craft that were just a slightly different color than the craft itself. Very dark, charcoal gray circles against a black craft.”
Alexandria sits just south of Washington D.C.
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The witness said the object blended in with the night sky extremely well, like camouflage.
“Without catching the movement at that exact moment I did, it would have been impossible to see. It stayed visible for approximately 8-10 seconds before fading into the night sky. The aircraft had no visible lights whatsoever and had no jet noise. Other aircraft were flying in my sight before and after the event. These were all different airliners (flashing lights, jet engine noise) flying at different altitudes and directions. My area gets heavy air traffic due to an airport and military installations nearby, so I’m very used to seeing and hearing several civilian and military aircraft from small planes to large jets and helicopters.”
The witness has a military background.
“I also served in the Air Force and Air National Guard in the past and have never seen an aircraft anything like the one I saw this evening. It was truly unbelievable.”
The object had a light configuration that the witness had never seen. Pictured: Alexandria, VA.
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Alexandria is an independent city in Virginia, population 139,966. Virginia MUFON 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.
Some conspiracy theorists claim UFOs exit the ocean from undersea bases.
UFO investigators are now calling for more witnesses to come forward after the shock report was made to a specialist organisation.
The UFO sighting allegedly happened last Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico about 80 miles southeast of New Orleans, and reported two days later.
The report was made to the US-based National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), which keeps a database of sightings and investigates cases.
One unnamed crew member, who was the chief engineer of the OSV, said the UFO was five times bugger than the 240 feet oil rig supply ship they were on.
The report said: "At close to 7pm on March 21, just before dusk, myself and four of the crew members aboard our vessel saw a craft that appeared to be five times our 240 feet vessel in length.
Footage appears to capture two UFO's meeting below NASA's ISS
A NUFORC spokesman said: "We spoke via telephone with this witness, and he seemed to us to be unusually sober-minded.
“We suspect that he is a very capable, and very reliable, witness. He estimates that upwards of perhaps 50 people, who were aboard nearby vessels, may have witnessed the event, as well.
"We would urge those other witnesses to submit reports of what they had witnessed.”
Many conspiracy theorists claim that aliens do visit Earth and have secret undersea bases for their flying saucers.
No firm evidence for this being the case has come forward.
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UFO Appears Through Space Station Window On Live Cam, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Appears Through Space Station Window On Live Cam, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 2017 Location of sighting: International Space Station This week an astronaut on board the space station was removing a panel area blocking the view of the window on live TV when the suddenly as she was talking a UFO appeared. The UFO was small or very far away. The UFO also didn't move in a straight line, but headed upward, then curved downward, which is impossible for thinks in space to do, unless of course they are intelligently controlled. Its also possible this is a living creature. You see, Russia last year stated that they were cleaning the outside of the space station solar panels when they discovered that plankton was growing on them. And not just small plankton, but overly large plankton. These plankton travel through space and clung to the first thing they ran into to, the space station. This is also why cameras often show long worm like objects on the lens...plankton. So you see, if plankton can exist in space floating around, the just like in the ocean, life can exist and swim about space like water. Scott C. Waring
There have been many unidentified flying objects sighted throughout history. This list details some of the earlier sightings that have been written down or passed on. Some are exciting, and some are just plain weird. Several surprisingly big names have reported UFOs throughout history.
Daytime UFO caught on tape over Colfax, Washington 27-Mar-2017
Daytime UFO caught on tape over Colfax, Washington 27-Mar-2017
UFO video of a solid object that was hovering in the sky above Colfax in Washington. This was filmed on Monday, 27th March 2017.
Witness report:
Only appeared on recording, did not see with naked eye, but observed while recording on screen. I was driving home through a relatively unfamiliar area and stopped to record some pleasant scenery as the weather was quite nice for a change. As I was taking the video I noticed something strange on my screen but couldnt actually see it with the naked eye I dismissed it as something on my windshield, but then all of a sudden I started to feel as if I was having a panic attack and my heart was beating very fast and erratically so I stopped recording and continued my drive home. Upon review of the video I realized that there was some sort of craft zipping around those wind turbines I was admiring, it appeared quickly out of nowhere, and hovered in sort of a circular motion a considerable distance away, Looked like two discs flying tightly in tandem, with a light radiating around them at times.
DEATH ON MARS: Did asteroid tsunami wipe out ancient Martian aliens?
DEATH ON MARS: Did asteroid tsunami wipe out ancient Martian aliens?
FOR years conspiracy theorists have claimed there was an ancient civilisation on Mars... but something wiped it out and destroyed life on the Red Planet.
But, space experts have spent decades studying the surface of the Red Planet, but there has so far been no firm proof of any life ever evolving there, let alone intelligent forms like humans.
And, NASA, and other experts deny finding any evidence of even the most simplistic lifeforms yet on Mars, despite sending various rovers and space probes to explore the Martian surface.
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Was there an ancient civilisation on Mars that was wiped out by an asteroid?
We found typical tsunami deposits along the dichotomy between the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere of Mars.
Geophysics professor Francois Costard
The tsunami is thought to have been so powerful, it would have wiped out any trace of life on the planet, ifit had existed at the time.
Geophysics professor Francois Costard said: "We found typical tsunami deposits along the dichotomy between the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere of Mars.
"It supports that there was, at that time, a northern ocean."
The main theoretical reason for the tsunami occurring would have been an asteroid hitting the planet.
When a large asteroid hits water, it can create two tsunamis when it hits the ocean surface and the ocean floor.
The crater, and the thumbprint formation at the site are proof of the ancient tsunamis, the researchers claim.
Professor Costard, study lead, added: "The possibility that a large ocean once occupied the Martian northern plains is one of the most important and controversial hypotheses to have originated for the exploration of Mars."
Although the team did not comment on whether any lifeforms may have existed at the time.
Last year NASA revealed that Mars had lost nearly all of its atmosphere, making it inhospitable now, after the sun stripped it away with solar rays over billions of years.
REVELATION: Alan Bean has revealed his views on aliens
US spaceman Alan Bean became the fourth person to ever walk on the moon in 1969, aged 37.
Now, almost 50 years after the historic Apollo 12 mission, Mr Bean has opened up about his views on aliens
The 85-year-old ex-navy officer does not believe extraterrestrials have ever visited Earth.
He believes intelligent alien life forms would make themselves known, declare “peace” and share advanced “gadgets” with humans.
Because this has not happened, Mr Bean, who retired from NASA in 1981, says aliens have not yet made contact.
MoD expert on aliens: Government knows "more than they let on"
His comments will be a huge blow to truth seekers who are adamant UFOs have been secretly visiting Earth for decades.
Some conspiracy theorists even claim world leaders are covering up the existence of aliens.
But Mr Bean’s views about “friendly and altruistic” aliens contradicts these theories.
He said: "I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ever visited the Earth.
"One of the reasons I don't believe they have been here is that civilisations that are more advanced are more altruistic and friendly — like Earth, which is better than it used to be — so they would have landed and said 'we come in peace and we know from our studies you have cancer that kills people, we solved that problem 50 years ago, here's the gadget we put on a person's chest that will cure it, we will show you how to make it'."
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“I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ever visited the Earth.”
Alan Bean
Mr Bean believes humans would do the same for aliens if we had advanced space travel technology.
But despite his views, the moonwalker believes there “must be” planets that have formed alien life.
He said: "There's so many billions of stars and these stars have planets around them so there must be statistically many planets around many stars that have formed life.
"Maybe some of them are like our life was 100,000 years ago, and some of them are like we are now, and there are probably some out there that are a 10,000 years in the future from where we are now."
Yet Stephen Bassett, of the Paridigm Research Group, is convinced aliens have visited Earth.
Mr Bassett, who lobbies the US government on alien disclosure, said: “The evidence that aliens have come here is undeniable."
According to an astonishing conspiracy theory, NASA is covering up evidence about “what’s really on the moon”.
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Mysterious object spotted hovering in skies over California! [VIDEO]
Mysterious object spotted hovering in skies over California! [VIDEO]
An alien hunter talks about sighting a strange structure on the Martian surface and NASA's latest statement about UFOs spotted near the ISS.
The incident took place during the night time in California, the mysterious objects spotted emit orange light and the objects appear to stay still in the sky.YouTube / secureteam10
In a latest UFO sighting, which took place in San Diego, California, luminous 'UFOs' were spotted hovering over the Pacific Ocean in footage taken by an 'eyewitness'.
The incident took place at night, when the mysterious objects were spotted in the sky emitting an orange light and they appeared to hover in the sky. After a while the leftmost light of the three,is seen disappearing.
The video was shot by a UFO hunter named Richard, who works with a YouTube channel called Finding UFO.
The strange object seemed to be unaffected by factors like wind and gravity. The darkness of the night sky made it hard to figure out whether it was one triangular UFO, or three separate ones.
More mysterious findings have been revealed by alien hunter Tyler from Secure Team 10 in the video. He claimed to have footage revealing an image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) which was shown by another YouTube channel. The image shows a mysterious spherical object buried in the Martian surface.
And finally, Tyler also talked about the NASA statement, posted by Huffington Post, in which NASA defines the mysterious flying objects spotted near the ISS as debris and not UFOs.
The space agency even bluntly denied seeing any UFO at the ISS , with the aim of rubbishing the last UFO sighting video published by an alien hunter. The video shows two strange craft flying past the ISS.
Previous claims made by UFOlogists and alien hunters have been rubbished by NASA which claimed the 'alien objects' in footage are lens flare or some sort of camera disturbances, and even space junk.
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The Disclosure Activists Say Governments Are Preparing Citizens For Extraterrestrial Disclosure
The Disclosure Activists Say Governments Are Preparing Citizens For Extraterrestrial Disclosure
Recent Events, Document Releases, and Leaks Reveal Disclosures From World Governments And U.S. Government Plan For Disclosure Of The UFO/UAP Phenomenon.
New York, NY (PRWEB) March 28, 2017
The Disclosure Activists are an international consortium leading an effort to uncover and disseminate the truth regarding extraterrestrial visitation going back 70 years. This is a widely misunderstood topic, despite a plethora of physical and forensic evidence regarding the extraterrestrial UFO/UAP (Unidentified Aerial Phenomena) issue. The historical stance of widespread denial and misinformation has shifted. Co-founder Russell Calka states: 'Recently there is a systematic effort from within the U.S. and other world governments to release this information to the public'.
Senior strategic adviser to The Disclosure Activists, Victor Vigianni, states: ‘All of the evidence that has been accumulated by researchers, military witness testimony, and acquired from declassified government documents over the last 70 years points to three very basic conclusions — the planet Earth has been and is being engaged by off-world civilizations. Secondly — this information has been hidden from the public in a well orchestrated and systematic embargo on the truth. Thirdly, governments know these conclusions are true — researchers of this topic know these conclusions are true, and it is now time for humanity to learn these truths'.
The Disclosure Activists contend that Disclosure is already underway. Earlier this month, the Spanish Ministry of Defence released a cache of previously classified UFO/UAP documents, similar to documents released by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in January 2017, and similar to other document releases from governments in the UK, Chile, and Mexico. NASA reported the discovery of additional habitable exoplanets (bringing the total to well over 3000) and just this month, former President George W. Bush alluded to his knowledge of the UFO/UAP phenomenon in an interview on late night television with Jimmy Kimmel. There have also been email leaks, via Wikileaks, that indicate this topic is of substantial interest to government and military, as they prepare citizens for disclosure of extraterrestrial visitation.
Co-Founder Dr. Lisa Galarneau states: 'Through these government disclosures, scientific discoveries of exoplanets, leaks, and hints from insiders, the public is being prepared for official announcements regarding extraterrestrial visitation. This awareness building campaign is deliberate in its attempt to prepare humanity for formal Disclosure. This is an important step towards open contact with extraterrestrial intelligences who have not shown hostile intentions and could help humanity with some of our most intractable problems, including energy, climate change, pollution, and resource scarcity'.
A more optimistic approach to the question of extraterrestrial intelligence is expressed in The Disclosure Activists' mandate, which includes a manifesto that outlines the mission and activities. The Disclosure Activists also acknowledge that some UFO/UAP and other contact activity is sourced in secret projects run by governments. Truth and transparency is necessary in any functioning democracy, especially regarding extraterrestrial UFO/UAP.
The Disclosure Activists pursue unification of various Disclosure groups and investigators, petitions to governments, calls for investigations and hearings, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, and education/outreach to press/media and the broader population. Citizens require information and research in a historical context to prepare for the forthcoming government announcements of extraterrestrial visitation.
Disclosure is imminent. Press and media should be responsible for accurate and open research and reporting of the plethora of UFO/UAP and contact evidence, as well as integrating the history of disclosure that has been unfolding for 70 years. We are not alone in the cosmos and we never have been. Citizens have a need to know.
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28-03-2017
BREAKING NEWS Not a UFO, but an IFO
BREAKING NEWS
Not a UFO, but an IFO
New drone could revolutionize personal aircraft market
Image of prototype of new two-seater UFO like drone designed by Pierpaolo Lazzarini. Photos courtesy Daily Mirror. CLICK TO ENLARGE
(INTERNATIONAL)-- It looks like a flying saucer, but this new aircraft is definitely an IFO, meaning Identified Flying Object.
An Italian designer, Pierpaolo Lazzarini has designed a radical new two-seater "Jet Capsule" drone for an Italian company that just may radically change the personal aircraft market.
The Daily Mirror says the large scale drone, which looks like a "flying saucer" from the 1950's UFO magazines, carries two adults and can stay airborne for between 60 and 70 minutes.
This I.F.O. is propelled by eight electric engine rotors that receive power via a set of batteries. The small aircraft can be flown to an estimated top speed of about 120 mph.
The capsule where two people sit is surrounded by a strong but lightweight carbon fiber disk that is designed to protect passengers without weighing the drone down.
In emergencies, the cockpit can be detached and is equipped with a parachute for emergency landings.
Lazzarini says the technology exists to bring the craft to market now and he's looking for investors to make that happen.
The drone is purpose built for two passengers(Photo: Cover Images)
It looks just like a UFO(Photo: Cover Images)
The capsule is surrounded by a strong carbon fibre disk to protect passengers(Photo: Cover Images)
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Aliens Are Already Here And Ready To Take Over: Canadian Researcher
Aliens Are Already Here And Ready To Take Over: Canadian Researcher
UFO sightings a plentiful across Canada and nearly every other country in the world. However, there has NEVER been any real proof that aliens exist, let alone are visiting earth.
Someone on the other hand is fully confident that we actually already have been visited by aliens, the Canadian researcher, and nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman .
Speaking to Australia’s news.com, the Canadian scientist believes that our planet has been visited by aliens several times, but they simply do not have any plans to reveal their existence yet.
According to Friedman dark adds the visits of governments and security agencies worldwide.
– We have enough evidence to prove beyond doubt that the Earth is visited by aliens. The information was kept from us, for who would want to create chaos? There would be mass panic and great concern, says Stanton Friedman told the Daily Star Online.
– What if the aliens want to make themselves seen, it’s easy – and they will do it, continues Stanton.
The 82-year-old scientist is the frontman of the UFO movement and has worked with a number of secret investigations.
His theory is that the aliens choose to stay in the shadows for eventually colonize us earthlings and prevent us from to populate other planets. Friedman argues that it is simply because we humans have proven that we are evil.
Another reason why aliens visit blinded, says he is for political reasons.
According to Friedman’s theory, these are of a race between the US, Russia and China. The first one can copy the aliens’ technology will automatically become the most powerful in the world, says Friedman, according to the Daily Star Online
Columnist Cheryl Costa examines several encounters of extraterrestrials in New York over the years.
A week doesn’t go by that someone doesn’t ask me if off-world beings are visiting Earth, and more specifically, New York state. Of course, I find myself between a rock and a hard place. If I say yes, I get verbally assaulted with lines like, “You have no evidence of extraterrestrials!” If I say no, I get plenty of verbiage to the tune of, “But what about all the reports?”
For the record I believe extra-ordinary beings have visited Earth and specifically New York state. Does that mean they are all space aliens? Not necessarily. But I’ll discuss that topic in a future article. I did a little digging and here are some snippets of what New Yorkers have reported over the years.
1. In the spring in the early 1880s, a group of children was walking down a country road to school near Cameron in Steuben County. As the children were about to cross a bridge over a swollen creek, they saw several little bald men with big eyes and were wearing blue coveralls. The children ran home terrified.
2. In Sullivan County in 1942, a 10-year-old boy was grounded inside the family cottage for an earlier misdeed. While the young man was making the best of his “imposed alone time,” he heard a light tapping on the window. He looked outside and saw a strange, little bald person with huge, dark eyes. No one in his family believed him.
3. In 1954, just outside of Peekskill in Westchester County, a married couple witnessed a female who was wearing clothing that was glowing, including strange goggles. The missus was so emotionally overcome by the experience that she had to be taken to a hospital.
4. In the fall of 1957 in Schenectady County, a woman observed a flying disk coming down from the sky. She said it hovered above the ground and several dark-skinned little men with big eyes exited the craft. She later told investigators that the beings flashed some sort of beam at her and her young child. Both the woman and her child developed a strange rash on their bodies and required medical attention.
5. In the dead of winter of 1957 in Erie County near the village of Depew, a woman was driving down a road in a snow storm when the engine of her car stalled and quit. She looked around to see if there was anyone she could ask for help. That’s when she saw through the falling snow a glowing craft that appeared to be hovering slightly above the snow covered ground. Through the snow she observed two beings. She described them as tall insect like creatures. When the strange beings noticed her in her car, they returned to this craft and it took off, spinning as it did.
6. Finally in the summer of 1964 near the village of Conklin in Broome County, a woman was tending to her kitchen work. Suddenly her two sons, ages 9 and 7, and three of their friends rushed in from outside, all out of breath. They all ask for glasses of water. When she asked why, they breathlessly told her it was for “the space man!” When later questioned about the space man, the boys were hesitant to talk. After must prodding, they described a small, human-like man in a black suit with strange insignia. He also wore a helmet with antennas. The children described a shiny craft parked out in the field. Later, an inspection of that area of the field found grass that had been crushed into a circle by a significant weight.
Black holes aren’t just terrifying objects of total obliteration — they’re also gross as hell. These behemoths have a strange tendency to yak up some the matter they seemingly crush under an ungodly amount of dense mass. They are one of the most mysterious phenomena in the universe. New observations from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) illustrate that the biggest bad boys, supermassive black holes, will spit up matter like their smaller brethren. But the messy aftermath might actually lead to formation of new stars.
About 600 million light-years away, there’s an ongoing collision of two galaxies jointly known as IRAS F23128-5919. At the center of the southern galaxy lies a supermassive black hole spitting up a ton of cosmic material. Using the MUSE and X-shooter tools on the VLT at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, scientists found that the outflow of galactic winds from the sheer force of the black hole is stirring up enough cosmic gas and dust to form new stars. This never-before-seen discovery, detailed in a new study published in Nature on Monday, has lead to a slew of new theories about SBHs, including discounting a few old ones.
“Supermassive black holes are a million times larger than classical accretion records,” Roberto Maiolino, an astronomer from the University of Cambridge and the lead author of the new paper, tells Inverse. “Until now, the main theory was that they were connected to destruction; in certain phases these winds are supposed to remove a large amount of material out of the galaxy and suppress the host galaxy.”
But, as Maiolino explains, these new findings show that while supermassive black holes can be the ultimate demise for galaxies, they also can form new stars. In the case of IRAS F23128-5919, these newborn stars are just tens of millions of years old. They also appear to be brighter and hotter than stars formed under regular conditions.
“The dynamic properties of stars produced in the violent and turbulent winds of a supermassive black hole are completely different than stars that were formed within a galaxy,” said Maiolino.
They also found that some of the new stars appear to be held in place by the gravitational pull of the black hole, while others are sent spiraling off into the dark abyss of the universe.
“In some parts of the galaxy the gravitational field is much stronger and in other places the force is weaker,” explains Maiolino. “Depending on where stars form they can have a different fate. So, the stars which form in the injected blast of a black hole very close to the center start circulating around the galaxy, becoming part of what we call the ‘bulge.’ Stars that form far away from the galaxy center achieve a lower force and can actually fly away and leave the galaxy altogether; they can be lost forever.”
Maiolino also theorizes that black holes like the one in the middle of the Milky Way may have a similar history of activity.
“The black hole in the center of our Milky Way is dormant now, but we know it was active in the past and it probably produced similar winds that we are seeing in other galaxies,” Maiolino says. “We know this kind of activity isn’t continuous. [Supermassive black holes] have a large life cycle; they can have an inactive period that could last a few million years and they may be dormant for much longer and then have an active period again. They may have this kind of periodic effect several times.”
There is still much to learn about this new phenomena, but Maiolino and his team are eager to continue their exploration. When the James Webb Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope’s successor, is launched and made operational in October 2018, they hope to find evidence of these active and dormant phases.
“It’s a new field, it’s difficult to assess how frequent it is among galaxies,” Maiolino says. “This can probably only be done with the James Webb Space Telescope, which will have the ability to probe these distant galaxies.”
NASA caught a glimpse of Jupiter on Monday, as its Juno orbiter passed the red planet at 4.52 a.m. EST. The spacecraft, moving past the planet for its fifth time, has been collecting data since it entered Jupiter’s orbit in July 2016, after lifting off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral launch complex in August 2011.
“This will be our fourth science pass — the fifth close flyby of Jupiter of the mission — and we are excited to see what new discoveries Juno will reveal,” Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in a statement released Friday. “Every time we get near Jupiter’s cloud tops, we learn new insights that help us understand this amazing giant planet.”
During the passing, Juno had its eight instruments switched on and collecting data from 2,700 miles above the clouds, moving at 129,000 miles per hour. In other orbits, the satellite has reached as low as 2,600 miles above the clouds.
The mission is aimed at learning more about Jupiter’s origins and structure. Probing below the clouds, the satellite is designed to find out more about the planet’s atmosphere and magnetosphere. So far, the team has discovered that Jupiter has complicated magnetic fields, and that the unique cloud tops extend well below the surface into the gas giant’s interior.
Each of the satellite’s five orbits last for 53 days, but NASA originally intended for only the first two orbits to last for that long. After that, the plan was to switch on Juno’s engines and move the satellite closer to Jupiter, meaning more frequent 14-day orbits that should lead to larger collections of data.
Unfortunately, during a check of the internal systems, the agency found that the helium check valves were taking several minutes to open when they should have taken just a few seconds.
“During a thorough review, we looked at multiple scenarios that would place Juno in a shorter-period orbit, but there was concern that another main engine burn could result in a less-than-desirable orbit,” said Rick Nybakken, Juno project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “The bottom line is a burn represented a risk to completion of Juno’s science objectives.”
Instead of undertaking a risky firing that could have put the whole mission at risk, NASA decided to stay at the 53-day orbit levels. The agency has justified it by claiming that they will receive “bonus science” from the repeated passings, which is possibly true, but it’s not quite the exciting information the team could have collected from closerpassings.
The proposed method for creating an artificial magnetic dipole at Mars’ L1 Lagrange Point.
Image courtesy ( NASA/J.Green)
Although at present Mars is very cold, dry, and has a very thin atmosphere, it was not always like this. As per scientists, Mars was once blessed with a habitable climate and thick atmosphere that could have allowed liquid water to exist.
NASA is now trying to give Mars its atmosphere back for colonizing the planet in the future!
In a presentation at the Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop in Washington DC, NASA scientists have proposed that deploying a giant magnetic shield into space between Mars and the sun could protect its atmosphere from solar wind. They consider that the launched magnetic shield could serve as a replacement for Mars’s own lost magnetosphere.
The researchers explained, “This situation then eliminates many of the solar wind erosion processes that occur with the planet’s ionosphere and upper atmosphere allowing the Martian atmosphere to grow in pressure and temperature over time. Much like Earth, an enhanced atmosphere would: allow larger landed mass of equipment to the surface, shield against most cosmic and solar particle radiation, extend the ability for oxygen extraction, and provide ‘open air’ green-houses to exist for plant production, just to name a few.”
It is a great concept, and in case scientists are successful in deploying a giant magnetic shield, then the dream of colonization on Mars would not be far away
‘‘Alien abduction victim’ claims extraterrestrials revealed the meaning of life to him - PART I
‘Alien abduction victim’ claims extraterrestrials revealed the meaning of life to him - PART I
An alien abductee has come forward and publicly revealed the plan extraterrestrials have for humanity in the next few years. After being abducted by aliens for the last 17 years of his life, the anonymous abductee says he wants to share his experience with the public so they can learn the truth about extraterrestrials.
In an online post on a popular conspiracy forum, the alien abductee reveals:
How aliens are able to communicate via telepathy with eachother and humans
The secrets about Earth’s history hidden from us by our rulers
How the universe came into existence (it was NOT the Big Bang or ‘God’ according to these beings)
What the future for the human race holds
Full Disclosure: Revelations of an Extraterrestrial Encounter.
My name is [redacted]. I’m [redacted] years old and I’m going to let you know right away, there’s a whole lot to digest about who I am, why I’m here, and what I’ve gone through in my life.
The thoughts that will go through your head as you read this have kept me awake hundreds of sleepless nights in my life.
I’ve questioned my sanity many times over, but I assure you, in every way possible, I am quite sane.
I’m not endorsing this story, or saying it even really truly happened. I’m only saying I believe this happened to me.
I could be crazy. I could be getting used to spread distraction. I don’t know. I’m just going with what’s gone on in my head over forty years, and saying it like it is.
Just keep in mind If i was telling this for any other reason than a true love for this planet, I’d be telling it to a Hollywood agent or book publisher and charging you money to read it. I’m not.
We all have our reasons for being drawn to the esoteric. Mine was UFOS.
Not my interest in them, but their interest in me. It started when I was only 4 years old. And it’s gone on ever since.
My first experience was a face to face meeting with a strange little Being. We communicated by telepathy and that connection remains today.
It’s a one way kind of communication. I’ve asked a million questions but never really got an answer to any of them.
Well except for one I suppose. I guess she must be able to hear me. The one question I asked the most was answered. It just wasn’t the answer I wanted.
Naturally I wanted to know what was going on…and I always heard the same response. “When it’s time, you’ll know.”is
I’ve gone years with no interaction but she always comes back. Yes. The Being was female and quite motherly in her communication with me.
She tells me things. About myself and about them, and about this planet. And it’s history.
Seems I’ve been at this for quite some time too. I’m a very old soul. She’s recently told me a bunch of things that in all honesty, I already knew, sort of.
I know one thing for sure. Amongst other things, i’m a warrior through and through. That I didn’t need to be told. But just how much of a warrior, I had no idea.
Unfortunately having the heart of a lion only gets you so far. And for me, it’s never been far enough.
That’s why I’ve learned to fight with my mind this time. Even though I spent a lot of my life in a subculture of violence this time around, I see now I had to be there to unlearn the ways I’ve always handled my confrontations. In this life too, but more so in my past lives.
I really am tired of all this. It’s been long enough. Too many people have died thinking we could beat them (the elite force controlling the world) in a physical confrontation.
They didn’t start actually “abducting me” until I was 31 years old though. And I prefer to think of myself as “taken” not abducted.
For the last 17 years it’s been an on and off again thing. I’d just gone 5 years without any contact or communication incidents, but in Aug 2016, (like 4 months ago) things got very serious, very fast.
Life was as normal as I think it’s ever been for me. I was right where I wanted to be, and comfortable with everything my life was becoming. Mine has been a life of constant rebuilding and change.
I went to bed one Saturday night just like any other night. But Sunday morning was not anything like any Sunday I’d been through before.
I woke up and realized immediately what happened. I was freezing. And soaking wet. And I felt like I was in a dream. Have you ever been under anesthetic? Same feeling when waking up. It’s like coming back from, hmmm, i don’t know where, but It’s the telltale sign.
But this time there was more. I had a head full of ideas and an absolute NEED to search out and connect to people just like all of you.
And, she was back. Like never before. And she had a lot to say in the last three months. Wow!
What I’m going to tell you was revealed to me, a bit here, piece there, over my lifetime. It really never made much sense to me though, until now. Now I have the whole truth.
And I do apologize to the people I’ve been difficult with, but you can’t imagine the pressure I’m under with this.
It’s really, really hard to listen to theories I know are incomplete or distraction, while having no ability to present what I know until right now. I was told not to tell anyone.
So, before I go any further, I need you to understand something. Read this next line as many times as you need to.
We, aren’t what we’ve been taught to believe we are! Not at all. Nothing!
What I’m going to tell you may change your life. In what way is entirely up to you.
I see it one of three ways, you’ll hate me forever, you’ll embrace this and know me forever, or you’ll call me crazy.
The reality is there’s been some very big lies told. And I’m going to do my best to explain the who, want, when, where, and why that surround these secrets.
So here it is, the real story as I understand it.
This planet was not the result of a Big Bang or the creation of “God” as we understand Him. The Universe came to exist because of The One.
The One is neither alive or dead, male or female good nor bad. IT just is…
The One is responsible for creating all the framework which functions to provide an environment for everything to exist in.
IT created this planet, and all the other planets, stars, moons, and everything in between.
Unlike the story we were told, “God” does not work alone. The One had some help.
The One created several intelligent races of benevolent Aliens that function to serve The Universe. Like The One, they are Immortal and never die. They are tangible Beings though, just not in the same way we are.
These Aliens are the craftsmen tasked with maintaining the integrity of all The One had created.
Planet Earth was seeded with life by a race of immortal Aliens called Centaurians from a planet called Eden. It’s located in the Centauri star system.
And when I say life, I mean ALL of it. Especially us.
The Centaurians are part of the immortal workforce that service The Universe. They are scientists and geneticists. It was theiru job to seed life throughout The Universe.
There is one exception though. The sector where The Six Headed Beast ruled.
Using a master set of plant and animal DNA supplied by The One, The Centaurians genetically engineered a vast living library of life.
Earth was their seed bank and it was called The Garden of Eden. Easily it was the most beautiful of all the planets. The One had really done a wonderful job.
They used a process called gene splicing, and did this work in labs on Eden.
Each new plant or animal prototype they created was then taken to Earth where it was cultivated.
Not all planets have the same conditions or type of atmosphere. So it also had to be determined which species could exist in different places.
This planet was designed to support many different types of environments and climates that mimic conditions around the universe.
Once these new products were studied, logged, and samples were stored, they were distributed to the planets throughout the universe best suited for each species.
However, in the face of all The One had created, even IT was not perfect. The One had made only one mistake. But it was a big one.
I’m not going to even pretend I understand it. But in the beginning, when The One was the only thing in existence, IT became “lonely”.
To combat this problem, The One divided itself by 25% to create another, lesser version of itself.
This new Number Two later realized that’s exactly what it was. Lesser. The One could have split in half and made them equal, but IT didn’t.
And when The One finished what IT had set out to do, which was create the Universe, and the immortal work force to help complete it, Number Two took offence.
Number Two realized The One had provided no role whatsoever for IT to contribute to all that was created.
Upon realizing the sole purpose of IT’s existence, was to keep The One from becoming lonely again, Number Two decided to leave.
At the time, Number Two didn’t realize it, but the choice to leave, introduced some new things to The Universe. Conflict. And Free Will.
Number Two took up residence in a far off corner of The Universe. It didn’t take long to realize though, IT was all alone.
As The One had divided itself to solve the same problem, so too did Number Two.
But Number Two didn’t want to face the same dilemma, so IT divided into 6 equal individuals. And they quickly set out to develop this corner of The Universe into their very own version of what the rest of The Universe would be like.
The result was a galactic society of miscreants lead by what would come to be known as The Six Headed Beast.
The division into 6 individuals had corrupted key bits of knowledge and understanding from the consciousness of the whole.
This lost knowledge was the reason all the creatures that were created to reside on the planets in this sector, had no soul.
Some of these creatures were worse than others, but none of them could actually be considered good.
They are flesh and blood creatures who only live for a certain length of time and die one day.
We were created the way we were, with a soul, for a reason. The Centaurians wanted to create an intelligent worker who would live on Earth and be responsible for maintaining the integrity of The Garden of Eden.
Tending to this garden would be an extremely delicate, and sometimes dangerous program. They needed leverage to ensure compliance to the job.
Also, since free will and conflict had come into existence when Number Two left, it was decided that from this point forward, immortality would have to be earned.
So it was decided that a promise of immortality under certain conditions, would help motivate this creature called a human being, to serve its purpose to the best of its ability.
A unique approach that would allow human beings to exist as two separate halves of one entity, had been successfully designed by an amazing team of scientists on Eden.
And quickly this design and reasoning for it, was approved by The One.
One half of the human would exist on Eden. The other half would exist on Earth.
The two individual halves of the human being are connected by something called a soul.
Inside the body of each half of the humans, flows a pure form of energy that binds both parts to one another.
A telepathic connection that allowed the two parts to communicate back and forth was also a very useful feature for completing the work projects tasked to the humans.
The half which existed on Eden would work in the lab as a genetic scientist to create new life forms.
When these plants and animals were cultivated on Earth, the process would be conducted by the Earth halves of the scientists whose team had invented the specific species.
This way the scientist and the botanist or biologist could share information to ensure a well cared for and properly designed product was the end result of their efforts.
This telepathic connection was also a way to never forget home and in times of struggle, a voice of reason to offer advice. A friend, so no matter what, no human would ever be alone, like The One had once been.
You likely won’t believe me yet, but that voice in your head, your conscience, is actually what’s left of the telepathic connection to our counterpart on Eden.
Of course today we are raised to believe thinking anything other than “it’s your own voice” will get you locked up in a psych ward.
Big threats to protect big secrets. And big secrets are certainly being kept from us about how and why that connection was lost.
To become immortal, the humans had to live by guidelines and rules and show the intelligence, loyalty, and desire to be a productive, honest, contributing member of the Galactic Society they belonged to.
A series of tests, and lessons would be incorporated into their lives that would determine when they would be ready to achieve immortality.
On Earth everything living has an expiration date, meaning one day it dies. This applies to everything except for one thing, the human soul.
When a human died on Earth, the soul ascended to Eden for evaluation. If it was decided the soul was ready, the two halves would merge into one immortal being.
However, if it wasn’t ready, the soul would experience something called reincarnation where it was sent back to Earth in a new body.
The human would then encounter a more difficult path designed to address the issues that kept it from achieving immortality.
This complex two part creature would be the prototype for a whole new approach to the concept of being alive. If successful, humans could be placed all over the universe.
As The Centaurians hoped, the evolution of The Garden of Eden, and its new occupants, was a great success.
After nearly a hundred thousand years of evolution, only one major change was made to how this system would operate.
It was originally the plan to allow unlimited reincarnation and guaranteed immortality eventually. However, there were unforeseen issues that arose from that idealistic view.
The result was a decision to permit ten chances to get it right and earn the reward of immortality.
By limiting reincarnation to nine times, the decision to populate some of the other planets that had been seeded into life with humans, had passed the scrutiny of The One.
By the way, I told you which star system Eden exists in without feeling like I’m giving up a secret.
Unfortunately, there are people here on Earth right now searching for it, and they already know where they should be looking.
The Kepler telescope made a discovery this year not six months ago in August of 2016
There is one particular planet quite close to Earth. Like close enough where the technology here will allow a probe to make it there in the next 25 years or so.
It’s not Eden. But it’s one step closer. So they really need to be stopped before they get there.
As I said before, I’m an old soul. And I’ve tried more than once to stop those responsible for what I’m trying to tell you, during several of my past lives.
Obviously, I’ve never been on the successful side of any of the battles that have taken place in an attempt to gain control of our own destiny.
I’m sure you’ve realized something must have gone terribly wrong someplace along the line.
Earth is quite obviously not being used by The Centaurians as a living library anymore. It’s being exploited, polluted, and soon enough, will be destroyed.
If you don’t know, there are several tyrannical groups of very rich, very powerful, business men, political leaders and Church officials with questionable ties to each other.
They belong to groups such as The Illuminatii, The Roman Catholic Church, The British Monarchy, and The Freemasons to name a few.
It’s widely accepted that these Billionaire Boys Clubs are up not on the up and up and exist to serve ulterior motives.
They have created, implemented, and enforced a system of corruption, greed, control, and hostility for thousands of years.
The roots of these shady organizations have been traced back to the time of Jesus.
The last attempt to confront these corrupt, power hungry, tyrants was in the early 1300’s.
A very wealthy group called The Knights Templar, that was aligned with The Roman Catholic Church, had found out some extremely sensitive information about Jesus, and the Bible.
Having expressed concerns to a trusted government official about The Church withholding the secret knowledge, The Knights Templar were betrayed and for the most part, disbanded and killed brutally for going against The Pope.
And ever since then these elite tyrants have taken full advantage of the fear they instilled in anyone who may oppose them.
Their stranglehold on the resources and human lives on Planet Earth grows stronger every single day we choose to do nothing.
The Knights knew what I know. Unlike me, they never got the chance to tell though.
Once you know why, and what is at stake, you’ll understand why I’ve made it my choice to suggest we confront these men, end these lies, and try again to rid this planet from their control.
The elite tyrants who control us using money, work hand in hand with the ones who destroy some of us by taking our soul.
The Roman Catholic Church is the real controlling influence behind those running the world, enslaving mankind, and destroying this beautiful planet.
There is no one more powerful than the guy with the funny hat, The Pope. None that are human anyways.
The Pope is always chosen from a secret, and very long list of bloodlines that go back thousands of years to a time when giants roamed the Earth.
Yeah I just said that. But it’s gotta be said. And someone had to say it. And that’s always been my role. To sound the alarm.
But this time the call, MY call, will be heard. This time, the world is ready to hear it. YOU, are ready to hear it!
The age of information has brought a new dimension, one we have never had available before. If you haven’t realized it yet, she told me, IT’S TIME!
This time, we have the ability to UNITE World Wide!. And we will. And we are.
I can feel the soul of every warrior who ever lived and died at the hands of The Elite. All of them. They’re all here.
Some already know it, most don’t, but you all will. The universe will not let you rest until you accept the responsibility of fixing what we have ALWAYS allowed them to do to us.
The Elite aren’t exactly like us in case you haven’t noticed. There is an empty, void, hole in all of “them”.
The world really is an US vs THEM situation.
You may believe “we are all one” and some spiritual awakening is on the horizon, but please, know this: There are TWO different SPECIES living together here on earth. Humans. And Half Breeds.
And no, they are not shape shifting reptilians. In all ways they are identical to us, except for one thing.
They don’t have a soul!
When they die, they are dead. That’s it. No more. They are manufactured.
These soulless shells i’m talking about are The Elite. And they know what they are. Predators. Nasty, sick, twisted, Predators.
There is another group of people who also suffer an impairment of their soul but they have no idea anything is even wrong with them.
At least they have a soul, even if it has been shut right off. As long as it’s there, all hope is not lost.
It’s imperative if we want to experience any kind of freedom again, we begin working together. All men. All for One Cause. One World United.
United, we can move forward into a new Age of Enlightenment.
United, we can be free from all the pain that’s been our lives here on planet Earth.
It will not be easy. But nothing good ever is. Just be certain, if we continue to fall for the tactics that keep us divided, once again, we will fall short. Divide and Conquer will defeat us like it has before in past lives.
The Elite have slowly divided the entire world into divisions so small, they feel confident that it’s just not possible for us to lay aside our differences or seek a new perspective on our beliefs.
I’m hoping that deep down inside though, you feel it! You’ve always felt it. You probably didn’t understand that feeling was your other half calling out to you. And your home. Eden. In all ways possible, they both need you now, more than ever.
For some of us, the connection to our other half is starting to be established once more. I’ll explain why later.
It’s the ones caught deep in this web of lies I worry about though. The ones with the soul affliction.
Things on Eden have taken a very long time to fully recover from the Annunaki Invasion.
The reason is the soul affliction that has taken hold here on Earth lately, has nearly crippled the population on Eden.
The half of the human that’s born and exists on Eden, that’s attached to the people on Earth commonly referred to as Sheeple, (people who can’t see anything at all wrong with how the world operates) are basically handicapped.
They don’t contribute to the workforce, in fact, they take away from it, as they require constant care and supervision.
Despite all that has changed since humans came into existence, the soul still continues to develop properly and in unison with its Counterpart on Eden.
The changes to the minds of the humans on Earth however, somehow have caused the autism -like affliction of the mind running rampant on Eden.
So I’m here on a mission. I’m here to wake you up to what you used to be, to what you are.
And what you need to be, if we ever want to free ourselves from this nightmare we’ve all been tricked into living.
I guess tricked isn’t the best choice of words either. They didn’t trick us, they genetically modified us is what they did.
And what I’m about to tell you now, is where things get intense.
What you think you know about the history of earth and its many different inhabitants, are all lies. And it’s the job of the church, to protect those lies.
And the reward from protecting those lies, goes to the enforcers of the lie. The Illuminati. The Freemasons. The Elite.
Their reward is your life of servitude! And every man, woman and child belongs to them whether you admit it, or not.
Because the elite know they are soulless shells of what we are, they hate us.
Once I explain what they are lying about, and how far they’ve gone to protect the lie, you’ll understand just how much hate for us they hold.
The only other things that interest them are material riches and the thrill of feeling somehow superior as they treat us like garbage in a ruthless pursuit of the Almighty Dollar.
And we allow it because deep down we feel like our souls will live on regardless.
But that was the old way. Soon you will realize how, like me, you’ve avoided the trap and reincarnated here, over and over again.
Until we get this done, we will continue stuck in this loop, doomed to watch history repeat itself again and again.
And I’m going to tell you why.
There was an invasion on Eden, and they lost. The Centaurians are peaceful scientists, not warriors.
The Annunaki, a race of soulless creatures from the far corner of The Universe developed by The Six Headed Beast had come seeking knowledge.
They required technology to save the atmosphere of the planet they came from, Nibiru.
But Eden refused to help them. They were not in the business of cooperating with any of the soulless abominations created by The Six Headed Beast.
And the Annunaki replied in force. In the process of taking what they came for, they also discovered the location of Earth.
They left Eden in near ruins, and made off with some very sensitive, essential information about all life, and about Planet Earth in particular.
The Annunaki first arrived on planet Earth during a cleansing period.
Once all of the different species were properly sampled and classified, or if circumstances required it, the scientists in charge would initiate a cleansing. The eradication of the old, to usher in the new.
The idea being to repeat the same process with new varieties of plants and animals, as they were developed and created on Eden.
This particular ice-age was also to repair a structural issue with the drainage system. A series of massive trenches and gullies were needed and the only thing powerful enough to dig them were migrating glaciers.
The humans all relocated to Africa during that time, moved by ships sent from Eden.
Unfortunately this relocation turned out to be the very thing that gave full advantage to the Annunaki.
The Annunaki were quite pleased with initial test samples they took. This planet was rich with monoatomic gold just as the stolen information from Eden had stated.
The information from Eden provided them with the formula used to create, or repair, an atmosphere. Monoatomic gold is the key ingredient. And they needed a lot.
The next thing the Annunaki did was set in motion a chain of events which accelerated the melting process.
There was a large area though where life was thriving. Here The Annunaki found a creature they hoped could be used as workers for the massive job of mining the Earth. They had discovered humans.
However, these creatures were quite different than anything The Annunaki had ever encountered. They seemed intelligent enough, but they were impossible to deal with.
Nothing, not fear, not pain, not even watching their friends die would sway them to what The Annunaki wanted them to do.
It was almost like these humans had one purpose and couldn’t do anything else even if they wanted.
But it was love for their home and an outright refusal to damage, destroy, alter, or manipulate the Earth at The Annunaki’s request that kept them from conforming.
The Annunaki even tried, unsuccessfully, claiming they were the ones who created the humans.
However, at that time The Annunaki were unaware of the connection the humans had to their other half back on Eden. The humans knew exactly who had arrived.
The Annunaki were in fact, very intelligent creatures however. A series of genetic manipulations performed on the male humans would solve the problem, or so it was believed.
One by one, the male humans were captured and injected with a DNA upgrade that would eventually change the fate of the inhabitants of The Garden of Eden. It would just be a matter of time.
The Annunaki, having completed the genetic tampering, prepared to leave. They needed to give the melting process of the ice covered planet time to do its thing.
A small team was assembled and would remain on Earth to manage and maintain the breeding process of the humans.
This task was put into the hands of a top scientist named Enki.
Enki was a powerful member of the upper echelon of Annunaki hierarchy.
He was very interested in studying the progress on the rate of change in these creatures.
The Annunaki had an amazing gift bestowed by The Six Headed Beast which created them. They had the power to shape shift, or transform into whatever they needed to be. So they took on human form.
Enki stood among the humans and watched as the other Annunaki boarded their ship and left Earth.
At that point the changes to the human mind had not taken over yet, and as the ship left, a legend was born about the ones who came from the sky in black clouds that burned in the sky.
And in telling this legend, the first of the changes began to materialize in the hearts and minds of the recently injected men, as fear crept in and filled them with a brand new perspective on life.
This new emotion clashed heavily with the very limited emotional database humans had been living with up to this point.
It only took a few generations of reproduction for Enki to realize something had gone wrong though.
By this stage there should have been significant changes in the way this creatures mind worked. But the change was minimal at best.
These creatures were learning to simply adapt, and somehow they retained the sense of self worth they had always enjoyed.
Frustrated, Enki began a series of experiments on his modified humans. What he discovered, shocked, and amazed him
In ways he could not understand, it appeared this creature was in fact, two creatures.
Enki began to decipher a series of files that were part of his spoils of war from the invasion of Eden. And what he learned, he could not believe.
These creatures had something called a soul. Something he had never heard of. Something that made these creatures immortal. As far as Enki knew, only The Six Headed Beast was immortal. More than anything, he wanted that! In fact, Enki became obsessed with the idea of living forever.
So obsessed, he entirely forgot why he had attempted to change the humans in the first place.
All that mattered was finding a way to implant or replicate one of these souls into himself.
Experiment after experiment failed. And as these further modified humans got released back among the others, the more damaged the integrity of the humans became.
After several more generations, significant changes could be seen.
So much so that they began to change in their physical appearance over time, not only mentally as the modification was initially supposed to be.
The most significant change was the colour of some of the creatures skin. There seemed to be several distinct skin tones and physical attributes appearing.
Though Enki had yet to discover the secret of the soul, he was forced to turn his attention back to creating a workforce for the mining operation.
He was rather impressed with one particular group that stood out from the others. It appeared this group was going to be the dominant one.
This dominant version of a human had changed almost entirely in colour.
It began with deep dark brown skin like they all had in the beginning.
But now it had transformed to become pale and light coloured, very much like Enki himself.
Up till this point Enki and his crew had lived unnoticed among the humans. But it was time for a change.
It was now about 190,000 Earth years since the Annunaki had left in their flying spaceship leaving Enki and his crew behind.
Enki and his kind lived to be about 360,000 years old in Earth terms. Which meant if he was going to complete the actual mission he was here for, he would have to find success soon. His age was creeping up on him.
The ice sheets that had once covered the Earth had been greatly diminished by this time. And the redistribution of the humans could begin.
Enki had sent for The Annunaki to return. The first mission was to gather all the humans of each kind based on their skin colour.
Then, each “race” was strategically dispersed around the world to the locations that were no longer inhospitable.
There were 4 distinct races based solely on skin tone. Dark brown, light brown, yellow, and white.
The first three races were relocated in their entirety and kept together. The white race however was divided into three groups.
These smaller groups of white humans were each placed to live with and among the other 3 races.
And just as Enki had envisioned, the white humans did whatever they had to do so they would find themselves in a position of authority.
It didn’t take long, and with the help of the white humans, the mining operations to amass monoatomic gold, were finally underway.
Turning his attention back to the humans, it quickly became clear to Enki there was no way to actually detect the soul while it was inside the body of the human beings.
It frustrated Enki to no end. He had gone so far as to take 13 human wives and father a large amount of children, half human, half Annunaki.
His intention was that if he could not achieve immortality, he could produce children that could.
However, it was this phase of experimentation that nearly took Enki from a distinguished scientist to an obsessed maniac.
There was no way to know if his experiments worked. The soul was no more detectable in his children, than in humans. Whether he had been successful or not, Enki would never know. At this point, he was prepared to give up.
The mining operations were nearly completed, and soon The Annunaki would leave Earth forever.
It was at this time however that Enki made his most crucial discovery.
By chance, he stumbled across some undiscovered information stolen from Eden. Vital information about the soul.
He learned the soul was, in fact, a tangible item. It could only be detected and seen after the death of the human host.
It appeared that as it traversed The Universe on the trip back to Eden, the soul became vulnerable.
And that’s when everything changed. Enki decided he was going to stay.
The rest of The Annunaki thought it was a strange request Enki made, but decided it was his choice to make in the end.
They packed up their ship, and left. Unknown to Enki, another member of their ranks was still on Earth with him.
Having burnt every bridge with his superiors during arguments over the mining expedition, Marduk was banished to Earth, an outcast no longer wanted among his own kind.
Also, unlike Enki, Marduk was open about his relations with human women. Something very much considered to be unacceptable.
It didn’t take Enki long to create a plan to confuse, distract, manipulate and erase any lingering recognition these humans may have about their soul and its purpose.
Enki didn’t want the knowledge of who they were, why they were on Earth, and what the purpose of the soul was, creeping back into the minds of men. He would give them a new, and totally different, understanding to live by.
It was the act of leaving The One, which Number Two had done in the early years of creation, that gave all creatures free will.
Free will would, in the eyes of Enki, become the most favourable of gifts bestowed on creation by The Six Headed Beast.
And Enki was prepared to take full advantage of many of the gifts he possessed if it meant immortality.
The children of Enki were a powerful group. They had no soul, but they did have some of the strengths that made Enki such a powerful creature.
One such quality they acquired was a lifespan much greater than a human. On average, these children would roam the Earth for up to 5000 years.
Another, was their size and strength. The males in particular reached heights of 10 feet, weighed nearly 800 pounds and had the strength of 10 men.
The reaction of the population towards these massive creatures, who otherwise resembled humans, is what gave Enki the idea which ultimately resulted in our current state of world affairs today.
Enki had his children roam the earth in search of the worst human beings alive.
It was now apparent just how wrong some of Enki’s experiments had gone. Murdereres, rapists, thieves, and tyrants made up a decent part of the population.
When they found these offenders, Enki’s children made an example out of them and slaughtered them all in public settings.
They then told the remaining humans the type of behaviour these bad humans displayed was against what they were willing to accept from this point on.
The children of Enki claimed their role as Gods among men. They presented their absent father as The One, creator of Heaven and Earth. And promised anyone who crossed them or their father, would meet the same fate as the many men they had recently slaughtered.
The humans began to cower in fear at the sight of these massive half humans. And they would go to any length to secure the favour of these Gods if they could.
The reason Enki was going to such great lengths to deceive the humans, should be of GREAT concern to every human alive.
Enki had been successful in his attempts to capture a human soul as it ascended to Eden.
What he learned from this was, and still is, a very frightening prospect which affects us as human beings to this very day.
Enki had found a way to harness, drain, and absorb the unique type of energy the human soul contained, into his own system.
And by doing so had secured a lesser version of the immortality he had sacrificed so much of his sanity to while searching for the secrets to living forever.
All he needed was an endless supply of human souls to drain and absorb. Consume.
For as long as he can secure a steady supply of human souls, ENKI WILL NOT DIE. He is very much alive and hiding on Earth. Though I don’t know, my guess is he is safely hidden in a secret room deep down below The Vatican.
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‘‘Alien abduction victim’ claims extraterrestrials revealed the meaning of life to him- PART II
‘Alien abduction victim’ claims extraterrestrials revealed the meaning of life to him- PART II
In their true form, the Annunaki were not small creatures. Enki was a foot taller and 100 pounds heavier than the largest and most powerful of his children, Zeus.
In his full Annunaki dress uniform and in his true physical form, Enki presented himself to the occupants of Earth.
The weapons of mass destruction he possessed, gave credence to the claim he made to the population in each location he appeared as he demonstrated his powers for emphasis.
Region by region Enki visited all the occupied territories around the world in support of what his children had recently established. The worlds very first religion.
Enki was determined to be their God. Their creator and judge. And ruler of all.
The concept took its place immediately in the minds of the population of earth. To disrespect The One or his many children, meant certain doom.
But serving them with your life, and living to please The One meant great rewards here on Earth. And also in the after-life.
Enki painted a beautiful picture to the humans of eternal life with him. He explained the nature of the Human soul and how it was a part of the “human experience” that could live forever as a guest in his kingdom.
Next, he explained the nature of free will. To gain entry to his kingdom called Heaven, a conscious desire had to be spoken aloud expressing a request to exist there with him.
The humans were forced to drop to their knees in front of Enki . He wanted a pledge, on their life, to abide by the rules he had created for them to live by.
Enki had made some reasonable requests, and the humans were happy to learn that outwardly, Enki appeared to be a fair, and decent giant of a man-god.
Like their father, the children of Enki took human lovers. By the time the first of Enki’s children had grown old and died, his family had grown to be enormous.
By the 5th generation of breeding with humans, Enki’s grandchildren had taken on the human form and were indistinguishable from the actual humans.
Under Enki’s guidance his grandchildren would tighten the hold on humans by introducing governments and the church to all of mankind. Each with its own design to control how the humans lived their lives.
The world was separated into manageable sized sections called countries. Borders were drawn, and several kingdoms established within each country.
The residents of these countries were then divided further to ensure they remained a totally conquered society that would have no hope to ever escape this enslavement.
New churches were allowed to rise up. And new religions. People were all of a sudden concerned with skin color, heritage, and financial status. Anything the Kings could use to divide people, they used.
It was simple, the only thing that could ever cause problems was numbers created by Unity.
The most influential of Enki’s extended family were put in positions of power to rule over the entirety of each country. Kings.
A hierarchy of control over all the humans was put in place. All to secure Enki’s place at the top of it all. The One.
Enki also arranged every marriage that ever happened in his family. He was very insistent certain guidelines be followed to ensure the bloodline his future grandchildren were born into, stayed pure.
And to this day, though we don’t realize or accept it, the descendants of Enki’s children continue to hold control of the world. And they still have no souls.
As observant, intelligent, and cautious as Enki was, it turned out he wasn’t quite as secretive as he thought himself to be. His obsession with the soul had made him careless.
Much to his surprise, he realized Marduk had been left behind and was hiding in plain sight, living on Earth in human form.
And, he had discovered why Enki had gone to such extremes creating this elaborate system of control over the humans.
Being left behind, Marduk was angry. And he hated this planet. He was looking for a way to seek revenge on the human race. Like most deviant minds, he blamed all things, except himself and his lust for human women, for all of his problems.
When Marduk discovered the secret Enki was keeping, he documented everything, including how Enki was taking credit for all creation and falsely claiming to be The One.
Marduk used the evidence he had gathered to blackmail Enki into providing him access to the technology so he could consume souls and become immortal as well.
As miserable, angry, and pissed off at the world as Marduk was, there was no surprise in the way he chose to win possession of the souls he meant to acquire.
He played on the worst of the human traits that had developed in the unfortunate victims of Enki’s obsession with genetic manipulation.
Traits like greed, anger, jealousy and corruption were Marduk’s signature approach.
He would provide material riches such as money, gold, precious gems, and even sultry women. Once his intended victim became obsessed, he would make a trade. A life of gluttony, control and power, for simply agreeing to spend eternity with him in the afterlife.
Marduk painted his own picture of an awesome place to spend eternity, which also would attract it’s fair share of human’s.
Like Enki, Marduk had succumbed to the sex appeal of the women of earth. He had a large family of part human, part Annunaki children and grandchildren just like Enki
He brought them all together. But rather than operate like Enki and create an opposing faction of towns and cities of their own, Marduk decided his approach would consist of infiltrating and corrupting the system of control Enki had established, from the inside out.
In response Enki had the church add a story that told of a fate worse than death for those who would take up sides with Marduk.
To join with Marduk meant your soul would burn and be tortured forever in a truly evil, sick place called Hell.
And just as this battle for human souls really got going in full swing, it came to a sudden stop.
In a stunning display of IT’s intense capability, The One appeared suddenly out of thin air.
In the next instant, swooping from the sky, came a small fleet of spacecraft which landed very close to where The One now stood.
From inside these crafts a group of representatives from Eden stepped foot on the soil of Earth for the first time in well over a hundred thousand years.
Sadness turned quickly to anger as what they saw around them sunk in. They wanted their planet back.
But with something as complicated as The One mediating the situation, it would not be as simple as forcing the Annunaki out.
The One saw opportunity for a test of strength between the soulless creation of The Six Headed Beast and his very own creation, the residents of Eden.
It was the humans The One wanted put to the test. IT had approved the original design of human beings, but now had some serious doubt about the integrity of this mutated creature that was really nothing like it had started out to be.
There were great concerns about gifting immortality to such an unstable life form even if they did have to earn it.
So, to ensure these humans were put to the test, The One decided that the Annunaki would no longer be allowed to reveal themselves in the flesh to humans.
Both Enki and Marduk would have to go into permanent hiding or leave earth, it was up to them.
The residents of Eden were given the same restrictions. They were not permitted to blatantly land in the town center and show themselves to the residents of Earth.
They had to find a way for the humans to see what was happening for the world to end up going from what it was, to what it is now, today, here in 2016.
Enki was quick to approach Marduk with a truce. Considering all that was at stake, the two opposing Annunaki warriors decided to join forces and unite their families.
The One had only asked Enki and Marduk to leave. Their families were permitted to stay on Earth. They had no souls so were of no interest to The One.
At this point Marduk went into hiding. Enki, on the other hand, used his ability to shape shift one last time, as he too disappeared from the face of the earth never to be seen in his true form again.
Enki transformed himself into a fertilized embryo in the womb of a descendant of his own family, a young woman named Mary.
Nine months later Enki was born into the world as a human baby. A baby with no soul of its own. A baby named Jesus. A baby that would forever enslave mankind and provide himself, and Marduk an everlasting supply of souls!
At least that was the plan the two Annunaki had come up with after being confronted by The One.
The Centaurians were also a smart bunch. But this type of mental warfare was not their strong suit. The Annunaki had the advantage since deceit seemed to be the spirit of this contest.
They were not without some tricks and secrets.of their own. The residents of Eden had began abducting humans a couple hundred years ago. They hoped the process of reversing the genetic manipulations that Enki had performed could be discovered.,
It turned out to be impossible. Much of what Enki had done was now a permanent part of human life.
Regardless, they had a plan B. And once more the humans were subjected to further genetic modifications.
It was a tricky process. The human host had to physically die. Then their soul was captured and manipulated.
A jolt of electricity was used to bring the human back to life. And that was it. The altered soul returned to the body. The human was released back to where it was taken from, unharmed.
This method wasn’t the quick fix needed, but in the long run, it would be more effective.
This addition to the soul didn’t change the person who received the upgrade. It was designed to create change in the offspring of the recipients.
It was a process that would take a very long time, but it would eventually produce some very different humans.
They would look the same as everyone else, but their hearts, and minds would be far more in tune with the needs of Mother Earth and her occupants.
And the best case scenario would result in the reestablishment of the telepathic connection of the two halves of which the authentic humans had shared.
And in the early part of the 1900’s, the very first Indigo Soul arrived on Earth, a quirky Australian man named Errol Flynn.
The long awaited results started to trickle in, until the late 1960’s when the first main wave of Indigo Souls were born into this world. And every year since the numbers have grown.
As Indigo Souls matured and began having children of their own, the Crystal children began to arrive.
The Crystal children are to be witness to a great change. It’s their duty and role to document what takes place.
They will use the knowledge of their journey to create a better way of life for the future.
Never again will people suffer the fate the human population has endured so far at the hands of Enki and Marduk.
The union between the children of Enki and Marduk was very powerful. And very corrupt.
For almost 2000 years they have worked hand in hand to ensure the secrets and lies of the past stay buried.
The church knows all the lies. It’s their role to protect Marduk and Enki and keep them alive by ensuring a steady stream of our souls arrive to be consumed.
It was also a key component of the plan to ensure that the world never finds out how two Annunaki madmen fooled the world with the story about Jesus and Lucifer to enslave the world.
If you haven’t caught on, there is only one way to win back the Garden of Eden.
Enki and Marduk have exceeded their lifespan and are vulnerable. The source of their immortality, our souls, is all that is keeping them alive. A recent surge in spirituality, and atheism has weakened them.
The Pope is above all. He commands the legion of soulless tyrants who have taken over the world. They have crafted a web of deceit and corruption in the never ending lust for power and control of the entire planet.
And in doing so, they have enslaved us all. We are bound to them in several ways, the most powerful way is something called the monetary system. The Almighty Dollar.
Value is placed on a worthless object, a simple piece of paper for example.
That object is then provided in great quantity to most anyone with the ability to repay what was borrowed.
By charging a substantial fee for such a loan, these tyrants in control of the monetary system are making a huge profit at our expense for doing absolutely nothing.
They have found a way to control every aspect of our lives. They control food production, food quality and food distribution.
They control energy production and distribution. They control access to water. Healthcare. Education and a whole long list of other essential services. If a dollar of profit can be made, they have found the way to make it.
And they have introduced a massive array of distractions which draw our attention away from everything they do, TV being one of the most potent distractions of them all.
War is another distraction and the profit earned is 10x the return of any investment they would ever allow us to make.
The value of weapons of war are greatly over inflated. The Elite own factories that produce these weapons. Then governments all over the world purchase these weapons using government funding.
Of course it means there will always be a reason for war. And these nasty, sick, monsters have about sucked the world dry of financial security. Money not only keeps us enslaved, it’s the perfect distraction as well.
These distractions serve to create an atmosphere of confusion about, and detachment from, the present moment.
In case it may have slipped past you, the present moment is all we have.
Though their system of time keeping lends a hand to distract you from the fact that time doesn’t exist. It is ALWAYS, right now!
Right now is the time to face these liars. Right now is the time to walk away from their churches, their beliefs,, their laws, their banks, their corporations that monopolize the food industry and their set of principals which guide our entire lives.
Right now it’s time to end this nightmare of illusion and deceit.
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UFO'S GELAND BIJ LANDINGBAAN ARGENTIJNS VLIEGVELD? ( VIDEO )
UFO'S GELAND BIJ LANDINGBAAN ARGENTIJNS VLIEGVELD? ( VIDEO )
De Zuid Amerikanen zijn de laatste dagen via onder andere sociale media druk met het raadsel bij het dorpje Carmen de Areco in Argentinië.
Net voor de landingsbaan van het kleine lokale vliegveld verschenen plotseling drie gelijke cirkels die diep gebrand lijken te zijn in het aardoppervlak.
Natuurlijk is Zuid Amerika het continent bij uitstek voor onverklaarbare (buitenaardse) waarnemingen, dus het duurde dan ook niet lang voordat het bericht werd verspreid dat er waarschijnlijk een buitenaardse schotel(s) was geland bij Carmen de Areco.
De burgemeester van het plaatsje, Marcelo Skansi, zegt behoorlijk bezorgd te zijn en dat ze monsters hebben genomen om deze te laten analyseren in een laboratorium. De uitslag daarvan is op dit moment nog niet bekend. Volgens de burgemeester is niet alleen hij ongerust, maar het hele dorp.
Vanuit de lucht zien de cirkels er zo uit en ze bevinden zich aan het begin van de gras landingsbaan van het kleine lokale vliegveld, vlak langs een vrij drukke weg.
Alhoewel naast de vele ufologen en andere enthousiaste mensen er ook de nodige experts hebben gekeken naar de ringen, is er tot nu toe geen logische verklaring voor gevonden.
De Argentijnse ufologen die daar onderzoek doen behoren bij Cefora, een Argentijns UFO onderzoeksorganisatie en ook zij hebben monsters genomen en volgens onderzoekster Andrea Pérez zijn er bepaalde herkenbare patronen die wijzen in de richting van een UFO.
Hoe sterk de gedachte aan buitenaardse ringen is, blijkt wel uit dat ook de burgemeester via zijn Twitter account speculeert over mogelijke vliegende schotels.
Ufoloog Scott Waring komt met de suggestie om door te meten met een geigerteller vast te stellen of er in de buurt van die cirkels verhoogde straling waar te nemen is, iets dat vaker voorkomt bij mysterieuze afdrukken in de grond, alsof daar objecten zijn geland.
Waring spreekt op zijn website over 15 cirkels, wij hebben die niet kunnen ontdekken, want overal wordt gesproken van drie. Mogelijk veroorzaakt door gebrekkige taalkennis.
De aantrekkingskracht van de cirkels is zo groot dat zelfs de 93-jarige José Lago persoonlijk op onderzoek uit ging. Een amateuronderzoeker die zich zijn leven lang heeft beziggehouden met vreemde en buitenaardse verschijnselen.
Er is hier ook geen sprake van wat we “gewone graancirkels” noemen, omdat er geen omgebogen plantenstengels zijn, maar meer diep in de grond gebrande afdrukken.
Bovendien is het natuurlijk opvallend dat deze cirkels zich voordoen aan het begin van een landingsbaan.
Anderzijds zou er natuurlijk een “menselijke verklaring” mogelijk zijn, al heeft niemand die tot op dit moment kunnen vinden. Er worden wel allerlei mogelijke theorieën bedacht, maar ook dat is speculeren.
However he doesn’t think they have touched down on Earth just yet.
In an interview with magazine Vulture, Davies said he started to receive communications — or physic impressions — from the aliens after spotting them in the sky.
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He said: “I’ve had several experiences seeing UFOs.
“It was really interesting. I saw them in north Devon in England — lights and zigzags in the skies.”
Davies, who collaborated with his older brother Ray Davies in The Kinks, was named one of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time by Rolling Stone Magazine.
Davies continued: “You have an experience with a UFO, and you keep those feelings, and then it gets into your subconscious and super-conscious.
“When I investigated what those feelings could be, when I got really into ufology, I could’ve sworn I was having connections with the Dog Star, with Sirius.”
The Kinks‘ Dave Davies claims he has had a number of extraterrestrial experiences.
The 70-year-old, who is set to release his new solo album ‘Open Road’ on Friday (March 31), is a longtime believer in UFOs and psychic abilities.
“I’ve had several experiences seeing UFOs. It was really interesting. I saw them in north Devon in England — lights and zigzags in the skies. Then when I started to dig deeper into my experience, I understood I was also getting communications — psychic impressions — from aliens,” he said.
Speaking further about his experiences, Davies told Vulture: “I’m sure there are many people in the world who can explain it better than I can. You have an experience with a UFO, and you keep those feelings, and then it gets into your subconscious and super-conscious. When I investigated what those feelings could be, when I got really into ufology, I could’ve sworn I was having connections with the Dog Star, with Sirius. Sirius has very deep connections with Earth.”
Davies, who previously received a CBE from the Queen in 2004, said of the honour earlier this year: “Initially I felt a mixture of surprise, humility, joy and a bit embarrassed but after thinking about it, I accept this for my family and fans as well as everyone who has inspired me to write.”
Davies later addressed the semi-reunion. “I’m still trying to live that down,” he said. “I joined him on stage briefly but it would be overly romantic to think it was because of the show [Kinks musical Sunny Afternoon] or to start talking about a reunion.”
Large Circular Shadow Flies Past ISS In NASA Video
Large Circular Shadow Flies Past ISS In NASA Video
Conspiracy theorists have claimed anew about spotting an alien mothership flying past the International Space Station of NASA.
The footage shows part of the ISS looking out into a black space. All of a sudden, the environment starts to get lighter as some kind of circular object appears floating past the space station for no apparent reason.
As the shadow is lifted, it continues to get lighter and lighter.
Streetcap1 posted the video to their YouTube channel on March 19, Saturday. In the video caption, the uploader pointed that he was not sure if it was a massive mothership or an alien spacecraft, but he was certain that it was something strange.
The alien enthusiast pointed out the big shadow coming across the picture as the odd shape moved past the ISS.
Some viewers are convinced the video shows a mothership, but others are less convinced suspecting that it could be the filter in the camera moving out of the screen. The rest are saying that it is simply the sun’s light coming around.
One viewer, however, noticed that the background was completely obscured by the massive object, saying that it could not be a shadow.
Strange (ALIEN?) creature capture on tape in Indonesia 22-Mar-2017
Strange (ALIEN?) creature capture on tape in Indonesia 22-Mar-2017
Check out this really interesting and creepy footage of a strange unknown being that was caught on tape in Bandah Aceh, Indonesia. This happened on 22nd March 2017.
Filer’s Files #13 – 2017 Admiral Fahrney Intellience Directs UFOS - PART I
Bay of Fundy, Main off the Atlantic on February 15, 2017
Filer’s Files #13 – 2017 Admiral Fahrney Intellience Directs UFOS - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Admiral Fahrney on UFOs, Commander Graham Bethune VIP Pilot, Spying, Enormous Sunken Alien Bases, Florida Air Show with UFO, UK/England UFO Identified, Dearborn, Michigan Road Sign and UFO, Ancient Maps Point to an Ancient Technology or Visitors, Pope Exhorts His Priests to Fight Supernatural Forces and New Support for NASA
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Washington, and Washington D.C.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Canada, Ecuador, India, Italy, Mexico, Serbia, South Africa, Thailand 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 US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly 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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Admiral Fahrney on UFOs
Navy Admiral Delmar S. Fahrney, former head of the Navy’s guided-missile program, statement was printed in New York Times, January 17, 1957
“Reliable reports indicate there are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds and controlled by thinking intelligence’s.”
Retired Rear Adm. Delmer S. Fahrney said he has talked with a number of scientists and engineers who reported seeing strange flying objects. He added, “There are signs that intelligence directs such objects because of the way they fly. They are not entirely actuated by automatic equipment.” He said, “By the way they change position in formations and override each other would indicate that their motion involves a tremendous amount of technology of which we have no knowledge, and that their development must have taken a long period of time.”
“There are objects coming into our atmosphere at very high speeds… No agency in this country or Russia is able to duplicate at this time the speeds and accelerations which radars and observers indicate these flying objects are able to achieve….
On January 16, 1957 – the day after the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (NICAP’s) Board of Governors met for the first time – Board Chairman Delmer S. Fahrney called a press conference. News media all over the country quoted his statements identifying him as one of the few “top brass” to speak out in defense of UFOs.
We absolutely know that many high ranking Navy officers were interested in the phenomenon. Roscoe Hillenkoetter himself joined NICAP and was willing to speak very publicly and to congress about the goodness of what NICAP was doing and that UFOs seemed to be a real but non-terrestrial mystery. He was far from alone.
Office of Naval Research chief Admiral Calvin Bolster apparently believed the same, although Keyhoe and Fahrney were never able to get him to come out publicly with a statement. Several other Navy officers were NICAP members and Keyhoe occasionally got “leaks” from Navy people who obviously disliked USAF policy.
There were many in the Navy sympathetic to research on the phenomenon and impatient with their rival service. One of these “conversations” which resulted in a massive “leak” was reported by Keyhoe in his 1960 book. In “FLYING SAUCERS: Top Secret,” Keyhoe described a meeting with two naval officers which had been arranged “by an old classmate [from the Naval Academy] of mine”. The meeting was in 1958, just after Dick Hall arrived at NICAP, and Keyhoe discussed the content of it with Dick. Using aliases, he described a meeting with a Captain [a Navy-style “Captain”] and a Commander in their office and quite “private”. The officers danced about to begin with asking Keyhoe all manner of probing questions–as it turned out they were trying to get him to betray confidential sources of information to see if he could be trusted not to breach such confidentialities. Keyhoe passed the test, though not until wondering for a moment if these guys were setting him up for something. [Because of his good friend who had arranged this, he didn’t think that it could possibly be such a set-up and was patient].
Ultimately the officers were convinced and began telling him of “hidden” cases from naval personnel. Keyhoe was told that they had been keeping a “log” of these things. They were keeping it [on naval sightings only] “with the Admiral’s consent”. So who was the “Admiral”? Normally that would mean THE Admiral, Chief of Naval Operations, Arleigh A. Burke. It appears the Chief of Staff of the Navy was interested in someone keeping track of UFOs? We can assume like the Air Force their personnel were tracking UFOs. That log probably still exists somewhere in Navy records and they will not do what is necessary to find and release it. My contacts claim UFOs were often seen and tracked underwater moving at high speeds at over a hundred knots. They were also seen departing and entering the water. Thanks to NICAP
Commander Graham Bethune VIP Pilot
A friend of mine Commander Bethune a pilot for Navy VIPs often flew Admiral Fahrney to Wright Patterson Air Force Base where he claimed some alien craft were kept.
Commander Graham Bethune the pilot for the Navy Brass had his own sighting of a huge UFO over the Atlantic and claims he flew Admirals to various crash sites and became friendly with Admiral Fahrney and frequently flew him to Wright Patterson AFB to consult with Air Force personnel concerning UFOs.
Graham told me he had flown the Secretary of the Navy Kimball, and was what you would call a VIP Plane Commander in the Flag Division, which flew most of the high-ranking officers and civilians out of Washington, D.C. Several of these officials told him what they had also seen UFOs. For example, there were two craft flying together out in the Pacific. And a bright disc came up beside one of them and stayed with them for a while and flew around them. He often flew Admiral Fahrney and other officers to Wright Patterson Air Force Base for meetings with Air Force personnel regarding extraterrestrials. Commander Bethune stated, “I parked our plane on the flight line near a corrugated metal hanger where Admiral Fahrney indicated a UFO was parked.” Every time my boss and I would go by there he couldn’t understand why I was not interested in going in and looking at what was behind the metal wall back there. And he told me basically that they had a craft (UFO) back there. And he told me they also had ET bodies there in caskets with Plexiglas you could see through. Fahrney told Bethune, “The the policy of secrecy was a big mistake. The Navy became primary researchers for the government while the Air Force took most the heat from the news media.”
From discussions that he had had with Admiral Forney he learned he was convinced that craft from other planets were visiting us.
They frequently met an Air Force Colonel Harold Watson who later was promoted to Major General. He was the Commander of Foreign Technology Division and personally recovered numerous advanced Nazi aircraft at the close of World War II. He let them look at Nazi and ET files. Colonel Watson worked closely with Admiral Fahrney and showed him what they had there including the advanced Nazi aircraft, ET craft and bodies, Fahrney couldn’t understand why Commander Bethune wasn’t interested in seeing them. Interestingly later, Bethune became quite interested in UFOs and was unhappy he didn’t take advantage of the offers. He knows there were ET craft and bodies at Wright Patterson AFB but never admitted to seeing them there. Thanks to Graham Bethune
Enormous Sunken Alien Bases Discovered on Google Earth
Recently, UFO hunters made two seemingly unrelated discoveries that immediately got added to the portfolio evidencing the signs of a strange alien or ancient presence on our planet. Scientists speculate that 10,000 years ago the massive ice sheets were melting creating an ocean surrounded by ice. A wall of ice suddenly broke perhaps caused by a meteor near miss and the water poured into the Atlantic suddenly raising the ocean by some 30 feet. The controversial images were obtained through Google Maps, revealing two enormous underwater structures that conventional science cannot explain. The face of the Earth is shaped by processes like erosion and accretion and what was once standing tall might now rest covered by the watery abyss. And since our planet is mostly covered with water, just imagine what things still lay unseen, hidden from our curious, collective gaze.
The first underwater edifice was spotted on July 15 by YouTube user MEXICOGEEK just off the coast of the Gulf of California and conspiracy theorists are already calling the remains of a massive alien city. Measuring over 70 miles in length, the strange structure looks like it was constructed with geometric patterns in mind. Its symmetry and straight lines stretching for tens of miles seem to rule out any natural formation, favoring the intelligently-designed hypothesis.
UFO Sightings Daily’s Scott C. Waring believes this alien base is connected to all the UFO sightings coming out of Mexico and the entire Central and South America. “This base is huge and it’s no wonder why we hear about so many UFO sightings over Mexico,” he writes. “This base is just 45 miles away from the Mexican coast. The chances of this being an intelligently-made structure… I put that at 100 percent.”
It’s interesting to note the similarity between the structure’s arrangement and that of an airport’s landing strips when viewed from above. However, the sheer size of the tubular structures that make up the underwater network means they must have served a different purpose. It is unfortunate that we might never know what that purpose was, but unless the scientific community decides to investigate the matter in a thorough, transparent way, we’ll remain clueless. Coordinates for the underwater base are here.
The second place of interest can be found north of the coast of Venezuela, halfway between Curacao and Puerto Rico (Coordinates here). It has an even stranger, more discrepant architecture consisting of zigzag lines and an f in the center. In terms of size, it is just as massive as the one from the Gulf of California, measuring approximately 90 miles from tip to tip. But the strangest characteristic has to be its shape. What geological processes could have produced such an odd contour, exhibiting symmetry, straight lines and 90-degree angles? Is it even reasonable to comfortably assume this underwater structure is natural?
Furthermore, the mystery is compounded by another set of structural artifacts resting just 50 miles northeast of the Venezuela anomaly (coordinates). Due to its proximity, this secondary irregularity appears to be connected to the first one. Images suggest it is composed of a string of rectangular structures spread across the ocean floor in a straight line. Virtually nothing is known about these mysterious sunken objects, save for the fact that they must be huge. They are located quite close to the Bermuda Triangle’s southernmost tip but there isn’t enough data for a connection to be made.
The enigma of the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena wouldn’t be complete without taking into account USOs or unidentified submerged objects. It is very possible that UFOs and USOs are the same craft, the only difference being that the latter have been spotted entering or exiting aquatic environments. Since it makes sense for an extraterrestrial presence to place its base and perform its activities undisturbed by human eyes, what place could be better than the bottom of the ocean? If UFOs are capable of traversing cosmic distances with the help of faster than light travel, surviving the pressure of the oceanic depths seems an easy task.
USO surfacing in Arctic Ocean
So if Earth’s seas and oceans are harboring otherworldly visitors, could these two anomalies be still operational? If so, they could be responsible for the numerous UFO sightings reported on or around the American continents. These places would make a great starting point in our search for alien life here on Earth. Even if they were operational a long time ago and have since been deserted, compelling evidence could still be found.
If the structures are artificial but were not made by aliens, the mystery shifts but retains its intensity. Our current technological level wouldn’t allow us to build such complex underwater constructions, meaning that whoever built them was far more advanced than we are. Both of the areas where the anomalies were discovered have been submerged for millions of years and the dynamics of the seabed would have erased all signs of their existence had they been built before the area was covered with water. In the end, no-one can say for sure what these structures are and, until someone goes on an underwater expedition James Cameron style, the puzzle will remain unanswered.
Air Intelligence Division Study No. 203 with the help of the Office of Naval Intelligence presents the first important clue that the Pentagon was well aware of the phenomenon’s marine nature. This document is one of the rarest documents in the national archives linking the Office of Naval Intelligence to any association with the investigation of the phenomenon and offers an early clue that the study of the UFO phenomenon did not fall totally within the realm of the Air Force. Could the naval UFO experience be more involved than the air force?
Recent reports by UFO researchers suggest there is an ongoing Navy effort to destroy any evidence linking the navy to the UFO phenomenon. UFO researchers report UFO sightings are being edited out of ship’s logs, that confirms a considerable naval sensitivity to the phenomenon. Researchers have also reported the naval archives in Seacaus, New Jersey appear to have been purposely sabotaged. Documents are missing and files have purposely been mixed chronologically thwarting researchers attempts to do meaningful research at this facility relating to the UFO phenomenon.
Sonar operator Account -British Destroyer Warship
One of Sanderson’s sources stated that no less than 13 craft recorded in their logs that their sonar’s had tracked this object. Allegedly, the unknown target continued to be tracked for four days as it maneuvered down to depths of 27,000 feet! (This must have been in the vicinity of the Atlantic’s deepest point — 28,374 feet below sea level — in the Puerto Rico Trench.)
Nothing of known earthly origin can travel underwater at such speeds or maneuver at such depths. The fastest nuclear subs can attain 45 knots (52 miles per hour) and dive to around 3,000 feet. The bathyscaphe Trieste, with a specially constructed pressure-resistant hull, descended to a record 35,820 feet in 1960. However, it was incapable of maneuvering about.
It is unfortunate that more than 21 years elapsed before the Preston case reached the attention of a UFO investigator. We have here yet another example of government UFO secrecy at work–this time a foreign nation, Great Britain. Largely due to his apprehension over potential repercussions if he revealed his experience, Tom felt compelled to keep his knowledge of the event to himself. Since it hadn’t occurred to him at the time that the radar log notes would be removed, he had only his memory to rely upon during our interviews.
Government Spied on Trump Towers
The National Security Agency is expected to produce spying documents to the House Intelligence committee by Friday, Fox News reported. “The paper trail leaves no other plausible purpose for the unmasking other than to damage the incoming Trump administration, The NSA production is expected to produce more intelligence than Congressman Nunes has so far seen or described – including a potential “smoking gun” establishing the spying. The major TV news has been calling Trump a liar concerning the wiretapping of Trump Towers. “The intelligence is said to leave no doubt the Obama administration, in its closing days, was using the cover of legitimate surveillance on foreign targets to spy on President-elect Trump,” Fox News reported.
Florida Air Show with UFO
Jacksonville — I took this video of an extremely large photo on the wall of a hotel. The photo shows jets over the beach on July 2, 2050.
I can tell you the location of the hotel/photo if helpful.
There’s a large object in the sky near the jets in the sky if it’s not an anomaly in the photo. Reported 67 Years Later. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England a UFO Identified as Airbus Beluga
Manchester — I was on the campus of the University of Manchester, as I was walking down Oxford Road, I happened to glimpse this weird object flying low on August 23, 2016. The object looks almost like a humpback whale, with no markings, no windows. It also had no noise coming from said object. It was too big to be a drone and flying too low to be an aircraft. What appeared to be wings were way too small. It flew out of range. I recorded the object on my Samsung s6 Edge Plus. All in all it was very strange. This article was in Filer’s Files #36 – 2016 Thanks to MUFON CMS
I have worked at M/c University for many years and can put a name to the above which I’ve seen in the sky above Manchester on very many occasions. It is in fact the
“Airbus Beluga” transport plane that Ferries completed aircraft wings between the Airbus factories here in the UK and the assembly plant in France. There is a large factory in Chester not that many miles from Manchester that builds wings for Airbus; the Beluga transports them in one piece to the assembly plant in France. Here are a couple of in-flight shots. The tail fins are quite distinctive too. Best Regards Neil Morris.
Dearborn, Michigan Road Sign and UFO
Did you know that the second biggest money making activity of the Mexican Drug Cartels (who cause 20,000 drug induced killing of Americans annually) has become the smuggling of Muslims across the Mexican border into the USA, for several years now. Ex-Muslim radical Walid Shoebat says that the radical Islamists already here in the US have been making bombs in the basements of their houses in preparation for the jihad. He claims he knows this as a fact because he says he used to be one of them. (Walid Shoebat.com)
An army of suicide bombers would never mount a frontal assault like a conventional army landing on a beachhead. No, they would have to infiltrate peacefully into the nations they want to destroy so they would already be in key positions when the Global Jihad is declared. They will willingly give up their lives to blow you up.
As you drive into Dearborn, Michigan, this road sign jumps out at you:”ALLAH BE PRAISED. AMERICA WE WILL KILL YOU AND NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP IT. ALLAH BE PRAISED>”
Dearborn, Michigan is the first city to become almost completely Muslim with ISIS flags. Elsewhere across the U.S., in a dozen locations, guerrilla Muslim warfare groups are currently training. http://www.beforeus.com/muslim.html
Again, it is great to speak with you. Thanks to Jonathan Gray.
Note: An orb is at the right of the sign. Cut through the bias, propaganda, and outright lies we’ve been fed by greedy corporations, and the media. I lived in Saudi Arabia, and Iran: American women have no idea what the women of these countries lives are like. For example if a man rapes you, your testimony is worthless unless you can find a man who witnessed the rape to support your claim.
Ancient Maps Point to an Ancient Technology or Visitors
Countless maps suggest that before written history, ancient explorers had an extremely well-developed cartography system comparable in precision to the one we have today proving that ancient mankind knew the exact shape and size of the Earth, contrary to popular beliefs, and used spherical trigonometry, precise and elaborate mathematical calculations, as if thousands of years ago an unknown civilization undertook a global-scale project of mapping the entire planet like no one has ever done before.
Have you ever considered the possibility that thousands of years ago, before the rise of some of the greatest ancient civilizations on Earth; the Aztecs, Maya, Olmec, Inca, Egyptian, Chinese, Sumerian etc., a much older, and far more advanced civilization existed on our planet?
Earth’s history is shrouded in mystery. The giant puzzle we call origin of life is filled with gaps mainstream scholar have been unable to fill. Adding fuel to the mystery of our history are countless discoveries that have been made around the globe.
In addition to curious monuments, megalithic sites, and ‘out of place artifacts’, experts have come across dozens of maps that suggest an extremely advanced civilization—capable of great feats—existed before the rise of some of the greatest ancient civilizations on Earth.
Pope Exhorts His Priests to Fight Supernatural Forces
Francis offered his advice last week to hundreds of priests attending a Vatican seminar on dealing with sins of the faithful recounted in the sacrament of reconciliation, or confession.
A priest needs to take action when he is confronted with “real spiritual disorders,” the pope advised, according to Agence France-Presse. When such crises are caused by “supernatural” forces, Francis added — presumably referring to the devil — a confessor “must not hesitate to refer to exorcists.” Priests must take care, however, to differentiate between mental illness and demonic possession.
The Vatican also holds training sessions for exorcists, who are charged with expelling the devil from people thought to be “possessed.” It’s not a Catholic practice often openly spoken about by church leaders because it’s highly controversial and disdained by skeptics who doubt the existence of a devil and view the practice as based in ancient superstition.
New Support for NASA
New White House Legislation supports NASA’s scientists, engineers, astronauts and their pursuit of discoveries,” Trump said during the signing event. “This bill will make sure that NASA’s most important and effective programs are sustained. It orders NASA to continue … transitioning activities to the commercial sector where we have seen great progress … It continues support for the Commercial Crew Program, which will carry American astronauts into space from American soil once again. It’s been a long time.”
(Currently, NASA astronauts travel to the International Space Station aboard the Russia Soyuz spacecraft, (shown) which launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.)
Also attending the signing were Senators. Marco Rubio and Bill Nelson, both of Florida, home to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center; Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, home to NASA’s Johnson Space Flight Center in Houston; and Rep. Lamar Smith, also of Texas, chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
The legislation accomplishes a long-discussed goal of providing lifetime health care coverage for retired astronauts. That coverage will also help NASA monitor the long-term effects of spaceflight on humans.
NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket, called the Space Launch System (SLS), and the Orion human spaceflight capsule both received sustained support in the new legislation. Orion could be used to carry astronauts to the moon or to help ferry them to deep-space destinations, and the new law also calls on the agency to investigate whether the spacecraft could be used to ferry humans to the International Space Station. Thanks to Space.com and NASA
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Filer’s Files #13 – 2017 Admiral Fahrney Intellience Directs UFOS - PART II
Filer’s Files #13 – 2017 Admiral Fahrney Intellience Directs UFOS - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Disc
Elephant Mountain — I was checking out Elephant Mountain when a blip caught my attention. A week ago the same camera, pictured another object on March 3, 2017. It was almost identical to this but it hovered in location for 2 to 3 minutes. I went back to copy the picture, but the Webcam had already refreshed hours into the next day. This picture was an accident in finding it. I was going through live weather cameras checking out areas around Flagstaff.
I wish I could have screen shot the one last week as it was huge triangle just hovering for a little over two minutes. Note: The object appears boomerang shaped in the original webcam photo. Enlargement reveals an oval shape. The object could be a bird. The photo resolution of the screen shot of the webcam was low (960 by 554 pixels) so enlargement may not reveal much detail. Correction this report is from William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
California Object
Concord — During a trip back to my birth land of California on June 23, 2013, I took a few pictures while a passenger driving with my elder brother. I’ve kept these photos and have only shared them with a few close friends and families who are all astonished. So after much vacillating I now share it all with you. We were traveling eastbound on California Highway 4, and were just taking a few random shots out the car window. I had just taken a picture of the Concord Naval Weapons Station bunkers which can be seen right off Highway 4 between Concord and Pittsburg. Using my old iPhone 4, I wanted a picture of the old “Mothball Fleet”(US Navy National Defense Reserve Fleet) in Suisun Bay. Later that evening, I reviewed the pictures on my phone and was stunned to see two apparently flying objects in my image. I did not see it, but it appears to be the backside of some type of Lockheed SR Type Aircraft with exhaust signature? My elder brother agrees. Travis US Air Force Base lies 22 miles NE of the place where I took the picture. Snip Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Vero Beach— I was shooting still photography at a carnival, a few miles west of the Atlantic Ocean. I captured two images that show unusual lights behind the foreground carnival equipment which was the actual target I was aiming at. The lights do not appear to be a camera related issue, such as dirt, reflection, and lens or sensor aberration. A close inspection of the photo that shows “Rockstar” on the carnival ride shows the lights in a different position than they do in the subsequent photo, where the ride’s position has changed and you can see the lights just beneath the “left arm” of the ride, not far from the center support structure on March 18, 2017. The camera used is a Sony A6000. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Orb
Galesburg – I was at Lake Story Park taking pictures when I looked at the picture on February I7, 2017, I just took.
I saw there was a glow in the picture, when I looked up there was nothing there!
So I did go ahead and take another picture just seconds after the first which I will send to you. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Minnesota Lights
Glowing objects traveling down the north shore on July 5, 2014.
A series of glowing objects were photographed.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Missouri Lights
O’Fallon – About 7:30 PM on March 8, 2017, I watched numerous orange balls of what appeared to be fire, coming up from the western horizon, and arcing across the sky to the north-eastern horizons.
I took the linked video from my front lawn near the intersection of Highway K and Route 364 beginning after watching in stunned amazement for probably ten minutes.
But I managed to catch roughly the last 8 minutes of an amazing light show. I am not sure what this was.
Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
New Jersey Three Arrowhead Triangles
Edison— This is to report a multiple sighting of triangular objects that were observed within 17 minutes of each other, location was at private house back yard near Oak Tree Road, on August 16, 2016.
We watched the Perseid meteor shower and set up lawn chairs and waited and saw a few streaks but nothing spectacular. But at 4:10 am, I observed a craft that was directly overhead traveling from south to north. It was shaped like an acute triangle with long sides and had a blue white light on front of it and two rectangular type lights on each side. The lights were a diff color than the stars and when the craft would go in front of star it would blot it out
I would say this craft was orbital, for it traveled my field of view in 15-20 seconds and was very high in night sky. Also, it did not shimmer like the stars did, just solid blue/white lights. Then to my surprise I spotted another craft of this type a few minutes later (17) but it was to east on a south east to northwest track 70 degrees and moving at same clip as the prior one.
And then, another lighted triangle appeared but it was about 6 seconds behind this one, following the same track, but as it drew near it acted in a herky jerky manner. It slowed down and speeded up at times. Objects observed were about size of three pencil erasers held at arm’s length, flying way up in the sky. Temperatures was 80 degree hazy hot and humid with a broken cloud cover,
I have seen the ISS station at times these craft looked nothing like that or any other terrestrial craft. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Orb
Islip Terrace— I run a night vision camera 24/7 pointed up at the sky through my bedroom window facing West on March 3, 2017. These objects seem to come from afar (up to 9 at one sighting) and very slowly appear closer and closer and spread apart. They are all cylinder shape with a thick black bottom and top. Sometimes two or even three will hook up together side by side. The amazing thing about night vision camera is they not seen by the human eye. I have read about what is really going on in space when revealed with using night vision. I had to zoom in my IPhone 6 Plus to see a saucer with identical domes on top and bottom of the craft. Now I suggest that these objects are actually the interior propulsion systems. Mark Cerone-videos taken around 3-3-to 3-15-2017. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Sphere
Wilsonville – I never physically saw it as my son and I were having lunch at a teriyaki place on February 12, 2017. I took some pictures and did not notice the picture until weeks later when I was deleting some of my pictures in my phone. First I thought a drone from Fry’s, maybe a street light, or a ceramic from high voltage power lines. I never saw it took a picture of my shoe, in the upper left corner. My phone deleted all the pictures I had on my gallery, Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Carolina Orbs
Please attach to MUFON Case #82725, State Section Director Cheryl Gilmore is the Investigator
There should be a simpler way to reenter a report to attach photos and videos without having to fill out the whole form again. Just my opinion.
NOTICE- The photos and film footage for case 82725 are attached. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Lights
Waller– I walked out to my car on March 3rd 2017 at around 8 PM to get my phone charger when I noticed lights out of the corner of my eye cross the street facing South which is a field filled with cows. It was a clear night and the lights were just there. I counted 5 of them. I thought the neighbors were lighting those sky lanterns. I watched for a minute more and they didn’t move. I got my phone, and came back out and they were still hovering. I started shaking and videotaped and noticed they were getting farther away. I knew they weren’t airplanes or weather balloons. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Tacoma — We were walking to our car parked by Garfield Park on March 12, 2017, at 7:45 PM. It was cloudy and I noticed three white lights, hovering low by the tree line toward Commencement Bay. I thought it was odd that they were so close together. I then noticed they turned blue and red as more came into view and we realized there were 9 of them, hovering silently. I got my phone and took pictures as they spread out and then were gone. The final shots are the ones with my husband and I shot hovering lights, I called the Tacoma Tribune, and the KCPQ Fox affiliate, but no word back. I looked at Chinese lanterns photos online and these were too mechanical.
Note: The lights could be Chinese Lanterns. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Washington D.C. Triangle
Alexandria— I was sitting on the deck of my apartment smoking a cigar for about 10 minutes. I was facing in a southern direction, looking at the constellation Orion on March 19, 2017. My eyes were well adjusted to the night sky when some movement below Orion (but much closer my location) caught my eye. I realized it was a large boomerang shaped aircraft moving in a straight southern direction at fairly slow speed. It had 5 large circles on the underside of the craft that were just a slightly different color than the craft itself. It was very dark charcoal gray circles against a black craft. It blended in with the night sky. It stayed visible for 8-10 seconds before fading into the night sky. The aircraft had no visible lights and no jet noise. I served in the Air Force and Guard and have never seen an aircraft anything like this. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Canada Cylinder
Bay of Fundy, Main — I was watching a fairly intense lightning storm roll into the mouth of the bay off the Atlantic on February 15, 2017.” The witness stated. “I began to film the storm hoping to get some good footage of the lightning. The storm was still a good 20 minutes away, but the lightning was going straight down into the water almost every time. I continued to film for about two minutes.”
Two days later I spotted a disc or cylinder during the double lightning strike. I could see an object the size of a semi-trailer flying out at unimaginable speed through the flash with a wind tunnel echo sound. Note: The UFO may be recharging from the lightning. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ecuador Orb
Riobamba — The picture was taken when we returned with my brothers from the coast to Riobamba, 20 km from the photograph site. The intention of the photograph was to capture the Volcano Chimborazo, when suddenly we observed the UFO in the lower part and two minutes later it ascended. We did not stop at the site. It is what I can report in honor of the truth. Thanks to MUFON CMS
India Light
Ara Patna, Bihar — This event took place at my village Pakri Ara, Bihar, on occasion of Puja at our newly built house. I was filming my daughter activities on top of the roof. After 4 days I watched the video and found something was moving very fast from west to east. I then took a screen shot of my mobile phone to see what is this? Regards Prashant Kumar Thanks to MUFON CMS
Italy Orb
Venice — A friend of mine saw it when driving a taxi boat in the Venice lagoon on a rainy November 12, 2012. A green/white Sphere was pulsing going in a straight line over the Venice Lagoon. Anyway, I wasn’t there at the moment of the sighting. But a friend showed the video to me and I was impressed, since I’m into the UFO phenomena. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico Triangle
UxmalUxmal — I was on vacation taking multiple pictures of the different structures on January 28, 2017. I never noticed anything until I got home. 3. The object looks like a cloud, but when I applied a program called DStretch to the picture and noticed a pyramid shaped object. DStretch is a tool for researchers who wish to enhance images of picturetographs. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Serbia Lights
Serbia.Sremska Mitrovica — My friend and I traveled all night, and on the left side of the car I saw a kind of electricity. I stopped the car on May 27, 2015.
We immediately went out and turned on the phone camera.
This is an original recording but the image quality is not good.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Africa Red Orb
Midrand— I was looking for a craft which I could video as I had seen a couple ufos previously it hovered over the distance in March 21, 2017.
I have been trying to connect via conscious thought. I would be very grateful if someone could point out if this was likely extra terrestrial
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Thailand Light
Bang Phli— Every day we observed a stationary star in the south-east above Bang Phli. While the sky is cloudy there were no other stars to trace in the sky. In fact, my girlfriend showed me this light. I got my camera and made some photos. I had no tripod, so, I had to control myself while zooming in, to keep the camera steady. Bit by bit I zoomed in, and saw it more clearly. There is a dome or pattern on the surface of the object. I was aware of something moving on it. The object was every day on the same spot. My friend saw it the object too. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Disc
Stoke on Kent— At 10:32 am on March 15, 2017, I went to open my bedroom window as it was a nice day. I was looking out of the window and noticed a bright object with contrails moving in the east.
The object was moving at a fast speed and it had no sound. It was a disc shaped object. So I got my camera and took a photo of the object.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
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27-03-2017
Flecks of stardust, all around you
Flecks of stardust, all around you
William J Broad,
Diverse find: Samples of extraterrestrial dust found on rooftops and other cityscapes in various parts of the world.
PHOTO CREDIT: Jan Braly Kihle/Jon Larsen via NYT
After decades of failures and misunderstandings, scientists have solved a cosmic riddle — what happens to the tonnes of dust particles that hit Earth every day, but seldom, if ever, get discovered in the places that humans know best, like buildings and parking lots, sidewalks and park benches. The answer? Nothing. Look harder. The tiny flecks are everywhere. An international team found that rooftops and other cityscapes readily collect the extraterrestrial dust in ways that can ease its identification, contrary to science authorities who long pooh-poohed the idea as little more than an urban myth kept alive by amateur astronomers.
Remarkably, the leader of the discovery team and co-author of a recent paper in Geology, a monthly journal of the Geological Society of America — turns out to be a gifted amateur who devoted himself to disproving the skeptics. A noted jazz musician in Norway, he rearranged his life to include eight long years of extraterrestrial sleuthing. His hunt has now produced a significant discovery, a colourful book for lay readers and what scientists call a portrait gallery of alien visitors. “I hope and believe this will start something,” the musician, Jon Larsen, said in an interview. His goal? “Making it easy.”
His book, In Search of Stardust: Amazing Micro-Meteorites and Their Terrestrial Imposters, due out in August, details the secret of his extraordinarily successful hunts. Its 150 pages and 1,500 photomicrographs, or photos taken through a microscope, tell how Jon taught himself to distinguish cosmic dust from the minuscule contaminants that arise from roads, shingles, factories, roof tiles, construction sites, home insulation and holiday fireworks. As his book puts it, “To pick out one extraterrestrial particle among billions of others requires knowledge both about what to look for and what to disregard.” The diminutive flecks to which Jon, 58, has devoted himself represent the smallest parts of a cosmic downpour that has lashed the Earth for billions of years.
Finding micrometeorites Careful observers of the night sky are familiar with shooting stars — speeding bits of extraterrestrial rock that plunge through the Earth’s atmosphere, often burning up completely. The biggest can strike the ground, some forcefully enough to dig craters. In 2013, a relatively small rock exploded over the Russian city Chelyabinsk, releasing a shock wave that injured hundreds of people, mainly as windows shattered into flying glass. But all that represents a tiny fraction of the downpour. Scientists say most of the cosmic material is remarkably small — barely the width of a human hair. Known as micrometeorites, they rain down on the planet more or less continuously but have proved remarkably hard to find. Some bits are so small and lightweight that they drift down to the Earth’s surface without melting.
The dust consists of tiny remnants from the solar system’s birth, including debris from the lumps of dirty ice known as comets and from ages of smashups among planets and the big rocks known as asteroids. While most of the particles are interplanetary in nature, some contain grains of matter from outside the solar system, or true stardust. Their diversity makes them excellent windows on the cosmos. Scientists have found micrometeorites mainly in the Antarctic, remote deserts and other places far from civilisation’s haze. Starting in the 1940s and 1950s, investigators tried to find them in urban areas but eventually gave up because of the riot of human contaminants. Significantly, it turns out that specialists trying to establish the cosmic origins of the tiny specks have tended to examine their chemical signatures rather than their overall appearance. That left a large opening for Jon.
Matthew J Genge, one of the Geology paper’s four authors and a senior lecturer in earth and planetary science at Imperial College, London, used an electron microprobe at the Natural History Museum in London to determine the chemical makeup of Jon’s finds and confirm their cosmic origin. In an interview, he said that, overall, the grains that survive the atmospheric plunge and land on the Earth’s surface add up to more than 4,000 tonnes annually, or more than 10 tonnes a day. “He’s done a valuable thing in classifying the contaminants,” Matthew said of Jon’s work. “It has wide-reaching implications.” Donald E Brownlee, an astronomer at the University of Washington, USA who helped establish the field, called Jon a true citizen scientist whose work will aid the global hunt for the tiny specks. “Your car is covered with cosmic dust,” Donald said. “We inhale this stuff. We eat it every time we eat lettuce. But normally, it’s incredibly difficult to find.”
Jon came to what he calls Project Stardust as a jazz guitarist in Norway, perhaps known best as the founder of Hot Club de Norvège, a string quartet. As Jon tells the story, he was an enthusiastic rock collector as a child but did so well as a musician that he set aside his early scientific ambitions. Then, in 2009, at a country house outside Oslo, he was cleaning an outdoor table when a bright speck caught his eye. “It was blinking in the sunlight,” he recalled. He touched the fleck. “It was angular in some way, kind of metallic but so small — a tiny dot.” Intrigued, Jon suspected it was a cosmic visitor and began to look for more. He collected dust samples from Oslo and cities around the globe, moonlighting as a scientist while vacationing or touring with his jazz group. He took samples from roads, roofs, parking lots and industrial areas. Dust from the cosmos Put indelicately, he collected hundreds of pounds of dreck — sludge from drains, gutters and downspouts, the dregs of civilisation that most people try to avoid. “Still, I didn’t find a single micrometeorite,” he recalled. “It was very frustrating.” Jon then changed tactics. Rather than looking exclusively for cosmic dust, he taught himself how to classify the dozens of different kinds of earthly contaminants, starting a process of elimination that slowly narrowed the candidates and raised the chances that some tiny fraction of the urban debris might turn out to belong to the cosmos.
The breakthrough came two years ago. In London, Matthew studied one of the gathered particles — from Norway, not Timbuktu — and confirmed that it was indeed a traveller from outer space. Jon quickly identified hundreds more. “Once I knew what to look for, I found them everywhere,” he said. In the Geology paper, the scientific team reports the discovery of about 500 micrometeorites — collected mainly from roof gutters in Norway — and tells of the detailed analysis of 48 of the extraterrestrial specks. In an interview, Jon described his method — sorting through the contaminants in a process of elimination — as “something that anybody can do. It could and should become part of teachings in schools, an aspect of citizen science.”
Matthew of Imperial College said Jon’s techniques, if adopted widely, might also open a new lens on the cosmos. The gravitational pull of the planets, he noted, appear to tug on the dust clouds of the solar system and slowly change their orbits. He said a wave of new terrestrial finds could help scientists better map the clouds, raising more questions for science about the structure of the universe. “I consider my microscope a telescope,” Matthew said. “It can give you a pretty big picture.”
Nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman said extraterrestrials have repeatedly visited our planet but have no intention of revealing themselves just yet.
The Canada-based expert said there "was not a shadow of a doubt" aliens had come to Earth but that it is being covered-up my governments and security services around the world.
The 82-year-old is a leading figure in the Ufologist community and has previously worked on numerous highly classified projects for American aerospace corporation McDonnell Douglas.
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EXPERT: Stanton Friedman has written numerous articles on UFOs and aliens
MoD expert on aliens: Government knows "more than they let on
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COVER-UP: Stanton Friedman has said the world is in the midst of a 'cosmic Watergate'
He told Daily Star Online: "We have enough to prove without a shadow of a doubt that Planet Earth is being visited [by aliens].
"This is kept from people because who would want the world in upheaval? There would be mass panic and distress.
"If they (the aliens) want to make themselves known, it's easy – they will."
He believes there is a wealth of evidence that aliens exist, citing examples where the CIA has released redacted documents of UFO sightings.
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PROOF: Stanton Friedman is also the first civilian investigator of Roswell
“I think they are here. I think they are here to quarantine us, keep us from going out there”
Stanton Friedman
But Mr Friedman thinks the reason they have remained hidden is to eventually quarantine humans on Earth and stop them from attempting to colonise space.
"I think they are here. I think they are here to quarantine us, keep us from going out there.
"With our track record – we're evil," he added.
His comments come as billionaire Tesla founder Elon Musk continues towards his plan to build a giant civilisation on Mars in the next couple of decades.
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SIGHTINGS: Stanton Friedman thinks alien sightings are routinely covered up
But as well as not causing panic among the general public, Mr Friedman thinks reports of crashed spaceships and UFO sightings are also hushed up for another reason.
He said: "The first country to replicate [alien] technology will rule the roost if they can build it.
"It's political too – the US says 'are we ready to put out anything if the Russians don't or the Chinese don't."
Mr Friedman, who has written extensively on Aliens and UFOS, has described this culture of secrecy as the world's "Cosmic Watergate" – a reference to the President Nixon cover-up scandal in the 1970s.
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Kernfysicus: “Aliens bezoeken de aarde, geen twijfel over mogelijk”
Kernfysicus: “Aliens bezoeken de aarde, geen twijfel over mogelijk”
De Canadese kernfysicus Stanton Friedman heeft gezegd dat aliens onze planeet meerdere keren hebben bezocht, maar nog niet van plan zijn zich bekend te maken.
Volgens Friedman is er geen twijfel over mogelijk dat aliens de aarde hebben bezocht, maar wordt dit onder de pet gehouden door overheden en veiligheidsdiensten.
De 82-jarige Friedman vertelde aan de Britse Daily Star: “We hebben genoeg om te bewijzen dat planeet aarde wordt bezocht door buitenaardsen.”
Massale paniek
“Dit wordt achtergehouden voor mensen, want wie wil er nu onrust in de wereld?” vervolgde hij. “Er zou massale paniek ontstaan.”
“Als ze zich bekend willen maken, zullen ze dat ook zeker doen,” zei hij.
Hij stelde dat er een schat aan bewijs is waaruit blijkt dat aliens bestaan en citeerde grotendeels zwartgemaakte documenten die door de CIA zijn vrijgegeven.
Quarantaine
Friedman denkt dat ze hier zijn om de mensheid onder quarantaine te plaatsen zodat ze de ruimte niet kunnen koloniseren.
“Ik denk dat ze hier zijn om ons in quarantaine te houden en te voorkomen dat we de ruimte ingaan,” zei hij. “Ons verleden is niet al te best.”
Politieke redenen
Hij reageerde hiermee op uitspraken van Tesla-oprichter en miljardair Elon Musk, die in de komende decennia mensen naar Mars wil sturen.
Friedman denkt dat gecrashte ruimteschepen en UFO-waarnemingen ook worden stilgehouden om politieke redenen.
“Het eerste land dat buitenaardse technologie weet te kopiëren, zal de baas zijn,” zei hij.
Op het oog niet gerelateerd, maar dat bij nader inzien misschien toch wel.
Er zijn meerdere mensen die een onbekend object boven de Groningse plaats Winsum hebben waargenomen dat bovendien een vreemd geluid maakte.
Winsum is een landelijke gemeente dat ten noorden van de stad Groningen ligt en een plaats die niet zo vaak in het nieuws komt.
Er gebeuren daar echter misschien toch wel wat vreemde zaken de laatste weken.
Wij ontvingen gisteren een bericht van een lezer (dank!) die samen met een vriend rustig in de tuin zat toen de hond opeens strak naar de lucht begon te kijken, iets wat hij niet doet als er een vliegtuig of iets dergelijks passeert.
De man en zijn vriend kijken ook naar boven en zien een vreemd object wat ze omschrijven als een bal met mini vleugels.
We zaten 25-03-17 in de tuin aan het hangen samen met een vriend en onze hond. Toen opeens sprong mijn hond op en keek strak naar de lucht. Normaal bij een vliegtuig of straaljager doet ze dat niet. Maar goed dus wij keken ook naar de lucht en daar vloog erg laag een soort van bal met mini vleugels. De kleur was zwart met een zilveren gloed erover heen.
En het geluid was alsof er een boot langs voer, beetje blop geluid. Ik pakte snel mijn mobiel erbij en hebben dus een filmpje en een paar foto's.
Op de foto's lijkt het alles behalve een vliegtuig of drone. Verder vloog het recht door maar ging erg langzaam.
Hopelijk geeft die verheldering.
De korte video geeft niet veel meer duidelijkheid, maar als je goed kijkt, dan zie je daar inderdaad het object dat ook op de foto’s zichtbaar is.
Nu is een veel voorkomend kenmerk bij UFO waarnemingen dat die geluidloos zijn en als je dan een geluid hoort, dan denk je al snel aan iets aards en mechanisch zoals misschien toch een soort drone.
Het vreemde is echter dat iemand uit Winsum onlangs ook een heel vreemde ervaring had, waarbij sprake was van een licht in de lucht en ook een geluid:
Gisteravond toen ik wou gaan slapen keek ik uit mijn raam zoals ik dat vaker savonds doe. Hier viel mij gelijk iets geks op namelijk, een bijzonder helder licht en daarbij een bijzonder lage bromtoon. Het zag er apart uit maar deed weinig met me en ik besloot te gaan slapen.
Rond 3 uur snachts schrok ik wakker, door mijn gordijnen zag ik een schim deze schim had menselijke trekken maar wat langere armen ik ging dan ook direct uit van een inbreker of iets dergelijks.
Ik besloot op dat moment mijn gordijnen open te doen hierbij constateerde ik dat er niemand op het serre dak stond, een beetje gespannen ben ik verder gaan slapen.
Een klein uur later was ik weer wakker, nu in compleet andere omstandigheden, ik had het gevoel dat ik vastgenageld aan mijn bed was over mij heen hingen drie gedaantes en het heldere licht en het lage geluid waren terug.
Tot hier gaat mijn herinnering en werd ik de volgende ochtend gewoon weer wakker, direct ben ik op internet gaan zoeken wat het zou kunnen zijn slaapverlamdheid lucide dromen enz. dit was helaas niet toepasbaar op mijn ervaringen.
Mijn vraag is zijn er nog meer mensen met deze ervaring?
Staan bovenstaande ervaringen los van elkaar, of heeft het iets met elkaar te maken. Wat is de kans dat binnen een paar weken verschillende mensen in een relatief kleine plaats als Winsum dingen in de lucht zien en daarbij een vreemd geluid horen? Nog meer ervaringen uit Winsum met vreemde fenomenen?
ROSWELL--The international UFO Museum and Research Center has been around since 1991. The museum hasn't had a major renovation since it first opened its doors, but that will soon change.
“We have developed some conceptual drawings,” said Jim Hill, the Executive Director of the Museum. “As we work in towards the museum it's going to be more open, interactive and [have] a lot more modern technology.”
Hill tells KOB plans are still in the early stages, but construction should begin as soon as December. Guests can expect to see more interactive exhibits, including possible holographic displays and light shows.
Some people say a renovation isn't such a bad idea.
“It seems a little dated,” said Kayci Horne, who lives in Lubbock. “It's a little old fashioned which I guess is fun, but it would be cool if it had more modern tech.”
Others say they would be willing to travel thousands of miles just see the new exhibits.
“I believe it would draw more people in,” said Matthew Drown, who is from Minnesota. “Matter of fact I would probably come back down here to see that, especially with the holograms and things.
The funding would come from the money the museum makes in ticket sales and from its gift shop. The project that is expected to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Keep watching the skies: Marilyn Smith was one of many people who saw a silver flying saucer at Westall in 1966. Picture: Gary Sissons
IT wasn’t a bird. It wasn’t a plane. People in Westall who saw an unidentified flying object hovering over the suburb in 1966 are still sure they saw something extraordinary and unexplained on 6 April that year.
A flying saucer-shaped object was seen by more than 200 witnesses in broad daylight including schoolchildren and teachers at Westall Primary School and Westall Secondary School.
‘The Westall Incident’ as it came to be known has long fascinated UFO watchers and some of the eyewitnesses on that April day five decades ago will gather to recall the strange events surrounding the mass UFO sighting.
Rosebud resident Marilyn Smith will join others who saw “a silver flying saucer” hover and fly overhead in 1966 to “recount their own personal experiences of the day and reflect on what it means to them today” at Screening of Westall ’66: A Suburban UFO Mystery in Parkdale.
Mrs Smith, who works at Frankston Hospital in pathology, has often thought about the day, at the age of 14, when she and her school friends saw the UFO.
“It all began when a girl burst into our classroom and screamed a UFO had landed nearby,” she said. “The teacher told us all to stay in class but then the bell rang so we all ran outside. We saw a silver flying saucer hover then take off at great speed.”
She said a Channel 9 TV news crew visited Westall Secondary and spoke to students in the aftermath of the incident but a news report never aired and footage has never been found amid theories of a cover-up by authorities.
Several people claim “military people” visited eyewitnesses and warned them to keep quiet about what they had seen over Westall.
The Victorian UFO Action group will host a screening of a documentary about the incident following by a question and answer session from a witness panel including Mrs Smith and several others who saw the flying saucer in 1966.
Documentary filmmakers Shane Ryan and Rosie Jones will also appear to discuss their research into the Westall sighting.
“Hundreds of people saw it and not only did they see the object in the sky — it came down to the ground and landed. It was on the ground for some time at The Grange,” Mr Ryan said in 2013.
As for Mrs Smith, she says no-one saw “little green men” so she keeps an open mind about the origin of the UFO.
“It may have been from outer space, it may have been a secret military craft. It definitely wasn’t a weather balloon which was the official version.”
Westall – The Witnesses Speak is at the Shirley Burke Theatre, Kingston Arts Centre, 64 Parkers Rd, Parkdale on Sunday 2 April, 12-5.30pm. See eventbrite.com.au and search for ‘Westall’ or call Shirley Burke Theatre 9580 4998 for ticket prices and more details.
Every year in the middle of October, regular as clockwork, the Earth passes through a field of space debris that fills the night sky with flashing meteors, so people go out and gaze up at the heavens to enjoy the cosmic show known as the Orionids shower.
My Witness
One of the primary ground witnesses of the Mansfield Encounter, often cited in volumes of UFO documentation, is Jeanne Elias, whose home on Mt. Zion Road was under the flight path of Coyne's helicopter.
Jeanne told me that her young son got out of bed that night to tell her that his room had filled up with bright green light.
Anyone who was out watching the skies in Richland County on Oct. 18, 1973 may well have caught a very special guest appearance as well—one of the best-documented UFO encounters in U.S. history.
In the many volumes of UFO literature written since 1973 the Mansfield Encounter is usually listed among the 20 most credible cases to occur in the US—often it is in the top 10. Within a year after the incident it won the prize for Best UFO Case of 1973 awarded by the National Enquirer, and in 1976 it was endorsed into official UFO lore by Rod Serling, as part of his documentary UFOs: It Has Begun.
One of the reasons this particular episode maintained its integrity among all the myriad wide-eyed UFO reports of the 70s, is because it involved a military helicopter flown by sober men of impeccable character, who filed their experience into the public press before anyone in official channels could keep it quiet.
The captain of the helicopter told his tale to a Cleveland reporter almost immediately, and subsequently relayed it to a national television audience on the Dick Cavett Show.
He ultimately made a report of his time in the sky over Charles Mill Lake to the United Nations. He told the Special Political Committee of the U.N., “As a result of my experience, I am convinced this object was real and that these types of incidents should require a thorough investigation.”
There were four earnest and sober young men in uniform who all signed their names to witness the October 18, 1974 close encounter in the sky over Richland County. (A Helicopter-UFO Encounter Over Ohio by Jennie Zeidman, 1979)
The Helicopter
The captain of the helicopter that night was Larry Coyne, and his name is often used as a reference to the event, which is known as the ‘Coyne Incident’ or the ‘Mansfield Encounter.’
It was around 11 p.m. when the U.S. Army Reserve ‘huey’ passed over Richland County, flying from Columbus to Cleveland. There were four enlisted men aboard, and one of them casually mentioned to the captain that he could see a red light in the distance that was oddly out of place.
Within moments it became obvious that the odd light was in motion, and that it was moving very quickly toward the helicopter on a collision course. The captain took immediate evasive action, diving his aircraft out of the path of the unidentified object that was closing at a terrific speed.
Suddenly the object stopped still in mid-air, right in front and above them.
It cast a spotlight on them that was brilliant green in color, and paused for a moment to scan the military boys, who were staring back wide-eyed and amazed.
And then it buzzed off over Mansfield.
When the men in uniform stopped freaking out they realized their helicopter was 2,000 feet higher in the sky than it should be, and that somehow during their encounter the craft had lifted far above its normal flight path, in spite of the evasive dive it had undertaken.
They needed fuel but rather than drop in at the Mansfield air base for a fill-up as originally intended, they pealed out for Cleveland and arrived there with the gas gauge on empty. The pilot stated he ‘was so frightened that he wanted to leave the area immediately.’
(A Helicopter-UFO Encounter Over Ohio by Jennie Zeidman, 1979)
Two of the men in the helicopter independently sketched the UFO they saw, and both drawings are remarkably similar. (A Helicopter-UFO Encounter Over Ohio by Jennie Zeidman, 1979)
The Mansfield Encounter has been referenced in dozens of UFO books during the last four decades, but the first published accounts other than newspaper coverage, came in these two volumes from 1978 and 1979.
Witnesses
One of the reasons why the Mansfield Encounter remains so intriguing is because the sighting was corroborated by witnesses on the ground.
Driving along Ohio 430 that night, a mother and her children were so astonished by the lights in the sky that they pulled over to watch.
Commenting on the brilliant green illumination shining down around them, the mother said, “I don’t know if I can describe the color of the light. It was real, real bright and absolutely beautiful. It was wonderful to see, but yet it was also very frightening. I wanted the kids back in the car, to get home as fast as possible. It scared me.”
Illustration from Fate Magazine, August 1978.
The witnesses who watched the helicopter/UFO encounter were pulled off the road on Rt. 430 where the road bridges Charles Mill Lake, about 2 miles from the I-71/Rt 30 interchange.
The [helicopter] crew won the National Enquirer Blue Ribbon Scientific Panel’s $5000 award for “the most scientific and valuable report of 1973.”
And not long afterwards Aviation Week & Space Technology editor Philip Klass (who declares flatly that he never found a UFO case he couldn’t solve) announced that his “rigorous investigation” of the case had determined that the object was merely “a fireball of the Orionid meteor shower.”
The Friendly Skies
If you were paying attention in 1973, the headlines in the papers and the evening news on television were full of UFO sightings all over the country the entire year. Even the Governor of Ohio went on record as having spotted one; and Walter Cronkite relayed the news of the Governor’s revelation on Oct. 17—the evening before Mansfield skies hosted its own news-making moment.
Everyone started watching the night sky, and it was during these evenings of ripe opportunity that the firemen of Mansfield Fire Department No. 1 got the inspiration to launch their own unidentified flying object.
There was a tank of helium in their garage on South Walnut Street that they had been using to fill Smokey-the-Bear balloons for kids, so they created and inflated their own makeshift weather-balloon-like apparatus with latex gloves.
The young men took parts from a fire department flashlight and mounted them on metallic pie pans, and when the lit apparatus was suspended from their lighter-than-air unidentifiable object it created ‘an eerie glow.’
It was a clear night and very still, and when the illuminated craft launched from the Municipal Building it lifted slowly over the north end of the city and wafted leisurely out to the airport.
After sightings of their UFO made headlines in the News Journal the next day with 911 calls, City cops, County Sheriffs and State Patrol involvement, the MFD guys knew that if they wanted to keep their jobs they needed to maintain absolute silence about their prank.
They are all retired now though, and in retrospect wish they had taken pictures…especially at the airport where they retrieved pieces of the UFO at the crash site. Holding the tin pie pans ‘it looked like the Army at Roswell…more or less.’
The Truth is Out There
Since the 1970s Richland County has never lacked for sightings of weird things in the night sky. I make note of them all.
My favorite is the old guy in the 1980s who used to go up on Mt. Jeez every week because it was easier for the UFOs to contact him there: to pass along to him insights and specifications for his inventions.
I have collected tales from Shiloh and Shelby to Palmyra and Pinhook, of unexplained things hovering in the air, dashing across the sky, flashing in the woods, or lounging in the parking lot.
I am a believer, and I am a skeptic. Mostly I’m just fascinated, and I love a good story. The UFO story I tell most often is the one from the night of Oct. 18, 1973 because you don’t have to believe me or take my word for it—you can look it up yourself.
Watch for yourself this interview with Coyne and his crew excerpted from the 1979 documentary UFOs: It Has Begun.
The author has obtained the only known photograph of the October 18, 1973 Mansfield Encounter, clearly taken from the UFO. Copies are available at a modest price.
Timothy Brian McKee is a featured columnist on our site every Saturday with a column titled Native Son. Every Tuesday, he taps into his knowledge and collection of historical photos and bring us Then & Now, a brief glance at the way things were.
In a statement, NASA bosses said: “No unidentified objects in the popular sense have been seen from the International Space Station.
“Reflections from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or lights from Earth commonly appear in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory.”
Youtube is awash with dozens of videos alleging to show alien activity near the ISS.
NASA live feed cuts as 'UFO's' sail by ISS
Conspiracies of a cover-up have long been alleged by UFO hunters and even some astronauts.
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NASA forced to respond after footage of 'several UFOs' behind astronaut on ISS emerges
NASA forced to respond after footage of 'several UFOs' behind astronaut on ISS emerges
US SPACE agency NASA has been forced from its usually tight-lipped stance on alien visitations after video allegedly showing several UFOs passing a window behind an astronaut on the International Space Station (ISS) emerged.
UFOhunters claimed the footage caught by cameras on board the ISS and released online by NASA was conclusive proof aliens exits.
The video, uploaded to several UFO websites, shows Samantha Cristoforetti, an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, demonstrating how to operate window shutters at the ISS.
But as she talks to the camera, several white objects appear to come shooting into view.
Tyler Glockner posted the footage, uploaded on March 18, 2017, to his UFO sightings YouTube channel Secure Team.
He described one of the unknown objects seen hurtling past the ISS as a “smoking gun UFO”.
Secureteam10 describes itself as an “underground” research team that exposes the truth about extraterrestrial and UFO coverups.
It has been criticised by debunkers for knowing misrepresenting anomalies in videos, something it denies.
NASA
The UFOs (circled) which passed during the NASA ISS video.
It is the latest in a string of claims by alien chasers that UFOs have been caught in the background of the ISS livestream cameras, but there is a major cover-up by NASA underway, with it often cutting off the cameras once one come into view.
NASA, which says it has found no evidence yet of alien life during any of its missions, usually does not respond to such claims. This is possibly because so many are made.
But, following the latest claims, the agency issued a statement.
It said: "No unidentified objects in the popular sense have been seen from the International Space Station.
"Reflections from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or lights from Earth commonly appear as artifacts in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory."
Last year veteran American astronaut Tom Jones also dispelled the myth.
NASA
There were claims last year that an astronaut tried to block out a passing UFO with his hand.
UFO Sighting Captured by international Space Station 2017
No unidentified objects in the popular sense have been seen from the International Space Station.
NASA statement
He said: “Astronauts have not seen any evidence of alien life.
“Reports of unidentified flying objects in images returned from the shuttle or [space] station have turned out to be ice crystals, drifting orbital debris, lightning flashes, or meteors streaking through the dark atmosphere below.
"So far, our search for extraterrestrial life ― and other civilizations in space ― has turned up no proof of alien civilizations.”
Conspiracy theorists like Scott C Waring, who runs website ufosightingsdaily.com, claim that NASA and Mr Jones are just part of the "cover-up" and he dismisses their explanations, convinced that every bright light or blurred object seen on camera in the distance from the ISS is an alien space craft.
But, Scott Brando, who forenisically examines alleged UFO pictures and videos, before releasing debunking articles on his website ufoofinterest.org is more level headed.
He told Express.co.uk that the UFOs caught on camera were either lens reflections or ice particles.
In the case of the latest footage, he said they were ice particles.
He tweeted: "According to SecureTeam10 this object is a #UFO outside #ISS window.
"Watch how many small ice debris cross the camera in other videos."
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15 Circles Appear In Field In Argentina Baffle Residents, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
15 Circles Appear In Field In Argentina Baffle Residents, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: March 2017 Location of discovery: Carmen De Areco, Argentina This week in Argentina Strange large rings appeared on the a field of grass, each the same size, each the same width. They discuss the possibilities and how odd the circles are to have appeared out there. The circles appeared one by one, all 15 of them. The circles appear deep and down to the dirt as if burnt by radiation. I wish they and used a Geiger counter to measure radiation in the area. This could be a landing place of a UFO that frequently passes by and each time leaves a mark in the shape of the bottom of the craft. Scott C. Waring
Invisible UFOs filmed over Las Vegas, Nevada 24-Mar-2017
Invisible UFOs filmed over Las Vegas, Nevada 24-Mar-2017
Here’s one new footage of a bunch of unidentified flying objects that were filmed with night vision camera over Las Vegas this Friday.
Witness report:
I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of March 24, 2017. Wow! You never know what’s going to happen when you step outside and start skywatching. That is what makes this hobby so exciting! Tonight was a night that any UFO Hunter could ever hope for. It began almost immediately. I actually have more video from a completely different event as well. I felt it was important to get this out as quickly as possible because not only did I film some incredible UFOs, but this time I know where they landed. I also know that they truly are invisible because they ended their flight at Nellis AFB where I should have been able to see them approaching the base. I could not… I couldn’t see the flashing and blinking objects with the naked eye either. An amazing show is happening above us and nobody even sees it. Lastly, there were no scheduled operations happening on the Nellis AFB website yet I have seen and heard more military helicopters flying over my part of town over and over again for more than a week now. I also saw a helicopter on the southern end of the Blue Diamond Hills hovering and going back and forth for well over a half-hour. Ironically it was where the triangle UFO was that I filmed and had drawings of not too long ago. It was also the same vicinity my friends and I were when we caught video of a UFO high in the Spring Mountains. I don’t know if anything is happening but it all seems pretty intense. Definitely not normal or ordinary.
SPANISH MOD RELEASES THOUSANDS OF PAGES OF DECLASSIFIED UFO FILES!
SPANISH MOD RELEASES THOUSANDS OF PAGES OF DECLASSIFIED UFO FILES!
Recently, the British Ministry of Defense gave the general public the privilege of analyzing declassified material regarding the UFO phenomenon.
Many attempts were made to capture a better glimpse of these mystery objects, but with little success. Hundreds of UFOs were tracked annually, which is an incredible number knowing that it’s very likely to never see one during our lifetime.
80 UFO REPORTS MIXED IN THE 1900 PAGES
Now we have newly declassified reports and details from the Spanish Ministry of Defense. We can read about several kinds of sightings and strange phenomena from the online library of the Spanish Ministry of Defense.
The first recorded UFO sighting over Spain’s capital, Madrid, was on December 11 of 1968, where people witnessed large changing lights in the sky. There was even one report by some pilots and then President Adolfo Suarez, that talks about strange lights following when traveling by air force aircraft from Germany to Spain.
There are around 80 reports mixed in the 1900 pages of these newly declassified documents, dating between 1962 and 1995.
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We are not alone … And it’s time to start making decisions
We are not alone … And it’s time to start making decisions
The Extraterrestrial theme is more topical than ever. It is getting closer to the time when they will colonize our planet. And it’s time to start thinking about the most important thing:
What will we do when they come?
Although perhaps this question is late, because they carry between us a lot of time . More than we imagine or are willing to believe. And they have not come just to observe … At least now the game has changed.
Thousands of years ago in Egypt, the aliens could mix with the humans with some terrifying plan that we still do not understand … But surely not peaceful.
They intended to mix with humans, perhaps to obtain a species more similar to them and thus be able to use us as slaves, or maybe, to use as a replacement for a possible pandemic that would be endangering their civilization.
The problem is that they are much more advanced than we are, and the day they want, they will use us at their whim, and we will have no choice but to try to obey and survive as we can. It certainly will not be easy …
We know that there is less and less time for us to discover life outside our planet. The recent discoveries of several nearby planets further open the debate about the steps we have to take. But it’s late. There are beliefs that everything that we are discovering are clues that the extraterrestrials leave us . Tracks to follow his plans, still believing that we are free. But we are not. We have never been free, and the consequences are closer than ever.
These latest discoveries could be the final clues. Maybe they’re leading us to something bigger? Maybe lead to destruction?
The human being is not prepared for the arrival of the aliens. We do not have enough technology or organization. We do not want them to arrive, but they will …
Will we be able to convince them to retract their plans for destruction?
They have been around for a long time, and if they have not wanted to officially present … It’s for something!
There is little we can do before this advanced civilization …because we do not have enough knowledge to face them. We are children in a world controlled by higher intelligence …
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Why alien abductions are down dramatically
Why alien abductions are down dramatically
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.
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.
Since 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 of Betty 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 beinginterviewed 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 just wasn’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.
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THIS AMAZING PICTURE IS PROOF OF ALIEN LIFE, SCIENTISTS CLAIM
THIS AMAZING PICTURE IS PROOF OF ALIEN LIFE, SCIENTISTS CLAIM
A recent discovery made by a team of scientists has put a spotlight on what many consider to be the first extraterrestrial organism found. Is this definitive proof that aliens exist?
This recent discovery might prove instrumental in answering one of humanity’s ardent questions: “where do we come from?” At the moment, science is unable to provide a response.
3.9 billion years ago, life appeared on Earth. Long-lost through the sands of time, this event provided the basis for our existence on the pale blue dot we call home. Without those primordial single-celled organisms, we wouldn’t be here today, wondering where they came from.
Despite all the advancements of modern science, researchers are still pretty much in the dark when it comes to pinpointing the exact origin of the first life forms on our planet. There are many ideas floating around, but this scientific problem is not yet solved.
Two main theories attempt to explain the enigma. One of them postulates that life appeared on Earth because it had all the necessary conditions. However, there is no standard model on how life might have started. The step from lifeless to alive is too big a leap for our current understanding.
The other theory is called panspermia and was first proposed by Nobel prize-winning Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius. He reasoned that life did not originate here on Earth. It must have developed elsewhere in the universe and later arrived here. Panspermia isn’t a theory on how life began, it’s one about how life began here.
Numerous experiments have shown that some microorganisms can withstand extreme conditions. Furthermore, they can enter a dormant state that allows them to survive for a very, very long time. Scientists even discovered 40 million years-old spores and were amazed when they sprang back to life. It wouldn’t be impossible for some microscopic creatures to survive a lengthy journey through space. If they were to arrive on a planet that could sustain life, they could populate it. Perhaps our own home world was seeded with life by microbe-carrying meteorites.
And now, the news.
The University of Buckingham’s Center for Astrobiology recently conducted an investigation to determine whether panspermia could account for the origin of life on Earth. Led by Professor Milton Wainwright, a group of scientists set up an experiment that aimed to collect microscopic samples from outside of Earth’s atmosphere. In order to do so, they sent a series of balloons to altitudes of around 20 miles, at the edge of outer space.
The balloons were equipped with powerful magnets that collected samples of microscopic debris. One of them brought back traces of rare elements such as dysprosium, lutetium, neodymium and niobium. It also carried back something unexpected, something many consider to be the first recorded extraterrestrial organism.
Perched atop a microscopic salt crystal was the “amorphous form” of what the scientists believe to be an extraterrestrial biological entity.
AS FAR AS WE CAN TELL, THE PARTICLE HAS NO RELATION TO ANYTHING FOUND ON EARTH,” PROFESSOR WAINWRIGHT TOLD PRESS. “THIS LATEST LAUNCH IS ALSO EXCITING BECAUSE THE TEAM FOUND PARTICLES CONTAINING SO-CALLED RARE EARTH ELEMENTS AT A HEIGHT CLOSE TO 30 KILOMETERS IN THE STRATOSPHERE.
THESE PARTICLE MASSES ARE TOO BIG TO HAVE BEEN CARRIED UP FROM EARTH AND, LIKE THE ALIEN LIFE FORMS WE FIND, MUST BE INCOMING TO EARTH FROM SPACE.”
Curiously enough, this isn’t the first time Prof. Wainwright and his team discovered something truly extraordinary. Earlier this year, they managed to catch another entity they believe to be extraterrestrial in nature—a microscopic metallic sphere resembling a seed-like organism. Inside the sphere was a liquid that contained what appeared to be genetic material.
The year before, they had discovered two equally-enigmatic presences the media dubbed the “ghost” and “dragon particle.” All of them were discovered at an altitude no earthly microorganism can reach, leading the researchers to believe they must have originated from outer space.
Professor Wainwright’s views are shared by his colleague Chandra Wickramasinghe, Professor and Director of the Buckingham Center for Astrobiology, another strong proponent of panspermia.
FROM THE TURN OF THE MILLENNIUM AN IMPRESSIVE BODY OF EVIDENCE HAS ACCUMULATED TO INDICATE THAT MICROBIAL LIFE DOES INDEED EXIST OUTSIDE THE EARTH,” WICKRAMASINGHE SAID.
IT IS PERMITTED NOWADAYS TO ASSERT THAT COMETS AND METEORITES DELIVERED THE CHEMICAL BUILDING BLOCKS OF LIFE TO FORM A PRIMORDIAL SOUP FROM WHICH LIFE ORIGINATED ON EARTH SOME FOUR BILLION YEARS AGO.
The Dragon Particle and the Ghost Particle
THE IDEA OF LIFE ORIGINATING ON EARTH ‘IN SOME PRIMORDIAL SOUP’ IS DEEPLY ROOTED IN THE RELIGIOUS AND SCIENTIFIC CULTURE OF THE WESTERN WORLD. […] WRONG IDEAS HAVE CRIPPLED SCIENCE IN THE PAST. IF WE ARE NOT VIGILANT IT COULD HAPPEN AGAIN, AND THIS TIME ROUND THE SOCIETAL AND ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES COULD BE MORE DISASTROUS.”
Naturally, these findings are looked upon with suspicion and ultimately contested by mainstream science. In order for the centuries-old paradigm to shift, more convincing evidence needs to be provided. Perhaps, decades from now, people will look back to these discoveries and see them as the first steps towards finding out the true origin of life on Earth.
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INCREDIBLE METEORITE FOUND WITH HIEROGLYPHICS IN 1908 - CANADA
INCREDIBLE METEORITE FOUND WITH HIEROGLYPHICS IN 1908 - CANADA
Fragments of asteroids, comets and even bits of crumbled planets are always falling from the sky. And this is not our privilege: rocks and metals of all sizes and shapes also hit other planets and even the moon.
It is not today that humanity cares about the enemies from the galaxies; Meteorites have already caused many problems for people around the world. Several incidents of falls and impacts were marked in history by their distinct and even bizarre characteristics; Some of them remain to this day with some unknowns.
This story was published by TW Patterson at the Conwichan Valley Citizen on Jan, 2015. It was that a front-page newspaper article of Sept. 5, 1908, caught my attention. Entitled, A Message From Mars, it's so fascinating that it's worth quoting in its entirety, Watch video below.
Hieroglyph or hieroglyph is each of the writing signs of ancient civilizations, such as the Egyptians, the Hittites, and the Mayans. It also applies, deprecatingly, to any writing that is difficult to interpret, or that is puzzling. The French linguist Jean-François Champollion is due to decipher the Egyptian hieroglyphs.
Wat gebeurt er met een stervend brein? Hoe beleven we onze laatste seconden? Een gereputeerd neuroloog laat zijn licht schijnen over deze belangrijke vragen. Dat je uit je lichaam zou treden, is nonsens. Maar het licht aan het einde van de tunnel is wel degelijk echt!
Cameron Shaw, een gerenommeerd Amerikaans neuroloog, liet voor Vice zijn licht schijnen over de ultieme momenten van een mensenleven. Uit je eigen lichaam treden blijkt nonsens, maar er is wel een logische verklaring voor. "Soms denken mensen dat ze de realiteit hebben gezien, maar eigenlijk gaat het om een wereld die hun brein oproept", vertelt Shaw. "Bij een bijna-dood-ervaring zie je niets, het is je brein dat zich een andere realiteit inbeeldt."
Het licht aan het einde van de tunnel blijkt dan weer wel te bestaan. God heeft er echter niets mee te maken. "Tunnelvisie doet zich voor als de bloedtoevoer naar de hersenen plots wordt afgesneden", aldus Shaw. De neuroloog vergelijkt het verschijnsel met het moment net voor je flauwvalt: "Voor je flauwvalt, vernauwt je gezichtsveld tot het helemaal zwart wordt. Dat komt omdat er te weinig bloed naar je hersenen stroomt."
Je leven flitst voor je ogen voorbij
Dat je leven voor je ogen voorbijflitst, blijkt óók mogelijk. Wetenschappers van de Hadassah universiteit in Jeruzalem onderzochten zeven mensen die een bijna-dood-ervaring hadden gehad en die intense momenten uit hun leven hadden zien voorbijflitsen.
"Er is geen lineair tijdsverloop", vertelde een van de proefpersonen. "Er zijn geen tijdslimieten." Een andere proefpersoon had net hetzelfde vastgesteld: "Het was alsof ik daar al eeuwen was. Ik bevond me in een moment maar tegelijkertijd ook in duizend jaar. Sommige ervaringen gebeurden zelfs gelijktijdig."
Je verliest je eigenbewustzijn
Vlak voor we sterven, zijn we ons niet meer bewust van onszelf, besluit Shaw. "De meest menselijke eigenschappen van de hersenen sterven eerst. In de eerste 10 tot 20 seconden verliezen we ons eigenbewustzijn en onze mogelijkheid om vooruit te denken. Vervolgens, terwijl alsmaar minder bloed naar de hersenen stroomt, verliezen we herinneringen en taalgevoel, tot er enkel nog een kern overblijft."
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AN ATOMIC BOMB DETONATED ON EARTH 12,000 YEARS AGO
AN ATOMIC BOMB DETONATED ON EARTH 12,000 YEARS AGO
Hindu texts dating from thousands of years ago seem to suggest that some kind of highly advanced weapon resembling an atomic bomb was set off on the Earth some twelve thousand of years ago.
The Mahabharata and the Ramayana are Sanskrit epics thought to have been written in the 8th or 9th century BC and are accounts of the Kurukshetra War and the battle between Rama and the demon Ravana respectively.
COULD AN ATOMIC BOMB HAVE GONE OFF ON EARTH 12000 YEARS AGO?
Some of the passages from the Mahabharata suggesting a nuclear conflict:
"A single projectile charged with all the power in the Universe…An incandescent column of smoke and flame as bright as 10,000 suns, rose in all its splendor…it was an unknown weapon, an iron thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes an entire race.
"The corpses were so burned as to be unrecognizable. Their hair and nails fell out, pottery broke without any apparent cause, and the birds turned white.
"After a few hours, all foodstuffs were infected. To escape from this fire, the soldiers threw themselves into the river."
Nothing out of the ordinary in and of themselves since many religions have epic stories and poems mixing both periods of real historical events and fictional characters.
Many of the descriptions of the battles within these texts speak of devastating weapons having the power of the sun and striking down huge areas of land. They also mention huge death tolls similar to those found with a nuclear weapon. Ordinarily once again nothing unusual as most historical stories tend to overexaggerate the power of weapons and figures involved as well.
Where this story becomes more interesting however is the discovery in the early 1990s of an area in Rajasthan that remains to this day highly irradiated. When ground was broken on a new housing development an ancient city and dangerous levels of radiation were discovered, leading scientists to surmise that the area was hit by a nuclear weapon between 8000 and 12000 years ago, destroying the majority of the city and killing an estimated half million people.
How the ancient Indian powers at the time developed nuclear weapons is a mystery although of course no records exist showing anything like the levels of technology needed to develop these kinds of weapons. There is also a mysterious crater near the Bombay area of India that defies explanation that could fit the bill as a possible detonation site for a nuclear weapon also.
Kisari Mohan Ganguli said of the bodies found in the ancient city:
"they discovered skeletons scattered about the cities, many holding hands and sprawling in the streets as if some instant, horrible doom had killed its inhabitants. People were just lying, unburied, in the streets of the city; there seemed no-one available to bury them afterward"
In ancient times there were no weapons capable of causing this kind of devastation. Certainly, nothing that would have left the dead unburied or left radiation thousands of years later. Nuclear weapons seem to fit the descriptions and evidence left behind.
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Cops Admit Sending Officers To Investigate UFO Sighting Reports In Lancashire
Cops Admit Sending Officers To Investigate UFO Sighting Reports In Lancashire
Lancashire police have admitted sending officers to UFO sighting scenes after getting calls about alien craft. The cops acknowledged that it had happened eight times in two years after the police force received a series of reports of extraterrestrials from terrified witnesses. However, they did not find any proof of UFO existence.
According to the police spokesman, the operator assesses each call that is received into the control room and identifies any harm, threat, or risk. The operator then carries out the appropriate response, which may include sending police officers.
The police spokesperson added that these calls sometimes not involving an actual UFO and only a suspicious light or movement. Such things could be mean any number of things, said the spokesperson, and they would assess and deploy officers if necessary, or the caller’s welfare is at stake.
Lancashire has shares of alien activities. One of the famous UFO incidents happened in 1995, resulting in 250 calls from alleged witnesses of a UFO moving through the sky at high speeds.
Police have investigated UFO-related cases in the last two years, including a beam of light that was suspected to be from an unknown vehicle, multiple spaceship sightings, and a UFO landing in a park.
Locals appear to be very curious of the UFO existence, according to Andy Sierolawski of Todmorden Observatory in Lancashire. He said that about 40 percent of people who visit the center ask them if they have ever seen anything all the time. He stressed that Venus and Saturn, as well as aircraft, can be mistaken for something else.
Fleet Of UFOs Over London Following Jet, March 25, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Fleet Of UFOs Over London Following Jet, March 25, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 25, 2017 Location of sighting: London, England Source: MUFON #82822 These UFOs are easily cloaked when hiding within white clouds, however they were seen following a jet, probably out of curiosity of the latest human aviation tech. Once called Foo Fighters in WWI and WWII, these types of UFOs still exist are are actually the most common. At night if they hold still the chances that you will mistake them for a star are very high, until the move and blow your mind. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Fulham, London walking to a cafe. Airspace is busy but on this occasion I looked at and saw a star like object about 7 aircraft widths to the left of the passenger aircraft. Then noticed several lights to the right of the aircraft as I looked up: about 7, 12 and 15 aircraft widths to the right. They followed the aircraft and continued to follow it, keeping the same relative distance, as it banked gently toward a more northerly path. At first I thought they were balloons reflecting bright sunlight - I've seen some rarely - but thes lights remained at a constant speed, had a smooth direction and all turned relative to each other, and at same distance from each other. Also, they seems to emit a constant light and not reflect it, whereas balloons change intensity as they tilt relative to me/observer and the sun. The aircraft wasn't landing at a London airport, those are Only a few thousand feet above observer-point and the aircraft had a vapour trail and I should imagine it was over 15-20,000 ft above me. Aircraft and light were obscured by city housing then.
Glowing UFO Baseball Size Caught Exploring Farm In Oklahoma, March 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Baseball Size Caught Exploring Farm In Oklahoma, March 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 4, 2017 Location of sighting: Gore, Oklahoma, USA Source: MUFON #82816 This UFO was caught by a farmer in Oklahoma this month. The infrared camera can see light the human eye cannot. IR (infrared) is outside the human eye spectrum, but this camera can see it. The UFO was caught just below the pine tree and as you can see, the UFO was so bright it lit up the lower branches of the pine tree. As I have said before, UFOs range in size from tiny golf ball size to miles across and great sizes. This one prefers to wait till midnight to 6am when most humans are sleeping so it can explore and learn...but in between...where does it hide? Is there a larger ship hiding in a local pond or lake nearby. Below the surface of water is the most logical and easy hiding place. The Arkansas river runs just across the north western side of Gore, so this is the logical hiding place of the UFO. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Frequently observe these orbs. decided to put out game cams. we were astonished that the cam caught the orb via motion and once we zoomed in on the picture and adjusted the picture with basic contrast adjustments we were amazed. around 6 people have observed this orb phenomena over the last six months. the object typically hovers for approximately 15-20 minutes and disappears. this sighting happens on our sheep farm usually around midnight to 6 am.
The first time this was observed was around Sept 2016. Several farm hands noticed two orbs floating in the pasture. the evening was very quiet. two orbs floated back and forth appx 100 yards away from the observers. My brother yelled "hey!, who's out there and whats your business here?", the orbs stopped moving and sticks could be heard breaking as they exited on the backside of our main pasture; mind you, all our sheep are locked up in a barn at night. my farm hands stood there watching the object(s) daring each other to go down there. there's no way it was an sheep or deer moving about. the two orbs exited the property to the east and disappeared. There have been various other "pop-up" occurances between then and present day. We typically watch it from the top of the pasture and typically it goes away.
One morning in Jan 2017 the orb had 'woke up' all our farm animals; we went outside the house and walked towards the barn; all the animals were nervous and 'vocal'; making noise like a predator was near or someone they didn't know; we walked to the barn and watched the 'single' orb this time just hovering around 4-6' off the ground; appx 80 yards facing south from our perspective. During the last observance this March (2017); we had the game cam setup and captured those images; i tried driving my truck to the opposite side from my brothers viewpoint. after watching and talking to my brother via facetime video; the object took off and hovered over the home location and disappeared. I was reluctant to post this b/c i don't want any attention brought to my farm or family; im a local public official and wish to remain anonymouse but would be interested in talking to a field investigator.
Thanks everyone for your well wishes. And thank you Darci for you know what. You shouldn’t have ! It is much appreciated !!!
I am still crook today but have dragged myself into my study to write this. I’ve been naughty the last few days. I should have stayed away from all electronics but I haven’t. Some of that time I have been reading the Kindle re-release of John Mack’s “Passport to the Cosmos”. I first read some of John Mack’s books in the mid 90s’ and I have a feeling I read some of this book in a local library, but back then I was still coming to grips with my own experiences and some of the things that were explored in his books were outside of my conscious understanding. So now as I read this book, it’s all so easy to digest. I don’t agree with all of the insights of the so-called abductees but I can respect how they see things. I greatly admire the way that John Mack connected with their entire experience and nurtured many of them to a point of acceptance. I think it is the best book ever written about the ET contact experience. My only wish is that John was able to connect the contact experiences and their subsequent spiritual transformations to the work of Carl Jung and the Transpersonal psychologists and anthropologists.
So every night when I go to bed for the last 3 nights, I’ve been thinking about the contact experience and what it means to me. As a result of this I’ve had some new insights, that I’ll try share over the next few months.
For now I’d like to say something about how the perception of ET contact changes humans.
I’ve talked before about the contact phenomenon following a DEVELOPMENTAL CONTINUUM, where a person grows through the experience and subsequently shifts in their perception of the experience. What I haven’t said before is that everybody is different. Every body changes in their experience of ET contact but not everybody experiences a change in their perceptions of contact. Some people seem to stay fixed in their perceptions of what has been happening to them. And that to me, seems a real shame for the folks who see only bad aliens.
What seems to happen to me, is that the experience itself changes across the life span, depending on how old we are and where we’re at psychologically and spiritually. Initially, it seems like we have no control and we experience an inability to remain conscious. We may discover that strange medical procedures were carried out on our body and strange interactions done with our mind. Gradually we become aware of our experiences and may even be conscious through part of an experience or an entire experience. During this phase we may be shown things or taught things about all manner of subjects. John Mack’s abductees all seemed to be taught about the preciousness of life on this planet and the need for us to change our ways to save Earth from mass extinctions. Later we may be taught about the true nature of reality and who the ETs are and where they come from. During either of these phases we may be given tours around the craft. Later when we have lost all fear, we are given full opportunity to interact with the sentience of craft – through enjoying a room of our own, learning from the craft, enjoying food from the craft, toileting, bathing or showering and piloting the craft. From this point onwards, contact seems evolve into a combination of opportunities and activities – which include visiting other worlds and meeting many different races (although you may meet other races at any stage). Through out all phases, you will receive regular monitoring and assessments of your physical and emotional health.
But not everyone seems to seems to have these opportunities and if they do, they don’t perceive them as opportunities. The diagram below is a rough effort on my part to show the movement or lack of movement in perception and growth that takes place in people who have contact with beings from other worlds. I’ve attached the name of some people who you may know from this field and I’ve also attached the names of some researchers.
To make this diagram, I’ve had to make certain judgements and I could be wrong about my perceptions of these individuals. So what this diagram shows is my perception of the general changes in certain individuals. So take Credo Mutwa, who is well known to David Icke followers. Credo sees the ETs as parasitic aliens, who are using humans for their own benefit. He has continued to perceive contact as traumatic and painful. But while angry with the aliens who control Earth, he perceives that he has gained benefit from the knowledge they have given him. Whitley Strieber seems to be somewhere in the middle. And although he was aware of his contacts before many other people and has explored them in great depth, he still seems to see them with a degree of ambiguity, uncertainty and concern. Mike Clelland of Hidden Experience blog http://mikeclelland.com/ / http://hiddenexperience.blogspot.com.au/, has been grappling with contact in a public way, for quite a while now and my sense is that Mike is still very suspicious of those orchestrating his contacts. Mike is open but equally uncertain. Rachel Bree, my ex -wife is at the other end of the continuum. She met Dude when she was 4 years old and has always known what the ETs are really like. Despite some discomfort with unexpected events, she has always trusted and looked up to the ETs and knows they love and care for her. (She doesn’t feel that way about humanity though !). When I spoke to my son Toa, he put himself now about 3/4 of teh way along teh continuum – suggesting he’s still a bit frightened of letting go. I place my self now at the far end but initially when I started having conscious encounters, although I was always excited, I was admittedly a little scared. In the same group I also place Bernado Peixoto and Sequoyah Trueblood – (abductees who feature prominently in Passport to the Cosmos). And while Passport to the Cosmos contains a number of so called abductees who I would think of as embodying a very strong New Age Mythos, many of them could also be placed in the same group.
You”ll notice that I have also added some researchers. David Jacobs, seems to have maintained the same view of contact – that humanity is dealing with an alien threat, that seeks to use and abuse us. Bud Hopkins, despite a great deal of pioneering work remains an alarmist of sorts who sees aliens as intruders who are doing terrible things to humans. John Mack, came from a place of great uncertainty and in his time, I think came to recognize the ET contact experience in the same way that many contactees do – as a form of encounter with teh divine. It seems to me, that not only do those who have contact experiences pass through some sort of Developmental Continuum (whether their is a radical shift in their perceptions or not) but those who research the subject also pass through a Developmental Continuum – which seems to reflect the same sort of inner features. This in turn seems to be reflected in the populous. And hence now, we can see a multitude of divisions that fit somewhere along the same kind of continuum.
In a lot of the community work I did I noticed that the “squeaky wheel”, the one that most the made noise, got the most attention and sadly, I think the same is true in this field. Those who have the loudest voices are the ones declaring how insidious and bad the aliens are. If only we had another John Mack !
What do these difference in initial and changing perceptions reflect ? I’m not sure. But I think it may reflect several things. First how willing we are to accept challenges to our world view and accept the need for change in our world view. Second, different temperaments, seem to be predisposed to being Victims and others to being Empowered by experience. Third, I suspect that Victim type personalities have a long and probably unknown/suppressed history of trauma and that Empowered type personalities have come in contact with their traumas and integrated them into who they consciously are. Fourth – the innate ability to trust, seems to be lacking in Victims. Fifth – everybody is a product of their conditioning via family systems, education, work, society, religion, ethnicity, nationality, interests etc. Those with rigid conditioning that has entrapped them in certain ways of thinking, may end up developing Victim type personalities who see ET contact as a hostile alien abduction, driven by ulterior motives. Those who can see the impact of their conditioning on their thought processes, may end up developing Empowered personalities who see ET contact as connection with the divine. Sixth – those that perceive the universe to be determined by an internal locus of control are OK with whatever happens, while those who perceive the universe to be determined by an external locus of control
There seems to be to me a kind of feedback loop going on in the psyche of all who have encountered ET contact. If you start off as a Victim type personality, you seem to internalize the idea that you are controlled and life isn’t fair. And unless you get past that idea, you will never get to to become the Empowered type personality that seems to internalize the idea that you control how you react to everything and that life is fair. If you latch on too tightly to those dark ideas of absolutely having to have control over this body, you are going to suffer immensely. And the same is true whether you’re sick with disease and need to trust others to help heal you or care for you or whether you need to trust in what the ETs are doing. There is so much attachment to the body and those that are heavily attached, can talk all they want about spirit but unless they let go of that attachment to controlling the body, they will never understand spirit and the boundlessness of spirit. If a human abducted me and did things to me, despite my knowledge of spirit, I wouldn’t like that because I know what cruelty humans are capable of. Still I would try to relinquish the need for absolute control. But an ET can take me anytime because I trust in their intentions and can move past the challenges which come to the body.
I think perhaps the most important thing about the contact phenomenon, is that it cracks open our perception of reality and in the aftermath of dealing with that, we have a choice about how we integrate what has happened to us and our new perceptions of reality. Do we choose to look favorably on what we have learned or do we recoil in horror ? If we look favorably we begin to see all of life as an opportunity for growth and development and feel deep connection to ALL things. If we look unfavorably we begin to see threats everywhere and life as an exhausting process of frustration and self defense. Ultimately it’s all about whether we embrace separateness or wholeness. If we embrace wholeness, we accept that separateness is am aspect of the whole. If we embrace separateness, we never accept or embrace the whole.
So these are all generalizations. I am not saying they’re strictly true for everyone but I think there are strong correlations between those who see themselves as victims (and if they don’t they act as victims) and those that feel empowered.
In the past and future history of this subject there will always be people like Credo Mutwa and people like me – people who see both ends of the spectrum and who avidly support what they believe to be true. You must decide for yourself what is true for you !
I can’t tell you how you should feel about the experience of contact. All I can do is tell you what I have learned about myself, the ETs and the experience of contact. And if you go out and try to have contact and you’re successful, you may learn for yourself that the ETs mean us no harm and are here to nurture us.
John Mack confirmed this when he in Passport to the Cosmos he said :
“…relate their abduction experiences to a kind of cosmic game in which a lonely Creator learns Itself through a splitting of consciousness – “an explosion into the multiplicity of Self,”…Out of the primordial potential, God spawns beings who separate from Him and then choose to reconnect. But in the case of humankind, the experiment went awry, as many of us have lost connection with the creative principal altogether. The alien beings seem to play a part in reconnecting the experiencers to the Creator or Source.”
“The purpose of doing this work,” Dr. Mack replied, “is to open us to the idea that the universe may be vastly more interesting, containing entities, energies, beings that we did not know existed. When we open that consciousness, we open to a larger reality. We’re not simply Earth-bound in our consciousness as if we were the top intelligence in the cosmos. We come more modestly to realize we are in connection with energies, beings, whatever it may be that is beyond ourselves. And that would be a very healthy development for this species, it seems to me.”
And that to me is what the ET contact experience is about in a nutshell. Whether we see the ETs as manifestations of the Divine/Source/God is irrelevant. We’re in contact with a larger reality, that is within us and within which we co-exist. When we open up to that, we have no choice but to grow and transform our limited perceptions about reality and the nature of Self.
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How Often Do Ice Ages Happen?
How Often Do Ice Ages Happen?
By Laura Geggel, Senior Writer
About 700 million years ago, during the Cryogenian glaciation, runaway glaciers made Earth look like a snowball.
Credit: NASA
The last ice age led to the rise of the woolly mammoth and the vast expansion of glaciers. But it's just one of many that has chilled Earth throughout the planet's 4.5-billion-year history.
So, how often do ice ages happen, and when is the next freeze expected to begin?
The answer to the first question depends on whether you're talking about big ice ages or the little ice ages that happen within those larger periods. Earth has undergone five big ice ages, some of which lasted for hundreds of millions of years. In fact, Earth is in a big ice agenow, which explains why the planet has polar ice caps. [Photo Gallery: Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier Cracks]
Big ice ages account for about 25 percent of Earth's past billion years, said Michael Sandstrom, a doctoral student in paleoclimate at Columbia University in New York City.
The five major ice ages in the paleo record include the Huronian glaciation (2.4 billion to 2.1 billion years ago), the Cryogenian glaciation (720 million to 635 million years ago), the Andean-Saharan glaciation (450 million to 420 million years ago), the Late Paleozoic ice age (335 million to 260 million years ago) and the Quaternary glaciation (2.7 million years ago to present).
These large ice ages can have smaller ice ages (called glacials) and warmer periods (called interglacials) within them. During the beginning of the Quaternary glaciation, from about 2.7 million to 1 million years ago, these cold glacial periods occurred every 41,000 years. However, during the last 800,000 years, huge glacial sheets have appeared less frequently — about every 100,000 years, Sandstrom said.
This is how the 100,000-year cycle works: Ice sheets grow for about 90,000 years and then take about 10,000 years to collapse during warmer periods. Then, the process repeats itself.
Given that the last ice age ended about 11,700 years ago, isn't it time for Earth to get icy again?
"We should be heading into another ice age right now," Sandstrom told Live Science. But two factors related to Earth's orbit that influence the formation of glacials and interglacials are off. "That, coupled with the fact that we pump so much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere [means] we're probably not going to enter a glacial for at least 100,000 years," he said.
What causes a glacial?
A hypothesis put forth by the Serbian astronomer Milutin Milankovitch (also spelled Milanković) explains why Earth cycles in and out of glacials and interglacials.
As the planet circles the sun, three factors affect how much sunlight it gets: its tilt (which ranges from 24.5 degrees to 22.1 degrees on a 41,000-year cycle); its eccentricity (the changing shape of its orbit around the sun, which ranges from a near-circle to an oval-like shape); and its wobble (one full wobble, which looks like a slowly spinning top, happens every 19,000 to 23,000 years), according to Milankovitch.
In 1976, a landmark paper in the journal Science provided evidence that these three orbital parameters explained the planet's glacial cycles, Sandstrom said.
"Milankovitch's theory is that the orbital cycles have been predictable and very consistent throughout time," Sandstrom said. "If you are in an ice age, then you'll have more or less ice depending on these orbital cycles. But if the Earth is too warm, they basically won't do anything, at least in terms of growing ice." [Doomsday: 9 Real Ways Earth Could End]
One thing that can warm Earth is a gas such as carbon dioxide. Over the past 800,000 years, carbon dioxide levels have fluctuated between about 170 parts per million and 280 ppm (meaning that out of 1 million air molecules, 280 of them are carbon dioxide molecules). That's a difference of only about 100 ppm between glacials and interglacials, Sandstrom said.
But carbon dioxide levels are much higher today when compared with these past fluctuations. In May 2016, Antarctica carbon dioxide levels hit the high level of 400 ppm, according to Climate Central.
Earth has been warm before. For instance, it was much warmer during the dinosaur age. "[But] the scary thing is how much carbon dioxide we've put in [the atmosphere] in such a short period of time," Sandstrom said.
The warming effects of that carbon dioxide will have big consequences, he said, because even a small increase in Earth's average temperature can lead to drastic changes, he said. For instance, Earth was only about 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) colder, on average, during the last ice age than it is today, Sandstrom said.
If global warming causes both Greenland's and Antarctica's ice sheets to melt, the oceans will rise about 196 feet (60 meters) higher than they are now, Sandstrom said.
What leads to big ice ages?
The factors that caused the long ice ages, such as the Quaternary glaciation, are less well-understood than those that led to glacials, Sandstrom noted. But one idea is that a massive drop in carbon dioxide levels can lead to lower temperatures, he said.
For instance, according to the uplift-weathering hypothesis, as plate tectonics pushed up mountain ranges, new rock became exposed. This unprotected rock was easily weathered and broken apart, and would fall into the oceans, taking carbon dioxide with it.
These rocks provided critical components that marine organisms used to build their calcium-carbonate shells. Over time, both the rocks and the shells took carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, which, along with other forces, helped lower carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, Sandstrom said.
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
By Live Science Staff
Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.
Catastrophe awaits
This image shows a shrine called the "Edicule," which is built over a cave where, according to legend, Jesus was buried after he was crucified. The Edicule is located inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
Credit: Lior Mizrahi/Getty Images
A shrine built over a cave that is revered as the tomb of Jesus is in danger of "catastrophic" collapse, according to a report by National Geographic.
Repair and restoration work at the Edicule has been going on for the past year, during which the limestone bed that Jesus' body was supposedly buried on was revealed. Today (March 22), National Geographic reported that the Edicule is in danger of "catastrophic" collapse if further repairs are not undertaken soon. [Read more about the dangers at the shrine.]
It's a group thing
A colony of cockroaches maintained by virgin birth, or parthenogenesis. The roaches have been temporarily anesthetized with carbon dioxide.
Female cockroaches don't need a mate to lay eggs, but they do like company. New research finds that virgin female cockroaches housed together are quicker to produce offspring than virgin females living alone.
To test the effect of social milieu, the researchers put female cockroaches in different situations. In the control group, a male and a female were housed together and were allowed to mate. In other cases, females were kept with one, two, three or four other females. Other female roaches were kept with castrated males. The researchers also tested the effects of adding pheromones, chemicals that insects use for communication, to all-female cockroach groups. [Read more about the strange habit.]
WWI liquor
A glass expert found the bottles would have held a variety of drinks, including alcoholic beverages such as gin, liqueur and whiskey.
Credit: Assaf Peretz/Israel Antiquities Authority
Hundreds of World War I-era liquor bottles have been uncovered at a buried British barracks in Israel.
The excavators unearthed the foundations of an agricultural building from the Ottoman Empire — which ruled Israel from 1517 until the end of World War I — that had apparently been repurposed as housing for British soldiers during the war. [Read more about the British bottles.]
Cancer clues
Cancer is caused by mistakes in DNA, and a new study finds that in most cancer cases, these mistakes are completely random; they're not due to heredity or environmental factors, but rather the result of random errors.
Scientists had thought these mutations resulted mainly from two things: Either the mutation was inherited, or it was caused by outside factors that can damage DNA, such as cigarette smoke or ultraviolet radiation, the researchers wrote. But a third cause — random mistakes — actually accounts for two-thirds of these mutations, said the new study, published today (March 23) in the journal Science. [Read more about the dangerous mistakes.]
A face for the man
Archaeologists at the University of Cambridge reconstructed the face of the so-called "Context 958" skeleton.
Credit: Chris Rynn/University of Dundee
The face of a British man who died about 700 years ago has been brought to life using reconstructive technology.
The medieval man was buried along with hundreds of others in a graveyard underneath what is now the Old Divinity School building of St. John's College at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom. [Read more about the reconstruction.]
Hell snakes
Two adult male Cerberus groundsnakes (Atractus Cerberus), newly discovered near the gates of the Refinería del Pacífico, a massive petrochemical complex that reminded the snake's discoverers of hell. These snakes are presumed to be critically endangered, as they were found in a small area of forest surrounded by land that had been cleared for industrial activites.
The sprawling Refinería del Pacífico is an enormous industrial complex stamped out of the tropical forest in Ecuador. So, when herpetologists discovered a new species of snake outside the petrochemical plant's gates, their minds went immediately to the underworld.
Advertisement NEWS TECH HEALTH PLANET EARTH SPACE STRANGE NEWS ANIMALS HISTORY HUMAN NATURE NEWS TECH HEALTH PLANET EARTH SPACE STRANGE NEWS ANIMALS HISTORY HUMAN NATURE Live ScienceAnimals Rare 'Snakes from Hell' Lurk Near Petrochemical Plant in Ecuador By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor | March 22, 2017 10:56am ET 154 29 8 2 18 MORE Partner Series Rare 'Snakes from Hell' Lurk Near Petrochemical Plant in Ecuador Two adult male Cerberus groundsnakes (Atractus Cerberus), newly discovered near the gates of the Refinería del Pacífico, a massive petrochemical complex that reminded the snake's discoverers of hell. Credit: Arteaga, et al./ZooKeys The sprawling Refinería del Pacífico is an enormous industrial complex stamped out of the tropical forest in Ecuador. So, when herpetologists discovered a new species of snake outside the petrochemical plant's gates, their minds went immediately to the underworld. And thus, Atractus cerberus was born. The brown-and-yellow ground snake — named after Cerberus, the mythological three-headed hound who guards Hades, the god of the underworld in ancient Greek mythology — is one of three new serpents discovered in Ecuador. All three newfound species are members of the genus Atractus, a secretive bunch that tends to evade scientific scrutiny, said Alejandro Arteaga, the scientific director of the conservation organization Tropical Herping who co-discovered and helped describe the new snakes. [Read more about the unique serpent.]
Rare twins
Dominique, who is 10 months old, was born with a rare "parasitic twin" attached to her body.
Credit: Advocate Children’s Hospital/Facebook
A 10-month-old girl who was born with a rare "parasitic twin" attached to her body has undergone a successful surgery to separate her from this underdeveloped twin.
Parasitic twins are very rare, occurring at the rate of about 1 in 1 million live births, according to the 2010 review. [Read more about the procedure.]
Stephen Hawking and Trump
Stephen Hawking at a press conference to announce Breakthrough Starshot, a new space exploration initiative, at One World Observatory on April 12, 2016 in New York City.
Credit: Bryan Bedder/Stringer/Getty
Stephen Hawking does not feel welcome in Donald Trump's America. The renowned physicist made this unhappy claim in a recent interview, and he expressed particular concern about how the Trump administration is treating the issue of climate change.
Hawking, who once called Trump a "demagogue," said the new U.S. president was elected by "people who felt disenfranchised by the governing elite in a revolt against globalization." [Read more about the his fears.]
New family ties
A thorough look at 457 characteristics in 74 species revealed that theropod dinosaurs (such as Tyrannosaurus rex and birds) and ornithischian dinosaurs (such as duck-billed dinosaurs and stegosaurs) are more closely related than previously thought.
Credit: Baron MG. et al. Nature (2017)
The dinosaur family tree, used by paleontologists and dinosaur buffs for the past 130 years, has just been transformed.
The new study completely reorganizes this setup. According to new analyses, theropods and ornithischians are more closely related than scientists previously thought, and both fit into a previously unknown group called Ornithoscelida, the researchers said. [Read more about the family tree.]
Battleground zero
At the end of the jetty there was a round tower, which would have been part of the fortified harbor during the Battle of Salamis.
Credit: V. Mentoyannis
Greek archaeologists have found the ancient military harbor of the island of Salamis — the very physical space from which the largest and most decisive naval battle ever fought in antiquity was launched.
The survey identified remains of port structures, fortifications and other buildings dating from the Classical period (from the fifth to fourth centuries B.C.) and Hellenistic period, on all three sides — north, west and south — of the bay. (The beginning of the Hel lenistic period is usually marked by the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C.) [Read more about the ancient base.]
Last year I wrote an article here at Mysterious Universe titled “UFOs: Extraterrestrial? Probably Not.” One of the reasons I gave for suggesting that the UFO phenomenon is far stranger than anything of an E.T. nature, is the fact that many UFO incidents seem to be staged for the benefit of the witness. As if “they” are trying to convince us they are extraterrestrials. But, they are trying way too hard. I made mention of one particular angle of the UFO phenomenon that, in my opinion, is a perfect example.
I wrote:
QUOTE:“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. E.T. 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 ‘E.T. scientists’ in the mind(s) of the witness(es).” END OF QUOTE.
Today, I’m going to highlight another – equally absurd – aspect of Ufology. I’m talking about the many reports of people stumbling on aliens “repairing” their craft. Like the supposed extraterrestrials who endlessly take soil samples, “the repairers from beyond” are also spectacularly useless when it comes to the issue of avoiding being seen. Of course, the truth is (as per my words above) that they want to be seen. Yet again, to add weight to the E.T. meme. Let’s take a look at a few incidents.
Richard Hall
The late UFO researcher Richard Hall recorded a couple of such cases: “November 25, 1964 New Berlin, NY: Twelve humanoids observed at distance after two discs landed on hill; appeared to be engaged in repair operation for hours. September 18, 1978 G. Filiputti, Melaria, Porto Nogaro, Italy 3:30 P.M.: One 1-meter-tall humanoid, silver tight-fitting coveralls, almond eyes, emerged from disc with dome, appeared to be making repairs on rim.”
Then, there is this at UFO Evidence, from March 30, 1995: “When a local farmer from Groot Marico in the western Transvaal plains region first observed the saucer-shaped object on Thursday morning, he noticed that it had a distinctly visible hole in its hull. The farmer, Mr. Jan Pienaar (45), is of the opinion that this ‘vehicle’ landed on a remote country road between Coligny and Brakspruit to have its damaged hull repaired. However, his arrival probably prompted the ‘vehicle’s’ hasty retreat and rapid ascent into the sky.”
In 1976, John Brent Musgrave wrote an article for Flying Saucer Review magazine titled “Saskatchewan, 1933: UFO Stops For Repairs.” Musgrave said in his article: “During the summer of 1933 stories drifted into Nipawin [Canada] that some homesteaders, as well as a forest tower ranger, had been observing strange lights in the sky and near the ground. Whatever it was, they had been seeing it for the better part of a week.” Musgrave added that according to three witnesses to a landed UFO in Nipawin: “The Occupants appeared to be slightly shorter than the average man, and were all dressed in what appeared to be silver colored suits or uniforms. All appeared to be wearing helmets or ski caps, and all were busy running around ‘repairing’ the craft.”
I could go on and on. But, you get the picture. Aliens are so advanced that they can travel the Universe, but when they come here, to Earth, they are endlessly plagued by problems of the “mechanical” kind. And when and where there just happens to be someone around to see them replacing the equivalent of a spark-plug or changing a tire. Nope. Something else is afoot. I don’t know why the UFO phenomenon plays such bizarre mind-games with us. But, it does. If we can figure out why, we may be halfway towards figuring out the real nature of the UFOphenomenon.
We wrap up the controversy surrounding the reveal of the “Roswell Kodachrome slides” and invite Red Pill Junkie to share his thoughts on the image allegedly depicting an extraterrestrial body. We also feature…
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Best Space Stories of the Week — March 25, 2017
Best Space Stories of the Week — March 25, 2017
By SPACE.com Staff
Two of the raised treads on the left middle wheel of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars suffered breaks in early 2017. One of the breaks is visible as a partially detached section at the top of the wheel, seen here by Curiosity's arm-mounted Mars Hand Lens Imager.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
A Dragon returns, North Korea tests a rocket engine, a wheel breaks on Mars and a spacewalk streak begins — it's Space.com's top news stories of the week.
Transition begins
U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill authorizing a $19.5 billion budget for NASA in 2017, setting its priorities for the year. Vice President Mike Pence also announced that he would head a re-established National Space Council, which will advise the president on space issues. [Full Story: President Trump Signs NASA Authorization Bill]
Dragon came back
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, bringing more than 2 tons of science experiments and gear back from the International Space Station. Officials retrieved the spacecraft and had time-sensitive scientific samples in the lab within 48 hours. [Full Story: SpaceX Dragon Capsule Returns to Earth with Ocean Splashdown]
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has two small breaks in the treads of one of its six heavy wheels. Curiosity has already lasted well beyond its original two-year mission lifetime, and it should be able to continue unhindered by this latest wear and tear. [Full Story: Breaks Found in Curiosity Mars Rover's Wheel]
(Tiny) thrusters, on!
New, dime-size ion thrusters could keep constellations of small satellites in orbit — or, working together, propel astronauts to Mars. The newly-developed "thruster chips" eject ions drawn from a salt-based propellant solution. [Full Story: Dime-Size Thrusters Could Propel Satellites, Spacecraft]
Three observant satellites, called Swarm, have mapped the complex magnetic field of Earth's crust and outer mantle, known as its lithosphere. The signal is tiny, but illuminating about the Earth's history. (And one city in Africa has a mysteriously sharp and strong magnetic spike.) [Full Story: Earth's Magnetic Cocoon Mapped in Extreme Detail]
A radio telescope that could probe the dawn of the universe's first stars and galaxies received a new grant, boosting its potential size from 240 huge antenna dishes to 350 — letting it look even further back in time. [Full Story: Telescope Eyeing Universe's First Stars Gets (Another) Big Boost]
Jake Gyllenhaal in a scene from the alien sci-fi thriller "Life".Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc.
Warning: Some spoilers for "Life" are ahead if you haven't seen the movie.
"Life" is a space horror movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Ryan Reynolds, Rebecca Ferguson, and more.
The plot is about a Mars sample return mission gone terribly wrong.
The film's creators worked with real scientists to make it more believable.
NASA is actually working on getting a Mars sample to Earth and is worried about contaminating the planet.
Big-budget science-fiction movies aren't supposed to be documentaries.
They are, however, supposed to take us on journeys to far-flung places, immerse us in vivid alternate realities, and make us wonder "what if?"
But reality itself is a powerful filmmaking spice that, justly applied, helps suspend our disbelief — and sometimes scream our guts out.
Such is the case with the new movie "Life", whose makers consulted a NASA-trained medical doctor, a Mars spacecraft engineer, and a geneticist to help produce their horrifying spectacle.
While the film, directed by Daniel Espinosa, whiffs on quite a lot of science, it does go far enough to be wildly entertaining. In fact, Business Insider's Jason Guerrasio even argues it may be a cult classic in the making.
We join the story just as a Mars sample return spacecraft is being caught by a small crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). With red dirt in hand, NASA astronauts go about analyzing the grit behind several "firewalls" of protection.
After an extraterrestrial microbe is discovered in the soil, it's revived in a soup of water and nutrients. Then, to the astonishment of the crew, it springs to life. "Calvin," as the life form is soon called, quickly divides and grows into a starfish-size creature with incredible strength and intelligence.
What could possibly go wrong?
To understand what doses of reality went into the movie, we called up Dr. Kevin Fong ― a medical doctor, space medicine expert who's trained with NASA and ESA for about a decade, and a paid science consultant for the new Sony Pictures film.
And to answer some of those "what if?" questions on aliens, we spoke to Catharine A. Conley, a planetary protection officer for NASA who gets paid to help humankind avert extraterrestrial disasters in the real world.
Astronaut doctor on set
Jake Gyllenhaal plays the role of Dr. David Jordan in "Life".Sony
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"Life" features not one but two characters who are doctors, so filmmakers brought Fong on board to answer their pressing questions.
A lot of the early work happened by email, he says, but soon enough Fong was invited to join the set: an elaborate and modular reconstruction of the space station inside a giant green-screen studio.
"They paid more attention to detail than I'd seen in the space agencies," Fong told Business Insider. "Although the modules are different than what they actually are on the space station, it was very close."
The producers occasionally asked Fong to lend his expertise in physiology and emergency care to actor Jake Gyllenhaal (who plays long-duration astronaut David Jordan), actress Rebecca Ferguson (who plays Center for Disease specialist Miranda North), and others in various scenes.
Rebecca Ferguson in "Life".
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"There are a couple of quite dense medical scenes, where I'd say, 'I'd hold this tool like that,' or 'I wouldn't hold that in the way you are,' and 'here's some terminology I'd use in this situation.' On the set, it came across as a very believable," Fong says.
He was especially impressed with a cardiac arrest scene, saying it was "about as faithful as one could be" in a movie.
While he hadn't seen the movie, at least at the time Business Insider interviewed him, Fong didn't walk away thinking it'd be a documentary.
"I think it pays dividends to any movie producer to go as far as you can in suspending disbelief," he says. "But I'm not expecting 'Apollo 13.' You have to make the drama more realistic without getting in the way of the story."
Fong also said that while there are definitely parallels to the "Alien" space horror movie franchise, "Life" is imminently more believable.
"Around the time 'Alien' was made, you needed to imagine some far-flung place," he says. But with the ISS floating just 250 miles above Earth, he added, "this is happening right on your back door."
Fortunately for us, NASA has put decades of thought into protecting planet Earth.
Defending the planet from real-life Martians
Ryan Reynolds in "Life".
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At first blush, the idea of a Mars sample return mission might seem far-fetched. But NASA researchers hope to do just that in the future.
In fact, both Congress and President Trump essentially codified that mission for the space agency by passing the NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017 into law in March.
The first line of defense for a Mars sample is Catharine Conley, who is NASA's sole planetary protection officer. She has worked in that role since 2006, and helps ensure Earth's microbes don't reach other worlds — and other worlds' microbes don't reach Earth, at least in an uncontained way. (And that includes keeping dead bodies off of other worlds.)
"The phrase that we use is, 'break the chain of contact with Mars,'" Conley told Business Insider.
Catharine "Cassie" A. Conley, NASA's sole planetary protection officer.
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Conley also hadn't seen the movie, but said if a Mars sample was flying toward Earth, it would be aimed slightly off-course from the planet. That way if something goes wrong, the capsule full of red dirt (and maybe a harmful microbe) wouldn't enter our atmosphere in an uncontrolled way, break open, and induce panic.
Yet before such a capsule would ever leave Mars, she says,international guidelines require that an multi-governmental, multi-space agency committee convene to review the mission and make a recommendation on what to do.
"You'd want the international community to weigh in because it's a of a high-enough concern," she said. "There's a lot of checks and balances."
A Mars sample return mission — ostensibly to seek fossilized signs of ancient life, not actual microbes — wouldn't be the first to test the mettle of protections for Earth: Apollo 11 astronauts had to stay quarantined for three whole weeks in a trailer before emerging.
Apollo 11 astronauts quarantined in their "Hornet 3" trailer meet then-President Richard Nixon.
In fact, she says, planning for a Mars sample return mission started with the nuclear-powered Viking landers of the 1970s and has been going ever since.
Plans "got the most carefully laid out" in the early 2000s, she said, but by then, bringing a sample to the space station had long been ruled out.
Thereason? It seemed far too expensive to ship equipment and experts into space, where they'd be ask to excel in a free-floating (and very foreign) environment). Also, containing a disastrous microbe inside the ISS seemed like a pointless step.
"The space station is going to fall down at some point," she said.
Instead, Conley says scientists would make sure an extra-robust capsule carefully reenters Earth's atmosphere, is quickly retrieved, and hurried away to a Biosafety Level 4 laboratory — the most high-security grade of research facility on the planet. There, scientists could meticulously analyze their invaluable prize to no end.
"I would love to find life elsewhere," Conley said — if for no other reason than to compare it to life here on Earth, where the only organisms we know of exist. "If Earth and Mars life are related, that makes things a lot more complicated."
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Bemanning platformbevoorradingsschip ziet enorme UFO opstijgen uit Golf van Mexico
Bemanning platformbevoorradingsschip ziet enorme UFO opstijgen uit Golf van Mexico
Bemanningsleden van een platformbevoorradingsschip hebben in de Golf van Mexico een UFO gezien die ‘vijf keer’ zo groot was als hun schip.
Men is nu op zoek naar andere getuigen die mogelijk meer informatie hebben over de waarneming.
De UFO is dinsdagavond gezien op een kleine 130 kilometer van New Orleans, schrijft nieuwssite gCaptain.
Vijf keer zo groot
Een bemanningslid, de hoofdingenieur van het schip, meldde zich bij het National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), dat gegevens over UFO-waarnemingen bijhoudt.
“Op 21 maart zag ik rond 19.00 uur samen met vier andere bemanningsleden een vaartuig dat vijf keer zo groot was als ons 73 meter lange schip,” liet de getuige weten.
“Op ongeveer 800 meter achter ons bevond zich een olieplatform,” zei hij. “Dat gebruikte ik om de omvang van het vaartuig te schatten.”
Oogwenk
“Het tafereel duurde ongeveer 40 seconden,” vervolgde hij. “Het schip steeg op uit het water (Golf van Mexico). Er droop geen water vanaf.”
“In een oogwenk schoot het vaartuig weg,” klonk het. “In luttele seconden was het volledig uit het zicht verdwenen.”
De hoofdingenieur zei verder dat het schip een donkere kleur had, ovaalvormig was en geen enkel geluid maakte.
Zeer betrouwbare getuige
Aangezien er twee booreilanden in de buurt waren, moeten er volgens de man meer getuigen zijn geweest.
Hij schat dat aan boord van andere bevoorradingsschepen in de buurt zo’n 50 mensen waren.
NUFORC besloot contact op te nemen met de man en liet weten dat het hier gaat om een nuchtere, zeer betrouwbare getuige.
ALIEN APPEARING CLEARLY ON OLD NASA APOLLO 11 PHOTO
Alan Bean, 85, was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12 in November 1969 – just months after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
And the time he spent up in space has led him to a fascinating theory about alien life.
Mr Bean said he is utterly convinced that aliens are out there – despite scientists finding no real evidence of their existence.
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“There must be statistically many planets around many stars that have formed life”
Alan Bean
He told news.com.au: “There're so many billions of stars and these stars have planets around them so there must be statistically many planets around many stars that have formed life,” he said.
“Maybe some of them are like our life was 100,000 years ago, and some of them are like we are now, and there are probably some out there that are 10,000 years in the future from where we are now.”
However, he does not believe extraterrestrials have touched ground – just yet.
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He said: “I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ever visited the Earth.
“One of reasons I don’t believe they have been here is that civilisations that are more advanced are more altruistic and friendly – like Earth, which is better than it used to be – so they would have landed and said ‘we come in peace and we know from our studies you have cancer that kills people, we solved that problem 50 years ago, here’s the gadget we put on a person’s chest that will cure it, we will show you how to make it’.
“Just like some day, say 1000 years from now, when we can go to another star and see a planet, that’s what we would do because we will know how to cure cancer, cure birth defects, so we would teach them.”
Here's an image from the stunning dual UFO sighting footage captured near ISS.
YouTube screenshot/ Streetcap1
UFOs have been spotted yet another time in a video recorded at the International Space Station (ISS). The video shows two alien spacecraft interacting with each other.
The alien spacecraft initially appear to be lens flares, but they can be seen clearly later on. The video has been published by the YouTube channel, Streetcap1.
The UFO-hunter posted the video on YouTube on Wednesday, March 22. The description of the video says: "This appeared on camera at the ISS and stayed for 7 minutes. I thought it's only lens flare, forget it, but certain things were happening as it progressed. Lights appearing later on and as you can see flashes at the beginning of the piece near the second item as it appeared. As the video progresses the items appear to turn slightly and light up while keeping the same orbital speed as the space station."
You can watch the video footage of the 2 UFOs here:
YouTube/ Streetcap1
This is not the only incident of a UFO sighting taking place at the ISS. A few more incidents have taken place recently, which were revealed by another alien hunter whose YouTube channel goes by the name secureteam10.
In a recent incident, two mysterious UFOs can be spotted passing by in the background in a video footage captured by Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. She was unaware of these objects passing by, and she had just uncovered the window of the ISS to show the conditions prevailing outside.
You can check out the footage here:
YouTube/ secureteam10
In yet another footage, a giant UFO was spotted hovering near the ISS at a distance, the lights were suddenly dimmed after the strange craft was spotted by the authorities.
Many UFOlogists have been slammed by astronomers and researchers, who say the objects appearing in the footages are "light flares" or "camera disturbances".
"I thought I was seeing things. I had to be quick. This should appear in the archive later for those wanting verification. The dimming at the end was sudden and my guess is they turned down the brightness a little because they spotted it. Sorry about quality, but it was hundreds of miles away," StreetCap1 stated in the description of the video.
Check out the stunning footage of the mega UFO spotted from the ISS:
VIDEOGisteren is de eerste commerciële vlucht naar het zuiderlicht geland in Nieuw-Zeeland. De 134 passagiers waren op zijn zachtst uitgedrukt onder de indruk van het groene licht, vergelijkbaar met het noorderlicht, en deelden hun prachtige ervaring op sociale media.
Het acht uur durende avontuur begon donderdagavond op het Zuidereiland, een van de twee grote eilanden waaruit Nieuw-Zeeland bestaat. De Boeing 767 vloog zuidwaarts, waar de passagiers volgens expeditieleider Ian Griffin, directeur van het Otago Museum, "een spectaculaire vertoning" kregen.
"Niemand heeft dit ooit eerder gedaan", zegt hij aan de BBC. "Dit was een wereldprimeur in het zuidelijke halfrond." Griffin benadrukt dat de expeditie niet zo eenvoudig te organiseren valt als een normale vlucht. "Het zuiderlicht verschijnt niet zomaar op een specifieke locatie. Het beweegt in het rond, en we probeerden het achterna te jagen boven de Zuidelijke Oceaan."
Het chartervliegtuig ging meerdere keren door het zuiderlichtgebied en vloog tot 66 graden zuiderbreedte.
Voor de passagiers was het tripje zeer gedenkwaardig. "Onze levens zijn voor altijd veranderd door deze ongelooflijke ervaring. We zijn eeuwig dankbaar dat we deel konden uitmaken van dit opmerkelijke gebeuren", wordt Roz Charlton geciteerd door The Guardian.
Daar moesten de deelnemers uiteraard iets voor over hebben. Een ticket voor de speciale vlucht kostte 4.000 Nieuw-Zeelandse dollar (2.600 euro) in economy en 8.000 dollar (5.200 euro) in business class.
Geïnteresseerden kunnen alvast beginnen sparen, want gezien het succes plannen de organisatoren volgend jaar een nieuwe expeditie.
VIDEOOp 24 maart 1992, vandaag/vrijdag precies 25 jaar geleden, werd Dirk Frimout aan boord van het Amerikaanse ruimteveer Atlantis de eerste Belg in de ruimte. Hij wentelde 143 keer rond onze planeet, goed voor een missie van 8 dagen 22 uur 9 minuten 28 seconden. Waarnemers hadden het over een "Amerikaans-Belgische vlucht", want nagenoeg de helft van het wetenschappelijk lab Atlas-1 in de vrachtruimte van de shuttle was (co-)Belgisch. Onder de instrumenten was er onder meer een rasterspectrometer die Frimout als wetenschapper van het Belgisch Instituut voor Ruimte-Aëronomie mee had ontwikkeld. Overigens kreeg de West-Vlaamse burggraaf het instrument na een panne tijdens de missie weer aan de praat.
Frimout, geboren te Poperinge op 21 maart 1941, maakte geen deel uit van het astronautenkorps van het Europese Ruimtevaartbureau ESA. Precies door zijn wetenschappelijke bagage bovenop een reeks toevalligheden kon Frimout zijn droom waarmaken. Dat hij alsnog als wetenschappelijk astronaut kon vliegen, was naar zijn zeggen "niet het winnen van een lot in de tombola, maar het resultaat van 25 jaar voorbereiding en hard werken", plus blijven volhouden.
Tot nu toe is geen enkele Belg via de geijkte procedure in de ruimte geraakt. Zo werd bijvoorbeeld Frank De Winne later "heropgevist" nadat hij niet voor de tweede "astronautenklas" van ESA was geselecteerd. Frimout schrijft deze gang van zaken toe aan het feit dat de selectiecriteria voor astronauten bijzonder streng zijn terwijl er zeer veel - valabele - kandidaten zijn. "Het zijn de besten" die uiteindelijk effectief de aarde van bovenaf gaan bekijken, beklemtoont hij. Tegelijk stipt de astronaut aan dat er wel degelijk "subjectieve" elementen (voor een selectie) kunnen meespelen, zoals "ondersteuning door een land".
Dat een geselecteerde astronaut soms lang moet wachten op een vlucht, is dan ook weer geen zeldzaamheid, leerde Frimout uit gesprekken met astronauten. "Je moet volhouden, zelfs bezeten zijn".
Zelfmoord
Wat Frimout het meest is bijgebleven van zijn historische missie, is het moment dat de hoofdmotoren van de shuttle uitfloepten, het moment dat hij voelde net in de ruimte te zijn aangekomen en dus de gewichtloosheid te voelen. "Dat is uniek", zegt hij. "Het is de droom die je had en hij begint dan nog maar", aldus Frimout, die aangeeft dat de in 1986 ontplofte shuttle Challenger op dat moment ook wel in zijn hoofd zat.
Zijn zes collega's heeft hij - ondanks de "speciale band" die zij met elkaar hadden - voor het eerst weer samen ontmoet bij het vieren van de twintigste verjaardag van hun missie. Onder hen zijn gezagvoerder Charles Bolden, die later en tot voor kort hoofd van het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA was. Onder Bolden maakte de NASA een grote transformatie door, door de privésector uitdrukkelijker bij de ruimtevaart te betrekken.
Frimout zegt dat deze transformatie "zeer positief" is uitgedraaid. De inbreng van bedrijven als SpaceX was een "boost" voor de ruimtevaart.
Gevraagd of een privé-initiatief als Mars One, waarbij gegadigden een enkele reis naar de Rode Planeet zouden kunnen maken, geldklopperij is, beaamt hij. "Dit is niet ernstig, er zit niets achter, ze hebben zelfs nog geen raket", aldus Frimout die de "zelfmoord" van de kandidaten ook "ethisch niet verantwoord" vindt. "Dit geeft een verkeerd beeld".
Budget
Hij juicht toe dat er wel ernstige programma's zijn om naar analogie van het Apollo-Maanproject een mens veilig naar Mars te brengen en te laten terugkeren. Frimout verwelkomt in dit verband ook de inbreng van de privé-sector, want bijvoorbeeld de NASA "kan dit niet alleen". Dat er in 2040 voor het eerst een mens voet op Mars kan zetten, acht hij haalbaar. Maar daarvoor "zijn er nog de nodige inspanningen vereist".
ESA schrapte in 1992 de plannen voor zijn eigen ruimteveer Hermes waarmee Europa de facto geen autonome bemande toegang tot de ruimte kreeg. Frimout wijst de mening af dat dit een onjuiste beslissing was. Hij wijst erop dat het Europese ruimtevaartbudget bijvoorbeeld maar een zevende van het Amerikaanse bedraagt en dat Europa wellicht niet te middelen heeft voor autonome bemande ruimtevaart. Toch heeft ESA wat bemande ruimtevaart betreft volgens de Belg "zeer goed werk" gedaan, bijvoorbeeld via de onbemande Europese cargo's voor het Internationaal Ruimtestation ISS en de servicemodule die het heeft ontwikkeld voor de toekomstige bemande capsule Orion.
Weinig aandacht
Frimout betreurt dat er in de media weinig of geen aandacht voor wetenschappen en ruimtevaart is. "De mensen hebben de indruk dat er niets meer gebeurt, maar dat is niet zo", beklemtoont hij.
De eerste Belg in de ruimte hekelt dat er in het middelbaar onderwijs bij wijze van spreken "geen woord valt" over ruimtevaart en dat die geen deel uitmaakt van de eindtermen voor het secundair onderwijs in Vlaanderen. Hoewel er initiatieven zijn van bijvoorbeeld ESA om ruimtevaart tot in de scholen te brengen, is Vlaanderen "een van de enige" onder de lidstaten die daaraan niet meedoen. Wel zijn er veel leraars die enthousiast zijn om initiatieven te (willen) nemen, en merkt Frimout zelf bij bezoek aan scholen hoe leerlingen geboeid zijn. Maar een omkadering is er niet.
De pogingen van zijn eigen Euro Space Society om heuse "space teachers" in de Vlaamse scholen te lanceren, botsen ook op een institutioneel obstakel en een "gebrek aan openheid van geest": ruimtevaart is federaal, onderwijs is een bevoegdheid van de gemeenschappen.
Alan Bean maakte deel uit van het tweede team astronauten dat naar de maan gestuurd werd. Hij hoort ook bij het selecte clubje van amper twaalf leden die ooit voet hebben gezet op de maan. De nu 85-jarige Bean zegt in een interview met news.com.au dat aliens nog nooit onze planeet aandeden. En waarom hij dat denkt.
De Apollo 12 had maar drie crewleden aan boord toen het ruimtetuig op 14 november 1969 aan zijn missie begon. Tien dagen later landde de toen 37-jarige piloot van de maanlander, Alan Bean, terug op aarde en had hij als vierde man ooit op de maan gewandeld. De twee maanwandelingen die hij samen met zijn collega Charles 'Pete' Conrad had volbracht, duurden in totaal 7 uur 45 minuten 18 seconden.
Vanuit zijn ervaring heeft Alan Bean zo zijn eigen theorieën als het over buitenaards leven gaat. "Ik denk niet dat er ooit iemand vanuit de ruimte de aarde heeft bezocht", zegt hij aan news.com.au. "Een van de redenen waarom ik dat denk, is dat beschavingen die meer geavanceerd zijn ook altruïstischer en vriendelijker zijn - zoals de aarde zelf vandaag beter is dan ze ooit was. Als ze dus hier zouden landen, dan zouden ze zeggen: 'Wij komen in vrede en we weten dat jullie moeten afrekenen met de ziekte kanker die mensen doodt. Wij hebben dat probleem 50 jaar geleden opgelost. Dit is het apparaatje dat wij op iemands borst plakken en dat kanker geneest. We zullen jullie leren hoe je het moet maken'."
Kanker genezen Bean gaat verder: "Net zoals wij zouden doen als we pakweg over 1.000 jaar naar een andere ster kunnen reizen en een planeet zien, omdat wij zelf dan weten hoe we kanker en aangeboren afwijkingen moeten genezen en we het hen willen aanleren." Lees hieronder waarom hij zeker is dat aliens bestaan
De voormalige astronaut - sinds 1981 overigens voltijds kunstenaar met de maan als thema - twijfelt er wel geen seconde aan dat aliens bestaan. "Er zijn miljarden sterren met allemaal planeten errond, dus statistisch gezien moeten er vele planeten zijn rond heel wat sterren waar er leven is", meent Bean. "Sommige zitten misschien in het stadium waar wij 100.000 jaar geleden zaten, andere staan dan weer waar wij nu staan en waarschijnlijk bevinden nog andere zich 10.000 jaar verder in de toekomst ten opzichte van ons."
Schilder Alan Bean, net 85 geworden, schildert vandaag nog altijd dagelijks. Hij werkt met maangereedschap en gebruikt onder meer "stukjes van Apollo-ruimtetuigen en een snuifje maanstof" voor zijn kunstwerken. Die gaan van de hand voor tienduizenden - soms zelfs honderdduizenden - dollars. "Ik ben dan ook de enige op aarde die dit soort schilderijen met levensechte ervaring kan maken", zegt hij.
A crew member of an offshore supply vessel in the Gulf of Mexico claims he saw a UFO ‘fives times’ the size of his vessel and UFO trackers are now looking for more witnesses to come forward with any information possibly related to the sighting.
The UFO sighting reportedly occurred on Tuesday in the Gulf of Mexico approximately 80 miles southeast of New Orleans.
The sighting was submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center, which apparently tracks UFO sightings and data, by the chief engineer of an OSV working the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday afternoon. According to the eyewitness report:
“Close to 7:00 pm on March 21st, just before dusk, myself and 4 of the crew members aboard our vessel saw a craft that appeared to be five times our 240 ft vessel in length. My line of sight was about 1/4 mile from our vessel. There was a rig behind the craft about a 1/2 mile. i used this to help gauge size of craft. Sighting was approximately 80 miles SE of New Orleans, Louisiana.
The scene lasted about 40 seconds. The craft rose up out of the water (Gulf of Mexico) about 40 feet, no water was dripping from the craft. Within a split second the craft disappeared at a 30 degree angle into the sky. Speed appeared to faster than speed of a light turning on in a room. Within seconds it had disappeared completely.
I can say for sure that the craft was dark colored, oval in shape and made no sound whatsoever.
With as many rigs (2), there has to be more witnesses than just the four on our vessel.
The NUFORC has even highlighted the sighting as being of particular interest among the 246 reports of UFOs received in March alone. And after speaking with the witness by phone, the NUFORC said the report seems legit and has urged more witnesses to come forward.
“We spoke via telephone with this witness, and he seemed to us to be unusually sober-minded,” NUFORC wrote in a note added to the original report. “We suspect that he is a very capable, and very reliable, witness. He estimates that upwards of perhaps 50 people, who were aboard nearby vessels, may have witnessed the event, as well. We would urge those other witnesses to submit reports of what they had witnessed.”
So, did you see a UFO in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this week?
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West Country Experiences Sudden Increase In UFO Sightings
West Country Experiences Sudden Increase In UFO Sightings
It appears that aliens have taken a renewed attention in the paranormal hotspot of the West Country. The increases in sightings and strange events in the part of the country have also gotten the interest of regional media as they reported the latest development in mysterious happenings, crop circles, and legends. Crop circles, in particular, are allegedly created or caused by alien visitors.
Regional media recorded two UFO sightings in just weeks after the news of an alien being spotted in country town Yeovil in Somerset broke off.
In December, there were reports of an alien being observed wearing a Stetson Hat close to Yeovil College vicinity.
Just recently, two more unexplained sightings have been reported over the internet.
A witness said to have seen a UFO in the sky above Lysander Road and the A3088 on March 4 in Yeovil.
The witness, who chose not to be named, said he did not notice anything at the time when he took a photo of the scenery around Lysander Road. He described the environment as so bright that he could not see anything.
He just noticed something strange in the photo when he got home. He saw an object that he thought was flying towards west.
Another witness reported his sighting on February 21 at around 6:30 in the morning over Yeovil. The person managed to get a video recording using a static camera in his garden. He stated in his report that he caught eight strange lights flying in an east to southeasterly direction.
People in Gloucestershire also reported bizarre incidents.
A video shows a mysterious light reportedly filmed above Gloucester at around 5 am on March 13. It is the second one showing unusual lights in the sky over the city.
A day earlier, a video by Rob Wheatman shows an unknown light above Elmbridge. The witness said that it was sparkling like a star from the garden in Elmbridge.
He also saw an orange light from it and flew at speed. He used his video camera with 40x zoom to get images of the light.
Disc UFO over New Jersey was ‘football field’ size, claims witness
Disc UFO over New Jersey was ‘football field’ size, claims witness
A New Jersey witness at Lakehurst reported a 2014 incident where a disc-shaped object the size of a “football field” moved overhead and then quickly moved away, according to testimony in Case 82734 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The object was seen hovering over Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst.
(Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
The witness was driving home from work on December 10, 2014, when the incident began.
“At the end of this one long, hilly road, you come to a four way stop,” the witness stated.“Diagonally, there is a large, empty field. And beyond that is the base. Once I got to the stop sign there was another car in front of me and we simultaneously saw something in the sky and hit the brakes immediately in the middle of the road.”
The object was as large as a football field.
(Credit: Google)
The witness described the object.
“There were 12 or more lights lined up in an oval shape larger than a football field. It could have been much bigger if it was further way. Similar to the Phoenix Lights. I just found that real quick as an example. But the oval shape was more pronounced. The ring or halo of lights were almost tilted on an angle. The lights lit up in a row. The oval sped up quicker and quicker until it vanished completely without a trace. The reason why I decided to write about this now is because I was driving past that field the other day and realized you can see stars everywhere in the sky, except for where those lights were above the base.”
The object moved away very quickly.
Pictured: Lakehurst, NJ. (Credit: Google)
Lakehurst is a borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, population 2,654. Lakehurst Maxfield Field, sitting just north of the city, is the naval component of Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, a United States Air Force-managed joint base headquartered approximately 25 miles (40 km) east-southeast of Trenton in Manchester Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States. It is primarily the home to Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Lakerhurst, although the airfield supports several other flying and non-flying units as well.
New Jersey MUFON Chief Investigator Ken Pfeifer 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.
Euclid: ESA's Search for Dark Matter & Dark Energy
Euclid: ESA's Search for Dark Matter & Dark Energy
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
An artist's concept of the ESA's Euclid misssion to study dark energy.
Credit: ESA/C. Carreau
Euclid is a mission planned by the European Space Agency (ESA) that aims to learn more about the parts of the universe we can't see — specifically, dark energy and dark matter. These form most of the universe and are thought to be responsible for phenomena such as the acceleration of the universe's expansion.
Euclid is expected to launch in 2020 from French Guiana aboard a Soyuz rocket. It will take roughly 30 days for Euclid to make its way to its planned location in space, which is a gravitationally stable area known as a Lagrange point. Euclid will be at L2, which lies about a million miles from Earth but in the opposite direction of the sun. At this point, with the Earth, moon and sun behind it, a spacecraft can get a clear view of deep space.
As a survey mission, Euclid will last at least six years and cover 15,000 square degrees of sky. Its survey will be performed as a "step and stare," meaning that the telescope will do measurements on about 0.5 square degrees of the sky at a time.
Euclid history
The ESA's current guideline for science missions is called Cosmic Vision 2015-2025. In 2007, a proposal process for Cosmic Vision resulted in two missions that were intended to measure the geometry of the universe: DUNE (Dark Universe Explorer) and SPACE (Spectroscopic All Sky Cosmic Explorer.)
DUNE was supposed to image the sky across a wide field to study dark energy and dark matter. Its primary measurement method was weak gravitational lensing. SPACE was supposed to create a 3-D evolutionary map of the universe across 10 billion years, by measuring galaxy redshifts and spectra. However, after an assessment study those two missions were combined into one: Euclid. (Euclid is named after an Ancient Greek mathematician who is sometimes called the "father of geometry.")
In 2011, ESA selected Solar Orbiter and Euclid as the first two of its medium-class or M-class missions, among several proposals. Solar Orbiter is expected to launch in 2018, and Euclid in 2019.
In 2013, NASA signed a memorandum of understanding with ESA to provide 20 detectors for Euclid's near-infrared instrument. NASA also nominated 40 U.S. scientists to join the Euclid consortium, which builds the instruments and will later parse the mission's science data. Later that year, Italy's Thales Alenia Space was selected as prime contractor for the mission. Euclid passed its preliminary design review in 2015, and the first parts of the flight hardware — four detectors for the visible imager – were delivered to ESA in early 2017.
Euclid science
We can only see a fraction of the known universe. Ordinary matter makes up about 4 percent, while dark matter makes up 20 percent and dark energy makes up 76 percent. Understanding more about dark matter and dark energy could help scientists, for example, learn why the universe is accelerating in its expansion. There is not enough "ordinary" matter to account for the acceleration.
Euclid will show scientists more about the dark universe. One of its main goals is to accurately map galaxy redshift, which occurs when an object moves away from us. The light shifts to the red end of the spectrum, as its wavelengths get longer. If an object moves closer, the light moves to the blue end of the spectrum, as its wavelengths get shorter. The mission will look back to galaxies that formed as early as 10 billion years ago, or more than double the solar system's age. In its prime mission, Euclid will map about half of the sky.
Specifically, Euclid's detectors are supposed to conduct two cosmological probes. One will study weak gravitational lensing, which happens when a concentration of matter bends light as light travels toward the observer. This is useful for mapping dark matter and for inferring dark energy by measuring how much galaxy images are distorted by the lensing.
The other probe will study baryonic acoustic oscillations (BAO), which measures the spatial distribution of galaxies. Across very large scales, galaxies tend to cluster in pairs separated by a standard distance. This standard distance is linked to sound waves in plasma (supercharged gas) from the early universe; the sound waves propagated from dark matter halos, or concentrations of dark matter associated with galaxies. BAOs are therefore a standard ruler to measure the universe's expansion, and dark energy as well.
Euclid's science will be performed by two instruments, and the spacecraft's 1.2-meter mirror will split light between them for analysis:
A visible imager (VIS), which will include dozens of charge-coupled devices specially formulated for the mission. ESA said the devices will include high efficiency, low noise and good radiation tolerance. The field of view of VIS is a little larger than the area covered by two full moons.
The Near-Infrared Spectrometer and Photometer (NISP), which will provide near-infrared photometry of galaxies. The aim is to combine NISP's and VIS's observations to show the galaxy redshift observed by Euclid.
The overall goals of Euclid (in ESA's words) are:
Investigate the properties of the dark energy by accurately measuring both the acceleration as well as the variation of the acceleration at different ages of the universe;
Test the validity of general relativity on cosmic scales;
Investigate the nature and properties of dark matter by mapping the 3-dimensional dark matter distribution in the universe;
Refine the initial conditions at the beginning of our universe, which seed the formation of the cosmic structures we see today.
Other dark-matter missions
Dark matter is still a relatively young science, but there have been some observations by other space missions to assist with Euclid's work.
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope launched in 2008. One of its science goals is to look at dark matter, specifically by probing phenomena such as excess gamma-rays from the Milky Way's center. In 2014, NASA announced that the excess emission seen in that area "is consistent with some forms of dark matter." In 2017, observations of the nearby Andromeda Galaxy revealed the same phenomena.
Other space missions have glimpsed dark matter, even though it wasn't in their primary missions. One example is a 2015 study of 72 galaxy cluster collisions that used data from both the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory. At the time, scientists said the study helped set limits on the nature of dark matter. "Astronomers can map the distribution of dark matter by analyzing how the light from distant sources beyond the cluster is magnified and distorted by gravitational effects," the Harvard University Chandra X-Ray Observatory page said in a press release.
Hubble also performed a survey that helped map out the distribution of dark matter in the universe, NASA said in a 2007 press release.
ESA's Gaia mission launched in 2013 to create the most accurate map of star locations in the sky. It is thought that charting their movements will reveal more information about the nature of dark matter, and how it influenced the universe's history.
Possible planets of the Gliese 581 system, superimposed on a picture of our own solar system to compare orbital distances.
Credit: National Science Foundation/Zina Deretsky
Gliese 581c is a super-Earth planet that was discovered in 2007. It resides in the Gliese 581 system, which at 20 light-years from Earth is relatively close to our planet (in celestial terms). While early research suggested that Gliese 581c may have liquid water on its surface because it resides in its star's "habitable zone," more recent research suggests it may have a Venus-like environment.
Discovery
The existence of Gliese 581c was announced in 2007 in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics. The paper was led by Stephane Udry, an astronomer at Geneva Observatory. Gliese 581c was one of two super-Earth planets his team found, both at the edge of the star's habitable zone.
Gliese 581c was found using the radial-velocity method, meaning that it was detected through tugs on its parent star. The instrument that made the discovery was the HARPS spectrograph on a 3.6-meter telescope managed by the European Southern Observatory in Chile. (HARPS is one of the more prolific planet-hunting instruments available to astronomers today.)
At the time, the researchers said Gliese 581c is "the known exoplanet which most resembles our own Earth" because it was only five times the mass of our planet. (Subsequent searches have found many planets much closer to our Earth's mass.)
While Gliese 581c was classified as Earth-like, the researchers cautioned that actual conditions on the planet may be very different than our own. The surface temperature, for example, would depend on the composition and thickness of the atmosphere. The atmosphere also determines how much light is reflected off the planet, and the magnitude of the greenhouse effect.
The parent star of Gliese 581c, called Gliese 581, is an M-class dwarf star. It's cooler than the sun, which means its habitable zone would be closer in than our own solar system. M dwarfs are favored for planetary searches because they are dimmer, meaning that planets passing across the star would be easier to see. There also is a smaller relative size between the planet and the star, making their gravitational effects more obvious.
Characteristics and habitability
Researchers examining Gliese 581 have had different opinions over the years about how many planets were there; one example was the discovery of Gliese 581g in 2010. Signatures of the planet did not show up in independent searches, and today most astronomers in that field consider that the planet does not exist.
Not knowing the number of planets exactly makes it difficult to determine the radius of Gliese 581c. The planet has not been seen directly passing across the face of its star, so astronomers can only learn about its characteristics from Gliese 581c's influence on other planets and the star. The radius would in turn determine such matters as whether the planet is closer to an Earth-like planet (with a smaller atmosphere) or closer to a Neptune-like planet (with a much thicker atmosphere).
Gliese 581c takes about 13 days to orbit its parent star. (By contrast, Mercury's orbit around our much larger sun takes about 88 days.) Because Gliese 581c is so close to its star, a common belief is that the planet is tidally locked. This means that as it orbits, the planet always keeps the same side toward the sun. This phenomenon is common among moons of Jupiter and Saturn in our own solar system. Earth's moon is also tidally locked to our own planet.
If a planet is tidally locked, this means that one side (the star-facing side) is always warmer than the other side (which always faces away from the star.) Any considerations of habitability would have to take this into account. The only firm example of a habitable planet that we know of – our own Earth – has a regular day-night cycle in most areas of the planet, except the poles. Over billions of years, lifeforms have adapted to this cycle. It's unclear how life would survive in an area of perpetual day or perpetual night, but studies are ongoing.
A 2007 follow-up paper in Astronomy and Astrophysics, led by Werner von Bloh at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, suggested that Gliese 581c is too hot to support life because it is so close to its parent star. This means that the planet may have more of a Venus-like environment, with an extremely hot surface and a runaway greenhouse effect under a thick atmosphere. This was confirmed in a 2011 study in Astronomy and Astrophysics led by Y. Hu, who is with Peking University's laboratory for climate and ocean-atmosphere studies.
While Gliese 581c has not been discussed much in scientific literature in recent years, astronomers are working more generally to improve their models of planets that are close in to their parent stars. An example is a 2013 article published in the journal Nature, in which a team led by Jeremy Leconte examines the conditions under which runaway greenhouse effects happen on Earth-like planets. This line of research is receiving increased attention again after the discovery of Proxima Centuari b, a potentially habitable planet just four light-years from Earth, in 2016.
Dwarf Planet Ceres' Water-Ice Deposits Tied to Its Changing Tilt
Dwarf Planet Ceres' Water-Ice Deposits Tied to Its Changing Tilt
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor
Ceres' northern hemisphere, when the axial tilt is 2 degrees — the minimum experienced by the dwarf planet during its trips around the sun. Regions that remain in shadow are shown in blue. The illumination shown is for the northern solstice, which is when the north pole is most illuminated.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
The location of newfound water-ice deposits on Ceres is linked to wild swings in the dwarf planet's tilt over the eons, a new study suggests.
Ice on Ceres — the largest body in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — survives in permanently shadowed regions that don't receive sunlight. But these regions change drastically over a period of just 24,500 years, researchers determined.
Ceres' tilt relative to the plane of its path around the sun changes tenfold, from 2 degrees to about 20 degrees, in that time. The dwarf planet's current tilt, also known as obliquity, is 4 degrees; by contrast, Earth's tilt (which is responsible for the seasons) is 23.5 degrees. [Amazing Photos of Dwarf Planet Ceres]
"We found a correlation between craters that stay in shadow at maximum obliquity, and bright deposits that are likely water ice," study lead author Anton Ermakov, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, said in a NASA statement. "Regions that never see sunlight over millions of years are more likely to have these deposits."
The last time Ceres reached its maximum tilt was 14,000 years ago. When the tilt of Ceres is at a minimum, which is close to the conditions happening right now, there are large portions of the dwarf planet — roughly 800 square miles (2,000 square kilometers) — that don't receive direct sunlight, most of which are near the poles, study team members said.
This animation shows how the illumination of Ceres' northern hemisphere varies with the dwarf planet's axial tilt. Shadowed regions are highlighted for tilts of 2 degrees, 12 degrees and 20 degrees.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
But when Ceres' tilt gets closer to 20 degrees, the regions protected from sunlight diminish to just 0.4 to 4 square miles (1 to 10 square km). Those regions that remain in shadow even during maximum obliquity could be the same areas that maintain surface ice, the researchers said.
The new study used data from NASA's Dawn spacecraft, which has been orbiting the 590-mile-wide (950 km) Ceres since March 2015, to take measurements of the dwarf planet's shape and gravity, and to try to reconstruct its history. It focused on polar craters and looked at how the shadowing shifts in these regions as Ceres' axial tilt changes.
The researchers found that, in the northern hemisphere, only two of the persistently shadowed regions that exist today will still be dark when Ceres reaches a 20-degree tilt. Both regions have bright deposits today, which could indicate water ice. Two persistently shadowed regions are also present in the southern hemisphere, and one of those regions has a bright area, the researchers said.
In 2016, a study that analyzed Dawn data indicated that there is bright material in 10 craters on Ceres. Dawn's Visible and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer determined that one of these regions contains water ice.
Ceres isn't the only spot in the solar system known to have permanently shadowed regions on its surface; Mercury and Earth's moon also have these zones. However, Ceres has much more variability in its tilt because it is not stabilized by the sun (as Mercury is) or a planet (as Earth's moon is), the researchers said.
While scientists believe that Mercury and Earth's moon both received most of their surface water from small, impacting asteroids and comets, there is more debate regarding Ceres. The European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory detected a tenuous water atmosphere around the dwarf planet in 2012 to 2013. This means that the ice could come from water falling back from Ceres' atmosphere, scientists have said, though the stuff could also come from small impactors.
"The idea that ice could survive on Ceres for long periods of time is important as we continue to reconstruct the dwarf planet's geological history, including whether it has been giving off water vapor," study co-author and Dawn deputy principal investigator Carol Raymond, also of JPL, said in the same statement.
The new study was published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
'Life' Brings Alien Terror to the International Space Station
'Life' Brings Alien Terror to the International Space Station
By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer
No science-fiction movie that takes place at the International Space Station has been quite as terrifying as "Life," a new space thriller that comes out in theaters today (March 24).
In the film, a Mars sample-return mission delivers the first proof of alien life to a group of astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS). What is at first a harmless, single-celled organism sealed inside a box in the lab grows bigger, stronger, smarter and bloodthirsty. When it breaks out of its container and comes after the astronauts, all hell breaks loose. ['Life' Movie Brings Terrifying Space Thrills (Photo Gallery)]
The all-star cast who play the astronauts in "Life" do not disappoint. Jake Gyllenhaal stars as a doctor who has spent more than 473 days aboard the ISS. Rebecca Ferguson plays a microbiologist whose job it is to protect everyone at the station and on Earth from possible contamination by the alien. Ryan Reynolds plays the role of a spacewalk specialist and provides some necessary comedic relief to this gruesome story.
The plot of "Life" is a bit of a mashup between the movies "Gravity" and "Alien." Just like in the "Alien" saga, the extraterrestrial in "Life" (which is nicknamed Calvin after school children on Earth won a naming contest) is out to kill every living thing aboard the spacecraft — in this case, the ISS. As the astronauts fight for their lives, they demolish the ISS. Though Calvin is the reason for their panic, the astronauts create more problems trying to kill it.
At times, the astronauts do things that would be considered foolish in real life, such as using fire to try to kill Calvin. (Starting fires is strictly forbidden at the ISS.) However, watching Ryan Reynolds blast flames at an octopus-like monster while chasing it around the ISS was worth the slight technical inaccuracy.
Astronauts find the first proof of life on Mars in a sample brought to the space station. The creature, which they named Calvin, seems harmless at first before growing into a bloodthirsty monster.
Credit: Sony Pictures/CTMG Inc.
While the film is more of a horror flick than a science-driven narrative about extraterrestrial life and the International Space Station, there's plenty of real space science throughout the story to keep even hard-core space geeks entertained. The ISS is accurately and brilliantly rendered, and space-savvy viewers may recognize some of its features, such as the Canadarm robotic arm, the Cupola window and the docked Soyuz crew capsules.
Despite the superb acting and production that went into the making of this film, the story left me feeling a bit unsettled and unsatisfied near the end. For a group of highly intelligent astronauts at the space station, the astronauts made a lot of bad decisions that only make matters worse. I would have expected better from a group of trained professionals with "the right stuff." Then again, it's hard to guess how astronauts in the real world would deal with a situation as crazy as this. After all, they are still humans.
Overall, the film is worth a watch for anyone who's into space, horror, or both. But if you're expecting a heroic story of six brave astronauts who save the day, you might be disappointed with the ending.
"Life" is rated R (for violence, gore, terror and profanity) and opens in theaters nationwide today (March 24).
Breaking the 'Speed Limit': Simulation Shows Monster Black Holes' Rapid Growth
Breaking the 'Speed Limit': Simulation Shows Monster Black Holes' Rapid Growth
By Sarah Lewin, Staff Writer
The massive black hole shown at left in this drawing is able to rapidly grow as intense radiation from a galaxy nearby shuts down star-formation in its host galaxy.
Illustration Courtesy of John Wise, Georgia Tech
They grow up so fast: A new simulation shows how supermassive black holes could have gotten so large, so quickly in the early universe — by taking a shortcut via a star.
Supermassive black holes form the cores of many galaxies, including the Milky Way, and researchers have found evidence of them dating to very early in the universe's history. In fact, seemingly too early — supermassive black holes take a long time to form, and researchers have been searching for explanations of how they were able to grow so massive (several billion times the sun's mass) within the first billion years after the Big Bang, surpassing their apparent "speed limit" on growth.
According to a new simulation, black holes can only grow so fast, but stars can expand to incredible size even faster in certain conditions before collapsing down into a black hole. That way, the energetic galactic centers can form earlier than expected. The researchers also explained their simulation in a new video.
"It turns out that while supermassive black holes have a growth speed limit, certain types of massive stars do not," Joseph Smidt, a researcher at the theoretical design division of Los Alamos National Laboratory and the first author on the new work, said in a statement. "We asked, what if we could find a place where stars could grow much faster, perhaps to the size of many thousand suns; could they form supermassive black holes in less time?"
A massive, extremely energetic black hole system called a quasar grows as it accretes material in a new simulation.
Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory
The researchers compared their models to the most distant known energetic galactic center, called a quasar, and one of the most massive of those objects, which is also ancient, to see whether that method could have quickly grown them to full size. If ultralarge stars are born in the right environment — one with the ideal combination of rapidly incoming material and local conditions — they could indeed collapse and form quasars of that mass and age, the researchers found.
The simulation also ended up accurately modeling star formation and other phenomena that happen around black holes, the distribution of galaxy densities, gas temperature changes and ionization, the researchers said in the statement.
A new simulation from Los Alamos National Laboratory suggests how supermassive black holes might have formed extra quickly in the early universe.
Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory
"This was largely unexpected," Smidt said. "I thought this idea of growing a massive star in a special configuration and forming a black hole with the right kind of masses was something we could approximate, but to see the black hole inducing star formation and driving the dynamics in ways that we've observed in nature was really the icing on the cake."
The new work has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, and it is currently available online at arXiv.org.
What is needed for life on another planet?IBTimes UK
Former Nasa astronaut Alan Bean has said he does not think an advanced alien civilisation has ever visited Earth – because if they had they would have made contact.
Bean, now 85, was the fourth man to walk on the Moon with the Apollo 12 mission. In an interview with news.com.au, he said there is little doubt in his mind that we are not alone in the universe – with billions of stars and planets orbiting them, statistically speaking, life must have evolved on some of them.
However, he does not think they have ever been to Earth – and suggests a few reasons why: "I do not believe that anyone from outer space has ever visited the Earth. One of reasons I don't believe they have been here is that civilisations that are more advanced are more altruistic and friendly – like Earth, which is better than it used to be – so they would have landed and said 'we come in peace and we know from our studies you have cancer that kills people, we solved that problem 50 years ago, here's the gadget we put on a person's chest that will cure it, we will show you how to make it'.
"Just like some day, say 1000 years from now, when we can go to another star and see a planet, that's what we would do because we will know how to cure cancer, cure birth defects, so we would teach them."
Discussing what other habitable exoplanets – and the aliens on them – might be like, Bean said it would depend on how long life has had to emerge. "Maybe some of them are like our life was 100,000 years ago, and some of them are like we are now, and there are probably some out there that are a 10,000 years in the future from where we are now," he said.
What would alien life be like?IStock
The potential for finding alien life took a step forward recently with the discovery of the Trappist 1 star system 40 light years away. This star was found to have seven planets orbiting it – three of which appear to be in the "habitable zone" – where it is not too hot or cold for liquid water to exist.
Over the coming years, scientists will be able to better identify planets with the potential to host life with the launch of the James Webb Telescope. This is due to launch next year and will be able to study the atmospheres of exoplanets, providing the opportunity to identify the building blocks of life.
Artist impression of what it would be like to stand on the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f.NASA/JPL-Caltech
As well as missions to Mars and Alpha Centauri (our closest neighbouring star), space agencies across the world are planning to return to the Moon. The ESA, for example, hopes to build a lunar base in the coming decades.
Speaking about what it was like to land on the Moon, Bean said: "It was hard to believe (we) were 235,189 miles from home. I never heard any astronaut say that he wanted to go to the Moon so he would be able to look back and see Earth.
"We all wanted to see what the Moon looked like close up. Yet, for most of us, the most memorable sight was not of the Moon, but of our beautiful blue and white home, moving majestically around the sun, all alone in infinite black space."
On the future of space travel, he added: "Humans can do a lot of amazing things. President Kennedy said we were going to go to Moon by the end of the decade [1960s]. It was an impossible dream and human beings got behind the whole idea and planned and worked to achieve it."
A pod of the London Eye is silhouetted against the MoonToby Melville/Reuters
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Europa: Our best shot at finding alien life?
Europa: Our best shot at finding alien life?
By Paul RinconScience editor, BBC News website, The Woodlands, Texas
Image copyrightNASA/JPL-CALTECH/SETI INSTITUTEImage captionEuropa holds a vast, salty ocean beneath its fractured ice shell
After two decades of development and "heartbreak", scientists are on the verge of sending missions to explore the ocean world of Europa. Could this be our best shot at finding life elsewhere in the Solar System?
Orbiting the giant planet Jupiter is an icy world, just a little smaller than Earth's moon.
From a distance, Europa appears to be etched with a nexus of dark streaks, like the product of a toddler's chaotic scribbling.
Close up, these are revealed to be long linear cracks in the ice, extending in some cases for thousands of kilometres. Many are filled with an unknown contaminant that scientists dub the "brown gunk". Elsewhere, the surface is tortured and irregular, as if massive slabs of ice have drifted, spun and flipped over in slush.
Jupiter's immense gravity helps generate tidal forces that repeatedly stretch and relax the moon. But the stresses that created Europa's smashed up terrain are best explained by the ice shell floating on an ocean of liquid water.
"The fact that there's liquid water underneath the surface which we know from previous missions, in particular from the magnetometer observations made by the Galileo spacecraft as it flew past [in the 1990s], makes it one of the most exciting potential targets to look for life," says Prof Andrew Coates of UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory in Surrey, UK.
Europa's briny deep might extend 80-170km into the moon's interior, meaning it could be holding twice as much liquid water as there is in all of Earth's oceans.
Image copyrightNASA/JPL-CALTECHImage captionEuropa Clipper will make at least 45 flybys of the jovian moon during its primary mission
And while water is one vital prerequisite for life, Europa's ocean might have others - such as a source of chemical energy for microbes. What's more, the ocean may communicate with the surface through a number of means, including warm blobs of ice from below rising up through the ice shell. So studying the surface could provide clues to what's going on in the ocean.
The first is a flyby mission called Europa Clipper that would likely launch in 2022. The second is a lander mission that would follow a few years later.
Dr Robert Pappalardo, from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is Clipper's project scientist.
"We're really trying to get at Europa's potential habitability, the ingredients for life: water, and whether there's chemical energy for life," he tells me. "We do that by trying to understand the ocean and the ice shell, the composition and the geology. And mixed into those is the level of current activity at Europa."
Clipper carries a payload of nine instruments, including a camera that will image most of the surface; spectrometers to understand its composition; ice-penetrating radar to map the ice shell in three dimensions and find water beneath the ice shell; and a magnetometer to characterise the ocean.
However, since the Galileo spacecraft provided evidence for an ocean in the 1990s, we've learned that Europa isn't one of a kind.
"One of the most amazing and significant discoveries of the past decade or so in planetary exploration is that you can't swing a dead cat in the outer Solar System without hitting an ocean world," says Clipper's programme scientist Curt Niebur, from Nasa headquarters in Washington DC.
At Saturn's moon Enceladus, for example, ice from a subsurface ocean gushes into space through fissures at the south pole.
The saturnian satellite could also get a dedicated mission in the 2020s, but Dr Niebur believes Europa stands out: "Europa is much larger than Enceladus and has more of everything: more geological activity, more water, more space for that water, more heat, more raw ingredients and more stability in its environment."
But there's something else that marks the moon out: its neighbourhood. Europa's orbital path takes it deep into Jupiter's powerful magnetic field, which traps and speeds up particles.
The resulting belts of intense radiation fry spacecraft electronics, limiting the durations of missions to months or even weeks. That said, this radiation also drives reactions on Europa's surface, yielding chemicals called oxidants. On Earth, biology exploits the chemical reactions between oxidants and compounds known as reductants to supply the energy needed for life.
However, the oxidants made on the surface are only useful to Europan microbes if they can get down into the ocean. Fortunately, the process of convection that pushes warm blobs of ice upwards might also drive surface material down. Once in the ocean, oxidants could react with reductants made by seawater reacting with the rocky ocean floor.
"You need both poles of the battery," explains Robert Pappalardo.
Image copyrightNASAImage captionArtwork (not to scale): Europa in cross-section, showing processes from the seafloor to the surface (Europa Lander Study 2016 Report)
For scientists like Dr Pappalardo, the impending missions are the realisation of a two-decades-long dream. Since the first Europa mission concepts were drawn up in the late 1990s, one promising proposal after another has been thwarted.
During the noughties, the US and Europe even pooled resources on a mission that would have sent separate spacecraft to Europa and Jupiter's larger ice moon Ganymede. But the plan was cancelled amid budget cuts, with the European part evolving into the Juice mission.
"I don't think there's been a Europa mission over the past 18 years that I have not either had my fingers in or has not passed under my eye," says Curt Niebur.
"It's been a long road. The road to launch is always a rocky one, and it's always full of heartbreak. We've experienced that more than most on Europa."
Exploring Europa is costly - though no more so than other Nasa "flagship" missions such as Cassini or the Curiosity rover.
There are inherent engineering challenges, such as operating within Jupiter's radiation belts. Spacecraft instruments need to be shielded with materials such as titanium metal but, says Dr Pappalardo, "you can only shield them so much because they have to be able to see Europa".
So to keep Clipper safe, Nasa is going to stray from the rulebook somewhat. "The assumption always was: Galileo flew past Europa, so the next mission has to be an orbiter. That's just how we do business," says Dr Niebur. But rather than orbit Europa, Clipper will instead reduce its exposure to mission-shortening radiation by orbiting Jupiter, and make at least 45 close flybys of the icy moon over three-and-a-half years.
"We realised we could avoid those technical challenges of orbiting Europa, make the mission much more achievable and still get the science we want if we fly past it a lot," says Clipper's program scientist.
The strength of sunlight near Europa is about a 30th of what it is at Earth. But Nasa decided it could power Clipper with solar panels rather than the radioactive generators some other outer planet missions have used. "All those years of study forced us to burn away our pre-conceptions and get us to really focus on reality, not on our wish-list... to focus on the best science," says Curt Niebur.
In 2011, following the cancellation of the US-European mission, a National Research Council report restated the importance of exploring the icy moon. Even so, Nasa remained wary because of the cost.
Image copyrightNASA/JPL/UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONAImage captionFour views of Europa's surface from the Galileo mission, clockwise from top left: (1) disrupted ice crust in the Conamara region; (2) crustal plates, which are thought to have broken apart and "rafted" into new positions; (3) reddish bands; (4) an impact structure about the size of Hawaii
But the support on Capitol Hill has been pivotal. A Europa venture has bipartisan backing, and in Republican Congressman John Culberson - the chair of the House Appropriations Subcommittee, which has jurisdiction over Nasa's budget - the mission has had a unique champion.
The 60-year-old Texan lawmaker has been entranced by Europa ever since observing it through the Celestron 8 telescope he bought himself as a high school graduation present. Over the last four years, the subcommittee he chairs has channelled money to scientists working on Europa, even when the space agency's chief wasn't asking for it.
Generous investment means that much more of the technical work has been completed on Clipper than is normal for a mission at its stage (phase B) in the Nasa project cycle. The lander is at an earlier stage of development, called pre-phase A, but a report on the mission's science value was discussed at a workshop here at the LPSC.
The lander has received no funding in the President's 2018 budget request for Nasa. But Dr Jim Green, director of planetary science at the agency, tells me: "That mission in particular is tremendously exciting, because it tells us the science we have to do from the surface of a moon that's really hard to get to.
"We still have quite the process to go through, do the due diligence, understanding the kind of measurements we need to make. Then we'll work with the administration in the future at the right time to see if, budgetarily, we can move forward with it."
Some innovative Europa lander concepts have been proposed over the last two decades, reflecting the scientific bounty to be had by touching down. Dr Geraint Jones of the Mullard Space Science Laboratory has worked on one concept called a penetrator.
"They haven't been flown in space before, but it's a really promising technology," he explains. A projectile deployed from a satellite hits the surface "really hard, at about 300m/second, about 700 miles an hour", exposing pristine ice for analysis by onboard instruments, which could be designed to withstand the impact.
By contrast, Nasa's forthcoming lander would put down softly with the help of the Sky Crane technology used to drop the Curiosity rover safely on Mars in 2012. During the touchdown, it will use an autonomous landing system to detect and avoid surface hazards in real time.
Clipper will provide the reconnaissance for a landing site. "I like to think of it as finding that right oasis, where there might be water close to the surface. Maybe it's warm and maybe it has organic materials," says Bob Pappalardo.
The craft would be equipped with a sensitive instrument payload and a counter-rotating saw to help get at fresher samples below the radiation-processed surface ice.
"The lander is all about hitting the freshest, most pristine sample possible. One way to do that is to dig deep, another way is going to where there is some kind of eruption on the surface - like a plume - that's dropping very fresh material onto the surface," says Curt Niebur.
In recent years, the Hubble telescope has made tentative observations of plumes of water-ice erupting from beneath Europa, much as they do on Enceladus. But there's no point in the lander going to the site of a decades-old eruption, it would need to visit the location of a much more recent plume.
So scientists need to understand what's controlling these geysers: for example, Clipper will determine whether the plumes are correlated with any hot spots on the surface.
Image copyrightNASA/JPL-CALTECHImage captionNasa's Europa lander could determine whether there was or is life on the jovian moon
Earth's seas are teeming with life, so it can be hard for us to contemplate the prospect of a sterile, 100km-plus deep ocean on Europa. But the scientific threshold for detecting life is set very high. So will we be able to recognise alien life if it's there?
"The goal of the lander mission is not simply to detect life [to our satisfaction], but to convince everyone else that we have done so," Dr Niebur explains. "It does no good for us to invest in this mission if all we create is scientific controversy."
Thus, the lander's science definition team came up with two ways to address this. First, any detection of life has to be based on multiple, independent lines of evidence from direct measurements.
"There's no silver bullet; you don't do one measurement and say: 'aha, eureka we've found it'. You look at the sum total," says Dr Niebur. Second, the scientists have come up with a framework to interpret those results, some of which might be positive, while others negative: "It creates a decision tree that marches through all the different variables. Following all these different paths, the end result is: yes, we've found life, or no we haven't," he says.
At the lander workshop here at the LPSC, Nasa's Kevin Hand described the process as "biosignature bingo". Now, the team will have to see if the scientific community is persuaded.
Curt Niebur explains: "I want to have that discussion now, today, years before we launch so that we can all be focused on analysing the data once we land."
Daniel Espinosa’s highly anticipated sci-fi thriller, Life, isn’t just 2017's answer to Alien—it’s much scarier. Unlike most movies in the genre, Life is terrifying because it taps into legitimate concerns about contaminating Earth that even NASA, ESA, and other space agencies haven’t entirely figured out—the fear that in our longing to discover alien life, we bring something back to our planet that could destroy it.
WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD
Life follows a team of astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) as they struggle—and mostly die—trying to contain a hostile Martian life form. The baby alien, which is nicknamed “Calvin,” feasts on tasty human flesh to satiate its hunger, though there may be some sort of sadistic thrill involved, too. For what it’s worth, Calvin looks like an angry head of lettuce, which unintentionally provides comic relief during the gruesome death scenes. At some point, you can’t help but root for the guy.
Fans of Michael Crichton’s The Andromeda Strain or H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds are already familiar with the particular brand of terror known as backward contamination; basically, it’s the idea that we—the humans—act as vessels for dangerous hitchhikers, unintentionally bringing a deadly bug back to Earth. This could lead to contamination and, in the worst case scenario, complete annihilation of the human race.
For this reason and its converse, forward contamination—in which humans bring something dangerous to another planet—NASA has its own office of planetary protection, which is committed to “promot[ing] the responsible exploration of the solar system” and “ensur[ing] that we take prudent precautions to protect Earth’s biosphere in case life does exist elsewhere.” The name is a bit misleading, considering it’s not much of an office: there’s only one person in the entire department, Dr. Catharine Conley. We’ve reached out to Conley and will update this post if and when we hear back.
From a planetary protection standpoint, it’s difficult to gauge how well the crew from Life did in their efforts to contain Calvin, simply because there’s currently no protocol in place on how to handle extraterrestrial life. The crew members pretty much have free reign to handle Calvin as they see fit, even if that means implementing dubious measures like electrocuting the shit out of him. Spoiler alert: this does not end well.
Image: Sony Pictures
But this might not be far from how such an encounter would actually go down, which is even scarier than fiction. According to Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the SETI Institute—an organization that searches for extraterrestrial life—crew members aboard the ISS probably wouldn’t have stuck to backwards contamination protocol, even if there was one in place.
“In the case of Mars, if you brought a rock back, you’d keep it in a box and you’d make sure it was handled carefully, like potentially dangerous material,” he explained. “But if you were on the ISS...could you single-handedly decide to shock it with 2,000 volts and see what it’d do? I suspect they could do that, since NASA doesn’t try and remote control these guys all together.” That said, seeing as alien life would be the most groundbreaking discovery in human history, it’s fair to surmise there’d be lots of communication with NASA over how to handle it. Whether the astronauts would adhere to the agency’s advice is a different story.
Shostak noted that the real scientific flub in the film is assuming—like so many sci-fi thrillers do—that an alien would want anything to do with us at all, nevermind eat us.
“This guy’s biology is nicely attuned to eat humans, even though he’s probably have never encountered a human before,” he said. “That’s pretty much like you going to Mars and starting to eat the dirt and the rocks and figuring you’ll get your nutrition that way.”
In short, we’d probably make a pretty unappetizing meal for an alien life form. Meanwhile, things that can actually kill us are already all around us.
“There’s this idea that extraterrestrial lifeforms can make us sick, it’s the working Andromeda Strain idea,” Shostak said. “It’s kind of weird, because you think of the kinds of things that do make you sick—bacteria and viruses—they’ve been sharing an evolutionary path with you for four billion years. They know all about what’s in your body that they need—these guys won’t.”
Image: Sony Pictures
Life is not just another movie about doom in space—it’s about the quiet, and inexhaustible anxiety we carry with us no matter where we go.
There’s a deeper terror lurking in Life—one that grows out of our quixotic longing to find life beyond Earth. Calvin is a tangible fear, but he also represents the loneliness that latches onto us and, over time, consumes us. This sort of anxiety no doubt is exacerbated if a person is watching Earth from about 249 miles above it—so close to everyone they love, and yet hundreds of miles out of reach. Whether it’s Dr. David Jordan (Jake Gyllenhaal) tearfully reading the lines from his childhood favorite book, Goodnight Moon, or mechanic Rory Adams (Ryan Reynolds) remarking on how much he misses his dog, it’s evident that all the characters in Life are reaching for the world they left behind. With Calvin, who literally attaches himself to people and eviscerates them from the inside-out, the film forces us to question whether or not we’re alone in the universe, but more importantly, why our own loneliness causes us to self-sabotage.
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This composite image from live transmissions acquired by NASA’s International Space Station cameras shows two objects moving across and above Earth. To watch the full sequences of the objects gliding from left to right, check out the second video in the story below.
For years, UFO hunters have waged an ongoing battle with NASA, the United States’ space agency. Armed with nothing more than an internet connection, anyone can spend hours on end, searching for unexplained objects that might fly through the view finder of one of several HD video cameras mounted on the International Space Station.
There are numerous examples over several years of where ISS watchers claim to have seen, recorded and posted YouTube videos of UFOs, hoping to convince the public that alien ships often visit the ISS.
Media outlets like CBS, International Business Times and Australian news site news.com.au have reported on accounts of NASA’s purported conspiracy to keep the idea of aliens near the space station away from the public. Drudge Report’s archive includes stories related to NASA UFO conspiracies dating back to at least 2002.
In the following clip, European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti demonstrates how to operate ISS window shutters. According to YouTube channel secureteam10, she’s missing some alien ship maneuvers taking place right outside the window.
Secureteam10 positions itself as an “underground” research team that exposes the truth about extraterrestrial and UFO coverups.
When The Huffington Post reached out to NASA regarding recent video captures of alleged UFOs at the ISS, an agency spokesperson sent us this statement:
No unidentified objects in the popular sense have been seen from the International Space Station. Reflections from station windows, the spacecraft structure itself or lights from Earth commonly appear as artifacts in photos and videos from the orbiting laboratory.
The YouTube UFO chasers get riled up over statements like that, while competing with each other to come up with the ultimate UFO smoking gun visual evidence.
They don’t even like it when individual astronauts express skeptical views about UFOs originating from far away planets or dimensions, as was obvious during the video above. That same YouTuber was critical of statements made in 2016 to HuffPost by veteran American astronaut Tom Jones.
“Astronauts have not seen any evidence of alien life,” Jones said at the time. “Reports of unidentified flying objects in images returned from the shuttle or [space] station have turned out to be ice crystals, drifting orbital debris, lightning flashes, or meteors streaking through the dark atmosphere below. So far, our search for extraterrestrial life ― and other civilizations in space ― has turned up no proof of alien civilizations.”
These types of UFO stories rarely show up in mainstream or non-tabloid publications, a strong indication of a credibility problem here.
This February video from YouTube channel Blast A shows several instances of supposed UFOs photographed by ISS cameras.
Depending on your personal beliefs about all of this, if you’ve got some spare time and want to try your luck at seeing a UFO ― or just see some cool footage from space ― check out the ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment.
There’s no prize involved, except for maybe seeing something that could be the ultimate answer to the ultimate question: Are we alone in the universe?
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Cloud Atlas Now Online: See All the Bizarre Formations Around the World
Cloud Atlas Now Online: See All the Bizarre Formations Around the World
By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor
A volutus, or roll cloud, photographed in Szprotawa, Poland. This type of cloud was just added as a new species in the 2017 International Cloud Atlas.
Credit: WMO International Cloud Atlas/ Miroslav Cichanowicz
A dramatically turbulent cloud formation called asperitas and the bizarrely cylindrical roll cloud are among the newest additions to the international handbook for cloud identification.
The World Meteorological Organization has released a new, digitized version of its "International Cloud Atlas," the global reference book for meteorologists and skywatchers alike. It's the first update for the atlas since 1987 and the first version to be fully web-based. The release also marks a red-letter day for amateur enthusiasts in the Cloud Appreciation Society, who get the satisfaction of seeing the asperitas cloud that they discovered become an official scientific category.
"It is a new classification of cloud, with a chaotic, turbulent appearance, that was proposed by the Cloud Appreciation Society back in 2008, based on photographs sent to us from members all around the world," the organization posted on its blog. "It is a classic example of citizen science, in which observations by the general public, enabled by the technology of smartphones and the Internet, have influenced the development of this most official of classification systems." [Gallery: The Craziest Clouds Ever]
Clouds 101
The cloud atlas' classification system is not for the faint of heart. There are 10 basic "genera" of clouds, most of the names of which would be familiar to schoolchildren: cirrus, cirrocumulus, cirrostratus, altocumulus, altostratus, nimbostratus, stratocumulus, stratus, cumulus and cumulonimbus.
Within each genera are species, which describe the internal structure of the shape of clouds. A lenticularis cloud, for example, is a flattened pancake shape that looks a bit like a giant UFO. Each type of cloud can only have one species, but the same species types are present in multiple different genera of clouds.
An image of a photometeor halo included in the new International Cloud Atlas. Halos are caused by light reflecting or refracting off tiny ice crystals suspended in the atmosphere, according to the Atlas.
Credit: WMO International Cloud Atlas/Claudia Hinz, DMD
Next, the classification system includes varieties of clouds, which describe the clouds' transparency and arrangement. A single cloud can have multiple varieties, except in the case of opacus (opaque) clouds varieties and translucidus (translucent) varieties, which are mutually exclusive: One doesn't let any sun through, and the other does. [See Photos of a Various Cloud Types]
Thus, a standard cloud identification might look something like "altocumulus stratiformis translucidus perlucidus undulates" — an altocumulus cloud arranged in a thin sheet (stratiformis) that is translucent to sunlight, has small gaps allowing blue sky to show through (perlucidus) and which has wavy features (undulates).
New forms
The cloud atlas update doesn't alter any of the basic classifications for clouds, but it does add several new twists. The roll cloud, known as the volutus, is defined as a new species of cloud. These horizontal, cylindrical clouds form where descending cold air pushes warm, moist air upward. Under the right wind conditions, the atmospheric turbulence condenses into a tubular cloud that seems to roll across the sky.
An undulating asperitas cloud, photographed at Shorewell Park in Tasmania, Australia, at 7:48 a.m. local time on Feb. 20, 2004.
The atlas also adds five new "supplementary features" to its classification system. Supplementary features are unusual parts of, or attachments to, clouds. The wave-like undulations of the undersides of clouds, dubbed "asperitas," are among these new features. Another is "cavum," known colloquially as a hole-punch cloud because the cloud has a large circular gap through which the sky can be seen. A "cauda" is a horizontal feature that extends like a tail from a cloud. "Fluctus" features are wave formations that look like something a cartoon surfer would ride; they're commonly known as Kelvin-Helmholtz waves and are caused by wind shear. Finally, "murus" features, or wall clouds, are familiar to any storm chaser for their role in the formation of tornadoes.
The other main changes to the atlas are the addition of a new accessory cloud, or a cloud that accompanies another, larger cloud, and the establishment of five new special clouds, which describe unusual cloud formation circumstances. The new accessory cloud type is called "flumen" and describes a low cloud associated with severe supercell storms.
The five new special clouds are: cataractagenitus, describing clouds that develop from the spray of large waterfalls; flammagenitus, describing clouds formed under the influence of wildfires; homogenitus, describing clouds formed by human activities, such as airplane contrails; silvagenitus, describing clouds formed under the influence of moisture from respiring trees; and homomutatus, describing clouds originally made by humans that gradually transform into more natural-looking forms, like a contrail that eventually spreads in the wind.
The cloud atlas is available online and will be official unveiled today (March 23) for World Meteorological Day.
US Military's 'Gremlin' Program Lets Pilots Launch and Snag Drones in Midair
US Military's 'Gremlin' Program Lets Pilots Launch and Snag Drones in Midair
By Kacey Deamer, Staff Writer
An artist's depiction of what the small surveillance drones might look like.
Credit: DARPA
The U.S. military is developing a fairy-tale-inspired "Gremlin" program that aims to launch and retrieve drones in midair.
"Gremlins" are a swarm of drones that can be deployed from a manned aircraft, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the branch of the U.S. military charged with developing new and innovative technologies for the nation's war fighters. The Gremlin program will allow aircraft pilots to launch the drones as needed, and call them back to the transport plane while both are still in flight.
DARPA announced the Gremlin concept in 2015, when the agency called for proof-of-concept designs for the first phase of the project.
"The Phase 1 program showed the feasibility of airborne [drone] launch and recovery systems that would require minimal modification to the host aircraft," Wierzbanowski said in a statement. "We’re aiming in Phase 2 to mature two system concepts to enable ‘aircraft carriers in the sky’ using air-recoverable [drones] that could carry various payloads — advances that would greatly extend the range, flexibility, and affordability of [drone] operations for the U.S. military."
Phase 2 research will focus on completing designs for full-scale Gremlin drone demonstrations. The program will eventually move to Phase 3, which will result in one full-scale system demonstration that includes the airborne launch and recovery of multiple Gremlins.
DARPA is currently scheduled to conduct flight tests for the program in 2019.
US Military's 'Gremlin' Program Lets Pilots Launch and Snag Drones in Midair
US Military's 'Gremlin' Program Lets Pilots Launch and Snag Drones in Midair
By Kacey Deamer, Staff Writer
An artist's depiction of what the small surveillance drones might look like.
Credit: DARPA
The U.S. military is developing a fairy-tale-inspired "Gremlin" program that aims to launch and retrieve drones in midair.
"Gremlins" are a swarm of drones that can be deployed from a manned aircraft, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the branch of the U.S. military charged with developing new and innovative technologies for the nation's war fighters. The Gremlin program will allow aircraft pilots to launch the drones as needed, and call them back to the transport plane while both are still in flight.
DARPA announced the Gremlin concept in 2015, when the agency called for proof-of-concept designs for the first phase of the project.
"The Phase 1 program showed the feasibility of airborne [drone] launch and recovery systems that would require minimal modification to the host aircraft," Wierzbanowski said in a statement. "We’re aiming in Phase 2 to mature two system concepts to enable ‘aircraft carriers in the sky’ using air-recoverable [drones] that could carry various payloads — advances that would greatly extend the range, flexibility, and affordability of [drone] operations for the U.S. military."
Phase 2 research will focus on completing designs for full-scale Gremlin drone demonstrations. The program will eventually move to Phase 3, which will result in one full-scale system demonstration that includes the airborne launch and recovery of multiple Gremlins.
DARPA is currently scheduled to conduct flight tests for the program in 2019.
Records of unexplained objects in the sky date back to the early 1900’s, when a large aircraft moved over downtown El Paso and then flew away. The same is true today. Reports of several sightings of UFO’s in the Borderland have gone up in recent months. The evidence is shown in hundreds of amateur video uploaded to YouTube. We went through many of them and found the top five. Check them out below.
1. Alien Cube Appears Over El Paso
2. Triangle UFO Appears Over El Paso and New York
3. Fast Moving Orbs Over El Paso
4. Three Orbs Appear Over the El Paso Sky
5. Strange Lights over Horizon City
About the author: Ceasar Torres
Ceasar is a photographer and writer for elpaso411.com. He may be reached at ceasart@elpaso411.com
An artist impression of how the UFO looked to the witness.
Investigators from the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) were left baffled by the sighting of the triangular formation said to have drifted over Dauphin, Pennsylvania, in the US.
The case has intensified the mystery of a baffling rise in so-called triangle UFOs reported across the US.
And, it comes after Express.co.uk reported on two other sightings that had video footage of the alleged UFOs.
In the latest case, the witness was driving at about 8.30pm last month when they saw the bizarre sight overhead incident occurred.
In a report to MUFON, the world's largest organisation dedicated UFO and other paranormal research, the man said: "My attention was drawn to a triangular object in the sky quickly flying toward me.
“It was low and had a couple of alternating, brightly flashing, white lights with a red light.
"There were several other smaller, flashing white lights that outlined the shape.
“I was drawn to watch it, so I stopped in the middle of the road.
Mysterious Triangle UFO Filmed at Night by Car Driver in Florida - FindingUFO
"When I looked up through my sunroof, I could see it had a metallic-like appearance, but it wasn’t smooth, and an irregular light pattern.
"It quickly started a slight ascension, made a quick 90-degree direction change and simply disappeared.
"The entire event was only a couple of minutes in duration. It happened so quickly, it was difficult to take pictures.”
Pennsylvania MUFON state section director Julia Weiss investigated the sighting, but was left stumped, and had to close the case as an Unknown.
Roger Marsh, MUFON director of communications, said: "Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made."
In December Express.co.uk revealed there had been a rise in reports of the mysterious UFOs to MUFON, which keeps a global database of alleged UFO and alien sightings.
MUFON
A MUFON CGI image taken from the description in another reported triangle UFO sighting.
Triangular UFO craft with glowing lights hovers over San Diego
MUFON receives hundreds of similar reports each year, with numbers seemingly on the rise.
The reports are often eerily similar, leading to speculation the bizarre UFOs could be REAL.
Many reports tell of a triangle shape, defined by a series of lights, which are said to be in some cases as big as a football field, moving slowly and silently across the sky.
Some believe they are alien craft, while others think they are top secret test craft created by the US Government at mysterious air bases like Area 51 in the Nevada desert.
Scott Brando runs website ufoofinterest.org which exposes hoax UFO sightings.
He is sceptical any unexplainable sightings have been made.
The expert says many triangle UFO sightings can be explained as aircraft and military flares.
He told Express.co.uk: “The Phoenix lights were explained with two different events. The first was the flight of five planes in V-shape formation.
"This is what the witness saw in that day.
"The second event was the launch of military flares over Estrella mountains."
He said of the Belgian UFO Wave: "The Belgian UFO wave began as a normal sighting (some lights in the sky) and then spread virally, but it took more time because at that time the media coverage had no internet like now."
Referring to triangle UFOs generally, he added: “About other similar sightings I'd like to see some reports by MUFON, however many formation of sky lanterns or the launch of skydivers Golden Knights were often mistaken for UFOs.”
The UFO was said to have hovered over the nuclear plant two days running.
Papers released under freedom of information laws describe reports by a former security officer at the power plant describing the strange incident.
The unnamed officer worked at the Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville, Nebraska, according to the files released by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC).
The incident was described as an “unidentified flying object violating the protected area at the station”.
According to the documents, the report was only received by the former employee in June 2010.
The report said: "An unidentified flying (UFO) object violated the protected area at Cooper Nuclear Station between 1986 and 1989, but the event was not reported to the NRC as required.
"The CI [confidential informant] described an event that occurred during his employment as a security officer.
"He was employed there from 1986 through 1989 and did not remember specifically when during that time the event occurred.
"While posted at the intake structure one night, he observed an 'unidentified flying object' fly down the Missouri River about 150 feet in the air and hover in front of the intake.
New evidence released on Rendlesham Forest UFO incident
An unidentified flying object violated the protected area at Cooper Nuclear Station between 1986 and 1989, but the event was not reported to the NRC as required.
Declassified report
This matches the description of the alleged TR-3B triangular UFO, which some conspiracy theorists claim is a secret US spy craft developed using reverse engineered alien technology taken from crashed flying saucers.
It was also reportedly silent and a third of the size of the reactor building.
He the called the security room and most officers on shift reportedly saw it.
The report addedL "These individuals included (names reacted), all of whom still work at the plant today.
"After hovering there for a few minutes, the UFO exited the protected area and returned back up the river to the north as it had the previous night.
"The CI said that he never saw the UFO at the plant again after that evening."
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Ceres' rotatie-as blijkt aan grote veranderingen onderhevig
Ceres' rotatie-as blijkt aan grote veranderingen onderhevig
Caroline Kraaijvanger
In de laatste drie miljoen jaar liep de axiale variatie van de dwergplaneet uiteen van 2 tot wel 20 graden, zo suggereert nieuw onderzoek.
De rotatie-as is de denkbeeldige as waar dwergplaneet Ceres omheen draait. Die denkbeeldige as maakt een hoek met het omloopvlak (het vlak van Ceres in de baan om de zon). Als een rotatie-as loodrecht op dat omloopvlak staat, wordt gesproken van een axiale variatie van 0 graden. Staat de rotatie-as op het omloopvlak (zoals in het geval van Uranus) dan is de axiale variatie 90 graden. De rotatie-as van de aarde staat een beetje schuin op het omloopvlak en heeft een axiale variatie van 23,45 graden.
Veranderingen Op dit moment heeft dwergplaneet Ceres een axiale variatie van 4 graden. Maar dat is in het recente verleden nog wel anders geweest, zo schrijven onderzoekers in het blad Geophysical Research Letters. In de afgelopen drie miljoen jaar zijn er perioden geweest waarin de axiale variatie van de dwergplaneet tussen de 2 en 20 graden lag. En zelfs in de laatste 24.500 jaar is de axiale variatie aan grote veranderingen onderhevig geweest. De laatste keer dat de dwergplaneet een axiale variatie van zo’n 19 graden had, was 14.000 jaar geleden.
Hier zie je het noordelijk halfrond op het moment dat dit maximaal door de zon belicht wordt en Ceres een axiale variatie van 2 graden heeft. De gebieden die zich continu in de schaduw bevinden, zijn met blauw aangegeven.
Dawn De onderzoekers trekken die conclusie op basis van waarnemingen van ruimtesonde Dawn die momenteel rond Ceres cirkelt. Dat de stand van de rotatie-as door de jaren heen zo veranderd is, schrijven de onderzoekers toe aan gasreuzen Jupiter en Saturnus. Hoewel deze honderden miljoenen kilometers van Ceres verwijderd zijn, oefent hun zwaartekracht toch invloed uit op de dwergplaneet.
Hier zie je opnieuw het noordelijk halfrond op het moment dat dit maximaal door de zon belicht wordt, maar nu heeft Ceres een axiale variatie van 12 graden. Je ziet dat een veel groter gebied door de zon beschenen wordt. De gebieden die zich continu in de schaduw bevinden, zijn met blauw aangegeven.
Kraters Het onderzoek naar de axiale variatie van Ceres is belangrijk, omdat de stand van de rotatie-as van invloed is op het waterijs dat de dwergplaneet herbergt. Dat ijs kan alleen standhouden op plekken die geen zonlicht zien. Je moet dan met name denken aan de schaduwrijke kraters. Wanneer de axiale variatie klein is, zijn er relatief grote gebieden op Ceres aan te wijzen die nooit zonlicht ontvangen (denk bijvoorbeeld aan de polen). Die gebieden beslaan samen een oppervlak van zo’n 2000 km2. Anders wordt het als de axiale variatie toeneemt. Er zijn dan veel meer kraters in de poolgebieden die direct zonlicht ontvangen. De gebieden die nooit zonlicht zien, beslaan dan samen nog maar zo’n 1 tot 10 km2.
Hier zie je opnieuw het noordelijk halfrond op het moment dat dit maximaal door de zon belicht wordt, maar nu heeft Ceres een axiale variatie van 20 graden. Nu zijn er nog maar twee kraters die continu beschaduwde gebieden herbergen.
Voor zover we nu weten, zijn er drie hemellichamen in het zonnestelsel die permanent in de schaduw gelegen gebieden hebben: Mercurius, de maan en Ceres. Aangenomen wordt dat Mercurius en de maan het ijs dat in die gebieden rust cadeau kregen tijdens inslagen. Hoe Ceres aan ijs komt, is nog niet duidelijk.
Kraters die langdurig geen zonlicht zien, worden ook wel ‘cold traps’ genoemd, omdat ze zo koud en donker zijn dat vluchtige stoffen (substanties die gemakkelijk verdampen) die in deze kraters terechtkomen daar eigenlijk niet meer uit kunnen ontsnappen. Vorig jaar maakten onderzoekers bekend dat ze in tien van deze ‘cold traps’ helder materiaal hebben ontdekt en in zeker één van deze cold traps lijkt dat heldere materiaal ijs te zijn. Tijdens dit onderzoek keken astronomen hoe het ‘cold traps’ vergaat als de stand van de rotatie-as van Ceres verandert. Uit het onderzoek blijkt dat er op het noordelijk halfrond slechts twee cold traps zijn die zelfs bij een axiale variatie van 20 graden nog in de schaduw liggen. Beide gebieden bevatten vandaag de dag heldere afzettingen. Op het zuidelijk halfrond zijn er ook twee cold traps die zelfs bij een axiale variatie van 20 graden standhouden en één ervan herbergt heldere afzettingen
Hubble ziet supermassief zwart gat dat verbannen is uit het galactische centrum
Hubble ziet supermassief zwart gat dat verbannen is uit het galactische centrum
Tim Kraaijvanger
Astronomen hebben een supermassief zwart gat ontdekt dat uit het galactische centrum van het verre sterrenstelsel 3C186 is geworpen. Dit sterrenstelsel staat acht miljard lichtjaar van de aarde.
Het is voor het eerst dat astronomen een superzwaar zwart gat zien dat op een grote afstand verwijderd is van het centrum van een sterrenstelsel. Normaal gesproken blijft een supermassief zwart gat zitten waar die zit: midden in een sterrenstelsel.
Je kunt supermassieve zwarte gaten vergelijken met die praatgrage buurman op je verjaardagsfeest: je komt er niet makkelijk van af. Om een supermassief zwart gat ter grootte van het object in 3C186 te verbannen is de hoeveelheid energie van honderd miljoen supernova’s nodig. Je begrijpt wel dat het voor een sterrenstelsel onmogelijk is om honderd miljoen sterren tegelijkertijd te laten ontploffen. Daarom wijzen onderzoekers naar een andere oorzaak: zwaartekrachtsgolven.
Quasar Op beelden – gemaakt door de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop – is een heldere quasar te zien in het sterrenstelsel. Een quasar is de actieve kern van een jong sterrenstelsel. Het gaat hierbij om een actief zwart gat dat veel energie produceert. Deze quasar bevindt zich niet in het centrum van 3C186, maar op een afstand van 35.000 lichtjaar van de kern. Wetenschappers berekenden dat het supermassieve zwarte gat met een snelheid van 7,5 miljoen kilometer per uur de kern verlaat.
Zwaartekrachtsgolven Wie of wat kan hiervoor verantwoordelijk zijn? Astronomen vermoeden dat het is gebeurd onder invloed van zwaartekrachtsgolven. Deze zwaartekrachtsgolven kunnen ontstaan zijn toen twee massieve zwarte gaten in het centrum samensmolten. Mogelijk vond deze gebeurtenis 1,2 miljard jaar geleden plaats, toen twee sterrenstelsels op elkaar botsten. De twee zwarte gaten cirkelden om elkaar in het nieuwe samengestelde sterrenstelsel en produceerden flinke zwaartekrachtsgolven. Omdat de zwarte gaten niet even zwaar waren, werden de zwaartekrachtsgolven niet mooi in alle richtingen verdeeld. Uiteindelijk smolten de zwarte gaten samen en zorgden de asymmetrische gewichtsverdeling en de ongelijke verdeling van zwaartekrachtsgolven ervoor dat het zwarte gat direct werd verstoten.
Bestaan zwaartekrachtsgolven wel? Ja! Vorig jaar is voor het eerst een zwaartkrachtsgolf opgevangen van twee zwarte gaten. Wetenschappers beschouwden de ontdekking van zwaartekrachtsgolf GW150914 nu al als één van de hoogtepunten van dat jaar. De vondst van zwaartekrachtsgolven is ontzettend belangrijk, schrijft Scientias-redacteur Pascal van der Aa. Door te kijken naar zwaartekrachtsgolven, kunnen we ontzettend veel leren over zwarte gaten, neutronensterren, supernova’s en de oerknal.
Nieuwe beschadigingen ontdekt op een wiel van Marsrover Curiosity
Nieuwe beschadigingen ontdekt op een wiel van Marsrover Curiosity
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Na bijna 16 kilometer op Mars te hebben afgelegd, is het profiel op het middelste wiel aan de linkerzijde van de Marsrover op twee plaatsen gescheurd.
Dat blijkt uit foto’s die Curiosity eerder deze maand van zijn eigen wielen heeft gemaakt. Te zien is dat het profiel op het middelste wiel aan de linkerzijde van de rover op twee plaatsen kapot is gegaan. Beide beschadigingen moeten recent zijn ontstaan: op de foto’s die Curiosity eind januari van zijn wielen maakte, zijn de beschadigingen nog niet te zien.
De wielen Curiosity heeft zes wielen die ongeveer 50 centimeter groot zijn. Ze zijn gemaakt van aluminium. Op de wielen rustten zigzag-lijntjes die ongeveer 7,5 millimeter uitsteken. Deze dragen het gewicht van de rover, voorzien de rover van grip en voorkomen dat deze omkukelt op ongelijk terrein. En op één van de zes wielen zijn die zigzag-lijntjes nu dus op twee plekken kapot.
Levensduur Wat betekenen de beschadigingen voor de missie van Curiosity? Een onderzoeksprogramma op aarde suggereert dat een wiel als het profiel op drie plaatsen kapot is, over de helft (op zo’n 60 procent) van zijn leven is. Curiosity heeft op dit moment zo’n 16 kilometer in de benen. Dus zelfs als er nu een derde beschadiging bij zou komen, zou het wiel nog wel wat kilometers kunnen maken. Vooralsnog lijkt Curiosity dan ook prima in staat om de gebieden die deze nog op Mars zou moeten bestuderen, te bereiken. “De zes wielen kunnen nog lang genoeg mee om het voertuig naar alle geplande bestemmingen te brengen,” bevestigt projectmanager Jim Erickson.
Op de voorgrond zie je het middelste wiel dat beschadigd is. Boven op het wiel zie je duidelijk dat de zigzag-lijn doorbroken is.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS.
Onderzoek NASA houdt de wielen van Curiosity sinds 2013 nauwlettend in de gaten. In dat jaar moest men vaststellen dat de wielen veel sneller beschadigden dan verwacht. Besloten werd om de rover te ontzien door routes met veel scherpe stenen te mijden. In die tijd werd ook een onderzoeksprogramma op aarde gestart om te achterhalen wat verschillende beschadigingen – waaronder beschadigingen aan het profiel – betekenen voor de levensduur van de rover.
NASA benadrukt dat de beschadigingen aan het profiel niet als een verrassing komen. In augustus is het alweer vijf jaar geleden dat Curiosity op Mars landde en de rover heeft al zo’n 16 kilometer afgelegd. Het belangrijkste missiedoel heeft Curiosity reeds behaald: de rover heeft vastgesteld dat dit deel van Mars ooit omstandigheden kende die gunstig waren voor eventuele microbiële levensvormen op Mars. Momenteel doet Curiosity onderzoek naar Mount Sharp: een uit laagjes opgebouwde heuvel in het hart van de Gale-krater. Om de nieuwe missiedoelen die in het kader van dat onderzoek gesteld zijn, te behalen moet de rover nog zo’n 6 kilometer rijden.
Amerikaanse atoomtesten nu gewoon op YouTube te bekijken
Amerikaanse atoomtesten nu gewoon op YouTube te bekijken
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Jarenlang lagen ze stof te vergaren in kluizen, maar nu zijn ze voor iedereen te bewonderen: beelden van atoomtesten die de VS tussen 1945 en 1962 uitvoerde.
Meer dan 200 atoomtesten voerde de VS tussen 1945 en 1962 uit. En al die testen zijn met behulp van meerdere camera’s vastgelegd. Het resulteert in ongeveer 10.000 filmpjes. Jarenlang waren ze topgeheim en lagen ze – letterlijk – stof te vergaren in diverse kluizen in de VS. Maar daar is nu verandering in gekomen. Onderzoekers van het Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory hebben de beelden opgespoord, deels geanalyseerd en een aantal van de filmpjes op YouTube gezet.
Bijna vergaan Het is een enorm project dat al zo’n vijf jaar loopt. In die periode hebben de onderzoekers zo’n 6500 van de 10.000 filmpjes teruggevonden. Ongeveer 4200 van deze filmpjes zijn gekopieerd en daarmee gered van de tand des tijds. “Je kunt azijn ruiken wanneer je de blikken (waar de filmpjes in bewaard worden, red.) opent en dat is één van de nevenproducten van het ontbindingsproces dat deze films ondergaan,” legt onderzoeker Greg Spriggs uit. “Wij weten dat deze films op het punt staan om zo ver te vergaan dat ze niet meer te gebruiken zijn. De gegevens die we nu verzamelen moet in digitale vorm bewaard worden, want hoe goed je deze films ook behandelt en hoe goed je ze ook opslaat, ze zullen vergaan. Ze zijn gemaakt van organisch materiaal en organisch materiaal vergaat.”
Analyse De teruggevonden beelden zijn niet alleen van de ondergang gered, maar worden ook opnieuw geanalyseerd. Inmiddels hebben deskundigen zo’n 400 tot 500 van de filmpjes opnieuw bestudeerd.
Afschrikken En een deel ervan is nu dus op YouTube beland. Waarom? Spriggs hoopt dat de beelden een afschrikwekkende werking hebben en eraan bijdragen dat de kernwapens nooit gebruikt gaan worden. “Het is echt ongelofelijk hoeveel energie er vrijkomt,” vertelt hij. “Wij hopen dat we nooit meer een atoomwapen hoeven te gebruiken. Ik denk dat wanneer we de geschiedenis ervan kennen en weten hoe krachtig deze wapens zijn en hoe groot hun vernietigende kracht is, mensen misschien niet bereid zijn om ze te gebruiken.”
Spriggs en collega’s zullen nog wel even zoet zijn met dit onderzoeksproject. Naar schatting duurt het nog zeker twee jaar voor de resterende beelden in digitale vorm zijn opgeslagen. En waarschijnlijk hebben de onderzoekers nog wel iets meer tijd nodig om de beelden te analyseren. Terwijl het onderzoeksproject vordert, zullen nog meer beelden worden vrijgegeven.
Mysterieus zigzag-patroon ontdekt op IJslands meer
Mysterieus zigzag-patroon ontdekt op IJslands meer
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Op het met een dun laagje ijs bedekte meer zijn vreemde patronen ontdekt. De patronen zijn nog niet eerder op het meer gespot.
Het draait allemaal om het Thingvallavatn-meer, te vinden in een nationaal park in IJsland. Vorige week waren op grote delen van het meer opeens zigzag-patronen te zien.
Afbeelding: Thingvellir National Park.
Speculatie Natuurlijk werd er direct druk gespeculeerd. Was dit dan de manier waarop aliens met ons in contact probeerden te komen? Of was het een ordinaire marketingstunt van het nationale park? Niemand wist het.
Afbeelding: Thingvellir National Park.
De wetenschap Maar na wat zoekwerk bleek de wetenschap dan toch het verrassende antwoord te hebben. En nee, het zijn geen aliens. En ook geen uit de hand gelopen grap van de marketingafdeling van het nationale park. De zigzag-patronen zijn puur natuur en het resultaat van ‘finger-rafting’, een verschijnsel dat wetenschappers in 2007 in dit paper uit de doeken deden.
Finger-rafting: het ene deel van de ijsplaat schuift over het andere deel heen en een stukje verderop gebeurt hetzelfde, maar dan vice versa.
Afbeelding: Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 088303 / Foto: W. F. Weeks.
Wat is finger-rafting? Stel: je hebt een meertje en daarop drijven meerdere ijsplaten. Het is een kwestie van tijd voor die platen de interactie met elkaar aangaan. En wat gebeurt er dan? Intuïtief zou je denken dat er twee mogelijkheden zijn: de ene ijsplaat duikt onder de ander (er vindt subductie plaats, zoals we ook zien gebeuren als een aard- en oceanische plaat elkaar ontmoeten) of de twee ijsplaten botsen en er ontstaat een enorm puinveld. Maar in 2007 ontdekten onderzoekers dat er nog een derde optie is. De randen van twee ijsplaten kunnen ook beurtelings op en onder elkaar duiken. Ze haken dan ineen, zoals je vingers ineen haken als je de handen vouwt. Voorwaarde is echter wel dat ijsplaten ongeveer dezelfde dikte hebben en vrij dun (minder dan tien centimeter dik) zijn. Wanneer ijsplaten op deze wijze in elkaar haken, ontstaat het zigzag-patroon zoals we dat op het IJslandse meer zien.
Normaliter is het IJslandse meer van begin januari tot het begin van de lente bedekt met een dikke laag ijs. Maar stijgende temperaturen zorgen ervoor dat het meer de laatste vijftien jaar slechts gedeeltelijk en met een dunnere laag ijs bedekt is. Ook dit jaar is het ijs op het meer dun. En daarmee voldoet het meer dus aan één van de eisen waaraan voldaan moet worden wil finger-rafting mogelijk zijn
Italiaanse natuurkundigen gaan experimenteren met tijdreizen via wormgaten
Italiaanse natuurkundigen gaan experimenteren met tijdreizen via wormgaten
Tijdreizen is niet langer sciencefiction, schrijft de Italiaanse krant La Repubblica. Tunnels die ons in staat stellen om door de ruimte en tijd te reizen, zogeheten wormgaten, kunnen nu in het laboratorium worden gebouwd.
Een prototype van zo’n wormgat, waarover in het International Journal of Modern Physics D zal worden gepubliceerd, is ontwikkeld door onderzoekers van de Universiteit van Napels Federico II.
Wormgaten werden in de jaren dertig al beschreven door Albert Einstein en Nathan Rosen en worden ook wel Einstein-Rosenbruggen genoemd.
Tijdreizen
Met behulp van wormgaten kun je in theorie van de ene plek in de ruimtetijd naar de andere reizen: tijdreizen dus.
Door een wormgat U-vormig te maken, kom je er eerder uit dan je erin gaat. Zo reis je dus terug in de tijd.
Het prototype is zeer klein en bestaat uit grafeen, het dunste materiaal ter wereld, legt hoofdonderzoeker Salvatore Capozziello uit.
Gemanipuleerd
De universiteit is van plan om met het wormgat te gaan experimenteren. Tijdens de experimenten wordt de beweging van elektronen in het grafeen gemanipuleerd.
Een ruimteschip zal niet door het wormgat kunnen reizen, maar als het experiment slaagt kunnen er in theorie grotere wormgaten gemaakt worden.
Sterrenpoort
De Italiaanse wetenschappers werken samen met natuurkundigen uit Iran, Rusland, Griekenland en Slowakije.
De Italiaanse media spreken ondertussen al van een ‘sterrenpoort gemaakt in Italië’.
Astrophysicists have detected a massive cluster of galaxies millions of light-years wide is hurtling through space at velocities so high that modern physics can’t explain their motion. The galaxies are all part of the Local Group, a ring of galaxies which contain the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies at the center. Andromeda, our closest neighbor, is predicted to collide with our own galaxy in 3.75 billion years; however, new research from the University of St. Andrews suggests that the Milky Way and Andromeda might have once already collided or at least passed dangerously close by one another, an event that sent ripples throughout the galactic neighborhood which are still being observed today.
Galactic collisions are not uncommon but take billions of years.
This theory is based on the distribution and velocity of the galaxies in the Local Group. According to lead researcher Indranil Banik, the outwardly spiraling motion and speed of these galaxies likely could have only been set in motion if some unknown and extremely powerful phenomenon occurred at their center:
The ring-like distribution is very peculiar. These small galaxies are like a string of raindrops flung out from a spinning umbrella. I found there is barely a 1 in 640 chance for randomly distributed galaxies to line up in the observed way. I traced their origin to a dynamical event when the Universe was only half its present age.
The researchers speculate that at some point between 7 and 11 billion years ago, our Milky Way galaxy and the nearby Andromeda galaxy passed closely by one another, creating a “mini Big Bang.” This event could have caused wave-like gravity ripples in space that could have sent smaller galaxies flinging out into space.
Artist rendering of what such a collision would look like on Earth.
However, if Einstein’s theory of relativity is correct, the two galaxies should have instead merged under their collective gravities. The only possible solution? You guessed it: dark matter. Large shells of dark matter surrounding both galaxies could have shielded each galaxy from each other’s gravity. That is, if dark matter exists at all. If it doesn’t, and this research is confirmed, this discovery could force us to rewrite the laws of gravity as we know them. Sorry, Einstein.
Wait…wrong mini Big Bang. Aw, but look at that little mohawk! Ok fine, you can stay, mini Big Bang. Just don’t touch my stuff.
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While Saturn’s largest moon Titan remains a source of constant mystery for astronomers, one its enduring enigmas might have just been solved by NASA. The space agency has been conducting research on the “magic islands” spotted by the Cassini spacecraft in 2013. On one of its 2013 flybys, Cassini’s radar instruments detected in one of Titan’s lakes what appeared to be a set of islands. The “islands” did not appear in previous images and disappeared just a few days later, leaving astronomers scratching their heads in wonder.
The islands seemed to appear and disappear over time.
Luckily, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory weren’t content with letting that mystery stand and set to work on an experiment to determine what could have caused such disappearing “islands.” The experiment involved recreating the chemical and physical conditions of Titan’s lakes and then subjecting that solution to the same temperature and chemical changes that occur during rainfall. When ethane-rich solutions similar to Titan’s rainfall were added to the simulated Titan lake fluid, the process of exsolution occurred, causing nitrogen to boil violently out of the solution.
Heavy rainfall on Titan could release large amounts of ethane into Titan’s seas, which could then cause nitrogen to boil out. According to Cassini radar investigator Jason Hofgartner, the resulting nitrogen bubbles could form giant fields of dense nitrogen foam which might explain the “magic” islands:
Thanks to this work on nitrogen’s solubility, we’re now confident that bubbles could indeed form in the seas, and in fact may be more abundant than we’d expected.
“Foam on one of Saturn’s moon’s seas? Who cares,” you might find yourself asking. Well, besides being interesting, this research is important for any future exploration of Titan which is looking more and more like a possibility. Foam in Titan’s seas could really jam up the propellers and sensors on those deep-sea space submarines NASA is working on. We can’t have that happening, can we?
The only kind of nitrogen foam I’m interested in.
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👽 UFO Over Great Britain With High Detail On March 23, 2017, UFO Sighting News. 👽
👽 UFO Over Great Britain With High Detail On March 23, 2017, UFO Sighting News. 👽
Date of sighting: March 23, 2017 Location of sighting: Great Britain Source: MUFON #82800
Here are some fantastic UFO photos from Great Britain this week. All I did was enlarge them, not altering of color or light. The one photo above in particular is very highly detailed and is standing up long ways, but in the lower photos we see a disk, a rectangle and a cylinder craft. This may be a morphing craft, that changes shape, but I believe that its turning slowly, rotating, giving the eyewitness a new perspective of the UFO every photo. Remarkable. We have seen reports of this UFO all over England last month, but to see it close up...amazing. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Got done feeding my little one and I glanced out of the window in our dark dinning room and saw what i thought was a bright star but when looking at it more closely it was pulsating different colours so i went out side and did a few zoomed in pictures went back in and zoomed in on those and well i have never seen or heard of a star changing colour and shape at random. Watched this thing for 2hrs roughly slowly moving across the sky. I had originally thought it was a plane or chopper but i heard nothing and it did not move. We have lots of planes flying over our house as well as the odd chopper so I'm pretty darn sure it was not either of those. Left me puzzled and slightly unnerved as this is not the firs time i have seen something like this in the same area of the sky i saw this thing tonight.
Sightings Of Mysterious Triangle UFOs Are On The Rise
Sightings Of Mysterious Triangle UFOs Are On The Rise
The sensation of a triangle UFO has intensified in the U.S. after two more strange craft were allegedly caught on video camera.
Two separate videos were released to YouTube showing triangle-shaped objects recorded on video by stunned witnesses.
The incident came after a report on the increased UFO sighting reports to the U.S.- based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). The stories are usually somewhat similar each year, and the number is on the rise. They were often strangely similar, giving speculations that UFOs could be real.
Most of the reports involve triangle UFOs that usually about the size of a football field, moving slowly in the sky without making any noise.
Some believe these triangle UFOs are alien craft, but others think they are top secret test craft of the U.S. government.
Finding UFO YouTube channel has released the two videos on the video sharing site. It said that the first video of a triangular UFO was taken above National City in California on January 23, 2017.
The unnamed witness, who reported it to MUFON, said that three fire-like lights were just floating inside a big rain cloud. One on the left was then fading away or going into the horizon. The witness noted that his batteries were low on his cell phone, but after taking the video, the fourth UFO came to his sight at the right of the street lamp, and the one that had vanished re-appeared.
The second video, also released by the same YouTube channel, was apparently recorded nearby in San Diego.
It was separately reported to MUFON and involved what was described as a silent triangular UFO. The flying object in question moved in their direction west to east from over La Jolla Shores.
As the witness filmed the object, it started to hover over them. They saw solid lights that were not blinking, except from one red light that was blinking, unlike other aeronautical blinking lights.
They noticed two rectangular light illuminations on the side of the triangle UFO, placed at the tip of a corner that looked like a cockpit. As the UFO traveled, it did not make any sounds or leave any trails. The UFO continued to fly over their apartment building until it became out of sight.
Report of UFO over nuclear plant in Nebraska found in recently declassified document
Report of UFO over nuclear plant in Nebraska found in recently declassified document
A former security officer at the Cooper Nuclear Station near Brownville, Nebraska reported seeing a UFO over the plant sometime in the late 80s. The report was found in documents recently declassified as a result of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for UFO files.
The files were posted today on the website TheBlackVault.com. The website is a repository for millions of pages of declassified documents. It is ran by John Greenewald, who says he requested the NRC files in late February, and was surprised how quickly they responded. He received the UFO files today.
Cooper Nuclear Power Plant on the edge of the 2011 Missouri River Floods on June 15, 2011.
(Credit: U.S. Army Corp of Engineers/WikiMedia Commons)
There are 43 pages of documents, although some of those pages are copies, or have very little information on them. The majority of the pages are correspondence dealing with an incident described as, “unidentified flying object violated the protected area at Cooper Nuclear Station.”
According to the documents, the report was received in June of 2010 by a former security officer. The event actually took place sometime in the late 80s.
The report’s short description reads: “An unidentified flying object violated the protected area at Cooper Nuclear Station between 1986 and 1989, but the event was not reported to the NRC as required.”
The detail section of the report reads (reproduced unedited):
The CI [Confidential Informant] described an event that occurred during his employment as a security officer at Cooper Nuclear Station. He was employed there from 1986 through 1989 and did not remember specifically when during that time the event occurred.
While posted at the intake structure one night, he observed an “unidentified flying object” fly down the Missouri River about 150 feet in the air and hover in front of the intake. He observed it for a few moments and then contacted a fellow security officer who also observed it (he could not recall the individual’s name exactly but his first name was [REDACTED] and his last name was either [REDACTED ]. After they together observed the UFO, it turned and went back up the river and did not come back that shift. He and the other officer shared their observation with their peers who did not believe them.
The next evening he again was posted at the intake and observed the UFO return again. This time he didn’t call anyone until the UFO had traversed into the protected area and hovered above the protected area just north of the Reactor Building. He said it was roughly triangular in shape with a circle of rotating lights on the bottom. He could not hear any propulsion noise from the UFO. He believes that it was roughly 1/3 the size of the Reactor Building. Once the UFO hovered in the protected area. He called the security break room and most of the officers on shift observed the UFO. These individuals included [REDACTED] (both of whom were security officers), all of whom still work at the plant today. After hovering there for a few minutes, the UFO exited the protected are [sic] and returned back up the river to the north as it had the previous night. The CI said that he never saw the UFO at the plant again after that evening.
The CI believes that this incident should have been reported as a violation of the protected area space but was not reported.
In the report, Nick Taylor, the NRC Senior Resident Inspector, searched for corroborating documents from the time, but found nothing. However, he cautioned, “I’d be careful about concluding that if an even wasn’t recorded in CAP [Corrective Action Program] that it did not occur.” Taylor went on to explain the reporting structure in the 80s was not as robust as it currently is. As an example, he noted that there were only 1020 reports between January 1, 1986 and December 31, 1989. Whereas there are nearly 10,000 a year nowadays.
Excerpt of Nuclear Regulatory Commission UFO report.
(Credit: Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
Although the report appeared to be taken seriously, in one email regarding the follow-up on the report, Taylor wrote: “This one should be a wild ride.”
If the investigation of this case was a wild ride, there is no indication of it in the report. However, William B. Jones, the chief of Allegations Coordination and Enforcement, did request that the letter regarding the incident “be controlled and distribution limited to personnel with a ‘need to know.'”
The report claims that the other witnesses to the event were interviewed, but the results are not included. Those results were sent to “ARB”, presunably an Allegations Review Board, but not included in the files provided to Greenewald.
Cooper Nuclear Station
(Credit: Nebraska Public Power District)
That is the extent of the report. A letter to the witness from the Director of Reactor Safety was also included. It essential said that they will forward the information to Cooper Nuclear Station, but that “no further action” will be taken, and they thanked him for his report.
All in all, an interesting report.
As for the rest of the NRC UFO documents, there is correspondence with an individual who believes there are nuclear craft being flown around, some of which may have crashed and caused radiation contamination.
The other report is a bit more difficult to summarize. The NRC writes:
The individual expressed vague concerns about finding low-level radiation within the last year where his daughter, whom he believes is an alien or alien transplant, passed. In addition, the individual believes that travel speed can be increased using the relativity equation with minor modifications. Finally, the individual has observed UFOs.
The NRC responded that this was out of their jurisdiction and perhaps the individual should contact the Department of Defense.
Filer’s Files # 12 -2017 Ford Asks Congress to investigate UFOs - PART I
Potchefstroom, South Africa Black Triangle seen on March 10, 2017.
Filer’s Files # 12 -2017 Ford Asks Congress to investigate UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: President Ford asks Congress to investigate UFOs, Puerto Rico UFOs and Anomalies, Encounters with USOs, Propaganda and Treason Definitions, Mass Media Mass Propaganda, Iran Disc, and Stranger at the Pentagon.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over California, Florida, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Texas, West Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Antarctic, Brazil, Canada, Iran, Malta, Puerto Rico, South Africa, 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 US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
President Ford asked Congress to investigate UFOs
House Minority Leader Gerald Ford on March 25, 1966, proposed to Congress that they investigate the rash of reported sightings of unidentified flying objects in Michigan and other parts of the country. Ford said he believed a congressional inquiry would be worthwhile because the American people are becoming alarmed by the UFO stories. It didn’t hurt his political chances and helped make his name a household word. Then Governor Carter saw a UFO and ran on the ticket that he would find out the truth. Governor Ronald Reagan chased one in his governor’s aircraft and was also elected.
The following sightings were reported in Southeast Michigan in March 17, 1966. After a few days of sighting reports by civilians, two Washtenaw County Sheriff’s deputies, Sgt. Neil Schneider and Deputy David Fitzpatrick, said they saw three or four red, white and green circular objects oscillating and glowing near Milan about 4 a.m. They called Willow Run Airport officials but radar could not confirm the report.
Two more Washtenaw deputies, Buford Bushroe and John Foster, chased the same types of objects three days later. Livingston and Monroe County residents also reported seeing the objects. The Detroit News carried the police chase story and a drawing of a quilted football-like UFO with lights, dome and antennae. When Dexter Patrolman Robert Huniwell saw the object at 9:30 p.m. at Quigly and Brand, Washtenaw County Sheriff Douglas Harvey ordered all available deputies to the scene. Six patrol cars, two men in each, and three detectives converged on the area. They chased the flying object along Island Lake Road without catching it. Farm owner Frank Mannor and his family said they came within 500 yards, “It wasn’t like the pictures of a flying saucer and it had a coral-like surface,” Mannor said. Carloads of students from nearby University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan converged on the area after hearing radio reports.
The Air Force sent in “Project Blue Book” astronomer and UFO expert J. Allen Hynek, who drove around for two hours and 45 minutes. “Swamp gas” he concluded. “Marsh gas usually has no smell, but sounds like the small popping explosions similar to a gas burner igniting. The gas forms from decomposition of vegetation. It seems likely that as the present spring thaws came, the gases methane, hydrogen sulfide and phosphine, resulting from decomposition of organic materials, were released.” But William Van Horn, a local civil defense director and pilot who claimed he had seen the UFOs, was outraged by the report. A Hillsdale native, Van Horn said he grew up next to a swamp and knew more about swamp gas than Hynek. “A lot of good people are being ridiculed,” Van Horn concluded. Later Hynek became a strong UFO supporter.
Puerto Rico UFOs and Anomalies
AJAS – Mayor Marcos Irizarry’s in the past supported the building of a UFO landing strip to welcome extraterrestrials that are frequently seen over the area. A green sign in southwestern Puerto Rico proudly displays a silhouette of a flying saucer and two words: “Extraterrestrial Route,” for Route 303.
Lajas support for the idea has provoked outrage among islanders who complained it would be a waste of money. Mayor Irizarry quickly clarified that his municipal government would not invest in the project but would help Reynaldo Rios get the proper building permits to attract tourists to his small town. The majority of the people in the town have seen UFOs and other strange phenomenon.
“It’s a very mysterious place,” said Irizarry, who says he once saw red lights zigzagging above the hills. Francisco Negron, the farmer who put up the sign and allows UFO watchers to gather at his ranch, volunteered his property for the landing strip. They claim they heard a boom and saw the hill go up in flames when a UFO crashed on the hill in 1997… The mayor hopes that UFO enthusiasts will flock to Lamas. Hundreds of visitors have already come to check out the Extraterrestrial Route since the new sign went up, Irizarry said.
Lajas is unique because of its numerous UFO sightings and Laguna Cartagena National Wildlife Refuge and lagoon that are known for bird watching and UFOs..
Besides UFOs, 127 different types of birds have been observed as well as balls of light coming and going into the water. At 10:30 PM, on May 30, 1987, a large red buzzing ball of light was seen descending into the lagoon. At 2:AM on May 31st, people in the area were awakened by a blinding white light and saw a huge disc shaped object with brilliant lights circle slowly over the water, as if looking for something. The following afternoon at 1:55 pm a huge underground explosion followed by a tremor shook the area. Cracks opened in the ground and cobalt blue smoke issued from them.
As if an earthquake followed by blue smoke wasn’t jarring enough, residents whose houses bordered the lagoon were forcibly evacuated by members of the U.S. military in grey humvee’s and tan four-wheel drive vehicles sporting radar-like rotating antennae on their tops. As they were being herded away from their homes, residents saw men in what appeared to be decontamination suits sweeping the ground with long-handled devices reminiscent of metal detectors and taking samples of water, plants, mud and grass. The next day a helicopter lowered an instrument package into the lagoon. For the next several days witnesses saw a strange flying dumbbell come in from over the sea and hover over the lagoon. It was a metallic cylinder with large balls of greenish-white light on the ends and a beacon-like red and blue light on its underside. During the next several days reports of UFO activity in the area increased dramatically, but also a large four engine commercial jet made a low pass over the lagoon.
I was at a local business and mentioned to the hostess about UFOs in Puerto Rico and she stated, “She was from Puerto Rico and left because she was afraid of the UFOs that frequently visited her home near Laguna Cartagena. She saw UFOs enter and leave both day and night.
Ceasar Remus, State Director reports that a unusually slow moving meteor crashed on May 5, 1997, at approximately 3:00 A.M. in the Laguna Cartagena, Lajas, Puerto Rico. This South western corner of Puerto Rico has frequent UFO sightings entering and leaving the water. Noti Uno Radio reported fires in the crash site area with badly burned and dead animals. Charred metal also was reported from the alleged crash site and electrical power was cut in the area for an hour. The area was blocked off to the public, so there is speculation on the exact nature of the crash.
Lajas is also unique in having its main highway designated as an Extraterrestrial Route. To add to the mystery the U.S. military has
Aerostat located at 17°58’39.99″N 67°4’47.47″W
set up an aerostat tethered blimp with a radar system on the edge of town. A similar blimp is at Cudjoe Key near Key West, Florida. The military says the radar is to detect low-flying drug smuggling planes.
Professor Reinaldo Rios and investigators took up watch near the environs of the base of the Aerostato Radar on November 14, 2004. The radar is a gigantic globe that attempts to detect drug traffic and conduct military experimentation.
The aerostat is a large fabric envelope filled with helium. It can rise up to 15,000 feet while tethered by a single cable, which has a maximum breaking strength of 26,000 pounds. For security and safety reasons, the air space around Air Force aerostats is restricted for a radius of at least two statute miles and an altitude up to 15,000 feet. The smallest aerostat is about twice the size of the Goodyear Blimp. The 275,000 cubic foot, aerodynamically shaped balloon measures 175 feet long by 58 feet across the hull, with a tip-to-tip tail span of 81 feet. The aerostat system lifts a 1,highway as an “Extraterrestrial Highway”.
Professor Reinaldo Rios and investigators They made a nocturnal watch just off the Sector Fajardo de Lajas, Puerto Rico. They were able to capture this image on 35 mm film. Special thanks to José Martínez E.
Encounters with USOs
Our planet’s surface is nearly two-thirds covered by water and it would seem unusual in the extreme if the appearance of anomalous lights and objects were not associated with it. Indeed they have been and eye-witness records spanning centuries have logged these encounters, in rivers, lakes, seas and oceans around the globe. For example, according to Dutch newspapers in August 1954, whilst en-route from Amsterdam to New York, Captain Jan Boss, of the SS Grout Beer, reported observing a strange moonlike object rising out of the Atlantic Ocean some 90 miles east of Cape Cod light. Its keel shone with what appeared to be illuminated ports round the rim and the object’s speed was later described as having been fantastic.
What was it that two policemen saw emerging from the water off Porthcawl on the evening of September 1 1957, which at first resembled a ship on fire? It was located in the direction of Ilfracombe, in the Bristol Channel and began as a bright red glow which soon grew larger than a harvest moon. A black zigzag streak could be seen across its centre and as it rose up the fiery globe took off at an alarming rate accompanied by two smaller lights, heading for the Atlantic.
The sounds picked up on the hydrophone of a research vessel operated by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute were flashed to the ship’s oscilloscopes as it probed the deep waters off Puerto Rico. Scientists on board were puzzled, as the noise continued intermittently from an estimated depth of 30,000 feet. This extreme limit almost certainly ruled out the presence of a submarine or any other kind of known underwater craft. When later translating their recordings onto IBM punch cards, the scientists discovered to their amazement that the sounds registered were of a screw turning at a rate of 100 to 180 rpm. Several days evaluation of the data still left them baffled and the oceanographers eventually began to wonder if in fact they had tracked some unknown type of marine life – subsequently nicknaming it the “180 rpm animal”.
Trevor Tyler was a deep-sea diver of more than 13 years experience when something happened, 270 feet below the surface of the Atlantic, which resulted in his sudden and inexplicable death. The 34 year-old Englishman was working underwater off the coast of Guinea, West Africa, when without warning over his radio workmates heard an inexplicable metallic noise, followed by a scream and then silence. A fellow diver was immediately sent down and found Tyler’s lifeless body floating 180 feet below the surface, his arms outstretched and the diving suit he was wearing blown up like a balloon. At an inquest in 1968, a witness told how Tyler had obviously thrown away his weight belt before he died in a vain attempt to raise himself quickly. From what predicament no one will ever know.
Returning to the Bristol Channel and one February afternoon in 1965, a Mine head couple was driving home when, while heading down a coastal hill from Exford, they both spotted what appeared to be a grey fighter aircraft suddenly pass them at a distance of only 150feet. It was in the same direction but they soon realized its descent could only end in disaster. The driver of the car, a retired radio officer, quickly stopped and griped his binoculars, watching as the craft continued on until it landed in the Channel with a puff of black smoke and disappeared. An RAF Search and Rescue unit based in Plymouth checked for any missing or overdue aircraft but found there were none. Every plane had been accounted for and what’s more, no wreckage was ever recovered that could be linked to a missing fighter. Thanks to http://www.farshore.force9.co.uk
WikiLeaks Release
WikiLeaks released “the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)” The release is unfortunate and a traitor in the CIA or its contracted companies is responsible and repressible. However, the data is quite valuable and can be quite difficult to search through by yourself. Here is a list of some of the most notable information:
The CIA can masquerade its malware as belonging to the Russian foreign intelligence agencies.
The CIA also stole hacking malware from the Russian Federation for their own use.
The CIA may have obtained information from Russian turncoats as the Russians arrested several people from Russian Malware companies on unknown charges.
It’s possible CIA was using Russian codes to blame the Russians for spreading election stories. The CIA’s exploits could have been leaked internally and can be used by unauthorized CIA personnel to gain access to virtually anyone or anything. . CIA malware can infiltrate iPhones, Androids, computers, Windows, Ipads, smart Phones, and even your smart TV. The CIA may be hacking selected US citizens as Dennis Kucinich, a former congressman and two-time Democrat presidential candidate, said that he had been subject to wiretapping under the Obama administration. NSA also admitted some jealous operatives have wiretapped their own love ones. Every microphone and webcam is remote controllable. The U.S. consulate in Frankfurt is a covert CIA hacker base. The CIA created malware that specifically evaded certain anti-virus programs. The CIA can hack cars for “undetectable assassinations” CIA malware can infiltrate your MacOS and Windows computers, Linux, routers, smart phone to read messages on encrypted apps, before you send them. The CIA steals saved passwords from Internet Explorer. CIA can make Android phones bulk-spy on Wi-Fi networks around them. Anything on the internet can be available to various intelligence agencies.
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks editor, insists the Podesta leaks he obtained about Hillary Clinton did not come from the Russians but from the Democratic National Committee. He stoked speculation that 27 year old Seth Rich who probably favored Bernie Sanders might have been involved in the DNC hack by referencing his July 10, 2016, murder, unprompted on a Dutch news program.
Julian Assange stated, “Our whistleblowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often [face] very significant risks. A 27-year-old that works for the DNC was shot in the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons.
Propaganda and Treason Definitions
Propaganda is information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view. Information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.
Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court. Our news media nightly gives aid and comfort to ISIS by constantly belittling the President
Mass Media Mass Propaganda
News media is controlled by six companies who use brainwashing, conditioned reflexes and myth, making it increasingly difficult to detect the truth. The elite media in the US was put in power by President Clinton who opened the gates for mega corporations to own the media. General Electric now owns NBC and NBC is a highly profitable company who made 3.7 billion dollars in 2011. Disney owns ABC and ESPN, Westinghouse owns CBS. Time Warner, Inc. is the world’s third largest media conglomerate, television networks and filmed TV, and entertainment company in terms of revenue, after Comcast and The Walt Disney Company, Their motivations are universal liberal causes.
Their methods are to make extraordinary profits and to support their Democratic nominees for office. The government brokered trade deals such as NAFTA which benefitted the companies to move facilities to Mexico for low labor and to bring illegal immigrants into the US for low wages. These corporations benefit from government intervention so they seek in turn to control who runs for office, and who is elected. Unfortunately these policies put a lot of Americans out of work and bring in a lot of illegal aliens who cost Americans billions to support with medical care, education, etc.
Neoliberalism essentially ignores human rights because they interfere with profit making by the corporations and control by the government. Obama care was essentially a control system. I watched the “World News Tonight” with David Muir – ABC News and “Truth and Lies the Family Manson” who convicted of ordering killing of 8 people. Manson was treated much better than the President who is nightly accused of lying and working with the Russians.
I was not a particular fan of Trump, but I strongly resent every major TV news program being critical of everything he does to the detriment of the United States and benefit our enemies. The FBI reports that over 300 people are being investigated in the US for being radical Islamic terrorists. Many highly classified government top secrets are being released that favor neoliberals. Thanks to NexusMagazine.com
Iran Disc
Michael Theodoulou for MailOnline reports, it’s not clear how far or how high it can fly or even how big it is and what makes it take off. But an aircraft created by scientists in Iran is, they claim, the world’s first flying saucer. Called the Zohal – or Saturn in English – it said the unmanned spaceship is designed for ‘aerial imaging’ but added it can be used for ‘various missions’.
The hard-line Fars news agency illustrated its story with a photo of a flying saucer, akin to one appearing in a 1950s Hollywood B-movie, hovering over an unidentified wooded landscape.
For President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the advances demonstrate Iran’s ability to push on with its science program despite international sanctions over its nuclear program. The hard-line Fars news agency illustrated its story with a photo of a flying saucer, akin to one appearing in a 1950s Hollywood B-movie. The reports gave no indication of the spaceship’s size. It can also fly indoors, can fly silently,
‘The device belonging to the new generation of vertical flyers is designed for aerial photography. ‘It is equipped with autopilot, image stabilizer and GPS and has a separate system for aerial recording with full HD quality!’Iran, which prides itself on its 2,500 year-old civilization, is also keen to show that it is at the cutting edge of modern science. Tehran’s ambitious space program alarms the West because the same technology used to send missiles into space can be used to build intercontinental ballistic missiles. Last year the country announced it had successfully fired a rocket that carried a mouse, a turtle and worms into space.
The flying saucer was said to have been unveiled at an exhibition of ‘strategic technologies’ attended by Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. At the same time Iran’s Space Agency launched a test spacecraft designed to sustain life in orbit. The state IRNA news agency said the capsule was carried by a rocket called the Kavoshgar-4 (Explorer-4) 75 miles into orbit before returning to earth. Iran’s often outlandish scientific claims.
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Filer’s Files # 12 -2017 Ford Asks Congress to investigate UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files # 12 -2017 Ford Asks Congress to investigate UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
California Object
El Cajon — I was smoking in my back yard when I suddenly heard a humming noise on March 10, 2017, I have heard this noise before it happens sometimes before I go to bed. We’ll the noise came back and I saw what appeared to be the outline of something invisible above the trees. When I noticed the humming got very loud and then took off and the noise stopped and when I turned around I could see the ball of light leaving. I enjoyed its beauty then decided to film it while it left into the clouds. An airplane passed by right after and so did a helicopter. I have video of all 3. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Hialeah– On February 9, 2017 I saw a large cube shaped UFO, much larger than a 747 aircraft by size comparison. It was hovering at first and fluctuating in various colors. I took footage of it in normal zoom then took more footage of it with zoom.
When I zoomed in it appeared to be structured and cube shaped. Minutes later it started to move and I began recording again. It sped off into the horizon above the clouds and at the end of the footage I showed how it was no longer in its original position.
When I took a screenshot of a frame from the second video which was zoomed in and enlarged it, it appeared to be similar to a building or a skyscraper with several windows. I’m attaching the original video and the enlarged image taken from the second video. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Diving Bell
Ocean Grove — Walking dog at beach and saw a UFO on February 27, 1998, at 1:35 PM. Architect Allen Wahl, was walking his dog along the beach in Ocean Grove, NJ. They were sitting on the beach resting on a crystal clear day. A strange looking ball shaped UFO with fins flew over his position moving from east to west and did not change course. Allen stated, he never saw a UFO before but this made him a believer. It looked like a diving bell or bathysphere about ten feet in diameter. It reminded him of a Juleps Van antique ship. Lines of rust could be seen on the craft indicating it was often under water. About thirty minutes later an Army helicopter with guns sticking out the front passed directly overhead his position. The next morning at 9:00AM the helicopters were also in the area flying at a very low level. Thanks to Allen Wahl
New Mexico Light
Chaparral — We were driving back from Ruidoso on March 17, 2017, and the bright white light flashing caught my attention.
It was a distance away but as we approached, it remained in the same spot. I turned back and the one flashing object broke up into three different orbs and disappeared. Thanks to MUFON CMS
North Carolina Light
High Point — On South Main Street getting pizza my family was sitting in car and noticed a bright light in sky on March 16, 2017. Family was immediately startled, confused, but ultimately excited. Upon closer observation, it was found that there was a silver orb slowly crossing the sky. Family immediately began recording event on phone (have 3 minutes video of encounter); the UFO traveled into what looked like a hole in the sky, dispersing and then reappearing. A smaller white orb soon appeared as if responding to the larger UFO. Shortly thereafter, both orbs disappeared before our eyes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Triangle
Port Lavaca — I noticed movement to my left, and looked up to the northwest and noticed an object moving toward me on September 30, 2016. The lights from the city cast a dim light upon the underbelly of the craft allowing me to determine it was solid and had Triangle shape. As it started moving overhead I noticed it had an array of lights underside, five total but small in comparison to the overall size of the object that were pinkish in color and appeared to be round in shape. The lights were configured in the shape of a chevron. The craft moved in a straight line from NW to SE totally silent. The craft moved over the waters of Lavaca Bay and I lost sight of it. I became very excited, and was fortunate to be able to witness such an event. I knew what I saw was real. I had a very good and distinct view of this craft. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
West Virginia Light
My name is Joseph Shipp I would like to report an unusual sighting March 16, 2017. I think that I do understand what I was seeing. I am a retired Senior Satellite Controller from the INTELSAT Corp. Satellite Control Center in Washington, D.C. I am a licensed pilot and an amateur radio operator, call sign WA8JLS. We live in a clear sky, rural location on top of a hill in West Virginia. The situation was a dark sky with good visibility. My geographical location is 39.07.59 N & 79.54.50 W at app. 1620 foot. elevation.
At 9:10 PM, with complete, clear sky c I stepped onto the south facing deck to a look at the sky. Commercial jet traffic frequently flies over this area as it’s designated “Aerial Flyway Route.” Moments later a bright flash of bluish, white light appeared 3-5 degrees just behind an aircraft. The brightness was as bright as seeing a Space Station pass overhead. Within seconds another weaker flash appeared in the location where the jet had been moments before. The object was not in the same flight path as the jet but was moving in a more northerly direction with weaker flashes and then brighter ones. The object appeared to be going slower than what one would see during a Station pass. I could not be certain, but it appeared that the object “Wavered” left and right, east and west a VERY small amount each time I saw it flash.
Some of the bright flashes were very bright as if coming directly in my direction as from an intense bluish/white LED light or laser. Some flashes were weaker and had a reddish/copper tint in color. Such as with a good eye how the solar panels of the Station can be perceived as it passes overhead. I began to count the times between the flashes. They were as long as ten seconds and as short as three seconds apart. They were random in timing and varied greatly in their brightness. I did not count all of the flashes but would estimate from the time I picked it up, there were twenty five to thirty flashes.
I could see the object approaching the vague shadow of the earth in what remained of the sunlight in the southern sky. I thought, “It will blink out at any moment.” It did blink out. But at that instant, it seems to have had a “Spur” or jet of red light, fire from the bottom of the object at roughly the 7:30-8:00 position. The “Jet” was several widths longer than the size of the object itself 4-5 deg. of arc in length. It was then in the earth’s shadow at 9:20 PM. The entire sighting lasted 5-6 minutes. When I first picked up the flashes, from my location it was about 80 deg. in elevation and 250 deg. in azimuth. When it blinked out it was about 35-40 degrees. I do think that it might have been a north/south LEO satellite that was tumbling out of control. I am curious if there were any other witnesses to this rare sighting? Sincerely, Joe Shipp
Washington Light
Conway— On Monday, March 13, 2017 at 8:30 pm, my friends and I were at the western most end of Rawlings Road when out of nowhere, a light appeared just above the horizon, over Camano Island. After a minute another bright light appeared next to it. It was the same pattern as our previous sightings in the same area, so we instantly knew what we were seeing. We had brought along a camera, as the UFOs had previously shown up as soon as we arrived at the area. We took multiple long exposure shots of the crafts in flight, and it was revealed that whilst travelling at faster speeds, the UFO would cloak itself, and could only be seen on camera.
We photographed the flight path of both objects departing the area, and it was truly amazing. About 10 minutes after they had left, they returned in the same spot. They did relatively the same things, hovering and pulsating in odd fashions. They would disappear for minutes at a time, then suddenly reappear, then dart away after some time in the area. The 3rd time we saw this, one of us flashed a phone flashlight at it. Upon doing this, to our surprise, the craft abruptly turned towards us. It had three lights in the front that appeared to scan us. After that, it quickly darted southwest. It was during its departure of the area that we noticed a saucer shape to it. The entire craft was lit up with a large number of lights, pulsating in an intelligent manner. During the departure, we flashed lights again, and this time, it began to fly and down, and left to right. We realized we had just communicated with a potential extra terrestrial. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Wisconsin Object
Black Creek — My wife and I were traveling easterly on our way home from Green Bay on Highway 54. I was looking at the sky ahead of us and thought nothing of the very few clouds that were in the sky. In an instant, there was an instantaneous flash of light, not a flash like a camera flash, but a sphere-like a ball. Then, a grayish, dark colored object appeared out of the light and traveled very slowly for 7 seconds and then it just vanished.
We had actually pulled over just to be certain that the sky was clear except for a few clouds. There was an instantaneous flash of round light and a UFO appeared from it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Wyoming Lights
Laramie — Taking pictures of the moon around 4 pm on March 9, 2017, I noticed black object in my picture with a shutter speed of 1/10. Increased shutter speed quickly, objects no longer visible.
I decreased shutter speed again and the object was visible. Object seemed to hover and then went off to the south. My high powered lens was used. It was very windy that day and was unable to get a clear picture. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Antarctic Disc
Antarctic research center United States — I was on my phone looking at Google earth images in Antarctica where I found this remarkably out of place disk sitting atop a large mountain near but not in, the Queen Maud mountains in Antarctica.
That particular range is completely blurred out. The object casts a shadow following its perfect contours.
This is obviously a smooth possibly metallic object displaying remarkable symmetry and detail for a satellite image.
Notice the setting sun (as much as it sets in Antarctica) reflecting just off of the dome (located in the exact center of the object), and the paneling sunward. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Brazil Objects
Itu— I was in the rooftop of my house, staring the sky with a friend on March 12, 2017. We were just observing, since there was no clouds and it was full moon. It was a beautiful evening. We were lying down, and three objects flew over us. At first, I thought it was a meteorite that just have broken in three smaller pieces, but, when at the distance, the left “piece” just made an S turn. The middle piece didn’t change of course and turned right. The right piece didn’t change its course.
Then they vanished in thin air; although there were no clouds. I felt a lot of things, since I’m a scientist who believes the scientific method with my heart and soul. I was terrified. I couldn’t believe what I just saw. My friend, also, was spooked. We could barely speak. I can’t even describe what I’m feeling now 24 hours after. I lost sight of the objects when they vanished. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Lights
Bare— I pulled onto my street heading home and I noticed three bright lights in the sky on February 27, 2017. Two were red and one was white flashing very fast.
I recorded it for a few seconds from my car, until the video went out of focus, then pulled into my driveway and went inside to tell people to come look.
My brother in law came outside and saw it as well. I started to record again and as I did it changed its white light to red and began pulsating slowly with the other two lights now turned off. It then flickered its lights and changed the red pulsating light back to white, continued to pulsate, and then went back to flashing again for the remainder of the time I watched. It eventually vanished. Thanks to MUFON CMS
I00ran light
Andisheh New Town, Tehran — The night before the last Wednesday of each Iranian New Year, the country celebrates with bonfires, fireworks and small lit balloons. On this day in 2016, I saw a constant stream of flying objects travel across the sky -once the fireworks started. Once the fireworks etc. had finished, there were no more flying objects.
Exactly the same night, the same thing happened this year (2017). Last night everything was the same as 2016. Glowing yellow balls all travelled from one direction to another and appeared to follow the same path and destination. Every few minutes one would appear from the far right and travel right across the sky to the left. I watched with binoculars as ii accelerated and slowed, move up and down and hover you can see the objects were not fireworks or fire balloons which people release in Iran. It was very obvious they were craft Thanks to MUFON CMS
Malta Disc
Marsascala— It was a sunny day and I was taking photos of the view on May 19, 2016.
The object appeared in three photos and I started noticing it for 15 minutes or so, and then disappeared over the sea.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
South Africa Black Triangle
Potchefstroom — Me and one of my friends were sitting outside at about 7:45 PM, just talking and drinking some tea on March 10, 2017. We saw a flickering object near the moon as big as a star and we thought it was just a plane. It was silent and changed direction hovering in weird motions. That’s when we saw a triangular shape with red and white flickering lights on each edge. We turned around and saw the triangular black object hovering right behind us and it was huge. It seemed quite impossible to move so fast from far away and now it was right by our side. We looked at each other shocked and confused as it was right there! The object changed direction again above us moving higher heading north like it wanted to land. We lost sight of it behind a big tree in front of us. It was hovering at a low altitude with flickering lights. We felt scared and confused and felt hypnotized because we just stood there in shock. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Spain Object
Tacoronte –
=Taking sunset photograph. – At the moment I did not notice the object, I saw it when I reviewed the photograph. 3. – A kind of missile. 4. – What you see in the picture. 5. – Curiosity. 6. – I did not see it until I checked the photograph.
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UK/England Lights
Warwick— I was taking my dogs for a walk and entered a large park area. I heard an unusual jet sound, more of a howl as if a jet is reducing speed on March 7, 2017. I spotted a Typhoon Euro fighter which I have never seen before. It turned and started to come north towards me and I started filming.
The fighter was going very slow and was pitched up at a strange angle. After it passed behind some trees I stopped filming. The howling sound continued. I spotted a small passenger jet passing over me with van sized blimp on its right hand wingtip. Thanks to MUFON CMS
East Preston— I was at home last night watching TV and decided to make a coffee, and noticed how pretty the moon looked out of my kitchen window on March 13, 2017. I decided to try to get a couple of nice pictures of it on my Cannon digital camera about 8.30 pm. It was either a full moon or near enough and it had a beautiful halo around it. I went out on the patio and managed to get a few decent shots. When I down loaded them on to my Laptop computer I noticed a couple of rather odd looking ones, I put some on Facebook and my daughter asked me what the odd golden glowing sausage shaped thing was? That’s’ when I really looked at it and realized it was indeed very strange looking. Everything else in the picture was in sharp focus so it seemed unlikely that whatever this thing was would not be in focus. I did not see this thing as I took the picture. There is an apparition of some kind that goes through my garden that it appears to have arms and legs! It appears to be made up of Orbs, .I did not see or hear any airplanes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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The universal language may truly be numbers. That's why scientists are looking at math as the way to send a Hello and more to any extraterrestrials who might be listening.
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This is one in a series on careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics made possible with generous support from Arconic Foundation.
This is the second in a three-part series on the search for extraterrestrial life.
On November 16, 1974, astronomers at the Arecibo radio telescope in Puerto Rico broadcast a powerful signal into outer space. Aiming their transmitter at a star cluster on the edge of our galaxy, they sent out a series of pings — 1,679 of them, to be exact. Why that number?
Scientists at the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico beamed a mathematical message into space in 1974.
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They knew 1,679 was unusual. It is the result of multiplying 23 by 73. Each is a prime number, a type divisible only by one and itself. The product of this equation would be unlikely to occur in nature. So the scientists hoped that if any aliens intercepted their broadcast, the number would show them that the pings were meant to be an intended signal. It might then help them decode the hidden message that those pings had contained (including pictures of DNA, the solar system and a stick figure).
Searching for aliens may sound like science fiction. Yet for many scientists, it has become serious business. Here we meet three who are using math in their quest to find other living beings in our universe. One is calculating the likelihood of finding life on other planets. Another is trying to figure out where best to beam a “hello” to E.T. The third is looking for a common language with extraterrestrials — and it will likely be numbers.
If we could talk to the aliens
Douglas Vakoch has spent a lot of time thinking about what he’d like to say to E.T. He is president of METI International in San Francisco, Calif. (METI stands for Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence.) His group is focused on broadcasting signals to outer space in the hope of contacting a civilization on some other world. Vakoch wants to use bright lights, such as lasers or perhaps a powerful radio telescope like the one at Arecibo (Air-eh-SEE-boh). But the big question: How could he write a message that aliens would understand?
The 1974 message sent into space made this pattern. It includes the numbers one through 10, a diagram of the solar system and a representation of the Arecibo telescope.
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“We don’t expect the extraterrestrials to be speaking English or German,” Vakoch explains. “So we look to mathematics as a universal language.”
The idea is simple. You need to understand math to build things. Any world advanced enough to have the technology to pick up our signals should also know how to work with numbers.
It’s not a new idea. Back in the 1820s, when astronomers still thought there might be little green men living on the moon, they suggested using geometry — the math of shapes — to communicate with them.
One scientist suggested planting trees or using mirrors to draw an enormous triangle in Siberia, a part of Russia. Another proposed digging a giant trench in the shape of a circle and filling it with kerosene. Then someone would light it on fire at night so that it would be visible from space. For these scientists, math was a way to show the aliens not only that we were here, but also that we were intelligent.
Vakoch’s plan is a little closer to what the Arecibo scientists tried in 1974. Back then, they used a binary system: two signals at slightly different frequencies. By sending out the signals in a series of bursts that form a pattern, scientists could create a kind of code, or draw pictures. The Arecibo team used its code to send a dense message. It included pictures.
Vakoch would start with something simpler: counting.
His first message would be seven signals at the same frequency: “ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping-ping.” Next, he’d send seven signals again but using two frequencies, like this: “ping-pong-pong-pong-pong-pong-ping.” He’d repeat that sequence four more times, then finish with seven “pings” again. If you draw that pattern on a piece of paper, you’ll see what the aliens will see if they decode his message: a box.
Next, Vakoch would add a third frequency to the code. By dropping in the third frequency at different places in the box, he could count numbers up to 25. By using a binary system — a way of representing numbers by combining zeros and ones — he could count into the millions. (The binary system is commonly used here on Earth. It can be found encoding the data in every computer.)
Once he introduced the code, Vakoch could then use it to send information. For instance, he might try to transmit the periodic table of the elements. It would list chemicals by their atomic numbers. This would show the aliens that we understand what the universe is made of. Another message might contain the Fibonacci sequence. This is a series of numbers that increase, with each successive number being the sum of the two before it. It’s a pattern that commonly appears both in nature and human art.
Even though he’s speaking in numbers, Vakoch wants to do more than count at the aliens. For him, math is just a tool to establish more meaningful communication. In the end, he says, “I want to know something about their culture, their society, their value system and what they see as beautiful.”
Doug Vakoch of the group METI International proposes creating a code using three frequencies of radio signals to transmit messages including the periodic table of elements.
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Stay on target
So you want to talk to an alien. Just point your transmitter at the nearest star system and press “send,” right?
Wrong, says Philip Lubin. He’s a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara who works on directed-energy systems. These are powerful lasers that could be used to flash signals at other stars. While radio signals spread out as they travel across space, lasers are tightly focused. That means it’s important to aim them precisely. Being off by just a few degrees to either side could cause the signal to miss its target.
Big as a star is, hitting it with a laser is not easy. For one thing, when you look at a star in the sky, you’re seeing light that has been traveling through space for years — maybe thousands of years. “What you see is where the star was,” Lubin says. But its light was traveling to Earth, the star has moved. So you have to project your message into the direction where you think that star will be when your message is due to arrive.
To send a message to another star, you need to use math to figure out not just where that star is now, but where it will be when your message is due to arrive.
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And don’t forget, it will take years for the light from Lubin’s lasers to travel through space in the other direction. And that star is still moving. “It’s like taking a flashlight and trying to shine it at a spacecraft flying by,” he says. “If you want to shine your flashlight at it and have it hit it, you have to know something about the trajectory of the spacecraft.”
Astronomers use math to determine proper motion — a measurement of how objects in outer space change their apparent position in our sky. To do this, the scientists calculate the object’s angle relative to Earth. Next, they figure out how fast it’s moving and in what direction.
Many astronomical objects are so distant that those angles are measured in arcseconds or even smaller milli-arcseconds. Each are tiny amounts describing angles that are less than one degree in size. By calculating proper motion, Lubin can figure out where a star system will be when his signal arrives. “You have to figure out not only where the star is now, but where it will be in the future,” he emphasizes.
Is anybody out there?
For many scientists, trying to communicate with aliens is jumping the gun. They are asking more basic questions: Are we alone in the universe? What are the odds that life exists anywhere else? These scientists use math to figure out whether Earth is likely to be a lonely outpost in space, or one of many inhabited worlds in a universe teeming with life.
More than 50 years ago, astronomer Frank Drake devised an equation to estimate the number of extraterrestrial civilizations whose signals we might pick up from Earth. To get this number, he multiplied many factors. These included the rate at which new stars form, the number of stars with planets that host life and the number of life-bearing planets where that life would be intelligent. Just one problem: Almost all of the variables in this now-famous “Drake Equation” are still unknown.
“It’s not an equation that you can make predictions with,” says Avi Loeb. “It’s an equation that summarizes what we don’t know.” Loeb is a physicist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. He decided to look at the search for extraterrestrial life from a different perspective. Instead of asking how much life exists in the universe, he wanted to know when in the history of the universe life would be most likely to develop?
For this, Loeb developed an equation of his own. It looks at different types of stars, the rate at which they form and how long they live. When he crunched the numbers, Loeb came up with a surprising conclusion: In the scale of cosmic time, the glory days when the universe is full of life might still be far ahead of us.
A Harvard physicist used math to figure out that human life may be “premature,” and the days of a life-filled universe may be still to come — if life can exist around stars smaller than our sun.
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Many scientists had assumed that life most likely would occur in star systems similar to our own. After all, we know our sun can support life. If life exists elsewhere in the universe, sun-like stars are probably where we would find it, right?
Those sun-like stars usually burn out after some 6 billion years, Loeb knew. Yet there are stars that live longer. Some very small ones can survive for around 10 trillion years! And many of these small stars have planets. Might these planets also support life?
“If the answer is yes, then we know we [on Earth] are premature,” he says. Stars like our sun burn out quickly. So when our sun and its kin are gone, “the life that will remain is life around low-mass stars,” he argues. These are those tiny stars.
Unlike the Drake Equation, Loeb’s math contains only one unknown variable: whether low-mass stars can host life. He hopes other scientists will investigate that question in the decades ahead. “Once we know that, it can be folded into my equation,” he says.
Scientists in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, or SETI, know they are unlikely to meet a Vulcan or Klingon in their lifetime. Still, they are excited to explore our universe for signs of life. Whether they’re figuring out the odds that we’re alone, or writing messages to aliens and beaming them out to other worlds, they couldn’t carry out this search without turning to numbers.
alien A non-native organism. (in astronomy) Life on or from a distant world.
angle The space (usually measured in degrees) between two intersecting lines or surfaces at or close to the point where they meet.
arcsecond A measure of some angle relative to a circle. A circle is divided into 360 equal-size wedges (or pie slices). Each of these is described as being 1 degree in size (something a school protractor for measuring angles can help you picture). Partial degrees are measured in other units: arcminutes (each equal to 1/60th of a degree) and arcseconds (each equal to 1/3600th of a degree).
astronomy The area of science that deals with celestial objects, space and the physical universe as a whole. People who work in this field are called astronomers.
atomic Having to do with atoms, the smallest possible unit that makes up a chemical element.
atomic number The number of protons in an atomic nucleus, which determines the type of atom and how it behaves.
binary Something having two integral parts. (in mathematics and computer science) A number system where values are represented using two symbols 1 (on) or 0 (off).
broadcast To cast — or send out — something over a relatively large distance. A farmer may broadcast seeds by flinging them by hand over a large area. A loudspeaker may send sounds out over a great distance. An electronic transmitter may emit electromagnetic signals over the air to a distant radio, television or other receiving device. And a newscaster can broadcast details of events to listeners across a large area, even the world.
chemical A substance formed from two or more atoms that unite (become bonded together) in a fixed proportion and structure. For example, water is a chemical made when two hydrogen atoms bond to one oxygen atom. Its chemical formula is H2O. Chemical can also be an adjective to describe properties of materials that are the result of various reactions between different compounds.
code (in computing) To use special language to write or revise a program that makes a computer do something.
cosmic An adjective that refers to the cosmos — the universe and everything within it.
culture (in social science) The sum total of typical behaviors and social practices of a related group of people (such as a tribe or nation). Their culture includes their beliefs, values, and the symbols that they accept and/or use. Culture is passed on from generation to generation through learning. Scientists once thought culture to be exclusive to humans. Now they recognize some other animals show signs of culture as well, including dolphins and primates.
decode To convert a hidden or secret message into a language that can be understood.
degree (in geometry) A unit of measurement for angles. Each degree equals one three-hundred-and-sixtieth of the circumference of a circle.
DNA (short for deoxyribonucleic acid) A long, double-stranded and spiral-shaped molecule inside most living cells that carries genetic instructions. It is built on a backbone of phosphorus, oxygen, and carbon atoms. In all living things, from plants and animals to microbes, these instructions tell cells which molecules to make.
Drake equation A mathematical statement created in 1961 by radio astronomer Frank Drake. It posits that science can estimate the number of technological civilizations in distant star systems by considering: how many civilizations in our Milky Way galaxy would have electromagnetic emissions that could be picked up on Earth, the rate at which new stars that are suitable for hosting intelligent life form, the share of those stars with planets, the number of planets per solar system having an environment that could support life, the share of those planets on which life actually developed, the share of those planets on which the life was intelligent, the share of civilizations that then developed a technology that could signal its existence into space, and how long such civilizations would issue those detectable signals.
element (in chemistry) Each of more than one hundred substances for which the smallest unit of each is a single atom. Examples include hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, lithium and uranium.
equation In mathematics, the statement that two quantities are equal. In geometry, equations are often used to determine the shape of a curve or surface.
E.T. (n.) An abbreviation made famous by the 1982 Universal Pictures movie, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The main character was a charming space alien called E.T. His most famous line from the movie was “E.T. phone home.” E.T. has since come to be used as a colloquial term for any intelligent and potentially friendly space alien.
extraterrestrial Anything of or from regions beyond Earth.
factor Something that plays a role in a particular condition or event; a contributor.
Fibonacci sequence A pattern of numbers that frequently shows up in nature. Each successive number is equal to the addition of the two numbers before it, starting with 0 and 1. So it starts out: 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21 — and then goes on from there.
frequency The number of times a specified periodic phenomenon occurs within a specified time interval. (In physics) The number of wavelengths that occurs over a particular interval of time.
galaxy A massive group of stars bound together by gravity. Galaxies, which each typically include between 10 million and 100 trillion stars, also include clouds of gas, dust and the remnants of exploded stars.
geometry The mathematical study of shapes, especially points, lines, planes, curves and surfaces.
intelligence The ability to collect and apply knowledge and skills.
laser A device that generates an intense beam of coherent light of a single color. Lasers are used in drilling and cutting, alignment and guidance, in data storage and in surgery.
mass A number that shows how much an object resists speeding up and slowing down — basically a measure of how much matter that object is made from.
milli A prefix for fractional units of measurement, here referring to thousandths in the international metric system.
moon The natural satellite of any planet.
periodic table of the elements A chart (and many variants) that chemists have developed to sort elements into groups with similar characteristics. Most of the different versions of this table that have been developed over the years tend to place the elements in ascending order of their mass.
physicist A scientist who studies the nature and properties of matter and energy.
planet A celestial object that orbits a star, is big enough for gravity to have squashed it into a roundish ball and has cleared other objects out of the way in its orbital neighborhood. To accomplish the third feat, the object must be big enough to have pulled neighboring objects into the planet itself or to have slung them around the planet and off into outer space. Astronomers of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) created this three-part scientific definition of a planet in August 2006 to determine Pluto’s status. Based on that definition, IAU ruled that Pluto did not qualify. The solar system now includes eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
premature Too early; before something should occur. Premature births, for instance, are when babies are born weeks or months early — potentially before they are ready for life on their own, outside their mom’s protective womb.
prime number A whole number that is divisible only by itself and 1. For example, 2 and 3 are prime numbers but 4 (which is divisible by 2) is not.
proper motion A measure of the angular velocity of some object in distant space relative to Earth. This motion has two components: its speed of change and direction of change over time.
radio To send and receive radio waves; or the device that receives these transmissions.
science fiction A field of literary or filmed stories that take place against a backdrop of fantasy, usually based on speculations about how science and engineering will direct developments in the distant future. The plots in many of these stories focus on space travel, exaggerated changes attributed to evolution or life in (or on) alien worlds.
SETI An abbreviation for search for extraterrestrial intelligence, meaning life on other worlds.
Siberia A region in northern Asia, almost all of which falls within Russia. This land takes its name from the language of the Tatar people, where Siber means sleeping land. This region is vast. It has become famous for its long, harsh winters, where temperatures can fall to −68° Celsius (−90° Fahrenheit).
society An integrated group of people or animals that generally cooperate and support one another for the greater good of them all.
solar system The eight major planets and their moons in orbit around the sun, together with smaller bodies in the form of dwarf planets, asteroids, meteoroids and comets.
star The basic building block from which galaxies are made. Stars develop when gravity compacts clouds of gas. When they become dense enough to sustain nuclear-fusion reactions, stars will emit light and sometimes other forms of electromagnetic radiation. The sun is our closest star.
sun The star at the center of Earth’s solar system. It’s an average size star about 26,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Also a term for any sunlike star.
technology The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry — or the devices, processes and systems that result from those efforts.
telescope Usually a light-collecting instrument that makes distant objects appear nearer through the use of lenses or a combination of curved mirrors and lenses. Some, however, collect radio emissions (energy from a different portion of the electromagnetic spectrum) through a network of antennas.
trajectory The path taken by a projectile moving through space and time, or the direction that a trend is taking over time.
transmit (n. transmission) To send or pass along.
trillion A number representing a million million — or 1,000,000,000,000 — of something.
universe The entire cosmos: All things that exist throughout space and time. It has been expanding since its formation during an event known as the Big Bang, some 13.8 billion years ago (give or take a few hundred million years).
variable (in mathematics) A letter used in a mathematical expression that may take on different values.
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Pareidolia: Cloud gazing at Megalo Print Gallery shows imagination and technique
Pareidolia: Cloud gazing at Megalo Print Gallery shows imagination and technique
Sasha Grishin
Pareidolia: Cloud gazing. Various artists. Megalo Print Gallery, 21 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston. Until April 1.
In the famous exchange between Hamlet and Polonius, the Prince of Denmark claims that "yonder cloud" is almost "in shape of a camel" or a weasel or "like a whale", and on all occasions the courtier agrees as the obedient cloud takes on its various disguises.
Waratah Lahy's Clouds I, 2017, monotype features in Pareidolia: Cloud gazing at Megalo.
The technical term for seeing animals, faces or objects within cloud formations is pareidolia – from the Greek – "instead of" plus "image". This equally applies to seeing rabbits in the moon or a face in bunches of grapes in the wallpaper patterns, while the Rorschach inkblot test employs pareidolia as a strategy through which to gain an insight into a person's mental state.
The new exhibition at Megalo is titled Pareidolia: Cloud gazing, where 10 printmakers have been invited to look at clouds, from both sides, and to discover for themselves hidden images. The 10 artists involved are Surya Bajracharya, Georgia Black, Waratah Lahy, Barbara McConchie, Peter McLean, Al Munro, Sandra Pitkin, Erica Seccombe, Ulrike Sturm and Jason Wing. Predictably, the result is as diverse as the participating artists with a few standout performers.
Peter McLean shows a sense of playful inventiveness with The sky, 2017, mezzotint.
The flexible Peter McLean has opted for the painstaking technique of mezzotint, where the artist works from dark to light and mysterious faces peer out at us from the clouds. Although the scale is small and the medium intimate, the effect is that of a vast and challenging skyscape from which whimsical images emerge. One must remember that Hamlet was only feigning madness when he claimed to see his camel and there is this sense of playful inventiveness in McLean's prints. It is a perfect combination of medium and the desired impact.
Erica Seccombe's Fission is a clever screenprinted dot grid where our eye is invited to inhabit this sizeable print and discover our own camels and weasels. Its crispness and almost op-art like quality gives it a pulsating intensity. At the opposite end of the emotional scale are the romantic daydreams by Surya Bajracharya. They are his version of the Rorschach inkblots where he declares in his titles that he is In the mood for love and the watery monochromatic monoprint technique permits the veil of free association.
Waratah Lahy exhibits a couple of small colour monotypes, where light mysterious forms emerge like hovering UFOs. It is possibly my imagination, rather than her prints, but I found something slightly menacing and disturbing in her image of a transfigured suburbia. Barbara McConchie exhibits a couple of ghostly images that are arresting in their subtlety. In a technique that she describes as a combination of pencil plus lino frottage, she creates fine melting forms that invite ambiguity in their interpretation. It is the sort of work that you examine and digest with your eyes and then invent your own narrative that may be quite independent of that of the artist.
Pareidolia is a lovely exhibition in which the imagination, plus an excellence of technique, triumphs over any physical reality.
Now we all know what you're thinking - this can't possibly be true.
Even Michael was sceptical at first.
Michael Norbury
This snap shows two light sources coming from the mysterious object
He said: "Hey, I'm a sceptic - I don't even like Star Wars.
"But what I saw on camera was an intelligent light force. It shot off like a bullet after an hour of hovering.
"My friend and I just couldn't explain it. We tried to make sense of it as a star or a plane - but like I said, it was too low and you could see planes flying above and stars way beyond that."
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Scientists Have New Information About the Massive Bands of Radiation Surrounding Earth
Scientists Have New Information About the Massive Bands of Radiation Surrounding Earth
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IN BRIEF
Recent findings have shown that the particles that astronomers thought made the inner Van Allen Belt so dangerous usually aren't even present.
Now that astronomers know that this belt is safe to study, they can do research that was thought impossible before.
A RADIATION BELT
Massive bands of radiation, known as the Van Allen Belts, surround Earth. Discovered in 1958, these belts of charged particles are routinely monitored by the Van Allen Probes. However, because of the previously perceived danger of these belts, scientists have been wary of sending spacecraft to conduct further studies of them. But new observations from the probes have shown that what we’ve thought about these belts might not be true.
Recent findings have shown that the particles that astronomers thought made the inner belt so dangerous — namely, the ultra-fast (relativistic), highest-energy Electrons — aren’t usually even present.
That’s right — the area that was thought to contain destructive electrons circling 640 to 9,600 km (400 to 6,000 miles) above the surface of Earth is typically (more often than not) entirely devoid of these electrons. It is now known that especially intense solar storms sometimes push high-energy electrons into the inner belt. While these instances are the exception to the rule, the belt takes a while to return to “normal,” so it was thought that the electrons were a usual fixture.
Image Credit: NASA
So, how did they figure this out? What technology could have been used with the probe to determine this new information? Well, it turns out that they used a specialized instrument called the Magnetic Electron and Ion Spectrometer (MagEIS). This device allowed scientists to more easily determine the energy and charge of different particles. This allowed them to distinguish between relativistic electrons and high-energy Protons. Seth Claudepierre, a Van Allen Probes scientist, said in a NASA press release that subtracting these protons from the measurements was key to these findings.
“We’ve known for a long time that there are these really energetic protons in there, which can contaminate the measurements, but we’ve never had a good way to remove them from the measurements until now,” Claudepierre.
Purple depicts the relativistic electrons.
Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Mary Pat Hrybyk-Keith
A NEW FRONTIER
They have also found that not only is the inner belt a lot “weaker,” as some might put it, than previously thought, it is also much less stable. It is expected for the outer belt to fluctuate in size in response to solar activity, but now astronomers can see that the inner belt acts similarly.
The inner belt is no longer known as an unchanging band of high-energy, relativistic electrons. It has now been revealed to be an ever-changing belt that is (usually) made up of low-energy electrons and high-energy protons.
Because of the previous notions surrounding these belts, there has been relatively little study of them. This new information opens up an entirely new door for discovery. As we continue to explore our solar system, new information about these belts and the ways in which solar winds, Earth’s magnetic field, and radiation interact could be invaluable. Especially as scientists consider the possibilities of terraforming Mars, a planet lacking an atmosphere, research of the Van Allen Belts could catapult progress forward.
This animated gif shows how particles move through Earth’s radiation belts, the large donuts around Earth. The sphere in the middle shows a cloud of colder material called the plasmasphere. New research shows that the plasmasphere helps keep fast electrons from the radiation belts away from Earth.
Credits: NASA/Goddard/Scientific Visualization Studio
A Teenager Just “Delighted” NASA By Pointing Out a Significant Error in Their Data
A Teenager Just “Delighted” NASA By Pointing Out a Significant Error in Their Data
NASA
A British school student recently contacted NASA to point out that there was an error in data recorded on the International Space Station (ISS), earning him thanks from the US space agency.
Miles Soloman, a 17-year-old student from Tapton School in Sheffield, was working on the TimPix project, which lets school students in the UK access data recorded by radiation detectors during British astronaut Tim Peake’s six-month stay on the ISS.
Amongst other projects, Peake participated in a research program that aims to understand the impact of space radiation on humans. Radiation on the ISS is monitored with USB-shaped Timepix detectors, which are plugged into computers and regularly send data back to Earth.
Soloman and his fellow students were given these Timepix measurements in a giant pile of Excel spreadsheets, allowing them to practice data analysis on real-world scientific information.
When they sorted the data by energy levels, Soloman noticed something odd.
“I went straight to the bottom of the list, and went to the lowest bits of energy there were,” he told BBC Radio 4’s World at One current affairs program.
“I noticed that where we should have no energy, where there was no radiation, it was actually showing -1. The first thing I thought was ‘Well you can’t have negative energy,’ and then we realised that this was an error.”
Soloman and his physics teacher James O’Neill jumped into action and emailed NASA straight away.
CORRECTING NASA
As Soloman explained to BBC Radio, researchers at NASA responded that they were aware of the error, but thought it had only been happening once or twice a year. They were wrong.
“What we actually found was that they were happening multiple times a day,” says Soloman.
“They thought they had corrected for this,” said physicist Lawrence Pinsky from the University of Houston, who is involved with the TimPix project, and is a collaborator of the radiation monitoring project on ISS.
“The problem is that some of the algorithms which converted the raw data were slightly off, and therefore when they did the conversion, they wound up with a negative number.”
Prompted by BBC’s World at One host Martha Kearney on whether such a revelation by a schoolboy was embarrassing, Pinsky answered that he didn’t think so.
“It was appreciated more so than being embarrassing,” he said. “The idea that students get involved at a real level means that there’s an opportunity for them to find things like this.”
The TimPix project is one of many initiatives organized by IRIS (the Institute for Research in Schools), a UK-based charitable trust that gives students and teachers opportunities to do actual scientific research at school.
IRIS has partnered with organizations such as CERN, NASA, Wellcome Trust, and the UK Royal Horticultural Society to bring real science projects into the classroom and get kids excited about pursuing careers in science.
“We’re also tapping into the potential of young minds and what they can do,” said Soloman’s teacher O’Neill. “As far as I’m concerned, the greatest research group we can form is our students around the country.”
There’s even a project in the works that will let kids build a replica of the Large Hadron Collider in Minecraft, working in collaboration with the particle physics team from the University of Oxford.
At least for Miles Soloman, IRIS has definitely given him inspiration to pursue more science, although he hastens to explain that he wasn’t trying to outsmart NASA researchers when he pointed out the data error.
“I’m not trying to prove NASA wrong, I’m not trying to say I’m better, because obviously I’m not – they’re NASA,” he said. “I want to work with them and learn from them.”
VIDEO: Enorme cirkelvormige schaduw passeert ruimtestation ISS
VIDEO: Enorme cirkelvormige schaduw passeert ruimtestation ISS
Er zijn beelden opgedoken van een enorme cirkelvormige schaduw die het internationale ruimtestation ISS passeert. Complottheoretici stellen dat het een buitenaards moederschip betreft.
Op de beelden is te zien hoe vanuit het ISS wordt neergekeken op een zwart vlak. Dat vlak wordt plotseling lichter terwijl er een soort cirkelvormig object voorbij lijkt te komen.
Onder de video schrijft YouTube-gebruiker Streetcap1 dat hij niet zegt dat het een moederschip of buitenaards ruimteschip is, maar dat het er wel vreemd uitziet, meldt de Daily Star.
Vreemde dingen
Hij plaatste het filmpje op zaterdag op YouTube. “Je ziet een grote schaduw in beeld verschijnen,” zei hij. “Wat kan dit in hemelsnaam zijn?”
Volgens sommigen zijn de beelden bewijs voor buitenaards leven. “Het is een moederschip,” reageerde iemand.
Een ander schreef dat er vreemde dingen gebeuren in de ruimte en dat er nog meer staat te gebeuren.
Aan het oog onttrokken
Anderen suggereerden dat de schaduw kan zijn veroorzaakt door het camerafilter of het zonlicht.
Eén iemand merkte echter op: “De achtergrond wordt compleet aan het oog onttrokken door dat grote object. Dat kan toch geen schaduw of eclips zijn?”
Eerder deze maand werd al een ‘sigaarvormige UFO’ bij het ISS gespot, waarna de NASA het beeld donkerder zou hebben gemaakt.
Met alle verkiezingstoestanden is de NOS verslaggever Ron Fresen in Den Haag een belangrijk man.
Alle journaallezers vragen constant: “Hoe zit dat nu Ron?”, maar wat Ron niet vertelt, is dat hij waarschijnlijk buitenaardse assistentie krijgt.
In vroegere tijden werd het nieuws gebracht en mochten mensen zelf bepalen wat ze daarvan vonden.
Tegenwoordig werkt dat niet meer zo en moet alles wat er in de wereld gebeurt, worden “geduid” om te voorkomen dat het publiek teveel of überhaupt zelf conclusies gaat trekken. Gelukkig hoeven burgers zich daar tegenwoordig niet meer het hoofd over te breken, want dat duiden wordt gelukkig voor hen gedaan.
Alles wat er in politiek Den Haag gebeurt en in het NOS journaal terechtkomt, wordt dan ook geduid door Ron Fresen. Kijk maar eens een journaal en verbaas je hoe het kan dat de nieuwslezers zelf helemaal niets kunnen bedenken, maar dat ze altijd aan Ron Fresen in Den Haag moeten vragen wat iets nu eigenlijk betekent.
Jesse Klaver van Groen Links laat een scheet. Vroeger zou dit worden gebracht als een feit, tegenwoordig is het: “Wat betekent die scheet van Klaver nu eigenlijk Ron, is het een scheet met een dubbele bodem? Zit er een luchtje aan? Hoe moeten we dat zien? ”.
Een lezer keek naar wat hij noemt het gebral van Ron en hij schrijft daarover het volgende (dank!):
live uitzendingen blijven verbazen ,niet alleen bij het iss station maar nu eens live bij de nos .dat was vandaag 21-3 bij het 18.00 uur journaal tijdens gesprek live met ron uut den haag en de studio bij 2.39 zie je bij zijn hoofd iets snel naderen daarna zie je in het midden een grote bal en bij logo NOS ontploft of verdwijnt het dat was voor mij veel mooier dan het gebral van Rob hierbij de foto,s Bekijk de uitzending en verbaas u . Op de volgende foto’s zie je inderdaad een ronde ufo verschijnen, net linksboven het hoofd van Ron. Op de foto’s daarna zie je hoe het naar links beweegt door het beeld.
Het is duidelijk dat er iets door het beeld vliegt achter het hoofd van Ron. Of dit betekent dat Ron bij het duiden van politiek Den Haag buitenaardse hulp krijgt, is nog niet helemaal duidelijk.
Misschien maakt Ron dat wel bekend in zijn eerstvolgende uitzending?
SCIENTISTS STILL HAVE NO EXPLANATION FOR MYSTERIOUS LIVING STONES
SCIENTISTS STILL HAVE NO EXPLANATION FOR MYSTERIOUS LIVING STONES
No, this isn't the basis for a science fiction movie or television series, but something that actually exists out there in the world. Found in Romania, these large stones have baffled individuals for many years now since their first discovery. The oddest thing about these stones is that not only do these move but they also seem to have the ability to grow.
These stones referred to as Trovants are found right outside the small village of Costesti. The stones have been reported to have grown in measurement to 2 meters to 10 meters. As for the origins of these stones, this is another mystery no one can explain. One thing that has been determined is every time it rains in that area the stones seem to come to life. As if the water seems were providing the life force making it possible for the stone to grow and move.
Over the years many scientists have studied the Trovants to try to determine why these stone seem to be alive, but no solid theory has been reported. Despite the mystery and the myth surround them the Tovants have become revered in the area, and not feared. In the year 2004 a commission to preserves the stones was created and “Trovants Museum Natural Reserve" was founded. So, the Trovants have become somewhat of an attraction in the area.
But guess what turns out Romania isn't the only place where this unusual phenomenon can be found. It turns out there are more living stones in other parts of the world. There have been reports of finding such stones in the countries of Russia, and Czech Republic just to name a few of the places where Trovants have also been found.
For those of us who would like to see Trovants for ourselves, there are videos online where these unusual stones can be seen. For anyone who doubts that these stones could really be alive, these videos could very well change your mind.
VIDEO ALLEGEDLY SHOWS BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE DESTROYED BY THE ILLUMINATI
VIDEO ALLEGEDLY SHOWS BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE DESTROYED BY THE ILLUMINATI
Conspiracy theorists are claiming the infamous alien satellite was recently shot down by the equally-infamous Illuminati. But things aren’t always what they seem.
The video evidence uploaded to YouTube makes a bold claim: the age-old Illuminati, also known as the Enlightened Ones have managed to bring down the Black Knight Satellite, an alien device that is said to have been orbiting the Earth for over 13,000 years. Until very recently, that is.
According to claims made by YouTube channel UFO Today, the alien satellite was blasted out of the sky by a “secret Illuminati war plane.”
In the article accompanying the video, the uploaders maintain that “two days ago a secret server of Wikileaks was used to upload a huge amount of data coming from an unknown source. Apparently, all the document and files were marked with metatags that contained references to the legendary Black Knight satellite.”
The following day, the strange video allegedly showing the destruction of the Black Knight Satellite was uploaded to YouTube.
The video description says that on March 16, a secret military mission funded and ordered by the Illuminati themselves had a war plane hit the alien satellite with an anti-matter warhead. The video explains that prior to the offensive, the group had secretly gathered data about the Black Knight Satellite and managed to uncover several weak spots. Therefore, the strike was a precise hit aimed at the BNS’ Achilles Heel.
Immediately after the video was uploaded, UFO analysts chipped in with their own theories.
Controversial UFO channel Secureteam10 claims that immediately following the missile impact, several escape pods can be seen leaving the satellite and the scene. This would imply the satellite had extraterrestrial occupants and was not just an autonomous alien probe.
Some speculate the offensive carried against the Black Knight was the result of the Illuminati intercepting a signal originating from the satellite. The signal is said to have been a call to action to the original builders of the satellite because the time to conquer our planet had finally come.
Naturally, this is all unfounded speculation based purely on a video showing an object burning up as it entered the atmosphere.
After a very brief time spent digging around, I identified the original uploader of the video as YouTube channel Sexy Girls and random stuff. Not kidding.
So what this does to the credibility of these allegations is more damaging than the explosion seen in the video.
And as it turns out, the controversial video is actually an edited portion of an older video. In 2010, NASA filmed the fiery re-entry of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) Hayabusa spacecraft. No Illuminati war plane, no anti-matter warhead, no Black Knight.
By all accounts, the alien satellite is still up there, slowly orbiting and gathering data about life on Earth. Shooting down the Black Knight Satellite won’t be that easy, you know.
12,618 reported UFO sightings have been investigated by Project Blue Book.
It has been reported that over the 18 years that Nathan Robert "Rosie" Rosengarten has been investigating UFOs, he has never found any extraterrestrials.
Rosengarten was a retired Air Force colonel who died last week at the age of 101. The declassified program named Project Blue Book is just now being learned about by many who did not know it existed before. The program has analyzed and investigated thousands of reported UFO sightings from the years of 1952 to 1970.
The following are the top 5 topics to be aware of regarding Project Blue Book.
Many sightings were probed: There were 12,618 sightings reported around the world by Project Blue Book. This took place at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base with Project Sign and Project Grudge acting as forerunners to the project.
Typical Dayton report from March of 1967: Red and white revolving lights were reported by a 34-year-old. The lights were reportedly traveling at very high speeds, then hovering, then disappearing past the horizon. This happened with the lights producing no smoke or noise.
The witness assured that it was not an aircraft, helicopter, or star. A weather balloon and swamp gas were also ruled out as possible culprits.
"It makes no difference if you want to believe me or if anyone believes me for that matter" the man stated. "It was something alien-like and I know what I saw."
No explanations for hundreds of sightings: Although the sighting reports reached into the thousands, over 700 never gained an explanation. This information was stated in a letter released by officials at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. U-2 and SR-71 spy planes were to blame for over half of the reported sightings, which was concluded by a CIA report from 1992.
Alien discoveries? 0: Project Blue Book concluded that none of the UFO sightings investigated by them were ever a threat to national security. It was also stated that the objects under investigation did not behave or operate outside of the realm of modern technology at the time. No signs pointed to the objects being associated with aliens or extraterrestrial beings.
Cyberspace now the home for Blue Book: In 1969, Project Blue Book hung up its hat for the last time and retired. Wright-Patterson also claims it no longer investigates or documents UFO reports. Even though these types of records have been declassified for quite some time, they call a microfiche at the National Archives home now. The accessibility of the documents was made more readily available in 2015 when UFO researcher from California (John Greenwald, Jr.) posted upwards of 130,000 pages on a website named Black Vault: http://www.theblackvault.com/casefiles/project-blue-book-unknown-case-files-complete-list/
PROJECT BLUE BOOK ARTIFACTS
This UFO was identified by the U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book program as a Mack Truck brake drum.
This UFO was identified by the U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book program as part of a Sputnik satellite hoax.
This UFO was identified by the U.S. Air Force Project Blue Book program as part of a hoax.
NAVAL OFFICER: REPTILIANS AND NORDICS ARE HIJACKING MANKIND
NAVAL OFFICER: REPTILIANS AND NORDICS ARE HIJACKING MANKIND
A retired U.S. Navy NCO declares that he saw silver UFOs and an entrance to an UNDERGROUND BASE in the SOUTH POLE operated by humans and aliens in Antarctica A US Navy flight engineer has seen SILVER UFOs moving in the skies of Antarctica and a large (literally a large hole) of access to an UNDERGROUND BASE existing in Antarctica and occupied in collaboration by ETs and humans.
Antarctica has long been considered one of the most mysterious places on earth. It is therefore not surprising that numerous "conspiracy theories, claims, and reports" have been proposed over the years, attempting to explain some of the many puzzling occurrences on the most isolated continent on Earth. For years, people have stated that Antarctica is one of the most protected places on Earth for a good reason.
What do you think? Is there anything strange about Antarctica? Is Antarctica only an isolated, frozen continent? Or is there something more puzzling about this place, as many conspiracy theorists claim?
Photographs of UFOs circled through the media last week as U.S. Navy Commander turned whistleblower decided that now was the time to release classified information, mostly photographs which would serve as confirmation of UFO existence.
Photos of a UFO launch and several others were produced last week by Navy Commander Graham Bethune. The photos date back to 1989 and are shocking as they make the rounds through the media. Bethune is currently retired and felt that the truth was more important than his U.S. Military standing and reputation.
AMAZING UFO PHOTOGRAPHS LEAKED BY U.S. MILITARY WHISTLEBLOWER
Bethune claims that the photos came from a close friend of his. This friend, who requests and maintains anonymity, sent the photos to Bethune, claiming that he rendezvoused with another form of intelligence and took these photos then. At that moment, the photos were taken on September 27, 1989.
The location of the photos was somewhere around Nashville, Tennessee. Reportedly, the photos are of a theatrical reenactment, including real alien spacecraft. Strong circular columns of light come down from the craft as it appears to be either taking off or landing.
The story behind the is that the photographer was driving just outside of Nashville, through an unknown rural area of town, looking to take pictures of the night sky on July 14, 1989. Behind a line of trees, the photographer saw a light, which appeared to be active and moving. So, at about 9: 00 PM he stopped his car and took two models of a camera from his trunk. One was a Canon AE-1, and another was a Canon T-90.
As a professional photographer, he moved toward the mountain and line of trees to see a better view. From there, he took the recently released stunning photographs. He projects that he was six miles away but still got amazing shots. In the end, he used the rest of his film to take these photos. The National UFO Center believes these photos to be genuine, as the film shows a central discharge for taking off. The individual credited with the photos still stays anonymous, and the photos are still investigated and studied to this day.
Game photo of "Mass Effect: Andromeda" fromMassEffect.com.
MassEffect.com
If latest reports are to be believed, “Mass Effect: Andromeda” is full of SpaceX Easter Eggs. While a group of daring pioneers to travel outside the galaxy, the game never forgets those who are pioneering such journeys in the real world. It lovingly references ESA and SpaceX among others.
Humans will discover alien technology on Mars in the year 2148, as per the game. This technology will rapidly enhance the technology of the humans in turn. Mankind will soon reach to the edge of solar system and to a galaxy beyond. As per a codex in the game, all this is possible because of the pioneering space exploration company SpaceX. Players will find a “SpaceX Model” in Ryder’s cabin on the Tempest. The model looks very similar to Falcon Heavy. This SpaceX rocket will become the most-powerful in the world.
ESA also gets it own shout-out in the game. ESA, along with the theoretical Lowell City, are a big player in “Mass Effect: Andromeda.” Players will be surprised to see some of the space missions in the game have already been carried out in the real world. The game includes past missions such as ExoMars and also planned missions like JUpiter ICy moons Explorer or “Juice” and Mercury explorer BepiColombo, reports Gizmodo AU. “Mass Effect’s” timeline shows that humans will establish first colonies in Mars by the year 2103.
However, in real life, NASA aims to achieve this goal as early as 2030. Meanwhile, there are certain things every player should keep in mind while playing the BioWare game. A player’s action on each planet has long-lasting effects. Turning on vaults and monoliths expands the area one can explore over time. This opens up new side missions and locations. Players can visit certain planets multiple time and some they can’t visit at all. Unless Suvi tells about an anomaly, players can simply orbit and scan them.
According to Polygon, “Mass Effect: Andromeda” players can argue with crewmates without affecting the finality of the mission. A lot of conversations and missions in the game end with a binary choice. Selling ones salvage is important when hunting for the perfect weapon and armour. Players will tend to collect tons of stuffs from containers and fallen enemies. Selling them will give extra cash. Players can also go back to a particular part of the game and redo their skills.
“Mass Effect: Andromeda” players generally tend to focus only on one skill tree. It is okay to do so early on in the game. But as the game progresses, other skills should not be ignored. Players should not get too much involved in side missions. Instead, they should have an evening just for these missions to earn XP and AVP points.
Alien in 'Life' Raises Some Philosophical Questions for Humanity, Director Says
Alien in 'Life' Raises Some Philosophical Questions for Humanity, Director Says
By Calla Cofield, Space.com Staff Writer
The new science-fiction-horror movie "Life" centers on a bloodthirsty alien life-form, but the film's director, Daniel Espinosa, told Space.com that viewers shouldn't be too quick to cast the alien as a villain.
The film begins when a dormant, single-celled life-form is discovered on Mars and is brought to the International Space Station to be studied. A group of astronauts manages to revive the creature — nicknamed "Calvin" — only to see it grow rapidly in size, intelligence and strength. Soon, Calvin escapes its captors and realizes it can gain sustenance from their bodies.
Is Calvin's behavior vindictive, or is it a natural response to being a test subject? Does the creature behave any differently from the way humans have behaved and treated one another throughout our shared history? Espinosa thinks Calvin's behavior should prompt humans to do some self-reflection. [Best Space Movies in the Universe]
"For me, Calvin is not malicious," Espinosa told Space.com. "He is only reacting."
What would happen if humanity were to encounter an alien species? That's a question that science-fiction movies have explored for about as long as science-fiction movies have been around. These flicks often explore how humanity might cope with an aggressive alien species, or how humans might end up being the aggressors. Espinosa said Calvin's behavior in "Life" is perhaps no different from that of any other animal in a similar situation. Perhaps the problem is not with Calvin, but with how his captors treat him.
Astronauts contend with an alien life-form on the International Space Station in the science-fiction movie "Life."
Credit: Sony Pictures/CTMG Inc.
"I think we have to think about … how we as a human species have reacted when we encounter the unknown," Espinosa said. "I mean, if you look into the history of the human species and how we have encountered new territories and new peoples, we have not been open-minded and gentle."
"I truly believe that space could make us better. It could unite us," Espinosa continued. "But we have to get to a place where we are willing to [do] a bit of self-reflection [about] mankind's history."
Actor Ariyon Bakare plays scientist Hugh Derry, who awakens Calvin and watches him grow. Despite Calvin's horrible behavior, Derry can't help but love this creature. [The Scariest Space Movies in the Universe]
"I thought it would be like when you go in for that first [pregnancy] scan and you see your baby: It was like I was a father to this great discovery," Bakare told Space.com. "And yet, like a child in the teenage years, [the life-form] can become exceptionally unruly. But you still love them. Then, it became a dilemma between my rational mind and my irrational mind — yes, I know we've got to destroy this thing, but this is also the greatest discovery ever! And we've got to contain it; we've got to look after it; we've got to teach it."
Bakare brought up an interesting question: If a life-form is hostile toward humanity but only because the life-form is acting on its instincts, can the two species ever respect each other? Or would that scenario erode any possible trust?
Astrophysicists and people who are looking for signs of intelligent civilizations in the universe have also discussed whether an alien species with the technology to visit our planet would be more likely to be peaceful or hostile. Astronomer and science communicator Carl Sagan said he thought such a civilization would be totally peaceful. Astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has said he thinks it's more likely they'll be conquerors — similar to the Europeans who colonized the Americas and nearly wiped out the native populations in the process. If humans discover a kind of life that we can initially dominate, will we treat it with respect or dominance?
"Life" is first and foremost a horror movie (and viewers should be aware that the flick earns its "R" rating from some gory and disturbing scenes), but there's some philosophy to be found in it as well. It's contributing a few words to a discussion that's been going on in science-fiction movies for decades.
"Life" debuts in theaters nationwide on Friday, March 24.
Tiny Folding Robots Could Explore Alien Worlds (Video)
Tiny Folding Robots Could Explore Alien Worlds (Video)
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Future NASA robots exploring Mars and other alien worlds may be even more productive, thanks to a pocketful of tagalong minirovers.
NASA engineers are developing the Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER), a lightweight, origami-inspired bot capable of flattening itself out, squeezing into tight spots and clambering up steep slopes. (You can see the PUFFER in action in this video.)
NASA’s Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER) was inspired by an origami design. This little robot could be used as a scout for larger rovers, going places that would be risky or hard to reach.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
"They can do parallel science with a rover, so you can increase the amount you're doing in a day," Jaakko Karras, PUFFER's project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, said in a statement. "We can see these being used in hard-to-reach locations — squeezing under ledges, for example."
Karras came up with the basic idea behind PUFFER's body while experimenting with origami designs, NASA officials said. He and his colleagues swapped out paper in favor of printed circuit boards like those in ordinary smartphones.
"The circuit board includes both the electronics and the body, which allows it to be a lot more compact," PUFFER team member Christine Fuller, a mechanical engineer at JPL, said in the same statement. "There are no mounting fasteners or other parts to deal with. Everything is integrated to begin with."
PUFFER originally had four wheels, but the design evolved into a two-wheel variant whose wheels could be folded over the body, allowing the little rover to crawl as well as roll. PUFFER also features a tail for stability, a high-resolution "microimager" camera and solar panels on its belly. (PUFFER can flip over when its batteries need a recharge.)
A prototype of NASA’s PUFFER robot crawls under a ledge during field testing. The robot’s small size and foldable body allows it to wedge itself into small spaces.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The project team has already built a PUFFER prototype and put it to the test. Over the past 18 months, NASA officials said, PUFFER has performed field tests in Big Bear, California; a ski resort in Grand Junction, Colorado; and on Antarctica's Mount Erebus, the southernmost active volcano on Earth.
PUFFER isn't ready to fly just yet, the officials said. The team's planned next steps include incorporating scientific instruments, such as gear that can identify carbon-containing organic molecules, and giving the robot more autonomy. (PUFFER can currently be controlled remotely via Bluetooth.)
The robot will also probably get bigger before it's ready to blast off. Future planetary-exploration versions may be about the size of a bread box, NASA officials said.
"Small robotic explorers like PUFFER could change the way we do science on Mars," Karras said. "Like [the small Mars rover] Sojourner before it, we think it's an exciting advance in robotic design."
In Siberia, Russian scientists have mapped out 7,000 dirt-covered mounds, which have mysteriously taken shape in the otherwise flat tundra landscape. Some of them are slowly filling up with pressurized carbon dioxide and methane, and some of them are on the verge of exploding.
The finding was reported last week by TASS, a Russian news service, and comes after several giant craters suddenly surfaced on the Yamal Peninsula in the Kara Sea in 2014. Size estimates vary, although one of the craters is believed to be at least 300 feet across and maybe twice as deep.
The origin story behind the craters is shrouded in mystery, and the theories being floated are questionable at best. Initial reports stated that villagers heard an explosion from 60 miles away, and at least one person saw the sky light up (these accounts are unverified). Early speculation pointed to meteorites, secret military testing, and of course aliens.
The most credible hypothesis is less sinister. Carolyn Ruppel of the U.S. Geological Survey posited to National Geographic that a geological formation called a pingo collapsed suddenly, releasing a mass of natural gas that had been trapped under pressure below. It didn’t explode or burn up in flames; the gas bubbled to the surface as if it was in a pot of very thick simmering stew.
This version of events is supported by satellite imagery that shows pingos at the sites where the craters are now found. A pingo is a round hill that forms over a mound of icy soil, occurring in places where shallow permafrost lakes have drained away. The soil directly under a permafrost lake is not frozen, kept warm instead by the liquid water above. But when the lake drains, this pocket of soil freezes, and since ice takes up more space than water it bulges into a mound.
When the permafrost that makes up a pingo melts, it can collapse away into a crater, although before these examples in Siberia they were not known to form in such a dramatic way. But climate change could make this phenomenon a lot more common.
Permafrost is soil that is frozen year-round, and typically, it’s been that way for thousands of years. The frozen ground traps methane, preventing it from being released into the atmosphere. As the Arctic warms in response to climate change, though, permafrost is melting. It creates a feedback loop, since the melting permafrost releases greenhouse gases which contribute to more global warming.
Normally, the gases unlocked from the permafrost simply seep out of the ground and into the atmosphere. But in this part of Siberia, this isn’t always happening seamlessly, and deposits are accumulating underground.
Take these air pockets found recently in the same region underneath a field. These, too, are the result of methane released from permafrost below, and it seems that a thick mat of roots and grasses is slowing the gases so that they accumulate under the soil faster than they seep out. This is creating cushiony pockets that look very fun to jump on.
If the ice that makes the structure of a pingo melts and drains away, this could become a perfect reservoir for trapped gases beneath the soil to gather. As pressure builds up below and soil destabilizes from above, conditions ripen for the whole system to collapse in a very large belch.
What exactly happened when these craters formed is still a bit of a mystery, and scientists continue to investigate. And yet, the Russian government would rather be prepared the next time a giant chunk of earth suddenly falls away, releasing a large volume of flammable and potentially explosive gas.
That’s why they’re mapping the pingos across the landscape, although it’s yet unclear which are still frozen solid and which may be accumulating a store of pressurized methane. Once it’s known which mounds are dangerous, it will be possible to drill into them and release the gas before it blows. Which is too bad, really — in the name of science it would be a lot more interesting to wait and witness the cratering event first hand.
VIDEODe Franse astronaut Thomas Pesquet (39) vertrok 120 dagen geleden op ruimtemissie naar het internationaal ruimtestation ISS en daar neemt hij al enkele maanden magisch mooie foto's van onze aarde. Hij deelt de beelden op Twitter en laat iedereen meegenieten.
Pesquet vertrok in november vorig jaar naar het ISS en kwam daar op 20 november aan, samen met een Amerikaanse en een Russische collega. Ze blijven er zes maanden en zullen honderden wetenschappelijke experimenten uitvoeren. Pesquet is de jongste astronaut ooit van de Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA en de tiende Fransman in de ruimte.
Earth’s magnetic field affects the planet’s climate, tectonic shifts, gravity, and even its rotation. However, its most important function is deflecting harsh solar radiation and particles that could upend our very existence here. Up until now, technology wasn’t advanced enough to allow scientists to fully map the magnetic field, but, thanks to the European Space Agency’s Swarm mission, they finally have a more complete understanding.
The Swarm satellites are three spacecraft launched into Earth’s orbit — two in low elevation, one in high — in 2013 to survey the magnetic field, better understand the planet’s evolution, and measure the electric field in the atmosphere. After three years of collecting data, scientists were able to create the highest resolution map of the magnetic field to date.
“We had a very high volume of data and good coverage of Earth’s lower elevation,” Dhananjay Ravat, a geophysicist at the University of Kentucky who helped ESA complete the map, tells Inverse. “We took a different approach and also used data from the lower altitude CHAMP satellite, which helped us to achieve 250 km wavelength in resolution, which was not possible before.”
With the map, scientists can essentially peer 1,800 miles into Earth’s molten iron outer core, which generates the magnetic field and sends currents to magnetized rocks in the upper lithosphere — the rocky surface we dwell on.
The findings show that the magnetic field isn’t evenly distributed across the planet. In some places, there are higher deposits of iron and nickel, both highly magnetized elements. For example, in the Central African Republic, the field is sharper and stronger than anywhere else on the planet, possibly because of a meteorite that hit Earth 540 million years ago.
“The meteorite could have been made of iron and nickel and those fragments could have impacted the planet making it highly magnetized in that area,” explains Ravat.
The map shows how the magnetic field seems to spike in the Central Africa Republic, scientists believe this may be because of a meteorite that struck the planet 540 million years ago.
Another interesting aspect of the map is that it shows the stripes on the sea floor. Those stripes are believed to be caused by shifts in the magnetic field. About every 700,000 years, the poles reverse, meaning the pointer on your compass would face south when it used to face north. This theory is evident in the stripes, which, as Ravat explains, are caused by rock formations that grow in the direction of the magnetic field and shift when the field shifts.
“These stripes are symmetric with the mid-oceanic ridge and can really only be seen from high altitudes or some satellites,” Ravat says. “They tell us about how the Earth’s magnetic field behaved in the past, that is why this map is so important, it’s a continuous record of 200 million years.”
This animation shows how the stripes are continuously formed on the sea floor.
The next step for the scientists is to collect data during the solar minimum, a time when the 11-year solar cycle is at its least active. Ravat says during this time there will be less radiation from the sun, and the satellites will be able to generate even higher quality maps.
Medieval Europe wasn’t the only place in the universe marred by war during the Middle Ages. In the 1400s, there was a celestial battle raging in the night sky. A group of stars were fighting for their gravitational territory in the Orion Arm of the Milky Way, which ended in at least three of them being hurtled off into the galaxy without so much as a clue as to where they went. Though two drifting stars had been found in the 90s, it wasn’t until 2015 that astronomers identified the third star and could finally confirm the location of the original event, thanks to the Hubble Space Telescope.
In results published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters on Monday, the research team details learning how the rogue star, which they are calling “Source-X,” had moved significantly compared to Hubble images taken in 1998, judging that it must be moving at 130,000 mph. With that information they were able to trace Source-X back to the Kleinmann-Low Nebula, near the center of the Orion Nebula complex, about 1,300 light-years away — the same location where they had also traced back two other runaway stars.
The motion of the newly discovered runaway star in the Orion Nebula.
Those stars, which go by the names Source I and Becklin-Neugebauer (BN), were both found in the ‘90s. BN traveled at about 60,000 mph, while Source I was moseying along at 22,000 mph. But, without Source-X, astronomers really couldn’t pinpoint where they had come from.
A Hubble close-up view of the stars is shown at top right. The birthplace of the multi-star system is marked "initial position." Two of the stars — labeled BN, for Becklin-Neugebauer, and "I," for source I — were discovered decades ago. Source I is embedded in thick dust and cannot be seen. The third star, "x," for source x, was recently discovered to have moved noticeably between 1998 and 2015, as shown in the inset image at bottom right. Source x is traveling at an unusually high speed of 130,000 miles per hour, which is 30 times faster than the velocity of most stars in the nebula.
Now, after wrangling all three, scientists can point to the exact time and location of the event, giving them very rare evidence of a star cluster tearing apart.
“The new Hubble observations provide very strong evidence that the three stars were ejected from a multiple-star system,” lead researcher Kevin Luhman, a professor at Penn State University, said in a press release. “Astronomers had previously found a few other examples of fast-moving stars that trace back to multiple-star systems, and therefore were likely ejected. But these three stars are the youngest examples of such ejected stars.”
Luhman says the stars are probably only a few thousand years old and still show remnants of their pre-natal disks, which are rings of dust that spin rapidly around a star while it is forming.
This remarkable discovery is helping scientists understand how young star clusters eventually duke it out for their place in the galaxy, which they believe happens when two stars get too close and form so much pressure that they push out all of the stars in the cluster in a cosmic explosion.
Astronomers are eager to hunt for more runaways drifting through the Milky Way once the James Webb Telescope launches in October 2018 to further understand how these events unfold.
Photos via NASA, ESA, and K. Luhman, NASA, ESA, K. Luhman, M. Robberto, NASA, ESA, M. Robberto
Un photographe finlandais a assemblé des images prises par la sonde MRO en un spectaculaire film qui donne l'impression de survoler la planète Rouge en rase-mottes.
Image extraite du film du photographe Jan Fröjdman, qui a assemblé les images de la planète Mars capturées par la sonde MRO
Jan Fröjdman est un photographe amateur finlandais. C'est aussi un passionné d'espace, et un utilisateur habile des logiciels de montage et d'effets spéciaux. Fasciné par les images de la planète Mars, prises par la caméra HiRise montée sur la sonde Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), le photographe a décidé de les sublimer. Il s'est attelé à la tâche de collecter de multiples clichés de plusieurs zones pour les assembler. Résultat : un film de 4 minutes 30 qui donne l'illusion de survoler la surface de la planète Rouge de si près que le relief des dunes et des collines nous apparaît très nettement.
Recréer cette impression de relief à partir d’images capturées par une caméra mono-objectif (et donc pas prévue pour tourner en 3D) a nécessité un travail de fourmi. Le photographe explique avoir dû prendre pour chaque cliché des milliers de points de repère au sol (plus de 33.000, chiffre-t-il) afin que la succession des images se déroule de manière fluide. Et comme chaque image a été capturée avec un angle différent, cet effet de relief est alors naturellement recréé au fil des images qui se succèdent. "Cela m’a pris trois mois à temps plein pour réaliser ce film" estime le photographe. Ce dernier précise toutefois que son travail est plus artistique que scientifique. Les couleurs notamment, qui ont demandé un gros travail d’étalonnage, ne sont pas conformes à la réalité. Ce qui n’enlève absolument rien à la fascinante beauté de ce film.
The bizarre footage shows part of the space station looking out onto a black nothingness.
For no apparent reason, the dark outlook begins to get lighter as some sort of circular object floats past.
It continues to get lighter and lighter as the shadow is lifted.
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BIZARRE: A huge circular shape floated past NASA's International Space Station
Man woken by disturbing ALIEN noises from frozen lake
In his caption to the video, he pointed out he wasn’t for certain saying it was a “huge mothership or any sort of alien spacecraft” but that it “certainly looks unusual”.
Alien enthusiast Streetcap1 posted the footage to his YouTube channel on Saturday (March 19).
As he watched the mysterious shape move past, he said: “You see a big shadow coming across the picture.
“Look at that – what on Earth can that be?”
Are aliens at WAR on the moon?
But some of his loyal fan base did reach the conclusion it was proof of extraterrestrial life.
“OMG, a mothership,” one user wrote.
Another added: “Some f***** up s*** is going on out in space and it’s slowly becoming known. Be aware I’m pretty sure more events are still to come.”
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TRANSFORM: The footage originally just showed darkness in front of the ISS
Other followers suggested it could have been the filter in the camera moving out of screen, or simply the sun’s light coming around.
But one viewer pointed out: “The background is completely obscured by whatever that large object is.
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Glowing UFOs Over Durham, England On March 22, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFOs Over Durham, England On March 22, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 22, 2017 (???) Location of sighting: Durham, England This is a fantastic video of UFOs over Durham yesterday. There person used an old night vision camera that had its date settings wrong, so the exact date is still unknown. I have seen lights like this here in Taiwan once. It was very similar in most ways, but there were more of them, and they were traveling from one horizon to the other, but when they saw us they looped over my family at midnight as we walked home. These are energy beings. They acted alive and highly aware of the people who were watch from the ground. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Saw some strange lights in the sky to north from Durham England, they where around every night for a month last year. Recorded with infared hunting scope hence the poor quality of recording. They really were stunning. Il be honest the moment the camera shuffled at 55 sec mark, it got real close, and did spook me. Thought i would share so they can be identified.
UFO In Blue Sky Takes Color Of White Clouds, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO In Blue Sky Takes Color Of White Clouds, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 22, 2017 Location of sighting: Unknown This is a great capture of a cloud color UFO that moves away from the camera. The person didn't state their location, but we can see that the UFO has a shape that is very similar to those of the glowing diamond UFOs seen over England three weeks ago. Scott C. Waring
A Genius Boy Says Humans Live Eternally – Martians Still Live In Underground Cities
A Genius Boy Says Humans Live Eternally – Martians Still Live In Underground Cities
A boy who lives in the town of Zhirinovsk of Volgograd region in Russia made his parents worried about his fascinating talents. Named Boris Kipriyanovich or Boriska, the boy was born on January 11, 1996, and since the age of 4, he has been visiting Medvedetskaya Gryada, a well-known anomalous zone near the town. It appears that Boris needs to visit the mountain regularly to get his energy needs.
Boriska’s parents, who are known to be nice, educated, and hospitable people, don’t know how others will perceive Boriska when he grows up. The parents say they would be happy to talk to an expert regarding how to raise their wunderkind.
His doctor mother noticed that as a baby boy, he could hold his head in only 15 days after his birth. Four months later, he could utter the word “baba” and soon after, he could speak simple words. He had no difficulties reading newspaper headlines at one year and a half. And at two years old, he began drawing and learned painting six months later. He started his kindergarten at the age of two. Tutors noticed right then the genius boy’s language skills, different memory, and remarkable quick-wittedness.
The parents witnessed that Boriska not only got knowledge from the outer world, but also through strange channels. They saw the boy reading unknown details from somewhere.
The mother said that no one has ever thought his son, but he told them specific facts about Mars, planetary systems, and alien civilizations.
When the boy turned two years old, space started to become the permanent item of his stories. According to Boriska, he used to live on Mars and added that the planet is still inhabited until now, but in underground cities after the planet lost its atmosphere due to a mammoth catastrophe.
The boy also claimed that he used to fly from Mars to Earth to do research. He further claimed that he used to pilot a spaceship during the Lemurian civilization. He said that the Lemuria died because they stop to develop themselves spiritually and eventually broke their planet’s unity.
The boy told his parents after reading Ernest Muldashev book titled “Whom We Are Originated From” that Lemurians were nine meters tall and lived 70,000 years ago. He also recollected pyramids and shrines when reading Muldashev’s second book “In Search of the City of Gods.” The boy said that ancient knowledge is not under the Great Pyramid of Cheops, but under another pyramid, which has not yet been discovered. He stated that human life would change when the Spinx is opened, which has opening mechanism behind the ear, but he could not remember exactly.
Boriska, who is one of the so-called Indigo children, said that he has no fear of death as they live eternally.
He also revealed that Martians mostly breathe carbon dioxide. Though he came from Mars, he breathes oxygen when in a human body, but he stressed that it causes aging.
When asked by specialists about the reason human-made spacecraft often crash as they approach the Red Planet, he replied that Martians destroy stations containing harmful radiation through transmitting special signals.
Indigo children start to appear on Earth as a token of the coming major transformation of the planet.
Some day, astronauts packed into rocketing tin cans bound for other planets may be protected from radiation and space sickness by having their metabolisms depressed to a fraction of their typical rate. They’ll hibernate like bears as they hurtle through space for months at a time. Perhaps they’ll sleep in white coffin-like pods, as the cryo-preserved astronauts in futuristic fantasies like 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alien, and Avatar did.
More likely, though, astronauts and space colonists will learn a few tricks from dehydrated snails, which survive for a year or more ingesting nothing; giant pandas subsisting on low-calorie bamboo; leeches that survive a liquid nitrogen bath; children who have been submerged in frozen ponds yet can still be resuscitated; or skiers buried in an avalanche and brought back to life ever so slowly, reborn from a super-cooled, dreamless state.
Scientists call this phenomenon “torpor-induced hibernation.” Once considered outlandish, torpor induction—the old term was “suspended animation”—is under serious study for long-duration spaceflight.
This interest is due in part to advances in low-temperature surgery, but also to an increased understanding of cases like one documented in 1995 in the journal Prehospital and Disaster Medicine. A four-year-old boy fell through the ice of a frozen lake in Hanover, Germany. A rescue team pulled him out but could not resuscitate him in the field. His pupils were fixed and dilated, and he remained in cardiac arrest a full 88 minutes. Upon admission to the hospital, his core body temperature was 67.6 degrees Fahrenheit, a sign of severe hypothermia.
Twenty minutes later, as doctors worked to warm the boy’s chest cavity, the ventricles of his heart started contracting. Ten minutes after that, his heart resumed normal sinus rhythm. The boy made a full recovery and was discharged two weeks later. His doctors believed the icy lake had rapidly cooled his body to a state of protective metabolic torpor, preserving all vital organs and tissues while reducing the need for blood oxygen—in effect, saving the boy’s life. Cases like this are “exactly why we think that very deep hypothermia can allow our patients to survive,” writes Samuel Tisherman, director of the Center for Critical Care and Trauma Education at the University of Maryland Medical Center, in an email. “The key is cooling the brain either before blood flow stops or as soon as possible after blood flow stops. The colder [it gets], the longer the brain can tolerate not having blood flow.”
Therapeutic hypothermia has become a part of surgical practice. Experimental procedures with cooling started as early as the 1960s, mostly in cardiac and neonatal cases. Babies were placed in cooling blankets or packed in ice and even snow banks to slow circulation and reduce oxygen requirements before heart surgery.
Today, physicians use moderate hypothermia (roughly 89 degrees) as a staple of care for some newborns in medical distress, such as those born premature or suffering from fetal oxygen deprivation (hypoxia). The babies are treated with cooling caps for 72 hours, which lower their metabolism just enough to reduce tissue oxygen requirements and allow the brain and other vital organs to recover.
By the same token, surgeons apply cooling and metabolic suppression to patients who’ve suffered various physical traumas: heart attack, stroke, gunshot wounds, profuse bleeding, or head injuries resulting in brain swelling. In emergency situations, anesthetists can insert a cannula—a slim tube—into the nose that feeds cooling nitrogen gas directly to the base of the brain. In one experimental therapy, surgeons insert a cardiopulmonary bypass cannula through the chest and into the aorta, or through the groin and into the femoral artery. Through these tubes, they infuse cold saline to reduce core body temperature and replace lost blood. Once the trauma surgeon has control of bleeding, a heart-lung machine restarts blood flow and the patient is given a blood transfusion.
“If you get cold fast enough before the heart stops, the vital organs, particularly the brain, can tolerate cold without blood flow for a time,” Tisherman explains. He is performing a clinical trial of this cold saline replacement technique in critically injured trauma victims in Baltimore, and he expects the study will last at least until the fall of 2018 and possibly later. The ensuing hypothermia rapidly decreases or stops blood flow for an hour or so, cutting oxygen requirements and giving surgeons time to repair critical wounds and then, ideally, warm the patient back to life.
The Torpor Enigma
Today, some in the aerospace community are looking to medically induced hypothermia and the resulting metabolic stasis as a way to save space and mass, along with freight, fuel, food, and frustration on the months-long flights to Mars or more distant planets. The studies are just beginning. One challenge is medical: What’s the best method for putting healthy astronauts into torpor? Even though therapeutic hypothermia is well understood in operating rooms, keeping people in deep space chilled and sedated for weeks, months, or years on end is an entirely unknown area of inquiry. Some scientists studying hibernation in animals suggest that other means of suppressing metabolism would be better: Specialized diet, low-frequency radiation, even the use of proteins that trigger hibernation in animals like bears and Arctic ground squirrels, which can regulate their metabolic rates safely and, in most cases, reversibly.
Astronaut Scott Kelly inside the Soyuz simulator at Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Moscow in March 2015. Kelly spent a year aboard the International Space Station being observed for the long-term effects of spaceflight on the human body, in anticipation of long spaceflights. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Another obvious hurdle is funding. How much will NASA prioritize research into metabolic stasis, both animal and human, when exploratory budgets are being reduced? Pete Worden, former director at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California and now the executive director of Breakthrough Starshot, says that with NASA’s emphasis on synthetic biology and the ability of organisms to survive and function in exotic environments like Mars, “it’s probably inevitable that the hibernation area is going to get funded.”
That optimism is hardly universal. “People are frustrated,” says Yuri Griko, a Moscow-trained NASA radiobiologist and lead senior scientist in Ames’ space biosciences division. “When Sputnik was put up in space in 1957, our generation was so excited, so inspired, and we believed that we’d be on Mars in the millennium. But…we’re still not on Mars. It’s personal for people like me because we expected to be much more progressed than we are right now.”
Griko acknowledges that metabolic suppression research is in limbo itself. He began at NASA in 2005 after spending five years at the biotech outfit Clearant, Inc., using ionizing radiation to inactivate pathogens in therapeutic blood products, transplant organs, and commercial biopharmaceuticals. NASA then invited Griko to research ways to protect astronauts from space radiation. It turns out that metabolic suppression is one of the most effective mechanisms nature provides.
When animals go into hibernation their bodies survive radiation without significant damage to their cells. Griko believes metabolic suppression mitigates radiation-induced damage by reducing biochemical processes and excessive oxidative stress. Hypoxia—lower oxygen consumption—is one possible explanation for the radio-protective effect: In hypoxia, production of oxygen free radicals and hydroxyl radicals is reduced. Because ionizing radiation releases free radicals causing cell damage, suppressing metabolism and oxygen consumption appears to do the reverse: it reduces normal cell death and prolongs healthy cell life.This protective effect is even more pronounced at lower temperatures.
Griko speculates that hibernation may also protect animals from the muscle atrophy and bone loss people typically experience in microgravity. Humans who eat a balanced diet while confined to bed rest for 90 days lose a little more than half of their muscle strength, Griko says. But bears that consume nothing and are confined to their dens for the same length of time or slightly longer lose only 25 percent of muscle strength and exhibit no signs of bone loss. He notes that animals capable of hibernation—tortoises and pocket mice—haven’t been flown in space in decades.
NASA did not fund his request for flight experiments involving hibernating animals. His current research is limited to surveys of existing hibernation studies, along with his own laboratory work on stasis in mice, leeches, and snails. Griko proposed a 2015 international conference on torpor that would have brought together the world’s hibernation experts to discuss deep-space applications. NASA declined to fund it, though Griko still hopes to raise the money.
“There are significant barriers to torpor research if we’re serious about going farther in space,” says Leroy Chiao, a former NASA astronaut and International Space Station commander who spent 193 days in orbit between October 2004 and April 2005. Animal research is a particularly sticky problem, one that has landed NASA in the crosshairs of animal-rights groups before. “Even research on simple primates starts getting people up in arms,” he says.
The Two-Planet Solution
Jason Derleth, a program executive with NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts in Washington, D.C., sees reason to hope. Under Derleth’s watch, NIAC has awarded two innovation grants since 2013, supporting one company’s detailed plans for torpor-enabled Mars transfer habitats. The project leader, SpaceWorks Enterprises, Inc., of Dunwoody, Georgia, about 20 miles north of Atlanta, is an aerospace design contractor for NASA and the Department of Defense and has done work in the development of tiny CubeSat satellite constellations. But it’s torpor that’s captured the imagination of SpaceWorks president and chief operating officer John Bradford.
“I’ve asked myself for 15 years how to engineer materials, structures, and propulsion systems to enable a mission to Mars and its moons,” he says. Bradford is a Ph.D. aerospace engineer who has led several NASA, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and Air Force Research Laboratory projects designing military spaceplanes. He was also a consultant on the 2016 science fiction film Passengers, wherein Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt played interplanetary settlers who wake from hibernation early. “We’re not in the vein of an Apollo mission anymore—no more ‘flags and footprints,’ ” he says. “We need to become a two-planet species.”
Bradford’s engineering and medical team used the first of those NIAC grants, issued in 2013, to design a compact zero-gravity, rigid-structure habitat based on the International Space Station crew module designs. The habitat featured closed-loop oxygen and water production systems, direct access to the Mars ascent and descent vehicles, and support for a crew of six, all of whom would be kept in torpor for the entire six- to nine-month Mars journey.
The proposed medical treatment relies on using techniques similar to the ones surgeons perfected to induce hypothermia. For example, cooling nitrogen gas could be fed to astronauts via nasal cannula, lowering brain and body temperatures to between 89 and 96 degrees—close enough to normal to maintain torpor without overcooling the heart or increasing the risk of other complications. Cooling tends to decrease the body’s ability to clot, Tisherman says. He has also noted that patients who are cooled to mild levels of hypothermia—93 degrees—for 48 hours or more have more infections than uncooled people.
In the SpaceWorks habitat, robotic arms in the module would be programmed to carry out routine chores, manipulate astronaut limbs, and check body sensors, urine evacuation lines, and chemical feeds. Robots would administer electrical stimuli to astronauts’ muscles to maintain tone, along with sedation to prevent a natural shivering response. The astronauts would also receive total parenteral nutrition, in which all nutrients—electrolytes, dextrose, lipids, vitamins, etc.—are administered via liquid through a catheter inserted in the chest or the thigh. SpaceWorks outfitted TPN supplies in the experimental module to last 180 days; should the habitat be required for a prolonged Martian stay, the module would have another 500 days’ worth of nutrition.
In all, the SpaceWorks Mars Transfer Habitat reduced total habitat mass, including consumables, to 19.9 tons (low-Earth-orbit weight). By comparison, NASA’s TransHab habitat, with consumables specified in the agency’s Mars Design Reference Architecture 5.0, weighs 41.9 tons. That’s a 52 percent decrease in mass. Compared with the NASA model, SpaceWorks was able to shrink total habitat consumables by 70 percent.
NIAC officials were intrigued. “SpaceWorks made an interesting proposal,” Derleth says. “People have been studying torpor for medical applications. But no one as far as we could find is actually doing an engineering study of what cryo-sleep or torpor would actually do to the architecture of a mission.”
In 2013 NIAC awarded SpaceWorks a Phase 1 grant of $100,000 to develop a rough torpor-enabled architecture for exploration-class missions—those with four to eight crew members heading to Mars or its moons. But the agency balked at the idea of putting all crew members in torpor for the entire journey. What about medical or spacecraft complications? How long could astronauts stay under without psychological or physical damage? What if some complication required their premature awakening? What about the slow waking and warming times to get the astronauts out of hibernation?
These questions sent the SpaceWorks team back to work. They designed a crew habitat for torpor that would keep at least a few astronauts awake on a rotating basis for piloting and interventions (as in the 1968 movie 2001, in which two crew members of the Jupiter-bound spacecraft Discovery remain awake while the others sleep).
Then Bradford’s team moved further. Designing three interconnected habitat modules for a 100-passenger “settlement class” Mars mission—colonists, in other words—the team produced a spacecraft and habitat that departed completely from anything in NASA’s plans. The SpaceWorks settlement-class craft includes two compact, rotating habitat modules, each accommodating 48 passengers in torpor. Rotation at varying speeds would produce artificial gravity to mitigate astronauts’ bone loss.
But in the bolder “sentry mode” proposal, a separate habitat module would accommodate four care-taking astronauts on duty throughout the mission. One or more could be rotated with others in torpor to keep crews fresh.
“You get 80 percent of the benefits by cycling through the hibernating crew and waking some up, rather than turning out the lights on everybody for six months,” Bradford says. Spacecraft accommodating settlers in torpor would be lighter, which would enable much greater velocities, shorter voyages, and, possibly, more efficient radiation shielding because of the radio-protective effect of metabolic stasis. Further, Bradford says, hibernating astronauts wouldn’t experience motion sickness, a common problem on the International Space Station.
SpaceWorks has designed concepts for a “settlement-class Mars Transfer Habitat” that include two chambers, each carrying 48 colonists in torpor. Their pods would revolve around a central axis to generate artificial gravity, minimizing bone and muscle deterioration. (Artwork by Mark Elwood and Nathan Kreuzman, Copyright 2016, SpaceWorks Enterprises, Inc.)
Sleep Like a Bear
But what would torpor in space feel like? Not like being frozen dead in cryogenics, then being revived, according to Doug Talk, an obstetrician and SpaceWorks consultant who has used therapeutic hypothermia to treat oxygen-deprived babies. “[Cryogenics] has had zero success with that,” Talk says. “The human body isn’t meant to be frozen; it’s mostly water, and when water expands [as it does when it freezes], it produces cellular damage.”
More likely, astronaut torpor will be like coma, a state hovering between dreamless sleep and semi-conscious awareness. “Coma patients display cycles of brain activity that alternate between seeming wakefulness and non-REM sleep,” Talk explains. Even though coma patients are unable to move, their brains remain active and even responsive to outside stimuli, including verbal commands.
Bears experience hibernation in similar ways; their core temperature drops only a few degrees (similar to the mild-hypothermia temperature range in humans), while their metabolism drops 75 percent. Bears in northern climates can remain in torpor for seven to eight months without eating or drinking, and pregnant female bears will give birth to their young and nurse them even while in hibernation.
“Someone in torpor will act like the bear does,” Talk theorizes. “They’ll cycle through non-REM sleep and being awake. And like bears when they finally wake up, they’ll be sleep deprived.”
In May 2016, NIAC approved a second phase of the SpaceWorks project, this time releasing $250,000 to extend first-phase engineering, operational, and medical research plans. “Phase 1 projects have proven that what they’re talking about is real,” Derleth says. “We’re very happy to see Dr. Bradford’s progress.”
In addition to habitat engineering refinements, the SpaceWorks team initially proposed a two- to three-week hibernation test with a small number of healthy pigs. Pigs, like humans, are natural non-hibernators; therefore their physiological responses to torpor induction will offer better clues to what humans may expect than studies of mice or snails, obviously. Derleth says agency regulations prevented NASA from funding the pig study.
So SpaceWorks submitted an alternate proposal: to research existing metabolic suppression experiments comprehensively in order to establish a near-term road map for technology development, including more-methodical animal research leading to human trials. This summer, NIAC will conduct a mid-term review of SpaceWorks’ progress and determine whether to award them an additional $250,000.
“We continue to believe that live-subject research will be necessary to advance this torpor technology toward longer durations,” SpaceWorks founder and CEO John Olds wrote in a follow-up email. “That step may require private sponsors.”
Regardless of who pays for it, testing with animals can be difficult to do because it continues to raise ethical questions.
“I think NASA is right: Slow is the way to go,” says Arthur Caplan, director of the division of medical ethics at New York University Langone Medical Center. While there’s enthusiasm for suspended animation for long durations in space, NASA doesn’t need any more troubles from animal rights activists, in his opinion.
“Pigs are somewhat physiologically similar to humans, so pigs are a reasonable animal model for testing,” says Caplan. “Though it’s fair to say to critics: The number of pigs involved in this kind of study wouldn’t amount to one’s week’s breakfast for the average American.”
The Human Factor
Sci-fi movies and novels have romanticized torpor, Caplan says, suggesting humans could move in and out of that coma-like state without difficulty. That might not be the case.
The humans in which torpor will first be tested will be unusual people—most likely test pilots, Caplan predicts. “These people take risks every day; they understand the physiological risks because they test jets and know many colleagues who have died. I’ve had astronauts tell me they’ll enroll in any experiment just to get into space. Our job is to rein them in.”
Science fiction has long portrayed hibernation as a means of enduring travel across astronomical distances. In the 1986 movie Aliens, a squad of Marines sleep through the entire three-week flight to planet LV-426. (TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX FILM CORP.)
Human trials would be an unprecedented step. No one has ever tried to use hypothermia to suppress the metabolism of a person who wasn’t severely sick or injured, much less super-healthy astronauts.
“We’ve had lots of healthy people who have volunteered for long-term torpor experiments,” Talk says. “There’s a pent-up demand for people who want to punch out of life for six months. I’m sure the FDA wouldn’t approve of that.”
Meanwhile, Talk has invited two experts on therapeutic hypothermia—Alejandro Rabinstein, the medical director of the neuroscience intensive care unit at the Mayo Clinic, and Kelly Drew, a University of Alaska Fairbanks neuroscientist investigating animal hibernation—to join SpaceWorks’ research team. Drew and other scientists at the University of Alaska’s Institute of Arctic Biology are studying the hibernation patterns of endothermic animals like hedgehogs, Arctic ground squirrels, and bears. Their hope is to find the key to a healthy hibernation state—and the signaling cascade in the brain that induces it—that could be adapted to human astronauts without side effects.
The Arctic ground squirrel, for example, cools itself to 32 degrees Fahrenheit in winter. No scientist understands exactly what triggers its hibernation, although a particular brain and muscle receptor—the A1 adenosine receptor—appears to make the squirrel grow cold and sleepy, only to emerge with minimal bone and muscle loss eight months later.
“Adenosine is a neuromodulator that plays a role in sleep and in reducing brain excitability,” Drew says. “It’s ubiquitous in animal brains.” She has induced hibernation in Arctic ground squirrels by using a drug to stimulate their A1 adenosine receptors. Drew can also wake squirrels up from hibernation by using another drug to block the same receptor.
But the signaling cascade and genetic makeup of humans are far more complex and difficult to decipher. Adding to the complexity of the task is the fact that not all hibernators hibernate the same way.
The only primate known to do it, Madagascar’s fat-tailed dwarf lemur, spends seven months a year in torpor, mostly in hot weather; it survives by consuming fat stored in its tail. Low metabolic rates in animals do not require low body temperatures.
Meanwhile, Rabinstein, who plans to help SpaceWorks evaluate mild hypothermia to induce torpor, says the techniques that work in an ICU might not be so reliable in space.
“The fact that little children have ‘drowned’ and survived in ice ponds and lakes is remarkable and has given us hope,” he says. “But can we transform this [understanding of deep hypothermia] into a more mild degree of hypothermia and allow people to tolerate it for a longer period of time and get away with it, without psychological or physiological stress? We have to see, but we think there is a chance.”
Sure, we'd all love to traipse over to Europa and go hunting for alien lifeforms. But in the meantime, we can enjoy the weirdos that already live right here on Earth. Here are 10 of our favorite Earth-dwelling aliens—organisms so strange they seem otherworldly.
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The ocean is full of immortal beings
Well, biologically immortal at least. Turritopsis dohrnii starts out as a little larvae but eventually settles down and forms a colony of identical polyps. Eventually, the polyps break up and form a horde of independent, sexually mature jellyfish that like to snack on other medusae. When those jellyfish get old or sick, they're able to revert back into child-like polyps and breed entirely new colonies. This growth and regression can theoretically continue forever, making the species essentially immortal. Tell me that isn’t extraterrestrial.
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You're already doing their work, dummy
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary," the genus Corvus totally took advantage of me. Ok, so that’s not exactly how Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Raven" actually goes, but it could be, because crows, ravens, rooks, and jackdaws are totally playing you. Considered some of the smartest animals of Earth— on par with many non-human primates—these black birds make tools like wire hooks and even set nuts in front of our tires so they can later retrieve the meat when our cars crack them. Admire all you want, but they never promised they came in peace.
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You wish you were "blind" like this bat
Even the coolest vampire myths have got nothing on real bats. Let’s just list out the basic facts: they’re the only mammal capable of flight; a brown bat can eat 1,000 mosquitoes in a single hour, and they don’t even need to be thanked for it; they can live in communities up to a million in number; the largest bats have wingspans of 6 feet, which is taller than the average American man; and, with lifespans up to 30 years, they live way longer than most mammals their size. And that doesn’t even cover their coolest feature—echolocation. By sending out sonar into the darkness they can effectively “see” through the night, because solid objects in their path send back echoes. Small echoes might be a bug, ready to eat, while larger echoes might indicate a tree these guys need to avoid. I’m just saying, that would be a great tool on another planet, maybe one that never sees sunlight
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Avoid eye contact and back away slowly
These deep sea creepers get a bad rap—and I’m not here to absolve them. Anglerfish live in near total darkness, they have big heads and truly incredible underbites, and the females glow thanks to bioluminescent bacteria on the end of a tiny probe growing out of their foreheads. But the anglerfish’s strangest feature is its parasitic mating strategy. The male sinks his teeth into the female and in return, she slowly absorbs him. His eyes disappear into her abdominal wall, and then the rest of him follows, until all that is left are his testes, which the female wears like a statement necklace. Oh, and she wears as many as six of these testicular trophies at a time. Stay safe, my friends.
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What's the buzz
Bee’s knees are actually cooler than we originally thought, as new research suggests they really can bend it like Beckham. Scientists trained bees to play soccer, and the bees who showed the most prowess were those that watched other bees play before trying it themselves, implying a capacity for social learning. And that’s not all, folks. They recognize human faces. They also somehow know how to determine the shortest flight path between flowers. And each bee is specially suited to its role in the hive community, while still sporting an individual identity. Of all the animals on this list, bees would likely make the most benevolent overlords. But there's still the matter of those stingers...
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The strangest thing
These deceptively cute “water bears” are actually super strong. Enamored of their resilience, scientists have been pushing them to their limit for centuries—and though they are not limitless, they’re still pretty impressive. Tardigrades can survive a few minutes at over 300 degrees Fahrenheit and a few days at negative 300 degrees. They can survive the vacuum of open space for a week and a half as well as the pressure cooker of the Mariana Trench. Once, a tardigrade even bounced back to life after 30 years spent frozen. It promptly gave birth and lived to see many generations of its family prosper.
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Platypus phone home
What even is a platypus? It’s like a collage made by a child asked to design an alien using Earthly animal body parts. Take a beaver’s tail, duck’s bill and feet, and an otter’s fur, mix it all together and you get a platypus. Oh, and give the males a poisonous spur in their little webbed foot. And then make the females lay eggs, but also nurse her young after they hatch. They’re definitely a great candidate for the most alien-y animals on Earth, but based solely on their scattered physiology, it seems doubtful they'll get organized enough to stage a coup. See also: the pangolin.
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Do not take me to your leader
Army ants get stuff done. The colony is divided between blind—but terribly efficient—workers; big-jawed workers that move goods and protect the nest; a breeding class of males; and the queen around which they all revolve. These clear “careers” allow the unit to build a nest out of only their bodies, work together to kill and consume hundreds of thousands of individual prey (other ants, wasps, larvae) each day, and protect millions of the queen’s eggs. Imagine what humans could do with this kind of hive mind—for better or worse (but probably worse).
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I ain't afraid of no shrimp
When humans look at a mantis shrimp, they see the tiny creature's beautiful rainbow shell. What a mantis shrimp sees when it looks in the mirror is hard to determine, because where we have only three receiving cones in our eyes, the mantis shrimp has sixteen. They're seeing colors we can't even imagine. But for all their beauty, they're total monsters, and boy, are they good at being bad. The shrimp can move so fast the water around their prey actually boils—so hot, when the bubbles collapse, they emit a blast of light—making it easy to pick apart the prey and feast. Hopefully, they won't turn on us before we've learned to use their own skills against them, as researchers are currently working to translate their understanding of the mantis shrimp into the development of military technology.
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The original desalination plant
Penguins are cute, sure, but they're not typically lauded as innovators. But these flightless birds have a special supraorbital gland on their foreheads that gives them a power humans have been lusting over for decades: they can remove sodium chloride from the seawater they ingest. Penguins, it turns out, need freshwater, but they're not likely to get it, as they tend to live in salty waters. So they've developed a super-kidney that takes the salt out of a penguin's bloodstream and secretes it back into the ocean through its bill. It doesn't turn saltwater into freshwater directly, as some urban legends have suggested, but it's an impressive tool nonetheless.
A new discovery could change how we see ourselves in the universe
Illustration by Mariam Zagub
by Mariam Zagub,
Seven new exoplanets were discovered several weeks ago by a Belgian team of astronomers in the Atacama desert in Chile. These discoveries were made with the help of NASA telescopes but were not first discovered by NASA.
The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) was used to discover the incredibly cool dwarf star named Trappist-1. This star is right in our backyard, being only 40 light years away.
An illustration shows the possible scene on the surface of the planet called TRAPPIST-1f.
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According to Jerome Fang, an astronomy instructor at Orange Coast College, the discovery was made when the planets orbiting Trappist-1 passed in front of it.
“So these are seven planets found around the star, Trappist-1. They were detected by watching the star they go around. They can actually see the planets go in front of the star, and that makes the star slightly dimmer,” Fang said.
All the planets orbiting this star are similar to Earth in size and mass, experts say. Only three of them are the right distance from Trappist-1 which makes them likely to have water, spelling the potential for life in the Trappist-1 system.
“These planets are all similar to the Earth in terms of how big they are, how much mass they have. And three of them are, yes, they’re the right distance from the star that they could have liquid water on the surface, which makes them maybe habitable,” Fang said.
The reason this discovery is so important is because this is the largest number of temperate, Earth-sized planets that have been discovered to date. The Trappist-1 system, while it has many differences, is very similar to our solar system.
“I guess the unusual thing with that is that there are seven Earth-like planets. Most of them will tend to be a little larger, and not that they haven’t found a few that are sort of similar to the Earth in size, mass, maybe. But seven in one system is pretty unusual I’d say,” Nicholas Contopoulos, an astronomy instructor at OCC said.
One big difference is that all seven planets orbit very close to their star, all closer than Mercury orbits the sun. The reason three of them are still theorized to have water and be hospitable for life is because the planets all orbit an incredibly cool dwarf star.
The TRAPPIST-1 planets are snuggled close enough to their dim, red star to potentially have liquid water on their surfaces.
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Today, astronomers aren’t sure if these planets have water. They aren’t sure if the radiation from Trappist-1 has stripped the planets of their atmospheres, or if this star is still relatively young and hasn’t stripped much of the planets’ atmospheres.
“We don’t actually know definitively what’s on the surface because we can’t tell. We hope that the composition of these planets is similar to the Earth’s. We think they’re rocky. That’s about all we can say. Beyond that we can’t say if there’s an atmosphere, I don’t think we know that. We can’t say that they have moons because moons are impossible to find. Just bare-boned, we kind of know they’re like the Earth,” Fang said.
Despite all these advances and discoveries in the field of astronomy, financial support toward the sciences is being cut from the federal budget.
“They’re certainly withdrawing funds from science related content, like EPA is going to be defunded. Basically the military is going up $54 billion so they’re going to find the money somewhere. So I think they’re just taking it from things that they don’t feel are necessary,” Contopoulos said.
Some instructors believe that NASA is too important to continue to cut from the federal budget.
“Studying astronomy with NASA and all that is giving us a sense of perspective, like how do we fit into this crazy thing we call the universe. It puts into perspective maybe the issues we deal with. I talk to students and they tell me, ‘hey, our problems don’t seem so big when we study things that are out there.’ A lot of the greatest successes in NASA is because we put in the money. So if we’re taking away money that just makes the chances of doing something great and amazing even less likely,” Fang said.
Recently private industry is filling in the gaps where NASA isn’t able to from a lack of funding. SpaceX announced recently that it will send two private citizens on a trip around the moon before the end of next year. Its CEO, Elon Musk, has even discussed plans to colonize Mars in the future.
“I guess what’s different this time is you’re looking at private industry doing a lot, not that it didn’t do that before, but it’s not just NASA anymore. It’s sort of more private industry, where before NASA was sort of the head,” Contopoulos said.
Although the astrophysics as an industry isn’t as popular as it used to be, some students claim that the industry is expected to pick up in the near future.
“If anything, the space engineering industry is growing and it’s about to experience a really big boom probably within the next 10 years,” Garrett Prechel, a 30-year-old physics major said.
OCC’s Astronomy Club is filled with students of all majors ranging from physics and astronomy to even art and childhood education. The students, however, have the same positive sentiment toward astrophysics.
“It is concerning to have a government that doesn’t support it but at the same time you can’t rely on them for everything. Things will change eventually. The work has a lot more meaning than some people telling you that it’s not worth funding,” Junell Brown, an 18-year-old astrophysics major said
One faculty adviser to the club stresses the importance of advancing in the realm of science and continuing to learn about the world in a scientific manner.
“Anytime a country or a civilization diminishes the curious component, you endanger the strength of that civilization because that’s kind of what drives this curiosity. You’re trying to find your place in the cosmos. By understanding that and the fundamentals, we can better understand our purpose. We don’t have all the answers, and we definitely need science to push a civilization forward. If you diminish that you’re kind of cutting yourself at the legs, and just going, ‘well, things will just work out.’ Well they don’t, and I think that’s a dangerous path,” Contopoulos said.
7 Alien 'Earths' May Be Swapping Life via Meteorites
7 Alien 'Earths' May Be Swapping Life via Meteorites
Tiny life-forms can move easily between these recently described planets, according to a study of the travel times between worlds.
An illustration shows the possible scene on the surface of the planet called TRAPPIST-1f.
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By Shannon Hall
The discovery of alien life would be revolutionary. But what if we uncovered it on two—or even seven—planets all orbiting the same star?
That’s the tantalizing possibility offered by the cosmic grouping called TRAPPIST-1, where seven Earth-size worlds circle a star roughly 39 light-years away. According to a new study, those planets are packed so tightly around their stellar host that the seeds of life could be hopping between them with ease.
The study, conducted by Manasvi Lingam and Abraham Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, is based on a theory known as panspermia, which in turn is based on the fact that planetary debris can be swapped between the worlds in our solar system. This is especially true for neighboring rocky planets—for instance, asteroid strikes have sent fragments of Mars crash-landing onto Earth.
Panspermia takes this a step further and suggests that life could catch a ride on that debris, hitchhiking from one planet to the next. It might sound wild, but recent research shows that some extreme forms of life can survive conditions akin to an interplanetary journey. Some scientists even argue that the seeds of life on Earth could have come from Mars.
In the TRAPPIST-1 system, all seven planets are nestled within a region that’s more than 20 times smaller than the distance between Mars and Earth. Such close proximity raises the tantalizing possibility that panspermia could take place in this system with ease.
The TRAPPIST-1 planets are snuggled close enough to their dim, red star to potentially have liquid water on their surfaces.
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PLAYING HOPSCOTCH
Now, Lingam and Loeb have calculated that exact probability. Comparing the TRAPPIST-1 planets to Earth and Mars, they found that the travel time between one planet and the next is shorter by a factor of a hundred. This boosts the chance that life can survive such a harrowing journey. They also found that the likelihood of one planet’s debris landing on another is larger by a factor of 20 or so.
Altogether, the possibility that life can play hopscotch from one planet to the next is a few thousand times higher among the TRAPPIST-1 worlds than the possibility that it did the same from Mars to Earth.
“In a single planetary system, like TRAPPIST-1, the interchange of bacterial life is almost inevitable,” says the University of Buckingham’s Chandra Wickramasinghe.
Even better for the imagined aliens, all of the TRAPPIST-1 planets can potentially host life, given the right conditions.
Three of the worlds orbit in the star’s habitable zone, the region where they receive the perfect amount of heat for liquid water to flow on their surfaces. The rest of the worlds are temperate, meaning they might be equally warm if they have the right internal temperatures and atmospheric blankets.
“We might find forms of life that survive under conditions that we haven't anticipated,” says Loeb. “That's why it's exciting. We shouldn't have any prejudice, but should look at all seven planets in TRAPPIST-1.”
BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND
Of course, right now there’s no direct evidence that panspermia happens in our solar system or beyond. And some astronomers are doubtful that hitchhikers could survive such a traumatic journey.
First, the building blocks of life would have to endure extreme heat and pressure from the impact that spewed them into space. Out in the open void, they would be subjected to harsh ultraviolet radiation from their host star for potentially millions of years. Finally, they would once again face blazing temperatures as they fell from the sky and crash-landed in yet another violent impact.
“The poor organism would be fried twice and would be radiated by ultraviolet photons,” says Brice-Olivier Demory of the University of Bern, a co-author on the study that announced the TRAPPIST-1 discovery last month.
Amaury Triaud, a University of Cambridge astronomer who also co-discovered the TRAPPIST-1 planets, is on the fence: “I'm a skeptic about this,” he says. “But I also have to remind myself that life has managed to survive in extreme conditions.”
Bacteria have persevered inside nuclear reactors and on the outer rim of the International Space Station. Tardigrades—tiny water-dwelling invertebrates that look like chubby bears—have endured the vacuum of space for up to 10 days. And organisms frozen in Antarctic ice for centuries have been revived in labs. (Also see “Weird Life Found Trapped in Giant Underground Crystals.”)
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An illustration shows what the TRAPPIST-1 planets might look like from Earth if we had a powerful enough telescope.
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Wickramasinghe also points out that not every cell flung between worlds needs to survive: “It's like throwing seeds in the wind,” he says. “Most are destined to be destroyed. But a very few could take fruit—and that's all that's needed.”
Already, the discovery team is planning to turn the Hubble Space Telescope toward the seven siblings, along with the next-generation James Webb Space Telescope, due to launch in 2018. If the TRAPPIST-1 planets have atmospheres, these powerful instruments will be able to discern some of the molecules in the air and potentially find the fingerprints of life.
Should astronomers find signs of life on one planet, that will motivate them to scour its neighbors for similar signatures—even if the search comes up empty-handed at first. And if they find a match, it will suggest that the planets are indeed swapping life.
“That’s a golden opportunity to study panspermia,” Loeb says.
And if they find the right evidence, that would imply life doesn’t necessarily have to start over again on each new planet. Instead, it might spread like wildfire throughout a planetary system—and maybe even the cosmos.
A-listers Ryan Reynolds (far left) and Jake Gyllenhaal lead the cast of sci-fi blockbuster Life.PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
LOS ANGELES•Eight decades after Flash Gordon hinted that aliens might not have humans' best interests at heart, mankind still risks destruction in the movies to make contact with extraterrestrial life.
From Frederick Stephani's 1936 big-screen serial through the US$1.2-billion Alien franchise to last year's Independence Day: Resurgence, the heroes of more than 500 space invasion films have been lining up to die in new and inventive ways.
This year's first sci-fi blockbuster is Life, a claustrophobic game of cat-and-mouse between the crew of the International Space Station and a rapidly evolving life form that caused extinction on Mars and now threatens all life on earth.
Set in the near future, Daniel Espinosa's breakneck-speed thriller hits theatres on Friday with an international cast led by A-listers Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds.
"The script, pacing-wise, was blistering and terrifying. I mean, when I was reading it, you get to a couple of moments in the script, I was legitimately anxious, which is a very good sign," Gyllenhaal said.
The film reunites Reynolds with his Deadpool writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, although this white-knuckle suspense horror is short on the snarky humour that marked the 2016 superhero movie.
"There's nothing scarier than something that's just trying to survive and knows a little more than you do," Reynolds said at the world premiere at the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, last Saturday.
"I think people love that and people love a claustrophobic thriller too. Hitchcock started doing it and now it's been around forever."
Comparisons with Ridley Scott's 1979 sci-fi horror Alien - in which a deadly extraterrestrial stalks the crew of a spaceship - are inevitable, especially when Alien: Covenant, the sixth instalment in the iconic series, is fast approaching.
"I can see why people will compare it with Alien, but science fiction came from an old idea of noir cinema. I wanted my movie to play into that old American tradition," Espinosa said.
"Another big difference is the time, the era, when Alien was made. It was a post-atomic age when everyone was very much looking into the future. Young people today live in such a chaotic world that they don't think so much about what might happen in the next 10 years, let alone 100 years."
The point of Life, said Espinosa, was to make a thriller that would be entirely plausible today - a rover discovering a single-cell organism on Mars and bringing it back to the International Space Station, only for it to grow powerful and turn hostile.
In keeping with the "science reality" approach, the production team consulted British geneticist Adam Rutherford, who has published influential books on the use of genetic modification to make new life forms.
Espinosa worked with Rutherford to create an entirely original being made up of cells that can each perform any bodily function, and is structurally superior to humans.
The Life crew created a shape- shifter creature that adapts to its environment and can mimic whatever it comes into contact with, growing ever bigger, stronger and more threatening.
"We don't think that a life form would survive on the surface of Mars. The atmosphere is too thin and it would be sterilised by ultraviolet radiation," Rutherford said.
But he managed to come up with an idea for a creature that had survived for millennia by protecting itself from the Red Planet's harsh conditions. "The idea was that the alien has been in hibernation, protected from the radiation beneath the surface of the planet," he said.
Early reviews have been mixed, with the Hollywood Reporter predicting that the "underwhelming" movie may "suffocate in the anticipatory atmosphere surrounding Alien: Covenant".
Other critics have been kinder, however, pointing to its lean directing and refreshingly multicultural cast boosted by actors: Japanese Hiroyuki Sanada, Briton Ariyon Bakare and Belarusian Olga Dihovichnaya.
"Life is a thrill when it's smart, but it's even more exciting when the characters are dumb - which is ultimately a paradox the film wears proudly, to the possible extinction of the human race," concluded Variety magazine.
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Watch Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Control a Giant Mech Robot
Watch Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Control a Giant Mech Robot
By Stephanie Pappas, Live Science Contributor
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos piloted a giant "mech" robot at the 2017 Machine Learning, Home Automation, Robotics and Space Exploration (MARS) conference.
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos got to live out every 6-year-old's fantasy when he got behind the controls of a giant "mech" robot.
The Verge reports that Bezos tried out the 13-foot-tall (4 meters) robot yesterday (March 19) at his company's private Machine Learning, Home Automation, Robotics and Space Exploration (MARS) conference. Video of the bot, developed by Hankook Mirae Technology in South Korea, first surfaced in December in promotional clips. Live Science was skeptical of the robot's existence and functionality at the time.
But the new video reveals that the robot does, indeed, exist. However, it's far from clear how much the mech (a term for piloted, humanoid robots) can really do. Bezos flails the arms around using controls in the robot's torso cockpit, but the robot does not take any steps and is tethered to the ceiling, presumably for safety reasons. [The 6 Strangest Robots Ever Created]
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The robot does not pick anything up in the video, either, which is notable because its developers say that one of their goals is to create piloted robots for real-world jobs, like cleaning up the Fukushima nuclear power plant that was damaged in 2011 when a massive earthquake and tsunami struck Japan. So far, none of the footage of the mech has shown it manipulating objects. The massive bot also runs on external power, which means that, so far, it's unable to work untethered.
Such limitations could be overcome. Roboticists have already developed robots that can navigate uneven terrain, including Boston Dynamics' intimidating "Big Dog" and the bipedal "Atlas" humanoid robot. Atlas can open doors, lift boxes and even right itself when pushed, and operates with an internal power source. Those bots are much smaller than the giant mech Hankook Mirae is trying to develop, however, and don't present the same safety challenges as a piloted robot. According to Hankook Mirae's website, the mech robot, nicknamed Method 2, weighs a minimum of 1.6 tons.
Sci-fi fantasy
A designer affiliated with Hankook Mirae, Vitaly Bulgarov, told Live Science in December that the giant mech has been under development for several years and is a prototype made to show off particular technologies, like the human-machine interface that controls the arms.
In that case, the mech may never be used for more than demonstration purposes, while the individual technologies used to make it might be redirected to more practical designs.
Whatever the ultimate function of the robot, it certainly taps into human fantasies of what robots should be. Mechs like the Method 2 design appear in the 2009 film "Avatar" as well as in "Starship Troopers" (1997) and in "Pacific Rim" (2013). The character of Ripley (played by actress Sigourney Weaver) also uses one in the classic sci-fi film "Aliens" (1986), which Bezos referenced during his ride in Method 2.
"Why do I feel so much like Sigourney Weaver?" Bezos quipped.
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Mars Volcano Died at Same Time As Dinosaurs
Mars Volcano Died at Same Time As Dinosaurs
By Hanneke Weitering, Staff Writer-Producer
This digital-image mosaic of Mars' Tharsis plateau shows the extinct volcano Arsia Mons. It was assembled from images that the Viking 1 Orbiter took during its 1976 to 1980 working life at Mars.
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Around the same time that the dinosaurs became extinct on Earth, a volcano on Mars went dormant, NASA researchers have learned.
Arsia Mons is the southernmost volcano in a group of three massive Martian volcanoes known collectively as Tharsis Montes. Until now, the volcano's history has remained a mystery. But thanks to a new computer model, scientists were finally able to figure out when Arsia Mons stopped spewing out lava.
According to the model, volcanic activity at Arsia Mons came to a halt about 50 million years ago. Around that same time, Earth experienced the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, which wiped out three-quarters of its animal and plant species, including the dinosaurs. [Photos: Mars Volcano Views Revealed by Spacecraft]
A view of Mars' three large Tharsis Montes volcanoes, which lie in a straight line. Olympus Mons, the largest known volcano in the solar system, is at upper left.
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Jacob Richardson, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and co-author of the new study, presented the findings today (March 20) at the 48th annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands, Texas.
"We estimate that the peak activity for the volcanic field at the summit of Arsia Mons probably occurred approximately 150 million years ago — the late Jurassic period on Earth — and then died out around the same time as Earth’s dinosaurs," Richardson said in a statement. "It’s possible, though, that the last volcanic vent or two might have been active in the past 50 million years, which is very recent in geological terms."
Richardson and his team identified 29 volcanic vents on Arsia Mons. These vents are located inside the caldera — the crater-shaped depression on top of the volcano. Calderas form when volcanoes collapse under their own weight as lava accumulates on top. The caldera on Arsia Mons, which is big enough to hold at least all the water in Lake Huron, measures 69 miles (110 kilometers) across.
To figure out when the volcano was last active, Richardson and his team used high-resolution images from Context Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter to map lava flows around the 29 vents. Tallying craters around the volcano helped them to determine how long the lava flows had been there. Combining this data, the researchers determined that the most recent volcanic activity occurred 10 to 90 million years ago. The oldest lava flows are about 200 million years old.
"Think of it like a slow, leaky faucet of magma," Richardson said. "Arsia Mons was creating about one volcanic vent every 1 to 3 million years at the peak, compared to one every 10,000 years or so in similar regions on Earth."
VIDEO: Mystery blue fireball lights up Swedish night sky
VIDEO: Mystery blue fireball lights up Swedish night sky
A meteor camera captured the bright light. Photo: Swedish Allsky Meteor Network/Uppsala University
A bright, blue light which flashed across the night sky in eastern Sweden on Monday followed by a loud bang was most likely a huge bolide.
People in several towns in Sweden, including Uppsala, Stockholm and Örebro, reported seeing the strange fireball at around 9.30pm on Monday. One reader told The Local she saw it as far north as Piteå.
But an expert from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Uppsala University has explained that it was a so-called bolide, a very bright meteor that explodes in the atmosphere.
"This is something that happens a few times a year," Eric Stempels, who also manages the Swedish Allsky Meteor Network project, a network of meteor cameras across Sweden, told The Local.
"Because it can happen during the day, when it is cloudy or far from populated areas, these events usually don't get much attention," he said, adding that this one fell in the north-eastern Uppland region.
Experts believe that this particular bolide may have been unusually large and Stempels estimated to Aftonbladet that it is possible it was between the size of "a fist and a football".
Bolides usually burn up at an altitude of 30-50 kilometres, but regional newspaper UNT reports that Monday's fireball may have made it as far as 25 kilometres from the Earth's surface.
One of the Swedish Allsky Meteor Network's cameras in Uppsala managed to capture the bright light. Watch the short video below.
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Mysterieuze blauwe vuurbal verlicht hemel boven Zweden
Mysterieuze blauwe vuurbal verlicht hemel boven Zweden
Op maandagavond is in het oosten van Zweden een fel blauw licht gezien aan de hemel dat werd gevolgd door een harde knal.
Inwoners van verschillende steden in Zweden – waaronder Uppsala, Stockholm en Örebro – maakten rond 21.30 uur melding van de vreemde vuurbal.
Volgens een expert van de Universiteit van Uppsala zou het een bolide zijn geweest, een felle meteoor die in de dampkring explodeert.
Voetbal
“Dit gebeurt enkele keren per jaar,” vertelde Eric Stempels aan The Local. “Omdat het ook overdag kan gebeuren, als het bewolkt is of in afgelegen gebieden, is er doorgaans weinig aandacht voor dit soort gebeurtenissen.”
Experts denken dat dit specifieke object ongewoon groot was. Stempels schat volgens de krant Aftonbladet dat het ongeveer net zo groot was als een voetbal.
25 kilometer
Bolides verbranden doorgaans op een hoogte van 30 tot 50 kilometer, maar de lokale krant UNT schrijft dat deze vuurbal het oppervlak mogelijk tot op 25 kilometer is genaderd.
Het felle licht werd opgepikt door een camera van het Swedish Allsky Meteor Network:
A Pennsylvania witness at Dauphin reported watching a low flying, triangle-shaped object with a metallic-like appearance that “simply disappeared,” according to testimony in Case 82087 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Illustration of the triangle object.
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The witness was driving near home at 8:30 p.m. on February 14, 2017, when the incident occurred.
“My attention was drawn to a triangular object in the sky quickly flying toward me,” the witness stated.“It was low and had a couple of alternating, brightly flashing, white lights with a red light. There were several other smaller, flashing white lights that outlined the rectangular shape.”
The object moved directly over the vehicle. Pictured: Dauphin, PA.
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The object then shifted direction toward the witness.
“I was drawn to watch it, so I stopped in the middle of the road. It descended and flew directly over my car. When I looked up through my sunroof, I could see it had a metallic-like appearance (but it wasn’t smooth) and an irregular light pattern. It quickly started a slight ascension, made a quick 90-degree direction change and simply disappeared. The entire event was only a couple of minutes in duration. It happened so quickly, it was difficult to take pictures.”
Dauphin, PA, is about 8 miles north of Harrisburg.
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Dauphin is a borough in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, population 791. Pennsylvania MUFON State Section Director Julia Weiss 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.
Reader Josephine McMullan sent in these pictures of "moving lights in the sky" over Chaddesden in Derby.
Bizarre "moving lights in the sky" over Chaddesden have left one reader and her neighbours grasping at straws as to what could be behind the UFO sighting.
Josephine McMullan sent in this picture and said she had seen the lights on Monday and Tuesday night this week - but she couldn't come up with an explanation.
Readers have also been searching the Derby Telegraph website using the keyword 'UFO' but until now the reason was unclear.
Unfortunately - or fortunately if you're terrified of the unknown - there may be a rather simple explanation for this particular close encounter.
Check out this interesting footage of a huge bright orb that was hovering in the sky above Parksville in British Columbia, Canada. This was filmed on 19th February 2017.
Witness report:
Had diner at resort went to beachfront parking lot after diner and my wife observed a strange white/blue object below cloud cover it was over cast and raining. i video tape object for 52 sec then got in car went home. I did a 10 zoom of object then panned camera to left HWY 4 and right to the ocean so the experts can determine exact location along with gale each coordinates. the was Feb 19 at 7:02 pm. Object appeared to be moving but mostly hovering. I don’t believe in UFO but none the less this is what I saw and recored. Video and Google map location provided.
A Canadian witness at Bathurst recalled events from 1991 when a “round, white ball, fist sized,” entered her living room at a window and made a clacking sound, according to testimony in Case 82075 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
Bathurst, New Brunswick, Canada.
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The witness stated that the events happened very quickly on November 30, 1991.
“We were sitting in my livingroom in Bathurst one evening with my three teens and pre-teen daughter watching TV,” the witness stated. “Something – it seemed mechanical – a small, round, white ball, fist sized, with black eyes, or a lens, moved the old plastic vertical blinds we had in those days. Made a clacking noise that both he and I heard. First on the left of the window, then directly in front of where William and I were sitting on the couch, moving the hard, plastic slats twice at the front picture window, slipping into the room; and seemed to maybe take a picture of us.”
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The witness watched the object.
“We heard a clicking noiseand it seemed to have eyes or a lens that opened and closed. Both William and I saw it come through the closed window and closed window shade slats; and move the blind – but the kids did not see it or hear it. He and I immediately turned to each other with huge eyes and said, ‘Did you see that,’ but the kids laughed at us, as all four of them were just watching TV on the floor.”
The two jumped up and asked the kids again, but they laughed.
“He and I went to see if the window was open and neither of the two side windows, maybe sliders on the bottom, don’t remember, were open. There was nothing outside and the blinds had hardly moved when this object seemed to come through them to take a look at us.”
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The two went out the front door next to the window and still did not see anything to give them a clue as to what had happened.
We recently covered two cases where witnesses said the object was inside the house – Case 82001 and 82021. Canada MUFON Field Investigator Paul Bedard 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.
Few pseudo scientific ideas have captured the imagination like ancient astronaut “theory”. The idea has become almost it’s own religion as it often uses religious myth as a source of so-called evidence. Assisting its popularity is a host of documentaries including a series called Ancient Aliens specifically dedicated to the ancient alien hypothesis (hereby referred to as AAH).
In this thread I hope to dissect the first episode of the History Channel show Ancient Aliens in an effort to more or less debunk the claims presented. My hope is that this attempt will further discussion and get those who believe in AAH to take a closer look at what they believe and why and what they are prepared to call evidence. I hope that everyone will take the time to watch the video either before or during reading. I am going to describe much of what is talked about in the video in an attempt to make viewing it non-essential however.
This is gonna be a long one folks.
After the intro they begin by introducing Erik Von Daniken, author of Chariot of the Gods. He talks about the inception of AAH and how he scoured religious texts from all over the world. Daniken than says that no matter where you go the story is always the same. God’s descended from the heavens. The problem is that not all mythologies involve the gods descending from the Heavens. Daniken is taking the myths out of context. And often times gods that do descend do so because they are lightning, sun or moon gods that would naturally be associated with the sky.
It is no doubt that many gods do indeed dwell in the heavens. It is also true that many gods aren’t associated with heaven at all. There are underworld gods, sea gods, wind gods, Earth gods, etc. To suggest that the story is always the same Daniken must ignore VAST quantities of mythology and choose only bits and pieces to accept as accurate. He must then rob those of their mythical context and impose aliens upon them to see if they “fit”.
Daniken admits that he starts with the presupposition of aliens AND THEN looks for proof. This generally isn’t the way science works. Usually you want to collect evidence before coming to a conclusion, not come to a conclusion and then procure the necessary evidence. This section is also filled with lot’s of appeals to the popularity of Daniken’s book. This is a logical fallacy. It’s popularity has no correlation to whether or not it’s true.
At 8:29 George Noory is right when he says that people want answers to these ancient mysteries. It’s perfectly understandable for people to want answers. But using aliens to explain away mysteries is just an argument from ignorance, it doesn’t get us any closer to the truth.
Planting ideas, the insinuation that the Nazca lines “look like airstrips”. Considering that many of them are pictographs I fail to see how its possible for them to be airstrips. But of course he’s likely referring to the rectangular ones. Why exactly would the aliens land their high-tech interstellar craft on some lines in the dirt? More insinuations soon follow about how it’s an airport despite showing images of the so-called “Airstrips” crisscrossing in ways that would undoubtedly cause collisions or confusion of any aircraft attempting to land. They are sure to label the more down-to-Earth explanations as “disputed” while doing no such thing for the airstrip idea.
Dave Childress keeps stressing “WHAT IS THE REASON.” But he apparently refuses to leave the mystery. Yes the Nazca lines are a mystery but that doesn’t mean we insert aliens into that gap in our knowledge.
Cargo Cults are the next topic. The issue with this is that physical evidence was left behind by those visiting tribes in airplanes. Crates of goods, airstrips, and other material evidence was left behind that could have been created by the tribes there. So where are the alien artifacts? Where are the tricorders and warp drives left behind by ETs? Why are the only so-called “alien” artifacts ones that can be explained as within the capability of the ancients? Stone monuments, pyramids, the Baghdad battery, all point to being man made, not alien made. WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE?
The Bible
We open with Daniken professing that he still has his faith in God, atmospheric music is added. We open with the Ezekiel account. The issues with this are many but I will focus primarily on the description of the creatures in Ezekiel. They are said to have the face of a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle. These seem very specific, even symbolic, not at all the description of horrific alien beings and certainly NOTHING like any aliens reported by modern abductees. They also had hooves, wings and human hands, these are also specifically described as if to be symbolic, not literal. If it is a literal account than this thing is some genetic monstrosity, not an alien.
Their faces looked like this: Each of the four had the face of a human being, and on the right side each had the face of a lion, and on the left the face of an ox; each also had the face of an eagle. Such were their faces.
The next book we go to is Enoch. Daniken is allowed to assert without challenge that the ANGELS described by Enoch were aliens. He calls Enoch an “eye witness” as if that lends the story credibility as an actual event. People see wild things all the time, eye witness reports do not count as evidence. Of course in this case we’re not just dealing with an eye-witness, we’re dealing with a religious text filled with all sorts of fanciful material such as angels interbreeding with humans to create a race of giants. This is mythology being read as fact and then aliens being added to it for no reason.
Our next two speakers are both skeptics, one a Biblical archeologist, one a Professor of Spirituality studies. They point out several good flaws in AAH interpretation of Ezekiel. They are offered only about a minute of time to voice their opinions before we return to the believers. Giorgio Tsoukalos then asserts that religious stories might be “true after all”. What he actually means is the opposite. He’s not proposing that these myths are to be taken in their original context or even LITERALLY, he suggesting they be reinterpreted out of context to uphold AAH. He reinforces this only with the assertion that because writing was rare people would write down things that actually happened to them.
Vimana
They open this section with an image that should instantly cast doubt on the claim that Vimana’s are UFOs. Notice anything from the photo above? How about the horses and elephants and chariots? Does this look like a depiction of a UFO war in the sky? Or does it look like a fanciful mythological tale being retold in artwork? A man then makes some claims about how being made of metal, appearing in two places at one and having a motion similar to a butterfly is CONSISTENT with modern UFO reports. Flight pattern of a butterfly? Well two out of three ain’t bad.
David Childress returns at around 29:00 comparing the descriptions of flying machines in Indian mythology to Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. Funny, I thought he was in favor of AAH not against it. Come to think of it why can’t these descriptions simply be a case of science fiction from ancient times? They follow this up with Giorgio making a few appeals to popularity by pointing out repeatedly that these stories are widely accepted in India. Of course he quotes no pole or statistic and shows no evidence of any kind to reinforce this assertion.
Artifacts and Cave Paintings
Ready for some more desperate attempts to reinterpret things and steal them out of any historical or archeological context? Check out this photo that is apparently flashed up on screen as some kind of physical evidence of aliens.
Notice anything about the headdress in the center? Looks like it’s made to appear animal to me. Why are they showing this? Do they think that seriously resembles a space helmet? This image betrays the issue with the vast majority of supposed “astronaut” figurines and paintings. Headdresses were common in tribal times, helmets aren’t a new technology.
While the photo above is up George Noory plants the idea of astronauts in the audience’s head never leaving room for it to be anything else. A helmet, a headdress, a halo, the depiction of someone’s head being on fire. The list of plausible possibilities would stretch for miles before aliens would be an option without some other evidence aside from a drawing. What will people who come across superman comic books in 10,000 years say about us, will they claim we could only draw superman because he was real and we must’ve seen him?
The quite obviously tribal headdress above is labeled as “eerily similar to a modern astronaut”. In what world are these people living in? This thing looks nothing like an astronaut. If it is anything out of the ordinary it looks more like a diving helmet (and even that is WAY pushing it).
This has become an iconic artifact amongst AAH proponents. If this is a plane as they suggest where are the engines? Where’s the cockpit? Why are there clearly two EYES? And why exactly does ancient foreknowledge of the plane logically lead one to ALIENS? We humans invented the plane, not aliens, why would we credit them with this artifact? A civilization capable of crossing interstellar space wouldn’t likely have need for such things and according to AAH proponents themselves ancient mythical accounts describe flying saucers NOT airplanes.
There is an assertion that the upright tail-fin is not intrinsic to nature. That is, of course, only true if you discount ALL FISH, guess those aren’t part of nature . Even if it were not found on any animals it most certainly could have been created with creative license, the sculptors own creative decision. The idea that this is evidence of aliens is insulting to people’s intelligence.
Mayans
Our one stop is Pacal’s Tomb and I’m honestly still curios as to why this one is so popular amongst ancient astronaut believers. Nothing about this carving looks remotely like an alien craft without stretching the imagination. Of course like most of these things we must first rob it of it’s widely understood historical/cultural context and RE-interpret it (for no reason). When looking at the image in detail the symbolic and widely accepted meaning makes more sense.
“The widely accepted interpretation of the sarcophagus lid is that Pakal is descending into Xibalba, the Maya underworld. Around the edges of the lid are glyphs representing the Sun, the Moon, Venus, and various constellations, locating this event in the nighttime sky. Below him is the Maya water god, who guards the underworld [4]. Beneath Pakal are the “unfolded” jaws of a dragon or serpent, which Pakal is escaping from, ascending towards the world tree. This is a common iconographic representation of the entrance to the underworld”
This is another one that truly baffles me. What does this have to do with aliens? If aliens were helping out Piri in creating the map or in creating the source maps he used why weren’t they flawlessly accurate? Why did they not depict the ENTIRE world? The map clearly shows the tip of South America wrapped around at the bottom often asserted to be Antarctica’s coast. If this were true, for sake of argument, why exactly would this logically lead to aliens? Quite simply there is no link that can be built logically other than by STARTING with the conclusion of aliens and just lumping the map in as possible evidence because its mysterious.
Pyramids and Monuments
So it begins. This is going to be aggravating for me as person after person will no doubt belittle the ancients by claiming they were too stupid to devise ingenious ways to put stones on top of other stones. Even within the first few minutes of this section the narrator himself asks how the Egyptians could have possibly done this on their own. Mysteries, ignorance, does not mean you can insert whatever idea you want.
Jason Martell, so called “Alien Investigator” (there’s an official title for you) provides a backhanded compliment claiming that the ancients were strong enough to build these monuments but not smart enough and that some kind of “intervention” was necessary. This sort of thing is very frustrating for me – these baseless assertions made without any sort of evidence at all are far too common in the arguments made for AAH. Martell even go so far as to say “they couldn’t have just come up with it on their own” … WHY NOT?
What exactly do the aliens gain from the building of a pyramid? Why spread knowledge about how to build them? Why not spread, oh I don’t know, the cure for cancer?
The assertions begin that pyramids are “all over the world” and that means something weird. This is a common and downright stupid claim. It’s like asking why so many cultures built rectangular homes. What we’re dealing with is a fairly simple shape to build in, a pyramid. And contrary to assertions often made by AAH proponents cultures did not all begin building pyramids at around the same time. In fact some pyramids were built after 1 AD while others such as those at Giza are over 2,000 years older. They talk about Teotihuacan for instance and the pyramid of the sun even comparing it to Giza. The Pyramid of the sun was built around 100 AD. The great pyramid was built well over 2,000 years before that. So aliens paused for 2,000 years before passing on the knowledge to the builders at Teotihuacán?
Most of this monument section can be glanced over. It’s mostly comparing ancient sites and making the claim that the stones are too big or well placed for humans to do it. Giorgio even goes so far as to say that the site Puma-Punku is the best evidence of AAH available. If that’s the case we can toss out AAH right now. Is Puma-Punku a mystery? YEP. Does that mean we get to call it aliens and walk away? ABSOLUTELY NOT. To do so is just another in a long list of arguments from ignorance. The fallacious logic never seems to cease. A mystery is not evidence of aliens, end of story.
We’re about an hour in and we finally get another skeptic, this time an anthropologist named Todd Disotell who correctly points out some of the flaws that I’ve gone over in the AAH claims.
Mechanisms, Math and Electricity
Next up is the Antikythera Mechanism. Again I find it strange that this is picked out to SUPPORT AAH when it does no such thing. The device is indeed hi-tech for it’s time but then it’s nowhere near something that would be invented by aliens capable of crossing interstellar space. This is clearly a work of man. The Mechanism was found in Greece, Greece was a well-known scientific center in it’s day. Stories of Archimedes and other inventors inventing some pretty crazy stuff exist in that area.
We transition from Antikythera to a well-known Egyptian carving of an plant of some sort misconstrued as a giant light bulb by way of some imaginative Pareidolia. You can even see the quite plant-like stem and leaves just before the “bulb”. Giorgio claims that this carving is in an area that no one was allowed into, a secret room, yet he then claims that lightbulbs were a tool used to light the tombs as they carved. Even if, for sake of argument, we accept these as lightbulbs how in the hell does one get from lightbulbs to ALIENS? What sort of jump of logic is that?
The Baghdad Battery is up next. This, as per usual, has zero to do with aliens. It’s an interesting discovery if indeed it is intended as a battery but it’s clearly an ancient homegrown design, not something imparted from beyond the stars. Honestly how any of this manages to convince anyone of aliens astounds me. Is there a reason the ancients couldn’t have developed this on their own?
Eventually a skeptic comes up and says what all critical thinkers are probably screaming at their TVs “we shouldn’t think of the ancient people as dummies!” The narrator soon asks the audience why the ancients were so obsessed with the sky? Well put yourself in their shoes for half a second, strip away all knowledge you have of astronomy. If you were entirely ignorant of what you were looking up at you would marvel at it too. Hell people still marvel at the beauty of the sky today, amateur astronomy is a fairly popular hobby and we know what we’re looking at better than the ancients did.
Conclusion
The show wraps up with Giorgio pretending that skeptics have the burden of proof, that we have to prove him wrong in order for him to set aside AAH. The ones making the claim hold the burden of proof. The skeptics do not need to show evidence that you are wrong. AAH doesn’t need to be debunked, it certainly helps but it’s not necessary. To quote Sagan, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
The lapses in logic and the fallacious reasoning used by AAH proponents should really say it all. The fact that the vast majority of their so-called evidence is actually explainable better with human ingenuity and mythology also speaks volumes on the subject. In the end ancient aliens are another argument from ignorance like a God used to fill gaps and mysteries in our past. There simply is no reason to believe in ancient aliens. Although we cannot rule out the possibility of alien visitation without conclusive evidence of it there simply is no reason to believe. I say it is better to leave ancient mysteries a mystery until a real answer can be found.
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8 Cave Paintings depicting Aliens
8 Cave Paintings depicting Aliens
All over the world there are unexplained cave paintings that archeologists struggle to explain. Here are 8 cave paintings depicting aliens / UFOs. It is believed that prehistoric caveman used to draw whatever he used to see, hence the existences of the images of UFOs and aliens in the various cave drawings certainly prove that aliens and UFOs are not the yield of creative minds only.
Sego Canyon, Utah, USA
Sego Canyon alien pictographs ?
Large eyes and missing limbs of the creatures would certainly remind you of visitors from the outer space. These paintings are found to be 7,500 years old.
Val Camonica, Italy
Dating back to 10,000 B.C., there are several strange depictions in this Italian caves. It appears to depict two beings in protective suits holding strange implements. Notice the halo looking objects over their heads, which is very similar to other early cave drawings and paintings.
Niaux caves, France
What looks exactly an outline diagram of a spaceship as seen in sci-fi movies is actually a cave drawing that is found in the Niaux caves of France. This Paleolithic cave painting was drawn some time between 13,000 B.C. and 10,000 B.C.
Prehistoric Cave Art of Niaux France
Tassili, Sahara desert, Algeria
This figure also does not look human. Notice the same halo-looking object around the head that we see in some of the other paintings from other parts of the world. This cave painting is from Tassili, Sahara Desert in North Africa. It dates back to 6000 B.C. The figures do not look human. Notice the flying disk in the sky.
Itolo, Tanzania
Several disc shaped objects are seen in the cave drawings of Itolo, in Tanzania that dates back to 27,000 B.C.
Cave of Pech Merle, France
The drawings in the cave of Pech Merle near Le Cabrerets in France depict a field of different wild animals, amidst which there is a strange looking humanoid structure that has limbs and a tail as well. There is no reason to believe that this figure was imaginative as all the other animals seen in the drawing can be recognized. Three flying objects are also seen in this drawing that was drawn about 17000 to 19000 years ago.
Kimberly, Australia
These cave paintings date back to approximately 3,000 B.C and are from Kimberley, Australia. These are more ancient paintings of what the local Aborigines call the Wandjina.
Notice how these also possess the same dominate characteristics: the eyes and the halo-type object around the heads. Most of these also possess the bulbous head which the famous “greys” are said to possess.
Chhattisgarh, India
We already write about this one here. These paintings which are about 10,000 years old depict humanoid figures that do not have nose or lips and are characterized by large bulging eyes only.
Alien: Covenant unleashes intense new international trailer
Alien: Covenant unleashes intense new international trailer
Fox has unleashed an intense new international trailer for Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant.
The new two-minute trailer doesn’t show an awful lot of new footage, but does give us a bit more Xenomorph attack action as one stalks the unfortunate crew of the titular colony ship Covenant.
Basically, they’re probably all screwed.
The new trailer uses the same tagline of “the path to paradise begins in hell” that was in the trailer unveiled earlier this month.
That clip gave us a bit more of an idea how the crew of the Covenant find themselves in danger as they come across what they think is an unexplored nirvana, only to discover it’s actually a Xenomorph-filled nightmare.
Whoops.
At least we now know where the Xenomorphs came from as a preview this week answered a long-standing question about the origin of the aliens.
It seems that it was all android David’s (Michael Fassbender) fault. After his meddling in Prometheus, it looks like in the intervening years, he has perfected the creatures seen at the end of that movie into the familiar facehuggers we know.
Back in January, we were lucky enough to get a glimpse of the carnage in store with three scenes from Alien: Covenant and it looks like it’ll be very violent, very scary and very Alien.
Alien: Covenant bursts into UK cinemas on May 12 and US cinemas on May 19.
What does Arrival have to say about our readiness to deal with aliens? Nick Pope, who was responsible for investigating UFO sightings during his time with the Ministry of Defence in the 1990s, watched the new sci-fi blockbuster
Extraterrestrials arrive on Earth in giant spaceships, and the world holds its breath as we wait to see if they’ll be friendly, or whether this is the beginning of an alien invasion. So far, so Hollywood.
But what if we can’t figure out what they want – how would we communicate with them? This intriguing question forms the central premise of Arrival, and to help figure things out the military call in a linguist, Dr. Louise Banks, superbly played by Amy Adams. Her backstory involves the death of her daughter, but while this is a plotline that has the potential to take us into clichéd territory, it’s deftly handled and turns out to be relevant.
“I’ve often been asked if there’s a government contingency plan for dealing with extraterrestrial visitation. There isn’t.”
This is a movie that resonates with me personally. I worked for the Ministry of Defence for 21 years and for much of the early Nineties I was posted to a section where my duties included researching and investigating the UFO phenomenon.
I’ve often been asked if there’s a government contingency plan for dealing with extraterrestrial visitation. There isn’t, but director Denis Villeneuve’s film may have you thinking it might not be such a bad idea to draw one up.
Communication and the potential for miscommunication are central themes, as illustrated by a clever discussion about the potential confusion between a tool and a weapon. There’s enough technical material about the theory and structure of language to make us appreciate the problem, but not so much that the movie gets bogged down in over-technicality.
This is definitely a movie with a message. In parallel with the struggle to establish meaningful communication with the extraterrestrials, it’s clear that with alien craft hovering over a variety of different terrestrial powers and superpowers, perhaps the biggest danger comes from our failure to properly communicate with each other: astrophysicists with linguists, military with scientists, East with West. Amy
Adams as Dr Louise Banks in Arrival
Cleverly, the military are neither eulogised nor demonised in this film, and this entire aspect of the movie is focused on the character of the senior officer in charge of the US response, Colonel Weber.
Weber’s character is played with considerable sensitivity by Forest Whitaker – the steel is clearly there, but there’s a counter-intuitive quietness about him, that helps us steer clear of sci-fi clichés and get to the deeper and more thoughtful core.
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In a similar vein, the spaceships and the aliens are well-designed, but never threaten to take over the movie.
Arrival is sci-fi at its best: visually stunning for sure, but with such a good story at its heart that it never needs to rely on special effects to bail it out.
It seems that hardly a week goes by now without some new exoplanet being discovered, coupled with speculation that it’s only a matter of time before we discover alien life.
Arrival made me look back fondly at my old MoD job, and did make me wonder whether it wouldn’t be prudent to draw up a plan for what to do if any of this ever happened for real.
How Urine Could Help Astronauts Grow Food in Space
How Urine Could Help Astronauts Grow Food in Space
By Kacey Deamer, Staff Writer
The German Space Agency is researching how to grow food using recycled urine and sweat for future missions to Mars or the Moon.
Credit: DLR
If you want to be one of the first human beings to visit Mars, you better have a strong stomach. Scientists in Germany are testing ways in which urine and sweat could help astronauts grow food on the Red Planet.
Most food for missions to the International Space Station are brought as cargo from Earth. However, longer-duration space missions, such as those to Mars, will need a self-sustaining food supply, scientists have said. Jens Hauslage, a plant physiologist at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), is researching how to grow food in space, including a test system that involves a tank of urine and a tomato plant, the BBCreported.
"The Earth is a closed biological system with plants producing oxygen and food; then you have the animals and the microbes to produce all the degradation processes in the soil," Hauslage told the BBC. "Without these systems, no sustainable long-term life-support system will be viable." [Sending Humans to Mars: 8 Steps to Red Planet Colonization]
Using both synthetic and human urine, Hauslage is conducting lab experiments to re-create this cycle in a way that could be useful for space fliers, the BBC reported. For example, the scientists filled columns of urine with pumice stones, the hole-covered stones that form when lava mixes with water. Within the pumice stones' holes are colonies of bacteria that feed on the urine, converting the ammonia in the urine into nitrites and nitrate salts (a fertilizer).
Most water on the International Space Station — including that from urine, sweat and wastewater from washing — is recycled aboard the orbiting lab. Hauslage's research at the DLR is investigating other applications for this water, which is already efficiently captured and recycled, for growing food in space.
The lab research will launch into space later this year on DLR's Eu:CROPIS (short for Euglena and Combined Regenerative Organic-food Production in Space) mission, a satellite containing two miniature greenhouses, Space.comreported. The satellite will simulate lunar gravity for the first six months, to test the potential of growing vegetables on the moon, and then will simulate Martian gravity.
While the satellite orbits, 16 cameras will document the onboard tomato seeds that will germinate and grow automatically under. Just as in the lab experiments, the satellite growing environment will use bacteria to feed on synthetic urine, producing fertilizer for the tomatoes as they grow, the BBC reported.
"Ultimately, we are simulating and testing greenhouses that could be assembled inside a lunar or Martian habitat to provide the crew with a local source of fresh food," Hauslage said in a statement about the mission last year.
A Matrix prequel is in the works, but the science on which the dystopian future rests has some scratching their heads.
A video breaks down the feasibility of utilizing an enslaved humanity to power their robotic overlords.
In the 1999 movie “The Matrix,” the dystopian future is ruled by robots that have harnessed the energy generated by human bodies. Today, rumors that a prequel is in the works are swirling, and the ideas for how a society like this might come to be has us asking, “could humanity really be a sufficient power source for malevolent machines?”
According to the estimates of the Matrix character, Morpheus, the net output per human in energy is 315 W of power, and if the entire world’s population is under control, that would mean 2 TW of power, equivalent to five times the output of all nuclear reactors on the planet! But in reality, the potential for total human output is actually around 0.6 TW, and if we account for efficiency it is actually about 0.18 TW.
Assuming that matrix is at least power-dependent as the internet, and internet ranges around 30 GW of power, the calculations may possibly bring light to a matrix. But it wouldn’t make sense, as the energy outputted by humans is contingent on energy inputted (food). So while we doubt the synthetic robots would be feeding a source of energy that they depend on, obfuscating the whole human battery concept — some are still concocting theories to make the Matrix work.
Regardless of its scientific plausibility, we are looking forward to seeing the digital dystopia light up our screens once again.
Scientists have been listening to space for decades, hoping to pick up alien signals. Now some have proposed we try broadcasting a welcome call. Not everyone, though, thinks that is a good idea.
This is the first in a three-part series on the search for extraterrestrial life.
Ever been to a party and wondered why no one was talking to you? That’s kind of how SETI scientists feel — but on a cosmic level.
For more than half a century, astronomers have been listening to space. They use powerful radio telescopes, hoping to pick up signals from civilizations in distant space. They call this project the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence, or SETI. The trouble is, they’ve never heard a single ping, beep or “howdy.” The number of aliens who want to talk to us seems to be exactly zilch.
So how can we get the conversation started? Scientists disagree.
Some want to follow your mom’s advice: Introduce yourself nicely. They think Earthlings should start beaming signals out into the universe. Maybe it would improve our chances of hearing back from aliens if we let them know we’re friendly and want to chat.
This so-called “active SETI” would deliberately beam signals out in hopes of reaching space beings. Seth Shostak is an astronomer at the SETI Institute in Mountain View, Calif. He supports the idea. He also concedes that it is “extraordinarily controversial.”
Indeed, some scientists question the wisdom of advertising our presence. After all, maybe the aliens aren’t exactly what you’d call warm and cuddly. Do we really want to shout out to whomever will listen: “Here we are! Come invade our planet!”? At the very least, these scientists argue, people should discuss the idea and decide as a species whether we should try to actively put ourselves onto the radar screen of more technologically advanced beings.
“There are some people who think it’s dangerous, because you don’t know who’s out there,” Shostak says. “Maybe the aliens are just into yoga and poetry. But it could be that one percent of them are aggressive Klingons.”
Shostak doesn’t share these fears. But some people worry that if the aliens are not peaceable travelers, their response to even a friendly “hello” could be downright hostile. Some worry that instead of a friendly chat, those aliens might, as he puts it, “launch an attack and obliterate the Earth.”
David Brin doesn’t appreciate the Klingon jokes. He’s a scientist and science fiction writer. He also is one of those people who argues that Earthlings should proceed with caution. It’s not a matter of being afraid of some alien invasion, he says. “I know how unlikely those scenarios may be.” Instead, he thinks of active SETI almost like a potential environmental hazard.
Broadcasting powerful signals would change the nature of our planet. It would make Earth more observable from space. Other projects must go through an environmental review, he says, and this should too. “What’s so hard about that to understand?”
As an astrobiologist, David Grinspoon studies the possibilities of life throughout the universe. He works for the Planetary Science Institute in Washington, D.C. Whatever Earthlings do, Grinspoon thinks it’s important for them to decide as a group.
“The more I think about it,” he explains, “the more it seems almost anti-human to say, ‘I’m just going to be the ambassador for the whole human race and start broadcasting to aliens on my own.’”
Alien life is likely, many scientists suspect
Inviting contact with space aliens might sound like the plot of one of Brin’s sci-fi novels. Yet plenty of researchers are taking this idea quite seriously. Even though we haven’t found extraterrestrials yet, many scientists believe that it’s quite likely that life exists on other worlds.
The discovery that there are actually billions of other planets in the universe led many scientists to believe that extraterrestrial life probably exists.
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For one thing, science recently has shown that planets are much more common than astronomers had once thought. There are probably billions of them in the universe.
Biology also has turned up plenty of life on Earth that can survive and thrive in extreme environments — conditions that once were thought uninhabitable. These include places that are very hot, very cold, very dry or even bathed in acid.
“Everything we’ve learned about other planets and the diversity of life on Earth points us in the direction of believing there is abundant life elsewhere in the universe,” argues Grinspoon.
What’s more, even if life truly needed many of the same conditions found on our world, planets have been turning up that may host Earth-like temperatures, atmospheres — and perhaps even water. Such worlds exist in what’s known as “Goldilocks” zones. These are not too hot or too cold — but just right to sustain liquid water somewhere.
Whatever such alien life might be like — even if most of those organisms are just algae or worms — some would likely be intelligent, Grinspoon suspects. “It’s not just a fantasy that someone might pick up a signal if we broadcast it,” he says. “It’s my belief that there probably are creatures out there. And some of them probably have much more advanced technology than we do.”
Striking up a conversation
So how would people try to contact other worlds? Scientists have a few ideas. Like a message in a bottle, people could put something into a capsule and shoot it into space. Or scientists could flash lights at the aliens, training the beams of super-powerful lasers at nearby star systems. Think of it like Boy Scouts waving their flashlights at girls who might be camping on the other side of a lake. Researchers would send radio broadcasts out across the vast expanses of space.
Douglas Vakoch is president of METI International in San Francisco, Calif. (METI stands for Messaging Extraterrestrial Intelligence.) In addition to other ideas for sending out signals, he recommends beaming radio messages at other stars with huge radio telescopes, like the Arecibo (Air-eh-SEE-boh) observatory in Puerto Rico.
Right now, Arecibo uses radar to probe our solar system. The telescope sends out a pulse of radio waves. How long it takes those signals to bounce off things, such as asteroids, tells us how far away those things are. Under Vakoch’s plan, the telescope would send out those same radar pulses. But he’d aim them at nearby star systems. If all went well, intelligent aliens would notice those radio tweets and answer our “beep” with a “boop.”
Some researchers want to use large radio telescopes like the Arecibo observatory in Puerto Rico to beam radio messages to the stars.
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“Maybe some civilizations out there are doing what we’re doing,” Vakoch says. “They’re listening, but they’re not transmitting.” If they are, “we just wouldn’t discover them,” he notes. Active SETI, he explains, “is an attempt to let any civilization out there know not only that we’re here, but also that we’re interested in making contact.”
So why do we even want to talk to aliens? The search for extraterrestrial intelligence — or ETI — is part of humanity’s larger quest to explore the universe, and understand the nature of life, Vakoch says. “Perhaps more importantly, it holds a mirror up to ourselves.”
Throughout human history, any time civilizations have met, they have exchanged ideas, knowledge and technology. Meeting a more advanced culture could give our species a new perspective about life on Earth, says Vakoch. It might also show us new tools to solve Earthly problems, he adds.
Brin sees it a bit differently: “It’s worth bearing in mind that every time human civilizations that didn’t know about each other came into contact, there was pain.” Think about what happened to Native Americans or Africans when European explorers arrived on the scene, he says. Europeans coming to the “New World” brought along never-before-seen diseases. And their advanced technology, such as guns and metal, led to the destruction of the Native Americans’ way of life.
That’s one reason Brin thinks scientists and government leaders should not act too quickly. He advises that they think and talk it over before deciding what to do next. If we do contact aliens, studying our own history might give us ideas about ways to keep our interactions peaceful.
“Why did some contact situations [in history] go better than others?” Brin asks. “It turns out, there were some commonalities in the ones that were less painful. This should be something we study, not something we avoid.”
E.T. may already know about us
It’s probably too late to hide from advanced space civilizations, many scientists observe. Supporters of active SETI point out that FM radio and television signals both emit a high enough frequency that they could be picked up in space. Then there are all of those signals flying around between satellites, and those powerful radar pings from telescopes like Arecibo.
While people debate the issue, maybe the aliens are already watching our TV shows and listening to our music, says Philip Lubin. He’s a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara. “When someone says we shouldn’t transmit,” he notes, “you kind of have to say, ‘Okay, what planet do you live on?’ Because we’ve been transmitting for 100 years.”
Active SETI would take those transmissions to the next level. It would beam out more powerful signals, focusing them on the closest star systems. “The real question,” Lubin asks, “is should we transmit with the intention of being understood?”
Another way to send messages into space could be to flash bright lights, like lasers, at nearby star systems.
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Any civilization so advanced that it could visit Earth would already have the technology to pick up our signals, Vakoch agrees. So it would likely already know we’re here. In that case, he cautions: Maybe it’s in the best interest of the people of Earth to offer a peaceable greeting before those aliens pay us a visit. “There’s the idea that doing something is more dangerous than doing nothing,” Vakoch says. “But maybe it’s more dangerous not to say anything.”
He doesn’t want to wait to start active SETI. He does, however, agree that society should talk openly about the search for extraterrestrial life — and decide what to do if aliens respond. Most scientists have agreed to the “Protocols for an ETI Signal Detection.” This is a plan for what to do if aliens make contact with us. (Step one: Tell other scientists so they can confirm the discovery.) But Vakoch would like to see those policies debated and agreed to by the United Nations.
He concedes, though, “So far, we haven’t convinced [U.N. officials] that this should be at the top of their list.”
Grinspoon does think we should debate the issue before we broadcast messages into space. But it’s not because he’s afraid of ET. Discussing the welfare and future of our planet “is the kind of thing we humans need to get better at,” he says. In fact, the biggest threat to human civilization isn’t alien invasion, he argues. It’s things like climate change, war and pollution.
The only solution to those problems is to learn how to think and act not as different races and countries, but as one species, he says. “It’s actually more important to try to have a conversation with our fellow human beings than it is to have a conversation with aliens,” he says. “That is our survival challenge.”
aggressive (n. aggressiveness) Quick to fight or argue, or forceful in making efforts to succeed or win.
algae Single-celled organisms, once considered plants (they aren’t). As aquatic organisms, they grow in water. Like green plants, they depend on sunlight to make their food.
alien A non-native organism. (in astronomy) Life on or from a distant world.
asteroid A rocky object in orbit around the sun. Most orbit in a region that falls between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. Astronomers refer to this region as the asteroid belt.
atmosphere The envelope of gases surrounding Earth or another planet.
biology The study of living things. The scientists who study them are known as biologists.
broadcast To cast — or send out — something over a relatively large distance. A farmer may broadcast seeds by flinging them by hand over a large area. A loudspeaker may send sounds out over a great distance. An electronic transmitter may emit electromagnetic signals over the air to a distant radio, television or other receiving device. And a newscaster can broadcast details of events to listeners across a large area, even the world.
climate The weather conditions prevailing in one area, in general, or over a long period.
climate change Long-term, significant change in the climate of Earth. It can happen naturally or in response to human activities, including the burning of fossil fuels and clearing of forests.
cosmic An adjective that refers to the cosmos — the universe and everything within it.
culture The sum total of typical behaviors and social practices of a related group of people (such as a tribe or nation). Their culture includes their beliefs, values, and the symbols that they accept and/or use. Culture is passed on from generation to generation through learning. Once thought to be exclusive to humans, scientists have recognized signs of culture in several other animal species, such as dolphins and primates.
diversity (in biology) A range of different life forms.
environment The sum of all of the things that exist around some organism or some device and the condition those things create for that organism or device. Environment may refer to the weather and ecosystem in which some animal lives, or, perhaps, the temperature, humidity and placement of components in some electronics system or product.
E.T. (n.) An abbreviation made famous by the 1982 Universal Pictures movie, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The main character was a charming space alien called E.T. His most famous line from the movie was “E.T. phone home.” E.T. has since come to be used as a colloquial term for any intelligent and potentially friendly space alien.
extraterrestrial Anything of or from regions beyond Earth.
frequency The number of times a specified periodic phenomenon occurs within a specified time interval. (In physics) The number of wavelengths that occurs over a particular interval of time.
intelligence The ability to collect and apply knowledge and skills.
laser A device that generates an intense beam of coherent light of a single color. Lasers are used in drilling and cutting, alignment and guidance, in data storage and in surgery.
Native Americans Tribal peoples that settled North America. In the United States, they are also known as Indians. In Canada they tend to be referred to as First Nations.
observatory (in astronomy) The building or structure (such as a satellite) that houses one or more telescopes.
organism Any living thing, from elephants and plants to bacteria and other types of single-celled life.
physicist A scientist who studies the nature and properties of matter and energy.
planet A celestial object that orbits a star, is big enough for gravity to have squashed it into a roundish ball and has cleared other objects out of the way in its orbital neighborhood. To accomplish the third feat, the object must be big enough to have pulled neighboring objects into the planet itself or to have slung them around the planet and off into outer space. Astronomers of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) created this three-part scientific definition of a planet in August 2006 to determine Pluto’s status. Based on that definition, IAU ruled that Pluto did not qualify. The solar system now includes eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
planetary science The science of planets other than Earth.
protocol An accepted or agreed-upon procedure for doing something.
radar A system for calculating the position, distance or other important characteristic of a distant object. It works by sending out periodic radio waves that bounce off of the object and then measuring how long it takes that bounced signal to return. Radar can detect moving objects, like airplanes. It also can be used to map the shape of land — even land covered by ice.
radio To send and receive radio waves; or the device that receives these transmissions.
radio waves Waves in a part of the electromagnetic spectrum; they are a type that people now use for long-distance communication. Longer than the waves of visible light, radio waves are used to transmit radio and television signals; they are also used in radar.
satellite A moon orbiting a planet or a vehicle or other manufactured object that orbits some celestial body in space.
scenario An imagined situation of how events or conditions might play out.
science fiction A field of literary or filmed stories that take place against a backdrop of fantasy, usually based on speculations about how science and engineering will direct developments in the distant future. The plots in many of these stories focus on space travel, exaggerated changes attributed to evolution or life in (or on) alien worlds.
SETI An abbreviation for search for extraterrestrial intelligence, meaning life on other worlds.
society An integrated group of people or animals that generally cooperate and support one another for the greater good of them all.
solar system The eight major planets and their moons in orbit around our sun, together with smaller bodies in the form of dwarf planets, asteroids, meteoroids and comets.
species A group of similar organisms capable of producing offspring that can survive and reproduce.
star The basic building block from which galaxies are made. Stars develop when gravity compacts clouds of gas. When they become dense enough to sustain nuclear-fusion reactions, stars will emit light and sometimes other forms of electromagnetic radiation. The sun is our closest star.
technology The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry — or the devices, processes and systems that result from those efforts.
telescope Usually a light-collecting instrument that makes distant objects appear nearer through the use of lenses or a combination of curved mirrors and lenses. Some, however, collect radio emissions (energy from a different portion of the electromagnetic spectrum) through a network of antennas.
terrestrial Having to do with planet Earth, especially its land. Terra is Latin for Earth.
tool An object that a person or other animal makes or obtains and then uses to carry out some purpose such as reaching food, defending itself or grooming.
transmit (n. transmission) To send or pass along.
tweet Message consisting of 140 or fewer characters that is available to people with an online Twitter account.
universe The entire cosmos: All things that exist throughout space and time. It has been expanding since its formation during an event known as the Big Bang, some 13.8 billion years ago (give or take a few hundred million years).
Sometime in the early 2030s, NASA hopes to attempt a landing on Jupiter’s moon Europa. A four-legged spacecraft would descend towards the icy surface, ready to hunt for signs of alien life in a buried ocean.
But Europa could be a treacherous place to land. Its surface may be unexpectedly hard — or so porous that the probe might sink into it. And giant crevasses threaten to swallow any visitor. With an extremely thin atmosphere, low gravity, and bone-chilling temperatures of just 100 kelvin (–176 °C), Europa poses formidable challenges to spacecraft engineers.
“We really just don’t know enough,” says Cynthia Phillips, a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. She and others are discussing ideas for a Europa lander this week at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.
Prompted by the US Congress's enthusiasm for visiting icy worlds, NASA is working on a pair of spacecraft concepts for exploring Europa, to launch in the 2020s. The first, an ongoing project named Clipper, would fly to the Jupiter system and loop past Europa multiple times, photographing it and creating a new high-resolution map of the world. The second spacecraft — not yet formally approved, and left out of President Donald Trump's recent budget proposal for NASA — would follow perhaps several years later and land on the moon.
Safe landing
One challenge is finding a suitable landing site. Europa’s surface is riven by crevasses, possibly with geyser-like plumes of water occasionally spurting up through the cracks. One of the top candidates for a landing site is an area called Thera Macula, where iceberg-like blocks jostle against one another in what is evocatively known as “chaos terrain”.
Arriving there could be like trying to touch down on a glacier in Greenland spawning ice chunks, says Catherine Walker, a planetary scientist at JPL. “I don’t know if you really want to land on that,” she says.
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The Thera Macula region is one site where NASA could one day send a Europa lander.
But scientists want to get as close as possible to areas where water could be squirting up from beneath Europa’s icy shell — possibly carrying extraterrestrial microbes. Chaos terrains like Thera Macula may lie above shallow liquid water1, making them the best chance of finding direct connections between the buried ocean and the surface. “If we’re right about those areas, maybe things weren’t alive recently but the record of organisms could be more intact,” says Britney Schmidt, a planetary scientist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.
If there are at least 100 cells of extraterrestrial organisms in every millilitre of Europan ice, the lander’s instruments could detect them, according to a NASA report released last month. That’s comparable to the number of microbes in the ice overlying Antarctica’s buried Lake Vostok.
“For the first time in the history of humanity, we have the tools and capability to go and do this great experiment of seeing whether or not biology works beyond Earth,” says Kevin Hand, an astrobiologist at JPL. He co-chaired the new report, which is being discussed this week at the Texas meeting.
But so little is known about the surface properties of Europa that planning a lander is like planning the first Moon landings, Phillips says.
Cold effect
Temperatures are so cold that ice grains on Europa behave very differently from on Earth. Phillips and her colleagues, led by Jamie Molaro at JPL, have been studying how Europan ice grains might 'sinter' or merge together, becoming more dense. Theoretical modelling and lab experiments, intended to grow tiny chunks of Europa-like ice, show how the ice grains begin to stick together over time. That process will affect how the lander's footpads interact with the surface, Phillips says.
The lander has to survive intact enough to burrow 10 centimetres into the ice, collecting five samples in 20 days and then analyzing them for signs of life. Current mission designs call for a four-legged lander with a flat belly, able to land on rough ice with unknown properties. It would be the first touchdown in the outer Solar System since 2005, when the European Space Agency’s Huygens probe parachuted onto Saturn’s moon Titan.
“When Huygens was built, we had no idea if Titan had a liquid or a solid surface,” Phillips notes. “That was a crazy engineering challenge.”
Europa engineers are facing much the same thing today.
Two more bizarre triangle UFOs have been reported to MUFON.
The Finding UFO YouTube channel has released two separate videos showing triangle shaped objects filmed by stunned onlookers.
It comes after Express.co.uk exclusively revealed in December there had been a rise in reports of the mysterious UFOs to the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which keeps a global database of alleged UFO and alien sightings.
MUFON receives hundreds of similar reports each year, with numbers seemingly on the rise.
The reports are often eerily similar, leading to speculation the bizarre UFOs could be REAL.
Many reports tell of a triangle shape, defined by a series of lights, which are said to be in some cases as big as a football field, moving slowly and silently across the sky.
Some believe they are alien craft, while others think they are top secret test craft created by the US Government at mysterious air bases like Area 51 in the Nevada desert.
In the first new video released by Finding UFO, said to have been filmed over National City, near San Diego in California, three orange blinking lights appear to hover in a static position in the night sky.
The case was reported to the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which keeps a global database of alleged UFO and alien sightings.
Finding UFO said: "This UFO video of a triangular-shaped formation was taken over National City in California on 23rd January 2017."
The unnamed witness said in a report to MUFON: "These three fire-like lights were just hovering inside a big rain cloud.
"You see halfway through that the one on the left starts to fade away or go into the horizon.
"My batteries were low on my cell phone but after this video a fourth light appeared to the right of the street lamp and the one that had disappeared re-appeared."
The second video released by Finding UFO, was filmed nearby in San Diego.
It was described as a silent triangular UFO in a separate report to MUFON.
The witness, who has not been named, said in their report: "It slowly moved in our direction west to east from above La Jolla Shores.
"As I filmed it it began to hover over us. Its lights were solid and did not blink, except from one light that was red that would blink unlike other aeronautical blinking lights I have seen.
"There were two rectangular light illuminations on the side of the triangle that were located at the tip of a corner appearing to be a sort of cockpit.
Triangular UFO with glowing lights spotted over San Diego
There were two rectangular light illuminations on the side of the triangle that were located at the tip of a corner appearing to be a sort of cockpit.
Report to MUFON
"It did not leave any trails, or make any sounds when it travelled by.
"I knew that this was a UFO and was certain because it resembled nothing I have seen before.
"It eventually flew over our apartment building out of sight. This craft did not make any sounds as it passed by."
The most infamous mass triangle UFO sighting was the Phoenix Lights incident of March 13, 1997, over Arizona, which had its twentieth anniversary this week.
Five lights were seen in a formation by thousands of people over three hours from 7.30pm to 10.30pm.
The sightings took place across a 300-mile area from Phoenix to Tucson.
It was blamed by officials as military flares at the time.
Another mysterious case was the Belgian UFO wave from November 1989.
Thirty different groups of witnesses, and three groups of police officers, reported seeing on November 29 a large object flying at low altitude.
The craft was described as "flat, of triangular shape, with lights underneath", and being silent as it slowly moved across Belgium towards the Netherlands and Germany.
Scott Brando runs website ufoofinterest.org which exposes hoax UFO sightings.
He is sceptical any unexplainable sightings have been made.
The expert says the Phoenix Lights Incident was explained as aircraft and military flares.
He told Express.co.uk: “The Phoenix lights were explained with two different events. The first was the flight of five planes in V-shape formation.
"The second event was the launch of military flares over Estrella mountains."
He said of the Belgian UFO Wave: "The Belgian UFO wave began as a normal sighting (some lights in the sky) and then spread virally, but it took more time because at that time the media coverage had no internet like now."
Referring to triangle UFOs generally, he added: “About other similar sightings I'd like to see some reports by MUFON, however many formation of sky lanterns or the launch of skydivers Golden Knights were often mistaken for UFOs.”
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NASA's Cassini gets up close and personal with Saturn's 'UFO-shaped' Pan moon
NASA's Cassini gets up close and personal with Saturn's 'UFO-shaped' Pan moon
Pan is Saturn's second-innermost moon, present in the Encke Gap region of Saturn's A-ring. It possesses an average diameter of 17 miles (28 kilometers).
These two images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show how the spacecraft's perspective changed during its closest pass by Saturn's Pan moon at a distance of 15,300 miles (24,600 kilometers) on March 7, 2017.
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captured detailed images of Saturn's moon, Pan. The photos of the gas giant's moon were taken from a distance of 15,300 miles (24,600 kilometers) earlier this month, on March 7, 2017.
Pan is Saturn's second-innermost moon, present in the Encke Gap region of Saturn's A-ring. It has an average diameter of 17 miles (28 kilometers).
In both images of this unique-looking moon, the side facing away from Saturn -- the trailing side --can be seen.
These stereo views, or anaglyphs, highlight the unusual, quirky shape of Saturn's moon Pan. They appear three-dimensional when viewed through red-blue glasses with the red lens on the left.
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These photographs were taken by Cassini's narrow-angle camera; the image on the left was taken from a distance of around 16,000 miles (25,000 kilometers) and the image on the right was taken from approximately 21,000 miles (34,000 kilometers) away.
The astronomers who imaged the photographs believe that Pan was formed within the rings of the gas giant and comprises matter from the ring, responsible for the shape of its central mass.
The UFO-shaped moon is thin around its equator; the edges are believed to have formed after the central bulge, and after it cleared the gap in Saturn's rings.
"On a larger, more massive body, this ridge would not be so tall [relative to the body], because gravity would cause it to flatten out," a NASA statement revealed.
"But Pan's gravity is so feeble that the ring material simply settles onto Pan and builds up. Other dynamic forces keep the ridge from growing indefinitely," the NASA officials added.
Het aantal waarnemingen van cilinder- of sigaarvormige UFO’s begint de laatste jaren aanzienlijk toe te nemen.
Ook nu zijn er weer prachtige opnames gemaakt door een man die zit te wachten tot de barbecue klaar is en besluit om de dreigende onweersbui te filmen.
Deze waarneming is aangemeld bij MUFON en het heeft alle kenmerken van een authentieke gebeurtenis.
Het voorval speelde zich af op 16 augustus 2016, zo ongeveer aan de grens tussen Canada en Amerika aan de noordoostkust bij de Baai van Fundy.
De Fundybaai of de Baai van Fundy is een baai tussen de Canadese provincies New Brunswick en Nova Scotia, ook grenzend aan een stukje van de Amerikaanse staat Maine, aan de Atlantische kust van Noord-Amerika. De Fundybaai staat bekend als de plaats met het grootste getijdenverschil ter wereld, met 16 meter verschil tussen hoog- en laagwater.
De getuige die het voorval vastlegde was op bezoek bij een vriend voor een barbecue en vertelt het volgende verhaal:
Ik was naar een behoorlijk intensieve onweersbui aan het kijken die de monding van de Funsybaai binnen rolde.
We zaten te wachten tot onze barbecue klaar zou zijn en ondertussen begon ik met het filmen van de onweersbui in de hoop dat ik misschien wat mooie bliksemflitsen kon vastleggen.
De bui was nog zo’n 20 minuten van ons verwijderd, maar de bliksemflitsen gingen iedere keer recht naar het water en ik ben toen nog een paar minuten doorgegaan met filmen.
Daarna legde ik mijn camera aan de kant en ging eten en dacht er niet verder over na, totdat ik enkele dagen later nog eens de video bekeek.
Ik bekeek de filmopname en zag eerst niets. Ik ging naar het einde en pauzeerde op het moment van één van de bliksemflitsen. Ik nam een screenshot voor Facebook en scrolde achterstevoren heel langzaam door de opnames heen en ging van bliksemflits tot bliksemflits en nam daar screenshots van.
Toen ik zo bij de eerste seconden van de video kwam waar zich een dubbele bliksemflits voordeed, was het bingo, ik zag een schijf-achtig object ter grootte van een oplegger uit de baai door de lucht en de bliksemflitsen vliegen in een hoek en met een onvoorstelbare snelheid met een grote “bang” en het echo geluid van een windtunnel in de wolken verdwijnen.
Met het geduld en vastberadenheid van een hersenchirurg ben ik erin geslaagd om binnen die seconde sreenshots te maken. Ik heb beelden die je niet zult geloven en foto’s.
De afgelopen maanden ben ik bezig geweest om hulp te krijgen, maar dat is mij nergens gelukt. Ik smeek jullie dan ook om mij serieus te nemen en belangstelling te tonen, want dit is echt.
Hier volgen een aantal screenshots die de man maakte en enkele uitvergrotingen.
En weer is er ook sprake van bliksem en onweer zoals zo dikwijls. Hier schijnt echter wel sprake te zijn geweest van een echte onweersbui als je het verslag van de getuige leest.
En weer ook de bekende sigaarvorm, een schip dat ook schijnt voor te komen bij de Duitsers op Antarctica, zoals wij schreven in een eerder artikel:
De Duiters hadden een project in de jaren '43-'45 van de vorige eeuw onder de naam Andromedagerät. De Andromeda was een groot sigaarvormig ruimteschip, met binnenin ruimtes waar zich kleinere vliegende schotels bevonden.
Of dit ruimteschip ooit daadwerkelijk heeft gevlogen is niet zeker, alhoewel er wel enkele foto's zijn waarop dit schip vliegend is afgebeeld, zoals de volgende.
We zijn inmiddels ongeveer 65 jaar verder sinds het Andromeda ruimteschip is ontworpen. Als de Nazi's ten tijde van de mislukte expeditie van admiraal Byrd al de beschikking hadden over vliegende schotels die geluidloos uit de zee opstegen, en ook toen al beschikten over in ieder geval het ontwerp van de Andromeda dan is het niet onlogisch om aan te nemen dat nu, zoveel jaren later, zij in staat zouden zijn om kunstmatige wolken te creëren met daarin verborgen een moderne versie van de Andromeda.
Volgens Scott Waring zijn het buitenaardse schepen en gebruiken ze de onweerswolken en bliksemschichten om daar energie te tanken. Hij zegt zelfs dat de UFO de bliksemflitsen veroorzaakt, zodat het op die manier energie kan tanken.
UFO'S VLIEGEN VOORBIJ TIJDENS INTERVIEW MET ISS ASTRONAUTE ( VIDEO )
UFO'S VLIEGEN VOORBIJ TIJDENS INTERVIEW MET ISS ASTRONAUTE ( VIDEO )
In de loop der jaren zijn er al heel wat bizarre dingen de revue gepasseerd rondom het International Space Station, ISS.
Het komt echter niet vaak voor dat er beelden zijn van een interview met een astronaut in het ISS, terwijl erachter,zichtbaar door het raam, UFO’s vrolijk ronddartelen.
Legendarisch zijn ondertussen de verhalen over wanneer NASA weer eens merkt dat er een UFO in beeld komt, de verbinding plotseling wordt verbroken wegens technische problemen en kijkers naar een blauw scherm zitten te staren.
Soms worden er ook in het ISS zelf opnamen gemaakt en dan meestal van de astronauten die daar op dat moment aanwezig zijn.
Samantha Cristoforetti (Milaan, 26 april 1977) is een Italiaans ruimtevaarder van de ESA. Cristoforetti haar eerste ruimtevlucht was Sojoez TMA-15M en vond plaats op 23 november 2014. Hiermee werd ze de eerste Italiaanse vrouw in de ruimte.
In totaal heeft Cristoforetti één ruimtevlucht op haar naam staan, deze bracht haar naar het Internationaal ruimtestation ISS. Deze missie duurde onverwacht een maand langer dan gepland; hierdoor werd Christoforetti de vrouw die het langst in de ruimte verbleef tijdens een enkele vlucht. Met 199 dagen overtrof ze het oude record van Sunita Williams.
Tijdens één van de opnames die is gemaakt van Christoforetti in het ISS laat ze zien hoe het werkt wanneer je naar buiten wilt kijken en hoe je dan een soort luik voor het raam kunt weghalen.
Op de volgende afbeelding is ze bezig met de uitleg en zie je achter haar het raam.
Terwijl Samantha druk bezig is met het vertellen van haar verhaal, vliegen er in de achtergrond enkele UFO’s langs die te zien zijn door het raam achter haar.
Op de volgende afbeelding zie je er één, rechts, vlak naast de zonnepanelen.
Er zijn in totaal twee UFO’s zichtbaar, de eerste vrij kort, maar de tweede langer en die zie je niet alleen met enorme snelheid vliegen, maar ook verschillende keren van koers veranderen.
Dit is uiteraard een duidelijk teken dat we hier te maken hebben met een intelligent bestuurd object.
Voor de bewegende beelden en een uitgebreide analyse volgt hier een video van Secure Team die deze bijzondere opname kreeg toegestuurd van een abonnee op zijn kanaal.
Het is niet de eerste keer dat Samantha in verband wordt gebracht met een UFO. Eind 2014 schreven wij een artikel over hoe deze astronaut een verschrikte kreet slaakte, waarvan later ook een UFO bleek de oorzaak te zijn.
Iets meer dan een week geleden brachten wij het verhaal van de Italiaanse astronaute Cristine Christoforetti die enorm schrok tijdens de aankoppeling bij het ISS ruimtestation.
Zo zei ze later: "De enorme zonnepanelen werden als het ware bedolven onder een krachtig oranje licht, helder, warm en bijna buitenaard".
Ze vertelde niet concreet dat ze een UFO had gezien, maar zoals wij schreven:
Er was “iets” dat haar verwelkomde en zorgde voor deze felle oranje gloed. “Iets” dat niets te maken had met het ruimtestation. Bijna dagelijks, maar zeker wekelijks, worden er UFO's waargenomen bij en rondom het ISS ruimtestation. Wat Samantha gezien heeft is vrijwel zeker de reflectie van één van deze UFO's die waarschijnlijk nieuwsgierig was of haar wilde verwelkomen aan boord van het ruimtestation.
Misschien heeft Samantha die UFO niet daadwerkelijk gezien, maar de vluchtleiding wel degelijk.
De ESA (European Space Agency) heeft een video gepubliceerd waarin de aankoppeling van de Soyuz raket aan het ruimtestation is te volgen.
Daarin zie je enkele minuten voordat Samantha haar verschrikte kreten slaakt, inderdaad een UFO in beeld komen.
Op de volgende afbeelding is deze te zien in het vierkant rechtsboven, als een vage ronde stip, niet ver van de centrale lijn die het beeld verticaal in tweeën deelt.
In de ESA video hieronder kun je die UFO door het beeld zien bewegen, van boven naar beneden rond de 1 minuut 20. Enkele minuten later, rond de 4 minuut 36, hoor je de verbaasde uitroep van Samantha.
De kans dat deze twee gebeurtenissen niet gerelateerd zijn, is natuurlijk minimaal. Er arriveert een UFO bij het ISS en kort daarna schrikt Samantha zich een hoedje.
Decades of entertainment and pop culture have invaded our eyes and ears with tales of little green men coming from destinations unknown and plaguing our skies and our homes. These little green critters often changed throughout the decades as stories spread and culture shifted. So when we hear the stories of close encounters with what we often consider aliens, it's no wonder that some of these more radical reports get brushed to the side. They just seem to be too damn strange. They don't fit the prototypical alien mythology we've been conditioned to believe (or not believe) is true. They bend the rules and they challenge the norm. So what are these outsiders amongst outsiders? Let's take a look at a few cases of possible monsters from above... or possibly below.
The Flatwoods Monster
It was September 12th, 1952. In the town of Flatwoods, West Virginia, three young boys were wrapping up an evening of football when they noticed something unusual in the night sky. As they watched above, a rather bright object seemed to be making a rapid descent towards a nearby farm. Scared and excited, the boys immediately rushed to the first home they could find. This was the home of one Kathleen May. May, fearing an aircraft crash of some sort, called the local police. But they didn't want to wait, fearing that someone may be hurt and need immediate attention. Soon, May, the children, and her dog, all headed out to the proposed site where the object had either landed or crashed.
As the group made their way towards the top of a nearby hill, the dog excitedly ran ahead, sensing something of interest. Moments later, the dog returned, looking completely scared and whimpering. It wouldn't be long before the group saw just exactly what the dog had encountered. About one hundred yards or so in the distance, a glowing object burned bright, a hissing sound emanating in all directions. A thick mist covered the area. As the group timidly moved forward, they noticed that the light was actually two circles, giving off the effect of headlights of some sort. As one of the boys cast his flashlight forward, it soon became clear that the object wasn't an object at all. It was alive.
As they all stood in terror, they looked on at a creature that was about ten feet tall and four feet wide. It appeared to be wearing some sort of metallic suit, green in color, pipes, and valves wrapping around it. A cowl, shaped like an ace of spades, covered its blood-red head. The eyes of the creature seemed to be portholes of some sort, a mixture of green and orange light piercing through them. Varying accounts also describe the creature as having small, stick-like arms, while others claim it had no appendages. Either way, as the group began to become more vocal, the creature seemed to take notice. It hissed furiously and began to ominously float towards them.
Petrified, the group ran back over the hill and fled the area. It was at this point that the local sheriff finally showed up. May began to explain what they'd seen, and soon a local news reporter, A. Lee Stewart of the Braxton Democrat, was on site, interviewing the witnesses. Meanwhile, the sheriff and several officers searched the area for the creature but could find nothing. Many other reports of flying objects had been reported in the area prior to this event, and even of the same creature. Civilian Saucer Investigation (CSI) had compiled many reports which included that of a mother and her daughter who claimed to have encountered the same metallic, hissing creature. The encounter had emotionally and mentally affected the daughter so severely that she remained in a hospital for weeks trying to recover from the entire ordeal. Another interesting report came from the mother of the farmer who the original event had stricken. She claimed that at around the same time of the incident, the radio in her home cut out completely and some sort of explosion seemed to occur, shaking the entire foundation of the home.
While reports continued to trickle in prior to and after this main event, it was clear that something from above had come down in Braxton County in the small town of Flatwoods, West Virginia. But just like many tales of this kind, the town embraces it with open arms and open pockets. It has become a destination for many monster hunters and folklore enthusiasts, small tourist attractions littered with images of the monster welcoming visitors from all over the world. So was this smelly, metallic, hissing creature something from outer space? Or was it all just a desperate ploy to bring attention to the town? Either way, the Flatwoods Monster remains a staple of both UFO and monster lore, blending the two in enigmatic intrigue.
The Hopkinsville Goblins
It was August 21st, 1955 when the Sutton family were settling down for a night with friends in their farmhouse, located on Old Madisonville Road, about eight miles north of Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Indoor plumbing was a luxury they just couldn't afford, and as the summer night progressed, it was usually warm. One of the friends, Billy Ray Taylor, went outside to fetch some water for the group. But as he made his way to the well, he noticed something unusual above him.
There, in the night sky, a multi-colored object hovered and seemed to be spitting flames in every direction. Suddenly, the object began to make a rapid descent into a gully about three-hundred yards away. Struck by the event, Taylor rushed inside to tell everyone what he'd seen. As he excitedly described the object, the Suttons, and even Taylor's wife, believed him to be making the entire story up. They brushed it off and went on with their night.
It was around 8 pm when the Sutton family dog began to bark at something at the window. Curious, the oldest son of the family, Elmer, noticed something glowing outside. As he peered out the window, he reeled back in surprise. There, behind the glass, was what appeared to be a small figure. It was about three feet tall with a large head and bat-like ears. It had large eyes, no nose, and a mouth that stretched from one side of its face to another. It was very thin, with long arms that included talon-like claws. A silver-colored suit covered its body. As the Suttons and friends began to react inside, the creature noticed that it had been spotted. It then began to float towards the house, a few feet off the ground. At this point, Elmer and Taylor grabbed a pair of rifles and headed outside.
Upon seeing the creature floating in mid-air, they panicked and both began to open fire. But the creature was unfazed. It turned and disappeared into the darkness. They returned inside to calm the rest of the group, explaining they'd at least scared the creature away. To assure them of this, they went outside again. But just as Taylor walked out, a claw grabbed him by the hair from the roof above. Elmer once again opened fire on the creature, hitting it directly. It fell from the roof and onto the ground below. Suddenly, a bright light illuminated from the nearby woods. Another creature soon appeared. And another. It was clear that the Sutton farm was being invaded my these goblin-like creatures.
A one-sided firefight ensued for the next few hours, as Taylor and Elmer continued firing at the creatures every time they tried to approach. And each time, they would retreat into the darkness of the woods. Around 11 pm, terrified and exhausted, the activity seemed to wind down, and soon, the creatures were nowhere to be found. The Taylors and Suttons hopped into their vehicles and immediately headed for the Hopkinsville police station.
After explaining in great detail what had just occurred, several officers accompanied the group back at the farm. After a long investigation lasting well into the early morning, they could find nothing and left the scene. Apparently, around 2:30 am, the Taylor and Sutton family were terrorized yet again by the creatures as they played their mind games yet again, appearing and disappearing into the dark. Gunfire ensued yet again until the sun rose and the families finally fell asleep, hoping this was all just a very vivid nightmare. But it wasn't.
The following morning, a report of the event was published in the Kentucky New Era newspaper, the police having seemingly released information to the media. As news spread, reporters from all over the country descended on the small farm. UFO enthusiasts camped out on the family's lawn, hoping for a return by these possibly extraterrestrial goblins. Completely disturbed by the media circus and the exposure, the Sutton family eventually sold the farm and moved into the nearby town of Kelly, hoping to blend in and forget about that terrifying night.
Elmer Sutton (Middle) describing the craft and creatures
But the towns of Kelly and Hopkinsville never forgot. The story made it into many publications on UFOs and encounters with alien beings. And the town of Kelly even holds the annual Little Green Men Festival, highlighting the events that took place on the Sutton farm. And while the current owner of the land dissuades any from visiting, that doesn't stop a community who sees peaks in tourism every August when the event originally occurred.
The Dover Demon
It was in April of 1977 when the small town of Dover, Massachusetts suffered a string of strange sightings involving a small creature roaming the streets. First reported by a group of teenage boys, Bill Bartlett, 17, noticed a small figure huddled next to a stone wall as they passed by it in their vehicle. The figure soon came into sight from the car’s headlights, turning and staring straight at Bartlett. Its eyes were, according to Bartlett, “glowing brightly like orange marbles. It was about four feet tall and stood upright. It had a pale, gray tone to its hairless body. It had no nose or mouth. Its head was very large like a watermelon,” he would go on to describe. While the other friends in the car didn’t see anything, they all admitted that Bartlett was extremely distraught after telling them what he had seen. Bartlett would return home that night, visibly shaken, according to his father, and sketched the creature.
It was a few hours later that the second sighting of this creature took place. John Baxter, 15, was walking home from his girlfriend’s house. Thinking it was a friend of his, he approached, stunned when he finally saw the silhouette of something rather odd. This small creature stared at him, standing upright, with bright orange/red eyes. It had very long toes and fingers which clung tight to rocks on the ground.
The following night would include what most considered the final sighting of the Dover Demon. Abby Brabham was being driven home by a friend when she noticed a small creature on the side of the road. She would describe it quite similarly to that of Bartlett and Baxter, however, she stated that it was crawling on all fours. Her description of the eyes differed as well, proclaiming a bright green color.
Despite the variances in witness testimony, it seems that something truly strange was wandering the streets of Dover over the span of two nights. Could the fact that as the sightings grew, the creature was becoming more and more desperate to not be seen? Or perhaps, it was somehow ill or injured, starting on two legs, and slowly digressing in strength, having to eventually crawl. Though completely speculative, it seemed that this creature did not want to be seen. But in the eyes and memory of the three witnesses above, the small gray creature dubbed the Dover Demon has all but faded into cryptozoological obscurity, its bright orange (or green) eyes haunting the back roads of Dover up until today.
Conclusions
It is quite apparent that the stories above don't fit the typical close encounter narratives we are used to when dealing with UFO cases. In fact, these stories may have absolutely nothing to do with aliens. But the appearance of objects in the sky preceding some of the events does beg the question; if not alien, then what? And while these cases may go down in cryptid lore for decades to come, one thing is for certain. The Flatwoods Monster, The Hopkinsville Goblins, and the Dover Demon will continue to haunt the pages of many books, many films, and many tourist traps. But more importantly, they will continue to haunt our minds as we peer into the darkness time and time again, hoping we will never come face-to-face with any or all of these creatures from parts unknown.
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Ryan Sprague is the author of 'Somewhere in the Skies: A Human Approach to an Alien Phenomenon' (Available on Amazon). Speaking on the UFO topic, he has been featured on ABC News, Fox News, and The Science Channel. He is also a regular on the Travel Channel's 'Mysteries at the Museum'. Ryan is the co-host for both the Into the Fray & UFOmodPOD podcasts. Learn more at: www.somewhereintheskies.com
Dr Horace Drew, 61, was just 10 years old when he allegedly saw an unidentified, silver, windowless craft hovering in the sky near his suburban home, in Jacksonville, Florida. The encounter lasted only moments but led to a lifelong fascination with the extraterrestrial.
“I saw a UFO, so I knew they were real from an early age,” Dr Drew told news.com.au.
The scientist, who holds a PhD in Chemistry from Caltech, the California Institute of Technology, and worked for CSIRO as a molecular biologist, has been researching crop circles and aliens for 20 years. Dr Drew relocated to Australia in the 1980s but most of his work has taken him overseas, predominantly to Europe.
“They’re quite rare in Australia,” he said.
He, along with many conspiracy theorists, believe crop circles are the work of aliens or human time travellers. Sceptics say most are probably man-made.
A crop circle is typically defined by standing wheat stems that have been flattened in the shape of a circle or more complex pattern. They tend to appear mainly in developed Western or secularised countries — including Japan.
The cause of many of the circles is unknown despite various natural and unorthodox explanations having been put forward. Some crop circles have been proven to be hoaxes.
But according to Dr Drew, a number are legitimate and contain puzzles that can be decoded and linked to time travel and alien life.
He told news.com.au he had visited about “two dozen crop circles” around the globe in his career. Typically, they were between 50-500m in length, he said.
“This has led to at least one major breakthrough the discovery of a more advanced binary code than our computers currently use.”
Dr Drew claimed that aliens or human time travellers have been leaving the crop circles on Earth as messages to “us or themselves”.
Sightseers visit an incorporated oversized crop circle in a cornfield, not far from the small community of Mammendorf near Munich, southern Germany, on August 3, 2016. The crop circle had a diameter of 180 metres.
Picture: AFP / Christof StacheSource:AFP
WHY ARE THERE CROP CIRCLES?
Dr Drew said he was one of a handful of scientists around the world who had worked to successfully decode some of the messages in crop circles.
According to him, some crop circles provide general descriptions of the future.
“Other crop (circles) show schematic images of the future for astronomical or human events,” he said.
He said some of the decoded messages read: ‘Much pain but still time. Believe. There is good out there’; ‘Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises’; ‘We oppose deception. Conduit closing’.
Dr Drew has developed at least two theories as to the purpose of the circles by reading their “advanced (version of) binary codes”.
“One theory is that they are trying to introduce themselves to us peacefully, like we do using bubbles with dolphins,” he said.
“When (humans) want to talk with dolphins we put little bubble circles under the ocean with a generator. We watch the dolphins come up and play and investigate, and we study them.
“This is called the ‘dolphin communication project’.”
He said the dynamic between the way humans interact with dolphins and whales was likely comparable to how extraterrestrials communicate with us.
“Barack or Trump have never said to a dolphin: ‘take me to your leader I want to sign a treaty with you’,” he said.
“And (the extraterrestrials are) not interested in making a treaty with us.
“They are ahead of us like we are ahead of the dolphins and the whales.”
His second theory was that the messages “are not even for us”.
Dr Drew said human time travellers from the distant future could be creating the circles as directional markers, to help them navigate “in their distant past, which is our present”.
“There are definitely humans living there in about 5000 years with time travel capability,” he said.
“They’re coming back and flying all over Earth.
“They seem to just say ‘this is a certain day’ and mark it.
“So the trouble is we don’t know space time physics enough to understand what’s happening. It’s beyond our knowledge.
“Maybe they don’t want us to know about it. It might be just for them.”
It’s a theory shared by many in his field of work.
A crop circle once appeared in field of wheat at Clay Hill, Warminster, Wiltshire. The site, made famous by UFO sightings in the 60s and 70s, had crop circle experts baffled over the 200 foot design.
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HOW ARE THEY MADE?
Dr Drew said the circles appeared to be created by an “unknown energy that heats the crops up”.
“It’s like microwave energy but is something beyond earth’s science,” he said.
“It can pattern the wheat.
“No one sees or hears anything and that's why its so hard to prove. If there’s a craft, it’s silent, noiseless.”
But there’s nothing to fear, according to him.
“Don’t be afraid,” he said.
REAL OR A HOAX?
Telling the difference between a real crop circle and a hoax is like differentiating between an original painting and a fake, according to Dr Drew.
“There are some things to look for,” he said.
Crops that are bent “halfway up” their stems, rather than on the ground ,is one telltale sign “cereologists”, or someone that advocates paranormal explanations of crop circles, look for to determine that it’s not a hoax.
“You can’t absolutely prove a crop circle wasn’t a hoax but you can give a high probability and judgment,” he said.
“If there’s a hoax the word of it gets around very fast, people are aware, people are not that easily fooled.”
Scientist Dr Horace Drew said he took this photos in a “newly found crop” circle at Etchilhampton near Decizes, England in July, 2012. “About 25 per cent of fallen wheat stems inside the picture were bent by unknown energies,” he told a conference on Wednesday.
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In 1991, English pranksters Doug Bower and Dave Chorley took credit for most of the crop circles across southern England made since 1978. They were inspired by the Tully “saucer nest” case in Australia, where a farmer found a flattened circle of swamp reeds after observing a UFO.
Using basic tools including a plank of wood, rope, and a baseball cap fitted with a loop of wire to help them walk in a straight line, they said they made complex crop circles in England — which others then copied all over the world into the 1980s.
They made a circle for journalists, which was later declared authentic by a cereologist. They then revealed their hoax to the world, spurring on even more copycats.
Scientist Dr Horace Drew has been researching crop circles and aliens for 20 years.
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Dr Drew said there was a lot of scientific evidence to show that some crop circles were made by human time travellers or extraterrestrial beings. “Laboratory results on plant or soil samples taken from a crop circle in Brazil in October of 2016 show that it was formed by unknown sterilising images,” he said.
The earliest mention of a crop circle dates back to the 1500s. A woodcut from the time showed a “mowing devil” making the pattern.
An aerial view shows people strolling through a crop circle on a field near Mammendorf, southern Germany, on July 26, 2016. The pattern had a diameter of 180 meters.
Picture: AFP / Sven Hoppe.Source:AFP
GOVERNMENT SECRETS?
Earlier this month, US TV host Jimmy Kimmel asked former US President George Bush if he went through “secret files, the UFO documents” when he was in office.
But instead of laughing off the question, the former commander in chief replied: “Maybe.”
Mr Kimmel then asked him if there were “any great secrets you know that you can’t share with people?”
“Yeah, there are,” Mr Bush said. “But I’m not telling you.”
Many conspiracy theorists and some scientists, including Dr Drew, argued that Mr Bush’s comments indicated the US government knows much more about extraterrestrial life than it has publicly revealed.
“The politicians are scared they'll lose votes if they talk about it,” Dr Drew said.
He said international media had also played a part in causing the public to doubt the legitimacy of crop circles and aliens.
But according to him, its important for humans to keep seeking answers.
“The ET visitors have technologies which would benefit us greatly, for example, how to make safe, clean energy without burning oil, coal or gas,” Dr Drew said.
“Ultra-fast propulsion systems, based on gravity and inertia, could carry us safely to distant planets or stars.
“We may also need to upgrade our planetary defences soon, to protect against ET’s who may not be friendly.”
There’s still a lot more to be understood but Dr Drew’s hope is that he one day gets a closer look at what was inside the UFO he believes he saw as a child.
“I’d like to meet (the extraterrestrials or human time travellers) in person,” he said.
“But I don’t think they're going to do that.
“Whichever scientific team is doing this I don’t think we’re supposed to have full knowledge of it because it will interrupt their program, whatever they're doing.”
One little-discussed aspect of the hacked emails from the 2016 presidential campaign was the interest that John Podesta, Hillary Clinton's campaign manager, had in extraterrestrial life. As a self-described "curious skeptic," Podesta has openly called for greater government transparency on UFO-related matters. In his forward to UFOs: Generals, Pilots, and Government Officials Go on the Record, a 2011 book by journalist Leslie Kean, he wrote, "The American people—and people around the world—want to know, and they can handle the truth."
After hackers working at the behest of the Russian government accessed Podesta's Gmail account and sharedhis emails with WikiLeaks, according to the US government, WikiLeaks, in turn, released more than 50,000 of them over the course of several weeks. Among the revelations were details about campaign strategy, Podesta's tips on preparing the perfect risotto, and a cache of his correspondence with entrepreneur, author, and rock star Tom DeLonge. DeLonge is best known as a founding member of the multiplatinum pop-punk band Blink-182 (with whom he had a falling out in 2015). He's busy with his other band,Angels and Airwaves, but it was the work of his Encinitas, California-based company, To the Stars, that he discussed in his correspondence.
DeLonge describes To the Stars as an "independent multi-media entertainment company" that explores "the profound, yet unresolved mysteries involving science and the universe," an interest he shares with Podesta. In one October 2015 emailfrom DeLonge, with the subject line, "Important things," the rock star offered to set up a meeting with "important" figures within the military industrial complex. He suggested Podesta might find them "very interesting" because they were in "principal leadership" roles on "our sensitive topic."
DeLonge explores the "sensitive topic" in his new book, Sekret Machines: GODS, co-written with Peter Levenda. It's the second in a series of works that has the lofty goal of changing the way humanity views its place in the universe. The book treats extraterrestrial life and its influence on human events as a given,and explores the roots of religion and mythology through that lens. DeLonge is also shooting a feature film on the subject and plans years worth of additional books and other multimedia related to it. Mother Jones caught up with DeLonge recently to discuss his book, To the Stars projects, and other "sensitive" topics.
Mother Jones: What was it like when you saw all your contacts with John Podesta spill out as part of WikiLeaks?
Tom DeLonge: It was a terrible thing that happened. I was not planning on that, obviously, nor was anybody else on this conversation. You're dealing with national security when you deal with this subject matter. It is the single most sensitive and dangerous topic, for a variety of reasons. So when a leak like that comes out, it's not a good thing.
MJ: A lot of people who never got a response were reaching out to Podesta. Why did he seem to take you seriously?
TD: For the same reason the other groups of people within the DOD and military and intelligence committee took me seriously: Because I knew my material. I went in there with a lot of humility and respect. WikiLeaks was an illegal hack, so I can tell you that there were many, many conversations, and that's all I'll say. But I'm not going to talk about who was on those and what we talked about.After the WikiLeaks issue and how busy he was with the presidential election, I didn't really bother him anymore.
MJ: Mirage Men was a book and documentary about the history of the US government seeding various stories on extraterrestrials and other unexplained phenomena in order to cover for entirely human military projects. Do you ever worry that you're being used to deliver untrue stories?
TD: I think they're using me, absolutely, because I can help. But I don't think they're using me for any kind of misinformation, absolutely not, and I'll tell you why. It took me a year to reach three groups of people in various stovepipes of the government…that were in charge of this subject matter, not only in terms of engineering, but in terms of intelligence and military. They all said the exact same thing, the exact same story, and that's what's so important about what I'm doing with the Sekret Machines franchise. The reality is if the president and Congress aren't going to have congressional hearings and have an open statement, then the next best thing is a $100 million movie with a $100 million in marketing, with an international release, and having that happen every couple of years with nonfiction books and documentaries. Then you kind of get an awareness going, a conversation going. That's what I'm doing.
MJ: The Sekret Machines franchise comprises three novels, three nonfiction books, a TV show, and a movie, right?
TD: Yeah. It will go on for a very long time—most likely it won't be restricted to only three novels or three nonfiction books. It will be multiple nonfiction books, multiple historical fiction novels, multiple major feature films, and multiple documentaries. That's the goal. It will take us many years to do all that, but it's something or multiple things happening every year in regards to that architecture. Think of it like the way they do Star Wars or Marvel films. It's an entertain-and-educate model. So you can watch a future film and go, "Wow, I never thought of it that way. I never thought that could be real. Seriously, what's the story behind this?" Then they go buy some nonfiction or watch a documentary.
"Everyone wants to pin it down to aliens and flying saucers from other planets. And that's not the truth. That's almost like taking someone's quote out of context."
MJ: The most recent release, Sekret Machines: Gods, came out March 7. What is the takeaway from that book?
TD: The entire series is setting up a foundation of how to understand the enormity of the subject matter. Everyone wants to pin it down to aliens and flying saucers from other planets. And that's not the truth. That's almost like taking someone's quote out of context. The idea of where consciousness and quantum physics collide is where you're going to find a lot of the unidentified aerial phenomena. It has to do with human consciousness, spirituality. It has to do with religion. So Gods, the first book, is setting up a foundation for people to understand that the human race is akin to what is known as a "cargo cult," [which] started in World War II with indigenous tribes. Planes would come in and drop cargo for the troops. [The tribes] had never seen anything like that before. They never even had contact with the outside world. But they saw these planes and created a religion based on them. They worshipped it, hoping that these gods would drop off cargo to them. In the book Gods, we're trying to set up a foundation so people can understand that all the religions of the world are a form of a cargo cult. And it all relates to seeing things in the sky and supernatural contact.
MJ: Are you at all worried this will be seen as an attack on faith?
TD: I'm not worried about it but understand that it will happen. I grew up in a Christian family. My mom was a nondenominational Christian—you know, baptizing everybody, all that kind of stuff, singing songs on Sunday. I was forced to go to church for so long, and it wasn't until I traveled the world, when I was in the Middle East and reading about all the different religions in the world, that I thought, "Wow, something's kind of funky with my religion."
MJ: In one of your emails to Podesta you said that this project is about changing the cynical views of youth toward government. Can you elaborate on that?
TD: Over a long period of time, the government has had to do things routinely in regards to this subject matter, and they consistently lied because the government couldn't define an issue as sensitive as this. So young adults grew up with the internet and found out that these things were real. But the government had to keep lying about it but never came out and explained why. The problem is, now you have this huge population of people becoming adults who just think that government is full of lies all the time.
There have been decades of strategic implementation of a plan to deal with this issue and create a way to move forward. You'll see those initial drips when they start announcing planets they think have life. Then they start announcing microbial life. And then they start announcing structures, and then they start announcing other things. I think you're going to start seeing an avalanche of all that stuff, and the reason is because now we got our act together. And it took 70 years to do it.
MJ: So you're starting work on a film?
TD: We'll start filming in the fall. Everyone thinks this movie is about skateboarders and UFOs. It's not. It's a coming-of-age thriller, comedy, adventure, very Spielberg in its architecture, but attacking some of the big niche paranormal subjects. I think it's way more like The Goonies than it is anything else.
Photo courtesy of LeAnn Mueller
MJ: So you're pretty sure you're going to succeed expanding horizons and helping people view the world differently?
TD: My whole life has been completely about being underestimated. I remember when Blink signed to a major label, and we had a debut party for the signing. No one came to party, only the guy that signed us. And I remember sitting there, like, "Shit, no one likes this." I remember on the first label we signed on to, the owner of the label made a bet that we wouldn't sell more than 3,000 records. And that record went on and sold [millions].
You'll always see me doing things that I have no business doing. Whether it's directing a major motion picture or meeting with the most important people in government and dealing with the biggest subjects on Earth. The story of the millennia. These are things I aspire to tackle. It doesn't mean I'm going to win on all of them, but God damn, it looks like I've got a pretty good shot at it.
The top row are screen grabs from a video taken in January 2017 of a reported UFO over Liverpool, UK. The bottom row shows a very similar reported UFO in March 2017 over Gloucester, UK.
If some British tabloids are to be believed, UFOs have been lighting up the British skies these days, as if the night skies were an immense Christmas tree.
As reported in The Express, “thousands of people across the globe are seeing mysterious shape-shifting UFO.”
Of course, an unidentified flying object typically turns out to be something other than an ET spacecraft once we take a closer look. In this instance, on March 12, Rob Wheatman, a resident of Gloucester, captured an odd aerial phenomenon on video, as seen below.
“I saw it as a sparkling ‘star’ from the garden in Elmbridge, due south,” according to GloucesterLive. “What alerted me was an orange light that came from it and traveled at speed north east. I grabbed my video and luckily it has a 40x zoom and that’s when I got the images of the bizarre light you saw.”
While there doesn’t seem to be any outward appearance of fakery going on here, there tends to be an immediate attitude either on the part of individuals who offer alleged UFO videos or from media sources that have a tendency to stretch the idea of credulity with descriptions like “[t]his apparently intergalactic lightshow was filmed above Gloucester last night, and it’s got us, and the cameraman, baffled. What it shows is anyone’s guess...We’re pinning our money on aliens. Definitely aliens.”
Once again, let’s offer this reminder: The vast majority of UFO sightings are eventually explained as natural or man-made objects.
We consulted a photo analyst who was unimpressed with the sightings.
“In this Gloucester video, I noticed first that the object was not in focus. That’s why it looked like a diamond shape. This is a common appearance of out of focus objects with some cameras,” according to Marc D’Antonio, chief photo and video analyst for the Mutual UFO Network.
“In that video, the cameraman stated he was looking ‘due south.’ I believe that, due south at some point during the night, you will see Sirius, the brightest star in the northern sky. Because a star is ever only a point source, the slightest disturbance to the air between the camera and edge of the atmosphere in the direction being imaged will cause the image to dance around. This is called atmospheric scintillation,” D’Antonio told The Huffington Post.
In addition to his work as a video analyst, D’Antonio is CEO of FX Models, where he builds miniature versions of classified objects for his clients that include the U.S. Navy, Congress and the joint chiefs of staff. He knows a thing or two about things that are real, faked or simply misidentified.
HuffPost asked D’Antonio to look at another reported UK UFO video from January. This video begins with an object over Liverpool looking remarkably like the object in the first video above from Gloucester:
”In the second video, I noted that the object was out of focus at times. The cameraman stated that the object didn’t move, yet it absolutely did, moving over time from a position to the right and above a branch to a position just off the tip of that branch,” D’Antonio said.
“It had changed direction to reveal its nature ― it was an aircraft, landing lights on when it turned on final approach to a nearby airport. Landing lights can be seen up to 90 miles away and will persist for up to 4-5 minutes, then fade out as the aircraft makes its final turns. In my opinion, the first video showed an astronomical object ― likely Sirius ― and the second video showed a likely aircraft on landing approach.”
Incidentally, the objects in question in these two videos are quite similar to a diamond-shaped “UFO” videotaped in 2015 over another UK town, Tynemouth. In that case, it was determined that the object was, in fact, the bright star Sirius.
If you happen to spot something in the night sky that, at first, seems out-of-this-world and tempts you to consider that you’re lucky enough to witness visitors from far away, remember that you’re more than likely seeing something that is truly astronomical in nature.
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Uncovered video shows 'Illuminati destroying 13,000-year-old alien satellite built to keep an eye on humankind'
Uncovered video shows 'Illuminati destroying 13,000-year-old alien satellite built to keep an eye on humankind'
The Black Knight craft is famous among alien hunters who claim it was planted by another race thousands of years ago in order to keep a watch over us
BY KEYAN MILANIAN
This is the bizarre video 'leaked' online that conspiracy theorists claim shows the destruction of an ancient alien satellite.
The Black Knight craft is famous among alien hunters who claim it was planted by another race thousands of years ago in order to keep a watch on humankind.
But a new video, shared by secureteam10 , alleges the alien technology's destruction has been caught on camera.
A clip on YouTube shows a huge fireball hurtling through space as parts of the UFO break off it.
One conspiracy theorist has claimed an 'anti-matter missile' was used to destroy it.
Now UFO conspiracists claim 'alien Black Knight satellite has visited Earth'
During the video, in a brief few seconds, another UFO appears nearby which they say was the aggressor - and a craft owned by the Illuminati.
Eventually, the fireball turns into one perfectly round flying object that the video's producers say is an alien escape pod.
However, alien hunter Tyler Glockner, who runs the popular secureteam10 channel, admits during the video that he is skeptical.
A clip on YouTube shows a huge fireball hurtling through space as parts of the UFO break off it
He said the bizarre profile that posted the clip does not appear to be reputable and questions the strange film angles within the clip.
The Black Knight is said to be 13,000 years old and discovered by Nikola Tesla back in 1932.
He was convinced the bizarre machinery was alien and placed in the orbit to monitor the earth.
Incredible 1989 Nashville UFO Photographs Provided by Commander Graham Bethune of the US Navy
Incredible 1989 Nashville UFO Photographs Provided by Commander Graham Bethune of the US Navy
The photographs of these UFOs were provided by Commander Graham Bethune of the US Navy. He obtained these photographs of a FS-143 saucer from a close friend who claimed to have rendezvoused with another intelligence and requests anonymity. These photographs were allegedly taken on September 27, 1989, near Nashville, Tennessee and used to build a model for theatrical events.
The photographs show strong circular columns of light shining down from the craft that suddenly stop in mid-air. Our spotlights do not function in this manner.
The Photographer’s Story
An experienced photographer was driving in a remote area near Nashville, Tennessee on the night of July 14, 1989. He saw a light behind the trees on top of a mountain several miles away at about 9:00 PM. He stopped his car, opened the trunk, picked up two cameras, a Canon AE-1 and a Canon T-90, that had previously been loaded with film. He started walking toward the bright light. The light came over the mountain several miles away and he started taking pictures with the cameras. He noticed a coronal discharge from around the perimeter of the object. It appeared to be materializing and coming into his vision. The bright light continued moving toward him. He aimed the camera at the light and started taking photos. His first photo was taken about 30 degrees above the horizon. When the object stopped he was shooting at about 50 degree up with the object still about four to six miles away. The photographer states, “I had a feeling that the craft was behind the mountain waiting for me and when it appeared it felt like I was in another world, the sounds were far, far away.” He looked at the object but could not see any definition, the light was far too bright and too far away. When he looked through the lens the craft was sharp and vivid. The craft was visible for more than five minutes, but less than ten. It seemed like forever. He changed the lens package from the T-90 to the AE-1 camera and continued shooting using all his film.
He felt he was not in control of what was happening. He remembers constantly pushing the buttons on the back of the T-90, each time he made a change it sharpened the image. The T-90 Canon with his lens package cost $3,400.00 It has four computer chips and at the time was one of the most professional cameras you could buy when purchased in 1985.” There were other witnesses, but they have been reluctant to come forward. They also were taking pictures, but the field around the craft interfered with the film as the craft moved away. They did not have high magnification lens so there was not enough definition to make the craft identifiable. The photographer has had a recent heart attack and an auto accident and does not want his name revealed.
The Canon T-9- was set upwith a spacer, two 2-2 X multipliers and 500 mm mirror lens with five filters. The lens package was 2000 mm plus. The speed of the film using the film push process is close to 3000. The camera was set up to take scenery at a distance. The computerized camera with computer chips was set to open the aperture as wide as possible. Commander Graham Bethune. was told by Bill Sherwood of Kodak that the object photographed with this package used on the camera was about five miles distant and would be 100 feet in diameter.ASA Kodak 400 or above film was used. Push processing was ordered when developing the film.
Film Analysis
Analysis of the film shows unusual colors not normally seen in any lighted object. The colors indicate a coronal discharge similar to the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights.) The photographs show a craft with approximately 32 red, white and blue perimeter lights. These lights are not used in normal aircraft configuration. At times they appear all red. At other times they are all white. Sometimes outer perimeter lights appear mixed in color indicating they may have the ability to change color.
Inside the outer perimeter lights are panels of lights. These also appear to have the ability to change color. Although they are predominantly white they are sometimes seen as partially red or black. Assuming the craft is 100 feet in diameter these outer panels take up about 40 feet or 20 feet on each side. Below the center of craft there appears to be a crystal or lights with crystal like appearance. Generally these lights appear blue. craft appears to rotate in the photos. Graham gave me his word that these were authentic photographs of an actual flying craft to the best knowledge. He has known the photographer for 24 years and the man worked for him for ten years. He has always been know to tell the truth and was of high character.
National UFO Center Note:
I have observed a UFO at close distance. The colors of the smoke probably a coronal discharge were similar to what I saw. The lights themselves have an unusual depth of color. When you look at a colored light it is normally a white light covered by a lens of red, yellow, green, blue etc. The lights on the craft appear as if the light contain the actual color. There is a vividness of color that is difficult to describe that appears to be in these photos. The fog or plasma is penetrated by the powerful lights shining downward. The lights extend down for an estimated seventy-five feet to one hundred plus feet and seem to stop abruptly. Duplication of this capability is exceptionally difficult to accomplish with any normal lights. I have never seen lights that have these properties except on a UFO, nor have I seen comparable photography. I have over 5000 hours flying time and taken thousands of photographs. I would be very interested in any similar photographs or videos of a comparable craft.
Searching for life on other planets is a complicated science. It’s not like a NASA probe is going to take a photo of another planet’s surface and see aliens walking around. We have to look for more subtle details, like the marks extraterrestrial organisms would have left behind. So what do scientists look for when they investigate other planets?
Maybe because of this bias we’re completely missing a life form right under our galactic noses that breathes hydrogen sulfide, for example — or doesn’t breathe at all. But we know what conditions have to exist on Earth for all the creatures here to survive, so we look for those things on other planets. They include oxygen for the aliens to breathe, water to sustain them and a Goldilocks-type temperature that is not too hot and not too cold.
That’s where the idea of a habitable zone comes in: It’s the area around a star where orbiting Earth-like planets are at the right distance for their surfaces to have liquid water. Any closer and the water would boil into gas; any farther and it would freeze into ice.
“Liquid water is essential to all life on Earth, and so the definition of a habitable zone is based on the hypothesis that extraterrestrial life would share this requirement,” Encyclopaedia Britannica points out.
It might not just be arrogance to assume alien life would need the same conditions to thrive as we do. Famous astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has explained that three of the most common elements in the universe — carbon, oxygen and hydrogen — are essential for life on Earth.
“Aliens need not look like us to resemble us in more fundamental ways,” he says. “You can bet that if life is found on another planet, it will be made of a similar mix of elements. Conversely, if life on Earth were composed primarily of, for example, molybdenum, bismuth, and plutonium, then we would have excellent reason to suspect that we were something special in the universe.”
This illustration shows the possible surface of TRAPPIST-1f, one of the newly discovered planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system. Scientists using the Spitzer Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes have discovered that there are seven Earth-size planets in the system.
Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Volcanoes
If a planet is not in a habitable zone, volcanoes could be crucial. Researchers from Cornell University recently suggested that volcanic eruption could warm the planet enough to support life.
Fossils
Life leaves behind evidence of its existence. In the case of tiny fossils recently discovered in Canada, they are likely what’s left of bacteria that lived in hydrothermal vents underwater in the early days of Earth, possibly more than 4 billion years ago. Some of the earliest, most primitive life on Earth may have lived in those vents, and because they share features with environmental conditions on Mars in the past, the fossil discovery may point scientists in a fruitful direction as they search for evidence of life on the Red Planet.
A message
The SETI Institute listens and looks for signals from intelligent extraterrestrial life forms. If life on other planets at a reasonable distance from Earth only consists of microorganisms, chances are they will not be sending us messages. But in case there are “technically sophisticated beings” out there, SETI is on the lookout for radio and light evidence of them.
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Is Footage From The International Space Station Proof Aliens Exist?
Is Footage From The International Space Station Proof Aliens Exist?
I am fairly certain aliens exist at this point. I don't think they're little green men, or small and wrinkly like ET, or even red and angry like Martians, but I'm pretty sure they're out there. Humans can't be the only intelligent life in the universe. We're not even that intelligent; people die putting on their trousers every year. They genuinely fall over and hit their head or accidentally strangle themselves with their own jeans.
Like I said, I'm pretty sure aliens exist and they're laughing at us.
It's getting the proof that's the hard bit.
But UFO obsessives are pretty sure that they've found hard, concrete evidence.
A lot of people think that aliens have been watching the International Space Station for years. NASA doesn't think so - but is the space agency lying to us? They certainly know a lot more than they let on.
The conspiracy theorists say there are lots of unmanned flying objects around the ISS. Can you see an alien in this photo? I can see stars...
Credit: NASA
Either I need to get some specs, or there isn't anything there. Samantha Cristoforetti, an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, is just showing how to operate window shutters in a very snazzy top that I now want.
If she weren't in space, it wouldn't really be that exciting. Some aliens would make a day in space a bit more fun.
Surely if there were UFO whizzing around the space station someone would have noticed before now? And perhaps done something?
Are these a host of alien space ships or just...debris? It looks like the milkyway has dandruff to me.
Credit: NASA
Tyler Glockner is convinced. On his YouTube channel he says: "I do believe that we have some undeniable footage that will prove that there are unknown manned objects flying out there in space.
"I'm not talking about space debris or any of the usual go-to excuses used by NASA.
"I've had a tonne of people saying there is a point in this video when, moment after [Samantha] opens up this window hatch, there are multiple UFOs that can be seen speeding by."
Not too sure about that Tyler. Aliens...or bits of space rubble.
But it's not just space. Aliens have also been seen in Lancashire. Apparently it's now part of the remit of the police to check out UFO sightings! Well, as long as it's not getting cats out of trees, I guess. Checking out a potential suspect alien is a pretty fun way to spend Monday afternoon.
In a Freedom of Information request, the police were forced to admit they had to check out Lytham St Annes, near Blackpool, and Buckshaw Village, near Chorley for alien spacecrafts two years ago. That's probably the most exciting thing to happen in either of those places!
And there's more. A UFO apparently landed in Pendle Hill two years ago and even last year the Lancashire police had several occasions where they had to check for red and white UFOs.
But the police are denying that they actually think any aliens are lingering in the Lancashire area. Apparently if someone says they think they saw an alien, the police treat is as suspicious and think it could be something else.
Personally I would be more inclined to believe that the caller was high. But that's just yet another reason why I'm not in any position of authority.
What happened to man 'bundled into van after stealing proof of ALIENS from Area 51?'
What happened to man 'bundled into van after stealing proof of ALIENS from Area 51?'
A COUPLE have come forward to shockingly claim they witnessed the sinister abduction by federal agents of a man who claimed to have stolen video of real aliens from the top-secret Area 51 military base.
The report claims a man was kidnapped after getting evidence of aliens from Area 51.
The outrageous allegations were made in a report which claims the incident happened more than 20 years ago. And the couple say they have been troubled ever since over what may have happened to the "kidnap victim".
The woman has reported her claims to the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which investigates suspected UFO and alien cases, in the hope she can discover what happened to the man who she claims first approached her at an auto garage in Casa Grande, Arizona, in around 1995.
The "missing man" claimed to have obtained video from Area 51, which proved dead aliens were stored there in the Nevada desert, according to the report.
According to conspiracy theorists the mysterious US Air Force base Area 51 is where evidence of alien visitations, including dead bodies from the alleged Roswell flying saucer crash of 1947, is hidden away.
The witness report said: "He told me that he knew it sounded far fetched but that he has been running from town to town trying to stay hidden from the government secret military.
"He said that he felt he finally had lost them and that he was there to get the vehicle tagged to fit in the state of Arizona and with his new fictitious name.
"He said he was on a mission to break out the truth to the world about UFOs, and that fact that they were real and he could prove it.
"He said that his mission was to tell as many as possible and to prove it to all he could by means of showing people the evidence he had stolen from Area 51.
"He explained that this is where the government and military try to hide the truth of aliens.
"And the fact is they are real and that he wanted me to see his evidence.
"He stated he stole at least reels of video tape feed all showing information and documentation of actual aliens."
The witness said she and her boyfriend agreed to meet this man at a motel to view the evidence.
But, when they got there, they saw something sinister.
The report added: "The man instructed me that he was at this one motel I knew of and that he was in the first room on the south end and I knew perfectly where this was.
"We pull into to motel and and the man's car was not pulled up all the way into the parking spot and a rear passenger door was still open.
"His motel room door had been kicked in and it was down.
"I could see the manager of the motel going in an opposite direction from us and he would not respond to my calling to him.
Bikers held at gunpoint when going through Area 51
He said that his mission was to tell as many as possible and to prove it to all he could by means of showing people the evidence he had stolen from Area 51.
Report to MUFON
"We were out looking around stunned at all that had taken place when we saw in the middle of the parking area sat a white new van and the doors were slamming shut and the driver was in a hurry to leave.
"Noise like kicking the panels inside the van could be heard as it kicked up rocks speeding away from us."
The couple were spooked and did not report it at the time, but were troubled by it ever since.
The report added: "This has always bothered me. What happened to him? Is anyone looking for him? Did he survive this ordeal?
"I want to tell the little tiny part of this story in effort to help solve a possible missing person situation.
"In case this man had never shown up anywhere again.
"Just maybe somebody will recognise the very general information I do know about and that it might help solve a serious event."
She said the man was around 45, tall, white, pale-skinned, with no facial hair and a receding hair line with light hair.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, has reviewed the claims.
He said: "This is a fascinating story straight out of the X-Files, but when you think about the details it does seem to fall apart.
"If he was running away from a secret government agency why would he tell everyone he encounters?
"Why wouldn't he go straight to the media or hide the evidence, or pass it on to someone else before he is captured?
"Why didn't the woman and her boyfriend report the man being apparently abducted in a van to the police?
"If this is not a fantasy, it is possible the man had escaped from an institution and he was recaptured by a psychiatric team rather than by Area 51 spooks.
"Also, why has it taken the person 22 years to report it?"
Lt Col Ellison Onizuka, who was killed in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle explosion, reportedly told his colleague Clark C McClelland that he'd seen footage of the dead extraterrestrials.
McClelland – a former operator if the NASA space shuttle fleet – made the stunning revelation in an article he wrote named, Alien Disclosure from an Astronaut.
The infamous Roswell occurrence refers to an incident in 1947 where ufologists claim a spaceship crashed into a field in New Mexico.
The US military has always denied the claims, saying the object was a weather balloon.
However, over the years multiple witnesses have come forward to say they saw the remains of aliens in the "spaceship" wreckage.
NASA/YOUTUBE
REVEALED: Late astronaut Lt Col Ellison Onizuka reportedly saw dead aliens
“What appeared to be some sort of medical examination room with small bodies laying on some sort of table or slab”
Clark C McClelland
McClelland claims he was surprised when his colleague asked about his opinion on the existence of aliens.
He wrote: “(Mr Onizuka) had a surprising experience along with other US Air Force (USAF) aerospace flight engineers and pilots while on military training duty at McClellan air force base, about eight or nine years prior to his astronaut training.
"He and this group were at this base for specialised training when they were directed to report to a viewing room.
"As they were seated, the room darkened and a movie began without the usual official introduction by a USAF officer.”
YOUTUBE
CLAIMS: Clark C McClelland (pictured) made the extraordinary claims in an article
Are aliens at WAR on the moon?
Lt Col Onizuka apparently told him he was shocked when the film "began to show what appeared to be some sort of medical examination room with small bodies laying on some sort of table or slab".
He added: "The small, strange looking creatures were humanoid in shape and appeared similar to those described by alleged witnesses at the well-known Roswell site in the Southwest USA in 1947.
"They all had large heads, large eyes, slight torsos, arms, and legs. They did not appear to be of earthly origin.”
McClelland said his NASA colleague then speculated that the footage was shown to them by bosses as a test to see how they would react if one of them actually saw an alien.
The two men reportedly agreed to discuss the incident later but before they could, Lt Col Onizuka died in the infamous Challenger explosion.
McClelland is known to be a dedicated believer in aliens.
He once claimed to have seen a nine-foot extraterrestrial in the bay of a space shuttle and also a flying saucer.
Rumours of dead aliens at Roswell have surfaced before.
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NASA Budget and Beer on Mars: The Most Amazing Space Stories This Week!
NASA Budget and Beer on Mars: The Most Amazing Space Stories This Week!
By SPACE.com Staff
An artist's illustration of astronauts visiting an asteroid as part of NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission. President Donald Trump's proposed NASA budget would cancel this project.
Credit: NASA
President Trump released his proposed NASA budget, Budweiser announced it wants to brew beer on Mars and the U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane neared an orbital record. Here are the most interesting things that happened in the universe this week.
President Trump unveils NASA budget request
The Trump administration released its 2018 budget request on March 16, a proposal that calls for the cancellation of NASA's astronauts-to-an-asteroid mission along with four Earth-science missions and NASA's Office of Education. [Trump's 2018 NASA Budget Request Would Scrap Asteroid Redirect Mission]
Beer on Mars
Budweiser has committed to brewing a beer for colonists on the Red Planet. "The King of Beers" revealed its "Bud On Mars" long-term effort, including plans to launch experiments to the space station, at the SXSW festival in Austin, Texas. [Budweiser Aims to Brew First Beer on Mars, Plans Space Station Experiments]
A white dwarf star whips around its companion black hole once every 28 minutes, a new study suggests. That means the duo are likely separated by just 2.5 Earth-moon distances — the tightest such orbit ever observed around a black hole. [Record-Setting Star Orbits Dangerously Close to Black Hole]
SpaceX launches huge satellite from historic NASA pad
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the 6-ton Echostar 23 communications satellite from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida early Thursday morning (March 16). The mission was the first SpaceX flight in nearly two years that didn't feature a landing attempt by a Falcon 9 first stage. [SpaceX Rocket Launches EchoStar 23 Communications Satellite Into Orbit]
A giant planet that is scorchingly close to its star may not survive for long, a new study finds. The planet started a death spiral more than 2 billion years ago, and may have just a few hundred thousand years of life left before it gets torn apart. [Giant Alien Planet Is Spiraling to Fiery Doom]
Two large dust storms in two weeks, each spanning an area larger than the United States, have researchers pondering the atmospheric dynamics on Mars. [US-Sized Dust Storms Seen on Mars]
When we look at the night sky, we see a large glowing moon and tiny stars and planets. But if you’re sitting on one planet orbiting the nearby TRAPPIST-1 star, the six other planets in the system would appear as massive moon-sized globes. In fact, these planets are so close that some scientists think microbes could potentially hop from planet to planet and colonize the system outright.
In a recent study submitted for publication, researchers from Harvard University created a model to estimate the probability of interplanetary panspermia in the TRAPPIST-1 system. What this means is extraterrestrial life may have been seeded multiple planets over time, allowing them to inhabit each one and even evolve individually over time. In other words, if one planet on the TRAPPIST-1 system bear life, then it’s likely the other planets in the system bear life as well.
“During the transfer between one to another, microbes and living organisms survive the harsh conditions of space,” co-author Avi Loeb, an astronomer at Harvard University, tells Inverse. “They could end up landing on a new planet and seeding life there as well.”
With the recent discovery of seven Earth-like planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, it’s easy to imagine intergalactic empires, where aliens can take vacations to neighboring planets. According to these researchers, if one of these TRAPPIST-1 planets contains life, it’s likely that others do as well.
Loeb and his colleague believe there’s a higher chance life evolved from inorganic substances in the TRAPPIST-1 system than the solar system itself. These microbes may have traveled from planet to planet by hitching a ride inside rocks. When an object collides into a planet, it sends these rocks flying into space — and possibly will wind up on another planet and seed life there.
What’s more, if life exists in the TRAPPIST-1 system, it’s probably more diverse. Compared to the solar system, more species of life likely evolved in the TRAPPIST-1 system because of interplanetary migration of life. Of course, this model depends on whether there actually is life in the system in the first place.
“In this TRAPPIST-1 system, we don’t know if there’s a cloud of asteroids that impacted those planets,” Loeb says. “More importantly, if one of these planets developed life, we don’t know that. We don’t know if planets have atmospheres at the moment…All we’re saying in this paper is that if life exists on one planet, it’s likely that it exists on another planet in the system.”
The panspermia theory applies to Earth as well — perhaps compounds from comets seeded the planet with the building blocks for life. Researchers actually found that panspermia is more likely to occur in the TRAPPIST-1 planets than between Earth and Mars, especially since the TRAPPIST-1 planets are so close.
In fact, travel time between TRAPPIST-1 planets is 100 times less than the planets in our solar system. The chances of a rock with life from one TRAPPIST-1 planet hitting another is 20 times greater than the chances in our solar system. Altogether, the chance of delivery and survival of life on a rock is 2,000 times higher in TRAPPIST-1.
Panspermia for the TRAPPIST-1 planets would essentially appear like an astronomical version of island-hopping. The researchers created models based on the way species on Earth migrated between islands. This concept works better if the planets have robust atmospheres which could allow for liquid surface water.
“What we did in the paper is make the analogy with islands,” Loeb says. “People have studied over the years immigration of species between islands. For example, Galapagos. There were models developed for the transfer of life from one to another.”
Discovering whether these planets — especially the three habitable ones — have atmospheres would be the next step. The James Webb Space Telescope will be looking for atmospheres in the TRAPPIST-1 planets, which will help scientists analyze potential biosignatures and narrow down on other possible signs of life in the system.
“We have three planets in the habitable zone, and that gives us three times of rolling the dice,” Loeb says. “In the solar system, we just have Earth, but there we have three rollings of the dice, and what our paper says is the success of one could affect the others.”
Dr Steven Greer: How To Make Contact With ETs (Remastered)
Dr Steven Greer: How To Make Contact With ETs (Remastered)
Published on Feb 17, 2017
(Remastered version - music has been toned down) This "HOW-TO Contact ETs" is one of the best Greer videos you will see. Dr Steven Greer gives an in-depth outlay on the who, what, when and where of ET Contact, from his personal experiences with CE-5 teams.
He also gives extensive testimony about his January 2015 Vero Beach, FL sighting.
Delving into advanced subjects about super-luminal, inter-dimensional and trans-dimensional space travel. If you ever wanted to know "how it's done" this is a great primer on the subject.
THIS IS THE ONE TO SHARE - THE ONE YOU WANT YOUR "NEWLY AWAKE" FRIENDS TO SEE!
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The Phoenix Lights: Twenty Years Later
The Phoenix Lights: Twenty Years Later
JP Robinson
For more information on mass UFO sightings like the article below, read TheAlien Enigmaby JP Robinson.
Twenty years ago this month (March 2017) one of the largest and spectacular mass UFO sightings in modern UFO history took place. Many have debunked the incident claiming that the lights seen in the sky by so many locals back in 1997, were simply flares sent out by the National Guard, but closer investigation would suggest that what occurred that night could be much more bizarre.
As people stood outside their homes in Phoenix, Arizona and looked skywards towards the Hale-Bopp comet which was passing by, many local residents witnessed a sky borne anomalous object which would later be referred to as ‘the Phoenix Lights’.
This particular mass UFO sighting was seen by thousands of local residents on March 13, 1997 as it moved slowly and silently across the Phoenix skyline. Described as a vast, gun-metal black triangle with huge round lights, the object which was first spotted at 8:15 p.m. continued to travel through the night sky for 106 minutes in total before finally disappearing from view.
One eyewitness Sue Watson said, “It had five big lights in front and it was the shape of a boomerang.” Mike Watson, another local who watched the lights in triangle formation heading straight towards him insisted that, “it was a solid craft, silent, very low to the ground.” Continuing, he added, “And the thing that took me was the size. Profoundly enormous, profoundly massive, we don’t even have a shopping centre this big.”
Seen from different vantage points across the city, the sighting caught many people’s attention and public interest in the unknown craft was bordering on hysteria over the days and weeks that followed. Excessive media coverage only served to fuel the fire, as residents were beginning to demand answers which would sufficiently explain what the mysterious lights could have been.
The previous evening, retired Lieutenant and Navajo Ranger John Dover watched the mysterious and silent lights flying over a Navajo reservation in Leupp, Northern Arizona. Dover, who paid regular visits to the Indian reservations during his time as a ranger, claimed that seeing UFOs was a regular occurrence for the residents there.
As part of an agency called the Navajo Nation Rangers, Dover had the freedom to investigate paranormal cases which were constantly being reported to the Police. Policing the Navajo reservations with his partner, Stan Milford, Dover took paranormal reports from the Navajo very seriously and together they investigated some very interesting cases and even found physical evidence in some cases which helped reinforce witness testimonies. “We finally started doing UFO cases; we had some major cases where landings and occupants were seen. Very unusual cases, very large craft”, Dover stated.
Dr. Lynne Kitei has written books and made a documentary about the lights, which she also saw that night in Arizona. “Most things can be explained, only a small percentage cannot and just because we don't have the technology to definitively define what these things are doesn't mean they aren't real”, she explained. According to Dr. Kitei, “The ‘Phoenix Lights’ is being considered around the world as the most important and most documented mass sighting in modern history.”
Over the weeks that followed, more than 700 witnesses called in reports to local officials and the National UFO Reporting Center, a private organisation based in Seattle. Governor of Arizona, Fyfe Symington III was coming under increasing pressure to supply some answers to the public regarding the lights. Shortly after, he gave a press conference in which he openly denied any knowledge of the incident and even mocked those residents claiming they saw something by dressing up a colleague in an alien costume and declaring that they had caught the culprit. It wasn’t until fifteen years after the sighting that Symington admitted, “I knew more about the lights over Phoenix than I let on.”
The evening of March 13, the Governor was eating his evening meal at home with his family when he saw the reports on the news. Deciding to personally investigate the matter further, Symington drove out to Sumida Park to see for himself what all the fuss was about. Within a few minutes of his arrival in the park, he looked up and saw what so many others had been describing; “This great big massive craft, probably 3 or 4,000 feet, took out a whole chunk of the sky,” he said. Adding, “And you could see other aircraft in the distance but the airplanes looked like little toothpicks compared to the size of this craft”.
The official explanation given at the time was that the Arizona National Guard had sent out flying A-10s to drop high-intensity magnesium flares between 9:30 and 10 p.m.
Although it is accepted that the flares were actually launched that night, the video footage, photographic evidence and multiple sightings across a wide expanse of the city confirmed that the lights from the flares were a completely separate event and were not the cause of all the reports.
When the Air Force was questioned over the appearance of the lights they avidly denied reports suggesting that they had sent out fighter planes to investigate the phenomenon. However, an anonymous phone call from an airman at Luke Air Force Base to the National UFO Reporting Center was recorded on the morning of March 14, in which he claimed that shortly after 8:30 p.m., Luke AFB did indeed send up two F-15 fighter jets.
“Apparently, we got a call from Prescott Valley Airport, a small airport north of us, reporting an object that had a near miss with a small Cessna” said the airman. “The call came approximately 8:32, that they encountered something over Phoenix, Arizona, over the area of 7th Avenue and Indian School Road. They don’t know what it was.”
One of the F-15 pilots wrote a statement which stated that they had followed the aircraft as it travelled on a straight-line course heading towards Sky Harbor Airport, at around 18,000 ft. before descending to 10,500 ft. He also described seeing five distinct lights in a triangular pattern and when he landed back at the base, the facility was immediately closed – a total lockdown, as “all hell broke loose”, according to the insider. Whilst reporting the incident the airman declared, “The command pilot of this particular flight...I’ve never seen this man scared, and he was scared to death. He’s not sure what it was.”
The debate over the origins of the Phoenix lights continues to this day, even as the event occurred twenty years ago this year, but the memory of that colossal UFO remains firmly etched in the minds of all those who were looking on in awe.
For more information on mass UFO sightings like the article above, read The Alien Enigma by JP Robinson.
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Hovering metallic object was size of large exercise ball
Hovering metallic object was size of large exercise ball
A Michigan witness at Grant recalled events from 2016 when a “bright, shiny, silver, metallic, spherical object – perfectly round in shape” – appeared low over a farm house, according to testimony in Case 82008 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Illustration of the sighting event.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was outside at 5:42 p.m. on July 8, 2016, when the incident occurred.
“Hovering above power lines and excavating pits out back,” the witness stated,“between the pond and farm house. The object stayed stationary for several seconds.”
The witness attempted to move toward the object.
“I took several steps forward to finish stepping out from under cover of the large oak tree by pump, west side of pond. As I did this, it shot off at an extremely high rate of speed to the point it was too difficult to see the object’s trail that you would normally see, like say a jet flying by super-fast.”
The witness noticed the object hovering over power lines. Pictured: Grant, MI.
(Credit: Google)
The witness described the object.
“The object resembled an exercise ball in size – the ones you see at the gym or at physical therapy centers. They are roughly four to give times the size of a basketball. The sphere was shinny as well. It looked as if you had taken a exercise ball and wrapped it with aluminum foil, completely seamless with no ridges or lines. The sphere hovered several feet above power lines for approximately 10 seconds.”
The object was the size of a large exercise ball. Pictured: Grant, MI.
(Credit: Google)
The witness tried to take a photo.
“As I reached for my iPhone to attempt to take a photo, it took off so fast, I couldn’t even tell which direction it went. I had gotten a strange, one with the world, feeling several seconds before the sighting. The feeling was as if a thought was given to me, or an idea at least; ‘to look up.’ The last time I’d gotten a feeling anything close to that was when I drowned for five minutesand then given CPR and revived. There is much, much more to life than meets the eye.”
Grant is a city in Newaygo County, MI, population 894. Michigan MUFON Chief Investigator Danial 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.
Stephen Hawking, the world’s most renowned physicist and cosmologist, stated today that he is, in fact, heading to space—and it’s happening all thanks to the Virgin group (and a bit of modern technology).
In a statement back in 2015, Sir Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin group, said that, one day, he hoped to be able to carry Hawking to the stars. In the statement, Branson noted that this offer came as a result of the great respect and admiration that he has for Hawking:
Professor Stephen Hawking is one of the people I admire most in the world, an undisputed genius who has opened our eyes to the wonders of the universe, while also happening to be a kind and delightful man. He is the only person I have given a free ticket with Virgin Galactic, and he is signed up to fly as a Future Astronaut with us if his health permits it.
At 75 years of age, Hawking won’t be the oldest astronaut ever (that designation belongs to John Glenn, who went to space at the age of 77), but he will be the first person to go to space with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)—also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. ALS is a motor-neuron disease that generally leads to death within five years of the initial diagnosis. Hawking’s condition was first diagnosed when he was 21, and he was not expected to see his 25th birthday.
Fast-forward 50 years, and here we are.
Traveling to space, of course, is risky business, even more so when health concerns come into play. Now, it seems that Hawking is set to go. Hawking’s voyage to space will also give scientists an opportunity to study the effects of ALS in new ways, such as how it operates in zero-gravity.
When discussing the anticipated event, Hawking told Good Morning Britain that he never dreamed he’d have such an opportunity, and that he “said yes immediately.” Hawking continued by noting that he looks forward to the voyage with great anticipation, comparing flying into space to the same joy that his three children have brought him. During the discussion, he stated, “my three children have brought me great joy – and I can tell you what will make me happy, to travel in space.”
Of course, space is one thing, but this isn’t the first time Hawking experienced Zero-G…
A New Age in Flight
Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo is a reusable, winged spacecraft designed to carry up to eight people (including two pilots) into space, and the link between Hawking and Virgin Galactic isn’t exactly new. Just last year, Hawking unveiled the name of the SpaceShipTwo craft, the VSS Unity. During a four-minute recorded video, Hawking explained that the Unity: “will help bring new meaning to our place on Earth and to our responsibilities as its stewards, and it will help us to recognize our place and our future in the cosmos — which is where I believe our ultimate destiny lies.”
Ultimately, Hawking has long been an advocate of commercial spaceflight, and to this end, he notes that he greatly admires Virgin Galactic’s role in democratizing space, specifically, he clarified his “respect for enabling more of humanity to experience the true wonder of space.”
I have said in the past ‘Look up at the stars and not down at your feet’, but I believe that ‘looking up’ will no longer be a requirement to see the universe in all its glory.
In Hawking’s interview with Good Morning Britain, he focused on the importance of the unifying power of space exploration, especially in terms of bringing together governments from across the globe and inspiring future generations.
As Alan Stern, head of the New Horizons mission to Pluto, famously stated, enterprises like this are worthy for a number of reasons, but that, for him, two stick out in particular: “Beyond the obvious—that we’re creating new knowledge—we create a greater society. We do something which is, in the case of great exploration, historic. It’s something people read about, not just days and weeks later, but decades and centuries later. It makes a mark for our time of what we aspire to be, which is a greater society.”
In short, the things that we invest in (whether that is sports, or war, or science) are a direct reflection of both the values that we hold and the society that we are currently building. And as is clear from this revelation, Hawking truly believes in going where no one’s gone before—or at least, only a very few people.
Humanity’s first spacewalk seems even crazier 52 years later.
March 18, 1965 was an ordinary Thursday for the majority of people located on planet Earth. But for 30-year-old cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, one of two people who happened to be off-world at the time, it was all about making history and cheating death.
Exactly 52 years ago this Saturday, Leonov and mission commander Pavel Belyayev blasted into space aboard the Soviet spacecraft Voskhod ("Sunrise") 2. Several crews, both Russian and American, had already orbited Earth, so Voskhod 2 had been tasked with pushing the boundaries of human spaceflight to the next level—a spacewalk, or EVA (extravehicular activity). His audacious mission has since been commemorated with books, stamps, pop culture homages, and an upcoming feature-length film.
Schematic of Voskhod 2.
Image: Reubenbarton
About ninety minutes after lift-off, Leonov made his way into the ship's Volga inflatable airlock, secured a 5.35-meter (17.6 foot) tether around his torso, opened the hatch, and ventured out into the unknown with only a spacesuit to protect him. It was the first time any human had left the safety of a spacecraft and free-floated in orbit. A Volga-mounted camera that Leonov had set up on his way out captured the extraordinary moment.
A second camera attached to Leonov's chest did not fare so well, because Leonov's spacesuit unexpectedly puffed up in response to the atmospheric pressure shift. As a result, he was unable to reach the shutter switch on his thigh (though this didn't prevent later artistic renditions of the event from depicting him in an idealized cameraman pose).
Voskhod 2 commemorative stamp.
Image: Russian Federation
Leonov apparently didn't worry much about his inflating spacesuit, becoming enraptured instead with his unobstructed view of Earth. He described the feeling as "like a seagull with its wings outstretched, soaring high above the Earth," in the book Two Sides of the Moon, co-written with American astronaut David Scott, the seventh man to walk on the lunar surface.
"I heard Pasha talking to me: 'It's time to come back in,'" Leonov recalled. "I realized I had been floating free in space for over ten minutes. In that moment my mind flickered back for a second to my childhood, to my mother opening the window at home and calling to me as I played outside with my friends, 'Lyosha, it's time to come inside now.' With some reluctance I acknowledged that it was time to re-enter the spacecraft."
But returning to Voskhod 2 would not be so easy. Leonov's inflated suit had become stiff over the 12-minute space walk, and it was too large and rigid to fit back in the airlock.
Realizing their star cosmonaut was stuck in space, Soviet mission control cut the live-feed, and ominously replaced it with a rendition of Mozart's Requiem. Meanwhile, Leonov decided to deflate the suit by releasing the oxygen valve. Fortunately, he was able to squeeze back into the Volga module before his breathable air ran out, and before heatstroke and decompression sickness overtook him.
That's when things got really interesting for the crew of Voskhod 2.
After jettisoning the Volga airlock and preparing for reentry, Leonov noticed that the automatic guidance system was malfunctioning. With mere minutes to go until they hit the atmosphere, Leonov and Belyayev had to scramble to manually orient themselves and calculate a retrorocket firing sequence that would land them safely within Soviet borders.
It worked...kind of. After an extremely rough descent at high pressures of 10 gs, Voskhod 2 touched down in the Soviet Union. But they ended up way off course in a remote wolf-infested Siberian forest near the town of Solikamsk, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) from the planned landing site.
Leonov recalls Belyayev asking how soon he thought rescuers would come for them. "In three months, maybe, they'll find us with dog sleighs," Leonov joked (one of many instances of astronaut/cosmonaut gallows humor).
But as luck would have it, the pair did not have to brave the freezing temperatures for long. Though they spent one perilous night without heat hiding in the capsule, they were found by a well-stocked rescue team the following day. The crew spent a second night in a fire-warmed makeshift shelter before finally skiing to safety, and from there, world renown. Sadly, Belyayev only got to enjoy his fame for five years; he passed away in January 1970, from peritonitis.
Leonov, at 82, is still an active spaceflight advocate and science fiction artist. He was initially celebrated for securing an important spaceflight milestone, but once the full story was declassified and he could share his experiences, his narrow survival added a new layer of interest in the event.
As Leonov put in 2015: "I keep going over the mission and I keep finding mistakes that could have been avoided. They could have led to tragedy. Everything was on the edge."
If all this action has you itching for a movie about this roller-coaster of a mission, you might want to check out the newest trailer for Время первых (First Time). It's a feature film, directed by Yuri Bykov, about Voskhod 2 set to premiere in Russia in April 2017.
Of course, if you'd prefer a dumbed-down, inebriated version of the story, there's always this Drunk History segment on the mission narrated by Kyle Kinane.
Either way, it's worth remembering and celebrating the quick wits and badassery of Leonov and Belyayev on the 52nd anniversary of their historic achievement. Today, over 200 spacewalkers have followed Leonov's lead into outer space by performing their own EVAs. But as per Bykov's film title, only one can be first.
ASTRONOMERS FIND HUNDREDS OF POTENTIALLY ALIEN SIGNALS
ASTRONOMERS FIND HUNDREDS OF POTENTIALLY ALIEN SIGNALS
Astronomy researchers at Laval University studied signals from 2.5 million stars to look for periodic patterns, or what might look like regular pulsing signals.
They found 234 of them, and they have no clear explanation of what they are. One of the possible theories they mention in their published paper is extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI).
They think the pulses look like a signal an intelligent alien might choose to send if they were trying to make contact. Of course, the researchers aren't concluding that this is what it is. They also looked for alternative explanations like naturally occurring spectral lines or rotating molecules, but none of these are good enough to say for sure that it isn't aliens, either.
Interestingly, these signals tended to come from stars of similar size and characteristics as our own sun. We already know that a star like this can support intelligent life around it, as evidenced by us being here ourselves, so for the believers in the extraterrestrial life theory, this is good news. Humans have sent and are still sending many different signals to try to contact whatever other life might exist, so it makes sense that we should also listen in case someone is trying to reach us.
The researchers themselves are cautious and call for additional independent studies to confirm their findings. The Breakthrough Listen Initiative, which works on listening for potential messages from extraterrestrial intelligence, agrees. They're quoted by Tech Insider saying "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence", an attitude that speaks well of their commitment to using reliable scientific methods and avoiding unfounded conspiracies.
They are however making plans to study some of these 234 stars further, to see if they can replicate the findings from the original study. It is still possible that this could be the signal that confirms someone is out there, trying to let us know they're there.
A few days following the first reports, the lights were spotted again at various locations around Washtenaw County, with one deputy reporting something floating in the sky - described as looking like a "child's top."
March 20, 1966
On Sunday, March 20, 1966, the sheriff's office received reports of a UFO landing in a wooded, swamp area of Dexter Township. Police spoke to Frank Mannor, a truck driver who had gone into the swamp with his son. Here's what Mannor told police:
"We got to about 500 yards of the thing,” Mannor told interviewers. “It was sort of shaped like a pyramid, with a blue-green light on the right-hand side and on the left, a white light. I didn’t see no antenna or porthole. The body was like a yellowish coral rock and looked like it had holes in it—sort of like if you took a piece of cardboard box and split it open. You couldn’t see it too good because it was surrounded with heat waves, like you see on the desert. The white light turned to a blood red as we got close to it and Ron said, ‘Look at that horrible thing.’”
Here's the report from the NICAP:Frank Mannor and his son, Ronald [plus 40-60 others including 12 policemen ?] saw hovering over a swamp about 1,500 ft away a brown luminous car sized object, with a "scaly" or "waffled" surface, cone-shaped on top, flat on bottom, or football shaped, and 2 bluish-green lights on right and left edges that turned bright red and helped illuminate object in between. Lights blinked out and object reappeared instantly across the swamp 1,500 ft away. The whole object lit up with a yellowish glow at one point and also rose up 500 ft then descended again. After 2-3 minutes of viewing, when 2 flashlights appeared in the distance the object seemed to respond by flying away at high speed directly over the witnesses with a whistling sound like a rifle bullet ricocheting. Object remained in the swamp area for 1/2 hr.
The report gained national attention. More than 40 officers joined a search of the swamp. Odd sightings continued, with officers spotting red and white lights in the sky, flying back and forth and then disappearing.
The next night, more than 80 students at Hillsdale College reported seeing lights in a nearby swamp.
The UFO craze took over, and reports from all around the Ann Arbor area, as well as surrounding areas in Michigan, started pouring in.
Here come the investigators
Michigan congressman Weston Vivian requested that the U.S. Air Force send an investigator from Project Blue Book, the agency that studied UFOs.
Dr. J. Allen Hynek, an astronomer from Northwestern, was tasked with the investigation.
Hynek arrived on March 23, touring the areas of sightings himself. What he found was something he called "near hysteria."
“It’s like reports from people who witness a fire,” Hynek told the press at the time. “You get as many different facts as you get people who saw the fire. So far, all I’ve been able to come up with is reports of a variety of lights.”
Under pressure for an explanation, Hynek told reporters during a press conference on March 25 that the sightings were simply mistaken observations of the moon and stars, and the Dexter UFO was just swamp gas.
Wait, swamp gas?
The swamp gas theory didn't go over so well. Many thought it was a huge cover-up. Several publications accused the government of hiding evidence.
A swamp Is a place of rotting vegetation and decomposition. Swamps are not a province of astronomers. Yet,the famous Dutch astronomer, Ninnaert, in his book, Light and Colour in the Open Air, describes lights that have been seen In swamps by the astronomer Bessel and other excellent observers. The lights resemble tiny flames some times seen right on the ground and sometimes rising and floating above it. The flames go out in one place and suddenly appear in another, giving the Illusion of motion. The colors are sometimes yellow, some times red, and sometimes blue-green. No heat is felt, and the lights do not burn or char the ground. They can appear for hours at a stretch and sometimes for a whole night. Generally, there Is no smell and no sound except for the popping sound of little explosions such as when a gas burner ignites.
Congressman (and future President) Gerald Ford called for a congressional investigation.
During all of this, UFO sightings continued pouring in from all over Michigan, and around the country.
UFO frenzy dies down, but mystery remains
By April 1966, the UFO frenzy had died down in Michigan, but the swamp gas explanation is still talked about to this day.
Thirty years later, Douglas Harvey, Washtenaw County sheriff at the time of the original sightings told The Ann Arbor News he and Dr. Hynek were talking in the sheriff’s office and the scientist admitted he didn’t know what the witnesses had seen, but felt it was worthy of further investigation.
"He was on the phone for quite a while, which I found very enlightening,'' Harvey said. "He came out and I said, 'Well, Dr. Hynek. What do you think?' He said, 'It's swamp gas.' He tells me one minute he has no idea what it is. And then he makes one phone call to Washington and comes out and gives a statement that it's swamp gas. Very strange.''
"They did see something,'' he said. "I'll believe this to the day I die. Somebody has kept something quiet, and nothing more ever materialized. So we don't know if it was the government experimenting, or was it really a UFO. I don't know.''
Sources: Ann Arbor New, Ann Arbor Public Library, Michigan Today/UMich.
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Construction is scheduled to begin by April 1 on a million-dollar discount center on the south side of Tenth Avenue South east of Forty-Seventh Street. The Great Falls Valu-Mart Department store will be the 18th built by Weisfield’s Inc of Seattle. With 100,000 square feet of floor space, the center will handle groceries, jewelry, drugs, hardware, ladies’ apparel, men’s clothing, shoes, appliances, toys, linens, records and cameras. The center will have parking for 1,000 cars.
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – A federal court on Wednesday ordered the desegregation of all Alabama schools not already under court order and, in an unprecedented move, laid the burden of enforcement on the state itself. The three-judge court in its unanimous ruling ordered the state to require affected school systems to submit desegregation plans for the 1967-68 school term. Gov. Lurleen Wallace declined comment pending official notification of the ruling. Her husband, George C. Wallace, whom she succeeded, has long fought against integration.
A new unidentified flying object sighting was made by three sheriff’s deputies and several others Thursday night, according to a report filed Friday. Undersheriff Frank Takala said the object hovered north and west of Gore Hill. The report said the UFO was yellow in color and seemed to emit a red glow from top and bottom. After remaining motionless in an overcast and starless night, it traveled west and disappeared. The undersheriff said it appeared to be about six times as large as the largest star that can be seen on a clear night. UFOs were also reported near Vaughn, Fort Benton and Choteau on Tuesday night.
VAIL, Colo. – French skier Jean-Claude Killy made it four in a row Sunday as he sped through a blinding snowstorm to win the men’s giant slalom at the Vail Trophy race. Killy made the mile-long, 47-gate course in 1:42.83, seemingly unbothered by the poor visibility and rutted, icy trace. “Other people have five senses, but Killy has six,” French coach Honore Bonnet explained.
Firemen had to watch their equipment with one eye and the work at hand with the other Friday afternoon while fighting a fire at the resident of Joe Slemberger, 3209 6th Ave. S. Children in the area made off with a hydrant wrench while firemen were busy and almost got a hand radio valued at about $500 before a fireman saw a child running across a lawn with it. A fire official had left it near the home before going into the smoky basement to inspect damage.
100 Years Ago
From the Tribune week of March 19, 1917
That interest in naval and military matters are not confined to the males was evidenced a day or two ago when a young woman appeared at the navy recruiting office in the Simpson building and inquired as to the possibilities of her admission to the service. She said she had been told that the Navy Department was taking on women as stenographers and other work. Chief Petty Officer A. Foltz, who is in charge of the station, was compelled to decline to accept the proffered enlistment. So far during the present month five enlisted men only have been sent out from this station.
NEW YORK – James W. Gerard, former American ambassador to Germany, in an address before the New York chamber of commerce today, urged his hearers to go forth as missionaries of preparedness. Mr. Gerard predicted that if war should come, the U.S. would be faced with a great problem in dealing with “our alien enemy population.” “The question is,” he said, “’Shall we intern them as was done in Germany, or shall we allow them to roam at large, destroying bridges or anything else they can?’”
CHINOOK W.M. – Wooldridge came up from his ranch at Hinsdale yesterday for a brief stay. Mr. Wooldridge says the feed situation is very alarming all over northern Montana. Not since the country was first settled has there been such a long and hard winter for cattlemen and sheep men. Until this winter, Mr. Wooldridge has never been able to make a price for hay that could compete with prices in Lewistown and Butte, but now the dealers will pay almost any old price that is asked.
FORT WORTH, Texas – Military training for professional baseball players has proved that it possesses a triple value at least. It varies the monotony of spring training; it improves the morale of a team; and it is a start toward providing Uncle Sam with a considerable number of good soldiers if he needs them. The results of the innovation, as far as the White Sox are concerned, has been very surprising. The players, almost without exception, took hold with determination and seriousness.
WASHINGTON – The principal American copper producers have agreed to furnish the government the copper needed for the army and navy during the coming year at 16 and a fraction cents a pound, about one-half of the current market price. Forty-five million pounds is the amount to be delivered. It is the first big concession in response to the appeals to the patriotism of the country’s industries since the Navy’s agreements with the shipbuilders and steel makers for profit cutting.
Tussen 1945 tot 1962 experimenteerden de Amerikanen volop met kernwapens in de Nevadawoestijn en op de Marshall Eilanden in de Stille Oceaan, ten noordwesten van Papoea-Nieuw-Guinea. 210 van die mega-explosies werden voor het ministerie van Defensie gefilmd. De beelden waren decennia lang staatsgeheim. Tot nu.
De tests werden gefilmd vanuit verschillende standpunten, wat tegen de 7.000 filmpjes opleverde. Ze lagen opgeslagen in de kluizen van het Los Alamos National Laboratory in de woestijn in New Mexico.
Al dat celluloid beeldmateriaal dreigde daar te vergaan door de tand des tijds en onbruikbaar te worden. Het materiaal werd gered door een expert van het Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. De eerste reeks filmpjes is nu deze week vrijgegeven.
Paddenstoelen Het zijn de paddenstoelen die niemand wil zien. Kilometers hoog walmen ze omhoog. Alles verzengend in helse temperaturen. Wat er onder die kokende wolk gebeurde, leerde de wereld in Hiroshima en Nagasaki. Beide Japanse steden werden in 1945 vernietigd door Amerikaanse kernbommen die werden geworpen om het verzet van Japan te breken en het einde van de oorlog bespoedigen.
Een kwart miljoen burgers kwam meteen om, nog eens honderdduizenden stierven daarna als gevolg van stralingsziekten Maar nog was het niet gedaan. De kernmachten stonden tegenover elkaar en testten steeds dodelijkere wapens. De Verenigde Staten alleen al deden honderden nucleaire tests in de kilste jaren van de Koude Oorlog - net als andere grote mogendheden trouwens, waaronder Rusland.
YouTube Een deel van de beeldbank van Amerikaanse kernproeven -zowat 750 filmpjes- wordt niet langer als gevoelige informatie beschouwd, aldus Greg Spriggs, de leider van het restauratieproject. Ze mogen dus op YouTube.
"Het is ongelooflijk hoeveel energie vrijkomt", klinkt het in de omschrijving. "We hopen dat we nooit meer atoomwapens hoeven te gebruiken. Als we de kracht van dit soort wapens laten zien en de verwoesting die ze teweegbrengen, zullen mensen misschien terughoudender zijn om ze ooit nog in te zetten."
Duizenden getuigen Vele duizenden Amerikaanse soldaten en ingenieurs waren destijds getuige van de atoomproeven. Een van hen was Frank Farmer, in de New York Times deed hij zijn verhaal. "Het licht was zo fel dat je de botten in je hand zag", klonk het.
Zonder dat ze het wisten, werden veel militairen overigens ook besmet. Een aantal onder hen stierf aan kanker.
Na 1963 werden de bovengrondse kernproeven verboden in een internationaal verdrag en gingen de Amerikanen ondergronds door. Die tests zijn inmiddels ook verleden tijd. Amerikaanse kernbommen worden tegenwoordig gesimuleerd op de computer.
Tussen 1945 en 1962 testten de Verenigde Staten naar schatting 200 verschillende nucleaire wapens. Deze tests werden door de Amerikanen allemaal op beeld vastgelegd en gearchiveerd. Een team van onderzoekers heeft de collectie nu van de vernieling gered en op YouTube geplaatst.
UFOs hunters claim footage of “multiple” mysterious objects shooting past the International Space Station is conclusive evidence aliens exist.
The astonishing footage shows what appear to be several unidentified objects hurtling through space in the background.
Extraordinary theories suggesting aliens are watching the ISS have been circulating online for years.
NASA has repeatedly dismissed claims of alien sightings as nothing more than hoaxes.
But truth seekers are convinced the latest bombshell film is conclusive proof “there are unknown manned objects flying out there in space”.
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MYSTERY: Aliens hunters claim NASA footage shows UFOs flying past the ISS
In the clip Samantha Cristoforetti, an Italian European Space Agency astronaut, is seen demonstrating how to operate window shutters at the ISS.
But as she talks to the camera, several white objects appear to come shooting into view.
Tyler Glockner posted the footage, uploaded on March 18, 2017, to his UFO sightings YouTube channel Secure Team.
He describes one of the unknown objects seen hurtling past the ISS as a “smoking gun UFO”.
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MYSTERY: Multiple objects flying past the ISS are seen in the clip
Are aliens at WAR on the moon?
“There are multiple UFOs that can be seen speeding by.”
Tyler Glockner, of Secure Team
In the 14-minute video, he explains: “I do believe that we have some undeniable footage that will prove that there are unknown manned objects flying out there in space.
“I’m not talking about space debris or any of the usual go-to excuses used by NASA.
“I’ve had a tonne of people saying there is a point in this video when, moment after [Samantha] opens up this window hatch, there are multiple UFOs that can be seen speeding by.”
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COVER UP: Truth seekers claim NASA are hiding the truth about aliens
In the comments of the video, many fellow UFO hunters agreed the objects are “proof of aliens”.
One wrote: “You're dumb to think we are the only life forms in the universe lol.”
Another posted: “If you look closer the second object is actually following the first one! The first object disappears for a second then reappears in the top left hand corner.”
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Two UFOs Pass Over Volcano Mouth In Mexico, Lighting Up Above Volcano, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Two UFOs Pass Over Volcano Mouth In Mexico, Lighting Up Above Volcano, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 19, 2017 Location of sighting: Popocatepetl Volcano, Mexico These UFOs were caught on the live volcano camera this week. As the first one passes over the mouth of the volcano, it lights up fully...with glowing orbs all round it. You now see three instead of two. Clearly the UFO did something as it passed over the mouth of the volcano, probably dropping off or picking up passengers and supplies for the alien base below. Scott C. Waring
Giant 200 Meter Beam Of Light Over Volcano And It Moves! March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Giant 200 Meter Beam Of Light Over Volcano And It Moves! March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 2017 Location of sighting: Mount Etna, Sicily, Italy This giant 200 meter beam of light was seen over the volcano mouth, then it began to move to the right, as if a space ship was beaming someone down and didn't account for the rotation of the earth speed. Very amazing sighting and it was caught byBPEarthWatch of Youtube. He gets scared sometimes when he posts alien subject material and then he delete these videos...someone should make a back up just in case this happens again like last time he posted one. Scott C. Waring
Huge UFOs caught on tape over Henderson, Nevada 17-Mar-2017
Huge UFOs caught on tape over Henderson, Nevada 17-Mar-2017
Here’s another interesting footage of a huge unidentified flying objects hovering above Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada. This was filmed on Friday, 17th March 2017.
An amazing cluster of strange lights was spotted flying towards a local body of water. Two observers reportedly sighted the unusual event in the nighttime sky and observed it for around one hour.
One witness sent photos and a video to NUFORC, which described them to be high quality.
Anyone who saw the same objects in the NUFORC website is encouraged to submit a written report using the Online Report Form.
According to the reporting witness, the UFOs appeared to be barbell-shaped.
Some viewers of the video thought they were planes at first but doubted with their formation if they were indeed planes. One comment says that if they are not planes then, they are unidentified. Commenter tall32guy said, “Bizarre, a bit spooky to me, indeed.”
NASA Wants to Launch a Giant Magnetic Field to Make Mars Habitable
NASA Wants to Launch a Giant Magnetic Field to Make Mars Habitable
NASA scientists have proposed a bold plan that could give Mars its atmosphere back and make the Red Planet habitable for future generations of human colonists.
By launching a giant magnetic shield into space to protect Mars from solar winds, the space agency says we could restore the Red Planet’s atmosphere, and terraform the Martian environment so that liquid water flows on the surface once again.
Mars may seem like a cold, arid wasteland these days, but the Red Planet is thought to have once had a thick atmosphere that could have maintained deep oceans filled with liquid water, and a warmer, potentially habitable climate.
Scientists think Mars lost all of this when its protective magnetic field collapsed billions of years ago, and solar wind – high-energy particles projected from the Sun – has been stripping the Red Planet’s atmosphere away ever since.
Now, new simulations by NASA suggest there could be a way to naturally give Mars its thick atmosphere back – and it doesn’t require nuking the Red Planet into submission, as Elon Musk once proposed.
Instead, the space agency thinks a powerful-enough magnetic shield launched into space could serve as a replacement for Mars’s own lost magnetosphere, giving the planet a chance to naturally restore its own atmosphere.
In new findings presented at the Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop last week, NASA’s Planetary Science Division director, Jim Green, said launching an “artificial magnetosphere” into space between Mars and the Sun could hypothetically shield the Red Planet in the extended magnetotail that trails behind the protective field.
“This situation then eliminates many of the solar wind erosion processes that occur with the planet’s ionosphere and upper atmosphere allowing the Martian atmosphere to grow in pressure and temperature over time,” the researchers explain in anaccompanying paper.
While the team acknowledges that the concept might sound “fanciful”, they point to existing miniature magnetosphere researchbeing conducted to protect astronauts and spacecraft from cosmic radiation, and think that the same technology on a larger scale could be used to shield Mars.
“It may be feasible that we can get up to these higher field strengths that are necessary to provide that shielding,” Green said in his presentation.
“We need to be able then to also modify that direction of the magnetic field so that it always pushes the solar wind away.”
In the team’s simulations, if the solar wind were counteracted by the magnetic shield, Mars’s atmospheric losses would stop, and the atmosphere would regain as much as half the atmospheric pressure of Earth in a matter of years.
As the atmosphere becomes thicker, the team estimates Mars’s climate would become around 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer, which would be enough to melt carbon dioxide ice over the Red Planet’s northern polar cap.
If this happened, the carbon in the atmosphere would help to trap heat like it does on Earth, triggering a greenhouse effect that could melt Mars’s water ice, giving the Red Planet back its liquid water in the form of flowing rivers and oceans.
If all of this were to occur as the team anticipates – and admittedly, that’s a pretty fantastical if – it’s possible that, within the space of a couple of generations, Mars could regain some of its lost Earth-like habitability.
“This is not terraforming as you may think of it where we actually artificially change the climate, but we let nature do it, and we do that based on the physics we know today,” Green said.
The team acknowledges that the plan is largely hypothetical at this point, but it’s a pretty amazing vision for what might be possible in the years ahead. The researchers intend to keep studying the possibilities to get a more accurate estimate of how long the climate-altering effects would take.
If the concept does prove workable, there’s no telling just how much it would alter the prospects of colonising Mars in the future.
“Much like Earth, an enhanced atmosphere would: allow larger landed mass of equipment to the surface, shield against most cosmic and solar particle radiation, extend the ability for oxygen extraction, and provide ‘open air’ green-houses to exist for plant production, just to name a few,” the researchers explain.
“If this can be achieved in a lifetime, the colonisation of Mars would not be far away.”
IF YOU THINK WE ARE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE – YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEE THIS
IF YOU THINK WE ARE ALONE IN THE UNIVERSE – YOU MIGHT WANT TO SEE THIS
One of the most popular questions today is, “Are we alone in the universe?” Believe it or not, you’re in the minority if you believe that absolutely no intelligent life exists outside of planet Earth. In the United States alone, at least half of all Americans say that we’re not alone in the universe. Fifty percent of Americans already believe that there is some form of life on other planets, while only seventeen percent believe there is not. A quarter of Americans believe that intelligent extraterrestrial visitors have already come to Earth and have been doing so for a long time. (source)
Here’s one of them:
“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time.” (source) (source) – Dr. Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 Astronaut, Air Force Captain, and Founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences
There are multiple reasons why the extraterrestrial question continues to gain popularity. People are starting to ask questions about the world around them, utilizing critical thinking and investigative skills. After thoroughly looking into this topic, it seems inevitable that you will arrive at these conclusions: We are not alone, and we are being visited.
1. The Size of the Universe
How often do you look up into the night sky and wonder just how many stars, planets, galaxies, and more are out there? Space has always fascinated us. From scientists and philosophers to artists and poets (and pretty much just about everyone else, too), we all want to know what’s out there. What is it about deep space that so ignites our collective imagination? Thinking about just how big the universe is can really put things into perspective.
Counting the stars in the universe is like trying to count the number of sand grains on a beach (impossible). Although estimates vary among different experts, the general consensus is that there are at least between 100 billion and 200 billion galaxies in our universe. Think about that for a moment, and now throw in billions of stars in each galaxy! (source) And for all we know, this number could very easily be in the trillions.
Take the Milky Way Galaxy for example, which measures about 120,000 light years across (it would take light that many years to travel across the galaxy), and contains up to 400 billion stars.
Again, we’re talking about billions of galaxies that contain billions of stars. (source)
Scientists estimate that at least 10 billion habitable Earth-sized planets exist in the Milky Way alone, but it’s important to keep an open mind about what type of conditions and environments some unknown extraterrestrial forms could thrive in. They all don’t necessarily have to be Earth-like; the conditions we deem necessary for life might be exclusive to life on this planet, or this type of planet.
Given our estimation of the size of the universe, or multiverse (whatever you want to call it), odds are we are not alone.
2. Whistleblowers
The past few years have seen a surge of whistleblowers come out and say some pretty remarkable things. Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, and Julian Assange have received the most attention, but the reality is that hundreds of whistleblowers with verified credentials and backgrounds have come forward. Mass surveillance and the security state are not the only things shocking people around the world, it’s also the fact that many of these whistleblowers claim that we are not alone in the universe. They wouldn’t be so hard to ignore if it wasn’t for the backgrounds these people have in their respected fields.
The first one that comes to mind is Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defence Minister, the man responsible for combining the Canadian Air Force, Army, and Navy into one united force, now known as the Canadian Forces. Someone with such a background coming out and making these extraordinary claims is definitely going to have the attention of many people.
“Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead, we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat, and decided to shoot first and ask questions after… . Trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on projects about which both the Congress and the Commander in Chief have been kept deliberately in the dark.” (source)
“In one of the cases during the cold war, 1961, there were about 50 UFOs in formation flying South from Russia across Europe. The supreme allied commander was very concerned and was about ready to press the panic button when they turned around and went back over the North Pole. They decided to do an investigation and they investigated for three years and they decided that with absolute certainty that four different species, at least, have been visiting this planet for thousands of years. There’s been a lot more activity in the past two decades, especially since we invented the atomic bomb.”
Paul Hellyer isn’t the only one making extraordinary statements, at least a dozen NASA astronauts have done the same. Just like Dr. Edgar Mitchell’s quote, other astronauts have said some remarkable things. Let’s take a look at a few examples.
“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been monitoring us for a very long time, that their appearance is bizarre from any type of traditional materialistic western point of view. That these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, that seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon” (source) – Dr. Brian O’Leary, Former NASA Astronaut and Princeton Physics Professor
“In my opinion I think they were worried that it would panic the public if they knew that someone had vehicles that had this kind of performance … so they started telling lies about it. And then I think they had to cover another lie, you know, tell another lie to cover their first lie, now they don’t know how to get out of it. Now it’s going to be so embarrassing to admit that all these administrations have told a lot of untruths…. [and that] there are a number of extraterrestrial vehicles out there cruising around.” (source) – Gordon Cooper, Former NASA Astronaut, Aeronautical Engineer, and test pilot; one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space program of the United States
The list goes on and on, the latest in NASA Astronaut statements about UFOs came from the 2005 International Space Station (ISS) Commander, Leroy Chiao.
Here is a video of John Podesta, recently appointed as councillor to Barack Obama, supporting UFO disclosure.
Some of the most extraordinary statements about UFOs and extraterrestrials come from people who have held some of the highest positions possible — those who would be in a position to ‘know’ about possible extraterrestrial encounters.
“Behind the scenes, high ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe the unknown flying objects are nonsense.” Former head of CIA, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, 1960 (source)
“There are objects in our atmosphere which are technically miles in advance of anything we can deploy, that we have no means of stopping them coming here … [and] that there is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations. That it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (source) – Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, Former Chief of Defence Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee
“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
The list of military whistleblowers is huge, there are hundreds of them and hundreds of quotes to choose from. To view military whistleblowers (with verified backgrounds) give a press conference at The National Press Club about UFOs deactivating nuclear weapons, click HERE. You can also look up Dr. Steven Greer and the disclosure project.
The list of quotes from many people, working in diverse fields, is outstanding. I could literally fill pages upon pages, but I’ll stop here, I think you get the picture. I do, however, want to spend a little bit more time on the reason why almost everyone knows that we are not alone in the universe.
“There is another way whether it’s wormholes or warping space, there’s got to be a way to generate energy so that you can pull it out of the vacuum, and the fact that they’re here shows us that they found a way.” (source) – Jack Kasher, Ph.D, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Nebraska.
“This thing has gotten so highly-classified…it is just impossible to get anything on it. I have no idea who controls the flow of need-to-know because, frankly, I was told in such an emphatic way that it was none of my business that I’ve never tried to make it to be my business since. I have been interested in this subject for a long time and I do know that whatever the Air Force has on the subject is going to remain highly classified.” – Senator Barry Goldwater , Chairman of the Senate intelligence committee(source)
3. The Evidence of UFOs
Over the past few years, dozens of governments have admitted to allocating resources towards the study of UFOs. For instance, in Canada, the RCMP, Transport Canada, and the Department of National Defence recently admitted to tracking and investigating UFOs. (source) They’ve been doing it for years, accumulating thousands upon thousands of UFO related documents. Many of these documents have since been officially released.
HERE is the latest batch of UFO files released from the United Kingdom.
Documents released by the National Security Agency (NSA) reveal what is recorded when a UFO is being tracked on radar. HERE is one example. HERE is a four page U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency and NSA report describing a particular encounter in great detail.
“As the F-4 approached a range of 25 nautical miles it lost all instrumentation and communications. When the F-4 turned away from the object and apparently was no longer a threat to it, the aircraft regained all instrumentation and communications. Another brightly lighted object came out of the original object. The second object headed straight toward the F4.”
HERE is a Wikileak cable that describes how some politicians already know we are not alone in the universe.
I could go on forever. Thousands upon thousands of UFO related documents are now available in the public domain. For a summary of more documents that have been declassified and made available, check out this short video by Richard Dolan.
4. Mass Mainstream Media Attention
Media outlets of all kinds are covering the topic, almost every movie that comes out these days has something to do with space or some kind of extraterrestrial intelligence. We’ve been bombarded with the topic for a while now so it’s not hard to see why so many people are thinking about it.
The most recent case of mainstream extraterrestrial noise was made when scientists spoke to the house Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Dan Werthimer, of the SETI Research Centre at the University of California, Berkeley, recently called for more funding to be allocated to the search for extraterrestrial life since he is “close to 100 percent” certain that we are not alone. (source)
In mid 2013, the same committee held a hearing about exoplanet discoveries, but perhaps one of the largest UFO/extraterrestrial hearings took place at the National Press Club, which was also held in Mid-2013. At this event, hundreds of researchers, activists, and military/agency/political witnesses, representing ten countries, gave UFO/extraterrestrial testimony to six former members of the United States Congress about events and evidence indicating an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.
2008 presidential candidate and former Sen. Mike Gravel (D-Alaska) said that there is “an extraterrestrial influence that is investigating our planet. Something is monitoring the planet and they are monitoring it very cautiously.” You can learn more about the citizens hearing here.
Apart from these events, UFOs are a continual topic of interest in today’s mainstream news. Unfortunately, most mainstream media outlets which cover it seek only to ridicule, rather than investigate, the issue seriously.
To view military whistleblowers (with verified backgrounds) give a press conference at The National Press Club about UFOs deactivating nuclear weapons, click HERE.
There are millions of people out there claiming to have contact with extraterrestrial beings. This has played a large role in spreading the influence of extraterrestrial interest across the world. All of us seem to be naturally fascinated with the unknown, especially when it comes to space. It seems like human nature.
Neuroscience can now explain what happens to our body when we meditate, but it’s something we all knew to be beneficial before the science. Is extraterrestrial life similar? Is it something we all feel deep down inside, something we don’t need proof for (even though the proof is there)?
Besides the thousands of videos available on YouTube, there is some very fascinating officially documented UFO footage available for us to see.
HE RE is a video that made headlines when it was released. It came straight from the Mexican Air Force. Do a quick UFO search on YouTube and, while you’ll see many fakes, you’ll also find many genuine videos of unknown aerial objects.
Final Thoughts
A few years ago the question was, “Do UFOs exist?” Today that question has been answered, and the presence of UFOs performing maneuvers which defy our laws of physics has been well documented. The question has more so shifted to, “Is that an extraterrestrial spacecraft?”
It’s nothing to fear, in my opinion they’ve been around forever. They were aware of us long before we became aware of them. As speculated with our ancient civilizations in Earth’s brief past, perhaps they will one day interact with humanity again. I guess we will see.
Perhaps some groups are concerned about our planet, and come here to push the idea that we need to start changing the way we are doing things. Perhaps one day soon we will find out.
I definitely believe that a good chunk of these UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin. I also believe that many of these crafts are “ours.”
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NASA DETECTS A WARM OCEAN BENEATH SATURN MOON'S SURFACE
NASA DETECTS A WARM OCEAN BENEATH SATURN MOON'S SURFACE
Despite many of the controversies with agencies like NASA with some of their choices in the past and their lack of transparency in a lot of the more controversial topics like UFOs and alien discoveries, there are no complaints to be made when it comes to less controversial information.
NASA is always the first to reveal their hypotheses as well as release information to the science world and the general public when it comes to new findings in the realm of space.
NASA does not disappoint in a recent finding that they have recently released to the public. According to NASA's recent findings there has been an usually large amount of heat being emitted from Saturn's moon of Enceladus. The reason why something like this is relevant and important is because it may in fact domino effect into something else that is just as fascinating to scientists and those who are interested. When this occurs the chance for something called tiger stripes can occur. Tiger stripes are fractures on the moon's South Pole, which creates unique blue lines on the surface of the planet.
Leaving UFO Hunters Baffled! Another dynamic of this finding is that this means there is a body of water that is very close nearby to create this effect of increased heating, which was not known about before. This has created a lot amount of interest to surface around this topic. This could create a large amount of controversy however, because research has always indicated that a body of water means that there is a potential chance of some sort of living thing to exist on that planet. Could the Earth sudden have long-distance neighbors all the way from Saturn?
This is not the controversial part of the story though. The controversial thing is that like stated in the beginning, NASA has the tendency to become much more quiet when it comes to revealing potential living things existing on planets not from Earth. This could possibly indicate that the public is probably not going to be receiving anymore updates about this heat signature increase and body of water finding, unless it is shown to not have any life at all. This is where much of the controversy stems from. The mentality of only sharing things that are not controversial, while storing all of the devastating information for themselves and the government.
It is important to heavenly monitor what happens next for those who are interested in this topic to see how much longer NASA stays transparent on the issue at hand. Saturn is not a planet that is often spoken about or researched, however NASA has taken an unusually large amount of interest in Saturn to the point that they are willing to send a drone into space to go and research it farther. This drone is known as Cassini and has been on the job of researching Saturn for a good amount of time. The blue markings etched onto the moon are almost scary as Saturn's moon seems to look veiny and pulsating like it has its own heartbeat. This is definitely a fascinating find and is definitely worth following closely.
This could also speak to Saturn suffering from something the Earth has had a fear of for the last few centuries in global warming. The sudden heat is highly unexpected and the ice sheets on the rings of Saturn have been unusually low, to the point that NASA is finding this out all the way from planet Earth, so this could also be a huge and dangerous finding by indicating that global warming does in fact exist and it could be coming towards the Earth sooner rather than later. Something unusually creepy is occurring on Saturn, so this is an exciting yet fearful finding from NASA.
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OPERATION HIGHJUMP DISCOVERED PARTS OF ANTARCTICA ARE WARM! WHAT'S HIDDEN THERE?
OPERATION HIGHJUMP DISCOVERED PARTS OF ANTARCTICA ARE WARM! WHAT'S HIDDEN THERE?
Last week, scientists from the Canada and Europe published a research, which has not been done before. The research focus was on the western part of Antarctica.
The results from the research have confirmed previous fears - that Antarctica melts from the bottom.
ANTARCTICA - WARM INDEED!
The scientists have measured the temperature of the water in places, going go to a depth of one kilometer, in the western part of Antarctica. It turns out that the flow of 110,000 cubic meters of warm water is flowing to Antarctica every second. This hot water melts between 50 to 70 billion tons of ice, and it tapers to about 20 meters each year.
This is crucial because the water escapes into the ocean water. The ice cap on Western Antarctica slowly melts, and that part is larger in area than Germany. If all of this ice turns into water, then the oceans would rise by about two meters.
These scientists have made measurements at five different locations around the Western Antarctica. On a couple of the sites have discovered that the ocean is very deep. They have found an underwater canyon with a depth of 500 meters that splits into two; one is about 700 meters and the other over 1.200 meters deep. Both branches are wider than 4 kilometers. It is during these canyons running huge undersea flow of hot water to the Antarctica. Research has shown that the ice that has disappeared exactly matches the amount of heat coming from the ocean.
OPERATION HIGHJUMP
The warm place is named after Commander David E Bunger, the man who led a team of US Navy explorers to the breathtaking discovery in 1949, the region boasts “melt ponds” and unfrozen lakes.
Bunger’s discovery was part of Operation Highjump – a secret navy task force. The film 'The Secret Land' – released in 1948 – documented the exploration and captured the dramatic moment Bunger and his team found Antarctica’s most unlikely secret.
Conspiracy theorists have long claimed Antarctica is hiding secrets hidden by the powers that be.
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Metallic sphere seven times size of Jupiter found - and it’s PROOF of aliens, hunters say
Metallic sphere seven times size of Jupiter found - and it’s PROOF of aliens, hunters say
ASTRONOMERS have detected a rogue, highly-metallic object in deep space which they are baffled by the presence of, leading conspiracy theorists to the conclusion this is proof we are not alone.
In 2012, astronomers spotted a “perplexing, isolated” object that was found to have a mass four to seven times that of Jupiter – by far the biggest planet in the solar system – around 100 lightyears away.
Experts believed it was the closest rogue planet ever found, but after studying the object over the past several years, researchers say that it might not be what they had originally thought.
The object, known as CFBDSIR 2149-0403, was thought to have been a planet that was kicked out of its star system or never had one in the first place and is now lonelily orbiting the Milky Way Galaxy.
With the possibility of it being a planet not as realistic as first thought, astronomers began theorising it could be a brown dwarf star but again this seems unlikely as it is too small, with the smallest brown dwarf stars having about 13 times the mass of Jupiter.
It had also been thought that the object was moving along in a group of objects called the AB Doradus, which would have given it an age of 50 to 120 million years old.
However, it later separated from these objects, leaving the astronomers clueless about its age.
A team of researchers from the Grenoble Alpes University in France wrote in their study published in arXiv: "Our new ... parallax and kinematics safely rule out membership to any known young moving group, including AB~Doradus.”
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The object has baffled astronomers
Lead author Philippe Delorme told Phys: "Though determining that certainly improved our knowledge of the object it also made it more difficult to study, by adding age as a free parameter.”
With the possibility of a star ruled out, the astronomers have broadened their theory, saying that it could be a “combination of both”.
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Some believe it could be a Dyson Sphere
However, alien conspiracists believe that it could be of ET origin, due to its highly metallic content.
One theory that has quickly arose, according to YouTube channel SecureTeam10, is that it is potentially a Dyson Sphere – a large structure built by an extraterrestrial civilisation that orbits a star and harnesses energy from it.
The video starts by saying: “Scientists and astronomers have located a rogue object about 100 lightyears away that is exhibiting some strange characteristics which is once again challenging what we know about the universe with which we live, and the objects found within that universe.”
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Is this proof of aliens?
It adds that “this object either has very low gravity, or an unusually low or an unusually high metal content”, implying that it could be a man-made, or more specifically an alien-made, structure.
For any doubters that ridicule the idea of an alien civilisation, the narrator of the video says that “it is mathematically impossible that we are the only life in the universe.”
It does have three lights which could mean its a TR-3B military craft, but its hard to tell at night.
Scott C Waring
"Two were red and one white, flashing very fast.
"I recorded it for a few seconds from my car, until the video went out of focus, then pulled into my driveway and went inside to tell people to come look.
"My brother-in-law came outside and saw it as well."
The witness said they started recording again and "its white light changed to red and began pulsating slowly with the other two lights now turned off".
They added: "It then flickered its lights and changed the red pulsating light back to white, continued to pulsate, and then went back to flashing again for the remainder of the time I watched.
In the meantime Express.co.uk sent the footage to UFO investigator Scott Brando, who is renowned for exposing hoax and misinterpreted pictures and videos.
He said many reported so-called triangular UFOs turn out to be just aircraft navigation or landing lights.
He said: "The three lights could be related to aircraft, but it's really hard to identify it as airliner or military aircraft.
"In this case I can only say that those three lights could be related to navigation lights by a plane or a different aircraft."
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Donkere materie had vroeger niet zoveel in de melk te brokkelen
Donkere materie had vroeger niet zoveel in de melk te brokkelen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Nieuw onderzoek suggereert dat het mysterieuze goedje nu invloedrijker is dan in de jonge jaren van het heelal.
Dat concluderen astronomen in het blad Nature. Ze baseren zich op een onderzoek naar de rotatie van zes zware sterren vormende stelsels op zeer grote afstand van de aarde.
TWIJFELS OVER DONKERE MATERIE
Eigenlijk is donkere materie door onderzoekers ‘bedacht’ om te kunnen verklaren waarom snel roterende sterrenstelsels niet uiteenvallen. Of donkere materie echt bestaat, is onduidelijk. We kunnen het immers niet zien. Het bestaan ervan is alleen af te leiden uit het zwaartekrachtseffect dat het op zichtbare materie heeft. Overigens zijn lang niet alle onderzoekers ervan overtuigd dat donkere materie bestaat. Vorig jaar stelde de Nederlandse hoogleraar Erik Verlinde nog dat donkere materie niet bestaat en dat we het ook niet nodig hebben om te verklaren waarom snel roterende sterrenstelsels niet uiteenvallen.
Donkere materie Sterrenstelsels roteren. En vrij snel ook. Zo snel dat je eigenlijk zou verwachten dat ze uiteenvallen. Maar dat gebeurt niet. Hoe kan dat? Onderzoekers wijten het aan donkere materie: een onzichtbaar goedje dat dienst doet als een soort ‘superlijm’ en voorkomt dat snel roterende sterrenstelsels uiteenvallen (zie kader).
In het jonge heelal In dit nieuwe onderzoek bestudeerden wetenschappers roterende zware sterren vormende stelsels die ver van ons verwijderd zijn. Omdat het licht van deze sterrenstelsels miljarden jaren moet reizen alvorens het ons bereikt, zien we deze sterrenstelsels nu zoals deze er 10 miljard jaar geleden, oftewel in de tijd van het jonge heelal, uitzagen. Uit de waarnemingen van de onderzoekers blijkt dat deze sterrenstelsels op een belangrijk punt afwijken van de spiraalstelsels zoals we die in het huidige heelal zien. De buitenste delen van de sterrenstelsels uit het vroege heelal draaien namelijk veel langzamer dan de delen dichter bij de kern. Het suggereert dat er minder donkere materie aanwezig is dan verwacht.
Hier zie je een schematische weergave van draaiende schijfstelsels in het vroege heelal (rechts) en in het moderne heelal (links). De nieuwe waarnemingen suggereren dat zware sterren-vormende stelsels in het voege heelal minder sterk beïnvloed werden door donkere materie (rood ingekleurd), omdat donkere materie nog minder geconcentreerd was. Daardoor draaiden de buitenste delen van de verre sterrenstelsels minder snel dan dezelfde delen van sterrenstelsels in het lokale heelal.
Afbeelding: ESO / L. Calçada.
Kleine rol voor donkere materie “Verrassend genoeg zijn de rotatiesnelheden in de sterrenstelsels niet constant, maar nemen ze naar buiten toe af,” vertelt onderzoeker Reinhard Genzel. “Dat heeft waarschijnlijk twee oorzaken. Allereerst worden de meeste van deze vroege zware sterrenstelsels gedomineerd door normale materie, en speelt donkere materie een veel kleinere rol dan in het lokale heelal. Op de tweede plaats waren de schijven van deze vroege stelsels veel turbulenter dan de spiraalstelsels die we in onze kosmische nabijheid zien.”
En hoe verder we teruggaan in het verleden, hoe sterker de door Renzel beschreven effecten tot uiting komen. Het suggereert dat het gas zich drie tot vier miljard jaar na de oerknal al had georganiseerd in platte, draaiende schijven, maar dat de omhullende halo’s van donkere materie zich nog over een veel groter volume uitstrekten. Het zou betekenen dat donkere materie miljarden jaren meer tijd nodig had om zich te verdichten en pas veel later een dominante rol ging spelen in het universum. Het is in lijn met eerdere waarnemingen die aantoonden dat vroege sterrenstelsels veel gasrijker en compacter waren dan de huidige sterrenstelsels.
Twee missies naar de grootste gasplaneet van ons zonnestelsel stonden tot vandaag op losse schroeven. Nu is bekend geworden dat een Europese missie doorgaat, terwijl de Amerikanen hun missie naar Jupiter schrappen.
Eerst het slechte nieuws. NASA gaat geen lander op de maan Europa plaatsen. Vorige maand presenteerde een speciale onderzoekscommissie nog een mooi rapport over hoe zo’n missie eruit ziet, maar het is afgeschoten door president Trump. Overigens ligt dit in de lijn der verwachting, want de Amerikanen hebben al een andere missie naar Europa goedgekeurd: de Europa Clipper. Deze ruimtesonde zal 45 scheervluchten langs Europa maken en onderzoeken waar de maan uit bestaat en of er leven mogelijk is in de onderzeese oceaan.
Het budget voor de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie daalt al jaren. In 1966 ging 4,4% van het nationale budget naar NASA, dit jaar is dat nog maar een half procent. Volgens de voorlopige prognose trekt president Trump de lijn van de afgelopen jaren door. Er komen dus geen grote bezuinigingen voor NASA, maar er komt ook niet veel geld bij. Het budget voor 2018 is iets meer dan 19 miljard dollar.
Artistieke impressie van ESA’s JUICE-ruimtevaartuig
En dan het goede nieuws: ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer-missie gaat (nog steeds) door. De Europese ruimtevaartorganisatie meldt dat de laatste hindernissen zijn genomen en dat er nu echt wordt begonnen met de constructie. In 2022 wordt dit ruimtevaartuig gelanceerd. In 2029 komt JUICE aan bij Jupiter. Er volgt dan een 3,5 jaar durend onderzoek, waarbij de ruimtesonde de turbulente atmosfeer van de gasplaneet in kaart brengt. Ook onderzoekt JUICE de enorme magnetosfeer, Joviaanse manen en de donkere ringen om de planeet. Aan boord van JUICE vinden we de beste instrumenten. Denk hierbij aan meerdere camera’s, een hoogtemeter, een radarinstrument en sensoren om de magnetische velden en geladen deeltjes te monitoren.
De meren op Saturnus' maan Titan 'bubbelen' misschien
De meren op Saturnus' maan Titan 'bubbelen' misschien
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Experimenten suggereren dat stikstof zich soms uit de met methaan en ethaan gevulde meren weghaast en daarbij ontstaan..bubbels. Heel veel bubbels.
Dat stellen onderzoekers van NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Ze baseren zich op experimenten waarbij ze de omstandigheden op het oppervlak van Titan simuleerden.
Stikstof Uit de experimenten blijkt dat grote hoeveelheden stikstof opgelost kunnen worden in het extreem koude methaan dat op Titan uit de hemel komt vallen en zich in rivieren, meren en zeeën verzamelt. Maar wanneer dat methaan vervolgens geconfronteerd wordt met een verandering in temperatuur of luchtdruk of samenstelling, kan het stikstof het hazenpad kiezen. Het verlaat de oplossing dan heel snel, net zoals koolstof dat doet wanneer je een fles frisdrank opent. Het resultaat? Bubbels!
BUBBELS? DAT KAN EEN PROBLEEM ZIJN!
Onderzoekers dromen van een ruimtemissie naar Titan en fantaseren al over een robotische sonde die in een meer van Titan plonst en er vervolgens rond gaat varen. Bubbels in die meren kunnen een bedreiging vormen voor zo’n ‘bootje’.
Mix van ethaan en methaan Die bubbels kunnen bijvoorbeeld ontstaan als methaan zich mixt met ethaan, zo legt onderozeker Michael Malaska uit. “Onze experimenten tonen aan dat wanneer methaanrijke vloeistoffen zich mengen met ethaanrijke vloestoffen – bijvoorbeeld tijdens een heftige regenbui of wanneer een methaanrivier uitkomt in een ethaanrijk meer – de stikstof minder goed in staat is om in de oplossing te blijven.” Dat methaan- en ethaanrijke vloeistoffen zich wel eens mixen op Titan is niet zo heel vergezocht. Waarnemingen van ruimtesonde Cassini toonden eerder al aan dat de samenstelling van Titans meren en zeeën van plaats tot plaats verschilt. Op sommige plekken domineert het methaan, terwijl elders ethaan overheerst.
Magische eilanden Wellicht kunnen de bubbels een groot mysterie op Titan oplossen. We hebben het over de zogenoemde ‘magic islands’. Kleine vlekken in zeeën op Titan die op beelden die Cassini van de maan maakte, opduiken en weer verdwijnen (om soms vervolgens opnieuw op te duiken). Onduidelijk is nog wat deze eiland-achtige vlekken zijn. Sommige onderzoekers denken dat het om golven gaat. Maar een andere optie is dat het een verzameling bubbels is.
Hier zie je Ligeia Mare, een zee op Titan. In deze zee is een ‘magic island’ gedetecteerd. Het ontstond ergens tussen 2007 en 2013 en was in 2015 weer een eind weg. Mogelijk gaat het dus om een eilandje ‘bubbels’.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASI / Cornell.
Of er daadwerkelijk bubbels in de zeeën van Titan ontstaan en of zij ook verantwoordelijk zijn voor de magic islands kan later dit jaar nog duidelijk worden. Dan scheert Cassini namelijk voor de allerlaatste keer langs Titan. En tijdens die scheervlucht laat de sonde zijn radarbundel over de maan glijden. Als er dan ‘magic islands’ gespot worden, kan hun helderheid verraden of het om bubbels gaat.
Enceladus' oceaan ligt mogelijk dichter bij het oppervlak dan gedacht
Enceladus' oceaan ligt mogelijk dichter bij het oppervlak dan gedacht
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Door ruimtesonde Cassini verzamelde gegevens suggereren dat de oceaan op de zuidpool slechts enkele kilometers onder Enceladus’ ijzige korst ligt.
Enceladus is één van de manen van Saturnus. De maan is bedekt met een kilometers dik pak ijs. Onder dat dikke pak ijs gaat hoogstwaarschijnlijk een vloeibare oceaan schuil. Nieuw onderzoek – gebaseerd op gegevens die ruimtesonde Cassini tijdens een scheervlucht langs Enceladus verzamelde – suggereert nu dat die oceaan veel dichter aan het oppervlak ligt dan gedacht.
Warmer “De observaties (van de zuidpool, red.) voorzien ons van een uniek inkijkje in wat er onder het oppervlak gebeurt,” vertelt onderzoeker Alice Le Gall. “Ze laten zien dat de eerste paar meters onder het oppervlak van het gebied dat we bestudeerden veel warmer zijn dan gedacht.” De onderzoekers maten temperaturen van zo’n 50 tot 60 Kelvin. Dat is koud, maar wel warmer dan verwacht. “Op sommige plaatsen zelfs tot wel 20 Kelvin warmer dan we verwacht hadden.”
Niet aan het oppervlak De gedetecteerde warmte lijkt zich te bevinden onder een veel koudere ijslaag, aangezien de temperatuurafwijking alleen werd waargenomen wanneer onderzoekers het gebied bestudeerden met instrumenten die de temperaturen onder het oppervlak konden meten. Instrumenten die zich beperkten tot het meten van de temperatuur aan het oppervlak detecteerden in exact hetzelfde gebied geen vergelijkbare temperatuurafwijkingen.
In het hart van deze afbeelding zie je duidelijk de ‘tijgerstrepen’ van Enceladus: vier warme breuken in de ijzige korst van de maan. Boven en rechts van de strepen zie je het gebied dat de onderzoekers bestudeerden. In de gele gebieden is de temperatuurafwijking het grootst. Je ziet dat die gebieden boven de tijgerstrepen liggen.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute / A. Lucas
Tijgerstrepen De temperatuurafwijkingen bleken bovendien het grootst te zijn boven drie ‘tijgerstrepen’ op het oppervlak van Enceladus. Dit zijn breuken in de ijzige korst van de maan. In 2005 zag Cassini door dergelijke tijgerstrepen water- en ijsdeeltjes ontsnappen: een eerste aanwijzing dat Enceladus een oceaan herbergde. Wat nu echter opvalt, is dat de temperatuurafwijking het meest uitgesproken is boven tijgerstrepen die op dat moment niet actief waren, oftewel geen water- en ijs spoten. Dat deze ‘slapende’ breuken boven een warme, ondergrondse zee liggen, bewijst volgens Le Gall het dynamische karakter van Enceladus’ geologie. Ze wijst erop dat de maan in het verleden op verschillende locaties meerdere perioden van activiteit heeft gekend.
Getijdenwerking Maar waar komt de op de zuidpool waargenomen warmte nu eigenlijk precies vandaan? “Deze kan niet alleen verklaard worden door belichting door de zon en in nog mindere mate door de warmte van Saturnus, dus er moet een extra warmtebron zijn.” Mogelijk houdt die ondergrondse warmtebron verband met de ovaalvormige baan die Enceladus rond gasreus Saturnus trekt. Deze baan brengt de maan soms heel dicht bij Saturnus en voert deze soms ook ver weg van de gasreus. Op het moment dat de afstand tussen de maan en gasreus klein is, trekt Saturnus met zijn zwaartekracht sterk aan Enceladus, waardoor de maan iets uitrekt. Als de maan eenmaal wat verder van de gasreus verwijderd is, ‘ontspant’ deze weer. Dat getouwtrek zorgt niet alleen voor breuken aan het oppervlak, maar ook voor frictie in het hart van Enceladus en daarbij ontstaat warmte. In dit scenario wordt de dunne ijskorst in het zuidpoolgebied van Enceladus sterker vervormd door getijdenwerking dan andere delen van de maan, waardoor dus juist in dit gebied meer warmte ontstaat en ondergronds water vloeibaar wordt gehouden.
Twee kilometer? De onderzoekers onderzochten slechts een klein deel van Enceladus’ zuidpoolgebied. Het gaat om een strookje van ongeveer 500 kilometer lang en 25 kilometer breed. Le Gall en collega’s achten het echter zeer aannemelijk dat hun waarnemingen representatief zijn voor het gehele zuidpoolgebied. Het zou betekenen dat het hele gebied op enkele meters onder het oppervlak warmer is dan gedacht. En dat de oceaan veel dichter aan het oppervlak ligt dan onderzoekers aannamen. Mogelijk ligt deze slechts 2 kilometer diep. Dat is in lijn met recent onderzoek dat vorig jaar verscheen. De studie suggereerde dat de ijskap van Enceladus een gemiddelde dikte heeft van 18 tot 22 kilometer, maar naar de zuidpool toe dunner wordt (dunner dan vijf kilometer).
Als de oceaan daadwerkelijk zo dicht aan het oppervlak ligt, is dat goed nieuws. Het suggereert namelijk dat we deze oceaan gemakkelijker kunnen bestuderen dan gedacht. “Als Enceladus’ ondergrondse zee echt zo dicht aan het oppervlak ligt als deze studie suggereert dan kan een toekomstige missie naar deze maan die uitgerust is met een radarinstrument dat door het ijs heen kan ‘kijken’ de oceaan wellicht detecteren.”
Bill Nye was posed the question: why should we bother going to Mars when we haven't taken care of the problems on our own planet yet?
He gave a very thoughtful answer that spoke to the human sense of adventure and discovery.
GETTING TO MARS
Ever since Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed his plans to make humankind an interplanetary species by getting to Mars, the world’s attention has been taken over by this fascination for the Red Planet. SpaceX, however, wasn’t the first to have plans for a mission to Mars. In fact, there have been such plans since the 1950s.
With all the attention Mars is getting, a concerned citizen, Sam, asked resident Science Guy Bill Nye: “Why are we trying to live on Mars and re-create Earth there by making an atmosphere and soil and water we can drink and such? Why can’t we take those ideas, that motivation and direct it at our own planet that we clearly need the help with? Why is it easier to start fresh on another planet than to get people talking about our own?”
THE SCIENCE GUY SAYS
Bill Nye found the question interesting and relevant. He admitted that getting to Mars and making it habitable isn’t going to be easy: “People, first of all, just don’t grasp the scale of it. It’s a planet. It’s a whole planet,” he said. He also reminded viewers that water, food, and air are non-existent, which would pose many problems.
Nye explained that taking care of our own planet and getting to Mars aren’t two exclusive goals. He credits our desire to visit the red planet to humanity’s sense of exploration, which has pushed us forward over the past centuries. His goal is to establish a scientific research base on Mars, much like our bases in Antarctica.
More than that, however, is how getting to Mars would change our world, especially, “If there’s something alive on Mars, and we could prove it,” Nye said, “it would probably change the world.”
“It would be astounding if we found something still alive there,” he emphasized. “If we make this discovery of life, it would not have been done by an individual. It would be done by a society [which] invested its intellect and treasure in this quest.” He closed by saying that finding life “would affect the way each and everyone of us feels about what it means to be a living thing in the cosmos; what it means to have this place in space.” Finding life on Mars would certainly make the universe less lonely. Thanks, Bill!
Wetenschappers: “Aliens gebruiken mogelijk gigantische radiozenders om door de kosmos te reizen”
Wetenschappers: “Aliens gebruiken mogelijk gigantische radiozenders om door de kosmos te reizen”
Twee wetenschappers van de Harvard-universiteit hebben verklaard dat mysterieuze radioflitsen uit verre sterrenstelsels mogelijk bewijs zijn voor aliens die door de kosmos reizen.
Snelle radioflitsen zijn extreem felle flitsen die bestaan uit radiogolven en slechts een duizendste van een seconde duren.
De eerste werd 10 jaar geleden ontdekt. Sindsdien zijn er in totaal 17 gedetecteerd met behulp van telescopen op aarde.
Duizenden
Wetenschappers denken dat iedere dag duizenden van dit soort radioflitsen de aarde passeren.
“Het leek erop dat de eenvoudigste verklaring was dat ze afkomstig zijn van sterren in de Melkweg,” vertelt Abraham ‘Avi’ Loeb aan de Huffington Post.
“Maar toen werd één van de snelle radioflitsen gelinkt aan een klein sterrenstelsel op ongeveer een miljard lichtjaar,” vervolgt hij.
Buitenaardse beschavingen
Dat betekent dat deze flitsen van de rand van het heelal komen en helderder zijn dan wat dan ook.
Loeb en collega Manasvi Lingam besloten te onderzoeken of snelle radioflitsen mogelijk het gevolg zijn van de activiteit van buitenaardse beschavingen.
“Omdat er veel meer sterrenstelsels zijn dan alleen de Melkweg, zou je verwachten dergelijke fenomenen vaker buiten de Melkweg te detecteren dan erbinnen,” aldus Lingam tegenover de krant.
Gigantische radiozenders
De twee wetenschappers speculeren dat snelle radioflitsen kunnen worden geproduceerd door gigantische radiozenders die andere beschavingen gebruiken om van het ene naar het andere sterrenstelsel te reizen.
Een door zonne-energie aangedreven radiozender ter grootte van een planeet zou genoeg energie opwekken om een interstellair ruimteschip aan te drijven, suggereren ze.
“We schatten dat een gemiddeld sterrenstelsel hooguit 10.000 van zulke beschavingen herbergt,” verklaart Lingam. “Waarschijnlijk valt het werkelijke aantal lager uit.”
Babystapjes
Loeb zit in de adviescommissie van het Starshot-project, dat erop gericht is een ruimteschip naar de ster Alpha Centauri te sturen.
Het idee is om krachtige lasers vanaf de aarde te richten op dunne zeilen die meer dan 1000 sondes bevatten.
Dat is niet hetzelfde als de radiogolven die mogelijk worden gebruikt door aliens, maar het verkennen van de ruimte gaat in babystapjes.
Kunstmatig
“Veel mensen denken de waarheid in pacht te hebben,” zegt Loeb. “Ze denken dat we speciaal zijn, dat er verder niets in de ruimte is.”
“We moeten ons niet laten leiden door vooroordelen. We moeten waarnemen,” vervolgt hij. “Als we iets ongewoons zien, moeten we rekening houden met de mogelijkheid dat het kunstmatig is.”
Witnesses of Melbourne high school UFO sighting speak out
Witnesses of Melbourne high school UFO sighting speak out
Aaron Langmaid, Herald Sun
HOVERING above a Melbourne high school, the sight of three spherical objects defied gravity and all belief.
For the first time in more than half a century, a panel of eye witnesses hope to shed light on the enduring Aussie mystery — and one of the world’s most baffling UFO cases.
Hundreds of people reported the bizarre scene as it played out above Westall High School, Clayton South on April 6, 1966. Authorities at the time warned locals not to discuss it and critics have since written it off.
But five decades on, those who saw the objects and a perfect circle of flattened grass left behind, remain convinced.
Joy Clarke, was among the students who ran from class and spotted three objects in the sky.
“It took a while for me to comprehend what I was actually looking at because I had never seen anything like that before,’’ she said.
Suzanne Savage, Kevin Hurley, Paul Smith, Joy Clarke and Marilyn Smith. Picture: Tony Gough
The Year 8 student was one of the few to have her picture taken inside the circle of flattened grass that the object apparently left behind. It was burnt and destroyed by army officers the following day.
Amateur detective Shane Ryan, who led an investigation for the documentary Westall ‘66 said the bizarre incident had plagued the minds of those who saw it.
“We live in an odd society where there is interest in UFOs and the mysteries of life but when a person comes forward to talk about an experience often they find it hard to be listened to or believed,’’ Mr Ryan said.
“This was an important case on the world stage because it was a mass UFO sighting in broad daylight.’’
He said the objects were clearly identifiable and not what locals were used to seeing in the sky around Moorabin airport.
At least one landed and was on the ground for several minutes.
A panel of eye witnesses hope to shed light on the mystery
“Whatever it was — there was a very strong response from government to it,’’ Mr Ryan said.
He said police, ambulance and fire units all headed to the site. But civil defence and military units were also dispatched.
Air force personnel reportedly knocked on the door of the school science teacher days later, warning him that if he spoke about what he saw his “career in Victoria would be over’’.
Another student who was taken away from the scene in hysterics was never seen again.
And after decades of denial, last year one of the few surviving policemen who responded on that day admitted he had been at the scene but still refused to talk about what he saw.
“There was absolutely a cover up,’’ Mr Ryan said.
“The resolution of this story hinges on a death bed confession.’’
Mr Ryan will be guest speaker alongside the panel of witnesses assembled for the first time next month.
A newspaper tear out from the Dandenong Journal covering the 1966 UFO mystery.
Westall — The Witnesses Speak, Sunday April 2. Tickets: vufoa.com
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Canada Eyewitness Sees UFO Over Water during Storm, Feb 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Canada Eyewitness Sees UFO Over Water during Storm,. Feb 2017, UFO Sighting News
Date of sighting: Feb 15, 2017 Location of sighting: Bay of Fundy, Main, Canada A very interesting MUFON case came in this week. About a UFO seen over the bay and during a lightning storm. The UFO was causing the lightning so it could recharge from it. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I was watching a fairly intense lightning storm roll into the mouth of the bay off the Atlantic,” the witness stated. “We were waiting for our bar-b-q to finish and I began to film the storm hoping to get some good footage of the lightning as I waited.The storm was still a good 20 minutes away, but the lightning was going straight down into the water almost everytime and I continued to film for about two minutes. I put my camera away,ate supper as the storm passed overhead, and thought nothing more of it until two or three days later when I was going through the video.I watched it normally and saw nothing, got to the end and hit pause during one of the lightning strikes.Took a screenshot for Facebook and continued to scroll backwards very slowly going from lightning strike to lightning strike and taking screenshots. As I got to the very first seconds of the video, during the double lightning bolt and bang, I could see a disc-like object the size of a semi-trailer flying out of the bay on an angle at an unimaginable speed across the sky through the double flash and up into the clouds with a bang and whirly wind tunnel echo sound. But with determination and brain surgeon fingers, I was able to get screenshots of it within that second.I have some unbelievable video and even more unbelievable pictures.I’ve spent almost eight months seeking help and getting nowhere. I pray you people take me seriously and show interest because this is real.
Viral Video Shows Crystal Clear UFOs Over Pyramids
Viral Video Shows Crystal Clear UFOs Over Pyramids
An amazing video of seemingly showing three crystal clear UFOs floating above ancient pyramids of Giza has made the rounds online. Uploaded to YouTube, the footage shows a crowd of tourists enjoying the incredible sight of the ancient world while the three strange, triangular aerial things hover above.
The footage can be considered as one of the clearest UFO sightings ever recorded on video.
Most UFO sighting recordings are either blurred or too shaky.
However, Youtube poster give any additional details about the video, but the description of the video states that it was recorded in April 2016 and the UFOs remained visible for four hours.
Section 51 2 website features the alleged UFO sighting video, but no further reference provided. It instead discusses the alleged ancient document Tulli Papyrus, which reveals that flying saucers, depicted as circles of fire, appeared above pyramids in around 1500 BC.
The article also touches the ancient astronaut conspiracy theory, which claims that our ancestors built the pyramids with the help of an advanced race of aliens thousands of years ago.
However, many viewers believe that the video is a deliberate hoax created using CGI technology.
Critics say that if this thing actually happened, then it would likely be the news for mainstream media all over the world and not only to one website.
Intelligent life forms may be able to travel across three reportedly habitable planets in a "Goldilocks zone" orbiting a newly discovered dwarf star, according to a Cornell University report published this week. The system of exoplanets, dubbed "Trappist-1" by NASA after the federal agency discovered the region in late February, includes seven exoplanets — and one of the most likely possibilities for extraterrestrial life.
The three exoplanets included in the region are within such a short distance of each other that it wouldn’t be unrealistic to assume aliens were capable of "interplanetary panspermia," Manasvi Lingam and Abraham Loeb, co-authors of the report, noted in their research. Panspermia is when the same life forms created somewhere else in the universe are able to initiate life on other planets.
Though entirely theoretical, the authors behind the research said Trappist-1 could provide the first-known capability of life traveling across planets in outer space. Aliens conducting interplanetary travel may not look anything like humans, though.
Harvard University researchers said the most likely life forms hopping across the three cosmos were tiny bacteria attaching themselves onto meteors covered in hydrogen and water. Those microorganisms may be able to go dormant for extended periods of time while performing interplanetary panspermia, though it remains unclear whether they'd actually be able to survive the journey from one exoplanet to the next included in Trappist-1.
The three exoplanets featured in the "Goldilocks zone" were named "E," "F" and "G," in consecutive order based on their distance to the dwarf star each orbits.
Cornell University researchers weren’t only convinced life forms existed in Trappist-1. They may have already traveled to each of the three exoplanets.
"It would not be surprising to find the same forms of life on all three habitable planets near Trappist-1," Loeb told New Scientist in an interview Monday. "Because these distances are so close, a lot more different kinds of species, microbial or otherwise, could migrate from one planet to another."
And now YouTube channel SecureTeam 10 believes crash sites and space craft wreckages that “cover” the moon’s surface are evidence that aliens really did exist there at some point.
The footage points to mysterious circular shapes that appear to be partially buried in the surface of the moon.
UFO hunter Tyler Glockner believes they are alien space ships.
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SHOCKING: The partially buried space ships could be evidence of alien war UFO experts claim
UFO hunter claims there are 'mobile alien bases' on the moon
Using footage from fellow alien investigation channel Streetcap1, the video focuses on one “saucer” positioned on its own “in the middle of a very barren piece of land”.
“Could this be a rock or an asteroid?” Tyler asks.
“It could be that. But I think what Streetcap was pointing out was the almost perfect cylinder shape of this thing.
“If there were beings out there that had these advanced craft why do they seem to be crashing their ships all the time?"
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ALARMING: The video points out the disc shape and drag marks along the surface of the moon
He argues there may have been a huge war millions of years ago on our moon.
“At some point in the distance past there was some sort of war or cataclysm that caused these ruins and unknown debris to be littered across the moon.
“This is why the moon is so heavily bombarded with craters and many of these aren’t craters at all – but instead are the remnants of nuclear explosions,” Tyler says.
THEORY: A whistleblower claims he saw an alien base in the Antarctic
The former US Naval officer said he was on duty when he came across the mystery structure buried into the ice.
Conspiracy theorist and journalist Linda Moulton Howe interviewed the whistleblower, named only as Brian, in a series of fascinating YouTube videos.
The retired petty officer, 59, claimed to have been seen UFOs, aliens and a giant hole in the ice as he flew through a "no fly zone" in Antartica.
“The only thing we saw going over this camp was a very large hole going into the ice”
Alien whistleblower
The retired petty officer, 59, claimed to have been seen UFOs, aliens and a giant hole in the ice as he flew through a "no fly zone" in Antartica.
He allegedly made the bizarre sightings between 1983 and 1997 when he was stationed with the Antarctic Development Squadron.
In the interviews he made shocking claims about top-secret contact between humans and aliens.
MoD expert Nick POPE on aliens: Government knows "more than they let on"
In an email to Mrs Howe, 75, he said: "Another unique issue with South Pole station is that our aircraft was not allowed to fly over a certain area designated five miles from the station.
"The reason stated because of a air sampling camp in that area.
"This did not make any sense to any of us on the crew because on two different occasions we had to fly over this area.
"The only thing we saw going over this camp was a very large hole going into the ice. You could fly one of our LC130 into this thing.
"Talk among the flight crews was that there is a UFO base at South Pole and some of the crew heard talk from some of the scientists working with and interacting with the scientists at that air sampling camp/large ice hole."
Brian said the hole was five to ten miles from the South Pole.
He also claimed a group of scientists went missing for a week and returned refusing to speak about what they had seen.
Mrs Howe, who has been awarded for her paranormal investigations, said she was contacted several times by the whistleblower.
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UFO close encounters highest across Hinckley and Bosworth
UFO close encounters highest across Hinckley and Bosworth
The truth is out there - in Barwell and Earl Shilton
Barwell and Earl Shilton have been singled out as hotspots for UFO sightings.
Reports of strange objects in the sky, gathered by The Hinckley Times and listed on a sky-watchers’ website, suggest the two neighbourhoods see the most sub-space activity of any location in Leicestershire.
A new article on history and heritage blog The Leicester Chronicle brings together a series of sightings going back to 1706.
Blogger Thomas Kirkup reckons the location of the town and village, close to one another and near to Hinckley but largely surrounded by open countryside, is the key factor in the swathe of flying object spots.
According to his research, Earl Shilton and Barwell is the county’s prime UFO country, with the largest number of sightings reported by locals.
Glowing objects and bright white balls of light were seen in the skies as reported in The Hinckley Times in May last year and March 2015.
Even more cases of eerie ethereal phenomenon are listed on the LUFOIN - Leicestershire UFO Investigation Network.
One weird happening in particular was observed by various witnesses across Earl Shilton, Barwell and Leicester Forest East on May 25 last year at around 10pm.
UFO
Six people in different locations were fascinated by a blue glowing object, hovering low over the ground and apparently accompanied by the smell of sulphur.
One man said: “I was heading back from delivering a spa pool at a customer’s when I turned onto Station Road and I saw a brilliant blue light passing over Earl Shilton.
“It was low, about 100 feet off the ground and about 20 foot wide by about ten foot high, it was moving in a zigzag pattern.”
Another recalled: “I was walking the dogs last night when we saw a very bright blue craft in the sky over Elmesthorpe.
“It wasn’t a meteor as it was moving controlled.
“I’m lost as to what it was as it wasn’t an aeroplane and not a chopper or drone.
“There was only a humming noise I could hear, and a mouldy egg smell as it passed over.”
A model of a ufo created by Colin Saunders for a story going into The Hinckley Times
The smell was also detected by a third witness who said: “I saw a car-sized blue cut diamond UFO flying low over Barwell heading towards the village centre.
“There was a putrid smell in air as it passed over.”
Meanwhile another woman said: “My husband and I both noticed a bright blue, diamond-shaped aircraft in the sky hovering above the rugby ground near Beggars Lane, Leicester Forest East.
“It was shooting a red beam towards the ground.”
Listings on the LUFOIN page feature a host of sightings from 2016 which range from hovering cylinder-shaped objects to a trio of domed objects appearing following streaks of light.
Colours are usually white, green or blue.
On a nationwide website the most recent report in the area originates from Newton Linford in November last year.
The account recalls it was getting light, a motorist and her daughter saw ‘a kind of tailing egg shape’ in the sky, seeming to disappear then alter appearance.
A model of a UFO and a graphic illustration of how it would look supplied by Colin Saunders
Last year Hinckley Times reader Colin Saunders described his experience of seeing a UFO on the old Fosse Way in 1999.
An ex aerospace engineer, he created a model of the object he saw in the skies near Hinckley.
■ If anyone has seen anything unusual in the sky reports can be made to LUFOIN. Personal details remain confidential.
Today, we know dark matter as a mysterious, elusive presence in our universe, exerting a gravitational pull on our Milky Way and other galaxies. But in an unexpected twist, scientists are now learning dark matter was far less of a powerful presence in the early days of the universe than we once thought.
In a study to be published Thursday in Nature, as well as three accompanying papers in the Astrophysical Journal, an international team of researchers found that 10 billion years ago, the galaxy was dominated by baryonic or “normal” matter, which constitutes what makes up the gas, dust, stars, and planets in our universe today.
Today, dark matter, which does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, has a greater influence on our universe. It interacts with normal matter only through gravity, and it’s responsible for the rotation speeds in spiral galaxies.
“If you take a textbook case of a nearby spiral disk, there are large amounts of dark matter present that causes the rotational speeds to be high, even far from the galaxy center,” coauthor Stijn Wuyts of the University of Bath tells Inverse.
The team used telescopes to measure the rotation curves of six massive galaxies. Since these galaxies were so distant, it was like looking back in time 10 billion years ago, when stars were still forming.
This chart shows observations of six distant galaxies. The left column shows the distribution of the total surface brightness. The right column shows the velocity map. The galaxies show a rotation pattern, with blue areas moving towards the observer and red parts moving away.
But in early galaxies, researchers observed that the outer regions of the galaxies were spinning slower than central regions — meaning less dark matter than expected was present, and dark matter played a smaller role. These early galaxies were also more turbulent than spiral galaxies today. Two further studies of 240 star-forming galaxies supported these findings.
“From the peak epoch of galaxy formation 10 billion years ago to the present day, the reconstruction of this evolutionary path will be something we will be able to do more accurately,” Wuyts says.
Three to four billion years after the Big Bang, the gas in galaxies condensed into flat, rotating disks, while large dark matter halos surrounded them. Before, these halos were more spread out, but after billions of years, the dark matter has condensed and now has a larger effect on the rotation of many modern galaxies, like our Milky Way.
These findings have three possible implications. One is that because normal matter was more influential in the early universe, galaxies today have central regions that are rich in normal matter.
“It’s driven by the fact that galaxies in the young universe have so much gas in them, the gas that later in their lives will be used to form stars,” Wuyts says.
In addition, these findings imply that the winds driving out from the center of the galaxies may have altered the distribution of dark matter.
There’s also a speculative third possibility that the current hypothesis of dark matter may be incorrect. Perhaps the dark matter particle is lighter or not a particle at all, or perhaps it’s similar to black holes.
“We are learning that the situation is more complicated than people had assumed as far as dark matter is concerned, so we need to consider why that is,” lead author Reinhard Genzel of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany tells Inverse. “If this might lead to a recognition that the dark matter paradigm needs to be rethought, that would be pretty sensational, but we need to first be conservative.”
The team saw the first hints of dropping rotation curves eight years ago, showing that dark matter was not as influential in the early universe. It continued to gather more evidence using data from other galaxies. In the next phase of their research, scientists plan to study galaxies with lower masses to help them better understand our universe’s origins.
“What I would predict is people will be very suspicious,” Genzel says. “That’s the nature of science. This is not what we would’ve expected. Other people will have to check it. In the meantime, the theorists hopefully will start thinking about the various options we’ve discussed and give us ideas on what we’ll do next.”
Abstract:In the cold dark matter cosmology, the baryonic components of galaxies - stars and gas - are thought to be mixed with and embedded in non-baryonic and non-relativistic dark matter, which dominates the total mass of the galaxy and its dark matter halo. In the local Universe, the mass of dark matter within a galactic disk increases with disk radius, becoming appreciable and then dominant in the outer, baryonic regions of the disks of star-forming galaxies. This results in rotation velocities of the visible matter within the disk that are constant or increasing with disk radius – a hallmark of the dark matter model. Comparison between the dynamical mass and the sum of stellar and cold-gas mass at the peak epoch of galaxy formation ten billion years ago, inferred from ancillary data, suggest high baryon factions in the inner, star-forming regions of the disks. Although this implied baryon fraction may be larger than in the local Universe, the systematic uncertainties (stellar initial mass function, calibration of gas masses) render such comparisons inconclusive in terms of the mass of dark matter. Here we report rotation curves for the outer disks of six massive star-forming galaxies, and find that the rotation velocities are not constant, but decrease with radius. We propose that this trend arises because of a combination of two main factors: first, a large fraction of the massive, high-redshift galaxy population was strongly baryon dominated, with dark matter playing a smaller part than in the local Universe; and second, the large velocity dispersion in high-redshift disks introduces a substantial pressure term that leads to a decrease in rotation velocity with increasing radius. The effect of both factors appears to increase with redshift. Qualitatively, the observations suggest that baryons in the early Universe efficiently condensed at the centres of dark matter halos when gas fractions were high, and dark matter was less concentrated.
Supermassive black holes sit at the center of nearly every massive galaxy situated in the universe. Scientists don’t know how supermassive black holes form, but a new paper in published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy, illustrates a theory crazy enough to perhaps work.
The running hypothesis is that black holes are born out of the collapse of a star, which can eventually suck up enough mass that they grow into supermassive black holes (SBHs). That process is thought to take billions of years, but scientists have already catalogued some SBHs that date back to 13.8 billion years in age — also the age of the universe. This would mean that some SBHs, if not all, form much more quickly than scientists originally suspected.
“The collapse of the galaxy and the formation of a million-solar-mass black hole takes 100,000 years — a blip in cosmic time,” Zoltan Haiman, an astronomy professor at Columbia University, said in a press release. “A few hundred-million years later, it has grown into a billion-solar-mass supermassive black hole. This is much faster than we expected.”
Two things are absolutely necessary for an SBH to form: A ton of mass, and gravitational force. Going by these two rules of thumb, Haiman came up with a new hypothesis back in 2008. What if the SBHs weren’t being created from within their host galaxies, but being fed by neighboring ones?
Haiman believed that if a huge nearby galaxy could pump enough radiation into a smaller galaxy that already hosted a black hole, the radiation could split molecular hydrogen into atomic hydrogen, stopping the galaxy from forming new stars and ultimately forcing it to collapse under the gravitational pressure of the black hole. Thus, the black hole would suck up that mass and quickly become an SBH.
To test this hypothesis, Haiman collaborated with John Regan at Dublin City University in Ireland. Together they simulated this process by crunching numbers on a supercomputer, running through different variations of fluid dynamics, gravity, and radiation. Their findings, published the new paper, proved that with just the right combination, this process could indeed create an SBH.
“The nearby galaxy can’t be too close, or too far away, and like the Goldilocks principle, too hot or too cold,” John Wise, co-author of the study and associate astrophysics professor at Georgia Tech, said in the press release.
There is still much more to understand about SBHs before drawing any conclusions. But with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, which will be launched by NASA next year, to confirm this theory, the team is hoping it might have finally solved this longstanding mystery once and for all.
THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERIOUS HANDBAG IN ANCIENT TIMES - HIDDEN TECHNOLOGY?
THE SECRET OF THE MYSTERIOUS HANDBAG IN ANCIENT TIMES - HIDDEN TECHNOLOGY?
Mankind is a species with amnesia. The veil of time has obscured a lot of ancient knowledge and technology. Luckily some ancient stone carvings, statues and art works offer us the of understanding some of these forgotten tools.
In Mesopotamia, the cradle of modern civilization, the symbol of the mysterious handbag is shown in countless stone carvings and statues, dating back as far as 10.000 bc. The handbag motif is featured prominently in their sacred artwork.
The Sumerians depicted the so called Annunaki carrying what seems to be a handbag. These Annunaki were called the Nephilim in the Bible. The object is linked to the archetype of "The Tree of life" which connects to heaven and the underworld. It was said it connected all forms of creation.
In ancient Egypt, we can see the Ankh symbol being carried in a very similar way. The Ankh was the symbol of life. Could it be that the Ankh symbol and the symbol of the handbag are one and the same?
In Mexico, the handbag symbol can be found on many historical sites and is depicted in their most sacred works of art.
In Indonesia, we find the same handbag featured in multiple stone carvings. How did this handbag symbol become a world wide phenomenon? And more importantly, what did it represent? Did it contain secret knowledge offered by the gods as some myths claim? Was it some form of secret technology that we have forgotten?
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The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
By Live Science Staff
Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.
Minuscule extremophiles
When tardigrades dry out, they retract their legs and heads, transitioning into a form called a "tun." This image shows a scanning electron micrograph of six tardigrades in their tun state.
Credit: T.C. Boothby
Microscopic, blobby-bodied tardigrades — also known as "water bears" — are famed for their ability to survive in extreme conditions, even appearing to come back from the dead.
Now, a new study reveals that special proteins coded into tardigrade DNA may be the secret to the creatures' resuscitation superpowers. [Read more about the superpowers.]
Setting high records
The U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane, known as the Orbital Test Vehicle, is shown here in a 2009 photo at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. An X-37B spacecraft is currently flying the fourth classified mission for the U.S. Air Force.
Credit: U.S. Air Force
The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane is just eight days away from setting a record on its current clandestine mission.
If the robotic vehicle stays aloft until March 25, it will break the X-37B mission-duration mark of 674 days, which was established back in October 2014. [Read more about the near record.]
Cheesy prints
3D-printed cheese can hold its own against regular processed cheese, pictured here.
Credit: Binh Thanh Bui/Shutterstock
Any way you slice it, cheese is considered by many to be a favorite food, whether cut into cubes as a snack, grated over pasta, layered in a sandwich or melted as a topping for pizza.
In a recent study, scientists 3D-printed cheese and conducted a series of tests evaluating its texture, resilience and "meltability," to see how this cheese from the future would stack up — on a structural level — against regular processed cheese. [Read more about printable cheese.]
Doomsday films
A mushroom cloud forms after a nuclear weapons test dubbed Operation Hardtack-1 - Nutmeg in May 1958 on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
Credit: LLNL
After decades spent slowly disintegrating in high-security vaults, thousands of historic films of U.S. nuclear weapons tests have been salvaged, including some that have been newly declassified. The incredible footage shows enormous mushroom clouds ballooning over the horizon in what could be a doomsday flick.
About 6,500 of the films have been located so far, and now, an initial collection of 64 videos, all showing tests conducted by the LLNL, have been made available online. [Read more about the declassified footage.]
First time users
By monitoring subjects as they undergo adolescence, researchers could gain new insights into how marijuana affects developing brains.
Credit: Sean Gallup/Getty Images
The chemical tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in marijuana is known to trigger responses in brain regions related to thinking, perception, coordination and memory, and to have a lasting impact on users when taken frequently over time.
"We don't really know what happens to a first-time user — we don't know if one use will change the brain and make you more vulnerable to taking other drugs, for example," Weiss told Live Science.[Read more about pot brain.]
Hungry, hungry arachnids
A jumping spider, Phidippus mystaceus, feeding on a type of fly called a nematoceran.
Credit: David E. Hill/Peckham Society, Simpsonville, South Carolina
Each year, about 27 million tons of spiders consume somewhere between 440 million and 880 million tons of insects, new research finds.
Spiders are a very successful group of arthropods. They're found everywhere from deserts to grasslands to forests to Arctic tundra. More than 45,000 individual species have been identified so far, Nyffeler and Birkhofer wrote. Scientists estimate that there are around 131 spiders per every square meter of land on the globe, and in some places up to 1,000 individuals in that area (about the size of a single mattress). [Read more about their voracious appetites.]
Health and climate change
Climate change is poised to affect the health of Americans in every part of the country, a new report says.
But few Americans are aware of the impact climate change has on health, according to the report. Only about a third of Americans can name a specific way climate change affects people's health, according to the report. [Read more about climate change's affects.]
Life without the EPA
A coal-burning power plant near Bismarck, North Dakota, on July 30, 2013.
Credit: Andrew Burton/Getty Images
Acid rain devouring New England forests. Homes built on toxic sites. Unswimmable rivers and cities cloaked in smog. The United States looked very different before the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) arrived, but a recent Congressional bill calls for the agency's abolition.
X-ray tomographic picture (false colors) of fossil thread-like red algae.
Credit: Stefan Bengtson
Scientists have discovered what may be the world’s oldest plant-like fossils, found in sedimentary rocks in central India. The preserved specimens are estimated to be 1.6 billion years old, and contain structures like those found in red algae.
The two types of fossils that researchers recently identified resembled red algae — one specimen was composed of filaments and another was made of more robust structures. The ancient specimens are 400 million years older than previous fossil algae discoveries, and hint that multicellular life evolved on Earth far earlier than was once thought. [Read more about the oldest fossils.]
Round tomb
The tomb's entranceway is located on the south wall of the tomb. It was blocked off with bricks 1,000 years ago. Images of two servants can be seen flanking the entrance.
Credit: Courtesy of Chinese Cultural Relics
A 1,000-year-old circular tomb, whose walls are decorated with colorful murals, has been discovered in Datong City, in northern China.
The murals on the walls show servants, cranes and numerous articles of clothing that hang on several stands, their colors still vibrant despite the passage of a millennia. [Read more about the vibrant murals.]
Doomsday Films: Footage of Nuclear-Weapons Tests Declassified
Doomsday Films: Footage of Nuclear-Weapons Tests Declassified
By Kacey Deamer, Staff Writer
A mushroom cloud forms after a nuclear weapons test dubbed Operation Hardtack-1 - Nutmeg in May 1958 on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
Credit: LLNL
After decades spent slowly disintegrating in high-security vaults, thousands of historic films of U.S. nuclear weapons tests have been salvaged, including some that have been newly declassified. The incredible footage shows enormous mushroom clouds ballooning over the horizon in what could be a doomsday flick.
In total, an estimated 10,000 films were created of nuclear weapons tests between 1945 and 1962, according to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). For the past five years, a team of researchers led by LLNL weapon physicist Greg Spriggs has been collecting the footage to scan, reanalyze and declassify, before the films fully decompose.
About 6,500 of the films have been located so far, and now, an initial collection of 64 videos, all showing tests conducted by the LLNL, have been made available online. [Top 10 Greatest Explosions Ever]
Spriggs said he and his team are in a race against time to collect and scan the films, because the decomposition process could render the footage unusable.
"You can smell vinegar when you open the cans, which is one of the byproducts of the decomposition process of these films," Spriggs said in a statement."We know that these films are on the brink of decomposing to the point where they'll become useless. The data that we're collecting now must be preserved in a digital form, because no matter how well you treat the films, no matter how well you preserve or store them, they will decompose. … We got to this project just in time to save the data."
Beyond the historical significance of the films, the LLNL researchers said footage of the nuclear tests can also help post-Cold War-era scientists better understand the impact of nuclear weapons and determine whether the aging U.S. nuclear deterrent — nuclear weapons intended to deter other countries from nuclear attacks — is safe, secure and effective.
By comparing the restored footage to the original data sheets for each test, Spriggs found that some of the published data was incorrect. When the tests were conducted more than half a century ago, researchers had to rely on "eyeball measurements" of the nuclear test's fireball and shockwave, according to the LLNL researchers, from each frame captured. Tests were filmed by multiple cameras at different angles to capture around 2,400 frames per second, the researchers said, and about 1,000 analysts were needed to do the work. Now scientists use computers for such analysis, with programs able to take exact measurements from each frame captured.
"We were finding that some of these answers were off by 20, maybe 30, percent," Spriggs said. "We've also discovered new things about these detonations that have never been seen before. New correlations are now being used by the nuclear forensics community, for example."
The videos released thus far range from footage of bomb tests that show the resulting mushroom clouds to videos of underground tests that evaluated bomb detection and potential containment. For example, one of the videos released shows the "Tesla" test of Operation Teapot, which was the first successful test by the LLNL (then called the University of California Radiation Laboratory), according to the Nuclear Weapons Archive.
Another of the videos released, of the "Rainier" test of Operation Plumbbob, shows footage of the violent shock waves caused by an underground nuclear explosion. According to the Nuclear Weapons Archive, the Rainier test occurred on Sept. 19, 1957, at the Nevada Test Site, when a nuclear weapon was fired into a tunnel on the side of Rainier Mesa.
It will take about two more years to finish scanning all of the films, Spriggs estimated, and analyzing and declassifying the footage will take even longer. The ultimate goal of the project is to ensure nuclear weapons are not used in the future, he said.
"We hope that we would never have to use a nuclear weapon ever again," Spriggs said. "I think that if we capture the history of this and show what the forces of these weapons are and how much devastation they can wreak, then maybe people will be reluctant to use them."
Columnist Cheryl Costa examines appearances of triangle-shaped UFOs.
Triangle-shaped UFOs have been in the media for the past 20 years or so. Numerous television shows have reported cases from different parts of the U.S. and Western Europe. These craft are usually about the size of a football field and nearly two stories thick. They are typically reported as having three major glowing orbs on the underside. They are non-reflective and black in color, but they’ve also been reported as glowing orange or yellow. The strangest element is that most reports say that they are unnervingly silent.
The CNY region is not without its reports of these triangle-shaped crafts. Among the earliest-known upstate reports of a triangle craft was in January 1979 in Herkimer.One winter’s night, a snowmobiler who lived in the country went to visit a friend five miles away. He stated that suddenly it became quiet; he couldn’t hear his sled’s engine and the snowmobile’s lights went out. He looked up and could make out the outline of a huge black triangle blocking out the stars. It had no lights and was silent. He said it took about two minutes for it to pass over head. It was perhaps 100 feet off the ground and when it passed under the power lines, arcs began jumping from the wires to the top of the craft. He watched it continue moving away over a hill and then out of sight. When he got home, nobody believed him.
Other sightings include:
A sighting in October 1982 in Owasco.
In October 2010, one was reported in Skaneateles, observed by a number of people at a football game.
In December 2011 near Sylvan Beach, a family observed two of these crafts.
One was seen over Hiawatha Lake moving northwest in June of 2012 in the late-night hours.
Notably this year, a number of sightings of black triangles occurred in May 2013 in the regional New York City area.
The most recent report was logged in Earlville on July 15, 2013. A young woman was called outside by her excited boyfriend. She reported that he pointed to the sky and some distance from them was a huge orange triangle craft. They watched it for a few minutes as it slowly moved away and disappeared.
A curious aspect regarding these black triangles is the frequency of their sightings. When I examined the sighting data for the 20 years between 1979 through 2000, there were a total of 34 reports for the entire state of New York. Yet from 2001 to 2016, the number of black triangle sightings for the state totaled 414.
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HISTORIC DISCOVERY! ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNEARTH GIANT STATUE WITH ELONGATED SKULL IN EGYPT
HISTORIC DISCOVERY! ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNEARTH GIANT STATUE WITH ELONGATED SKULL IN EGYPT
An international team of German and Egyptian researchers has recovered an astonishing eight-meter quartzite statue which was found in a pit in a neighborhood in the Egyptian capital city of Cairo. According to the Cultural Ministry, if the statue is what the archaeologists suspect it to be then it might just be one of the most significant discoveries in Egyptian history.
The intricately crafted statue, which clearly depicts a ruler, was found in the region which once lay in the shadows of the temple of Ramses II in the ancient city of Heliopolis, which lies in the east of modern day Cairo. According to the head of the Egyptian archaeological team, the archaeologists are currently completing their research and excavation of the site in order to confirm who the statue depicts.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS RECOVER ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DISCOVERIES IN EGYPTIAN HISTORY
The archaeologists have not yet found any inscriptions on the statue which would definitively identify who the ancient king was. However, they are almost certain that the statue depicts Ramses II who founded the extraordinary sun temple which used to stand in this particular area.
Researchers say that the sun temple, which was destroyed during the Greco-Roman age, was one of the largest and most intricate in Egypt as well as being one of the holiest and most culturally significant sites in the age of the ancient Egyptians. According to Dietrich Raue, the head of the German team, the ancient Egyptian people believed that Heliopolis was the home of the sun god which meant that not even the pharaohs and their families were permitted to build their residences there.
The sun temple was one of the most important architectural projects undertaken by Pharaoh Ramses II which is considered by experts to have been one of the most powerful and respected rulers of the ancient Egyptian civilization. He was the third ruler of the nineteenth dynasty and was best known for his expansionist military endeavors across the continent of Africa. Under the reign of Ramses, the ancient Egyptian empire grew to encompass territory from Syria in the east to Sudan in the south. His military prowess led to his successors referring to him as the ‘great ancestor.'
According to the archaeological team, they will extract remaining pieces of the statue and then begin the painstaking task of restoring the ancient structure to its former glory. It is expected that the statue will be placed in the entrance of the Grand Egyptian Museum in 2018.
The use of machines rather than hand tools to produce goods is thought of as having started in the 1700s and 1800s in Europe, as opposed to in much earlier times. However, there was more, perhaps much more use of machinery in the past than is commonly believed.
Recently, some new evidence has appeared that the feat of building the Egyptian pyramids was accomplished largely with machine tools. While one could argue that each block was cut simply with bronze chisels, many of the blocks seem to have been cut with circular saws, perhaps of a type that was turned by a hand crank and not a more sophisticated source of power.
Even though the great pyramid took twenty years to build, the cutting of more than two million large blocks into such precise shapes seems more likely to have been done with saws than with chisels. It would arguably not have been possible to complete the task in only twenty years without the use of more advanced tools.
Egyptologist Brian Foerster has made it his life's work to study the use of machine tools in ancient Egypt. The use of technology such as tube drills for cutting holes into rock is well argued for. Many such perfect circular holes are found in stones made of Basalt, which is said to be too hard for simple bronze hand tools to cut.
The distances that very large stones were moved, up to 500 miles from where they were cut, also seems unfeasible unless the Egyptians had more technology than is commonly believed. Many large stone objects that are thought of as having non-mechanical purposes curiously resemble gears and other mechanical components. Could the ancient Egyptians have made large gears out of stone, and, if so, for what purpose?
There is also some evidence of even more advanced technology such aircraft and electric lighting. Electric lighting is not as difficult to believe as it might sound. Electric batteries were actually occasionally constructed in the ancient world, that is not disputed. What the electricity was used for is not known. Perhaps, lighting could be imagined. Brian Foerster's book, "Lost Ancient Technology of Egypt", discusses the subject in more detail.
TOM DELONGE: 'BIG UFO ANNOUNCEMENT’ COMING WITHIN NEXT 60 DAYS
TOM DELONGE: 'BIG UFO ANNOUNCEMENT’ COMING WITHIN NEXT 60 DAYS
Tom Delonge, the front man for bands such as Blink 182 and Angels & Airwaves, has been very vocal about an important message that he intends on releasing within the next sixty days regarding the UFO phenomenon. Before you start laughing or scratching your head, realize that this is a serious article.
The punk front man has been involved in a mysterious project and has sent some emails to Hillary Clinton that have been discovered by WikiLeaks. The rock star had also been speaking to numerous military officials via email as well. In these emails, Delonge had stated that he was in communication with extra terrestrials and that he was aware of his phone being tapped.
Delonge had also said that he was under surveillance by a group of "shady officials." Delonge said that there's some information that he could not mention, but there was a lot that he could touch on, and that we could expect a major announcement in the 60-day timeframe that he laid out for us. He had also said that he had been under scrutiny from these shady officials due to his fame and how his status had brought him a status of notoriety regarding the UFO phenomenon that he had involved himself with.
Delonge also said that with regards to the existence of UFOs and the leak of his correspondence with Clinton and the military, that WikiLeaks had "messed some stuff up." Perhaps the controversial site took offense with what Delonge had to say. Maybe the group that was watching Delonge and tapping his phone was Mr. Assange's group? Some people do not like to be criticized, especially when it puts their credibility into question.
Either way, all we can do is wait to hear what Tom Delonge has to say. From rock star to conspiracy theorist. It's quite fascinating.
During the fundraising event for his son Jeb Bush's presidential campaign, George Bush Sr. left the audience embarrassed after answering a UFO question by one of the activists / journalists.
The response left the audience and the reporters completely taken aback. Hoping to help his son Jeb Bush with the presidential campaign, George Bush, along with his other son and former US President George W. Bush Jr., have campaigned to try to bring the Bush family back to the White House , But some experts believe that this type of incident could cost the election.
During the fundraising event, a man in the audience raised a strange question, which led to an even more startling response from the former president and director of the CIA.
The man asked George Bush Sr. when the U.S. government would tell Americans the truth about UFOs, and Bushreplied before the questioning was stopped by the organizers of the event: "Americans CAN NOT Face the Truth. "
Aliens have deactivated British and US nuclear missiles, say US military pilots
Aliens have deactivated British and US nuclear missiles, say US military pilots
Aliens have landed, infiltrated British nuclear missile sites and deactivated the weapons, according to US military pilots.
The beings have repeated their efforts in the US and have been active since 1948, the men said, and accused the respective governments of trying to keep the information secret.
The unlikely claims were compiled by six former US airmen and another member of the military who interviewed or researched the evidence of 120 ex-military personnel.
The information they have collected suggests that aliens could have landed on Earth as recently as seven years ago.
The men's aim is to press the two governments to recognise the long-standing extra-terrestrial visits as fact.
They are to be presented on Monday 27 September at a meeting in Washington.
One of the men, Capt Robert Salas, said:
"The US Air Force is lying about the national security implications of unidentified aerial objects at nuclear bases and we can prove it."
He said said he witnessed such an event first-hand on March 16, 1967, at Malmstrom Air Force Base in Montana which housed Minuteman nuclear missiles.
Capt Salas continued:
"I was on duty when an object came over and hovered directly over the site.
"The missiles shut down - 10 Minuteman missiles. And the same thing happened at another site a week later. There's a strong interest in our missiles by these objects, wherever they come from. I personally think they're not from planet Earth."
Others claim to have seen similar activity in the UK.
Col Charles Halt said he saw a UFO at the former military base RAF Bentwaters, near Ipswich, 30 years ago, during which he saw beams of light fired into the base then heard on the military radio that aliens had landed inside the nuclear storage area.
He said:
"I believe that the security services of both the United States and the United Kingdom have attempted - both then and now - to subvert the significance of what occurred at RAF Bentwaters by the use of well-practised methods of disinformation."
The site was then the base of the US 81st Tactical Fighter Wing.
Capt Bruce Fenstermacher, a former US Air Force officer, also claims he saw a cigar-shaped UFO hovering above a nuclear base in Wyoming in 1976.
The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane is just eight days away from setting a record on its current clandestine mission.
If the robotic vehicle stays aloft until March 25, it will break the X-37B mission-duration mark of 674 days, which was established back in October 2014.
It's unclear whether that will actually happen, however; the Air Force is tight-lipped about most X-37B payloads and activities, including touchdown plans. [The X-37B's Fourth Mystery Mission in Photos]
"The landing date will be determined based on the completion of the program's on-orbit demonstrations and objectives for this mission," Capt. AnnMarie Annicelli, an Air Force spokeswoman, told Space.com via email when asked when the current mission might end.
The U.S. Air Force's robotic X-37B space plane, known as the Orbital Test Vehicle, is shown here in a 2009 photo at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. An X-37B spacecraft is currently flying the fourth classified mission for the U.S. Air Force.
The uncrewed X-37B (also known as the Orbital Test Vehicle, or OTV) looks a lot like NASA's now-retired space shuttle, only much smaller. The X-37B is just 29 feet (8.8 meters) long and 9.6 feet (2.9 m) tall, with a wingspan of about 15 feet (4.6 m). Two of the vehicles could fit inside a space shuttle's payload bay.
The Air Force is known to have two X-37Bs, both of which were built by Boeing. These twin craft have flown four missions to date. OTV-1 launched on April 22, 2010, and landed on Dec. 3 of that year, spending 224 days in orbit. OTV-2 started on March 5, 2011, and wrapped up on June 16, 2012, after 468 days in space. OTV-3 launched on Dec. 11, 2012, and landed on Oct. 17, 2014, after circling the Earth for more than 674 days.
The U.S. Air Force's X-37B space plane launches atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket on May 20, 2015. The liftoff kicked off the X-37B program’s fourth mission.
Credit: United Launch Alliance
All four X-37B flights have launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, and the first three landed at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. But the Air Force has been working to consolidate X-37B launch and landing activities on Florida's Space Coast, and that vision includes bringing the vehicles down at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), which is next door to Cape Canaveral. [The X-37B Space Plane: 6 Surprising Facts]
Rumors have swirled that OTV-4 will land at KSC, but that's all they are at the moment — rumors. Capt. Annicelli declined to confirm or refute such speculation.
"While the program has the capability to land at either KSC or Vandenberg, the landing location is determined by a variety of factors," she said.
Because of the secrecy surrounding the X-37B program, some people have speculated that the vehicle is a space weapon. But the Air Force has always vigorously contested such claims, saying that the space plane is simply testing technologies and helping researchers conduct in-space experiments.
"Technologies being tested in the program include advanced guidance, navigation and control, thermal-protection systems, avionics, high-temperature structures and seals, conformal reusable insulation, lightweight electromechanical flight systems, advanced propulsion systems and autonomous orbital flight, re-entry, and landing," the Air Force's X-37B fact sheet states.
A good buddy of mine and former squadron mate, Dave “Sex” Fravor, has one of the most bizarre aviation stories of all time. It is a story that stretches credibility, so I’ll start off by building up Dave’s bona fides.
For what it’s worth, I know him personally — very well. We flew A-6s together for a cruise back in the Dark Ages before he matriculated into the Hornet world. He’s a funny guy. Smart and sharp witted, with a typical fighter pilot’s overestimation of his skills. (He’d read the SHB article and assured me his was way better than anything Nasty could do. I called B.S.–pretty standard.) In the air, though, Dave was all business, as professional as it gets.
It’s easy to get a sense of who and what he is because his squadron was featured on the 10-part miniseries Carrier that aired on PBS. You get an excellent and accurate impression of him from his screen time as Commanding Officer of VFA-41.
VFA-41 ‘Black Aces’ CAG jet on its takeoff roll at MCAS Miramar, heading out to perform of the many Centennial of Naval Aviation fly-by’s.
On the morning of 14 November 2004, Dave and his WSO launched into the clear blue Southern California sky about a hundred miles southwest of San Diego. Their Call Sign was FASTEAGLE 01. His wingman and WSO launched just after them in FASTEAGLE 02. They climbed overhead the ship and rendezvoused in normal fashion before setting off to their assigned work area in the open ocean south of USS Nimitz. Normal day, normal ops for the pre-deployment work up cycle they were in the middle of.
The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group had been on station for a few weeks already, working to integrate the operations of the carrier with her various support ships, including the Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser, USS Princeton. As far as Dave was concerned, it was a standard day in a normal work up cycle. Another step in the long journey in preparing the ships of the Strike Group and the planes of the Air Wing to work harmoniously for their upcoming combat deployment.
What Dave didn’t know was for the past several days, Princeton had been picking up some bizarre returns on their Death Star-worthy SPY-1 radar. On several occasions beginning 10 November, the Fire Control Officer and the extremely experienced Fire Control Senior Chief had detected multiple returns descending from far above the radar’s scan volume–somewhere higher than 80,000 ft. The targets, dubbed Anomalous Aerial Vehicles (AAVs), would drop from above 80K to hover roughly 50 feet off the water in a matter of seconds.
Always over the same spot, a Lat/Long about 30NM off the coast of Baja, roughly 70nm southwest of Tijuana. At the time, the SPY-1 was the most sophisticated and powerful tactical radar on the planet. With it, they were able to track these AAVs while they descended, hovered and then zipped away at speeds, turn rates and accelerations faster than any known friendly or threat aircraft. Impossibly fast.
VFA-41 ‘Black Aces’ CAG resting on the ramp after a sortie during Air WingFallon.
Once the Air Wing’s planes arrived aboard Nimitz, the Fire Control team on Princeton saw an opportunity to use those assets and eyeballs to help solve the AAV mystery.
At the same time FASTEAGLE flight was wrapping up its scheduled training, the CO of Marine Hornet squadron VMFA-232, Lieutenant Colonel “Cheeks” Kurth, was completing a post-maintenance check flight not too far away. He was the first fast-mover contacted by Princeton. The communication was strange and intriguing. He was asked to investigate an unidentified airborne contact. This wasn’t a terribly unusual request while a Strike Group was in transit or deployed far from home waters, but it was more than a little strange practically in sight of the San Diego Homeport. To add to the unusual communications, he was queried as to what ordinance he had on board.
“None.”
While Princeton was communicating with Cheeks, they were also attempting to hand off their AAV contact to the Air Wing’s E-2C Hawkeye, also airborne at the time. The crew from VAW-117 had been providing intercept control for FASTEAGLE flight during their training. Princeton now wanted the E-2 to guide the Super Hornets to an intercept with the AAV contact, currently hovering over their favorite spot, but now about 20,000 feet over the ocean.
The AAV returns had not been strong enough to show up on the E-2’s broad sweep, but once they focused their radar on the coordinates Princeton directed them towards, they managed a faint contact. The radar returns from the contact weren’t enough to generate a target track however, so Princeton cut the E-2 from control and contacted FASTEAGLE directly. Though he was unable to lock up the AAVs, the E-2 controller remained on frequency and listened to the entire ensuing evolution.
As Cheeks approached the spot he was being vectored to, Princeton advised him to stay above 10K as the section of Super Hornets were approaching the target. His radar picked up the FASTEAGLE two-ship, but no other contacts. A moment later Princeton directed him to “skip it” and return to the ship. Since he was so close, he decided to fly over the action and sneak a peek.
The sea was calm, almost glassy smooth and it was late morning on a beautiful SoCal day. Perfect conditions. As Cheeks flew over the spot he saw a disturbance on the surface of the ocean. A round section of turbulent water about 50-100 meters in diameter. It was the only area and type of what he called, “whitewater” describing that it looked as if there was something below the surface like a shoal or what he’d heard a ship sinking rapidly would look like.
He overflew the disturbance and circled back in the direction of Nimitz without ever seeing what caused the water to froth. As he turned away, which happened to be the moment the Super Hornets converged on the location, the whitewater cleared and the ocean surface returned to its smooth state. The spot of the previous disturbance was completely indiscernible.
A few thousand feet below him, Dave had gone though the similar surreal experience of being asked by Princeton if the FASTEAGLE jets were carrying any ordnance. Dave’s baffled WSO reported that all they had were two captive-carry training missiles. They were given bearing and range vectors to a set of coordinates and told to investigate an unknown aerial contact over that spot.
With no further information on the contact, they descended to the low 20s and scanned with radar, picking nothing up. Neither plane in this flight was carrying a FLIR pod, which limited the type of sensors they could search with; but, both planes were brand new–in Dave’s words, “They still had that new car smell.” The APG-73 radars were both new and had performed perfectly during the previous hour’s training. Yet the screens from both planes were clean all the way to the point Princeton called “Merge plot!”
A cigar-shaped UFO over Los Angeles in 2012. (Image Courtesy: YouTube.com)
All four aircrew were eyes out from this point forward. The first unusual indication Dave picked up was the area of whitewater on the surface that Cheeks was looking at over his shoulder as he flew away. He remembers thinking it was about the size of a 737 and maybe the contact they had been vectored on had been an airliner that had just crashed. He maneuvered his F-18 lower to get a better look. As he was descending through about 20K he was startled by the sight of a white object that was moving about just over the frothing water. It was all white, featureless, oblong and making minor lateral movements while staying at a consistent low altitude over the disk of turbulent water.
Dave put FASTEAGLE 02 into high cover passing through about 15K and she and her WSO witnessed the events from a perfect vantage point. Dave continued his dive lower towards the object, now also attempting to slave the radar through his HMCS to achieve a short range lock. No luck. His intention was to pass the object close aboard at about 350 kts, but as he got closer he noticed that the AAV had oriented one of its skinny ends towards him, as if, in his words, “It had just noticed us” and it was now pointing at them.
The AAV then began to rise from its hover. The object, which he would later describe as a while tic-tac, rose in right 2-circle flow about a mile cross-circle from Dave’s Hornet. BFM instincts took over and Dave dug nose-low to cut across the bottom of the circle. As he was looking at the AAV and pulling his nose up to bear, the tried again to slave his radar via the HMCS. Again, the APG-73 was unable to lock on the white, fighter-sized flying object now just a couple of thousand feet away and closing.
All through these maneuvers, Dave’s WSO was broadcasting the real-time events of the intercept to Princeton. The radar operators in the E-2 listened on the secure net to what sounded like one of the hundreds of intercepts they had heard over the years. With the notable exception that the aircrew’s voices were more stressed and the verbiage to ID the target was unlike anything they had heard before.
A Super Hornet from VFA-41 ‘Black Aces’ sitting on the ramp at NAS Fallon.
In his debrief comments, Dave, his WSO and the two other crews stated the object had initially been hovering like a Harrier. They described it as uniformly white, about 46 feet long (roughly fighter-sized), having a discernible midline horizontal axis (like a fuselage) but having no visible windows, nacelles, wings or propulsion systems.
As Dave was pulling for nose-on and trying to get a dogfight lock with his radar, the AAV tightened its turn, “lift vector on, then aft” as Dave described, passed behind his tail and accelerated away at multi-Mach speed. Dave immediately queried Princeton for a snap-vector but the SPY-1 radar had also lost the contact. The first calls from Princeton were “picture clean.” A few moments later Princeton came back with, “You’re not going to believe this, it’s at your CAP.” Princeton had picked up the AAV hovering at 24K at the assigned Lat/Long Dave had used earlier during training as his orbiting point.
Though low on gas, the FASTEAGLE flight swung through the CAP position to try and pick up the AAV again. They saw nothing more on their way back to Nimitz. Even the 100 meter circle of turbulent ocean water had disappeared. That spot was now indistinguishable from the rest of the sea’s surface. Asked later, Dave reported that he had not seen anything on or below the surface of the ocean that may have caused the turbulent circle of water. It had existed when they had first visually acquired the tic-tac, then was gone when they circled back a few minutes later.
Back on Nimitz after recovery, the four crew headed down to the paraloft to remove their gear. The next four crews from VFA-41 were getting dressed for their training mission to the same area, using the same assigned Lat/Longs as CAP points. Dave and his crewmembers passed on what they had seen to the new guys and reminded them to get tape if they could.
By the time the new crew launched, rendezvoused and checked in with the E-2 for control, it was early afternoon; 1500. The planes separated, with one heading to that same southern CAP location. They were cruising along at 20K and 300kts, max endurance. Again, the jet, radar and also, this time, the FLIR were spanking new and operating perfectly.
The WSO first picked up a contact on the radar around 30nm away while it was operating in the RWS scan mode. He checked the coordinates and it was indeed hovering at their precise CAP point. He attempted several STT locks, to no avail. Later, in the debrief, he explained that he had multiple telltale cues of EA.
The target aspect on the track file was turning through 360 degrees along with some other distinct jamming indications. In the less precise scan mode, the return indicated that the object was, in the WSO’s words, “A few thousand feet below us. Around 15-20K– but hovering stationary.” The only movement was generated by the closure of the fighter to the CAP location.
The WSO resorted to the FLIR pod on board, slaving it to the weak track the RWS mode had been able to generate. He recorded the following sequence to the on-board recorder. Using the IR mode, he was able to lock onto the AAV. It showed up on his screen and on tape as a white object in a black background hovering with no known means.
The IR camera did not detect roiling hot gasses blasting from below the AAV, as they would with a Harrier or a helicopter. It was simply hanging in midair. He switched to the TV mode and was able to again lock the FLIR onto the object while still trying, with no luck, to get a STT track on the radar. As he watched it, the AAV moved out of his screen to the left so suddenly it almost seemed to disappear. On the tape, when it is slowed down, the object accelerates out of the field of view with shocking speed. The WSO was not able to reacquire the AAV either in RWS or with the FLIR.
Somehow the tape made its way to YouTube. A few years after the incident, when first telling me the story, Dave pointed me to the link. It was unremarkable without the background information. But folded into context it was amazing, especially the slow-mo of the dot accelerating out of screen. For years I told the story to friends and showed them the video as punctuation.
However last month when I called Dave to refresh my memory before sitting down to write this bizarre encounter, he informed me that the video had been removed from YouTube. He told me that a government agency with a three letter identifier had recently conducted an investigation into the AAVs and had exhaustively interviewed all parties involved.
All of the seven flight crew, including 6 aircrew from VFA-41 and Cheeks from VMFA-232. The Fire Control Officer and Senior Chief from Princeton, and the radar operator on the E-2. They even queried the crew of the USS Louisville, a Los Angeles-class Fast-Attack submarine that was in the area as part of the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group who reported there were no unidentified sonar contacts or strange underwater noises on that day.
I’m not sure what to make of these events. I’ve loved the story since first listening because it is so crazy. I had never given aliens or UFOs much thought. It was a waste of my CPU power to mull a question like that. If they wanted to make contact, they would. If they wanted to observe from a distance, then they would be impossible to discern given the assumed high technology required to visit.
But now I was faced with credible witnesses. Not crackpots wearing foil hats but people I knew and people who were from my world. There were multiple, corroborating platforms that detected the AAVs using varied sensors. And, of course, the eight eyeballs that actually got a visual on the white tic-tac as Dave maneuvered to merge with it. He doesn’t have to be a stranger to you either. Watch him on the PBS series, Carrier, and generate your own opinion of his professionalism and sanity.
Then send me your best design for an aluminum foil hat…
LEGENDARY BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE SHOT DOWN DURING SECRET MILITARY MISSION?
LEGENDARY BLACK KNIGHT SATELLITE SHOT DOWN DURING SECRET MILITARY MISSION?
Two days ago a secret server of Wikileaks was used to upload a huge amount of data coming from an unknown source. Apparently, all the document and files were marked with metatags that contained references to the legendary Black Knight satellite.
This mysterious object was discovered by Nikola Tesla back in 1932. He was convinced that this was an alien object put in earth's orbit to monitor mankind's evolution.
Yesterday a Youtuber's account got hacked, and this video was uploaded that contains footage of the Black Knight Satellite being shot down. The weapon that was used was an anti-matter warhead according to the Wikileaks documents.
It's unclear who gave the order to bring down this extraterrestrial craft. In the video, we also catch a glimpse of the secret aircraft that carried out the attack. After the impact, several escape pods are launched back into space.
In this stage, we can only speculate on the reason why the Black Knight Satellite was shot down.
Was it about to signal it's creators to come to earth? Was the Black Knight Satellite regarding the boundaries of space for humans that have the ambition of interplanetary traveling?
In de bergachtige regio in het noorden van Pakistan heeft een laagvliegende meteoriet woensdagavond voor paniek gezorgd bij de plaatselijke bevolking. Dat hebben lokale verantwoordelijken laten weten.
Het incident deed zich voor omstreeks 21 uur plaatselijke tijd (17 uur Belgische tijd). De inwoners van de stad Gilgit en de aangrenzende districten Ghizer en Diamer zagen plots een onbekend voorwerp door de lucht klieven en de hemel oplichten. Volgens een getuige liepen heel wat inwoners de straat op. De verschrikte toeschouwers zagen het object in de bergen verdwijnen en hoorden enkele seconden later ontploffingen. Op sociaalnetwerksites wemelde het al snel van getuigenissen van mensen die het object hadden gezien of er een foto van hadden genomen.
Ook de plaatselijke autoriteiten bevestigden inmiddels dat er in de drie districten een vreemd object werd waargenomen. "Volgens ons onderzoek gaat het om een meteoriet die op lage hoogte vloog. Het vermeende geluid van een explosie is waarschijnlijk te wijten aan de meteoriet die door de geluidsmuur breekt", luidde het. Nog volgens de autoriteiten is de meteoriet niet neergekomen in het gebied, maar heeft hij verder koers gezet richting Afghaans grondgebied en de Wachan-corridor, een extreem afgelegen regio.
Meteorieten zijn brokstukken van een hemellichaam die niet volledig verpulverd werden bij het doorkruisen van de atmosfeer. Ze zijn erg gegeerd bij wetenschappers omwille van de schat aan informatie over het ontstaan van het zonnestelsel die ze mogelijk in zich dragen. Het is op dit moment niet duidelijk of de waargenomen meteoriet uiteindelijk ergens is neergekomen, dan wel volledig uiteen is gevallen alvorens de grond te bereiken.
A multi-tiered, brilliant UFO-shaped lenticular cloud over Mt. Tasman, New Zealand.
Have you ever spent a lazy day on a blanket in the middle of a summer meadow, staring up at the sky, watching the clouds drift by, and imagining them take the shapes of familiar things?
There’s even an organization, The Cloud Appreciation Society, devoted to the activity of cloud gazing. When their February 2017 cloud of the month turned out to be a flying saucer-shaped lenticular cloud, it absolutely inspired us to seek out more of these breathtaking images of clouds from around the world that have caused people to report seeing alien visitors.
The Weather Channel has referred to lenticular clouds as “Mother Nature’s UFOs.” These altocumulus lenticularis clouds ― appearing to our senses as disc-shaped objects ― often form in mountainous regions where stable moist air flows upward and then, when it becomes colder, it descends, forming a disc-like cloud that can appear to hover in the air.
They’re also seen in non-mountain areas, formed by the strong winds resulting from a storm front.
We’ve gathered some remarkable images here that might make you think twice about whether people have been lucky enough to capture amazing UFO pictures, or the more credible explanation of lenticular clouds.
UFOs Or Lenticular Clouds?
Mt. Tasman, New Zealand
A brilliant, multi-tiered lenticular cloud.
Antarctic Peninsula
A lenticular cloud formation over the Lemaire Channel on the Antarctic Peninsula in Antarctica.
Iceland
Jokulsarlon Glacial Lagoon of Vatnajokull glacier under majestic lenticular clouds, Iceland.
Mt. Rainier, Washington State
A lenticular cloud floats over Mount Rainier at sunrise. Washington, USA.
Mt. Fuji, Japan
Fujiyoshida is a town located in the northern area of Mt. Fuji and considered as one of the best places to admire the beauty of the mountain. Fujiyoshida is the gateway for climbing Mt. Fuji via the Yoshida trail, the most popular trail to the summit
Queens, New York
Umbria, Italy
Lenticular cloud over Castelluccio di Norcia, Umbria, Italy.
Image copyrightCOLOMBIAN POLICEImage captionColombian police retrieved the object and took it to a police station
Farmers living in central Tolima province in Colombia say they were terrified when an object they took to be a UFO crashed in a field on Sunday.
"It was smoking and a strange liquid was leaking from it," a resident of the small town of San Luis said.
Police have since identified the object as an internet balloon developed by X, a company founded by Google, to boost the signal in rural areas.
It is not yet clear what caused the balloon to crash.
'From outer space'
Tolima police commander Jorge Esguerra denied previous reports on Twitter and local media which had described the object as a satellite.
Image copyrightTWITTERImage captionSome locals assumed the "strange object which fell from the sky" was a satellite
"It's a technological device used by Google which moves around and is held aloft by a balloon," he explained, adding that it formed part of X's Project Loon.
X, which was formerly known as Google X, is using the devices to extend internet connectivity to people in rural and remote areas by having the balloons, which travel on the edge of space, relay the signal.
Google's Project Loon superpressure balloons have already flown millions of kilometres around the
world
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The balloons are filled with helium before being sent more than 60,000ft high into the stratosphere
But many people in the rural area near San Luis where it crashed said they were convinced it was something more sinister.
"We all thought it was a UFO or the remains of a space craft," locals told El Tiempo newspaper.
It is not the first time a Project Loon balloon has crashed.
In February 2016, one came down at a tea plantation in Sri Lanka during a test flight.
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Superpressure balloons are made out of tightly sealed plastic capable of containing highly pressurised lighter-than-air gases.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage caption A similar crash happened in Sri Lanka last year
Dr Horace Drew, 61, was just 10 years old when he allegedly saw an unidentified, silver, windowless craft hovering in the sky near his suburban home, in Jacksonville, Florida. The encounter lasted only moments but led to a lifelong fascination with the extraterrestrial.
“I saw a UFO, so I knew they were real from an early age,” Dr Drew told news.com.au.
The scientist, who holds a PhD in Chemistry from Caltech, the California Institute of Technology, and worked for CSIRO as a molecular biologist, has been researching crop circles and aliens for 20 years. Dr Drew relocated to Australia in the 1980s but most of his work has taken him overseas, predominantly to Europe.
“They’re quite rare in Australia,” he said.
He, along with many conspiracy theorists, believe crop circles are the work of aliens or human time travellers. Sceptics say most are probably man-made.
A crop circle is typically defined by standing wheat stems that have been flattened in the shape of a circle or more complex pattern. They tend to appear mainly in developed Western or secularised countries — including Japan.
The cause of many of the circles is unknown despite various natural and unorthodox explanations having been put forward. Some crop circles have been proven to be hoaxes.
But according to Dr Drew, a number are legitimate and contain puzzles that can be decoded and linked to time travel and alien life.
He told news.com.au he had visited about “two dozen crop circles” around the globe in his career. Typically, they were between 50-500m in length, he said.
“This has led to at least one major breakthrough the discovery of a more advanced binary code than our computers currently use.”
Dr Drew claimed that aliens or human time travellers have been leaving the crop circles on Earth as messages to “us or themselves”.
Sightseers visit an incorporated oversized crop circle in a cornfield, not far from the small community of Mammendorf near Munich, southern Germany, on August 3, 2016. The crop circle had a diameter of 180 metres.
Picture: AFP / Christof StacheSource:AFP
WHY ARE THERE CROP CIRCLES?
Dr Drew said he was one of a handful of scientists around the world who had worked to successfully decode some of the messages in crop circles.
According to him, some crop circles provide general descriptions of the future.
“Other crop (circles) show schematic images of the future for astronomical or human events,” he said.
He said some of the decoded messages read: ‘Much pain but still time. Believe. There is good out there’; ‘Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises’; ‘We oppose deception. Conduit closing’.
Dr Drew has developed at least two theories as to the purpose of the circles by reading their “advanced (version of) binary codes”.
“One theory is that they are trying to introduce themselves to us peacefully, like we do using bubbles with dolphins,” he said.
“When (humans) want to talk with dolphins we put little bubble circles under the ocean with a generator. We watch the dolphins come up and play and investigate, and we study them.
“This is called the ‘dolphin communication project’.”
He said the dynamic between the way humans interact with dolphins and whales was likely comparable to how extraterrestrials communicate with us.
“Barack or Trump have never said to a dolphin: ‘take me to your leader I want to sign a treaty with you’,” he said.
“And (the extraterrestrials are) not interested in making a treaty with us.
“They are ahead of us like we are ahead of the dolphins and the whales.”
His second theory was that the messages “are not even for us”.
Dr Drew said human time travellers from the distant future could be creating the circles as directional markers, to help them navigate “in their distant past, which is our present”.
“There are definitely humans living there in about 5000 years with time travel capability,” he said.
“They’re coming back and flying all over Earth.
“They seem to just say ‘this is a certain day’ and mark it.
“So the trouble is we don’t know space time physics enough to understand what’s happening. It’s beyond our knowledge.
“Maybe they don’t want us to know about it. It might be just for them.”
It’s a theory shared by many in his field of work.
A crop circle once appeared in field of wheat at Clay Hill, Warminster, Wiltshire. The site, made famous by UFO sightings in the 60s and 70s, had crop circle experts baffled over the 200 foot design.
Source:Supplied
HOW ARE THEY MADE?
Dr Drew said the circles appeared to be created by an “unknown energy that heats the crops up”.
“It’s like microwave energy but is something beyond earth’s science,” he said.
“It can pattern the wheat.
“No one sees or hears anything and that's why its so hard to prove. If there’s a craft, it’s silent, noiseless.”
But there’s nothing to fear, according to him.
“Don’t be afraid,” he said.
REAL OR A HOAX?
Telling the difference between a real crop circle and a hoax is like differentiating between an original painting and a fake, according to Dr Drew.
“There are some things to look for,” he said.
Crops that are bent “halfway up” their stems, rather than on the ground ,is one telltale sign “cereologists”, or someone that advocates paranormal explanations of crop circles, look for to determine that it’s not a hoax.
“You can’t absolutely prove a crop circle wasn’t a hoax but you can give a high probability and judgment,” he said.
“If there’s a hoax the word of it gets around very fast, people are aware, people are not that easily fooled.”
Scientist Dr Horace Drew said he took this photos in a “newly found crop” circle at Etchilhampton near Decizes, England in July, 2012. “About 25 per cent of fallen wheat stems inside the picture were bent by unknown energies,” he told a conference on Wednesday.
Source:Supplied
In 1991, English pranksters Doug Bower and Dave Chorley took credit for most of the crop circles across southern England made since 1978. They were inspired by the Tully “saucer nest” case in Australia, where a farmer found a flattened circle of swamp reeds after observing a UFO.
Using basic tools including a plank of wood, rope, and a baseball cap fitted with a loop of wire to help them walk in a straight line, they said they made complex crop circles in England — which others then copied all over the world into the 1980s.
They made a circle for journalists, which was later declared authentic by a cereologist. They then revealed their hoax to the world, spurring on even more copycats.
Scientist Dr Horace Drew has been researching crop circles and aliens for 20 years.
Source:Supplied
Dr Drew said there was a lot of scientific evidence to show that some crop circles were made by human time travellers or extraterrestrial beings. “Laboratory results on plant or soil samples taken from a crop circle in Brazil in October of 2016 show that it was formed by unknown sterilising images,” he said.
The earliest mention of a crop circle dates back to the 1500s. A woodcut from the time showed a “mowing devil” making the pattern.
An aerial view shows people strolling through a crop circle on a field near Mammendorf, southern Germany, on July 26, 2016. The pattern had a diameter of 180 meters.
Picture: AFP / Sven Hoppe.Source:AFP
GOVERNMENT SECRETS?
Earlier this month, US TV host Jimmy Kimmel asked former US President George Bush if he went through “secret files, the UFO documents” when he was in office.
But instead of laughing off the question, the former commander in chief replied: “Maybe.”
Mr Kimmel then asked him if there were “any great secrets you know that you can’t share with people?”
“Yeah, there are,” Mr Bush said. “But I’m not telling you.”
Many conspiracy theorists and some scientists, including Dr Drew, argued that Mr Bush’s comments indicated the US government knows much more about extraterrestrial life than it has publicly revealed.
“The politicians are scared they'll lose votes if they talk about it,” Dr Drew said.
He said international media had also played a part in causing the public to doubt the legitimacy of crop circles and aliens.
But according to him, its important for humans to keep seeking answers.
“The ET visitors have technologies which would benefit us greatly, for example, how to make safe, clean energy without burning oil, coal or gas,” Dr Drew said.
“Ultra-fast propulsion systems, based on gravity and inertia, could carry us safely to distant planets or stars.
“We may also need to upgrade our planetary defences soon, to protect against ET’s who may not be friendly.”
There’s still a lot more to be understood but Dr Drew’s hope is that he one day gets a closer look at what was inside the UFO he believes he saw as a child.
“I’d like to meet (the extraterrestrials or human time travellers) in person,” he said.
“But I don’t think they're going to do that.
“Whichever scientific team is doing this I don’t think we’re supposed to have full knowledge of it because it will interrupt their program, whatever they're doing.”
The item is simple. It may make you want to use a certain “Ancient Aliens meme.”
It is listed under Tuesday and reads:
7:44 p.m.: A man reported seeing a UFO drop people off on a mesa near Farmington Hill, just south of Durango
It’s unclear if additional details were released. Real talk: If you saw this, email newstips@9news.com.
The crime blotter had some other great items too, from a “man and a woman getting naked and being inappropriate in the 200 block of East Fourth Avenue” to “twenty five cows” on the loose on County Road 321 and finally:
10:24 p.m.: A man accidentally called 911 while resetting his Apple watch at Purgatory resort.
Oops.
You can see the full blotter in all its glory here. Thanks for the laugh, Durango Herald: http://bit.ly/2nIE3pi
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Disc UFO caught on camera moving out of bay
Disc UFO caught on camera moving out of bay
A Canadian witness at Port Greville reported discovering a disc-shaped object moving out of a local bay and shooting into the sky after watching video previously shot in the area, according to testimony in Case 82086 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness image #1.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was at the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, staying at a friend’s beach cottage on August 6, 2016, when the incident occurred.
“I was watching a fairly intense lightning storm roll into the mouth of the bay off the Atlantic,” the witness stated. “We were waiting for our bar-b-q to finish and I began to film the storm hoping to get some good footage of the lightning as I waited.The storm was still a good 20 minutes away, but the lightning was going straight down into the water almost everytime and I continued to film for about two minutes.”
Witness image #1 closeup.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness captured nothing out of the ordinary except for one very close double flash of lightning and an immediate loud bang.
“I put my camera away,ate supper as the storm passed overhead, and thought nothing more of it until two or three days later when I was going through the video.I watched it normally and saw nothing, got to the end and hit pause during one of the lightning strikes.Took a screenshot for Facebook and continued to scroll backwards very slowly going from lightning strike to lightning strike and taking screenshots.”
Witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
But then the witness noticed something unusual.
“As I got to the very first seconds of the video, during the double lightning bolt and bang, I could see a disc-like object the size of a semi-trailer flying out of the bay on an angle at an unimaginable speed across the sky through the double flash and up into the clouds with a bang and whirly wind tunnel echo sound.”
Witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
The object was captured all within a single second on video.
“But with determination and brain surgeon fingers, I was able to get screenshots of it within that second.I have some unbelievable video and even more unbelievable pictures.I’ve spent almost eight months seeking help and getting nowhere. I pray you people take me seriously and show interest because this is real.”
Witness image.
(Credit: MUFON)
Bay of Fundy
(Credit: Google)
MUFON Canada Field Investigator David Delaney is investigating. The witness included five images with the report, which was filed on February 15, 2017. 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.
Amerikaanse ex-marineofficier ‘zag ingang naar geheime basis op Antarctica’
Amerikaanse ex-marineofficier ‘zag ingang naar geheime basis op Antarctica’
Een voormalige Amerikaanse marineofficier zou op Antarctica de ingang naar een geheime UFO-basis hebben gezien. Dat schrijft de Daily Express.
Hij deed zijn onthulling tegenover onderzoeksjournaliste Linda Moulton Howe van Earthfiles.com. Ze zegt meerdere keren te hebben gesproken met de klokkenluider, die zich Brian noemt.
Brian (59) was naar eigen zeggen onderdeel van een bemanning die door een no-flyzone boven Antarctica vloog en daar UFO’s, aliens en een ingang naar een basis heeft gezien.
Topgeheime projecten
Hij zei dat hij tussen 1983 en 1997 gestationeerd was op het continent en verschillende keren ‘zilverkleurige schijven’ heeft gezien boven het Transantarctisch Gebergte.
Hij claimde dat mensen en aliens er samenwerken en dat er topgeheime projecten worden uitgevoerd.
De ingang bevindt zich volgens hem op enkele kilometers van de Zuidpool. Hij zei ook dat een groep wetenschappers een week lang vermist was en doodsbang terugkeerde.
Zeer groot gat
Bij Marie Byrdland raakten de wetenschappers vermist. De bemanning waar Brian deel van uitmaakte moest de groep opsporen.
Toen de wetenschappers weer opdoken ‘weigerden ze te spreken en zagen ze er bang uit’.
“We zagen een zeer groot gat in het ijs,” zei Brian. “Je kon er zo een LC130 [Hercules] in vliegen.”
Geruchten
“Er werd onder de bemanningsleden gesproken over de mogelijkheid dat er een UFO-basis bij de Zuidpool was,” vervolgde hij.
Hoewel Moulton Howe een Emmywinnende tv-producent en onderzoeksjournalist is, hebben sommigen zo hun bedenkingen bij de onthullingen.
“Antarctica wordt vaak genoemd als plek waar UFO-activiteit is, maar het bewijs is in dit geval gebaseerd op geruchten en informatie van anonieme of onbetrouwbare bronnen,” reageerde schrijver Nigel Watson.
“NASA-astronaut zag dode aliens op beelden UFO-incident bij Roswell”
“NASA-astronaut zag dode aliens op beelden UFO-incident bij Roswell”
Een NASA-astronaut zag op beelden van de UFO-crash bij Roswell lichamen van aliens, zo wordt volgens de Daily Express geclaimd.
De Amerikaanse astronaut Ellison Onizuka, die omkwam bij de ramp met de spaceshuttle Challenger, zou dit tegenover voormalig NASA-ingenieur Clark C. McClelland hebben verklaard, die er vervolgens een artikel over schreef.
In juli 1947 verklaarde het Amerikaanse leger in een persverklaring dat er resten van een gecrashte vliegende schotel waren gevonden in de woestijn.
Area 51
De dag erop volgde een nieuwe verklaring, waarin stond dat het ging om een beschadigde weerballon van de Amerikaanse luchtmacht.
Later zeiden getuigen dat ze lichamen van aliens hadden gezien in het gecrashte toestel. Zij claimden ook dat wrakstukken naar de topgeheime basis Area 51 in Nevada waren gebracht.
McClelland was naar eigen zeggen verbaasd toen Onizuka hem vroeg naar zijn mening over intelligent buitenaards leven.
Verrassende video
Tijdens een training op vliegbasis McClellan in Californië kregen Onizuka en andere piloten van de luchtmacht een verrassende video te zien, aldus McClelland.
“Onizuka schrok toen er een medische onderzoeksruimte werd getoond waarin kleine lichamen op een soort tafel lagen,” zei hij.
“Deze kleine vreemde wezens zagen er mensachtig uit en leken op de wezens die werden beschreven door vermeende getuigen van het Roswellincident in 1947,” vervolgde hij.
Test
“Ze hadden grote hoofden, grote ogen en dunne lichamen, armen en benen,” klonk het. “Ze leken niet van de aarde te komen.”
Onizuka vertelde McClelland naar verluidt dat de piloten na de film niet mochten spreken over wat ze hadden gezien.
“Hij speculeerde dat het mogelijk een test was om te kijken hoe ze zouden reageren op de beelden,” stelde McClelland.
Reageren
“Misschien was het een psychologische test van de luchtmacht om te kijken hoe ik zou reageren als ik een buitenaards wezen zou zien,” zei Onizuka tegen hem.
Het tweetal besloot het onderwerp later nog eens te bespreken, maar op 28 januari 1986 kwamen Onizuka en zes andere astronauten om het leven.
Ruimteschip
NASA-veteraan McClelland beweerde in 2015 dat hij op beelden in het Kennedy Space Center een 2,7 meter lange alien had gezien die in een spaceshuttle stond te praten met astronauten.
Hij claimde ook een ruimteschip te hebben gezien vlak bij de spaceshuttle. “Ik herken een ruimteschip wanneer ik er één zie,” zei hij. “Aliens lopen rond op onze aarde.”
Astronomen onderzoeken mysterieus object in de ruimte
Astronomen onderzoeken mysterieus object in de ruimte
In 2012 ontdekten astronomen een vreemd object in de ruimte dat groter en zwaarder is dan Jupiter.
Ze weten nog steeds niet wat het is. CFBDSIR 2149-0403 is geen exoplaneet en draait niet om een ster.
Het is ook geen bruine dwerg, een object met een massa die kleiner is dan een ster, maar groter dan een gasreus.
Nieuwe klasse
Nieuw onderzoek wijst uit dat het object, dat zich op een afstand van zo’n 100 lichtjaar bevindt, in geen enkele classificatie past.
Het object blijkt na het onderzoek nog vreemder dan gedacht. We hebben hier mogelijk te maken met een nieuwe klasse hemellichamen.
Astronomen van de Franse Université Grenoble-Alpes hebben CFBDSIR 2149-0403 de laatste jaren nauwgezet gevolgd met meerdere telescopen en ontdekten dat het object weinig zwaartekracht uitoefent en een hoog gehalte aan metalen bevat.
Minder zeker
Na de nieuwe waarnemingen zijn ze minder zeker over de massa van het object, wat betekent dat ze niet met zekerheid kunnen zeggen wat het is.
Is het een zeldzame soort planeet of bruine dwerg? Of misschien iets heel anders?
“CFBDSIR 2149-0403 is een atypisch substellair object,” concludeerde hoofdonderzoeker Philippe Delorme.
“Het is een vrijzwevende planeet of een zeldzame bruine dwerg die rijk is aan metalen. Of een combinatie van beide,” zei hij.
NASA TELESCOOP LEGT GROOT ROND OBJECT VAST NAAST DE ZON ( VIDEO )
NASA TELESCOOP LEGT GROOT ROND OBJECT VAST NAAST DE ZON ( VIDEO )
Op beelden van de NASA ruimtetelescopen komen de laatste tijd steeds vreemdere zaken voor.
Zo is er iets ontdekt wat lijkt op een planeet vlakbij de zon en wordt het 's avonds in de Alpen lichter in plaats van donkerder door een vreemde onbekende lichtbron.
NASA heeft verschillende telescopen die in de ruimte vliegen en van daaruit zijn veel betere beelden te maken dan dat die vanaf de aarde gemaakt zouden kunnen worden.
SOHO is een ruimtetelescoop die de Zon observeert. Het is een samenwerkingsproject van de ESA en de NASA. De afkorting SOHO staat voor Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (Nederlands: "Zon- en heliosfeerobservatorium"). Toch wordt deze ruimtesonde niet alleen gebruikt om de Zon te observeren. Er zijn namelijk ook al meer dan 1000 kometen met SOHO gevonden.
SOHO bevindt zich in een baan met een halve lange as van ongeveer 660.000 km rond het Lagrangepunt L1, dat zich op ongeveer 1,5 miljoen km van de Aarde in de richting van de Zon bevindt. Omdat hij geen baan om de Aarde of de Zon beschrijft is SOHO een ruimtesonde en geen satelliet.
Op de volgende afbeelding is goed te zien waar dat punt L1 zich bevindt.
Deze telescoop heeft enkele dagen geleden de hiernavolgende opname gemaakt. De grote donkere cirkel in het midden is de zon en linksonder daarvan zie je in het opgelichte gedeelte duidelijke een donkere cirkelvorm.
Wanneer je dit vergelijkt met de grootte van de zon, dan spreken we hier over een enorme planeet, dat wil zeggen, vele malen groter dan de aarde.
Dat zich daar iets bevindt is duidelijk, maar niet wat het is. In de hiernavolgende video wordt dieper ingegaan op de mogelijkheid dat het een enorm ruimteschip zou kunnen zijn die energie komt tanken bij de zon zoals we dat in het verleden al vaker hebben gezien.
Anderzijds zou dit net ontdekte object ook een planeet uit het mini zonnestelsel Nibiru kunnen zijn, omdat deze ook in de buurt van de zon wordt waargenomen.
Ongetwijfeld zullen een aantal van de volgende foto’s verklaard kunnen worden als lensflares of bijzonnen, maar er komen er steeds meer en ook steeds vaker zien mensen een tweede zon met het blote oog.
Een ander fenomeen dat zich momenteel voor doet en dat we kregen opgestuurd via een lezer (dank!) is dat het in de Alpen 's avonds lichter wordt in plaats van donkerder en dat dit wordt veroorzaakt door een andere lichtbron dan de maan.
Op de volgende afbeelding zie je de maan zoals die door een webcam ’s avonds om 21.00 uur wordt vastgelegd. Niets bijzonders, normale opname.
Dan, op dezelfde dag, dezelfde webcam, maar een half uur later. Helemaal bovenin is nog net de maan te zien, maar wat verschijnt daar in beeld: de zon? Om half tien ’s avonds nadat het al donker was?
De video die hierna volgt, staat vol met voorbeelden in de Alpen waar dingen toch niet helemaal zijn zoals ze eigenlijk horen te zijn.
Misschien zullen er voor alle of enkele bovengenoemde zaken “logische verklaringen” zijn, maar het lijkt alsof er iedere week meer vreemde dingen gebeuren op onze planeet.
BEWIJS IN PIRAMIDES DAT ATLANTIS ONDER IJS VAN ANTARCTICA LIGT ( VIDEO )
BEWIJS IN PIRAMIDES DAT ATLANTIS ONDER IJS VAN ANTARCTICA LIGT ( VIDEO )
Wij kennen onze eigen geschiedenis niet. Want anders zouden we met hele andere ogen naar de wereld van vandaag aankijken.
Ongeveer 12.000 jaar geleden vond er een verschuiving plaats van de aardkorst waardoor het continent Atlantis verdween onder het ijs van Antarctica.
Zij die geloven in de komst van een vreemde planeet in ons zonnestelsel die voor heel wat verstoringen op aarde gaat zorgen, worden door de mainstream in het vakje "aluhoedje" geplaatst.
Dat is jammer, want daardoor zullen in de toekomst veel mensen volkomen onvoorbereid zijn op de dingen die gaan komen.
Eén van de kenmerken van wat een passage van de planeet Nibiru kan veroorzaken, is een fysieke verschuiving van de polen, iets wat ook wordt afgedaan als volkomen onzin.
Toch was het niemand minder dan Albert Einstein die kort voor zijn dood het voorwoord schreef voor het boek "The Earth’s Shifting Crust" van de Amerikaanse historicus Charles H. Hapgood. In dat boek stelt Hapgood dat er ongeveer 12.000 jaar geleden een dusdanige verschuiving van de aardkorst heeft plaatsgevonden dat er hele continenten zijn verplaatst.
Als gevolg daarvan ligt het vroegere Atlantis nu op de plek die wij Antarctica noemen en dat verklaart ook waarom er tot nu niet echt overblijfselen zijn gevonden.
Hapgood studeerde voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog af aan Harvard, tijdens de oorlog werkte hij voor de CIA en daarna als verbindingsofficier tussen het Witte Huis en het Ministerie van Oorlog. Dit betekent dat Hapgood waarschijnlijk ook toegang had tot bronnen die wij gewone stervelingen niet hebben.
Iemand die doorborduurde op de theorie van Hapgood is Jean Seimple. Hij claimt ontegenzeglijk bewijs te hebben gevonden voor Atlantis onder het ijs van Antarctica.
De Griekse filosoof Plato (427-347 v.Chr.) was, zover als nu bekend is, de eerste die over Atlantis schreef. In een van zijn dialogen vertelt het personage Critias dat zijn grootvader het verhaal over Atlantis rechtstreeks van de grote Solon (638–558 v.Chr.) vernomen zou hebben. Hoe het land eruitzag, is door Plato bij monde van deze Critias in detail beschreven. Onder andere was er op het eiland een tempel gewijd aan de god Poseidon, de god van de zee. Het eiland Atlantis lag buiten de Middellandse Zee, dus nog verder dan de Zuilen van Hercules (de Straat van Gibraltar).
In de volgende video toont Jean Simple aan dat Atlantis het huidige Antarctica is, waar hij zelfs de stad Acropolis weet te lokaliseren.
Wanneer je het ijs weghaalt en op basis van de gegevens van satellietten het landschap eronder bekijkt, dan komt dit bijna exact overeen met hoe Plato dit beschreef.
Seimple laat verder zien hoe de bouwers van de piramides in Egypte de exacte locatie aangaven van het verloren continent Atlantis en zelfs de hoofdstad Poseidopolis.
Naast de bouwers van de piramides geeft ook de bekende Greenwich meridiaan de precieze locatie van de hoofdstad van Atlantis aan.
Het is niet voor niets dat sommige wetenschappers stellen dat er zo’n 12.000 jaar geleden enkele enorme asteroïden zijn ingeslagen op aarde waardoor er een plotselinge klimaatveranderingen optrad.
Het blijft voor hen speculeren wat er precies gebeurde rond die periode, maar dat er iets heel heftigs was, schijnt wel vast te staan.
En waarschijnlijk moeten we de originele zondvloed ook rond die tijd zoeken. Menigeen kent het verhaal van Noach uit de bijbel, maar er zijn talloze van dat soort verhalen die vele malen ouder zijn.
Het Atrahasis-epos is een oeroud, Babylonisch epos dat vooral bekend is vanwege het zondvloedverhaal dat erin verteld wordt. Dit zondvloedverhaal is ongeveer hetzelfde als dat op het elfde tablet van het Gilgamesj-epos en vertoont ook grote overeenkomsten met het latere verhaal in de Bijbel. Het begint als volgt:
"Toen de Goden in plaats van de mensen, het werk deden, de lasten droegen, werd de last voor de Goden te groot, Het werk te zwaar, de inspanningen te veel, De grote Annunki lieten de Igigi, zeven keer die hoeveelheid werk doen, Anu hun vader was koning."
Het universum is in het verhaal verdeeld in drie delen. De god Anum regeert in de hemel, Enlil op aarde en Enki in het onderaardse water.
Enlil dwingt de mindere Igigi-goden al het werk te doen, maar na veertig jaar komen ze in opstand en belegeren ze de tempel van Enlil in Nippur. De god Enki stelt voor om mensen te scheppen en die het werk te laten doen. Samen met de moedergodin Mami wordt dit uitgevoerd.
Op een gegeven ogenblik zijn er zoveel mensen dat ze met hun lawaai de god Enlil uit zijn slaap houden. Deze besluit via de god Namtar de mensen een plaag te sturen. Dankzij de vrome Atrahasis houdt deze op. Na een tijdje maken de mensen echter weer te veel herrie naar de zin van Enlil. Ditmaal straft hij ze met een hongersnood. Deze wordt door de mensheid overleefd. Dan besluit Enlil drastischer maatregelen te nemen. Hij stuurt een zondvloed op de mensen af. Dit deel van het verhaal vertoont grote parallellen met de Bijbel. Atrahasis bouwt een rieten ark en overleeft zo met zijn familie en een aantal dieren de zondvloed.
Het epos geeft ook een beeld van de ecologische problemen waarmee de Sumerische cultuur te kampen had, ondanks -of dankzij- de bevloeiïngswerken van koningen als Entemena van Lagash.
Het heeft er alle schijn van dat een vorige passage van het mini zonnestelsel Nibiru zo’n 12.000 jaar geleden voor een fysieke verschuiving/omkering van de polen heeft gezorgd, waardoor het complete continent Atlantis onder het ijs verdween.
Het zou ook een logische verklaring kunnen zijn voor de vele zondvloedverhalen die je in alle oude culturen uit het Midden Oosten tegenkomt.
De bekende onderzoeker van de Soemerische kleitabletten, Zacharia Sitchin, komt tot de conclusie dat dit zonnestelsel iedere 3.600 jaar bij ons langskomt. Het één sluit het ander natuurlijk niet uit en de ene passage zal misschien veel heftigere gevolgen hebben dan een andere. Bovendien zullen tijdsberekeningen nooit exact zijn en zijn enkele duizenden jaren natuurlijk helemaal niets in de lange geschiedenis van onze planeet.
Wanneer Charles Hapgood het goed had met zijn boek over een verschuiving van de aardkorst ongeveer 12.000 jaar geleden dan moet dit veroorzaakt zijn door iets heel groots en heftigs. En dan blijven er niet zo gek veel opties over. Je kunt zeggen wat je wilt van Albert Einstein, maar niet dat deze op zijn achterhoofd was gevallen. Als deze man net voor zijn dood een voorwoord schrijft voor het boek van Charles Hapgood, dan kun je er zeker van zijn dat het geen sprookjesverhaal is.
Er zijn ook anderen die op afwijkende basis tot soortgelijke conclusies komen als Hapgood. Een voorbeeld daarvan is te bekijken in de navolgende video. Wij kunnen de bronnen hiervan niet goed verifiëren, maar de informatie komt in grote lijnen wel overeen met het bovenstaande wél goed onderbouwde verhaal.
UFO Caught During Sunset Over Fort Worth, Texas On March 17, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Caught During Sunset Over Fort Worth, Texas On March 17, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 17, 2017
Location of sighting: Fort worth, Texas, USA
News source: MUFON #82683
Sunset is the most common time of the day for UFO sightings to occur. The angle of the sun, person and UFO cause the craft to stand out remarkably well.
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Eyewitness states:
I went outside, I noticed a weird lead/gray thing spinning in sky, took pic, then noticed a big NEW PLANET in background, WTF. and another something in sky.
Watch Viral Video Of Diamond UFO Hovering Over Sea
Watch Viral Video Of Diamond UFO Hovering Over Sea
An amazing video of an apparent diamond-shaped UFO has gone viral. It shows the UFO hovering above the sea before vanishing through an alleged portal.
Section 51 2, which uploaded the footage to YouTube, claims that Danish fisherman shot the video in November 2016. It shows a capture from a distance of a massive hovering rhombus-shaped UFO with an alleged separate bright orb moving around it.
The UFO was reportedly seen rising into clouds as if vanishing through a portal to another dimension. However, the video and the uploader did not give additional details about the UFO sighting. Even the article about the incident does not include further information about the strange event. It is likely the video is a CGI hoax.
Since the video and the article about it do not discuss more details, many concluded that it is a clever hoax created using CGI technology.
However, other viewers suggested that it could be a genuine mothership appearing like the legendary mythical UFO known as the Black Knight Satellite.
Margaret Bu commented that discounting the video for the reason that no one was screaming could limit one’s possibilities of finding the facts of the matter.
Robert Kimball believes the UFO is a sampling collector that will be beamed into a mothership cloaked in the dark cloud. Kimball also thinks that the small orb is actually a sensor ship monitoring the ET beaming activity.
Eye-shaped UFO spotted in the skies above Gloucester
The "hovering orb" that turns into a bizarre shape-shifting object when filmed has appeared in YouTube videos captured across the world and been reported to various UFO websites, including the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON).
One of the latest sightings to be recorded was in Elmbridge, near Gloucester, this month.
Rob Wheatman who recorded video footage of it said: "I saw it as a sparkling 'star' from the garden in Elmbridge, due south.
"What alerted me was an orange light that came from it and travelled at speed north east.
"I grabbed my video and luckily it has a 40x zoom and that's when I got the images of the bizarre light you saw."
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Thousands of people across the globe have reported seeing the same UFO.
UFO blogger Scott C Waring, who runs website ufosightingsdaily.com, said: "This glowing UFO has been recorded all around the world in the last four weeks.
"I can easily post 20 videos of it in different countries.
"I myself recorded it just two weeks ago and it looks exactly the same as this here in Taiwan.
"I didn't bother posting it, because lately it seems people on Youtube only want to view fake UFO videos and they ignore the real ones.
"The difference is really obvious, but when you try to make a difference and get ignored, it cools your jets."
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A planet when filmed under scintillationappears like this on camera, but is often reported as a UFO.
Some people look at the sky without understanding what the planets/stars they are seeing are, and mistake optical effects like twinkling or scintillation for UFOs.
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But, despite several claims this is a bizarre form of alien craft or even living biological entity appearing all over the internet, Express.co.uk, can reveal it is nothing more than one of the planets in our solar system.
All the reports share the common theme that the object is star-like and does not move when viewed with the naked eye.
However, it appears to dart about and change shape when viewed through an optical lens.
Scott Brando is a UFO hoax buster who runds website ufoofinterest.org.
He said the optical effect caused by zooming in on a planet was called scintillation.
He said: "People like to share this rubbish to make it viral.
"I already said in a tweet, it's a planet/star under the scintillation effect.
"Some people look at the sky without understanding what the planets/stars they are seeing are, and mistake optical effects like twinkling or scintillation for UFOs.
"They don't move, but some people think UFOs move in the screens of their cameras."
This glowing UFO has been recorded all around the world in the last 4 weeks. I can easily post 20 videos of it in different countries. I myself recorded it just 2 weeks ago and it looks exactly the same as this here in Taiwan. I didn't bother posting it, because lately it seems people on Youtube only want to view fake UFO videos and they ignore the real ones. The difference is really obvious, but when you try to make a difference and get ignored, it cools your jets. Scott C. Waring
News states: Just what on Earth - or perhaps Mars or Jupiter - is this? This apparently intergalactic lightshow was filmed above Gloucester last night - and it's got us, and the cameraman, baffled. The mysterious orb was spotted by Rob Wheatman in Elmbridge yesterday and he had a powerful enough camera to zoom right in on it. What it shows is anyone's guess - but we'd love to hear what you think it might be. We're pinning our money on aliens. Definitely aliens. Rob said: "I saw it as a sparkling 'star' from the garden in Elmbridge, due south. What alerted me was an orange light that came from it and travelled at speed north east. "I grabbed my video and luckily it has a 40x zoom and that's when I got the images of the bizarre light you saw."
England has always been a hotspot for UFO sightings since its surrounded by ocean on all sides making it more isolated. Also the ancient culture still survives there in the art, structures and towns. Here are two glowing white orbs, which are very similar to the UFOs that are seen over the Colorado mountains in the USA. Scott C. Waring
News states: Barwell and Earl Shilton have been singled out as hotspots for UFO sightings. Reports of strange objects in the sky, gathered by The Hinckley Times and listed on a sky-watchers’ website, suggest the two neighborhoods see the most sub-space activity of any location in Leicestershire. A new article on history and heritage blog The Leicester Chronicle brings together a series of sightings going back to 1706. Blogger Thomas Kirkup reckons the location of the town and village, close to one another and near to Hinckley but largely surrounded by open countryside, is the key factor in the swathe of flying object spots. (more at source).
Military Police Officer Shot And Killed An Alien Being
Military Police Officer Shot And Killed An Alien Being
It is revealed in a bizarre UFO case that an alien being was shot dead at a U.S. Air Force base. State Police requested entry to investigate the sighting of UFOs flying near the McGuire Air Force Base and Fort Dix Base in Trenton, New Jersey. A Fort Dix military police officer reportedly saw a low-flying object passing over his car as he drove.
After stepping on the brake, he allegedly saw a small being with a large head in front of his car. The big-headed alien has black eyes and a very slender body.
The police officer got panic, stepped out from the car, pulled out a .45 automatic gun, and then demanded the strange-looking being to lay on the floor.
However, his request was ignored, forcing him to fire several shots.
The creature allegedly still managed to jump a fence into the McGuire base and head down a runway. However, it eventually collapsed and died, according to the case.
Sgt. Jeff Morse, who allowed police access to the scene, is listed as a witness. However, it is possible that this was just a fictitious name to cover his true identity.
The body was reportedly recovered without any signs of life. They were in shock, but still followed the protocol of roping off the area.
A group of military officers arrived in the area in blue berets, distancing Sgt. Morse from the area. Morse had never seen this group before, but it appeared they were taking charge of the situation.
Sgt. Morse provided more details about the incident when UFO researcher Leonard Springfield did an interview with him. Morse allegedly stated that he was never close enough to observe details of the alien, such as hands, feet, and facial features. However, he said that he saw the skin wet, shiny, and snake-like under the glare of truck headlights.
He further described the entity as around four feet in height in grayish-brown coloration with thin arms and legs, slender torso, and large head.
The remains of the alien was carefully placed on a wooden-framed platform. Then eventually transferred into a big square silver metal container with same blue markings. Morse, according to Springfield, estimated the silver container to be approximately 10 x 10 feet.
Documentary Video: Plans of Grey Aliens for Humans
Documentary Video: Plans of Grey Aliens for Humans
One of the most promoted types of aliens in paranormal, New Age, and ufological communities are Grey aliens, which also referred as Grays, Greys, or Roswell Greys. Around 50 percent of alien encounters in the U.S. involve Grey aliens. The origin of the idea about the existence of Greys can be attributed to the Betty and Barney Hill abduction claim.
Greys are usually described as small humanoid beings with dark grey skin. They possess reduced or completely lack external human organs, such as sex organs, ears, or noses. They have elongated bodies with small chest without muscular definition or visible skeletal structure. Their legs are shorter than average humans, and their limbs are proportionally different from humanity. Their humerus has the same length with their forearms. The same goes with their thighs and shins when it comes to length.
Greys have large heads in proportion to their bodies. They have no visible hair anywhere on the body. Their mouths are small, but they have large opaque black eyes without discernible iris or pupil. Other witnesses reported Greys as having no nostrils or mouths. Their height could be anywhere from 2 to 4 feet.
Alien abduction claims commonly include Greys, which make up approximately 90 percent in Canada, 67 percent in Brazil, and 50 percent in Australia. Abductees typically determined leaders of their abductors by their demeanor. Some abduction researchers and ufologists suspect taller Greys are the only Grey type to be biologically alive and that the smaller ones are just robots acted as servants.
Another UFO Sighting Video In The Skies Above Gloucester Shows Up Online
Another UFO Sighting Video In The Skies Above Gloucester Shows Up Online
Another video appears to show a UFO in the skies over Gloucestershire. Ryan Gribbon recorded it on March 13 at around 5 pm in Hucclecote, Gloucester. Many UFO enthusiasts say that it is a convincing footage.
The incident came after Rob Wheatman caught a video of a strange light in Elmbridge a few days ago.
Rob said that he noticed the strange light, which he described as a bright star, from the garden in Elmbridge, coming from the south. Rob, who zoomed in on the strange light, got more intrigued with the orange light that came from it that traveled quickly northeast.
He said his video recorder has a 40x zoom that is enough to get images of the bizarre light that he saw.
The lights are still unidentified and no explanations yet. Do you have suggestions of what the lights are?
Croissant Shaped Object Spotted Above The Sea In Malta
Croissant Shaped Object Spotted Above The Sea In Malta
Strange images seemingly show a croissant shaped UFO over Malta Island. Some UFO enthusiasts suggest the area is a UFO hotspot as sea surrounds it on all sides and often has sunny, clear skies.
The unique images show the usual beautiful view of blue skies, but with a bizarre object hovering in the air. Reportedly taken in Marsaskala region of Malta, these photos appear to show a brown, croissant looking object above the sea.
An eyewitness said that he used to be taking pictures of the view and the weird item appeared in three photographs then he started to notice it for 15 minutes before it disappeared into thin air. It was a sunny day, according to the witness.
The image was allegedly taken in October 2016 but has been shared only recently for an unknown reason.
Some UFO enthusiasts theorized that alien bases mostly located below the ocean because it covers about 75 percent of Earth’s surface, which is largely unwatched since only a few humans explore below the sea.
However, critics rebuffed UFO claims saying that it was just a snail or a cocktail sausage wrapped in bacon.
UFO Hunter Plans To Find Alien Base Entrance In A Hill Near The Nellis U.S. Airforce Base
UFO Hunter Plans To Find Alien Base Entrance In A Hill Near The Nellis U.S. Airforce Base
A YouTuber who caught UFOs in the video coming out of a hillside nearby his home nearly every night has hit back critics saying they are just car headlights.
Steve Baron of YouTube channel UFOs In THE USA firmly believes that he was recording extraterrestrial activity in the Blue Diamond Hills, which is close to the Nellis U.S. Airforce base in Nevada.
However, skeptics have suggested the so-called UFOs were just headlights of vehicles coming down the hillside.
Willing to prove critics wrong, Barone showed himself in a video climbing the remote hillside in a bid to show that no vehicles drive on it. He also visited the area to see if he could discover a secret entrance to the base.
In a video he uploaded to YouTube, he says that riding any motorized vehicles is strictly not allowed in the area and a huge fine is imposed to violators. He further explains that the land on the small mountain is under BLM control and very close to National Conservation area.
Mr. Barone also revealed thathe, together with his wife and dog, attempted to climb the area to prove the soil was undisturbed, but they found out that everything is fenced or blocked off.
He has been keeping an eye in the area using his video camera for three years and already got several videos on his YouTube channel. He believes his videos show alien UFOs or top secret U.S. space vehicles floating over the Nellis Air Force Base.
The base is known in UFO community as a secret facility for the remains of crashed flying saucers and dead aliens just like top secret Area 51 in the Nevada desert. Some conspiracy theorists claim that visiting extraterrestrial beings have been allowed to use the bases to keep them from public eyes.
An artist's illustration of a light sail powered by a radio beam from the surface of a planet. The leakage from such beams as they sweep across the sky would appear as fast radio bursts.
Two Harvard University scientists are suggesting that mysterious fast radio bursts, detected in faraway galaxies, may be evidence of aliens traveling through the cosmos.
FRBs are extremely bright flashes of radio waves that last for only a thousandth of a second and are detected by earthbound telescopes. Since the first one was observed 10 years ago, 17 have actually been reported, although scientists think there are thousands of them a day.
At first, Abraham “Avi” Loeb said, he took a conservative approach to explaining them.
“It looked like the simplest explanation would be flares from stars in the Milky Way galaxy,” said Loeb, a theoretical astrophysicist and chair of Harvard’s astronomy department.
But then “one of the FRBs was localized to reside in a small galaxy at a distance of about a billion light-years away,” Loeb told The Huffington Post. (One light-year is about 6 trillion miles.)
Essentially, that means these FRBs are coming from the edge of the universe and must be brighter than anything else we know.
In a new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters this month, Loeb and Harvard physicist Manasvi Lingam say they decided to “examine the possibility that fast radio bursts originate from the activity of extragalactic civilizations.”
“Since there are many more galaxies out there than the Milky Way, it makes sense statistically that one would detect such phenomena outside the Milky Way more often rather than inside it,” Lingam told HuffPost.
While Loeb and Lingam don’t claim that FRBs definitely originate from aliens, they speculate that such phenomena could be the result of other civilizations using gigantic radio transmitters to hopscotch from one galaxy to another.
An almost planet-sized, solar-powered radio transmitter could generate enough energy to propel an interstellar light sail (like the one illustrated above), they suggest. These sails, in turn, might be sufficient to push “about 20 times the largest cruise ships on Earth.” FRBs would be the leakage from such transmitters.
“Our upper bound on the number of such civilizations is 10,000 in a typical galaxy,” Lingam said. “But I’d like to reiterate that this is the maximal value. In all probability, the real value is likely to be much lower.”
Nobody on Earth has detected any interstellar light sails yet. What large radio telescopes, like the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico or the Parkes Observatory in Australia, have picked up are very fast, bright flashes of energy.
For us to detect these bursts so many light-years away, Loeb said, they’d need a very bright source.
“So what we are considering in our scenario is a very narrow beam of radiation pushing on a sail, and that requires roughly the amount of energy intercepted by the Earth [from] sunlight. That’s the kind of power you need ― the energy falling on the Earth from the sun,” he said.
Loeb chairs the advisory committee for the Starshot project, which seeks to send a spaceship to Alpha Centauri, a star system over four light-years from Earth. The idea would be to aim powerful laser beams from Earth at thin sails carrying more than 1,000 probes. It’s not the same as the radio waves possibly used by aliens, but then humans are still taking baby steps into space.
“I can imagine [aliens] doing what we are just starting to do now,” Loeb said.
The Harvard scientist is well aware that talking about aliens, even hypothetically, can start some eye-rolling. But he doesn’t share that bias.
“We shouldn’t be guided by prejudice when we think about what may be out there,” said Loeb. “Many people tend to think they know the truth. They think that we are special, that maybe there is nothing out there.
“I think we should just observe and whenever we see something unusual, we should think, contemplate the possibility that it could be artificial. And there is nothing bad about that ― it’s a learning experience.”
Indeed, it’s probably the essence of being a theoretical astrophysicist.
“The whole principle of science is that you collect data that can falsify an idea that you have or prove it right,” Loeb said.
Lingam acknowledges that their hypothesis is still a tad speculative.
“We have suggested a potential means of distinguishing between ‘natural’ and ‘artificial’ origin of FRBs by taking a closer look at the signals, and looking for certain distinguishable patterns,” he said.
But don’t expect a quick answer on the aliens question. “With more data expected to emerge in the coming decades, I believe that our hypothesis will be testable,” Lingam said.
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Artists' Conceptions Of Extrasolar Planets
Closest Exoplanet To Earth -- August 2016
On Aug 24 2016, the European Southern Observatory announced the confirmation of the closest exoplanet to Earth. This illustration shows Proxima b, which orbits its parent star Proxima Centauri, the closest sun to Earth's sun. Proxima b lies within its sun's habitable zone, strongly suggesting the planet has liquid water on its surface.
Proxima b Exoplanet Orbits Red Dwarf Star
Artist's impression of exoplanet Proxima b orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri. The double star Alpha Centauri AB also appears in the image between the planet and Proxima Centauri.
Illustration of Proxima b Surface Features
Artist impression shows a view of the surface of planet Proxima b, orbiting the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our solar system. The double star Alpha Centauri can also be seen to the upper right of Proxima Centauri.
NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Planet
In this handout illustration made available on December 5, 2011 by NASA, the Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star is digitally illustrated. For the first time NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed a planet to orbit in a star's habitable zone; the region around a star, where liquid water, a requirement for life on Earth, could persist. The planet is 2.4 times the size of Earth, making it the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habit. Clouds could exist in this earth's atmosphere, as the artist's interpretive illustration depicts. (Photo Illustration by Ames/JPL-Caltech/NASA via Getty Images)
NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Planet
In this handout illustration made available on December 5, 2011 by NASA, a diagram compares our own solar system to Kepler-22, a star system containing the first 'habitable zone' planet discovered by NASA's Kepler mission. The habitable zone of a sun-like star and is about 2.4 times the size of Earth. (Photo Illustration by Ames/JPL-Caltech/NASA via Getty Images)
Extrasolar Planet HD 209458 b, Osiris
Artist's conception released by NASA of extrasolar planet HD 209458 b, also known as Osiris, orbiting its star in the constellation Pegasus, some 150 light years from Earth's solar system. Scientists have used an infrared spectrum -- the first ever obtained for an extrasolar planet -- to analyze Osiris' atmosphere, which is said to contain dust but no water. The planet's surface temperature is more than 700 Celsius (1330 Fahrenheit).'
Planet & Its Parent Star
Picture released 04 October 2006 by the European Space Agency shows an artist's impression of a Jupiter-sized planet passing in front of its parent star. Such events are called transits. When the planet transits the star, the star's apparent brightness drops by a few percent for a short period. Through this technique, astronomers can use the Hubble Space Telescope to search for planets across the galaxy by measuring periodic changes in a star's luminosity. The first class of exoplanets found by this technique are the so-called 'hot Jupiters,' which are so close to their stars they complete an orbit within days, or even hours. A seam of stars at the centre of the Milky Way has shown astronomers that an entirely new class of planets closely orbiting distant suns is waiting to be explored, according to a paper published 04 October 2006. An international team of astronomers, using a camera aboard NASA's Hubble telescope, delved into a zone of the Milky Way known as the 'galactic bulge', thus called because it is rich in stars and in the gas and dust which go to make up stars and planets. The finding opens up a new area of investigation for space scientists probing extrasolar planets - planets that orbit stars other than our own. AFP PHOTO NASA/ESA/K. SAHU (STScI) AND THE SWEEPS SCIENCE TEAM
Hot Jupiter
Picture released 04 October 2006 by the European Space Agency shows an artist's impression of a unique type of exoplanet discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope. This image presents a purely speculative view of what such a 'hot Jupiter' (word dedicated to planets so close to their stars with such short orbital periods) might look like. A seam of stars at the centre of the Milky Way has shown astronomers that an entirely new class of planets closely orbiting distant suns is waiting to be explored, according to a paper published 04 October 2006. An international team of astronomers, using a camera aboard NASA's Hubble telescope, delved into a zone of the Milky Way known as the 'galactic bulge', thus called because it is rich in stars and in the gas and dust which go to make up stars and planets. The finding opens up a new area of investigation for space scientists probing extrasolar planets - planets that orbit stars other than our own. AFP PHOTO NASA/ESA/K. SAHU (STScI) AND THE SWEEPS SCIENCE TEAM
Bill Nye Answers: If Humans Colonize Mars, How Will We Evolve?
Bill Nye Answers: If Humans Colonize Mars, How Will We Evolve?
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Bill Nye explains how he think the human body would evolve on Mars, where the surface gravity is only 38 percent of what we have here on Earth.
While Nye is skeptical that humans will ever colonize Mars, he does believe we should do what we can to put a science station on the Red Planet.
Bill Nye doesn’t believe we’ll ever colonize Mars, but if we do, he has an idea of how our bodies might adapt to survive on the Red Planet. He recently shared it via his “Tuesdays with Bill” series for Big Think.
Humans born on Mars might have a tough time surviving on Earth. The surface gravity of Mars is only 38 percent of what we have here on Earth. That means the hearts of humans born on that planet might not be able to tackle as much aerobically on Earth. In fact, astronauts who travel to Mars and stay there long enough for their bodies to adjust to the lower level of gravity will likely experience permanent changes in circulation, muscle strength, and bone density, making it impossible for them to return to Earth.
Would our bodies ever truly adapt to Mars? Well, evolution is slow. In fact, the process is barely noticeable. Serious selection pressure would be necessary for it to have a discernible effect on the population, for example, only the offspring of women who could handle Martian gravity surviving long enough to reproduce.
Some people believe that terraforming planets such as Mars is a better idea — rather than waiting for our bodies to adapt to the planet’s environment, we’d change the environment to adapt to us. In the case of Mars, we’d have to alter its ecology, atmosphere, topography, temperature, and other traits.
Ultimately, Bill Nye doesn’t see it happening — although he likes the question being asked!
The 305-meter telescope at Arecibo is just one of a collection that SETI will use to search nearby stars for electronic signals that could indicate intelligent life. If such a civilization was utilizing a similar dish to image exoplanets, SETI's team should be able to detect it.
Credit: Arecibo Observatory
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The Debate
When many people look at the stars, they see a vast, unbound infinity that fills them with a feeling that’s difficult to describe but impossible to forget. That feeling pushes humanity to want to explore the great unknown reaches of space in the hopes of discovering that we aren’t alone in it.
But let’s assume for one moment that extraterrestrial life does exist. Should we really be trying to contact it?
Some view the idea of reaching out to extraterrestrials as dangerous. In fact, Stephen Hawking made a strong point against the idea of making contact by comparing it to the Native Americans’ first encounter with Christopher Columbus and the European explorers, a situation that “didn’t turn out so well” for the former civilization. Hawking went on to note that advanced alien life could be “vastly more powerful and may not see us as any more valuable than we see bacteria.”
While that does sound like it could be a possibility, not everyone agrees with Hawking. In fact, many have equally convincing arguments in support of contact with aliens.
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Nothing to Lose
To some, the question is a no-brainer. Why wouldn’t we want to meet other intelligent lifeforms? That’s the thought shared by the people at the SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) Institute. In fact, SETI is now far more proactive in its search for alien life than ever before.
Initially, the organization focused on passively looking for signals indicating signs of intelligent life, but now it is taking action in the form of METI (Messaging Extra Terrestrial Intelligence). METI International sends greetings to specific locations in space in the hopes of alerting alien astronomers of our existence.
Though Hawking and others worry that our interstellar friendship search will lead to the annihilation or subjugation of our species as a whole, Douglas Vakoch, the president of METI International and a professor in the Department of Clinical Psychology at the California Institute for Integral Studies, strongly disagrees with this assertion. He believes that claims that we should hide our existence as a species are unfounded. After all, we have already leaked nearly 100 years of transmissions from radio and television broadcasts as electromagnetic radiation.
Vakoch goes on to note an inconsistency in Hawking’s reasoning. He asserts that any civilizations able to travel between stars will absolutely have the ability to pick up our “leaked” signals. By that logic, they must already be aware of our existence and are simply waiting for us to make the first move. Vakoch urges us to test the Zoo Hypothesis and the Fermi Paradox through standard peer-review methods, insisting that we target nearby star systems 20 or 30 light-years away with repeat messages to generate a testable hypothesis within a few decades.
NASA estimates that there are 40 billion habitable planets in our galaxy. While he strongly urges caution in making first contact, even Hawking is curious as to whether any of those planets beyond our solar system host life. To that end, he has launched a $100 million initiative to seek out life. If we ever do find extraterrestrial life, either through Hawking’s search, SETI, or any of the number of other projects in the works, we might just want to take a beat before saying “Hello.”
The breakthrough has been made after scientists initially found strange activity around a distant star called KIC 8462852 but better known as Tabby’s star.
It appeared to lose a quarter of the light it emits, suggesting something huge was orbiting around it.
Some experts believed the object could be a “megastructure” built by an alien race with technology far superior to ours that has solar panels sucking in the light.
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No-one had ever witnessed this bizarre behaviour around a star before.
But now another team of astronomers have now seen it happening to a second star, called EPIC 204278916.
This new star is also losing light – up to 60% over a 25-day period.
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It points towards the possibility of another “megastructure” or even several around the star.
Scientists are now planning to observe the star more closely to try to find answers.
Police force admits to investigating FLYING SAUCERS after raft of calls about terrified 'aliens'
Police force admits to investigating FLYING SAUCERS after raft of calls about terrified 'aliens'
Lancashire Police, via a Freedom of Information request, confirmed that officers were sent out eight times in two years to sightings of ‘alien crafts’
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Police have admitted they're investigating UFO sightings
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A police force has admitted dispatching officers to investigate UFO FLYING SAUCERS - after logging a series of terrified ‘ aliens ’ calls from on-lookers.
Lancashire Police, via a Freedom of Information request, confirmed that officers were sent out eight times in two years to sightings of ‘alien crafts’.
But the force confirmed that not once did their uniformed PCs find any evidence of the existence of UFOs over the north-west of England.
Officers responded to two of the reports after a sighting of two “crafts” over leafy Pendle Hill in 2015 and another in Lytham St Annes, near Blackpool, the year before.
A report of a “beam of light from a UFO” was sent to officers in Burnley in 2015 with another sighting submitted the previous year in Buckshaw Village.
Two UFOs were said to be seen in the sky over Fleetwood in 2015 and a reported red craft and another white one were spotted over Bottle last year.
Then in March last year they were contacted over a suspected alien abduction in Accrington, Lancs, while the following month they were called over a UFO “landing” in Marsden Park, Nelson.
Lancashire has a long history of UFO sightings - with one in Burnley, in November 1995 prompting a staggering 250 calls on the same day.
Police in Lancashire are investigating UFOs(Photo: Rochdale Observer)
On that occasion hundreds of members of the public claims to have seen an object in the sky which was travelling at high speed towards Hebden Bridge.
Andy Sierolawski, from Todmorden Observatory, said: “We get asked if we have ever seen anything all the time.
“Around 40 per cent of the people who visit the centre ask us. Saturn and Venus as well as aircraft can very easily be mistaken for something else.”
Hundreds of people have reported alien sightings on some occasions(Photo: Getty)
A Lancashire Police spokesman said: “With any call received into the police force control room the operator assesses each and identifies any risk/threat/harm.
“The operator provides the appropriate response to this, which may include deploying an officer.
“Sometimes these calls are not what they may seem so a potential UFO call could be a suspicious light or suspicious movement.
“That could mean any number of things and we would assess and deploy officers if required, or there could be a concern for the caller’s welfare.”
According to Ancient Indian history –one of the most extensive on the planet– their ancient sacred texts called the ‘Vedas’ speak of incredible flying ships that visited our planet over 6000 years ago. The Ancient Vimana’s power source has turned out to be not only accessible to the entire world, but easy to harness as well.
Throughout history, many common myths and legends mention incredible flying machines and how ancient people traveled great distances through the air: the flying carpets of ancient Arabia, Ezequiel’s wheel, and Solomons ability to travel from one place to another and the magical chariots or ‘vimana’ mentioned in ancient Indian and Chinese texts.
According to Ancient Indian history –one of the most extensive on the planet– their ancient sacred texts called the ‘Vedas’ speak of amazing flying ships that visited our planet over 6000 years ago. While there are many who oppose the existence of the Vimana, millions of people around the world are concerned that thousands of years ago, ancient mankind was visited by incredible flying machines, piloted by the ‘gods’. With the help of the Vimana, ancient astronauts visited different places on out planet with ease, spreading knowledge and wealth among ancient, primitive civilizations.
Reference to the ancient Vimana can be found in the Mahabharata, which is one of the two major Sanskrit epics of ancient India:
“At Rama`s behest, the magnificent chariot rose up to a mountain of cloud with a tremendous din. Another passage reads: Bhima flew with his Vimana on an enormous ray which was as brilliant as the sun and made a noise like the thunder of a storm.
In the ancient Vymanka-Shastra ( a science of aeronautics), there is a description of a Vimana: “An apparatus which can go by its own force, from one place to place or globe to globe”.
Dr. Raghavan points out, “The text’s revelations become even more astounding. Thirty-one parts of which the machine consists-are described, including a photographing mirror underneath. The text also enumerates 16 kinds of metal that are needed to construct the flying vehicle: `Metals suitable, lighare 16 kinds`. But only three of them are known to us today. The rest remain untranslatable.”
Another authority who agrees with Dr. Raghavan`s interpretations is Dr. A.V. Krishna Murty, professor of aeronautics at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. “It is true,” Dr. Krishna Murty says, “that the ancient Indian Vedas and other text refer to aeronautics, spaceships, flying machines, ancient astronauts. “A study of the Sanskrit texts has convinced me that ancient India did know the secret of building flying machines and that those machines were patterned after spaceships coming from other planets.” “
However, what fueled these ancient Vimana?
The Vaimānika Śāstra, an early 20th-century Sanskrit text on aerospace technology, makes a claim that he vimānas mentioned in ancient Sanskrit epics were advanced aerodynamic flying vehicles, similar to a rocket capable of interplanetary flight as backed up by the ancient alien theory.
Revealed in 1952 by G. R. Josye, the texts contain 3000 shlokas in 8 chapters which Shastry claimed was psychically delivered to him by the ancient Hindu sage Bharadvaja. The propulsion of the Vimanas According to Kanjilal (1985) is by a “Mercury Vortex Engines”, a concept similar to electric propulsion.
However, many people argue that a far greater, more accessible and ‘free’ power source was available to the ancient Vimana craft.
It is noteworthy to mention that a couple of years ago, Chinese researchers discovered ancient Sanskrit documents in Lhasa, Tibet, dating back thousands of years. The ancient texts were sent to the University Chandigarh for translation. The results were shocking. According to Dr. Ruth Reyna the translated texts, allegedly are ‘blueprints’ for the construction of interstellar spaceships.
According to the translated documents, the propulsion system designed for the spaceships was based on antigravitational technology, and based on a system analogous to that of “laghima,” the unknown power of the ego that exists in man’s physiological makeup, “a centrifugal force strong enough to counteract all gravitational pull.”
Interestingly, according to Hindu Yogis, the mysterious “laghima” force is what enables people to levitate.
Dr. Reyna explained that „on board these machines which were called ‘Astras,’ the builders of the crafts could have sent a detachment of men to any planet. The manuscripts, however, do not mention how interplanetary communication was achieved, but they do mention a trip from the Earth to the Moon, though it is unclear whether the trip was just planned or actually carried out. (source)
However, one of the great Indian epics, the Ramayana, does have a highly detailed story in it of a trip to the moon in a Vimana (or “Astra”), and in fact details a battle on the moon with an “Asvin” (or Atlantean” airship. (source)
Indian scientists were extremely reserved about the value of these documents but became less so when the Chinese announced that certain parts of the information were being studied for inclusion in their space program. (source)
But can we actually ‘reverse engineer’ ANCIENT technology? Well… depends on what you think is possible. Interestingly in the Sanskrit Samarangana Sutradhara, it is written:
“Strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great flying bird of light material. Inside one must put the mercury engine with its iron heating apparatus underneath. By means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky. The movements of the Vimana are such that it can vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards and backward. With the help of the machines, human beings can fly in the air, and heavenly beings can come down to earth.” (source)
Interestingly, the Law of the Babylonians, the Hakatha unambiguously states:
“The privilege of operating a flying machine is great. The knowledge of flight is among the most ancient of our inheritances. A gift from ’those from upon high’. We received it from them as a means of saving many lives.” (source)
“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…” – Prof. D.K. Kanjilal’s observations of the Matsyapurana
Harnessing Earth’s natural energy
But is it possible that the ancient Vimana’s were built so they could access the planet’s natural energy? What if thousands of years ago, ancient flying machines used Earth’s natural energy to charge and reload? Is it possible that ancient monuments like pyramids were, in fact, giant energy transmitters that fueled the ancient Vimana?
Interestingly Stone like metal can be charged and is able to carry out electrical charges. What if ancient sites on Earth were specifically placed on so-called magnetic vortexes or electrical ‘Ley Lines’? What if there is a far greater meaning to the countless number of ancient Indian Pyramids, monoliths, megalithic statues, steles, obelisks and totems, and what if all of these structures, not only from ancient India but different civilizations around the world, had a special scientific purpose: to transmit vast amounts of energy.
Many researchers argue that intricate ancient stonework attributed to the Incas, Egyptians, East Indians, Maya and other ancient civilizations has a specific purpose, and was not only esthetic in nature.
It is noteworthy to mention that many consider the great Pyramid of Giza as one of the best examples of ancient energy machines. It was a Tesla-like power plant created thousands of years ago. It was a huge ancient structure that was capable of using the Earth’s natural properties in order to create or produce a great amount of energy. This energy is believed to have been used by the ancient Egyptians and other cultures such as the ancient Maya and other cultures around the globe for millennia. This theory, however, has been firmly rejected by mainstream researchers.
If we approach the history of ancient civilizations from another perspective, we will encounter that ancient civilizations around the globe were, in fact, extremely sophisticated and used advanced technologies thousands of years before mainstream science ‘reinvented them’.
These advanced technologies were present in ancient Egypt, Ancient Sumer, and in North, Central and South America.Electricity, electrochemistry, electromagnetic technology, metallurgy, advanced engineering, including hydrogeology, chemistry, physics and advanced forms of mathematics and astronomy were all used thousands of years ago to great extents.
NASA had recently announced the results of its Discovery Program competition, which would decide where the agency would send its next outer space probe. The options: two asteroid missions or two individual Venus orbiters (another option involved an infrared space telescope). Grinspoon had been investigating Venus for most of his 30-year career. But NASA, to his chagrin, had gone with the asteroids.
"People talk about finding Earth 2.0," Grinspoon told me at the American Astronomical Society's winter meeting, frustration evident in his voice. "We have Earth 2.0 sitting right there, and we're ignoring it."
Over the last 65 years, NASA has sent nine orbiters and eight landers or rovers to Mars, triggering a wave of public fascination with the Red Planet. Over the same period, the agency has sent just three orbiters to Venus, the planet whose size and mass are so close to our own that it's often referred to as “Earth's twin.” That's a shame, says Grinspoon, because Venus has the potential to tell us far more about both our own planet and Earth-like worlds around other suns.
Today Venus is a smoldering death trap, with a thick atmosphere that traps heat in an extreme version of Earth's own global warming effect. But it once hosted liquid oceans, and may have been the solar system's first habitable planet. Understanding what made Venus spiral out of control could help scientists understand how more life-friendly planets are able to remain hospitable, as well as provide a hint of what Earth could face should our own atmosphere veer too far off-track.
“It’s incredibly scientifically compelling to understand a planet that’s essentially in the same part of the solar system, the same size as Earth, the same mass of Earth—and yet is so different,” says planetary geologist David Senske, a research scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California who has worked with Grinspoon. Senske, too, is already looking toward the next potential Venus mission.
But after the most recent defeat, Grinspoon isn’t so sure. “Eventually, it will happen, but I’m not holding my breath,” he says. “Like Charlie Brown, I’ve run to kick that football many times, and ended up on the ground, looking up at the sky, wondering what happened.”
A line-up of "Earth-class" planets.(NASA)
A Tough Nut to Crack
When it comes to habitable worlds, astronomers tend to focus on what’s known as the Goldilocks zone, or zone of habitability: that narrow band of space in which a planet is neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water to exist on the surface. That’s why exoplanets orbiting their stars at just the right distance—like three of the seven planets in the newly discovered TRAPPIST-1 system—tend to attract a lot of attention. We hope one will end up being the just-right bowl of porridge that can sustain life.
Earth’s conditions, of course, are considered the ideal for harboring life. But if Earth is the ideal, then Venus is a pretty close match. At 7,500 miles in diameter, the Morning Star is only slightly smaller than Earth and a bit less massive. And despite its current dry climate, observations from NASA's Pioneer mission have suggested the planet once held a liquid ocean, and models that Grinspoon worked on suggest that the ocean may have lasted for billions of years, giving life plenty of time to evolve.
At some point, however, the planet’s atmosphere took over. An overabundance of carbon dioxide triggered an extreme global warming effect, which resulted in the destruction of the planet’s most habitable regions. Today, temperatures at the surface reach a scorching 470 degrees Celsius, and the crushing surface pressure is comparable to what you’d find more than half a mile beneath Earth’s oceans. The dense clouds of sulfuric acid only serve to make the planet more intimidating.
That may help explain why NASA has remained hesitant to invest in exploring the planet, preferring to turn its attention toward the less-threatening Mars or other parts of the solar system. When it comes to understanding how the planet became so hellish, “Venus is a tough nut to crack,” Senske says.
According to Jim Green, director of NASA's planetary science division, part of the reason the agency has shied away from Venus in recent years is due to the wealth of potential targets available to explore. “We have such an embarrassment of riches in this solar system,” Green says. Funding, as always, is another issue: “We have so many things that we want to do that we just can’t do it all.”
Yet Green insists that the space agency hasn’t permanently abandoned Earth’s twin. “We’re serious about Venus—we’ve always been serious about Venus,” he says. He points out that NASA took a brief hiatus from Mars as well, before diving in with the latest Curiosity mission and orbiters. Of course, the Red Planet’s break lasted less than a decade—while NASA’s last Venus mission, Magellan, ended in 1994.
Venus may not prove ripe for life today, but it could help scientists figure out what to look for as they probe potentially habitable worlds beyond the solar system. Understanding just how much of the planet’s downward spiral relates to its location and how much relies on other characteristics could help scientists figure out which of the rocky, Earth-sized worlds around other stars might be habitable—and which might end up being another Venus.
“If we want to know how to lose habitability on the inner edge of the habitable zone, there’s no better place to look than Venus,” says Grinspoon.
Exoplanet scientists are only just beginning to learn about the cloudy atmospheres of distant worlds, with a strong focus on the more massive gas giants. Over the last decade, they've turned the Hubble Space Telescope towards exoatmospheres, and NASA's upcoming James Webb Telescope, should help part the clouds even further when it launches in 2018. As our ability to probe exoplanet atmospheres improve, Venus’ clouds could help us decipher other rocky exoplanets.
“It really does come down to the atmospheric characterization of these worlds to know what it’s like. That’s going to be key in the future,” says Hannah Wakeford, an exoplanet scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center who investigates the atmospheres of worlds outside the solar system. “Understanding the critical differences between our two planets is really an important thing we should be doing.”
Hemispheric view of Venus. (NASA)
Is Venus Rising?
Although NASA hasn’t sent a mission to Venus in nearly 30 years, the agency has kept a wandering eye on the planet. Galileo and Cassini both flew by on their way to the outer planets, and MESSENGER snuck a peek en route to Mercury.
In fact, the United States may be helping with the next Russian mission to Venus. Later this week, a team of NASA-sponsored scientists will meet with the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Space Research Institute to continue work on the proposed Venera-D mission to Earth’s twin, according to a recent press release. Earlier this year, the nations’ Joint Science Definition Team identified their shared science objectives for the planet, which they outlined in a report released last Friday.
The Russian-led mission, whose full name is Venera-Dolgozhivuschaya (meaning "long-lasting"), plans to drop a lander on the surface while also deploying an orbiter to make its own studies. The mission’s science objectives would focus on key questions about the atmosphere and how it interacts with the surface, according to a January report. Senske, who is co-chair of the team, says the lander would resemble Russian landers of the past, surviving for several hours on the surface—a feat in itself.
“The main question for Venus is about the mechanisms which made it so different from the Earth,” says Russian team member and planetary scientist Mikhail Gerasimov by email. “There is a global practical interest about the evolution trend of the Earth.” In other words, studying Venus could help scientists identify if Earth too could one day end up on the climate road to no return.
That global worry is what has drawn Russia and the U.S. together over a proposed Venus mission, despite the changing political climate over the past few years. While the mission isn't confirmed and wouldn’t launch until after 2025, Green seemed unperturbed about the concern that American politics might impact its viability. “In a way, science is that one gratifying thing that continues on no matter what the politics are,” he says, pointing to how scientists from both countries continued to work together through the Cold War. He also highlighted NASA’s “wonderful relationship” with its Russian counterpart when it comes to the International Space Station.
“What our space nations have done, cooperating and working together, really deserves a Nobel Peace Prize,” he says.
If it does move forward, Venera-D could help pull Venus back to the forefront of planetary science as the mission seeks to answer questions about the evolution of Earth and other habitable planets in the universe. As Grinspoon points out, “there is a difference between Earth-sized and Earth-like." Pinpointing what that difference is could help us figure out which of the worlds orbiting nearby stars are truly habitable.
After being part of half a dozen failed Venus mission proposals over his career, Grinspoon is still cautious that the current mission proposal will bear fruit. But others remain hopeful. “Venus’ time is coming,” Senske says. “Stay tuned. I think Venus is rising here.”
Il n’existe pas de plan en cas de visite extraterrestre
Il n’existe pas de plan en cas de visite extraterrestre
crédit: metro.co.uk/ Quick – steal his iPad (Picture: Getty Images)
Nick Pope précise que contrairement à ce que pensent les ufologues aucun plan n’est prévu en cas de rencontre avec des visiteurs d’un autre monde.
Pour clarifier, la politique de SETI en matière de post-détection (son document « Déclaration de principes » et le matériel associé) pourrait être considérée comme un plan, mais bien entendu elle ne s’applique qu’à la détection de signaux et non à une arrivée réelle.
Du moins, c’est ce que déclare Nick Pope – qui était responsable du projet OVNI du gouvernement entre 1991 et 1994.
Nick Pope est l’un des principaux experts mondiaux sur les ovnis, les théories du complot et l’inexpliqué.
Dans le cadre d’une longue carrière au ministère de la Défense, il a passé quatre ans à diriger le département des OVNIS du gouvernement, se préparant à une éventuelle invasion – ou visite amicale – de nos voisins célestes.
Alors, après tout ce temps, quel est le plan du gouvernement?
– Il n’y a pas de plan.
…Oh.
Il n’y a pas de plan d’urgence pour autant que je sache, a-t-il dit à Metro.co.uk. « La réponse du gouvernement serait que, » Nous considérons cela comme une possibilité incroyablement petite « .
«Mais je dirais, pourquoi ne pas avoir un plan s’il y a même la plus petite possibilité que cela seproduise.
Aucune idée de quoi faire au cas où cela se produit
(Image : Getty Images)
Bien que cela puisse être alarmant pour certains, Pope déclarait qu’une visite extraterrestre ne ressemblerait pas vraiment à la «guerre des mondes» à laquelle nous nous attendons.
Au lieu de cela, selon lui cela ressemblerait davantage à Arrival (1er Contact)- qui sort en DVD le 20 mars – dans lequel chaque pays réunit une équipe de scientifiques, d’universitaires culturels et d’experts militaires pour essayer de communiquer avec la nouvelle espèce.
Surtout parce que, étant donné qu’ils ont réussi à visiter la Terre avec succès, ils auraient sans doute déjà plusieurs milliers d’années d’avance technologique sur nous.
Mais cela, à son tour, pourrait mener à certains conflits internationaux, du moins à court terme. Pope a déclaré: « Il y aurait une lutte pour la technologie étrangère, et les armes. Certaines des grandes nations – et aussi, à l’heure actuelle, les entreprises – se battraient pour mettre la main sur la technologie étrangère. «Le pays qui obtient cette [technologie] serait le leader mondial dans un avenir prévisible».
Bien qu’il ait poursuivi en disant que, à long terme, nous allions tous nous en approcher.
«En fin de compte, cette [visite étrangère] pourrait avoir un effet unificateur», a déclaré Pope.
«Une arrivée extraterrestre pourrait nous convaincre qu’il y a plus de choses qui nous unissent que de choses qui nous séparent.
Alors, tandis que les dirigeants mondiaux poussent en avant leurs élites, quelle est la meilleure chose à faire pour les gens normaux comme nous ?
«D’abord, et c’est un cliché, mais ne paniquez pas», prévient Pope.
‘Ne commencez pas à courir vers les collines ou à tirer sur des vaisseaux extraterrestres. Attendez que les esprits les plus fins de la planète aient compris ce dont il s’agit.
Dans le même temps, ça ne fait jamais mal de vous procurer une assurance. David King, de Budget Insurance, a déclaré à Metro.co.uk qu’ils commencent une liste d’attente pour une police qui couvre les invasions d’extraterrestres.
«Pour être prudent, nous ouvrons une liste d’attente pour les clients qui seraient désireux de retirer une couverture de dommages anti-alien le cas échéant», a t-il dit.
Et «ne tirez pas sur les vaisseaux étrangers» est particulièrement important, a t-il dit, parce que nous pourrions un jour avoir besoin de quitter la planète nous-mêmes – et pourrions le faire avec quelques conseils.
« Un jour, nous devrons aller de l’avant, alors il serait bon d’avoir de l’aide des extraterrestres », a-t-il dit.
«Pour le moment, nous sommes confinés sur Terre, mais nous espérons qu’un jour nous aurons la technologie qui nous emmenera vers les étoiles.
Donc, notre meilleur plan est : se calmer, se lier d ‘amitié avec les extraterrestres, voler leur technologie quand ils ne regardent pas.
New Linda Moulton Howe Earth is an Ancient Alien Laboratory [FULL VIDEO]
New Linda Moulton Howe Earth is an Ancient Alien Laboratory [FULL VIDEO]
Published on Mar 15, 2017
In this stunning new Linda Moulton Howe video, she talks about of how planet Earth has been the laboratory playground of Ancient Aliens for over 270 million years. Linda explains Ancient gods and myths are all real - ancient gods were beings with advanced intelligence who visited planet Earth and affected human history, for better and for worse. In fact, ancient hieroglyphics do appear on modern-day UFOs: "Some people that have worked in these facilities have all talked about ancient hieroglyphics on these crafts."
Linda Moulton Howe explains UFOs and ET life is a complex, mysterious and difficult topic to investigate and has been kept top secret for purposes of national security. They take enormous measures to keep it secret, because they really feel that is what is needed to deal with the UFO phenomenon for all of us. There are good and bad ET species, referred to as "friendlies" and "unfriendlies," and they are at war in space and on our planet.
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UFOs, Kenneth Arnold and the American Bible
UFOs, Kenneth Arnold and the American Bible
Kenneth Arnold was the original credible witness, a straight-shooting, down-to-earth ex-Boy Scout. Jacques Vallee wrote, "I now think of referring to the (flying saucer) problem as 'the Arnold Phenomenon' after that celebrated witness, businessman Kenneth Arnold." (11 April 1963 entry, Forbidden Science Volume I.) However, in the years since, Arnold's role as the herald of the UFO age has been diminished by the overemphasis and promotion of the Roswell crash franchise. His role is important, and there's a lot more to his story.
Shortly after his encounter, Arnold had the first of many other sightings on his flight to Maury Island, a trip that began his informal role as the first civilian UFO investigator. He became interested in Charles Fort's books of phenomena and joined the Fortean Society. Over the years, he came to believe that the objects he'd seen were living creatures, possibly related to what Ezekiel had described in the Book of Revelation. There's a lot more to Kenneth Arnold's story than just his first sighting, but UFO history has largely ignored the story.
Ray Palmer and an Amazing Book
UFO historians have sought to diminish or deny the role of another pioneer, Raymond A. Palmer, who was promoting the reality of extraterrestrials space ships visiting the Earth as early as 1945. Palmer was a science fiction author, but interested in the reality of space travel, Fortean phenomena, Theosophy and all sorts of paranormal topics, so in 1948 he created a non-fiction magazine to discuss them, Fate magazine. Palmer wrote to Kenneth Arnold and persuaded him to tell his story, which became the cover feature for the first issue of Fate. As a result, the two men became life-long friends and worked together, the best-known example being their collaboration on the 1952 book, The Coming of the Saucers. In 1945 Ray Palmer became fascinated with something that's been called the American Bible, "... an amazing book called 'Oahspe' which purports to be a history of the past 79,000 years, both of the earth and of heaven... which ties into a cohesive whole all the legends and folktales of the world, and all the archeological discoveries of the past, and depicts a logical and convincing, and for the most part provable relationship between all the races of mankind for LONGER than science says civilized men existed on the earth, or even cave-men!" (Amazing Stories December 1945)
"Oahspe, A New Bible in the Words of Jehovih and His Angel Embassadors" was published in 1882, by John Ballou Newbrough supposedly written by automatic writing, channeling the word of Ormazd, "the Creator." In The UFO Phenomenon: Fact, Fantasy and Disinformation, John Michael Greer describes it's significance to UFOs and the extraterrestrial hypothesis.
"Like many channeled works, Oahspe defies easy characterization. Written in the style of the King James Bible, it combines Christian imagery with ideas borrowed from many other religions... What sets it apart most strikingly from the religious visions of a previous century, though, is the way it locates its theology in outer space. Its angels and gods live on countless planets... and travel from world to world in Etherean vessels that range from little scout craft to vast mother ships the size of a planet."
Ray Palmer's Mystic Magazine, May, 1954
These vessels are referred to as fire, sun and "star-ships." An example from Oahspe: "Then Osire left this high place and with his host, aboard the etherean ship of fire, sat out toward the earth, at break-neck speed; for such was the disposition of this most determined god." Ray Palmer promoted the text in the pages of his magazines over the years, and went on to publish three versions of it between 1960 and 1972, writing that, "Oahspe is truly a gateway to understanding."
Arnold's Souvenir Card
In 1950 Kenneth Arnold published The Flying Saucer as I Saw It, an the illustrated pamphlet to be sold as a souvenir at his lectures on the topic. He used the same saucer image for a calling card. His daughter, Kim Arnold wrote: “Kenneth Arnold used to give out philosophy cards to the many people he would meet. They were the size of a common business card. The front of the card had the image of the second to the last of the nine flying saucers he saw on June 24, 1947. The back of the card expressed this quote:”
Many people have inquired as to my philosophy – due to my involvement in the phenomenon known as "Flying Saucers.” The following I accept is worth thinking about.
A great man is the unbelieving man; he is without spiritual sight or spiritual hearing; his glory is in understanding his own understanding. It is he who subdues the forest, tames the beasts of the field to service. He goes alone in the dark, unafraid. He follows no man’s course, but, searches for himself; the priests cannot make him believe, nor the angels of heaven; none can subdue his judgment. He says: why permit others even priests, to you think for you? Stand on your own feet – be a man. Through his arm are tyrants and evil kings overthrown. Through him are doctrines and religions sifted to the bottom and the falsehood and evil in them cast aside. Who but the Creator could have created so great a man as the unbeliever?
KENNETH ARNOLD
It's an unusual piece of writing, not what you'd expect out of a man like Arnold. It turns out the language is taken from scripture. It's taken from Ray Palmer's beloved Oahspe.
Oahspe, a New Bible in the Words of Jehovih and His Angel Embassadors, Page 361
26. Nevertheless, the Creator created a great man amongst these; and such is the unbelieving man. He hath neither gold nor silver, nor house nor land; and he is without spiritual sight or spiritual hearing; but his glory is in understanding his own understanding. 27. He it is that subdueth the forest, and tameth the beasts of the field to man's service. He goeth alone in the dark, fearing naught. He followeth not the course of any man, but searcheth for himself; the priest cannot make him believe, nor can the angels of heaven; none can subdue his judgment. He beholdeth the glory of the earth and of manhood. He calleth to the multitude, saying: Why permit ye others, even priests, to think for you? Arise, O thou, and be a man! Arise, O thou, and be a woman! 28. He inspireth of the earth and for the earth; through his arms are tyrants and evil kings overthrown. Through him are doctrines and religions sifted to the bottom, and the falsehood and evil in them cast aside. Yea, who but Ormazd could have created so great a man as the unbeliever?
We can't know exactly how Arnold came to use the Oahspe text on his calling card, but there can be little doubt that his friend, Ray Palmer, was influential in its genesis.
Space news has recently been dominated by the discovery of fascinating new exoplanets. After NASA announced the discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 system, the internet briefly lost its mind with conjectures of these possibly habitable alien worlds. While those worlds might indeed harbor life, it is far too early to tell; based on the distance to the TRAPPIST-1 system, we might not know for decades. Just this week, however, a baffling exoplanet announcement by French astronomers has once more caught the imagination of space geeks everywhere and demonstrated that there are plenty of strange new worlds left to discover in the reaches of deep space.
The “planet” is relatively isolated and is not traveling through space as part of any group of stars or planets.
The announcement concerns the object CFBDSIR 2149-0403 (or CFBDSIR J214947.2-040308.9 if you’re not into the whole brevity thing), a strange object spotted by astronomers in 2012. While it first appeared to be a low-mass brown dwarf planet, a study published by researchers at Grenoble Alpes University is showing that CFBDSIR 2149-0403 might be a “rogue” planet which does not belong to a solar system, possibly the first of its kind. According to lead author Philippe Delorme, there are two likely hypotheses for the identity of the strange planet-like object:
CFBDSIR 2149-0403 is an atypical substellar object that is either a ‘free-floating planet’ or a rare high-metallicity brown dwarf. Or a combination of both.
Initial analyses concluded that CFBDSIR 2149-0403 was part of the AB Doradus Moving Group, a free-moving group of stars hurtling through the Milky Way. However, this new study conjectures that this “rogue” planet is indeed isolated and could even be an entirely unique celestial object.
The AB-Doradus group is a cluster of 30 stars of similar composition moving through space together.
According to the team’s open-source publication on arXiv.org, part of the problem in classifying CFBDSIR 2149-0403 lies in the fact that scientifically speaking, we have just begun to understand how to study the composition of exoplanets and other objects:
Our theoretical understanding of cool, low-gravity and/or metallicity-enhanced atmospheres is not yet robust enough to decisively discriminate between these two hypotheses, especiallybecause these physical parameters have very similar effects on the emergent spectra of such atmospheres.
Studies like these show just how little we know about even our galactic neighborhood, much less the expanse of the universe. As our telescopes and other long-range sensors improve, more and more mysterious, unexplained objects are being discovered. Who knows what unknown wonders might lie just beyond our perception?
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According to recent reports, a large group of unidentified flying objects suspended regular operations at the Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, Peru.Twice.
The large collection of twelve airborne objects halted all aircraft from taking off or landing for three hours on February 12th at 7:38 pm local time. The event was leaked only days ago to the media by Ufologist Mario Zegarra, who was provided with documents from CORPAC, the corporation which owns and operates the airport. According to Zegarra, the radar tower was engaged in communications with pilots diverting them to another airport due to unusual radar activity. Zegarra stated,
The Jorge Chavez airport radar captured 12 unidentified echoes on its screen. Each identified with code 0000, which means a UFO…
Zegarra states that he heard recordings of the conversations between the control tower and the pilots, but those have yet to be released to the public.
The front page a local Peruvian newspaper where the story broke.
During the incident, a second Ufologist, Joshue Cornejo, captured the image below in the same area as the airport using an infrared video camera. He and Zegarra claim that these twelve objects are the same ones that showed up on the airport’s radar system, and are responsible for the suspension of outgoing and incoming flights. According to Cornejo, the objects were not easily visible to the naked eye.
A still of the twelve objects that allegedly ground Lima’s international airport to a standstill for three hours.
While this may be strange, the leaked documents also contained information regarding a second UFO incident on February 7th which also temporarily shut down the airport at 9:40 pm local time. According to the February 7th incident, the radar identified a large unknown object passing over the airport’s airspace.
An image of the CORPAC documents provided by Zegarra.
Perhaps one of the most famous airport UFO incidents occurred over O’Hare International Airport in 2006. Personnel in the radar tower, ground crews, pilots and passengers all reported seeing a large disk shaped object silently hovering over Gate C-17. The initial sighting was made by a ramp operator who contacted the tower and the crew of a United Airlines Flight 446. A dozen employees reported the object to their superiors, while many others also allegedly saw the object.
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Engineer recounts low-hovering triangle UFO
Engineer recounts low-hovering triangle UFO
A Nevada witness near Austin reported a close encounter with a low flying and hovering triangle-shaped object about 300 feet long moving overhead under 500 feet, according to testimony in Case 82126 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first saw a bright light ahead about 1,000 yards that appeared to be hovering.
Pictured: Near Austin, NV. (Credit: Google)
The reporting witness is a communications engineer who was leaving work at a remote radio site on Mount Callahan on February 15, 2017.
“We were driving down from Mount Callahan at 8p.m.” the witness stated. “We entered a clearing and saw a bright light in the sky just out in front of us about 1,000 yards. It was just sitting there about 30 degrees up in the air.”
The witness stopped his truck and got out to watch the object.
“In an instant, it became a very large triangle with two lights in each corner. The object appeared to rotate slowly for about a minute. The body blotted out the stars. Then it suddenly became a massive rectangle with about 30 lights around the parameter. It did not move or make any sound for about a minute.”
The object suddenly appeared to be larger and it began to rotate. Pictured: Near Austin, NV.
(Credit: Google)
The object then suddenly disappeared.
“Then it just was gone as if turning off a light. About five seconds later we could hear a very loud rushing air sound just above us, but we could not see anything above us, just stars. The sound got louder, then slowly as if flying away, got softer and softer until silence. This lasted about 20 seconds. This was an extremely remote commutations site, Our trucks were the only lights for 20 square miles. I felt that it had been watching us and then just appeared directly in front of us, did its little show and left.”
Nevada MUFON Assistant State Director Sandra Countissclosed this case as an Unknown.
“Two other black triangle cases were reported in the last month in Nevada,” Countiss stated in her report.“First one is Case # 80764 in Carson City. Second is Case #82130 in North Las Vegas near the Air Force base flight zones. There is another from November 2016, Case # 80486 near Laughlin.”
The object then disappeared as if a light switch had been thrown. Pictured: Near Austin, NV.
(Credit: Google)
No photos or videos were included with the MUFON report, which was filed on February 16, 2017. 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.
ISLAMABAD – Residents of Gilgit and Ghizer Districts of Gilgit-Baltistan were panic-stricken on Wednesday night as they witnessed a huge blast and flash of light in the sky.
The incident happened at around 9 PM when locals in the Gilgit, Ghizer and neighbouring Diamer district heard a huge blast and suspected a UFO (Unidentified flying object) or any meteorite.
The blast was so severe that some of the citizens took to social media platforms and feared any plane crash or bomb blast in the purview of a recent string of attacks.
A resident, Zafar Iqbal said: ‘Hit somewhere in shilpi Ghizer but no casualities [sic]’
Another local, Arbab Musaweer Alam Khan stated that he was on a motorcycle when he saw red and yellowish stars and “something else” moving fast in the sky which then disappeared.
“This was much nearer to the earth which set the entire city alight,” he said.
People from Haripur and Islamabad also reported seeing a bright object flying fast across the sky towards the north.
The Information Department of Gilgit-Baltistan has now confirmed that the explosion and flashes were caused by a huge meteor crossing the sky over the Ghizer and Gilgit District.
There are unconfirmed reports that the meteorite may have fallen in a remote area somewhere between the Yasin and Gupis Tehsils of Ghizer District. This has yet to be confirmed though.
It is alleged that a UFO crashed into a farm near Rosewell, New Mexico in mid-1947. Official reports claim that the object that did crash at the site was a United States Air Force (USAF) weather balloon, but many others believe it was a flying disc of UFO origin.
This crash sparked conspiracy theorists and ufologists to formulate theories about the incident claiming that one or more UFOs had crashed at the site, the military had recovered the bodies of the aliens on board, and were suppressing the incident.
Lt Col Onizuka died in the Challenger space shuttle blast of 1986. Prior to that he revealed that he saw dead aliens. He allegedly made the statement to Clark C McClelland, a former operator of the NASA space shuttle fleet, and his colleague, Express reported.
He told McClelland about the incident when they were at NASA during a routine preparatory mission and asked McClelland for his views on alien life.
McClelland later wrote an article about their conversation titled 'Alien Disclosure From an Astronaut' and revealed what Onizuka had told him.
In the article McClelland wrote that "[Mr Onizuka] had a surprising experience along with other US Air Force (USAF) aerospace flight engineers and pilots while on military training duty at McClellan air force base, about eight or nine years prior to his astronaut training. He and this group were at this base for specialised training when they were directed to report to a viewing room," as quoted by Express.
"As they were seated, the room darkened and a movie began without the usual official introduction by a USAF officer."
According to McClelland, Onizuka told him he was shocked when the film showed a room the looked like it was meant for medical examinations, which had table-like objects in it with small bodies on them.
Here's what the video showing what Onizuka had seen in the film:
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The military initially announced that it had spotted the remains of a crashed UFO in the nearby New Mexico desert, but the next day they changed their statement, saying it was a USAF weather balloon, which raised suspicions.
Alleged eyewitnesses said that alien bodies were present at the crash site and were removed, along with the remains of the craft, and carried to Nevada's top secret Area 51 military base.
Onizuka described the creatures to be strange, humanoid in shape and small in size; this description was similar to the one given by witnesses of the incident in 1947: "They all had large heads, large eyes, slight torsos, arms, and legs. They did not appear to be of earthly origin."
This video could be the real leaked Rosewell UFO crash footage:
Barwell and Earl Shilton have been singled out as hotspots for UFO sightings.
Reports of strange objects in the sky, gathered by The Hinckley Times and listed on a sky-watchers’ website, suggest the two neighbourhoods see the most sub-space activity of any location in Leicestershire.
A new article on history and heritage blog The Leicester Chronicle brings together a series of sightings going back to 1706.
Blogger Thomas Kirkup reckons the location of the town and village, close to one another and near to Hinckley but largely surrounded by open countryside, is the key factor in the swathe of flying object spots.
According to his research, Earl Shilton and Barwell is the county’s prime UFO country, with the largest number of sightings reported by locals.
Glowing objects and bright white balls of light were seen in the skies as reported in The Hinckley Times in May last year and March 2015.
Even more cases of eerie ethereal phenomenon are listed on the LUFOIN - Leicestershire UFO Investigation Network.
One weird happening in particular was observed by various witnesses across Earl Shilton, Barwell and Leicester Forest East on May 25 last year at around 10pm.
UFO
Six people in different locations were fascinated by a blue glowing object, hovering low over the ground and apparently accompanied by the smell of sulphur.
One man said: “I was heading back from delivering a spa pool at a customer’s when I turned onto Station Road and I saw a brilliant blue light passing over Earl Shilton.
“It was low, about 100 feet off the ground and about 20 foot wide by about ten foot high, it was moving in a zigzag pattern.”
Another recalled: “I was walking the dogs last night when we saw a very bright blue craft in the sky over Elmesthorpe.
“It wasn’t a meteor as it was moving controlled.
“I’m lost as to what it was as it wasn’t an aeroplane and not a chopper or drone.
“There was only a humming noise I could hear, and a mouldy egg smell as it passed over.”
A model of a ufo created by Colin Saunders for a story going into The Hinckley Times
The smell was also detected by a third witness who said: “I saw a car-sized blue cut diamond UFO flying low over Barwell heading towards the village centre.
“There was a putrid smell in air as it passed over.”
Meanwhile another woman said: “My husband and I both noticed a bright blue, diamond-shaped aircraft in the sky hovering above the rugby ground near Beggars Lane, Leicester Forest East.
“It was shooting a red beam towards the ground.”
Listings on the LUFOIN page feature a host of sightings from 2016 which range from hovering cylinder-shaped objects to a trio of domed objects appearing following streaks of light.
Colours are usually white, green or blue.
On a nationwide website the most recent report in the area originates from Newton Linford in November last year.
The account recalls it was getting light, a motorist and her daughter saw ‘a kind of tailing egg shape’ in the sky, seeming to disappear then alter appearance.
A model of a UFO and a graphic illustration of how it would look supplied by Colin Saunders
Last year Hinckley Times reader Colin Saunders described his experience of seeing a UFO on the old Fosse Way in 1999.
An ex aerospace engineer, he created a model of the object he saw in the skies near Hinckley.
■ If anyone has seen anything unusual in the sky reports can be made to LUFOIN. Personal details remain confidential.
Curt Moseman and his family saw something right back of the house. He couldn’t explain it.
“We were a hundred feet from it,” Curt says.
He lives about a mile west of a missile silo near Roy, the same one where the malfunction happened involving Robert Salas in March 1967.
“About six miles west of Roy on the crick here is where we live,” Curt says.
It was March 7 of 2007, a dark moonless night. Curt’s 20-year-old son went out at about 10 p.m. to check on the herd of cows.
“He was watching a calf be born,” Curt says. “And he had a flashlight, turning it on and off. And all of a sudden this thing on the hill started flashing lights back at him.”
What?
“This thing came toward him and it was a few hundred feet in the air,” Curt says. “So he came to the house scared as hell. And he was just a shakin’.”
Curt wasn’t too sympathetic at first.
“I said, ‘Oh we’ve been calving for three weeks now and you’re probably tired. Just go to bed,’” Curt told his son.
Curt’s wife got all over him for that.
“She says, ‘Get out there. There might be something there,’ I was in my underwear but I said OK. And I wish I’d of taken my camera or my (doggone) iPad. Because that thing takes pictures.”
WHAT CURT SAW was worth photographing.
“All of a sudden, this thing was 90 to 100 feet away from us and it lit up,” Curt says. “There were seven lights, all eight foot in diameter. Poof, poof, poof. … All seven lights came on. It was probably 90 feet wide, 20 feet high. It didn’t give off no light on the outside of whatever it was. All the light was inside.”
Curt and his son were stunned in the pickup. The object, he says, was not moving.
“It was sitting on the ground, 100 feet from the road,” Curt says. “All the big lights came on, all seven of them, and when they all came on, this thing started going straight up. Real slow. It went up 10 or 20 feet and went across my hayfield. We started chasing it with the pickup, but all of a sudden it took off and got ahead of us and we lost track of it.”
What was it?
“I don’t know. I have no clue,” Curt says. “If it’s the Air Force they better let us know about the technology, I can tell you that.”
CURT’S CLOSE ENCOUNTERhappened twice that night. He says they went back to the original site and sat there, waiting.
“And all of a sudden, it’s above us, sitting in one spot,” he says. “And it’s watching us. For probably five minutes. Then all of a sudden the lights went out and we never saw it again.”
Curt and his boy did not see any sign of life inside the craft.
“But the weird thing is,” Curt says, “they were in the middle of my cows and I think they abducted one. Because six months later, a cow out of that herd came up (mutilated). Almost everything inside the cow was gone. I think they took one of my cows up and put something into it, and I think they come back six months later and took it. Now I’ve not told anybody that, but that’s what I think.
“No teeth marks. All the cuts were straight as hell and everything inside was gone. Weird.”
That, we think, is a little scary.
“I know,” Curt says. “It’s bothered me ever since.”
CURT, 60, SAYS HE’S not the only one with stories like this to tell.
“There’s a lot of other people around here who have seen the same thing, different lights and stuff,” he says. “One neighbor lady to the east had one land right in her corral when she was calving. I tell you what, in ’07 and into 08, ’there was a lotta (UFO) activity around here. And then nothing.”
Could it have been an Air Force craft?
“There ain’t no way,” Curt says. “This thing was so big and heavy. I don’t think it was us. I think it was something beyond (this earth). I do.”
He was asked if anyone has ever accused him of seeing things.
“Oh yeah, my buddies in Roy gave me hell for about a year,” Curt says. “Thank God I had my kid with me, or everyone would really think I’m crazy.”
He says things are good on the ranch these days.
“We’re doing fine,” Curt says. “I just wish that thing would come back so we could see it in the daylight.”
GERALD RAPP LIVES14 miles west of Fairfield on Highway 408. Been there for years, he says. Pretty peaceful out there, too.
Except for one night about 40 years ago.
“We had quite an experience,” he says. “I think it was ’74 or ’76 and at night about a half a mile from our place we saw lights blinking and blinking.”
A wreck on the highway, that’s what Gerald though. So he and two teenaged sons, Matthew and Mason, investigated.
“Well, it was not a wreck,” Gerald says. “There were lights coming and going in the air from a field, going and lighting and coming up and hovering above the highway. And then going back.”
Small lights, he says. Flickering lights.
“We got out of the pickup and went down there about 100 yards,” Gerald says. “And here out in the field was this big, lit-up, two-story hotel type of building. Only it wasn’t a building. It was setting in the field. You couldn’t see into it, but it had lots of windows. With little flickering lights moving all around it.”
GERALD SAYS HE WASN’Tcertain what to make of this.
“We thought ‘what in the world? How come the Air Force isn’t out investigating this?’” he says. “And all of a sudden here comes from Great Falls, that direction, a blinking, blinking deal. I says ‘Here comes the chopper right now, boys. They’re gonna see what’s going on.’
“So the chopper gets right overhead and it was not a chopper. It was a big disc-shaped object with a dome on it and everything. And I’ll be darned but it went over and lit behind the big building.”
Of course he says it was no building, either. And the boys wanted to get out of the pickup and go touch it.
“I said no, we’re not going over there at all,” Gerald says. “We kept watching it, and pretty soon the building starts lifting up off the field and starts going away, very slowly, to the south. And all the objects that were flickering around it followed right along until it disappeared from our view toward the Rocky Mountains.”
No kidding.
“No dream at all,” Gerald says. “We were all wide awake watching it from my pickup.”
To be an eyewitness, it was suggested, must be a frightening experience.
“No, it wasn’t,” Gerald says. “We were exalted to see this. I said ‘Look boys, you’ll never see this again.’ This is something nobody can explain.”
Gerald tries anyhow.
“I think it was something from another place, another planet,” he says.
JUST LIKE CURTin Roy, Gerald in Fairfield has caught some teasing about the story.
“People say, oh, you’re goofy, you musta been drunk, you were seeing things …” Gerald says. “I don’t tell it to everybody. But I’ve convinced, and so is my whole family.”
Earlier that evening, Gerald’s brother to the north had visited and mentioned seeing some funny lights in the sky.
“He said it was a flying saucer,” Gerald chuckles. “He was kidding, you know.”
But Gerald is dead serious.
As we asked Curt, we wondered if what Gerald saw could possibly have been an Air Force craft of some kind.
“Absolutely not,” he says. “This thing was hotel-sized, at least a block long and two stories high, and sitting in a stubble field. I know that field well. I’ve irrigated that field. And here it was plain as day. And it rises up slowly – me and the boys all saw it. My family all believes me.
“I don’t care if anybody believes me or not, but since you wanted to know that’s my story. And I’m sticking to it.”
GERALD AND CURT, two born and raised Montana men, have a matter-of-fact way of speaking. The truth is, they say, they’re witnesses to history.
And, they add, they’re not the only ones around here.
“I know that other people have seen similar types of things,” Gerald says. “And I know and they know that these are real things. But why the government will not admit it, I don’t know and don’t care. But they won’t. And they know more than I or you know about it, for crying out loud. But they will not inform the public.”
Needless to say, since that night Gerald and his family have been watching the sky every night.
“Absolutely,” he says. “We watch. And we have not seen anything since.”
Columnist Cheryl Costa breaks down the question about UFOs we all want answered.
JIMMY KIMMEL (RIGHT) AND BARACK OBAMA SHARE A EXCHANGE DURING A BREAK ON "JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE." PHOTO BY DOUG MILLS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES
The UFO question came about from Jimmy Kimmel. Not once, but four times in the past two years and seven months he has asked three former U.S. presidents and a presidential candidate the same query about UFOs. All of them brushed it off. Some side stepped it with a laugh, others with an uncomfortable snicker claiming they can’t talk about it.
Jimmy Kimmel is an entertainer and should be commended for bringing up the topic in front of a national television audience that a majority of Americans (70 percent, according to a 2012 National Geographic UFO poll) want to know the answer to. But why is Kimmel the one asking this challenging question?
Why haven’t journalists affiliated with mainstream news stations or newspapers or, better yet, the White House press corps asked the same hard question?Do these world-class journalists feel that a question about UFOs and the extraterrestrial presence is silly and nonsensical?
How can the UFO subject matter be so trivial that the journalism elites can’t or won’t broach the question to current or former leaders? After all, how trivial can the subject matter be when a Canadian government memorandum, classified top secret from 1950 stated, “The matter is the most highly classified subject in the United States government, rating higher even than the H-bomb.”
In recent weeks I’ve had conversations with reporters and editors from around the country, and when I brought up the subject of UFOs, the tone of the conversation coldly changed to, “I’ve got to go.”
One editor literally laughed me off the phone. The most perplexing response came from the science editor from a major newspaper who told me “the UFO question has been settled long ago.”
I could only wonder how he came to this conclusion. Perhaps he bought into the 1968 findings of the Condon Report to Congress. The finding recommended that no government funding should be spent researching UFOs, which killed the US Air Force’s project Blue Book. It also prevented any other government agency from directly researching the topic or granting federal funds to academic institutions to pursue research. Of course we have no idea what has been funded in the black budget and researched in classified agencies.
A medical doctor acquaintance of on mine suggested that the nervousness on the part of many of those editors and reporters to the topic of UFOs might be rooted in sub-conscious fears. Perhaps it’s a natural reaction to having their reality challenged.
In the 1960s, the average UFO sightings reported nationwide totaled in the hundreds every year. In the 1980s, those numbers began increasing. Since the year 2000, our nation averages about 8,000 UFO sighting reports per year. Something big has been happening. It’s time for our free press and media to wake up.
If you would like to review the Jimmy Kimmel interviews, here are links to all four:
If you are interested in joining a monthly UFO discussion group in the Onondaga County area, drop Cheryl an email at Blogger@CherylCosta.com. If you have a UFO sighting to report, you can use either one of the two national database services:nuforc.org or mufon.com. Both services respect confidentiality.
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Virginia UFO stops and hovers intermittently
Virginia UFO stops and hovers intermittently
A Virginia witness at Centreville reported watching a sphere-shaped object that stopped and hovered as regular air traffic passed by, according to testimony in Case 81071 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness father sketch.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness was outside about to give her son a driving lesson on December 20, 2016, when the incident began.
“Right before entering the driver’s side of my vehicle, I noticed in the sky to my left an object slowly moving from left towards my direction flashing two extremely bright, circular, white lights,” the witness stated.“At first I thought it was an airplane, but as it became more discernable, I noticed it had no wings, however, I could distinctly see that it was sphere-shaped with what looked like a white tail appendage sticking out from the rear.”
The witness watched as the object moved toward her location.
“I also noticed that the side of the object gave a brief reflection from the sun which allowed me to observe its metallic/aluminum body as it would look on an airplane reflecting off sun light. The object moved towards my standing location and then made a slight turn towards my right (its left) as it proceeded to slowly move across the sky.”
The witness described the object’s lights.
“The lights continued to glow off and on randomly. At times the lights would stop glowing or emitting light for about 5 to 7 seconds, and then would glow again. I noticed that the object came to a stop as soon as a passenger airliner flew by at a lower altitude below it, as if to observe it. The object then proceeded to continue its path moving from left to right across the sky.”
Witness son sketch.
(Credit: MUFON)
The witness then followed the object a few blocks out of the neighborhood to a more open area where the sky gave an unobstructed view.
“As I continued to look up, my son and I, who had been with me theentire time, noticed that the object stopped again. Suddenly, three white or silverish-colored airplanes appeared flying from right to left, one behind the other, leaving contrails in its path. I found the timing and the order in which these large airplanes were flying (one behind the other) rather strange. The airplanes flew in the direction of the UFO and passed a few thousand feet beneath it. The UFO blinked its lights a few more times as the airplanes flew by, and then moved around in circular directions, then slightly moved up, then down, then it continued to glow its light for a few seconds. The light then became dimmer to the point of going out, with the object becoming more transparent, but still discernible to my eye. The object’s light would then begin to glow some more with the object becoming more materialized and then slowly changing back to its transparent form until it eventually vanished in the sea of a beautiful blue sky.”
Centreville, VA, is about 30 miles west of Washington, D.C.
(Credit: Google)
The witness reflected back on the experience.
“A few things that stayed with me after this experience were how magnificent and powerfully bright the lights were as they glowed. I could stare at them for hours. Also, how the object would stop when an airplane would fly by as if to observe it. How there was, clearly a what appears to be a white tail, coming from the rear which moved accordingly to the laws of physics. And lastly, the way it would move slowly across the sky and then stop, and change directions at will implying a clear sign of intelligence behind the controls. Very creepy, however, amazing at the same time.”
Centreville is located in Fairfax County, VA, population 71,135. Virginia MUFON STAR Team member Norman Gagnon 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.
With the discovery of seven new exoplanets orbiting around their own star, it’s looking a tiny bit more likely that aliens are going to visit Earth at some point.
At least, that’s according to Nick Pope – who was in charge of the government’s UFO Project between 1991 and 1994.
Pope is one of the world’s leading experts on UFOs, conspiracy theories and the unexplained.
As part of a lengthy career in the Ministry of Defence, he spent four years heading up the government’s UFO department, preparing for a possible invasion – or friendly visit – from our celestial neighbours.
So, after all that time, what is the government’s plan?
‘There’s no plan.’
…Oh.
‘There’s no contingency plan as far as I’m aware,’ he told Metro.co.uk. ‘The government’s answer would be that, “We regard this as an incredibly small possibility”.
‘But I would say, why not have a plan if there’s even the smallest possibility of it happening.’
No idea what to do if this happens (Picture: Getty Images)
While this may be alarming to some, Pope did go one to say that an alien visit wouldn’t really look like the ‘War of the Worlds’ type of thing we’d expect.
Instead, he believed it would more closely resemble Arrival – which comes out on DVD on March 20 – in which each country puts together a team of scientists, cultural academics and military experts in order to try and communicate with the new species.
Especially since, given that they’ve managed to successfully visit Earth, they would undoubtedly already be several thousands years ahead of us technologically.
But this, in turn, could lead to some international conflicts, at least in the short-term.
Pope said: ‘There would be a scramble for the alien technology, and weapons. Some of the big countries – and also, nowadays, corporations – would be scrambling to get their hands on alien technology.
‘The country that gets that [technology] would be the world leader for the foreseeable future.’
Amy Adams (right) as Louise Banks greeting the aliens in Arrival (Picture: Paramount Pictures)
Quick – steal his iPad
(Picture: Getty Images)
Although he went on to say that, in the long run, we’d all end up closer for it.
‘Ultimately this [an alien visit] might have a unifying effect,’ Pope said.
‘An extra terrestrial arrival might convince us that there’s more that binds us together than pushes us apart.’
So, while world leaders are scrambling their top people, what’s the best thing for normal people like us to do?
‘First, and it is a cliche, but don’t panic,’ Pope warns.
‘Don’t start running for the hills or shooting at alien ships. Wait for some of the finest minds on the planet to figure out what this is.’
At the same time, it never hurts to get yourself some insurance. David King, from Budget Insurance, told Metro.co.uk that they were starting a waiting list for a policy that covers alien invasions.
‘To be on the safe side, we’re opening a waiting list for customers who’d be keen to take out anti-alien damage cover should the need arise,’ he said.
Maybe he’ll give us some tips (Picture: Getty Images)
And that ‘don’t shoot at alien ships’ bit is particularly important, he said, because we might one day need to leave the planet ourselves – and could do with a few tips.
‘One day we will have to move on, so it would be good to have some help from extra-terrestrials,’ he said.
‘At the moment we’re confined to Earth, but hopefully one day we’ll have the technology to take us to the stars.’
So our best plan is: chill, make friends with the aliens, steal their technology when they’re not looking.
The former military man, who is said to have seen 20 years of service, has allegedly revealed the startling story to US conspiracy theorist investigative journalist Linda Moulton Howe.
Mrs Howe, 75, from Albuquerque, New Mexico, who has been awarded for her paranormal research through website Earthfiles.com, says she was contacted several times by the whistleblower she has only been referred to as Brian.
In a series of videos released on YouTube, Mrs Howe is heard interviewing Brian about what he allegedly saw.
Brian, 59, who alleges to be a former retired US Navy petty officer first class flight engineer in a squadron called Antarctic Development Squadron Six, claimed to have been part of a crew that flew through a “no fly zone” above Antarctica, and saw UFOs, aliens, and a giant entrance hole to an alien base.
He was said to be stationed there between 1983 to 1997, when he retired, and on several occasions saw "aerial silver discs" flying over the Transantarctic Mountains.
In the videos, he claimed there is a top-secret collaboration between humans and aliens, with Antarctica a major research ground for the projects.
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The whistleblower has alleged there is an alien base in the Antarctic.
The large hole was said to be five to ten miles from the South Pole, in the supposed no fly zone.
He also said a group of scientists had gone missing for a week and come back terrified and refusing to speak.
Then at a camp near Marie Byrd Land, some dozen scientists disappeared for two weeks and when they re-appeared, Brian’s flight crew got the assignment to pick them up. Brian says they would not talk and “their faces looked scared.”
In an email to Mrs Howe, he said: "Another unique issue with South Pole station is that our aircraft was not allowed to fly over a certain area designated five miles from the station.
"The reason stated because of a air sampling camp in that area.
"This did not make any sense to any of us on the crew because on two different occasions we had to fly over this area.
"It was on the opposite side of the continent and we had to refuel at South Pole and a direct course to this Davis Camp was right over the air sampling station.
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There were previous claims this Google Earth images showed a UFO crashed in the Antarctic.
Talk among the flight crews was that there is a UFO base at South Pole
Naval whistleblower Brian
"The only thing we saw going over this camp was a very large hole going into the ice. You could fly one of our LC130 into this thing.
"Talk among the flight crews was that there is a UFO base at South Pole and some of the crew heard talk from some of the scientists working with and interacting with the scientists at that air sampling camp/large ice hole."
Earthfiles has published a redacted DD-214 documentand Antarctic Service Medal given to Brian on November 20 1984 in a bid to confirm his credentials.
The claims have caused riptions in the UFO community.
An article on unsilentmajoritynews.com said: "Over the years, there have been a ton of articles on the Internet dealing with the mysteries and anomalies that involve the Antarctic.
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These skulls allegedly found in the Antarctic could have come from alien visitors, it is claimed.
"Many of them have been debunked, or at least the person writing claims to have debunked various stories, I too have personally written about the mysterious activity alleged to be taking place on the frozen continent, but the following story should be elevated above all others in my humble opinion. Why?
"What makes this story far more credible than many others is who did the research.
"Linda Moulton Howe isn’t some internet hack; She’s an Emmy Award-winning TV producer, investigative reporter for radio and internet, and author who goes directly to the men and women at the forefront of science and environmental breakthroughs and to firsthand eyewitnesses of high strangeness."
But, Nigel Watson. author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said: "Antarctica is often cited as the base for UFO activity, but like this story, the evidence is based on rumours and information from anonymous or unreliable sources. So I wouldn't give it much credit."
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UFO Crash Site In Colombia Turns Out To Be Google Balloon Tech, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Crash Site In Colombia Turns Out To Be Google Balloon Tech, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:March 2017 Location of sighting: Colombia News source:
http://metro.co.uk/2017/03/15/fallen-ufo-turns-out-to-be-nothing-but-a-very-high-tech-google-balloon-6510319/ Its cool that people went to investigate this crash site even if it wasn't a UFO. At least they got to the bottom of it all. The truth is the most important thing here, and they did discover the truth. However the genius with the camera failed to tilt it over so we could see more. Its a sign of a person who has only had a camera phone for a short time. Scott C. Waring News states: Colombian villagers thought they had found a UFO when a strange object fell from the sky but it turned out to be a high-tech balloon belonging to web giant Google. Locals in the municipality of San Luis, in the central-western Colombian department of Tolima, called the police when they found the mangled device in a forest. Video shows the futuristic-looking device crashed in the trees. A creased solar panel is visible. But fears the object was of alien origin did not put people off taking a piece. A police spokesman said: ‘The device fell from the sky on Sunday, around 2 pm. Villagers found it in the middle of the forest area and informed police. ‘We went to the place where the device was found. We should inform that villagers destroyed the balloon and that some items had already been stolen from the scene.’ (More at source).
Orange Disk Seen Over Airport In Sao Paulo, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Orange Disk Seen Over Airport In Sao Paulo, Video, UFO Sighting News.
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Date of sighting: Nov 29, 2013, but reported today. Location of sighting: Congonhas Airport, Sao Paulo This video was just posted today, but was from back in 2013. The UFO is disk shape and brown/orange tinted. It is spinning and wobbling at the same time, which is why the shape appears to change. This type of UFO was seen many time in South America over the last two decades. In one case, it even landed and made contact several times with individuals back in the 1980s. Scott C. Waring News states: On the landing route of the planes to Congonhas airport in São Paulo and from the Pirituba neighborhood in the northern part of the capital, members of the Ufo-Gênesis Group record the UFO traffic in dish shape and in red color as, as in other cases, the course in a north - south direction and toward Congonhas airport at low altitude as the images demonstrate.
De ‘piramide van China’: Archeologen stuiten op vreemde tombe onder bouwplaats
De ‘piramide van China’: Archeologen stuiten op vreemde tombe onder bouwplaats
Archeologen zijn in het hart van China op een piramidevormige tombe gestuit. Lokale bewoners zijn erg onder de indruk van de begraafplaats in Zhengzhou.
Het is nog niet bekend hoe oud de graftombe is en waarom het bouwwerk de vorm van een piramide heeft.
Piramidevormige graftombe (REX)
Chinese media hebben de graftombe de ‘piramide van Zhengzhou’ genoemd, hoewel het bouwwerk een stuk kleiner is dan de piramides in Egypte.
Tweede tombe
De tombe is gevonden bij een weg die langs de Gele Rivier loopt, meldt Huanqui.com.
De graftombe werd ontdekt tijdens de bouw van een wooncomplex. In de grafkamer werd ook nog een tweede tombe aangetroffen, die de vorm van een cilinder heeft.
De kamer is 30 meter lang en acht meter breed.
Magisch
“Dit is magisch,” vertelde een lokale bewoner aan een journalist. “Ik heb nog nooit zoiets gezien. Het ziet eruit als een Egyptische piramide.”
De graftombe zou volgens een beveiliger minstens 2000 jaar oud zijn, aangezien rond de Han-dynastie (206 voor Christus – 220 na Christus) vaak zulke tombes werden gebouwd.
UFO-waarnemingen boven Amerikaanse steden na 50 jaar nog steeds een mysterie
UFO-waarnemingen boven Amerikaanse steden na 50 jaar nog steeds een mysterie
Vijftig jaar geleden haalden UFO-waarnemingen boven de Amerikaanse staat Illinois het wereldnieuws.
Mensen zagen een reusachtige lichtbol die door de lucht zweefde en plotseling richting het westen schoot.
Op 9 maart 1967 zag hulpsheriff Frank Courson boven de stad Galesburg twee cirkelvormige objecten met aan de onderkant een rood licht. Rond de objecten waren volgens hem een wit en een blauw licht te zien.
Landingsplaats
Vanwege zijn staat van dienst en het feit dat hij piloot was geweest, werd hij gezien als een geloofwaardige getuige.
Zo’n 15 andere mensen claimden de objecten ook te hebben gezien. Een boer zei dat UFO’s zijn weiland gebruikten als landingsplaats. Niemand nam hem serieus.
Volgens sommigen waren de objecten vliegers die voorzien waren van rode lichten. Dit verklaart echter niet ieder aspect van de waarnemingen, schrijft de krant Journal Star.
Wegschoot
Op 10 maart 1967 was Judy samen met haar zus op weg naar huis toen het stel plotseling een grote gloed in de lucht zag boven de stad East Peoria. Ze besloten langs de kant van de weg te gaan staan.
“Het zag er een beetje groen uit,” zei Judy. “Het bewoog zich niet voort als een vliegtuig.”
Het object bleef enige tijd hangen in de lucht, toen het plotseling wegschoot. Judy belde de politie en deelde haar verhaal.
Geen verklaring
Ze bleek niet de enige te zijn. Een man had een ‘witte gloed’ gemeld. Een ander had een ‘fel oranjekleurig object gezien in de lucht’, dat ook was waargenomen door twee politieagenten.
Judy heeft geen verklaring voor de waarneming. “Ik heb geen idee,” zei ze. “Ik had niet gedronken. Ik weet niet wat het is geweest.”
And after asking Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and George W Bush for information, some say the lack of response is very telling.
The former Presidents and Secretary of State have been grilled on Jimmy Kimmel Live over the past two years – being asked whether they had access to alleged top-secret files on the existence of aliens, and if so what they saw.
Each time, he put it to them straight, asking what they had seen and what they would divulge.
And, each time, he was met with a similar response.
The four top-drawer politicians laughed awkwardly, side-stepped the question, but refused to say outright there are no secret files or that there is no evidence of any alien visitations of Earth.
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Former presidents squirmed their way through a UFO grilling by Jimmy Kimmel.
Alien conspiracy theorists claim that the US Government does have evidence of alien visitations, but it has been kept secret from the public for years amid fears of the impact it would have on religion and the rule of law if we knew we were not alone.
They claim a so-called "truth embargo" prevents anyone speaking out about the real facts.
UFO blogger Cheryl Costa, who has keenly followed the questioning unfold wrote about her view of Mr Kimmel's mission and the responses thus far.
She said: "He has asked three former US presidents and a presidential candidate the same query about UFOs.
"All of them brushed it off. Some side stepped it with a laugh, others with an uncomfortable snicker claiming they can’t talk about it.
"Jimmy Kimmel is an entertainer and should be commended for bringing up the topic in front of a national television audience that a majority of Americans want to know the answer to. But why is Kimmel the one asking this challenging question?
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Hillary Clinton vowed to open up the UFO files if she made it to the White House.
All of them brushed it off. Some side stepped it with a laugh, others with an uncomfortable snicker claiming they can’t talk about it.
Cheryl Costa
“Why haven’t journalists affiliated with mainstream news stations or newspapers or, better yet, the White House press corps asked the same hard question?
"Do these world-class journalists feel that a question about UFOs and the extraterrestrial presence is silly and nonsensical?"
The Paradigm Research Group (PRG) was set up by Steve Bassett, who is the only registered lobbyist in the US on the subject of UFO disclosure.
He is trying to get more mainstream media in the US, UK and further afield to take the subject seriously, an cheap pressure on this allegedly in the know as Jimmy Kimmel has.
He said: "After 20 years of dealing with the media on the extraterrestrial issue, I can say with full confidence the number one concern is ridicule.
"I have talked with more than a few reporters who are not afraid to dodge bullets in Iraq, but petrified they might be the butt of a joke on a late night talk show.
"The extraterrestrial truth embargo is an intellectual ghetto where the walls are not built of brick and mortar, but of ridicule. They are walls in the mind.
"Should anyone be surprised absent a full and determined commitment to the truth of all things by fearless journalism from the Fourth Estate, that systemic, institutional lying is approaching full normalisation in America?
"Ending the ET truth embargo is the way back from this nightmare. Who wants to go first?"
AMONG US: Police have admitted to sending out officers to investigate UFO sightings
Lancashire Police dispatched bobbies to probe the potential alien invasions over the past two years.
The force admitted its officers had found no proof any 'alien craft' existed.
In response to a Freedom Of Information request the force admitted it responded after UFOs were seen over Lytham St Annes, near Blackpool, and Buckshaw Village, near Chorley, in 2014.
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PROBE: A 'beam of light from a UFO' was reported over Burnley in 2015
“Sometimes these calls are not what they may seem so a potential UFO call could be a suspicious light or suspicious movement”
Lancashire Police spokesman
Police sent officers to investigate after two 'crafts' were spotted over Pendle Hill in 2015.
A 'beam of light from a UFO' was reported over Burnley and two more alien craft were seen over Fleetwood that same year. Last year (2016) red and white UFOs were seen near Fleetwood.
Police went sent out to probe a reported alien abduction in Accrington last March (2016).
A month later they were called to a UFO 'landing' in Marsden Park, Nelson, near Burnley.
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HISTORY BOOKS: Lancashire has a long history of UFO sightings
Eye-shaped UFO spotted in the skies above Gloucester
Lancashire has a long history of UFO sightings.
One in Burnley in November 1995 prompted 250 calls after members of the public claimed to have seen an object in the sky travelling at high speed towards Hebden Bridge in neighbouring West Yorkshire.
A Lancashire Police spokesman said the force responded to such calls not to search for aliens but in case they revealed more down-to-earth 'suspicious' behaviour.
"With any call received into the control room the operator assesses each and identifies any risk/threat/harm,'' a police spokesman said. "The operator provides the appropriate response to this which may include deploying an officer.
"Sometimes these calls are not what they may seem so a potential UFO call could be a suspicious light or suspicious movement. "That could mean any number of things and we would assess and deploy officers if required.
"Or there could be a concern for the caller's welfare.''
Astronomer Andy Sierolawski, from the Todmorden Observatory based on the moors above the Lancashire town, said: "We get asked if we have ever seen anything all the time.
"Saturn and Venus as well as aircraft can very easily be mistaken for something else."
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Summary Of UFOs Seen Around The World The Last Few Months, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Summary Of UFOs Seen Around The World The Last Few Months, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of video: March 13, 2017 Maker of video:UFO Planet TV Here is an interesting analysis of several UFO sightings around the country and their similarities and differences. Learn from these cases to better understand what UFOs look like, move like and where they appear the most. Scott C. Waring
UFOs Show Up After Full Moon Over Vegas, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Show Up After Full Moon Over Vegas, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 2017 Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA Here is a great perspective of the UFOs over the hillside in Vegas this week. The full moon really lights up the back hills and gives us a better idea of how high the UFOs really are. The UFOs show up about 2-3 min into the video. Scott C. Waring Steven Baronestates:
I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of March 13, 2017. The weather turns on a dime here in Las Vegas. Just last week I was wearing a warm winter coat. Last night it was warm enough to wear a t-shirt and khaki shorts and I was barefoot as well. It's been awhile but I finally caught a pair of lights near the Black Mountain in Henderson. Henderson is usually pretty reliable for UFO activity but it has been pretty quiet for the past couple of months. I also caught two strange lights at the bottom of the Blue Diamond Hills. I have a theory that the lights that come down out of the mountains use a series of concrete flash flood canals to move around the city unseen at times. I think this was one of those times. The orange flashing light was very odd as well. It just sat there flashing wildly. Once it began to move it became very bright but unfortunately, I lost it when I could no longer see it because a building was in the way. Lastly, I have a short clip of the moon rising in the east over downtown Las Vegas and Frenchman Mountain.
Interview with Edwin Fuhr about his sighting UFOs in 1974, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Interview with Edwin Fuhr about his sighting UFOs in 1974, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 1974 Location of sighting: Canada This is an great new interview of an eyewitness that saw many small silver disks land in his farming field. If you like UFO reports, then this video will blow you away. Scott C. Waring News states: Farmer Edwin Fuhr, 36, was harvesting his grape crop at about 11:00 a.m., when he noticed a metallic-appearing dome-shaped object about 50 feet away in a grassy area. Stopping to investigate, he left his swather and walked to within 15 feet of the object. Noting that the object was spinning and swirling the grass beneath it, he became frightened and backed away. Climbing back on the swather, he looked around and saw four more domes arranged in a rough semi-circle, all identical and all spinning, hovering about a foot above the ground. Suddenly one object took off, quickly followed by the other four, ascending in a step formation. At about 200 feet they stopped, each emitting a puff of gray vapor from exhaust-like extensions at the base. The vapor extended about six feet, followed by a downward gust of wind which flattened the rape in the immediate area. The objects then formed a straight line, hovered for a minute or two, then abruptly ascended into the low cloud cover and disappeared. Later Fuhr learned that cattle in a nearby field had bellowed and broken through a fence about the time of the sighting. Going to inspect the landing area, he found five rings of depressed grass swirled in a clockwise fashion. There was no evidence of heat or burning. Some additional circles were found in the area later that month. Royal Canadian Mounted Police Constable Ron Morier, quoted by Canadian Press, said: "Something was there and I doubt it was a hoax. There's no indication anything had been wheeled in or out and Mr. Fuhr seemed genuinely scared."
UFO Hunter Plans To Find Alien Base Entrance In A Hill Near The Nellis U.S. Airforce Base
UFO Hunter Plans To Find Alien Base Entrance In A Hill Near The Nellis U.S. Airforce Base
A YouTuber who caught UFOs in the video coming out of a hillside nearby his home nearly every night has hit back critics saying they are just car headlights.
Steve Baron of YouTube channel UFOs In THE USA firmly believes that he was recording extraterrestrial activity in the Blue Diamond Hills, which is close to the Nellis U.S. Airforce base in Nevada.
However, skeptics have suggested the so-called UFOs were just headlights of vehicles coming down the hillside.
Willing to prove critics wrong, Barone showed himself in a video climbing the remote hillside in a bid to show that no vehicles drive on it. He also visited the area to see if he could discover a secret entrance to the base.
In a video he uploaded to YouTube, he says that riding any motorized vehicles is strictly not allowed in the area and a huge fine is imposed to violators. He further explains that the land on the small mountain is under BLM control and very close to National Conservation area.
Mr. Barone also revealed that he, together with his wife and dog, attempted to climb the area to prove the soil was undisturbed, but they found out that everything is fenced or blocked off.
He has been keeping an eye in the area using his video camera for three years and already got several videos on his YouTube channel. He believes his videos show alien UFOs or top secret U.S. space vehicles floating over the Nellis Air Force Base.
The base is known in UFO community as a secret facility for the remains of crashed flying saucers and dead aliens just like top secret Area 51 in the Nevada desert. Some conspiracy theorists claim that visiting extraterrestrial beings have been allowed to use the bases to keep them from public eyes.
This day in UFO history: Mystery Remains On The Phoenix Lights Event
This day in UFO history: Mystery Remains On The Phoenix Lights Event
One of the most famous UFO sightings took place on March 13, 1997 – exactly 20 years ago, which captured the attention of the world. The Phoenix Lights incident remains a mystery 17 years later as every year new witnesses come forward to share the story they kept secret for so long. One witness, who chose not to be named, said he saw the event around 8 in the evening while working on his roof air conditioner. The witness revealed that he only told his family about it until this year.
Evidence of the Phoenix Lights event is captured in four videos. Each one shows a slightly different angle of a series of lights blinking on for a few minutes before disappearing.
The U.S. military later issued a statement claiming responsibility of the Phoenix Lights. They said those lights were flares dropped above Barry M. Goldwater near Gila Blend, AZ as part of their training session.
However, many witnesses believe they saw something else. Sue Watson, one of the witnesses, said her family all watched a large black aircraft flying slow and low above Camelback Mountain going south.
She described the UFO as like a shopping mall flying over her home. Other witnesses of the craft described it as being over a mile wide.
Watson added that the UFO was beautiful to look at when it flew over. She saw lights in the front of the mysterious craft and completely illuminated underneath, which like a yellowish amber. She depicted the strange aerial thing as totally rounded boomerang shape.
A short film titled Prescott Witness features an animated version of the craft based on the witness descriptions. It shows new witnesses telling the story for the first time in January. The animated ship travels at moderate speed and blocks stars to those people below.
Unfortunately, no videos or photos have surfaced showing the giant UFO even after 17 years. Watson said that seeing the UFO made her like she did not want to stop watching it and could not tear her eyes away from it. When he decided to get her camera, the UFO passed their house and shot off to the south.
A witness describes encounter with the "Phoenix Lights" 20 years ago and and its lasting impact at the UFO Congress in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. Wochit
The "Phoenix Lights" incident remains a big deal to UFO researchers worldwide even 20 years later because thousands reported witnessing the phenomenon.
We know the official explanation that the lights in the sky and possible craft were military flares left many, especially among UFO and extraterrestrial believers, unsatisfied. We know that the curiosity about it probably isn't going to go away anytime soon.
Several hundred people attended "The Importance of the Phoenix Lights-Mass UFO Sighting" panel discussion earlier this week as part of the International UFO Congress in Scottsdale.
Panelists included witness to lights
Richard Dolan, a UFO writer and researcher, host of a weekly radio program and guest on the shows "Hangar One" and "Ancient Aliens";
Dr. Lynne Kitei, a witness to the lights and author of "Phoenix Lights: A Skeptic's Discovery That We Are Not Alone";
Jim Mann, director of Arizona MUFON (Mutual UFO Network), an investigative and research organization.
The panel was moderated by James Fox, a director of three UFO documentaries.
Here are a few things you may not know about the lights, according to the panel:
1. Mysterious lights were spotted in the months before March 13, 1997.
Two months before Phoenix became a hotbed of UFO interest, some reported seeing strange lights in the month before, including panelist Kitei.
2. It's called, the Phoenix Lights, but the mass sightings began in another state.
UFO researchers report that before the lights were seen over Phoenix, they were first spotted near Henderson, Nev. Afterward, they were spied in Mexico.
"We call it the Phoenix Lights, but it's really not completely accurate," said Richard Dolan, referencing the sightings hours earlier in Nevada. "... You're talking about two distinctive types of events. Could be related. Could be the same thing. Could be something different."
3. It took three months for news of the mass sightings to 'go viral.'
The event happened in the middle of March, but it didn't become general knowledge until June 18, 1997, when USA TODAY put a brief headlined, "Skies, phone lines light up Ariz." on the front page.
4. Even among some UFO investigators, there is not enough evidence to say it was extraterrestrial-related.
"Do we have evidence that it was an extraterrestrial event? No," said MUFON investigator Mann. "We have evidence that it was an extremely bizarre event. We can't put a label on it other than it was an anomaly."
Mann added that Arizona MUFON investigated 325 cases of reported UFOs last year. The majority were explained, 12 were filed away as unknown.
5. Seeing the lights caused an unnatural reaction, according to some witnesses.
Panelists shared that instead of being awed and immediately wanting to discuss what they saw, some witnesses reported a sort of temporary amnesia. Moderator Fox shared that while interviewing some hospice workers for one of his UFO documentaries about the event, they shared that they watched the lights appear and disappear over a period of time but didn't say a word about it. "We went right back to our tea," Fox said a woman told him.
Mann said he spoke to a man who reported that he stopped his car on the side of the road and watched with several others as a craft "slowly glided overhead. Not a word was spoken. After it went on by, everyone got in their car and drove home."
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The 1973 Pascagoula Alien Abduction Case
The 1973 Pascagoula Alien Abduction Case
The 1973 Pascagoula Alien Abduction Case, Mississippi, USA
On the evening of October 11th, 1973, nineteen-year-old Calvin Parker and forty-two-year-old Charles Hickson were fishing on Pascagoula river, Mississippi, USA. before experiencing something that would change their lives forever.
They preferred to go fishing at night as the fish are said to be easier to catch. But, when they heard a strange buzzing near them, they turned around to see a strange egg-shaped object floating a few feet above the water. They reported that the object had a “blueish lighting”, and despite being out on their own, with no one else around, the object managed to get within 10 feet of them without them being aware of it (until of course they heard the buzzing and noticed it). As they froze to the spot and gazed at the UFO, they reported that a frontal door opened and they saw three beings. In the report, they say the beings were of “unknown origin coming straight to them” and described them as being; about 5ft tall, with bullet shaped heads, no necks, small slits for mouths, and their noses and ears were thin cone like objects protruding out, described like the carrots you would put on a snowman.
This is where the stories seems to have a discrepancy… One story is that both men were awake, but another states that Parker (age 19) fainted.
Whichever is true, Hickson was awake during the events that followed.
The beings were reported to have legs, but when approaching the two men from their UFO, they didn’t use them, instead, they floated (or hovered forward) over the water. When the beings approached and touched them, Hickson, still frozen in fear, said he felt a numbness come over his entire body, ultimately leading to what he believed (in our understanding) to be temporary paralysis.
This is where there is another discrepancy… One story is that the two men were picked up by the beings and taken to the craft, while another shares Hickson’s description of the event was that he was held and somehow floated across the water with the guidance of the beings. It’s a small discrepancy, but either way, the two men ended up on thecraft.
Once inside, the two men were separated, and the only further account is from that of Hickson as Parker had fainted and was still said to be unconscious.
Hickson recalls being led to a brightly lit room, and still floating, he was never put on the ground during his time in the UFO. He was levitating while what he describes as an “eye-like object” hovered over his body, thought to be conducting a test, in his words “scanning” him. He said this “scan” lasted 20 minutes, after which time, the beings led him out the room, and he, still under the guidance of the beings, floated back to the river banks where he was reunited with Parker. Parker was now conscious and was crying and praying, clearly aware of what was happening. The beings then put Hickson on the ground, returned to their egg-shaped object (UFO) and the doors closed. The object took off, and was never seen by the two men again.
Immediately after the event, they wanted to tell the public about their Pascagoula alien abduction story, in an attempt to alert people… and prevent others from going through the same ordeal? It is said they wanted to be careful about how they shared their story, so they contacted their local Air Force base, Keeslar. The Air Force told them they needed to report it to their local sheriff’s office, but Parker and Hickson knew the sheriff’s office would dismiss it as a joke or a hoax. Deciding to go with the newspaper, they attempted to contact them, but by now, it was very late and the newspaper office was shut, so they begrudgingly went to the sheriff’s office to explain the events of that evening.
Right away, officers thought it was a hoax. They put the men in an interview room, and unknowingly to the two abductees, the room was wired and the sheriff’s could hear their entire conversation. Expecting to hear them plotting what to say, maybe laughing about fooling everyone with their story, the Sheriffs actually heard something far different; the two men were talking about the events from that evening and were both still in complete fear. Deciding the two may be telling the truth, the Sheriffs heard them out and the case was documented.
The story got out and spread like wild fire, getting the attention of many researchers. It is said that someone tried to hypnotize Hickson, but going back to such a frightened state, the hypnosis was stopped.
Hickson also took it upon himself to undergo a polygraph test. There is much skepticism surrounding this element of the story though. Hickson apparently used a very inexperienced tester to conduct the polygraph (maybe unknowingly), and when requested to do another polygraph with a professional police tester, Hickson refused. He did pass the original polygraph test, but there is not a clear reason why he refused the police test, which has led many to believe it was a hoax.
The 1973 Pascagoula Alien Abduction case had a lot of time and research dedicated to it, but with no evidence of the events, and Hickson and Parker being the only two witnesses, it’s not considered very credible for researchers as, say, the Rendlesham Forest incident, for example. Furthermore, Parker was said to once report events from inside the UFO, despite previously saying he was unconscious throughout the ordeal.
Do you think the two came up with the idea to spread a story of being abducted by extra-terrestrials or do you think the Pascagoula Alien Abduction was an event that unfolded just how they said, and the discrepancies came from confusion, fear, and inaccurate recollections of their memories? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.
Hickson passed way a few years back, but here is a brief interview with Parker, who still claims to remember the events from inside the craft:
A group of researchers worked for 13 years at the Human Genome Project (Project completed in 2003) indicate that they made an astonishing scientific discovery:
They believe so-called 97% non-coding sequences in human DNA is no less than genetic code of extraterrestrial life forms.
Non-coding sequences, originally known as "junk DNA", were discovered years ago, and their function remained a mystery. The overwhelming majority of Human DNA is "Off-world" in origin.
After comprehensive analysis with the assistance of other scientists, computer programmers, mathematicians, and other learned scholars, Professor Chang had wondered if the apparently "junk Human DNA" was created by some kind of "extraterrestrial programmer".
Professor Chang further stipulates that "Our hypothesis is that a higher extraterrestrial life form was engaged in creating new life and planting it on various planets. Earth is just one of them."
Professor Chang further indicates that "What we see in our DNA is a program consisting of two versions, a big code and basic code."
Mr. Chang then affirms that the "First fact is, the complete 'program' was positively not written on Earth; that is now a verified fact. The second fact is, that genes by themselves are not enough to explain evolution; there must be something more in 'the game'."
"Soon or later", Professor Chang says "we have to come to grips with the unbelievable notion that every life on Earth carries genetic code for his extraterrestrial cousin and that evolution is not what we think it is."
Human Genome Project Discovery Implications associated with "Human-looking Extraterrestrials"
The implications of these scientific finds would reinforce claims by other scientists and observers of having contact with 'off-world' human looking extraterrestrials.
The 'off-world' human looking extraterrestrial have been claimed to have provided some of the genetic material for human evolution, and that many of these extraterrestrials have allowed some of their personnel to incarnate as 'star seeds' on Earth in human families. These "star seeds", "star children" or "star people"
Human DNA encoded with extraterrestrial signals
Now in 2013, scientists from Kazakhstan believe that human DNA was encoded with an extraterrestrial signal by an ancient alien civilisation.
They call it "biological SETI" and the researchers claim that the mathematical code in human DNA cannot be explained by evolution.
In a nutshell, we're living, breathing vessels for some kind of alien message which is more easily used to detect extra terrestrial life than via radio transmission.
"Once fixed, the code might stay unchanged over cosmological timescales; in fact, it is the most durable construct known," the researchers wrote in scientific journal Icarus. "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."
The scientists also claim that human DNA is ordered so precisely that it reveals an "ensemble of arithmetical and ideographical patterns of symbolic language".
Their research has led the scientists to conclude that we were invented "outside the solar system, already several billion years ago".
One mystery remains: If we were the creation of aliens, who created them?
Stephen Hawking is, undoubtedly, one of modern society’s greatest minds, so a lot of people pay attention whenever he shares his thoughts on the world. Recently, he has been talking about one subject in particular: the future.
Hawking has expressed his opinions about topics that range from extraterrestrial life to artificial intelligence (AI), and of the latter, he has serious misgivings. He isn’t against developing AI technology. In fact, he once said AI could be the greatest event in the history of our civilization. But like many other scientists and thinkers in today’s world, Hawking is concerned that the rise of AI is bringing with it various negative side effects.
Since civilization began, aggression has been useful inasmuch as it has definite survival advantages. It is hard-wired into our genes by Darwinian evolution. Now, however, technology has advanced at such a pace that this aggression may destroy us all by nuclear or biological war. We need to control this inherited instinct by our logic and reason.
A Guided Vision
In order to keep up with AI, we must be able to adapt. “The development of artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race,” Hawking said in late 2014. “It would take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete, and would be superseded.”
He doesn’t think the machines will be out to get us for any emotional reason, though: “The real risk with AI isn’t malice but competence. A super intelligent AI will be extremely good at accomplishing its goals, and if those goals aren’t aligned with ours, we’re in trouble.”
So some form of governing body and the ability to quickly adapt — that’s what we need to survive the dawn of AI or superintelligence, according to Hawking.
Despite this potential for everything to go very, very wrong, Hawking remains optimistic about the future: “All this may sound a bit doom-laden, but I am an optimist. I think the human race will rise to meet these challenges.”
Regional media have reported an upsurge in sightings and odd events in the part of the country known for its mysterious happenings, legends and crop circles - of course allegedly caused by alien visitors.
Somerset Live reports that there have been two UFO sightings just weeks after claims an alien being was seen in country town Yeovil, in Somerset.
The website said: "In December we had an alien spotted wearing a Stetson Hat near Yeovil College.
"Now two more possible unexplained sightings have been reported online. Sadly no alien drawings this time though."
A witness reported to the UFO Stalker website seeing a UFO in the sky above Lysander Road and the A3088 in Yeovil on March 4.
In a report to UFO Stalker, the unnamed witness said: "I didn't see anything at the time, we took a photo of the scenery near Lysander Road.
"The sun was pretty bright so we couldn't see anything at the time.
"We noticed it later on in the photo when we got home. I think the direction of the object was west."
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There has been an upsurge in suspected UFO sightings in the west country.
Often people mistake planets in the early morning sky for UFOs, and when filmed at close zoom, they can cause some bizarre visual effects that look like shape-shifting to be recorded.
Scott Brando, who runs website ufoofinterest.org said that the photograph taken into the sun in Yeovil was just a lens flare.
This happens when light refracts inside the camera lens, creating strange orbs or circles on the picture, which were not actually there.
It is common when aiming a camera at the sun.
He says he has yet to find a UFO picture or video that cannot be explained.
Het Russische ruimtevaartagentschap Roskosmos heeft aangekondigd dat ze een nieuwe sessie van kosmonautenrekrutering zijn gestart. Doel is de kosmonauten op het maanoppervlak te laten wandelen.
De Russen zoeken zes tot acht kosmonauten voor het reizen met het nieuwe ruimtetuig 'Federatsia', voor het werken in het internationaal ruimtestation ISS en om naar de maan te vliegen en daar aan exploratie te doen.
De kandidaturen worden binnen de vier maanden vanaf nu afgesloten en "er zal geen discriminatie zijn op grond van huidskleur of sekse", zo klinkt het in een persmededeling van Roskosmosdirecteur Sergej Krikalev.
Anderzijds mogen de kandidaten niet ouder zijn dan 35 jaar, moeten ze tussen de 1,50 en 1,90 meter lang zijn en mogen ze niet meer wegen dan 90 kilo. Kennis van informatica, beheersing van het Engels en enige ervaring met de ruimtevaartindustrie zijn troeven die de kandidatuur wat meer kracht kunnen bijzetten.
De eerste Russische vluchten naar de maan zijn gepland in 2031. Er zijn wel al 14 wachtenden voor de nieuwe kandidaten, met name 14 kosmonauten die al de voorbereiding doorworsteld hebben sinds hun aanwerving in 2006, maar nog nooit hebben mogen deelnemen aan ruimtevluchten.
De eerste testvlucht met de Federatsia-raket is gepland in 2021. Die moet de oude vertrouwde Sojoez-raketten vervangen.
Ultraviolette straling afkomstig van de moederster zou ervoor zorgen dat de planeten rond dwergster TRAPPIST-1 in korte tijd van hun atmosfeer ontdaan worden. Met andere woorden: de zeven nieuwe planeten, een ontdekking die de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA eind februari naar buiten bracht, zijn misschien toch niet zo leefbaar als aanvankelijk gedacht.
TRAPPIST-1
was vorige maand wereldnieuws nadat astronomen, waaronder Luikenaars, ontdekten dat de ster zeven planeten rond zich had die qua omvang op de aarde gelijken. Drie van die planeten bevinden zich ook dicht genoeg bij de warmte van de ster om leefbaar te zijn. Momenteel wordt verondersteld dat de planeten rond TRAPPIST-1 ook beschikken over een atmosfeer. Maar helemaal zeker is dat niet.
Bovendien blijkt uit onderzoek van astronomen dat de ultraviolette straling die TRAPPIST-1 uitstoot, een probleem veroorzaakt. De straling heeft immers tot gevolg dat de planeten TRAPPIST-1 d, e, f en g (de planeten kregen allemaal een letter mee in afwachting van een nieuwe naam) hun eventuele atmosfeer binnen 5 à 22 miljard jaar zouden verliezen. De binnenste planeten - b en c - zouden hun eventuele atmosfeer in 1 tot 3 miljard jaar kwijtraken. Dat zou dus betekenen dat de planeten onbewoonbaar zijn.
De astronomen komen tot die conclusie nadat ze TRAPPIST-1 onderzochten met ruimtelescoop Hubble. Ze publiceerden hun bevindingen in "Astronomy & Astrophysics'.
Jonge ster Daarnaast is ook de leeftijd van de ster voer voor discussie en onderzoek. De ultraviolette straling suggereert namelijk dat TRAPPIST-1 nog heel erg jong is. Wetenschappers zijn er wel nog niet uit wat de exacte leeftijd precies is. Eerder onderzoek suggereerde dat de ster in ieder geval ouder is dan 500 miljoen jaar. Dat is jong in vergelijking met onze eigen zon, die liefst 4,5 miljard jaar oud is.
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‘Onnatuurlijke structuren’ op de maan zijn bewijs voor ‘basis die NASA verborgen houdt’
‘Onnatuurlijke structuren’ op de maan zijn bewijs voor ‘basis die NASA verborgen houdt’
Op de maan is een ‘buitenaardse structuur’ gespot, zo claimen UFO-jagers. Het schijfvormige object zou een maanbasis voor aliens kunnen zijn, schrijft de Daily Mail.
Volgens het YouTube-kanaal SecureTeam10 houdt de NASA bewijs voor aliens onder de pet.
De beelden zijn gemaakt door de Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, die al ruim zeven jaar rond de maan draait.
Verplaatst
De UFO-jagers stuitten op een reeks foto’s waarop vanuit verschillende hoeken een schijfvormig object is te zien.
Aangezien de vreemde structuur op meerdere plekken op het maanoppervlak is gezien, denken ze dat het object zich verplaatst.
Ze voegden toe dat het object op tenminste één foto boven het oppervlak van de maan hangt, aldus de krant.
Driehoekige krater
Er wordt ook gewezen op een maanfoto waarop een driehoekige krater te zien is met onnatuurlijk scherpe randen. Deze perfecte driehoek zou ineens verdwenen zijn.
“Mysterieuze structuren op de maan fascineren ons al tientallen jaren,” zei schrijver Nigel Watson.
Natuurlijke formaties
“De beelden die nu worden gepresenteerd als bewijs voor kunstmatige structuren op het maanoppervlak zijn niet zo indrukwekkend omdat ze kunnen worden verklaard als natuurlijke formaties,” voegde hij toe.
SecureTeam10, dat op YouTube meer dan 800.000 abonnees heeft, ligt al enige tijd onder vuur. Volgens critici houdt het kanaal kijkers bewust voor de gek.
Wetenschappers: “Menselijk DNA ontworpen door buitenaardse wezens”
Wetenschappers: “Menselijk DNA ontworpen door buitenaardse wezens”
Kazakse wetenschappers stellen dat er in ons DNA een genetische code van buitenaardse wezens zit, meldt de Daily Express.
Zij schreven in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Icarus over hun onderzoek, dat moet uitwijzen dat het menselijk DNA door een oude buitenaardse beschaving werd gecodeerd.
Volgens de onderzoekers van de Universiteit van Kazachstan en het Fesenkov Astrofysisch Instituut kan de wiskundige code van het menselijk DNA niet alleen worden verklaard door de evolutietheorie.
Buitenaards signaal
Ze denken dat 97 procent van het menselijk DNA bestaat uit genetische code afkomstig van buitenaardse levensvormen.
Een oude beschaving heeft in de Melkweg lang geleden een buitenaards signaal aangebracht, dat uiteindelijk de weg naar de aarde vond en een genetische code in het DNA van mensen implanteerde, aldus de wetenschappers.
Astrobioloog Maxim Makoekov van het Fesenkov Astrofysisch Instituut in de Kazakse stad Alma-Ata stelt dat al het aardse leven uit de ruimte is gekomen.
Stempel
Hij zegt bovendien dat het leven op aarde miljarden jaren geleden is geschapen door aliens. Volgens Makoekov bevat ons DNA een buitenaardse ‘stempel’.
“Deze stempel kan gedurende vele kosmologische tijdperken onveranderd blijven, het is de meest duurzame constructie die we kennen,” schreef hij.
Anders verlopen
“We werden miljarden jaren geleden buiten het zonnestelsel gemaakt. De mensheid speurt de ruimte af met telescopen op zoek naar aliens, maar een buitenaardse boodschap kan net zo goed al in onszelf zitten,” zei hij.
“Vroeg of laat moeten we accepteren dat al het leven op aarde de genetische code van onze buitenaardse familie draagt en dat de evolutie anders is verlopen dan gedacht,” besloot hij.
MEER BEWIJS VOOR BUITENAARDSE AANWEZIGHEID OP DE MAAN ( VIDEO )
MEER BEWIJS VOOR BUITENAARDSE AANWEZIGHEID OP DE MAAN ( VIDEO)
Wanneer je zo om je heen kijkt, schiet aan alle kanten de techniek met reuze schreden vooruit, maar voor wat betreft de maan gaan we achteruit.
Wanneer je bedenkt dat in 1970 de laatste mens voet op de maan zette, dan is het totaal onlogisch dat er daarna nooit meer iemand is geweest.
Er wordt altijd gezegd dat Amerika niet meer naar de maan is geweest omdat dit te duur zou zijn, maar er zijn maar weinigen dit dat geloven. Wij gaan er hier even van uit dat men inderdaad ooit naar de maan is geweest, al is daar ook gerede twijfel over.
Waar het meer op lijkt, is een vergelijkbare situatie met die op Antarctica waar men na Operation Highjump met de staart tussen de benen vertrok waarna het gebied volledig ontoegankelijk werd verklaard.
Is er iets dergelijks op de maan gebeurd? Zijn de mensen daar ook weggejaagd, net zoals op Antarctica en is hen verboden nog ooit voet op de maan te zetten?
Tijdens al die Apollo missies werden er veel opnames gemaakt van het maanoppervlak en werden er ook dikwijls vreemde objecten gevonden die niet altijd even goed door de NASA censuur zijn weggepoetst.
Zo is één van de meest beroemde foto’s van onverklaarbare objecten de volgende. Men heeft vaak gedacht dat het overblijfselen waren van een soort kerncentrale op de maan, want ook bij kerncentrales zie je een soort hoge toren.
Ook zijn er tijdens die Apollo missies regelmatig UFO’s waargenomen, waaronder de volgende opname.
Wat tot nu toe echter nog nooit door iemand is gedaan, is die twee foto’s in verband brengen met elkaar.
Dat is nu wel gebeurd en dan zie je dat het door de lucht vliegende object vrijwel identiek is aan die die op de grond is gefotografeerd.
Niet zo gek ver van de locatie waar het object is gefotografeerd, is nog iets op de grond vastgelegd op foto.
Van deze zegt men dat het veel lijkt op een satelliet schotel en tegelijkertijd lijkt het ook weer op het eerste object.
In de jaren zeventig hadden we nog geen internet en werden er fotoboeken uitgegeven met daarin beelden van NASA en haar ruimtevluchten naar de maan.
Uit één van deze zogenaamde maanatlassen is de volgende foto afkomstig, waarop je een driehoekige krater ziet. Natuurlijk wordt een driehoekige krater niet natuurlijk gevormd, maar moet er iets of iemand zijn die deze heeft gemaakt.
Wanneer je echter de volgende video bekijkt, zal je zien dat wanneer je nu naar diezelfde plaats gaat via Google er helemaal niets meer te vinden is van die driehoekige krater.
Inmiddels is ruimschoots bekend dat NASA foto’s bewerkt, maar daar maken ze toch regelmatig fouten mee, zoals ook weer blijkt uit bovenstaande.
Al met al is er een stortvloed aan aanwijzingen dat wanneer we inderdaad op de maan zijn geweest, de buitenaardsen aldaar ons hebben laten weten dat we daar niet welkom zijn.
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT: Truth about claims of 'alien UFO undersea bases off Malta'
THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT: Truth about claims of 'alien UFO undersea bases off Malta'
ALIEN conspiracy theorists claimed there were extraterrestrials living in undersea bases surrounding Malta after a bizarre UFO was allegedly snapped in the deep blue skies above the holiday island.
Scott C Waring, editor of ufosightingsdaily.com, described the object as a "croissant-shaped UFO" in a post on his website, which went onto suggest Malta was a mecca for aliens due to it being surrounded by ocean.
Mr Waring claimed Malta was an ideal location for "spotting alien objects as the tiny island off the coast of North Africa is surrounded by sea on all sides and is often frequented by sunny, clear skies."
The case was originally reported to the US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which keeps a global database of alleged UFO and alien sightings.
The unnamed witness said in a report to MUFON it was snapped in Marsaskala.
MUFON
The UFO has since been identified as likely to be a Red Admiral butterfly.
Are the objects flying over Giza pyramids alien UFOs?
They wrote: “It was a sunny day and I was taking photographs of the view and in three photographs the item appeared and I began noticing it for 15 minutes or so.
"Then it disappeared over the ocean.”
The image was reportedly taken in October last year, but has only just been reported to MUFON.
Mr Waring then took the leap to make his wild suggestion.
A #UFO flying over #Malta? It's most likely a butterfly like this.
Scott Brando
He wrote: "Most of the alien bases are below the ocean. I assume this since the ocean covers 75 percent of the Earth's surface, that means 75 percent of the Earth's surface is mostly unwatched because there are few humans out there except on a few ships and boats.
"Since aliens can build bases in space that are air tight, and below the surface of Venus, it's just logical that aliens would utilise the untapped resource of our oceans to build bases."
So it is much more theory than fact.
But, Mr Waring's theory has been blasted out of the water... after it emerged the UFO in question was likely to be just a fluttering butterfly.
Scott Brando, who runs hoax-busting website ufoofinterest.org, examined the pictures and concluded it was just a Red Admiral, a butterfly commonly found in the UK and across Europe.
Mr Brando claims there is yet to be a picture or video taken of an alleged UFO that cannot be explained.
He tweeted: "A #UFO flying over #Malta? It's most likely a butterfly like this."
He then linked to a series of pictures of the Red Admiral that looked remarkably like the alleged UFO in the MUFON report.
It does have three lights which could mean its a TR-3B military craft, but its hard to tell at night.
Scott C Waring
"Two were red and one white, flashing very fast.
"I recorded it for a few seconds from my car, until the video went out of focus, then pulled into my driveway and went inside to tell people to come look.
"My brother-in-law came outside and saw it as well."
The witness said they started recording again and "its white light changed to red and began pulsating slowly with the other two lights now turned off".
They added: "It then flickered its lights and changed the red pulsating light back to white, continued to pulsate, and then went back to flashing again for the remainder of the time I watched.
In the meantime Express.co.uk sent the footage to UFO investigator Scott Brando, who is renowned for exposing hoax and misinterpreted pictures and videos.
He said many reported so-called triangular UFOs turn out to be just aircraft navigation or landing lights.
He said: "The three lights could be related to aircraft, but it's really hard to identify it as airliner or military aircraft.
"In this case I can only say that those three lights could be related to navigation lights by a plane or a different aircraft."
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Google balloon mistaken for UFO as it crashes in Colombia
Google balloon mistaken for UFO as it crashes in Colombia
Image copyrightCOLOMBIAN POLICEImage captionColombian police retrieved the object and took it to a police station
Farmers living in central Tolima province in Colombia say they were terrified when an object they took to be a UFO crashed in a field on Sunday.
"It was smoking and a strange liquid was leaking from it," a resident of the small town of San Luis said.
Police have since identified the object as an internet balloon developed by X, a company founded by Google, to boost the signal in rural areas.
It is not yet clear what caused the balloon to crash.
'From outer space'
Tolima police commander Jorge Esguerra denied previous reports on Twitter and local media which had described the object as a satellite.
Image copyrightTWITTERImage captionSome locals assumed the "strange object which fell from the sky" was a satellite
"It's a technological device used by Google which moves around and is held aloft by a balloon," he explained, adding that it formed part of X's Project Loon.
X, which was formerly known as Google X, is using the devices to extend internet connectivity to people in rural and remote areas by having the balloons, which travel on the edge of space, relay the signal.
Media captionProject Loon uses balloons to try to expand internet coverage to remote locations
But many people in the rural area near San Luis where it crashed said they were convinced it was something more sinister.
"We all thought it was a UFO or the remains of a space craft," locals told El Tiempo newspaper.
It is not the first time a Project Loon balloon has crashed.
In February 2016, one came down at a tea plantation in Sri Lanka during a test flight.
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGESImage captionA similar crash happened in Sri Lanka last year
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UFO Cloaked In Cloud Leaves Trail Over Lake Tahoe On Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Cloaked In Cloud Leaves Trail Over Lake Tahoe On Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 8, 2017 Location of sighting: South Lake Tahoe, California/Nevada boarder This UFO cloaked in a cloud was reported today by MrMBB333 of Youtube. He is 100% right in his suspicions about this being an alien craft. The UFO even leaves a dark trail of cloud behind it as it moves. What the trail tells us is that this UFO cloud moves faster than all the other clouds around, thus the trail was formed. Scott C. Waring
Scientists claim Human DNA ‘was designed by aliens, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Scientists claim Human DNA ‘was designed by aliens, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
I remember a scientist a few years ago who also found a message in human DNA, but after his announcement, his findings were attacked and discredited by those who wish to hide alien life. Its happening again, but this time a scientist in Kazakhstan has found the message. Scott C. Waring News states: According to scientists who have spent over 134 years working on the human genome, the human DNA was intricately designed by advanced alien civilizations. Scientists from Kazakhstan claim that our species was CREATED, and DESIGNED by a ‘higher power’. Experts believe that our ‘creators’ wanted to preserve a message inside of our DNA, and/or simply plant life on other planets. The researchers, Maxim A. Makukov of the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute and Vladimir I. Shcherbak from the al-Farabi Kazakh National University have spent over 13 years working on the Human Genome Project— a mission to map the human DNA. After 13 years of studies, experts concluded that humans were designed by a higher power and that there are a “set of arithmetic patterns and ideographic symbolic language” encoded within our DNA.
In de wetenschap en voor veel wetenschappers zijn ufo’s een heet hang-ijzer. Enkelen durven zich voorzichtig in het openbaar af te vragen of er wellicht toch wat meer aandacht aan besteedt moet worden, anderen hebben er wat meer moeite mee. Toch lijkt het meer een kwestie van onbekend maakt onbemind en is het vooral de onzin die regeert.
Dat een ufo’s een, op zijn zachts gezegd, een omstreden onderwerp is mag duidelijk zijn. De reden hiervoor is minstens even duidelijk. Alleen al het woord ufo roept onlosmakelijk ook de associatie met buitenaards leven op. Toch zijn ufo’s, het onverklaarde gedeelte ervan dan, en een eventuele buitenaardse herkomst niet een en hetzelfde.
De fantasieverhalen over contacten met “aliens” die dan schijnbaar regelmatig even bij komen kletsen, bij bosjes lichtjaren overbruggen om dan hier op onze planeet te crashen of zelfs al in grote getale aanwezig zijn om hier de boel achter de schermen te runnen, vliegen je om de oren.
Vreemd genoeg trekken websites met dergelijke onzin toch een grote schare “gelovigen”. De mogelijkheden zijn dan ook eindeloos: Aliens gebruiken dimensiepoorten om te reizen, kunnen zich onzichtbaar maken, hebben ofwel het beste dan wel het slechtste met de mensheid voor. Een ding hebben alle verhalen gemeen: Ufo’s zijn buitenaardse vaartuigen die wonderlijke dingen kunnen doen en zich zo af en toe eens laten zien aan een select groepje uitverkorenen.
Kortom, ufologie anno 2017 in een notendop.
Toch is het waarnemen niet iets van recent. Al ver in het verleden werd er al melding gemaakt van vreemde objecten aan de hemel. Uiteraard valt met dat gegeven alleen niks meer aan te tonen of te achterhalen, behalve dat ufo’s niet iets van de moderne tijd zijn. Het onderwerp werd pas onder het “grote publiek” bekend toen in de jaren veertig, en dan met name 1947, van de vorige eeuw toen eerst piloot en zakenman Kenneth Arnold melding maakte van negen vreemde objecten, en niet lang daarna de pas bestaande Amerikaanse luchtmacht zelf melding maakte een heuse “vliegende schotel” geborgen te hebben.
Ondanks dat dat bericht ook snel weer werd ingetrokken, was de geest wel uit de fles.
Het meeste van alle ophef ging Europa echter voorbij aangezien de Tweede Wereld Oorlog net voorbij was en er andere zaken waren om zich druk over te maken. Maar ook hier waren al jaren eerder onbekende objecten die geallieerde vliegtuigen leken te begeleiden. De eerste melding daarvan kwam van een Engels vliegtuig met een Poolse bemanning die boven de Zuiderzee, nu Ijsselmeer, achtervolgd werd door een vreemd lichten object, en er zelfs op heeft geschoten.
Foo Fighters tijdens WOII
Tijdens de oorlog werd aangenomen dat het afkomstig was van de Duitse tegenstander, maar na de oorlog bleek dat de Duitsers met hetzelfde geconfronteerd waren, en aannamen dat het “fenomeen” afkomstig was van de geallieerden. Het fenomeen kreeg de naam “Foo Fighters”, en er werd nooit een verklaring voor gevonden.
Kortom, het fenomeen is niet nieuw, en werd lange tijd ook serieus genomen.
Kentering
Hoe men tegen het ufo fenomeen aankeek begon te veranderen toen de Amerikaanse overheid door de aandrang van de bevolking en wetenschappelijke wereld zich genoodzaakt zag officieel onderzoek te doen.
In 1966 werd een onderzoek gestart wat de geschiedenis in ging als het “Condon Rapport”. De conclusie hiervan was, kort samengevat, dat met het ufo fenomeen niks onverklaarbaars aan de hand was. Het onderzoek was echter zo slecht en bevooroordeeld uitgevoerd dat zelfs vanuit de academische wereld commentaar kwam over de uitvoering.
Dr. Condon.
Condon bleek al ver voor het onderzoek ook maar was begonnen in diverse interviews al verklaard te hebben dat wat hem betreft de conclusie al vast stond, en het onderzoek weggegooid geld zou zijn. Iets wat ook tot uitdrukking kwam in het uiteindelijke onderzoek. Condon bepaalde zelf wat wel en niet onderzocht diende te worden, wat in 1968 als resultaat gaf dat de meest interessante zaken niet waren onderzocht, de beste getuigen nooit werden opgeroepen en hij zelf niet eens de moeite had genomen ook getuigen te ondervragen. Kortom, prutswerk waarop vanuit de wetenschappelijke wereld ook commentaar kwam op de manier hoe het onderzoek was uitgevoerd. Ook bij het onderzoek zelf betrokken onderzoekers beaamden dat het onderzoek naar deze uitkomst gestuurd werd. Van de aangedragen gevallen om te onderzoeken bleken alleen de simpelste voorvallen onderzocht te zijn. Iets wat nu nog terug te vinden is in het originele rapport.
Alle aangedragen voorvallen staan helemaal achter in het rapport, dat begon met de conclusies zodat indertijd veel verslaggevers en belangstellenden niet verder keken.
Project Bluebook
"Om vast te stellen of ufo’s ook een bedreiging konden vormen voor de “nationale veiligheid” en het fenomeen wetenschappelijk te analyseren, waren er al eerder onderzoeken gestart onder de naam Project Sign (1947), Project Grudge (1949), gevold door Project Blue Book, (1952) dat doorliep tot 1970.
Voor deze projecten werd astronoom Allen Hynek als adviseur aangetrokken. Een astronoom en wetenschapper met een degelijke wetenschappelijke geschiedenis en indertijd een ufo scepticus die er van overtuigd was dat de hele ophef ook wel weer zou overwaaien.
Uiteindelijk had ook dit onderzoek een nogal onbevredigend einde. Tot op de dag van vandaag is het onderzoek niet compleet vrijgegeven, en is er voor niet minder dan 701 ufo voorvallen nooit een verklaring gevonden.
Toch was de conclusie dat ufo’s wetenschappelijk van geen waarde waren en er ook geen dreiging voor de nationale veiligheid van uit ging.
Hynek in Close Encounters
Ook de opvattingen van Hynek veranderden van scepticus naar een overtuiging dat er wel degelijk een onverklaard fenomeen plaats vond.
Mocht u nooit van J. Allen Hynek hebben gehoord, dan komt Close encounters of the first kind u wellicht bekender voor. Hynek speelde zelfs een klein rolletje in deze klassieker. De naam van de film komt uit een door Hynek uitgewerkte classificatie van ufo waarnemingen. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Close_encounter)
Door deze onderzoeken, en dan vooral de conclusies, nam de aandacht voor het onderwerp gestaag af. Daarnaast verschoof ook de algemene visie hoe het ufo fenomeen werd gezien. Van studieobject naar onzinnig.
Onterecht
Toch is het op zich vreemd te noemen dat de wetenschappelijke wereld zover is meegegaan in de conclusies van deze onderzoeken. Geen van de onderzoeken voldoet aan ook maar één wetenschappelijke standaard wat betreft het onderbouwen van de conclusies. Een conclusie valt niet te verdedigen als in het ene geval de meest simpele voorvallen enkel maar worden onderzocht, en in het andere geval men nog steeds met 701 gevallen blijft zitten die niet verklaard kunnen worden, en er bovendien nog steeds hele gedeelten van het onderzoek niet vrij worden gegeven. Met andere woorden, oncontroleerbaar.
Toch is dat exact wat is gebeurd. Wetenschappelijk gezien is iets dergelijks een enorme blunder die maar niet gecorrigeerd wordt. Toch heeft vanaf begin jaren zeventig het ufo fenomeen om deze reden het stigma als onzin meegekregen. Objectief gezien is een dergelijke werkwijze nogal onterecht en heeft het alle potentiële wetenschappelijke aandacht in de kiem gesmoord.
Daarnaast doen, vooral de laatste decennia, de “alternatieve” media ook flink hun best om van een simpel “nuts & bolts” fenomeen een zowat complete religie te maken, waar ET al dan niet het beste met de mensheid voorheeft, en sommigen het laten lijken of ET dagelijks even op de koffie komt om bij te kletsen. De meest waanzinnige fantasieën worden voor waar aangenomen en de meest ridicule beweringen worden serieus als mogelijkheid gezien, of zelfs omarmd.
Graancirkels, ontvoeringen, contact verhalen, dimensiepoorten, Area 51 en ga zo maar door, worden op een grote hoop gegooid met nog wat ingrediënten als implantaten, hybride half alien, half mens, reptielen, wereld heerschappij en, niet te vergeten, de fictieve planeet Nibiru, en het beeld is duidelijk: De hedendaagse ufologie. En laat dit dan ook net het beeld zijn dat de doorsnee lezer heeft van ufo’s.
De realiteit
Close Encounters
De Discovery serie “Close encounters” begint in elke aflevering van de serie wel erg optimistisch met de claim dat er jaarlijks zo’n miljoen ufo waarnemingen zijn waarvan zo’n 95% verklaard kan worden. Wij gaan er van uit dat dit een wel erg optimistische claim is, maar dat er op jaarbasis zeker duizenden waarnemingen worden gedaan is zeker. De 95% claim is inderdaad ook aantoonbaar. Na onderzoek blijft er van de onderzochte gevallen inderdaad zo’n 5% over waar een mogelijke verklaring niet gevonden kan worden.
In absolute aantallen is dit toch nog steeds een niet te negeren aantal. Het is dan ook vreemd te noemen dat er, op enkele uitzonderingen na, officieel geen interesse voor is. Nog vreemder is dat er uiteindelijk toch wel interesse voor het onderwerp ufo’s blijkt te zijn.
In Januari dit jaar gaf de Amerikaanse CIA de wereld een overdosis informatie met het vrijgeven van zowaar 13 MILJOEN documenten. Van het merendeel kun je je afvragen waarom het überhaupt in de archieven zat, zodat er in werkelijkheid maar een klein deel documenten overblijft waar met moeite uit valt te bepalen op wat het betrekking heeft. Wie de moeite doet om er in rond te spitten zal er een beste kluif aan hebben en waarschijnlijk nog niks wijzer worden.
Toch valt een ding op in vrijgegeven documenten. Dit soort vrij gegeven documenten, maar ook via een rechter afgedwongen documenten, hebben steeds weer twee dingen gemeen.
Ten eerste zijn documenten betreffende ufo’s gemiddeld genomen voor maar 8% leesbaar. 92% is dus onleesbaar gemaakt. Ten tweede blijkt, ondanks dat de informatie onleesbaar is, wel dat er dan toch wel degelijk nog een belangstelling bestaat voor het onderwerp en dat dat dan ook nog eens gewichtig genoeg is om niet aan de grote klok te hangen. En dat is toch tegenstrijdig met de conclusies die getrokken werden uit de onderzoeken decennia eerder.
Ufo’s in officiële documenten.
Daarnaast is ook onomstootbaar aangetoond de Amerikaanse overheid belangstelling heeft voor gevallen met onbekende objecten in andere landen. En wellicht staat de Amerikaanse overheid hierin niet alleen, en hebben andere landen dezelfde interesse. Van sommige landen is bekend ook dat zij dit soort gevallen ook interesseert. Landen als Frankrijk maken hier ook geen geheim van. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEIPAN)
De realiteit is dat het niet vreemd is dat welk land dan ook belangstelling heeft voor welk onbekend object dan ook boven hun grondgebied en natuurlijk dan ook graag zekerheid willen hebben over de aard en herkomst van dergelijke objecten. Het zou uitermate vreemd zijn wanneer dit niet zo zou zijn.
Toch zien de meeste mensen het onderwerp ufo’s als fantasie. Wellicht dat de realisatie dat de 5% onverklaarde objecten in absolute aantallen duizenden en duizenden voorvallen representeren waarbij de aard en herkomst van een object niet verklaard kan worden mensen toch aan het denken zou moeten zetten.
Wat is een ufo dan?
Zoeken naar informatie over ufo’s met behulp van Google levert al jaren zo goed als alleen maar onzin op. In ons eigen landje zijn er een paar websites die er dan uitspringen. Op een enkele verdwaalde site na, is het onzin wat de klok slaat, en steken sites als Niburu, Nine for news en Wanttoknow er met kop en schouders boven uit. En hoewel de beheerders of eigenaren van dergelijke sites ook nog eens geregeld met elkaar overhoop liggen, zijn ze het wel eens met elkaar. Of beter, hebben ze een grote gemene deler: Hoe groter de onzin, hoe gretiger afname door de gebruikers. En vergis u niet, deze sites hebben een zeer grote trouwe volgelingen, waarvan het merendeel ook nog eens klakkeloos meegaat in de bergen waanzin die zij hun lezers dagelijks voorschotelen.
Anno nu lijkt er niet een enkele website meer te bestaan die zaken niet weet te scheiden. Dat ufo’s buitenaardse ruimteschepen zijn lijkt een zeker gegeven. En ook diegenen die iets als ufo’s wel serieus durven nemen zijn er over het algemeen van overtuigt: Ufo’s zijn buitenaardse ruimteschepen.
En het is op dit punt dat de hulp van de wetenschap broodnodig is. Uiteraard is een onverklaarde ufo niet per definitie een buitenaards voertuig. De definitie van een een ufo is nooit anders geweest dan “Unidentified Flying Object”, onbekend vliegend object in het Nederlands. Niks meer en niks minder.
De mogelijkheid dat een ufo een buitenaardse herkomst zou kunnen hebben is niks meer, of minder, dan een hypothese die ook nog maar aangetoond moet worden. Dat wil dus niet zeggen dat een buitenaardse herkomst vast staat.
Het enige wat met zekerheid gesteld kan worden is dat er onverklaarde voorvallen met onbekende objecten hebben plaatsgevonden. In enkele gevallen met gedrag dat de huidige technische mogelijkheden van nu lijkt te overstijgen.
De wetenschap
Al het bovenstaande is met een beetje huiswerk ook zelf na te trekken. Het is makkelijk om een onderwerp als ufo’s af te rekenen op onderbuik gevoel. Maar daarmee is het onderwerp uiteraard nog steeds niet uit de wereld. Wie iets wil afdoen als onzin, zal dat toch op feiten moeten doen. En onderbuik gevoel lijkt ook de meeste wetenschappers niet vreemd.
Zelfs briljante wetenschappers met een goed gevoel voor drama en humor lijken niet te kunnen ontsnappen aan onderbuik gevoel en verlaten het wetenschappelijke pad wanneer het om ufo’s gaat. Zo ook Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson, een wereldbekend astronoom.
Uiteraard is het komisch om deGrasse zich zo als komediant te zien gedragen. Toch heeft hij het op nogal wat punten fout. Ten eerste kan zelfs de grootste wetenschapper een onderwerp niet als onzin afdoen op grond van de onzin die hij er zelf bijsleept. Uiteraard werkt dat nergens op deze manier. Het lollige verhaal over iemand die denkt een vreemd object heen en weer te zien bewegen terwijl hij zelf op een weg met bochten rijdt mag dan op de lachspieren werken, maar het mag toch duidelijk zijn dat een onderwerp, welk dan ook, niet simpelweg afgedaan kan worden op basis van een anekdote. Helemaal een wetenschapper zou beter moeten weten dan dat.
Wanneer deGrasse zichzelf iets beter had geïnformeerd, dat had hij voor hetzelfde geld voorbeelden zat kunnen vinden van voorvallen die niet zo simpel en komisch afgedaan kunnen worden.
Erger is dat deGrasse zelfs op zijn eigen vakgebied de mist in gaat. De bewering dat astronomen nooit een ufo zien omdat zij weten waar ze naar kijken, kan ook stellig afgedaan worden als fout.
Er zijn in het verleden twee onderzoeken geweest onder astronomen waarin zij, met name, werden gevraagd of zij ooit een ufo hadden waargenomen. Anonimiteit was verzekerd. Verrassend genoeg blijken dan ineens astronomen significant meer ufo’s waar te nemen dan de doorsnee bevolking. Ook deGrasse had dit kunnen weten wanneer deze de moeite had genomen zichzelf iets beter te informeren. Helemaal omdat onder deze astronomen ook enkele waren die het wel aandurfden om hun verhaal onder hun eigen naam te doen. Waaronder ook de ontdekker van Pluto, Clyde Tombough. (https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_Tombaugh)
Dap Hartmann
Voor andere astronomen die dezelfde fout maken, hoeven we Nederland niet te verlaten. De uitvinder van het woord “ufogekkie”, astronoom Dap Hartmann, deed het op het Skepsis congres in 2013 nog eens dunnetjes over. Ook hiervan bestonden filmopnamen, maar deze lijken niet meer beschikbaar.
Op dit congres voerde Hartmann zaken aan als graancirkels, Coen Vermeeren en allerlei andere onzin aan om aan te willen tonen dat ufo’s zeker niet iets zijn wat serieus genomen dient te worden. Het is met alle waanzin die rondgaat dan ook niet echt een kunst om de pias uit te hangen. Maar het blijft een vreemd gezicht om mensen die zeker niet dom genoemd kunnen worden toch zo de fout in te zien gaan. Objectiviteit verliezen afhankelijk van het onderwerp betaamd geen enkele wetenschapper.
De hierboven genoemde astronomen zijn geen van beide dom of naïef te noemen. Toch laten beiden zich leiden door onderbuik gevoel om een oordeel te vellen over een onderwerp waar beiden duidelijk geen kennis van hebben, en daar ook de moeite niet voor hebben genomen.
Voor beiden geldt ook dat de door hun aangevoerde argumenten simpel weerlegd kunnen worden. Wetenschap draait om feiten en onderzoek om kennis op te doen. Wetenschap hoort nieuwsgierig te zijn. De reputatie die een onderwerp als ufo’s heeft lijkt het echter voor de meeste mensen, niet alleen wetenschappers, onmogelijk te maken om ook eens met een objectieve blik naar het onderwerp te kijken. Het blijft vreemd zonder kennis van zaken wel een uitgesproken mening te hebben.
En dan hebben we uiteraard nog Coen Vermeeren. Wie dacht met deze (voormalig) docent aan de Technische universiteit Delft eindelijk eens iemand te zien die met verstand van zaken naar het ufo fenomeen kon kijken, kwam ook bedrogen uit. Zijn boek, Ufo’s bestaan gewoon, stond vol met loze beweringen, halve waarheden en niet nagetrokken “feiten”. Na het uitbrengen van zijn boek ging het echter nog verder berg af met Vermeeren. Ineens liep Vermeeren rond in graancirkels, gaf lezingen samen met Robbert van den Broeke, en liep meer en meer verloren in de ene complot na de andere. Helaas werd deze man in een klap het gezicht van ufologie in Nederland, terwijl de opvattingen van deze man toch juist meer passen bij de bovengenoemde onzin websites.
Coen Vermeeren
De stand van zaken
Het mag duidelijk zijn dat serieus onbevooroordeeld naar de aard en herkomst van de onverklaarde ufo voorvallen nog wel even op zich kan laten wachten. Ondanks dat de feiten voor zich spreken, er aantoonbaar legio voorvallen hebben plaatsgevonden met onverklaarde objecten, lijkt het niet aannemelijk dat er op korte termijn ook serieus onderzoek gedaan zal worden.
Het gebrek aan (wetenschappelijke) interesse kan uiteraard wel verklaard worden, maar ondanks dat blijft het verbazingwekkend dat dergelijke voorvallen nooit de interesse wekt van onderzoekers.
Maar weinig wetenschapper durven het aan het onderwerp publiekelijk serieus te nemen, zoals al bleek uit een onderzoek onder astronomen waar deze anoniem juist wel ufo’s bleken waar te nemen.
Het roept de vraag op wat er moet gebeuren voordat men het onderwerp wel serieus wil bekijken.
Overigens, de allereerste bekende foto van een ufo werd gemaakt door een astronoom!
Un OVNI dans le ciel dionysien ce soir ? Un internaute a pris des photos
Nous attendons évidemment vos commentaires sur cette série de clichés que nous a fait parvenir Georges, un internaute qui rendait ce soir visite à sa fille, dans son studio au Moufia.
La nuit commençait à tomber quand leur attention, depuis le balcon, a été attirée par un objet lumineux dans le ciel.
Une « apparition » qui selon Georges n’a duré que quelques minutes, avant que la lumière et l’objet ne « disparaissent subitement. Je ne crois pas particulièrement aux extra-terrestres, aux histoires de soucoupe volante, mais ce soir, moi et ma fille avons été abasourdis! »
Cette apparition rappelle celle signalée à la Plaine des Cafres ou encore dans le ciel de Saint Leu la semaine dernière.
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Nous avons passé un filtre sur l’agrandissement initial de la photo de Georges en « fonçant » le ciel… le résultat donne à réfléchir
Voici un autre cliché pris de l’appartement du Moufia ce soir :
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TThe Allagash Abductions - An OpenMinds.tv Documentaryhe Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
The Allagash Abductions - An OpenMinds.tv Documentary
Published on Nov 25, 2015
In August of 1976, twin brothers Jim and Jack Weiner, along with their two friends Charles Foltz and Charles Rack, headed to the Allagash in Maine for a canoeing and camping trip. One night they experienced an incredible encounter with a UFO. Years later, after the brothers suffered from horrific nightmares, they underwent regression hypnosis. They were regressed separately and most of the men had startling similar recollections of what occurred during the night of the UFO sighting.
We are very happy to bring to you one of the most compelling and mysterious UFO - and potential alien abduction - cases from the perspective of the witnesses themselves.
Harvard researchers suggest that interstellar spacecraft in faraway galaxies could be behind fast radio bursts. Here are other phenomena in space that scientists think have alien origins.
( Christopher Furlong | Getty Images )
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) have mystified scientists since their discovery in 2007. Astronomers know they come from distant galaxies, but their potential origins remain a mystery.
Fast Radio Bursts And Sailing Aliens
Now, a new study published by Harvard researchers in the Astrophysical Journal Letters suggests the phenomenon may have something to with sailing aliens.
The researchers suggest the bursts may be leakage that come from planet-sized transmitters whose power could be driving interstellar spacecraft in faraway galaxies. Such instruments could produce powers enough to push a payload of a million tons, which is about 20 times the biggest cruise ships that sail on planet Earth.
"We examine the possibility that Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) originate from the activity of extragalactic civilizations. Our analysis shows that beams used for powering large light sails could yield parameters that are consistent with FRBs," the researchers wrote in their study "'[C]oincidences' lend some credence to the possibility that FRBs might be artificial in origin."
Study researcher Avi Loeb, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said that an artificial origin for the mysterious signals is worth contemplating and checking.
The study suggests that FRBs could be evidence of an advanced alien technology. Besides FRBs, there are other mysterious phenomena in space that some scientists suspect to have extraterrestrial origins.
Dimming Of Tabby's Star
The mysterious dimming of KIC 8462852, also known as Tabby's star, is suspected to have extraterrestrial origins. While there have been several theories that attempt to explain the erratic dipping of the star's brightness, researchers have not discounted the idea of an alien civilization.
A mathematical model presented by Eduard Heindl, from Germany's Furtwangen University, suggests that the dimming could be traced to aliens mining energy from the star since the star gives off jets that can be used as energy source.
"We describe a mathematical approximation to the light curve, which is motivated by a physically meaningful event of a large stellar beam which generates an orbiting cloud," report of the study reads. "The data might fit to the science fiction idea of star lifting, a mining technology that could extract star matter."
Light Pulses From 234 Stars
In a study published in the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific last year, researchers from the Université Laval in Quebec reported of 234 stars of the 2 million stars catalogued by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey that exhibit rapid burst of light.
The researchers said that the spectral modulation, which appears identical across many different stars, is consistent with signals from what could be an alien civilization that send extremely rapid optical pulses, which was predicted in an earlier study published by one of the researchers, astronomer Ermanno Borra. Researchers said that the signals are possibly messages from an intelligent alien civilization that tell us extraterrestrial beings exist.
"The ETI [extraterrestrial intelligence] hypothesis is strengthened by the fact that the signals are found in stars having spectral types within a narrow spectral range centered near the G2 spectral type of the Sun," the researchers wrote in their report. "Intuitively, we would expect stars having a spectral type similar to the Sun to be more likely to have planets capable of having ETI."
Now two more possible unexplained sightings have been reported online. Sadly no alien drawings this time though.
On March 4, someone reported seeing a UFO near Lysander Road and the A3088 in Yeovil. It was then posted on the UFO Stalker website.
The message read: "I didn't see anything at the time, we took a photo of the scenery near Lysander Road. The sun was pretty bright so we couldn't see anything at the time.
"We noticed it later on in the photo when we got home. I think the direction of the object was west."
There was also a strange sighting on February 21 at around 6.30am. It was captured on video and also posted to the same website.
There was no exact location of where it was filmed but it was in Yeovil.
The post said: "The video footage shows a row of what appears to be eight lights travelling in an east to south easterly direction. I was not actually present at the time of the event."
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Is there anybody out there?
Is there anybody out there?
Have you seen a strange bright light criss-crossing it’s way across the night sky or a mysterious orange disk hovering over the trees in the distance?
If you have, then you’re not alone! According to the National UFO Reporting Center in the US, sightings of UFOs are reaching record heights.
Back in 1990, the organization only recorded 307 sightings (most are in the US but their records include global sightings) and that has skyrocketed in the years since. They reached a peak of 8,619 in 2014 before falling slightly to 5,516 in 2016.
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‘Ik zag lichten zigzaggen door de lucht, en wist: dit kan niet’
‘Ik zag lichten zigzaggen door de lucht, en wist: dit kan niet’
Coen Vermeeren (53) is lucht- en ruimtevaartingenieur, werkt aan de TU Delft én hij gelooft in ufo’s. Dat wordt daar lang niet altijd gewaardeerd. „Het enige wat ik vraag is: onderzoek het!”
Thomas Rueb
‘Ik las UFO’s bestaan gewoon van Coen Vermeeren, die jarenlang luchtvaarttechniek bestudeerde”, rapt Lange Frans over een onheilspellende pianomelodie. De zaal joelt. „Hoe NASA-astronauten, die waren op de maan, nu openlijk bekennen, dat UFO’s echt bestaan.” Applaus nu.
Als het nummer, Kamervragen 2.0, voorbij is, komt de echte ster van de avond op. Naast Lange Frans schuift hij aan op het podium, een bebrilde man in een tweedjasje. „Wie gelooft er hier in buitenaards leven?” Nagenoeg alle handen in het Delftse theater de Veste schieten in de lucht.
Elke week geeft Coen Vermeeren (53) wel ergens een lezing, al is dit optreden met zijn fan Lange Frans een eenmalig avontuur. Want mensen die geloven in ufo’s zijn er genoeg, maar Vermeeren is een wetenschapper, lucht- en ruimtevaartingenieur, hij werkt aan de TU Delft – én hij gelooft in ufo’s.
Ruimteschepen, ja. Ongeïdentificeerde vliegende objecten die ons luchtruim binnendringen. „Wie erin zitten en wat ze willen, dat kan ik je niet met zekerheid zeggen”, zegt Vermeeren twee dagen na het optreden in zijn huis buiten Breda. „Maar er is geen twijfel dat we door buitenaardse levensvormen worden bezocht. Beyond doubt.”
Het is een mening die hem op zijn universiteit regelmatig in een lastige positie brengt. Vermeeren is er de enige. „Die er openlijk voor uitkomt dan, hè?”, grapt hij.
Het is een gotspe, vindt Vermeeren, dat er nergens serieus onderzoek naar ufo’s wordt gedaan. Een failliet van de wetenschap. „Ik ben van mening dat je alles moet willen weten, en dat je alles moet durven onderzoeken. Ook als het onwaarschijnlijk of zelfs ongelofelijk lijkt. Dat is het enige wat ik vraag: onderzoek het!”
Hoe is een technisch ingenieur terechtgekomen in een wereld van ruimteschepen, aliens, verborgen werelden en complottheorieën?
Stampvolle zaal
Het begon voor Vermeeren zoals eigenlijk elke wetenschappelijke fascinatie begint: met een vraag die hij niet kon beantwoorden. Het is 2008, het YouTube-tijdperk is net aangebroken, en Vermeeren vraagt zijn studenten om voor hem filmpjes op te zoeken van vliegtuigcrashes. „Om in het college te behandelen, dan kon ik uitleggen wat er mis was gegaan.”
Zijn mailbox stroomt vol. Crash na crash, maar andersoortige filmpjes zitten er ook tussen. „Van objecten, gefilmd vanuit een Space Shuttle van de NASA. Op de achtergrond hoor je astronauten: Houston, we still see the alien space craft.”
‘Wat zien we hier?’, willen studenten van hem weten. ‘Hoe verklaart u dit?’ Vermeeren heeft er geen antwoord op. „Maar dat wilde ik wel kunnen geven.”
Bij collega’s krijgt hij nul op het rekest. Die kijken even mee naar de filmpjes op zijn scherm en gaan weer door waar ze mee bezig zijn. „Behoorlijk jammer.” Vermeeren besluit er zelf in te duiken. Op het web gaat een wereld voor hem open.
„Het was zo veel”, zegt hij, „zo overweldigend veel.” Filmpjes, foto’s, getuigenissen. „En niet afkomstig van de minste mensen, dat verbaasde me nog het meest. Er zijn vele tienduizenden verklaringen te vinden van militairen, piloten en zelfs astronauten die iets hebben gezien. Dat kun je niet wegzetten als onzin.”
Vermeeren doet dan ook het tegenovergestelde. Hij besluit een college te geven over ufo’s. De zaal zit stampvol, en als hij even later een opname van het college online zet – toen nog lang niet zo gebruikelijk – wordt die binnen no-time honderdduizenden keren bekeken. Vermeeren raakt op slag bekend – en berucht.
Zigzaggen door de lucht
In een brief aan de universiteitsleiding eisen collega’s zijn ontslag. „UFO-gekkie” Vermeeren zou de universiteit tot schande maken. Een speciale commissie wordt ingesteld. „Godsgeloof is toch ook niet onverenigbaar met wetenschap?”, werpt Vermeeren tegen. „Daarbij merk ik op dat voor het bestaan van ufo’s wat tastbaarder aanwijzingen zijn dan voor de schepper.”
Godsgeloof is toch ook niet onverenigbaar met wetenschap?
Tot ontslag komt het niet, maar de rector magnificus en hij komen in 2012 wel overeen dat het beter is als Vermeeren geen les meer geeft maar zich richt op zijn werk als hoofd van het Studium Generale, waar lezingen worden georganiseerd buiten het vakgebied van de universiteit.
Heeft Vermeeren zelf ooit weleens iets gezien? „Ja.” Hij aait Anubis, een van zijn twee enorme dalmatiërs, over de kop. „Heel regelmatig zelfs.”
Hij herinnert zich de lancering van Skylab, het eerste ruimtestation van de NASA. Hij moet een jaar of twaalf geweest zijn. Met de hele buurt stond hij buiten naar de lucht te kijken toen het stipje aan de nachtelijke hemel voorbij trok. Maar hij en zijn vriendjes zagen ook andere lichten, ze zigzagden door de lucht. „Technisch onmogelijk, dat wisten wij toen al.” Ufo’s? „Dat hield me destijds niet echt bezig.” Maar hij bracht wel menig nacht door met zijn verrekijker op het dak, gefascineerd door alles wat met de sterren te maken had.
In contact staan met aliens
De reden dat hij de ruimtevaarttechniek inging, is dat niet. „Ik werd ingeloot. Het had ook medicijnen kunnen worden.” Maar misschien hielp die ‘encounter’ hem wel om de filmpjes die zijn studenten stuurden niet meteen als onzin af te serveren. „Ik dacht juist: wauw, wat spannend! Ik wil altijd alle opties openhouden. Veel andere wetenschappers denken helaas niet zo, die negeren liever het bewijs dat er ligt.”
Wat is volgens hem dan dat onweerlegbare bewijs? Wat heeft hem zo stellig overtuigd?
Vermeeren begint over Roswell, New Mexico, waar in 1947 een vliegende schotel zou zijn neergestort „met honderden getuigen”. Over austronaut Edgar Mitchell, de zesde man op de maan, die eind jarige negentig uit de school klapte over ufo’s: de mensheid zou sinds Roswell met aliens in contact staan, en de Amerikaanse regering zou alles op alles zetten om dat verborgen te houden. Hij vertelt over ‘The Disclosure Project’, waarin de getuigenissen zijn verzameld van meer dan vijfhonderd ambtenaren, militairen en geheim agenten over hun ervaringen met ufo’s, ruimtewezens en „extra-terrestial technology”. Noemt gelekte documenten van de CIA, de FBI, de NSA, de Russen.
Zelf zocht hij betrokkenen op, zoals de Vlaamse majoor-generaal Wilfried de Brouwer die openlijk heeft getuigd over „de Belgische ufo-golf” – tussen 1989 en 1991 zou het land zijn overspoeld door ufo-waarnemingen. „Dan zit je een paar uur te praten en dan zie ik: dit is geen idioot. Dit is iemand die weet waar hij het over heeft.”
Zijn zoektocht naar ufo’s bracht Vermeeren als vanzelf bij andere grote complottheorieën
Goed. Als dat allemaal zo is, waarom is het bestaan van ufo’s en intelligent buitenaards leven dan niet algemeen bekend en geaccepteerd?
Hij zucht. „Het is niet in het belang van overheden dat dit naar buiten komt. Getuigen worden regelmatig geïntimideerd. Alle systemen van de wereld zouden op de schop gaan: regering, geloof, wetenschap, onze omgang met klimaat.” Het onderwerp is bewust dusdanig geridiculiseerd („Kijk naar Hollywood”) dat haast niemand zijn vingers eraan durft te branden. „Universiteiten werken al helemaal niet mee.”
Zijn zoektocht naar ufo’s, de omarming van het fenomeen, bracht Vermeeren als vanzelf bij andere grote complottheorieën. Dit jaar bracht hij nog een boek uit over één daarvan: 9/11 is gewoon een complot.
Zijn we wel op de maan geweest? „Soms denk ik van wel”, zegt Vermeeren, „soms denk ik van niet. Er is voor beide hypothesen iets te zeggen.”
Een soort rockster
Ufo’s, 9/11, de maanlanding – het lijkt soms of dit soort complotten gebundeld komen. Hoe wapent Vermeeren zich tegen een confirmation bias, waarbij alles wat je ziet past in het plaatje dat je toch al in je hoofd hebt?
„Dat is een goede vraag.” Even is hij stil. „Maar ik heb mijn huiswerk goed gedaan. Kijk, ik vraag niemand te gelóven wat ik zeg. Je mag er zelfs boos om worden. Ik moedig mensen alleen aan om zelf eens te gaan graven.”
Zijn eenmansstrijd kan soms frustreren, maar buiten de wetenschappelijke wereld, onder zijn ufo-medestanders, is hij een soort rockster. Zoals een meisje tijdens de avond met Lange Frans tegen hem zei: „Ik vind het zo dapper wat u doet, dat u zich zo durft uit te spreken.”
„Ik ben een doctor in de technische wetenschap”, zegt Vermeeren. „Die titel brengt óók plichten. Ik zie het als mijn plicht te delen wat ik weet.” Hij heeft wel eens budget aangevraagd om het ufo-fenomeen te onderzoeken, maar dat werd afgewezen. „En misschien ben ik wel helemaal niet de persoon om dat te doen. Ik wil mensen vooral aansporen óók op zoek te gaan.”
Is hij weleens bang dat hij het fout heeft? Dat hij middenin de nacht overeind schiet in bed, en zich realiseert dat hij zich gigantisch heeft vergist?
Vermeeren denkt even na.
„Ik zal je vertellen”, zegt hij ten slotte, „als ik soms van heel intelligente mensen te horen krijg dat er niets klopt van wat ik zeg, dan heb ik weleens een moment van twijfel. Zo van: het zou toch niet? Eventjes, en verdwijnt het weer.”
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“Er is geen twijfel dat we door buitenaardse levensvormen worden bezocht. Beyond doubt”
“Er is geen twijfel dat we door buitenaardse levensvormen worden bezocht. Beyond doubt”
Coen Vermeeren, hoofd van het Studium Generale aan de TU Delft, steekt zijn mening over UFO’s niet onder stoelen of banken.
“Wie erin zitten en wat ze willen, dat kan ik je niet met zekerheid zeggen,” aldus Vermeeren. “Maar er is geen twijfel dat we door buitenaardse levensvormen worden bezocht. Beyond doubt.”
Dat nergens serieus onderzoek naar UFO’s wordt gedaan is volgens hem een failliet van de wetenschap. “Het enige wat ik vraag: onderzoek het!”
Graven
“Ik moedig mensen alleen aan om zelf eens te gaan graven,” zegt hij in gesprek met het NRC.
Hij legt uit dat er vele tienduizenden verklaringen zijn te vinden van militairen, piloten en zelfs astronauten die iets hebben gezien. “Dat kun je niet wegzetten als onzin.”
Hij noemt astronaut Edgar Mitchell, die eind jaren negentig een boekje opendeed over UFO’s en zei dat we met buitenaardse wezens in contact staan.
Technisch onmogelijk
Hij verwijst naar getuigenissen van ambtenaren en militairen over hun ervaringen met ruimtewezens en geopenbaarde stukken van de CIA, de FBI, de NSA en de Russen.
Vermeeren heeft zelf meerdere keren vreemde objecten waargenomen. Tijdens de lancering van Skylab, het eerste ruimtestation van de NASA, zag hij ook andere lichten die door de lucht zigzagden.
“Technisch onmogelijk, dat wisten wij toen al,” zegt hij.
Geridiculiseerd
“Maar het is niet in het belang van overheden dat dit naar buiten komt,” vervolgt hij. “Getuigen worden regelmatig geïntimideerd.”
“Alle systemen op aarde zouden op de schop gaan,” zegt Vermeeren. “Het onderwerp is bewust dusdanig geridiculiseerd dat haast niemand zijn vingers eraan durft te branden.”
AMERIKAANSE MARINE OFFICIER ZAG ENORM GAT BIJ ZUIDPOOL ( VIDEO )
AMERIKAANSE MARINE OFFICIER ZAG ENORM GAT BIJ ZUIDPOOL ( VIDEO )
Natuurlijk spelen er zich hele geheimzinnige zaken af op het continent dat nog steeds voor een groot deel onder het ijs ligt, Antarctica.
Maar, stukje bij beetje komt er meer informatie naar buiten waaruit inderdaad blijkt dat er zich een enorm gat bevindt vlakbij de geografische zuidpool.
Dit is het verhaal van een marine officier, Brian, die twintig jaar lang gewerkt heeft als technicus en boordwerktuigkundige voor de Amerikaanse marine gedurende 20 jaar van 1977 tot en met 1997.
Deze Brian heeft aan de bekende onderzoekjournalist en documentairemaker Linda Moulton Howe een aantal nogal onthutsende zaken verteld over de dingen die hij heeft meegemaakt op Antarctica in de periode 1995/96.
Diverse keren zagen ze zilverkleurige vliegende schotels in de verte over de bergen en een keer zagen ze een gat in het ijs ter grootte van een voetbalveld. Eigenlijk kwamen ze daar een beetje per ongeluk terecht, want het gat was slechts enkele kilometers verwijderd van de geografische zuidpool en in een no-fly zone.
Echter, aangezien ze een medische vlucht maakten waar spoed bij was gekomen, vlogen ze over dit verboden gebied en zagen dingen die ze absoluut niet mochten zien.
Een enorm gat in het ijs dat eruit zag alsof het een ingang was naar een ondergrondse installatie.
Enige tijd nadat ze dit hadden gezien, verdwenen er een aantal wetenschappers voor enkele weken en toen ze weer boven water waren, werden Brian en zijn bemanning erop af gestuurd om ze weer op te pikken. Volgens Brian zagen de mannen er doodsbang uit.
Later kregen ze opdracht om nooit met een woord te reppen over de zilverkleurige schijven, het grote gat in het ijs of de verdwenen wetenschappers.
Tijdens zijn diensttijd heeft Brian altijd zijn mond dichtgehouden, maar nu hij 60 is en niet meer in actieve dienst en hij nooit een geheimhoudingsverklaring heeft getekend, wilde hij toch wel praten over de dingen die hij had gezien en meegemaakt.
In de zomer van 2016 ontmoette hij Linda in het Amerikaanse Joshua Tree tijdens een conferentie en ’s avonds gingen ze met nog wat mensen eten in een Mexicaans restaurant en vertelde Brian over zijn belevenissen op Antarctica.
Daarna ging hij weer naar huis en vervolgens op maandag weer aan het werk bij het luchtvaartbedrijf waar hij nu werkt, toen hij ’s morgens om half elf een telefoontje kreeg van een voor hem onbekend iemand.
Iemand die precies wist waar hij was geweest, dat hij had gegeten met Linda Moulton Howe en iemand die hem op zijn hart drukte vanaf nu zijn kaken stijf op elkaar te houden en vooral niet meer te praten over dingen die hij tijdens zijn diensttijd op Antarctica had meegemaakt.
In de onderstaande video vertelt Linda Howe over nog veel meer verborgen en geheimzinnige zaken die zich afspelen op dat afgelegen continent. Van nog meer vermiste wetenschappers, tot gevonden piramides, ondergrondse bases, buitenaardsen en nog veel meer.
Wat we tot nu hebben gezien van Antarctica is in alle opzichten slechts het topje van de ijsberg.
PHOENIX LIGHTS: Mass UFO sighting 20 years ago is PROOF of ET, says alien investigators
PHOENIX LIGHTS: Mass UFO sighting 20 years ago is PROOF of ET, says alien investigators
TWENTY years ago today will be the twentieth anniversary of what many alien investigators claim is the most extraordinary and inexplicable mass UFO sighting on record.
Phoenix Lights UFO Event - 20 Years Later - YouTube
Phoenix Lights UFO Witness Tim Ley TV Interview - 6/13 ... - YouTube
The Phoenix Lights Incident became a phenomenon from March 13, 1997, after thousands of people began telling of seeing huge triangular UFOs drifting over Arizona and the city of Phoenix.
The sizes varied from a Boeing 747 to multiple football fields.
Five lights were seen in a formation by thousands of people over three hours from 7.30pm to 10.30pm.
The sightings took place across a 300-mile area from Phoenix to Tucson.
It was blamed by the military as being flares set off during an exercise at the time.
So-called triangle UFOs are still seen in high numbers across the USA, according to the database of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), which keeps a global record of such sightings, but never before have they been seen in such numbers as during the Phoenix Lights Incident.
Many claim they are evidence of extra terrestrials visiting our planet, but other conspiracy theorists suggest they could be top-secret experimental craft developed by the US Airforce at places like the mysterious Area 51 military base in the Nevada desert.
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The Phoenix Lights incident 20 years ago is still seen as unexplained by some UFOers.
The Paradigm Research Group (PRG) is a US lobby group campaigning to get an alleged "truth embargo" lifted by the US Government.
It is convinced that the government has evidence aliens have visited Earth but says such information is kept from the public amid fears of the effect it may have on religion and the rule of law.
The group is urging anyone who is not yet convinced that aliens are real and visiting us to watch a new documentary available on Amazon Prime called I Know What I saw.
Featuring testimonies from witnesses to the Phoenix Lights, and other UFO incidents, it also includes interviews with ex-military and even astronauts.
PRG founder Steve Bassett said: "March 13, 2017 marks the 20th anniversary of the Phoenix Lights event.
"For anyone who still has a doubt as to the reality of an extraterrestrial presence and a government imposed truth embargo, please watch this documentary."
Alien chasers claim no-one has explained what else the Phoenix Lights could have been.
It recently emerged at the International UFO Congress event that some people even experienced memory loss after seeing them.
A panel of UFO experts discussed the case as part of the conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, last month.
Several hundred people attended an event called The Importance of the Phoenix Lights-Mass UFO Sighting.
One element which emerged during the panel's discussion was that there was a bizarre reaction to the sightings by a number of witnesses.
MUFON
Triangle UFOs like those said to be seen on the night are still reported across the US.
Some reported a temporary amnesia-like state, when immediately after seeing the lights, they went blank or failed to discuss it with anyone.
Panel moderator filmmaker James Fox, who investigated the case to produce a documentary, said that during interviews with hospice workers, they told how they "watched the lights appear and disappear over a period of time but didn't say a word about it".
One woman told him: "We went right back to our tea."
Jim Mann, director of the Arizona Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) branch, which investigates UFO and alien sightings, told of similar accounts.
Another witness told Mr Mann he stopped his car to watched the UFOs with several other people and "a craft slowly glided overhead".
The man said: "Not a word was spoken. After it went on by, everyone got in their car and drove home."
Suspicious UFO captured on camera by Danish Fisherman
Many witnesses thought they saw a black triangle supposedly carrying these lights, but two witnesses who viewed them through a telescope identified them as a formation of high-altitude aircraft.
Nigel Watson
The panel also included Richard Dolan, a UFO writer and researcher, and Dr Lynne Kitei, a witness to the incident who went on to write the book Phoenix Lights: A Skeptic's Discovery That We Are Not Alone.
They looked at other claims, including similar mysterious sightings which happened in the three months leading up to March 1997.
Witnesses to these earlier lights included Dr Kitei, she said.
The panel also heard that the mass sightings actually started outside of Arizona, azcentral.com reports.
They were first seen near Henderson, Nevada, and later in Mexico.
Mr Dolan said: "We call it the Phoenix Lights, but it's really not completely accurate.
"You're talking about two distinctive types of events. Could be related. Could be the same thing. Could be something different."
Despite the unanswered issues, some researchers remain loathed to say it means it must have been aliens.
Sceptics claim to have since proved that military flares, which were set off at the same time, were responsible for the multiple UFO sightings.
Many UFO experts, however, claim this does not satisfactorily explain all the accounts.
Mr Mann said: "Do we have evidence that it was an extraterrestrial event? No.
"We have evidence that it was an extremely bizarre event. We can't put a label on it other than it was an anomaly."
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Some claim the Phoenix Lights could have been secret US technology like the alleged TR-3B craft.
Scott Brando runs website ufoofinterest.org which exposes hoax UFO sightings.
He says the Phoenix Lights Incident was explained as aircraft and military flares.
He told Express.co.uk: “The Phoenix lights were explained with two different events. The first was the flight of five planes in V-shape formation.
"This is what the witness saw in that day.
"The second event was the launch of military flares over Estrella mountains."
Referring to triangle UFOs generally, he added: “About other similar sightings I'd like to see some reports by MUFON, however many formation of sky lanterns or the launch of skydivers.
"Golden Knights were often mistaken for UFOs.”
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said the Phoenix Lights were actually the result of aircraft lights.
He said: "The navigation and landing lights of aircraft can easily generate UFO sightings.
"Aircraft are usually identified as such by their engine noise, but loud background sounds or the distance of the UFO and wind direction can hide them from the witness.
"At night, the lights of a large tanker aircraft re-fuelling several small jet aircraft can look like an impressive formation of UFOs."
Referring to the lights, he added: "Many witnesses thought they saw a black triangle supposedly carrying these lights, but two witnesses who viewed them through a telescope identified them as a formation of high-altitude aircraft."
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Filer’s Files #11 – 2017 Facts about UFOs - PART I
Disc captured over Rego Park, New York on March 3, 2016
Filer’s Files #11 – 2017 Facts about UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: General Douglas Mac Arthur’s Warnings, President Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address, Facts about UFOs, Pine Bush Investigation, Wikileaks Reveals Government Secrets, Trump Surveillance Allegation Could Trace to Reported Court Order, and ISS spots UFO, NASA cuts Video.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Washington.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Albania, Belgium, Canada, India, Germany, Puerto Rico, Sweden, 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 US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
George A. Filer III
New Jersey State Director
MUFON Eastern Region Director
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General Douglas Mac Arthur made the first two public statements concerning the possibility of an extraterrestrial invasion stating:
“The nations of the world will have to unite for the next war will be an interplanetary war.
The nations of Earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets”
New York Times General Douglas Mac Arthur, 1955.
General MacArthur and Admiral Mountbatten had knowledge of classified military involvement in the UFO issue has Allied Commanders in the Pacific during the Second World War. MacArthur was allegedly involved in the creation of an Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit (IPU) after the 1942 Los Angeles Air Raid involving UFOs. The IPU’s existence was eventually confirmed by Army responses to FOIA requests in 1984. Given MacArthur’s alleged role in the IPU, he was aware of official military records concerning UFOs. This contributed to his belief that extraterrestrials formed a national security threat that could unify the countries of the world.
Editor’s Note: It is interesting that two of the Supreme Allied Commanders of World War II went to their newspaper contacts to warn the publicabout the reality of UFOs that they may provide a threat to the nations of Earth. Strong rumors indicate they both saw crashed saucers and their occupants in the Pacific. One landed on Admiral Mountbatten’s estate in England. Prince Phillip assured me he and his Uncle had strong interest in UFOs.
Three men who were the Supreme Allied commanders in World War II all provided warnings.
General of the ArmyDwight D. Eisenhower served in successive Supreme Allied Commander roles. Eisenhower was the Commander-in-Chief, Allied Force for the Mediterranean theatre and Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force in the European theatre, starting in December 1943 with the creation of the command to execute the Battle of Normandy and ending in July 1945. He then served as Army Chief of Staff under President Harry S. Truman and was certainly aware of the UFO crashes. In 1948, he relinquished his active duty status when he became President on January 20, 1953. He stated. “Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”
President Eisenhower allegedly met with extraterrestrials and was aware of the crash of UFOs. He apparently allowed the most classified UFO technology to go to the aviation industry and felt he was taken out of the loop concerning its development.
President Eisenhower’s farewell address to the nation, January 1961
“In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.Listen to the entire speech
Facts about UFOs
According to MUFON, the National Enquirer reported that a survey found 76% of participants felt the government was not revealing all it knew about UFOs, 54% thought UFOs definitely or probably existed, and 32% thought UFOs came from outer space.[3]
The 1950s saw an increase in both governmental and civilian investigative efforts and reports of public disinformation and suppression of evidence.
The UK Ministry of Defence’s UFO Project has its roots in a study commissioned in 1950 by the MOD’s then Chief Scientific Adviser, the great radar scientist Sir Henry Tizard. As a result of his insistence that UFO sightings should not be dismissed without some form of proper scientific study, the Department set up the Flying Saucer Working Party. In August 1950, Montanan baseball manager Nicholas Mariana filmed several UFOs with his color 16mm camera. Project Blue Book was called in and, after inspecting the film, Mariana claimed it was returned to him with critical footage removed, clearly showing the objects as disc-shaped. The incident sparked nation-wide media attention.
Frank Scully‘s 1950 Behind the Flying Saucers suggested that the U.S. government had recovered a crashed flying saucer and its dead occupants near Aztec, New Mexico, in 1948.
Major Donald Keyhoe was a retired U.S. Marine who wrote a series of popular books and magazine articles that were very influential in shaping public opinion, arguing that UFOs were indeed real and that the U.S. government was suppressing UFO evidence. Keyhoe’s first article on the subject came out in True Magazine, January 1950, and was a national sensation. His first book, Flying Saucers Are Realalso came out in 1950, about the same time as Frank Scully’s book, and was a bestseller. In 1956, Keyhoe helped establish NICAP, a powerful civilian UFO investigating group with many inside sources. Other contemporary critics also charged that the United States Air Force was perpetrating a cover-up with its Project Blue Book.
Canadian radio engineer Wilbert B. Smith, who worked for the Canadian Department of Transport, was interested in flying saucer propulsion technology and in September 1950, he had the Canadian embassy in Washington D.C. arrange contact with Dr. Robert Sarbacher, a physicist and consultant to the Defense Department’s Research and Development Board. Smith then briefed superiors in the Canadian government, leading to the establishment of Project Magnet, a Canadian government UFO research effort. Canadian documents and Smith’s private papers were uncovered claiming the existence of a highly secret UFO oversight committee of scientists and military people called Majestic 12, again naming Vannevar Bush.
Sarbacher corroborated the information in Smith’s memos and correspondence. Smith stated that he had been lent crashed UFO material for analysis by a highly secret U.S. government group which he wouldn’t name.[A few weeks after the Robertson Panel, the Air Force issued Regulation 200-2, ordering air base officers to publicly discuss UFO incidents only if they were judged to have been solved, and to classify all the unsolved cases to keep them out of the public eye. In addition,
UFO investigative duties started to be taken on by the newly formed 4602nd Air Intelligence Squadron (AISS) of the Air Defense Command. The 4602nd AISS was tasked with investigating only the most important UFO cases having intelligence or national security implications. These were deliberately siphoned away from Blue Book, leaving Blue Book to deal with the more trivial reports. (Dolan, 210-211)[30]
In 1954 an automatic working station for UFO monitoring was installed at Shirley’s Bay near Ottawa in Canada. After this station detected the first suspicious event, all data gained by this station was classified as secret, although the cameras of the monitoring station could not make any pictures because of fog.
1956 saw the publication of Gray Barker‘s They Knew Too Much About Flying Saucers, the book which publicized the idea of sinister Men in Black who appear to UFO witnesses and warn them to keep quiet.
On January 22, 1958, when Donald Keyhoe appeared on CBS television, his statements on UFOs were precensored by the Air Force. During the show when Keyhoe tried to depart from the censored script, CBS cut the sound, later stating Keyhoe was about to violate “predetermined security standards” and about to say something he wasn’t “authorized to release”. What Keyhoe was about to reveal were four publicly unknown military studies concluding UFOs were interplanetary including the 1948 Project SignEstimate of the Situation and a 1952 Project Blue Book engineering analysis of UFOs.
Air Force tracked UFOs for twenty two years from 1947 to 1969; Americans accounted for 12,618 reports of unidentified flying objects many by aircrews. It was up to investigators at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base to determine if extraterrestrial beings, in fact, had descended from space to Earth. A friend of mine, Colonel Ray Sleeper, who was commander of Foreign Technology Division, sent the study of UFOs to the University of Colorado. Ray had observed a UFO high above his aircraft but had doubts about its identity. In 1969, after the results of a questionable study were released the United States Air Force declared itself out of the UFO business, but admitted that 701 sightings remained “unidentified.”
General Benjamin Chidlaw told investigators,
“We have stacks of reports about flying saucers. We take them seriously when you consider we have lost many men and planes trying to intercept them.” Commander Air Defense Command 1951 to 1955”
Blue Book’s documents and photographs comprise 42 cubic feet of declassified records — numbering 2,000 pages per cubic foot — now housed in the National Archives. I just returned from the Air Force Association Conference and talked to many members who reported that aircrews are reporting UFOs on a regular basis. Thanks to Wikipedia.
Pine Bush Investigation
Dr. Bruce Cornet writes that on the 3rd of October 1997 a group of people from four states gathered at Newburgh, NY, for a three day field trip. This was no ordinary group of people. They all belonged to MUFON, and came together to perform an experiment. They wanted to see if ten people could work together as one, and collect data at night using various types of instruments and cameras. They also wanted to try to duplicate some of the results of Bruce Cornet, who had been studying the Pine Bush phenomenon since June of 1992.
MUFON field crew, Muddy Kill Lane, Montgomery, NY, 3 October 1997
The team met and stayed at the Super 8 Motel in Newburgh, NY, and had an organizational meeting at a Holiday Inn nearby. I was part of the MUFON team who came to Pine Bush, New York on 3 October 1997 to do a field investigation on the Owen’s Dairy Farm that contained ancient Indian burial grounds where alien craft had been frequently sighted.
The field between the mound and circle was measured, the theodolites set up and the distance between them measured, and cameras on tripods positioned in order to record aerial objects from different angles.ck Atristain organized the project, while Bruce Cornet provided the field locations for their nighttime experiments.
Two theodolites plus video equipment were used in order to track objects in the sky, determine their trajectories, and triangulate their distances and altitudes, and record communications between pilots and the tower at Stewart International Airport. That location could not be maintained when local residents complained about our activities, and Montgomery police asked us to locate somewhere else. The police chief, Sergeant Edward Clancy, was kind enough to offer his property for us to conduct our experiment, but because it was not close to where Cornet had done his research, the Owen dairy farm was chosen instead.
The team examines the Indian mound located on the Owen dairy farm at the center of the UFO hotspot. The aerial shot shows the raised mound with remnant hexagonal shape, and another permanent circular feature to the west. It is from the small field just west of the circular feature that an AOP/UAP rose up two years earlier. Circular discolorations in the grasses can still be seen from the air, years after they were made by craft landing and taking off from there. It is speculated the aliens are able to remote view the ancient past and disc shaped stone objects are often found with the ancient burial grounds.
The Anomaly
For most of the evening the team saw and recorded conventional aircraft either flying towards or from Stewart International Airport, or flying at high altitude over the valley. If it hadn’t been for the recording of a pilot asking the control tower to “Check those runway lights up nice and bright for us,” the sighting of an unusual aircraft might have peaked more curiosity.
The sound produced by the boomerang-shaped aircraft resembles that of a conventional jetliner to the unaided ear. However, frequency spectral analysis reveals the very same types of characteristics noted for other anomalous craft caught on video and/or audio over the Pine Bush hotspot by Cornet between 1992 and 1997.
The sound spectra are quite different from that of conventional aircraft jet engines in the following ways:
There is little or no white noise. White noise from jet engines typically ranges from 2 kHz up to 8 kHz, but the spectrogram of the boomerang shows no white noise and the highest frequencies reaching only 2.4 kHz. A frequency spectrogram for a commercial jetliner is shown.
In addition, the frequencies of conventional jet engines tend to blend together to form gradational frequency changes. Although some frequency banding occurs, the frequencies are not divided into eight distinct frequency bands as they are for the boomerang
It wasn’t until Dr. Cornet had his film developed that he discovered the first two anomalies: Lights that appeared to strobe on the time exposures, but which did not strobe on the video, and glowing bars of light across the leading edges of both wings. In addition, the running lights on the video appear normal: White, green, and red. But all the lights on the time exposures are a golden color. None are white, green, or pure red. Seven still frames from the video are presented, showing the boomerang from directly below at 10:53:12 pm to showing it turning and moving away from the camera. 18 seconds of video are presented, with the last image at 10:53:30 pm viewing the boomerang from behind. The time exposure on the right represents about 20 seconds of time, with the central strobe firing once every three seconds.
Bill Ristau flight instructor and airline pilot for 31 years writes,
“The pics of this wild looking “craft” appear to be what some observers call, the “Boomerang”. The thing that caught my attention immediately, was the wing dihedral. It appears to portend an angle of 15 to 20 degrees or more. I do not remember ever flying any aircraft with more than about 5 to 7 degrees of dihedral. Dihedral enhances stability during turns. I’m guessing that this craft also has low speed capabilities, looking at your time exposed pic. This is speculation on my part, but the extreme angle of descent, not ending in a crash, might well be proof of that. It’s another mystery ship, Bruce. I suppose it is one of ours. Thanks to Bill Ristau.
Conclusions
The Pine Bush Boomerang has been reported by various people living in Orange and Ulster counties over the years. Ellen Crystall was one of the first people to report this type of craft in her book, Silent Invasion. She notes that boomerangs come in small and large varieties (Crystall, 1991, p. 115). The small one is described as being about 25 feet from tip to tip, while the large one appears to be about 200 feet in perimeter. What we witnessed at the Owen dairy farm on 3 October 1997 matches her description of the larger craft.
The asymmetrical distribution of strobes and lights (for example, the large white central light is positioned slightly off to the starboard side of dead center, and the two red strobes are not in line with one another), as well as the blue-green color of the “green” starboard light, are characteristics of these anomalous craft. The absence of white noise and the composite nature of the frequency spectrum for its engine sound indicate that the sound recorded is probably synthetic and not mechanical. Similar synthetic sounds have been recorded for other Pine Bush AOP/UAP.
The control tower to turn up the runway lights, and then thanking the tower for complying, strongly implicates a human pilot and a possible military aircraft landing at Stewart Air Force Base. However, there has been strong evidence for mimicry. See Mimicry may be the Objective of ETI Triangular and Diamond-shaped Probes. It would not be out of consideration that this boomerang intentionally flew over us when an aircraft was on approach to Stewart. The broadcast of a request to the control tower would be coincidental, giving the boomerang a great cover.
Bruce Tilden was stationed at Stewart International Airport, photographing and recording all the aircraft that landed and took off during the time the other members of the team made observations at the Owen dairy farm. Unfortunately, he remained there only until about 8:30 pm, and did not see any aircraft landing at the time the boomerang would have landed.
If he had remained at Stewart, his data might show that the boomerang landed at Stewart airport, solving one mystery.
The maneuvers the Black Triangle made are something that no known military aircraft could do (flying upside down and backwards). I have no doubt that there have been great advances in technology in the last 20 years, but was that technology perfected back in 1997?
Highly classified Aurora high-altitude spy plane TR 3B coming into Stewart AFB on 3 October 1997.
That aircraft turns out to be the illusive Aurora high altitude spy aircraft replacement for the SR-71 spy plane, and those photographs and video may be the only pictures of it available to the public. It was coming into Stewart AFB fast on an emergency landing, with its dihedral (boomerang-shaped) wings glowing orange from a high speed descent through the atmosphere. An Air Force fighter jet maintenance specialist confirmed for me its identity. Bruce generated a website entitled, The Pine Bush Boomerang.http://www.sunstar-solutions.com/AOP/Boomerang/Boomerang.htm This is a summary of Cornet’s excellent web site. Copyright B.Cornet 2001
WikiLeaks Reveals Government Secrets
The anti-secrecy website on Tuesday issued a call for any information about those connected to the outgoing Obama administration destroying records – and offered a huge cash payment as incentive.
“We are issuing a US $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest or exposure of any Obama admin agent destroying significant records,” the organization tweeted above an image of a “Wanted” sign.
The appeal for any evidence mirrored a previous plea from the website in August for information leading to the “conviction” of
Seth Rich and Parents
whoever killed Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich in July. The website promised $20,000 for the information. Rich, the victim of an apparent robbery murder, although nothing was taken, is thought by some to have been a Democratic whistle-blower. WikiLeaks head Julian Assange, though not admitting Rich leaked any material to the website, hasn’t disputed the notion, either. He states it was not Russians who gave Wikileaks emails but insiders in the Democratic National Committee. Podesta email release reveals a massive Clinton ‘hits’ file on Bernie Sanders who it is likely Rich liked.
WikiLeaks also promised to pump up its output in 2017 – after rocking the 2016 presidential race by posting 50,000+ emails from Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. The messages, published in batches throughout October, showed a cozy relationship with journalists, pointed to discord and possible impropriety within the Clinton organization, dirty tricks against Bernie Sanders and indicated she had received several primary debate questions in advance.
Seth Conrad Rich (January 3, 1989 – July 10, 2016). The 27-year-old employee of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) was fatally shot in Washington, D.C.
Rich grew up in Omaha, Nebraska in a Jewish family (shown) and in 2011 he graduated from Creighton University. At the time of his death, Rich was the Voter Expansion Data Director where worked for two years at DNC, on a computer application to help voters locate polling stations. Rich was shot twice in the back about a block from his home in Washington, D.C. Although Rich’s watch strap was torn, nothing had been stolen. Newsweek reported that the murder stoked right wing ” Conspiracy theories around numerous Clinton killings,”
WikiLeaks, the organization that had published thousands of hacked DNC emails less than two weeks after Seth Rich was killed, announced on Twitter that it was offering a $20,000 reward in the killing.
Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks editor, (shown) insists the leaks are not from the Russians but from the Democratic Committee DNC, He stoked speculation that Rich might have been involved in the DNC hack by referencing the murder, unprompted, on a Dutch news program.
“Our whistleblowers go to significant efforts to get us material and often [face] very significant risks. A 27-year-old that works for the DNC was shot in the back, murdered just a few weeks ago for unknown reasons, as he was walking down the street in Washington.”
Republican lobbyist Jack Burkman has offered $130,000 of his own money as a reward, adding to the $25,000 offered by D.C. police and $20,000 from WikiLeaks and nothing was offered by the Democrats. Thanks to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Seth_Rich and https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/seth-rich-wasnt-just-another-dc-murder-victim-he-was-a-meme-in-the-weirdest-presidential-election-of-our-times/2017/01/18/ee8e27f8-dcc0-11e6-918c-99ede3c8cafa_story.html?utm_term=.f1ff452fc911
Note: I disagree with WikiLeaks releasing classified information, but they usually release the truth as opposed to our neoliberal controlled news media. Fortunately, the American public is catching on.
Reuters – At least a dozen U.S. National Security Agency employees have been caught using secret government surveillance tools to spy on the emails or phone calls of their current or former spouses and lovers in the past decade, according to the intelligence agency’s internal watchdog.
The practice is known in intelligence world shorthand as “LOVEINT” and was disclosed by the NSA Office of the Inspector General in response to a request by the Senate Judiciary Committee’s top Republican Charles Grassley for a report on abuses of the NSA’s surveillance authority.
Wikileaks has released information claiming the CIA can monitor your Smart Phones, Samsung TVs, Ipads, Ipods, computers etc. often even when turned off. Additionally, they are able to create signatures so it appears the hacking is from Russia although it actually from the CIA.
According to an explosive new report in Circa News Wednesday night, a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) warrant was granted to federal investigators in October of 2016 to wire tap Trump Tower.
Trump Surveillance Allegation Could Trace to Reported Court Order
Investigative journalists Sara Carter (formerly of the Washington Times, and John Solomon (formerly of the Washington Post, spoke to sources close to the investigation who have been “watching in horror” at the politicization of intelligence since the election, and wanted to set the record straight.
“What we don’t know is who was connected to that FISA,” Carter said on Sean Hannity’s show Wednesday night.
“What was that FISA looking at? That is very highly classified. Nobody wants to talk about that particular FISA, right now. They said it did have to do with the Russian hacking on a very broad level, but it didn’t hone in directly on Trump is what I was told,” she said.
In addition to the FISA warrant in October, the FBI obtained a separate warrant that same month to look into a computer server tied to then-candidate Donald Trump’s businesses in Trump Towers (but not located in Trump Towers). According to the report, the feds used traditional investigative techniques to examine allegations of computer activity tied to two Russian banks and there had been no intercepts of Trump’s phone or emails. http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/03/08/sean-hannity-monologue-wikileaks-cia-release-leaks-trump-tower-wiretap-obama
ISS spots UFO, NASA cuts Video
A UFO is picked up on the horizon gaining altitude and moving toward the International Space Station.
NASA was recently accused of cutting their live feed from the International Space Station (ISS) just as an UFO was spotted on January 15, 2017 causing quite a stir. As you can see, it’s a small grey object slowly rising and then disappearing as NASA cut the feed
One astronaut claims he was notified by NASA to photograph a UFO heading for the /shuttle at his one o’clock position. He got his camera ready to shoot but the object passed so quickly he missed catching it on film. UFO encounters have been well documented for decades and the evidence is quite abundant. http://www.collective-evolution.com
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Filer’s Files #11 – 2017 Facts about UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #11 – 2017 Facts about UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Elephant Mountain — On March 4, 2017, and also a week ago the same camera, picked up another object. It was almost identical, but it hovered in location for several minutes. I went back to copy the picture, but the Webcam had already ready refreshed. It was an accident that I found it going through live weather cams around Flagstaff. I was checking out Elephant Mountain when a blip caught my attention. I went back and got the screen shot this time. Last week a huge triangle hovered for a little over two minutes. I just took out the screen surroundings, but the picture was not altered as you will see. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Irvine — I was looking up at the night sky on March 7, 2017, watching the airplanes go over my house and noticed something strange. As I watched it go overhead it looked just like a regular airplane because it had the same shape but it did not make any noise. It was heading south and the back of this aircraft had only three dim lights. The lights moved in a pattern like the pattern of the dots that you see in video games when the game in loading. The pattern was like this: 1,2,3,stop, 5 seconds later,1,2,3 repeated over and over.(the numbers are to represent one of the lights flash) I also noticed that it was gliding smoothly across the sky not too fast or slow. The shape of this craft was probably ovular from judging where the lights were. It must have shape shifted its shape to its regular shape after it got further away, but it was dark so I couldn’t really tell. When I noticed the strangeness of this craft I was like what the heck is that and I got excited. While, I soon lost sight of the mysterious aircraft as it flew further away to the south. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Disc
Orlando — I had just taken the exit to Sr 434 and was waiting on the stoplight to change. I then noticed a plane flying north and this object caught my eye just south of my view of the airplane. The object was also traveling in a north direction but was much closer to me than the airplane. I took this picture with my IPhone which recorded as a live image. In my phone image it has about 3 to 4 seconds of recorded video. Not sure what this is but it was very strange. So I thought I would share. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Orbs
Lawrenceville — On the night of March 4, 2017 about 10:10 PM, I was at my neighbor’s baby shower, when a young lady shouted “Look at the sky everyone, look.” I immediately ran out the backdoor of the residence to find everyone looking up and pointing at the night sky. Some had cell phones and others just pointed with their fingers. As 20 people gasped in awe and commented on what were the unidentified things above our heads. I stood on a chair and saw a massive amount of star-like white orbs. These 50 +orbs emitted no sound and were in a semi-line formation in a zig-zag shoe lace matter, then back in a straight formation. Some orbs stood stationary, while others moved around. These were all individual lights and not a single structure. My wife also saw the white orbs as they moved away. Thanks to MUFON Thanks to MUFON CMS
Maine Triangle
Orrington — It was Friday, January 13, 2017, my friend’s birthday and with friends we left the Brewer Wal-Mart around 10:50 PM, heading up the Brewer Lake road. We went around an ‘S’ turn and noticed these red lights above the lake dam. Bangor International Airport is just beyond the dam so it looked like it could have been a plane. As we drove down the road closer to the object, I’m talking about a UFO I saw in January.
It flew quickly swooping in to 400 feet off the road and 200 feet high. It dipped and swooped in closer and we had this moment of awe. I stopped the car. The four us noted it was 11 PM and the triangle was silent with glowing bright red lights on each end. The object also had a center light that glowed white and the object was dark against the clear night sky and was 40 to 60 feet across.
My friend pulled out her iPhone but nothing was recorded. I turned the corner away from the black triangle and got a little way down the road and decided to return but it was gone. I made this sketch. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Michigan Fiery Bright Light
Troy/Madison Heights — I was leaving work when I noticed an intense fiery bright light in the south east on February 2, 2016. I was just east of John R Road and it hovering below the power lines. It ascended strait up and was far above the power lines. I started recording as it climbed, stopped and hovered some more, before moving up again, but remained intense like fire.
Then another huge intense fireball, bigger than the first one appeared tearing through a black sky. It looked like the sky had been scraped with an orange paint connecting the two lights. A third craft carried, 4-6 dull lights around its edge appeared, disappear, hover and bounce back and forth spinning. I witnessed three large fireball lights watching through my camera phone, but they were invisible to the naked eye. Snip Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Saucer
Toms River — Firefighter Bob M. and his friend, George P., “drove off the Garden State Parkway heading west on Route 37 when they entered an area of large pine trees on February 19, at 10 p.m., They decided to make a U-turn to return to the Parkway.” “As they swung the car off the road, George suddenly stepped on the brakes to avoid hitting a large object.
Just off the road in a small clearing was a saucer-shaped vehicle only 25 feet away as they skidded to a stop. There were no markings on the saucer and it appeared to be made of dull aluminum.” Bob said, “Do you see what I see?” George replied, “If you see a flying saucer, that’s what I see.” Then they exclaimed in unison, “Let’s get the hell out of here!” George stepped down hard on the gas pedal; tires spitting the car fishtailed back onto the asphalt and roared away. They drove directly home ‘in about an hour’ but could not believe that the sun was rising at 6:15 a.m. They thought it was no later than midnight.” Bob and George have no memory of what transpired between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. Those six hours are a complete blank. Earlier that day, Ellis Smith, his son and daughter watched a UFO perform aerobatics over Toms River.” Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Disc
Rego Park— My daughter decided to take a selfie with her new phone on her way to school on March 3, 2017.
When we looked at the photos during the weekend we saw this object floating above Queens Boulevard and 63rd intersection. Can you tell me what this is? I am sending you this photo after pixelizing the face of my daughter. Can you please tell me what this is? Thanks to MUFON CMS
Oregon Orb
Grants Pass– A series of images were captured above the pass changing shape and colors on March 1, 2017.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Lights
Spokane — I was in my house filming for suspected paranormal activities with a cell phone camera. 2. I did not notice until video playback. 3. It resembles a rabbit with a human face with mechanical movement. 4. It looks angry and moves closer and further from you as it’s staring at you. In parts of the video, you see lights appearing and whitish gray clay looking thing in the background. Looks like a big bulbous bald head probably 3 or 4 feet tall. 5. I’ve been anxious, depressed, Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Albania Light
A strange light was seen over Albania on February 1, 2017
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Belgium Disc
On May 5, 2016, at 8:45 PM, my son of almost 10 years goes back up the stairs panicked: “Mom there is a black round in the sky”. It was a black disk outside. We did not think of a UFO first because we live near an air base, but Ccedric is accustomed to aircraft and rushes to see them. The disc appeared from north west to southwest initially at low pace and then disappeared at any speed. We asked a soldier at the base and Cedric had to recognize in a file what he had seen. None corresponded to the objects of the base. The object had been seen in Profondeville and then in Franche Comté. My son was in panic. The speed told us as the soldier suggests that it could be a UFO or advanced technology. Thanks to Google Translate and MUFON CMS
Canada Boomerang
Ft. Eire — It was around 12 AM and I couldn’t sleep, so I was stargazing on February 28, 2017. There were a lot of planes around so I just relaxed and watched. Later at 12:45 PM, this chevron shaped UFO came over my neighbor’s house and scared me. It was really low but it didn’t affect anything or make noise. It was silently trolling along around 15-20 mph from the south headed north. The sighting only lasted 30-45 seconds but it was enough for me to stay up until 3 wondering what the actual heck I had just witnessed. It scared me honestly, the way it just moved. It was double the height of my neighbor’s house. It was REALLY close and it was terrifying. I was too mesmerized to take a picture, even though my iPod was two feet away. Thanks to MUFON CMS
India Disc
Aurangabad — My friend and I went to Ellora Caves sightseeing with Nokia 6681 phone. I just started clicking the photos of the beautiful caves, and saw a huge UFO hovering above the cave. It was 1:40 PM GMT 5.30 IST on 26th November 2006, when I saw the huge object hovering in the sky, I forgot about the photo and almost after 3-4 months my friend called me and told me to check the particular photo numbers. The object was observed only in one photo. You can also see my friend is in the photo and you can see the object without zooming the photo. The object vanished from the sky within fraction of milliseconds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Germany Disc
Celle– A pulsating object was seen in the afternoon sky close to the town church some years ago on November 13, 2014.
Today realized that I can report the UFO to your web site.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Sweden Lights
Gnesta, Södermanland— My girlfriend noticed an airplane in the sky above with some strange glowing lights flying behind it.
I managed to take one photo before it disappeared behind a cloud.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK Sightings
Coalville– Bright star like objects appeared near the Great Bear constellation. The lower two lights was as bright as Venus and the upper as bright as Jupiter. I observed them for approx 30 seconds. They were completely static in the sky and did not move. After 30 seconds, the upper light disappeared followed by the lower object about two seconds later. I am an amateur astronomer and know that there are not any astronomical objects of this magnitude in that part of the sky at this time of year. If possible, could you let me know if anyone else has reported these lights or objects – as it would be great to get my sighting corroborated? I am certain that these objects were not conventional aircraft, shooting stars or meteors as they were completely still/static in the sky. I have attached a diagram I created using a star map program I have, and added the objects I saw in the location of the sky that I saw them (upper and lower objects). Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Despite being a fact of daily life and lying just below our feet in cities all around the world, sewer systems are places in which most of us never step foot (lucky for our shoes). For this reason, sewer systems remain places of mystery and folklore. Throughout most technologically developed cultures, urban sewer legends and myths of strange subterranean sewer dwellers persist in the modern imagination. While a race of eyeless Morlocks hasn’t been found yet, developments in Derby, England are hinting that something strange might be afoot in at least that city’s sewers.
Keep looking. They’re down there somewhere, waiting to eat your eyeballs.
According to the Derby Telegraph, emergency personnel were called on March 8 after residents reported unexplained knocking noises coming from nearby manholes. Another witness, described as a “teenage skateboarder at the scene who did not wish to be named” also reported hearing similar sounds a few days before this incident. Residents believed that an individual might have gotten trapped below the streets, but when firefighters lifted manhole covers, they found no one below ground. Fire service station manager Ben Smart believes the noises must have come from some other unidentified source:
We lifted the manhole but there is no way anyone could be down there. It is the sewer.
First responders arrived quickly but found no explanation for the noises.
However, local civil engineer and tunnel expert Derek Palmer claims that there are precedents for people being washed into the sewers below Derby:
It has happened before. Going back a while ago we had two guys washed from Markeaton Lane near the paddling pool to Darley Park. They were down in two big pipes sheltering there as it was raining. They had a thunderstorm and water came down quickly and they couldn’t get up. They got washed down into the culvert straight through to the river at Darley Park.
There are walkable tunnels under Derby’s streets, but civil engineers claim that there is no way to access the area from which the noises seemed to emanate. That leaves this one a mystery, then. What could have been making the noises? Bizarre mutated humanoids? Giant sewer alligators? Or just some punk kids having a laugh? For now, this one remains unsolved.
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Wetenschapper: “Graancirkels zijn echt en bevatten verborgen boodschappen”
Wetenschapper: “Graancirkels zijn echt en bevatten verborgen boodschappen”
Toen dr. Horace Drew (61) tien jaar oud was zag hij een onbekend, zilverkleurig vaartuig in de lucht bij zijn huis in de Amerikaanse staat Florida.
Vanaf dat moment raakte hij erg geïnteresseerd in het buitenaardse. “Ik zag een UFO, dus ik wist al op jonge leeftijd dat ze echt waren,” vertelt hij aan nieuwssite News.com.au.
De wetenschapper, die jarenlang voor het Australische wetenschappelijke instituut CSIRO werkte, doet al 20 jaar onderzoek naar graancirkels en aliens.
Puzzels
Hij verhuisde in de jaren tachtig naar Australië, maar reisde voor zijn onderzoek vaak naar Europa. “In Australië zijn graancirkels vrij zeldzaam,” merkt hij op.
Dr. Drew stelt dat graancirkels worden gemaakt door aliens of tijdreizigers. Volgens hem zijn een aantal van deze formaties echt en bevatten ze puzzels die kunnen worden opgelost en gelinkt aan tijdreizen en buitenaards leven.
Hij bezocht tientallen graancirkels, met een doorsnee variërend van 50 tot 500 meter.
Boodschappen
“Mijn onderzoek naar UFO’s en graancirkels heeft geleid tot tenminste één grote doorbraak, de ontdekking van een meer geavanceerde binaire code dan onze huidige computers gebruiken,” zegt hij.
Dr. Drew claimt dat aliens of tijdreizigers graancirkels achterlaten op aarde als boodschappen voor ‘ons of zichzelf’.
Hij zegt dat hij één van de weinige wetenschappers op aarde is die boodschappen in graancirkels succesvol heeft ontcijferd.
Tegen misleiding
Volgens hem geven sommige graancirkels informatie over de toekomst. “Sommige tonen astronomische of menselijke gebeurtenissen in de toekomst.”
Eén van de ontcijferde boodschappen leverde de volgende tekst op: “Veel pijn, maar er is nog tijd. Geloof. Er is goed in de wereld. Wees op je hoede voor zij die valse beloftes doen. Wij zijn tegen misleiding. Over en uit.”
Dr. Drew heeft twee theorieën over het doel van de formaties.
Dolfijnen
“De ene theorie is dat ze zich op een vreedzame manier introduceren, zoals wij bellen blazen bij dolfijnen,” zegt hij.
“Als wij willen communiceren met dolfijnen blazen we kleine bellen onder het wateroppervlak,” vervolgt hij. “We kijken hoe dolfijnen hierop reageren en bestuderen ze.”
De manier waarop mensen communiceren met dolfijnen en walvissen is waarschijnlijk vergelijkbaar met de manier waarop buitenaardsen met ons communiceren.
Verre verleden
“Obama en Trump hebben nog nooit tegen een dolfijn gezegd: ‘breng me naar je leider, ik wil een verdrag met jullie sluiten’,” aldus Drew.
Volgens de tweede theorie zijn de boodschappen niet voor ons bedoeld.
Mogelijk creëren tijdreizigers uit de verre toekomst de formaties om ze te helpen bij het navigeren in hun verre verleden, ons heden.
“Over 5000 jaar zijn we zeker in staat om door de tijd te reizen,” zegt hij.
Onbekende energie
De graancirkels lijken te worden gemaakt met behulp van een ‘onbekende energie die de gewassen verhit’.
Die energie brengt een bepaald patroon aan in het graan, aldus dr. Drew. “Niemand ziet of hoort iets en daarom is het zo moeilijk om te bewijzen.”
De wetenschapper zegt dat we niets te vrezen hebben. “Wees niet bang,” zegt hij.
Bewijs
Hij geeft aan dat er veel wetenschappelijk bewijs is waaruit blijkt dat sommige graancirkels zijn gemaakt door tijdreizigers of aliens.
Zo werden monsters die in oktober 2016 waren verzameld in een graancirkel in Brazilië onderzocht in een laboratorium.
De planten bleken met behulp van onbekende technieken kiemvrij te zijn gemaakt.
Antwoorden
“De politici praten hier niet over omdat ze bang zijn dat ze anders stemmen zullen verliezen,” legt hij uit.
“De internationale media zijn er deels verantwoordelijk voor dat het publiek twijfelt aan de echtheid van graancirkels,” gaat hij verder.
Het is dus belangrijk dat we naar antwoorden blijven zoeken, stelt dr. Drew.
Verre planeten
“De buitenaardse bezoekers hebben namelijk technologieën die ons kunnen helpen, bijvoorbeeld manieren om schone energie te maken zonder olie, kolen of gas te verbranden,” klinkt het nog.
“Of ultrasnelle aandrijfsystemen gebaseerd op zwaartekracht en inertie, die ons veilig naar verre planeten of sterren kunnen brengen,” besluit hij.
UFO Seen During Sunset In Australia, Day of Super Moon, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Seen During Sunset In Australia, Day of Super Moon, Nov 2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Nov 13, 2016 but reported today Location of sighting: Australia Source: MUFON #82616 This UFO was seen over Australia last year. It was caught during sunset, the one time of the day with the highest chance of a sighting. Yes, there is a time of the day that UFOs are more often seen. Sunset. Its a time when the sun, UFO, and eyewitness form a triangle, forcing the UFO cloak to bend light around the UFO more than 180 percent up to 224-270 degrees. Anything over 180 is a cloaks breaking point. Sunset causes that. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
November 13th 2016 was the afternoon that many people went up to the nearby river ( elevated position) to watch the supermoon rise. Of course people were taking photos of the supermoon rising, however I walked off on my own to take a photo of the sunset I did not see anything unusual at the time. When i looked back at my photos (taken on an old mobile phone) that is when i noticed the unusual anomaly in the photo. When i noticed it i thought instantly that is a ufo. I saw a ufo in the desert in western australia about 7 years ago now, night time. This is for me actual proof What do you think.
UFO Shoots Out Of Volcano Lava Vent Toward Live Camera! March 11, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Shoots Out Of Volcano Lava Vent Toward Live Camera! March 11, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 11, 2017 Location of sighting: Volcano, Mexico Found By:Marte Salas of Youtube. This UFO was caught shooting out of the volcano and towards the live Internet camera. As yo can see, the UFO doesn't come from the mouth of the volcano, but instead comes from a lava vent on the side of the volcano. I have seen smoke come from this vent before, but this is the first time I have seen a UFO shoot out of one. Did you notice that the UFO starts slow and then increases speed? Thats how their ships handle in our atmosphere. Although the UFOs are capable of incredible speed, their acceleration is usually slower than you would suspect. Especially if the UFO is staying on Earth, not entering space. Scott C. Waring
As private businesses and government agencies begin seriously eyeing Mars as a site of human colonization, questions remain over how such colonies could sustain themselves. Are there any sources of nutrition to be found on Mars? Can the Red Planet sustain agriculture needed to nourish a human colony? To begin answering these questions, scientists conducted a landmark experiment last year which determined that crops grown in (simulated) Martian soil are safe to eat, turning the planet’s most abundant resource (soil) into a usable commodity.
That experiment helped pave the way for this most recent one involving potatoes.
To add to the viability of possible Martian agriculture, the International Potato Center (CIP) has announced the results of ayear-long experiment to determine if potatoes can grow and Mars, and it seems french-fry loving astronauts everywhere now have a reason to rejoice. More astonishingly, there is an International Potato Center. Who knew?
See? They have this weird logo and everything.
According to a CIP press release, the experiment took place on a CubeSat, a popular new minuscule modular satellite platform. Researchers from the University of Engineering and Technology (UTEC) in Lima, Peru based the experiment off of open-source designs released by NASA. According to Julio Valdivia-Silva, one of the study’s authors and a former SETI engineer, the results are a promising breakthrough in the lead-up to Martian colonization:
If the crops can tolerate the extreme conditions that we are exposing them to in our CubeSat, they have a good chance to grow on Mars. We will do several rounds of experiments to find out which potato varieties do best. We want to know what the minimum conditions are that a potato needs to survive.
Aside from demonstrating that agriculture might one day be possible on the Red Planet, the researchers are hopeful that this experiment might help humanity win the battle against climate change. The simulated Martian soil is comparable to nutrient-poor or high-salinity soils found in a few areas on Earth which make growing crops difficult.
Potato plants poking through the simulated Mars dirt.
If crops can be grown on Mars, CIP potato breeder Walter Amoros says, there’s no reason they can’t be grown anywhere on Earth as well:
It was a pleasant surprise to see that potatoes we’ve bred to tolerate abiotic stress were able to produce tubers in this soil. The results indicate that our efforts to breed varieties with high potential for strengthening food security in areas that are affected, or will be affected by climate change, are working.
Thus, research into space technology has provided humanity with one more tool to better ourselves. In the face of frequent political pushes to defund governmental space agencies, this discovery shows that the future of humanity indeed lies in outer space – or at least in the attempt to get there. Once we stop aspiring for the stars, we stop trying to further the limits of human imagination.
Brent Swancer’s recent feature on Men in Black in Japan has prompted me to write an article showing that the creepy and strange MIB are seen just about here, there and everywhere. In 2005, I spent a week or thereabouts in Puerto Rico. I was there with Paul Kimball’s Redstar Films crew. The subject of the shoot: the Chupacabra. While we were there, we met a number of interesting witnesses, including one guy who had encountered not just a Man in Black, but a Woman in Black too.
Late one night, some years earlier, he jumped out of bed to the screams of his pigs – he was a breeder and seller of the animals. And, given that this was his only source of income, he raced to the back-door, grabbed a handy machete and a flashlight, flung the door open, and charged out into the muggy darkness. The scene was one of carnage. The bodies of a number of dead, blood-splattered rabbits – which the farmer also kept – were strewn about the yard, many torn to pieces. And one of his prize-pigs was dead, too, lying on the ground.
All of them, the pig and the rabbits, were killed in the same fashion: via three, huge puncture wounds to the neck. As the man, pretty much in a state of shock, prowled around the tree-shrouded yard, he heard movement in the undergrowth. Wasting no time at all, he threw the machete in what he thought was the right direction. His instinct was right: the machete slammed into something solid. Oddly, the sound was akin to metal hitting metal. Whatever it was, it didn’t hang around. In seconds, it was gone, having leaped into the safety of the all-encompassing, nearby woods. There were even weirder developments to come – in the form of none other than the dreaded MIB and WIB.
It was early the next morning when the darkly-garbed, pale-faced duo descended upon the man’s farm. They asked all sorts of questions about the previous night’s events, making it clear to him that they knew far more about the attack in particular – and the mysterious attacker in general – than they were willing to admit. The strange pair listened, in an emotionless fashion, to everything that he had to say, then suddenly turned and vanished into the woods, along with his machete – which they made clear they were confiscating. Maybe wisely, he decided not to object. He never saw them, or his machete, ever again.
Moving over to the U.K., there are a couple of strange stories from Fortean author-investigator, Neil Arnold. Neil told me: “During the early ‘90s I was with two mates out walking at night, and I’d just got the reissues of The Unexplained magazine – and we saw a strange, hanging, dull yellow light in the sky which at first we took to be a firework about to explode. It was late October. The light eventually came over us, at quite a height and the light vanished (I believe because it was on top of the object). But the underside revealed a circle of lights and we watched in amazement as this thing silently glided over the houses out of sight. I recall a chap walking his dog who also looked up at it and everything was very quiet. Although I don’t recall it, when I spoke to one of the guys many years later (I lost touch with him shortly afterwards) he stated quite categorically that we lost about an hour in time.”
Neil continued: “This is not something I’ve ever taken seriously, but anyway, a month or so later I began writing a lot about MIBs and UFOs, and the same two friends visited London to buy records. It was early afternoon and we were sat in the MacDonald’s in Leicester Square. I was facing the door, one of my mates faced me with his back to the door, and my other mate sat side on. I recall looking up over my mate’s shoulder (the mate who was facing me) and there was a guy sitting there. He was about ten-feet away, staring, what I felt, right into my soul. He was about 60-70 years of age, he had grey hair slicked back, wide, staring, unblinking eyes. He wore a black suit, white shirt and a dark tie. Strangely, he had no food on the table, or no newspaper and he just sat staring at me. I went to mention it to my friend who was facing me and my mate just shuddered and said, ‘I know!’ He said he could sense this guy. We actually got up and left straight away…very odd.”
Neil had another case to report to me: “I also have a relative who in the ‘80s saw a UFO and went to the local phone box to report it to the newspaper. As soon as he entered the phone box a man appeared by the phone box and was staring in rather menacingly. My relative thought the man wanted to use the phone and so he motioned he wouldn’t be long, but the man still stared. The man wore a dark suit. My relative came off the phone and said to the man: ‘You can use it now.’ But he just stood there. My relative told the newspaper that he would go to their offices to tell them of the sighting, but as soon as he got on the bus he got a shocking headache. He thought he was going to pass out but persisted, but when he got to the office no-one working there knew what he was on about and they all said they hadn’t received a call from him.”
Gareth Medway, who has done an excellent job of collecting MIB reports, says of a 1957 case: “Luciano Galli of Rome [Italy] was walking from his home to work after lunch when a black Fiat pulled up and a man with piercing jet-black eyes spoke to him and invited him to come with him. They drove to Croara Ridge outside of Rome, where a saucer shaped craft was waiting. He was taken for a ride into space.” And, one more from Gareth, this one from 1963: “Li Jing-Yang, a security guard in Yangquan, Shansi Province, China, saw an object like two plates sealed together hovering in the sky. The next day he was approached by a strange man dressed in black who warned him not to talk about the sighting.”
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. There is very little we can say for sure about the Men in Black. One thing we do know, however, is that the phenomenon is global.
Brent Swancer’s recent feature on Men in Black in Japan has prompted me to write an article showing that the creepy and strange MIB are seen just about here, there and everywhere. In 2005, I spent a week or thereabouts in Puerto Rico. I was there with Paul Kimball’s Redstar Films crew. The subject of the shoot: the Chupacabra. While we were there, we met a number of interesting witnesses, including one guy who had encountered not just a Man in Black, but a Woman in Black too.
Late one night, some years earlier, he jumped out of bed to the screams of his pigs – he was a breeder and seller of the animals. And, given that this was his only source of income, he raced to the back-door, grabbed a handy machete and a flashlight, flung the door open, and charged out into the muggy darkness. The scene was one of carnage. The bodies of a number of dead, blood-splattered rabbits – which the farmer also kept – were strewn about the yard, many torn to pieces. And one of his prize-pigs was dead, too, lying on the ground.
All of them, the pig and the rabbits, were killed in the same fashion: via three, huge puncture wounds to the neck. As the man, pretty much in a state of shock, prowled around the tree-shrouded yard, he heard movement in the undergrowth. Wasting no time at all, he threw the machete in what he thought was the right direction. His instinct was right: the machete slammed into something solid. Oddly, the sound was akin to metal hitting metal. Whatever it was, it didn’t hang around. In seconds, it was gone, having leaped into the safety of the all-encompassing, nearby woods. There were even weirder developments to come – in the form of none other than the dreaded MIB and WIB.
It was early the next morning when the darkly-garbed, pale-faced duo descended upon the man’s farm. They asked all sorts of questions about the previous night’s events, making it clear to him that they knew far more about the attack in particular – and the mysterious attacker in general – than they were willing to admit. The strange pair listened, in an emotionless fashion, to everything that he had to say, then suddenly turned and vanished into the woods, along with his machete – which they made clear they were confiscating. Maybe wisely, he decided not to object. He never saw them, or his machete, ever again.
Moving over to the U.K., there are a couple of strange stories from Fortean author-investigator, Neil Arnold. Neil told me: “During the early ‘90s I was with two mates out walking at night, and I’d just got the reissues of The Unexplained magazine – and we saw a strange, hanging, dull yellow light in the sky which at first we took to be a firework about to explode. It was late October. The light eventually came over us, at quite a height and the light vanished (I believe because it was on top of the object). But the underside revealed a circle of lights and we watched in amazement as this thing silently glided over the houses out of sight. I recall a chap walking his dog who also looked up at it and everything was very quiet. Although I don’t recall it, when I spoke to one of the guys many years later (I lost touch with him shortly afterwards) he stated quite categorically that we lost about an hour in time.”
Neil continued: “This is not something I’ve ever taken seriously, but anyway, a month or so later I began writing a lot about MIBs and UFOs, and the same two friends visited London to buy records. It was early afternoon and we were sat in the MacDonald’s in Leicester Square. I was facing the door, one of my mates faced me with his back to the door, and my other mate sat side on. I recall looking up over my mate’s shoulder (the mate who was facing me) and there was a guy sitting there. He was about ten-feet away, staring, what I felt, right into my soul. He was about 60-70 years of age, he had grey hair slicked back, wide, staring, unblinking eyes. He wore a black suit, white shirt and a dark tie. Strangely, he had no food on the table, or no newspaper and he just sat staring at me. I went to mention it to my friend who was facing me and my mate just shuddered and said, ‘I know!’ He said he could sense this guy. We actually got up and left straight away…very odd.”
Neil had another case to report to me: “I also have a relative who in the ‘80s saw a UFO and went to the local phone box to report it to the newspaper. As soon as he entered the phone box a man appeared by the phone box and was staring in rather menacingly. My relative thought the man wanted to use the phone and so he motioned he wouldn’t be long, but the man still stared. The man wore a dark suit. My relative came off the phone and said to the man: ‘You can use it now.’ But he just stood there. My relative told the newspaper that he would go to their offices to tell them of the sighting, but as soon as he got on the bus he got a shocking headache. He thought he was going to pass out but persisted, but when he got to the office no-one working there knew what he was on about and they all said they hadn’t received a call from him.”
Gareth Medway, who has done an excellent job of collecting MIB reports, says of a 1957 case: “Luciano Galli of Rome [Italy] was walking from his home to work after lunch when a black Fiat pulled up and a man with piercing jet-black eyes spoke to him and invited him to come with him. They drove to Croara Ridge outside of Rome, where a saucer shaped craft was waiting. He was taken for a ride into space.” And, one more from Gareth, this one from 1963: “Li Jing-Yang, a security guard in Yangquan, Shansi Province, China, saw an object like two plates sealed together hovering in the sky. The next day he was approached by a strange man dressed in black who warned him not to talk about the sighting.”
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. There is very little we can say for sure about the Men in Black. One thing we do know, however, is that the phenomenon is global.
Brent Swancer’s recent feature on Men in Black in Japan has prompted me to write an article showing that the creepy and strange MIB are seen just about here, there and everywhere. In 2005, I spent a week or thereabouts in Puerto Rico. I was there with Paul Kimball’s Redstar Films crew. The subject of the shoot: the Chupacabra. While we were there, we met a number of interesting witnesses, including one guy who had encountered not just a Man in Black, but a Woman in Black too.
Late one night, some years earlier, he jumped out of bed to the screams of his pigs – he was a breeder and seller of the animals. And, given that this was his only source of income, he raced to the back-door, grabbed a handy machete and a flashlight, flung the door open, and charged out into the muggy darkness. The scene was one of carnage. The bodies of a number of dead, blood-splattered rabbits – which the farmer also kept – were strewn about the yard, many torn to pieces. And one of his prize-pigs was dead, too, lying on the ground.
All of them, the pig and the rabbits, were killed in the same fashion: via three, huge puncture wounds to the neck. As the man, pretty much in a state of shock, prowled around the tree-shrouded yard, he heard movement in the undergrowth. Wasting no time at all, he threw the machete in what he thought was the right direction. His instinct was right: the machete slammed into something solid. Oddly, the sound was akin to metal hitting metal. Whatever it was, it didn’t hang around. In seconds, it was gone, having leaped into the safety of the all-encompassing, nearby woods. There were even weirder developments to come – in the form of none other than the dreaded MIB and WIB.
It was early the next morning when the darkly-garbed, pale-faced duo descended upon the man’s farm. They asked all sorts of questions about the previous night’s events, making it clear to him that they knew far more about the attack in particular – and the mysterious attacker in general – than they were willing to admit. The strange pair listened, in an emotionless fashion, to everything that he had to say, then suddenly turned and vanished into the woods, along with his machete – which they made clear they were confiscating. Maybe wisely, he decided not to object. He never saw them, or his machete, ever again.
Moving over to the U.K., there are a couple of strange stories from Fortean author-investigator, Neil Arnold. Neil told me: “During the early ‘90s I was with two mates out walking at night, and I’d just got the reissues of The Unexplained magazine – and we saw a strange, hanging, dull yellow light in the sky which at first we took to be a firework about to explode. It was late October. The light eventually came over us, at quite a height and the light vanished (I believe because it was on top of the object). But the underside revealed a circle of lights and we watched in amazement as this thing silently glided over the houses out of sight. I recall a chap walking his dog who also looked up at it and everything was very quiet. Although I don’t recall it, when I spoke to one of the guys many years later (I lost touch with him shortly afterwards) he stated quite categorically that we lost about an hour in time.”
Neil continued: “This is not something I’ve ever taken seriously, but anyway, a month or so later I began writing a lot about MIBs and UFOs, and the same two friends visited London to buy records. It was early afternoon and we were sat in the MacDonald’s in Leicester Square. I was facing the door, one of my mates faced me with his back to the door, and my other mate sat side on. I recall looking up over my mate’s shoulder (the mate who was facing me) and there was a guy sitting there. He was about ten-feet away, staring, what I felt, right into my soul. He was about 60-70 years of age, he had grey hair slicked back, wide, staring, unblinking eyes. He wore a black suit, white shirt and a dark tie. Strangely, he had no food on the table, or no newspaper and he just sat staring at me. I went to mention it to my friend who was facing me and my mate just shuddered and said, ‘I know!’ He said he could sense this guy. We actually got up and left straight away…very odd.”
Neil had another case to report to me: “I also have a relative who in the ‘80s saw a UFO and went to the local phone box to report it to the newspaper. As soon as he entered the phone box a man appeared by the phone box and was staring in rather menacingly. My relative thought the man wanted to use the phone and so he motioned he wouldn’t be long, but the man still stared. The man wore a dark suit. My relative came off the phone and said to the man: ‘You can use it now.’ But he just stood there. My relative told the newspaper that he would go to their offices to tell them of the sighting, but as soon as he got on the bus he got a shocking headache. He thought he was going to pass out but persisted, but when he got to the office no-one working there knew what he was on about and they all said they hadn’t received a call from him.”
Gareth Medway, who has done an excellent job of collecting MIB reports, says of a 1957 case: “Luciano Galli of Rome [Italy] was walking from his home to work after lunch when a black Fiat pulled up and a man with piercing jet-black eyes spoke to him and invited him to come with him. They drove to Croara Ridge outside of Rome, where a saucer shaped craft was waiting. He was taken for a ride into space.” And, one more from Gareth, this one from 1963: “Li Jing-Yang, a security guard in Yangquan, Shansi Province, China, saw an object like two plates sealed together hovering in the sky. The next day he was approached by a strange man dressed in black who warned him not to talk about the sighting.”
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. There is very little we can say for sure about the Men in Black. One thing we do know, however, is that the phenomenon is global.
Brent Swancer’s recent feature on Men in Black in Japan has prompted me to write an article showing that the creepy and strange MIB are seen just about here, there and everywhere. In 2005, I spent a week or thereabouts in Puerto Rico. I was there with Paul Kimball’s Redstar Films crew. The subject of the shoot: the Chupacabra. While we were there, we met a number of interesting witnesses, including one guy who had encountered not just a Man in Black, but a Woman in Black too.
Late one night, some years earlier, he jumped out of bed to the screams of his pigs – he was a breeder and seller of the animals. And, given that this was his only source of income, he raced to the back-door, grabbed a handy machete and a flashlight, flung the door open, and charged out into the muggy darkness. The scene was one of carnage. The bodies of a number of dead, blood-splattered rabbits – which the farmer also kept – were strewn about the yard, many torn to pieces. And one of his prize-pigs was dead, too, lying on the ground.
All of them, the pig and the rabbits, were killed in the same fashion: via three, huge puncture wounds to the neck. As the man, pretty much in a state of shock, prowled around the tree-shrouded yard, he heard movement in the undergrowth. Wasting no time at all, he threw the machete in what he thought was the right direction. His instinct was right: the machete slammed into something solid. Oddly, the sound was akin to metal hitting metal. Whatever it was, it didn’t hang around. In seconds, it was gone, having leaped into the safety of the all-encompassing, nearby woods. There were even weirder developments to come – in the form of none other than the dreaded MIB and WIB.
It was early the next morning when the darkly-garbed, pale-faced duo descended upon the man’s farm. They asked all sorts of questions about the previous night’s events, making it clear to him that they knew far more about the attack in particular – and the mysterious attacker in general – than they were willing to admit. The strange pair listened, in an emotionless fashion, to everything that he had to say, then suddenly turned and vanished into the woods, along with his machete – which they made clear they were confiscating. Maybe wisely, he decided not to object. He never saw them, or his machete, ever again.
Moving over to the U.K., there are a couple of strange stories from Fortean author-investigator, Neil Arnold. Neil told me: “During the early ‘90s I was with two mates out walking at night, and I’d just got the reissues of The Unexplained magazine – and we saw a strange, hanging, dull yellow light in the sky which at first we took to be a firework about to explode. It was late October. The light eventually came over us, at quite a height and the light vanished (I believe because it was on top of the object). But the underside revealed a circle of lights and we watched in amazement as this thing silently glided over the houses out of sight. I recall a chap walking his dog who also looked up at it and everything was very quiet. Although I don’t recall it, when I spoke to one of the guys many years later (I lost touch with him shortly afterwards) he stated quite categorically that we lost about an hour in time.”
Neil continued: “This is not something I’ve ever taken seriously, but anyway, a month or so later I began writing a lot about MIBs and UFOs, and the same two friends visited London to buy records. It was early afternoon and we were sat in the MacDonald’s in Leicester Square. I was facing the door, one of my mates faced me with his back to the door, and my other mate sat side on. I recall looking up over my mate’s shoulder (the mate who was facing me) and there was a guy sitting there. He was about ten-feet away, staring, what I felt, right into my soul. He was about 60-70 years of age, he had grey hair slicked back, wide, staring, unblinking eyes. He wore a black suit, white shirt and a dark tie. Strangely, he had no food on the table, or no newspaper and he just sat staring at me. I went to mention it to my friend who was facing me and my mate just shuddered and said, ‘I know!’ He said he could sense this guy. We actually got up and left straight away…very odd.”
Neil had another case to report to me: “I also have a relative who in the ‘80s saw a UFO and went to the local phone box to report it to the newspaper. As soon as he entered the phone box a man appeared by the phone box and was staring in rather menacingly. My relative thought the man wanted to use the phone and so he motioned he wouldn’t be long, but the man still stared. The man wore a dark suit. My relative came off the phone and said to the man: ‘You can use it now.’ But he just stood there. My relative told the newspaper that he would go to their offices to tell them of the sighting, but as soon as he got on the bus he got a shocking headache. He thought he was going to pass out but persisted, but when he got to the office no-one working there knew what he was on about and they all said they hadn’t received a call from him.”
Gareth Medway, who has done an excellent job of collecting MIB reports, says of a 1957 case: “Luciano Galli of Rome [Italy] was walking from his home to work after lunch when a black Fiat pulled up and a man with piercing jet-black eyes spoke to him and invited him to come with him. They drove to Croara Ridge outside of Rome, where a saucer shaped craft was waiting. He was taken for a ride into space.” And, one more from Gareth, this one from 1963: “Li Jing-Yang, a security guard in Yangquan, Shansi Province, China, saw an object like two plates sealed together hovering in the sky. The next day he was approached by a strange man dressed in black who warned him not to talk about the sighting.”
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. There is very little we can say for sure about the Men in Black. One thing we do know, however, is that the phenomenon is global.
Brent Swancer’s recent feature on Men in Black in Japan has prompted me to write an article showing that the creepy and strange MIB are seen just about here, there and everywhere. In 2005, I spent a week or thereabouts in Puerto Rico. I was there with Paul Kimball’s Redstar Films crew. The subject of the shoot: the Chupacabra. While we were there, we met a number of interesting witnesses, including one guy who had encountered not just a Man in Black, but a Woman in Black too.
Late one night, some years earlier, he jumped out of bed to the screams of his pigs – he was a breeder and seller of the animals. And, given that this was his only source of income, he raced to the back-door, grabbed a handy machete and a flashlight, flung the door open, and charged out into the muggy darkness. The scene was one of carnage. The bodies of a number of dead, blood-splattered rabbits – which the farmer also kept – were strewn about the yard, many torn to pieces. And one of his prize-pigs was dead, too, lying on the ground.
All of them, the pig and the rabbits, were killed in the same fashion: via three, huge puncture wounds to the neck. As the man, pretty much in a state of shock, prowled around the tree-shrouded yard, he heard movement in the undergrowth. Wasting no time at all, he threw the machete in what he thought was the right direction. His instinct was right: the machete slammed into something solid. Oddly, the sound was akin to metal hitting metal. Whatever it was, it didn’t hang around. In seconds, it was gone, having leaped into the safety of the all-encompassing, nearby woods. There were even weirder developments to come – in the form of none other than the dreaded MIB and WIB.
It was early the next morning when the darkly-garbed, pale-faced duo descended upon the man’s farm. They asked all sorts of questions about the previous night’s events, making it clear to him that they knew far more about the attack in particular – and the mysterious attacker in general – than they were willing to admit. The strange pair listened, in an emotionless fashion, to everything that he had to say, then suddenly turned and vanished into the woods, along with his machete – which they made clear they were confiscating. Maybe wisely, he decided not to object. He never saw them, or his machete, ever again.
Moving over to the U.K., there are a couple of strange stories from Fortean author-investigator, Neil Arnold. Neil told me: “During the early ‘90s I was with two mates out walking at night, and I’d just got the reissues of The Unexplained magazine – and we saw a strange, hanging, dull yellow light in the sky which at first we took to be a firework about to explode. It was late October. The light eventually came over us, at quite a height and the light vanished (I believe because it was on top of the object). But the underside revealed a circle of lights and we watched in amazement as this thing silently glided over the houses out of sight. I recall a chap walking his dog who also looked up at it and everything was very quiet. Although I don’t recall it, when I spoke to one of the guys many years later (I lost touch with him shortly afterwards) he stated quite categorically that we lost about an hour in time.”
Neil continued: “This is not something I’ve ever taken seriously, but anyway, a month or so later I began writing a lot about MIBs and UFOs, and the same two friends visited London to buy records. It was early afternoon and we were sat in the MacDonald’s in Leicester Square. I was facing the door, one of my mates faced me with his back to the door, and my other mate sat side on. I recall looking up over my mate’s shoulder (the mate who was facing me) and there was a guy sitting there. He was about ten-feet away, staring, what I felt, right into my soul. He was about 60-70 years of age, he had grey hair slicked back, wide, staring, unblinking eyes. He wore a black suit, white shirt and a dark tie. Strangely, he had no food on the table, or no newspaper and he just sat staring at me. I went to mention it to my friend who was facing me and my mate just shuddered and said, ‘I know!’ He said he could sense this guy. We actually got up and left straight away…very odd.”
Neil had another case to report to me: “I also have a relative who in the ‘80s saw a UFO and went to the local phone box to report it to the newspaper. As soon as he entered the phone box a man appeared by the phone box and was staring in rather menacingly. My relative thought the man wanted to use the phone and so he motioned he wouldn’t be long, but the man still stared. The man wore a dark suit. My relative came off the phone and said to the man: ‘You can use it now.’ But he just stood there. My relative told the newspaper that he would go to their offices to tell them of the sighting, but as soon as he got on the bus he got a shocking headache. He thought he was going to pass out but persisted, but when he got to the office no-one working there knew what he was on about and they all said they hadn’t received a call from him.”
Gareth Medway, who has done an excellent job of collecting MIB reports, says of a 1957 case: “Luciano Galli of Rome [Italy] was walking from his home to work after lunch when a black Fiat pulled up and a man with piercing jet-black eyes spoke to him and invited him to come with him. They drove to Croara Ridge outside of Rome, where a saucer shaped craft was waiting. He was taken for a ride into space.” And, one more from Gareth, this one from 1963: “Li Jing-Yang, a security guard in Yangquan, Shansi Province, China, saw an object like two plates sealed together hovering in the sky. The next day he was approached by a strange man dressed in black who warned him not to talk about the sighting.”
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. There is very little we can say for sure about the Men in Black. One thing we do know, however, is that the phenomenon is global.
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INTERESTING: NASA HAS REVEALED FIRST IMAGES OF TRAPPIST-1!
INTERESTING: NASA HAS REVEALED FIRST IMAGES OF TRAPPIST-1!
This year we had one of the biggest announcements by NASA as it revealed a relatively close star system with 7 planets and 3 of them being Earth-like. The solar system named 'Trappist-1' has a solar body smaller and younger than our own called a red dwarf. It is locatated 39 light years way which is translated to trillions of kilometers of distance from us.
NASA scientists say that three of the planets in Trappist-1 are perfectly located and have an extemely high probability of containing alien lifeforms.
Has technology progresses we might someday be able to travel quick enough to this neighbor system and perhaps settle there with new human colonies, or maybe to meet extraterrestrial civilizations. Either way, it's still to early to tell if we can accomplish this goal.
Recently NASA revealed the first images of Trappist-1. It was taken by the Kepler spacecraft.
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RESEARCHER CLAIMS REPTILIAN ALIENS HAVE BEEN ABDUCTING HUMANS AND CREATING HYBRIDS
RESEARCHER CLAIMS REPTILIAN ALIENS HAVE BEEN ABDUCTING HUMANS AND CREATING HYBRIDS
The researcher Len Kasten has made sensational claims, which he says he has gleaned from undisclosed for reportedly reputable sources, that an alien race referred to as the Reptilians have been abducting humans for nefarious purposes. According to Kasten, this activity has been going on for thousands of years and showed no sign of abating anytime soon.
RESEARCHER CLAIMS THAT HUMANS ARE BEING CONTROLLED BY A REPTILIAN RACE
Kasten claims that human beings do not originate from the planet Earth but initially evolved in a constellation referred to as Lyra. Some time ago, a reptilian race from the Draco system invaded and forced the human beings to flee to this solar system where humans took up residence on Earth and Mars. Today, the Martians live in a closed and highly secretive underground society while the reptilians live among human beings on the planet Earth.
According to Kasten, these reptilian beings abduct thousands of people every year for experimentation purposes and food. He says that they prefer the blood of children as it is less polluted than that of adult humans.
Kasten also claims that members of the reptilian race permanently live on this planet in underground bunkers. Despite the fact that they conceal themselves from the human race they manage to wield a huge amount of influence over society through organizations such as the Illuminati. Their goal is to completely control the world’s populations to keep human beings subdued. The primary method by which they ensure the subjugation of humans is by controlling banking and other economic institutions. Kasten claims that the last wave of intense reptilian activity was during the Second World War when the alien beings seized effective control of both the Third Reich and the Imperial Japanese Government. However, their plans to utilize the Axis powers to secure complete world domination failed because of the volatility of key human figures such as Adolf Hitler who improved impossible for the reptilians to control effectively.
WHY DO THE REPTILIAN ALIENS WANT FULL CONTROL OVER EARTH?
Kasten writes that the reason that the reptilians are so keen to seize complete control of the planet Earth is that they are afraid of what human beings could do if they were released from continual subjugation. Intriguingly, he says that most humans are completely unaware that the race is endowed with certain ‘powers,' however, he did not explicitly state what these powers might be. Instead, he tantalizingly claims that these powers will become apparent as more and more people become aware of what is happening.
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China announces Mars probe that will look for signs of alien life
China announces Mars probe that will look for signs of alien life
China announces Mars probe mission.
Joining the United States, India and the EU, China is eyeing a successful Mars mission set to launch for Summer 2020.
The news came from the Chinese state media, reporting that the country’s Academy of Sciences will launch a probe to the Red Planet in July or August of 2020.
Wan Weixing of the Academy revealed that the government approved the Mars probe early last year following feasibility studies.
The probe consists of a rover, a lander and an orbiter. The pack will study the surface, atmosphere, environment and space around Mars. It will also search for water and ice while taking radar images of the planet 400 meters underground. Meanwhile, the orbiter will monitor the planet’s surface from above, and will serve as an additional eye for the ground explorer.
The Chinese probe’s goal is to send back data to Earth the following year. Like NASA’s Mars program, China is hoping to find any signs of ancient or existing extraterrestrial life, and look for signs of water and ice deposits.
The report said that the probe will run for about two Earth years before signing off.
Scientists Speculate Mysterious Radio Bursts Are Powering Alien Ships
Scientists Speculate Mysterious Radio Bursts Are Powering Alien Ships
No one's sure what fast radio bursts are, so some Harvard scientists asked: Why not aliens?
Somewhere out there, aliens might be using huge, mysterious bursts of energy to sail ships through space.
No, this isn't some UFO conspiracy. It's a new theory from a pair of Harvard scientists who've been studying fast radio bursts. Those are sudden flashes of radio pulses from beyond our galaxy that our radio telescopes only catch glimpses of.
And the bursts are really weird. Astronomers have only ever found fewer than 20 of them. Sometimes they repeat, but other times they're a one-off burst of energy lasting only thousandths of a second.
The new theory goes something like this: A super-advanced alien species is using these incredibly powerful bursts of energy to push themselves around the universe on light sails.
Essentially, these theoretical aliens are riding a sailboat through outer space, and they're creating wind for their sails. But scientists think the sailboat might be the size of a planet, and that's why the bursts of energy are so big.
It's not as crazy as it may sound. Solar sails are a project we humans have been working on for a while, and some scientists think they're the best option we have for interstellar spaceflight.
The theory is pretty fantastical; even the authors admit that. They say they just want to put the idea out there and let the data "judge" it later.
‘Life’ adviser Kevin Fong on balancing fact with fiction: ‘Don’t get in the way of the story’
‘Life’ adviser Kevin Fong on balancing fact with fiction: ‘Don’t get in the way of the story’
A doctor specialising in space medicine, Kevin Fong has worked with NASA and the European Space Agency and is one of the experts on the March 24 release.
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Space as imagined by Hollywood teems with existential threats. In Daniel Espinosa’s upcoming film Life, it is an extraterrestrial life form found on Mars. Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds are among a crew of six astronauts aboard the International Space Station who successfully intercept a probe returning from Mars with a sample of alien life. This organism turns out not to be as benign as they initially presume.
Drawing on tropes from both horror and science-fiction, the March 24 release portrays the astronauts’ scramble to contain this alien life form before it can escape the ISS and obliterate all life on Earth.
As a critical element of the science-fiction genre is verisimilitude, the filmmakers called on experts who have worked in the field of space. One of them was Kevin Fong, a doctor who specialises in medicine in space and other extreme conditions. Fong has worked intermittently with the United States of America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration for around a decade and also with the European Space Agency. He has a degree in Astrophysics and Medicine from University College, London. In an interview with Scroll.in, Fong describes his experience of working on Life, the constraints that exist in space, and why scientists need to learn when to back offfrom film scripts.
Science-fiction films have come a long way since Ridley Scott’s Alien, which is perhaps the film to which people will compare Life. What has changed between now and then?
Alien is a very high benchmark. I think what has changed actually more than anything else is that although you want to compare it to Alien, it’s not the same type of film. Alien is set in a very far flung future, where people are in hyper-sleep and exploring star systems very far away. This is happening on your doorstep, 250 miles above the surface of the Earth in a space station that exists.
I think what’s changed is that since those films, the theme of space exploration has become something we understand much better. And since the launch of the International Space Station [in 1998], there has always been a human being in space. What that means is that space is no longer a place that we temporarily visit. It’s a place in which we live and work. In that there comes an idea that there are people whose entire lives is spent in this very hazardous environment where everything is precariously balanced – and then what happens when you introduce an extra problem into that mix.
Although we talk about it being science fiction, it is almost now just fiction. In many ways, this is a drama that takes place in an industrial setting. It is just that this industrial setting happens to be space, but now space is a place people inhabit.
How closely involved were you with Life? Did your role begin at the scripting stage or on set?
We were involved from the outset, from before they started filming, when they were just storyboarding the scenes and then we spent quite a few days on set, helping mainly with the medical scenes for me because I have worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration as a space life sciences director for a while.
So I talked about space medicine and to the cast, about the experience of being a doctor. I don’t know what they gleaned from that. It was an interesting experience to have people ask you about what you do professionally in a very different way. Actors have a different process of trying to understand your experience rather than the mechanics of your job.
In the film, the astronauts encounter stressful situations that require quick responses. Given the constraints and physical effects of space on the body, how will they be able to deal medically with this?
Space has a lot of deep and profound effects on the human body. When you first go to space, it takes a long while to acclimatise to it. The first two or three days, the astronauts can often feel quite awful. It does affect your body and your ability to track moving objects. But after a while, you adapt to that and you begin to be able to function well enough for everyday tasks. There are a lot of impacts on the body due to spaceflight. It affects your balance and coordination, your heart and circulation, your breathing. It affects your entire body.
But amid all that, there are medical constraints, which to me as a doctor is what makes that environment quite interesting. You’re constrained in the kind of skills you can take. In this film, there are two doctors in the space station [including Jake Gyllenhaal], which is unusual. You’re constrained in the number of skilled physicians you have, so in my hospital, when I encounter trouble, i have any number of colleagues who know more, whether I’m asking for a cardiac specialist, or a pulmonary specialist to back me up in intensive care or in an operation theatre.
In space, you’re a lone gun and on your own. Then you’re restricted by the power. You don’t have the same volume or the same weight. You can’t take a lot of equipment up there. You’re not up there having CT scanners or MRI scanners. So it is a real expedition experience as a doctor. I’ve been on expeditions as a doctor and it’s a much more uncomfortable experience than being in a hospital setting surrounded by all your people and your equipment.
Kevin Fong. Photo by Anthony Cullen.
There are two doctors on board the ISS in this film. How do you feel about that as a doctor yourself?
I worked with NASA on and off for ten years. I saw doctors who looked after astronauts. I have friends who are doctors and astronauts. I have seen them up close at work and worked alongside them. So the portrayals were very faithful in different ways. I was impressed as an outsider to watch this process happen. This cast and crew and scriptwriters take people and shape them into being believable as clinicians, forget the fact that they were on a space station. To me, they were believable as clinicians in the way they behaved.
We have had missions before with doctors in the cruise. And there have been in my memory a number of missions where you have more than one medically trained person in the crew. All of that is within the bounds of reality. And again, the filmmakers and scriptwriters didn’t overstep the mark in terms of the capabilities they gave these people. The temptation here is to endow these doctors with far more capability than they have on the space station. The space station does not have a lot of medical equipment. Their main recourse if things go wrong is to try and evacuate early and come home. When that happens, you really are in a lot of trouble.
I thought all of that was really well played. I was most closely involved in the medical scenes, which was really just about making the performance of the doctor believable. Nothing annoys me more than being a doctor and watching a medical drama where they hold the stethoscope the wrong way around or they try to do something with a cardiac defibrillator that is actually impossible or would never be done in real life. So it was quite nice for me to be able to exorcise some of those demons – to say, ‘No, this is wrong,’ and then have people listen to you.
Science fiction films are often a gateway for children to pursue careers in science. As a scientist and a film adviser, how do you balance creative demands with scientific reality?
You mustn’t get in the way of the story. That’s really important for a scientist in this environment to understand. There’s a temptation to think that this is my territory and it must look truly to real life. But the truth about science is of course that quite a lot of it is spending an awful lot of time reading books and looking at microscopes and doing stuff that actually is quite slow and ponderous and doesn’t look good on film. You have to be realistic about the needs of the story and the balancing of needs of reality.
The trick is not making the most realistic portrayal that can be made. Because that is a documentary. The trick lies in blending the needs of the story as closely as possible with what is real. When that is done well, you get films that are really beautiful. That is a real high-wire trip trying to get that balance right.
I think people get it wrong in both directions. I think scientists can be too pedantic about science, but also in a story, people might ride roughshod over some very fundamental things. When you get the partnership right, I think it can work very well.
Although Venus is easier to reach than Mars, scientists and space agencies around the world show little interest in exploring the planet. Why is it that they have so much enthusiasm in examining Mars but not our neighboring planet, Venus?
This artist's illustration shows a light sail powered by a radio beam (red) generated on the surface of a planet. A new study suggests that the leakage from such beams as they sweep across the sky could appear as the superbright light flashes known as fast radio bursts.
Credit: M. Weiss/CfA
Flashes of bright light seen across the cosmos could feasibly be created by intelligent aliens; a lost Indian moon probe was found; a fashion show featured a rocket launch, and a group of scientists proposed a new definition that would make Pluto a planet again. Here are our picks for the best space stories of the week.
An alien spacecraft?
Could unexplained flashes of bright light seen flickering across the universe be signs of advanced alien civilizations? A new study (led by a Harvard astrophysicist) investigates whether a phenomenon known as fast radio bursts could be generated by a megastructure built by aliens, as well as the possible purpose such a structure would serve. [Full story: Could Mysterious Cosmic Light Flashes Be Powering Alien Spacecraft?]
Lost and found on the moon
A powerful, Earth-based radar probe has identified the location of a lost Indian spacecraft sent to explore the moon. The Chandrayaan-1 lunar orbiter entered into lunar orbit in October 2008 and studied the moon through August 2009, when the probe stopped communicating with Earth. [Full story: Long-Lost Indian Moon Probe Found by Earth-Based NASA Radar]
Planetary treasure trove
The Kepler space telescope has pointed its planet-hunting eye at the TRAPPIST-1 system, which is now known to be home to at least seven Earth-size planets. Kepler researchers recently released raw data from the telescope's TRAPPIST-1 observations, to give the scientific community a chance to dive in and learn more about this incredible system. [Full story: Kepler Telescope Beams Back Raw Data on Earth-Size Exoplanets of TRAPPIST-1]
Colder than being cold
An experiment scheduled to fly to the International Space Station in August will create temperatures colder than those in interstellar space. The experiment, NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL), is depicted in this illustration.
Credit: NASA
An experiment set to launch to the International Space Station in August will achieve a temperature of less than 1 billionth of a degree above absolute zero — more than 100 million times colder than the far reaches of deep space, according to NASA. [Full story: Coldest Spot in Universe Should Soon Be Aboard International Space Station]
A mega eclipse movie
The "Eclipse Megamovie Project" is seeking volunteers to contribute footage to what could be the longest movie of a total solar eclipse ever compiled. If you have a high-quality camera (like a DSLR), you can get training on how to film the Aug. 21, 2017, total solar eclipse. The project's organizers said they will also release an app that will let people contribute footage using cellphones and lower-quality cameras. [Full story: How to Use Your Phone or DSLR to Help Make an Eclipse 'Megamovie']
This week, the fashion titan Chanel launched a prop rocket during a fashion show debuting a line of clothing that had a classic interstellar twist. Even though the launch was fake, the massive rocket still put on quite a show: Towering 3 or 4 stories tall, it rose upward while nearby support towers moved aside, and a cloud of pinkish exhaust spewed out on the crowd. [Full story: Chanel 'Launches' Rocket at Paris Fashion Week]
The iconic fashion house Chanel "launched" a massive prop rocket during a fashion show.
Credit: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images
Ice volcanoes on Ceres
New evidence suggests there are cryovolcanoes on Ceres, spewing a very salty water mixture toward the surface of the dwarf planet. Salty deposits are known to exist on Ceres' surface, and these could have welled up from beneath the surface, like magma squeezing through cracks in the Earth's crust. [Full story: Briny Ice Oozes in Dwarf Planet Ceres' Ice Volcanoes]
Make Pluto a planet (again)
There's a new campaign to once again change the definition of a "planet" so that Pluto will be included. Members of NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto are behind the new proposed definition, which they will present to their colleagues at a meeting this month. [Full story: Behind the Push to Get Pluto Its Planetary Groove Back]
Lunar space stations by 2020?
Robert Bigelow, founder of Bigelow Aerospace, a company that specializes in inflatable space habitats, said he thinks private refueling stations could orbit the moon by 2020. But making these dreams a reality will depend on President Trump's willingness to invest in the companies that could make these things happen. [Full story: Private Space Stations Could Orbit the Moon by 2020, Robert Bigelow Says]
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
By Live Science Staff
Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.
Big statue
Archaeologists unearthed fragments of a colossal statue possibly showing Pharaoh Ramesses II.
Credit: Dietrich Raue
Archaeologists have discovered a colossal statue, possibly depicting Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses the Great, in a muddy pit in a Cairo suburb, Egypt's antiquities ministry announced today (March 9).
Split in fragments, the quartzite statue was found by Egyptian and German archaeologists in the heavily populated Ain Shams and Matariya districts, where the ancient city of Heliopolis — the cult center for sun-god worship — once stood. [Read more about the discovery.]
Losing it all
Young men who take drugs to treat hair loss or an enlarged prostate may experience an unwanted side effect — erectile dysfunction — and the problem can persist long after these men stop taking the drugs, a new study finds.
One of the drugs in the study was finasteride, which is sold under the brand names Propecia and Proscar. Finasteride affects how cells make testosterone; it may be taken for hair growth or to shrink the prostate. [Read more about the long-lasting effect.]
It's in the details
Scientists recently created five synthetic chromosomes in yeast, a step towards a completely synthetic yeast genome.
Credit: Chris Bickel/Science 2017
The world is one step closer to a new synthetic organism.
Scientists have created five synthetic yeast chromosomes and placed them inside yeast cells. The chromosomes are composed of the normal letters, or base pairs, that make up DNA, but the sequence is slightly different from those found naturally in yeast. [Read more about the new creations.]
Neanderthal teeth
The upper jaw of a Neanderthal from El Sidrón in Spain. The dental calculus on the rear molar indicated that this individual ate poplar, a source of aspirin.
Credit: Paleoanthropology Group MNCN-CSIC
Neanderthals once dined on woolly rhinoceroses and wild sheep, and even self-medicated with painkillers and antibiotics, according to a new analysis of their dental plaque.
But the diets of Neanderthals — the closest known extinct human relative, which co-existed and sometimes bred with humans before going extinct about 40,000 years ago — varied depending on where they lived. [Read more about our ancient relatives.]
Discovering new things
Scientists have recently succeeded in creating a mysterious state of matter known as a time crystal. This exotic state of matter seems to suspend the laws of thermodynamics indefinitely.
Credit: E. Edwards/JQI
A bizarre new state of matter known as a time crystal seems to suspend the laws of thermodynamics almost indefinitely, two new experiments suggest.
The newly created matter joins a host of other exotic states of matter, such as superconductors, quantum-spin liquids and superfluids. [Read more about the law-breaking creation.]
Concept car
The passenger capsule can be driven like a car, flown by a drone or integrated into a transit system like a hyperloop.
Credit: Italdesign/Airbus
George Jetson can eat his heart out. A new flying-car concept can do more than just take to the skies. In fact, the futuristic vehicle takes more cues from "Transformers" than "The Jetsons" in imagining how humans might get around in the future. [Read more about this unique vehicle.]
Decorated tomb
Temperatures on the Antarctic continent reached a record-breaking high of 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit (17.5 degrees Celsius) in 2015, according to a new report of balmy records for the bottom of the world.
And the tomb isn't just big. It also has a rare example of rock art carved into its ceiling. [Read more about the rock art.]
The future is near
The Hyperloop One test track, dubbed the DevLoop, will be made up of a series of tubes that will extend 1,640 feet (500 meters).
Credit: Hyperloop One
Though it sounds like a transportation system straight out of a science-fiction novel, the "Hyperloop" is inching closer to reality, and new images offer a first look at the Hyperloop One project's test track.
Though it sounds like a transportation system straight out of a science-fiction novel, the "Hyperloop" is inching closer to reality, and new images offer a first look at the Hyperloop One project's test track. [Read more about the ultra-fast system.]
Odd effects
Easter eggs aren't the only things that are turning pink this spring: Some people are reporting that the special-edition "Peeps-flavored" Oreo cookies are turning their poop pink.
The cream's color, sandwiched between two vanilla cookies, is similar to the color of the iconic marshmallow treats that are especially popular around Easter. But how does the dye go from a colorful cookie to a perhaps unwanted pink stool? [Read more about the strange connection.]
Happy living
The title of the nation's happiest community once again goes to the city of Naples, Florida, and its surrounding area, according to a new poll.
In this most recent poll, residents of the Naples metro area scored a 66.3 out of 100 on the survey's measure of well-being. The Naples area previously claimed the top spot in this same poll conducted in 2014 to 2015. [Read more about happy places to live.]
ANTARCTICA: NASA IMAGES REVEAL TRACES OF ANCIENT HUMAN SETTLEMENT UNDERNEATH 2.3 KM OF ICE
ANTARCTICA: NASA IMAGES REVEAL TRACES OF ANCIENT HUMAN SETTLEMENT UNDERNEATH 2.3 KM OF ICE
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Recently released remote sensing photography of NASA’s Operation IceBridge mission in Antarctica led to a fascinating discovery when images revealed what some experts believe could be the existence of a possible ancient human settlement lying beneath an impressive 2.3 kilometers of ice.
The intriguing discovery was made during aircraft tests trials of NASA’s Advanced Topographic Laser Altimeter System (ATLAS) lidar technology set to be launched on the Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) in 2017, that aims to monitor changes in polar ice.
“There’s very little margin for error when it comes to individual photons hitting on individual fiber optics, that is why we were so surprised when we noticed these abnormal features on the lidar imagery,” explains Nathan Borrowitz, IceBridge’s project scientist and sea ice researcher with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
“As of now we can only speculate as to what these features are but the launching of ICESat-2 in 2017 could lead to other major discoveries and a better understanding of Antarctica’s geomorphological features” he adds.
Although NASA scientist Nathan Borrowitz claims the infrared images are definitely intriguing, other experts claim they are clearly the proof of ancient human engineering
A human settlement buried under 2.3 km of ice
Leading archeologist, Ashoka Tripathi, of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Calcutta believes the images show clear evidence of an ancient human settlement beneath the ice sheet.
“These are clearly features of some sort of human-made structure, resembling some sort of pyramidal structure. The patterns clearly show nothing we should expect from natural geomorphological formations found in nature. We clearly have here evidence of human engineering. The only problem is that these photographs were taken in Antarctica under 2 kilometers of ice. That is clearly the puzzling part, we do not have any explanation for this at the moment,” he admits.
“These pictures just reflect a small portion of Antarctica’s total land mass. There are possibly many other additional sites that are covered over with ice. It just shows us how easy it is to underestimate both the size and scale of past human settlements,” says Dr Tripathi.
Remnants of a lost civilization
Historian and cartographer at the University of Cambridge, Christopher Adam, believes there might be a rationnal explanation.
The map of Turkish admiral Piri Reis in 1513 AD shows the “ice less” coastline of Antarctica
“One of histories most puzzling maps is that of the Turkish admiral Piri Reis in 1513 AD which successfully mapped the coastline of Antarctica over 500 years ago. What is most fascinating about this map is that it shows the coastline of Antarctica without any ice. How is this possible when images of the subglacial coastline of Antarctica were only seen for the first time after the development of ground-penetrating radar in 1958? Is it possible Antarctica has not always been covered under such an ice sheet? This could be evidence that it is a possibility” he acknowledges.
« A slight pole shift or displacement of the axis of rotation of the Earth in historical times is possibly the only rational explanation that comes to mind but we definitely need more research done before we jump to any conclusion.”
ICESat-2 (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite 2), part of NASA’s Earth Observing System, is a planned satellite mission for measuring ice sheet mass elevation, sea ice freeboard as well as land topography and vegetation characteristics, and is set to launch in may 2017.
Suspicious UFO captured on camera by Danish Fisherman
The footage, uploaded to YouTube by the channel Section 51 2, shows a distant shot of a giant hovering rhombus-shaped UFO with a separate bright orb moving around it.
It is seen to rise into clouds above as if disappearing through a portal to another dimension.
The Section 51 2 website claims it was filmed in November 2016 by Danish fishermen.
However, it includes no real details about the alleged sighting.
An article accompanying the video on the Section 51 2 website makes no further reference to the alleged sighting in the video.
It instead discusses a 2011 sighting over the North Sea.
It is likely the video is a clever hoax made using CGI technology.
You guys are doing a great job with the CGI, I hope one day you guys could make a vid of ufos fighting and stuff.
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"We have benevolent ET friends who are serious about helping clean up our mess - starting with the ocean. be happy."
But, Section 51 2 has been outed by serious UFO investigators and hoax busters as regularly using GCI effects to add extraordinarily clear-looking UFOs to its videos.
The website and channel features on many UFO investigators "blacklists" of so-called UFO sites to avoid because of its alleged use of hoaxes, which "discredit genuine research".
The 'about section' on its website suggests it broadcasts genuine footage, saying: "Sometimes we have no words to explain what we see, sometimes we can see that it's just hoax.
"The purpose of Section 51 is to make you ask yourself these questions about UFOs... Many UFO reports from soldiers exist all around the world but some people want to hide the truth.
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Two Identical UFOs Filmed Over Florida and New York
Two Identical UFOs Filmed Over Florida and New York
Various reports suggest that a significant number of people witnessed a UFO in Homestead, Florida on February 15, 2017. The UFO was so mysterious as an aircraft mechanic with many years in aviation could not explain the video of the alleged mass UFO sighting.
Interestingly, a second video showing the same UFOs surfaced on March 3, 2017, and made the rounds online. The unnamed witness was in his room fixing the blinds. He usually looked out of his window to see the moon. He was surprised to see lights beaming from a distance. The sighting took place in Jamaica, NY.
The witness was sure they were not airplanes because he had been seeing planes from a distance during the night and he knew they did not beam as bright or as big as the mysterious lights that he could not explain.
The witness went on to say that he noticed the objects many months, but not paid attention to it as he thought they were just from the JFK airport on the right side.
Airplanes or helicopters are a regular sight around the area with JFK airport stationed nearby.
The witness also initially thought they were just motorbike headlights that appeared flashing when a tree was in front of them while the wind blew the leaves around. He observed on the last beam of light on the right side continually drifted off to the right and reappeared a few seconds again.
The witness claimed to be into cosmology, and his UFO sighting could be his wonderful, amazing discoveryyet.
Eyewitness Baffle To See An Apparent Decloaked V-Shaped UFO
Eyewitness Baffle To See An Apparent Decloaked V-Shaped UFO
TV News recently presents the UFO case seriously, and the MUFON investigator appears to handle it very well. It has been reported that UFO can materialize out of thin air, not by magic but by decloaking technology.
Debunking a UFO sighting is not that easy as most think. It needs evidence and not just mere words to do such thing. Without proof, debunking is just a bluff to make false news and profits to those networks who want to earn money out of it.
The annual UFO sighting report in Mutual UFO Network in Houston average around 80 speculated sightings. The data did not include the ones that are not reported. Fletcher Gray, one of the renowned UFO experts, offers a reason why most UFO sightings are not involving UFOs. However, there’s one case that baffles him big time.
An orange light was spotted over the Katy territory, coasting around. Tourists in the ground speculated it was a UFO. Gray said that it was glinting as it traveled during that time in the sky.
This researcher at Cambridge has a PhD and still had to take time to prove why the Nazi Antarctic UFO base is a hoax.
Before we get into this let's make one thing clear: the secret Nazi UFO base in Antarctica doesn't exist. The Nazis did go to Antarctica, but they didn't stash priceless European art in a subterranean Antarctic lair where they also happened to be developing flying saucers. That would be a totally insane thing to believe.
But as recently as 2016, articles mentioning the possible existence of this very thing can be found in tabloids like The Mirror, which reported on a possible Nazi UFO under Antarctic ice, as well as The Daily Star, which suggested that the Nazi UFO base may have ties to the giant alien ice pyramids under Antarctica.
In the age of Fake News and flat earthers, it's not hard to see how an outlandish idea could retain currency. But it's remarkable persistence over the half century prompted Colin Summerhayes, a prominent marine geologist and oceanographer at Cambridge, to write a 21-page, peer-reviewed paper outlining all the reasons why the Nazis totally didn't build a secret Antarctic base. Published a little over a decade ago in the quarterly academic journal Polar Review, Summerhayes' paper is an interesting survey of the paranoid conspiracy theories that began with a secret Nazi mission to Antarctica in January, 1939.
Seal of the Nazi Antarctic expedition. Image: Summerhayes, et al.
Months before the outbreak of World War II, Nazi Germany sent a small expedition to Antarctica aboard a vessel called the Schwabenland. According to Summerhayes, the expedition was prompted by German fears about being cut out of the whaling industry by Norway and Britain, which made large claims to portions of the Antarctic continent. So the Nazis launched their own expedition to Antarctica with the intention of claiming some of the seventh continent for themselves and establishing a base for the German whaling fleet there.
Although this would end up being the Nazi's only visit to Antarctica, rumors of a secret Nazi base harboring Hitler and his inner circle near the South Pole began to spread immediately after the end of the war. The occasion of these rumors was the arrival of a German U-boat at an Argentine naval base in July, 1945, two months after the Nazis surrendered. Newspapers around the world picked up a fallacious Argentine news report that the U-boat had carried Hitler and other ranking Nazis out of Germany to the secret base on Antarctica.
Unrecognized Nazi claim on Antarctica, known as New Swabia. Image: Wikimedia Commons
The initial report of this rumor, spread by a Hungarian exile Ladislas Szabo who was living in Argentina at the time, was propped up by a book published by Szabo two years later titled (based on, it seems that even the bureau had its suspicions about the escape of the Nazi leader). Szabo's rumors only continued to pick up steam, and eventually in which Hitler did in fact die in a Berlin bunker, but his ashes and other Nazis treasures had been transported to Antarctica where they were stashed in a "very special natural ice cave in the Muhlig-Hofmann Mountains."Hitler is Still Alive recently declassified FBI files warped into a story
Despite the fact that many captured Nazis offered irrefutable evidence to the contrary of these claims, the rumor of Hitler's Antarctic base persisted. This was, in part, due to a covert Antarctic mission carried out by the US military in 1947 called Operation Highjump, as well as the well-documented British military presence in Antarctica throughout the war. According to conspiracy theorists, both the United States and Britain unsuccessfully attacked the secret Nazi base multiple times in the late 40s, but only succeeded in destroying it by dropping three atomic bombs above the base in 1958.
Ultimately, however, Summerhayes isn't convinced. Although he does acknowledge that "there is an element of truth in all these tales," the evidence doesn't seem to add up to a secret Nazi base in Antarctica.
In the first place, there is a pretty exhaustive recap in both German scientific literature and recovered wartime documents of the 1939 expedition to Antarctica. While these documents do outline the marine science and mapping efforts of the mission, there is no indication at all that the Nazis had ever decided on a fitting location for an Antarctic base, much less had begun to build one. As Summerhayes points out, when Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen built a small hut in Antarctica in 1911, it took them 14 days and required the use of 80 dogs.
By contrast, the German expedition was only in Antarctica for a month, and spent most of its time going up and down the coast collecting marine samples and launching planes to do surveying work. There is also no evidence that the ship had motorized equipment or dogs on board, which would've made the task of ferrying supplies around the Antarctic nearly impossible, especially to build a massive underground complex where there were "hangars for strange planes" and bunkers for the development of advanced weaponry.
A (non-Nazi) research outpost in Antarctica. Image: Daniel Oberhaus
And what about Operation Highjump, the secret mission launched by the US in Antarctica, supposedly to take out the Nazi base? The largest expedition to ever go to Antarctica, Operation Highjump consisted of 4700 men, 33 aircraft, and 13 ships—which certainly sounds like an invasion of sorts. While this was undoubtedly a military exercise, its stated purpose was to train the US Navy to operate in freezing, polar conditions in preparation for a possible war with the Soviet Union in the Arctic
Okay, Summerhayes, but how do you explain the Nazi UFOs in Antarctica, huh? These claims, first advanced in UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon, a 1975 book published by a Canadian neo-nazi publishing house, are derived from baseless reports that four American aircraft were shot down by Nazis during Operation Highjump. This tied in with an esoteric, post-war Nazism described in the 2002 history of occult Nazism, Black Sun, in which "flying saucers were in fact German super-weapons that had been developed and tested during the Third Reich."
According to Black Sun, this technology which was "supposedly shipped to safety in the Arctic, South America, and Antarctica" and "by the late 1970s, neo-Nazi writers were claiming that the 'Last Battalion,' a massive Nazi military force of highly advanced UFOs, was in possession of a vast tract of Antarctica." Despite the claims made in the neo-Nazi tract that American planes were shot down over Antarctica by Nazi flying saucers, Summerhayes concludes "that the idea that Germans defended themselves with flying saucers from a secret base" to be "pure fantasy," if for no other reason than the only plane lost during the American expedition to Antarctica crashed on the other side of the continent from the location of the supposed Nazi base.
Sure, fine. But why drop three atomic bombs on Antarctica if there wasn't Nazis there? Although there were three atmospheric nuclear explosions in the Southern hemisphere 1958, they were not over Antarctica—in fact, they were about 1500 miles north of the continent.
Summerhayes was able to thoroughly debunk the existence of an Antarctic Nazi UFO base, but the fact that the rumor persists a decade later should come as no surprise. In the era of pizzagate and fake news, we know all too well that the seduction of conspiracy will always trap at least a few believers who are willing to accept the apparent absurdity of a story, so long as it means that all the dots are connected.
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FAIRE POUSSER DES PATATES SUR MARS ?
FAIRE POUSSER DES PATATES SUR MARS ?
Avant de partir explorer Mars, les êtres humains ont encore quelques ajustement à faire : le ravitaillement, entre autres. Des scientifiques ont peut-être trouvé la solution : faire pousser des patates sur la planète rouge. Oui, comme dans Seul sur Mars.
Une première expérimentation menée par le très sérieux Centre international de la pomme de terre au Pérou a donné des "résultats préliminaires encourageants".
Menés entre le 14 février et le 5 mars à Lima, les tests ont été réalisés dans des conditions atmosphériques censées être semblables à celles de la planète Mars, reproduites sous un dôme baptisé CubSat. Les pommes de terre ont poussé dans une terre extraite du désert de la Pampa de la Joya, dans le sud du Pérou, où le sol est ce qu'on peut retrouver sur Mars. Ce n'est donc pas un hasard si la NASA envisage de construire dans cette région un centre d'expérimentations martiennes, comme il en existe déjà aux Etats-Unis, en Antarctique et en Russie.
Le fait qu'il y ait une croissance possible dans des conditions comme celles de Mars est une phase importante de cette expérienceJulio Valvidia Silva, astrobiologiste péruvien
Un cube hermétique, des conditions extrêmes
« Si ces cultures peuvent résister aux conditions extrêmes auxquelles nous les exposons dans notre CubeSat, elles ont de bonnes chances de croître sur Mars, précise Julio Valdivia-Silva de l’UTEC. Nous ferons plusieurs séries d’expériences pour savoir quelles variétés de pommes de terre résistent le mieux. Nous voulons savoir quelles sont les conditions minimales dont une pomme de terre a besoin pour survivre. »
Si ces cultures résistent, elles ont de bonnes chances de croître aussi sur Mars
Dans ce cube, qui abrite un environnement hermétiquement fermé, le tubercule est alimenté en eau, enrichie de nutriments. La température et ses variations suivent celles observables sur Mars, de jour comme de nuit. De même, les niveaux de pression atmosphérique, d’oxygène et de dioxyde de carbone sont constamment surveillés pour imiter ceux de la planète rouge. Un lot de capteurs et une caméra permettent de surveiller la croissance du tubercule.
Selon les observations de Walter Amoros, spécialisé dans la culture de pommes de terre au CIP, ce féculent présenterait des propriétés génétiques idéales pour résister à des environnements défavorables. En amont de l’expérience à l’intérieur du cube, les chercheurs avaient déjà utilisé le sol d’un désert situé dans le sud du Pérou pour prouver que les tubercules pouvaient s’y développer malgré la sécheresse.
Les patates bientôt au menu sur Mars ?
"Si les tubercules peuvent tolérer les conditions extrêmes auxquelles nous les exposons ici, cela offre une bonne opportunité pour qu'elles poussent sur Mars", estime Julio Valdivia Silva, astrobiologiste péruvien lié à l'agence spatiale américaine.
"Le fait qu'il y ait une croissance possible dans des conditions comme celles de Mars est une phase importante de cette expérience", a-t-il ajouté. Elle est prévue pour durer cinq ans. Et permet déjà de savoir qu'on ne mourra pas de faim à 76 millions de kilomètres de la Terre.
MEET the people whose lives were forever changed when they encountered what they believe was an alien spacecraft.
The story as it was reported in The Dandenong Journal.
At 6am on April 6, 1966, Clayton South became host to one of Australia’s most intriguing mysteries when more than 200 school students witnessed an unidentified flying object.
It was Australia’s largest mass UFO sighting.
More than half a century later and a select group of witnesses will share their story at Victorian UFO Action’s event Westall — The Witnesses Speak.
Sue Savage, who now lives in Springvale North, was 13 at the time of the encounter; she was in science class at Westall High School when a fellow student ran into the class room shouting “there is a flying saucer outside”.
Mrs Savage said she and her classmates went out to the corner of the schoolyard and looked up in awe.
“(The UFO) was like two saucers … one on the bottom and one turned upside down on the top,” Mrs Savage said.
“Some people say there was just one but I reckon there were three.
“They were hovering over the trees and then went down into the trees and disappeared for a minute or two then rose back up, sort of banked on its side and then took off at a 1000 miles per hour.”
Westall witness Suzanne Savage at the Clayton South UFO park which was built in memory of the 1966 sighting. Picture: Valeriu Campan
Mrs Savage said the encounter left a lasting impression on her.
Since then she has had a keen interest in astrology and UFOs and has had to deal with many sceptics.
“We were too young to be sceptics — we know what we saw,” she said.
“It really makes me very angry to hear people say there’s nothing else out there and I know there is.
“Even mum and dad both said it was a load of rubbish and I told my children years later and they thought I was crazy until the first reunion was held and they realised (how many witnesses there were).”
Kevin Hurley was 21 at the time of the incident and rode his bike to the school from Murrumbeena after being alerted to the UFO sighting.
Mr Hurley never saw a UFO but he walked through tall grass to the spot behind the trees where the students said the UFO touched down for a couple of minutes.
“I saw a whole lot of people in a group huddle, they were all looking at the ground and there in 2ft high grass was a big perfect circle of absolutely flattened and twisted grass,” Mr Hurley said.
“In that circle there were three distinct impressions where the grass has been penetrated down to the dirt.”
Mr Hurley returned to the site the next day with a group of friends but said it was cordoned off and a military officer ordered him off the area.
James Rigney from Victoria UFO action said these first-hand accounts were what people who came to the event could expect to hear.
DID YOU KNOW?
The Dandenong Journal ran with coverage of the incident on its front page for consecutive issues and Nine News also reported the story on its 6pm bulletin.
The film canister containing the Channel 9 footage from the incident has since been found empty in the station archives.
Witnesses believe there has been a cover-up.
In 2013, the UFO returned to Westall in the form of a playground build by Kingston Council.
DETAILS
Westall — The Witnesses Speak will include the showing of documentary, Westall ’66: A Suburban UFO Mystery, a presentation from amateur investigator Shane Ryan and a Q and A panel with up to 12 witnesses.
It will take place at Kingston Arts Centre, 64 Parkers Rd, Parkdale, on April 2 from 12pm-5.30pm.
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Three Glowing Lights Seen Over Ontario, Canada On Feb 27, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Three Glowing Lights Seen Over Ontario, Canada On Feb 27, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 27, 2017 Location of sighting: Barrie, Ontario, Canada Source: MUFON #82604 This UFO was seen over Ontario last week. It does have three lights which could mean its a TR3B military craft, but its hard to tell at night. Sometimes similar UFOs have been reported to suddenly split up and shoot away in opposite directions. I wonder if this would have happened if the eyewitness had watched longer? Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I pulled onto my street heading home and i noticed 3 bright lights in the sky. 2 red and one white flashing very fast. I recorded it for a few seconds from my car, until the video went out of focus, then pulled into my driveway and went inside to tell people to come look. My borther in law came outside and seen it as well. I started to record again and as i did it changed its white light to red and began pulsating slowly with the other 2 lights now turned off. It then flickered its lights and changed the red pulsating light back to white, continued to pulsate, and then went back to flashing again for the remainder of the time i watched. It eventually vanished.
This UFO showed up over Mount Shasta, a famous religious mountain where many have claimed to see people surrounded by an aura around there body. Many who have climbed the mountain trails have said they encounter beings along the way that claimed to be from an underground city below the mountain that is over 12,000 years old! One appeared to be Saint Germain. (click here on more info on that encounter). This UFO over the mountain was there to pick up and deliver goods, supplies and passengers to this ancient city. I am sure you have heard of these stories before. I myself first heard about them over 35 years ago.
BREAKTHROUGH: Seven planets were discovered as part of a new star system
The space agency made the huge announcement last month, with experts calling the discovery of Trappist -1 one of the most important developments in the hunt for aliens.
Three of the planets discovered are thought to contain pools of water, suggesting life could be thriving.
The Kepler telescope has been observing the new star system since December and the new data gives scientists a more detailed look at the planets.
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REVEALING: The new data helps scientists better understand Trappist-1
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HUGE: NASA announced the Trappist-1 discovery last month
Geert Barentsen, K2 research scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center, said: "Scientists and enthusiasts around the world are invested in learning everything they can about these Earth-size worlds.
"Providing the K2 raw data as quickly as possible was a priority to give investigators an early look so they could best define their follow-up research plans.
"We’re thrilled that this will also allow the public to witness the process of discovery."
Trappist -1 was discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope with help from ground-based machinery.
Talking about the discovery, NASA's associate administrator Thomas Zurbuchen said: "This discovery could be a significant piece in the puzzle of finding habitable environments, places that are conducive to life.
“Finding a second Earth isn't a matter of if but when."
Did an extraterrestrial object wipe out Paleo-Americans? Traces of platinum at US archaeological sites suggest an asteroid or comet might have caused disappearance of Clovis people
Did an extraterrestrial object wipe out Paleo-Americans? Traces of platinum at US archaeological sites suggest an asteroid or comet might have caused disappearance of Clovis people
Researchers analyzed 11 archaeological sites associated with Clovis peoples
The Clovis peoples arrived in Americas more than 13,000 years ago and mysteriously disappeared 12,800 years ago
Around the same time, more than 35 ice-age animals went extinct
Scientists found traces of platinum from California to the Carolinas and Virginia
Platinum is common in extraterrestrial objects such as asteroids and comets
North America experienced mini ice-age called 'Younger Dryas' around this time
Evidence suggests Clovis people were maybe wiped out by comet-like object
Traces of platinum discovered at archaeological sites across the US may help scientists determine why the Clovis people disappeared thousands of years ago.
Platinum is found in asteroids and comets, which has led researchers to speculate that an extraterrestrial object could explain the disappearance.
The Clovis people, who inhabited the modern-day contiguous United States more than 13,000 years ago along with beasts such as the mastodon and mammoth, disappeared 12,800 years ago. More than 35 ice-age animals also went extinct.
An extraterrestrial object such as an asteroid (pictured) or comet could have struck North America around 12,800 years ago, when the Clovis peoples disappeared and 35 ice age animals went extinct
The contiguous United States had been inhabited by the Clovis people, pictured in a drawing battling a woolly mammoth, more than 13,000 years ago
Researchers from the University of South Carolina, whose work was published in Scientific Reports, found 11 Clovis sites from California to the Carolinas and Virginia had platinum, which was previously found in Greenland in 2013.
Archaeologist Albert C. Goodyear told WLTX: 'We found in our study from California to the Savannah River, higher than ordinary concentrations of platinum.'
While no impact site has been found, platinum's dating coincided with the 'Younger-Dryas' period, a sort of mini ice-age lasting 1,400 years that began 12,800 years ago, Science Daily reported.
The study's lead author, Christopher Moore, said: 'Platinum is very rare in Earth's crust, but it is common in asteroids and comets.'
Moore added: 'The presence of elevated platinum in archaeological sites is a confirmation of data previously reported for the Younger-Dryas onset several years ago in a Greenland ice-core.'
Clovis sites from California (pictured as 1) to the Carolinas and Virginia (pictured 5-11) yielded traces of platinum
The Clovis peoples were known for the fine-fluted stone points they made for weapons, pictured. For a time, they were believed to be the first peoples in the Americas
He said that unlike the dinosaur extinction 65million years ago which was caused by a large extraterrestrial object impact, the Younger-Dryas impact would have been caused by a smaller one.
Questions such as how exactly peoples and animals would have been affected by such an environmental change remain, and the study concludes that more research into the theoretical impact is necessary.
The Clovis people were a prehistoric Native American group of hunter-gatherers who, for 40 years, were assumed to have been the first people to arrive in the Americas.
An archaeologist at the El Fin del Mundo Clovis site in northwestern Mexico excavates the culture which mysteriously disappeared 12,800 years ago
The Clovis people shared the land with ice-age animals such as the woolly mammoth, pictured, and the mastodon. Such animals are now extinct
These early humans were distinguished by the fine-fluted stone points they made for weapons.
But in early 2016, anthropologists in Southern Chile discovered a completely different type of a much older stone tool technology believed to be up to 19,000 years old.
David Meltzer, a Southern Methodist University archaeologist, said: 'There is compelling evidence that Clovis was preceded by an earlier and possibly separate population.'
Dr Horace Drew, 61, was just 10 years old when he allegedly saw an unidentified, silver, windowless craft hovering in the sky near his suburban home, in Jacksonville, Florida. The encounter lasted only moments but led to a lifelong fascination with the extraterrestrial.
"I saw a UFO, so I knew they were real from an early age," Dr Drew told news.com.au.
The scientist, who holds a PhD in Chemistry from Caltech, the California Institute of Technology, and worked for CSIRO as a molecular biologist, has been researching crop circles and aliens for 20 years. Dr Drew relocated to Australia in the 1980s but most of his work has taken him overseas, predominantly to Europe.
"They're quite rare in Australia," he said.
He, along with many conspiracy theorists, believe crop circles are the work of aliens or human time travellers. Sceptics say most are probably man-made.
A crop circle is typically defined by standing wheat stems that have been flattened in the shape of a circle or more complex pattern. They tend to appear mainly in developed Western or secularised countries - including Japan.
The cause of many of the circles is unknown despite various natural and unorthodox explanations having been put forward. Some crop circles have been proven to be hoaxes.
Crop circles in Paris, France. Photo / Getty Images
But according to Dr Drew, a number are legitimate and contain puzzles that can be decoded and linked to time travel and alien life.
He told news.com.au he had visited about "two dozen crop circles" around the globe in his career. Typically, they were between 50-500m in length, he said.
"For the past 20 years I have been studying UFOs or crop circles. Just as other mainstream scientists study conventional subjects," Dr Drew told guests at the March UFO & Paranormal Research Society of Australia (UFO-PRSA) seminar in Sydney on Wednesday night.
"This has led to at least one major breakthrough the discovery of a more advanced binary code than our computers currently use."
Dr Drew claimed that aliens or human time travellers have been leaving the crop circles on Earth as messages to "us or themselves".
WHY ARE THERE CROP CIRCLES?
Dr Drew said he was one of a handful of scientists around the world who had worked to successfully decode some of the messages in crop circles.
According to him, some crop circles provide general descriptions of the future.
"Other crop (circles) show schematic images of the future for astronomical or human events," he said.
He said some of the decoded messages read: 'Much pain but still time. Believe. There is good out there'; 'Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises'; 'We oppose deception. Conduit closing'.
Dr Drew has developed at least two theories as to the purpose of the circles by reading their "advanced (version of) binary codes".
"One theory is that they are trying to introduce themselves to us peacefully, like we do using bubbles with dolphins," he said.
"When (humans) want to talk with dolphins we put little bubble circles under the ocean with a generator. We watch the dolphins come up and play and investigate, and we study them.
"This is called the 'dolphin communication project'."
He said the dynamic between the way humans interact with dolphins and whales was likely comparable to how extraterrestrials communicate with us.
"Barack or Trump have never said to a dolphin: 'take me to your leader I want to sign a treaty with you'," he said.
"And (the extraterrestrials are) not interested in making a treaty with us.
"They are ahead of us like we are ahead of the dolphins and the whales."
His second theory was that the messages "are not even for us".
Crop circle near Avebury, Wiltshire. Photo / Getty Images
Dr Drew said human time travellers from the distant future could be creating the circles as directional markers, to help them navigate "in their distant past, which is our present".
"There are definitely humans living there in about 5000 years with time travel capability," he said.
"They're coming back and flying all over Earth.
"They seem to just say 'this is a certain day' and mark it.
"So the trouble is we don't know space time physics enough to understand what's happening. It's beyond our knowledge.
"Maybe they don't want us to know about it. It might be just for them."
It's a theory shared by many in his field of work.
HOW ARE THEY MADE?
Dr Drew said the circles appeared to be created by an "unknown energy that heats the crops up".
"It's like microwave energy but is something beyond earth's science," he said.
"It can pattern the wheat.
"No one sees or hears anything and that's why its so hard to prove. If there's a craft, it's silent, noiseless."
But there's nothing to fear, according to him.
"Don't be afraid," he said.
REAL OR A HOAX?
Telling the difference between a real crop circle and a hoax is like differentiating between an original painting and a fake, according to Dr Drew.
"There are some things to look for," he said.
Crops that are bent "halfway up" their stems, rather than on the ground ,is one telltale sign "cereologists", or someone that advocates paranormal explanations of crop circles, look for to determine that it's not a hoax.
"You can't absolutely prove a crop circle wasn't a hoax but you can give a high probability and judgment," he said.
"If there's a hoax the word of it gets around very fast, people are aware, people are not that easily fooled."
In 1991, English pranksters Doug Bower and Dave Chorley took credit for most of the crop circles across southern England made since 1978. They were inspired by the Tully "saucer nest" case in Australia, where a farmer found a flattened circle of swamp reeds after observing a UFO.
Using basic tools including a plank of wood, rope, and a baseball cap fitted with a loop of wire to help them walk in a straight line, they said they made complex crop circles in England - which others then copied all over the world into the 1980s.
They made a circle for journalists, which was later declared authentic by a cereologist.
They then revealed their hoax to the world, spurring on even more copycats.
Dr Drew said there was a lot of scientific evidence to show that some crop circles were made by human time travellers or extraterrestrial beings. "Laboratory results on plant or soil samples taken from a crop circle in Brazil in October of 2016 show that it was formed by unknown sterilising images," he said.
The earliest mention of a crop circle dates back to the 1500s. A woodcut from the time showed a "mowing devil" making the pattern.
GOVERNMENT SECRETS?
Earlier this month, US TV host Jimmy Kimmel asked former US President George Bush if he went through "secret files, the UFO documents" when he was in office.
But instead of laughing off the question, the former commander in chief replied: "Maybe."
Mr Kimmel then asked him if there were "any great secrets you know that you can't share with people?"
"Yeah, there are," Mr Bush said. "But I'm not telling you."
Many conspiracy theorists and some scientists, including Dr Drew, argued that Mr Bush's comments indicated the US government knows much more about extraterrestrial life than it has publicly revealed.
"The politicians are scared they'll lose votes if they talk about it," Dr Drew said.
He said international media had also played a part in causing the public to doubt the legitimacy of crop circles and aliens.
But according to him, its important for humans to keep seeking answers.
"The ET visitors have technologies which would benefit us greatly, for example, how to make safe, clean energy without burning oil, coal or gas," Dr Drew said.
"Ultra-fast propulsion systems, based on gravity and inertia, could carry us safely to distant planets or stars.
"We may also need to upgrade our planetary defences soon, to protect against ET's who may not be friendly."
There's still a lot more to be understood but Dr Drew's hope is that he one day gets a closer look at what was inside the UFO he believes he saw as a child.
"I'd like to meet (the extraterrestrials or human time travellers) in person," he said.
"But I don't think they're going to do that.
"Whichever scientific team is doing this I don't think we're supposed to have full knowledge of it because it will interrupt their program, whatever they're doing."
The internet is in love with the latest image of Saturn's moon Pan. People tag it as the ravioli moon, UFO moon, and more. However, Pan is not weird at all, and here's why.
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NASA has revealed its closest-ever photos of Saturn's moon Pan. The images were taken by the Cassini spacecraft that flew by the tiny moon on March 7.
The Cassini probe did a close-approach at a distance of just 15,268 miles. This close distance has allowed it to capture images of Pan that clearly reveal its geology and shape.
Pan Is A Ravioli-, UFO-, Empanada-Shaped Moon
Pan is only 12 miles across and this month's encounter is not actually the first for NASA. It was first spotted in 1990 by SETI researcher Mark Showalter using the images captured by the Voyager 2 spacecraft in 1981. The moonlet is named after a Greek mythological god of nature and the forest, a creature that resembles a man with a goat's hind legs and hooves.
Pan is very small and has an average radius of only 8.8 miles. It orbits Saturn at a distance of 83,000 miles in a region known as the Encke Gap on the planet's A-ring.
(Photo : NASA-JPL/Caltech)
The latest images have captured the attention of the internet. Pan has been called the ravioli moon for obvious reasons. It doesn't end there as Pan is also being compared to other things.
National Geographic compares Saturn's tiny moon to a flying saucer and naturally tags it as a UFO moon.
Ars Technica likens Pan to a walnut... because why not?
After ravioli, UFO, walnut, we get other fascinating takes such as comparing Pan to a pan-fried dumpling or empanada.
Ravioli also rhymes with guacamole so why not include half avocado on the list.
Pan Is Not The Only Weird Thing In Space
We're only starting to discover what's around us. In space, Pan is surely not the only oddly shaped moon or heavenly body we have seen so far.
Another moon of Saturn, Atlas, resembles its sibling. Atlas is just a flatter version of the ravioli-shaped tiny moon.
Tech Times reported before about the planet's Death Star Moon and this one does not need an explanation where it got its name.
Then, there's also the potato-shaped Prometheus moon of Saturn.
(Photo : NASA-JPL/Caltech)
We also have the small moons of Mars known as Phobos and Deimos, names that literally translate to fear and panic, respectively.
But, UK UFO expert Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, believes he knows what is causing the crop in sightings - and it is from outer space.
Venus has been visible in the night sky since the start of the new year and he believes it is the planet which is behind the huge rise in claims.
Mr Watson said: "The latest crop of UFO videos in the UK and Europe might well be due to the current brightness and visibility of Venus in our night skies.
"It not only looks strange to human observers but when videoed can appear even odder due to lens reflections, autofocusing and the motion of the camera that can give the illusion a stationary object is darting about."
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The green UFO filmed in Salento, Italy, that may just be Venus.
He pointed to a video on YouTube entitled "A Real Huge, Silent, Triangular UFO Hovering Nr Bitterne, Southampton, Hants, UK" which was posted this month.
He said: "It looks impressive but could well be Venus and reflections on a window."
Mr Watson also looked at footage of a green UFO taken in Salento, Italy, at around 8pm on January 9 by Lucio Margiotta and posted on Facebook.
He said: "The light in the sky that turns into a ring of light looks impressive, but much of the mystery was probably caused by the smartphone used to video this event.
"It is noteworthy that the distant light only turns into a halo when Lucio Margiotta zooms in on it, which suggests that the autofocus system of the camera is distorting the light to produce this unusual effect.
"Other independent witnesses said they also saw this light, but without further details we can only assume at this stage that the video is just a product of the smartphone technology rather than the product of aliens intent on surveying our planet in preparation for the day they finally reveal themselves to us."
There have also been reports in local media of people believing there as a spaceship over Watford earlier this month, when Venus was visible near the moon.
Mr Watson's theory appears to be backed by an Express.co.uk report from September 2015.
Then we reported how a man recorded a series of bizarre shapes when he zoomed in on what he knew to be Venus over New York.
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Two decades later, 'Phoenix Lights' remains a mystery
(FOX 10 Phoenix)
Two decades later, 'Phoenix Lights' remains a mystery
By FOX 10 Phoenix
PHOENIX
It's a date many people will remember, as it is the night the so-called "Phoenix Lights" event took place. 20 years ago. In the two decades since that mysterious night, there have been lots of theories over the light's origins.
Some say it was military flares.
Some say it was hot air balloons.
Those who believe in the theory that extraterrestrial beings were behind the Phoenix Lights also endure ridicule from skeptics who say otherwise.
The sightings that night would become the subject of a book, as well as a documentary, by Phoenix physician Lynne Kitei. She was a witness to the Phoenix Lights. She saw the lights from her Paradise Valley home, and snapped some photographs.
"I have no idea what they were," said Kitei.
It took Kitei seven years to come forward. Those who first talked about the Phoenix Lights suffered because of it. Former Phoenix City Councilwoman Frances Barwood was the first public official to draw attention to the Phoenix Lights. Now living near Prescott, Barwood asked about the sights at a City Council meeting, weeks after the lights appeared.
"I asked if anybody knew what this object was and could we check into it," said Barwood. "I was met by a whole bunch of stares."
Aardappelen kweken om te overleven op Mars: Matt Damon deed het ons al voor in 'The Martian'. Maar mogelijk kan het ook in werkelijkheid, zo concludeert een onderzoek van het International Potato Center in Peru na een jaar experimenteren.
De wetenschappers in Lima zetten een reeks experimenten op touw waarbij ze de omstandigheden op de rode planeet zo goed mogelijk probeerden na te bootsen. Verschillende aardappelsoorten werden uitgezet. Bedoeling was niet enkel te onderzoeken of de mens in de - verre - toekomst de knollen zou kunnen kweken op Mars, maar ook welke soorten het best geschikt zijn om op aarde in barre klimatologische omstandigheden te kweken.
CubeSat
Het aardappelcentrum werkte samen met ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA en gebruikte grond uit de Pampas de La Joya, een woestijn in het zuiden van Peru. Die grond, droog en rijk aan zout, lijkt het felst op wat er zich in de bodem van Mars bevindt. Daarbovenop werd een hermetisch afgesloten ruimte gebouwd, de zogenaamde CubeSat. Die kan extra voeding aan de grond toevoegen en de temperatuur, luchtdruk, en het zuurstof- en koolstofdioxidegehalte regelen om de omgeving op Mars zo goed als mogelijk na te bootsen. Ook op Mars zouden de aardappelen enkel in een afgesloten serre gekweekt kunnen worden.
Niet alle aardappelvariëteiten bleken tijdens het experiment even succesvol. Maar de wetenschappers konden wel een soort die het goed doet in een zoute en harde omgeving ook in de CubeSat tot volwaardige aardappelen laten uitgroeien.
"Als de aardappelen de extreme condities waaraan wij ze onderwerpen, kunnen weerstaan, is er een goede kans dat ze ook op Mars kunnen groeien", zegt Julio Valdivia-Silva van het onderzoekscentrum.
Livestream
Wie de aardappelen live wil zien groeien, kan trouwens terecht op de livestream van het Potato Center:
Een konijnenhol op het Engelse platteland heeft geleid naar een eeuwenoud gangenstelsel. De grot werd door fotograaf Michael Scott op camera vastgelegd.
Het ondergrondse stelsel werd ontdekt door een boer vlakbij het dorpje Shifnal, in de buurt van de stad Birmingham. Archeologen denken dat de grot werd gebruikt door late volgers van de Orde van de Tempeliers, een christelijke kruisridderorde die vocht ten tijde van de kruistochten in het Midden-Oosten in de 12de eeuw.
Het stelsel ligt amper één meter onder de grond en bestaat uit tientallen smalle gangetjes. Bogen die zijn uitgehouwen uit zandsteen houden de boel overeind. De enige manier om toegang te krijgen tot de grot is via het konijnenhol. Het gangenstelsel lijkt volledig intact.
Waarvoor de grot werd gebruikt en hoe oud het stelsel precies is, is nog onduidelijk. Archeologen van Historic England beschrijven de ondergrondse ruimte als een zogenoemde 'grotto': een natuurlijke of aangelegde grot die wordt of werd gebruikt door de mens. Ook denken ze dat de grot werd gebruikt voor het uitvoeren van rituelen van zwarte magie.
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Deze mysterieuze moordzaak werd nooit opgelost: “Alien neergeschoten bij Amerikaanse vliegbasis”
Deze mysterieuze moordzaak werd nooit opgelost: “Alien neergeschoten bij Amerikaanse vliegbasis”
We schrijven 18 januari 1978. De politie van de Amerikaanse staat New Jersey wil toegang tot de McGuire Air Force Base.
Boven die basis en boven de nabijgelegen basis Fort Dix zijn eerder op de avond UFO’s waargenomen. Maar de politie was niet alleen op zoek naar vreemde lichten in de lucht.
De politieagenten lieten weten dat een militaire politieagent die op Fort Dix was gestationeerd een onbekend object over zijn auto had zien vliegen.
Schieten
Hij trapte in paniek op de rem, waarna er voor zijn auto een klein wezen met een groot hoofd, zwarte ogen en een dun lichaam opdoemde.
De agent stapte uit en richtte zijn wapen op het wezen. Hij gaf het de opdracht op de grond te gaan liggen en toen het niet reageerde, begon hij te schieten.
Het gewonde wezen vluchtte en rende naar McGuire, waar het op een landingsbaan op de grond in elkaar zakte en stierf.
Blauwe baretten
De soldaat die op wacht stond, sergeant Jeff Morse (waarschijnlijk een pseudoniem), liet de politie toe op de basis om naar het wezen te zoeken.
Ze troffen al snel het levenloze lichaam van het wezen aan. Het gebied werd afgesloten, waarna plotseling een groep legerofficieren arriveerde.
Op een afstandje keek Morse toe hoe de groep blauwe baretten, die hij nog nooit eerder had gezien,de leiding nam.
Grijsbruine kleur
UFO-onderzoeker Leonard Springfield interviewde Morse, die niet dicht genoeg bij het wezen stond om gezichtskenmerken of handen en voeten te kunnen onderscheiden.
Hij herinnerde zich wel dat de huid van het wezen nat en glimmend was en een grijsbruine kleur had. Het deed hem denken aan de huid van een slang.
Morse keek toe hoe de blauwe baretten de alien besprenkelden met een vloeistof en afdekten met een wit laken. Het werd vervolgens in een grote metalen container met blauwe letters geplaatst.
Verhoord
Vervolgens werd het wezen in een C-141 vrachtvliegtuig geladen en naar Wright-Patterson Air Force Base overgebracht.
Morse en de politieagenten kregen te horen dat ze gelijk zouden worden ontslagen als ze ooit over het incident zouden spreken.
Twee dagen later werden Morse en enkele andere getuigen overgevlogen naar Wright Patterson waar ze werden verhoord.
Zwijgplicht
“Ze zeiden dat ik mijn mond moest houden,” verklaarde Morse jaren later. “Ik ondertekende een formulier waarna ik de rest van mijn leven zwijgplicht had.”
Toen Morse toch met de andere getuigen begon te praten, werden ze overgeplaatst naar het buitenland. Zo kwam Morse terecht in Okinawa.
Tot op de dag van vandaag wordt hij naar eigen zeggen constant bedreigd. Het leger is heel ver gegaan om hem de mond te snoeren.
Stil
Morse kreeg bijval van majoor George Filer, die destijds als inlichtingenofficier was gestationeerd op McGuire.
Hoewel hij die bewuste avond niet getuige was van het incident, hoorde hij er de volgende ochtend over.
In een interview met Katelynn Raymer en David Ruppe van ABC News zei Filer: “Onze veiligheidspolitie trof de alien aan het einde van de landingsbaan dood aan. Ze vroegen mij om de generale staf in te lichten.”
Filer merkte op dat de twee bases er alles aan deden om iedereen stil te houden.
Doofpot
Hoewel hij niet kon bewijzen dat het ging om een alien, was iedereen ervan overtuigd dat er sprake was van een UFO-landing en dat één van de bemanningsleden was gestorven.
De doofpot rond dit en andere incidenten is zo diep dat de betrokkenen bang waren hun baan te verliezen of zelfs vreesden voor hun leven.
Schoot een militaire politieagent die avond een alien neer? Waarschijnlijk zullen we het antwoord op die vraag nooit te weten komen.
MYSTERIEUZE BLACK KNIGHT SATELLIET DUIKT WEER OP ( VIDEO )
MYSTERIEUZE BLACK KNIGHT SATELLIET DUIKT WEER OP ( VIDEO )
In 1960 verschenen er diverse nieuwsberichten in kranten en ook een artikel in Time waarin bekend werd gemaakt dat een mysterieuze “donkere” satelliet was ontdekt in een baan om de aarde.
De Amerikanen werden nerveus omdat ze dachten dat het een nieuwe Russische spionagesatelliet was en de bevolking kreeg de indruk dat de leiding geen idee had over wat er nu eigenlijk boven hun hoofden gebeurde.
Het wordt wel eens het best bewaarde geheim van onze tijd genoemd. Een mysterieuze 12.000 jaar oude satelliet die ergens in een baan om de aarde zweeft en zo af en toe weer eens ergens op duikt.
Voor mensen die niets weten over de achtergrond van de Black Knight Satelliet eerst en deel uit een eerder artikel:
In 1960 verschenen er diverse nieuwsberichten in kranten en ook een artikel in Time waarin bekend werd gemaakt dat een mysterieuze “donkere” satelliet was ontdekt in een baan om de aarde.
De Amerikanen werden nerveus omdat ze dachten dat het een nieuwe Russische spionagesatelliet was en de bevolking kreeg de indruk dat de leiding geen idee had over wat er nu eigenlijk boven hun hoofden gebeurde.
Deze verwarring duurde ongeveer drie weken, totdat het Ministerie van Defensie plotsklaps met een verklaring kwam: het waren de overblijfselen van een satelliet die ze al een tijdje kwijt waren.
In die tijd geloofde men nog wat overheden vertelden dus ging iedereen weer rustig slapen. Maar, verhalen over deze vreemde satelliet gaan al veel verder terug dan de jaren zestig. Er zijn berichten dat het in de jaren twintig en dertig van de vorige eeuw al ouderwetse radiogolven uitzond op de korte golf.
Deze berichten werden in die tijd opgevangen door een groep Noorse en Nederlandse onderzoekers die bezig waren met een onderzoek naar het effect van echo’s. Eén van de berichten waar zij niets mee gedaan hadden, werd later ontdekt door de Schotse auteur en astronoom Duncan Lunan. Hij wist dit bericht te ontcijferen en er kwam uit dat de satelliet toebehoorde aan buitenaardsen uit het sterrenstelsel Epsilon Boötes, dat ze op de zesde planeet in hun stelsel woonden en dat die één maan had. Er gaan ook verhalen dat dit weer ontkend zou zijn, maar het werd wel gepubliceerd in 1973 in het tijdschrift Spaceflight.
Volgens de auteur John Keel, die het boek Disneyland of the Gods heeft geschreven, was het object vele malen groter dan wat Amerika of Rusland in de ruimte zou kunnen brengen.
En toen op 3 september 1960, zeven maanden nadat de satelliet voor het eerst door de radar was ontdekt, werd het vastgelegd op de gevoelige plaat door een camera die stond opgesteld bij de Grunman Aircraft Corporation. Mensen op de grond hadden het af en aan gezien gedurende enkele weken. Ze beschreven het object als rood gloeiend en in een baan van oost naar west rond aarde. De weinige satellieten die toen in de ruimte waren, bewogen echter in een baan van west naar oost.
De snelheid van het apparaat was ook drie keer groter dan die van een normale satelliet. Er werd een comité opgericht om er onderzoek naar te doen, maar de resultaten daarvan zijn nooit bekend gemaakt.
Toen de satelliet werd ontdekt in 1960 vond men het belangrijk genoeg om de toenmalige president Eisenhower midden in de nacht wakker te maken. Een satelliet waarvan de leeftijd wordt geschat op minimaal 12.000 jaar, op een hoogte van bijna 40.000 kilometer, net onder de Van Allen Gordel.
De Black Knight satelliet is één van de best bewaarde geheimen van de tegenwoordige tijd.
Is deze Black Night Satelliet misschien iets meer dan alleen maar een satelliet. Is het een soort moederschip die in een baan om de aarde draait en af en toe verkenners op pad stuurt?
Enkele dagen geleden werd er door de bekende Youtube gebruiker Streetcap1 een bijzondere ontdekking gedaan bij het ISS, International Space Station.
Vlakbij het ISS werd door hem een onbekend donker object waargenomen:
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Misschien is de Black Knight een soort ruimteschip van onze verre voorouders de Anunnaki die het destijds in een baan om de aarde hebben “geparkeerd”.
Hebben ze dit schip nu weer geactiveerd en fungeert het als een soort verkenningsobject om te zien wat ze straks bij hun terugkeer kunnen verwachten?
Er zijn zelfs de afgelopen jaren aanwijzingen dat het Vaticaan zich voorbereidt op de komst van een buitenaards ras, dus wie weet.
Los van wie of wat daar bij het ISS rondhangt, opmerkelijk is natuurlijk wel dat ook al die vreemde objecten die in de loop der tijd bij het ISS zijn gesignaleerd, volkomen worden genegeerd.
White UFO Over Istanbul, Turkey On March 5, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
White UFO Over Istanbul, Turkey On March 5, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 5, 2017 Location of sighting: Istanbul, Turkey This UFO is a cloud orb, but it was caught at a rare time when it was a clear sky. When there are no clouds in the sky and the sky is blue, it makes the cloud orbs stand out. This is a great video from Turkey this week that demonstrates such an occurrence. Scott C. Waring
Close Up Of Croissant Shaped UFO Over Island Nation Of Malta, 5-10-2016, UFO Sighting News.
Close Up Of Croissant Shaped UFO Over Island Nation Of Malta, 5-10-2016, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 5-10-2016 but reported today. Location of sighting: Marsaskala, Malta Source: MUFON #82593 This croissant-shaped UFO was spotted over the island of Malta last year, but reported today on MUFON. The area is very secluded since its surrounded by ocean on all sides and its clear skies make it perfect for spotting UFOs. Most of the alien bases are below the ocean. I assume this since the ocean covers 75% of the Earths surface, that means 75% of the earths surface is mostly unwatched because there are few humans out there except on a few ships and boats. Since aliens can build bases in space that are air tight, and below the surface of Venus (says Val Thor) its just logical that aliens would utilise the untaped resource of our oceans to build bases. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
It was a sunny day and I was taking photos of the view and in 3 photos the object appeared and started noticing it for 15 mins or so then disappeared over the sea.
5 Meter UFO Lands In Forest Field Of Grass Caught On Animal Cam, Feb 15, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
5 Meter UFO Lands In Forest Field Of Grass Caught On Animal Cam, Feb 15, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 15, 2017, 07:35AM Location of sighting: Smithfield, Virginia, USA Source: MUFON #82587 This animal cam caught a cylinder UFO hovering over the field for almost 30 minutes. The camera is a special infrared camera which is capable of seeing light that the human eye cannot. It will see any cloaked craft immediately. The UFO is not close, but on the other side of the field, making it about 4-5 meters high and 1 meter wide. Since the UFO does settle on the ground as you can see for yourself, its logical that someone probably exited and walked around to analyse the plant and animal life for a few moments. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Since NASA first announced the discovery of seven Earth-like planets orbiting a dwarf star just 39 light-years away, imaginations have run wild as to what these mysterious worlds might look like.
Now, the space agency has revealed the much-awaited first glimpse at the Trappist-1 system – but, it might not be the alien landscape you’re hoping for.
Raw data from the Kepler space telescope released this week show a pixelated first look at our ‘ultra-cool neighbour,’ with tiny blips in brightness indicating the presence of transiting planets passing in front of the star.
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The space agency has revealed the much-awaited first glimpse at the Trappist-1 system – but, it might not be the alien landscape you’re hoping for. Kepler has been observing Trappist-1 since December, and the newly released dataset accounts for 74 days of monitoring
Breathtaking illustrations from artists in recent weeks have painted a captivating picture of these mysterious planets.
While the new view might not satisfy our imaginations just yet, these observations are of great value to the scientific community.
Kepler has been observing Trappist-1 since December, and the newly released dataset accounts for 74 days of monitoring, from Dec 15 to March 4.
The system was first spotted by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in combination with ground-based telescopes.
Raw data from the Kepler space telescope released this week show a pixelated first look at our ‘ultra-cool neighbour,’ with tiny blips in brightness indicating the presence of transiting planets passing in front of the star
And, with these additional observations, scientists can refine their existing measurements of six of the planets in the system, and get a better understanding of the orbital period and mass of the seventh.
It could also reveal more information on the host star’s magnetic activity.
‘Scientists and enthusiasts around the world are invested in learning everything they can about these Earth-size worlds,’ said Geert Barentsen, K2 research scientist at NASA’s Ames Research Center.
‘Providing the K2 raw data as quickly as possible was a priority to give investigators an early look so they could best define their follow-up research plans.
Breathtaking illustrations from artists in recent weeks have painted a captivating picture of these mysterious planets. While the new view might not satisfy our imaginations just yet, these observations are of great value to the scientific community
THE SEVEN NEW PLANETS IN THE TRAPPIST-1 SYSTEM
Name
Orbit (days)
Mass (where 1.0 = mass of Earth)
Distance to star (millions of miles)
Distance to star (millions of km)
Possibility of hosting alien life
1b
1.5
0.85
1.02
1.64
Less likely - too hot
1c
2.4
1.38
1.39
2.24
Less likely - too hot
1d
4
0.41
1.95
3.14
Less likely - too hot
1e
6
0.62
2.6
4.19
Most likely
1f
9.2
0.68
3.44
5.53
Most likely
1g
12.3
1.34
4.18
6.73
Most likely
1h
20
unknown
5.58
8.97
Less likely - too cold
‘We’re thrilled that this will also allow the public to witness the process of discovery.’
The dataset represents the longest, nearly continuous study yet of this newly-discovered system, and will allow researchers to study the gravitational interactions of the planets within.
And, it will allow them to search for any planets that may have so far evaded discovery.
If Kepler had followed its initial coordinates set in October 2015, defined as Campaign 12, it would have missed the planets.
But, after the discovery of three of the planets in the system was announced in May, researchers reworked the calculations.
This chart shows, on the top row, artist impressions of the seven planets of Trappist-1 with their orbital periods, distances from their star, radii and masses as compared to those of Earth. The bottom row shows data about Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. The seven planets' orbits are closer to their star than Venus, Earth or Mars, and are therefore significantly shorter
Incredible facts about Earth sized planets that may harbor water
Not only will these observations be of use to scientists working to refine their measurements now, but NASA says the mission could help plan future studies with the upcoming James Webb Space Telescope.
‘We were lucky that the K2 mission was able to observe Trappist-1,’ said Michael Haas, science office director for the Kepler and K2 missions at Ames.
‘The observing field for Campaign 12 was set when the discovery of the first planets orbiting Trappist-1 was announced, and the science community has already submitted proposals for specific targets of interest in the field.
‘The unexpected opportunity to further study the Trappist-1 system was quickly recognized the agility of the K2 team and science community prevailed once again.’
THE TRAPPIST-1 SOLAR SYSTEM
The newly discovered star system is just 39 light years from Earth.
- Seven Earth-sized worlds are orbiting a dwarf star known as Trappist-1
- Six inner planets lie in a temperate zone where surface temperatures range from 0-100°C (32-212°F)
- Of these, at least three are thought to be capable of having oceans, increasing the likelihood of life
The Trappist-1 star, an ultra-cool dwarf, has seven Earth-size planets orbiting it. This graphic shows how the outer orbiting 1h is an icy planet, while inner orbiting 1b, 1c and 1d are likely to be hot and dry. An artist's concept is pictured
- Scientists say life may have already evolved on at least three of the planets
- No other star system known contains such a large number of Earth-sized and probably rocky planets
- They were found using the 'transit' method that looks for tiny amounts of dimming caused by a world blocking light from its star
A beginner’s guide to extraterrestrial post-detection etiquette.
Thanks to recent leaps forward in alien-hunting technology, the possibility of contact seems closer today than ever before. In fact, Seth Shostak, director of the SETI Institute, thinks that there's a good chance we'll be hearing from ET within two decades. This is an exciting prospect, especially since the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been scanning the cosmos without luck for over half a century now. But it also raises an intriguing, if not worrisome, question: what do we do after contact?
Fortunately, in 1989 a number of the world's leading SETI researchers in the International Academy of Astronautics got together to solve this very problem.
"The history of SETI really dates back to 1960 with the pioneering work of Frank Drake, but by the 1980s, it was being taken a bit more seriously," said Paul Davies, a theoretical physicist at Arizona State University and the Chair of the IAA SETI Post-detection Taskgroup. "So some people said, 'it's well and good that we're doing this, but what if we detect something, what happens next?'"
The answer to this question was the SETI post-detection protocol drafted up by IAA members. This protocol contained nine principles which placed special emphasis on rigorous confirmation of a potential ET signal, as well as the best ways to contain the potential fallout resulting from first contact. Unfortunately, the IAA is not a governmental organization so its protocols are not legally binding and no government has yet broached the topic of creating a national post-contact policy (although a few years ago a rumor spread that the UN had appointed an official extraterrestrial point of contact at the Office for Outer Space Affairs). So barring any ET liaison at the United Nations for now, the IAA's post-detection plan is the only one we've got.
In the immediate aftermath of first contact, the IAA's principles suggest that anyone who believes they have detected an extraterrestrial signal should try to do everything they can to verify that the signal is not a result of some natural or human cause. If the original discoverer decides that the signal they have found is extraterrestrial in origin, before alerting the public, the IAA advises that they should inform all relevant research institutions so that these organizations can attempt to independently verify the signal. If these other institutions confirm that it is in fact an alien signal, this news should be shared with the world via the International Astronomical Union and the Secretary General of the United Nations should be notified, but the discoverer of the signal should have the privilege of making the announcement.
The remaining principles go into the technical details of what to do after first contact, such as making sure the data derived from the signal is stored in such a way that it will never be lost, as well as reserving the radio band on which the signal was discovered for future SETI work, in case the aliens decide to call again.
Importantly, the post-detection principles state that no reply should be sent until "international consultations" have taken place. Whether or not it's a good idea to send a message to aliens is a fiercely debated subject in the world of SETI, and many researchers think it's a bad idea. But even if it was decided that a reply should be sent, there's still the glaring issue of who gets to speak for Earth and what they will say on our behalf.
But let's back up a bit. If we are contacted by aliens, SETI researchers think it will mostly likely be in the form of a radio signal, rather than a physical object or extraterrestrial being paying a visit to Earth. The question is what is the significance of this signal?
This depends on a number of factors, such as whether this radio signal contains a message, or is simply a meaningless signal to let us know that we're not alone. The consequences of these two different types of signals—the one containing a message and the other which does not—could very significantly in terms of their impact on the lives of Earthlings. What if the one containing the message had instructions for building some amazing ET technologies? Or on the flipside, what if it contained a declaration of war?
Moreover, where is this signal being broadcast from? Is it coming from an earthlike planet in orbit around Proxima Centauri, or from a galaxy far, far away? Both examples would still be pretty amazing, but in the former case, there'd be a possibility of a physical visit, or at least holding a conversation with the extraterrestrials. But if the signal emerged from a solar system hundreds of light years away, the time between the message and the response would span several generations on Earth.
To help quantify the significance of first contact, a group of SETI researchers created something called the Rio scale in 2000. The scale ranks different types of contact from the most significant (10) to the least significant (0). At the low end of the scale would be some sort of evidence of "astroengineering" or a beacon signal that is meant to draw attention, is discovered at some place that is outside of the Milky Way Galaxy, and only occurs once. At the high end of the scale would be a signal containing a message that is steadily broadcast toward Earth and is occurring within our galaxy—or even our own solar system.
So if a signal is discovered that ranks high on the Rio scale, what happens next? Well, hopefully, the discoverer follows the IAA-post detection protocols and keeps the discovery under wraps until it can be verified beyond a reasonable doubt. But even this has become a dubious proposition thanks to the rise of social media, something the original authors of the IAA protocols couldn't have foreseen in 1989. During a SETI panel at last year's International Astronautical Congress, a space lawyer named Les Tennen raised concerns that the IAA protocols need to be updated to take into account social media, which would make it far more difficult to contain the discovery until it is verified than it was a quarter of a century ago.
"In this day and age of social media, it's almost impossible to keep anything under wraps for more than a few hours," said Davies. "[The veracity of a signal] will take a long time to check, I don't think you're ever going to have an absolutely clear cut signal, but instead something that's just on the edge of detectability. It will be a long drawn out process, and possibly take decades to resolve."
But even if SETI scientists keep mum on the discovery until it has been verified–whether this process takes a few months or a few years–there's no guarantee about how people will react to the news. As pointed out in a report from a NASA workshop in 1993, "reactions to a detection can range from indifference…through millennial enthusiasm or catastrophist anxiety, to full scale paranoia…a few reactions would probably be irrationally extreme or even violent."
Unfortunately for the IAA, the post-detection protocols they've created are not backed by any government or legal entity (and as yet, no government has seriously tackled the question of post-contact protocols) so whether or not they will be able to temper the possible hysteria following the revelation of contact remains an open question. For now, though, it's the best we've got, so until we receive that first 'hello,' from the cosmos, it's probably best to take a page from the Brits and keep calm and carry on.
What if fast radio bursts were powering alien starships?
What if fast radio bursts were powering alien starships?
Strange signals from billions of light-years away may have a natural cause. If they're artificial, they'd require some awesome engineering, say scientists.
One of the weirdest phenomena astronomers have run across in the past decade is something called "fast radio bursts" -- millisecond-long flashes of radio signals that don't have an obvious source.
Possible causes include exploding black holes, magnetars and hypothetical blitzars. Harvard scientists have now run the numbers on the most intriguing potential explanation: ginormous transmitters powering alien starships.
"Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven't identified a possible natural source with any confidence," theorist Avi Loeb said in a press release Thursday. Loeb works at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking."
Loeb and co-author Manasvi Lingam have written a paper that considers what it would take to build a transmitter powerful enough to send signals strong enough to be picked up billions of light-years away. The paper has been accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
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The answer they come up with is pretty straightforward: It would take a lot of frickin' power. In fact, presuming such a system was relying on solar power from a nearby star, it would require covering a planet twice the size of Earth with energy collectors. They also considered if such a construction project was even viable or if it would just surely overheat. They concluded that a water-cooled energy generation or collection source twice the size of Earth was theoretically possible.
But this all leads to one obvious question: Why the heck would anyone build something so insane just to send signals into the great universal void?
The theorists considered that the purpose might not be to communicate, but to drive interstellar light sails. This is a concept that humans are working on now. Backed by Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg, Breakthrough Starshot would use the technology to send tiny nanoships on a journey to check out our nearest neighboring star system, Alpha Centauri, which could be home to an Earth-like planet called Proxima b.
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Light sails work by constantly focusing an energetic beam on the sail of a ship to push it across the cosmos at high speed. If a super Earth-size transmitter were being used for this purpose, the researchers calculate it could power a starship almost like what we're used to seeing in science fiction, up to 20 times the size of the largest cruise ships on Earth.
Loeb and Lingam concede that their research is speculative and a bit far-out, but they say it's worth checking into all possibilities.
If the notion of a transmitter twice the size of our own planet isn't mind-blowing enough, consider one other fact that physics won't let us get around. If this does turn out to be the actual cause of FRBs, the civilization that built such a system would have been putting it to use billions of years ago.
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So, does that technically mean our lovely lunar neighbor has its own moon? Does a piece of space junk even count? These pressing questions need answers, but here’s what we know for sure.
As Gizmodo reports, some majorly intense detective work led NASA to the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-1, which was used in India’s first lunar mission when it launched in 2008. The vehicle spent 10 months completing its missions and was never heard from again, until now.
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“Finding LRO was relatively easy, as we were working with the mission’s navigators and had precise orbit data where it was located,” California’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory radar scientist Marina Brozovic said of the U.S.’s still-active Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which launched in 2009. “Finding India’s Chandrayaan-1 required a bit more detective work because the last contact with the spacecraft was in August of 2009.”
Making the search even more challenging was the Chandrayaan-1’s small size. It measures about five feet on each side, or as the JPL describes it, “about half the size of a small car.” Then there was the matter of the 237,000 distance between Earth and the moon. Since scientists knew the spacecraft was in lunar orbit, so they utilized NASA’s 70-meter antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in California to send microwave beams toward the moon in order to narrow down a specific location.
Using the echoes that bounced back from those beams, scientists were able to confirm Chandrayaan-1’s position after months of work. According to the JPL, this innovative use of interplanetary radar has not only proven useful for locating lost spacecraft, but may serve as a powerful tool for planning future moon missions
Mysterious flashes in distant galaxies proof we are not alone?
Mysterious flashes in distant galaxies proof we are not alone?
An artists impression of a light sail which uses pressure produced by light to produce acceleration.
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by JOHN VON RADOWITZ
Mysterious flashes of energy detected in distant galaxies may be evidence of super-advanced aliens powering interstellar spacecraft, theorists claim.
Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are intense radio pulses that last no more than a millisecond. Since their discovery in 2007, fewer than two dozen have been detected by the world’s largest radio telescopes – and their origin remains unknown.
Astronomers know almost nothing about them other than that they appear to occur in very remote galaxies billions of light years away. Now a team of highly respected US scientists from Harvard University has put forward the serious suggestion that FRBs could be evidence of aliens at work.
They believe the bursts may be leaked energy from unimaginably powerful transmitters capable of sending giant light sail ships on voyages between stars.
Professor Avi Loeb, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics said: “Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven’t identified a possible natural source with any confidence.
“An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking.”
In a new study, Prof Loeb and Harvard colleague Dr Manasvi Lingham looked at the feasibility of building a radio transmitter powerful enough to be detectable across such immense distances.
They concluded that a solar-powered system would generate the required amount of energy if it used an area twice the size of Earth to capture the sun’s rays.
Water-cooling on a colossal scale would be needed to prevent the underlying structure melting.
But the question remains, why go to the trouble of constructing such an instrument in the first place? The most likely explanation is to drive interstellar light sails, the scientists argue.
A light sail uses the tiny amount of pressure exerted by light to produce a small but continuous acceleration that over time allows a space craft to attain great speeds.
The energy levels responsible for FRBs would be enough to push a payload weighing a million tons – about 20 times the mass of the largest cruise ships on Earth.
“That’s big enough to carry living passengers across interstellar or even intergalactic distances,” said Prof Lingam.
The transmitter would need to focus its beam on the light sail continuously. Prof
Loeb added: “It’s worth putting ideas out there and letting the data be the judge.”
We’ve found a new solar system, and it threatens to put our own to shame. The star Trappist-1, a mere 39 light years away, has been found to host seven Earth-sized, rocky planets.
The discovery has astronomers, alien-hunters, and space enthusiasts abuzz for a good few reasons. Among new solar systems discovered so far, none have had more than seven planets (our system has eight). And none have had all seven that were rocky and also Earth-sized.
What’s more, because the star type is among the most common in our galaxy, such solar systems are likely to be quite common. That makes the Trappist-1 system a prime target to accelerate the search for life beyond our own solar system.
Strange and familiar
Even though our sun is a much larger star than Trappist-1, our planets are so far apart that their conditions range from the scorching hot world of Mercury to the bitter icy gases of Uranus. Instead, planets Trappist-1b to Trappist-1h are nestled together cosily around an “ultracool” dwarf star, and that means each likely has temperate conditions and thus possibly liquid water in some regions.
Humans have been struggling to land on Mars. Instead, if intelligent aliens live on any one of Trappist-1 planets (and you bet scientists are already searching), flying from one to another would be a quick jaunt, relatively speaking. “It’s both easy and tempting to envision a multi-world empire arising in this star system, a small federation of planets in our cosmic backyard,” writes Seth Shostak, director of the SETI Institute.
Our planets have beautiful moons, including Jupiter’s gorgeous Europa and furious Io. We don’t know if any of Trappist-1’s planets have moons, but they likely don’t need them for the view. On the third rock from the dim star, the second rock would look twice the size our moon looks to Earthlings and the remaining planets could line up to create a view that even science-fiction authors haven’t imagined. “The spectacle would be beautiful,” says Amaury Triaud of the University of Cambridge, who is a part of the team that discovered the exoplanets.
To be sure, humans would need special goggles to see this spectacle. Most of the light coming from dwarf stars like the one in the newly discovered solar system is in the infrared spectrum. Our eyes can’t see infrared light, so the world would appear mostly dark to us, including black plant leaves if there are photosynthesizing organisms. Of course, one could imagine that alien life may have evolved to see in the infrared, like snakes have on Earth.
Dark and stormy
But Trappistian life won’t be smooth sailing. All of Trappist-1’s planets are likely tidally locked, which means, just as only one side of the moon faces the Earth, all seven Earth-sized planets have one face permanently facing its star and the other plunged in perpetual darkness. The planets are rotating, but in a co-ordinated manner so slow that one face of the planet remains locked toward the star. The implications of tidal locking for life on such planets are huge.
One side would easily heat up to the boiling point of water, and the other would likely be well below freezing. The atmosphere, which we assume is present because life would not exist otherwise, would enable some heat to move from one side to the other. But that would happen through planet-wide hurricanes that may be far worse than category-5 hurricanes that ravage the Earth.
There would be no day-night cycle on these planets. Complex life on Earth crucially depends on the circadian rhythm that’s controlled by the light-dark daily cycle. Trappistians likely won’t have seasons either. If any of these planets have tilted axes, living beings on them woud likely experience some variation in light but nothing like spring or autumn.
Somehow, however, if life finds a way of existing in the twilight zone—between the hot side and the cold side—it will have other problems. Ultra-cool dwarf stars are fickle. Some times Trappist-1 could dim by as much as 40% for months at a time. At other times, the star can frequently flare up causing devastating solar storms where the star throws out massive amounts of charged particles. All this could cause major problem for Trappistians, who will likely be forced to become underground and underwater dwellers.
And, yet, if we’ve understood one thing from all our study of biology on Earth, it is that life is hardy. So life could’ve evolved and remarkable Trappistians may be real. The only bad news then is that the conditions on their planets don’t seem very favorable to terrestrial life. Too bad for Earthlings who’ve been seeking an escape.
Scientists are some of the biggest fans of science fiction. But making claims of intelligent life in other parts of the universe? That’s a pretty big step to take for many researchers. So it’s somewhat surprising that two theorists, Avi Loeb and Manasvi Lingam from Harvard and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, recently submitted a paper suggesting that one of the many possibilities behind the enigmatic fast radio bursts emanating from space could be gigantic alien spacecraft.
The suggestion is not just some academic daydream. Fast radio bursts were first discovered in 2007, when West Virginia University astrophysicist Duncan Lorimer analyzed data from Australia’s Parkes Observatory. He noticed a weird phenomenon—a high-energy burst lasting just a few milliseconds with no ready explanation. It was an unique anomaly until 2012, when Puerto Rico’s Arecibo radio telescope also recorded an FRB. Earlier this year, researchers revealed they recorded nine FRBs coming from a puny, faint galaxy 3 billion light years away in the Auriga constellation.
FRBs are strange. In total, researchers have only recorded 18 of the bursts. Few of them repeat, but not on a regular schedule. There’s no known astrophysical explanation for the bursts, and Cornell astronomer Shami Chatterjee, who pinpointed the FRBs in Auriga, joked with Dennis Overbye at The New York Times that there are more theories about what FRBs may be than actual recorded FRBs.
In other words, no one really knows what these things are. One reason Loeb and Lingam went out on a limb to suggest alien technology is that fact that bursts are so energetic. According to George Dvorsky at Gizmodo, the bursts have a brightness temperature, a measure of intensity of microwave radiation, of 1037 degrees. “This means that a hot surface would need to have that temperature in order to radiate at the observed level,” Loeb tells Dvorsky. “There is no known astronomical object that generates radio bursts at such a high brightness, which is tens of billions of times brighter than the known population of pulsars, for example.”
The researchers also argue in their paper, which is accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, that FRBs are suspect because they repeat, but not in any regular pattern, and because they cluster around a frequency that is not consistent with natural phenomena like pulsars. “These clues are consistent with an artificial origin,” Loeb tells Dvorsky. In other words, they might be produced by alien technology.
What would a technology that could produce that much energy look like? According to a press release, the researchers suggest that the technology could be a transmitter powering a light-sail-based spacecraft. That transmitter would need twice the surface area of Earth to receive enough solar power to operate. While that seems absurdly huge to us, they note that it is physically possible to build.
The transmitter would then focus a beam of radio waves on a light sail in space. In this scenario, FRBs detected on Earth are the beam of radio waves sweeping across the sky, passing over our telescopes for just a millisecond as it pushes the sail-powered craft through space.
A craft of that size, 20 times the largest current terrestrial cruise ship, could transport about a million tons of cargo, the researchers estimate. “That’s big enough to carry living passengers across interstellar or even intergalactic distances,” Lingam says in the press release.
Just because they thought it up, though, doesn't mean Loeb and Lingam necessarily believe that FRBs are the engines of intergalactic cruise ships. The researchers says the work is just speculative. “Science isn’t a matter of belief, it’s a matter of evidence,” Loeb says in the press release. “Deciding what’s likely ahead of time limits the possibilities. It’s worth putting ideas out there and letting the data be the judge.”
Berkeley SETI Research Director Andrew Siemion tells Dvorsky that FRBs are so unusual that it’s hard to rule anything out at the current moment. “We cannot...exclude the possibility that anomalous signals like fast radio bursts are produced by an advanced extraterrestrial technology, and even though it is undoubtedly an unlikely possibility, it must remain a possibility until we can rule it out,” he says.
Chatterjee told Overbye earlier this year that there are still many natural possibilities for FRBs, including strange interactions between a neutron star and debris swirling around it or some unknown aspect of a supermassive black holes.
Anders Sandberg of Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute says the alien spacecraft explanation seems a bit far-fetched. "I like the out of the box thinking, but I would not bet any money on this explanation,” he tells Dvorsky. He points out that a spacecraft powered by radio waves is unnecessarily large and complicated, and any advanced civilization would likely use lasers or a more efficient technology. “By Occam’s razor, alien engineering needs to be a simpler explanation than a natural explanation before it starts to seem plausible.”
The source of ‘fast radio bursts’ remains a mystery but two Harvard academics believe they could emanate from ‘leakage’ from a planet-sized transmitter Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Scientists might have found proof of alien life but misunderstood it, according to a professor at Harvard University.
Strange radio waves that have been reaching Earth might actually be leakage from a huge, light-powered ship deep in space.
Fast radio bursts (FRB), which have perplexed scientists since they were discovered in 2007, could be evidence of advanced alien technology, according to Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics. Researchers, however, remain far from establishing whether the source of these “messages” is what Loeb speculates it is – leakage from planet-sized transmitters that are powering interstellar probes in distant galaxies.
“Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven’t identified a possible natural source with any confidence,” Loeb has said. “An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking.”
Fast radio bursts are flashes of radio emissions lasting milliseconds whose source is yet to be identified. They were first picked up in 2007 when scientists came across data that showed a burst had occurred in 2001. While few have happened since that time, scientists have discerned that FRB arrive in apparently organised patterns.
Loeb and fellow Harvard academic Manasvi Lingam have explored whether the messages could emanate from a radio transmitter, in a paper to be published by The Astrophysical Journal Letters. This would require a planet-sized solar-power generator to pelt messages across the galaxy.
Such technology is far beyond human capability now, the Harvard scientists note, but it is not beyond the laws of physics or out of the reach of a very developed alien civilisation.
Artist’s impression of a light-sail powered by a radio beam generated on the surface of a planet. Leakage from such beams could explain fast radio bursts
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Loeb and Lingam found such a technology would require so much energy it would just end up melting itself – unless it were water-cooled and twice the size of the Earth.
What is less clear is why an alien civilisation would build such a thing in the first place. But the researchers speculate that the energy being sent out is driving interstellar light sails, where spacecraft ride along on light waves in the same way a boat moves through the ocean. Whatever is generating the FRBs is powerful enough to push around something weighing a million tons, or about 20 times the biggest cruise ships ever built.
“That’s big enough to carry living passengers across interstellar or even intergalactic distances,” said Lingam.
To power such a craft the transmitter would have to be constantly pointing its beam towards wherever the ship was in space. If that were happening we would only pick up brief flashes of energy because the ship itself, the planet powering it, and its own star and galaxy would all be constantly moving too.
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That would explain why the burst comes to Earth repeatedly but intermittently. (Scientists haven’t been able to explain FRB patterns with reference to the huge astrophysical events required to dispatch huge amounts of energy towards us.)
It would also explain the frequency that the radio waves are pitched at. The optimal frequency for powering such a light sail is similar to the FRBs that have been detected, according to the professors.
Loeb says that his work is speculative and that more work must be done to check whether such an idea would be possible. It doesn’t matter whether or not he believes that they are caused by aliens, he said.
“Science isn’t a matter of belief, it’s a matter of evidence. Deciding what’s likely ahead of time limits the possibilities. It’s worth putting ideas out there and letting the data be the judge.”
Fast radio bursts could be coming from 'extragalactic light sails' powering advanced alien spacecraft, scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics have said. While the notion seems far-fetched, the researchers say the possibility that these mystery signals from deep space are coming from aliens is "worth contemplating".
FRBs are radio signals that have been detected coming from unknown sources in space. They last just a few millisecond and, so far, only a few dozen have been detected. Furthermore, they are only found in telescope data after the burst has taken place. This means their origin cannot be traced back.
Only one repeating FRB has been discovered so far: FRB 121102. Because it repeated, scientists have been able to trace it to a galaxy three billion light years away. The source of the burst, however, remains a mystery. At present, scientists think it is coming from a massive, highly magnetised and rapidly rotating neutron stars called magnetas.
However, the CfA scientists have said the bursts could be of alien origin. "Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven't identified a possible natural source with any confidence," said theorist Avi Loeb, one of the authors of the study published in Astrophysical Journal Letters. "An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking."
In the study, Loeb and co-author Manasvi Lingam, from Harvard University, looked at the possibility that FRBs are coming from a radio transmitter strong enough that it could be detected across huge distances. Their findings showed that if it was solar powered, then yes it could.
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"We examine the possibility that Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) originate from the activity of extragalactic civilisations," they wrote. "Our analysis shows that beams used for powering large light sails could yield parameters that are consistent with FRBs."
The power needed would be equivalent to sunlight hitting an area of a planet twice the size of Earth. From an engineering perspective, they said that while it is outside our Earthly capabilities, it is not outside the realm of possibly. A water-cooled transmitter twice the size of our planet could withstand the heat, they said.
"The characteristic diameter of the beam emitter is estimated through a combination of energetic and engineering constraints, and both approaches intriguingly yield a similar result which is on the scale of a large rocky planet," they wrote. "Moreover, the optimal frequency for powering the light sail is shown to be similar to the detected FRB frequencies. These 'coincidences' lend some credence to the possibility that FRBs might be artificial in origin."
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But why build it? The scientists said the most plausible explanation would be an alien probe. The power from such a device could push a payload of millions of tonnes. "That's big enough to carry living passengers across interstellar or even intergalactic distances," Lingam said.
Loeb added that while the study is very much speculative, it is an interesting point to consider. "Science isn't a matter of belief, it's a matter of evidence," he said. "Deciding what's likely ahead of time limits the possibilities. It's worth putting ideas out there and letting the data be the judge."
We’ve discovered nearby habitable planets, but we lack the science to say whether they’re inhabited.
By Michael White
The recent discovery of seven Earth-like exoplanets, orbiting a small star only 39 light years away, has scientists hoping that they finally have a realistic shot at answering one of our biggest questions: Is there other life out there? The planets, which orbit the star TRAPPIST-1 (named for the telescopes, not the beer), are roughly Earth-sized, rocky, and cool enough to hold liquid water — conditions that could possibly support life. And, importantly, the planets are close enough to be observed relatively easily. “Here, if life managed to thrive and release gases similar to that we have on Earth, then we will know,” one of the astronomers on the team that discovered the planets told the New York Times.
But to find life on the TRAPPIST-1 planets, or any others outside our solar system, isn’t going to be so easy. While our chances of detecting alien life are now better than they’ve ever been, the truth is that such a discovery is almost certainly still out of reach, because we lack both the technology and scientific knowledge to make it. Before we can point to a planet 230 trillion miles away and say definitively that life exists there, we’ll need to make more scientific progress.
“Our inference of the existence of life on another world will be probabilistic, an estimate of our confidence that life is the only reasonable explanation of the atmospheric chemistry of an exoplanet.”
For the foreseeable future, scientists won’t be able to make high-resolution images of the surface of such planets, much less send out a robot lander that can collect and analyze samples, the way the Curiosity rover does on Mars. In other words, we’re not going to be able to look directly at alien planets and actually see life, the way we see it around us here on Earth. Instead, scientists hope to infer the presence of life from gases present in an exoplanets’ atmosphere. Such gases, called “biosignature gases,” are ones expected to be produced only by living organisms, and not by non-living, geological processes. If we detect these gases in the atmosphere of a potentially habitable planet, then we have evidence that life exists there.
Detecting biosignature gases is the only realistic way in which we’ll find life outside our solar system in the near future. But there are some major challenges to overcome before a biosignature gas ever becomes a smoking gun for alien life. The first is that we haven’t yet built the technology we need to confidently measure biosignature gases in the atmospheres of distant planets. To detect these gases, astronomers measure the light that passes through a planet’s atmosphere as the planet orbits across its sun. As the light travels through the atmosphere, some of it is absorbed. Because different gases absorb light at different wavelengths, scientists can tell what’s in a planet’s atmosphere by measuring the wavelength the light passes through.
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Unfortunately, none of the ground or space-based telescopes we have today were designed to do this for distant planets, though astronomers have, in some cases, been able to make due with existing telescopes. As planetary scientists Sara Seager and Wiliam Bain wrote in a paper on biosignature gases, “we are severely limited as to the underlying raw data we can collect from something as small as a shell of gas a few hundred kilometers thick around a faint planet tens of trillions or more kilometers away.”
If we’re going to find alien life on the TRAPPIST-1 planets or elsewhere, we’re going to need a new generation of telescopes carrying better instruments to measure the light passing through exoplanet atmospheres. One of these, the NASA/European Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope, which has been in development for decades, is slated to launch next year. This telescope will have much more light-gathering power than the aging Hubble telescope, the current premier space telescope. Also slated to launch next year is NASA’s Transiting Expolanet Survey Satellite, which is designed to find more than a thousand new planets by searching much deeper into space.
A more substantial boost in our capabilities will come almost a decade from now, when NASA plans to launch the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope(WFIRST). WFIRST was not initially designed to image distant planets (it’s main mission is to study the universe’s mysterious dark matter), and so it’s advanced planet-imaging instruments are a late addition. To help WFRIST get a better look at distant planets, scientists are talking about building a new technology called a “starshade,” a giant screen that will float thousands of miles away from the WFIRST, and block out the direct light of distant stars. This will allow the instruments on WFIRST to better see the planets themselves. It’s much like putting your hand in front of your face to help you see better when someone shines a flashlight directly at your eyes.
Aside from the need for new telescopes, the other challenge we face is that scientists don’t yet know which biosignature gases will give the best evidence for life. The trick is to find a gas, or combination of gases, whose presence can only be due to the presence of life. On Earth, that gas is oxygen, which makes up 21 percent of the Earth’s atmosphere and is produced by photosynthesizing organisms. Without life, Earth’s atmosphere would have almost no oxygen. But that’s not necessarily true of other planets that might be dominated by different geological processes. One thing that astronomers have learned from their growing catalog of more than 3,000 extra-solar planets is how little we actually know about the surprisingly diverse kinds of planets that exist in the universe. And if there is life out there, we can expect it to be just as diverse, producing atmospheric biosignatures unlike anything we’re familiar with on Earth. Seager and Bain, who study the chemistry of potential biosignature gases, argue that, because of such uncertainties, we’re unlikely to be able to point out a single planet and confidently say, “Life exists there.” Instead, we should expect that “our inference of the existence of life on another world will be probabilistic, an estimate of our confidence that life is the only reasonable explanation of the atmospheric chemistry of an exoplanet.”
These challenges may sound daunting, but we shouldn’t be discouraged. To be on the cusp of actually finding alien life in the universe is an amazing achievement, the result of centuries of steady scientific progress since Galileo first aimed a telescope at the sky. Within the decade — assuming we continue to launch new telescopes and improve our understanding of biosignature gases — we may very well have observed enough planets to confidently say that some of these planets are not only habitable, but actually inhabited.
YouTube UFO hunter Streetcap 1 uploaded a short video yesterday questioning if the dark object visible in the image could be the mythical "ancient alien satellite" whose existence is believed by thousands of UFO buffs.
The Black Knight satellite is the name that has been given to an object captured on camera by Nasa astronauts during a 1998 space shuttle mission.
There are alien conspiracy theorists who claim the satellite is an object of extraterrestrial origin, possibly up to 13,000 years old orbiting Earth in near-polar orbit.
Fellow UFO hunter Scott C Waring ran the video on his website ufosightingsdaily.com.
He said: "It's very dark and has a lot of detail to it.
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The 'Black Knight satellite' in NASA images, but it was just a thermal blanket drifting in space.
"Its darkness and shape makes it a possibility that this may be a Dark Knight satellite.
"Dark Knight is an ancient astronaut satellite system placed in Earths orbit thousands of years ago to safeguard their (aliens) planet claim."
But sceptics say the existence of the Black Knight satellite has been debunked many times, and the NASA images show, as the space agency said at the time, a thermal blanket accidentally dropped from a space shuttle.
These include Scott Brando, of website ufoofinterest.org, who said of the latest video: "We don't know if it is a picture cropped by NASA image or a frame by ISS Live Stream. Usually these "objects" are just reflections from ISS."
In 2015, YouTube debunker NUA, laid the mystery to rest.
In a video called "Black Knight Satellite UFO Documentary - Truth Exposed 2015 - (Debunked)" - he claims to conclusively prove the 'Black Knight', as photographed in 1998 NASA images, was nothing more than the dropped thermal blanket.
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Streetcap1 claims this object on the NASA ISS live cam could be the 'Black Knight Satellite'.
It was lost by the crew of the Endeavor space shuttle as they worked on the developing the International Space Station (ISS).
In his video, NUA compared NASA video of the Endeavor mission which shows a thermal blanket on the ISS.
The same blanket is then seen being dropped by the crew as it tumbles away into space.
He highlights the blanket as being exactly the same shape as the 'Black Knight' in the 1998 pictures seized on by conspiracists and explains that the object only appeared to change shape because it was turning as it fell away.
The whole legend of the alien satellite seems to have retrospectively started anyway.
In 1899 Nicola Tesla announced he was picking up radio waves coming from space, prompting people to suggest something alien was out there.
Experiments in 1928 in Oslow, Norway, picked up the same signals.
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In close up: The object in the latest Streetcap1 video.
Its darkness and shape makes it a possibility that this may be a Dark Knight satellite.
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In 1954, US state newspapers carried quotes from Donald Keyhoe, a retired naval aviation major and UFO researcher, claiming the US Air Force had detected two satellites orbiting Earth, despite none yet being launched from our planet.
Time then ran a 1960 piece, following the launch of satellites from Earth, stating that the US Navy detected a dark object, possibly a Soviet spy satellite, with a highly irregular orbit.
The myth developed in 1963 when NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper was reported as saying he had seen the Black Knight Satellite while in space, but there was a media blackout upon his return and the US space agency allegedly put it down to cosmic hallucinations.
It has been reported that a decade later in 1973, a researcher from Scotland, Duncan Lunan, looked back at the Norwegian scientists' data from 1928, before claiming the "messages" suggested the Black Knight was sent by aliens from Epsilon Boötis, as a welcome message to Earth 12,600 years ago.
In 1998, the first alleged photographs of the satellite emerged and were taken by astronauts on the space shuttle Endeavor, as it made its first flight to the ISS.
However, many sceptics claim the legend was retrospectively created after the 1998 pictures emerged, with the preceding odd events weaved into the story to make it more convincing.
The noises from 1899 and 1928 remain a mystery, but the possible causes do not so far include an alien satellite, according to scientists.
They insist research shows that in 1954 Mr Keyhoe had been promoting a UFO book and the articles had been written in a tongue-in-cheek fashion by the papers.
A follow-up, but less widely read, article in Time also confirmed that the strange satellite had in fact been the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray, they found.
There are reports that Mr Cooper, although maintaining he saw a number of UFOs in space, never claimed to have seen the Black Knight satellite on that mission or at all.
Yet David Bryant, a UK astronomer and Ufologist, said he had discussed the Black Knight with several Nasa astronauts and one assured him: "It's a satellite, we just don't know where it came from."
And Mr Lunan is also later reported to have denied suggesting any alien satellite had its origins 12,600 years ago and that his conclusion that the noises were a star map were from unscientific methods.
Martina Redpath of Armagh Planetarium in, Northern Ireland, who researched the legend, concluded: "Black Knight is a jumble of completely unrelated stories, reports of unusual science observations, authors promoting fringe ideas, classified spy satellites and people over-interpreting photos.
"These ingredients have chopped up, stirred together and stewed on the internet to one rambling and inconsistent dollop of myth."
No one knows how life began. As to the origin of life on Earth, those in favor of a cosmic ancestry have argued that the "genetic seeds of life swarm throughout the cosmos"--not DNA per se, but rather, that bacteria, archae, viruses, and fungi--and their genes--fell from space, perhaps embedded in meteors and asteroids or were carried here by solar winds (Joseph 2000, 2009, 2017). This latter view is vehemently rejected by NASA and several of the "major" religions who preach that all life began on Earth either miraculously in some sort of organic soup, or (according to the theists, as to the creation of woman and man) via the hand-of-god--a position NASA rejects in favor of Darwin's "small tiny steps" version of evolution, which, however, has been refuted by the fossil record. Not surprisingly, Nobel Prize winner, Francis Crick (one of the "fathers" of modern genetics), utterly rejected NASA's implausible claims, arguing that since even the simplest life form is impossibly complex, that perhaps highly technologically advanced god-like aliens purposefully seeded this planet with life. Crick, however, was unable to come up with a plausible motive. Maybe these god-like aliens did it for entertainment, or as an educational toy, an Earth-sized "ant farm" for their god-like alien children, with humans and other Earthly life, serving as the ants. The ancient Romans and Greeks believed themselves the playthings and unwilling servants of the gods; whereas in Chapters 2 and 3 of Genesis we are introduced to a Lord God (and his fellow gods) who created humans in their image, as they needed a work force to tend their crops, fruit trees, and animals. Which raises the question: if there is a "god" (or gods) is "God" an extraterrestrial?
The Extraterrestrial Gods of Genesis
In the Sumerian poem known as Genesis 1, we are told: "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters."
Genesis 1 is a story about life. If there is a "god" and if all things come from "god" then what might be the "spirit of god" if not life? And if god is life, and all things come from god, including other planets, then the spirit of god must have hovered over all of creation--meaning: Life is everywhere, throughout the cosmos.
The God of Genesis 1 is a god who sees only good. This good god, also, does not create life on Earth, but rather says: "Let the Earth bring forth" life. And "let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so."
And then, in Genesis 1, this god enters into a brief conversation with other god-like beings, and convinces them to join in the creation of something unique:
"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth."
Apparently, a consensus was reached: "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
But why? The first hints can be found in Genesis 1. This god gives the man and woman he created, seeds for growing crops and trees. But again, we are entitled to ask: "Why?" The answer is in Genesis 2, when we are introduced to a god with a first and last name: "Lord God."
Lord God of Genesis 2, and subsequent chapters, has some peculiar very-human characteristics, that is, for a god. This Lord God gets angry. He also likes to eat meat. He is also a gardener. And, he gets tired and needs his sleep: "And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made."
But after after a good night's sleep, and when he wakes up later in Genesis 2, this Lord God has a problem. The man and woman created in Genesis 1, are not adequate for his purpose. Apparently they can't tend his gardens or take care of his animals. What's the problem? Well, for one, although created in the images of the gods, the humans of Genesis 1, do not have a "soul." They are not sufficiently human, or god-like. They are too primitive.
The Lord God and the other gods which have accompanied him, need workers. So, what's a god to do? He goes back to the drawing board and tries again. This Lord god is going to take something of himself to make woman and man even more like himself. He's going to give them a soul.
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it."
And then, as an after thought, this Lord god says to the other gods: "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him."
Lord God is going to make a woman who can help the man take care of the animals and the garden. And so woman is created, and she is kept naked; because, her purpose is also sex. But, as it turns out, woman, that is, women, are not only to have sex with men, but with other male gods who are quite numerous and lusty. These other "gods" serve under the "Lord's" authority and have been given or have staked out conflicting claims over other parts of this planet, the heavens, and even other planets--albeit with Mr. Lord's permission who claims a king's authority over them all:
Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord -Psalm 86:8
For the Lord is a great God, And a great King above all gods. -Psalm 95:3
For the Lord is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods. -Psalm 96:
Worship Him, all you gods. -Psalm 97:7
For I know that the Lord is great, and that our Lord is above all gods. -Psalm 135:5
For the Lord, your God, is the God of gods, the Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who has no favorites, accepts no bribes. -Deuteronomy 10:17
If there were female gods among the assembly of gods described in the religious books of the Jews and Christians, or if Lord God had a wife, are questions which can't be answered with certainty. But that human females were definitely created for sexual gratification, and these female were so beautiful that subordinate gods could not resist having sexual relations with them is apparent, as stated in Genesis 2 and 6:
"And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were beautiful; and they took them wives of all which they chose" and, "when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them" (Genesis 6).
But now the god of Genesis had a gigantic problem. As explained in Genesis 6, the half-god, half human children born to the women impregnated by the gods, were giants, and powerful. They were called the "Nephilim."
"The Nephilim appeared on earth in those days, as well as later, after the sons of God had intercourse with the daughters of human beings, who bore them sons. They were the heroes of old, the men of renown." -Genesis 6:4
This was not acceptable. According to Genesis, the Lord god and his fellow gods were facing unforeseen problems: The humans which were part god, were disobedient and rebellious. They refused to be naked. They hid. They stole and ate food that was reserved for the table of the gods. They were not good slaves. They were beginning to act like gods!
"And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil." -Genesis 3
So, what's a God to do? He decides to destroy the Nephilim, along with all the humans the Lord God had created, and to kill them all:
"And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth... for it repenteth me that I have made them." -Genesis 6:7
But the humans, and the Nephilims, were too smart, and with the help of a renegade god, manage to escape and, to survive. Even worse (at least from the perspective of their sires and creators) the Nephilim were breeding, multiplying and creating great cities: "There we saw the Nephilim; in our own eyes we seemed like mere grasshoppers, and so we must have seemed to them." -Numbers 13:33
The other gods and their sons, had clearly broken some rules or regulations; and not just by having sex with and impregnating beautiful Earthly women. In consequence, even the subordinate gods do not escape the Lord God's wrath who accuses them in a huge assembly of gods:
God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods... Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High. But ye shall die like men, and fall like one of the princes." - Psalm 82
What are we to make of this? As a thought experiment, it could be said that these "gods" were extraterrestrials, technologically and genetically advanced humans, from other planets. Upon arriving on Earth, these extraterrestrials genetically modified the primitive humans they encountered (Genesis 1) creating a half-god/half extraterrestrial work force which included women so beautiful, that, despite regulations, these women soon became the sexual playthings of these extraterrestrial conquerers.
Human Slaves and the Conquest of Other Planets
The humans of this planet have a several thousand year history of conquering other lands, enslaving the populations, and working to death men, children, and women who also sexually service their masters and bare them children who also becomes slaves. Even in the "modern" world, an estimated 50 million humans are slaves who toil in fields and mines, generating over 35 billion dollars income for their masters.
After the Spanish arrived in the Americas, native populations were enslaved and worked to death as they extracted the wealth of their lands which was then exported to Europe and China. As the native populations died off, they were replaced by African slaves who fared no better. And slave women, of course, were exploited for sex.
The best predictor of the future, is the past.
Conquering and Enslaving Other Planets
Just as the rulers of Medieval Spain (and other countries) passed laws giving themselves ownership over conquered territories and their resources in the Americas--which were then extracted by slaves-- in 2015 The United States Congress passed the "Space Resource Exploration and Utilization Act" giving U.S. citizens and corporations the right to claim, own, and exploit the resources of meteors, asteroids, and by extension, other planets.
Moreover, NASA and DARPA are already laboring away in the hopes of discovery or creating genes which could be inserted into the genomes of humans and other life forms, so to turn them into genetically modified slaves who can be transported to various asteroids, meteors, and planets where they will labor for their masters.
Consider our own scientific and technological capabilities in the present day. Although the creation of genetically modified slaves and the conquering of other planets is not yet within our technological reach, the fact is, if science marches on, and humans do not become extinct, then certainly, within the next 100,000 years humans of Earth will have developed the technology to explore this entire galaxy.
But why create and transport genetic slaves to other worlds, if those worlds already have native populations which can be easily conquered, genetically modified, and enslaved?
There are stars which shine in the darkness of night, which were formed nearly ten billion years before our planet was born. What might be the scientific and technological capabilities of these ancient alien races which evolved billions of years before our own? That they might have journeyed to Earth and other planets, to claim desired resources, can be predicted, because its exactly what the humans of Earth hope to do, if they had the capability.
And, just as Spain, France, England, and other European countries competed amongst themselves to conquer and claim the riches of the Americas--and attacking each others booty-laden ships--it is likely that the inhabitants of worlds much older than our own, have done and still do, the same. Great heavenly wars may have been fought over our own planet, a long time ago.
The history of this planet is replete with eye-witness accounts of human-gods who descended from the heavens in sky-ships and who flew over the lands in sky discs: "Strong and durable must the body of the Vimana be made, like a great flying bird of light material.... By means of the power latent in the mercury which sets the driving whirlwind in motion, a man sitting inside may travel a great distance in the sky. The movements of the Vimana are such that it can vertically ascend, vertically descend, move slanting forwards and backwards. With Vimanas human beings can fly in the air and heavenly beings can come down to earth." -Sanskrit Samaraanganasutraadhaara
Some of these "gods" were benevolent. Others brutal. And some of these gods fought heavenly wars amongst themselves. In ancient India, one sky battle was so horrendous that cities below were destroyed:
"Gurkha flying in his swift and powerful Vimana hurled against the three cities of the Vrishis and Andhakas a single projectile charged with all the power of the Universe. An incandescent column of smoke and fire, as brilliant as ten thousands suns, rose in all its splendor. It was the unknown weapon, the Iron Thunderbolt, a gigantic messenger of death which reduced to ashes the entire race of the Vrishnis and Andhakas."-- Mahabharata
Genesis and Exodus make repeated reference to gods who have been assigned responsibility for different countries, and gods whose rule encompasses other planets. And there is rebellion within the ranks with gods attempting to overthrow each other, and conspiring to take power from the Lord God who has claimed a good chunk of Earth, as his own. In consequence, gods are accused, killed or punished:
"For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High." -Isaiah 14:13-14
"For on this same night I will go through Egypt, striking down every firstborn in the land, human being and beast alike, and executing judgment on all the gods of Egypt--I, the Lord!" -Exodus 12:12
"... the Egyptians buried those whom the Lord had struck down, every firstborn; on their gods, too, the Lord executed judgments." -Numbers 33:4
"And beware not to lift up your eyes to heaven and see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, and be drawn away and worship them and serve them, those which the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven." -Deuteronomy 4:19
"Lord God, you have begun to show to your servant your greatness and your mighty hand. What god in heaven or on earth can perform deeds and powerful acts like yours?" -Deuteronomy 3:24
"For I know that the Lord is great, that our Lord is greater than all gods." -Psalm 135:5
"The Lord shall inspire them with terror, when he makes all the gods of earth waste away; Then the distant shores of the nations. each from its own place, shall bow down to him." -Zephaniah 2:11
"Perhaps then God will lift his hand from you, your gods, and your land." -1 Samuel 6:5
Extraterrestrial Conquerers From Other Planets: Gods and Demi-Gods
There is now considerable evidence that bacteria, fungi, and other organisms, can survive in space, on the outside of the space stations, and that radiation-loving microbes and fungi dwell on Mars (Joseph 2016, 2017).
Perhaps on every Earth-like planet in this universe, the "spirit of god hovered over the waters" and humans similar to those of Earth, evolved.
What might be the technological capabilities of extraterrestrials whose planets were formed billions of years before our own? And like modern day humans, might they have also dreamed of conquering other worlds? Might they have visited our planet and then genetically modified the life they found, with the intent of creating slaves? And if so--then when did this happen?
Genesis, the Egyptians King's List, and Sumerian glyphs provides us with clues.
When Did Extraterrestrial "Gods" Arrive on Earth?
Ancient Egyptian legends tell of Tep Zepi, or the First Time. This is described as an age when "sky gods" came down to Earth and flew through the air in "celestial discs" and flying "boats."
The Turin King List, also known as the Turin Royal Canon, is a hieratic papyrus thought to date from the reign of Ramesses II; and which lists nine dynasties of gods and demi-gods--the result of sexual coupling with human females-- and who preceded the first dynasty of the pharaohs by over 35,000 years. As based on the duration of each god-like dynasty, their rule came to a close around 13,000 years ago following a world-wide calamity and flood.
CroMagnon "Demi-Gods" vs Neanderthals
Thirty-five thousand years ago, at least two distinct branches of humanity shared this planet; i.e. 1) the Neanderthals, a short, stocky, slope-headed, extremely primitive and violent peoples, who may have first evolved at least 200,000 years ago; and 2) the CroMagnon who were physical and intellectual giants, the men standing 6 foot tall on average, and sporting a brain one third larger than that of modern humans and the Neanderthals; i.e. 1800 cc compared to 1350 for present day peoples.
In contrast to the lineage of the Neanderthals which can be traced backward in time to H. erectus and then to H. Habilis/Australopithecus who roamed this planet 2-3 million years ago, no one can explain how or from whom the CroMagnon evolved as they just rather suddenly appear in southern paleolithic Europe 35,000 years ago. The big brained CroMagnon were physical and intellectual giants, responsible for the paleolithic underground cathedrals of artistic creations discovered in France and Spain.
The Neanderthals could not compete with these intellectual, god-like giants, and over the ensuing five thousand years, were driven to extinction.
Again, as a thought experiment: Could the Neanderthals be the first humans described in Genesis 1, and the CroMagnon the result of genetic modification or the coupling of sky-gods with female humans?
Neanderthal
Neanderthal (left), CroMagnon (right)
CroMagnon Skull (top) Modern skull superimposed (bottom)
The humans of Genesis 1, were clearly different from the manufactured humans containing the "breath" of the Lord God, described in Genesis 2. Moreover, apparently the Lord God (like his subordinate gods) may have had sex with and impregnated at least one of the women he created, for she says: "I have produced a male child with the help of the Lord" (Genesis 4) and who is distinguished from her other children by distinct racial markings: The mark of Cain.
Cain is insolent, disobedient, violent, and he murders his more primitive "brother" Abel, who, unlike Cain, was not sired "with the help of Lord." The Lord God was angry, and banished Cain who complained:
"My punishment is too great to bear. Look, you have now banished me... I must avoid you and be a constant wanderer on the earth. Anyone may kill me at sight." - Genesis 4.
Who are these peoples that Cain fears? Perhaps they are the first, more primitive, souless humans of Genesis 1. Perhaps, they are Neanderthals.
Tales From Sumer: Did Extraterrestrial "Gods" Genetically Modify Humans?
Biblical scholars believe the first several chapters of Genesis are highly edited retellings of Sumerian tales of creation (Heidel, 1988; Kramer, 1991; Roux, 1992), penned by the non-semitic poets of the city state of Sumer and Ur of the Chaldees, which was superceded by Babylon--in what today is Iraq (Roux, 1992). According to Roux (1992, p. 85), "For more than three thousand years the gods of Sumer were worshipped by Sumerians and Semites alike; and for more than three thousand years the religious ideas promoted by the Sumerians played an extra-ordinary part in the public and private life of the Mesopotamians, modeling their institutions, coloring their works of art and literature."
As succinctly put by the renowned Sumerian scholar, Samuel Noah Kramer (1991, p. 75), "There is good reason to infer that in the third millennium BC., there emerged a group of Sumerian thinkers and teachers who, in their quest for satisfactory answers to some of the problems raised by their cosmic speculations, evolved a cosmology and theology carrying such high intellectual conviction that their doctrines became the basic creed and dogma of much of the ancient Near East."
Our knowledge of ancient Sumer comes from a variety of ancient texts, including epic tales, hymns, poetry, proverbs, prayers and incantations. Some of these texts are written in ancient Sumerian, others are Akkadian and Babylonian copies that were found in the ruins of palaces and temple libraries.
Sumerian cosmology, as to the origin of the Universe, in some respects resembles modern cosmology. For example, they imagined that at first there was nothing and because there was nothing, it had no name. Rather, all was chaos. Moreover, because there was nothing, "No gods whatever had been brought into being. Uncalled by name, their destinies undetermined."
However, rather than a pure absence, this nothingness was chaos (Kramer, 1991; Roux, 1992), a "commingling" of clouds ("mummu"), and fresh waters (Apsu) and salt waters (Tiamat). And, out of this chaos there came form and substance, and then "An" the eternal heavens from which flowed the seeds of life; seeds which eventually fell to Earth and which also fell upon the planets of the gods, thus giving birth to the gods, the Anunnaki. "An begot the Anunnaki" (Kramer, 1991).
According to Sumerian theology, a pantheon of gods, human-like in form, but possessing extra-ordinary super-human scientific powers and technological capability, arrived on this planet in flying discs and took possession of the Earth in order to exploit this world for its resources.
According to the Sumerians, these "gods" were in turn ruled by laws and regulations that were promulgated and enforced by yet other gods who lived in different regions of the cosmos (Kramer, 1991). These different "gods" through agreements worked out between them and their various factions, were in charge of different regions of the cosmos and thus ruled over and exploited different worlds and those life forms which dwelled on the different planets. The Earth, was just one of the innumerable worlds being exploited, and was ruled by a pantheon of human-like gods, the Anunnaki.
As based on his interpretation of ancient Sumerian cuneiform writing and glyphs, Kramer (1991) informs us that these gods formed and "functioned as an assembly with a king at its head, its most important groups consisting of seven gods... and fifty who were known as the great gods." The chief "god" who ruled over the Earth was Enlil who was exceedingly arrogant, exploitive, and brutal. The other chief gods included Ninhursag who was his wife, and Enki who was a scientist and the half-brother of Enlil.
According to the Sumerians, these "Anunnaki were space-traveling peoples who flew in spherical and winged air ships, but who, according to Sumerian calendars, first arrived on this planet almost 500,000 years ago. Moreover, according to the Sumerians, these "gods" had wives and acted no different from other humans.
The poets and historians of ancient Sumerian tell us the Earth was alive with all manner of beasts, including primitive humans who were little different than animals. The "gods" determined that the human-like animals that roamed the planet were too primitive and unable to perform the tasks required by the gods. In order to obtain a suitable work force, they called upon Enki whose emblem was the double helix: two entwined snakes.
Enki performed experiments on these human-like animals and other creatures, creating all manner of hybrid beasts--what today might be referred to as "transgenic animals." Moreover, he created half-human animals who could entertain the gods, but which nevertheless remained unsuitable for working the fields or the mines.
Finally, by taking blood and other tissues from the body of one of the gods and mixing it in his flasks and then impregnating one of these human-like animals, Enki was able to create an advanced, almost god-like Homo sapiens, who could be employed as forced labor, and who could be instructed to tend the gardens and care for the live stock of the gods: "Primitive man I will create. He shall be charged with the service of the gods that they might be at ease."
These "primitive men" were essentially formed in the image of the gods, in the image of the Anunnaki, and were thus part-god. In addition to working as slave labor, some were given dominion over the lands, the beasts, including dominion and responsibility for the more primitive humans who had independently evolved on Earth. Thus the "gods" according to the Sumerians "lowered from heaven... the throne of kingship," and these individuals were half god and half human and were expected to act as overseers.
According to the Sumerians Kings lists, the Anunnaki created these first god-kings, over 240,000 years ago (Roux, 1992). Likewise, it has been claimed that "modern" human DNA traces it ancestral lineage to ancestors living in Africa about 250,000 years ago (Stoneking & Cann, 1989; Vigilant et al. 1991).
According to Sumerian "mythology," one of the Anunnaki, Enki (who is associated with the emblem of the "serpent"), created a superior human who could be instructed in the art of culture, science, medicine, and technology (Heidel, 1988; Kramer, 1991); and women so beautiful that even the Gods lusted and desired them. In consequence, the Anunnaki fathered innumerable children--and in so doing broke the laws formulated by the supreme lords of the universe.
In the tales of Gilgamesh, Sumerians explain that the demi-gods (part human, part god) were two thirds divine, and one-third mortal. Gilgamesh, the Sumerians tell us in the "Gilgamesh Cycles," was one of the divine kings who ruled the predeluvial city of Eresch tens of thousands of years ago. And although two thirds god and a great hero, Gilgamesh was still a man and felt love, hate, sadness, joy, hope and despair, and who was forever seeking adventure. It was while on one of these adventures that he came upon a long haird, naked and powerful wild man from the mountains, Enkidu, who was more beast than man.
Gilgamesh (or the Gilgamesh people) at first struggled with, then befriended, and humanized his half-human half-animal friend Enkidu. Enkidu transcends his beastly origins, and through sex with demi-god women, becomes wise. But then one day Enkidu grew sick and died; and in the aftermath, Enlil, the Anunnaki king of the gods, sentences Gilgamesh to die.
Was Enkidu and the Enkidu people, Neanderthals? the primitive soulless humans described in Genesis 1? Was the semi-divine Gilgamesh (and the Gilgamesh people) a CroMagnon? Were the CroMagnon people genetically modified Neanderthals and thus part human and part "god"?
The Demise of the Demi-Gods
Whereas there is an obvious progression from Australopithecus/H. habilis to H. erectus and archaic humans and Neanderthals, as is evident from an examination of the skull and the poorly developed frontal lobe (Joseph, 1996, 2000a), the same is not true of the Cro-Magnons.
Neanderthals did not evolve into Cro-Magnons, and these two species of humanity coexisted for at least 5,000 years. However, after a 400,000 year history (if we include the first Homo sapiens in their lineage), Neanderthals disappeared from the face of the Earth, around 29,000 years B.P; a consequence of disease or widespread ethnic cleansing on the part of the Cro-Magnon peoples.
The Neanderthals were of a completely different race; and not just physically, but genetically; as only traces of Neanderthal DNA has been found in the human genome--a consequence, most likely, of the rape and impregnation of CroMagnon women. In all other respects the Neanderthals and their genomes were and are significantly different from that of modern humanity. They did not evolve into CroMagnons whose own origins are completely unknown.
We know what became of the Neanderthals. They were eradicated by those 6ft tall, big brained, intellectual giants, the CroMagnon. But what became of the CroMagnon who disappeared from the fossil record over 13,000 years ago?
Perhaps the answer can be found in Genesis:
"When human beings began to grow numerous on the earth and daughters were born to them, the sons of God saw how beautiful the daughters of human beings were, and so they took for their wives whomever they pleased. Then the Lord said: My spirit shall not remain in human beings forever, because they are only flesh.
The Nephilim appeared on earth in those days, as well as later, after the sons of God had intercourse with the daughters of human beings, who bore them sons... the Lord regretted making human beings on the earth, and his heart was grieved. So the Lord said: I will wipe out from the earth the human beings I have created, and not only the human beings, but also the animals and the crawling things and the birds of the air, for I regret that I made them."
And so the Lord God decided to destroy them all, in a great flood; a calamity which may have taken place 13,000 years ago (the Younger Dryas event), when a comet exploded over the North American continent, melting the glaciers, causing sea levels to rise and temperatures to drop, and killing millions of animals and megafauna such as the saber tooth tiger and mammoth, and wiping out all traces of ancient civilizations, including, perhaps, the Nephilim / CroMagnon people who may have been sired, or created, by extraterrestrial "gods."
References
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The Newport Beach man who leads the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) is among the speakers during three days of events near LAX dedicated to the aliens who are among us—not the aliens who have Donald Trump's panties in a bunch but the extraterrestrial beings who inspire our movies, comic books and nightmares.
Jan C. Harzan, executive director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) lectures on "Evidence of Extraterrestrial Contact from the MUFON Files" from 4:30 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the They Are Among Us gathering at Holiday Inn Los Angeles International Airport. Harzan then returns to join the "They Are Among Us Part 2" panel discussion from 7-10 p.m. Saturday.
The "They Are Among Us Part 1" panel convenes from 7-10 tonight. The convention actually opens at 10 a.m. with an "Opening Gates of Consciousness Ceremony, where New Humanity Movement founder Saeed David Farman gives the opening speech, Valerie Elster delivers a special cosmic message, Edwin Harkness Spina leads a special group healing, Dr. Ron Holman shares a special opening prayer and "International Healer" Aurora Buchanan grants a healing.
These are also among the opening day speakers to be introduced, as are Michael Cremo, Dr. Jere Rivera Dugenio, Steven D. Kelley, Sel Sarkin, Alan Bedian, Eric Dadmehr, Michael R. Minnehan, Divojananda, Annelise Balfour, Michelle Anderson, Maura Malini Hoffman, Heather, Jennifer Montero Powers and Kaisi Berick. Click here for the full lineup and ticket information for events through Sunday.
Harzan is a UCLA School of Engineering graduate who spent 37 years with IBM in sales and marketing. He was an IBM branch manager in Orange County, and IBM services executive in Vancouver, Canada, and he spent his last 14 years with IBM as a senior project executive managing large outsourcing accounts with the likes of Boeing, Disney and Technicolor.
His interest in UFOs began at age 8 when he read an article on Donald Keyhole and the National Investigations Committee On Aerial Phenomena in Argosy magazine. Harzan and his brother spent the next two years studying UFOs before deciding to build a flying saucer with electromagnetic propulsion, which they believed was the key to how these craft were able to travel such great distances.
Harzan claims that while they were in the middle of their project, they were visited by a real UFO, no more than 30 feet from them, with no visible means of propulsion other than making a humming noise before shooting off over the horizon. That propelled Harzan to unlock the secret of the technology of these craft, believing it could be the breakthrough to revolutionizing transportation and energy on Earth. This quest is what sent him to the UCLA School of Engineering, where he received his B.S. in Nuclear Engineering.
He began attending MUFON meetings in 1991. Four years later, he was appointed as state section director of MUFON Orange County, and in 2001 he was elected to the MUFON Business Board. As a board member, Harzan is credited with leading MUFON's strategic planning, which led to the organization's current mission statement and goals, and creating the Case Management System used for UFO reporting, tracking and investigative follow-up. He was named executive director of MUFON on Aug. 1, 2013.
Since taking charge, he has shifted the MUFON focus to documenting cases of possible extraterrestrial contact with a focus on taking the UFO subject mainstream. During his presentations Saturday, Harzan is to share MUFON's inner workings, detail his own close encounter with a UFO and present "the best cases of Structured UFO craft from the MUFON Files that will impress even the toughest skeptic."
When Harzan's eyes are on the ground, he resides in Newport Beach with his wife Annette and their two children.
There’s a tiny “flying saucer” orbiting deep within Saturn’s rings, and a NASA probe has just gotten its most impressive look yet at the strange object.
Named for the flute-playing Greek god of wild places, 21-mile-wide Pan is what’s called a shepherd moon. It lives within a gap in Saturn’s A ring, which is the farthest loop of icy particles from the planet. As it zips around Saturn, Pan continually clears debris from the gap by vacuuming up some ring particles and punting others away, like a little Roomba with a force field.
Another raw image from Cassini showcases Pan's equatorial band.
PHOTOGRAPH BY NASA/JPL-CALTECH/SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE
In fact, it’s this absence of ring junk that led scientists to predict Pan’s existence as early as the mid-1980s. But the small moon wasn’t officially discovered until 1990, when Mark Showalter and his colleagues took a good look at images returned by the Voyager 2 spacecraft and found the moon that is responsible for the gap’s existence.
These more recent images show in detail that the moon is swaddled in what’s called an equatorial accretion disk, or a smooth, thin layer of ring particles that have been glued on to Pan’s waistline by the moon’s meager gravity.
"This is such a far cry from the nondescript 'dots' that I was tracking way back in 1990 in the Voyager images! It's very gratifying finally to see Pan's closeup,"says Showalter, now at the SETI Institute in California.
In a 2007 study published in Science, Porco suggested the thin disk formed long ago, before the moon had completely vacuumed out material from the gap.
"The shape, as others have also pointed out, is probably because it is always sweeping up fine dust from the rings," Showalter explains. "The rings are very thin compared to the size of Pan, so the dust accumulates around its equator."
Pan isn’t alone in its bizarre appearance: Another small moon, Atlas, bears a similar shape for similar reasons.
This undated image shows shows an artist's rendering of NASA's Juno spacecraft making a close pass over Jupiter. On Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017, NASA said its the spacecraft is stuck making long laps around the gas giant because of sticky valves.
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Late last month, the discovery of seven earth-sized planets that could potentially have life rocked the scientific community. The planets are relatively close on the cosmic scale: only 40 light-years from Earth. The dwarf star these planets orbit is called Trappist-1, and is much smaller than our sun. Out of the seven planets, scientists say that the fourth, fifth and sixth from the star are at the right distance at which there could be flowing water on the surface. In the coming months and years, scientists will be able to monitor the atmospheres of these planets for molecules associated with life, and some are hoping that they might discover radio signals from an extraterrestrial civilization.
Finding life of any form would be possibly the greatest scientific achievement in all of human history. It would redefine our place in the universe, answer some of our biggest questions and probably raise many more. Plus it would be mind-blowingly cool. There are, however, many uncertainties regarding the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
The discovery of alien life would be reality-altering for many, but these changes could be for the better. Knowledge that there is extraterrestrial life could help teach some people that the differences among the human race are pretty meaningless. We would be less willing to view different countries and nationalities as competitors or even enemies if we were one intelligent race among many. Hopefully such a discovery would change our perspective in such a way that humanity could unite together and see each other as one human race.
The most concerning issue is how we would interact with alien life that we discover, whether intelligent or not. Directly interacting with life from a star 40 light-years away would be impossible for thousands of years at a minimum, but it is still a question we should reflect on. If we discovered a planet with primordial life, would it be right to help facilitate evolution and artificially speed up the development of advanced lifeforms? Or is it wrong for humanity to meddle with nature in this way? Serious moral questions could be raised, especially in cases where it seems that only our “divine” intervention could stave off some sort of disaster.
We must also determine what course of action to take if we encounter life that is advanced in a similar fashion to humanity. There are many among us who would see an advanced alien civilization as a potential threat and some might even advocate a preemptive attack. Such a course of action, if taken before trying to establish contact with a civilization, would be barbaric. We must not let science fiction movies such as “Independence Day” dictate how we approach extraterrestrials.
We should certainly be cautious when approaching advanced aliens. However, like we are with spiders, we must understand that they are likely to be just as scared of us as we are of them. A successful interaction will depend on both sides utilizing all of their resources to achieve effective communication. The scary part, of course, is that neither side can initially know what the other is planning. It only takes one side that does not trust the other to lead to disaster.
This is a very arbitrary issue and many of the decisions humanity makes will be based on the parameters of the situation. The key thing we should strive for is communication and eventual cooperation with extraterrestrial life. It will be extraordinarily difficult for us to reach the point where we can do this, as we still have trouble accepting people of the same species who look slightly different than we do or have slightly different belief systems. Hopefully, we are still millennia from coming face-to-face with aliens, because I do not believe we as a race are mature enough to successfully interact with them. It would be a shame if we became the alien monstersfor another civilization.
Jacob Kowalski is a weekly columnist to The Daily Campus opinion section. He can be reached via email at jacob.kowalski@uconn.edu.
Saturn’s moon Enceladus has been the talk of the astronomy community for quite some time. The cratered surface indicates a pummeling of asteroids and other space dust over time, which tells scientists there definitely isn’t an atmosphere protecting it. But, the wrinkles and large wisps that seem to paint brushstrokes on the surface — as viewed in this new photo taken by NASA’s Cassini probe — are illustrative of something much more compelling.
According to NASA, these wrinkles were most likely formed by geyser-like eruptions in the moon’s south pole. When the plumes spew, they smooth over and erase any craters. This feeds the notion that Enceladus does indeed have ice, but also the idea that just below the surface there may be a warmer, wetter world that we only get a glimpse of when the geysers explode.
If this is true, the moon may be harboring extraterrestrial life species just under its crust. Of course, there is no telling how cold the underworld may be, especially because the surface is around negative 300 degrees Fahrenheit, but the hot geysers may make it a little more habitable down there.
Does this icy moon really contain life beneath its surface?
Other data suggests that the geysers are spitting out more than just water, including propane and methane. All of these clues have gotten scientists particularly excited about getting a closer look at Enceladus.
“We just need to fly there and collect samples,” Carolyn Porco, a leader of the imaging science team for the Cassini mission, told Inverse back in April 2016. “All we have to do is build something that will go there and pick some stuff up.”
Unfortunately, though, there is currently no mission in place to send a spacecraft to Enceladus to collect samples. But, scientists are remaining hopeful that in the near future, we will finally prove that we are not the only living creatures in the universe.
Photos via NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute
A Washington witness at Sequim reported a possible UFO incident from 1994 when a “large, green orb” paced the vehicle he was riding in, according to testimony in Case 81184 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness and two friends were leaving Sequim and were headed toward the Strait of Juan de Fuca on January 15, 1994, when the incident occurred.
The witness was a passenger in a vehicle who first noticed the sphere.
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“I was in the passenger seat of an early 80s white Ford pickup that had a canopy,” the witness stated.“We were driving alongside GraysmarshBerry Farms when I realized that I was gazing out the window at a green ball of light. It was pacing us perfectly, and was about 30 -40 feet from us at about 25-30 feet off the ground. It was about 4 feet in diameter in my opinion. I am a carpenter by trade.”
The witness said it was like staring at a green moon, and gave out its own light, but was not hard to look at.
“At some point I turned around and started looking around the vehicle for a green light that might be reflecting off the inside of the window. As if prompted by me looking away, the object moved out in front of us into the other witnesses’ view. They apparently couldn’t see it at the height it was at outside my window.”
The object was about 30 to 40 feet away and 25 to 30 feet off the ground. Pictured: Sequim, WA.
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The other passengers reacted.
“My buddy who was driving yelled, ‘What the Hell is that?’ As I turned around to look, the object had advanced out in front of the truck, but still over the farm property. The large orb was on the other side of some wind break trees that bordered the road, but our view was unobstructed due to no leaves on the trees.”
The driver sped up to catch up with the object, but as he increased his speed, the object did as well.
“We were rapidly approaching the end of the road, where it turned at a 90 and paralleled the Strait. In the next moment, the object took off at a speed – so great it left a line in the sky that was still visible even after we had screeched to a stop at the water. We got out of the truck and just stared as the line slowly disappeared.”
The incident changed how the witness thought.
“We never talked about it after that night. It’s funny now, because when I hear people talk about there being life ‘out there,’ I now have no doubts. One thing I left out is at some point I had rolled down the window to see better once the object had moved out in front of us, and I remember hearing nothing but the truck. Whatever the object was doing, it had to have an ‘intelligence’ behind it. To pace us so perfectly for so long, I will never forget it. I have never written about this experience until now, but remember it as if it were yesterday.”
The object eventually took off at great speed. Pictured: Sequim, WA.
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Sequim is a city in Clallam County, Washington, population 6,606. Washington MUFON Assistant State Director Aleta DeBee investigated this case and closed it as Information Only. 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.
We recently covered a California witness at Rancho Santa Margarita who recalled a UFO encounter from 1999 when a ball of light about the size of a beach ball appeared in front of his vehicle, according to testimony in Case 82195.
The witness says it was a clear and sunny day, in broad daylight, on a very familiar road, while driving his car with friends about 2:30 p.m. on July 10, 1999, when the incident began.
“What I can only describe as some kind of a ‘ball’ of light about the size of a large beach ball appeared, very suddenly, out of nowhere, directly in front of my car,” the witness stated. “In a bit of a panic, I asked my friends if they saw it too and they all definitely did.”
MUFON has several historical cases in their witness database with accounts of objects moving along with vehicles. In particular, three Arizona accounts include fascinating testimony in cases closed as Unknowns. These are Case 27685, May 19, 2010, Congress, AZ; Case 29547, June 10, 2011, near Kingman, AZ; and Case 29703, June 24, 2011, Flagstaff, AZ.
Former Police Officer Says Triangle UFO Cannot Be Explained
Former Police Officer Says Triangle UFO Cannot Be Explained
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A strange triangle craft left a police officer turned UFO investigator baffled. Fletcher Gray, who is now busy spearheading the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) – Houston branch, could not discount the idea that the UFO was alien in origin.
There has been an increase in sightings of triangle UFOs across the states.
MUFON-Houston receives around 80 alleged UFO sightings in a year, but according to Mr. Gray, most can be explained.
However, in 2015, he investigated a triangle UFO sighting in Dayton Hill that he could not talk away. He additionally felt it could have been extraterrestrial.
He explained that the Universe is so vast, making the idea of life to exist somewhere other than Earth possible.
Mr. Gray said that the witness had told him the triangular UFO in question was spotted over the Highway 1960 near Dayton, Houston.
The witness reportedly said the UFO, which defied gravity, hovered before it disappeared.
Mr. Gray stated that based on his 27 years of experience, he knew right then that the witness was not lying.
Mr. Gray explained that the UFO could have been seeking out and learning planet Earth.
The U.S.-based MUFON receives hundreds of similar reports each year around the globe, with numbers appearing on the rise.
The most famous UFO sighting of the same triangular shape happened on March 13, 1997, over Arizona.
Triangle UFO filmed over Clinton, Oklahoma – March 2017
Triangle UFO filmed over Clinton, Oklahoma – March 2017
Here’s one interesting footage of a triangular-shaped craft that was flying in the sky above US state Oklahoma. This was filmed earlier in March 2017.
Witness report:
I was going home from OKC with my family, when I spotted this. It had been hovering for about a few seconds (from when I seen it), til I started recording. There’s an airbase near by, but it wasn’t for a few miles, and there’s no landing strip in that area.
The images of Saturn's moon, Pan, were taken on March 7.
(CNN)NASA on Thursday released pictures of Pan, one of Saturn's many moons, and its distinctive shape is drawing comparisons to flying saucers and stuffed pasta.
The images of the moon come courtesy of NASA's Cassini spacecraft, and reveal the UFO-like form of the tiny satellite, which has an average radius of just 8.8 miles.
Cassini's Twitter account tweeted a gif showing the raw images.
Twitter users quickly chimed in. "Should or could be called Wonton or Ravioli but that's amazing!!!" one wrote. "Sign me up! Ravioli is one of my favorite foods," said another.
One artist even took the time to make a little comic.
According to NASA's website, Pan's strange shape comes from what is called an equatorial ridge, a characteristic it shares with one of its sister moons, Atlas.
The ridge has formed over the course of Pan's history because it orbits Saturn inside the planet's rings, collecting stray particles as it goes, said Preston Dyches, a spokesman for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Pan is Saturn's closest moon, and orbits the planet in just 13.8 hours.
Earlier this year, Cassini sent back images of Tethys, another Saturn moon that has a striking resemblance to the Death Star from "Star Wars."
Cassini is a joint effort between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian space agency, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana. It was originally launched in June 2008 on a mission to explore the Saturn System.
Photos:Saturn
In September, Cassini's mission will come to an end when it hurtles towards Saturn's surface for what NASA is calling the "Grand Finale." On its way down, the spacecraft will collect information and data such as the strength of Saturn's gravity as well as more pictures of the planet's rings.
But for now, it will continue to beam back stunning images of Saturn and space ravioli.
Zo nu en dan spotten astronomen snelle radioflitsen (zogenoemde Fast Radio Bursts, FRB’s), waarvan de oorsprong tot op heden onbekend is. Deze pulsen hebben een lengte van een paar milliseconden en worden niet herhaald. Onderzoekers beweren in een nieuw paper dat deze flitsen een aanwijzing kunnen zijn waar aliens zich bevinden.
Deze snelle radioflitsen zouden wel eens gegenereerd kunnen worden door radiozenders, die interstellaire ruimteschepen van geavanceerde buitenaardse beschavingen voortstuwen.
“Deze snelle radioflitsen zijn – gezien hun korte duur – opvallend helder”, zegt wetenschapper Avi Loeb van het Harvard-Smithsonian Centrum voor Astrofysica. “We weten nog niet met zekerheid wat de bron is van deze flitsen. Daarom moeten we rekening houden met alternatieve scenario’s.” Loeb sluit aliens dus niet uit.
ANDERE THEORIEËN
Hoe de radioflitsen precies ontstaan, blijft giswerk. Er zijn verschillende theorieën. Wellicht zijn ze afkomstig van het ineengestorte overblijfsel van een zware ster. Een andere optie is dat ze gegenereerd worden in de nabijheid van een zwart gat dat gas uit zijn omgeving opslokt. Meer onderzoek zal uit moeten wijzen hoe de FRB’s precies ontstaan.
Epidemie van leven Loeb verdiept zich al een tijd in de verspreiding van leven in het heelal. “Leven kan zich verspreiden van de ene ster naar de andere, zoals een epidemie zich verspreidt,” vertelde Loeb in 2015 naar aanleiding van een onderzoek. “De Melkweg zou in dat geval geïnfecteerd worden met leven.”
Gigantisch apparaat In een paper dat binnenkort in het wetenschappelijke vakblad Astrophysical Journal Letters verschijnt filosoferen Loeb en zijn collega Manasvi Lingam (Harvard universiteit) over het apparaat dat een FRB kan produceren. Ze beweren dat als een grote radiozender wordt aangedreven door zonlicht – en dit zonlicht op een oppervlak dat twee keer zo groot is als de aarde valt – dat er dan voldoende energie gegenereerd wordt om een FRB te produceren. Wel moet de radiozender dan wel gekoeld worden door een apparaat dat ook twee keer zo groot is als de aarde.
De mensheid is technisch gezien nog niet ver genoeg ontwikkeld om zo’n radiozender te bouwen, maar geavanceerde buitenaardse beschavingen mogelijk wel.
“HET IS DE MOEITE WAARD OM THEORIEËN TE BEDENKEN EN VERVOLGENS OP BASIS VAN DATA TE ONDERZOEKEN WELKE THEORIE HET MEEST PLAUSIBEL IS”
Voortstuwende straal Het nut hiervan? Wanneer een radiozender zo’n straal produceert, kan deze straal gebruikt worden om interstellaire ruimteschepen vooruit de duwen. De straal moet dan wel continu gericht zijn op zo’n ruimteschip, maar dan is het mogelijk om in dit ruimtevaartuig naar andere sterren of andere sterrenstelsels te reizen. Zo’n ruimteschip kan twintig keer zo zwaar zijn als het grootste cruiseschip op aarde.
Korte flits De straal is waarschijnlijk 24/7 actief, maar op aarde zien we maar een korte tijd een flits. Dit komt omdat het ruimtezeil, de planeet, de ster en het sterrenstelsel in beweging zijn ten opzichte van onze planeet. De straal is dus maar heel kort op ons gericht en schijnt dan weer in een andere richting, waardoor wij niks meer zien. Het kan zijn dat de straal op een later tijdstip weer te zien is, wat een sterke aanwijzing is dat deze theorie klopt.
Speculatief Loeb geeft toe dat het een beetje speculatief is, maar beweert dat het goed is om nieuwe ideeën te opperen. “Wetenschap draait om bewijzen. Het is de moeite waard om theorieën te bedenken en vervolgens op basis van data te onderzoeken welke theorie het meest plausibel is.”
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Is er een vliegende schotel bij Saturnus gespot?
Is er een vliegende schotel bij Saturnus gespot?
Tim Kraaijvanger
Het kleine maantje Pan heeft wel iets weg van een vliegende schotel uit oude sciencefictionfilms. Pan is slechts 28 kilometer groot, maar slaagt er toch mooi in om een gat in de ringen van Saturnus te maken.
De foto bovenaan dit artikel is op een afstand van 24.572 kilometer van Pan gemaakt door de Cassini-ruimtesonde. Niet eerder is het maantje zo goed in beeld gebracht. Links en rechts zijn de ringen van Saturnus te zien.
De meeste herdermanen hebben een flinke richel. Manen als Pan en Atlas houden de randen van de ringen ‘scherp’ door deeltjes op te vegen of terug in de ring te dwingen.
Pan wordt gezien als een van de meest bijzondere manen in ons zonnestelsel. In deze lijst zien we ook andere exotische objecten, zoals de maan Miranda van Uranus. Deze maan is slechts 500 kilometer breed, maar heeft gigantische valleien die twaalf keer dieper zijn dan de Grand Canyon. Mimas van Saturnus lijkt op de Death Star uit Star Wars, terwijl Io (Jupiter) iets weg heeft van pizza.
De Cassini-ruimtesonde nadert zijn einde en plonst in september in de atmosfeer van Saturnus. Volgende maand begint de laatste fase. Dankzij een scheervlucht langs de grote maan Titan wordt de baan van de ruimtesonde afgebogen, waarna het ruimtevaartuig door het gat tussen Saturnus en de ringen vliegt. Deze ruimte is slechts 2.400 kilometer breed. In totaal voert Cassini deze manoeuvre 22 keer uit. Spannend! Ongetwijfeld levert dit schitterende foto’s op.
Private space exploration company Blue Origin has revealed the first of six engines that will power its forthcoming New Glenn rocket.
Between the efforts of private companies and those of government organizations, humanity is in the midst of an exciting new era in space flight.
AN ENGINE 6 YEARS IN THE MAKING
SpaceX’s well-known competitor in the private space industry, Blue Origin, is making strides in its effort to have private citizens breach the final frontier. While SpaceX prepares for its 2018 lunar mission, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos is confident his company will be able to send two astronauts to space by the end of 2017, with commercial flights following in 2018. He certainly does have a few good reasons for this confidence. In fact, soon, he’ll have six.
After six long years of development, Blue Origin has finally unveiled one of its BE-4 rocket engines. The engine is expected to be used with five others just like it in structure and function to power the upcoming New Glenn rocket. Blue Origin has plans for two versions of these rockets, a 2-stage version and a 3-stage version. The New Glenn is expected to be 7 meters (23 feet) in diameter and range in length from 82 meters (270 feet) to 95 meters (313 feet).
A NEW FLIGHT PLAN
So where do the BE-4 engines come in? The first and second stages of the rocket will have boosters made up of the BE-4 engines, while the third stage will incorporate an older BE-3 engine.
The New Glenn is similar to its predecessor, the New Shepard, in that it will be a reusable space vehicle with a first stage that can return to the launch site standing upright after each flight. This style of rocket will save companies a huge sum of money on flights. A distinction between the New Glenn and the New Shepard is that the former will be equipped with enough power to carry heavy cargo payloads and astronauts into orbit around the Earth.
While the New Glenn has yet to be made, Blue Origin expects that it will be used to transport goods and people in space by the end of the decade. In the meantime, the BE-4 engine will undergo certification at Blue Origin’s West Texas-based site.
Between the initiatives of private companies like Blue Origin and SpaceX and the missions of governments like the U.S. and China, humanity is launching into a new era of space flight. The BE-4 engines are one more step forward on that epic journey.
Blue Origin’s future New Glenn rocket, compared to other industry vehicles.
The origin of fast radio bursts sweeping across outer space have puzzled scientists for years, but some scientists are examining the possibility that these millisecond-long radio emission flashes come from advanced alien technology in extragalactic civilizations. FRBs have traits that match up with artificial radio waves, and that might not be a coincidence.
In the paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Harvard researchers describe what a transmission device that emits FRBs may look like. Since 2007, fewer than two dozen FRB’s have been detected by large radio telescopes like the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
Theorist Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is working on the Breakthrough Starshot project, which would send a lightweight spacecraft powered by light. This inspired him to study whether an alien civilization may use similar technologies that transmit FRBs by launching a light sail at the speed of light.
“We are trying to push a very lightweight spacecraft that weighs a gram or so,” Loeb tells Inverse. “A much more advanced civilization might very well develop a technology that can launch much heavier payloads. It’s the same principle. You attach the payload to the sail and you push the sail with light.”
The FRB parameters were consistent with this idea, lending credence to the possibility that FRBs may be artificial in origin.
“Naturally, we were very surprised and excited to discover that an artificial origin for FRBs was compatible with the known data,” coauthor Manasvi Lingam of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics tells Inverse.
Researchers speculate that FRBs might be leakage from planet-sized transmitters that power interstellar probes. This beamer must be of a size comparable to Earth, and the required power is the amount of sunlight a planet twice the size of Earth receives. This can generate enough power to push 20 large cruise ships.
From an engineering perspective, it’s possible for this device to withstand the heat with a water-cooled device twice the size of Earth. The speculated transmission device would need to focus a beam on a light sail continuously to power it.
“We found that the amount of power that you need is similar to the amount of sunlight intercepted by Earth,” Loeb says. “If you can imagine harvesting the starlight and using it for the purpose of propelling a light sail, it could work.”
Scientists suspect FRBs are artificial partly because of their brightness. The signals exhibit a brightness temperature of 10^37 degrees. To achieve such a high brightness at room temperature, electrons must move coherently, which is what happens in a radio antenna when an alternating electric field is applied to a wire.
No known object in space generates radio bursts at such high brightness. In addition, FRBs repeat in an irregular fashion and are concentrated around a particular radio frequency that’s different from natural sources in space. For example, pulsars operate based on coherent emission, but their emission is much weaker than FRBs.
“It cannot be associated with a cataclysmic event like the collapse of a star,” Loeb says. “Therefore it’s worth entertaining the possibility that it’s artificial.”
This research may lead to a more in-depth SETI-based study of the sources of FRBs through the Breakthrough Listen project. Right now there’s no good explanation for the origin of FRBs, but scientists can continue finding more clues. Previously, Loeb proposed a way for citizen scientists to detect FRBs using cell phones, which can give scientists clues for where they come from.
“We plan to look at other ways by which the signatures of advanced civilizations may be detectable by humans,” Lingam says. “Most of them are connected to how civilizations can tap energy sources for undertaking large-scale engineering projects.”
Although this hypothesis for the origin of FRBs is speculative, Loeb says he would have no problem accepting an alternative explanation if evidence shows otherwise.
“The exciting aspect of doing science is that one rules out possibilities with better data,” Loeb says. “The history of science shows that it would be unwise to rule out possibilities just based on prejudice. This often leads to stagnation rather than progress.”
Abstract: We examine the possibility that Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) originate from the activity of extragalactic civilizations. Our analysis shows that beams used for powering large light sails could yield parameters that are consistent with FRBs. The characteristic diameter of the beam emitter is estimated through a combination of energetic and engineering constraints, and both approaches intriguingly yield a similar result which is on the scale of a large rocky planet. Moreover, the optimal frequency for powering the light sail is shown to be similar to the detected FRB frequencies. These `coincidences’ lend some credence to the possibility that FRBs might be artificial in origin. Other relevant quantities, such as the characteristic mass of the light sail, and the angular velocity of the beam, are also derived. By using the FRB occurrence rate, we infer upper bounds on the rate of FRBs from extragalactic civilizations in a typical galaxy. The possibility of detecting fainter signals is briefly discussed, and the wait time for an exceptionally bright FRB event in the Milky Way is estimated.
Strange occurrences in Roswell, NM, June 1947 may have set into motion events which would shape the future of humanity, in ways unbeknownst to many. Reports of crashed alien vessels were quickly swept aside, which spurred the imaginations of seekers everywhere vying to know what really happened. But it was the insiders, who eventually came forward, who gave us a glimpse into the shadowy side of the U.S. Government and collaborating corporations. In this special introductory overview episode of Truth Hunter, Linda Moulton Howe exposes deeper details of UFO crashes in the 1940s, the technologies which were recovered and the resultant government policies which instituted programs of secrecy and denial.
UFOs were reported flying near the McGuire Air Force Base and nearby Fort Dix Base in Trenton, New Jersey, before state Police requested entry to investigate.
But the events which allegedly then unfolded go way beyond the traditional UFO sighting.
It is claimed a military police officer based at Fort Dix reported seeing "a low-flying object pass over his car" as he drove.
After braking, he claimed to see in front of his car "a small being with a large head, black eyes, and a very slender body".
He claims he panicked, got out of the car and pulled out a .45 automatic gun, before demanding the being lay on the floor.
But, after his request was ignored, he fired a number of shots.
The wounded creature is alleged to have jumped a fence into the McGuire base before heading down a runway.
But, according to the case, it then collapsed dead.
Sgt Jeff Morse is listed as a witness who allowed police access to the scene.
But it is alleged that this was a pseudonym he was given to avoid his true identity getting out.
According to omni.media, police found: "The body, crouched in a fetal position, not breathing.
"It was indeed dead. Shocked, but keeping with protocol, they began to rope off the area.
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The case of the alleged alien shooting has never been fully explained or debunked.
While on patrol, Morse watched the Blue Beret specialists spray the corpse from a portable tank and cover it with a white sheet.
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He said he was told that after this, a C-141 cargo aircraft landed on site, the being was loaded on board, and it has been suspected that it took off towards Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.
Conspiracy theorists claim this is the same base where alien bodies from the alleged 1947 Roswell UFO crash were secretly taken.
The claim is that Mr Morse and the police officer were separated and warned never to speak of the incident again or risk losing their jobs.
According to UFO researchers Mr Morse and other witnesses had to later go to Wright Patterson where they were interrogated.
Mr Morse said years later: “They told me about my duty to keep my mouth shut... I signed a form and it is supposed to bind me for life.”
He is said to have claimed he has been "reminded" never to speak of the event.
UFO site omni.media has revisited the case.
In an article it asked: "So did a panicked, trigger-happy MP actually shoot and kill an alien that night?
"The truth may never be known. The lid on this and so many other apparent incidents of this ilk have been so tightly wound shut, that those involved fear the worst for their jobs, and perhaps even their lives.
"But if this case of an alien termination is true, then we have more to fear than just military threats.
"We have an alien race expecting one of their own to eventually come home. They just probably weren't expecting it to be in a body bag."
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual has his doubts about the case.
He told Express.co.uk: "There are numerous stories of alien spaceship and alien entity retrievals, like this one it is hard to pin down the facts.
"In this instance, Jeff Morse is the prime source of this story and there is not much evidence to back-up his claims except a few rumours.
"When Roger Pibson, a special investigator for the National Institute for Discovery Science (NIDS), looked into the case in 2002 he contacted numerous McGuire AFB officials who denied any event of this nature occurring at the base.
"Believers would say 'they would say that' as part of the cover-up. More damning is the original report by Morse, which is claimed to contain many errors suggesting it was a hoax, nonetheless Morse stuck to his story and seemed convincing to those who met him.
"We might also wonder why the base did not go into full alert, in fear that the ETs would mount an attack in response to the shooting of their comrade.
"Instead, the story just sounds like a fantasy that piggy backed on the renewed interest in the 1947 Roswell case."
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Could Fast Radio Bursts Be Powering Alien Probes?
Could Fast Radio Bursts Be Powering Alien Probes?
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The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has looked for many different signs of alien life, from radio broadcasts to laser flashes, without success. However, newly published research suggests that mysterious phenomena called fast radio bursts could be evidence of advanced alien technology. Specifically, these bursts might be leakage from planet-sized transmitters powering interstellar probes in distant galaxies.
"Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven't identified a possible natural source with any confidence," said theorist Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking."
As the name implies, fast radio bursts are millisecond-long flashes of radio emission. First discovered in 2007, fewer than two dozen have been detected by gigantic radio telescopes like the Parkes Observatory in Australia or the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. They are inferred to originate from distant galaxies, billions of light-years away.
Loeb and his co-author Manasvi Lingam (Harvard University) examined the feasibility of creating a radio transmitter strong enough for it to be detectable across such immense distances. They found that, if the transmitter were solar powered, the sunlight falling on an area of a planet twice the size of the Earth would be enough to generate the needed energy. Such a vast construction project is well beyond our technology, but within the realm of possibility according to the laws of physics.
Lingam and Loeb also considered whether such a transmitter would be viable from an engineering perspective, or whether the tremendous energies involved would melt any underlying structure. Again, they found that a water-cooled device twice the size of Earth could withstand the heat.
They then asked, why build such an instrument in the first place? They argue that the most plausible use of such power is driving interstellar light sails. The amount of power involved would be sufficient to push a payload of a million tons, or about 20 times the largest cruise ships on Earth.
"That's big enough to carry living passengers across interstellar or even intergalactic distances," added Lingam.
To power a light sail, the transmitter would need to focus a beam on it continuously. Observers on Earth would see a brief flash because the sail and its host planet, star and galaxy are all moving relative to us. As a result, the beam sweeps across the sky and only points in our direction for a moment. Repeated appearances of the beam, which were observed but cannot be explained by cataclysmic astrophysical events, might provide important clues about its artificial origin.
Loeb admits that this work is speculative. When asked whether he really believes that any fast radio bursts are due to aliens, he replied, "Science isn't a matter of belief, it's a matter of evidence. Deciding what’s likely ahead of time limits the possibilities. It's worth putting ideas out there and letting the data be the judge.”
The paper reporting this work has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters and is available online.
Headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) is a joint collaboration between the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory and the Harvard College Observatory. CfA scientists, organized into six research divisions, study the origin, evolution and ultimate fate of the universe.
For more information, contact:
Megan Watzke Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics +1 617-496-7998 mwatzke@cfa.harvard.edu
Peter Edmonds Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics +1 617-571-7279 pedmonds@cfa.harvard.edu
Harvard-studie: “Snelle radioflitsen drijven mogelijk buitenaardse ruimteschepen aan”
Harvard-studie: “Snelle radioflitsen drijven mogelijk buitenaardse ruimteschepen aan”
Snelle radioflitsen stellen astronomen al lange tijd voor een raadsel. Afgelopen jaar werden 16 van deze flitsen waargenomen, maar niemand weet waar ze precies vandaan komen.
Een wetenschapper van het Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics denkt dat de radioflitsen worden voortgebracht door een buitenaardse intelligentie.
Theoretisch natuurkundige Avi Loeb bestudeerde de radioflitsen en kwam tot de conclusie dat ze mogelijk motoren van buitenaardse ruimteschepen aandrijven.
Geen overtuigende verklaring
“We hebben nog geen overtuigende natuurlijke verklaring voor dit fenomeen,” aldus Loeb. “Het is de moeite waard te onderzoeken of ze een kunstmatige oorsprong hebben.”
De radiosignalen worden mogelijk door aliens gebruikt voor zonnezeilen, ruimtevaartuigen die worden aangedreven door zonne-energie.
“De uitbarstingen die we tot nu toe hebben waargenomen, zouden van een dergelijk systeem afkomstig kunnen zijn,” stelt Loeb in Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Hele planeet
Zo’n systeem zou net zo groot als een hele planeet moeten zijn, schatten Loeb en zijn collega Manasvi Lingam van de Harvard-universiteit.
Het systeem kan volgens hen een massa van een miljoen ton voortstuwen, ongeveer 20 keer de grootste cruiseschepen op aarde.
“Dat is genoeg om levende passagiers te verplaatsen over interstellaire of zelfs intergalactische afstanden,” voegde Lingam toe.
Verre sterrenstelsels
Snelle radioflitsen bestaan uit radiostraling en duren slechts enkele milliseconden. Ze werden in 2007 voor het eerst ontdekt.
Ze lijken uit verre sterrenstelsels te komen die zich op miljarden lichtjaren afstand bevinden.
Wetenschappers zeggen dat deze kristallen op een dag kunnen worden gebruikt voor veilige kwantumcomputers.
Tijd
Hoewel atomen in kristallen zoals een ijskristal of diamant in een steeds terugkerend patroon in de ruimte geordend zijn, herhaalt het patroon achter tijdkristallen zich in de tijd.
Het gedrag van de kristallen druist in tegen de verwachtingen, aldus onderzoekers van de Universiteit van Maryland en de Universiteit van Californië – Berkeley.
De onderzoekersresultaten zijn gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Nature.
Voortdurend
De vreemde tijdkristallen bestaan uit atomen die voortdurend in beweging zijn zonder daarbij energie te verliezen.
Natuurkundige Frank Wilczek speculeerde in 2012 als eerste over het bestaan van tijdkristallen. Hij dacht dat het mogelijk moest zijn om een kristalstructuur te creëren in de tijddimensie.
Niets
Veel wetenschappers waren hier sceptisch over. Een tijdkristal waarvan de atomen eeuwig in beweging zijn, zonder extra benodigde energie, staat gelijk aan een perpetuum mobile, stelden ze.
Een perpetuum mobile is een denkbeeldig apparaat dat in staat wordt geacht energie uit het niets op te wekken.
Nu blijken tijdkristallen dan toch te kunnen bestaan.
Dark Knight Satellite Found On Space Station Live Camera, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Dark Knight Satellite Found On Space Station Live Camera, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 2017
Location of sighting: Space Station live cam
This UFO was caught by Streetcap1 of Youtube yesterday. Its very dark and has a lot of detail to it. Its darkness and shape makes it a possibility that this may be a Dark Knight satellite. Dark Knight is an ancient astronaut satellite system placed in Earths orbit thousands of years ago to safeguard their (aliens) planet claim. Claim by whom? Probably the alien species on Planet X, also known as Nibiru. A mysterious planet that NASA says does exist, but has a 10k-15k year orbit around Earth.
This Day In UFO History, March 10, 1993, The Maslin Beach Incident, Australia, UFO Sighting News.
This Day In UFO History, March 10, 1993, The Maslin Beach Incident, Australia, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 10, 1993 Location of sighting: Maslin Beach, Australia Here is a historic sighting from 1993, and in it something unusual happens, he doesn't talk about it until after the photos were made. This is not unusual because UFOs have mind manipulation devices that cause the eyewitness to feel calm during the event and also to not be concerned enough after the event to talk about it for at least several days. Scott C. Waring
The 1993 Maslin Beach photograph case At the point when Eric Thomason in Maslin Beach, Australia, watched out over the sea, he saw - to his extraordinary amazement - a UFO ascended from the waves and began flying towards him. At the point when the object came closer, Eric took out his camera and began taking photos. - "I could feel water dribbling from the craft", he tells UFO-Aktuellt. By Clas Svahn Interpretation by Stefan Isaksson The photos are very hair-raising, and there are truly only two options: either Eric Thomason's photos are the most amazing up until now, or it's only a basic trick. Eric Thomason, 69, is a senior national living in Maslin Beach in southern Australia. Not a long way from his home is an old deserted mine, Maslin Old Quarry, where he now and again takes his puppy for a walk. In March 1993, Eric chose to attempt to report the old mine utilizing his child's camera, a Kodak S50 with a Fuji 100 ASA-film. Regardless of having never claimed his very own camera and having for all intents and purposes no encountering shooting, Eric set off with a specific end goal to attempt to catch the excellent shades of the open-give mine from a role as many edges as could be expected under the circumstances. Furthermore, s photograph challenge in the magazine "Southern Times-Messenger" about the best picture of a dawn over land additionally helped him in his choice. He thought he would have the capacity to catch the dawn on film from Ochre Point, a precipice 60 meters high from where hang-lightweight flyers used to take off - yet the sun was taken cover behind a thick layer of mists. The Sun was Hidden Wednesday, March 10, didn't give off an impression of being vastly improved. It was a cool morning, just 14 degrees Celsius, and a resolved twist originated from the west. From the highest point of the green precipice, Eric was compelled to acknowledge that there would not have been a dawn that morning either. An industrious layer of mists shut out the sun, and the time was 06:00 AM when Eric rather swung to confront the sea toward the west. - "It was then that I saw a development at first glance on the water, and something resembling the tower on a nuclear submarine rose, Eric tells UFO-Sweden. At the point when the question ascended from the water I could perceive how three legs were calling attention to from the body. I was likewise ready to perceive how it was turning, and how the three legs were pulled in." Prior to the legs being pulled in, Eric figured out how to take his first photo of the UFO, and he assesses the separated section to be around 400 meters away. It then occurred to him how uncovered his position was. Remaining on top of the Ochre Point with the sun directly behind him made him an easy target to spot for a the UFOs. - "I had known about individuals being taken by UFOs, so I moved down a slant adjacent area. From that point I could perceive how the light-dark question came flying to some degree south of me, and stopped over the mine. At that exact second I spotted yet another object, north of the first. That is the point at which I snapped my second picture, yet since the light from the dawn was straight into my view- I moved a little to one side." While taking photos from his spot five meters underneath the highest point of the bluff, the smaller UFO moved towards the bigger one, stopped, and afterward proceeded upwards, into the bigger craft. - "I could see three lights on the outside of the bigger question and how it shone around the opening. Not long after I'd taken the fourth and last photo the bigger question climbed straight up and vanished over me. At the point when that happened, I could feel dilute dribbling from the specialty on me." In a report frame to the Australian UFO-bunch Australian Flying Saucer Research Society, Eric gauges the span of the question be 40 meters, and the separation (when he first observed it ascend from the sea) to be 2 kilometers. While conversing with him on the telephone, Eric discloses to me how it never got nearer to him than 400 meters. At the point when the occurrence was over, Eric returned home. Nonetheless, regardless of his astounding experience he chose to stay close-lipped regarding it, even to his better half. He initially needed to have the film created keeping in mind the end goal to see whether there in fact were any photos of it. Be that as it may, he was not in a rush. Before he turned in the film for improvement he made a point to go through the whole film. Also, not until May, 1994, when he had viewed a UFO appear on TV, did he present the photos. - "At first he didn't disclose to me anything since I wasn't feeling great at the time, and later he trusted that the photos wouldn't indicate anything", Mrs. Thomason says when UFO-Sweden converses with her. "In any case, after he had the film created he revealed them to me. I'm sure it's a spaceship. Eric is not the lying sort, and I trust him." Snappy Stroll Still, there are a few subtle elements in his story that merit contemplating. Eric Thomason set his wake up timer to 05:45 keeping in mind the end goal to get the dawn, which occurred around 06:00. Amid these 15 minutes, Mr. Thomason had sufficient energy to get up, put on a few layers of warm dress, bring his camera, get the puppy at the back of the house, stroll to Ochre Point (which as indicated by Mrs. Thomason takes 5 minutes), climb the 60 meters tall bluff, sit tight for the fizzled dawn, and after that stroll on to another site close by with a specific end goal to watch out over the sea. At 06:00 sharp he took his first photo of the protest. The brilliant blue sky on the main photo proposes the pictures were taken later in the day. In a letter, Eric portrays what happened when the photos came back from the photograph lab: "When the film had been created I saw yet another object on the main photo, which I hadn't seen amid the episode itself. A dark spot out there, somewhere between the question and the edge of the photo, which may have been a plane a few kilometers away, or a littler UFO on its approach to meet with the bigger one." Shoddy Camera As indicated by Eric, the negatives were broke down by Kodak in Adelaide, however he doesn't know anything about the outcomes. - The negatives were sent in by Mark Tarrot, a UFOlogist. He realizes what the outcomes were. The camera Eric utilized was a modest Kodak S50, obtained in a retail chain for 40 USD. The S50 utilizes ordinary 35 mm film, and has never been accessible on the Swedish market. Its concentration is set, and can't be changed. There are, all in all, no catches to push aside from the shade discharge. Cameras of this sort are constantly determined to boundlessness, and have an expansive profundity of field. What's more, here's the place a vulnerability gets to be distinctly clear. On the off chance that you take a gander at the primary photo the protest, which as far as anyone knows is 400 meters away, is in center while the skyline is fluffy. Indeed, both the protest and the skyline ought to be in core interest. That aside, the pictures concur with Eric's story, and amid our whole discussion he answers every one of my inquiries right, notwithstanding when I attempt to trap him. Mr. Thomason's photos have brought on a great deal of consideration around the world, and have even wound up in an American UFO chronological registry. - "There have been such a large number of individuals calling, that I'm presently beginning to become ill of it", Eric says while specifying how he is extremely basic to other UFO photos. "In any case, I've started searching for them in the nighttimes while out strolling the canine. I know there are UFOs from various planets in the universe. Yet, so far I've just observed shooting stars." At long last I ask Erik Thomason the most vital question of them all: Are the photos truly certified? Do they truly delineate the protest you said rose up out of the sea? - "Yes, completely, he says quickly and includes, OK?"
Over the last couple of centuries, many individuals have claimed to visit other planets through astral projection or through secret, possibly alien, technology. Since the 1970s, most alien stories have been about small gray men abducting humans but usually staying on Earth, which seems a pity. Here are 10 examples of people who claimed to explore other worlds.
10. The Denton Family
Hand Holding Gold Nugget
Nineteenth-century Englishman William Denton claimed that the power of psychometry (divining facts about an object or its owner through physical contact) allowed members of his family to visit the various planets of the solar system. His first psychometric experiments involved the use of geological samples to view images of the Earth’s distant past. His wife, Elizabeth, reportedly saw a vision of a giant prehistoric insect after touching a piece of quartz. His sister, Anne Cridge, envisioned an eruption into the sea after touching a fragment of volcanic lava. The family would later turn their psychometric powers to the heavens. Denton’s son, Sherman, reportedly visited Venus and described giant trees shaped like mushrooms filled with sweet jelly and a creature resembling a cross between a fish and a muskrat.
He visited Mars, peopled by a race with four fingers, yellow hair, and wide, blue eyes who flitted around in aluminum flying machines. Mrs. Cridge and Mrs. Denton also visited Mars and described their art, culture, and religion in detail. Jupiter, meanwhile, was also peopled by blue-eyed blondes, but these people could float in the air, and their women wore braids down to their waists.
9. Emanuel Swedenborg
The Swedish philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg believed the universe was filled with other planets inhabited by humans (though spiritual beings). He claimed to have been guided by God and an angel through spiritual tours of Heaven, Hell, and the cosmos. Through the Lord, he was able to commune with spirits, not just of this world but also of others. Swedenborg’s voyage through the solar system was a spiritual journey, but he came back armed with knowledge of our neighbors. Men of the Moon were described as dwarfs about the size of a seven-year-old boy, though stouter in stature and with thunderous voices. Mercurians resembled Earthlings and wore tight clothing. They were also hungry for knowledge, able to read memories from approaching individuals, and counted Aristotle as one of their population. The inhabitants of Venus were divided into two groups, one peaceful and gentle, the other fierce thieves.
Martians resembled humans of various hues without facial hair, lived in perfect communes (wrong thinkers being exiled), wore clothes made from tree bark, and were apparently the best people in the universe. The inhabitants of Jupiter were upright, soft-spoken, happy, and family-oriented people with an obsession with washing their faces and a tendency to walk on their hands. Finally, Saturnians were restrained, humble people with low self-esteem. They had little interest in food and clothing. Rather than burying their dead, they would cover them with leaves. Swedenborg never got around to visiting the other planets of the solar system through the angels, perhaps because they hadn’t been discovered yet by other Earthlings.
8. Howard Menger
UFO contactee and alleged reincarnated Saturnian Howard Menger claimed to have been taken on joyrides through the solar system on a flying saucer. His interaction with aliens began at the age of 10 when a mysterious woman in the forest told him he was chosen and destined for great things. He had intermittent contact during his service in the Pacific War, but after leaving the army he spent a lot of time helping visitors from Venus and Mars blend in with Earth clothing—the women apparently had trouble with high heels and rejected bras entirely. Later he would remember he was actually the reincarnated spirit of a Saturnian man named Sol du Naro, who occupied the body of a dead one-year-old named Howard Menger at the end of a wonderful relationship with a Venusian woman. He claims the beings and civilizations on Venus and Saturn vibrate at a higher frequency than those on Earth, rendering their bodies more tenuous and often invisible to us.
He described beautiful suburbs with redwood trees on Venus, unfamiliar animals, and people walking around in pastel clothing. He would also take a trip to the Moon after receiving a lunar potato containing over 15 percent protein from a contact in Philadelphia. The lunar trip would require a week and a half of atomic processing in order to exist on the Moon’s “expression of reality.” On arrival, Menger reported beautiful pearl-shaped aerodromes, women in gowns offering refreshments, floating trains, and a number of Russian, German, and Japanese tour groups. He even reported a huge, crashed, bullet-shaped vehicle, said to be the remains of an exploratory vessel from another world.
Back on Earth, later in life he recanted his story, blaming it all on aCIA mind experiment, only to re-recant back to his original story in the 1980s.
In 2014, an alleged whistleblower named Captain Kaye claimed he had spent 17 of his 20 years in the military on Mars, protecting five civilian colonies. He claims he was recruited into the Mars Defense Force (MDF) from a covert branch of the US Marine Corps called “Special Section,” although the MDF apparently recruits from a number of different military branches.
The main human colony on Mars is Aries Prime, built in the middle of a crater. Captain Kaye reports Mars has a breathable atmosphere and occasionally balmy climate. His mission was to defend the human colonies from the two indigenous races, a reptilian race and an insectoid race, aggressive in defense but not expansionist, usually content to leave the MDF and Mars Colony Corporation alone. Things took a turn toward the end of his service as all human military personnel were ordered to retrieve a sacred reptilian artifact from a cave. The ensuing battle killed almost 1,000 personnel and left only 27 survivors.
Captain Kaye said he hopes his testimony will bring to light thebreakaway human civilization on Mars, and he has been backed up by Michael Relfe, who also claims his 20 years of service included covert operations on the red planet. Laura Magdalene Eisenhower, who claims to be the great granddaughter of the President, also claimed attempts were made to recruit her for the Mars colony.
In 2015, Captain Kaye’s real name was revealed to be Randy Cramer, who gave further details such as the Moon landing being a cover for extensive operations on the Moon in the 1950s and Mars in the 1960s, and the US Marines “Special Section” being set up by President Eisenhower as a counterweight to Majestic-12.
In 1906, Utah’s Emery County Progress published an article about a recent trip to Mars by Sackville G. Leyson, president of Society for Psychical Research, via psychic projection. He described Mars as a big globe of molten fire surrounded by bloodred clouds mixed with others of greenish hue. He described two tribes of native Martians, both naked, covered in fur. The difference between them was that “one [was] so large I only came up to their knees and the other [was] so small that they only came up to my knees.” The larger species was described as possessing huge ears, a lion’s nose, a large eye in the middle of the forehead, and lungs that expanded crosswise rather than up and down. They lived in rock houses.
The smaller species was described as web-footed creatures able to slide across moss and scale walls, with eyes in their temples and two holes in their cheeks to make up for their lack of a nose. They lived in holes under the ground. He also reported rubber trees, a substance resembling snow that wasn’t cold and was soft to walk on, and “men working with some sort of machine which was guiding lights across transparent rocks. The rays seemed to be reflected clear to the atmosphere on earth.” Given the fact there isn’t much evidence Sackville G. Leyson actually existed, it’s most likely the entire account was fabricated by the Emery County Progress as a satire of astral projection and contemporary theories of life on other planets.
5. Ingo Swann And Harold Sherman
Remote viewers Ingo Swann and Harold Sherman allegedly undertook psychic journeys to Mercury and Jupiter, just ahead of the Pioneer 10 space probe. Mercury was allegedly filled with rainbows and had a thin atmosphere and a water-dwelling form of lichen-like lifeforms living on rocks. Jupiter was said to have a bitter cold atmosphere of swirling colors and tornados, as well as a 9,000-meter-high (30,000 ft) mountain range. Evaluations of the accuracy of the remote viewing were decidedly mixed. Doctors Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff thought Swann and Sherman’s reports compared favorably with data received from the Mariner 10 and Pioneer 10 research spacecraft.
Isaac Asimov, on the other hand, determined some 46 percent of the remote viewers’ observations were wrong, and only one out of every 65 observations made weren’t either immediately obvious or available in standard scientific textbooks. Swann would later theorize the astral viewing was simply so fast they actually ended up observing a gas giant in a different solar systemaltogether. Carl Sagan was even more damning, sarcastically calling the pair “two courageous American mystics” and their results “dreadful—sort of vague remembrances of sixth-grade general science.”
4. Dana Howard
Contactee Dana Howard wrote a number of books describing her experiences on Venus, including My Flight to Venus (1954), Diane: She Came From Venus (1956),Over the Threshold (1957), andVesta, the Earthborn Venusian (1959). She allegedly made first contact with a 250-centimeter-tall (8′) Venusian woman named Diane in 1936.
“Her head was radiant with a crown of fire, strands of golden hair cascading gently over her beautiful, slightly olive-tinted shoulders. The strange mystic light flooding her dark, prophetic eyes, added a wistful something to all her other charms . . . ‘Have no fears, Child of Earth,’ she intoned. ‘Let the doors of your mind be opened and we of the faraway planets will speak to you in poetry and song.’ “
Howard then entered a space ship made of translucent materials with gold trimming and gem studs. Then the mysterious woman disappeared, and Dana Howard was swept off on a trip to Venus.
She would later encounter the Venusian Diane again when she materialized at a seance in Los Angeles in 1955, telling Howard she would help her write about her experiences on Venus then dancing a kind of undulating waltz. In her works, written with Diane as muse no doubt, Howard detailed Venusian medicine as the manipulation of life essence, which resembled a spider’s web in white with a slight blue tint. She also wrote of their technology, teleportation achieved through vibration of matter through thought. Later, she would describe having married and raised children on the Second Planet.
3. George Adamski
In 1952, Polish immigrant George Adamski and some friends went into the Mojave Desert to look for UFOs. There they saw a gigantic, cigar-shaped craft and chased after it. The cigar craft rocketed into space, and Adamski was left alone when another, smaller craft appeared and a man appeared about 40 meters (130 ft) away, beckoning Adamski. He was a beautiful 160-centimeter-tall (5’3”) man with long, blonde hair and tanned skin, wearing a brown one-piece suit with a broad belt and red shoes. After shaking hands with Adamski, he opened telepathic contact and said his name was Orthon, he was from Venus, and he came to warn the Earth about the dangers of nuclear energy.
This was only Adamski’s first encounter. He would later claim to visit the Moon (where he reported “billions and billions of fireflies . . . flickering everywhere,” as well as cities, forests and snow-capped mountains) and Mars and Venus, where he enjoyed banquets with local inhabitants. He went there aboard bell-shaped flying saucers piloted by Nordic space brothers and took a number of photographs of the craft. His claims made him famous as the first well-known contactee, but some say his successful books about journeys through the solar system were merely a re-hash ofPioneers of Space, a science fiction book Adamski wrote through a ghost writer, and that much of his other evidence was faked.
2. Orfeo Angelucci
Believing mold to be a negative form of life leeching off living matter through a subtle process of mutation, Lockheed Corporation aviation employee Orfeo Angelucci decided to attempt an experiment in 1952, sending 18 samples ofAspergillus clavatusmold into the upper atmosphere to test structural changes in their growth. As fate would have it, the balloons broke away prematurely and the mold samples were lost, but by happy coincidence his mishap was noticed by a passing Neptunian spacecraft. His father-in-law first noticed the circular craft, which followed the balloons as they floated away.
Angelucci had a second encounter six weeks later when an oval object glowing red appeared in front of his car as he returned from work. It issued two balls of green fire which told him they were friends and to get out of his car. When he did, a man and woman of “ultimate perfection” appeared and told him he was of very special interest to the aliens surveying Earth. He would later encounter a dashing flying saucer pilot named Neptune who told him secrets of the universe and warned him of the dangers of Communism, and another handsome humanoid named Adam, who over steak dinner turned Angelucci’s glass of water into delicious space nectar by means of an effervescent white pellet.
After being brought to an alien world via flying saucer, Angelucci remembered having lived there before in a previous life on the world and that his original name was also Neptune. The world was apparently a remnant of the shattered planet Lucifer, once the most radiant planets in the universe, which had turned against the etheric beings of the “Father” or “Source.” He would also meet Jesus Christ, whom he revealed to be an infinite entity from the Sun, and witnessed the end of the world, which would happen in 1986 if humanity didn’t mend its ways. Good thing we got on that.
1. Rael
In 1973, French racing car journalist Claude Vorilhon reported a dramatic encounter with a humanoid alien named Yahweh at the Puy de Lassolas volcano park, who told him the secrets of the Elohim, the alien creators of the human race. Yahweh told him he was his real father, and bestowed him with the name Rael. In 1975, Rael claimed to have been taken to the planet of the Elohim (and the nearby planet of the Eternals, where humans live for 700 years before being cloned from a single cell taken prior to death) via flying saucer, stopping along the way for a massage and aromatherapy treatment at the outskirts of our solar system. Suitably refreshed, he arrived on the planet and met his half-brothers Jesus, Muhammad, and Buddha. While there, he was tempted by an Eloah named Satan, who told him Yahweh’s plan for enlightening the human race was doomed to failure and made a counter-offer of billions of dollars in a Swiss bank account if Rael would help carry out a plan of final cataclysm through worldwide racial war.
Rael demurred, saying that saving humanity was more important than riches and power, which was smart because it turned out the whole thing was a test by Yahweh to see if Rael was truly worthy. Rael was then shown the facilities making immortal biological robots, where they made a copy of Rael’s mother and a host of attractive young females before returning to Rael’s apartment for a party. Before returning him to Earth, Yahweh used a helmet-like machine to maximize Rael’s intellectual faculties—which probably had nothing to do with the fact he brought a clone robot of his mother to a sex party.
+ Truman Bethurum
Truman Bethurum almost doesn’t fit this list because he never did get to visit another planet, but he really could’ve been a contender. In 1952, the night shift maintenance mechanic finished work at 3:30 AM and drove out to a hillside called Mormon Mesa to look for seashells from the ancient sea that once covered the area. After a search, he fell asleep in his truck only to be awoken by “a mumbling, low talking in an unintelligible tongue.” His truck was surrounded by 8 to 10 short men, all olive-skinned, clean-shaven with black hair, appearing to be of Latin extraction. They were wearing leather jackets and what appeared to be Greyhound bus drivers’ uniforms.
Bethurum got out of his truck to greet them and immediately noticed the flying saucer hovering nearby. After shaking hands with the saucer crew and realizing they spoke English, Bethurum was taken aboard and introduced to their captain, the bewitching Aura Rhanes, who had a complexion of “a beautiful olive and roses,” wore a black beret over her short hair, and spoke to Bethurum in rhyming couplets. When he returned to his hotel, Bethurum wrote a note: “If I am found dead in my bed, it will be because my heart has stopped from the terrible excitement induced by seeing and going aboard a flying saucer!”
As it happened, Bethurum would be taken aboard the flying saucer another 11 times. He discovered that the visiters hailed from the planet Clarion, hidden on the far side of the Moon, and their saucer was made from the finest Martian steel. On their planet, there was no disease, divorce, war, or social unrest, and everyone lived to the age of 1,000. There was also no liquor or tobacco. He was told that mankind would never get into space until they ended strife and war.
Back on Earth, Bethurum would become popular on the UFO enthusiast circuit with speaking engagements and television interviews like NBC’s Betty White Show, eventually forming a religious group known as the Sanctuary of Thought. His wife divorced him out of jealousy of Aura Rhanes, although Bethurum was never able to take it further with her, nor did he ever get to planet Clarion. His last signals to the flying saucer went unanswered, and the last time he saw Aura Rhanes was in a restaurant in Los Angeles, were she was drinking a glass of orange juice and ignoring him. He never saw his space friends again. Maybe the fame had gone to his head, and they abandoned him. We may never know.
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UFO sightings increasing in Queensland, Australia, say researchers (Photos)
UFO sightings increasing in Queensland, Australia, say researchers (Photos)
UFO researchers say UFO sightings are increasing in the state of Queensland in Australia. Recent sightings have included photos and video.
UFO Research Queensland President Sheryl Gottschall told the Brisbane Times there has been a spike in reports over the last few months. She says, “We get about 100 calls a year and across Australia all up the UFO research groups get up to 800. That’s just the reported sightings – a lot go unreported.”
Another representative from the Queensland UFO group agrees. In a radio interview with 4BC, Tino Pezzimenti says, “Only about 5% of reports or sightings actually get reported, so you can imagine. We get a couple hundred a year. That’s only probably 5% of people that actually find their way to reporting something to us.”
UFO photo captured in Brisbane, the capital of Queensland, Australia.This image was reportedly taken on March 5, 2014 at 2:34 am. (Credit: Brisbane UFO Sightings Facebook page)
Pezzimenti says many of these are not just reports of lights in the sky. Some of the sightings come with photos or video.
The hosts of 4BC said they had heard many sightings are due to a large local event called the Royal Queensland Show, aka Ekka (referred to as “the exhibition” in the radio show). The event is Queensland’s largest annual event, attracting hundreds of thousands of guest from around the world. It includes farm animal, food, and strength competitions, among other events, and takes place in early August.
Pezzimenti admitted that many UFO reports are misidentifications. He cited a recent sighting in mid-July in which the police suggested the mysterious lights were actually due to the testing of the fairground lights in preparation for Ekka.
However, Pezzimenti says their organization is not quick to call everything a UFO. He explains, “To be a UFO it’s got to have to do something unusual or look unusual like this photograph, or it does a 90 degree turn, or it flies off faster than any jet we have ever heard and there’s not even a sonic boom.”
The photograph Pezzimenti refers to is a sighting he is particularly excited about. The photo was allegedly taken on Friday, May 23, 2014 in the Wooloowin area at 5:35 pm. It shows what appears to be a strange disk-shaped object in the sky.
Pezzimenti says the object does not appear to have engines or propellers. He says this kind of photographic evidence needs to be taken “pretty seriously.”
The image was posted on a Facebook page called Brisbane UFO Sightings, which was created recently for the founder of the page to post pictures of UFOs. Apparently, he or she captures them often. Other than the date, time, and location of the sighting, no other information is provided.
Other videos can be seen in the interview with 4BC and Pezzimenti, embedded in the Brisbane Times article.
UFO from video of interview with Tino Pezzimenti of UFO Research Queensland. (Credit: 4BC/Fairfax Media)
The increase in sightings has lead to a local resident to begin holding skywatches. Kristy Buist, founder of the Paranormal Awareness Community, had her first skywatch scheduled for earlier this week.
Buist told the Brisbane Times she has had four sightings of her own. She described the first as, “platinum and sort of shaped like diamonds just casually floating across the sky”.
Now she says, “I do look for UFOs often. I look for them wherever I go.”
Brisbane Times says participants at the skywatch look for “‘unusual movement’ in the night sky, including ‘classic’ UFO moves such as bright lights travelling from one horizon to another in seconds or lights making sudden turns.”
Photos from the skywatch were posted on UFO Research Queensland’s Facebook page, but none of them include UFOs. However, as their Facebook page says, “Skywatching calls for a lot of patience and persistence.”
Both of which I am sure local researchers will continue to practice as they continue their quest for UFO evidence, which, incidentally, remains elusive despite the increased reports.
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Scientists discover how to ‘upload knowledge to your brain’
Scientists discover how to ‘upload knowledge to your brain’
Feeding knowledge directly into your brain, just like in sci-fi classic The Matrix, could soon take as much effort as falling asleep, scientists believe.
Researchers claim to have developed a simulator which can feed information directly into a person’s brain and teach them new skills in a shorter amount of time, comparing it to “life imitating art”.
They believe it could be the first steps in developing advanced software that will make Matrix-style instant learning a reality.
In the neo-noir sci-fi classic, protagonist Neo is able to learn kung fu in seconds after the martial art is ‘uploaded’ straight to his brain.
Researchers from HRL Laboratories, based in California, say they have found a way to amplify learning, only on a much smaller scale than seen in the Hollywood film.
They studied the electric signals in the brain of a trained pilot and then fed the data into novice subjects as they learned to pilot an aeroplane in a realistic flight simulator.
The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, found that subjects who received brain stimulation via electrode-embedded head caps improved their piloting abilities and learnt the task 33 per cent better than a placebo group.
“Our system is one of the first of its kind. It’s a brain stimulation system,” explained Dr Matthew Phillips.
“It sounds kind of sci-fi, but there’s large scientific basis for the development of our system.
“The specific task we were looking at was piloting an aircraft, which requires a synergy of both cognitive and motor performance.
“When you learn something, your brain physically changes. Connections are made and strengthened in a process called neuro-plasticity.
“It turns out that certain functions of the brain, like speech and memory, are located in very specific regions of the brain, about the size of your pinky.”
Dr Matthews believes that brain stimulation could eventually be implemented for tasks like learning to drive, exam preparation and language learning
“What our system does is it actually targets those changes to specific regions of the brain as you learn,” he added.
“The method itself is actually quite old. In fact, the ancient Egyptians 4000 years ago used electric fish to stimulate and reduce pain.
The Matrix-style learning could become a reality
“Even Ben Franklin applied currents to his head, but the rigorous, scientific investigation of these methods started in the early 2000s and we’re building on that research to target and personalise a stimulation in the most effective way possible.
“Your brain is going to be very different to my brain when we perform a task. What we found is … brain stimulation seems to be particularly effective at actually improving learning.”
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Scientists discover how to ‘upload knowledge to your brain’
Scientists discover how to ‘upload knowledge to your brain’
Feeding knowledge directly into your brain, just like in sci-fi classic The Matrix, could soon take as much effort as falling asleep, scientists believe.
Researchers claim to have developed a simulator which can feed information directly into a person’s brain and teach them new skills in a shorter amount of time, comparing it to “life imitating art”.
They believe it could be the first steps in developing advanced software that will make Matrix-style instant learning a reality.
In the neo-noir sci-fi classic, protagonist Neo is able to learn kung fu in seconds after the martial art is ‘uploaded’ straight to his brain.
Researchers from HRL Laboratories, based in California, say they have found a way to amplify learning, only on a much smaller scale than seen in the Hollywood film.
They studied the electric signals in the brain of a trained pilot and then fed the data into novice subjects as they learned to pilot an aeroplane in a realistic flight simulator.
The study, published in the journal Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, found that subjects who received brain stimulation via electrode-embedded head caps improved their piloting abilities and learnt the task 33 per cent better than a placebo group.
“Our system is one of the first of its kind. It’s a brain stimulation system,” explained Dr Matthew Phillips.
“It sounds kind of sci-fi, but there’s large scientific basis for the development of our system.
“The specific task we were looking at was piloting an aircraft, which requires a synergy of both cognitive and motor performance.
“When you learn something, your brain physically changes. Connections are made and strengthened in a process called neuro-plasticity.
“It turns out that certain functions of the brain, like speech and memory, are located in very specific regions of the brain, about the size of your pinky.”
Dr Matthews believes that brain stimulation could eventually be implemented for tasks like learning to drive, exam preparation and language learning
“What our system does is it actually targets those changes to specific regions of the brain as you learn,” he added.
“The method itself is actually quite old. In fact, the ancient Egyptians 4000 years ago used electric fish to stimulate and reduce pain.
The Matrix-style learning could become a reality
“Even Ben Franklin applied currents to his head, but the rigorous, scientific investigation of these methods started in the early 2000s and we’re building on that research to target and personalise a stimulation in the most effective way possible.
“Your brain is going to be very different to my brain when we perform a task. What we found is … brain stimulation seems to be particularly effective at actually improving learning.”
Both chambers of Congress just passed the NASA Authorization Act of 2017. With this transformative development, the space agency got a lot more than just $19.508 billion in funding. They also got a very clear mandate: Get humanity to Mars.
To be clear, Mars has been in the works for some time; however, the 2017 Act places a strong emphasis on this goal, making it the focal point of NASA’s long-term plans. In the document, congress asserts that the space agency is to get humans “near or on the surface of Mars in the 2030s.” Opposition to the bill from the administration isn’t expected, so it’s more than likely to be passed into law by the presidency.
There is a strong humanitarian argument for making life multiplanetary in order to safeguard the existence of humanity. -Elon Musk
In order to get to Mars by the 2030s, Congress is asking NASA to develop “an initial human exploration roadmap” that must be submitted before December 1, 2017.
The bill outlines the necessity of this roadmap, stating: “It is the sense of Congress that expanding human presence beyond low-Earth orbit and advancing toward human missions to Mars in the 2030s requires early strategic planning and timely decisions to be made in the near-term on the necessary courses of action for commitments to achieve short-term and long-term goals and objectives.”
To that end, the 2017 Act states that this plan should outline clear goals that are a bit closer to home, instead of just making a grand leap to the Red Planet all at once. The document states, “A human exploration roadmap should begin with low-Earth orbit, then address in greater detail progress beyond low-Earth orbit to cis-lunar space, and then address future missions aimed at human arrival and activities near and then on the surface of Mars.”
Speaking of the planned stages, NASA already has a basic outline: “The human exploration of Mars crosses three thresholds, each with increasing challenges as humans move farther from Earth: Earth Reliant [now until the mid-2020s], the Proving Ground [2018-2030], and Earth Independent [now to 2030s and beyond].”
With these planned phases, NASA should be able to easily provide Congress with the roadmap that it’s asking for.
Through this new NASA Authorization Act, Congress affirms that “Mars is the appropriate long-term goal for the human space flight program,” and it is likely that the Moon will be a stop over in 2020, if the current administration’s plans push forward.
NASA’s Mars Missions
Recently, much of the news covering missions to Mars involved private space companies, most notably, SpaceX and foreign space agencies — including China and the UAE.
According to SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, the company will create a permanent Martian settlement. To that end, Musk’s plan includes the launch of the unmanned “Red Dragon” spacecraft by 2018, then sending a new and reusable rocket by 2022 (which will be powered by the just recently tested Raptor rocket), and eventually launching humans to Mars after that—hopefully landing by 2025. However, much of the details still need to be fleshed out.
Regardless, Musk has made it clear that he thinks such a colonization project will ultimately save the human race. And as this directive by congress reveals, the U.S. government agrees.
See SpaceX’s plans in this video:
To say, however, that NASA has been sitting idly by would be inaccurate. The space agency has been “on a journey to Mars” for some time.
So, what has NASA been up to in relation to the Red Planet? The agency already has a host of rovers currently on Mars. One
, the Curiosity rover, has made much headway in helping us better understand how much water did (and maybe still does) exist on Mars. Another rover is planned for 2020. This Mars 2020 rover will gather and study data on the availability of resources, such as oxygen, on Mars.
In this respect, Sending rovers is one of the first steps in getting people to Mars.
Ultimately, in the end, getting humans to Mars isn’t some empty obsession. It’s a worthwhile endeavor—one that has the potential to inspire generations in the same manner that the Apollo missions (and Moon landing) did. For many, getting to Mars would be the highest point of human exploration they would ever witness. Think of what New Horizon’s arrival at Pluto felt like, and now multiply that by about 100.
Already, Mars rover missions are accelerating innovation and research exponentially, so think of all the things that we could learn once we’re actually there. It is a bold new era in the final frontier.
DNA computers can create more storage as-needed through self-replication, and their computing potential is almost unfathomable.
Scientists know how to code information into DNA, but it costs $12,500 to code a single megabyte of information.
DNA: THE BLUEPRINT OF COMPUTERS?
Computers have without a doubt revolutionized modern society. They’re everywhere: our offices and homes, our pockets — even in our kitchen appliances. As for the next place computer technology could be headed, you already have the basic component: your DNA. It sounds strange, but researchers at the University of Manchester are working on turning strands of DNA into the next basis for computing.
Scientists have actually created a DNA-based computing device that “grows as it computes.” While our current computers have a finite capacity for computations, DNA computers could be designed to self-replicate, making them able to create more storage as-needed. Computers today have gradually worked up to being able to hold a few terabytes — but DNA computing can work at 100 billion terabytes. To top it off, all of that storage is guaranteed with just one gram of DNA. While that’s impressive enough on its own, storage isn’t the only benefit a DNA computer can provide.
With a self-replicating computer, there’s also the advantage of instantaneous computing power. In an interview with Popular Mechanics, lead researcher Professor Ross D King illustrated a maze with two paths — one leading left and the other leading right. He explained that current “Electronic computers need to choose which path to follow first.” On the other hand, a DNA computer “doesn’t need to choose, for it can replicate itself and follow both paths at the same time, thus finding the answer faster.”
WHAT’S THE CATCH?
While there are pioneering companies and individuals working on perfecting the system, at the moment coding just 1 megabyte of information into DNA costs $12,500. Most information we own contains thousands of megabytes, making encoding information a particularly expensive endeavor to undertake.
Footage uploaded to conspiracy YouTube channel SecureTeam 10 shows a plane travelling through the sky before completely vanishing in an instant.
The footage was captured in Birmingham, Alabama, by a man who, according to the narrator of the video, was out walking his dog with his fiancé when he began filming a passing train and then turned to what he thought was a commercial airliner.
The narrator says: “Then this airliner does something what no airliner has been seen to do, which is completely vanish in mid air.
“I have spoken to the three sources, in depth, from Birmingham, who after capturing this footage did not run out to put it online or give it to their local news source because these weren’t those type of people – they had no incentive to do so.”
The footage is apparently not an isolated incident, according to the operator of the channel, who says that he is constantly inundated with sightings of ‘alien planes’ which have the ability to disappear or morph into a new form.
It says: “This is not the first time that we have seen these fake planes, or another term alien planes.
YOUTUBE
The video shows a plane there one second and gone the next
“They have been seen all over the world.”
One of the comments confirms: “I s**t you not I saw the SAME exact thing over Birmingham just a couple months ago.. Thought I was going insane!!”
While some believe that the technology is out of this world, others believe that it could be part of a government conspiracy.
A comment reads: “EVERYONE BEWARE they are probably testing these technologies to simulate another catastrophic event like 9/11.”
GETTY
Some believe it was an 'alien plane'
However, others did not believe that the footage was genuine, with one asking “ever heard of CGI?”.
Another adds: “Who the Hell randomly films a plane seconds before it disappears? Cmon men.”
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Private Space Stations Could Orbit the Moon by 2020, Robert Bigelow Says
Private Space Stations Could Orbit the Moon by 2020, Robert Bigelow Says
by Tariq Malik, Space.com Managing Editor
A privately built space station could be in lunar orbit by 2020 to serve as a refueling depot for other spacecraft as depicted in this artist's illustration from space-habitat manufacturer Bigelow Aerospace. Original Image
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
Giant space-station refueling depots could be orbiting the moon by 2020, but only if the Trump administration makes the funding and national drive needed for it to happen a priority, according to aerospace entrepreneur Robert Bigelow.
Bigelow, whose company, Bigelow Aerospace, has launched three private space-habitat prototypes into orbit — including the first inflatable space-station module, said that a commercial station in lunar orbit would be a vital destination for moon exploration.
"The key is going to be how fast the Trump administration can react," Bigelow said in an interview Friday (March 3). The administration would have to move quickly "to energize funds and to galvanize the private sector" to make a lunar depot by end of 2020 possible, he added. [Bigelow Aerospace's Inflatable Space Station Idea (Photos)]
A privately built space station could be in lunar orbit by 2020 to serve as a refueling depot for other spacecraft as depicted in this artist's illustration from space-habitat manufacturer Bigelow Aerospace. Original Image
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
Bigelow spoke with Space.com just days after the private spaceflight company SpaceX, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, announced that it will launch a private flight around the moon in 2018. On Feb. 26, Musk told reporters SpaceX had "significant deposits" from two as-yet unnamed individuals for a private trip around the moon aboard the company's Dragon crew capsule. The flight will launch on SpaceX's new Falcon Heavy rocket, which is scheduled to make its first test flight later this year.
"SpaceX has indicated that they can provide transportation for a circumlunar flight by 2018," Bigelow said. "If the timeline is met, SpaceX would be in a position to offer commercial transportation to the moon by 2020."
Last week, another space entrepreneur — Amazon's billionaire founder Jeff Bezos — told the Washington Post that his private space company Blue Origin is eyeing its own plan for moon-bound spacecraft and a lunar lander.
This illustration depicts a Bigelow Aerospace BA-330 space habitat in orbit around the moon, where it could serve as a waystation for astronaut crews and a refueling depot for visiting spacecraft. Original Image
Bigelow himself has often said that private space stations and habitats for the moon and beyond have been goals for his Las Vegas-based Bigelow Aerospace. Last Wednesday (March 1), Bigelow unveiled his company's concept images of a lunar depot on the way to the moon, and in lunar orbit.
Bigelow Aerospace launched two uncrewed prototype inflatable habitats, called Genesis I and Genesis II, in 2006 and 2007, respectively. Then in 2016, the company's Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (or BEAM) was delivered to the International Space Station (ISS) on a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship as part of a NASA test for future space habitats. It is the first privately built and inflatable room ever installed on the space station. And so far, it's performed well, Bigelow said. [The Bigelow Expandable Activity Module in Pictures]
"We are pleased, so far, with the performance of the spacecraft," he added.
Bigelow Aerospace has also teamed up with the United Launch Alliance, a launch-providing partnership of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, to launch a colossal inflatable space habitat into orbit in 2020. That spacecraft, called the BA-330 for its 330 cubic meters (or about 11,650 cubic feet) of internal volume, would launch on a ULA Atlas V rocket and expand in orbit to serve as a free-flying private space station.
"The BA-330 is three times the size of anything on the ISS," Bigelow told Space.com, adding that the company aims to be able to provide the habitats at a fraction of NASA's cost.
This artist's illustration of a Bigelow Aerospace BA-330 habitat on the way to the moon, powered by two United Launch Alliance ACES rocket stages. Original Image
Credit: Bigelow Aerospace
Bigelow said that a BA-330 habitat could potentially be placed into a low-lunar orbit using two of ULA's upgraded Centaur rocket stages, known as ACES (Advanced Cryogenic Evolved Stage). The space station would orbit somewhere between 100 and 150 kilometers above the moon, serving as a gateway for astronaut crews making their way to or from the lunar surface.
The BA-330 could also be a fueling station for other spacecraft operating near the moon, something that will be essential for the permanent settlement of the moon, Bigelow said.
"You'll be able to give the astronauts a waystation, a place where they can have the experience of being farther from Earth than anyone has been in the last 45 years," he added.
A Georgia witness at Savannah recalled events from 2007 when a football-shaped object moving silently about 75 feet above a two-story building appeared to be about three to four feet in length, according to testimony in case 82024 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first noticed a dark, round silhouette with small wings coming toward him over Savannah, GA.
(Credit: Google)
The witness was outside on top of a two-story building watching a meteor shower on August 12, 2007.
“I was looking towards the north when I noticed a dark, round silhouette with small wings off in the distance against the glow of the city sky,” the witness stated.“Sometimes I would see owls flying at night, but this was obviously not an owl.”
The witness thought the object might be a bird.
“My first thought was that this has got to be the fastest bird with the shortest wings I have ever seen and the wings were not moving. I then realized that it was coming directly towards me. I instantly jumped up from my seat to give it my full attention.”
The object was about 75 above a two-story building. Pictured: Savannah, GA.
(Credit: Google)
The witness guessed at the object’s altitude.
“The building I was standing on is two stories tall and I would guess that the object was about 75 feet above that. It was traveling from north to south in a straight line at approximately 35 to 45 mph. It was shaped like an American football with the tips cut off with two small, rectangular wings that were angled at about 45 degrees. I would guess that it was about three to four feet in length. The object had the appearance of molten lava.”
The center of the object appeared to be glowing red. Pictured: Savannah, GA.
(Credit: Google)
The witness noticed other characteristics of the object.
“It was not tremendously bright, but it was bright enough that I could see it perfectly. The center was glowing red and the rest was orange, yellow and black swirls with it being darker towards the edges. It looked like it had been cast from molten lava. It made no sound that I could hear and I didn’t see any type of propulsion like a propeller or an exhaust of any kind. It flew directly over me as I tracked it as it flew overhead and then out of my sight.”
Georgia MUFON Field Investigator David Marchant, Sr. and State Section Director Jeremy Haslam are investigating. This case was reported to MUFON on February 12, 2017. 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 Star Is Headed in Our Direction and Could Threaten Life on Earth
A Star Is Headed in Our Direction and Could Threaten Life on Earth
It won't get too near, but it will come close enough to wreak unimaginable havoc on our planet.
Based on a recent study done, Gliese 710 — a K-spectral type star in the constellation Serpens Cauda — is bound for a close encounter with our solar system. Right now, it’s still about 64 light years away. At its current speed and path, it is estimated that it will be at its nearest distance to Earth in about 1.35 million years. That distance is roughly 1.2 trillion miles or 77 light-days (1 light-day is the distance light can travel in one day, or about 26 billion kilometers). When that time comes and at that distance, even at the size of only half our sun, Gliese 710 will appear as the “brightest and fastest object on the night sky formed outside the solar system”.
Although that’s still quite a long way off, the devastating threat it poses when the flyby finally happens cannot be dismissed because its impact will be felt for the next 10 million years.
The information that Gliese 710 will pass close to us is not entirely new. In fact, scientists have been aware of this for years, which is why they have been tracking its movement. However, it’s knowing that it will make a much closer approach than what was once thought — probably about five times closer — that’s new. And more importantly, it’s the direction it’s taking that’s causing serious alarm.
According to the data collected from the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia mission, Gliese 710 will not directly hit any object in our solar system, but it will likely travel through the Oort cloud, which is circling our solar system and is filled up with billions of comets and other icy objects. Because of its strong gravitational force, Gliese 710 — as it is passing through the Oort cloud — can influence the movement of the swarm of comets, change their course and hurtle towards our planet.
Not all those comets may make their way to us, though. Some may drift away further into space, get absorbed by the sun, pulled into other planets with stronger gravity, or maybe fall into a black hole? However, it’s impossible to think that none of those billions will hit us directly. And that’s what’s terrifying because we’re potentially looking at a comet shower that will last for 3 – 4 million years.
Remember that it took just one asteroid to wipe out the dinosaurs. Just imagine what a barrage of comets can do.
Authored by Filip Berski and Piotr A. Dybczyński from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poland, the paper detailing the latest findings on Gliese 710 was published in November 2016 through the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
Detecting Life on Alien Planets Just Became Easier With This New Technique
Detecting Life on Alien Planets Just Became Easier With This New Technique
The chemical-based analysis is not only simple. It's supposedly 10,000 times more sensitive than any existing method.
Searching for life outside Earth has become a never ending quest. And researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California might have come up with the easiest way yet.
Their method makes use of a process called capillary electrophoresis to separate liquid into its individual components. The process begins with mixing the liquid sample with a liquid reagent. Then, through a process known as induced fluorescence detection, different molecules moving at various speeds can be observed by shining a laser into the mixture. Finally, an electrical current is applied to the mixture, which then allows scientists to see the molecules separate from each other depending on how quickly they respond to the charge applied.
The test is meant to search for amino acids — what we acknowledge to be the building blocks from which all of life on Earth was derived from. It has been modified not just to enable detection of more amino acids in a single test, but also to detect amino acids regardless of how salty or alkaline the liquid sample is. This improvised method is specifically designed to detect alien life on an ocean world.
To find out if their method works, the research team analyzed amino acids in the waters of California’s Mono Lake. Specifically, they analyzed what is referred to as the ‘Signature 17 standard’ — the most common amino acids on Earth. Why did they choose this particular body of water? Because the lake has high alkaline content which makes it almost inhabitable, much like how alien waters probably are on surfaces like Mars; Europa — one of Jupiter’s moons; and Enceladus and Titan — Saturn’s moons.
To identify which amino acids were life-forming and which were not, the team studied the ‘chirality’ of the molecules. Chiral molecules — like what amino acids are — exist in two forms that are identical images of each other. These images are called right-handed and left-handed.
For amino acids that come from non-living sources, the distribution of right-handed and left-handed amino acids is nearly even. But for living sources, left-handed amino acids dominate over the right-handed ones. Taking off from this, scientists are inferring that alien life might also show a preference for either side. So finding such amino acids might be the clue that would point to the existence of alien life forms.
As reported by Phys.org, Peter Willis, the project’s principal investigator, was quoted as saying: “Using our method, we are able to tell the difference between amino acids that come from non-living sources like meteorites versus amino acids that come from living organisms.”
So when do we get to test this method outside our planet? Because it is supposedly ‘relatively simple and easy to automate’, there’s no reason to think that it can’t be deployed in a spacecraft soon. Especially since it’s the ideal complementary tool to help facilitate NASA’s upcoming missions that aim to find life on ocean worlds outside our planet.
The study was published in the journal Analytical Chemistry.
Five months to get there is just too long. It’s about time we cut the Red Planet's travel time short as putting boots on Mars should no longer be just a sci-fi dream but rather a reality.
Mars may be our nearest neighboring planet, but with the conventional rockets we have right now, it will still take us about five months to get there. And that simply isn’t satisfactory. There has got to be a way to make that trip shorter.
There are currently a few ongoing projects working towards this end. There’s the controversial propellant-less EM Drive which no one can explain for certain how it works, but has somehow passed its initial test.
And then there’s Charles Bombardier’s space train concept — the Solar Express that is envisioned to travel at approximately 1,864 miles per second, or 1% the speed of light, and cut travel time to Mars from a few months to just 2 days.
There’s also Positron Dynamics co-founder and CEO Ryan Weed’s antimatter-powered rocket that will make use of matter’s annihilation property — hit matter with its anti-matter counterpart to annihilate each other and generate pure energy that will be used to power the rocket and blast it into space with an accelerated speed that can enable travel to Mars in just a few weeks.
And now comes the latest bet: photonic propulsion — a concept that was explained by NASA scientist and University of California Physics Professor Philip Lubin in a recent video (posted below) released for NASA 360. It basically makes use of a beam of light for propulsion, hence the name photonic propulsion, for photons or visible light particles.
Lubin heads a team of scientists who has recently been given a $100,000 NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) grant to start planning and testing this photonic propulsion project that’s being called Directed Energy Propulsion for Interstellar Exploration or DEEP-IN.
To make the plan work, a laser array first needs to be placed in the Earth’s orbit. This orbiting laser array will then be used to push a solar sail. Much like a normal sail that catches wind to propel water vessels, a solar sail works the same way. Instead of wind, however, it catches light, and uses this to propel a space-bound probe — one that’s ideally ultralight (wafer-thin is how it’s being described), fuel-less, frictionless, and capable of travelling for a longer period of time at a speed that has so far been unattainable — 621 miles per second, or about 30% the speed of light.
While the concept sounds pretty much like another science fiction movie plot, Lubin says it’s not that far-fetched because we already have the technology. It just needs to be enhanced further. If successful, an umanned probe using photonic propulsion is expected to reach Mars in only 3 days, while a manned craft will take about a month — four months faster than any normal spacecraft can do at this time.
It’s a grand new idea, and it comes with a myriad of potential problems, of course. Primarily, there’s the challenge on how the probe would be able to decelerate when it reaches Mars. There’s also the certainty of encountering space debris and how to protect the craft from those. Then there’s ‘time dilation’, the concept that says that as one gets farther out in the universe, the slower time seems to pass. Plus there’s also the matter of how we can beam the information back to Earth.
All those problems aside, the idea that we have in our midst viable tech that can revolutionize space travel is quite an exciting one. Especially because it’s production is not expected to be at an exorbitant cost. By successfully making these solar sails, Mars will just be one among the many possible destinations. So, let’s all patiently wait and root for Lubin’s team to work their way towards the new age of space travel.
NASA’s New Plan Could Help Unravel Some of the Weirdest Mysteries of the Universe
NASA’s New Plan Could Help Unravel Some of the Weirdest Mysteries of the Universe
It involves a super-freezer, quantum physics and dark energy.
As announced by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) last Monday (March 6), a box the size of an ice-chest will be sent to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the SpaceX CRS-12 this summer. Containing lasers, a vacuum chamber and an ‘electromagnetic knife’ that will be used to slow down gas particles until they become motionless, NASA intends to use this box to create the coldest spot in the universe.
The box and its accompanying set of instruments are collectively referred to as the Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL). Developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it is currently in the final stages of assembly at the JPL Complex in Pasadena, California, after which, it will undergo testing prior to its actual trip to space.
NASA’s ‘cool toolkit’ was designed to freeze atomic gas particles to a billionth of a degree above absolute zero, which is over 100 million times colder than the deepest regions of the cosmos. Supposedly, when atoms are ultra-cooled to this extreme temperature level, they are capable of forming a state of matter referred to as a Bose-Einstein condensate.
A Bose-Einstein condensate is a kind of fluid that flows as if there was no friction, which is why it’s called a ‘superfluid’. While in this state, traditional laws of physics become overshadowed as quantum physics takes over. Instead of behaving like particles, matter tends to become more wave-like, moving as a single entity rather than several different entities.
So far, this behavior can only be observed for fractions of seconds on Earth because the atoms can’t help but be pulled to the ground by Earth’s gravity. In space, however, the story will be a little different. Without gravity to intervene, it might become possible to observe the atoms in their wave-like form longer. Instead of just a mere fraction of a second, the atoms can be observed for up to about 5 to 10 seconds. And with more improvements, that observation time can probably be stretched even further from just seconds into minutes.
A total of five teams are planning to run experiments using the Cold Atom Lab. Among them is Eric Cornell — of the University of Colorado, Boulder and the National Institute for Standards and Technology — who won a Nobel Prize for being the first person ever to create Bose-Einstein condensates in the lab.
So what’s the whole point of this novel strategy? According to CAL Project Scientist Robert Thompson of JPL: “Studying these hyper-cold atoms could reshape our understanding of matter and the fundamental nature of gravity.”
What he specifically means is that the discoveries and lessons that will be gained from the experiments might one day lead to the construction and development of better sensors, quantum computers and atomic clocks for space navigation. Additionally, it might also help shed light on some of the most mysterious forces in the universe — dark energy and dark matter. Just think, this ‘supercool’ project might be the key that will allow us to cross over from our ordinary physical world into the bizarre realm of the quantum universe. Pretty exciting, isn’t it?
Wisbech PSCO Ruth Moulder attended Murrow Primary School where a UFO had appeared in the school grounds.
PHOTO: Facebook/Policing Wisbech.
Wisbech PSCO Ruth Moulder attended Murrow Primary School where a UFO had appeared in the school grounds on Monday.
After checking the craft to make sure there were no occupants, the school children were allowed to take a closer look at the unidentified craft.
“No, aliens haven’t landed and are starting their world domination from Murrow,” she said.
The craft was built by school caretaker Martin Bane, after headteacher Ruth Bailey came up with the idea to encourage the children at the school in terms of their creative writing.
“Intergalactic checks will be made to ensure the craft is taxed, insured and has a valid MOT,” added PCSO Moulder.
What It Will Take to Become an Interstellar Civilization
What It Will Take to Become an Interstellar Civilization
The new movie “Interstellar” is set in a not-so-distant future, but distant enough that they’ve managed to build something still elusive in 2014: a spaceship that can travel between solar systems. Such starships have been a technological mainstay in science fiction for decades, but they remain a crazily complicated proposition in everything from propulsion to human reproduction.
Still, that hasn’t stopped researchers from trying. Last month, a bunch of rocket scientists, microbiologists and entrepreneurs gathered in Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center to discuss—in level and serious tones—how to become a spacefaring civilization. The meeting is called the 100-Year Starship symposium, and it’s brought brains together once a year since 2011 to figure out what we need to do now if we want to have an interstellar spacerocket a century from now.
The group has made progress defining the challenges and pointing their noses toward solutions, but much work remains (like, say, building a starship). To quote Contact, it “sounds less like science and more like science fiction.”
Nonetheless, the 100-Year Starship adherents—backed by NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—keep plugging away. At their most recent gathering, 7 major hurdles emerged from their three days of discussion.
1. Before we can make an Enterprise, we may have to make an enterprise.
With all the obvious tech challenges, this top hurdleis easy to overlook—but it’s a question of human motivation.What would motivate people to work on something that won’t be finished till they’re dead? Like Veruca Salt, when we want things, we want them now.
But even if we manage to motivate ourselves, what mechanism can provide continuity in funding and oversight across decades, let alone across generations? Government funding is fickle and depends on election cycles and budget reviews. Philanthropy rests on the whims of the wealthy. The long-term viability of crowdfunding is unproven.
If we could create an “econosphere” around long-term space travel—one that makes money and produces spinoff products, so people get salaries and gadgets—it could support itself. Space travel may have to become a business. And not just any business: a profitable one. Companies like Virgin Galactic, Deep Space Industries, and Planetary Resources are aiming to do just that.
2. We have to move fast.
It’s in the very definition of the project that we have to get to the stars. But it took poor Voyager 38 years just to get out of the solar system. Ain’t nobody got time for that. We have to figure out how to move fast through space, for a long-ass time. Engineers have a few ideas: Fusion rockets, ion drives, hydrogen-scooping ramjets, and antimatter annihilation systems, for instance.
3. Staying alive, staying alive.
A starship has to be both sustainable and life-sustaining. It will be a closed ecosystem that must either have or produce everything humans need to survive and make more humans.ment discovery would take a year to reach the crew.) Its residents would in turn need to train the next generation of caregivers.
Medical professionals draw par
Oxygen, food, and water are no-brainers. But we also need our microbiome, and we’re only now starting to investigate what happens to our symbiotic microbes off-Earth. The microbiomes of babies born en route remain a totally open question. And if they’re in microgravity, will those babies’ eye cells know where to migrate to become eye cells?
4. Take me to the space hospital.
Nobody likes going to the hospital, but it’s nice to know they’re there if you get MRSA or need an MRI. An interstellar starship will have limited machinery, limited medicine, a limited supply of doctors. Plus, access to new Earth-medicine techniques would be delayed or nonexistent. (If the ship travels, say, a light-year away, word of a cancer treatallels between this situation and that in developing nations with little health-care infrastructure. Studying either could benefit the other.
5. Crew-on-crew interaction.
After a certain amount of time locked in a room together, you and even the most unobtrusive person will get on each other’s nerves. You’ll be like, “Why do you always have to look at me like that?” and they’ll be like, “I’m not looking at you like anything.” Etc. Now imagine that drawn out over years or decades on an interstellar mission.
And beyond the everyday communication problems, disseminating information in a crisis—without causing panic or misinformation—could prove difficult. Imagine small-town social dynamics, in space. That’s why it’s important to choose a mix of crew members most likely to succeed.
But first we have to find out what that mix is. Agencies across the world are already investigating this psychological puzzler. The Mars HI-SEAS experiment began its third mission on October 15, and six (lucky?) people will spend eight months on a simulated martian colony in Hawaii. The European Space Agency teamed up from 2007-2011 with the Russian Institute for Biomedical Problems to do the Mars 500 mission, in which three different crews experienced isolation together aboard a pseudo-spaceship and then on a pseudo-Martian surface.
6. Oops-factor.
When you break your printer beyond repair, you go buy a new one. But when you break your 3-D space printer that makes all of the parts for your other space stuff? You’re in trouble. The 100-Year Starship team is endorsing what they term a “steampunk” approach: Teaching spacefarers how to make high-tech things work with low-tech, macgyvered solutions.
7.Stepping stones.
One does not simply walk into Mordor, and one does not simply build an interstellar starship. Giant leaps aren’t real: They’re just a bunch small steps added together. To become interstellar, we have to start with simply sending humans to space regularly, cheaply. We have to start manufacturing and mining off-planet. And we need to establish human colonies on the Moon, and probably on Mars, to make sure we have enough resources and practice before we set off toward Earth 2.0.
Currently, the best bet rests in the hands of private industry. NASA’s asteroid capture mission promises a step in that direction. But private companies like Planetary Resources and Deep Space Industries, which have both announced partnerships with NASA, may be able to make space their material domain faster and cheaper.
"Fast Radio Bursts Could Be Powering Alien Probes" --Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
"Fast Radio Bursts Could Be Powering Alien Probes" --Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
"Fast radio bursts are exceedingly bright given their short duration and origin at great distances, and we haven't identified a possible natural source with any confidence," said theorist Avi Loeb of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "An artificial origin is worth contemplating and checking."
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence has looked for many different signs of alien life, from radio broadcasts to laser flashes, without success. However, newly published research suggests that mysterious phenomena called fast radio bursts could be evidence of advanced alien technology. Specifically, these bursts might be leakage from planet-sized transmitters powering interstellar probes in distant galaxies.
As the name implies, fast radio bursts are millisecond-long flashes of radio emission. First discovered in 2007, fewer than two dozen have been detected by gigantic radio telescopes like the Parkes Observatory in Australia or the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. They are inferred to originate from distant galaxies, billions of light-years away.
Loeb and his co-author Manasvi Lingam (Harvard University) examined the feasibility of creating a radio transmitter strong enough for it to be detectable across such immense distances. They found that, if the transmitter were solar powered, the sunlight falling on an area of a planet twice the size of the Earth would be enough to generate the needed energy. Such a vast construction project is well beyond our technology, but within the realm of possibility according to the laws of physics.
Lingam and Loeb also considered whether such a transmitter would be viable from an engineering perspective, or whether the tremendous energies involved would melt any underlying structure. Again, they found that a water-cooled device twice the size of Earth could withstand the heat.
They then asked, why build such an instrument in the first place? They argue that the most plausible use of such power is driving interstellar light sails. The amount of power involved would be sufficient to push a payload of a million tons, or about 20 times the largest cruise ships on Earth.
"That's big enough to carry living passengers across interstellar or even intergalactic distances," added Lingam.
An artist's illustration of a light-sail powered by a radio beam (red) generated on the surface of a planet. The leakage from such beams as they sweep across the sky would appear as Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), similar to the new population of sources that was discovered recently at cosmological distances.(M. Weiss/CfA)
To power a light sail, the transmitter would need to focus a beam on it continuously. Observers on Earth would see a brief flash because the sail and its host planet, star and galaxy are all moving relative to us. As a result, the beam sweeps across the sky and only points in our direction for a moment. Repeated appearances of the beam, which were observed but cannot be explained by cataclysmic astrophysical events, might provide important clues about its artificial origin.
Loeb admits that this work is speculative. When asked whether he really believes that any fast radio bursts are due to aliens, he replied, "Science isn't a matter of belief, it's a matter of evidence. Deciding what's likely ahead of time limits the possibilities. It's worth putting ideas out there and letting the data be the judge."
The paper reporting this work has been accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters and is available online.
Ringmakers of Saturn: 2,000 Mile Long UFO Photographed by NASA?
Ringmakers of Saturn: 2,000 Mile Long UFO Photographed by NASA?
For more incredible information on the UFO/ET phenomenon please readThe Alien Enigma by JP Robinson.
Dr. Norman Bergrun, a former NASA research scientist published an astounding bookRingmakers of Saturn which revealed photos taken of Saturn’s rings from the Voyager I flight in 1980. Voyager I was sent to the rings of Saturn to investigate some strange anomalies that they had witnessed through their observations from Earth and NASA couldn’t believe what they found in the images that were sent back.
Bergrun who worked with NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, has won prestigious awards which include the California Society of Professional Enigineers Archimedes Engineering Achievement Award. Aside from his involvement with NASA Bergrun also worked on high-profile, top-secret aerospace projects for Lockheed Martin.
Being privy to top-secret documents during his time there came at a cost, as Bergrun himself explained in a Project Camelot interview, "I had to sign my life away for thirty years." He also intimated that there was a limit to what he can say even now, and revealed that his life would be in serious danger should he say too much.
With exclusive access to the raw NASA photographs been sent back from Voyager I in 1980, Bergrun saw firsthand what the general public was not allowed to see, making him the first legitimate, verified member of the scientific community to discover cylindrical vehicles. Bergrun’s book exposed for the first time exactly what Voyager I saw, but unable to get it published in America he travelled to Scotland and finally got it published in Aberdeen, Scotland
One of the photographs in his book is of an artificially constructed object in the A-ring of Saturn that he calls an ‘electromagnetic vehicle’. It was an astounding 2000 miles long and over 450 miles in diameter, that is over twice the length of Great Britain! What kind of high-technology must it take to build an object of that size, and who could be responsible for such an impossible feat of engineering?
Dr. Bergrun said, "I don't know who built it but what I found out is these things inhabit Saturn, that's where I first discovered them. And they're proliferating, they're now in Uranus and Jupiter...wherever you see some rings now. I call it the ringmaker."
Describing what he could see in the anomalous Voyager I images, he explained "I could be looking down on the rings, I could see parallel lines crossing all of the rings at once - that's about as long as you can go. I could tell that those lines demarked the outside of an object."
He explained why what he was seeing was an electromagnetic vehicle, "I say that it is an electromagnetic vehicle because I can identify streamline patterns with respect to it that I knew were what we called 'potential lines' and that says it was electrical".
Bergrun thought it could be possible that these craft were actually making the rings, hence the book’s title, but other scholars have raised the possibility that they could be mining the precious metals and nutrients that make up the rings. Either way, what an incredible discovery, another one that appears to have been left out of the public domain. A reviewer commenting on Bergrun’s book wrote, “Saturn's rings are ‘not’ natural, but are some type of effluent from massively huge, cylindrical objects, themselves measured in terms of earth diameters!”
In his 1986 book, Bergrun published images of these immense objects for the very first time, thus verifying his claims as legitimate. The pictures he presents show 'immensely large, enormously powerful space vehicles located in the vicinity of Saturn and its moons' as his introduction explains.
'These photographic revelations are reinforced by, and are consistent with, scientific data extending over centuries as far back as Galileo. The pictures have been obtained by the author using simple, repeatable enhancement techniques applied to publicly available NASA photographs from Voyager 1 and 2 flybys of Saturn. Having been obtained by pre-scheduled flight programming, Voyager photographs are scientifically unique in that they are strictly impersonal.'
Whoever is responsible for these vast machines clearly has access to unimaginable technology which raises yet more questions surrounding the extraterrestrial hypothesis. Questions which for now will remain unanswered.
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Ex-frontman Blink-182 doet binnen nu en 60 dagen ‘grootse aankondiging over UFO’s’
Ex-frontman Blink-182 doet binnen nu en 60 dagen ‘grootse aankondiging over UFO’s’
Oud-frontman van Blink-182 Tom DeLonge zegt binnen nu en 60 dagen een ‘grootse aankondiging’ over UFO’s te gaan doen.
Hij deed deze uitspraak nadat hij was uitgeroepen tot UFO-onderzoeker van het jaar, schrijft de Daily Express.
Hij is betrokken geweest bij een mysterieus project, waarvan enkele details naar buiten kwamen toen WikiLeaks e-mails publiceerde die hij naar Clintons campagnemanager John Podesta had gestuurd.
Afgeluisterd
Uit de e-mails bleek dat hij contact onderhield met belangrijke militaire bronnen.
DeLonge claimde eerder dat hij werd achtervolgd door schimmige figuren en dat zijn telefoon werd afgeluisterd.
“Er is veel waar ik niets over kan zeggen, maar binnen nu en 60 dagen zal ik een aankondiging doen,” zei de ex-frontman van Blink-182.
Ambitieus
DeLonge zei dat hij al 20 jaar onderzoek doet naar Roswell, Dulce, Serpo, Churchill, UFO-crashes, nazi’s die vaartuigen bouwden en Antarctica.
Hij zei dat hij zich ook heeft verdiept in vreemde structuren op Mars en de achterkant van de maan.
“Ik heb mijn bekendheid gebruikt om iets ambitieus te doen en dat is gelukt,” legde hij uit.
Vergaan
Hij zei dat zijn aankondiging mogelijk niet wordt opgemerkt door de mainstream media. “Maar de UFO-gemeenschap zal zien hoe belangrijk dit is,” voegde hij toe.
“Het is makkelijk om een onderwerp vanuit je luie stoel belachelijk te maken, maar als je wordt uitgenodigd voor de bijeenkomsten waar ik bij aanwezig ben geweest, zal het lachen je snel vergaan,” zei hij.
WikiLeaks onthulde dat DeLonge meerdere e-mails had verstuurd naar Podesta over het feit dat hij samenwerkte met klokkenluiders binnen het leger.
DE AARDE VALT BIJNA UIT ELKAAR EN NIEMAND REAGEERT ( VIDEO )
DE AARDE VALT BIJNA UIT ELKAAR EN NIEMAND REAGEERT ( VIDEO )
Waar op ieder journaal de hoofdpunten van het nieuws de huidige gigantische aardveranderingen zouden moeten zijn, wordt het publiek afgeleid met “lijsttrekkers”.
Vergeleken met dezelfde periode van de vorige eeuw is tussen 2000 en eind 2016 het aantal zware aardbevingen met 2.680 procent toegenomen.
Wat er in onze tegenwoordige tijd nogal eens ontbreekt, is wat men vroeger “gezond verstand” noemde. Het zelf nadenken over iets en niet zomaar iets aannemen omdat een ander dat zegt.
Tegenwoordig worden mensen gebombardeerd met informatie via de mainstream kanalen, wat niet alleen betekent dat ze dikwijls verkeerde informatie krijgen, maar ook dat ze zelf geen enkele moeite doen om over iets na te denken.
Niet alleen worden ze zo volgepompt met foutieve, misleidende informatie, vervolgens worden ze vakkundig afgeleid door niet aflatende sportevenementen, beroemdheden en stompzinnige amusementsprogramma’s.
Wanneer je die televisie eindelijk uitzet en zelf een stukje onderzoek gaat doen, dan schrik je. De bulk van de mensheid is in slaap gesukkeld met de mantra “klimaatopwarming” en denkt verder geen seconde na over de gigantische veranderingen die nu op onze aarde plaatsvinden.
Door deze klimaatopwarming hoax programmering vergeten de meesten dat verschijnselen zoals aardbevingen en vulkanen niet worden beïnvloed door mensen die teveel CO2 zouden uitstoten.
Hierna volgen twee afbeeldingen. De ene laat het aantal en locaties zien van zware aardbevingen (hoger dan 6 op de schaal van Richter) in de eerste 16 jaar van de vorige eeuw en het tweede plaatje die uit onze huidige eeuw.
Op het eerste plaatje zie je een totaal van 97 zware aardbevingen, op de tweede een totaal van 2.697 zware!
Deze toename is dermate groot, dat je je toch eens moet gaan afvragen waardoor dit nu eigenlijk komt. Het lijkt alsof er onzichtbare krachten inwerken op de aarde, waardoor alles letterlijk beeft en schudt.
Met vulkanen krijg je een vergelijkbaar beeld. Niemand vraagt zich af hoe het kan dat enkele van de meest gevaarlijke vulkanen ter wereld opeens weer tot leven komen. We zien dan wel eens beelden van de Etna vulkaan, maar er zijn er nog veel meer. Op dit moment zijn er 35 grote vulkanen die nu uitbarsten of op het punt staan om uit te barsten.
Hoe kan het dat al deze vulkanen nu opeens allemaal actief worden?
Volgens de USGS is magma ondergronds gesmolten rots en is lava gesmolten rots dat door het oppervlak van de aarde breekt. Iets zorgt er op dit moment voor dat het magma door de aardkorst naar buiten wordt geduwd.
Nog niet zo lang geleden spraken wetenschappers van “dode vulkanen”, maar zoals we nu beginnen te merken, zijn die helemaal niet dood. Er zijn zoveel van die “dode vulkanen” die opeens weer vol leven lijken te zitten.
Het is ook niet een plaatselijk fenomeen, het gebeurt wereldwijd, van IJsland tot Indonesië, waar de bekende Sinabung vulkaan onlangs zeven keer op één dag tot uitbarsting kwam. Ook geldt er opnieuw een waarschuwing voor IJsland waar klaarblijkelijk vier vulkanen op het punt staan uit te barsten.
Er is nog een heel actieve, maar relatief onbekende vulkaan en dat is de Erta Ale
Erta Ale is een actieve schildvulkaan gelegen in de Afar-driehoek, in het noordoosten van Ethiopië. Het is de meest actieve vulkaan van Ethiopië.
Erta Ale is 613 meter hoog, en is een van de enige vier vulkanen ter wereld met een lavameer op de top. Dit lavameer is het langst bestaande lavameer ter wereld.
Erta Ale’s laatste grote uitbarsting was in 2005, toen duizenden mensen die in de buurt van de vulkaan woonden moesten vluchten. In 2007 was er nog een kleinere uitbarsting
Schematisch ziet die vulkaan er als volgt uit:
Echter, ook deze vulkaan is de laatste tijd veel actiever geworden dan gebruikelijk.
Volgens onderzoekers die er kortgeleden zijn geweest, is het niveau in het lavameer de afgelopen weken aanzienlijk gestegen, waardoor het nu aan alle kanten overstroomt. Wetenschappers constateerden dat door tektonische bewegingen er ook nieuwe “scheuren” zijn ontdekt waardoor het lava naar buiten komt.
In de volgende video zijn recente beelden te zien van deze vulkaan en na het zien daarvan begrijp je de bijnaam: “Gateway to hell”.
De tektonische platen op aarde schuiven overal en dit is niet zomaar. De wereld staat er echter bij, kijkt ernaar en er is in het hele mainstream land niemand die in staat is om al deze vreemde zaken met elkaar in verband te brengen.
Niemand die hardop durft te vragen hoe het in hemelsnaam mogelijk is dat er plotseling zulke grote krachten werkzaam zijn op onze planeet.
Het hoofd in het zand steken heeft geen zin; het zelf nadenken en op onderzoek gaan wel.
De verhalen over Niburu of 'Planet X' zijn allemaal quatsch, dat is allang weerlegd en dus hoaxes. Dit soort beweringen komt doorgaans niet van wetenschappers die zich full-time hiermee bezig houden, maar van amateurs die 's avonds na hun werk blijkbaar niets beters te doen hebben dan sprookjes verzinnen.
De dame die dit antwoord kreeg, schreef ons verder nog (dank!):
Wat ik nog wel wil benadrukken is dat die astronoom van de Radboud Universiteit mijn opmerking volkomen negeerde, over dat aantoonbaar UV C, helium en lithium in groeiende hoeveelheden het aardoppervlak bereiken, zodat alles wat leeft dit constant inademt (vandaar ongetwijfeld die explosief toenemende luchtwegklachten, ook bij niet-rokers en plattelanders!). Met name dat UV C ons op ooghoogte bereikt, is ongehoord, omdat wetenschappers (zoals bijv. meteorologen) altijd hebben beweerd dat UV C door de dampkring rondom de aarde wordt tegengehouden. Maar omdat die dampkring zo dun geworden is, bereikt kosmische straling ons steeds meer rechtstreeks. Voor goed onderbouwde toelichting hierop: zie de site op YouTube van Higher Truth Channel en ook BP Earth Watch, die sinds een paar dagen ook werkt met een meter, die nucleaire straling meet.
Het maakt ons niet uit wat je wel of niet wilt geloven, we zouden het alleen erg prettig vinden wanneer bovenstaande je in ieder geval tot nadenken stemt.
Want, de heftige aardveranderingen zijn echt en er is “iets” dat dit veroorzaakt.
BUITENAARDSEN VERMAKEN ZICH OVER DOMHEID MENSEN ( VIDEO )
BUITENAARDSEN VERMAKEN ZICH OVER DOMHEID MENSEN ( VIDEO )
Het kan niet anders dan dat de buitenaardsen zich vol verbazing afvragen welk niet al te intelligent ras deze planeet aarde bevolkt.
Ze vliegen open en bloot voor iedereen zichtbaar af en aan bij hun basis onder een vulkaan en de wereldbevolking doet net alsof ze helemaal niets zien.
Wat is het toch met mensen dat ze willens en wetens hun ogen sluiten voor iets zo essentieels als volkeren van andere planeten die hier bases hebben, doen wat ze willen en wij aardbewoners die net doen alsof ze niet bestaan?
Natuurlijk hebben bepaalde overheden overeenkomsten met buitenaardsen en doen ze hun uiterste best om deze informatie bij het publiek vandaan te houden, maar kom, we leven in 2017 en informatie kan op heel veel verschillende manieren worden gedeeld en toch verandert er helemaal niets.
Deze week wordt er door een webcam bij de bekende Popocatépetl vulkaan in Mexico weer het zoveelste bijzondere tafereel vastgelegd.
Je ziet van links een UFO aankomen die zo te zien verdwijnt in de krater van de vulkaan.
Dan zie je een tijdje niets en even later verschijnt de UFO weer, zoals te zien op de volgende afbeelding.
Volgens ufologen is het een vaststaand feit dat er zich een buitenaardse basis bevindt op een diepte van enkele kilometers onder deze Popocatépetl.
Maar, zelfs als je niet zou geloven dat er zich daar een buitenaardse basis bevindt, dan nog zijn de beelden die in de loop der jaren zijn gemaakt dusdanig, dat er geen enkele twijfel meer over bestaat dat er onbekende vliegende objecten in de vulkaan verdwijnen en ook weer uit tevoorschijn komen.
De opname van enkele dagen geleden volgt hierna.
De meest beroemde opname van de Popocatépetl is wel die uit oktober 2012 waar een enorm sigaarvormige UFO met onvoorstelbaar grote snelheid de vulkaan binnenvliegt.
Omdat er een goede vergelijking gemaakt kan worden met de krater van de vulkaan heeft men berekend dat deze UFO’s ongeveer 500 meter lang zijn. De grootste van de twee heeft ook een soort metallic-achtige glinstering, wat normaal is, omdat deze opnames gemaakt zijn bij zonsopgang.
Deze vulkaan bevindt zich op ongeveer 500 kilometer afstand van de hoofdstad Mexico City.
De vulkaanuitbarstingen wereldwijd nemen toe en het was dan ook een kwestie van tijd totdat mensen verbanden gingen leggen tussen de toenemende UFO activiteit bij vulkanen en die van vulkanische uitbarstingen.
Tenslotte iets wat misschien niet veel mensen weten, is dat er diverse getuigenverklaringen zijn van reddingswerkers die vreemde wezens hebben waargenomen op de hellingen van de Popocatépetl vulkaan.
De professionele bergbeklimmers (Mountain Rescue) die zich bij en rond de vulkaan bezighouden met onder andere het in veiligheid brengen van verdwaalde toeristen en dergelijke, maken melding van vreemde wezens.
Ze zijn tussen de twee en twee en een halve meter groot en worden waargenomen op de helling van de vulkaan, dichtbij de krater.
Ze zijn lang en dun en beschikken niet over een uitrusting zoals een rugzak of iets dergelijks. Ze hebben niets om zich tegen de barre weerscondities op die hoogte te beschermen.
Deze wezens zijn niet een keer bij toeval waargenomen. Ze worden op regelmatige basis gezien door leden van Mountain Rescue en anderen.
Tot grote verbazing van de bergbeklimmers kunnen de wezens in een heel korte tijd een aanzienlijke afstand overbruggen op de steile gladde berghelling.
Een afstand op de berghelling waar de bergbeklimmers normaal gesproken drie uur over doen, wordt door deze wezens in tien minuten afgelegd.
Guillermo Vidalez is één van de bergbeklimmers die ze met eigen ogen heeft gezien. Hij zegt dat het eigenlijk onmogelijk is voor iets of iemand om een berghelling in zo'n korte tijd te beklimmen, gezien de condities van het terrein en het weer. De wezens zagen er uit als dunne, lange figuren en ze waren te ver van Vidalez verwijderd om contact te kunnen maken.
Grote vraag is natuurlijk: Wie zijn deze wezens en wat hebben ze daar op die helling van de vulkaan te zoeken.
Het enige dat wij kunnen doen is al dit soort vreemde voorvallen blijven rapporteren in de hoop dat er ooit eens ergens iets of iemand echt wakker wordt onder de grote massa en dat die zich gaan afvragen waarom ze hier nooit iets van in het journaal terug zien.
Ook voormalig minister van defensie van Canada doet niet aflatend zijn best de mensheid te laten doordringen van het feit dat buitenaardsen bestaan en ook hun voertuigen. Navolgend een interessant recent interview wat hij had met RT News.
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A Real Life “Hibernation Chamber” is Being Made For Deep Space Travel
A Real Life “Hibernation Chamber” is Being Made For Deep Space Travel
An artist’s rendering of what Spaceworks’ human stasis pods would look like.
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IN BRIEF
Spaceworks, led by John A. Bradford, is proposing to use a new method to allow humans to 'hibernate' during extended space trips.
The process involves cooling the body a little below the normal body temperature (37 C), to slow down heart rate and blood pressure.
THERAPEUTIC HYPOTHERMIA
Manned, long-term, deep space missions are an exciting prospect, but one that remains in the realm of distant possibilities–particularly because we don’t have all the technological innovations needed to make it happen.
One major consideration is the time it takes to reach the destination. Mars, which is at the top of various space programs’ go-to destinations for manned missions, is about six months if travel time away from Earth. If we wanted to explore even further, keep in mind that New Horizons, the fastest spacecraft to leave Earth, took nine and a half years to reach Pluto.
Science fiction conveniently sidesteps this challenge by putting the space explorers into deep sleep–a state of suspended animation. But slowing the human metabolism down while ensuring that a person will stay alive for extended periods is a lot easier said than done.
Spaceworks human stasis system would use sleep cycles; some crewmembers would be asleep while others kept the ship running.(Spaceworks)
Spaceworks however, led by John A. Bradford, is proposing to use a method they refer to as “therapeutic hypothermia.” The process involves cooling the body a little below the normal body temperature (37 C), to slow down heart rate and blood pressure. This process is already being used in the medical world. By bringing the body temperature of patients undergoing treatment for cardiac arrest or traumatic brain injuries down to 32 and 34 degrees Celsius, doctors have more time to address the issues.
The method normally allows patients to stay in stasis for about 2-4 days, but has worked for as long as two weeks. Spaceworks not only believes they can extend this for months, but also that they can create the technology needed to automate the process and apply it for deep-space missions.
SUSPENDED ANIMATION
Unlike the cryo-chambers depicted in films however, where row upon row of space travelers are left in suspended animation in individual pods, Spaceworks is conceptualizing an open chamber that allows the crew to go into stasis in shifts.
“There would be some robotic arms and monitoring systems taking care of [the passengers]. They’d have small transnasal tubes for the cooling and some warming systems as well, to bring them back from stasis,” Bradford describes an interview with Quartz.
This not only addresses concerns of adding too much weight to a spacecraft, but also ensures that there will be people awake to manage possible emergencies and conduct standard monitoring.
As for the long-term health effects of space travel, Spaceworks is trying to find ways of incorporating exercise into stasis. The team is looking into using electrical stimulation, which is already used to aid physical therapy. Having this technology in place also solves a lot of logistical issues for manned space missions. With crew members awake, you have to factor in the volume of food, water, and air needed to keep them alive for months and years at a time. It could also help manage the psychological impact of long-term space travel and hopefully lower the risk of space crews succumbing to depression, claustrophobia, or anxiety.
According to Spaceworks, they are due to begin animal testing next year, with human testing set to follow after in space and on the International Space Station.
Conspiracy theorists have named a number of bizarre – and downright terrifying – incidents, sightings and unknowns that still have no scientific explanation.
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NO EXPLANATION: There's still lots scientists don't know about aliens and space
Where ARE all the aliens?
According to the Fermi paradox – named after physicist Enrico Fermi – there are billions of stars in the galaxy that are similar to the Sun, many of which are billions of years older than Earth.
That mean there is a high probability some of these stars will have Earth-like planets – and will have developed intelligent life.
Which means there could be aliens out there – but they just haven’t visited Earth yet.
What science can’t explain is why – if aliens are out there – haven’t they visited Earth already?
Despite examining radio signals from other worlds for decades, scientists still haven’t detected any alien life.
NASA's Curiosity Rover captures DEVIL on Mars
Did we discover life on Mars already?
In 1976, the NASA Mars Viking lander was said to have “found life”.
The robot on Mars carried out three experiments to test for life. One came up positive but the other two experiments did not, so the positive result had to be dismissed.
But in 2012 a team of scientists re-examined the data using a new technique – and found evidence of biological life on the Red Planet.
Biologist Joseph Miller said: “The ultimate proof is to take a video of a Martian bacteria and watch the bacteria move.
“On the basis of what we've done so far, I'd say I'm 99 percent sure there's life there.”
What is the placebo effect and its crucial role in medical research?
How does the Placebo effect work?
The placebo effect is the unbelievable phenomenon of people overcoming illness by taking a “fake” sugar pill and believing it is really medicine.
Bizarrely, it appears to still work even when patients know they are taking a sugar pill – the simple act of taking one means they often “cure” themselves of their illness.
And it’s not just tablets, the placebo effect also works if you think you’ve had surgery – but actually haven’t had any at all.
Scientists still don’t have a solid answer for why believing you are taking medicine, when you aren’t actually, cures physical illness.
Here's 'what happens' if you fall into a black hole
What would happen if a person fell into a black hole?
Black hole formation begins when a massive star dies and its core ends up collapsing in on itself.
A black hole is genuinely "black" and so it can only be detected by the effects its gravitational force has on other nearby objects.
Scientists do not know what happens if something – or someone – is sucked into a black hole.
Some theorists have suggested that anything falling into a black hole will be thrown into another universe or dimension.
Physicists used to think you wouldn’t notice you were falling into a black hole – others suggested you’d hit a wall of fire and be burnt to a crisp.
It seems there is no concrete answer – so probably best to avoid going near any.
Expert can move objects thanks to telekinesis
Is telekinesis real?
Isn’t it just a trick that Uri Gellar fella used to do on TV?
Telekinesis – or mind over matter – is the ability to physically control objects without physically touching them.
70s TV magician Uri Gellar was a big name thanks to his trademark spoon bending tricks.
But others still practice the technique – and claim that they really can move objects just by using psychic abilities.
According to author and science expert Dr Claude Swanson, the odds that telekineses is real – and not due to chance – is now measured in billions to one.
“In other words, this phenomenon is real,” he said.
The footage, uploaded to YouTube by the channel Section 51 2, shows a crowd of tourists looking towards the wonder of the ancient world, while three bizarre triangular objects hover above.
The video is one of the clearest ever captures of alleged UFOs, as critics often claim films of supposed alien craft are blurred or too shaky to watch.
It even shows close ups of the upside down pyramids, looking up from the base of the pyramids, as they appear to hover and rotate above three of the relics.
Section 51 2 includes no real details about the alleged sighting, but says in subtitles on the video that it was filmed in April 2016, and the UFOs were present for four hours.
An article accompanying the video on the Section 51 2 website makes no further reference to the alleged sighting in the video.
It instead discusses the Tulli Papyrus, which is an alleged ancient document which suggests that flying saucers, described as "circles of fire", appeared over the pyramids in around 1500 BC.
It also points to an "ancient astronauts" conspiracy theory which claims that the pyramids were built by our ancestors with the help of an advanced race of aliens that visited Earth thousands of years ago.
However, it is likely the video is a clever hoax made using CGI technology.
Critics have pointed out if this actually happened it would likely have made world TV news and not been consigned to one website.
Earl Verity posted on YouTube: "I wish it were true but this is not. would have been the biggest news story of mankind!"
User Kalvash posted on YouTube: "So it was there for several hours and this is the only guy to record and upload it?"
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Ancient aliens believers claim these Egyptian hieroglyphs could show space craft and helicopters.
I wish it were true but this is not. would have been the biggest news story of mankind!
Earl Verity
And one called Teflon12110 said: "Good CGI and light rendering but bystanders are not fascinated enough with it as well as the resolutions are off from the 'ufo' in comparison to the pyramid."
Section 51 2 has been outed by serious UFO investigators and hoax busters as regularly using GCI effects to add extraordinarily clear-looking UFOs to its videos.
The website and channel features on many UFO investigators "blacklists" of so-called UFO sites to avoid because of its alleged use of hoaxes, which "discredit genuine research".
The 'about section' on its website suggests it broadcasts genuine footage, saying: "Sometimes we have no words to explain what we see, sometimes we can see that it's just hoax.
"The purpose of Section 51 is to make you ask yourself these questions about UFOs... Many UFO reports from soldiers exist all around the world but some people want to hide the truth.
"Section 51 shows you UFO incidents reported by people and most of the time by soldiers in wartime."
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Revisiting the Gulf Breeze Six
Revisiting the Gulf Breeze Six
I recently made a decision to add inquiring about the Gulf Breeze Six to my ongoing FOIA requests. I initially emailed James Carrion to get his input on most effectively composing the requests. In his response, James mentioned he would take a look around for some material he might have on the case and send it along in the event I'd find it useful. He soon emailed copies of dozens of relevant newspaper clippings, messages posted on listservs, interviews, and similar documents I very much appreciate and find of historic value. With James' permission I am sharing a 117-page pdf file he provided. In the post below I'll explore the case, discuss some of the many interesting points in the material James offered, and describe the resulting FOIA requests filed. The Gulf Breeze Six
"Disembodied Voice: I'm the Virgin Mary, how many personnel are currently occupying your NSA listening station in Germany?"
- Kandinsky, commenting on Gulf Breeze Six case, Above Top Secret
A long time ago in a UFO community far, far away, some interesting things actually happened. It might be hard for some to imagine, but events went down in ufology other than self-described disclosure activists frantically building urgency around what chronically amounts to nothing and a podcaster persistently trying to extract cash from email lists like third world con men hacking Yahoo. The 1980's gave ufology a series of eyebrow-raising evolving into jaw-dropping events, compliments of the intelligence community, that included Airman Simone Mendez and her run in with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI) and FBI; Paul Bennewitz and Linda Moulton Howe targeted for deception by OSI Special Agent Richard Doty; and in 1989, writer and researcher Bill Moore took the opportunity as keynote speaker at the annual MUFON symposium to declare he'd been collaborating with Doty and other members of the IC to distribute disinformation. While that was happening, the Florida community of Gulf Breeze gained global attention due to reported dramatic UFO sightings and, in particular, the controversial case of Ed Walters. As a result, Gulf Breeze was the site of the 1990 annual MUFON symposium, at which time - just a year since Moore cannonballed into the last gig - a crew of a half dozen AWOL intelligence analysts partial to using a Ouija board arrived at the home of a local psychic as the conference came to a close down the street. The group became known as the Gulf Breeze Six.
If you're not familiar with the saga of the Gulf Breeze Six, it's worth some time. The late Philip Coppens penned a pretty good summary of the case. It's complicated, but let's dive in: Six Army intelligence analysts were serving in the 701st Military Intelligence Brigade at Augsburg, Germany, the largest NSA base in the world outside the States at the time. Each member of the group held a top secret security clearance. They began conducting meetings consisting of Ouija board sessions and explorations of non-ordinary states of consciousness, and they claimed to think they were communicating with spirits and religious icons, including the Virgin Mary, during the meetings. The six apparently perceived they were provided prophecies, and interpreted the predictions to be coming to pass, leading them to increasingly trust the means of communication and alleged entities. Members of the group had lifelong interests in paranormal subject matter, including one, Spc. Vance A. Davis, who as a teenager took a course in "Silva Mind Control," and another, Spc. Kenneth G. Beason, who dabbled in hypnosis and reportedly was interested in UFOs. The six also included Sgt. Annette Eccleston, Pfc. Michael J. Hueckstaedt, Pfc. Kris P. Perlock, and Pfc. William N. Setterberg. They reportedly went over the proverbial wall in early July, 1990, after giving away some belongings and ceremoniously burning their records and books. Another key figure was a Gulf Breeze self-described psychic, Anna Foster, who Perlock met while in cryptology training in Pensacola prior to shipping off to Europe. Foster apparently also befriended Beason when he was stationed in Pensacola. All but Eccleston, the lone female of the six soldiers, were reportedly staying at Foster's apartment while Absent Without Official Leave. Eccleston was apprehended at a campsite at nearby Fort Pickens, for whatever reasons.
Former home of the 701st Military Intelligence Brigade at the US Intelligence Field Station, Augsburg, Germany
The group's beliefs and motives for going AWOL were somewhat unclear, but were at least partially represented to include a desire to deliver information as provided by the mysterious entities to the U.S. president. I'm not sure if they expected Mr. President to be at Anna Foster's place, but anyway... They were also reportedly interested in speaking with an author of UFO books and related conspiracies, quite possibly Bill Cooper, and that would make a little more sense about going to Gulf Breeze before moving on to laying low in the western woods as they claimed was on the itinerary, or I guess it would make more sense. Sorta. Anyhow, it should not be completely surprising that some of the confusion was due to the content of statements originating from the Pentagon and spokespersons after the detention of the six, later retracted through official channels or denied altogether by the former soldiers.
Also adding to the confusion were statements by members of the Gulf Breeze Six, which at times seemed to be unclear if not lacking logic. What's more, some of their acquaintances were quoted in the media as saddling them with remarks and beliefs they later denied. Ideologies attributed to the group included a forthcoming Rapture, alien spaceships frequenting Gulf Breeze, a UFO cover-up conducted by the government, a plot to thwart the Antichrist, significant malevolent forces operating covertly within the U.S. government, and similar mindsets arguably being found with increasing frequency among members of the UFO community and related genres. Some of the beliefs were later defended by Vance Davis and his peers, while some were dismissed as rumors. Any way we look at it, the six were a pretty paranormal-friendly bunch, or at least claimed to be, and landed in Gulf Breeze about the same time a MUFON convention wrapped up on July 8. The six were apparently in Tennessee a few days earlier, where they bought a van and drove it to Florida, arriving July 9, according to Gulf Breeze police, but I strongly suspect that date was established from statements obtained. If not, it would be reasonable to question how police actually knew when the entourage hit town. At any rate, Hueckstaedt soon crossed paths with local law enforcement when he was pulled over in the van for driving with faulty taillights, and the entire group was eventually detained July 13-14. The six were transferred to the custody of intelligence agencies and taken to Fort Benning, GA, and Fort Knox, KY, for interrogation. They were soon issued general discharges and released with minimal consequences. Three of the six, Beason, Eccleston, and Hueckstaedt, returned to Gulf Breeze, remarkably arriving back in town within three weeks of first having been taken into custody. Beason said he returned to the area because of friendships he developed, according to an August 4, 1990, newspaper article titled, Three discharged soldiers return to Gulf Breeze, friends.
Article explaining Beason, Eccleston, and Hueckstaedt returned to Gulf Breeze following their discharges, found on page 67 of pdf file provided by James Carrion
Drilling Down
The above summary leaves many of us with more questions than answers. A sticking point, for instance, has long been understanding how the six navigated international airports without being detained. A partial explanation might include information contained in a July 19, 1990, New York Times article (see p 98 of thepdf file):
The Pentagon said that two of the soldiers went on authorized leave from their unit, the 701st Military Intelligence Brigade at Augsburg, West Germany, about two weeks ago, and never returned. At the same time, two other soldiers from the unit vanished, and officials suspected that two more who were on leave would not return.
Military authorities issued a worldwide alert for the six soldiers on July 9.
July, 1990
That might account for how they managed to get stateside, combined with circumstances reported in an article from the Northwest Florida Daily News (p 64 of the pdf), which suggested the group used forged leave papers. Before the worldwide alert was issued Monday the 9th, Beason and Hueckstaedt could feasibly have made it to Tennessee by Friday, July 6, as reported was the case by the Pensacola News Journal (p 91 of pdf). The two reportedly planned to soon meet the other four (p 69 of pdf,Marin Independent Journal, U.S. soldiers go AWOL to find 'Jesus in a spaceship'). Some, however, including Davis (as cited by Coppens), would later speculate intelligence officials knew of the group's plan all along and were monitoring the journey. A piece in the July 19, 1990, edition of the Pensacola News Journal (pp 90-91 of pdf,6 soldiers here to kill Antichrist) indicated Robert Hall, an Army spokesman, stated authorities didn't know how the six got to the United States. The author of the article also obtained comments from Stan Johnson, a contact of Beason's in Tennessee, who apparently picked up Beason and Hueckstaedt at the Knoxville airport on July 6 and helped them buy the van. "He did mention... about going to Pensacola for a UFO convention," Johnson was interestingly quoted as recalling about Beason. Oh, and the European Stars and Stripes was quoted in the same article (pp 90-91) as reporting the crew of six went to Gulf Breeze to kill the Antichrist, but we'll come back to that in a minute. First, the article indicated the MUFON conference was held in Pensacola July 6-8, and reported MUFON officials "could not say whether Beason or Hueckstaedt attended any of the symposium sessions," but get this: Anna Foster, the psychic who opened her home to the group, apparently did. In what appears to be the next day's edition of the same paper, the July 20, 1990,Pensacola News Journal, a story was published titled, Soldiers were to expose UFO scam, sister says (pp 92-93 of pdf). The article highlights Beason's sister and her husband, Carolyn and Charles Reed, explaining how Beason "said they were going to expose a government cover-up of reports that aliens have visited Earth," although the couple did not seem to take him particularly seriously. The article continued, "The Reeds said Beason also told them that Foster had introduced him to a UFO group that believed the government was covering up alien visits to Earth." "If anybody should be arrested, it should be that lady," Charles Reed told the News Journal about Anna Foster, for what it may or may not be worth. The article interestingly concluded:
The Mutual UFO Network held a symposium on UFOs two weeks ago July 6-8, but the group did not endorse any position on a government cover-up, said Don Ware, a Fort Walton Beach representative of the group.
Although Ware said Foster had attended the symposium, Foster refused comment again Tuesday night.
The Stand Among the more dramatic of the many dramatic story lines to emerge from the saga involved the Antichrist. The previously referenced July 19 article published in the News Journal (pp 90-91 of pdf) reported members of the six were being held at Fort Benning, and that Maj. Joe Padilla, a spokesman for the Pentagon, said he didn't know why they left Germany or anything about their religious beliefs. Gulf Breeze Police Chief Jerry Brown was similarly asked for comment. The article explained:
When he was told of the Stars and Stripes report Wednesday, Brown said, "I don't believe that. Who is the Antichrist?"
If the cult had talked about destroying the Antichrist, that person should have a name, he said.
According to a Georgia MUFON State Section Director, who described a Fort Benning doctor as his source, at least some of the Gulf Breeze Six claimed to believe the Antichrist indeed had a name, and it was Ed Walters. In an August 4, 1990, letter to MUFON International Director Walt Andrus, the Section Director wrote (p 77 of pdf):
In regards to your request that I try to meet with the soldiers here at Fort Benning, Georgia who were involved in the recent "End of the World" deal at Gulf Breeze, Florida, the following negative report is submitted.
I was unable to meet with the soldiers who were being held in the stockade and my fraternity brother, who is a doctor at the base hospital, couldn't get me in to see the two men who were on the psychiatric ward. All I could get from the doctor was relatively the same as that which was out on the media wires. The soldiers had originally met while stationed together in Germany and they believed that the UFOs are works of the 'devil.' They also supposedly claim that Ed Walters is the anti-Christ and that is why the UFO activity has been so heavy in the Florida panhandle. I'm sorry I wasn't able to get anything better on this but the people at the Provost Marshall's office weren't very receptive to the idea of a UFO investigator.
How Bizarre, How Bizarre Other points of interest include Vance Davis describing his mastery of "self-hypnosis through active imagination" as taught in "Silva Mind Control courses that were held in Alex Merklinger's school in New York." Davis purported to interact with entities through such techniques (p 5 of pdf).
Davis stated GB6 colleague Kenneth Beason was practicing hypnosis techniques in an interview published in the January/February, 1995, edition of a Northern California MUFON periodical titled, Case Briefs: Explorations and Review. The item was reprinted with the permission of The Phoenix Newsletter. A passage I find interesting is pictured right and described below. "Did you receive information from sources other than the Ouija Board?" the interviewer asked. Vance Davis replied, "The UFO documents came from a woman (with Ashtar Command) in Germany. (That was the Cooper Report, and other documents.) We didn't really get anything from work, (but) we started seeing things differently. The first thing that really got us moving, and they didn't put this in the statements, (was) the Iran earthquake that year (1990), because we were told about it thirty days before it occurred. We were also doing hypnosis." "Was Beason hypnotizing you?" "Yeah. It was a relaxed state; like Edgar Cayce used to do. We were doing a lot of parapsychology research. A whole lot of it. We did Tarot cards, and all that kind of stuff. We were trying to disprove all of this stuff, until the Ouija Board happened and some hypnosis stuff."
In his book, Unbroken Promises: A True Story of Courage and Belief, Davis further described the group's sessions, as well as the woman in Germany (p 29 of pdf):
This third session ended up giving us the name of a woman in Munich that would have some information for us on the alien and UFO situation. The woman's name was Gabriel. We did, indeed, find that woman in Munich and she gave us some information and documents that were interesting, to say the least. That paperwork was taken by the officer that arrested Mike [Hueckstaedt] in Pensacola. We never saw it again.
The sessions included perceived interactions with Biblical icons Mark and Mother Mary, the latter of which curiously seemed to have arrived via the Ouija board to answer questions for Annette Eccleston, who "grew up a Catholic, but was no longer a practicing Catholic." (p 30 of pdf) Much more can be learned about the sessions and how the group members were influenced in the pdf file. Oddly enough, such activity in the vicinity of the base and interest in the subject matter may very well not have been limited to the wayward six. There may have been others involved. Beason's sister and brother-in-law, the Reeds, told the Pensacola News Journal the man claimed to believe the Rapture was imminent and his group of twelve, not six, was prepping. The News Journal reported, "He also told the couple that before the second coming of Christ the group - which Beason said numbers 12 - would emerge and try to convert people to believe in Christ, the Reeds said." (p 92 of pdf) For what it's worth, the Northwest Florida Daily News piled on, citing Stars and Stripes as reporting there were indeed more interested parties (p 79 of pdf):
A member of their unit told the newspaper Stars and Stripes the six were out to find and destroy Antichrist, the figure the Bible says will challenge Christ. He spoke on the condition his name would not be disclosed.
Padilla, an Army spokesman at the Pentagon, Wednesday retracted an earlier statement that the six were members of a group known as "The End of the World."
But Stars and Stripes quoted the soldier from the Augsburg unit as saying the cult has additional members in the area.
"There are others who are upset they didn't get invited" to go along on the search for the Antichrist, the newspaper quoted the soldier as saying.
The cherry on top the bizarro milkshake may have been delivered in the form of "an unsigned typewritten note presumably sent to the US Army and all the major TV networks and wire services demanding the release of 'The Gulf Breeze Six,'" as reported August 16, 1990, in the Gulf Breeze Sentinel (read the transcript). The message in question was also reported by Jacques Vallee via Revelations, among other sources, and related discussion may be viewed on page one of the pdf fileprovided by James Carrion and referenced throughout this blog post. The Sentinel article stated, "Mark Curtis at WEAR Channel 3 first shared this intriguing note with The Sentinel two days before the announcement that the Gulf Breeze Six were discharged from the Army and released." The message contained in the note, which was reported to have been typed in all caps and accompanied by images, stated in full:
ABC, NBC, CBS, AP, UPI
U.S. Army:
Free the Gulf Breeze Six.
We have the missing plans, the box of 500+ photos and the plans you want back.
Here is proof with close-ups cut out.
Next we send the closeups and then everything unless they are released.
Answer code AUGSBB3CM
Possibilities I suppose reasonable conclusions about the chain of events would have to include what many might argue is most obvious: The Gulf Breeze Six were young, impressionable, and open-minded to a fault. That might be an explanation, pending further information allowing more conspiratorial conclusions be drawn. Maybe the rest is just history, or at least what's known about it. Such happens. A lot, around ufology. Another perspective was offered by Coppens. Reasonable and interesting, I'd say:
"Logic" – which does not really come into this story, but somehow needs to be applied to keep a reasonable level of sanity, I would suggest – suggests that something else was going; that this group was singled out and became the victim of an experiment, which their pre-joining interests made them predisposed towards, and which "someone" carefully remoulded to see to test out a hypothesis. If this is true, then the scenario was successful, and when the test was concluded, they were rounded up, brought in… and allowed to tell their story, so that the public disclosure of their story would serve part of the exercise as well.
There are researchers, including George P. Hansen, who suspect individuals who become ensnared in the twilight where the IC meets ufology may land on the radar of intelligence agencies because of their interests in UFOs and paranormal subject matter, not in spite of it. From Hansen's The Trickster and the Paranormal, page 232:
[Richard] Doty was apparently involved with the dubious Ellsworth UFO case before he entered AFOSI. Why then was he made a Special Agent? Given the sensitive nature of that agency's work, an extensive background check must have been done, and his caper at Ellsworth must have come to light. It is plausible that Doty was recruited by AFOSI precisely because of that. His personal interest in UFOs may have been useful to AFOSI, and his unreliability could have been an asset because he could be easily discredited if he was caught in something that might embarrass the agency.
The plausibility of this scenario is strengthened by the case of Simone Mendez. Her story appeared in Just Cause in 1991, after documentation supporting her report became available via the FOIA. It leaves many questions unanswered, but it implicates the AFOSI.
Liner Notes Related matters of interest include: - Former MUFON Eastern Regional Director Donald Ware, who the Pensacola News Journal attributed with stating Anna Foster attended the MUFON 1990 International UFO Symposium, in 1992 guided Leah Haley on a now infamous hike across Eglin Air Force Base. They were in search of an alien spacecraft suspected to be downed by the U.S. military with Haley aboard. The unsubstantiated tale resulted from hypnosis sessions conducted on Haley by John Carpenter, another former MUFON director, who became entangled in the Carpenter Affair. In 1993 Ware was removed from the board in what then-International Director Walt Andrus called an unprecedented election in the July, 1993, MUFON UFO Journal. In his "Director's Message,"
Andrus explained to Journal readers:
This action stemmed from continued advisory statements by members of the Executive Committee to Don that he refrain from mailing books to Board members and Eastern Regional State Directors espousing "channeling" philosophies and techniques over a two year period.
As a result of Mr. Ware's fascination with channeling as a means of communicating with aliens or entities, he invited Dr. Norma Milanovich, a professed channeler, to attend the closed MUFON "Face-to-Face" meeting in Albuquerque, NM in July 1992 and allowed her to read her channeled answers to the questions posed for discussion by the participants. Much to the shock and dismay of MUFON officers attending, Dr. Milanovich read the answers from a computer print-out which she claims was obtained from "Master Kuthumi" during a 33-minute period the previous night.
Ware went on to direct the International UFO Congress from 1993-2010. - The former home of the Gulf Breeze Six and the 701st Military Intelligence Brigade, the US Intelligence Field Station of Augsburg, was the old stomping grounds of Maj. Gen. Bert Stubblebine and Sgt. Lyn Buchanan as portrayed in Jon Ronson's The Men Who Stare at Goats. A few years before the Gulf Breeze Six arrived, career intelligence officer Stubblebine was deeply involved in unconventional avenues of research. He was credited with creating Remote Viewing and went on to become what could reasonably be described as an irrational conspiracy theorist. Buchanan, who worked with Stubblebine and was involved in the Remote Viewing initiative, considers himself an alien abductee, as explored in an interview he generously provided me. - Rima Laibow, MD, was a speaker at the MUFON 1990 International UFO Symposium in Pensacola. Her pro-hypnosis platform and promotion of alleged alien abduction were viewed favorably by MUFON, as was the case with her fellow speaker, Budd Hopkins. Dr. Laibow went on to marry Maj. Gen. Stubblebine. - In 1991 the 701st MI Brigade was awarded the prestigious Director of the National Security Agency's Travis Trophy. The award was granted for having made the nation's most significant contribution in signals intelligence. - In 1989 Anna Foster published her book, Song of my soul. FOIA I recently submitted four FOIA requests on the Gulf Breeze Six. One was to the NSA, asking they conduct a Mandatory Declassification Review, or MDR, of the filereferenced by Coppens. He stated 1400 of its 1600 pages were withheld, so perhaps more of that will be released. I also requested NSA provide records pertaining to investigations of the individuals and their activities, as suggested in newspaper clippings. I similarly requested the Army conduct an MDR of the file referenced by Coppens, as well as related records on the group. Newspaper clippings, establishing the existence of such Army investigations of the six, were offered in support. The CIA and FBI were also queried, with files requested on interactions with and investigations of the Gulf Breeze Six. Offered in support was a July 19, 1990, article (p 81 of pdf) which stated, "Gulf Breeze Police Chief Jerry Brown said that no arrests were made, and [the six] were turned over to the CIA and FBI before going to Fort Benning." Also cited was a July 17, 1990, clipping (pp 86-87) which attributed Police Chief Brown with stating the FBI, CIA and NSA called the Gulf Breeze Police Department following the soldiers' detention.
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Colombia: Three Alleged UFOs over Plata (Huila)
Colombia: Three Alleged UFOs over Plata (Huila)
SOURCE: GIFPU and Planeta UFO Date: 03.04.2017 A report by Joe Carpio, GIFPU
Colombia: Three Alleged UFOs Over Plata (Huila)
On March 3, 2017, starting at 3:00 p.m., a phenomenon was recorded over Plata (Huila) that left locals looking for answers. Three mysterious UFOs were sighted in the skies over the community. According to eyewitnesses, the objects remained static most of the time and as evening grew closer, they flew toward each other quickly until they vanished.
A witness to the event remarked: "Three unidentified flying vehicles remained static most of the afternoon until dusk, then flew quickly toward each other until they vanished," according to Lucas Martinez.
UFO sightings over Colombia are on the rise with many more cases reporting everything from small lights to possible structured craft flying over towns, municipalities and even some of the nation's cities.
Photos show white objects, clearly distant from the witnesses. A drawing depicts the manner in which the craft were described by witnesses.
The accompanying video is from Garzón (Huila) near Plata and shows the presence of UFOs in the afternoon of 20 February 2017:
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OVNIS dans le ciel de Saint-Leu
OVNIS dans le ciel de Saint-Leu
Patrice Huet a réalisé ce montage photographique avec en haut à droite l'horizon et plusieurs grossissements du phénomène observé dans le ciel de Saint-Leu.
(Photos Patrice Huet)
INSOLITE.Directeur scientifique de la cité du volcan, féru d'astronomie, Patrice Huet a été le témoin involontaire mais privilégié d'un étrange ballet aérien dans le ciel de Saint-Leu dimanche dernier au crépuscule. Aucune explication n'a pour l'instant été apportée au phénomène que Patrice Huet a pu photographier.
Quels sont ces objets volants qui se sont inscrits dans le ciel de Saint-Leu en fin d'après-midi dimanche dernier ? Le ballet aérien n'a semble-t-il eu que peu de témoins mais le hasard qui a mis Patrice Huet aux premières loges pour assister brièvement au spectacle a bien fait les choses.
Directeur scientifique de la Cité du volcan, Patrice Huet est autant passionné de volcanologie que féru d'astronomie. Observer le ciel est pour lui une seconde nature. Que ce soit lui qui ait immortalisé cet étrange phénomène, donne un poids particulier à cette observation dans la mesure où l'on est en présence d'un témoin crédible qui ne laisse aucune place au sensationnalisme ou à la manipulation.
Peu avant 19 heures, dimanche dernier, Patrice Huet roule en voiture avec sa compagne. À hauteur de Saint-Leu, il jette machinalement un regard vers le ciel. Il fait un temps superbe. «Nous étions quelques minutes après le coucher du soleil, confie Patrice Huet. À force d'observer le ciel j'ai acquis une certaine facilité à identifier les phénomènes qui s'y passent. Soudain avec ma compagne notre regard a été attiré par un point lumineux sur la mer en direction de l'ouest - sud-ouest et à environ 10, 15° au-dessus de l'horizon».
trois points lumineux dans le ciel
Patrice Huet pense avoir identifié Mercure. « C'est alors que j'ai aperçu deux autres points lumineux plus ou moins alignés au dessous. » Surpris par l'apparition de ces trois points lumineux, Patrice Huet décide de s'arrêter. « Le temps de garer la voiture, il n'en restait plus qu'un ». Par chance il a avec lui son appareil photo. Il réalise quelques clichés mais le temps de retourner à la voiture pour prendre un objectif plus adapté, le rideau est retombé sur cette scène des plus insolites.
« Je n'ai pas pu voir la fin du phénomène. Il semblait se déplacer avec des composantes verticales et horizontale vers la droite. »
Patrice Huet a marqué d'une flèche les différents points observés. En dessous de la flèche centrale l'objet qu'il a agrandi.
Si à l'œil nu on ne voit qu'un point lumineux, le 250 mm de Patrice Huet a capté quelques détails étonnants. Il réalise le photo montage que nous publions. On y voit à gauche l'horizon au moment de l'observation. Le phénomène n'est pas dans le champ, il est légèrement sur la gauche. Cependant on distingue les trainées d'un avion avec un léger bougé sur la partie droite de la photo. Sur l'autre photo, Patrice Huet a signalé avec des flèches noires, quatre points noirs qu'il n'avait pas remarqué lors de la prise de vue.
Après la parution dimanche dernier de notre dossier sur les manifestations extraterrestres, certains auront vite fait de faire le rapprochement.
S'il a la tête dans les étoiles, Patrice Huet garde, lui, les pieds sur terre. Pas question pour cet esprit scientifique d'aller chercher des explications abracadabrantes. Il a envoyé ses clichés à Franck Marchis et à l'astronaute Jean-Jacques Favier.
L'un et l'autre sont venus animer à la Réunion des cycles de conférence. D'origine réunionnaise, Franck Marchis est astronome et planétologue. Il est actuellement chercheur à l'Institut SETI, un organisme sans but lucratif qui a pour mission d'"explorer, comprendre et expliquer l'origine, la nature et la prévalence de la vie dans l'univers". Il est surtout connu pour la découverte et la caractérisation de plusieurs astéroïdes, ses études sur le volcanisme de Io et sur l'imagerie des exoplanètes, les planètes qui gravitent autour d'autres étoiles que le Soleil. L'astéroïde (6639) Marchis a été nommé en son honneur le 4 avril 2007. Jean-Jacques Favier a été le premier scientifique français à passer seize jours à bord de la navette Columbia du 20 juin au 7 juillet 1998.
Patrice Huet compte sur l'éclairage de ces deux spécialistes pour percer l'énigme de son observation.
Ready to fly, drive and take the train to work? Airbus and Italdesign have taken the wraps off an incredible pod design that combines all three into the last vehicle you could ever need. The Pop.up system is a concept that combines artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and Hyperloop into a futuristic machine designed to traverse cities at speed.
“Adding the third dimension to seamless multi-modal transportation networks will without a doubt improve the way we live and how we get from A to B,” said Mathias Thomsen, general manager for urban air mobility at Airbus, at the vehicle’s world premiere during the 87th Geneva International Motor Show on Tuesday.
At its core, the vehicle consists of a monocoque carbon-fiber pod with two seats, measuring 8.5 feet by 4.9 feet, standing 4.6 feet tall. The pod couples on the base with a four-wheel ground module for driving, but in certain situations, an air module will connect to the roof. The module, measuring 16.4 feet by 14.4 feet, has eight counter-rotating rotors that can propel it through the air at around 60 miles per hour. It can also drive at 60 miles per hour. Both the air module and the ground module take about 15 minutes to charge — the ground module has an 80-mile range, and the air module can go 60, without a payload. Airbus doesn’t state how far the air module can travel with passengers on board.
Passengers will use an app to call a ride, the system will choose the best module for the occasion, and the whole pod will work out the best way to drive itself. Artificial intelligence is used to make the experience as seamless as possible, for example by choosing the air module to avoid traffic congestion in major cities. An augmented reality overlay provides details about sights throughout the city, allowing users to give their opinion on city proposals and accept event invites. At the end of the trip, the components all return themselves to a charging station for the next user.
The batteries located inside the modules link up to the pod and share charge.
The modular system allows for integration with other forms of publicly-available transit, with Airbus naming Hyperloop as one example. Elon Musk’s design for a 700 mile per hour vacuum-sealed train has captured the imaginations of city and vehicle designers, and Pop.Up’s creators are no exception.
“[The] passenger pod concept envisaged by Hyperloop could intuitively integrate well with Pop.Up,” an Airbus spokesperson tells Inverse. “For instance, the last mile to and from Hyperloop stations could be transported with the Pop.Up air module.”
It’s not the first company to explore this idea. Hyperloop One, a company aiming to bring the train system to reality, has also described a system where self-driving cars can link up with the network, drive into the nearest Hyperloop portal and cut transit times dramatically. An Airbus spokesperson tells Inverse that the company does not yet have any direct contact with Hyperloop firms, but that it is open to exploring opportunities.
As for when you’ll be able to try one of these, Airbus has no current plans to bring the vehicle to market, but believes a vehicle similar to the concept could debut somewhere in the 2024 to 2027 range.
In The Martian, astronaut Mark Watney starts growing a farm on Mars using the potatoes meant for Thanksgiving dinner. As it turns out, this might actually be possible in real life if humans ever do colonize Mars. Scientists from the International Potato Center (CIP) (yes, it’s an actual thing) successfully grew potatoes grown in a synthetic soil that mimics the Martian earth.
The CIP started the Potatoes on Mars project in February 2016 in Lima, Peru to see how potatoes would grow and survive in Martian conditions. Wednesday’s announcement of positive results could open up a world of extraterrestrial agriculture that makes it much easier for future generations living on another world to keep themselves full and fed.
“The question we want to know is, can you grow food on Mars,” Chris McKay of NASA’s Ames Research Center tells Inverse. “Potatoes are a good example of a good food. We eat a lot of them. There’s been a lot of research on potatoes as a life support crop. For this particular crop, we want to know how close to Mars-like conditions can potatoes grow.”
Scientists chose to experiment with potatoes because these crops have a high genetic capacity for adapting to extreme environments. Previously, the CIP has grown potatoes that can tolerate conditions caused by climate change, like soil salinity and drought. For this experiment, scientists grew potatoes in soil from the Pampas de La Joya desert in southern Peru, which is dry and similar to Mars’s soil.
These potatoes have been growing inside a CubeSat, which has a container with soil and the tubers and a suite of sensors and cameras to monitor the conditions. It delivers nutrient rich water and simulates Mars’s temperature, air pressure, and atmosphere.
The scientists will continue conducting experiments to find out what kind of potatoes grow best and what minimum conditions potatoes need to survive, including low pressures and low temperatures. This experiment also has practical uses for Earth, as scientists will test whether potatoes can grow in extreme conditions that might hit Earth because of climate change.
On Earth, farmers grow potatoes under warm conditions, but on Mars, the temperatures and pressure are much lower. However, if potatoes can stand Mars-like conditions, in the future, astronauts might not need to build a greenhouse that simulates Earth-like conditions.
“Maybe it could be a tenth of Earth-like conditions,” McKay says. “That makes the greenhouse a lot easier to build.”
Right now, astronauts in space currently eat freeze-dried space food. But for extended missions, like missions to Mars, this isn’t practical, as astronauts need more nutrients, and freezing takes up resources. Plus, if we move onto Mars, we need a sustainable way to grow food and produce oxygen — otherwise, we’ll run out.
NASA’s Advanced Food Technology Project is working on solutions to feed astronauts in space while minimizing waste and energy costs. If we were to send a crew to Mars now, we’d have to load their spacecraft with 7,000 pounds of food. But growing fruits and vegetables would lessen the amount of food astronauts would need to bring to Mars. Plus, astronauts will be healthier and happier from eating food that is not irradiated turkey or astronaut ice cream.
According to McKay, in the near future, NASA hopes to take this potato experiment to the red planet to actually grow them on Mars’s red soil. The payload would have to be as minimal as possible.
“We’d do that experiment way before people go to Mars,” McKay says. “The first time we grow potatoes on Mars isn’t going to be for someone’s dinner. It will be to make sure it works.”
Like Mark Watney, in the future, we may survive on Mars by getting our fill of potato carbs, without having to alter the soil much. But hopefully our crops don’t get destroyed by an airlock explosion.
“It looks like potatoes can do fine in the soil,” McKay says. “You don’t need to add human manure the way they did in that movie.”
New data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Herschel Space Observatory is undoing a century of scientific evidence, boggling astronomer’s minds and proving that nothing in the universe is set in stone.
There are several star clusters sprinkled throughout the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. A star cluster is a group of stars, originally believed to all be created around the same time, and held together by gravity until galactic winds eventually sweep them apart. Clusters have acted as a kind of control group for scientists who are studying how new stars form. But, now, it appears they aren’t actually controlled environments at all.
In some of these star clusters, a research group from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Perth observed the presence of newborn stars, which would indicate the cluster are not on a timestamped life but rather constantly evolving. To verify this, the group cross-matched the sites of the clusters with sites of newborn stars. In the resulting analysis, scientists concluded that there were at least 15 young stars residing in much older clusters. The results are published in the new issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
“We believe the younger stars have actually been created out of the matter ejected from older stars as they die, which would mean we have discovered multiple generations of stars belonging to the same cluster,” Kenji Bekki an ICRAR astronomer and co-author of the new paper, said in a press release.
This throws all previous knowledge of clusters out the window, affecting models and data that have been collected over the past 100 years. To further understand this new discovery, scientists will be using the Hubble Space Telescope to probe the Large Magellanic Cloud with ultraviolet light to see beyond the stellar dust shrouding the young stars from scientists’ view.
“If we point Hubble at the clusters we’ve been studying, we should be able to see both young and old stars and confirm once and for all that star clusters can contain several generations of stars,” said Bekki.
Photos via NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Meixner (STScI) & the SAGE Legacy Team.
The Gigantic Megaliths of Ural Mountains in Russia
The Gigantic Megaliths of Ural Mountains in Russia
Published on Mar 25, 2016
This is simply an audio improved version of the video called "Bigger than Baalbek...The amazing megaliths of the Ural Mountains". While the audio is much better, there will be no new information for those who have watched the original video. Actually the new information about these megaliths could be found in the video called "Cyclopean megaliths, main characteristics of the category, the forgotten type of megaliths" and there will be a bit more new in the next video about the pancake stone where I will publish the opinion of A.Koltypin about them.
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Once used as a ceremonial spot for the followers of a secretive religious sect, these are the underground caves offering safe haven after leaders of the free world brutally dismantled the group's power base.
The caves in Shropshire were once a place of pilgrimage and worship for followers of the Knights Templar, a feared fighting force during the Crusades who built an international power base on their reputation and spoils.
The untouched caverns date back to a time when the Knights were prominent before King Philip IV of France, fearful of their power and deeply in their debt, attempted to dismantle the renowned group.
Many were tortured into confessions and burnt at the stake in order to publicly discredit them, but after they were literally forced underground, caves such as those in Shropshire offered haven to members and followers.
The Caynton Caves lay untouched for years and it is still not known exactly when they were carved. Some believe it was by their knights 700 years ago while some think it was by their followers in the 17th century.
In recent times they have been used by numerous groups including druids and pagans wishing to find a safe place to worship, as the Templar's followers had used it for centuries ago.
Although they were closed up five years ago after the landowners became sick of the constant requests and found the caves strewn with litter and new carvings, adding to the crosses etched in the walls from long ago.
Photographer Michael Scott, from Birmingham, 33, captured the eerie pictures of the inside for the first time since it was shut in 2012. He said: 'I traipsed over a field to find it, but if you didn't know it was there you would just walk right past it. It's probably less than a metre underground, so it's more into the field than under it.
'Considering how long it's been there it's in amazing condition, it's like an underground temple.'
Down the rabbit hole! Gorgeous caves hidden under farmer's field
Shadowy: Once used as a ceremonial spot for the followers of a secretive religious sect, these are the underground caves offering safe haven after leaders of the free world brutally dismantled the group's power base
Historic: The caves in Shropshire were once a place of pilgrimage and worship for followers of the Knights Templar, a feared fighting force during the Crusades who built an international power base on their reputation and spoils
Enlightened: Sunlight rushes in through the small openings in the caves, just metres under the surface of the ground in Shropshire, once used by followers of the Knights Templar (right, stock image) that made its name in the Crusades
Forced underground: The untouched caverns date back to a time when the Knights were prominent before King Philip IV of France, fearful of their power and deeply in their debt, attempted to dismantle the renowned group
Scratching the surface: The entrances to the caves look barely bigger than rabbit holes when seen from the ground above but below is an intricate underground cavern
Born again: In recent times they have been used by numerous groups including druids and pagans wishing to find a safe place to worship, as the Templar's followers had used it for centuries ago
Casting a shadow: The caves were closed up five years ago after the landowners became sick of the constant requests and found the caves strewn with litter and new carvings, adding to the crosses etched in the walls from years gone by
Light it up: Photographer Michael Scott, from Birmingham, set out in search of the historical wonder after seeing a video of it online and captured the eerie pictures of the inside for the first time since it was shut in 2012
Holy place: Inside the caves, as well as plenty of places to rest candles, there is what appears to be a basic stone altar on the wall on the right
Hole in the wall: The intricately carved caves feature cleverly engineered pillars to hold the weight and make them safe for the worshipers inside, as well as ornate archways and squares
Lost in time: The Caynton Caves lay untouched for years and it is still not known exactly when they were carved. Some believe it was by their knights 700 years ago while some think it was by their followers in the 17th century
Safe haven: In recent times they have been used by numerous groups including druids and pagans wishing to find a safe place to worship, as the Templar's followers had used it for centuries ago.
See the light: The caves add fuel to the widely held view that the Templar were not disbanded in the 14th century after being attacked by the French king, but instead went underground and still exert control within many powerful organisations
Konijnenhol leidt naar 700 jaar oud grottencomplex van de geheimzinnige Tempeliers
Konijnenhol leidt naar 700 jaar oud grottencomplex van de geheimzinnige Tempeliers
Een konijnenhol in Groot-Brittannië leidt naar de ingang van een indrukwekkend grottencomplex dat werd gebruikt door de Tempeliers.
De grotten zijn te vinden onder een weiland in Shropshire. Fotograaf Michael Scott besloot de plek te bezoeken nadat hij op internet een filmpje over de grotten had gezien.
Eenmaal onder de grond stuitte Scott op gangen, holle ruimtes en uitbouwen. “Ik moest kruipen om binnen te kunnen komen,” zei hij. “Toen ik binnen was hoorde ik helemaal niets. Er waren alleen een paar spinnen.”
Machtig
De grotten, die 700 jaar oud zouden zijn, worden in verband gebracht met de Tempeliers, een kruisridderorde die een Heilige Oorlog voerde tegen de moslims in het Heilige Land.
Grottenstelsel (Caters News)
De orde, die vernoemd is naar de Tempelberg, werd in 1119 opgericht om pelgrims die het Heilige Land bezochten te beschermen.
De ridderorde had in middeleeuws Europa veel macht. De Tempeliers werden uiteindelijk zo machtig en rijk dat koning Filips IV van Frankrijk er alles aan deed om van ze af te komen.
Zwarte magie
Veel Tempeliers werden gearresteerd wegens ketterij en tientallen belandden op de brandstapel.
Paus Clemens V hief de orde in 1307 op.
Voordat Scott de grotten bezocht waren ze een aantal jaren gesloten. Door rituelen met zwarte magie moesten de eigenaars de ingang naar de grotten in 2012 afsluiten, meldt de Birmingham Mail.
Geheim
In kringen van vrijmetselaars gaat het verhaal dat de orde nog eeuwenlang in het geheim is blijven bestaan.
In sommige boeken valt te lezen dat er nog tot in deze eeuw grootmeesters van de Tempeliers in functie zijn.
Two Foo Fighters Following Plane Over Sweden On Feb 25, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News
Two Foo Fighters Following Plane Over Sweden On Feb 25, 2017, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 25, 2017
Location of sighting: Gnesta, Sodermanland, Sweden
Source: MUFON #82564 Back in WWI and WWII this type of UFOs were called Foo Fighters. A large glowing orb that was as big as a car and often matched speed with the fighter planes, flying a log side them for hours at a time. Awesome to see they are still out there. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Me and my girlfriend where out on our lawn, I´ve had my camera with me as usually. My girlfriend noticed an airplane in the sky above with some strange gloving lights behind it. I managed to take one photo before it dissapered behind a cloud.
A California witness at Rancho Santa Margarita reported a UFO encounter from 1999 when a ball of light about the size of a beach ball appeared in front of his vehicle, according to testimony in Case 82195 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration of the event.
(Credit: Google)
The witness says it was a clear and sunny day, in broad daylight, on a very familiar road, while driving his car with friends about 2:30 p.m. on July 10, 1999, when the incident began.
“What I can only describe as some kind of a ‘ball’ of light about the size of a large beach ball appeared, very suddenly, out of nowhere, directly in front of my car,” the witness stated. “In a bit of a panic, I asked my friends if they saw it too and they all definitely did.”
The group was stunned and the witness says they were not sure what to do.
“It appeared to be floating/hovering/flying about three feet off the ground, and it was moving with us. There was no physical structure to it, as it appeared to be literally made of light. The light varied in color and was dynamic, not static. It was almost impossibly bright, like no other light source I’ve even seen, even though it was the middle of the day.”
The object appeared to be hovering about three feet off the ground. Pictured: Rancho Santa Margarita, CA.
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The object appeared about 30 feet in front of the vehicle.
“And it seemed to be matching my speed. I was going about 40 mph at first, but I slowed down a little bit, not wanting to drive into it, but it seemed to slow down with me, remaining the same distance ahead of us. Then I sped up a little, and it did the same thing, matching my speed and remaining directly in front of my car.”
And then the object just disappeared.
“It was only there for a few seconds, maybe 10 or 15 seconds, before it vanished, just as it had appeared, into thin air. Also, there were definitely other cars on the road with me that day too, both behind me and in the lanes next to me and slightly behind me, but I have no idea if anyone other than my friends and I saw it. This happened in a pre-iphone/smartphone/cameraphone world, so none of us got any photos or video. The image I uploaded was created by me, years later, using Photoshop and a screenshot from Google street view of about where it happened.”
The object appeared to move along with the vehicle for about 10 to 15 seconds before disappearing. Pictured: Rancho Santa Margarita, CA.
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California MUFON Field Investigator Dianne Hall is investigating.
MUFON has several historical cases in their witness database with accounts of objects moving along with vehicles. In particular, three Arizona accounts include fascinating testimony in cases closed as Unknowns. These are Case 27685, May 19, 2010, Congress, AZ; Case 29547, June 10, 2011, near Kingman, AZ; and Case 29703, June 24, 2011, Flagstaff, AZ.
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.
The first demonstration of the 3D printing technology is a cozy, 400-square-foot (37 square meters) home with an unusual, curved shape.
Credit: Apis Cor
A new house has been erected in a town outside Moscow, but this home was not built in the traditional sense — it was constructed with 3D printing.
The first 3D-printed residential home, engineered by the tech startup Apis Cor, took less than a day to construct and cost under $11,000 to complete. A mobile 3D printer created the building's concrete walls and partitions as a fully connected structure, rather than printing the building in panels at an off-site facility as is usually done, the company said. The portable machine was then removed from the building, and a group of contractors completed the home — adding the roof and windows, and finishing the interior.
"We want to help people around the world to improve their living conditions," Nikita Chen-yun-tai, Apis Cor's founder and inventor of the mobile printer, said on the company's website. "That's why the construction process needs to become fast, efficient and high-quality as well. For this to happen, we need to delegate all the hard work to smart machines."
The first example of this work is a cozy, 400-square-foot (37 square meters) home with an unusual, curved shape. The curved design of the home was chosen to demonstrate the 3D printer's ability to print the construction material in any shape, according to Apis Cor.
Inside, the 3D-printed home has all of the standard features of a traditionally built house. The studio-style dwelling has a hall, bathroom, living room and compact kitchen. Apis Cor partnered with Samsung on the demonstration house; the electronics giant provided the home's appliances, including a TV with the same curvature as the living-room wall.
Apis Cor estimated that the total cost of the demonstration house's construction was about $25 per square foot, or $275 per square meter. Of the total $10,134 it cost to build the home, the windows and doors were the most expensive components, the company said.
While the total construction savings of the demonstation house compared to a tranditional home are difficult to estimate, Apis Cor representatives said in a statement that savings from 3D printing the building walls are guaranteed.
This artist's concept allows us to imagine what it would be like to stand on the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f, located in the TRAPPIST-1 system in the constellation Aquarius.
The search for life beyond earth is helping to shed light on our past, our present, and our future, says James Green, the director of planetary science at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration headquarters in Washington, D.C.
"I think this is a fundamental question of inquiry at the moment," said Green, who is speaking Wednesday night in Thunder Bay as part of research and innovation week at Lakehead University.
"It's really all about the concept of how life started and are there locations beyond Earth where life could have started, and that's kind of important to know because they may be our neighbours someday."
'Not necessarily science fiction'
Research on the other planets in our solar system, and beyond, is starting to show "they may have harboured life in the past, and then, on top of that, there's environment that we're uncovering right now in the planets, and moons in particular, that may be conducive for life today, so it's a very exciting time for us," said Green.
James Green, director of planetary science at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. says this is "exciting time" for researchers studying the origins of life in the universe. He is speaking in Thunder Bay, Ont., on Wednesday.
(NASA)
It is becoming increasingly possible that it could one day be science fact, "not necessarily science fiction" that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe.
"Every step we take we get positive indications that something unusual is going on that we need to investigate further," said Green.
'What is our destiny?'
Sometimes that investigation offers hints of what may be to come, for those of us who call Earth home.
"What is our destiny of this species as we go millions of years into the future?," said Green, noting that Earth may not be in the safest location in the solar system, due to the presence of a large number of near-Earth objects, which have collided with our planet in the past, and will likely do so again in the future.
He points to the Earth's rock record, which suggests an impact with a nearby object of a significant size sending an enormous amount of debris into the atmosphere, blocking out the sun and leading to the extinction of more than 80 per cent of the life that existed on the planet at the time.
"The dinosaurs didn't have a space program and they became extinct."
Green's presentation, The Search for Life Beyond Earth, in Space and Time, begins at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday March 8 in ATAC 1003 at Lakehead University.
Extraterrestrial life forms could be 'our neighbours someday': NASA researcher
'Dinosaurs didn't have a space program and they became extinct', head scientist shares findings in Thunder Bay
By Cathy Alex, CBC NewsPosted: Mar 08, 2017 7:30 AM ETLast Updated: Mar 08, 2017 12:28 PM ET
This artist's concept allows us to imagine what it would be like to stand on the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f, located in the TRAPPIST-1 system in the constellation Aquarius. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (IPAC))
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'Not necessarily science fiction'
Research on the other planets in our solar system, and beyond, is starting to show "they may have harboured life in the past, and then, on top of that, there's environment that we're uncovering right now in the planets, and moons in particular, that may be conducive for life today, so it's a very exciting time for us," said Green.
James Green, director of planetary science at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. says this is "exciting time" for researchers studying the origins of life in the universe. He is speaking in Thunder Bay, Ont., on Wednesday. (NASA)
It is becoming increasingly possible that it could one day be science fact, "not necessarily science fiction" that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe.
"Every step we take we get positive indications that something unusual is going on that we need to investigate further," said Green.
'What is our destiny?'
Sometimes that investigation offers hints of what may be to come, for those of us who call Earth home.
"What is our destiny of this species as we go millions of years into the future?," said Green, noting that Earth may not be in the safest location in the solar system, due to the presence of a large number of near-Earth objects, which have collided with our planet in the past, and will likely do so again in the future.
He points to the Earth's rock record, which suggests an impact with a nearby object of a significant size sending an enormous amount of debris into the atmosphere, blocking out the sun and leading to the extinction of more than 80 per cent of the life that existed on the planet at the time.
"The dinosaurs didn't have a space program and they became extinct."
Green's presentation, The Search for Life Beyond Earth, in Space and Time, begins at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday March 8 in ATAC 1003 at Lakehead University.
James Green, director of planetary science at NASA, says the search for life beyond Earth is one of the fundamental areas of inquiry of our time. (Lakehead University)
An ultra-powerful light beam shone down from what observers described as “a rent in the fabric of the sky”. The light source was far too powerful to be a conventional aircraft, residents who saw the phenomenon said.
A major United States Navy weapons station is just six miles away from Huntington at Seal Beach.
El Paso is close to the US Army’s top secret White Sands compound - the USA’s most secret military installation.
White Sands was the location of Robert Oppenheimer’s Manhattan Project which saw the world’s first Atomic bomb detonated there in July 1945.
In Huntington some people said the massive light in the sky looked ‘alien’ and like some sort of ‘portal to another universe’.
But others pointed to the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station – one even suggesting it was a rogue Trident missile.
Seal Beach was opened in 1944 and is charged with arming the US Pacific Fleet. But part of the station’s remit is also to test and assess new and existing weapons – many of which are classified.
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The alleged portal
Some observers claimed the bizarre super-strong light beam may have been some sort of new weapons system.
SecureTeam10 investigator Tyler says he was sent the video on Twitter by a man simply known as Michael. he added the people who captured the footage were on their way to Huntington Beach, California, at 5.30 AM when they spotted the light.
Tyler adds Michael said the footage “looked literally like a portal, opening up in the sky where we had this strange light which appeared and was shining directly down towards the Earth.
Seal Beach, California, is home to a naval station
“The source is driving towards the light and you’ll notice that the light never once moves position.
“If it were a plane or something like that, flying at 400 to 600 miles per hour, you can bet you would see some movement but this piece just sat there.
“From the distance that he recorded this, I would think that it would have to be a massive light.
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A 'portal opened in California'
“I’m scratching my head at what could have created this?
“Is this some sort of portal? Is this some sort of craft up in the clouds that has a light on the bottom of this that not only points straight down towards the Earth but is also powerful enough to cut through these cloudy skies.”
The light can be seen in the sky for about 20 seconds before completely disappearing.
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Some believe the supposed portal led to a parallel universe
Commenters on the video state that there was some spooky goings on in the region about the time the video was captured – towards the end of February.
One person wrote: “This is too weird, I woke up from a dream seeing something in the sky like a portal, then all of a sudden I was getting sucked into one. This literally happened this morning when I was sleeping. strangely I live in Cali as well”.
Another added: “I live in Huntington Beach and have seen some crazy things around here!”
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A mysterious beam appeared in the sky
However, others were not so convinced.
A skeptic said: “The ‘weird light’ over California was a Trident II ballistic missile test, two missiles were launched.”
Another said: “Getting so sick of the use of the word 'portal' in every other ufo video lol - it's pop sci fi terminology at best. This looks simply like a helicopter searchlight shining through low cloud/mist.”
The singer-turned UFO investigator spoke after being named UFO "Researcher Of The Year" by the International UFO Congress.
In his acceptance speech he suggested there was about to be a big leap in the quest for truth over aliens.
He has been involved in a mystery project, details of which emerged when emails he sent Hillary Clinton's campaign manager John Podesta were released by WikiLeaks during the US presidential election campaign.
The emails suggested he was in talks with significant US military sources.
DeLonge has previously made wild claims, including that he has met aliens near top-secret military base Area 51.
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Tom DeLonge says a major UFO announcement is coming in the next 60 days.
He also said his mission has seen him "hunted" by shady officials, with his phone being tapped, due to his sources.
In his acceptance speech, he said: "There’s a lot that I can’t say, but there’s some that I can, but there will be an announcement in like 60 days.
"I’m so appreciative that I’ve been acknowledged for this stuff, but I’m not done.
"I’m just like you guys. I spent 20 years up all night, reading about Roswell, Dulce, Serpo, Churchill, the crashes here, Nazis building craft there, Antarctica, what’s on Mars, what’s on the back of the moon, anomalous structures.
"I mean, I’ve done it all. I know it all. I read all the same authors as you guys, hundreds of books. I look at all the same sites. I listen to all the Coast To Coast stuff that you guys do. I’m the same.
There’s a lot that I can’t say, but there’s some that I can, but there will be an announcement in like 60 days.
Tom DeLonge
"But I kind of used some of my notoriety to try to do something pretty ambitious, and it worked.
"I came out and told you guys about a book I was writing called Sekret Machines, and I said a bunch of stuff, that I was working with some people.
"Well, I think a lot of people doubted it, and they thought it was crazy that this musician would have this kind of access. And then the WikiLeaks thing happened, and you guys saw that I’m into some serious s***, and I’m making really good progress."
He said his announcement may be missed by mainstream media.
However, "the UFO community would see the significance", he said.
A UFO investigator looking for evidence of flying saucers inadvertently stumbled across the suspected aircraft in an eight-month-old Google satellite image.
If Scott C Waring is correct, the plane had travelled to the Cape of Good Hope, off Cape Town, South Africa.
His claim today coincides with the discovery of debris on the east coast of Africa in an area between Mozambique and Madagascar.
The wrecked parts are being sent to Australia for tests to see if they came from MH370.
Mr Waring, who is editor of UFO Sightings Daily, posted details of his discovery online.
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Could this really be the missing MH 370?
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Mr Waring is convinced it is a Boeing 777 and could be MH 370
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Close up: A plane or surf on rocks?
If he has discovered the aircraft, it would appear the plane has survived the mystery crash largely in one piece.
The Boeing 777 disappeared on with 239 people on board en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014.
The site of the debris find is about 1,200 miles from Cape Town.
Mr Waring today blogged: "I was looking around the Cape of Good Hope for an old UFO sighting I found three years ago, and was hoping to make an update when I came across a shadow in the water, which resembled an airliner.
“I used to work on B-1 bombers back at Ellsworth SD, at an SAC during my USAF days. I know a plane when I see one.
I was looking around the Cape of Good Hope for an old UFO sighting I found three years ago, and was hoping to make an update when I came across a shadow in the water, which resembled an airliner
Scott C Waring
Mr Waring speculated a Boeing 777-200 like MH370 would have enough fuel to fly between 6,000 miles and 7,700 miles and the "crash site" was about 5,400 from where it took off from.
He added: "The Google earth photo is dated July 26 2015 and it crashed on March 8 2014. It's had 16 months of moving about."
He now fears it could have moved since the picture was taken last July.
He said action was needed urgently to confirm or rule out his findings.
He said: "I know there is less than one per cent of one per cent of a chance that this is MH370, but it's better than we had five minutes ago right.
“I feel awful for those families who lost friends and family this plane and I hope this might get them some closure.”
Mr Waring has a knack for spotting well-know objects in satellite and other NASA images taken in space.
He regularly posts alleged sightings in images talked by the NASA Curiosity Rover droid that he says prove aliens exist such as beings, buildings, UFOs, ancient ruins, animals, fossils, the list goes on.
But most scientists agree he is simply falling victim to a phenomena known as pareidolia, when the brain tricks they were into seeing familiar objects like faces or animal shapes in textures or patterns like a rock surface.
To try and prove the theory, Mr Waring has tweeted Malaysia Airlines to alert them to the discovery and is awaiting a response.
UFO 2017: CHILEAN NAVY RELEASE 10 MIN OF UFO FOOTAGE IN INFRARED
UFO 2017: CHILEAN NAVY RELEASE 10 MIN OF UFO FOOTAGE IN INFRARED
Unexplained UFO video just released from the Chilean Navy
The remarkable nine-minutes recorded by two Chileans from military showing an unidentified flying object (UFO) ejecting an unknown substance into the air, was introduced into the media society by Chilean government, after two years of long analyses and investigations.
CEFAA, the Chilean government's UFO investigations branch, was the only one at that time released such type of images. CEFAA works under the auspices of Chilean Air Force, committees of military experts, technicians and academics from many disciplines. None of them have been able to reach a consensus about what that object is, an object observed by those two militaries from coastal patrol.
When all the investigations among UFO's cases are accomplished, and the events are named as unidentified air phenomenas, the government's branch release them into the media. The General Ricardo Bermudez, the director of CEFAA in that period, explained: "We do not know exacly what that object was, but we do know for sure what that object wasn't." And "what that object wasn't" comes up with a long list of conventional explanations.
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Nuclear Weapons and UFOs
Nuclear Weapons and UFOs
Since the dawn of the Atomic Age, hundreds of UFOs have been sighted over, or near, nuclear power plants, nuclear research laboratories, nuclear weapons launch control centers and nuclear warhead storage facilities. According to Dr. Donald Johnson of the Nuclear Connection Project:
A good percentage of these reports occurred at highly restricted government research and production facilities such as Los Alamos (NM), Oak Ridge (TN), Hanford (WA), and Savannah River (SC). Highly trained government scientists and personnel who had been granted top-secret military clearance made many of these reports.
As indicated by Francis Ridge, Coordinator of the Nuclear Connection Project:
The first major UFO sighting wave occurred in the summer of 1947 with over 800 sightings of ‘daylight discs’ or ‘flying saucers’. The sightings peaked and ceased within days of a reported crash of an object at Roswell, New Mexico.
At the time, New Mexico was the center of the world’s cutting edge rocket science research, nuclear weapons development, and newly operating radar systems. Some well known scientists such as physicist Stanton Friedman, believe it was these new technological projects that attracted the many UFO visits to New Mexico. Clearly someone other than the U.S. government was interested in these science/engineering breakthroughs. To retrieve a report of dozens of these UFO incidents, Google: UFO Intelligence Summary for the Nuclear Connection Project.
Among some of the most interesting UFO incursions have been those at U.S. nuclear weapons facilities. One of the world’s foremost UFO/nuclear weapons researchers is writer Robert Hastings, author of UFOs and Nukes: Extraordinary Encounters at Nuclear Weapons Sites. Hastings has secured testimony of over 150 retired U.S. military officers and enlisted personnel who have observed UFOs, some of which have interrupted operations of nuclear weapons sites in the U.S. and overseas. In some cases, underground based nuclear missiles malfunctioned while disc-shaped objects silently hovered over their launch control centers. Similar incidents have occurred at numerous nuclear weapons storage areas and B-52 bomber alert pads. To retrieve declassified documents concerning these incidents, click here or here.
One of the most prominent U.S. UFO incidents occurred at Whiteman Air Force Base, Knob Noster, Missouri, where in 1984 the Air Force deployed 150 Minuteman nuclear missiles on high alert status which were presumably aimed at dozens of strategic areas in the Soviet Union. In support of those actively deployed warheads, were additional “spare” warheads which were stored in above ground containers known as “igloos”.
One late night at Whiteman, Airman 1st class Dale Hogan and his fellow airman, known only as George, were driving near the “igloos” when the motor of their jeep malfunctioned so that they had to park near igloo 4018. Upon doing so, Hogan saw a black disc approximately 50 feet in diameter hovering some 50 to 100 feet over the igloo. When Hogan, approached the igloo, he saw a pencil-thin, bluish-red light coming straight from the overhead disc doing a grid pattern examination of the igloo starting at one corner of the object and going back and forth about every three inches. At one point Hogan put his hand into the beam of light which changed to the color purple and burned his fingers. Hogan said: “…my hand was like numb! Like pins and needles…”
As the disc continued to survey the igloos, George called the Base Security Officer for orders. Shortly thereafter, a security team was dispatched to the area, and the Lt. Colonel in charge ordered Hogan and George to move behind the igloo. Then a very large video camera was set up with a large spot light being beamed on the black disc. And, at that point, several Marine Harrier jet planes were dispatched to the area as the UFO began to move away from the igloos. As the jets approached the disc, the UFO easily outmaneuvered their pursuit and sped faraway from the area. As their chase was to no avail, the Harriers returned to Whiteman and landed. Then the UFO returned to the igloos and continued emitting the red-blue beam of light at the top of their surfaces. This grid search ended at about 4:30 a.m. and the disc ‘lit up’ and shot straight up in the sky never to be seen again.
Following this strange episode, Airmen Hogan and George were “debriefed”. by four men in gray suits and by several Whiteman officers. As part of the debriefing, Hogan and George were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement stating that they would never discuss the Whiteman UFO incident with anyone, and were told told that a violation of the agreement would result in immediate discharge from the Air Force, along with several other serious penalties.
In a very detailed interview with journalist and TV anchor, Linda Moulton Howe, Hogan repeated the following threats that were made by Whteman officers at the end of his debriefing:
Airman Hogan, bullets are cheap! People die all the time. They commit suicide on a regular basis. If you ever disclose what happened this night, you will not like the future. And family members die all the time – horrible deaths! Houses burn down. People die in car crashes all the time. So, for your family’s sake, I would not disclose what happened tonight.
To retrieve LInda Moulton Howe’s interview with Airman Dale Hogan, click here or watch embedded video above[
Bill Wickersham, MU Adjunct Professor of Peace Studies
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X-Files : la saison 11 pas avant 2017/2018
X-Files : la saison 11 pas avant 2017/2018
Par Corentin Palanchini
La 11e fournée d'épisodes de X-Files devrait voir le jour, cependant pas avant la rentrée 2017/2018, selon les présidents de FOX TV.
S'il n'y a jamais de repos pour les agents Mulder et Scully, il y a des pauses pour leurs interprètes ! Selon les présidents de FOX TV, Gillian Anderson et David Duchovny ne pourront pas tourner une nouvelle saison de X-Files avant 2017/2018 ! Ce qui les retient ? Un agenda bouché !
Si Duchovny vient de terminer le tournage de Twin Peaks saison 3 et Aquarius saison 2 (cette dernière sera diffusée cet été), Anderson va commencer celui du film Official Secrets avec Paul Bettany et Harrison Ford et de The Fall saison 3. La co-présidente de FOX TV Dana Walden se montre tout de même rassurante, en précisant que les deux acteurs de la série sont "partants", de même que le créateur de la série Chris Carter.
FOXMulder et Scully, héros de "X-Files"
Pour son retour après 14 ans d'absence, X-Files et sa 10e saison avaient réuni en moyenne 9,53 millions de téléspectateurs sur la FOX, et en France une moyenne de 3,51 millions de téléspectateurs et 14,6% du public sur M6.
La production comme la chaîne souhaitent donc un retour de Mulder et Scully dès que possible, a priori pour la saison 2017/2018. Ce retour augurera-t-il d'un nombre d'épisodes plus élevé que les six épisodes de la dernière saison ? Wait and see...
(NaturalNews) There's a lot of buzz in the news about a new scientific study that statistically supports the idea that our known universe is actually a grand computer simulation. This is mainstream science, and the idea isn't a whacky as you might first suppose. I've actually written about this several times in articles about consciousness and the nature of reality. This news, by the way, also supports the idea of a Creator who brought this universe -- and everything in it -- into existence by design.
A new scientific paper published in arXiv and co-authored by Silas Beane from the University of Bonn reveals strong statistical evidence that our reality is, indeed, a grand computer simulation. The title of the paper is Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation.
Here's what it means in layman's terms
Here's the super easy way to understand all this. Your computer display screen has a finite number of pixels available, and this is called the "screen resolution" such as 1920 x 1440. This means there are 1920 pixels across and 1440 pixels vertically.
Everything you see on your computer screen must be drawn and depicted using these pixels, and nothing can be displayed that's only half a pixel. For example, you can't draw a vertical line on the screen that exists between the pixels that are hard-wired into the screen resolution. Everything you view on the monitor -- a computer game, a website, even a video -- is essentially transposed onto the "lattice" of pixels that exist in your hardware.
Your hardware, in effect, has a hard-wired "resolution limit" which defines the smallest size of any object that can be depicted on the screen.
Now, zoom out to the "real" world in which we live. Here in the real world, we think that there are no pixels and that we can move fluidly to any location we wish. We are not digitized being, we think; we're analog beings living in a fluid world without the pixelation of a computer screen, right?
Not so fast. As it turns out, our "reality" is also pixelated, just at a very fine resolution. This study out of Bonn revealed that the energy level of cosmic rays "snaps to" the "resolution" of the universe in which we live. The very laws of electromagnetic radiation, in other words, are confined by the resolution of the three-dimensional simulation we call a "universe."
The existence of this construct, if proven, also proves intelligent design by a conscious Creator who built the universe to begin with. This is the upshot of this scientific discovery that most scientists refuse to acknowledge. But the conclusion is inescapable: If our universe is a carefully-constructed simulation, then by definition there must have been a purpose behind its construction as well as a Creator who built it.
For the record, my personal belief is that the Creator set all the physical constants in the universe and then initiated the so-called "Big Bang" and let things play out from there. I do not believe our Creator "tinkers" with the universe at a micro level on a day-to-day basis. But I do believe there very well may have been individuals throughout history who found ways to "bend the rules" of the Matrix ever so slightly and thereby perform the very kind of miracles we see described in ancient texts.
"The structure of the underlying lattice"
The authors of this new paper describe their conclusion as following: "The numerical simulation scenario could reveal itself in the distributions of the highest energy cosmic rays exhibiting a degree of rotational symmetry breaking that reflects the structure of the underlying lattice."
This "underlying lattice" is what I'm describing as a "resolution" of our physical simulation.
There's other evidence of this, too: Plank's Constant, for example, is by itself yet more evidence that the physical universe in which we live is quantized to a particular resolution. In fact, even light behaves in a quantized manner, which is why "light packets" are called quanta.
Our universe, it turns out, is digital, not analog. Heck, even your DNA is digital, not analog. You are a digitized physical being imbued with a non-material consciousness that transcends this physical simulation. Realizing this is a lot like taking the red pill in The Matrix and being shown that the universe you thought was real is actually just a grand computer simulation.
Of course, once you grasp that we are living in a grand simulation, the next obvious question is: Who built it?
Intelligent Design
One obvious answer is that we built it! Not "we" the humans here on Earth, but rather the "we" which is a highly advanced civilization of seemingly supernatural beings with incomprehensibly powerful technology. We collectively built the simulation, the theory goes, and then agreed to selectively insert our consciousness into the simulation in order to have a "human life experience" on this planet. But that's only one possibility from all this.
Another possible answer is that HE built it. Who is He? He is God, our Creator. He is a consciousness with literal God-like powers who is omnipresent and all-powerful. He created our universe (i.e. designed and then launched the simulation) while providing a mechanism for free will consciousness to "wake up" inside the simulation in the bodies of newly-born beings. Upon death in the simulation, your consciousness leaves the simulation and returns to its source, which is the actual reality that transcends this one. This is possibly why people who have survived near-death experiences consistently report their experience as being a "hyper reality" that feels like it is "a thousand times more real than life on Earth."
For the record, I have always believed in a supernatural Creator of our universe; our God. I also believe -- and have good evidence -- that God is an all-loving being and that the overriding purpose of our existence in this universe is to express our free will and thereby have a self-aware experience which advances our knowledge of who we are. More details on this below...
What would be the purpose of intelligently designing a grand computer simulation?
If our universe was consciously created, then it must have been created for a purpose. In his book Proof of Heaven, near-death survivor Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, describes the purpose in great detail on page 48 of his book:
Through the Orb, [God] told me that there is not one universe but many -- in fact, more than I could conceive -- but that love lay at the center of them all. Evil was present in all the other universes as well, but only in the tiniest trace amounts. Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth -- no forward movement, no chance for us to become what God longed for us to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes seemed to be in a world like ours, in the larger picture love was overwhelmingly dominant, and it would ultimately be triumphant.
The primary purpose of life in this realm, it seems, is to experience personal growth and learn how to overcome Evil. This explains why we all seem to be surrounded by so much evil on a day-to-day basis. We are drowning in evil precisely because our souls chose to be here and learn how to defeat it.
At the end of our Earthly lives, we are then judged on our performance. As I wrote in a previous article:
Upon our death, we are judged by a higher power, and that judgment takes into account our performance in these areas. Did we achieve a measure of self-awareness? Did we work to overcome evil? Did we express love and compassion and help uplift others with knowledge and awareness?
As you've probably already figured out, the vast majority of humans fail these tests. They die as bitter, selfish, substance-addicted, greed-driven minions of evil who mistakenly thought they were winning the game of life while, in reality, they were losing the far more important test of the Creator.-
Looking around at our fellow human beings, you can't help but agree with my assessment that nearly everyone is failing the test. If we are here to overcome and resist evil, very few people are scoring very many points at all.
Having your consciousness attached to a human experience in this world seems to be the universal equivalent of "being thrown in the deep end" of Good vs. Evil. Making matters even more difficult, none of us is granted any sort of memory of why we are here and what we're supposed to do. We simply wake up as a newborn, and we have to figure things out for ourselves -- a challenge that often takes a lifetime. In fact, the achievement of "enlightenment" in a human lifetime is quite a remarkable feat by any measure.
What this means for your life
So what does all this mean in terms of the way you live your life here on Earth? If you believe the universe really is a grand simulation created by a higher power, then it forces you to rethink your philosophy on the purpose of life.
Some might say this is the perfect excuse to resort to selfish hedonism and turn your entire life into one vast entertainment parade. But that seems to be the wrong conclusion from all this, precisely because it ignores the importance of personal growth. I do not believe our universe is a childish playground; I believe it is a serious test of spiritual strength. You may or may not agree with all my points, but here's my philosophy on what to do with this realization:
#1) Don't chase material things that aren't even real in the first place. You are living in a simulation that's as un-real as an old 8-bit Atari computer game. Your focus on trying to collect money and wealth in this world is about as foolish as trying to collect gold coins in a role-playing computer game.
#2) Live your life to WIN the simulation. "Winning" means persistently working to defeat evil, demonstrate love and help awaken others. Rack up your "karma" points, so to speak. Because that's how you will be judged once your earthly life comes to an end.
#3) Know that your behavior is being watched, recorded and judged. There are ultimately no secrets. You will, in time, face judgment on all your actions, and it's even possible that an entire civilization of advanced Creators will review your actions with you. (This is what is often described by those who survive NDEs.) Your actions in this simulation are recorded on your soul for eternity, so make them count. Don't do anything your soul would feel ashamed of.
#4) Know that death is not final. What matters far more than staying alive on this planet is living your life with principle. Your decisions (ethics) survive your human life! I would rather die defending principles of love and enlightenment than compromise those principles to save my own skin in this simulation. Life is fleeting, but the record of your morals and behavior lasts forever. If all this starts to sound a little Biblical, that's because the Bible is, I believe, based in part on information provided to us by the Creator of our grand simulation.
#5) Realize that your consciousness is eternal and you almost certainly "agreed" to come here and experience this life as a spiritual test. With that in mind, do your best to achieve success within the test by demonstrating behavior based in high spiritual principles.
Why I'm not afraid to tell the truth
Once you grasp all this, you realize why I am not afraid to speak my mind and report the truth here on Natural News. People often ask me, "Aren't you afraid of being killed?" While I do take tactical precautions to avoid being prematurely removed from this simulation, I simultaneously realize that there is ultimately nothing to be afraid of in this simulated world.
What's to be afraid of, really? Most of the people who claim to have power in this world will be reduced to Hellish minions after their death. If you look at truly evil people in this world, you realize that those people have already doomed their souls in the real world beyond this one. They will suffer from the Hell they have brought upon themselves by living lives of deception. We who tell the truth are spiritual giants compared to those who gain false power through deception.
That's why never selling out is an absolutely must if you hope to pass the spiritual test of life. If you sell out to corporate interests or an evil agenda that suppresses freedom or health, you quite literally sell out your own soul far beyond this one lifetime. The phrase "eternal damnation" comes to mind...
On the issue of gun rights, by the way, all this helps explain why self defense is a divine right. We all deserve the right to prevent our souls from being prematurely removed from the simulation (i.e. being killed). Guns are simply tools that can help us defend our physical bodies so that our spiritual bodies can continue with their intended experiences in this reality. This is why those of high spirituality have traditionally carried swords and other weapons of self defense. Even Jesus recommend people carry swords for protection, even as they pursue spiritual awakening.
A gun defends the body so that the spirit can do its work, in other words. But that's only true if the use of gun is reserved for self defense only. To use a gun to commit unjustified violence against innocents is obviously a terrible sin and a catastrophic spiritual failure.
Conclusion: Has science proven the existence of God?
If all this science is true, it would mean that science has proven the existence of a Creator (as well as intelligent design).
This is certainly not the intention of science, as much of modern-day science seems to be dead-set against the idea of intelligent design. Yet even if the entire universe can be traced back to the Big Bang and Inflation Theory (with Inflatons) there is still the lingering question of "Who or what initiated the Big Bang?"
If you really look deeply into the laws of physics, by the way, you will discover that the so-called universal constants that drive the underlying mechanics and energies of our universe have been intricately fine-tuned precisely to give rise to a universe that can support biological life. Change one of these constants just slightly and stars don't form. Change another constant and the universe flings itself apart before life can form on any planets. These are at least six physical constants that appear to have been delicately tuned, selected or somehow "set" sort of like a universal control panel with properties and parameters.
There's an interesting book on this subject by science writer Paul Davies, by the way. It's called The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? I've read most of it and recommend the book to other seekers who are looking for the deepest answers about the nature of reality and how it all came to be.
(NaturalNews) There's a lot of buzz in the news about a new scientific study that statistically supports the idea that our known universe is actually a grand computer simulation. This is mainstream science, and the idea isn't a whacky as you might first suppose. I've actually written about this several times in articles about consciousness and the nature of reality. This news, by the way, also supports the idea of a Creator who brought this universe -- and everything in it -- into existence by design.
A new scientific paper published in arXiv and co-authored by Silas Beane from the University of Bonn reveals strong statistical evidence that our reality is, indeed, a grand computer simulation. The title of the paper is Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation.
Here's what it means in layman's terms
Here's the super easy way to understand all this. Your computer display screen has a finite number of pixels available, and this is called the "screen resolution" such as 1920 x 1440. This means there are 1920 pixels across and 1440 pixels vertically.
Everything you see on your computer screen must be drawn and depicted using these pixels, and nothing can be displayed that's only half a pixel. For example, you can't draw a vertical line on the screen that exists between the pixels that are hard-wired into the screen resolution. Everything you view on the monitor -- a computer game, a website, even a video -- is essentially transposed onto the "lattice" of pixels that exist in your hardware.
Your hardware, in effect, has a hard-wired "resolution limit" which defines the smallest size of any object that can be depicted on the screen.
Now, zoom out to the "real" world in which we live. Here in the real world, we think that there are no pixels and that we can move fluidly to any location we wish. We are not digitized being, we think; we're analog beings living in a fluid world without the pixelation of a computer screen, right?
Not so fast. As it turns out, our "reality" is also pixelated, just at a very fine resolution. This study out of Bonn revealed that the energy level of cosmic rays "snaps to" the "resolution" of the universe in which we live. The very laws of electromagnetic radiation, in other words, are confined by the resolution of the three-dimensional simulation we call a "universe."
The existence of this construct, if proven, also proves intelligent design by a conscious Creator who built the universe to begin with. This is the upshot of this scientific discovery that most scientists refuse to acknowledge. But the conclusion is inescapable: If our universe is a carefully-constructed simulation, then by definition there must have been a purpose behind its construction as well as a Creator who built it.
For the record, my personal belief is that the Creator set all the physical constants in the universe and then initiated the so-called "Big Bang" and let things play out from there. I do not believe our Creator "tinkers" with the universe at a micro level on a day-to-day basis. But I do believe there very well may have been individuals throughout history who found ways to "bend the rules" of the Matrix ever so slightly and thereby perform the very kind of miracles we see described in ancient texts.
"The structure of the underlying lattice"
The authors of this new paper describe their conclusion as following: "The numerical simulation scenario could reveal itself in the distributions of the highest energy cosmic rays exhibiting a degree of rotational symmetry breaking that reflects the structure of the underlying lattice."
This "underlying lattice" is what I'm describing as a "resolution" of our physical simulation.
There's other evidence of this, too: Plank's Constant, for example, is by itself yet more evidence that the physical universe in which we live is quantized to a particular resolution. In fact, even light behaves in a quantized manner, which is why "light packets" are called quanta.
Our universe, it turns out, is digital, not analog. Heck, even your DNA is digital, not analog. You are a digitized physical being imbued with a non-material consciousness that transcends this physical simulation. Realizing this is a lot like taking the red pill in The Matrix and being shown that the universe you thought was real is actually just a grand computer simulation.
Of course, once you grasp that we are living in a grand simulation, the next obvious question is: Who built it?
Intelligent Design
One obvious answer is that we built it! Not "we" the humans here on Earth, but rather the "we" which is a highly advanced civilization of seemingly supernatural beings with incomprehensibly powerful technology. We collectively built the simulation, the theory goes, and then agreed to selectively insert our consciousness into the simulation in order to have a "human life experience" on this planet. But that's only one possibility from all this.
Another possible answer is that HE built it. Who is He? He is God, our Creator. He is a consciousness with literal God-like powers who is omnipresent and all-powerful. He created our universe (i.e. designed and then launched the simulation) while providing a mechanism for free will consciousness to "wake up" inside the simulation in the bodies of newly-born beings. Upon death in the simulation, your consciousness leaves the simulation and returns to its source, which is the actual reality that transcends this one. This is possibly why people who have survived near-death experiences consistently report their experience as being a "hyper reality" that feels like it is "a thousand times more real than life on Earth."
For the record, I have always believed in a supernatural Creator of our universe; our God. I also believe -- and have good evidence -- that God is an all-loving being and that the overriding purpose of our existence in this universe is to express our free will and thereby have a self-aware experience which advances our knowledge of who we are. More details on this below...
What would be the purpose of intelligently designing a grand computer simulation?
If our universe was consciously created, then it must have been created for a purpose. In his book Proof of Heaven, near-death survivor Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, describes the purpose in great detail on page 48 of his book:
Through the Orb, [God] told me that there is not one universe but many -- in fact, more than I could conceive -- but that love lay at the center of them all. Evil was present in all the other universes as well, but only in the tiniest trace amounts. Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth -- no forward movement, no chance for us to become what God longed for us to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes seemed to be in a world like ours, in the larger picture love was overwhelmingly dominant, and it would ultimately be triumphant.
The primary purpose of life in this realm, it seems, is to experience personal growth and learn how to overcome Evil. This explains why we all seem to be surrounded by so much evil on a day-to-day basis. We are drowning in evil precisely because our souls chose to be here and learn how to defeat it.
At the end of our Earthly lives, we are then judged on our performance. As I wrote in a previous article:
Upon our death, we are judged by a higher power, and that judgment takes into account our performance in these areas. Did we achieve a measure of self-awareness? Did we work to overcome evil? Did we express love and compassion and help uplift others with knowledge and awareness?
As you've probably already figured out, the vast majority of humans fail these tests. They die as bitter, selfish, substance-addicted, greed-driven minions of evil who mistakenly thought they were winning the game of life while, in reality, they were losing the far more important test of the Creator.
Looking around at our fellow human beings, you can't help but agree with my assessment that nearly everyone is failing the test. If we are here to overcome and resist evil, very few people are scoring very many points at all.
Having your consciousness attached to a human experience in this world seems to be the universal equivalent of "being thrown in the deep end" of Good vs. Evil. Making matters even more difficult, none of us is granted any sort of memory of why we are here and what we're supposed to do. We simply wake up as a newborn, and we have to figure things out for ourselves -- a challenge that often takes a lifetime. In fact, the achievement of "enlightenment" in a human lifetime is quite a remarkable feat by any measure.
What this means for your life
So what does all this mean in terms of the way you live your life here on Earth? If you believe the universe really is a grand simulation created by a higher power, then it forces you to rethink your philosophy on the purpose of life.
Some might say this is the perfect excuse to resort to selfish hedonism and turn your entire life into one vast entertainment parade. But that seems to be the wrong conclusion from all this, precisely because it ignores the importance of personal growth. I do not believe our universe is a childish playground; I believe it is a serious test of spiritual strength. You may or may not agree with all my points, but here's my philosophy on what to do with this realization:
#1) Don't chase material things that aren't even real in the first place. You are living in a simulation that's as un-real as an old 8-bit Atari computer game. Your focus on trying to collect money and wealth in this world is about as foolish as trying to collect gold coins in a role-playing computer game.
#2) Live your life to WIN the simulation. "Winning" means persistently working to defeat evil, demonstrate love and help awaken others. Rack up your "karma" points, so to speak. Because that's how you will be judged once your earthly life comes to an end.
#3) Know that your behavior is being watched, recorded and judged. There are ultimately no secrets. You will, in time, face judgment on all your actions, and it's even possible that an entire civilization of advanced Creators will review your actions with you. (This is what is often described by those who survive NDEs.) Your actions in this simulation are recorded on your soul for eternity, so make them count. Don't do anything your soul would feel ashamed of.
#4) Know that death is not final. What matters far more than staying alive on this planet is living your life with principle. Your decisions (ethics) survive your human life! I would rather die defending principles of love and enlightenment than compromise those principles to save my own skin in this simulation. Life is fleeting, but the record of your morals and behavior lasts forever. If all this starts to sound a little Biblical, that's because the Bible is, I believe, based in part on information provided to us by the Creator of our grand simulation.
#5) Realize that your consciousness is eternal and you almost certainly "agreed" to come here and experience this life as a spiritual test. With that in mind, do your best to achieve success within the test by demonstrating behavior based in high spiritual principles.
Why I'm not afraid to tell the truth
Once you grasp all this, you realize why I am not afraid to speak my mind and report the truth here on Natural News. People often ask me, "Aren't you afraid of being killed?" While I do take tactical precautions to avoid being prematurely removed from this simulation, I simultaneously realize that there is ultimately nothing to be afraid of in this simulated world.
What's to be afraid of, really? Most of the people who claim to have power in this world will be reduced to Hellish minions after their death. If you look at truly evil people in this world, you realize that those people have already doomed their souls in the real world beyond this one. They will suffer from the Hell they have brought upon themselves by living lives of deception. We who tell the truth are spiritual giants compared to those who gain false power through deception.
That's why never selling out is an absolutely must if you hope to pass the spiritual test of life. If you sell out to corporate interests or an evil agenda that suppresses freedom or health, you quite literally sell out your own soul far beyond this one lifetime. The phrase "eternal damnation" comes to mind...
On the issue of gun rights, by the way, all this helps explain why self defense is a divine right. We all deserve the right to prevent our souls from being prematurely removed from the simulation (i.e. being killed). Guns are simply tools that can help us defend our physical bodies so that our spiritual bodies can continue with their intended experiences in this reality. This is why those of high spirituality have traditionally carried swords and other weapons of self defense. Even Jesus recommend people carry swords for protection, even as they pursue spiritual awakening.
A gun defends the body so that the spirit can do its work, in other words. But that's only true if the use of gun is reserved for self defense only. To use a gun to commit unjustified violence against innocents is obviously a terrible sin and a catastrophic spiritual failure.
Conclusion: Has science proven the existence of God?
If all this science is true, it would mean that science has proven the existence of a Creator (as well as intelligent design).
This is certainly not the intention of science, as much of modern-day science seems to be dead-set against the idea of intelligent design. Yet even if the entire universe can be traced back to the Big Bang and Inflation Theory (with Inflatons) there is still the lingering question of "Who or what initiated the Big Bang?"
If you really look deeply into the laws of physics, by the way, you will discover that the so-called universal constants that drive the underlying mechanics and energies of our universe have been intricately fine-tuned precisely to give rise to a universe that can support biological life. Change one of these constants just slightly and stars don't form. Change another constant and the universe flings itself apart before life can form on any planets. These are at least six physical constants that appear to have been delicately tuned, selected or somehow "set" sort of like a universal control panel with properties and parameters.
There's an interesting book on this subject by science writer Paul Davies, by the way. It's called The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? I've read most of it and recommend the book to other seekers who are looking for the deepest answers about the nature of reality and how it all came to be.
(NaturalNews) There's a lot of buzz in the news about a new scientific study that statistically supports the idea that our known universe is actually a grand computer simulation. This is mainstream science, and the idea isn't a whacky as you might first suppose. I've actually written about this several times in articles about consciousness and the nature of reality. This news, by the way, also supports the idea of a Creator who brought this universe -- and everything in it -- into existence by design.
A new scientific paper published in arXiv and co-authored by Silas Beane from the University of Bonn reveals strong statistical evidence that our reality is, indeed, a grand computer simulation. The title of the paper is Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation.
Here's what it means in layman's terms
Here's the super easy way to understand all this. Your computer display screen has a finite number of pixels available, and this is called the "screen resolution" such as 1920 x 1440. This means there are 1920 pixels across and 1440 pixels vertically.
Everything you see on your computer screen must be drawn and depicted using these pixels, and nothing can be displayed that's only half a pixel. For example, you can't draw a vertical line on the screen that exists between the pixels that are hard-wired into the screen resolution. Everything you view on the monitor -- a computer game, a website, even a video -- is essentially transposed onto the "lattice" of pixels that exist in your hardware.
Your hardware, in effect, has a hard-wired "resolution limit" which defines the smallest size of any object that can be depicted on the screen.
Now, zoom out to the "real" world in which we live. Here in the real world, we think that there are no pixels and that we can move fluidly to any location we wish. We are not digitized being, we think; we're analog beings living in a fluid world without the pixelation of a computer screen, right?
Not so fast. As it turns out, our "reality" is also pixelated, just at a very fine resolution. This study out of Bonn revealed that the energy level of cosmic rays "snaps to" the "resolution" of the universe in which we live. The very laws of electromagnetic radiation, in other words, are confined by the resolution of the three-dimensional simulation we call a "universe."
The existence of this construct, if proven, also proves intelligent design by a conscious Creator who built the universe to begin with. This is the upshot of this scientific discovery that most scientists refuse to acknowledge. But the conclusion is inescapable: If our universe is a carefully-constructed simulation, then by definition there must have been a purpose behind its construction as well as a Creator who built it.
For the record, my personal belief is that the Creator set all the physical constants in the universe and then initiated the so-called "Big Bang" and let things play out from there. I do not believe our Creator "tinkers" with the universe at a micro level on a day-to-day basis. But I do believe there very well may have been individuals throughout history who found ways to "bend the rules" of the Matrix ever so slightly and thereby perform the very kind of miracles we see described in ancient texts.
"The structure of the underlying lattice"
The authors of this new paper describe their conclusion as following: "The numerical simulation scenario could reveal itself in the distributions of the highest energy cosmic rays exhibiting a degree of rotational symmetry breaking that reflects the structure of the underlying lattice."
This "underlying lattice" is what I'm describing as a "resolution" of our physical simulation.
There's other evidence of this, too: Plank's Constant, for example, is by itself yet more evidence that the physical universe in which we live is quantized to a particular resolution. In fact, even light behaves in a quantized manner, which is why "light packets" are called quanta.
Our universe, it turns out, is digital, not analog. Heck, even your DNA is digital, not analog. You are a digitized physical being imbued with a non-material consciousness that transcends this physical simulation. Realizing this is a lot like taking the red pill in The Matrix and being shown that the universe you thought was real is actually just a grand computer simulation.
Of course, once you grasp that we are living in a grand simulation, the next obvious question is: Who built it?
Intelligent Design
One obvious answer is that we built it! Not "we" the humans here on Earth, but rather the "we" which is a highly advanced civilization of seemingly supernatural beings with incomprehensibly powerful technology. We collectively built the simulation, the theory goes, and then agreed to selectively insert our consciousness into the simulation in order to have a "human life experience" on this planet. But that's only one possibility from all this.
Another possible answer is that HE built it. Who is He? He is God, our Creator. He is a consciousness with literal God-like powers who is omnipresent and all-powerful. He created our universe (i.e. designed and then launched the simulation) while providing a mechanism for free will consciousness to "wake up" inside the simulation in the bodies of newly-born beings. Upon death in the simulation, your consciousness leaves the simulation and returns to its source, which is the actual reality that transcends this one. This is possibly why people who have survived near-death experiences consistently report their experience as being a "hyper reality" that feels like it is "a thousand times more real than life on Earth."
For the record, I have always believed in a supernatural Creator of our universe; our God. I also believe -- and have good evidence -- that God is an all-loving being and that the overriding purpose of our existence in this universe is to express our free will and thereby have a self-aware experience which advances our knowledge of who we are. More details on this below...
What would be the purpose of intelligently designing a grand computer simulation?
If our universe was consciously created, then it must have been created for a purpose. In his book Proof of Heaven, near-death survivor Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon, describes the purpose in great detail on page 48 of his book:
Through the Orb, [God] told me that there is not one universe but many -- in fact, more than I could conceive -- but that love lay at the center of them all. Evil was present in all the other universes as well, but only in the tiniest trace amounts. Evil was necessary because without it free will was impossible, and without free will there could be no growth -- no forward movement, no chance for us to become what God longed for us to be. Horrible and all-powerful as evil sometimes seemed to be in a world like ours, in the larger picture love was overwhelmingly dominant, and it would ultimately be triumphant.
The primary purpose of life in this realm, it seems, is to experience personal growth and learn how to overcome Evil. This explains why we all seem to be surrounded by so much evil on a day-to-day basis. We are drowning in evil precisely because our souls chose to be here and learn how to defeat it.
At the end of our Earthly lives, we are then judged on our performance. As I wrote in a previous article:
Upon our death, we are judged by a higher power, and that judgment takes into account our performance in these areas. Did we achieve a measure of self-awareness? Did we work to overcome evil? Did we express love and compassion and help uplift others with knowledge and awareness?
As you've probably already figured out, the vast majority of humans fail these tests. They die as bitter, selfish, substance-addicted, greed-driven minions of evil who mistakenly thought they were winning the game of life while, in reality, they were losing the far more important test of the Creator.
Looking around at our fellow human beings, you can't help but agree with my assessment that nearly everyone is failing the test. If we are here to overcome and resist evil, very few people are scoring very many points at all.
Having your consciousness attached to a human experience in this world seems to be the universal equivalent of "being thrown in the deep end" of Good vs. Evil. Making matters even more difficult, none of us is granted any sort of memory of why we are here and what we're supposed to do. We simply wake up as a newborn, and we have to figure things out for ourselves -- a challenge that often takes a lifetime. In fact, the achievement of "enlightenment" in a human lifetime is quite a remarkable feat by any measure.
What this means for your life
So what does all this mean in terms of the way you live your life here on Earth? If you believe the universe really is a grand simulation created by a higher power, then it forces you to rethink your philosophy on the purpose of life.
Some might say this is the perfect excuse to resort to selfish hedonism and turn your entire life into one vast entertainment parade. But that seems to be the wrong conclusion from all this, precisely because it ignores the importance of personal growth. I do not believe our universe is a childish playground; I believe it is a serious test of spiritual strength. You may or may not agree with all my points, but here's my philosophy on what to do with this realization:
#1) Don't chase material things that aren't even real in the first place. You are living in a simulation that's as un-real as an old 8-bit Atari computer game. Your focus on trying to collect money and wealth in this world is about as foolish as trying to collect gold coins in a role-playing computer game.
#2) Live your life to WIN the simulation. "Winning" means persistently working to defeat evil, demonstrate love and help awaken others. Rack up your "karma" points, so to speak. Because that's how you will be judged once your earthly life comes to an end.
#3) Know that your behavior is being watched, recorded and judged. There are ultimately no secrets. You will, in time, face judgment on all your actions, and it's even possible that an entire civilization of advanced Creators will review your actions with you. (This is what is often described by those who survive NDEs.) Your actions in this simulation are recorded on your soul for eternity, so make them count. Don't do anything your soul would feel ashamed of.
#4) Know that death is not final. What matters far more than staying alive on this planet is living your life with principle. Your decisions (ethics) survive your human life! I would rather die defending principles of love and enlightenment than compromise those principles to save my own skin in this simulation. Life is fleeting, but the record of your morals and behavior lasts forever. If all this starts to sound a little Biblical, that's because the Bible is, I believe, based in part on information provided to us by the Creator of our grand simulation.
#5) Realize that your consciousness is eternal and you almost certainly "agreed" to come here and experience this life as a spiritual test. With that in mind, do your best to achieve success within the test by demonstrating behavior based in high spiritual principles.
Why I'm not afraid to tell the truth
Once you grasp all this, you realize why I am not afraid to speak my mind and report the truth here on Natural News. People often ask me, "Aren't you afraid of being killed?" While I do take tactical precautions to avoid being prematurely removed from this simulation, I simultaneously realize that there is ultimately nothing to be afraid of in this simulated world.
What's to be afraid of, really? Most of the people who claim to have power in this world will be reduced to Hellish minions after their death. If you look at truly evil people in this world, you realize that those people have already doomed their souls in the real world beyond this one. They will suffer from the Hell they have brought upon themselves by living lives of deception. We who tell the truth are spiritual giants compared to those who gain false power through deception.
That's why never selling out is an absolutely must if you hope to pass the spiritual test of life. If you sell out to corporate interests or an evil agenda that suppresses freedom or health, you quite literally sell out your own soul far beyond this one lifetime. The phrase "eternal damnation" comes to mind...
On the issue of gun rights, by the way, all this helps explain why self defense is a divine right. We all deserve the right to prevent our souls from being prematurely removed from the simulation (i.e. being killed). Guns are simply tools that can help us defend our physical bodies so that our spiritual bodies can continue with their intended experiences in this reality. This is why those of high spirituality have traditionally carried swords and other weapons of self defense. Even Jesus recommend people carry swords for protection, even as they pursue spiritual awakening.
A gun defends the body so that the spirit can do its work, in other words. But that's only true if the use of gun is reserved for self defense only. To use a gun to commit unjustified violence against innocents is obviously a terrible sin and a catastrophic spiritual failure.
Conclusion: Has science proven the existence of God?
If all this science is true, it would mean that science has proven the existence of a Creator (as well as intelligent design).
This is certainly not the intention of science, as much of modern-day science seems to be dead-set against the idea of intelligent design. Yet even if the entire universe can be traced back to the Big Bang and Inflation Theory (with Inflatons) there is still the lingering question of "Who or what initiated the Big Bang?"
If you really look deeply into the laws of physics, by the way, you will discover that the so-called universal constants that drive the underlying mechanics and energies of our universe have been intricately fine-tuned precisely to give rise to a universe that can support biological life. Change one of these constants just slightly and stars don't form. Change another constant and the universe flings itself apart before life can form on any planets. These are at least six physical constants that appear to have been delicately tuned, selected or somehow "set" sort of like a universal control panel with properties and parameters.
There's an interesting book on this subject by science writer Paul Davies, by the way. It's called The Goldilocks Enigma: Why Is the Universe Just Right for Life? I've read most of it and recommend the book to other seekers who are looking for the deepest answers about the nature of reality and how it all came to be.
On this day in 1994 in West Michigan, flickering lights resembling Christmas lights or a string of airplanes flying close together were reported to authorities by several perplexed 911 callers.
The UFO sightings and subsequent calls came in a frenzy on March 8, 1994 as these mysterious objects in the sky were described as flickering Christmas lights moving in frenetic fashion. Callers, almost second-guessing themselves at times, asked about low-flying planes, military activity and just about anything else they could think of.
"I feel kinda silly calling," one caller says. "I don't know if you guys do anything on UFOs at all, but I got the real one," a more confident witness says. "They're out there. They ain't airplanes," another woman says in the dispatch recording.
The reported UFO sightings grabbed national headlines, served as chatter for late night talk shows, radio shows, and even had its own History Channel special in 2008. While it's had its fair share of attention in 23 years, the incident remains one of Michigan's most head-scratching, unsolved mysteries.
Videos compiling the 911 dispatch calls highlight the confusion, disbelief and natural second-guessing between police and witnesses spread between Muskegon, Ottawa, Berrien and Allegan counties.
In a call between police and the National Weather Service, an officer says "we've had about 60 UFO calls," to which the NWS operator audibly sighs and replies "Oh jeez."
The conversation that starts at around the six-minute mark in the video below begins as light-hearted and dismissive before the NWS operator takes a look at the radar.
"Yeah, there's something big down there ... that's really strange," the NWS operator says in the call with police. "It's moving towards the west-southwest, looks like a big blob. It was up about 6,000-feet or so ... it disappears ... it's moving."
After a brief silence, the NWS operator says "I'm getting it now at about 12,000 feet, it's a pretty strong return. Oh my God what is this? Now I'm getting three of them and uh, there about separated by about 5,000 feet in height."
In describing the objects, the NWS operator says "I'm seeing three, they look like a triangle on my scope" one by South Haven, another over Lake Michigan, one east of Benton Harbor near Decatur, and a fourth appears while he's talking over Berrien County.
"I've never seen anything like this, not even when I'm doing storms," the operator says. "These aren't storms."
In the aftermath, researchers were able to say that, whatever it was, it wasn't a small plane, gas, a blimp, weather balloon, satellite, shooting stars, military aircraft or debris, the Chicago Tribune reports in 1995.
The passionate phenomenon of UFO sightings and seekers has been around for decades, fueled by stories eye-witness accounts, including the famous story of a spacecraft that reportedly crashed in the New Mexico desert in 1947.
Jeff Holko doesn't know exactly what he captured on video Tuesday, but the 23-year-old township man is open to suggestions for something he can't otherwise explain.
Enlarge/ Artist's concept of the Europa lander. Note the sample arm in the foreground with a rotary cutter.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
DEEP IN THE SOLAR SYSTEM—A darkness has spread over the grim, airless field of ice that threatens to swallow us. Night has come to the nightmare glacier. But then we see the shiny spacecraft, with its four gangly legs extending outward to find purchase on the jagged ice. Within, scientific instruments begin to blink on, one by one. Soon, they will start sniffing for any hint of life on this most alien and mysterious of worlds in the Solar System: the Jovian moon Europa.
Through the HoloLens each of us wears, we watch this simulation of what might happen about 15 years from now on the icy, forbidding moon. The otherworldly illusion is shattered when a voice booms out; it's John Culberson, a conservative Republican politician from Texas. He wants to know what happens if one of the blinking instruments fail. Not to worry, he is told, all of the spacecraft systems are redundant. “Good,” Culberson replies. “The immensity of what you’re doing is too important in human history. You don’t want to miss this chance.”
Europa truly does represent a singular chance. Crossing 800 million kilometers with a sizable, robust payload will require vast sums of money—there won’t be a second chance. But Europa represents a gamble in another sense, too. No one knows whether NASA will discover a frozen, dead world far from the Sun or if the organization will make the most profound of discoveries just below the ice.
During the last decade, NASA has recast its human and robotic space exploration programs around the search for life both in our Solar System and beyond. Much of this effort has focused on Mars, which is relatively close to Earth and may have harbored life in the past. Culberson has pushed the agency further to seek extant life. He and a lot of scientists believe the best place to find extraterrestrial life in the Solar System lies in deep oceans below Europa’s inhospitable surface.
During the last five years, Culberson has bull-headedly shoved about half a billion dollars through Congress to give NASA’s elite planetary probe scientists and engineers a chance to land on Europa. Now, in late February, he has come to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in the hills just north of Los Angeles, to visit the wizards here who conceived the Voyager spacecraft, developed Cassini and Galileo, and landed Curiosity on Mars. What progress, he wondered, had they made toward teasing out the secrets of Europa?
US Rep. John Culberson left, and famed director James Cameron, right, during the briefings at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in late February.
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Quite a lot, actually. During more than five hours of briefings in “Left Field,” a room named for its encouragement of ideas out of left field, scientists and engineers explained to Culberson how they plan to tackle the challenges of landing on Europa. A year ago they weren’t even certain it could be done, but now they’re increasingly confident.
“We’ve looked at most of the things that used to really bother us,” said Dara Sabahi, a lead engineer on the project. “There were a lot of gotchas, but today I can say that—and I don’t say this lightly—we are confident we can make this work. I believe the technologies are in reach, and the risks that bothered us are manageable.”
Notably, the JPL team thinks it has solved the vexing problem of planetary protection, the concern that any stray microbes from Earth could contaminate Europa’s ecosystem. The solution has come straight out of the pages of science fiction—the lander mission will be the first interplanetary spacecraft to carry a self-destruct mechanism.
Before launch, the spacecraft’s exterior will bake at high temperatures to remove all contaminants, while the delicate scientific instruments inside are shielded. Then after the spacecraft reaches Europa and finishes its work, an incinerator will burn the scientific innards at 500 degrees Celsius. “What a glorious way to go out after discovering life for the first time on another world,” Culberson says, approvingly.
Life
Of all the myriad, multicolored balls of gas, dust, rock, and ice that spin around the Solar System, Europa offers the greatest extremes within just a few kilometers—from highly lethal on the surface to potentially lush below. Few worlds are as infernal on the surface as Europa, where the area sits utterly exposed to the vacuum of space and ever marinates in the deadly radiation of Jupiter. And yet, this same radiation may be critical for life in the oceans below.
As ionizing radiation from Jupiter’s magnetosphere strikes the water ice on the surface of the moon, it breaks down water molecules into hydrogen and an OH molecule. Over time, these OH molecules combine to form hydrogen peroxide. One of the scientists who spoke to Culberson, Kevin Hand, has a lab in which he has created an extremely cold, irradiated environment like that on the Jovian moon. With this “Europa in a can” experiment, he has found that hydrogen peroxide on the surface decays into hydrogen and oxygen.
Although the hydrogen molecules are light enough to escape into space—Europa has one-seventh the Earth’s gravity—the oxygen molecules remain on the surface. Europa’s surface age appears to vary between about 10 million and 100 million years old. This means some process resurfaces the top of Europa, periodically subducting the ice shell into the ocean. “We’ve done some calculations on how much oxygen is being delivered into the oceans below, and it’s not too hard to get Europa’s ocean oxygenated to a level where you could start supporting multicellular life, if not more,” Hand said.
The subglacial Lake Vostok, beneath the continent of Antarctica, may offer an analog of sorts for life in Europa's ocean.
NASA
Scientists must work with limited data, because the one NASA probe that studied Jupiter and its moon system extensively, Galileo, didn’t prioritize the ice-covered world. But from Galileo’s data, scientists estimate the ice shell may be a few kilometers to a few tens of kilometers thick. Below that, an ocean probably extends more than 100km down, and scientists anticipate that Europa harbors more water than all of the oceans, lakes, rivers, and glaciers on Earth combined.
The external pull of Jupiter’s gravity tugs on the core of Europa, and this tidal flexing provides a source of internal heat. It seems likely that structures similar to hydrothermal vents, which on Earth support thriving colonies of life, line the bottom of the ocean. So Europa has oxygen, energy, and lots of water. Certainly, no one expects to find whales, sharks, or other large sea creatures in Europa’s oceans. Chemosynthetic microbes seem far more likely, but really, we have no idea.
Culberson, of course, believes the chance of life existing on Europa is not only high, but he believes that there may well be more advanced life forms. During a discussion of the potential for plumes outgassing from the ocean below and lander sites, he offered the following suggestion to the mission’s science team. “I want you to land where it’s going to snow krill down on your head,” he enthused.
A prudent, but costly, pathway
Europa will not give up its secrets easily or cheaply. Two years ago, engineers at the lab proposed a complex mission that combined a small lander along with a mission that would make multiple flybys. Eventually, the engineers decided this was too much for a single mission—too heavy, too risky, and ultimately not enough of a scientific payload.
Moreover, planetary scientists wanted time to extensively study data collected by a flyby spacecraft, which is now known formally as the Europa Clipper. This would allow them to find an ideal place to land on the moon, whether near plumes (if they do, indeed, exist as some Hubble Telescope observations suggest), “fresh” ice, or other areas of interest to maximize the chance of finding life with a lander. This is the prudent pathway preferred by NASA, with a flyby mission before a lander so the agency won’t be flying blind. And Clipper will provide an amazing set of eyes, flying to within 25km of the surface in long, looping orbits and returning images with a resolution of up to one-half meter per pixel. By comparison, even the best images of Pluto captured by New Horizons were about 70 meters per pixel.
The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of plumes emanating from Europa, but nothing definitive.
NASA
Prudence has a cost, however. Clipper remains on target to launch five years from now, and it's budgeted to cost $2.7 billion in real year dollars. That price tag does not include the launch vehicle and a few other expenses. Total costs, therefore, will reach as much as $3 billion to $4 billion for the flyby mission; the lander will come in a second mission. This has caused some consternation in the planetary science community. While exploring Europa rates atop their “wish list” for planetary exploration, does the icy moon deserve two flagship missions?
Moreover, some scientists wonder whether Clipper could itself find signs of life. It will certainly look, but generally the odds of finding life on Europa, if it exists, will be significantly higher if a spacecraft lands and makes in situ measurements. “The most important goal is searching for life,” Hand said. “That is admittedly extremely hard to do with remote sensing.” Even if Clipper got lucky and could sample plumes, it might collect nanoliters of material. As a baseline, the lander mission will collect and investigate five samples of seven milliliters each, a million times more material. Finding life, therefore, will almost certainly require testing the ice.
The Clipper will serve another purpose, too: testing technology needed for the lander. When the second Europa mission launches in 2024 or 2025, the lander spacecraft will carry a module similar to the Clipper called the “carrier,” which will serve as a communications relay between the lander and NASA’s deep space network.
Because the carrier will derive from Clipper hardware, the JPL engineers estimate the total cost of flying it will be about the same as the Clipper despite the lander spacecraft's larger size. That means another $3 billion to $4 billion, so all told getting to Europa and examining its surface will cost NASA, and the US government, as much as $8 billion.
“This will be tremendously expensive,” Culberson acknowledged. “But worth every penny.”
Even for the powerful chairman of the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies subcommittee of House Appropriations, this is a lot of money. Even now, during the planning and early hardware development phase of both the flyby and lander missions, the money is starting to add up. For fiscal year 2018, alone, Culberson will need to find $495 million to continue moving both missions along. Instead of cutting other missions from NASA’s planetary science budget, he wants to sell Europa to his colleagues on Capitol Hill as a worthy addition. For that, he has a plan.
A false-color composite image of Europa. These images from Galileo have tantalized scientists, and Culberson, for more than a decade.
NASA/JPL/DLR
A messianic zeal
Culberson’s passion for Europa can be traced to roots in both family and faith. As a child in the 1960s, he and his brother read popular science magazines, built telescopes, and shot off model rockets in Houston as nearby Johnson Space Center planned and flew the Gemini and Apollo programs. The gee-whiz in his attitude toward science is genuine, but it only partly explains his passion for Europa. To understand his messianic zeal for the cause is to know that the congressman believes God created the universe, filled it with life, and called John Abney Culberson to help reveal its majesty.
After the Europa briefings in late February continued through a working lunch, Culberson joined another politician, Adam Schiff, for a town hall at JPL to rally the scientists and engineers there. It was easy to understand Schiff’s presence. The democratic House member’s district includes La Cañada Flintridge, where JPL is based.
But Culberson? He represents a well-to-do west Houston district. By all rights, he should most concern himself with Johnson Space Center, where the astronauts train. And while Culberson professes an interest in human spaceflight, he clearly feels more at home at JPL and visits the California center often.
The Houston congressman drove this point home during one session devoted to the Clipper mission. The project’s manager, Barry Goldstein, flashed a standard slide that NASA always prepares for a politician—a map of the United States with dots on it to represent all the field centers, businesses, and academic centers involved in a project. About half of the states were represented so far in the flyby mission. “Our goal is to try and populate at least the contiguous 48 states,” Goldstein explained. “I doubt we’ll get that far, but we’re making pretty good progress.”
Culberson interrupted him. Texas only had two stars, one in Austin for the University of Texas and one for the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. Nothing in Houston; Johnson Space Center wasn’t involved. Was he mad? Not exactly. “That’s always good, but you’ve got to remember that I’m very different,” he said. “I don’t think of NASA as a jobs program. It’s a strategic national asset, essential for the human spirit.”
Perhaps this sounds like bluster. But if NASA really goes to Europa and lands there, it seems entirely possible that not a penny of the $8 billion will get spent in Culberson’s district, perhaps not even in the entire Houston area.
Selling Europa
Other politicians concern themselves a great deal more about such on-the-ground benefits. US representatives and senators from Alabama and Florida care a lot about NASA’s big Space Launch System rocket, which is being designed and developed at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama and will launch from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Culberson’s counterpart in the Senate, the chairman of the Appropriations subcommittee over NASA’s budget, is Richard Shelby, an Alabama Republican.
A few years ago Culberson began insisting that the mission to Europa launch on an SLS rocket. It is defensible to say that such a launch brings value, in that the powerful SLS rocket will get a spacecraft to Jupiter far more quickly than any other booster. But there is a more pragmatic reason. Culberson needs Shelby’s agreement on NASA’s budget, and Shelby needs missions for the SLS rocket. As it turns out, more than just about any other conceivable mission, Europa justifies the costly SLS.
The Juno spacecraft, weighing about 3.5 tons, launched in 2011 on top of an Atlas V rocket. It reached Jupiter almost five years later. The Clipper spacecraft weighs 6 tons, and the Block 1b variant of the SLS will throw it to Jupiter in just 2.7 years, directly, with no gravity assists. The lander mission will weigh even more than the Clipper, and still it will reach Jupiter in less than five years.
Arguably, the lander can’t be done without the SLS. Sitting on the launch pad, a Block 1b version of the SLS rocket will weigh 3,000 tons. That is “wet mass,” as most of the weight is liquid hydrogen and oxygen propellants. The spacecraft represents just a tiny fraction of the overall mass, a few tons. Of this, the lander preliminarily weighs a mere 477kg, or 0.016 percent of the launch mass. The scientific payload is about a tenth of that. Put another way, the rocket will expend 99.999 percent of its mass to get a handful of scientific instruments onto Europa.
With SLS, the scientists get their data faster. The Congressional contingents from Alabama and Florida are happy, too, because their booster shines. And Culberson gets much needed Senate support for his expensive quest to find life on a frigid moon deep in the Solar System.
Git 'r done
Culberson had hoped the lander mission might be ready to launch just a year after Clipper, in 2023, but during the February briefings the JPL engineers cautioned that they needed extra time to develop the incinerator for planetary protection, as well as other new technologies. With enough funding, 2024, or more likely 2025, was doable. Culberson can live with these kinds of delays.
“When it comes to the designing and building of the spacecraft, I will not push you guys—OK, maybe a gentle push—because I want you to get this right,” the native Texan said. “But I won’t tolerate delays from Washington. I’m going to continue beating on the bureaucrats. That’s what I do for a living. So don’t rush, but git ’r done.”
For several years this has been the reality of the relationship between Culberson, NASA headquarters, and JPL, which takes its direction from Washington. Several times during the February briefings, he asked the scientists and engineers whether NASA HQ had been responsive, helpful, and moved expeditiously. Of late, it had. Whereas Culberson had a fractious relationship with former NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, who dragged his feet on a Europa mission, he says acting administrator Robert Lightfoot has been “extremely supportive.” Later, Culberson told me he has been meeting with Trump administration officials, including Vice President Mike Pence, to ensure their support.
The long-term future of the two missions seems at least moderately secure. True, Culberson’s deep red Republican district, which he’s represented since 2001, has trended a little bit blue during recent years. But the Tea Party Republican still managed to handily defeat two primary opponents who came at him from the right in 2016, and he won the general election by a margin of 56 to 44.
If he can continue winning elections, Culberson has four more years as chairman of the NASA budget subcommittee and then he might be in line to chair the full Appropriations committee. This is important, because while the flyby mission is now far enough down the line in development to be on fairly secure footing, the lander mission remains vulnerable without his full backing and proselytizing in Congress.
Living fast, dying young
The lander will undoubtedly find a sterile world, at least at first. A pristine microbe, even if it were accustomed to a vacuum and temperatures just 100 Celsius degrees above absolute zero, would die in days to weeks from Jupiter’s ionizing radiation. But scientists believe markers of life in the oceans below would show up on the surface, especially if the spacecraft lands in the right location.
By burrowing down just 10cm below the surface, the lander will reach an area where the effects of radiation are negligible, increasing the odds of finding fragments of life. To this end, the Europa lander’s sampling arm will come equipped with a “cutter,” essentially a small rotary saw. At Europa’s surface temperature, the ice is considerably harder than granite, so engineers have tested 35 different blade types on 25 different surfaces, including several variations of cryogenic ice, and powered them with three different drive trains.
An artist's concept of Europa's surface and deep ocean. This gallery shows how the lander will arrive, obtain samples, and potentially find habitable regions.
Europa Lander Science Definition Team Report
The nominal surface mission will last 20 days, with the scientific instruments protected within a radiation-hardened case. Ultimately, the mission’s length will be determined by the batteries on board, which have a capacity of 45kWh. (A MacBook Pro operating at full capacity, 24 hours a day, would consume about that much energy in a month.)
This should provide plenty of time for the collection of five samples. A recently released report from the lander mission’s science definition team, led by Hand, goes into detail about the various instruments on board, from a microscope capable of seeing cells down to 0.2 microns to two kinds of spectrometers that will corroborate any evidence of life. An “announcement of opportunity” for scientists to submit proposals to build the instruments should come this August, with a final selection in May 2018.
In addition to searching for life, the lander will have two other secondary missions. It will attempt to characterize the habitability of the oceans below from factors such as the chemistry of the water to the thickness of the ice shell. The lander will also determine the physical characteristics of the world in order to inform future expeditions, including a penetrator that may attempt to reach the ocean. Culberson seemed pleased: “We’re living fast. We’re dying young. And getting a lot of great science done.”
A secret weapon
Thanks to the ominous warning in Arthur C. Clarke’s novel, 2010: Odyssey Two, much of the science and technical community shares Culberson’s fascination with Europa. But for the general public, the icy moon remains largely an unknown. Eight billion dollars to peck at the ice on some moon around Jupiter? What is the sense of that? As he works on his peers in Congress, Culberson will eventually have to convince Joe the Plumber, Ken Bone, and the rest of America about the relevance of Europa, too.
For this mission, he has a secret weapon. During the briefings at JPL, Culberson brought a friend with him, the famed Director James Cameron. The two men share an interest in exploring the depths of oceans, and periodically Cameron peppered the JPL presenters with questions about batteries, the chemistry of Europa’s ocean, and so forth. But mostly, he came as Europa’s storyteller-in-chief. “If you want to talk to the world, this man knows how to do it,” Culberson said of his friend. It’s true in some sense. Titanic and Avatar are the two highest-grossing movies of all time.
At one point during the presentation, Hand displayed the cover of the report written by the lander team, which depicts the spacecraft at rest on Europa with Jupiter rising lustrously above the horizon. It recalled the iconic Apollo 8 image of Earth rising above the Moon, which helped sell the lunar landing program to the American public. “You need to do that picture,” Cameron interjected. “It should be a given. You want that picture, about 30 degrees above the horizon. It’s mandatory.”
Enlarge/ The iconic "Earth rise" image taken during the Apollo 8 mission.
NASA
Hand noted that since Europa is tidally locked to Jupiter, only half of the moon ever sees the gas giant. You really wouldn’t want to constrain your landing site just for a photograph, he explained.
“It had better be a damn interesting landing site,” Cameron retorted. After this exchange, the group of scientists and engineers inside Left Field laughed. During that moment, Cameron turned to whisper to Culberson. “Nobody ever likes to hear that stuff," the director said. "But it’s what sells this kind of program.”
From the congressman’s nod back to his friend, it seemed pretty clear that the most important person in the world when it comes to exploring Europa had heard Cameron’s message. Loud and clear.
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SFU professor finds paranormal investigators are just like us
SFU geography professor Paul Kingsbury poses in Vancouver Police Museum's morgue before a paranormal investigation.
RESEARCH
SFU professor finds paranormal investigators are just like us
By Wan Yee Lok
In the last couple of years, SFU geography professor Paul Kingsbury has hunted ghosts, attended UFO conferences and interviewed alien abductees as a part of his research on paranormal investigators.
In anticipation of his lecture, Kingsbury gives SFU News a brief overview of his research:
What have you discovered about paranormal investigators so far?
Paranormal investigators are just like anyone else in terms of their socio-economic backgrounds, education levels or psychological well-being. Most of them have had profound paranormal experiences and simply strive to learn more. They are driven by passion and do not charge money for their investigative services.
Why did you decide to study paranormal investigators?
I wanted to choose a topic that will keep me fascinated, and was inspired by an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail. The article criticized how National Geographic TV was showing ancient alien shows and UFO hunter shows. The writer was concerned the shows could damage children’s understanding of the world. I did not entirely agree with the writer because, as a cultural geographer, it is important to acknowledge how aliens and ghosts are significant cultural phenomena and matter a lot in many people’s lives. That’s when I figured I would really like to study the lived spaces of paranormal investigators and find out what drives them to do what they do.
What is a highlight in your research so far?
During a UFO conference in Arizona, I interviewed a person who claimed he was abducted by aliens. He recalled the abduction occurred in his flat in London. His cat was petrified at something outside the window and jumped down all flights of the cat tree, something cats never do. He then remembered elevating and floating down the hallway, up the staircase and into his bedroom. He experienced an emotion that was off the charts, beyond love, pain, anger and fear. His memory then dissolved and he recalled seeing a being with a strawberry face. Paranormal investigators have observed that aliens often implant what Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud called “screen memories” into the abductees’ minds, which are strange images that attempt to hide or distort the traumatic memory of their actual visible features or to confuse the experience for abductees.
Do you believe in paranormal phenomena?
I always get this question about belief. Personally, I’ve never had a direct experience with the paranormal in terms of UFOs, Sasquatch or ghosts. I am open to the possibility there are things that are beyond the known laws of nature or normal scientific understanding. My research does not try to prove or disprove the existence of paranormal occurrences but rather discover what motivates paranormal investigators to continue their work, as well as how they conduct it in various field sites and conference settings.
As someone who writes books, gives lectures, and posts articles here at Mysterious Universe, I get a lot of feedback. For the most part, it comes from people who want to share their experiences, ask questions, or offer their opinions on the things I have written about. Occasionally, however, I’ll find myself on the receiving end of a communication (or several) from someone claiming an “Insider”-type background. A whistle-blower, in other words. It doesn’t happen as often as more than a few have assumed. I don’t get asked to meet people “in the know” in underground parking areas at midnight. And, I have never been invited to view a bunch of dead aliens held in a secure, fortified bunker. And…well, you get the picture.
There have, however, been a few occasions when my path has crossed with that of enigmatic characters whose backgrounds did indeed place them in the world of certain, covert activities – all connected to UFOs, in one way or another. This occurred most graphically when I was researching and writing my books, On the Trail of the Saucer Spies, Body Snatchers in the Desert, and Final Events. But, Body Snatchers was published back in 2005, Saucer Spies in 2006, and Final Events in 2010. In other words, more than quite a while ago. Beyond that, and aside from the occasional tidbit, I really don’t get “Deep Throat”-type figures knocking on my door.
But, just a few days ago, it happened again. In this case, it came in the form of a “Unknown Caller” phone-call in the early afternoon. The elderly man at the other end of the line said that he had read my books Men in Black and Women in Black and wanted to share something relevant. It all revolved, he said, around the notorious Philadelphia Experiment of 1943. So, before I got on with the story, here’s a bit of background on that controversial event (or non-event, depending on your opinion).
Back in 1955, Morris K. Jessup’s book, The Case for the UFO, was published. It was a book that delved deeply into two key issues: (a) the theoretical power-source of UFOs, and (b) the utilization of the universal gravitational field as a form of energy. Not long after the publication of the book, Jessup became the recipient of a series of extremely strange missives from a certain Carlos Miquel Allende, of Pennsylvania. In his correspondence, Allende (a very unreliable and discredited figure) commented on Jessup’s theories. He also gave details of an alleged secret experiment conducted by the U.S. Navy in the Philadelphia Naval Yard in October 1943. Thus was born the highly controversial saga of what has become known as the Philadelphia Experiment.
According to Allende’s incredible tale, during the experiment a warship was rendered optically invisible and teleported to – and then back from – Norfolk, Virginia in a few minutes. The incredible feat was supposedly accomplished by applying Albert Einstein’s never-completed Unified Field theory. Allende elaborated that the ship used in the experiment was the DE 173 USS Eldridge; and, moreover, that he, Allende, had actually witnessed one of the attempts to render both the ship and its crew invisible from his position out at sea on-board a steamer called the SS Andrew Furuseth.
If Allende was telling the truth, then the Navy had not only begun to grasp the nature of invisibility, but it had also stumbled upon the secret of teleportation of the type demonstrated years later – in fictional, on-screen format – in The Fly. On these very matters, Allende made the disturbing claim that the experiment rendered many of the crew-members as mad as hatters. Others, supposedly, vanished from the ship while the test was at its height, never to be seen again. Others reportedly suffered horrific and agonizing deaths.
For the record, I don’t believe at all that a number of the crew were plunged into the future – that’s just complete rubbish. Nor do I believe that, for years afterwards, the surviving sailors would briefly vanish from view, then return from their states of temporary invisibility. But, I am open to the possibility that perhaps some kind of experiment may have gone ahead. It may have provoked bizarre hallucinations and made it appear as if extremely strange things were afoot on the ship. We’re talking about a far more down to earth experiment, but which had unforeseen effects on the minds of a very small number of the crew. Why I think that is something I will discuss in another article, in the next couple of weeks.
All of which brings us back to the matter of Mr. “Unknown Caller.” Like me, he had no time for the teleportation- or time-travel-based scenarios. But, what he did believe was certainly as controversial. Perhaps, even more so. He claimed that in the early 1980s he was given the opportunity to read U.S. Navy files that told the “real” story of the Philadelphia Experiment. He was extremely cagey on verifiable facts (no surprises there, I have to say…), but maintained that the experiment had a bearing on the aforementioned MIB and Women in Black. I asked: “In what way?”
His reply was that the experiment – the precise nature of which he would not comment on – created what he called “a shift” that allowed those aboard to see certain things that, in a normal state, they, you and I would not see. But, which are supposedly around us all the time. We’re talking about the MIB, WIB and even what have become popularly known in recent years as the Shadow People. So the tale went, the stories of crew-members vanishing, or becoming fused into the metal of the ship itself, were very wide of the mark. They were, I was assured, wildly distorted accounts of the crew seeing MIB, WIB and Shadow People walking through walls, becoming invisible, and then reappearing. But, that it didn’t take long before the “truth” of the matter became a tale of vanishing sailors.
The man claimed – even more controversially – that this event marked the first moment when the U.S. Government became aware of the Men in Black phenomenon. Well, as I see it, replacing a story of time-traveling sailors with a saga of MIBs – whose existence was revealed on-board the USS Eldridge – doesn’t make the picture any less controversial. And particularly so when no evidence for this strange tale is offered. On more than a few occasions, the information provided to me by such characters does prove to be legitimate. With regard to this story, however, I’m not holding my breath.
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Those who scoffed at the idea of a Dyson sphere being built around Tabby’ Star (KIC 8462852) may wish they had saved some of their disbelief and indignation for this story. NASA is seriously proposing the idea of building a planet-sized shield for Mars. Unlike a Dyson sphere, this structure would not create fuel for aliens but instead create an atmosphere for humans. Good idea or pie in the Martian sky?
Hasn’t this been tried before?
In a paper presented at the Planetary Science Vision 2050 Workshop 2017 held last week in Washington DC, NASA engineers in the Planetary Science Division proposed building a magnetic shield above Mars to replace the magnetic field it lost billions of years ago. When that happened, the door was opened for the Martian atmosphere to escape, water to dry up and temperature to drop. Division Director Jim Green says an “artificial magnetosphere” between Mars and the Sun could potentially bring back an atmosphere, melt ice into water and return the red planet to tropical (or at least warmer) temperatures.
This situation then eliminates many of the solar wind erosion processes that occur with the planet’s ionosphere and upper atmosphere allowing the Martian atmosphere to grow in pressure and temperature over time.
The shield would be placed in space at the L1 Lagrange point where the equal gravitational forces of Mars and the sun would hold it in place. Simulations show that once the shield is up, Mars would regain as much as half the atmospheric pressure of Earth in a matter of years and could be habitable for humans in a few generations.
This sounds like something thought up in a HAARP weather-control lab and Green makes a point to assure that it’s not.
This is not terraforming as you may think of it where we actually artificially change the climate, but we let nature do it, and we do that based on the physics we know today.
Before and after?
So it’s not artificial – except for that manmade magnetic shield out in space. On the positive side, it sounds better than Elon Musk’s idea for raising the temperature on Mars: “Drop thermonuclear weapons over the poles.”
Of course, all of this is still theoretical on a planetary scale but it’s in development on the spaceship level. Scientists at CERN (when the subject is weather control, these guys seem to show up right behind HAARP) are said to be working in collaboration with the European Space Radiation Superconducting Shield (SR2S) project on a superconducting magnetic shield made with magnesium diboride (MgB2) coils. The end product – a 10-meter-wide magnetic field 3,000 times stronger than Earth’s – is expected to be available in three years.
Let’s hope the Martian version gets built before Elon Musk lights his nuclear fuse.
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A video captured by tireless alien-hunter Streetcap1 shows what seems to be a long bright light hovering next to the Space Station.
Streetcap1 said, ‘I thought I was seeing things. I had to be quick.’
Tyler Glockner of UFO hunting site SecureTeam10 said, ‘We definitely see some anomalous objects, we have this very long cigar-shaped UFO. It’s unidentified, we don’t know what it is.’
‘Nasa likes to give us low res videos and keep the high resolution stuff to themselves.’
Such sightings actually happen with surprising regularity – and NASA has repeatedly said they’re just distortions in the lens, not alien craft parking at the ISS.
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual says, ‘The constant ‘sightings’ of UFOs near the ISS are mainly due to reflections and space junk, and it is down to wishful thinking that images sent back from the space station are of alien craft.
‘The same applies to the enormous amount of alien artefacts and structures seen in images sent back from Mars.
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Humming sound sends Texas witness outside to investigate
Humming sound sends Texas witness outside to investigate
A Texas witness at Prosper reported hearing a humming sound that sent him outside to investigate where the entire sky lit up green for several seconds and a very bright, white light was seen several hundred feet in the air, according to testimony in Case 82205 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The witness first heard a humming sound that sent him outside to investigate. Pictured: Prosper, TX.
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The witness and his wife were in their bedroom after midnight on February 20, 2017, when the sound was first heard.
“We heard a low pitch, but still a very noticeable humming sound,” the witness stated. “The sound went on for about 10 minutes before we got up to see what was going on outside.”
The witness then discovered that his in-laws had both been awakened by the sound as well.
“We stood outside waiting for the sound and when we heard it, the entire sky lit up green for several seconds before fading away. My wife and father-in-law stood under the patio. I stepped out in the yard during the humming to look up. The entire sky was still green and several hundred feet above me was an extremely bright, white light.”
The humming sound was followed by the entire sky turning green. Pictured: Prosper, TX.
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The group had multiple sightings.
“My wife and I observed this once and my father-in-law observed it twice out of his window and once from the backyard. I have never seen anything like it. It simply made a humming sound, lit the entire sky up, and then stopped. Did all of this between 12:30-12:55 a.m. Confused and fascinated. I am still waiting, hoping the sound and lights will return so I can capture it on camera. It just disappeared.”
Texas MUFON Field Investigator Jeremy Galyon is investigating.
In an earlier report, a Texas witness at Lake Jackson reported a loud rumbling sound “like thunder” that shook the house and was followed by an unusual whining sound, according to testimony in Case 80863, that occurred on December 6, 2016. Texas MUFON State Section Director Charles Stansburge investigated this case and closed it as an Unknown.
“The case is completed as an Unknown with at least 100 or more people witnessing hearing this big boom with some homes shaking,” Stansburge reported. “As far as my conclusion is, that I don’t know what it is or what was it could have been, perhaps an atmospheric explosion of a meteorite, but nobody knows what it was.”
The witness also noticed a bright, white light hovering in the sky above. Pictured: Prosper, TX.
(Credit: Google)
Prosper is about 350 miles directly north of Lake Jackson.
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.
Two UFO Sightings On East Coast Florida & New York, Very Similar, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Two UFO Sightings On East Coast Florida & New York, Very Similar, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 2-15-2017 and 3-3-2017 Location of sighting: Florida and New York, USA Here are two great UFO sightings that are very similar and just a few weeks apart. Both occurred on the East coast, both occurred at night with numerous glowing objects spotted. Scott C. Waring Eyewitnesses state:
First Video - Homestead, Florida - 02-15-17
This happened in Homestead, Florida in 2016, multiple reports suggest it was witnessed by a large number of people. I am an aircraft mechanic and I can't explain this video with all my years in aviation.
Second Video - Jamaica, NY - 03-03-17
I was in my room fixing my blinds and I look out my window as I normally do to see the moon. As usual I see these lights beaming from a distance. They aren't airplanes because I was see a couple of airplanes from a distance and at night and know they don't beam that bright nor big. I've noticed the objects many months before, but never really paid mind to them as I would continually think it's from the JFK airport. But JFK is a little more to the right side on the sighting. An airplane or helicopter can often be seen as JFK airport is somewhat down the line in that direction. I thought it might be motorbike headlights just flashing as if a tree is in front of it and the wind blows the leaves around. On the right side or the last beam of light on the right would continually drift off to the right and then appear a few seconds or minutes again. Honestly if it's a UFO, that would be such a wonderful yet amazing discovery due to me being into cosmology. It's still beaming as I type this, except only two lights now appear, with much distance from each other. To be honest you can't really see it clearly on the video I have provided, but oh my if you were standing where I am right now you would know what I mean.
Former U.S. President George W. Bush Answers About Alien Disclosure Files
Former U.S. President George W. Bush Answers About Alien Disclosure Files
Claims of a major cover-up plan have sprung up after former U.S. President George W. Bush refused to divulge his knowledge about alleged classified government UFO files while he was in office. The former Republican President appeared on the Jimmy Kimmel talk show where he was asked about the top secret UFO files of the White House.
Alien disclosure activists have been saying that the White House has evidence of extraterrestrial visitations in Earth, but keep it secret because of fear of the potential impact of the rule of law and religion.
Kimel asked Bush about his knowledge of the secret UFO documents or if he had gone through them while still a president. However, the 43rd President of the United States showed reluctance to make a definite or committing statement.
When asked if he had gone through such documents, he just answered “maybe.” Bush, who was the American President for two terms from 2000 to 2008, then said he was providing nothing away even when he reached 90. It appeared that he would take the truth about aliens and UFOs to the grave.
Kimmel further pressed Bush if he would tell him what was in the secret files, but the Guest answered “no.”
Kimmel then told Bush that he could now do anything since he is no longer in the office. However, Bush replied that it is true, but still he is telling nothing about those files.
Strange Lights In Korea Have People Talking Aliens And UFOs
Strange Lights In Korea Have People Talking Aliens And UFOs
Strange columns of light disrupted the peaceful night sky. Over the last week, hundreds of residents complained about the light’s appearance. For three nights, the illumination settled over Busan, South Korea. With over 3.6 million people, the second-largest city in the country always has people staring at the sky. Video footage of the phenomenon has led to claims about UFOs and black holes.
WIKILEAKS (2017) USA AT WAR WITH UFO'S IN ANTARCTICA
WIKILEAKS (2017) USA AT WAR WITH UFO'S IN ANTARCTICA
Wikileaks UFO Conspiracy, Is the United States at War with Extraterrestrials in Antarctica, Has the Government always known about the presence of alien life on earth, have they been in contact with them, or in a dispute. Will they ever really tell us, probably not, Wikileaks truth.
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The eruptions on dwarf planet Ceres may hold clues about extraterrestrial life
The eruptions on dwarf planet Ceres may hold clues about extraterrestrial life
Elana Glowatz Posted with permission from International Business Times
Bright spots on Ceres
(NASA photo)
Scientists are learning more about how the dwarf planet Ceres formed, with an eye on whether there could be extraterrestrial life there.
Until recently, a volcano on Ceres was erupting salty material from below the planet’s surface.
Well, it actually has been about 4 million years, but by our solar system’s standards that’s not all that long ago, especially considering that the crater in which scientists observed the evidence of that cryovolcanic activity is about 30 million years older, according to a study in the Astronomical Journal. For comparison, our solar system is almost 5 billion years old.
The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research just announced the explosive finding, saying it means “Ceres is thus the body closest to the Sun that shows cryovolcanic activity.”
Experts could see the erupted material — which MPS referred to as “subsurface brine” and is mostly composed of mineral salts — in the dwarf planet’s Occator crater because it was brighter than everything else in the area, due to its youth. They analyzed data from a NASA space probe called Dawn that had been following Ceres along its orbit around the Sun and capturing images.
The information helps tell a story about how that part of Ceres formed, with a huge object crashing into the planet to create the 92-kilometer-wide Occator crater — but it also “triggered the later cryovolcanic activity,” MPS researcher Andreas Nathues said in the institute’s statement. With the impact, the brine moved up closer to the surface and eventually erupted.
This view of the Occator crater on dwarf planet Ceres shows the brightly colored pit in its center and the cryovolcanic dome. The jagged mountains on the edge of the pit throw their shadows on parts of the pit.Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Those eruptions may not be over. “Whether the cryovolcanic activity has ceased completely or is ongoing on a lower level is still unclear,” MPS said. “Pictures of the crater showing haze when imaged at certain angles seem to speak for the latter.”
The crater’s 92-kilometer diameter is significant given the size of the entire dwarf planet: 939 kilometers across, according to the Astronomical Journal study. That makes it the “largest object in the main asteroid belt,” which is between Mars and Jupiter.
At its closest point to Earth, the asteroid belt is about as far from us as the Sun, and at its furthest point is about double that distance. So why should we care how Ceres formed? Based on its potential to hold water, scientists are trying to determine whether it could hold life. “Water is essential for life, so it's possible that with this ingredient and a few other conditions met, life could maybe exist there,” according to NASA. “Living things on Ceres, if they are there at all, would likely be very small microbes similar to bacteria. And while Ceres might not have living things today, there could be signs it harbored life in the past.”
I found this white alien base on the planet Mercury in NASA photos today. Its oval in shape and raised up several hundred meters high. On its top are several more dark buildings. Also below in one crater was a dark black long structures. The full photo is at the bottom of this post. The crater is about 10 miles across, making this one very large structure. Just something NASA doesn't want you to know.
UFOs Far Above Mountain In Las Vegas On Video, March 2017, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs Far Above Mountain In Las Vegas On Video, March 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 2017
Location of sighting: Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Here is a great video which shows some glowing UFOs over a mountain. Yes, I said over. As you can see above, the mountain is far below the UFOs. Many skeptics say they are motorcycles on a mountain...but since when do motorcycles fly? For the light to be this big, that UFO must be at least the size of a city bus. Outstanding catch bySteven Barone of Youtube, please click here to subscribe to his channel. He uploads 100% authentic and real UFOs every week.
Scott C. Waring
Steven Barone states:
I shot this video from my backyard in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas, Nevada on the night of March 6, 2017. Part of the reason I didn't comment while I was filming at the Air Force Base last night was because I was also busy using the Night Vision Monocular to film this. Two different events happened last night. Both events are very strange in how they ended. I am not sure what these are but both of them did something I can't explain. The first one was moving left and at the end went straight down. Once I lost it behind a neighbor's roofline I never saw it again. The next object had a very unusual flash to it so I followed it only to see at the end that it turned into two different objects. I honestly don't think that two conventional aircraft can fly so closely together that they appear to be a single aircraft. There might be good explanations for both of these events but I honestly can't think of any right now.
Searching For Extraterrestrial Life: Are They Actually Present In Our Deep Biosphere? Clues Have Been Found(Photo : Alexander Gerst / ESA via Getty Images)
Every Earth life relies either directly or indirectly on sunlight and an atmosphere with oxygen. But during the late 1970's, biologists have discovered Riftia pachyptila, chemosynthetic tube worms, that were living around black smoker vents at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean which was not far from the Galapagos Islands, which was also the birthplace of Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
According to an article coming from Scientific American, during the early 1990's Bacillus infernus, a bacterium was discovered just 10,000 feet beneath a farmer's field located in Virginia, where it has been living for over 200 million years. Since then, entire ecosystems have been slowly uncovered that was residing miles beneath the surface and has sustained indefinitely by nothing more than the decaying of radiogenic thorium, uranium, and potassium.
With all of this life flourishing in underneath the Earth's very surface, any science junkie can't help but look at the images of ancient Martian surfaces and wonder if life has also existed beneath its frozen, desiccated surface. According to Portal to the Universe, more than a hundred years ago, American Businessman Percival Lowell believed that he could see evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization that previously lived on the surface of Mars, but that illusion, along with his scientific credibility, was dispelled within fifteen years of his discovery.
In 1901 H. G. Wells, who was a contemporary of Lowell, has also published The First Men in the Moon, in which he constructed an imaginary and fantastically-sophisticated society of insect-like creatures, called Selenites, that were living beneath the lunar surface. Since then, the entire concept of extraterrestrial life has figured frequently in science fiction novels and movies (e.g. Star Trek movies, etc.).
Until now, the search for Extraterrestrial life is still ongoing. Whether it be in novels, or on theories and assumptions that scientists and researchers made, people are constantly looking if a human actually has a companion in this universe.
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'NASA dimmed the feed': 'Megaship' spotted by space station
'NASA dimmed the feed': 'Megaship' spotted by space station
NASA has been accused of dimming their live satellite feed after footage of a “megaship” was captured by an International Space Station.
VIDEOSpaceship like object captured by International Space Station camera. Source: YouTube/Streetcap1
A long 'cigar-shaped' UFO is seen hovering above the Earth's horizon with two bright reflective-objects sitting just below.
Whether it was an intergalactic spaceship full of extraterrestrial aliens, a reflection from a star or just a smudge on the camera lens, conspiracy theorists were always going to have a field day.
"I have monitored hundreds, likely thousands of hours of ISS live feed footage and I've seen UFOs, I've seen ice crystals, I've seen space debris and I've seen light reflections,” one UFO hunter posted.
'What we're seeing here looks like none of those. And it would appear that shortly after these objects come into view, NASA, either purposely, or the UFOs do it on their own, but the objects quickly dim out."
The bizarre cigar-shaped UFO and reflective orbs have caused a stir amongst UFO conspiracy theorists. Source: NASA
“The dimming at the end was sudden and my guess is they [NASA] turned down the brightness a little,” another added.
It’s the second time in just months that NASA has been accused of altering vision after they completely shut down one live space station feed as a UFO began approaching.
When former President George W. Bush appeared on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Thursday, to promote his book, “Portraits of Courage,” Kimmel didn’t waste any time trying to get Bush to admit that he may have looked for and seen alleged secret government files on UFOs.
Kimmel began the “interrogation” by asking Bush “a question that’s very important to me and very important to the country. When you were in office, did you go through the secret files ― the UFO documents, because if I was president, that would be the first thing I did.”
Even before Kimmel finished asking the question, Bush immediately replied, “Maybe.” Then, he told Kimmel, “You know, it’s funny. My daughters asked the very same question.” When Kimmel asked if Bush would be allowed to tell his daughters what was in those files, the former commander-in-chief said “No.”
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Former Pres. George W. Bush discusses alleged secret UFO files with Jimmy Kimmel on March 2, 2017.
“Now that you’re out of office, you can do anything you want, right?” Kimmel pressed.
“True, yeah,” Bush said, adding, “But I’m not telling you.”
Kimmel: “You’re not telling me what? Are you not telling me that you looked at them?”
Bush: “I’m not telling you nuthin’!”
The brief UFO secret files portion of the conversation ended when Kimmel asked Bush if there were really great secrets that the former president knows that he can’t share with people. Bush confirmed it and indicated he would never divulge those secrets at any future point in his life.
This was hardly the first time that Kimmel has gone digging for UFO-alien revelations with presidential personalities on his show.
In 2014, President Bill Clinton told Kimmel that when he was the leader of the free world, he tried unsuccessfully to investigate what the government was hiding regarding UFOs. When Kimmel asked if he would have told the public had he found evidence of real aliens, Clinton smiled and said “Yeah.”
Then, in 2015, during a visit to Kimmel’s talk show, President Barack Obama ― in tongue-in-cheek fashion ― said “the aliens won’t let [disclosure] happen. You’d reveal all their secrets, and they exercise strict control over us. I can’t reveal anything.”
During Hillary Clinton’s 2016 bid for the White House, she made several comments throughout the year about her intent ― should she be elected president ― to make government UFO files available to the public.
“If there is something there, unless it’s a threat to national security, I think we ought to share it with the public,” she told Kimmel.
In the latest interview with America’s 43rd president, while it was obvious that Bush and Kimmel treated the UFO subject in a very lighthearted, friendly way, the former president never actually suggested there were no UFO files to be unearthed.
Kimmel’s determination to raise the UFO issue to previous occupants of the White House seems to leave one relevant interview target on the TV host’s radar: the current president of the United States.
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The Most Amazing Space Stories This Week!
The Most Amazing Space Stories This Week!
By SPACE.com Staff
An artist's illustration of a crewed Dragon spacecraft in space.
Credit: SpaceX
A bold lunar goal, a near-miss at Mars, antimatter gets weird(er) and a mission to the sun — it's Space.com's best news stories of the week.
Shoot for the moon
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk announced Monday (Feb. 27) that his spaceflight company would carry two paying customers to the moon and back in late 2018, the first such visit since the Apollo era. The passengers would ride a Dragon spacecraft propelled by a Falcon Heavy rocket, and they'd loop past the moon and into deep space before returning to Earth. [Full Story: SpaceX to Fly Passengers On Private Trip Around the Moon in 2018]
Skywatchers in parts of South America and Africa witnessed a spectacular "ring of fire" eclipse last weekend, where the moon blocked all of the sun but a thin, bright ring of light. [Full Story: Moon Blocks (Most of) the Sun in 'Ring of Fire' Solar Eclipse]
The New Horizons probe flew by Pluto in 2015, and early studies suggest that the dwarf planet is more complicated than thought — in fact, it possesses possible organics, water and energy, which researchers consider the necessary ingredients for life. [Full Story: Does Pluto Have The Ingredients For Life?]
A Martian dodge
The Mars-orbiting MAVEN spacecraft changed course to avoid a projected collision with the strange Martian moon Phobos. The slight adjustment means the atmosphere-sniffing probe will safely pass by the moon March 6. [Full Story: NASA Spacecraft Avoids Collision with Martian Moon Phobos]
Keep shining on
A nearby massive star explosion first observed in 1987 continues to put out bright shockwaves in the sky, visible 30 years later. Researchers released images and time-lapse videos documenting its evolution. [Full Story: Historic Supernova Explosion Still Shines Bright After 30 Years]
Like the "Star Wars" world Tatooine with two suns, planets can orbit systems with multiple stars. New evidence of far-off shattered asteroids suggest that such systems can host rocky planets, not just gas ones — a much more suitable home for Luke Skywalker. [Full Story: Real Tatooines? Evidence Found of Rocky Planet Formation Around Double Star]
Eyes in the sky
An American satellite launched on a classified reconnaissance mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The satellite will be operated by the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, and its original launch date was December — it was delayed by a series of wildfires and an issue with the Atlas V rocket's upper stage. [Full Story: New American Spy Satellite Launches on Classified Mission]
Robot to the sun
NASA will soon launch a robotic mission to the sun. The 2018 Solar Probe Plus mission will travel within 4 million miles of the blazing star to examine its surprisingly-cool surface and the origin of the solar wind's speed, among other stellar mysteries. [Full Story: Could a Spacecraft Fly to the Sun?]
Probing the cosmos — by balloon
As it landed, the high-flying BLAST balloon telescope was unexpectedly dragged about 125 miles (200 kilometers) across Antarctica, trailing components along the way, until it was lost and unrecoverable in a crevasse field. But the hard drive flew off, and they got the data. [Full Story: Where Are All the Baby Stars? High-Flying Balloon Telescope Could Find Out]
From rovers to telescopes the size of villages, we’re going to need some serious technology if we ever want to find life beyond Earth
In 1960, the renowned astronomer Frank Drake turned the radio telescope at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia toward two nearby stars in hopes of discovering some indication of intelligent alien life. Although Drake was unsuccessful in this venture, his effort did mark the beginning of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), a global scientific effort to determine whether or not we're alone in the universe.
SETI has come a long way since its humble beginnings over half a century ago, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the technology that is being deployed in the hunt for life beyond Earth. Today, astronomers are using telescopes more powerful than Drake could've ever imagined, and astrobiologists are commandeering rovers that are collecting samples on the Martian surface, a region of the solar system that wouldn't be explored for almost 15 years after Drake's original SETI experiment.
According to Eric Korpela, the director of UC Berkeley's SETI@home project, one of the biggest leaps forward in SETI tech has been in the telescope department. He cited the ALMA Array, the Square Kilometer Array and the Allen Telescope Array as just a few of the examples of the new generation of telescopes that are making the possibility of contact seem closer than ever before.
"The common theme in all these telescopes is that they're arrays," said Korpela. "That's a big change from the way SETI has done most of its work in the past, which was with fairly large, single-dish telescopes that point at a single spot in the sky. The arrays that are coming online have the capability to point at multiple spots on the sky simultaneously and have much higher spatial resolution, meaning you're just focusing tightly in on a single star, rather than surveying a large area."
The reason these telescope arrays represent an advance over their predecessors is because they are able to leverage a relatively new surveying technique called interferometry. In essence, this technique combines the radio signals being received at each of the smaller telescopes so that it provides a really find-detailed version of a single signal.
But even with these new radio telescope arrays coming online, SETI hasn't abandoned its roots in single dish telescopes—it's merely changed the way it's putting them to use. Case in point is SETI@home, a distributed computing initiative launched in 1999 that has enlisted the help of tens of thousands of people around the world in the search for alien life.
"Maybe 5 to 10 percent of stars have an Earth-like planet in orbit that is also in the habitable zone"
Every day, the SETI researchers at UC Berkeley receive dozens of gigabytes worth of radio signal data collected from the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico and the Green Bank telescope in West Virginia. Filtering through all this cosmic noise for some small indication of an intelligent signal is a big task, even with state of the art computing technology—there's simply too much to look through. But by linking together the processing power from individual laptops and PCs all around the world, the task has become infinitely more manageable. It also means that anyone can help look for aliens while they sleep.
At the same time, advances in optical telescope technologies have also revealed a universe overflowing with potentially habitable planets orbiting other stars, which are known as exoplanets. The first exoplanet discovery occurred in 1995 and several thousand others have been discovered since then, although most of these were far larger than Earth and unlikely to support life.
It wasn't until 2014 that the Kepler Space Telescope, launched into space in 2009 with the largest camera ever put on a spacecraft, discovered the first Earth-like planet in the habitable region (where liquid water is possible) of another star. In the three years since, well over a dozen other potentially earth-like exoplanets have been discovered, each of which could potentially host extraterrestrial life. The most recent Earth-like exoplanet discovery occurred last month, when NASA announced that seven potentially habitable planets had been discovered in the Trappist-1 star system, the most ever found to be orbiting a single star. Now, according to Korpela, "we can estimate that maybe 5 to 10 percent of stars have an Earth-like planet in orbit that is also in the habitable zone."
SETI astronomers like Korpela are looking at stars and planets that are dozens, if not hundreds of light years away. But a little bit closer to home, astrobiologists are also looking for extraterrestrial life in our own solar system—albeit of the non-intelligent sort.
The tools of choice for these alien hunters are not telescopes, but the new generation of rovers and planetary probes that are on the hunt for microbial life on the planets and moons in our solar system. The leading candidates in this respect are Mars, Saturn's moons Enceladus, and Jupiter's moon Europa because each has water on its surface.
With the exception of Mars, there has yet to be any missions launched to these destinations in search of life. The first mission to Mars in search of life was the Viking missions in the 1970s, but the most recent was a joint mission between the European Space Agency and Roscosmos called ExoMars, which consists of two phases. In the first phase, the Trace Gas Orbiter (which just arrive at Mars last October) will examine the constituency of the Martian atmosphere. Although the atmosphere of Mars is dominated by carbon dioxide, the presence of trace amounts of other gases, such as methane or water vapor, could point to the possibility of life on the surface of the Red Planet. The second part of the mission will see a rover touchdown on Mars in 2021 and will use a 6-foot long drill to sample water beneath the surface of the planet.
As for Enceladus and Europa, they remain enticing destinations for future exobiology-oriented missions.
Just last month, NASA put forward a proposal for a lander on Europa, which is bound by a 10-15 mile thick icy crust that researchers think may hide an ocean of liquid water beneath its surface that is twice as large as the oceans on Earth combined. In the early 2020s, NASA plans to launch an orbiter to Jupiter, which will perform 45 close fly-bys of the moon equipped with instruments capable of measuring the thickness of the ice crust, determining whether there is liquid water beneath its surface, as well as the saltiness and temperature of this water. But NASA doesn't plan to stop there. It's most recent proposal calls for a lander that would be lowered to the moon's surface using a "sky crane" (parachutes would be unnecessary since the moon has no atmosphere) and then proceed to collect samples from the top few centimeters of the moon's surface.
As for Enceladus, NASA's plan to visit this icy moon isssss much less well-defined. In 2015, following a flyby of the moon by the Cassini spacecraft which took photos of water-rich plumes erupting from Enceladus' surface, a scientist from Cornell University proposed the Enceladus Life Finder (ELF) which would make its primary mission sampling these plumes to determine their chemical makeup. A second proposal to fly through the plumes called Life Investigation for Enceladus (LIFE) was also made, differing from insofar as the samples collected by the craft would be returned to Earth for analysis.
As of the time of this writing, neither ELF nor LIFE has advanced beyond the initial mission proposal. But in any case, there has never been a busier or more promising time to be hunting for life beyond Earth, a development which is largely due to the awesome new technologies being developed by space agencies and researchers around the world.
False color mosaic showing parts of Occator crater, with a central pit containing the brightest material on Ceres. It measures 11 kilometers in diameter and in the middle of the pit a dome towers 400 meters high. The dome could be the remnant of a cryovolcano. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
The bright regions on the dwarf planet Ceres have been some of the most talked about features in planetary science in recent years. While data from the Dawn spacecraft has shown these bright areas are salt deposits (alas, not lights of an alien city), the question remained of how these salts reached the surface.
Researchers with the Dawn mission say they have now thoroughly investigated the complex geological structures in Occator crater, the region with the brightest regions on Ceres. The scientists conclude that a bright dome-like feature called Cerealia Facula is the remnant of a cryovolcano — an ice volcano — that repeatedly and relatively recently spewed salty ice from within Ceres up to the surface.
“The age and appearance of the material surrounding the bright dome indicate that Cerealia Facula was formed by a recurring, eruptive process, which also hurled material into more outward regions of the central pit,” said Andreas Nathues, a Dawn scientist from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research. “A single eruptive event is rather unlikely.”
The bright central spots near the center of Occator Crater are shown in enhanced color in this view from NASA’s Dawn spacecraft. The view was produced by combining the highest resolution images taken in February 2016 (at image scales 115 feet (35 meters) per pixel of 35 meters with color images obtained in September 2015 at a lower resolution. Click for a highest-res view.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA/PSI
Occator crater located in the northern hemisphere of Ceres measures 92 kilometers (57 miles) in diameter. In its center is a pit with a diameter of about 11 kilometers (7 miles). On some parts of its edges, jagged mountains and steep slopes rise up to 750 meters (820 yards) high. Within the pit a bright dome formed. It has a diameter of 3 km (1.8 miles), is 400 meters (437 yards) high, with prominent fractures.
In analyzing images from Dawn’s Framing Camera, Nathues and his team deduced that the central pit is a remnant of a former central mountain, formed from the impact that created Occator Crater about 34 million years ago. But with a method for estimating the age of a planet’s surface – called crater counting — the science team could determine the dome of bright material is only about four million years old.
This suggests, the team said, that Occator crater has been the scene of eruptive outbursts of subsurface brine over a long period and until almost recently.
Jupiter’s moons Callisto and Ganymede show similar types of domes, and researchers interpret them as signs of cryovolcanism. While Ceres is too far from the Sun to be warm enough for regular volcanic activity, it very likely has harbored cryovolcanic activity, and it may even be active today.
This 3d-anaglyph for the first time shows a part of Occator crater in a combination of anaglyphe and false-color image.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Images from the Hubble Space Telescope taken more than a decade ago hinted at the bright spots in Occator Crater, but as the Dawn spacecraft approached Ceres in 2015, new images showed the bright areas almost shining like “cosmic beacons, like interplanetary lighthouses drawing us forth,” as described by Marc Rayman, the chief engineer and mission director for Dawn, in an interview with me last year.
Dawn scientist had previously determined the bright areas were salts left over from subsurface briny water that had made its way to the surface, and in the vacuum of space, the water sublimated away, leaving behind the dissolved salts. These salts were determined to be sodium carbonate and ammonium chloride.
This view of the whole Occator crater shows the brightly colored pit in its center and the cryovolcanic dome. The jagged mountains on the edge of the pit throw their shadows on parts of the pit. This image was taken from a distance of 1478 kilometers above the surface and has a resolution of 158 meters per pixel.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
But don’t call these bright areas “spots,” said Rayman. “Some of these bright areas are miles across,” he said, “and just as if you were standing on salt flats on Earth that were several thousand acres, you wouldn’t say, ‘I’m standing on a spot.’ You are standing on a big area. But just to see the distribution of this material in the Dawn images shows there is something complex going on there.”
It is currently unknown if the region in Occator Crater is active, but there are hints it is, at least at a low level.
In 2014 the Herschel spacecraft detected water vapor above Occator, and images from Dawn’s cameras of the crater show a ‘haze’ when imaged at certain angles, and this has been explained as the sublimation of water.
Dawn scientists are also studying the large volcanic feature on Ceres, Ahuna Mons, to determine if it could be a cryovolcano, and will continue to study other bright areas on Ceres, as well.
Ceres’ lonely mountain, Ahuna Mons, is seen in this simulated perspective view. The elevation has been exaggerated by a factor of two. Image
Stargazing Live will see Cox along with non-scientist (but excellent person) Julia Zemiro exploring the wonders of space and the cosmos, including taking live questions from the folks at home.
The show will broadcast for three nights from April 4 to 6 from the Siding Spring Observatory in rural New South Wales.
Brian Cox.
IMAGE: ABC
Episodes will look at the Milky Way, the planets and of course, aliens. As well as a cast of astrophysicists and astronomers, the show will explore Indigenous knowledge of the stars with guest Michael Anderson, a Lawman of the Euahlayi nation and treasured activist.
Each show will also be followed by a space-version of Gogglebox — 30 minutes where Cox and Zemiro will answer questions asked over social media from the audience in a segment called Stargazing Live: Back To Earth.
It's worth tuning in. After all, SpaceX intends to send two as yet unnamed people in a loop around the moon in 2018. It could be you next time (if you've got that kind of cash), so best study up.
Bizarre 3D images show what aliens might REALLY look like to survive in harsh environments on distant planets
Bizarre 3D images show what aliens might REALLY look like to survive in harsh environments on distant planets
The images have been created using scientific research of the harsh conditions life would need to withstand on other plants
BY ABIGAIL O'LEARY
Is this what aliens really look like?
(Photo: Steve Grice/Sketchfab)
Scientists have revealed a series of incredible images showing what aliens might really look like.
From armoured plates, to translucent skin and claws, the illustrations are a world away from the green, bulging-eyed illustrations of aliens we are used to.
Backed by research of red dwarf solar systems, Dr Brian Choo, from the School of Biological Sciences at Flinders University in Australia, created the images alongside graphic artist Steve Grice.
They paired the conditions in red dwarf solar systems with particular features needed by plants and animals to survive.
In a stunning glimpse at the weird and wonderful shapes, sizes and colours of the creatures, their illustrations and interactive research, published on Sketchfab , depict strange ground-dwelling aliens.
While humanity has developed within the Sun's solar system, smaller red dwarf systems may shine a light on what life is like beyond earth.
The images reveal the weird-looking creature(Photo: Steve Grice/Sketchfab)
The stunning 3D images show scientifically-based depictions of life on other worlds(Photo: Steve Grice/Sketchfab)
While located in the 'habitable zone', life forms would develop entirely different from our own.
Dr Choo, a specialist in how species are affected by environmental factors, suggested alien life could need armoured plates and thick skin as protection from harsh sun or winds.
And with the majority of the world's plants remaining close to the ground and growing between rock and cracks, any creature would need a mouth suitable for gathering such nutrients.
With red dwarfs emitting far less radiation and light than our own sun, some life forms may even develop transparent skin, better at capturing as much light as possible.
Speaking about one armour-skinned creature, Dr Choo said: "This odd creature grazes on low growing lichen-like vegetation and digs for buried tubers.
"The low-slung body and armoured carapace permit it to forage during the blistering windstorms that scour the surface.
"The paddle like tail and vestigial fins betray an aquatic larval stage in the cool lakes at the edg of the melting dark-zone glaciers."
A mysterious dome containing the brightest material on Ceres may once have been the site of ‘eruptive outbursts’ from ice volcanoes.
In a new study, researchers found that these bright spots have only existed for about four million years – making them roughly 30 million years younger than the crater in which they’re found.
The distribution and nature of this unusually bright material suggests it was formed by recurring events, making Ceres the closest object to the sun with evidence of cryovolcanic activity.
A mysterious dome containing the brightest material on Ceres may once have been the site of ‘eruptive outbursts’ of cryovolcanic activity. In a new study, researchers found that these bright spots have only existed for about four million years
WORLD OF CERES
Ceres is 590 miles (950 km) across and was discovered in 1801.
It is the closest dwarf planet to the sun and is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, making it the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system.
Ceres is the smallest of the bodies currently classified as a 'dwarf planet'.
It lies less than three times as far as Earth from the sun - close enough to feel the warmth of the star, allowing ice to melt and reform.
Nasa's Dawn spacecraft made its way to Ceres after leaving the asteroid Vesta in 2012.
There is high interest in the mission because Ceres is seen as being a record of the early solar system.
NASA’s Dawn space probe has been studying Ceres for almost two years.
In that time, scientists have noted the presence of strange spots of bright material at the center of the Occator crater, consisting mainly of mineral salts.
Now, researchers with the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research have investigated the structures inside the crater – including fractures, avalanches, and even smaller craters – to reveal new insight on the planet’s activity.
The 92-kilometer-wide Occator crater contains a massive pit with a bright dome, which ‘contains the brightest material on Ceres,’ says MPS scientist Thomas Platz.
Infrared spectrometer VIR data on the region, called Cerealia Facula, show it is rich in salts known as carbonates.
And, other bright spots that sit further out in the crater contain a mixture of carbonates and dark surrounding material.
The researchers say the central pit, which has a rocky, jagged ridge, is likely the remnant of a former mountain.
This is thought to have formed from the impact that created the Occator Crater roughly 34 million years ago, and later collapsed.
But, the dome of bright material is about 30 million years younger, they say.
The researchers dated the features based on how ‘perforated’ the surfaces were.
It’s thought that younger craters are less perforated.
‘The age and appearance of the material surrounding the bright dome indicate that Cerealia Facula was formed by a recurring, eruptive process, which also hurled material into more outward regions of the central pit,’ says Andreas Nathues, Framing Camera Lead Investigator.
‘A single eruptive event is rather unlikely.’
The 92-kilometer-wide Occator crater contains a massive pit with a bright dome, which ‘contains the brightest material on Ceres,’ says MPS scientist Thomas Platz. Infrared spectrometer VIR data on the region show it is rich in salts known as carbonates
Other objects, like Jupiter’s moons Callisto and Ganymede, have similar domes, which are thought to be volcanic deposits, indicating cryovolcanic activity.
And, they say a similar process could be at work on Ceres.
‘The large impact that tore the giant Occator crater into the surface of the dwarf planet must have originally started everything and triggered the later cryovolcanic activity,’ says Nathues.
After the impact, they say, the subsurface brine was pushed upward.
And, with lower pressure, water and dissolved gasses such as methane and carbon dioxide were able to escape through the forming system of vents.
The solution was then able to erupt through fractures at the surface.
The researchers say the central pit is likely the remnant of a former mountain. This is thought to have formed from the impact that created the Occator Crater roughly 34 million years ago, and later collapsed. But, the dome of bright material is about 30 million years younger
According to the researchers, the salts deposited in this process likely created the bright dome seen today.
Images of the Occator crater captured from about 14,000 kilometers away show variations in brightness on a diurnal rhythm, supporting the new theory.
‘The nature of the light scattering at the bottom of Occator differs fundamentally from that at other parts of the Ceres surface,’ MPS research Guneshwar Singh Thangjam says.
‘The most likely explanation is that near the crater floor an optically thin, semi-transparent haze is formed.’
This haze, the researchers say, could be the result ofsublimating water streaming out from fractures in the floor when the crater is exposed to sunlight.
Earlier this year a mysterious giant object was 'seen' taking off from the Sun's surface in the clip taken by NASA's telescope. [Representational image]Youtube/ Screenshot
NASA is always accused of hiding evidence about UFOs and mysterious extra-terrestrial sightings by conspiracy theorists. Here's another incident in which a mega spaceship was recently spotted near the International Space Station (ISS).
Conspiracy theorists say that the giant UFO was spotted by astronauts on the ISS and lights were dimmed all of a sudden to hide the mysterious flying craft.
A video of the incident has been uploaded by a YouTube user named StreetCap1. "I thought I was seeing things. I had to be quick. This should appear in the archive later for those wanting verification. The dimming at the end was sudden and my guess is they turned down the brightness a little because they spotted it. Sorry about quality, but it was hundreds of miles away," StreetCap1 stated in the video's description.
Another such sighting was alleged to have taken place near the ISS last month, after which a UFO expert and author of UFO Investigations Manual, Nigel Watson, said that it could be the outcome of a lens reflection, which is visible or invisible, depending on the alterations in the lighting, which appears to be a UFO passing by, Mail Online reported.
Tyler Glockner, a UFO hunter and owner of conspiracy website Secure Team 10, also spoke about the mysterious sightings.
"We definitely see some anomalous objects. We have this very long cigar-shaped UFO. It's unidentified, we don't know what it is," Glockner was quoted as saying by Daily Mirror.
Glockner even accused NASA of trying to hide the alien objects by dimming the view. "Nasa likes to give us low-res videos and keep the high resolution stuff to themselves," he added.
Exclusive video of the UFO spotted near NASA's ISS:
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‘Megaschip’ vastgelegd bij ruimtestation ISS waarna NASA ‘het beeld donkerder maakt’
‘Megaschip’ vastgelegd bij ruimtestation ISS waarna NASA ‘het beeld donkerder maakt’
Kort nadat een bizar ‘megaschip’ bij het internationale ruimtestation ISS verscheen, maakte NASA het beeld donkerder, zo claimen complottheoretici.
Zij zeggen dat de beelden mogelijk bewerkt zijn door het Amerikaanse ruimteagentschap om objecten te laten ‘verdwijnen’, schrijft de Daily Mirror.
In het filmpje, dat op YouTube is geplaatst door Streetcap1, zijn een lange ‘sigaarvormige’ UFO en nog twee objecten te zien boven de aarde.
Ongewone objecten
“Het beeld wordt tegen het eind plotseling donkerder,” zei hij. “Ik denk dat de NASA de helderheid enigszins verlaagde.”
UFO-jager Tyler Glockner van SecureTeam10 zei: “Er zijn hier zeker ongewone objecten te zien. Er is onder meer een hele lange sigaarvormige UFO te zien. Het is ongeïdentificeerd, we weten niet wat het is.”
“Ik heb honderden, zo niet duizenden uren livestream van het ISS bekeken en ik heb UFO’s, ijskristallen, ruimtepuin en reflecties gezien,” vervolgde hij.
Knoeien
“Kort nadat de objecten in beeld verschijnen wordt het beeld plotseling donkerder. Ofwel de NASA doet dit doelbewust, ofwel de UFO’s doen dit zelf.”
“Mogelijk heeft de NASA het beeld donkerder gemaakt door te knoeien met het contrast of de belichting zodat de objecten uit beeld verdwijnen,” klonk het.
Since we first turned our dreams of travelling to the moon into a reality, there has been controversy. Some believe that most of the landing footage was faked, and others believe we never even went there, despite there being plenty of evidence suggesting we did. But here’s the tricky part — some of the footage from various Apollo missions might indeed have been faked or even “refurbished.” Many insiders have also accused NASA of doing things like this, but, based on the information we have from sources like these, and many others, it seems the problem is not that we didn’t get to the moon, but rather what we found — and concealed from the public — when we got there.
In fact, the Russian government has accused the U.S. of concealing film footage. Agency insiders, like Norman Bergrun (view some of his publications for NASA, where he worked for more than a decade, here), orBob Dean, United States Army Command Sergeant Major, who also served at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) of NATO as an intelligence analyst, are a few out of many.
“Ladies and gentlemen, my government, NASA, which many of us in the United States say stands for Never A Straight Answer, proceeded to erase 40 rolls of film of the Apollo Program — the flight to the Moon, the flight around the Moon, the landings on the Moon, the walking guys here and there. They erased, for Christ’s sake, 40 rolls of film of those events. Now we’re talking about several thousand individual frames that were taken that the so-called authorities determined that you did not have a right to see. Oh, they were ‘disruptive,’ ‘socially unacceptable,’ ‘politically unacceptable.’ I’ve become furious. I’m a retired Command Sergeant Major. I was never famous for having a lot of patience.” (source)
What, exactly, is on the moon, remains a mystery for many. For example, Dr. John Brandenburg, who was also the Deputy Manager of the Clementine Mission to the Moon ((Source: page 16 of 18)), which was part of a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defence Organization (BMDO) and NASA that went searching for water at the Moon’s poles in 1994, blew the whistle and revealed that it was actually a photo reconnaissance mission to check out structures on the back side of the moon — structures that were put there by somebody else.
Brandenburg has also worked for the government with top secret security clearances on various projects. He worked on the Rocket Plume Regolith Interactions on the Moon and Mars, the Vortex theory of Rocket engine design, and the combined Sakharov-Kaluza-Klein theory of Field Unification for purposes of space propulsion and Mars science. He also invented the Microwave Electro-Thermal plasma thruster using water propellant for space propulsion.
You can listen to a lecture of his here where he goes deeper into his take on the extraterrestrial issue.
As you can see, these are just a few out of many people with high credibility trying to let the world know that something strange is going on.
Apollo 13
“Shortly after I retired from the Air-Force, and I still was maintaining contacts with friends and associates at the various bases and one Col Parker in the Air Defence Command, the Space Command . . . mentioned an incident which I later confirmed. A spacecraft went to the rescue of Apollo 13, and they accompanied Apollo 13 on their voyage around the moon and back to Earth, and on two occasions they thought they might have to transfer the crew to their spacecraft. But they saw them safely back to the Earth.”
The quote above comes from Colonel Ross Dedrickson, who, in the 1950s, was responsible for maintaining the inventory of the nuclear weapon stockpile for the AEC and accompanying security teams checking out the security of the weapons, among many other duties throughout his career.
He is one of hundreds of military whistleblowers with verified backgrounds to have been brought forth by Dr. Steven Greer’s Disclosure Project. His testimony about UFOs — specifically about UFOs and nuclear weapons — can be corroborated by a wealth of information and evidence that’s now available within the public domain. (To read more about a few of these encounters, click here.) Many of these whistleblowers have made multiple appearances at the National Press Club in an effort to get this information out to the world, with the most recent example being the Citizens Hearing on Disclosure, which took place a few years ago.
Below is a video of Dedrickson’s testimony.
Apollo 14 astronaut Dr. Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon, is one of many former NASA employees to have spoken up about this topic. He has admitted that “there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered” and that “we are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time.” A few years ago at the National Press Club, he urged people to “read the books, read the lore, and start to understand what has really been going on here, because there is no doubt that we are being visited.” (source)
He also accompanied Dr. Greer (mentioned earlier) in several meetings discussing this within the Pentagon. He admitted this in Greer’s film, “Sirius Disclosure.”
Another quote I commonly love to refer to is this one by former NASA astronaut and Princeton physics professor Dr. Brian O’Leary:
“There is abundant evidence that we are being contacted, that civilizations have been visiting us for a very long time, that their appearance is bizarre from any kind of traditional materialistic western point of view, that these visitors use the technologies of consciousness, they use toroids, they use co-rotating magnetic disks for their propulsion systems, that seems to be a common denominator of the UFO phenomenon.” (source)
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Kolonel: “Ruimteschip schoot Apollo 13 te hulp en begeleidde bemanning terug naar aarde”
Kolonel: “Ruimteschip schoot Apollo 13 te hulp en begeleidde bemanning terug naar aarde”
Kolonel Ross Dedrickson moest in de jaren vijftig waken over de veiligheid van kernwapens. In die tijd kwamen er veel meldingen binnen van UFO’s die boven diverse nucleaire installaties werden gezien.
“Deze UFO’s waren buitengewoon geïnteresseerd in onze installaties,” zei hij.
Dedrickson heeft naar eigen zeggen vaak UFO’s gezien en was getuige van de onbekende objecten die in juli 1952 over het Capitool vlogen.
Nucleaire wapens
De kolonel zei verder dat er meerdere nucleaire wapens in de ruimte zijn gebracht, die vervolgens door buitenaardsen zijn vernietigd. “Dit werd bewust stilgehouden.”
“Eind jaren zeventig probeerden we een kernbom te laten exploderen op de maan,” zei Dedrickson. “De buitenaardsen hebben dit voorkomen.”
“Kort na mijn pensioen benoemde Space Command een incident dat ik later kon bevestigen,” zei hij. “Een ruimteschip schoot Apollo 13 te hulp en begeleidde de bemanning naar de maan en terug naar aarde.”
Veilig
“Tot twee keer toe overwogen ze om de bemanning over te brengen naar hun ruimteschip,” vervolgde hij. “Maar ze keerden uiteindelijk veilig terug op aarde.”
Twee dagen na de lancering van Apollo 13 ontplofte een zuurstoftank, met als gevolg dat in een paar uur de hele zuurstofvoorraad verloren was gegaan.
Commandant Jim Lovell sprak toen de historische woorden: “Houston, we’ve had a problem.”
4000 jaar oud bouwwerk met mysterieuze rotskunst gevonden in Israël
4000 jaar oud bouwwerk met mysterieuze rotskunst gevonden in Israël
In Boven-Galilea in Israël is een 4000 jaar oud stenen bouwwerk gevonden dat is voorzien van mysterieuze rotskunst. Dat schrijft de Jerusalem Post.
Volgens de Israëlische autoriteit voor oudheden is het bouwwerk uit de bronstijd ontdekt door professor Gonen Sharon van het Tel-Hai College.
“Wat dit hunebed zo uniek maakt zijn de enorme afmetingen, de structuur eromheen en de decoraties die in het plafond zijn gegraveerd,” aldus de autoriteit.
Niet opgelost
Archeologen hebben een studie over de vondst gepubliceerd in het tijdschrift PLOS ONE.
Hunebedden of dolmens worden over de hele wereld gevonden, van Ierland tot Korea. In het Midden-Oosten liggen er ook vele duizenden, van Turkije tot Jemen.
Graveringen (Gonen Sharon)
Hoewel ze vaak worden gevonden in Israël, is het mysterie rond de leeftijd en het doel van de hunebedden nog altijd niet opgelost.
In mysterie gehuld
In het plafond zijn 15 graveringen ontdekt die bestaan uit een rechte lijn die naar het centrum van een boog gaat.
Dergelijke vormen zijn nooit eerder aangetroffen in het Midden-Oosten en om die reden zijn ze in mysterie gehuld.
Met behulp van een 3D-scan konden de archeologen graveringen ontwaren die met het blote oog niet te zien zijn.
Eén van de grootste
De ruimte waarin de graveringen zijn gevonden is groot, twee bij drie meter, en de steen die er bovenop ligt is ook enorm en weegt tenminste 50 ton.
“Dit is één van de grootste stenen die ooit in het Midden-Oosten is gebruikt voor de bouw van een hunebed,” aldus professor Lior Grossman.
Het hunebed wordt omringd door een grafheuvel met een doorsnee van 20 meter. De stenen waar die grafheuvel uit bestaat wegen tot wel 400 ton.
De staande stenen van Stonehenge wegen ter vergelijking ‘slechts’ 25 ton.
Diamond UFO Passes Over Freeway In Orlando, Florida On Jan 27, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Diamond UFO Passes Over Freeway In Orlando, Florida On Jan 27, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting:1-27-2017 Location of sighting: Orlando, Florida, USA Source: MUFON #82522 This diamond shaped UFO was seen in Orlando last month and was visible to the naked eye. The UFO moved over the freeway as it observers humans and records the data for later study. Aliens are big on watching us, studying us, so they probably have a high curiosity about meeting us. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I was traveling east on Sr 414 and had just taken the exit to Sr 434 and was waiting on the stoplight to change. I then noticed a plane flying north and the this object caught my eye just south of my view of the airplane. The object was also traveling in a north direction but was much closer to my proximity than the airplane was. I took this picture with my Iphone which recorded as a live image. In my phone image it has about 3 to 4 secs of recorded video. Not sure how to upload that but i uploaded a still of the object. Not sure what this is but it was very very strange. So I thought I would share.
Giant Books Are Proof That Giant Alien Species Once Existed On Earth, March 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Giant Books Are Proof That Giant Alien Species Once Existed On Earth, March 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Giants existed on Earth, how else could we explain how some construction sites around the world were created? Since we found that life can exist on a micro scale and can be viewed with a electron microscope, the we can also logically assume that life can exist on a macro scale...a scale so large that they could hold our planet in their hand. Do you remember that scene in Galaxy of the Guardians when they were in space flying to a moon that was being mined? And when they got closer to it, they realised it wasn't a moon, but the head of a giant species of alien, and its inside was being mined. Yeah...now you are getting the big picture. I remember that scene well, because I hand no idea others knew about these things, and it was snuck into the movie...subconsciously hidden to appear as entertainment, preparing the public for the day when they get to meet this species. Scott C. Waring
Google Earth Deletes UFO Following Two Jets Over China, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Google Earth Deletes UFO Following Two Jets Over China, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: May 30, 2014 (Gone in March 2017) Location of discovery: Xiang Dao, Zheng Yang Xian, Zhumadian, Henan, China Coordinates: 32°24'14.46"N 114°32'57.39"E I found this UFO back in 2014 and made a video about it, because Google has a history of deleting the UFOs found on Google Earth. I decided to go back and see if it was still there, but it was not. It has been deleted from the map. Even the history index of it which allows you to see old photos of the area did not have it. This is proof that Google not only deletes UFOs, but hides alien evidence from the public the best it can. Have you ever wondered how a company like Google could grow so big so fast? Well, maybe the two people who created it were actually aliens themselves, out to not just make a profit, but to control the public. Scott C. Waring
Alien Orb Caught On Security Camera Moving About House, March 5, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 5, 2017 Location of sighting: Unknown The eyewitness says the spirit came from within the old doll and moves about the house from object to object. As you can see, there is an energy orb moving slowly about. It was caught on the infrared security camera in the house, and IR is known for catching any cloaked objects...especially orbs. I think this orb found a way into the home and was learning about the inhabitants of the house from the objects inside. These entities can change their form into a human like person if they so wish. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
Carol the Haunted doll on the table she likes magazines and world of electronics of today even video games and cell phones. She is a sweet child spirit.
Guy Spends 50K To Look More Like An Alien, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Guy Spends 50K To Look More Like An Alien, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
This person spent over $50,000 US to have himself look more like an alien than a human. I guess this was bound to happen. If aliens reveal themselves people will begin to copy aliens and how they do things, how they look and even emulate their culture and values. Why? Because a species that is millions or even billions years old clearly has a higher intelligence that humans do, and therefore to copy them is to make yourself more like them...or to appear more intelligent. Scott C. Waring
Glowing UFO Enters And Exits Volcano In Mexico On Video, March 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Glowing UFO Enters And Exits Volcano In Mexico On Video, March 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 6, 2017 Location of sighting: Popocatepetl Volcano, Mexico This UFO was caught by Martes Salas of Youtube yesterday. It shows a cigar shaped glowing UFO moving into the mouth of the volcano, then when it should come out...it doesn't. Instead there is a delay of a few seconds before it emerges from the side of the volcano. Its a proven fact (from video evidence on Youtube) that there is a UFO base below this volcano about 4-5km below the surface. Even the locals have witnessed 3 meter beings with long hair and sharp claw coming out of each heal climbing the mountains 10X faster than expert mountain climbers. Scott C. Waring
Stanton Friedman challenged the science fiction community on the existence of UFOs.
Stanton Friedman was like the Perry Mason of the flying saucer world, equipped and ready to defend any statement, destroy any criticism, debunk any myth.
A nuclear physicist, Friedman's background included inside experience working for front-line companies, including General Electric, General Motors, Westinghouse, and TRW, working on such projects as the development of nuclear flight, fission and fusion space rockets and compact nuclear systems to be applied for space use.
Stanton Friedman's initial involvement came as innocently as many other ufologists—by reading one book. In his case, it was Edward Ruppelt's Report on Unidentified Flying Objects. After many other books, years of research and study, talks with colleagues and others, he decided that, as a scientist, he could conclude that not all, but some UFO's are indeed exploratory vehicles which originated from off the earth.
Data, numbers and logic are the cards in this fact-vs-fiction game, and Friedman insisted that the rules used are straight and consistent. “People ask the wrong questions,” he said. “The question isn't ‘Is every UFO somebody's spacecraft?" The answer is ‘Of course not.’ The real question is, "Are any UFO's somebody else's spacecraft?' and the answer is ‘Yes." It's like asking ‘Is everyone over seven feet tall?" Of course not. ‘Is no one over seven feet tall? Of course not. One can easily get into trouble by asking the wrong question, because then you treat every sighting equally.” One could certainly get into trouble trying to pass off conclusions to Stanton Friedman which had not been thought out.
Isaac Asimov, the science fiction writer, provided plenty of assumptions for Friedman to knock down. One of the most obvious was Asimov's series of calculations to determine whether there's intelligent life anywhere else in the Universe, which appeared in his book, Is Anyone There? Friedman elaborates:
“He starts by focusing on the unanswerable question of whether or not there are other intelligent life forms in the universe. He accepts a starting number of 640,000,000 Earthlike planets. He whittles this number down by an amazing sequence of assumptions...Earth has had life for about 3 billion years, a civilization for about 10,000 (1/300,000 of its history) and an industrial civilization for about 200 years (1/50 of the time for civilization).”
By dividing 640,000,000 by 300,000 and then by 50, Asimov gets 43 industrial civilizations, and further assumes that there are 21 more advanced than we, believing that we are roughly average.
Isaac Asimov, master of science fiction, speculates about life on other planets in Is Anyone There?
Stanton Friedman vs Sci-fi Writers
The articulate Stanton Friedman took a contrary view: “Asimov doesn't seem to know the difference between calendars which measure time and maps which show the distribution of things in space. Knowing the fraction of available time during which there has been a civilization on earth tells absolutely nothing about what fraction of planets have civilizations now, in the past, or in the future."
This kind of assumption, that Earth is the basis for all assumptions, Friedman thought obscured the issues. Asimov “assumes that nobody got started sooner than we did at having a civilization or at having an industrial one. This is un incredible assumption,” Friedman continued, "especially the solar system has been around almost 5 billion years and there are stars 5 billion years older than the sun...an error of only 1/10 of 1 percent in the 3 billion years would be 3 million years. The discussion also leaves out colonization, migration, the exiling of prisoners, or the dispersal of civilizations by those who started sooner.”
Asimov is only one of the popular science fiction writers Friedman took to task. Arthur Clarke, best known for authoring "2001: A Space Odyssey,” felt that the International Geophysical Year (1958), an extended series of experiments among nations, discouraged much interest because “they never discovered a single flying saucer.” Friedman cautioned Clarke to check the record, noting that one of the best photos of a UFO, the celebrated Trinidad photos, was taken on board a ship that was participating in the International Geophysical Year.
Clarke also used the ballistics missile warning radar system as a defense for why he believed no sightings are real, reasoning that such a sensitive system would surely pick them up. Friedman found this type of comment particularly questionable. “Considering that he was a writer and not a professional scientist or engineer working on radar for NORAD, I cannot believe that he would be on the distribution list for radar UFO reports.”
After laying a scientific framework for examining the data and countering arguments against their extraterrestrial source, Stanton Friedman makes a case for at least some UFOs being alien spacecraft.
Absence of Alien Evidence
One of Stanton Friedman's favorite phrases— “absence of evidence is presumed to be evidence for the absence of evidence”—applied here, as it does to page after page of rebuttal and refutation which he compiled, all addressing the remarks, articles and appearances of science fiction writers. He battled egos as often as errors.
“As writers, surely they didn't or haven't worked on classified government sponsored programs. I worked on classified programs for 14 years and I am certain that secrets can be kept. As I have often noted, 80 percent of the engineers and scientists responding to the question, “Do you think the government has revealed all it knows about UFO's?" said, ‘No’ .” And Friedman's role as “Perry Mason” occasionally put him in circumstances where he tilted against a Supreme Court of scientists. Having a scientific background,” he reminded, “in no way assures that you'll treat UFO's appropriately.”
Indeed, an elder statesman of science, Dr. Lee DeForest, who invented the Vacuum tube, was convinced that, regardless of whatever discoveries were made by man, we would never visit the moon. DeForest made these views known in 1957. Hong Ye Chiu, a NASA/Goddard scientist, had written that, “It is unthinkable that the sun would be favorably selected among the 100 billion stars in the galaxy as the most desired star to visit.” Friedman countered: “Nobody says they think of us favorably, or that this is the most desired star—after all, Chicago isn't my favorite place to visit, but I seem to fly there fairly often.”
Even Dr. J. Allen Hynek, professor of Astronomy at Northwestern University, director of the Lindheimer Observatory and for nearly 20 years scientific consultant to the Air Force's Project Blue Book UFO study group, did not escape the Friedman scalpel. In answer to Hynek's contention that there is “no possibility" for space travel, Friedman had this to say: “Since fusion is the major source of energy for the earth and is the major source of energy production in the great majority of stars, one would certainly expect all astronomers to be aware of the fact that a combination of the right nuclei can produce vast amounts of energy per unit weight of the materials reacted. If the right nuclear reactions are involved one can produce charged particles coming out the back end of a rocket with more than 10,000,000 times as much energy per particle, as particles can get in the run-of-the-mill, brute force chemical rockets which we are currently using.”
Friedman felt that there was no way of telling just how many visits we received, and whether multiple sightings are all derived from the same visit. A comparison he enjoyed making is one between a mother ship with smaller earth excursion modules and a Navy aircraft carrier with 75 fighter or bomber planes aboard.
UFO Reports
UFO reports are often less accurate because witnesses will usually relate what they've seen, or think they've seen, rather than what they know. Friedman felt that the occupants of spacecrafts were usually humanoids sent to explore earth, and for that reason, had an outward resemblance to figures we would not question. He pointed out that our first being in space was a dog, and then a monkey, indicating to him that what or who is sent on an exploration is not necessarily the brains behind the caper.
The jury may still be out on the final verdict, but a widely-documented, real contact would certainly firm the evidence. What would happen to this planet and its people should this occur? Does the government give any serious thought or planning for this contingency?
“Practically none. I would like to see psychiatrists, religious leaders, psychologists, and god forbid, the military, thinking about what this means. First, we'd have to get over the ego business and recognize we're not the only life in the universe, and probably not the most intelligent.
“Second, I would like people to think what this might mean to religion. I think there's a need to look at the implications of what it means to be an earthling. To me that's the most important consideration. We have no leader. I think we need to recognize that. To them, we do look primitive.”
Two particular areas of concern which Friedman felt could be addressed by anyone interested in the subject, deal with information and access to it. People need to put pressure on the Air Defense Command and other government groups to reveal the highly classified information in their files. Friedman recommended a Centralized UFO Research Facility which anyone in the country could call while observing a UFO. This would tie together local, regional and national sources to record and comment on sightings, beginning with those groups which have been privately conducting this work for years on their own. It would be a 911 for alien sightings. "911, please state the nature of your UFO sighting."
What You Need To Know About Artificial Intelligence
What You Need To Know About Artificial Intelligence
“We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” – Ray Amara
It’s hard to know what to think about Artificial Intelligence. Almost everyone in the industry believes it to be a revolution as deep and as fundamental as the industrial revolution or the birth of the computer. Yet the field seems divided over when we will get to general intelligence and what that will ultimately mean for us. Some believe it will be our greatest tool yet and others that it may lead to our doom.
The most important subset of AI is machine learning. A field which made big breakthroughs in the latter half of the 20th century but then lay dormant waiting for the processing power of computers to catch up with the demands that machine learning algorithms placed on them.
A key driver behind machine learning is the rise of big data. In 1992 we collectively produced 100 GB of data per day, by 2018 we will be producing 50,000 GB of data per second. Data is permeating into every aspect of life and there is too much out there for any person, or any group of people, to be able to parse. Machine learning is helping us organize and make sense of these mountains of data.
For an introduction to the nuts and bolts of machine learning watch this…
The People behind AI
With all the talk surrounding AI it can be easy to forget that this is still a human driven endeavor. People are behind all of the progress that has been made and are still (for now) doing all of the leg work. So to get some idea of where it is going it is probably best to listen to those driving it forward. Here are some of the most influential figures in the field and their takes on where machine learning will go.
Geoffrey Hinton
For a long time Geoffrey Hinton toiled away in relative obscurity developing his machine learning algorithms. His seminal papers on neural networks were scoffed at for decades, thought by many to never be able to work. Today his theories have become the framework upon which much of machine learning is based.
He was one of the first to apply the study of human cognition to machines believing that the only way we were going to recreate intelligence was by trying to mimic the only other intelligent machine we knew of, our brains. Now almost all machine learning experts have some background in cognitive science thanks in large parts to his pioneering approach.
He is also notable for some of the people that came out of his labs, the teams at Google and Microsoft and Baidu are filled with his former students. Two of his most notable disciples are Yann Lecun and Hugo Larochelle who have become world renowned machine learning experts in their own right.
Here he is explaining how neural networks do what they do…
Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng is a professor at Stanford and the chief scientist at Baidu. While he was getting his start in the field he supposedly was the one who convinced Larry Page that Google needed to start working on AI.
He has become equally important in his role as a public educator. He is a strong advocate for democratizing knowledge about machine learning and made his course at Stanford free and open to the public in an attempt to do so.
He believes AI to be the modern day equivalent of electricity. At first electricity was just used to power light bulbs but soon people realized they could apply it to other things and before long nearly everything was hooked up to an electric power source.
He extends the analogy to the internet and its widespread adoption. It changed the way we do business, became our primary method of communicating, and it has seeped into our personal lives as most people now view their social media as extensions of their identity.
Andrew’s contention is that the adoption of AI will be much faster, more pervasive and have a greater impact than either electricity or the internet.
Michael Jordan
Hard to believe but this Michael Jordan might actually go down in history as the more famous one. His biggest contribution was the popularization of Bayesian networks which are used in a wide variety of machine learning applications, most notably in medicine as it seems to be a particularly good method for matching symptoms to diseases.
He recently teamed with an AI firm developing Jibo, a cute helper robot designed to follow you around the house and actually initiate communication with the user rather than the current models that just wait for user commands.
But he believes there is far too much hype surrounding AI. This is due in large part to a lot of misinformation and poor metaphors we use when describing it. We have made incremental steps, but have only begun to climb the ladder. The next big hurdle will be in developing more adaptive systems that recognize context.
Ben Goertzel
Founder of multiple artificial intelligence companies and chairman of the artificial general intelligence society, Ben Goertzel has devoted his life to solving intelligence and bringing about artificial general intelligence. He believes we will have machines as intelligent as humans by 2025. For more on his work check out this tour of his lab in Hong Kong where his team is working to bring human looking robots to life…
Demis Hassabis
As head of arguably the most advanced artificial intelligence lab in the world, Google’s Deepmind, Demis may be closer than anyone else to achieving AGI. He is a strong believer in a machine learning technique called deep neural networks and uses it to drive his groundbreaking program AlphaGo.
Last year AlphaGo proved itself to be the world’s best Go player, a feat many in the field believed was still years away from being possible. The next step for AlphaGo is to become the world’s best Starcraft player. These feats may seem trivial at first but games are a key measure of intellectual ability.
Martin Ford
As his latest book title Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future implies, he is a staunch proponent of the idea that human labor is going to be replaced. He also predicted way back in 2009 that Artificial Intelligence would bring with it the end of the capitalist system as we know it and force us to adopt a form of universal basic income. However he points out that these forces would be largely beneficial for mankind as they would free us from much of the drudgery of daily life and allow us to pursue the things that truly make us happy.
Gary Marcus
One of the world’s leading neuroscientists and recent co-author of The Future of the Brain. He comes at the field from primarily a cognitive science background and is interested in it because it is essentially an exploration into the nature of consciousness and intelligence.
His belief is that narrow AI, in which a machine learns how to do one specific task very well, such as playing a game or driving a car, will continue to develop and expand into many aspects of life. However we are no where close to getting to the holy grail that is general purpose intelligence, an AI that can be applied to any problem.
Next steps for AI
The real breakthrough in AI will not be when it starts driving our cars or taking some of our jobs, those are already inevitable. The real barriers still to be crossed are…
1) Passing the Turing test. This will happen when in spoken or written conversation you can’t tell whether it is a human or a machine. We will know we are on the way when our machines start conversations with us rather than just responding to us.
2) It starts taking actions independently without any human input. This would eventually include setting its own goals which would in essence mean having an independent will.
3) It starts questioning its own existence and wondering if there aren’t better ways get things done.
This is the most important issue we will face in the 21st century. The people developing it are not going to stop to wait and see what we think about it. Rather than spending our time bickering about politics we should be planning how to bring AI along safely as it will change everything and redefine life on earth.
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Cambridge Scientists: We Shouldn’t Define Intelligence According to Humanity
Cambridge Scientists: We Shouldn’t Define Intelligence According to Humanity
Futurism
IN BRIEF
Maybe the definition of intelligence needs a rethink; a Cambridge scientist has a few ideas.
Intelligence may be expanded to encompass, not merely human thinking, but the thinking of other primates, certain bird species, and even machines and computer programs.
A LIMITED VIEW
When we try to figure out how some aspect of thinking works, we always start looking at how the human brain does it. But while humans could be said to be the apex species in this planet, we are far from being the only ones who can think.
Take for example chimpanzees, a staple for arguments for intelligent thinking in animals. When you compare them with other similar primates like bonobos, you see that they are more inclined towards tool-use. Not only do bonobos not use tools as much, young chimpanzees also manipulate objects more than young bonobos.
You also start seeing active intelligence in some species when comparing the actions of say, digger wasps and corvids (crows, magpies, rooks, etc). Digger wasps hide food for the future, but this is more of a programmed behavior. On the other hand, corvids display behavior consistent with actively planning for the future.
“Defining intelligence or culture in a way that is restricted to humans makes no sense in the grander scheme of evolution. Once we widen these definitions to include other animals, we find culture in other primates, tool use, and incredible intelligence in corvids,” says Dr Kathelijne Koops, formerly from the University of Cambridge’s Division of Biological Anthropology.
THE FUTURE OF AI
PUPPY: Puppy is a running robot dog developed by Dr Fumiya Iida’s team in the Department of Engineering.
Credit: Sam Armstrong
In fact, we can extend this to non-biological intelligence, to intelligence man itself is building. If we consider skills or abilities to be the metric of intelligence, AI and robotics systems clearly qualify.
Now we have programs that can process data and even give predictions, on a far bigger scale than humans can. In the narrow fields that they are programmed in, these machines are the best. This is in contrast to humans, who are generally mediocre or good at a lot of things—generalists and specialists, in other words.
In fact, these machines have their own unique neural architectures, distinct from the human kind. Adapting how the brain thinks is hard for just these narrow competencies, so completely new ways of “learning” had to be developed.
Ultimately, all of these will have to be considered both in developing AI and in a society built around it. We need to consider other kinds of neural architectures and ways of thinking in order to better develop machine learning.
But more importantly, we’ll need to start talking about how we are going to treat these machines. Are they simple tools engineered for a task? Or are they intelligent beings capable of thinking just like human beings?
Beyond Physics: New Research is Revealing the Fundamental Nature of Subatomic Particles
Beyond Physics: New Research is Revealing the Fundamental Nature of Subatomic Particles
Credit: IceCube Collaboration An extremely high energy downgoing event.
IN BRIEF
Scientists were able to get new measurements of 'ghost particles,' or neutrinos – elementary particles that don't have electric charge.
The new measurements could answer fundamental questions about the properties of neutrinos and could help fill gaps in the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
GHOST BUSTING
The Standard Model – the theory that describes the behavior of fundamental particles at every energy scale scientists have been able to measure – is accurate, but leaves “gaping holes.” Scientists continue to question the nature of dark matter, and how a universe filled with matter, rather than anti-matter, arose from the Big Bang.
Scientists have been on the lookout for clues that will answer these questions, and some turn towards particles called neutrinos. Dubbed ‘ghost particles,’ neutrinos are elementary particles that don’t have electric charge. Trillions of these particles pass through us every second. While we know they exist, we don’t know what role neutrinos play in the universe. Further, neutrinos are extremely hard to measure because they’re also at least a million times lighter than any other particle known to science.
Researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) succeeded in finding new measurements of these strange particles, captured by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole. These findings were presented at the American Physical Society Meeting in Washington.
According to the research, neutrinos change types as they travel. There are three different types of neutrinos, each corresponding to a charged particle. “Neutrinos have a habit of changing, or oscillating, between three types, we call them ‘flavors,'” said MSU research associate Joshua Hignight. “So, if one neutrino is a precisely equal mix of two flavors, it could be a surprising coincidence or there might be a deeper reason for it coming from the physics beyond the Standard Model.” The data IceCube gathered suggests that one neutrino species may actually comprise exactly equal amounts of two neutrino “flavors.”
IceCube Neutrino Observatory
FILLING THE GAPS
“As physicists, we hoped the Higgs boson would point us to the physics that lies beyond the Standard Model; unfortunately, our measurements of the Higgs haven’t turned up many clues,” said Tyce DeYoung, associate professor of physics and astronomy at MSU. “So we hope we may find something by studying neutrinos. IceCube detects neutrinos with a wider range of energies and distances than other experiments, so we cast a wide net.”
The IceCube Observatory at the South Pole measures neutrinos produced by cosmic rays that hit the Earth’s atmosphere, which makes the Antarctic ice a unique particle detector. The new measurements could answer fundamental questions about the properties of neutrinos and could help fill gaps in the Standard Model of Particle Physics.
While their measurements match results from other experiments using neutrinos with lower energies, it remains debatable whether this flavor mixture is exactly balanced. As such, IceCube physicists will continue to collect data and refine their analysis.
ceTop Tanks sit on the Antarctic surface (IceTop) to detect cosmic ray showers and other atmospheric phenomena.
NASA Has Plans to Give Mars a “Magnetic Shield” to Enable Human Colonization
NASA Has Plans to Give Mars a “Magnetic Shield” to Enable Human Colonization
Artist's conception of a terraformed Mars.
Credit: Ittiz/Wikimedia Commons
IN BRIEF
Since Mars lacks a protective atmosphere, it isn't habitable to humans. But in the interest of terraforming the Red Planet, scientists are looking at magnets.
Using a magnetic shield, scientists theorize they could recreate Mars' atmosphere and make conditions more hospitable for human life.
BUILDING MARS
At the forefront of modern space exploration looms the possibility of manned missions to Mars. From the ambitious schemes of Elon Musk, to NASA’s hopefulplan, to the collaborative endeavor of the ESA and Russia, it seems as though every major space agency is making strides towards putting humans on Mars. But, on a cold and desolate planet whose minuscule atmosphere is severely lacking, how do you sustain human life for long periods of time?
Many scientists and science fiction enthusiasts have, over the years, speculated at the possibility of terraforming Mars. Finding innovative ways to make the surface of the red planet gradually more conducive to human living. There have been many ideas and models created in the hopes of successful terraforming. Engineers designed ashell that could be placed around a small planet which could protect the planet from radiation and help to facilitate an atmosphere over time. Others thought that by breaking apart the martian crust they could release enough CO2 to build up an atmosphere. There have been many attempts, but the issues of cosmic and solar radiation paired with the unsurvivable atmosphere and dry terrain are always too much.
And, while the concept of terraforming Mars isn’t completely impossible, to successfully do it you would need to protect against cosmic radiation, solar radiation and solar winds, increase planet temperature, add oxygen and nitrogen to the atmosphere, and do all of this in a way that could be self-sustaining. Not impossible, but currently posing serious obstacles.
Artist’s rendering of a solar storm hitting Mars and stripping ions from the planet’s upper atmosphere.
Credits: NASA/GSFC
The proposed method for creating an artificial magnetic dipole at Mars’ L1 Lagrange Point.
Credit: NASA/J.Green
MAGNETIC MARS
Despite all of these hurdles, scientists have not stopped trying to find inventive ways to terraform Mars. NASA recently proposed a unique strategy that shows a promising solution that could address some of these issues: a magnetic shield. Since the current scientific consensus is that Mars’ atmosphere was lost because of solar winds and the disappearance of the planet’s magnetic field, this solution shows promise. Mars’ magnetic field once protected the red planet while supporting an atmosphere (and moisture), and NASA scientists think it can be artificially restored.
According to Dr. Jim Green, Director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division, “In the future it is quite possible that an inflatable structure(s) can generate a magnetic dipole field at a level of perhaps 1 or 2 Tesla (or 10,000 to 20,000 Gauss) as an active shield against the solar wind.”
At one time, Mars had a magnetic field similar to Earth, which prevented its atmosphere from being stripped away.
Credit: NASA
The research team working on this idea recently conducted a simulation with their artificial magnetosphere, thanks to the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC). They found that their dipole shield would be able to protect against solar wind and help to balance the Martian atmosphere. Because the shield would work as an artificial magnetic field, the atmosphere would actually continue to thicken over time.
This could be just another stepping stone in a long line of terraforming concepts, but this solution holds concrete possibility. Because it could help to actually create a better atmosphere over time and can actually be simulated within a lab, it is possible that the future of terraforming will begin with magnets.
All matter in the Universe was created roughly 13.8 billion years ago during an event known as the Big Bang. Since then, everything has been evolving.
In a few billion years, our galaxy will collide with Andromeda, and it will form into a mega-galaxy.
On a clear night, you can make out the band of the Milky Way in the night sky. For millennia, astronomers looked upon it in awe, slowly coming to the realization that our Sun was merely one of billions of stars in the galaxy. Over time, as our instruments and methods improved, we came to realize that the Milky Way itself was merely one of billions of galaxies that make up the Universe.
Thanks to the discovery of Relativity and the speed of light, we have also come to understand that when we look through space, we are also looking back in time. By seeing an object 1 billion light-years away, we are also seeing how that object looked 1 billion years ago. This “time machine” effect has allowed astronomers to study how galaxies came to be (i.e. galactic evolution).
The process in which galaxies form and evolve is characterized by steady growth over time, which began shortly after the Big Bang. This process, and the eventual fate of galaxies, remain the subject of intense fascination, and is still fraught with its share of mysteries.
Illustration of the depth by which Hubble imaged galaxies in prior Deep Field initiatives, in units of the Age of the Universe. Credit: NASA and A. Feild (STScI)
GALAXY FORMATION:
The current scientific consensus is that all matter in the Universe was created roughly 13.8 billion years ago during an event known as the Big Bang. At this time, all matter was compacted into a very small ball with infinite density and intense heat called a Singularity. Suddenly, the Singularity began expanding, and the Universe as we know it began.
After rapidly expanding and cooling, all matter was almost uniform in distribution. Over the course of the several billion years that followed, the slightly denser regions of the Universe began to become gravitationally attracted to each other. They therefore grew even denser, forming gas clouds and large clumps of matter.
These clumps became primordial galaxies, as the clouds of hydrogen gas within the proto-galaxies underwent gravitational collapse to become the first stars. Some of these early objects were small, and became tiny dwarf galaxies, while others were much larger and became the familiar spiral shapes, like our own Milky Way.
GALACTIC MERGERS
Once formed, these galaxies evolved together in larger galactic structures called groups, clusters and superclusters. Over time, galaxies were attracted to one another by the force of their gravity, and collided together in a series of mergers. The outcome of these mergers depends on the mass of the galaxies in the collision.
Small galaxies are torn apart by larger galaxies and added to the mass of larger galaxies. Our own Milky Way recently devoured a few dwarf galaxies, turning them into streams of stars that orbit the galactic core. But when large galaxies of similar size come together, they become giant elliptical galaxies.
When this happens, the delicate spiral structure is lost, and the merged galaxies become large and elliptical. Elliptical galaxies are some of the largest galaxies ever observed. Another consequence of these mergers is that the supermassive black holes (SMBH) at their centers become even larger.
Not all mergers will result in elliptical galaxies, mind you. But all mergers result in a change in the structure of the merged galaxies. For example, it is believed that the Milky Way is experiencing a minor merger event with the nearby Magellanic Clouds; and in recent years, it has been determined that the Canis Major dwarf galaxy has merged with our own.
While mergers are seen as violent events, actual collisions are not expected to happen between star systems, given the vast distances between stars. However, mergers can result in gravitational shock waves, which are capable of triggering the formation of new stars. This is what is predicted to happen when our own Milky Way galaxy merges with the Andromeda galaxy in about 4 billion years time.
GALACTIC DEATH:
Ultimately, galaxies cease forming stars once they deplete their supply of cold gas and dust. As the supply runs out, star forming slows over the course of billions of years until it ceases entirely. However, ongoing mergers will ensure that fresh stars, gas and dust are deposited in older galaxies, thus prolonging their lives.
At present, it is believed that our galaxy has used up most of its hydrogen, and star formation will slow down until the supply is depleted. Stars like our Sun can only last for 10 billion years or so; but the smallest, coolest red dwarfs can last for a few trillion years. However, thanks to the presence of dwarf galaxies and our impending merger with Andromeda, our galaxy could exist even longer.
However, all galaxies in this vicinity of the Universe will eventually become gravitationally bound to each other and merge into a giant elliptical galaxy. Astronomers have seen examples of these sorts of “fossil galaxies”, a good of which is Messier 49 – a supermassive elliptical galaxy.
These galaxies have used up all their reserves of star forming gas, and all that’s left are the longer lasting stars. Eventually, over vast lengths of time, those stars will wink out one after the other, until the whole thing is the background temperature of the Universe.
After our galaxy merges with Andromeda, and goes on to merge with all other nearby galaxies in the local group, we can expect that it too will undergo a similar fate. And so, galaxy evolution has been occurring over billions of years, and it will continue to happen for the foreseeable future.
Muslims Can’t Live On Mars! A Fatwa Issued by Clerics
Muslims Can’t Live On Mars! A Fatwa Issued by Clerics
A Fatwa has been issued against living on Mars by clerics who say that trying to set up home there would be un-Islamic.
The fatwa – or ruling – was issued by the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment (GAIAE) in the UAE after the Mars One organisation announced that it would try and establish a permanent human settlement on Mars.
The committee argued that an attempt to dwell on the planet would be so hazardous as to be suicidal and killing oneself is not permitted by Islam.
A Fatwa has been issued against living on Mars by clerics who say that trying to set up home there would be un-Islamic.
The fatwa – or ruling – was issued by the General Authority of Islamic Affairs and Endowment (GAIAE) in the UAE after the Mars One organisation announced that it would try and establish a permanent human settlement on Mars.
Forbidden: A Fatwa has been issued against travelling to Mars (above is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the Red Planet)
The committee argued that an attempt to dwell on the planet would be so hazardous as to be suicidal and killing oneself is not permitted by Islam.
The astronauts, the committee said, would end up dying for no ‘righteous reason’ and would face the same punishment in the afterlife as someone who’d committed suicide.
The committee, led by Professor Dr Farooq Hamada, said: ‘Protecting life against all possible dangers and keeping it safe is an issue agreed upon by all religions and is clearly stipulated in verse 4/29 of the Holy Quran: Do not kill yourselves or one another. Indeed, Allah is to you ever Merciful.’
However, Mars One pointed out that the Quran encourages exploration.
In a written response to the Fatwa it highlighted a verse that says ‘and among His Signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth, and the variations in your languages and your colors: verily in that are Signs for those who know (Quran 30: 22)’.
It said: ‘The Muslim world has a rich tradition of exploration. The verse from the Quran above encourages Muslims to go out and see the signs of God’s creation in the “heavens and the earth”. The most influential example of this was the Moroccan Muslim traveller Ibn Battuta, who from 1325 to 1355 travelled 73,000 miles, visiting the equivalent of 44 modern countries.’
Mars One also disputed that the mission was tantamount to suicide.
The organisation said: ‘Space exploration, just like Earth exploration, will come with risks and rewards. It may seem extremely dangerous to send humans to Mars today, but the humans will be preceded by at least eight cargo missions.
‘Robotic unmanned vehicles will prepare the habitable settlement. Water and a breathable atmosphere will be produced inside the habitat and the settlement will be operational for two years, even before the first crew leaves Earth.
‘If we may be so bold: the GAIAE should not analyze the risk as they perceive it today. The GAIAE should assess the potential risk for humans as if an unmanned habitable outpost is ready and waiting on Mars.’
It added: ‘Mars One respectfully requests GAIAE to cancel the Fatwa and make the greatest Rihla, or journey, of all times open for Muslims, too. They can be the first Muslims to witness the signs of God’s creation in heaven, drawing upon the rich culture of travel and exploration of early Islam.
‘The lives and journey of the first Mars settlers will tell us more about our place in the universe than any other humans before us. As Ibn Battuta also wrote: “Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”‘
The GAIAE has issued around two million Fatwas through its Official Fatwa Centre since its inceptionin 2008.
Colony: Mars One hopes to establish a human colony on the Red Planet by 2025
The multi-billion pound Mars One mission hopes to establish a human colony on Mars in 2025.
Over 200,000 people, including 500 Saudis and Arabs, have applied to take part in the missions so far.
In December Mars One short-listed 1,058 people to take part in trials for the ambitious project.
Co-founder Bas Lansdorp said: ‘We’re extremely appreciative and impressed with the sheer number of people who submitted their applications.
‘However, the challenge with 200,000 applicants is separating those who we feel are physically and mentally adept to become human ambassadors on Mars from those who are obviously taking the mission much less seriously. We even had a couple of applicants submit their videos in the nude!’
Mars lies on average 141.6million miles from the Sun and has an average temperature of -85F (-65C). Its atmosphere is desperately thin – one per cent of Earth’s pressure – and is 95 per cent carbon dioxide.
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Black Knight: This strange object has been orbiting the earth for 50 years – no one knows what it is
Black Knight: This strange object has been orbiting the earth for 50 years – no one knows what it is
A strange object has been orbiting the earth; some say for fifty years, some say less. The object, called the Black Knight, is believed by some to have extra-terrestrial origins and to be over thirteen thousand years old. However, most academics believe that is just a conspiracy theory.
Nikola Tesla first reported hearing sounds from space in 1899, thinking they were signals from intelligent life. In 1968, astronomers discovered that he did, indeed, hear radio signals, but they were from pulsars deep in space.
“The Black Knight”
In 1954, several newspapers including the San Francisco Examiner and the St. Louis Post Dispatch published the opinions of former Marine Corps naval aviator Donald Edward Keyhoe, a famous UFO researcher. Keyhoe, a native of Ottumwa, Iowa was a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy. After his retirement from the Marine Corps, he worked for the National Geodetic Survey and U.S. Department of Commerce. He also became an author who wrote about Charles Lindbergh’s American tour as well as aviation fiction. At the outbreak of World War II, he returned to military service to train aviators. He achieved the rank of Major before his second retirement. He continued to publish stories in magazines such as Weird Tales, Flying Aces, The Saturday Evening Post and Reader’s Digest.
It was Keyhoe’s belief that extra-terrestrials had visited the Earth and he published several books stating that the U.S. Air Force had detected two satellites orbiting the Earth in 1954 when no such technology existed. At the time, science fiction was becoming increasingly popular. Books by Keyhoe, H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke and Issac Asimov, movies such as War of the Worlds and The Day the Earth Stood Still, along with television shows like The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone fueled public imagination regarding space travel and possible alien encounters. Skeptics decided that the articles had been published to help Keyhoe promote his books.
In 1960, during the Cold War, Time Magazine also claimed the U.S. Navy was aware of a satellite with an unusual orbit with an apogee of 1,728 km (1,074 mi) and a perigee of only 216 km (134 mi). At first, they claimed it was a Soviet spy satellite but later stated it was only a U.S. satellite that had broken orbit.
Reports of the Black Knight Satellite have resulted from unverified stories, overzealous reporters, and exaggerated photographs. According to NASA astronaut, Jerry Ross, the object is simply the result of a mistake.
In December 1998, the space shuttle Discovery was sent on a mission to make some adjustments to the International Space Station. The mission was to acquire the Russian ‘FGB’ module already in low orbit, attach it to US ‘Node 1’ in the payload bay, and perform spacewalks to install the needed equipment. Colonel Ross and Dr. James Newman were attempting to install thermal blankets on trunnion pins attached to the space station in order to reduce heat loss and save energy. The blankets were tethered to Col. Ross’ spacesuit but when he attempted to retrieve the second blanket he accidentally lost it. Once he discovered it was gone, it was too far away for the astronauts to retrieve it.
STS-88
According to NASA, “During spacewalks, debris, both small and large, are often thrown off the station for convenience, although sometimes tools unintentionally slip away.” Such was the case in December 1998, when a slidewire carrier and a worksite interface were lost by the STS-88 crew while conducting an extravehicular activity for ISS. These objects were large enough to be tracked by the US SSN [Space Surveillance Network] and were cataloged (U.S. satellite numbers 25564 and 25565). Three other objects were also released by STS-88 spacewalkers, one inadvertently (an insulation blanket) and two by design (antenna spools), although only the former was officially cataloged.
In an interview conducted by James Oberg on October 15, 2014, Col. Ross stated, “If we see something up there we will be the first ones to ask questions and to tell people we saw something we didn’t understand. Conspiracy theories are fun for those working on them, but a waste of valuable brain power.”
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Trump’s Advisers Want to Return Humans to the Moon in Three Years
Trump’s Advisers Want to Return Humans to the Moon in Three Years
The plan could dramatically shift the mission of the space agency, prioritizing low-Earth orbit activity over distant exploration.
The Obama administration wanted to send humans to Mars. But the Trump administration wants to put them back on the moon first, and quickly.That ambition is inside internal documents reported byPolitico on Thursday that describe what would be a dramatic shift in mission for NASA. According to the documents, created by the transition team assigned to the agency, President Donald Trump’s advisers want NASA to send humans to the moon three years from now, nearly five decades since the last astronaut left his footprints there. NASA would focus on boosting human activity in the cislunar region—the space between the Earth and the moon—as opposed to venturing deeper into the solar system. The space agency’s main goal, they say, should be “the large-scale economic development of space.”
“NASA’s new strategy will prioritize economic growth and the organic creation of new industries and private sector jobs, over ‘exploration’ and other esoteric activities,” explains a summary of what’s next for NASA in the documents. “Done correctly, this could create a trillion-dollar per year space economy, dominated by America.”
It’s not surprising for a new administration to want to take NASA in a different direction so soon after its arrival in Washington. Eight years ago, Barack Obama canceled the Constellation program, created under George W. Bush, which planned to return humans to the moon by 2020. Obama believed the program was too expensive and that NASA had “lost focus,” especially as it began to wind down the space-shuttle program, the country’s pioneering pride and joy. He told NASA to put people on Mars by the 2030s, and lasso an asteroid somewhere along the way.If the Trump administration’s picks for space-policy advisers are an indication, the country will remain on a long-term mission to Mars. Wrenching the idea of a Martian journey from the American public after two terms of successful NASA public-relations campaigns and Hollywood space movies would be a difficult exercise. Plus, there’s strong bipartisan agreement in Congress that the Mars deadline can’t move. But the next four to eight years may see an aggressive push for more movements in Earth’s backyard, where hundreds of satellites and the International Space Station reside.
“Just because you have private companies involved doesn’t mean you can ignore physics or the harsh environment of space.”
Politico reports Trump advisers want “private American astronauts, on private space ships, circling the Moon by 2020.” That vision puts a lot of faith into private spaceflight companies that are developing and testing rockets capable of carrying payloads and people to low-Earth orbit. The company SpaceX especially stands to benefit from this ambition, because its CEO, Elon Musk, meets often with Trump as a member of the president’s advisory council of business leaders.
Increased investment in private-public partnerships in human spaceflight would actually be an expansion of Obama’s hopes for NASA. But spaceflight is blind to the origins of funding, both private and federal. SpaceX and Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s spaceflight company, are already behind schedule on perfecting the rockets they’ll let NASA use to carry astronauts into space next year. SpaceX has seen two rockets blow up in less than two years. The funding isn’t there yet, either; Trump has not announced a budget proposal for the next fiscal year, a process that usually begins in February.
“This is not a bad idea, but the timeline that’s implied in this article would be an unprecedented speed,” Casey Dreier, the director of space policy at the Planetary Society in California, said of the Trump advisers’ ambitions. “Just because you have private companies involved doesn’t mean you can ignore physics or the harsh environment of space.”
The president’s advisers favor these private spaceflight companies, considered “New Space,” over “Old Space” contractors, like Boeing and Lockheed Martin. “We have to be seen giving ‘Old Space’ a fair and balanced shot at proving they are better and cheaper than commercial,” the documents say. This likely won’t sit well with Congress. In 2010, Congress instructed NASA to develop a heavy, expendable launch vehicle that would replace the shuttle program and carry transport astronauts into orbit. The Space Launch System, or SLS, is being manufactured by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, with plans for a first flight in late 2018.
The SLS is costing billions of dollars, far more than the rocket technology being developed by private companies, but it employs tens of thousands of people. Lawmakers, Dreier says, won’t be jumping the idea of killing jobs in their districts in favor of sending humans to the moons with rockets made somewhere else. The closer the Trump administration gets to the private spaceflight company, the greater the risk of alienating some of his Republican allies in Congress.
The Trump documents set another goal for 2020. By that year, the United States will see “private lunar landers staking out de-facto ‘property rights’ for America on the moon.” Claiming any sovereignty of the moon is a violation of the United Nations Outer Space Treaty, the set of principles that govern the use of outer space, and which have been observed by dozens of nations since the late 1960s. Planting an American flag on the lunar surface is one thing, but marking territory is another, and carries geopolitical implications. This ambition would put the U.S. in some competition with China, which plans to ramp up its own cislunar activity in the next decade, and wants to land a rover on the far side of the moon in 2018, a first for any spacefaring nation.
The Trump administration is still several months away from picking NASA’s next administrator, but the documents Politicoobtained suggest that Jim Bridenstine, the Republican congressman from Oklahoma, is at the top of the list. Rumors that Bridenstine wants the job have swirled since the election. The congressman has proposed detailed legislation for NASA policies and extolled the benefits of lunar missions in blog posts. The rumors intensified this week after his remarks at the annual Commercial Space Transportation Conference in Washington, D.C. “It is our job to make America great again in space,” he said, adding that the U.S. should use its “secret weapon,” the commercial space industry. Bridenstine’s office told me this week he would be “honored” to serve in the new administration if Trump asked.
Dreier cautions that the latest glimpse of potential Trump space policy may be just that—a peek into the internal debate over NASA’s mission, rather than a clear roadmap for the space agency’s future. But there’s a pretty glaring omission that’s hard to miss: science. The documents, as reported, don’t make any mention of the various scientific projects that will punctuate Trump’s first term, like the galaxy-searching James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch in 2018, or the next Mars rover, preparing to lift off in 2020, or the first lander mission to Jupiter’s icy moon Europa, which scientists are currently trying to figure out. Human spaceflight programs are expensive, and risk overshadowing such projects.
“Science always tends to suffer when human spaceflight programs go over budget,” Dreier says.
Astronaut Gordon Cooper: I witnessed a UFO Landing in 1957
Astronaut Gordon Cooper: I witnessed a UFO Landing in 1957
Leroy Gordon “Gordo” Cooper, Jr., one of the seven original astronauts of ‘Project Mercury’ the first manned space program of the United States witnessed a UFO landing in 1957. He is another astronaut who has seen an actual UFO.
In 1957, when Cooper was part of a special band of test pilots at the Edwards Air Force Base in California, he witnessed first-hand an actual UFO.
Cooper states:
“I had a camera crew filming the installation when they spotted a saucer. They filmed it as it flew overhead, then hovered, extended three legs as landing gear, and slowly came down to land on a dry lake bed! “These guys were all pro cameramen, so the picture quality was very good.”The camera crew managed to get within 20 or 30 yards of it, filming all the time. It was a classic saucer, shiny silver and smooth, about 30 feet across. It was pretty clear it was an alien craft. “As they approached closer it took off.”
According to Cooper, following standard procedures, when the camera crew game him the recording, he sent it to Washington and reported the UFO encounter. After that, all heck broke loose.
“After a while a high-ranking officer said when the film was developed I was to put it in a pouch and send it to Washington.”He didn’t say anything about me not looking at the film. That’s what I did when it came back from the lab and it was all there just like the camera crew reported.”
Leroy Gordon “Gordo” Cooper firmly believes that an extraterrestrial vehicle crashed at Roswell, N. Mexico in 1947, Cooper also believes the government recovered several ‘Alien beings’ from the crash.
“I had a good friend at Roswell, a fellow officer. He had to be careful about what he said. But it sure wasn’t a weather balloon, like the Air Force cover story. He made it clear to me what crashed was a craft of alien origin, and members of the crew were recovered.”
Cooper was among a list of highly ranked officials who believed that the people of this planet have the right to know about Alien life elsewhere in the cosmos.
Cooper added: “It started in World War 2, when the government didn’t want people to know about UFO reports in case they panicked,” said Cooper. “They would have been fearful it was superior enemy technology that we had no defense against.
“Then it got worse in the Cold War for the same reason. “So they told one untruth, they had to tell another to cover that one, then another, then another . . . it just snowballed. “And right now I’m convinced a lot of very embarrassed government officials are sitting there in Washington trying to figure a way to bring the truth out. They know it’s got to come out one day, and I’m sure it will. “America has a right to know!”
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Filer’s Files #10 – 2017 Royal Family’s Interest in UFOs - PART I
Triangle object captured over Phoenix, Arizona on February 25, 2017
Filer’s Files #10 – 2017 Royal Family’s Interest in UFOs - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Earl Mountbatten’s and Royal Family Interest in UFOs, SpaceX taking two civilians to the Moon in 2018, A great man Joseph Stefula Passes, Fast Walkers, Sweden on the Brink?, and George w. Bush admits that there are secret ufo files, on Jimmy Kimmel’s Show.
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Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Argentina, Australia, Canada, Germany, Japan, Kazakhstan, Philippines, 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 US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly 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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Earl Mountbatten’s and Royal Family Interest in UFOs
During the Second World War, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten’s was Supreme Allied Commander, of South East Asia Command (1943–46).commander of all allied forces in South East Asia. UFOs were frequently reported in Northern India and China with a base in the Himalayan Mountains. He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor-General of independent India (1947–48). He was Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet in the early 50s and had personally seen UFOs up close. From 1954 until 1959 he was the First Sea Lord of the British Fleet the highest rank in the Royal Navy from 1954 until 1959.
.Admiral and Earl Mountbatten’s biography states, “What do you think about flying saucers?“ He asked his daughter Patricia in a 1948 letter. He had been discussing the phenomena with his trusted close friend Peter Murphy.
“They were both convinced that they come from another planet but we mutually and independently came to the conclusion that they were not aeroplanes with silly almost human pilots but are themselves the actual inhabitants: Martians, Venusians, Jupiterians or what have you. Why should life in another planet with entirely different conditions in any way resemble life on our planet? Their inhabitants might be ‘gaseous’ or circular or very large. The fact they can hover and accelerate from the Earth’s gravity and even resolve around a V2 Rocket in America (as reported by their head scientist) shows they are far ahead of us. If they really come over in a big way that may settle the capitalist communist war. If the human race wishes to survive they may have to band together.”Page 493 & 494 “Mountbatten” by Phillip Ziegler.
Mountbatten shown here with President Kennedy was one of the three Supreme Allied Commanders of World War II (the others were Eisenhower and MacArthur) with a quarter million personnel under his direct command. Later he was the last Viceroy of India, who orchestrated its independence from England. Mountbatten had a keen interest in UFOs and likely discussed UFOs with the President.
UFOs are frequently seen in India and Lord Mountbatten was likely to have received many reports regarding the craft. According to many tourists, Buddhist monks and the local people of Ladakh, the Indian Army maintains the line of control to keep people from entering the area near an alien base.Even today it is an open secret that from Kongka Pass area the tensed border between India and China, that strange lighted triangular silent crafts show up from an underground base and ascend almost vertically up. I have spoken with pilots who saw the craft in 1940 flying for Flying Tigers
Lord Louis Mountbatten. Mountbatten’s interest in UFOs became public knowledge in the early 1950s. Indeed, through journalistic contacts, he encouraged public discussion of them, thinking that here was a new phenomenon which deserved to be taken seriously. When one of the workers on Mountbatten’s estate was late for work one day, he gave the excuse that he had seen a UFO in the sky and had stopped to watch it. Mountbatten questioned him enthusiastically. In 1955 Lord Mountbatten investigated a UFO incident in his own back yard, literally, that put his theory to the test.
Earl Mountbatten held a deep interest in the UFO/Alien topic had allegedly seen UFOs up close. On February 25th 1955, Frederick Briggs, a retired Sergeant from the British Army, was working as a
maintenance man at Broadlands, the Hampshire home of Mountbatten (shown). Briggs was either riding or wheeling his bicycle in the grounds, covered in a light dusting of snow, when he reportedly saw a large craft that looked like a child’s top hovering over a field. He saw a column descend from the middle of the object with what appeared to be a small (5’ 6”) fair haired, humanoid wearing overalls and a helmet. On reaching almost ground level the humanoid noticed Briggs observing his descent.
g paralyzed by a strange light beam whilst the humanoid retreated back into the craft. Illustration of Briggs encounter with the UFO at Broadlands
As he arrived at the house, Mountbatten’s chauffeur noted Briggs, looked noticeably shocked. Being a good friend Briggs confided his amazing story to the chauffeur who concluded “You must tell the boss.” After some deliberation Briggs relented and met with his employer. Mountbatten produced a number of UFO photographs and asked Briggs if he could identify the craft he’d seen. Briggs recalls the Earl saying to him “we know about these things and are very interested in them”. They then went to site to see a perfect circle of snow had melted in the ground underneath where the craft had been hovering. There were also markings in the snow where Briggs had slipped with his bike. Mountbatten took Briggs back to the house and asked him to write out a statement which both men signed along with a drawing of the craft by Briggs.’
Mountbatten states in his report that he personally interviewed Mr. Briggs. He reported that Briggs : “…did not give the impression of being the sort of man who would be subject to hallucinations, or would in any way invent such a story……I have personally investigated the above claim by Mr. Briggs and I believe it to be true and correct ” Signed : Mountbatten of Burma
The story was going to be printed by the Sunday Graphic newspaper but pulled at the last moment when the editor changed his mind so as not to embarrass the Mountbatten family.
However this was not the end of the tale. In a discussion with
Desmond Leslie (shown) something strange happened to Briggs on the following day. Briggs was cycling to work up the same road to Broadlands when he encountered the blue uniformed humanoid, standing in the middle of the road, ahead of him. He stopped, shook the hand of the humanoid, who winced and explained, telepathically, that his race was not as strong as humans.
Briggs was then invited into the spacecraft and sat down alone in a small compartment with a triangular window. He was then allegedly transported to his chosen destination of the Pyramids of Giza. Briggs recalled the flight took all of about 10 minutes and he could see both above and the sides of the pyramid from the window. This somewhat confused him along with the whole experience only lasting around 30 minutes at most. Before he was returned to ground Briggs stated the alien said:
“If Lord Mountbatten met us he could change the world.” A rather bizarre statement when had they really wanted to contact the Earl they almost certainly could have done. It is odd that Mountbatten never admitted to seeing this craft or the humanoid(s) Briggs encountered on his grounds. Subsequently when Mountbatten was later told this second tale via a letter from Desmond to the Queen’s Private Secretary he dismissed it all as nonsense. Thanks to Flying Saucer Review V26 No. 5. Lord Mountbatten was assassinated by an IRA boat bomb while fishing off the coast.
Prince Philip Has Keen Interest in UFOs
Prince Philip is the Queen’s long term husband who is respected for his long public service in both war and peace time. Prince Philip also harbors a keen interest in the UFO phenomenon. While living in England I had the privilege of dining in with Prince Phillip, His Royal Highness and Duke of Edinburgh at Sculthorpe RAF Base. He told four of us officers about his keen interest in UFOs and that some of his relatives had seen them.
He reiterated what he stated much earlier in the press,
“There are many reasons to believe that they (UFOs) do exist. There is so much evidence from reliable witnesses.” Sunday Dispatch, London. March 28, 1954.
He was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 15th January 1953. His other British service appointments are Field Marshal of the Army and Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Prince Philip achieved 5,986 hours in 59 types of aircraft. He was interested in our sightings over England.
He told me that, Admiral Earl ‘Dickie” Mountbatten, his uncle who raised him, who was at sea as the Fourth Sea Lord, and was Commander of the Mediterranean Fleet in the 50s had personally seen one.” Prince Phillip assured me he and his Uncle had strong interest in UFOs. Frankly he convinced me UFOs were real and a possible threat.
On Monday, November 30, 1981 ITN news broadcast a story that the Duke of Edinburgh was piloting a light aircraft 3 days earlier.
The plane was involved in a near miss with a Boeing 747 taking evasive action to avoid colliding with a UFO. The Times reported the incident the following day in a somewhat serious tone.
“Buckingham Palace confirmed last night that the Duke of Edinburgh was at the controls of an Andover of the Queen’s Flight when it was involved in a near miss with a jumbo jet carrying 200 passengers to Miami. The incident happened after a British Airways Boeing 747 had taken off from Heathrow airport on Friday and was climbing at 300 mph, according to reports.
The pilot took evasive action after seeing an ‘unidentified object fly across his field of vision. An inquiry is to be held as to why the near miss happened. The Duke will be required to submit a report.”
Nick Pope the former Civil Servant in charge of the UFO desk for the MoD has confirmed that the Duke of Edinburgh kept a map at Buckingham Palace with the locations of UFO sightings on his wall. The Duke even asked the British Air Ministry to send him a copy of their UFO reports.
He also encouraged his equerry (Senior Attendant), Sir Peter Horsley, to discreetly study UFO cases and to bring UFO witnesses to the Palace for private discussions.
Sir Peter Horsley
Sir Peter Horsley was a former World War II pilot and squadron leader. He entered the service of the Royals in July 1949 before returning to the RAF in 1956 where he rose through the ranks. His final role in the RAF was as Deputy Commander-in-Chief RAF Strike Command in 1973 before he retired.
In 1954 Horsley was invited, by a British Army ‘General Martin’, to meet an extraterrestrial being in a flat in London. Sir Peter was taken to a dimly lit room where he encountered one very mysterious man. Horsley recalls very little about any features of Mr. Janus in his autobiography “Sounds from Another Room”. Horsley states
“What is strange is that I have no lasting impression of him. He seemed to fit perfectly in his surroundings. If I have any impression it was his quiet voice which had a rich quality to it. He looked about 45 to 50 years old and was wearing a suit and a tie. He was quite normal in every way except that he seemed to be tuning into my mind and gradually took over the conversation. …by the end of the meeting I was quite disturbed really.”
A very odd encounter with the mysterious Janus
The conversation started with Janus asking Horsley about everything he knew about flying saucers. Janus explained that man was going through a Dark Age. Humanity was using technology like a child with new toys giving scant regard to his surroundings, nature and his fellow humans. He explained that in 20 or 30 years (remember this was 1954) that rockets and satellites would become commonplace and miniaturization of our technology and advances in communication would grow rapidly. However he stressed that Earth was in a backwater of the galaxy, inhabited by half civilized beings who posed a danger to their neighbors. Earth was visited from time to time but mainly by robot controlled probes. Occasional “physical” interference was necessary but a general rule of space exploration applied throughout the galaxy. “..Do not interfere with the natural development and order of life in the universe”.
At the end of a long conversation Sir Peter asked Janus what his specific interest was. To which Janus replied “I would like to meet the Duke of Edinburgh….a man of great vision, who believes strongly in the proper relationship between man and nature which will prove of great importance in future galactic harmony”. Horsley made a full verbatim report of his meeting.
He was disturbed by the fact that Janus could seemingly read his mind and had a significant knowledge of nuclear installations in Britain. Michael Parker, Prince Philip’s private secretary, treated the report as a joke but commented that the Duke of Edinburgh had actually kept an open mind to the whole affair.
Jimmy McCloskey reports Prince Charles, 66, and his dad Prince Philip, 93, allegedly had Flying Saucer Review posted in unmarked envelopes after Lord Mountbatten saw the interstellar craft. The astonishing claim was made by retired doctor-turned-UFO expert Steven Greer. Dr Greer also said he helped supply Charles with documents on alien encounters at the London premiere of Star Trek film First Contact in 1996.
The former A&E medic told the Daily Star:
“The late publisher, who was former British Intelligence, Gordon Creighton, told me personally that the royal family received it on a regular basis.
“Prince Philip and Princes Charles were very interested in it. “You can trace this back to the event where this object landed on Lord Mountbatten’s estate” Charles reportedly saw a UFO land in the garden. Dr Greer added: “You can trace this back to the event where this object landed on Lord Mountbatten’s place. “You’re not going to dismiss someone you love and trust the way you would some wild story you heard in the pub.”
he Sunday Mirror printed a story concerning Prince Charles the son of the Queen and Prince Phillip seeing a possible UFO on 21·March 1986, the story appeared. “Charles in UFO Riddle“. https://ehabich.info/singularity/ufo/tabloidcharles.jpg
Martin Brunt claimed that Prince Charles had a close encounter with a UFO, whilst returning from the USA in his RAF VC 10 aircraft on 23 February1986. His pilot reported a bright red flash that lit up the cockpit, as it did to four other planes then over the Irish Sea. Many hundreds of people in Ireland, and Wales saw it too. One of these was UFO investigator Jules Johnson in Belfast, who reported it to Armagh Observatory. It was a bright red ball of fire with a tail that streaked across the sky in a couple of seconds. He had no doubt what he had seen – until he read the Mirror! All you budding investigators out there tell me what a bright object with a tail streaking across the sky and clearly miles high in the atmosphere (because it was seen over such a wide area) what might it possibly be? Answers it was likely a fire ball meteor.
In view of this I find it very odd that Tim Good (who I know will read this and who- I greatly respect) should speculate that “any creature from outer space that is more advanced than us would be aware of the significance of: a. royal flight.” But it would be wrong to dismiss it. There are beings in space watching us very closely.” Thanks to Northern UFO News
Newlyweds, William and Kate April 26, 2011
Just prior to the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton I predicted UFOs will likely be seen over London as it’s common to see UFOs around important events, and it’s highly possible they may also be watching the royal wedding. In fact there were suspicious craft in the sky during the wedding taken from World War II aircraft flying above the festivities, but nothing I could prove. The cameras were all on the newlyweds.
British people and a global audience enjoyed the pageantry of the royal wedding but did not report any UFOs. The Aol News story, which spread like wildfire through the British press and elsewhere, also quoted famous crop circle researcher Colin Andrews about the Queen’s interest in his first book Circular Evidence,
London Sun News reports: Wedding: ET ‘spying on Abbey’
A TOURIST filmed a UFO hovering over Westminster Abbey — the venue for tomorrow’s Royal Wedding. The 2½-minute video footage shows a shimmering white object in a cloudless blue sky near Big Ben.
LONDON – The videos of the Royal Wedding from multiple television coverage shows several possible UFOs over London on April 29, 2011. A cylinder shaped object is seen flying over the city not far from Westminster Abbey and could be an alien reconnaissance vehicle. As the wedding couple drive past the entrance to Buckingham Palace many in the crowd are looking at the sky rather than at the carriage at this apparent cylinder picked up on Fox News.
Later when Royal family comes out onto the balcony at Buckingham Palace a small apparently lighted object flies near the palace balcony pointed to and watched by the Royal family. Thanks to Fox News
Royal Wedding Crashers
London — Viewing this photograph found at link indicated within the photograph my attention was drawn to some people in the crowd. Their attention should have been drawn to the prince and duchess but some seem to be taking photos/filming obviously away, not a normal behavior considering they are there to see the prince and duchess. What are they looking up at? Zooming in the sky within the photograph I noted anomalies. The darkest of the three seem disc shape but at that distance what could it really be? The problem I have with a plane is I doubt any would be permitted to fly during the horse drawn carriage procession. Could these be birds? I noted other anomalies that would suggest birds but these three anomalies have my interest to have MUFON investigators further investigate film footage of the event at this location to identify what these are. http://ufostalker.com/event/28915
SpaceX taking two civilians to the Moon in 2018
It’s been a long time since humans orbited the moon — but Elon Musk’s SpaceX is going to try and change that next year. The company just announced that two private citizens approached SpaceX about a trip to the moon for late 2018. The two potential space travelers have already paid a “significant” deposit and SpaceX expects health and fitness tests along with initial training to take place this year.
SpaceX also says that other flight teams are interested in similar trips — if this first voyage works, we could see a whole sequence of trips around the moon in the near future.
SpaceX was careful to note that there’s no moon landing being attempted here. But still, this will be the first time in 45 years humans return to deep space, and the company says that these travelers will go further into the solar system than any humans have before. CNBC reports that the trip will take about a week. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says that the trip will “skim the surface of the moon, go quite a bit further out into deep space,” and then return to earth.
Joseph J Stefula , age 71 passed away on March 2, 2017. He was a great friend of mine. He was awarded the Silver Star Medal in Vietnam for gallantry and Purple Heart in defending an outpost from over whelming Communist attacks.
He preceded me as New Jersey State Director of the Mutual Ufo Network Inc. He retired from the US Army has a Warrant Officer and had served in the U.S. Army Criminal Investigations Command, He used his investigative skills to search out excellent UFO cases and discovered that the military was tracking Fast Walkers (UFOs) entering leaving our atmosphere providing strong evidence of the reality of the phenomenon.. He was a very generous person with his time and resources. He was a Disabled veteran who served his nation in time of war and peace. He was a close friend of the late Remote Viewer Ingo Swan.
He died after his battle with chronic illness and an operation on his back. He is survived by his lovely wife Evelyn and children. Joe will be missed by many of us forever.
UFO Researcher Joe Stefula’s Revelations on Fast Walkers.
MAY 5, 1984, an alert was triggered at the North America Air Defense Command. Moving at 22,000 miles per hour, an object was heading toward Earth and had been determined to NOT be incoming ballistic missiles, or any other type of conventionally explainable object. Once tracked, it was code-named “Fast Walker”.
This object was first spotted by the ultra-sensitive orbiting USDSP satellites our county uses for detailed surveillance and air defense. These satellites have the infra-red capability to spot small heat sources on the surface of the earth and are time-proven as effective monitoring devices.
ite depiction of reversal of course by “Fast Walker” as it headed back toward open space.
At 1400 hours Zulu time, an object was spotted by a USDSP satellite and tracked as it sped first directly toward the Earth and passed in front and within 15 miles of the USDSP satellite. It suddenly and without impact or contact with other devices or obstructions curved outward, away from the Earth. It was tracked for another 9 minutes until it then disappeared.
What the data resolved was that it was a hot, fast, solid object that swept in from outer space. This information would probably have been totally kept from public view, but it was leaked to UFO Researcher Joe Stefula. Joe’s statement was “Where it appeared in the (satellite’s) sensor field would indicate that the object came into the sensor field from outer-space, went in front of the sensor, and left, departing back into deep space. It would indicate that it was some type of craft that had the ability to maneuver. And there you have hard evidence. You have telemetry from that satellite, you have information, you have systems, you have data that you can go back and investigate and check and verify. In the past, usually UFO events are of just eye-witness testimony… There you have a very sensitive defense system that sent you information to the ground. I don’t even know if you can solve it… maybe it’s one of those enigmas that are just going to be with us forever. What type of craft would have that ability? Some people might say, ‘A UFO’.”
If the Fast Walker had been a meteorite, it would have burned up in the Earth’s atmosphere. The fact that it changed trajectory so dramatically when it was headed directly toward the Earth at such a high speed, indicates emphatically that it was not a natural phenomenon. No natural object could’ve overcome the gravitational force of the Earth, especially when its speed and trajectory would compound the effect of the Earth’s gravitational pull. To have reversed course so drastically with these natural forces in place is truly astounding. Only intelligently controlled objects would be capable of such a maneuver proving the existence of UFOs. Thanks to Dave Kauble. SOURCE: Recovered from the Wayback Machine Archive
Sweden on the Brink?
SWEDEN is on the brink of becoming a lawless state as the police force is losing the battle against unprecedented levels of crime and violence amid a growing migrant crisis. Women are afraid to go out.
On average three police officers are handing in their resignations a day. If the alarming trend continues, more than 1,000 officers will have quit the service by year end. Since the migrant crisis began last summer, Sweden has been hit by a series of brutal crimes and violent incidents. The police force has reached breaching point as more than a million crimes were reported in 2016 over the previous year.
George w. Bush admits that there are secret ufo files, on Jimmy Kimmel’s Show
It is a tradition that every time a (former) US President comes to Jimmy Kimmel’s show he wants to know everything about UFOs and aliens. And so he asks George W. Bush the same question. Are there secret UFO files and will he share the secrets with us?
Bush said, “His daughters asked the same question but he won’t reveal info to anyone.”
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Filer’s Files #10 – 2017 Royal Family’s Interest in UFOs - PART II
Filer’s Files #10 – 2017 Royal Family’s Interest in UFOs - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Triangle Light
Phoenix — We noticed that a helicopter was circling the area in a rather high speed on February25, 2017.
My children went out to look and started snapping photos of the helicopter when they noticed what can only be described as a large ball of energy. They snapped a photo but this object scared them and they ran in to get me. I was outside within 15 seconds and the object was no longer where they had pointed. Upon asking questions I was shown this attached photo. Can anyone explain what this is? Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Object
Powey – I went outside to check and see what was above my room that at first looked like a glowing boomerang shape or parachute with no person attached on July 11, 2011. I went back to grab the camera, and the object changed direction and ascended to 10,000 feet above ground.
I watched for a few minutes and filmed the orb like object to the east. At 6 pm I was already back in my computer and heard 3 sonic booms. The next afternoon at 5 pm, after work I saw three F-16s taking off from MCAS Miramar heading north. At the air show I asked where the F-16s were coming from, the Marine told me that it was MCAS Yuma had called for F-16s to intercept this UFO. So they came back to Miramar only to file report, refuel and rest before heading home. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Homestead — This happened on February 25, 2016. Multiple reports suggest it was witnesed by a large number of people.
I am an aircraft mechanic and I can’t explain this video with my years in aviation.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Disc
Newnan – The first time I noticed it I was teaching my daughter about constellations in the front yard. We decided to get in the car on February 21, 2017.
With my husband, daughter, and son in the car we drove to the school and noticed it because it wasn’t like the other stars. We took out our phones and took pictures and recordings. It was going on and off like a light switch. On the way home it was the exact same thing the closer to our home which scared me a lot. I have seen it more times since that night. I believe it’s following me as there been noises outside and it’s outside right now! I’m scared for my children. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Hawaii Object
Kauai — Hiking the Kalalau Trail on the Napali Coast — the closest cities are Princeville and Hanalei on the island of Kauai on February 21, 2017
We took many photos that day…this was the only one where the object appeared.
It is not in the five other digital photos we took in this series where this object appears
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Illinois Blue Light
Oakland— I live in a semi rural area and my dog would not go out, so I went out with her on February 10, 2017. We were in the front yard, and I soon discovered why she didn’t want to be there. I had my cell phone in my coat pocket, so I pulled it out. I felt movement all around me, but didn’t see anything. I began taking pictures where I felt there was something moving. Also took a few short videos. Later when I went back in and looked through the pictures…I was shocked.
Still not sure what this small blue light was, but I’m going to submit 3 more instances with pictures of things that I cannot explain…since this first date. The last two for sure were saucer like UFO’s.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Kentucky Light
Glasgow— I was outside walking my dog when I first noticed the object around 7 pm. I started paying attention to the sound that was coming from the sky. I was able to capture video and sounds from the object. I am unsure what the object is or what it was doing. I just remember having the feeling like someone was watching me, and feeling very drawn to the bright light in the sky. I remember having cold chills and feeling very freaked out from what I was seeing. I watched the object for almost an hour move about in the sky sometimes fading to a distance and sometimes almost like it was shining a light beam in my exact direction. I went back inside and remained for the night. The following day when looking at the video and the picture I noticed in the picture I looked at the cloud like formation on the left side of the bright star shaped light in the sky and it appeared to have a shape of with a head and large eyes. It was like a cloud structure but it flew very low. Ever since I have felt like I am crazy. Let me know what you think? Thanks to MUFON
Minnesota glowing Object
Maple Grove — I have filmed a video and a few pictures over the last few weeks of sightings. Last night on February 24, 2017, was the latest sighting. I saw a glowing white refracting object. One video I got with an airplane in the night sky. There were no stars visible on this night and only object was visible. This has showed up in same spot several nights so I looked up the ISS. It was in area one night for a few minutes. My sighting was at night and ISS was to pass in my area at 5:30 AM. My video also lasted 1 minute past when the ISS is to be in view. Here are a few pictures. Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
New Jersey Rapid Movements
Old Tappan— I was walking my dog and saw red lights and rapid movements I immediately knew it was a UFO it was moving fast and slow.
Photo captured on February 19, 2017.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Pennsylvania Object
We were walking back from a park on March 1, 2017, and I turned around and saw it and we freaked out and started filming.
I thought it was a UFO right away. When we all looked at it turned away. I think it was watching us.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Washington Disc
Mount Shuksan – I was visiting with my friend and I took a picture from the parking lot. The first picture that I took had no people in it and no object, and then another tourist asked if I would like them to take our picture on August 1, 2007. I handed her my camera she took this picture within two minutes of the first one and in that picture there is something over Mount Shuksan. It was just strange as we did not see it as our back was to it. We just have it in our photograph of Mount Shuksan. My friend and I are in the foreground but not shown to zoom in on the “object.” I hope that you can tell me what this is or isn’t. For a long time, I have tried to figure it out. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Argentina Eclipse
cell phone. In one of the pictures watching in details, I saw this object, flying in the sky. I didn´t see it in the moment that I took the picture. I saw them in my computer and using zoom and other effects on the picture.
I sent the original picture with the object and the zoom in another picture.
Note: Orb in lower left may be a sun reflection on the lens. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Australia Light
Hobart — We were on vacation to Tasmania, Australia, when my aunt decided to take a photo at dawn on February 27, 2017.
We only noticed the object in the picture near the place we were staying at after the fact, so cannot say it was witnessed in person.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Objects
Oshawa, Ontario – On Monday, February 20, 2017 while outside my home I noticed a very high flying white unknown object moving across the sky from west to east.
It moved on a straight flight path over my house. This object moved quite fast and only had less than a minute to try and capture it on film
Being camera ready I took thirteen pictures capturing it on four pictures at 10:58 to 10:59 am.
As you know February is a slow month to witness any UFO sighting
I suspect mid March sightings will pick up. Thanks again for your interest and time into the matter. Enjoy Paul Shishis
Lac St-Paul –In 1973, a group of people were having lunch one afternoon near Ferme-Neuve, Quebec and took 7 pictures of this UFO.
I don’t have them anymore but I remember that one could see that the object tilted at times in the air while hovering. All I have is a magnified version of the best picture which I kept over the years.
On the original picture, the object was about 1-2mm in size. There was another decent picture from the side but 45 degree tilted upward, the 5 other pictures were from under the UFO and would almost look like a disk. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Finland Lights
Oostende, Belgium — I was flying from London to Helsinki at night in a Finnair plane. Then I saw three bright lights. First I thought they were stars.
But then I noticed that the lights outlined a black triangle. The triangle hovered and went in different directions.
Then the lights went out and I couldn’t see the triangle anymore. The rest of the flight was normal.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Germany Pulsating Light
I saw a pulsating white blue light right over the rooftops of my neighborhood on February 24, 2017. I’ve never seen anything like it. No chopper, no known aircraft or military aircraft, I can assure that. It was way to close and too big to be a star, unless stars move underneath clouds now. I tried to film the sky too, to show the cloud covered black night. An aircraft flew in the direction of the object. You can see the tremendous size and brightness difference. The object was there for over three hours. Every time I filmed it longer than two minutes my phone gave me a warning of an unknown error and deleted the video. As I turned off mobile data connection and Wi-Fi, it had no issues anymore.
It was way larger than the video shows and was so bright it literally lit up our entire side of the block. The pulsation was so weird, it looked like rays from the stars but they kept extending and extending and suddenly it was just a sphere again. And then it repeated the whole thing. This is my third encounter. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Japan Green Light
I was in the window seat on the JR Train travelling north from Kyoto station to Takayama, on a clear day over a running river. I was photographing contrails above the train and was distracted by unusual activity in sky. Two photographs were taken with an I-Phone 6 Plus. The object flew along the river. It was green and brighter than all surrounding surfaces. I had no reactions until 20 seconds later viewing the last two photos.
I had no initial visual contact with orb and lost sight of object due to rapid movement in opposite directions.
Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Kazakhstan Disk
Astana — A witness sent a photo analysis of a flying disk taken on July 5, 2016.
The witness did not say anything about what was seen and included no detail.
The witness was contacted for more detail, but no response has been received.
The witness sent several photos and an animation of analyzed photos.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Philippines Disc
This was my first days going to college the second week of June and my hobby was taking pictures of wonderful cloud formations. I was riding shotgun and I was amazed by this cloud formation and I snapped a few pictures at 8 Megapixels using my C7 Nokia phone on July 11, 2011. It was a perfect moment, but my mom whips me to sit back properly. It was during lunch when I finally checked the pictures and saw this clear spherical object. It made me shaking nervous at school and cannot think straight because I just saw a UFO. My brother said it might be UFO/ I was too scared to show my friends. When I heard just recently about MUFON I had to show you this. I also showed it to my relatives but they all shrugged and just nothing happened. Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Lights
Scarborough — My father in law was watching a display team flying in formation over the North Bay on June 29, 2013. He took a few shots with his iPhone and when he reviewed them later that day he noticed the object in the picture. He did not notice it at the time and it did not show up in any other frames. I imported the picture into Iphoto on my Mac and was able to enlarge the image to show the approx size and shape in more detail. There was many other people watching the display and it is highly likely that this object was caught by another person with a camera. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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ROSWELL UFO CRASH – FIRST HAND WITNESS TESTIMONY – ONE WAS ALIVE !
ROSWELL UFO CRASH – FIRST HAND WITNESS TESTIMONY – ONE WAS ALIVE !
This is Gerald Anderson’s story of the Roswell UFO crash. He was interviewed by famous UFO researcher Stanton Friedman (the same researcher who first obtained Major Jesse A. Marcel’s testimony about the Roswell incident.
During this interview, Gerald Anderson tells of him as a young boy of walking up on a crashed UFO complete with its crew of 4 and with one alien creature still alive.
THE ROSWELL INCIDENT WAS, IN FACT, A CRASHED UFO
Anderson was out rock hunting with some family members on the Plains of St. Augustine near Socorro on the July 1947 morning that this event took place.
His testimony was polygraph proved, which proves that the UFO phenomenon is real and the Roswell Incident was, in fact, a crashed UFO.
When they were out rock hunting, they discovered a silver disk. There were three creatures, three bodies, lying on the ground underneath this thing in the shade. Two weren’t moving, and the third one obviously was having trouble breathing. There was a fourth one next to it, sitting there on the ground. There wasn’t a thing wrong with it, and it apparently had been giving first aid to the others.
After a couple of minutes, Anderson investigated the UFO and the alien that was still alive turned and looked at him. Anderson had the feeling the creature was inside of his mind. He could hear his thoughts.
A group of armed soldiers suddenly appeared. The extraterrestrial creature, which had calmed down after its initial fright, “went crazy” at the sight of the soldiers. Thinking back on the creature’s plight today brings on the “most awful, horrible feeling,” Anderson says.
“His situation was hopeless. He was aware of it. He’d just lived through a nightmare that most of us wouldn’t be able to psychologically stand. He’d watched two of his crew die. He knew there’s no chance of rescue because our military is here and his people aren’t going to be able to get him.
“As a kid, I was aware of what being afraid of the dark was like., and the feeling I got from him at the moment was that feeling multiplied a million times. It was really scary. It was terrifying.
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UFOS AND PROJECT MOON DUST
UFOS AND PROJECT MOON DUST
Over the years, ufologists have given a great deal of attention to a certain U.S. military program called Project Moon Dust (also referred to as Moondust). Its origins date back to the 1950s. The reason why so much attention has been placed upon Project Moon Dust is because of its potential connection to the issue of alleged crashed and recovered UFOs held by elements of the U.S. military – crash-retrievals or C/Rs as they are generally known. But, was Moon Dust really the key operation in secretly locating and recovering crashed ships from faraway worlds?
Back in 1979, the late UFO researcher Robert Todd obtained a 1961 Air Force Intelligence document (declassified under the terms of the Freedom of Information Act) which offered intriguing data on the program – and on certain related operations, too. Dated November 3, 1961, the document states in part:
“…In addition to their staff duty assignments, intelligence team personnel have peacetime duty functions in support of such Air Force projects as Moondust, Bluefly, and UFO, and other AFCIN directed quick reaction projects which require intelligence team operational capabilities…Unidentified Flying Objects (UFO): Headquarters USAF has established a program for investigation of reliably reported unidentified flying objects within the United States. AFR 200-2 delineates 1127th collection responsibilities…”
The document continues: “Blue Fly: Operation Blue Fly has been established to facilitate expeditious delivery to FTD of Moon Dust or other items of great technical intelligence interest. AFCIN SOP for Blue Fly operations, February 1960, provides for 1127th participation. Moon Dust: As a specialized aspect of its over-all material exploitation program, Headquarters USAF has established Project Moon Dust to locate, recover and deliver descended foreign space vehicles. ICGL #4, 25 April 1961, delineates collection responsibilities.”
That Moon Dust undertook some intriguing operations is not in any doubt. Hundreds of pages of Moon Dust files are now in the public domain – all thanks to the provisions of the FOIA. Aside, that is, from one allegedly leaked document, which tells a spectacular story ofUFOs, JFK and Marilyn Monroe. That it sounds too good to be true is because it probably is. The FOIA files tell of the recoveries of Soviet missiles, parts of aircraft, and portions of burned-up satellites. But what about UFOs? There is no doubt that the November 3, 1961 document refers to both UFOs and Project Moon Dust. The Air Force’s very own words make the connection. But, when the Air Force referenced UFOs, what, exactly, were they talking/thinking about? That is, perhaps, the most important aspect of this admittedly intriguing affair.
For many people within the field of Ufology, the term “UFO” firmly equates to “alien spacecraft.” But, does it really? No, it does not. A UFO is just an unknown object flying in the sky – and that is all it is. At least, until we know better. We can find more than a few examples in the Moon Dust files where the word “UFO” is used, but where the data was clearly focusing on Russian satellites, rocket-boosters and so on. In some cases, members of the public perceived the Earth-bound, falling remains of those satellites and rocket-boosters as UFOs, when they were seen hurtling through the Earth’s atmosphere. Studying those reports from members of the public who thought they had seen UFOs (as in craft from other worlds) helped U.S. military intelligence to find and recover wrecked/crashed Russian technology.
In other words, it is clear that on many occasions Moon Dust personnel were looking at UFO reports to try and determine if the sightings corr elated with the sightings/crashes of Soviet technology. Sometimes they did. On other occasions, they drew a blank. Maybe Project Moon Dust operatives did recover alien spacecraft on one or more occasions. But, there is absolutely no evidence of that so far. There is, however, a great deal of data which – when interpreted in an unbiased fashion – shows that Moon Dust personnel were using the word “UFO” for something akin to “probable decaying Soviet satellite” and not to “aliens fromZeta Reticuli.”
Scientists have learned that Ceres’ bright spots are only about 4 million years old. And – to geologists – youth means activity and, in this case, ice volcanos.
Coolest Ceres bright spot image yet? Stereoscopic 3D and false-color image of a part of Occator crater, within which the bright spots reside. The image clearly shows the bright spots’ dome shape.
The dwarf planet Ceres’ bright spot controversy has all but been laid to rest. We don’t often see claims anymore that they’re a sign of extraterrestrial life, as we did in 2015, when the Dawn spacecraft first spotted them on approach to Ceres. Now Dawn has been orbiting Ceres for nearly two years, moving into various orbits that have given it multiple perspectives on the planet. We’ve learned that Ceres has many bright spots and that they’re salt deposits. But scientists are still studying Ceres’ bright spots. On March 6, 2017, the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) said that scientists have, for the first time, determined the spots’ age. They are only about four million years, some 30 million years younger than Occator crater, the crater within which they lie. This results suggests eruptive outbursts of sub-surface brine on Ceres over a long period, until “almost recently.”
Ceres is thus the body closest to the sun that shows cryovolcanic [ice volcanic] activity.
Dawn’s scientific imaging system – the Dawn Framing Cameras – were developed and built and are operated under the leadership of the MPS. Researchers there have been investigating the complex geologic structures the cameras have revealed. At its lowest orbit – the so-called Low Altitude Mapping Orbit – Dawn was only 235 miles (375 km) above Ceres’ surface. Detailed images of Occator crater showed fractures, avalanches, and younger, smaller craters. Andreas Nathues, Framing Camera Lead Investigator, said:
In these data, the origin and evolution of the crater as it presents itself today can be read more clearly than ever before.
Here’s the image that set off the Ceres bright spot controversy in 2015. NASA’s Dawn spacecraft acquired it on approach to Ceres, at a distance of some 29,000 miles (46,000 km). Although some thought they heralded alien life, the bright spots turned out to be salt deposits.
Located in Ceres’ northern hemisphere, Occator crater is 57 miles (92 km) wide. In its center is a pit with a diameter of about 7 miles (11 km). On some parts of its edges, jagged mountains and steep slopes rise up to 2,460 feet (750 meters). Within the pit a bright dome formed. It has a diameter of about 2 miles (3 km), is about 1,300 feet (400 meters) high and displays prominent fractures. MPS scientist Thomas Platz commented:
This dome contains the brightest material on Ceres.
Nathues and his team interpret the central pit with its rocky, jagged ridge as a remnant of a former central mountain. It formed as a result of the impact that created Occator Crater some 34 million years ago and collapsed later. They believe the dome of bright material is much younger: only approximately four million years. Their statement explained:
The key to determining these ages was the accurate counting and measuring of smaller craters torn by later impacts. This method’s basic assumption is that surfaces showing many craters are older than those that are less strongly ‘perforated.’ Since even very small craters are visible in highly resolved images, the new study contains the most accurate dating so far.
These scientists are now speaking of a “recurring, eruptive process” on Ceres. They say a look into Jupiter’s system of moons supports this theory. The jovian moons Callisto and Ganymede, for example, show domes similar to that found in Ceres’ Occator crater.
Researchers interpret them as volcanic deposits and thus as signs of ice volcanism (cryovolcanism) since Ceres is too small and too far from the sun to have hot magma at its core.
False color mosaic showing parts of Occator crater. The images were taken from a distance of 235 miles (375 km). The left side of the mosaic shows the central pit containing the brightest material on Ceres. It measures 7 miles (11 km) in diameter and is partly surrounded by jagged mountains. In the middle of the pit a dome towers 1,300 feet (400 meters) high covered by fractures. It has a diameter of three kilometers. The right side of the mosaic shows further, less bright spots in Occator crater.
The large impact that tore the giant Occator crater into the surface of the dwarf planet must have originally started everything and triggered the later cryovolcanic activity.
Following the disruption of the impact, the brine researchers suspect either as a complete layer or as scattered patches under the rocky mantle was able to move closer to the surface. The lower pressure allowed water and dissolved gases, such as methane and carbon dioxide, to escape forming a system of vents. At the surface, fractures appeared through which the saturated solution erupted from the depth.
The deposited salts gradually formed the present dome, with the last of these eruptions creating the present surface of the dome four million years ago.
This view of the whole Occator crater shows the brightly colored pit in its center and the cryovolcanic dome. The jagged mountains on the edge of the pit throw their shadows on parts of the pit. This image was taken from a distance of 918 miles (1,478 km) above Ceres’ surface.
Volcanoes could make some planets warm enough for alien life
Volcanoes could make some planets warm enough for alien life
One of the newly discovered planets around the red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 could have hydrogen-spewing volcanoes that could boost the temperatures of seemingly frigid alien planets enough to maintain liquid water on their surface.
NASA/JPL-CALTECH/R. HURT, T. PYLE (IPAC)
Hydrogen-spewing volcanoes could boost the temperatures of seemingly frigid alien planets enough to maintain liquid water on their surfaces, making the worlds potentially habitable to life as we know it, a new study suggests.
If the newfound TRAPPIST-1h — the most distant of a set of seven Earth-size worlds that orbit a dwarf star just 39 light-years from Earth — boasted such volcanoes, it could be warm enough to hold onto water, study team members said.
In the past, scientists determined that the “habitable zone” — the range of distances from a star that can support liquid water on a world’s surface -- expands when planets have hydrogen in their atmospheres. However, because hydrogen is such a light gas, it quickly escapes to space, leaving such planets devoid of it within a few tens of millions of years. [5 Amazing Facts About the TRAPPIST-1 System (Video)]
But active volcanoes could change that, according to the new study.
“Our volcanic-hydrogen habitable zone is different, because so long as volcanism is intense enough, it can outpace the rate at which hydrogen escapes into space,” lead author Ramses Ramirez, a planetary scientist at Cornell University in New York, told Space.com by email.
Ramirez and fellow planetary scientist Lisa Kaltenegger, also at Cornell, examined how active hydrogen-rich volcanos could continue to resupply a planet with a hydrogen atmosphere. They found the activity could increase the size of the habitable zone by as much as 60 percent, dramatically extending the region where habitable planets might lie.
According to Ramirez, the increased volcanism “allows potentially habitable conditions for much longer geologic timescales.”
Improving the odds
The hunt for signs of life on worlds beyond the solar system tends to focus on the habitable zone, because water is crucial to life as we know it. (While other evolutionary paths are possible, scientists prefer to focus on the one known to have succeeded at least once.)
While studying possibilities for early Mars, Ramirez and Kaltenegger realized that massive outgassing of hydrogen early in the life of the Red Planet could have made for a warmer, wetter world.
“I liked the idea enough that I decided to extend it to the habitable zone,” Ramirez said.
Stellar temperature versus distance from the star compared to Earth for the classic habitable zone (shaded blue) and the volcanic habitable zone extension (shaded red).
R. RAMIREZ, CARL SAGAN INSTITUTE, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
The process works well for small planets like Mars, where internal processes would keep the mantle hydrogen-rich. When volcanoes spew lava from the mantle, they can release hydrogen and hydrogen-rich gases into the atmosphere. A hydrogen-rich atmosphere could bump out the outer edge of the habitable zone by as much as 60 percent, giving more worlds the opportunity to hold onto their life-giving water, Ramirez and Kaltenegger said.
That doesn’t mean larger worlds are out of luck. While massive super-Earths are more likely to release hydrogen-poor gases into the air, they could still have enough volcanoes spewing material to outpace the escape of hydrogen into space. Such large worlds also have gravity on their side and are more likely to boast magnetic fields, both of which slow down hydrogen’s escape into space.
The exact properties of these volcanoes would depend on their home planet. A planet’s mass (which affects how strongly gravity tugs at the lava) and whether it has plate tectonics play key roles in building its volcanoes. On Earth, collision and disruption of the crust through tectonics mix up the material that becomes the lava, creating a variety of chemical compositions. On Mars, where gravity is low and the crust is a single large plate, Ramirez said, volcanic material is less evolved, and the lava flows pile up to create huge volcanoes, including the largest in the solar system, Olympus Mons. [Supervolcanoes Found On Mars (Video)]
Dense hydrogen atmospheres on alien worlds could still bear a strong similarity to Earth’s. That could have implications for our young planet, Ramirez said.
“One idea suggested that hydrogen gas concentrations may have been high on the early Earth,” he said. (Today, hydrogen is but a trace component of Earth’s atmosphere, which is 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen.) “If that hypothesis is true, early Earth may have resembled these hydrogen-rich exoplanets.”
Last week, scientists announced the discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 system, a series of seven rocky worlds, each about the same size as Earth, around a dwarf star. At least three of the worlds appear to fall within the habitable zone, assuming they have Earth-like atmospheres.
Treasure trove of new planets found
TRAPPIST-1h, the most distant of the seven worlds, seems to be out in the cold. But if the small planet has volcanoes venting hydrogen gas, it could just make the cut for habitability, study team members said.
According to Ramirez, TRAPPIST-1h lies just outside the new volcanic hydrogen habitable zone.
“But it is really close,” he said. If volcanoes on the planet released a bit more hydrogen than the team’s models call for, it could hold onto liquid water, he added.
That could mean good news in the hunt for life. Because the TRAPPIST-1 system lies only 39 light-years from Earth, it will make a good target for studying the atmospheres of planets with observatories like NASA’s $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in late 2018.
Exoplanet atmospheres are beginning to release their secrets. When a world passes between Earth and its star, the planet’s atmosphere absorbs some of the light, allowing scientists to study the atmosphere’s composition.
Even if “biosignature” gases were found in a planet’s atmosphere, it could still be a challenge to determine if they were produced by living organisms or through other processes, Ramirez said. Still, just locating the signatures would be easier with volcanically active worlds, since hydrogen “puffs up” the atmosphere around a planet, creating a larger atmospheric signal that would be easier to study.
“Biosignatures would be easier to detect in these hydrogen-rich atmospheres,” Ramirez said.
Not just one, but seven Earth-size planets that could potentially harbour life have been identified orbiting a tiny star not too far away, offering the first realistic opportunity to search for signs of alien life outside the solar system. The planets orbit a dwarf star named Trappist-1, about 40 light years, or 235 trillion miles, from Earth. That is quite close in cosmic terms, and by happy accident, the orientation of the orbits of the seven planets allows them to be studied in great detail.
One or more of the exoplanets in this new system could be at the right temperature to be awash in oceans of water, astronomers said, based on the distance of the planets from the dwarf star. “This is the first time so many planets of this kind are found around the same star,” Michael Gillon, an astronomer at the University of Liege in Belgium and the leader of an international team that has been observing Trappist-1, said during a telephone news conference organised by the journal Nature, which published the findings last month. Evidence of life Scientists could even discover compelling evidence of aliens. “I think that we have made a crucial step toward finding if there is life out there,” said Amaury HMJ Triaud, an astronomer at the University of Cambridge in England and another member of the research team. “Here, if life managed to thrive and releases gases similar to that we have on Earth, then we will know.”
Cool red dwarfs are the most common type of star, so astronomers are likely to find more planetary systems like that around Trappist-1 in the coming years. “You can just imagine how many worlds are out there that have a shot to becoming a habitable ecosystem,” Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator of NASA’s science mission directorate, said during a recent NASA news conference. “Are we alone out there? We’re making a step forward with this — a leap forward, in fact — towards answering that question.”
Telescopes on the ground now and the Hubble Space Telescope in orbit will be able to discern some of the molecules in the planetary atmospheres. The James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to launch next year, will peer at the infrared wavelengths of light, ideal for studying Trappist-1. Comparisons among the different conditions of the seven will also be revealing. “The Trappist-1 planets make the search for life in the galaxy imminent,” said Sara Seager, an astronomer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA who was not a member of the research team. “For the first time ever, we don’t have to speculate. We just have to wait and then make very careful observations and see what is in the atmospheres of the Trappist planets.”
Even if all the planets turn out to be lifeless, scientists will have learned more about what keeps life from flourishing. Astronomers always knew other stars must have planets, but until a couple of decades ago, they had not been able to spot them.
Now they have confirmed more than 3,400, according to the Open Exoplanet Catalogue. The authors of the Nature paper include Didier Queloz, one of the astronomers who discovered in 1995 the first known exoplanet around a sunlike star.
While the Trappist planets are about the size of Earth — give or take 25% in diameter — the star is very different from our Sun. Trappist-1, named after a robotic telescope in the Atacama Desert of Chile that astronomers initially used to study the star, is what astronomers call an “ultracool dwarf,” with only one-twelfth the mass of the Sun and a surface temperature of 4,150 degrees Fahrenheit, much cooler than the 10,000 degrees radiating from the Sun. Trappist is a shortening of Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope. During the NASA news conference, Michael gave a simple analogy: If our Sun were the size of a basketball, Trappist-1 would be a golf ball.
Until the last few years, scientists looking for life elsewhere in the galaxy have focused on finding Earth-size planets around Sun-like stars. But it is difficult to pick out the light of a planet from the glare of a bright star. Small dim dwarfs are much easier to study. Last year, astronomers announced the discovery of an Earth-size planet around Proxima Centauri, the closest star at 4.24 light years away. That discovery was made using a different technique that does not allow for study of the atmosphere. Trappist-1 periodically dimmed noticeably, indicating that a planet might be passing in front of the star, blocking part of the light. From the shape of the dips, the astronomers calculate the size of the planet.
Trappist-1’s light dipped so many times that the astronomers concluded, in research reported last year, that there were at least three planets around the star. Telescopes from around the world then also observed Trappist-1, as did the Spitzer Space Telescope of NASA. Spitzer observed Trappist-1 nearly around the clock for 20 days, capturing 34 transits.
Crucial observations Together with the ground observations, it let scientists calculate not three planets, but seven. The planets are too small and too close to the star to be photographed directly. All seven are very close to the dwarf star, circling more quickly than the planets in our solar system. The innermost completes an orbit in just 1.5 days. The farthest one completes an orbit in about 20 days. That makes the planetary system more like the moons of Jupiter than a larger planetary system like our solar system.
Because the planets are so close to a cool star, their surfaces could be at the right temperatures to have water flow, considered one of the essential ingredients for life.
The fourth, fifth and sixth planets orbit in the star’s “habitable zone,” where the planets could sport oceans. So far that is just speculation, but by measuring which wavelengths of light are blocked by the planet, scientists will be able to figure out what gases float in the atmospheres of the seven planets. So far, they have confirmed for the two innermost planets that they are not enveloped in hydrogen.
That means they are rocky like Earth, ruling out the possibility that they were mini-Neptune gas planets that are prevalent around many other stars. If observations reveal oxygen in a planet’s atmosphere, that could point to photosynthesis of plants — although not conclusively. But oxygen together with methane, ozone and carbon dioxide, particularly in certain proportions, “would tell us that there is life with 99% confidence,” Michael said. Astronomers expect that a few decades of technological advances are needed before similar observations can be made of Earthlike planets around larger, brighter sunlike stars.
Scientists claim Mars was once completely covered in water - and may have harboured alien LIFE
Scientists claim Mars was once completely covered in water - and may have harboured alien LIFE
Minerals found on Martian meteorite could provide evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet
BY BEN CUSACK
Scientists analysing minerals found on Martian meteorites say that Mars may well have once been completely covered in water.
They found evidence that a mineral found in Martian meteorites - which had been considered as proof of an ancient dry environment on Mars - may have originally been a hydrogen-containing mineral.
This means that there could have been more water on Mars at one stage - possibly covering the entire red planet in oceans.
The research was conducted in part by scientists at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who led an international research team in the study, created a synthetic version of a hydrogen-containing mineral known as whitlockite.
After shock-compression experiments on whitlockite samples that simulated the conditions of ejecting meteorites from Mars, the researchers studied their microscopic makeup with X-ray experiments with top-of-the-line machinery.
The Mojave Crater on Mars, which is believed to be the source of some Martian meteorites found on Earth, is pictured here in a rendering produced by the HIRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter(Photo: NASA/SWNS.COM)
Martin Kunz, a staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's ALS who participated in X-ray studies of the samples, said: "This is important for deducing how much water could have been on Mars, and whether the water was from Mars itself rather than comets or meteorites."
Their experiments showed that whitlockite can become dehydrated from such shocks, forming merrillite, a mineral that is commonly found in Martian meteorites but does not occur naturally on Earth.
Study co-lead Professor Oliver Tschauner (corr) from UNLV said: "If even a part of merrillite had been whitlockite before, it changes the water budget of Mars dramatically."
And because whitlockite can be dissolved in water and contains phosphorous, an essential element for life on Earth, the study further increases the chances there could have been life on Mars.
Prof Tschauner said: "The overarching question here is about water on Mars and its early history on Mars: Had there ever been an environment that enabled a generation of life on Mars?"
This view of Mars was created from about 1,000 Viking Orbiter images(Photo: NASA/SWNS.COM)
The pressures and temperatures generated in the shock experiments, while comparable to those of a meteorite impact, lasted for only about 100 billionths of a second, or about one-tenth to one-hundredth as long as an actual meteorite impact.
The fact that experiments showed even partial conversion to merrillite in these lab-created conditions, a longer duration impact would likely have produced "almost full conversion" - which could be why they cannot find any whitlockite in their Martian samples.
He added that this latest study appears to be one of the first of its kind to detail the shock effects on synthetic whitlockite, which is rare on Earth.
Researchers blasted the synthetic whitlockite samples with metal plates fired from a gas-pressurised gun at speeds of up to 1,678 miles per hour, at ultra-high pressure - to simulate being blasted out to space from Mars.
There is evidence that liquid water flows on Mars today, though there has not yet been scientific proof that life has ever existed on Mars.
This mosaic of images from the Curiosity rover's Mast Camera shows evidence of ancient lake and stream deposits on Mars(Photo: NASA/SWNS.COM)
In 2013, planetary scientists reported that darkish streaks that appear on Martian slopes are likely related to occasional rivers flowing down the hills.
And in November 2016, NASA scientists reported that a large underground body of water ice in one region of Mars contains the equivalent of all of the water in Lake Superior, the largest of the Great Lakes.
Rover explorations have also found evidence of the former abundance of water based on analysis of surface rocks.
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Prof Tschauner added: "The only missing link now is to prove that merrillite had, in fact, really been Martian whitlockite before.
"We have to go back to the real meteorites and see if there had been traces of water."
The study was published today (Tues) in the journal Nature Communications
Peru: A Dozen UFOs Suspend Flights in Peru's Jorge Chavez Airport
Peru: A Dozen UFOs Suspend Flights in Peru's Jorge Chavez Airport
Source: Planeta UFO and Radio Santiago (Chile) https://www.radiosantiago.cl/archivo/4907 Date: March 3, 2017
Peru: A Dozen UFOs Suspend Flights in Peru's Jorge Chavez Airport
A flotilla of UFOs allegedly caused the suspension of flight operations at the Jorge Chávez Airport in El Callao (Perú). The sighting ocurred during the month of February, and what startled Peruvian ufologists is that the Corporación Peruana de Aeropuertos y Aviacion Comercial (CORPAC, Peruvian Airports and Commercial Aviation Corporation) recorded the incident in an official document.
With regard to the alleged sighting of the UFO flotilla in the Jorge Chavez Internationa Airport's airspace, ufologist Mario Zegarra says CORPAC filed official documents recording the incident, which hindered air oeprations that evening.
According to Zegarra, there are recordings capturing conversations between the control tower and those pilots unable to take off or land in the airport for at least three hours.
"The radar at Jorge Chavez captured 12 unidentified contacts on its screen, each identified with code 0000 for UFO," said Zegarra.
Another ufologist, Joshue Cornejo, says that a UFO was recorded at 7:38 that evening using night vision equipment. "These objects cannot be seen unaided," Cornejo noted, but can be captured on the infrared band."
UFO specialist Mario Zegarra will hold a conference on March 11th in Miraflores.
[Translation (c) 2017, S. Corrales (IHU) with thanks to Guillermo Giménez, Planeta UFO]
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Jimmy Kimmel asks another former president about UFO secrets
Jimmy Kimmel asks another former president about UFO secrets
Jimmy Kimmel is at it again, this time with former POTUS George Bush. Kimmel has a habit of asking presidents – and a presidential candidate -what they know about UFOs and the government’s secret files. Bush was on the hot seat last week, and his answers might make some scratch their heads.
George Bush answering UFO questions on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
(Credit: YouTube/Jimmy Kimmel Live)
Kimmel broached the topic by asking:
“This is a question, first, that I think is important to me and to the country. When you were in office, I don’t know when this happened or if it happened, did you go through the secret files, the UFO documents? Because…”
Bush interrupted, “Maybe.”
Kimmel finished his question, “…that would be the first thing I did.”
Bush responded: “My daughters asked the same question.”
Kimmel was surprised by this, and asked, “Would you be allowed to tell your daughters what was in those files?”
“No,” Bush replied.
Kimmel continued to push, “Now that you’re out of office, you can do anything you want, right?”
“True. But I am not telling you,” Bush replied.
Kimmel then sought to clarify, “Are you not telling me you looked at them?”
“I’m not telling you nuthin’,” Bush responded. This got a chuckle out of the crowd and Kimmel.
However, Kimmel was not done yet. He asked, “Are there really great secrets that you know that you can’t share with people?”
“Yeah,” Bush replied.
Kimmel then asked, “There are? And you never write about them?”
“No,” Bush replied.
Kimmel then suggested perhaps Bush would write about it later in life, like when he is 90.
“No,” Bush replied.
Still pressing, Kimmel asked, “Nothing? What if you were to get a little loopy and…”
“Start drinking again?,” Bush asked.
Kimmel laughed, and agreed. “Yeah. Start drinking again. Guillermo, get some tequila!”
Bush and Kimmel laugh during UFO discussion on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
(Credit: YouTube/Jimmy Kimmel Live)
That was the extent of their ET conversation, as you can see in the video above. The conversation was actually very interesting. Bush seemed to imply he has seen UFO files of which he cannot share the content. Was he kidding? In this setting, one which is about getting laughs, that could be assumed. However, during much of the conversation, Bush did not appear to be joking.
If Bush really has seen UFO files that are top secret and still under wraps, that would be significant. Thus far, every president has denied that such a thing exists. Obama said the aliens would not let him tell Kimmel about the secret files, but he did seem to be joking. Clinton said he looked for secret government UFO files, but did not find any. At least once, he did imply that career bureaucrats could be keeping them secret for him. One of our previous stories on this, and Clinton’s talk with Kimmel, was found in recent WikiLeaks.
Ben Hansen presenting his analysis of other presidential interviews regarding UFOs and aliens at the 2017 International UFO Congress.
(Credit: UFOCongress.com/OpenMinds.tv)
Ben Hansen, former host of the Syfy program Fact or Faked: The Paranormal Files, has examined previous statements by presidents, or presidential hopefuls, and he says there is some indication that there is something to hide. He admits, he is not sure what the something is, or if it is UFO or ET related. He intends to scrutinize this video, and when he does, we will let you know what he finds out.
As a kid growing up I learned that all Earth life relied either directly or indirectly upon sunlight and an atmosphere with O2, textbook stuff. Then in the late 1970’s, biologists discovered Riftia pachyptila, chemosynthetic tube worms, living around black smoker vents at the the bottom of the Pacific Ocean not far from the Galapagos Islands, the birthplace of Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection.
Life has never been the same since.
In the early 1990’s Bacillus infernus, a bacterium, was discovered 10,000 feet beneath a farmer’s field in Virginia, where it or its ancestors had been living for 200 million years. Since then entire ecosystems have been uncovered residing miles beneath the surface in deep fractures sustained indefinitely by nothing more than the desultory decay of radiogenic uranium, thorium and potassium or the anemic oxidation of iron-bearing minerals.
With all of this life flourishing in what was previously believed to be a sterile dominion, you can’t help but look at the images of the ancient Martian surface and wonder if life also exists beneath its frozen, dessicated surface. If you had openly asked a question like that in the 16thcentury you would have been burned at the stake, like Giordano Bruno, an Italian Dominican friar, philosopher and the first astrobiologist. More than a hundred years ago, Percival Lowell believed that he could see evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization living on the surface of Mars, but that optical illusion, along with his scientific credibility, was dispelled within fifteen years of his discovery. In 1901 H. G. Wells, a contemporary of Lowell, published The First Men in the Moon, in which he constructed a fantastically sophisticated society of insect-like creatures, Selenites, living beneath the lunar surface. Since then, the concept of extraterrestrial subsurface life has figured frequently in science fiction novels and movies, even episodes of Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation. It is certainly true that if you burrow miles into the Moon or Mars, you will reach a temperature at which fresh liquid water, the essential ingredient for life as we know it, can exist.
But can life survive miles beneath a planet’s surface for billions of years even when that surface is inimical to it? To find out, our team went miles beneath the surface of our own planet, into the mines of South Africa where gold is extracted from the 3 billion year old sedimentary and volcanic rock of the Witwatersrand Basin. This basin has not been metamorphosed since a meteor impacted it 2 billion years ago, creating the colossal Vredefort Impact structure. In the fissures and crevices workers intersected during ultra-deep mining we found saline water that was tens to hundreds of millions of years old, full of hydrogen and methane gas generated by radiation and a natural form of Fischer-Tropsch organic synthesis. And in that water we found complex communities of life forms busily mining nutrients and energy from the rock.
The bedrock of the communities were chemolithoautotrophic Bacteria and Archaea that were fixing CO2 and N2 to make biomass. Feeding off their metabolic waste were other chemolithotrophs engaged in a syntrophic dance by excreting their own waste products to be recycled by the primary producers. Even more abundant were the viruses that were shuttling snippets of genes to be incorporated into the evolving microbial genomes. The most dramatic discovery was the presence of multicellular nematodes feeding on the bacteria and reproducing asexually. Similar subsurface communities and, in some cases, the same species have been reported in seafloor vents even though this part of South Africa has been covered by ocean water for 2.5 billion years. One of our primary producers was bacterial species found to be chemotactic and apparently migrating hundred of kilometers beneath the surface. We named it Desulforudis audaxviator. Audaxviator is derived from Jules Verne’s book, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and is Latin for “bold traveller.”
The longevity and internal sustainability of subsurface ecosystems on Earth means that if life emerged early on Mars, then there is no reason to believe it would not be present beneath the surface today. Drilling down miles through frozen rock to reach liquid water on Mars to obtain samples of the subsurface biosphere will likely have to await human colonization of that planet. But many other worlds such as Europa, Enceladus, and even Pluto, have liquid water at depth, an in the case of Europa and Enceladus vent this water to space as plumes that could be readable sampled for life. Yet these planetary bodies differ from Mars in that their surfaces were never habitable for life as we know it. For life to exist beneath their icy crusts, the processes leading to the origin of life have to be able to occur in the absence of sunlight.
As we do not have a complete picture of how life originated on the Earth, but rather just a few pieces of the puzzle, we cannot say with certainty if life can originate beneath the surface of a world. The late physicist Tommy Gold hypothesized that life may have originated beneath the surface of the Earth and subsequently rose to colonize the surface as ocean-evaporating meteorite impacts waned and the surface became more hospitable. Today regions of ancient continental crust exist where DNA life forms and their remains have been completely eradicated by geological heating in the past, or “paleopastuerization.” They are now cool and contain pockets of saline water that are habitable, and in some cases have been isolated from the surface for hundreds of millions to billions of years.
If Tommy Gold was right, then these Darwinian “warm little ponds” may be the locus of ongoing abiotic synthesis of building blocks for life, peptides and nucelotides. If there were any place on this planet where life forms exist as a “shadow biosphere” and do not have the signature ribosomal RNA, it would be the deep subsurface of our planet. Such a discovery would have enormous implications for life elsewhere in our solar system. We only have to go hunt for them.
Dark, narrow streaks on the slopes of Hale Crater are believed to have been formed by seasonal flow of water on the surface of Mars Nasa
Scientists have found that Mars was likely far wetter – and capable of supporting life – than we previously thought.
A new study, which simulated Martian meteorites to understand more about its ancient environment, suggests that our history of the planet's surface might be entirely wrong.
Until now, a specific mineral found in Martian meteorites was used as proof that the planet had an ancient, dry environment. But in fact it might have contained hydrogen, which may see the history of the Red Planet rewritten into one far more covered with water.
Water is thought to be one of the central building blocks and requirements of life, and any discovery of water vastly improves the chances that the planet was inhabited.
The study also found that the important material could help create phosphorous – another essential element for life on Earth, and perhaps on Mars.
In the study, scientists created a synthetic version of the mineral known as whitlockite. They then conducted shock-compression experiments on samples of the material, simulating the conditions of being thrown on a meteorite from Mars.
The material was then studied using X-rays to find its microscopic makeup. They found that whitlockite could become dehydrated from those shocks and form merrillite, which is commonly found in meteorites thrown to Earth from Mars but doesn't occur here naturally.
“This is important for deducing how much water could have been on Mars, and whether the water was from Mars itself rather than comets or meteorites,” said Martin Kunz, a staff scientist who worked on the studies of the samples.
“If even a part of merrillite had been whitlockite before, it changes the water budget of Mars dramatically,” said Oliver Tschauner, a professor who co-led the study with Christopher Adcock.
The “water budget” is central to the question of whether there was ever life on Mars. Whitlockite can be dissolved in water to make phosphorus – which is required to bring about life on Earth – and the material could therefore once have been abundant on the planet.
“The overarching question here is about water on Mars and its early history on Mars: Had there ever been an environment that enabled a generation of life on Mars?” Professor Tschauner said.
What will a home on Mars look like?
To simulate the effect of being thrown from Mars, scientists blasted the synthetic whitlockite samples with metal plates that were fired from guns at about 1,678 miles per hour and with huge amounts of pressure. That extreme situation was required to simulate the shock of being hurled the planets atmosphere.
“You need a very severe impact to accelerate material fast enough to escape the gravitational pull of Mars,” said Professor Tschauner.
Even still, those conditions lasted for only 100 billionths of a second. That was only about 1 per cent as long as the actual experience would be – meaning that the conversion to merrillite would be even more potent on Mars.
Scientists now hope to prove that the conversion had actually taken place, by studying the meteorites on Earth and looking for traces of water.
If they found it, it would add to the already huge evidence that Mars once flowed with water and might continue to do so today. In 2013, scientists announced that streaks on the planet's surface appear to be caused by flowing water, and late last year researchers said that they had found a huge underground body of water ice on the planet.
But the new research shows how the planet might have been covered in far more water than it is today. Many Martian meteorites appear to come from a period around 150 million to 586 million years ago, and are thrown onto the Earth from deep beneath the surface, meaning that they don't necessary reflect the recent geology on the Red Planet's surface.
Exclusive! Churchill's 'found' essay on aliens grips world, mistakenly
Exclusive! Churchill's 'found' essay on aliens grips world, mistakenly
JAKE ELLION, SPECIAL TO SEATTLEPI.COM
"And there shall in that time be rumours of things going astray, and there will be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base, that has an attachment ... " — Monty Python, "Life of Brian."
Winston Churchill doing research for his essay on the possibility of extraterrestrial life titled "Are We Alone in the Universe?" found at the National Churchill Museum at Westminster College? ... perhaps.
In a world where many are absolutely desperate for the discovery of alien life, especially intelligent alien life — possibly even the takeover of politics by a superior extraterrestrial life form — news that Winston Churchill had mused about aliens in an unpublished essay nearly broke the internet.
In fact, we got on the bandwagon and sought to explore what Churchill had written about LGMs (aka Little Green Men). Did he mention UFOs? Did he have conspiracies about aliens living here among us ... you know, not immigrants but ALIENS?
So, we hit the streets and pounded on doors ... well, we started searching the internet. And, while our feats of journalism — one phone call and a couple of emails — are astounding and brilliant, we'll cut to the chase. (Lots more details below.)
First, the Churchill essay in question exists in two very similar unpublished forms, both held in university archives, and in one truncated form published in a newspaper in 1942.
Churchill also stated that he saw great opportunity for space exploration. “One day, possibly in the near future, it may be possible to travel to the moon, or even to Venus or Mars,” he wrote 30 years before Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon.
So, while the essay was certainly forgotten by many and the found version contains paragraphs not published, the bulk of the essay was indeed published.
Second, the 11-page essay in question does in fact ponder the questions of whether extraterrestrial life might exist, where it might exist, whether we could ever discover it or communicate with it, and whether or not we would recognize extraterrestrial organisms as life in the first place.
"Does life exist elsewhere in the Universe?—indeed a fascinating question," Churchill writes in the opening of all extant versions of the essay.
Photo: Hans Wild/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images
Given the vastness of the Universe, Churchill said it is hard to believe that humans on Earth represent something unique.
Okay, then, what the hell happened?
Timothy Riley, Chief Curator in the National Churchill Museum at Westminster College, said he discovered one version of the essay in 2014 while digging through the museum's archives looking for paintings by Churchill for a retrospective.
That version's title page reads: "'Are We Alone in the Universe?' by The Right Honorable Winston S. Churchill." He was understandably excited about it, but put it aside to complete his other work.
Winston Churchill’s essay titled “Are We Alone in the Universe?” found at the National Churchill Museum at Westminster College.
(Photo courtesy of National Churchill Museum at Westminster College)
Riley passed the copy to astrophysicist Mario Livio — lecturer and author of several books, including the upcoming book "Why?: What Makes Us Curious" published by Simon & Schuster. Riley figured this well-regarded astrophysicist could give some scientific perspective on Churchill's musings.
At that time, Riley says, he knew the essay was a slightly-edited version of a 1939 essay that had not been published, but he did not know about the shorter, though substantial, version published in 1942. He was tipped off to the fact of the published version by another Churchill scholar after Livio published his thoughts on Churchill's musings in the Journal Nature on Feb. 15.
After noting that some viruses can be crystallized, making them hard to categorize, he decides to concentrate on “comparatively highly-organized life,” presumably multicellular life.
"Imagine my thrill that I may be the first scientist to examine this essay," Livio wrote.
His exploration of the essay was primarily about Churchill's scientific bent, reliance on scientific advisors in government and his pretty modern exploration of the prospect of extraterrestrial life.
Churchill had, Livio said, identified early on many of the prospects for life in the universe that would continue to be the focus of attention today.
"Almost 80 years later, the question that obsessed Churchill is one of the hottest topics of scientific research. Searches for signs of subsurface life on Mars are ongoing. Simulations of Venus's climate hint that it may once have been habitable. Astronomers believe that, in a few decades, we will discover some biological signatures of present or past life in the atmospheres of extrasolar planets, or at least be able to constrain its rarity," he wrote.
All living things of the type we know require water,” he wrote. Other life-sustaining liquids cannot be ruled out, he stated, but “nothing in our present knowledge entitles us to make such an assumption.”
The internet frenzy strikes again
The mass-media coverage of the story, meanwhile, very quickly hinged on the idea that this was a "lost" or "discovered" Churchill essay. Harried reporters the world over, in a state of near hysteria to keep up, spread the story like, well, an internet virus.
Riley explains in a email exchange with us: "On February 16, after the Dr. Livio's story in Nature was published, I learned from Christopher Bell, a history professor at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, about the existence of the published version of 'Are there Men on the Moon?'"
Check out Bell's blog post on the topic and read the 1942 version on the Winston Churchill Project at Hillsdale College website.
Photo: Walter Sanders, The LIFE Picture Collection/Gett
Churchill also defined what is known today as the “habitable zone” — a narrow region around a star that is neither too cold nor too hot, so that liquid water may exist on the surface of a rocky planet. He stated that life can survive only in regions “between a few degrees of frost and the boiling point of water.”
Riley added in his email:
The essay entitled "Are We Alone in the Universe?" in the National Churchill Museum archive is, with minor typographical differences and the change in title, identical to "Are We Alone in Space?" first drafted in 1939. The essay ("Space?") is in the Churchill Archive Centre in Cambridge (CHAR 8/644). It went unpublished in 1939, though notes in the Cambridge Archive seem to indicate that News of the World was the newspaper chosen to publish the essay at that time.
The essay, "Are There Men on the Moon?" was published in the Sunday Dispatch on March 8, 1942. It was later included in The Collected Essays of Sir Winston Churchill (1975).
While it is true that much of "Are There Men on the Moon?" contains the same content as the earlier "Are We Alone in Space?" and the later "Are We Alone in the Universe?" there are important differences.
Here are a few key sentences from that unpublished essay's first pages:
One is apt to think that the most important characteristics of a living entity are that it can breed and multiply.
There are certain curious substances called 'viruses'... The particles of which they are presumably composed are too small to be seen under the microscope, but if you keep a small amount of the virus in the proper conditions for a few days, it is found to increase in quantity.
No one would believe that a lump of sugar or salt could be alive. Well, here we have a crystal ... we know will increase and multiply given the right environment. Is it alive or not?
Photo: Keystone, Getty Images
Churchill stated that a large fraction of extrasolar planets “will be the right size to keep on their surface water and possibly an atmosphere of some sort” and some will be “at the proper distance from their parent sun to maintain a suitable temperature”
Okay, but, did he think ETs exist?
Churchill's conclusion about the existence of alien life in all versions of the essay is that there must be. (You can find more of what he wrote on the topic in the slideshow above.)
According the reprint of the 1942 version published by the Winston Churchill Project in response to all the hubbub, Churchill's essay ends:
All we can say is that with hundreds of thousands of nebulae, each containing thousands of millions of suns, the odds are enormous that there must be immense numbers which possess planets whose circumstances would not render life impossible. If we are sufficiently self-centred and choose to deny that any of these support life, no one can prove we are wrong. But I, for one, am not so immensely impressed by the success we are making of our civilization here that I am prepared to think we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures, or that we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time.
Indeed.
Photo: Galerie Bilderwelt, Getty Images
He concludes that Mars and Venus are the only places in the Solar System besides Earth that could sustain life.
Note:We messaged Livio on Facebook and Twitter (the contact info he gave on his personal website), but have not yet heard back. Here's what he told professor and author Chris Bell in a Facebook exchange about the history of the essay:
As I'm sure you understand, all I did was to compare Churchill's points to current scientific thinking. All the comments on the history of the piece have been based on the best knowledge that Tim had on the piece. It's fascinating to find out that the history is even richer.
It was for us, that's for sure.
About Churchill's intellect and scientific explorations, Riley said, "The longer you study Winston Churchill, the harder it is to be surprised, because of the breadth of his intellectual curiosity. And, we know he valued science and saw the power of science to do good, but he also warned repeatedly of the nuclear threat and that science could be devastating."
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He defines the most important characteristic of life as the ability to “breed and multiply.”
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Volcanoes Could Make Some Alien Planets Warm Enough for Life
Volcanoes Could Make Some Alien Planets Warm Enough for Life
By Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor
Hydrogen-spewing volcanoes could boost the temperatures of seemingly frigid alien planets enough to maintain liquid water on their surfaces, making the worlds potentially habitable to life as we know it, a new study suggests.
If the newfound TRAPPIST-1h — the most distant of a set of seven Earth-size worlds that orbit a dwarf star just 39 light-years from Earth — boasted such volcanoes, it could be warm enough to hold onto water, study team members said.
In the past, scientists determined that the "habitable zone" — the range of distances from a star that can support liquid water on a world's surface — expands when planets have hydrogen in their atmospheres. However, because hydrogen is such a light gas, it quickly escapes to space, leaving such planets devoid of it within a few tens of millions of years. [5 Amazing Facts About the TRAPPIST-1 System (Video)]
But active volcanoes could change that, according to the new study.
"Our volcanic-hydrogen habitable zone is different, because so long as volcanism is intense enough, it can outpace the rate at which hydrogen escapes into space," lead author Ramses Ramirez, a planetary scientist at Cornell University in New York, told Space.com by email.
Ramirez and fellow planetary scientist Lisa Kaltenegger, also at Cornell, examined how active hydrogen-rich volcanos could continue to resupply a planet with a hydrogen atmosphere. They found the activity could increase the size of the habitable zone by as much as 60 percent, dramatically extending the region where habitable planets might lie.
According to Ramirez, the increased volcanism "allows potentially habitable conditions for much longer geologic timescales."
Stellar temperature versus distance from the star compared to Earth for the classic habitable zone (shaded blue) and the volcanic habitable zone extension (shaded red).
Credit: R. Ramirez, Carl Sagan Institute, Cornell University
Improving the odds
The hunt for signs of life on worlds beyond the solar system tends to focus on the habitable zone, because water is crucial to life as we know it. (While other evolutionary paths are possible, scientists prefer to focus on the one known to have succeeded at least once.)
While studying possibilities for early Mars, Ramirez and Kaltenegger realized that massive outgassing of hydrogen early in the life of the Red Planet could have made for a warmer, wetter world.
"I liked the idea enough that I decided to extend it to the habitable zone," Ramirez said.
The process works well for small planets like Mars, where internal processes would keep the mantle hydrogen-rich. When volcanoes spew lava from the mantle, they can release hydrogen and hydrogen-rich gases into the atmosphere. A hydrogen-rich atmosphere could bump out the outer edge of the habitable zone by as much as 60 percent, giving more worlds the opportunity to hold onto their life-giving water, Ramirez and Kaltenegger said.
That doesn’t mean larger worlds are out of luck. While massive super-Earths are more likely to release hydrogen-poor gases into the air, they could still have enough volcanoes spewing material to outpace the escape of hydrogen into space. Such large worlds also have gravity on their side and are more likely to boast magnetic fields, both of which slow down hydrogen's escape into space.
The exact properties of these volcanoes would depend on their home planet. A planet's mass (which affects how strongly gravity tugs at the lava) and whether it has plate tectonics play key roles in building its volcanoes. On Earth, collision and disruption of the crust through tectonics mix up the material that becomes the lava, creating a variety of chemical compositions. On Mars, where gravity is low and the crust is a single large plate, Ramirez said, volcanic material is less evolved, and the lava flows pile up to create huge volcanoes, including the largest in the solar system, Olympus Mons. [Supervolcanoes Found On Mars (Video)]
Dense hydrogen atmospheres on alien worlds could still bear a strong similarity to Earth's. That could have implications for our young planet, Ramirez said.
"One idea suggested that hydrogen gas concentrations may have been high on the early Earth," he said. (Today, hydrogen is but a trace component of Earth's atmosphere, which is 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen.) "If that hypothesis is true, early Earth may have resembled these hydrogen-rich exoplanets."
Last week, scientists announced the discovery of the TRAPPIST-1 system, a series of seven rocky worlds, each about the same size as Earth, around a dwarf star. At least three of the worlds appear to fall within the habitable zone, assuming they have Earth-like atmospheres.
TRAPPIST-1h, the most distant of the seven worlds, seems to be out in the cold. But if the small planet has volcanoes venting hydrogen gas, it could just make the cut for habitability, study team members said.
According to Ramirez, TRAPPIST-1h lies just outside the new volcanic hydrogen habitable zone.
"But it is really close," he said. If volcanoes on the planet released a bit more hydrogen than the team’s models call for, it could hold onto liquid water, he added.
That could mean good news in the hunt for life. Because the TRAPPIST-1 system lies only 39 light-years from Earth, it will make a good target for studying the atmospheres of planets with observatories like NASA's $8.8 billion James Webb Space Telescope, which is scheduled to launch in late 2018.
Exoplanet atmospheres are beginning to release their secrets. When a world passes between Earth and its star, the planet's atmosphere absorbs some of the light, allowing scientists to study the atmosphere's composition.
Even if "biosignature" gases were found in a planet’s atmosphere, it could still be a challenge to determine if they were produced by living organisms or through other processes, Ramirez said. Still, just locating the signatures would be easier with volcanically active worlds, since hydrogen "puffs up" the atmosphere around a planet, creating a larger atmospheric signal that would be easier to study.
"Biosignatures would be easier to detect in these hydrogen-rich atmospheres," Ramirez said.
From the red hearts to the tangy cola bottles, Haribo's Starmix has long been regarded as one of the world's favourite sweet treats - the tagline is 'kids and grown-ups love it so', after all.
But one social media user has thrown everyone off by claiming that the iconic egg in the pick 'n mix is actually a UFO.
Scottish Patter shared a snap of a pack of Haribo and wrote: 'Wait guys, Haribo starmix ?? It's not an egg, it's a UFO', accompanied by some shocked emojis.
Social media has gone into meltdown after someone claimed the Haribo egg in the Starmix pack is actually a UFO
The same image has been doing the rounds on Instagram and Twitter, where shocked users fiercely debated the topic.
The picture amassed thousands of comments from users, with many claiming that there was no way the egg could be mistaken for a UFO.
The top comment read: 'Is everyone off their nut, aye. It's called Starmix, but wit does a heart, a ring, a cola bottle or a fkn bear have to do with space. It's an egg fs [sic].
Another woman agreed, adding: 'The adverts with the kids call it the eggy one so I'm not accepting this', whilst another user said: 'This is actually so untrue because they say and I quote "who's eaten all the fried eggs?" in the adverts.'
The picture amassed thousands of comments from users, with many claiming that there was no way the egg could be mistaken for a UFO
Others did, however, claim that the sweet was in fact a UFO. One man wrote: 'They are eggs but they represent UFO's as do the cola bottles they are the rockets, the "bears" are astronauts, it's just about making it cute for kids.'
When contacted by MailOnline, a spokesperson for Haribo confirmed the truth, saying that the sweet is definitely an egg
Another woman agreed with him, explaining: 'Egg = UFO, Cola bottles = spaceship, ring = saturns rings, bear = astronaut in his outfit, heart = ok don't know this one.'
When contacted by MailOnline, a spokesperson for Haribo confirmed the truth, explaining: 'This seems to have people a little fry-ed, but we can confirm that even though they look like flying saucers, Haribo Starmix does in fact contain tasty eggs, as well as our other popular and well-known sweet pieces that have been brought together in one bag.'
Others claimed that the sweet was definitely a UFO. One man wrote: 'They are eggs but they represent UFO's as do the cola bottles they are the rockets, the 'bears' are astronauts, it's just about making it cute for kids' and many people backed him up, whilst others joked about how crushed they were by the news
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Gevonden schedels in China zijn mogelijk van een nog onbekende of mysterieuze mensensoort
Gevonden schedels in China zijn mogelijk van een nog onbekende of mysterieuze mensensoort
Archiefbeeld.FOTO: REUTERS
In de Chinese provincie Henan hebben archeologen twee gedeeltelijke schedels gevonden. Opvallend is dat de schedels deels mens, deels Neanderthaler, en dus de mogelijke ontdekking van een onbekende mensensoort kunnen betekenen.
De gevonden schedels in China lijken nu echter een kruising van mens en Neanderthaler. “Het is een zeer belangrijke ontdekking”, aldus Katerina Harvati, expert op het vlak aan de Universiteit van Tübingen. “Zeker omdat alle menselijke fossielen die tot nu toe gevonden werden in Oost-Azië zeer partieel en daarom ook moeilijk te dateren waren.”
Het waren graafmachines die de schedels tussen 2007 en 2014 bovenhaalden in Lingjing, in de provincie Henan. Het betreft gedeeltelijke schedels, gevonden in een gebied dat 105.000 tot 125.000 jaar geleden bevolkt zou geweest zijn. Het zou gaan om schedels van goede jagers, die geoefend waren in het maken van stenen wapens. Nabij de vindplaats werden ook botten van paarden, vee, een dinosaurus en een gigantisch hert gevonden.
Nieuwe mensensoort?
De schedels werden sindsdien onderzocht door wetenschappers van de Chinese Academy of Sciences in de Washington University in St. Louis. Deze week publiceerden ze hun bevindingen in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Science. De wenkbrauwbogen en botmassa waren kleiner dan normaal bij neanderthalers en ook de vorm van de schedels leek meer op die van de eerste moderne mensen. Dit terwijl de oorkanalen en de achterkant van de schedels duidelijk gelinkt konden worden aan neanderthalers.
“Dit kan wel eens de ontdekking van een nieuwe mensensoort betekenen”, aldus Xiujie Wu, auteur van het artikel. “Eentje die tot nu toe onbekend was en in Oost-Azië leefde tot zo’n 100.000 jaar geleden.”
Andere experten denken dan weer dat het zou kunnen gaan om schedels van de ‘denisovamens’, een mysterieuze mensensoort waarvan tot nu toe enkel DNA van een vinger en een tand onderzocht werden. Die twee fossielen werden gevonden in een Siberische grot en men gaat ervan uit dat de denisovamens leefde tussen 100.000 en 50.000 jaar geleden.
Deze mensensoort deelde genetisch materiaal met zowel de moderne mens als Neanderthalers. Deze optie werd echter niet opgenomen in de studie omdat er geen genetisch materiaal gerecupereerd kon worden van de schedels.
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week
By Live Science Staff
Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.
Looking for a light source
MAMMOTH-1, an enormous Lyman-alpha nebula (ELAN) found in a protocluster 10 billion light-years away. The colors and contours indicate surface brightness, and the red arrows show its estimated size.
Credit: Cai et al./Astrophysical Journal
A nebula is an interstellar cloud of gases and dust; an ELAN is a special kind of nebula, so named because it emits Lyman-alpha radiation — a particular wavelength of light emitted when the electron in a hydrogen atom drops down to its lowest energy level. The discovery of a new and rarely seen nebula 10 billion light-years away has created a cosmic mystery: What is lighting up this dusty cloud of gases? [Read more about the nebula.]
Strange sex-life
Myolaimus ibericus seen under a scanning electron microscope. Species of the genus Myolaimus are rare, and this worm is unusual in that it pumps sperm into the female genitalia without the penis-like spicules that are common in nematodes.
Credit: Joaquín Abolafia
A new worm discovered on the Iberian Peninsula is missing something: a penis.
The tiny nematode, found in a compost pile, mates without penetration. Instead, it pumps a capsule full of sperm out of an opening in its body and into a funnel-like structure on the female's vulva. From there, the sperm enter the female's reproductive tract to fertilize her eggs. [Read more about odd worm.]
To the moon
SpaceX will launch two paying passengers on a private flight around the moon in late 2018, the company's founder Elon Musk said Monday, Feb. 27, 2017. The mission would launch on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy seen here in this artist's illustration and take about five days to loop around the moon and return to Earth.
Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX will fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon in 2018, the company's founder Elon Musk announced Monday (Feb. 27).
The private spaceflight company will use its Falcon Heavy rocket to send the two paying passengers into space aboard one of the company's Dragon spacecraft. The two private citizens, who have not yet been named, approached SpaceX about taking a trip around the moon, and have "already paid a significant deposit" for the cost of the mission, according to a statement from the company. [Read more about trip.]
Red-hot center
The upper layer of Earth's mantle, labeled here as the asthenosphere, is hotter than previously thought, a new study finds.
Credit: vectortatu/Shutterstock
How hot are Earth's scorching insides? A sweltering 2,570 degrees Fahrenheit (1,410 degrees Celsius), a new study finds.
The discovery reveals that the mantle under Earth's oceans — the area just below the crust that extends down to the planet's inner liquid core — is almost 110 degrees F (60 degrees C) hotter than scientists previously thought, the researchers said. [Read more about center of the Earth.]
Childlessness condemned
A person's decision to not have children can spark "moral outrage" in others, even total strangers, a new study finds.
The study comes as more adults in the U.S. are deciding to delay having children, or to forgo having children entirely. [Read more about the odd reaction.]
In life and death
The wrapped body of Louise de Quengo, a church patron buried at the Jacobin convent in the city of Rennes in 1656. Her body was interred with her husband's preserved heart in a lead urn on top of her coffin.
Forget roses and chocolates. Modern-day romantic gestures pale in comparison to what one Renaissance couple did after death: The wife went to her final rest with her husband's heart on her coffin. The discoveries raise questions about medieval European funerary rites, researchers from the University of Toulouse in France wrote in the study, published in December in the journal PLOS ONE. [Read more about the eternal love.]
Antarctic heat
Antartica is seeing record-breaking, spring-like temperatures.
Credit: Christopher Wood/Shutterstock
Temperatures on the Antarctic continent reached a record-breaking high of 63.5 degrees Fahrenheit (17.5 degrees Celsius) in 2015, according to a new report of balmy records for the bottom of the world.
And things got even toastier back on Jan. 30, 1982, when the thermometer peaked at 67.6 degrees F (19.8 degrees C) at Signy Research Station on Antarctica's Signy Island, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), a division of the United Nations. [Read more about the record.]
Ancient bones
Scientists recently found evidence of ancient lifeforms in rocks in Canada. Within these fossils were tiny tubes of a mineral called hematite, a form of iron. The researchers believe these tubes are relics of an ancient form of microbial life that lived near hydrothermal vents.
Credit: Matthew Dodd
Ancient traces of microbial life that are between 3.77 billion and 4.29 billion years old might have been unearthed in a rocky outcropping in Canada, a new study suggests. However, some scientists are casting doubt on what the findings truly mean.
If the new microfossils truly are evidence of primordial life that once sprang up in ancient hydrothermal vents, it suggests that life began on Earth soon after the planet coalesced, the study authors said. [Read more about the fossils.]
Hunting fortune
Found in a field near the town of Leek in the United Kingdom, the gold jewelry dates back sometime between 400 B.C. and 250 B.C. and could be the oldest example of gold work discovered in Britain.
Credit: copyright Staffordshire City Council
Two amateurs using metal detectors have discovered four gold torques from more than 2,000 years ago in a field near the town of Leek in central England.
The jewelry, which would have been worn as a necklace or bracelet, "dates to around 400 to 250 B.C., and is probably the earliest Iron Age goldwork ever discovered in Britain," Julia Farley, curator of British and European Iron Age collections at the British Museum in London, said in a statement. [Read more about the link between the treasure.]
Kinky arachnids
Female spiders have paired reproductive organs, so it's possible for two males to mate with a single female at one time.
Credit: Matthew Persons
One autumn night while searching for spiders in his backyard, Matthew Persons came across something unexpected: a wolf spider ménage à trois.
The findings are the first cases on record of one female and two male wolf spiders (Rabidosa punctulata) in a three-way lovefest, a feat that's possible because the females have paired reproductive organs. But this ménage à trois wasn't purely for pleasure. [Read more about the spiders.]
Conspiracy fans have long believed that the American military found a crashed alien spacecraft in Roswell in 1947.
But a new documentary claims the strange craft could have had more earthly origins?
A documentary ‘UFOS in the Third Reich’ claimed that the incident actually happened during testing of a copper-coloured craft called ‘The Bell’.
Nigel Watson, author of UFOs: The Nazi Connection, said, ‘With these stories spread all over the Internet, and fictional films like ‘Iron Sky’ that depicts a Nazi moon base and advanced spaceships, the Nazi connection gets stronger every day despite the lonely voices of the sceptics.
‘Supporters of the idea that the flying saucers are of Nazi origin claim that they established an underground base at New Swabia, Antarctica after World War II to continue a secret world war to continue their ideological plans.
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‘Ernest Zundal (under the pseudonym Mattern-Friedrich or Christof Friedrich) in his book UFOs, ‘Nazi Secret Weapon’ (Samisdat, 1975) even stated that Hitler faked his own death and escaped there to continue the war in secret. With or without Hitler, they continued to develop flying saucers and they even found an entrance to the hollow Earth. Zundal was rather cavalier about these claims, mainly because he used the interest in UFOs as a hook to put forward his neo-Nazi ideas and beliefs.’
‘From here it has been suggested that this alliance has worked with the CIA and the US ‘military-industrial complex’ to create vast underground bases at Dulce (New Mexico); Area 51 (Nevada); Camp Hero (Long Island); and Denver International Airport. Similar bases are reputed to exist in Australia and Europe.’
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‘This all comes from rumours about secret Nazi projects that were used to explain the waves of UFO sightings of UFOs throughout Europe in the 1950s, and provided as an alternative to the extraterrestrial invader explanation. This context, combined with the fact that no flying saucer craft was ever successfully produced by the Nazis,indicates this is a myth that has grown over the years.’
When observing galaxies far, far away from Earth, it’s all about perspective. Scientists may see spiral galaxies from a face-on point-of-view and gaze closely at magnificent spiraling arms and a deep, luminous core — but it’s only two-dimensional. An angled view might show the three-dimensional shape a little better, but to really understand what’s in a galaxy, it takes seeing it from the edge.
Unfortunately, we rarely have multiple views of galaxies. Even with all of our spacecrafts drifting through the universe, we still have such a small field to work with. It’s like trying to see the other side of a bagel in China while standing in New York. You’d have to walk for ages to get to the other side of it.
So, it’s always exciting to get new images to further understand the various shapes and sizes of neighboring galaxies and ultimately, to better understand our own Milky Way. In this newly released image from the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, we can see spiral galaxy NGC 1055 — about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus, or Sea Monster, and is believed to be 15 percent larger than the Milky Way — in all of its edgy glory.
In this edge-on view of NGC 1055, scientists are able to see what a galaxy is really made of.
With this kind of view, scientists can see where new stars form relative to old ones, measure the lengths of the entire disc and its core, and even catch weird anomalies. In NGC 1055, there is some strange “warping,” which is evident on the upper right side where the dark galactic dust seems to be getting peeled off the galaxy like a Band-Aid. Upon closer inspection, the whole thing seems to be twisting at odd angles. Scientists believe this is because of an interaction with a nearby galaxy, in which gravity is pulling on the structure.
Intruders: An Historical Perspective of Alien Abduction
Intruders: An Historical Perspective of Alien Abduction
JP Robinson
For a more in-depth version of this article please readThe Alien Enigmaby JP Robinson.
Alien abduction stories as we understand them today only vary from historical accounts of similar experiences because of the modern concept of alien visitation. UFOs have been described in various guises throughout history along with spacemen, people from the heavens or stars, often called gods, angels or spirits. But accounts of star people coming down and taking humans from their homes and performing experiments on them, is not a commonly reported theme in the annals of recorded history. However, there are parallels to the many events described during alien abductions which exist within folklore, religion and anthropology.
Correlations between the abduction experience and shamanic experiences (including the implantation of foreign objects into the body and surgery-like procedures) or even stories of contact with fairies, suggest that modern accounts of alien abduction should be considered as part of a greater history of strange encounters.
As author Dr. Gregory L. Little wrote “there is a process that has been ongoing - probably for all of humanity's history - that manifests itself through the appearance of archetypal creatures and beings. John Keel was one of the first to recognise this. Others, including Vallee, Clark, and many British ufologists have long pointed out the resemblance between modern UFO reports and the ancient traditions. It doesn't really matter what we call the process underlying UFOs, abductions, and all of the related phenomena, but it is important to see that they all tie together.”
A 1960s report published by the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research called UFOs and Related Subjects: An Annotated Bibliography, revealed the following; “Many of the UFO reports now being published in the popular press recount alleged incidents that are strikingly similar to demonic possession and psychic phenomena which has long been known to theologians and parapsychologists.”
Even astronomer Carl Sagan theorised that tales of contact with demons which are common throughout history share remarkable similarities with the alien abduction experience. He wrote “...most of the central elements of the alien abduction account are present, including sexually obsessive non-humans who live in the sky, walk through walls, communicate telepathically, and perform breeding experiments on the human species.”
In the past it was said that demons could assume any physical form in order to seduce their victims more successfully. Similarities with modern abduction stories include the fact that most victims of the demonic figures were taken unwillingly from their bedrooms at night and many of them described the presence of several different types of demon at the time of their abduction, some of whom simply stood by and watched.
Some alien abductees who have experienced sexual encounters with their abductors have described the sexual organ of the intruder as being cold as ice – in particular the insect-like creatures. The writer Vignate chronicled the trials of Artois in 1468, in which he wrote of Satan forcing sex on a victim; for the first time Satan’s sexual organ was described as being ice-cold. St. Augustine believed that people were actually being abducted by demons and forced to engage in sexual acts with them; “(Demons) have often injured women, desiring and acting carnally with them.”
In the past, demons or goblins which were often referred to as an incubus (seeks sexual intercourse with women) or a succubus (seeks males) were not considered as a figment of people’s imagination, rather they were very much accepted as real entities. As Martin Del Rio wrote in his 1599 book Disqusitionum Magicarum, “...to disagree [with their existence] is only obstinacy and foolhardiness; for it is the universal opinion of the fathers, theologians, and writers on philosophy, the truth of which is generally acknowledges by all ages and peoples.” Ten years earlier in 1589, Peter Binsfield wrote “[the incubus] is an indisputable truth which is not only proved certain by experience, but also confirmed by history.”
The concept of crossbreeding and genetic manipulation, which many researchers have suggested is the main purpose behind the modern abduction phenomenon, had already reared its ugly head in centuries gone by. According to ancient texts, the act of collecting sperm from abducted males and impregnating female victims with the semen taken was precisely what an incubus or succubus would do in order to create hybrid offspring. The movie Rosemary’s Baby dealt with this exact scenario, as a demon impregnated Rosemary with the seed which would later be born as the spawn of Satan.
Medieval writing from this period mentions such demonic acts: “Devils do indeed collect human semen...therefore devils can transfer the semen which they have collected and inject it into the bodies of others” and “Devils in the form of women yield to males and receive their semen; by cunning skill, the demons preserve its potency, and afterwards,...they become incubi and pour it into female repositories.”
‘The Devil’s Mark’ (also referred to as ‘fairy bruising’ or ‘the witch’s teat’) features in medieval reports and describes the physical mark left upon the devil’s victims for identification. These permanent scars were believed to have been caused by the demon’s claws scratching the flesh or by the red hot kiss of the devil ‘licking’ the victim. The mark of the Devil “is imprinted on the most secret parts of the body”. Parallels can be drawn with the scars left following an alleged alien abduction, as in both instances the marks have appeared the next day after a nocturnal encounter with an intruder.
The marks left on alien abductees in modern accounts resemble those described in the past as the ‘Devil’s Mark’, “cuts or scoops on the back of the legs, arms, neck, purplish circular spots around the abdomen and genitals, and in patterns consistent with those from medieval times ascribed to witches, incubi and fairies.”
Ancient examples of ‘fairy abductions’ also share striking similarities with modern tales of alien interference. As explained in An Encyclopaedia of Fairies (Briggs, 1976), those who were taken by the fairies were almost always given a special drink described as a thick liquid previous to any sexual encounter. The victims (most commonly women) were then paralysed before they were carried (levitated or flown) away into “fairyland” which is always located nearby although it cannot be perceived under ‘normal’ conditions. The paralysis plays a central role in fairy lore as without it the abducted humans cannot enter fairyland. The word “stroke” which we associate with conditions of paralysis originated from the ancient terms “fairy-stroke” and “elf-stroke”.
Another interesting connection with fairies are the tales of will-o-the-wisps, which under modern guises could be called ‘orbs’. It was believed that fairies travelled in these circular globes of light before or after abductions took place; these days any witnesses to such phenomena would most likely refer to a moving ball of light as a UFO.
It could just be possible that whatever is being described nowadays as extraterrestrial encounters of some sort could well have been depicted in different ways throughout the ages, depending on cultural understandings of what could be responsible for such unusual activity. Just as we today may consider the concept of fairies and demons to belong in the realms of religious superstition and folklore, future humans may well look back on our explanations of alien visitors with similar derision.
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Does Alien Life Exist? | 5 Unexplained UFO Sightings & Potential Extraterrestrial Encounters...
Does Alien Life Exist?| 5 Unexplained UFO Sightings & Potential Extraterrestrial Encounters...
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Half Mile Alien Hovers Above Shopping Mall In Zimbabwe, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Half Mile Alien Hovers Above Shopping Mall In Zimbabwe, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 2017
Location of sighting: Mukubu Mall, Zimbabwe
Imagine a giant figure floating above you. This figure appears to be about half a mile tall with a long slender dark body. This is a very tall alien. The being is so tall they are afraid to walk for fear of hurting someone, so instead, they float above, watching the people below and their reactions. Size in this universe seems to have no limits.
I like how seriously the TV News presents this case. Also the MUFON investigator handled it very well. UFO can materialise out of thin air...when they decloak in front of people. Its just technology, not magic. However, debunking a UFO sighting is much harder than everyone assumes. You actually need evidence, not words, to debunk a sighting. Without the evidence, the word debunk...is just a bluff in an effort to create fake news and profits to those news networks who need the money. Scott News states: HOUSTON (KTRK) - The Mutual UFO Network in Houston reports around 80 speculated UFO sightings a year. That is excluding the ones that are seen but rather not revealed. One top UFO master, Fletcher Gray, clarifies why so a hefty portion of the sightings aren't UFOs. However, he likewise says there is one case that regardless he can't make sense of. Simply over the Katy territory an orange light is spotted, seen coasting around. Down beneath, tourists are persuaded it's a UFO. Dim backpedaled to Katy with Eyewitness News to research. "It's glinting as it travels during that time sky," Gray says.
Three UFOs Over Small Town In Colombia On Feb 20, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Three UFOs Over Small Town In Colombia On Feb 20, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 20, 2017 Location of sighting: Municipio De Garzon Huila, Colombia The eyewitness said he saw the three UFOs over the area. He first noticed them in the afternoon and they stayed in the area until sunset that night. He said they moved around and once zoomed together in a group, then shoot off far away from one another. In the video below, you can see a guy on a motorcycle also stopping in the road to look at the UFOs above. Scott C. Waring
Couple Runs Home and Locks Door After Seeing A UFO Above A Famous Beach In Cornwall
Couple Runs Home and Locks Door After Seeing A UFO Above A Famous Beach In Cornwall
A couple left mesmerized after spotting a UFO hovering over them in the sky while on a night stroll along Portreath Beach in Cornwall.
Just a few weeks ago, two women claimed to have seen a huge UFO in Penzance that left them shocked and in awe.
Sharing their sighting in Portreath, a woman known only as Miss Couzens said they were walking along the beach when things started to get eerie. She added that they were watching the ocean when noticed that they could not hear it. She described the environment before their sighting as peaceful.
They were on the bench by the café sitting down. Then they noticed everything went silent as soon as they looked at the ocean. They started to feel eerie, and they felt like they were in a different time zone.
They looked up and saw a UFO they described as massive black boomerang object, which made them sitting frozen and staring this unknown aerial thing. As they left mesmerized by the UFO, they heard a humming sound and the UFO just disappeared.
The couple stated their sighting took place on Monday, February 20.
After their UFO sighting, Miss Couzens said that they ran from the beach, went home, and locked their doors.
Massive UFO About The Size of Jupiter Crashes Into The Sun
Massive UFO About The Size of Jupiter Crashes Into The Sun
Some conspiracy theorists went into a frenzy after discovering images from Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft, which is jointly operated by European Space Agency and National Aeronautics and Space Administration, showing an apparent UFO of about the size of Jupiter crashed into the sun.
The UFO is being described as made up of a transparent group of rings. Many believe the spacecraft collided by accident, but others suggest the extraterrestrial UFO was using the sun to refuel. The video uploaded by Paranormal Crucible revealed that the object is about the size of the Jupiter.
After the massive object allegedly crashed into the sun, it generated a bright flash. Scientists have yet to offer an explanation for this bizarre event.
It’s not the first time conspiracy theorists discovered the so-called alien spacecraft flying near the sun’s surface. Since last year, a lot of images circulated online, which conspiracy theorists suggested showed extraterrestrial spaceships gathering near the sun and sucking solar power.
The images seem to show a white spot that is joined to the surface of the sun with a connected line.
YouTuber StreetCap1 also uploaded the video of the alleged massive UFO feeding off the solar energy.
Some UFO hunters who viewed the video think the UFO is glowing white, but it appears yellow because of the sun’s plasma. They suggest the craft is made from an unknown material that is resistant from the surface ofthe sun.
Scientists Have Turned Cooking Oil Into a Material 200 Times Stronger Than Steel
Scientists Have Turned Cooking Oil Into a Material 200 Times Stronger Than Steel
UCL Mathematical and Physical Sciences
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Researchers have discovered a way to make soybean oil into the super-strong material graphene. The material has a wide variety of potential uses and can revolutionize electronics.
The material could be used to make cell phone batteries last 25 percent longer, make more effective solar cells, and even filter fuel out of air.
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Researchers have found a way to turn cheap, everyday cooking oil into the wonder material graphene – a technique that could greatly reduce the cost of making the much-touted nanomaterial.
Graphene is a single sheet of carbon atoms with incredible properties – it’s 200 times stronger than steel, harder than diamond, and incredibly flexible. Under certain conditions, it can even be turned into a superconductor that carries electricity with zero resistance.
That means the material has the potential to make better electronics, more effective solar cells, and could even be used in medicine.
But these applications have been limited by the fact that graphene usually has to be made in a vacuum at intense heat using purified ingredients, which makes it expensive to produce.
Until we can find a cost-effective way to mass produce the over-achieving material, it’s pretty much limited to labs.
But scientists in Australia have now managed to create graphene in normal air conditions, using cheap soybean cooking oil.
“This ambient-air process for graphene fabrication is fast, simple, safe, potentially scalable, and integration-friendly,” said one of the researchers, Zhao Jun Han from Australia’s CSIRO.
“Our unique technology is expected to reduce the cost of graphene production and improve the uptake in new applications.”
The team has called the new technique ‘GraphAir’ technology, and it involves heating soybean oil in a tube furnace for about 30 minutes, causing it to decompose into carbon building blocks.
This carbon is then rapidly cooled on a foil made of nickel, where it diffuses into a thin rectangle of graphene that’s just 1 nanometre thick (about 80,000 times thinner than a human hair).
Not only is this technique cheaper and easier than other methods, it’s also a lot quicker – to create graphene in a vacuum takes several hours.
Not only that, but it offers a more sustainable option for recycling waste cooking oil.
“We can now recycle waste oils that would have otherwise been discarded and transform them into something useful,” said one of the team, Dong Han Seo.
The question now is whether this new technique can be scaled up – finding a cheaper way to make graphene is awesome, but the graphene film produced so far was only 5 cm (1.9 inches) by 2 cm (0.8 inches) in size.
The team says that the largest film they can make using the technique right now is around the size of a credit card.
To really make graphene fit for commercial use, researchers will need to produce films that are a whole lot larger than that.
“The potential’s enormous,” David Officer, a graphene expert from the University of Wollongong in Australia, who wasn’t involved in the study, told the ABC.
“[But] the question will be whether you can economically scale a method like this, where they’ve sealed it inside a furnace tube, to create and handle metre-sized films.”
The team is now looking for commercial partners to pursue this goal.
But they’re not the only researchers working on it – last week, a team from Kansas State University patented a simple technique that creates graphene using only hydrocarbon gas, oxygen, and a spark plug. No vacuum required.
Time will tell if they can use it to effectively make large films of graphene in one go, but it’s nice to know that researchers around the world are working on finding a way to take this incredible material out of the lab and into our lives.
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20 Underwater Wonders of Our Blue Planet- PART I
20 Underwater Wonders of Our Blue Planet- PART I
Over 70% of the earth’s surface is covered by water and this huge area contains some of the most amazing wonders on the planet. Shockingly, huge portions of the world’s oceans have yet to be discovered but the areas that have been explored have already provided some incredible sights; from huge shipwrecks thousands of metres deep, to enormous underwater springs that create a giant Jacuzzi effect. The planet’s oceans and lakes provide a rich selection of different treasures. The following are 20 of the greatest underwater wonders of the world.
20. Deep Sea Vents. Ecuador
Until relatively recently, the deepest depths of the ocean floor couldn’t be reached by humankind. This may go some way to explaining why it took until 1977 for the incredible deep sea vents off the coast of Ecuador, to be discovered. The hydrothermal vents were discovered to the east of the Galapagos Islands, some 2,400 metres below the surface. The vents were formed due to two tectonic plates diverging, causing sea water to shoot out at incredible speeds and high temperatures (around 400 degrees centigrade). Before the deep sea vents were discovered, it was thought that life couldn’t exist at such depths, due to the lack of sunlight. Scientists found a number of marine animals around the vents though, living off the nutrients that they expelled. These incredible underwater volcanoes really are one of the underwater wonders of the world.
19. The Great Barrier Reef. Australia
The Great Barrier Reef is not only the world’s largest coral reef system, it is also the world’s largest single structure made by living organisms. The reef is located off the northeast coast of Australia and is so large it can even be seen from space! The area stretches an incredible 1,400 miles (2,300km) and is made from millions of tiny living organisms, known as coral polyps. The reef also supports a huge variety of different marine species; from whales, sharks and dolphins, to turtles, stingrays, sea horses and millions of different species of fish. The area is unsurprisingly an incredibly popular location for scuba diving and was even named by CNN as one of the “Seven natural wonders of the world.
It was thought that the ancient Egyptian city of Heracleion had been lost forever when it sank into the sea over 1,500 years ago, but in 2000 the first remains of the city were discovered off the coast of Alexandria in Egypt. French archeologist, Dr Franck Goddio, came across the underwater archaeological site and, following further investigation, divers discovered sphinxes, statues, columns, temples and even the foundations of a palace that may have belonged to Cleopatra herself! Further investigations also unearthed coins and other everyday objects, as well as a number of ships, suggesting that the site was indeed the location of the 8th century BC city. Many of the objects recovered from the sea floor were also still in excellent condition, making the discovery even more incredible!
17. Lake Baikal. Russia
It is little surprise that Lake Baikal has made it on to this list and there are a many number of reasons why it is one of the underwater wonders of the world. The lake is located in the south of Siberia and is believed to be the oldest lake in the world, estimated at around 25 million years old. Baikal is also the world’s largest freshwater lake and contains an incredible 20% of the planet’s unfrozen freshwater. It is also the deepest freshwater lake in the world and is one of the clearest lakes on the planet. If that wasn’t impressive enough, Baikal also contains around 1,700 different species of animals and plants, of which two thirds of these (around 5,650) cannot be found anywhere else on the planet! The lake’s location also means it experiences a huge temperature change between the summer and winter months and spends much of the winter in a crystalized, frozen state. A truly spectacular sight!
16. The Yongala Shipwreck. Australia
Many ships have been lost to the deep depths of the ocean, but one of the most incredible wreck dives in the world can be found off the coast of Queensland in Australia. The Yongala was a steel passenger and freight steamer that sank in 1911, after being hit by a cyclone, which killed all 122 people on board, as well as a racehorse and a bull. The ship had no telegraph facilities onboard, so could not be warned of the terrible weather ahead. The remains of the ship were not discovered until 1958, but the wreck is now a popular location for scuba divers. The Yongala is one of the most popular shipwreck dives in the world, with the chance of seeing bull and tiger sharks, manta rays, octopuses and turtles, as well as the beautiful coral that adorns the side of the boat.
15. Jellyfish Lake. Palau
If you want to experience the truly exotic, then Jellyfish Lake in Palau should not disappoint. The lake is located on the island of Eil Malk, which is part of the Rock Islands in Palau’s Southern Lagoon. The secluded lake is connected to the ocean through small tunnels in the ancient Miocene reef and is home to a huge army of golden jellyfish that migrate across the water on a daily basis. The lake is also open to tourists, who have the opportunity to snorkel with the jellyfish for a $100 pass. Although the jellyfish do contain stinging cells, they are very weak and not powerful enough to cause serious damage to human skin. Jellyfish Lake is a truly unique location and undoubtedly one of the underwater wonders of the world.
14. Dean’s Blue Hole. Bahamas
A blue hole is the term used for a sinkhole that has an entrance under the surface of the water, with many of these holes opening up into underwater caverns. Dean’s Blue Hole in the Bahamas is the deepest ocean sinkhole in the world. The popular dive site has a diameter of around 25-35 metres at the entrance and opens up into an incredible 100m wide cavern below. The cavern plunges to a breathtaking depth of 202 metres (663ft) and is easily the deepest ocean blue hole in the world. When you consider that the maximum known depth of other ocean sink holes is around 110 metres, you realise just how unique and large the Dean’s Blue Hole is.
13. Chuuk Lagoon. Micronesia
In February 1944 the USA launched an attack on Chuuk Lagoon that devastated Japan’s main WWII South Pacific base and sunk 12 warships and 32 merchant ships in the process. The majority of these ships are still located on the lagoon’s floor today and make Chuuk Lagoon “the biggest graveyard of ships in the world.” Many of these ships are also still in excellent condition and attracts thousands of divers each year, eager to explore the incredible site. The huge war ships also house the remains of fighter aircraft, torpedoes, motorcycles railroad cars and tanks. Chuuk Lagoon really is an underwater WWII museum and one of the most incredible dive sites in the world.
12. Douglas Dakota DC-3. Turkey
From the photo above it may look like the passengers on this paratrooper plane met a disastrous end, but this Douglas Dakota DC-3 didn’t crash into the sea during the Second World War. The plane was actually intentionally sunk in 2009 in order to create a unique playground for divers to explore. The aircraft, which was used as a transporter for a Turkish paratrooper regiment in WWII, was sunk in the waters of Cas, off the coast of Turkey. It lies 21 metres beneath the surface of the Mediterranean Sea and can now be freely explored by divers and is home to numerous schools of tropical fish.
11. Lion City. China
A real life version of Atlantis can be found at the bottom of a man-made lake in China. In 1959, the Chinese Government decided that they wanted to build a new hydro-electric power station and so made the call to build a huge lake in the Eastern Provence of Zhejiang. The lake was built between the Five Lion Mountain and the ancient city of Shi Cheng (Lion City), that was flooded in order to make way for the power station. The city has been untouched for over 50 years. A dive team has recently rediscovered the remains of the city but there are now plans to turn it into a dive site. Incredibly, the dive team said that nearly every structure in Lion City was still intact, even after lying underwater for over half a century!
10. Zhemchug Canyon. Bering Sea
The Grand Canyon may attract millions of visitors each year but the underwater Zhemchug Canyon in the Bering Sea would actually fit the whole Grand Canyon inside it, with room still to spare. The incredible underwater ravine can be seen from space and sits an incredible 2.6km deep (compared to the Grand Canyon’s 1.8km). Zhemchug is officially the biggest canyon in the ocean and is home to a number of different species of animals, including the Northern Fur Seal, the short-tailed alabatross, the snow crab and a number of different species of whales.
9. Belize Barrier Reef. West Indies
The Belize Barrier Reef may not be able to match up to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in terms of size but it certainly makes up for it in beauty. The incredible stretch of ocean is home to one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. The reef stretches an impressive 190 miles (300km) long and is part of the Mesoamerican barrier reef system, which is the second largest coral reef system in the world. The Belize Barrier Reef is home to over 500 species of fish, 70 hard coral species and 36 soft coral species. Perhaps most impressive of all though, is the fact that around 90% of the area still needs to be researched, suggesting that so far only 10% of all the species in the coral reef have been discovered!
The waters off Cocos Island in Costa Rica are a scuba divers dream and they are rich with a variety of marine life. The deep waters that surround the island, some 340 miles from the coast of Costa Rica, are teeming with rays, dolphins, turtles and, most impressively, large schools of sharks. The coral reef that surrounds the island attracts a large variety of wildlife, which in turn, makes the waters the ideal hunting ground for sharks. Cocos Island, also known as ‘Shark Island,’ is home to Whitetip reef sharks, whale sharks and hammerheads. The scalloped hammerhead shark is the most common visitor to the island’s shores and, during the wet season (June- Oct), schools of hundreds of hammerheads can be seen in the waters. A truly spectacular sight and undoubtedly one of the underwater wonders of the world.
7. The Northern Red Sea. Between Asia and Africa
The Northern Red Sea has been described as “the underwater Garden of Eden” and it is easy to see why. The stretch of water between Asia and Africa is home to some of the most beautiful coral reefs in the world and some of the most exotically coloured fish. The Northern Red Sea covers 169,000 square miles and is home to over 70 species of hard coral, 30 species of soft coral and more than 500 different species of fish. The area is a hugely popular site with scuba divers, who are attracted by the chance of diving in the warm tropical waters, witnessing the beautifully coloured coral reefs and spectacular assortment of exotic fish.
6. Battle of the Egadi Islands. Sicily
In November 2013, one of the most incredible underwater discoveries was found off the coast of Sicily. The remains of battering rams, helmets, armour and weapons were recovered from the sea floor, believing to date back to a naval battle that took place over 2,000 years earlier. The artefacts are thought to be from the Battle of the Egadi Islands, which took place in 241 BC. It was part of the Punic War, between the Romans and the Carthaginians, which lasted 20 years and was the beginning of the Roman’s european wide domination. It was believed that 50 Carthaginian ships were sunk in the fighting and their remains stayed at the bottom of the ocean for over 2,000 years!
5. Mauna Kea. Hawaii
Although Mount Everest may be the highest mountain on land, it pales in comparison to Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The peak of Mauna Kea is the highest point above land in Hawaii but much of the dormant volcano actually sits below sea level. Measured from its oceanic base, the tip of Mauna Kea would actually measure 10,100m, much more than the height of Mount Everest and officially the highest mountain in the world! The volcano is estimated to be around one million years old and is without doubt one of the underwater (and overwater) wonders of the world.
4. Bronze Age Sewn Boat. Croatia
In March 2014 one of the oldest boats ever constructed was found at the bottom of Zambratija Cove, in Croatia. Marine archaeologist, Giulia Boetto discovered the Bronze Age sewn boat, which dated all the way back to 1,200 BC. The vessel was a type of wooden boat that was sewn together using rope, roots and willow branches. The relic measured 7 metres in length and 2.5 metres in width and was still in remarkable condition, with some stitching still visible. A remarkable achievement, especially considering it.
3. Underwater Ruins. Japan
One of the most hotly debated underwater discoveries dates back to 1995 and is still producing differing theories today. A wayward diver stumbled across the ancient ruin site off the southern coast of Yonaguni, Japan. The site appeared to show huge stone blocks cut into the shape of stairs, paved streets and crossroads. The discovery is estimated to be around 10,000 years old, with many scientists believing it to be the remains of an ancient sunken city. Not everyone agrees though and some experts believe the large blocks are naturally formed and the result of tectonic movement. Whatever the answer may be, it is undoubtedly one of the greatest underwater wonders of the world.
2. Hot Springs. Iceland
Iceland sits on highly geologically active ground and has a number of active volcanoes. This volcanic ground also provides one of the country’s most famous attractions, hot springs. There are a number of natural hot springs in Iceland where both natives and tourists go for a dip in the warm volcanic water. This water is geothermally heated by the volcanic rocks below and warmed to temperatures between 37-39 degrees centigrade. The springs not only provide a pleasant place for people to take a dip, the water is also thought to obtain natural healing abilities, soothing aches and pains as well as helping with many different skin conditions.
1. The Dead Sea. Jordan
The Dead Sea may not have the nicest of names but the location is a truly spectacular sight. The Dead Sea is actually a salt lake and borders Jordan to the east and Israel and the West Bank to the west. The shores of the Dead Sea lie 423 metres below sea level, making it the world’s lowest elevation on land. The lake is also one of the saltiest bodies of water in the world and has a 34.2% salinity, that’s 9.6 times saltier than the sea! This high salt count means there is very little marine life that can survive in the water, hence the name “Dead” Sea. The high salinity also means that swimming in the lake is more like floating and many visitors travel here every year to test out the waters. The Dead Sea was also one of the world’s first health resorts, used by Herod the Great over 2,000 years ago, and is still used for its health benefits today, due to the high nutrients and mineral content in the water.
5,000-YEAR-OLD EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS FOUND IN AUSTRALIA PROVE HISTORY IS WRONG
5,000-YEAR-OLD EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS FOUND IN AUSTRALIA PROVE HISTORY IS WRONG
History is thrown into turmoil as 5,000-year-old Egyptian hieroglyphs are found in Australia. Either plate tectonics have shifted so drastically over the last 5,000 years, or what we knew of the ancient Egyptians may be severely lacking. Either way, it seems that history has been giving the wrong story.
5,000 YEAR OLD EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHS IN AUSTRALIA
What is even more disturbing is that this has not been the first discovery that debunked current historical records, and that the records seem to need a severe overhaul.
EGYPTIANS TRAVELLED THE WORLD BEFORE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS OR ZHENG HE
There are of course die-hard sceptics who would never acknowledge the fact that 5,000-year-old Egyptian hieroglyphs were indeed discovered in Australia. It would not be foolish to think so as current historical records does indeed suggest that the Egyptians do not have the capability for trans-continental oceanic voyages.
Thus, it may come as a shock to many to discover that ancient Egyptians may have contact with ancient American civilisations. The discovery was made back in 1992 when a German scientist was performing a series of tests on some very old Egyptian mummies. Test results revealed traces of hashish, tobacco, and cocaine lodged within the hair, skin and bones of the mummies. This may even suggest that the ancient Egyptians knew about the uses of these plants way before anyone else did.
Tobacco and cocaine grew only in the continent which makes up modern America. The question is, how did any of these plants arrive in ancient Egypt long before any Europeans discovered the Americas.
These discoveries are groundbreaking, as they evidently point out that the ancient Egyptians did have the capability for transoceanic travel. This not only means that our current recorded history may be wrong, but also the possibility that there could be other ancient cultures that have developed the capability for long-range sea travel, or even developed other forms of technology or capabilities that we may not be aware of in the history texts.
THE GOSFORD GLYPHS
Upon studying the ancient hieroglyphics, many researchers believe in the authenticity of the glyphs. The glyphs also use a form of ancient Egyptian sentence and grammatical structuring that were only recently discovered.
The glyphs are located within the compounds of the Brisbane Water National Park, Kariong. These hieroglyphic texts could shatter publicly known history and rewrite thousands of historical records.
Known as the Gosford Glyphs, they were actually discovered in the early 1900s, and the roughly 250 stone carvings have been an integral part of the local culture and folklore for about a century.
The writing style of the glyphs is what makes them so unique. They appear to be extremely ancient and used an archaic form of sentence and word structuring that was only used in very early Egyptian dynasties. In fact, the Gosford Glyphs were used so way back that very little records exist, thus attempts to study them have yielded little progress. Most Egyptologists do not even have the ability or knowledge to translate these glyphs.
Francis Crick (8 June 1916 — 28 July 2004) was an English scientist who was most noted for being a co-discoverer of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 alongside James D. Watson.
Francis Crick Watson and Maurice Wilkins were jointly awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology for Medicine “for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material.”
He was clearly a brilliant scientist who unfortunately, like many other brilliant minds who came up with theories that challenged the accepted frameworks at the time, wasn’t given much ‘press.’
In his book published in 1982, Life Itself, he argues that there is no possible way that the DNA molecule could have gotten its start here on Earth and that it had to have come here from somewhere else. Within the mainstream scientific community, the generally accepted theory is that we are the result of a bunch of molecules accidentally bumping into each other, creating life. However, according to Francis, we are the result of what is now known as Directed Panspermia. Crick and a British chemist, Leslie Orgel, published their paper on it in July of 1973.
Their theory explains that,
“organisms were deliberately transmitted to earth by intelligent beings on another planet. We conclude that it is possible that life reached the earth in this way, but that the scientific evidence is inadequate at the present time to say anything about the probability. We draw attention to the kinds of evidence that might throw additional light on the topic.” (source)
As far as Crick’s thoughts on the theory that we are the result of accidentally bumping into each other, he thinks this was as likely as the assembly of a jumbo jet hit by a hurricane in a junk yard. In other words, he thought the theory held little to no credibility.
When it comes to Crick’s theory, there have been some who expanded upon his work and have actually found evidence of it. Perhaps Crick had some evidence or he was able to connect some dots? After all, theories like this aren’t just born out of nowhere and this gentleman won the Nobel Prize for the study of DNA. Thoughts like this should not be taken lightly and evidence should be examined to see if it’s a plausible hypothesis.
Please keep in mind while reading this article that, although we’ve discovered much, we have yet to identify the biological functions of large portions of our DNA. There is so much mystery wrapped in what could possibly hold the answer to life itself and the origins of the human race.
A few years ago, Chandra Wickramasinghe, the Director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham in the U.K., published a paper regarding their supposed findings of the first-ever evidence of extraterrestrial life found in a celestial body.
At the time, Wickramasinghe pointed out to Huffington Post how, in 1962:
“Hoyle and I pioneered the theory of carbon grains in space to replace the old ice grain theory. This was vehemently resisted by the astronomical community at the outset, but with the dawn of infrared spectroscopy, the ice grain theory gave way to the carbon dust theory. Over a few years, after a great deal of model-fitting, we came to the conclusion that material similar to biomaterial fitted all the available data in astronomy. We considered the possibility that microbiology had a universal character, and no observations in astronomy or new information from biology has provided contrary evidence.If only ideas that are considered orthodox are given support through award of grans or publication opportunities, it is certain that the progress of science will be stifled as it was throughout the middle age.”
English Astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle and Wickramasinghe are considered co-developers of the panspermia theory. In another paper that Wickramasinghe co-authored in 2012 titled “Non-terrestrial origin of life: a transformative research paradigm shift,” he points out that,
“For nearly five decades, evidence in favour of a non-terrestrial origin of life and panspermia has accumulated which has not been properly assessed. A point has now been reached that demands the serious attention of biologists to a possibly transformative paradigm shift of the question of the origin of life, with profounds implications across many disciplines.” (source)
It’s interesting to think about, isn’t it? We are indeed, as Author Graham Hancock noted, like species with amnesia. We still don’t completely know where we came from and how we got here.
What About The Fact That We Are Probably Not Alone & That We Are Probably Being Visited?
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations. That it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubbishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (source)
The quote above comes Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, the former Chief of the Defence Staff and 5 star Admiral of the Royal Navy. That’s the highest possible rank of the British Royal Navy, similar to General Dwight Eisenhower’s 5 star rank in the United States. He was also Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. These are definitely positions to be ‘in the know’ about what is going on, at least to some extent.
If you are unaware, there have been hundreds of witnesses carrying impressive backgrounds that have been in the position to ‘know’ about these things. To compliment this testimony, we also have evidence in the form of documents from several different government/military/intelligence agencies.
Given this evidence, the possibility that this is happening is very real and if you’d like to read/learn more about this topic, you can start off by visiting the exopolitics section of our website. There you will find our most recent articles on the subject, dated back to the very first one we ever wrote.
Personally, when I think of all of the evidence that’s surfaced within the past few years alone, it’s mind-altering. If you’re interested, you will have to do your own research. If you don’t, next time somebody brings up the subject, it’s good to keep an open mind and at least acknowledge that yes, this is actually a strong possibility.
I’ll leave you with this last clip from the Thrive documentary, of the late great Dr. Brian O’Leary, a former NASA astronaut, one of many astronauts who has spoken out enthusiastically about this subject and the evidence behind it. My apologies if you’ve already seen it, as I’ve used it numerous times in previous articles.
Ik heb me vaak afgevraagd over het waarom van de Voyager sonde stillegging en deze video vat de meeste van onze zorgen hierover samen. Toen het zichzelf uitschakelde, dachten velen van ons opeens terug aan de Star Trek 1979 film waar V’ger terugkeerde na het maken van contact met buitenaardse wezens. Laten we hopen dat er niets zoals dat gebeurt, maar als dat zo is, zullen we hopelijk klaar zijn om ermee te communiceren als Voyager terugkeert en ervan leren over de uitheemse soorten die gevonden zijn.
– Scott C. Waring
De omschrijving bij de video luidt als volgt:
Schokkend!!! NASA geeft toe: VOYAGER is gehackt door aliens!
2016, NASA geeft toe: Iemand nam de controle over van onze ruimtevaartuigen, we ontvingen berichten in een onbekende taal via de Space probe “Voyager 2” die tijdens zijn reis door de ruimte een bericht naar de basis op de Aarde stuurde in een vrij onbegrijpelijke taal.
NASA na meer dan zes jaar wisten ze niet de reden, maar ze weten wel dat het geen toeval kan zijn. “Voyager 2” is het eerste ruimtevaartuig om het zonnestelsel te verlaten in 2010 en het was in de momenten dat het ruimtevaartuig de interstellaire ruimte betrad dat er iets vreemds gebeurde waardoor NASA concludeerde dat “iemand of iets” de controle had overgenomen. “Op een afstand van ongeveer 15 miljard kilometer van de aarde, begon de sonde plotseling met het versturen van gegevens in een taal die ze nooit konden begrijpen,” zei NASA expert Kevin Baines, tegen Physics Astronomy. ‘Iets of iemand veranderde het communicatiesysteem van de ruimtesonde Voyager 2, “voegde Baines toe.
Een Australische wetenschapper die jarenlang onderzoek heeft gedaan naar graancirkels, met name in Groot-Brittannië, is tot een opmerkelijke conclusie gekomen.
Dr. Horace Drew stelt dat graancirkels het werk zijn van tijdreizigers.
Drew werkte 23 jaar als moleculair bioloog voor het CSIRO, het belangrijkste wetenschappelijke instituut van Australië.
Olie
Hij claimt in 1965 een buitenaards vaartuig te hebben waargenomen in Florida, waarna hij zich besloot te richten op wetenschappelijk onderzoek.
Hij zegt dat buitenaardse technologie kan worden gebruikt om allerlei problemen op aarde op te lossen.
“We leven in een wereld die afhankelijk is van olie,” vertelde hij aan de Australische Daily Telegraph. “Die olie beschadigt onze planeet.”
Geheim gehouden
“Niet-vervuilende buitenaardse technologie die deze problemen kan oplossen wordt geheim gehouden,” vervolgde hij.
De moleculair bioloog wil het UFO-fenomeen op een wetenschappelijke manier gaan benaderen.
Volgens hem is er bewijs dat graancirkels kunnen worden gelinkt aan tijdreizen. “Er is overvloedig bewijs voor graancirkels.”
Ontstaan
“Ik ben zeven keer afgereisd naar plekken in Groot-Brittannië waar bewijs kan worden gevonden voor de manier waarop graancirkels zijn ontstaan,” legde hij uit.
Dr. Drew roept mensen op te kijken naar het bewijs en op basis daarvan hun eigen conclusies te trekken.
Hij gaf onderstaande lezing op 3 september vorig jaar in Nieuw-Zuid-Wales:
Former President George W. Bush appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! this week and the host, just as he did with both Clintons and with former President Obama, asked:
When you were in office, did you go through the secret files – the UFO documents?
Bush answered:
Maybe. You know, it’s funny, my daughters asked the very same question. But I’m not telling you. I’m not telling you nothing.
According to a new poll released coincidentally on the same day as the interview, 55 percent of Americans believe the government would try to keep it secret if there was any contact with an alien species. Even though, as Kimmel pointed out, Bush is no longer part of the government, the former president answered yes when asked, “are there really great secrets that you know that you can’t share with people?”
While he won’t talk about it, W. definitely knows some things about UFOs. On the morning of November 3rd, 2003, radar picked up a UFO in restricted space around the White House. Two fighter jets were called to the area but no craft was found. On the morning of April 27, 2005, another UFO was spotted heading from Reagan National Airport towards the White House at up to 120 miles per hour. The president was rushed into the protective underground bunker and three helicopters (one military and two police) came to the location but no craft was seen.
Then there was the UFO at the president’s ranch in Texas. On January 8, 2006, numerous sources reported that over a dozen people saw a 300 meter (985 foot – although some said “mile-long”) silent UFO with bright lights that was flying low over Stephenville towards the president’s ranch in Crawford … followed by USAF jets. The president was not at the ranch at that time. Some witnesses said it stopped and hovered. MUFON noted that the object was seen on radar but the reports were heavily redacted. The military at first denied the reports, then admitted that an “error was made regarding the reported training activity of military aircraft” and that “10 F-16s from the 457th Fighter Squadron were performing training operations in the Brownwood Military Operating Area.”
Would President George W. Bush know more than these scant details about these (and other) incidents? Of course he would. He was constantly in competition with his father, the former president and former CIA director George H. W. Bush, and would have wanted to top his dad in this area as well. While CIA director, George H. W. Bush turned down requests from incoming President Jimmy Carter for UFO information, even though he later admitted, “I know some. I know a fair amount.” Did he later turn down requests from a president from his own party? A president with the same name? Is blood thicker than party affiliation? UFO disclosure?
While there have been UFO sightings around Washington and around the presidents during other administrations, including the current one, reports during the single term of George H.W. Bush are scant. Did they suddenly disappear or did Bush keep them tightly top secret, as he later bragged, “I am very careful in public life about dealing with classified information.”? In either case, the younger Bush was a constant presence in that administration, the Reagan administration when his father was VP and the CIA year. He was also a former pilot who would have had an interest in UFOs and a rogue competitive son who used his father’s past and current positions to his advantage.
Is his laughter about UFOs a cover?
George W. Bush laughed when Jimmy Kimmel asked him about UFOs. Then again, he was known to laugh about most subjects.
George W. Bush was exposed to UFO incidents and information more than any other president, through three administrations and a CIA directorship.
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NASA Seeks Payload Ideas for Mystery Satellite
NASA Seeks Payload Ideas for Mystery Satellite
By Jeff Foust, SpaceNews Writer
The Intelsat 603 satellite during a 1992 shuttle repair mission. That satellite is based on a bus similar to one that an unnamed government agency, perhaps the NRO, is offering to NASA.
Credit: NASA
WASHINGTON — NASA is soliciting concepts for payloads that could fly on a mysterious satellite it is in discussions to inherit from another government agency.
The RFI, issued by NASA's science mission directorate, solicits ideas for payloads, including remote sensing instruments and technology demonstrations, which could fly on the spacecraft. The RFI offered few details about the proposed mission, noting NSTP-Sat could fly "to low Earth orbit, geostationary equatorial orbit, medium Earth orbit, Earth-Moon L1, or lunar orbit in the 2021 timeframe."
The RFI, which remains open until March 17, seeks ideas for how this spacecraft could be used to meet NASA's science and technology development goals. The RFI states that NASA will use the responses to determine "whether there are science opportunities for new uses of this spacecraft" and "whether a solicitation for proposals is warranted to enable such opportunities." [Satellite Quiz: What's Up There?]
The RFI offered few details about the spacecraft itself. "The NSTP-Sat is a spacecraft platform that has become available to NASA as excess Government property through an interagency agreement," it stated. It added the spacecraft was a "Boeing GEO spinner bus" that could launch on an EELV-class rocket or as a secondary payload on a Space Launch System mission.
NASA and other organizations involved with NSTP-Sat have been reticent to provide additional details about how NASA gained access to the satellite bus. Alan Zide, a program executive in NASA's heliophysics division and the point of contact listed in the RFI, did not respond to email messages with questions about the satellite.
A diagram of the satellite bus being offered to NASA from the NASA RFI issued in February.
Credit: NASA
NASA spokesman Dwayne Brown said March 1 that NASA is in discussions with the U.S. Air Force to obtain the bus. "NASA and the U.S. Air Force (USAF) are in discussions concerning the transfer of a satellite bus that the USAF has determined does not meet current or projected Air Force mission requirements," he said.
U.S. Air Force spokeswoman Capt. AnnMarie Annicelli said March 2 she was not familiar with the satellite and was looking into it, but has not provided any additional information. When asked who the original customer was for this Boeing-built satellite, Addrian Brooks, a spokesman for Boeing Network and Space Systems, said March 2 that the company was "unable to disclose this information."
Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who specializes in space history, notes the dimensions for the satellite provided in the RFI are consistent with two versions of satellites built by Hughes Space and Communications. One, the HS-389, was used for the Intelsat 6 series of satellites, while the HS-393 was sold to other commercial customers. Those satellites were built and launched in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Boeing acquired Hughes Space and Communications in 2000.
The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), he noted, is thought to have used the same bus for a series of data relay satellites operating under the code name QUASAR, also known as the Satellite Data System (SDS). Four such satellites launched from 1989 through 1996.
Spin-stabilized satellites have fallen out of favor, having been replaced by three-axis stabilized satellites. The last Boeing-built commercial spin-stabilized satellite, a Boeing 376 spacecraft called e-BIRD, launched in 2003.
McDowell said a later generation of QUASAR satellites, launched from 1998 to as recently as 2014, were also assumed to be three-axis stabilized. However, he noted there’s little known about this series of satellites, leaving open the possibility it also used the same bus as the earlier spacecraft.
"It's possible that some other NRO program also used this bus, but QUASAR/SDS is definitely the most likely," he said in a March 3 email.
If the satellite in question is indeed from the NRO, it would not be the first time NASA inherited spare hardware from that intelligence agency. In 2012, NASA announced it was taking possession of two 2.4-meter mirror assemblies from the NRO. The mirrors were reportedly built for NRO's Future Imagery Architecture program, and became surplus when the NRO cancelled the optical portion of that program in the mid-2000s.
NASA, after taking possession of the mirrors, solicited ideas from the scientific community on how to use what it called Astrophysics Focused Telescope Assets. NASA decided to use one of the mirrors for the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST), which originally planned to build a much smaller mirror. WFIRST is planned for launch in the mid-2020s.
Phillip Swarts contributed to this story.
This story was provided by SpaceNews, dedicated to covering all aspects of the space industry.
Weather satellite captured disc-shaped UFO floating above a cloud formation
Weather satellite captured disc-shaped UFO floating above a cloud formation
An image taken by the weather satellite GOES-16 on March 2, 2017 apparently shows a huge disc-shaped UFO floating above clouds somewhere in between Russia and Italy.
Myunhauzen74 who discovered the object points to a shadow on the clouds which indicates that the object is moving above the clouds.
Although the object resembles a UFO we should also consider whether it might be a rare rock formation or a tall circular building rising from the clouds.
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Ancient VIMANA UFO revelations and the ten million year old secret!
Ancient VIMANA UFO revelations and the ten million year old secret!
Dark Journalist Daniel Liszt interviews the influential author of Forbidden Archaeology Michael Cremo on his controversial research into the dating of human origin, ancient civilizations and the potential widespread impact of Extraterrestrial cultures on human development.
Cremo's diligent investigation into the subject of Prehistory turned up a series of anomalies that strongly suggest a much older date for the advent of humanity, including finely manufactured spheres uncovered in South Africa that date all the way back to a staggering two billion years!
Scientific Cover-Up.
Cremo strongly disagrees with mainstream scientific and archaeological assertions that human beings got their primitive start as cave dwellers around 200,000 B.C. and have only had relatively high culture for six thousand years.
He has catalogued shocking artifacts and physical evidence for over two decades that show not only was there an advanced pre-diluvian culture that existed far before recorded history, but that it was predated by 10 million years by the legacy of a sophisticated human society.
He sees a massive cover up in scientific circles as their focus has steadily moved towards a limited scientific materialism in the last two hundred years.
The UFO Enigma and Ancient Sanskrit Accounts of Vimanas.
Cremo has pieced together from early Sanskrit accounts the devastating impact of a high tech flying machine that existed in antiquity called a 'Vimana' by the ancients.
According to the Ramayana and other Sanskrit accounts, vimanas were capable of projecting themselves into multiple places at once, in what today could be described as quantum super positions.
They were thereby impossible to defend against. This fascinating flying marvel was responsible for the devastation of Dwarka, an ancient paradise that resembles Plato's description of the legendary Atlantis.
The striking similarity between modern day UFO Sightings and the detailed ancient descriptions of the Vimana lets us know that whatever the UFO Phenomena represents it has been with humanity for a very long time.
This man claims he can summon ALIENS: Watch as 'two UFOs appear before him'
This man claims he can summon ALIENS: Watch as 'two UFOs appear before him'
TWO alien space crafts allegedly appeared in the sky after being summoned by a group led by one of the world's most well-known UFO investigators, it is shockingly claimed in a video.
Video of the "alien contact" session held by Dr Steven Greer shows the appearance of one, and then a second, orange, glowing ball of light above the ocean at Vero Beach, Florida.
Mr Greer, a former medical doctor, has been at the heart of a disclosure project to try to get the US Government to release all files it has on aliens and UFOs and admit that aliens have visited Earth.
In 2001 he helped organise congressional hearings that brought several witness before congress to debate the issue.
He also founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI), said to be an "international scientific research and education organization dedicated to the furtherance of our understanding of extraterrestrial intelligence."
Mr Greer, who claims he can get alien craft to appear by meditating, tells the group the two objects contained "beings on board them" and that they are communicating with them.
In the footage the two orbs are there for several minutes, before one and the the other disappear.
Video subtitles described it as "extraterrestrial contact captured during an advanced consciousness training"
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UFOs allegedly appeared above Vero beach, but was it a military operation?
Mr Greer claims to use "coherent thought" and "meditation practices" to summon aliens to appear - something he calls CE-5 protocols.
He has previously claimed during a UFO seminar to have taken part in a similar session to contact aliens with serving members of the French Ministry of Defence.
The French MoD refused to comment to Express.co.uk on his claims.
In the video he says to the group of students, who are being taught the alleged technique: "What is that orange object - oh my God. Wow.
"You see that colour?"
Someone asks if it is just a flare, but he replies: "Oh no, no. Thank them for coming.
"Oh here they come, there are two look at this how gorgeous.
"I'm looking at the night scope and there is no smoke, no trails - these are not flares.
"Let's welcome them here."
Mr Greer mixes his alleged techniques with new age practices.
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Steven Greer (pictured) claims to contact aliens through meditation.
He pointed to a thread on Reddit by user Solarslave which said: "There was a massive naval training exercise known as COMPTUEX involving hundreds of aircraft, dozens of ships and thousands of sailors and marines going on off the coast of Florida, including Vero Beach at the time of Greer's "UFO summoning" event.
"These training exercises included flares and live fire. Case closed. Nice try Greer."
Mr Brando, also provided a link to a YouTube video showing such military lights going off.
He said: "Those lights were artillery illumination rounds related to a naval exercise known as COMPTUEX with aircrafts and ships going on off the coast of Florida, including Vero Beach.
"Mr Greer is known in our UFO Community for his sensational claims, but he never produced any evidence to back anything up."
“The largest ever sample of high-energy cosmic-ray electron and positron events”
Scientists
Boffins used the Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope spacecraft to try and solve the mystery of the cosmic rays.
But despite the mountain of data they have not even been able to workout the direction the rays are coming from as they hit Earth.
While some of the rays come from stars exploding in supernovas, there are others scientists admit cannot be accounted for and are believed to come from another galaxy.
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NASA: Scientists are baffled as the origin of the cosmic rays
The scientists’ findings were published in Physical Review letters detailing the “largest ever sample of high-energy cosmic-ray electron and positron events since the beginning of its operation”.
Cosmic rays travel at near the speed of light and are theorised to be a potential source of energy.
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Stephen Hawking: Alien Contact Could Be Risky
Stephen Hawking: Alien Contact Could Be Risky
By KI MAE HEUSSNER
Discovery Channel
The world-famous astrophysicist theorizes that alien life will not be friendly.
Alien encounters may seem like sure-fire winners to Hollywood, but one of the world's most famous scientists thinks they may be "too risky" be be worth seeking.
"If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans," he said. "We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet."
In the new program, "Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking," he speculated that aliens' capabilities "would be only limited by how much power they could harness and control, and that could be far more than we might first imagine."
He said it might even be possible for aliens to harvest the energy from an entire star.
"Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach," Hawking said.
Humans Only Recently 'Tapped Into Our Cosmic Neighborhood'
But don't start worrying quite yet. It's unlikely that those traveling troublemakers will visit us anytime soon, said space watchers.
Jill Tarter, director of the Center for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Life) Research at the SETI Institute, said that her center uses radio telescopes and optical telescopes to listen for signals of technology from extraterrestrial life. So far, after more than 40 years, there has not been a peep.
She said SETI's technology is advanced enough that it can detect signals from up to 1,000 light-years away. There are about one million stars in that zone. A signal could have been sent 1,000 years ago, before that civilization had any knowledge of Earth.
"It's quite reasonable that we might be on someone's transmission list," she said.
She emphasized, however, that though it's an effort worth considering, SETI doesn't actively transmit messages to space. So far, it has only listened.
"The question of whether or not we should transmit is a question that deserves a global conversation, and we're trying to figure out how to have that," Tarter said.
Ian O'Neill, space producer for Discovery News, an ABC News partner, said that humans didn't start leaking transmissions into space until the first radio broadcasts about 100 years ago. Given that our galaxy alone is 100,000 light years across, relatively speaking, he said, those signals haven't traveled too far.
"We've only tapped into our cosmic neighborhood recently," he said."That time scale is huge."
He also said that though scientists believe that life exists across the universe, there's no actual evidence of it yet. It could be hundreds, if not thousands, of years, he said, before human messages get an extraterrestrial response.
And if aliens do visit Earth, who knows what they would be like, he said.
"This is all complete specuation," he said. "[Hawking's] point is very much one-sided. There's an equal chance of meeting a friendly race, like our own."
Tarter, asked about Hawking's vision of aggressive aliens, said there's a "huge range of possibilities and lots of speculation."
"Stephen's is one and [though] he's a brilliant man, I'm not quite sure that his opinion has any more authority over mine or anyone else's," she said. "It's just a question. We don't know the answer."
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Ovnis : un Sherlock Holmes brise les rêves des
Ovnis : un Sherlock Holmes brise les rêves des "croyants" avec un logiciel
François Louange est ingénieur de formation et spécialiste de l'analyse des images. En collaboration avec le Cnes, il a développé un logiciel pour enquêter sur les phénomènes inexpliqués. Les pieds sur terre.
François Louange, le 27 février 2017 au Fresne (Eure). Cet ingénieur a développé un logiciel pour analyser les photos François Louange. (FABIEN MAGNENOU / FRANCEINFO)
Une chasseuse d'orages filme le ciel bourré d'éclairs, sur le flanc de la colline du Fort de Six-Fours-les-Plages (Var). Vers 18 heures, le 3 février, en rentrant chez elle, la jeune femme découvre une image furtive. Un flash rectiligne fend le ciel électrique, puis rebondit comme un vulgaire galet (à environ 0'11" dans la vidéo ci-dessous). Coloration rouge. Un tiers de seconde au total. "Mais quel est cet étrange phénomène ?", s'interroge le quotidien Nice-Matin. Fox Mulder étant indisponible, voici une enquête pour François "Sherlock" Louange, ingénieur à la retraite, spécialiste de l'analyse d'images.
Une foule de paramètres pour "interroger" l'image
Direction Le Fresne, un village normand situé à 950 kilomètres de là. Peluche à l'effigie d'ET, lampe en forme de soucoupe... "Ma fille me bombarde de ces trucs pour me chambrer", sourit François Louange, face à deux écrans. Fasciné par les ovnis – ou Pan ("phénomène aérospatial non identifié") – ce scientifique a développé Ipaco, un logiciel d'analyse photo et vidéo. Consultant pour la Défense, puis pour le groupe d'observation dédié aux Pan – rattaché au Cnes – le retraité poursuit sa quête, depuis son bureau de l'Eure. Déjà, l'ingénieur affûte ses hypothèses.
Méthodique et volubile, François Louange joue sur la vidéo avec les contours, l'orientation... Ce qu'il nomme "les conditions de visualisation". Il peut également extraire des séries de trames pour examiner davantage les images. "Je superpose les sept trames où le flash est visible, et je règle la brillance et le contraste. Là, on dirait que 'ça tape' loin, dans la mer ou sur le sol." L'image est sombre. François Louange cale l'image au moment d'un éclair, pour distinguer le paysage et localiser précisément le site sur Google Earth.
(FRANCEINFO)
Il décortique également la technique. La scène est tournée avec un iPhone 5C, un modèle déjà enregistré dans la base de données d'Ipaco. François Louange connaît donc la longueur focale, 33 mm. En traçant des segments à la souris sur l'image, il procède à des mesures angulaires des objets, c'est-à-dire un rapport entre la taille et la distance. Ce qui lui permet de connaître la vitesse potentielle de ceux-ci.
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Chaque hypothèse est patiemment examinée
L'ingénieur tente de comprendre l'origine du phénomène lumineux. Première option : un trucage vidéo. "Cela consiste à inscruster des objets ou des traces. Il y a des outils vidéo pour le faire sans problème." Mais, dans cet exemple, François Louange écarte l'hypothèse – "j'ai fouillé les structures de pixels, les métadonnées... Ce n'est pas trafiqué". Son logiciel, prolongement d'Ocapi, qu'il a lui-même développé pour l'armée dans les années 1980, permet de lire les balises suspectes sur les photos et de déceler d'éventuelles retouches.
François Louange poursuit les hypothèses. Une météorite ? Les réseaux de détection Fripon et Boam n'ont rien enregistré ce jour-là. "Et puis, leur chute n'est pas autant en biais, à l'approche du sol", ajoute François Louange. Quoi d'autre alors ? Une balle traçante ? "Il y a un fort militaire derrière, mais ce ne sont pas des forcenés ! Ces projectiles atteignent 900km/h. D'après la mesure angulaire, la balle serait alors passée à 50 mètres de la photographe", or elle n'a rien entendu. Foudre en boule ? "J'ai contacté un spécialiste de la question, Raymond Piccoli, qui est catégorique". Des cendres incandescentes provenant d'une cigarette ? "La fille était seule."
Un vol de nuit à tire-d'aile
Les chasseurs d'orages filment dans l'obscurité : il suffit d'une faible lumière pour qu'un objet apparaisse très constrasté. "C'est de l'optique adaptative, l'histogramme s'adapte au noir." Deux projecteurs installés sur le fort militaire de Six-Fours, justement, se trouvent dans le dos de la photographe. Et pourquoi pas un insecte ? Type de vol, fréquence du battement des ailes, taille, vitesse… François Louange et son coéquipier Antoine Cousyn ont fini par trouver le suspect le plus plausible : le sphinx colibri. Ses caractéristiques de vol ? "Une vitesse de 50 km/h, des lignes droites sur des périodes supérieures ou égales au quart de seconde..."
La mesure angulaire est appliquée à la taille du papillon, 4 centimètres. D'après les calculs de l'ingénieur, l'insecte se trouverait donc à trois mètres de distance de la caméra, avec un vol à environ 53 km/h. Cohérent. Par ailleurs, l'alternance de rouge et d'ombre sur les images correspond, en fréquence et en couleur, au battement des ailes, qui laisse deviner une tache rouge caractéristique de l'insecte. Un papillon de lumière sous les projecteurs, donc, pour paraphraser la chanteuse Cindy Sanders. Après un jour et demi de travail, le dossier a été classé "B" : "probablement expliqué".
Quand c'est flou, il y a... parfois une poussière
Analyse quantitative de l'image, reflets optiques... Sans décrocher les yeux de l'écran, François Louange détaille ses nombreuses méthodes de résolution et prend un autre exemple résolu en 2007, qui s'appuie, cette fois, sur les lois de la diffusion atmosphérique.
Un objet noir apparaît noir quand il est proche, mais gris foncé, puis gris clair, quand il est distant. François Louange mesure donc le pixel le plus sombre de l'ovni (valeur 25 ; 0 est le noir absolu), situé en haut à gauche de cette image prise lors d'un rassemblement de montgolfières. La valeur est de 14 pour l'aéronef de droite (marqué d'un S rouge), 35 pour celui le plus à gauche (multicolore). L'objet se trouve donc à mi-distance.
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Grâce à la mesure angulaire et au diamètre (15 mètres) des montgolfières, il calcule leur éloignement et déduit celui de l'ovni : environ 300 mètres et 80 cm de long. Quelques semaines plus tard, après un témoignage, le scientifique est conforté dans ses conclusions : ce jour-là, un enfant avait laissé s'envoler un gros ballon de baudruche dans le ciel.
Ainsi, François Louange reçoit des demandes variées. "Les gens, en majorité, sont incapables d'évaluer les distances, les durées, les détails… Même de bonne foi." L'armée chilienne l'a même contacté, après avoir observé un phénomène étrange, en novembre 2014. François Louange a conclu à la présence d'un avion en phase d'atterrissage. Une conclusion sans doute prosaïque pour le Comité de Estudios de Fenómenos Aéreos Anómalos (CEFAA), qui a boudé cette étude.
En attendant, les logiciels photo et les appareils numériques font bondir les faux témoignages d'ovni. "C'est comme le dopage dans le sport : les dopés ont une longueur d'avance." Un nouveau logiciel serait même capable d'effacer toutes les métadonnées des images –"Mais j'ai la parade", assure François Louange.
La Lune, les insectes, les avions sont souvent pris pour des ovnis, quand ce n'est pas la prise de vues elle-même qui pose problème. "Un objet net se trouve dans la profondeur de champ. S'il est flou, c'est qu'il est en deça (ou au-delà, mais c'est rare avec le numérique), explique François Louange. Cela arrive avec des poussières, parfois prises à tort pour des orbes [cercles lumineux paranormaux] ou je ne sais quoi."
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L'ingénieur a aussi développé un outil pour faire un sort aux lanternes volantes, de plus en plus à la mode lors des mariages. Ces ballons à air chaud, semblables à de petites montgolfières, stimulent décidément l'imagination des témoins. "On est submergé par ces témoignages !", soupire François Louange. Du menu fretin.
"Pour certains 'croyants', un substitut de religion"
Toutes ces enquêtes lui valent parfois de solides inimitiés. "Vous savez, je suis mort si je vais à Mac Minville", plaisante l'ingénieur. Célèbre dans le monde entier depuis la diffusion d'un cliché en 1950 montrant ce qui pourrait ressembler à une soucoupe volante, cette petite ville américaine voue toujours un culte aux ovnis. Sauf que François Louange soutient que l'objet en question est suspendu par un fil, invisible à l'image.
"Un type m'a même menacé de procès pour atteinte à la mémoire des témoins", après une étude sur un autre cas signalé en 1952 au lac Chauvet (Puy-de-Dôme).
Certaines personnes sont dans une telle projection, une telle réalisation de soi, qu'elles ne peuvent pas accepter de retomber sur terre. C'est vous qui passez pour un menteur. Une majorité des gens qui s'intéressent aux ovnis le font par croyance ou substitut de religion.
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Parfois, François Louange tend lui-même le bâton pour se faire battre. En 2013, il est l'invité d'honneur du Mufon, un congrès ufologique à la rigueur très relative. "J'ai servi de caution scientifique, je le sais bien. Les conférences ont viré sur les reptiliens et les corps d'extraterrestres, des conneries quoi. J'ai arrêté de les suivre." Rebelote à Sofia (Bulgarie), où un astronome "croyant" rêve d'une structure officielle, à la manière du Geipan(groupe d'étude des phénomènes aérospatiaux non identifiés) français. "Les débats allaient très loin dans le psychique, le métapsychique [il siffle] : presque des sectes."
François Louange consulte peu les forums d'ufologie – "les croyants y sont très costauds, sous couvert d'anonymat". Mais l'ingénieur dénonce également l'autre pôle, celui des "débunkers", dont l'objectif serait de contrer, coûte que coûte, les superstitions des"croyants". "Il y a des milliers de témoignages et d'enregistrements dans l'atmosphère qu'on n'explique pas. Ce qui me motive, c'est de trouver des explications". Et tant mieux si ces enquêtes lui procurent tant de "satisfaction intellectuelle".
"Il faut un service officiel sur ces questions"
Toute sa vie, François Louange a milité pour la création d'une structure officielle dédiée à ces questions. Spécificité française, le Geipan est créé en 1977. Le Service d'expertise des phénomènes de rentrée atmosphérique (Sepra) lui succède en 1988, mais bat de l'aile. En 2000, François Louange est chargé d'un audit sur ce service rattaché au Centre national d'études spatiales. "Il y a d'abord une raison scientifique : expliquer ces phénomènes. Et une raison civique : ce problème existe et la population se pose des questions."
L'Etat doit faire un choix. Ou bien il agit, et met un service, même minimum, capable de répondre aux questions. Ou il ne fait rien, au risque de laisser la place à Raël, aux sectes et à ce genre de choses.
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Le Geipan a succédé au Sepra en 2005, assurant la pérennité du service. "Nous avons besoin d'un service officiel, ne serait-ce que pour obtenir les données de l'aviation civile, de l'armée, de la gendarmerie." Mais ces arguments ne convainquent pas tous les scientifiques. "Le Sepra est (...) une contamination mystique au cœur de la science",tonnait l'Association française d'information scientifique (Afis), à la période de l'audit.
Divers objets dans le bureau de François Louange, le 27 février 2017 au Fresne (Eure). (FABIEN MAGNENOU / FRANCEINFO)
Dans cet article, l'Afis dénonce notamment la présence de François Louange à un séminaire entre chercheurs "croyants" et scientifiques, financé par Laurance S. Rockefeller en 1997, à Pocantico (Etats-Unis). Dans les années 90, déjà, il était apparu sur les plateaux des frères Bogdanov et de Jacques Pradel, dans des émissions parfois gourmandes en récits farfelus. "Je ne leur en veux pas, mais je pense qu'il ne faut plus d'émissions télé sur ces sujets".
"Ce qui est troublant, c'est de passer des dizaines d'années à tenter de comprendre quelque chose, et de ne pas avancer du tout", résume François Lange, compréhensif avec les réactions parfois hostiles de confrères. Lui peaufine encore son outil, qui intéresserait désormais le gouvernement argentin. Pour le convaincre, il compte s'attaquer à un nouveau monument de l'ufologie : une "soucoupe" aperçue dans un lac du Costa Rica, en 1971, lors d'une mission de cartographie. Sherlock Holmes garde la tête dans les étoiles. On ne sait jamais.
Astrobiologists Claim to Have Found Extraterrestrial Life Form in Earth’s Stratosphere
Astrobiologists Claim to Have Found Extraterrestrial Life Form in Earth’s Stratosphere
British astrobiologists are claiming to have found alien life form in the Earth’s stratosphere. They collected a small diatom frustule that could have come from space after sending a balloon to 27 km into the stratosphere during the recent Perseid meteor shower.
This image shows a diatom frustule, possibly a Nitzschia species, captured on a stud from a height of 25 km in the stratosphere. Image credit: Milton Wainwright et al.
“Most people will assume that these biological particles must have just drifted up to the stratosphere from Earth, but it is generally accepted that a particle of the size found cannot be lifted from Earth to heights of, for example, 27 km. The only known exception is by a violent volcanic eruption, none of which occurred within three years of the sampling trip,” explained Prof Milton Wainwright from the University of Sheffield, who is a lead author of a paper reporting the discovery in the Journal of Cosmology(full paper).
“In the absence of a mechanism by which large particles like these can be transported to the stratosphere we can only conclude that the biological entities originated from space. Our conclusion then is that life is continually arriving to Earth from space, life is not restricted to this planet and it almost certainly did not originate here.”
“If life does continue to arrive from space then we have to completely change our view of biology and evolution. New textbooks will have to be written!”
The balloon was launched near Chester, UK, and carried microscope studs which were only exposed to the atmosphere when the balloon reached heights of between 22 and 27 km.
The balloon landed safely and intact near Wakefield, UK. The scientists then discovered that they had captured a diatom fragment and some unusual biological entities from the stratosphere, all of which are too large to have come from Earth.
The team is hoping to extend and confirm their results by carrying out the test again in October 2013 to coincide with the upcoming Haley’s Comet-associated meteorite shower when there will be large amounts of cosmic dust. It is hoped that more new, or unusual, organisms will be found.
“Of course it will be argued that there must be an, as yet, unknown mechanism for transferring large particles from Earth to the high stratosphere, but we stand by our conclusions. The absolutely crucial experiment will come when we do what is called ‘isotope fractionation’. We will take some of the samples which we have isolated from the stratosphere and introduce them into a complex machine – a button will be pressed. If the ratio of certain isotopes gives one number then our organisms are from Earth, if it gives another, then they are from space. The tension will obviously be almost impossible to live with!” Prof Wainwright said.
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Bibliographic information: Milton Wainwright et al. 2013. Isolation of a diatom frustule fragment from the lower stratosphere (22-27 km) – evidence for a cosmic origin. Journal of Cosmology, vol. 22, pp. 10183 – 10188
Milton Wainwright. Biological entities isolated from the stratosphere (22-27 km): case for their space origin. Conference 8865: Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XVI, Aug. 27, 2013, San Diego, CA, USA. Paper 8865-28
Man spends $50,000 on over 100 procedures to transform into a ‘genderless’ ALIEN
Man spends $50,000 on over 100 procedures to transform into a ‘genderless’ ALIEN
Vinny Ohh, 22, from Los Angeles in California, has had over 110 procedures
He wants to transform into a ‘genderless’ extra-terrestrial
The make-up artists believes he’s neither male nor female
A man has spent $50,000 (£40,000) on plastic surgery to become an alien – and could soon have his genitalia removed.
Vinny Ohh, 22, from Los Angeles in California, has had over 110 procedures to transform into a ‘genderless’ extra-terrestrial.
The make-up artist believes he’s neither male nor female and so his extreme look is a way to mirror how he feels inside.
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Make-up artist Vinny Ohh, 22, from Los Angeles in California, has plans costing over $160,000 ((£130,000) to become a genderless alien. He has already spent $50,000 (£40,000) on plastic surgery to become an alien
Vinny has had two rhinoplasties at 19 and 21 to fix his nose and over 90 procedures to become an alien
He started with lip fillers at the age of 17, before having two rhinoplasties, multiple cheeks and brow bone fillers and more. The part-time model also wears large blackened contact lenses, alien like talons and unusual hair dye colours.
Now he plans to fork out another $160,000 (£130,000) on surgery to have his genitalia, nipples and bellybutton removed.
Vinny said: ‘I want to be a sexless alien being, I want my outside to reflect how I feel on the inside.
‘The overall image I want to do is an alien. I want to be a hybrid, not male or female.
‘I’ve wanted to be sexless and genderless since I was 17, I’ve been going to doctors to see if it’s possible but had no luck.
‘I don’t want people to think I’m trying to change into a woman. I could live without sexual organs so why should I have a penis or a vagina.
The make-up artists believes hes neither male nor female and so his extreme look is a way of mirroring how he feels inside
‘I don’t see why I shouldn’t have my genitals completely removed and have nothing down there.
‘So far, I’ve had $50,000 in skincare and procedures including two rhinoplasties, facial fillers in my lips, cheeks and brow bone all to look extra-terrestrial.
‘I do kind of look like a Martian, I have a really big head, no eyebrows and I’ve just been connecting with that.
‘When people ask me how I’d label myself, I tell them an “extra-terrestrial, hot mess, self-obsessed” it’s becoming my slogan.’
Vinny started cosmetic procedures after feeling like an outcast while growing up.
Speaking about his look, he said: ‘I do kind of look like a Martian, I have a really big head, no eyebrows and I’ve just been connecting with that’
Vinny’s nose before surgery. He has had two rhinoplasties in his quest to become an alien
When out in public he draws much attention, which he believes is down to some of his unusual standout features and dress sense
He became an LGBT+ activist and feels like his look now represents his beliefs that ‘people shouldn’t be labelled.’
Vinny said: ‘Over the years, I’ve realised I’m not gay, bi, trans or any of these things, I just want to be me.
‘I do it to inspire the world in a certain way, I want people to stop labelling others or putting them in boxes.’
When out in public he draws much attention, which he believes is down to some of his unusual standout features and dress sense.
Vinny added: ‘My large black contact lenses are a necessity, it’s like my pearl necklaces, I wear them to walk around everywhere I can.
‘They make my eyes look super massive, some people call it demonic but I think it looks beautiful like an animal.
Vinny is joining the agency and TV show Plastics of Hollywood. He is pictured with producer Marcela Iglesias
Vinny is joining the agency and TV show Plastics of Hollywood. He is pictured on the steps with producer Marcela Iglesias and Patrik Simpson
‘Also, my make-up is focussed around looking sex-less, I play with colour a lot, there’s no shade I wouldn’t experiment with.’
Vinny has found the public are split on his look, with some adoring his unusual appearance and others hurling abuse or trying to physically hurt him.
He said: ‘Some people absolutely love me see me as a celebration and give a lot of compliments.
‘I don’t look real and people love it. Some people have said they want their kids to be like me and that I’m an inspiration for children who don’t feel like they belong.
‘Other times I’ve had shopping carts chucked at me or I’ve been considered a sexual object by men and woman, I’m used to not fitting in.
VINNY’S 110 SURGERIES TO LOOK LIKE AN ALIEN SO FAR
35 whole body and face laser treatment
12 cheek fillers
2 brow fillers
15 lip fillers
10 fillers for random wrinkles
5 botox sessions
5 nose procedures
1 botox under eye
5 facial peels
20 cryo facial freezing
‘Even when I was 16, I was wearing full body suits and eight inch platforms going outside in the day, so it feels very normal to me.’
Vinny is set to appear on The Plastics of Hollywood, a show that will house real life plastic surgery addicts together in attempts to nurture their talent.
He said: ‘My goal is to change everyone’s mind about human dolls.
‘I’m trying to wake people up to show them that gender roles in society do not matter and show them that we need to be better human beings and nicer to one another.’
The TV show, which is set to be released in America, will follow a talent agency that tries to help them achieve Hollywood Fame without relying on their looks.
Marcela Iglesias, producer and presenter, said: ‘Vinny is an alien new generation of new people who want to look different, in 15 years, hundreds of people will want to look like him.
‘We’re in an era where there’s people who want to look like lizards, those who implant horns into their skulls and people with full-face tattoos like the guy in Suicide Squad who are working.
‘We want to be the first agency who will treat these human dolls, alien dolls and cartoons as a normal part of the society that we’re living in now.
‘We have all these people, the freaks, weirdos and we want to make society understand them.’
VINNY’S $160,000 (£130,000) SURGERY PLANS TO BECOME AN EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL
VIDEO:The giant humanoid shape was spotted above Mukuba Mall in Kitwe
VIDEO:The giant humanoid shape was spotted above Mukuba Mall in Kitwe
Zambian locals ran away in terror when they saw a strange human-like figure appear in the clouds above a shopping centre.
Photographs show a large humanoid head and torso, tailing into the sky and it is thought to have measured more than 100 metres
The figure hung in the sky for about half an hour and some thought it was a manifestation of God.
A witness said: ‚We were shocked to see images that looked like a human in the clouds for close to 30 minutes. The dense black shape looked like it was made from a different material from the clouds.
Dat je de robots van vandaag niet mag onderschatten, dat wisten we al. Maar nu kan ene Chef 3D in amper zes minuten een pizza op je bord toveren, sneller dan de gemiddelde Italiaan dus. Ideaal bij de grote honger... Of in de Gentse binnenstad.
BeeHex, een startup uit Sillicon Valley kreeg van de NASA een beurs van 125.000 dollar (ongeveer 117.000 euro) om de 3D-printer te ontwikkelen. Onder het motto 'alles is beter dan dat vreselijke ruimtevoedsel' was de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie namelijk op zoek naar een robot die snel een 'lekkere' maaltijd tevoorschijn kon toveren voor haar astronauten tijdens lange missies.
Sinds de startup de beurs kreeg, heeft het zich ook beziggehouden met de ontwikkeling van de robot voor de commerciële markt. In februari meldde TechCrunch dat BeeHex zo'n miljoen dollar (zo'n 941.000 euro) aan fondsen had verzameld om zijn eerste creatie op de consument los te laten. De Chef 3D zal binnenkort aan de slag gaan tijdens sportwedstrijden en in winkelcentra en themaparken.
De robot is volgens de makers niet alleen sneller dan een menselijke pizzabakker, hij werkt ook properder en levert consistenter werk af. Er is slechts één persoon en één minuut nodig om het deeg, de saus en de kaas klaar te leggen voor het goedje vijf minuten in de oven gaat.
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Fabled 'Atlantis Alloy' Recovered in Greater Numbers From Ancient Shipwreck
Fabled 'Atlantis Alloy' Recovered in Greater Numbers From Ancient Shipwreck
The newly found ingots of orichalcum come in addition to a cache of bars that were originally recovered in 2015 from the same shipwreck, making up a unique stockpile.
More ingots of orichalcum, the ancient metal that was purported to be mined at the mythical island of Atlantis, have emerged from the seas of Sicily.
Underwater archaeologists who have been investigating the remains of a ship that sunk 2,600 years ago off the coast of Gela in southern Sicily recovered 47 lumps of the precious alloy earlier this month, along with a jar and two Corinthian helmets.
The newly found ingots come in addition to the 39 orichalcum lumps that were originally recovered in 2015 from the same shipwreck.
"The ship dates to the end the sixth century B.C.," said Sebastiano Tusa, an archaeologist who serves as Sicily's superintendent of the sea. "It was likely caught in a sudden storm and sunk just when it was about to enter the port."
Indeed, the wreck was found about 1,000 feet from Gela's coast at a depth of 10 feet.
The same area contains other two archaic shipwrecks.
"The waters there are a priceless mine of archaeological finds," remarked Adriana Fresina, an archaeologist who works with Tusa.
The 86 ingots found on the sea floor make up a unique stockpile.
Never before discovered in any great quantities, orichalcum has long been considered a mysterious metal, with its composition and origin widely debated.
According to Greek mythology, it was invented by Cadmus, the Phoenician founder and first king of Thebes.
Although orichalcum is mentioned in several ancient writings going back to Hesiod, it was the fourth century B.C. Greek philosopher Plato who made it legendary.
In Plato's Critias dialogue, the Athenian figure Critias claims that orichalcum was mined in the mythical Atlantis and was used to cover Poseidon's temple interior walls, columns, and floors. It was shiny, and Critias suggested that its preciousness was surpassed only by gold.
The metal was so esteemed that in the temple itself stood an orichalcum pillar onto which Poseidon's laws were inscribed, according to the tale.
"The outermost wall was coated with brass, the second with tin, and the third, which was the wall of the citadel, flashed with the red light of orichalcum," Plato wrote.
Most scholars today agree that orichalcum, though rare, is far from being as precious as Plato's writing would suggest. It is a brass-like alloy, which was made in antiquity by cementation — a process achieved with the reaction of zinc ore, charcoal and copper metal in a crucible.
X-ray fluorescence undertaken by the scientific instrumentation company TQ Technologies for Quality indicated that the recovered ingots are an alloy made with 75 to 80 percent copper, 15 to 20 percent zinc, and small percentages of nickel, lead, and iron.
The ship that carried them was traveling from Greece or Asia Minor to Gela, a wealthy city with an abundance of artisan workshops that specialized in the production of prized artifacts.
The orichalcum ingots were headed for those workshops. There, they would have been used to fashion adornments and decorations.
The recovery of two Corinthian bronze helmets is also noteworthy.
"The presence of helmets and weapons aboard ships is rather common," Tusa said. "They were used against pirate incursions."
"Another hypothesis is that they were meant to be an offer to the gods," he added.
Tusa team is still working to fully excavate the shipwreck and recover its cargo.
Legendarisch metaal ‘afkomstig van Atlantis’ gevonden in scheepswrak
Legendarisch metaal ‘afkomstig van Atlantis’ gevonden in scheepswrak
Voor de kust van Sicilië is in een 2600 jaar oud scheepswrak opnieuw orichalcum aangetroffen, een zeldzame legering die in verband wordt gebracht met het legendarische eiland Atlantis. Dat schrijft Seeker.
Het wrak, dat dateert van 600 voor Christus, werd in 2015 ook al onderzocht. Onderwaterarcheologen troffen toen 39 stukken orichalcum aan.
Gezegd wordt dat het erg lijkt op messing. Filosoof Plato beschreef het als een zeldzaam metaal dat werd vervaardigd in Atlantis.
Poseidon
Plato beschreef een tempel voor Poseidon met een pilaar die geheel uit orichalcum bestond. In het computerspel Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis komt het ook voorbij.
De stukken metaal bestaan uit zink, houtskool en koper. Oorspronkelijk werd de legering gemaakt van koper, goud en zilver.
Zeldzame ontdekking
Of het metaal uit dit scheepswrak daadwerkelijk afkomstig is van Atlantis of niet, het is hoe dan ook een vreemde en zeldzame ontdekking.
“Volgens één theorie was het [metaal] bedoeld als een offer aan de goden,” zei archeoloog Sebastiano Tusa. Hij vermoedt dat het schip is gezonken tijdens een storm.
Nooit eerder
Het wrak is op enkele honderden meters van de stad Gela gevonden op een diepte van zo’n drie meter. In hetzelfde gebied liggen nog twee andere scheepswrakken.
Nooit eerder is het mysterieuze metaal in zulke grote hoeveelheden aangetroffen. Volgens de Griekse mythologie is orichalcum uitgevonden door Kadmos, de eerste koning van de stad Thebe.
Mysterieus object gespot op bodem van Grote Oceaan
Mysterieus object gespot op bodem van Grote Oceaan
Op de bodem van de Grote Oceaan is een vreemd object gespot dat zich langzaam verplaatst. Het object bevindt zich op een diepte van zo’n 1000 meter en heeft een doorsnee van 4000 meter.
Sommigen hebben gespeculeerd dat het kunstmatig is, omdat het voor de kust van Californië een kilometers lang ‘spoor’ heeft achtergelaten, meldt het Russische persbureau Sputnik.
Het object is door SecureTeam10 ontdekt op Google Earth. “Je ziet hier hele vreemde lijnen die haast doen vermoeden dat een groot voertuig zich over de zeebodem heeft verplaatst,” zei groepslid Tyler.
Onherkenbaar
“Sommige sporen lijken in de bodem te zijn gegraven en hebben hun eigen schaduw,” voegde hij toe. “Het lijken geen beeldartefacten te zijn.”
Tyler suggereert dat het object het werk zou kunnen zijn van intelligente aliens. “Bepaalde gebieden in de oceaan zijn onherkenbaar gemaakt,” zei hij.
Verbergen
Volgens hem is de diepzee voor een ander ras of een andere groep wezens de beste plek om zich te verbergen.
“Terwijl we de hele dag naar de lucht staren en ons afvragen wat daar is, is 90 procent van de oceanen nog niet verkend,” zei hij.
Erosie
Sommigen reageerden sceptisch op de vondst. “Je kijkt hier naar een algoritme dat is toegepast op dieptegegevens,” reageerde iemand. “Dit zijn geen foto’s van de zeebodem die we hier zien op Google Earth.”
Volgens een ander gaat het hier om tektonische scheuren. “De sporen zijn waarschijnlijk gevormd door onderzeese stromingen. De ronde vorm is ontstaan als gevolg van erosie,” klonk het.
Oud-president Bush houdt kaken stijf op elkaar over UFO-files: “Ik zeg helemaal niets”
Oud-president Bush houdt kaken stijf op elkaar over UFO-files: “Ik zeg helemaal niets”
Door de jaren heen zijn er veel Amerikaanse presidenten en presidentskandidaten geweest die iets hebben gezegd over UFO’s.
President Truman zei bijvoorbeeld op televisie dat het onderwerp vaak aan bod kwam tijdens vergaderingen.
Daarnaast zijn er vele duizenden geheime UFO-stukken vrijgegeven en hebben honderden klokkenluiders zich uitgesproken over het fenomeen.
Weigerde
De Amerikaanse tv-presentator Jimmy Kimmel vroeg zowel de Clintons als Obama wat zij weten over UFO’s. Deze week legde hij die vraag ook voor aan oud-president George W. Bush.
Die weigerde ook maar iets te zeggen over geheime overheidsdocumenten over UFO’s.
Misschien
Op de vraag of hij als president UFO-stukken onder ogen had gekregen, antwoordde Bush: “Misschien. Het grappige is dat mijn dochters mij diezelfde vraag hebben gesteld.”
Kimmel vroeg of Bush zijn dochters mocht vertellen wat er in de stukken stond. “Nee,” antwoordde de oud-president resoluut.
Niets
“Nu je niet langer president bent kun je doen en laten wat je maar wilt toch?” reageerde Kimmel.
“Klopt,” zei Bush. “Maar ik ga je helemaal niets vertellen.”
NU OOK GROOT MOEDERSCHIP EN DIMENSIEPORTAAL BIJ DE ZON ( VIDEO )
NU OOK GROOT MOEDERSCHIP EN DIMENSIEPORTAAL BIJ DE ZON ( VIDEO )
Naast een toename van UFO waarnemingen wereldwijd zijn er ook steeds meer verschijningen die lijken te wijzen op bepaalde portalen.
Eerder deze week werd weer duidelijk dat ze soms voor komen als een soort grote vermomde onweerswolk waarbij je overal bliksemschichten ziet en als je geluk hebt UFO’s die in en uit die wolk vliegen.
Een teken dat wij in bijzondere tijden leven, is toch wel dat mensen nu dingen waarnemen die eigenlijk niet of misschien heel sporadisch voor kwamen.
Enkele dagen geleden hadden een paar mensen die vroeg op weg waren naar een strand in de Amerikaanse staat Californië ook een vreemde gewaarwording. Het was nog donker toen ze op pad gingen om te gaan surfen en opeens zagen ze iets vreemds in de lucht.
Het was geen “normale” UFO, maar een soort opening in de nachthemel, van waaruit een licht tevoorschijn komt dat naar beneden straalde.
Het zag er ongeveer als volgt uit:
Het vreemde licht bleef een tijdje hangen, maar verdween dan ook op een gegeven moment volkomen in het niets zonder ook maar een spoor achter te laten.
In de volgende video zijn na enkele minuten bewegende beelden te zien en hoor je de verbaasde stemmen van de mensen in de auto wanneer het licht plotsklaps weer volledig verdwijnt.
Wanneer UFO’s inderdaad door de ruimte reizen en gebruikmaken van dimensieportalen, dan kunnen ze onmetelijke afstanden afleggen waarbij in aardse tijd misschien maar enkele minuten verstrijken.
Als dit zo is, dan zou je ook natuurlijk ook dimensieportalen verwachten op andere plaatsen dan alleen bij onze aarde. En het lijkt alsof we op onze wenken worden bediend door het universum, want iets dergelijks deed zich afgelopen week voor bij onze zon.
Al heel lang schrijven wij over dat daar regelmatig (grote) ruimteschepen worden waargenomen en ook nu is dat weer het geval.
Alleen dit keer is er ook duidelijk zo’n dimensieportaal zichtbaar zoals te zien op de volgende afbeelding.
In de buurt van de zon is een enorm moederschip, met daarnaast een dimensieportaal en een aantal kleinere UFO’s. Dat moederschip is enorm en zou waarschijnlijk in staat zijn om een fors deel van de aardbewoners te huisvesten.
Hebben we hier te maken met een buitenaardse reddingsmissie die klaarstaat om straks in een oogwenk een deel van de mensheid te evacueren? Die via een dimensieportaal en de kleinere UFO’s her en der mensen zou kunnen oppikken op aarde en ze via het dimensieportaal in een oogwenk naar het moederschip transporteren?
De planeet Mars is niet bepaald naast de deur en daarom kan het publiek nog niet zelf even een kijkje nemen op de beroemde “rode planeet”.
Dit betekent dat NASA de bevolking voor kan spiegelen wat ze willen, behalve als ze betrapt worden bij het wegpoetsen van een compleet gebouw.
Mensen die nog steeds geloven dat instanties zoals NASA ons echt wel de waarheid vertellen en dat die aluhoedjes iedere keer dingen zien die er niet zijn, willen wij graag het volgende voorleggen:
Wat als er nu een foto is van NASA uit 2013, genomen door één van de NASA rovers op Mars, waarop duidelijk een gebouw is te zien?
Het gaat om een zwart/wit foto die is genomen op 6 september 2013 en waarop je in de verte duidelijk een soort (flat)gebouw ziet staan, achter de heuvels.
Wanneer je wat verder inzoomt, dan wordt duidelijk dat daar iets staat wat niet anders omschreven kan worden dan als een constructie, een gebouw.
Wie de originele foto wil bekijken, kan dat hier doen. Dan wordt er enkele jaren later opnieuw een foto gemaakt van hetzelfde gebied op Mars en de datum op de foto is dan 11 februari 2017.
Dit keer is het een kleurenfoto en ziet er als volgt uit.
En wanneer we hier wat inzoomen, dan blijkt opeens het gebouw uit de foto van enkele jaren geleden te zijn verdwenen.
Wie deze originele foto wil bekijken, kan dat hier doen. Er bestaat geen enkele twijfel over de locatie en er bestaat ook geen enkele twijfel over dat er in de zwart/wit foto’s een soort gebouw is te zien. Ook in het geval het gebouw op de slooplijst heeft gestaan.... iemand heeft het dan dus gesloopt, Mars is dan bewoond en dat weet NASA dan ook.
En toch? Wij zijn degenen ze zien vliegen en de mainstream media en de politiek zullen zich nooit eens achter de oren krabben en zich afvragen hoe dit kan?
Als er op het ene moment iets staat en het volgende moment niet meer, dan betekent dat simpelweg dat er wordt geknoeid met foto’s door NASA. Dat betekent dat wanneer ze dat met bovenstaande opnames doen, ze dit veel vaker doen. Dit betekent dat ze tegen ons liegen.
Iemand die dat ook bevestigt, is Donna Hare. Zij heeft in het verleden voor NASA gewerkt en in de volgende video hoor je haar uitleggen hoe het werkt bij bij deze ruimtevaartorganisatie.
Donna spreekt dan over foto’s waar UFO’s op voor komen en die door het personeel van NASA vakkundig worden weggepoetst. Hoe mensen die daar werken als de dood zijn om te praten, omdat ze dan niet alleen hun werk zullen verliezen, maar ook hun pensioen.
Waarom wordt al het bovenstaande systematisch genegeerd door de mainstream media en de politiek? Bewijst dat niet dat ook zij net zo corrupt en doortrapt zijn als NASA? Bewijst dat niet dat journalisten van de mainstream media geen onderzoek doen zoals ze be weren wel te doen, maar neerpennen wat hen wordt opgedragen?
En zij moeten degenen zijn die bepalen wat de waarheid is?
Jimmy Kimmel Asks George Bush The Big Question, Do Aliens Exist? March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Jimmy Kimmel Asks George Bush The Big Question, Do Aliens Exist? March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of video: March 4, 2017 Location of video: Jimmy Kimmel Show Watch this unique video as Jimmy Kimmel asked former President Bush the big question, do aliens exist? And of course, Bush responded as any former president would...refusing to answer the question. I don't however feel that President Trump would refuse to answer the question. I believe that he would be very upfront and maybe even take Jimmy to a military base to actually meet an alien or a DNA copy of one that works for the USAF. Scott C. Waring
Moon Size UFO Shoots Out Of Our Sun, But NASA Wont Tell You About It, March 4, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Moon Size UFO Shoots Out Of Our Sun, But NASA Wont Tell You About It, March 4, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 4, 2017 Location of sighting: Earths Sun
Now, can you see the UFO that shot out of our sun? I circled it, but didn't add color, its nature color above. Now, had this not been a UFO, it could have shot in any direction, including at Earth. Had this moon size object been solar material ejected from our sun and heading in Earths direction, all life on Earth would have been wiped out in just minutes. The heat alone would burn our atmosphere from our entire planet, stripping all air, water, ice from our surface. But of course, if we were about to die, NASA couldn't even alert the public. There would be no time. So the big question is, which do you prefer to believe? The moon size UFO theory, or the plasma ejection theory? I believe its the first...a long UFO. Excellent find byStreetcap1. I do feel that had Trump been up there, he would be more forthcoming about what he knows about UFOs. He doesn't seem to be the kind of guy that beats around the bush about a subject. Scott C. Waring
Two UFOs Show Up On National TV Show 48 Hours, March 4, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Two UFOs Show Up On National TV Show 48 Hours, March 4, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 4, 2017
Location of sighting: Unknown (48 hours show)
The eyewitness was watching the TV news show 48 Hours when they noticed the two UFOs over the building on the far right of the TV screen. UFO often show up on TV shows. Just last week we showed one showing up on the famous Walking Dead show. They like to show up so that your subconscious will begin to accept UFOs more easily and they can also insert mind manipulation schemes that they may have to control the publics way of thinking.
UFO Abduction - A True Story (with photos of the crafts)
UFO Abduction - A True Story (with photos of the crafts)
Published on May 22, 2014
On a crisp spring night, Bill left his home to take a closer look at the eerie bright object hovering over the electrical lines near the Charleston Air Force Base...four hours later he was dazed, frightened, confused and standing in a field miles from his home. Months earlier he had taken remarkable photographs of a disc-shaped craft that had intruded into military airspace near the base, prompting inordinate interest from the military and a "credentialed UFO investigator" who, in fact, was an imposter. Naively, Bill agreed to a hastily contrived polygraph unaware that the imposter intended to use drugs as a catalyst for the answers. Harassment and surveillance from an unknown source entered his life and the lives of those around him, including the witnesses that collaborated his story and the international team that was now investigating the case. Hypnotic regression was his only key to piecing the puzzle together, dramatically revealing...who the abductors are...where they come from...and why they have come to earth. ENGLISH SUBTITLES/CAPTIONS ARE AVAILABLE - CLICK THE CC TAB. Apologies for the bad audio in places (It was transferred from an old VHS tape). A few minor parts are still difficult to hear so if you know what is said or find any mistakes, please write in the comments section below. All Herrmann's best photos, diagrams and sketches here: http://bagofbones.org/blog/24-ufo-abd...
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EXPOSED! HUGE BUILDING ON MARS ERASED FROM CURIOSITY IMAGE
EXPOSED! HUGE BUILDING ON MARS ERASED FROM CURIOSITY IMAGE
The human imagination about Mars has always been fertile. For some reason, Mars was the subject of numerous stories and fiction books. What kinds of landscapes are there? What forms of life would inhabit this planet (men, plants and animals)? Are these forms of life sufficiently intelligent and evolved to contact us? For more than 100 years science fiction has shown man exploring Mars. They also show invasions of strange green entities coming from the red planet attacking and conquering the Earth. The interesting thing is that today, more than ever, the controversy about life on Mars is taking a new direction. Pictures taken from space probes are revealing unusual images, difficult to explain by skeptics.
A black and white image taken on September 16, 2013 appears to show a huge building, partly visible from behind a rock formation. A second image dated February 11, 2017 shows the same rock formation but now in color, but surprisingly the building has been disappeared from the picture.
Is it possible that in this image we would be looking at the remains of a Martian civilization?
MAVEN-ruimtesonde voorkomt botsing met maantje Phobos
MAVEN-ruimtesonde voorkomt botsing met maantje Phobos
Tim Kraaijvanger
De MAVEN-ruimtesonde heeft afgelopen week een ongeplande koerswijziging uitgevoerd om een botsing met de Marsmaan Phobos te voorkomen.
Afgelopen dinsdag vond de manoeuvre plaats, waardoor de baan van MAVEN momenteel 0,4 meter per seconde stijgt. Hoewel het een kleine correctie is, is het voldoende om Phobos te ontwijken. Zou de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie niets doen, dan zou MAVEN volgende week op de Marsmaan botsen. Nu is er sprake van een buffer van tweeëneenhalve minuut. Dat lijkt een minimaal verschil, maar wetenschappers kennen de banen van MAVEN en Phobos goed genoeg om te weten dat er nu geen gevaar meer is.
MAVEN cirkelt in een elliptische baan om Mars. Zijn baan kruist regelmatig de baan van Phobos. De ruimte rondom Mars is groot genoeg, dus de kans is klein dat de twee botsen, maar toch zou dit maandag 6 maart gebeuren. Volgens voorspellingen kruisen MAVEN en Phobos elkaar met een verschil van slechts zeven seconden. Phobos is met een doorsnee van dertig kilometer geen grote maan, maar een verschil van zeven seconden is waarschijnlijk te klein voor MAVEN om langs de maan te schieten. Om zeker te zijn van een goede afloop is de baan van MAVEN aangepast.
MAVEN staat voor Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN. De ruimtesonde werd in november 2013 op pad gestuurd en arriveerde na een reis van meer dan 710 miljoen kilometer in september 2014 bij de rode planeet. Belangrijkste doel van de ruimtemissie? Meer inzicht geven in de atmosfeer van Mars. En dat doet het ruimtevaartuig. Ooit had Mars een dikke atmosfeer, maar dankzij MAVEN weten we hoe deze atmosfeer is verdwenen. Ook zat MAVEN op de eerste rij toen komeet Siding Spring langs Mars scheerde en spotte de ruimtesonde poollicht op Mars.
Magnetisch schild moet Mars beschermen én terravormen
Magnetisch schild moet Mars beschermen én terravormen
Tim Kraaijvanger
Hoe kunnen we toekomstige kolonisten op Mars beschermen tegen straling? Wetenschappers hebben een idee: een groot magnetisch schild in de ruimte plaatsen dat de atmosfeer van Mars beschermt.
Mars verloor 4,2 miljard jaar geleden zijn magnetisch veld, waardoor de atmosfeer in 500 miljoen jaar tijd verdween. De planeet transformeerde van een warme, natte wereld in een koude, droge woestijn. Vandaag de dag verliest de Martiaanse atmosfeer nog steeds ionen. Dit is goed te zien op de artistieke impressie hieronder.
Zonnestraling kaatst ionen uit de atmosfeer van Mars.
Magnetisch dipoolschild Gelukkig hebben Dr. Jim Green van NASA en collega-onderzoekers een briljant idee. Zij willen een magnetisch dipoolschild in de ruimte plaatsen, namelijk op het Lagrangepunt L1. Dit is een stabiel punt tussen Mars en de zon, waarbij de zwaartekracht van beide objecten in evenwicht is. Omdat Mars veel kleiner is dan de zon, ligt dit punt dichter bij Mars dan bij de zon.
Het magnetische schild vormt een kunstmatige magnetosfeer, die de volledige planeet beschermt tegen zonnewind en straling. Recent onderzoek naar zogenoemde miniatuur magnetosferen laat zien dat het geen gek idee is.
Dikkere atmosfeer Als de atmosfeer van Mars beter beschermd wordt, dan kan deze ook weer dikker worden, bijvoorbeeld door de uitstoot van vulkanische gassen. Vlak boven het oppervlak van Mars is de luchtdruk zes mbar, oftewel zo’n 600 pascal (Pa). Dat is ongeveer 1% van de atmosferische druk boven het aardoppervlak. Als de atmosfeer dikker wordt, dan leidt dit tot nieuwe mogelijkheden voor kolonisten. Dankzij een dikkere atmosfeer gaat de temperatuur omhoog, waardoor het koolstofdioxideijs op de noordelijke poolkap smelt en er een broeikaseffect ontstaat. Volgens berekeningen van Green en zijn collega’s kan een zevende van het Marsoppervlak blank komen te staan.
Terravorming Hoewel het idee van een magnetisch schild nieuw is, is ‘terravorming’ van Mars natuurlijk al een veel ouder idee. Op Scientias.nl staat een mooi achtergrondartikel hierover: wordt het tijd om van Mars een tweede aarde te maken?
13,000 Year Old Satellite Orbiting Earth Sending Radio Signals – (BLACK KNIGHT)
13,000 Year Old Satellite Orbiting Earth Sending Radio Signals – (BLACK KNIGHT)
Some of you may be familiar with the “Black Knight” satellite, and some may not; however, all the facts relative to it will be presented in the article below.
The “Black Knight” is much more than just some urban legend. It’s an artificial satellite, which can be seen on NASA’s official site. It’s often categorized as space junk, but its origins have remained a puzzle for astronomers to date.
The world first heard of the “Black Knight” in 1954, three years before Russia launched the Earth’s first satellite – Sputnik 1.
On Friday, May 14, 1954, a number of newspapers reported of a retired Marine Corps Major Donald E. Keyhoe, who stated that one or two artificial satellites were orbiting the Earth. The Major also stated that efforts were being made by U.S. Government scientists at White Sands, NM, to locate them and determine their origin.
The images below show coverage of the story by two national papers – the St. Louis Dispatch and the San Francisco Examiner.
The story didn’t end here as on August 23, 1954, Aviation Week magazine also reported of two satellites orbiting the Earth at 400 and 600 miles out. Although the magazine reported of natural satellites, this was later proved to be virtually impossible. No such natural satellites were ever claimed later on.
According to Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, an expert on extraterrestrial bodies from the University of New Mexico, and the identification project’s lead, one of the satellites is orbiting about 400 miles out, while the other one 600 miles from the Earth. It was a general opinion, including Pentagon’s, that the Russians had beaten the U.S. in space explorations.
The Defense Department hired Clyde Tombaugh, the scientists who discovered Pluto, to look for the mystery object.
The Black Knight was also included in a Pepsi commercial:
20 Facts about the Black Knight Satellite. The Black Knight wiki.
The “Black Night” has been a hot media topic for more than half a century. It’s actually one of the most covered space objects of all time. This artificial satellite has attracted public attention all over the world for decades now also because at one point it was actually believed to be a Russian spy satellite.
These are some interesting facts about the “Black Night”:
The Black knight satellite has been transmitting radio signals for over 50 years now according to monitoring agencies around the world.
The USA and Soviet Union are particularly interested in this “unidentified space object”.
It’s alleged that after building a high-voltage radio device in Colorado Springs, Nikola Tesla was the first man to “intercept” a signal from the black knight satellite in 1899.
Astronomers worldwide have been reporting strange radio signals supposedly coming from the “Black Knight” since the 1930′s.
In 1957, it was photographed by Dr. Luis Corralos of the Communications Ministry in Venezuela while taking pictures of Sputnik II as it passed over Caracas.
The Black Knight first got media coverage in the 1940′s when the St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner wrote about the “Satellite” on May 14th 1954.
On March 7, 1960, the Time Magazinewrote about the Black Knight Satellite.
In 1957, an unknown “object”, which was in Polar orbit, was seen “shadowing” the Sputnik 1 Spacecraft.
Neither the US, not Russia had the technology to maintain a spacecraft in Polar Orbit in 1957.
The first Polar-orbiting satellite was launched in 1960.
Polar orbits are often used for earth-mapping, earth observation, capturing the earth as time passes from one point and reconnaissance satellites, which classifies the Black Knight as an observational Satellite.
In the 1960′s the Black Knight satellite was located once again in Polar Orbit. According to astronomers and scientists, the object weighed over 10 tons, meaning it was the heaviest artificial satellite to orbit the Earth at the time.
The Black Knight’s orbit was different from any other object orbiting Earth.
This mysterious “satellite” was given a lot of importance by the Grumman Aircraft Corporation. On September 3, 1960, seven months after the satellite was first detected by radar, a tracking camera at Grumman Aircraft Corporation’s Long Island factory took a photograph of the Black Knight satellite.
A committee was set up by the Grumman Aircraft Corporation to study the data received from the observations. However, none of the data has been published.
In 1963, Gordon Cooper was launched into space. When he was on his final orbit, he reported seeing a glowing green object in front of his capsule moving towards his Spacecraft. This unidentified object was picked up on Radar traveling east to west by the Muchea tracking station, in Australia, which Cooper reported the object to.
The Ham Radio operator allegedly decoded a series of signals received from the UFO Satellite, which was interpreted as a star chart centered on the Epsilon Bootes Star System.
Decoded message indicated that the Black Knight satellite originated from the Epsilon Bootes Star System 13.000 years ago.
A story about the Black Knight Satellite was published by the technology magazine Aviation Week and Space Technologyon August 23, 1954. Pentagon was angered by this and tried to keep the story undercover.
Official images showing the Black Knight Satellite have been released by NASA.
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Earth's Mantle Is More Than 100 Degrees F Hotter Than Scientists Thought
Earth's Mantle Is More Than 100 Degrees F Hotter Than Scientists Thought
By Laura Geggel, Senior Writer
The upper layer of Earth's mantle, labeled here as the asthenosphere, is hotter than previously thought, a new study finds.
Credit: vectortatu/Shutterstock
How hot are Earth's scorching insides? A sweltering 2,570 degrees Fahrenheit (1,410 degrees Celsius), a new study finds.
The discovery reveals that the mantle under Earth's oceans — the area just below the crust that extends down to the planet's inner liquid core — is almost 110 degrees F (60 degrees C) hotter than scientists previously thought, the researchers said. The finding will help scientists more accurately model Earth's many geodynamic processes, including plate tectonics, they said.
"Having such a hot mantle could mean that the mantle is less viscous (flows more easily), which could explain how tectonic plates are able to move on top of the asthenosphere," the upper layer of Earth's mantle, said study lead researcher Emily Sarafian, a doctoral student in the Geology and Geophysics Department at a joint program run by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. [Photo Timeline: How the Earth Formed]
The temperature's effect on the asthenosphere isn't very different from that of hot temperatures on honey, she said.
"If you put honey in the fridge for an hour, it will barely flow when you take it out," Sarafian said in an email to Live Science. "If, instead, you put honey on the stovetop, it will flow very easily, because it's hotter."
Mantle mystery
There are many clues that the mantle under Earth's oceans is blazing hot. For instance, it generates the lava that bursts out of underwater volcanoes. However, for obvious reasons, scientists can't travel to the mantle and directly measure the temperature at which it melts.
Instead, scientists create mantle rocks in laboratories by combining powders of mineral building blocks, Sarafian said.
"Once they have a synthetic mantle rock, they then subject the rock to mantle pressures and temperatures to determine the temperature at which the rock melts at a given pressure," she said. By increasing the temperature in small intervals and at different pressures, scientists can note exactly when their synthetic mantle rock melts — a condition known as mantle solidus.
But there's a major problem with this experiment: water.
Mantle rocks contain a small amount of water, but it's incredibly challenging to ensure that the correct amount of water is in these laboratory samples, Sarafian said. Moreover, the atmosphere contains water, "so your experiments are adsorbing some unknown amount of water, and they aren't completely dry," she said.
Scientists are aware of this problem, "but they were never able to quantify how much water was in their experiments because the mineral grains that grow during an experimental run at mantle pressures and temperatures are way too small to measure with current analytical techniques," Sarafian said.
Understandably, scientists need to account for water in these experiments, as water in rocks can lower the rocks' melting temperature. In the past, researchers opted to do their experiments on dry synthetic rock, and then mathematically add water to the equation, she said.
But, as Sarafian and her colleagues later found out, because of the water in the atmosphere, these "dry" experiments were not actually dry; rather they contained roughly the same amount of water that is in the mantle, she said. Thus, correcting the results by mathematically adding water was unnecessary and made the results inaccurate.
Olivine to the rescue
A mineral called olivine helped Sarafian and her colleagues solve the puzzle another way. Olivine grains are about the size of fine sand, and large enough that researchers can accurately measure water within the grains. In addition, olivine is a good candidate because it occurs naturally in the mantle, Sarafian said.
"We performed melting experiments the same way that previous scientists did, putting a synthetic rock to high pressure and temperatures, but by adding these grains to our experiments, we were giving ourselves a target that was large enough to analyze for water content," she said. [50 Interesting Facts About Earth]
Conveniently, the sample ended up having the same amount of water as the mantle does, Sarafian said. This meant they didn't have to use any equations to correct their data, she said.
Their results suggested that the mantle melts when it is relatively close to the Earth's surface. That runs counter to another recent finding, which showed that the mantle actually melts deep beneath the Earth's surface.
"This had to mean that the accepted mantle temperature estimate was too low, and actually, the mantle is 60 [degrees] C (about 110 F) hotter," Sarafian said. "That's a very significant jump!"
The discovery is "an appreciable correction" for the temperature of the mantle under the ocean, Paul Asimow, a professor of geology and geochemistry at the California Institute of Technology who was not involved with the study, wrote in an accompanying commentary in the journal Science.
The finding "will change interpretations of geophysical observations of the asthenosphere worldwide," Asimow wrote.
The study and commentary were published online today (March 2) in the journal Science.
The MAVEN spacecraft — short for Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN — has been orbitng Mars for more than two years, monitoring the Red Planet's atmosphere. On Feb. 28, it performed a rocket motor burn to speed up just a little bit and change trajectories to avoid crossing paths with Phobos, NASA officials said in a statement. The total speedup was just 0.4 meters per second, which is less than 1 mile per hour.
Researchers noticed that Phobos and MAVEN had a chance of colliding March 6. That gave them a week of advance notice in order to pull off the small maneuver to avoid a crash. Now, the two will miss each other by about 2.5 minutes (before, their orbits were crossing the same point within just 7 seconds of each other). This is the first time the spacecraft has moved to avoid encountering Phobos, officials said in the statement. [Mars Photos from NASA's MAVEN Probe]
NASA's MAVEN spacecraft has been orbiting Mars since September 2014, scrutinizing the planet's thin atmosphere.
Credit: NASA
"Kudos to the [Jet Propulsion Laboratory] navigation and tracking teams for watching out for possible collisions every day of the year, and to the MAVEN spacecraft team for carrying out the maneuver flawlessly," Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator and researcher at the University of Colorado in Boulder, said in the statement.
Phobos is a lumpy, asteroid-size moon orbiting very close to Mars, streaked with stretch-mark grooves. Phobos and its slightly smaller sister moon Deimos are both dark gray, which makes them among the least reflective objects in the solar system. Phobos has been moving closer to Mars over time and is destined for an eventual descent into the planet — one collision that moon won't avoid.
One of the Best Explanations For Why We Haven’t Found Alien Life
One of the Best Explanations For Why We Haven’t Found Alien Life
So far, the only examples of sentient life we’ve found are right here on our own planet. It’s not for lack of trying, though—we’ve sent out spacecraft deep into our solar system and, so far, still remain alone. What if the problem isn’t where we are looking, though, but when?
A forthcoming study in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticlelooks at the possibility that life as we know it may not require a star similar to our sun but could emerge on planets orbiting much smaller, weaker stars. If we do allow for the possibility of life around non-sunlike stars, then it turns out that the universe is likely to be much more habitable in the distant future than it is today.
“It’s natural for us to think that we are the most common form of life, simply because that’s the only one that we know of,” lead author of the paper, Harvard University’s Avi Loeb, told Gizmodo. “Therefore, people assumed that being next to star like the sun was the most likely place for life to emerge.”
If you throw out the assumption that we need a sun-like star, though, then there’s a whole new class of stars—smaller and less powerful than the sun, but far more common—that suddenly start to look like good candidates. They’re called low mass stars.
Although these stars throw out less light and heat than our powerful sun, they still emit enough to create potentially habitable zones that could support liquid water on close-orbiting rocky planets. Not only are these types of stars more common in the universe than sun-like stars, but they also have much considerably longer lifespans of more than 1,000 times that of the sun.
Using this information, Loeb calculated that it was much more likely for life to have emerged in the distant future around one of those low mass stars than to have emerged in our time on a sun-orbiting planet like Earth.
“If you allow low mass stars to have life, just like we find here on Earth, then the probability of life emerging in the future 10 trillion years from now is one thousand times bigger to find life,” noted Loeb.
Proxima Centauri, a low mass star just four light years away from us (Image: ESA/Hubble/NASA)
And yet, we are not orbiting a low mass star, trillions of years in the future. We are here and now, orbiting our Sun—and this is the only place we’ve ever found sentient life. That suggests an intriguing explanation. Perhaps we are simply searching way too soon.
In other words, we may be alone in the universe right now. But that’s only because we showed up long before life really started to get going. If this hypothesis is the correct one, then the real explosion of life in the universe hasn’t yet happened—and likely won’t happen for trillions of years after us.
There’s also a second, alternate explanation that would account for all the facts. Perhaps there’s something about low mass stars which, even in zones that are technically habitable, suppresses life from ever forming.
“We still keep the notion that, perhaps, we are at the center of the biological universe, that we are really the only ones or special in that regard, or in terms of intelligence,” Loeb said. “If it turns out that we are rare and early on in the game then that would be really surprising to me because, so far, whenever we look we have found that we are not special and we are not the center of the universe.”
Figuring out which of these two possibilities are correct hinges on the question of whether low mass stars can indeed support life. We won’t necessarily have to wait several trillions of years to find out, though. Instead, Loeb suggests that the answers could be found in the next decade or so.
By sampling the atmospheres of planets around nearby low mass stars, researchers can search for biomarkers that would suggest whether these planets are capable of supporting life. If they keep finding atmospheres devoid of signs that they are capable of supporting life, then it’s likely that something about these low mass stars—perhaps their frequent solar flares or some other attribute—renders the planets orbiting them sterile.
If, however, they find that these planets do appear able to support life then it may be that the lack of other life in the universe is simply because we showed up too soon to see any of it.
Correction: A previous version of this story said “we’ve sent out spacecraft deep into our galaxy. It has been updated to say “we’ve sent out spacecraft deep into our solar system.”
First, I will stop referring to the grey skinned, short alien as a “Zeta”. The name was derived from the starmap shown to Betty Hill during her abduction which was later believed to show the star system Zeta Reticuli. Betty has vehemently denied that her encounter was with this type of being.
Almost everything that we know about the Greys comes from people who have been abducted by them, or with their help. Some of this information is from hypnosis therapy, but a good deal of it is from actual memories.
Although there have been over 50 different kinds of aliens reported and cataloged in abduction scenarios, the Greys have been the most common since about 1980. Greys have been witnessed working with almost all of the other species. They are usually the beings that do the actual abduction, moving their victims to locations where the other types of aliens perform tests and conduct interviews.
Greys are about 4 to 4 1/2 feet tall, have no hair, unusually large heads (especially the cranium) and pointed jaws. Their mouths are very small and seldom move. Their noses are either extremely small by human comparison or completely missing, with two small holes showing. But perhaps the signature feature of Greys are their two large, almond shaped, black eyes.
People always remark that the body of Greys is extremely thin. They appear to have no striated muscles on their arms or legs. Their necks are so thin that it is often remarked that they shouldn’t support such a large head, yet they do. Their arms are longer than humans, ending below their knees, and they have hands with only four fingers of differing lengths.
The physical descriptions of Greys is always consistent when recalled by abductees. They also report that Greys are capable of limited telepathic communication — mostly reassuring their victims that “Everything will be fine”. They seem able to put humans into a trance by staring at them and it is often reported that “they read my soul”, referring to their ability to scan the mind of their victims.
You will notice that I am using the word “victims” here, since the abductees are most often taken against their will, traumatized by painful examinations and surgical procedures, and left with mental and physical damage. Indeed, their reassurance that everything will be “fine” is the first of many deceptions.
Have YOU been abducted?
You might think this is a foolish question but it’s not. A recent survey conducted by the Roper Organization asked American subjects certain questions designed to reveal abductees. Their results showed that, back in 1998, 1 of every 50 subjects had experienced an alien abduction. Typically, abductions are on-going and often begin in childhood.
According to Dr. Karla Turner, who has worked with over 400 abduction cases and has written the book “Into the Fringe”, the abduction phenomena includes some of the following details:
Aliens, especially Greys, can alter our perceptions of our surroundings. They can create a kind of “virtual reality” in our mind and can appear to us any number of guises and shapes. Perhaps the mental “scanning” is used to select imagery to calm the victims and substitute memories of the abduction. They can be present with us in an invisible state and can make themselves only partially visible by this same ability.
Abductees receive marks on their bodies. Scoops of flesh are mysteriously missing and straight-line scars sometimes appear on victims’ bodies. Other marks include single punctures, multiple punctures, large bruises, three-and four fingered claw marks, and trangles of every possible sort.
Female abductees often suffer serious gynecological problems after their alien encounters, and sometimes these problems lead to cysts, tumors, cancer of the breast and uterus, and to hysterectomies.
Abductees report being scoffed at, jeered at, and threatened by their alien captors. Painful genital and anal probes are performed — even on young children — and unknown fluids are injected into some abductees.
Abductees report being taken to underground facilities where they see grotesque hybrid creatures, nurseries of hybrid humanoid fetuses, and vats of colored liquid filled with parts of bodies. Other abductees report seeing other humans in these facilities being drained of blood, mutilated, flayed, dismembered, and stacked like cords of wood. Some abductees have been threatened that they, too, will end up in this condition if they don’t co-operate with their alien captors.
Aliens have forced their human abductees to have sexual intercourse with aliens and even with other abductees while groups of aliens observe these performances. In such encounters, the aliens have sometimes disguised themselves in order to gain the cooperation of the abductee, appearing in such forms as Jesus, Blessed Mary, the Pope, certain celebrities, and even the dead spouses of the abductees. The Grey’s ability to scan our minds allows them to assess our vulnerabilities and customize the abduction experience.
Aliens make predictions of an imminent period of global chaos and destruction. They say that a certain number of humans will be “rescued” from the planet in order to continue the species, either on another planet or back on earth after the destruction is over. Many abductees report they don’t believe their alien captors and foresee instead a much more sinister use of the “rescued” humans.
Many alien prophesies to contactees of the 50’s and even today have failed to come true or appear to be outright lies. Many contactees and abductees today are again delivering warnings of coming earth changes and disasters along with promises of help from aliens. They feel “choosen” to deliver these messages to mankind. Again the Grey’s know their vulnerable egos can compel their cooperation. The prophesies often create false hope and dependancy on their abductors whom they know little about.
“I’ve come away from this experience convinced of one thing: if there aren’t demons out there, there might as well be, because these guys are indistinguishable from demons. Indistinguishable. To see them, to look into their eyes, is to be less — forever…” — Whitley Strieber (MUFON Journal, Sept. 93)
Good and Bad Greys
OK. That’s pretty bad stuff — and very frightening. But it gets worse. So let’s get all the bad stuff out in the open before we explore the good side of Greys. The following is a well known conspiracy theory about a secret base where humans (military) and Greys work together. Apparently the Greys have the upper hand as you will see in this eye-witness account of what happened when their secret underground dwelling was accidentally disturbed.
Theories depicting Greys as evil
Phil Schneider, one of three people to survive the 1979 fire fight between the large Greys, US intelligence and military at the Dulce underground base, was found dead January 1996, due to what appears to be an execution style murder. He was found dead in his apartment with a piano wire wrapped around his neck. According to sources, it appeared that he repeatedly suffered torture before he was finally killed. Seven months prior to his death , Schneider did a lecture on the forces he had discovered at Dulce.Here is his story:
Back in 1954, under the Eisenhower administration, the federal government decided to circumvent the Constitution of the United States and form a treaty with alien entities. It was called the 1954 Grenada Treaty, which basically made the agreement that the aliens involved could take a few cows and test their implanting techniques on a few human beings, but that they had to give details about the people involved. Slowly, the aliens altered the bargain until they decided they wouldn’t abide by it at all. Back in 1979, this was the reality, and the fire-fight at Dulce occurred quite by accident.
“I was involved in building an addition to the deep underground military base at Dulce, which is probably the deepest base. It goes down seven levels and over 2.5 miles deep. At that particular time, we had drilled four distinct holes in the desert, and we were going to link them together and blow out large sections at a time. My job was to go down the holes and check the rock samples, and recommend the explosive to deal with the particular rock. As I was headed down there, we found ourselves amidst a large cavern that was full of outer-space aliens, otherwise known as large Greys. I shot two of them. At that time, there were 30 people down there. About 40 more came down after this started, and all of them got killed. We had surprised a whole underground base of existing aliens. Later, we found out that they had been living on our planet for a long time, perhaps a million years. This could explain a lot of what is behind the theory of ancient astronauts.
“Anyway, I got shot in the chest with one of their weapons, which was a box on their body, that blew a hole in me and gave me a nasty dose of cobalt radiation. I have had cancer because of that.
“I didn’t get really interested in UFO technology until I started work at Area 51, north of Las Vegas. After about two years recuperating after the 1979 incident, I went back to work for Morrison and Knudson, EG&G and other companies. At Area 51, they were testing all kinds of peculiar spacecraft. How many people here are familiar with Bob Lazar’s story? He was a physicist working at Area 51 trying to decipher the propulsion factor in some of these craft.
Dulce Base — under Mt. Archuleta, Dulce, New Mexico. Located close to the Colorado border and situated on the Jicarella Apache Indian Reservation. The town of Dulce is located off U.S. Route 64 population 900-1,700. A small town with one motel and a gas station. The base is located 2.5 miles northwest of Dulce and almost overlooks the town. Joint CIA-Alien base. 95 miles northwest of Los Alamos. Biogenetics Laboratory including but not limited to: Atomic Manipulation, cloning, studies of the human aura, advanced mind control applications, animal/human crossbreeding, visual and audio human chip implantation, abduction and feeding off of humans including children.
The Second Largest Reptilian and Grey Base in North America. The Central Hub.
*1st Level – contains the garage for Street Maintenance.
*2nd Level- contains the garage for trains, shuttles, tunnel-boring machines and UFO maintenance.
*3rd Level – the first 3 levels contain government offices.
*4th Level – Human Aura Research as well as aspects of Dream Manipulation, Hypnosis, and Telepathy. They can lower your heartbeat with Delta Waves and introduce data and programmed reactions into your mind (for those implanted with brain chips). Most people already are, they just don’t know it.
*5th Level – witnesses have described huge vats with amber liquid with parts of human bodies being stirred inside. Rows and rows of cages holding men, women and children — some believe to be used as food. Perhaps thousands.
*6th Level — privately called “Nightmare Hall.” It contains the genetic labs. Here are where the crossbreeding experiments of human/animal are done on fish, seals, birds, and mice that are vastly altered from their original forms. There are multi-armed and multi-legged humans and several cages and vats of humanoid bat-like creatures up to 7 feet tall.
*7th level – Row after row of 1,000s of humans in cold storage including children.
[thanks to http://www.orgoneblasters.com/joint-bases.htm]
We have no way of knowing if the accounts of Grey activity at Dulce, New Mexico are true. Even the local people are a bit paranoid about what lies under the nearby mountains. Strange lights are often seen and some ranchers have reported seeing steam coming from air vents in the valleys. It’s almost sure thatsomething is under the earth — but whatever it is must be very secret.
Harvesting Souls?
Nigel Kerner has written books describing the Greys as a race of biologic robots, created long ago by some superior civilization that they outlived. Although they are self-aware, Greys are like the Tin Man in the Wizzard of Oz — only instad of a heart, Greys need our souls. Kerner describes the abduction phenomenon in terms of a “Harvest” where potential human candidates are examined and nurtured for that moment when they will have their spirit essence transferred to a waiting Grey.
This theory has some interesting support from social scientists who open our eyes to cultural trends that can only be described as pure “evil.” The widespread introduction of materialism, free pornography and secularism seem to have no other reward but to destroy personal integrity and morality. Poverty also enslaves the population and destroys the family structure. All these trends diminish our spiritual strength making our souls vulnerable and ripe for the harvest. And all these cultural shifts could well be the fruit of abductions and implanted ideologies.
As crazy as these theories sound, the abduction phenomenon is itself crazy, but very real. We should not easily dismiss the association of Greys with the underworld, decpetion and evil. “By way of deception thou shall do war.”
Next up… the other side of Greys
Next we’ll take a look at the side of Greys that some people consider beneficial to humans. We’ll see how they interact with some people to reveal future events and help our species. We’ll also see that all Greys are not alike. And some Greys are trying to correct the harm that has been inflicted on humans by their own race.
After the horrific stories of what humans have endured, and continue to endure in abductions, it seems an uphill battle to portray the Greys as benevolent and altruistic. Yet that is what many people believe. Their argument deserves consideration but requires a serious upgrade in our concept of good intentions and wise intervention.
Us and Them
Let’s get off planet Earth for a moment and consider the unimaginable vastness of the universe and its possibilities. Countless inhabited planets have evolved with intelligent life capable of technologies and philosophies that are thousands, millions or even billions of years ahead of what we understand. In this scenario we, humans, are part of the mix. We too are aliens.
While an extrateresstrial species visiting our planet must have the prerequisite understanding of the “big picture”, we don’t yet have this. In fact, we are still debating whether there is life anywhere else. Our experience with other species is limited to our interactions with the human, animal, plant and marine life on Earth, which we have routinely exploited.
Although diverse, the universe appears to have laws and patterns. Undoubtedly, intelligent beings have a pattern of evolution that can be recognized by beings who are familiar with, and have studied, a variety of inhabited worlds. The challenges faced by homo sapiens sapiens are likely not unique and extraterrestrial observers can assess our progress and pitfalls with some objectivity.
One of the “laws” of nature is that progress is the result of trial and error. Error is important — it is the great teacher. Once burnt, twice as shy. And so the concept of the Prime Directive, as introduced by Roddenberry’s Star Trek series, is valid.
This is perhaps the reason Greys do not stop wars, plagues, over population, pollution or famines. Like children, we must learn our lessons the hard way. Their apparent indifference does not justify our perception of evil intent.
But what about the abductions? Can we justify them?
Microcosm and Macrocosm
One of the reasons that the prime directive was instituted was to prevent evolving civilizations from obtaining technologies that outpaced their culture. Giving young children handguns is a recipe for a catastrophe. Our own tribal and warfare culture is experiencing this with the recent discovery of atomic fission.
What is true on Earth is also true in the universe. Unless a civilization has reached some type of peaceful wisdom or moral spirituality, interplanetary travel will bring with it those same unresolved competitive and exploitive traits. We should expect to see these same traits in some of our encounters with extraterrestrial visitors. But again, this pattern should be known and some aliens will likely try to prevent our exploitation.
I guess I am trying to paint a picture of “good” and “bad” encounters that are possible and likely have happened to us in our history. To some aliens we are seen as interesting and potentially good creatures, worthy of respect. To others we are seen as cattle. The nature of the abduction experience can thus be varied.
Greys seem to be both good and bad. This has led some to believe that they are at conflict with themselves. Abductees speak of “service to self” Greys as the bad ones and “service to others” as the good Greys. This apparent split in ideology came about in the 1980s. It is believed that the “service to self” Greys had either threatened or offered technology to the governments and military in return for their unhindered molestation of humanity and that certain “service to others” Greys revolted, forming their own camp.
Zeta Talk
The split in ideologies with Greys happened after Dr. Karla Turner’s documentation of the horrific alien abductions. Her descriptions led one to believe that the Greys were custodians or shepherds of human beings, allowing other malevolent aliens to have their way with us. Indeed Greys do appear to be the stewards of the planet. They have apparently been here a long time and have messed with us continuously.
The “service to others” Greys are a more recent phenomenon. These beings supposedly speak through selected humans, giving messages about peace, the environment and planetary change. Unfortunately, their method of communication with the public is distorted by the messengers and is greatly diluted.
A case in point is Nancy Leider [right] who runs a website called www.zetatalk.com and which claims to publish messages (called “nings”) from the good Greys, who she calls Zetas. According to her biography:
Nancy became aware of her contactee status in 1993, and the potential for being a communicator of the Zeta message, in the midst of a full life with a family and a full time job. As a contactee, Nancy participated in the hybrid program, and met one of her hybrid children. In preparation for her communicator role, Nancy was given life form introductions and introduced to MJ12 at an early age. Nancy expends her retirement time and money on getting the ZetaTalk message out. Requests for interviews take top priority. She quit a professional job in California in 1999 to move to Wisconsin to walk the talk. Born in Wisconsin, Nancy returned to her grandparent’s homestead, where she first met the Zetas in the woods as a young girl. There, she gardens, saves seed, raises chickens, and tries to be an example of how people should prepare for the coming changes. As the ZetaTalk message is threatening to the establishment, who fear the populace will panic, Nancy deals with a lot of flack.
The main theme of the Zetas who communicate with Nancy is that the planet is about to experience a pole shift where the crust of the Earth will slide over the mantle, taking with it the oceans and continents. Initially earthquakes and extreme tsunamis will cull the human population and establish new climates. The Zetas give detailed maps and information on the best places to survive and how to prepare for this imminent change.
The Zetas (Greys) seem intelligent, well versed in science and caring about the human population, but their track record was tarnished when, back in 2003, they had predicted the same events. Many people who followed Nancy’s revelations suffered financially and socially as they charged up their credit cards and made life decisions based on the end of the world as we know it.
Roughly a week before the pole shift, Lieder appeared on KROQ radio in Los Angeles, and advised listeners to euthanize their pets in anticipation of the event. When asked if she had done so, she replied that she had, and that “The puppies are in a happy place.”
After the 2003 date passed without incident, Lieder said that it was merely a “White Lie … to fool the establishment,” and that to disclose the true date would give those in power enough time to declare martial law and trap people in cities during the shift, leading to their deaths.
Are you confused yet? Like 2003, the current ZetaTalk predictions are intimately mixed with the mysterious planet-x, described by Zecharia Sitchin as nibiru which has entered our solar system on its 3600 year orbit. It is the gravitational pull of this rogue planet that will trigger the pole shift. All this is according to the Zetas with whom Nancy converses on a regular basis.
Here is one of Nancy’s videos describing planet-x, courtesy of YouTube:
Zecharia Sitchin denies any connection between his work and Lieder’s claims. In 2007, partly in response to Lieder’s proclamations, Sitchin published a book, The End of Days, which set the time for the last passing of Nibiru by Earth at 556 BC, which would mean, given the object’s supposed 3,600 year orbit, it would return sometime around AD 2900.
Here is another video describing alien visitors to earth:
Recently (December, 2010) the Zetas have been predicting (through Nancy) that the Indonesian tectonic plate is going to slide under the Australian plate, causing a disaster to the entire Pacific rim. Referred to as the “7 of 10 event”, this has been predicted to happen before 2011. People who follow Nancy and the Zeta’s messages are preparing — some making dramatic changes in their lives in preparation for this monumental catastrophe which will begin the “end of days” for planet Earth.
As we near the event I cannot help but wonder what will happen if it doesn’t happen?. So I asked Nancy about this. I really didn’t expect a reply but I got one! So I will give her credit for not hiding from scrutiny, like many false prophets and alleged “contactees.”
Nancy is a regular person. She makes no money from what she does and seems to me, at least, to be sincere in her beliefs that the Zetas (Greys) communicate with her. Anyway, here is her response:
I’ve been involved with the Zetas all my life, and per them was a contactee in past lives too. They and I know each other well. People ask me how I know they are good in their intentions. I respond by asking how they know their mother loves them. There are a thousand ways, but basically, you judge people by their actions. There is more than just words that come across, the message, the concept from the Zetas and my putting English to it. We interact on many fronts, conduct joint missions, negotiate with MJ12 in the past, meet groups of other contactees and plan for the future. I’ve watched the body of ZetaTalk grow over the past 15 years, since 1995 when it started, been ridiculed in 1995 when there was little evidence of Planet X inbound, and know full well the impact of these words on people’s lives.I am chided by people saying that my message is one of fear, that I am scaring people. My standard statement is: would you fail to warn someone that a Mack truck was bearing down on them, on the highway, because it is a scary message? The outcome is squashed people on the highway or getting the message early and moving out of the way. My focus is not on the adults who change their lives, but on the small children who will despite my attempts to warn the world be left alone, because their parents have either died or more likely gone insane or abandoned them. Imagine a toddler standing over the body of his dead mother, broken arm dangling at his side, crying at the dark night around him.
I myself have been personally impacted by heeding the message. I had a perfect marriage to a soul mate for 20 years, our palm prints identical, our biorhythms so close the charts could be overlaid over each other, and he failed to come to Wisconsin with me when I moved off the San Andreas in 1999. Now divorced for a decade, though neither of us dates. It was not incompatibility that ended the marriage, but his reluctance to be in the middle of a battle, as ZetaTalk is a battle. My description is that I have gone to war and am not coming back. I’m in for the duration and the Zetas expect any human working with them to be as serious about the missions as they are. Shoulder to shoulder, against the forces of ignorance and deliberate disinformation thrown at the public. In my view, those who distort the facts and fail to alert the public are putting that toddler and his mother in harms way, and I feel no sympathy with the cover-up.
In 2003, when we had tracked Planet X inbound since observatory sightings in 2001, I fully expected a passage as the Zetas had predicted. It arrived, on schedule and where the Zetas predicted it would be seen in the evening sky, but did not pass. I had run every credit card my income working as a consultant in the San Francisco area would allow me to hold up to the limit. There I was not yet able to collect social security with a crushing debt load. Yes, I realize that their prediction about the ‘7 of 10’ happening before the end of 2010 could go amuck. But as in 2003 when Planet X was being tracked so clearly on the trajectory the Zetas had given, the signs in Indonesia and S American and now Africa that these first three scenarios along the Earth’s equator will occur are so clear. The plates are loosened up, and moving, just as predicted by the Zetas and others in November, 2009.
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I’m not sure what we can make of these kinds of interactions. Wikipedia has a list of over 40 alien contactees who have, over the years, given various predictions and information designed to save humanity. So far, the Greys track record has been abysmal. Yet each contactee apparently was sincere and took up the role of messenger with little financial reward. Many were also subjected to great ridicule, nevertheless, it seems they truly believed in the reality of their their abductions and special status.
We can only wonder why Greys — even good Greys — would treat their human associates with such disdain. Are they really good? Or is the whole idea about “service to others” just another deception?
Dr. Karla Turner reminds us that the Greys first claimed the abductions were to regenerate their dying species. Later they were to uplift our human species. Now they are sorry for their callous treatment and want to help us escape planetary disaster. Yet the horrific abductions and deception continues.
For now, the answer to the question of their origin remains a mystery. But their new residence is surely our planet. We can only hope that they intend to share this world with us and that they don’t have a more sinister agenda.
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NASA Telescopes Find Clues For How Giant Black Holes Formed So Quickly
NASA Telescopes Find Clues For How Giant Black Holes Formed So Quickly
by NASA
Using data from NASA’s Great Observatories, astronomers have found the best evidence yet for cosmic seeds in the early universe that should grow into supermassive black holes.
Researchers combined data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, Hubble Space Telescope, and Spitzer Space Telescope to identify these possible black hole seeds. They discuss their findings in a paper that will appear in an upcoming issue of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
“Our discovery, if confirmed, explains how these monster black holes were born,” said Fabio Pacucci of Scuola Normale Superiore (SNS) in Pisa, Italy, who led the study. “We found evidence that supermassive black hole seeds can form directly from the collapse of a giant gas cloud, skipping any intermediate steps.”
Scientists believe a supermassive black hole lies in the center of nearly all large galaxies, including our own Milky Way. They have found that some of these supermassive black holes, which contain millions or even billions of times the mass of the sun, formed less than a billion years after the start of the universe in the Big Bang.
One theory suggests black hole seeds were built up by pulling in gas from their surroundings and by mergers of smaller black holes, a process that should take much longer than found for these quickly forming black holes.
These new findings suggest instead that some of the first black holes formed directly when a cloud of gas collapsed, bypassing any other intermediate phases, such as the formation and subsequent destruction of a massive star.
“There is a lot of controversy over which path these black holes take,” said co-author Andrea Ferrara, also of SNS. “Our work suggests we are narrowing in on an answer, where the black holes start big and grow at the normal rate, rather than starting small and growing at a very fast rate.”
The researchers used computer models of black hole seeds combined with a new method to select candidates for these objects from long-exposure images from Chandra, Hubble, and Spitzer.
The team found two strong candidates for black hole seeds. Both of these matched the theoretical profile in the infrared data, including being very red objects, and also emit X-rays detected with Chandra. Estimates of their distance suggest they may have been formed when the universe was less than a billion years old
“Black hole seeds are extremely hard to find and confirming their detection is very difficult,” said Andrea Grazian, a co-author from the National Institute for Astrophysics in Italy. “However, we think our research has uncovered the two best candidates to date.”
The team plans to obtain further observations in X-rays and the infrared to check whether these objects have more of the properties expected for black hole seeds. Upcoming observatories, such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and the European Extremely Large Telescope will aid in future studies by detecting the light from more distant and smaller black holes. Scientists currently are building the theoretical framework needed to interpret the upcoming data, with the aim of finding the first black holes in the universe.
“As scientists, we cannot say at this point that our model is ‘the one’,” said Pacucci. “What we really believe is that our model is able to reproduce the observations without requiring unreasonable assumptions.”
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program while the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra's science and flight operations.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy in Washington.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission, whose science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center. Spacecraft operations are based at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Littleton, Colorado.
NASA recently released an exciting discovery, revealing seven Earth-sized planets around the TRAPPIST-1 star. Three of these planets were located inside the habitable zone, measuring 40 light years away. As its name suggests, the habitable zone outlines an area that can support liquid water under the right atmospheric conditions.
"If these planets have atmospheres, the James Webb Space Telescope will be the key to unlocking their secrets," says Doug Hudgins, Exoplanet Program Scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "In the meantime, NASA's missions like Spitzer, Hubble, and Kepler are following up on these planets."
Engineers are focused on testing and expanding the Webb telescope's capabilities in order to study these regions that may be conducive to life. One goal is to develop the telescope's wavelength coverage, which will increase the atmospheric information relayed to scientists such as water, methane, oxygen, and carbon monoxide/dioxide.
With an expected 2018 launch, spectroscopy will be one of the telescope's main techniques. Spectroscopy is a method that investigates the interaction between matter and electromagnetic radiation. This will allow the telescope to separate light into distinct wavelengths, which will reveal different atmospheric chemical components based on the wavelength's unique signature.
The Webb telescope has four main science instruments contained in its Integrated Science Instrument Module (ISIM) – a near-infrared camera (NIRCam), near-infrared spectrograph (NIRSpec), mid-infrared instrument (MIRI), and a find guidance sensor/near-infrared imager and slitless spectrograph (FGS/NIRISS).
In addition to the four main components, many smaller structures go into the ISIM design. These include the cryogenic thermal control system, ISIM flight software, ISIM electronics compartment (IEC), and much more.
With this mixture of technological power and curiosity, perhaps the James Webb Space Telescope can help humanity answer a lingering, age-old question – are we alone?
Light does more than just illuminate. It can also help chart the history of the universe. Astronomers in Hawaii captured this image—made with a combination of wide, deep, and ultra-deep imaging—to study light in the universe going back billions of years. Dimmer areas represent light emitted when the universe was much younger. The project has only just started, but so far, researchers have collected data equivalent to 10 million high school yearbook photos, all of which are available for perusal online.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2. Deep-Sea Jelly
The Pacific Ocean is full of mysteries, some of which are more opaque than others. But thanks to the work of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, we're able to see new, high-resolution images of this deep-sea jellyfish, the rhopalonematid trachymedusa, doing it's blobby thing. The little alien was filmed deep in the milky waters of the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa, where the administration currently runs a research expedition. [H/T Gizmodo.]
NASA/Terry Zaperach
3. Aurora Rockets
NASA has its own earthly mysteries to study. This year, the administration is focusing its magnifying glass on the Aurora Borealis, the Arctic's family friendly, all-natural light show. The goal of the "Auroral Arcs" mission is to understand what factors influence the formation of the physical phenomenon. To do so, they sent four rockets straight through it, and now plan to analyze the flight patterns. The idea is that the rocket's landing is influenced by the same electric fields and physical forces that cause the Northern Lights' movements.
NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Sergey Dushkin
4. Great Red Spot
There are a million reasons Elon Musk isn't considering colonizing Jupiter. It's one of the "gas giants," so it probably lacks a totally solid center (meaning you could hypothetically travel through its core and pop out the other side), and it's full of substances unfavorable to human survival including methane, ammonia, and hydrogen sulfide. It's also home to the Great Red Spot, captured in this image from the Juno spacecraft. Don't let the name fool you—this is not a vintage bedtime story. It's actually a rollicking storm twice the diameter of Earth, and it's not likely to blow over anytime soon. While we probably won't ever visit, staring at it from afar is still pretty great.
James Thomas via the Cleveland State University Library
5. Life Before The EPA
Rivers are not typically supposed to burn. In fact, they tend to be the sources of water used to put out a fire. But in 1952, Ohio's Cuyahoga River caught on fire due to years of flammable manufacturing and sewage byproducts being expelled directly into it. This is part of the reason why the United States government formed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1970. Want to know what the rest of America was like before the EPA? Check it out, here.
ALIENS ARE OUT THERE: New discovery shows there could be life on Pluto
The cold dwarf planet has been dismissed as a hub of alien lifeforms by scientists for centuries.
But new evidence shows Pluto has organic materials, water and energy which are all indicators of life.
The shocking discoveries include complex layers of organic haze, water ice mountains and a liquid water underneath the surface.
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THE BIG REVEAL: Science boffins found ice water mountains on the dwarf planet
“These are the things you need for life”
Mr Michael Summers
New Horizons’ planetary scientist Michael Summers, who specialises in the structure and evolution of planetary atmospheres, hailed the evidence for life was “in front of your eyes”.
Experts made the revelation as they examined the early data from the first spacecraft to zoom pass the planet.
Mr Michael Summers said: "The connection with astrobiology is immediate — it's right there in front of your face.
”These are the things you need for life: organics, raw material and energy.”
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LIFE: Reddish hues could indicate tholins – a organic compound
The New Horizons flyby passed the orb last year and the data finished downloading to Earth in October.
Scientists will spend years examining the rich data and are set to make further discoveries about the planet.
The top scientist added: "I've been studying Pluto all my life, and never expected to talk about these things being there."
Summers has co-authored two research papers on the topic, The Photochemistry of Pluto’s Atmosphere as Illuminated by New Horizons and Constraints on the Microphysics of Pluto’s Photochemical Haze from New Horizons Observations.
“But for some it can be a difficult, long-term struggle. They often find that speaking of their experience can be traumatic to their psychological well-being and have devastating consequences. For many, it’s frightening to accept that this experience is valid.
“It’s unreasonable to think that they all would be lying or reporting dreams and fantasies.
“These events are consistently reported and should be taken seriously by everyone, in spite of their uniqueness.”
Sceptics claim there is no evidence for alien abductions, other than individual people's accounts that are often based on dreams, and the number have increased with the rise of the internet.
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TRIANGLE UFO SENSATION: Huge mystery craft CANNOT be explained, says former police man
TRIANGLE UFO SENSATION: Huge mystery craft CANNOT be explained, says former police man
A POLICE man turned UFO investigator, who believes most sightings CAN be explained, has been left baffled by a mysterious triangle shaped craft allegedly seen across the US.
A CGI representation of the triangle UFO that Fletcher Gray cannot explain.
Fletcher Gray, who now heads the Houston branch of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), says the case of a triangle UFO he investigated has left him baffled.
In December Express.co.uk ran a series of articles about an increase of so-called triangle UFOs in the states.
Houston MUFON receives around 80 suspected UFO sightings a year, but most can be explained said Mr Gray.
But, he investigated a case of a triangle UFO sighting in Dayton Hill, Houston, last year, that he cannot talk away.
And, it could have been alien in origin, he feels.
The reports are often eerily similar, leading to speculation the bizarre UFOs could be REAL.
Many reports tell of a silent triangle shape, defined by a series of lights, that are said to be in some cases as big as a football field, moving slowly across the sky.
The most infamous mass triangle UFO sighting was the Phoenix Lights incident of March 13 1997 over Arizona.
Five lights were seen in a formation by thousands of people over three hours from 7.30pm to 10.30pm.
The sightings took place a cross a 300-mile area from Phoenix to Tucson.
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ARMY SCIENTISTS SUCCESSFULLY 'TELEPORT' SOLDIERS
ARMY SCIENTISTS SUCCESSFULLY 'TELEPORT' SOLDIERS
Army scientists have successfully "teleported" a fully equipped squad from a Massachusetts research and development facility to a training area in Germany, the Natick Soldier Systems Center (NSSC) announced today.
Teleportation or teleportation would be the process of moving objects from one place to another with the transformation of matter into some form of energy and its subsequent reconstitution elsewhere, based on Einstein's famous formula: E = m.c². It is important to note that teleportation as defined here and in science fiction has no relation to quantum teleportation, a technical-scientific term used in quantum physics to denote information transport.
Many know the idea of teleportation through the series Star Trek (1966), based on tales written by Gene Roddenberry, where Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, Dr. McCoy among others, moved from their ship to the surface of a planet or To other ships with incredible ease and low cost of filming, as it was an easy-to-make cinematic trick, much cheaper than building a small ship's model. The film A Mosca, however, had already explored this idea, of constructing equipment that allowed teleportation of matter, in 1958, based on a tale of George Langelaan.
PROJECT A119 - WHY THE NASA PLANNED TO NUKE THE MOON
PROJECT A119 - WHY THE NASA PLANNED TO NUKE THE MOON
According to the renowned physicist Leonard Reiffel, the United States planned to detonate a nuclear bomb on the surface at the Moon during one of the bitterest periods of the Cold War in an attempt to intimidate the Soviet Union with a spectacular display of American nuclear capabilities.
THE UNITED STATES ONCE PLANNED TO SET OFF A NUCLEAR BOMB ON THE MOON
The project was given the innocuous name of ‘A Study of Lunar Research Flights’ and was often referred to as ‘ProjectA119’. It appears as though the government of the United States did give serious consideration to the plan, even going as far as recruiting the famous Carl Sagan to work on the unbelievable project. The operation was scheduled to go ahead in 1959, but the scientists working on the project advised the military not to go through with it as they were concerned about potentially contaminating the lunar surface with the radioactive fallout caused by the nuclear blast.
The revelation that this project existed has led to questions about whether the United States would have been able to pull off this operation successfully if the will had been there to initiate it. According to scientists and other experts, it would have been practically impossible for the United States to have created a nuclear flash on the Moon that could have been seen from the planet Earth. Christopher Helman of Forbes has suggested that it would take 1.25×10^29 joules of energy to blast the moon in this manner. This is the equivalent of 30 trillion megatons of dynamite, which is a staggering 600 billion times larger than Russia’s Czar Bomba (King Bomb). This means that the United States would have had to have transported an incredible number of bombs to the surface of the Moon to lay the foundations for pulling off this plan and, naturally, transporting them there would have taken several multi-stage rockets. The expense that this operation would have entailed would have been astronomical.
All things considered, it is perhaps for the best that the United States decided to go cold on the idea of launching a nuclear attack on the Moon.
NASA KNEW ABOUT ALIEN STRUCTURES ON THE MOON – AND THESE OLD PHOTOS PROVE IT!
NASA KNEW ABOUT ALIEN STRUCTURES ON THE MOON – AND THESE OLD PHOTOS PROVE IT!
You’re a space agency and you know the public is expecting hi-res images of the Moon surface. What do you do? Bring out the ol’ airbrush!
In 1994, a joint mission between NASA and the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) saw the successful launch of the Deep Space Program Science Experiment, formally known as Clementine.
One month after launch, the 500-pound spacecraft positioned itself into lunar orbit and began transmitting photos of our satellite’s surface. Equipped with state of the art imaging technology, Clementine was more than able to capture hi-res photos of the Moon’s crust. And during its 300+ orbits, it had plenty of chances to gather meaningful data.
Those on the ground who were expecting to see the high resolution images were in for a surprise when the Navy released its first set of images. They were heavily pixelated and in low resolution .gif format, and little detail could be extracted from the images made available to the general public. What gives? they asked themselves.
How could those blurry images be the best available format sent back by a $200 million piece of space equipment? The whole thing remained a mystery for years. But slowly, people began to realize the images they were given showed obvious signs of tampering and censorship. Multiple areas of lunar interest had been purposefully blurred out as if NASA and the Navy were intentionally hiding something.
In many photos, the Clementine data showed blacked out areas, like the one in the image below.
This is the Rainer Gamma region, a 40 mile-wide albedo region west of the Reiner crater. The official explanation for the black square is ‘data loss’ but we all know this isn’t the case.
The next photo is another great example of image manipulation. As with the image before, the same ‘data loss’ pretext was invoked, but even to the untrained eye, this looks like intentional smudging. They could have said data corruption but it looks like they weren’t even trying to cover their actions
This deliberate suppression becomes even more blatant in the famous lunar tower photos.
Even though they smudged the hell out of those unexplained structures, the cover-up artists managed to overlook a tiny detail. Find the center of the image, go right a little, if you reached the smudged lunar tower you’ve gone too far. Notice anything? Zoomed image below shows what I’m talking about.
This definitely looks like a solid object hovering well above the lunar surface. You can distinguish its triangular shape and even the fins at its rear end. These details can also be seen in the shadow the object casts below.
Even from sketchy, low-resolution images like these ones, the curious and free mind can extract some conclusions.
NASA and the Navy should have provided photographs with a much greater level of detail. The fact that they failed to do so suggests some hidden motivation was at play;
The intentional smudging further cements the idea that alien structures on the Moon are a possibility;
If we’re being duped regarding these alien structures, it stands to reason we’re being subjected to a battery of other, equally-disconcerting lies.
Naturally, these assumptions are backed by the multitude of valid and verifiable conspiracy theories, but don’t let me tell you about what goes on the Moon. Instead, take a look at the following video where government whistleblower Karl Wolf describes what he saw during his involvement with NASA’s Lunar Orbiter project.
NEUSCHWABENLAND ANTARCTICA'S LOST COLONY: EXPEDITION CREW MEMBERS REPORTED OF BATTLES WITH ALIEN SPACECRAFTS
NEUSCHWABENLAND ANTARCTICA'S LOST COLONY: EXPEDITION CREW MEMBERS REPORTED OF BATTLES WITH ALIEN SPACECRAFTS
German Antarctic Expedition discovered warm fresh-water lakes and vegetation in an area of Antarctica between 20°E and 10°W named as New Swabia (Neuschwabenland).
Karl Donitz, German Navy Grand Admiral, in 1943 claimed to have built an impregnable fortress for the Fuhrer in Shangri-La on land. The allegations of defeat of Nazis in 1945 is a false truth on the media controlled by Rothschild banking dynasty.
GARDENS IN ANTARCTICA
There are not any proof of Hitler’s dead body and the documents of surrender signed by any of the member of Nazi party. Due to this reason James Forrestal, Secretary of Defence, sent a naval task force of 4,700 military troops from U.S, Britain and Australia to Antarctica including Admiral Nimitz, Admiral Krusen and Admiral Byrd after the claims of unconditional victory by the Allies on December 2, 1946 named as Operation Highjump.
It is believed that the Germans have constructed an immense underground facility during and after Second World War to for researching free energy based propulsion technology. The troops sent were trying to find the location of the facility.
The testimonials of crew members along with the interview of Admiral Byrd revealed that the saucer shaped discs developed by Antarctic Nazis were far more advance than anything possessed by the U.S. This defeated the post WW2 allied military attack swiftly.
The leaks of Top Secret maps obtained by the KGB and belonging to the Third Reich, on the internet claims passages built under the Antarctic ice have been used by German U-Boats to access underground polar caverns.
The people’s interest has increased due to the possibility of massive subterranean caverns in the earth and their accessibility through passage at the poles of having secret breakaway civilizations flourishing within them. The media considers it as just a taboo.
This idea of hollow or honeycombed interior in our planet is not new. This has been spoken in the past by some of oldest cultures consisting civilizations inside of vast cavern-cities within the earth. Some certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions still believes that there is a legendary underworld Agartha, secret tunnels connecting Tibet with the subterranean paradise. Shambhala is the Sanskrit name to this place of tranquillity as known in India. Mythologies throughout the world depicts the same. Many other occults, esoteric authors and secret societies concur with these myths of remnants of antediluvian civilization seeking refuge in these so called hollow caverns inside the earth.
There is always a question of survival in the underground for a human needs air to breathe, light to see and photosynthesis for plant life if we assume that these myths are true. Is there the availability of any sustenance sources that could a huge human civilization?
Robert Sepehr, author and anthropologist has attempted to unlock these riddles of sustainability sources which are not concerned by most of the mainstream academia. Many ventures have been made to access the interior of earth including polar expeditions and battles such as Operation Highjump, but the truth is still just rumors and yet to be validated by scientific revelations.
NASA SPOTS MYSTERY OBJECTS ORBITING SATURN'S RING!
NASA SPOTS MYSTERY OBJECTS ORBITING SATURN'S RING!
The fascination for exploring and understand the unknown is a prevalent desire held by humanity as they strive to reach beyond the common knowledge.
Scientists continue to study and reveal to us the magnificent phenomena that sprouts in our celestial neighbors. We have probes sent to the many corners of our solar system which has given us amazing detailed images and information about other worlds.
The saturn orbiter 'Cassini spacecraft' has captured some astonishing photographs of what appears to be mysterious objects caught in Saturn's rings.
UFOs In Delta Position Over Mesa, Arizona March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFOs In Delta Position Over Mesa, Arizona March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 1 2017 Location of sighting: Mesa, Arizona, USA This video shows a UFO moving over to a triangle group thats in sitting in delta position. I also love that the person pulled their car over to take a more steady video of the UFOs. This could be the Tall Whites since they have a base just a few miles away over at Nellis AFB. One thing the Tall Whites hate...and thats being told what to do or not to do...they just do it. They probably felt cramped in the base and wanted to fly around to have a look. Scott C. Waring
UFO Orb Fleet Over Conway, Washington On Sept 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Orb Fleet Over Conway, Washington On Sept 2016, Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: 9-29-2016, reported today. Location of sighting: Conway, Wa+6shington, USA Source: MUFON #82483 This report just in. Its about a fleet of glowing orbs buzzing around a hill area in Washington back in September of 2016. As you can see from his photos (I didn't change them in any way) the glowing UFOs stay in a group of 4 while a single orb explores the ground. This keeps the ground one safe from being seen to closely, and the UFOs higher up are just there to keep look out. Scott C. Waring PS, guys if I ever do change a photo, I will usually say so and I will only add light or add darkness, never other things. SCW Eyewitness states:
Event date: 9/29/16 20:45-21:30 My friends and I were at a place we have previously seen UFOs at, catching up, when we noticed at an approximate heading of 190 a craft that was first assumed to be a plane. First photograph shows first object approximately 1° below horizon. Craft is later seen 4-5° above horizon with an estimated distance of 2-8 miles. Shortly after first observation, a smaller light emerged from the first, and took up position near it. Then, a second did the same, along with a 3rd. Emerged lights seemed to orbit in irregular patterns around original object, as the larger one slowly seemed to move to a heading of 180° After roughly 10 minutes of observation, the 3 other objects seemingly rejoined the original, as though they were docking.
(Witness reporting is a pilot, and states that helicopters are incapable of docking, and that these craft, including craft from previous sightings in same location, behaved in ways impossible for even the most advanced military aircraft.)
The 4 objects were completely silent, and operated in a manner resembling spacecraft in orbit, though the objects maintained geological position ± 5° for 45 minutes, unlike an orbiting craft. Unfortunately, it was dark, and any surface details of the objects were impossible to see. Images will be provided in hopes that the reader of this report will observe them with photo editing software and share their observations with the witness. At 2129 hours, craft was last photographed before disappearing in the following 5 minutes. Craft was observed to 'fade away' instead of departing. (Witness states that standard night-flying procedure involves the constant use of lights to display location to local traffic. To turn off lights at 9:30 pm would be unsafe.
A triangular UFO was observed surfacing from Green Bay, a sub-basin of Lake Michigan, near Little Suamico in Wisconsin before flying off, according to the witness testimony filed in the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) reporting database. The witness estimated the unidentified flying object to be 100 to 150 feet in length, which was apparently seen at 2:10 in the morning on November 28, local time.
Wisconsin MUFON investigator Susan Birttnen said the witness estimated the speed of the UFO to be about 35 knots. The object in question was so close that the witness was able to hear a muffled jet sound. As the strange aerial object emerged from the water, it turned on its side while flying towards the west and gained elevation.
Birttnen closed the case as unknown based on the evidence and the provided witness’ data.
The unidentified witness included a detailed description of the object. According to his account, the color was dark, and it had blue flashing lights. The distance was less than a thousand feet, and the elevation was approximately five hundred feet. The side of the triangle, according to the witness, was between a hundred and a hundred fifty feet.
The witness somewhat believes that the UFO could have been a top secret craft developed through alien technology reverse engineering and run by the U.S. Air Force.
This man claims he can summon ALIENS: Watch as 'two UFOs appear before him'
This man claims he can summon ALIENS: Watch as 'two UFOs appear before him'
TWO alien space crafts allegedly appeared in the sky after being summoned by a group led by one of the world's most well-known UFO investigators, it is shockingly claimed in a video.
Video of the "alien contact" session held by Dr Steven Greer shows the appearance of one, and then a second, orange, glowing ball of light above the ocean at Vero Beach, Florida.
Mr Greer, a former medical doctor, has been at the heart of a disclosure project to try to get the US Government to release all files it has on aliens and UFOs and admit that aliens have visited Earth.
In 2001 he helped organise congressional hearings that brought several witness before congress to debate the issue.
He also founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI), said to be an "international scientific research and education organization dedicated to the furtherance of our understanding of extraterrestrial intelligence."
Mr Greer, who claims he can get alien craft to appear by meditating, tells the group the two objects contained "beings on board them" and that they are communicating with them.
In the footage the two orbs are there for several minutes, before one and the the other disappear.
Video subtitles described it as "extraterrestrial contact captured during an advanced consciousness training"
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UFOs allegedly appeared above Vero beach, but was it a military operation?
Mr Greer claims to use "coherent thought" and "meditation practices" to summon aliens to appear - something he calls CE-5 protocols.
He has previously claimed during a UFO seminar to have taken part in a similar session to contact aliens with serving members of the French Ministry of Defence.
The French MoD refused to comment to Express.co.uk on his claims.
In the video he says to the group of students, who are being taught the alleged technique: "What is that orange object - oh my God. Wow.
"You see that colour?"
Someone asks if it is just a flare, but he replies: "Oh no, no. Thank them for coming.
"Oh here they come, there are two look at this how gorgeous.
"I'm looking at the night scope and there is no smoke, no trails - these are not flares.
"Let's welcome them here."
Mr Greer mixes his alleged techniques with new age practices.
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Steven Greer (pictured) claims to contact aliens through meditation.
He pointed to a thread on Reddit by user Solarslave which said: "There was a massive naval training exercise known as COMPTUEX involving hundreds of aircraft, dozens of ships and thousands of sailors and marines going on off the coast of Florida, including Vero Beach at the time of Greer's "UFO summoning" event.
"These training exercises included flares and live fire. Case closed. Nice try Greer."
Mr Brando, also provided a link to a YouTube video showing such military lights going off.
He said: "Those lights were artillery illumination rounds related to a naval exercise known as COMPTUEX with aircrafts and ships going on off the coast of Florida, including Vero Beach.
"Mr Greer is known in our UFO Community for his sensational claims, but he never produced any evidence to back anything up."
Below is one video out of thousands floating around on the internet of supposed footage of unidentified flying objects. Keep in mind, many pictures and videos of these crafts have been published and analyzed thoroughly, so there is no shortage of verified footage and pictures. (More information on that can be found below the video.)
This one in particular comes from Dr. Steven Greer, founder of The Disclosure Project and the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). Known to some as the “Father of the Disclosure Movement,” he was instrumental in bringing forth hundreds of military whistleblowers of all ranks, with verified backgrounds, to share their experience and testify on the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon.
There is, admittedly, plenty of disinformation being spread within the UFOlogy field, and many people seeking to manipulate the evidence and public opinion, which makes it difficult to assess what information is legitimate and what is not. It unfortunately comes down to doing your own research and using your best judgement.
Greer has had meetings with high level people in the Pentagon, according to himself, Dr. Edgar Mitchell (Apollo 14, who accompanied him on some of these meetings), and many more.
Dr. Greer has been doing these types of outings for quite a while, and he’s not the only one. Last year, a couple of CE members made a trip out to a gathering of researchers, whistleblowers. and enthusiasts, and witnessed something similar.
When you get to that level, and hang around those types of people, your going to draw attention, and anybody who draws massive amounts of attention will be praised, as well as vilified. Within the UFO movement, there are those that disagree and don’t associate with each other, which is very weird and shouldn’t be happening.
Interesting footage.
I think it’s safe to say that UFOs are no longer a fringe topic, as their existence has been verified in the mainstream world, but beyond that, most people are still in the dark. It’s important to keep in mind that a decade ago you were considered a conspiracy theorist for even believing in the existence of UFOs. Things have changed since then, but believing that some of these craft are extraterrestrial in origin is still considered ‘out there.’
This is why so many scientists around the world have been urging the scientific study of UFOs for decades. The Sturrock Report, for example, an effort that gathered the world’s top minds, was put together in the form of a paper urging that, if “the analysis of physical evidence turns up very strong evidence that objects related with UFO reports were manufactured outside the solar system, then one must obviously consider very seriously that the phenomenon involves not only extraterrestrial vehicles, but probably also extraterrestrial beings.”
Their main objective was to examine any possible physical evidence, and have it carefully collected and analyzed. These objects have been commonly photographed, as well as tracked on air/ground radar.
The pilots were flying in a formation of four F86 Sabre jet aircraft. One of the pilots described the phenomenon as a “bright light which was sharply defined and disk-shaped,” that looked like “a shiny silver dollar sitting horizontal.” Another pilot managed to photograph the object, as you can see above.
An analysis of this case was also published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration (“Optical Power Output of an Unidentified High Altitude Light Source,” vol. 13, #2, 1999).
This is one of many examples to give you an idea. Many documents indicate electrical equipment failure when entering the vicinity of these UFOs, like this one from the National Security Agency (NSA).
Just as there was evidence for UFOs when they were still considered a conspiracy, most, if not all researchers who have studied this phenomenon, will tell you with absolute certainty that there is ample evidence to support what’s known as the “extraterrestrial hypothesis,” and so will high ranking whistleblowers with verified backgrounds, from various decades — from Herman Oberth, one of the founding fathers of modern rocketry, to Edgar Mitchell, the 6th man to walk on the moon.
It’s similiar to Snowden’s mass surveillance revelation, which also used to be considered a conspiracy theory. His story stands as a great example of just how hard it is for someone to blow the whistle on secret, unacknowledged Special Access Programs.
“There is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by people from outer space, from other civilizations. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubbishing’ 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)
These objects perform maneuvers that defy our understanding of physics. What’s more, there have been strange reports of involvement with and of extraterrestrials within the secret space program.
If you want to listen to a great lecture and learn more about the secret space program, you can check out this article we published on it earlier in the year.
If you’d like to go through some of that evidence, please visit the exopolitics section of our website.
Or you can check out these two articles (out of many) that explore the different types of possible races we could be dealing with here:
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UFO. Something Really Mysterious Is Happening in the Last Days in the Sun – Judge for
UFO. Something Really Mysterious Is Happening in the Last Days in the Sun – Judge for
NASA You Hide Truth From Us Kincumbersky’s central coast Australia 5 th of January 2017′
I am looking at the sun and I see a planet? UFO? hitting sitting in our sun Planet? UFO? leaving our sun with a hole in it
Warning! Solar Corona Explodes In a Burst of Ultraviolet 8.th of January.2017on in pack planet? UFO? the sun is this why our sun for a big hole it because a planet got it or comet or huge spaceship UFO solar. what ever it is what is it NASA you would know the clear photo shows us NASA you lie to us about this disgusting NASA you hide truth from us
Mark Anthony Reid
Is it a Sun anomaly or a giant object appears next to the sun, harvesting energy from the sun? The spherical object is similar to the infamous massive spherical dark object near the sun captured by Warning! Solar Corona Explodes In a Burst of Ultraviolet 8.th of January.2017
Below is a video that shows an unexplained anomaly that occurred on NASA instruments using 304 Angstroms. An ultraviolet instrument shows an extreme and sudden change in both a composite image and again on SDO’s camera. Immediately the producers of the video went to the GONG network and were able to capture anomalies that happened at the exact same time. Within minutes of having captured these strange flashes the pictures began to disappear from the websites.
Since bizarre flashing has already been reported this month and the last few months I felt these images should be called to your attention. I am not pretending to know specifically what happened but, it appears to have happened in the corona of the Sun and may involve this helium cone that has been brought to everybody’s attention.
When a number of UFOs violated Washington airspace in 1952, the entire country went on alert and the news spread nationwide. Shortly after the incident, President Harry Truman was forced to hold a press conference to address the event. After that conference, as well as the big UFO wave proceeding the atomic bomb, the subject was engulfed in secrecy.
Similar to the recent leaks revealing the extent of the NSA surveillance programs, the UFO subject went into the category of unacknowledged and waived Special Access Programs. According to a 1997 U.S. Senate report, these programs are “so sensitive that they are exempt from standard reporting requirements to the Congress.”
Former head of the CIA Roscoe Hilenkoetter put it best in 1960 when he told the nation 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.” (source)
Today, it’s a different story. A number of governments and government agencies, as well as thousands of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, have all released previously classified files confirming the existence of UFOs. To compliment these, hundreds (if not thousands) of high-ranking whistleblowers have also shared their stories.
The topic is currently leaving the realm of the fringe and entering into the mainstream at a rapid pace. Just as there was evidence for UFOs, there is also evidence that some of them are indeed extraterrestrial in origin.
This is all becoming normalized, and more and more people are starting to open their mind to the possibility, and evidence, that the government (and those who puppet it) is withholding information about intelligent extraterrestrial visitation to our planet.
The Document
The declassified document comes as part of the batch of thousands that were recently released by the CIA. These documents deal with a number of subjects, ranging from CIA parapsychology experiments to information about UFOs.
One of the documents, written by a “Fred A. Kirsch,” reads as a “sanitized copy approved for released.” In other words, it’s been cleared of (what they deem as) information too sensitive for public access. It reads as follows:
“This is a reply to the letter criticizing Dr. Carl Jung for his belief in flying saucers and his charges that the Air Force has been covering up the truth about these objects. I would like to point out that Dr. Jung is not the first person of integrity and reputation who has made such charges. He is merely the latest.”
The document goes on to name other people as well, including Hillenkoetter:
Exactly the same charge has been made by Admiral Delmar Fahrney, former director of the naval guided missile research program, and by R.M., Hillenkoetter, former chief of the Central Intelligence Agency. . . .
If Jung were the only responsible person to make such charges, we could brush the whole thing off as nonsense. However, when a number of pilots, radar operators and other trained observers agree that UFOs are real, a serious reappraisal of the situation is in order.
It’s not anywhere near as significant as all of the other documentation and information that’s out there pertaining to the UFO subject, but nevertheless stands as another great example of how the CIA has been keeping tabs on the phenomenon.
To learn more about other aspects of this phenomenon, you can sift through the exopolitics section of our website.
This document clearly states, and further validates the many who have also argued, that Jung really believed in this phenomenon and supported the extraterrestrial hypothesis as a possible explanation for the existence of UFOs.
He even wrote a book about the subject titled Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in theSkywhere he speculates about their nature, approaching the subject from a psychological rather than personal standpoint.
According to The Guardian, Jung had studied UFOs for more than a decade and stated that he “cannot even say whether they exist or not,” and that he was risking his “hard-won reputation for truthfulness, reliability and capacity for scientific judgement.”
He has also been quoted as saying, “In the course of years, I have gathered together a considerable mass of observations, included in which are reports by two eyewitnesses known to me personally (I have never seen anything!). I have also read on the question. However, I can only say for certain: these things are not a mere rumour: something has been seen.”
He then goes on to discuss what the above CIA document mentions:
What astonishes me the most is that the American Air Force, despite all the information in its possession and its so-called fear of creating panic, seems o work systematically to do that very thing (witness the Orson Welles radio play at New Jersey) since it has never yet published an authentic and certain account of the facts, only occasionally allowing information to be dragged out of it by journalists.
It’s quite amazing to see just how many ‘credible’ people have been speaking up about this topic after examining the evidence, for decades, and now we know that this long list includes Carl Jung.
An interview with the guy responsible for dressing astronauts.
Robert Trevino is a senior engineer with NASA's Crew and Thermal Systems Division. Among other duties, that means he's responsible for what astronauts wear in outer space. Whether it's regular cotton polos and cargo shorts on the International Space Station or textiles resistant to fire and bacteria designed for the mission to Mars, Trevino and his team must consider every aspect of astronaut wear, from comfort to weight to durability. The question of laundry might sound banal at first, but it in fact reveals how even the most trivial aspects of spaceflight must be considered long and hard if humanity is to push its boundaries.
I spoke with Trevino at length about the current state and future development of space-wear. The conversation has been edited for clarity and brevity.
Motherboard: Within the International Space Station, the astronaut uniform consists of a polo and cargo pants. Is there anything special about these?
No, that's just very comfortable clothing that the astronauts like. The space station is what we call a one-atmosphere, or shirtsleeve, environment. The air is just like the air we breathe on Earth–20 percent oxygen, 80 percent nitrogen–so we don't have the flammability concerns that we have in Apollo or Skylab, which have a much higher oxygen level.
Motherboard: This may be a stupid question, but where do you buy all the polos and cargo pants? Costco?
We have a contractor, Lockheed Martin, which provides the clothing, and they purchase from Lands' End, Cabela's, Blackhawk. They are commercial products, but we do test them to our requirements.
Motherboard: Besides flammability, are there any other concerns about the current uniform?
The clothes we're talking about are their daily wear, what they wear going through their daily routine inside the station—operating the equipment, doing experiments, doing maintenance, things like that. All the crew members are also required to do at least an hour of exercise a day. We have to do exercise to mitigate the effects of zero gravity on the body—muscle atrophy, loss of calcium in the bones. We have a whole different ensemble for exercise. The exercise clothes are also commercial, but we have been looking at new material that is much more breathable, odor absorbing and sweat resistant.
We don't have a laundry system, so the space station crew basically wear clothes until they smell bad, then throw them in the trash
Motherboard: Are the exercise clothes just tracksuits?
When the crews get assigned to a space station mission, they go to our lab that has clothing. In their training they get to evaluate some of the clothing, and they select what they like. For example, with exercise clothing, just like you might want a loose fit on a T-shirt, another crew member might want to have more of a compression fit. Almost all the exercise clothes are breathable, 100 percent polyester, and then the shorts, the socks tend to be polycotton. The underwear is up to them.
We don't have a laundry system, so the space station crew basically wear clothes until they smell bad, then throw them in the trash. After the Progress, the Russian cargo vehicle, docks and all the cargo's unloaded, they load it up with trash, which burns up on re-entry. In the future, on missions farther from Earth, we're not going to have that luxury, of the space station having cargo vehicles that bring them fresh clothing. We've done trade studies of providing a laundry system which uses water and power and requires something to take it up, versus the cost of just replacing the clothing, and right now it's essentially cheaper to replace the clothing because water is just too valuable of a resource.
Unless we find so much ice on Mars that we have plenty of water, water will still be a problem. We're interested in developing clothing that will be much more antibacterial, and I also have some research projects going on looking at alternate laundry systems that are not water-based.
We've looked at putting clothing that's already perspired on and has an odor into an airlock and exposing it to the vacuum of space. We did that and saw a decrease in bacteria, but odor comes from decaying bacteria. Ultraviolet is already being used in hospitals to disinfect rooms, so we've done some testing of exposing different material swatches to ultraviolet. We have a crew that's testing the frequency of microwaves and the amount of power provided because we know that microwaves will kill bacteria, but we don't want to also melt the clothing.
Even if we don't get the clothes as clean as you would in a full laundry cycle in your home with water and soap and everything, if we can just extend the life or the use of that clothing for two weeks to four weeks or six weeks, we've already cut the amount of clothing in half. We have a project here at NASA called Logistics Reduction for Advanced Exploration Missions, where we want to look at ways that we can reduce some of the logistics for these missions, because when you go to Mars, you're not going to have cargo resupply coming. It might be a three-year mission with a one-year stay on the surface, and you really need to bring everything with you. It would be too expensive to send cargo vehicles with clothing.
Progress 55 returns to Earth with laundry. Sadly, it will not survive.
Image: NASA
Motherboard: How long do the uniforms currently last?
They wear exercise clothing for not more than two weeks, but their other clothes last much longer. What they do in the space station is they get a certain amount of daily wear—polos and shorts. You normally have a rotation of three to six months. If they wear one shirt that they really like for a couple of months, they might throw that one away.
Before the term "wearable technology" came up, we were doing a lot of that – for example, in the spacesuit. Inside the spacesuit, one would wear a liquid cooling and ventilation garment. It basically looks like a pair of long johns that go from your ankles up to your wrist. In it, there's a series of tubing through which we circulate water. It acts just like a radiator in your car. As you're working in space and generating metabolic heat, you have air that will create conduction in the spacesuit. You've got to get that heat away from your body, so this garment will conduct your body heat. Water will circulate in cold and come out hot. It's basically keeping you comfortable by removing heat. We attach these tubings to the garment, and then underneath that we wear a heart monitor to measure heart rate. We also have looked at a CO2 sensor to monitor the amount of CO2 inside the suit because we're circulating oxygen inside the spacesuit, but we don't want a CO2 build up.
Motherboard: Any big upgrades to the spacesuit coming up?
We've looked into a lot of heads-up displays for the spacesuit. The difficulty there is, first of all, it has to work in 100 percent oxygen. Usually when you have electronics in 100 percent oxygen, you have to be very careful. There are safety issues there. The other thing is, there are some displays that are sort of like Google Glass or microvision, but if you mount anything on the head, you can't reach in there and adjust it. It has to be mounted on the spacesuit, outside in the vacuum of space, where it's exposed to really high and low temperature swings. The environment can be from minus 275 degrees Fahrenheit to plus 300 degrees. We are interested in technologies—some of them are inside the suit, some of them are outside—to provide the information astronauts need to monitor the suit. The status of their oxygen remaining, power remaining, their CO2 level—those are all things they have to monitor.
Motherboard: How do they receive that information now?
On their chest. You always see this module that's mounted on their chest called the Displays and Controls Module. If you look straight down at your chest, this module sticks out, maybe four, five inches above the chest outside of the spacesuit, and it has an LED display there. You press a button and it cycles through the different parameters. That's the aspects of the suit, but procedures or checklists could also be on the heads-up display. We actually have a laminated plastic checklist that's mounted on the wrist of the spacesuit. Many years ago we did look at an electronic checklist. We experimented with it on the space station, and we would've gone with that one, but at the time we used LCD, liquid crystal screens. We did some testing, but it got much colder than we expected and the crystal displays don't work very well in the cold, so the images started fading out.
Motherboard: Apparently fluid in the body shifts without gravity, so sometimes astronauts' limbs can become bloated?
Right, that's called a fluid shift. Our bodies have evolved for millions of years in one gravity. Gravity is always pulling you down and all of your fluids are fighting gravity, so when the heart pumps the blood out to the extremities, it doesn't have to pump back down because gravity is assisting it. When you get to zero G, you lose that. You don't have the evolutionary pull of gravity on you, so the fluids and your blood-flow re-distribute. Right now, when you're standing on Earth in one gravity, you have more fluids in your lower torso than your upper torso, so when you get to zero G, it [shifts]. The astronauts do get sort of puffy in their heads. Their bodies get a little bit less than their heads and torsos. It takes a little bit of adaptation to get them stabilized. Some are not so extreme, others are very, very puffy. We've heard the expression that they look like Charlie Brown. It's the Charlie Brown effect.
"My head feels funny." -Astronauts, probably.
Image: NASA
Motherboard: Is that something you guys have been trying to address?
For the spacesuit, [fluid shift is]critical. You have to have a very proper fit in the spacesuit for their arms and the gloves and the legs. Crew members actually grow, depending on their height on Earth, an inch or an inch and half. That is primarily in the spinal area because your spine is under compression under one G, so when you have zero gravity the spine stretches.
Motherboard: How quickly will they grow?
I think it's within the first few days that you start stretching. We take measurements to find out what's a comfortable fit for the spacesuit, then we'll add an inch or so to the height of their torsos anticipating this growth. It's not an issue with their daily wear because those are a little bit more adjustable. Your polo, if you get a little bit taller, is just not tucked in as much.
One more thing that also has a lot of applications in the future here on Earth: Outside the spacecraft, when you do a space walk, it's minus 275 degrees to 300 degrees. We have to provide insulation in the spacesuit for that. The current technology in the spacesuit for that is aluminized mylar with material between it in separate layers. That is called multi-layered insulation. It's the same as a thermos bottle, where you have a vacuum layer. There's nothing better than a vacuum layer in a thermos bottle because there's nothing to conduct the heat or the cold to the inner layer. In the spacesuit, we have that insulation that keeps the astronaut from getting the extreme heat or the extreme cold.
The problem is that insulation only works in a vacuum. It works on the moon because the moon doesn't have an atmosphere, but on Mars, where we have an atmosphere of carbon dioxide, that technology will not work, so we'll have to provide another insulation. We can use the technology you have right now in your parka, thinsulate or permaloc, but those are very bulky and very thick. So we have been doing some research into insulation for future spacesuits that would work in an atmosphere like Mars, and we're working with this company called Aspen Aerogels that makes a really neat material called aerogel that's a super insulation. It's the world's lightest solid material. You can get a cube of this in your hand and you can hold it, but you won't feel it because it's so light. We're looking at it as kind of a flexible insulation. If we can develop this material, it can theoretically replace two or three inches of current fibrous insulation of thinsulate or permaloc with maybe like a base of a quarter inch of this aerogel. So in the future you could have a parka that would be as thin as a windbreaker and it would provide you the same insulation.
Motherboard: Any other interesting projects?
Most of the exercise clothing is polyester, and a lot of our food containers are plastic. Right now, with trash, we're just throwing it all away. But we've looked at something called a heat melt compactor, like a trash compactor but it gets to a high temperature. You can separate your plastics from your other trash and put it into this compactor, melt the plastic and compress it into a hockey puck—maybe an inch or three-quarters of an inch thick, maybe six inches in diameter. Plastic happens to be a really good radiation shielding material, so we can make these thick bricks and line the space station's sleeping compartments with them to provide radiation shielding for the astronauts. If we can get some of these materials from clothing and reuse them, turn them into these pucks, then, instead of flying hundreds of pounds of radiation material, we can be using this trash for long-term missions, making our own radiation shielding from the plastics in the clothing.
The other thing is 3D printing. If we have this hockey puck of plastic, could we develop a system that would heat that and put it into another device that would extrude it into a fiber? 3D printers use a feedstock that almost looks like spool, that sort of texture. We had the idea of converting our discarded clothes and plastics and other things to develop a plastic that would provide the feedstock for a 3D printer. We're thinking—again, long-term—of designing clothing that, instead of throwing it away, we can do something with it. Can we convert it into radiation shielding? Can we convert it to feedstock for a 3D printer? Do other things with it? If not, we have the mentality that we've had on previous missions, that we have all these logistics and we throw them away and get new supplies. But for three-year missions, our whole mentality for recycling air and water and clothing and trash has to be different.
'Is this an alien invasion?' No, it's a cluster of paper lanterns over Longmont
'Is this an alien invasion?' No, it's a cluster of paper lanterns over Longmont
By Amelia Arvesen
Staff Writer
Paper lanterns are sent up into the sky to memorialize Anthony Sandoval-Palma and Jerry Martinez, who were killed in a Longmont DUI crash on Feb. 25, 2012. This photo is from 2015's commemoration; this year's sparked reports of mysterious objects floating over Longmont.
(Mary Moreno / Courtesy photo)
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At twilight on Saturday, about 15 glowing paper lanterns were sent into the sky over Longmont as a memorial to two men killed in a DUI-related car crash exactly five years earlier, on Feb. 25, 2012.
But the floating memorial left a handful of people in Longmont perplexed by the sight of mysterious lights, evoking thoughts of spaceships, UFOs and other extraterrestrial activities.
"I thought I was hallucinating or something," said Joyce Brooks, one of three Longmont residents who told the Times-Call they'd seen the objects.
For the fourth year since the crash, friends and family of Anthony Sandoval-Palma and Jerry Martinez congregated at Ninth Avenue and Hover Street, lighting the reddish-orange lanterns and letting them float up toward the heavens.
"We watch them until we don't see them anymore," Mary Moreno, a friend of Palma's since third grade, said Thursday.
In years past, they've lit as many as 30 lanterns on Martinez's birthday — Feb. 21 — and the day of the crash.
The two 27-year-olds were killed when they car they were riding in rolled on St. Vrain Road near North 75th Street and ejected Sandoval-Palma and Martinez. The car's driver, Adolph Lopez, pleaded guilty in 2013 to DUI-related vehicular homicide.
At the most recent memorial this past weekend, Moreno said, she joked with Jessica Craft about the first year they sent the paper lanterns aloft. She said, "Remember, when the newspaper thought they were aliens?"
Moreno said the Times-Call questioned readers about it back then. She said she got a laugh out of witnesses expressing the same curiosity this year.
Craft, whose husband was close friends with both men, said they're planning on lighting lanterns again May 3, on Sandoval-Palma's birthday, and every year on the anniversary of the crash.
"I think it's very special that all of us get together," she said.
Aliens?
A Longmont resident named Sue, who spoke on the condition her last name not be used, was the first to call the Times-Call saying she was surprised not more people had been talking about the lights.
She said she thought the first object she saw on Saturday was a drone — until she saw another one, and then many more, trailing it.
Paper lanterns are sent up into the sky to memorialize Anthony Sandoval-Palma and Jerry Martinez, who were killed in a Longmont DUI crash on Feb. 25, 2012. This photo is from 2015's commemoration; this year's sparked reports of mysterious objects floating over Longmont. (Mary Moreno / Courtesy photo)
"I am not an alien person, that's not where my head goes, but the thought that came into my head was, 'Is this an alien invasion?'" Sue said. "And then I thought no, there has to be a logical explanation."
It kept her up at night, she said, so she turned to Google for an explanation. Her search of "Six Orange UFO fireball phenomenon 2013" produced a still image of something similar to what she had seen, though the objects moved more in the video.
Brooks called the Times-Call after Sue's comments were printed in the newspapers's anonymous TC Line feature, saying she was relieved somebody else had come forward as a witness, otherwise she thought she was "going crazy."
A third woman, Joyce Todd, who said she is 90 years old, called to say she also saw red and pale yellow lights. She said it's hard to say how high in the sky they were, but they were visible in the distance from where she lives in the Fox Hill neighborhood.
"They're from space, there's no question in my mind," Todd said.
The lights hung in the air in a cluster at about 11 p.m. Saturday, she said, until they disappeared at about 2:30 a.m. She said she's positive they weren't airplanes, and her most recent sighting wasn't the first. She said she's seen lights in space all her life, and asserts they're real.
"I've seen so many things like this in my lifetime, it's just mind boggling," she said.
Educated guesses
Local astronomy researchers said they did not track anything that would seem exceptional to humans outside the space realm — Venus, fireballs, satellite break-ups or even UFOs — in the air over Longmont that night, meaning the objects to them remained a mystery.
Vern Raben, president of the Longmont Astronomical Society, said the club's all-sky camera shows nothing at the time the flying objects were reportedly seen.
"I'd guess it's something localized, closer to the ground, and not astronomical," he said in an email.
The National UFO Reporting Center, based in Washington state, did not respond to messages, though its database shows somebody reported seeing "orange fireballs, bright, scoping the forest" about 7 p.m. Feb. 21 in Nederland. The list of Colorado reports did not extend past that date.
Leonard David, Boulder-area science journalist and author, said the description reminds him of either a misinterpreted fireball or a spacecraft breakup, such as one he saw about a year ago.
"When I hear multiple things when they're flying at the same speed, moving, that look like they're all connected, that's what some of those satellite breakups look like," he said.
Chris Peterson, operator of Cloudbait Observatory in Guffey, said objects in the high atmosphere over Longmont are usually visible from his location, but he tracked nothing that night on his camera.
"Given the time, objects at typical aviation heights might still be reflecting sunlight, giving the described color," he said. "Less likely, but still possible, would be a group of research balloons, which could be as high as the stratosphere and could reflect sunlight."
He believes that it was most likely a low-altitude phenomenon, such as aircraft or balloons, and nothing as high as space or descending from orbit.
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Extraterrestrials Aren’t a Threat to Theology, Because They Aren’t New to the Ancient Church
Extraterrestrials Aren’t a Threat to Theology, Because They Aren’t New to the Ancient Church
Some say this sculpture depicts an extraterrestrial laptop . . . (Gravestone of a woman with her slave child-attendant, Greek, c. 100 BC, Getty Villa, USA, taken by Wolfgang Sauber; Source, Wiki Commons, CC BY SA 3.0).
I’m completely enthralled with the question, “Is there anybody out there?” –Fr. Brian Reedy SJ
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration captured the attention and imagination of a global audience late last month when NASA scientists announced the discovery of seven planets orbiting a star dubbed TRAPPIST-1 (an acronym for Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope). These planets are a mere 40 light-years away from Earth, all of which are Earth-sized, and three of which are in the so-called “goldilocks” or habitable zone – meaning that their positions relative to their “home” star suggest they could have liquid water and temperatures capable of sustaining life as we know it.
The fact is, such speculation is neither new, nor controversial.
The ancient Greeks split on the question, which they treated as a speculative scientific one; Arabic literature in the high Islamic period entertained the idea in fiction (notably in the “Adventures of Bulukiya” portion of The Arabian Nights, in tales from the 486th to the 537th night); Nicholas of Cusa openly speculated that some heavenly bodies, at least, would almost certainly be inhabited; C.S. Lewis famously wrote a Space Trilogy in the middle of the last century.
And so, if you are asking whether the discovery of extraterrestrial life would pose a challenge to the basic tenets of Catholic faith, then the answer is that it would pose no real trouble. There’s nothing new (under the sun) about the questions such a discovery would elicit.
However, the recent find does offer an occasion to do some serious thinking and ask challenging questions about life, the universe, and our place in it . . .
“If we’ve settled on the fat that there’s nobody out there,” Fr. Brian Reedy SJ concludes, “then we would – kind of – rationally miss them, and feel alone . . .” –
First, though: the science behind the discovery is on its own truly astounding.
“We haven’t seen them, and we won’t see them for a while, because they are so distant,” Reedy told Vocaris Media’s flagship Thinking with the Church podcast. “What we see,” Fr. Reedy explained, “is changes to the intensity of the star,” measurements that require extremely sensitive telescopic hardware and highly sophisticated software.
“Just think about the complexity,” involved in isolating the static created by atmospheric interference (the telescope used to make the observations is a terrestrial instrument located in Chile), “to focus in on the steady signal, looking for variations,” Reedy said. “There’re so many things to marvel at in this story,” Reedy offered, “the science itself is fascinating.”
Fr. Reedy SJ speaks in detail about the marvels of the science in the special edition of Thinking with the Church.
He also addresses the questions the discovery occasions at the intersection of religion and science, including: how we might share the Gospel with an extraterrestrial race, why we might share it and to what end; whether aliens might be capable of incorporation into the Body of Christ, both as a matter of ecclesiology and sacramental economy; and what guidance there might be for such an eventuality in Church history and scriptural typology.
Fr. Reedy SJ offers some surprising and challenging answers, especially regarding the desire to know, once and for all, whether we are alone in the universe.
“I think that – I would say there are two causes to that [wonder]: one is just natural curiosity – like, when you look out into space, and you see the vastness of it, and you see all these little stars that all might have planets – and you just wonder, ‘Is there anybody out there?’ and that’s one kind of question,” Reedy said.
“‘Are we alone in the universe?’ That is a different kind of question,” Reedy continued. “‘Is there anybody out there?’ I relate to that really strongly. ‘Are we alone in the universe?’ I don’t resonate with that question, and I think that – partly – the thing that is missing is that, in Western Civilization we now live in a kind of forcibly depopulated universe,” He explained. “To the medieval mind,” he went on to say, “creation was deeply populated with other beings, spiritual beings: so, the average Christian would believe he had a guardian angel, who was really a rational companion to him in his life, and believed in angelic beings and such, that populated the universe; but also, the kind of real, lived sense of going to Mass and knowing that the whole Communion of Saints was present with you at the Mass.”
Indeed, as the great altars of Christendom attest, the whole Church, past, present and future, from Adam into eternity, is present each time the Mass is offered.
“There are still plurals,” Fr. Reedy noted in reference to the pertinent particular of grammatical structure found in the prayer texts printed in the Missal. “Even if a priest is forced to say Mass by himself because there is no congregation, he still uses the plurals, because he still knows that everyone is there – so, you’re not alone – you’re never alone – and so I don’t connect to that [question] because I think that ‘Are we alone?’ dimension is partly coming from the fact that our universe has been so radically depopulated, and relatively recently.”
“I believe that we are attuned naturally to truth,” Fr. Reedy said, “and I believe in the Communion of Saints and in spiritual beings, and so therefore I think we have a sense that they’re there.”
“If we’ve settled on the fat that there’s nobody out there,” he concluded, “then we would – kind of – rationally miss them, and feel alone: so, on the first part, I’m completely enthralled with the question, ‘Is there anybody out there?’ – like, when you look out, are there people looking back at us? – but, ‘Are we alone?’ – I don’t resonate to that one.”
Chris Altieri is the co-founder and General Manager of Vocaris Media. He hosts the flagship program of the Vocaris production arm, Thinking with the Church. He lives in Rome, Italy, with his wife and two children.
First trailer for sci-fi film Phoenix Forgotten explores real-life UFO sighting
First trailer for sci-fi film Phoenix Forgotten explores real-life UFO sighting
Trent Moore
The new sci-fi film Phoenix Forgotten aims to tell a fictional story around the real-life UFO sighting nicknamed the "Phoenix Lights" that appeared over Arizona back in 1997.
The story follows three people who take off into the desert to investigate the UFO sighting and find some alien horrors. The film is found footage, so your mileage may vary depending on the format -- think The Blair Witch Project with aliens and a touch of "based on a true-ish story" to make it a bit creepier. It looks like a fairly low-to-mid budget horror flick, though Ridley Scott did produce, so that helps.
The true story behind the concept stems from a UFO sighting on March 13, 1997, when hundreds of people saw lights that appeared to be a large spacecraft hovering over Arizona. In a classic Blair Witch-y twist, the film is being billed as the "recently unearthed footage" left behind by the trio that takes off to try to find the craft.
Phoenix Forgotten hits select theaters on April 21. Check out the trailer below.
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A person being abducted by aliens in front of his house.
(Shutterstock/solarseven)
ANDREW FOLLETT
Energy and Science Reporter
Roughly 55 percent of Americans think the government would keep alien life secret if given a chance, according to a new YouGov poll.
The poll found U.S. residents were deeply skeptical of how the government would handle first contact with aliens.
When asked “if we discover or are discovered by an alien species one day, do you think it is more likely that the government would tell the public or keep it secret?” only 19 percent agreed the government would tell the public.
Republicans were more likely to be skeptical of the government’s trustworthiness than Democrats, with 61 percent saying the government would keep it secret. Only 51 percent of Democrats held that opinion. Republicans and Democrats are about equally likely to believe in UFOs.
Americans were unsure if aliens would be friendly to humanity, with 29 percent suspecting they would be, while 19 percent suspected any alien life would be hostile. Roughly 12 percent of U.S. adults believe that the government has already made contact with aliens, but is covering up that fact.
The poll was conducted in late February from a representative sample of 2,008 U.S. adults.
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Australische wetenschapper: “Bewijs voor link tussen graancirkels en tijdreizen”
Australische wetenschapper: “Bewijs voor link tussen graancirkels en tijdreizen”
Een Australische wetenschapper die jarenlang onderzoek heeft gedaan naar graancirkels, met name in Groot-Brittannië, is tot een opmerkelijke conclusie gekomen.
Dr. Horace Drew stelt dat graancirkels het werk zijn van tijdreizigers.
Drew werkte 23 jaar als moleculair bioloog voor het CSIRO, het belangrijkste wetenschappelijke instituut van Australië.
Olie
Hij claimt in 1965 een buitenaards vaartuig te hebben waargenomen in Florida, waarna hij zich besloot te richten op wetenschappelijk onderzoek.
Hij zegt dat buitenaardse technologie kan worden gebruikt om allerlei problemen op aarde op te lossen.
“We leven in een wereld die afhankelijk is van olie,” vertelde hij aan de Australische Daily Telegraph. “Die olie beschadigt onze planeet.”
Geheim gehouden
“Niet-vervuilende buitenaardse technologie die deze problemen kan oplossen wordt geheim gehouden,” vervolgde hij.
De moleculair bioloog wil het UFO-fenomeen op een wetenschappelijke manier gaan benaderen.
Volgens hem is er bewijs dat graancirkels kunnen worden gelinkt aan tijdreizen. “Er is overvloedig bewijs voor graancirkels.”
Ontstaan
“Ik ben zeven keer afgereisd naar plekken in Groot-Brittannië waar bewijs kan worden gevonden voor de manier waarop graancirkels zijn ontstaan,” legde hij uit.
Dr. Drew roept mensen op te kijken naar het bewijs en op basis daarvan hun eigen conclusies te trekken.
Hij gaf onderstaande lezing op 3 september vorig jaar in Nieuw-Zuid-Wales:
Safe space travel: Protecting alien worlds from earthlings - and vice versa
Safe space travel: Protecting alien worlds from earthlings - and vice versa
The discovery of seven new Earth-like planets has risen hope to find extraterrestrial life. During space explorations, though, researchers have to be careful to avoid contaminating other worlds with life from Earth.
The dwarf star Trappist-1 and its seven newly discovered planets are promising targets to search for alien life - but researchers might not even have to travel that far.
"We might find alien life in our own backyard of our solar system," said NASA's Kevin Peter Hand at the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston this month.
Astrobiologists searching for extraterrestrial life pin their hopes on Jupiter's moons Europa, Callisto and Ganymede as well as on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
"They are covered in ice but beneath there might be oceans with rocky seafloors," said Hand, chief scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
NASA plans to launch a rocket in 2024 sending a lander to Europa which will explore the moon, take samples and possibly "find life that is alive today."
Sure, the Europa mission probably won't discover intelligent, human-like life and possibly not even fish-like life. But bacteria, which have developed there, would be just as fascinating for researchers.
Although, there is one thing they have to ensure in the first place.
Does Europa harbour life?
Avoiding hitchhikers
The worst-case scenario for astrobiologists is to one day find life on Europa or elsewhere which has been brought there by humans themselves.
"We don't want to study bacteria from Florida [on other planets]," said Norine Noonan, biologist at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg.
Just as much as researchers have to prevent potential alien organisms from contaminating Earth, they work hard on protecting space from Earth-based life.
"Any equipment that is sent to touch down on moons or other planets is sterilized several times during its construction", Christian Gritzner of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), told DW.
Rovers, landers and other equipment that are sent to space are built in a clean facility, heated up to over 110 degree centigrade (230 degree Fahrenheit) for several hours or even days, they are irradiated with UV light and sanitized with solvents - measures to kill any bacterium or fungus that might try to get a free ride into outer space.
The Europa lander will also be wrapped in a biobarrier, NASA's Kevin Hand explained - an aluminum foil-like sheath that keeps out any contaminants until it reaches Jupiter's moon.
"The truth is still out there," Noonan pointed out. "Let's not destroy the opportunity to find it."
Protecting the ecosystem on other planets - every astronaut's challenge
Good citizens of the solar system
Protecting other worlds from Earth-based organisms is not just a voluntary moral conception which some responsible researchers cling to. It is international space law.
People were afraid that a visit to the moon might bring uninvited guests to Earth, for example, a deadly microorganism that causes a catastrophic outbreak - just like in the sci-fi novel "The Andromeda Strain" by Michael Crichton.
All rock samples that were flown in from the Moon - as well as the first men on the moon - were put into strict quarantine when entering Earth. Only later, when researchers had realized there is nothing alive on the Moon, rules were relaxed. Still later, people realized that contamination works in both directions.
"NASA found strange bumps on the lens of some camera equipment of the unmanned Surveyor landers that had been sent to the Moon three years before," said Christian Gritzner. "Nobody knew what it was."
These bumps turned out to be flu viruses. They seem to have been delivered from Earth to the Moon with the help of some technician who had sneezed on the equipment, Gritzner explained.
"Even after 3 years in space, these viruses were still able to reproduce in the lab."
According to Gritzner, this was the moment that people realized how crucial planetary protection really was.
"It is unlikely we'll find life on Mars today," said Norine Noonan. Even if there had once been bacteria or other simple organisms, they are possibly long gone. Still, researchers might find remnants of previous life on Mars and get to know how it emerged and what it was like.
Unlike the Moon and many other celestial bodies in our universe, Mars has an atmosphere and a surface that can harbor life - that makes traveling there even more complicated.
"Any hitchhiker we might deliver there can spread," said NASA's Kevin Hand. According to the European Space Agency ESA, the ExoMars project which tries to find life on Mars, even built a new cleanroom in which to construct itslander Schiaparelli. The landing module even had a portable "clean tent" which traveled with it to its launch site in Baikonur.
"We cannot bake humans"
The challenge to avoid contamination gets even harder when astronauts join their equipment on its travel to Mars - i.e. on a manned spaceflight.
"We are spewing fountains of bacteria," said Norine Noonan, adding that it is impossible to sterilize humans: "We cannot put them into an oven and bake them."
It will still be a long way to figure out which measures will protect Mars from life on Earth during such a journey.
"Maybe a habitat on Mars will have a sanitizing air lock spraying disinfectants," Gritzner said. Astronauts would have to pass the lock every time they enter the Mars surface from their space settlement.
But there will be time enough to figure that out, Gritzner adds, as "a manned spaceflight to Mars is still a long way off."
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WWW LINKS
NASA's Europa mission
UN's Outer Space Treaty
ESA website: Planetary Protection of Mars
Website of the Office of Planetary Protection at NASA
Planetary Protection Policy by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR)
The discovery has boosted the chances of life on Mars (Picture: Getty)
British scientists have found the remains of microbal bugs in what is the world’s oldest fossil suggesting similar organisms once existed on Mars.
The fossil, which was found in Quebec, Canada, shows life on earth was thriving as far back as 4.2 billion years, hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought.
This makes the prospect of life on the Red Planet a distinct possibility, as it was also bombarded with comets that are thought to have brought the building blocks of life to earth.
The bugs are believed to have thrived in a deep sea hydrothermal vent system – volcanic activity on the ocean floor.
Scientists, from University College London, believe the minieral-rich environment in the hot water surrounding the vent may have provided habitats for the early life form.
The haematite filament attached to a clump of iron from hydrothermal vent deposits in Quebec (Picture: Matthew Dodd/PA Wire) Scientists believe the discovery makes it likely life once existed on Mars (Picture: Dominic Papineau/PA Wire) The fossil is the oldest discovered on earth(Picture:Dominic Papineau/PA Wire
(Picture: Matthew Dodd/PA Wire)
Matthew Dodd, a member of the UK team, said: ‘Our discovery supports the idea that life emerged from hot, sea floor vents shortly after planet Earth formed.
‘This speedy appearance of life on Earth fits with other evidence of recently discovered 3,700 million year old sedimentary mounds that were shaped by micro-organisms.’
Previously the oldest reported microfossils, from Western Australia, were dated at 3.460 million years old.
However, some experts believe they may be non-biological features in the rocks.
Lead scientist Dr Dominic Papineau, from UCL’s Earth Sciences department, said: ‘The fact we unearthed them from one of the oldest known rock formations suggests we’ve found direct evidence of one of Earth’s oldest lifeforms.’
The fossil proves life could have existed as far as 4.2 billion years ago (Picture: Matthew Dodd/PA Wire)
The scientists believe the find, that was co-funded by Nasa, could help the search for life on other planets including Mars. (Picture: Matthew Dodd/PA Wire)
The scientists believe the find, that was co-funded by Nasa, could help the search for life on other planets including Mars.
The bugs were living on Earth at a time when Mars is thought to have had oceans or lakes of liquid water on its surface.
Mr Dodd, a PhD student, told the Telegraph: ‘Early Mars and early Earth are very similar places, so we may expect to find life on both planets at this time.
‘We know that life managed to get a foothold and evolve rapidly on Earth. So if we have life evolving in hydrothermal vent systems maybe even 4.2 billion years ago when both planets had liquid water on their surface, then we would expect both planets to develop early life.
‘If we do future sample returns from Mars and look at similarly old rocks and we don’t find evidence of life then this certainly may point to the fact that Earth might have been a very special exception, and life may just have arisen on Earth.’
The UFO sighting in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia on April 6, 1966, remains one of the greatest, and one of the most observed strange incidents ever recorded in history. It was then around 11 p.m. at then Westall High School, which eventually changed to Westall Secondary College.
Around 200 witnesses, ranging from regular students to science teachers and headmasters.
On the day of the sighting, everything was normal as many children were playing in the schoolyard and others were studying. Then the scene was changed with the sudden appearance of what was described as large, silver saucer-shaped object, which was about the size of two or three cars. It hovered over the school, moved to a wooded area and apparently landed.
Mesmerized of what they just witnessed, children jumped the fence to get into the wooded area as teachers told them to return.
According to some reports, one of the girls reached the area where the UFO had landed, but she was found unconscious and needed to be taken to the hospital. Other witnesses entered the area, but the UFO reportedly took off at incredible speeds, and they saw other five objects, which they described as military planes chasing the UFO.
In the area where the UFO supposedly landed, the grass was flattened in a circle. The children were instructed to go back to school while the police went to the scene. Then something strange followed.
The police talked to adult witnesses, including the headmaster of the school. An unscheduled assembly speech told students that they saw something man made, particularly a weather balloon, and they were instructed not to speak what they had witnessed that day to anyone.
Other teachers also claimed to have spoken with two men in dark blue suits, who also told them not to talk about it, especially to the press. One of the teachers, who managed to take several photos of the large flying saucer, said that the men in suits took her camera and told her that it was now their property. She stated that the men were from the Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO).
Andrew Greenwood, a science teacher at the school, said officers visited his home and threatened him not to tell anything about the UFO under the Official Secrets Act or else he would be fired for being an alcoholic, which he wasn’t.
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BEWIJZEN FOSSIELEN LEVEN OP MARS?
BEWIJZEN FOSSIELEN LEVEN OP MARS?
Wetenschappers hebben in Canada fossielen van bacteriën gevonden die tussen de 3,77 en 4,29 miljard jaar oud zijn. Het zou gaan om de oudste sporen van leven, bijna zo oud als de aarde zelf, die 4,55 miljard jaar oud is. In die tijd waren op Mars ook de omstandigheden voor leven aanwezig. De studie werd gepubliceerd in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Nature.
De wetenschappers vonden de fossielen in de zogenaamde Nuvvuagittuq-belt, een rotslaag ten noorden van de Canadese stad Quebec. Die rotsformatie is de oudste van de aarde en mogelijk 4,29 miljard oud.
"Deze microfossielen zijn de oudste sporen van leven op aarde", zegt geoloog Matthew Dodd van University College London (UCL). "De vondst stelt ons in staat om de puzzelstukken te leggen van de geschiedenis van de aarde en het ontstaan van leven op de planeet."
Leven op Mars De ontdekking steunt dan ook de gedachte dat het leven op aarde vrij snel ontstond. "Als het leven al snel op aarde ontstond, dan kunnen we ons de vraag stellen of dat ook mogelijk is op andere planeten", aldus Dodd. Hij en andere wetenschappers geloven nu dat de vondst een aanwijzing is dat er ook op Mars leven zou zijn geweest.
4 miljard jaar geleden had Mars namelijk nog een atmosfeer en oceanen en dus zou zich daar toen ook leven hebben kunnen ontwikkelen.
Deze fossielen zijn alleszins veel ouder dan de vorige ontdekking van het oudste leven op onze planeet. In augustus 2016 schreven Australische wetenschappers in Nature over de toen oudste sporen van leven. Het ging om microfossielen van 3,46 miljard oud die gevonden waren in Groenland.
Soon, We’ll Know if TRAPPIST-1’s Exoplanets Could Support Life
Soon, We’ll Know if TRAPPIST-1’s Exoplanets Could Support Life
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IN BRIEF
In February, scientists from the European Southern Observatory and NASA announced the discovery of a new solar system —TRAPPIST-1.
In addition to having the right conditions for water, several of the planets are believed to be "tidally locked", meaning one side would be in perpetual daylight, and the other constant darkness.
Although TRAPPIST-1 is 40 light-years away, its remarkable similarities to our own solar system make the discovery very exciting to scientists. Of all the solar systems we know of, we’ve never found one with seven planets — let alone multiple Earth-sized planets. TRAPPIST-1’s three habitable planets have density measurements that make them appear to be Earth-like worlds.
Given what TRAPPIST-1’s current configuration looks like, the planets located in the habitable zone or “goldilocks zone” could have water — at least theoretically. However, since its solar system’s sun is smaller than ours, the planets would require a tighter orbit in order to support surface water.
Armed with insights we’ve gathered about our own solar system in recent decades, we have the knowledge and resources to study TRAPPIST-1 — and possibly find life beyond our own planet.
LIFE BEYOND EARTH
Scientists also believe that some of the planets in TRAPPIST-1 are “tidally locked” to their star. That means one side of the planet constantly faces their sun, bathing it in perpetual daylight, while the other side is always in the dark. While that doesn’t sound much like the life we know on our planet, experts believe it wouldn’t completely negate the possibility of life: what really matters is the atmosphere.
We won’t have to wait too long to gain further insight into kind of atmosphere these planets have: once the James Webb Space Telescope launches in October of next year, scientists will be able to study the planets more in-depth. Our knowledge of how tidally locked planets in our own solar system manage such extreme temperatures — based on what we’ve already learned from Neptune and Jupiter — will also lend itself to a better understanding of how the TRAPPIST-1 planets work.
Granted, everything that we know about life stems from our understanding of life on Earth—where we experience both day and night. It’s wholly possibly that in planets where a diurnal cycle isn’t the norm, life develops very differently.
But as Dr. Jessie Christiansen, an astronomer at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology, notes while speaking to the Christian Science Monitor, we could liken this to conditions some creatures on our planet know well: the life aquatic. “If you think about life in the deep ocean,” Dr. Christiansen says, “it has evolved without a true diurnal cycle.”
Here on our own planet, we are still constantly surprised by life discovered in sea floors, icy climates, deep caves, and other extreme settings. So, that being said, the idea that life could exist in TRAPPIST-1 shouldn’t be too hard to fathom.
A UFO book gathering interest and momentum at the moment is ‘UFOs OVER ROMANIA’. In the west, little is known about its author, Dan D. Farcas PhD. With that in mind, I recently took the opportunity to interview Dan in order to try and learn a little more about his interests and how he became involved in UFO research in his home country of Romania.
RL: How and when did you first become interested in the UFO phenomenon?
Dan D. Farcas PhD
DF: I should split the question into two. I’ve always been interested in extraterrestrial issues, but only relatively lately into UFOs. When I was 8 or 9 years old, one of the things I used to play at with my younger brother was to draw our imaginary adventures in a primitive type of comic book. I still have some of them. Most of these adventures took place in outer space, travelling from one planet to another. At the same period of time, I started to write a book on astronomy. In the forties, in Romania, there were no such books available.
When I was 25-35, I published several science fiction short stories, mainly on space travel and contacts with aliens. In these stories, I felt it was quite normal for an alien to appear suddenly, in human form, in an earthly environment, but I still had doubts about UFOs as extraterrestrial vehicles.
I published some popular science articles about extraterrestrial civilizations and, around 1980, I was invited to write a book about this topic. On this occasion, I thought it is normal to inform myself on the UFO phenomenon. Only then, I discovered, by reading some good books, how many well documented cases exist and how important they are.
The book, entitled “De ce tac civilizaţiile extraterestre” (Why cue the extraterrestrial civilizations), published in 1983, was a small bestseller. Then many people asked me about UFOs, so I continued to inform myself more seriously, and published a lot, especially after 1990.
RL: Have you ever had a personal experience with ‘high strangeness’?
DF: I have the memory of several “night visits”, before the age of 5 years. I argued then that they were not dreams. The only thing I remember now is a green hand disappearing behind my bed, somehow in to the wall. I even gave a name to this apparition, something like “that with the hand”.
I had also, in this period, some unexplainable phobias. I felt a terror if I get a glimpse of certain common objects. These reactions have disappeared with time.
RL: Has being an academic aided you in your research of the UFO phenomenon?
DF: I was trained in mathematics, physics and astronomy at a university level. This helped me not only to understand the size and structure of the universe, or what means spaces with more dimensions, but it also gave me a strong sense of sizes, such as differences between thousands, millions and billions of years, or light years. I noticed that, for many, this often means only “very much”, leading to serious confusions.
On the other hand, academic training in such domains, gives you a higher censorship toward certain facts that you hear reported. Among other things, this made me sceptical for a long time, that UFOs may be spacecraft. Of course, life has forced me, in many fields, to go beyond the dogmas learned in school.
Finally, the academic education and my life experience helped me to understand the limitations of some instruments considered “taboo” in our culture. I understood the limits of the scientific method, of the mathematics and logic. All these have relevance in investigating the UFO phenomenon.
RL: Whilst compiling your research for your new book UFO’s OVER ROMANIA you will have read many eye witness reports, did any one account stand out to you and why?
DF: For this book I used, mostly, investigations made by people that I have known and I had confidence in, but I gave also many pages to the cases that I investigated personally over the last 20 years. There were, on the one hand, strange accounts of military pilots, and on the other hand, unexplained encounters of just ordinary people. I was impressed most by the sincerity of all the witnesses and by their desire to find an explanation for what had happened. With the stories from civilians, I was most impressed by the mixture between the classical UFO lore and some characters or features I knew before only in folkloric or religious realms.
But to understand all the things that surprised me, I think it’s better to recommend reading the book, with all those stories.
RL: Has the language barrier been an obstacle in sharing Eastern European UFO reports?
DF: The language barrier is a very serious one. It was partially overcome in technical fields in which international cooperation is mandatory and where you use a limited vocabulary; but it is still a problem in many other areas, including ufology.
The ufological literature, in Romanian language, and about Romanian cases, is not very extensive, but even so, there are many interesting cases and developments which are not known abroad. The situation is, I think, similar in other Eastern European countries.
RL: You are the chairman of ASFAN. What is this organization?
DF: In 1998, Ion Hobana, a well known writer and ufologist, Harald Alexandrescu, astronomer, and myself, took the initiative of creating the Romanian Association for the Study of Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena (ASFAN), as an organisation of well established specialists in various disciplines relevant for active involvement in UFO research. It was and has remained the only non-governmental and non-profit organisation in Romania, with legal personality, dedicated exclusively to ufology. The legal permission for the establishment of ASFAN was obtained at the Court of the City of Bucharest on September 28, 1998, taking into consideration the approval of the Ministry of Research and Technology and that of the General Mayor of Bucharest. The offices of ASFAN were established in the building of the “Admiral Vasile Urseanu” Astronomical Observatory of the Municipality of Bucharest, Boulevard Lascăr Catargiu 21, Bucharest, property of the City.
For the 21 founding members (demanded by the law at that point in time), highly skilled individuals were selected: mathematicians, astronomers, engineers, specialists in radar, aeronautics, meteorology, photo-imaging, informatics, medicine, as well as interdisciplinary oriented personalities. The main aim was to have a multidisciplinary and pluralistic approach to the phenomenon. The initial elected board was: chairman Ion Hobana (1931-2011), Vice-chairman myself, and executive director Harald Alexandrescu Ph.D., mathematician and astronomer (1944-2005). Since 2011, I am the chairman.
At the beginning, ASFAN organised, for three years, public lectures on a monthly basis. A more complex, one day UFO Conference was organised in May 2014. We had also several other public encounters and actions. ASFAN members were invited to appear on virtually all of the main Romanian TV channels and radio stations for debates on current UFO events and related issues. Unfortunately, the funding and the time available for the members was always very limited, so the achievements of ASFAN were much lower than had been hoped, and in time most of members became inactive with no one to take their place.
ASFAN received and examined written reports, photos, video footage and other UFO data (far from all cases). The most interesting ones are available (in Romanian) on the website of the organization. There are no printed UFO publications in Romania, but some ASFAN members have or had permanent UFO columns or articles published in Romanian popular science magazines.
Ion Hobana kept in touch with many ufologists worldwide, he participated in international conferences and invited to Romania several ufologists from abroad. Other ASFAN members tried to maintain these contacts, making new ones too, with several UFO research organisations and specialists abroad.
RL: In UFOs OVER ROMANIA you discuss ‘hypercivilizations’. Could you just expand on what this is?
DF: In our Galaxy (the Milky Way), there are around 200 billion stars. Around 30 billion planets can host life. More and more specialists admit that the basic components of life are travelling throughout space, “infecting” immediately all appropriate planets upon contact. In ideal conditions, in three-four billion years of undisturbed evolution, the random game of mutations and the subsequent changing of the environment could produce on such a planet a complex life system, as we see on our Earth and, in some cases, even a “technological civilisation”, that means intelligent beings capable of building spaceships to travel to other inhabitable planets.
As I estimated that, in the history of our Galaxy, could come into being a number of technological civilizations, of which, only a few hundred survived the childhood diseases that we face now on Earth, and still exist. But these civilizations have not arisen simultaneously. The first may have been born a billion years ago, or even earlier. Therefore in our Galaxy, the surviving civilizations have appeared, most likely, one in a several million years. So, they are far apart from us not only in space, but also in time.
What will become of our civilization (if it will survive) over millions (or billions) of years? How would the inhabitants of a civilization that has outstripped us with millions of years look like? It is impossible for us to imagine. We can accept however that they have been transformed into something else, beyond our understanding; into something we can name as a “hypercivilization”.
If somebody considers that we were too optimistic and the intelligent beings are much scarcer, we should add that our Milky Way is only one of at least 150 billion, more or less similar, galaxies of the Universe accessible to our instruments. And we have strong reasons to believe that there are other Universes too, maybe “parallel” ones, maybe from other states of matter, or parts of a “Multiverse” etc. Therefore it is almost absolutely sure that in the Cosmos there are hypercivilisations.
School and science fiction, but not only, set our minds on patterns ignoring completely the possibility of hypercivilizations. There is a primitive extraterrestrial hypothesis, which assumes that all cosmic civilizations are more or less at the same level with us. Therefore it nurtures some false preconceptions as: very long and difficult cosmic voyages, landing on the lawn of White House, equal rights, conversation, invasion, intervention, aid, and so on.
This primitive view is completely implausible. If hypercivilizations exist (and they exist, with a probability of 99.999999…%) they exploited, in the smallest detail, our Galaxy, millions of years ago, so they have known, for a long time, about our existence. A difference of millions of years, or even hundreds of millions, is as huge as between us and a lizard or even an ant. If an entomologist would propose to study an anthill, he will try to disturb, as little as possible, its life. He could of course make experiments, examining or modifying some ants, or even taking them in remote laboratories, trying to create new “races” and so on, but will not “present credentials” to the queen of the ants. If the entomologist have the technology, he will create some robot ants, sending them in to the hill and watching from a safe place, for example “on the computer screen”, the data transmitted by them. Hypercivilizations might treat us in a similar way. Therefore no settlement, no destruction, on one hand and no official contact, conversation or substantial help, on the other hand, are to be expected from highly advanced cosmic civilisations, even if they are here now.
The arising of a technological civilization could be a very rare event in our Galaxy, occurring probably once in several millions of years. So it is normal for us to be of interest to the higher intelligences. But they will forbid any aid. This is not, only, because of human aggressiveness and xenophobia, making from all new technology new weapons, nor only to avoid a “cultural shock”, which could virtually destroy all our social, scientific, religious, economical, political, military and cultural structures. I suppose they have also some other reasons for that. Hypercivilisations could wait (and maybe harvest even now) our original ideas, viewpoints, creations (in art, science, philosophy, ethics etc.), or something else, produced as a result of millions of years of our independent evolution. And all that expected crop could be destroyed by a premature contact. Some old, apparently absurd, stories may be an indication of such an attitude: the punishment for the apple of the forbidden tree of knowledge, the chaining of Prometheus, or the fallen angels (from Book of Enoch), thrown into a pit full of fire, because they were taught earthlings different skills.
The higher intelligences may gather and store our lives in a kind of virtual reality; this could explain: channelling, “xenoglossia”, “walk-ins”, “reincarnation”, ghosts, etc. In such a super-memory it is possible to travel in the past, without changing the real past, or to see scenarios of the future (sometimes apocalyptical), without accepting fatality.
Of course, all the above is not a proof that the hypercivilisations are the explanation for everything strange and particularly for UFOs. It is only one hypothesis; but one which cannot be easily discarded. And we can speculate even further, supposing for example that the spiritual world was before, or that the material world is only a kind of a great virtual reality and so on. Also, the whole Universe (or rather the “Multiverse”) could be much older and much more complex than the part we can observe with our instruments. Was there something before the “Big Bang”? What is beyond the limits of our closed Universe (maybe in another dimension or another reality, maybe in a spiritual state of matter)?
RL: In your opinion, how do we keep moving forward with UFO research?
DF: UFOs exist! To understand them, first of all, we have to collect facts, focusing on the sincerity of the witnesses and on the honesty of the ufologists, avoiding: tricksters, deception, exaggeration, inventions, misinterpretation of natural phenomena, or of man-made vehicles, as well as deceptive mental phenomena.
In the same time, we have not to forget the great distance from reality to the stories reported about it, interposing (unconsciously!) images seen elsewhere, perhaps in a dream, screen memories, all embellished, filtered, rearranged in a logical and socially convenient order, to match beliefs or prejudices, self delusions, wishful thinking, compulsions or even sexual fantasies, all deeply embedded into the subconscious. These mechanisms are acquired starting with our earliest moments of life and continuing with language, family, religion, environment, social pressure, school, science, media etc. This can change completely what we perceive. Of course, that does not mean the witnesses have not seen anything! Behind their stories, most (if not all) of them went through real and strange experiences.
The scientific method brings additional issues. Science admits only truths that: persist over time and can be inspected by any interested person, possibly in an experiment. Often science also demands that the observations be quantifiable. But, around us, there are so many phenomena which do not meet these conditions. Sometimes we are “culturally hypnotized” to not see them.
Science often speaks of “laws of nature”. We do not know any of these laws, but only the laws of Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, etc. which are “falsifiable”, as underlined epistemologist Karl Popper. So statements like: “it was scientifically proven that X can not exist”, or “that Y must exist”, have no logical foundation. An example is that classical: “it is scientifically impossible, therefore please do not bother me with alleged facts”.
Ufology can not be entirely a science; it can not bring abductions in to the laboratory, nor can it present a UFO, on demand, to any sceptic. But the fact that ufology is not a science does not diminish its importance and also it would be desirable to not diminish its respectability. When people from different countries, cultures and religions, with different backgrounds and occupations, are reporting the same story, with dozens of details that are consistent – despite the fact that these persons have never known each other and have not read any of the dedicated UFO literature – that means we face no more a fantasy or pure coincidences but a real phenomenon. Applying appropriate statistical operations, ufology can try to strip the primary perception of observations by the many cultural veils placed on it, even if this endeavour will never be perfect.
In conclusion, UFO research should concentrate on: gathering as more testimonies as possible, developing methods of removing cultural filtering, and using good statistical instruments.
Another issue is that science is not the only way of knowing, even if it claims that. Science, religions, folklore, paranormal studies, ufology etc. touch, each by its own means and in its “light zone”, an extremely complex reality; and often one part denies the truths of the others. To overcome this limitation, we all must learn, in a pluralistic approach, to respect all truths, as long as we cannot refute them, by obvious facts, not only by theories. Therefore we all should accept the truths of others, even if they contradict our own truths. And we should remain always open to dialogue. It is the only way to ascend to the higher truths we are searching for.
RL: Dan, thank you for taking the time to answer my questions and good look (luck?) with your new book UFOs OVER ROMANIA.
A growing conspiracy theory suggests the Moon is occupied by advanced aliens that have banned humans from returning.
The theory links in with others that claim there are alien bases on the dark side of the Moon.
In a feature devoted to the theory, conspiracy theory website Ancient Code said: "Have you ever asked yourself why mankind has not returned to the moon in recent years?
"According to many researchers and Ufologists, the American space agency is hiding a sinister secret from society, and we are not familiar with everything that has occurred—and is still occurring—on the surface of the moon.
"Many people claim there is enough evidence to suggest there are Alien bases on the moon.
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Some conspiracy theorists claim the Moon is now out of bounds to humans.
"Rumors, declassified documents, and whistleblowers have come forward saying that agencies around the globe simply cannot afford to let society know what’s really on the moon."
The theory suggests that NASA astronauts during the moon landings met with aliens, who eventually warned them not to return.
The website added: "The idea that there are alien bases on the moon would explain why we stopped so abruptly going to the moon.
"Also, with our current technology, why haven’t we created a permanent manned outpost on the lunar surface?
"Wouldn’t it be easier to build a permanent structure on the surface of the moon, than to have a floating space station orbiting around Earth?"
The far-fetched theory goes onto suggest aliens are mining the moon of its resources, and UFOs, that allegedly visit Earth, are stationed on the moon.
The late Dr Harold Urey investigated lunar science from the 1950s.
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The Moon is a no-go area, claim some conspiracy theorists.
Ancient Code added: "But, is there really an alien base there? Well, I guess you can’t know that but, is it a coincidence that there are some lunar rocks that have been found to contain PROCESSED METALS such as Brass, Uranium 236 and Neptunium 237?
"These elements have NEVER been found to occur naturally.
"Uranium 236 is a radioactive nuclear waste which is found in spent nuclear and reprocessed Uranium.
"More interestingly, Neptunium 237 is a radioactive metallic element and a by-product of nuclear reactors and the production of Plutonium."
However, the theory will be weakened if news from Elon Musk's SpaceX project bears fruit.#
The billionaire's private firm has been approached by two private citizens who have paid a significant deposit to take part on a week-long space flight around the Moon.
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ROSWELL UFO: ‘It wasn't aliens - it was Nazi top secret craft experimentation'
ROSWELL UFO: ‘It wasn't aliens - it was Nazi top secret craft experimentation'
THE Roswell flying saucer crash mystery was not caused by visiting aliens but by top-secret experimental craft built with Nazi technology, a documentary claims.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since the military sensationally announced in a press release in July 1947 it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.
But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage, were then taken to the mysterious top-secret Area 51 military base in Nevada.
Now conspiracy theorists believe the crash could have been a top-secret test of Nazi technology, that was being developed in a base like Area 51.
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The Roswell UFO may have been a secret Nazi craft test crash.
The N24 channel documentary "UFOs in the Third Reich" claims the incident was actually a result of tests of a copper-coloured craft called the "Bell”.
With a three-metre diameter, its core was a futuristic propulsion unit using electric particles, and was designed by a Nazi engineer, it is claimed.
It was seen as the forerunner of today's stealth fighters and developed by V2 rocket experts brought to the US after WWII ended in a bid to give the US an advantage over the Soviet Union in terms of military aircraft.
During the war, Nazis had been experimenting with new technology, including bizarre flying saucer-shaped craft.
One of the experts was allegedly General Hans Kammler, an SS general.
Kammler was head of construction and defence projects´in the Third Reich and planned the death camp at Auschwitz and secret V2 rocket plants in Germany.
Igor Witkowski, a Polish former journalist and historian of military and aerospace technology, wrote the book Prawda O Wunderwaffe.
It told of “bell-shaped craft” that were created by the Nazis, and described how Hitler wanted the best scientists and engineers to develop them.
German engineer Georg Klein who became an aeronautical engineer after the war, said: “I don’t consider myself a crackpot or eccentric or someone given to fantasies.
“This is what I saw, with my own eyes; a Nazi UFO.”
The documentary also looks at the possibility the Roswell Incident was the crash of a Nazi craft called the Schriever-Habermohl, that was developed in Prague from 1941 to 1943.
The plans for it were taken back to America after the war.
Donald Trump and his administration are not good at keeping secrets. Gossip leaks constantly. He’s cavalier in handling classified documents. Members of his administration have shared classified information with other countries. He may be able to fend off investigation of his tax returns, but that’s just Republican stonewalling— he’s a transparent liar on the subject. Trump’s favorite secret is the one he can simultaneously affirm and withhold, like his plan to defeat ISIS in 30 days, or the “we are going to attack Mosul in four months” examplehe used to mock the idea of revealing any military policy whatsoever to the public. He would like it known that he holds the secrets. So how is it that he hasn’t tweeted something like “Don’t believe the main stream media. White House is running VERY WELL. They share all UFO secrets with me. Fake media not happy!”?
Amateur and professional UFO organizations alike have a shared political issue. They call it Disclosure. Disclosure can mean the release of newly declassified documents or testimony from former military officials, but it’s most often meant in a grander sense: the federal government revealing the existence of extraterrestrials on or in contact with Earth and the unveiling of their advanced technologies. It would be more than just validation of the UFO phenomena, but the beginning of a societal revolution, reordered around the advanced alien energy technologies the government currently holds in secret.
The most prominent expression of this united demand was the The Disclosure Project, which began in 1993 by lobbying the Clinton Administration, culminating in 1997 hearings from government and military UFO witnesses meant to push the government into open congressional hearings. None followed.
Since then they’ve re-targeted the bulk of their effort on collection and archiving, recording testimony from “scores of military, government and other witnesses to Unidentified Flying Objects and Extraterrestrial events and projects from around the world.” But hope renews every campaign season. There’s always the possibility that the next president will be the one willing to Disclose.
Though UFO hunters come from across the political spectrum, the Clintons have been major figures in the Disclosure discussion, largely thanks to Bill Clinton Chief of Staff and Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta, who has long been the most prominent Disclosure advocate in the country. Though he had failed to get files pertaining to UFOs and Area 51 disclosed during the first Clinton administration, he promised to pry them out of the second. Hillary was even asked about it on the campaign trail.
Trump is much more of an unknown quantity. The consensus on r/UFO seems to be that Disclosure is unlikely, while Disclosure lobbyist Stephen Bassett made a last-ditch effort to push the Justice Department into disclosing during Obama’s lame duck period, before the unpredictable new administration clamped whatever narrow possibility existed.
But now Trump is president and it seems like we hear everything they so much as chat about, from internal clashes between Steve Bannon and Reince Preibus to Trump’s TV fixation. Multiple drafts of every new executive order leak beforehand. It’s hard to imagine Trump learning about aliens without Bannon learning about aliens and using it in his ongoing pee fight with Jared Kushner.
So maybe he doesn’t know. Multiple intelligence community sources have said information is being withheld from Trump out of fear that it could endanger classified sources or leak to Russian intelligence groups. Disclosure could lie in unseen hands.
This is the theory mostly widely accepted in the UFO community generally. Just as with most other demographics and segments of the population, UFO hunters are condemnatory of government generally. We don’t trust it. Mat Baroudi summarizes the position neatly in the CNN segment above:
“I don’t think any presidential candidate is going to come out with the truth. It’s always behind close doors. The other thing too is the people who are running those opps circumnavigate the president. The president is just here to lead the country, or appear to lead the country. But I think that these people who are running this stuff are an entity on to themselves.”
So either Trump has become uncharacteristically good at keeping the best secrets without bragging about them, or the presidency is no longer an office in the loop.
There’s also the possibility most UFO hunters are beyond considering: if there is a genuine extraterrestrial UFO phenomenon, the government is unaware. There are multiple chapters in the FBI’s history akin to X-Files, though most are hidden more from embarrassment and chronic over-classification than because they hide a radically different interplanetary world order. The weight of thousands of sightings, including government documentation, preclude this possibility for most, a view shared with the 12% of Americans who believe in a government cover-up of aliens (a 1997 poll measured it at 37%, but asks a more open question). We might all be in the cosmic dark.
A UFO investigator is seeking witnesses to a 'flying saucer' reportedly seen by a group of children above an East Riding primary school.
On Friday, November 18, 1977, about 20 pupils of Wawne Primary School - aged six and seven - said they had seen a strange object.
The sighting featured on the front page of the Hull Daily Mail, with head teacher Michael Yates saying at the time: "I was talking to my wife when three children from her class rushed in and said they had seen something silvery in the sky."
Mr Yates had suggested that the children went away to draw or paint the object from memory.
"They decided to make Plasticine models," said Mr Yates. "And the odd thing is that these look very similar although the children had no opportunity to copy from each other."
Man who saw 'leapfrogging' lights over Bransholme to hold UFO convention:
He said: "I am trying to contact any of the witnesses to this event, as this year is 40 years since they experienced this sighting."
Mr Evers is particularly interested in hearing from a Lisa Pattison, who was then aged seven and of Church Crescent, Wawne, Claire Swift, Michael Yates and his wife Joyce.
INTRIGUED: Chris Evers wants to hear from those who spotted the strange object in the sky
"I do realise, of course, that the teachers may no longer be with us," he said.
Mr Evers said the sighting may feature in a convention, called 70 Years of the Modern UFO Era, that will take place on September 9 at the Freedom Centre, in Preston Road, east Hull.
His interest in all things extra-terrestrial was sparked in February 1974, when he saw strange light patterns, also in the skies above Bransholme.
"I saw two, bright lights leapfrogging each other in the sky," he previously told the Mail. "At that time, you'd often see aircraft flying over Bransholme - but they didn't move like an aircraft."
Anyone who can help shed light on the 1977 sighting is asked to call Mr Evers on 07962 397209.
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Tom Delonge is about to reveal an alien conspiracy, Blink-182 singer suggests after receiving UFO award
Tom Delonge is about to reveal an alien conspiracy, Blink-182 singer suggests after receiving UFO award
'I kind of used some of my notoriety to try to do something pretty ambitious, and it worked,' he said in a taped message to the International UFO congress
Tom DeLonge has announced his departure from Blink-182 Ethan Miller/Getty Images
Tom Delonge could be about to expose an alien conspiracy, he has suggested.
Receiving an award for being "Researcher Of The Year" from the International UFO Congress, the Blink-182 co-founder suggested that he is about to make an announcement that could be a leap forward in the search for aliens.
Mr Delonge's search for UFOs has been ongoing since he left Blink-182 under disputed circumstances, that may be related to his work, two years ago. The mystery project has been sometimes mocked – but when WikiLeaks revealed hacked emails that suggested he had been consulting with some of the most important people in the US government, some changed their mind about his project.
The singer has previously suggested that he has met aliens near Area 51, and that he is being hunted by authorities because of the work he has been doing in investigating extraterrestrials and an apparent cover up. He has said before that he has had his phone tapped, for instance, because he has sources in the US government and has spoken to people who knew Nazi scientists.
He made reference to that work in the video, during which he also teased a revelation that would be made in the next 60 days. The mainstream press could miss the full significance of that revelation, he said, but he implored those watching the video who are a part of the UFO-hunting community to take "read between the lines" of what is announced.
There’s a lot that I can’t say, but there’s some that I can," he said in the speech. And I’m so appreciative that I’ve been acknowledged for this stuff, but I’m not done.
"I’m just like you guys. I spent 20 years up all night, reading about Roswell, Dulce, Serpo, Churchill, the crashes here, Nazis building craft there, Antarctica, what’s on Mars, what’s on the back of the moon, anomalous structures. I mean, I’ve done it all. I know it all. I read all the same authors as you guys, hundreds of books. I look at all the same sites. I listen to all the Coast To Coast stuff that you guys do. I’m the same.
"But I kind of used some of my notoriety to try to do something pretty ambitious, and it worked," he said, apparently referencing the upcoming announcement.
"I came out and told you guys about a book I was writing called Sekret Machines, and I said a bunch of stuff, that I was working with some people. Well, I think a lot of people doubted it, and they thought it was crazy that this musician would have this kind of access. And then the WikiLeaks thing happened, and you guys saw that I’m into some serious shit, and I’m making really good progress."
Those WikiLeaks emails brought much of Mr Delonge's work to the fore, and showed that he had consulted with Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta on his work. Mr Delonge said in the messages that he had been talking to high-ranking officials in the US government.
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MASSALE EVACUATIES VAN BURGERS OP ANTARTICA ( VIDEO )
MASSALE EVACUATIES VAN BURGERS OP ANTARTICA ( VIDEO )
Er is waarschijnlijk nog niet eerder in de recente geschiedenis zoveel aandacht geweest voor het bevroren continent Antarctica dan het afgelopen jaar.
Ook nu gonst het weer van de geruchten en berichten over een mogelijke massale evacuatie van burgers uit Antarctica, maar waarom?
Er zijn feiten en je hebt verhalen, berichten en geruchten. In die laatste categorieën is het op dit moment wereldwijd heel druk en doen de meest wilde verhalen de ronde.
De vraag is of het ook inderdaad allemaal geruchten zijn of dat er misschien toch een kern van waarheid in zit omdat men niet wil dat dit aan de grote klok wordt gehangen.
Enkele dagen geleden verscheen er een bericht van iemand op het bekende Godlike Productions forum die vertelde dat hij werkt voor een aannemer op het gebied van geavanceerde elektronische apparatuur die ze hoofdzakelijk verkopen aan het Amerikaanse leger.
Hij vertelt verder dat hij vorige week zaterdag een biertje aan het drinken was, toen hij plotseling teruggeroepen werd naar zijn werk. Toen hij daar aan kwam zag hij een aantal hooggeplaatste militairen, iets dat hij daarvoor nog niet eerder had gezien. Hij zegt dan ook dat toen hij die kolonels daar zag op zaterdagavond hij wist dat er iets mis was. Volgens hem zagen ze er nogal paniekerig uit.
De man wilde verder niet zoveel vertellen, maar wel dat ze in sneltreinvaart zeer geavanceerde apparatuur moesten verschepen naar Antarctica. Daarnaast vernam hij dat alle burgers met sneltreinvaart uit Antarctica zouden worden geëvacueerd.
Probleem met dit soort berichten is altijd dat ze er nooit hun naam bij vermelden, dus je weet nooit of het verhaal klopt of niet.
Wat wel een feit is, is dat Britse wetenschappers met grote spoed East Antarctica moeten verlaten vanwege een enorme ijsscheur die vlakbij hun basis aldaar verscheen.
Het plan was om het wetenschappelijk station te verplaatsen naar de locatie Halley VI, maar ook dat is alweer van de baan vanwege nog eer enorme ijsscheuren die nu optreden. De wetenschappers die daar dit jaar zouden overwinteren, worden nu in deze maand, maart en aanvang van de winter in Anarctica, geëvacueerd.
Opvallend is ook dat de Russen veel worden gesignaleerd in Antarctica, het afgelopen jaar, maar ook dit jaar weer. Het gebied waarop zij zich concentreren bevindt zich rondom de Lazarev Zee en dat ligt weer pal voor Neuschwabenland, het gebied dat door de Duitsers voor de Tweede Wereldoorlog uitgebreid werd bezocht en verkend.
Dezelfde Duitsers van wie het welhaast zeker is dat zij nog steeds een basis hebben ergens in dat gebied, hetzij bovengronds, hetzij ondergronds.
Een kenner van Duitsland en hun geheimen denkt het volgende over de hernieuwde activiteiten op Antarctica en de reden dat er een aantal hoogwaardigheidsbekleders vorig jaar op bezoek zijn geweest. (In het volgende stukje bedoelt hij waarschijnlijk John Kerry in plaats van Obama. Obama bezocht samen met 2 andere voormalig VS presidenten Afrika een paar jaren eerder en dat lijkt een bezoek van tegengestelde aard te zijn geweest).
Volgens mij lijkt het er meer op dat Obama, Aldrin en de rest op verzoek van de Rijksduitsers (niet verwarren met de politieke macht in de illegale Bundesrepublik Deutschland) naar Antarctica afgereisd zijn om met eigen ogen te zien hoe het ook kan (homogene geweldloze hightech maatschappij), hen te verzoeken de NWO te stoppen, de derde wereldoorlog af te blazen en de wereld eindelijk de waarheid over ons en onze wereldgeschiedenis te vertellen.
Aangezien Obama in zijn laatste dagen nog snel wat provocaties richting Rusland heeft gedaan, lijkt het er niet op dat deze verzoeken zin hebben gehad. Kennelijk durven de marionetten het niet aan hun meesters aan te pakken, bang dat hun eigen beerput open gaat? Bang dat ze eindigen als Micha Kat, Snowden, of nog erger?
Een ander feit is dat het land wat op Antarctica tijdens de Neu Schwabenland expeditie van Kapitein Alfred Ritscher in '38/'39 verkend en afgebakend is, volgens het toen geldende volkenrecht officieel onderdeel van het Derde Rijk is geworden. "Operation High Jump" van Richard E. Byrd was een vergeefse poging de afzetbeweging te overmeesteren.
Het was ook Admiraal Byrd die na Operation High Jump in een interview met Lee van Atta van de El Mercurio krant uit Santiago in Chili een zeer opmerkelijke verklaring aflegde op 5 maart 1947.
Het volgende stond in de krant:
Admiraal Byrd verklaarde vandaag dat het absoluut noodzakelijk was voor de Verenigde Staten om onmiddellijk te beginnen met het versterken van haar defensie tegen vijandelijke regimes. Verder verklaarde Byrd dat hij niemand onnodig bang wilde maken, maar dat het een bittere werkelijkheid was dat in het geval van een nieuwe oorlog de Verenigde Staten zouden worden aangevallen door vliegende objecten die met onvoorstelbare hoge snelheden van pool tot pool kunnen vliegen.
Als die Duitsers inderdaad beschikten over UFO's die in een oogwenk van pool tot pool kunnen vliegen, dan hebben de zeer bijzondere foto’s die in de zomer van 2015 boven water kwamen hier misschien ook mee te maken.
De beelden zijn door een anonieme bron gegeven aan UFO onderzoeker Alex Mistretta. Deze ontdekte later dat de foto’s ook zijn gepubliceerd door een Frans paranormaal tijdschrift met de titel Top Secret.
Samen met John Greenwald van de website TheBlackVault.com probeerden ze meer informatie over deze opnames te krijgen.
Klaarblijkelijk zijn ze genomen in 1971 vanaf een Amerikaanse onderzeeër die in het gebied tussen IJsland en Jan Mayen eiland voer.
Bovenstaande foto’s werden in maart 1971 genomen vanaf de Amerikaanse onderzeeër de USS Trepang. Het schijnt dat de Trepang deze vliegende objecten eigenlijk per ongeluk tegenkwam en de meeste foto’s zijn door een officier met de naam John Klika genomen via de periscoop.
Kortom, er spelen veel dingen op beide uiteinden van de aarde en zoals het er nu uitziet, zullen er vast binnenkort meer spannende ontwikkelingen volgen.
Living Rocks Found Evenly Spaced Apart On Mars In Many Places, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Living Rocks Found Evenly Spaced Apart On Mars In Many Places, March 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: March 1, 2017 Location of discovery: Mars I have been observing this phenomenon for several months now and am gladStreetcap1 noticed it too. These soft rounded shell like black objects are seen in different places. Often a few near each other, but always evenly spaced apart. Now there can only be two logical reasons for such space. One I like, and one I don't. First, these were moved by some kind of lifeforms, intelligent or not, but its also possible that they move themselves...a living rock that chews at the surface of the soil to make its body, and absorbed the heat of the sun to make more food like a plant. The second thought is that NASA has made a stage set area and set up the area with evenly spaced rocks in the area. You choose which is real, I choose to believe the first is due to the data of the yellow living stones that were removed from the ship in Delporte crater during Apollo 20 mission...they were rocks that bleed liquid. Maybe a medicine of some sort. Below the video I will place some photos from two I found just not to show you. This one below was examined close by the Curiosity rover just this week. Scott C. Waring Streetcap1 states: If these are some sort of fossils, I would not be surprised. Even some scientists think Mars once had life. Notice on a couple of shots they are sitting in a group or semi-circle quite evenly spaced apart. This immediately caught my eye because of the unusual look. Streetcap1.
The rock above was in a different Mars photo from the one below, the two below are from the same photo.
Shapeshifting Alien Orb Caught Near Window On Security Camera, Australia, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Shapeshifting Alien Orb Caught Near Window On Security Camera, Australia, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: March 1, 2017 Location of sighting: Geelong, Australia This orb was caught for one reason only, and thats because it was visiting and got caught on a infrared security camera. Infrared can catch anything that is cloaked, and that is why so many military planes and helicopter have it. Here the orb was coming from over the house, slowing down as it passed the window. It was watching. This looks like an entity itself that can change forms when it wants. A changling if you will, but it prefers to move about as an orb to stay invisible. It can take human form if it wishes. This I learned from data about orbs at the ECETI ranch. (click here to visit). Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
This was filmed in Geelong, Australia in our back yard thoughts??
Rock Star Tom DeLonge of Blink-182 Honored With UFO Award
Rock Star Tom DeLonge of Blink-182 Honored With UFO Award
Did not know Blink – 182 guitarist Tom DeLonge had a thing for aliens? DeLonge has earned accolade for his passion for finding proof of extraterrestrial existence, including running a news site for UFO research.
It now turns out that even rock stars believe in little gray men from other planets.
Blink-182 former frontman and guitarist shared last year that he has been working with people from the highest levels of the military, NASA and the Department of Defense.
DeLonge’s passion for unidentified flying objects might be news to some, but it is not just an unusual hobby for the musician. He’s willing to know everything about the past and present UFO sightings, as well as any research about ET phenomenon done by respected scientists, military personnel, and NASA officials.
DeLonge has written non-fiction and fiction books about aliens and even created a website To The Stars to inspire a newfound appreciation of UFOs, aliens, research and entertainment that for him build hope, positivity, and community.
The group of so-called UFOlogists of the International UFO Congress honored DeLonge’s for his work on the subject with the 2017 UFO Researcher of the Year Award on February 22.
DeLonge could not accept the award in person but made a video acceptance speech for IUFOC attendees.
In the video, DeLonge says he’s not done yet after spending 20 years reading about Nazis building craft, the UFO crashes, what’s on the back of the moon and Mars, Churchill, and Roswell. He adds that he uses his notoriety to something ambitious, and he’s making good progress.
UFOs Caught On Cam Making A Triangle Formation Over Remote Farm
UFOs Caught On Cam Making A Triangle Formation Over Remote Farm
Footage showing three UFOs forming a sustained triangle formation has brought excitement among UFO investigators. The incident reportedly happened over a remote U.S. farmland in Everett, Washington.
The sighting of these unidentified flying objects was reported to Mutual UFO Network, which currently investigating the case.
According to the account filed in the MUFON’s witness reporting database, the strange event occurred at 7:20 in the morning on January 16 when the witness was walking through fields to assess tide flats for duck hunting.
The unnamed witness claimed to have seen three white, blinking lights to the south in a triangular formation. He managed to take photos and videos, which he submitted to MUFON together with his report for further investigation.
Tim Ward, MUFON Washington state section director, is currently investigating the case.
The witness said that the lights could be aircraft, but he was not very certain about it. He expected the formation to break, but it remained intact longer than any planes.
The report was submitted to MUFON on February 20. MUFON communications director Roger Marsh reminded everyone that most UFO sightings could be explained as something human-made or natural.
Some skeptics believe that planes circling and waiting to land can sometimes appear to have created aformation.
Lee-Anne Peters from Hobart was looking out her window in the early hours of Tuesday morning when she saw what looked like a fireball streaking across the sky.
“I set my alarm to wake up early because it was my daughter’s 16th birthday,” she told BuzzFeed News. “My kitchen window has a great view of the eastern sky… Looking out the window while cooking I saw the object.”
Lee-Anne lives near an airport and at first thought the object was a plane, however she soon believed it was too high in the sky for that to be the case.
As her daughter grabbed a pair of binoculars, Lee-Anne got her video camera and zoomed in to film the whole thing.
After Lee-Anne posted the video to Facebook it was shared over 1,000 times. Then people began the debate about what exactly the object was.
Some thought it was an alien…
Some thought it was a plane…
And some wanted to be VERY CLEAR that it definitely was not a plane.
However Chris Arkle, an astronomer at Launceston Planetarium, told ABC News it was “definitely a high flying aircraft”.
“The length of time that the object was visible for, and its apparent speed, both support this hypothesis,” he said.
Of course, that’s probably exactly what the aliens would want you to be believe.
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Brad Esposito is a news reporter for BuzzFeed and is based in Sydney, Australia.
HOUSTON (KTRK) --The Mutual UFO Network in Houston reports about 80 suspected UFO sightings a year.
That's not including the ones that are seen but not reported.
One top UFO expert, Fletcher Gray, explains why so many of the sightings aren't UFOs. But, he also says there is one case that he still can't figure out.
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Just above the Katy area an orange light is spotted, seen floating around. Down below, sightseers are convinced it's a UFO.
Gray went back to Katy with Eyewitness News to investigate.
"It's flickering as it moves through the night sky," Gray says.
He says if it was a true UFO, the light would not be flickering. He does tell us what he thinks the light is.
"It's probably going to be some type of aircraft or a lantern," he says. Case closed.
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The MUFON UFO stalker map shows a great trend in sightings along the Katy Freeway. (MUFON)
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This photo was taken by Alfonso Servin on Friday, Feb. 20, 2015. He said he is convinced it is a UFO.
Gray says most sightings reported to MUFON in Houston can be explained.
Gray says UFOs are real, and told us what he thinks they want from our planet.
"They're seeking out and learning our planet, if that's the case," Gray said. "It could be something they are doing research with, something that has antigravity capabilities."
Hi there and welcome to UFO today. Yesterday a news report hit the wires stating the number of UFO sightings is increasing exponentially worldwide. The article was based on a blogpost from Sam Monfort, a doctoral student in Human Factors and Applied Cognition at George Mason University. Monfort reported his findings in a blog update that used information from the National UFO Reporting Center. I’ll link to his blog in the notes below.
I wanted to give my personal view on the reasons why the number of sightings in increasing.
Number of people increased since the first sightings were logged by several organization including the government. We are now with 7.5 billion people on spaceship earth, while after world war 2 this was only 2,5 billion.
The number of camera’s in the world heavily increased since digital cameras were introduced and especially since these cameras are integrated with peoples phones. I They carry them all the time, everywhere they go. In the graph you can see that by now some 2,5 billion people use a smartphone with camera on a daily basis. Also the number of security cams has gone up exponentially, in 2014 it was estimated that there are 250 million cctv cameras in use everyday, and this number is increasing rapidly. These are the 2 factors that have huge influence on the number of daily UFO reports. A higher number of people that can witness a UFO and the easy access to a recording device. (although a lot of sightings are not captured on camera)
Besides these 2 main factors there are a couple more that helped increasing the number of reported sightings. The number of organizations that research the phenomenon and the number of organization where people can report a sighting has also increased. It has become easier to file a report directly to the organizations that do the research. Before the internet came along people that came forward with their report contacted the police and in some cases these reports weren’t taken seriously and never ended up in the statistics. These days the subject of UFO’s is treated with a more respect than a couple of decades ago. This lowers the threshold for people to file a report without being afraid of being ridiculed for what they have witnessed. After project bluebook became public, people took the topic more seriously because if the government was investigation these sightings, there must be some scientific reason for that.
A last factor I want to talk about is the fact that the number of UFO sightings may have increased because people start to believe in them. Could it be that these unidentified objects are somehow intelligent and only show themselves to people who actually believe in them? The UFO subject is very complex and in some cases people report that the object was interacting with them in some way. I’m counting out the possibility that the number of sightings has increased because people are more tuned in to see them.
The last factors I want to add to the discussion are the increased number of planes and drones in our skies. A lot of UFO reports can be explained by regular planes and drones. And there are of course the secret aircraft that are being tested, which have capabilities we don’t even know about.
About 35 kilometers south of Inukjuak, an Inuit village in the far North of Quebec, lies an unusual rocky outcrop. Known as the Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt, it's mostly made up of grey-green rock, laced with veins of red. If you took the arduous trip there, and weren't a geologist, you might not realize what you were standing on. These rocks are thought to have formed billions of years ago under a prehistoric ocean, near ancient hydrothermal vents. And now they've yielded signs of extraordinarily ancient life, rewriting our planet's history.
In a new paper in Nature, an international team of researchers say these rocks are between 3.8 and 4.3 billion years old—the oldest rocks ever found on the planet. But that's not all. Their bizarre structures are signs of the presence of ancient microorganisms, making them the oldest "microfossils" ever found, and the oldest record of life on Earth.
The Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt showing a few of Nunavut's Nastapoka Islands in the background.
Image: D.Papineau
Our planet is just over 4.5 billion years old. Back in the era when these rocks were formed, not much more than a few hundred million years after Earth cooled and the oceans formed, it had a mostly toxic atmosphere and conditions that wouldn't be considered suitable for pretty much any sort of life we know of today. (Our planet's earliest time period, the Hadean Eon, which dated from about 4.5 to 4 billion years ago, was so hellish that it's literally named after Hades.)
That's one reason discoveries like this are important: If life could spring up on our primitive planet, chances look better that it might have emerged on other planets, too.
Haematite tubes from the NSB hydrothermal vent deposits that represent the oldest microfossils and evidence for life on Earth.
Image: Matthew Dodd
Geochemist Dominic Papineau, who is from Quebec, made a field expedition to the northern part of the province in 2011. It took three flights in small "propeller planes" to get to the site, he told Motherboard in an interview, as well as a three-hour boat ride.
Papineau wasn't expecting to find fossils, mostly because the rocks were all heavily metamorphosed (meaning they had undergone changes under immense pressure and heat beneath the Earth's crust, a process thought likely to destroy any possible signs of life).
Layer-deflecting bright red concretion of haematitic chert, which contains microfossils. A dark green volcanic rock in the top right represents hydrothermal vent precipitates on the seafloor. Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt.
Image: Dominic Papineau
So it was curious, he said, that bright red-banded iron formations were spattered among the grey-green landscape. "One hypothesis about these rocks is that there was biological involvement in their formation," said Papineau, who is a professor at University College London (UCL).
Certain types of bacteria that exist today are able to harvest nutrients from iron through a chemical reaction. Papineau began to wonder if similar organisms existed some 4 billion years ago.
"I was intrigued by the occurrence of these rocks, so I sampled them," said Papineau. "But what really gave me a hint that something important might be preserved in there is that I found concretions [mineral deposits formed by microbes] of jasper in the field."
Deposits of hematite (an iron mineral) found embedded in the quartz-like jasper formed a wide variety of structures resembling tubes and filaments, granules and rosettes. Although this implied a possible biological origin, it still wasn't a slam dunk. There are ways the structures could be created through non-biological interactions, so Papineau and the other scientists had to look further. One interesting characteristic of the formations were the layers of other minerals around them.
"The rosettes that we documented are composed of carbonate along with apatite and graphitic carbon," he said. "Carbonate with apatite is really the stuff of bones."
Microscopic iron-carbonate rosette with concentric layers of quartz inclusions and a core of a single quartz crystal with tiny inclusions of red hematite from the Nuvvuagittuq Supracrustal Belt.
Image: M.Dodd
In other words, here was more organic matter that could have originated from microfossils.
At UCL, he and lead author Matthew Dodd used microscopy and spectroscopy to continue to investigate these rocks. Eventually, they concluded there was evidence for microfossils of ancient iron-oxidizing organisms.
There are only a few other places around the world where you can find rocks of this age.
One is the stromatolites of Greenland. In 2016, scientists announced they'd discovered fossils there dating back 3.7 billion years. At that point, they were the oldest known.
These were produced within the same geological period as those described in the new study in Quebec, and were made by oxygen-producing microorganisms. That means that not only was there life in the very early stages of the planet—it was relatively diverse.
"If there were oxygen producing microbes then, [as well as] microbes that were oxidizing iron near hydrothermal vents, we have quite a significant diversity, because these are somewhat distantly related microorganisms today," said Papineau.
An Inuit-made inukshuk.
Image: J.O͛Neil
The implications of finding two distinct branches of life so early in the planet's history has implications for finding life on other planets. If two separate species of bacteria were able to evolve this early on Earth, could they also be found near hydrothermal vents in Mars' ancient seas, or within Europa's possible subsurface ocean? Scientists have already found hematite concretions on Mars, in the form of "blueberries" discovered by the Opportunity rover.
Papineau choose Quebec as his target because, after learning about the work in Greenland, he knew similar samples could be found closer to home. "This is my home province. This is my home country," he said. Now, by exploring the ancient rocks of its northernmost reaches, he and his collaborators have rewritten the history of life on Earth.
Truth about aliens will soon be revealed - and it will be key to saving Earth, says expert
Truth about aliens will soon be revealed - and it will be key to saving Earth, says expert
AN ALIEN hunter claims the truth about extraterrestrials visiting Earth will soon seep out - and once it does it will mean we can finally save the planet.
Scott C Waring, editor of ufosightingsdaily.com, says a reported increase in UFO sightings means the world leaders behind an alleged cover-up over alien contact will no longer be able to keep it quiet.
According to data from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC), UFO sightings around the world have reached an all-time high.
US-based NUFORC, an organisation that keeps a database of alleged sightings, says its statistics show people in the US are more likely to report a UFO sighting.
Mr Waring wrote in a blog about the increase: "The internet has caused many things to change in our world.
"One of them being that more UFO sightings are being reported daily than ever before.
"It's my estimate that over hundreds of UFOs per day are being seen by thousands of eyewitnesses, but still only a few of them report the sightings.
"Evidence is growing on a daily basis, which will one day confirm that aliens exist.
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The internet has caused many things to change in our world. One of them being that more UFO sightings are being reported daily than ever before.
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"Cameras and online sharing networks are changing, making sharing these sightings easier, more convenient."
Many conspiracy theorists believe world leaders have actually met with visiting aliens, but kept it from us for fear of the impact it would have on religion and the rule of law.
But, there is a disclosure lobby pressing for the alleged "truth embargo" to be lifted.
They also hope the incresae in sightings will force the truth out, as Mr Waring does.
Conspiracy theorists also believe that new technology brought to earth by aliens, such as costless energy, and advancements in food and medicine, that could all help the planet.
Speaking about new details in the case of alleged alien abductee Travis Walton, who claims he was accidentally killed by a UFO and then brought back to life by aliens, Mr Waring added: "He was taken aboard the alien craft because when he got too close to the UFO, a burst of energy came from it, probably from the anti gravity propulsion, and killed him.
"The aliens then took him aboard the UFO and brought him back to life.
"This is the very reason that humans and aliens need to make open public contact so that such resources as medical technology, food technology and fuel technology can be shared to improve the quality of life across the globe for all."
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EXCLUSIVE: Truth about the mysterious 'black cube UFOs' seen 'draining energy from Sun'
EXCLUSIVE: Truth about the mysterious 'black cube UFOs' seen 'draining energy from Sun'
AS UFO claims go it has been one of the most bizarre - black cubes bigger than planets found in NASA images of the Sun, that some conspiracy theorists claim are monster alien craft draining solar energy.
Scott C Waring appears to have added the black square to this image.
Oddly, many people have been left convinced by posts on certain UFO websites and YouTube channels that there may be some credit to the theory.
But, Express.co.uk can expose the latest claims, at least, as nothing more than a digitally-edited hoax.
Scott C Waring, who edits the popular ufosightingsdaily.com, has featured the black cubes on his website a number of times.
His latest post on them, published today featured claims he had found another one in an image taken by the the European space agency’s Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO), which he found online yesterday.
The images are then published by NASA.
The version of the image shown on Mr Waring's website today, shows a black square, much bigger than earth in comparison to the sun, in the top left corner of the solar image.
Mr Waring posted a blog with the image entitled "Giant Borg Cube UFO Seen Orbiting Sun In NASA Photo
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Changes in Lovejoy comet's water 'fingerprint' discovered by NASA researchers
Changes in Lovejoy comet's water 'fingerprint' discovered by NASA researchers
The research team focused at the water (H2O) present on Lovejoy and calculated the water it released while producing heavier form of water (2H2O) known as deuterium oxide
Scientists from NASA's Goddard Center for Astrobiology observed the comet C/2014 Q2 – also called Lovejoy – and made simultaneous measurements of the output of H2O and HDO, a variant form of water.Courtesy of Damian Peach
A never-seen-before phenomenon has been observed by NASA scientists: Scientists have observed a change in the way water is produced on a comet.
The comet called Lovejoy, aka C/2014 Q2, which lies in the Oort cloud, was analysed by NASA scientists from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland in partnership with Hawaii's W M Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, according to a NASA statement.
The cohort of researchers examined the comet at infrared wavelengths a few days after it passed through its perihelion — the closest distance to the sun.
The research team focused at the water present on Lovejoy, and calculated the amount of water it released while producing a heavier form of water (2H2O) known as deuterium oxide (also known as HDO), which comprises more hydrogen isotope deuterium.
"A hydrogen atom has one proton, but when it also includes a neutron, that heavier hydrogen isotope is called deuterium," the NASA statement said.
The researchers found a chemical fingerprint by evaluating the D to H ratio; which helped them find out from where these space rocks have originated in the Oort cloud blanketing the young sun during the early days of the solar system.
The D to H ratio also helps in finding out how much of Earth's water has come from asteroids and comets thaat have struck our planet.
These findings were compared with those of another team made before Lovejoy reached its perihelion.
The researchers used ground-, as well as space-based telescopes and detected a difference. It was found that the levels of water remained constant, but the levels of heavy water doubled or even tripled.
"The change we saw with this comet is surprising, and highlights the need for repeated measurements of D-to-H in comets at different positions in their orbits to understand all the implications," said Lucas Paganini, a researcher with the Goddard Center for Astrobiology and lead author of the study.
It was previously believed that the levels of water increased or decreased in tandem, while retaining a constant D to H value, but this new discovery has debunked the old belief.
"If the D-to-H value changes with time, it would be misleading to assume that comets contributed only a small fraction of Earth's water compared to asteroids, especially, if these are based on a single measurement of the D-to-H value in cometary water," Paganini stated.
Compared to water production, HDO generation is comparatively lower, which made it previously hard to measure.
Comet Lovejoy generated 1,500 times more water than heavy water. The brightness of the comet helped researchers in evaluating the value of the HDO as it passed by Earth.
Ground-based telescopes are now being equipped with advanced detectors that will help in taking the water measurements in comets further out.
The alteration in water levels in Lovejoy's D to H is likely to the outcome of an increase in the energetic processes, such as the solar radiation, when the comet was closer to the sun. This may have caused changes in the water present on the comet's surface. The different stages of a comet's lifecycle can also be detected with the help of D to H value.
"Comets can be quite active and sometimes quite dynamic, especially when they are in the inner solar system, closer to the sun," said Michael Mumma, director of the Goddard Center for Astrobiology and co-author of the study.
"The infrared technique provides a snapshot of the comet's output by measuring the production of H2O and HDO simultaneously. This is especially important because it eliminates many sources of systematic uncertainty," Mumma concluded.
This research is also published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
The planet Mars is shown May 12, 2016 in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope view taken May 12, 2016 when it was 50 million miles from Earth.
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NASA is now one step closer to building a colony in Mars with the help of 3D printers. The space agency has joined hands with engineer Behrokh Khoshnevis to set up habitable houses in the Red Planet.
"Building in space is going to become commonplace in less than 50 years," Khoshnevis told CNN. "There's an abundance of energy and materials (and) in a short time, our capability to manufacture in space will be many times what we can do on Earth," he added.
The extreme conditions on the Red Planet make it uninhabitable for humans and hence robots will be deployed to carry out the work, Khoshnevis said.
Power grids, landing pads as well as construction plants need to be set up prior to the human migration to the cold planet.
The new method will use in-situ materials, to obviate the need for transporting building material from earth.
However, transporting the technology to Mars is difficult. But once it's done the construction can be set on autopilot, and could be remote controlled from Earth.
"It's hard to imagine what we will have 100 years from now, or 50 years from now. But I have full confidence that we will conquer Mars and this solar system, and even beyond," Khoshnevis stated as per a DNA report.
Tasmania stunned as 'UFO' streaks across the sky; watch the video and decide what it really was!
Tasmania stunned as 'UFO' streaks across the sky; watch the video and decide what it really was!
"There's a pretty big fireball meteorite moving towards the eastern sunrise. I got it on video I'll share soon. SE Tasmania" Lee-Anne Peters posted on Facebook.
[Representational Image]Screenshot from YouTube Video
Lee-Anne Peters, a resident of Tasmania, spotted a "fireball meteorite" just before sunrise on Tuesday and shared the video on her Facebook page.
"There's a pretty big fireball meteorite moving towards the eastern sunrise. I got it on video I'll share soon. SE Tasmania" she posted on the social networking site at 6:44am. Half an hour later, she posted the video on Facebook with the caption:
"A spectacular plane coloured by the rising sun. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. Spotted here in Sorell just after 6.30am Tuesday 28th Feb 2017," she wrote, along with the video, which has already received over 88,000 views, 900 reactions, 1,400 shares and 650 comments.
People actually thought that the "fireball" was a meteorite or a chemtrail, or an UFO!. Several commented on the status message.
"I read it was a UFO and sightings of landing with police sectioning the area off. Very hush hush stuff. Potential alien encounter," a user commented suggesting that it might be an airplane.
"The aliens are coming," said another user.
"It's a plane. I looked it up because I thought it was moving too slowly. It's the orange glow of the contrails due to the sunrise. Spectacular footage nonetheless, but not a fireball," one user commented.
However, several were of the opinion that the "fireball" was not a plane. "It looks like a plane to start with. But it's so dense up close to the wings," a user said.
Another said, "Haha not a plane.. since when does a plane fly pretty much straight down towards the earth?"
Johanna PatersonThe "fire" trail is actually the jet stream with the sunrise glowing through it. There is no fire or burning, it's literally an optical illusion and it was a plane
According to ABC News, Australian Airservice spokesperson confirmed that it was nothing but an aircraft since it moved over Australian airspace.
Mashable also reported that the object was an Emirates flight EK448 flying over Hobart, Tasmania, at 6.30 am.
Sydney's Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences explained on its blog as to how the aircraft appeared to be so beautiful: "If the trails are seen around the time of sunrise or sunset they can take on a wonderful golden colour and if seen off in the distance making them look low near the horizon they can look just like the common misconception of a comet."
Luke Skywalker gazing off at the horizon with the setting of two suns in Star Wars is one of the most iconic images in cinema. As the world would soon learn in the next few decades, a real-life version of Tatooine is possible — binary star systems could very well develop planets — but scientists had yet to stumble upon a planet which was made up of more than just a massive swirl of gas. Life needs a solid rock to stand on, dammit!
So a recent discovery of a Tatooine-like star system 1,000 light-years away, reported in the journal Nature on Monday, is not much of a shocker, but it does raise hopes that the universe of Star Wars is not just limited to science fiction. The system, called SDSS 1557, is comprised of a white dwarf star and a brown dwarf star. A team of astronomers using the Gemini Observatory South telescope and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope, both located in Chile, found a dense accretion of shattered asteroid remains orbiting the system.
It’s the first time asteroid debris and pollution has been observed around a binary star system. Although the likelihood of planets rocky planets currently residing in the region is very low, the results throw support to the notion of a binary star system possessing a rocky planet — perhaps even a potentially habitable one if conditions are right.
The first evidence of rocky planet formation in a Tatooine-like system has been found.
The birth of a planet around a star is a messy business. Basically, a star needs to possess enough of a gravitational pull to coalesce a disk of dust and gas around its orbit. After several million years, that dust and gas might settle into solid objects that we refer to as planets.
Up until now, scientists have only ever found binary stars with gas giant planets (like Jupiter and Saturn). The new findings don’t break that trend, but they are an encouraging sign that a rocky planet like Earth could form around a two-star system.
It should be emphasized, however, there aren’t currently planets forming around SDSS 1557. “In its current state the system is almost certainly uninhabitable,” Steven Parsons, an astronomer at the University of Sheffield and a coauthor of the study, tells Inverse. “Rather than planets forming, in this system they are being destroyed. What we see are the chunks of former asteroids and planets that have gotten too close to the central binary stars. Also, although we don’t detect it, there is likely to be at least one large Jupiter-like planet orbiting the binary farther out. It is the gravitational affect of this large planet that has flung these smaller rocky objects inward towards the stars.”
The white dwarf in this system is actually the corpse of a deceased star which passed away 33 million years ago. However, its former life is thought to be similar to the sun, so “there is certainly the possibility that life could have existed on the planets around the original system,” says Parsons.
“What’s really nice here,” he says, “is that we know that there were rocky objects around the original binary, not just big gas giant planets like those currently known around binary stars.”
The proto-planetary material forming around SDSS 1557 is pretty high in metallic content like silicon and magnesium, and seems to step from an asteroid which was about four kilometers in size. The sign of a formerly large asteroid suggests a solid planet may have once formed in the SDSS 1557 system.
Naturally, the next step to confirming the hype is to conduct follow-up studies, and the research group is planning to make new observations using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Perhaps scientists can learn whether a long time ago, in a star system far away, a tiny Skywalker was sitting on the surface of a planet in the system, staring off at two suns setting in the distance.
Now to find out if there’s a Mos Eisley Cantina, too.
Humans have not been to the moon since 1972, but the logistics of such a mission are certainly not beyond current technology and engineering. Moreover, the SpaceX mission will simply circumnavigate the moon and return directly to Earth afterward.
The two-person crew will fly to the moon aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon (or Dragon 2) capsule — the first iteration of Dragon designed to carry people into space. Dragon 2, in spite of several delays, is a key part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program — in which the agency will contract private companies (SpaceX and Boeing so far) to send NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. After an uncrewed test mission to the ISS later this year, SpaceX and NASA will send a crew aboard Dragon 2 to the ISS sometime in mid-2018.
Which means the Dragon 2 lunar mission will occur hot off the heels of SpaceX’s first human mission into space.
Dragon 2
The plan, as of now, calls for Dragon 2 to launch from Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A — the historic site that which saw the liftoff of the Apollo missions. This fact is certainly not lost on the company.
The similarities to the Apollo missions don’t end there. While details on the launch are still slim, Musk told reporters on Monday the trip will last about one week. Passengers will basically cover a 300,000 to 400,000-mile distance as the spacecraft loops around the moon and heads back.
It should be awfully similar to the circumlunar Apollo 8 mission (the second crewed mission in the Apollo program, and the first to reach the moon’s orbit) and Apollo 13 (the aborted lunar landing mission in which a circumlunar flight was used to help slingshot the crew and its damaged spacecraft back to Earth).
There’s no doubt the mission will be extremely useful in testing out the Dragon architecture for deep space missions in the future — especially in the context of flying to Mars later on. For now, however, it’s still unclear what the specific mission will entail. The company has over a year to provide some more color on this surprise endeavor.
If We Find A Planet and It’s Populated By A Species That Is Not Yet Space Faring. What Do We Do?
If We Find A Planet and It’s Populated By A Species That Is Not Yet Space Faring. What Do We Do?
What do we do? Officially, we leave them alone. Unofficially, they will be sampled, abducted, their natural resources plundered and their planet contaminated with Earthly microbes. Even if we never set foot upon their planet, and they don’t even know we’re there, we’ll pollute them.
What the governments of Earth say is legal and what enterprising individuals do are entirely different. There’s no proof that humankind will change from how it has operated for the last 2 million plus years. So, I’d bet on the first contact by an agency like NASA being non-invasive, and then prompt exploitation and collateral damage contamination from private entities.
History always repeats.
The very similar thing happened in the early years of the discovery of the Americas. We kidnapped a Native American and brought him back to Europe to showcase him with a group of his kinsmen, and they never returned home.
We traded with the native populations, gaining their trust with trinkets and alcohol, then be fought with them over disagreements about who’s land it was, and who should control its resources. We oppressed the native populations, pushing them off their ancestral lands onto small reservations, and we tried in earnest to eliminate their culture and erase their teachings and way of life from the face of this Earth.
Maybe things would be different if we ever encounter non-terrestrial life.
Actually, this discovery of alien life could happen. Hard to say the probability, – and maybe not on a planet but a moon. Jupiter’s moon Europa has a liquid water ocean which is thought to be rich in oxygen – produced by the radiation from Jupiter splitting the surface water ice into hydrogen and oxygen and the oxygen then makes its way down many kilometers into the ocean.
It’s currently thought to be the most likely place to find complex life – perhaps as complex as squids. Their best guess is, not as much biomass probably as Earth, but roughly similar to the populations of the hydrothermal vents in the ocean floors of Earth’s ocean.
So, it could have complex life, such as perhaps squids. But if that’s possible, is it not also possible that over billions of years, it could also produce intelligent life like us?
Here, their civilization is pretty much bound to be at least millions of years old, maybe billions of years old. It would be such a remarkable coincidence as to be almost impossible that they develop technology at exactly the same time as us. So if they don’t have the technology it is for fundamental reasons such as living in an ocean or not having hands, or some such. I think the scenario you get in science fiction of extraterrestrials in e.g. early stone age or whatever level of technology is pretty much impossible.
So then, if there was intelligent life there, as close as Europa, we wouldn’t be able to communicate with them yet.
Living in an ocean, even if they are very clever and also have hands – or tentacles – still – there is no access to fire, at least not easily (maybe occasional underwater eruptions). They might well not develop technology at all, even in a billion years old civilization. At least not much more than, maybe, building dwellings of some sort and tools that to us would be primitive but the most complex things they can make in their environment.
And what we must do, surely, is to take great care. Not to introduce Earth life to start with, because that could make them extinct – it would be like releasing a genetically engineered totally artificial lifeform into the wild on Earth. Not safe, not unless you thoroughly understand what you are doing – and even then you’d doubtless get a lot of debate and some people who are not sure if the scientists involved have thought through everything and do totally understand what they are doing.
What we could learn from them could be of tremendous value. It’s what I like to call a “super positive” outcome. Something so positive that even if there is only a tiny chance of it happening, it’s worth going to a lot of care to give the best chance of it to happen.
Any form of alien life would be of tremendous interest, to learn about a biochemistry different from our own.
But imagine actually meeting an ET that’s been living for billions of years within the Europa ocean?
And – we do learn from our past mistakes. Slowly, but we do learn. For instance, after making the dodo and the passenger pigeon extinct, we now do try to preserve species – a couple of centuries ago then nobody would even think about trying to preserve anything. Now many people try hard and put a lot of effort to preserve species.
Back a couple of centuries ago, slavery was considered to be acceptable and normal in parts of the US, until 1865. Now it is totally unacceptable. Apartheid was considered normal in South Africa until the 1990s.
So we do learn and move on and things change. If you lived in South Africa in the 1970s, say, you might think that Apartheid was never going to end. But it did eventually.
We have also developed standards of human rights that weren’t present in saying the nineteenth century – there are many violations – but still, many places that do uphold those standards. And that we call them violations rather than accept them as normal is a big step forward.
Also, equality of women – in many countries, not all of course.
Our times are still very inadequate in many ways – so much still to do. But if you look back, even as little as just a century or two back – we have also come a long way. So we can change, and do change, and will continue to change. What will the situation be, say, two centuries from now?
So – when you look back at the way that native peoples have been treated in the past – we don’t have to behave in the same way in the future. Again there is much to be done there but at least we’ve established the principle that native people do have rights, and there are places where those rights are protected, though other places where they are not.
Hopefully, we have moved forward a fair bit more in the future. Indeed I think that unless we become much more peaceful as a civilization than we are now – competition, healthy competition in sports, science, etc – but managed to find a way to a future without warfare and exploitation – at least in space – unless we can achieve that, I don’t see how we can have large numbers of people in space.
Because the technology available in space by then would be too powerful to be used in any way except peacefully. If there are millions of people in space, that means millions of people with easy access to spacecraft able to travel at kilometers per second, probably more capable than any ICBM, living in habitats that by comparison are fragile as a soap bubble. For this to work, they must be peaceful, however, that is achieved. Well, that’s what I think anyway.
As for the near future, then they are protected by our planetary protection policy, which prohibits contaminating other places that are possible habitats for Earth life. Which we apply for reasons of protecting our own science interests – it would be a huge anticlimax to go to Europa or anywhere else and only find the life we brought there ourselves. So for that reason alone then we need to prevent the introduction of Earth life. But some who write on this subject say we also have a duty to protect lifeforms on other planets for themselves, over and above this obvious reason of protecting them because of their scientific value to us. You could also say we need to protect them for their science value to future humans thousands of years from now.
But for intelligent lifeforms or complex lifeforms that could evolve intelligence, or that have lives of their own, you could also say that they have rights themselves of one sort or another. After all, if an advanced alien were to contact Earth – would we not say that we have intrinsic rights in that encounter over and above our value as beings of scientific interest to them?
So surely the other way around, alien lifeforms also can have rights too. We may some day draw up some guidelines of rights of extraterrestrial species similar to our human rights.
In a recent article for Nautilus, Harvard physicist and cosmologist Lisa Randall speculates about what she calls “dark matter life.” Since dark matter is thought to constitute 85 percent of the mass in the universe, is it reasonable to imagine some kind of life based on this mysterious substance? Dark matter does not seem to interact with the stuff we are made of, but it might interact with itself, or at least some fraction of it might. If it does, what kinds of structures could it build? Could any of those structures constitute “life?”
Unfortunately, if dark matter life does exist, Randall says it would be incredibly difficult to detect. It would interact only very weakly with familiar matter, most likely by gravitational force, which is the weakest of all nature’s forces. In principle, it could exist right under our noses here on Earth, and we wouldn’t see it.
The idea of dark matter life, of course, is highly speculative. But the concept of a type of biology unknown to us, coexisting but not interacting with the familiar life on our planet, has been suggested previously by Carol Cleland and Shelley Copley. They proposed that a second type of life may exist on Earth that originated independently to form a “shadow biosphere” that is different biochemically from our own. Paul Davies and colleagues later elaborated on how such a shadow biosphere could be detected.
So far, we have not found any life on Earth with a significantly different biochemistry. All known terrestrial life shares the same chemical building blocks, and life has been incredibly successful at inhabiting all the places it possibly can. Is this because the life that appeared first on our planet was the best adapted? If different types of life originated early in Earth’s history, perhaps our type outcompeted all other variations.
Or do other types of life exist on our planet that we just haven’t found yet? If such a shadow biosphere does exist, maybe it’s in obscure ecological niches, like deep in the crustal rocks or at ocean floor vents. If so, that would explain why we haven’t detected it. The methods we use to search for and analyze life on our planet, mostly via DNA sequencing and culturing, are aimed specifically at our type of life. It is not difficult to imagine that we could overlook life of a different kind, even if it existed right here.
Indeed, it makes some sense to look for “alien” life on Earth before looking on extraterrestrial worlds. But it’s difficult to search for something when we don’t know exactly what to look for, whether it’s dark matter biology or a shadow biosphere.
As always, we need to stay open-minded. We live in a vast universe, and our minds would likely be completely boggled if we truly understood all the diversity of forms and functions that life can exhibit.
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Mansch On Montana: UFO sighting still resonates
Mansch On Montana: UFO sighting still resonates
Scott Mansch , smansch@greatfallstribune.comPublished
It’s been nearly 50 years since Robert Salas was a young missileer stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base and, on a mid-March night in a silo near Roy, became an unwitting witness to history.
Awake and alert underground in the early morning while his commander rested in a two-person compartment where men manage missiles, Robert was alerted by security guards up top.
“They told me about strange lights in the sky,” Robert says. “I thought they were pulling my leg.”
About 10 minutes later the phone rang again.
“This time he was clearly frightened, extremely frightened,” Robert says. “He was looking right at the thing, a glowing red object, oval-shaped and some 40 feet in diameter, and it was hovering above the front gate.”
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It was March 1967. When the Montana missiles malfunctioned.
Salas has written two books about this: “Faded Giant” and “Unidentified, The UFO Phenomenon.”
He considers them nonfiction to be sure.
THERE WERE TWOstrange incidents just days apart nearly 50 years ago when missiles in the midst of Montana were rendered temporarily inoperable. Robert, who came to Great Falls in 1966 after graduating from the Air Force Academy, was there on one of the harrowing nights.
It’s called the Oscar Flight, in reference to the name of the site.
“I was shocked,” he says.
And what happened the next day, he says, was even more stunning.
He was asked – basically ordered, he says - by commanders to sign a non-disclosure document in which he pledged to never talk about the incident.
“That haunted me,” Robert says. “It haunted me for a long, long time.”
Because, he says, the truth is this:
“It was an unidentified flying object that nobody could explain. To this day,” he says. “The Air Force investigated this secretly, I believe through 1972. I think this thing was not of this earth. I’m convinced it was not built here, because it was able to send signals to each of our missiles separately. The guidance and control equipment was upset in each one.”
ROBERT UNDERSTANDSpeople are skeptical about UFOs. But undeniably there is a history of such sightings in Montana, particularly in this part of the state.
In 1950 there was an incident reported at the Great Falls ballpark that’s been the subject of many studies. Hence the ballclub is now called the “Voyagers,” the mascot of which is a warm and funny creature that makes people of all ages smile.
Not that Robert considers his work any laughing matter.
“This,” he says, “is a real phenomenon. It’s not science fiction. The public and public media has kept it pretty much in the laugh track of reporting. It hasn’t been taken seriously. But I’ve got a lot of evidence that shows it truly did happen. And also involving the Air Force investigation and basically the whitewashing of the whole thing.”
He says the decision to remain silent bothered him for decades, for the rest of his military service and subsequent working career in the public sector. Then one day in 1994 he came across a book by Timothy Good called “Above Top Secret: The Worldwide UFO Cover-Up,” and about 300 pages in discovered a paragraph stating that UFOs were involved in a missile shutdown in 1967.
That’s the night he was on duty. The Air Force had declassified the information.
Since then, Robert has been on a mission.
“Ever since I’ve been committed to revealing the reality of this phenomenon,” Robert says. “This is something the public needs to know and believe in. The public needs to know that it’s true and that there has been an ongoing cover-up. That’s why I’m committed.”
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LIVING NOW INCalifornia, Robert is still an active investigator. He says UFO sightings have occurred many times in the last 50 years, including a 2010 incident at Warren Air Force Base in Cheyenne, Wyo., when 50 Minuteman nuclear missiles mysteriously malfunctioned.
“The Air Force,” Robert says, “is in denial.”
But why?
“Well, I can tell you a couple reasons,” he says. “No. 1 these objects can do some pretty fantastic things and it would have military applications if they were able to recover an object and deconstruct it. They consider the technology they’ve gleaned from them (very significant), and I’m confident they’ve recovered many of these items.
“Another issue is that it’s an international cover-up. UFO incidents been going on for many, many years, and there must be an international group, in intelligence, obtaining this information and sharing it. The other aspect of why they keep it a secret is because it’s political capital between nations.”
Robert resigned his Air Force commission in 1971 because, he says, “Vietnam got too much for me to stomach.”
That’s not to suggest he isn’t patriotic.
“I consider myself a patriot,” he says. “Even though I’m convinced there are cover-ups going on that the public needs to know about. I think a good patriot is someone who influences people’s right to know.”
MANY BELIEVE, of course, in heaven and hell. In angels and spirits. And in an afterlife. So perhaps it is naïve for people to be convinced there could not be life among the stars and beyond?
And maybe, just maybe somebody was trying to tell us something by shutting down those missiles in 1967. A statement against war, perhaps.
“Exactly,” Robert says. “I think this was a message, just a message. Because they did not damage the equipment. It wasn’t like they destroyed the weapons. It was just a weapon. I believe we have got to get rid of nuclear weapons because they’re so dangerous.”
Of course in the present political climate this is very much an issue.
“We’re starting another nuclear arms race,” says Robert, referring to his perception of the new administration in Washington.
WE LIVE IN SUCH PRISTINEcountry, the middle of Montana, where one envisions the landscape unaltered for centuries.
That is, until the fenced missile silo facilities are noticed.
President John F. Kennedy is said to have famously referred to the Malmstrom missiles as the country’s “Ace in the Hole.”
Roberts laughs.
“Well, at the time we considered the communist countries a threat to us,” he says. “But times change.”
ROBERT HASN’T BEENback to Great Falls for five or six years. To think that 50 years has passed since the incident that changed his life, he says, is sobering. Talk about unsolved mysteries.
“I’ve been making video clips and will publish them on YouTube,” he says. “I guess that’s the way I’ll celebrate this 50-year anniversary.”
What would Robert say to folks who continue to scoff at his conclusions?
“I’d say they should do their homework before making such statements,” Robert says. “Not only myself, but multiple Air Force officers have come forward talking about similar incidents. So it’s not just me talking about this.
“There is good evidence and plenty of documents and testimony that support the phenomenon.”
Northern lights appear regularly in our part of the world. And some 50 years ago men from Malmstrom were witnesses to lights not necessarily out of the north that, Robert Salas believes, were not of this world.
The takeaway, Robert Salas believes, is this:
Perhaps we all should be mindful we’re not alone.
“Exactly,” Robert says. “That’s exactly right.”
Mansch On Montana, dedicated to personalities and places that make living in the Treasure State so interesting, appears Mondays in the Tribune. Scott Mansch can be reached at 791-1481 or smansch@greatfallstribune.com
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Mysterieuze bol uit Bosnië wijst op verloren beschaving in Europa
Mysterieuze bol uit Bosnië wijst op verloren beschaving in Europa
De vondst van een bizarre stenen bol in Bosnië stelt archeologen voor een raadsel. Leefde er mogelijk een oude, hoogontwikkelde beschaving in Europa die dergelijke bollen kon maken?
Volgens archeologen is er geen bewijs dat de bol is achtergelaten door een oude beschaving in Europa die zich liet inspireren door aliens, meldt nieuwssite Tornos News.
De bol is in een bos in Podubravlje ontdekt door dr. Semir Osmanagic. Hij stelt dat het object niet het resultaat kan zijn van een zeldzaam natuurverschijnsel.
Buitenaardse technieken
Volgens hem heeft een ver ontwikkeld volk dat in het gebied woonde de bol gemaakt. Osmanagic wijst op het bestaan van enorme piramides in Bosnië.
Hij claimt dat zijn onderzoek zal bewijzen dat de Europese piramides veel belangrijker zijn dan de Egyptische piramides.
Osmanagic is ervan overtuigd dat de bollen 10.000 jaar voor Christus zijn vervaardigd met buitenaardse technieken. “Ze stemmen ons af op een hogere dimensie,” verklaarde hij.
Costa Rica
De stenen bollen van Costa Rica
De mysterieuze stenen bol, die een doorsnee heeft van 1,2 tot 1,5 meter, tergt vele archeologen.
Het is niet de eerste bizarre bol die ontdekt is op aarde. Je hebt bijvoorbeeld de stenen bollen van Costa Rica die worden toegeschreven aan de Diquiscultuur.
Atlantis
Volgens lokale legendes waren deze bollen afkomstig uit Atlantis. Sommige van de bollen, die zo’n 1500 jaar oud zijn, wegen tot wel 15 ton.
Vaak worden ze gelinkt aan hoogontwikkelde beschavingen die beschikten over futuristische technologieën.
HOE GEVAARLIJK IS MIND CONTROL DOOR BUITENAARDSEN ( VIDEO )
HOE GEVAARLIJK IS MIND CONTROL DOOR BUITENAARDSEN ( VIDEO )
Mensen die ervaringen hebben met buitenaardsen beschrijven vaak een gevoel van een soort verlamming en een totale ontspanning.
Dit schijnt te komen door de mind control technieken waarover buitenaardsen beschikken, maar wat is de kans dat ook wij daar mee te maken zullen krijgen?
Zoals we eerder deze week schreven is er een geweldige toename van het aantal UFO meldingen, waarnemingen en ervaringen.
Daarmee komt eigenlijk ook automatisch een ander onderwerp naar voren en dat is het volgende: Als aliens of buitenaardsen inderdaad vergevorderde technologie bezitten, dan is het ook logisch om aan te nemen dat zij in staat geacht moeten worden om ook onze hersenen te beïnvloeden.
Dan kom je uit bij iets dat algemeen bekend staat als mind control.
Vreemd genoeg, of niet misschien, verschijnen er de laatste tijd geregeld verhalen over de mogelijkheden die buitenaardsen op dit gebied zouden hebben.
Er is iets waar ik de afgelopen week over liep te piekeren. Ik kan mij twee keer een UFO waarneming herinneren waarbij het een heel kalmerend effect op mij had. Het voelde een beetje alsof ik een kalmeringsmiddel had genomen zoals Prozac of Zoloft of zoiets.
Ik heb ook verhalen gelezen over honderden UFO waarnemingen en contactverslagen waarbij vaak hetzelfde soort gevoel wordt omschreven. Een gevoel van ontspannen zijn, comfortabel, lieflijke gevoelens ten opzichte van buitenaardsen, waarbij alle zorgen en angsten tijdelijk verdwenen leken te zijn.
Dat is misschien leuk voor buitenaardsen en misschien ook voor sommige mensen, maar dat is zeker niet waar ik naar op zoek ben. Ik weet niet of ik een buitenaardse zou kunnen vertrouwen die technologie of telepathie gebruikt om mijn gevoel te beïnvloeden. Want, dat betekent weer dat de buitenaardse jou niet genoeg vertrouwt om jou jezelf te laten zijn in zijn aanwezigheid.
Ik praat dan over mind control. Het is een wapen en het maakt niet uit op welke manier je dat gebruikt. Buitenaardsen beschikken over de technologie om jou volledig te controleren als ze dat zouden willen. Ze kunnen ervoor zorgen dat je vergeet dat je ooit een UFO hebt gezien.
Scott Waring is dan ook van mening dat buitenaardsen er goed aan zouden doen om iedere vorm van mind control te vergeten wanneer ze met hun schepen onze planeet bezoeken. Het zou volgens Scott getuigen van goede wil van hun kant als ze dat inderdaad zouden proberen.
Hij zegt verder dat hij denkt namens de mensheid te spreken als hij zegt dat als buitenaardsen met ons contact willen opnemen door gebruik te maken van mind control om ons op die manier te beïnvloeden, dit absoluut niet de correcte manier is.
Hij is er verder van overtuigd dat wanneer buitenaardsen dit toch gaan doen, dit op den duur tot een oorlog zal leiden tussen hen en ons. En dat komt, zo zegt hij, omdat mensen nergens een grotere hekel aan hebben dan aan het gevoel dat ze niet zelf de controle hebben.
Volgens een vrij recent artikel in de Engelse Daily Star komt het heel vaak voor dat wanneer mensen worden ontvoerd of oog in oog staan met buitenaardsen ze een soort vreemde onnatuurlijke kalmte voelen.
In dat artikel komt een andere UFO onderzoeker aan het woord, Ann Druffel, die veel onderzoek heeft gedaan naar mensen die buitenaardse ontmoetingen hebben gehad. Ze houdt ook helingssessies met getraumatiseerde getuigen die zeggen ontsnapt te zijn aan buitenaardse ontvoeringen.
Naast de onnatuurlijke kalmte omschrijven ook veel getuigen het als een soort verlamd zijn. Volgens Druffel komt dit door de mind control technieken die de buitenaardsen toepassen. Zij zegt dat de truc om hieraan te ontsnappen het bewegen van bepaalde lichaamsdelen is zoals van een vinger of een teen en daarnaast de inzet van de eigen wilskracht.
“Als het slachtoffer die kleine beweging maakt, dan verbreekt de verlamming en de entiteiten (aliens) zullen verdwijnen”.
Zal er een tijd komen waarbij wij mensen eigenlijk helemaal niet meer weten wie we zijn en wat we allemaal gedaan hebben, omdat we veranderd zijn in een soort geprogrammeerd zombies of valt het allemaal wel wat mee en kun je zelf ten alle tijden de controle blijven houden?
Onderstaande documentaire geeft een goede aanvulling op bovenstaande en de tijd zal het leren wat er wel of niet met de mensheid zal gebeuren.
OVERTUIGEND BEWIJS VOOR UFO'S IN DIMENSIEPORTAAL ( VIDEO )
OVERTUIGEND BEWIJS VOOR UFO'S IN DIMENSIEPORTAAL ( VIDEO )
Soms kom je juweeltjes van opnames tegen en de volgende valt absoluut in die categorie.
Het is een filmpje van een halve minuut en daarin zie je de meest fantastische dingen.
De opname is enkele dagen geleden gemaakt bij de Zárate-Brazo Largo brug die aan de rand van de Argentijnse stad Buenos Aires ligt.
Al jaren schrijven wij nu over vreemde wolken die niet thuis horen in een bepaald landschap. Onderstaand een dergelijke wolk. Wat ook iedere keer weer kenmerkend is, zijn de bliksemflitsen in de wolk. Alsof je een grote onweerswolk hebt, maar dat eigenlijk niet is.
In de korte video zie je diverse UFO’s ronddartelen waarvan er een aantal met enorme snelheid verdwijnen in de wolk.
Na ongeveer zes seconden zie je er zo één linksboven in beeld verschijnen zoals ook te zien is op de volgende afbeelding.
En wanneer zo’n UFO de wolk in vliegt, ontstaat er op diezelfde plek een bliksemschicht. Wanneer je goed kijkt, dan zie je dat diverse keren gebeuren in die korte video.
De volgende opname is uniek, omdat het ook een bevestiging is van wat verschillende getuigen hebben gezien en van eerder gemaakte en vergelijkbare beelden.
Hierna een voorbeeld van hetzelfde fenomeen door de ogen van een getuige en eveneens een bijzondere opname uit Mexico.
Als eerste een getuigenis van een dame die wij ontvingen in november 2014:
"Het is dinsdagavond 7 oktober en om 20.30 stap ik op de fiets vanuit Lytse Geast,(een dorpje een kleine tien kilometer ten zuid-oosten van Leeuwarden).
Mijn weg voert door de weilanden over een afgelegen pad en als het even kan zorg ik er voor dat ik niet in mijn eentje in het donker nog op pad ben. Vandaag ben ik al te laat en de laatste schemering gaat al over in duister.
Ik ben nog maar net buiten, of het begint te regenen en hard te waaien. Schuin voor me zie ik een paar flitsen, en het rommelt in de verte, precies tussen mij en Leeuwarden, waar ik naar op weg ben. Onweer dus, ook dat nog.
Voor me is een brede, langgerekte, vrij laag hangende wolk. Dat is waar ik de hemel op zie lichten. Er komen witte bollen uit de wolk. Twee gaan naar links en twee gaan naar rechts. De afstand van de ene bol tot de andere blijft steeds gelijk, alsof ze met een touwtje aan elkaar vast zitten. Ze bewegen langzaam.
Ik weet niet, wat het is, dat ik zie... zijn dit vliegtuigen? van de basis? En waarom zijn die geïnteresseerd in een onweerswolk? Ja, het zijn vast vliegtuigen. Het licht pulseert ook, zoals bij een vliegtuig. Flits aan, flits uit. Ja maar, bij een vliegtuig zie je dan altijd ook een rood licht aan en uit flitsen. dat is hier niet. Alleen wit. Melkwit.
De twee bollen rechts zijn verdwenen, die van links zijn opeens weer terug boven de wolk. Verbeeld ik me nu dat ze sneller pulseren dan zo net? Nee, dat verbeeld ik me niet. Het lijken wel sterren en het licht is niet meer zozeer wit, als wel koud. Zoals bij sterretjes voor kleine kinderen. Het zijn nu dus geen witte bollen meer, maar steeds sneller aan- en uit flitsende 'sterren'.
Dan zijn ze weg. Een paar minuten is er niks meer te zien en dan opeens zijn er wel twintig. Allemaal onder, boven, naast of uit de wolk. En allemaal flitsen ze aan en uit, nu in een heel hoog tempo. In een ijzig wit licht dat zo fel is dat het mij verblindt. Je zou zeggen dat ze er plezier aan beleven, zoals ze om en door de wolk heen duiken. Er in, er uit, om de wolk heen, achter elkaar aan... Net zo plotseling als ze verschenen zijn ze nu weer weg.
En komen niet meer terug. En ik ben bijna bij de eerste huizen van de stad. Het regent niet meer en de wind gaat ook liggen. Hoe lang dit al met al geduurd heeft? Twintig minuten à hooguit een half uur. Ik kan me niet voorstellen, dat er niet meer mensen geweest zijn die dit gezien hebben. Er was echt een hele lichtshow in de lucht.
Wat me achteraf ook nog wel frappeert, is dat er eigenlijk alleen die ene enorm grote wolk was, verder was er vrijwel geen bewolking.
Is dit de echte reden waarom we nooit zijn teruggegaan naar de maan?
Is dit de echte reden waarom we nooit zijn teruggegaan naar de maan?
Ruimtevaartorganisaties zetten geen mensen meer op de maan omdat dat te gevaarlijk is, zo wordt geclaimd.
Volgens een populaire complottheorie wordt de natuurlijke satelliet bewoond door hoogontwikkelde aliens die de astronauten hebben weggestuurd, meldt de Daily Express.
Veel onderzoekers en ufologen zeggen dat het Amerikaanse ruimteagentschap een sinister geheim verbergt en dat we niet alles te horen hebben gekregen over wat er op de maan gebeurde, en nog steeds gebeurt, schrijft Ancient Code.
Ontmoetingen
“Veel mensen claimen dat er genoeg bewijs is om te suggereren dat er buitenaardse bases zijn,” aldus de website.
Geopenbaarde documenten en getuigenverklaringen van klokkenluiders doen vermoeden dat ruimteagentschappen niet willen dat de samenleving te weten komt wat er op de maan gebeurt.
Volgens de theorie hadden NASA-astronauten er ontmoetingen met aliens, die hen waarschuwden om niet terug te komen.
Makkelijker
Dat zou verklaren waarom we plotseling niet meer naar de maan gingen, stelt Ancient Code. “Waarom hebben we na al die tijd nog geen permanente bemande basis op de maan?”
“Zou het niet makkelijker zijn om een basis op het maanoppervlak te bouwen dan een ruimtestation rond de aarde operationeel te houden?”
De Amerikaanse scheikundige Harold Urey (1893-1981) onderzocht maanstenen die Apollo 11 had teruggebracht.
Groot raadsel
Hij zei dat de samenstelling van de maanstenen die de astronauten hadden meegebracht hem voor een groot raadsel stelde.
Scott C. Waring van UFO Sightings Daily claimt dat in het archief van de Amerikaanse marine bewijs is gevonden voor het bestaan van bouwwerken op de maan.
SpaceX
Wie weet komen we volgend jaar meer te weten, aangezien het commerciële ruimtevaartconcern SpaceX dan twee betalende ruimtetoeristen om de maan wil laten vliegen.
Beide toeristen hebben al een aanzienlijk bedrag gestort, aldus topman Elon Musk.
Wetenschappers: Dit is de echte oorzaak van klimaatverandering (en het heeft niets te maken met mensen)
Wetenschappers: Dit is de echte oorzaak van klimaatverandering (en het heeft niets te maken met mensen)
In een nieuwe studie wordt uitgelegd waarom de temperaturen op aarde variëren. Klimaatalarmisten zullen er vast en zeker alles aan doen om te voorkomen dat er aandacht aan wordt besteed, zo schrijft de Daily Wire.
Klimaatverandering wordt veroorzaakt door veranderingen in de hoeveelheid zonnestraling, zo concluderen de wetenschappers.
Het team linkt dit fenomeen aan kleine veranderingen in de omloopbaan van de aarde en Mars.
Eerste harde bewijs
Stephen Meyers (Gigi Cohen)
De studie, die is gepubliceerd in vakblad Nature, biedt volgens de wetenschappers het eerste harde bewijs voor het ‘chaotische zonnestelsel’.
Deze theorie werd in 1989 bedacht om kleine variaties in het zonnestelsel te verklaren. Die variaties zorgen voor grote veranderingen in het klimaat op aarde.
Als twee hemellichamen elkaar aantrekken, verandert de hoeveelheid zonnestraling die een planeet ontvangt in bepaalde gebieden.
Drijvende kracht
Die zonnestraling is de drijvende kracht achter het klimaatsysteem, aldus het team onder leiding van professor Stephen Meyers van de University of Wisconsin-Madison en professor Brad Sageman van de Northwestern University.
De subtiele variaties in de omloopbaan van de aarde en Mars beïnvloeden de hoeveelheid zonnestraling die onze planeet ontvangt en daarmee de temperatuur, stellen ze.
Behoorlijk groot
“De invloed van astronomische cycli op het klimaat kan behoorlijk groot zijn,” legt Meyers uit.
Hoewel dit niet bewijst dat de mens geen enkele invloed op het klimaat heeft, benadrukken dergelijke studies dat de rol die de mens op aarde speelt in het niet valt bij natuurlijke fenomenen, schrijft de Daily Wire nog.
Cigar UFO Caught Over Springfield, Oregon On Feb 27, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Cigar UFO Caught Over Springfield, Oregon On Feb 27, 2017, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 27, 2017 Location of sighting: Springfield, Oregon, USA Source: MUFON #82410 This UFO was caught over Oregon this week. The UFO was never seen, and the camera owner never remembered taking the photo. That means the camera must have taken the photo by accident when he was holding or setting down the camera. This is one amazing accident. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I am looking for Property in Lane County, OR thru online real estate sites. I came across this photo with an apparent Cigar shaped craft in the upper right side. I noticed it on Feb 27, 2016. I did not take the photo, I do not know who did or when it was taken. I have the address of the property listing, but cannot post address online here. I think this is a spectacular photo! Any thoughts??? Thanks
UFO Over Tasmania Confuses Locals And Gov, Feb 28, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Over Tasmania Confuses Locals And Gov, Feb 28, 2017, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: February 28, 2017 Location of sighting: Tasmania News source:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-28/ufo-fever-hits-tasmania-as-plane-lights-up-imaginations/8311224 This UFO was spotted yesterday over Tasmania and shows signs of being a UFO thats trying to hide itself by disguising itself as a meteor, but meteors move faster and this was moving slowly. Lots of UFOs have been seen over the Australian outback, where many alien bases are thought to exist. In the end, no one really knows what it is or where it came from, or where it went. Scott C. Waring News states: The federal government's air navigation services provider Airservices Australia confirmed the object captured on hundreds of mobile phones and cameras across southern Tasmania early on Tuesday morning was nothing more than an aircraft "as it passed over Australian airspace". But that assertion did not stop members of the public drawing their own conclusions and disparaging naysayers for their lack of faith. Striking footage of the object filmed by Sorell resident Lee-Anne Peters caused a frenzy as Facebook users speculated on what it could be, with the International Space Station, meteorites, plane contrails, fairies and, of course, spacecraft from another galaxy among the mix of possibilities. "It was very slow moving, not like the high jets I've seen before. I got out the binoculars and thought it must be a meteorite," Ms Peters said. "I was sure it was something burning up from space … but now, I am sure it was just a plane with the sunrise highlighting its contrails," she said. Despite Ms Peter's verdict, many Facebook users were quick to disagree — with some rejoicing in what the close encounter might mean. "No longer will the population outcast you for believing in aliens," one Facebook user posted. (More at source).
Over 90% of sightings recorded in the the past 100 years have occurred since 2000.
In 1980 there were just 5,000 – but in 2010 there has been a massive spike to around 45,000 sightings each year, an 800% increase.
There have been at least 104,947 reported UFO sightings across the world since the early 1900s according to findings by Sam Monfort, a PhD student at George Mason University, in the US.
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SIGHTINGS: Reported sighting around the world
Monfort plotted the sightings on a "heat map” of the world.
The UK and Australia were mapped as hotspots, while he listed the US as the top nation for reports of alien visits.
When it comes to conspiracy theories and modern preoccupations, few things are more popular than unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and alien abductions. For over half a century, there have been rumors, reports, and urban legends about aliens coming to Earth, dabbling with our genetics, and conducting weird (and often invasive) experiments on our citizens.
And while opinions on what drives this popular phenomenon tend to differ (some say hysteria, others that it is media-driven), a few things are clear. For one, sightings appear to take place far more in the United States than anywhere else in the world. And in recent years, these sightings have been on the rise!
Such are the conclusions of a series of visualizations based on the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC). Established in 1974 (and located in Davenport, Washington), the National UFO Reporting Center is “dedicated to the collection and dissemination of objective UFO data”. Since that time, they have been monitoring UFO sightings worldwide and have maintained careful logs about the 104,947 sightings that have taken place since 1905.
The geographic distribution of UFO sightings. Credit: sammonfort3
Using this data, Sam Monfort – a Doctoral Candidate from the department of Human Factors & Applied Cognition at George Mason University – produced a series of visuals that illustrate the history of UFO sightings. And based on the visualized trends, some rather interesting conclusions can be drawn. The most obvious is that the geographical distribution of sightings is hardly even. For starters, reports in the USA were equal to about 2500 sightings per 10 million people.
This is almost 300 times higher than the global average. Based on individual states, the concentration of sightings was also quite interesting. Apparently, more sightings happen (per 10 million people) in the West and Northwest, with the highest numbers coming from Washington and Montana. Oregon, Idaho, Arizona and New Mexico also made strong showings, while the Great Lakes and Midwestern states were all consistent with the national median.
On the opposite coast, Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire all had a good number of sightings per capita, though the state of New York even as New York was beneath the national median. Texas actually ranked the lowest, and was followed by the Southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia. But as Monfort told Universe Today via email, this may be slightly skewed because of who is collecting the information:
“[I]t’s worth mentioning that the NUFORC is an American agency (“N” stands for “National”). They make an effort to record international sightings (phone banks staffed 24/7), but I’d guess that sightings in the USA are still over-represented. Honestly, I’d bet that the NUFORC being based in Seattle is the main reason we see so many more sightings in the States. A more thorough analysis might cross-reference sightings from other agencies, like MUFON.”
The geographic breakdown of annual UFO sightings (per 10 million people) in the US. Credit: sammonfort3
Canadians did not do much better, coming at second place after the United States with 1000 sightings per 10 million people. And according to a recent article by Allan Maki of The Globe and Mail, its becoming more common – with a record 1982 sightings reported in 2012. He also suggests that this could be due to a combination of growing interest in the subject and reduced stigma.
Iceland, the UK, Australia, the Virgin Islands and Cyprus all ranked a distant third, with between 250 and 500 sightings per 100 million people per year. New Zealand, Mexico, Israel and the Gulf States also produced considerable returns, as did the United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal, Belgium, Danemark, Finland, Sweden and Norway.
From this distribution, one might make the generalization that more developed nations are more likely to report UFOs (i.e. better record-keeping and all that). And this is a possibility which Monfort explored. In another visualization, he cross-referenced the number of sightings in a respective country with amount of internet access it has (per 100 people), and a limited correlation was shown.
Nations like Israel and the Gulf States have a higher number of sightings than neighboring countries like Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, while South Africa has more reported sightings than several North African and Sub-Saharan African nations surveyed. However, fast-developing nations like Russia, China and India showed a lower than average level of sightings, while Guyana and Suriname showed a higher than average level.
The number of UFO sightings per year, subdivided based on the type of object reported.
Credit: sammonfort3
France, Italy and the Czech Republic also lagged behind many of their European counterparts, and Germany and Spain were only slightly higher than the average. So much like distribution by state within the US, internet access does not seem to be a consistent determining factor. Another interesting visualization was the one which broke down the sightings per decade based on the nature of the sighting.
As you can see from the table above, when UFO sightings first began in the early 20th century, they reportedly took the form of either a sphere or a cigar-shaped object. This differs from the 1920s, when “flying saucers” began to appear, and remained the dominant trend throughout World War II and the Cold War era. And ever since the 1990s – what Monfort refers to as “post-internet” era – the most common UFO sightings took the form of bright lights.
“If I had to guess, I’d say it was a combination of factors,” said Monfort. “Like I mentioned in the blog, it seems a lot more plausible that someone would see strange lights in the sky than a flying object with a concrete shape (like a saucer). Seeing a shape implies that the object is pretty close to you, “and if it’s that close why didn’t you take a video of it?”
As for other factors, Monfort considers the possibility of fireworks and (as one comment on his blog suggested) Chinese lanterns. “Those are the little paper balloons you light a candle in and let fly. Some of the bright light sightings could be those, especially since I’d bet most Chinese lanterns are released in groups, with several people going out in groups to release them together. (Often people report formations of lights.)”
Naturally, the data does not support any ironclad conclusions, and plenty can be said about its reliability and methodology. After all, while UFO sightings are documented, they are famous for being routinely debunked. Nevertheless, visuals like these are interesting in illustrated the patterns of sightings, and can allow for some insightful speculation as to why they take place.
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Forget Mammoths, We Could Bring Dinosaurs and Neanderthals Back to Life
Forget Mammoths, We Could Bring Dinosaurs and Neanderthals Back to Life
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IN BRIEF
Some scientists believe that with current stem cell technology and our completed sequence of the neanderthal genome, we are equipped with the potential to clone a Neanderthal.
Bioethicists, however, debate the ethics of cloning Neanderthals — and some think the act is far too inhumane to even attempt.
REAL LIFE JURASSIC PARK?
The scientific world was set ablaze of late as discussions ramped up about the resurrection of the wholly mammoth. I know what you’re thinking: Jurassic Park. Well, not quite — but maybe not that far off, either. Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City College of New York, wonders: what if we could clone the Neanderthal, or a dinosaur, based solely off their genomes?
George Church, geneticist and director of Harvard University’s Church Labs, believes that we can clone a Neanderthal in our lifetime. So much so that he thinks all we need is “one extremely adventurous human female.” While he doesn’t advocate for the project to be attempted straight away, he does encourage discussion on the matter. Church believes that with current stem cell technology and our completed sequence of the Neanderthal genome, we are equipped with the potential to clone a Neanderthal.
The Neanderthals went extinct tens of thousands of years ago, so cloning one from recovered DNA would be impressive enough of a feat — but what about something from 65 million years ago? Dr. Kaku addresses this, admitting that cloning a dinosaur won’t be as easy as cloning a Neanderthal or a mammoth (which wouldn’t very “easy” to begin with) — but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible.
Dr. Kaku notes that proteins found within the soft tissues of recovered dinosaur femurs resemble those of chickens, frogs, and reptiles — confirm the theory of their relation. He posits that through the use of a supercomputer, a genetic sequence could be produced, which would create theoretical potential for cloning through epigenetics.
JUST BECAUSE WE CAN DOESN’T MEAN WE SHOULD
When it comes to cloning mammoths or dinosaurs, the limitations are mostly technical at this point. With Neanderthals, however, there’s an addition element: ethics. Dr. Kaku asks important questions about what scientists would do after bringing a Neanderthal child to life: Should he or she be placed in captivity like some kind of zoo animal? Would they face a lifetime of study? What if the Neanderthal is naturally aggressive — should it be drugged or confined at all times? Many bioethicists debate the ethics of de-extinction, but there are also those that tout genetic diversity. Others believe the act is far too inhumane to even attempt.
Listen to Dr. Kaku’s argument below and decide where you stand on the should-we-or-shouldn’t-we of prehistoric cloning.
Don’t Be Alarmed If You Can’t Remember — Signs You’ve Been Abducted By Aliens
Don’t Be Alarmed If You Can’t Remember — Signs You’ve Been Abducted By Aliens
I don’t want to alarm anyone, but did you know that there have been hundreds of thousands of people who have claimed, being a victim of a UFO alien abduction at least once in their lifetime, most without them even being aware of it.
Imagine that? Over hundreds of thousands of people, including many movie stars, (Shirley MacLaine comes to mind), tons of army personnel and some political leaders, people from all walks of life.
They did a study on it! At Wyoming State. A professor named R. Leo Sprinkle. He says, there are certain characteristics and sensations people have in common after being abducted.
Have you ever missed a few minutes? Maybe an hour? How about a day?Where you just can’t remember, if your life depended on it, where the time went. How about a feeling or sensing something happened but you just can’t put your finger on it? It’s happened to me, not just once and seems to be happening on a more frequent basis lately.
I’ve dreamed of flying saucers, hell, I’ve dreamed I actually flew. I’ve dreamed of weird places and ugly creatures from far off worlds. Name your nightmare and I’ve dreamt it. I’ve even had flashbacks of all the above.
I’ve had urges to take off, I mean go on a trip, not that kind of trip, a vacation. Is that odd? And, I’ve always had an interest in UFOs, maybe not suddenly but more like in spurts including ancient history, magic and wicca, almost everything odd, strange or peculiar. That’s just me.
All of these symptoms, says Professor Sprinkle, are signs that you’ve been abducted by a UFO at some time in your life, but when it comes to me personally, I have other theories on alien abductions. To me, even though I’m a firm believer in UFOs, it’s more likely to stem from what I’ve been drinking or smoking the night before, which give me these strange sensations and characteristics and has nothing to do with an alien abduction, at all. I still won’t rule it out altogether, though.
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Pennsylvania witness reports unusual lights ‘beaming to ground’
Pennsylvania witness reports unusual lights ‘beaming to ground’
A Cumberand County, PA, witness reported an unusual series of “huge, bright, round lights” beaming to the ground level near her property with no sound that appeared to get her dog’s attention, according to testimony in Cases 82026 and 82029 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Case 82026 was reported February 12, 2017, for an incident that occurred about 1:30 a.m. on about November 15, 2016.
Witness image of ‘bite marks.’
(Credit: MUFON)
“I sleep soundly,” the witness stated.“My dog started barking which woke me up around 1:30 a.m. I thought she had to use the bathroom, so I took her outside in the backyard. The backyard has an in-ground pool and fence. Behind the backyard is a 12-acre common area. At the end of this common area is a wooded section with lots of trees. My dog ran to the left corner of the house facing the front yard/street and was barking. She ran to the right corner of the house facing the front yard/streetand was barking. She repeated this four times until I finally stopped her and brought her inside the house.”
The witness first considered conventional reasons that might be causing the dog problems.
“Each time she was barking, she never did go to the bathroom. I thought maybe she heard someone in front of the house or sometimes we have deer that cross through our development.”
From inside the house, the witness looked out a front window and saw a “huge, bright, round light.”
The witness described the light.
“The light was extremely bright similar to an LED light, but the light was yellow in nature. The light had defined edges, no overspray of light. I walked outside onto my front porch to see if I could get a better view. There were no sounds or noises. I walked back into the house and watched from the front window.”
The witness then saw another beam of light.
“After a few seconds, a beam of light stretched from the round light to the road. This beam of light was the width of a car. It originated from the bright round light and stretched to the road. I could see the light on the road. The beam of light lasted a couple of seconds and then it retracted back to the bright, round light and then both lights disappeared immediately. The entire sighting lasted approximately 8 seconds.”
Cumberland County, PA, is located just west of the Harrisburg area.
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The witness first thought that maybe the lights originated from a plane.
“But there was no sound of motors or anything. I wiped it out of my mind, until I witnessed another light on January 7, 2017. Now, I am convinced there is something to these experiences.”
The witness then filed Case 82029 on February 12, 2017, for an incident that occurred on January 7,2017.
“Again, my dog awoke me in the middle of the night,” the witness stated.“This time she was whimpering. Again, I thought she had to go to the bathroom, so I took her outside in the backyard. She immediately ran around the pool four times, without ever stopping to go to the bathroom, and then stopped in the middle of my yard. Facing the field behind my backyard, the dog stopped.”
At this point a bright light appeared at the end of this field.
“It was perfectly round and was about the size of a house. The light was hovering slightly above the trees. There was no origination point – either above, below, left or right – to this light. The light tiled downward and, at that point, the light appeared to be oval-shaped. The edges of the light were defined, with no shadows or extending light from it. There were no noises or sounds. As a matter of fact, everything was unusually still and very dark that evening.”
The witness became frozen and mesmerized by this light source.
“My dog was also frozen – she did not move. The light lasted approximately seven seconds and then disappeared quickly. As soon as the light disappeared, my dog ran to the front of the fence facing the front yard/street, and began growling. She growled four separate times and then stopped. I immediately called for her and we went into the house. When I came inside I checked the clock. It was 2:24 a.m. I looked out the front window to see if I could see anything or to justify why she was growling. I did not see anything, but I did not go outside in the front yard. Honestly, I was scared at that point.”
The witness has reported two encounters with lights beaming to the ground.
(Credit: Google)
But when the witness woke the next morning, her left forearm felt sore.
“I brought my dog downstairs and then looked at my arm. It was bleeding, swollen and red. The area that was swollen was about the size of a golf ball. Within this swollen area were four ‘bite marks.’ The four red ‘bite marks’ were positioned to look like a smile. Above this ‘smile’ is one additional ‘bite mark’ which is located above and in the center of the four marks. The swelling is down and the redness is gone. However, as of February 12, 2017, there is still one red ‘bite mark’ on my arm. The spot still itches and is slightly raised. It feels like something is under this spot. When I awoke from sleeping, I realized I had fallen into a deep sleep. While it appeared as though I slept for a very short time, I felt as though I was completely rested. One final thought. Everything during this event occurred in fours.”
Pennsylvania MUFON Field Investigator Jason Akers 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.
It was 1939, and the storm of history’s greatest conflict was gathering on the European continent.
The situation for Britain was ominous. But even in those terrible, turbulent times, Winston Churchill took the opportunity to speculate on the possibility of intelligent beings elsewhere in the cosmos, and commit his ideas to paper. (He was a prodigious scribe, averaging several thousand words a day over the course of his life.) His largely unknown essay on this subject has been recently reviewed by astrophysicist Mario Livio, and reported in the February 16 issue of the journal Nature.
Given Churchill’s broad interests and catholic knowledge, it’s not surprising that he thought about the idea of life in space, although one might argue that his timing was influenced by the famed radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds broadcast the year before. But the remarkable thing is not that Churchill wrote about the possibilities for extraterrestrial biology, but that he thought about the subject in a way very similar to contemporary researchers.
The context of his ruminations was shaped by the work of astronomer Edwin Hubble and others, who had just shown that the universe was far larger than previously believed. There were not only hundreds of billions of stars populating the galaxy, but vast numbers of other galaxies.
But were there also planets, the presumed habitats for life? In Churchill’s time, the received wisdom on planet formation was the 1905 Chamberlin-Moulton theory. It postulated that solar systems were the result of close interactions between two stars. Since stars seldom get close to one another, this theory implied that planets would be extraordinarily rare.
This might have dissuaded a lesser thinker from believing that the heavens could have many cool worlds on which to host biology. But Churchill had a daring mind, and considered that the Chamberlin-Moulton idea might be wrong (and in fact, it is). He then proceeded to argue in a stunningly modern way that the number of planets spangling the heavens could be almost inconceivably large, and that modesty alone would suggest that Earth is not the only place where intelligent life might exist.
In addition, Churchill – while not trained in science – saw its benefits, both in the short and long term, and promoted wartime research in radio and computing. One consequence was that when the conflict was over, the British expertise in radar spurred the development of radio astronomy, a discipline that is a direct ancestor to today’s SETI experiments. This celebrated politician not only made cogent arguments for why someone might be out there, but was enlightened enough to encourage the science that eventually made a search for such beings possible.
To say that Churchill was a man ahead of his time is to understate his thinking. He not only envisioned what the future might bring, but had the foresight to undertake the research that could take us there.
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Filer’s Files #9-2017 Possible Life on Alien Planets - PART I
Orbs captured over Phoenix, Arizona from aircraft on February 22, 2017
Filer’s Files #9-2017 Possible Life on Alien Planets - PART I
In special reports, this week’s files cover: Winston Churchill’s Thoughts on Extraterrestrials, Ceres PossibleAlien Life, The Salthill Ireland UFO Sighting, Seven Earth-Size Planets of Trappist-1, StrangerAt thePentagon, Helicopters Chasing Drones Part 2, and s TV News Committing Treason?
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, New York, Ohio, and Texas.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Austria, Iran, Italy, Liberia, Mexico, 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 US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly 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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Winston Churchill’s Thoughts on Extraterrestrials
Researchers have uncovered an enlightening piece of writing from Winston Churchill which reveals the renowned British Prime Minister’s thoughts on extraterrestrials!
Penned in 1939, the eleven-page article which was never published is provocatively titled ‘Are We Alone in the Universe?’
It had somehow gotten lost amidst the voluminous files from his estate and, incredibly, wound up included in a collection that was sent to an American Churchill museum in the 1980’s.
For nearly forty years, the enlightening essay sat unnoticed in the museum’s catalog of Churchill materials until it was recently found.
Churchill’s musings on the chances that ETs exist are remarkably prescient in light on the scientific discoveries made since he wrote the essay decades ago.
In the piece, Churchill argues that it is reasonable to conclude that there are many planets throughout the universe, considering its vast size, and that some of these worlds are conducive to life.
The ‘British Bulldog’ even speculated that humans would someday travel to the moon as well as Mars and Venus, which were the only two planets that he considered contenders for potential ET habitation.
That particular assessment from Churchill has proven to be somewhat shortsighted as scientists now believe that life could exist in the harsh environments of other planets.
And, in an amusing bit of wishful thinking that echoes the thoughts of many modern day UFO researchers, Churchill noted that sad state of civilization in 1939 left him skeptical that “we are the only spot in this immense universe which contains living, thinking creatures.”
To that end, in an observation that would make Copernicus proud, Churchill expressed doubt that “we are the highest type of mental and physical development which has ever appeared in the vast compass of space and time.”
Unfortunately, the complete text from the Churchill ET essay has yet to be published, due to copyright concerns, but historians who detailed the work in a newly-published academic paper hope that the piece can be released in full sometime soon.
We can only imagine what the great orator would say today at the notion that we still have yet to find the elusive extraterrestrial life which left him wondering nearly 80 years ago. Source: BBC News
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has spotted organic molecules — the carbon-containing building blocks of life as we know it — on Ceres for the first time, a study published today (Feb. 16) in the journal Science reports.
GALWAY, 22nd February – 1st of March 1986I am convinced I once saw an UFO, have never one since, and this is my account of this sighting. One early spring day I walked up a hill on my way to Salthill beach. It looked liked it could rain, even though there were patches of blue in the sky. As I examined the clouds, to judge if it would rain soon, a cigar shaped object appeared in the sky between the roofs of a row of houses. As I continued walking the object moved in the sky relative to the position of the houses on the ground, due to the perspective. I made a stab at estimating its distance. It hovered above the roof tops about one or two miles away, not moving. Its appearance and color made me think of a Zeppelin. Then I continued walking and the object disappeared behind the roof of a house and some trees, because I moved and the perspective changed. I expected to see it again where it should have reappeared, but it remained disappeared.
Claude Toft Park
Then I walked back to where I had seen the object last, because this was strange. A slow moving blimp should still have been in about the same position in the sky. But the object was no longer there. All this happened within a few seconds. After I reached the top of the hill I walked down to the beach promenade, I could see that there was a lot of activity in Claude Toft Park, next to the beach; it looked like a festival was going on. At the seafront I had a clear view of the whole sky, and I asked people about having seen a blimp or if balloons had been launched for the festivities, but no one had seen anything. I ran into a friend, who owned a local amusement arcade, and I asked him what was going on, and he told me it was “College Week”. He also hadn’t seen any unusual activities in the sky.
About two weeks after this I saw a headline in a magazine at a newsstand: “Major UFO flap reported over Irish coast and England”. After I had seen a (cigar shaped, grey color), UFO in Galway, Salthill in 1986, I saw two or four weeks later a headline on a magazine cover: “UFO flap 1986! Coast of Ireland and UK“. Most likely the magazine was “The Fortean Times”.
That’s why I ask here, can anyone confirm this story?
There’s a bit more to it, a few years later a local artist decided to make circles in the location where I had seen the UFO. A large number of witnesses had seen UFO’s and reported them. Corroborative evidence that UFO’s were active around Ireland at the time, I found 30 years later. My particular sighting is not mentioned, but there were a number of reports.
Amongst them is the Prince Charles UFO from 23. Feb. 1986. 23 February 1986 – Irish Sea, Irish Sea – It claimed that Prince Charles had a close encounter with a UFO, whilst returning from a visit to the United States. Prince Charles and four other planes spot luminous red UFO, hovers near the royal plane. The story makes tabloid newspapers.
By coincidence a local artist and archaeologist decided 7 years later, to create megalithic-like stone circles in the location where I had seen the UFO. He timed and aligned the circles with the impact of the comet Shoemaker Levy 9 on Jupiter. The artist had not known about my UFO sighting.
Brief: Three shoreline circles were discovered in Ireland in 1984 after an UFO sighting. 32 years later they are still there! The general area came to my attention because of the sighting of a cigar-shaped UFO, during the annual Salthill Festival (ca. 1983-84).
Two weeks later a string of sightings had been reported along the Irish coast in a tabloid newspaper.
Seven Earth-Size Planets of Trappist-1
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
TRAPPIST-1: Sarah Lewin writes, a solar system full of possibility as Astronomers have discovered the first known system to host seven Earth-size planets around one star, and it lies just 39 light-years away from our own solar system.
Using data from the TRAPPIST telescope in Chile and other ground-based telescopes, as well as NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the researchers identified the sizes, orbits and masses of most of the planets — suggesting that they all may be rocky, like Earth, and that three of them are in the habitable zone, where liquid water might linger and life as we know it could find a foothold. TRAPPIST-1 system. [Images: The 7 Earth-Size Worlds of TRAPPIST-1]
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Helicopters Chasing Drones Part 2
by Bob Spearing, MUFON Special Assignment Team and International Case Assistance Group, MUFON National
On March 9, 2016, USA Today ran an article suggesting that the United States Military was in compliance with a law that required them to seek special approval to operate drones within civilian airspace and only in the most necessary of circumstances. In all, the military made less than 20 requests between 2006 and 2015. Additionally, USA Today stated that the U.S. Military flew nine missions between 2011 and 2016, largely to assist with search and rescue, floods, fires or National Guard exercises.
This article suggests that either the U.S. Military is abusing that privilege or they are circumventing it by using non-military assets such as NSA or CIA and have flown far more missions than they are admitting. Additionally, these unknown drones are either being pursued or escorted by black choppers with no anti-collision lighting. It is alarming UFO researchers in the process. The incidents here below clearly exceed the number of cases suggested by the USA Today article and none of these incidents are probably any of the government mentioned flights in the newspaper article.
Black Hawk
All of the following cases were reported to The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON)in a thirteen-month period.
Rapid City S.D — Case # 77097, June 16, 2016, 11 PM as follows:
“Sitting out on my front porch right before bed, I noticed object by sound thinking it was our light helicopter as it is tourist season which is very typical as you know this happens in an attraction area. I thought it seemed awful early in season to start with life light but then realized there was a helicopter following a very bright white light. Also, noticed 2 faint “star like” lights FAR above flying overhead simultaneously. Then the bright light disappeared and re-appeared in front of the helicopter. “
Newton/Rockingham NH Shortly thereafter MUFON Case # 77796, July 19, 2016, 9:40 PM occurred as follows:
“I was in my house, windows open when I heard a loud helicopter approaching. I ran out on my back porch and saw a red light or orb high in the air fly directly over my house from east to west, then a low flying helicopter following behind it. They were both flying exact same direction at about the same speed but the copter was much lower than the light/orb. They flew out of sight, due to trees the observation was approx. 10 seconds. Unable to see color of copter due to darkness but it was large, and very loud, it also seemed to be much lower than the object and followed directly behind it. I have no idea what it was, it did not have an outline which made me think it was just a light or orb, it traveled straight and had a consistent speed. I felt afraid as if the military was chasing this unknown object. “
Nashua — New Hampshire would again be revisited In MUFON Case #79839, November 15, 2016, 7:40 PM as follows:
“At approximately 7:40 PM EST I heard an extremely loud, very low-flying helicopter somewhere over the woods behind my apartment in the southern area of Nashua which is not at all a normal occurrence here. We grew increasingly alarmed as the helicopter’s sound grew louder and louder until we could feel the building vibrating from it. My oldest son (14) and I stepped out onto the balcony to look for the helicopter – it sounded like it was practically on top of us, but too low and close to see it over the tree line. My first thought was that it might be the police tracking someone on the ground in the woods, except this helicopter was
SO loud – sounded more like a Black Hawk than the standard choppers that police/news uses. And we couldn’t see searchlights of any kind over the woods. Suddenly we saw a reddish/orange light break over the tree line headed south. Our balcony faces west and this light was running straight & perpendicular across our view. It was a large orb shape, flying very fast in a perfectly straight line – skimming above the trees no more than a few hundred feet off the ground, and a few hundred yards from us. We had a clear view of it for just a couple of seconds before it was lost behind the trees again. It didn’t weave or change course, didn’t wobble, or change colors/size/shape. There were no other lights on it, and it didn’t appear to pulse. Following just behind it was a large helicopter which appeared to be pursuing the object. The helicopter appeared military in design and was large and dark colored, either black or gray with only a couple of small red lights on it and no visible markings that I could see. The orb appeared to accelerate slightly while it was in view but then backed off a bit, as if it was trying to stay just out of reach of the helicopter. We had a clear view of both the object and the chopper together in the sky for a moment, and the orb appeared to be about 1/3 to ½ as large as the helicopter. The whole incident lasted no more than about 30-45 seconds from first hearing the helicopter to when the object and helicopter disappeared over the trees headed south. “
However, before the second New Hampshire sighting, September saw a flurry of reports of dark helicopters pursuing orb-like objects.
Fountain, CO — On September 16th, MUFON Case # 79232, 9/16/16 at12 am reads as follows:
“I just pulled my car into the drive way a little after midnight last night, when I was locking my car I heard what sounded like an airplane, living by an airport I know that no flights came in so late. So, I stood in my driveway to see what kind of airplane it was. Suddenly I see a white orb of light going over the roof tops and over the trees. Not far behind were 3 black helicopters in a triangle shaped flight pattern following the craft at very high speeds. The craft then made a left hand turn towards the mountains, that’s when I see one of the helicopters intercept the craft, getting in front of it, that’s when I lose sight of the craft over the roofs of nearby houses. But I still stood to listen to the helicopters to see if they are still in the area. I know that this wasn’t an airplane or helicopter due to the fact that it had no blinking lights or defined shape, and made no sound at all. When I took my cell phone out to record video the sky was too dark. Beforehand my cell phone was around 20% about a minute or two before I saw the craft. But when I took it out to try and record the video I noticed my battery life was on 2%.”
Morning View, Kentucky – as first in September with two sightings 5 minutes apart. MUFON Case # 79516, 9/26/16
“… He yelled oh my god come out side there’s a ufo. I ran out I seen to my right a low flying blacked out had to be military helicopter with one red light at the bottom chasing a ball of light. They flew low way less than 500ft. I saw them to my right flying closer to the left above the tree line. I seen the ball of light fly under the helicopter the helicopter tilted the front end down as if to get a better look. Then the ball of light banked a wide right then it was out of view. The helicopter went the direction it went then it was over. We called a friend who lives a few miles away he said he even heard the helicopter fly over his house.”
Morning View, Kentucky Second report at 8:25 pm was MUFON Case # 79436 as follows:
“I was letting my dog in my house when I heard a helicopter behind the tree line by our house. Expecting a helicopter to come over the trees but instead I see a white ball of light come first. It was just gliding through the air very smoothly then following the light came the helicopter it was black with only one flashing light on the bottom. The light zipped forward away from the chopper then the light stopped as it was waiting on the chopper to catch up. Then the light even went under the chopper and then zipped out in front of the chopper again before making a large swooping right turn very fast behind the opposite tree line which it appeared. The chopper followed with much much slower swooping right turn behind the tree line as it tried to stay with the light. I could no longer see either aircraft only could hear the loud thuds of the chopper getting further away from our house. I then called my friend who lives a few miles up the road in the direction that the objects came and him and his girlfriend did hear the helicopter pass over their home as well but did go outside to see the light and helicopter.
Palmyra, NJ — clocked in on September 24th, with MUFON Case # 79372 at 8:57 PM as follows:
“I was walking back to my house through the parking lot when I heard the sound of large helicopters arriving – then I saw two helicopters flying in loose formation (about 2000 ft. apart at the same altitude (approx. 2500 ft.) and one trailing the other) they both had either bright landing lights, or search lights pointed in the direction of flight. I assumed they were military because we often see formation flights of two of either CH-47S or UH-60S flying along the Delaware River. However, as the flight came to nearly over head, I observed the lead helicopter was actually following another unknown aircraft, which was approximately 1000 ft. in front of the lead helicopter. This unknown aircraft did not have flashing anti-collision lights (“strobes”) nor the primary red flashing light, however, it appeared to have one or more very dim whitish lights, not flashing.
As this unknown made a gentle turn to the South, the flight of two helicopters pursued this unknown. Since it was after dark, I was unable to definitively identify the type of helicopters these were, but I could barely make out the size of the airframe against the back-drop of the night sky – on the other hand, I was not able to make out any definite airframe size or shape of the unknown these appeared to be pursuing, except for very dim unflashing light(s). It looked as if they were pursuing a small drone, except the airspeed of the flight was doing at least 90 knots or faster, so I don’t think it really was a drone. There was no sound of a different engine type other than the two helicopters. The flight of the two helicopters perusing the unknown disappeared to the SW of my position at a level flight altitude of about 2000 to 2500 feet.”
Athens, NY — November saw two sightings of this odd pairing. First, MUFON Case # 80186 11/3/16 7:20 PM:
On the evening of November 3rd, 2016, my wife and I were playing with our infant daughter on the living room floor when I heard a loud helicopter approaching outside. As I got up to observe the helicopter from our rear deck, I noticed that it was low flying (approximately 500 feet), and flying North along Interstate 87. I then noticed a small steady burning red light far out ahead and to the left of it. Both continued on in perfect formation north bound until they were out of sight. I was unable to hear anything but the helicopter, or make out the shape of the object with the red light being trailed. “
Port Angeles WA Second, in November, we have MUFON Case # 80705 11/29/16 8:29 PM:
“I was in my yard at 8:30 pm on 11/29/16 when I heard a large heavy helicopter. It had been announced the prior day on local news radio that electronic warfare games would be occurring over Clallam County. So, the helicopter was no surprise. The helicopter was at about 250 feet moving at 50 to 70 mph. It approached from SE and flew directly towards my house. It turned on a spotlight and lit me up. It appeared to be alone. As it passed directly overhead and began to fly away I saw an orange light within one helicopter length of the helicopter. It was ahead, below and starboard. It did not change position relative to the helicopter. I watched them until they disappeared flying NW. When I first saw the object my initial thought was that it was a bright as Venus orange star. But there are no such stars and stars don’t maintain positions relative to helicopters. Then I thought it must be an American made UFO. I have seen a similar object flying a non-aerodynamic and non-ballistic trajectory in Coeur d Alene, Idaho during daylight.
A large helicopter (SH 3 Sea King?) was escorting a dark object.”
Cummings Georgia –lastly, in December 2016 we come to MUFON Case # 80841 12/2/16 7:22 PM:
“Friday night December 2nd, 2016, I was sitting in my hot tub out on my back patio. I was facing south towards the back of my house. I heard the faint chop – chop- chop of a helicopter and just a few seconds after I heard the first “chop” I saw a red light (I assume it was a running light from the helicopter) in the sky emerge heading Southwest. This is a fairly common occurrence here as we see news and traffic choppers fairly often. The chopper proceeded south for approximately 30 seconds. I didn’t give it another thought and went back to enjoying the tub. Within another 30 seconds, I started hearing the chopper again but this time (even over the noise of the 6 HP tub jets) it was getting considerably louder. I leaned up and looked towards the sound and the red light was coming back towards my way on a North/Northeast heading and moving fast, very fast. At this point the rotor chop was getting so incredibly loud, I reached over and turned the tub jets off because I couldn’t believe what I was hearing and now feeling in my chest.
The chop was so powerful that I then realized this has to be a military chopper. I couldn’t see the chopper itself yet but I could see its red running light (The only light visible) as it approached. A few seconds later, the chopper passed right in front of me just above treetop height. When it passed by, the chopper was completely black as in there were no lights emanating from the cabin, just the red running light. This is where it gets interesting… Just in front of the chopper, about 50 to 70 feet, was a tubular shaped glowing white object silently screaming by. I know it made no discernible noise simply because the chopper thump thump thump is intermittent. If this was a jet or a missile going that fast, I feel very confident it would have made a loud jet engine or rocket sound. It was silent. I reported this to MUFON because of the following reasons: 1. it was an extremely fast and powerful military style chopper 2. It was flying way below legal altitude (just above treetops) 3. It was obvious to me that the chopper was chasing something due to its very fast and erratic flight path 4. Right as it passed in front of my line of sight, I saw what it was chasing as described above. 5. When the chopper abruptly changed course, it was now coming towards me and did not have a white light coming out of the front of it. 6. And finally, because this all happened over a residential area.”
So, the question should be asked… what is going on here? This is clearly not coincidence. There are too many cases, countrywide, of the same phenomenon to be excused as an anomaly. There is a pattern!
If the military is forbidden from performing this kind of activity with drones over civilian areas, then who is doing it? Is it CIA, NSA, FBI or Shadow Government if not our military?
Are these objects being escorted or are they being chased? Are they terrestrial or otherwise? Ultimately, are they ours or are they theirs – whoever they might be?
Let’s investigate! A very influential inner circle member of MUFON suggests that based upon his previous hi level clearance; these may be examples of electronic warfare exercises with drones used by the U.S. Military.
There is a problem with that right there. First, we have military style helicopters and possible drones operating over civilian neighborhoods in the United States. Military aircraft CAN operate in civilian airspace by filing a simple flight plan. Drones cannot. Secondly, helicopters flying within civilian airspace need to display navigational, anti-collision and directional lighting in order to avoid collisions with other aircraft. This includes military aircraft. The aircraft in question pursuing the orbs have at most one red beacon displayed with no anti-collision lighting at all.
Thirdly, it is EXTREMELY DANGEROUS for helicopters to fly at treetop levels. As per an anonymous National Guardsman pilot I interviewed based out of New Jersey who has over 31 years’ helicopter flight experience especially with
Sikorsky Blackhawk helicopters, he stated “flying at treetop level is almost suicidal. Even with night vision goggles which are almost universal for nighttime flights, the avoidance of telephone lines and cell phone towers at those low altitudes is a second to second avoidance maneuver that the military does not condone except in the most critical of situations!”
“Additionally, while we may fly without lights and our military designations may be hard to see in the dark leading to “black ops fears”. Our insignia are on the outside of our craft and we do fly with anti-collision lights. We may fly without other lights as to not interfere with the night vision goggles which are sensitive to bright flashes and could shut down accordingly, BUT we do not fly totally blacked out as these helicopters do. “
“Finally, the Sikorsky Blackhawks, which I do fly, are a relatively silent stealthy aircraft. If these helicopters flying over neighborhoods are making windows shudder and making people’s chests vibrate they must be heavy body choppers such as the make and model the witnesses are suggesting.” So, who are these blacked out tree top level suicidal helicopters chasing red or orange orbs? A National Guardsman Blackhawk pilot with 31 years flying experience says emphatically “They are not ours!”
Where are they coming from? They are seen over a national geographical scale from New York to Washington DISPLAYING THE SAME BEHAVIORS. They have fuel tank allowing them no more than 500 miles’ total before refueling thus the evidence suggests they come from American military bases. So, are they performing illegal exercises in civilian airspace utilizing electronic warfare modes with drones? The answer is probably yes. The other more ominous answer is that they are chasing UNKNOWNS from origins unknown which is a very scary proposition. by Bob Spearing, MUFON Special Assignment Team and International Case Assistance Group, MUFON National Director of Spain and India, publisher of www.worldufowatch.com
Is TV News Committing Treason?
After an eight year slumber and the betrayal of every journalistic principle during the Obama administration, American journalists want to make journalism great again by destroying Trump. It’s one thing to report the news, another to editorialize throughout the reports on TV National news. I have yet to see a favorable news item on ABC, CBS, or NBC. The US is at war with ISIS, and the news media is conducting a propaganda war against the President with lies and half truths.
It is my opinion ABC is giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States and conducting treason with its propaganda war. After the President’s speech regarding immigrant problems in Sweden he was called a liar on the national news. Interestingly the Democrats in Sweden came to his aid, claiming there were more than a million criminal incidents, rapes, riots, 50 grenades being tossed at police in 2016 over the previous year. NBC is interviewing children who speak about being afraid of Trump. They do not tell the news; they find someone who will speak against him.
The Law for Treason states: Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.
I have chosen not to buy any product advertised on the nightly national news.
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Filer’s Files #9-2017 Possible Life on Alien Planets - PART II
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UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Orbs
Phoenix — My son saw 4 purple orbs hovering over the city from his airplane window on February 22, 2017.
It is not a reflection on the glass because the people in the seat in front of him spotted them first and then told him to look out.
He snapped a picture. He witnessed them there 30 seconds and then vanished. His picture is a really good one and quite clear
Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Sphere
Rancho Santa Margarita— It appeared to be floating/flying about three feet off the ground, and it was moving with us along the highway. There was no physical structure to it, as it appeared to be made of light. The light varied in color and was almost impossibly bright, like no other light source I’ve ever seen, even though it was the middle of the day on July 10, 1999 It appeared about 30 feet in front of my car, and it seemed to be matching my speed. I was going about 40 mph at first, but I slowed down a little bit, not but it slowed down with me, remaining the same distance ahead of us. Then I sped up a little, and it did the same thing, matching my speed and then, it just disappeared. It was only there for 10 or 15 seconds before it vanished. There were definitely other cars on the road with me both behind me and in the lanes next to me. None of us got any photos or video so this image was created by me using Photoshop and a screenshot from Google Street-view of about where it happened. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Colorado Object
Denver– I was out front at work and took a burst shot of 24 pictures of the clouds on February 19, 2017. After looking on the computer screen this object appears on frame 17.
Looking at the images before and after it looks to have a path but need someone with expertise to look at it. I have all the original files that show another object later in the sequence. I also have other images showing white orbs or dots shooting across the sky if you’re interested. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Orb
Tampa — While having dinner i went to take a picture of the sunset on February 12, 2017
…This was in my pictures?? I also took several after with a different phone and got the same results! It was awesome!
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Georgia Sphere
Atlanta –Several photos posted by Glenn Burns WSB meteorologist Channel 2 Atlanta, on February 20, 2017.
Burns is an amateur UFO enthusiasts and likes to debunk them by either lightning ice or reflective.
The photos he has posted have been taken at other cities as well and they look very similar.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Idaho Boomerang
Pocatello — The above photo is one of several photos sent by the witness that were taken on January 26, 2017. No information was included with the, photo. One of the photos (posted above) clearly shows a bright boomerang shaped object.
Thanks to William Puckett, Director Http://www.UFOsnw.com
Illinois Lights
Plainfield — This object was found on my security system server as I reviewed security footage later on February 8, 2017
I was awake, and having coffee with my wife as she leaves for work around 4:30 am.
At the time the camera picked up this moving object we did not hear any helicopter or plane sounds. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Edinburg — Pamela Stark writes that she was being visited by visitors moving above her in the sky on February 20, 2017. Thanks to Pamela Stark
Kansas Lights
Wichita— I stepped outside on a beautiful and clear evening for a breath of fresh air, when I observed a very bright star in the West on February 14, 2017. Shortly after that I saw a V formation of what appeared as independently illuminating and twinkling lights which quickly morphed in shape. It was difficult to ascertain if they were a single object or a group of independent objects.
I am an airline employee and experienced observer of aircraft. I reached for my Samsung Galaxy 6 phone and snapped a quick photograph and then began video recording. I continued to record the event until the lights simply vanished. This was my second sighting within 6 months over Wichita.
New York Sky Rings
Middletown — My Husband saw this hovering cloud formation that looks like a triangle UFO to us on February 21, 2017
He said there were 3 dark holes in the triangle and snow was coming out of one of the holes. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Lights
Dayton– I have taken other pictures of unusual lights on February 13, 2017.
I’ve had some unusual photos at the same location. The first picture had this light. I took two other photos within a minute, but light was not in the next photos. I would like to know if my camera could have caused the light.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Texas Sphere
Cypress — I was out riding my Harley and saw a strange light in sky on February 21, 2017. Pulled over and noticed it was very bright and no flashing lights. No stars visible in sky plus this was too close. Filmed and took pictures for about 45 minutes. It never moved very much. It was spinning and had structural design very similar to ufo’s on tv. I felt very curious about it. Called my wife, she went outside and saw it too. I was also with my friend who witnessed it also. I have many more photos and lots of video that wouldn’t upload. This was taken with an iPhone 7 plus with a telephoto camera. It was still there when we got home and I don’t know when it left. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Austria Triangle of Lights
Beginning in January 2017, I was on the way home with my car with my friends Franz and Gernot. It was about 10:30 pm at the evening and completely dark! Then we drove a deserted path. I looked up into the dark sky to see three very bright lights floating very slowly that turned in a kind of circle pattern and remained hovering! Totally impressed by the objects, we left the car and I tried with my phone to film these objects. There was silence except for the chirping of insects. I filmed for 40 seconds. We watched these objects for 3-4 minutes, before this object just disappeared. Kind Regards, Manuel C. and Thanks to MUFON CMS
Iran Object
Bandar Abbas— I was at home watching the mountain and sky scenery through the window and then I observed what you can see in the clips I’m sending you. I was shocked and thought that it might have been a Russian aircraft flying to Russia but it was weirder than that so I decided to make you aware of that. The videos I’m sending to you have been taken from different areas of Iran. I also mention that I’m using a VPN at the moment because you’re website is filtered by Iran’s government and because of that shows my location is not true. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Italy Light
Naples — Unexpected triangle lights and stars on the pictures I took February13, .2017.
On different pictures we noted different position of these lights.
We are not sure if it is was a UFO, but we want to know what you think about it.
Waiting your answers. Elena
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Liberia Object
Monrovia – A drone like object was seen, very high up and large in size on February 22, 2017.
.The object hovered, flew up, and down, forward, and backward; then quickly disappeared.
Note:A video was sent but I’m unable to open the video. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Mexico Disc
Mxxtlahuacan De Los Membri –My nephews were taking cell photos on January 28, 2017. In one of them the object appears. Can you examine the picture and tell us if it was a ufo please? Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Lights
Plymouth— I was at home when I heard my son arrive on his motorcycle on February 23, 2017, I opened the door and noticed a bright stationary light. It didn’t look quite right and my son saw it and said to me “I was looking at that star from home, bright isn’t it? “ I told him that it wasn’t a star and I’m getting my mobile to film it. My son was blown away when the light extinguished, although not completely and instantly but more like in two steps and then came on again, although not as brightly, then disappeared completely. Thanks to MUFON CMS
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Back in 1954, under the Eisenhower administration, the federal government decided to circumvent the Constitution of the United States and form a treaty with alien entities. It was called the 1954 Grenada Treaty, which basically made the agreement that the aliens involved could take a few cows and test their implanting techniques on a few human beings, but that they had to give details about the people involved. Slowly, the aliens altered the bargain until they decided they wouldn’t abide by it at all. Back in 1979, this was the reality, and the fire-fight at Dulce occurred quite by accident.
He was a physicist working at Area 51 trying to decipher the propulsion factor in some of these craft.
The Second Largest Reptilian and Grey Base in North America. The Central Hub.
Although diverse, the universe appears to have laws and patterns. Undoubtedly, intelligent beings have a pattern of evolution that can be recognized by beings who are familiar with, and have studied, a variety of inhabited worlds. The challenges faced by homo sapiens sapiens are likely not unique and extraterrestrial observers can assess our progress and pitfalls with some objectivity.
What is true on Earth is also true in the universe. Unless a civilization has reached some type of peaceful wisdom or moral spirituality, interplanetary travel will bring with it those same unresolved competitive and exploitive traits. We should expect to see these same traits in some of our encounters with extraterrestrial visitors. But again, this pattern should be known and some aliens will likely try to prevent our exploitation.
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